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ried to Duchess Sophie of Oldenburg,
who broke off her engagement with
her fathers aide camp to contract
the royal marriage. while Prince Au-
gust Wilhelm defied his autocratic
papa and married long before the Kali
ser intended
1t will be remembered that King Al
fonso of Spain came to England deter
mined to marry quite another princess
than the one he did. The story goes that
he was given the mitten'' By Princess
Pat OF Connaught who made the
rather unknd comment tina, the Spanish
King did not measure up to her ideal Of
beauty. Eventually, Alfonso was driven
Into the arms of Princess a,na Of Isatten-
fcrg, about the only eligible Fnglisl.
princess. Alfonso II seems, was deter
mined to make matrimonial alliance
with England, despite the fac that his
mother was set upon his marriage to an
Austrian nrchduchess, and Emperor VII
liain. who LAS finger in every pie. tried
to irduce hum to l,stow his heart and
liand upon a German princess
Diplomats still tell with much pleasure
of thwarred royal romance of bygone
days. I seems that the late Queen Vic
toria conceived the idea of marrying
Princess Alice OF England to Prince
William the zon OF King William of
Holland. The Dutch court was APP
preached and expressed ITSELF delighted
with the proposal. Prince William WAS
thereupol invics1 to como 10 England to
form the acquaintance Of Princess Alies
and make the p-npnsn,
Through diplomatic channels the En-
peror Napo'eos ~ heard Of The proposed
betrothal and for "reasonS of safe de-
cided to prevent IL He invited Prince
Williams to spend few days in Paris on
his way to the English court and during
his stay In the French capital saw to 1t
that the prince was plunged into a
wild orgy of dissipation. Through pri-
vate channels the scheming French ruler
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Reasons Of State Influence Many of the Royal Marriages

LONDON, June 20.-(Special )--Of-
fetal announcement. amount
ing to royal consent, of the
3GG4H coming morgantic marriage of
trlnce Oscar, the Kaiser's fifth son, to
Countess Ina Martie Won Bassewitz,
draws attention to the enormous part
diplomacy and considerations of state
play in the matrimonial affairs of the
scions of royal families. In this par
ticuar case reasons of state were COM
PEELED, by the persistence of Prince Os-
car. to take back seat but not be-
fore the Kaiser had made jolly good
fight in their behalf.
The sinister hands of the diplomats
were seen recently in the upsetting of
the love match between Crown Prince
George of Greece and Princess Eliza
beth Of Roumania. The princess, one OF
the most beautiful women in European
royal circles, has turned the heads or
most of the eligible princes on the CONT
nent But she looked with favor on
none but Prince George. despite the eff
forts of diplomats and relatives to marry
her off. Although but 10 years of age
she has the appearance of woman much
s':cer and the head of a woman in the
prime of her powers Brought up in
the gayest of courts in the whole of Eu-
rope she is girl wise beyond her years
and the Crown Prince of Greece was
instantly fascinated by her cleverness,
her vivacity and vitality.
There are many reasons of state, from
the viewpoint of the diplomats and rulers
of Greece, to commend an alliance with
the ruling house of Roumania. Rouma-
MA, orc Of the strongest and most stable
OF the Balkan nations, showed, in the
late war, that she held the balance of
power among the smaller nations in the
cock pit of Europe. And while Greece
added considerably to her possessions as
consequence of her war with Turkey,
and later the war with Bulgaria, as
matters stand at present she has no
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Work Of Mediators
at Niagara Falls

Secundly, | would suggest that the
ABC's, while they air about it, mite make
things Immunity moor satisfactory. and
conclusive to one s good prospects of dying
with nuthing moor sudden than extreem
old age, by appointing cardigan Cor ons
Panehoo Villa. o. corse tlieere mite be
sum objectsion to this, but / would name
it as Il condision. Il they would MT do that
then | would coldly inform the committee
that | could not accept the nominasion, as
much as | would like to head the call of my
country, | would not saerifise my princi-
pals, and take chanse of being hung on a
holiday to pleese volatile populase, by
having Mr.. Villa who has put the life in
suranse bizness in Mexico on the blink.
roaming at large. If they agreed to name
a gardyan for him, | would thirdly insist
upon naming the cardigan. | would tell
them it didn't make emmy diffurense who
the gardyan was so it was the United
States army, with instructsion to shoot Mr.
