18 to her feet, and said in accents choked with passion: "I I had test go at once.then. Ton exile me, as you threatened to exile poor Phili bert!" "Von exile yourself, if so yon prefer," re plied the King. There was a bell rope with in a few yards of him, and he moved toward it. With hand lifted, ai if in the act of summoning a servant, he went on: "I await your orders. If you refuse to accept my terms, declare so, and you -shall beat once conducted, to the frontier." The Princess, grown wan as ashes, clenched her lips together and stood for several seconds with an irresolute look. At length she waved her hand, and murmured in the tones of one from whom concession is wrung by bitter throes: "I I do not refuse. I will at least re main for the State ball on Thursday I I have announced my intention of doing so, and, whatever your tyrrany, I prefer that vou should not appear'before your subjeets in the light of a monarch who has made his own mother a fusitive from his realm," Clarimond smiled very coldly. "If you had chosen to dwell here in peace, you would have had slight cause to complain of tyrranyl As it is, your continued sojourn is one of sufferance alone." "Sufferance!" gasped the Princess. "Precisely. You came here with two mo tives. The"first was to pit yourself against faiths and principles of mine which are a part of my life. The second was to try and force me into a marriage of the merest love less convention. The weapons yon have used in either case were the ame that dealt my dead father the keenest grief, and per haps drove him prematurely to his grave. Tours, madam, is" a stormy" and truculent spirit. I inherit nothing of it, but possibly I inherit from you alone the strength of will which too long has clothed itself in for bearance. That strength ot will you shall now have a chance to test. As I said, you will be watched. Being the lady highest of rank in my kingdom, I will accord you the right of receiving xnv ruests on Thursday. But if the least sign of discourtesy is shown by you toward any guest who crosses the threshold cf my palace on the morrow you shall be conducted where the turbulence and rebellion of yonr disposition may boil and ferment to the discomfort of "others rather than my own. There, now, I think it is all juite plain between us." "Quite plain!" muttered the Princess. "Yes, I see I see. You wish to crowd your rooms with vulgarians." "You need not gaze upon those vulgarians unless you so desire. Certainly a number of people whom you will rate as vulgarians will present themselves. Among these will be ayoung lady (an American or an Anglo American 1 might more trulv call her) with whom I shall open the balL Her name is Kathleen Kennaird, and I shall dance the first quadrille with her. She is the most beautiful woman I have ever seen, the most beautiful I ever expect to see, though I should live two lives instead of one. But were she a hunchback negress fresh from Africa in her beads and war paint, it need matter nothing either to you or those as sembled. I am master; I am King. For mv actions I account to no one save my self." He passed, with an air of unwonted but very distinct pride, down along the waxed floor of the spacious saloon. But she who had heard him with one or two convulsive shudders, now gave a kind of wrathful spring, both hands hanging clenched at her tides. "You will account to your Emperor," she called. "You are not so great as you vaunt yourself, Clarimond of Saltravia. You you are just mad enousrh to marry this creature. 1 recall now that one of vour cousins the King of Saxony's own nephew, too disgraced himself by a low marriage. Ko doubt it is in your blood to do such horrible things. But I will prevent this." The Princess' face glistened with little beads of sweat, and her eyes were blazing. "I will go to the Emperor at once. I will " She recoiled, for Clarimond had hurried back toward where she had stood, half cowering in her frenzy. It seemed to the Princess, that perhaps be might actually do her some personal violence, though if her mind had pro ed les clouded by anger and dismay she would have realized that from one of his usually gentle spirit such a course, in any circumstances, would haTe been unthinkable. All that the King meant to do was to seize the bell rope which a brief while ago he had desisted from seizing. But now reaching the spot where it hung, he gave it a strong pull, and almost immediately the footman, in the royal livery, answered his summons. "You shall go at once to the Emperor," he said in a low and very tranquil voice. "I will give these men orders fcr carriages and will see that a special train is prepared for vou the instant you reach " "Xo, no," broke hoarsely from the Prin cess. "Send them away. I I did not mean what I said." In a trice she had crown piteously humble. "I I was more than half in joke, my dear Clarimond," and a little pathetic jet of laughter broke from her lips, like an effete spirit from a ruined fountain. The King looked at her with great steadi ness Jor a second or two. "As you wish," he then said, and gave a sign of dismissal to the two servants, who promptly vanished. The Princess had, indeed, pulled in saiL Her t-on had seemed to her during the few past minutes, like a rock against which she would only waste her strength in vain. Besides, she was proud of his kingship, and would have suffered untold regret it the Emperor had presumed to attempt his deposition. It was all quite clear to her mind in this brief interval she had gone too far. She might -.have known that the lion in him would sud denly turn on her like this. He would keep the very letter of his menace, too, un less her entire tactics were changed forth with. Revolting in their democracy though sue held his views to be, hereafter she must conform to them or leave those lovely Sal travisn hills. And, surely, she was quar tered here in a most magnificent way. Her two or three Italian palaces were nothing to this, in which so lordly a suite of chambers had been allowed her. And then this en chanting valley, so radiantly improved in tpite of all her grumblings to the contrary 1 And the waters, too; she had no idea of tne wondrous good they would do her rheuma tism. It might all get stupid in the win ter, but the winter was still a good distance ofl. Time enough to skip off to Borne or Naples again "by the end of November. And then there was Bianca d'Este. The girl's love for her son was now almost a madness. For that most seemly of unions there was vet a hope. Yes, a hope, why not? "School yourself," darted through the Princess's mind, ''to a self-effacement, difficult, yet not impossible. In the end he may yield and marry her. Then your turn will come in real earnest, for if once there is a queen, if once there are little princes and princesses, he will grow more conserva tive. Men always do. That possible hor ror of his marrying the American girl (God knows there's nothing rash he would not do, just now!) must be met with subtlety, since high-handed measures have become mere blows in the air." Even roughly to put in words the lightning-like reflections of Clariniond's mother make them seem deliberative, not intui tive, as they surely were. When she again confronted her son, after