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The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-09-20
Of American mako, and the msnvfac.

OF American mako, and the msnvfac-
turers wrote to me personally that
they considered themselves grossly in
suited over the action Of the duke.
Diplomatic notes were exchanged. and
| finally prevailed upon the duke to
st6te that he held the wheel harmless
and that his anger had been directed
solely against his niece. This letter
was duly forwarded to the manufac-
%turers, who, after the manner of their
kind, carefully altered the phrasing
and used 1t In their magazine adver.
tisements. They were SO far %appeased
that they offered me my selection from
the private stock. Happily the duke
never read anything but the Fliegende
Batter and Jugend, and thus war was
averted.
the town-at the secret bidding of her
highness-but he was so unceremo-
niously hustled over the frontier that
his teeth must have ratified like a
dancers c%astanets. 1t was a great
country for expeditiousness, as you
will find, If you do me the honor to
follow me to the end.
So the grand duke swore that his
niece should wed Doppelkinn, and the
princess vowed that she would not.
The man who had charge of my horses
said that one Of the palace maids had
~recounted to him a dialogue which
had taken place between the duke and
his niece. AS l was anxious to be off
on the road l was compelled to listen
to his gossip.
The Grand Duke-In two months
time you shall wed the Prince of Dop-
pelkinn.
The Princess-What! that old red
nose? Never! I shall marry only
where l love.
The Grand Duke-Only where you
love! (Sneers.) One would think, to
hear you talk, that you were capable
Of loving something.
The Princess-You have yet to
learn. I warn you not to force me. l
promise to do something scandalous.
l will marry n of the people-a man.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-09-20

iron bar and pushed in the gate, Chloe
following knowingly at my heels. I
could feel the crumbling rust on my
gloves. Chloe whinnied again, and
there came an answering whinny from
somewhere in the rear of the castle.
Somebody must be inside. l reasoned.
There were lights in the left wing,
but this part of the castle was sur
rounded by an empty moat, damp and
weedy. This was not to be entered
save by a ladder. There was a great
central door, however, which had a
modern appearance. The approach
was a broad graveled walk. 1 tied
Lady Chloe to a tree, knotted the
bridle-reins above her neck to prevent
her from putting her restless feet into
them, and proceeded toward the door.
OF all the nights this was the n on
which my usually lively imagination
reposed. I was hungry and tired. and
l dare say my little mare was. /
wasn't looking for an adventure; l
didn't want any adventure; l wanted
nothing In the world but a meal and a
bed. But for the chill of the night air
the breath of the mountain is cold
at night should have been perfect.
ly willing to sleep in the open. Down
drawbridge. up %portcullis! MF
boldly climbed the steps and CROPPED
around for the knocker. 1t was broken
and useless. like the lock on the gate.
And eve a bell could l find. / swore
softly and became impatient. People
in Barscheit did not usually live In
this slovenly fashion. What sort Of
place was this?
Suddenly l grew erect, every fiber
In my body tense and e~xpectant.
A voice. lifted In song! A great
penetrating yet silkily mellow voice; q
soprano: hea senly, not to say ghostly,
coming as It did from the heart OF this
gloomy ruin of stone and iron. The
jewel song from Faust. too! How the
voice rose. fell. scared again with in
toxicating waves Of sound! What per-
meating sweetness! 1 stood there, a
solitary listener, as far al l knew, be-
vildered. my heart beating hard and
fast. forgot my hunger.
Y. cro n CoNyxNunpa
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-09-20

