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The Brussels Post, 1911-4-13, Page 2OVE�'2 MILLION PACKAGES SOLD WEEKLY CROWN PRINCE OF GERMANY HE IS POND OF ENGLAND AND ENGLISH LIFE. A French Paper Says He is Not at all German in His Pastes. The Crown Prince of Peussia is at present Great Britain's honored guest in India, where he has en- joyed first-class sport and dispensed with the safely ceremony that, in the opinion of hie father, the Em- peror, should on all occasionshedge a Hohenzollern. William. II. has exalted ideas of etiquette, and laid, special stress before the world tour commenced ou the class of persons his eon should visit and receive, but the natural bonhomie and goodwill of the prince had its way when he landed at Ceylon, and to tbe de- light of the minor officials he indulg- ed ingeneral hand -shaking all round. This, rumor says, did not meet with approval in Berlin, but it is not the first time that father and son have disagreed on questions of etiquette. The punishment met- ed out for "lapses" of this kind when in Berlin was what the Ger- mans"call house arrest, and at one time the Crown Prince was fre- quently confined to his house by or- der of the Emperor. It is custom- ary in the fatherland, when any royal personage goes to the theatre, that a telephone message be sent in advance to the management no- tifying it of the fact. If notice is not sent in good time, the royal box is sold to the first comer. It happened that the Crown Prince went to the Theatre des Westens in Berlin, without giving notice of his intention. When he arrived every box in the house and all the stalls were sold. As it was not. '— says the Temps, for t' his party to up 44-- e, prince and ecure seats, he gave ntertainment. This was an event unprecedented in the history of the House of Hohenzollern and caused much gossip in Berlin. The Emperor heard of it, and, annoyed at this thoughtlessness, ordered two days' detention in the palace for his son and heir. "I WILL GO TO ENGLAND." Another incident, which is not without considerable significance to the people of this country, result- ed in the future sovereign of the German Emperor being put under arrest in his own quarters. In fact, he was only allowed to leave them for' the purpose of attending his military duties. With increasing years the Crown Prince developed opinions of his own, and on sever- al occasions showed marked 'oppo- sition to the Emperor's views. Stormy scenes between father and son were frequent. Remonstrances and threats were of no avail in in- ducing the Crown Prince to yield, and, according to the Figaro, "The son is said to have spoken very plainly to the father on the sub- ject." In the scene which culmin- ated in the order for house arrest, the Crown Prince, says the chroni- cler, told the Emperor that "if he could not live his own life in Ger- mane; he would go to England un- til such time as he could return to Germany free from a dictation he found intolerable." He is further reported to have said: "'As a lieu- tenant in your army, I owe you obedience in military matters, but as an individual I have the right to my own opinions. You were not always subservient to your father's views. I do not expect to have to give you a slavish submission you never accorded to your own par- ents." THE EMPEROR AS ACTOR. The conflict between father and son is dueto incompatibility of temperaments, "The heir to the throne,,', says the Matin, `,has none of, the .craze for Germanizing the world which 'is the inspiration of the teller;of the empire." The Crown Prince is not at all German in his tastes; his favorite sports are English, including even se penchant for skittles. Itis favorite hero is the great Napoleon. He wears English -made clothes, and as a leader of fashion is responsible for the prevalence in Berlin of London fashions in men's wear. The Fi- garo says that he is accused of shar- ing Frederick the treat's contempt for things Getman. He prefers French plays, and the. Vonwerte. complaints that his private house, is decorated in the style . of Leine XIV. and that French and English are the language usually spoken there, Something like a scandal, says a Paris correspondent, follow- ed the story that the Crown Prince thought the Emperor "theatrical" and "too tremendous," and that he might have done brilliantly on the stage if he had not been born to the imperial purple. 