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SERIAL
STORY
The
Princess
Elopes
By HAROLD McGRATH
Author of
**Th® Nan on the Box,"
“Heul* and Nuka," Eto.
(Copyright. 1906. Bobba-Uorrill Co.)
SYNOPSIS.
Arthur Warrington. Ameriran consul
Barscheit, tolls how reigning Grand
1 >uke attempts to force his nelce. Prin
cess Hildogardo, to marry Prince Dopple
kinn, an old widower. Warrington does
not know the princess even by sight.
While horseback riding in the country
night overtakes Idm and lie seeks accom
modations in a dilapidated castle. Hero
he finds two women niul an old man
servant. One woman is Princess Hilde
gardo und the other a friend, lion. Betty
Moore, of England. They detain him to
witness a mock marriage between the
princess and a disgraced army officer,
Steinbock, done for the purpose of foiling
the grand duke. Steinbock attempts t<y
kiss tiie princess and sin* is rescued \>y
Warrington. Steinbock disappears for
good. Max Seharfenstoln. an old Ameri
can friend of Warrington’s readies Bar
scheit.
CHAPTER IV.
He came straight to the consulate
and I was so glad to see him that I
sat him down in front of the sideboard
and left orders that I was at home to
no one. We had been classmates and
roommates at college, and two better
friends never lived. We spent the
whole night In recounting the good
old days, sighed a little over the de
parted ones, and praised or criticized
the living. Hadn’t they been times,
though? The nights we had stolen up
to Philadelphia to see the shows, the
great Thanksgiving games in New
York, the commencements, and all
that!
Max had come out of the far west.
He was a foundling who had been
adopted by a wealthy German ranch
man named Seharfenstoln. which name
Max assumed as his own, it being as?
good as any. Nobody knew anything
about Max’s antecedents, but he was
0o big and handsome and jolly that no
one cared a hang. For all that he did
not know his parentage, he was a gen
tleman, something that has to be bred
in the bone. Once or twice I remem
ber seeing him angry; in anger he was
arrogant, deadly, but calm. He was a
god in track-linen, for he was w'hat
few big men are, quick and agile. The
big fellow who is catlike in his
ments is the most formidable of ath
letes. One thing that invariably
amused me was his inordinate love of
uniforms. He would always stop when
he saw a soldier or the picture of one,
and his love of arms was little short
of a mania. He was an expert fencer
and a dead shot besides. (Pardon the
parenthesis, but I feel it my duty to
warn you that nobody fights a duel in
this little history, and nobody gets
killed.)
On leaving college he went in for
medicine, and his appearance in the
capital city of Barscheit was due ob
viously to the great medical college,
famous the world over for its nerve
specialists. This was Max’s first ad
venture in the land of gutturals. I ex
plained to him, and partly unraveled,
the tangle of laws; as to the language,
he spoke that, not like a native, but
ns one.
Max was very fond of the society of
women, and at college we used to twit
him about it, for he was always eager
io meet a new face, trusting that the
wrrw one might be the ideal for which
tB- was searching.
"Well, you old Dutchman,” said I,
"have you ever found that ideal wom
an of yours?”
”Bah!” —lighting a pipe. “She will
never be found. A horse and a trusty
dog for me; those two you may event
ually grow to understand. Of course,
1 don’t say, if the woman came along
—the right one—l mightn’t go under.
I’m philosopher enough to admit that
possibility. I want her tall, hair like
cornsilk, eyes like the corn-flower, of
brilliant intellect, reserved, and digni
fied, and patient. I want a woman,
not humorous, but who understands
humor, and I have never heard of one.
So, you see, it’s all smoke; and I never
talk woman these times unless I’m
smoking,"—with a gesture which ex
plained that he had given up the «dea
altogether. "A doctor sees so much
of women that he finally sees nothing
of woman."
"Oh, If you resort to epigrams, I
can see that it’s all over."
"All over. I’m so used to being
alone that I shouldn’t know what to
do with a wife.” He puffed seriously.
