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The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1914-08-06
OREGON NEWS NOTES
Of GENERAL INTEREST
Events Occurring Throughout
tho State During tho Past
Week.
Jackson Fair Set.

Medford.-Great preparations have
been made for the Jackson county
fair which will take place here Sep
tember 9 to IL. inclusive.
Special efforts are being made to
obtain a record number of exhibits.
Premiums offered for fruit and stock
total s2500. One exhibit, which is to
be sent to the Pacific expo
sition. will be made up Of more than
500 products taken from one farm.
that OF d. NJ. Lowe. of Ashland. II
will include so varieties of corn, 100
varieties of fruit, 30 varieties Of grains
never before grown in the United
States. and many other products.
The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1914-08-06
Slayer Notifies Officers.

Tillamook. k.--Lee Cooper shot and
killed "A man by the name OF Ether,
nine miles above Blaine. and then
went to the telephone and asked to
have the sheriff and coroner sent out.
In talking to Sheriff Crenshaw over
the telephone. Cooper said he had
killed a man In self.defense. and would
remain at the Blaine store until the
officer arrived.
The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1914-08-06
Topographic Survey Near Hlllsboro,

salem State Engineer Lewis on
Monday started a topographic survey
party on the large area in the vicinity
OF Hillsboro, the work TO be done in
cooperation with the United States
geological service. The state engineer
has four parties already at work, three
in the willamette valley and one in
eastern Oregon.
The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1914-08-06
THE FOREIGN GRAIN CROP.
General Failing on Indicated by Lat
est Report.

Washington.-The International In-
stitute Of Agriculture reported to the
department of agriculture that the es-
timated production of winter wheat In
Italy is lso.044,00 bushels, or 10 per
cent less than last year. and In Euro
pean Russia 297 O4l 900 bushels. or
1908 per cent of last year.
The winter rye crop in European
Russia is 932 .5S4,0OO bushels. or 3.3
per cent less than last year; barley in
Japan l02.T5s.O00 bushels. or as l.ar
cent less than last year. and oats in
Italy Si,4i7,OO0 bushels. or EOS per
cent less than last year.
The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1914-08-06
Pheasant Hunters Warned.

Hood Riyer,-An especial effort will
be made by State Game Warden
Evans, who has been here comforting
with State Game aud Fish Commis'
sioner Duncan. TO protect the China
pheasants OF the valley.
The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1914-08-06
Man Slain BY Employe.

Prineville.-Henry Mcdowell shot
and killed A. @. Scoggins three miles
west OF Paulina. Scoggins was n mail
contractor and owned the stage line
between Princvllle and Paulina. lie
made his home near Paullna. lie re.
Gently had been to Portland and re-
turned unexpectedly u couple OF days
ago.
The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1914-08-06
Car Shortage Feared.

Salem.-Announcing that car
shortage would be inevitable during
the moving OF crops this year II the
shippers and transportation companies
did not cooperate, the state railroad
commission has issued an appeal urg-
ing the loading and unloading of cars
with dispatch.
The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1914-08-06
Local Market Report.

Corrected Apr. 30, for the benefit
of Argus readers by the Mslheur Mer
,antile Company.
Eggs. per dozen. l7ic.
Butter, per pound. goo.
Oats, per hundred. 81 so
Wheat, per hundred. s1.75.
Hay per ton, ss.
Potatoes, per hundred, LOO
Onions, per hundred, $500.
Apples, per box, sl.00. to $3.50
Chickens, dressed, per pound, 1sc.
Pork, dressed. So to 9ISo.
Pork, live, $50 tot
Veal, 0 to loo.
Beef lilo TO 10,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-19

in the Pre- aux Ciercs. Olympia ordered her state carriage and drove there.
 Eagerly did she try to catch the Kings eyes as the royal equipage came rushing by her own carriage. But the Kings fead was turned another way and the court swept back to the Louvre.
 The poisoner the poisonerl' cried the people in the street as the countess passed back to her palace. ''rhe ac- compliee of Layoisonr
 Baffled, but still undaunted. she threw herself into a chair in her boudoir and thought.
 The door opened and slight, frail looking young man entered. Mother, it is only l." he said.
 'Ah yes my little manikin,n she re- piled. "my little abbe. You were with me--you saw, you heard. But you shall live to be a cardinal, Eugene. and a great one. too like your uncle Mazarin- and you will avenge your mother"
 70 mother" said he, T have no vo- cation for the priesthood"
 Why, what else could you do. poor boy?" said the countess. Your feeble frame could never support the panoply of a soldier.'
 Yet that is what I want to be- an- swered the boy.
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Besieged by the Mob

