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The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-03-02
GOLDEN GATE n
TO Be BU|LI]
Construction Between n
"lnnemucea to b!
at Once. !
lNTERURBAN LINE
HAS BEEN ri
This Road Will Be Bui|
the Boise River ~,
to Pearl. /
Special "a Tho Tribune

Special Ia Tho Tribune
BOISE Ida. March l.-E
Minneapolis, who is one =,
OF the San Francisco. Idabo
railroad. is in the ctv 7.
he said The Golden Gate ~
to be built to winnemucca =,
very likely will he in on,-s'
end OF the year" In th,, ~
had reference to tho line n.
company proposes to bnOd
via Boise, TO San Francisco
1nterurban Railvs,
w. f. Pierce. one Of the u
the Boise and Interurhan "a
just returned from the F,..i
went 10 finance this anteTrss.
Ing the matter Mr.. Pierca .ss<
| left the East the CONTRACTS
and delivered by which os,
completely financed Bv a..
that the issue Of Soon -
construction and equipment i
Gnderwritten. and the rnonsv
soon as we want 1t. Cons,r'<
It is expected. will begin In =
Power Will be furnished 4
Falls"
This is the line that n.
propose 10 build down tSs
and over 10 Pearl Boise nj
soon have two Interurhan n
Boise Valley Railroad connnss'
menced work on its line 10 n.
Attempt to Break d
Last night there was an
break jail at Caldwell. The
sawed through the barn 10
would soon have gained hIs
he not been detected. He
with a case-knife.
Townsite Company File
The Bull Townsi;e com5,~
capital stock OF 800 Coz
articles OF incorporation witS
taTy OF State. The dIrect01
Millner. / B. Perrlne. Fred
Twin Falls. S. II. Hays and Z
Boise.
Idaho Pioneer Cali
Joseph L. Griffin. one 81
pioneers OF Idaho and father
W. Goodlng OF Shoshoas, a
place yesterday He was
spected citizen and a memhsr
rltorial Legislature.
One Year in Pu-
Mundeli. the cx-Axeszcr
county, who has been co.yir:
bczzlinR county funds Ehe1 81
sentenced to one year Ia he p.
Grazing on Forest Be-
Mai. Fem has Just recssret =
/ Washington 10 the ehsc. u
tions for grazing in the forss! d
rot be received until A71n .
serves Will be open to cattle y
sheep In June.
Term Court POst2'z
Judge Stewart has poslpo1'
term OF the District court q
Idaho City. from March L %
Work on Irrigation !
Work on the canals ane Y
the Bruneau irrigation prols:l
sumed within a few days
representing blessing Z 20,
who are financing the en1e7
4 ly..
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-03-02

Work on the canals ane y
the Bruneau irrigation prols:.
sumed within a few days
representing blessing & %.
who are financing the en'e9
arrived at Bruneau TO Ioo4
project.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-03-02
Term Court POst21z|
Work on Irrigation

Judge Stewart has pos!pc1"
term OF the District court.
Idaho City. from March L %
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-03-02
Attempt to Break !

Last night there was an
break jail at Caldwell. The 4
sawed through the bars 10
would soon have gained biz
he not been detected. He &
with a case-knife.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-03-02
Order No. 2, State Board.

