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Durrazzo, the Albanian royal city.

air with one arm. Here surely, Is ruler
who should win among people that
hold so highly the qualification Of physi-
cal prowess.
He has the bearing OF a cool headed,
determined man, "A man OF action rather
than Of words. He has practically made
no utterance that might indicate his
policy. Conservatism he has carried to
the utmost limit OF caution.
II am hopeful" he said.
He said too, that he had great conf
dence in his people and believed that
with their help he would be able to lead
them to the long desired national inde-
pendence. That is as far as he has ever
expressed himself on the situation. or
all the complexities of the internal gov
eminent he had not yet made SUFFICIENT
study to express an opinion, while the
attitude of the neighboring States and
Of Italy and Austria he automatically
refrained from discussing.
His extreme conservatism, his disin-
clination to talk about public affairs and
his aloofness have no doubt initiated
greatly against his popularity. A people
who were always in the habit of talking
matters over with their chiefs between
whiffs of cigarettes and sips OF black
coffee do not understand this ruler, who
is seldom to be seen and who Is APP
preached only by unusual formalities.
He has held two public receptions. AT
the first few persons went out OF
curiosity; at the second, said Duraz-
zan, 1--WE had to go out and drum up
enough people to make a showing In
the few times that he has ridden
through the streets he has passed
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WILD ALBANIA LANGUID OVER NEW ROYAL HONOR
rince William of Wied's Extreme Conservatism and
Aoofness Have Initiated Against His Popuarity-The
Suns Correspondent Interviews Ruler and Essad
Pasha, Who Would Make Puppet King of Him

