The Daily Oklahoman (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 9, No. 219, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 11, 1897 Page: 2 of 8
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Nut Noteworthy le thn Canadian Oea-
trlhutlon — Lar(t Kelt lenient
The Frerch element In tho United
Stated at the present time embraces
'tjcU8 groups tays the Chautatiquan
The French of Itoulalana include the
dwellers In and around the picturesque
old capital of New Orleans — exotic
among American cities with Its French
survivals Its dream of pant commercial
A0N'CREIFPE-Dt'IN'GIM-AG11CAG9 BASEMENT
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A Moncrelffe Is lying In a Chicago
basement waiting for the caress of
death Each year of her life has given
a turn to the vise of misfortune and
suffering that has ever gripped her
dcmlrion end Its vision of future pow- she 8 of the MonmIffei of En(?lan(L
er and the simple and ignorant Aev-iShe 8 COU8ln t0 thoRe famoU8 later8
mooting themselves
or their neighbors
on cleanliness of
person or surround-
ings It Is expect-
ed and a matter of
course Under such
conditions It Is the
dirty man or bouse
or street not the clean one that pro-
vokes comment
But in a region of tenements where
everything Is unfavorable to It clean-
liness becomes a shining virtue worthy
to attract attention So the Tenement
House Chapter of the King's Daugh-
ters listened with pride and pleasure
the other day to statements of the
work of certain poor boys who as
members of "street cleaning clubs "are
doing what they can to make New
York attractive and wholesome
Most of the boys are of foreign par-
entage and they handle the language
ss the Irishman played the violin — by
main strength Naturally their writ-
ten reports are amusing Yet they are
touching also
“I saw a ash van and a paper can"
wrote Abram Poehausky "In the ash
can there were paper and In the paper
con there were ashes so I put the ashes
In the ash can and the iaper iu the
paper can
"I saw a boy tearing a big piece of
paper Into little pieces” was Abram's
experience on another occasion "So
I asked him If ho will scatter it Into
the street he said yes ho will but I
told him not to he should put it in his
pocket and give it to his mother to
light the stove”
Max tVelscr's report for the week
was arranged In diary form On Wed-
nesday "I did nothing” he records
with exemplary frankness but concern-
ing other days he writes:
Saturday— Some cruel boys threw
over a barrel of garbage and I helped
the lady pick It up
Sunday — I saw a lady slip on a piece
of banana peel I lifted her up and
threw the peel In the garbage can
Tuesday — I saw a lady throw appels
hells In the gutter I said would you be
so kind and pick It up? and she o'ld
A significant phrase that perhaps rep-
resents the spirit In which the lads
work occurs more than once In the re-
ports The Poshausky hoy says:
“I once saw hoys taking a barrel
and they said that they are going to
make a fire so I said that they must
not make any fire I said that our coun-
try wants to be very clean”
And S Blumo repeats the sentiment
in misspelled words that vividly sug-
gest his grotesque pathetic pronuncia-
tion: “I bo boys carrying barrels to make
a Are whit It Then I went to them
and I tall them that they should cot
make a fire in the Street Because It
makes a axtra work for the sweepers
And we want that our country should
be clean”
Great reforms have marched under
a less inspiring watchword than this:
"We want that our country should be
clean” That aspiration is at the root
f all the civic virtues The boys of
the tenements are patriots as well as
philanthropists
EOPLE who live in
SKcf eZlT- rr‘T p 79 i “eu" afl'e!
