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Show NORTHWEST NOTES The Diamond | Recenti Temptation of Atlas Gleanings of Gotham A Colorado farmer reports $13,000 made from wheat this year, and $25,000 from sugar beets. Mirrored for Our Readers (Copyright.) κ Oh, Ν. dea And Le, OUT INTO THE SUBURBS rT om έ af EW YORK.—New York's popula-, tion supremacy is moving fast into the suburbs. Manhattan builders are providing persons this put in year, ; recent although years has their been out tricts say that there is a tremendous movement of flat dwellers away from Manhattan. A large part of the fami lies are moving to new houses in Brooklyn, Queens and New Jersey on the lines of the underriver tunnels which are to be opened this year Brooklyn is getting by far the largest share because transit facilities there| now are fairly good. | In al] the new rapid transit suburbs | fiat builders have begun work on 3,000 | houses during the first three-quarters| They will contain homes || for over 30,000 families. gun Manhattan| during the Grst vine months of the year will not house more than 35, more than twice that volume Renting agents in middle-class dis of the year. builders have started during t same period less than 200 hou hey wi house less than 10,000 families. It is i 1 that th tan flats flats be be the Manhattan e8Umatec 50,000) for homes new 000 persons. But the reduced construction more than supplies the population needs of Manhattan. There are more vacant flats in old centers than have been seen in nearly a decade Fiat owners in many parts of Harlem, on Washington Heights and in the Bronx are offering free rents to attract tenants. At the same time the increased demand in Brooklyn, in spite of its huge current construction of flats, is offering a basis for higher rentals. Few families who move into Brooklyn flats can get so much as a month's rent free, even when they pay a higher rental than has prevailed ip the same neighborhood. INTERESTING AUDIENCES IN THE DIVORCE COURTS HE annual divorce mil! has begun to grind, and in three parts of the supreme court daily unhappy couples are being freed of their shackles at a rate that would surprise folks not acquainted with the rapidity with which New York judges can do this sort of business, On a day when the calendar is filled with uncontested cases sometimes 60 or 70 will be decided. But it is not the uncontested cases that draw the audiences which makes this sort of court so picturesque. It is ‘the cases in which one side fights the other to avoid the granting of a decree. Such a case has been going on recently, and as the parties interested have been prominent socially the room was crowded at every session, This to the audience, which has been typ{eal There was the fat and blonde lady, drinking in every word of the testi mony, and nudging the nippety little woman who always accompanies her to such feasts, There was the smirk ing clerk, getting as near to people in high life as he ever can, and the map of 49 and a family, who ought to be at home. Then, too, were the women of all sorts and kinds, who either had just received their divorces or were waiting for them and wished to see and hear how another woman came through the ordeal. And the students of sociology— which most of them couldn't spell, let alone case had all the interesting surroundings-—the beautiful wife accused of human nature with bated breath and parted lips on every word they ldn’t hear. The supreme court tiese days presents a_ scene which rivals every problem that ever by her husband, the tales of “high jinks,” the handsome co-respondent, the angry mother, the savage husband—all have figured, But the characters themselves were of littie interest to the student efine—lingered flaunted its straine! relations across the fooplights. Always a picturesque scene, always different, but always the same old picture. compared isn't and oh, dear! t queer” use for things mix up the way they do? Here 1. with every opportunity, and barof talent as a cabbage-head; and Barbie the gifted, spending in fighting the Harpies. Why cannot | be Barbie, and Barbie—somebody else” Mis Frankie Carter sighed as dismally as though the “mixed up” state of affairs really concerned her. Personally she had little cause for compiaint Her winter school was over— a very successful school the commit tee informed her -and the financiai result made a neat bank account, With youth, health, good looks and vacation it would seem the “oh, dear” ex- | clamation was uncalled for. Barbie— | Yet, in truth, there was and Barbie meant Carl and the children, and the general unhappiness of | one of life's misfits. She did not un-— derstand her sister-inlaw; but this much she did understand: Congressman ; out soberly, she was thoroughly out of place here on this windswept knoll, a poor man’s wife, her white, nervous hands chained by motherhood. It was a glimpse into the kitchen go in my my lit i 1 stead, Barbie, want you to and leave Car) and the children to me There was a long sitence, in which Mrs. Carter mechanically went on with her preparations for supper. Mistily she caught a vista of the fu ture held out to her—the old bright future relinquished for love’s sake Did Frankie realize all she had spoken? One