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PART IV
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INTEREST IN TURKEY
German Statesmen Watching
Events There.
SENTIMENT HAS CHANGED
Much Expected From Cabine't Forced j
on Mohammed V.
ALBANIAN SITUATION GRAVE
Visit of Prince Katsura Causes
Rumors of Alliance of Bussia
and Japan.
S'l* a nm t? Th? Smr.
BERL.IN. August 1".?Political interest
In Europe at pre-ent Is centered around
tvvo ? apitals. ?.'onstant inople and St.
Petersburg, for nobody pays much atten
tion to what !s happening in Portugal,
? nd everywhere else things arc quiet.
'lerman statesmen have been following
t vi nts in Turkey with great interest ever
> nee the war with Italy broke out. but
it cannot be denied that opinion here
has undergone a g-eat 'hange during the
!a^t ten months. The outbreak of the war
' ,?me a? a ratin r unpleasant surprise to
? Germanv, whose relations with both bel
ligerents were friendly, Italy being our
ally and Turkey, in a way. our ward. At
fi st the sympathy was with the Italians,
whose marvelous promptness and master
ly transport of their troops across the
sea were greatly admired, but gradually,
however, a strong feeling in favor of Tur
key set in. and it is with great regret
that the ?Jerman people realize that as
mutters now stand in Turkey every hope
of that country retaining Tr:,>oii and
?'yrenatca must be given tip. Statesmen.
? wever. rrahze that from an interna
tional point of view Italy's possession of
these provinces is desirable.
In Turkey itself events have evolved
with su h amazing rapidity that one
hardly realizes that the Young Turkish
Tarty, which three vears ago swept
everything before it and drove Aixlutv,
Hamid into exile in practically no time,
is now crushed and beaten by the very
elements that originally < arried the party
into power- Now, as then, it is th?- Turk
ish army at Saloniki that has brought
about the re\olution, and it is the Mili
tary League that is master of the situa
tion
Situation Is Critical.
The situation in Turkey certainly Is
very critical. Much is expected from the
new cabinet which the bayonets of the
military have now forced upon the weak,
Inexperienced .Mohammed V. It is com
posed of some of the ablest men in Tur
key, statesmen and soldiers who have
grown gray in the servi-e of their coun- I
try. Moukhtar Pasha, the new grand
vizier, is now in his eightieth year. He !
has filled administrative positions in Al- I
uaaia, Crete and ?<;ypt. He covered
himself ith slory in the Russo-Turkish
war of 1S77, and tlie proud title of ghazi, |
meaning victorious, was conferred upon j
him for his success against the Russian
hosts in Asia Minor.
In Albania the situation is alarming
One of that province's most prominent
leaders expressed it exactly when he said
to a German correspondent a few days
ago;
"I can only say that we .vlbunians are
one with our love and attachment for the
Ottoman empire. Three years ago we i
pulled the chestnuts out of the tire for
the Young Turks. As thanks, they have
not fulfilled the most modest of our
wishes. Today we would welcome any
one who would free us from the yoke of
slavery, for we have only one wish, sepa
ration from Turkey."
it was the recent visit of the Japanese
Prince Katsura to the czar's capital that
drew the attention of Kurope to St.
Petersburg. The air immediately filled
with rumors of a Russo-Japanese alliance,
and some enterprising newspaper corre
spondents even asserted that they had
seen drafts of the treaty that provided
for the partition of Manchuria and Mon
golia between Russia and Jaian.
Humors Are Unfounded.
I-ater event?, however, have revealed
all these rumors as unfounded on fact,
and that although some arrangement
concerning the far east may he reached
later between the two countries. Prince
Katsura came to Russia to become ac
quainted with Russian statesmen and
Russian sentiment before taking ofth e
at home, but not as a bearer of any
official or ^emi-oflicial message. No
treaty of alliance between Russia and
Japan is in preparation.
The reason is not at all because the
common aims of these empires are other
than the European press represents them,
but no such treaty is needed. The po
litical interests of th?* two countries are
so manifest and so vital that the merest
tyro in politics can discern them, and
the most Loadicean of patriots on both
sides would Join forces to safeguard
them if they were endangered.
