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KORTOH IS CONVICTED

The second trial of L. B. Hor- ton, charged with cohabiting in a state of adultery, resulted in a verdict of guilty after the jury had been out over 30 hours. The following composed the jury:
 Ben Rowland, c J Young, T l. Thurston, A. B. Funk, B. Banks, J. H. Rogers, A. Vile, w. Peter son, c. L. Larson, N. Pearson, l.. N. Lowell, c, Bennett.
 Dr. c. D, Carter returned from Ophir during the week.
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land vs. Adolph Jestland, the de fendant not appearing, plaintiffs attorney was ordered to prepare findings of fact and conclusions of law and decree ill accordance there. with.
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}, }, S, SHERMAN
 MAY WITHDRAW

Boston, Mass, September B - Vice President J s. Sherman is in very poor health, and it Is consid cred likely that he will retire from the race for the Vice Presidency.
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FLAT? CITY NOTES

From a telegram received from Miss Coolidge during the week it was learned that she and her sister, Mrs. Horner, have left Fairbanks for the Outside by way of Dawson.
 Frank Hercus has bought out the in- terests of Wm. Fowler, who has been working ground opposite Discovery.
 A cabin opposite the town of Flat was robbed late last week. This is the second time that the same cabin has been entered.
 Abe Weiss, the Flat City clothier visited Iditarod Tuesday.
 J. F. Finnegan visited Iditarod dur ing the week.
 Fred Vogler, of Stewart & VogIer, Flat creek, visited Iditaroa Monday. Stewart X Vogler have closed down for the season.
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A man named Johnson plead guilty at Flat City last Monday to selling liquor without a licence on Otter creek. He was ordered to pay fine of Sl50 and costs
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Tony Zuber brought in a S1O,000 cleanup Wednesday. Last week Mr, Zuber brought in Sl5,000
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FoR SALE OR RENT HEkp-The Star Restaurant and Coffee House. doing a good business; owners going Outside about Sept. l5, Willow st., Iditarod.
 Nettleton shoes. Weiss, at Flat City.
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Wm. Acheson visited Flat during the week.
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parents, Patrick and Catherine McMayon
Fitzgerald. He Is member of numerous
Catholic societies.
Despite his very Teutonic surname,
that other leader Of the House, Chair
man William Sulzer of the committee
on foreign affairs, is a wearer of the
shamrock. for his stanch Prussian dad,
after aiding in the attempt in '4s to es-
tablish a republic in the fatherland, es-
capped to America and married a pretty
Irish born lass from whom the repre-
sentative inherits his celebrated Henry
Clay cast of features as well as his ready
repartee.
But when We get into this category of
legislators of mere Irish descent we find
enough of them in the rank and file to
fill a decent sized who's who Of their own
And. sufficient be it to say, that Con-
gress now contains fifteen men pre-
fixing to their names the Celtic NC"
besides three Burkes, a Murray, Reilly
and score or more of others with
Celtish names
Promoting our friendship with foreign
powers are two American diplomats
boasting of the green on near limbs of
their family trees. Our ambassador to
Italy. Thomas James OBrien. is the son
of an 1rishman. whose given name was
Timothy. And in Denmark we have as
minister Maurice Francis Egan, former
professor Of English literature at the
Catholic University, Washington. AS a
young man he was subeditor of the
Catholic Review and in recent years he
has written Irish stories for the leading
magazines. When Theodore Roosevelt
was assistant secretary Of the navy he
and Mr.. Egan were travelling in the west
and found themselves in a small country
town. Roosevelt was hungry for some
thing to read, and. finding no bookshops
In the village. asked Egan If he had any
books with him. The latter came to the
rescue with several volumes on Gaelic
literature, and this was the beginning Of
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door. pushed in, and he accompanied m
up, to see me safe in my fiat. Not to
trouble the concierge again when descend
ing a moment later, he had left the street
door slightly ajar. The concierge discov-
cred this and screamed-a scream SO aw-
full that we both ran down. There she
lay dead-dropped dead from fear and
anger at the street door being left ajar
a moment at nigh. Or had some bandit
slipped in and been scared off by her
cry? 1t remained a mystery; but the au-
thorities tried to blame the chivalrous
American, who had tried to save the poor
old creature trouble. OF course. he was
new to Paris-did not know the danger
of open doors"
The most Independent Americans get
used to this surveillance. Every one who
lives under a roof in Paris has con-
cierge spying on him, says Mrs. Wood
son. Otherwise commerce would be Grip
pied by fraudulent buyers and life would
be unsafe from violence.
