Luther Register. (Luther, Okla.), Vol. 9, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, November 1, 1907 Page: 3 of 8
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SYNOPSIS.
Arthur Warrington, American consul
to Barsclielt, tells how reigning Grand
Duke attempts to force his neice, Prin-
cess Hildegarde, to marry Prince Dopple-
ton do—
klnn, an old widower.
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Warrington
not know the princess even by sight.
While horseback riding In the country
night overtakes him and he seeks accom-
modations in a dilapidated castle. Hero
he finds two women and an °'llt-",*n
servant. One woman is Princess Hilde-
garde and the other a friend, Hon. Betty
Moore, of England. They detain him to
witness u mock marriage between the
Srincess and a disgraced army officer,
telnbock, done for the purpose of foiling
the grand duke. Stelnbock attempts to
kiss the princess and she la rescued by
Warrington. Stelnbock disappears for
good. Max Scharfenstein. an old Ameri-
can friend of Warrington's reaches Bar-
scheit. Warrington tells him of the prin-
cess. Scharfenstein shows Warrington
a locket with a picture of a woman in-
side. It was on his neck when he, as a
boy, was picked up and adopted l y his
foster father, whose name In was given
He believes it to be a picture of his
mother."
CHAPTER IV.—Continued.
"You poor old Dutchman, you! You
ean buy a genealogy with your in-
come. And a woman nowadays mar-
ries the man. the man. It's only
horses, dogs and cattle that we buy
for their pedigrees. Come; you ought
to have a strawberry mark on your
arm," I suggested lightly; for there
were times when Max brooded over
the mystery which enveloped his birth.
In reply he rolled up his sleeve and
1 tared a mighty arm. Where the vac-
cination scar usually Is I saw a red
patch, like a burn. I leaned over and
examined it. It was a four-pointed
scar, with a perfect circle around it.
Somehow, it seemed to me that this
was not the first time I had seen this
peculiar mark. I did not recollect ever
seeing it on Max's arm. Where had I
seen it, then?
"It's a curious scar. Hang me, but
I've seen the device somewhere be-
fore !"
"You have?" -T- eagerly. "Where,
where?"
"I don't know; possibly I saw it on
your arm in the old days."
He sank back In his chair. Silence,
during which tho smoke thickened and
the pup whined softly In his sleep.
Out upon the night the cathedral bell
boomed the third hour of morning.
"If you don't mind, Artie," said Max,
yawning, "I'll turn in. I've been trav-
eling for tho past fortnight."
"Take a ride on Dandy In the morn-
ing. He'll hold your weight nicely. 1
can't go with you, as I've a lame
ankle."
"I'll be in the saddle at dawn. All I
need is a couple of hours between
sheets."
CHAPTER V.
That same evening the grand duke's
valet knocked on the door leading into
the princess' apartments, and when
the door opened he gravely announced
that his serene highness desired to
speak to the Princess Hildegarde. It
was a command. For some reason,
known best to herself, the princess
chose to obey it.
"Say that I shall be there present-
ly," she said, dismissing the valet.
As she entered her uncle's study—
so called because of its dust-laden
bookshelves, though the duke some-
times disturbed their contents to
steady the leg of an unbalanced chair
or table—he laid down his pipe and
dismissed his small company of card
players.
"I did not expect to see you so soon,"
he began. "A woman's curiosity some-
times has its value. It takes little to
arouse it, but a great deal to allay it."
"You have not summoned me to
make smart speeches, simply because
I have been educated up to them?"—
truculently.
"No. I have not summoned you to
talk smart, a word much in evidence in
Barscheit since your return from Eng-
land. For once I am going to use a
woman's prerogative. I have changed
my mind."
The Princess Hildegarde trembled
with delight. She could put but one
meaning to his words.
"The marriage will not take place
next month."
"Uncle!"—rapturously.
"Wait a moment,"—grimly. "It shall
take place next week."
"I warn you not to force me to the
altar," cried the girl, trembling this
time with a cold fury.
"My child, you are too young in
spirit and too old in mind to be al-
lowed a gateless pasture. In harness
you will do very well." He took up his
pipe and primed it. It was rather em-
barrassing to look the girl in the eye.
"You shall wed Doppelklnn next
week."