Russia and Japan have become, and are
resolved to remain, the supreme arbiters
in the Pacific, and intend to eschew all
misuse of that overlordship in their deal
ings with the other power*-. But if their
own special interests, which are so much
alike as to be virtually identical, be
threatened, they will support each other
vigorously in diplomacy, as they have
recently been doing, contident that their
overwhelming military and naval forces
in far eastern lands and waters will
dispense them from the necessity of pro
tecting them in other ways.
May Be Under Deluson.
As for the fate of Manchuria and Mon
golia. Kurope and America are under a
naive delusion if they imagine that those
provinces are destined eventually to be
^returned to China, and Kurope and the
Vl'nlted States are under a still more
dangerous delusion in putting faith or
lV>pe in the future of the Chinese demo
cratic republic instead of awaking to the
consciousness of the necessity, which is
d: -ily growing more pressing, of interna
tional Intervention there to be delegated
to the two powers who wield absolute
sway over the far east.
' Kreeh information from Holland shows
! that the Dutch government now Intends
pro ceding at a very early date with the
bill providing for the erection of the
Flushing forts. In order to overcome
serious opposition on the ground of ex
pens*. they have reduced the scope of
the original bill, which provided for other
fortifications elsewhere. The cost of the
Flushing forts themselves is estimated
' at 1"<100,000 florins (about $T?,0fi0.00U), and
| there is no doubt this sum will be ob
jected to.
Only Saved From Being Dis
mal Failure by Presence
of King Alfonso.
Sfpecial Cablegram to The Star.
LONDON', August 10.?British weather
had a depressing effect on Cowes week.
Indeed, it may be said that as a social
event the famous regatta was only saved
from being a dismal lizzie by the pres
ence of the King of Spain and his young
brothers-in-law, Leopold. Maurice and
Alexander of Battenberg.
After publicly announcing that affairs
of state would detain him at home, Al
fonso after all changed his mind aud
sneaked over unostentatiously to Cowes,
where he always manaqes to have the
time of Jiis life. Madrid and his cabinet
in particular are alleged to be furious,
! for It is no secret that there is real dan
! ger of war with Portugal, and his majes
ty's absence was considered extraordi
narily ill timed.
There was a crowded but merry party
at Osborne cottage, where the limited ac
commodation was taxed to the utmost, for
in addition to those already mentioned,
Princess Henry of Battenberg put up the
Queen of Spain and her little daughter.
! also Princess Christian. Princess Victoria
; of Schleswlg-Holsteln and Princess
Louise and the Duke of Argyll, all with
j their separate suites.
King an Entertainer.
Princess Henry delighted in her Span
ish son-in-law's after-dinner antics, for
his spirits are as high as ever. One even
ing he amused them with a Spanish song
and dance, attired a la belle Otero, and
on another occasion he gave a darky en
tertainment with his young brothers-iu
law. He and they have been all over the
place, despite the rain and wind, shying
cocoanuts at local bazaars, shopping in
town and keeping townspeople on the hop
generally.
Alfonso, by the way, was quite attentive
to the attractive Mrs. Graliame White,
nee Taylor of New York, whose husband
made exhibition flights during the week.
Staid visitors to Cowes were scandal
ized by the presence of a gambling house
in their very midst, where baccarat and
chemin-de-fer-bon were played for very
high stakes all the week. The house,
which is one of the best in Cowes and
almost within a stone's throw of the
Royal Yacht Squadron headquarters, was
taken some time ago from house agents
at a very high price by a woman who
gave most excellent references and a
check for the rent in advance. Private
invitations were circulated among
wealthy visitors to the regatta asking
th?-ir company to supper any day during
the week, while touts were busy raking
up "punters."
The result has been that the house has
been crowded every night, and play has
gone on until N or 'J o'clock in the morn
ing. , , '
The baccarat mania has got society in
its grip just now. and more than one
young man of noble family has been
"ffci ?cfd to depart suddenly for a quiet
holiday on the continent.
