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He had been pushing through the
tender green underbrush of the forest
for some time, following the curves of
tt*e saucy little brook, when suddenly
rounded a great oak and saw her
" lifting on the opposite side of the tiny
£~£*Sfteum, her bands clasped on her
knees and her feet drawn up under
her sobcj- brown skirt.
"I your pardon,” he said, pulling
Elsoff, his hat. "I hope I am not tres-
everybody trespasses here!" she
* .Jtjirned. These are the palace
■
"Is the palace very distant from
, here?" he inquired.
“No,” returned the girl; “quite near,
but they never come out here.”
They?” And the man raised his
k eyebrows inquiringly.
L. The court,” said the girl, “tire —the
■t prh icess and her ladies and gentle-
K-* *'”l can understand the ladles not
I coming, perhaps, but the men”— He
I broke off with a shake of his head and
Ba meaning glance.
It /Hie girl smiled. “Do I look as if I
| came from the court?”
s Tour gown doesn’t,” responded the
1 men, but he wasn’t looking at it as he
B spoke.
& “It is a borrowed one,” confessed
®tbe girl, with a laugh. "You have
* keen eyes and apparently know some-
Ik thing about courts.”
B “Yes,” he admitted. “I am a friend
F and gentleman in waiting of the Prince
■ o<! Lubeck-Malvolsie. He is on his
Way to your court.”
L The princess is she
K, (Tell me," Ire as£w>, "is tho prliwss
b rwijy really—you know—yt^irrog?”
I The of her mouth twitched.
’ “Would you me cotmirft high
treason?” she asked.; in return. He
| "X never could get up much enthn
over tear mj'self.” cmfwluded the
girl; “only you most never, never say
I said so!”
“Oh, never!” he repeated impressive
ly. “And if I should be tempted to,
> you know, I don’t really see bow I
I could, foiM don't yet know your name.”
f -“That makes it very safe,” said the
girl, with a satisfied air. “And when
I do*j-ou think the prince will come?”
■ “lie comes tomorrow probably,” he
I returned. “He is making an easy jour-
(dey of it.”
“Possibly he isn’t very enthusiastic
about the princess either,” said the
girl.
“It’s a matter of state, you know,”
explained the man. “But you mustn’t
betray me, you know, If I keep your
Lt confidence.”
B- “I see,” said the girl. "How dreed-
B ful to be a prince and have to consider
■ the state before one's own prof er -
Bences!”
CB**%es,” said the man. “A private gen
4Bbeman“—
Be “Like yourself?" Interrupted the girl.
B “Exactly,” he answered -“has so
F jtnany privileges. For instance, he may
■fsteal off and perchance have a sam
f pie of paradise in the woods.”
| flSo might a prince,” objected the
« girl. meeting his eyes.
A “A prince!” said the man impatlent-
Wly. “To a prince it remains a sample.
Bile must go on and find the princess,
Byon know. But the private gentleman
■ steps across the brook, so, and hopes
• that paradise may last a lifetime.”
wThe girl drew away with a little laugh
BaJie sat down beside her on the moss
Band pulled her skirt still farther over
Bber feet.
1 “Paradise will last Just as long for
/the private gentleman as for the
I prince this tima,” she said. "It is
gv nearly over. I must get back to the
pa lace. I shall be missed.”
i “Well,” he said, laughing openly into
Lfc p-pretty face, “why don’t you go?”
k “You know perfectly well,” said the
Bgirl indignantly, and then she, too,
■laughed.
“Please go away,” she said.
W “But I thought you were going
I away,” he returned.
> ‘♦Not till you are quite gone,” she
| affirmed.
■ “That will be some time ttenee,” be
(•announced. She rested her chin on
■ her hands and looked oft aeross the
jbrook in silence. “I will go on one
. condition,’* he said at last.
“Name it,” said the girl.
Tft kiss,” said the uwn, with a quick
Vmssion, and as she flushed he put his
jArm about her and laid his cheek
’p against hers for an instant. The guJ
1 was passive. As he turned his face
» JF(I kissed her she put him away
| gently, but firmly.
f “That,” she said as he stood beside ;
I her. "was done like a prince and not i
| like a private gentleman.”
i He looked down at her with a sud
■ den gravity. “Like the prince, I must
shut out of paradise,” he said.
T“Bul at least I have had paradise for
• a moment.” And be crossed the brook
■ and, disappeared. The girl crept over
* to where her stockings and buckled
k shoes lay at the foot of a big tree,
Btykiin in sight, and put them on.
It was the next afternoon, and he i
Kywas wandering listlessly about one, of :
r the magnificent dreary/audience* rooms j
I tbE the palace undecided whether to be !
or amused at the unusual i
in bls reception, for he had been j
B waiting fifteen minutes. Suddenly
If through one of the great dabrs at the i
il end of the room came the courtClady. ;
I Today she was in riding dress. She
iA gtopped'at sight of him.
to “Ypu?” she said. “And aloneF*
now,” he coming to-,
ward fier. “In paradise, you know,
one has the best of company.” Then
he stopped, for she was courtesying low
before him, with demure eyes. “I beg
your pardon,” he said blankly.
