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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-17
Countess de Beaufort, the Mil
lionaire's Daughter, Who
Lives In a Cottage.

would be in a society drawing room. I
expect to learn this business and 1 want
actually to know it-not Just TO be told
about this and that and the other thing.
/ want to see for myself That's why I'm
working as puddler. even though am q
Count and even though l might live In
luxury at tho home OF my millionaire
father-in-law. M. II. kilgallon. on Mlcai-
gan avenue. Chicago.
After I have learned the pudding I
shall go into some other work in the mill.
When I've gotten to the bottom OF that
other work I'll change again. shall
keep on shifting from one kind Of work
to another. until I've seen into and DONE
with my own hands every variety Of task
In the mechanical end OF this business
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-17

looks In and says. "Well. Is Mike maN'"s
good?"
lie Is. papa" answers the countess.
Whereat Mr.. Kilgallon chuckles merr'iy
and drives away.
Now it would seem that there must
be some reason for such an astonish-
ing state OF affairs. 1t isn't as though
the Count had no money OF his own.
for his estates In England are said to
be worth all OF 100000. and certainly
before his marriage he never showed
any lack of money.
why on earth Is he doing it?' has
clamored Chicago society ever since
tho Count stripped off his frock coat
and donned his overeiis.
Because he wagered Captain George
Hamilton. son OF Lord Hamilton. $50
900 that he would mako $4,000 the first
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-17

certain that she didn't meet his guards
and sill tho romantic accessories sur
roui . d the Darnton home.
Cupid works on the fourth dimension.
That Is how the Count managed to get
note to Miss Mary. asking her to flee
with him. Miss Mary was willing.
And this Is how she did It.
Down to the Toledo shops she sailed
with her chapsrone. The guards
steaithily followed behind. Into one
OF tho big shops she went. In the
crowd Miss Darnton managed to lose
the chaperon But what of that when
the guards were at every entrance.
Miss Mary had worn into the shop a
brown walking suit and u big picture
hat.
Out OF the south entrance a little
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-17

\ 70 man, no matter how fortunate ne
nj may be by birth or otherwise, is
relieved OF the obligation to make
God In the world. This applies quite as
much to him who is born to wealth ana
tile as 1t does to anybody. And 1t ap-
lies quite as much after the titled heir
o wealth marries the daughter of the
generous millionaire, as 1t did when he
vas a bachelor. Yes and 4 lot more SO.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-17
The Humble Home of Count
and Countess de Beaufort,
Near the Steel Works.

all the ordinary dogs about
Miss 1rma Kilgallon was one Of the
bellies of Chicago society the real So
ciety. Her father, who made most of
his money when Chicago was young
and growing, thought and thinks her
the greatest girl ever. Miss Kilgallon
had the artistic bent so very strongly
developed that her father let her study
in Paris and Rome. There she began
to make a name for herself and there
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-17

later walked a slim girl In blue
suit and fetching eurban. 1t looked
like Miss Darnton. but It wasn't the
clothes in which she had gone into the
place. All the guards but ono let her
pass without recognition. The one
who recognized her was so busy keep
Ing her in sight that he hadn't time to
notify the otherA He pursued.
Into another shop went Miss Darn
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-17

cottage while he's doing it?" replied
the directors. 1t did seem very puz-
zling But now the Count has solved
the question. He has gone to work
because he has to. Papa Kilgallon, 1t
seems. has quite an odd objection
against what he calls titled loafers."
If the Count isn't one, he has to prove
1t, because Papa Kilgallon Is from
Missouri.
prove It," said papa of the millions.
IT WILL" said the Count I'VE WILL"
said the Countess. Wherefore the Job.
wherefore the pudding. the overalls,
the cottage and all the rest of 1t. The
Count de Beaufort will puddle TOR a
year. That Is, he thinks he will. If
he does, Papa kilgallon. will consider
that he has proved that never was he
and never will he be titled loafer."
Bob" the Counts pedigreed bull. Is
the third member of the family, and
Is keeping up the traditions by licking
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-17

year that he was in America" SAID
his friends at first
But he can't make $1,000 year by
pudding in a steel mill at $50 a day.
quite naturally answered society
He wants to learn a business sara
others. But why should the Countess
go and live in a sixteen dollar mon'h
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-17

