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Show to of S-- CROCKETT .ylifror of u7Tioj3(dcf,o (Copyright, 1898, 1900, by 8. R. Crockett) Continued. bassy of Plassenburg!" And sumCHAPTER the officer moning the officer with a curt monosaid Prince? flitch syllable to bring his horse, he mountanswered the secretary, ed and rode off. a glad heart "tbier 18 but one CHAPTER VI. III who won the prize yesterday at V. item, born, Sht It xo. er Iter- tilting! truth! and you say true," the guardsman, starting; blurt out bat who are you who dare Court-an- d of of the palace steps the on men which aye, ordinary that soldiers durst scarcely even good link In their own hearts?" "I am secretary of the noble Am; jasaador of Plassenburg, and I come u aee the Prince! And Just then there came.a clatter horses' hoofs across the wide Into which spaces of the palace front, beat-ng- , be bright forenoon sun was now and a lady of tall figure and a bead all aripple with sunny golden curls dashed up at a canter, the stones spraying forward and outward a she reined her horse sharply with her hands low. The Princess Margaret! said the first officer. "Stand to it, Paul. The two officers saluted stiffly, and the lady looked about for someone to She observed help her to descend. Johann standing by the gate. she said, beckoning Come hither! tlth her finger. she comGive me your hand! God's ejaculated -- -- Him deot built 'ttitb. btrlei if till iii ;etlt I till Port oilt ta. ) 10(4 ea o Oat loti f tie MO i. lien ') DOt t wjh i to Uit the cate the heir ltd be irce he lay et UD III irt Id It 01 al it It ei a t it it 0 it d it a tb Princess Impetuosity. The Princess ' Margaret spoke low and confidentially to the secretary of embassy as they paced along. Johann Pyrmont felt exceedingly awkward. For one thing, the pressure of the Princess band upon his arm distracted him. He longed to have her on the other side. You are noble? she queried, with a look down at him. Of course!" said the secretary quickly. The Princess thought that It was not at ail of course, but continued. I understand you would learn diplomacy under a man so wise as the High Councillor von Dessauer. I have heard of such sacrifices. An agreeable princess I shall get on well with her! thought Johann Pyrmont. Then the attention of his companion flagged and she was silent and distrait for a little, as they paced through courts and colonnades which to the secretary seemed interminable. At Intervals the Princess silently he had invented. At this point he stood astonished. after the pair till they disappeared. lecrotary, on whose arm her hand re- I would that Prince Wasp was here. We should see his sting. He Is Indeed a marvel, this fellow from Plassenburg. Glad am I that he does not know little Lenchen up In the Kaiser Platz. No one of us would have a maid to his name If this gamester abode In Courtland and made the running In this style!" The Princess and her squire now posed. went out Into the open air. For she The cavalier In banded yellow stood had led him by devious ways almost moment with an expression on his round the entire square of the palace Mce at once humorous and malevolent. buildings. They passed into a thick He gazed after the pair till the avenue of acaclaa and yews, through the arcades of which they walked wung to and they disappeared. Then he turned bitterly toward the learest ofilccr. For the Princess was content, and Tell me," he said, who Is that the secretary afraid of making any A?'1 In black, who looks like a priest-Umore mistakes. So he let the "forout for a holiday?" eign custom" go at what It might bo He Is the secretary of the embassy worth, knowing that If he tried to betaald Otto, tho ter it, ten to one a worse thing might Plassenburg," JNardsman, restraining a desire to befall. his information in another form. I have changed my mind," said the Ha." aald the young man.' I think Princess, suddenly stopping and turnI shall not : W into the rose garden; I may ing upon her companion; If you brother. to to Introduce to my the further you something say uit honorable secretary of the em rome from the Ambassador you most NEWS SUMMARY TAFT TAKES OVER MINES AND MININ Fire whlch'orlglnated in a barber There Is a boom on In the Little hop has swept the business section Smoky section, In Iduho, some of Barstow, Cal. rock being uncovered recently, Eight men were killed by the col- and men