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one might least expect it. Tho
princess turned without a word, took
up her bag, and walked back to the
castle. She reached her room unmo-
Tested and unobserved, and when the
maid came with apologies for her long
absence, explaining that she had
knocked at eight and, receiving no an
swer, had left the princess und1s-
turbed, it was nine o'clock. And In
two hours a whole life's tragedy had
happened.
"Only Sir Henry Foulkes learned
of the secret. The princess was very
fond of him, and she told him some
years later. Everyone marveled at
the way she bore the news when 1t
was broken. But think that when
two persons love as those did, no mat
ter what happens, whether both live
or one be taken, each knows and feels
that the other is not far away"
The little doctor ceased and f1icked
the ashes from his cigar and flung the
stub away.
"she is still alive?" asked Tarrant
huskily.
ooh, yes, indeed, and her life seems
a very happy one. She is a jolly old
maid princess and a universal favorite
in every European court. met her
last year at Berlin, and think she
was my first convert among the fam
lilies of reigning sovereigns or those
of royal rank. And I think, gentle
men," he continued, that when the
cycles bring the unperishable part OF
William Plantagenet, heir-apparent to
the English throne, into corporeal
form again, he will choose his pa
rents more wisely and with clearer
understanding"
Copyright by w. G.. Chapman.l
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Famous Japanese Geyser.

Throughout the country Atami, JAY
an, is famed for it's geyser, which is
known as Oyu, or the "Great Hot Wa
ter" It is in the middle of the town
and breaks out about every four hours,
when it shoots forth boiling water and
steam with great force and noise. It
originally shot straight up into the
air, but is now partially confined by a
stone that is placed over it. Some
times the outburst continues for more
than twelve hours, such cases occur
ring several times a year. The waters
are transparent and are carried
through pipes to the various bath
houses.
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Queen VictOria's doctors, but I did
not tell him the explanation. I was
simple then, and afraid of the sledge-
hammer of public opinion. Now I say
what I think, and do not care. 1t
was a professional confidence, but the
man who told me is dead.
IF the man had been wiser, he
might have been born into the royal
estate" said Doctor Emmanuel. "But
souls are in touch with one another in
the world beyond; and when he felt
that the woman whom he had loved in
life was gone from him into the world
Of the flesh once more he could not
wait. He was reborn too soon; he
rushed into life so that he might find
her again and know her in her new
physical portraiture. Poor soul! He
was like hunter that pursues white
butterfly into dark tunnel, or one
who seeks the tabled Ice Maiden over
moraines and treacherous crevasses.
so much for my prelude; now 1
will be more matter-of-fact. The girl
was princess of one of those media
tized German houses which, though
they have lost their thrones and lands,
enjoy royal honors and are welcomed
in every European court. Her pa
rents often stayed at Osborne, 1n the
Isle of Wight, when Queen Victoria
was alive. In fact, the girl had been
born unexpectedly in Osborne castle,
little more than 20 years before,
and England was her second home.
Indeed, her mothers family traced it's
descent back to scion of noble
Saxon stock which fourished in the
early centuries after the Norman Con-
quest, and my Investigations led me
to conclude Princess Bertha to be the
present manifestation of a personality
which was last on earth as Editha, a
lady who, Saxon chroniclers relate,
was betrothed to Prince William, the
son of Henry I. of England, who was
drowned in the English channel while
crossing from Normandy about the
year 1920.
LET me interpose here, gentlemen,
to say that the old theory Of the d.
vine right of kings was founded upon
very much more than the mere selfish
desire to control and perpetuate the
kingly power. The phrase the Lords
anointed' represents certain truths
which I may best explain by saying
snat, except under certain rare circum-
stances, kings and queens are reborn
as kings and queens, and do not al
ternate in sex, as is believed to be
usual among less prominent folks.
This is due, I believe, to this fact:
those who play prominent role in
history are so dominated by their pas
sion for life that their past memories
cling to them and shape their new ca
reers very much on the lines of the
last. They have the same expert
ences, the same triumphs, the same
catastrophes. They tread the same
circle of experience without progress
ing, until they have grown wise. You
see, their rank carries it's limitations
with it. This knowledge makes the
study of history profoundly interest
ing; we see the conqueror Remeses
II. as Hannibal and Napoleon; Cleo
patra as Catherine of Russia; Alexan-
der the Great as Charles XII. of Swe-
den; Abdul Hamid, the insane old
tyrant of Turkey, as the reborn Cali
gula, and so on.
"Now to revert to Princess Bertha,
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VT THE belief in reincarnation
- is not an instructive one," said
Dnctor PhilpaS Emmanuel, "Why