the departure of the footman, it was to show, both in speech and mien, a meekness and complaisance that she had never remotely hinted until now. "Henceforth you shall have no further cause lor complaint," she said, "I shall abet you in all your plans and purposes. Try me,, and you shall cot be disappointed. I "admit myself thoroughly, vanquished. Your will is'my law." She bowed her head, and Clarimond, who knew her better than she knew herself, sn.rU deceit as if it were some odor that suddenly had freighted the air. At the same time his native generosity and fair mindedness made him hope this abrupt conversion meant more than its first blush would imply. "Agreed, then," he said, with a reserve that expressed patience and sadness in terblent. "But pray, bear in mind one matter: If the Emperor should have the presumption (which I greatly doubt) to concern himself in any of my personal affairs, however ' important or however trivial, I should as promptly resent sueh meddling as though it were the work of an officious subject. Though my answer should cost me my scepter, slight a one as it is, be assured that I should not hesitate to make it firmly. I am not so enamoured to reigning that the "Emperor's frowns or smiles can apptal to me as such mighty forces of my own destiny, nor shall you ever find me'in the mood to regard him as if he were a schoolmaster with a birchen rod and now," he proceeded, "I shall ask you kindly to send me the list of those whom you have already invited to the state ball. Such a course will enable me to avoid errors which might otherwise occur, since I wish to make out a list of my own, and de sire that it should not clash with yours." "It shall be sent you to-night, ' was the replv, "or to-morrow, if you prefer." "To-morrow will be quite early enough, answered Clarimond, and with a low bow he quitted the great, bright-lit vacant apart ment, ending an interview which was least agreeable of the many which he had held with his mother, and which had perhaps caused him more secret pain than any which he had held since his accession to the Saltravian throne. CHAPTER XL The court was already furnished with rich material for business gossip; but a few more morrows were destined to cast in shade even so pregnant a tonic as Clarimond's cogent reprimand of Prince Philibert. The King had been seen publicly strolling through his gronnds with Kathleen; he now as publicly visited her at the hotel, spend ing hours each day in the pretty sitting room which Mrs. Kennaird at once secured for his own and her daughter's comfort, as downstairs they would almost have been mobbed by gaping foreigners. The mental condition of Mrs. Kennaird at this particu lar time was one of hysteria, narrowly verging upon dementia. The King's open admiration for her child filled her with a feeling toward him which might have given her, if she could have looked upon herself just as she now was, and looked from nor mal eyes, many shivers of shame. She had impulses to fling herself on her knees before Clarimond and press her lips to his hand, telling him that he was the most godlike beins the world had ever seen, and that his goodness in giving heed to Kathleen roused her deathless maternal gratitude. The American snob, who is apt to be the most mettlesome and affirmative of all snobs yet recorded, had risen rampant in Kathleen's mother. She could not sleep; she could scarcely eat a morsel, and then did not know of what food she partook. At first she had had ideas of sentoig to Paris for a robe in which to array herThild at the state ball Then, after this plan had been vetoed by Kathleen, she grew reconciled to the idea that the girl might create a more striking effect if clad with the utmost sim plicity After nil, let her be attired in the plainest cf white frocks. "What other beauty in all Saltravia could stand so trying a test? "Yes, it is wiser," she said excitedly to Kathleen. Of late she had done and said everything excitedly, yet with her effort to appear self-repressed hardly better con cealed than that of the fugitive ostrich. "My dear, you are quite right. People will look at youmore, and in so doing they will see you as you really are. Besides, it is in far nicer taste. "Oh," said Kathleen, shrugging her shoulders, "I should like a handsome gown; what girl in the circumstances wouldn't? But to telegraph to "Worth or Felix and to send either of them money we could so ill afford! "Why, the very ttiought of it is pure nonsense, mamma, as you muBt be aware." "I wasn't thinking "of the expense," re plied Mrs. Kennaird, with a little irre pressible catching of the breath. "There are certain things one always can afford." Kathleen laughed and shrugged her shoulders. "You mean, I suppose, that we could go back to Dresden and economize more severely than we've yet done." "Oh. no; I'didn't mean that; I I didn't mean that in the last," said her mother. Kathleen gave no answer, divining what had really been meant If her mother only knew the actual substance of her late con versations with the King! They had prin cipally talked of her past engagement to Alonzo Lispenard. She had been very frank; she had told Clarimond everything, and had found in him a most gracious and friendly listener. He had asked her many questions, to all of which she had responded with thorough candor. As regarded the impression that she had made upon him, she could not doubt that it had been one of strong fascination. This in itself was nothing new; most men, under a certain age, had shown her but one sort of homage. To have a King show it was entirely novel, and not a little dizzyin?. Moreover, such a King as he, filled to his finger-tips with all the graces that please women, hand some, courtly, amusing, in countless ways, the choicest of male companions! For three afternoons he dropped in upon her, and each time her mother received him in her blandest fashion, contriving soon to slip from the apartment and leave them to gether. Mrs. Kennaird had no fear of the faintest imprudence on Kathleen's part. If she had thought at all on this subject it would have been to decide that her daughter's American blood would save her from even a dream of folly. Besides, had she not already learned that Clarimond was the most honorable man in his own king dom? Let people chatter, as they un doubtedly were chattering. Among the hotel residents it was jealousy, pure and simple. "What chiefly concerned this very agitated lady was the ques'ion of how Alonzo had thus far acted, and of how, at any moment, he might take it into his head to act. Here he was, returned to Saltravia, the bosom friend of the King's bosom friend. He must have heard that Clari mond was intensely captivated with Kath leen. Everybody "was talking of the affair. Stories had got afloat that the Princess of Brindisi had already pleaded by letter the intervention of the Emperor. "Yon are so reticent, my dear," she said to Kathleen one evening at the end of the King's third visit. "You never wiU tell me what he says about Alonzo to you. Does he not mention him?" "Barely, mamma, and then always with kindness." "Kindness, m ys ." Mrs. Ken naird pursed her lips a little. "They're still friends, then?" "Friends? Oh, yes." "I suppose