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Show vj 'J rrt lo r i. P' ftf $ CROCKETT ,Autor (Copyright, Up. Oil. CHAPTER ti. 1898, 1900, XI. Continued, there passed a wave over who crowded the spacious of Courtland. The OdB Plat throng of worn (1i tall coifs, gay fluttering ribands, cal8 gallants white ueai velvet feathers that shifted like the perrauta-(loof kaleidoscope, all at once jjed Itself into a sea of white faces, hQB which presently arose a forest and arms, flourishing kerchiefs To this succeeded t lasslng caps. of burgherlsh wel feep as the reigning Prince had job such ,ever beard raised In his own honor. Conrad Prince Conrad! God bless Suddenly people Ilni many-leaded- api Hr, tin In parti-colore- d mouth-roa- r ,nr Prince-CardinalThe legitimate , of 'TfteRafdef&Xx, by 8, R. Crockett) ing upon her from beneath his heavy brows. "Nay! trilled the gay Princess, "I only wish I had. Then I, too, would have been riding with them-s- uch a Jest as never was, It would have been. Good-bye- , my forsaken brother! be with you on this your bridal Joy Jour ney. Take Prince Ivan with you, and Conrad and I will keep the kingdom against your return with your prize gentled on your wrist." amiling and kissing her hand, the Princess Margaret waved her brother and Prince Ivan off. The Muscovite turned often in his saddle as If to carry with him the picture she made of saucy countenance and dainty figure as she stood looking up into the face of the Cardinal Prince Con- ruler of Courtland, where Joan had left him, Muscovite men-- rad. flth bis behind him, half turned to look. What In heavens name is the Aid there on the highest place stood meaning of all this I do not undertil brother In the scarlet of his new stand in the least?" he was saying. Haste you and unrobe. Brother faulty as It had come from the Pope himself, his red blretta held In his Con, she said; "this grandeur of and, and his fair and noble head yours daunts me. Then, In the sumover the folk to mer parlor, I will tell erect as he looked you all!" tiers on the slope above the city "I cannot go back to Courtland disptea be could still see the sun glint md sparkle on the cuirasses and lance honored," said Prince Louis to Ivan of leads of the four hundred riders of Muscovy, as they stood on the green Sernsberg. bank looking down on the rushing But even as the Prince of Courtland river, broad and brown, which had so ooked back at his brother, the whls- - lately been the Fords of Alla. The of the tempter 6mote the latters river had risen almost as it seemed sr. upon the very heels of the four hunHad Prince Conrad been In your dred horsemen of Kernsberg, and the Ironclad knights and s lacs and you behind the altar rails, who tmk you that the Duchess Joan followed the Prince of Courtland could not face the yeasty swirl of the fould have fled so cavalierly?" flood. By this time the young cardinal had Prince Ivsn stood a moment silent. (ascended till he stood on the other ids of the Prince from Ivan of Mus- - Then hie eyes glanced over his comwy. panion with a certain severe and Ton take horse to follow your amused curiosity. If there was anyBride? he queried, smiling. k "Is It a thing so contemptuous as that In the open scorn of all the iishlon of Kernsberg brides thus to Mai sway?" burghers of Courtland, Prince Louis Louis of Courtland broke out In a was to be excused for any hesitation in facing his subjects. fury. The matter of Prince Wasps medi"This Is your doing!" he cried; I bow It well. From her first coming tation ran somewhat thuswlse: "Thou man, fashioned from a scullions nailny bride had set herself to scorn me. Sly sister knew It. You knew It. You paring, and cocked upon a horse, what mile as at a Jest. You would have can I make of thee? Thou, to have a i3 the love of my wife, the rule of country, a crown, a wife! Gudgeon as well as the acclaim of eats stickleback, Jackpike eats gudfolk, tf llese city swine. Listen The good geon and grows fat, till at the last the Prince Conrad? I God save the noble sturgeon In his armour eats him. Prince! It Is worth living for favor will fatten this Jack. I will feed him inch as this." like the gudgeons of Kernsberg and "Brother of mine, said the young Hohenstein, baited with a dainty fly ran gently, as you know well, I nev-- t indeed, black-tippewith sleeves gay set eyes upon the noble Lady Joan as cranes wings, and answering to lefore. Never spoke word with her, the name of my lady Joan. But wait eld no communication I must be wary, and have a care by word or lest I shadow his water." ;(n." So saying within his heart. Prince "You were constantly with the old Dessauer, the envoy of Plassen- - Wasp became exceedingly thoughtful Snrg wbp came from Kernsberg, and of a demure countenance. My lord," he said, "this days bringing; with him that slim secretary, ty my faith, now, when I think of It, work will not go well down in Court-lanI fear me! Prince Ivan told me last night he was is like this Prince Louis started quickly as the madcap girl as pea to pea -- some b'tard brother, Wasps sting touched him. And, pray, Prince Ivan," he said, oubtlessl" Conrad shook hts head. His