'VARSITY DAYS. The Crown Prince undoubtedly inherits much of his fondness for England and English life fronr'is grandmother: These hereditary tendencies were strengthened as a result of a visit to Britain in the autumn of the first year he was at Bonn Univer4.ty. He made a round of visits, and was the guest of the Duke of Marlborough at Blenheim, Lord Lonsdale at Lowther Castle,. and Lord . Rosebery at Dalmeny: Though he does not agree with the Emperor, it would not be correct to say the Crown Prince is headstrong. One of his tutors at Bonn described him accurately when he wrote: "In the Crown Prince we have a personality of the well -poised sort. His nature is call, and gives, in- deed, the impression of being almost passionless. He does not allow him- self to. indulge in heated remarks, but.is cool and assured in the enun- ciations of his opinion, which he certainly does not suppress. As for his intellectual caliber, he is un- doubtedly what one would call a clever fellow, and above all things, I was much impressed by his in- sight into character On the whole, in temperament and men- tal equipment he is more the son of his great-grandfather, William I., than of his father, William TI.". This opinion of. the Crown Prince is confirmed, says Current Litera- ture. ROYAI.T n Y YEAR. ]me Will Have to be Mapped Out to the Very Minute. Court officials are now planning the programme to be followed by the King and Queen during the greater part of the year. So close- ly has the time to be calculated that in the end it will be calculat- ed to minutes. Throughout April their majesties will be occupied in considering and approving the arrangements being made for the coronation ceremon- ies, for the investiture of the Prince of Wales at Carnarvon, and for the visits to Ireland, Scotland, Wales and India. During Mae. courts will be held, and by the end of the month his majesty will al- most lmost every day be receiving dis- tinguished visitors. The Domin- ion Premiers will have arived. June will see the Imperial Con- ference, which opens on May 22, in full swing, with the coronation in immediate prospect. His majesty's engagements for June are such that he will be oc- cupied every minute of the long roy- al working day. He is to attend the Horse Show, receive representatives of foreign states attending the coro- nation, unveil the Queen Victoria memorial in the Mall, be crowned, make a royal progress through London, receive the gifts of the Georges of the realm, attend gala performances r' leas His Majesty's Thea• • R 'yai Agricultural Show at AU, 1i. tr, hold a royal review at Aldershot and a naval review at Spithead. July will see an equally exacting programme. It may easily be more fatiguing, for it involves long jour- neys to Ireland and Scotland. No real rest will be possible till Cowes week, when : their majesties will spend a period in the Solent. Their l majesties will find time to see the Derby and to attend Ascot races. s• STEADYING SHIPS. One of the latest of the many de- vices which have been tried for pre- venting the rolling of ships at sea is Frahm's anti -rolling tank, which has ben tested at Hamburg, and, it is said, is to be installed on a new 55,000 -ton transatlantic liner. It has also been trial on a war- ship, It consiets of a U-shaped water reservoir placed crosswise inside the hull, and so adjusted that the movement of the water, which can be controlled when nee. Weary by a valve, counteracts the oscillations of the ship produced by the waves," The 'apparatus acts on the ,principleof resonance of vibra- tion, A.p ,plied to two tending -yes - HEAD -HUNTERS OF FOR OSA THE SINGULAR CUSTOMS OP A STRANGE RACE,. Read -hunting is Attenderl by Melly Perils and Requires Great Skill, Among the many strange people none are more peculiar in their waya than the head-hunters of For- mosa, Popular prejudice hae endowed these singular sportsmen with at- tributes of invariable and unbridled ferocity. As a matter of fact, how- ever, they are—as savages go—of exceptionally genial dispositions and exemplary in their domestic virtues. It must be admitted that they hunt heads, and, in many cas- es, take great delight therein; but they aro actuated in that pursuit by no spirit of venom or animosity. No lust for venegeance prompts the , blow that decapitates or dis- ables the victim—no • hidden and long -smouldering enmity. ' Nothing but the abstract desire for a trophy in the shape of a human head. That desire'may be prompted, and often is prompted byt the most commendable motive's, In any ease, it is one sanctified by custom and recognized as pious by untold generations of Formosans. The Chinose,_wno have suffered much at their hands, and who keep good records, know that the prac- tice has flourished for at least .2, 000 years. So general has been the custom, and so sacred withal, that in many of the tribes to -day a young man is not regarded as an adult—. is not permitted to marry or to en- ter into the councils of his village or clan—until he has captured at least one head. ON HIS OWN ACCOUNT. The commonest motives for head- hunting are as follows: •1. To qualify as an adult. 