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Show i $nS OWN AND OPERATE MINE r Millions to Retain Her Children fi of Paying Counts Debts or Allowing Him to Keep the Boys Tragic Ending of Sordid International Marriage e ( 000 e ' Waldorf- and began buying on for the Grand Duke BorlB. He eater-talne- d credit the king of Portugal. The thowedding the bills Early in 1903, when Jay, the youngbegan to pour in. est baby, was a few months old, the They went to Paris and Bonl de countess suddenly left the count. It Castellane began spending Jay Goulds was reported that they-- were esmillions. !His first great exploit was tranged, but Bonl came to America 3I4HV and denied this report Also he waa jreyed off him for years, ts be-b- y charged with refusing to pay debts of honor. their friends and by ooun-th- e Debts were piling np again and the case. If the Goulds remain Count Bonl will ask the court to Goulds were stubborn, refusing to thrown hand out more millions tot-bV. the mother to take her children :i the away. jurisdiction of the French n With her three children to comfort He will plead that If the her and keep her busy, the countess Into the custody of the did not care. But In 1904 the real they may be taken beyond the trouble began, the trouble that changed of the courts, and If the court the countess and made her- a woman is his contention, as the and a mother, instead of the reckless It will, the count may follower of a more reckless' husband. ( children for whom the countess ?ay $1,666,666 each are: Bonl Unfaithful. de Castellane, aged ten years. Bonl set up a bachelor establishe Gould de Castellane, aged ment and the countess began to hear of "ces dames the count entertained, de Castellane, aged four years the actresses, models, mldinettes i months. women he could not Invite to his baps every mother in the world home. The countess could do nothing. rid she would not take a million Paris would laugh if she paid any ats for her baby, and now the tention to them. They were beneath can girl who became the best her. But at last the American woman i, If not the most famous, noble-- a was cropping out. Her renewed devotks In Europe through the lavish tion to the children and her more of money, has the opportunity the purchase (Of .a site in the famous Ing her children at a price little Avenue Malakoft and to order workess of what she paid, only a few men to reproduce Le Petite Tralnon, ago, for a bed. the retreat of Louis .XIV., home of he final payment of $5,000,000 is the famous Mme. de Maintenon, to Anna Gould will have paid $2,-- 1 copy the mast Infamous, licentious a day for her husband and her court of history. Millions poured Into and her children which even the building. One bed alone cost albe may lose. most a million dollars. Art treasures were purchased. tn May Prefer Father. One fete given by Bonl do Castel4 attitude of the children lane swept away a ninth of the yearly themtoward the warring parents is Income of bis wife, which was $900,000. Millions were spent before they r inclined toward the father, are more French than American, were earned. The girl with an income dollars. a year was 5 been raised In France and In of nearly a million In debt. luxury and extravaganve that scarcely know the meaning of j, the thing that has caused all Finds Comfort In Gaby. almost all the woes of the The countess was not hnppy but lean girl who allied her millions then Bonl was born and came to comlouhiful French title. fort her. Her hUBhand continued bis Ir loyalty to their mother Is un-ewild extravagances until even Paris hut between America and marveled. Millions seemed .to have a they choose France, because turned his bead. The nursery for his IdtT ones have been trained In heir In Petit Trianon was furnished h schools, and, deeper than that, at the expense of more than the ordiQzs (Datiis' se they have been reared In the nary man makes In a lifetime. In June of 1897 the Income for the impressive appearance revealed a on of their father. If tho choice Bonl still was buychange. with them It will be France and year was spent Soman Catholic church on one ing. lie bought from Asher Werthelm, Still the money went furiously. The of London, curios for which he could king of Portugal was their guest and and the love of their mother not pay. This bill later proved one 4 nearly a quarter of a million dollars vmey on the other. The coun-hersemeans of his downfai.. waa spent on him during his visit has become almost the direct Among other things that he wanted 4. The countess had stood much. But was an Italian palnce. He bought one Ces finally, In 1905, the break came. $3,000,000 children are hand at Verona at a In stupendous price. were one a woman dames but and clever youngsters, and the thing It were 11 ceilings by Tiepolo, and tat. who bears the name of the the count wanted them transferred to of her own class was another. The a name of the Duchess d'lTzes was couand piratical pioneer million-lParis, It was done and then they The handsom-bllpled with that of Castellane. declared to be the were sold at enormous loss. lu her way, Is as eccentric duchess, in Paris. Ills portrait bss s Tho year 1898 was marked by as Castellane. The countess suffered Painted by the most famous art- duel with Henri Turot and In silence no .longer. She separated France, and as a baby his hla blackballing In the Jockey club, and then brought her from husband attention everywhere. But