6 I The j Princess I Elopes I 3y HAROLD McGRATH Author of '■ "Th« Man on th© Bo*." ■ *'Mfttrts and Masks/' Etc* iCujtfftjfbi, l'JUj, liobbteMornil Co.) SYNOPSIS. Arthur Warrington, American consul to Barsi licit, tolls how reigning Grand IJKike attempts to force his nelce, I'rin <**m lliidegarde, to marry Prince Dopple- Utcm. ari old widower. While riding \oraeback in the country night overtakes ins and he socks accommodations in a dilapidated castle. Here ho finds I'rln ."ess Ilildegarde and a friend, Hon. Betty Moore, of England. They detain him to witness :i mock marriage between the «rlnceßß and a disgraced arjny officer, &e!nbock. done for the purpose of foiling grand duke. Stoinbock attempts to Kiss the princess and she is rescued by Warrington. Stoinbock disappears for (good. Max Scharfensteln. an old Ameri can friend of Warrington's reaches Bar swheit. Warrington tells him of the prin oess. Scharfensteln shows Warrington tocket with a picture of a woman in fside. It was on his neck when he, as a boy, was picked up and adopted by his Foster father, whose name ho was given. He believes it to be a picture of his mother. Tin* grand duke announces to die princess that she Is to marry Popple itinn the following week. During a morn £ng*H ride she plans to escape. She meets Scharfensteln. He finds a purse she has dropped but does not discover her iden- Ity. Warrington entertains at a public irestanrant for a number of American tnedicab students. Max arrives late and Bolttcfl an Interesting i>»t of gossip to the effect that the princess has run away Cr«>rn Barschelt. He unwittingly offends -a. native otfhcr and subjects himself to certain arrest. Max. is persuaded to take 32M* of the American student's passports -fend escape. The grand duke discovers escape of the princess. She leaves a oofc saying she has eloped. Efforts (ire rnauie to stop the princess at the frontier. Hetty Moor«' asks for her passport. She Asku Warrnigton for assistance in h i av- Barseh^'it, and invites him to call on l»fT In Max finds the princess in tU»e railway carriage. She accuses him of following her. lie returns to her the he had found. It contained a thou sand pounds in bank notes. At the fron efe-c Max and the princess are arrested &nd taken to Dopplekinn's palace. "he *;rand duke arrives and proposes that the rrincess shall marry Dopplekinn at once. >opplekum refuses. V CHAPTER XI (Continued). How the girl's eyes sparkled! She was free. The odious alliance would aot take place. "Who is that?" Everybody turned and looked at Max. His arm was leveled in the di rection of a line portrait in oil which suspended over the fireplace. Sla v: was very pale. "What's that to you?" snarled the prince. He was what we Yankees call "hopping mad." The vase was worth « hundred crowns, and he never could find a leaf to replace the one just broken. "I believe I have a right to know who that woman is up there." Max spoke quietly. As a matter of fact he ■jcas too weak to speak otherwise. "A right to know? What do you mean?" demanded the prince fiercely. "It is my wife." With trembling fingers Max pro duced his locket. "Will you look at this?" he asked in r voice that was a bit shaky. The prince stepped forward and ierked the lockot from Max's hand. Bat the moment he saw the contents his jaw fell and he rocked on his heels unsteadily and staggered back toward the duke for support. "What's the matter, prince?" asked the duke anxiously. After all Doppel' kir.n was an old crony, and mayhap he haul been harsh with him. "Where did you get that?" asked the prince hoarsely. "I have always worn it," answered Max. "The chain that went with i< originally will no longer fit my neck.' "Arnheim! . . . Duke! . . . come and took at this!"—feebly. "tlood heaven!" cried the duke. "It is the princess!" said Arnheim in a.wed tones. "Where did you get it?" demanded the prince again. "I was found with it around mj mart." "Dttke, what do you think?" asked Cfce agitated prince. "What do I think?" "Yes. Tills was around my son's cecTc the day lie was lost. If this eiiould be! . . . If it were possible!" "What?" The duke looked from th< prince to the man who had worn the fjoekci. Certainly there wasn't anj «tgn of likeness. Hut when he looked at Che portrait on the wall and then ai Max doubt grew in his eyes. Thej iwere somewhat alike. He pluckec nervously at his beard. "Prince," said Max, "before heaver H beTleve that I may bo . . . youi ton!" "My son!" liy this time they were all tremen liously excited and agitated and white; -aiß save the princess, who