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THE MAGAZINE PAGE ‘ Whin” & n Tale of Love and Adven- 111 CVV llip ture That Grips From Start to Finish By BERTRAND BABCOCK. The story of the Play of the Same Name Now Running at the Manhattan Opera House. New York. , , -.right, 1912, by Drury Lane Com- •«ny of America, by arrangement with Arthur Collins, managing director of the Drury Lane Theater of London. Part 11. CHAPTER 1. u-irtoris Meets an Old Acquaintance, r six days now Lord Brancaster had 1( n one of'the old lofty ceilinged bed c i vrs of the ancient castle of Falcon > He had not regained consciousness moment since the day he had been •: >1 out when his automobile struck the : ■■ bridge. ■ I it> the words of censure tne Mar- , t Beverley had spoken of the Earl l hancaster there was nothing for him now save to try to efface them in • . ry possible way. .ev rlej had done more than the situ „ demanded. It was as if the injury l.ad fallen upon the belted earl had , .»d ,ut all the past and had brought uh old racing nobleman a renewed ,i ,< isness of the brotherhood of man. „ .st noted physicians and surgeons I. noon had been summoned by hint, sir Andrew Beck, whose very retain s os. a distinction upon the faniily able luce the great surgeon to visit them, e.<n now tn consultation with some .. z.-n of the kingdom’s greatest sur. .tn d names. There was a question as to •'ier they would try an operation in li.pe of relieving the pressure upon •he brain, but the consensus of opinion ia- against it. Caring For the Earl. •■’lie 'hamber in which Brancaster laj’ .... been the abode of more than one fu- ■ p nobleman in the days of the coni : wealth, which had followed the as- ■eiiuancy of the Puritans after the exe •i.ti of Charles 1., and there was a well authenticated legend that "Bonnie Prince < i irlie” himself had once been sheltered • when there was a price upon his certainly never before had the old rtment occupied by the unconscious Hrinicaster had a more lovely aspect. . were flowers everywhere, but not in ! profusion that would have meant an i - i'nee to the ill man had he been con ,. . os us them. There were lilies of the :ii;ey in the old . tone vase, built into the misused fireplace. Their white love liness- was accentuated by the long trail rg vines which formed their background. 1 ir Lady Diana had seen to the comfort nd the decoration of the apartment of the man she was sure could not be all mite had ■ accident to this young man in the prime of his life had done much to soften ■ er pride of the very young, and she real zed that her judgment was harsh. I " ■ ’ - Good News lor Coffee Drinkers A CUP >’ THE NEW BLEND The coffee beverage with a food value. Has the right flavor, the right aroma, and it won’t disagree. COSTS LESS AND GOES FURTHER than THE AVERAGE COFFEE. -Oc buys a full weight pound can; but don’t measure its quality by its price. is a high-grade product, equaling in all-round merit coffees costing up to 10c per pound more. Pure Delicious Eco nomical. Your Grocer for It. Roasted. Blended and Packed by Cheek-Neal Goffee Co. F!««»b «> AASHVttLB HOUSTON JACKSONVILLE In these days she accepted nearly every thing without question. When the woman she had seen with Brancaster on the day he was known to her merely as the artist called at Falconhurst and asked to be al lowed to sit by the side of Brancaster, the girl had led her without question to the bedchamber, though her grandfather had subsequently seen that a footman performed that office. Lady Diana had not inquired as to the woman visitor anything more than her name. The "Mrs. D’Aquila” she had re ceived told her nothing and she did not ask other information as to the dark, foreign appearing woman who seemed to take Braneaster's injurj- so deeply to heart. There was within Lady Diana a deep spiritual sense. She felt that the stricken earl might die; indeed, she had heard it so whispered, though the marquis tried to spare her such thoughts as these. She felt In her pure consciousness of small sin that if he died without receiving the benefit of the Church of England, or of any clergyman, there would bt> a cloud upon both his chances