Skipetare she has used as a design the
peacock Of the wieds. But the pea
cock, unfortunately for the plan. Is I'M
known to the people Of these mountains
and two tribesmen after carefully
studying the garment from a point Of
vantage over the fence fell to discuss
ing whether the strange figure repre-
scented a bird or a flower.
The Princess has had her troubles too
with public receptions. At the first she
insisted that the women should kiss her
hand. An Albanian woman kiss the
hand OF another woman. Never! She
will remain away from royal receptions
first. And SO she has and will until
that order Is rescinded.
Although their elders may not display
much interest in their new rulers. the
children of Durazzo are most loyal to
the Crown Prince and Princess. The
former I year old, and the latter. 5,
spend most of the day on the sand at
the sea side OF the garden separated
from the playground of the town chill
dren by only n picket fence. The little
girls of Durazzo. who never have to
bother about schools. come early to see
the stately procession that moves every
forenoon from the palace to the royal
playground. First a seven foot Alba
Man in the gorgeousness of the national
dress wheels the baby carriage with the
young Prince. then at respectful dis
lance behind the young Princess carry
ing her doll and finally the nurse.
The little faces pressed against the
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the Fatherland. The studio-it seems
really more an ofIice-was just such a
room as one might expect that n young
German Prince with a passion for sol
diering and an omniverous fondness for
books would have.
There were evidences all around Of
an inclination to satisfy both Of these
desires; but the room gives more dis
tlnctly still the impression Of a work.
shop. There were volumes of German
philosophy. Of which the Prince was an
assiduous student in his Jena days. and
were one or two Americans represented
in the piles on the table--and there were
books of references and stacks of docu-
ments. These last the young ruler in
sists upon wading through himself
Many Of them have to lie translated, for
though familiar with most Of the Euro
pean languages. he has not yet mastered
the intricacies OF the Albanian or of the
Turkish. in which many of the official
communications are still written.
He Is an interchangeable worker" said
Capt. Dudley Heaton Armstrong. the
young Englishman who IL his aide de
camp and private secretary. land he
pores over those books and documents
all day and part Of the night had to
drag him away from his desk to-day
to get him out riding. the first time in
more than a week"
But IL is OF the man himself that you
will carry away the most vivid impress
sion. There Is something fascinating in
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fence grow intense with interest and
rows Of bright eyes follow every detail
OF the unpacking of the royal play
things. In the widest dreams of AL
bantam childhood who could ever think
of having life size woody dog on
wheels, or n toy man that walks, or a
lamb that needs only winding up to
make II gambol on the sand? And
what baby but little prince could ever
have a carriage Of it's own? So the little
faces press eagerly against the fence all
day and in the evening the row OF eyes
feast again on the wonderful process
sion led by the giant with the baby
carriage that moves ever stately back
to the nursery door.
But in Durazzo besides the King and
the royal family there is Essad Pasha.
More eyes are on him than on the King.
for the people may conjecture what the
King may do, but they can never guess
what Essad may or may not.
His palace is up on the hillside, back
against the old wall, and from his
window he may look down upon the
royal residence and the ever ready
steam yacht that brought the Prince Of
Wied to the Albanian shores, and the
black bulk of the Austrian warship
But Essad to-day is not dreaming Of
living in the palace nor of wearing the
purple, for too many men have warned
him that should he attempt II he would
he killed before he could reach the door.
He must content himself with trying to
be the power behind the throne and to
make his the hand that pulls the strings
OF puppet king
IL is not an easy matter to reach
Essad. In the anteroom on each side
OF the entrance hall to his palace were
bodies OF retainers, trusted men who
had served him and who had been
brought over for that reason from the
hills. Their rifles rested against the
walls, their long revolvers with richly
wrought handles bulged from their belts
nd rows of cartridges glistened defiantly
on their fronts. 1t was a bodyguard
OF fighting men such as few European
monarchs possessed and force that
could defend the palace in these narrow
streets against a regiment of infantry.
The officer of the guard led the way
up winding stairway into Essad's pres
ence. His reception room was the
broad landing Of the second floor; from
behind his desk he could command the
stairway and from the two windows on
each side he could see every person that
approached the house.
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cium as his place of exile. wrote that
living was expensive. He could have
written the same to-day Of the modern
Durazzo. When this writer stopped at
this port several years ago boatman
leisurely rowed him ashore for the
equivalent of 10 cents, Turkish customs
official admitted him for "a tip of five
cents, after CHANGING at his passport, and
the keeper of a reasonably clean Turkish
khan supplied palatable meal for 25
cents and offered n room with good
bed for the same amount.
When the steamship came to anchor
a few days ago IA little army OF red
fezzed men and boys struggled for the
possession of each passenger and his
baggage and then eXtorted what they
could for disembarking their prey at the
wharf. The front Of the little khan Of
rare memory had received coat Of
fresh paint and across the front an
artist was lettering Grand Hotel Of the
Universe" a meal poorly prepared and
poorly served cost twice as much as the
same order would have cost in a New
York hotel
The proprietor had only one room left.
He led the way to the second floor and
with a low bow threw open the door.
The room was uncarpeted, unpapered
and there was scarcely floor space to
move around among the cots in each OF
the four corners, Three OF the beds
were already occupied; in two were AL
bantam office seekers, in third Turk
who had walked In from ten miles in
the country. He charged 1926 for each
OF the beds, or s. a day for the room.
A young boy from South Albania, who
paid 81 for a nights lodging where he
fore he had paid 30 cents. said the Du-
razzans We're taking their royal hOnors
too seriously; but the people OF the town
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ecntatives Of the Porte conducted what
business they would and collected as
much revenue and taxes as they could.
The park in front with its fig and olive
trees was made into n garden, wall
MS built at the furthermost end against
Turks used to gather in summer and
dunk coffee was turned into a tea
hul,e.
i was hard job, the Albanians say,
To- lean the place Of rats and vermin,
but they are a determined people and
th,y ucceeded-this on the authority
Of ne German housekeeper who came
along with the Princess. Now the house
WI. its newly painted white facade
shining through the green foliage and
No great red standard with the double
headed black eagle and the peacock
crest q the Wieds waving bravely from
H., peak of the roof presents a most at
II. tive appearance and forms the one
tl'nt, clean spot on the seafront.
50 the gate an Albanian in all the
suar'n ness Of the new red uniform of the
police force kept watch; two giants in
'..k gold embroidered Jackets and In
o.. Aaring white fustanilla Of south AL
h.ru stood rather appalling guardians
q. p door. The inner court Is brilliant
b. .s new wilderness, but rows OF potted
I.- against the walls and the heavy
r'a narpet on the long stairway give
T. y.ng bits of color, A footman, who
I.".- as II he might just have dropped
d.2u from Potsdam, opened the door ia
H. Ipartments on the second floor, and
a. he closed 1t he seemed to shut out
Albania entirely.
~, big drawing room. with its heavy
ca'lets and rugs, It's ponderous furni-
lHr' and massive grand piano, seemed
:" lave been transferred in its entirety
from some small Prussian court. The
r"H.ngs by German artists on the
"I'H. German books on the tables and
'"'ndn music on the piano, the por-
N".'- II the Princes ancestors in Ger.
nan uniforms and the picture Of Kaiser
"No'Im were still further reminders Of
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~ l'RAZXO is the worlds newest
royal city. This little Alba
- nian town with a history that
goes back to the dawn OF
r.rupean civilization, which was the
p.rrhacium of ancient Rome and a
.,,l' city Of medieval Venice and
v ZEN slept through centuries Of Turk
De-. darkness. has awoke to find itself
Clio, residence Of a new King and the
,.Wtal of Europes newest State.
Into the harbor where to-day little
Italian and Austrian steamships drop
.r nor trading vessels from ancient
f.. the treasures of Oriental caravans
anal alleys disembarked Roman soldiers
O.. .lhe up the long march on the Via
E.,ltia across Macedonia and Thrace
Iu Silunica and Constantinople. Du-
ra.z. then middle point on the great
SAL. between the two capitals of the
,mrr,. was a magnificent city and n
wealthy seaport OF 100000 persons.
I.v \tnttlanS came III looO anu hullt
. vail that they thought would forever
make the place impregnable. but 1t
proved weak defence against the
Turks. who carried II 200 years after
ward. From the time that the Nen-
,.Dus built the great wall 500 years
t-l." according To a popular saying
here. nothing was ever built until the
Prince of WED came"
Today DurazZo has scarcely 5000
people of its own. but OVERLOOKING its
I'D walls it has some 1000 others whG
.at, been attracted by its new honor.
following the Prince tn his capital have
.u,nc adventures, who have scented
new enterprises, concession hunters
Rhu would be the first to reap benefits
q m, new lands development Of its
latent wealth. politicians seeking places
% the Government. soldiers who would
help lgh, the peoples battles and AL
',uians many of them refugees from
Turkish persecution, who have returned
,u Sc, II their dreams of a national in
dependence are to be realized.
To make a residence for their ruler
'h, Ahanians took the old Turkish
Government building where the courts
were held and where official repre-
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say that rents have increased 200 per
cent. and that land in the neighborhood,
which once could scarcely he sold al any
price. is now held at 1925 an acre.
I'VE must make the best of II while
We can" said a Durazzan: THE Alban-
ians are n changeabe people. They may
move their royal city somewhere else
mex; year-or before that time they may
have no need for one"
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TWENTY NINTH CHAPTER.