brother "what could I have done that I have :ad doubtless gone momentarily dls-a- left undone? Speak plainly, since you are .so prodigal of smiles suppressed, with his troubles. "Nay, deny it not! And smile not, so witty with covert words and shoulither lest 1 spoil the symmetry of der tappings! ht face for your mummery and pro My Louis," said Prince Wasp, layssslons. Aye, If I have to underlie ing his hand upon the arm of his comen years Interdict for It from your panion with an affectation of tenderMend the most Holy Pope of Rome! ness, "I flout you not I mock you "Do not forget there is another not. And if I speak harshly, it is only In my country, which will lay that I love not to see you In your turn o Interdict upon you. Prince Louis, flouted, mocked, scorned, made light inghed Ivan of Muscovy. "But to of before your own people! torse we lose time!" "Ever since I came first to Court-lan- d "Brother," said the Cardinal, laying with the not dishonorable hope bis hand on his brother's arm, "on my of carrying back to my father a prinword as a knight as a Prince of the cess of your house, none have been so .hurch I knew nothing of the matt- amiable together as you and L We er. I cannot even guess what has have been even as David and Jonated you thus to accuse me!" than." The Princess Margaret came at The Prince Louis put out a hand, that moment out of the cathedral and which apparently Ivan did not see, for he continued without taking It. "Yet what have I gained either of solid good or even of the lighter but not less agreeable matter of my lady's favor? So far as your sister is concerned. I have wasted my time. It I consider a union of our peoples, already one In heart, your brother works against us both; the Princess Margaret despises me, Prince Conrad thwarts us." I think not so. answered Prince Louis "I cannot think so of my brother, with all his faults. Conrad Is a brave soldier, a good knight, though, as Is the custom of our house, it is his lot to be no more than a prince-bishoplanding slim-walst- highnesses then? They will take eart one of the clearest road nnd the shortest for the frontier, or by the Holy Icon of Moscow, there will very speedily be certain new tablets In the funeral vault of my fathers." The Prince of Courtland started. "This thing I could never Imagine of Conrad my brother. He loves me. He ever cared but for his books, and now that he Is a priest he hath forsworn knighthood and tournaments and wars." Poor Louis," said Ivan, sadly, "not to see that once a soldier always a soldier. But tls a good fault, a generous blindness of the eyes. He bath already the love of your people. He has won already the voice that speak from every altar and presbytery. In a little, when be has bartered away your power for his cardinal's hat, nt may be made a greater than yourself, an elector of the empire, the right if!' p as r eye-blin- fly-blo- ct !" The Wasp laughed a little hard laugh, clear and inhuman as the snap and rattle of Spanish castanets. "Louis, my good friend, your simplicity, your lack of guile, do you wrong, most grievous! You Judge others os you yourself are. Do you not see that Conrad, your brother, must pay for his red hat? He must earn his cardlnalate. And the clear "This Is your doing!" he cried. ambition of your brother Is to make ConImpetuously to her favorite broth- - you chief cat's paw pontifical. sider it. good Louis. Re put out hts hnnd. She took it, And the Trlnce of Muscovy twirled 4 Instead of kissing his bishop's h!s moustache and smiled condescendas in strict etiquette she ought to ingly between his fingers. Then, as done, she cried out, "Conrad, do If ho thought suddenly of something D'i know what that glorious wench else, and made a new calculation, he done? Dared her husbands au laughed a laugh, quirk and short as wily at the church door, leaped Into the lmrk of a dog. toddle, whlstfed up her men, cried "Ha! he cried, "truly we order U these Courtland gallants, Catch things better In my country. I have ho can! and lo! at this moment brothers, one, two, three. They are riding straight for Kernsberg, grnnd dukes, highnesses very serene. w our oul must catch her. A One of them has this province, anothI,"011 wedding! I would I had been er this sinecure, yet another waits on "to side." my father. My father dies and I thjv.' lu,n n!8t,ain you knew of well. I am In my fatWe place- What ald her elder brother, ne glower will n;y broths' IT, I ' - Stood on the green bank looking down on the rushing river. hand man of Sixtus, as hts uncle Adrian was before him. "I am sure that Conrad would do nothing against his fatherland or to the hurt of his prince and brother!" said Prince Louis, but he spoke In a wavering voice, like one more than half convinced. "Again," continued Ivan, without heeding him, there Is your wife. I am sure that If he had . been the prince and you the priest well, she had not slept this night In the Castle of Kernsberg!" Ivan, If you love me, be silent," cried the tortured Prince of Court-lansetting his hand to his brow. This Is mere idle dreaming of a fool. How learned you these things? I mean, how did the thoughts