Villa on the spot, or emmy phase that was
convenient if he tryed to escape; moore
over to be always suspecting him of trying
to escape. The Dove of Peese is going to
in Mexico until Panchoo Villa gets what he
wants, or is held back by sum one strongur
than he is, in spite of all the Mise things he
seys. He's colossal, monumental, double
distilled, concentrated emulsion of Old An
nynias and all of his relatives boiled down
INTO one, and is as about as trustworthy
and dependabull as tarrantuler.
| clio hope that the medyaturs won't
spoil theere good wurk by putting emmy
faith in the murderer of Bentun, and hun
dreds of uthers
Also we hope that the medyaturs won't
quit the job too quick There's nuthing
pressing in the medyasion bzness rite now,
50 let them finnish what they air about.
II this job proves successful, | am for
them as a perminnt Board of Medvasion.
1t would be fine to refur to them the I'M
fortunate diffurense of opinion now caws-
ing so much anxiety in Crate Britain, be-
tween Mrs. Spankhurst and the King.
Neither would consent to arbitrasion. or
medyasion, perhaps, but we have alreddy
established a pressedint for folks who
ought to have medyasion wurk dun for
them but who refuse to agree to it; we 90
rite ahed and medyate emmy how II we
could settle the Suffrage question that wav
in Crate Britain, we would confur a CRATE
boon upon the Prime Minnistur, as we'll as
everyone else.
We could also medyate between Jawn
ID. Rockerfeler, and the strikurs out in Col
dorado That would be good thing. If we
could medyate a soft spot in old lawns
solid ivory he'd, and medyate desire to
wurk moor and strike less in the heds of
organized labur, it sertainly would be sum
help to the country. In fact, if this Next
con thing wurks out, the ABC's need new
yer wlrry about a preminint occupasion.
When they run short of emmy thing else
we'll get 'em to medyate between Hobsun
and the Deemun Rum.
Yours trooly,
BILL VINES.
Washington, d. G.
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peese to your country, now runt it; we have
an importint engagemint, so we have to
run along
| don't know who this Guy is, but if I
was him | would make few myner re-
quests of the medyaturs and uther we'll
wishurs in this trying mattur. would
suggest to them, furstly, if I took this job,
that they would guarantee that good open
spase was maintained at all hours of the day
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The Garden Variety

From Judge. r
A slim chicken. who was SO thin that
she nicked the counter where she leaned
against 1t, trickled up to the hosiery de-
partment of a Sixteenth street store and
said:
Gavin you give me a pair OF hose that
won't bag at the knees?'
Name shifted her chicle against her
back molars. ooxed a wise slant over tn
customer and replied hstlessly:
Not unless yuh take garden hooas !,
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R7ISTUR EDDITUR: Onse moor peese
W. rains soopreem and the we'll known
~ dove representing the same is how
vering ovver us, dispeeling the dark clowds
! of war which browsed around the horrizun.
The Tocksin of War, along with the dogs,
have been once moor restored to the ark
ives to becum meer matturs of record. We
have laid aside the sword, or beet it into
pruning hook, or mattock, with which we
can dig fish-bait. The horrors of conflict
have been avurted let us return to base
bawl and polyticks, and the chatawlkur sir
cult We doff our hats to the ABC bunch
of medyaturs and affurm that when it Gums
to medyating they air There. They can
patch up perfectly good war and settle
it without bludshed, also with or without
the consent of all parties interested in bet
tur shape than emmy bunch of diplomats we
have ever scene diplome.
It's trew that There is large elimint
of the Mexicon peepul which air not includ-
ed in this program, owing to the obstinasy
of the aforesed. This, however, is meer
Z detail which is no fawlt of the medyaturs.
Why spoil perfectly good medyasion pro-
gram just becawse Carranzur and Villa
an agreeabull. They don own the earth.