was gazing >gaf. 3&atx with sudden gladness in hei fcyes. while over her cheeks there stole 'tin- "phantom of a rose. If it were true' "Let me tell you my story," said ■ l&ffcx. (it is not necessary for nie tc ■OWpCJkt it.) The prince turned helplessly toward ■iChft duke, but the duke was equallj x^Sajeed. "Hat we can't accept a story as Qxoot," the duke said. "It isn't as il he were one of the people. It wouldn't matter then. Isut it's a future prince. Let us go slow." "Yes, let us go slow," repeated the prince, brushing his damp forehead. "Wait a moment!" said Col. Arn heim, stepping forward. "Only one thing will prove his identity to me; not all the papers in the world can do it." "What do you know?" cried the prince, bewildered. "Something 1 have not dared tell till this moment," —miserably. "Curse it, you are keeping us wait ing!" The duke kicked about the shattered bits of porcelain. "I used to play with the—the young prince," began Arnheim. "Your high ness will recollect that I did." Arn heim went over to Max. "Take off your coat." Max did so, wondering. "Roll up your sleeve." Again Max obeyed, and his wonder grew. "See!" cried the colonel in a high, unnatural voice, due to his unusual excitement. "Oh, there can be no doubt! It is your son!" The duke and the prince bumped against each other in their mad rush to inspect Max's arm. Arnheim's finger rested upon the peculiar scar I have mentioned. "Lord help us, it's your wine-case brand!" gasped the duke. "My wine case!" The prince was al most on the verge of tears. The girl sat perfectly quiet. "Explain, explain!" said Max. "Yes, yes! How did this come? — put there?" spluttered the prince. "Your highness, we—your son —we were playing in the wine cellars that day," stammered the unhappy Arn heim. "I saw . . . the hot iron ... I was a boy of no more than five ... I branded the prince on the arm. He cried so that I was frightened and ran and hid. When I went to look for him ho was gone. Oh, I know; it is your son." "I'll take your word for it, colonel!" cried the prince. "I said from the first iy What Would He Do, This Big, Hand some Fellow? that he wasn't bad-looking. Didn't I, princess?" He then turned embarrass edly toward Max and timidly held out his hand. That was as near sentiment as ever the father and the son came, but it was genuine. "Ho, steward! Hans, you rascal, where are you?" The steward presently entered, shad ing his eyes. "Your highness called?" "That I did. That's Max come home!" "Little Max?" "Little Max. Now, candles, and march yourself to the packing cellars. Off with you!" The happy old man slapped the duke on the shoulder. "I've an idea, Josef." "What is it?" asked the duke, also 1 very well pleased with events. "I'll tell you all about it when we get into the cellar." Hut the nod to ward the girl and the nod toward Max was a liberal education. "I am pardoned?" said Arnheim. "Pardoned? My boy, if I had an army I would make you a general!" roared the prince. "Come along, Josef. And you, Arnheim! Yo:: troopers, out of here, every one of you, and leave these two young persons alone!" Ah, how everything was changed! thought Max, as ho let down his sleeve and buttoned his cuff. A prince! He was a prince; he, Max Scharferisteln, cowboy, quarterback, trooper, doctor, was a prince! If it was a dream, he was going to box the ears of the bell boy who woke him up. Biit it wasn't a dream; he know it wasn't .he girl youndcr didn't dissolve ir mist and disappear; she was liviL living. He had now the right to love any one he chose, and ho (lid choose to love this beautiful girl, who, with lowered eyes, was nervously plucking the ends of the pillow tassel, it was all changed for her, too. "Princess!" he said a bit brokenly. "I am called Gretchen by my CAMERON COUNTY PRESS. THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1908 friends," —with a boldnesr, that only half disguised her real timidity. What would lie do, this big, handsome fel low, who had turned out to be a prince, fairy-tale wise? "Gretchen? 1 like that better than Hildegarde; it is less formal. Well, then, Gretchen, T can't explain it, but this new order of things has given me a. tremendous backbone." He crossed tiie room to her side. "You will not wed my—my father?" "Never in ali this world!"—slipping around the table, her eyes dim like the bloom on the grape. She ought not to be afraid of him, but she was. "But I—" "You have known me only four days," she whispered faintly. "You can not knefsv your mind." "Oh, when one is a prince,"—laugh ing,—"it takes no time at all. I love you. I knew it was going to be when you looked around in old Bauer's smithy." "Did I look around?"