are coming la from all quarlision of two freight trains on the ters. Mexican Central railroad, near CallaThe Bullfrog Gold Bar will Install ge, Mexico. a reduction plant at once, a stage of An explosion of natural gas at Secretary of War Issues Procdevelopment having been reached at demolished the the property which Justifies this ImKansas, Edgar Himself lamation Declaring two workmen and zlno smelter, killing provement. Head of Government Injuring five others, three of whom The Hecla mine last week declared will die. a dividend of $110,000, making the to"The ultimate result of the present tal paid to date $890,000, and $340,000 President Palma Expreeeee Relief at strife In Cuba will be the annexation paid thus far In 1906. The first diviShifting the Burden of Guiding of the Island by the United States, dend was paid In 1900. the Tempeetuous Republic, aald Senator S. B. Elkins In an Inter It Is claimed that the Tenabo counWhile the Maeeee are view at Wheeling, W. Va. In Nevada, Is on the eve of a try, Utterly Indifferent In a practice game of football at boom. Recent assays from tbe Gold Lawrencevllle, N. J John P. Kennedy, Quartz mine show 36.6 per cent lead of the and 42.5 ounces silver per ton. Ilavaua. With far less ostentatton captain and right halt back In was kicked Lawrencevllle eleven, The building of a wagon , than accompanies the accession of a later. an hour died He head. the road between Rhyolite and the pew of Cuba was formally government Colonel Isaac R. Hill, better known districts In the Panamint range, taken over on Saturday by William II. United of the war of Colonel Ike" Hill, of Ohio, and foi through to Skidoo, via Funeral range as Taft, secretary States, who, In a proclamation cloth- thirty-fiv- e years an employee almost and Death valley, is now being agied In a kindly and diplomatic tonfe, continually of the house of representa- tated. Indicative of the policy he would pur-u- tives, Is dead at Washington, D. C. The Anaconda Copper Mining comhimself provisional declared Two more revolutionists were shot pany last week declared a quarterly governor of the island. Promptly at at Warsaw after trial by drumhead dividend of $1.50 per share. This noon Governor Taft, Assistant Secre- courtmartlal. During the last three compares with its lust previous quartary of State Bacon and Captain terrorists have been terly dividend of $1.37V4 a share. Tbe nineteen days Governor Tafts executed in Poland after such trials. par value of the stock is $25. called officially at the palace and paid as was A bill for the punishment of all the selected O., Columbus, their respects to the retiring presiconvention next fakers will bo submitted to biennial the for mining dent Ignoring President Palma's place of the American Locomotive Brotherhood of the Mining congress, which In message to congress on Friday, be- meets in Denver the 16th of next the date Firemen and Engineers, the which he wrongly lnterpretated to be will recommended which In second September, month, Monday mission of the American mediators. ing the for of all states the 1908. mining legislatures Governor Taft spoke kindly to Senor In the United States district court adoption. Palma, to whom, he said, the people When returns had been secured of Cuba owed an unquestionable debt at Philadelphia the Camden Iron works of gratitude. President Palmas brief of Camden, N. J., was found guilty of from the average sample of the big reply was devoted entirely to an ex- receiving rebates from the Mutual body of ore that has been encountered pression of relief for the opportunity, Transit company of Buffalo, a lake In the Codar Mining companys propof shifting the burden of guiding the carrier. erty last week it was found that the tempestuous republic to the represenIt Is reported that Mrs. Alice Roose- material carried 55 per cent lead and 57 ounces silver per ton. tatives of a nation strong enough to velt Longworth will chaperon a party enforce control over It. Assistant Chief Engineer Rlchings, on women a bear of young society The fact that the government has hunt near the town of of the on the railway, says Bovey, changed hands, from a position of ab- Western Mesaba some time that unless something unforeseen haprange, solute Independence to the restraint t the month. pens, the passenger crew of the new of a temporary protector, etc., was re- during The partially decomposed body of line