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to hang the diamond about her shapely neck
Nine. de Montespan the beautiful Mile. de Ton
yCharene daughter Of the distinguished Due de Nor
temart Her mother Of the favortes at the court
of Louis XIV and her father of its popular
courtiers.
She twenty years DID, already noted for her train
Of admirers and for her beauty and rather caustc wit
when she first within the Kings notice 1t at
a ball given by Louis which staged daring ballet
which the monarch called the Amours of Hercules" In
this dance there participated bevy Of young beauties,
all Of them daughters of distinguished families Among
these the young Mile. de Tonnay Charente, who
believe the ehroncers danced with restraint and
extreme modesty until during of the figures Of the
dance, she noticed the eyes of the King turned toward
her. when perhaps in of she SEEM
ngy forgot herself in her of the favor thus shown
upon her, and proceeded to wh into the intricate figures
of her dance with abandon which could not help
ing the interest of young King whose attentions
always yielding to feminine charm.
After the ballet concluded the King called before
him the dancers whom he especially wished to comp
ment. Among these was Mile de Tonnay Charente.
At this ball Louis wore dangling from his neck chain
the flashing blue diamond he had purchased from Taver
nier. Perhaps the young mademoiselle was quite as
fascinated by its maevoent rays by the smile Of the
King himself At any rate there those who, writing
their memoirs at that time have recorded that there is
doubt but that very night Mile Francois determined to
become the "favorite declared of France.
Nine. de la valliere then the avowed favorite Of
tne Ming, ana persuaded the monarch during one
Of the grand military parades he used to give when
his army was not busy at war; to allow her to take
the blue diamond from it's and it around
her neck when the beauties of the court gathered in
Flanders to witness the parade which to be staged
there. Louis demurred, but at that time la Vaere
first in his favorde Moncspan only second He allowed
her to enjoy the sensation caused by her appearance in
public with the famous gem dangling from its chain and
watched with satisfaction the admiration bestowed
upon 1t by the many courters who thus given their
first opportunity of examining it. few weeks later
Nine de la Valliere away to TO escape being
made mere screen for the Kings meetings with the
beautiful Montcspan
Many years later the Marquise de Brnvilers. Of
the court beauties of the time while being racked in the
torture chamber, moaned out confession in which she
startled the administrators Of the torture with memory
Of this time when la vaere wore the blue diamond with
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by evolutonists August Meube Stolen
and lost commission appointed to find it,
It turned in diamond dealers shop in DC
Wilhelm Falls who and reduced stolen
and Falls ruined OF the
and E. W.
Hendrix Fails the diamond merchants who a
in
Francis Be.ueu who sold it, died in misery and wan,
first of the family series of
including the death Of his favorie
Lord Francis Hope
happy marriage to Sim
for SI6sooo
May Yohe, his wife. who tells
Simon Frankel New York
financial difficulties.
Jacques coo another
Prince Ivan Kanitovski killed
Lorens Ladue whom he loaned murdered
Simon Monhsrides, Hamid
thrown prepc while riding wife
Abu ssb. a apidary, polished it,
prisoned
Kuub who guarded hanged by
ish mob.
The keeper of "a
Zubsyba the Sutans favor killed by her
of
Kiosk which later looted and the diamond
commission appointed in October. 1909, find
Abdul Hamid paid 5000 for
Jehver Aghs official of the Yildiz o
stone and hanged
Selim Habib Persian diamond handled the
drowned the sinking of Frenchs off
November stone however was safe in paris
January Mrs Edward Mclean of Washington.
bought wore it and sued for $4,000 BY Cartier
In May her only child, the
Million Dollar Baby the closely
rushed from his side and
wheels OF an automobile in Washington
Nothing else in all history nothing in fiction
ale the extraordinary record of this
wal bIghted-by "eurse"3 This will be told
from week to week on this
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CHAPTER w.
(Continued from Last Sunday,