Out side-of controlling the most of Mexico
and few outlying districts with There
justly celebrated standing army they don't
seem to stack up SO much. When they ar
rive in Mexico City they will be grately
shagrined to discuvver that we have beet
them to it and have established Constitu-
sionel form of Guvvermint, illuminated
Huerter, and put crimp in theere highly
Il Il LII
for while, and while they air recovering
frum theere surprise and shock, and before
they can think of sumthing else to start
revvoluson about, they will be coldly but
pointedy informed that EVERY thing has
been settled by medyasion in dew and an
silent form, and theere is nuthing left for
them to do but to hurry rite along and be
good. If they don t do it, they air no gen
tlemen. Besides that it is sed that Carran-
Eur is going to get into this medyasion
thing ennyhow. He held off for while
but when he saw that when it cum to medy-
ating that the ABC's could medyate Just as
well without him as they could with him,
he concluded he mite as well be amung
those pressint.
We heerby commind the ABC's as furst
class medyaturs Before you have your
spring medyating dun kindly look ovver
There new styles; if you have emmy diffur-
ense with your muther-in-law or your
wlfes relatives, refur it to the ABC's:
they'll fix it all up while you wait OF
corse Tom Pense is going to spot the set
tlemint of Mexico's trubbles at Niagra
Fawls, as anuther acheevemint for the
Wilsun administration. That's Toms
1 long suit, spotting acheevemints; he can
spot an acheevemint with his nakid eve.
that the ordynery obsurver COULDN'T pick
out with a Lick telescope. Still he's rite
about this, if the medyasion at Niagra
Fawls brings a perminint settlement of
Mexico's trubbles it will be the biggest
acheevemint Of the administration by sew
verel square feet, and all the biggur be-
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BY LOUIS HYDE

ing when the kittens crawl through
the fence the old cat comes over the
top In the end the Kaiser had to
be content with Wilhelmina's alliance
with German prince in the person of
Henry of Mecklenburg-Schw
The alliance of the crown prince of
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dun.
When this is being rote, the medyaturs
have not selected the Gink that they air
going to designate as the "strong man"
in Mexico. They air, so it seys, going to
pick out sum wurthy individual and tag
him as it, wish the provisional presidency
on him, pat him on the back, and say unto
him, Go to it, old top; we have restored
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Germany with Duchess Cecilie came
very near falling through altogether,
not because of any unwillingness on
the part of the interested couple but
because of friction between the Kaiser
and the bride and her mother. OF the
other sons, Prince Eitel Fritz is mar
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over which one could flee, promptly and
expressively There mite arise occasion
when the strong man. would have to de-
side question quickly and without hessi-
tasion which mite bring about opposson.
They have such habit of opposing things
down in Mexico that it's going to be hard
for them to recuvver Gwen under the abull
treetmint of the ABC's. So in case of re-
lapse l would want to be safe.
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opened by the German government
with the Dutch court. 1t is said that
the level-headed Wilhelmina feared the
strong hand of the Kaiser and replied
in the words of Dutch proverb mean
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ONDON, June 2O.--(Special.) -Of-
fetal announcement. amount
ing to royal consent, of the
coming morgantic marriage of
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God for the wisdom which had made 'm strap his re.
volvers under his armpits.
"What now?" he demanded.
"The Sahib will be given his guns and ammunition
the hour he starts back to camp"
And in the meantime?"
The Sahib is free to come and go about the city 60
long as he does not approach the palace. If he is found
in the vicinity of the zenana he will be arrested and Inn
prisoned.'
"This is all very high handed"
"Sahib, there is no British Raj here. The orders OF
the regent and the council are final Submit"
"Very we'll"
"Ramabai?" ..
Ramabai stepped forward. By a kind of clairvoyance
he saw what was coming.
"Ramabai, the orders are that you shall retire to your
house and remain there till further orders"
~ am the queens bodyguard."
"Ail Well saidl But I do not take my orders from
The, queen-yet. Obey. The Sahib mGs accompany you
if he wishes: there are mo orders against that. The
Sahibs elephant will be lodged in, the royal stables: the
mahout will see that he is fed and watered."
I'VE have been betrayed" said Ramabai. al know
not how"
you were followed. A moment" said Bruce, turning
to the officer. st have a servant by the name Of Rao. I
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who travelled with him on the same ship from Hongkong
to Singapore. Col Tell him all, the death of my father
and Umballah's ~treachery. Hasten!'"