TCOULD not do as Father Dan adj
vises, being now enmeshed in the
threads of innumerable impulses
unknown to myself, and therefore
firmly convinced that Martins story
was not only true, but a part of the
whole sordid business whereby a
husband was being bought for me.
With this thought 1 went about all
day, asking myself what l could do
even yet, but finding no answer until
Q o'clock at night, when, Immediately
after supper eve lived country fash
ion), Aunt Bridget said:
Now then, off to bed, girls. Ev-
erybody must be stirring early in the
morning"
Never had l written such a letter
before. ! poured my whole heart on
TO the paper, saying what marriage
meant to me, as the Pope himself had
explained it, a sacrement implying
and requiring love as the very soul
of it, and since l did not feel this
love for the man | was about to
marry, and had no grounds for think
ing he felt 1t for me, and being sure
that other reasons had operated to
bring us together, l begged Father
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81 don't mean that, sir.

T don't mean that, sir. I
"What?" he said. facing round.
Then trembling and stammering /
told him. / did not love Lord Raa-
Lord Raa did not love me. Therefore
begged him for my sake, for his
sake, for everybody's sake q think
I said for my mothers sake also) to
postpone our marriage.
And first my father seemed unable
to believe his own ears.
Postpone? Now? After all this
money spent? And everything signed
and sealed and Witnessed"
Yes, If you please, sir, be-
/ got no farther, for flinging down
his razor my father rose in tower
ing rage.
Are you mad? Has somebody
been putting the evil eye on you?
The greatest match this island has
ever seen, and you say postpone-put
1t off, stop it, that's what you mean.
Do you want to make a fool Of a
man? At the last moment, too. Just
when there's nothing left but to go
TO the High Bailiff and the church!
But | see--I see what It is.
It's that young Conrad-he's been
Willie " SOhs
l tried to say no, but my father
bore me down.
Don't go to deny it. ma'am. He
has been writing to everyone-the
Bishop, Father Dan, myself even.
Denouncing the marriage, IL you
PLACE"
My father, in his great excitement.
was breaking with whitening scorn
into his native speech.
Jaw, yes, slough, denouncing and
damning 1t. they're telling me.
Mighty neighborly of him. I'm sure!
Just a neighbor lad without penny
az his back to take all that trouble! II
had known he felt like that about il
/ might have aXed his CONSENT The
imperence. though. The imperence
Of sim A father has no rights. Il
seemg A doughter Is a separate
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Little Bobbie' S Pa