STUDYING THE SOUL.
Mrs. Brown Potter Working Under
Hindu Guru.
Special <'ali!egrani to The Star.
LONDON. August 10.?A publication
known as the Christian Commonwealth,
which prints articles concerning the
doctrine of materialism yielding to
j psychic study, announces that Mrs.
j Brown Potter, is now engaged at her
country seat in the study of the soul.
Mrs. Brown Potter, so it is said, lias
placed herself under a Hindu guru, and
"Atma Durshan." and soul communion,
as taught by the Yogis in Gosainthan
Temple, in the Himalayas, is the special
subject to which she is devoting her
energies.
The Gosainthan School of Psychic Cul
ture is unknown in this country and in
America. Gosainthan being above the
perpetual snow line. 16.000 feet above
the sea. is difficult of access, which
may explain why the cult is little
known, even in India.
"Good Indians" Are Alive Today.
From tho Chicago Journal.
Statistics furnished by the Carlisle
school show that the time when all good
Indians were dead Indians Is past.
Twenty-flve thousand red men are en
gaged today in the successful cultivation
of land, an increase of about 15.00U in
ten years.
These farmers are reported as having
under cultivation about JWO.OOO acres, an
increase of some IKS.'i.WJii in those years.
As a considerable proportion of this
showing Is reported as the direct result
of teaching in the Carlisle institution it
is manifest that little if any occasion re
mains for the old-time familiar assertion
that educated Indians revert to aboriginal
conditions after leaving school.
CYNTHIA-OF-THE-MINDTE
by
LOUIS JOSEPH VANCE
Author of "The Brass Bowl," "No Man's Land," etc.
(Copvrlf^ht, 1911, by Ixroia Joseph Vutoe.)
CHAPTER XVII?Continued.
Not till two bells?one In the morning
did the puffing and snorting of donkey
engines, the clangor of windlass pawls,
the shift and scuffle and pound of feet
upon the decks, and the husky blatancy
of men's voices die out upon the still and
' peaceful bosom of the night, when the
Orion ceased to rub shoulders with the
Cynthia and swung ofT to her former
anchorage.
Yet another half hour elapsed before
Mme. Savaran's snorts and complaints
against procrastinating sleep had by de
grees become absorbed In regular if
slightly stertorous respiration.
Then Cynthia sat lip on the edge of her
berth, and with infinite precautions slip
ped out of her nightdress and into her
bathing suit.
Fastening: the straps of black cloth san
dals round her slender ankles in their
heavy black silk stockings, she stood up,
in black from head to foot save for the
fair wan glimmer of her arms and neck
and face, and the brighter glow (in the
dim starshine that drifted through the
port) of her closely coiffed hair of gold,
for she had no rubber cap. A heavy
mantilla of black Spanish lace ? ma
dame's gift?thrown over her head and
shoulders, served measurably to deepen
the effect of all-embracing shadow.
Moving as softly as a shade of night
itself, with infinite stealth she found the
door and let herself out into the dark
alleyway, reclosing the door without a
sound.
Listening a breathless moment, she
was reassured by the sustained drone of
Mme. Savaran's gentle snore: and no
other sound alien to the night life of the
vessel was audible to alarm her. Indeed,
if anything, the <|uiet was more than or
dinarily noteworthy, after the uninter
rupted uproar of the last twenty hours
or so. Officers and men alike, with hard
ly an exception, the crew of the Cynthia
rested In slumbers so profound that they
were as if drugged. No hour could have
been selected more propitious for her un
dertaking.
Yet, it was with a faint heart, timid to
the least alarm, that Cynthia moved for
ward, groping In the obscurity, to the
forward companlonway, and descended.
There was no cowardice In her temper,
but a soul-shaking terror of being dis
covered and held back.
Acklin was waiting at the bottom of
the steps, masked In a murk so absolute
that Cynthia could not say whether he
were there or not, until his whisper
warned her and her fumbling hands
caught his arm.