—innocently. "You certainly did, for I looked around and saw you." "But they say that I am wild like a young horse." (Love is always finding some argument which he wishes to have knocked under.) "Not to me," —ardently. "You may ride a bicycle every day, if you wish." "I'd rather have an automobile," — drolly. "An airship, if money will buy it!" "They say—my uncle says—'that I am not capable of loving anything." "What do I care what they say? Will you be my wife?" "Give mo a week to think it over." "No." (She liked that!) "A day, then?" "Not an hour!" (She liked this still better!) "Oh'" "Not half an hour!" "This is almost as bad as the duke; you are forcing me." "If you do not answer yes or no at once, I'll go back to Barscheit and trounco that fellow who struck me. I can do it now." "Well—but only four days—" "Hours! Think of riding together forever!" —joyous'y taking a step nearer. "I dare not think of it. It is all so like a dream. . . . Oh!" bursting into tears (what unaccountable beings worn are!) —"if you do not love me!" "Don't I, though!" Then he started around the table in pursuit of her, in all directions, while, after the manner of her kind, she balk#d him, rosily, star-eyed. They laughed; and when two young people laugh it is a sign that all goes well with the world. He never would tell just how long it took him to catch her, nor would he tell me what he did when he caught her. Neither would I, had I been in his place! "Here's!" said the prince. "It's a great world," added the duke. "For surprises," supplemented the prince. "Ho, Hans! A fresh candle!" And the story goes that his sereno highness of Barscheit ana his highness of Doppelkinn were faun# peacefully asleep in the cellars, long after the sun had rolled over the blue Carpathians. THE END. Leaves Golf for Business. Waiter S. Travis, who has been amateur golf champion of this coun try and of England, has gone into the stock brokerage business in New York, having become manager of a branch office for a leading firm. He is the latest of a long line of young men famous in fhe annals of amateur sport to gravitate to Wall street. A Small Matter. Guest (complainingly)—This bill of fare is all in French. Waiter (reassuringly)—Niver you rnoind that, sur; the cook is Oirish. — N. Y. Weekly. g|ljpg) FOR USE IN THE SHOP. Plan of an Adjustable and Portable Electric Light Bracket. The use of an electric light over the bench always requires some little time to adjust and find something to hang the cord over to get the globe in the right place. A small light bracket or crane, constructed as shown in the sketch, will make a handy device to bring the electric globe In proper posi tion quickly. Cut a piece of wood, A, two by four Inches. Jour feet long, and attach to it a horizontal piece of wood, B, I*4 inch by two inches, of any length de sired, braced with a piece of the same material, C. Bend a one-eighth by one inch band iron, D, in the shape of a U and drill a hole in the ends at E and insert a roller that is just a little longer than the wood B is wide. At the other end. or the bottom end of the U band iron, fasten a hook or eye, to which is attached an adjustable cord connecting the lamp-holder and shade. The points marked F are pul leys over which the flexible electric wire moves to take up tho slack by the weight, G. The piece of wood. A, is provided with two hinge hooks to hook into lIV // "112 M 1// i° §4 p I 3c I Adjustable Bracket. screw eyes that may be fastened In any convenient place on the wall or post near a vise or machine. A plug and a sufficient length of flexible wire will connect it to a nearby electric light socket. The U-shaped band iron can be moved back and forth on the wood, B, and the bracket swung around in a semicircle, giving access to different poitions of the electric globe. ELECTRIC SUNBURN. Effect Upon the Skin of Powerful Ra diations from Electric Currents. Cases of injury from exposure to Intense radiations are becoming more common as a source of such radia tion are more numerous. Not long ago the sun itself was practically the only source of the kind; now, not to Bpeak of such forms of radiation as the X-rays and that due to radioactiv ity, we have many powerful sources of light, such as the various types of electric arc, that are able to do in- Jury when their intensity is great. We quote from a note on this subject from Cosmos. Says this paper: "On board a cruiser recently under repair at