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THE GATE CITA' JOURNAL
certainly white. The daughter wasn't
born at that time, but her mother
was an Englishwoman and a cousin
of your own. It's most unlikely that
the girl Is black.”
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"Even so," said Norheys, “she'll he
By George A. Birmingham Lystrla. For the sake of England's more or less savage, and I don't care
It's not that I’m par­
Copyright by Bobb»-M«rrUlCo.—W. N. U. Serried greatness he was ready to sacrifice for savages.
*'a fte r e v e r y m e a l *
Norheys, If sacrifice bad been neces­ ticularly keen on civilization. What
Parents- encourage the
sary.
I always say about that Is that a lot
children to cart for their teeth f
There waa also another considera­ of It Is rather rot. Still, that's a dif­
“I’M ENGAGED
tion which weighed with Troyte. He ferent thing from marrying a savage.
Give them W r ig le y 'a .
SYNOPS IS. — I n L o n d o n th e
came to it when he had finished with A girl ought to wear corsets, you
It remove» food particle*
te lle r of the s to ry of the a d v e n ­
know, and go to a decent dress­
the oil.
from the teeth. Strengthens
t u r e s o f "King: T o m m y ," a n d
"The Germans," he said, “are maker.”
k n o w n h e r e a f t e r a s "U n c le BUI,"
the duns. Combats acid
“You're wrong about that,” I said.
scheming to put up a king of their
Is I n f o r m e d by L o r d N o r h e y s , so n
mouth.
o f a n old fr ie n d , t h a t L o r d
own In Lystrla. The man they have "The Central European aristocracy—
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Refreshing and beneficial f
In mind la the Prinz von Stelnveldt.” and that's the class she belongs to—
e ig n office, N o r h e y s ’ unc le , h a s a
“I used to know him," I said. “He are quite civilized. She probably
s c h e m e to m a k e h i m ( N o r h e y s )
k i n g o f L y e t r i a , In c e n t r a l E u ­
was In the foreign office In Berlin. speaks half a dozen languages and
rope , t h r o u g h m a r r i a g e to C a ­
He must be a bit too old for the prin­ gets her frocks from Purls—or used
lypso , d a u g h t e r o f K i n g W l a d i s -
cess. Do you think she’d marry to. She can't now, poor thing, for
la w s , d e p o s e d m o n a r c h o f t h a t
him?”
her father Is stony broke. That1*
c o u n t r y . A fina nc ie r, P r o c o p i u s
Cabl e, k n o w s t h e r e is oil in p r o ­
"The princess,” said Troyte, “will the reason she's had to take to danc­
f u s io n In L y s t r l a , a n d w i t h a n
ing. And I’m told that she's quite
marry the man she's told to."
E n g l i s h k i n g on t h e t h r o n e th e
I was not so sure about that. The a good looking girl.”
o u t p u t c o u l d be s e c u r e d f o r E n g ­
"She may be," said Norheys, “but
la nd.
N o rh e y s , In lo v e w i t h a
spirit of revolt against that doctrine
s t a g e d a n c e r , V io la T e m p le , Is
of a girl's duty laid Arm hold upon my point is—that Is to say, what I
not en th u siastic over the propo­
the middle classes years ago. Since really feel Is—"
s iti o n . T h e p a t r i a r c h , M e n e la u s,
There he stopped.
then It has been spreading upward,
h ig h e st ecolesiastlcal d ig n ita ry
In L y s t r l a , Is h e a r t i l y In f a v o r of
"If she Isn't black,” I said, "and
and, I dare say, downward. It would
th e re s to ra tio n of the m onarohy,
not surprise me to hear that rebel­ isn't tattooed, and hag ordinary man­
a n d C able h a s g e n e r o u s l y fln anoed
lion la now openly advocated In the ners, and wears corsets, which I'm
t h e s e n t i m e n t . C a l y p s o is m a k ­
H y d ra u lic F eet
schoolrooms of palaces. Besides, Ca­ perfectly certain she does, I don’t see
i n g a l i v i n g d a n c i n g in t h e " M a s -
Elsie—What makes your feet se
o o tt e ," B e r l i n c a b a r e t . N o r h e y s
lypso appeared to be an emancipated what yonr objection Is.”
r e f u s e s to e n t e r t a i n t h e i d e a of
wet ?
“The fact Is." said Norheys, “that
woman. If she dances in a cabaret
g i v i n g u p V io la T e m p le , to w h o m
Mary—I’ve been wearing pumps.