still, with her two sons, the lit- stilt for divorce. Physical perfection of the chll-- 1 tle countess was busy and found The suit was the signal for the credmarveled at by sociologists solace In them, even when the exto' pounce down upon Bonl. In itors the mother Is undersixed, sal travagances of her husband and his France the wife Is responsible fot ufi Irregular of feature, while the wild actions caused doubt as to his r la small, effamlnate, and yet sanity. His eccentricities and his half certain debts jointly with her husband In his way. He might be Insaue desire for notoriety amazed and the credltoro feared the Gould millions would esespe. The Goulds, Pretty rather than handsome, even Parts. He planned a riot directthe Anna Gould of 11 years ed against the president of France at having ltvlshed nearly $10,000,000 on refused to pay more. Bonl, the la fighting fer freedom and the races at Auteull, and be and his the count, man who had refused to pay debts 'alldrcn aud willing, perhaps, to wife were among the chief actors In offered to make remainder of her magnificent the comedy-dram- a which cost them a of honor, cslmly !t for terms. the privilege ef returning fortune. 'arrlca with her children. And now unless the creditors art It la Ilonl was becoming ridiculous. He he will use the children as ,? Countess de Castellane, leader satisfied, at skillful fencing, himself proved ? ttjallsta In Taria, the proud wounding one adversary. Even his hla last weapon and force a proudest society set la the title was attacked; he was ridiculed day-afte- r cbll-give- law-belie- tozn'tteoTmn . . lf d beau-itratte- d l! v Choice -Astoria have reSo far the workmen-ownerTHRIFTY MICHIGAN MINERS ARE frained from declaring a dividend. THEIR OWN EMPLOYERS, Starting with a small capital, they have considered it wiser to turn back After More Than One Yeara Trial Co- Into the mine, for the development of the property, all profits above operatoperative Mining Induetry Hae Been Declared a Success ing expenses. Owned by Workmen. Then, too, the original mine has 40 acres of coal land, and as there only Saginaw, Mich. After a yeara trial has been a steady demand tor the outat cooperative coal mining industry put it was necessary to look to the this place has beeu declared a success. future. This mine Is owned by the workmen the company hus purchased who operate It. They establish prices, anRecently additional 500 acres adjoining Its make contracts and go down under- mine, , ground to dig out the product. It was by good fortune aud an exThere are ne labor troubles or ercise of shrewdness that the Cole- strikes, for every man Is personally Interested in. the welfare of the company. It was on September 1, 1905. that coal was first sold from the new mine of the Caledonia company. There has been no Idleness since, and the work s are preparing to put on double shifts to keep pace with their s In a direct line with the seventeenth bole of this particular golf links there is a Boost alluring patch of shade under a group of hardy old maples. The grass grows rank and tangled. Tiny crickets are apt to take flying leaps from tall spears of It and land on your face If you have the hardihood to stretch out at length on iljb'Goiild, the countess of world. It is the mother of three man- openly in the chamber of the ground, as this man was doing. and deputies, r $5,000,-rbly boys. She Is older, sadder, and at 'm, probably will pay the end of the year, when he came He was tanned and wore scotch sons. wiser as well as poorer. three to the United States to get more checks and he was scowling. father ,t Boni' de Castellane, money, he was charged with fleeing Anyone would have understood why blldren, demands possession Story Is Tragic. from creditors. man scowled if he had glanced at the The story best can be told by children and gives the daughter The countess came with him, bring- the young person sitting against the years; the story of the little girl overbur- ing her two first great American sons, the only solace she biggest maple. She, too, was tanned, between paying his dened with the wealth that Jay Gould had, and they had an argument on but the crimson of her .cheeks shone Unichildren. bad won by fair and foul means la the ship neither of them md giving up her knowing through the brown and her eyes te pays the debts the French the railroad world and the stock Job- the American flag when they saw It were the kind that danced. Also she can-will hold that she iabljr bing market, who married a French had a particularly heavenly expresthem from France without noble in name and ig- Millions to Save Name. sion which showed that she had been gjent of the spendthrift noble-rbo- , noble In almost everything else In 1900 financial troubles war at a enjoying herself tormenting the man. his ability to fight with others climax. Castellane since March 4, 1895, when Anyone could see that fellow Stehad openly slurred over of his type. irried her, has squandered was crazy about you!" persisted vens the Goulds, especially Helen Qould. On March M, 1895, Bonl de Castelof Jay Goulds fortune and It It was conHis family opeuly charged that Anna the man Indignantly. be-make It to $14,000,000 lane, nobleman of maralleged spicuous'" France, Gould alt was bourgeoise. Bonl was as ried Anna Gould. She had met the reckless as ever. Petit Trianon was will release her. "Was It? SBked the girl, meekly. You see, I wasn't far