l have not sed that the study of
these langwidges is useless to the
children, beekaus it is useful, sed
Mister Dixon. He looked at Pa kind
of hard for a minnit & then he went
on talking to Ma 81 his wife about
the show witch he had been to see.
l newer cud see what good Greek
& Latin is, sed Pa. l studied Latin
for ten years, Pa sed, & I have for
got every bit of It that l Termed. 1t
newer was single bit of use to me.
I haven't met q Latin Teller to talk
with since l graduated. What is the
use of knowing lot of Latin &
then going out to a Hibernian ball
& trying to start UP a conversation?
Nobody thare wud be . Latin q I
wud prubly git thrown out on my
he'd.
You mustn't mind my deer hus-
band, sed Ma to Mister Dixon. He
is ore Of those quaint id-fashioned
peepul that gets an idee into his
he'd & talks about 1t all the eevning.
One of his cunning traits is never
to admit that he is wrong about any
thing at any time, sed Ma. 1 always
humor him, Ma sed.
But insist that what I am say
ing to the professor is all truth, sed
Pa. OF course l know thare are a
few Latin phrases like la carte, table
de hotay, G. Gesundheit that are
handy to use sumtimes, but on the
other hand the child's brain beecums
all clogged up with a lot of Latin
words that will never be of any
erthly use to him
l guess Mister Dixon and his wife
seen that Pa dident know what he
was talking about, so thay jest LATED
& changed the subJeck, & the rest of
the eevning Pa was good natured &
a fine gentleman, the way he cud
always be is he wanted to. I thought
he had forgot all about the Latin
argument, but after thay was gone
he sed to Ma & me, Did you see how
made them wise Dixons shut up?
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CHAPTER THIRTY.

n ny sleep that night was much
M troubled by dreams 1t was
the same dream as before,
again and again repeated-the dream
OF frozen regions and of the great ice
barrier, and then of the broken pen.
When / awoke IN the hazy light of
the dawn | thought OF what tSe Pope
had said about beginning my wedding
day with penance and communion, so
l rose at once TO go TO church.
The dawn was broadening, but the
household was still asleep, only the
servants in the kitchen stirring when
! stepped through side door, and set
out across the fields
The dew was thick on the grass,
under the gloom of a heavy sky the
day looked cold and cherries. A
wind from the southeast had risen
during the night. the sea was white
with breakers, and from St Mary's
Rock there came the far-off moaning
Of surglng waves.
The church, too. when / reached It,
looked empty and chill. The sacris-
tan in the dim choir was arranging
lilies and marguerites about the high
altar. and only one poor woman. with
little red and black shawl over heI
head and shoulders, was kneeling in
the side chapel where Father Dan
was saying mass, with sleepy little
boy in clogs to serve him.
The woman was quite young, al
most as young as myself. but she was
already a widow, having lately lost
her husband at the behring's" some
where up by Stornoway, where he had
gore down in gale. leaving her with
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Dan. my his memory of my mother
and his affection for me, and his de-
sire to see me good and happy, to in
tervene with my father and the
Bishop, even at this late hour, and
at the church door itself to stop the
ceremony.
It was late before finished, and
thought the household was asleep, but
Just as l was coming to an end
heard my father moving in the room
below, and then a sudden impulse
came to me, and with a new thought
l went downstairs and knocked at
his door.
who's there?" he cried. Come
in"
He was sitting in his shirt sleeves
shaving before a looking glass which
was propped up against two ledgers
The lather on his upper lip gave his
face a fierce if rather grotesque ex-
preston.
"Oh. it's YOU" he said "Sit down,
Got to do this to- night-goodness
knows If I'll have time for it in the
morning"
| took the seat in the ingle which
Father Dan occupied on the night of
my birth. The fire had nearly burnt
out.
Thought you were in bed by this
time. Guess l should have been in
bed myself but for this business
Look there" he pointed with the
handle of his razor to the table lit
tered with papers-that's bit of
what I've had to do for you. | kind
O. think you ought to be grateful TO
your father, my gel"
told him he was very kind, and
then, very nervously, said;
But are you sure it's quite right
sr?"
Not catching my meaning he
laughed.
Right" he said. holding the point
of his nose aside between the tips of
his left thumb and first finger
Guess It's about as right as law and
wax can make It,"
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SOLID YEAR
OF MISERY
After a Solid Year of Mis-
cry, Bordering on Hope
lessness, a Grateful
Change Comes of
a Sudden.

