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Show "We found the soldiers of tne Duchess Joan waiting at the fords of th Alla, which Is the eastern border ol their province. There were not manj jpOONER'S CONCEIT, e to & The Profitable Customer. Purchaser Those matches I had . really mean It, Mr. Spoon-ij- yesterday were not good. you ray I am the beat girl Proprietor of S I'm very sorry, L world?" asked Miss Flypp, sir, but you neverhopbuy anything else had suggested of me. ,the young ntan become Mrs. Spoon Purchaser Well, 1 shan't deal here jhe should any more. I do, Miss Flypp," asser-j"tb- e Proprietor of Shop (to his errand I say It again boy) Bill, go and shut young man. up the shop m the best girl in the' world." at once. you ud the loveliest, I think TOOK IT AS A PROPOSAL. be loveliest without doubt" think you said something about i (iccompllshmentg, too? did. I said they excelled those U other girl. believe you called me sweet? neer drew iweeter woman Lb," quoted the ardent lover. Li used the word perfect, too, frou not?' ) did. i also pronounced you the (of perfection, propriety and mod-the I n juestlon. if you like. i dozen, Jae will be enough. Dont you He (very fond of dogs) Miss a great deal of White, don't you think you ought to a woman with have an intelligent animal about the Lose excellent qualities to marry house that would protect you, and She Oh, Mr. Muffins, this Is so sud )an ordinary man as you?" that you have bnce to expect Spooner went home. HER MOTOR TONGUE. Tj den! Different Mending. Rounder was addicted to poker and cocktails before the marriage. She told him It was never too late to mend' and he reformed. "That was fine. "Yes, but now he Is telling her it Is never too late to mend. " "In what way? "Why, he keeps her up until long after midnight mending hla shirts and stockings. Chicago Dally News. Yes, Intercepting the Mail. Did College Student (nervously) the prlma donna get my bouquet? Stage Doorkeeper Yes, sir; but that six-foyoung feller you see bark there got the letter. He's her son. N. Y. Weekly. CAME EASY. ira's got a tongue like a motor. ke a motor. Hows that? pie's people always running l Hava You Noticed? think Dick and Katharine be married. dear? 'by, ell, I passed by the old porch Inignt and I beard her calling him jaames." flracious! And was she calling ducky and dearest and angel- ''ell, I should say ng Id. Tou " him not duuce,' (Copyright, 1808. CHAPTER XI. She was and goose dont mean It! do, and that Is always a sure a girl Is In love with a man." ago Dally News. TAKING THEM IN TIME. You You're always in debt? ought to be ashamed of yourself. "Oh. I don't know! If you were In my place youd probably be In debt, too. "What place? "Able to get credit. Waning Affection. Angelina I don't believe you love me as much as you did, Edwin. What nonsense! Edwin Pooh! makes you think that? Angelina Well, It's several days now since you called me a vain and heartless little flirt, and I know haven't changed. Cassell's Journal. Continued. only wanted It because It had been The Prince of Courtland turned an forbidden. Angry countenance upon his friend, but the Muscovite looked so kindly and yet so sadly upon him that after a while the severity of his face relaxed as It had been against his will, and with a quick gesture he added, "I believe you love me, Ivan, though Indeed your words are no better than red-ho- t pincers In my heart." Love you, Louis?" cried Prince Ivan. I love you better than any brother I have, though they will never live to thwart me as yours thwarts you better even .than my father, for you do not' keep me out of my inherit- So also Joan of Hohenstein desired to go down with Dessauer that she might look upon the man betrothed to her from birth. She She went. looked, and within her there grew up a heart of flesh. Then, when the stroke fell, that heart uprose In quick, Intemperate revolt, and what might have Issued In the dull compliance of a Princess, whose whole life was settled for her became the Imperious revolt of a woman against an intolerable and loathsome impossibility. So In her Castle of Kernsberg Joan waited. But not Idly, All day long and every day Maurice von Lynar rode on her service. The hlllmen gathered to his word, and In tbe courtyard the stormy voices of George the Hussite and Peter Balta were never hushed. The shepherds from the bills went to end fro, marching and countermarching, wheeling and chargmusket and thrusting ing, porting pike, till all Kernsberg was little bet ter than a barracks. But there were two, at least, with in the realm of the Duchess Joan who knew no drawbacks to their Joy, who rubbed palm on palm and nudged each other for pure gladness. These (It is sad to say) w.