2. To enable the hunter to win the affection of some particularly attractive girl of his village. No such damsel will consider• the suit of a warrior who has not a cord of heads. 3. To achieve ra A man stand' depends an re- nd influence. g in the community lely upon his dexterity industry in capturing heads. ach head captured enhances the glory of the whole community. 4. To assure a period of -prosper- ity. As many heads as possible are captured and offered, with suitable but simple ceremonies, as a tribute to the ancestors of the warrior, or the community, concerned. 5. To secure relief from a pesti- lence or the cure of a sick person. The friends of the'sick person, or the healthy members of a commu- nity that is stricken with small -pox or some similar pest, sally forth and capture as many heads as possible so as to propitiate the evil spirits who have caused the affliction. 6. To remove some blame or stig- ma. A man who has incurred ob- loquy, by showing disrespect to his elders or some other, serious offence against person or property, can re- gain the good grates of his fellow tribesmen by bringing in some fresh heads. 7, To settle a dispute. If two members of a tribe quar'rol over a point that cannot be settled by ar- bitration, both go out head-hunt- ing. The first to come back with a head is adjudged to have hadhis quarrel just. Regarded from a purely moral point of view, all the foregoing motives are excellent; and -from a purely Formosan point of view—the deed in each case is as noble as the motive BY WHICH IT. IS INSPIRED. Needless to say, these warirors are all a splendid set of men, splen- didly limbed., deep -lunged, muscu- lar, and active. These attributes are essential to success as a head- hunter, because the calling is one attended by many perils and re- quires great skill and dexterity. Many a gay young buck sallies forth with a ready Made to bring in a head, and subsequently finds his own head in his prospective victim's basket. The life is full of such ex- citement. The head-lruntet''s chief weapon is n: short, sharp, straight sword, or cutlass, which he carries in a sheath -or scabbard with a T-shaped attachment like a flat brush at the end. From this attachment dangle a number of little tassels of black human hair. Every six tassels in- dicate one head captured. Some great chichi have been known tocapture as many as 500 heads in their lifetime, but such re - tends are extremely rare.. The av- erage number captured by a brave before he loses his own, or dies itt some less natural course of events, is about ten, There are, •roughly speaking, about 120,000 of those head -bunters a1• proeent in Formosa, the island having a total en -Inflation of about .000,000. They live nrinoinally in he mountains of the interior, whir - her they have been driven by the C.'hinese and later by the Japan- �act, who have developed the re - 3 pets witie t were ,"notorious toll t ere," the tanks are said to have upeactietlly, eluted the defect. • Has been Canada's favorite Yeast over a quarter of a century. Enough for ,5 cts to produce 50 large loaves of fine, wholesome, nour- ilshing, home-made bread. Do not experiment—there is nothing "just as good." E, W. CILLETT CO. LTD; Winnipeg TORONTO, ONT. Montrea' Awarded highest honors at y x all Expositions. sources of the island. There are eight distinct groups or tribes, 250,000 PLUM PUDDINGS. London Manufacturer Made That Many for Lust Christmas. The manufacture of plum pud- ding in England is mainly confined to Londpn and is carried on by all the principal bakeries, delicatessen and other such establishments. The industry was greatly boomed by the Boer War. In the opening days of that strug- gle the Yuletide season increased the natural solicitude for the fath- ers'and sons and husbands in far away Africa, and the plum pudding was requisitioned in large quan tities to express the feeling at home and carry at least a spark of Christ- mas cheer to enliven the soldiers' camp. Thousands of pounds of plum pudding were sent out, hut the de- mand was far in excess of the sup- ply, a fact which gave greater ur- gency to the demand and by con- centrating general interest in the pudding added immensely to its popularity, and especially as the soldier called loudly for more. T result is that to -day the plum pudding con United Kin -d lic it of ed in the a is supplied by pub - types and hundreds of usands of pounds are shipped abroad. Manufacturers begin ac- tive operations as soon as the new crops of raisins, currants and other required fruits appear in Septem- ber. All the constituents of