The Texas Mesquiter. (Mesquite, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 52, Ed. 1 Friday, June 26, 1908 Page: 7 of 8
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The
Princess
Elopes
By HAROLD McGBATH
Author of
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Hearty
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SYNOPSIS.
Arthur Warrington, American consul
to Barsehelt, tells how reigning Grand
Duke attempts to force his neice, Prin-
cess Hlldegarde. to marry Prince Dopple-
klnn, un old widower. Warrington does
not know the princess even by sight.
While horseback riding In the country
night overtakes him and he seeks accom-
modations In a dilapidated castle. Here
he finds two women and an old man
servant. One woman Is Princess HUdo-
garde and the other a friend, Hon. Betty
Moore, of England. They detain him to
witness n mock marriage between the
princess and a disgraced army officer,
Stelnboek, done for the purpose of foiling
the grand duke. Stetnbock attempts to
klBs the princess and she Is rescued by
Warrington. Stelnboek disappears for
food. Max Scharfenstein, an old Ameri-
can friend of Warrington's reaches Bar-
achalt.
CHAPTER IV.
He came straight to the consulate
and I was so glad to see him that I
sat him down in front of the sideboard
and left orders that I was at home to
no one. We had been classmates and
roommates at college, and two better
friends never lived. We spent the
■whole night in recounting the good
old days, sighed a little over the de-
parted ones, and praised or criticized
the living. Hadn't they been times,
though? The nights we had stolen up
to Philadelphia to see the shows, the
great Thanksgiving games In New
York, tho commencements, and all
that!
Max had come out of the far west.
He was a foundling who had been
adopted by a wealthy German ranch-
man named Scharfenstein, which name
Max assumed as his own, it being as
good as any. Nobody knew anything
about Mux's antecedents, but he was
so big and handsome and jolly that no
one cared a hang. For all that he did
not know his parentage, he was a gen-
tleman, something that has to be bred
in the bone. Once or twice I remem-
ber seeing him angry; in anger he was
arrogant, deadly, but calm. He was a
god In track-linen, for he was what
few big men are, quick and agile. The
big fellow who Is catlike in his move-
ments Is the most formidable of ath-
letes. One thing that invariably
amused me was his Inordinate love of
uniforms. He would always stop when
he saw a soldier or the picture of one,
and his love of arms was little short
of a mania. He was an expert fencer
and a dead shot besides. (Pardon the
parenthesis, but I feel it my duty to
warn you that nobody fights a duel in
this little history, and nobody gets
killed.)
On leaving college he went in for
medicine, and his appearance in the
capital city of Barscheit was due ob-
viously to the great medical college,
famous the world over for its nerve
specialists. This was Max's first ad-
venture in the land of gutturals. I ex-
plained to him, and partly unraveled,
the tangle of laws; as to the language,
he spoke that, not like a native, but
as one.
Max was very fond of the society of
women, and at college we used to twit
hint about it, for he was always eager
to meet a new face, trusting that the
new one might be the ideal for which
he was searching.
"Well, you old Dutchman," said I,
"have you ever found that ideal wom-
an of yours?"
"Bah!"—lighting a pipe. "She will
never be found. A horse and a trusty
dog for me; those two you may event-
ually grow to understand. Of course,
I don't say, if the woman came along
—the right one—I mightn't go under.
I'm philosopher enough to admit that
possibility. I want her tall, hair like
cornsilk, eyes like the corn-flower, of
brilliant intellect, reserved, and digni-
fied, and patient. I want a woman,
not humorous, but who understands
humor, and I have never heard of one.
So, you see, It's all smoke; and I never
talk woman these times unless I'm
smoking,"—with a gesture which ex-
plained that he had given up the idea
altogether. "A doctor sees so much
of women that he finally sees nothing
of woman."
"Oh, if you resort to epigrams, I
can see that it's all over."
"All over. I'm so used to being
alone that I shouldn't know what to
do with a wife." He puffed seriously.