At times Maintenon was meek and af- fected piety. With her. after the death of the Queen, Louis XIV contracted a mcrganatic marriage.
 Montespan was bold, gay and frivo- lous. At the time our story opens the star of the Marchioness de Montespan was sinking rapidly toward the horizon and the influence. of Maintenon was all powerful at court.
 No, not all powerful, for if Maintenon possessed more influence than any other women in France, next to the King him self, the most powerful man was Louvois.
 But let us return to Prince Eugene and his mother.
 As they talked there in the boudoir of the countess, there came a great noise and frightened servants rushed in to say that the court yard was filled with a great mob, who were tearing up the pave ments smashing the windows and trying to force the doors of the palace.
 The future field marshal was at once servants he armed them with guns from the armory and stationed them at the windows on the right and left of the cen tral one looking out upon the courtyard.
 He stationed himself at the central win dow and called upon the mob to dis perse. His answer was another shower of stones
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Singling Out the Leader

He saw a large man who, with his hat pulled down over his face and keeping well behind the rioters, was evidently their leader
 Eugene called upon his men to fire and they responded. Several of the rioters dropped wounded upon the ground.
 Calling the steward, he ordered him to take two men and, going out by a secret way to the street, to close and lock from the outside the great iron gates which opened into the courtyard. This was done rapidly and secretly.
 Tten Eugene called to the leader of the mob to come forward. The leader ordered another volley of stones En- gene replied by shooting off the lead CTS hat.
 Then he called out that if another stone was thrown he would shoot the leader in the right arm. The stones came and Eugene kept his promise.
 The mob now saw that the gates had been closed upon them and became panic stricken as the servants poured in another volley upon them.
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Strozzi's Prisoner

With trembling hands Eugene picked up the little note which had huttered to the floor and read:
 I am prisoner-watched night and day Have you, too forgotten me? cannot believe it. And after three long years of suffering I still await your coming"
 As rapidly as the means of travel in those days would allow Eugene hurried to Venice. He found that Laura was. indeed, prisoner in the palace of the Strozzis. It was said in Venice that she was insane.
 It was carnival time and Venice was crowded. He tried to have an interview with the Marquis de Strozzi. but the marquis would not see him. The mar quis beset the princes path with braves and every moment in Venice was a mo- ment of peril for Eugene.
 The Tact was that the Marquis was deeply, madly in love with Laura and her scorn kept him in perpetual men tai turmoil She never had ackno,vl- edged him as her husband and had made threat of suicide-which the Marquis knew she would fulfl-if he ever en- tered her room without her permission.
 He wept, he implored, he raved-but Laura heaped imprecations upon him and declared that she was the wife of Eugene of Savoie-and of none other.
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Her Dreadful Vision

She saw a vision of the bloody Place de la Greve-that place of execution she saw, as she had seen a year or so bfore that square black with shouting, jeering people; and at every window gay ly dressed ladies who looked out-she had been among them-at the Marchion- ess de Brnvilliers, beautiful and fasci- nating as she was led to execution amid the curses of the mob.
 Then silence which was so intense that the voice of the condemned could be heard as, kneeling beside the block, she made her last prayer. And then the fall ing of the head. upon the bloodsprnlled sand
 The countess sickened and sank into a chair, pressing her hands before her sves. Neither the rank the charms nor the strenuous efforts of her powerful friends had served to save the Marcon- ess de Brinvilliers from the block.
 She had been convicted of poisoning and she had shared the fate of other .--..factors of less repute Her accom- plice, La voisin, had been arrested, but. as nothing could be proved against her, she had escaped conviction.
 Good Col" cried the countess at last, If my letters are found among La yoison's papers-what will be my fate?"
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The Kings Frown