TF THE belief in reincarnation
~ is not an instructive one," SAID
Doctor Phileas Emmanuel, "Why
is it a common saying that one
cannot be too careful in choosing ones
parents?"
Paul Tarrant clapped him on the
shoulder and laughed heartily. MY
dear doctor, that is JOKE" he said.
Don't they make jokes in your coun-
try?"
ITO be sure" the little doctor an
swered, putting vigorously at his cigar.
"And they also say true things in
joke"
do you mean that one can choose
ones parents?" 1 asked. "Why, If
that were So, who would choose to be
reborn in poor family? Would not
unfit parents be sterile? How can you
support your contention?
"You must remember" answered
Doctor Emmanuel, that when the soul
is ready to put on new garments Of
flesh, it is not in touch with the phys
lcal world Of life. 1t wants to get
there. But it is cropping in the dark.
Why is a thistle born thistle and
not a rose? Because the thistle ma
ture instinctively seeks incarnation
limited individuality-the thistle. So
with us. The soul that struggles up
ward toward the earth life has no vi
sion of the world; it does not see its
future parents, or know their world
ly circumstances. But it's need for
birth, and that of myriad other souls,
produces that ferment in the hearts
Of men and women which we call love
what Schopenhauer called the de-
sire of the unborn to spring into ex-
istence. Then, guided by its protect
ing spirit, it's deeper self, it's immortal
part, or God, as you prefer to use the
term, the soul comes to it's own. And
thus it is born on earth again.
well, DOCTOR" Tarrant answered.,
"but how do you make out that 1t
chooses it's parents them"
1T chooses them within certain linn
its, just as you and I, Mr.. Tarrant,
may choose to live in Madison avenue,
New York, or Piccadilly, London, but
not in Mecca or the planet Venus. OF
course, am now theorizing largely,
but should say that the soul can
rush in hastily when the chance offers
and the desire for rebirth Is as in
tense as the plants yearningd toward
the lighter it can wait till it's in
stinct tells it that it has found a more
suitable environment"
We were all silent. Granted his
first contention, that Of reincarnation,
the little Greek doctor had an uncan-
nily convincing manner of establish
ing his chain Of argument. If we do
live again-there is the old, fascinat-
ing speculation which has engrossed
the minds of so many OF the profound
est thinkers in all ages! If SO, what
more natural than that we can exer-
else selection? But Emmanuel never
halted until he hammered home an
abstraction with fact. I knew he
meant to advance proofs; T saw him
shift his knee and flick the ash off his
cigar; then he began speaking again
in his penetrating, emphatic barry
tone.
II was thinking" he said, "Of case
which happened some years ago on
the occasion of my first visit to Eng
land. 1t was related to me by one of
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Not So Old, Either.

Flatbush-I understand the life OF
a freight car is about twenty years.
Bensonhurst-And yet no woman
would like to be told that she looked
as old as a freight car.
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COsMo DE MEDIOIs

The Florentine family of the Me-
diois, which made itself in various
ways so notable in the fifteenth,
sixteenth and seventeenth centuries,
may be said to have been founded by
Cosmo, Who died on Aug. /, 1464.
This gentleman, whose descendants
were to rule as kings and queen in
Europe, by commerce acquired enor-
nous wealth. He became the friend
of the poor, enriched his friends and
ornamented his native city with SUI
perb edifices. He called to Florence
the Greek savans driven out of Con-
stantinople and his counsels were dur
ing thirty years the laws of the re-
public. NIntrigues, which made up
nine-tenths of. statecraft during his
time, were unknown under his re-
gime. Florence, by common consent,
inscribed his tomb with the noble leg
end: 1.-THE Father of His Country
incidentally, the Mediois were bankers
and money lenders. Their coat of
arms contained three golden balls. 1t
is from these that the golden balls
of the present day pawn shop are de-
rived.
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GERMANY'S> GOLD
RESERVE SHRINKING