Join + AUSTIN, President
New-York tribune., 1906-10-28

out the w1tchr. Death to the sinner" -pfs He5s!
teisns shouted IN sxabian dialect laughter
whoops and curses. groans and "hiscess al d
The Gravenitz shGddered- Would they pass her!
They were beneath the gT%tfT s Ttf9 fne t o
the witch is there, He told US she was going
sentry has told them! The Cravenitz felt that an
was lost now They 1'GsI fnd heT & she eroqfnse t5,
The grotto is haunted: the white lady waks
no one had entered the zrotto yet Nothing worse
than little water haunts the palace eornrades.
water? What had Eberhard Ludwig said. "One
on from inside; don't believe anything but sea
serpent could enter!'-idle words spoken IN 1esI
lever-but it would not turn,the hines must Be
h oeKed %th seSI sne was MA s bas,i 1os vif5
scrapins against the rough surface She rerne m.
it is the left side OF this gallery" How the
words came back 70 her.-the left side Yes Eut
lost her bearings in the darkness An. could tais
slightly: She wrenched at 1t. throwing all her
weight AGAINST it Il resisted and she felt as y
veins of her temples seemed bursting the tips OF
fiu tbs bss1 G r,sf tIc 1 ta ogoo o,I svs t,1
She could hear the noise outside. but il sounded
centrated and her ears only registered the sursfn
flew round In her hands and she fell forward on
her knees, flung with her own Impetus Would the
s nnee &hsa sn apn RR h s6ud % S4
grfRg b ana & bs3 & 81 T9ess s1e ne hes. fas5
ing then the whole grotto seemed alive
The Gravenitz was saved from a death Of
horror-for in the eighteenth century angry
mob apt to literally tear its victim to pieces:
| but she was saved for ultimate misery. Years OF
virtual slavery at her fair hands at last tired
the duke; loving him still. but daily growing
more avid Of power. WThelmine treated him to
outbursts of wrath whenever her win was
crossed The end was inevitable Even the MAI
| who had adored her for twenty years began TO
believe that she possessed malign supernatural
powers. He credited her with working evil upon
| his own family-and he would see her no more
| All turned against her, even the eurrish crew OF
| relatives who had battened upon her generosity
| Those who would know what finally befell this
| woman whose wonderful gifts were all used for
evil must seek this picturesque book The
closing Of its covers is ike the closing of the
door upon a veritable glimpse Of the living
eighteenth century
New-York tribune., 1906-10-28

was enacted a drama which was to be reneated
a few years later In France by the fair Maruuise
de Pompadour. There was this difference how
ever: Wilhelmine Won GraVenitz was wildly In
love with his highness Eberhard Ludwig. and
her passion never waned
But what the Pompadour did in France in her
craving for riches and power the Gravenitz did
In Nuremberg The duke showered upon her
the hard earned money OF his people; he taxed
to cruelty the resources of q country har-5e5
over and over again by the French invader He
built for her not only the great palace of Iud-
WlSSoorg, but a new city at its gates and a
FAIRY chateau not far away to boot: a mag
nihcent and heaped-up luxury rivaIlfng the
brillianCy of Versailles surrounded the favorite
Estate after estate fell into her srasp her
wealth grew daily, and with her wealth crew
the hatred of the people, who presently gave her
the title of the 'Iand-despoiler" Everything IN
her that was strong and generous turned to evil
She became, says the author under the world
hardening process a Queen of Wickedness
Though the neglected. DUH ugly Duchess Of
WurteInoerg-a w princess of an ancient Iine-stiu
hved lamenting in Stuttgarts old palace VIII
helmine insisted that the duke sbouId On
through formal marriage ceremony with he
ana accordingly the infatuated sovereign COM
mltted bgamy with no compunction Her ex-
uaordinary prosperity. the strange effect which
her magnetic gaze had upon many persons some
OF her mysterious habits and the fiery preach
ing OF an enemy who openly accused her of
wltchcraft reused against her at last the
murderous fury of the lower classes Wandering
one day In the famous old I.ustgarten while
Eberhard Ludwig was away at the wars Will
helmine heard an ominous sound in the distance
the nearing shouts of a mob which sought "the
witch" In the great lonely garden there was
only possible shelter-Duke Christopher's
Grotto. whose marvellous springs and tricks
Eberhard Ludwig had once shown her turning
with twist of a lever the whole grotto into a
place OF gushing fountains
She rushed on. her feet slipping On the Shiny
stones OF the entrance chamber. II she could only
gain the higher gallery she might hide in soma
dark corner All! here were the steps She
claInbered tho yelling b cior%, BE-
hand now. for she could hear their words: s.fsat
New-York tribune., 1906-10-28

