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tell us what the Kings wine and the KipH'A
wagoners are doing here 30 Tar ffom IN

tell US what the Kings wine a2a tSs III 1YSf
marshaPs camp"
brethren. the enemies of his peopler' COM
manded another voice sternly. Let them
that carry the wine for the lips OF evil
doors drink deep Of the cup OF wrath and
anger and trembling KILL say-kieiis
And among that throng Of fierce, grave
men there arose an ominous murmuring.
well spoken, Castinat the Prophet. Have
they spared us? Have they not slain young
and old alike-the mother with the babe
gray hair and goidilocks7 XIII! The ac-
daysr'
The tall man with the red beard had
meantime been interrogating the gypsy.
But he could not get Billy Marshall beyond
the muttering Of threats and oaths in an
unknown tongue which sounded profane to
his Questioner.
II can make nothing Of him. He Is either
up s0 f1om hs ansea he a st as rising
men Of the bond? Shall these dier'
faye. let them dier' cried the crowd
pressing ferceiy forward each with a
weapon in his hand.
But before weapon could be unsheathed.
the light figure Of Corn
flashed through between them.
"Stay!' she cried, Brothers Of the Bond.
These men are innocent-at worst they are
but servants OF those that do US evil. Re
member him who said that all they that
take the sword shall perish by the sword.
And who restored the ear Of the high
priests servant which Simon Peter cut off p
This appeal was precisely that which was
best suited to influence the men about her.
Frances Wildwood was not her father
daughter for naught.
Il ask not that the two men and the
won, woman s should 60 free" she cried Take
horses and gear. Then If they have done
evil let them die the death. But let not
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-02-28
the Brethren of the Bond STAY the innocent

the Brethren of the Bond slay the innocent
In cold blood'
Some were for mercy and CRIED ITO the
village with them! Let the ministers
judged! But there remained dark
browed minority, men of much suffering
and many travelings, eye-for-eye and tooth
for-tooth men, who continued to edge nearer
to the prisoners, lingering restlessly at
their weapons.
The quick instinct Of Frances Wildwood
caught the movement. She drew her pistol
and set herself determinedly in the front.
standing almost across the PROSTATE body
Of Pierre, the wagner. In the small I'M
certain light of the lantern she saw that
a cruel gag had been thrust into his mouth.
She bent down and released the V-shaped
twig wrapped about with handkerchief
which had been used to hold the jaws apart.
"At least let the man answer for him.
SELF" she cried. who and what are you?
Speak,
The WAGNER was too much exhausted
with his late rough experiences and present
pain to do more than lift up his finger and
point to the second Of the three wagons
that which carried the largest cask Of
wine It was marked with much distinct
ness, For the private cellar Of the Mar
shall de Montrevel. present from his most
Christian majesty"
There said Pierre, the wagner.
hoarsely, '1et what you find there speak
for mel'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-02-28

sonal properties would be found In tbs
stadfts 81 the Templars at La Cavalerie.
and that he was to report II, by mischance.
anything was lacking.
II do not WISH" he said, ''that when you
return to your masters YOU should be able
to report to them that we of the Cevennes
are thieves and robbersr'
Whereupon Pierre of Roche-a-Bayard
and Hoo saluted and fell In at the tail of
his displenished wagons. The young Can't
sard leader looked about him for his COM
panion OF the night. The pastor was stand
Ing in close speech with his daughter
AS Maurice Raith glanced back over his
shoulder young Cavalier crossed toward
them. walking quickly and eagerly. The
sun rose.
CTo be continued)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-02-28
CHAPTER VI.
The Mysteries Of Love.