(Continucd from Last Sunday
tcopyright by International Feature Service ncl
IN previous chapters have told little of my early
girlhood days of my stage ambitions and the happy
~ moment when great stage manager gave my
first contract remember that day very clcary-was it
the happiest day of my lfei
Suddenly, under quite unusual circumstances for an
American girl, was faced with that very question.
'Would you mind telling Lady May, what has
been the happiest moment in your life so fari'
1t was the Prince of Wales, afterward Edward VII,
speaking to Always the Prince called Lady
May and not by my proper and formal ttle Lady
Francis.
1t was at Christmas Eve dinner at the house of Alfred
de Rothschd in Seymour Place. London not long after
my marriage to Lord Hope The Prince sat my left,
while at my right sat his brother the Duke of Edinburgh
who had then just become also Duke of Coburg Gotba
regning sovereign of the German prncipaty of that
The Prince did not appear to be serious We had been
drinking champagne toast to his brothers estate
ruler Of CoburgG Gotha and had added to the toast
little whisper to the Duke Il hope you will be very happy
king The Prince had turned quickly to and
asked me to designate my own happest moment, with
smile that seemed to invite a frivolous answer.
Yet knew there a hidden purpose in the Princes
question. That trick of hs-one of his ways of
fahoming people whom he would prefer to like. So
answered him truthfully:
II do not know whether it was when got my first
engagement the stage when l found out the man
whom engaged to marry real live lord.
went out of nv head with happiness each time"
The Prince studied me for a moment, and then merry
twinkle came his eyes. / saw that had pleased
him end that would remain friends. Just at that
tirle fashionable London greatly concerned by
rat cming mistress of the Hope Diamond That
nsgni6eent little actress" should jump from the foot
eht1 70 the certainty of becoming duchess would
rrhen Lord Hope became Duke of Newcastle, bad
ugh but that should also into possession of the
~ Eat blue diamond which thousands Of young marriage
al of he Of
high state occasions the wife Of Lord Francis too
much. ! that the Prince had expected me to say
that the happiest time Of my life when realized that
l. girl of the footghts, had won this distinction away
from ell the Of lords and ears and dukes in the
kingdom He pleased to see that my happiness had
been more modest
1--WE will hope" the Duke Of Edinburgh said, "that
Lord Frsncs's famous diamond does not visit upon you
the msfortunes it has brought to so many beautiful
women and famous men"
Never fear, Your Highness,' returned. II have
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rapidly changing from the older favorte to the
one-but de Monespan had replied that she had just
sign of la Vallieres hold upon the King, in itself
evidence that la Valliere s influence with her royal
suitor powerful as ever.
During the first years of her reign the royal
heart de Monespan of queen than France has
had since Although Louis cautioned his ministers
to keep watch his relations with pretty and,
whenever they that one of them gaining an in
6uence in the affairs Of state, to him and if neces
sary to protect him. to any methods they chose to rid
France of the woman thus gaining ascendancy
him, Montespan overawed these same ministers,
turned them into lackeys for herself whenever she
desired and ridicued the Queen before her face
There many aspiring young women, daughters Of
powerful dukes and marshas who constantly set
ting their traps for Lous's favor in those days. but
Montespan trumphed them all Strange as it may
the first signs Of her eventual downfall began to
appear about the time that Louis bestowed upon her
his gift his choicest treasurethe diamond of Tav
ernier Nine de Montespan, whose alliance with the
King well known TO the court but who had not
yet publicly supplanted the Duchess de la vallere
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that love for Lord Francis and his love for would
surmount all evil not superstitious but after
events to show that then the devil in the da
mond laying its trap for with the sinister
sway has exered for centuries those who have
in contact with the marvellous gem.
The charming Marchioness de Montespan favor
ite of Louis XIV, and doubt my buoyant feelings and
brave hopes also in the heart of the fascinating
Marcboness
There was good reason for the beautiful Montespan
giving way to desire to number the ''blue diamond"
among the Kings gifts to her. Others before her in the
Kings favor had succumbed to the ambton-but
Montespan might well have shuddered the seemingly
inevitable consequences One after the other all those Of
her who had felt the fascination of the fash
ing gem had come to grief
There was, for instance the lovely Mile. de la Motto
dArgencourt who described being the most alur
ing of Lous's earlier enchantresses
In stolen tetea-tee with d'Argencourt in the apart
mens Of the Queens mother one night Louis is said
have remarked, while showing his diamond to d'Ar-
gencourt:
81 would make you Queen of France my dear, despite
my royal relatives if thought would be able to keep
your deghtfulness for myself alone easily l
keep for myself the splendor Of my blue diamond
How can you say that Sire" the favorte exclaimed,
when not even you, King prevent diamond from
giving its beauty to whomever wishes merely to gaze
upon iti"
"Ah, but can shut up the blue diamond and guard
it by merely closing my hand around it. pretty woman
loses half her ustre when she shut up and surely not
King armies prevent her thoughts from stray
ing where they WILL and womans thoughts at least
the lesser half of her attractveness'
After while dArgencourt persuaded the King to let
her have for time this blue diamond of which she be-
bitterly jealous And it not long before the
pretty dArgencourt was packed away to convent, dis
gtaccd and discarded
Among all the historic characters who have been
Ciated with the Hope Diamond and who have suffered
their tragedies perhaps the result this Nine de Mon
tespan surely is the most interesting For twelve years
she the cfhand Of the greatest monarch in
history. To-day her blood in the veins of almost
every royal and ancient ducal family of Europe Her
ambition to become the favorite Of the Grand Monarque
born at the very moment when first her eyes rested
upon the malevoen flashes Of the beautiful gem Of the
Princess Brisbun and her downfall occurred within few
years after she finally had persuaded her royal admrer
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the Kings consent, with the conspir.
ing Nine. de Montespan looking jeal-
ously on.
This Marquise de Brinvilliers was
one of the patrons of Nine. la Voisin,
a notorious poisoner. The infamous
scandals Of the "black mass" which
l shall describe a little further on,
had become public property, and this
associate Of the principal poisoner
was being "questioned' by means of
the agonizing water cure. She told
the judges that few days after the
last military parade, at which la
Valliere had been a spectator, Nine.
de Montespan had como to her and
appealed to her for "potion" which
would cause the death of her rival
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Tor the Kings afec-
tions. She. told the
judges the Marquise de
Brinvilliers had expos
tulated with Nine. de
Montespan, telling her
that it would be unnec-
essary for her to plot
against the life of la
Valliere, since it was
well known throughout
Paris the Kings love
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Nine. de Montespan, King
Louis XIV.'s favorite, who
wore the blue diamond and
who was discarded and driven
out of the royal court. At the
right is reproduction of an
old engraving showing the
chateau Louis built near Paris
for this early favorite of his.
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AFRICANS PROPOSE BARRING
 SALOONS FROM BORDER ZONE