That night Eugene went to court But Louvois had already been with the King and had engaged the influence of Mme. Maintenon.
 When the King, in walking along the ranged lines of his guests. came to Eu- gene he said: "Ah, little abbe, suppose you come to ask some favor tonight"
 T have no favor to ask, Your Majesty"
 You have come for an answer to your last petition2"
 'Parden me, sire. I have presented no petition"
 Then it was your mother. the count ess, who presented it for you. When you write to her tell her that 1t is refused.
 Tt was that you be appointed as pre- bendary of a cathedral. Prince Eugene of Savoie leads too worldly life to become an ecclesiastic. Bullies are not apt to distinguish themselves in the church."
 Sire,' replied Eugene, T thank Your Majesty for those words; for they re- lease me fro mfurther obligations to en- ter career for which I have neither in clination or vocation"
 Louis scowled and passed on. The King had frowned The courtiers shrank away from Prince Eugene as if he had been infected with the smallpox They did not dare even to look at him and he moodily walked to the embrasure of a window and looked out at the glittering throng
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An Enchanting Vision

He glanced across the glorious hall to where was sitting in chair of state the Kings sister-in-law, the Duchess of Orleans a German princess renowned for her high character, her intrepid courage and her many virtues
 And by her chair stood the most en- chanting vision upon which his eyes had ever rested She was hardly girl of 16, but tall and perfectly formed.
 Her ivory skin wa ssuffused with a healthy tnge of pink-a delicate pink which deepened upon her oval cheeks. Her hair was of a light auburn and her eyes were dark and lustrous. Innocence, youth, health seemed to hang like halo about her.
 of love was fixed. She was Laura de Louvois. the half-sister of Barbesieur, who had inherited from her grandmother, who had brought her up, the title of Marchioness de Bonnelatta and great estate
 The Venetian ambassador, the Marquis de Strozzi, was mad,y in love with her and Louvois was in favor of Laura marrying the marquis. Barbesieur had arranged the match.
 The conditions were that when Strozzi lad married Laura, Barbesieur was to have her estates. But Laura had re- piled with spirit that. rather than marry the Marquis de Strozzi. she would take the veil
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To Repair a Wrong

That is Pince Eugene of Savoie," :" replied the duchess, "one< whom all courtiers avoid tonight--for he has fallen into disfavor with your father and the King
 Prince Eugene?' said Laura; The who laid his wrip over the shoulders of Barbesieur this morningf"
 ''Yes, the same"
 q am ashamed that my family should bring disgrace upon the noble prince of Savoie. I will repair the wrong in the presence of the court.''
 Rash girl, take care. Why, I really believe you are ready to go up and give the cavalier a kiss" said the duchess with little laugh.
 Perhaps I am," answered Laura.
 Suddenly the two women looked up to see the prince of Savoie standing direct ly before them.
 My dear prince" said the duchess, "how is your grandmother. the Princess de Carigan? Why is she not here to- night?'
 "She is afflicted, your highness,"' re- piled Eugene. with a malady."
 What malady?"
 The malady which, ever since the death of Cardinal Mazarin, has been 8 hertigae of our house-that of royal disfavor."
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Prince Eugene

Prince Eugene who afterward wrote his name so large in the military annals of the world, was, at that time boy Of perhaps IS. and of almost dwarfish pro- portions His head, which between his excessively wide shoulders. was perched upon a long, wry neck, was much too large for his body.
 His complexion was swarthy, his cheeks high and sunken and a nose slightly turned up, together with the shortness of his upper lip which dis to his face an air of boldness.
 But notwithstanding all this his eyes were so superlatively beautiful that they nlmost persuaded one into the belief that he was handsome. For from their lustrous depths streamed meteroc splendor which revealed the genius. the enthusiasm of the noble soul to which nature had assigned such an unworthy body
 His father, now some years dead, had been prince of the regning house of Savoie and Count of Soissons in France Instigated by the enemies of the countess the King had persecuted him and had con- fiscated most of his estates in France.
 When he died a dark rumor had gone abroad that he had been poisoned by his wife, who said to have the secret of certain 'poudre de succession"-a poison by which objectionable relatives and friends could be removed without detec- tion
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Fleeing for Her Life