thin, nervous hand went up to her throat. In there—-in that delicate, wonderful organ of sound, lay her hope of greatness. Ambition was not dead—once born, it never dies. She had firm faith in herself The old scenes crowded upon her memory. The smell of musk and cologne, the flash of lights, the throb of the orchestra. Below, the upturned faces, rapt and listening, ready to storm her with flowers and applause. The world—herlittle world—at her feet. I'll talk to Carl,” she said. Not all at once—not easily—did the proud spirit consent to accept its ran- som. When she did break away from her children her heart seemed broken, too, in the strain. Frankie’s face was which called forth the dejected ex- | the last she saw as she leaned from Her tears made a elamation Barbie was getting sup- the car window. per. She was a fragile woman, with | blurred halo around it as it smiled its great mournful eyes shining in a hopeful smile. Frankie's eyes were wet, too, as she small brown face. The small brown face was flushed with weariness, and | and Carl went dumbly back to the a suspicious tremble came and went farm, which already wore the mournful look of having lost something. about her lips. A very fat boy baby Bravely the little Hercules set about kept catching at her dress as she adjusting the burden of responsibility. passed him, Her first cat was to admit all the sunThe open door framed a_ pleasani picture of sloping green and hedge- shine she could coax to enter the row showedover with bleaching linen. old-fashioned windows. The next was Three other children were out there, to tempt Carl's appetite; and the last with their family of dolls and a pup. | —the hardest—to put the children to time without a She shut her book and went out to bed, for the first the greasy belligerent, straightway mother's good-night kiss. The weeks which followed were— applying the wet corner of a towel. ‘Barbie,” she said, smoothing the as she afterward said—a_ record of failures. Gradually wosilky brown curls, “why don't you continuous. teach school, or—or do something? man’s sphere evolved itself from the How can you stand this toil and pov- confusing mists, rounding out to grace erty? Discouragement is making Carl ful proportion; and Frankie grasped gray-headed, and you—why, you are the truth which often evades the intellect of woman, that her work is old at 30!” Mrs. Carter was frying eggs. Care- clothed with dignity and honor, and fully she laid the last in the hot dish, is as important to the onward march not raising her eyes. When she re- of man as the labors which receive plied there was fine sarcasm in her the crown of laurel leaves. tone. “Atlas knew where to find the golden apples—but there heavens to were uphold, Frankie! the Is it Letters came regularly from the absent Barbara-——-brave letters, never betraying by a word the yearning for possible you don’t see why I don't dg her babies, the loneliness of her life, something?” ‘the constant goading of an unseen foe. “Oh, you know what I mean! You Temptation’s insidious whisper kept are doing something all the time. I urging her from the path of duty, with mean something which will pay you.” its promise of fame, and alluring mem- For just a second the elder woman paused, with uplifted eyes. Then she ories of the life she had loved. Motherhood, God's special gracious gift to woman, hers in atonement for some, to others with pain and dh. brow! legacy left by the late Mrs. Lulu B. Glover, excepting the ashes of a creHe has failed to get rid of this interesting relic. President Roosevelt, to whom Mrs. Glover, who committed suicide in her apartments on Lexington avenue last December, left her estate, has firmly refused to add the funeral urn which contains the ashes to the feline pet to his stock of curiosities. Although it is not within the prov- ince of the public administrator to deal with the estates of those who have madewills, Mr. Hoes, at the request of the president, took charge of the property left by Mrs. Glover. He said that he had found the estate The opportunity to grasp them came naturally. It is not easy to tens, so he has taken charge of the urn himself and is using it as a paper weight. hide the possession of a great natural According to law the cremated kitten is the property of President Roosavelt and he may at any time he chooses claim the residuary ashes. This, Mr. Hoes is sure, the president has no intention of doing. Mr. Hoes says he will keep the ashes if he is unable to persuade anybody to accept ed. Then she was asked to a parlor musicale, a concert or two, and then— endowment. President many photographs of among her belongings. Roosevelt, whom were NEW SOCIETY TO OFFER BONUS FOR EACH BABY American| Parents’ Benevolent Association,” with a plan whereby children are to be less expensive. On the front of the | neat little pink circular which the| association issues is the legend: “Join | the North American Parents’ Benevo-| lent association and reap its benefits, | which are as certain as death,” Mrs. Bernard S. Austrian is presi-| dent of the new society, which pur:| prses to give to every baby born to a! Austrian has no children, but she says she has seen enough of the misery of others to help those who have babies under adverse