AS 1t is, the Apache Is the second mas
ter of Paris.
''They are scarcely more than boys
said the lady Of fashion-or, no, it was
Adelaide Mack who said 1t. "They are
terrors. yet they have q kind Of patriot
ism In front of that Apache restaurant
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rs he a vulgar masher?" l inquired.
Not entirely" she answered He is
rather conversationalist, proud to be
thought danger to the ladies. All
Parisians would be boulevardiers if they
had the time. The boulevardier sits, looks
and discusses, walks. looks and meditates.
In the cafe he spends an hour over one
drink. He delights in his dinner. He
haunts promenades, salons. galleries. His
home is a place to sleep He prefers
leisure to money, lives on his wifes dot
with economy and even shows her a good
time now and then. He makes the rest
fulness of Paris which our own chival-
rous American men enjoy without UNDER
standing"
We had been looking out the window.
Across the street q magnificent creature
In sables and aigrettes had collected a
group OF boulevardiers and cookboys by
scolding her liveried chauffeur.
''The fourth master of Paris said Adel-
aide. 1.-The actress, the master OF styles
and fashions! She is everywhere, in the
nat above you, in the mansion next door
to you. She is in society as elegant as the
real. Dressmakers, theaters. resort hotels.
newspapers. ali cater to her. Ladies ad-
mire her, initiate her dress and talk
openly about her"
The fifth master of Paris is her enemy
the American woman. The American
woman is the antidote to this poison. In
a Paris Where Americans spend so0.00 90
annually, she is the counteracting force,
making for what is fair, courageous and
aspiring. Yet the work is heavy for her.
She sees only the froth on the milk. the
meringue the pie, and does not get to
the bottom OF things.
n4s i. ~n. -. :. ), oodson takes head
er into the depths.
The fashionable American disappears,
and the mysterious fifth-foor tenant
strolls out with the market basket into
the sordid world around the Place de
TItalie.
Paris has retrograded in the past ten
years." she says ..and the annual Amer
lean S2O,0OU.O00 has helped toward it. The
population Is like that of ancient Rome.
The crowd is brutal. Lawlessness is ram
pant. Paris is full Of violence, and the
police are insulted, knocked about sRnd
rarely succeed in holding a rdfous
crowd" ~
Also.
Paris is flooded with bad money. There
are more pet dogs than children. The
French lady coddies the dog, while a
peasant nurse shakes and scolds the
child
Disquieting picture. predict that the
turn out well.
French taxpayers grow more bitter"
she notices. And all France is wishing
for another great Napoleon to gather up
the loose reins in an iron hand. clean up
the streets. ventilate the theaters, call in
the bad money. reorganize the telephone
service, discharge insoent post office
clerks. check tobacco monopoly abuses.
manufacture matches that will light.
abolish the Apaches and produce good
opera
She sighed heavily.
Paris. the city of art. science and
beauty" mourned the diver into the
depths, "is often offensive to eye. nose
and ear" STERLING HEILLG.
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county. Among these was John Dun
woody. who became a schoolmaster and
fell in love with Susanna Criswell. a
colleen of sweet sixteen. Both were from
the north of Ireland. John was without
real estate and fair Susanna refused to
marry him until he acquired a farm, but
as land was cheap in those days School
master John was soon able to comply. So
their nest was built in West Nantmeal
township. and from their union ultimately
sprung Theodore Roosevelt's mother.
Martha .Bulloch. Other Irish ancestors Of
the x-and-would-be President in Penn
sylvania were John Potts and his wife.
Elizabeth McVaugh. and John Barnhill.
with his wife. Sarah Craig, of whom Mr..
Roosevelt has written: "They were all of
them humble people. farmers. mechanics,
etc. although Sarah Craig is put down in
the book as being descended on her
mothers side, through the Barnwalls.
from various we'll known Irish families.
both of the pale and outside the pale:
the Buffers. the F'itzgeralds, O'Neills and
O'Briens.'
