{"1": {"fulltext": "ipwp\\n\\\\Ul^ IsiANNO--*\\nr h lrvC r fi 5*\u00c2\u00bb?tt:tii^Ea,/*Jjri\\n0Wi:", "height": "2896", "width": "1798", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.\\nCliap..-^.__.. Copyright No.\\n^f^O\\nUNITED STATES OF AMERICA.", "height": "2896", "width": "1798", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2896", "width": "1798", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2896", "width": "1798", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "The Drama of Destiny Karl Hanno,\\nBT-\\nA. PAUL GABBERT.\\nIn this Prodttctioa tb author en4eavor\u00c2\u00bb tc* define the question wiietber. w\\nnot, man i\u00c2\u00bb the Maker of hi* own Destiny,\\nPtrBUfHRD HT the ACTHOR,\\n1900.\\nHOFFMAM PKINTINC COMPAfTV,\\nQVttfCV, IlX.\\nL", "height": "2896", "width": "1798", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "52536\\nl_ibpt*/y Conur\u00c2\u00bbss\\nSEP 27 1900\\nCopyngM entry\\n(d:;^, y^ /fa a\\nStCCND COPY.\\nOfiDt\u00c2\u00ab QWISION,\\nOCT 18 1900", "height": "2896", "width": "1798", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "PREFATORY NOTE.\\nIf there is anything of interest to man, it is his destiny.\\nMan, of whatever shade or color he may be is, more or less, con-\\ncerned in the problem of life which was set before him when he\\nwas called upon to work out his destiny. As a man, he was en-\\ndowed with a mental faculty in co- operation with his physical\\nstrength to make his life effective, and upon his success will de-\\npend his happiness and welfare. Considering that man is acting\\nm accordance with his free will, the successful man is naturally\\ninclined to the belief that man is the maker of his own destiny.\\nAnd while he believes this, he is giving offense to his unfortunate\\nbrother who missed success His unfortunate brother, who was\\njust as active as he was, naturally believes now that man is not\\nthe maker of his own destiny. And right here arises the point of\\ndispute. It is not ihe intention cf the author to make an inves-\\ntigation of this subject in order to explain the cause of the effect\\nproduced by \u00c2\u00bbhe action of Destiny; the author contents himself\\nmerely with furnishing an illustration that will show the won-\\nderful dispensation of things by Destim as regards life, over\\nwhich man has no power. This can be shown best bA a dramatic\\nproduction in which the course cf event- take place in connection\\nwith man s activ^ity: Men are seen making plans; Destiny steps\\nin and disposes of them while the observer watchss the perform-\\nance. In this way the reader can see more clearly than in any\\nother way, the cause, and the effect influencing man s destiny.\\nThe reader is kindly reminded that this production was not\\nintended for the stage and it was therefore thought unnecessary\\nto specifj the scene in the smaller details.\\nThe author asks his reader kindly to do him one favor. It is\\nthis: Begin with the first line in this book, read it through to the\\netid without skipping anything. The reason for this is because\\nthe reader must be made thoroughly accjuainted with the prep-\\narations for the plot laid else he will not be able to understand\\nit when the plot is carried into effect. Besides this the author\\nshall be glad to know that the reader is benefited by The Drama\\nof Destin\\\\ Karl Hanno. This edition is onW a part of the sub-\\nject and the remainder of Karl Hanno s destiny, which belongs\\nto Part L, will be published in the next edition.\\nA Paul Gabbert.", "height": "2896", "width": "1798", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2896", "width": "1798", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "Thf Drama of Destiny-Karl Hanno.\\nPART I.\\nSECTION 1.\\n[Scene Karl Hanno, a man of thirty-eight years, and single,\\nis seated on a bundle of evergreen surrounded by trees comprising\\nthe edge of a forest alongside of a mountain-meadow apparently\\nweury and alone. His appearance gives evidence of poverty, and\\nin the face of misfortune he enters into a short conversation with\\nhimself. He is met by Titus, a fortner friend, a man of forty-one\\nyears, who is married, apparently in better circwmstances, and by\\nwhom, he is also overheard in the last part of his story.\\nKail Hanno. And I shall now proceed to the solitary\\nand live henceforth the life of a hermit. And\\nthere, perhaps, I shall find a method by which to\\nexplain at, least one mystery in which all hu-\\nmanity is concerned the Invisible Force. They\\nhave hinted to me man holds superior rank in\\ncreation, but one or two object lessons have taug ht\\nme the powers that have sway over all men. I\\nwas told shrewdness, dash, sagacity, a fearless\\nself confidence commanding success, but they could\\nnot explain why I suffered defeat and calamity\\nwhen in the battle of life I behaved well with all\\nthis valor. Therefore do I begin to be suspicious,\\nand my situation causes me alarm. Why is this\\nso? Heaven knows, I am left to myself. There-\\nfore shall I go to the solitary and speculate on\\nmystery.\\nI shall do this, and then say to Motherearth:\\nMotherearth! here is thy sou that thou hast neg-", "height": "2896", "width": "1798", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "6 THE DRAMA OF DESTINY-KARL HANNO.\\nlected as thou hast given immense treasures to\\nothers, by which means they indulge in happiness\\nand pleasure, while I fall short of anything but a\\nscanty existence; Motherearth! I have displayed\\na greater activity than those and I have strained\\nmy muscles in productive labor with an equal de-\\ngree of intelligence, yet am I one only of the\\nsecond or third grade; Motherearth! yes! thou\\nhast sorely neglected me, and the bond of my\\npoverty is evidence against thee. Therefor have\\nI now refused to serve thee any longer. And\\nMotherearth will then say to me: My son! thou\\nart unfair in thy judgment, and the art of thy\\nreasoning is committing offence against me; for I\\nam in no way the cause of thy unhappiness, and\\nthy grievance cannot be removed here. Behold\\nthe existence of a Higher Ordinance set forth by\\nthe all embracing intelligence. Fortune, or mis-\\nfortune, is meted out to thee by destiny fixed by\\nthe Maker of all Things. If Motherearth is right\\nthe mystery is solved. If Motherearth is right I\\nmust unconditionally surrender to my destiny,\\nfixed at the day of my birth, which after this\\nperiod can never be changed by any manner of\\nact on my part. And in my case I sav, I see\\nthere is no hope for me.\\nThe solitary!\\n{Karl Hanno is met by Titus as he starts.)\\nTitus. Karl Hanno, Prisoner of Poverty: If you will\\nbut listen and follow me you may at once remove\\nall of your grievance and your sinking hope wil\\nrise like the bright morning star, but if you will\\nnot follow me then I solemnly say, I see no hope\\nfor thee. I know as well as I need to know that\\nby the strength of your muscles you h^ve tried", "height": "2896", "width": "1798", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "THE DRAMA OF DESTINY-KARL HANNO. T\\never so hard to overcome the odds of poverty and\\nto establish more happ) conditions, but you have\\nfailed in your purpose. Now, when by the hardest\\nlicks indeed there is nothing- accomplished it is\\nwell for a man of ambition to avail himself of a\\npiece of heroism if thereby he can accomplish\\ngreat results. It sounds like a novel.\\nListen!\\nThere is a deserted city on the hill\\nOf crystal shape, entirely filled with gold,\\nAnd whosoever will may go and freelj fill\\nHis trunk therefrom, as much as it may hold.\\nThis I know, and the fact taken in its full\\nmeasure, and followed by an act of a proper exe-\\ncution will prove that while others toil all life\\nto acquire treasures, here is a chance to make a\\nfortune at one move.\\nOnly this:\\nThere is between us and the city filled with\\ngold a river over which is neither a bridge nor a\\nferry established; this we must necessarily swim\\nacross, and as I have said, tis a good piece of\\nheroism, as this is one of the greatest rivers in\\nthe world. But we will do it, as it can be done.\\nNow let us proceed hence to this illustrious city\\nand seize these earthly treasures and so secure for\\nourselves a fortune at once that by this means we\\nmay sweeten life to please the soul.\\nAre you ready?\\nHanno- This is Crystal City.\\nlituS So it is\\nHanno- Listen! It sounds like a novel:\\nThis river I have iried to the uttermost\\nTo cross, but in vain, and I saw a ghost.\\nAnd what do you suppose he said to me?\\nKee Kee, Ree Kee, no hope for thee I", "height": "2896", "width": "1798", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "8 THE DRAMA OF DESTINY-KABL HANNO.\\nAh you were not aware, Titus, that, inflamed by\\nthe thought of gold as once I was, I have tested the\\ntruth of this scheme and I deny that we are able to\\nswim across the river.\\nlitus- Explain yourself.\\nHannO Why the tide of this river flows with such\\nrapidity that whosoever shall venture to swim across\\nis doomed to a fatal consequence, for such is the\\nregulation of its natural laws- Hence I shall not go-\\nTitus. Hanno! Hanno! You will regret this oppor-\\ntunity and your mistake thereof a thousand times\\nover. And that gold does not awaken your activity\\nis a wonder to me, and that you are afraid of the\\nriver. Kee Kee, Ree Kee, no hope for thee.\\nThis is a matter which, if you look it straight in\\nthe face, is nothing in it. Shrewdness, dash, sa-\\ngacity, a fearless self -confidence these things weigh\\nheavy in the scale. It is the man of blood and\\niron that is destined to conquer and tower high\\nabove his situation of despair. Such a man is then\\nhappy, and he can say, I see there is hope for me-\\nKee Kee, Ree Kee!\\nHanno. Oh, I have.no objection; your talk is smooth\\nenough, but that does not change the phase of the\\nHigher Ordinance nor stay the hand of destiny.\\nShrewdness, dash, sagacity, a fearless self confi-\\ndence all of this will vanish like mist when pierced\\nby the heavenly laws. Above all, a quick made\\nfortune is more difficult to obtain than the one ac-\\nquired by degrees, and if either of these two are\\ncertain, the latter be the one that I should choose.\\nBut I have no choice even hope has left me after\\nall the chances of luck have gone. Prisoner of\\nPoverty am I doomed to be until the day of libera-\\ntion by death shall dawn.", "height": "2896", "width": "1798", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "THE DRAMA OF DESTINY -KARL HANNO.\\nlituS Is not that awful, to be destitute of hope, a fac-\\ntor so indij-pensible in life? But already have I\\nmade a physical examination of you, and that gives\\nproof that you are adapted to accumulate great\\nwealth, but success will come after you have ad-\\nvanced in life. This is owing to your natural\\ndevelopment slow, but sure, and in such cases\\nwithout fail. This period has now been arrived at-\\nRise! and off to Crystal City we hail.\\nAre you ready?\\nHanno. No hope for me that I can see.\\nTitus staggers at Hanno s stubbornness.)\\nTitus. That which is most conspicuous to all living\\nbeings is the notable fact that life, however insig-\\nnificant it may be, is subject to strife. There are\\nyou, and there all around you are infinite means to\\nmake use of. Now, what will you make of your-\\nself?\\nTo be poor, in itself, is not disgraceful, but it is a\\ncrippled life. It would not be so but for the rich\\nand wealthy, who formulate society; vanity rules\\nthe fashionable world. Again: Poverty, in itself,\\nis not necessarily a misery, but it causes the domes-\\ntic machinery never to run smoothly. We are able\\nswimmers, perhaps the best of the best, and to swim\\nacross that great river is not so serious, inasmuch\\nas others have swum it over from shore to shore.\\nSo shall we, and bring back with us a fortune such\\nthat the hardships of life shall trouble us no more.\\nAre you ready?\\nNanno. Kee Kee, Ree Kee, no hope for thee, is\\nforbidden ground-\\nYttuS Upon MothereSrth nowhere is there forbidden\\nground. You are at home wherever you can shake\\nthe dust, and abound in sway wherever your voice", "height": "2896", "width": "1798", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "10 THE DRAMA OF DESTINY-KARL HANNO-\\nmay sound. Deny this tact and you are skeptically\\nunjust.\\nHanno. That is all right; and again it is not all right:\\nIn God s garden there is always a forbidden fruit.\\nRemember Adam and Eve.\\nTitus. I am not here for the purpose to discuss theo-\\nlogical questions. I am here to help you out of\\nyour miserable plight and to tell you how to gain an\\nearthly victory. Here I have exhausted the art of\\nmy persuasion. You must decide quickly. Follow\\nme now or I break off and your chance will be gone\\nforever\\nHanno. In this whole proposed scheme, faith I have\\nnone; and to sell my life for gold, this I will never\\ndo. And I say: Go! go away! I am tired and\\ndisgusted with your demonstration.\\nTitus. Are these the thanks that I am getting for all\\nthe trouble that I have taken to make you happy,\\nas I am aiming to make myself? Are these the\\nthanks? Wait! I have a secret which is the key\\nto the whole j^cheme and is known to me only. This\\nI shall keep to myself, as you have insulted me-\\nTitus leaves; Hanno is left to himself.\\nHanno {solihguiztjii^). A secret! Yes, a secret; and\\nhe will keep it to himself, as I have insulted him.\\nIf he is right, if it is true that he is ready to do as\\nmuch for me as he would do for himself; and if it\\nis true that he knows of a secret which is the key to\\nthe whole scheme, I acknowledge my mistake. If\\nan access to Crystal City is connected with a secret\\nof which no one knows but himself, I should not\\nhave broken off so suddenly. But why didn t he\\ntell me so? Was it because he wanted to test the\\ntemper of my courage? Or was it mistrust? Or was\\nit my stubbornness? Anyhow, I presume it was", "height": "2896", "width": "1798", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "THE IRAMA OF DESTINY-KARL HANNO. U\\nwholly my blunder. Yes! and I would be only too\\nwilling to follow him through thick and thin if by\\nthis means the high sounding fortune could be\\nreached in my behalf-\\nMay he come back?\\nTitus! O Titus! where are you? Well, Titus\\nis gone.\\n[Lotus appears, servant of Titus.\\nLotus Karl Hanno, Prisoner of Poverty: How did you\\ndare to insult one who stands nearest to your earthly\\ngood, and who was ready to drag you out of poverty?\\nI dare to say that his demonstration touching upon\\nyour welfare was not with him a matter of talking to\\nthe wind, for he is a man who knows at what end to\\nbegin to secure rapid success. As to this I may\\nsay that Titus is in possession of a secret of which\\nI and no other man know no more than that it is the\\nkey with which to open the door that is closed\\nagainst access to Crystal City, filled with gold.\\nThere is a gulf between life and death, and now let\\nus draw a line between the two half way, assuming\\nthat when man first enters this world he is on this\\nline. As soon as man meets with gloom and misery\\nhe leaves the central line and goes away from life\\ntoward death, for death is associated with gloom\\nand misery. And vice versa: As soon as man\\nmeets with happiness and bliss he leaves the central\\nline and goes away from death toward life, for life is\\nassociated with happiness and bliss. A man not\\nwilling to sell his life for gold is perfectly justified;\\nbut a man willing to sell his life for gloom and\\nmisery when be can escape it is quite guilt of a\\ncrime. All of your earthly grievances would cease\\nto be and make room for happier conditions to fol-\\nlow had you yielded to Titus, who holds the key of\\naccess to Crystal City, involved in his secret.", "height": "2896", "width": "1798", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "12 THE DRAMA OF DESTINY-KABL HANNO.\\nHanno. Where is Titus?\\nLotus. Is gone, though not far. May I call him?*\\nHanno. Do so immediately!\\n{Lotus leaves Hanno to himself.)\\nHanno {soliloquizing). Well what excuse will I\\nmake? What shall I say when he comes back?\\nOne thing- is sure: Whatever I will say it must\\nbe precisely that which will bring me back to his\\nfavor. But what on earth will that be? Trying\\nto smooth things over in this case will not do.\\nBut I will do this: I shall come out right straight\\nand acknowledge flatlj my mistake, and tell\\nhim what? Tell him that I\\nTitus appears.\\nTitus. A.nd what is the matter now?\\nHanno.- What is the matter! Well, what the\\nmatter?\\nTitus. You have grossly insulted me.\\nHanno. Insulted you! Yes! What under the sun\\nhave I done? I shall be punished like the wicked\\nand be devoured by destiny if this, my blunder, is\\npermitted to remain. Curse me for the insult\\npassed through my lips. But hear me while I\\nstruggle in despair to make things undone. Pray,\\nwhat is there for me to do? Speak freely.\\nTitus. Revolt against the Prince of Poverty and I\\nwill help you!\\nHanno. To revolt against the Prince of Poverty is to\\nrevolt against the Heavenly Powers.\\nTitus. To revolt against the Heavenly Powers is to\\nrevolt against yourself. That which is hidden in\\nthe depths of the soul is yet manifest in a man s\\nconduct toward himself. And you manifest too\\nmuch piety at heart. Shrewdness, dash, sagacity\\nand a fearless self-confidence is essential with a", "height": "2896", "width": "1798", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "THK DR4.MA OF DESTiNY-KARL HANNO. 18\\nman of valor; and if this is not an inborn trait\\nwith him, it should be cultivated. The Heavenly\\nPowers which you so much imag ine are haunting-\\nyou like the ghost on the sea; but they can be de-\\nfeated. The Heavenl}^ Powers can be defeated by a\\npower greater than they are themselves. And this\\nis the Power of Faith. You are the Prisoner of\\nPoverty, and as the prisoner of the state is con-\\nfined within the walls of rock, so are you confined\\nwithin the walls of poverty, of which the prince\\nthereof is the jailer. Good luck, better chances\\nand with a brighter prospect before me, which of\\ncourse I owe to myself, I am fortunate with some\\nmeans so as to nieei the necessaries of life with\\ngreater ease and freedom; consequently I am no\\nPrisoner of Poverty. But I do not stop here. For\\nthe troubles I bear I ask a full compensation of\\nlife, with all its sweetness and glory combined,\\nwhereas the City on the Hill filled with gold shall\\nfurnish the means by which to succeed in this\\nmost noble design of mine. You are the one that\\nI shall leave behind me, and you shall be deprived\\nof every aid and friendship because you have re-\\njected my design. Yet, I am not gone. The\\nfact that you are tied down with scorns of pov-\\nerty, and that this same poverty is the prison\\nwall, makes it another fact that you cannot escape\\nwhile poor. And I am he who is standing on the\\noutside of this wall planning your escape and\\ntalking to you through the cellar window; for it\\nis but for the sake of my sympathy and the love\\nthat I cherish in my bosom for you.\\nAre you ready to follow?\\nHanno. To the ends of the earth, if necessary!\\nTitus, This entitles you to the secret.", "height": "2896", "width": "1798", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "14 tHE DRAMA OF DESTINY-KARL HANNU.\\nFACTS AND STATEMENTS.\\nCrystal City, a deserted place spread out on the\\nhill of crystal shape which curves into the river, one\\nof the greatest in the world, and filled with gold, is\\nknown to be, and is, located on the right bank of said\\nriver, in a country yet unexplored. The inhabitants\\nof this once flourishing place, who certainly stored up\\nthis gold, are supposed to have been partly destroyed,\\nand the remainder, panic stricken, fled on account of\\nan earthquake which must have taken place at a later\\ndate, as the indication to that effect plainly shows.\\nNine miles above Crystal City the Great River re-\\nceives from the left a tributary of considerable size,\\nand the section enclosed by these lwc\u00c2\u00bb rivers is called\\nLonely Spot. Lonely Spot is mountainous, filled\\nwith caves and chasms, and, below, the Great River\\nCannot be approached on account of the swamp land\\nwhich follows its bank down to the ocean. Upwards\\nof twenty -two miles above Crystal City the Great\\nRiver receives from the right another tributar} of\\nnine hundred feet across its channel. Five miles\\nbelow this point the Great River admits a perpendicu-\\nlar fall, also one of the greatest in the world; and\\nimmediately above this point, and upwards for about\\nthirty miles, the river is subject to rapids with a\\nvelocity of eighteen miles an hour. Owing to its\\ngreat width of 11,000 feet, the river here constitutes a\\nhuge mass of whirlpools, and cannot be crossed by\\nany means without facing peril and fate. Above the\\nrapids the river is smooth, gentle in its flow, and can\\nbe crossed at leisure. But before reaching this point\\none must scale a mountain of 19,000 feet, almost per-\\npendicular in its elevation. In the face of these odds\\nanyone attempting to cross this river to reach Crystal\\nCity has resolved upon a most desperate scheme, in", "height": "2896", "width": "1798", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "THE DRAMA OF DESTINT-KARl? HANNO. IB\\nany case a dangerous proceeding, and if successful he\\nhas achieved a victory little short of a miracle. But\\nwe shall be spared this danger,\\nHanno. And do you blame me, in the face of all this,\\nas I was equally aware of all these facts? And\\nwhy didn t you tell me!\\nTitus. Ah! I had a purpose in view: To test your\\ncourage, your bravery, your temper and disposi-\\ntion; and because you have not trusted me in my\\nearnest remonstrance I demand now a pledge of\\nof you, to the effect that you share with me every\\nlot of fortune, or misfortune, or whatever the\\nunknown future has in store for us, and that we\\ndo not part in our combined efforts until the fair-\\nest conditions of life and happiness are estab-\\nlished. And I shall do likewise, and upon this\\npledge I shall disclose to you the profound secret\\nupon which is depending all of our earthly hope.\\nHanno. I do hereby solemnly promise to share with\\nyou (Titus) every lot of fortune, or misfortune,\\nor whatever the unknown future has in store for\\nus, and swear not to part in our combined efforts\\nuntil the fairest conditions of life and happiness\\nare established.\\nIn honor of this day.\\nKarl Hanno.\\nTitus. I do hereby solemnly promise to share with\\nyou (Karl Hanno) every lot of fortune, or mis-\\nfortune, or whatever the unknown future has in\\nstore for us, and swear not to part in our com-\\nbined efforts until the fairest conditions of life\\nand happiness are established.\\nIn honor of this day. Titus\\nFor it is but for the sake of my sympathy\\nAnd the love that I cherish in my bosom for you.", "height": "2896", "width": "1798", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "16 THE DRAMA OF DESTINY-KARL HANNO.\\nTHE SECRET.\\nOnce I had lost my way and was rambling about\\nfrom place to ^lace until I found myself in Lonely\\nSpot, in front of a cave near the riverside and appar-\\nently of an innocent nature. Night and darkness set\\nin and the tempest blew from all directions, while the\\nheavens announced torrents of rain shortlv to follow.\\nThere was no place for refuge in this solitary spot\\nexcept this cave. I went in, lighted a torch and de-\\ntermined, if agreeable, to abide there through the\\nnight. By this time the rain had commenced pouring\\ndown in streams, accompanied by a severe storm\\nraging horribly Over the landscape. As I ventured\\nmore to the interior, all at once I saw an object stand-\\ning in the mouth of the cave. It was a panther.\\nPerhaps it was the torchlight that frightened him, as\\nhe seemed to be very cautious in his manners. An-\\nother animal, a tiger, came in on a full rush, followed\\nby a leopard; all sought protection from the raging\\nstorm without. My doom is sealed, I whispered to\\nmyself. But, as it happened, these cruel animals fell\\nout with each other and engaged in a deadly combat.\\nThis is my chance to escape, I again whispered to\\nmyself; whereupon I retreated farther back into the\\ncave. Whether the weaker party gave way and fled,\\nor whether they had compromised, at an} rate the\\nfighting had suddenly ceased, and to my disma}^ I\\nbeheld any number of these wild brutes starting after\\nme, and they were soon close upon my heels. When\\nmy case became almost hopeless I discovered the cave\\nrunning into k narrow neck and finally into a loop-\\nhole, which was the pas.sage into another cave, just\\nlarge enough for me to glide through, which I did in\\nall haste. This shut off the beasts. This cave pre-\\nsented a most wonderful spectacle, and soon my fears\\nJ", "height": "2896", "width": "1798", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "THE DRAMA OF DESTINY-KARL HANNO. 17\\ngave way to its rare curiosities, whereupon I pro-\\nceeded by deg-rees farther and farther. .How long- I\\nremained in this cave I do not know, but I came out\\nof it on a bright noonday, and, to my greatest sur-\\nprise, on the other side of that g-reat river, and I stood\\non its right bank, which is on the same bank as Crys-\\ntal Cit}-. As the outlet of the secret cave is immedi-\\nately above the point where the tributary from the\\nright flows into the Great River, I had another river,\\nthoug-h a much smaller one, yet to cross; but being-\\nwithout means and alone, it was useless for me to\\nproceed any farther, and I returned again through\\nthe Secret Cave. And this cave thus far is known to\\nme only. The tributary of 900 feet width from the\\nright we can swim across at leisure, and after that\\nthe way down to Crystal City of twenty-two miles is\\nclear. Thu5 we can reach Crystal City in safety and\\naccomplish that which would be almost impossible on\\nany other scale.\\nHanno. Now I can say, I see there is hope for\\nme. I have always had a burning conviction in\\nmy heart that I shall see at least one moment\\nin life in which I shall see all of my wishes\\nanswered. But during my former struggles, by\\nwhich I have come to naught, I held this to be an\\nimagination, but here is developing- something\\nthat seems to confirm the truth of that. And who\\nknows but perhaps sooner or later we shall be\\nseated in the circle of earthly bliss?\\nTitus. Ah! you have changed wonderfully; but keep\\ncool. We shall master our situation and overcome\\nall difficulties by deg-rees, and if anything- good\\nis in our near future we shall attempt heaven and\\nearth to accomplish our purpose. And as to this\\nlet us make our plan.", "height": "2896", "width": "1798", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "18 THE DRAMA OF DESTINY\u00e2\u0080\u0094 KARL HANNO.\\nPLAN,\\nA fortnight journey covers the distance by\\nwhich to reach the nearest point bordered by the\\nGreat River, on its left bank, tvpenty-two miles\\nabove Crystal City, in Lonely Spot. Here we\\nshall enter the Secret Cave, which I have hereon\\nmy map (produces a map), and proceed through\\nunder the Great River to the opposite side. The\\ntributary from the right, which is 900 feet in\\nwidth, and a shallow sandbar nearly half way\\nacross, making the actual channel but 500 feet,\\nwe shall swim across. The remainder of the dis-\\ntance is a straight march of twenty-tv\\\\o miles to\\nCrystal City. On our way home we shall do as\\nwe did before, except that all the gold that we\\ncan possibly carry with us we shall moor it across\\non the bottom of the smaller river.\\nHanno. But why go to such trouble as that? While\\nthere is plenty of grown timber along the banks\\nof the rivers, why not construct a raft and ferry\\nover, gold and all?\\nTitus. For this reason: All the grown timber in\\nthat section of the land is of hard wood and sinks\\nto the bottom like iron. Now, we will do this:\\nThe river is 900 feet in width, and a shallow\\nsandbar of 400 feet, making the actual channel\\n500 feet. We will take a rope, adapted to suit\\nthe purpose, 1,000 feet long, tie both ends to-\\ngether, stretch it double across the river, one on\\neach end of the rope, so as to have the river be-\\ntween us, fasten a quantity of gold to the rope\\nand keep spinning it across the river until all is\\nmoored across. The scheme is genuine.\\nHanno. The scheme is genuine. Surely you need a\\npartner!", "height": "2896", "width": "1798", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "TEE DRAMA OF DE3TINY-KARL HANNO. ig\\nTitus. Yes! but look here: You will share half in\\nthe graitt- Many, many, would hail an oppor\\ntunity like this, but it is you whom I chose for\\npartner and for possession of half of all that we\\nshall g ain.\\nFor it is but for the sake of my sympathy\\nAnd the love that I cherish in my bosom for 3 ou.\\nHanno. Most hig-hly do I appreciate this undeserved\\nkindness. I will follow, and, as I have said, if\\nnecessary, to the ends of the earth.\\nTitus. One thing- cannot fail: Devotion and love are\\ncommanding- in heaven and on earth and causing-\\nllie powers of hell to tremble.\\nHanno. I cannot overcome my feeling- of what des-\\ntiny has in store for us in this our enterprise. I\\nfeel so strang-e I feel so isolated from all protec-\\ntion and safet} so ominous and doomed in the\\nface of the immediate future. Yes! I feel the\\nweight of destiny bearing- down upon my soul. It\\nmust mean something-. Thinking- to enter upon\\nan enterprise connected with thousands of danglers\\nand difficulties, it looks as though we are defying-\\nevil and fate with the Heavenly Powers set\\nag-ainst us, I try hard to overcome these at-\\ntacks, but since I have failed in everything- in the\\npast that 1 have undertaken to accomplish, I have\\nsince become a firm believer in predestination,\\nholding- that m} destiny was fixed at the day of\\nmy birth, and that after this period it can never\\nbe chang-ed by any manner of act on my part.\\nWhat can I do for my escape when I am doomed?\\nI feel so strang-e!\\nTitus. It is vile and of no g-ood consequence, neither\\nis it to any advantage, to give way to such specu-\\nlations. The day will prove that when your des-", "height": "2896", "width": "1798", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "20 THE DRAMA OF DESTINY\u00e2\u0080\u0094 KARL HANNO.\\ntinj, or my destiny, or anyone s destiny, was\\nfixed it was fixed at the day of birth wholly in\\naccordance with our conduct in life. The human\\nbeing- is not like a machine, which, when set in\\nmotion,, does its work already determined by its\\nmechanism. Your destiny was fixed to suit the\\npurpose that you are aiming- to reach by your free\\nact and will, g-ood or bad. Destiny is depending\\nupon one s conduct, and this conduct, if in har-\\nmony with moral and natural laws, will purif-y\\nthe soul, and the soul will then remain in its\\nnatural state and be happy. Again: If the con-\\nduct of man, enacted by his free act and will, is\\nnot in harmony with moral and natural laws, he\\nmust, for a violation of these laws, suffer evil\\nconsequences, a fate that he cannot escape. He\\nis doomed. In this part of the field, man is the\\nmaker of his own destiny. In the other part of\\nthe field, destiny is depending upon one s fitness.\\nThat which he brings with him into the world\\nwc say, favored by nature. It questions his\\nability, his will-power, his swiftness of mind\\nand, above all, his faith. Destiny, when depend-\\ning upon these thing?, is beyond control when\\nman is in want of these attributes. But the\\nMaker of all Things will take care of His own,\\nand man, whatever he may choose to do, is safe\\nin the hands of Destiny if his conduct is not in\\nopposition with moral and natural laws.\\nHanno. Very well. And what of a show have I when\\ncomplying with all that is demanded?\\nTitus. Think not that you are serving a All\\ndeeds will be paid out, good or bad, and the man\\ncomplying with all demands made upon him can,\\nnot fail in his purpose^", "height": "2896", "width": "1798", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "THE DRAMA OF DESTINY\u00e2\u0080\u0094 KARL HANNO. 21\\nHanne. Then the Great Maker owes me the blessing\\nof life now for thirty-eig ht years. Will he pay?\\nTitus. Will he pay? Yes! he will pay. Rise! and\\noff to Crystal City we hail.\\nHanno. I am ready in any emergency to follow, and,\\nas I have said, to the ends of the earth, if neces-\\nsary.\\nlitus. Words cannot express the beauty there is in\\nharmony, nor the power manifest in unity. With\\nsuch mental equipments we can safely face the is-\\nsue. All things must come to a finish to accomp-\\nlish their design. And the master must be greater\\nthan the work that he is to accomplish.\\nHanno. But remember: This is subject to the Heaven-\\nly Powers.\\nlifus. No! not subject to the Heavenly Powers, but\\nsubject to moral and natural laws. Remember that!\\nHanno. Well, we shall see. We will adopt your theory.\\nWe will make our plan exactly harmonizing with\\nmoral and natural laws to prevent fatal consequences\\nand to secure success. But this means a great deal.\\nWe must be far sighted to render accidents perfectly\\nharmless should they occur; we must weigh every\\nfact and give it the widest consideration. If in this\\nway we can man-age the Heavenly Powers and dic-\\ntate the terms of our success, your theory is right.\\nBut if destiny prevails and dictates the terms of our\\nsuccess in any measure, your theory is wrong and\\nit must fall in the end.\\nlitiis. So be it. We shall see: Shrewdness, dash,\\nsagacity, a fearless self-confidence aie traits of the\\nman of valor and he is destined to conquer. O,\\nvalor! valor! this beautiful valor! I am so positive\\nand so full of delight that when I cast a view into the\\nfar distance now before us, I fearjnothing. I have", "height": "2896", "width": "1798", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "32 THE DRAMA OF DESTINY-KARL HANNO.\\nnot the slightest presentiment of anything fatal, but\\na conviction of a return safe and well. Behold the\\nPower of Faith, the all omnipotent.\\nHanno. Where did you get this power?\\nJi^us\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Can t tell you, but I got it. But let us come to\\na close and gather our equipments.\\n(Ug produces them in the tegular order.\\nHere is a map which will guide us to the Secret\\nCave passing through under the Great River; here\\nis a torch to furnish us light throught the Secret Cave\\nwith a burning capacity of ninety -five hours, seven\\ntimes the length of time to pass through here are\\ntwo deadly weapons, one spear for each, with which\\nto slay the savage beasts of prey should they attack\\nus; here is a suitable rope of a thousand feet long\\nto reach double across the actual channel of the\\nsmaller river of five hundred feet from the sandbar;\\nhere is a casket with which to carry the gold of seven\\nhundred pounds between us; provisions, supplies\\nand other necessaries.