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11 ' ' ~T'' > . -M " Familiar Washing-ton Statue Once a Famous Greek Work C"rn--p< v.'!--: or of The Star. ATHENS. Ga . August S, 1!X>7. | The o~'y tree In the world possessing a itrM : . : ?rif ij on" of the Interesting and i liiti : ' ' r*s of t:.:s city. J T'. 3 n 'nt oak stands in Cobbhnm, f r.=s: i?nre section of Athens, fcri<1 : ra: k i a jove the common treos of th wor! 1. It stands stralghter and holds Its }.<wl m re proudly tl.an the troey j - 1 '* - ?!"" * -> li ? a fViflf 1t in t\ ftT' . ; i , > k..Hv - - ? . prr, : ; r a.-.d cannot be tnfiched . afr . t; v. ::i that is, if the condition* of tli i! -il nre carried out. The tree Is t?l. and symmetrical. Its great limbs are tdia ?* .is If by t.io h8:tds of an artist, and . :. : t i rl a 1 several g iterations hi.. I tfcrrr.selvos fr ni the h"ut i f.r -i . . ii ?ll an-i anuicinent. while !< . f and It an Inviting spot to crj .. :. lr mti.light strolls. It y .V C. * rosi- r Prabody, the ! Xi w V"! r : "! : e and philanthropist, fcn i 1 a r .1 . ial and beautiful Iron i < i. ' a?' r,! t'-.e fiat !jr old oak. I-'e v. _ ar v.'lth Its ur...jue and lr.- i * * " -1c: ' -1 tin! hrt tho ! : s? ! t ?c d '^d would n ver bo j * * * *"' i "r-'.s nt th? county courthouse j ( : .r.va.v ba k In ihe oasly part of t". ti c. ury^Col. V. II. Jatkf - <: James Jackson and fa:. t ; f Ji;?tfco Jam s Jacks n of j tf; s.i| r me court, owned the land uj v. . ii. 9 tr o stood. From his <ar:- ;.! Jackson had watcl.> 1 thi tr?. Kr-w ;tnd he kt> w to love it as m 'i i Id a h ;nian. It? luxuriant * " ' * > aA 1- m frr?m ' n ? Fun o,. l . and from Its branches ho hail taken from the Bests the eggs of the feathered ?.r.?. In manhood Co!. Jii . w 1 ' favorite tree standing In !:h ; nt j'f ortlons. and he was p*iB< i 1 ink that after his death It mip i I..: th- 1 i: :s of those who wn. t 1 - : It. Beli?-v;ng at the only waj to -iv. t:, ;r. i from the ax of the Wi?; -man w.ito do d It to Itself, he si.uu'M I- ral .. vie and ascertained that r i a >! il I be binding and would pnov a **{ ir::.?r<l against its distraction. ("' I. Ja ksnn went to the courthouse and r... : ; . ? i ui < i i .11 in- i i?-nv ?* "in ..v . The (l td reads: I \\ II Jackson, of the county of of t ... lirst part, and the oak tree Iris 1 <. :111. n> of the seeond part, witness-tli "T. at the said \V. II. Jackson. for and in i ji-KiH .r. of tiie nr u affection , ^ which h- I-ears said tr -e and his groat j Its.re ; :it said tre i?e prot cted for all tim has conveyed and by these presents ; do hei 'by e? ..ve> unto the said oak tree t ent re' pi ... . ssion of itself and all land ' s within light feet of it on all sides." j s * 1 + * In ? -r? x-hs then a strapping villasro ! (j and if t k tree was marly two mil s ! fr-'jii .n l?utMus i f the Stat-- University. i j th?- only f .i:i.linirs of much cons- .j;i nco. j Str*-.-*s ha.l not be* n 1 out to any . stent. j f, ami vvir n thft \\ rk of sir- ct mn'ilng for | a tli v\ iiii : :il c nt* r b tan th?- stir- | t r.:n h V ' s . a * to j : the j t '!? n ' iriiu-r ?>f Ivaring f. T: * v f ; *>r f" r ? n I" " \ *.% s i;,' j ' ^ %- w.& * m. t t< Mutilated, Yet Beautiful. land aiounil this" tree, outside of tho eight feet to wh'.<h it holds title, was sold off to different parties, but the wishes of Col. ^ Jackson as expn-ssed in his deed were n scrupulously respccted. ? f'nmol sted In the possesion of Its landed lptercets the old tree has stood for more ?V-cn ? r. t ,, r-, ? I V,- ? > *- 1 ....... *.? >v>au?.>. nii<! nun lilt" Ut'Sl JrtJHSlinW " cat* taken of it by the city guardians and 1 i it'.z^ns 1t given promise of rounding out e mar>\ years/yet. *' # tIs Crosby Ha31 PoomedP rrom the Pall Mall (larette 0 Having sold th? site, Alderman S'r flora- ? t!<> l>av!rs has very kindly offered Crosby a Hall itself to the corporation of I^ondon, so h that it m;-y be ?*i**rted elsewhere, if that be posy,or that anything of special anti- quart.m or archaeological interest may be placed in the Guildhall or some other pKUseum. The beautiful old place would lose, we fear, nvuoh c f the interest it posiwiea ki raj from the present site. ' Its charm oomiistii ?- o -j ** ui' IUVI uiai It 1h f\ bit of Old London which hus survived the changes of the laft two or throe hundred years. A feeling of contact with a the past Is produced on uny one who visits * It and recall a how. in Its richly decorated s room* ui.'l on that very spot. many his- a tor!