perhaps for who knows the mysteries
Of the influence of soul on SOUL the dream
of the night which descended upon Maurice
Raith as he sat with his pistols on his
knees wrapped in his cloak upon the tufted
scalp of the Larzac had overpassed mile
or two Of misty frost-scented darkness
from little double-windowed roof-chanf-
Der where sat girl, her chin sunk in the
Joined palms Of her hands. her bare dimpled
elbows resting lazily upon the sill.
Flower-o' -the-Corn meditated and her
meditation was sweet to her. as free
hearted maiden's ought to be.
Flower-o' -the-Corn's world was exclu-
sively a world OF men. Yet of all these
she knew but one well-her father. AS for
the rest the stern-faced veterans OF Ard
millan's regiment circled her about like a
wall She was watched and guarded like
a virgin citadel. She might have been
spolH by too ready service and homage
had she not been accustomed to these
when. while yet young subaltern IN
"I.eyen's Foot" Colonel Ardmillan had
been accustomed to lift her high in the air
in both hands. or ride her till she scream
ed with delight upon the uppers Of his
military boot.
YET for all her ease OF mind as to men.
Frances smiled. not ill-pleased as she
thought of that day among the Naanur corn,
by the side of the sunken road. wnen at
the parting of q bush Of broom an eager
eyed youth of handsome aspect had stood
d,,u,bstricken before her-the fullness of
his homage presently mounting 10 his brow
and telling its tale in the stammering ac-
cents of his tongue. Maurice Rafth also
smiled. as II a good angel had visited him
In sleep. And so, perhaps, 1t was.
AS Frances sat at the window and watch
ed the late moon rise. she was aware of a
crouching line Of dark figures that d'sen-
~ bxn ffa He,
wall of the mountain village and stole
across the space which separated the last
houses from the outer defenses. For a
long moment each bowed head and bent
pair of shoulders were silhoue&ted against
the great f1attened oval of the moon as 1t
reared itself slowly up out of the valley
mists. A gunbarrel rose black here and
there. A scahbard clinked sharply on q
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-02-28
BURGLARS TOOLS,
Their Possession Should Constitute q
Felony,

II sincerely trust that Il will not require
some atrocious murder by a burglar in this
city to accomplish a reform which the DO
lice department has been endeavoring to
effect for some time" remarked a head
quarters detective sergeant to a Star man
this morning.
"A law should be passed making 1t fell
ony, penitentiary offense, punishable by
imprisonment for term between one and
five years, for persons of evil repute to be
found In the possession of burglars tools.
Such a law exists In other communities,
and there is ample requirement for 1t here.
while we have been successful when
upon an arrest Of a man we have found
burglars tools upon him in securing his
commitment to jail upon some minor
charge. and the courts have always i'm
posed good sentences. a Jail sentence Is not
sufficiently lettering to those men; 1t
should be a severe prison offense. A man
who carries burglars tools is a prima facie
criminal, at heart a rascal, and at all times,
IL need be, a wouldbe or actual murderer.
$50 well is 1t thoroughly understood in
cities that the burglar Will surely burglar
lie II he can find the opportunity, and COM
nit murder without conjunction, that am
at a loss to understand why our law-mak-
ers have not enacted the law in question,
as the danger Is fully appreciated else
where. The ever-ready burglar Is sneak
q -
side issue to his nefarious calling. No gym
patty whatever should be shown these men,
and, as q police officer, / fully appreciate
the sentiment which Is gaining ground In
this country that burglary should be made
a capital offense. and certainly punishable
by life imprisonment.
'.It Is my experience, based upon close
contact with criminals for many years that
the short prison sentences these villains
usually receive are without avail in curbing
their burgiarious and murderous instincts.
have had them say to me so many times
that cannot count, Well, win see you
when get OUT and as a rule, once q bur-
giar always a burglar. Society owes Il to
itself to place these men in confinement
and keep them there, for in ninety-nine
cases out of one hundred they make good
the farewell salutation / have just quoted.
We see them again, though we always en-
deavor to see them first.
"a law such as suggested Will largely aid
the police in keeping f1guratively and liter-
ally a tighter grip upon actual and intend
ing law breakers. We do not assert that
1t will do away with the crime OF burglary
but we do insist that 1t will place tough
class of men out of the way, where they
cannot do harm to peaceable citizens. Pre-
yention of crime Is as large an element in
its ultimate suppression as convictions in
the courts. This law must sooner or later
be passed for the protection OF the citizens
of washington and 1t cannot be passed too
quickly in our judgment"
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CHAPTER VII.
The Chief Of the Camisards.