Ah! the futility of our desires, of
our castles, of our dreams! The com
placency with which we jog along in
what we deem to be our own particular
groove! I recall a girl friend of my
youth who was going to be a celibate,
a great reformer, and toward that end
was studying for the pulpit. She is
now the mother of several children,
the most peaceful and unorativo wom
an I know. You see, humanity goes
jPnirrlng over various sidetracks,
blinking them to be the main line, till
fate puts its peculiar but happy hand
te the switch. S-iharfenstein had been
plugging away over rusty nails and
grass-grown ties —till he came to Bar
scheit.
"Hope Is the wings of the heart,”
said I, when I thought the pause had
grown long enough. "You still hope?”
"In away. If I recollect, you had
an affair once.” —shrewdly.
I smoked on. I wasn’t quite ready
to speak.
"You were always on the hunt for
Ideals, too, as I remember; hope you’ll
find her.”
"Max, my boy, I am solemnly con
vinced that I have.”
“Good Lord, you don’t mean to tell
me that you are hooked?" he cried.
"I see no reason why you should use
that particular tone,” I answered stiffly.
"Oh, come now; tell me all about it.
Who is she, and when's the wedding?”
"I don’t know when the wedding’s
going to be, but I’m mighty sure that
I have met the one girl. Max, there
never was a girl like her. Witty she
is. and wise; as beautiful as a sum
mer’s dawn; merry and brave; rides,
drives, plays the ’cello, dances like a
moon-shadow; and all that,” —with a
wave of the hand.
"You’ve got it bad. Remember how
you used to write poetry at college?
Who is she if I may ask?”
"The Honorable Betty Moore, at
present the guest of her highness, the
Princess Hildegarde,”—with pardon
able pride.
Max whistled. "You’re a lucky beg
gar. One by one we turn traitor to our
native land. A Britisher! I never
should have believed it of you, of the
man whose class declamation was on
the firey subject of patriotism. But
is it all on one side?"
"I don’t know. Max; sometimes I
think so, and then I don’t.”
"How long have you known her?”
"Little more than a month.”
"A month? Everything moves swift
ly these days, except European rail
way cars.”
"There's a romance, Max. but an-
"Max, There Never Was a Girl Like Her.”
other besides her is concerned, and I
can not tell you. Some day, when
everything quiets down, I’ll get you
into a corner with a bottle, and you
will find it worth while.”
“The bottle?”
“Both."
"From rumors I’ve heard, this prin
cess is a great one for larks; rides
bicycles and automobiles, and general
ly raises the deuce. What sort is she?”
"If you are going to remain in Bar
scheit, my boy, take a friendly warn
ing. Do not make any foolish attempt
to sec her. She is more fascinating
than a roulette table.”
This was a sly dig. Max smiled. A
recent letter from him had told of an
encounter with the goddess at Monte
Carlo. Fortune had been all things
but favorable.
"I’m not afraid of your princess; be
sides. I came here to study.”
"And study hard, my boy, study
hard. Her highness is not the only
pretty woman in Barscheit. There's a
raft of them.”
"I’ll paddle close to the shore,” with
a smile.
"By the way, I’ll wake you up Thurs
day.”
"How —lazily.
"A bout, at Mueller’s Rathskeller.
Half a dozen American lads, one of
whom is called home. Just fixed up
his passports for him. You’ll be as
welcome as the flowers in the spring.
Some of the lads will be in your
classes.”
"Put me down. It will be like old
times. I went to the reunion last
June. Everything was tn its place but
you. Hang it, why can't time always
go on as it did then?”
“Time, unlike our watches, never
has to go to the jeweler’s for repairs,”
said I owlishly.
Max leaned over, took my bull-ter
rier by the neck and deposited him on
his lap.
“Good pup, Artie —if he’s anything
like his master. Three years, my boy,,
sine# l saw you. And here you are, do
iqg nothing and lallygagging at court
with the nobility. I wish 1 had an
uncle who was a senator. ‘Puli’ is
everything these days.”
"You Dutchman, I won this place on
my own merit,” —indignantly.
"Forget it!” —grinning.
"You are impertinent.”
"But truthful, always.”
And then we smoked a while in
silence. The silent friend is the best
of the lot. He knows that he hasn’t
got to talk unless he wants to, and
likewise that it is during these lapses
of speech that the vine of friendship
grows and tightens about the heart.
When you sit beside a mail and feel
that you need not labor to entertain
him it’s a good sign that j*e*i thorough
ly understand each other. 1 was first
to speak.