"All right," lie said, softly. "This
w'y, please, miss?and gently. 'Far's 1
can tell there ayn't anybody about, but
vou can't be too cautious. * * ?"
t-' Guided by the movement of hts shoul
der, on which her fingers rested lightly,
Cynthia followed him, senslbfy enlieart
ened and more confident, through what
seemed a maze of pitch-dark passages,
culminating in an abrupt descent to a
lower deck.
Suddenly she saw the head and shoul
ders of her guide stenciled against the
shimmer of starlit water, visible through
an open car?o port.
Simultaneously the steward paused.
" 'Ere," he said, in a voice somewhat less
secret. " 'ere's the lifebelt. * ? * Let me
'elp you?just like puttin' on a jacket,
miss. ? ? * So, now the other arm. 'nk
vou. ? ? ? Right-o. ? ? ? Now I'll fasten
j it." His deft fingers knotted the straps
across her bosom. "I've tied a pistol,
miss, an automatic pistol, to the belt;
It s 'ad a bawth of oil, and Mr. Critten
den'll know 'ow to wipe it dry."
"Thank you," said Cynthia, gratefully.
She approached the port, looking down
through which seemed to her a consider
able descent to the surface of the water.
"How am I to get down?" she inquired,
with a subdued, nervous laugh. "Is there
a ladder, or must I dive?"
"No ladder, miss, but?'ere." Acklin
put into her hands an end of stout rope,
looped and knotted. "If you'll put your
foot in the bight of this, and let your
self over the edge of the port, 'oldin' on
to the rope with both 'ands. I'll lower
aw'y til! you let go. Then I'll myke it
fast, 'ere, and tyke a turn of it round
my arm, so that just a twitch 011 it will
wyken me if I should chance to fall
asleep before you come back, miss."
"Yes," approved Cynthia, uncertainly,
her notions as to the manner and prob
able time of her return being of the most
vague.
She sat down as bidden, with a little
shrinking of the flesh to find her feet
overhanging a gulf of profound black
ness, where the shadow of the ship s
swelling freeboard lay like a sheet of
pitch upon the waters.
Beyond the wavering edge of It they
moved most gently, a mirror of ink for
the transplendency of the coruscant
heavens. The pale glimmering line of
the island shore seemed just then very
distant. And the silence oppressed the
spirit of the girl. There was not a sound
in all that placid gulf of nisht other than
the soft sibilant lisp of ripples lapping
along the invisible waterline beneath her.
For the first time she was sensible of
a weakening of her purpose, for the first
time she was a little daunted by the mag
nitude of her rashness and the ambi
guity of its potential sequel. The mys
tery, the enigmatic might and majesty
of that strange tropic night, laid its hand
upon her heart and taught her fear.
For a little time she trembled and was
afraid, realizins her poignant limitations
?she \yas at most a woman, fashioned
for the softer side of ufe. with a body
delicate and fragile, unsuited to the stress
of adventurous fortunes and the strain
of arrogant mischance, with only the
mettle of her spirit to nerve her on to
reckless daring?that and lior love alone.
Dwelling upon the thought of Critten
den to reinvigorate her failing pluck, she
bent over and adjusted the noose round
her foot. Then swinging sideways until
poised insecurely upon one hip she caught
the edge of the port with one hand, the
rope with the other.
"I'm ready, Acklin," she said, in a
steady voice. "Try to ?et the mantilla
back to my stateroom without being seen,
if possible. If anything happens ? ? ?
explain to Mme. Savaran in the morning,
please. ? * ? And thank you and good
bye."
"Yes, niiss-'nk you." the man's voice
came out of the shadows. "Just one word
more: I've stuck a note for Mr. Crit
tenden inside the medicine tin; just a
line of advice. You might read it your
self, if you don't find 'im able. ? ? ?
Heady? ? ? ? Then, good-bye. Miss Gr'yce
?and be careful to kick your foot free
before you let go, please?and God gUarci
you, miss. * * ?"