plum pudding, which do not include plums, are prepared and manipu- lated by elaborate and expensive machinery, Currants are washed and stems removed, raisins are stoned, nuts are shelled and ground, oranges and lemons are peeled, the peel candied and cut up, eggs are beaten and all other ingredients prepared by machin- ery. Exclusive of milk and. rum the ingredients used by a single manu- facturer in supplying plum pudding to meet the demands of the Christ- mas season of 1910 aggregated 620,- 140 pounds, the number of puddings furnished aggregating 210,0qO:There are three or four other 'London manufacturers, says the Daily Con- sular and Trade Reports, each of whose output perhaps equalled that described, and there are quite a large number of entailer establish- ments in which plum pudding was supplied -far home and foreign con- sumption. The pudding is put up in pack- ages weighing one to five pounds each and securely packed to secure. preservation and safe transporta- tion. • Properly prepared and pack- ed the plum pudding of England, with ordinary care on the part of the housewife, will retain its vir- tues for a year or more. • DEADLY GERMS IN POCEETS. Scientist Would Prohibit Gaining (Handkerchiefs. An eminent surgeon of Vienna "says the custom of carrying hand- kerchiefs in pockets should be pro- hibited by law, and pockets abol- ished, if necessary to enforce the rule. He would have handkerchiefs carried at the end of strings or flipped over belts, or field in the panel. He says; "A perfectly clean handkerchief will become immediately, infested' the moment it is put into the pod=' ket. "Now, whenever a man blows his nose he naturally draws in a deep breath immediately afterwards, the handkerchief still being held to his face. "Consequently he inhales innu- merable germs, more or less psis onous, which may bring about seri- ous illness." A MOSQUE FOR LONDON." It is proposed to •erect a mosque n the capital of the greatest Mo- lammndan power in the world, and. he only surprising feature of the iroject is that it has not been axe- ctlted before; The building is to est $500,000, . to which . the Aga Kailn has already contributed $25,- 000, The committee in control of the scheme is presided over by Amir Ali and includes the Turkish and Persian 11lin.stere, as well as lrroe members of the Council of in - dia. ---London Globe, t c • GHASTLY DAM DISASTERS BRACE AND TIMID WOMAN WHEN THE WATERS HAVE: WASHED AWAY TOWNS. The Memorable Johnstown Flood— Hungarian Town Wiped Out. Whenever one thinks p£ broken dams, such as caused the flood and loss of life in the Oiydaeh Valley in Wales, one's mind flies back to that most ghastly of all such disas- ters, the Johnstown . Flood, says London Answers. -. Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was then a flourishing town. It lay in a pretty valley. Twenty miles up this valley was the Conemaugh Lake, an artifidial reservoir, Awe and a half miles long, and over six- ty feet, deep, which was ow a large fishing -club. confined by a high, and y ie ake was m a hundred feet a thousand long. ne spring of 1889 was a wet one, and fears were entertained about the safety of the dam. But the peo- ple ;in the valley, accustomed to such warnings, paid no attention. On May 31st Engineer Park, who was in charge of the dame saw that it was cracking. He sprang on to his horse, and galloped down the valley, shouting. warnings. At five that afternoon, with a crash like a salvo of heavy artillery, the dam burst. THE WAVE OF. DEATH. Huge rooks were hurled high in the air, and a wall of water, forty feet high, roared down the valley. The wave reached Johnstown within a. quarter' of an hour, and crashed upon the city like a gigan- tic battering-ram. The one thing that resisted its force was the great solid stone bridge over the river, and here a mound of wreckage a hundred feet high piled up, and took fire. Hundreds of unhappy people, clinging to this refuge, were burnt to death. No one knows how many lives were lost. The names of 2,300 dead were recorded, but the death -roll was at least double that number. The damage cost $10,- 000,000 to repair. Almost equally appalling was the disaster which overtook Szegedin, a large and important town on the great plain of Hungary. The town lies below the level of the River Theiss, from which it is protected by a series of three embankments. A heavy flood rolled down the Theiss, freighted with'masses of ice, and in. March, 1897, two of the, dams broke. Tour thousand men were set to work to strengthen the third, but on March 12th, just as they thought they were safe, 'a new fresh- et came down, and burst it. The water flowed across the city in a vast wave, and of nearly 7,000 