“I don't understand why you should
go in for medicine so thoroughly. It
can’t be money, for heaven knows your
father left you a yearly Income which
alone would be a fortune to me.”
"Chivalry shivers these days; the
chill of money is on everything. A
man 'must do something—a man who
is neither a sloth nor u fool. A man
must have something to put his whole
heart, into; and I despise money as
money. I give away the bulk of my
Income.”
"Marry, and then you will not have
to,” I said flippantly.
"You’re a sad dog. Do you know,
I’ve been thinking about epigrams.”
"No!”
“Yes. I find that an epigram is pro
duced by the same cause that produces
the pearl in the oyster."
"That is to say, a healthy mentality
never superinduces an epigram?
Fudge!” said I, yanking the pup from
his lap to mine. "According to your
diagnosis, your own mind is diseased."
"Have I cracked an epigram?”—with
pained surprise.
“Well, you nearly bent one,” I com
promised.
Inen we both laughed, and the pup
started up and licked my face before
I could prevent him.
“Did 1 ever show you this?” —taking
out a locket which was attached to
one end of his watch chain. He passed
the trinket to me.
"What is it?” I asked, turning it
over and over.
“It’:« the one slender link that con
nccts me with my babyhood. It was
around my neck when Scharfenstein
picked me up. Open it and look at the
face inside.”
I did so. A woman’s face peered up
at me It might have been beautiful
hut for the troubled eyes and the
drooping lips. It was German in type,
evidently of high breeding, possessing
the subtle lines which distinguish the
face of the noble from the peasant's.
From the woman’s face I glanced at
Max’s. The eyes were something alike.
Who do you think it is?” 1 asked,
wheu I had studied the face sufficient
ly to satisfy my curiosity.
“I’ve a sneaking idea that it may be
my mother. Scharfenstein found me
toddling about in a railroad station,
and that locket was* the only thing
about me that might be used in the
matter of identification. You will ob
serve that there is no lettering, not
even the jeweler's usual carat mark to
qualify the gold. I recall nothing; life
with me dates only from the wide
plains and grazing cattle. I was born
either in Germany or Austria. That’s
all I know. And to tell you the honest
truth, boy, it's the reason I’ve placed
my woman ideal so high. So long as
I place her over my head I’m not fool
ish enough to weaken into thinking I
can have her. What woman wants a
man without a name?”
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Life Insurance Figures.
Statistics show that there are now
In the United Kingdom 27,940,260
persons carrying life insurance for a
total amount of nearly £2,000,000,000.
The total amount of premiums paid if
\bou* £27,000.000.
PROSPERITY IN
STATE REIGNS
MILLIONS FROM CROPS AND
MINES MAKE COLORADO
STOREHOUSE OF WEALTH.
BUSINESS MEN'S VIEWS
1 DOLLAR WHEAT AND GOOD
WAGES TO LABORERS MAKES
THINGS HUM IN THE WEST.
Denver. —"The foundation for all fi
nancial prosperitv consists of the solv
ency of those who are really the back
bone of the commonwealth.”
The foregoing statement by Meyer
Friedman, president of the Denver
chamber of commerce, sounds the key
note as to the secret of the magnifi
cent stability of the financial struc
ture of Denver and the state at large
in the lace of the upheaval in Wall
street. Despite the excitement
throughout the Eastern states as a
result of that upheaval, not the slight
est uneasiness is felt in the money
markets and big business houses of
Denver. Every lino of business is pur
suing the even tenor of its way and
optimistic reports of healthy growth
and increase of trade is coming from
every side.
Millions From Wheat.
Dollar wheat, and 10,000,000 bushels
of it ready for the market In the gran
aries of tiie farmers, is adding to the
$15,000,000 and more of financial Joy
that has already come to the backbone
mentioned by Mr. Friedman through
the marketing of the beet crop. And
best of all the farmers don’t need the
money. Instead of the usual feverish
haste to get their crops to market as
soon as the harvest is over the Colo
rado growers are so well situated this
year that they are able to bold their
commodities and command the prices
Instead of leaving the fixing of that
all-important item to the purchasers
or to produce brokers. And what is
true of wheat ’*• true of every othef
commodity according to reports re
ceived by James H. Young, secretary
at the Colorado State Commercial As
sociation.