Monticello, Ga--Miss Tommie Bow
Den, Of this town, says: st suffered
Tor one long year with serious wom-
anly troubles-and 1t became so bad
mat l thought no remedy could cure
my case.
was nervous at times and had a
sick headache so bad that I could
hardly bend over.
tried two different kinds of med
lclne, but they did me no good.
then began taking Cardui, the
"oman's tonic and I hadn't used It
out one day before I felt a great
change. I continued taking 1t, and
know 1t saved my life. believe it is
worth its weight in gold.
1 hope every lady who suffers from
womanly trouble will try Cardui
praise 1t to every lady I meet, and my
sister also recommends It as the best
or medicines for women"
DO you suffer from any of the
numerous ailments so common to
women, such as headache, backache,
sloeache, nervousness, sleeplessness
ETC.? Have you that tired. weak,
worn-out feeling? If So we urge you
% take Cardui, the woman's tonic. 1t
mas not only relieved thousands Of
women suffering from serious WON
snly ailments but has also been found
an excellent tonic for that tired -out
feeling.
Get a bottle of Cardui to-day.
N B.-Wrlte to: Ladies' Advisory
dept, Chattanooga Medicine Co, Chat
tsnooga, Tenn, for Special instruct ons,
and 81 page book, Home Treatment for
women. sent in ulain wrapper, on re-
ouest.-(Advt)
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o Advice to Lovelorn q
BY BEATRICE FAIRFAX.

gether and let me stand by my
self My girl friend Is keeping
steady company with a friend Of
his. 1t would break my heart to
give him up. Do you think there
are signs of love?
A GIRL FROM FLATBUSH.
The signs Of love are so varied that
no one can say this young man does
not love you.
Perhaps the fault lies with you. 1t
may be that you let him see that you
care great deal for him, and that he
has the power to make you jealous.
Don't do it. Be little more indif-
ferent.
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%
By WILLIAM F. KIRK.

" HE Dixons are cumming oaver
to the house to-nite, sed Ma.
Thay are very Termed peepul,
both of them. Mister Dixon Is a pro-
fessor of the Ded langwidges, and his
wife is so smart he says that he feels
just like the janitor wen he is talking
to her. l know you will like them,
sed Ma.
am not SO sure I will Ike them,
sed Pa. l doan't like peepul that
know too much They always maik
you set around like bump on log,
listening to them & saying That is
very true"
hoap at leest you win treet them
civil, sed Ma, AZ not treet them the
way you have treeted sum of our
guests. Be good to them, eeven IL
only by assoshiating with briter minds
than ours that we can hope to attain
knowledge. Ma sed
Wen Mister & Missus Dixon calm
thay seemed like awful nice peepul.
Thay dident beegin talking about all
thy knew at all, but sat down & bee
gan to visit as nice as any one. But
Pa was kind of jellus wen he looked
at Mister Dixon 81 KEEP thinking how
littel he knew compared with Mister
Dixon, so he sed:
BY the way, prof, my wife tells me
that you teech the ded langwidges.
Just what are the ded langwidges &
how ded are thay?
Well, Greek e Latin, for exampei,
sed Mister Dixon. Thay are merely
called ded langwldges beekaus they
are not used in our modern life. Thay
are not in common use, like German
or French or Spanish.
/ see, SEQ Pa. Then you admit that
you are teeching a lot of our young
peepul two langwidges witch will not
be bit of good in the wurld to them
after they go out to maik thare way?