‘ customs of the basin of Grind Tre pour ot thcm
along the tranquil waters of the Aes-
che remote from the corroding touch
of busy modern life The metis or
half-breeds also survivals of the old
French days are scattered In consid-
erable numbers through the northwest
na pcekmen
r u " lumbermen f Hfe of Rh haa flnJ coun
TUC°rthy ClC' try Sh 18 d’lnS ia homo In
ment In the Inked States at the pres- Calumet avenue a weather beaten old
ent time consists In the French Cana- house 8carre1 and dMapI(lated whlch
dlans who began about twenty years belters people as poor and miserable
ago to cross the border Into this coun- u Itself
11 waa another cousin who
try This movement was due In part stirred English aristocracy to the cen-
to the expansive power of this fecund ter and even moved the throne Lady
people and in part to the effort of New Mordaunt was once the foremost figure
England mill owners to bring them as n London society and the Prince of
operatives The result has been to
Introduce a new strain of Frereh in-
fluence into this country The United
States census of 1890 reports 537000
white persona having one or both par-
ents born in Canada and Newfound-
land of French extraction Leading
French Canadians deny the correctness
of this report and on the basis of
Wales was by her side It was she
who made possible a most famous say-
ing It was for her that the Prince of
Wale "perjured himself like a gentle-
man” Notwithstanding this Lord
Mordaunt secured his divorce That
was more than twelve years ago
There Is no scandal In the life of
Maria Louisa Moncrelffe She has
ehurch records hold that It should be been the plaything of circumstances—
more than doubled The French Ca-
nadians are found In greatest number
In the north Atlantic states and the
north central itates As rule they
are grouped In settlements of their
own aiming to preserve their race
language customs and religion
new ideas
Hand rests for use on a bicycle are
formed of flat padded cloth disks
and she long ago became weary of the
game If justice had been done her
the money which made It possible for
her cousins to make the brilliant mar-
riages would have been shared with
her Then she would not be doomed
to die in a basement where the chairs
are falling apart and holes yawn In the
carpet And the tall bent woman who
cares for her would have known a dif-
ferent life perhaps The daughter
might not have married Cummings
which are attached to the upper side that frantlc old man whose caeklings
of the bar In any desired position by abou ha useless medlclnce and his le-
ft etrap and buckle i Ral knowledge disturb the last hours
— I of the condemned woman This daugh-
A new toy bank for the children has tor the Moncrelffe must listen to
a donkey mounted on a base faring a ravlnE of the man w ho does noth-
man the animal turning round and DS but eat the JooJ th?y Birnlah for
kicking the man over when a piece of
money Is placed In the lank
longed to David but the latter did not
object because he also wished to see
the family estate restored
It may have been that the taking
away of so much money crippled the
business or David may have lacked
the capacity of his brother Whatever
the reason It is certain that It began to
lose its prosperity And when a di-
recting head was most needed David's
wife fell ill and he gave her all his
attention lie was passionately In
love with her When she died she
took all his interest In life It was not
long before he followed Those who
knew her said that her life was all
sunshine and goodness and that the
love she and her husband bore to each
other passed that of most men and
women They said too that David
Moncrelffe died of a broken heart You
see this happened year ago when peo-
ple still believed In those things The
children and the property were Intrust-
ed to the rare of a friend of the father
Meanwhile Sir Thomas Moncrelffe had
taken possession of Moncrelffe House
by the Bridge of Earn and set about re-
storing It His return made a stir
He married well and his son who was
born In 1822 made a still better match
He wedded the eldest daughter of the
Earl of Klnnoull who was distin-
guished more for her cleverness and
her position than for her beauty Many
children were born to Sir Thomas and
Lady Moncrelffe and the six daughters
were celebrated all over the civilized
world Indeed they were regally Bean
tlful and fascinating They made the
most remarkable matches and this re-
sulted from the cleverness and ambition
of their mothersupplemented of sourse
by their own attractions No woman
In England has ever compared with
lady Moncrelffe as a matchmaker The
eldest daughter Louisa was married
In 1863 to the Duke of Athol This
was the beginning Helen was mar-
ried the following year to Sir John
Charles Forbes Ceorginna became
the wife of the Earl of Dudley The
Countess Dudley was called the most
beautiful woman In the kingdom This
Foot rests or c tasters for bicycles
are now being made with a hinge In
the center of the clamping end end a
Fcrew near the oilier end to make them
easily detachab'e from the forks of the
wheel
A new faro register for use on street
errs has a lever on the lower side
which moves an Indicator to three dif-
ferent points on the dial to register
fares tic kets and transfers on separ-
ate counters each total being visible
To prevent the vibration and Jarring
out c f bicycle lamps a new device has
a pneumatic cushion to surround the
supporting bracket being fitted with
a valve for inflation by means cf the