Portsmouth, England, it be came necessary to make a hole in the shutter of a turret. The mechanical processes commonly employed for work of this kind are so slow that an officer asked permission to melt the hole by using the electric arc. . . . This operation, although well known, attracted many curious spectators, from the captain down to the sailors. All went well, and the solid steel, un der the action of the current, flowed like melted glass. "But on the morrow every one who had witnessed the operation was either half-blinded or horribly burned. The officer who had directed the work had the skin of his face completely scorched and of a deep copj>er color; It gave off a serous liquid like that from a burn. Several sailors who were at some distance from the turret had their vision so af fected that they were sent to the hospital, and it was feared that they might lose their sight. "The electric arc, rich in chemical rays, especially when it is formed be tween certain metals, may produce, as we have seen above, results of the same kind. Hence the necessity of protection during exposure to a pow erful arc or to a mercury vapor lamp in quartz glass. The ordinary glass used in the Cooper-Hewitt mercury lamps absorbs the dangerous chemical rays to a sufficient degree. If one has pot the advantage of being a negro, it is necessary to cover the face and hands with appropriate mask and gloves. In any case such intense sources of light must not be looked at directly undess the eyes are protect ed by colored glass." Wireless Hour Signals. When a ship is approaching shore great caution is often necessary be cause of uncertainty as to the vessel's precise position. Several years ago Mr. John Munro proposed that wireless telegraphy be utilized to send hour sig nals over the sea round England to a distance of 200 or 300 miles from shore in order that the captains of incoming ships might thus be enabled to rectify their chronometers to Greenwich time. The government of Canada has just established a system of this kind at Camperdown, near Halifax. Every morning the exact hour is to be sent out over the sea, so that all vessels fur nished with receiving apparatus may pick up the true time from the air. FOR THE ELECTRICIAN. How to Make a Controller and Re verse for a Battery Motor. Secure a cigar or starch box and use to make the base, B. Two wood base switches, S S, are cut off a little past the center and fastened to the base with a piece of wood between them. The upper switch, S, is con nected to different equal points on a coil of wire, W, while the lower switch, S, is connected each point to a bat tery, as shown. The reverse switch, R, is made from two brass or copper I YbsdV R f\ i' fcp b u ~ „ ;! L k l*£p.?jj tf j r Motor Reverse and Controller. strips fastened at the top to the base with screws and Joined together by a piece of hard rubber or wood with small handle attached. Connect wires A to the armature and wires Pto the field of the motor. By this arrangement one, two or three and so on up until all the battery cells are used and different points of resistance secured on the coil of wire, says Popular Mechanics. The reverse lever when moved from right to left, or left to right., changes the direction of the armature in the motor from one way to the other. TELEPHONE SUPPORTER. Apparatus Conveniently Attached to Top of the Desk. An exceedingly useful and practical telephone supporter for business use has been designed by a Massachusetts man. Instead of placing the apparatus* at the side of the desk, as is usually done, it is supported on a bracket on ' the top of the desk. Whether sitting or I standing, the user can always swing the phone to the position most de sired. He does not have to change his position. If he desires to talk while standing, the phone can be reached as Ik K Fia.»x csccor*o TJLWL oitjcn FV Attached to Top of Desk. conveniently as when sitting at the desk. With the ordinary bracket the phone is always on the same level. Electric Railway Signals. The Great Western railway in Eng land is experimenting with a promis ing form of electric signals for the prevention of accidents in fogs and storms. The apparatus consists of an iron rail placed half-way between the regular rails and connected electrical ly with the semaphores controlling switches; and of an electric bell and a whistle, carried in the cab of the locomotive, and actuated by contact with* the electric rail as the train passes over it. The middle rail is elevated at a certain height when the semaphores are turned to indicate