Washington, Aug. Information
has been received here of a slight
shrinkage in GerEany's gold reserve
which may reveal the coming en-
barrassment of Germany's financial
structure, if not its collapse.
It was stated that Germany is using
an enormous amount of gold in both
Turkey and Russia, as well as being
obliged to pay gold for commodities
purchased in Scandinavia, Holland
and Switzerland. except for such ar
ticles as she gives in exchange, and
which are needed by her neighbors.
Germany has been spending money
lavishly to support her great propa-
ganda in Russia. Neither Turkey nor
the Russians would accept German
paper, but demanded gold.
Germany, it was asserted, would be
wrecked economically if the gold <e-
serve should fail and to save the
country from complete disaster she
would be compelled to sue for peace,
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Remove the Roots
Of Superfuous Hair
entirely New Method)

Seeing is believing!'' When your
own eyes see the roots come out, you
know the entire hair Is gone, not
merely the surface hair. You know
that hair can never return.
Yes. it is really true. that the new
phelactine method removes superfiu-
uos hair comp1etely-roots and all
without the least injury, leaving the
skin soft, smooth, hairless. You do
the work In q jiffy, in your own home.
without assistance. It does away
with numerous and expensive visits
to the e1etro1ysis expert. Does away
with depflatories or shaving at fire.
quent intervals, Nothing like it ever
known before. Perfectly harmless
odorless, non-irritating. Get stick
Of phelactins, follow the easy instruc-
lions, and IL not entirely satisfied the
druggist will refund your money.
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UNKNOWN NEGRO,
HOUSE BREAKING.
SHOT TO DEATH
Was Attempting to Rob Home
of Rochester, N. ",
Man.

Rochester. N. " ug Henry
Kingston. Jr., advertising agent of the
Buffalo. Rochester & Pittsburgh rail-
road. shot and killed an unknown
negro yesterday who tried to rob his
home in East avenue, Brighton.
Mr.. Kingston was awakened by
noises in his pantry. Aiming him
self with a pistol. he made an inves-
tisation. On the landing between
the second and first floors he met a
stranger Mr.. Kingston ordered the
intruder to halt and. when he refused,
opend fire. on him.
The negro lodged behind a fern
and Mr.. Kingston fired again. This
shot fel1ed- the man. The bullet was
later found TO have passed through
the left lung and to have resulted in
his instant death. The identity of tine
negro is not known.
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HOW A1RP1ANEs SAVED FRANCE

Had it not been for the French
air SERVICE" says Burton ]. Hendrick
in the August Worlds Work, France
would have been destroyed in the
first few weeks of the war For years
the French General Staff had expect
ed an attack through Belgium-the
strategic railroads which the Ger
mans were so painstakingly building
up to the Belgian frontier could con-
vey no other meaning. Yet the
Frenchmen still believed that the
main onslaught would come across
the French frontier, and had made
their plans for their greatest resist
ance in this region. France entered
this war with only about one hundred
army airplanes, but Germany, which
had foreseen the part this new instru-
ment was to play, had much lar
ger equipment. Yet, a few days at
ter the Belgian invasion began,
French aviators flying near the Bel
gian-German frontier, saw sight
that Immediately caused a change in
the French operations. The Germans
were crossing the frontier in enor-
NOUS numbers-and the fact became
apparent that in this section the main
attack was to come. This news,
flashed to General Joffre, caused that
sudden alteration in his plans that
made possible the successful battles
of early September. Had it not been
for this operation, the French army
would have concentrated for the Ger
mans in force on the Alsace-Lorraine
frontier, and the whole territory,
from Belgium to Paris and Calais,
would have been left open to the
German onslaught. That is, the war
would have ended according to the
calculations which had been so care
| fully made in Germany"
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Root Mission Near
Death on Return Trip