-rthe military attaches of the neighboring peaceful State of Plassenburg. Y'et they had been specially cautioned by their Prince Hugo, iik the presence of his wife Helene, the hereditary princess, that they were most carefully to awdd all International complications. They were on no account to take sides In any quar rel. They must do nothing prejudicial to the peace, neutrality, and uni versal andty of the State and Princedom of Plassenburg. Such were their instructions. They promised faithfully. Yet these two soldiers of fortune lay waiting on the slopes of the Ja gernbergen, talking over the situation. A man surely has a right to his own wife! said Jorian, taking for the sake of argument the conventional side. , "Narren-Possencried Jorian!" Boris, raising his voice to the Indigna lion point. "Clotted nonsense! Who Is going to keep a man's wife for him If he cannot do It himself?" The trouble is that so far she feels no .necessity to be auy ones wife, said Jorian. "That also Is nonsense," said Boris, who, spite his defense of Joan, held the usual masculine views. "Every woman wishes to marry. If she can only have first choice." "There they come! whispered Jorian. Boris rose to his feet and looked long beneath bis hand. Very far away there arose from the level green plain first one tall column of dense black smoke and then another, till as far as they could see to the left the plain was full of them. "Gods truth! cried Jorian, "they are burning the farms and herds' houses. The Muscovite is out! These are Cossack fires. Bravo!! We shall yet have our Hugo here with his axe! He will never suffer the bear so near his borders. , Let us go down, said Boris, "or we shall miss some of the (pn. In two hours they will be at the fords of the Alla! What do you here? Go back!" shouted Werner von Orseln, who with his men lay waiting behind the flood banks of the Alla. This Is not your quarrel! Go back, Ilassenburgers! "We have for the time being demit ted our office," exclaimed JJorls. "The envoys of Plassenburg are at home In bed, sick of a most sanguinary fever. We offer you our swords as free fighting men and good Tents. The Muscovites are over jomlor. Izard to think that I have lived to forty-eigh- t and never yet killed even one keen-witte- Then In a gayer tone he went on: I love you so much that I will pledge my father's whole army to help you, first to win your wife, next to take Hohenstein, Kernsberg and And after (hat. If you are still ambitious, why to Plassenburg and the Wolfmark, which now the Executioner's Son holds. That would make a noble kingdom to offer a fair and wilful queen. "And for this you ask? "Only your love, Louis only your love! And, If It please you, the alliance with that Prince of your honorable house, of which we spoke Just now! "My sister Margaret, you mean? 1 will do what I can, Ivan, but she also is wilful. You know she Is wilful! I cannot compel her love! The Prince Ivan laughed. "I am not so complaisant as you, Ixiuis, nor yet so modest. Give me my bride on the day Joan of the Sword Hand sleeps In the palace of Courtland. as Its princess, and I will take my chance of winning our Margarets love! CHAPTER XII. Woman's Wilfulness. Joan rode on, silent, a furlong before all her men. Behind her sulked Maurice von Lynar. Had any been there to note, their faces were now strangely alike In feature, and yet more curiously unlike in expression. Joan gazed forward into the distance like a soul dead and about to be reborn, planning a new life. Maurice von Lynar looked more like a naughty schoolboy whom some tyrant Fate, has compelled to obey against his will. Soon Castle Kernsberg floated up like a cloud before them above the blue and misty plain. But no word spoke Joan till that pnrple shadow had taken shape as 6tately stone and lime, and she could discern her own red lion flying abreast of the banner of Louis of Courtland upon the topmost pinnacle of the round tower. Then on a little mound without the town she baited and faced about. said the "Men of Hohenstein. Duchess. In a clear, alto, you have followed me, asking no I have word of why or wherefore. told ou