6 €S§§ I' The 1 | Princess j | Elopes I By HAROLD McGRATH j Author of I B "Th« Mar\ on th© Box," M 8 "Hearts and Masks," Etc. I (Copyright, IJOS, Bobbs-Morrlll Co.) CHAPTER I. It is rather difficult in these days for a man who takes such scant interest in foreign affairs —trust a whilom diplomat for that! —to follow the con tinual geographical disturbances of European surfaces. Thus, I can not distinctly recall the exact location of the Grand Duchy of Barscheit or of the neighboring principality of Dop pelkinn. It meets my needs and pur poses, however, to say that Berlin and Vienna were easily accessible, and that a three hours' journey would bring you tinder the shadow of the Carpathian range, where, in my diplo matic days, I used often to hunt the "bear that walks like a man." Barscheit was known among her sis ter states as "the meddler," the "maker of trouble," and the duke as "Old Grumpy"—Brummbar. To use a familiar Yankee expression, Barscheit had a finger in every pie. Whenever there was a political broth making, whether in Italy, Germany or Austria, Barsceit would snatch up a ladle and start in. She took care of her own affairs so easily that she had plenty of time to concern herself with the af fairs of her neighbors. This is not to advance the opinion that Barscheit was wholly modern; far from it. The fault of Barscheit may be traced back to a certain historical pillar of salt, easily recalled by all those who at tended Sunday school. "Rubbering" is a vulgar phrase, and 1 disdain to use it. When a woman looks around it is invariably a portent of trouble; the man forgets his important engage ment, and runs amuck, knocking over people, principles and principalities, if Aspasia had not observed Pericles that memorable day; if there had not been an oblique slant to Calypso's eyes as Ulysses passed her way; if the eager Delilah had not offered fa vorable comment on Samson's ring lets; in fact, if all the women in his tory and romance had gone about their affairs as they should have done, what uninteresting reading history would be to-day! Now, this is a story of a woman who looked around, and of a man who did not keep his appointment on time; out of a grain of sand, a mountain. Of course there might have been other causes, but with these I'm not famil '«r. This Duchy of liarsclieit is worth looking Into. Imagine a country with telegraph and telephone and medieval customs, a country with electric lights, railways, surface cars, hotel elevators and ancient laws! Something of the customs of the duchy must be told in the passing, though, for my part, I am Vigorously against explanatory pas sages in stories of action. Barscheit bristled with militarism; the little mar always imitates the big one, but lacks the big man's excuses. Mili tarism entered into and overshadowed the civic laws. There were three things you might do without offense; you might bathe, eat and sleep, only you must not sleep out loud. The citizen of Barscheit was hemmed in by a set of laws which had their birth in the dark dungeons of the inquisition. They congealed the blood of a man born and bred in a commercial country. If you broke a law, you were relentlessly punished; there was no mercy. In America we make laws and then hide them in dull looking volumes which the public have neither the time nor the inclination to read. In this duchy of mine it was different; you ran into a law on every corner, in every park, in every public building: little oblong signs, enameled, which told you that you could not. do something or other—"Forbidden!" The beauty of German laws is that when you learn all the things that you can not do, you begin to find out that the things you can do are not worth a hang in the doing. As soon as a person learned to read he or she began life by reading these laws. If you could not read, so much the worse for you; you had to pay a guide who charged you almost as much as the full cost of the fine. The opposition political party in the United States is always howling mili tarism, without the slightest idea of ■what militarism really is. One side, please, in Barscheit, when an officer comes along, or take the consequences. It' you carelessly bumped into him, you were knocked down. If you ob jected, you were arrested. If you struck back, ten to one you received a beating with the flat of a saber. And never, never mistake the soldiery for the police; that is to say, never ask an officer to direct you to any place. Thiii is rej:;y.rded in the light of an ia- rcult. The cub lieutenants do more to Heep a passable sidewalk—for the pas S;ige of said cub lieutenants—than all the magistrates put together. How They used to swagger up and down the Konigsstrasse, around the I'latz, in and out of the restaurants! 