Ah! the futility of our desires, of
our castles, of our dreams! The com-
placency with which we jog along in
what we deem to be our own particular
groove! I recall a girl friend of my
youth who was going to be a celibate,
n great reformer, and toward that end
was studying for the pulpit. She is
now the mother of several children,
the most peaceful and unorative wom-
an I know. You see, humanity goes
whirring over various sidetracks,
thinking them to be the main line, till
fate puts its peculiar but happy hand
to the switch. Scharfaa*t*in had beeu
mugging away over rusty nails and
grass-grown ties—till he came to Bar-
scheit
"Hope Is the wings of the heart,"
said I, when I thought the pause had
grown long enough. "You still hope?"
"In a way. If I recollect, you had
an affair onco,"—shrewdly.
I smoked on. I wasn't quite ready
to speak.
"You were always on the hunt for
ideals, too, as I remember; hope you'll
find her."
"Max, my boy, I am solemnly con-
vinced that I have."
"Good Lord, you don't mean to tell
me that you are hooked?" he cried.
"I see no reason why you should use
that particular tone," I answered stiffly.
"Oh, como now; tell me all about it.
Who is she, and wlien's the wedding?"
"I don't know when the wedding's
going to be, but I'm mighty sure that
I have met the one girl. Max, there
never was a girl like her. Witty she
is, and wise; as beautiful as a sum-
mer's dawn; merry and brave; rides,
drives, plays the 'cello, dances like a
moon-shadow; and all that,"—with a
wave of the hand.
. "You've got it bad. Remember how
you used to write poetry at college?
Who is she if I may a.sk?"
"The Honorable Betty Moore, at
present the guest of her highness, the
Princess Hildegarde,"—with pardon-
able pride.
Max whistled. "You're a lucky beg-
gar. One by one we turn traitor to our
native land. A Britisher! I never
should have believed It of you, of the
man whose class declamation was on
the flrey subject of patriotism. But
is it all on one side?"
"I don't know, Max; sometimes I
think so, and then I don't,"
"How long have you known her?"
"Little more than a month."
"A month? Everything moves swift-
ly these days, except European rail-
way cars."
"There's a romance, Max, but an-
ing nothing and lallygagglng at court
with the nobility. I wish I had an
uncle who was a senator. 'Pull' la
everything these days."
"You Dutchman, I won this place on
my own merit,"—Indignantly.
"Forget it!"—grinning.
"You are impertinent."
"But truthful, always."
And then we smoked a while in
silence. Tho silent friend Is the best
of the lot. He knows that he hasn't
got to talk unless he wants to, and
likewise that it is during these lapses
of speech that the vine of friendship
grows and tightens about the heart.
When you sit beside a man and feel
that you need not labor to entertain
him it's a good sign that you thorough-
ly understand each other. I was first
to speak.
"1 don't understand why you should
go In for medicine so thoroughly. It
can't be money, for heaven knows youi
father left you a yearly inoome which
alone would be a fortune to me."
"Chivalry shivers these days; the
chill of money is on everything. A
mail must do something—a man whe
is neither a sloth nor a fool. A man
must have something to put his whole
heart, into; and I despise money as
money. I give away the bulk of my
income."
"Marry, and then you will not have
to," I said flippantly.
"You're a sad dog. Do you know,
I've been thinking about epigrams.'*
"No!"
"Yes. I find that an epigram is pro-
duced by the same cause that produces
the pearl in the oyster."
"That is to say, a healthy mentality
never superinduces an epigram?
Fudge!" said I, yanking the pup from
his lap to mine. "According to your
diagnosis, your own mind is diseased."
"Have I cracked an epigram?"—with
pained surprise.
"Well, you nearly bent one," I com-
proir ised.
'1 nen we both laughed, and the pup
i,
a
"Max, There Never Was
other besides her is concerned, and I
can not tell you. Some day, when
everything quiets down, I'll get you
into a corner with a bottle, and you
will find it worth while."
"The bottle?"
"Both."
"From rumors I've heard, this prin-
cess is a great one for larks; rides
bicycles and automobiles, and general-
ly raises the deuce. What sort is she?"
"If you are going to remain in Bar-
scheit, my boy, take a friendly warn-
ing. Do not make any foolish attempt
to sec her. She Is more fascinating
than a roulette table."