will oat Christmas dinner, Dec. 25, ceived by the masses with utter IndifThis 1906, in the city of Rhyolite. Most of the refined and Mall Clerk B. F. Gambel of Fort ference. mines. for means much Rhyolite Rock Island wreck thoughtful Cubans, while they feel a Worth, killed in tbe A meeting of considerable importcertain sensatlveness over the loss of near Hennessey, Oklahoma, has been In mining circles was held reance of in ford a a the recovered Cimarron, the Island's Boverignty, are Inclined in Salt Lake, when twenty-thre- e below mile a half the fatal and bridge. cently proStates to hope that the United representatives of companies optectorate will be brief. J. W. Cassaday, president of the In the Tintic district organized erating A Cuban returning to Havana on Cassaday Commission of company Mine Operators assoclar Tintic the would Saturday after a brief absence Quincy, 111., was expelled from the not have recognized from the general Chicago board of trade last week on tlon, with a view of obtaining cheaper atltude of the people that the form of a charge of The di- freight rates upon ore shipments from government had been altered. Busi- rectors voted unanimously for expul- the district to Salt Lake smelters. ness continued the same, except for sion. Development of the Jumping Jack the vigor exhibited by the wholesale mine at Manhattan, Nevada, Is being; railcommerce United of tbe The and foreign manufacturers merebaats, roads, to regain their former trade States has crossed tbe three billion watched with an interest equally as throughout the Island, which has been dollar mark. In tbe 12 months end- keen as that which attaches to operaat a standstill since the beginning of tions at the Stray Dog. Ore of high ing with August the imports were the revolution six weeks ago. and the exports $1,759,417,-898- , value is being sacked with dally regSENDING SOLDIERS TO CUBA. a total for the 12 months of ularity, and the quartz not Infrequent$3,013,817,633. ly returns assays as high as $1,000 In Boys In Blue to be Sent to the Island Chinese newspapers estimate tho gold to the ton. to Keep Order. loss of life resulting from the typhoon The report comes from Custer, IdaRoosevelt, Washington. President at at 10,000; 18, Hongkong, September ho, of a sensational strike that has In a wireless message received at the loss of the the and fishing including been made In the Batchelor property, war department Saturday, authorized to the and fleet they on damage property, Custer mountain, a property that the sending of the first American exdone at from is being operated under bond by Henthe estimate damage pedition to Cuba. $3,000,000 to $15,000,000. ry McCornlck and fcthers, of Salt Lake Preparation of the military occupabank O. the Paul Chicago Stensland, City. The ore, the letter relates, cartion of Cpba moved at a rapid rate to work tbe been la has put rier twenty .ounces in gold and 150 after the receipt of a dispatch from president, at broom of room the ounces silver per ton. factory of sorting Secretary Taft urging the sending will labor he where alongside Joliet, All the Cuba. to organizaan army Work is being pushed Btendlly on of tbe Su- the Potosl mine, at Silver City, Idaho. tions making up the first expedition John A. Linn, tbe court of Chicago, under sen- The old 3haft which had a twist in It arranged by the general stall were perior for tence embezzlement secreof the advised of the request has been straightened and all the timHumAt Mies., one church, the war and Scranton, of Quartermaster tary bering In it repaired. At the 200 level buildand several Odd Fellows hall to hire his assistants and began phry a drift has been started south, with transports and to order supplies de- ings were blown down. At Pascagoula three shifts working It. A sixteen-inc- h livered Immediately at Newport News, Beach not a residence Is left standing, vein of high grade ore has recentwhere the first expedition will de mobthe river front at that point Is com- ly been encountered In the Potosl. ilized. Sufficient supplies to last 5,500 men pletely torn up, and the lighthouse Captain Herbert L. Davis, superfn-tendefor thirty days are being .rushed to there has been destroyed. Shipping of tbe Fidelity Copper Mines at this point has been badly damaged. that point with full speed. property near Cuprum, Idacompany's his With a gaping bullet bole in Fearful Loss of Life and