Alonzo hasn't dared to say a word against yon, Kathleen. Otherwise he'd certainly have- relieved himself of un told spleen, my dear." "He never "carries grudges," the girl said, as if her own thought was her sole auditor. "Well, even if he didn't ! Heaven knows he had a monopoly of most other faults. "At this particular time any praise of Alonzo was for some reason specially nauseous to Mrs. Kennaird. "And for keeping silent about us to the King, why, there isn't the least doubt that he'll do so. How would he dare to do otherwise, now that Clarimond has become your actual slave." "Mamma! mamma!" exclaimed Kath leen. "iTou will make mc so ridiculous if anyone by chance overhears you in these moods." "Moods?" bristled her mother. "What moods? I'm excessively reticent ! You are so droll at times, Kathleen ! As if any mother could bear more calmly than I do to the splendid, the unparalleled honor which overhangs you !" Kathleen looked fixedly at the speaker, with her eyes moistening a little and her underlip trembling. "I I wish you would not speak like this," she faltered. "It dis tresses me so!" Her mother continued, however stating that she had not the vaguest doubt Clari mond would soon startle her court more keenly then he had dreamed of startling it before; that Kathleen had only to wait a little while longer and the stars would drop ripe and shining in ner lap; that all past annoyance, mortification, defeat was to end gloriously in unique triumph. Kathleen listened, and then slipped, as soon as she could, into the privacy of her' own chamber. The King had said that he would revisit her next day. There was only an hour before the time of his coming. She did not want to see him again, and yet she THE did want to see him again. What was it? Did it mean that he might bring her cer tain tidings of Alonzo. Did it mean this? Diditreallv mean this? Or was she in fected with"the fervor of her mother's over leaping ambition.? Her mother! The sense of that personality, that companion ship, so tremendous, so drastic in its in fluence its, domination, terrified her. She looked into her own brain, as it were, and found there nothing but a depressing tumult How would she act if action should indeed be required of her? No, no; the need or sucn action would not, couia noi i. uu a King! It was fatuity to dream of what her mother had so boldly prophesied. Her hands were at intervals very tremulous while h dealt with her toilet: and onca or twice she felt as if she must desist from it and seek the one sort of aid that just then would have been least to her taste. But when the King came she received him with much composure. Her mother was to-day in visible throes. To Kathleen her disaray was pathetic The perturbed lady gave one or two spasmodic curtsies which were a mournful travesty of her usual serene equipoise. She was so drunk with the heady wine furnished by the fact of this fourth royal visit that exhilaration made her almost stagger. Clarimond, calm and gentleman-like, as usual, appeared to notice nothing. "Perhaps," thought Kath leen, "he is used to such groveling servility. Poor mamma, will she ever get out of the room with a decent grace, Btie who has prided herself for years on doing nothing awkwardly." But at last the door closed on Mrs. Ken naird's ducking and cringing figure. As this happened Kathleen breathed an audible sigh of relief. The sigh ended in a feverish laugh, and she said, with sudden candor to her guest: "It's dreadful how you've demoralized my mother. Yon must see, so I mention it" "Demoralized her? I?" "Oh, then you don't see monsieur, mamma isn't accustomed to kings; that is all." "And are you?" he said, with Ms sweet, kind smile. They were now seated opposite one another, and near a large window that gave a fine view ot the mountains and a still finer view of his white, many-turreted palace. "No," she answered. "But, mamma Oh, you must have noticed. You're a roy alty, as they call it, and you've turned her head. It's odd, too, for she ias met all sorts of great people prime ministers, dukes, even the English Prince himselt I seem so vulgar when I talk like this! I do hope you'll excuse me. No doubt you're used to embarrassing people espe cially Americans." He shook his bead, smiling. "I have al ways thought it rather hard to embarrass Americans," he replied. "One in particu lar," he added; and then his smile deepened, as he wa'ched her with a glance full of drollery both frank and sly. "I you mean me, monsieur," she re turned, with a slight shrug, "I am some how proof against all surprises. It's very scandalous, no doubt, to acknowledge as much at my age." "Scandalous?" he said, with a swiftly changing manner. "What a name to call honesty by!" ''Oh, I am not so honest, I assure yon." "There you confessed that you are. Any one else would have spoken so differently. 'Any other woman, yon mean?" "We'll, yes," he assented. "And other women, when they talk with you, monsieur, are anxious to convince you of their honesty?" "Well, yes." Kathleen seemed to muse a little, slowly shaking her head. "That is because you are you." He made an impatient gesture. "Is it so conductive to feminine deception, then, this being I, as you put it." And without wait ing for her to respond, he went on: "What made me in the first place like yon so much, Madamoiselle, was your forgetfnlness of who I really am. "I did not forget It In the least, however. I cultivated myself Into seeming as if I did." "Ah, your're bent on discouraging mel" "No, Monsieur, only on telling yon the truth." "The truth from people never disappoints me." "Are yon sure?" she murmured, a little vagely, not meeting his look. He'gave a slight start. "Not quite sure, not quite sure in your case. For example it did disappoint me to learn that you are unhappy." She would not admit that she had ever confessed this to him during their previous talks, and tor a good while they gently battled with one another concerning what human happiness trnly means, until Clarimond at last said, with an accent of mild irritation: "For man or woman of reasonable age there is but one perfect kind of happiness. The heart is a mill, whose wheel should always turn in a full stream and grind forth golden grain. The soul, like a wealthy miller, must be buoyant and gladsome at the labor performed; the deeper he is covered with the dust of that delicious industry the more prosperous he rates himself while he looks forth on the world defied by his heart's consoling thrift." "It is not everybody," smiled Kathleen, as the speaker paused, "who can be both king and poet in one short life." "Are you now satirical, mademoiselle?" "No.no! Bat I am skeptical. Thereare so few hearts I like that mine, I fear, is an idle mill wheel above an empty stream bed!" "Yet ono whose waters have been dried. Or, if not dried, cruelly dammed." "I have not said that, monsieur." 'You say more, I find, than you mean to say." "And yet you do not think me deceitful; you have granted as much." His eyes for an instant seemed to caress her face. "I think yon strangely miser able," he affirmed. Then, lowering his voice a little, and leaning nearer to her, "I can't but wonder if you are incurably so." "I am not miserable," she said with wist ful ardor of denial. "It is too bad that you should think this. You said something of the Eame sort yesterday. But you are wrong wrong. 