Then was seen wonderful sight. The
plumber Of kings wagons by the Camisard
peasants of the mountains.
Pierre the wagner, from where he lay
still bound Though now ungaggeO upon
the rough pebbles, said hoarsely to Frances
WILDWOOD:
Tell them to knock in the upper bung.
but. for the present, to leave the lower!'
Instinctively the men obeyed. and this is
what they found Across the whole length
of the great cask, just above the lower
bunghole. a flooring or partition had been
built Beneath In the lowermost hollow
there was still suficiency Of wine to
satisfy many thirsty souls. that is, If any
one had taken the notion to tap it.
But above all was dry as a bone, and the
Camisards, all unhindered. drew from its
roomy depths a multiplicity Of arms and
gunpowder of the best British manufacture,
Genevan Bibles and Camisard banners with
various inscriptions, medicines and comforts
able packet of papers wrapped In oilskin
and Endorsed as follows:
ITO be opened only in the presence of the
accredited leaders of the people called Cam
fsards and Of our own envoy and plenipo-
Tertiary, Pirre Dubois, presently roulier at
MARLBOROUGH.
EUGENE"
BY this time the small surprise party OF
fighting Camisards who had made the at
tack was reinforced by others, most of
whom carried lanterns and rough protected
lamps of tin, such as are used In stables
and barns in the country.
Frances Wildwood stood beside the man
whose life she had saved. And when out
Of the last cask addressed to Mons lie
Marechal de MontreveD small field piece
completely equipped was extracted, she be-
came nearly as excited as the poor village
folk. who. lifting their clasped hands to-
ward the heavens, Joined with one voice in
the old Huguenot chant
Jehovah! Jehovah!
Croire en- toll, c'est la vie.
Croire en- tot. c'est la vie
Amen! Amenr'
For the shining field piece with its In
scription in letters of gold:
ITO our fellow religionists struggling for
liberty for their Brethren OF the States
General of Holland" seemed to bring these
poor ignorant peasants. driven and harrfed
by the great and powerful of their own
folk into one company with the whole
church Of the first born. militant on earth.
At last they knew what they were not
alone. The glitter OF the polished steel
barrel was more convincing to them than
many embassies. The Lords folk, embat-
tied on other fields. remembering Sion by
other Babylonian waters were not unmind-
full Of them. Gods poor prosecuted remnant
ON the Ceyennes.
And so the solemn chant went upward.
mingled now with the weeping of women,
now drowned amid the excited shouting OF
men, as Pierre the wagner, nightly re-
covered by means of draft of his own
wine poured down his throat, piioted them
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-02-28
Sandals for Drawing Rooms.
From the Queen.

Dainty sandals designed for ladies' EVEN
ing wear have already appeared In the shop
windows, and will doubtless ere long be
seen In the drawing room. A West End
bootmaker recently exhibited charming
pair OF sandals he had made for q fair
customer, which would have graced the
feet of Roman empress. The boot expert
believes that the sandal has come to stay,
and that the shoe. which has held sway for
over twelve centuries. La at last threateneA
with rival
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-02-28

The District Federation of Womenfs Clubs
will meet tonight at the w. c. T. U. head
quarters, 522 9th street northwest. Mrs.
Barroll, wife of Commander Barrou, U. 8.
N, will speak on some phase of club work.
She is delegate from Connecticut to the
D. A r.
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her. She fell back In her chair repeatin1
again and again. 1T Is he; 1t Is my Phil
ippe! Antoinette was at her side support
Ing her fran body In her strong, young
arms.
This Is very stranger exclaimed MI.
Mont1oy. Can You explain to US. Mr..
scendant OF Madame Dupre?"
II am unable to tell you that but I can
tell you something Of my family history,
and you can Judge Of 1t yourself
My right name Is Dupre. My father
was Philippe Louis Dupre and he was q
Frenchman of good birth, who for political
reasons fled from his native land and went
70 .U, England sain There he married my mother.
ever heard her say, my father had been
wild. They emigrated to America when 1
was young and lived In Cincinnati. Father
died soon afterward and mother dropoed
the name of Dupre and used my father 8
middle name. In time II came to be spelled
Lewis. My mother died after few years :"
But the ring! How came you to have
that? interrupted Mr.. Montjoy unable to
wait another moment.
Why, my father gave 1t to my mother
on his death bed. He made her promise
never to part with it. because 1t must de-
scend to me, aud he told her she must
teach me to keep it always. Afterward,
when l was grown. / found among his
papers a history of it and how he came
by Il. but We never knew that it was very
valuable. There is a stranger history con-
nectfd with il than the one L have relat ed
When L went TO California. / took the ruby
from Its setting and left Ii with my wife,
while ! wore the rims. telling her that when
we were reunited the stone should again
be put in It's pace. You have told me Row
Phil tried to SSH the stene to the Easton
3eweier and know how he parted with IT."
md he rS'atsd the subsequent history OF
his own rnhy and its recovery from Der
aard LeInan.
81 do not expect you to regard my story
a. conclusive evidence that am the grand
son OF Madame Dupre." continued Mr..
Lewis. The marriage record of my father
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good and evil alike might be expected to
choose 1t as their patHtal playground in
strewn valleys beneath. where dogs bark
ed at night and cocks cEpwded clarion-Eke
Frances stole ON intosa little circle Of
blanched and moonlft crxgs which rose out
OF the bald plain. casting long fiat shadows
There-there-quite near her, because the
circle Of pallid rocks measured nowhere
more than 200 yards across, were men who
crawled nearer and nearer to a certain
point On the opposite face of a natural
amphitheater.
Suddenly on a rock, Hat on top like a
table, she saw a man spring erect and
throw up his hands, He showed black
against a slate-blue horizon. Instantly here
and there half dozen shots went of,
changing loudly among the rocks and rever-
berating from innumerable narrow gorges,
The dark crawling figures raised them
selves erect and rushed upon a group OF
wagons and horses encamped some distance
out on the plain.
1t seemed to be no surprise, for Iashes of
fire met them here and there as they came
There was no shouting on either side, Only
knot or two Of dark bodies writhed and
struggled on the ground, and anon grew
still.
The camp of Pierre. the Kings was-
oner. was In the hands Of his enemies
sooner than he had anticipated He him
self lay gagged and helpless while the Cam
tsard leaders Investigated first the royal
marks on his wagons. then the commissions
in ais pockets, and last of all the official
seals which had been set upon his casks
of wine.
One after the other a dark lantern was
flashed upon the faces of the three pris-
oners.
LET us question the servant said a
tall. red-bearded man. evidently leader
among the assaitanta I'VE win make him
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-30