1 re member doing some side-stepping my self, and I was a diplomat, supposed to he immune from the rank discourte sies of the military. Hut that was early in my career. In a year not so remote as not to he readily recalled, the United States packed me oft to Barscheit because I hud an uncle who was a senator. Some papers were given me, the per mission to hang out a shingle reading "American Consul," and the promise of my board and keep. My amuse ments were to lie paid out of niv own pocket. Straightway I purchased three horses, found a capable Japanese valet, a: 1 selected a cozy house near the barracks, which stood west of the Volksgartcn, 011 a pretty lake. A beau tiful road ran around this body of wa ter, and it wasn't long ere the officers began to pass comments on the riding of "that wild American." As I detest what is known as park riding, you may very well believe that I circled the lake at a clip which must have opened the eyes of the easy-going officers. I grew quite chummy with a few of them, and I may speak of occasions when 1 did not step off the sidewalk as they came along. A man does more toward gaining the affection of for eigners by giving a good dinner now and then than by international law. I gained considerable fame by my little dinners at Muller's rathskeller, under the Continental hotel. Six months passed, during which I rode, read, drove and dined, the actual labors of the consulate being cared for by a German clerk who knew more about the business than 1 did. By this you will observe that diplo The Princess Hildegarde. macy has degenerated into the gentle art of exciting jaded palates and of scribbling one's name across pass ports; I know of no better definition. I forget what the largess of iny office was. Presently there were terrible do ings. The old reigning grand duke de sired peace of mind; and moving de terminedly toward this end, he de clared in public that his niece, the young and tender Princess Hildegarde, should wed the Prince of Doppclkinn, whose vineyards gave him a line in come. This was finality; the avuncu lar guardian had waited long enough for his willful ward to make up her mind as to the selection of a suitable husband; now he determined to take a hand in the matter. And you shall see how well he managed it. It Is scarcely necessary for me to state that her highness had her own ideas of what a husband should be like, gathered, no doubt, from execra ble translations from "Oulda" and the gentle Miss Kraddon. A girl of 20 usually has a formidable regard for romance, and the princess was fully up to the manner of her kind. If she could not marry romantically, she re fused to marry at all. I can readily appreciate her uncle's perturbation. I do not know liow many princelings she thrust into utter dark ness. She would nevei marry a man who wore glasses; this one was too tall, that one too short; and when one happened along who was without vis ible earmarks or signs of being shop worn her refusal was based upon just —"Because!" —a weapon as Invincible RS the fabled spear of Parsifal. She had spurned the addresses of Prince Mischler, laughed at those of the Count of 'the short dash indicates the presence of a hyphen) CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1907 and General Muerrisch, of the em peror's body-guard, who was, I'm sure, good enough—in his own opinion—for any woman. Kvery train brought to tin! capital some sulfor with a c«a sonatcd, hyphenated name and a pedi gree as long as a bore's idea of a funny story. Hut the princess did not care for pedigrees that were squint eyed or bow-legged. One and all of them she east aside as unworthy her consideration. Then, like the ancient worm, the duke turned. She should marry Doppelkinn, who, having 110 wife to do the honors in his castle, was wholly agreeable. The Prince of Doppelkinn reigned over tlie neighboring principality, if you stood in the middle of it and were a baseball player, you could throw a stone across the frontier in any direc tion. But the vineyards were among the finest in Europe. The prince was a widower, and among his own people was affectionately styled "der Rot nasig," which, I believe, designates an illuminated proboscis. When he wasn't fishing for rainbow trout he was sleep ing in his cellars. He was often miss ing at the monthly reviews, but no body ever worried; they knew where to find him. And besides, he might just as well sleep in his cellars as in his carriage, for he never rode a horse if he could get out of doing so. He was really good-natured and easy-go ing, so long as no one crossed him se verely; and you could tell him a joke once and depend upon his understand ing it immediately, which is more than 1 can say for the duke. Years and years ago the prince had had a son; but at the tender age of three the boy had run away from the castle confines, anil no one ever heard of him again. The enemies of the prince whispered among themselves that the boy had run away to escape compulsory military service, but the boy's age precluded this accusation. The prince advertised, after the fash ion of those times, sent out detectives and notified his various brothers; but his trouble went for nothing. Not the slightest trace of the boy could be found. So he was mourned for a sea son, regretted and then forgotten; the prince adopted the grape arbor. I saw the prince once. I do not blame the Princess Hildegarde for her rebellion. The prince was not only old; he was fat and ugly, with little, elephant-like eyes that were always vein-shot, restless and full of mischief. He might have made a good father, but I have nothing to prove this. Those