Bruce was eating his simple evening meal when
Ramabai arrived. 'r. -
Bruce sahib2"
"Yes. Your lace is familiar"
you have been twice to my bank. am Ramabai."
at remember. But what are you doing here2"
81 have come. for aid, saaib; aid for a young woman.
white like yourself"
80 "Then it is true2 Go ahead and let ne have all the
facts. She is Hare Sahib's daughter; told me that,
Precious ~rgamarole of some sort. The factsi"
"She is also the young lady who '-aveled in the same
boat from Hongkong to Singapore" Ramabai paused to
see the effect Of this information.
Bruce lowered his fork ~lowly. The din about him
dwindled away into nothing. He was again leaning over
the rail, watching the phosphorescence rail away, "a
shoulder barely touching his: one of the few women who
had ever stirred him after the Crst glance. In Gods
name, why hadn't she said something? Why hadn't re
told him she was Col. Hars's daughter? How was he to
know? (For Hare, Queerly enough, had never shown his
young friend the photographs of his daughters) Hsrhaps
he had been at fault; he, too, had scarcely stirred from
his shell. And where was that scoundrel Rao?
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polls and yellow robes, might slip beyond the Law as it
read. The first ordeal was over. Nor, as the law read,
could they lay hands upon this brave young man. All it
was good. Umballah must look elsewhere for his chief
wife the Memsahib would not adorn his zeaana, It was
more than good, for now there would be a second ordeal;
more amusement, perhaps another miracle. True, they
had taken away the pistols Of the white sahib, but he
had bis hands.
Won would come" And what she had seen in his eyes had
made her trsnbia visibly for the first time that day.
she was conducted back TO the palace. The populace
howtsd and cheered about her pnlanquin to thssvery gates
Net in many ~ iis rain had they he'd slflf# excitefaant
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Copyright: iet4: By Harold MacGrath.l
FyrT A rpYNTru Tu
THE TWO oRDEALs.

n n EANTIME Lal Singh was hurrying on g racing
NV camel toward the railway, toward Simla, more
than q thouYand miles away He was happy.
Here waR the long delayed opportunity for the
hand Of the British Raj: a captive white woman. What
better excuse was needed? There would be armed Sikhs
and Gurkas and Tomnies near Rawal Pindi. Ali how
time moved, how fate twistedl How the finest built
castle in schemes came Gathering down: At the very
moment when ne had secretly worked upon the king to
throw himself into the protecting arms. OF the British
Rai-assaBsinated The eouncil2 Umballah? Some out.
slider, made mad by oppression? THEE c. Brahma was
strangely hatchad-this curious old worldI
Ahmed remained hidden in the bazaars to await the
ordeals. Nothing should harm his miFtr 60; he was ready
now and at all times to lay down his life for her; in this
the British Raj came second. He had sent a courier to
Bruce Sahib's bungalow, but the man had returned to
report that it was still unoccupied.
And while he bit his nails in futile wrath and smoked
till his tongue grew bitter, some miles away there was
much confusion In the jungle by the water. Tents were
being set up, native bearers and coolies were running to
and fro, building fires, carrying water, hobbing the pack
elephants. Wandering in and ont this animated scene
was q young man, clean shaver, deeply tanned, with blue
eyes which were direct, small PUZZLED. yet kindly. Pres
emily he called to one Of the headmen. ~.
Ali, you might send three or four men on to thu
bungalow to clean up things. We shall rake it tomor.
row. It's but two hours ride, but there's no hurry and
besides there's q herd Of elephants behind Us somewhere.
They've come up far for this time Of year"
.,,
Ali made a gesture; it signifed a great many things.
Bruce Sahib will not believe
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SYNOPSIS or CHAPTERS L. a. AND q.
Aatatyn Hare deceived by a forged rnessages b~
ha" summoned hcr to him. She starts immediately
ZOE AAaha, leaving her younger sisteEs' WINNIE at
@onae ON their wild animal farm In California.
Umballah, a pr0tege OF the kfng of Allaha. hopes 80
succeed to the throne Alfalfa being an independent
orinctpaEity, the chAldlesn ruler has the right to a-
point his heir. On a previous visit to Alfalfa. Col.
aaFe had saved the life OF the king, and as a reward a
decoration, carrying with it royal honors and the
sight Of succession. had been conferred upon him.