MEXICO CITY, Sept, 14- Saloons, gambling houses and other resorts will be forbidden in . zone 621s
 miles wide along the Mexican United States frontier by bill being pro pared for submission to. the next Congress by Jose I. Lugo, under Sec retary of Interior, says the Excelsior.
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< DENVER, Co,a. aspt. II - Ssysty fiys arrssts for ylslaties q sAe pro- Aibitioa sn4 isg ae.s a.d ,s } !! a1s.s : 2 :. q liquors asa - - - . . )ep1oe wsrsi li slsla1a 5s. ssias and llal alal i!uiiag l <; - ,! - Jsd ' II 2 ' = { 7. 5. ! nsi - 5El ll 7! !g X
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WORK PROGRESSING ON
 CACHE CREEK WAGON ROAD

T. D. Harris, of the Cache creek Dredging company, is in Seward and reports everything progressing favor ably on the road being built into the district. This work consists for the most part in building bridges across creeks, corduroying swamps and slash ing. Gordon Bettles has charge of one gang of twenty-five men on . station three miles from the Sultns building bridges, and Ross Kinney, who is in charge of the project, is working ten men, getting his camp established and taking in supplies for finishing the season. AS soon as the roadway is cleared to permit of hauling Mr. Har- ris expects to move in 300 tons of equipment and supplies for the erec- ton of the electrical power plant. This project includes . 5000 foot ditch with . ,1o0-foot fall, capable of de veloping about 4,000 inches of water.
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NEW YORK, Sept, 1l- Reports made today after . thorough survey on the cost of living. shows sn in- crease in the six year period ending July ls4 of 10A.S. percent. .The report sasws n iaczsass q 10 per >eoat fbF ths past year and five Der eut fuss Nsreh, until June, this yssr. Food
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MATCH BUYS PALACE

John Matich has purchased the Pal ace building on lower Broadway, the deal having been consumated yester- day afternoon. In yesterdays realty transfers mentioned in the Gateway. it was said Charles Tecklenburg had purchased the Palace. MT. Tecklen- burg purchased the corner south of the Palace and also the Ashland garage.
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OPERATORS
 DEBTS LISTED AT 3s,Sls 2s7