- il Incidents u>"k pla . It forms. !n- . Uf'-h 'i point of contrast i>y which the magnltU'le of ihanges In the city of London can m* a?urcd. and s: "Old sorry to f, -1 h that I'.ope of pr??ervlng the hall. Just where n It !s ar.d ?? It Is. must he ntv.*n up Ha." an 8dc ,:ate rffort heen made to save th? fan "Us plaoe? We think not. and though 1 the offei of f r florntlo I.?avlts may i? * ??riitef'i!ly accepted If nothing bettei cun 1 H don". *P st 1.1 urgo that CtoF^y Hall Is , worth a substantial sariitice. and that tho local authorities should takf the lea 1 In or- ' g. nli'ng measures for its preservation. Reciprocity. ] from the Yonttaa- Companion. a succeeefol school teacher, who !b loved j us w U ii* Idnlni l,y her pupils, says | ti.nt ! :rlng her first year <>f teaching she < ivceiv. d u little Uason which taught h>*r 1 wl at St I'aul probably meunt by the i bi.ia of teaching.'' Jn i,..- middle of a term one of her l'\;i w;i.s obliged to leave school, as the i ftmliy Ka? about to more out of town. \V"hrn the t?-flch* i said g??xl-bye to the liu'ie p'l. who had l?>en an Intelligent And well-behaved pupil she felt moved to a<lu a few words of lulvlce If I never see you again," file ?>a!?4 with n.ueh laiwsiiM'M, "1 hi-pe you will i-ver forget to do #frr?ur best wherever > u mny bo. end whatever tasks you are railed 10 perform. I hope \ou will always I*- nr. '.iine^i, upright woman, truthful and < braVv "Thank you," said the little girl, her 1 round, eMg.-r fao> upturned to he teacher, ai.CL 1 hope you'll be the same." Kaisei !!.), 1 "W peclal Corns pondo nee of The Star. BERLIN, August 1, H>07. i ^ fortune had not made the kaiser a r a rul* r he could have achieved great I oc ilf.. .,o ?V1 M ?f iMIfll. ness." That Is an assertion made by hard-h -aded leadersof commerce in !i!s country, but considering that the peak rp w. re Germans it might have been uspected that excess of loyalty hail somelung to do with the warmth of their adniration for the kaiser as a "captain of In;ustry." But Andrew Carnegie and the other imerican millionaires who recently have wn v isiting Germany have no such reason or "sott s .aping" li.'s majesty Willielm II, rid ther" i.= !itti doubt thtfc the marked r butes t<> the kaiser's efficiency as a prac:il i'Usliii'Fit man which h;is just b<en aid by there authorities on the subject .ere altogether spontaneous and sincere. ib the tables told, ?dr. 'Carnegie and iiis .ssoclat* s recently were given an oponunity r.t inspecting the great porcelain artery aiul farms at Cadinen. in east as - a. which are owned and personally nana^ed by the kaiser, and as a result one ".itl ail expressed themselves as deeply lm ress d by Ills majesty's evident genius for ractieal business and his abilities as a - ientlfic agriculturist. It may be added, iiorenver, That these compliments are > undantlv deserved by the versatile mon ! . whose efforts in t)?nair or uorman rodmts have led film to be described as tli finest commercial traveler in the "I'll, ami whosi: advocacy of "the dignity f tra k<" lias had so marked an effect on ie younger members <if Germany's reignlg families. The origin of the imperial pottery works | n<l farms at Oadinen is highly interesting ' nJ throws light on the versatility of the | aiser's character. Some years ago. after e hail gained public honors as a ruler, lplorr.uust, administrator, orator, military rganizer, naval reformer, musical comustr, artist, preacher. yachtsman, designer f warships and in other capacities too umerous to mention, the kaiser conceived tie id a of turning his attention to inanuacturing and trade. He branched out in his direction partly to show that he could aln succvsfi as a plain practical trader and artly because he felt that personal ex >rienc? as a proprietor of manufacturing orks would give htm a better Insight Into lany problems of modern statesmanship, lieh as the relations of capital to labor, glslation with a view to commercial invests and so forth. * * * The kaiser chose Cadlnen as the site or ts business enterprise, and there he erected lodel factories where exquisite specimens f pottery are now produced In large quanitles William'II did not hold aloof from tie practical details of the business, but lunged eagerly with all his wonderful enhusiasm Into the work of making his nterprise a striking success. Engaging a rofessional expert as his adviser In regard o technical points, th? emperor retained he a< tual management of the concern In is own hands from the beginning. He nguged the members of the business staff, elected the accountants, chose the clerxs nd even picked out tlie workmen of whom le personally approved. He gave orders peculiar] TUB pampas