This was a sly dig. Max smiled. A
recent letter from him had told of an
encounter with the goddess at Monte
Carlo. Fortune had been all things
but favorable.
"I'm not afraid of your princess; be-
sides, I came here to study."
"And study hard, my boy, study
hard. Her highness is not the only
pretty woman In Barscheit. There's a
raft of them."
"I'll paddle close to the shore," with
a smile.
"By the way, I'll wake you up Thurs-
day."
"How —lazily.
"A bout at Mueller's Rathskeller.
Half a dozen American lads, one of
whom is called home. Just fixed up
his passports for him. You'll be as
welcome as the flowers in the spring.
Somo of the lads will be in your
classes."
"Put me down. It will be like old
times. I went to the reunion last
June. Everything was in its place but
you. Hang it, why can't time always
go on as it did then?"
"Time, unlike our watches, never
has to go to tho jeweler's for repairs,"
f-aid 1 owlishly.
Max leaned over, took my bull-ter-
rier by the neck and deposited him on
his lap.
"Good pup, Artie—if he's anything
like his master. Three years, my boy,
since 1 saw you. And here you tue, do-
started up and licked my face before
I cculd prevent him.
"Lid I ever show you this?"—taking
out a locket which was attached to
one end of his watch chain. He passed
the trinket to me.
"What is it?" I asked, turning It
over and over.
"it'.' the one slender link that con-
nects me with my babyhood. It was
around my neck when Scharfenstein
picked me up. Open it and look at the
face Inside."
I did so. A woman's face peered up
at me It might have been beautiful
but for the troubled eyes and the
drooping lips. It was German in type,
evidently of high breeding, possessing
the subtle lines which distinguish the
face of the noble from the peasant's.
From the woman's face I glanced at
Max's. Tlie eyes were something alike.
Who do you think it is?" I asked,
when I had studied the face sufficient-
ly to satisfy my curiosity.
"I've a sneaking idea that it may lie
my mother. Scharfenstein found me
toddling about in a railroad station,
and that locket was the only thing
about me that might be used In the
matter of identification. You will ob-
serve that there is no lettering, not
even the jeweler's usual carat mark to
qualify the gold. 1 recall nothing; life
with me dates only from the wide
plains and grazing cattle. I was born
either In Germany or Austria. That's
all I know. And to tell you the honest
truth, boy. it's the reason I've placed
rny woman Ideal so high. So long as
1 place her over my head I'm not fool-
ish enough to weaken Into thinking I
can have her. What woman wauts a
man without a name?"
(TO BIS CONTINUED.)
Life Insurance Figures.
Statistics show that there are now
In tho United Kingdom 27,910,260
persons carrying life Insurance for a
total amount of nearly £2,000,000,000.
The total amount of premiums paid la
about £37,000,000.
HOME INDUSTRY DAY
ONE METHOD OF STIMULATING
INTEREST
IN THE LOCAL MANUFACTURES
Education of the People to Patronize
Home Products and Better Appre-
ciate the Importance of Their
Residence Place.
During late years numerous days
have been set aside for celebrating
certain events. Years ago Arbor day
was Inaugurated. One of the latest
days to be Inaugurated Is Mothers'
day. It would seem that it is only
fitting that there should be a Home
Industry day.
Des Moines, la., has inaugurated
what is called a Factory day. On this
day schools and retail business houses
are closed and the populace go from
factory to factory and view the vari-
ous processes of manufacturing goods
aud learn much of the Industry of the
city. In Omaha recently, members of
the Commercial club have been de-
voting one day in the month to vis-
iting manufacturing plants.
These plans are most excellent for
educating the people as to the re-
sources of their com m tint ties. A Home
Industry day would no doubt be the
means of better acquainting the peo-
ple of each town with the resources
of each particular place and would
open up avenues little considered and
stimulate the establishment of new en-
terprises. The most good perhaps
would result from the fact that the
people of each community would learn
of the products of their home place
and better realize how great the ad-
vantage would be to utilize those prod-
ucts instead of using manufactures
from other places. A Home Industry
day should not be for the business or
the professional people, but should
be a day in which all residents, men,
women and children, could participate
and all become acquainted with the
varied resources of the place. The
school children would find a visit to
the different factories helpful to them,
give them a practical idea of how dif-
ferent articles are made and broaden
their views as to business methods.