enough repink and white, dapper Frenchman by Incomplete. Bonl came to America nth Goulds will pay the $5,000,-itttlthe debts of Bonl de Cas-e- , special arrangement of his own of again to get money and failed. The moved from the center of the situaeven those of the usurers who which she knew nothing and perhaps countess chateau at Dumarals waa tion to enable me to get the general she had loved him, la a way. Perhaps ordered sold for debt and only an ap- effect One loses the perspective beshe dreamed he was her Prince peal to her family saved It. Trades- ing right on the spot, don't you Charming. The Frenchman came to men openly insulted the Castallanes think? America, lie lived la a back room and dunned them in public. George I dont know what you're trying to over a dressmaker's establishment. and dwln Gould gave $1,000,000 to say, said the man, a little sulkily. He had come to America to marry save the faintly pride. Bonl had spent Only I dont see why you let Stevens money. He said it himself. And be- $3,000,000, besides his wife's income, make such a donkey of himself!" fore he married he asked for a mar- and owed over $4,000,000. The girl let the light f her eyes riage portion of $5,000,000 and got In 1901 the courts took a hand to shine upon the speaker. It is not He hadnt even met Miss save the fortune of the little Ameri- always so easy," she said meditativeGould when he privately announced can. A receiver was appointed In the ly, to prevent a man doing that!" that he would marry her. He had lit- person of her brother George. The Meaning me! retorted her comtle money, but be was determined to family paid $4,700,000 of Bonl's debts panion, like to know If hotly. Id wed. He "went to a hotelkeeper and and held the countess' fortune to pro- Im not Justified in objecting to to explained. Then he moved to one of tect her and themselves. By order of such little episodes! Havent I t the greatest hotelB In the world and the court the Income of the Castel-lane-s right" gave a little dinner, and a friend was reduced from $900,000 to Not the slightest In the world,1 asked Miss Gould to attend. Within $200,000, but they fought in court and broke in the girl In a smooth little a month the wedding was arranged. A got the entire Income. voice. month later the engagement was anIn that year Ilonl fought Henri de The man hit at an Inquiring grassnounced. The day of the announce- Koday and shot him In the leg. Also with a golf stick and looked hopper ment Castellane moved to the he gave a boar hunt that cost $100,000 miserable. million--choic- I Well, It isnt my fault If I havent," he went on. I think so much of you that I forget tjie feeling isnt reciprocated. And I cant stand seeing other fellows Interfering. Why do you do It, Letty?" Your remarks are so complicated," objected the girL I thought it was Mr. Stevens to whom you were objecting and now It seems that Ive done something, too. When mes come up to talk to me at parties do you want me to put out a protesting hand and say, Away with you! Back Back! or something like that? IV do almost anything for such as old friend as you, Sam!" lie aimed another blow at the grasshopper. Oh, enjoy yourself! he said, grimly. I know I am furnish ing the material, but I cant help It I cant hide my feelings. Now with you why, nobody on earth can tell what you really think or feel. Isnt It wonderful off me! said the girl, admiringly. But," persisted the man, you acted as though you didnt mind Stevens hanging around. Why, .anyone would have said you liked It." I did, asserted the girl. . The man sat up abruptly. Ills hair stood on end from the effects of the grass and he sat looking at her while varying emotions swept across bis face. I think Its time for me to quit, he remarked, rather sternly, I m going away. I can transfer to Denver Just as well as stay here In Chicago and Im going to do It Ill try to forget you." Tho girl looked a little alarmed, for he spoke as though be meant It, but she laughed again. "You wont like It," she said, "And you cant forget me. "At least I ran give an Imitation of a man forgetting you, he said. The young person against the tree put on an elaborate expression of sorrow. How wo all shall miss you,1 she said In a society tone of voice, But he did not fight back as be had done for the last two years when she teased him. "Therell be Stevens." he reminded her, picking up his clubs. She raised her eyebrows. I dont know that Mr. Stevens represents the sum total of human happiness to me,' she remarked. Arent you going to play the eighteenth hole? Why are you putUng up your clubs? You arent going to start for Denver on the next train, are you?" See, here! Do you want me to stay In Chicago?" he asked her thunderously. Yes, this Is the eleventh Ume Ive proposed to you, Letty. And Ive done It differently each time, too! Its my Inventive genius that the president of our company especially commends in me! You "Do cago?" tone. The looked rizon, brown neednt shout!" she objected you want me to stay In Chihe persisted, in a now-or-nev- young person under the maple rather desperate at the hoat the last bunker, at the cow across the fence. None of these offered any help, Do" be began again, but she threw out her hands protestlngly, and gave a hysterical little cry. Dont say that again!" she walled. For the first time In their acquaintanceship he had scared bur with his sternness, but It was bard to give in. "Yes, Bho