Her wonder that Acklin should have
troubled to write a note to Crittenden o:
a nature so Impersonal that lie was will
ing she should know Its contents, in pref
erence to charging her with an oral mes
sage. faded and vanished utterly from
her mind as Cynthia found herself swing j
ing by one hand from the lip of the port
the weight of her body 011 the foot sup
ported by the loop. She checked he'
breath sharply and let go her hold on th.
ship, clutching the rope with both hands
And then she was dropping slowly
through the dark, down, deep down in?
an everlasting black abyss. ? ? ?
Inch by inch the steward paid out tit
line. Presently the water touched he
foot, stole up her legs, embraced he
body. Cautiously she lifted her weigh
upon her hands, freed her foot and h
go; at length away, definitely and irrev
ocably committed to her great adven
ture.
Her immersion had been aocomplishe.
with barely a splash. She lay for a mo
ment almost motionless, close to the
black, overhanging wall, conscious of the
bland encompassment of water softly en
veloping her from chin to feet, penetrat
ing the thick silken fabric of her suit
and touching her flesh like some all-gird
ing caress, with a sense of coolness,
though suave and soothing.
Then, almost thoughtless in her com
plete surrender to her purpose, she
thrust quietly away from the side, ply
ing stroke after stroke of her strong
young arms silently beneath the face of
the waters, until she was well away from
the Cynthia and could see the shape of
it from stem to stern, in d?nse projection
against the sea of stars.
Cynthia paused to scan the ship nar
rowly for any sign of life or Indication
that her escape were suspected or dis
covered, and discovered none; not a
shadow moved upon her decks; only a
few lights shone in the superstructure
ports.
Beyond the Cynthia, nearer the mouth
of the lagoon, the Orion rode in like
oblivion.
Relieved, and at the same time thrilled,
the sirl turned again and shaped her
course for the nearest border of the
sands, swimming easily on her side, her
cheek nestling in the bosom of the water,
I her fair head moving over its stygian
tide like some bright flower bloom adrift
at the whim of a night-sprung breeze.
Not a hand broke through the surface,
barely a ripple marked her wake; yet
every inch of her was luminous, every
fold of garment and exquisite line of
limb and body was revealed in clinging,
cold, effulgent fire; as though the ele
ment conspired to betray her flight by
focussing upon her the spectral sunshine
of its phosphorescence.
Yet she was not seen. Steadily she
won on, widening the gap between her
and the Cynthia, diminishing her distance
from the strand. There remained no
hint of timorousness in her mind; the
j water's grasp was friendly, its support
I kind; the buoyant girdle round her bosom
did away with any fear of accident,
should she tire; and she did not tire.
Twice she paused, letting her feet sink
in search of the plane of the shelvinc
beach; at the third trial she found
footing, stood erect in water to her waist,
sighed with satisfaction, and waded
shorewards through a long, slow grade
of shoals.
As she stood, at length, upon dry sand,
wringing the water from her skirt, the
first stage accomplished, the second as
suming the shape of a riddle (in what
quarter of that dark, unplotted island
should she first look for him of whom
she had seen -nothing since the previous
inid-morning?) a brief, antiphonal chorus
of ship's bells made silver music in the
hush, the Orion answering the Cynthia
in mellow confirmation of its news.
Cynthia paused to listen, counting two
double strokes and one single from the
bell of each vessel?five bells; half-past
and, thus far, all well!
Then abruptly upon the singing silence
that ensued, broke the rasping sound of
wireless sending, as vicious and venom
ous of accent as the crack of a punitive
whiplash.
Startled and wondering, unable to be
lieve that the alarm was raised in ad
vertisement of her escape, yet incar>able
of fitting to it any less personal signifi
cance, she turned and ran across the
beach to hide herself in the shadows of
the vegetation; in whose cover she stop-,"
, ped, wide eyes staring back over the still
lagoon, a hand seeming to endeavor to
restrain the violent agitation of her
heart, her breath hastened and shortened
more through dismay and consternation
than because of her exertions.