Property. a report to his corporamade has ho, temple and a large caliber revolver tion no small sensa-tlo- n New Orlears Six persons drowned, has created that still clasped In his right hand, the men interested In sailing vessels among mining eight body of Ernest Armltage, a young Engtbe Seven Devils dlstrlcL He states wrecked, about thirty smaller vessels lishman, was found near the C. J?, sunk or ashore and property damaged railroad tracks at Yale, B. C. Armlt- that an ore body has Just been oponed that la the best thing he has ever seen of more than $1,000,000, was the re- age had been despondent In the way of a copper proposition. the Mississippi sult of the hurricane In the northern The valley. Cagayas of disaster extent the The Reno, Nevada, Gazette has tht sound. The full of the Island of Luzon, was devaspart Cat when known Ship, became there following to say of the Bullion disand Horn islands were beard from. tated by a typhoon September 18. Bar trict, In which several Salt Lakers They had been completely submerged rlos, Gallaran and Lagunan were to- have holdings! "Eleven different according to the reports of tugs sent tally destroyed and four towns were are now classed among the properties out from the mainland to the Islands badly damaged. Cagayan is the prin- producers In the Bullion mining disto Investigate. cipal tobacco section of tbe Island. trict. The Gold Quartz is sacking ore The state department Is advised that fort he second shipment from that Savings of Two Misers. of amity, commerce and navi- property. The first shipment sent out Bethalto, 111. Tho death of Miss a treaty a tew weeks ago netted the company Annie Oatkln revealed tho location of gation under tbe terms of the Marble$106.65 per ton, all In old." been the has head govsigned by pact $15,000 which bad been bidden away During Its meteoric career the outfor ten years, of which $10,000 had ernment of Costa Rica, Guatemala, been accumulated by her father, To- Honduras and Salvador. Nicaragua put of Goldfield has never approached bias Oatkln, a miser, who died ten was not Included In the negotiations. that of the week ending September 22, and it Is doubtful If any camp in the As a result of the recent Investigayears ago. Before she died Miss she at tion state Insane brother state, since the days of the Comstock, that of tho to her revealed asyium had placed the money In an old trunk Norfolk, Neb., Forest Ellis, William have even approached It in either tonIn the garret and during the ten Ryerly and Joseph Wiles, former at- nage or value of the product. Sevear- nty-one railroad cars were hauled years had added $6,000 to IL The tendantsonat the asylum, have been Indictments by tbe grand away from the mines, containing 2,142 old trunk, was found and contained rested Jury chatglng them with assaults on tons of ore, valued at a quarter of a $16,000 In gold coins. million dollars. patients. Two Killed in a Wreck. S wat years, The big shaft on the Bullfrog Na(hear Napier, aged Two persons were found guilty of the murder of a e Philadelphia. tional Bank has reached a depth of at Albla, Iowa. Tho Iowa Ju- 300 fecL A station will be cut, and killed, several more may dlo, and or more were Injured In a venile law does not cover murder cases drifts staited from this level. The twenty-fivlevel, rear-encollision of passenger trains and the boy will be sentenced just the north drift on the were of mature ago. which has been extended about 200 on the New York division of the Penn- same ns If he of passion dollberately feet, continues to expose values In the Ia. Napier In a fit sylvania railroad at Eddlpgton, bis shot for playmate. bound ledge. Branch express, The lmg has A big strike lias been made In the Philadelphia, bad atopped to cool a Minister Russell, at Caracas, hot Journal. While the train crew Rathbono-Fros- t state that the advised lease, near Johnnie, department exwere at work on the Journal the President Castro of Venezuela la seri- Nevada. The ledge Is two feet wldo. at York New which left train press 111. He Is so weak that ho hns Ten Inches assays $5,000. The lodge 7:30 a. m., thundered around a curve ously Into or out of a carrlnge. Is an extension of the Globe Treasurer to bo assisted Drarh and crashed Into the Long no callers and transacts vein, where bonanza rock was discovHe receives train. no business. The nature of his mal- ered seventy five feet from