6 1 The fj Princess Elopes I By HAROLD McGRATH Author of n "Th» Man on the Bo*," I "He»rts and Masks," Etc. (Copyright, 1906, Bobbs-UerriU Co J SYNOPSIS. The American consul to Barscheit, a principality of Europe, tells how the reigning grand duke had tried to find • husband for his rebellious niece, the Princess Hildegarde, finally decreeing that she wed the Prince of Doppelkinn, an ugly old widower, ruler of the neigh boring principality. Though he had been In the country for six months the Ameri can consul liad never seen the princess. While horseback riding In the country Vsht overtakes him, and he seeks accom modation In a dilapidated old castle. In it he finds an old servitor and two women, the Princess Hildegarde, and a friend, the Hon. Betty Moore of England. They detain him to be a witness to a mock marriage of the Princess to Stein bock, a disgraced military oflleer, as a means of escaping the marriage with Prince Doppelkinn. Warrington, the American consul, is hidden behind the portiers when Steinbock arrives. CHAPTER lll.—Continued. I heard the crackle of parchment. The certificate was being unfolded. (It occurred to me that while she was about it the princess might just as well have forged the rascal's name and wholly dispensed with his services. The whole affair struck me as being Ineffective; nothing would come of It. If she tried to make the duke believe that she had married Steinbock, her uncle would probe the matter to the bottom, and in the end cover her with ridicule. But you can not tell a young woman anything, when she is a prin cess and in the habit of having her own way. It is remarkable how stupid clever women can be at times. The Honorable Betty understood, but her highness would not be convinced. Thus she suffered this needless affront. Par don this parenthesis, but when one talks from behind a curtain the par enthesis ia the only available thing.) There was silence. I saw Steinbock poise the pen, then scribble on tie parchment. It was done. I stirred restlessly. "There!" cried Steinbock. His voicv did not lack a certain triumph. "And now for the duplicate!" Her highness stuffed the document Into the bosom of her dress. "There will be no duplicate." The frigidity of her tones would have congealed the blood of an ordinary rascal. But Stein bock was not ordinary. "But suppose the duke comes to me for verification?" he reasoned. "You will be on the other side of the frontier. Here are your-thousand crowns." The barb of her contempt penetrated even his thick epidermis. His smile hardened. "I was once a gentleman; I did not always accept money lor aiding in shady transactions." "Neither your sentiments nor your opinions are required. Now, observe me carefully," continued her highness. "I shall give you 24 hours to cross the frontier in any direction you choose. If after that time you are found in Barsclieit, I promise to hand you over to the police." "It has been a great day," said the rascal, with a laugh. "A thousand C Downs!" 1 separated the portieres an inch. He stood at the side of the piano, upon which he "«>aned an elbow. He was certainly handsome, much sought after by women of a low class. The princess stood at Steinbock's left and the Hon orable Betty at his right, erect, their faces expressing nothing, so forced was the respose. "I never expected so great an honor. To wed a princess, when that princess is your highness! Faith, it is fine!" "You may go at once," interrupted her highness, her voice rising a key. "Remember, you have only 24 hours between you and prison. You waste valuable time." "What! you wish to be rid of me so soon? Why, this is trie bridal night. One does not part with one's wife at this rate." Leopold, the caretaker, made a warn ing gesture. "Come, Leopold, I must have my Jest," laughed Steinbock. ''Within certain bounds," returned the old man phlegmatically. "It is high time you were off. You are fool hardy to match your chances with Justice. Prison stares you in the face." "FJah! Do you believe it?" "It is a positive Tact," added the princess. "Rut to leave like this has the pang of death!" Steinbock remonstrated. "What! shall I be oft without having even kissed the bride?" "The bargain is concluded on all Sides; you have your thousand crowns." "But not love's tribute. I must have that. It is worth a thousand crowns. Besides," with a perceptible change in his manner, "shall I forget the con tempt with which you have always looted upon me, even in the old days were fair aud prosperous? Scarce- ly! Opportunity la a thing that can not be permitted to pass thus lightly." Then I observed his nose wrinkle; he was sniffing. "Tobaccol I did not know that you smoked, Leopold." "Be gone!" cried the old fellow, his hands opening and shutting. "Presently!" With a laugh he sprang toward her highness, but Leo pold was too quick for Mm. There was a short struggle, and I saw the valiant old man reel, fall and strike his head on the stone of the hearth. He lay perfectly motionless. So unexpected was this scene to my eyes that for a time I was without any particular sense of movement. I stood like stone. With an evil laugh Stein bock sprang toward her highness again. Quick as light she snatched up my crop, which lay on the table, and struck the rascal full across the eyes, again and again and