@OUNT MICHAEL MOURlK DE
BEAUFORT. of Paris and London.
~ has gone to work. This would be
sufficiently surprising to chronicle OF any
nobleman. but there are elements about
the Counts endeavor that make 1t still
more surprising. Count de Beaufort is
the husband of the only daughter of
millionaire NJ. II. Kilgallon, of Chicago.
His wife Is the heiress to the millions.
1t would therefore seem that the scion
OF the De Beauforts had attained the pin
nacle Of the ideal of foreign nobleman
and could now afford to take his ease
And yet, here is the Count working
actually working, working hard, as
puddler In the plant of the Columbia
Steel Tool Company. on the outskirts OF
Chicago. He gets $3.50 day, and his
comrades call him Mike" He and the
Countess live. like all the rest OF the
workmen, In little cottage that costs
SIG month rent. The only difference
between them and their neighbors Is that
the Countess has been allowed to retain
her maid. The maid puts on airs enough
10 keep UP the average. The only thing
that Jars the Countess Is that the disre-
epectful neighbors will call her Countess
Pete" Every day Papa Millionaire Kill
gallon comes tooling up in his big auto.
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Her Quick-Change ElOpement.

TT the Countess De Beaufort had to
assume her disguise as a puddler's
wife after her alliance with nobil-
lily. here is little Miss Mary Darnton.
OF Toledo. Ohio. who had to all her
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-17

cago. Papa KilSal-
lon apparently was
quite pleased. The
two went South on
q honeymoon.
1t was the South
ern Club, a Hot
Springs, Arkan sas,
CONCERN that declared
the Count owed them
a gambling debt OF
S500-not to the
club, but to an EN-
ploye - for chips.
The Count claimed
that the chips he
had played with
were each for ten
cents and offered
$50. The Club said
they were for 81
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disgusting to secure the alliance. Miss
Darnton's expedients are so unique and
piquant that they deserve to be chron-
icled.
Papa Darnton has big factories In
Toledo, and he doesn't like European
nobility. He thinks they don't work
enough. Little Miss Darnton. having
been brought up with lots of money.
couldn't see the gospel OF work
through a five hundred diameter mag
nitying lens. Therefore, when Count
Charles Francis Villansut de Auxer-
rois, who really has real estates and
doesn't have to work, and who was
Just what Miss Darnton. who has spent
good bit of her time abroad. thought
a man should be. cast eyes Mt her, Miss
Darnton forgot all about Papa Darn
toms homilies.
Tho romance progressed. Papa
Darnton saw 1t progress. lie tried to
stop 1t. He forbade his daughter to
meet the Count Charles. etc. TO be
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-17

she met the Count de Beaufort.
The Count followed her back to AM
erica. They were married in New York
last October. 1t was a near elopement
IL It wasn't a real one. After they
were married they went back to CHI
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-17
l4ov the Noble Mourik de Beaufort Who Married the
Nillionaire's Daughter Is "Puddng' in a Steel Mill
at ST. so a Day Just "to Make Good'

each and that he owed $500.
"Stick 1t out, Mike" said the Countess.
'"The Hot Springs chips are all alike
This is a very cryptic utterance which
only seasoned poker players Will UNDER
stand.
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1t Is because I want, eventually. to be
qualified for something moro than mere
office clerk. that am a puddler now.
I've always had plenty Of money.
Really suppose I'm wealthy, but want
to make fortune by my own effort. ana
do It Independently of the capital l poss
sessed at the start. My goal Is million
and a half. When l have made that III
quit don't think any man ought 10 &C.
cumulats more.
I'm simply out to make good. that's
all. To make good In the eyes Of my
wife, myself. my father-in-law and my
friends
SO hey for the overalls and the collar.
less shirt and the cottage In the duskl
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-17

The Count stuck It out. He won. Then
the Count and Countess went back homo
VIII you go to work to show that yoV
could make good IL I were poor?" said
Mr.. Kilgallon.
''Of course" said the Count.
He did. And here he tells why.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-12

