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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
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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.
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