The National tribune., 1906-11-15
PEOPLE.

! them into it's sacred precincts. accord
| ing them all the advantages in the way
II University OF Chicago will find itself
| greatly in the rsar unless it begins a
| forward march.
Samuel Pearson. of South Africa, has
| discovered dfamord fields in the dikes
4 of Elliott and Boyd Counties of Ken
! lucky, where, disguised a noun
/ taineer, he has been working for the
past six months 1.-THE stones have been
I sert to New York, tested and pro-
| nounced to be of a superior quality
| Pearson says the fields are richer than
those of Kimberly, and the residents of
the two fortunate Counties are in a
state of wild excitement naturally.
Miss Helen Gould, at present in Paris
with her sister. the Countess Castellanc,
recently brought action before the
| courts against the assessors of Green
| amount of S350.000. She was granted
Il writ of certiorari against the asses
| sors, requiring them to show why her
assessments should not be reduced.
1t may be remembered that our
friend. Mrs Cassie Chadwick. got s10.-
/ 600 out of Herbert L.. Newton. of
| Broohline Mass by representing that
| Mr.. Andrew Carnegie was her relative
and responsible .Cr har. S'nce the-j
| Mr.. Newton has 1: I a nimbGr % Q.I -
tions awaiting Mr.. Carnegie's return
| from Europe. He was given the op-
portunity for asking these the other
| day when Mr. Carnegie appeared be-
| fore Commissioner Shields in the Fed
eral Building. New York, and denied
| most emphatically that he had ever
| known or had anything to do with the
| fair but erring Cassie.
1t is said that Count Gen Won Moltke
is slated for Chancellor to succeed Won
| Buelow The former fs the champion
| Of the Kaiser's supposed reactiOnary
military policy, and his appointmen
will be exceedingly pleasing to the little
clique of political schemers whose chief
| agent he is, that surround the throne
Proceedings in the Castellane divorce
/ case have probably reached an end
| The court has adjourned for week
| and at the end of that time Will either
| accede to the demands of the Counts
| lawyers for an examination of wit
nesses or grant the divorce. 1t Is not
expected that the former will be or
dered. Maitre Bonnet in presenting
the Counts case, made a charge against
Edmund Kelley. one of the Countess's
counsel and attorney for the American
| Embassy in Paris, of being entirely re-
sponsible for the Countess's action. Mr.
Kelley was also accused by Maitre Bon
net of buying witnesses to testify
against the Count, Of poisoning the
mind of the Countess against her hus-
| band thus preventing a reconciliation
| between them The attorney tried TO
prove by a number of very yapid love
letters written by the Count to his wife
that he still loved, had always loved
her and was more the injured husband
| than she an injured wife. He denied
that the Countess had ever been struck
by the Count Or limited to SIS 4 month.
but showed instead that she had spent
ay.rr. ar,tI nf
| over $4,000 for dressmakers' bills be-
| ing mentioned He claimed that the
| Counts debts were not personal. but
due to his lavish manner in keeping III
his household. a''beneft enjoyed by
| them both. His dehtS amount to $2i. 900
annually. andiff obliged to pay them he
will lie ruined and forced TO sell what
remains to him Of his ancestral inner
itance. That the Count shoul' be re-
imbursed the s240.0 900 which it is
claimed he has spent of his own for
| tune in the expenses Of the CaStellane
| household Maitre iRonnet thought only
| iHSt Public opinion is strongly on the
side of the Countess, and on account Of
| the disclosures made by her counsel OF
| the Counts reckless spending Of the
| Could millions and more particularly
| of the notorious RIGHTEOUSNESS of his
| life he has been practically ostraciZed
| by the elite of Paris society Six cred
md Maitre MiIlerand, who represents
| them. claims that the Countess is re-
sDonSible with her husband for the
| household expenses. and should pay her
| share. They are naturally extremely
anxious that the divorce shall not be
! granted until their claim has been SET
| tied When Anna Could married Count
| CasteiIane she paid all his debts and
| settled 100000 on him. In 1901 a
| consultation of the Gould family was
held. for the little Count had spent all
| his $4,000, 900 and owed s4.Tn0. 900
! more. To pay this Indebtedness George
| and Edwin Gould furnished $1,000, 900.
| md the Countesss income was cut
! down from 100000 year to s250,001
/ TO supply the remainder. Madam Du
| Barry. whose extravaganza is said to
| have played a large part in bringing
| about the French revolution, or Cleo
! patra. who. to show her reckIessness.
| melted n pearl of priceless value in a
| cup of wine. are said to make a very
| poor showing against gay little Count
Boni when il came to the spending of
| money.
Apropos of the Marlborough divorce
case it is said that all the members Of
! the Dukes family are siding with him,
| Notwithstanding the fact that they have
| been on very friendly terms with the
| Duchess The entire outfit of Spenccrs.
| Churchills and Hamiltons are arrayei
| against her, even Winston Churchill.
whose mother was an American and TO
| whom he Is devoted. This has always
i been the case in all the Marlborough
domestic troubles and they have been
/ many the family standing together as
one. no matter how plainly in the
| wrong the offending member may have
/ been For a while the Spencer-Churchill
element was very friendly towards Mrs.
Hammersley, the late Dukes second
and American wife but when after his
death his son, the present head of the
great family. began quarreiing with his
Stepmother about money. she W;:S de-
serted at once by her powerful family
friends AS a result of his domestic
troubles the Duke has decided to close
Blenheim and discharge its little army
of servants, living for the present with
his mother, Lady Blanford. in his com
| paratiyely humble residence, Wood
stock House, which overlOoks BIenheim
Park.
DR.. Edwin e. Beeman. whose faml-
lar, cheerful face has for SO many years
adorned the street ears and drug stores
advertising his. popular chewing gum
died in Cleveland, o., Nov. 6. For the
last % years DR. Beeman has been en-
gagged in the rnanhfacture of chewing
gum, out of which he made very
handsome fortune. 1t is said that the
idea Of putting pepsin in the gum was
first suggested toh DR.. Beeman by q
! Young woman VINO sold papers at q
news stand. He afterwards employed
| her in his worderfulIy successful busi-