BOSTON. Sept, 14- Outstanding liabilities incurred by Charles Pcasi. discredited get-riek-quick operator now in jail here on Federal and State warEants charsing use-of the mails to defraud and grand 1aeeeny, aggregate $s,9ls,267, aceoeding to figures compiled and made public by covsrnment aeccuntaatk
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ls VESSELS TO BE BUILT
 TO AVOID TAX ON PROFITS

WASHINGTON. Sept. 14- Applies tions have been approved by the federal Shipping Board for the con- itruction of sixteen vessels aSEre- sating, 2s5,74o deadweight tons under the provisions of the merchant mar ne act which permit shipowners sndsperstors te avoid psynsant of iexeess profit taxes for tsu yssEs provided a sum equivalent to the taxes is set aside yearly toward the building of new Ships.
 Fourteen of the vessels are tank CTS ordered by the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey of which three totalins t, 300 tons gre to be built at Kearney, N. J.. three total. ing 30,3O0 tons at Oakland, Cal; three totaling 20,B00 tons at New port News. Va; three totaling 36,H 96O tons at Vancouver, Wash; and of II 300 at Oakland, Cal. The Pae. fife Mail Steamship Company applied for one $500 ton tanker to be built at New York end the Sun Company of Philadelphia for . l2,S00 ton oil steamer for construction at Chester. Ps.
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M COMMERCIAL FACTS MAY BE
 ABoGATED UNDER MARINf ACT

WASHINGTON Sept, 14- Exann- nation of American commercial treat ies with other nations has revealed that twenty-foar of these passs my have to, be abros.tsd under proyi. sioas of the nsw nasrehsatt nnetina . ct, State Dspartnsnt offieials an-
 ncunesd today. .sss ~ ssi s
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VALUABLES OF SOPHIA'S SAFE SEIZED ON LIBEL
 FOR WAGES OF DIVER

SEATTLE, Sept, IT, The currency and valuables in the wrecked Princess Sophia's safe worth $12, 900, have been seized by deputy Marshal growing out of libel proceedings of Frank Wal- ter, diyer, who seeks .$20O0 for his work.
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JAPAN IS PLANNING A
 BIG NAVAL PROGRAM TO
 BE COMPLETED BY 1927

TOXIC, Sept, 14- According to estimates of the Japanese press, Jap an will have 120 submarines by 1927, also eight battleships and eight battle cruisers when the new naval program will be completed.
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UP II G0ES-
 SOME Go'fR

inereased lls pe eat duEia0 the pas$ six years; shelter e s1r esst; e'ssh. ing lss pr esat, Aat Ak s.a iishs ss per esntysnd ssaAsiss iaspsassf C Der esat susar nd petalsas hslaas- ed ts = 1s,e No nsasios is usds sgsGd1e41kS wage inersese to nsst t1s absSeh~' crease ts nsst ths aoSss i.sgpa
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NOTICE 10 MARINERS

,. The lighthouse Superintsndeat at Ketchikaa has sent the following to, U. 8. commissioner whittlessy fer the benefit of marinsrs: middle ground shoal bell bouy No.s3 Primes William Sound, xss changed te . TT and bell beuy ea sspssnber 18th. fiashins white every six sssonds x <
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SENTENCES JOHNSON

4CH1CAGO, Sept, 14- Federal Jalse Carpenter today sentenced Jack Johnson to one year tiad one day in Leayenworth penitentiary for viola- tie4 of the Mann act, known as the white slave law.
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;tSSEATTLE, Sept, 14- N. J. Jor- dan, assistant supervisor of Federal prohibition and the Northwest direct or returned this afternoon from an in- spection trip to Juneau and other southeastern Alaskan cities. MT. Jor- dan said liquor was being run into
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WEATHER REPORT

SEWARD 6s, Clear; Gala. Anchorage S8, Clear, Calm. Matanuska 10, Clear. Calm. Chickaloon 36, Clear, Calm. Wasilla 3S. Clear, Calm. Talkeetna 70, Clear, Calm. Goldcreek 34, Clear, Calm. Hurricane 34, Cloudy, N. ". Summit 2S, Clear, Calm. iBains A. Clear. Calm.
 Healy 42, Clear, Calm.
 Nenana ss. clear, Calm. Fairbanks 70, Clear. Calm.
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sANTEL IS THROWN

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept, 14- Jim Londa threw Ad Santel, lightweight champion, two out of three falls last night. The match was not for the championship however.
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PAINTERS STRIKE ENDS WHEN
 11o 4 DAY WAGE IS GRANTED