conditions. Charles E. George, founder and vice president of the association, says that there is an alarming increase in race suicide statistics. According to his figures, marriage in this country shows the appallingly small birth rate of about 26 per cent. η The initiation fee to the society is five dollars, with one dollar per mont dues for the first year. This amount increases with time, but is never expected to go beyond three dollars Then there is an annual assessment of two dollars, Mr. George says his field of work is @ promis.xg one, as he has figured out that there are between 12,000,000 and Twins and trip-| 15,000,000 married couples {η the Mrs. | country. in role and star you throrgh the next “1 Mean Something Which Will Pay You.” winter. to singing “Your voice is gold,’ afamous op- to kill herself. lem hospital, leaving a will which gave began era manager said. “I am not afraid to prove it. I will give you a leading is little more known about the woman than was known when she was found in her apartment after she had tried She died in the Har She the choir of the church she frequent- smiled. “You are imaginative, my Frankie.” “No, I'm not—I'm practical. I—I've been studying about you and Car! all her estate | a sicians, He has found that there is no general demand for the ashes of kit- have been fruitless. At this time there OMEBODYwith a head for figures, who has been trying by statistics to account for “race suicide,” has computed that it costs $20,000 to bring ap a child. Many people will consider that an over-estimate when the! average child is under consideration, but few will deny that children are | like She was young, she was fearless, and the apples were within her reach! tives of Mrs. Glover have extended 5 member $500 in gold. lets are considered as one child. soldiers, faded and dimmed, over a period of several months, bur But the urn which contains the ashes of one of the manycats of which Mrs. Glover was fond is too much like a white elephant to appeal to the president. He notified Mr. Hoes that he “North Carl for the ashes of the kitten. Mr. Hoes has offered the relic to several phy- Mr. Hoes’ efforts to discover rela him that he would give the money to a charitable institution. Now comes the It alone held her back. dream of the night. them. was valued at more than $6,000, and that President Roosevelt had notified expensive luxuries. ques- and the old green hill-slope, with its orchard and meadow and corn rows, climbing rank on rank like disciplined UBLIC Administrator William M. expected him as executorof the estate Hoes has disposed of the entire of Mrs. Glover to find a resting place mated kitten. {0 tioning, but no less as a blessing. It was to Barbara a crown—of_ thorns. How it dignified and pierced her κω season, if you are equal to study, and will put yourself in training. I have seen many a success—have helped make them—and I can promise you a future.” Fiercely the blood assailed her heart, fiercely back rushed the tide to her reeling brain. What right had that old mistaken duty to call her? Through the day and night which It has seemed soselfish in me followed, her soul, battle-wrecked and to be pegging away for myseif—always for myself. I have paid my helpless, tossed like a ship torn by the enemy's fire. She realized there board and washing, and that was no half-way ground. is all Bartlett of If she gave day of the session he would introduce as a measure of relief for the financial stringency, a bill for the free coinage of silver. John Sevodes, a Pole, was killed at Terry, Mont., last week by Mattio Manilla, an Italian. The men had words during the day and Manilla is said to The coroner's jury at Pine Grove, Mont., heeding a plea of justification based upon the “unwritten law,” coupled with self-defense, exonerated Chester A. Smith of killing Wallace Washburn, a prominent rancher of Pine Grove, and turned him loose. The Butte Coalition company, which has just reduced its quarterly dividend from 50 to 15 cents, was formed in April, 1906, and since incorporation will have paid six dividends, a total of $2.45 per share, or $2,450,000 on the company's 1,000,000 shares of stock. A special from Aberdeen, Wash., says that Henry Porter, aged 19, shot and killed himself because of unrequit affection for Marguerite McCarthy, aged 16, a hospital nurse. Before shooting himself, Porter went to the hospital, threatening to kill both the girl and himself. He was disarmed and left in tears. Two men, named Griffin and Con- nor, were found dead thirty miles from Goldfield, last week, by a prospector named Ryan, Griffin's skull was crushed and the other body showed marks of violence. Their tent had been destroyed by fire, and the bodies, lying some distance away, were COovered with brush. Contracts were signed last week by the Homestake Mining company Consolidated and the King Colorado Iron works for the erection at Goldfield of a $200,000 amalgamating and cyaniding mill, the capacity to be 150 tons a day. Work started Monday on excavation, and the plant is to be ready by April 1. A call was issued by the Helena Commercial club for a bei of cit- izens of Montana to be held at Helena November 26, for the purpose of forming a state association to bring