•''« '"i;-" TEACHING A GIRL TO RUN AH AUTO. 1 Countess Castellane Must Give Up GOLD HID IN GUATAVITA'S »^t i f ' [ < , ' Secure a good, easy-going jnachine, TREASURE THAT LIES DEEP IN that the discoveries since .made by with an active and up-to-date sparker,- MUD OF VOLCANIC LAKE. Europeans to some extent at least and having placed the girl firmly by! to confirm the truth of this strange leg­ your side, where you can secure a! end. strong hold in cases of emergency,! iBtory of the Efforts to Recover Fab­ "All the people," says the narrator, proceed to a lonely, unfrequented) ulous Riches V&hich Were Cast "marching in solemn procpssioA, with road whfere you will be uninterrupted.', Has Choice of Paying Count's Debts or Allowing Into the Lake Centuries music and banners flying, assembled If the girl display any sights ofi Ago. from the various towns and villages nervousness, do your best to soothe* rouncl the shores of the lake. Pres­ her. There are a number of ways toj Him to Keep the Boys—Tragic Ending of The story of the hunt which the ently, after a silence, they made a do this. Take her hiind in yours audi Contractors' Company, Limited, of great outcry, for there, in a litter on pat it gently.. Speak to her in a low,( Sordid International Marriage London has made for golden treasure the top of one of the surrounding soift tone. If absolutely necessary; Paris.—Anna Gould, the countess of at Lake Guatavita, in Colombia, where hilis, they saw a golden man glitter­ •place her head .upon your, shoulder', world. It is the mother of three man­ openly in the chamber of deputies, and ing In the sunlight. This was their Castellane, probably will pay $5,000,- ly boys. She is older, sadder, and it is supposed that the native Chib- and count 100. If not effective, repeat) at the end of the year, when he came king, who had first been bathed in a in one minute. j 000 for her three sons. wiser—as well as poorer. to the United States to get more chas centuries ago cast millions of gold and precious stones in carrying kind of turpentine and then covered Now she may take the wheel, ad­ Count Boni de Castellane, father money, he was charged with fleeing with powdered gold. He came slowly of the children, demands possession Story Is Tragic. from creditors. \ out the peculiar rites of their religion vance the sparker and throw in thei of the children and gives the daughter is an interesting one. clutch. It will then be your turn to' The story best can be told by yea^s; The countess came with him, bring* grow nervous. While the girl !•< of the first great American million­ the story of the little girl overbur- ing her two sons, the only solace she The company has spent thousands aire her choice between paying his of dollars in draining the lake that clutching the machine you clutch they d»ned with the wealth that Jay Gould had, and they had an argument on girl. It will then be time to resti debts and giving up her children. Un­ had won by fair and foul means in the ship—neither of them knowing they might get at the treasure sup­ posed to be buried there, and now they This should not take any longer than; less she pays the debts the French the railroad world and the stock job­ the American flag when they saw it. the rest of the afternoon.. I court probably will hold that she can­ bing market, who married a French are praying for rain to' fill it again, for when the water had all been By the time you have#got so you; not take them from France without near-nobleman, noble in name and ig­ Millions to Save Name. can kiss the girl without getting, the consent of the spendthrift noble­ noble in almost everything else ex­ drained off, it was found that the mud In 1900 financial troubles were at a at the bottom was 25 feet deep and nervous, she ought to be able to Tun man who, since March 4, 1895, when cept his ability to fight with others climax. Castellane had openly slurred the machine.—Tom Masson, in Deline­ he married her, has squandered over of his type. * would have to be washed away to get the Goulds, especially Helen Gould. at the treasure supposed to lie at the ator. 19,000,000 of Jay Gould's fortune and On March 4, 1895, Boni de Castel­ His family openly charged that Anua bottom. But with the water drained now seeks to make it 114,000,000 be­ lane, alleged nobleman of France, mar­ Gould was "bourgeoise." Boni was as Side Lights on History. fore he will release her. ried Anna Gould. She had met the out and the clouds withholding their reokless as ever. Petit Tridnon was accustomed moisture, the equatorial "But," urged one of the tyrant's as­ That the Goulds will pay the $5,000,- pink and white, dapper Frenchman by incomplete. Boni came to America sun soon baked the surface of the bot­ sociates, "William Tell is a power in, 000, settle the debts of Boni de Cas­ special arrangement of his own—of again i;o get money and failed. Tha the land. Why not write to him and which she knew nothing—and perhaps tom as hard .as a rock. This put a tellane, even those of the usurers who countess' chateau at Dumarais was stop to the effort to get at the treasure Houses of Engineers Who