buildings, only 331 were left stand- ing. Nearly 5,000 people ' were drowned,and no fewer than 80,000 left homeless. ,.MISHAPS IN BRITAIN. The worst flood experienced in this country for many rears past was in the Clyde Valley, near Rut- herglen, in the winter of, 1903. In February heavy rains brought the Clyde down in flood, but as a sub- stantial embankment twelve feet high protected' the meadows and the works of about a dozen factor- ies the people did not trouble their heals about danger. But on the loth the river rose faster than ever, and next day the dam burst in four different places, and a wave ten feet high shot out, drowning the meadows, swamping the factories, and doing an enormous amount of damage: A comparatively, small burst, which yet did an amazing amount of damage, .occurred in Bivming barn about nine years ago. For some unknown reason, the bank of a branch of the Birmingham and Wolverhampton Canal broke*, and water rushed down with irrestistible force, flooding Lionel street to a depth of four feet. It poured into the basernant of a great pen fac- tory, extinguishing the boiler 'figs, and rushing down hill, weelred out scores of houses anti factories, The monetary damage wes very heavy, , but here, as at Itutherg]en, no lives were lost. WHY FEMININITY AND ]w'ORTI- 'NUDE GO HAND-IN•HAND. Women Will Bear Pain Stoically,. But Men Will. Bellow and uroan. It is the custom for man to snake mush comic capital out of woman's timidity. Her absolute conviction whenever a gate bangs in the night- time that burglars are in the house;. her fear at the intrusion ' of a mouse; her reluctance to enter a dark room alone—all these . things have, in the eyes of man, stamped woman as a coward. But it is possible to be braye and timid "at the same time. And though women •a}:stk Yrueesese-resaY1- thin:.,' 'lley--are brave when the necessity arises from them to be really brave. Sometimes they man- age to be brave in spite- of their fears, 'which is the highest form of bravery. THE DENTIST TEST. Women, whenthey weary of be- ingi jeered at for their timidity, have a disconcerting way of com- paring a than to a woman in so sim- ple a 'flatteries a visit to the den- tist. A man, they argue rightly, will make a frightful fuss over a tooth- ache, but he will put off going to the dentist; as long as',possible, be- cause he knows he will be hurt more. A woman, on the other hand, grasps her courage firmly, and has the tooth extracted. - Doctors, and .surgeons too,- will tell you that women tear pain real- ly quite stoically, but men bellow and groan and mumble and throw themselves about. Women's bravery is quiet brav- ery. ' There are no drums beating and flags flying on women's battle- field. .. In earning a living' women put up a brave Sght. Think of ' the pluck shown by these women who slave and toil for: "sweaters,' to earn.. a few scant dollars a week. It has to be done, they say, and so they set their teeth, and do 'it as long es they are able. They are not daunted by their hopeless pro- spect. They do the best they can. Where their children are con- cerned women never lack courage. A women ;will risk any danger to save her child from danger. This is being proved daily. Timid as she is, woman has an unconquerable spirit. When things go wrong -with a man, who is the first person he turns to? His wife I He knows that she never given up heart, that shears always plucky enough to hope for the best. And she does not mope with him. She urges him on with fresh encourage- ment. And she. will 'never give up the struggle before he does. Many: amen owes his present pro- sperity to the, bravery of his wife in days of adversity. BIDDEN HEROISM. Think of th,e nurses on ..the bat- tlefield. They do their duty cour- ageously enough. They are not stirred by excitement and 'sessions as are the soldiers fighting. They do their work amid appalling sur- roundings. And yet it.is quite pos- sible that they are afraid of micel You sneeetiniidity has really ,very little to do with real .courage, Our hospital nurses, too -need one ar- gue courage for them? They work amid risks of infection, amid sights and scenes the most distressing. But they .are always bright and cheerful, always ready for any em- ergency, And even in every day life, aro we not constantly coming across in- stances of feminine valor? How often, for instance, do we read of women who Have helped in the ar- rest of criminals, women who, have come to the aid of poll ;amen wh have been. attacked by roughs, wo men who have made rescues from water and fire, women who have averted panics in theatres? Woman's bravery is not 'o ob- vious as marl's, She docs not go through life with nerves' of whi - cord, fearing nothing. She is a together. 