in a world which might understand, him better and upon her own conscience. She could not for get those murmured words as the car shot by her, and that waving of the hand. Surely "that within us which makes for righteousness” could not ignore such a spirit. His was a rare soul, which must have its change In that void into which it hourly seemed about to escape. So she had dispatched a note to the vicar, innocently unmindful of the fact that "Sporting Jack” Thorpe rode far better to hounds than he did to grace, and that even then he was taking the cure for gout far from the village the great name of which was Beverley. Lady DI and Sartoris. Today, just as the sun was about to set, she was waiting on the terrace of the Italian garden for the appearance of Thorpe in answer to her summons. As she walked to and fro along the terrace, with many glances down the little path known to her friends who did not wish to drive three miles along the road through the acres of the marquis before they reached the castle, she was joined by her cousin. Captain Greville Sartoris. The captain was, as usual, "devilishly hard up,” and he was trying to evolve away to make "a killing.” To him Lady Diana expressed her fear that Brancaster might die before a cler gyman could see him. "My dear Di,” exclaimed Sartoris, "he's just as likely to come to himself and wake up as he is to kick off, and when he does wake up, mind you, Di, he won't ask for any parson. He'll ask for the lady who Is sitting by him now.” The birth of what may have been jeal ousy began in Lady Diana. It was not strong, and merely manifested itself at this moment by a curiosity not usual with this gentle, though self contained, English girl. "Greville. who Is Mrs. D'Aquila?” she asked suddenly. There was astonishment in her cou sin's face, as he realized that the ordi narily self-sufficient Diana, who usually was content with the personal knowledge that her own senses conveyed to her, had asked him a question on a plane with those asked by the ordinary members of her sex. Nevertheless, he did not pause in his answer. "Oh, you know, DI, she was staying at Rlevers when the smash came—staying there with a very tame chaperone—oh, she does everything very correctly—” "But who is she. Greville?” "She was a married woman moving in good society," said Sartoris. "She is—er —still received In some society. She is exactly the sort of woman who suits the Brancaster sort of man. She is not the sort of woman Beverley would wish me to discuss with you.” He stopped and looked into her face. She seemed abstracted, musing upon something very far away. He thought that there was a look of tenderness on her face. Perhaps this wasn't the right moment —but he was rather hard up. you know, and they were alone. Who could tell when they would be so again, and the girl was heir to much. It was worth trying. Sartoris cut in on her thoughts with: "The more 1 see of women like Mrs. D’Aquila, the sweeter, the fresher, the dearer seem the natural, real, true girls the girls like you, DI. You've been an awfully good pal to me, and I wa*it to see you— I've never talked nonsense and love to you. Di, and all that bally rot. But I’ve learned to love you for your self, and because I've seen the world and know your worth in It. I'm not a saint, but every hour with you makes a man better, makes him try to be more worthy— Is it quite impossible— Think, Di! I am the heir to the title, and, with you as my wife, the Beverley fortune and the Bever ley title would be brought together." Proposal Declined. Not all of this speech Lady Diana heard Now she slightly smiled and made a com monplace gesture. She refused to be moved by what she unconsciously felt to be another of the constant attempts .if her cousin to reduce life's odds more in his favor. "Greville. it’s quite Impossible.” she said, "and for the sake of friendship and cousinship, let’s hear nothing further about It —ever —” To the relief of Lady Diana, this dis tasteful conversation with her cousin was ended by the appearance upon a lower slope of a youngish man in clerical dress. She went to greet, him, and he explained that he. the Rev. Verner Haslam, was