again, following him as he stepped backward. Her de fense was magnificent. But, as fate determined to have it, Steinbock final ly succeeded in wresting the stick from hor grasp. He was wild with pain and chagrin. It was then I awoke to the fact that 1 was needed. I rushed out, hot with anger. I caught Steinbock by the collar just in time to prevent his lips from touching her cheek. I flung him to the floor, and knelt upon his chest. I am ashamed to confess It, but 1 recollect slapping the fellow's face as he strug gled under me. "You scoundrel!" I cried, breathing hard. "Kill him!" whispered her highness. She was furious; the blood of her marauding ancestors swept over her cheeks, and if ever I saw murder in a woman's eyes it was at that moment. "Hush, Hildegarde, hush!" The English girl caught the princess in her arms and drew her back. "Don't let —— j "Struck Me Squarely Between the Eyes." me hear you talk like that. It is all over." " "Get up," I said to Steinbock, as I set him free. He crawled to his feet. He was very much disordered, and there were livid welts on his face, lie shook himself, eyeing me evilly. There was murder in his eyes, too. "Empty your pockets of those thou sand crowns!"—peremptorily. "I was certain that I smelled to bacco," he sneered. "It would seem that there are other bridegrooms than myself." "Those crowns, or I'll break every bono in your body!" I balled my fists. Nothing would have pleased me bet ter at that moment than to pummel the life out of him. Slowly he drew out the purse. It was one of those limp silk affairs so much affected by our ancestors. He balanced It on his hand. Its ends bulged with gold and bank-notes. Be fore I was awajc of his intentions, he swung one end of It in so deft a man ner that it struck me squarely between the eyes. With a crash of glass he dis appeared through the window. The blow dazed me only for a moment, and I was hot to be on his tracks. The Honorable Betty stopped me. "He may shoot you!" she cried. "Don't go.!" Although half through the window, I crawled back, brushing my sleeves. Something warm trickled down my nose. "You have been cut!" exclaimed her highness. "It is nothing. I beg of you to let me follow. It will bo all over with that fellow at largo." "Not at all." Her highness' eyes sparkled wickedly. "He will make for the nearest frontier. He knows now that I shall not hesitate a moment to put Tils affairs in the hands of the police." "He will boast of what he has done." "Not till he ha 3 spent those thou sand crowns." She crossed the room aud knelt at the side of Leopold, dash- CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1907 Ins some water Into Ms face. Pre» ently he opened his eyes. "He is only stunned. Poor Leopold!" I helped the old man fiis feet, and he rubbed the back of his head grim ly. He drew a revolver from hla pock A "I' 1 had forgotten all about it,"he said contritely. "Shall I follow him, your highness?" "Let him go. It doesn't matter now. Betty, you were right, as you aiways are. I have played the part of a nllly fool. I would have my own way in the matter. Well, 1 have this worthless paper. At least I can frighten the dulif, and that is something." "Oh, my dear, if only you would have listened to my advice!" the other girl said. There was deep discouragement in her tones. "I warned you so often that it would come to this end." "Let ua drop the matter entirely," said her highness. I gazed admiringly at her—to see her sink suddenly into a chair and weep abandonedly! Leopold eyed her mournfully"* while the English girl rushed to her side and flung her arms around her soothingly. "I am very unhappy," said the prin cess, lifting her head and shaking the tears from her eyes. "I am harassed on all sides; I am not allowed any will of my own. I wish I were a peas ant!— Thank you, thank you! But for you that wretch would have kissed me." She held out her hand to me, and I bent to one knee as I kissed It. She was worthy to be the wife of the finest fellow in all the world. I was very sorry for her, and thought many uncomplimentary things of the duke. "I shall not ask you to forget my weakness," she said. "It is already forgotten, your high ness." Under such circumstances I met the Princess Hildegarde of Barscheit; and I never betrayed her confidence until this writing, when I have her express permission. Of Hermann Steinbock I never saw anything more. Thus the only villain passes from the scene. As 1 have re peatedly remarked, doubtless to your weariness, this is not my story at all; but in parenthesis I may add that be tween the Honorable Betty Moore and myself there sprang up a friendship which later ripened into something in finitely stronger. This, then, was the state of affairs when, one month later, Max Schar fenstein poked his handsome blond head over the frontier of Barscheit; cue (as the dramatist would say), en ter hero. (TO BE CONTINUED.) The right kind of a wife never harps upon her husband's misdeeds, still less does she remind him of his misfor tunes. No woman should marry a man unless her love for him be of the fiber which hopeth all things, believeth all things, and is not easily provoked," says Home Chat. The right kind of wife helps a man when he falls an en courages him to try again, instead of railing at him for the stumble after he has risen to his feet. 