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CHAPTER 1.

It is always a pity to christen child
with a name of too distinctive a character;
for how can you foretell what attributes
may be developed in the course of time. IN
that Httle helpless bundle Of fabby pink
flesh, smothered in the long robe which
gives ii so much of It's Importance?
Probably the wish was father to the
thought which animated good Mrs. Rede Of
Rede's farm, s.. Martins Kent when she
caused the curate to bestow the name of
"Piety'' on her SIX weeks-old daughter.
Stern Aunt Faith. too. her sister-in-law,
may have had something TO do with the
choice.
Attributing perhaps. her own escape from
the wies Of the arch-fend, man, To her own
biblical name. Miss Faith Rede may have
wished TO see her little niece provided with
q similar talismanA
But nature. who will have her own way
and who never considers the appropriate
ness of things. caused little Piety Rede to
grow up just as pretty as Aunt Faith was
plain and planted. moreover, in the little
faxen-haired. blue-eyed girl a spirit uf mis-
chief and dare-dev!lry which filed her
straight-laced relative with CONSERVATION
For Piety was spOnt beauty from the
age of two and "A half. full of charming
caprices. passionate impulses and that airy.
mutinous waywardneSs which makes d girl
a will-O the-wisp 10 the opposite sex lead
ing them on and on. not in wilfullness. but
in irresponsible lightness of heart to quag-
mires of ruin and abysses Of despair
Nigel TTeveddoe of Fourways. her senior
by some five years Piety's first victim
A brown-faced black-eyed boy with crisp
a Taven-hued hair and a slender. wiry frame
Nigel had something about him which dis
tinguished him. even young lad from
the haXen- polled. sturdy kentish children
among whom ne lived. You could have told
that the swarthy, gypsy-hke boy came of a
different stock from the brOad-built stolid
kentish boys, whose gray-blue eyes seemed
20 ha t1yh4a
born. and to which. like their fathers and
grandfathers before them. they were most
of them drawn, as If by magnet before
yet the childish treble of their voices had
Changed to the deeper tones of manhood.
But Nigel, too, stranger though he SEEM
ed to be among them. felt the attraction
of the changing sea that stretched In
misty gray line from point to point of the
bay. which his mothers cottage overlooked
Fourways, where he lived with his widow
ed mother. was not village, but merely
the place where the road from Merwick
TO Stroan crossed the highway between
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the Cockney watering place of Carstatrs
ana the peaceful, dignified shrine of Can
terbury. Just where the roads crossed on
the rising ground of "A hedgeless and tree
less stretch of corn and clover fields
Shappy and slightly ruinous brick dwelling
Fdther more pretentious than a cottage
and which had once. indeed been a farm
mousse stood. cheerless and desolate. ex-
posed TO the run force of every wind that
came over land or sea. Fenced round by
a hlgh stone wall, which gave Ii something
OF conventional character and hanked
on the right by a cluster of ruinous sheds
ana oGthouses, no less eligible dwelling
couiu nave been found on the wide earth.
But the rent was low and Mrs Treyed-
zoe was poor. and so ii came about that
the hard-faced. taciturn widow and her
niue boy settled down at this dreary spot,
where she earned a poor livelihood by the
preparation and sale of bundles Of rough
hreWood and tall twigs of which before
tnev We're cut up, formed an odd sort of
chevaux-de-frisea along the top of the stone
wall which surrounded the house
The village of st. Martins, where Piety
hVed on her fathers farm was about a
mile northward from Fourways and II was
at the school there that Nigel and Piety
mao frst met In the very earliest stages
of their acquaintance the swarthy Nigel
had appointed himself protector and guar
diaH or Plety. then a beautiful baby girl
and had carried her home day after day
along the little lane. past the shed where
and the orchard beyond
Through the slow years of childhood the
friendship between the two still continued
though the character of 1t changed. By
the time he was a half-tmer Nigel the
guardian, had become Nigel the slave
Piety, the toddling lisping baby. had be-
come Piety. the bright-eyed light-hearted
girl. half shy, half daring, wholly sweet
and lovable
There are hot jealousies, fierce rival
ries, tempestuous passions In the nurs-
cry stage of life as In the more mature:
and before she was eight Piety had a
would-be rival In the person of Mamie
Philpot the blacksmith's daughter Nan
ME was a big-boned. coarsely-buiit child
three or four years older than Pfety; she
had black eyes. full-lipped red mouth.
an abundance of light brown hair. and
very red elbows. But. on the whole. she
promised to be beauty. as beauties went
In the neighborhood. in spite of the sulien
pout of discomfort. which, even at this
early age, was an habitual expression with
her.
Nigel ran across her one day, on his way
home from Rede's farm and was rrace-
fully greeted with cherry stone fiunr
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neighbors. but 1t will perhaps be long day
before a certain large element in Congress
can be made to believe that Uncle Sam
should pay for them. Yet such a mansion
and such neighbors and such style are "the
very breath of diplomatic life" can hear
the reader shifting at this statement, and
almost fear to go on with the argument
will shift the responsibility upon Mr..
Chalmers Roberts. who sums the matter
up. in nutshell thus: ut could easily be
proven that in the Bering controversy
at ST Petersburg between the United States
and Great Britain the social prestige of the
palatiai British embassy almost of itself
carried the day as against the insignificant
position In the great world of our unhoused
and poorly paid minister. We lost enough
then to have put our whole diplomatic
corps forever into fitting doniciles, supplied
with adequate compensation
Ambassador Choate will easily pay out
five times his official salary of 800 to
maintain his two residences. AS for the
offices of the embassy. at 123 Victoria
street, Uncle Sammy .shells out" for them:
so they are not figuring in this estimate
But Joseph Choate is a man of great wealth
who can well afford to spend S75.0 a year
for the privilege of rubbing elbows with
king and queen. When ne accepted his
berth he was realizing an income of St00O0
a year from his law practice alone.
England's Generosity.
But how different is John Bulls treat
ment of Lord Herbert, his ambassador to
our republican court. That high function
airy draws 32.50O a year. to which is added
free use of the pretentious British embassy,
Washington. England pays some of her
ambassadors as much as s45. 900 per annum
in addition to housing them in veritable
palaces. But in it's parsimony toward its
diplomats the United States stands in
unique and unenviable position. All other
nations give to their high representatives
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Damages for Life.
be Atlanta Constitution.

