Show J Their New Chauffeur By LAWRENCE ALFRED CLAY "James what’s the matter with you ?’’ ma’am" "Nothing "You are driving very recklessly We are not In a hurry this morning and'dcn’t want speed” An auto containing two ladles was speeding along the country highway towards Lyndhurst’ where they were to take the train for the city and the chauffeur who had started out stead ily enough had seemed to grow sudThe ladles were Miss denly reckless Annette Chalmers and her mother wife and daughter of a broker who had a home In the country ”1 do believe he has been drinking” the mother as In turning whispered out to pass a wagon the auto was al most ditched “James I tell you to be more careful!" commanded the young woman It was still a mile to Lyndhurst The chauffeur In growled something reply and then put on full speed and paid no further heed to screams or commands As the village was reached he went circling around the public square shouting and whooping and those who watched the machine to see a tragedy every mo- ment Mrs Chalmers was too terrified even to scream and Miss Annette dared make no move for fear of about the bringing thing she dreaded The idlers simply looked on It was not In their power to halt the machine It had circled the square a dozen times in a cloud of dust of Its own making when a young man who had been sitting on the veranda of the inn with his village cigar performed a feat that will be long remembered by the chaps who sit around with their hands In pockets He threw away his cigar rushed down the steps and poised himself for a spring when the auto should reach him In maklnlg Its circles Men yelled at him but he gave them no heed At Just the right moment he made a spring for the passing car and those who looked to find him berolled under ing the wheels saw him In the seat beside the chauffeur It took him a few seconds to straighten up and then things happened A b'ov from an Iron fist settled the chauffeur and ten seconds later the machine was at rest As It came to a stop the fellow was hauled from his seat and slammed on the ground three or four times and then thrown aside “Thank you sir— thank you!” called Miss Annette to the stranger as he turned to face her and lifted his hat “Don’t mentlton It Your mother appears to be badly shaken Wouldn’t It be well for you to go Into the Inn for a few minutes while I look the machine over and see If anything Is out of repair?” For fifteen minutes while the stranexamined and Investigated ger In a manner to show that he was thoroughly familiar with the machine the Idlers asked each other who he was without becoming any wiser He was congratulated on his pluck and luck but he merely smiled In reply in the Inn while the mother was getting her nerve back Miss Annette was asking the landlord numerous questions and be was replying: He arrived yesterday and gave the name of Morrison Hasn’t much baggage and I can’t exactly make him Isn’t a tramp and I don’t think he’s rich Sits and smokes and thinks Wrote three letters good deal but tore them up yesterday afternoon before they were finished" "James shall never drive the auto again!” “1 guess he’s taken a skip” "Mother Is too nervous to take the train and we'll go back home We’ll bave to get a carriage” “Why not let Morrison take you back in the auto? He surely knows how to run one Say wasn’t that a great performance of his? Just one chance In a hundred that he’d make I’ll ask him if he’ll drive you good out” auto came to a halt at the door of the manor house "Of course” Miss Annette said “James can’t come back Father will In town but It get a new chauffeur may be a couple of weeks first as he Is away on a yachting trip Mean while — " “You have no one to drive ’’That’s It Mother Is not very well and the doctor says she must be out In the air a If you are a good deal chauffeur out of a place — ” “I could come but I have no recoin I did not ask mendatlons for one when I left my last place” “I see” mused the girl “You should have a letter but as mother thinks you are a safe driver you might take the place until father comes The gardener has a cottage and you can board and lodge with him As to the salary you can settle that with father He will be liberal with you By what name shall I call youT” "Charles if you please” "Well Charles you can put the machine away You will be notified when wanted” There was a trip through country next day and the ladles were delighted with Charles' driving He was deferential and modest and won praise all around Day followed day and trip followed trip and at the end of ten days Miss Annette asked of the gardener “Well Thomas how do you like the new chauffeur? “Fine young man Miss — very fine but the wife can’t exactly make him the ANNA GOULD AT LAST