In Berlin she must have shed most I’m engaged to be married to Miss
he is s e c r e t l y e n g a g e d .
of the garments of conventionality In Temple.”
A Lady of Distinction
"Did you tell your uncle that?" I
which most princesses are wrapped.
Is recognised by the delicate, fascinat­
"By the way,” I said, "where's King asked.
C
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II—
C
ontinued
ing Influence of the perfume she usea
"No, I didn’t. I didn't want to ruf­
Wladlslaws now? As the girl's fath­
A bath with Outlcura Soap and hot
er he may want to have a say about fle the old boy, and that would have
Having
got
all
that
settled,
Cable
water to thoroughly cleanse the pores
her marriage."
ruffled him. My Idea is that you
followed by a dustln? with Outlcura | approached Lord Edmund Troyte with
"Wladlslaws has gone under utter­ might break It to him, gently, don’t
a
proposal
that
the
marquis
of
Nor-
Talcum powder usually means a clear,
ly,” aald Troyte. “I don't know you know, go as not to give him a
sweet, healthy skin.—Advertisement. i heys, my godson, should be king of where he Is or what he's doing. We shock. What I always say Is this—
j Lyatrla. He would have to marry the
If there’s a Jarring kind of thing
need not consider him."
We condemn what wo do not un­ | princess, of course. The Lystrlans,
which has to be said, It’s better for a
being
strong
legitimists,
Insisted
on
derstand.
fellow to get some one else to say It.”
that. But the princess, so Cable said,
CHAPTER III
"You realize of course." I said,
was a beautiful girl, with charming
manners and far more respectable
Two or three days later Norheys "that If you refuse to marry Princess
| than her father had ever been.
came to me In the club where I was Calypso you can’t be king of Lystrla.”
"I’d. he sorry for that. I don’t mind
“As a matter of fact," said Troyte, lunching.
"she's a dancer In Berlin. Wladls-
“Look here, Uncle Bill," he said, saying that I’d rather like to be king
! law» did not succeed In carrying off a “you remember my telling you the of that country. If Viola and I could
penny from Lystrla', so both he and other day about my going In for be­ go there together—"
"Viola?”
The United States holds more air­
A » U sual
j the girl have to work for their liv­ ing a king and that sort of thing.”
“That's Miss Temple. If she and plane records for speed, distance, dura­
Nervous Patient—Is an operati«»
“Yes."
ing. But that Is not an Insuperable
objection to her.”
"IVell. Uncle Ned's been at me I could set up there as king and tion and altitude than any other na­ absolutely necessary, doctor?
Doctor—No, but It Is customary.
"Have you," I said, “laid that part again and he's rather surprised me. queen, we could have a high old time tion In the world.
j of the schene before Norheys, asked Now, I’m a fellow who Isn't at all and really make things hum. Viola
would
make
a
splendid
queen,
abso­
him whether he was willing to marry easy to surprise; for what I always
MRS. URQUHART
say Is; Whatever happens—even If lutely top hole.”
j the princess?”
GETS REWARD
‘W o rld s ’ L ow est
"You
may
put
that
Idea
out
of
your
the Jolly old sun doesn't turn up In
"Not yet."
P r ic e d S e d a n *
"I would," I said. “If I were you the morning at the proper hour—take head at once," I said.
Mrs. Urquhart of Omaha wants every
"Uncle Ned and that stockbroker
with S lid in g Gear
I’d mention that to Norheys before It calmly. And that's what I do,
friend of his could have all the oil. housewife to share her good fortune In
going
any
further.
Indt
d,
It
might
make
a
regular
rule
of
It;
but
I’m
possessing a handsome reward. Here
c.Transm ission ~
; be as well to And out what the prln- bound to say Uncle Ned made me We shouldn’t want a drop for our­ Is what she says: "This Is the way I did
selves, and I'd make the good old
EASY T ER M S
Jump this time.”
i «ess thinks about It, too.”
It. I answered an ad by writing for a
"She'll be all right,” aald Troyte.
“If there’s anything more surprising Lystrlans dig like the devil. You free 10c bottle of Liquid Veneer and I
j “Her name Is Calypso."
than being asked suddenly to be a might try to get Uncle Ned to look found it so wonderful for dusting and
at It from that point of view.”