taking the place of the vicar during the latter’s absence. During this explana tion of the stranger who had received Lady Diana’s note, Sartoris, who appar ently had recognized Haslam, smiled slightly. Lady Diana was about to lead the stranger to Brancaster's apartment, after her explanation of the accident and the unconsciousness of the earl, when she saw that the clergyman and Sartoris were exchanging strange looks. Sartoris broke the silence as he said with a sneer: "I feel that the poor sufferer will be benefited by the ministrations of so good ly a divine as the Rev. Verner Has lam.” The rudeness of it all shocked Lady Diana, and she could not relieve the sit uation by other than a perfunctory in quiry to the man in clericals: "You know my cousin 1 ?" The eyes of the young clergyman sought the face of Sartoris almost pleadingly: •T did at Oxford," he said, as though he were asking that something In the past be ignored. "But we have not met fo>- many--years." Then with another troubled look at Sar toris he passed toward the castle with Lady Diana. Continued in Next Issue * The Ancient Czars of the Balkans sfr sr - !' AGr / : 3 j hriWi rS JwE arlß 1 ShJl G F J ' 'nr i IdS j iW ■»' Hr G w liw-. ■ H W', A— -w .■ - v- St. John of Rila, a famous Bulgarian abbot BORIS, or Bogoris, the first Chris tian king of Bulgaria, ranks as a saint for the same reason that Olaf, of Norway, and Vladimir, of Rus sia, do. Actually, in early life at least, there was little of the saint about him. Boris succeeded Khan Malomir in 852 A. D., at a very critical time. Bul garia had been beaten'in battle by the Serbs and Croats, and Boris himself was badly defeated by them. He event ually, to strengthen Jiimself, formed an alliance with Ludwig, the German, first king of Germany, brother of Lothar, the Frankish emperor of the West. This angered the great regent. Bardas, who then governed at Constantinople for his dissolute nephew. Michael HI. In 863, while Boris was absent help ing Ludwig against his rebellious son, I Karlmann, the whole army of the East- I ern empire invaded Bulgaria and con- j quered it without a blow, and Boris, to regain it without fighting, consented to be baptized. Naturally enough, the pagan element Advice to the Lovelorn By Beatrice Fairfax. JUST "DEAR." Dear Miss Fairfax: Which Is proper to say when you are writing to a very dear friend | of either sex —"My dear.” or just "Dear'." A CONSTANT READER. ' Styles change in this as in other things. Just now “My Dear” Is re garded as more formal than "Dear." WHY NOT? Dear Miss Fairfax: I am a young lady of eighteen, and met a young man about a year ago whom I loved very much. I have not spoken to him for about nine months. Last week 1 received an invitation to a party from his sister, given at his home. Would it * be proper for me to go? S. W. A. K. The quarrel was not with his sister, | and if you want to go to the party it I would be childish to let a little differ- : ence with her brother keep you at | home. Go by all means, and the meeting may be the means of a reconciliation. DON'T DO IT AGAIN. Dea l Miss Fairfax: I am a young man of eighteen and am desperately In love with a girl two years younger. She won't accept my company just because I tried to kiss her. Please tell mo what to do to make her love me. HEART-BROKEN. The girl was right. You are too young to be engaged, and kisses should be saved for that happy period. Convince her you will never trans gress again. Go to work and make a man of yourself. Then ask her to mar ry you. and may happiness attend! HER MOTHER KNOWS BEST. Dear. Miss Fairfax: i 1 am deeply in !ov> with a young lady two years younger than I am. Her motliei obje ts to her keeping I company with y oung men. She can talk to me. but can receive no pres- . ents. FRANK. You fail to state what age is meant I by “two yoais younger than I am," but I judge from b»> ■ mother's action that | it is an age that is most immature. Respect h> mother's wishes. She knows best. SHE IS RIGHT. Dear Miss Fairfax: I am a young man nineteen years old, and in love with a young girl the same age We have known iach other about a year. Three months ago J asked her