WINS HIGH ESTATE 'oia Ifcapj DupM JYSidu qM: Jlfas Tdcataicd WtJu Jodaf Ojimcij'noJkcJIasBccomc opvIarixJcssj'C£if&rmd and Ojicjf'tic Reputed Joeackcr "How do you mean?” "Why he reads poetry a great deal when he Is by himself and sometimes we can’t exactly make out his big words He can’t be a duke In disguise can he?” t Miss Annette had noticed a few strange things herself and she would have given more heed to the gardener's words had she not that morning received a letter from her girl friend Miss Tempest one paragraph of which read: “Will and I were foolish enough to quarrel and it's all over between us I am coming to se you to get sympathy I won’t admit to anyone but you that I love him and am I shall look for you to meet me at the ten o'clock train Wednesday forenoon For mercy’s sake be prepared to call me a foolish girl and then cheer me up" “Why Will Henderson! "Miss Tempest" was the reply as he raised his cap Oh Will I’m sorry that I got anwanted to write to — to you gry but they said you had disappeared Now— now that I’ve found you—" “Here what’s all this about?” demanded Miss Annette as she came forward "Grace Is it possible that you know Charles?” Charles? I wrote Why It’s Will! you that we had quarreled It’s Will and what Is he doing here?” The auto proceeded to the manor house at a fast clip It had to The girls were Just dying to get somewhere where explanations could be made and the chauffeur was anxious to pack up his belongings and be off Three or four times during the rapid trip the visitor reiterated that she was sorry but a chauffeur driving at 40 miles an hour must keep his eyes on the road ahead and maintain an unyielding attitude It was after the girls had talked and for an hour that Charles was sent for He found Miss Tempest to receive him and give him orders He sulked for a little time and A trifle later on Miss then obeyed Annette remarked to her friend: "I think you are the meanest girl know of" I "But why?" Why If you hadn't come poking along I’d have fallen In love with him myself” Now the Divorce Ring The latest Jewelry novelty In Gertype of ring for many is a special dlverced and widowed persons The cla‘m 8et f0!‘th f°r urtou nn°-vatl01'8 n rlng? '8 hat “ 8ave the wearers- especially the feminine sex from erabarras8nS or painful explana-tlons- and delicately inform other inof their circumterested Pera°ns stances The designs are but ent from the ordinary slightly differring and the Is not so marked but that difference they can be displayed or concealed at The divorcee’s will ring Is of gold with a broad strip of platinum or silver set in so that the ring shows a white stripe Indicating that the marriage has been annulled and the ring Still another ring for the divided divorcee has two opposing half moons and looks very much like an ordinary signet ring The ring for widows has a half covered full moon Mr Morrison was brought Into the parlor and he said he’d be only too When the ladies were seated happy Warning he took his place and all went well Stella —Did your father pay your There was considerable whispering be- bills? hind hts back en route and what it Bella— Yes merely said he would was all about he learned when the veto them next time— New York Sun nt it out” Charles was notified that his services would be required at a certain hour and he was on hand with the auto Ten minutes before train time Miss Annette was at the depot prepared to take her friend In her arms and pat her cheek and call her a little As for Charles-goose was left In Ignorance of who w As pected he waited with the he gave It an inspection and l£— just finished when two young ladles approached him One of them handed him a traveling bag and a trunk check and said As soon as you can bring out the trunk we’ll be off” The other took one look at the chauffeur started back and then OF KNOWING I’JST QUESTION spend money unless he adopted a course Bonl’s Efforts of Little Effect Monopolist Explains to Plain Citizen LatL!ke the polite and obliging French Why Ho May Stand on man that he was Bonl responded to ter’s Foot the ueiiands of his wife with a vim He on my foot” went to bis most Influential "You are standing friends be demanded in the name of said the citizen to the monopolist De Castellane and the Gould millions think of that" “Ah you must that they assist him In securing enreplied the monopolist You tree for his countess among the best "It is sordid and pessimistic people They likewise responded with should think of the higher things of A few minor duch great willingness life” citiesses were influenced to give balls and the “Yes but It hurts" argues receptions in honor of the American zen heiress Anna herself gave gorgeous "That may be but remember that It affairs It was