This year has been the banner year
of the state's history for the agricul
turists. New land has come under cul
tivation through the extension of the
irrigation systems and the extension
of dry farming. In addition to the
prosperity of the farmers the mining
industry reports gratifying improve
ment In nenrty every section of the
state, anil a big gain over last year’s
production of $80,000,000 is looked for.
What the business men say of con
ditions follows:
Meyer Friedman, president Denver
Chamber of Commerce:
“The foundation for all financial
prosperity consists of the solvency of
those who are really the backbone of
the commonwealth
"The farmer is in better financial
condition today than he has been fc;
h great number of years past. With
the farmer as the creditor instead of
the debtor that be was some years
ago, I cannot see that the speculators'
flurry in New York can in any way
affect any part of the West.
"Our banks are in more than first
class condition and with reserves of
about double that which is required
by law.
“Our merchan’s have had prosperous
years and are not in debt. For these
reasons I can see no danger ahead
and I do not believe that the present
j condition in New York will have any
■ ill effects in Colorado."
Values, Nonspeculative.
\V. A. Hover, president of the United
States Nat'.onal bank and W. A.
Hover & Co., wholesale druggists:
“Colorado is probably in better
shape today to withstand the shock ot
financial disturbances now prevailing
on Wall street than at any time in
her history. Those who are familiar
with conditions locally know well that
Colorado was one of the last sections
to respond to improved conditions fol
; lowing the period of depression pre
vailing for several years after the
panic of 1893. Improved conditions,
when they did come, were on a most
i conservative basis. Values of all
kinds in Colorado are nonspeculative
in character and are of real intrinsic
worth. Our financial institutions are
! not burdened with securities of a spec
ulative character or of inflated values.
The clearing house banks of Denver
have ample cash reserves to meet all
| legitimate requirements, and there Is
| nothing whatever in the situation to
j cause any apprehension on the part of
| our business community.”
Wholesale Business Index.
Charles Mac A. Willcox. manager the
Daniels & Fisher Stores Company:
"We have not yet felt the slightest
effect of the Wall street and Eastern
financial disturbances, and 1 don’t see
any reason why we should. Business
here during this season has shown a
very gratifying improvement over a
similar period of last year in all of
the ones with which I am familiar.
Our wholesale business has been par
ticularly healthy, and that is usually
an unfailing barometer of trade condi
tions.
"Crops in all sections of the state,
except for the fruit that suffered from
frost last spring, are better than ever,
and commanding the highest prices.
Even the fruit crops have been money
makers because of the unusually good
prices commande i. I talked last week
with one of the largest growers in the
Grand Junction district and he In
formed me that he had orders from
l.os Angeles, California, for every
thing that he had raised at prices that
were away ahead of any that he had
aver heard of.
"The demand for labor throughout
the state is also exceptionally good,
being far In excess of the supply. The
Central Colorado Power Company,
which is developing the electric power
facilities through the central counties
of the state, is working about 3,000
men, and reports that it cun use twice
as many. That is only one of the in
stances of scarcity of help that has
come to my attention. I believe that
Colorado is not only fully capable of
taking care of herself in any contin
gency that might arise, but is in a
position where it can absorb a large
number of workingmen from the East
should the disturbances there become
sufficiently grave to throw any con
siderable number of people out of em
ployment.”
Real Estate Men Have Cash.
F. J. Chamberlin, managing director
Investment Securities Company:
"Colorado is not going to be affected
by any Wall street flurries. The state
and its business interests are iu too
healthy a condition for that. Its
growth during the past few years has
been phenomenal, but yet la not of a
boom type. It is on the line of per
fectly normal development. Unlike the
situation in 1893, the real estate men
in Denver now owe little money. They
are doing business on what is prac
tically a cash basis. When the real
estate men are in a position to do
that there is not much likelihood of
financial troubles. I feel perfectly
safe in saying that except for the nat
ural disturbance of the stock market
and cessation of trading in securities,
that Denver will never know that
there has been any money disturb
ance in the East."