\\nHanno. One thing: The smaller river whose actual\\nchannel is but five hundred feet across at low water\\nmark owing to the sandbar extending nearly half\\nway across, may it not occur that a heavy rain -fall\\nwill swell the waters and fill the whole riverbed,\\nmaking the actual channel nine hundred feet across\\ninstead of five hundred?\\nTitus. Possibly, yes!\\nHanno. Then let us make provisions to meet the\\nemergency. Take a rope of eighteen hundred feet\\nlong to reach double across the river at high water\\nmark. This will make us master of the situation.\\nTitus, Ah! Now you are shaping your destiny with\\nskill and foresight. To be prepared in the event of\\nan emergency. That talks. And here is an addi-", "height": "2896", "width": "1798", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "THE DRAMA OF DESTINY-KARL HANNO. 2S\\ntional rope (produces it) making it eighteen hundred\\nfeet long to reach double across the smaller river in\\ncase of high water mark. All things must come to\\na finish to accomplish their design.\\nConcert.\\nHip! Hip! Hip! off we go to Crystal City.\\nTitus and Karl Hanno start for Crystal City.", "height": "2896", "width": "1798", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "SECTION II.\\n[Scene Crystal City resembles a place of 20,000 inhabit-\\nants, located on the right bank, on a round hill covered with glit-\\ntering rocks, curving into the great river of 11,000 feet in width.\\nThe city is deserted and its spectacle gives evidence of an earth-\\nquake in a country yet new and unexplored by white men. A patk\\nis immediately joining the city with a platform in the center, ap-\\nparently suspended thirteen Jeet above the ground and upon which\\nthe Heavenly Powers assemble. The Heavenly Powers have wings\\naud are dressed in white garments, except the Power of Evil and\\nthe Power of Fate are in light-red and in dark red, respectively.\\nSHT COUNCIL OF THE HFAVENLY POWERS.\\n(Thej are: The Power of Good, the Power of Evil, the Power\\nof Fate, the Power of Accidents, and the Power of Dispensation.\\nTo these are joined the Heavenly Functionaries, viz: The Prince\\nof Poverty, the Prince of Vanity, the Prince of Wisdom, and the\\nPrinee of Fools. This council is presided over by Destiny, fixed\\nby the Maker of all Things.)\\nDestiny. The council is called to proceedings!\\nPfince of Poverty. In presence of this solemn assembly\\nand before Most Holy Act Divine of Destiny, I\\nbring in complaints against a man named Karl\\nHanno, whom thou Most Holy Act Divine of Des-\\ntiny hast left in my charge and who has now revolted\\nagaiust me. He was moved by the Power of Temp-\\ntation, and counseled by human wit through the\\ninstrumentality of a man named Titus, to escape out\\nof my jurisdiction and the plan is promising success.\\nAs to this, they are now under way to Crystal City,\\na deserted place, and full of gold. Once there, they\\nwill freely take therefrom as much as they can carry,\\nand, their being in possession of a fortune of gold,\\nmeans the end of my power over such men.\\nShall this man have success? and shall he be free?", "height": "2896", "width": "1798", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "THE DRAMA OF DESTINY-KARL HANNO. 26\\nDestiny. Ou the day of his birth, the man named Karl\\nHanno was destined to remain poor owing to the fact\\nthat he had brought with him into the world a weak\\nfaith, inherited from his father and a piety within\\nhis heart without shrewdness, dash, sagacity or\\nfearless self confidence, all of this, which is com-\\nmanding in the world to secure success and ac-\\ncumulate wealth, he is in want of It was known that\\nat the age of thirty- eight years he would attempt to\\ngoto Crystal City a deserted place, and full of gold,\\nfor the sole purpose of seizing a fortune therefrom.\\nIt was foreseen that Karl Hanno, in control of great\\nwealth, would be incompatible with a certain divine\\npurpose; but for the sake of a man named Titus,\\nwho cherishes sympathy and love in his bosom for\\nhim at this time, he, (Karl Hanno) was destined to\\ncarry off a small success in this enterprise and to be\\nrelieved thereby from the bonds of poverty for a\\nperiod of two years. Next!\\nPower of Evil. In presence of this solemn assembly and\\nbefore Most Holy Act Divine of Destiny The men\\nnamed, Titus and Karl Hanno, have in conjunction\\nstarted out to Crystal C ty, a deserted place, and full\\nof gold, for the sole purpose of seizing a fortune\\ntherefrom. After a forttiight s journey they have now\\narrived, and entered the cave passing through under\\nthe Great River and are thereby defying my evil func-\\ntions. I move that these men be slain by the savage\\nbeasts of prey who are now closing in on them in\\nthe cave.\\nShall the men be spared?\\nDestiny On the day of the birth of Titus and Karl Hanno,\\nrespectively, it was known that in this enterprise\\nthey would seek protection under moral and natural\\nlaws: Moral; that it is not wrong for man to slay", "height": "2896", "width": "1798", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "ii6 THE DRAMA OF DESTINY-KARL HANNO.\\nhis assailant, natural; that the superior prevails, and\\nthat as to this they would provide themselves with\\ndeadly weapons with which to slay the savage beasts\\nof prey. Titus and Karl Hanno were therefore de-\\nstined to be victorious in the combat with the hostile\\nbeasts of prey now closing in on them in the cave.\\nThe motion cannot be carried. Next!\\nPower of Fate. In presence of this solemn assembly and\\nbefore Most Holy Act Divine of Destiny. The men\\nnamed, Titus and Karl Hanno, who, in conjunction\\nare still under way to Crystal City, have at this mo-\\nment plunged themselves into the river to swim\\nacross and have thereby invaded my jurisdiction.\\nI move that the floods of the river swallow them and\\ndrown their bodies before reaching the shore.\\nShall these men live?\\nDestiny. On the day of the birth of the men named,\\nTitus and Karl Hanno, respectively, it was known\\nthat by this time they would be able swimmers and\\nthe act to swim across the river in this case was\\nfound to be in harmony with the laws of nature and\\nthese men were therefore destined to reach the shore\\nin safety.\\nThe motion cannot be carried. Next\\nPower of Good- In presence of this solemn assembly and\\nbefore Most Holy Act Divine of Destiny: The men\\nnamed, Titus and Karl Hanno, have now arrived\\nhere in Crystal City, a deserted place, and filled with\\ngold. They are tempted in such measure that they\\nwill take such heavy load of gold that it will prove\\ndangerous to their lives under conditions covered\\nby natural laws-\\nI move that these men be given in my charge.\\nShall they perish?\\nDestiny. On the day of the birth of the men named,", "height": "2896", "width": "1798", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "THE DRAMA OF DESTINY-KARL HANNO. 2?\\nTitus and Karl Hanno, respectively, it was known\\nthat, while being in Crystal City, a deserted place,\\nand full of gold, they would be tempted in such\\nmeasure that they would take such a heavy load of\\ngold that it would prove dangerous to their lives\\nunder conditions governed by natural laws. But it\\nwas also found that the men would be perfectly in-\\nnocent in their act, inasmach as they would be\\nunaware of the danger happening from an unforeseen\\ncause, and therefore in itself not offensive. The\\nmen named, Titus and Karl Hanno, were therefore\\ndestined to be given in charge of the Power of Good\\nfrom now on until after the fatal moment.\\nThe motion is carried: For the Maker of All\\nThings is a lover of life- The council is dissolved 1\\n(A new council is formed, whose members are: The Prince\\nof Poverty, the Prince of Vanity, the Frince of Wisdocn and ihe\\nPrince of Fools. This new Council is presided ovtr b? the Power\\nof Good under the provision of Destiny.)\\nPower of Good The council is called to proceedings!\\nPrinee of Fools. Most Holy Divine Good!\\nAs regards the fatal moment awaiting the men,\\nTitus and Karl Hanno, I move: Let Wisdom ex-\\nplain the nature and character respecting the danger\\ninvolved by their fatal act.\\nPower of Good- Let Wisdom explain\\nPrince of Wisdom. The men named, Titus and Kar.\\nHanno respectively, eng-aged in an act resulting\\nin a fatal consequence bj taking such heavy load\\nof gold that it will prove fatal to their lives under\\nconditions governed by natural laws, and the na-\\nture and character respecting this danger is pre-\\nciscl}^ this:\\nIn the cave, passing through under the Great\\nRiver, and well nigh the entrance on the left", "height": "2896", "width": "1798", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "28 THE DRAMA OF DESTINY-KARL HANNU.\\nbauk of the river, whicli is nearest to their home,\\nthere is an abyss, a bottomless pit. This abyss\\nis overbridged by a thin layer of slate rock com-\\npletel} covering- the hole of the abyss, of which,\\nas a consequence, nothing can be seen by the\\nhuman eye. This thin laj^er of slate-rock over-\\nbridging the abyss has a strength of bearing of\\nnot over 1,100 pounds, and a weight exceeding\\nthis will break through. Titus and Karl Hanno\\nwill take all the gold that they can possibly\\ncarrj-. They will take 700 pounds, carried be-\\ntween them. Their own weight is not less than\\n500 pounds, making a total weight of 1,200\\npounds. They must pass over this thin layer of\\nslate-rock over the abyss whose strength of bear-\\ning is not o^^er 1,100 pounds; consequently Titus\\nand Karl Hanno, together with the gold that they\\ncarry, a weight of 1,200 pounds, will break through\\nas soon as they pass upon it, and they will be\\nswallowed by^ the earth. Would these men take\\na modest weight, say 500 pounds, they would pass\\nsafely over the abyss, but human nature is not\\nsuch in this case.\\nPower of Good. This council is requested to suggest\\nmeans and devices by which to save these men at\\nthe fatal moment.\\nPrince oj Fools. Most Holy Divine Good!\\nTo rescue these men, Titus and Karl Hanno, at\\nthe fatal moment, I move that they shall be made\\nfools to the effect causing them to believe that it\\nis better to be content with little than to be dis-\\nsatisfied with too much. They will then take but\\nhalf as much and will safely pass over the abyss.\\nPower of Good. This is contrary to the institution\\nestablished for mankind. The earth was given", "height": "2896", "width": "1798", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "THE DRAMA OF DEST(NY-KARL HANNO. 29\\nto man and its fullness thereof. So is man grranted\\nto exercise his power and will at freedom and seize\\nupon an3 thing- to which he is lawfully entitled.\\nFurther: Man is the likeness of his Maker, who\\nis all intellig-ent and all wise, and He will not\\nconsent that men be made fools.\\nThe motion cannot be carried. Next\\nPriJice of Poverty. Most Holy Divine Good\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094The men, Titus and Karl Hanno, are at this mo-\\nment at a loss for a device how to carry best the load\\nof gold that is to be taken by them in Crystal City.\\nI move: I,et the power of temptation be permitted\\nto prevail over them to the extent that they take\\nthe 700 pounds, as is their design, and let the Prince\\nof Wisdom counsel them to take a long pole to suit\\ntheir purpose, fasten the casket filled with gold to\\nthe middle of the pole, and let them carry this on\\ntheir shoulders so that the ends of the pole will pro-\\nject several feet oyer their respective shoulders.\\nPassing above the abyss, ihe weak slate rock will\\nbreak, under its weight; the long pole will lodge\\nupon the edge of the rocks caused by the breach as\\nthe men drop, and from the sudden check, the cas-\\nket filled with gold wili be torn off of the pole and\\nbe lost in the abyss; but the men will grasp the pole\\nsuspending over the abyss and so save themselves.\\nPozver of Good In this scheme all the gold will be lost\\nin the abyss. This is in opposition to their destiny\\nas \\\\.\\\\\\\\Qy are destined to carr^ off a small success in\\nthis enterprise. Further: The idea of the long pole\\ntendering the rescue of these men is very good, but\\nthe scheme, logically, is not correct: They will\\ntake 700 pounds of gold between them. This is their\\nplan. It is as much as they can possible carry.\\nAdapting to their use a long pole, these men will,", "height": "2896", "width": "1798", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "so THE DUAMA OF DEiTINY-KARL HANNO.\\nas a logical consequence, take one of the least pos-\\nsible weight, whose strength of bearing will but\\nlittle exceed the 700 pounds of gold, say 750. 700\\npounds falling five feet, that is, from the shoulders\\ndown to the ground, will increase in velocity until\\nthe 700 pounds become 1000 pounds. Consequently,\\nwhen each end of the pole strikes the edges of the\\nbreach the pole, with its heavy weight, will break\\noutright and the men and all will drop down into\\nthe abyss.\\nThe motion cannot be carried. Next!\\nPrince of J^anity. Most Holy Divine Good: Let Wis-\\ndom make a suggestion.\\nPower of Good. Let Wisdom prepare a plan.\\nPrince of Wisdom. Most Holy Divine Good.\\nIn the centre of Crystal City there is a palace or-\\nnamented with gold and diamonds, a spectacle of\\nancient splendor. Aside from this overwhelming\\nmagnificance and in addition to its historical value,\\nthere are in front of this palace itiany statues- And\\nas many as there are, there is one overshadowing all\\nothers in size. He holds forth a spear fourteen feet\\nin length, with a wooden shaft ornamented with rings\\naround it of solid gold, weighing twenty-five pounds.\\n($8000.) The shaft of this spear has a strength of\\nbearing of 2000 pounds and can be credited to stand\\nthe crisis. Because of the gold that it contains on\\naccount of the usefulness as a weapon, and as a\\npractical device with which to carry the gold, the\\nmen, when seeing this spear, will desire to have it.\\nThey will fasten the casket filled with gold to the\\nmiddle of the spear, carried between them on their\\nshoulders. Passing upon the abyss, they will drop\\nthrough the breach with their hands already clasped\\nto the spear, which in the next moment will sudden-", "height": "2896", "width": "1798", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "THE DRAMA OF DESTINY -KARL HANNO. 31\\nly lodge across over the breach. The casket filled\\nwith gold wilt be torn loose and will drop down the\\nabj^ss while the men are swinging. In the next mo-\\nment they will climb on board the solid rock Saved\\nare the men saved is the spear, and secured is the\\nsmall success which by Destiny is allowed them,\\nand this they will find in the rings ot solid gold\\naround the spear, twenty-five pounds ($8000, $4000\\nfor each.) All that remaineth now is to guide these\\nmen in front of the palace so that they may see the\\nspear. To do this is the work of Vanity.\\nPrince oj Vanity. Most Holy Divine Good!\\nTo dispense means by which to save these men,\\nTitus and Karl Hanno, at the fatal moment, by\\nmeans of using- the spear held by a statue in front\\nof the palace in the center of Crystal City, which\\nis credited to stand the crisis; to guide, or to lead,\\nthese men in front of the palace so that they may\\nsee the spear, I move: That Titus and Karl Hanno\\nbe given in my charge. Also to be empowered to\\nchange ray form and to approach them in an\\nordinary human conversation.\\nPower of Good. The plan devised and suggested by\\nthis council to dispense means and ways by which\\nto save the men, Titus and Karl Hanno, at the\\nfatal moment in this their enterprise, is in har-\\nmony with the laws of nature; and to the human\\nbeing, when executed, it will appear as a natural\\nproceeding. The motion is carried. The men\\nnamed Titus and Karl Hanno are given in charge\\nto the Prince of Vanity, to be guided, or led, in\\nfront of the palace so that they may see the spear,\\nfrom now on up to the moment when this shall\\nhave been accomplished.\\nPrince of Vanit}- is also empowered to change", "height": "2896", "width": "1798", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "32 IHE IRAMA OF DESTINY-KARL HANNO.\\nhis form and to approach these men in an ordi-\\nnary human conversation.\\nThe Prince of Vanity immediately leaves the Council\\nof the Heavenly Functionaries and meets Titus and\\nKarl Hantio in the form of the human being, and he is\\nhailed by them simply as a stranger.)\\nPrince of Vanity.\\nI do enjoy all that is in harmony with true life,\\nAnd here, while we are taking- these earthly\\ntreasures in view,\\nTo which you have succeeded with toil and strife,\\nDo you think for a moment that this was not\\nall made for you?\\nAnd here, ri^ht here on this ver}^ spot where we\\nstand.\\nIs a fortune to pick up without g oing any\\nfarther;\\nAnd because there is no owner of it in all this\\nland,\\nMakes it a free gift to anyone coming hither.\\nHanno.--\\nSorely it is to be regretted that in this case\\nWe cannot own it all, only what we can carry.\\nRegards the difficulties to reach this place,\\nAs there is on the river neither a bridge nor a\\nferry.\\nPrince of Vanity.\\nAnd even at this rate 3 ou are far in advance\\nOf the thousands who are living in poverty,\\nAnd of the thousands who will never see the\\nchance\\nTo rise in wealth as you do with such rapidity.\\nTitus.-\\nYes! here we are in the city on the hill.\\nAnd filled with gold, a fact, and is no story.\\nThis gold is free, and we are left at will\\nTo take therefrom as much as we can carry.\\nPrince 0/ Vanity.\\nAnd you will see a greater glory than this\\n]By advancing more to the heart of the interior;", "height": "2896", "width": "1798", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "THE DRAMA OF DESTINY-KABL HANNO. 38\\nIt seems as we should be inspired with bliss\\nTo which this here is merely something yet\\ninferior.\\nTitus, and Karl Hanno. Then, let us go! {They go,\\nPrince of Vanity takes the lead.)\\nPrince of Vanity.\\nAnd here we come to a mag^nificent temple,\\nAnd its hardware is not like in the times of old,\\nSuch as of steel and iron, for example:\\nThe hardware in here is all of solid g-old.\\nBut let us see some more of it. {Prince of\\nVanity goes on Titus and Karl Hanno follow\\nAnd here is a larg^e structure, and to us\\nIt matters but little what it was for; but behold!\\nThose powerful arches reaching- across:\\nThey are all out of solid g^old.\\nBut let us g-o farther. They all go. Prince of\\nVanity is in the lead.)\\nAnd here we come to a palace- how grand!\\nThose statues representing- heroes in the days\\nof old,\\nAnd one there holding- a long- spear in his hand\\nWith rings around it; behold! they are all of\\nsolid gold.\\nBut my time is limited and I must leave you.\\nExcuse me.\\n(Prince of Vanity parts from Titus and Karl Hanno\\nand repairs back to t/ie council of the heavenly function-\\naries. His mission is ended. Titus and Karl Hanno\\nare again in charge of t tie Poiver of Good.)\\nlitus. Strange that this man broke off so suddenly. I\\nwas wondering where he came from, and all that in-\\nterests me is to know whether he discovered, and\\ncame through the Secret Cave under the Great River.\\nThen again I think he may not belong at all to the\\nother side of the Great River where we live. Well,\\nbe this as it is, we shall look out for ourselves. We\\nTaave played the first act of our dramatic enterprise", "height": "2896", "width": "1798", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "84 THE DRAMA OF DESTINY-KARL HANNO.\\nSO well and are now ready for the next. As to my-\\nself, I am overwhelmed by the success already ac-\\ncomplished: To think that all this is real; to think\\nthat we are in Crystal City, a deserted place, and\\nfull of gold. Gold! Gold! Gold! and gold all around\\nus. What do you think about it?\\nHanno. To me this seems more like a dream than a\\nreality because of our rapid success, as I thought it\\nto be impossible to get here. What a change in the\\nsituation, and what a bright prospect of the future\\nis developing right here. And yet I could even\\nlinger. To follow you was the work of a tender\\npersuation entertained by sympathy and manly love.\\nOh I May heaven give me an opportunity to repay\\nyou for your most noble deed in my behalf.\\nOnly this: Will we succeed?\\nTitus. Succeed? To return home safe and well? To\\novercome all odds, and to be in possession of so\\ngreat a fortune? Why not, what will hinder us?\\nBehold the Power of Faith\\nHanno. O, had I but the Power of Faith to be relieved\\nfrom the fear of the Heavenly Powers! I feel so\\nstrange.\\nTitus. If the Heavenly Powers have anything to do\\nwith our business I believe that they are for us rather\\nthan against us. But the greatest hero is he who con\\nquers himself- And I say: Swing your colors!\\nwe are on the march of victory. Round up your\\nheels! so your feet won t be so clumsy. Defy your\\nlingering thoughts! have you a love for victory.\\nThere is something to be done here besides taking\\na long breath and throwing out sighs to the stars.\\nAh! The Almighty at this moment, I am sure, is\\nwatching us closely and is ready to manifest His\\ndivine pleasure to see two more heroes turn out this\\nday, They are still in front of the palace.", "height": "2896", "width": "1798", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "THE DRAMA OF DESTIMT-KARL HANNO. 96\\nHanno. There they are! {he points out.) Do you not\\nsee the statues there representing heroes of antiquity\\nand one there especially holding a long heavy spear\\nin his hand with rings around it of solid gold?\\nTitus. Yes I I see. He looks like a hero of antiquity\\nand he can stay there, but the spear will go with us.\\nHanno. The idea prevailed over me as soon as I saw\\nthis confounded art of antiquity: The gold that it\\ncontains, the usefulness as a weapon, and as a prac-\\ntical device with which to carry the gold all of this\\nis evidently a fortunate chance. Thus: We will\\ntake the spear.\\nConcert.\\nTake the spear and hug all the gold\\nThat can possibly be into the casket rolled.\\nOff we go with our great fortune. They leave\\nCrystal City.)", "height": "2896", "width": "1798", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "SECTION III.\\nDISPENSATORY ASSEMBLY OF THE HEAVENLY\\nPOWERS.\\n[They are: The Power of Accidents, the Power of Evil, the\\nPower of Fate and the Power of Rescue. Functionaries: Prince of\\nVanity, Prince of Poverty and the Prince of Pru lence.\\nThis assembly is controlled by the Power of Good under pro-\\nvisions of Destiny, as fixed by the Maker of All Things. This as-\\nsembly takes up a position right over the abyss in the cave where\\nTitus and Karl Hanno must pass and break through and is so\\nnear to tte entrance, which is nearest to their home, that it is ap.\\nproached by daylight. The Heavenly Powers all have wings\\nand are wrapped in long robes loosely fitted; all are in white ex-\\ncept the Power of Evil and the Power of Fate, w^ho are in red.]\\nPower of Good {to the assembly) As a heavenly power\\nin my functional charges, I have been commission-\\ned and appointed by Destiny, fixed by the Maker of\\nAll Things, to save two human lives from fate and\\ndestruction at a moment now close at hand. The\\nmen in question, Titus and Karl Hanno, in conse-\\nquence of strife for existence, life and welfare, have\\ncommitted themselves to an act that will culminate\\nin fate and destruction under conditions governed by\\nnatural laws. They have been tried by a heavenly\\ncouncil and found not guilty. Even so: The\\nPower of Fate and Destruction will continue its fatal\\ntendency all the same, subject, however, to the laws\\nof nature which in all cases must take their regular\\ncourse but which again must be rendered perfectly\\nharmless in this case. As to this, I charge all the\\npowers connected with this affair, to be under bond\\nof the highest executive as regards their funtional\\ncharges according to the heavenly law9.\\nPowers. All hail the Power of the Highest Executive!", "height": "2896", "width": "1798", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "THE DRAMA OF DESTINT--KARL HANNO. 87\\nMessenger, {Celestial enters) Most Holy Divine Good:\\nThe men Titus and Karl Hanno, with a heavy load\\nof gold, are at this moment on their way home, and\\nhave left Crystal City a short distance behind them.\\n{Exit.)\\nMessenger {Enters): Most Holy Divine Good: The\\nmen, Titus and Karl Hanno, with a heavy load of\\ngold have at this moment arrived at the tributary\\nfrom the right received by the Great River. Since it\\nis nearly sundown they have decided not to cross\\nuntil morning. {Exit.)\\nPower of Accidents. Most Holy Divine Good As a\\nheavenly power in my functional charges to volun-\\ntarily use my power, subject, however, to the laws\\nof nature, I shall in the next moment cause an ac-\\ncident so as to interfere with the success of Titus\\nand Karl Hanno. During a heavy rainfall to-night\\nI shall cause a breach in the dam of a reservoir and\\nso swell the river, which these men are aiming to\\ncross in the morning to moor their load of gold\\nacross to a high watermark. Although they\\nhave provided themselves with a rope for this\\nemergency so as to render this accident harm-\\nless, yet I shall make it exceedingly difficult\\nfor them to succeed. This I shall do in conse-\\nquence of their having committed a divine of-\\nfence by assuming to havt outwitted the Heavenly\\nPowers. If successful, they would call it smart.\\nThey are not then willing to admit that all good,\\nand all blessing cometh from Heaven. They shall\\nfind it exceedingly difficult. {Exit.)\\nPower of Good. The human being is blind to the bless-\\nings granted him by his Creator. He attributes all\\nthings to his merit except the evil for which again\\nhe blames all things except himself. Man be cursed.", "height": "2896", "width": "1798", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "38 THE DRAMA OF DESTINY-KARL HANNO.\\nMessenger {Enters) The river has risen to a high\\nwatermark. Titus and Karl Hanno moor their load\\nof gold across on the bottom of the river. {Exit.)\\nPower of Accidents {Enters): I shall cause another ac-\\ncident There are some rocks on the bottom of the\\nriver. Some pieces of gold shall be caught fast and\\nbe lost. Naturally shall it be so. {Exit.)\\nPrince of Poverty. That will cut an important link in\\nthe chain of their success.\\nMesseni^er {Enters). Titus and Karl Hanno moor gold\\nacross on the bottom of the river and half of it is\\nlost. {Exit.)\\nPower of Fate. Now they will pass safely over the\\nabyss, will they?\\nPrince of Vanity. Not so. They will hastily go back\\nto Crystal City and make up the loss, while they\\nhave the chance.\\nPriyice of Prudence I shall go and cause these men to\\nselect a place farther to the right where the bottom\\nof the river assumes a sandy smoothness. {Exit.)\\nMessens[er {Enters.) Titus and Karl Hanno have made\\nup the loss of gold and resume moving it across on\\nthe bottom of the river. {Exit.)\\nPrince of Prudence. Solemn assembly!\\nIt is a singular occurrence that a great bodj of\\nwater in a tropical zone can suddenly change from\\nhot to ice-cold, yet such occurrence has actually\\nbeen effected by the laws of nature in less than\\none hour s time. The river where Titus and Karl\\nHanno moor their gold across has suddenly changed\\nfrom hot to ice-cold. Naturally so; all is natural!\\nMessenger {Enters). Karl Hanno has plunged into the\\nriver to swim across. {Exit.)\\nPower of fate- Karl Hanno has violated the laws of\\nnature: The temperature of the atmosphere as well", "height": "2896", "width": "1798", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "THE DRAMA OF DESTINY-KARL HANNO. 39\\nas that of the water of the river has suddenly changed\\nfrom hot to ice-cold owing to a heavy hailstorm fill-\\ning the river with ice. Karl Hanno with his warm\\nbody plunging into the ice-cold water has violated\\nthe laws of nature and I shall go now to execute\\nthem. {Exit.)\\nMessenger {Enters). Karl Hanno is on the point of\\ndrowning. Owing to the ice-cold water in the river\\nhe gave way to spasms- The same has befallen\\nTitus who came to his rescue from the opposite\\nshore, which he had reached when the water was\\nwarm before the hailstorm. {Exit-\\nPower of Good- Karl Hanno and Titus are destined to\\novercome all fatal odds in this their enterprise.\\nThey were given in my charge, and they shall live.\\nMessenger {Efiters)- Karl Hanno s body has been\\ndrifted back to the land and the rolling waves of\\nthe river have thrown him high upon the bank the\\nsame is true of Titus. Both are reviving. {Exit.)\\nPower of Good- Karl Hanno, in consequence of his\\npiety and the love that he entertains for his Maker,\\nshall be heard in his need as now he is sending sup-\\nplications to his Maker to dispense means by which\\nto cross the river in safety. Of course this must\\nassume a natural proceeding.\\nPower of Accidents {Enters) I shall go on my com-\\nmission and while the flood is still high, I shall\\ncause some stranded drift-wood to get loose and it\\nwill float down the river; a strong gale will throw\\nit next to the shore where Karl Hanno is anxiously\\nwaiting for it. He will seize it and fasten together\\nseveral logs. The rope with which they moored\\nthe gold across, is still stretched across the river.\\nHe will fasten the rope to this little raft and Titus\\nwill pull him across without accidents. {Exit.)", "height": "2896", "width": "1798", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "40 THE DRAMA OF DESTINY-KARL HANNO.\\nPower of Good.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 This is a-pproved of; it is all natural,\\nperfectly natural.\\nMessenger {Enters) --Karl Hanno, having- reached the\\nleft bank of the river in safety, is rejoining-\\nTitus. They resume their march homeward, car-\\nrying 700 pounds of gold in a casket fastened to a\\nlong spear, with rings around of solid gold and\\ncarried between them on their shoulders. {Exit)\\n(INCIDENTAI. COUNCIIv.)\\nPower of Rescue. Most Holy Divine Good:\\nThe assembly is aware that Titus and Karl\\nHanno with their heavy load of g-old will soon pass\\nupon the thin slate rock over the abyss and break\\nthrough, under conditions governed by natural\\nlaws. They are destined to be saved from fate\\nand destruction during the crisis. The plan of\\nrescue has been worked out and passed by several\\ncouncils. Complete as is the plan with all means\\nincluded toward that purpose, there is still one\\npoint in the scheme which must be given special\\nattention. It is this: Titus and Karl Hanno\\ncarry the casket filled with gold fastened to the\\nmiddle part of the spear. For necessity s sake\\nthey have one hand fixed to the spear in order to\\nhold it steadily on their shoulders, but at the vefy\\ninstant of dropping, thev will be of a careless\\nmind, thinking of nothing their hold of the spear\\nwill not be effective. They must have a firm,\\nand solid hold of the spear as they drop.\\nI move that Titus and Karl Hanno be given in\\nmy charge during ooe second of time at point of\\ndropping so that their hands be firmly fixed to\\nthe spear.\\nPower of Good. The Power of Rescue is requested to\\nexplain the method that is to be adopted in the\\nact.", "height": "2896", "width": "1798", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "THE DRAMA OF DESTINY\u00e2\u0080\u0094 KARL HANNO. 41\\nPozuer of Rescue. Most Holy Divine Good:\\nI shall cause a cramp to set in on their hands\\nand their hold to the spear will be firm and solid.\\nThey will also be able to explain how wonderfully\\nthey were saved.\\nPower of Good This is connected with evil. Veto!\\nPowet of Rescue. I shall other\\\\yise adopt a super-\\nnatural method, but such method cannot be ex-\\nplained by natural laws, and ere I can proceed to\\ndo anything- 1 must be charged by the Omnipotent\\nPower of Faith.\\nPozuer of Good {produces the book of record): I shall\\nlook up the Record of Destiny!\\nYes! Hereitis: The man named Titus. At\\nthe day of his birth it was known that at the ag-e\\nof forty-six years he would by his free act and\\nwill undertake a trip to a place named Crystal\\nCity. The city being deserted and full of gold,\\nTitus, in conjunction with a man named Karl\\nHanno would seize a burden of g-old thereof and\\non their way home, in a cave, passing- under a\\ng-reat river, they would, on a thin layer of slate-\\nrock over an abyss, break through under condi-\\ntions governed by natural laws. Titus, at the\\nday of his birth it was found, had brought with\\nhim into the world a powerful faith, joined to\\nshrewdness, dash, sagacity and fearless self-\\nconfidence so favored by nature. According- to\\nshrewdness, dash, sag-acity, and fearless self-\\nconfidence which is commanding- success, he\\nshould have been destined to carry off an immense\\nfortune in this enterprise, but the fact that he\\nwould have Karl Hanno to share half in the g^ifl\u00c2\u00bb\\nand he (Karl Hanno) was destined to remain poor\\nin view of a certain divine purpose, the gold was", "height": "2896", "width": "1798", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "48 THE DRAMA OF DESTINY-KARL HANNO.\\ntherefore doomed to be lost in the abyss. On the\\nother hand: because Titus had a powerful faith\\nand the fact being- unaware of the danger coming-\\nfrom an unforseen cause, both Titus andKarl Hanno\\nwere therefore destined to be rescued in the crisis\\nwhen breaking through the slate-rock over the\\nabyss, and for one second of time at the very in-\\nstant of dropping, these men should be given in\\ncharge of the Power of Rescue charged by the\\nPower of Faith to fix their hands firmly to the\\nspear. {Puts the book away).\\nThe motion is carried: The Power of Rescue\\nshall be charged by the Power of Faith for one\\nsecond of time to fix the hands of Titus and Karl\\nHanno firmly to the spear at instant of dropping.\\nMessenger {Enters). Titus and Karl Hanno now in\\nsight! {Exit).\\nPower of Good. All Heavenly Powers, whether good or\\nevil, except the power of Rescue, are charged to\\nvanish from this field\\n(All the powers disappear, except the Power of\\nGood and the Power of Rescue. Titus and Karl\\nHanno coming on with their burden, a casket\\ncontaining 700 pounds of gold, fastened to the\\nmiddle part of a long sptar and carried between\\nthem on their shoulders. The Power of Rescue\\ntakes up a position over the abyss and is ready to\\ntake charge of them at the instant when they break\\nthrough and drop).\\nTitus Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah! I can see daylight.