a strenuous siege The Is only through trial and tribulation Gould money flowed like water but that we learn to make something of Its flow was not sufficient to wipe ourselves Blessed are the meek” the barrier that society had away "Yes but why should you stand on erected against the assaults of Bonl my foot?” Anna gave up the fight and soon after "I see you are Inclined to think of rumors of differences between herself yourself that Is wrong" admonished and the count began to be known the monopolist In a gentle tone "RathThe eventual result of these differ- er you should contemplate the good I ences the world knows have done in the world" Disappointed In Bonl as a man and as a titled being "That may all be true but I think the countess began to devote herself I shall have to ask you to get off my to their two children Bonl quite foot” content with such an arrangement "Being a Christian gentleman" rewent elsewhere The pretense of very gently “f plied the monopolist home was kept up but Bonl and Anna take no umbrage at your unkind not had ceased to be man and wife At to say unreasonable request But the same time the countess gave up what you ask Is unconstitutional and for the time being her siege of Paris muBt Insist on my constitutional and lived a quiet uneventful existence rights I have a franchise to your until the De Sagan affair foot That is the legal phase of This was the second stage In the But there Is also a moral side I have new siege of Paris The Prince de become accustomed to that mode of Sagan being Bonl’s own cousin was standing For you to try to change It one of the persons who strove to as- now would be nothing less than unsist Anna In breaking through the patriotic” barrier of reserve that hedges around all that I must In“Notwithstanding French aristocracy He was one of sist that you get off my foot” those who heeded Boni’s appeal and “In that case my dear sir I shall used such Influence as he had to force have to appeal to the courts and get from his friends invitations to the new out an Injunction against you” countess And It was his hearty ef"Do you deny that It Is my foot?” forts along this line his sympathy for hotly demanded the citlsen the countess struggling for recogni “I do not deny that In a sense It Is tion under the handicap of Bonl’s repu- your foot” blandly returned the motation that first won him the regard nopolist “but I think I can show that of Anna have a Controlling Interest In It’’— Ellis O Jones la Life Way Cleared for His Courtship "After all” said he “what is social eminence hut to be a shining mark STRIPPED OF FUSS for the misfortunes that attend the WEDDINGS mighty? Were It not better more to happiness conducive Candidates for two souls In Brittany Matrimonial Are Herded Together and Marbetween whom exists a mutual bond ried In a Bunch to make their own happiness without Two hearts troubling about society Over In France they have a way that understand one another alone in a villa In the country away from such of getting rid of all the undesirable which In the United States as exists In this features sordid They have city — ah! such Is the Ideal existence” go with getting married Little by little the countess began the scheme In operation In Brittany In Brittany they do away with the to think that way too At the same time It Is Bald that she never over best man and bridesmaids and ushers looked the fact that the Prince de and other such Impedimenta strewn In even If he was In debt up tc the path of the American celebrants Sagan his ears was in infinitely better stand- of the matrimonial Even ceremony the dressmaker and the milliner and ing that poor Bonl de Castellane There were at least a few of the high the florist are given the laugh Their houses In Paris open to the prince The caterer is goods aren’t needed the only tradesman who profits they were all shut to Bonl Again was said that De Sagan while no afl About the middle of January every He year there is a general round up of gel was a better man than Bonl was esteemed and respected by many all the men and women who have within the ' worthy people Would It not be pos been engaged slble with the De Sagan holdings and They are herded together in titles rehabilitated by her money one place and on the appointed mornonce more to lay siege to Paris — and ing along comes the priest and marwin? ries them In a bunch No fuss no It had only been Boni’t feathers no “Lohengrin” or Robin Why not? reputation that had kept her &om at Hood stuff no ushers or bridesmaids taining her heart’s desire— social lead to carry away your stickpins and your In the brooches And wears Behind him everyone the capittal ership her money had been useless But national costume simple In construcwith De