From the Atlanta Constitution.
A recent decision of the royal court at
Frankfort is rather unique in the records OF
awards for damages against corporations
for personal injuries.
DR.. Weissberger, a prominent surgeon,
was so severely injured in railroad acci-
dent that he had to quit the practice of his
profession. The Royal Prussian railway
management acknowledged its liabilities.
but there could be no agreement upon
the amount of damages the claim was sub
mitted to the court.
Instead of an award of a lump sum- the
court decreed that DR.. Weissberger should
be paid an annuity of 1900 marks, some
thing over $4,000. by the company. The
justice of the surgeons claim. coupled with
the fact that he well known as an
operating surgeon and enjoyed a large
practice. prompted the court to place him
upon the pension rolls of the company for
life at the annual rate stated.
The character of the award, rather than
the amount, has attracted wide attention In
legal circles in this country
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Austria Mr.. Tower maintained at Vienna
the palace of grand duke. Pictures by
famous artists lined the walls The dining
room was furnished in the lavish Louis XIV
style and opened into Japanese salon.
The Paris mission Is also an expensive
berth. While he held it Whitelaw Reid
spent 100000 year over his salary. Am
bassador Porter keeps up the posts repu-
Partisan landlord $4,000 year for house
rent. Mr.. Eustis while minister to
France. paid $12, 900 year for his mansion.
In an itemized statement he estimated his
personal expenses while minister at ST COO
a year. 1t is said that Representative Hit
Of Illinois. while secretary of our Paris
legation, spent 10000 a year for enter
tainment.
Rented Palaces.
Wayne MacVeagh and General Draper.
while serving as our representatives at
Rome occupied the new Piombino palace.
built by the prince of that name and lately
purchased by the Dowager Queen Margaret
and now occupied by her. In this. the most
magnificent palace of the eternal city, the
American ENJOYS daZzled the Italians with
the splendor of their entertainments. Mr..
Myer, the new ambassador, has leased the
Brancaccio palace, where hospitality on an
equal scale is expected.
st. Petersburg Is said to be the most ex-
pensive of all foreign diplomatic posts at
the present time. Ambassador Tower, re-
gardless of his salary of s17.500, spent in
the neighborhood of $4,000 annually during
the three years he lived in Russia. This he
Is said to have done without extravaganza
or needless display. but simply with the
purpose of keeping our embassy on an equal
footing with the seven other embassies at
the Russian capital. though not surprising
them. In st. Petersburg the minimum of
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diplomatic position and from whom moth
ing in the way of entertainment is expected.
highest pay given a secretary at the Rus
sian post is $2.62
Best Paying Embassy.
The embassy at Mexico is the best paying
of all United States diplomatic posts. Gen
Clayton's s17,500 a year is worth double
that sum. or 5000. in the purchasing
power of Mexican silver.
Our ambassadors at Rome and Vienna are
allowed only $4,000 year, in spite of the
lavish hospitality expected of them. Five
of our ministers abroad draw that much.
We pay only 81 800 to our representatives
in Corea, Paraguay and Haiti; $500 to
our minister to Greece, accredited also to
Roumania and Servia. Then there five
5000 ministerships, including those at
Persia and Egypt.
Our ministers, as well as our ambassa-
dors, at European courts exceed their sala
ries in their endeavors to maintain the dig
nifty of their flag.
Il expend every year three times my
salary in representing magnificent re-
public in what l believe to be a fitting
manner and what is more, l am delighted
to do IT, said Mr.. Thomas, our min
lister to Sweden and Norway, to the
writer. Inasmuch as Minister Thomas re-
ceives ST 500 a year, he spends $22,500 in
that time The American legation at
Stockholm where he lives lie greater part
of the year. is the stateliest building at
the capital. 1t fronts the rushing North
stream and is directly opposite the palace
of the king.
Our lowest ministerial salary is paid to
Mr.. Lyons, the colOred representative ac-
credited to the African republic of Lii
IBERIA. 1t is $4,000 a year, but ample for
the needs of the post.
JOHN ELFRETH WATKINS, Jr.
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CHAPTER III.