Anthony Hope became a Man of Mark when year younger still.
 MT. k. F. Benson, as the author of 'Dodo," was only 26 when he found him. self one Of the most discussed men in England; MT. Anstey's Vice Versa made him famous at exactly the same age; and MT. William Watson was barely 30 when he was recognized as one of the greatest of living poets., Fame, too. has been equally kind to her own sex. for she lavished her gifts on Miss Olive Braddon. Miss Fowler and many others before they were well advanced into the twenties
 But other writers she keeps waiting for her smiles into middle age, and in some cases until it becomes a race al- most between laurels and the grave Ian MacIaren was forty-four before his Bon nie Brier Bush" made the Sefton Park parson an object of interest to the world l.; MT. George Meredith, in spite of his col ossal ability, was little known to the public until he was nearing the sixties the late author of John Inglesant" was a middle-aged man before the fame he never sought found him out; Mrs. r. A. Steel had to wait until she was fifty for recognition of her powers in fiction and the late Mir Du Maurier was get ting quite an old man." as he used to say, when '"Trilby' made him known to hundreds of thousands who had never seen one of his pictures.
 Few people had ever heard of Gen. Lew Wallace. except as a soldier. until he was nearly sixty, when he startled the world with his Ben Hur;" and Rolf Boldre- wood was sixty-two before the first of his popular novels-"Robbery Under Arms'-made it's appearance.
 But it cannot be denied that, on the whole fame is kinder to wielders of the pen than to those who follow any other calling. She has few rewards for sol diers or sailors until at least middle age is creeping on them. Lord Roberts first really tasted the cup of fame when, at the age of forty-eght. he made his won derful march from Kabul to Kandahar; Lord Wolslev was more fortunate, for the Ashantte war brought him fame at forty; Lord Kitchener was forty-eight when the Khartoum expedition gave him his first Iaurels and a peerage; and Gen Baden-Powell was forty-three when he defended Mafeking so bravely.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-30
FAME Is A FLIRT
SOME DTORIEs SHOWING HER
 FORECLOSURES.
To Some Glory Comes While Youth Yet Lasts, and to Others While
 the Sers is at Hand.