of Argentina corresjxmd closely with the prairies of the Mississippi valley of the I'nlted States .nd the great plaitis of the Canadian northrest, but nowhere else in the world is there o large an area that approaches no near to .n absolute level, write* L. ft. Freeman in he New York Tribune. To the average inhabitant of the pampas . gentle swell on the bosom of the plain Is . thing of interest, and a hill something to evere. The most characteristic figure of he pampas is the gaucho. As a handler of took he i? possibly the peer of the Queens; and drover, but is certainly not to be men:oned in the same breath with a Texas, Arizona or Montana cowboy, nor with the est of Mexican vaqueros. I had arrived at ' V"iV?uaiU? ill UIJ "nil iji.i.v* IIUIII nig lime I saw what were said to be expert jcauchoo working at a round-up; hence I tlu- more pleased when. In the course )( my stay In Buenos Ayres, a bunch of hat/ a di >zen Texas cowboys appeared in I lhat city on an exhibition tour and demonstrated to the satisfaction of everybody that ;n the handling of horsey and cattle, both in method and execution, the North American Is far superior to the South American. But 4ti the handling of his knife the *aucho has no peer. It is a common thing to say of the gaucho that ho is born with u. knife In his hand, and I have often seen babts scarcely out of arms playing withknives half as long as their bodies, and when a child oncfc takes to carrying a "facon" it never leaves him. The staple article of diet on the pampas is "came asado." This Is usually a leg of mutton which has been scorched to a cinder on the outside and left raw in the middle. It tastes better than tt looks, and the principal duty of the gaucho's knife is to cut off his hunk of "carne." If he only cuts off his own share things usually go on all right, but if he cuts away a bit of another -?**?:i??.... "v1" ?-?~ . -> ,;w?TWauZU L YY 1111^11 J v/lla ti*Ko t 1/ln/lo iwf ?*">?vi /-? V?<-? vin/^" " ' ?vhiuo va j v> v n- iii<iuv, aiiu in many cages altered the designs submitted to him with his own hands. Owing to his initiation into all the departments of ths enterprise at th? outset, the kaiser has been able to retain the practical management of the works in hi9 hands ever since their foundation. Tins fact was rather strikingly demonstrated to the party of American capitalists during their visit to Oadinen. autograph letters of Instruction from the emperor to various heads nf departments being shown to them to illustrate his majesty's personal supervision over the many branches of his business. To facilitate his control over affairs the kais r erected a residence for himself alongside of the works at Cadinen. This building, in which the American party was entertained at luncheon, is a simple villa, and h-re the kaiser delights to sojourn as an employer superintending the operations of his factory hands. The kais-r has been able to solve the difficult problem of being a humanitarian employer and at the same time of earning substantial profits at his business. Ills workmen live in neat little cottages built for them bv their Imperial master, which they aro enabled to occupy at low rents Each cottage lias a garden and is constructed on the moat approved sanitary methods. Every workmaq receives an old-age pension or a lifelong pension from the time at which he becomes, through accident or ill health, incapable ot working. The widows and orphans of the workmen are provided for on the same generous scale, all the funds required for these purposes being taken from the profits or in.1 Diismess. i ne wyrKnien um mus made to feel that th?y have a dir.'ct Interest In the concern, bo that they, on their side, do their utmost to turn out the beat possible products. * * * They work only seven hours a day from Monday to Friday, three hours on Saturday and not at all on Sunday. Various local clubs, founded under the direction <>f the emperor. provide for their sports and pastimes in the summer and for indoor amusements, such an lectures and dances, in the winter. A free library likewise maintained from the profits of the pottery works provides for the employes' intelif-ctual needs. The kaiser himself built up these Institutions one by one in his successful endeavor to make his Industrial establishment a model to be Imitated by benevolent employers throughout the country. In this direction, according to the kaiser's oQnvlctlon, lies the solution of the problems of capital and labor. When employers r? v*-a.i more human tendencies and when amicable relations exist between them and their employes