When Mr.. Roosevelt was occupying the
exalted Office which he bankers to adorn
again. he communicated data of his Irish
ancestry to a meeting of the American
Irish Historical Society in New York
and his announcement was greeted by
vociferous cheering. shouting and the
singing of 'Roosevelt-Bryan Boru, for
the great commoner and uncommoner OF
Nebraska is another ibulwark of our lib
critics for whom is claimed the right to
wear the shamrock. although there is
a gap in his pedigree before it reaches
the Emerald Isle.
Upon the bench of the Supreme Court
of the land sit two wearers Of the green.
The Chief Justice himself, Edward Doug
las White, thus adorns himself. for his
paternal grandfather, James White. was
born in the north of Ireland. After
emigrating to this country Grandfather
White married a Philadelphia girl, took
his bride to Tennessee and later pressed
southwark. becoming judge Of western
Louisiana, and after becoming a state of
the American Union, Louisiana sent his
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MRS. WOODsoN
TEAKWOOD

luxurious Paris whom have ever known
to deliberately divide herself into two
halves-to dive. disguised, into the depths
and soar again in regions of mild calm
and serene air.
'I lead two sides of Paris life." said
Adelaide Mack. ''One afternoon I eat
buns and sip water and-white- wine from
a cracked glass in the sixth-foor atelier
OF a new-art painter, whore the converse
tion is as screaming as his pictures. which
look as IL crocheted In wool. The next
afternoon l go to a musical tea in a
mansion or the Bois. where four salons
are done in Louis Seize, and the bath
room is piled with rubbish. Americans
have made the tub fashionable, but many
Parisians still balk at the actual use of it.
l know French senator who piles books
in his bath"
Her eyes shone with the holy joy OF
learning.
In my life of the Depths" she said,
Il get a broader horizon. When l re-
turn to the fashionable world l distin-
guish essentials from vanities. How
should l not? In art students restaurants
we avoid beef-it is horse. l see from
others viewpoints. Sometimes ] lunch al
a rendezvous of Apaches. where the food
is delicious. The proprietor, through fear.
serves only the best, and does all his
cooking in fropt. under their eyes-with
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the other day news-seller was crying:
Attack on the French marine!" 1 had
bought a paper. It's canard,' I was
saying-for they often cry false news.
when up surged four Apaches. Prove
that news they hissed, or count your
gtblets!' They had their knives out; I
expected to see the blood flowing, but the
newsman begged me to give back the
paper. and, with trembling finger,
pointed out the dispatch-it was one of
those hold-ups by the Italians, and they
magnanimously invited him to take a
glass of Dubonnet with them"
I asked her If she feared the Apaches-
mot as Adelaide Mack" she laughed:
1--WE are on terms of politeness: Adelaide
Mack can go anywhere and find cour-
teous Apache knights to protect her-in
truth. they are the last of the cheva-
liers. living in feudal bands, waging little
wars and filled with romantic notions.
knights born five centuries too late. high
way robbery being out of style. AS Mrs.
Woodson, / confess, l am horribly afraid
of them. 1 would not dare to walk in
the Bois alone at high noon. Ladies have
their gold bags snatched between the
Porte Maillot and Porte Dauphine. The
we'll dressed bandits are the worst. A
girl friend of mine got into cab to go
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nationality, he never held public Office
until elected to the present Congress by
the democrats.
The other native son of Erin in the
House of Representatives is George
Francis oshaunessy. democrat. Of
him from Galway his birthplace. the
year after the civil war, and when he
was at the mischievous age Of four.
After he had finished in the Catholic
through Columbia Law School. After
becoming a, barrister. he served as
deputy attorney general of the Empire
state, then assistant corporation coun-
sci of the metropolis
He did not adopt Little Rhody as his
home until 1907. and that he made friends
in Providence at rapid rate is attested
by the fact that his hew neighbors sent
him to the legislature a couple of years
later and to Congress after he had lived
among them only three years.
In both houses Of Congress are solons
who wear the shamrock by virtue of Irish
descent. if not Irish nativity. Notable
among these is Senator James Aloysius
O'Gorman Of New York, the successor of
Chauncey pepew. Some time before the
civil war there landed at Castle Garden a
likely lad from Munster and as likely a
lass from Ulster. The two went before
north and south Of Erin sprang the SEN
ator. Although his father died when he
was but bit of a lad. his mother saw
him through college, into the presidency
of his law class and into a barrister's cap
and gown. From law clerk he became a
hustling attorney, then district judge,
then supreme court justice Of his state,
then United States senator. and in ac-
cepting the last office at $500 a year, he
relinquished a salary of $4,000 greater
per annum. He has been the father of
ten children and is Roman Catholic.