Umballah goes to America and. spying ON the house,
@oaa or Col. Hares @ees the lovely fair haired KathIyn
ana falls i'm love with heTs' He determines that she
shau come to Alfalfa and be an. innocent aid i'm the
DAot against her father. The ruse 10 successful' and
ON the boat vvhich carries ESathIyn to India the HinLu
is a DasseugeE. 49, O. .- r, ~.
In the meanttune the Kang OF Allnha has died and
Omballah and the three councillors OF the kingdom have
aarown Col. Hare unto prison. On Kathlyn's arrival in
Alfalfa she 1@ informed by UnabaIlah that heE father is
Head and that she ID the queen. She an forced to enIer
te palace and ds detained there until the day she. lS
TO be crowned. Am elaborate durbar iS arranged tie
central figure OF which is KathlynD protesting and
grief stricken. I'm her extremity she thinks OF John
Bruce q fellow passenger ON the boat who In hunt
Ing I'm the vicinity OF Allahas Her fathers servant.
Ahmed appraaching to present her with AOversp she
whispers his naKae and tells him to brng Bruce to her
aid. when the crown Ia placed upon her head UmBalIah
announces that shn ID TO be married to him forthwith.
Her refusal in3urtates him. but as KathIyn's beauty
and spsrlt have made a strung appeal to the people, and
especially to the soldiers, who hate UnabaIiah, he yields
the point for the tiae being. A priest announces that
mo woman naay rule unmarried, but because the young
queen as mot c0nverSant with the laws OF the stnte she
Will be: given seven days to decide. The durbar ends
and Kathlyn IL escorted i'm state to the palace.
when kathlyn relterates, at the expiration OF the
week OF gKacep her refusal to marry Umballah she re-
ceaveS sentence from the supreme tribunal that SHE I'm
10 undergo TTO orae0l@ with WILD beasts. she sur
Vtvess @ho In to- be permitted TO rule without hlndrance.
The pAoto-SrSnrcs corresponding to the tnstalEnssnts Of
The A6uentHses of KGthlyn" nnGg noso be seen at O
nUaUbes Of the Leading noOing picture theaters. By this
uNi0Ske 'nSrHmUefRenf aDSfh the SeEsg P0LuscnDs CoHnndnD
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Pennsylvania.
LANCASTER, PA, Dec. 81, 1913.

LANCASTER, PA, Dec. 81, 1913.
It is safe estimate to make that
within the past two weeks, or little
more, the local packers have disposed
of fully 5000 cases of 1912 tobacco, to
say nothing of 1911 and 1909 Morris
Levy, of the United Cigar Manufacture
ers Co., started the buying of the 1912
Earlier in the season there was some
talk of the packing showing an un-
usually large percentage of black rot
and must. As matter OF fact there
was not an undue amount of either
black rot or must found in this tobacco
and the trade soon became aware that
good tobacco was right at hand. There
is now very little of this packing in the
local dealers hands.
1t is pretty hard matter to form
any idea as to how the new crop will
pan out. At least it is only half or but
little more than half crop, and con-
sidering the conditions under which it
grew, it is a generous guess to put the
real good tobacco at so per cent of the
whole lot The other so per cent would
range all the way from very poor stuff
to fair, with a tremendous lot of hail
cut that is now only bringing from
three to five cents pound. The grow
ping now, and the local packers have
been out looking it over.
The local packers have been doing
far more business the tail end of the
present year than they did for the
same period last year, and they are not
dissatisfied with present conditions.
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TOBACCO MARKET.
EDGERToN, WIS.,, Jan. 9, 191

GO0ER1O1N, w 10sS - 0tls ~, 4VA1s
There is a quiet absorbing of the un-
sold portion of the crop continually
going on as we'll as movement for
taking over the low grade portion for
stemming purposes, for which from :
to z cents is being paid. The latter in
cludes the late and frosted leaf.
Another casing spell during the week
has permitted growers to take down
the remainder of the hanging tobacco
and complete the stripping. There has
been steady stream of deliveries at
the packing points while the country
roads are in fine condition. The tobac-
co is being accepted without much COM
plant and we scarcely hear of deduc-
tions being made regarding its condi-
ton.
The market for cured leaf has not
shown much revival since the New
Year in local markets, trade mainly
being confined tc small lots.
Warehouse work is getting well under
way now at the packing points and so
far there is plenty of help at hand.
The shipments out of storage reach
about 200 cases from this market to all
points since last report.