the first discovery. ady ts not generally known. CM high-grad- e REPUBLIC 1 Cher-ryval- first-clas- s e, Mo-Coo- e. aide-de-cam- In- dicated the way by a pressure upon his arm which was almost more than friendly. manded. "We walk well together," she said The secretary gave it awkwardly, and the Princess plumped rather presently, rouBing herself from her reverie. sharply to the ground. Yes, answered the secretary, who Wbat! Do they not teach you how was thinking that It was a long way help ladles to alight In PlassenbYou to the summer parlor, where he was urg?" queried the Princess. to meet the Prince. iccompany the new ambassador, do "I fear," said the Princess Margaret ' joa not? that you are often In the "You are the first I ever helped in quaintly, Your Most-I- f habit of walking with ladles! my life," said Johann, simply. step agrees so well with mine! I never walk with any others!" "What! I am the first? You Jest. the secretary answered without 8 Is not possible. There are many thought ladies in Plassenburg, and I doubt not What? cried the Princess, quickly they have noted and distinguished a youth like you. taking her hand, and you swore to me even now that you never helped a The secretary shook his head. I have lady from her horse In your life!" 'Not so, he said, smiling; It was an Impasse, and the secrenerer been remarked by any lady In tary, recalled to himself, blushed Plassenburg In my life." deeply. "Well, at any rate, said the Princess, never taking her eyes off the I see so few ladles, he stammered roong mans face, you will be good In a tremor lest he should have beI live In .the countryenough to escort me to the Princes trayed himself. " room." -only Ay maid e As she took the young mans arm, cried Heavens own sunshine! a cavalier suddenly dashed up on a the Princess with a little scream of smoking horse, which had evidently laughter. Have the pretty young been ridden to his limit He was of men of Plassenburg maids and tirewomen? Small wonder that so few of middle size, of a figure exceedingly elegant and dressed In the highest them ever visit us! No wonder you fashion. His eye glittered like that live on in that happy country! of a The secretary recovered his pressnake, with a steady, chill Bhfeen. unpleasant to linger upon. He swung ence of mind rapidly. I mean, he explained, from his horse, casting the reins to the old the nearest soldier, aud sprang up the woman Bette, my nurse, who still, iteps after the Princess and her though now I am grown up, comes every night to see that I have all I jouog escort want and to fold my clothes. I have Prinhe Princess, said, hastily, no other women about me. cess Margaret I beg your pardon You are sure that Bette, who most humbly that I have been so unfor your clothes and to see that comes attendafortunate as to be late in my nce upon you. The Prince sent for you have all you want, Is old? perme at the critical moment, and I was sisted the Princess, keeping her eyes bound to obey. May I now have the sharply upon her companion. She is so old that I never rememhonor of conducting you to the sumher to have been any younger," ber mer parlor?" The Princess turned carelessly, or replied tbe secretary, with an air of rather, to tell it exactly, she turned engaging candor. I believe you, cried the outspoken her head a little back over her shoulPrincess; no one can lie with such der with a beautiful gesture peculiar to herself. eyes. Strange that I should have I thank you, she said coldly, I liked you from the first Stranger still have already requested this gentleman that In an hour I should tell you so. to escort me. I shall not need you, Your arm! The secretary Immediately put his Prince Ivan!" hand within the arm of the Princess And she went In, bending graciousInly and even confidentially toward the Margaret, who turned upon him In astonishment. profoundest stantly cusIs this also a Plassenburg tom? she said sharply. "Was It old Bette who taught you thus to take a ladys arm? It is otherwise thought of In ignorant Courtland! The young man blushed and looked down. I am sorry, he said; It Is a common fashion with us. I crave your pardon if in aught I have offended. The Princess Margaret looked quizzically at her companion. I faith," she said, "I have ever had a curiosity about foreign customs. Do it This one I find not amiss. again!" ' The Courtlander Otto, who had been on guard at the gate, had