\\nWe are approaching the mouth of the cave,\\nHanno. Well I shall never forget this trip, we have\\nhad a hard time of it: Confound it. What dif-\\nference does that make? 700 pounds of gold in\\nthe casket; 25 pounds more on the spear, a total", "height": "2896", "width": "1798", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "THE LRAMA OF DESTINY-KARL HANNO. 4S\\nof 11600 ounces; $232,000 between us, $116,000 for\\neach. And if we come out of this cave all right,\\nas you have cilways said we would, I confess that\\nyou have something- that I have not.\\nlituS Come out of this cave all right, safe and well!\\nWhy not? Behold the Power of Faith I {Down\\nthty drop! 7 hey /irmly hold to tht spear and art\\nsuspended in the mouth of the abyss.\\nHanno. Great God! under us is a pit of an endless\\ndepth.\\nTitus- Make a swing and get aboard of the rock while\\nI hold the spear. Be careful\\nHanno. {Makes a swing.) I am out! Now you get\\nout! while I hold the spear. Be careful!\\nTitus. {He makes a swing.) I am out, too!\\nHanno. I firmly seized the spear as we dropped, I can-\\nnot explain it\\nTitus So did I It all came so quick, I had no time\\nto think but I attribute that to the Power of Faith.\\nHamio. Our spear saved itself and saved us, but the\\ncasket filled with gold is lost down in the abyss.\\nBut we have still twenty -five pounds of gold left in\\nthe rings around the spear. This is what we were\\ndestined to have and no more, the remainder was\\ndoomed to be lost in the abyss. Do what you will,\\nbut Destiny is our master.\\nTitus. Destiny is our master.\\n(End of Part I.)", "height": "2896", "width": "1798", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "PART IL\\nSECTION I.\\n[Scene It is night. Karl Hanno is sound asleep upon a\\nlayer of straw in the center of the floor in a large farmhouse; iso-\\nlated, deserted and in an impoverished condition. The Heavenly\\nPowers assemble around him in a circle of 270 degrees and in the\\nmiddle of the elliptical part of the circle stands Destiny, leaving\\nKarl Hanno ift the center; the others are arranged in the following\\norder: To the right of Destiny, the Power of Good; next, follow-\\ning the circle, the Prince of Vanity; next, the Power of Love next^\\nthe Power of Evil; next, the Power 0/ Temptation; next, the\\nPower of Accidents; next, the Prince of Poverty; next, the Prince\\nof Fools; and next,the Prince of Wisdom. All the Heavenly Pow-\\ners have wings, arid are robed in long, loose fitting garments, each\\nin his own hue: Power of Good, iii snow-white Prince of Vanity,\\nin glittering yellow; Power oj Love, i^i a light-blue; Power of Evil,\\nin red; Pozver of Temptatio?i, in green; Power of Accidents, in\\nblack; Prince of Poverty, in gray; Prince of Fools, in pink; Prirtce\\nof Wisdom, in indigo. All these different colors pertain to\\nDestiny by whom the assembly is controlled under supervision of\\nthe Higher Ordinance set forth by the Maker of all Things.\\nDestiny. The assembly is called to order! First pro-\\nceeding:\\nAt the day ot his birth, Karl Hanno was destined\\nto remain poor according to his fitness in life to suit\\na certain divine purpose. It was known, and it was\\nthen foreseen that at the age of forty -three years,\\nKarl Hanno, while still in poverty, would by this\\ntime pledge himself to comply with the Heavenly\\nL,aws communicated to him by each of the powers\\nand according to this, Karl Hanno was destined for\\na change of life, from poverty to wealth- To do\\nthis, it will be necessary to appear unto him by\\nmeans of a vision and induce him to commit him-", "height": "2896", "width": "1798", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "THE DRAMA OF DESTINY-KARL HANNO. 45\\nself into our presence. This he will do as he is a\\nbeliever in spirits-\\nPrince of J^anity. Most Holy Act Divine of Destiny.\\nI move that I be permitted to appear unto Karl\\nHanno by means of a vision to induce him to com-\\nmit himself into our presence.\\nDestiny. The motion is accepted. Prince of Vanity is\\ncharged to carry out this motion.\\n{Pfince of Vanity mxkes threi rabs on the fi )or.\\nKarl Hanno zvakes up. He sees a vision.\\nPrince of Vanity. Karl Hanno, Child of Destiny: Fear\\nnot! The Blessing of All Good is smiling sweetly\\nupon thy brow. For the tim^ is at hand when thou\\nshalt undergo a change of life and be blessed not\\nonly with a fortune but with all that in which thou\\nshalt see all of thy wishes answered. This however\\nis now depending upon thyself and upon condition\\nonly that thou pledge thyself to comply with the\\nHeavenly I^aws commanded thee to keep by the\\nHeavenly Powers. Dost thou believe in spirits?\\nKarl HannO. I do.\\nPrince of Vanity. Art thou afraid of them?\\nKarl Hanno. I am not.\\nPrince oj Vanity. Art thou ready to commit th3 self\\ninto the presence of the Heavenly Powers?\\nKarl Hanno. For what reason?\\nPnnce of Vanity. Ah! thou must be reconciled with\\nthe Heavenly Powers whom thou has often in-\\nsulted because of thy ignorance of the Heavenly\\nLaws and it is for this reason that thou must re-\\nceive instructions from them before thou canst be\\npermitted to be in control of great wealth. Wilt\\nthou, or wilt thou not? Upon this now is de-\\npending- thy destiny. Art thou ready?\\nKarl Hanno. I am.", "height": "2896", "width": "1798", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "46\\nTHE DRAMA OF DESTINY-KARL HANNO.\\nPrince of Vanity. Then stand upon thy feet, and as\\nsoon as thou shalt raise thy right hand above thy\\nbrow, and place thy left hand upon thy heart thou\\nshalt be in presence of the Heavenly Powers.\\n(He does so and is in presence of Heavenly powers\\nprecisely arrang-ed in a circle as described and is\\nface to face with each of the powers while speak-\\ning:.)\\nDestiny. Karl Hanno Child of Destiny: Thou art\\nnow in presence of the Heavenly Powers who\\nunder supervision of the Higher Ordinance have\\ncharge of thy destiny. Thou hast been strug-\\ngling in vain, and under the weight of poverty\\nthou hast borne thy lot and misfortunes so man-\\nfully that thy conduct through life up to this\\nmoment has been recognized with divine favor.\\nThe time is now at hand when thou shalt under-\\ngo a change of life and be blessed not only with a\\nfortune but with all that in which tbou shalt see\\nall of thy wishes answered. Thou wast destined\\nto remain poor as thou wast not fitted to be in con-\\ntrol of great wealth and as thou wouldst use thy\\nwealth in opposition to the Heavenly Laws and\\nfail in a certain divine purpose. But now thou\\nshalt be permitted henceforth to possess great\\nwealth on condition that thou wilt pledge thyself\\nto comply with the Heavenly Laws commanded\\nihee by each of the Heavenly Powers having\\ncharge of thy destiny! Fear nothing: He that\\nis at peace with himself, and he that is obediently\\ntrusting in the Higher Order of Things, he is the\\nChild of destiny. Thou art now called to pro-\\nceed, for I am Destiny. {He proceeds.)\\nPower of Good Karl Hanno, Child of Destiny: Hence-\\nforth shalt thou be blessed not only with a for-t", "height": "2896", "width": "1798", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "THE DRAMA OF DESTINY -KARL HANNO. 47\\ntune but with all that in which thou shalt see all\\nof thy wishes answered. But before thou canst\\nbe permitted this thou must g ive a solemn pledge\\nto compl}^ with the laws that I shall command\\nthee to keep within the jurisdiction of my king--\\ndom. Raise thy right hand above thy brow, and\\nplace thy left hand upon thy heart as a token of\\nthis pledge. {He does so.\\nBehold When thou shalt be seated in thy stately\\nwealth, thou shalt be in sympathy with all institu-\\ntions established for a good purpose and thou shalt\\ngive them material support thou shalt also be in\\nsympathy with individuals endeavoring to establish\\ngood further thou shalt be in sympathy with all\\nthe needy, the unfortunate beggars, the sorely dis-\\ntressed, the destitute, to all these thou shalt con-\\ntribute toward their relief. If thou wilt do this then\\nwilt thou be fitted to be in control of great wealth and\\nmy kingdom will flourish, for I am the Power of\\nGood.\\nDestiny. Next!\\n{Karl Hanno passes to the next, and so on.)\\nPrince oj Vam ty.- -Karl Hanno, Child of Destiny:\\nWhat is life without the odor of sweetness,\\nAnd what is a man without money?\\nLife to him is like water filled with bitterness\\nAnd he himself is like a bee without honey.\\nSo true, and full of logic is this statement of mine;\\nSo comprehensive and clear in its result\\nThat neither heaven nor earth could object to any\\ndesign\\nHaving a tendency toward happiness, free from\\nguilt.\\nNever is earthly happiness really prospering\\nUnder any shade of povertv, for,\\nIf soul and body are suffering\\nThere, misery awaiteth him at the door.", "height": "2896", "width": "1798", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "48 THE DKAMA OF DESTINY-KARL HANNO.\\nBut 1 shall Speak freely. Fear not! Karl Hanno,\\nfor thou art the Child of Destiny and the Blessing of\\nall Good is smiling sweetly upon thy brow. The\\ntime is at hand when thou shalt undergo a change\\nof life and be blessed not only with a fortune, but\\nwith all that, in which thou shalt see all of thy\\nwishes answered. But before thou canst be per-\\nmitted this, thou must give a solemn pledge to com-\\nply with the laws that I shall command thee within\\nthe jurisdiction of my kingdom. Raise thy right\\nhand above thy brow, and place thy left hand upon\\nthy heart as a token of the pledge. {He does so).\\nBehold When thou shalt be seated in thy stately\\nwealth thou shalt not be a miser, burying thy treas-\\nures in the ground Thou shalt not be stingy when\\nthou ought to be generous, for such is not vanity\\nThou shalt not abide in the impoverished mode of\\nlife as thou wast obliged to do in the past; Thou\\nshalt assume an air of vanity inasmuch as thou wilt\\nnot make a fool of thyself; Thou shalt entertain thy\\nfriends and neighbors with costly feasts, banquets,\\ndinners; and thou shalt keep plenty of servants for\\nthyself and for thy future wife Thou shalt surround\\nthy court with poets, philosophers, actors, actresses,\\nsjangsters and invite foreign princes to pay thee visits\\nso as to cause wonder and admiration. Ah! does\\nthat make thee smile, Karl Hanno? Listen: In all\\nthis splendor thou shalt not forget that once thou\\nwast poor and those who desire to enter thy gates,\\nthou shalt freely admit and treat them in such a way\\nthat vanity may command their respect- If thou\\nwilt do this then wilt thou be fitted to be in control of\\ngreat wealth and my kingdom will flourish, for I anj\\nthe Prince of Vanity.\\nDestiny. Next!", "height": "2896", "width": "1798", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "THE DRAMA OF DESTINY-KARL HANNO. 49\\nPozver of Love. Karl Hanno Child of Destiny Fear\\nnot! The Blessing- of all Good is smiling- sweetly\\nupon thy brow, for the time is at hand when thou\\nshalt be blessed not only with a fortune but with\\nall that, in which thou shalt see all of thy wishes\\nanswered. But before thou canst be permitted\\nthis thou must give a solemn pledge to comply\\nwith the laws that I shall command thee within\\nthe jurisdiction of my kingdom. Raise thy right\\nhand above thy brow, and place thy left hand\\nupon thy heart as a token of this pledge. {He\\ndoes so\\nBehold! When thou shalt be seated in thy\\nstately wealth thou shalt not close thy heart\\nagainst others and be selfish thou shalt re-\\nmember those to whom thou owest thy love, and\\nthou shalt make happy those who are depending-\\nupon thy charity; thou shalt not give olfeuse to\\nthy brother, or to the unfortunate because of thy\\nriches, neither shalt thou make thy power felt on\\nthe weak, on thy servants, or on thy subordinates;\\nThou shalt not discount love, nor any deed of love\\nfrom whatever source it may come. Remember:\\nLove is the eternal law supreme and it never was,\\nand never will be discounted by the Maker of all\\nThings. And if any man shall discount love, or\\nany deed of love he shall be branded by the curse\\nof Destiny for this heavenly offense. If thou wilt\\nabide by all this that I have commanded thee to\\ndo, then wilt thou be fitted to be in control of\\ngreat wealth and my kingdom will flourish, for I\\nam the Power of Love.\\nDestiny. Next\\nPower of Evil. Karl Hanno Child of Destiny. Fear\\nno evil as thou -art in the hands of Destiny. The", "height": "2896", "width": "1798", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "50 THE DRAMA OF DESTINY-KARL HANNO.\\ntime is at hand when thou shalt be blessed, not\\nonl}^ with a fortune but with all that, in which\\nthou shalt see all of thy wishes answered. And\\nin consequence of this the Power of Evil shall no\\nmore resolve upon thy fate. But before thou canst\\nbe permitted this thou must give a solemn pledg-e\\nto comply with the laws that I shall command\\nthee within the jurisdiction of my kingdom.\\nRaise thy right hand above thy brow, and place\\nthy left hand upon thy heart as a token of this\\npledge. {He does so)-\\n-Behold! When thou shalt be seated in thy stately\\nwealth, and if it shall happen that thy country\\nshall be at war with another country, and if thy\\nking and sovereign shall come to thee and apply\\nfor a war-loan, then shalt thou not refuse him a\\nloan because war is an evil, but thou shalt let\\nhim have as many hundred millions as he shall\\nask for {K. H.) O, Destiny, is this a dream?\\n(Z?. Behold thou art in presence of the Heav-\\nenly Powers. Be holy! {continued). War is an\\nevil but remember: There shall always be evil\\nin this world. Evil against evil to keep the bal-\\nance of power, has become a law of the Common\\nOrder and thou shalt not tread upon laws which\\nare permitted to exist by the Maker of all things,\\nif thou wilt comply with this thou wilt then be\\nfitted to be in control of great wealth and my\\nkingdom will flourish, for I am the Power of Evil.\\nZ?\u00c2\u00ab/my.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Next!\\nPower of 7 emftation\u00e2\u0080\u0094Kzx\\\\ Hanno Child of Destiny\\nBe of good cheer. The time is at hand when\\nthou shalt be blessed not only with a fortune but\\nwith all that in which thou shalt see all of thy\\nwishes answered, But before thou canst be per.", "height": "2896", "width": "1798", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "THE DRAMA OF DESTINY -KARL HANNO. 51\\nraitted this, thou must give a solemn pledge to\\ncomply with the laws that I shall command thee\\nwithin the jurisdiction of mj kingdom. Raise\\nthy right hand above thy brow, and place thy left\\nhand upon thy heart as a token of this pledge.\\n{He does so)-\\nBeholdl When Ihou shall he sealed in thy slal.-\\nly wealth thou shall not put thy hands into thy\\npockets and go to sleep overth}^ wealth, but thou\\nshall be as active as ever before. Thou wilt be\\ntempted by new enterprises to gain power, high\\nhonors and even to occupy the seat of the gov-\\nernment. In all these things thou shall be wide\\nawake in all of thy capacity to secure ictory. H\\nthou wilt do this then will thou be fittjed lo be in\\ncontrol of great wealth and my kingdom will\\nflourish, for I am the Power of Temptation.\\nDestiny. Next\\nPoiver of Accidents. Karl Hanno, Child of Destiny\\nBest Greeting. The lime is at hand when Ihou\\nshall be blessed not only with a fortune, but with\\nall that in which thou shall see all of thy wishes\\nanswered. But before thou canst be permitted\\nthis, thou must give a solemn pledge to comply\\nwith the laws that I shall command thee within\\nthe jurisdiction of my kingdom. Raise thy right\\nhand above thy brow, and place thy left hand\\nupon thy heart as a token of this pledge. {He\\ndoes so).\\nBehold! When thou shall be seated in thy\\nstately wealth, thou shall not ascribe thy grand\\nsuccess to thyself and call it smart. Thou\\nshall remember that whatsoever thou will be\\nmaster of, that thou was permitted these attain,\\nments by Destiny under the Higher Order of", "height": "2896", "width": "1798", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "ii THE DRAMA OF DESTINY-KARL HANNO.\\nthings, and that in this case thou wast destined\\nto succeed. If thou wilt not comply with this,\\nthen wilt thou neither be fitted to be in control of\\ngreat wealth, as thy fortune will not be protected\\nby destiny and I shall cause accidents, bankruptcy\\nand demoralization in thy earthly welfare, for I\\nam the Power of Accidents.\\nDesiiny.\u00e2\u0080\u0094l^JexV.\\nPrince oj Poverty. Karl Hanno, Child of Destiny;\\nBe of good cheer. The time is at hand that thou\\nshalt be blessed not only with a fortune, but with\\nall that in which thou shalt see all of thy wishes\\nanswered and thou shalt soon pass out of my\\nhands. But before thou canst be permitted this\\nthou must give a solemn pledge to comply with\\nthe laws that I shall command thee within the\\njurisdiction of my kingdom: Raise thy right\\nhand above thy brow and place thy left hand upon\\nthy heart, as a token of this pledge. {He does so.)\\nBehold! When thou shalt be seated in thy\\nstately wealth thou shalt give great sums to the\\npoor, but only in small drips to each individual so\\nthat their existence may continue from hand to\\nmouth and that such men may remain in a state\\nof poverty. The poor shall always be in this\\nworld and it has become a law of the Common\\nOrder and thou shalt not interfere with laws per-\\nmitted to exist by the Maker of all Things. If\\nthou wilt comply with this, then wilt thou be\\nfitted to be in control of great wealth and my\\nkingdom will flourish, for I am the Prince of\\nPoverty.\\nDestiny. Next!\\nPrince o/ Fools. Karl Hanno, Child of Destiny:\\nBlessed is thy lot. The time is at hand that thou", "height": "2896", "width": "1798", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "THE DRAMA OF DESTINY-KARL HANNO 68\\nshalt be blessed not only with a fortune, but with\\nall that in which thou shalt see all of thy wishes\\nanswered. But before thou canst be permitted\\nthis, thou must give a solemn pledge to comply\\nwith the laws that I shall command thee within\\nthe jurisdiction of my king-dsm. Rai^e thy right\\nhand above thy brow, and place thy left hand upon\\nthy heart as a token of this pledge. {.He does so.\\nBehold thou shalt not make fools of others, but\\nman, according to hisfreeact and will, may make\\na fool of himself. Now when thou shalt be seated\\nin thy stately wealth, they will of course all won-\\nder at the high hand of thine and speculate on\\nthe measure of thy happiness. Thou shalt then\\nsaj that thou wast happier when thou hadst but\\nas now being dissatisfied with too much. They\\nwill pretend to believe it as thy can do no better\\nand follow the plan of high life, and thus make\\nfools of themselves. There shall always be fools\\nin this world, this has become a law of the Com-\\nmon Order and thou shalt let it exist as it is per-\\nmitted to exist by the Maker of all Things. If\\nthou wilt do this, then shalt thou be fitted to be\\nin control of great wealth and my kingdom will\\nflourish, for I am the Prince of Fools.\\nOestiny. Next!\\n^rtnce of Wisdom. Karl Hanno, Child of Destiny: Be\\ncheery and happy. The Blessing of All Good is\\nsmiling sweetly upon thy brow for the time is at\\nhand when thou shalt undergo a change of life and\\nbe blessed not only with a fortune but with all that\\nin which thou shalt see all of thy wishes answered.\\nBut before thou canst be permitted this, thou\\nmust give a solemn pledge to comply with the laws\\nthat I shall command thee within the jurisdiction of", "height": "2896", "width": "1798", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "54 THE DRAMA 0\u00c2\u00a5 DESTINY-KABL HANNO.\\nmy kingdom. Raise thy right hand above thy\\nbrow, and place thy left hand upon thy heart as\\na token of this pledge. {He does so.)\\nBehold! When thou shalt be seated in thy stately\\nwealth thou shalt not try to carry thy head any\\nhiglfer than is thy ordinary tallness. Thou shalt\\nnot use braggarts language, nor have a swelled head\\nconcerning thy riches- In society, and passing\\nthrough the multitudes thou shalt not assume an\\noverbearing attitude as much as thereby to pro-\\nclaim that thou art something great. In thy deal-\\nings observe prudence and guard th^i approaches of\\nsmooth tongues which might take advantage of thy\\nvanity. Do not judge things from the outside. Fear\\nnothing sajfe the Maker of thy soul. If thou wilt\\nbe faithful in all these things, then wilt thou be\\nfitted to be in control of great wealth and my king-\\ndom will flourish, for I am the Prince of Wisdom.\\n{Karl Hanno has passed aroufid the circle and\\nagain approaches Destiny and they are face to\\nface,\\nDestiny. Karl Hanno, my child: Thou art now at\\npeace with the Heavenly Powers who are charged\\nto carry out thy destiny. Thou hast made thy\\npledges with the nine Powers and Functionaries by\\nwhom thou shalt be permitted to succeed, not only\\nto acquire a great fortune, but to attain all that in\\nwhich thou shalt see all of thy wishes answered. It\\nwas known, and it was therefore seen at the day of\\nthy birth, that on this day thou wouldst make these\\npledges and be faithful to them, and it was lor this\\nreason that thou was destined at the age of forty\\nthree years to be blessed with a fortune both in\\nriches and happiness such as was never enjoyed by\\nany mortal. After many storms in life henceforth", "height": "2896", "width": "1798", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "THE DRAMA OF DESTINY-KARL HANNO. 66\\nthere shall be sunshine and to love, and to be loved\\nshall fill the measure of thy happiness. First of all\\nI shall give thee instructions as to the manner of\\nproceeding, how, and in what way this immense\\npromised fortune of thine thou shalt obtain.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094Behold! Thou shalt not go to Crystal City filled\\nwith gold to seize a fortune thereof as thou hast done\\nhitherto. Thou shalt reach thy fortune without be-\\ning exposed to danger, and in a much simpler way,\\nsingular in art and yet so natural. In the abyss, in\\nthe Secret Cave passing under the Great River which\\nis about a stone s throw from the first entrance, and\\nwhere thou and thy beloved friend Titus broke\\nthrough; way, way down on the bottom of an im-\\nmense depth there lay 35,000,000 ounces of pure\\nand solid gold ($700,000,000) and the bones of\\nmany human bodies all of which in the course of\\nmany centuries dropped through as they passed\\nupon the weak spot. But now, neither thou nor any\\nother man can go down to the bottom of the abyss\\nof such immense depth and seize this gold. But it\\nwill come to pass that after forty days a number of\\ndragons {serpe?its havins; wings) who inhabit the\\ndepth of the earth, will hunt for themselves a new\\ndwelling. They will enter this abyss and desire to\\nmake it their home. They will find everything\\nagreeable except this gold, which is an injury to\\ntheir eyes on account of its phenomenal glittering.\\nOne by one they will seize this gold and bring it all\\nup through the breach of the abyss and lay it upon\\nthe surface all around the breach. Thou shalt be at\\nhand and immediately remove the same as the in-\\ncreased weight of the gold will cause another breach\\nand the gold will again drop down the abyss. The\\nart and method adapted to transport the gold to a", "height": "2896", "width": "1798", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "56 THE DRAMA OF DESTINY-KARL HANNO.\\nplace of safe-keeping, and to secure thyself against\\nrobbery, or any other attacks, thou must provide for\\nthyself. Thou hast been instructed by the nine\\nPowers and Functionaries what policy to pursue\\nand that is alone correct, namely that thou shalt\\nnot put thy hands into thy pockets and go to sleep\\nover thy wealth, but to be wide awake in\\nall thy capacity to secure victory. Remember Titus\\nto whom thou owest thy love. Remember all the\\ninstructions and commandments given thee by the\\nPowers and Functionaries and if thou wilt be faith-\\nful in all these things then will the fairest conditions\\nof life and happiness be established.\\nBut before all of these transactions can receive my\\nseal and signature thou must give a solemn pledge\\nto do what I shall command thee to do Raise thy\\nright hand above thy brow and place thy left hand\\nupon thy heart as a token of this pledge- {He does\\nso.)\\nBehold! Teach all men that man is not the maker\\nof his own destiny: For if man, and each man be\\nthe maker of his own destiny, there could no longer\\nexist a Higher Ordinance but in place of that, there\\nwould be chaos and confusion. Teach all men that\\nall things were foreseen and that his destiny was\\nfixed according to the coming events in life, circum-\\nstances, and the purpose that lay in these things.\\nTeach all men that his destiny was fixed according\\nto his fitness and future conduct in life. Teach all\\nmen that man is not a machine of destiny whose vo-\\ncation is already determined by its construction, but\\nteach them at the same time that destiny is neither\\nthe machine of man.\\nWhen thou wast born, thou wast found to be a\\nhealthy little baby with a constitution strong-", "height": "2896", "width": "1798", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "THE DRAMA OF DESTINY-KARL HANNO. 67\\nenougfh to overcome all the little baby sicknesses;\\nand thou wast destined to live a young boy in\\nspite of all the dangers that might threaten thy\\nlife. It was foreseen that when thou wouldst be\\na young boy, thou wouldst have developed very,\\nnicely and not drawing on death on thy own part,\\nthou wast destined to live a man. It was fore-\\nseen that when thou wouldst be a man, and not\\ndrawing on death on thy own part, thou wast des-\\ntined to live an old aged man. Consequently at\\nthe day of thy birth thou wast destined to live an\\nold aged man and wast granted a safe conduct\\nthrough life, to be rescued when in peril and fate.\\nFear nothing, my child, safe the Maker of thy\\nsoul. Be true and faithful in all things and it\\nshall be well with thee forever. {Scene closes)-", "height": "2896", "width": "1798", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "SECTION II.\\n[vScENE\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Aa^/ Hanno is at home. Their house is a dwelling\\nof modest appearance. In a large room the /amity is gathered,\\nconsisting of father, mother. Louis, and Lidia Hanno., Titus and\\nhis wife. They are all attentive to hear what Karl has to say as\\nhe takes thefloor\\\\.\\nKarl H. Happiest greeting- to you all:\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094Behold! The tiwe is at hand when I iihall\\nunderg-o a change of life from poverty to wealth\\nand be blessed not only with a fortune, but with\\nall that in which I shall see all of my wishes an-\\nswered. Thus far we have been striving faith-\\nfully with all efforts to bring the standard of life\\nto a higher level, but we have met with failure\\nand disappointment. All this will change, and\\nall things will be made new. Father, mother,\\nbrother, sister, take your woes and cares and for-\\never let them drop down to the bottomless depths\\nof the abyss whence they will never return again.\\nFor the dream of ray life, that I shall see at least\\none moment in life in which I shall see all of my\\nwishes answered, is now about to become a reality\\nand the conviction of this moment which I so fond-\\nly cherished in my heart in all the days of my life\\nis now provin|u- to be a divine truth. And you, Titus,\\nbe of good cheer, for I shall soon be able to repay\\nyou thousand and thousandfold. Not so much for\\nwhat you have given me. which was always half\\nof all that you had acquired, but for the sympathy\\nand love so cherished in your bosom for me that\\nyou have never left me in my destitution. Be-\\nlieve me, though it is beyond comprehension, it\\nis even true that I have presently seen things of", "height": "2896", "width": "1798", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "THE DRAMA OF DESTINY-KARL HANNO. 59\\nan indescribable manifestation and my promised\\nlot bears the seal and sigfnature of Destin} {All\\nhetvildered.\\nKarl! Karl! are you sure of bein^^ awake? The\\nstory is too good to believe.\\nKarl H Listen! On my tour through the country I\\nstopped in a large, isolated and deserted farm-\\nhouse through the night. I laid me down on the\\nfloor and went sound asleep. All at once I woke\\nup by the noise of sharp raps. Looking, I saw a\\nman standing near by me and candidly he spoke:\\nArt thou afraid of spirits? I am not, I re-\\nplied. Said he: Then raise thy right hand\\nabove thy brow and place thy left hand upon thy\\nheart and thou wilt be in presence of the Heaven-\\nly Powers. I did so and I was in presence of\\nten spirits assembled around me in a circle and\\ncontrolled by one of them. There was a thrill,\\nthat went through my veins followed by a high\\nsensation of bliss when the chief of them an-\\nnounced to me the intended purpose. Karl\\nHanno, thou art the Child of Destiny, he pro-\\nceeded, fear not! The time is at hand when\\nthou shalt undergo a change of life from povert}\\nto wealth as thou shalt be blessed not only with\\na fortune, but with all that in which thou shalt\\nsee all of thy wishes answered. After so many\\nthings and after so many ceremonies and pledges\\nand communications were transacted, with which\\nI shall make you acquainted hereafter, then was\\ndisclosed to me in what manner, in what way,\\nand how I should obtain the promised fortune in\\nriches and happiness so great as was never before\\nenjoyed by any mortal. {All arc staggered.)\\nMrs. Hanno. At last heaven is showing its face and", "height": "2896", "width": "1798", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "THE DRAMA OF DESTINY-KARL HANNO,\\nthe g-loomy clouds of poverty are pierced by the\\nsun of the promised fortune. And why should\\nyou not be worthy of these things, my son? You\\nhave had many misfortunes in your life and they\\nwere always too ready to blame you for your in-\\nborn piety, and pitied you for the lack of dash\\nand shrewdness which is commanding success,\\nbut you bore all these insults so manfully with\\nsuch purity of heart that it could not be other-\\nwise than that the conduct of your life should be\\nrecognized with divine favor. With this my\\ninborn piety I shall either rise or fall, was al-\\nways your maxim. But you will not fall, you\\nwill rise: for all things are pointing toward that\\nevent. Victory! Victory! Victory!\\nLouis H. Mother! you bear the true stamp of a\\nmother: If nothing else will make your son\\ngreat, you will. Well, we shall see.\\nTitus. Karl! Karl! I would be only too willing to be-\\nlieve all truthful things were it not beyond com-\\nprehension. It staggers my senses.\\nMt Hanno. All these high sounding phrases do very\\nlittle to lift the weight of poverty and unless I\\ncan see something positive in the newly created\\nhope, I am slow to accept such visionary co-\\nnundrum of spirits. Vision! Vision! Well, we\\nshall see.\\nKarl H Nothing visionary. Hope is dismissed.\\nAll is positive. For these spirits have told me so\\nmany many things that it would be impossible\\never to commit them to memory; but I have them\\nall in my memory; so clear, so positive, so dis-\\ntinct that not an Iota is missing.\\nlitus. Then I demand: Show us clearly, positively,\\nand distinctly in what manner, in what way, and\\nhow the promised fortune shall be obtained.", "height": "2896", "width": "1798", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "THE DRAMA OF DESTINY-KARL HANNO. 61\\nKarl H. Listen and I will tell you: Not Crys-\\ntal City filled with gold is harboring- our fortune\\nas might be supposed. We shall reach our for-\\ntune without being- exposed to danger and in a\\nmuch simpler way, singular in art, and yet so\\nnatural. The abyss, remember, near the mouth\\nof the Secret Cave where we twice broke through,\\nway, way down on the bottom of its immense\\ndepths there lay 35,000,000 ounces of pure, solid\\ngold ($700,000,000) and the bones of many human\\nbodies, all of which in the course of many cen-\\nturies dropped through as they passed upon the\\nweak spot. But now, no man can ever go down\\nto the bottom of the abyss to seize this gold. But\\nit will come to pass that after 37 days from now,\\na number of dragons will hunt for themselves a\\nnew dwelling. They will enter this abyss and\\ndesire to make it their home. They will find\\neverything agreeable except this gold which is an\\ninjury to their eyes on account of its phenomenal\\nglittering brightness. One by one they will seize\\nthe gold and bring it all up through the breach\\nof the abyss and lay it upon the surface all around\\nthe breach. We must then be at hand and imme-\\ndiately remove it as the increased weight of the\\ngold will cause another breach and the gold may\\nagain drop down the abyss. This is what I was\\ntold by the spirits, and the day will prove that it\\nis correct.\\n(All indulge in shouts and praises of Karl Hanno\\nseemingly without end).\\nTitus Now I can see great things. This revelation\\nbears the mark of truth, for it is very reasonable\\nthat lots of gold must be down in the abyss.\\nAnyhow, our 700 pounds are there; that we know.", "height": "2896", "width": "1798", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "62 THE DRAMA OF DE8TmY-KARL HANNO.\\nAnd that such thing s as drag-oas might prowl\\nround in abysses is an old known thing; and that\\nthe glance and glitter of the gold probably hurts\\ntheir eyes, as they are used to darkness, that all\\nstands to reason and there is nothing visionary in\\nthat. But why in Sam s conundrum didn t we\\nthink ol thai? Oh! how ashamed do I feel now\\nwhen looking at myself how in the past I was\\nclinging to the theory, Man is the maker of his\\nown destiny. And how have you so patiently\\nwaited for the moment to come in which the tide\\noJ life would take a turn, and now, how little will\\n1 appear when you are seated in your stately\\nwealth, V)lessed with all that in which you shall\\nsee all of your wishes answered? But Karl, re-\\nmember all that I have done for you, as you have\\nreadily confessed it, was not done in a spirit to\\nbe paid back with high interest, as I never had\\nan idea that you would ever rise above your pov-\\nerty. But now when you are in possession of that\\nimmense fortune, and whatever you do in your\\nexalted state, all I ask, do not deny the sympathy\\nand love that I have cherished in my bosom for you.