lenburger: he married and began to cast about
for improving fortunes Being an utterly selhsn
fool and cad, he abetted court intrigue to SUD-
stitute his young sister for the reigning fayor1te
of the hour-and fate brought Wilhelmlne's $
opportunity. There were many rich noblenen at
court brother Friedrich wrote: he might be able
to make fine marriage for her What joy TO
leave dull little Giistrowi She passed through
many painful episodes before she finally reached
Stuttgart, a creature brimming with buoyant
life and hope. Trained in court etiquette by one
of the conspirators, a clever old dame du palais,
the girl came, an exquisite new planet, into
brilliant society wherein by nature she belonged
She had not only that subtle fascination that
gave her more than the effect of beauty; she had
a rare intelligence and many gifts-not the least
of which was a voice of enthralling sweetness
She had. too, an imperious pride. natural
queenlness that repelled while it attracted The
duke dazZled by being unlike all others
he had known; and the girl dazzled in her
turn by the glamour about the handsome figure
OF the sovereign and soldier. There came a day
When In the forest he knelt at the feet of
"Phiomele'' whose voice he had heard echoing
through the leafy aisles- IT was the beginning
of ruthless woman's audacious rule over SOW
ereign and country alike In the German duchy
New-York tribune., 1906-10-28

boundless ambition The daughter of poverty
stricken gentry Of Mecklenburg. she passed her
childhood in forlorn privation. happy only in
this. that she had the opportunity to acquire
genuine accomplishments under the teaching of
a gentle old schoolmaster. a F'renchman who i'll
his youth had tasted life in King Louiss court
Hers a strangely haunting face her biog-
rapher tells us, though the word beautiful but
i'll defined her subtle fascination" Her 1.-the
and stately form. her glorious mass of hair. with
the CLINT of gold in the brown. her lovely mouth
and beguiling blue eyes-these charms are
vividly portrayed.
concernn t Wh UT mo r%0 persons ms could agree
They were blue and deeply set, the lids heavy, the
lashes short and thick, the eyebrows strongly
But these are mere outward presentments and
tell nothing of the spirit living in those marvellous
changefu Even the color OF her eyes was vary
power Of xing The GistTow Citizens called 9 W
helmine Won Gravenitz witch and sorceress because
men with a look, that she had serpent's gaze
st e & gPsw Go1d and Petryng Tying when she chose and
that her eyes could lance with laughter like a
glow with enthus ism over a song or a poem But
these softer moods were rare in Wilheimine's life
there was little TO call forth gentle feeling She
lived lived alone Hon with her mother in the small. dark
her elder sister had married a middle-cass per
SoAage of the name of Sittmann, a struggling Ber-
enough, for she despised the homely Giistrow
citizens, who in return disiked and feared her and
called her witch.
Here in dreariness and dirt. with scanty food,
and ruled by high tempered. gossipping, shall
low mother, the girl suffered and dreamed
dreamed of ease and plenty of soft linen, of
bright garments of balls and masques. of gayety
and splendor." All these were waiting for her
and with them romantic passion and despotic
power.
In Wdrtemberg in those early years of the
eighteenth century ruled Duke Eberhard I.ud-
wig, young and handsome man. a gallant COM
panion in arms of Prince Eugene and OF the
great Marlborough Returning from the wars
he had brought to Stuttgart with him several
comrades from the army Of the Rhine and
among them Friedrich Gravenftz small
office about the court given to the Neck
New-York tribune., 1906-10-28
Gbe Netutnor:ls Gribmare.
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2S, 1906.
BY FREDERICK BROUGH.

Once more are the woes of an author on the
carpet Two years ago Mrs. Desmond Hum
phreys, better known Rita" published
novel under the title of '"The Silent Woman"
bringing it out as a serial and in book form
In the life Of novel two years make a long
period but of course to an author it seems only
natural that bis book should be remembered
ever SO much longer Rita at all events, feels
I'll used because a new story by some one else
has recently been started in a penny weekly
and the naughty author has not scrupled to
use the title of 'oThe Silent Woman" She
wrote to the editor, placing the facts before
him. but he replied that there copyright
IN titles and refused to abandon the one in ques
tion. We sympathize with Rita" and with
the query which she prints in ''The Author
as to whether it would not be possible to per
suade modern writers to get together and try
TO accomplish an improvement in the copyright
law. 1t would no doubt lessen the number Of
acrimonious controversies. Yet while ones
heart bleeds for Rita" is nevertheless
constrained to point out that the Importance Of
this question of copyright in titles may easily be
exaggerated. The law of the survival of the
fittest works with unerring accuracy in these
matters AS Matthew Arnold once said, I'VE
all have right To exist, we and our works"
But when we look facts IN the face must
admit that the duplication of titles in modern
fiction IS not after all, a matter of tragic mo-
ment
New-York tribune., 1906-10-28

