The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-04-07

pink tissue paper.
woman
Rachers heart sank as she took the package.
The Prince had come and had not found her dream
ing in the corner OF the shop.
What for a looking mans. mooder!" she stan,-
mers
An awful tall mans. nit gold buttons on his
clothes and COLT laees on his hat liebchen." ths
With a bitter cry of disappointment the girl
Shop TO her room upstairs IL was the Prince and
he had not found her wafting IL already
room. and Rachel sat down and began hurriediy to
open the package. heartbroken as she
fell to the floor. She lifted its and disclosed
little gold wire ring. set with three tiny pearls
With an exclamation OF delight she seized the
trinket and slipped 1t on her finger. So much
grander was it than of the chewing gum prem
beads with carved ivory bird pendant. Rachel
at o s hsn III Ta %
jov' They fitted the feet of Cinderella to exact
ness And in the largest bundle of all were some
goods
These the riffs of the Prince-of the Prince
who had come and gone and had not found herf
World he come back again7
With the white cotton snread ont In her lap
and the other treasures close beside she leaned back
In her chair. and into her dreamy mind came the
words OF the little book: From the far OF
seven seas. black slaves and brown. white and red
nen-servants and handmaidens were summoned tn
the service Of the great Princess Griselda---'
Into the little room the bake-shop came
thick ID. darkness like fog 1t wrapped itself abou.
hact AGAINST the cushions of her chair. Her hands
iaV In nor Ian. motionless with curled. white nm
gers. Her big black ewes were tightly closed T"
her the far-or sound OF far-of. faint
voices She strange distant visions-real they
seemed vet thin and shadowy.
Black men In faded blue shirts. at the
tied about their heads worked In the cotton nelds
under the blazing sun Rhvthmicaliv their backs
moving anrere Down the rows rode a white
on great white horse He carried whip. with
tbei- ben. backs he cracked his whip and cried in
hrash voice: Eye are the black slaves OF all men.
r'ooning In the corners of their fathers shops
With unkrowins hands We pick for wedding gown
Hurry! For while the world spins you must toiii'
In the great mills huge machines clicked and
ratified. In front OF them stood thin. gaunt
women and nae-faced. ragged little children.
th"v tofled until of the smallest fell backward
TO the floor. gasping pteously for breath with thin
TAKE it from sight cried sharp-.aced
man. with burning. wofsh ewes, 1.-The rest OF Won
somewhere princess NAV watt for wedding-eown
or coffin cerements Ye are the bond-slaves OF all
the world"
over the fiat desolate pampas. stretching unbro-
to the horizon. band of dark men wearing
great wide-brimmed sombreros. bound with gold
and silver braid rode their ponies into the setting
Before them slowly moved herd OF WHO
a SHRINE and over the cards arose quarrel Swift
curses followed hot words Then knife nasheo
lees thing. all awkward legs and arms. with the
red sash from the waist of the leader they tied the
of the murderer and fastened him to the back
of tho same pony which bore the corpse OF the man
he had killed.
Come" said the chief vaauero. at the nrst break
Of dawn. eve must saddle and start We are NOT
freemen We too. are bound to the wheel !.
w for this dead thing here some princess NAV
forth from ralace or howell unshod to her we'd
dire tn her funeral"
women horelesslv plodded. heavy yokes about their
necks hearing the tusks OF elephants some OF
guese slave drivers relent1essly whipped on the
s ~ tns also serns on IN une
known mstresses. waiting over seas for the spoil
ye bear
fat boat with sail OF mating. rose
end fell in the long. slow swell from tho China
Sea. Over its side dropped an almost naked man.
his q big rock. his hands c1utchfng the
10 which 1T was tied. His oneue tightly fas-
tened about the top of his head and In his mouth he
carried an omen clasp knife In front OF him
hung basket. supported bv rores about HIS
shoulders Down be sank into the steel blue
OF the bottom There with long yellow nm
ne e beds nn r basket ed mr
denly he glanced upward and canght sight OF the 4
rersv instantly he released his hold on the rop.
and shot upward like cork But before he gained
air bubbles rose through the clear blue water dis
colored with bloody stain.
the boat carelesslv "Overboard with another The
little Princess Rachel wishes pearls for her wedding
ring"
AS the girl sat up In her chair and opened her
she first OF all the cotton dress goods IN
thread Of the ring They were real. Then her
still drowsv ewes caught the CLEAN OF something
the window through which came a last faint sleam
Of light It was a little card which had slipped
unnoticed from the opened bundle. and across II
was written in labored scrawl: For Rachel rch
licbe dch Yakob"
A sudden rush Of jov n1ed her as she read Ont
of her dim dream she had brought an instinct or
Of the truth that the Prince is he who rules
in the finer realms of the spfrit-that the Princess
IS she TO whom the heritage OF all the earth right
fully belongs.
tRecks unit oft ar-r-run! Recks mt oft ar-r-run!
The old familiar sound coming closer down
the street With a beating heart ard feet to which
vi he of raj
and through the shop. Just the old white horse
reached the front OF the bake-shop she threw open
the door.
''Yakob. come IN here vance YETI she called.
And he, without waiting to tie his horse leaped
the side OF the wagon-bo and rushed into the
bake-shoD.
he crfed