1 still have a great deal to live for." "Still! And yon say that in the early glow of maidenhood. Still! It is amazing. Or, no; it isn't amazing at all; it's thor oughly explainable. There is something you want. I wonder if I could get' it for you." She shook her head quickly, and then stared down at the hands which lay like two pale cnrled feathers in her lap. "No, monsieur," Bhe breathed, enshrining the words, as it were, in a sort of long sigh. "It is nothing that you could get mc" He accepted her reply as a surrender. She was a sorrower, after all, and the feints of her assertion to the contrary had been admittedly futile In the silence that now followed they both looked forth upon the incomparable valley, flanked by its mighty mountains, over-scattered by its ethereal villas, crowned, accentuated, dignified by its romantic and imposing palace. The King slowly lifted his hand and pointed to that pale and beauteous edifice. His voice was quite faint, though it reached her ears very clearly indeed, as he said: "I have thought of offering you this for a home." She did not make the slightest sign of reply. He saw the color leave her cheeks, and the light greaten in her eyes. But she did not turn her look toward h'im. Now her breath came visibly quicker, pulsing the spray of lace at her throat Soon he saw her delicate hands flutter a little there, in her lap, like fallen flowers that a breeze blows over and vaguely unsettles. But that was all. ''Yes," hefwenton, "I have thought of asking you to dwell there with me as my wife" At once she turned and met his gaze with great directness. "You have had this thought, monsieur?" "It is my wish my request my en treaty." "Your wife?" she repeated; and he saw that she was deeply perturbed. "My queen," he continued. "I want yon to share my throne and crown 'with me such as they are. I have never asked any woman to do this until now. I have never PITTSBURG DISPATCH asked any woman, for the simplest of rea sons. Need I tell you that reason?" He reached his hand forward and took her hand, lifting it to his lips. It had grown cold piteously cold, and the kisses that he gave it were somehow bestowed with the compassionate tenderness which implied that he sought to reawaken its natural warmth. "Your queen your queen, she said, and withdrew her hand, not rudely, and yet with firmness. The color came back to her cheeks. As he watched her face it seemed like a tea-rose in some delifrbful process of revivification, faint yet ditt ' l & "That is what I said," heunswered, "and that is what I meant" He watched her struggle with her agita tion. It seemed to him cruel that he should do this, and yet it gave him a curious pleas ure, just as it she were some oddly beautiful bird that revealed some touch of iridescent splendor beneath its wings every time they were fluttered. But at length Kathleen, so to speak, flut tered her wings more "Monsieur," she said, with a kind of pathetic tranquility, "there is your mother." "My mother will be no obstacle. I can and will prevent her from being one" She hesitated a moment "Then there are there are (how shall I put it?) your tradi tions." "I've trampled on a good many of them, as it is. Come now mademoiselle," he pursued, with a grufihess that would hav frightened her if it had not ended in a smile "You're going to throw me over you're going to reject me to (what is the right phrase?) send me about my business!" "No, no!" she exclaimed. Immediately, then, she rose, and stretched out her right hand. "I will be your wife," she said, "and thankl you for the great honor you do me" He also rose, at this, and wrapped her with his embrace But something in her lips, her eyes, her look (he could not for his life have told just what) made him put her away at arm's length, intently scan her features, and then recoil several steps, touching her no longer. "Your heart isn't in it!" he exclaimed. "You're giving yourself to me only because of your mother!" Her eyes dilated frightenedly. "Oh, no don't think that!" she cried. "But I do think it I must! Why not, when I read it, when I see it? Your'heart is elsewhere, and you're willing to let me possess, if I will, the void that marks where it once beat. Am I not right? Answer me, Kathleen, am I not right?" She burst into a passion of tears. "Yes! yes! Idarenotlie to you! If you were not so good and fine I I might lie,-but you tear the truth from me! You saw my pain, my undying memorvl You taxed me with them; you insisted that they haunted me and I t coufessed that you were not wrong. But I am willing to be your wife. Willing? Oh, hear me, monsieur! Am I not absurd to phrase it like that? Only it is best to be truthful. You, who are so sincere yourself will understand, will pardon. If I had never known him it would have been so different! I could have loved you then, with all my soul! I can imagine some good woman loving you that way. Perhaps it will come to me in time. You spoke of my mother. No, it is not she not wholly she Of course she wants such a marriage what mother would not? I, myself am proud to be your wife. Only, there is that other love, which will not die! Am I not wiser to let you know this? You can't blame me. I see now in your eyesthatyou do not blame me I've never asked you if he has spoken of me; I've never wanted to know; it's quite over between us. "There that is all. I go to you, not with out a guilty conscience. You know me just as I am. I've tried to crush it, and let you take me with a falsehood in my souL Many a woman would have done that almost every other woman in the world would have done it. But I'm not vaunting my virtues; I'm simply making a clean breast of things don't vou see? You do see; you must! There: I dare say I'll be a worthy wife to you, monsieur, and I'm certain that I will be a very faithfnl and devoted one As for a 'queen (and she laughed wildly through her tears), I may fail at that. It's such an undreamed of part for me to. -play I But I'll try! I'll try hard, strengthened by yourhelpl" The tears were glistening on her cheeks as she put forth both hands to him. He took them, kissing them both; and then, still holding them, he said: "Kathleen, you are a very noble and brave cirL I thank you sincerely forwhat you have told me. One easily multiplies words; you will understand just how grate ful I feet The evening of the ball is so near that a press of affairs may keep me from seeing you till then. But, as I said to you yesterday, if I mistake not, my car riage will be here at the hour named, to con duct your mother and yourself to the palace. Au revoir, let everything rest undeter mined, please, until we meet again." She felt his lips touch her hand,and then, in the twinkling of an eye, before she could even be sure that he meant to leave her, he had vanished from the room. She sank into a chair. Her heart was throbbing, and her head swam a little as she leaned it backward. In a few more seconds her mother shot intoherpresence by another door. "Kathleen!" "Well, mamma! "You've been crying! You're in tears yet! What has happened? Is it arranged?" "No; nothing is