“It is for me to beg your bigh
• ncss’ pardon,” she said, "Tor yester
' day.”
“How did you know?** be demanded.
"1 didn’t know at first,” she evaded,
pulling off one gauntlet. He caught
the hand thus bared.
I “Has your highness seen the prin
cess?” she asked. He let her hand go.
"I was told that the princess luul not
j yet come in,” he returned stiffly. He
was very grave, but lie took her hand
again and lifted it to bls lips. “I like
you better as a private gentleman,”
I she added mischievously. Then as he
bent toward her lips she evaded him,
courtesying low again.
“Don’t,” he said sharply, “don’t bow
to me. Why should you deny the kiss
to the prince that you granted to the
gentleman?”
“Your highness knows that,” she an
swered simply. “We were mad yes
terday.”
“Then I am mad today,” he returned.
“I feel that it is chronic. Let me be a
private gentleman for awhile.” She
shook her h-rad.
“No,” she said, “not so soon. I like
to feel that I am talking to k prince.
Usually they talk to tire princess, you
see. This is my hour of triumph, your
highness. Perhaps when the princess
has transferred her court to Lubeck-
Malvolsie, perhaps some day— Are
there woods near your place, your high
ness? For you might be wandering in
them. Once a year now—l can imagine
that once a year it might be interest
ing to play at being merely a gentle
man.”
“Wait,” he said. “If the princess
honors my suit”— But she interrupted
him.
“Do not be afraid,” she said. "There
are reasons of state, you know.”
“Then,” he went on, regardless of her
raillery, “you need not come with her
to Lubeck-Maivoisie.”
“Your highness does not ywini me?”
the girl said, with a enjiito tea
her breath.
“Want you!” he repea tod, a
“Listen.” He ten th tha
window and stood beifcme hsc. •"•boe
advantage a private hm
over his prince is Stavt
iris tanor mar xo tafadia tesaA. JMtu
m-ay<iot. My ••
lay love she cannot hnv®. W ft t»
yours. But my honor, that goes with
my hand to the princess. If 1 were
merely a prince I should carry you off
with me today. I would make you
confess to the paradise you smile at.
But lam not merely a prince or a gen
tleman—l am both—and so you must
not come to Lubeck.”
She had listened with lowered eyes,
and her under lip caught between her
teeth.
“Kiss me goodby,” he said hoarsely,
“and go. I kissed you yesterday once.
I don’t even know your name, but I
want you to kiss me once again and
then go—for heaven’s sake, go!” She
raised her lips to his, and for a mo
ment be held her in his arms, his cheek
against hers; then he put her away
from him, and his glance traveled
slowly and hungrily over her.
He stepped bavk with a suddon ex
clamation, for the handle of her crop
waa a heavy gold crown. On the back
of the gauntlet she still wore was em
broidered a crown, and there were
crowns on the gold buttons that fas
tened the straps of her habit.
“If it please your highness”— she
began, courtesying before him. He
caught her hands and drew her up and
toward him.
“How could you?’ he said. “Ob,
my love, my love!”
“And I may come to Lubeck?” she
teased him. letting herself be drawn
slowly into his arms. “Is this the
princess’ hour?”
“No,” he triumphed over her, his lips
against her ear. “This is the prince’s
hour! And it is going to last a life
time!”
Saffron.
The particular species of crocus that
has from time immemorial been culti
vated for its dried stigmas, a product
known under the name of saffron, is
Crocus satlvus, which Is wild from
Italy to Kurdistan. Saffron may be
reckoned among the very oldest of
vegetable products, being alluded to in
the Song of Solomon among other
spices of Lebanon. The name crocus
is Chaldean or Greek and was first
used by Theophrastus of Eresus about
350 B. C., and that it was a well known
and admired flower. in Greece soon
afterward is shown by Sophocles, who
mentions the “crocus of golden beam”
in his “(Edipus at Colonos.”
The word saffron seems to be a cor
ruption of the Arabic name "al zahafa
ran,” and the product itself was first
imported into England as a spice or
condiment, being also used as a color
or dye for silks and other fabrics of the
eastern looms.
At a later date, exactly when Is not
known, the y’ ’ >t Itself was cultivated
in England, . e especially in Essex,
in which com y the name of Saffron
Walden remains in evidence of the
fact. Again, we have in London Saf
fron hill, which formerly was a site in
cluded in the bishop of Ely’s garden
at Holborn, once famous for its saffron
beds as well as for its strawberries.
Today, however, saffron is but little
used.
Lire Spider. Food Foe Tonr.< Wospt.
The young of some wasps can live
only on live spiders, and the mother
wasp therefore renders the spider pow
erless by her sting, after which it can
live a month, and then deposits it in
the cocoon where she "has laid her egg.
On hatching out the wasp grubs feed
on the bodies of the living spiders. An
other wasp deposits her egg In the
body of the spider, which is then buried
alive and is f, d upon Ly the wasp
ChM THREATEN
LIFE 6F PRESIDENT
Suspicious Visitor Appeared
at Sagamore Hill.