She could see the door and port of the
wireless deckhouse aboard the Cynthia,
bright with light, and could hear, through
the broken drumming of the spark, the
sound of voices calling to one another?
voices quick with apprehension. The bulk
of a man's figure darkened the doorway,
| and then another. All along the side of
the superstructure ports were breaking
out with light, and aboard the Orion,
likewise, a sporadic flickering of lights
showed that her crew, too, was being
roused from its abbreviated rest. From
the bridges of both vessels men bellowed
to each other windily through mega
phones. though the information they ex
changed remained a mystery to the lis
tener ashore, seeming no more than a
spasmodic, angry, husky roaring, alto
j gether inarticulate.
Fear electrified her?fear lest this fran
tic, clamant hue and cry in the placid
night, whether or not it were raised
because of her disappearance, would in
volve the discovery of it, and immediate
pursuit. Mme. Savaran would be sure to
waken and call to the adjoining state
room, then, surprised to get no answer,
would investigate and find her compan
ion missing?her berth empty, her cloth
ing untouched ? and ring and demand
news of her. * ? ?
Cynthia began to run down the beach,
softly calling f'rittenden, now and again
stopping to listen for response. She
heard none.
(To be continued tomorrow.)
Fruits oi Soil and Spirit.
From the Cleveland Leader.
Palestine is fast becoming one of the
great orange-growing countries of the
world. Much fruit of excellent quality
is being shipped every year to London
and other markets in northern Europe,
and this year the crop of the district
near* Jaffa, the port of Jerusalem, is
estimated at 1,600,000 boxes. Farther
up the Syrian coast Tyre and Sidon are
expected to reach a total of 400,000
cases of oranges exported and 200,000
cases of lemons.
For a small country Palestine has
many interesting and valuable prod
ucts. Its olive groves are as pro
ductive as they are ancient and its
vineyards yield grapes of tine quality
in great abundance. Notwithstanding
the drawback of a sometimes very de
ficient and usually scanty water sup
ply, Syria produces a large quantity
of excellent food.
But it is not easy to think of Pal
estine's exports of oranges without
thinking of the immeasurably more
important exports of ideas and ideals
from that little country. By compari
son with the moral and spiritual forces
which have gone out from Syria to en
rich the world, all the products of the
soil which can be shipped from its
ports as long as the earth shall en
dure will be of little significance.
London's Milestones.
From the London Chronicle.
One by one the old London milestones
are quietly disappearing. One that pro
jected from the rural roadside of Red
I'ost Hill lias lately gone, as have the
j'.d trees that overshadowed it, in con
nection with the widening of one of the
;ast countrylike thoroughfares within the
our-mile radius. Coming nearer to the
ty, there are still some old milestones to
Ke found. At Camberwellgreen there is
ne?how many of the many thousands
who daily pass that way see it??which
.ells that it is three miles from the Treas
>y, Whitehall, and thret miles from the
-tandard, Cornhill.
Basis of His Belief.
'nun the Philadelphia Record.
Sillicus?Do you believe in long en
?agem*ntB?
Cynicus?Sure. The longer a man is
ugaged the less time be has to be
married.
Alexandra of England Enter
tains at Garden Party.
SOCIETY NOTABLES ATTEND
Her Majesty Is Accompanied by
Three Princesses.
MISS KEPPEL NOW A BUD
Daughter of King Edward's Favor
ite Friend Enters Social Whirl
Most Auspiciously.
QIEK\ ALEXANDRA.
Special Cablegram to The Star.
LONDON, August 10.?Queen Alexan
dra's garden party in honor of the Red
Cross Society was a delightful affair in
the charming grounds of Marlborough
House. The flowerbeds were at their best
! and brightest, and the great elm trees
j afforded welcome shade.
Near the center of the lawn was erected
| King Edward's shamiano. or Indian tent,
and I ere Queen Alexandra received the
guests, of whom upward of a thousand
had been invited. There was also a large
tent where tea was served for the royal
party, a shady retreat for refreshments
covered by a red and white awning, and
a tent for a party of glee singers. The
band of the Grenadier Guards played.