arranged. That is, if you mean " "Good gracious! I hope you haven't quarreled." "We haven't quarreled." "Thank heaven!" Mrs. Kennaird dropped at her daughter's feet, in a collapse oddly picturesque, considering hcrsize and weight But after all she was a woman who never dealt awkwardly with her avoirdupois, though just now carried away by an emotion which might well have imperiled graceful ness. "Kathleen! Kathleen!" Tell me, my darling! You can't be unkind enough not to tell me! Did he mention it? Did he say one single word about it? Now, my child, consider how I suffer! Don't torture me! Let me know everything!" Kathleen regarded her mother for a mo ment, and then slipped both arms round her neck. "Mamma," she said, with a deceit born of pity, and also of that love which all the icy ambition, all the worldly striving, all the hard, harsh American push of her parent had never served to annul, "there is nothing for you to know except that the King was very kind tq me, very kind, and I well, I became a little nervous. It seems like such a great ordeal, mamma, for me to open the ball with him. And yet he's good enough to insist that I will get through all right He " "All right!" cried Mrs. Kennaird, regain ing her feet with a phenomenal alacrity. "There won't be a woman in the ball room who can hold a candle to yon!" (To la Condudcd Kext Sunday.) LIGHT WITHOUT A CUEBEHT. Possibility of a New Electric System Sug gested by Tesla's -Experiments. Ken York Advertiser. It is not many months since the well known electrician and inventor, Tesla, gave a memorable lecture before the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, in which he illustrated by a series of beautiful expeS iments the action of electrostatic currents in tubes, the effect of which is to produce intense luminosity. The practical demon stration of principles which had up to that time been regarded merely theoretical cre ated a sensation among electrical circles in every land( and it created a conviction which has since become general that before long we shall be able to light our houses without wires. An electrical manufacturer has written to the electrical papers an ac count of a curious phenomenon which seems to suggest Tesla's illumination. A 32 cp. Bernstein lamp in his office is lighted t from the arc circuit and turned on by a cord switch. Entering in the dark, all he has to do is to jut out his hand and when within a few inches of the lamp the inside becomes phosphorescent, as if filled with white smoke, quite sufficient to enable him to see the switchcord The question he asks is: "Where does the light cozne from?" SUNDAY ' NOVEMBER 23, KUM FOK SOLDIERS. A Century Ago the Government Con sidered It a Prime Necessity. ITS FREE USE AT OLD FORT PITT. Occasionally the Army Btrjs Get Thirsty and Threatened Blot. 801TJ TEBT IKTERE8TCNG EETTZ&S W Allien TOM THB SISmTCSM HE presentation of a barrel of whisky would not have at tracted much atten tion a century age When .General Ar thur .St Clair, of Westmoreland coun ty, Pa., was with Washington in the Continental army, he enj-yed great popu larity. Hon. Joseph Reed, President of vi tne oupreme xjxccu JV? tive Council of Penn- n-J ..I....,!., tin? ., ii.1 Bjinuiio, "" " sion in 1779 to com municate with this gallant commander from Western Pennsylvania, and he sent him a little present by the same courier. General St Clair's letter of April 4, 1779, replying to President Beed's favor, concludes with this paragraph: I thank you very kindly foryour attention to me I will accept the Cask of Wine, and whilst we dedicate a part of It to the Qenlus of convivial mirth, will not forget a grateful Libation to tho Donor. Andrew Carnegie's present of a barrel of Scotch whisky to President Harrison a few weeks ago recalls the above letter, which I ran across in the "Pennsylvania Archives." I found many other curious letters among these archives, some of which I reproduce A Common Scent in Ibrt JVL below to show the extent to which whisky, rum and wine entered into the provision ing of the troops at our own Eort Pitt more than a century ago, and at other posts of the Revolutionary army. Plenty or Whisky at Port Pitt In 1779 Daniel Broadhead was the com mandant of Fort Pitt, and from the junc tion of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers he supplied the other outposts which defended the homes of settlera in this sec tion of the country with provisions, cloth ing, ete To one of the captains at such a garrison he sent the following: Headquarters. Pittshurc, Oct. 22, 1779. Sir, 1 am sorry to hear yonr garrison is without beef, & wish I had known it soon er, Decaute I can now readily supply any garrison in the department. By the bearer you will receive a quantity of salt pork, and immediately after the arrival of Captain Clark at headquarters you will receive ten or a dozen head of beef cattle. Your most obedient servant, D. Broadhead, Col. Commanding W. D. Directed: Capt. Morgan. P. S. I have ordered you two keggs of whisky for your garrison. There was probably plenty of whisky at Eort Pitt about this time, for on the same date Colonel Broadhead wrote the following also: Headquarters, Pittsburg, Oct. 52, 1779. Dear Sir, I ara triad to hear yon are safely returned and I sincerely wish you had found some of the trespassers on the Indian's land, that proper example might have been made. The bearer takes a quantity of salt pork and Whiskey to Fort Mcintosh, out of which you will draw as much ns may be necessary for the men of the 8th Penn'a Best, the whole of which except tho Armourer Koonty you aro to march up to Headquarters, etc. Your obed't serv't D. Broadhead. Directed Capt. Clarke. Says Whisky Was Expensive. A few days later the supply of liquor at Fort Pitt undoubtedly began" to run short, for the next letter rea'ds: Headquarters, Pittsburg, Oct. 27th, 1779. Sear sir, I have received your favor of the 21th Inst. I am glad to hear you are at length got to fort Armstrong, & I should be happy it was in my power to contribute to the re lief of your men, but the means are not yet conio up the country. I have wrote to the President of the State for Blankets and daily expect his answer. I have ordered for your garrison two kees of whiskey and fifteen pairs of shoes. Whis key being an expensive article, you will not issue it except In lainy weather, & to guards and Fatigues. I approve of th building of the centry Boxes, as they will In some meas ure shelter tho poor soldiers from the weather which will soon be unfavorable. Your captain returned me 45 men, I shall be glad to know from you where the Men aro, which it appears not to have been re turned. I am most obed'e serv't, " Dan'l Broadhead. Directed Lteut. Jno. Jameson. That whole letter indicates the hardships the volunteers had to suffer in the Alle gheny Valley, and that Colonel Broadhead meant two kegs of whisky for 45 men to be purely a stimulant, but it was a dangerous experiment to try. That the troops used it as a beverage instead of a stimulant against the weather is evidenced by the letterwhich Colonel Broadhead wrote to Captain Thomas Campbell in the month following. He wrote: Headquarters, Pittsburg. Sot. 20tb, 1779. Sir Tour letter of this date I have just received. I think It entirely unnecessary to order any pack-horses to your station at present, as the season is now arrived in which the River never falls to rise suf ficiently for transporting provisions or any thing else between your post and Port Arm strong. I expected the two keggs of Liquor which I sent youon the 1th inst. would have lasted your men considerably longer, nor can I comply with your requisitions for a further supply at present, as I expect to have ocr casfon to make use of the stock on hand In a matter of more absolute necessity. I have the honour to be your Obed't serv't, Daniel Broadhead. Short on "Whisky and Soap. On the 4th of November, when Colonel Broadhead had sent the whisky to Captain Campbell, his letter read: In the meantime I send you two keggs of whiskey and 20 lbs soap, which you are to Issue to your men sparingly, and only at (!. 