"You will find it rather embarrass-
ing to drag me to the altar,"—evenly.
"You will not," he replied, "create a
scandal of such magnitude. You are
untamable, but you are proud."
When these two talked without ap-
purent heat it was with unalterable
fixedness of purpose. They were of a
common race. The duke was deter-
mined that she should wed Doppel-
klnn; she was equally determined
that she should not. The gentleman
with the algebraic bump may figure
this out to suit himself.
"Have you no pity?"
"My reason overshadows it. You do
not suppose that I take any especial
pleasure in forcing you? But you
leave ine no othor method."
"You loved my aunt once,"—a
broken note in her voice.
"I love her still,"—not unkindly;
"but I must have peace in the house.
ble of loving. Doppelklnn is wealthy.
You shall marry htm."
"I will ruu away, uncle,"—decidedly.
"I have notified the frontiers,"—
tranquilly. "From now on you will be
watched. It is the Inevitable, my
child, and even I have to bow to that."
She touched the paper in her bosom,
but paused.
"Moreover, I have decided," went on
the duke, "to send the Honorable Bet-
ty Moore back to England."
"Betty.?"
"Yes. She is a charming young per-
son, but she is altogether too sympa-
thetic. She abets you In all you do.
Her English independence does not
conform with my Ideas. After the
wedding I shall notify her father."
"Everything, everything! My friends,
my liberty, the right God gives to
every woman—to love whom she will!
And you, my uncle, rob me of these
things! What If I should tell you that
marriage with me is now impossible?"
—her lips growing thin.
"I should not be very much sur-
prised."
"Please look at this, then, and you
will understand why I can not marry
Doppelklnn." She thrust the bogus
certificate into his hands.
The duke read it carefully, not a
muscle In his face disturbed. Finally
he looked up with a terrifying smile.
"Poor, foolish child! What a terri-
ble thing this might have turned out
to be!"
"What do you mean?"
The duke got up and went over to
his desk, rummaging among the pa-
pers. He returned to the girl with a
letter.
"Read that, and learn the treachery
of the man you trusted."
The letter was written by Stelnbock.
in It he disclosed all. • It was a venom-
ous, insulting letter. The girl crushed
it in her hand.
"Is he dead?" she asked, all tho bit-
terness in her heart surging to her
lips.
"To Barscheit," — briefly. "Now,
what shall I do with this?"—tapping
the bogus certificate.
"Give it to me," said the girl wear-
ily. She ripped it into halves, Into
quarters. Into Infinitesimal squares,
and tossed them Into the waste-basket.
"I am the unhapplest girl In the
world."
"I am sorry," replied the grand duke.
"It isn't as if I had forced Doppelklnn
on you without first letting you have
your choice. You have rejected the
princes of a dozen wealthy countries.
We are not as the common people; we
can not marry where wo will. I shall
announce that the marriage will take
place next week."
"Do not send my friend away," she
pleaded, apparently tamed.
"I will promise to give the matter
thought. Good night."
She turned away without a word and
left him. When he roared at her Bhe
knew by experience that he was harm-
less; but this quiet determination
meant the exclusion of any further
argument. There was no escape un-
less she ran away. She wept on her
pillow that night, not so much at the
thought of wedding Doppelklnn as at
the fact that Prince Charming had evi-
dently missed the last train and was
never coming to wake her up, or, if he
did come, it would be when it was too
late. How many times had she con-
jured him tip, as she rode in the fresh
fairness of the mornings! How manly
he was and how his voice thrilled her!
Her horse was suddenly to run away,
he was to rescue her, and then de-
mand her hand In marriage as a fitting
reward. Sometimes he had black hair
and eyes, but more often he was big
and tall, with yellow hair and the
blue .t eyes in all the world.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
"Is He Dead?" She Asked.
Observe what you have so far accom-
plished in the matter of creating tur-
moil." The duke took up a paper.
"My sins?"—contemptuously.
"Let us call them your transgres-
sions. Listen. You have ridden a
horse as a man rides it; you have rid-
den bicycles in public streets; you
have stolen away to a masked ball;
you ran away from school In Paris
and visited heaven knows whom; you
have bribed sentries to let you in
when you were out late; you have
thrust aside the laws as if they meant
nothing; you have trifled with the
state papers and caused the body po-
litic to break up a meeting as a conse-
quence of the laughter."