to attend a dance with me and she accepted. Ever since then we have been go ing out together. I have asked her for her company and she refused, saying I was too young. She Is lov ing. and tells me every time we meet she loves me. ANXIOUS. A boy of nineteen Is too young to keep what is classed as ".steady com pany" with a girl. This girl is right in telling you so. but site does wrong in encouraging you. at. tin sarm tint' . by 1 . tsig you of it. i love. L y —-—————— ——>—« "* TXT “ Top picture: St. Boris, the father of Simeon the Great, the patron saint of Bulgaria. Lower picture: The Janissaries, from ;a curious collection of model figures in Constantinople. fiercely resisted his efforts to Chris- j tianize them wholesale. They besieged him in his pulace. Boris had —so runs ; the legend—only 48 followers, but he called upon Christ to aid and rode forth at their head. As he diql so, flames enveloped the palace and seven figures of glory appeared to lead the forlorn hope. The pagans cast away their arms, flung themselves prostrate, and submitted. So far the legend. W ak'.j on surer ground when we hearthat ] the "Christian" king executed 52 rebel “bolyars” with their families. Boris after coquetting for a time with j ‘the Roman pope, settled down as a Greek Catholic, and the great patri ateh. Photius. called him "the fair froi 1, of my labors." His people have since always been faithful to the Greek com munion, though once or twice tlte kings like Boris drifted ' Romeward; such oc currences were political in origin. Boris ! abdicated in 884 and died a monk tn j | :.07. i We must not imagine that his profi tably Tartar lineaments had anything in I common with the beautiful Christ-like 'features of the elkons. Savage as he was, he had great vigor, and when he found that his eldest son and successor. Vladimir, was worthless the old king came forth from Ida cell to depose him and raised to the throne Ills second 'child. Simeon, the greatest of all the czars of Bulgaria. St. John of Rila. cpHE monastery of Rila, tlm most fa mous in Bulgaria and also prob ably the earliest, lies in a beautiful val ley among the Rilska I'lanina moun tains, a spur of the Balkans, about 30 miles from Sofia. It was always considered the chh f religious center of the ezardom, and its abbot acknowledged no superior bur the Exarch, the official head of the Bul garian chureh. St. John of Rila. the most famous of its early abbot? and a great figure in the days of Bulgaria’s glory, died in 946. Miracles were pe: formed at hi < tomb, and so widespread becami hl. sanctity that in 1183 Bela of Hungary, in a war with the Eastern empire, car ried his corpse away to Gran in the hope of securing for himself the bless ings which its possession conferred. ; The remains w, re recovered by tim j Emperor Isaac 11. in 1187, ami eston 1 ;to Bulgaria, The Column of Constantine ; 'p HIS famous column was raised by | Constantine tic Gr.at on tile spot ! where his tent had stood during the I siege of Byzantium, which made him master of the Roman world. It e.in sisted of eight drums of porphyry tvitli tlm Joints concealed by bronze laurel wreaths on a base of yvhito marble . ml topped by a stat tn; of < 'onsta nt Im , ly an Apollo with a new head, croyvned t with rays and bearing a spear and th' (globe of.empire. It was popularly be i lleved that the Palladium of Rome and part of the true cross were built up in the base. The column has suffered many vicis situdes, and now presents a terribly wrecked appearance. Tim t'onstantino polltan.s call it “Xhe hooped column,” or "the burnt column." in allusion to its apt" arancc and disasters. Legends, of course, clustered about it. and many superstitious beliefs, the most pathetic being that of the lift, enth century, that the Turkish tide v ould be stayed. It Is almost the only surviving frag merit of Constantine's oyvn city . On Its base the emperor placed an inserij • on: "O Christ. Ruler ami Lord of the The column of Constantine, built by the founder of Constantinople. World, to Thee I consecrate this obe dient city and lite scepter and power of Rome! Guard Thy city! Guard it front every harm!" The Janissaries. XyO