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THE FROLICSOME DUKE
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Philip the goed Duke of Burgundy
was fond of fun and sport, and when
he held his court as a young man, it
often pleased his fancy to play some
frolicsome ‘est.
One day when he was out he saw a
poor tinker lying fast asleep 2a the
ground.
“Take him home to my palace; we
will have some sport with him,” sala
the Duke to his men.
So they lifted up the tinker, who
was so sound asleep that he never
wakened, placed him on a horse and
carried him away to the palace.
There they stripped off his ragged
clothes, popped on some clean night
garments and placed him in.a soft
bed of down, in a rwichly furnished
chamber, where they left him to finish
his sleep.
It was late the next morning when
the tinker awoke, and great was his
amazement to find himself in such a
gavly adorned room. Then in came
xnights and squires to wait on him,
and the chambermaid, bowing before
him with uncovered head, begged tc
know what apparel he would put on.
The poor tinker dared not say a word,
but gazed at the gentlemen and won-
dered how he had come to such an
honor. However, he chose a rich suit,
in which they clad him at once; on
the breast glittered a beautiful star,
which he eyed with no little pride.
“Where is Joan, my sweet wife?”
he said to himself. “If only she were!
here now! Sure, she never saw me;
so fine in her life!” i
All this time, from a convenient
place, the rightful Duke was watch:
ing his behavior. i
“Will it please your grace to walk? |
asked the attendants, and they led
him to a garden of state. Trumpets!
sounded before him, and captains and |
squires in scarlet and blue waited on!
him. Here he spent an hour or two
very pleasantly, walking about and
seeing all the beauties of the place.
When dinner time came, a fine
‘feast was prepared, both for him and
his guests. He was placed at the ta-
ble above all the rest, in a splendid
chair lined with fine crimson, and
with a rich canopy over his head.
As he sat at meat, sweet music play-
ed with the choicest of singing to
complete his enjoyment.
Then. the Duke ordered that he
should be stripped of his ricn clothing
and that his old leather garments
should be restored to him, after
which he was carried back to the
pines Thora ho kod been found at
2 he slept soundly all the
nicht, 23 indeed he might well do,
Ft when he awoke the next morning
all Lis jovs had taken flight. He was
just thinking his glory must have
been a were golden dream, when up
caine ti:e guard and carried him be-
fo: 5 ‘hc Duke.
The peor tinker was terrified to
find himself a prisoner in the very
Ch; place where yesterday it had
seemed to him he was a lord, and
ne hecan to entreat pardon of the
Duke, iearing that the latter woula
think in some way he had mocked
him.
But his highness spoke kindly tell-
ing him it had been nothing but a
joke. r
pil
ann
such a frolic, I think, was never play-
ed before,” he said.
Then the Duke ordered that a new
suit and cloak should be given him,
for the sake of the amusement they
had had.
“Nay, and thou shalt have £500,
! ington that she will start
“Thou art a jolly fine fellow, and |
DEUTSCHLAND
RETURNS SAFELY.
Germany's Commarcial U-Boat
Reaches Home Port |
a |
NINETEEN DAYS FOR VOYAGE
Washington Hears That Success of
Deutschland Means U-Boats Will Be
Sent to Other Countries. |
The submarine Deutschland, after a
quick trip, arrived on Sunday off the |
mouth of the Weser. i
The above wireless dispatch from !
Berlin means the successful conclu-'
sion of the second transatlantic round
trip of the Deutschland under the
command of her plucky captain, Paul |
Koenig.
The Deutschland left New London,
Conn., on Nov. 21, at 2:30 o'clock in
the afternoon. Her return voyage to
Bremen was thus made in nineteen |!
days, two days longer than it took
her to make her trip from that port to
New London. Her first voyage to this
side of the Atlantic, which ended at,
Baltimore, was made in twenty-three
days.
It is expected the Deutschland will
go into drydock in Bremenhaven and
permanent repairs made to her bows.
She will also be completely over-
hauled in preparation for her next
westward voyage. This will probably
commence in the second week of Janu-
ary. |
The Deutschland’s cargo on this voy-
age is estimated to be worth at least
$2,000,000. It consists of crude rub-
ber, tin, copper and other metals.
