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Our water is all —Chicaen Tribune By .WP‘”’GM (Copyright, The Frank A, Munsey Coy) “Well, he can keep on fol, . said Miss Dracon. i "There?s' ‘:: ‘::;v against it, I Suppose—not over here,” The tea, the music, even the clothes she wore, were all well calculated to soothe a feminine heart—especially one that could not have been more than twenty years old; but, ag she &azed out over the terrace of Armenon- ville, with an elaborate Dretense of Tecognizing no one in the fashionable throng, there was a dangerous sparkle in Miss Dracon’s eye, R Her mother, merican dollars and well preserved youth, looked at her wit] - &ent smile, T e “His title is perfectly good,” l;m'redil ‘;‘l looked it up—-?n the ':la manach de Gotha, w e here only royal “Look out! He's coming over.” It had required no very keen vision on the part of Prince Frederick von Hohenstaufen to see the Dracons, mother and, daughter. An omnisclent head waiter, in the first eye to a ten-franc tip, had placed them at a table where all might see. And, in the second place, they were not the sort of people who escape observation. Great wealth, sagaciously used, stamps its possessors with an imprint as un. mistakable as the sterling mark on solid plate. Prince Frederick was likewise no- ticeable, but otherwise. As he made his way, with a queer mingling of eagerness and anxiety vis- ible in his face, through the perfumed, well-dressed, gayly chatting swarm of Parisians and foreign notables who were enjoying themselves in the Bois that afternoon, he suffered badly by comparison, in spite of his youth, 8o Miss Dracon thought, His features were smug and homely, giving his clean-shaven face an expres- slon she associated vaguely with gro- cers or grooms. His skin was fresh enough, but exposure to the sun had lightness, “I got :‘:‘m omv|= children, had been their Miss Elizabeth said to me about fn. | throughout the day. iernational marriages. I don't see how | Said the Belgian: it applies to us. 1 know that she is . “This i Hohenstaufen!” not crazy for a title—other than her ! A moment later she and her mother own high-born name; and me, I'm not Were leaning against each other for after—after money.” mutual support. ‘The red-coated band, responsive to Very stiff and straight in a new uni- a frenzied leader, was 2inging and ; fOTM, surrounded by officers who were banging through a Hungarian mpl showing him obvious respect, there sody, giving promise that it woul #tood under the yellow shimmer of the be safe to talk about m“uo;:t::‘: ! station light some one whom they both e -l‘h- a personification of | place, with an | for a long time to come. done her the honor—" Mrs, Dracon be- gan, “Perhape I should have spoken first ’ to you,” said the prince, talking rap- idly. “But I sald, “This is America, | Where there must not be too much | formality.’ | ¢crazy with love—as I have been ever | since first I looked at her.” “No scene, please,” cautioned Eliza- i beth steadily. | . The band zinged louder. Her remark drew blood apparently. “It is true that I have debts” the prince went on; “but they are the debts of my ancestors. 1 pay Interest on them No one expects more than that. They are like state debts—what you call national debt. debt is never paid. But why mention such things? It is you I love. I followed again back to Europe.” “Will you have cream or lemon?” asked Elizabeth, suddenly remember- ing the tea things. “So why—why—will you not have me?” “Shall T go over it all once more?” asked Elizabeth, smiling but cruel. “I've seen enough of these inter- Dational marriages to make me sick It 1 ever marry—which I doubt—I'll marry an American. I'll marry a man who can take care of me, just as though I didn’t have a cent in the world; one who will work, accomplish something, be someone by his own ef- forts. Since you owe so much, by your own admission, why don’t you work and—" “Elizabeth!” Mrs. Dracon was scandalized, as she often was by this ultra-modern daugh- ter of hers; but the prince was listen- ing, sober, intent. “I can’t work, the way you mean,” sald Prince Frederick with bated breath. “I'm a Hohenstaufen. I be- long to the empire. If it were not for that, there is nothing fn the world I wouldn't do to show you—show you how I love you. Even now, could I do so with honor, I'd blow out my | brains—" “I've dropped my fan” said Mrs. Dracon. The prince recovered it for her with a little laugh just as the music, with a succession of rippling scales sugges- tive of a flight of butterffies, went up into the air and was silent. Silent, also, for most of the time were Mrs. Dracon and her daughter as | they drove home @ little later through the high-arched allees of the Bols. They were stopping at the Bristol, would be moving on soon to one of the German spas, Wiesbaden most likely. And they were both willing to pretend that it was this approaching departure from Paris that kept them a little re- strained, a little blue, Finally Mrs. Dracon spoke. “Don’t you think you're a bit brutal with him, Beth? Young Germans have been known to kill themselves—" “Oh, he'll show up again,” sald Elizabeth. Paris was like ‘a pond overstocked ! \ | with goldfish—filled with the rich and “Look Out! He's Coming Over.” made it red in spots instead of giving | 1t the even tan possessed by most of | the other men she knew. And his clothes! They also reminded Miss Dracon vaguely of grocers and grooms, dressed up. “Ah, Mrs. Dracon; again! me to salute you.” The prince had taken the tips of Mrs. Dracon’s fingers and lifting them Permit ever so slightly, was performing mel acrobatic feat of bending forward from the hips without flexing the knees. He had touched the fingers with his lips. “Ah, Miss Elizabethi” He repeated the salute «git down here with us, dear prince, said Mrs. Dracon. “Or, are you with friends? When did you leave Amer- " 'u'l‘.he heir of Hohenstaufen dropped into the chair that a waiter had :1- hed into position, gave one rme::r)l"lnx)gulvn)l-i at Elizabeth Dracon, then turned once more to the older w?‘:l:n;onn as I learned you had gone, then I left,” he said Elizabeth bit hslu‘ iled easily m(',‘tAM:o:x::idvm' * said Mrs. Dracon. “A coincidence.” mm»d‘ed prince, “but designed by me. He looked from mother to Mrs. Dracon was listening in doubt, although she had the a'ur of on: who 1s rather preocupied W h “mfi thing else. The daughter’s ~\e;;| m . his with the suspicion of a challeng in them. fladn’t they for all, that night the — lip, while her settled this, once and prince had pro- Camel's Wirking Life ne work at rength begins vears, ak ve and Camels are five vears, and thelr to decline at twenty fl“w ~ though they live for thirty-fi foryyeas .. Eftective. Kerosene Found . tions have been CAl N?lvlcuo‘::: remedies for insects which damage such fof railroad -~ hardwood products Htable to attack b y the socalled pow- derpost beetles it has been found that kerosene and linsee d ofl are effective repellents agalnst these insects. iidle from the four quarters of the | world. Came the end of Grand Prix | week, and it was as though some | mighty hand had opened all the sluices of the pond. The goldfish scattered. The Dracons lingered longer in | Paris than they had expected—a mat- Iter of new gowns—and then floated on, with other goldfish, to the German resort. But still there was no sign of Prince Frederick von Hohenstaufen. It troubled them both a little secretly. He wasn't acting in accordance with form. Generally when an impover | ished prince once fixes his attention “Elizabeth told me that you had | A national | You | had instantly recognized—Prince !‘r;a- | worla. Besides, I was crasy—. | Slid Off With Them Into the Night. erick himself. Almost at the same in- stant he saw them, started toward them. “Ah, Mrs. Dracon; again! me to salute you.” He took the tips of her fingers, bent forward from the hips without flexing his knees. “Ah, Miss Elizabeth!” He repeated the salute. But his ridiculously short hair was now con- cealed by a helmet which hadn't been displaced. “l regret,” he said, as he straight- ened up, “that you have been made to suffer. But while you are in Ho- henstaufen you will, at least, be my guests.” “We want to get to Belgium—to Lon- don,” said Elizabeth, by now on the verge of tears. “We've lost our baggage—every- thing,” said Mrs. Dracon. They were speaking softly, as cl- vilians and military passed and re- passed. The officers who had sur- rounded the prince had turned their backs, pretending not to notice. “l am master here,” said the prince Quietly; “but not beyond the limits of the principality.” . He turned to Eliza- beth. “Have you forgotten that I love you?” “What thea?” “Marry me.” Elizabeth looked at him with un- filnching eyes. “You have us in your power—to compromise us, disgrace us, if you wish—" ) A change of expression in the prince’s face made her pause. “I spoke to you ence of shooting my- self,” he sald; “but my life was not my own. 1 stil have it—Gott set dank—to give for my country. As my wife, or even as my flancee, you could have—" He made a gesture of de- spair. “Mrs. Dracon,” he resumed, “farewell. A military motor will be here in a few minutes, in charge of one of my orderlies, who will see that | you and Miss Dracon are conducted in ! safety to the Belgian frontier. Elza- betl, if I