''The Romans made Fame feminine be- cayse she is so capricious," the late Oliver Wendell Hholmes once declared: and cer- tainly. for sheer caprice and uncertainty, the most fickie member of the fair sex could scarcely rival her unreIiabIlity. For the vast majority of us she never has a smile or even a glance; others she neg lects altogether until they are walking down the last slopes of life, when laurels have lost their power to charm: while a favored few she showers her gifts on ai- most before they have reached manhood.
 Of these favorites of fortune. A writer in Tft-Bits goes on to say, are Sig Mar coni, who was little more than a school boy when he wrested from nature the se- cret of making the air his messenger from one hemisphere to another and he had barely left his teens behind him when his name was household word in every con- tinent; MT. Rudyard Kippling, whose Departmental Ditties' were written be- fore his twenty-first birthday, and who literally Jumped into worldwide fame be- fore he was three years older, and Herr Kubelik, who had reused musical Europe to a frenzy of adulation' before he had reached even that immature age.
 MT. Winston Churchill had not left liar
 
 talking of the daring and adventurous youth who was doing such valorous deeds with the Spanish forces in Cuba; and be- fore he was twenty-six his name was on every tongue as a man of altogether ex- ceptionai pluck, of cleverness with tongue and pen, and as a new and formidable force in politics; while his American namesake was almost equally young when his powerful novel, Richard Carvel," placed him in the forefront of the world . writers of fiction.
 At the same age. 2S, J. M. Barrie emerg- ed from the obscurity of @ Midland jour nalist into the fame of great writer. Mir. Rider Haggard was only two years older when everybody was wanting to know all about the author of King Sol- onons Mines;" Mir. Marion Crawford wrote perhaps the most popular of all his books, Mfr. Isaacs." when he was 2S; at the same age MT. Guy Boothby made his Bid for Fortune and got 1t; and Mfr.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-30
GENTRY BROS. SHOW.
The Worlds Best and Biggest Collec' ton of Trained Animals
 Coming Soon.

OOIn1AB oUO-ls
 The name of Gentry will be handed down to posterity as the greatest educa- tor of the dumb brute during the nine- | teenth and twentieth centuries. No other man. living or dead, has ever been able to accomplish half so much with dogs ponies. monkeys, elephants and camels as have the four talented brothers who own and operate the four largest trained animal shows in the world. Animal actors will do that in this city which ten years ago even. would have surpassed the com prehensIon of the most enlightened and best posted individual fin this country on animal education Even the Gentry Brothers themselves have been repeatedly surprised at the marvellous results they have attained and when the statement Is made that the only exhibition of this kind on earth will be witnessed here when the Gentry Brothers give their exhibition. there Is no fear of the statement being challenged and no fear of the public fail ing to acquiesce. Gentry Brothers are making a feature of their street parade this season, when the beautiful pageant passes along the principal streets of this city. All those who delight in the beauties of gorgeous displays should wit ness it. Like the rest of the performance, the parade is larger and grander than ever, and every adjective used in prais' ing it is not misused or misapplied. The show will exhibit here Saturday, Octo- her 3
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-30

Fame keeps politicians waiting equally long for her favors. Even our present prime minister, with all his ability and advantages. had to wait until he was forty before he became in any sense a man of mark. Lord Rosebery reached the front rank of statesmen at the same age. At forty MT. Asquith leadped into political fame and the cabinet; MT. Brod- rick was forty-four when he became a cabinet minister, and MT. Curzon was thirty-nine when he was advanced to his present exalted position.
 MT. Chamberlain was forty-four before he really became a power in politics: Mir. Rltchie reached cabinet rank when he was forty-eight, anu MT. John Morley at the same age. while Sir Henry Fowler had to wait for his promotion to the cabi- net until he was sixty-two.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-30
EALI-BEACH.

Tnv,tations have been received by friends in Montgomery, from Captain and Mrs. Andrew H. Nave, to the wedding reception of their daughter, Miss Annie Porter Beach and MT. William Stakley Hail. the wedding to take place on We'd nAsday evening, November 11th. at their home, 4O4 Main Avenue, West Knoxville. Tenn.
 This is of special interest to Montgom- reians where the prospective brides mother and grandmother are so well known.
 Her mother formerly Miss Mamie Hil- Hard, daughter of William Preston Hil- lard, who was son of Hon. Henry w. illard.
 Miss Beachs grandmother. Mrs. Vir- ginia Whiting Hilliard, was Miss Virginia Whiting daughter of MT. John Whiting and sister of Mrs. William E. Graves, now of Birmingham, formerly of Montgomery.
 The following of the Hau-Beach we'd din gis from The Knoxville Sentinel of 18th inst:
 Those in social circles are deeply in- terested in the coming marriage of Miss Annie Beach and MT. William Hall, which will occur at the home of the brides parents on Main Avenue. west. at 8 o'clock on the evening of November il. Only a few most intimate friends have been bidden to the wedding. which is to be a very quiet home affair. followed by large reception for which the fol-