about the securing from congress of a just share of the river and harbor appropriation for the betterment of the Missouri and Yellowstone rivers. United States Senator Robert Μ. Lafollette of Wisconsin has offered to appear before the interstate commerce commission at Washington next menth and speak in behalf of the northwestern lumbermen in their fight against the Hill and Harriman roads, protesting against the 10-cent advance in freight rates on lumber and shingles. If a plan now under consideration by W. E. Dowlen, manager of the Nevada-Goldfield Reduction works, is consummated, Goldfield will soon have a circulating medium that will relieve to a great extent the scarcity of real money. The plan is to take the bullion produced by the mills, make it into bars and stamp thereon’ the value, which will be used as money. The collapse of a brick flue in the home of W. B. Booth of Lexington, Ore., caused the death of a fivemonths-old babe, which was crushed to death under the falling brick. Booths’ 12-year-old daughter was buried in a mixture of mud, bricks and mortar, but escaped without a scratch. Vivian Guthrie, 7 years old, was placed on the witness stand at Helena in the trial of George Melville on the charge of causing the death of" the lad’s father, Winfield Guthrie in Bald Butte, last May. According to his evi- dence, the child saw Melville enter the cellar, brandishing a hunting knife. A few moments later he heard the shrieks of his father and saw him run for a short distance from the house and drop on the spot where he died. The lad also told of the appearance of Godlike in their power, drew shoreward. Annex company, from the lease on the Cornishman and Firelight claims but “And you are gifted—you are twice as smart as I, who am barely able to teach a country schoo!!” There was a darkening of the splendid eyes, a paling of the face. “Τῃ what am I gifted, Frank? With the special capacity for burning victuals and scalding my fingers? I coyld sing—if I had the chance. What other one thing can I do?” “You can do well what I am doing poorly—teach school. I know you can, Hush—wait! I know there have been years of dust and rust, and your wits need a brushing. A termat a normal schoo! will do that.” “T don’t understand.” There was something fine in her American Was Not Awed by Grouchy Poet Laureate. A writer in Harper's Weekly brings in his intercourse with his friends. failing her; but the little soft hands, nothing WRITER. singular habits of the great laureate against him. There is REBUKED THE GREAT George A. Bugh, aged 12, and Joseph T. Gibson, aged 20, were drowned in Manhattan lake, et Denver, while skating. Charles Abberts end T. H. Hubbard broke through the ice in trying to save them and were rescued with difficulty. Melville and his threat to kill the two children of his victim. The richest car of unsorted ore ever mined in the Goldfield district was sent out last week by the Florence and the modern success of a schoolteacher. Carl was a sinking plank, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH threat was made good. herself to art, it must be unreservedly. On the other hand was Carl— dear, blundering Carl!—her children, 179 IN ST have threatened to kill Sevodes if he | to Nght an interesting anecdote of did not keep strict silence. The Tennyson which well illustrates the either of you would let me do.’ “It was enough,” proudly “Yes—superficially. But Carl is my dear only brother, And these are his babies. We all see the tide is setting debt—debt—debt! Why should I be so dainty and comfortable, and you and Carl so wretched?” “Because Carl and I chose to risk fife together, I suppose.” ESTABLISH 1842 Nevada last week announced that on the first and have found a better the narrower life, comes royally ROOSEVELT REFUSES URN CONTAINING CAT’S ASHES Our diamond customers recently found out they had made wise investments. We have | them—$25 to $5,000 each. the Ohio youth who sent dynamie bombs to a number of prominent Dencitizens, was ordered by Judge ver Bliss in the criminal oucrt in Denver last week By Rose Willis Johnson Syndica‘e with its only competitor, corrode witendanbtediy gp higher. ὶ | Another trial for Kemp V. Bigelow, | Life in the Great Metropolis Ie ied The poet was not only brusque and rough, but he was domineering and exacting, and most other men were afraid of him. But an American schoolmaster who for many years maintained a great intimacy with him had no fear in his heart, and sat and smoked on an equality with the sover- eign singer by Farringford fireside. “One evening,” says the writer, “when the two were thus together, Tennyson said that he would depart from his custom and narrate a personal experience; but he had suffered a good deal from repetitions of his tales by those to whom he had told them, and he would be obliged to ask his friend never to repeat what he was about to hear. The American smoked on for a few seconds while Tennyson waited for the promise, and then he said: ‘My lord, in my coun- try a gentleman would never make that request of another gentleman.” ‘H-h-m!’ said the poet, and looked out of eyes that wondered if the quiet smoker opposite knew how much he'd said. Then he told the story.” CLEVER SCHEME THAT FAILED. Old Salesman’s