would disclose scandalous .connec-
ton between business men and poll
tlclans to rob the city. And they ask
eo- me II l could not have the banks
investigated by man whom 1 knew
to be strSight and honest. 1 said GER
ta1nIy could. So asked the treasury
department, did not tell anybody what
to be done where wanted to use
the man-but asked the treasury de-
partment to give me a man whom
they knew would be straight. 1 got
the man. And then sent him here.
AND L was very much amused over
one little incident. An acquaintance
almost friend of mine in a political
position came to me and said that he
understood that some visionary peo-
pie were trying to cause trouble and
trled to influence me to take action
against worthy citizens. He hoped
that | would not do 1t. I told him he
could be sure I would join with him
IN seeing that no worthy citizen was
scotched and I would expect him to
join With me to see that 1 got at
every crook that I possibly could.
We'll, as L say, my part was merely a
very slight part, but 1 think 1 NAV
say, Mr.. President, the investigation
mace py MT. Nesbit for the national
government first opened the way to
the discovery of the corruption. iYou
nave put nearly a score of men in the
penltentiary or in Jail. You have got
concessions from about double that
NUMBER. You have a number of 9TH
ers under indictment and 1 want to
point out another thing as a matter
or pride You have not only got the
politicians, not only got the small man
put you got the man higher up"
Home Again.
oyster Bay, N. Y, Sept. 12-After an
absence OF three weeks, Col. Roosevelt
is nome again, weary from his western
trip, but we'll satisfied with the result.
he enjoyed every minute of it, he said
His first orders were that no one
should be permitted to invade the pri-
vacy OF Sycamore Hill, and for the day
ne relapsed into the comforts and Sc
clusfon of his family life.
Before he started on his trim. Gel
Roosevelt had said little on public mat
tiers. but to the people of the middle
west he declared himself on almost all
the questions now before the nation.
His utterances were accepted as his
political creed, and were received with
satisfaction by many insurgents, al
though Col. Roosevelt himself in a
speech at Kansas City classed himself
as a progressive.
In all, he delivered about 100 speeches.
including both his set addresses and
his impromptu talks.
Early in October, Col Roosevelt will
launch out again on a shorter tour
through the south, during which lie
will make campaign speech for Sem
ator Beveridge in Indiana. He has also
promised to speak for Senator Lodge
in Massachusetts,.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-12
BUSY DAY FOR POLICE.
Twenty-Seven Arrests Were Made on
Sunday.

The police had the busiest Sunday,
with a total of 81 arrests, that has
been experienced in several weeks, but
none of the cases thus brought into
police court are of a serious charac-
haul in the bottoms about 1 o'clock
Sunday morning, a charge of card
playing being lodged against them.
There was no monetary evidence Of
gambling although the presumption
of the police was that no game in
which there was no financial interest
would be continued until such an I'M
earthly hour.
A charge of maintaining nuis-
ance, based upon the finding of a bot
tie of whisky and drinking glass in
the MARBLE livery stable on North
I. MARBLE and John Jenette, who
were arrested by Chief of Police Nor
ris Jenkins and Detective Carl Golf.
Another North Topeka arrest, this one
made in the small hours of Sunday
morning, was that of Ray Trimble,
c. Crumb, r. Mccullough and Frank
Henderson. The four youths had
crowded themselves into one small
buggy and were driving a tagged
horse in something that feebly re-
sembled a "joy-ride.'' The charge
against them is of cruelty to an ami
NAL.
Emmett Woodward's mother ap-
peared at police headquarters this
morning and turned over to the jailor
a ten-dollar bill in payment of the
fine laid upon her son on charge of
disturbing the peace of A. w. Brad
shaw. 1t was the termination of an
ather chapter in the troubles of young
Woodward and Fairy, the 15-year-old
daughter of the restaurant keeper.
Last week Woodward had fight with
Bradshaw on account of the youth s
attentions to the latter's daughter
and charge which Woodward lodged
against Bradshaw for assault and
battery was thrown out of court by
Police Judge S. S. Urmy when the evil
dence had been heard.
Saturday Woodward appeared at
Bradshaw's place looking for the girl
and ignored the fathers warning for
him to stay away until Bradshaw call
ed a policeman and had the boy lock-
ed up. His mother, who has stood
faithfully by her son in all his trou-
bles, came in and paid his fine for him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-12
TODAY'.S MARKET REPORTS