institution is so wrapped up with I the early greatness of the Osmanli I Turks as that of the Janissaries. The i foundation of the famous corps which | bore the Turkish standard ail over the j Nearer East and Barbary was due to | Sultan Orkhan and his brother and j vizier, Ala-ed-Din. The early Osmanli armies were dis orderly syvarms of horse bowmen, use less for siege work, and the Turkish yeomen, whom Orkhan tried to form into battalions of infantry, proved of | small service. Thereupon the brothers Ala-ed-Din is popularly supposed to havr -uggested the idea—decided to im pose on their Christian subjects a trib ute of children who should be trained into a military order. The utter cal | lousness of the idea is worthy of a I Turk, but its success was marvelous. Cut off from all ties of country, kith and kin, these descendants of Christian parents developed into the most terri ble weapons of Mahometan conquest that the world has ever seen. Orkhan called upon Haji Bektash. a famous devotee, to bless the new corps when It first paraded. The old man came to the head of the line and laid | his hand, with its white sleeve falling j back from it. on tile first soldier’s head. “Be ye called Yen-icheri" (new sol jdiery), he said. "May your faces ever shine. May your right arms be ever strong, your swords keen, your lances winged and may ye be victorious for ever and for aye!” And in memory of that day the men were equipped with white caps with a white streamer to recall the sleeve. The original cap witli its streamer varied ( later with different regiments, as may I be seen by studying the costumes of 1 lite queer little collection of dummy flg- I tires in the museum at Constantinople. In 1328 there were 1,000 soldiers. In i t century ami a half they conquered all | the Nearer East. Their crowning ex ploit was the storming of the breaches at Constantinople in 1453 after all tile other divisions had been repulsed. They [ were then 12,000 strong. j Suleiman I) altered their organization and permitted recruiting from Mahome tans by birth. Always full of esprit de corps, after 1600 hey became a i curse by their turbulence and deposed ; sultans at w ill Their numbers rose from 12,000 in 1453 to 120,000 in 1803, but the glory was departed; in 1826 Mahmud 11 abolished them by edict, and 20.000 were massacred in Constan tinople alone. Do You Know- In Ihe head office of the Suez canal at Port Said is a model of the canal showing the exact position of every ship moving through it. It Is thus <juite easy to arrange by telegraph for vessels to pass one another. Tin- deaths in Irish work houses during tin pa.-.i year included those of rm fewer than si venieen centenarians. Ime of tie S' persons was stated to be tin years, amt another |i'B years of I age. whih two had reached 107 and I three 106 y< ars. I —— JI MIMIIBWIiHII IIIMW ■—lt I WILTON JELLICO I $5.09 Per Ton II The Jellico Coal Go. 182 PEACHTREE ST. BOTH PHONES 3668. Little Bobbie’s Pa * By William F. Kirk I ELOPED witli a gurl today. It was my birthday A I was ten years old, and she had a birthday the saim I day, she was ate (8). As soon as I found out that we was both having a birthday 1 sed let's have a party oaver to our house. All rite, sed Pet, that is i the only naim I am going to call her, j beekaus I nev ver tell real nairns. So we went oaver to Pet’s house first to see if she cud go oavi r to my house for this tarty, & Pet's Mu sed Yes. I Up-to-Date Jokes i Recently a clergyman told his < on j gr-'gation that he owed them a "deep grat of debtltmie." and now comes the report that at n. wedding ceremony a young man asked it' it was 'kissto mary io cuss the bride." Father (to his old friend's pretty daughter.)—Good-byi. my dear. 1 w on’t kiss you; I have such a cold. His Son (with alacrity!