Home Industry day can be inau-
gurated In any town by the citizens
making a united effort. In fact, each
state could by legislative enactment
set aside such a day with great bene-
fit to the state and its people, and the
establishment of Home Industry day
might mean the saving of millions of
dollars annually to the state. This day
could be made one of real pleasure,
as well as a day of education and uni-
versal profit. Refreshments could be
served by entarprising manufacturers,
and other entertainment in the way of
music, etc., could be utillzod in ma-
king it a day long to be remembered.
D. M. CAHB.
Keep the Store Clean.
It is a well-known fact that in manu-
facturing concerns clean surroundings
tend to a higher standard of workman-
ship among the employes. If this is
true of a factory which is usually
hidden away from the public gaze,
what must be the moral effect of
clean surroundings in a retail store
which has to depend upon the public
for its welfare? if neatness in the
store and display window is attrac-
tive, elegance must be decidedly allur-
ing. That this latter is a fact is
proven by the elegant stores of many
twentieth century dealers who have
taken advantage of the popular de-
mand for cheerful surroundings to in-
corporate into their places of business
a tone of elegance which would have
been the wonder of tradesmen of 30
years ago, the majority of whom be-
lieved that a store should consist of a
few counters and shelves and a stock
of goods. The growing tendency of
the time, especially in the cities, is
one that demands modern methods.
And in adopting these methods it is
but natural that the window should
receive the first share of attention, as
it is a magnet, having power to con-
vert the indifferent public into inter-
ested customers. What holds good in
the cities as to neatness and cleanli-
ness, also holds good In the small
town. The storekeeper whose place
Is untidy cannot expect to make a
great success. Country people abhor
dirt and slovenly habits about a store
as do the city folk.
Use Fire to Combat Fire.
The average retailer does not em-
ploy enough printers' ink, and employ
it. in the proper direction, in dealing
with the trade for his community.
Tho enemies of the retailer, the mall-
order houses, are products of printers'
ifik and know full well the value of
it. They are not anxious that the re-
tail dealers of the country wake up.
They are satisfied to allow conditions
to go on and allow them, the mail-
order house, to get the benefit of the
trade which is coming to them
through their aggressive advertising
campaigns. If a merchant would fol-
low out their schemes of publicity
upon a small scale in his immediate
territory, would get out some adver-
tising matter In the form of circulars
with prices and descriptive matter, it
would win. The way to fight fire Is
with fire, and the retailer has had the
shortcomings of his anti mall-order
house campaigns thrown back upon
him with little or no satisfactory re-
sults. Campaigns he has set up In
opposition have in a measure taken
the edge off the catalogue houses' cam-
paigns, but why not get right Into the
game and fight them with the same
ammunition that they arc using to ex-
terminate the retail trade of the coun-
try? Use local papers liberally and
got out circulars, letters and price
list* well urinted and illustrated.
IN ADVERTISING A CITY
ITp-to-Date Methods Must Be
pioyed to Bring Capital.
Em-
In this day of progress and of ad-
vertising, not alone do business firms
realize the importance of publicity,
but municipalities find It essential to
tell the world of advantages they
possess for the homeseeker and those
seeking business locations.
A few years ago, the city of St.
Louis commenced the raising of a fund
of $400,000 for the purpose of ad-
vertising In tho newspapers and maga-
zines, by pamphlet and otherwise, the
growing Importance of St. LouiB. Den-
ver, Col., raised a fund of $100,000
which was employed In general adver-
tising and the paying of lecturers to
visit various parts of the country
with stereopticon views showing plc-
torlally the Industries of Colorado.
The business men of Kansas City re-
cently Inaugurated a campaign to call
the attention of the world to the great
resources of that town and the trib-
utary country. In Kansas City sign
boards are used freely to tell of the
many things that Kansas City posses-
ses and which are not possessed by
other cities. Tho visitor to the town
Is impressed by the Information con-
veyed to him from these sign boards.