Chicago, Sept 12.-WHEAT-Streng
was infused into the wheat market today
from several sources. Decreasing receipts
northwest was the prime element and was
aided by bullishness in corn and by bet
ter tone in Europe than expected. Some
of the feeling of optimism was offset by
figures showing that the worlds supply
one exception in ten years. News that
the drought in Argentina had been ended
had a similar effect. The market opened
A@3sc to &c higher. December started at
$3.50 to $10061. co.'s, a gain of A@3sc to &c
and reacted to 1880.
Covering by shorts led to rally, offer
ing becoming light The close was firm
with December at $1.00A, a net gain ofz@
&c to &c.
CORN-With the northern part of the
corn belt threatened by extremely low
temperature prices for that cereal took a
sudden shoot upward. December opened
sake to 1 cent higher at 5514c to 55Zc.
There a reaction however to $3.50.
CORN-Shorts were nervous and inclined
to cover on any show OF strength. The
close was steady. December, $3.50 to 555s
Q55szc, a net gain of aGH HQ1c.
OATS-Cash houses were buyers of oats
though in limited way. December show
ed rise of 1s4Ac to 1zq5sc on the start
at 347zc to 3514c for December. The mar
ket gradually steadied at the lower level.
PROVISIONS-Provis were higher
on good scattered purchases in all months
The opening was unchanged to 171zc up
with the January option at SIS; s71z for
pork; $10.s71z for lard and ss.921z for ribs.
RYE-Cash: 73c.
BARLEY-Cash: 55d73c.
TIMOTHY-Cash. $S-50Q9 90: March, 9.75.
CIOVER-Cash: $S.50Q16.0o; October,
$3.50.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-12
STATE NEEDS CHARITY.
In Its Broader Sense, Much Is Done,
Says Knapp.

Secretary F.. L. Knapp, of the state
board of control, in talk before the
Epworth League of the Walnut Grove
M. E. church Sunday night discussed
Charity in Kansas In part he said:
Charity in Kansas? In a state
which in 20 years has produced $685.
100000 worth of farm products?
Can there be. any field for charity
her farmers raised $76,0O0,00O of wheat,
$83, 600, 900 worth of corn and $S8, 900, 900
worth of livestock?
What need for charity has Kansas
when in 1909 there were in round num-
berS 1000 manufacturing establish
ments, representing SO branches of in
dustry, employing $4,000 persons and
turning out more than S264, 900 worth
Of finished products? And when in adj
dition there were 1900 coal miners,
600 railroad employees and $4,000 wage
earners in the building trades, all
earning good and sufficient incomes to
insure comfort and happiness in their
homes
when in addition the state stands
well to the front in the production of
salt, zinc, lead, cement coal oil and
gas.
Indeed. if we were to accept the
usual definition of charity as simply
feeding the poor and giving aims to
the needy there would be little need
for activity or thought along that line.
mon and erroneous conception. 1t deals
with the phases of social as well as
material assistance to the weaker mem
bers of society. Its chief object and
purpose is not merely to deal out the
necessaries of life to those dependent
upon society for support but to pro-
vide the means and opportunities
whereby these dependent individuals
may become independent, Self-support-
ing citizens.
kansas does need charity in this
broader sense and fully appreciates this
need. The state reaches out through
the agency of the juvenile courts and
extends its parental power to stay the
course of delinquent boys and girls.
Two hundred and sixty boys now are
in the boys industrial school at To-
peka and 200 girls in the girls indus
trial school at Beloit.''
Secretary Knapp went on to recount
conditions at the Topeka and Osawa-
tonne state hospitals; the state or
phans home; the state home for feeble
minded, etc. These he cited as repre-
senting the workings of true charity"
in Kansas
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-12
New York Stock Market.

Wall St, New York, Sept. 12.-SIOCkS-
Prices of stocks today advanced sluggish
ly on languid dealings Union Pacific,
Chicago Great Western preferred and Re-
public Steel l. Atchison and st. Paul
were a fraction lower than Saturdays
closing.
The tone of the market became strong
er and business was larger. Long Island
and Great Northern Ore certificates rose
212; Sloss Springfield Steel ~; Canadian
Pacific 2, International Paper preferred n,
Union Pacific and Reading rs and South
ern Pacific, Chesapeake and Ohio and
Consolidated Gas I.
Professional operators bought stock
moderately. The resisting power of the
market to unfavorable factors last week
was a motive. Railroad traffic reports
and crop news was good. The resale of
Kuhn, Loeb & Co., recent purchase OF
Rock Island preferred to Phelps, Dodge &
Co. strengthened the Rock Island stocks.
The preferred rose " and the common,
St. Paul, Northern Pacific and Amalga-
mated Copper 1; Rock Island fell to .. a
low record. American Cotton Oil prefer
red gained 2
Bonds were steady.
Some of the speculative bond issues de-
veloped strength, especially the Rock Is
land collateral 4c. Business in this depart
ment was more active than in stocks
Aside from a few minor changes there
was nothing of interest in stock prices,
holding firmly at the best. International
Pump rose IA and B. and o 1.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-12
FARM VALUES GAINING.
Secretary COburn Writes to Missourian
Regarding Conditions.