With the word of the safe arrival of
the merchant submarine Deutschland
off the Weser, it was learned in Wash-
back to
America almost immediately. Her de-
parture on another trans-ocean voyage
is expected as soon as repairs made
necessary by her collision with a tug
off New London shortly before her
departure for Germany, are completed.
In fact, it was noised about in the
capital today that so successful have
the two voyages of the Deutschland
been, that an entire fleet of commer-
eial submarines plying between Ger-
many and all neutral ports of import-
ance is an early possibility.
New Paralysis Cases Reported.
Last week three cases of infantile
paralysis were reported to the Penn-
sylvania state department of health,
sending the total’ number reports
ed in that state since July 1
over the 2,000 mark. The new cases
came from Luzerne, Montgomery and
Lawrence counties. The number of
new cases has shown a marked de-
cline since cold weather set in, the
decrease predicted by Commissioner
of Health Dixon being apparent.
Trying to Frighten Man Kills Him.
Firing hig revolver in an effort to
frighten Paul Weymmer, aged twenty-
six, into surrender, Patrolman Charles
Himebaugh at Meadville fatally shot
the man. Weymmer died an hour
after he had been shot. Weymmer
was wanted in Youngstown, O., for
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POORBAUGH & BOWSER
A GENERAL SURVEY uF
THE WAR
The situation in Athens is believed
to be approaching a critical moment.
American Minister Droppers was in
conference with King Constantine
more than an hour Sunday. The Span-
ish minister has left for Valencia,
ostensibly on leave of absence, placing
the legation in the charge d’affairs.
All the entente nationals have been |
ordered by their legations to quit |
Athens.
Replying to the request of former
Premier Rhallys for intercession on
behalf of his son, arrested by Veni-
zeloist forces at Salonika, the British
minister declared:
“After the scenes occurring here I
could not interest myself to obtain
liberty for your son.” He promised,
| however, to request the Salonika gov-
ernment not to mistreat the junior
Rhallys. s
The Rumanians who have been re-
treating in eastern Wallachia before
the Teutcnic advance have made &
stand to the east of Ploechti, the war
office in Petrograd has announced.
They assumed the offensive on the
road from Ploechti to Buzeuw and drove
the Austro-German forces back to the
westward. Go
On the Moldavian frontier the Rus-
sian advance is continuing in the river
valleys, despite strong resistance.
A new crossing of the Danube, be-
tween Tchernavoda and Sisistria, by
the Bulgarians, is announced in a
Berlin army headquarters statement
regarding operations on the Rumanian
front, which also records a continued
advance by the Teutonic armies in
. eastern Wallachia. :
On the Moldavian frontier, Russian
troops captured a height south of the
Trotus valley, but were repulsed in at-
tacks between Kirlibaba and Dorna
Watra.
The Rumanians have lost approxi-
mately 112,000 men in prisoners since
Rumania entered the war or about
one-sixth of their army, besides suf-
fering casualties estimated at about
300,000, writes the military critic of
the Overseas News agency in his re-
view of the Rumanian campaign.
Not only has this loss to the Ru-
manians resulted from the campaign,
continues the writer, but the Teutonic
victory has made possible the short-
robbery and jail-breaking.
LIVE STOCK AND GRAIN
: Pittsburgh, Dec. 12.
Butter—Prints, 41@41%c; tubs, 40
| @40%c. Eggs—Fresh, 47c.
Cattle—Prime, $10@10.50; good,
$9.50@10; tidy butchers, $8.50@9.10;
fair, $7.50@8.25; common, $6@7; heif-
ers, $6@8.25; common to good fa
bulls, $4.50@7.26; common to good fa
cows, $4@7;
ers, $40@85.