\\nKorl H. The moon and the stars shall drop to the\\nground ere I shall deu}- you in any of this, ray fu-\\nture magnificence. For the same power that has\\npromised me all these things, has also given me\\nlaws to abide by namely: To remember those to\\nwhom I owe my love, and to make happy those\\nwho are depending upon my charity. And the\\nsympathy and love so cherished in your bosom\\nfor me in my destitution is now recognized by the\\nMaker of all Things as in the foregoing proceed-\\nings I was particularly reminded to remember you;\\nand told that Love, or any Deed of Love, never", "height": "2896", "width": "1798", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "THE DRAMA OF DESTINY-KARL HANNO. 68\\nwas, and never will be discounted by the Maker\\nof all Things; and that, if any man shall dis-\\ncount Love, or any Deed of Love, he shall be\\nbranded by the curse of Destiny for this heavenly\\noffense. But enoug-h of this. There is something\\nelse to be done now: 35,000,000 ounces of ^old\\nequaling- in value \u00c2\u00a7700,000,000, how will we get\\nthis staggering- fortune to a place of safekeeping,\\nand how about the means of transportation?\\nTitus. Keep all things secret.\\nMan H. I think we tried this scheme once before,\\nand failed. It will take 1,(MK) wag-ons to .oad .^5,\\n000,000 ounces of gold-\\nLidia H. Bury it there in the ground.\\nKarl H. That I durst not do as I would not be fitted\\nto be in control of great wealth. For me to be\\nrich is to be wide awake and to employ ray for-\\ntune in such a way as to cause wonder and ad\\nmiration. You will be surprised, I tell you.\\nMrs. Hanno. After all, perhaps it would be better to\\nbe content with little than to be dissatisfied with\\ntoo much.\\nKarl H. No! The Prince of Fools commanded me not\\nto believe such a thing as long as I don t want\\nto become his subject.\\nMrs. Titus. Why I don t see what you want with\\n$700,000,000. Who ever heard of such a thing?\\nLouis H Let me give you a pointer Suppose we\\ngather an army of poverty-stricken men to\\nhelp us in the transportation of this gold: we\\ntake half, and give them the other half and let\\nthem have a bite of the fortune. How is that?\\nKarl H No! I was commanded to give money to the\\npoor ouly in small drips so that they may continue\\nto make an existence from hand to mouth. There", "height": "2896", "width": "1798", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "64 THE DUAMA OF DESTINY-KARL HANNO.\\nshall always be poor in this world. This has\\nbecome a law of the Common Order and I must\\nnot tread upon a law permitted to exist by the\\nMaker of all Things.\\nMr. Hanno. So then I understand God wants to have\\npoor in this world and to make them all rich,\\nwould be out of order. Is that it?\\nKarl H. Yes! and that is piety, too.\\nLouis //.\u00e2\u0080\u0094Must you take care of all the 35,000,000\\nounces of gold?\\nKarl H. To be sure I must else I would not be fitted\\nto be in control of great wealth, consequently I\\ncould not succeed.\\nMrs. Hanno. Well, did I eyer see anything so strangel\\nLouis H. Well ma, that s the way it is; we poor\\npeople don t possess capacity enough to take care\\nof a fortune. No wonder\\nMrs. Titus. Yes! and then they wonder, and wonder\\nwhy they were not destined to be rich.\\nTitus. Well, well, now this is empty talk. We ll take\\ncare of it. How is this: Suppose we could make\\na deal with the government and move his Majesty to\\nprotect us against any attack of robbery; and sup-\\npose his Majesty is urged to make a loan, it would\\nnot be impossible to dictate terms to him to suit our\\npurpose. Or how is this: Suppose we could not\\nmake a deal with the government in the case of a\\nloan, and suppose we go and establish a sort of a\\nmoney center right there where the gold is, and if\\nthen the plan would not prove to be practical, we\\ncould at any time thereafter do what ought to be\\ndone. The scheme ought to work.\\nKarl H. The scheme ought to work, yes; but the\\nscheme might not work, because it ought to work,\\nand as for a reason I think this: Would it be prac-", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "THE DRAMA OP DESTINY-KARL HANNO. 65\\ntical at any rate to establish a money center seven\\nto eight hundred miles away from civilization? In\\nmy estimation, it is not like business and therefore\\nthe scheme is not genuine- As to the plan to strike\\na deal with the government, in my estimation, the\\nscheme is correct. But the government is not in\\nneed of making a loan now and his Majesty would\\nnot be willing to send out an expedition to promote\\na private undertaking at the public expense. On\\nthe other hand, he might be willing to do that but\\nwe would have to pay very likely an extravagant\\nprice for it. And this, in my estimation) we will\\nnot do. It is not like business. But suppose the\\ngovernment were in sore need of money and we\\ncould furnish them a loan and dictate terms to his\\nMajesty, then would our undertaking become a pub-\\nlic affair, and his Majesfy would have his hands free\\nand send out an expedition on the public expense and\\nthe whole transportation of the gold would not cost\\nus anything. And that is like business.\\nTitus. Crackerty, wreckerty then let us have war!\\nAny old thing will do for a pretext to stir up the\\ncountry and the people against a foreign nation and\\nthe government will soon discover an empty treas-\\nury in the capital compelling them to make a War\\nLoan. But mind you, it must be a war on a large\\nscale, to make sure that the government will be com-\\npelled to accept our terms. War is cruel, but what\\ndo we care when others fight the battles.\\nKarl H. That s getting the thing down to a fine\\npoint. 1 thought of that, but did hate to come out\\nwith it. Now, if you think you can stir up the\\ncountry to plunge it into a big war with a foreign\\nnation, and if you think you can make those believe\\nwho fight the battles that our war is a Righteous", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "THE DRA.MA OF DBSTINT-KARL HANNO.\\nwar, and if you can believe this yourseli and keep\\nyour conscience clear, I say go ahead, and we\\nwill furnish the government a War I^oan. It s busi-\\nness! It is business-\\nMrs. ff anno. Horrible! just horrible Just think, to\\nplunge the country into a bloody war to suit the\\npurpose of a few individuals. My son, what has\\nbecome of your piety?\\nKarl H. lam not going to stir up war,- mother! I\\nsaid: If Titus can stir up war and keep his con-\\nscience clear, to go ahead.\\nlifus. Well, this I cannot do.\\nKarl H. So then we will not have war, mother! Be\\nsatisfied now.\\n7iius- Well, that knocks us out on that scheme.\\nKarl H. But I say this Although I will not by\\nany manner of act, in public or private, stir up war,\\nas I am opposed to that, yet if war should come\\nfrom any other source, and my king and sovereign\\nshould come to me to furnish him a War Loan, I\\ntell you, I shall let him have as many hundred\\nmillions as he shall ask for. War is an evil, but\\nthere shall always be evil in this world. Evil\\nagainst Evil to keep the Balance of Power. This\\nhas become a law of the Common Order and I must\\nlet it exist, as it is permitted to exist by the Maker\\nof all Things.\\nLidia H Why brother, would you really furnish the\\ngovernment a War Loan if war should come? Sup-\\npose that you could prevent a great war and save\\nthousands of human lives by not furnishing the\\ngovernment a War Loan, would you not do it for\\nhumanity s sake?\\nKafl H.\u00e2\u0080\u0094VJ^y sister Lidia\u00e2\u0080\u0094 I am not prepared for\\nso ticklish a question gs that is. But I say^ if war", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "THE DRAMA OF DESTINY-KARL HANNO. OT\\nshould come from any other source, I shall furnish\\nthe government a War Loan without weighing the\\nquestion: For if I will not, others will, and I\\nwould not be fitted to be in control of great wealth.\\nIt is business! strictly business!\\nlii us. War, in my estimation, is indispensible in this\\nworld, and no man has ever been so great to\\ninvent something in its place. Evil against Evil\\nto keep the Balance of Power.\\nWhy certainly!\\nMrs. Titus War, in my estimation, is cruel and dis-\\ntasteful, and it should be discarded from the re-\\ncords of civilization. But if it is an Evil ag-ainst\\nEvil to keep the Balance of Power and if this\\nhas become a law of the Common Order, in ray\\nestimation, it would be quite foolish to undertiike\\nto revolutionize an established order of thing-s.\\nLouis H. War, in my estimation, is cruel and dis-\\ntasteful, but it has made many heroes broug-ht\\nnational prosperity, and always has been the\\ngreat agent of civilization. So then let us have\\nwar.\\nMr. Hanno. So then you have come to the conclusion\\nthat war is an institution of the Common Order,\\nhave you?\\nKarl H. Yes, pa. What conclusion have you come\\nto?\\nMr. Hanno. I have come to a conclusion to give you\\na good pointer on that: Go to the national capi-\\ntal and have an interview with the king on that\\nsubject.\\nTittis. O, no, father Hanno, that wouldn t do. The\\nking must be compelled to come to us, then we\\ncan dictate terms to him; but if we go to the king\\nwe play the trump right into his hand and he will\\ndictate terms to us. You see the point?", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "68 THE DRAMA OF DESTINY-KARL HANNO.\\nMr. Hanno. I do. But better let him have one\\ntrump than lose all the cards. Suppose you could\\ndo no better than to pay the king- an extravagant\\nprice for sending out an expedition, how much\\nwould this extravagent price be? You know war\\nis not in sight.\\nlitus.\u00e2\u0080\u0094We. will see: 1,000 wagons upon which to load\\nthe gold; 8,000 troops to give it a safe-conduct;\\n3,000 hands; 2,000 helpers; 4,000 horses; provis-\\nions and supplies for nearly a month. The expe.\\ndition will cost at a reasonable price $3,000,000^\\nand at an extravagant price $5,000,000.\\nMr. I/anno.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 l ioy: what is $5,000,000 out of $700,000,-\\n000?\\nKarl H. Yes, pa, but that s not all. The real point\\nis this; If the king were compelled to come to\\nus to furnish him a War-Loan, we could dictate\\nterms to him to the effect to store away our gold\\nin the government vaults and to place a guard\\nover it. The protection of the government is\\nalmost indispensible. $10,000,000 would not pay\\nfor the accommodation that we could get out\\nof the government if the king were compelled to\\ncome to us to furnish him a War-Loan. But of\\ncourse war will not come to further our purpose.\\nTitns. But what would you do if war should break\\nout now, right off, to-day, or any time yet before\\nwe start for the Secret Cave. You say we have\\n37 days yet before the display of the dragons will\\ncome to pass.\\nKarl H. What would I do? Why I should go at\\nonce to the national capital and give the govern-\\nment a chance to see rae about a War-Loan. But\\nnow understand they must cgme to us, then we\\ncaiji have it our own way.", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "THE DRAMA OF DESTINY -KARL HANNO. 69\\nTitus. What a power there is in that precious metal I\\nThe weekly paper comes in from Saint Marliduke, the\\nnational capital of the Hobbies, and Mrs. Titus reads\\nthe political news.)\\nMrs, lituS Listen to the news!\\nMay 23d: The session of the parliament had\\nfor its purpose an increase of the army and the navy\\nand as might be expected, met with opposition. Hot\\ndebates ensuing from both sides, resulting however\\nin the defeat of the bill on the ground, that peace\\nwas yet secure; the political horizon as clear as\\never and that there was no demand for an increase\\nof the army and navy, especially as the national\\ntreasury was showing a deficit in spite of the already\\nheavy taxation of the people.\\nKarl H. That settles that. No war, and no War- Loan,-\\nand we might as well get ready and start to the Se-\\ncret Cave the sooner the better. And if we can do\\nno more, we can at least remove the gold away from\\nthe breach. This we must do under all and any cir-\\ncumstances. And if we can do no better we must\\nat last resort to the objectionable means of burjing\\nit in the ground for safekeeping until we can pro-\\ncure means of transportation. We cannot tell what\\nmay yet happen. Perhaps we can make a deal with\\nthe government thereafter. Titus! good old Hobby,\\nlet us settle it right here: 35,000,000 ounces of gold\\nis equal in value to $700,000,000; 8350,000,000 will\\nbe yours. Now sign these papers certifying that\\nthis is your share. Now will that satisfy you?\\nTitus. No I and again, No! I cannot accept it; it is too\\nmuch; I am not entitled to so much. And why\\nsign papers?\\nKarl H. Oy it might come handy to show them before\\nan authority. Now come sign these papers for your\\nshare of $350,000,000.", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "70 THE DRAMA OF DESTINT-KAEL HANNO.\\nTitus. No, I am not entitled to so much as it has not\\ncost me a breath to acquire it,\\nKarl H Makes no difference, you have always done\\nthe same with me, giving me half of what you ac-\\nquired.\\nTitus. Yes, but that did not amount to so much.\\nKarl H. It did, too. One dollar in need is worth a hun-\\ndred when you have plenty, and I want you to ac-\\ncept this.\\nTitus. No, I tell you; I will not accept it- It is too\\nmuch.\\nKarl H. But you must. I insist upon it. It is your\\nlegal share, in accordance to our pledges to each\\nother: Not to leave one another until the fairest\\nconditions of life and happiness are established.\\nDare you do me such insult as to refuse to take half\\nof mine which I want to give you with a ready heart?\\nNow you take half of this and sign these papers.\\nYou must.\\nTitus. I must not. I will not. I can not. And let\\nthis be the last of it.\\nKarl H. How much then will you accept?\\n7\u00c2\u00abV\u00c2\u00ab5\u00e2\u0080\u0094 .5,000,000 ounces; $100,000,OCO Is all I want to\\ntake care of.\\nLidia H. {aside) Pa, what do you make of that? It\\nsounds like a fable.\\nPa H. {aside) .\u00e2\u0080\u0094I think that s all it is.\\nKarl H. Then sign these papers for 5,000,000 ounces\\nof gold as a legal protection for your own good.\\nThey might come handy.\\nTitus. All right Titus signs the Papers for 5 ,000,000\\nounces of gold, $100,000,000) and I will be then\\nthe second richest man in the world.\\nKatl H. Well you are the first man that I have ever\\nseen that could be satisfied.", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "THE dBama of DESTINT-KABL HANNO. U\\nMr. HannO Now if your scheme is really not a spirit-\\nual conundrum, Karl, you may hit it.\\nKarl H, Never mind, pa. I have everything to gain\\nand nothing to lose. But I know one thing: The\\nconviction of my heart must be first satisfied ere I\\ncan say to this world: Thou owest me nothing.\\nTitus, Now Karl remember, this is your trip. You\\nare supposed to take the lead, I, to follow. Have\\nyou provided for everything?\\nKarl H. Everything is ready to start. You know this\\ntime we don t need ropes, nor a casket; no rivers\\nto swim across. Yes! we are right in it. So then\\nall farewell. Off we go. They ttari\\nStran^r {Enters) ^zxX War I War! Warl War has\\nbeen declared.", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "SECTION III.\\n(Scene\u00e2\u0080\u0094 is a building on an immensely large scale bearing\\nall the features of royalty in one of the mightiest cities on earth.\\nThis is The Parliament Building y It consists of a large hall\\nwhere parliament meets, and a chamber adjacent to the entrance\\nof the parliament hall called the WaiHng Parlor: Parliament\\nmeets and the session is opened by the king with the Speech from\\nthe Throne, having for its purpose to secure a War-Loan fur-\\nnished by all the great financiers of the country who are also pres-\\nent at the right of the throne by a group to itself among whom\\nare also Karl Hanno and Titus.)\\nKine;. To the servants of the state, to the subjects and\\nto the representatives of the nation\\nIn God We Trust.\\nThis is a moment which, could all things be\\ncontrolled by human power, we would have gladly\\navoided and exult in the blessings of peace. But\\nthe destiny of a nation as well as that of every in-\\ndividual, guided and governed by the eternal laws\\nof the Higher Ordinance, has often designs different\\nfrom those of ours. As a nation we have desired\\npeace, but our desires have been follied by abuses,\\ninsults, and by violations of national rights and\\nhonor from an other nation which, as we would\\nhave presumed only a fortnight ago, could not have\\nbeen possible. As a consequence of this evil event\\nso brought on by the will of an ill-feeling people at\\nour border, your king and sovereign in the name of\\nhis government has declared war against this inso\\nlent and arrogant neighbor of ours in order to main-\\ntain our national rights and honor. In consequence\\nof this we shall do well to suit ourselves to the\\nsituation in which we are presently involved, to", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "THE DRAMA OF DESTINY-KARL HANNO. 78\\nserve his national interests as though it were his\\nown affair and in such a way that peace again may\\nsoon be restored in the achievement of our victory.\\nThis is our prayer. {Exit.)\\nPremier. To the parliament:\\nIn consequence of the sudden outburst of this\\nwar things are rushing, and the transaction of\\nbusiness connected therewith is to assume a quick\\nforward move direct to the point without the par-\\nliamentary clumsiness in the way of its decision.\\nFirst: It is the object of this parliamentary\\nsession to consider the state of finances, having\\nin view the express purpose to vote the govern-\\nment a War-Loan to meet the expenses of the war\\ncarried on on the largest scale for three months.\\nSecond: For the parliament to give its indorse-\\nment that the War-Loan must be furnished by\\nthe great financiers of our country so as to keep\\nus free from any foreign obligations. Prince of\\nGrain, the Hobby Treasurer, will state before\\nparliament the condition of the national treasury.\\nH. Treasurer Your honor: The national treasury of\\nthe Hobbies is empty.\\nPremier.- Everything is surprising; but to the point:\\nThe Minister of War will state the amount needed\\nfor carrying on the war on the largest scale for\\nthree months. Make your statements short!\\nMin. of War. Your honor: The amount necessary to\\ncarry on the war on the largest scale for three\\nmonths, both for the army and the navy, by a\\nforce of 700,000 men is 1425,000.000.\\nPiemie?. To be short, parliament is asked to vote a\\nWar-Loan amounting to the sum of $425,000,000.\\nIs there any opposition?\\nFrom the right. Your honor: I move that par\u00c2\u00ab", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "74 THE DHAMA OF DESTINY-KAEL HANNO.\\nliament ^ratit this loan without further delay,\\nand that the loan be furnished by the great finan-\\nciers of our own country.\\nPremier. Any opposition? No opposition! The\\nmotion is carried.\\nThe g-overnment is granted a War-Loan of\\n^25,000,000, voted by parliament in this extra\\nsession, and the loan must be furnished by the\\ngreat financiers of our own country as we desire\\nto keep free from any foreign obligations.\\n[Parliament is dismissed, but all the great financiers\\nremain.)\\nPremier- Now ye great financiers of the country, the\\ngovernment is looking up to your financial aid, to\\nstand by the country and to furnish the War -Loan\\nas we desire to keep free-from any foreign obligations.\\nProceed with your offers quick and short to the\\npoint.\\nChief of the Banks. Your honor: All the banks in the\\ncounty, at present, can furnish no more than $50,-\\n000,000. The issue is coming too quickly.\\nMilt of War. Heavens! is that all? that s right\\nPremier. Everything is surprising! But mind you:\\nYou ought to stand by the country and furnish the\\nloan, even should it come out of your private pock-\\nets. The country now is in sore need of it.\\nChief of the Banks. Yes! yes! I understand very well,\\nbut our private pockets desire to keep free from\\nforeign obligations.\\nKarl H. to Titus {aside) We will wait a little yet.\\nTitus to Karl H {aside) Yes, let ihe govern aient be\\ndriven into the cormr.\\nPremier. What can be done? If there is no other way\\nto raise the loan we must apply to our common cit-\\nizens*\\nChie/ of the Banks.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Y out honor: The banks got all", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "THE DRAMA OF DESTINY-KARL HANNO.\\nthe money of the common citizens, and the wealthy\\nones have got their money invested in foreign Secu-\\nrities. I think this war has come at a wrong time.\\nPremier. Yes, but this is business of the government.\\nBut then Shall the government after all be driven\\nto foreign obligations?\\nTitus to Karl H. (a^z^^.)\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Now, Karl, let loose.\\nKarl H. Your honor: I will furnish the govern-\\nment the War- Loan of $425,000,000 out of my own\\npocket, but I desire to have a private interview with\\nthe head of the government to arrange terms and\\nconditions to suit both parties effecting the loan.\\n{All bewildered.\\nPremier. Everything is surprising! But is it really\\npossible that there is One man in the Hobby nation\\nable to do such a thing? This is a staggering state-\\nment and I am hardly prepared to believe the good\\nstory. Well, we shall see: You shall have your\\nprivate interview with the head of the government.\\nAnd that lets you out, ye great financiers.\\n{The Premier, Karl Hanno, Titus, the Minister of\\nWar and the Secretary of the State repair into the Wait\\ning Parlor and are joined by the King. Ail others\\nleave.\\nTitus to Karl {aside.) Don t bring in your spirits when\\nspeaking to the King.\\nKarl.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 O, no! for heaven s sake.\\nKing. Premier may present the purpose of this confi-\\ndential interview.\\nPremier. His Majesty King may not be surprised to\\nhear that the War Loan of $425,000,000 could not\\nbe raised by all the great financiers of the country;\\nbut his Majesty may rightfully be surprised to hear\\nthat no more than $50,000,000 could be raised by all\\nthe banks of the country owing to the various cir-\\ncumstances of the financial system. After all the", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "76 THE DEAMA OF DESTINY-KARL HANNO.\\nfinancial sources became exhausted, Karl Hanno,\\nthis gentleman here in his Majesty s presence, offers\\nto furnish the War-Loan of $425,000,000 out of his\\nown private wealth, depending however upon cer-\\ntain conditions, for which reason he also prefers to\\nhave a private interview with the head of the gov-\\nernment as regards the loan. Things are all sur-\\nprising\\nKing Karl Hanno, your high honor is met with the\\ngreatest pleasure of your king and sovereign es-\\npecially in a moment like this when the country has\\nneed of you. In all the land, and the world over\\nthere is nothing to compare with you, nothing to\\ncompare with the astounding wealth controlled by\\nyou a man who is able to answer the wishes of a mighty\\nnation. Your high honor is now graciously invited\\nto make known upon what conditions your honor can\\nafford to furnish the War -Loan, and if the conditions\\nare in any way acceptable the deal shall be made,\\nand closed forthwith. You may speak freely, with-\\nout restraint in a confidential manner. It is now\\nbusiness, understand!\\nKarl H. As it has so far pleased his Majesty to\\nmeet my modesty under the existing circumstances,\\nI am equally as glad and ready to render my useful-\\nness to the service of my king and sovereign as to\\nthe country as well regards furnishing the War Loan.\\nThe conditions upon which this loan is depending,\\nis not the arbitrary policy of my financial sway, but\\nthey are conditions equally imposed on myself. It\\nis thus: His Majesty is of course well aware of the\\nnewly explored country beyond the Great River\\nwhose main attraction is Crystal City filled with\\ng old. Many schemes and enterprises have foun-\\ndered on account of the barrier of the Great River", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "THE DRAMA OF DESTINY -KARL HANNO. 77\\nforbidding access to this illustrious place. In com-\\npany with my friend Titus we have made more than\\none trip to Crystal City, resulting, however, in\\nfailures- But on one of these trips, and under\\npeculiar circumstances, we have discovered a mys-\\nterious cave, and a chasm within its gorge, and there\\nlay hidden 35,000,000 ounces of pure, solid gold\\nready for use, equaling of course, $700,000,000.\\nOne -seventh of this amount, or 5,000,000 ounces,\\nis the share of my business partner, Titus. Now I\\nshall furnish the government the War- Loan upon\\nthe following conditions\\nFirst: The government shall fit out an expedi-\\ntion under the auspices of Karl Hanno and his busi-\\nness partner, Titus, to be sent out 600 miles from the\\nborder of our country to the Great River, the newly\\nexplored country, in order to transport 35,000,000\\nounces of gold. The expedition must be furnished\\nwith 1,000 wagons or transports upon which to load\\nthe gold, and an escort party of six regiments, 5,000\\nmen, to give it a safe-conduct against any attack of\\nrobbery.\\nSecond: The gfovernment shall give guaran-\\ntee that all the expenses connected with this ex-\\npedition, shall be free of charge to the furnisher\\nof the War- Loan.\\n-Third: The government shall permit the re-\\nmainder of the gold of Karl Hanno and Titus to\\nbe stored away in the government vaults for safe\\nkeeping with a guard placed over it during the\\nstorage, but the owners of the gold are to have\\ncomplete control thereof.\\nFourth: The expedition is urged to start\\nwithin three days so as^to be there in twenty-one\\ndays hence,", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "tS THE DRAMA OF DESTINT-KARL HANNO.\\nOnly upon these conditions shall I be able to\\nfurnish the War-Loan of $425,000,000.\\nKing. The conditions here so stated are all accept-\\nable, except that the storag-e of the remainder of\\nthe g-old in g-overnment vaults, and its safe-guard-\\ning-, must be paid for, as this is a private affair\\nand cannot g o on public expense.\\nKarl Hanno. Very obediently do we agree to pay for\\nthis. Will his majesty demand the sum to be paid\\nfor the storag-e of the g-old annually?\\nKing. $4,000,0000 is graciously demanded for the\\nstorage of said gold annually,\\nKarl Hanno. And this shall be paid out of the inter-\\nest of the War -Loan for which I legally charg-e 2\\nper cent annually amounting- to ;?8,500,000 a year.\\nPremier. Well I consider that a g-ood bargain on the\\npart of the loaner and on the part of the govern-\\nment. I consider it is the best that can be done.\\nFor the national necessity of war is really the\\ndictator of terms, and his Majesty will be prudent\\nto close the deal.\\nKing I say, g-o ahead. The secretary will draw up\\nthe papers stipulating the articles of agreements\\nas set forth in these proceedings of both parties.\\nSecretary His Majesty: It is necessary for his busi-\\nness partner to produce papers showing his share\\nof the gold that is to be stored away in the gov-\\nernment vaults.\\n{Titus produces the papers which Karl Hanno caused him\\nto sign with regard to his share of the gold. The papers are\\ndrawn up, signed and ratified by all parties, and delivered\\nover to Karl Hanno. Exit King.)\\nPremier. That closes the deal as far as the papers\\nare concerned. The loan is yet to be furnished.\\nAnd the expedition will be ready to start at 6", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "THE DRAMA OF DESTINT-KARL HANNO. 79\\no clock in the morning. The king- left a note\\nhere with me requesting you {Karl H and Titus)\\nto remain here for a while; he has something- vet\\nto communicate to you.\\nTiius. Thfjnk you for your candid assistance in our\\ntransactions with the king. We are men to be de-\\npended upon and we will furnish the War- Loan if\\nthe expedition does not fail to bring all the gold\\nhither. We shall see you again and remember you.\\nPtrmier. Adieu! {Exit Karl Hayiyio and Titus re-\\nmain in the Waiting Parlor.\\nTitus. I am glad that we can be to ourselves again.\\nBut could it be possible for heaven to change its\\nface so suddenly? Things transpire as though it\\nwere a dream. Compare this moment with that\\nwhen first I met you at the edge of the forest along-\\nside of the Mountain -Meadow sitting on a bundle of\\nevergreen and craving for hope; compare this mo-\\nment with that when in sympathy and manly love I\\nendeavored to persuade you to follow me in the pur-\\nsuance of our earthly welfare. And to-day. What\\na change We can only stagger at the high handed\\ndispensation of things so witnessed by us during\\nthese few days. It is too much, too bewildering,\\ntoo overwhelming to go over the field again and\\ndwell on the all wonderful events that have followed\\none after the other as though it were a dramaiic play\\nwith a fixed plot. No No Never No, never will\\nI again believe that man is the maker of his own\\ndestiny. For these are things of an order higher\\nthan man is able to dictate. It is the Higher\\nOrdmance set forth by the Maker of all Things and\\nover which no man has power to exercise his in-\\nfluence or to shape his destiny, but of which he is\\nsimply the actor in the drama. I behold now how", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "80 THl DBAMA OP DESTINT-KABL HINNO.\\nthe consequence of a small cause can change the\\nwhole course of the human life. Had we been suc-\\ncessful in our first trip to Crystal City, the course of\\nour life would have been entirely different and we\\nwould not be here under circumstances like these,\\ntreating with kings and sovereigns. Karl, you are\\nright in it. You are the Child of Destiny.\\nKarl H We made a good bargain, don t you think?\\nTitus. Yes! and secured further advantages still. What\\naccounts for the development of your great busi-\\nnesslike capacity?\\nA ar/ //.\u00e2\u0080\u0094What accounts for it? Ah! I never had a\\nchance to show my businesslike capacity. My\\nfaculties are the same as before and while they had\\nnothing to do in the past, they find now employ-\\nment. For me to be successful is to be wide awake\\n\u00c2\u00abto secure victory. I saw that the king and the gov-\\nernment were hard pressed in raising the War -Loan\\nand I simply took advantage of the business. I\\nsuppose they know it.\\nTitus. Strange if they wouldn t- But you have given\\nyour act of shrewdness an innocent appearance so\\nthat it did not touch the king s vanity. That was\\ngood tactics-\\nKarl H. O yes, now that we are in the saddle, we shall\\nknow how to ride. Just wait! I think I learot\\nsomething Now whenever we want to gain a good\\npoint in dealing with our patrons, we must hide our\\nsharklike keenness and appear innocent, and by so\\ndoing we will get their confidence. But that would\\nnot be honest, would it?\\n7\u00c2\u00ab7tt.y.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 What s the difference? They do the same.\\nWeight against weight to make the scale balance I\\nfind nothing wrong in that. Remember the laws of\\nnature", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "THE OR4Mi. OF DESTINY-KIBL H4NN0 81\\nKarl H- That s right. We must abide by the laws ot\\nnature not to suffer an evil consequence. We can\\nalways be honest and fair to others but we shall not\\nmake the mistake to give others gold, when they pay\\nus back in copper.\\nScfvant {opens the door).- The king .sends word not to\\nget out of patience to wait. {Exiiy)\\nKarl H. Now I should just like to know what we are\\nhere waiting for.\\nlitus. Lord knows what is brewing in the king s head.\\nThings are very surprising, that s what the premier\\nfound out, and yon know the king has a daughter.\\nKarl H- The king has a daughter, yes; but let us get\\nour $700,000, COO first, then \\\\vc can .speculate on\\nsuch things.\\nTitus. And you know she is the only natural heir and\\nwill succeed her father on the throne. It seems to\\nme I can read the future, Karl; you may hit it.\\nKarl H. Then, what do you read? What do you see?\\nlitus. I see this: When you shall have furnished the\\nWar -Loan of $425,000,000 you will cause universal\\nadmiration; being single, and not married, the king\\nwill take an interest in you as regards your future\\nwife; he may favor a union, and give vou his daugh-\\nter in marriage. Presuming that this shall be the\\ncase, we can further presume that when his daugh-\\nter, your supposed future wife, shall succeed to the\\nthrone, she will abdicate in favor of her husband,\\nand you will be proclaimed king. Through his\\nspies the king knows by this time that you are\\nsingle yet and not married. And I think there is\\nsomething brewing in the king s mind that will\\njustify my prediction.\\nAa;^/ ^.--Heavens! Is there no limit to my fortune?\\nIt is too much to swallow it all at once.", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "82 THE DRAMA OF DESTINY-KARL UANNO.\\nTitus. Oh, it may take years yet before all this wil\\nhappen. But the trouble just now is you haven\\nseen the king s daughter to know how she will\\nplease you and you don t know when you will see\\nher. Of course, if she isn t anything that will make\\nyou happy you would want neither her nor her\\nthrone.\\nKarl H. Who tells you all these thing s? A wonder-\\nful predictor, so you are. But your predictions\\nhave always come true by unusual methods, and\\nsuch things may happen again. And if ever I\\nshould get to be king, be sure, you shall be my\\npremier. Of course I know nothing yet of the\\nking s daughter, whether she will suit me or I\\nher. And worst of all, her Royal Highness can-\\nnot be approached by men without a title. Can t\\nyou think of a scheme to manage this?\\nTitus. You already have a title. You are the Child\\nof Destiny. All other titles are of no avail to\\nyou.\\nKarl H And that will do me. The door is opened\\nby a servant).\\nServant. The king sends word not to get out of pa-\\ntience to wait.\\nTitus. Well, what are we kept here waiting for?\\nServant. Don t ask me. {Exit).\\nKarl j^. Confound such business as that is. How\\nindependent and curt. I don t think they are\\nmuch struck on our looks here in the capital.\\nBut there is one thing, Titus, we can well afford\\nto be independent too you know.\\nTitus. I know, I know. Weight against weight to\\nkeep the balance of the scales. Just wait till we\\nget the 35,000,000 ounces of gold, nothing- will\\nbalance us. Don t you think that will make us", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "THE DRAMA OF DE9TINY-KARL HANNO, 88\\nfc ;l a little dig-oified, too, then? You know what\\nI mean.