Piety rode home with great pain at her
heart She liked poor Nigel; she had al
ways liked him, had taken his devotion as
a matter of course. and had no doubt
through no fault Of her own, set a less
value than 1t deserved upon the devotion
which never changed. never wavered But
she liked John Mercer also. the tan, fine-
looking. placid. stolfd Kentish man. whose
attentions the neighberhood looked upon as
hattering. Indeed. HIS first visits had set
both her mother and Aunt Faith IN q fl,ntter
Of delight and excitement. This was some
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thilde has always been known as an ex-
tremely wealthy lady.
Immediately after her divorce she began
ostensibly patronizing art and letters in
Paris-while In reality plotting with all her
heart and great ability for the return of
the Napoleonic family to power.
AS patron of art and letters her salon
has been famous ever since. In 1912 when
all her plans succeeded so wonderfully and
the revolution brought her cousin Louis
Napoleon to the position of prince-presi-
dent. she presided in his household and She
continued to do this during the first years
or his empire. Yet at this time, when she
had fully justified all her ambitions for tho
family. ii is said she had the bitterness TO
vainly regret not having married her cousin
Louis when he was poor adventurer: now
she was prevented from thinking of such a
union by the grim fact of her divorce from
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TO OWN EMBASSIES
Congress May Be Urged to
Make Prov sion.
MUCH NEEDED REFORM
DIPLOMATS WHO SPEND MANY
TIMES THEIR SALARIES.
No Chance for a Poor Man to Repre-
sent Us at Foreign
Capitals.


Copyright, 1903. by John Elfreth Watkins. jrD
written for The Evening Star.
THE new Congress viii be emphatically
asked 20 give the poor man with brains a
chance at some of g so-called big plums
in our diplomatic corps. said a former
United States ambass dor to one of the
foremost courts of Europe. a day or two
ago. There isn't an American ambassa-
dor or minister accredited to any European
court of any significance today who is not
spending at least three times his salary
Yet there are schools of diplomacy spring
Ing up all over the country as post -gradu-
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Demidoff, for the difficulties ii would have
created for the young empire with the re-
Hgious and conservative portion of the
French people made 1t impossible to be
thought of
Mathilde ruled in her Cousins court in
the anomalous quality of dvorced-widow-
cousin to the emperor until Napoleon the
Third espoused Eugene. From the first she
was the determined enemy of THE Span
lard. as the young empress was called-in
imitation of the nickname of THE Aus
TRAN that had under similar circum-
stances been given to Marie Antoinette
fer party was always in opposition to ''the
party of the empress" and this continued
until the fall of the empire after the Fran
co-Prussian war
When Napoleon III fell a prisoner at Sc
dan Eugenie in Paris still represented the
established government. and had 1t not
Deen Tor the long continued work of this
party against her she might have been al
lowed to continue to negotiate for the lib
Grafton of the emperor and for a much
more favorable peace than that afterward
optalned by the new and unorganized re-
public.
The empire fell. Mathilde's beloved COIL
sin, Napoleon III, died in exile and Eu-
genie. after seeing her son and his heir. the
prince imperial. killed in South Africa. lived
a hopeless widow with no further interest
IN the fortunes of the family 1t is said
that Mathilde bitterly repented that her
feminine enmity should have so aided to
sldetrack the cause to which she had in
reality, devoted her immense abilities; and
tnenceforth. during all these latter years
OF the decay of the Bonapartes, it has been
the Princess Mathilde who has kept to-
gether the few remnants of their homes
When Taine, the historian. began disclosing
the weaknesses of the great Napoleon in
his works on the revolution Mathilde sent
him her Z. p. c. cards-to notify him NOT to
reappear at her salon. of which he had
peen one or the ornaments during years
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Bonapartist Plotting