come into your mind? I learned the matter from the Princess Margaret, who in the brief space of a day became your wife's confidante! Did Margaret tell It you? The Prince Ivan laughed a short, laugh. Nay, truly, he said, smiling sadly, you and I are in one despite, Louis. Your wife scorns you me. my sweetheart. Did Margaret tell me? Nay, Yet I learned it, nevertheverily! less. even more certainly because she did it so vehemently. But, after all, I dare say all will end for the best. "How so? demanded Prince Louis d, haughtily. Why, I have heard that your papa at Rome will dissolve this marriage, which Indeed Is no more than one In name. He has done more than that already tor his own nephew. He will absolve your brother from his vows. Then you can be the monk and he the king. There will be a new mar- riage, at which doubtless you shall hold the service book and he the lady's hand. Then we shall have no ridings hack to Kernsberg, with four hundred lances, at a word from a girl's scornful mouth. And the Alla down there may rise or fall at Its pleasure, and neither hurt nor hinder any!" (To be continued.) RARE FLASHES IT A- - BOY THB REVOLUTIONIZE PRESENT TYPEWRITER. Our Washington Letter OF LIGHTNING. Peculiarity of the Fluid That Deflee Analysis. Some rare flashes of lightning, especially very brilliant linear flashes, seem to persist for a time and fade gradually. On the background of the sky. In the place of the flash, one then sees a yellowish green or reddish Image of the flash waning rapidly. Details can be distinguished in It which were Invisible In the prlnrpa! flash. According to M. Touchet, this image Is not merely In the retina, for he has experienced the retinal image, as well as the other. The retinal Image moves with the eye, the other does not. This afterglow has been compared to the train of a meteor or a fuse, to an Incandescent electric filament and to a phosphorescence. The successive discharges of electric. Ity In a lightning flash are so near the limit of persistence of vision (about a tenth of an Inch) that flashes appear to tremble, but the same fact does not, according to Touchet, explain the luminous furrow above described, which he refers to incandescence of the elements of the air carried to a high temperature by the electric discharge. To prove this, he took a photograph of lightning during a thunderstorm on April 12. It has the aspect of a "ribbon flash that la to say, a bright wavering edge to a dim hand, which, he thinks, reprcaused by Inesent the after-glocandescent gas. Oldest King In Europe. King Christian of Denmark, who recently entered hla fifith year, U the oldest king In Europe. ' , t MAY Virginia Youth Has Accomplished That Wlch Hat Puxzled Mechanical Experts for Many Year. A Bevy of Pretty Debuntantei Will Make the Coming Social Sea ion at the Capital an Unusually Interesting mg the Salt We Eat One-Fi- gures Show WASHINGTON.- - There Is always a delightful expectancy relative to the debutantes of a Washington season, and this year's crop presents unusual features in many ways. There are rich girls and poor girls, pretty girls and homely girls, accomplished girls and athletic girls, but there Is no gainsaying that they are all highly interesting girls, and each possessed of many endearing young charms. There will be at least 40 to enjoy the Bachelors, the Sixty Couple and the numerous subscription dances, and there are more ballrooms to be open next season than ever before In this city. Usually a girl has established a reputation tor dancing before her formal presentation, and even thus early In the game It Is not unusual to bear some bachelor remark that a certain girl of his set Is almost as fine a dancer at was her mother or perhaps her elder sister. There Is no longer such a thing as surprising the social world with some shy beauty who has been kept housed, sheltered and almost smothered with accomplishments and learning. Not much. The oud of generally has a generous foretaste of the world for at least a season before she Is launched, Just to make her easy and at home, you know. She dances through a winter, romps through tennis and golf on the open field in the summer, rides with all the old beaux, and Is even pretty well Introduced abroad before formally making her bow here, and sometimes even presented at court abroad Just to give them experience. Most all of the girls will make their debuts In December, and, so far as afternoon tea will prevail, with a charming now known, the exception, such as a pretty ball like the one at which Mrs. Gaff Introduced Miss Zaldee Gaff two winters ago, or the series of dinners, which method was adopted by Mrs. Postlethwalte In presenting her daughter, who was married Wednesday, October 3, to Henry Iv a Cobb. Norfolk, Va. The problem of an automatic carriage for the typewriter, one over which experts have been laboring and experimenting for years without success, has probably been solved by Robert Eugene Turner, a Norfolk boy, who Is yet to reach bin That the' invention, if majority. practicable, Is destined to revolutionize the modem typewriter, Is the opinion of experts, men who have studied the