The girl, as she recollected this day
to which he referred, laughed long and
joyously. He waited patiently till she
had done, and I am not sure that his
mouth did not twist under his beard.
"Foreign education Is the cause of all
this," he said finally. "Those cursed
French and English schools have
ruined you. And I was fool enough to
send you to them. This is the end."
"Or the beginning,"—rebelliously.
"Doppellcinn is mild and kind."
"Mild and kind! One would think
that you were marrying me to a horse!
Well, I shall not enter the cathedral."
"How will you avoid it?"—calmly.
"I shall find a way; wait and nee."
She was determined.
"I shall wait." Then, with a sudden
softening, for he loved the girl after
his fashion: "I am growing old, my
child. If I should die, what would be-
come of you? I have no son; your
Uncle Franz, who is but a year or two
younger than I am, would reign, and
he would not tolerate your madcap
ways. You must marry at once. I
love you in spite of your willfulness.
But you havs shown yourself Incapa-
"Mean? Do you suppose anything
like this could take place without my
hearing of it? And such a dishonest,
unscrupulous rascal! Some day I
shall thank the American consul per-
sonally for his part in the affair. I
was waiting to see when you would
produce this. You virtually placed
your honor and reputation, which I
know to be above reproach, into the
keeping of a man who would sell his
soul for a thousand crowns."
The girl felt her knees give way, and
she sat down. Tears slowly welled up
in her eyes and overflowed, blurring
everything.
A STATE NOV. 16
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT WILL IS-
SUE PROCLAMATION
CONSTITUTION IS DELIVERED BY FRUNTZ
If the Sun Were Another Color.
It is amazing to consider the possi-
bilities if the sun were some other
color. If it were blue, for instance,
there would be only two colors in the
world, blue and black; or if it were
red then everything would be red or
black. In the latter case we should
have red snow, red lillles, black grass,
black clear sky and red clouds. There
would bo a little variety, however, it
the sun were green. Things that are
now yellow would still remain that
color, but there would be no reds, pur-
ples, orange or pinks and very few of
those cheery hues that make the
world so bright and pleasant.
One Benefit of Matrimony.
She had sat by him once or twice
at the little restay^rant with the big
friendly tables, so when the long mus-
tached waiter set the soup bowl be-
fore her she helped him and passed
him his plate. She was amazed at his
gratitude. "I can't thank you enough,"
he told her. "That soup will taste
entirely different to me now. Do you
know, I get so blamed lonely dining
night after night at these restaurants
and cafes with only the walters to
serve me I've been on the ragged edge
of marrying more than once, just to
get sombody to ladle out my soup."
In a German Law Court.
A German law court was the scene
lately of an amusing incident. The
magistrate, a tiresome and long-wind-
ed person, was deciding a small case
In which the plaintiff claimed dam-
ages for abuse. "To call a man a 'pig'
or a 'dog,' " ruled the judge, "is cer-
tainly an insult; but to say that he Is
a 'pig-dog' is inoffensive, for no such
animal exists." The plaintiff glared
at the bench. "Schweine-hund!" he re-
marked with bitter emphasis.—T. P.'s
Weekly.
All Doubt as to President's Attitude
Towards Statehood for Oklahoma
Removed—Constitution Conforms to
Enabling Act
WASHINGTON: President Roose-
velt avs he will issue the proclama-
tion admitting Oklahoma to statehood
Saturday, November 16. The consti-
tution was formally delivered to ths
president by Governor Frantx and
ludge Clayton Monday morning, Octo-
ber 28.
The constitullon la typewritten on
parchment and does not contain the
election ordinances.
While not enthusiastic over its terms
President Roosevelt regards It as
within the terms of the enabling act
and holds that he has no further dis-
cretion and will sign the constitu-
tion. Those accompanying Governor
Frantz included Judge Clayton, P. 9.
Cunningham, Silas Reed, randldate
far attorney general of the new state,
and C. IS. Hunter, chairman of the
republican state central committee.