bicycle pump usually carried
Tbt Dfiutnd for 1'tatinaiu
Among the commodities which have
greatly Increased In value during the
past few years Is the metal platinum
the price of which has more than
quadrupled The demand has Indeed
almost exceeded the supply and has
been occasioned by the new uses which
have been found for the metal the
electrician wanting It for the necessary
licks of connection between the lnted-
lor and exterior of the ubiquitous glow
lamp and the photographer in a mi-
nor degree for his prints The prin-
cipal source of supply is Russia which
produces more than forty times as
much as all oLher countries combined
and even there the metal Is found only
In the southern Ural mountains
Ruiell 8uertklou
Doctor Nansen the great explorer
failed to fln dthe North Pole but he
can console himself with the thought him and who talks of destroying AVall
that ho has done more than any other street
man to abolish the "thirteen superctl- I If you look In Burke’s Peerage you
tion” The Indon World says of can read that the Moncrelffes are an
old and honorable family When the
"Not content with being born on the elder brother became the head of the
thirteenth of the month he went off family more than a hundred years ago
on his recent expedition with a com- David and Thomas determined to go to
pany of thirteen all of whom returned America The baronet inherited Ut-
safcly The Fram got clear of the Ice tie but the title tor the estates con-
on the thirteenth of the month and slated principally of land surrounding
N&naen arrived at Tromsoe on the tumbled castle in Perchshlre near
same day And to crown all be was the historic bridge of Earn
entertained by the Royal Scottish So-
The younger brothers gathered what
clety on the occasion of their thir- money they could and sailed from
teenth anniversary held on February ! Edinburgh for New York They sought
13th'
A general faith in spiritual forces
docs not compel us to think that an
uncanny or sinister meaning lurks in
the accident of a number or any casu-
al grouping of every day things
We are assured that the fail of a
sparrow and the growing of the grass
Invite Divine attention and an over-
ruling Providence if trusted at all can
a means of making a livelihood and
then turned to distilling They were
familiar with the process of making
the whisky for which that land Is fa-
mous and their business ‘prospered
Within a few years they had the lar-
gest distillery In New York
The Moncrelffe whisky was branded
with the coat of arms of the famify
a lion rampant between two millets
be Intrusted to overrule the spilling of gules on a field argent with a chief
More Than He Could Do
“Oh by the way” observed Archi-
medes "did you ever try to square the
circle?” "No” answered Socrates "It
was more than I could do to square my-
self” Even as be spoke the shade of
Xantlppe could be heard demanding
from mere force of habit and without
reference to the exigencies of the oc-
casion why he hadn’t brought up the
coal— Detroit Journal
the salt the sight of the new moon
over the left shoulder the howling of
a dog under a window or the chances
of a work begun on Friday
"Signs” and situation that have been
named "unlucky" simply by ignorant
tradition or foolish custom are some-
times curious but they are only punc-
tuation marks la the page of nature
As incidentals to poetry and playful
mythology where they belong they
may bo observed without barm but
they affect no one's personal fortune
and have nothing whatever to do with
destiny
A Judicial Dffliloo
“Wby do eo few women seek admis-
Ion to the bar judge?" "Because they
would rather lay down the law than
practice It" — Detroit Free Press
Th Kirk Mao's RroTry
“In my humble view” said the Cum-
mlnsvllle sage "the only trouble with
the s:ek man of Europe was that hs
needed a little exercise”— Cincinnati
Enquirer
ermine It became the best known
whisky in this country
David the younger was the first to
marry His wife was the daughter
of a Frenchman of rank ‘who had
come to America with Lafayette The
foreigner fell in love with an Italian
girl and married her Their only child
became Mrs David Moncrelffe She
grew Into a beautiful and brilliant
woman She was educated In France
The woman who is dying in Chicago Is
one of the three children born of this
union
It was after David’s marriage that
Thomas Moncrelffe came Into the ti-
tle through the death of the eldest
brother He Immediately determined
to return to Scotland He gathered
all the money he could collecting the
acoounts due the firm and dispoelng of
his Interest in the business Much of
the money he took away with him b-
marriage was wholly of her mother’s
making The Earl of Dudley was
much her senior He was hideous to
look upon and his life had many
abominable chapters But he had an
income of $3000000 a year The mar-
riage of Harriet Sarah to Sir Charles
Mordaunt a baronet and member of
Parliament took place In 1S65 Lady
Mordaunt became the most famous of
the sisters and this was because of the
scandal connected with her name
The name of Lady Mordaunt was eon
nected only with persons of the high
est rank When her husband sued for
divorce six years after marriage It
caused no surprise but the fact that
he made the Prince of Wales co-respondent
shocked the English aristoc-
racy as It never had been before or
since The trial dragged along for
years The Prince of Wales was a wit-
ness He denied the accusation Then
It w-aa that his name was sounded
from one end of Europe to the other
as an exponent of chivalry For It