Her majesty was in filmy black with a
black toque, and wore a string of large
diamonds and a long rope of beautiful
pearls. Princess Victoria, who wore
black, accompanied her mother, and they
we.te joined by Princess Christian and
Priitcess Henry of Hattenberg.
Treves Presents Visitors.
Sir Edward Treves presented the visi
tors. It was intended that only a few*
MRS. OEORliK KBPPEL
should be separately presented, but the
queen insisted on shaking hands with
every guest.
The company included I.ord Rothschild,
chairman of the council; Viscount Knuts
ford. one of the vice chairmen; the
Duchess of Devonshire, the Duchess of
Norfolk, the Duchess of Rutland, the
Duchess of Westminster, the Marchioness
of Lansdowne.-the Marchioness of London
derry. the Marquis and March'oness of
Salisbury. Earl and Countess Roberts and
their daughters, the Countess of Lons
dale. the Earl of Coventry, Lord Charles
Fitzmaurice, the Countess Qf Derby, the
Countess of Clarendon, Viscount Iveagh.
the lady mayoress. Lady Doreen Long
and Lady Mabel Ho .ard, to name only
a few among the very large gathering.
Mrs. Keppel Chaperon.
Society finds it difficult to realize that
Mrs. George Keppel has a grown-up
daughter to chaperon. But the appear
ance of the famous and witty I4r?. Kep
I pel, noted beauty and friend of th? late
Shooting Shoe Prices
All to Pieces!
This great "ROUND-UP" Shoe Sale has been a wonder
from its beginning?but for the coming week?we are going
to break all its records?both lor Rig Selling?and for BAR
GAIN SELLING of QUALITY SHOES. '
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Dollar Thirty-Nine Sale!
Women's $2, $2.5?, $3 <& $3O50
Low Sluoes. ^This Week at
$1.39
Think of THAT low price for these grand values!
ALL our $2. $2.5ft and S-1 Grado WHITE SKA ISLE DUCK Pumps?Ankle
strnp Pumps?Colonials?anil RIM??d Tii'??with liaudlnrn so|rs. f"h???f 2? c\qu!?lt?
models?this season's smartest shaites?with white oovend wood or leather Cuban heels.
15 splendid $2 and $2.50 grade kinds of BLACK VICI KID?and Reliable
PATKN'T LEATHER? 1, If ami :! strap Pumps and .'5 or ?? eyelet Blucher or Oxford
Ties. With low or high heels?turn or writ soles.
4 tablefuls of broken sizes of $.'5 and $:t,50 Swell PATENT COLT l'umps
ami 2 or 3 eyelet Ties. Sizes ranging: 2 to <5 A and It 2 to 4^ C and D.
Women's Bathing Shoes.
In black, while or navy blue Linen, with
cork soles - | Qc ? 49C
Women's House Slippers.
Soft Black Ki<l, with or without
QRr
straps?medium or low heels
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Two Great Men's Sales
'BLACK RAVEN'
Low Shoes
This Week.
$1.95
Alwavs $2.5<>?and at that price
they "SAVE YOU A DOLLAR."
But for the coming week we place
15 of the best looking "BLACK RA
VEN" styles?on sale at $1.05.
Complete run of sizes?any shape
toe vou want?in reliable PATENT
COLT and GUN METAL CALF.
All $3.50 to $6.00
Outing Shoes
This Week.
$2.95
All our remaining TAN RUSSIA
CALK, RUBBER SOLE Low Shoe*
that were $3.50 and $4.
All our *X5?i to *?? WHITE LOW
SHOES?including Imported English
Bucks?White Nubucks?and Best
Quality White Linens. Bluchers or
Oxfords. Rubber or Leather soles.
Remaining "TRI-WEAR"
$3.50 and $4 Low Shoes?going fast at
$2.85
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Boys' and Girls' $1.25 and $1.50
Low Shoes. This Week at - -
89c
All our remaining Goodyear-stitched BAREFOOT SANOAI^S. with s<dfd
oak leather soles. Pluuip brown willow call' upi?Ts and straps. Boys' and Girls' size*
to 2.