189L 'such times as they appear to stand 'In need of it It will be observed by his later letter that he only refers to the whisky disappearing in 16 days, and 6ays nothing about the soap.. ane inierence is the men misunaersrauu mm order, and used the nn unarintrlv. At last, Colonel Broadhead himself seems J to have grown weary of scant supplies ui liquor. In a letter of July 21, 1780, to Hon. Timothy Pickering, of the Board of War, he applies for many supplies. In in forming him of the condition of affairs on the frontier, he inserts this innocent clause: An officer Is sent from my regiment to re ceive such store as may have been provided for it by the State, and I snail be much obliged to you for ordering np a further quantity of Bum and Spirits. It was some time before he was successful in getting the order for this further supply quantity, but when he did he quickly wrote this letter to the official who had charge of Government stores: Head Qrs. Pittsburg, Sept 13th, 1780. DrSin 1 have Just received fresh Instructions from the Honourable Board Executive Council of our state to the Commissioners of Westmoreland County. " The Com missioner Is now instructed to furnish the farrisohs with Fifty barrels of flour, 600 ushels of Indian corn, and 100 gallons of whiskey monthly. I enclose the Instruc tions. I am. etc, Daniel Broadhead. Directed Col. Arch'd Lochry. A GUI to Celebrate On. Perhaps the crowning- use to which whisky among the troops at Fort Pittwas ever put was when the news was received here at the close of the Revolutionary War. Immediately upon the receipt of that stir ring intelligence the following was issued: Fort Pitt, Nov. 6, 37SL Parole General. Countersign Joy. General Irvine has tho pleasure to con gratulate the troops upon the great and glorious news. Lord'Cornwallis, with the troops under his command, surrendered, prisoners of war, on October 19 last, to the allied armies of America and France, under the immediate command of His Excellency, General Washtn-ton. The prisoners amount to upwards of 5,000 regular troops near 2,000 Tories and as many negroes, besides a num ber of merchants and other followers. Thirteen pieces of artillery will be fired this day at 10 o'clock In the fort, at which time tho troops will be under artns, with their colors displayed. The commissaries will issue a gill of whisky, extraordinary, to the non-commissioned officers and privates upon this Joyful occasion. ' But the free use of liquor among the early troops naturally caused trouble occa sionally. Brigadier General Lacey, of Philadelphia, received this story of an at tempt to get whisky at the point of bayo nets: A Small Whisky Blot Newtown, Bucks Co, Oct. 17, 1781. Sin On the 16th Inst, the day of your de parture and the discharge of the militia at Camp Newtown, Capt Buskirk and his En sign Stiner, or Col. JlcVeagh's Batt'n, of. Fhilada. Co., came at the head of their com pany with fixed bayonets and their drum beating the Kogues' March to my quarters, and demanded for the three officers of the company each a canteen full of Spirts, as they said, to carry them home. I gave them for answer, that liquor had been issued to the whole Batallion agreeable toyour orders and produced Quarter Master Davis' vouch er for the same who being present con ylncecl them that the company had drawn their full proportion which they appenred to be somewhat satisfied with, but In a time they broke out and swore they would have their Canteenafilled, and if I would not de liver it, they would go to the magazine and tako It Dy force. I forbid them at their peril to touch the magazine and prepared myself to defend it at all risques: tfanB mntters stood when Col. WnVpairfi whn wn Hnnfc fnrnnnfiinll. And who to paolfy them was under the necessity or giving money out of his rocket to pur chase Bum for them. I lodge this as a com pit int against them necessary to be taken notice of by a Court Martial. Your very hbl. servt. Wm. Crispin, C. G. 8. P. M. Colonel Crispin got into mors trouble through the liquor controlled by him. This letter was read to the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania: Philadelphia, July 10. 1779. Gtcstlexxx Inclosed is an account of my allowance of Bum during our Absence from the city, having not drawn any Liquor in that time indeed it was impracticable for me to do it the nature of my dnty was such I never remained at one place long enough to draw, being obliged to attend at every post where stationed. I therefore left it to settle with Mr.' Crispin at some future day. Accordingly I have applied to him many times, his reason always was he was not in cash. Sometime oast he settled with me for my Bations of Vegetables, &c, during the time when he made no objections to tho Bum money. Upon application to him this day for a final settlement he told me be did not know he had any right to pay me with out an order from Councill. I am therefore under the necessity of troubling your Honors about this matter, and request you will please to grant an order for payment which will obliae. Gentlemen, Trs ms. Obed., . Humble Servant, Lodk. Sprogell, M. M. of P. Prices Over a Century Ago. Here is something as to prices paid for whisky then in Western Pennsylvania: Sin Being appointed a Commissioner of Pur chases for the County of Westmoreland Allegheny county was not yet created you are to proceed In that duty with all despatch so as to supply the Garrison at Fort l'itt & such Troops as may be drawn forth under the authority of Conncil for the Defence of Frontiers. I'he amount of yonr yearly pur chases is limited to 816 Barrels Flour. 