The issuance of the proclamation
en Saturday, November IB, will start
the machinery of Oklahoma as a state
The function of presenting a certl
fled copy of the constitution was car-
ried out in conformity with the terms
of the enabling act, which provides
that the copy shall be presented by
the governor of the territory of Okla-
homa and the federal judge, senior in
service, in the Indian Territory. Gov
ernor Frantz of Oklahoma and Judge
Clayton of Indian Territory constitut-
ed the official commtttee of present
tation. The constitution was enclos-
ed in a red leather case. This was
unclasped and Governor Frantz «s
he laid It before the president stated
that he formally presented a certified
copy of the constitution of Oklahoma
together with a statement of the elec-
tion returns.
In response the president indicated
his expectation to sign the constitu
tion, but added that this approval was
not to be taken as an endorsement of
all of its provisions.
Governor Frantz requested that the
people of the state be given ten or
fifteen days' notice before the procla-
mation should issue. This, after some
discussion, determined the president
to fix the date at once and November
lfi was decided upon.
The president Is to give Secretary
Garfield supervision of appointments
on the ground that he is the only
cabinet officer there who knows the
situation in Oklahoma. Indications
are that for judge of the Eastern dis-
trict, Dickerson, brother-in-law of
Governor Hoch of Kansas, is likely
to be appointed. In the Western dis-
trict people here think that Cromwell
has the lead, though Hainer has
friends making a hard fight for him.
James Watson, representative for
Indiana, is trying to get his brother
Charles of Perry appointed clerk of
the United States conrt for the West-
ern district. This was not received
favorably as Charles Hunter, pres-
ent republican state chairman, is said
to be slated for that place.
Congressman-elect Scott Farris of
the Fifth Oklahoma district, has ap
pointed Professor Fletcher Swank of
Norman as his secretary.
The king of Spain, it is said, has
been cured of snoring, but the man
i who occupies the berth ju3t across tho
aisle from you in a sleeping car Is a
\ hopeless case.
Intence Love For Old Furniture.
HASKELL IS INTERESTED
Prid* of Ancestry as Common Weak-
ness of the Human.
We all know the woman who would
not own a stick of old furniture unless
it came from her ancestors, and I
think most of us have been wicked
enough to wonder if her opportunities
in this direction fyave been very ex-
tensive.
The woman has yet to be discovered
who would not own diamonds unless
they came to her by inheritance, and
it is quite as unreasonable to <}eny
ourselves the possession of beautiful
furniture simply because some one in
the past was not wise or thoughtful
enough to provide for our need. It is
possible that some kinds of "ancestor
worship" do take as violent a form as
this, but it is to be hoped they are not
very prevalent. Doubtless in cases
where ancestors are well and favor-
ably known to one, furniture inherited
from them is enhanced in value If the
furniture has of itself any rightful
claims to appreciation, but no amount
of noble ancestry should even recon-
cile us to some kinds of furniture.
Few, too, are fortunate enough to
have possessed ancestors with the
proper amount of foresight, and in
many cases, where beautiful old furni-
ture was possessed in abundance, it
was carelessly passed along to the
washerwoman or exchanged for mod-
ern pieces before the owners became
aware that it had any value.—Indoors
and Out.
Civilized people spend more time
in their chairs than they do In their
beds, remarks Good Housekeeping;
but while the evolution of the bed has
been rapid during the last 50 years,
that of the chair has dragged or even
gone backward.
Some young men seem to think It
is useless to sow oats unless they
can get crowds of people to look on
Governor-Elect. Would, Have. Indian
Territory Banks Protected
OKLAHOMA CITY: Learning of ac-
I tion of Acting Governor Filson in pro-
claiming a week's holiday for the pro-
tection of the banks of Oklahoma and
fearing that Indian Territory might
be left, without protection for her
banking institutions, C. N. Haskell,
governor-elect of the new state, tele-
graphed to Robert X^. Owen, who is in
Washington, asking him to see the
president and ask him either to pro-
claim a week's holiday in Indian Ter-
ritory and thus afford protection to
her banking institutions, or Immedi-
ately to proclaim statehood so that
the state officials may protect the
entire state.
Now they have "acute confusional
Insanity." That's the way a man feels
when he goes into a dry-goodB store
on a busy day.
nishop Candler's severe strictures
on 'sissy religion' will be .resented by
the sissies if tbey have a spark o!
manhood in them.
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