Are Wait­ try to win him over to your support, she had loved him, in a way. Perhaps ordered sold for debt and only an ap­ and for two years now the company ing for Rain. instead of making an enemy of him?" she dreamed he was her Prince peal to her family saved it. Trades­ has been waiting for rain. Gessler broke into a discordant Charming. The Frenchman came to down the hill, and embarked on a men openly insulted the Castellanes- Gold Idol Recovered from Lake. laugh. America. He lived in a hack room and dunned them in public. George great barge. At his feet was a pile The reason for the. belief that this "Do you think," he said, "I am go­ over a dressmaker's establishment. and Edwin Gould gave $1,000,000 to of gold and another of emeralds. He ing to take trouble to compose an He had come to America to marry save the family pride. Boni had sp«?nt lake holds untold treasure is due to was slowly rowed to the center of the a religious ceremony which the Chlb- overture to William .Tell?" money. He said it himself. And be­ $3,000,000, besides his wife's income, lake, four barges bearing priests sur­ So he left the job to Rossini, who, fore he married he asked for a mar­ and owed over $4,000,000. chas observed. These natives regard­ rounding the king's vessel. Then bra­ ed the Lake' of Guatavita, a little pool upon the whole, did the work a great riage portion of $5,000,000 and got $3,- In 1901 the courts took a hand to ziers were lighted on the barges, and deal better than he CQUld have done tcs 000,000. He hadn't even met Miss in the crater of an extinct volcano, a great bonfire on the shore: The as­ save the fortune of the little Ameri­ some 9,000 feet above the sea level, it.—Chicago Tribune. Gould when he privately announced can. A receiver was appointed in the sembled people cried out to their that he would marry her. He had lit­ as sacred. They believed their pro­ deity, while drums and * pipes sound­ person of her brother George. The tecting deity lived in it. This deity A Tired Skeleton. tle money, but he was determined to family paid $4,700,000 of Boni's debts ed, and the priests raised their hands was known as El Dorado, which Living Skeleton (only one in Amer» wed. He went to a hotelkeeper and and held the countess' fortune to pro­ to heaven. lea, at dime museum)—These folks explained. Then he moved to one of means, not as is generally believed, "At a sign the multitude turned tect her and themselves. By order of the golden city, but "The Golden,One." make me tired. the greatest hotels in the world and the court the income of the Castel- their backs to the lake, for the com­ Sympathetic Visitor—In what way?( gave a little dinner, and a "friend" To this "Golden One" the Chibchas mon people might not witness the lanes was reduced from $900,000 to offered up every six months a sacri­ "Here I am earning $500 a week asj asked Miss Gould to attend. Within $200,000, but they fought in court and actual sacrifice. A moment later there fice which would make even the the greatest living skeleton, yet hour, a month the wedding was arranged. A got the entire income. was a great splash. Gilded king, gold after hour, day In an' day out, one old! month later the engagement was an­ mouth of a South African millionaire and jewels, were all plunged into the In that year Boni fought Henri de water. woman after another stops an' chins, nounced. The day of the announce­ Roday and shot him in the leg. Also sacred waters. The gilded monarch and chins, at me about the things li ment Castellane moved to the Wal­ he gave a boar hunt that cost $100,000 They threw into the lake at each of swam in the lake, leaving a glitter­ ought to eat to get fat."—N. Y. Week­ dorf-Astoria and began buying on for the Grand Duke Boris. He enter­ these ceremonies an enormous amount ing wake behind him, while the peo­ ly. credit. tained the king of Portugal. of gold and precious stones. ple, with renewed clamor, threw their The day after the wedding the bills Early in 1903, when Jay, the young­ The following account of one of personal offerings of gold over their Obliging. began to pour in. . est baby, was a few months old, the these offerings, given by one of the heads into the pool. Then king and The young man with dandruff on descendants of the Chibchas, reads They went to Paris and Boni de countess suddenly left the count. , It people, believing their sins for the his coat collar and a roll of paper in Castellane began spending Jay Gould's was reported that they were Catholic church on one ing. He bought from Asher Wertheim, court exhibition. You could even see inappropriate headgear as a,t first "While fishing at Seabrook the Still the money went furiously. The tiny specks crawling over a sort of side, and the love of their mother— of London, curios for which he could king of Portugal was their guest and sight it may appear. But trailing pther day a man caught a five-pound and money—on the other. The coun­ not pay. This bill later proved one of match across a little ring of water td gives you your direction and tells you catfish that had a beautifully en­ nearly a quarter of a million dollars si miniature merry-go-round in the cen­ ties herself has become almost the direct means of his downfall. was spent on him during his visit that you are traveling. Over trees, graved solitaire engagement ring In French. Among other things that he wanted ter. That was the Maxim "flying houses, haystacks, everything, glides, its stomach." The countess had stood mucb. But The $5,000,000 children are hand­ was an Italian palace. He bought one machine." The completeness of de­ tfrists and winds the rope. It causes "That's a most original place to at Verona at a stupendous price. In finally, in 1905, the break came. "Ces tail in the picture suddenly unrolled consternation in the poultry yard and wear an engagement ring, isn't it?"