nothing, yet is an explanation due to you. It Is the will of Joan of the Sword Hand! It is enough! repeated the four hundred lances, like a class that learns a lesbon by rote. A lump rose in Joan's throat as she tried to shape into words the thoughts that surged within her. She felt strangely weak. Her pride was not the same as of old, for the heart of a woman had grown up within her a heart of flesh. Surely that could not be a tear In her eye? No; the wind blew shrewdly out of the west, to which they were riding. "I thank you, noble gentlemen." Now. as you say, let us said Joan. ride Into Kernsberg." And pull down that flag!" cried Maurice, pointing to the black Court- - ' txarded Russ!" "You may meed that record shortly, to all appearance. If you have luck!" said Von Orseln grimly. Lubricated. Miss Sparkle Is Ferdy's automobile an easy runner? HIsiresB What do you mean, Mima, Cholly Gllnn Sure, his dad pays the putting on my newest boots, which bills. N. Y. Herald. only worn once myself? QUITE NATURAL. lousematd But, ma'am, If you'd the boots many times theyd be h too large for me! Fliegende Iter. tbe report which Captains Boris and Jorian. envoys (ver) extraordinary from the Prince and Princess of riassenburg to the reignNow this Is Not Likely to Bo Around. not going to lr. Sorlctle Are you on the bride? Urs. Soclctle I would be perfectly to call on her, but I don't to meet her husband. Oh, I guess thore's no danger of ting him. They've been married tHks.-- N. Y. Weekly. tig Befors Taking. Mtomer See here; you say this Heine will cure consumption, You t l"k as If It would. I I tmuinpllve Drug Clerk "O't begun taking It yet N. Y. kl Lay waiting on the alopet of the Mr. Monk I've beaten you by six tileks. The Chnffe-Yc- s, inoukey tricks! All of IL Further Particulars. "I am thinking of buying me an to monkey had used the cats auto; bow much will It cost me to " for pulling his chestnuts out of keep It In trim after I get It? ht indies. "I don't kuow; I have not the least knrcH nio right," said tine eat, Idea what your Income Is. Houston being in t,Ul company. I can't Post. land Eagle which flew so steadily beside the coronated lion of Kernsberg and Hohenstein. And pray, sir. why?" said Joan of "Am I not also the Sword Hand. Princess of Courtland?" From woman's wllfulness all things To somefinw have their beginning. woman. wsntlig may be traced nil restraints and Judgments, from the however, that idiu could Taking the Walter Down. sword flaming every way about Eden-gatJ Diner What have you got? tterstih, she proceeded at once to the last merchant declared ke H, veral liver, Walter I've got enlvcs' long luelslons lu the and "dyvour" upon the exbankrupt a feature of sheeps brains, pigs feet , f'T' countenance flngs of Hamburg town. Eve change unlip'tit whhh escaped the hltdo- Diner I dont want a list of your did not eat tbe m i D when sbe got if that period. Chlcogo Trlb- - physical peculiarities; all 1 want to S)L She bart'! to g'e If away. She what you've got to tat knew e 1 of mTtea(dex.& by S. R. Crockett.) 1900 ance!" empress of my heart, the the beauteous loss one among ares of your sex, a maiden ador-- . enchanting, and worthy of the of the best man on earth. Say rord that will make me the bap-maon earth, my own Dora. Irfore I give you an answer, Mr. laer, I should like to ask you les Mr. S R; CROCKETT. Aufsor of them, but all good soldiers. The Courtlanders came on In myriads with Muscovites without number These Inst burned and slew all in their path. "The men of Hohenstein being sc few and those of Courtland with their allies so many, the river was over passed both above and below the fords. Whereupon I pressed It upon Werner von Orseln that he should re treat to a place of greater hope and safety, being thus in danger on both flanks. "This Werner von Orseln had fought all the day, and, though most recklessly exposing himself, was still unhurt. ' Ills armor was covered with blood and black with powder after the fashIlls face ion of these wild also was stained, and when be spoke It was In a hoarse whisper. The matter of his discourse to us was this: ' I can do no more. My people are dead, my powder spent. They are hot-blood- t VALUE OF PRODUCT FOR ' SHOWS BIG INCREASE. ? : 1905 f J t. r Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee Fields on the Decline Increase in Oil Output Alaska's Gold Story Romantic. V Washington. Statistics prepared by the geological