'much mno e ' delicatel strung, which makes it all the mote admiable that she .should be brve at all. Masculine courage is obvious and If a blustering character; woman's bravery is weaselled and less as- ecrtive,--Landon Answers. RAILWAY TRAVEL IN INDIA SUPPLYING .00O11 TO INFER- IOR "OAST'," MEN, Holy ' People Have Meals Specially Prepared for Thom in Advance, - An Indian railway time table af- fords interesting study, It combines voluminous railway, information. with a considerable amount of mat- ter particularly interesting, to the tourist. Oasts does not cause the rabeil'wimaaygineds so m,uchjging troubleby as all mighone t ud hears abopt it in England. .Indeed caste distinctions 'are found to re- solve into two main principles; Ono atilt' e herother— the prohibition uof intere,rnthearriago-- having reference: to matters outside the radius of a railway official's life, says the Railway Magazine, A "caste" man must not partake of food cooked or even handled by one of inferior .caste. Food is -a wide term. A very orthodox per- son would include medicine 'some pounded by an apothecary. One of more liberal views might receive, say, a plantain (banana) from the hands of an individual beneath him, for the. "unclean" hands of the latter would have come into eontaeti only with the skin and not with the part to be eaten. FLUID REFRESHMENT. The, first and most obvious re- quirement of any long distance traveller in a hot climate is fluid refreshment. The alter and the glass commonly found in .an Eng- lish dining car would be of no use in India, inasmpeie. eaeeeree leek/fee—es' -.Wtereil urs of all want -to know who put the water in the filter and then who last used the glass. If satis- factorily assured on the latter point, be would nevertheless run no risk of contamination, but would pour the liquid down his throat while holding the glass a fesv inches above his mouth. But the orthodox man, taking no risks at alt,' carries with him a brass water pot attached to a belt,' and even then adopts the further pre- caution above mentioned. At every station a native patrols the plat- form carrying a skin with a supply of water. . Experience has taught the railway companies to be 'par- ticular .as to who is entrusted with this duty. Continuing, the writer says: I once travelled with a Brahmin who parched with thirst eagerly eallod for the water carrier at each successive station. But before re- pl'enishing his brass pot he • CROSS-EXAMINED TN'f` MAN as to his antecedents and not being satisfied that he was of sufficiently high. caste continued : suffering ag- onies till a wire was sent on -ahead, the result of whichwas that the holiest man of all the countryside was routed out and induced to do duty pro tem. Fortunately very holy people seldom 'travel and when- they do they . conrive to let it be known beforehand so that meals may lie specially prepared for them in advance. On another occasion a celebrated falter was proposing to travel. His form of self -mortification took the shape of some two hundredweight of chain with which his body was girded and with which he tried to enter the carriage assisted by his friends. .• • But the station master was there, and the result of a somewhat heat- ed argument conducted in a' lan- guage which for possibilities of vituperation has no equal in tits world was that the faker and his chains were hauled off to the keigh- — ing machine and full passenger par- cel rate was charged on the two hundredweight of old iron on the reasonable' ground that it could not Id be regarded as WEARING APPAREL The Hindu likes to have all his savings in a portable form. They. do not take the shape of scrip and title deeds, but bars, anklets and' armlets of gold and rudely set jewelry. When he travels all his wealth is frequently .entrusted to the keeping of a young daughter, whose little' legs and. arms 'ars wound round with golden bars, while Fier nose and ears are heav ily weighted. with jewelry, I once saw on is station platform a little girl about six mho was computed to be worth about 830,000 as she stood, The practice is not, however, sd common as it used to be, for rail - .ways naturally disclaim liability in such bases, and there have; more. ever, .been so. many nameless out. rages on little girls far the sake of plunder, TAKING t;,BANCES. Some mon are. just as reckless with their money as other folks are with their automobiles, Malty a manran l is on o) alit ' nity to make afoolof himself. Consider the silent man and the reputation he has for being wise. Aitch worry more than. women." "Yes; they not. only have every- thing to worry about that wouree have, but they also leave the wo- mea to worry about, too."