the intense rivalry between capital and labor will, the kaiser believes, disappear and give way to a sort of ideal friendship. He lias brought about this state of affairs at Cadinen, but Uien he admits himself that he undertook the task with everything in his favor, whereas business enterprises founded solely to maka th<4 Ktl/ Vl. t nnoolKla nr/iHlti miiut v-1 K1V Ok UlilO iUUflL HW V. D sarlly pursue other methods. Nevertheless, the kaiser has frequently expressed the hop? that German employers of labor will recognize that In the Imitation of his own TIES OF COWB< m an'fl 'Vorno'' thAro (a nroH \r an??o fn Ka 1 w vw * ?' v |y? ??v j VMI V i.yj KT\J trouble. The result of one of these little "pound of flesh" disputes Is ofteh a play of kpife work, and there Is usually a pro* nounced case of vivisection left over as a souvenir of the affair, * + * Whether the bout be friendly or for blood, the method of procedure Is the same. The men face each other with | their knives In their right hands and their closely folded ponchos thrown across their left forarms. In action the knives are held with the points Inclined downward, each man keeping his weapon constantly In motion to deceive his opponent as to the exsct moment he is going to strike. The parry of a thrust Is similar to that In rapier play; but the thrust itself Is more often downward than horizontal or upward. If a thrust falls to be parried with . bulfa tlia TlAnflld 1Q hrilllO-ht IIIU XV 111 A V i il v 1VIUIU " 'W w?.0.4? Into play as a shield, for which purpose it serves far more effectively than one would imagine. The gaucho prizes his porjcliO second only to his knife. As he values the knife the more highly for every opponent it has killed or disabled, so the mora store he sets by the poncho for every additional time it saves him from death or disability. But whereas the knife ordinarily has little to show for the fights it has been through, the poncho rarely comes /unscathed from a mix-up; hence it is that, as a gaucho will never sew up a knife or bullet hole In his poncho, nor yet discard it while there is enough unbroken woof and warp to hold it together, the shoulder blankets of some of the seasoned and belligerent old swashbucklers that one meets would put an historic battle flag to shame on the score of rags and tatters. There is no etiquette In regard to aibove and below the belt thrusts in knife play on the pampas; in fact, of the two, the latter Is the more popular?with the giver. y 5 -r * ' * ; * i in Bus ????MM?? jBj i: V C-#: , f I |ri'; ' I-; ^^KSffiU|KM9u^^Ha39lBn|B?? 1 v^X ;'' Vy* \\ fWw \ j^HBK&SS^MPti^^^^ESiHffiS [ rO,VIH 4&AS& methods of management at Cadinen lies t most effective means of checking t alarming growth of socialism. When the kaiser is in residence at Ca ntn, which takes place during about elg 1? . * -i, Iw, unnoaro at t weena *.?i truvrii *ivworks at 0 o'clock in the morning a gleets his men with a cheery "Good moi lng, workmen." The men respond chorus with "Good morning, your majest: Tha kaiser proceeds to make a tour of spection, watching the men at their wo: looking Into the technical details of n chinery utilized for various auxiliary pi posps and checking the account books the commercial department. This proci is repeated day by day and the kaiser g> Into close touch with the heads of depa ments by Inviting them to lunch and d ner at his villa. When the kaiser Is absi from Cadinen, a weekly report Is sent him and the acting manager, his c deputy, visits him once' a month to t by word of mouth how the business prospering. * * On his farms at Cadinen the kaiser gro wheat, ralst'8 cattle and breeds swine w conspicuous success. Thus the kaiser co bines in his person and in his property t Qcrinnltiirft nnd indiist , V v> V A.U?VXO UL mqi ivu.^u.w which In Germany are hostile, e? struggling to derive the greater i i vantages from the country's protect' | tariffs. The empress invariably acco panles the kaiser to Cadinen and pis the part of a middle-class housewife to p feotlon. She enjoys keeping house In I simple villa, where none of the ceremon or the eourt?are odbltvcu. one uums \ rooms in the morning, assists the cook the kitchen, making the kaiser's favor | dishes with her own royal hands, and DYS' LIFE~ON o< course. I mean. The result of a bel the belt thrust or cut Is not a pretty thl to 190k at by any means, but from I polpt of effectiveness It Is decidedly 1 o?