'The average woman," said Grum bell, "has but one idea, and that's dress." "Huh!" snorted Marryat, "ray wife usually has at least a dozen ideas, and they're dresses."—The Catholic Standard and Times. Rowles —Surely no one questions that character covers a mukitudo ol sins. Thomas —I think not; and one might truthfully add that it not infre quently exposes a great number of Sinners. —Smart Set. "I'm afraid to take fencing lessons, for 'tis such an exhausting exercise." "Not a bit of it. Who told wou so?" "Maizle is taking them, and she al ways is talking about how she feiaU so ofteu while she's practicing." A Young Composer, Rachel, aged 12, wrote an compo sition on wild flowers in which she praised the arbutus, the liverwort, the spring beauty, the blood root, and all of the other blossoms of dell and dale. But she wrote on both sides of her sheet of paper, and when she asked her father, who was an editor, to publish her article, he called her attention to that fact. "You've written on both sides of your paper," said he. "Well," was the reply, "and don't you print on both sidea. of yours?" ALL THINGS IN PROPORTION. Invalid's Meal Evidently Had Not In creased Good Humor. For many weeks the irritable "mer chant had been riveted to his bed by typhoid fever. Now he was conva lescing. He clamored for something to eat, declaring that he was starv ing. "To-morrow you may have some thing to eat," promised the doctor. The merchant realized that there would be a restraint to his appetite, yet he saw, in vision, a modest, steam ing meal placed at his bedside. "Here is your dinner," said the nurse next day, as she gave the glow ering patient a spoonful of tapioca pudding, "and the doctor emphasizes that everything else you do must be In the same proportion." Two hours later the nurse heard a frantic call from the bed chamber. "Nurse," breathed the man heapily, "I want to do some reading, bring me a postage stamp." HAVE CRAZE FOR FORMULA. Smokers Follow Fashions in the Use of Tobacco. "Make me up a package of tobacco according to the formula used by Ed win Booth," said the man with a southern accent. "That is the third man who has asked for that kind of tobacco to-day," said the dealer. "It is strange that people from remote parts of the country as well as New Yorkers make a fad of buying the same brand of tobacco that Booth snjoked. And it isn't always the Booth mixture that they want. I have filed away the formulas for mixing the favorite tobacco of many famous per sons. Smokers the country over have heard of this collection of recipes and one feature of every man's trip to New York is to try a pipeful of some big man's favorite tobacco. In most cases this special mixture is so strong that the nerves of the average smoker cannot stand it. He has to give up after a few pipefuls and go back to a popular mixture, but he has the satisfaction of having had the ex perience."—The New York Sun. "800-HOO" Shouts a SpanKed Baby. A Doctor of Divinity, now Editor of a well-known Religious paper, has written regarding the controversy be tween Collier's Weekly and the Re ligious Press of the Country and oth ers, including ourselves. Also regard ing suits for libel brought by Collier's against us for commenting upon its methods. Those are his sentiments, with some very emphatic words left out. "The religious Press owes you a debt of gratitude for your courage in showing up Collier's Weekly as the "Yell-Oh Man." Would you care to use the inclosed article on the"800 Hoo Baby" as the "Yell-Oh Man's successor?" "A contemporary remarks that Col lier's has finally run against a solid hickory "Post" and been damaged in its own estimation to the tune of ?7 50,000.00." _ "Here is a publication which has, in utmost disregard of the facts, spread broadcast damaging statements about the Religious Press and others and has suffered those false statements to go uncontradicted until, not satisfied after finding the Religious Press too quiet, and peaceful, to resent the in sults, it makes the mistake of wander ing into fresh field and butts its rat tled head against this Post and all the World laughs. Even Christians smile, as the Post suddenly turns and gives it back a dose of its own medicine." "It is a mistake to say all the World laughs. No cheery laugh comes from Collier's, but it cries and boo lioos like a spanked baby and wants $750,000.00 to soothe its tender, lacerated feel ings." "Thank Heaven It has at last struck a man with "back bone" enough to call a spade a "spade" and who believes in telling the whole truth without fear or favor." Perhaps Collier's with its "utmost disregard for the facts," may say no such letter exists. Nevertheless it is on file in our office and is only one of a mass of letters and other data, news paper comments, etc., denouncing the "yellow" methods of Collier's. This Volume is so large that a man could not well go thru it under half a day's steady work. The letters come from various parts of America. Usually a private controversy is not interesting to the public, but this is a public controversy. Collier's has been using the "yellow" methods to attract attention to itself, but, jumping in the air, cracking heels together and yelling "Look at me" wouldn't suffice, so it started out on a "Holier Than