never see you again—" “Kiss me good-by,” she whispered ia panic. A gray-painted motor, with two men in uniform on the front seat, slid oft with them into the night. Prince Fred- erick von Hohenstaufen had not been Permit on a dazzling bait like Elizabeth Dra- | there to see them go; but every now con—handsome, educated, immeasur- | 3nd then, as they stopped at garrison ably rich in her own right—he be- | tOWDS and scattered posts where all comes as a ravening pike. So they both thought. They were not without experience. But they said nothing about it. Not until one night. It was the night that followed a hideous day. From early morning they had been crowded with strangers whom they feared and distrusted in | the tiny, suffocating compartment of a third-class rallway carriage. All day | the train had crawled and stopped, then crawled again, like a wounded was wakefulness and feverish activity, one of the men on the front seat showed a paper he carried, ‘whereupon there would be a murmured “Recht!” and a salute. “What is on that paper? asked | Etizabeth after one of these halts. | The orderly looked surprised. “That the high-born young lady,” he said, “is the promised bride of his highness, Prince Frederick.” They came into a sleepy Belgian trontier post at dawn In an hour a worm, while other trains rushed b’l with lordly authority. Soldiers, hel- | train would be carrying them to | meted, brusk, impersonal, had jerked | Dieppe, with London and New York, | the door of the compartment open at ' it seemed to them, thoroughly ex- | times, had stared and talked among | hausted though they were, just be- E themselves, but had answered no ques- | Yond. | tions | Elizabeth demanded the paper that Even more lugubrious was the deep- | had brought them thus far in safety, | ening night. It had begun to rain. and then, while her mother and the Then, finally, as though the wounded ‘ men who were there looked on, she worm was completely exhausted, the | Wrote something on it with a borrowed | train came to a halt and moved no | Pencil. more. There was another hour of | “Take this back to his highness,” stifiing misery, then once more the |She said, “with our love and grati- the | est products a8 tele- | door was jerked open and there came the order in the clipped, military Ger- man of Prussia: “All passengers get down!™ It was almost panic as the shudder- ing civilians—men, women and chil dren, Dutch, Belgian, French, English, American—clambered out; but infor- mation somehow got about that here they were to remain until mobilization wn-' complete, that there was a hotel in the neighborhood that was to be their temporary prison. ~And what Is the name of the Placing Both of mn;‘ simply a question of verae- !y botwesa - 'sald the oldest 15 babitant. “Hoesald I was a liar, and [ sald be was one” “Humph!™ re- joined the village postmaster. “That's | the first time 1 ever hear of either of | you telling the truth.” e ———— Many Sources of Pager Supply. News print paper has been | by the forest service laboratory from | 34 different woods, and & number com- | pare favorably with standard spruce ! pulp paper. | tude.” The orderly saluted. The gray car snorted and was off again on its return into Germany. Not until it was at a ; safe distance did the orderly dare look at what the fair American had written, At first he saw nothing, as the paper fluttered in his hand. He came to the words, “promised bride,” and then he saw. There had been written here the one word “Recht!”—and this had been signed with the name of Elizabeth sleep | through with some warm-blooded ant mals which find themselves suddenly surrounded by frigid weather, and | when all functions that make for tiae best of life are as if they had never been, is most curfous While it is mainly explicable it is none the less astonishing. Cynicai Comment. Every man is as Heaven made and sometimes a great deal wi Jecvantes. "IN THE DANGER 20K By MARY WORDEN BLISS. OO OOOOOST (Copyright, 1915, by W. G. Chapman.) There was not one of the odd one hundred choppers who did not know the full history of Leoti Rogers and of Rob Marsh. A school had been start- ed in the encampment, and the father of Leoti and an aunt had been given charge of it. Both had died. Leoti was left without a relative in the A half-breed teacher and his wife then ‘took charge. It was pos- sible for them to give Leoti a posi- tion as assistant teacher. The gov- ernment supplied quarters for them in the school building, and Leoti was content to stay. It was a wild, crude, even perilous environment, but Leotl was glad to be able to earn a living until she could think out a coherent future. The even tenor of her