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"A Story Of
Graus1arxe
GEORGE BARR
M'CUTCHEON

Iand as GrauStark. At first he wouId
not believe, but the English bank in
Meshhed assured him that he would
come to It If he Travelled long enough
and far enough into the north and
west and If he were not afraid of the
hardshlps that most men abhor The
dying spirit Of romance famed I'D in
his heart His blood grew quick again
and eager. He would not go home
until he had sought out this land of
fa1r women and sweet tradition. And
SO ne traversed the wild and danger
GUS Tartar roads for days and days,
like the knights of Scheherazade in
the times OF old, and came at last to
the gates of Edelweiss.
Not until he sat down to a rare din
ner IN the historic Hotel Regengetz
was he able to realize that he was
truly In that tabled. mythical land of
Graustark, quaint, grim little princi-
pality in the most secret pocket OF the
earth's great mantle. This was the
land of his dreams, the land of his
fancy. He had not even dared to
hope that it actually existed.
And now it becomes my deplorable
duty to dfvulge the fact that Truxton
h1ng, after two full days and nights
In the city Of Edelweiss, was quite
ready to pass on to other fields, com
pletely disillusioned in his own mind
and not little Disguised with himself
Tor having gone to the trouble to visit
the place.
Where were the beautiful women
he had read about and dreamed of
ever since he left Teheran? On his
soul, he had not seen half a dozen
women In EdelwciSs who were more
than passably fair to look upon. True
ne had to admit, the people he had
seen We're of the lower and middle
classes-the shopkeepers and the shop
girls, the hucksters and the fruit vend-
ers. What he wanted to know was
this: What had become of the royalty
and the nobility of Graustark? Where
were the princes, the dukes and the
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men of Edeiweiss in the streets. SIR"
snapped Spantz.
Don't they ever go out shopping?'
Hardly. The merchants, If you viii
but notice, carry their wares to the
houses Of the noble and the rich But
tomorrow the garrison at the fortress
marches in review before the prince
If you should happen to be on the ave-
nue. near the castle gate at IL O'Clock
you will see the beauty and chivalry
OF Graustark. The soldiers are not
the only ones who are on parade
There was an unmistakable sneer in
his tone.
you don't care much for society.
I'd say" observed Truxton, with a
smile.
Spantz's eyes famed for an instant
and then subtly resumed their most
tngrat1ating twinkle. 1--WE cannot all
be peacocks," he said quietly. You
viii also see that the man who rides
beside the princes carriage wheel is
an American, while Graustark MOBILES
take less exalted places"
"An American, eh?"
Yes. Have you not heard of John
Tullis, the princes friend? he, your
countryman, Is the real power behind
our throne. On his deathbed the
princes father placed his son In this
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Americans charge and begged him to
stand by him through thick and thin
until the lad is able to take care Of
n1mself. AS II there were not loyal
men in Graustark who might have
done as much for their princer'
King looked interested. 81 see. The
people. no doubt. resent this espionage.
Is that it?" -
Spanz gave him a whitening look as
much as to say that he was a fool
TO ask such q question in place so
public. Without replying, he got to
his feet.
Il must return. have been away
too long,
The American sank back in his chair.
Suddenly he became conscious of a
disquieting feeling that some one was
looking at him intently from behind.
He turned in his chair and found him
self meeting the gaze of ferocious
looking, military appearing little man
ut a table near by. His waiter ap
peared at his elbow with the change.
"Who the devil is that old man at
the table thereT demanded young Mr..
King loudly.
The waiter assumed a look of ex-
IRENE inSolence. THAT is Baron Dam
more, STRIP
Yes. What's he looking so hard at
me for? Does he think I'm a pick
pocket?'
You know as much as l, sir" was
all that the waiter said in reply. King
pocketed the coin he had intended for
the fellow and deliberately left the
place. AS he sauntered across the little
square his gaze suddenly shifted to a
second story window above the gun
shop.
The interesting young woman bad
cautiously pushed open one of the
shutters and was peering down upon
trio of red coated guardsmen. AL
most at the same instant her quick,
eager gaze fell upon the tall American,
now quite close to the borsemen He
saw her dark eyes expand as if with
surprise. The next instant he caught
his breath and almost stopped in his
tracks.
A shy. impulsive smile played about
her red lips for second. lighting up
the delicate face with radiance that
amazed him. Then the shutter was
closed gently. quickly. He felt his ears
burn as he abruptly turned away
In the meantime Baron Dangloss
was watching him covertly from the
edge Of the cafe garden across the
square.
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Copyright. 1909. by George
Barr McCutcheon
Copyright. 1909, by Dodd.
Mead q Company