This Paris salon of the Princess Mathilde
has always been the center of the Bona
partist plotting. OF late years the wonder
ful old lady openly renounced all hopes of
the nominal head of the family. Prince
Victor, eldest son of Plon-Plon and Clu-
tide. and her own nephew. This Victor,
living in ignoble ease in Brussels. with a
family he could not bring with him to a
throne, has merely served, in Mathilde's
estimation, to stand as a dog-in-t -the-manger
in the way of the fortunes of her favorite,
Victors brother, the dashing Russian major
general, Louis Napoleon, commanding the
guards of the empress. who came Fastening
from Tifis to her bedside.
For years Mathilde continued plotting
seemingly in vain. Then, with the breaking
out of the Dreyfus affair, a great oppor-
tunity seemed open to her She perceived
in the strangely mixed party of circum-
stance" Of the nationalists a chance for
one of these her nephews.
The niece of Napoleon l pinned to her
corsage the cocarde of the grumblers'' and
started in with Cope. Houssaye. de Vogue,
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BASEBALL
LOSE The LAST GAME
Millers Finish the Series With the
Saints in a Ten-Inning
Contest.
Dick Williams Falls Down After the
Locals Have Secured q
Good Lead.

The big benefit ball game for the Min
neapolis and st. Paul houses of the Good
Shepherd brought out a big crowd to
Lexington park yesterday Fully 1000
persons gave up their coin, either from
motives of benevolence or from love Of
the game, according to the turnstile
count. In addition to this number, hun
dreds bought tickets but did not attend
the game.
The days results satisfied every one
except the Minneapolis fans and manage
ment. The H. o. T. 6. s. gathered in a
neat bunch Of money, and the saints got
the game. The millers took away nothing
except a sense Of virtue.
If the saints did win, however, It was
a rafting good game to watch. It took
ten innings to decide the contest. and the
affair was characterized by free hitting,
and lots Of it, on both sides. This always
makes a hit. The last Is thrown In with
out extra charge.
Had the millers felded and run bases
as we'll as they batted-but why hold
postmortems? After the mtllers had Sc
cured g. lead Of four runs In the first half
Of the seventh, Dick Williams began to
have trouble in keeping his feet on the
ground. Before the round ended the saints
had cut the lead down to one run, and in
the ninth they tied it up. In the tenth
Kelly's men sent in another tally and the
series was over The sonro.
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national agreement signed by the two
major leagues recently and rejected by the
minor league clubs was accepted by the
latter organization after few changes
had been made.
The drafting period of players was
changed from Aug. IL to Sept. 1, and the
price for class A players fixed at $3.50,
payable one-haK In cash on the signing
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AT ,A1ILWAJKEEI,

Totals 10 ~ ~ Totals ...1e n IT Q
Milwaukee .........o 0 o o 0 o o 2. %
Kansas City ......1 3 o o I o 90
Earned runs Milwaukee 2, Kansas City Z; two
Hilli first base on balls, of Meredith 2 OF Coons
Ii hit by pitched ball, schlahey, Walters; passed
Dunlea1y. Meredith, Hill, Hail; struck out, BY
MereditlA5, by Coons !; double plays, Unglaub,
Nance and Rothfuss, schlafey, Viox and ING
laub; left bases, Milwaukee g. Kansas City
Z; umpire, Foreman; attendance, 25O; time, 1 :45.
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Games To-dsy.s
Philadelphia at Pittsbur9.
Cincinnati at st. Louis
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Totals 10 80 16 2
None out when winning run was scored.
Minneapolis 10 O % Or
st. Paul ......0 0 8 O1 Is
Runs earned, st. Paul 3, Minneapolis 8; two
base hits, Higgins, Flournoy, D. Sullivan, Will
2, by Stewart q; hits, off Chech 6, of Allemang
7, off Stewart 4: bases stolen. Geier 2, Shannon,
fer to Higgins to Sullivan, jackson to Schaefer
Williams to Yaeger to spooner; bases on balls,
off Williams 6, of Chech /, off Stewart 2; hit
By pitched ball. Maloney, Chech; struck out, BY
Williams e. by ,Chech 2, by Allemang l. By
Stewart 1; passed ball, Sullivan; wild pitch,
stewart; sacrifice MT, Huggins. Stewart; left on
Umpire, Mullane. Attendance, $780,
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NEW AGREEMENT RATIFIED

Minor Leagues Indorse New Document as
Amended.
Cincinnati. Sept. 11.-At a meeting of
representatives Of the National Associa-
ton Of Minor Baseball Leagues and of the
national baseball commission here the
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National Standings.