said, almost Inaudlbly, and then brightened. "For weve got to play the eighteenth hole," ahe reminded Mw, and started iff biskly. H - . $ i 1 men-owner- orders. When It was organized tho plan was to have the company consist of 100 men, and the capital stock was placed at $50,000. After a year of success It has been decided to Increase the capital to $250,000 and the company to 500 men. So well, In fact, has this purely cooperative mine done that two other organizations have been formed in Michigan along similar lines. One of these new companies, like the Caledonia, Is formed entirely of practical handlers of the pick and shovel. The men forming the Caledonia selected their executive ofllcers from Business of the among themselves. company Is looked after by a general superintendent, who is responsible to a board of managers. At all times the acts of the board are subject to review by a general assembly of the miners, who keep In touch with the affairs of the concern as they do with the vein of coal from which they make their living. When It came to an allotment of the stock few of the men were able to take more than a small holding. They were not capitalists. Some, in fact, had little or no money and arranged to pay their part in labor." last spring the Caledonia workers fixed upon the 1903 scale of wages as that to be paid in their mine. This Is 5.55 per cent, higher than the scale The of the succeeding season 1904-5- . average pay of the Caledonia miner is now $2.75 a day. i BENJAMIN R. CUSHMAN. (Secretary of the Coal Company Owned by Workmen.) donla people secured tbelr original 40 acres. In the midst of land controlled by a combination of existing companies-wathis little tract, on which the combination was paying royalties. Thinking that It would be well to save this amount, and that there would be no difficulty In securing control at any time, the holders permitted the leaso to lapse. Waiting for Just such an- opportunity, the Caledonia promoters quietly and quickly secured a lease upon s Ho secretly were all the preliminaries carried on that It was only when the work of sinking a shaft that the artual existence of the new woiklngmens company became was-begu- generally known. j him and made one of the Instruments out of common twine. Small pieced Convict Cuts His Way Through Bes- of a broomstick were used as handles.. With this the warden had the prisoner-finissemer 8teel Bart. sawing through the bottom of 8L Louis. Oat of pieces of woolen the bar. yarn, unraveled from a sock - and . When plans for the new penitentwisted together, a prisoner In the tiary were made It was decided to use1 new federal prison at Leavenworth, Bessemer steel for the window gratings, It being deemod harder and f nearer than the Iron which-hobeen used. The bars at his window were the ones sawed. The opening made was large enough for a man-thave crawled through. The fact that Bessemer steel barn-havbeen successfully sawed without! using steel makes It more and more necessary that guards, be constantly) on the watchout," said Mr. Shipley. Prisoners have made saws of tin cans and the like, but never before oC common yarn." WITH A WOOLEN STRING. h saw-proo- I TWAINS DAUGHTER ON STAGE Start Her American Career at Nor walk, Conn. Norwalk, Mark Conn. Twains daughter. Miss Clara Clemens, made. SAWING THE 8TEEL BARS. (Convict at Work In the Penitentiary at Leavenworth.) Kan., constructed an Instrument which be DBed to saw through the top and bottom of a three-incsteel bar. That a common piece of yarn could be made to cut the strongest steel bars, tested with acids and resisting steel saws. Is a discovery that not only surprises police and keepers of jails and penitentiaries, but scientists as well. It Is the first case of the kind on record, as far as can be learned, and the prisoner who used It In the leaven worth penitentiary la tho originator. The prisoner was confined in one of the Isolation cells. A guard standing on a tier above noticed him working his hands hack and forth around the bars and notified the guards on the lower floor. They Investigated and found that the top had been was The bottom sawed through. The prisoner about halt through. readily confessed and showed the warden how he had scrompllshed the tv-A- -i iM o 4 MISS CLARA CLEMENS. (Daughter of tha Greatest of America Humorist.) American debut as a concert her singer in this city. Miss Clemeus first appeared In a professional way at Florence, Italy, under favorable auspices. She has a rich contralto voire of unusual clarity und beauty, and for years has been defeat. voting herself to its cultivation under The ravellngs of his woollen sock the best masters in Europe. he had twisted together as a tailor Miss Clemens was assisted In ner had made He of thread. would pieces Norwalk recital by Miss Marie Nlcle them compact by frequent wettings. a young Boston violinist. oils, In the sand and Dust quarry picked up wero kneaded Into the string. When An Explanation. finished it was almost as bard as a Why Is a great man more apprepiece of emery stone. It required two ho Is dead?" days, he said, to saw through the bar ciated after not more appreciated," anis new lie several strings with the string, He la Senator swered out wore Sorghum. as be to made, they having becauso hoquickly. more freely comptimonted The warden doubted the statement ls less feared by envious rivals." at first The prisoner offered to show Washington Star. |