bottles of sparkling Moselle which he failed to dispose of to the American trade he gave to his brother in Barscheit or drank himself, lie was 68 years old. A nephew, three times removed, was waiting for the day wnen he should wabble around in the prince's shoes. He was a lieutenant In the duke's body-guard, a quick-tempered, heady chap. Well, he never wabbled around in his uncle's shoes, for he never got the chance. I hadn't been in Barscheit a week before I heard a great deal about the princess. She was a famous horse woman. This made me extremely anx ious to meet her. Yet for nearly six months 1 never even got so much as a glimpse of her. Half of the six months she was traveling through Austria, and the other half she kept out of my way, —not intentionally; she knew nothing of my existence; simply, fate moved us about blindly. At court she was in variably indisposed, and at. the first court ball she retirsc! before I arrived. I got up at all times, galloped over all roads, but never did I see her. She rode alone, too, part of the time. ito 13 ra CONTINUED.} WW PULLING FENCE POSTS. A Hard Task Made Easy by Use of Plank and Chain. • An easy and practical method of j pulling posts, by which all digging | and had labor is eliminated, is j shown in cut. Take a plank, 1 ft. ! wide, 4 ft. long, and make a V-shaped notch at one end, nailing on several 1 crosspieces to prevent splitting. This ! plank is used to change the hori | zontal draft to the vertical. Placo one end of the chain around the i post close to the ground, Incline the | plank against the post so the lower ; end will be IV£ ft. from the base of | the post, place the chain In the notch J of the plank, hitch the team to the I post and start up. In a few seconds j the post is clear of the ground. In j moving fences, sa>-3 the Farm and | Home, the chain should be attached to the rear axle of the wagon so the posts may be loaded and hauled to the new location. THE FARMER BOY. i Temper the Work to His Strength and Let Him Have His Play Time. Every farmer desires to keep his | boy at home as long as he can do so, | that he may thus live a protected life I as long as possible. This is right. It j is a mistake to permit the farm boy | to launch out for himself at too ten ! der an age. The father of the boy | must remember that the muscles of I the boy are not hard like his own and I that he cannot do the same amount of j work as he himself can do, with ; equal ease. The muscles of a grow ing boy are soft, for they are con stantly being increased in size by the j addition of new material. Many farm boys are driven from the | farm by too hard work. They are made to take the place of a hired man at a very early age and the father often forgets that they have not the same indifference to pleasures as him self. The boy needs a good deal of recreation and a chance to mingle with other farm boys. The farm boy should have a fair chance at the pleas ures of childhood and youth, as the city boy has. His work should be carefully limited. The usual farm boy is a worker anyway. He early learns to do the most difficult tasks on the farm, says Farmers' Iteview, and Is worth much more to his parents than any hired man is worth. His parents should therefore study him and his needs. His needs include many things besides the food he gets and the clothes he wears. ''All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy," is an old saying, but strictly true. Many a farm boy has been overworked Into a dullness that has lasted him his life through. POINTERS. A hedgehog—the neighbor who won't keep up his fences.—Farm Jour nal. Some farmers find great advantage in sowing rye at the last working of the corn. Might try a patch. The manure spreader has decreased the number of rich barnyards and in creased the number of rich fields in stead. Don't sell any clover hay if you have stock to feed it to. It is worth nearly as much for fertilizer as for feed. Sow only the plumpest, nicest wheat this fall. Run it through the fanning mill and take all tho foul stuff out. Good seed Is half the crop. The cost of a pair of farm scales will be saved the first year in prevent ing the lossos from guessing at weights of other products bought or ■old. The hoe is one of the most useful implements on the farm, but it is not automatic in Its operations. To be effective it needs a strong arm and a willing hand. Seed Alfalfa In Fall. On account of the more abundant growth of weeds and grass in the spring and early summer, late summer or early fall seeding of alfalfa is rec ommended by tho Pennsylvania Ex periment Station. If the land Is cul tivated during the early part of the season and seeded to alfalfa in July or August, Ideal conditions, so far as the establishment of the young plants is concerned, will be most nearly ap proached. Don't Break the Hammer. Look out.! You'll brenk that hammer handle trying to pull that rvsty nail. Hit tho nail a rap or two, driving it into the wood; then It will come out easy, says Farm Journal. When part way out, put a bit of hard wood un der the head of the hammer for a ful crum. See how nice It works. The Provident Farmer. "He doesn't have to soli his crops," is the way