Of poetry In my system that had never
been completely worked out, and I was
always imagining that at the very
next Schloss or inn ] was to hit upon
some delectable adventure. was
only 2S, and inordinately fond OF my
Dumas.
l rode In gray w~hipcord breaches.
tan boots, a blue serge coat, white
stock, and never a hat or cap till the
now blew. | used to laugh when the
peasants asked leave to lend me a cap
or to run back and find the one I had
presumably lost.
One night the delectable adventure
for which / was always seeking came
ny way, and l was wholly unprepared
for 1t.
had taken the south highway: that
which seeks the valley beyond the
lake. The moonflm lay misty upon
everything: on the far-off lake, on the
great upheavals of stone and glacier
above me, On the long white road that
stretched out before me, ribbon-wise.
High up the snow on the mountains
resembled huge opals set in amethyst.
l was easily 25 miles from the city;
that Is to say, / had been in the saddle
some six hours. Nobody but a kings
messenger will ride a horse more than
five miles an hour. l cast about for a
place to spend the night. There was
no tavern in sight, and the novels ]
had passed during the last hour offer
ed no shelter for my horse. Sudden
ly, around a bend in the road, I saw
the haven l was seeking. 1t was a
rambling, lettering old castle, stand
ing in the center of a cluster of frs;
and the tiles of the roofs and the ivy
of the towers were shining silver with
the heavy fall of dew.
Lady Chloe shifted her kind, whin-
MED, and broke into a trot. She knew
o than l that there was life be-
yond the turn. We rode up to the
gate, and I ~dismounted and stretched
myself. / tried the gate. The lock
hung loose, like a paralytic hand.
Evidently those inside had nothing to
fear from those outside. 1 grasped an
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-09-20
CHAPTER II.

AS I have already remarked, l used
frequently to take long rides into the
country, and sometimes l did not re.
turn till the following day. My clerk
was always on duty, and the work
never appeared to make him round
s%houldered.
I had ridden horses for years, but
to throw a leg over a good mount was
to me n Of the greatest pleasures in
the world. / delighted in stopping at
the old feudal inns, Of studying. the
stolid German peasant, OF drinking
from stems uncracked these hundred
years, Of inspecting ancient armor
and gathering triiing romances at
tached thereto. And often / have had
the courage to stop at some quaint.
crumb;ing Schloss or castle and ask
for q nights lodging for myself and
horae. Seldom. II ever, did l meet
with a refusal.
1 possessed the whimsical habit Of
picking out strange roads and riding
on till night swooped down from the
snow-capped mountains had : bit
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-09-20
HER SECOND LOVE
BY Mary Wilson


brought flowers to Miss Ellington. and
to the children at home.
One day the doctor said to me.
Miss Ellington Is much worse; b
careful not to leave her alone: but
don't let her know you are Watching
any closer than usual. I do not want
to disturb her; there is no need, all
her preparations are made; I myself
witnessed her will a year ago, and no
one was aver more fit to die. Every
cent Of her money Is to go to her
church, as she nc doubt told you. so
now the most we can do is brighten
her last days, and / am glad you are
here, for no one could care for her 70
tenderly."
Il love Miss Ellington very dearly"
I said: II can hardly bear to think
Of losing her." I added, realizing some
thing of what my loneliness would be
when my friend and mistress was no
more.
81" suppose" the doctor said, quiet
ly, that this is hardly the time or
the place for love making: but I
want to tell you, Allie, that I love you,
and I want you to be my wife," I
looked up wonderingly into his face.
His kind eyes were smiling at me.
why, DR.. Murray, I never thought
Of such a thing!"
Then think about 1t now. I have
thought of little else since the morn-
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-09-20
Disparity.

The tw7 .'oung women, who had not
met for a long time, embraced eacn
other with much fervor.
"How's this, Kate? hear you have
gone and married a rich widower. Ii
he much older than your"
We'll, there's considerable differ
ence between our ages, Clara. In fact
he's a war veteran"
Spanish war;"
"Oh, no; he wasn't in that"
Civil war, then, Of course"
"No-er-Mexican."
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Copyright. 1906. Bobbs-M Merrill Coz
SYNOPSIS.

The American consul to Barscheit, a
principally of Europe, tells how the
lreigning grand duke had tried to find a
husband for his rebellious niece, the
Princess H%ildegarde. finally decreeing
she must wed the Prince of Doppel-
kim, an ugly old widower. and ruler
of the principality of Doppelkinn. Though
he had been in the country six months
the American consul had never seen the
princess, and when at last they mel 1t
was very much of a surprise to both.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-29

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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-29
KIDNAPPED IN LONDON.
Daughter of a Russian Princess
Prisoner in Cellar.