safety, and at a greater height when they indicate danger. In the first case, when the loco motive comes In contact, the bell rings in the cab, and the engineer knows that the way is free; in the second case, the whistle blows in the cab to indicate danger. Wireless Telegraphy on Railroads. The administration of the Russian railroads has recently experimented with wireless telegraphic signals on the lino between Berlin and Beelitz, employing a train of four cars carrying antennae and receiving apparatus, the transmitting apparatus being installed between Berlin and Sangerhausen. The transmitting wire was suspended upon telegraphic poles for a distance of 200 feet, about a foot beneath the ordinary telegraph wires. Within a distance of about seven and a half miles, on each side of the transmitting station, the signals were clearly and distinctly received on the moving train. How to De-Magn«tize a Watch. Hang the watch to a string and twist the string HP as to rotate the watch rapidly near the pole of a strong mag net. While it is whirling, gradually take it away from the magnet. This will produce the desired effect, says a correspondent in Southern Machinery. The method used for de magnetizing with alternating current consists of a coil of wire with a hole in tho center large enough to admit a watch, the coil being connected to a source of alternating current, and when the watch is dropped In and pulled out. It la de magnetised. NATURE AND A WO™ WORK LYDIA E. PINKHAM Nature and a woman's work coiu bined have produced the grandest remedy for woman's ills that the world has ever known. In the good old-fashioned days of our grandmothers they relied upon the roots and herbs of the field to cure disease and mitigate suffering. The Indians on our Western Plains to-day can produce roots and herbs for every ailment, and cure diseases that baffle the most skilled physicians who have spent yearn in the study of drugs.. From the roots and herbs of the field Lydia E. Pinkham more than thirty years ago gave to the women of the world a remedy for their pe culiar ills, more potent and effica cious than any combination of drugs. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is now recognized as the standard remedy for woman's ills. Mrs. Bertha Muff, of 515 N.C. St, Louisiana, Mo., writes: " Complete restoration to health means so much to me that for the sake of other suffering women I am willing to make my troubles public. "For twelve years I had been ing - with the worst forms of female ills. During that time I had eleven different physicians without help. No tongue can tell what I suffered, and at times I could hardly walk. About two years ago I wrote Mrs. Pinkhatn for advice. I followed it, and can truly say that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound and Mrs. Pinkham's advice re stored health and strength. It is worth mountains of gold to suffering women." What Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege table Compound did for Mrs. Muff, it will do for other suffering women. SYMPATHY. He—Yaas! Several years ago I fell in love with a girl, but she re jected me —made a regular fool of me, in fact. She —How sad! And you've nevsr got over it. Shielded. "I suppose you think you could run the government better than we do?" said the statesman. "I do," answered the energetic citi zen. "And I do not dcubt you are happy; and hopeful in that belief?" "I am." "It is a beautiful state of mind, tt would be a pr'j to destroy it by allow ing you to be elected to office." What a Settler Can Secure in WESTER®! CANADA 160 Acres Grain-Growing Land FREE. 20 to 40 Bushels Wheat to the Acre. 40 to 90 Bushels Oats to the Acre. 35 to 50 Burhels Barley to the Acre. Timber for Fencing and Buildings FREE. Good I.aws witli Low J axation. Splendid Railroad Facilities ard Low Rate*. Schoolc and Churches Convenient. Satisfactory Market# for all Proouctions. Good Climate and Perfect Heailh. Chances for Profitable Investments. Some of the choicest prn I n-proAuelnn lands in fuskiiiehexruti !>»') Alberts* uitiy now be uc quii'ed in tliewe most healthful anil prosperous sections under the Revised Horoostead Regulations bv which entry may bo made by proxy (on cer tain conditions), by the lather, mother, HOII, lauprhtrr, brother or bister ol intending home* *teadcr. Entry lee In each case isslo.oo. For pamphlet* 'Last itestWeHt/'particulars an torates.routes# aest time to pro and where to locate, apply to H. M. WILLIAMS. Law X)uilding» Tolodc. Ohio#
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