Thou" attack on the Re ligious Press and on medicine. We leave It to the public now, as we *'rt when we first resented Collier's acks, to say whether, in a craving ■ sensation and circulation, its at ks do not amount to a. systematic rcenary bounding. Wo likewise leave it to the public to say whether Collier's, by its own policy and nieth The "Mound City." St. Louis rejoices in the sobriquet of Mound City from the fact that the original settlers found there many elevations which it is supposed were relics of that strange people who dwelt in the Ohio and Mississippi val leys and are known to modern times only as the Mound Builders. No ade quate explanation has yet been found of their strange mode of leaving memorials of their existence. The limestone bluffs on which a part of St. stands furnish a solid foun dation for the business buildings. Held Up. "Stop!" shouted the man on the country road, holding up a warning hand. Muttering something about rural cops, the automobilist obeyed. "Turn around and come back to town with me," said the stranger. "You were going at least 35 miles an hour." "You're a constable, I suppose," said the automobilist, with a covert sneer, when they had reached the village. "Me?" replied the passenger. "No, I'm a farmer and had to come into town when all the teams was busy. Nice growing weather? Thanks. Good by." Ensuing comment is purposely omit ted. —Philadelphia Public Ledger. Belling a Rat, You have probably read or heard that the best way to rid a house of rats is to catch one and fasten a bell about its neck. A boy in Delaware tried the experiment two months ago. He was badly bitten in making the bell fast, but he turned the rat loose and expected the tinkling of that bell would have great results. It did have. In the first place, the rat who wore it was constantly on the move all night, and the tinkling bell kept the family awake, and in the next the sounds brought scores of new rats to the house. Instead of being afraid of the bell, they were charmed with the mu sic. Had the boy tied a harmonica to another rat's tail, the rodents would have had a dance every night. She Was Willing. "Yes," says the husband, "I have consented to accept the nomination.' "I am so glad the party is begin ning to recognize your merit," beams the wife. "Now my dear," the husband con tinues, "you know that political af fairs are not love feasts, by any means. You must expect to see me vilified and attacked in a scandalous manner. No doubt the opposition will try to dig up sensational rumors about me, and all that sort of thing, but you must not " ""Well," she interrupts, "I am really glad of it. You have always been strangely silent about whether or not you ever were engaged to anyone be fore you met me." ods, has not made itself more ridicu lous than any comment of ours could make it. Does Collier's expect to regain any self-inflicted loss of prestige by de monstrating tln-u suits for damages, that it can be more artful in evading liability for libels than the humble but resentful victims of its defamation, or does it hope for starting a campaign of libel suits to silence the popular in dignation, reproach and resentment which it has aroused. Collier's can not dodge this public controversy by private law suits. It can not postpone the public judgment against it. That great jury, |the Pub lic, will hardly blame us for not wait ing until we get a petit jury in a court room, before denouncing this prod igal detractor of institutions founded and fostered either by individuals or by the public, itself. No announcements during our entire business career were ever made claiming "medicinal effects" for either Postum or Grape-Nuts. Medicinal ef fects are results obtained from the use of medicines. Thousands of visitors go thru our entire works each month and see for themselves that Grape-Nuts contains absolutely nothing but wheat, barley and a little salt; Postum absolutely nothing but wheat and about ten per cent of New Orleans Molasses. The art of preparing these simple ele ments in a scientific manner to obtain the best food value and flavor, re quired some work and experience to acquire. Now, when any publication goes far enough out of its way to attack us be cause our advertising is "medical," it simply offers a remarkable exhibition of ignorance or worse. We do claim physiological or bodily results of favorable character follow ing the adoption of our suggestions re garding the discontinuance of coffee and foods which may not be keeping the individual in good health. We have no advice to offer the perfectly healthful person. His or her health is evidence in itself that the bever ages and foods used exactly fit that person. Therefore, why change? But to the man or woman who is ailing, we have something to say as a result of an unusually wide experience in food and the result of proper feed ing. In the palpably ignorant attack on us in Collier's, appeared this state ment, —"One widely circulated para graph labors to Induce the Impression that Grape-Nuts will obviate the ne cessity of an operation In appendi citis. This is lying and potentially deadly lying." In reply to this exhibition of —well let the reader name it, the says: Let it. bo understood that appendi citis results from long continued dis turbance in the intestiues, caused