II there is one thing more than another that
is quaint and amusing in the world of letters
at the present time it is the way in which some
one Is always trying to whip the devil around
a stump to prove that things are as they are
Tor almost any reason rather than the real
reason The latest of these ingenious and to
tell the truth, rather fatuOus pIeaders is q con-
ulbutor to "The Saturday Review" who is an
parenty in distress because he cannot read the
new novels with the old gusto He asks if the
novel has deteriorated, and concludes that this
is not the case No, the explanation is to he
found in the fact that a man in middle life
does not care for the love motive in fiction
"Much does he prefer the story that deals with
facts bare of emotion. 1t may be history. or
biography, or science in some of its multifarious
forms, but not the conventional romance of tbe
callOw youth and maiden that he cares TO
read" Love may have its enhancing mvs
teries for the young, but for the maturer man
1t has been Translated into the concrete terms
of domestic life" There is more in the same
vein. 1t Is plausible stuff. No doubt there are
middle aged men for whom facts alone are of
interest But the truth is, of course that q
man. whether he be young or old, will read q
love story with delight if only it is well writ
ten if only genius will tell it. The novel has
deteriorated, OF that there can be no question
with the reader who knows the history Of lit
Eature and has a sense Of proportion
New-York tribune., 1906-10-28

A charge which we have often brought
against contemporary criticism is revived with
admirable point in 1.-The Spectator" Complaint
is made that while the modern reader, if he is
TO have any guidance at all among the new
books, must necessarily rely on the judgment
of the modern critic, that individual is terribly
and it is his habit to @think in inverted
commas" Now, our complainant AYERS, "a
man who always thinks in inverted commas
never has thought worth thinking" Refer
ring to the personal note In criticism and tn,
value that ii may have '@The Spectator cites
Charles Lamb and says: I'VE know that
Lamb loved the inSeparable trinity-humor
humanity and children; we only surmise
that the modern reviewer has Hazlitt or Pater
or some one else for his master" This is pre-
ciSely the criticism that we were passing on
modern criticism only the other day. There is
nothing more wearSome than the disposition of
the modern critic to write, not as it would per
hapS be natural TO him to write but as he
thinks it proper to write in order to show that
he is sealed of this or that critical tribe The
result is a mere welter of words, never even re-
mOtely suggesting that the writer has really
thought about his subject and has something
to say that whether important or not is his
own This state of affairs leads to another evil
a lack of courage, lack of truth. "The Spec
tatOr" justly says of the man who always thinks
In inverted commas that his praise is half
hearted, and his blame tempered by pretence
OF charity and it is as justly added that while
charity may be moral virtue it can also mean
critical dishonesty.
New-York tribune., 1906-10-28

Svo. pp 35S. Charles Scrbner's Sons.
How much of this romance is false, how much
true-whether. indeed, it has any foundation in
truth at alive do not know. We turn to the
preface and find vague intimation that the ex-
traordnary history of the beautiful Gravenitz is
set forth in dusty old legal papers and In for
gotten books and that the Wurtembergers still
speak of her with bated breath as "a thing too
evil too horrible, for polite conversation" One
can ransack countless tones for the history of
Jeanne Antoinette Poisson. the French Pompa-
dour, but no definite authorities are named for
the story of the German lady. the so-called
Land -despoiler' of the eighteenth century
duchy of Wirtemberg AS a matter of fact the
story has remarkable air of actuality.
WiIhelmine Won Gravenitz, seen in these
pages was a woman of surprising charm. of
New-York tribune., 1906-10-28
THE GR4VENITZ.
STRANGE History of q German Pom
padour.

A GERMAN POMPADOJIR. BEING the Extraor-
dnary History of Wilhelmne Won Gravenitz
Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg. A Narrative
of the Eighteenth Century. BY Marie Hay.
Svo. pp 35S. Charles Scrbner's Sons.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-04-23
FLOWER SEED
FOR CHILDREN |.
Will Take Place To-
day and I o-morrow-l So .i .5.4
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LADIES HELP ZIP IN The He: WORK !; (;
They Undertake Allotment Of
Packages to More Than Six
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LADIES HELP IN THE WORK

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Improvement League mas cotllHie3t e . ~ -
work or putting UP the packets OF flower
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schoo,s ~ the rlty m round numbers
sixtv.five hundred children will receive
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The Ma ntinr Gnnd care ar the flowers,
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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-04-23
EASTER GERMAN.
Washington and Lee Gymnasium
Brilliant Scene.