survey of the natural gas Industry show that in the calendar year 1903 the value of natural gas produced and Bold exceeded that of any previous year by 1:1,006,009. The total value of the gas produced and sold was $41, 562,855. The greatest Increase was In West Virginia, $1,961,635 more than the previous year. Pennsylvania shows an In crease of $1,057,442. Louisiana appeared for tbe first time as a state and notable increases over previous productions were shown by Kansas, Oklahoma and Indian Territory. Kansas showed an Increase of 49 per cent, over its previous production, and tbe of Oklahoma combined production and Indian Territory was 161 per cent, over 1904. The great gas fields of Indiana have steadily declined since 1902 and the value of the output last year was considerably less than half Kenof the maximum production. tucky and Tennessee also report a de dine. The statlstlos show that 2,139 persons, firms and corporations reported to the geological survey their use The of natural gas during 1905. number of domestic consumers supplied was 779,638. A total of 8,569 establishments, Including iron mills, steel works, gluss works, brick plants, etc., made use of natural gas. During the year 1905 the oil fields of the United States produced 134, as barrels of petroleum, 717,580 against 117,080,960 barrels In 1904, acJorian and Borla dictate a diplomatic cording to a report Issued by the United Stales geological survey. This report. more numerous than the sea sands. was greater by 17.636.620 barrels than They are behind us. and before, also the production of any previous year, although the value of the oil prooutflanking us on either side.' "Then we advised lilm to set his duced was $17,018,056 less than that fare to Hohenstein and with those who of 1904. were left to him to retreat In that During 1906 there was a notable direction. We accompanied him, bear- lack of development In the mldcontl-nentoil fields and the completion ing In mind your royal commands, and line from Humboldt, Kao, a of addo us to to pipe in all that eager lay to Whiting, Ind., marked an Imporvance the Interests of amity. "In this manner the remnant of the tant step In the transportation of oik No romance has keener interest soldiers of the Duchess Joan reached Kernsberg in safety a result which, than the story of the development of we flatter ourselves, was as much due the mining Industry in Alaska durto the zeal and persuasiveness of ing the past decade, also issued by your envoys as to the skill and bra- the geological survey. It Is attested very of Werner von Orseln and the roughly by the Increase in the value of Its annual output from $2,000,000 soldiers of the Duchess. And your humble servants will In 1895, to over $15,000,000 In 1905. ever pray for the triumph of peace The gold production of 1905 Increase! and concord, and also for an ''undis- probnbfy 0ier cent, over 1904. An Important fact In the advanceturbed reign to your Highnesses of Alaska's mineral ment In Industry countless token years. through whereof we append our signatures during the last decade, says the report, is the great reduction lu mining and seals. "BORIS. companies which has taken place due "JORIAN." Ing this period. The pioneer miners "Is not that last somewhat over- of the Yukon could not afford to hanstrained about peaee and roncord and dle gravel averaging less than $10 or In tbe same $15 to the cubic yard. so forth? asked Jorian anxiously. "Not a whit not a whit! cried district good wages can now be made, Boris. "Our desire to promote peace even by crude methods, In extracting needs to be put strongly, In order to gold from pay streaka averaging less carry persuasion to their Highnesses than five dollors to the cub yard. In fact, I am not sure in Plassenburg. that It has been put strongly SILVEIRA LIVES AS KING. enough!" with some few Havana Broker Who Fled on I am troubled Ship doubts myself! said Jorian, under Now Big Man in Caracas. his breath. And as the secretary Jerked the Ink Caracas. Manuel Silvelra, the Havfrom his pen he smiled. ana banker who fled on a cattle ship, (To be continued.) and who Is well known here, accom- f 9'' j, , V ! al v , ONE OF LINCOLNS STORIES. panied by his family, and bringing a large quantity of baggage, has arrived here from Puerto Cabello. There to Is with him also an employe name! Uses Anecdote Draw a Parallel, Before Senator Foraker was ejected to tbe office he now holds