Toxic, Aug. 1-Elihu Root, head of
the American Mission to Russia, and
the other members of the party had
q narrow escape from. death at the
bands of persons. supposed 70 % An
archists, while travelling through si-
IBERIA en- route home.
The story was told here yesterday
by Mrs. Gregory Mason, of New York
First an attempt was made to wreck
the train carrying the American mis-
sion by destroying a bridge, and then
flaming cars were sent near the Root
special with the wind driving the
fans against the sides of the latter.
station.
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FOODSTUFFS REACH
PROHIBITIVE FIGURE


Washington, Aug. Only three ar
ticles classed as foodstuffs showed q
decrease in price from May, 1914, to
May, 1917, according to a compari-
son OF export prices announced yes
terdiry by the department Of COM
merce. The commodities not in
cluded in the general advance in cost
are green coffee, oranges and dried
apples. vi
Corn jumped from 76c to 1882 a
bushels; wheat from 81 to s2.58:
wheat flour from $500 to 1852 a
barrel: eggs from 20 to 35 cents a
dozen: fresh beef from IL to IA cents
a pound; bacon from 3 to % cents a
pound; lard from ID to % cents a
pound; butter from 20 to 81 cents a
pound, and potatoes from soc to s2.S7
a bushel.
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SIS, 900 GIFT TO
III. C. L. COMMITTEE

Washington, Aug. IA gift of $751;
600 by Mrs. Joseph Fels Of Philade1-
phia, widow of the mill onaire single
tax advocate, was announced yester-
day by the committee on the high cost
of living, holding its national confer
ence here, as the first step in a cam
paign to raise, $250,000 to effect read
justments in the country's land hold
ing system.
At the opening session speakers
urged that a tax of 1 per cent. be
levied on all land and per cent. on
all unimproved land. The organiza-
ton is working for federal control of
public utilities and government price
regulations.
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is steering wheel, with its creaking
rope, and rugged with a naval COM
pass. Here the recruits get all the
sensations of the pitching seas while
he holds her headed into the teeth of
"a booming sou wester.' This is
shown at No. 1 in the pictures.
Upon this field large number of
the men who have been sent into the
navy since the declaration of war
against Germany have been developed
from raw material into deep sea sail
ormen. Since the establishment of
the station about 10000 have been sent
to sea from there, and all of them
have been trained on dry land. The
commandant Of the station is Captain
William A. Moffett, U. S. N. No. in
pictures.) No. shows practice in
lowering and raising boats.
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u.s. s aa# 81 DILLONS 3s 4 s. Sit
Hartford Paris
Wholesale and Retail Leading Milliners
AFTER INVENTORY CLEARANCE

We just finished stock taking We find stocks
are much larger than they should be at this We
prefer cash to merchandise consequently the price clipper
Is working hard Some prices cut in half many cut in
quarters. This your opportunity to handsome
hat or trimmings at fraction of former prices
Extraordinary values in Silk Fibre and Shetland
Sweater Coats Shirt Waists, Pettcoats, Summer Furs
Hammer Cloth Coats Wells and Veilings, guaranteed
Raincoats Auto Caps Hats and Wells.
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200 DOCTORS ENLIST
In MASSACHUSETTS

Boston, Aug. DIR. Horace D. Ar.
mold. director of the Harvard gradu-
ate school Of medicine, who has been
commissioned as major in the re-
serve medical corps. is devoting much
time to the examination Of applicants
for commissions in the corps. He
said today that so far between 400
and 450 doctors had enlisted in this
state, of whom 75 already had gone
to the training camps
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GIVE POSTAL EMPLOYEES
OF G. A. r.. WEEK OFF

Boston. Aug. Postal employees in
the Boston district who are members
Of the Grand Army Of the Republic
viii be given full opportunity to join
their comrades during the national
encampment here next month. They
have been informed that they will be
allowed seven days on with pay at
that time.
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DECK OF GERMAN CRUISER TURNED
into SHAMELESS; SURVIVOR TELLS
HOW FLAGSHIP LUTz 0W Went DOWN