Sagan how different It might tion though gaudy be There were 27 couples married at The subsequent of the Plougastel courtship January 11 64 people 64 prince his fight with Bonf Anna’s count them Among the 64 were to America the four names Everyone married flight only prince's follow of was a Legal! a Jeseuquel a Thomas objections lng the strenuous Anna's brother and the sudden mar- or a Kazeneuff Fifteen of the brides riage of the Prince and Anna while were named Marie and three were the scandal of the affair was at white named Marie Legall heat all are well known to every The caterer got his rake off from newspaper reader in the world The the barbecue which followed the cereHe served 27 sheep couple went to Italy to spend their mony and six After a stay they re- cows at the wedding breakfast honeymoon turned to Paris And then came shock No 2 for Anna now Princess de ' “Science” Becoming a Nuisance Sagan Steadily medical science Is closing 8oclety Open In Its Disapproval To her amazement the social lead all avenues of safety Time was when ers of Paris had been shocked at her man might do pretty much as he Now whatever he affair with De Sagan The aristocrats pleased and live considered the most lenient In the may do is deadly The Chicago health world In matters matrimonial did not department has Just Issued a warning In the pelapprove of the divorce and remarriage against country springs of these springs death under the circumstances They went lucid water Also further than before they made no lurks in all of Its hideous forms effort to hide the fact that for their to quaff a cooling from the “Old Oaken What to drink actions the Prince and Princess de Bucket” Is dangerous Sagan had been sent to social Coven- was long a matter of price rather than But now it is a matter of choice try The birth of a child to the pair did neither choice nor price The millionlittle to soften the attitude of the aire as well as the pauper confronts whenever he drinks or eats It death haughty toward them They still were outcasts from the highest walks ol Is unkind of “science” to point out so many dangers and not to Indicate any Paris Then the prince’s father the Duke paths of safety that the ordinary perof Talleyrand died The prince Inher- son will be content to travel Perhaps the most comfortable thing If not the ited the title The inheritance brought safest to do Is to take a chance now nothing else with It for the old duke and then and refuse to be alarmed long had been in hopeless debt and had existed on a pitiful allowance ol Trusting these few lines etc 5000 a year But the title — ah that was the thing It opened doors that Women In the Wrong Place nothing else could force The anomaly of this Island the "The Duke and Duchess of Talley- center of the British empire crowded rand” announced the footmen and to overflowing while millions of acres and society’s they of the richest land In fine climates lie portals opened walked right In For the title Duchess has at last struck the undeveloped of Talleyrand Is one of the proudest national Imagination We cannot and she who bears it open a in all Europe paper without seeing articles a social queen must be acknowledged about the wheat fields of Canada the no matter what has gone before The fruit farms of British Columbia or title was first given to the great Tal- Rhodesia the offers of work for Britleyrand and since his time all its ish men and women in Australia New bearers have been persona grata even Zealand and last but not least South with the proverbial crowned heads of Africa But In large movements of Europe difficult every kind It Is exceedingly at to So Anna Gould has triumphed the regulfg even progrespreserve last What Jay Gould’s millions could sion of parts Some portions of the not do what the successive titles ol mass will always move slower others countess and princess could not do faster han the rest thereby causing the death of an old man and the sub a distortion and dislocation of the of a title by hh whole That section of the community sequent inheritance sonhaa accomplished The siege ol known as the woman has Par8 becomes a victory and Anns lagged behind the rest and by her today Is ohe of the foremost leaden scai5ty In the one place and her suof Parisian society In the other is creating a perfluity “Hail the Duchess of Talleyrand!’ danger to society— London Times to such NNA GOULD former Coun teas de Castellane Princess de Sagan finally has achlev ed the aim of years of social battle She Is now the Duchess of Talleyrand and as such she at last becomes one of the foremost leaders of Parisian society Prince de Sagan Is the hereditary Duke of Talleyrand When his father died recently De Sagan became the As the mere fifth duke of that name Prince de Sagan he was looked upon as an outsider by the highest society But as the of the French capital Duke of Talleyrand he occupies an honored place Becond to none and his duchess the former Anna Gould trienters into a position umphantly which for years her millions and efforts have failed to achieve The Gould millions wouldn't do it Count Bonl de Castellane’s titles wouldn’t do It The royal title of the discredited Prince de Sathoroughly gan wouldn’t do It But the ojd aristocratic name Duchess of Talleyrand The siege of Paris opened the door which Anna Gould started when she married Bonl is a success at last and the Gould millions finally have the to fete the highest people opportunity In France1 Social Ostracism Fate Apparent It has been a long siege and a hard one Up to the present time It has that It was going to be a appeared Social ostracism losing one for Anna has stared her In the face and out o I countenance Her original marriage with Count Bonl proved a disappointment No royal doors swung open to the Countess de Castellane not even when the name was backed with good American dollars The count had his own circle but alas and alack! It wasn’t the circle that Anna Gould “sheTecame figured ‘on enTerinTwhen his wife The best society of France did not receive her with acclaim and Anna was disappointed and hurt Perhaps it Is not fair to say that this the failure of the count's titles to win her the position in European that she coveted was thq society cause of the rupture and final divorce between her and Bonl but it Is certain that after the countess had discovered that so far as social standing was concerned her position as Counters de Castellane was but little imthat of mere Anna proved beyond Gould her respect for the dapper little count and his family began to decline shock was a It Bonl Popular In 8ome Quarters ““Bonl?” said a certain duchess of a noble French family “His influence among the ladies of the ballet Is unhe can go anywhere questionable there Also be Is extremely popular among the Jewelers and other tradesmen of the Rue de la Palx he owes But could he come all money to my draw house? No no one really must the line somewhere Is It not so? It was a cruel blow to Anna a surprise to 'the Americans “In the know” That dollars can buy their way Into any society In this country was one of the Gould maxims and that title no matter how much disgraced no matter In what bad odor would secure entree to the homes of continental was another accepted aristocracy when the titles especially were backed by a fortune such as beThe Countess longed to Anna Gould de Castellane came to Paris with Bonl at her side her father’s millions behind her and — so she thought —the conquest of the French capital at her feet It was a second Invasion but it did not meet with the success that attended that of the Germans In ’71 The rue aristocracy proud and haughty with the hauteur that comes from centuries of the best blood of France took one look at Anna through Its lorgnettes and said: “How truly unfortunate that she should have married that odious and Bonl With a utterly discredited husband she would be eml proper and — who knows? nently acceptable — might In time become a'craze” opinion Count at Least Scores Success The count being long accustomed to being snubbed by the society leaders of his country and having recognized and accepted the position on the fringe of the half world that society had allotted to him this accepted treatment as a matter of course used the Gould millions to rehabilitate the Castellane castles and villas paid some of his most pressing creditors and started in to enjoy that part of Parisian life which was open to him and where he knew that he belonged With his credit reestablished his standing with restaurateurs wine agents Jewelers and other tradesmen once more assured he began to cut a dash In the society to which he was accustomed The women of the theater welcomed him with open arms He was a brilliant success He had reconquered his part of Paris But his part was not the part that to desired his countess enter While Bonl was flinging her money away In riotous entertainments for his latest favorites the countess remained at home angry because the highest society had not stretched forth the hand Bonl as happy as only a of welcome Parisian can be with the money sufficient to make him popular in the capital could not understand Thus came the first parting of the ways Anna She Intimated to Bonl grew wroth that It was high time he began to use to secure for them a his influence fixed position in high society it Is rumored that she even intimated that it might be hard for him to continue riv t ! 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