he practiced law in Cincinnati, says the New York American. It is said of him that his fees were larger than those of any other attorney In Ohio. It Is generally known that he is a poor man so far as earthly possessions go.. Senator Platt, of New York, asked him not long ago why he held himself down to a 13,000 Job, whereas If he confined hlinself to legal practice ho could grow enormously rich. "I am told that you get bigger fees," said the New Yorker, "that any other attorney out your way." "Which reminds me of one of Mr, 1Jnroln's stories," answered the Ohioan. "When he was a boy one of his mother's neighbors was so poor as to excite the pity of all those who knew her. She had a world of rhlldren, and It was sab! of them that they never had enough to rat. When young Abe was trudging schoolward one morn tng he met one of the boys. His heart melted at the sight of the gaunt and hungry appearing lad. and quickly h band went Into his luncheon basket and drew forth a ginger cake. Ho broke It In twain and the boy gobbled It up. He gave him the other pleic, and that went down the boy's throat In one gulp. You like ginger rukea. don't you? Inquired Abe of the widow's boy. " doea, waa bit answer, T likes 'em more and glta less of 'm than any boy In Sangamon county,' "And that Is my story," continued the senator. "When I pnctlced law I liked big fees letter thau any one on earth, and got fewer of tnem than any other lawyer out my wav." Senator Foraker llno. Silvelra rented a house In a fashionable street and was received splendidly by the owerful cattle kings. His friends are unconscious of hie The ship alleged defalcations. was chartered only to bring Silvelra here and has returned to Havana without a cargo. He says he conies to Venezuela tempo! arlly to restore his health, which Is broken since his automobile accibe left his firm dent, and solvent, with $1,500,000 assets to cover $700,000 owed to CcballoR ft. Co. Hu feigns surprise at the. news of the failure and the eburges against Car-tneli- s made, ing Duchess of Hohenstein. himself. upon their return from the fords of the Alla, to their home government. Bought Eggs at $1.00 Each. Jorian. being of thx, rotund and comWash. "Swlftwater Hill"' Seattle, In the faction, proacquiesced plaisant Is down Gates and out. The Klonposal that he should do the writing. dike's most picturesque character, But as he never got beyond, To our who once cornered all of tho eggs In. honored and I.ady Hugo and Dawson 400 paying $1 apiece for there needs not to Helene, these-- -" them. In order to deprive his sweetbe any particularity as to his manner heart, with whom he had quarreled, of acting the scribe. Exof her favorite food, Is "broke." Then he remembered that be knew lu supplementary proceedings amined where a secretary was In waiting. Ho here, he told the court that he hail wJld go and borrow him. Jorian respent $73,000 in th last 13 months. entered their bedroom with a beamSwlftwater," whose real name Is ing smile, and the secretary held by .1. Gates, was In New York William the sleeve to prevent Ills escape. Both In 1901. when his diamonds, noisy Mt that the report was as good as lothlng, ami lavish expenditure of written. It began thus: money were the sensution of the leg "With great assiduity (a word sugown. gested by the secretary) your envoys rememln red your Highnesses' princeOur Tobacco for Italy. ly ndvlce nnd romniand that we should The Italian Rome. government,, Involve ourselves In no warfare or tobacco tho holds which monopoly, other local disagreement. Fo when having decided upon the experiment we heard that Hohenstein was to be of putting upon the market an enorInvaded by the troops of the lrlnee of mous quantity of cigarettes at ten Courtland, wq were deeply grieved. two rents, has ordered a largo for It to bo for "Nevertheless, Judging of American tobacco consignment the good of our country that we should Making a Sure Ttvng cf IL The with the national weed. Job! son Were you satisfied with have a near view of the fighting, we also con ft acted this week government left our arms and armor behind its, your uncles' will? with (ho United States manufacturers I took (he Billings--Entirel- y. and went out to make observations thousand railway carIn bet to the to supply a ore flic attorney In the Inter st of your Highnesses' and goods vans, out of 15.600. riage ease. Top-iiroiies. liiivlniF fiitlt, t. -- i ! t ( ,r ' i |