<rt stroke in tbo gamft It is easy speak of stabbing a man to the heart, 1 to aCCompll?h that act, particularly witl broad-bladed knife or anything, in f;i but ft thin stiletto or rapier, is a differ< matter. The ribs are placed whew tl are ns an armor to protect the heart a lungs. Your real knife man?I mean 1 man who fights for his life with a knf unhampered by tradition or convontlot recognizes thifl fact, hence it is that 1 gauchrt thrusts downward Instead of \ wArd, and the result of a post mortem 01 dead gaucho will usually show that 1 dead man met his fate in consequence the dissolution of the continuity of a pi of Ills digestive apparatus. * * The danger zone encircling a gauc with a knife in his belt is by no mes limited to the circle he sweeps with ! arm. I am not just syre how far it di go, and still less ha\^> I a desire to ti out. I Itt*e small skill with the revolv yet, were I able to do the regulation < Vert's stunts of blotting out tl' : pits 01 six of spades at a dozen i. .1 shoi still feel shaky at taking any -h mce a draw-and-let-go at the same distance w a gaucho and his knife. An illuminat case In point came to my attention Buenos Ayres. As a cIhss the Americ agricultural machinists sent to the pa pas art! as handy with six-shooters as a I have ever encountered. They are mos westerners, have used revolvers fri childhood, and their guns, from which tl never separate themselves for a mom< while in camp, are always of the lati and best pattern. Yet the case I have mind is that of a machinery expert fr< Montana?a craclc shot?who had trou] 7 : ? k x '-t - l' < ==?=3g mess. Sr; he the liitle yard to the rear of her house she he feeds the chickens and supervises the milking of the cows. In the afternoon she di- visits the wives of her husband's workmen, r. u r> r>/-?'! ci 1 aHpntifin tn th*> sick and l he the aged. Here at Cadinen the empress is net Lady Bountiful and she has often declared "n- that she would enjoy life more If lier husin hand could abandon his more onerous occuy." pation as ruling monarch in order to devote , In- himself exclusively to his business Inrk, terests. ( la- The kaiser has made use of his works at j jr- Cadinen to bring the crown prince and his , in other sons Into close touch with the reall- , *8S ties of industrial life, of which they could , sts learn nothing In their ordinary career at ] **t- court At Cadinen the crown nrince has in- also learned the lessons of a practical j jni^man of business which will be useful to . to him when his turn comes to rule over Ger- i svn many. i ;e.l Soon after the kaiser had organized the i 1b works at Cadlnen he began to turn his i attention to the distribution as well as lo the production of/ his wares. Accordingly i he established a shop In the Leipefger ] Strasse, the busiest street in Berlin, where W8 the wares manufactured at his works at i Ith Cadlnen are sold. Thus the kaiser became i m_ a shopkeeper, and, moreover, he trades i under his own family name of Hohenzol- < ry lern. The kaiser threw himself into the ! ich work of organizing his shop with the same id- youthful enthusiasm which characterizes i i all his activity. The Hohenzollern store i m_ fills a whole house of four stories and Is iyg a great success. The kaiser has not yet i er_ brought himself to the point of serving : jle behind the counter, but he has been exlos tremely energetic In pushing the Interests he of his shop as commercial traveler. i in * ite * * i In Sometimes at court festivals, when .e THE ARGENTINA" ow with a gaucho, had an even break on the ng draw at twenty-five or thirty feet, and the was retired from action with a knife ! the through his shoulder before his "autoto matic" was clear of his holster. From jut this wound he was conllned a month jn a 1 a Buenos Ayres hospital. ,ct. Except "behind his knife." the gaucho Is, >nt perhaps, at his best at a dance. The I ' mi, nnnrap wltli liini to thi> ! Lnd dance, and he occasionally gets behind It, the but as It Is a point of honor not to flyht fe, under a friend's roof, those little side lsi? sues rarely mar the pleasure of the dance the proper. jp- The girls present are robustly developed, n a straight-backed young persons, who carry the themselves with the easy grace of lady of Hons, and who meet one's eyes with less art of the Insolence but all the assurance of the hothouse beauties of Buenos Ayres. They are dressed neatly In dresses that cover them from shoulder to shoe top, and ho have a lot of fifhny fixings on that are d f- ' ilc 11 It for a man to describe. The men are ins of the gauclio type, and brave in all the his splendors of their best "chiripas" and 1 Jes ponchos. ind *, * * I er' The dancing is begun on the earthen x" floor of the kitchen, which, from Its nature, ^ i a does not permit of much action in the way ^ i'd of gliding. The two most popular dances t] ' are the "sato" and the "jota." In the a "gato" dance you begin to the music of a 4 V C . . . . . ... I I In guitar, tne musician picKing awuj i?i uvc , :an minutes or so at a kind of monotonous a m- "strumpity-strump" tune, from which he t ny finally breaks into a song. When the song a tly starts you must, according to the rules. 