The shrewdest parliamentarian among
the democrats Of the House Of Represent
atives, John Joseph Fitzgerald of Brook
lyn, chairman of the powerful committee
on appropriations, is the son of Irish
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A footman in quiet livery let's us into
suite OF magnificent salons.
This house was built by one Of the
Rothschilds,'' she laughed. "And a dear
friend discovered the apartments, all
furnished brand-new at an expense Of
$4,000 by another American who took
nine-year lease and stayed only two
months. Paris is full of such stories"
'They bought this furnture?" l said,
struck by its bizarre richness. Bought
1t and then quit it?'
Yes she said, 'it was time-limit
hurry contract by famous English firm.
have bought, or I: but here it was all
ready, and we find it agreeable at least
/ do when / am here.
Il <
She disappeared, and l remained alone
a moment, rejecting on this Paris sumptu-
osity raised up in a day at the command
Of unknown rich Americans. 1t Is no new
thing; 1t happens continually. The wand
is waved, and noble French families quit
their chateau, with its silverware and
portraits, dogs and horses, for the tri-
umphant Americans to move in Again
the wand is waved. and into immaculate
palace-apartments of new Paris they col
lect carved teakwood furniture from China,
carpets from Aubusson, Sevres vases,
paintings from the salons, libraries of
costly bindings, new art bedroom sets for
princesses pellmell Of dreamed-of lux
uries set up in a day by the great fur
nishers. And soft-footed Wallets and SOU
brettes wait for the masters to arrive by
automobile from the steamer port. What
buOyant hopes, Paris is theirs. What
sudden disappointments with the toy that
fails to please! ght-about-face, Off to
Egypt, or back to Gods country. Let
the agent cede the lease and sell the fur
niture, or rent it furnished, what price?
Any old price!
Arrive, then. Americans who know their
Paris; know It's charms and limitations.
Paris is full Of these, too. For them are
built the new hotels. whose private suites
dazzle Europeans. TRANQUILITY they ac-
cept the waiting luxury, and TRANQUILITY
they yield it back when tired of Paris.
To such fall the sacrificed leases and
teakwood furniture at $500 per month
One Of them stood before me. She had
quit the salon Adelaide Mack. She re-
turned Mrs. Woodson.
Could that Latin quarter janitress have
seen the lightning change she would have
been more baff1ed than ever.
Mrs. WOodsOn was expecting friends;
but she would talk till they arrived. Here
Is one who lives every hour She calls
it magnetic Paris; but lot Of that
magnetism Is her own. She is putting 1t
into book; and II all who write books
should consume q tithe of the energy,
expense and zest OF Adelaide Mack in
living them beforehand there would be
fewer books-but more lively reading.
u sympathize with that baff1ed jani-
tress," she said. land some day may
take her into my confidence. The con-
cierge Is one Of the five masters Of Paris.
She Is vainglorious because she knows
her usefulness: without her services all
Paris would go down in fraud and vio-
lence."
She told me case.
"A gentleman was seeing me home from
the theater to where / lived in Passy.
II was only one flight up Arriving in
the automobile. we rang lat the street
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son to Congress and made him governor.
then sent his grandson to the Senate
and to the Supreme Court bench. Like
Chief Justice Taney, the present Chief
Justice is a devout member Of the Roman
Catholic Church And SO is the other
shamrock wearer of the Supreme Court.
Justice Joseph McKenna, whose father.
John Mckenna, emigrated from Ireland
to Philadelphia and thence to California.
In Congress are three solons of Irish
birth. Senator Oliver Of Pennsylvania
may wear the shamrock by virtue Of such
nativity. although his birth in the Emer-
aid Isle was, SO to speak, accidental
occurring while his American parents
were visiting that land. in 1S4S AS to
whether this accident Of birth would bar
the senator from eligibility to the presi-
dency, should he ever develop into a
popular idol, Is point upon which our
constitutional lawyers are at odds, al
though it was thrashed out pretty thor
oughly when the presidential bee buzzed
near the bonnet of former Mayor Nc
Clellan Of New York, who, too, was born
while his parents were touring abroad.