\\nKarl U. Yes, I know what you mean, but I will tell\\nyou after while; not now. You know things are\\nsurprising- and something- must turn up pretty\\nsoon that will lift the veil of mysterious doubts\\nas regatds the king s daughter; if not I shall call\\nthe whole affair a royal conundrum and be done\\nwith it.\\n1 itus. O, I wouldn t be quite so fast as that. I\\nwould give things a little time for development\\nand not set my sail until I know from what direc-\\ntion the wind blows. Pick your roses after they\\nare budded out, not before.\\nKarl H. And he has something to communicate to\\nus yet, the king said, as though he would not dare\\ntell. In my estimation this must be either some-\\nthings very g-ood or something very bad.\\nTittis.. No, I don t think it is that, for that would be\\nbeneath the dignity of the king-. But whatever\\nthe purpose is I think it is something that entered\\nthe king- s mind during the last moment of our\\nbusiness transaction, and therefore it can neither\\nbe a scheme nor anything so very important; it is\\nperhaps something- only of an incidental nature\\nthat he wants to bring in yet in the matter of the\\nexpedition, about which he is now having a con-\\nsultation with his advisers. He may consider it\\na risky thing to send out an expedition so far\\naway incurring enormous expenses.\\nKarl H. Ah! then it is surely this: The king is in\\ndoubt about our having discovered such an amount\\nof gold in a chasm, and he thinks that the whole\\nscheme is not genuine, and if that is the case we\\nmight get into a muss where we would like to be", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "84 THE DRAMA OF DESTINY-KARL HANNU.\\nout of. It was a good thing that we kept our\\nmouths shut about spirits having had a hand in it.\\nTitus. You bet your life tliat was a good thing- For\\nsuch things stand no show when it comes right\\ndown to bnsitiess. f?ut what s the difference.\\nEverybody knows, or ought to know his own busi\\nness and if you are sure and positive that on such\\nand such a day the dragons will bring up said\\namount of gold out of the abyss, what s the dif-\\nference how you got in possession of this knowledge?\\nWell, yes we shall see.\\nKarl H. Hum! Hum! I consider it an insult to ques-\\ntion the truth. Whether the dragons will bring up the\\ngold on the day stated, is a matter of privacy purely\\nresting with us, and is nobody s business. But I\\nwould like to know what the king keeps us here\\nwaiting for. The door oi ens.\\nServant. The king sends word not to get uneasy, but\\nhave patience to wait.\\nKarl H You tell your king the measure of patience i.s\\njust about exhausted.\\nServant.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Y^ ,V [Exit.)\\nKarl He doesn t even show respect. I am sure he\\nis acting under instructions. He wouldn t be al-\\nlowed to do that. Hum! Hum!\\nliius. Well this is our first experience at the royal\\ncourt and it has begun with a riddle. But I am get-\\nting more interested in the game now than at first;\\nlet us follow it up and see how it will turn out. I\\nam sure the king must have a purpose in view what-\\never it is. I am prepared for a surprise.\\nKarl H. Presume we do, but that will keep us in ig-\\nnorance of not knowing what is going on, and as\\nbusiness men we cannot afford to do that. Precious\\nmonients are wasted when we have none to spare.", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "THE DBAMA OF DESTINY -KABL HANNO. 85\\nBesides that we should know what we are here\\nwaiting for so as to be prepared for what is to come.\\nThings are surprising, but surprises are not always\\npleasant, especiallv in times like these. Remem-\\nber that\\nlitus.- And lest you forget, I say it again: I am more\\ninterested in this game now than at first. A sur-\\nprise Remember.\\nKarl Well then I hope it will not be what was\\nguessed at, namely: The expedition. For; after\\nhaving gone to so much trouble, and after having\\nthe thing so far along I do hate to see our scheme\\nhere in this capital go to collapse. Do you under-\\nstand why I am getting out of patience? {Door\\nop 671 s.\\nServant. The king sends word when the measure of\\npatience is exhausted, to fill -it again and not to get\\nout of patience to wait.\\nKarl H. You tell your king there will soon be two pa-\\ntients here.\\nServant. Hum yea!^ {Exit.)\\nlitus. Now got it: That s the clown; yes, that s the\\nclown of the court, and I think the king is sending\\nhim to prepare us for something funny and we\\nneed not be a bit uneasy about the expedition affair.\\nI have heard before that at times our king is just as\\nfunny as he can be, I mean, full of jokes and gayety\\nenough to amuse anybody. And as for company, he\\nis just fine.\\nKarl H. Why, he didn t look to be that way.\\nlitus. No, not out in public. As a sovereign he has to\\nmaintain a high degree of dignity. You know that.\\nKarl H- This and many things more, are notwhat I am\\npresently concerned in. For me to accomplish suc-\\ncess is to be wide awake to secure victory. There", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "86 THE DRAMA OF DESTINY-KAEL HANNO.\\nwas a time when my capability did avail me nothing\\nas destiny was set against me; but now, after hav-\\ning become the Child of Destiny, I am the Man in\\nthe Harness Straighforward to my purpose is\\nhenceforth the policy of mine. No lingering here,\\nno hands in pockets; it is now the Man of the Hour\\nwho enters upon the scene. The 35,000,000 ounces\\nof gold must first be secured before anything else\\ncan be thought of, and I reject and despise any\\nspeculation made as regards my future wife, or a\\nthrone, or what is brewing in the king s mind; all\\nthat talk is not worth the breath required for its ut-\\nterance. But let me be in control of $600,000,000,\\nkings and sovereigns shall feel my power and do\\nme homage. Even this is the Promise of Destiny.\\nConfound the business, anyhow. What are we here\\nwaiting for? I am getting sick and tired- {Door\\nopenS\\nServant. The king sends word whenever you get sick\\nand tired, he will send you the doctor, but just have\\na little more patience to wait. He will be fatherly\\nto you.\\nKarl H. You tell your king, the measure of patience is\\nexhausted, and we are out of patience.\\nServant. Yes, your honor. He will be fatherly to you.\\nJust have patience. {Exit.)\\nKarl H. Now what do you make of that? Confounded\\nwreckerty, crackerty, Mephistopheles I will give\\nhim just five minutes yet and pull out of here.\\nWhat do you say?\\nTitus. Something has got to be done, for these raa-\\nnoeuverings of the king are coming in so thick on us\\nthat I can t explain them away any more. Still I\\nam eager to see the curiosity of the day, and 1 would\\nhate to throw up the game now, for we may never", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "THE DRAMA OF DESTINY-KARL PANNO. 8^\\nbe able to remedy the mistake. You know it s the\\nking.\\nKarl H. And he will be fatherlj to us. How silly!\\n1 itiis O, well, that s a king- s style, nothing- is meant\\nby it. Karl, remember: Not so very long- ag^o\\nyou would have been glad, and you would have\\nconsidered it a high honor to be a waiter on the\\nking, and although things have changed so\\nmightily, you can nevertheless be independent\\nfrom others. Remember that.\\nKarl H. But remember: I am the Child of Destiny,\\nand I have nothing to depend upon but the prom-\\nise communicated to me that solemn night in that\\nfarm house by the grand display of a number of\\nvisions, that the time is at hand when I shall be\\nblessed, not only with a fortune, but with all that\\nin which I shall see all of my wishes answered.\\nThis, and the laws given me by which to abide, I\\nshall never forget nor lose sight of no matter how\\ndiscouraging things may look in the future, and\\nthere is where I have invested my patience. Con-\\nfounded; let us pull out. (Door opens).\\nSe7-vant. May your high honors be prepared for a\\nReception Party -Thank you. {Exit).\\n{Enter Four gentlemen ajtd three young ladies by a\\nprelude of nt usic\\nReception Praty. To your highest honor, Karl Hanno\\nand Titus: Under a royal order we are sent to\\naccompany you to the royal palace, to dine with\\nthe royal family at a Reception Dinner given by\\nthe king in your honor. They all go).", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "SECTION 4.\\n(Scene The scene is the same as in the previous section\u00e2\u0080\u0094 in\\nthe interior of the parliament building. The dignitaries of the\\ncourt, and oj the cabinet, the principal officers of the state, and a\\njam of public audience, all are assembled in the parliament hall\\nand are presided over by the premier who is seated immediately\\nbefore the throne. The pretnier has hardly called the assembly\\nto order, when soon after deafening cheers and the thunder of a\\nthousand cannons annotmcing the arrival of the expedition. One\\nthousand wagons loaded with pure, solid gold ready for use, equal\\nto $r] GO, 000,000, is under control of Karl Hanno and Titus, out of\\nwhich Karl Hanno will now furnish the War-Loan of $4^5,-\\n000,000.)\\nPremier The assembly is called to order. Fellow\\nCitizens: As is generally believed the expedition\\nis approaching-, and its arrival is hourly expected.\\nThis morning a herald arrived here stating that\\nhe left the expedition yesterday morning; that all\\nwent well and that they were but 60 miles away\\nfrom here. This is good news. At the same\\ntime a message came in from the front stating\\nthat the enemy were repulsed and dislodged from\\nhis strong position.\\nAlso that a naval engagement had occurred during\\nwhich two of the enemy s vessels were captured.\\nThis is good to start on. But our further success\\ndepends as much upon our means as upon our\\nbrave soldiers and able generals {deafening cheers\\nand canno7is^ roar) Citizens! That means the ar-\\nrival of the expedition: Let him come! He, the\\nfurnisher of the War-Loan. We cannot do without\\nmoney. Let him come, he that shall furnish the\\nmeans to further the national cause to carry on the\\nwar and force the victory.", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "THE DRAMA OF DESTINY-KARL HANNO. 89\\n{Karl Hanno and Titus enter. They are met with ^reat\\ncheers.\\nPremier The king welcomes you, ye men of the nation,\\nKarl Hanno and Titus, and let it he known that your\\nhonor, Karl Hanno, shall be highly rewarded by\\nthe nation at every opportunity for the oreat service\\nrendered to the country without a precedent in the\\nform of the War- Loan. Your honor may now jho-\\nceed to foreclose the transartion. /urrs.)\\nKarl H His Kxcellcncy, premier, may hereby lake\\nnotice that Karl Hanno and Titus, have safely re-\\nturned from the expedition having also effected the\\ntransportation of the 35,U00,(JU0 ounces of pure,\\nsolid gold ready for use, amounting to i?^ 700, 000, 000,\\nof which 21,250,000 ounces of gold, $425,000,000\\nis hereby delivered over into the hands of the gov-\\nernment as a War-Loan 13,750,000 ounces, the\\nremainder of the 35,000,000 ounces of gold, are\\nstored away in the government vaults for safe-\\nkeeping and are the treasures of Karl Hanno and\\nTitus, of which 5,000,000 ounces of gold is the\\nshare of the latter. Both have full control of their\\ntreasures while in said storage as is stipulated iu\\nthe Articles of Agreement. His Excellency is re-\\nquested to ratify papers showing that the War- Loan\\nhas been furnished.\\nThe papers are duty ratified and delivered to Karl\\nI Ion HO.)\\n^^emur.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The transaction of the War- Loan is declared\\nas finally settled.\\nPremier to Karl Hanno (aside). The king has sent me a\\nnote requesting me to tell you that his Majesty wishes\\nyou not to leave the Capital yet as his Majest} wishes\\nto communicate to you a matter of some private rlVair.\\nYou and your friend Titus may K* into the Waiting\\nParlor to await the wishes of the king.", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "90 THE DRAMA OF DESTINY- KARL HANNO.\\n{All leave. Karl Hanno and Titus repair to the Wait-\\ning Parlor to await the wishes of the king.)\\nKarl H. Now I have found relief. And now we can\\ntalk on the subject of my future wife, as now I am\\nin control of a fortune such as was never witnessed\\nor enjoyed by any mortal.\\nTitus. Karl: Ha! Ha! It seems we can t get rid of\\nthe king any more. It gives me lots of thinking.\\nEvents develope rapidly, and as I have said before\\nstarting out on the expedition I say it yet, that there\\nis something brooding in the king s mind that might\\nhatch a new chicken to your fortune. The king is\\ntaking an interest in you favoring the plan of a\\nunion and will give you his daughter in marriage-\\nNow you ll see. She of course will succeed her\\nfather on the throne, and mark before you know it,\\nshe will abdicate in favor of her husband, and you\\nwill be proclaimed King of the Hobbies Of\\ncourse all this is the consequence of the War- Loan.\\nSince you have done so great a service for the coun-\\ntry in the hour of need the king, no doubt, considers\\nit right and proper lor you to be connected with the\\nhighest interests of the king, and the country as\\nwell. This is only a logical consequence. Laugh,\\nif you please; the chicken is hatching all the same.\\nKarl H. Ha! Ha! If there is a new chicken hatching\\nto my fortune, then, what will you call it when the\\nchicken is growing into a big hen? Kxplain\\nlitus. I have already explained it. Presumption is that\\nyou will marry the king s daughter, the successor\\non the throne, this I call the New Chicken to your\\nfortune she will abdicate her throne in favor of\\nher husband and you will be proclaimed King of the\\nHobbies, and that I call the Grown Hen. Laugh\\nagain, if you please.", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "THE DRAMA OF DESTINY-KARL HANNO. 9\\nKarlH. Ha! Ha! Ha! I think you are reaching too\\nfar over the railing, Titus; you might go overboard.\\nDon t you know that our good old king is but seven\\nyears older than I am, and that he might outlive\\nme; and don t you know that I am nearly twice as\\nold as is the king s daughter? These things do not\\ncompare well.\\nlitus. Do not compare well, no! and it will be all the\\nmore wonderful when it will happen- In the first\\ncase, heaven can change its face in one day; and in\\nthe second case, remember that you are the Child of\\nDestiny and you are destined to see wonderful\\nthings-\\nKarl H. Yes! you are a most wonderful predictor and\\nit may all happen, but as I have said before, your\\npredictions have come true by methods and ways\\ndifferent from what was supposed. One is tickled\\nto see how enthusiastic and sincere you seem to\\nbe in your own fancy and I cannot see really what\\ngood grounds you have to make good your predic-\\ntions.\\nlitus- Ah! you remember well the day before we started\\nout on the expedition how the king kept us waiting\\nfor something that bothered our heads to guess on,\\nand to our sweetest surprise a Royal Reception\\nto dine with the royal family and in the very\\npresence of the king s daughter was the* outcome of\\nthat play. What reasor. had the king for this?\\nKarlH. Perhaps it was all smoke and nothing in it.\\nBut what reason did he have, and how do you ex-\\nplain it?\\n7 itus- -It is only a logical consequence. Facts will tell,\\nnot smoke. Having received a royal invitation to\\ndine with the royal family and in presence of the\\nprincess, the heiress to the throne, the king is too", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "92 THE DRAMA OF DESTINY-KARL HANNO.\\nwell balanced in mind not to know how all that\\nwould be interpreted. -Vnd what under the sun,\\nwhy was that done in presence of the princess?\\nKarl H- O, I presume they were all delighted over to\\nsee the greatest financiers in the world. That, that,\\nthat s it!\\nTitus. Ha! Ha! I don t a^rce; logically it is different:\\nWomen do not care so much for great finaiTciers,\\nand a young lady of her royal type all the fess. But\\nI think this: The king had already contemi)lated a\\nscheme, and of course the king wanted to give his\\ndaughter a chance to see whether she would find in\\nyou her suitor, and this chance was sought in the\\nRoyal Reception. This also gave you a chance of\\nthe same kind, as you would want to be suited like-\\nwise. It now followed that in you she found her\\nsuitor, and during the time of our expedition plans\\nwere made to effect a union after our return, and\\nafter the War-Loan was furnished, the king has re-\\nquested you not to leave the capital yet but to await\\nhis wishes in a matter of a private affair. That s\\nI lHin enough. And now the chicken is hatching.\\nIt s so! It s so! It is so!\\nKarl H Ha! Ha! And she was so pretty, too. So\\nsweet, so graceful, so agreeable, so modest and so\\nlovely that, wherever she was, there seemed to be\\nsunshine. It must be amusing to see how great\\nmen, after so many deeds of heroism, can give way\\nto love and become so little.\\n7 itus. So then you mean to say that you love her, do\\n}ou not?\\nKarl H. O well, yes; and if the whole scheme should\\ndissolve in smoke I wish that it had never hap-\\npened.\\n7 itus. Well, well; it didn t get you that bad, dit it?", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "THE DRAMA OF DESTINY-KARL HANNO. 93\\nKarl H. Well it should not, but if it did it shall never\\nhe found out. Oh, there- would he no harm in it,\\nprovided we have guessed the king s plan. All the\\nworld would call us champion detectives, but I am\\nafraid t)f what is said, counting the chickens be-\\nfore they are hatched out.\\nTitus. Ha! Ha! Ha! a fine farce: Wouldn t they rub\\ntheir hands over it if such a thing would happen\\nto the greatest financiers in the world But never\\nmind, if we really do count the chickens before they\\nare hatched out, we can say this nuuh at any rate\\nthey are hatching.\\nharl H Good enough, and I wish Ihc king woujil\\nhurry on with his wishes- I am prepared to see\\nthe Logical conset|uence come true as raj idly as\\npossible according to your conclusion. I am getting\\ntired of waiting,\\n7 Uhs. And I on my part, I do expect nothing else than\\nto see the king s premier come in and lay the king s\\nplan before you as regards a union with his daugh-\\nter, Mouriue H., the heiress to the throne. Remem-\\nber the time when the king kept us waiting here\\nbefore and I g.iessed on the king s plan precisely\\nthe same as I do now and for some reason dropped\\nthe idea of such being the king s plan, and don t\\nyou know I was right about it? Why should I not\\nbe right about it this time? Remember the Royal\\nReception. It is the keynote to the whole song.\\n/\\\\(i i I believe it myself now, and the king-\\nhas been very candid to us and has treated us in\\nsuch a way that Ins plans could not be mistaken\\nunder any ordinary observation. Only I think\\nthis: The g^ood thing is coming too easy, (xood\\nthings do not come so easy.\\n7;V? !5. -What do you care? and what difference does", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "94 THE DRAMA OF DESTINI-KARL HANNO.\\nthat make? All the better for you and us both.\\nNow when the premier shall step in and lay the\\nking s plan before you as reg^ards giving- you his\\ndaughter in marriage who will succeed him on\\nthe throne, you will accept the proposition and the\\nthing will soon be over with. You will marry\\nthe king s daughter right off and as soon as\\nsomething happens to the king and he dies, your\\nwife will ascend the throne and as I think, she\\nwill abdicate soon after in your favor, and you\\nwill be proclaimed king of the Hobbies. Don t\\nyou see?\\n{Aside.). Well, now comes the premier. Be careful\\nwhat you say, Karll\\nPremier {Enters). Gentlemen\\nKarl H. Yes your honor!\\nPremier. I am charged by his Majesty to communi-\\ncate to your honor, Karl Hanno, his royal wishes\\nas regards a matter of a private affajr.\\nKarl Hanno {Delighted) .\u00e2\u0080\u0094Yqs your honor. Some-\\nthing good?\\nPremier. Good for the king. It has been the wishes\\nof the king that his royal daughter, Mourine II,\\nheiress to the throne, should be given in marriage\\nto the Prince-of Grain, the Hobby Treasurer, the\\nceremonies of the wedding to take place on the\\n17th day of this month, June. {Karl looks setious,\\nso does Titus.) Now as regards the marriage of\\nthe Prince of Grain to Mourine IT, daughter of the\\nking, there is one obstacle in the way of it, which,\\nif not removed, may prove serious to the Prince\\nof Grain. The matter stands thus: The Prince\\nof Grain had the bad fortune to become the presi-\\ndent of a vast undertaking of a new mining en-\\nterprise. He had invested all the money that he", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "THE DRAMA OK DESTINY-KARL HANNO. 96\\nhad himself in addition to heavy loans besides,\\namounting- to in all $24,000,000 and was partly\\nsecured by the mines themselves. BtJt after the\\nmines had been fairly worked they inclined to ex-\\nhaustion and the mining stock fell to a minimum,\\nconsequently, the money so invested in the enter-\\nprise became almost a total loss to the investors\\nand especially so to the Prince of Grain. This\\nrenders the condition of the Prince of Grain very\\nuncomfortable, as he is now involved in debts\\nthat he is never able to pay, while his creditors\\nrush in on him and furiously demand their money.\\nHis majesty king is in sympathy with the prince\\nbecause of his misfortune, and because of the con-\\ntemplated marriage of the prince and his royal\\ndaughter. The king, in order to avoid public scan-\\ndals, wishes to have this matter settled as quietly\\nand as speedily as possible. His Majesty there-\\nfore wishes the financial assistance of your honor\\nin the form of furnishing a loan to the king- to\\nthe amount of $24,000,000 to set straight his in-\\ntended son-in-law. Shall the wishes of the king\\nhave compliance?\\nKail H. Very obediently shall the wishes of the\\nking be complied with and have the financial as-\\nsistance ol my honor in the form of furnishing\\nhis Majesty a loan of $24,000,000; rate of interest\\n2 per cent; secured by government bonds.\\nPremier. Very graciously will his Majesty accept the\\noffer of your honor, but as to the security of gov-\\nernment bonds, I have no authority to effect a\\nloan until I shall have consulted the king, and\\nyou friends may have the honor to patiently wait\\nhere yet a few moments and amuse yourselves as\\nbest you may until I shall return with an answer\\nfrom the king-. Adieu! {Exit.)", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "96 THE DKAMA OF DESTINY-KARL HANNO.\\n{Karl and Titus laughing.)\\nTitus. Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Tlit-rc now we have it\\nhig-li and low.\\nKarl //.\u00e2\u0080\u0094Ha? Ha! Ha! H;i! Ila! J.augli it off, now,\\nit s tbc best wc can do. Ha! Ha! Ha! To set\\nstraig:Vit his intended son-in-law. Don t that\\nbeat you? Things arc suri)rising-. Hutti! Hum!\\nHum!\\nTitus. Things are surprising-; never as is expected.\\nHa! Ha! Ha!\\nl\\\\ nJ U. Didn t I tell you how great men can g-ive\\nway to love and l)econic so little? It is simply\\namusing-.\\nTitus. SucVi is life.\\nKarl H. Such is love.\\nTitus. Then you still love her?\\nKarl H. Why, more than ever, and I wouldn t know\\nit had it not been now for the reverse of the thing-.\\nNow that she is lost to me, I do really find out\\nhow much I love her. But why in Sam s con-\\nformity could not I have been spared this unnec-\\nessary trouble? Why did we act so silly over the\\naffair and make fools of ourselves? Confound the\\nKoyal Reception, the cause of all evil. Well, it s\\na g-ood thing- nobody will ever know it. H will\\nstay with us. Crackerty; wreckerty; Mcphisto-\\npheles.\\nI itus. It will stay with us. But wc were too fast.\\nKarl II. Yes, and too silly. We have made fools of\\nourselves.\\nTilns. Oh, yes, men will g-et silly sometimes, too\\nand make fools of themselves. But who under\\nthe sun would have thoug-ht differently, and who\\nwould not have made a case out of it such as -we\\ndid? Surely this is stag-g-ering- all log-ic, and is\\neven stag-gering- my senses.", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "THE DRAMA OF DEST1NT-K4RL HANNO. 97\\nKarl H. But such a thing- is not new; it is as old as\\nthe existence of men and women, and is occurring\\nas frequently as the days come along. The\\nyoung man, meeting with a young lady striking\\nhis fancy, is inclined to make much out of little:\\nEvery motion, every act, every wink of her eye,\\nand every favorable word coming forth from the\\nadmired beauty, is taken as an inducement\\nespecially meant for him. In the next moment\\nhe discovers that he was mistaken, and also that\\nhe was making a fool of himself. But as I say:\\nSuch a thing is not new, for such is life, and such\\nis love.\\nTitus. But I repeat the fact. Wouldn t they rub\\ntheir hands over it if they would find out how the\\ngreatest financiers in the world made fools of\\nthemselves over a young woman?\\nKarl H. Wouldn t they, though? But if they would\\nrub their hands over us, at any rate, we should\\nhave as much reason to rub our hands over them\\nas they would have over us. Just think: The\\nking was obliged to do me homage and ask me\\nfor my financial assistance to set straight his\\nintended son-in-law in the face of his plight.\\nThat won t be all yet: I may yet levy hard terms\\non the king before furnishing the loan and we\\nmay have the satisfaction of rubbing our hands\\nover a pretty royal humiliation long after they get\\nthrough with us. I just tell you our mighty\\nwealth has placed us in a wonderfully good posi-\\ntion.\\nTitus. Hasn t it, though? And we will just be keen\\nenough to drive everything to the wall. We ve\\ngot them! Yes, we ve got them. Only one thing\\nthat I begrudge: We haven t got them where we", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0101.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "98 THE DBAMA OF DESTINY\u00e2\u0080\u0094 KARL HANNO.\\nwant them to be, but that was not our fault, as\\nwe cannot command the hand of destiny: For you\\nwill not g et the one you love, and my prediction,\\nthat you would be king, has g-one to the wall.\\nHum\\nKarl //.\u00e2\u0080\u0094What s the difference? For I shall see at\\nleast One moment in life in which I shall see all\\nof my wishes answered. And I do not for One\\nmoment lament the disappointment, I am already\\nking: I am King of Finances. Kings and sov-\\nereigns do me homage and bow to the power of\\nmy wealth such as was never before witnessed by\\nany mortal. Why, just think! I control $600,\\n000,000, enough to buy a kingdom of ray own; and\\nwhat need have I to lament over a thing that did\\nnot go to suit me? After all, mind you. thrre are\\nthirteen days yet before the marriage of Mourine\\nII. and the Prince of Grain will take place, and\\nmany leaves mciy turn over yet. Everything comes\\nto him who waits, and I am the Child of Destiny.\\nNow am I on the right track again. Can you see?\\nTitus. On the right track again; Karl Hanno, yes!\\nYou are indeed the Child of Destiny. You are\\nguided by things other than those of the Lower\\nOrder, and your conviction is truly not that of an\\nearthly agency. Were I but fortunate with these\\nheavenly things in trusting to the Blessing of All\\nGood, would not I be also happy?\\nKari, B. And you shall be happy as even I shall be,\\nfor such is the theme of my wishes and it is in-\\ncluded in the Promise of Destiny that I shall see.\\nat least One moment in life in which I shall see\\nall of my wishes answered and no matter which\\nway things may go, or how discouraging the mo-\\nments may be, all is under the sway of Destiny,", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0102.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "THE DRAMA OF DESTINT-KABL HANNO. W\\nwhich cannot be overruled by circumstances of\\nthe Lower Order. And as for us, we are the Ac-\\ntors on the Stagfe of Life. {Premier enters,)\\nPremier- Gentlemen I\\nKarl Fl. Yes, your Honor?\\nPremier. In reply to the conditions made by your\\nhonor, Karl Hanno, reg-ards the loan, the king\\ngraciously requests you to come to his royal pri-\\nvate chamber to have an understanding about\\nterms and conditions regards the loan.\\n{fCatl Hanno leaves Titus a id the premier in the\\nIVaiting Room.)\\nPremier. Confound the business. I am just worried to\\ndeath about all affairs. I wish the Prince of Grain\\nwould manage his own business.\\nTitus. So then we shall have a royal wedding pretty\\nsoon, shall we not, your Honor?\\nPremier. That s right, sir! And I do not see why such\\nmust take place just now, while the country is at\\nwar. Th ^re must be something pressing in the mat-\\nter, or else I do not understand it\\n7itus. Pressing? O, yes! Money matters are always\\npressing. How is his Majesty fixed on government\\nbonds\\nPremier. How fixed? The king cannot give govern-\\nment bonds to secure the loan unless he is scheming\\non something. And that, I think, is bis object in\\nhaving a secret understanding with Karl Hanno. I\\nunderstand Karl Hanno is single yet?\\nlitus- Karl Hanno is single yet- And what of it?\\nPremier. Nothing at all. But is it not astonishing how\\na man got possession of such mighty fortune? And\\nso young yet, too.\\nlitus. O, not so young. How old do ou think.\\nPremier. O, perhaps twenty -eight or thirty- Princess\\nLore.", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0103.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "100 THE DRAMA OP DESTINY-KARL HANNO.\\nMourine II. at the Royal Reception guessed him to\\nbe about twenty -four or twenty -five, as she is\\ntwenty -four herself,\\nTituS She must have admired him?\\nPtemier. Perhaps she did. But I am afraid the king\\nwill get his hands tied up, for Karl Hanno is full of\\nschemes to secure good bargains and to make acute\\nterms.\\nTitus. Not at all. He is too good for that, even had\\nhe the chance to do it. But I think if he stays much\\nlonger in this capital he will get rid of all his treas-\\nures. And then what?\\nPremier. And then we shall all be his debtors. But\\nexcuse me; I am called off again. I m worried to\\ndeath, confound it. {Exit. Karl Hanno enters\\nKarl H. I ve done it now\\nTitus. What did you do?\\nKarl II.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 I tied up the king.\\n7 //7/5.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 What! tied him up by that loan?\\nKarl iT^.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 That s right.\\nTitus. That s what the premier was afraid about, but I\\nlet on you were not sharp enough to do that. You\\nknow we learnt something: To secure a good point\\nwe must appear innocent, so as to avoid suspicion\\nof being sharpers. You know Hanno!\\nKarl H. And what about the premier?\\nTitus. He is worried to death.\\nKarl H. Nothing to us. What did he say?\\nTitus. Incidentally he said that Mourine II. at the\\nRoyal Reception guessed your age twenty -four\\nyears, the same as her age. That s sweet, isn t it?\\nKi H Is it possible\\nTitus Yes. But he was careful enough not to speak\\non that subject.\\nKarl H All the samey. But what about the Prince\\nof Grain?", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0104.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "THE DRAMA OF DESTINY-KARL HANNO. 101\\nTitus. Prince of Grain? There must be something\\npressing in the matter, the premier thought, or else\\nhe didn t understand it- But what about youland\\nthe king?\\nKarl H. What about me and the king? We have come\\nto a secret understanding and it developed into\\nthis {Premier enters-)\\nPremier. Gentlemen\\nKarl H. Yes your Honor!\\nPremier. 1 am now authorized by his Majesty to effect\\nthe loan of $24,000,000 furnished by your honor,\\nKarl Hanno, upon conditions and terms as afore-\\nsaid, to-wit: Rate of interest, 2 percent; secured\\nby government bonds term of expiration, payable\\non or before the close of the present war. Papers\\nare ready for ratification.\\n{Karl Hanno signs the papers and the deal is closed\\nPremier. Gentlemen, you are further requested to re-\\nmain here a moment or two, to await a message from\\nthe king. Adieu! {Exit.)\\nKarl H. Well, if this is not intended to beat Mephisto-\\npheles, I give it up.\\nTitus. Be still! This is our game. What s the differ-\\nence? We can wait; for us to strike luck, is to\\nwait and remain here in this capital for awhile yet.\\nI believe this is a great game, and we must play it\\nout let it cost what it will. We ll get the best of\\nthem; now you ll see-\\nKarl H. It seems there is no end to the king s plan.\\nPerhaps you can see farther than I can, or\\nTitus- I think there is something crooked yet to be\\ndiscovered. What business has the king to enter\\nupon a secret understanding in the matter of the\\nloan? If the king is not scheming on us, I claim", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0105.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "102 THE DKAMA OF DESTINY-KARL HANNO.\\nthe chickens are still hatching. What do you think\\nabout it?\\nKarl H. I don t think so. I think there is nothing\\nmore left to scheme on us, or at least not on me;\\nfor after thirteen days the king s daughter will be\\ngiven in marriage to the Prince of Grain and that\\nwill be the end of it, and I consider it just foolish\\nto bother my head about that any more- And what\\nis there left to scheme on?\\nlitus. Nothing at all nothing that I can see. All\\nthere is left for us is that heaven can change its face\\nin one day. Remember that! But what about the\\nsecret understanding between you and the king?\\nKarl H. {aside) I will tell you after while. {Messenger\\nenters.)\\nMessenger, Gentlemen of high honor: {Karl and litus\\nbow.) May you hereby take notice, Karl Hanno\\nand Titus, that on the 17th day of this mo nth will\\nbe celebrated the Royol Wedding between the\\ndaughter of the king, Mourine II., and the Prince\\nof Grain, and according to the wishes of his Majesty\\nyou gentlemen are hereby cordially invited to attend\\nthe celebration of this Royal Wedding. In addition\\nto this, you gentlemen are further requested to re-\\nmain here yet a moment or so to await tokens of\\nHigh Honors which will be bestowed upon you,\\nKarl Hanno, by the king himself, who will be here\\nescorted by his Royal Family. Remember: just a\\nmoment! {Exit.)\\nKarl H. Just a moment, rembemberl This will leave\\nus no time to talk on a subject. Of course, these\\nmoments are generally very long.\\nTitus. And the whole royal family, too; and Mou-\\nrine II., too\\nKarl H. Yes, and perhaps the Prince of Grain, too, as\\nhe now belongs to the royal family", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0106.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "THE DBAMA OF DESTINI-KARL HANNO. IRI\\nTitus. Yes! And then the invitation to the royal\\nwedding.