\ Sea Of Corpses Drifted by the Doomed Warship as
She Slowly Sank Benea tn Waves Effect of British
Gun Fire Is Vividly De scribed-Gas Shells Suffo-
Gated Those Who Failed to Don Their Masks Shell
Hits Ships Hospital Co Impairment Blowing Doctors
and Nurses Across Yes sci
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everything within it into the depths.
When the roll was called it APP
peared that there were 1,033 survivors
of the Lutzow; 597 men had persisted
in the battle
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very doorway, it is surprising what
one can learn about navigation and
nautical tactics without even setting
foot on shipboard-in fact, from the
training at the station it would seem
that all the rudiments of naval life
are learned on dry land.
In the middle of grassy field are
scattered the working parts of a bat
tleship. On a swinging platform there
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Representatives Of American trades
unions are going to Stockholm for the
International Peace Conference &C.
cording to the Social Demokraten of
Denmark.
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CORTE.Z C. ROCKWELL, plumb
ting and Heating. jobbing a speciality.
1851 Main and Hillside avenue.
Phone 326-2 10 $f
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Eitel, Kaiser's I'd Son,
Gets War Command


Copenhagen. Aug. .1--Advices from
Berlin say Emperor William has ap-
pointed Prince Eitel Frederick, sec
ond of his six sons, Chief of the First
Pomeranian Field Artillery Regi-
ment No. 2.
The appointment was made, it was
announced, in recognition of the
Princes services during the war as a
troop leader.
Prince Eite1 Frederick, who is "a,
Is the second of the Kaiser's sons to
be appointed to an actual war COM
mand. The Crown Prince, 35 years
old, heads the army that. since Feb
ruary, 1916, has been trying vainly
to take Verdun. The third son
Adalbert, SO, is in the navy.
Prince Oscar, the fifth son, was re-
ported early in the war to have beer
recalled from the front. on account
of a breakdown, due to shell shock.
About the same time the Kaiser's
son-in-1aw, the Duke of Buinwfck, wa.
sent to a sanitarium to recover from
nervous prostration. r.
So far as known, Prince Angus
William, 80, and Joachim, 29, are still
serving in the German army.
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accepting whatever terms the Allies
might impose.
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Advertise in The Farmer
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lFar1ss want AS. ons cent word
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-12-11
huati3uter.

THCM.t9 Z. CARTER, Auctiancer.
Auct;on sale o: desirable garage CT
stable property, known as Dit. Yer
non Garage.
Pursuant to the terms Of deco
Of trust, bearing date on October b,
1911. siven by Robert G. Smith anc
wife tc Charles B. Marshall, Trustee.
ard cuiy recorded among the land
records Of the City Of Alexandra
Virginia, in Deed Book 81, page I"
said deed Of trust having been giTe
o secure the payment OF certain II
iebtedness therein Set forth. defGui
having been made in the payment or
cart Of said Indebtedness, the III
dcrsicned, being the EHecutriX o
Ike aforesaid Charles 3. Marshal
Trusted, IT the request and by lHe
direction OF the holder of the note.
Inc anl unpaid, viii offer for sale 8,
public auction on he premises. 2
II O'Clock noon, On Saturday. Dec
embcr 18th, 1917, the following dc
scribed real estate situate, lying ar
being on the east side of st. AsapT
street, between King and Cameron
streets, in the City Of Alexandria
Virginia.
Beginning On st. Asaph street q
g point I233 feet 5 inches 10 tie
southwark Of Cameron street, ana
running thence southwardly alont
St. .Asaph street and binding tier,
with SO feet Z inches TO an alley
thence eastwardly with line paral-
lei to Cameron street 1913 feet
inches; thence nocthwardly with :;
inc parallel TO st. Agaph street ::
feet 2 inches; and thence WESTWARD
y with a straight line TO the begin
ming, with the use Of and right O.
say over the above mentioned ale
= common with others entitled there
20, together with ak buildings an
improvements thereon and with a
tights, easements. privileges and ap
burtcnances to the said real este
belonging or in any Wise appartain
ing.
Terms Of sale: One-thiri cash an
The balance in one and TWO year?
the deferred payments 70 bear p
tere::. at the rate Of six per cent po
annu:1, payable scrni-annually ali
. be secured by first deed Of tTue
a00n the said property, or al cas-
1t the option Of the purchaser o