~
No such doubt befogs the status, in
this respect, of another Pennsylvania
congressman. Michael Donohoe, member
of the House from Philadelphia. His
birth in killeshandra, Ireland, was by
deep design of his Irish parents, who
would not have had it otherwise. When
a broth of a lad Michael attended the
national schools, and then finished his
education at a private classical school
Of his native village, which at the age
of twenty turned him out a full-f1edged
schoolmaster at the principal national
school. But after welding the birch
there for a couple Of years his heart
longed for our land of the free. So, send
ing in his resignation to the school au-
thorities. he shipped for America and ar
rived one autumn day in '66 at the
wharf of Philadelphia. where he built UP
a business in glassware. Despite his
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home alone. AS they started off
strange man made a sign to the driver.
who stopped. And the strange man
jumped in to rob the girl. but she drove
him out with a heavy hat pin"
Perhaps he was flirting I mused.
"a boulevardier?" she unused, in turn.
1.-The boulevardier is the third master OF
Paris. Also he is big nuisance. The
boulevardier is a man whJ sits outside
cafe and sizes up the women who pass.
II lady takes a chair in the Champs
Elysees he takes the chair beside her and
tries to converse. Walk alone, he strolls
beside you. Look into shop window, he
takes it for an encouragement Ten
years ago no lady dared to walk alone;
she took a child or servant Now Amer
lean women have made it permissible,
even fashionable. but the boulevardier
requires strong discouragement.
"How?" l asked.
'If you answer him "Va-t-en. Get
outD he will reply in a hurt tone.
Would you say that to an American
gentleman And If you answer you are
entrapped into a conversation. You must
say "Va-t-en. cochon. to make him turn
away, furious. Cochon (pig) is the one
word which a French gentleman will
not stand for
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family of Taffe. which was listed among
royalty In Ireland and is still included
In the peerage of England. Perhaps the
most illustrous of these alleged ancestors
Of the nations head was Capt. William
Taffe, who was honored by Queen Eliza
beth for his feat of capturing Blarney
Castle. "And from the account Of that
transaction. given in history" the Presi-
dents father once remarked. 'it would
seem to have been taken as much by
blarney as by military prowess." For
this and other services to the crown Of
England. it is written. King James I
gave William Taffe much, also Queen
Elizabeth gave him preferment." His
son. Sir John. was made Baron Of Bally-
more as well as Viscount Tafe of Cor
ren. in 162S.
Those who would find Irish blood in
the veins of the President might also
grandmother with seven greats, Brid-
get RaWson, whose surname Is in doubt
but Is thought by some to have been
Warde Another ancestor Of the Presi-
dent was William Burke, whose surname
Is promisingly Irish.
Mr.. Roosevelt while in the White House
recorded his claim to the honor of wear
Ing the green-a right descended to him
from half dozen Irish colonists in
Pennsylvania. Forty years before inde-
pendence was sounded a colony Of Irish
men founded new Londonderry, now a
township of the keystone states Chester
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his face turned toward them Across my
landing lives a some-day opera star, and
in my little kitchen l beat the omelet
in unison with his song. On the balcony
above, an impressionist painter does a
sunset with few brush strokes and his
fingers. Certainly. l shall have a chapter
on housekeeping"
Now, prepare for the transformation
scene.
We had been sitting in that ffth-noor
'den," cooking utensils scattered around.
the impressionist painter flying his
meager wash from the balcony above,
and smell Of onions coming up the
stairway.
Up dashed the magic limousine.
She took me in it. The baffied janitress
looked at me darkly. as clue. How
could she know that Mrs. Hyde was fad
ing. and the majestic Mrs. DR.. Jekyll-
but, no, will get you mixed up.
Away from sordid side streets and de-
pressed avenues Of great hospitals blind
institutions and dismantled converts sped
the Transforming automobile. Across the
Alma bridge we rushed, and up into the
bright and elegant Avenue Henri-Martin
quarter, where all is new and New York
ish.
Broad, low steps. heavy carpets. heavy
ornamental ironwork, cream-stone floors
and pillars, flowers In immense vases.