—Cun 1 do anything for you. father? A eei tain young man who prided niin- I self on u brusqueness that he mistook fm wit met an eminent but sarcastic sculptor at a studio supper. “So you're the chap," lie said on be ing introduced, "that makes mud heads!” "Not all of them!" the sculptor re plied quietly. Returned Fighter—And as I was be ing carried away in the ammunition wagon X listener—Don’t y ou mean the, ambu lance wagon? Returned Fighter—No, sir; I was so full of bullets they put me in the am munition wagon. ——— "Bilkins lias just returned." "Where lias he been?” "To Monte Carlo, to win enough to pay fits wedding expenses." "And the wedding'."' "Has been postponed for two years.” Wilson -What a long, thin head Jitn son has! Jilson—Hasn't be? Looks as if he had pushed ft under a chest of draw ers for a collar button. She—l dreamt last night that you bought me a new hai He—Well, that's the first dream of a hat you ever had that didn’t cost me money. "What did your wife say when you got home so late, the other night?” "Nothing at all. She Just sat down at the piano and played "Tell Me the Old. Old Story.’" Mrs. Youngbride—l’ve come to com plain of that flour you sent me. Grocer—What was the matter with it? Mrs. Youngbride—lt was tough. I made a pie with it, and it was as much as my-husband could do to cut it. t ~~ ' moi Southern California affords more opportunities than any || other area in the world. WHY? Because it has proven its M possibilities in a thousand ways. The pioneer work ib done, The chances to follow proven lines are unlimited. The es sentials ate: Climate, land, water, power, transportation ! H and markets. 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Thia epeetai edition will be mall-d to an-, addreea in the Lnitec State, or Mexico tor Fifteen Cent* per eopy. ■ Aa the edition la limited, and eo u not to appoint anyone, an early requMt with remittance la deolrabte Remember that xoma of your frtenf.a | may not aea thia announcement. T’aa the coupon below and that they t get a copy. • lx>B Angeles "Examiner,” | | Loa Angeles. Cal. | I Enclosed please find cents, for which you will | , ‘ please send the Ninth Anniversary number of your paper to Hl I the following names: ” ’ n | j Name Street I I j City state { I Name Street I I | City, - • State y 3 Los Angeles Examiner 1 LOS ANGELES. CALIFORNIA Then we got some other boys and gurls together & we went oaver to our house. Ma Ai sum other ladies was there, & . Ma sed Sure. Bobbie, you & yure llttei fr.-nds shall have a birthday party. Go las far as you like. All of you kiddle* sit down. Ma sed, until J have finnislted this story about Mister Smith-Jones eloping with Miss Blue-Green. <>h, it l.e such a romantic story, sed all of Ma's trends. To think or tne deer man having so much cur-rage. I al ways wanted sum brave man to elope with me, sed one of Ma's trends naimed. Miss Black. She was a. old maid & I was thinking wen site sed It that it wild talk a pritty brave man to elope with her. After they had read ail about the elope-ment. Ma went A fixed sum Ice cream & caik for us. Me & the other boys stirred the Ice cream freezer. Pet wantedt o help, hut 1 sed No, stand back, this is man's work. All the time we was freezing the ice cream wc cud hear the wimmen in the other room talking about how romantic, elope-ments was & how nice It wud have been if they cud have been mar ried that way insted of telling all the nabors about thare engagement ahed of the marriage. I’a calm in jest then &• 1 herd Mm talking to Mu & her trends. Pa sed that a man was foolish to elope with a woman wen there was so many wim men teddy to get thare parents con sent & then walk up the aisle two feet abed of the man. Glttlng married (sent one of tile hardest things to do in life, sed I’a. It is the staying married that talks a lot of mental arlth-metick. But you are perfeckly happy here. Bed g'ne of the ladles, you &- yure wife & littel children. Only one of them is our child, Pa eed, llttei Bobbie, that is (muff, bee kaus sumtimes ceven his one littel pair of shoes gits run down at the heels. Tiie rest of these kids is Bobbie’s frends. 1 wonder if sum of them littel deers will elope wen thay grow up, sed one of the Wimmen & all of them sed agenn, Oh. how romantic. Cum on, Pet, I sed to my littel gurl frond, lets you & me do a littel elop ing ourselfs, as long as everybody i* talking elope-inent. So me A Pet ran away together, but it was dark outside A so we got scared A calm back hoam. 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