was said that he "had perjured himself
like a gentleman" It was said at the
time that the queen did not speak to
her son for several months because of
this scandal Another daughter of the
MoncrelfTea Blanche married Lord
Mulr-Mackenxle and the others wed-
ded men of family distinction and
wealth While the English cousins
were climbing to the topmost round of
the social ladder those In this coun-
try were gradually sinking lower and
lower David Moncrelffe's children
were well educated but the property
which the father was supposed to have
left disappeared Douglas the eldest
child who was 16 at the tlmo of his
father's death entered the army and
was killed In the Seminole war In
Florida Mary the youngest was
adopted by a family living In Pough-
keepsie N Y while Marla Louisa
lived with Mr Primrose the executor
of her father's estate until she was
married to Col Robert King in lS4t
Early In the sixties when the Eng
Huh coiulns were beginning to attract
wide attention Mrs King accompanied
her husband to Chicago lie 'went In'-
to business with Dr C W Dyer am)
Sanford B Loring They Introduced
terra-cotta decorations In the city and
made a doal of money The great Chi-
cago Are took everything from them
Col King tried to revive the buslnest
and failed In the days of his prosper-
ity be had attracted attention as i
Shakespearian reader and after hli
failure he tried to make a living bj
giving readings Col King came of I
family of ability Ills brother Wash-
ington Klrr was at one time mayor ol
SL Louis and the latter's son William
E King gained some prominence la
New York politics He was a close
friend of Boss Tweed
The readings did not prove success-
ful Col King decided to go to Eng-
land to get Justice if possible and
ask assistance if necessary from hli
w ife’s relatives He found the housi
of Moncrelffe In rather severe straits
and the rich rousins had no interest
In him or his wife They bad all for-
gotten the American branch of lh
family Col King returned to Amerb
ra He was not made of the stuff that
endures and surmounts misfortune
He died soon after leaving his wlfs
and child in absolute want For a
long time her husband's brothers
helped Mrs King but the contribution
grew fewer every year and then ceased
altogether For fifteen years tho
mother and daughter have supported
themselves In those mysterious and
precarious ways that bafll Inquiry
They do not know how they managed
to get along It has been a hand-to-mouth
existence Why the daughter
married E II Cummings fhe herself
has probably forgotten He has been
content to live on what the women
could give him He concocts extra-
ordinary remedies and possesses legal
lore to his own thinking He Is one
of those specimens who devote their
time to explaining how he is held down
by the money cranks While her cou-
sins are living In the luxury and re-
finement of the highest English social
circles this woman Is waiting for the
end In the dingy liasement at No 2916
Calumet avenue Chicago
It Is a hot dingy ill-smelling base-
ment Her cousin the Countess of Dudley
has a magnificent country seat with
thousands of acres She has a splen-
dli mansion in London
The American Monereiffe Is passing
away In a room scarcely ten feet
sqqare She will never leave he rick-
ety Led She la In the clutches ol
dropsy and the disease Is approaching
her heart
It shows no haste It Is certain ol
its victim It can afford to wait The
woman's eyes are fastened on the sin-
gle window It frames a square of
blue sky Inquisitive blades of grass
fringe the bottom of the window And
the sufferer knows there must be sun-
shine and gladness somewhere In the
world
The Countess of Dudley’s eon mar-
ried the daughter of a shopkeeper and
the Countess was sorrowful thereat
Her cousin In Chicago Is done with
marriage and with sorrow She knows
only pain She has no hope hut for
death "tho sure and winding arms of
cool enfolding death"
Ilultl Air In Commerce
New methods of liquifying air at a
reduced cost have been invented ic
Germany and Mr De Kay Unltec
States consul at Berlin mentions li
his official report some of the uses tc
which liquid air may be put One oi
these Is for illuminating purposes An
lUumlnant can be formed from liquid
air by mixing it with ordinary air In
certain proportions while it Is pass-
ing back to It normal condition Li-
quid air may also serve as an exploalvt
agent for various purposes As a port-
able liquid rich In oxygen it Is sug-
gested that It should serve many pur-
poses In manufactures The price lx
Germany has heretofore been two dol-
lars and a quarter for five cubic melerc
(about 1764 cubic feet) of air reduced
to the liquid condition but Prof Llude
of Munich has invented a process
whereby the cost has been brought
down to about two and a quarter cents
per five cubic meters
The “Knekef of Delirium Tremens
Persons suffering from delirium tre-
mens usually Imagine that they are
surrounded by snakes A possible ex-
planatlon of this hallucination is of-
fered by the result of experiment re-
cently made at the Bellevue hospital
In New York Sixteen alcoholic pa-
tients were examined with the ophthal-
moscope and In every case It was
found that the minute blood vessel In
the retina of their eyes were congested
In this condition they appear black
and are projected into the field of
vision where tlielr movements resem-
ble the squirming and twisting of ser
pent
rientjr of Candidate
There are seven candidates in ths
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