Such striking statements as "Do you
know that beanB are cheaper in Kan-
sas City than in Boston? They are."
It Is a fact "Flour is cheaper In Kan-
sas City than In Minneapolis." Other
sign boards tell by comparison that
taxes per thousand dollars of valua-
tion are lower In Kansas City than In
numerous other cities, and attention
is called to the number of miles of
fine boulevards In the city.
Another means employed Is the use
of full page advertisements In the
dally papers of the leading citizens.
These advertisements are carefully
prepared presenting various maps,
Bhowlng the advantage the country
possesses over other cities In differ-
ent industrial lines.
It appears that this plan of adver-
tising can be most successfully fol-
lowed out by the enterprising men of
any city. In the smaller towns where
there are not great opportunities for
manufacturing, advertising to the peo-
ple showing the benefits to be derived
from patronage of home Institutions
could be profitably carried on. There
is no town so small but that It can bo
helped by judicious advertising.
Every town wherein a weekly paper
Is published there Is a means of giv-
ing publicity to the advantages pos-
sessed by the place. The home paper
Is one of the most telling and force-
ful advertisements any town can have.
Every advertisement of a home insti-
tution speaks for the enterprise of
the place, and to strangers Illustrates
the spirit and enterprise that Is pos-
sessed by the people. It Is always
well to bear In mind that seekers for
homes and for business locations never
pick out the dead towns. A small
town where the people are enterprls-
j ft often holds forth to the prospec-
tive settler greater opportunities than
do the larger cities.
D. M. CARR.
Are Amenable to Reason.
Farmers are usually amenable to
reason, the same as any of the rest
of the human race. They do not buy
of peddlers or catalogue houses be-
cause they want to snub their own
home town and home merchants, but
because the article is brought par-
ticularly to their notice, embellished
with a flow of convincing language
calculated to impress them at once
with the superior merits of the article
so presented and with the alleged fact
that they are saving considerable
money by buying In that way.
Tho fact, that the article Is not su-
perior and Is really considerably
higher priced does not appear, for the
reason, perhaps, that the local dealer
has never taken the trouble to adver-
tise his wares, or has never called
the farmers Into his store and shown
them the article, made comparisons
between it, and the peddled article
and showed them that he, the dealer,
Is actually the one who is saving them
money, not only In the first cost, but
In repairs and wearing qualities as
well.
There is too much of a disposition
on the part of most dealers to take
It for granted that their customers—
or those who might, and should be
their customers—know all about their
stock, its qualities and prices, as com-
pared with those that may be put up
to them by the peddler or the mail
order man. Instead, they should make
It their business to throw a flood of
light on these questions at every op-
portunity. In other words they should
advertise, In the way that their Judg-
ment, and experience dictate, or In
various ways, so there will be no ex-
cuse, at least, for any possible cus-
tomer remaining In Ignorance.
Simple Compass-Flnder.
A simple compass-finder, costing 11
cents, has enabled a western pipe-layer
to locate a 12-inch cast-iron pipe bur-
ied about ihree feet in stiff adobe soil,
Ffid has saved several days of labor
digging. As described by A. E. Wright,
the finder was a magnetized knit-
ting needle having been discard-
ed as not sufficiently sensitive. The
fibers were glued around the balanc-
ing-point, and the needle was so bal-
anced as to dip normally about 20 de-
grees in order that the two ends might
Uo attracted to the pipe unequally.
The needle was mounted tn a cigar box,
with an index card, and a glass cover
as wind shield. When used, the box
was placed horizontally on the ground
In a north and south direction, and
was moved across the supposed line of
the pipe, readings being taken every
two feet and in this way the location
was determined very accurately. The
deflection was twice aB great over a
ball as ovar the mid-length of a pipe.
m
After suffering for seven years,
this woman was restored to health
by Lydia E. Pink ham's Vegetable
Compound. Bead her letter.