— some and clever youngsters, and the dames" were one thing—but a woman youngest, who bears the name of the it were 11 ceilings by Tiepolo, and was perhaps the most amazing im­ a sensation among grazing cattle. It Houston Post • the count wanted them transferred to of her own class was another. The pression. is as near an approach to the joys of great and piratical pioneer million­ name of the Duchess d'Uzes was cou­ aire, is declared to be the handsom­ Paris. It was done and then—they For at first, at any rate, it was dif­ flying as the neophyte is likely to get Reform. were sold at enormous loss. pled with that of Castellane. The ficult to realize that the scene was in his present incarnation, unless the est child in Paris. His portrait has .duchess, in her way, is as eccentric "What is reform?" asked the argu­ been painted by the most famous art­ The year 1898 was marked by Cas- real. As the scenic effect of the as­ Aero club stfeeeds in its avowed ambi­ mentative man. tellane's duel with Henri Turot and as Castellane. The countess suffered cent has often been described before, tion of bringing aeroplanes within the ists of France, and as a baby his beau­ in silence no longer. She separated "Reform," answered' the world- ty attracted attention everywhere. his blackballing in the Jockey club. the earth seemed to be dropping away range of practical aeronautics. weary one, "usually consists in mere­ But still, with her two sons, the lit­ from her husband and then brought from you. It was certainly not as if P. H. OAKLEY WILLIAMS. The physical perfection of the chil­ suit for divorce. ly compelling a man to stop doing dren is marveled at by sociologists tle countess was busy and found things his way and making him do solace in them, even when the ex­ The suit was the sigfcal for the cred­ them yours."—Washington Star. because the mother is undersized, sal­ itors to pounce down upon Boni. In low and irregular of feature, while the travagances of her husband and his Domestic Science. Diplomatic. wild actions caused doubt as to his France the wife is responsible for "I may be old fashioned," said One Kind. father is small, effeminate, and yet certain debts jointly with her husband Reporter-Colonel, how do you sanity. His eccentricities and his half Uncle Jerry Peebles, "but I'm • durned stand on the.question of the spelling "Pa, what's an artist?" handsome In his way. He might be insane desire for notoriety amazed and the creditors feared the Gould called pretty rather than handsome. if I can see any economy in buyin' a reform? i "A. man who has a 75-cent appetite even Paris. He planned a riot direct­ millions would escape. The Goulds, 25 cent chunk of ice to keep six cents' Political Leader—Any sy>te™» ' of and gets along with a 50-cent mea'. It isn't the Anna Gould of 11 years ed against the president of France at having lavished nearly $10,000,000 on ago who is fighting for freedom and worth of blue milk from spoilin'."— spelling that suits the plain peepul of so that he may have a quarter left the races at Auteuil, and he and his the count, refused to pay more. Boni, Chicago Tribune. this country, sir, is good enough for for the waiter."—Chicago Record-Her­ her children and willing, perhaps, to the man who had refused to pay debts wife were among the chief actors in me.—Chicago Tribune. ald. ; pay the remainder of her magnificent the comedy-drama which cost them a of honor, calmly offered to make , Doesn't Always Work. fortune for the privilege of returning fortune. , terms. "Money has wings and files away, « Hunting for Utopia. to America with ®her children. It is Boni was becoming ridiculous.' He And now—unless the creditors are I've beard," said the man with a scar; First English Work on Angling. not the Countess de Castellane, leader "But I've put lots of dough in a flying The first English work on angling Knicker—Do you belleVe the office proved himself skillful at fencing, satisfied, he will use the children as machine^ should seek the mian? of the royalists in Paris, the proud­ wounding one adversary. Even Ms his last weapon and force a settle Yet It never has flown very far." was "The Book of St Alben's," yub- est of the proudest society set in th* •-YonkMrs Statesman. lished in the fifteenth century* • Bocker—-I'd go still fttrther and have title was attacked; he was ridiculed ment. the fleet seek the janitor.—N. T. Sua.