5,000 Gallons Whiskey, 200,000 lbs. Beef or Pork, 1000 Dushels of Corn, or 20C0 bushels of Oats, which you will purchase with as much economy as possible, & at such periods as will be most convenient and necessary. Until next harvest you are not to exceed the following prices, viz: Flour, 30s per ct.; wheat, per bushel, 10s.; Indian corn, 5'.; Whiskey, 7s 6 per gall., but to get them as much lower as possible. Indorsed, March 17th, 178L The entire army was well supplied dur ing the Eevolutionary War with whisky, evidenced by the following letter: TorrAir, Aug. 3, 1780. Honoured Sin The Consumption of Provisions have In creased this Eight days past, and without the states use four-fold exertions, the army cannot long Subsist. There is now but ten days' flour withift tho neighborhood of Camp, King's Ferry & Morris Town, six days' sunplv of beef, and little or no Bum. And what distresses me beyond measure, I have at this moment been informed that the Magazine at Trenton is quite exhausted, and all the flour and rum there would not Load One Brigade of Waggons. Eph. Blaine, C. G. P. In the same month Ephriam Blaine noti fied President Beed, of the State of Penn sylvania, that the Committee of Congress at headquarters having called upon the States to furnish supplies for the army during the campaign, Pennsylvania was thereupon re quested to furnish 5,000 barrels of flour, 225 hogsheads of rum, etc. In the minutes of the State Council, when it met at Lan caster on December 24, 1777, this entry is found: An order was drawn on David Bltten house. Esq., Treasurer of the State, in favor of Adam Kimmel, for the sum of Five hun dred & Fifty Pounds, Six Shillings & Eleven Pence, for Whiskey, and carriage or It to our fleet L. E. STOFIEI JULES VEBHE A SCIENTIST. He Heads All the Literature' to Get Ma terial for Bis Novels. Asked as to how he gets the enormous material necessary for his novels Jules Verne said: "Why, I read all the scientific books that are pubiished. In short, every thing in the book market of any interest to me. I am also a subscriber to all scientific Journals, as you see," making a sweeping gesture with both arms and looking around the over-ciowded room with a humorous expression. "Besides, I have connections with many of the leading conservatories, museums, etc Also that I know German is a great help to me. The Germans are remarkably clever, but only theoretically, while the Americans are undoubtedly the most practical, but they sorely lack taste. Only look at their public buildings! Colossal, expensive, but no architecture." His study is crowded with all sorts of in struments, such as a quadrant, an electrical machine, a thermopile, batteries, etc., globes of different sizes, maps, calendars, charts and bookcases. A skeleton stands in a corner among stuffed animals and makes the room look like a museum of natural history. IN SOUTHERN SEAS. Fannie B. Ward Off the Coast of Pata gonia Sounding tne Horn. THE SUIT SIMS AT FOUR O'CLOCK. Nothing but Desolation and Euined Castles on the Islands. B0ASTT5G MUSSELS ON THB BHOBES rcoanisrosnEXCi or thx mspATcn.l Off the Coast of Patagojtia, Xov. 1. About midway between Coronel and the entrance to that perilous passage known as Smyth's Channel, is the port Corral one of the quaintest and most picturesque places it has been my good fortune to find. Upon a high bluff overlooking its placid bay, which is said to be the safest as it is the most commodious in Southern Chile, are the crumbling walls of a battlemented fortress the fortress of a dream or of a picture entirely unlike the prosaic forts of now-a-days. Thi3 was constructed more than three centuries and a quarter ago by Pedro de Valdivia, one of Pizarro's followers. Inside the fort are rusty cannon of queer pattern, tottering stairways that lead to grass-grown passages and mouldy vaults below, where doorways open to the water's edge. Just back of the fort an odd little village straggles npon and down the steepest streets, whose weather-beaten cottages, an cient church and dingy saloons look as if tired of clinging to the cliffs and ready to let go their precarious hold and slip quietly into the sea. Some of us chartered a steam tug and went up the river to Valdivia city. So narrow and winding is the channel, full of snags and shoals, that it is navigable only for craft drawing less than nine and one-half feet of water and even they re quire the assistance of a local pilot. Suggests Knights and Troubadours. All the adjacent country is hilly and heavily timbered, and the river looks barred a little way ahead by the green, untrodden solitudes that crowd close on every side, while the perspeetive is closed by the great, white volcano called "Villa Eica," which stands 175 miles inland, but whose snowy dome is distinctly visible from the ocean. The city of Villa Bica, at its base, which Valdivia built some 340 years ago, has been so many times destroyed by Indians and earthquakes that but little trace of it re mains. Valdivia city is only about 1,000 feet above sea level, and is completely sur rounded by dense forests. The chief object of interest in it is an old tower, a relic of the Conquistadores, which shows up beauti fully from the. river. On landing we niado a run for it, for the Captain gave us only 15 minutes ashore. We found it another case where "distance lends enchantment to the view." A rough board fence is built close around it, at the top of the little hill upon which it stands. Ascending a flight of rickety wooden steps, we pounded upon a rickety wooden door, with visions before onr eyes of knights and troubadours, hal berds and coats of mail and were answered by the angry baying of a dog inside. A Decided Disillusioning. Presently the door was opened by an elderly German woman who lives within the temporary inelosure in a little wooden hut leaned against the crumbling citadel, which appeared to be conjointly occupied by a numerous colony of pigs and chickens. A pile of boards obstructed the entrance to the tower, in front of which the angry dog tugged frantically at his chain; so that there was nothing to be done but scamper back to the landing with all possible speed. Though we were three days in passing through Smyth's Chaunel-j-coming to anchor every night at sunset it is barely 75 miles long, beginning just beyond Chiloe, which is the northernmost island of that wonderful chain of islands and archipela goes extending from about latitude 42 southward to Cape Horn. Chiloe, by itself, is a Province of Chile, 120 miles long by 50 miles wide, with a total area of 6,200 square miles. Though its interior has never yet been explored the island is divided into five "compartments," or districts, of which Ancud is the capital. It is atolerably well built town, a Bishop's seat, with some pre tensions oi elegance, which in times not long past had a population a3 high as 8,000. In the year 1875 the total population of the Province was estimated at 64,536. The whole southward coast of the island Is an inaccessible precipice 3,000 feet higb,against; which the Pacific thunders with ceaseless nproar. The interior is hilly and mostly covered wjth dark forests of cCdar the ITitzroya Patagonica known to commerce. Natives Do Not Use Money. But a comparatively small portion of it has been cleared; and though, its scanty' population enjoy considerable trade with passing vessels, money is almost unknown among them, all business transactions be ing conducted by barter. The most valu able article of commerce is the cedar above mentioned, which is exported in small planks. Kext in importance is the in diginons potato, which is annually pro duced in increasing quantities as the forests are cut away. I am told that coal beds of considerable size and value have lately been discovered, which promise to give Chile a new importance. The largest island off the coast of Chile is Wellington, a good deal farther south ward, which is 140 miles long by from 30 to 50 wide. The home of the penguin and the sea-lion, where