Secretary f. D. Coburn of the state
board of agriculture receives MANY
communications from farmers regard
ing conditions in Kansas. The last one
Is from Chann Rooms, a farmer of Mo-
nett, Mo, who inquiries if the agricu;-
turists of Kansas have been making
clear interest of per cent on their in
VeStment is the last five years. Mr. CO.
burn says that their prosperity has
been unquestioned, though he declares
some Kansans differ with him, saying
that no such prosperity obtains
In part Mr.. Coburn whote to Mr..
Rooms as follows:
In reply to your questions 1 would
say that 1 am certainly of the opinion
that the farmers generally have been
prosperous for the last fives years and
this applies to the farmers who actual
ly have cultivated the farms them
Selves if they have not been pros
porous in that time would have small
hopes for their ever becoming opulent
and shudder to think what their finan-
cial condition must have been in years
past.
with the largely increased prices for
farm products the renter must neces-
sarily have shared in the general rise
although possibly rents also have been
increased but not in proportion to the
increased prices received for his pro-
duce. I presume the farmers of Kar-
sas have been as prosperous, if not
more so. than those of any other state.
in the last five years and it looks as if
1910 might be the best one of all.
THE total value of farm products
and live stock in Kansas in 1904
amounted to 1857 All .120 and in 1909 to
and while the number of farmers has
doubtless increased, too, it would
nowhere equal the gain in the value of
their properties"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-12
MARTIN ISLANDER SUIT.
Particulars of Case Which Involves the
Adjutant General of Kansas.

Keen local interest will be evinced
in a court action which has been in
stituted at Fort Scott by Miss Ethel
Ward, who seeks to recover $4,000 dam
ages for alleged SANDER, from Mrs. Lou
Ida Martin and her husband, Charles
1. Martin. Charles L Martin is well
known here and is adjutant general of
the Kansas National Guards.
Particulars of the case are learned
from the following story from the Fort
Scott Republican,:
I'm a somewhat sensational petition
filed in the district court, Mrs. Ethel
Ward, who few months ago secured
a divorce from her husband, Ora L.
Ward, formerly deputy district clerk of
the court here sues Mrs. Lou Martin,
sister of Mr.. Ward, and her husband,
Charles 1. Martin, now adjutant gen.
eral of the militia forces of Kansas for
defendant in the action, has been the
guest of friends here from her home in
Topeka for some days. The suit grows
out of the trouble existing between Mr..
and Mrs. Ward during their married
life and during which Mrs. Martin took
the side of her brother AS a part of
the petition are quotations from letters
alleged to have been written on Oc-
tober Is, 1909 by Mrs Martin to Mrs.
Foster and Mrs. Sophia Elliott concern
ms ny Pi1iAiehn winch are cidSSeu as
malicious and intending to injure her
good name and character
During the trouble between Mrs.
Ward and her husband a year or more
ago and at the time of the abduction
of their child, Rachael, a daughter now
four years old, Mrs. Ward charged that
the husband and father was receiving
assistance and encourag cement from his
relatives. Mrs. Ward was given the
custody of the child and was keeping
it at her mothers home on the east
side of the city when the father alb
Quoted it The mother later located
them in Colorado. where Mr.. Ward had
relatives, and going to them Mrs Ward
pretended to have formed a reconcile
alton with her husband. While he was
absent from home he left with the child,
returning to her home here. Later she
obtained a divorce from Mr.. Ward"
Everybody reads the State journal -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-12

New York, Sept. 12,-BUTI IlsI e5Ma5lket
e~trss s1c: third to first, 241z029c; state
dairys s common Snl to fine 2s@2sc: process
ond to special, 23@271kc; fair factory, June
23c: Imitation creamery, 24@25c-
steady fto sf fancv wh 1Sc
ditto choice. 14slc: ditto good to prime, IA
a141Sc: ditto common to fair. 101A@1S%c;
skins, full to special, 21s@114c.
E,GGS-Market steady. Fresh, extra
first. 25@26c; ditto first, 23@24c; ditto sec
ond. 21@22c.
POULTRY-Alive, easy; spring chickens,
1ec: fowls Ice; turkeys, 12615c. Dressed,
firm: western broilers, 17@20c; fowls, 10@
1Sc; spring turkeys, 25G5c-