Now the soldiers, who had been sent for by the steward at the beginning of the riot, appeared Eugene sneered.
 They would not have come" said he, had not word been sent to them that the rioters were getting the worst of it''
 The riot was over; the gates were opened. But in the leader of the rioters Eugene had recognized Barbesieur Lou vols, the son of the minister.
 That night there came to the coun- tess de Soissons a great noble of the court.
 Madame" said he, 'an order for your arrest has been issued-and the King has signed 1t. But it will not be executed before morning. You must be outside of Paris is an hour. It Is tn. King himself who sends me to tell you this. Fly. madame"
 That night the countess fled. and it was many long year befor she again saw Paris.
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Deserted by His Family

'As for you" said he to Barbesieur, "I will not fight you. A man who has been publicly disgraced as you have been, who has committed the foul deeds that you have, can never measure swords with me-
 But there lies my glove. And if there be any gentleman in Paris who wishes to fight me in your quarrel will meet him."
 Barbesieur was universally disliked and detested No man offered to take up the gauntlet inf his behalf. But the Duke de la Roche Gupon, stepping forward and picking up the glove which Eugene had thrown down. handed 1t back to him saying:
 Il am a son-in-law of Monsieur Lou voic. But this man though a brother of my dear wife, I can acknowledge as no kinsman of mine I return this glove to the Prince of Savoie, for l assure him that among all of us he has not enemy"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-19
A CL A $ SIC
 IN A P A c E

Though critics have lamented that the prolificness of Luise Muhibaeh pre- vented her from paying that attention to artistic finish" which is desirable yet the popularity of the Atlantic be- gan when she published "Alphra Ben in 1s49, and has continued to the pres ent day.
 You can count the historical novel; ists who have achieved an enduring place in literature upon the fingers of one hand-and Luise Muhlbaeh is among them.
 Of all her works Prince Eugene Is, perhaps, the most popular today. It is filled with action. The splendors and intrigues of courts; the tumults of love and hate; the clash of armies and the policies of statecraft are packed down and running over" in this story Its historical value, also, is not incon- sidera ble.
 There is only one thing to object to about it. One could wish that Laura had gone to live in a convent after her escape from strozzi rather than in the villa of Prince Eugene.
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Saved From the Fumes

With trembling hands Laura parted the curtains and looked out Surely she had seen him somewhere and he filled her with a strong repugnance
 Eugene opened the paper handed to him and saw bland. What as l to under stand by this mystihcation said he
 Your highness, the dispatch is written in sympathetic ink. If you will hold the paper over light until vapor arises the characters will appear"
 Eugene O. dered a lamp. Laura saw an orderly place a wax light upon the table and saw Eugene advance toward it.
 She glanced at the messenger. Ifs eyes were fixed upon Eugene with a frenzied Indignantly. She recognized the man, and, springing through the curtains, she cried out: "Eugene it is Strozzil'' tore the paper from the princes hands and threw it at the feet of the marquis.
 At the Cost of Her Life
 Strozzi sprang upon Laura and grasped her in his arms. Eugene made one bound to the table and snatched up his pistols.
 But at that same instant dagger in the hand of strozzi geamed aloft and was buried in the breast of Laura. pistol shot rang out and Strozzi fell dead, shot through the brain. Laura lived but an hour-alI medical help was vain.
 The agony of Eugene may be ina gined Only the breaking out of war and his constant activities with the imperial armies saved his reason.
 At Paris the Duchess of Orleans, dressed in deep mourning, went to the King and told him of Laura's assa ssina- tion. She also showed him an inter- oepted letter, sent her by her daughter in-law, the Duchess of Savoie.
 It was from Louvois to Barbesieur- and showed that the minister had Llanned the murder of Prince Eugene. The paper which the prince was in structed to hold over the light until 1t gave off a yapor was charged with a subtitle poison whose vapors were deadly.
 Even the selfish heart of Louis KY. was touched and he said to Louvois who was present. at the audience of the duchess, Go, sir, and until you can clear you fame consider yourself pris- oner in your own palace"
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The Gauntlet Thrown Down