0 3m stop dancing and1 salute your partner with ley an appropriate verse of poetry. She in r ?nt turn must counter with a s milar verse, and ^ .st then, the song being over. yuu begin danc- J* in ing ag?iin to the "strumpity-strump." om The "jota" is a cross between a High- a bl? land fling and a Spanish fandango. Dane- p ill n Emperor as am * of Industry. ill r>T" ""r"" : ~" >i'\i v^-,v i^i -k v ? > - - I br. J # m: 'spies a wealthy man. he approaches him , ind solicits orders for the Hohenzollern j store. When the orders are g\v n the , iaiser extracts a gold pcncil from his , joeket and after the manner of commercial i ravelers jots down the particulars on Ills snow white cuffs. When he goes yachting Uong the coast of Scandinavia in the sumner the kaiser never forgets his shops and anvasses for orders with 111 same commercial zeal. Even when lie visiis foreign "ourts he frequently seizes the opportunity j Lo solicit orders from his fellow royalties, i who are vastly anus d by his business j :*nterprise. The ka'ser experiences unbounded delight over his success in this j capacity and he estimates that he could j arn a very substantial income In the ! shape of commissions obtained from the Hohenzoll rn sfoiv if he were its employe instead of its proprietor. The total amount of capital invested in the kaiser's works at Cadinen and the Hohenzollern store in Berlin is given as fSW.OOO. The average annual profits during the last three years amounted to t4R,<KX>?that is, a fraction more than V per cent on the invested capital. Considering that the profits are decreased by tlie humanitarian institutions at Cadinen, this result must he regarded as an achievement of remarkable success. Altogether the kaiser employes more than 2,000 persons In the various departments of his two businesses. The kaist'r's participation in practical business has considerable political importance, for the old-fashioned aristocracy of Germany until recently entertained deeprooted prejudices against trade and above all against shopkeepers. The kaiser's enterprise lias gone far to remove these relics of bygone times. Since the kaiser is himself a shopkeeper it can no longer be such extremely "bail form" to keep a shop. The kaiser has partially broken down the barriers between the aristocratic and commercial classes, but not entirely, for it is ?till impossible for the son of a shopkeeper to become an officer in any cavalry regiment or indeed in any smart infantry regiment, juven tne kaiser has been unable Lo overcome this dislike of shopkeeping. Nevertheless some prominent members of the highest German aristocracy have followed his example and gone into trade. Prince Christian Hohenlohe, a member of sl former reigning family, which still holds equal rank to the reigning houses of Europe, carries on several different businesses an his ancestral estate at Oehrlngen In south Germany. One factory makes oatmeal, sold under the name of Hohenlohe latmeal. Another makes cakes sold under the name of Hohenlohe cakes. A third factory produces corsets, sold under the name of Hohenlohe corsets, much sought after by German ladies on account of their princely trade mark. Prince Egon Fuerstenberg owns large breweries and Prince Ci-uido Donnersmarck conducts a large silk factory, the products ot which are sold under the trade mark of his royal arms. RUDOLPH VOX ELPHBERG. PAMPAS. Ing"lt. you and your partner face, without touching- each other, do a, sort of double shuffle with your feet, snap your fingers above your heads in imitations of castanets, all the t ine gazing fixedly into each other's eyes. This last is the principal rul of the game, and if you let your eyes wander for an Instant to where another girl is danring, your partner stops wi rk instantly, gives he*^shoiilders a shrug, her head a toss and goes back to the "horse skull" in a huff. The "gato" is better; in it all t'te dancing you have to do is a kind of rhythmic surging to and fro, like the action 'if a couple too fat to swing around each other in a waltz, and you are illowed to put your arm around the girl. This is a prerogative, however, which, if you Lire well