J. S. Appel, The J. S. Appel Cloak and
Suit Company:
"The panicky conditions in the fi
nancial circles of New York city will
have no effect upon the business situ
ation in our state and city. In the
frenzied game of financial acrobatics
played by the money-mad metropolitan
jugglers of stocks and manipulators of
securities, someone eventually was
bound to fall with a thud. Industrial
conditions throughout the country are
not such that a paper panic of even
huge proportions could gain any
headway outside of Wall street. Let
the pirates of that cesspool of mad
speculation (and I might omit the pre
fatory ’s’ for another word) feast upon
each other; it will not sensibly affect
general or national interests, or even
be felt in the mining and .agricultural
states. Prosperity? Why, I never re
member. in my thirty years of resi
dence here, an autumn season fruitful
of more healthy retail business in our
line. Business shows a resilient,
springy tone that is Inspiring. The
people have money and are spending
it with apparent confidence. Panic?
Why, it can’t cross the boundary line
of Colorado."
A Wise Precaution.
Denver. —The Denver clearing
house banks (and that means all the
Denver banks) determined to act In
harmony with practically all the banks
of the country in stopping the pay
ment of currency on checks and drafts
until November sth, unless the old or
der of things should be sooner re
stored. The step was taken by the
Denver banks quite reluctantly and
only when they were notified from the
other cities that the action had been
definitely resolved upon the Denver
banks must govern themselves ac
cordingly.
The resolution unanimously adopted
by the Denver hanks was to the effect
that, commencing Monday morning
and continuing unto November sth,
Denver banks will not pay cash on
checks drawn by anyone nor upon
drafts drawn by outside banks. There
is but one exception to bis rule.
Checks drawn by depositors to meet
regular payrolls will be honored as
usual In gold or currency. All other
checks will be received and paid In
clearing house certificates instead of
currency.
This means that depositors will go
along with their business Just as
though the regulations had not been
adopted. They will draw their checks,
which will be received by merchants
or others, and he deposited, and tlie
accounts of depositors will be cred
ited with the amounts. The checks
will be cleared at the clearing house
just as before, and settlements made
between the banks in clearing house
certificates instead of currency.
Drafts made upon Denver banks by
outside banks will be treated in pre
cisely the same way. Such drafts will
be honored by exchange on other
cities, if desired, as usual, or they will
be paid In clearing house certificates
, The only change In business under
this rule will be that currency will
not be paid on checks or drafts —clear-
ing house certificates taking the place
of currency for the time being. In ev
ery other respect business will pro
ceed without halt or Inconvenience of
any kind.
The hanks that communicated their
intention to the Denver banks through
the respective clearing houses were
those of Chicago, St. Louis, Milwau
kee, Pittsburg, Cincinnati. Cleveland.
Philadelphia, Des Moines. Omaha.
New York. Minneapolis. Indianapolis
and Kansas City: and in each case
they notified the Denver clearing
house that the step had been definitely
resolved upon.
The effect of this action by the out
side banks was to cut off not only the
Denver banks, but all others from ob
taining In currency the money they
had on deposit in them. Under the
banking law all national banks are
required to have on deposit In central
reserve banks a certain percentage
Of course, this was Intended to be al
ways available for drafts made upon
it. Denver banks could not do busi
ness with Eastern or other banks or
issue drafts upon them without de
posits there to meet them. By the ac
tion so generally taken by the banks !
of the country these dcposits'are not I
now available In currency, but are In
clearing house certificates.
Denver banks will honor drafts in
precisely the same way that their
drafts upon their deposits will be hon
ored by Eastern oanks.
Autclst Who Killed Man Is Indicted.
Newark, N. J—The grand Jury to
day Indicted Walter N. Norris, whose
automobile ran Into and killed Marcus
S. Jacobs, the theatrical manager,
about three weeks ago In Newark.
Manslaughter'!* charged.
BUYING LAND
IN COLORADO
NEVER WAS GREATER DEMAND
FOR OPEN LAND IN STATE
THAN RIGHT NOW.
NO ATTENTION TO PANIC
EASTERN FARMERS ARE LOOKING
FOR BROADER FIELDB AND
BETTER RETURNS.
Denver.—Wall street hysterics do
not seem to have tho slightest effect
on the land business, for notwithstand
ing the financial flurries in New York
there has been more land sold in Colo
rado than iu any single week in a
number of months.