problem for years. Years ago it was recognized that the invention of an automatic carriage return for the typewriter would add from 25 to 30 per cent to the speed of the operators an Item that tells in the business world. The manufacturers of the leading machines put experts on the problem. Xo stone was left unturned to solve the problem of the transference, redirection and control of power. It is said that one company offered a handsome prize to the man in their employ who would discover the principle, to be worked out later. Mr. Turner, who Is a member of the architectural firm of Hebard & Turner, and who Is a lover of mathe- CAPITAL BEAUTIES IN GREAT VARIETIES. matical problems and technical quesThere Is a delightful variety of girls to be tions worthy of solution, had hts atOne cabinet girl. Miss Erma Shaw; presented. tention drawn to the matter. At that one diplomatic girl, so fur as known, Baroness He teens. In his began Elizabeth Uosen, who astonished the North Shore time he was to think out the problem, conveying with her expert swimming, strong tennis and dehis Ideas to drawings. For three years lectable horsemanship all last summer. There are more than & half dozen girls from he studied It at spare tinieB, day and the army and navy sets, and others from official night The young Inventor grasped the dif- and resident society. of all the girls In Washington who lie finally solved will Newest ficulties clearly, be presented this season is pretty, tall, wilIt, that of regulataing the power at lowy Katherine Jennings, who Is one of the most all times, controlling and reversing winsome girls ever introduced from what Is it at will. Briefly stated, thd regula- known In Washington as the "South African contion and control of the power is by tingent. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. means of the Bpace bar. It is unop- llcnnen Jennings, who last year, as they will this, erative automatically until the car- occupied Mrs. A. C. Barneys residence in Rhode avenue, near the French embassy, from riage has gone a certain length, but Island Miss Zaldee Gaff made her debut two years which mabe by means of a key it can ago. nipulated at the will of the operaThe daughters of chairman of the Panama canal commission and Mra. tor. Theodore P. Shouts, Miss Theodora, and Miss Marguerite, have the double Like all valuable inventions, Its advantage of having been presented at the spring court in London this year, simplicity Is the thing that attracts where they were much admired, and a good share of the entire season under attention. It can be added to ma- the chaperonage of Mrs. Whltelaw Reid, but they also have many friends la chines at a nominal cost; it will not Washington. affect the durability of the machine, will not add to the cost of repairs, INTERESTING FIGURES ABOUT SLT. and Is not easy to get out of order. The United States consumes 26,872,700 barIts speed is suffclent for all practical rets oi sau. auuUui, ur a uat'iei lu. . uee persons In the land. laist year It went abroad purposes. for only 1,151,133 barrels. In 1880 63.5 per cent, The following statement in referof the salt used in our country was of home proence to the Invention was made by duction. Last year 95.7 per cent of the product Mr. Turner recently: consumed was produced within the borders of "It increases the mechanical conthis country. In 1880 the consumption In this unof It trol the carriage, making was only 9,384,263 barrels. Thus we see country necessary for the operator to remove that the people of the United States are using anhis hands from the keyboard during nually three times as much salt as they used 28 writing, a feature especially valuable years ago. to touch operators. Only 6,961,060 barrels were produced in this country in 1880, and the consumers were forced The mechanism causes the carto go abroad for 3,427,639 barrels. Last year the riage to return to the Initial writing total production at home was 25,966.122 barrels. end of when the point automatically The tariff act of 1894 placed salt on the free list a written. line Is reached, and also and the Importations increased to nearly 560,000,-00- 0 to return automatically from any pounds the following year. The tariff act of point in the line by pressing a special 1897 returned salt to the dutiable list, and salt in bags, barrels or other packkey. Means for cushioning the Im- ages Is now subject to a duty of 12 cents a hundred pounds, or 33.6 cents pact of the carriage to prevent a de- barrel. The chief salt producing states are Michigan and New York. Statistics structive Jar to the machine Is amply recently gathered by the government show that the combined output of thesa provided for, aa well as an improves of the total production of the ment in the run way b and rollers bear- two states amounts to more than United States. fricto reduce the the carriage ing tion to a minimum. "The momentum attained by the REHABILITATING "OLD IRONSIDES." Under an act of congress, "Old Ironsides" is carriage in tta return stroke is utilized to effect the line spacing, which to be rebuilt once more and refitted for sea servcan also be done