auviseu, you wm cxtrcise only In the most brotherly manner; i therivise yon will lay yourself open i.i being Invited by a jealous sweetheart to iirjompany him off into the moonshine to tight for the hand and heart of the girl, to both of which his pig head has made him believe you aspire. Goldfish in Pennsylvania Streams. "roin the Philadelphia Heron]. Some of the streams in Falrmount Park , .re inhabited by golilfish. Where they ame from nobody knows, but they are , igr. fat fellows, with whom outdoor life .ppears to agree perfectly. It is supposed that they are descended rom somf1 Ihrnwn ir?t/? y nearby residents who had tired of them s pets. It Is not generally known either hat the geldttoh Is a species of carp, with li the voracious and predatory instincts f that disreputable fish. The wild goldfish are to be found in the ools at the bottom of dams and riffles and ppear to be lazy, cont* nted and healthy? | ather surprising to su? h of us as imagine j goldfish fit onl> to inhabit a glass globe nd to be led by hand with specially pre- I ared food. 1 . t " r ~ * English Author Calls Americans Niggcri i 5pcci.nl C??rrf*ponrtrn. * of TV* St-ir. LOKDOT*. July i(l. l'.vT. Cowno Hamilton, the author of rme i Son' ati.l various othn ?* ;? *t-d I'liyty hae be>n giving til? ln.pr??r\?n? of Aniaf* K-ans In "Lomlon In ? popular wef w1# x --- i r* - * ? JO W FT1J1 1. HI' K' '"S lO W ' Pvl V Hotel il0 says, to study them. It is ? wrj museum of curlo?," h? wrlt.s. "and ;!i? quaintest .rtut most curloup of them ill hnll frona <'olumhia. It Is too delicious to watch th??<< primeval ftnd rrjeocl.uiii . reatiircs tha' women hi the most elaborate clothes and the men In the weird mirm^nty of Itroid* way Ht feeding time Most of the women are Ample. ev<n luxuriant. They h*\"e much the face and arms of rowing men. In a Wand and chllfl-lik w:i> they pr> t< nA to l*o bored or Uase Th""* affect w :i? they lma|jln? to lie the air? of Ki fashlanahle women 'ind murmur per- ttu : y iuiiih ? id i ii 'ir inrns.'nu iit'.i i I up tn.1111 r of princesses In the novels of Anvrlvn wriiets. They arc v ry fond of using French words, sucli as 'jrassot-g; 'frappo.' 'ati Kr;ittanK' and 'llilly' and they make ihn vsr> of a straw In a long gUss a thin* to practice In private." Cosmo Hamilton has om* Hit!- rfputa* tlon np a writer of witty and epigrammatic thlnfrs A m in who ts alwa\* striving '0 pr nilllatp runs nr. at r.sk of making h fool of himself. The tnith of this statement fojmo Hamilton proceeds to demonstrate in this fashion: "They are really very kill'!. p?oj.l<?. ine rtiinTi' urs. i n.Mve in- t many du "In# tho season. Tliev strike on? as always trying very hard to l>e wnat they are not. I mean civilized. Thnt it u 1 it nvikes tfcnnt fo delicloufly iimustnR. Put for their color ' tliey are re;'.Ily nothing but 1 -Rrrs." Thnt Is something which nobody ' *n ever said before. And to sn something which nobody h?s ever an Id In-fore Ih what the professional smart mar. Is on r striving; after. 15u? obviously the statement uecda some explanation. ".'t sounds unkind, even horrible" adds Cop*no Hamilton, "but I nv-in It metaphorically. In the sen?e that they are aff?cte<l and dominated by noise, color, ragtime airs, melodrama, drums- I almost said torn toinfe ?and brass. They frankly do not un<1 ?r? rtflnd subtlety or sarcasm. Tii'-lr tmmrtf is the humor of the nlggi-r, and yet they ir# wonderfully hyper-prim in Rim? of their notions. They are. as far ns my knowle-ind of them jroes?and of, course. I have mat only the women who have b-vome leaders of FTngllsh society and their brothers?1uat unsophisticated natives of a raw, yoimjf country, who firmly believe tlicit they werd tht> first inlmhltnnfe tH/? .??- w. ? The foregoing. presumably. Is a samtile of what Cosmo Hamilton regards h? "subtl djf and sarcasm." It Is simply silly rot. Hiff bioauso Cosmo Hamilton writes It lie geUI paid probably as much as $15 a column filf it. And the temptation to write rot wliefl you can get that price for It must ?