Small Bovs' TAN* AND BLACK KID AND CALF OXFORDS AND GRAY
SFEDE "SCOTT" OXFORDS. Sizes 9 to IS'-j.
Big and Little Boys' WHITE CANVAS and GRAY COVERT Cloth Low
Shoes. All sizes up to o'-j.
Misses' and Children's WHITE CANVAS Pumps and Ties?PATENT
LEATUER and til'X METAL CALF 1 and 2 Strap Pumps- in most all sizes.
Boys' and Girls' Barefoot Sandals and Canvas
Rubber-soled TF.NNI.S OXFORDS. Sizes to 2. Infants' White. Black
and Tau cute little Ankle Ties. Sizes to S. at
49c
Cor. 7? ano k. Sts.
I9l4-!9i6 Pa. Ave.
233 Pa. Ave. 5.E.
King Edward, and her charming daugh
ter at the smartest functions make people
admit that time really flies. It seems
only yesterday to society that Mrs. Kep
pel was the center of the inner exclusive
circle, the foremost in the public eye and
one of the most picturesque figures in so
ciety.
But the daughter and the gray tint of the
mother s beautiful hair testify indisinitably
that years are passing. Meanwhile, tilt
daughter is entering society most auspi
ciously. She was the central figure at the
brilliant ball her mother gave earlier in
the season. It was noticed that Mrs. Kep
pel secured for her ball the attendance of
a large number of desirable men. who will
seldom give the time or trouble to purely
society gatherings. Mrs. Keppel is a sister
of Sir William Edmonstone, Hart.
Prince Shuns Wedding.
Prince George of Greece is the none too
willing object of the matchmaking pro
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PRINCE GEORGE OK GREIXE.
clivitie8 of his great-aunt. Queen Alexan
dra. whose heart is set on marrying him
to the young Duchess of Fife.
However, there are curious obstacles
impeding Alexandra's pet scheme. Not
only would Prince George's mother prefer
a German to an English alliance for her
son, but the young nobleman himself Is
not at all anxious to wed. llis greatest
love just, at present is for the gay liie
which he has been enjoying for the past
yew.
PRINCE AGAIN ARRESTED
ON CHARGES OF THEFT
Nobleman With Checkered Ca
reer Accused of Misappro
priating $2,000.
PpeeinI Cablegram to Th<- Star.
ROME. August 10.?The arrest 1n
Milan of Print**' Charles Bakouniiie, son
of the famous Russian anarchist, on a.
charge of appropriating $^'.000 intrust*
ed to him by Milanese capitalists for
the purchase of a sulphur mine in
Sicily, has solved a mjstery of many
years' standing;. It has at the same
time put an end to the varied and ad
venturous career of the prince, ulci
has already begun to serve a term of
five years in jail, to which he was
sentenc-cd ten years ago <>n a chare*
practically the same as the one which
recent l> led to his air est.
Yt ars ago the prince, who is still in
the prune of life, was a familiar figure
in aristocratic salons in Rome. He
was also the hero of a love roma.net*
which won him the sympathies of all
feminine hearts. The heroine. Miss
Oanneto. now dead, was a beauty of
her time. She was the daughter of
a deputy in the Italian parliament, who
was the proprietor of iron mines in
Sardinia. The father strongly opposed
the match on the ground that the
prince had inherited from his father
a revolutionary temperament. The
deputy died and the couple were mar
ried.
Ten years ago. following financial
reverses, the prince was arrested on a
charge of obtaining money by fals<?
pretenses. He did not defend the suit
and was sentenced to five years.
Pending an appeal the prince disap
peared. His wife received a letter in
forming her <t was necessary he should
never return. A week later the Nic*
and Monte Carlo papers printed an ac
count of a foreigner, identified by a
letter as the prince, rowing out to
sea in a small boat and apparently
drowning himself. The princc's clothes
were found in the boat.
No Encouragement.
From TatU-r.
The parson fto workman who keeps
taking nips from his bottle)?Do you
know, my man. I never tasted spirits in
my life.
Working man?No; an' you ain't a-gola'
to begin 'ere neither. 0