\\nKarl H. And yes, then the invitation to the wedding\\nof the one I love. How offensive that will be to my\\nfeeling s!\\nTitus. And yes, if you can read this Mene Tekel\\nof love you had better go to Babylon.\\n{Enter The king; the queen; the kirg s daughter, Mau-\\nrine II., heiress to the throne; Prince of Grain, her in-\\ntended husband; the Court of Honor, constituting four\\nyoung ladies, and Jive gentletnen, including the premier.\\nAll performance assume the style of etiquette that is cus-\\ntomary at the consti utional courts of Europe.\\nKing. Gentlemen, Karl Hanno and Titus:\\nYour king and sovereign at this moment is gra-\\nciously disposed to you, and I am moved to express\\npersonally to you my deep gratitude. With regard\\nto your patriotic devotion to your king and sovereign\\nand to the country as well, having reference of\\ncourse to your having furnished the War- Loan, I\\nyour king and sovereign, do hereby confer upon\\nyou, Karl Hanno, the title of Karl Hanno, Prince\\nof Finances. Further: I, your king and sovereign,\\ndo hereby call you into the membership of the\\nKing s Privy Counsel, and also into the member-\\nship of the Court of Honor.\\nYou have now succeeded to the highest rank and\\nhonors in the mighty kingdom of the Hobbies, as\\nthese honors and the title give you access to all\\npolitical ranks, power, and the free p.ccess to the\\nroyal court, and places you among the fiist men of\\nthe kingdom.\\nKarl H. His Majesty, my king and sovereign\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094I, Karl Hanno, do hereby fully acknowledge the\\ngracious disposition of his Majesty toward me; and", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0107.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "104 THE DEAMA OF DESTINT-KAEL HANNO.\\nI do hereby very obediently accept the title, and the\\nmembership in the King s Privy Counsel, and in\\nthat of the Court of Honor, but, owing to the un-\\nbounded friendship existing between me and Titus,\\nguaranteed and confirmed by mutual pledges, and\\nlived up to by our faith in the past, as we still in-\\ntend to do in the future, I cannot for one moment\\nenjoy this high rank with any degree of content\\nor satisfaction, if by this manner of act I shall so\\ndivorce myself from my friend, who is worth every-\\nthing to me. I therefore present my sincere wishes\\nto his Majesty either to be relieved of these high\\nhonors, or to extend same title, honors and privileges\\nto Titus, as in our combined efforts in life we can-\\nnot be separated. Shall my wishes find approval?\\nKin^. They shall: For an act of this kind, since\\nrather than to be guilty of a breach of faith you are\\nready to sacrifice title, high honors and privileges,\\ncommands m royal respect, and I can only see in\\nthis your act a proof of your honesty to be true to\\nyour pledges.\\nTitus, in unbounded friendship to Karl Hanno,\\nI, your king and sovereign, do hereby extend same\\ntitle, honor and privileges bestowed upon Karl\\nHanno to you. In token of this receive my hand!\\n{Titus and Karl Hanno shake hands with the king,\\nwhereupon all others leave, but the king, the queen,\\nMaurine II., the Prince of Grain, Karl Hanno and\\nTitus remain.)\\nKing. Gentlemen: {Concernim^ Karl Hanno and\\nTitus.\\nOur little assembly here is now unofl cial, and\\ntherefore is strictly private. All restrictions with\\nregard to royal etiquette which is customary at the\\nroyal court, and burdensome, too, in free society.", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0108.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "THE DBAMA OF DESTINY-KARL HANNO. 105\\nare now suspended, and before you gentlemen are\\nready to leave this national capital and return to\\nyour homes let us heartily indulge in the free con-\\nversation marked with the essentials of closer\\nsociety. You know kings are the same as other\\nmen, and why should they not feel as other men\\nand do as other men? I do appreciate a free mo-\\nment like this to give the lofty mind free exercise,\\nand do not despise sometimes to be jolly. Of\\ncourse, we hope that this gathering here will not be\\nthe last; on the contrary, we hope to see all of your\\nfriends and relatives soon resicing with us here in\\nthis capital. In closer society they call me Uncle\\nBilly.\\nKarl H. Thank you! thank you! Uncle Billy: We\\nare familiar with that name, and you are just the\\nman that we are looking for. Uncle Billy, do you\\nsmoke?\\nUncle Billy {king). Certainly not when I run out of\\nTitus. Uncle Billy, have a cigar!\\nUncle Bili} Thank you! Thank you that you have\\none to spare. Do you drink wine and whisky?\\nKarl H. and Titus. Certainly not only when it is the\\nvery strongest. {Laughter. The steward enters\\nwith wine and other driyiks and they put up in\\ntoasts-\\nUncle Billy. Gentlemen {Titus.) Not Gentle-\\nmen; In closer society they call me T-boy\\n{Karl Hanno.) And me they call Honey-boy.\\nUncle Billy. Well, boys, here is good luck! {Drinks.\\nKarl H. and Titus. Would have no other kind.\\n{Shouts.) Hurrah for good luck! Hurrah for\\nUncle Billy! {All drink.)\\nMourine II (aside). I thought there was some honey\\nabout Karl Hanno, mother.\\nPrince of Grain\u00e2\u0080\u0094 What s that? Daisy! O, nothing!\\nnothing^!", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0109.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "106 THE DEAMA OF DESTINY-KARL HANNO.\\nUncle Billy Bojs! here is my wife; you know her, of\\ncourse. I call her my petty boss {Queen.)\\nAnd him my Hobby boss.\\nTitus to Karl (aside). Didn t I te l you the king is jolly?\\n*Zi /\u00c2\u00ab5.--All sorts of thing s: Tee and honey, wine\\nand whisky. In the next century we will drink\\nbeer.\\nQueefi.--Ahl Mohamet says in his Koran we must not\\ndrink beer.\\nUncle Billy.- That s meant only. for common folks.,\\nThey cannot afford it.\\nPrince of Grain to Mourine II. {aside) So you think\\nthere is some honey about Karl Hanno?\\nPrince of Grain. Mother queen, your daug-hter likes\\nhoney.\\nTitus. Well, here is the Honey boy {pointing to\\nKarl Hanno).\\nPrince of Grain. Here Honey boy, a few days more\\nshe will be my wife and I shall call her Daisy\\nshe likes a common name.\\nKarl Hanno. Thank you gracious ladies; I have met\\nyou before.\\nPrince oj Grain. \u00e2\u0080\u0094And your wife?\\nKarl Hanno. And my wife? Ha! Ha! That s a\\nbluff. I will never see the day.\\nPrince of Grain. What! The greatest financier in\\nthe world should not be able to get a wife? Get\\nout!\\nKarl Hanno. Yes or no, or just as you want it:\\nWomen do not care so much for g-reat financiers.\\nPrince of Grain. Yes or no, or just as you want to\\nhave it: I think they do, and if not, why is it\\nthen that my Daisy g-irl here is so much struck\\non vou?", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0110.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "THE DRAMA OF DESTINT-KAEL HANNO. 10 7\\nDaisy Girl {Mouiine IJ.) I beg Prince of Grain, I\\nbeg your jealousy.\\nKarl Hanno. Now have I arrived at the end of my\\nwit and I can say no more. Let the lang-uage of\\nsilence tell what my tongue is not able to utter\\ni^A private message comes in and is handed to the Prince\\nof Grain whereupon he immediately leaves the room\\nMourine II. Did you notice? The Prince looked\\nquite serious after reading- the message.\\nQueen. My child, I should think he would have told\\nyou what it was.\\nMourine. No, he does not tell me anything. He is\\nnot like a lover. The Prince, in my estimation,\\nhas of late manifested ways not satisfactory to\\nlove.\\nQueen. My child, I presume the many high honors\\nbestowed upon Karl Hanno has much to do\\nwith it.\\nKarl Hanno. And here, my royal friends, if I am\\nanything in your estimation, you will pardon me\\nin disclosing to you the simple fact that I have\\nfallen a victim to Mourine H. Ag ain you will\\npardon me when stating- to you that the Royal\\nReception given us was cause of much misleading\\nspeculation with reg-ard to a connection with the\\nroyal house, but which, after this became clear, I\\nconsider now as a thing- of the past. And al-\\nthoug-h it was misleading, my love disappointed,\\nI myself have contributed toward the furtherance of\\nthe marriag-e of the Prince of Grain in furnishing\\nthe loan of $24,000,000 and by so doing I have re-\\nmoved the last obstacle out of the way. But as I\\nhave said I consider them now as thing-s of the\\npast, hoping never ag-ain to meet with such dis-\\nappointment. {All are moved.)", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0111.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "108 THE DEAMA OF DESTINY-KARL HANNO.\\nUncle Billy. And you could do all this without be-\\ntraying your love? What a deed of heroism.\\nBut as you have said: They are considered now\\nas things of the past, as within a few days my\\ndaughter will be g-iven in marriag-e to the Prince\\nof Grain, plans, arrangements, and everything are\\nso well fixed, and everything so complete that by\\nno means, and by no ordinary event can the mar-\\nriage be interfered with.\\nMouiine II. The Prince of Grain has chilled my love.\\nThe high honors bestowed upon KarlHanno have\\nmade him a jealous lover. I can say no more.\\nLet the Language of Silence tell what my tongue\\nis not able to utter.\\nUncle Billy. My daughter, my child: If there were\\nany reasons to be found against the Prince of\\nGrain, or an} accusation whatever against the\\nperformance of his duty, I would, in the capacity\\nof king and sovereign, and as your royal father,\\ndeclare the engagement Null and Void.\\nBut as matters stand now to do such a thing\\nwithout any reason to justify it, would be a breach\\nof faith against royalty, as well as a breach of\\npromise. So the engagement must stand, and\\nthe marriage cannot be interfered with. My\\ndaughter, think of your duty, the dignity of roy-\\nalty. You like the Prince of Grain, I know.\\nTitus. Heaven can change its face in one moment.\\n{Prince of Grain enters. He looks serious and fright-\\nened, but is silent)\\nMourine II. What is the matter Prince? You look\\nso serious.\\nPrince of Grain. Let the Language of Silence tell\\nwhat my tongue is not able to utter.\\n{Sheriff enters-)", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0112.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "THE DRAMA OF DESTINY-KARL HANNO. 109\\nSherif His majesty king: By the Chief of Mag-is-\\nIrate I am authorized so cause the arrest of the\\nPrince of Grain wherever found, on the ground of\\nhis having committed a national offense against\\nthe state. He, the Prince of Grain, has made\\nhimself guilty of an embezzlement of $24,000,000\\nof national money used up in the New Mining\\nEnterise while being the Hobby Treasurer.\\nPrince of Grain, you are under my arrest, and\\ncommanded to follow me. {Allure astounded).\\n(Prince of Cram is taken away by the sheriff\\nKing. So is the Prince of Grain a criminal before the\\nlaw and the engagement of Mourine H. is hereby\\ndeclared Null and Void for a better choice.\\n{Upon this Karl Hanno and Mourine II, rush to mu-\\ntual embrace, evidently meaning that they are in love.\\nAll leave).", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0113.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "SECTION V.\\n[Scene Karl Hanno and Mourine II., in company with\\nthemselves, are protnenading the lawns of a beautiful garden sur-\\nrounding the royal palace. Among the many beauties there, are\\nconspicuous the statues, monuments, arches of triumph, play-\\ngrotmds fish-ponds, hanging gardens, fixtures of amusements,\\nswings, vioving seats fly-wheels, ponoramas of foreign sceneries;\\nall is represented itt the most conceivable art of perfection, stak-\\ning the garden appear singularly magnificent. It is richly sup-\\nplied with flower-beds, tall everg reens, small watercourses sub-\\njected to fall converging over leaping rocks whose gorges are over-\\nbridged by stone arches to accomodate the spectator. Karl Hanno\\nand Mourine II. are so disposed to each other that the beholder\\ndismisses all doubts as to their sincerity, happiness and devotion to\\neach other. Having finished this pleasant exercise in the garden,\\nthey betake themselves into the Waiting Parlor in the parliament\\nbuilding, opposite the royal palace, and take seats side by side on\\none of the many sofas of the fnost costly finish, and while still lejtto\\nthemselves, their conversation is continued in a manner giving evi-\\ndence of two happy lovers.\\nKarl H. Now, Mourine: I suppose you begin to feel\\ntired, and for a change, let us be seated here on one\\nof these sofas and enjoy our first meeting. You\\nknow the story how a man found his wife, is always\\na pleasant subject to talk on, and now, that we have\\nbecome lovers as one soul we are at liberty to talk\\nover things now in the light which, before this event,\\nwe dared not to do, as all this was hidden in dark-\\nness and mysterious developments. Ah! Mourine,\\nI forget that you are Mourine II., the successor on\\nthe throne of a mighty nation. Vanity has so little\\nto do with love that courtesy in its most simple form\\nis Home Rule wherever two kindred hearts\\nare meeting, and when love becomes a reality, the\\nname loses all attributes and I simply call you", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0114.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "THE DRAMA OF DESTINY -KARL HANNO. lU\\nMourine. What time is it now? is it?. O, well,\\nwe have a few moments yet left to ourselves to finish\\nour story before the opening of parliament.\\nWhat can I do for you?\\nMourine II. Love me and I shall give you my throne,\\nas all else but love to me seems vile. I cannot see\\nthe power dominating my heart so completely, yet I\\nknow that I love with all my soul. At the Royal Re-\\nception dinner, when 1 first caught sight of you, I\\ncould not refuse the favorable appeals made by your\\nmanly conduct to my admiration. But as matters\\nthen stood, I stopped where I was. But to-day I\\nam amazed at the wonderful dispensation of things\\nand the changes that have taken place in so short a\\ntime. And poor old Prince of Grain Tha! ha! ha!\\nKarl H. Poor old Prince of Grain\u00e2\u0080\u0094 I should say!\\nHe got himself into a moss of which the gods of\\nHercules could not save him. But tell me, Mou.\\nrine, what was the real object of the Royal Re-\\nception; was it not to begin an acquaintanceship\\nthat was to lead to our marriage?\\nMourine II. No! I am satisfied that it was not, as\\nalready I was engaged to the Prince of Grain and\\nthe day fixed for our wedding. But ray royal\\npa pa, no doubt, in consequence of the War-Loan,\\nwas moved to bestow the highest honors upon\\nyou in the expression of the Royal Reception.\\nThat s all.\\nKarl H. Poor old Karl, too; I do say it myself. How\\nblindly mistaken a fellow can be when he has\\nfallen victim to a g-irl: Love is blind, so they\\nsay, and I could only laugh at it, but now I know\\nbetter. And if such could happen to the greatest\\nfinancier in the world, the lesser fortunate might\\nthen easily be excused for such innocent foolish-", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0115.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "112 THE DRAMA OF DESTINY-KARL HANNO.\\nness. But pardon me, Mourine, for using the\\nexpression greatest financier in the world;\\nnothing- is meant by it, as I consider myself too\\nlittle in your presence to claim to be anything\\nmore than the Child of Destiny. And poor old\\nPrince Grain! ha! ha! I wonder whether he\\nwas doomed to commit the crime of embezzlement\\nof 1^24,000,000 just for the purpose of breaking up\\nthe engagement?\\nMourine IL Of course he was, and just think: $24,.\\n000,000 was considered a small price in the scale\\nof our happiness. Funny it is when great things\\nare used to serve a seemingly small purpose. And\\nthe embezzlement of which the prince thought\\nnothing only to serve his own purpose, who can\\ntell but what this very act may furnish a link in\\nthe history of our nation? And how sure he was\\nthat he could smooth it all up after the loan of\\n$24,000,000 was secured. Poor old Prince of\\nGrain\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Tha! ha! ha!\\nKarl H. Poor old Prince of Grain ha! ha! ha! O,\\nI do not mean to laugh over his misfortune, but\\nmerely because it just happened to a big-headed\\nprince. What do you smile at so mischievously,\\nMourine? I am only a Karl; I am no prince.\\nMourine O, nothing. It is nothing. I am just\\nlaughing over the farce of the prince: He had\\nhis fortune told just as smooth and nice as a pic-\\nture and he kept still about it until the day was\\nfixed for our wedding when proudly he boasted to\\nhis friends that everything now between him and\\nhis Hobby girl was O. K. He boasted that he\\nwould marry me, and as soon as I should be seated\\non the throne I would abdicate in his favor and\\nhe would be proclaimed king. And he believed", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0116.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "THE DRAMA OF DESTINY\u00e2\u0080\u0094 KARL HANNO. 118\\nall this because an old reliable fortune teller, an\\nold woman, had told him so. Poor old Prince of\\nGrain. Wont he now scorn the old woman?\\nKarl H- Wont he thoug-h? And I am sure he paid\\nher a g-ood price. For these old fortune tellers,\\nlittle as they know, always know enough to fill\\ntheir own pockets from victims of fortune-believ-\\ners. But you didn t feel disposed to abdicate in\\nfavor of the Prince of Grain, did you?\\nMouj ine II. Never! For in my estimation a man\\nwhose mental faculties are devoted to things of\\nthe superstitious order is certainly not qualified\\nto rule over others, and I would regard it as crim-\\ninal ever to commit myself to an act of this kind.\\nI say, it would be criminal.\\nKarl H. Ah! I see you are indeed Mourine II. A\\nVirgin, clad in manly valor; a will, that of blood\\nand iron; a ruler, that of a worthy sovereig-n.\\nKeep your throne, to make happy your people,\\nbut give me your Love in which I shall see all\\nof my wishes answered. {Titus enters).\\nlUuS The best of my wishes to your uninterrupted\\nhappiness, your royal hig-hness Mourine II. and\\nKarl Hanno.\\nAll is surprising. Now after so many things\\nhave transpired in this most remarkable of all\\nmodern times the fate of the Prince of Grain may\\nsurprise you.\\nKarl Why don t you tell?\\nlitus. He has been tried, found g-uilty, and con-\\nvicted to thirty years of imprisonment.\\nKarl H.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Tor the embezzlement of $24,000,000 of\\npublic money?\\n7zV7/^.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 That s right.\\nKarl H. Well that doesn t surprise me.", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0117.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "114 THE DRAMA OF BESTINT-KARL HANNO.\\nMourine II. Neither me; why no!\\nTitus. Then, here is something- that will surprise you.\\nKarl H Make short work of It.\\nTitus. Poor Prince of Grain has found a Hercules\\nwho is quite willing- and able, too, to save hiin\\nfrom final ruin and destruction, and what is most\\nconspicuous in the act of his drama is, that he\\nag-ain may rise in power and influence, and not\\nonly wipe out his crime and disg-race, but excel in\\nvirtue and bravery until he may rise to the pin-\\nnacle of national renown. He stands a chance,\\nand he may do it.\\n^ar/ -Then, what in the name of Hercules has\\nhappened?\\nMoufifie II. Is it a secret? Is it a plot?\\nTitus. Not at all His Majesty, his king and sov-\\neig-n, has pardoned him and released him from\\nthe imprisonment on condition that he take up\\narms to serve his country on the battlefield, and\\nbecause of his g-reat military experience, his\\nMajesty has promoted him to the rank of Field-\\nmarshal and has given him command of the 4th\\narmy.\\nKarl H.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Yon don t say?\\nlitns. Yes, indeed! No smoke in that. And you\\nknow the Prince of Grain is not a soft shell, and\\nnow especially since his case h?.s become desper-\\nate he will be headlong-, and without any fear\\nattempt to carry the national flag- into the very\\nheart of the enemy s country, and, if successful,\\nthe championship will belong- to him. Now you ll\\nsee.\\nMourine. I wonder whether his fortuneteller knows\\nanything- about that {Lauohter.)\\nKarl H. That was a surprise, sure enough. But why\\nneed I be alarmed about that?", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0118.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "THE DRAMA OF DESTINY\u00e2\u0080\u0094 KARL HANNO. 116\\nMourine IL Why, Karl: Things are surprising. Who\\ncan tell what else may develop out of that? He\\nmay want to be revenged on you.\\nKarl H. Well, then, let the chances of luck do for the\\nPrince of Grain what the gods of Hercules could\\nnot. And if he can save himself from national dis-\\ngrace and wipe out his crime, that s what we want-\\nAnd if he shall be able to carry the national flag\\ninto the enemy s country, so much the better. But\\none thing I need not fear: Thus far and no far-\\nther. Thus is written by the hand of Destiny.\\nMouri7ie II. But Karl, my dear, what will you do to\\noffset the ambitious championship of the prince?\\nTints. Karl, you know very well that, to have a man\\nwithout ambition is as worthless as to have a piece\\nof property without a title. That s the position you\\nare in now.\\nKarl H. Why Mourine, do not worry. I am wide\\nawake with my eyes fixed upon the compass of life\\nshowing me the direction by which I shall reach my\\ndestination. You ll see!\\nMourine II. Already do I see: I see the Blessing of\\nall Good is smiling sweetly upon your brow as\\nthough the moment is coming in which you shall\\nsee all of your wishes answered.\\nKarl H. For I am the Child of Destiny, Mourine!\\n{Karl Hamw, Mourine II. and Titus join the parlia-\\nment, which is opened by the king from the throne.)\\nKing. To the servants of the state, to the subjects, and\\nto the representatives of the nation\\nIn God We Trust.\\nIn these exciting moments where is prevailing^ the thrill of\\nbattle-cry, undoubtedly many a heart is beating. There is noth-\\ning that occupies our mind now so vividly as does the scale of\\nour national destinv in these days and the anxiety felt by every\\npatriotic citizen shedding his blood on the battlefield. But, al-", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0119.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "116 THE DBA.MA OF DE8TINY-KAEL HANNO.\\nthough the brave are slain, property distroyed, the national debts\\nenormously increased, it is better, evil against evil to keep the\\nBalance of Power, than for one evil to be permitted to remain,\\nwhich then, in its evil tendency, gives birth to many more and\\neven greater evils. On these, and on no other principles do we\\nrecognize the necessity of war, which is righteous on the part of\\nthe defenders; cruel, unjust, arrogant and inhuman on the part of\\nthe outrageous. Viewing the situation, we have our activity\\nwell in hand and the national machinery thus far is working\\nwell. But nevertheless, judging from the present events in this\\nearly stage of the war, the final result of the struggle cannot yet\\ndistinctly be determined upon, as the full strength of the national\\ndefense has not yet been brought to bear upon the situation. In\\nthe field, one or two mishaps have occurred of late in some of the\\nscirmishes but our confiden:e of success is not at all shaken. In\\nconsequense of this, your king and sovereign finds it of the- high-\\nest importance to repair to the front and assume the chief com-\\nmand: The army, shall it be that of a national clockwork, must\\nhave a mainsping also by which it is set to univerval motion. Ye,\\nthe servants of the state and of the government, to you I trust\\nthe domestic afifairs of the government at home during my absence,\\nand I do hereby appoint Mourine II. regent of the regency; Karl\\nHanno to fill the vacancy of the premier, who is to accompany\\nhis king and master to the battlefield as chief adviser; also Titus\\nis appointed Secretary of the State. Hoping that sooner or later\\nthe achievement of a final victory shall be secured, and we shall\\nagain unite and exult in the blessings of pease and tiansquility\\nfor evermore. This is our prayer. {All cheer.)\\n{Karl Hanno and Titus repair to the Waitins; Parlor,\\nall others leave.)\\nKarl H. All thing s are made new. The sad tace of\\nthe past is disappearing from my view as the mo-\\nment is nearing- in which I shall see all of my\\nwishes answered. And the arrival of that mo-\\nment will close the scene.\\nTints. Why Karl, you don t mean to say that that\\nwill be the last of you, do you?\\nKarl H. Yes. For the arrival of that moment is the\\nfulfillment of my promised lot, and the conviction", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0120.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "THE DRAMA OF DESTINY-KABL HANNO. H J\\nthat I had of this moment in all the days of my\\nlife will be a reality, and the program of Destiny\\nis thereby ended.\\nTitus. Why Karl, what do you really mean; do you\\nmean that after that moment you will be dead,\\nand buried? Don t talk so strangely. What is\\nthe matter with you?\\nKarl H. I say, when that moment is arrived at, the\\nprog-ram of Destiny is ended. For the convic-\\ntion\\nlitus. Well, I think that kind of talk is not at all\\nbecoming a man so highly elevated in earthly\\ngrandeur as you are. Your career will then really\\nbegin, and not as you say, be ended. Just think:\\nThe beauty of harmony of the different phases of\\nlife will find expression in the Child of Destiny,\\nwhose happiness is guaranteed by the Heavenly\\nPowers having chargfe of your destiny, and your\\nmighty wealth\\nKarl H. Here, here, stop! You don t understand\\nme. Let me finish my subject. 1 say merely\\nthat by the arrival of that moment the program\\nof Destiny is ended\\nlitus And your career will go on, is that it?\\nKarl H. Why certainly. The dream of my life comes\\ntrue as the moment arrives and what may follow\\nthereafter is not included in this program. Don t\\nyou versteh?\\nlitus. Yes. Now I versteh the riddle.\\nThey join parliament which is opened by Mourine\\nII., the appointed Regent).\\nMourine II. To the servants of the state, to the\\nsubjects, and to the representatives of the nation:\\nIn God We Trust.\\nIn the last meetiujf of parliament it was stated", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0121.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "118 THE DRAMA OF DESTINY-KARL HANNO.\\nfrom the throne that a few mishaps had occurred\\nto our arms in the field of action and that in con-\\nsequence of this our king- and sovereign deemed it\\nof the hig^hest importance to repair to the front\\nand assume the chief command. Further: That\\nour confidence was not at all shaken and that the\\nfull streng-th of the country s defense had not yet\\nbeen brought to bear on the situation. This we\\nfind was correct. With regard to our success\\nsince, we are able to say that the enemy, to a cer-\\ntain extent, had been beaten, and the conclusion\\nof peace was a matter of a question next to a cer^\\ntainty when to our surprise the enemy found a\\npowerful ally, and the situation again changed.\\nThen the difficulties of the army developed in\\ndouble strength and the second army of 85,000\\nmen was checked, defeated, and is now besieged\\nat St. Ruba. The first and the third armies are\\nholding their own, not however without danger\\nof being dislodged from their position, and rein-\\nforcements are urgently needed. But this success\\nof the enemy on land, we are glad to say, is met\\nby a reverse on the sea by our fleet, doing great\\ndamage on the enemy s coast, blockading their\\nharbors, capturing or destroying many of their\\nvessels. All of this, be that as it is, is the for-\\ntune of war, and if we want our country to tri-\\numph, the nation must be fully aware of her duty\\nand tax her ability to such extent that the superi-\\nority of our arms be secured over those of the\\nenemy, in spite of their combined forces. More\\nmen are wanted. Money is as yet plenty. But\\nthe government sees the necessity of resorting to\\na draft of men to muster in one more army so as to\\nmeet the increased forces of the enemy and bring", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0122.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "THE DRAMA OF DESTINY-KARL HANNO. Il9\\nthe war to a speedy close. That the government\\nwill not be disappointed in what is demanded is\\nour prajer. {Exit).\\nPremier {Karl H.) Citizens: With reference to the\\nspeech from the throne, our national warfare is\\nclearl} broug-ht to lig^ht by the fact that our\\nenemy has found a powerful ally and that the\\nsituation has changed to our disadvantage. The\\nfact that one of our armies was checked, defeated,\\nand is now besieged, makes it absolutely neces-\\nsary to raise one more army in addition to the\\nfour already in the field. Money is yet plentiful,\\nand the draft of men necessary to make up the\\nrank and file should be secured with little diffi-\\nculty. The bill provides for 240,000 men to be\\nraised immediately, and parliament is asked to\\naccept the bill and let same go into power. Is\\nthere any opposition to the bill?\\nFrom the right. Your honor: I move that parliament\\naccept the bill and let same go into power.\\nPremier. The motion is made that parliament accept\\nthe bill and let same go into power- Is there any\\nopposition? if not, the motion is carried-\\nSeC of St. {litiis). Your honor: a message has ar-\\nrived. {Reads.)\\nPine Valley, July 7th: The 1st and the 3d. armies were\\nob iged to fall back, but not until after the bloody battles\\not Sheepnose Eidg e and Sandy River, which were fought on\\nour part against vastly superior numbers. The 2nd. army at\\nSt. Kuba is still besieged, and is hard pressed. The Prince of\\nGrain, with the ith army of 12 i,OU0 men, is sent to their re-\\nlief. Hurry on the 5th ai-my, and as many of the reserve as\\nthere are to spare.\\nLouis Phiup IV.\\nPremier. The Minister of War is urged to carry out the\\norder of the king without delay. Is there other", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0123.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "120 THE DRAMA OF DESTINY-KARL HANNO.\\nbusiness on hand? if not, give three cheers for our\\nking and his brave soldiers. Hip, hip, hip:\\nHurrah! {All cheer.)\\n(Parliament is allowed a short recess, whereupon they\\ndissolve into many groups discussing the country^ s de-\\nfense. Mourine II. and Karl Hanno are seen having a\\nshort conversation aside with manifest apprehension of\\nsome kind. Parliament is again called to order and all\\nretake their seats.\\nPremier. Parliament is called to proceedings.\\nSec. of St. Your honor: A note handed in by the re-\\ngent requesting the Secretary of the War-Depart-\\nment to report on the transportation of the troops.\\nSec. of W D. Your honor: 75,000 men are already on\\nthe way to the front; 150, OuO more will leave within\\ntwo days.\\nPremier. These are certainly quick moves, but never-\\ntheless slow in times of war. Is there other busi-\\nness on hand?\\nSec. of Si. Your honor A petition is handed in pray-\\ning the regent to pardon a young civilian who shot\\nand killed the lover of his girl. {Petition is for-\\nwarded.)\\nSpeaker. Your honor: I have a bill for parliament to\\nenact a law that a War -Tax be levied on all the\\ngreat financiers.\\nPrem. {aside) That s against our interests\\nSec {aside) Well, turn the damper on them.\\nPremier. We are too busy now to consider the bill.\\nThese are war times.\\nSec. of St, Your honor: Another petition is handed in\\npraying the regent to allow immediate relief to the\\nwidows whose husbands have fallen in the present\\nwar.\\nPremier. The regent has no power to allow or to grant\\nrelief to the widows whose husbands have fallen in\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2this war, as this is taxing the people.", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0124.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "THE DRAMA OF DESTINY-KARL HANNO. 121\\nFrom the right. Your honor: The petition prays for\\nimmediate relief.\\nPremier. As we are too busy now to give this case\\nconsideration, we will turn this matter over to a\\nSpecial Relief Committee.\\n--Is there other business\\nSec. of St. Your honor: An important message has\\narrived. {Reads.)\\nPine Valley. July 19th: Yesterday our besieged ixruxy of\\n85,000 men at St. Ruba was relieved by the Prince of Grain,\\nand in consquence of his success he was given command\\nofbo.hthe2nd and the 3d armies in addition to his own.\\nWith this total of 280,000 men he is now marching into the\\nheart of the enemy s country to invest Buda-Paar. There\\nvras also a great battle fought between the enemy and the\\n1st army near Goathorn Fork, in which our forces suffered\\nheavy losses, but secured a victory ol great importance.\\nMay the country be filled with joy and confidence and cheer\\nher brave soldiers.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Louis Philip IV.\\n{Great cheers and shouts are devoted to the king, to the\\nPrince of Grain and to their brave soldiers, whereupon\\nparliament adjourns and they all leave. Titus and Karl\\nH. repair to the Waiting Parlor.)\\n7t tus.\u00e2\u0080\u0094Nov/, Karl, I should like to know the Secret\\nUnderstanding there is between you and the king.\\nJ^arl H. Very well. But you know times have\\nchanged. Opportunities are not like they used to\\nbe, and when we have a matter on hand we must\\ntalk snap-shot, since now we have become po-\\nlitical leaders. I have tied up the king; no doubt\\nabout that.\\n7iVM.y -Then you took the Government bonds for se-\\ncurity, did you?\\nKarl H. I did. But understand, I durst not sell\\nthese bonds.\\nTitus, What use have you of the bonds if you durst\\nnot se41 them?", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0125.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "122 THE DRAMA OF DESTINY-KARL HANNO.\\nKarl H. O, I durst sell them just as I please, but\\nthat would ruin the king-.\\n7itus. Heavens! Was he so hard pressed as to g^ive\\nway to such barg-ainf\\nKarl H. He was. And where I made my point is\\nthis: In order to give Government bonds for\\nsecurity the king- made the loan appear a Public\\nloan, and this was done under pretense of estab-\\nlishing a^Secret Service Fund as long as the war\\nwould last.\\nTitus. Well that doesn t tie up the king to establish\\na Secret Service Fund.\\nKarl H. Under pretense, understand. The Secret\\nService Fund has never seen a dollar of it.