Trueto7z King, q mathematics
son, sets out in search of adj
venture. Where better could he
look for stirring events than in
faroJT Groustark, where the age
of. chipazry YET survives in all
its romantic opportunity; where
rules Prince Robin, the most
precocious boy monarch in the
realm of fiction; where the reds
Of Europe plot his murder in
mysterious underground retreats;
where gallant 7'ruxton King and
brave Uncle Jack" fight val
family for the preservation of the
prince and the love of 6eauti-
tui Processes where American
pluck and manhood are Pitted
against foreign intrtguers, and
where honesty and courage are
n1ightier than the sword? Read
of Prince Robin, SON OF an Amer
lean princess; of olga Pzatanopa,
the girl with the dread mission;
of Morzane, the Iron Count; of
John Tuzzis, the American bull
work ofa foreign throne; oflopezy
Lorraine and Of daredevil Trueto7z
King, and then you will under
stand why an American lad is
Prince Of Graustark and ar,
American author prince of story
teUerS.
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telZerS.
CHAPTER I,
TRUXTON KING.

III H e was tall, rawboned, ranCy
MH young fellow with a face so
A IA tanned by wind and sun you
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E-sa young fellow with face so
A "a tanned by wind and sun you
had the impression that his
Skin would feel like leather If You
could affect the impertinence to test it
by the sense of touch. His clothes fitted
him loosely and yet We're graciously
devoid of the bagginess which char
acteriZes the appearance of extremely
young men whose frames are not fully
set ana whose joints are still parading
through the last stages of college de-
velopment.
1h1S tau young man in the panama
nat and gray flannels was Truxton
King, embryo globe trotter and search
er after the treasures of romance.
somewhere up near Central park. in
one OF the fashionable cross streets.
was the home of his father and his
fathers father before him-a home
which TruXton had not seen in two
years or more. 1t is worthy Of pass
ing notice, and that is ali, that his
iather was :: manufacturer; more than
that' he was something Of q power in
the financial world. His mother was
not strictly social queen in the great
metropol1S| but she was what we
might safely call one of the first ..la-
dies in waiting" which is quite good
enough for the wife Of Il nlanufac tur.
er, especially when one records that
her husband was manufa cturer OF
steel. 1t is also q matter Of no little
consequence that Truxton's mother
! was more or less averse to the steel
business as heritage for her son,
he 1t understood here and now that
she intended Truxton for the diplo-
matte service
wanted him to be manufacturing
Crocsus. nor Truxton's mother. who
expected him to become social Solo
mon, appears to have taken the younp
mans private inclinations into con.
sidcra ton.
Young Mr.. King believed in ro-
nance He grew up with an ever in.
creas1ng bump of Imagination, con-
.iSuouS TO which. strange to relate
tnere was properly developed bump
OIL industry and applications: hence If
IL not surprising that he was willing
10 go lar aiield in search of the thinps
that seemed more or less worth while
TO young gentleman who had suf
Tered the Ill fortune to be born in tho
nineteenth century instead of the sew
entecnth.
we come upon him at last-luclilv
III US we were not actually following
hlm-aftcr two years OF wonderful blt
rather disillusioning adventure in mid.
ASA and all Africa. He had seen tho
hongo and the Euphrates, the Ganres
and the Me, the YanGtsekianc. and
the 1cniSei: he had climbed moun-
Jams in AbysSinia, in Siam. in Tibet
ana AfShanistan; he had shot big
game IN more than one jungle and had
been shot at by small brown men in
more than one forest, to say nothing
or the little encounters he had had in
most unoccidental towns aud cities
or twenty days he had travelled by
caravan across the Persian uplands
through Hcrat and Meshhcd and 30
khara. striking of with his guide alone
toward the sea of Aral and the east
ern shores of the Caspian, thence
through the Ural foothills to the old
Roman highway that led down into
the sweet green valleys of land he
mad thought of rs nothing more than
the creation of n harebrained fictionist.
Somewhere out in the shimmerinr
east he had learned to his honest
amazement, that there was such
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IS
MURDERED
By ConstabuIary In a Charge Upon
Defensless and Orderly Crowd of
Strikers.