<e ureal. Still, calling Americans nlgg^ra Is almilt the limit. If Cosmo Hamilton lias anjf regard for his health h>' will not rep"at that observation In the hearing of any or them. It may pars muster as humor in England, but In America It Is classified u? "lighting talk." * * * The voices of tho souvenir hunter Is hoard In the land, and simultaneously with the discovery that a Caxton first edition of "The Golden Legend" Is mysteriously missing from the Manchester public library comes a pathetic wail from the rector of Stoke Pogis. There a youth?one of ft party of three American tourists?sue^ CM'dod. though hotly pursued by the ng<xl caretaker. In carrying <iff a notice to vl*i Itor= which hung in the churchyard. With th'dr booty the entire party rode off iti triunipli in their motor car. As a trophy a notice to visitors to refrain from vantfallstfl Joes not seem to be of particularly thrllllnjt Interest, but the American who arrives late In the season, wh?n the year's supplies of Van Dycks. I^ruidlc il remains and ancestral homes of George Washington are exhaust* ed, must l>e content with poorer same. *\ It is generally supposed that the "Interview" is an American Invention, but a French literary journal now ass.-rts that It was a Frenchman who published the tirst interview. The Interviewer was Herault d* Stchelles. the revolutionist, a new collected edition of whos ' works have Jus-t appeared. His subject was Bulton the great naturalist) the date 178T>. No single note of the mod* em newspaper is lacking in It. It does not appear as an episode in a book of travel, like the many "Interviews" with Voltaire that figure in the relations of the voyage^ ? of eighteenth century grand tourists. The writer went to Montbard for no other Dur pose than to get his interview; he came straight hack to Paris and wrote it out. In the frank, flippant journalistic style that fy now so popular. He ended his life on the guillotine?"a fact" one can picture CarlylA saying "slgniilcant of much." m * ik Among literafy* people everywhere, o( course, much symjmthy Is felt with poo# Oulda, who has fallen Into such desperate poverty in her old age, but In Floreno? (writes a friend who live* there) oplnlonf concern'.nK her varv. The tradenfnlU whom f-he owes a lot of money dwell nft her shortcomings; the poor to whom she was rashly generous, have only words o| praise for her. "Don't speak of her," said on# of.thi* ( former. "I was only a boy when she lived here, but her accounts with us are still uni settled. I remember her well. She was very handsome and she wore fine clothes; but in dreadful taste. There were alwaji two great dogs with her. 1 have often seen her in her carriage with one on each s!rt6 of her. their great heads close to her f?o?, and leaning forward. She was always moving and lived In a number of houses. She has brought everything 011 herself wltH gambling, dogs and drink ." "There never was a kinder lady than S!gnorma Oulda," said a woman of the people, "she was the lady with the dogs who live<J in the Palazzo Mungone In the Via dej Seragli and was good to all animals III Florence. If anybody had a cat or dog or * bird that was 111 or old or if they were go? lng away and didn't knotf what to do with tih^ir pets they said. '1 will take It to th? Signorina Ouida. She will take c^ire of it.' And when you took it she said always, 'Ye?, 1 11 take vour little bird, your dog or your cat.' She helpad everybody and nevefr turned away a person or an animal that was In trouble and now?poverlna, pov? erina." War Bills. From the Philadelphia Press. War Ik not only hell, as Gen. Sherman said, but it is an expensive hell. The worl<i < Is today paxjng for the cost of two recent arid highly expensive wars, an<J yet soma persons wonder where all the money goe?. " The South African conquest cost Great Britain a cool $1,21 H),000,OXK), and the Boers must have sp<nt a sixth as much In defending their little republic. To get a foothold in Manchuria and drive back the Russian armies took a tidy $1,100,000,000 from the Japanese treasury, While ambitions for a greater empire cost the czar $1.500,000,0O0. In thi-st- two wars, not counting the many millions which Germany is still paying out in southwest Africa, the stupendous total of S4,(HiO.<K*i.<?><? was expended. A large part of this may be set down as utter waste of capital. A Mile of Pennies. ' From tiit? Kansas City Journal. P? nni?'S will go Into hiding In I,akin sin< a members of the Ladies' Aid Society of the Methodist Church ha.ve adopted a pennyelecting plan to raise money for the ereotion of a new church at that place. The idea is an exemplification of the old ndage: "Take care of the pennies and the iollars will take care of themselves " The nhject is to gj.ther a mile of pennies, and to do this each member has been provided with a narrow strip <;t' paper a foot in length. Each fooU will hold Just sixteen pennies. It is calculated that when the ? , mile of pennies is received the sum of &S44.4S will be ;?dded to the building fund. Vnnles are likely to become a scarce article ~ n I .axIn. as it takes just jyt.-l-ts pemileu tv? make a. mil*. _ _ ^ .