Mrs. Sallie French, of Paucaunla,
Ind. Ter., writes to Mrs. Pinkham:
"I had female troubles for seven
years—was all run-down, and ao ner-
vous I could not do anything. The
doctors treated me for different troubles
but did me no good. While in this con*
dition I wrote to Mrs. Pinkham for ad*
vice and took Lydia E. Pinkham'a Vege-
table Compound, and I am now strong
and well."
FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN.
For thirty years Lydia E. Pink-
ham's Vegetable Compound, made
from roots and herbs, nas been tho
standard remedy for female ills,
and has positively cured thousands of
women who have been troubled with
displacements, inflammation, ulcera-
tion, fibroid tumors, irregularities,
eriodic pains, backache, that bear-
g-down feeling, flatulency, indices-
tion,dizziness,or nervous prostration.
Why don't you try it ?
Don't hesitate to write to Mrs.
Pinkham if there is anything
about your sickness you do not
understand. She will treat your
letter inconfldence and advise you
free. No woman ever regretted
writing her, and because of her
vast experience she has helped
thousands. Address, Lynn, Mass.
One of Bill Nye'e.
Referring to a real estate transac-
tion made by one Peter Minult, way
back in the year 1628, Bill Nye, in his
history of the United States, declared:
"New York was afterwards sold for
$24; the whole Island. When I think
of this I go into my family gallery,
which I also use as a swear room, and
tell those ancestors what I think of
them. Where were they when New
York sold for $24?"
The humor of this strikes deeply
when one stops to consider what has
been the outcome of this original In-
vestment. Peter Minult, with trinkets
and a few bottles of rum, bo delighted
the native Indians that they gladly
turned over to him the whole of Man-
hattan island, now the heart of
Greater New York.—"New York, the
Giant City," National Magazine.
The Perennial.
According to the Atlanta Constitu-
tion, a Georgia farmer posted this
sign on his front gate:
"Candidates will pass on. No time
to talk to "em."
One morning his little boy shouted
from the garden walk:
"There's one o' them canderdates
here, an' he says he'll come In any-
how!"
The old man looked toward the
gate and said:
"Let him in. There's no harm in
him. I know him. He's been runnln*
ever sence the war—jest to be a-run-
nln\ It runs in his blood an' he cun't
help it!"
Bedmaklng.
Peddler—Where's your mother, lit
tie boy?
Boy—Upstairs making beds.
Peddler—Where's your father?
Boy—Out in tho garden making
beds.
Peddler—Is your uncle in?
Boy—He's out In the barn bedding
the cattle.
Peddler—What aro you doing?
Boy—Well, if you believe what pa
and ma say, I'm raising bedlam.
And tho agent gave It up as a bad
Job.—Detroit Free Press.
FULLY NOURI8HED
Grape-Nuts a Perfectly Balanced
Food.
No chemist's analysis of Grape-Nuts
can begin to show the real value of
the food—the practical value as shown
by personal experience.
It is a food that is perfectly bal-
anced, supplies tho needed elements
of brain and nerves in all stages of
life from the Infant, through the stren-
uous tlmeB of active middle life, and
is a comfort and support in old aga.
"For two years I have used Grape-
Nuts with milk and a little cream, for
breakfast. I am comfortably hungry
for my dinner at noon.
"I uso little meat, plenty of vege-
tables and fruit in season, for the
noon meal, and if tired at tea time,
take Grape-Nuts alone and feel perfect-
ly nourished.
"Nerve and brain power, and mem-
ory are much Improved since using
Grape:Nuts. I am over sixty and weigh
155 lbs. My son and husband Beelng
how I have improved, are now using
Grape-Nuts.
"My son, who Is a traveling man,
eats nothing for breakfast but Grape-
Nuts and a glass of milk. An aunt,
over 70, seems fully nourished on
Grape-Nuts and cream." "There's a
Reason."
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich*. Read "Tlio Road to Well-
ville," in pkgs.
Ever read the above letter? A new
one appe^s from time to time. They
are genuine, true, and full of human
interest.
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Davis, John E. The Texas Mesquiter. (Mesquite, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 52, Ed. 1 Friday, June 26, 1908, newspaper, June 26, 1908; Mesquite, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth406885/m1/7/?q=peddler: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Mesquite Public Library.