The Pennsylvania State eonstabulary
has again proved itself to be the ready
murderers of the working class, when it
dares attempt to better it's miserable con
dition, by deliberately shooting, without
any cause Whatsoever, two strikers of the
Bethlehem Steel Company at Bethlehem,
last Saturday.
One of the men, Joseph Lambo, IS
years old, was shot in the head and died
in the hospital late in the afternoon. The
bther received serious wound in the leg
which will, according to the physicians
at the hospital, necesitate its amputation
Realizing that the armed Cossacks of
the State would be of great use to the
capitalists of the steel works, in intimi-
dating the strikers and then shoot them
down and thus beat the workers into
submission, the Governor was appealed
to.
Early Saturday morning, Governor Stu
art ordered Capt. John c. Groome, of the
.'Black Hussars,'' to send 80 of the con-
stabulary with their mounts at once.
They left Philadelphia, where they were
on 'duty" at. clock, Saturday morn
ing, and arrived shortly before Z O'Clock
to put an end to. Workingmen, accord
they were assigned to various gates of the
works.
AT al early hour about 200 strikers
gathered at the gates of the works to try
to dissuade any one from taking their
jobs
This was what the Cossacks were there
to put an end to. Workinmen, accord
ing to the capitalists, are not supposed
to try to better their condition.
The captain ordered his uniformed
murderers to draw their riot sticks and
wade into the strikers.
This they did without a moment g hest
tation. Many heads were battered, and
the street was strewn with the wounded.
"A number were arrested
The strikers then rapidly withdrew.
They gathered in a bunch a block or
more away. The captain then ordered a
charge on the strikers.
With rush the Hussars galloped to-
ward the unar1ned men. The captain
then shouted an order to open fire on the
strikers.
This the troopers did, with the result
AAAN- "Sio plChcu up III an al
most ifeless condition.
Leaders of the strikers are firm in their
assertion that the men were quiet and
gave the troopers no reason for their bru-
tai clubbing and shooting.
They declare that they have always ad-
vlsed the men against violence of any ma
ture whatsoever and the strikers have
needed them
Lambo 8 death, - said one, sis plain
murder. They had no reason for firing
on the strikers, as they offered no resist
ance The men were more than 100 yards
away when they were fred upon
The strike at the works started on Feb
ruary 4, when several hundred machin-
lists quit because they were refused time
and half-time for extra work. The strike
later spread to various departments of
the plant, gripping the company to
great extent.
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in Austria. Three
years ago in Buda-
pest he was mar
ried to Ingomede.
the daughter of
the duke. Count
Marlanx has great
influence at the
A u s TRAN court.
The Duke of Perse
realized this when
he compelled his
daughter to accept
him as her huS-
band. The fair In
Somede is less than
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home made, hand made, union made pro-
duct.
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of age. The Iron
Count is fully sixty-five"
I'd like to see if she's really beau
thul- We seen but one pretty woman
N TINS whole blamed town, your niece
herr Spantz. I've looked 'em over
pretty carefully too She is exceed
ngly attract''-
You VIII not find the beautiful wo
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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-08-05
NJ LOUGHLIN WINS
AGAINST HALL

NEW YORK, July 2S.-Maurice E.
Mclaughlin, the California tennis
player, had his hands full today in
the third round of the New York
state championship tournament,
which is being played on the courts
of the Crescent athletic club at Bay
Ridge. His opponent was W. NJ.
Hail. the former Yale star. The
westerner won, 4-6, ca, 6-3. When
Hall took the first set every one sat
up and took notice.
The Californian at times was wild
and did not get in his deadly service
until the match was we'll under way.
The second was much faster.
McLoughln varied his game won.
derfully, first lobbing, then running
up to the net ana smashing the bal
into either of the far corners and
finally winning, Cd. Hall tired per
ceptibly in the third set After hav
ing the games 8 all he went to pieces
and Mclaughlin won as he liked.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-08-05
JACK JOHNSON
TURNED DOWN