Calypso is a pretty name, but I
"It won’t do,” I said. “It really polishing that I told fifteen of my
did not see that It gave us any guar­
friends about It and the makers sent me
won't.”
antee that the girl would marry Nor­
“I don't see why not. I mean to entirely free and postpaid, a grent big,
heys.
say I think it might he worked if we beautiful $2.00 Liquid Veneer Polish­
"Girls are dreadfully Independent
went the right way about It. I’m not ing Mop.” Then Mrs. Urquhart goes
j nowadays," I said
"You can't be
much of a whale on court etiquette on to say; “I am very proud and
sure."
and ecclesiastical law but I've always pleased with the reward given for
“She's dancing in a cabaret in Ber­
had a notion that there’s some sort what I have done, so will take great
lin. So Cable says.”
of recognized dodge by which you pleasure In showing It to friends."
"She ought to prefer being married,
can be married on the double If you’re
Twenty thousand of these $2.00
to that,” I said. "Still If I were you
a king, both marriages being perfect­ Mops are going to be given away to
| I'd consult her. I should certainly
ly O. If."
housewives. Write for a free 10c
| consult Norheys.”
"There are morganatic marriages,” bottle and ask for descriptive circular
Troyte took my advice about con­
A B e tte r Heel to W alk On
I said. "It's a left-handed and unsat­ 15 telling how easily you, too, may
sulting Norheys; but he did not give
isfactory arrangement. I don’t think have one of these mops. Address Liquid A n d fo r thm b o o t s h o o mole y o u ever had*m
me the satisfaction of telling me he
you ought to ask Miss Temple to agree Veneer Company, Dept. L, Buffalo, N.
! meant to. He went on to discuss an­
USKIDE
to It."
Y.—Adv.
other side of the affair.
—th e W onder Sole fo r W ear
"I
wasn’t
thinking
of
asking
her.
"The main thing,” he said, "Is that
United Statt« Rubbar Company
The very last thing I want to do Is
Every young man should leum to
England should obtain control of the
to put Viola Into an awkward posi­ paddle his own canoe—but he should
Lystrlan oil. The civilization of the
tion. In fact, I wouldn’t do It. not learn to swim first.
Twentieth century rests on oil pre­
even to please Uncle Ned. My Idea
cisely as that of the Nineteenth cen­
is to marry her In St. George’s, Han­
tury rested on coal.”
over square, with a bishop and brides­
“Is that fellow Cable an English­
maids and all complete. The other
man?"
one, this Calypso girl, that Uncle Ned
“He's a British subject," said Troy-
is so keen on, could be the morgnn
te, "naturalized before the war.”
—whnt-do-you-call-it? I don't sup­
After that I had to listen to nn ac-
pose she'd mind.”
i count of the uses of oil In peace and
"My dear Norheys,” I said, “she's
war which bored m e; to a descrip­
a princess, the daughter of a man who
tion of the distribution of the pres­
ent oil supply of the world and the "My Dear Norheys,” I Said, “She's a was a European sovereign until a few
Princess, the Daughter of a Man years ago.”
small quantity of It controlled by
"I don’t believe a black princess
Who Wae a European Sovereign
England.
would be as particular as all that.
Until a Few Years Ago.”
There, I think, lay the real motive
of Troyte's action, the explanation of king,” I said, “It must be something Look here, Uncle Bill, you’ve nlways
his consent to the plan of setting which would make an ancient Itomnn been Jolly good to me and all that.
Just you put the morganatic schema
8 OÍ
Norheys on the throne of Lystrla. No stoic Jump.”
se rv -
doubt It pleased him—Troyte has a
"You’d never think,” said Norheys, up to Unele Ned. Be as persuasive
great deal of family pride—to think “that Uncle Ned would turn out to be as you can. I expect he’ll see hla
ja k e -
way to work It somehow. But you
of hla nephew being a king. And the a giddy matchmaker.”
made
I knew what he was at then. must make It quite clear that there's
Troytea had some alight connection
with the Lystrlan royal family. No Troyte must have taken my advice and to be no hanky-panky about Viola’s
position. She may or may not ha
doubt he thought that marriage to mentioned the proposed marriage.
e a te s t
the Princess Calypso would save Nor­
"He wants me to marry a black queen of Lystrla, but she’s Jolly well
heys from an undesirable entangle­ princess,” said Norheys. "Now I’m going to be marchioness of Norheys."
“I’ll speak to your uncle about It."
N o t W o rth A cq u irin g
ment with Viola Temple. Troyte not a prejudiced sort of fellow at all.