London. Oct. 29-Barbara Laponkhin,
daughter of a Russian princess and
Alexander Laponkhin, ex-governor or
Reval, has mysteriously disappeared IN
London, and all the resources OF the
Russian embassy and Scotland YARD
are being employed to trace her.
Barbara, VINO is Is years old, was VS.
iting London with her younger sister,
in charge of an English governess. Miss
Russell. The trio went to the AldWych
theater October "a and. on coming out,
Barbara became separated in the croWd
from her companions and has not since
been seen, although the case was I'M
mediately reported to the police. and
the foreign office, acting at the urgent
request of the Russian government, or
dered that no effort be spared in the
search for the missing girl sajs
Since the disappearance the governeSs
has received a note in handwriting
which she recognizes as Barbara's, say
ing that she had been kidnapped outside
the theater and was now a prisoner i'll
the cellar of a house in the northwest
part of London. the address of which
she was unable to ascertain. The girl
added that she was wounded, and suf-
fering so severely that she intended to
poison herself
NJ. Laponkhin has been director OF
the police department in Russia, and
Miss Russell suggests that revolution
lists planned the kidnapping with the OBJ
tect of bringing her father within their
reach. He is now on his way to Lon
don. The Russian officials here are in
clined to the belief that the girl was
carried off for purposes of blackmail.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-29
Santa Fe Planning to Start
Training School.
Right i'm Line With Other I'm.
prOvements for Employees.
ALBUQUERQUE NAMED
New Mexico Metropolis the
Most Likely Location for 1t.
Other Items Of Interest to
Railway People.

Albuquerque, N. M, Oct. 29.-"I be-
lieve the Santa Fe will establish a
school for trainmen, such a one as it
now has for telegra piers and also for
machinists, at some convenient point,
and I believe it will be in Albuquer-
que, for the mountain divisions of the
road, and especially the Rio Grande di-
vision, offer frst-class opportunities
for training men to handle the locomo-
tives and long strings of cars which
are being handled these days said a
well known official of the Santa Fe
recently. He continues:
"There is a shortage of competent
trainmen all over the country, just the
same as there is a shortage of COM
petent men in every line of railroading.
True the roads have a suft1c1ent num-
Der of employees, but many of them are
grossly incompetent and merely hired
to attempt to do the work. 1t is nee
essary to have certain amount OF
labor performed and as a consequence,
the railroads must have men, but they
are having a hard time in getting the
right kind.
I'm establishing these schools, train
men of the greatest experience ana
ability are to be put in charge and the
raw recruit will be first Taught the
rules and everything pertaining to the
business. Then he Will be put on a
train and worked as dead head in
order to test him by actual experience.
The need of such a school is SO appar-
emf that I am certain the officials are
considering the establishment of
large one.
1T is the usual rule, I believe, to
make a nominal charge, say 30 per
month, at these schools, in order that
the student, feeling that he is paying
for his tuition, will work faithfully.
The graduates who go to work for the
railroad will be refunded this tuition
as soon as they have worked six
months. This makes an incentive for
them to work for the road owning the
school,
IT cannot say authoritatively that
the Santa Fee is figuring on putting
school here. but she will undoubtedly
establish ore shortly at some con-
venient point"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-29

Martling, manager of the house, and
Robert futile. stage manager. who es-
capped with a few valuables to the resi-
dence of o. c. Daisy, across the street.
The fire started in some paper in a
closet directly under the west central
side of the stage. 1t is supposed that
some one had dropped match or
lighted cigar in the room and that the
fire spread from this.
The flames and smoke shot up
through small opening in the stage
through which waste paper is thrown.
Several of the dressing rooms under
the stage and the partitions between
them were burned. Much of the cleo
trio wiring is destroyed; some of the
stage decorations are slightly dam
aged: several OF the joists supporting
the stage were eaten into by the
flames but the stage remained intact.
The house was filed with smoke and
the beautiful fresco work of the cell
ing Is notified and discolored. The
damage is estimated at between three
and Eve thousand dollars
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-29
TIED THEM TO TREES.
Freshmen Revenge Themselves on
Sophomores at RoIla. Mo.