cold winds blow and snow storm3 prevail during the greater portion of the year, it has never been ex plored to any extent and seems to support nothing better than antarctic beeches and several kinds of evergreens, growing amid soft, spongy moss, into which those who venture ashore sink to their knees. The Patagonisn channels, of which there are many besides this named "Smythe," are remarkably alike in general features some broadening out four or five miles, others narrowing to a ship's length. All of them have high, abrupt shores, showing innum erable peaks and headlands, whose dark and rugged shapes lend an appearance of gloomy grandeur rarely to be seen elsewhere. Night Begins at 4 O'clock. Probably the weather has much io do with the prevailing dreariness, for the sun never smiles brightly upon this forbidding corner of creation where it snows or rains every day in the year and twilight falls at 4 o'clock. The only species of verdure found so far from the equator are evergreens and antarctic beeches, and those are every where, blackening the mountain sides, from the water's edge to a height of several thousand feet; like a sponge with ceaseless moisture. By and by we come to glaciers mountains of green and blue ice, with crests of snow, stretching 10, 15 and 20 miles in unbroken grandeur, beside which those of Switzerland and Norway dwindle to insignificance. The highest peak of this region is Mount Sarmiento, in what is known as Cockburn Channel, which rears a cone of spotless snow nearly 7,000 feet straight up from the blue Pacific at its feet. Its beauty is en hanced by numerous blue-tinted glaciers, descending from its summit as Darwin, who once saw it said, "Like a hundred frozen Niagaras." On the coast of South ern Chile, as on that of Norway, the fjords are not only narrow but very deep, and the tides run with restless force. 'Very Trying to Nervous People. Before entering the English Narrows every vessel slings out its- boats, half lowered, to be ready in case of running npon rock or reef. The entire crew is told off for special service in case of any emer gency. A number stand in the stern, pre pared to rig the auxiliarysteering ap paratus in the twinkling of "ah eye, should that in customary use give way. The boat swain and carpenter remain at the windlass in the prow, ready to let go the anchor at a moment's notice. In one place this channel it -barely 600 feet across, with slack water on one side and a powerful current on the other. Messier Channel is not much wider, with walls of perpendicular rock on both sides from 2,000 to 3,000 feet hiah. Near its farther end is a huge dome-shaped moun tain, a mass of solid granite witnout a sign of verdure, down which cascades, trickle, some of them frozen into miniature gla ciers. Every afternoon, immediately on coming to anchor so as to make the most of the short twilight, the captain allowed his pas sengers to go ashore, himself selecting the best landing places, Sailors were detailed to take care of the nicnicers, to build huge fires by piling brushwood around some tall pine tree, and to roast in its ashes the mus sles that literally line the rocks. No Signs of the Natives. On these uncanny excursions nobody yen tured far inland, deterred as much by fear of prowling Patagonians as by the deep wet moss. There are neither reptiles nor dan gerous beasts to be encountered here, for animals know better than to make their homes so near thinhospitable south pole. But one has reason to be afraid of -the in digenous human species, though rarely met, unless his party outnumbers theirs. One windy afternoon, in the half hour be tween sunset and darkness, I wandered alone a short distance from the signal fire and found a cluster of deserted huts, set close to the beach, each surrounded by a mighty pile of mussle shells. The nomadic Indians of this section, subsisting upon berries and raw sea food, roam from place to place, ac cording to the season. They build huts in favorite localities for use wneneverthey re turn thereto skeleton houses made by planting both ends of lithe poles, interlaced in the ground, on top of which skins can be spread when the owners wish to occupy them. Each hut was about 3 feet high by perhaps 5 feet across, shaped precisely like an inverted circular basket Trying to fancy how it would feel to be a Patagonisn, I crawled into one of them, and was re warded for my lowly-mindedness by finding a fishing speer made of a long bone, notched on one side like saw teeth, and a bag-pke basket of woven reeds. Passie B. Wasul THE CHIHAMAH'S CLEAN SHOES. Sod Doesn't Get on Them Because Jonn Sets His Heel Down Solidly. St Iionls Globe-Democrat. A Chinaman is not generally credited with much common sense, but on a wet day on muddy streets he displays an ability to keep his feet clean few white men can equal. Ha never seems to get his peculiar-looking shoes splashed nor to take the least trouble in picking his way across the street. This is really because he has little rr no heel on bis shoes and because he puts his entire weight on what little heel he has. The fashionable man raises himself onto his toes and proceeds by a series of jumps which result in covering his shoe tops with mud and his clothes with splashes. It is too mufch to expect the average human be ing to wear a heelless shoe, but if he would keep his heels down when crossing a muddy street he wonld find far less inclination to indulge in profanity at the expense of those who ought to clean the streets bnt don't A Bridal Tonr, at an Americaa Summer Resort. Human ingenuity has made it pos sible that American pleasure resorta can carry with them the health-giving properties of Europe's First Health Spring. We refer to Carlsbad Sprudel Salts. It will pay you to read up on this historical spot. For 500 years it has performed its beneficent mission. Emperors, poets, statesmen, all men of wealth and station have sought and found health here. Quite an expensive trip. But you need not go. Every drug store will deliver you the Carlsbad treatment in a bottle, in the shape of the world-renowned Sprudel Salts. Take no substitute. The following on the bottle proves its genuineness: "Eisner & Mendelson Co., Sola Agents, New York." sa V racAr. If by the use of Wolfi'sflCMEBIacking 70a save one pair of Shoes a year, and bottle at 20 cents lasts three months, for how many years blacking wilt ons year's saving In shoe leather psyf 10C Will pay fbr the Cot 10O m OX" Cnanctne Plain White Ifl JUC Glass tcs1 to Ruby, jJJO IOC Emerald, Opal, IOO IOC orotber Costly Class. "JQo SIK-'BON FOR GLASS V WILL DO IT- The hvooohosphites of lime and soda combined with cod-liver oil in Scott's Emul sion improve the appetite, nromote dip-estion, and in crease the weight. They are thought by some to be food: but this is not oroved. They are tonics; .1 this is admitted by all. Cod-liver oil is mainly a food, but also a tonic In Scott's Emulsion the' cod-liver oil and hypophos- phites are so combined as to get the full advantage of both. Let us send you a book on CAREFUL LIVING J free. Scott ft Bowks; Chemists, tj Sossh Jth A If Hewitt,, Slacking to t?ff Kt.00-10UuUt. Jj ECONOMY. ffSflS " - ' J, - ,- t K
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