Especial 10 ThG DlsFaicnD
LEXINGTON; vA.,Apri sa--'ri,e. East !; St
5vcrsity was danced IN, The University gyn'-5
nasium Tuesday night. Sixteen couples
participated, led BY student william DUN
OF Lexington. as his ipiaftl,er. .Mostsof the
young ladies' dancing. were from q DIS
lance. Is follows: 81 Eases Allen. Gilkc.
isin Miss "irai,. Of Norfolk;
Misses l'roekenbro,gh ~ Dunlap, r Rust i;
Msr asf The e Mas a were Mes
danes James 81. Kern. Samuel y. Wask-
er: Robert = Oven and Miss An ~ CT, ~.
White Light refrsshmsnss werG sSrxy'
Mr. and Mrs Beniamin Gorrcll left q
few days Ago for philadelphia. wnere they
wl,spen9 l ana rs 1th slts Hfre
Mr.. William 6. Mcdowell, Jr.., Z one 20 or
the instructors in ST. james School. near near
Hngerstow Mr spen PIN h ihs pn as,nt NH Mt.
a days Nm, II :- WyiIlfam a. '. Mc DO
Miss Gnendoen HOVE. s,Taent q. vn mem
doiph- Macon Moma ge. aossS her ,y'nar
emts. Dr.. aud Mrs. james Lewis Howe.
OF washington and Lee University.
Mrs samuel b Fgll,eiIT, qssH In anna MT.
Edward Fuller have gone q baltimore.
where VIII they expect 10 make, their home.
Miss Alnrgare; Patton %hG pln ~ snsnicn
tteach,ng. IS visiting her mother. Mrs.
William NJ. Patton. hnr,,
Va. is the guest OF Miss Anna Anderson:
Mr.. Thomas A. stcrrctt, former s a,enls
Of Rorkbrldgc, now ergaSn;aa " pu nxins
nj Hot Springs, Va, Is as'visltor IN leAi''h
Colonel John p. Letcher WHO Is en-
gagged in engineering In NORTH ,I CarSSl'hEI.
i otcber and Mr. Grccnlce y. l.etcher-
Miss Pearl Rhodes has returned from IRON,
Atlanta. Ga, where she spent several
weeks visiting her brother, MI ERNEST Ernest
L. Rhodes, IiVtd "
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-04-23
4, SUSSEX SUPERVISORS. s
Farmer Wants Pay 70 rWalking
Longer Distance to Find Hogs.

Especial to The Times Dispatch,)
.BROO<Vs, SUSSEX CO., VA. April %,
Mr. and Mrs ". IS NeWel nppearsed Cd. b. be.
a certain road should not pass through
the farm OF Mrs. Newell They claimed
that the proposed road would pass
roHg MI Newfs oE ppstur ad npd az
total total cost 70 him, including the. land,
would DO ,$lS4,o5. In addition TO this 1t
would change his feeding place, and nc
for tho difference he would have 10 walk
TO feed his hogs.
'rl'c board decided to appoint FIVE COM
missloners to asses damages to said farm
OF said commissioners Messrs. F. T..
Mn Newell; two, tMessrs, w, II; Riyesnnd
jill Rowland, by MI, 6. Q. Erenn INC
promoter and sHper y q OF sa,a ronn
i nnint cd BY ii the chairman Of the board,
Tho proposed road Is to run from 9
certain point On ths, Jerusalem P Wayk
tttha es citizens along the, route putting
some SON Of them four or lve miles nearer
Sussexs most prosperous town;
Mr. Salso. Of W9he ne! m AlaEF,
1 bo apponted road surveyor for bis dis,
n 1f,et pas nasr oil as 81 new acts have 5t
ais yet como into the hands OF the board,
con,meneed Tho erection of q steel bridge
across NottoWay River A. Freeman,ss
bridge. which is supposed TO be completed
sinHabout three weeks. /,
Miss Minnie Il. Conway to Mr.. Mar
cellus Poole on the 25th instant at Reeds
VILE Baptist Church,