\\nTitus. That s enough. I know the rest of that foul\\nplay. So the king s hands are tied?\\nKarl H. Hands tied until the close of the war, when\\nhe hopes to redeem the Government bonds with\\nmoney paid by the vanquished enemy.\\nWell I am astonished.\\nWho wouldn t be?\\nTitus- But that is bad on the king-.\\nKarl H. Not at all. He will never get hurt, if he\\nnever hurts me. But should he ever interfere\\nwith my welfare I have a weapon in my hands\\nthat I can sway over the king- to bring- him to\\nterms.\\nTitus. Yes! Since you have become a child of Des-\\ntiny you are a different man. Shrewdness, dash,\\nsagacity and a fearless self-confidence, these are\\ntraits with which now you are commanding suc-\\ncess. But remember: Don t let the king get\\nloose, else you ll be the one that s tied.\\nKarl H. No! Not before the war is over.", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0126.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "THE DRAMA OF DESTINY-KARL HANNO. 123\\nWait! I must, go and see ray Sweetheart, and\\nher mother, about that. {Exit).\\n{Enter \u00e2\u0080\u0094Mo urine II. and her royal mother)\\nQueen. Your Excellency!\\n7 tins. Your Hig-hness I\\nQueen. Where is Karl Hanno?\\nTitus. He has just gone out to see jour Highness\\nabout something, but he may be right back again\\nsince he will not find you.\\nQueen. What was it about; does your Excellency\\nknow?\\nTitus. Not exactly but it is something that concerns\\nthe king.\\nQueen. Things are surprising and every day has a\\ndifferent face. Would you wonder to see the\\nPrince of Grain a champion of the nation?\\nTitus. Strictly, I would not. In times of war there\\nis every chance for an ambitious schemer to make\\nhimself conspicuous on the scene; but I would\\nwonder if the Prince of Grain, in consequence of\\nhis success, should renew his old scheme and in-\\nterfere with the engagement of Mourine and\\nKarl Hanno.\\nMouriyte. Who can tell his plan. Thismuch I know:\\nHe is coveting the throne.\\nQueeU And the alarming fact is, the king is up-\\nholding him in his tactics. It is something that\\nis hard to understand when a father, to satisfy\\nothers, compels his own child to go against her\\nown wishes and thereby sacrifice her own hap-\\npiness.\\nBut he may not come. Let us go back, Mourine.\\nPerhaps Karl is waiting for us in the palace.\\nIhey go.\\n{Karl H. enters.)", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0127.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "124 THB DKAMA OF DESTINY-KARL HANNO.\\nTitus, Did you find them?\\nKarl H.\u00e2\u0080\u0094l did not.\\nTitus. Ha, ha! a joke on you; they were here.\\nKarl H. What to see me?\\nTitus, Yes!\\nKarl H. Why didn t you hold them here; what did\\nthey say?\\nTitus. Things are surprising, and not two days have\\nfaces alike, so they thought. The king, the Prince\\nof Grain, both are making faces most alarming to\\nthem. More they did not venture to say.\\nKarl H It would not take much of a guesser to tell\\nwhat is behind the political curtain. When the en-\\ngagement of the Prince of Grain was declared Null\\nand Void, and my engagement with Mourine II.\\nfollowed closely after, everybody thought us as good\\nas married; but everybody did not think, as I do,\\nthat good things do not come so easily.\\nTitus. But as long as they are coming, what s the dif-\\nference? Lest you forget, I tell you again: Watch\\nthe old hen. {Exit.)\\n{Enter Mourine II. and her royal mother.\\nQueen. Your Excellency\\nKarl H Your Highness!\\nQueen.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 ^x^h. regard to a matter interfering with the\\nchoice of Mourine II., I ask the favor of an inter-\\nview.\\nKarl H. With greatest pleasure, your Highness. What\\nis it?\\nQueen. Great as is the success of the Prince of Grain\\non the battlefield, in which the country is rejoicing,\\nit is nevertheless disturbing my personal welfare.\\nThe prince is proving a great military genius and\\nthe king fell in love with him.\\nKmrl H.-^lt it possible?", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0128.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "THE DRAMA OF DB8TINY-KARL HANNO. 126\\nQueen. It is. And in consequence of this his king and\\nsovereign has promoted him to the chief command\\nof all the armies in the field.\\nKarl H. That s good for the prince.\\nQueen. O yes but the matter does not stop here The\\nfact that the king is making so much out of the\\nprince gives hints of a highhanded scheme. You\\nsee that right here in the promotion.\\nKa- 1 H. But this is entirely new.\\nQueen. It is. But by a private message received yes-\\nterday a confidential spy has informed me of the\\nfact. Now, the Prince of Grain will never become\\na member of the royal family as far as my daughter\\nis concerned, as she considers the matter settled\\never since the embezzlement became publicly known,\\nfrom which it followed that the engagement was de-\\nclared Null and Void\\nMourinc. As now he was a criminal before the law,\\nunderstand.\\nKarl i^.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Certainly.\\nQueen. And there the matter ended. All at once we\\nare surprised by a letter just received in which my\\nroyal husband states that his Majesty is strongly in\\nfavor of a union of Mourine II. and the Prince of\\nGrain. What an insult!\\nWhat I think is true, the king will insist on his\\nschemes; Mourine is persistent, and the Prince of\\nGrain will make trouble. What an evil! Thinking\\nas I do, that the king is acting under influences, it\\nwould all fall flat could this current of sympathy for\\nthe Prince of Gain be checked by some weigbtj\\nmeans that would cause the king to change his\\npolicy. In sympathy with my daughter I am\\ntroubled over the affair.\\nKarl H.\u00e2\u0080\u0094hhl Your Highness, I was hardly prepared", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0129.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "126 THE DRAMA OF DESTINY-KARL HANNO.\\nfor a surprise like that. The welfare of a child\\nthreatened by her own father, I would not have\\nthought it possible. After all: I do not think the\\nking means what he says.\\nQueen- Ah! Your Excellency: Dare you think the king\\ndoes not mean what he says?\\nKarl H. I do in this case. With him it is politics.\\nAnything will do to make a bluff\\nMourine. But suppose he does mean what he says what\\nwill we do with this bluff?\\nKarl H. Never mind, Mourine. Your pa understands\\nme. He has his hands tied in a certain secret un-\\nderstanding between him and me, and he will not\\npush matters to an extreme.\\nQueen {siirprised) Is such a thing possible?\\nKarl H- Simple enough: As I think. It must have\\nbeen known to his Majesty in the first place that the\\nPrince of Grain was guilty of the ^24,000,000 embez-\\nzlement while he was Hobby Treasurer. In order\\nto shield the prince from public disgrace, from im-\\nprisonment and also to let the contemplated marriage\\ntake place, the king applied to me to furnish him a\\nloan of ^24,000,000\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nQueen. To set straight his intended son-in-law?\\nKarl /y.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 That s right.\\nQueen. Well I declare!\\nKarl H. I promised him the loan, but on condition\\nonly that he give me security in Government bonds.\\nMourine. Could he do that?\\nKarl H. He could under a false pretense.\\nQueen. Yes, you see right here, he is scheming all the\\ntime but go on!\\nKarl H. The loan was made to appear a Public loan on\\npretense of establishing a Secret Service Fund of\\nwhich a great war is always in need- The Secret", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0130.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "THE DRAMA OF DESTINY-KARL HANNO 127\\nUnderstandij]g was, tiot to sell these bonds but to\\nkeep them undisturbed until the close of the war.\\nQueen. Why so?\\nKarl H. Oh the king would have a question to answer\\nthat might prove serious.\\nQueen. Serious. It was for the Secret Service Fund, I\\nunderstand.\\nKarl H. Poor Secret Service Fund has never seen a\\ndollar of it.\\nQueen. \u00e2\u0080\u0094That is enough\\nMourine. But, Karl, how will you get your money\\nback?\\nKarl H. At the close of the war the Government will\\nredeem these $24,000,000 bonds with money paid\\nby the vanquished enemy as a War Indemnity, and\\nnobody will know a thing about it- So the king is\\nindebted to me for S24,000,000 until the close of the\\nwar. And if he does that, he has reason to fear\\nthat I might do this and he will not carry matters\\nto an extreme, and your Highness need not worry.\\nQuee7i. It is astonishing to think of how on the one\\nhand the king was scheming to set straight the\\nPrince of Grain, while on the other hand the man of\\ngenius was protecting himself by a well calculated\\ngame: Shrewdness dash, sagacity and a fearless\\nselfconfidence, these are traits of your Excellency\\nswaying kings and sovereigns in a degree astound-\\ning to the court of the Hobby nation. And that\\nexplains why the Prince of Grain is so ambitious to\\nsecure for himself the championship.\\nKarl //.\u00e2\u0080\u0094Yet I am only the Ghild of Destiny, that s all.\\nMourine. Child of Destiny, what a meaning\\nTrulv have you spoken of yourself, as wide\\nawake, with your eyes fixed upon the compass of\\nlife showing- you the direction by which you", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0131.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "iK THE DBAMA of DESTINY -KABL HANNO.\\nshall reach your destination. Oh, Karl! Is\\nthere anybody that compares with you, a man\\nwho recognizes the opportunities of life, and em-\\nbraces them as you do? I confess there is not.\\nTo you we are looking up for protection, trusting\\nthat for your sake, my royal father will not be\\nharsh to me in his further treatments.\\n{Exeunt Mourine and her mother)\\nTitus {enters). How now about the hen; are you\\nwatching her?\\nKarl H. I am, and she has changed her nest.\\nItius. How is that?\\nKail H. The Prince of Grain had success and the\\nking fell in love with him.\\nTitus. You don t say.\\nKarl H. That s right. The queen received a letter\\nfrom her royal husband in which he told her that\\nhe fovors a union of Mourine H. and the Prince\\nof Grain. But if such should ever happen, it will\\nbe an unhappy one for Mourine, for she hates\\nhim.\\nTitus. Well, I pity the prince. And why does she\\nhate him?\\nKarl H. Because she loves me.\\nTitus. And she told you so, did she?\\nKarl H. Never!\\nTitus. Smoke, riddles, rats! You are trapped again.\\nKarl H. Never!\\nTitus. Why don t you explain yourself?\\nKarl H. Love me, and I shall give you my throne.\\nTitus. Said it, and meant it, did she?\\nKarl H- Gertainly,\\n77V\u00c2\u00abj.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Who will deny it; $600,000,000; Mourine II.;\\nthe throne of the Hobbies; Karl, if you should g-et", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0132.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "THE DKAMA OF DESTINY-KARL HANNO. 1\u00c2\u00bb\\nMourine, she will make you the greatest fortune\\nof the three.\\nKarl I think you are extravag-ant in your figures,\\nbut maybe, you are right. Titus leaves, Mou-\\nrine enters).\\nMourine. Be not surprised, Karl, here is a letter;\\nread it. {He reads.)\\nDear Daughter Mourine:\\nMaj you strictl) know this:\\nIf you will not renounce jour engagement with Karl Hanno\\nin favor of the Prin:e of Grain I shall disinherit you. Con-\\ncerning Karl Hanno, he is a great financier, and it is true of\\nhira that he is honest and of a good dispos tion; but he is\\nno soldier. The Prince of Grain, the greatest military\\ngenius of the nge, endowed with all the qualities of a sov.\\nereign,and a man who has saved the country from the defeat\\nof arms, he is the man for the throne. Accor jing to these\\nfacts I am now shaping my policy, which, I hope, will not\\nmeet with further opposition on your part.\\nYour Royai. F.\\\\thek.\\n{Queen enters\\nQueen.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 not that awful?\\nKarl H. Is it not? I cannot understand this. 7iius\\nenters.\\nTitus. What has happened?\\nMourine 11. He will disinherit me\\nTitus. What! Disinherit Mourine 11- Never! and\\nagain: Never! Parliament shall hear you. The\\nnation will answer Justice will answer; All will\\nanswer Never\\nKarl H. Well, I ve got the king tied up by the S24,-\\n000,000 loan. He is tied. What can he do?\\nTitus That s so, Karl. And if he does that, he has\\nreasons to fear that you might do this and your\\nHighness need not worry.\\n{A hand is seen writing on the wall.)", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0133.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "180 THE DRAMA OF DESTINY-KARL HANNO.\\nKarl H. {reads) Child of Destiny: I am watching\\nthee- Thou hast not been faithful to thy pledge to\\ncomply with the law that I commanded thee, name-\\nly: When thou shalt be seated in thy stately\\nwealth thou shalt not ascribe thy success to thy\\nmerit, nor shalt thou use braggart s language con-\\ncerning thy riches.\\nWhat does this mean?\\nThe Hobby Treasurer enters\\nHobby Ireasurer. To Karl Hanno, Prince of Finances:\\nMay you know that hereby I am authorized to\\nrelease the Government bonds of the $24,000,000\\nloan which was made in favor of the Prince of\\nGrain, who is now able to redeem them with his\\nown money, as he the Prince of Grain has cap-\\ntured the enemy s War -Treasury of $30,000,000,\\nand, according to military reward, the booty is his-\\nThe release of these bonds is the order of the\\nking.\\n{All are astounded.)\\nKarl H.\u00e2\u0080\u0094ls this my Mene Tekel?", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0134.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "SECTION VI.\\nThe scene is the same as in the last section The true pre-\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2mier has returned from the front where he ivas assisting his king,\\nand Karl Hanno is relieved of that office. The queen king s\\nwife is appointed regent and Moutine II is relieved also of tha^\\noffice. Also Titus is relieved of his office as Secretary of the State.\\nThe premier and the nciv secretary, after a short conversation in\\nthe Waiting Parlor, enter the assembly hall where parliament is\\nopened by the queen, the newly appointed regent.)\\nPremier {Excited) What can be done? The country,\\nI fear, has to face a storm. If now the Prince of\\nCrain is the hero of the nation, Karl Hanno, the\\nPrince of Financesi is the ideal of the people; both of\\nequal strength and prominence before the public,\\nbut not both of equal honesty, thst is true. The\\nengagement of Mourine IL with Karl Hanno has\\nnothing to do with parliament, but the forced abdi-\\ncation of her right of succession and the disinherit-\\nance of his daughter by the king is quite another\\nthing. I myself do not approve of the king s action.\\nBut I am charged by his Majesty to carry out his\\npolicy and I want your entire support in the hot de-\\nbates in parliament. Remember!\\nSec. Like a hero I can face any kind of a storm as long\\nas I don t get my face scratched.\\nPremier.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 A.\\\\\\\\]okts aside: Are your documents all in\\nreadiness? Everything is now waiting for us.\\nHurry Hurry Hurry\\nSec. {He hurries with all his might. Crackerty wreck-\\nerty; who pays me for all this?\\nPremier.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 ^hzi s that^\\nSec. I say, I don t get paid in the hurry.\\nMight not get paid at all.", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0135.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "188 THE DRAMA OF DESTINY -KABL HANNO.\\nSec. Well that s what I wanted to know, who pays me\\nfor all this?\\nPremier. Never mind: If we carry the king s point we\\nshall receive an empty title-\\nSeC That suits me because there is no Income Tax to\\nbe paid on Well, I am ready. Have you got your\\nparliamentary ammunition powder? I have, sir!\\n{They join the session. The pretnier occupies his chair\\nwith the Secretary close in his rear.)\\nQueen Regent To the servants of the state, to the sub-\\njects, and to the representatives of the nation:\\nIn God We Trust.\\nOur national strife at the front on the battlefield,\\nhas finally developed the brightest character and the\\ntidings of peace may soon again reach us and\\nlighten our hearts. The fall of Buda-Paar is pre-\\ndicted to take place in less than a month and the\\npresence of your king and sovereign at the front is\\nstill indispensable. On the other hand, your king\\nand sovereign has forwarded a rote in which is de-\\nclared the disinheritance of Mourine II., the only\\nnatural heir to the throne, but concerning which\\nyour appointed regent, as regent, has no power to\\nact, as this is resting with the king, and the parlia-\\nment to give it sanction. But as for myself, as\\nmuch as personally I am concerned in this matter, I\\ncondemn the act. May the Hand of Providence\\nprevent evil and save his people. This is our\\nprayer. {Exit.\\nPremier To the pctrliament:\\nRoyal Declaration of Disinheritance.\\nBe it known to the Parliament and to the Representatives\\nof the nation that hereby is declared the disinheritance\\nof Mourine II. in consequence of which the throne of the\\nHobbies will descend to Princess Luisa, first niece of the\\nJcing; and be it further l^nown that by this act the safety of", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0136.jp2"}, "137": {"fulltext": "THE DRAMA OF DESTINY-KARL HANNO. ISS\\nthe throne as well as the interests of the country are hereby\\nsecure d.\\nAugust 10th, in the twenty-sixth year of his reia;n.\\nLouis Philip IV.\\nKing of the Hobbies.\\nThis declaration is awaiting- the sanction of\\nparliament.\\nFrom the Left. Your honor: What is the reason of\\nthe king- s action in this case?\\nPremier. This remains with the king- only. It is\\npurely a domestic affair.\\nFr. the Center. Your honor: If the affair is purely\\ndomestic, why does it need the sanction of parlia-\\nment?\\nPrem. {aside) I m cornered! Sec. {aside) That s what\\nthey wanted.\\nPremier. The reason, understand, is domestic; the\\ndeclaration requires the sanction of parliament.\\nSec. {aside) That was a bluff. Prem. {aside) Well\\ndon t tell em\\nFr. the Left. Your honor: Can parliament be satis-\\nfied with this explanation?\\nSec. {aside) You can t bluff em. ^xtm. {aside) No!\\nThey re old politicians.\\nPiemier. Parliament has no jurisdiction over domes-\\ntic affairs.\\nSec. {aside) Will they believe that? Prem. {aside)\\nDon t ask me\\nFr. the Left. Your honor: The king is responsible\\nto the parliament.\\nPremier. That s new to me. On the contrary, the\\nking is responsible only to himself, and is\\nabove parliament.\\nSec. (a J/V(?) You re a liar. Prem. (aside) ^h t of it?\\nThis is politics.\\nAttorney Your honor: Is the disinheritance of an\\nheir to the throne constitutional?", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0137.jp2"}, "138": {"fulltext": "m THE DRAMA OF DESTINY-KARL HANNO.\\nSec. {aside) That s a new gun. He is dangerous to the\\nking Prem. {aside) Well you ll not hurt him by\\nlooking at him.\\nSec. It wouldn t be had it not been for so long- in ex-\\nistence in the state of the Hobby nation.\\nSec (a5zrf^)- -Support that; go on.\\nPremier. Does any one suppose the king does not\\nknow the constitution?\\nSec. {aside) Now you ve told them stuff. Prem {aside)\\nWhat s the difference? They do the same.\\nFr. the Right. Your honor: No trifiing- with the\\nconstitution. Let it have supreme power.\\nFr. the Left. Your honor-. We understand the con-\\ntroversy arises from an intended marriage of\\nwhich the king does not approve.\\nl^r. the Right. Out of order!\\nPremier. Domestic affairs before parliament are out\\nof order.\\nSec. Positively, setting aside an heir to the throne\\nis constitutional, as such an act has occurred once\\nbefore in the history of the Hobbies.\\nPrem. {aside) By joky they believe it. Sec {aside)-^-\\nWell don t stop em.\\nAttorney. So it has, but understand, there was a rea-\\nson to justify the case and I demand in the name\\nof Mourine H. a reason that will justify the king s\\naction. {Wild yells.) No reason! No reason\\nthat will justify the king s action. Innocent! In-\\nnocent! She is the innocent beloved of the people-\\nAttorney. I demand that Mourine II. be permitted to\\nspeak: Her complaints must be heard before par-\\nliament.\\nPremier. Overruled by the chair!\\nSec. {aside.)\u00e2\u0080\u0094 ^ha.t did you do? Prem. [aside)\u00e2\u0080\u0094 I turned\\nihe damper on them.\\nr. the Left. Your honor: I move that parliament take\\na vote on that. Universal cries. Let her speak!\\nLet her speak! We all demand it,", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0138.jp2"}, "139": {"fulltext": "THE DEAMA OF DESTINY-KARl. HANNO. .DIK\\nPremier. Order! Mourine II- is permitted to speak!\\nNo! No! Not permitted We demand it. Order!\\nMourine II. may speak. {Mourine IL enters.)\\nSec. {aside.) What did you do that for? Prem.\\n{aside.) None of your business. Sec. (aside.) En-\\nforce your orders. Prem. (aside.) Haven t got\\ntroops enough for that mob.\\nMoufine II. To the parliament and to the representa-\\ntives of the nation\\nHe that is at peace with himself and free from\\nguilt before God and men, he it is who is looking\\nup to justice to be fair with the innocent. What\\nelse has been the policy of mine in all my life than\\nto be in harmony with all that with which my re-\\nsponsibility has to reckon. And even more than\\nthis: To make happy my people even at the cost of\\nmy own happiness.\\nSec. (aside.) That speech is a He. Prem. (aside.)\\nTwas a lawyer that wrote it,\\nBut the policy of mine, in all things fair in itself,\\nand in its consequence fair to others, is, to my\\nregret, not rightfully understood by those whose own\\ninterests weigh more in the scale of personal gain\\nthan does my happiness. Perhaps the One fault:\\nNot to part with my rights and privileges, is the\\ncause of my troubles; properly do I speak of my\\nengagement with Karl Hanno, the Prince of Finances,\\nwhich was also sanctioned at one time by my royal\\nfather himself, as now the public has intelligence of.\\nEven so, it has nevertheless settled the scheme of\\nthe Prince of Grain who is coveting the throne, not\\nme, and to satisfy the code, I must be given him in\\nmarriage which b} all rights and privileges I decid-\\nedly refuse to do- More it is not necessary to say,\\nand parliament will well understand the cause of my", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0139.jp2"}, "140": {"fulltext": "186 THE DRAMA OF DESTINT-KARL HANNO.\\ntroubles and my rejection from the throne. Wild\\nskouiS\\nIt shall never be done I Hurrah for Mourine II.\\nHurrah! Hurrah 1 Hurrah!\\nAttorney Your honor: Parliament acknowledges the\\ninnocence of Mourine II.\\nFt. the Center. Your honor: It is necessary parliament\\nshould know the reason of the king s action, if he\\nhas any.\\nSec. (a\u00c2\u00abflftf.)\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Shall we give it?\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Prera. {aside.)\u00e2\u0080\u0094! think\\nwe have to.\\nPremier. The Secretary of the State will read the reason\\nof the king s action.\\nSec. Here it is:\\nTo all whom it maj concern:\\nWe, the king and the guardians of the constitu-\\ntion, have at all times watched the interests of the country\\nand the w^elfare of the people, for which reason we are pres-\\nently involved in an affair concerning the safety of the\\nthrone. May it be known that Mourine II., heiress to the\\nthrone, is making common cause with her lover, Karl\\nHanno, the Prince of Finances, in view to concluding a\\nunion which, in our opinion and judgment, is against the\\nsafety of the throne and the interests of the country, and\\nduty is compeUing us to prevent this union. But as our\\nefforts to that effect are by all certainty proving a failure,\\nour only alternative is to reject Mourine II in favor of\\nPrincess Luisa, first niece of the king, who is also to form a\\nunion with the Prince of Grain, that thereby the safety of\\nthe throne and the interests of the country may be secured.\\nLouis Philip IV.,\\nKing of the Hobbies.\\nAttorney. So is the safety of the throne and the inter-\\nests of the country a reason for the king s action.\\nLet us see\\nPresuming the Prince of Grain will at some time\\nbe the husband of our future queen The Prince\\nof Grain has demonstrated in the recent past his", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0140.jp2"}, "141": {"fulltext": "THE DRAMA OF DESTINY-KARL HANNO. 137\\ndishonesty to the Government by the embezzlement\\nof ?524,000,000 of public money while being Hobby\\nTreasurer, and he has escaped punishment besides.\\nA man in power capable of such a thing is certainly\\nnot to the interests of the country, and a man that\\nis not to the interests of the country, and who is so\\nnear to the throne, is certainly not a safety for the\\nthrone: Consequently, the reason of the king s\\naction cannot be justified {Shouts.) Hurrah for\\nMourine II.\\nPremier. Order! Accusations against his Majesty in\\nparliament are out of order.\\nSec. (aside) Arrest him Prem. (aside)\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Can t; he is\\nbacked by the mob.\\nFf. the Left. Your honor: Don t you know that he is\\nthe Attorney of the Parliamentary Tribunal?\\nPremier. Makes no difference: The king is not a sub-\\nject. {Shouts-) Go on! Attorney, go on\\nPrem: Order!\\nSec. (aside)\u00e2\u0080\u0094 kxTtsthhral arrest the Attorney, he is dan-\\ngerous to the king; arrest him. Prem. (aside)\\nHaveo t got troops enough, I tell you. See the mob!\\nAttorney Now on the other hand:\\nPresuming Karl Hanno, the Prince of Finances,\\nwill at some time be the husband of our future\\nqueen: Karl Hanno, the Prince of Finances, has\\ndemonstrated in the recent past his honesty to the\\nGovernment and his patriotic devotion to the coun-\\ntry by furnishing the Government the staggering\\nWar-Loan of S425,000,000, money out of his own\\npocket, when the country was in great need. A\\nman capable of such a thing is certainly to the in-\\nterests of the country, and a man so devoted to the\\ninterests of the country, and so near to the throne,\\nis certainly a safety for the throne: Consequently,\\nthe reason of Mourine II., not to part with her rights", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0141.jp2"}, "142": {"fulltext": "138 THE DRAMA OF DESTINY-KABL HANNO.\\nand privileges, and the refusal concerning the Prince\\nof Grain and the favoring of Karl Hanno is perfectly\\njustified, and parliament cannot sanction thf Decla-\\nration of Dibinheritance of Mourine 11. Wild\\nshouts.) Hurrah for Mourine II. Hurrah!\\nPremier. But the Declaration of Disinheritance by the\\nsovereign can go into effect without the sanction of\\nparliament and is constitutional. Wild yells.)\\nNever! Never! Down with the bluff! Down\\nwith such a folly!\\nStc. [aside.) Hain t you ashamed? Preni. {aside.)\\nUse anything here.\\nFr. the Cutter- Your honor: I suggest that the Chief\\nJustice of the Hobby Supreme Court define the con-\\nstitution as regards this point of dispute.\\nPremier. The Chief Justice is requested to define the\\npoint of dispute-\\nChief Justice Here it is:\\nCONSTITUTION OF THE HOBBIES.\\nSECTION VIII. Paragraph 9: Disinheritance and Rights\\nof Succession.\\n1st: If the succession of an heir, or heiress to the throne, if\\nan heir apparent:, is either disputed or objected to, the sov-\\nereign shall have power to set aside said heir apparent by\\na decree v\\\\ ithout the act ol parliament.\\n2nd: If the succession of an heir, or heiress to the throne,\\nif a natural one, is objected to by reason of his, or her inca-\\npability, or because of disloyalty to the constitution, the\\nsovereign shall have power to disinherit said natural heir,\\nor heiress by a Declaration of Disinheritance sanctioned by\\nparliament.\\n3rd: If the succession of an heir, or heiress to the throne,\\nif a natural one, is objected to by reason of an act that can-\\nnot be justified, his, or her right of succession is guaranteed\\nby the Constitution of the Hobbies, and neither Sovereign\\nnor t arliament shall have power to reject such heir, or\\nheiress to the throne.", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0142.jp2"}, "143": {"fulltext": "THE DRAMA OF DESTINY-KARL HANNO. 139\\nUniversal roar. Mourine Mourine supreme\\nNo disinheritance! Hail! Hail! All hail Mourine\\nsupreme! Hurrah for Mourine II,!\\nPrem. {aside Well, that let s us out. Sec. (aside.)\\nNow, what s the difference!\\nAttorney. So is the action of the king unconstitutional\\non the ground that his reason cannot be justified\\nwith regard to a natural heir, and I move that the\\ndecision of parliament shall be forwarded to the king\\nin the front declaring the Declaration of Disinherit-\\nance of Mourine II. Null and void as his act of\\nproceeding is unconstitutional. {All second the\\nmotion\\nPremier. The motion is carried. The Secretary of the\\nState is authorized to forward the decision of par-\\nliament ro the king in the front as suggested in the\\nmotion, namely. That his act is unconstitutional\\nand that we require an immediate answer.\\n{Parliament is dismissed until the arrival of the king s\\nanswer. Mourine II. and Karl Hanfio, who was absent\\nduring the session, meet in the fVaiting Parlor.)\\nKarl Hanno. Mourine forever: After many storms there\\nwill be sunshine for I shall see at least One moment\\nin life in which I shall see all of my wishes answered.\\nYou, the unchanged, like the immovable pier founded\\nin the depths of the ebbies against which are dash-\\ning the heightened waves of the maddened sea, you\\nshall see the moment of an equal degree of happi-\\nness as the Blessing of all Good is our promise\\nThough you be outrighted of the succession; though\\nyou be robbed of your throne, this they cannot rob\\nyou of, for I am the Child of Destiny.\\nMourijie. OW. How the heart is soothed when in\\nthe hour of trials the soul turns again to\\nthoughts most sublime. And he that is at peace", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0143.jp2"}, "144": {"fulltext": "140 THE DEAMA OF DESTINY-KARL HANlNO.\\nwith himself, how well fitted he is to overcome\\nthe attacks of the foe of life when in the moment\\nof despair others are perishing-. I was not so be-\\nfore, but the great Teacher of Life, and especially\\nthe events of the very recent days, have trained\\nmy heart and I bow before the same dispensatory\\npower before which all mortals bow. Yesterday\\nMourine II., to-day the disinherited of the throne\\nof a mighty nation; and what ami now? Oh,\\nKarl! Forg-et not that all this I might be spared\\nif I could bear the thought of parting from you.\\nKarl H Be not dismayed, Mourine. He that over-\\ncometh shall live; and he that is trusting in the\\nBlessing of all Good, shall never fall.\\nMourine. Indeed are you the Child of Destiny, and\\nthe Blessing of all Good is smiling- sweetly upon\\nyour brow. Thrones, kingdoms, and empires fall\\nshort in the scale in which are weig-hed these\\nthings eternal of heavenly comfort. When shall\\nthe moment come?\\nKarl H. Perhaps soon, and when it does come, the\\nmoment will last forever, for these are things\\neternal.\\n{Queen Regent enters and finds Mourine weeping.)\\nQueen. Mourine, dear child. Be not dismayed. The\\nug-ly face of the present will soon pass away and\\nall will be made new. To-day you are the Dis-\\ninherited by the act of your royal papa himself,\\nwho, under the misleading influence of a despised\\nclique of demagogues, cares more for the purpose\\nof those than for the love and happiness of his\\nown child. Your papa is swaying- powerful\\narmies, but you are swaving- the hearts of the peo-\\nple. And if your papa does that, they will do\\nthis for your Rights and Privileges are guar-\\nanteed by the Constitution of the Hobbies.", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0144.jp2"}, "145": {"fulltext": "THE DRAMA OF DESTINT\u00e2\u0080\u0094 KARL UANNO. 141\\nMourine. Yes, ma, but think: In a ravolutionary\\nsense the constitution is but a dead letter, and\\nbrutal force alone will command the situation.\\nKarl H. And in spite of all this, and the fact that\\nthe present has assumed an ug-ly face, these thing s\\nare sent to serve a purpose, for such is life. We think\\nit bad, but life without the intermediate chang-es\\nfrom ^ood to bad, and from bad to good is, in my\\nestimation, not a dramatic accomplishment, and\\ntherefore could not be of wonderful results. The\\ntroubled soul will be so much the happier when\\nvictory comes, and a thousandfold will be re-\\nwarded he who has done straig^ht book-keeping\\nin the days of his life. Mourine! Remember-.\\nThe purpose of life has a greater meaning than\\nthose things that we can see. {litiis enteis).\\nTitus. Best greeting. But why does your royal\\nHighness look so sad?\\nMourine. I beg; I beg your honor, Titus. Royalty\\non me is suspended, as I am the Disinherited\\nand I have lost my title.\\nTitus. In form, but not in fact. Ah! don t I know it?\\nKa.x\\\\(aside) He is a delightful predictor; a great sym-\\npathizer, yes, and a great joker at times, and he never\\nfishes in troubled waters. Mourine: You may now\\nknow how to take him.\\nMourine. And your Honor seems to be sincere in\\nthe assertion?\\nTitus. Precisely so, for the nation is taking the case\\ninto their own hands now. Ha! It is not merely\\nthe parliament, nay: the nation itself. Constitu-\\ntionally, the action of his Majesty cannot be\\njustified, and everything is now waiting for the\\nking s answer. If he will yield his schemes and\\ndrop the Prince of Crain, everything will go on", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0145.jp2"}, "146": {"fulltext": "la THE DRAMA OF DESTINt-KARL HAN50.\\nthe old footing; if he will resist and tread upon\\nthe constitution and force his scheme, he will be\\nmet with a like resistence on the part of the peo-\\nple.\\nQueen. But that would cause a revolution.\\nMourine- Yes, and what an evil.\\nTitus. O, yes. But we hold the same policy that is\\nheld by his Majesty himself, namely: that it is\\nbetter evil ag-ainst evil to keep the Balance of\\nPower, than for One evil to be permitted to re-\\nmain, which then in its evil tendency g ives birth\\nto many more, and even greater evils.\\nMourine. O, no! your Honor: Rather than to have\\nthe country converted into a bloody revolution I\\nwould sooner give up my throne.\\nlitiis. O, yes. The people well know the honest and\\npure character of Mourine II., and I readily ad-\\nmit that your Highness refrains from a throne\\nstained with blood, but understand it is now a\\nmatter with the people to uphold the constitution.