Advice Left Worse Off Thar Before. Firm Henry Clews is telling a new story which he says he got straight from the Canal street district, says the New York Times. A young jobbing firm, the tale tells, overbought for the fall trade. Their heaviest mistake had been in the line of overcoats, which it looked they would have to carry over a season. Efforts to get cash for the stock were fruitless, ex cept at ruinous rates. At last the firm went to an old-timer in the trade for advice. “Well,” said the man of ex- perience, “you've got a pretty good list. of customers. Just divide the coats up into lots of thirteen each. Send a batch apiece to some of your sharpest customers, but make out the bills for twelve. had been tried before the men met again. The old-timer waited for his praise. “Well, didn’t they keep the coats?” he asked, “Yes,” returned the jobber, sadly. “One each. The one that wasn't billed.” Ate Heart of Assassin. A correspondent of the North China Daily News describes what folowed the execution of an assassin: “When the heart of Hsu Hsi-lin was cut out of his body and had been laid before the remains of his victim as a sacrifice to the late governor's manes, members of his bodyguard, to signify their zeal and hatred of the assassin, seized Hsu's still warm heart and cutting it up into mince meat boiled it and served the grewsome dish among themselves to be eaten. This seems a poor way of revenging the death of one patron, especially since it was due to the very ineptitude and subsequent panic of this very brave bodyguard that enabled Hsu Hsi-lin to fire s0 many shots, without any kind of hindrance, at the late En Min.” House Eleven Hundred Years Old. St. Albans possesses the oldest inhabited house in the country. This distinction is said to belong to the old Round house, now the Fighting Cocks inn, which stands close to the River Ver. It is a curious structure—of octagonal shape—of early Saxon origin, having been built as a boathouse to the ancient monastery founded at St. Albans by King Offa about the year 795, and is thus over 1,100 years old. A subterranean passage, now blocked up, runs from the basement to the ruins of the monastery, a dis- tance of about 200 yards. There is a shed at the back of the house, where it is said Oliver Cromwell stabled his horse, himself once sleeping under its roof during the civil war.—Collecting. In the dawn the conflict ended, the of the Florence-Goldfield estate. The ‘ear contained forty tons, and was fever left her. So in the end, at the close of the worth $37,920. Information from Abroad. We learn from the Paris Figaro that a clergymen’s union has been year of preparation, a letter found its way to the farm. George Meldrum is on trial at Helena, Mont., charged with killing Win- formed in New York which is demand- “T have been fairly successful,” she wrote. “Have secured license, and a field Guthrie. Melville and Guthrie seems to be spreading, for we read were employed at a mine near Helena, position for the coming term. I think it will be far better for you the victim boarding with Melvilte. The defense is that the admitted kill- further: “While waiting for the American government to take the proper steps, 40 pastors have already renounced their charges in the state of Pittsburg.” to join me bere. Beside my teach- ing, I can get many engagements to sing, and a musical class, for outside hours. So I can follow the beloved art afar off, after all—afar off, with feet uncovered. Carl will have no trouble in finding employment; and you will come with them. In the brightening future I want you near, to prove how much I love you.” So the little Hercules, relieved of the responsibility, was free to resume her girl's face as she turned it toward the accustomed labors, which she did with other, ennobled by its earnestness, “] have been saving my moneyfor three years, as you know, intending to go to ; college. But I have thought the future soul enriched by the accomplishment ing was done because of abuse of Mrs. Melville. With two of the largest producers of the camp storing their ore, the shipment to mills and smelters by the Goldfield district last week was ex- The movement Many Sides. “That's the way the thing was told to me, but of course, there’s always The mills of the district have been more than one side to a story.” “Of course, there are always as many flooding the smelters until they have sides to a story as there are people to tremely large, amounting to $674,200. been obliged to call a halt. Enoch Andrew Spores, the Indian brave in jail at Dallas, Ore., charged with the murder of his squaw, was found banging in the corridor of the of a generous deed, and never dream- jafl. Life was extinct. He left a note to the effect that he did not confess re ae Da Ree Sompted to abandon her. his guilt of the crime, and saying he was going to meet his “darling.” } They'll be so tickled to get one coat for nothing that they'll take ’em all.” The scheme ing higher salaries. | || blame.” Better Than Gifts of Fortune. The gifts of fortune are often taken away as speedily as they eame; but strength of mind and personal nobility are possessions which survive the external circumstances of life and lift it into grander planes.—Haliburton. eed SZ, |