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, July ~
Jack Johnson, the colored pugilist,
was turned down yesterday by the In
dianapolis motor speedway manage
ment, when it refused to let him APP
pear on the speedway at the coming
automobile races in his high power
ed car Johnson made application
some time ago for a place on the
racing program, and his request was
refused He then asked for the pri-
vilege of giving an exhibition race at
the September races. The directors
of the speedway took the matter un-
der advisement and President Fisher
announced that this request had also
been refused.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-08-05

I less the army is won over to their
cause.
Hence, their tactics are changing.
The campaign of bomb-throwing has
ceased and to the foreigner it might
appear that the revolutionist had en-
tirely disappeared from Russian life,
crushed out of existence by the stern
measures of M. Stolypin. But the
revolutionist is still at work and is
now doing all in his power to in
fuence and revolutionize the military
forces of the Gar.
There has been discovered in Fin
land an elaborate organization for
printing and distributing revolution.
airy literature among the Russian
troops. This work is being carried
on by Russian Social Revolutionists
In connection with it the librarian of
the Nicholas Military Academy, a
quiet man, only recently suspected of
revolutionary activities, has been ar
rested. The Finnish and Russian
police have captured over twenty per-
| sons involved in the propaganda ard
have seized a large quantity of pro.
carnations and disloyal pamphlets.
Extraordinary precautions are being
taken at the frontier between Finland
and Russia to prevent the entrance Of
| Illegal literature into Russia. Recent
ly honeymoon couple were discov-
cred bringing in a quantity of revo-
lutionary proclamations. They were
arrested and it was discovered that
the honeymoon was a sham. They
had even let a little rice be seen
among their things, had tipped the
guard to reserve a compartment for
themselves and asked that they
should not be disturbed
Unhappily, the authorities at the
frontier were not of romantic tenn
permanent. The solidute of the ap
parently amorous couple was ruth
lessly invaded and their seditionist
enterprise was speedily unmasked.
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grew stronger, and within three months
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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-08-05
BERGER TALKS
ABOUT JEfFRIES

NEW YORK, July 2S.-"We want
to see Jim try again" said Sam Ber-
ger, Jeffries' manager, who arrived
here today from Chicago with Jack
Gleason.
Tremendous pressure is being
brought to bear upon him" Berger
added. "All we ask is that he face
Johnson again and show the form he
did at his California training camp,
and there will be a big drop in the
price of anthracite. Jeffries has sim
ply got to try again to square him
self with his friends and hackers"
Gleason would not commit himself
when asked if the promoters of the
recent fight were considering hold
ing another Jeffries-Johnson battle in
England, France or Australia. He
admitted, however, that he believed
such a meeting would be a big draw
ing card and that a limited bout
could be staged without interference
in London, Paris or Sydney.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-08-05
CRICKET TOMORROW
VERY DOUBTFUL.

A game of cricket Will be played
at Makiki field tomorrow afternoon at
three o'clock, providing enough play
ers put in appearance to make the
game interesting.
Fourteen players have Already as
sured ]. G, McGill that they will be
on hand, but MACK" is worrying
about the other eight which will be
necessary to make up a full team.
The original idea was to have had
a game between the members of the
Honolulu Cricket Club and picked
tenn from Bishops bank and Davies g.
Co., but previous engagements on the
part of the majority of the regular
players made McGrl give the idea up
Amy cricketer who is willing to play
tomorrow is requested to send in
his nme to McGil any time before
five o'clock today
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-08-05

With every stitch of her canvas
drawing to the strong trade wind that
was blowing, the transpacific racer
Sweetheart, Captain Lew Harris, got
away for San Pedro little after three
o'clock yesterday afternoon.
In spite of the inclement weather
quite a number of people were on the
Alakea street wharf to bid the yachts
men bon voyage.
Mrs. Aliens launch Kulamanu II
and the Hawaii escorted the racer as
far as Diamond Head. Captain Har-
ris finding that the weather was not
favorable for making the windward
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-08-05
LAST CAME OF
SERIES TOMORROW