Rolla Mo-, Oct. 29.-As a result OF
class rivalry of several weeks standing
twenty sophomores of the state school
of mines were routed out of bed, and
half clad, were taken from their rooms
and tied to trees on the campus of the
school where they remained until day
light. shivering in the nipping atmos-
phere. After they had been released by
other sophomores, the entire sophomore
class rallied, captured 75 freshmen,
bound their arms with ropes and chains
and marched them around town accom-
panied by the school hard. School Di-
rector Young was forced to declare a
holiday as the class rooms were vacant
The trouble arose over the refusal of
the freshmen to obey the injunction of
the sophomores to wear green caps with
yellow buttons.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-29
RI. MAKES IMPROVEMENTS
Looks Like Ell Reno Would Become
Division Point on This Road.

Ell Reno, Okla, Oct. 29.-Colonel
Cannon. who has charge of the work
of raising the grades for the new Rock
island freight and repair yards at this
place announces that his part of the
work will be done by the first of the
wear. 1t is estimated that the work in
nrorress will require the displacement
of 100000 cubic yards of dirt. The
ouarter section everything the new yards
which was bought for that purpose is
rapidly becoming leveled and the dirt
n1aced in the grade. The grade will
be raised from three to seven feet for
a distance of seven thousand feet and
will be about six hundred feet wide.
There will be twenty-four freight
tracks 1000 feet long.
There is little doubt but what the
Rock Island railroad intends to make
Ell Reno the principal division of botn
the main line and the Choctaw east and
west
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-29
GOVERNMENT BALLOON PLANT.
One Is Asked for by the AeronauticaI
Congress.

New York, Oct. ga specially ap-
pointed committee introduced the fol-
lowing resolution at the third interna-
tional aeronautical congress, now in
session in this city:
Resolved, by the international aero
nautical congress assembled at New
York, that the president of the United
States be requested to call the attention
of congress to the adVisability of pro-
viding the departments of the govern
ment charged with these duties, funds
sufficient to establish aeronautical
plants commensurate with those of 9TH
er nations
That the dirigible war balloon has
about reached the limit of it's develop
ment for the present, at least, was the
opinion expressed by President Willis
L. Moore.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-29

Prof. David Todd of Amherst Now
Feels Sure of 1t.

Boston, Oct. 29.-"Mars is inhabited.
race of beings of high intelligence
dWells there, and probably has dwelt
there for ages. The canals of Mars are
for irrigation"
This is the positive declaration that
Prof. David Todd of Amherst college
makes after his trip on the Lowell ex-
petition to the Andes mountains, where
the neighboring planet has been studied
and photographed for months. To the
questions: What kind of people live
on Mars? Are they small? Must they
be very powerful individuals to do such
tremendous canal digging? Or are they
aided by huge beasts or great engines
in their undertakings" Prof. Todd re-
piled:
people in Mars? Sure There must
be wonderful mechanics among them,
capable, perhaps, of devising machin-
cry that will do their heavy work
However that is mere conjecture and
not scientific research. OF course, we
could not see a man or his house or his
giant domestic animals through our
most powerful glasses, unless the man.
house or animal were three-quarters of
a mile long and wide and dark in color
But the whole canal system is artificial
and it is a wonderful example of engi-
neering and industrial effort
Prof. Todd says the wonderful series
of canals that have excited the curios-
ity and admiration of astronomers have
been made by beings gifted with in
telligence. probably of a higher order
than that possessed by man. For how
else, he says, could systems of canals,
many Of them automatically parallel
some Of them curved and some of them
perfectly straight for thousands of
miles. be formed for a purpose that is
apparent when viewed through the
most powerful telescope from the
earth? Nature. scientists know, never
draws long parallel lines, and none of
the curves wrought by the hand of
nature is made fundamentally per-
feet.
st have proved Prof. Todd said.
that Mars has double canals that
could only be the work of intelligent
beings living there, and, therefore, I
have no doubt that Mars is inhabited
That Mars is a dying planet. that it
has aged physically beyond that Of our
own earth, that the canals which are
drawn as a huge network all over its
surface are actually the titanic strug-
giles of a race of beings trying to ir-
rigate their world and thus to prolong
their very existence. is the final theory
of the Lowell expedition to South
America. The Lowell expedition to the
Andes has succeeded in photographing
distinctly the double canals of Mars.
While they have been photographed
before. Prof. Todd says he has never
seen such distinct pictures as those ia
ken by the Lowell expedition.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-29
UNCLE SAM HAS A STRIKE.
Riveters ct Mare Island Demand a
Piece Work Schedule.