The countess laughed. La Nallere IS fin convent" she said.
 "Yes." replied Louvois, "hut the scars of vour prosecutions are upon her Al though she may be Christian, think won she has ceased to be womanE
 "As for Mme de Montespan, the bril- liant assemblies at the Hotel des Sois- sons are a source of modification, for she can never forget that the King has' more than once, forgotten his engag- nents with her to finger by the side or his fascinating hostess.
 AS for the pious DeMaintenon' she lives in constant terror lest, some day or other, your presence should recall to the King that golden vision of his youth wherein Olympia Mancini was the en- ehrined divinity.
 "As for the Queen, do you remember olympia, that you once opened one or hel letters and stole thence a note imph' eating her in secret intrigues with span (which you showed to the King?
 Your path has ben strewn with thorhs But to compass your ruin there Wa' wanting one strong arm to concentrate the scattered missiles and hurl them II one great bomb at your head.
 "Countess de Soissons-that arm is mine You have thrown down the gauntlet and I pick it up."
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His Parting Shot

The countess, speaking with the fash ionable drawl of the day and stifiing a yawn, replied: 70, my dear Louvois, how Interesting! But l thank you for recalling to me the day when a King knelt at my feet and Louvois lived upon my smiles.
 "She who can look back to such con- quests can afford to despise the veXa- tions of the present while she plumes her victorious wings for further flight"
 The great minister sneered
 Madame said he, La Noisn, the witch and poisoner was arrested last night-and her papers have been seized. '
 He bowed and disappeared behind the portieres The countess stood as if turned to marble and heard, in a horrid dream, the footballs of the minister as he passed down the corridor.
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recede from view, leaving the space filled with the image of the man l loved. Better he should never come down from the moon-for if he comes I am lost"
 And the duchess had kissed her and laughed at her for sentimental girl
 The King himself led Laura out to dance, while the eyes of Maintenon filled with pious tears. Montespan gnashed her teeth with rage, and that pale shadow of royalty, the Queen. looked listlessly, yet enviously on.
 When after the dance Laura had re- sumed her place beside the chair of the Duchess she inclined her head and said in a low voice:
 Pardon me, your rayo1 highness, but can you tell me who that young cava- Her is who stands in the recess of the window opposite?'i
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Without a Word

Madam, be so good as to take my arm," said voice behind Eugene, and a small and efeminate person gorgeous ly dressed and wearing the broad band of the order of St. Louis, offered his arm to the duchess. It was the Duke of Orleans, her husband.
 "The King desires your presence" he said.
 He never even glanced at Eugene. Laura, as a matter of course, followed the duchess.
 She had not spoken to Eugene but, during his short colloquy with the duchess, she had given him such a sweet smile that he followed her at a distance, resolved, since he could do no more, to gaze upon her until the ball was over.
 In spite of the throng which closed as fast as the ducal pair went by, Eugene saw that Laura had dropped her fan. He picked it up and hastened to her. She had just discovered her loss.
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Barbesieur Chastised

Eugene accompanied his mother to the frontier and then returned to the capital He was burning for revenge upon Barbesieur Louvois. He sent for his cousins. the Princes of conte. He assembled and instructed his servants.
 Then he drove in state to the Pre- aux Ciercs and forced his way into the train of carriages which, follqwing the royal equipage, was driving lhere.
 His coachman did this in R way to overturn the carriage of Barbesieur Louvois, and as the young man emerged from the wreck Eugene horse whipped him in the presence of a crowd of the nobility which had gath cred about.
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that while I regret to interfere with her pleasures. I have a sudden attack of the vapors. and must require her attend ance."
 Eugene and Laura were again sepa rated, and he saw her drive away in the carriage of the duchess.
 When Laura and the duchess were alone Laura said: My dear lady the man has come down from the moon.'
 ''Who-Prince Eugene?" asked the duchess in astonishment.
 Yes, Prince Eugene Laura buried her head in the folds of the duchess robes.
 Pray for me. my dear lady" she sobbed for my father would never con sent to bestow my hand upon the son of the Countess de Soissons, and I-alas- believe Eugene is lord and sovereign of my heart, for it bounds to meet him as if it felt that he was master of my des- t1ny'
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BY LUISE MUHLBACH

servant anno6hced that messenger had arrived with dispatches from the Duke Of Savoie
 'Acmit him. said Eugene; "and. Laura. remain here.
 lie drew the hanging of the bay win dow and in its deep embrasure she was entirely lost to view. Suddenly Laura heard voice which. she knew not why made her blood freeze.
 These were the words she heard: Here. your highness. are the dispatehes."