farmers Bpeak of a neigh bor who is getting ahead. There is u whole volume in that expression. ' JUST A GENTLE HINT. One Remedy Appearances Indicated Nobleman Had Never Tried. The earl of Surrey, afterward elev enth duke of Norfolk, who was a no torious gourmand and hard drinker and a leading member of the Reef steak club, was so far from cleanly in his person that his servants used to avail themselves of his fits of drunken ness—which were pretty frequent, by the way—for the purpose of wash ing him. On these occasions they stripped him as they would a corpse and performed the needful ablutions. He was equally notorious for his horror of clean lim-a One day, on his complaining to Dudley North at his club that he had become a per fect martyr to rheumatism and tried every posslhle remedy without suc cess .the latter wittily replied: "Pray, my lord, did you ever try a clean shirt?" BRUTALITY OF MEDICAL ETHICS. A Great Surgeon Barred from Mem bership in Medical Association. (From the National Druggist for June, 1907.) Dr. Augustus Charles Bernays, who died a few days ago in St. Louis, was, probably, the foremost surgeon in the United States. Ilis fame was co extensive with the civilized world. He was not only an operator of the high est order, but a tireless and exhaus tive worker in the field of original surgery. He performed the first suc cessful Caesarian section in 18S9 in St. Louis, and also the first successful coeliotomy for gunshot wound 01 the abdomen and the first gallstone opeva tion in Missouri. A record held by Dr. Bernays has never been equaled: Out of eighty-one successive cases of appendicitis which necessitated operations, seventy-ono in succession were with perfectly satisfactory re sults, the seventy-second patient fail ing of recovery, hut the subsequent nine cases were successfully treated. And yet, with such a record, match less as was his skill, varied and ex tensive as was his learning, wonder ful as were his accomplishments, he r-as not considered, by the American Medical Association, as worthy of membership in that organization. No charges were ever brought against him which, in the remotest degree, reflected on his qualifications aB a surgeon; his moral character was never the subject of attack; he was never accused of having done any thing unbecoming a man or a gentle man. "The head and front of his of fending had this extent —no more!" He dared to think! He refused to mold his opinions and to govern his actions by the arbitrary rules which those whom he knew to he his infer iors had set up for his guidance! In other words, he could not regard the Code of Ethics of the American Medi cal Association as being inspired, or having any binding authority on him where his judgment told him it was wrong. And so, twenty years ago or more, on account of some trivial in fraction of this sacred "Code," a movement was started to expel him from the local association, which was only defeated by his hastily sending in his resignation. As membership in the A. M. A. is dependent upon mem bership in the local and State socie ties, his name was dropped by the national organization. And so, though he had saved thou sands of lives; though other physi cians had profited by his art; this brilliant surgeon; this great and able man, has, during all these years, been an outcast —a medical "scab;" not recognized as "ethical" or worthy of fellowship by that body of physicians banded together in the American Med ical Association! And this is the association which, under pretense of working for the public good, is, in reality, only seeking to control Congress and the State Legislatures in the interest of their own selfish schemes; which is trying to create a Cabinet position and to place one of its members in that po sition; which is endeavoring by law to exclude from the uso of the mails, all manufacturers of medicines who do not comply with the absurd re quirements that they choose to set up; which, in short, is trying to put upon the statute books of State and nation laws that will, in effect, estab lish a kind of medical priesthood, to which only their own members will be eligible with power and control over the health and lives of the people! God help the druggists, the drug manufacturers, physicians not mem bers of their guild, and the people generally, if this association ever suc ceeds in its undertaking, if it does, it will, after the fashion of the labor unions, dictate a "closed shop," and say to doctors who prefer to be inde pendent, "You must join our union or, failing to do so, compel them to get out of the business. It will say what medicines shall be taken, and how they shall be made. It will hedge the people about with a lot of petty regulations under pretense of protect ing the public health. In fine, a medi cal bureaucracy will be established tc tyrannize over the people. Let no man call this a false alarm. If there are those who are inclined to do so, iet them read the journal of the A. M. A. Let them scan the proceedings of the association, held always behind closed doors, and care fu'lv edited, as they are, before they ave published in its official organ. 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