: NEW YORK. Sept, 1<- Ten tasus- and New York painters rstu1nsd tn work today attsr employers of two thirdsof tas ssridns worhsss hsd - signed : nsw wigs sesls ssrssaaal under which ths lass wiIl rsssivs tsa dollars . daf inst6ad sf nilA
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MAINE GOES REPUBLICAN

PORTLAND, Maine, Sept, A-- This state gave an overwhelming plu- rality for tho republican ticket in the primary held yesterday with . total vote larger by $500 than the highest ever previously cast.
 Frederick H. Pafkhurst, of Ban gor, was elected Governor by . mar gin of 65,O00 over Bertrand c. Mo ntyre, of Norway. . plurality Of IT,
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MUCH H0OTCh COMES INTO
 ALASKA

Alaska from British Columbia almost without restriction and he predicted that a large number of secret agents would be necessary to stop the TraS- fic. MT. Jordan will recommend a large force sent to Alaska immediate ly.
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AMERICAN CONGRESSIONAL
 PARTY IS SAILING FOR HOME

YOKOHOMA, Sept, 1b- The Am itan congressional party, visiting the Orient, has sailed for San Francisco, via Honolulu. The party was not hd.ss mapped or naolested while in Korea.
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DRIVING
 THE POLES

LONDON, Sept. 14- Reports from Moscow, received this afternoon, state that the Soviet forces have taken Nofv both sides of the Brody and are march ing on Lembcrg. The report says the Poles and Ukranians have been driv- en back.
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CAPT. NoRD IS COMMODORE

The popular steamer Alaska is now ,fiyine the blue ground and stars of . commodore. for Capt. Gus Nord, has been named first commodore of the Alaska Steamship Company's fleet by President Steve Birch, in honor of twenty six years faithful service for tAs company.
 The position, which is an honorary one is held by the captain who has been longest in the company's service, and reached highest honors.
 Capt. Nord has served on the Rosa lie, The Fsrallon, Tie Jefferson, the Alaska, and other vessels. He brought the Jefferson on her first trip to the north, and remained on her until the company purchased the Kansas City, renamed the Alaska, on the east coast when he was given command of this vessel, the largest and most pslatial of the vessels running to Alaska
 Despite his years of service guid- inx his vessel thru the treaeherous waters of the north. Capt. Nord IS one cS the most cheerful and best natur- cd men on the run. He has hosts of friends in every port, who wish him another quarter of century of use fullness and endeavor.
 The Alaska on which Captain Nord -is now commander, is S27 feet long lS feet beam, and has depth of hold of 81 feet. The vessel has gross ton nsse of 37o9 and . net tonnage oi :soo.
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WILL CUT M ,l1ELoN l!

CHlcAG0. ssB s cudaay Pleline cenpaay - tIs M dvids4 for ths }irst tims Iinee sesaais,- -atisa q tss esir ii r. v <
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HUNGER STRIKERS DYING

CORK, Sept, ll- Eleven hunger
 strikess in the Cork jsil s1s still
 alive but aIl arc restless end na.
 terislIy weaker. I've sf thea, Burke Kenny. collapsed twice last nisat and his condition | eaasias especial anxiety. Sean Hsanessy. nineteen yean .eIA remains ia .
 eonatose state. refusias ts tale watsr..
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900 more than the largest evee ,ob1aia- cd by gubernatorial candidate ia his- tory.
 Four Republican eonsress4es vess elected by large plurslitiss.
 Every member of the stats senat0 will be Republicaa.
 Only thirteen Demoersts wese eloet. cd to the house which has . nohber. ship of 16l.
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SEATTLE, Sept, A- Halibut is , n cents; chickens eight cents; red and ling cod. two cents.
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IRIlt DU1 1OllD0moW

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WASHINGTON.
 NOMINATING

SEATTLE. Sept. l4- s:Rdnssy day in the ststs C WaSaiastsa sSasl with fair weather bat predietioas oR rain.
 Tae registration ia tho stats is,ees~ siderable over Seeooo. Lssiss1oE sat' parties predict hsasy vstG
 There | no dirtA q ea.didstse - the tickets which srs tAs. Fss1se.L- Dor, ProhibiHsa, Republican sad Dsa- ocratic. r. ,
 Billy lnglis is opposing: .:::' ssasasr Wesley L. Joass. .. :.:
 All candidates Asvs tesa sadse.eS by varioss lsagusa