from the keyboard. ice. Tbe work is to be done where she was origAn ingenious but simple device Is inally built Boston and the money la being Introduced, so that the setting of raised the Massachusetts State society. United either the automatic or manual line States by of 1812, through an appeal to Daughters spacer will adjust the other to con- patriotic Americans for the preservation of this form in the uniform spacing of historical object lesson, which will once more lines." crulae under "Old Glory" as a training ship for An interesting feature In reference naval apprentices. The original plans of this old to the invention Is the youthfulness fighting ship were recently unearthed In the East When the appli- Indian Marine Museum, Salem, Mass., and will of the Inventor. Important part In the rebuilding. for the patent was filed nearly play Inan 1830 cation It was reported In the newspapers two years ago, or In February, of it was the intention of the government to that 1905, Mr. Turner was only a little destroy the Constitution, together with a number over 18 years of age. Aa he began of other ships. But the very announcement met with a public the study of the problem several years before this, his youthfulness clamor of disapproval, as did Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte's recommendacan be appreciated. It was a mere tion. late last year, that she be used tor a target. The Constitution was built In Boston In 1797, a frigate of 1,676 tons and boy who had undertaken to solve a to carry 45 guns. She was one of the first ships to see active service serious scientific mathematical prob- designed In the war of 1812. lem. Small wonder indeed that the New Englanders were moved to recite the Robert Eugene Turner was born in career of the famous old ship to the navy secretary, Inasmuch as It Is the Norfolk November 26, 1S86. He is only real relic of that branch of American arms that preserved the United the son of R. E. Turner, general su States in her second war with Great Britain. Tbe "Old Ironsides" remained In active commission until the advent of perintendent of the Virginian PIloL After leaving the Norfolk high Bchool the real Ironclad, when she was UBcd for auxiliary purposes. At last, having no utility, even as a training Bhlp, her destruction was he devoted his time to the study of and had been begun when the wave of popular dissent, voiced lit the ordered, mechincal engineering and architecpoem of Oliver Wendell Holmes, forced the navy department to desist. ture. Since that time she has been lying in the Boston navy yard her docks Mr. Turner was nearly two years roofed over like a nondescript building. in securing a patent on his Invention, but It was finally obtained 8AY8 UNITED 8TATES OWNS CUBA. through Walter B. Burrow, patent atCongressman John Janies Jenkins, of WisconMr. Turner' torney at Norfolk. sin, chairman of the judiciary committee of the friends are confident that he has house. Insists that we have absolute sovereignty a small fortune, to say the least, In over Cuba. He snys: his patent. "Cuba Is domestic and not foreign territory. Under international luw. Independent of all treaty , School Gardens of Austria. obligations, Cuba became domestic territory at the close of the war with Spain. But after the It Is stated that nenrly 8,000 school ratification of the treaty with Fpuln Cuba became gardens exist In Austria, not Including domestlo territory by virtue of the treaty and of sister kingdom tho Hungary. They subsequent action of the United States. are eonnerted with both private and "The United Stntes cun only divest its sovpublic schools, and are used for purover Cuba by an act of congress. That ereignty In hor poses of practical Instruction has not beeu done. The supreme court of the tlculturo and tree growing, and often United Ftutes In Neely vs. Henkel sustains my contain botanical museums and beo position by holding that In June, litoo. the Island of Cuba was occupied by and was under control hives. of the United Statea and that It Is still so occupied, and control cannot be disputed." Jerusalem Summer Resort. has Jenkins Congressman represented tho Tenth Wisconsin district at reJerusalem now hns a summer Washington since 18SI5. Ho served during tho civil war with a Wisconsin tort at Ramalah, which U situated regiment. Ho was horn In Weymouth, England In 1843, and came to America several hundred feet higher, and com- at tbe ago of nine years. At tho tlmo of tho insurance scandals last spring Mr. Jenkins, as chairmands a view of the Mediterranean. A now hotel has been built there for man of tho Judiciary committee, reported that, after an exhaustive study, they Mr. congress had the power to regulate Insurance companies. Europeans by an Arab. Most of the found that where he has held ths life la most of his has Wls., Chippewa, JenklLi spent was done work of construction by offices of city clerk, city attorney and county Judge. In 1876 he went to women, whose wages are 11 cents Wyoming for several years, having been appointed United States attorney for day. Lba territory by President Grant. to-da- y men-at-arm- L IHl OF two-third- |