meantime been relieved, and now followed the pair through the corridors to the summer palace upon an errand which Cized have matters of Importance to speak of. I will rest me here In an arbor and come iu later. Then, if you are good, you shall perhajs be permitted to reconduct me to the palace, and as we go, you can teach me any other pleasant foreign customs! The secretary bowed low, but kept his eyes on the ground. You do not say that you are glad, cried the' Princess, coming impulsiveI tell you there is ly a step nearer. not one youth but no matter. I see that It springs from your Innocence, and I am not sure that I do not like you the better for It." Behind an evergreen, Otto the Courtlander nearly discovered himself at this declaration. His Innocence magnificent Karl the Great. This Plassenburger's Innocence God wot! He will not die of It, but he may be the death of ma. Oh, for the opinion of Prince Wasp of Muscovy upon such innocence! Come, said the Princess, holding out her hands, bid me good-by- e as you do In your country. There Is he prince, my brother's horse, at the door. You must hasten, or he will be gone ere you do your message! At this the heart of the youth gave a great leap. The Prince! he cried; "he will be gone! Never mind the Prince think of me. commanded the Princess, stampGive me your hand. ing her foot. I am not accustomed to ask twice. Now bid me good-byWith his eyes on the white charger by the door the secretary hastily took the Princess by both bands. Then, Bullfrog-Goldfiel- Kissed her swiftly upon both cheeks. with his mind still upon the departing Prince, he drew her Impulsively toy ward him, kissed her swiftly upoTj both cheeks, and finished by Imprinting his lips heartily upon her mouth! The Princess Margaret stood rooted to the ground. A flush of shame, anger, or some other rose to her brow and stayed there. Then Bhe called to mind the straightforward, unclouded eyes, the clear Innocence of the youths brow, and the smile came slowly back to her lips. After all, It is doubtless only his foreign custom, she mused. Then, after a pause, I like foreign customs, she added, they are Interesting to learn! Behind his tree the Courtlander stood gasping with astonishment. God never made such a fellow, he Well might he say said to himself. he never kissed any but ladles. Such abilities were lost upon the cheeks of mere men. An hours acquaintance-n- ay, less and he hath kissed the Princess Margaret upon the mouth. And she. Instead of shrieking and calling the guard to have the Insulter thrust Into the darkest dungeon In Courtland, falls to musing and smiling. A devil of a secretary this! Of a certainty I must have little Lenchen out of town this very night." bucket-shoppin- violent-emotio- n, k nt (To be continued.) American Hunting the Best Iord Headley of Aghaboe castle, Klllarney, Ireland, a noted bunter In many Jungles, who recently arrived in New York, declares he prefers hunting la America to any other land. Some of the beBt bunting In the world Is c this country," said Lord Headley, according to a New York T special to the Kansas City Star. don't think much of the sportsman who goes hunting In Africa. Out there you can almost knock game over with a club. I have knocked about a bit and the best bunting I have bad was In the Rocky mountains. The mountain goat is hard to get at and more difficult to hunt than larger game. There is plenty of work and Interest In stalking the goat, and the huntsman must have nerve and staying powers. The puma Is more dangerous to hunt than the African lion. He has less to feed upon than the lion and will turn on the slightest provocation." Love and Rattlesnakes. Chona had smiled! A real smile, of white teeth and personal eyes, and not the mere facial efflorescence with which one may flavor tho purchaser of one's wares. And thcro's such a difference! One often Jumps at the rasu of a barn locust or the scurry of a lizard among dry leaves, and wonders If if But when It movetb aright that bony miracle of his tall, and the dry sklrr goes forth that Is as magical In Its effect on every living creature as In 'he mechanics of Its utterance why, 'hen no one ever wonders. You know U means you. And If the more dangerous serpent that doth bite us all has as many false alarms, he Is as unmistakable when we come full upon him. Cbarlos F. 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