Vallejo, Cal. Oct. 29.-All the hand
riveters employed in the work on the
transport Sheridan at the Mare Island
navy ward have struck following the
refusal of Naval Constructor Helden
a. Evans. the head of the department,
TO grant their request that they be
given piece work at SIP, SIS and $25
per hundred rivets
The situation has been telegraphed
10 the navy department and it is be-
neVed that men will be rushed here
from the east. The navy yard officials
say that work will be delayed not
more than three weeks.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-29
WICHITA AFTER SANTA F'E.
Charges of Rate Discrimination Flied
Against 222 Roads.

washington, Oct. 29.-One Of the
most comprehensive complaints ever
filed with the interstate commerce
commission was presented by the john
son & Larimer Dry Goods company
and the Cox-Blodgett Dry Goods COM
pany of Wichita, Kan, against the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad
company and 221 other roads in the
country. The compliments allege that
the defendant lines exact unjust. I'M
reasonable and discriminatory rates or
cotton piece goods and knit wear ship
ped from points on the Atlantic sea-
board territory to Wichita. as COM
nared with rates to Kansas City.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-29
-Four New Reserves Created.

Washington, Oct. 29.-The president has
issued executive order creating four
new bird and animal reserves on the Pa
cific coast. One on the Three Arch Rock
reservation in Oregon, and the other three
in Washington, Flattery Rocks, outlay
ute Needles and Copalis Rock reserva-
tons Wardens will be appointed by the
department of agriculture to supervise
these reservations. The Shasta. National
forest in California has been increased by
the addition of $1,000 acres in Siskyou
cOuOty
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-29

poisoning contracted in relieving n
patients suffering. The man suffered
from a badly diseased tooth and before
the dentist could sterilize his instru-
ments he plunged the point of one of
them into his hand. Blood poisoning
Immediately developed and death fol-
lowed after three days of intense suf-
fering.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-29
Marie DRESSER Made a Hit.

New York. Oct. 29-Advices from Lon
don report that Marie Dressler made
great hit at the Palace theater there
last night on her first European APP
pearance. Her main triumph was in
the recital in 1.-The Glove" but from the
first moment she had the audience with
her
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-29
SUPREME COURT GRANTS WRIT.
To Help in Proceedings for Enforce
ment of Rate Law.

washington, Oct 29.-The supreme
court of the United States yesterday
granted the petition of Attorney Gen
eral Young of Minnesota for writ of
habeas corpus, bringing the contempt
proceedings against Mr.. Young in con-
nection with the enforcement of the
railroad rate law of that state to that
court for review. and enlarged the
scope of the order so as to permit OF
his admission to bail.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-29
INTERCHANGEABLE MILEAGE.
To Be Sold on Western Lines for Two
Cents q Mile.

Milwaukee, Wis, Oct. 29.-An-
nouncement is made that beginning
December 1, all railroads within the
territory of the Western Passenger as
ISOLATION will sell mileage books to
bearer" and interchangeable on all
lines at two cents per mile. Up to this
time the two cent on mileage books
had been limited to use of the person
named on them and limited to the road
issuing them.