. extended
fresh cows and spring-
| Sheep and Lambs—Prime wethers,| On the I
i ening of the front by about 550 kilo-
| meters, or more than 340 miles. It
: is pointed out that the German-Austro-
: Hungarian-Bulgarian front on Nov. 12
from the |
750 kilometers
| Predeal region in the western Car-
| pathians to Orsova on the Danube.
| Now the line across Rumania is only
about 200 kilometers in length from
{ Sinaia to the Danube. The area con-
t quered by the Teutonic
about £0,000
nearly 20,060 square miles.
square
front the
Franco-Belgian
he added, “and 10 acres of ground: |$8.50@8.75; good mixed, 5@8.35; only recent oper tion of note has
and thou shalt never again have to | fair mixed, $6.75@7.50; culls and com- been in the Verdun sia, where he
wander through the country crying mon, $3.50@5; heavy s, $4.50@ Germans ¢ cpture of the
'0ld brass to mend!’ for I will be thy | 7.25; spring 3.25; ‘veal summ : vest of the Meuse.
good friend, and Jean, thy sweet wife, | calves, $13@13.50; heavy and thin 1a npoun 1 t
shall attend my Duchess.” | calves, had been dr ven }
“what?” cried the happy tinker, | frenones on the :
“mu J 1, -M sweet wife, ride in oe Sei, a
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I thank 1 1 grace, and lovin
enter your servi I was never
happy bel life! »—From
book of Ballad Stories, by Mary Mac-
food.
her’s Plea.
“Mister Jet
citizen, who came into the justice
court leading a small negro boy by the
coat c¢ er Jedge, I wish you's
please, suh, give dis boy ten years|
whar de State’ll furnish the vittle
fer him.”
mean?” asked the as
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“Sure,” replie
torist. “Here
I don’t & thance to ride in it more
than once or twice a week”
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ure? Shall we have
said the old colored |
jce. “What has he been
1 the intermittent mo-
here and everywhere.
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Cattle—Native
12.60; western
stockers and
$9.50@13.25.
$10.25@13.
Wheat—Dec., $1.64%.
Oats—Dee., 5136.
|
i 90%0.
Sys $7
feeders, $4.60@7.85;
cows and heifers, $3.86@10.25; calves, |
|
Sheep—Wethers, $8.50@9:50; lambs,
FILE ACCOUNT
burg.
The largest contributor was Georg
W. Guthrie of Pittsburgh, who gav
$4,000.
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ENGLAND'S NEW
WAR CABINET
Personnel of Lloyd George's
British Ministry Announced
——
BONAR LAW HOUSE LEADER
Arthur J. Balfour Chosen For Secore:
tary of Foreign Affairs While Earl
Curzon Will Lead In House of Lords.
Official announcement was made in
London that the government had been
constituted, with a war cabinet com-
prising the following:
Premier—David Lloyd George.
Lord President of the Council—Earl
Curzon, who also will be government
leader in the house of lords.
Minister Without Portfoiio—Arthur
Henderson.
Minister
Milner.
Chancellor of the Exchequer—An-
drew Bonar Law, who has been asked
by the premier to act as leader in the
house of commons and also as mem-
ber of the war cabinet without being
expected to attend regularly.
The other members of the ministry
who are not in the war cabinet are:
Lord high chancellor, Sir Robert
Bannatyne Finlay.
Secretary of state for the home de-
partment, Sir George Cave.
Secretary of state. for foreign af-
fairs, Arthur J. Balfour.
Secretary of state for the colonies,
Walter Hume Long.
Secretary of state for war, the Earl
of Derby.
Segretary of state for India, Austen
Chamberlain.
President of the local government
board, Baron Rhondda.
President of the board of trade, Sir
Albert Stanley.
Minister of labor, John Hodge.,
First lord of the admiralty, Sir Ed-
ward Carson.
Minister of munitions, Dr. Christo-
pher Addison.
Minister of blockade, Lord Robert
Cecil.
Food controller,
Maclay.
President of the board of agricul
ture, Rowland E. Prothero.
President of the board of educatioz,
Herbert A. L. Fisher.
First commissioner
Alfred M. Mond.
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lan-
caster, Sir Frederick Cawley.
Postmaster general, Albert
{ worth.
Minister
Barnes.
Attorney general, Sir Frederick E.
Smith.
Solicitor
K. C.
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of works, Sir
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of pensions, George N.
general, Gordon Hewart
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Lord lieutenant of Ireland, Baro
Wimborne.
Chief secretary for Ireland, Henry;
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