The third and last baseball game in
the Waseda-Oahu College Alumni Sc
ries will be played at Athletic park
tomorrow afternoon. SO far this sea-
son the eX college players have won
every game they have played, and
their following are confident that they
will win not only the game tomorrow
but the championship of the interna-
tional series.
The first game tomorrow will be
the G. A. Cs VS.. J. A. C's and if
past playing is to be taken into con-
sideration the game should be a good
one.
Sundays games will be: c. A. C.'s
VS.. Marines and P. A. C's VS.. Waseda.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-08-05
RAIN PREVENTS
TENNIS TOURNAMENT.

On account of the heavy rain yes
terday, no matches wore played in
the Wall cup tennis tournament on
the Beretania club courts.
If the courts are IN condition today
for playing, the following matches
will be played;
Captain Low VS.. A. J. Lowrey.
Richard Cooke VS.. Stanley Ken
nedy.
c. G. Bockus VS.. Theodore Richards
Atherton Richards VS.. Alfred Cas-
tie.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-08-05
RIFLE TEAM
IN SAN FRANCISCO

SAN FRANCISCO, July 27.-The
crack shots of the Hawaiian national
guard arrived on the liner Sierra
from Honolulu yesterday on their
way to Camp Perry, o., to take part
in the national military shooting tour
nament. There are II in the party,
besides Doctor Cooper, the surgeon
Of the militia, who came on the Will
helmina.
The team captain is Major w. R.
Riley, although he is outranked by
Colonel J. w. Short and Lieutenant
Colonel Charles Cooper.
The other commissioned officers on
the team are Major Gustave Rose,
Captains M. M. Johnston, Charles
Coster, Edward Hopkins and Fred
Angus and Lieutenant Luther
Evans.
The noncommissioned officers are
Sergeants Thomas Evans, d. X. lie
mon, A. T. Longley, Samuel Pinao
William Huihui, H. H. Williams and
John Stone and Private James Evans
The three Evans are brothers and
cracks with the rifle. In the tryouts
the men making the team did excel
lent work. They are registered al
the Stewart
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-08-05

OF RUSSIA
CHANGE PLANS

ST. PETERSBURG, July 23.-Rus-
sian revolutionaries were greatly i'm
pressed by the fact that the revolu.
ton which drove Abdul Hamid from
his throne and introduced a new re-
gime into the Turkish Empire, was
made by the army. They are now
convinced that a successful revolu'
ton will never be made in Russia I'M
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-08-05
RACER
leaves FOR COAST

passage came about and started to-
wards Barber's point.
The Hawaii kept nearly abeam
of the Sweetheart until off the harbir
when she came about followed by the
Kulamanu. The crews Of both yachts
gave the Sweetheart rousing cheer
as they parted company off the har-
Dor on the trip home from Diamond
Head.
F. ]. Whitney, w. F. Jordan, Harry
Jack and seaman King who came
down on the Sweetheart in the race,
will leave for the coast on the Korea.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-08-05
NEW BRAZILIAN SHIP
TO COST $14,5oo,ooo.

LONDON, July % The Engineer
publishes what it calls accurate de-
tails of the new Brazilian battleship
Rio de Janeiro 1t says it will be of
$4,000 tons, 655 feet long, 80 feet
broad, 26 feet draft and have twelve
14-inch guns, fourteen 6-inch, fourteen
4-inch and six machine guns and
three torpedo tubes. 1t will have
four screws and is designed to attain
a speed of twenty-five and one-half
knots. 1t is to be finished in two
years and the cost will be $14,50OO00,
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-08-05
BIG LEAGUE RESULTS.

Yesterdays baseball games in the
big mainland leagues resulted as fol-
lows
Natioral-New York /, Chicago 5
Philadelphia 0, Pittsburg 6. other
games postponed
American-St. Louis 1, Washing
ton 8; st. Louis 5, Washington 0; De-
troit 4, Boston 2; Cleveland 6, New
York 5.