Played. Won. Lost Z
Pittsburg ........ 1A 81 80 u.
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of the contract and the remainder
June i. It was also agreed that only
players can be drafted from each Of
class clubs.
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Totals II q IL 8
+Hemphiu out Of game for cr1ticizing umpire
jMeredith batted Tor Hemphill.
xGibson batted for Alloway.
Milwaukee ........4 o o o O. o o o-e
Kansas City ......o 0 2 0 o 0 o %
Earned runs, Milwaukee 4. Kansas city /,
hits, of Hedges 2, of E1liott 4, off Alloway II :
twobase hits, Ganley, Gear Rothfuss; bases on
balls off Hedges 2, of Elliott 2; passed balls,
Alloway g. sacrifice hit Gear; left on bases.
Milwaukee, 8, Kansas City IL; innings pitched,
BY Hedges 1 10, by Elliott 8 %, BY Alloway
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ABatted for Dorner in eighth inning - "a

batteu ior Dorner IN eFgnth inning. ~.
louisville .........1 o i 2 o o o, @71
Columbus .........0 o OIL II O. 9 es]
:, Two-base hits, Odwell,. Damon; Brashear;
Kerwin. White, Bannon 2; Ssacrtace hits, Cling
man 2; bases on balls, of B0hannon 8. off Dorler
B Berger hhi it By By pitch besh Bohs mon
on bases, Louisville g. u INDUS Z: time q: 10:
umpire, Haskell. .tsF 9ss,'t.T.
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AMERICAN LEAGUE

Boston g sosss9 ...see 9
Batteries-Criger and Young; Kittridge and
Ortiz.
ph A. sS% YORK ::s SosS Il 9
Batteries and Howell; schreck and
Henley.
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NATIONAL LEAGUE

At Pittsburg- H 3
P PittsG,nrg 1890 . = - ~
Batteries Smith and Lever; Ritter and
Jones.
New York .......o o o 40 DOL o
Philadelphia 800 0 2 10 O 0 0E3 5 /
Observation-Disclosures and McGinnity; Roth and
Duggleby.
Second Game r. h r
Philadelphia 1850 90 o o o 0 Ii 10 o
Observation-Disclosures and Taylor; Doom and
Sparks.
National Standings.
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How They Stand.

Games To-day.
Kansas City at Minnea polls.
Milwaukee at st. Paul.
Toledo at Indianapolis.
Columbus at Louisville.
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American Standings.

Games To-day.
washington at Boston,
Detroit at Cleveland.
Philadelphia at New York.
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Three.l League.
Decatur 5, Dubuque 2.
Rock Island 4, Rockford O.
/ Bloomington 6,Cedar Rapids 3.
Springfield IL, Davenport IA
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LAMOIN

Miss Abbie Coolidge is visiting relatives
at Goulds boro.
Miss Cordie King went to Biddeford to-
day to be employed for the season.
Miss Hattie Cousins, of Waitham, Mass.
was calling ON relatives and friends last
week.
Miss Grace DeLaittre, OF Minneapolis,
is the guest OF her cousin, Mrs. Frank l..
Hodgkins.
Mrs. Reuben Cousins and two children
OF Portland, are guests of Mr.. Cousins
fat her, Shepard Cousins.
Jesse Bunker, of Webster City, Iowa, ID
the guest OF bis aunt, Mrs. Eben King
and other relatives In town. n
The best wishes OF the community are
extended to the newly married couple,
Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar Lin-eott.
Miss Sophie Benin returned home Fri
day. She was accompanied by Miss Olive
Coolidge, who will visit several weeks at
Smyrna Mills and Hodgdon.
The singing class gave its long-de-
TERED concert LAST Wednesday evening
The Instrumental solos by Miss Ida Hie-
gins, OF Ellsworth, were highly appre-
ciated. After the concert, ice.cres and
cake were furnished by the grange.
July ID n