"Our inquiries this week have ex
ceeded any other one week in the his
tory of our firm," said C. E. Wantland,
general sales agent of the Union Pa
cific land department and head of tho
land firm known as Colorado Land
Headquarters, yesterday. "We have
had a dozen sales to lowa people who
are not In tho least concerned with
Wall street troubles, and we have also
sold to Illinois and Kansas people. Tho
fact that our sales of tho week have
been scattered over the country shows
that the country at largo Is not worry
ing over the New York local troubles.
Some Sample Sales.
"Among our sales was that of more
than 11,000 acres north of Bennett to a
syndicate of South Omaha men. This
is a body of land in one tract and the
South Omaha people will, I believe,
hold it for awhile, for it is bound to
increase in value and they are certain
to clean up a big profit.
"Another sale was E. J. Spencer of
Witchita, Kansas. Mr. Spencer bought
a section near Watkins, being the
smallest of five deals that he has made
with us in the last few weeks. He is
only one of a number of Kansas men
who are putting money into eastern
Colorado.
"Still another deal was for about
1,000 acres in the Watkins district to
Kenvilie, Minnesota, men, who have
also been heavy buyers through us. Il
linois parties have bought around By
ers, und so I might go on with details,
but I simply give these instances to
show that tho country isn’t in the least
disturbed by New York's crazy finan
cial turns.
Union Pacific Deals.
"Tho Union Pacific Land Company,
through its local agent, G. J. Willis, In
Salt Lake, has recently sold 125,000
acres of land in Uinta county. Wyo
ming, to the Uinta County Leasing
Company, of which John C. Mackay is
president. This is in addition to some
350,000 acres recently sold in Wyo
ming. These purchases have been
made by sheepmen, which shows that
the sheepmen, too, are optimistic.
"The Bijou ranch in Elbert county,
which is being retailed, has also come
in for prosperity. Twenty Illinois
farmers have each bought 160 acres or
i that ranch and Henry C. Tripp and his
associates of Denver have bought about
2,000 acres of the same ranch, and Il
linois men are figuring on 10,000 acres
of the same property.
Real Estate Men Buy.
That we are ourselves confident of
tho future is shown by our purchases
of several thousand acres in Eastern
Colorado. We have also taken over
the old Watkins rjpich at Watkins and
will engage extensively in the hog busi
ness. We have a stock company and
we have no difficulty whatever in dis
posing of the stock In this big hog
ranch.
"There are many people who look
upon depressions in the East as affect
ing the entire country, but these deals
show that it is a false impression. We
are owners of Harlem, a new addition
to Denver, and Swastika, an acreage
proposition just back of Harlem, and
the sales here during the week have
been large, showing conclusively that
Denver people are like the others —
simply going ahead and not paying any
attention to New York.
"The outlook was never better than
at present. There is every indication
that this winter will be the best win
ter for the land business ever known
in Colorado. The eastern farmer has
made money ami he is looking West for
investment. He knows that land is
cheap in Colorado and that values are
steadily advancing and that now is the
time for him to buy—and ho will buy.”
Judge Indicted for Deaths In Wreck.
Charleston, 111.—Several bench war
rants were issued today for the arrest
of officials and employes of the Mat
toon City Railway Company, operat
ing the Charleston & Mattoon Interur
ban lines, as the result of a wreck
near this city last August, in which
eighteen passengers were killed Judge
Peter S. Grosscup of the United States
Circuit Court at Chicago is among
those indicted. The others are Direct
ors Underwood. Sampsell and Rose or
Chicago, President Potter, Superinten
dent Moore and Motorman Bitts
Motorman McClar. who. ns alleged
by the company, was responsible lor
the accident, by running an express
car between stations without orders,
has not been indicted. Criminal negli
gence tending to produce manslaugh
ter is the charge against the seveu
men named.
Judge Grosscup was informed of his
indictment just as he was about to
take the bench today. He said: "This
thing hurts. My friends; I am sure,
know that I have a tender regard for
human life and suffering and a desire
to deal justly with all men. I can only
say that the accident was due solely
to a human error iu carrying out or
ders—and that my sole connection
with it is that I was a director of the
company at that time."