\\nNeither the sovereign nor parliament shall have\\npower to set aside a natural heir, or heiress to the\\nthrone by reason of an act that cannot be justi-\\nfied. Section VIII, Paragraph 9 3rd.\\nMourine {aside) Ma: He knows more about our na-\\ntional economy than most of our professional politi-\\ncians.\\nQueen (aside) Understand: he is a self-made man.\\n[Enter The Minister of War and the Attorne^^ of P. T.)\\nAttorney Your Royal Highness, and Gentlemen of\\nHonor\\nMourine. Ever thanks to your kindness, attorney,\\nfor the noble defense on my behalf in parliament.\\nAttorney. Thanks; but your Royal Highness will re-\\ncognize the discharge of my dniy for justice and\\nrights only.", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0146.jp2"}, "147": {"fulltext": "THE DRAMA OF DESTINY-KARL HANNO US\\nMourtne, But royalt}^ on me is suspended and I have\\nlost mj title.\\nAttorney. Mistake: Your title, your rig^hts and\\nprivileg-es are in full force, and they are g-uaran-\\nteed by the Constitution of tlie Hobbies, defended\\nby the people.\\nTitus. And don t I know it? Ail forms of sympathy\\nand devotion for Mourine II.; indig^nation over\\nthe disinheritance; condemnation of the action of\\nthe king in connection with the Prince of Grain.\\nDon t I know it? I have been canvassing through\\nthe country. Yes!\\nMourine II. Just think Before parliament the pre-\\nmier made the assertion that the Declaration of Dis-\\ninheritance could go into effect without the sanction\\nof parliament.\\nliiuS His Excellency must have been driven into a\\nti^iht corner?\\nAttorney. He was, and I regret that a great talent is so\\ndevoted to a cause of vanity and injustice.\\nKarl H The great military achievements of the Prince\\nof Grain have caught the king and the financiers of\\nthe country whose greed is marked by personal gain\\nand vanity, mine of course not included. But thanks\\nto the Almighty that by far the greater part of our\\npeople are not devoted to this demon.\\nQueen. Ghanging the subject: As queen recent I de-\\nsire to know what parliament is going to do in case\\nof the king s refusal to accept the parliamentary de-\\ncision?\\nAttorney. What we shall do- Plans are already com-\\npleted: In case of the king s refusal, parliament\\nwill put up a provisional government with Mourine\\nII. as head of the regency, raise an army and force\\nthe king to recognize the constitution, which means\\nthe right of succession of Mourine II.", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0147.jp2"}, "148": {"fulltext": "144 THE DEAMl OF DESTINY-KAKL Hi.NNO.\\nQueen,-\u00e2\u0080\u0094 But the king has over 800,000 men in the field\\nunder his immediate command and the great military\\ngenius, the Prince oi Grain.\\nSec. of IVar.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 And we have 2,000,000 able bodied citi-\\nzens to put into uniforms, and over $200,000,000 in\\nthe treasury-\\nA flr/ i\u00c2\u00a5.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 And Titus and I can furnish $200,000,000\\nmore if needed. {A/l shout.) God save the Queen!\\nHurrah! Hurrah for Mourine II.\\nThe answer of the king has arrived and all enter the\\nassembly hall to take part therein.)\\nQueen Regent. To the servants of the state, to the sub-\\njects, and to the representatives of the nation:\\nIn God We Trust.\\nIf there is anything of marked brightness in the\\nexternal history of the Hobbies it is at the present:\\nOtr allied enemy, in number superior to us, ac-\\nknowledged their defeat, as their capital is about\\nready to fall, and the stipulations of peace and treaty\\nare daily contemplated. In this respect the country\\nis exulting in its national security from without and\\nthe prestige of the army in its military achievements\\nis more conspicuous than ever. In our internal af-\\nfairs the situation is different. The answer of the\\nking with regard to the parliamentary decision in\\nthe case of the disinheritance of Mourine II. has\\narrived and is in the hands of the premier. As to\\nthis we can rightfully emphasize that whatever may\\nbe the course of either of the controversing parties,\\nthe constitution must be abided by and upheld as\\nlong as there is anything to defend it with. On the\\nother hand, parliament and people are cautiously\\nadvised to be conciliating with the king if by anv\\nmeans this can be obtainedt This is our praj er.\\n{Exit.)", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0148.jp2"}, "149": {"fulltext": "THE DRAMA OF DESTINT-KARL HANNO. 146\\nThe pretnier occupies Ihe chair, ivith the secretary close\\nin his rear.)\\nPremier. The Secretary of the State will read the order\\nof the parliamentary session.\\nSec. Be it understood that the session of parliameut is\\nto resume the order of the last session in the case of\\nthe disinheritance of Mourine II. by the king, whose\\nanswer is now to be acted upon by parliament.\\nPremier. What is parliament going to do: Is parlia-\\nment ready to sanction the Declaration of Disinher-\\nitance?\\nAttorney. Your honor: Parliament is in suspense to\\nhear the answer of the king.\\nPremier. The sovereign considers it below his dignity\\nto treat with parliament on a petty question of this\\nkind. He sets forth that, when a natural heir is not\\na guarantee for the safety of the throne, the right of\\nsuccession of the natural heir is forfeited and the\\nsovereign has power to disinherit said heir, or\\nheiress to the throne by a Declaration of Disinherit-\\nance without the sanction of parliament, just as I\\nhave stated it in the last session. But this is really\\nnot the answer.\\nSec. {aside.) You made that up yourself. Prem. No, I\\nwrote it down.\\nAttorney- So is the king making the constitution a dead\\nletter\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nFt. the Left.\u00e2\u0080\u0094Yonx honor: Is there any provision made\\nagainst the violation of the constitution by the sov-\\nereign?\\nPremier- Provision is: The sovereign must abide by\\nthe constitution but that s all.\\nfr. the G-7tter. Your honor: What is the real answer\\nof the king?\\nPremier. It s a short one!", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0149.jp2"}, "150": {"fulltext": "146 THE DRAMA OF DESTINY-KARL HANNO.\\nSec. {aside.) Is the passage dear in the rear?\\nTrem. {aside) What! to run away? No, sir!\\nAtto -ney. Your honor? Parliament is in suspense to\\nhear the answer of the king.\\nPremier, Is parliament prepared to hear me read it?\\nMind you, it s a short onel\\n[Shouts-) Yes, prepared for anythingl\\n^tc. {aside.) Now, don t make a mistake. Vttta.. {aside)\\nNo, unless the king did.\\nPremier. Then, here is the answer of the king. All\\nlisten\\n*In less than ten days I shall enter the capital of\\nthe Hobbies with the constitution fixed on the points\\nof a hundred thousand bayonets.\\nlyOuis Philip IV.,\\nKing of the Hobbies.\\n{A tremendous uproar takes possession of the entire par-\\nliament hall mingled with enthusiastic shouts, and yells\\nfor Mourifte II. Lotid cries are heard from the left\\nkifig, or constitution,^^ whereupon the most extreme\\nradicals seize the premier and the Secretary of St ite and\\ndrag ihetn down into the prison cell. Measures against\\nany opf ositiun are taken by the military authorities hav-\\ning charge of Pti ^lic Safety throughout the capital. After\\nthe worst storm of violence levins to settle, the leaders of\\nthe mob ca I fir o ^der and Kafl Hanno is i\u00c2\u00bbsixlled by\\nparltatnent to preside over them under the title of ^Di-\\nreit r, for the purpose of setting up a provisional gov-\\nernment. And Titus becomes his secretary to assist him.)\\nDii ecior Karl Hanno. In consequence of the answer of\\nthe king which is identical with revolutionary pro-\\nceedings, we, the parliament and the representatives\\nof the nation, recognize the necessity of a provisional\\ngovernment for the purpose of upholding and of de-\\nfeuding the country against the king, who by act of\\nparliament is herewith deposed, and Mourine II. by\\nright of guccession ^s his natural heir to the throne.", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0150.jp2"}, "151": {"fulltext": "THE DRAMA OF DESTINT-KAEL HANNO. 147\\nproclaimed Regent until the time of conflict is\\nbrought to a settlement Is there any opposition?\\n{Shouts.) No opposition! All hail Mourine II.\\nHail! Hail! Hurr.ih for Mourine II.\\nRegent Monrine IJ. {Speech from the throne) To the\\nparliament\\nIn God We Trust.\\nViewing- the situation of these pressing mo-\\nments so forced upon us from causes that we re-\\nally do not understand, I am moved to say that I\\nsincerely regret my position under circumstances,\\nsuch as these. A conflict with an external enemy\\nwould awaken enthusiasm with manifest patri-\\notic devotion, but a conflict with an internal\\nenemy, and especially a child proceeding against\\nher own father is simply unnatural. But aside\\nfrom this, there are often duties to perform which\\nbefore right and justice are above sentiment. I\\ncannot but recognize my duty to respond to the\\ncall of the people who with love and devotion to\\nthe country and its constitution are availing them-\\nselves of their duty as is right and proper to do\\nto maintain the position of the nation correct.\\nAnd the duty of mine, which has devolved upon\\nme on this day, I solemnly promise to be faithful\\nto with the best of my knowledge in the capacity\\nas Regent of the Provisional Government. This\\nis our prayer.\\nDirector. Thus: We adopt the following resolutions:\\nFirst: An army of 300,000 men to be sent im-\\nmediately against the king, who is now on the\\nmarch upon our capital.\\nSecond. A proclamation of martial law to be\\nissued in every city exposed to attacks and vio-\\nlence from any opposition against the Provisional\\nGovernment.", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0151.jp2"}, "152": {"fulltext": "148 THE DRAMA OF DESTINY -KARL HANKO.\\nThird: An Army Order to be issued to the\\ntroops under the kind s command to lay down\\narms and side w .th the Provisional Government;\\nthe soldiers in case of refusal to be treated as\\nrebels.\\nFourth: A commission to be sent to our bel-\\nlig-erent enemy declaring- the king- of the Hobbies\\nas deposed by the Provisional Government, and\\nany peace or treaty concluded with said deposed\\nkino to be declared Null and Void by the Pro-\\nvisional Government.\\nFifth: That the Provisional Government is\\nwilling- to conclude peace with the bellig-erent\\nenemy on terms honorable to the Hobby nation.\\nSixth: Any time, on or before the expiration\\nof eleven days after date, if the king shall sur-\\nrender and acknowledgre the rightful succession\\nof Mourine H. as provided by the Constitution of\\nthe Hobbies, the king to be granted pardon and\\nreturn to the sovereignty of power; but if the\\nking after said date shall continue hostilities\\nag-ainst the country and the Provisional Govern-\\nment, the king- to be declared as dethroned.\\nIs there any opposition?\\nAttorney. The deposed king to return to the sover-\\neignty of power, is that to the interests of the\\ncountry?\\nTitus {aside).\u00e2\u0080\u0094 YoMX interests, you know\\nKarl {aiide) I know, but we name it the country s\\ninterests.\\nDirector The term of grace stands only for a fig-ure;\\nRather than to surrender the king- would blow off\\nhis head. These resolutions will g-o into effect\\nafter bearing the signature of the regent. Par-\\nliament will meet a-g-ain on further notice.", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0152.jp2"}, "153": {"fulltext": "THE DRAMA OF DESTINY-KARL HANNO. 149\\n{All leave. Karl H. and Titus repair to the Waiting\\nParlor\\nTitus. There is one gfood thing about the king-:\\nWhatever he intends to do he will do it aside from\\natiy two-faced proceeding Had the answer of\\nthe kino- been formed in a compromising- way, we\\ncould not hope for decisive results. But as mat-\\nters stand now, quick will be the movements; de-\\ncisive will be the stroke. One or the other will\\nhave to go to the wall.\\nKail n. I can t see why the king- is so resolute in\\nhis purpose just now, at a time when the country\\nis at war.\\nTitus. That s easy to guess. I believe now the king.\\nwaged war himself. Knowing that he would\\nhave a conflict with parliament concerning the\\nscheme of the Prince of Grain, the king declared\\nwar. He has gone to the front, and he has placed\\nthe army under his immediate command. The\\nconflict with parliament has come and he is now\\nready to make a stroke. He is a sharper.\\nKarl H. A sharper? I think he has miscalculated\\nhis game: The king being away from the capi-\\ntal, gives the opposing- party all the advantages in\\nthe world. Poor good old king He thinks now\\nhe is doing something great when he can make\\nthe earth tremble to force through his will. You\\nsee he wants to make his own destiny\\nTitus. And that of the Prince of Grain, too.\\nKail H. Certainly! And also that of the nation.\\nPoor good old king, he has no idea that the\\nAlmighty is using him as a vassal for the pur-\\npose of carrying out my destiny.\\nTitus. Grackerty; wrecker ty; Karl, are you worth so\\nmuch that the Almighty uses kings and nations,", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0153.jp2"}, "154": {"fulltext": "160 THE DRAMA OF DESTINY-KARL HANNO.\\nsacrificing- thousands of human lives just because\\nto carry out your destiny?\\nKarl H. Don t ask me.\\nlitns. Well I am not going to ask the Almighty\\nneither. How is Mourine?\\nKarl H.--Th.Q. unchanged Mourine for ever; free from\\nguilt before God and men; sweet like the roses of\\nEden; like the lily in the valley, she is beautiful,\\nand as on the day of the Yoyal Reception she\\nsways my heart because she is lovely.\\nlitus- That s enough!\\n(Mourine II enters with an escort of two young ladies.\\nShe hands Karl a letter. He reads:)\\nBuda-Paar, August 28th.\\nUnworthy Daughter, Mourine.\\nUpon the face of what is transpiring in the capital at\\nhome, together with that ridiculous term ot grace dictated\\nto me in the name of parliament, of which you, and your\\nlover, Karl Haano, are solely the cause, I do hereby\\nsolemnly set before you that if you will not part with your\\nlover within three days, and give up the intended uaion\\nwith him; begging your pardon of me; dissolve the Pro-\\nvisional Government, and be henceforth an obedient\\nchild, you shall then be declared an Outlaw, and your\\nsupporters shall be treated as rebels. After a five days\\nmarch I shail be at the home capital with an army of\\n300,000 men to execute my edict and decrees. Only One\\nthing is possible for you to save your throne namely: To\\ncomply with my wishes and to marry the Prince of Grain.\\nYour Royal Father.\\nKarl H. What a father! What has entered the king s\\nhead? It is awful.\\nT. Ladies. It is dreadful. It is awful to think\\nabout it.\\nMourine I J. So am I an Outlaw. i^She sinks on\\nthe sofa weepings Karl and the ladies asssiting\\nher.)", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0154.jp2"}, "155": {"fulltext": "THE DRAMA OF DESTIXT-KARL HANNO. 151\\nlittis. Then let the iron hand of destiny decide the\\nfate!\\nKarl H. Evil ag-ainst evil; free from g-uilt before\\nGod and men, and innocent as we ar2, Mourine,\\nwe can rest easy.\\nMourine II. Unchang-ed as I am in my rig-htful policy,\\nI shall remain so, since upon my conviction it is\\nthe guilty that ought to yield.\\n{Karl and Titus remain. The others leave.)\\nTitus. Confound it! he is a wicked king.\\nKarl H. You are satisfied of that, are you?\\nTttus. Yes! and I wouldn t regret it at all to see his\\nhead go down into the barrel and there have a\\nquarrel with Mephistopheles.\\nKarl H. What good would that do us?\\nTitus. Good deal of good he d be out of the way.\\nDon t you see the point?\\nKarl H.\u00e2\u0080\u0094^o\\\\ The Child of Destiny shall keep his\\nhands clean from anyone s blood, even should I\\nfail in my purpose, which could be only a wicked\\none. But if Destiny will dispose of all odds now\\nagainst me and lead me to victory, I have no ob-\\njection.\\nTitus. And that s just what it will do. Let them\\nplot against you; let them scheme as much as\\nthey please: the king and the Prince of Grain will\\nfind out that man is not the maker of his own\\ndestiny.\\nKarl H. Just now they ve got the best end of the\\nrope.\\nTitus. It will avail them nothing. You know how\\nthat goes: Suddenly heaven will change its face\\nagain, push you on to the front, and prostrate\\nwill lay the odds now against you\\nKarl H. That is to say that they have the best end", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0155.jp2"}, "156": {"fulltext": "162 THE DBAMA OF DESTINY-KARL HANNO.\\nof the rope, but that I have the better hold. Is\\nthat it?\\nTitus. Yes! For you are the Child of Destiny, wrek-\\nerty crackerty! {Exeunt^)\\n{Enter\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Moutine II. escorted by two young; lady ser-\\nvants, her royal mother, the Attorney, the Secretary of\\nWar and the Chief Advisor.)\\nMourine II. {all do her homage) This day will reach\\nthe climax of the crisis [shouts)\u00e2\u0080\u0094 God save the\\nqueen. Hurrah! Hurrah for Mourine II. con-\\ntinued I have just received a letter from my\\nroyal father in which he demands the dissolution\\nof the Provisional g-overnment and demands to\\nknow within three days whether or not I will part\\nwith my policy and comply with his wishes; if\\nnot, I shall be an Outlaw and my supporters\\nshall be treated as rebels. In addition to that, I\\ncan only save my throne upon condition of con-\\neluding- a union with the Prince of Grain. I ask\\nyour advice.\\nAdvisor. Your Royal Highness is advised to remain\\nsteadfast in your policy which is acknowledg^ed\\nby the Provisional Government.\\nSec. of War. So is the army of the Provisional Gov-\\nernment of 300,000 men now ready to meet the\\nking at any time.\\nMourine II.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Bnt the king has over 800,000.\\nSec- of War. Yes, yes, your Highness, I understand,\\nbut we have 2,000,000 militia. {A message is brought\\nin. He reads.) lyisten!\\n300,000 men under the king s command have deserted\\nand will join the cause of the Provisional Govern-\\nment. Now then are the forces about equal and\\nwe are a little bit ahead. Mind you: One great\\nstroke will decide it all. {Enter Karl H. and\\nTitus.)", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0156.jp2"}, "157": {"fulltext": "THE DRAMA OF DESTINY-KABL HANNO. 163\\nlituS {Excited.) Nonsense! Why not at once crown\\nMourine II. and proclaim her queen?\\nAttorney. For one reason: The term of grace has not\\nyet expired.\\nAdvisor. And for another reason Should the king s\\narms triumph over those of the Provisional Govern-\\nment, the fate of Mourine II. would be harder than\\never. Let things develop to maturity!\\nMourine II. And I would object to anything too hastily\\ndone. We must follow events. I am not in sym-\\npathy with imprudent measures.\\nQueen. No! It will not do. The outcome of the con-\\nflict with the king must first be awaited. All else\\nmust be suspended.\\nAdvisot And should the Provisional Government tri-\\numph, Mourine II. may be crowned, and be pro-\\nclaimed Queen of the Hobbies.\\nMourine II. But remember: Whatever you will do, be\\nconciliating. {Exit.)\\nAdvisor. I suggest that the crowning of Mourine II.\\nand her marriage with Karl Hanno take place at the\\nsame time.\\nKarl H. But only after the conflict with the king.\\nAdvisot. It will be necessary for these points to be\\nbrought before parliament.\\nAttorney- Certainly: All points having a political bear-\\ning must be brought before parliament. And now:\\nHip, hip, hip, hurrah for Mourine II. and Karl\\nHanno Hurrah\\n{All leave. Karl H. and Titus remain).\\nKarl H. Great heavens! If everybody should have\\nsuch trouble about getting a man s daughter\\n7z7w5.--Thpn what?\\nKarl H.\u00e2\u0080\u0094YL^ would have Bills of Trouble.\\nTitus- Exactly; you see that s all the father gets. I\\ndon t blame him.", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0157.jp2"}, "158": {"fulltext": "154 THE DRAMA OF DESTINY-KARL RANNO.\\nKarl H. And as for me?\\nTitus. For you? Keep right in the channel of the\\nmoving events-\\nKarl H. O, certainly! Hope not to strike apolitical\\nsandbar.\\nTitus. No! it will be a rock, if anything.\\nKarl H. And founder? O, no! Heaven forbid. But,\\nhowever things may go, Titus, we shall stay together.\\nTitus. So we shall, according to our pledges made with\\neach other, never to part in our combined efforts\\nuntil the fairest conditions of life and happiness are\\nestablished, and to share our lot with each other.\\nKarl H. Indeed we shall, Titus, for these are my sin-\\ncere wishes, and whatever my welfare may be in\\nthe days yet to come, remember, you shall share it\\nwith me. And if it comes to pass that sooner or\\nlater I shall be seated on the throne of this mighty\\nnation, you shall share half of my power and glory.,\\nTitus. I see in you the man in his original purity.\\nMany, many, when they become prominent men\\nforget those thej have left behind them. Not so\\nwith us: The world will recognize the true ex-\\nample that we have set before them: that we have\\nnever left each other in destitution; when one\\nhad more than the other, we have cheerfully\\ndivided; when one was happy, we both were. We\\nhave loved each other with manly love, and we\\nhave S3 mpathized with each other s misfortune.\\nThousands of men will feel guilty of their selfish-\\nness when looking this example of ours in the\\nface, and without this example there is no hope\\nfor paradise ever to return again.\\nKarl H. Thoughts most sublime these are corning\\nforth from the depth of your soul in his original\\npurity, Titus. But these are words that can", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0158.jp2"}, "159": {"fulltext": "THE DRAMA OF DESTINY-KARL HANNO. 166\\nhardly be weighed in the scale of the world s\\nestimation, and I fear the world will not recog-\\nnize our example inasmuch as the world is not\\ntrue to herself. Paradise is lost to man because\\nman has lost his original purity. But paradise is\\nstill there where purity exists, and if the world\\nwill not recognize our example, we shall never-\\ntheless part, nor part with this immortal ex-\\nample.\\n{Maurine enters, Titus does her highness homage and\\nleaves the room).\\nMourine II. Karl forever; Mourine forever: No words\\ncan express the weight felt upon, my soul. No\\nman has ever been so great to stay the hand of\\nDestiny. King, or queen, or whatever sovereign\\nhe may be, his veto does amount to nothing in\\nthis case. Where is the man that makes his own\\ndestiny. And who is He that makes mine?\\nTrembling I stand before the laws supreme; alas!\\nhere is no appeal. But I am the same Un-\\nchanged Mourine forever, against whom shall\\nfounder anything that shall come between us.\\nThis is all that I can say to-day. And if we do\\nnot triumph, we must perish as I am declared an\\nOutlaw by my royal father.\\nKarl H. Mourine forever Karl forever Think that\\nit is not man who is making destiny for another.\\nRight and justice will remain with the innocent\\nand it is the guilty that shall perish. You are\\nMourine II., Regent of the Provisional Govern-\\nment. The nation stands by you as a unit and\\nthey are ready to serve at your command. Oh,\\nMourine! How yet are you so highly exalted even\\nthough the situation is as it is to-day. And when\\nthe moment will come in which I shall see all of", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0159.jp2"}, "160": {"fulltext": "156 THE DRAMA OF DESTINY-KARL HANNO.\\nmy wishes answered, all will be made new and the\\nSun of happiness shall rise over us and shine for\\never. For I am the Child of Destiny.\\nThey join parlia ment)\\nMourine II. To the Parliament of the Provisional\\nGovernment and to the representatives of the\\nnation:\\nIn God We Trust.\\nTo-day our beloved nation is weighed in the\\nScale of Destiny and it will be decided by men\\nand arms what was decided in the council of the\\nHigher Ordinance long- before this. We cannot\\nforbid ourselves to think that our cause is fairly\\nentitled to victory when we consider that we are\\nin harmony with the constitution, and that the un-\\njust cause will not be permitted to triumph over\\nthe just one. Intelligence has reached us that\\nthe foreign war has ceased, and peace is con-\\nclued. This is to say that the king has his hands\\nfree to turn them against us with the whole force\\nunder his command. He is now demanding the\\ndissolution of the Provisional Government and\\nour unconditional surrender. On the other hand\\nwe delight in the fact that 300,000 men under the\\nking s command have deserted and joined our\\ncause The opposing forces are now about equal\\nand by this desertion we hope that our national\\ncause will triumph and bring the conflict to a\\nspviedy close. This is our prayer. {Exit).\\nDirector {K. The Committee of Public Safety\\nis charged to take measures against all sympa-\\nthizers of the king to secure order throughout the\\ncapital.\\nAttorney. Your honor: The fate of the Provisional\\nGovernment must be decided to-day, and in the", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0160.jp2"}, "161": {"fulltext": "THE DRAMA OF DESTINY-KAEL HANNO. 167\\nname of parliament I sug-g-est that if the cause of\\nthe Provisional Government shall triumph on this\\nday, Mourine II., the only natural and rightful\\nheir lo the throne, shall be crowned and be pro-\\nclaimed Mourine II., Queen of the Hobbies.\\n{All shetit).\\nNo opposition! Hurrah! for Mourine II. Hur-\\nrah!\\nDirector {K. H.) The sug-orestion is carried without\\nopposition, Now what I desire to say reg-arding\\nmyself, is this: This day wesball either triumph,\\nor perish with our cause, and I do hereby solemn-\\nly promise before her royal Hig^hness and before\\nthe representatives of the nation that if the cause\\nof the Provisional Government shall triumoh this\\nday, I shall relieve the nation of $200,000,000\\nnational debt.\\nQueen {king s -wife). How am I moved by the patri-\\notic devotion of your Excellency, Karl Hanno.\\nThe nation alone is able to reward you for a deed\\nso unique in the history of the Hobbies. And in\\nmy royal capacity I do hereby express my wish\\nbefore parliament, that on this day, if the cause\\nof the Provisional Government shall triumph,\\nMourine II., my only daughter and child, shall be\\ngiven you in marriage as at one time this was\\nsanctioned by her royal father himself. {Enthii-\\nsiastic shouts from all quarters). Hurrah for Karl\\nHanno! The country cheers. Peace and tran-\\nquility shall return ag-ain, and justice shall reign.\\nHurrah for Mourine II. and Karl Hanno!\\nDirector {K. H \u00e2\u0080\u0094I find no words to tell the gratitude\\nfelt at my heart toward your royal Highness and\\ntoward all who have aided me in attaining my\\nfortunate lot. And if this is a personal concern-", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0161.jp2"}, "162": {"fulltext": "168 THE DRAMA OF DESTINY-KARL HANNO.\\nment on the one hand, I am on the other equally\\nas much grateful to all those who are bound by\\nfaith to stand by the standard of national unity\\nand by the constitution of the land. And those\\nwho have a share in the g-overnment and have\\ng-iven their aid to the cause of right and justice,\\nthey shall be remembered with due reward as soon\\nas I shall be in a position enabling me to do jus-\\ntice to their claims.\\n{All shout) Hurrah for Karl Hanno! Hip!\\nHip! Hip! Hurrah!\\nSec. Titus. To all whom it may concern! I, the un-\\ndisputed bearer of evidence in all cases concern-\\ning the honest character of Karl Hanno, do\\nhereby bear witness before the multitudes of men\\nof all shades and colors that the conduct of his\\nlife up to the present moment has been such, as to\\ncompare with the most pure among men. I have\\nknown him from his childhood and the marks he\\nhas left behind him are such as can be found on\\nthe records of men who have complied with their\\nduties toward God and men. Thinking as we do\\nthat after this day he shall be a partner on the\\nthrone by the union with the equally honest and\\npure Mourine II., if Destiny shall this day let our\\ncause triumph, the country may henceforth look\\nwith confidence and trust up tb the throne whose\\nsafety then shall be secured, and the Constitution\\nof the Hobbies be respected.\\nUpon My Name Titus.\\n(Mourifie II. enters. She betrays apprehension and takes\\nKarl Hanno a moment aside before she speaks).\\nMoufine II. To the Parliament:\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094I am amazed. I apprehend danger to our cause.\\nYesterday the message came in that 300,000 men of", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0162.jp2"}, "163": {"fulltext": "THE DRAMA OF DESTI\\\\Y-KARL HANNO. 169\\nour troops were confronting the king and the great\\nmilitary genius, the Prince of Grain, to decide the\\ngreat battle of to- day. And just now I have receiv-\\ned another message that five cities have revolted\\nagainst the Provisional Government in consequence\\nof a proclamation issued by the king. What will\\ncome out of all this? It is awful! Listen! All\\nlisten to me\\nThus far there has not been one drop of blood\\nshed for the sake of our cause, as far as we know,\\nbut what will be the ugly report of the great battle\\nfought to-day? And what will follow next? Even\\nthe fact that we will tiiumph over the king, it is all\\nthe same horrible for me to think of raising my hand\\nagainst my father, however wrong he may be in his\\naction against me. And he will not give up. Thou-\\nsands of valuable lives will be lost and property\\nruined. And on our part, just because to uphold\\nthe right of succession? I will abdicate and sur-\\nrender my right of succession to whomever it may\\ngo, just for humanity s sake to avoid all these evils.\\nI, and my intended companion for life, we can be\\nhappy without a throne. Vainglory is not the mo-\\ntive of onr ambition when this is to be reached by\\nhorrors, such as are threatening now. It is true\\nthat the duties before rights and justice are above\\nsentiment, but on the other hand I refiain from a\\nthrone stained with blood, and this is equally true\\nof my Lover.\\nKarl H. {Director.) In speaking for myself, I confiim\\nher statements. We can be happy without a throne:\\nBeing in control of 8600,000,000 I can buy a king-\\ndom of ray own if I want one, and we can afford to\\nenjoy all that this world can give. And a throne,\\nstained with blood, will certainly not increase my\\nhappiness,", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0163.jp2"}, "164": {"fulltext": "160 THE DRAMA OF DESTINY-KARL HANNO.\\nAttorney. Your Highness, your Excellency: I speak\\nin the name of parliament, that this conflict with the\\nking is a matter with the people; the constitution\\nmust not be made a dead letter and the rights of\\nsuccession must be regarded. It is the people s case,\\nnot merely your s.\\nSec. Titwis) Your Honor, your Royal Highness, listen!\\nIt will all be decided to-day, and at the very worst,\\nby one great battle, and the loss of life, and property,\\nwill not be so great as would be the loss of our con-\\nstitution. Just await the result of to-day.\\nQueen. And I can say this much for my royal husband,\\nthat, if the great battle of to day should result in\\nhis defeat, he will not sacrifice anything more for\\nthe Prince of Grain. Just wait!\\nhr. the Left. Your honor: The interests of the king\\ngo further than the manifest interests in the Prince\\nof Grain: He stumbles too much over the constitu-\\ntion and he wants to do away with it. {Shouts).\\nSuch a king we don t want!\\n(A messenger enters and hands a message to the secretary.\\nHe reads.)\\nSec. {Titus).\u00e2\u0080\u0094 K\\\\\\\\ listen!\\nThe result of to-day:\\nThe king shares the same lot with Alexander\\nthe Great Yesterday, a very hot day, and being\\nexhausted, the king was drinking too much wine,\\nand suddenly a very hot fever fell upon him which\\ncould not be checked. He died a natural death\\nearly this morning at four o clock before a drop of\\nblood of the intended great battle of the day was\\ndrawn. In consequence of this, all the troops under\\nhis command have laid down arms and treat for\\npardon, on the ground that, as true soldiers, they\\nwere simply obeying the king. The remains of the", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0164.jp2"}, "165": {"fulltext": "THE DRAMA OF DESTINY-KARL HANNO. 161\\nking are on the way home. And the Prince of Grain*\\nhas escaped to America.\\nSigned by the Commander-in-Chief of the army\\nof the Provisional Government.\\n{Universal joy takes possession of the parliament hall\\nand from all quarters enthusiastic shouts are heard\\nfor Moutine II. and Karl Hanno, who, in a standing\\nposition, have clasped hatids together, while the Attorney\\nis bearing the crown, with Titus assisting hirn\\nAttorney. Mourine IL, the only natural heir to the\\nthrone, now after the king s death is hereby pro-\\nclaimed Mourine II., Queen of the Hobbies.\\nHere is the crown of the Hobby nation, and a throne\\nnot stained with blood-\\n{She takes the croivn and places it upon her brow herself\\nand is proclaimed Queen of the Hobbies.\\nSec. {Titus- He places his hand upon the locked hands\\nof Mourine II. and Karl Hanno.) This is to cer-\\ntify that a Union of Karl Hanno and Mourine II. is\\nnow concluded by this matrimony. They being now\\nhusband*and wife together.\\nQueen Alourine II. As I have no natural heirs, it is\\nconstitutional to abdicate my throne in favor of my\\nhusband, and I do under this Act in presence of\\nparliament transfer my crown to my husband under\\nthe title of Karl Hanno I., King of the Hobbies.\\n{Karl Hanno wears the crown. He is cheered front all\\nquarters King of the Hobbies the ideal of the people,\\nand Mourine, the innocent beloved, his companion.)\\nKarl Hanno /.\u00e2\u0080\u0094This is the moment in which I see now\\nall of my wishes answered: Child of Destiny;\\n\u00c2\u00a7600,000,000; Mourine Mine Forever; King of the\\nHobbies. The dream of my life has now become a\\nreality and the Program of Destiny has ended.\\n{All leave.)\\n[The End.]", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0165.jp2"}, "166": {"fulltext": "SEP 27 1900", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0166.jp2"}, "167": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0167.jp2"}, "168": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0168.jp2"}, "169": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0169.jp2"}, "170": {"fulltext": "VA -v\\nLIBRARY OF CONGRESS\\nlilillllllillllllllllilll\\n016 215 443 6\\nr- .styt\\n^v\\nf", "height": "2896", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "dramaofdestiny00gabb_0170.jp2"}}