P ro b a b ly an O veraight
hated the Idea of having to welcome Any girl may be a lady, don't you I said, "but It won’t be the slightest
Pride either finds a desert or makes
At lenst Nero was honest. The towel
use.
The
thing’s
impossible.”
that young lady as the next marchion­ know? and a fellow ought to marry
“I don't see why. Lots of these one, submission cannot tame Its fe­ found In hts bathhouse recently by ex­
ess of Norheys. No doubt also Ca­ her, supposing lie wants to, like the
rocity, and It requires very costly food cavators did not hear the Pullman
sultans
and pashas and people have —Its
ble’s remarkable personality had tome king that the poem's about who went
keeper’s happiness.
mark.—Detroit News.
whole
harems
full
of
wives.
I
don't
Influence with him. Procopius Cable round pretending to be a landscape
want
to
go
as
far
as
that.
At
the
la accustomed to getting his own way painter and then married a beggar. I
with all aorta of people, and has per­ always say ha was quite right there. same time. If they can do It, why
suaded several clever men to do If he really fancied the girl. But— can't I?"
"Nobody’s proposing to set you up
foolish things. Troyte likes and ad­ well, hang It all. Uncle Bill, however
mires men of the Cable kind. He unprejudiced a fellow Is, he must draw on the throne of a Moslem state," I
"Lystrla Is a Christian coun­
has a theory that the British empire the line somewhere, and I do think It's said.
has been built up by buccaneers; In a bit thick asking me to marry a black try.”
“Oh, come now. Christian. You
the Elizabethan days by buccaneers princess.”
tra
who went forth In ships and looted,
“But,” I said, “the Princess Calypso can’t call those countries Christian. |
flying the British flag for their own Isn't black. What makes you think Hang It all. Uncle «»ill, It was only i
last week I gave a fellow a subscrip­
protection, leaving It still fluttering In she Is?”
the places which they sacked after
“Sure to be. All those desert tion to a missionary society especial- |
He j
they sailed away. In the Eighteenth islandy places are governed by black ly to convert the heathen.
century the empire-building bucca­ princesses. I dare say she’s good wouldn’t want to convert them If they '
neers called themselves merchants, or looking enough In her way. Uncle Ned were Christians already, wonld he?" j
“There’s an archbishop there," I j
merchant adventurers, hut they acted seemed to think so. But I don't like
exactly as their predecessors did, them black. And—well, hang It all, said. "A patriarch, which Is a supe- |
looting, and then leaving the care of no fellow can possibly be expected rlor kind of archbishop. His name la \
M O T H E R : - F l e t c h e r ’s
the conquered provinces to embar­ to be pleased when he finds his wife Menelaus.”
"Sounds to me like Greek gram- j
rassed statesmen at home. At the is tattooed all over; and they all are.
Castoria is especially prepared
end of the Nineteenth century the Quite right of her, of course. If It’s mar," said Norheys, “for the matter ;
to relieve Infants in arms and
buccaneers became financiers. But the thing to do In her own country. of that, so does Cal.vpao, and I've al- i
their methods and the results of them I'm not blaming her In the least. ways barred learning Greek gram­
Children all ages of Constipa­
mar."
were the same as before. Procopius Only Just I don't like it."
tion, Flatulency, Wind Colic
Cable wss the latest and ablest of
"My dear boy," I said, "I’m not ad- j
and Diarrhea; allaying Feverishness arising therefrom, and, by
these filibustering empire-builders vising you to be a king, or to marry
Norheyt evidently la not
That was Troyte's theory about him. the lady. Bat I think I ought to tell
regulating the Stomach and Bowels, aids the assimilation of
etrong on geography but hit
And It Influenced him In favor of any you that Lystrla Isn’t an Island. It’s
Food; giving healthy and natural sleep.
heart
seems
to
be
all
right.
scheme suggested by Cable.
miles, perhaps hundreds of miles,
B É S T BY T E S T
What’e the next development?
But the main thing waa England's from the sea. and I don't think that
To avoid imitations, always look for the signature of
W. N. U. Salt Lake City, No. 18-1*2* need of oil, and the possibility of ob­ the Princess Calypso can possibly he
Absolutely H arm less-No Opiates. Physicians everywhere recommend It,
i taining an enormous supply of It la black. I met bar father one«. He's
(T o s a c o n t i n i ,»*» ¡
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