pri marily by undigested starchy food, The Way of the Child. A small boy who had recently passed his fifth birthday was riding in a car with his mother, when they were asked the customary question: "How old is the boy?" After being told the correct age, which did not require a fare, the conductor passed onto the next person. The boy sat quite still as if ponder ing over some question, and then, concluding that full information had not been given, called loudly to the conductor, then at the other end of the car: "And mother's 31!" A Definition of Success. How have the hypothetical scien tists and the exponents of unbelief benefited themselves or humanity at large by Bowing the seeds of doubt broadcast in the world? The real sci entists do not fall in this category, for they are believers in the real sense of the word; they know too much, they have seen too many mysterious mani festations of the Divine creativo pow er. Now, those who have disposed of the Bible and all evidences of inspira tion, have written a great many books and some of them have won what the world at large lightly calls fame. Ac cording to the ordinary measures that are applied in such cases, the/have been extremely successful, but real success means the benefit of human ity in some form or other. If no such benefits can be shown as the result of their labors, their success is not equal to that achieved by the direst poverty and the deepest ignorance. Joel Chandler, in Uncle Remus' Magazine. WHEN A "HUNCH" HELD GOOD. Chinese Laundry Ticket Suggested a Bet on "Wing Ting." Kay Spence, a well-known horseman of Mexico, Mo., won ?1,000 at the Louisville, Ky., race meeting a short time ago as the result of a "hunch." Mr. Spence' has a large breeding stable of "runners" near Mexico, and attends all the big racing events in the country. Not long since he was in Louisville and entered the betting ring to see what odds were being of fered on the various entries. He found that Joaquin was the favorite at even money, and pulled his wallet from his pocket, intending to bet on that horse. His attention was at tracted by something that fell from his wallet to the ground, and he stoop ed and picked it np. It was a Chi nese laundry ticket. He looked at the "books" again and found that there was an entry with a Chinese name. Wing Ting, at ten to one. That set tled it, for he considered he had re ceived a "hunch" that could not be overlooked. Wing Ting won handily. Needless to say, those who backed the favorite considered Spence the sev enth son of the seventh son.—Kansas City Star. such as white bread, potatoes, rice, partly cooked cereals and such. Starchy food is not digested in tho upper stomach but passes on into the duodenum, or lower stomach and in testines, where, in a healthy individ ual, the transformation of the starch into a form of sugar is completed and then the food absorbed by the blood. But if the powers of digestion are weakened, a part of the starchy food will lie in the warmth and moisture of the body and decay, generating gages and irritating the mucous surfaces un til under such conditions the whole lower part of the alimentary canal, in cluding the colon and the appendix, becomes involved. Disease sets up and at times takes the form known as appendicitis. When the symptoms of the trouble make their appearance, would it not be good, practical, common sense, to discontinue the starchy food which is causing the trouble and take a food in which the starch has been trans formed into a form of sugar in the process of manufacture? This is identically the same form-of sugar found in the human body after starch has been perfectly digested. Now, human food is made up very largely of starch and is required by the body for energy and warmth. Naturally, therefore, its use should be continued, if possible, and for the rea sons given above it is made possible in the manufacture of Grape-Nuts. In connection with this change of food to bring relief from physical dis turbances, we have suggested washing out the intestines to get rid of the im mediate cause of the disturbance. Naturally, there are cases where the disease has lain dormant and the abuse continued too long, until ap parently only the knife will avail. But it is a well-established fact among the best physicians who are acquainted with the details £bove recited, that preventative measures are far and away the best. Are we to be condemned for suggest ing a way to prevent disease by fol lowing natural methods and for per fecting a food (hat contains no "medi cine" and produces no "medicinal ef fects" but which has guided literally thousands of persons from sickness to health? We have received during the years past upwards of 25,000 letters from people who have been either helped or made entirely well by fol lowing our suggestions, and they are simple. If coffee disagrees and causes any of the ailments common to some cof fee users quit it and take on Postum. if white broad, potatoes, rice and other starch foods make trouble, quit and use Grape-Nuts food which is largely predlgested and will digest, nourish nnd strengthen, when other forms of food do not. It's just plain old common sense. "There's a Heason for Postum an<l Grape-Nuts. Postiuii Cereal CP„ LtiL
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