life was at length inter- rupted, however. Wineka, the son of the chief, returned from a long Alas- kan chase. Leoti had shuddered the first time the dark flashing eyes of the impetucus young savage rested upon her face. Every day after that he managed to cross her path. He was respectful, but determined. It became known among the tribe that Wineka had resolved to take Leoti as a bride. Then came the logging gang, and Rob Marsh among them. The young lumber cruiser met Leoti one day at the spring. It was a case of love at first sight. Something of this Wineka had learned. He began an active courting, or rather attempted it, to be repulsed by Leoti. “I will kill the pale face lover,” he told her flercely one day. Leot! im- parted the dread information to her lover. One evening both were miss- ing. > Between the lovers a perfect under- standing had come about. They would have then married at once, only that Rob owned a mining claim a short distance away from the lumber camp. It was necessary, in order that he might file a claim upon this, that he make a survey of it and stake it out. Then he could sell it for a sum Juficient to warrant Lis taking a wife, and he and Leot! would settle down in the city. Rob had attended to the claim, and, on his way back to the city, had stopped at the lumber camp for & food supply. He hoped to evade no- tice from the savages. Someone had seen him, Wineka had been apprised of the'fact. Bill Budd had discovered his danger. He had hidden him away in a cave. The question now was ag ' to getting Rob back to the city. One of his men came to Budd about noon. “Bill, I've been carrying out ymrl orders and nosed around the Indian , camp this morning. It's a blockade.” “You mean?” inquired Bill anx- {ously. “Bear Bluff is completely surround- ed. I suppose there isn't a hundred | foot space that hasn't a friend of Wineka on patrol or in hiding. The orders are to shoot Rob Marsh on sight.” “All right,” observed Bill abstract- edly. “You and some of the others be- . gin shooting a tew logs into the river in «bout an hour.” “Why!” exclaimed the other, “we're mot ready to make a run yet.” ‘Do as I say,” ordered Bill, and bimself proceeded to a part of the camp near the stream where the Slufty formation was a shelter against observation from the Indian camp, Half a hundred logs were sent adrift by the men within the next two hours. The current of the stream was rapid, and the logs floated swiftly down the river and past the Indian encamp- .ment. There was an interim of about forty minutes, and then Bill and two helpers came to the edge of the river and set afloat another log. The old foreman watched it shoot down the stream like the others. He gave utterance to a fervent sigh of re- lief as it passed the encampment and rounded a curve in the stream, taking it out of sight. “Good!” he muttered to himself with profound satisfaction. “Holler—Rob Marsh is in it, and Leot! will soon greet her future husband.” But, wise and confident as was old Bill, he had not sufficiently counted on Indian vigilance and cunning. ‘Two'miles below the Indian camp a canoe shot out into the stream navi- gated by Wineka. He proceeded to sink the hook of a short pole into the bark of the log and pull it ashore. “Pale face come out,” he ordered, and kicked the plug loose. “You and Wineka, for Leotl,” he added fero- ciously as Rob stepped forth, and he flung at his feet a counterpart of a long hunting knife he held in his hand. The young chief made a spring. Rob [ warded him off, but he saw daath in | some dexterous maneuver held in store { by his adversary. Then ne stared. | From the brush an agile form bound- | ed on tiptoe. dian _girl, Wineka. She held outspread a heavy blanket. Just as Wineka was preparing for other omslaught on his opponent, she flung the blanket over his head. As he struggled helpless, she whipped a stout lasso across arms and body, pushed him to the ground, and, turn- ing to Rob, pointed down stream si lently. Rob Marsh did not hesitate or lin- ger. Within an hour he was safe from pursuit, within six at a second. outpost, and the next morning he reached the end of his journey—and He recognized an In- the discarded fiancee of — Valuable at Berlin are cleaned abot thousand dol'ars worth of gold oo from the soot. onvenience To The Public:— & It is our desire to call your attention to the convenience that we can extend to you in a banking way and also the ad- vantages of using the check book instead of the pocketbook. Nine-tenths of the business of the world today is done by check. Why? Because it is the most practical and it is the one safe way ! 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