PERSISTENT IN HIS DEMANDS.
Private Detectives Take Him In Hand
and a Revolver, Fully Loaded, Was
Found Upon His Person—Thought
To Be Dangerous Crank.
Oyster Bay, L. 1., Sept. 2. —<A man
giving his name as Frank Weilbruaner
nee, was arrested at Sagamore Hill
late la-£t night while making a persis
tent demand to see President Boose
volt. The man was armed with a
revolver, fully loaded. He was tak
en to to the village and placed in the
town prison. Shortly after 10 o'clock
kust night Weilbrunner drove to Sag
asvore HUI in a buggy. He was stop
ped by the private detective on duty.
Weilbrunner said he had a personal
engagement with the president and de
sired to see him. it was long
aSber the hours when visitors are re
ceived, the officers declined to permit
him to go to the house. The man
Insisted but the officer turned him
away.
Soon after Weilbrunner returned
and again insisted he be allowed to
see the presi lont if only for a minute.
This time he was ordered away and
warned not to return.
Just before 11 o’clock the man re
turned a third time and demanded of
the officer toat he should be permit
ted to see the president at once. The
officer’s response was to take the man
from his buggy and put him in the
stables, where he was Traced under
tile guard of two stablemen. A re
volver was found in the buggy. Later
W-ailbruonar was brought to the vih
krge and tacked up. He is 5 feet, 8
Inches tall, 28 years of age. has a
.®lo®ium sized dark mouaiache, blhels
•yejs, and evidently is of German de
soeut. He resides iia 9jrosset, about
ludkee inland from Oystar 'Say. lie
Vns watt dreesod. it kg Si ought by
Ae officers that WcdSbcftfcaor was ac
companied by two other men, as their
footprints were found in the mud
alongside of the bnggj- tracks. In
view of this fact the ofcicer on duty
telephoned to the village for assis
tance and was soon joined by two
other secret service men. While Weil
bi-uuner tallied rationally to the of
ficers last night, it seems evident
from his conversation today that he is
demented. He said he had received
a telegraphic communication from the
president directing him to call at Sag
amore Hill
Weilbrunn&r is regarded by thoee
who had seen him to be a dangerous
lunatic. i
At Syosset it is learned that ths
man is the son of a truck farmer, and
is one of three brothers. He has two
sisters. The family ie respectable,
and ig held in general esteem.
Weilbrunner, several years ago had
a nervous attack which rendered him
helpless ter a day or two but his
family supposed that he had boon quite
restored by the medical treatment he
received at that time. Since then he
had manifested no symptoms of men
tal aberration. He had bo socialistic
o>r anarchistic tendencies eo far as
known, never having besn interested
in any question of that kind. He was
employed dally on his father’s farm.
Weilbrunner was arraigned today
before Justice Franklin on complaint
of the secret service operatives who
placed him under arrest. Weilbrun
n-er’s brother William wu present at
the examination. Justloe Franklin
questioned the prisoner about his
movements last night Hia replies
wore made in a quiet tone of voice
but they indicated apparently beyond
a doubt that the man is esazy. Asked
why he went to Sagamore HIM, he re
plied:
*1 went to see the prealdent about
bls daughter, Alice.”
*Had you an engagensent with the
preeideot?”
“How was the engagement made?”
~I talked with him laM night,” he
replied.
"How did yon talk with him?*’
“Oh, I just talked.”
“A sort of wirale&s talk?”
“Yes, that is it—a wiretese talk.”
“Why did you watrt to see the pree
lda»t about Miss Alice?”
“I wanted to marry her?”
“Did you ever see Miss Rooeevelt?”
“Yes, I saw her night Lafore last."
"Where did you. see her?"
"At my house. ”
“Did she ito over thc>re?“ j
“Yes, she came in a red arfiomobtle."
**Wfco accompanied her?”
“Her brother, Theodore.”
Justice Franklin, after the examina
tion concluded he would hold Well
brunner until an Inquiry of lunacy
could be held upon his casa The ex
amination was then postponed until
5 o’clock this afternoon, when physi
cians who hold certificates entitling
them to make Inquiries into tho san
ity of persons, could be present.
Hot Day In London.
New York, Sept. 2. —Tuesday prov
ed one of the hottest days of the year
in London, says a dispatch from that
city to The Her Cd. Only a few days
ago the temperature fell to within an
appreciatable distance of the freezing
point, so that th-e sudden change was
felt to an exceptional dogree. Many
cases of p£O|tratioj reported.
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bottom chair at $2.50 for
6 chairs.
Oak Extension Tables
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Have large assortment up
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Bedroom Suits sl4 to
SIOO.
Odd Dressers $5 up.
Old Wash Stands all
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French Dressers in bird•
eye maple and oak at
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The largest and prettiest line full swell front Chiffonieres ever put on
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30 patterns Sideboards from $8.50 to 75.00.
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8 grades Mattresses, the best in the land. Springs 1.25 to 5.00.
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