HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1914-9-17, Page 6ANC FrITROYAi FAMILIES
HAVE MACK AT STAKE IN THE
PRESENT WAIL.
The Hapsburgs, the Romanovs and
Ilellenzolferns All VitaIIy
Affected.
The Emperor of Austria, the Ger-
man Kaiser, the"Czar of the
these are three of the men whom
Pate has chosen for the most ter-
rible game the world has seen.
Hapsburg, Hohenzollern, Rom-
anov-one, or two, perhaps all
three of these ancient royal famil-
ies must receive, during the period
now upon us, a blow that will dim
their glory. There are too rumb-
lings of revolt against mile rulers.
What, then, are these king -fam-
ilies 1 In the first place, Francis
Joseph is nota pure Hapsburg. He
is descended from Haat house only
in the female line, from Maria
Theresa, who, late in the eigh-
teenth century, married Francis
Stephen, Duke of Lorraine. With
that marriage the 'house of Haps-
burg became extinct, the place be-
ing taken by that of Hapsburg-
E,orranne.
But Francis Joseph has inherited
many of the Hapsburg Chelan-boles-
tics—the . Hapsburg jaw, the Haps-
burg lip, and the Hapsburg misfor-
tune,
On the banks of the River Aar,
near where it loses itself in the
Rhine, there once stood a mighty
pile of stone called Haibichtsburg,
which means "Hawk's Castle." It
was built in 1020 by Werner,
Bishop of,Strassburg, and his bro-
ther, Radbot, who founded the Ab-
bey of Mura. Like many great men
Werner and Radbot claimed a
great ancestry, and they traced
their descent through :Count Gun -
tram back to noble knights in the
courts of the Merovingians.
Radbot's son, Werner, and his
grandson, Otto, were called Counts
of Hiebichtsburg, or Hapsburg, as
the name came to be spelled.
Hapsburgs Ruled Germany.
Throughout the generations the
Hapsburgs increased in strength
and dignity, their real greatness
being established in 1273, -when Ru-
dolph ascended :the German throne.
He won the Duchy of Austria in
war and gave it to one of his sons.
The nett great event in the his-
tory of the race was the succession
to the throne left empty by the
death of Albert, Rudolph's son, of
Henry of Luxemburg. It was this
that inaugurated the bitter feud
between the houses of Hapsburg
and Luxemburg. a fend that to -day
is by no means dead.
The next Hapeburg King of Ger-
many,
er-many, Fre.deiie.k the Fair, had a
short and troublesome reign. Chos-
en successor to Henry of Luxem-
burg by a minority of the electors
In 1314, in 1322 he was conquered in
battle and imprisoned by Louis of
Wittlesbach. Duke of Bavaria, who
reigned over Germany in his stead.
The Hapsburgs did not again
reach the German throne until
).438. Then Albert of Hapsburg in-
herited from his father-in-law,
King Sigismund, the kingdoms of
Hungary and Bohemia, and was
chosen and crowned King of Ger-
many.
This connection of the Hapsburgs
with the German throne lasted un-
til the dissolution of the Holy Ro-
man Empire in 1806. They grew
steadily in power, Charles V. was
in respect to territory the greatest
of the Hapsburgs German Emper-
ors, ruling over the Netherlands,
Spain, Sardinia, Naples, Sicily,
Milan, Friesland, Utrecht, Gronin-
gen, Gelderland, Franche-Comte,
and part of Alsace,
Bat the existing branch of the
Hapsburgs does not descend from
Charles V. It was hiss younger bro-
ther, Ferdinand I., Who established
that tragic family, the Austri,au
Hapsburgs,
In the 19th century the muah dis-
cussed curse was uttered by Count-
ess Karolyi atgaanet the reigning
sovereign, Francis Joselh.
The Hapsburg Curse.
Driven to desperation by the
stern suppression of the Hungar-
ian revolutionists and by the death
af her sane 'she palled down ven-
geance on the young Emperor, say-
rn"M,ay Heaven and Hell blast his
happiness! May his family be ex-
teranrnated I May lie be smitten in
the persons of diose the loves 1 May
his life he wrecked, and may his
children be brought to ruin I"
Many people dwell on what they
believe to be the fulfillment of this
earth. They pant to Austria's
present position, facing with her
one ally the hostile array of a large
part of Europe. And they cite the
assassinobion which preceded the
wet and was its immediate cause,
They" enumerate the other calami-
tiee, that have overtaken the Haps-
burgs' since the 1'farolyi curse and
which were listed as follows by a
Vienna neeespape.r at the time of
the .essasei'nation of she Empress
Elisabeth, •whicli itself was another
of the great Hapsburg tragedies,
On January 3Q41, 1899, town
Prince Rudolph took his own:life in
his hunting box at Meyerling. In
May, 1897, Sophie, Duchess d'AiBn-
oon, at one time the affianced
bride of Ludwig IL of Bavaria, was
burned to death in Paris.
On June 19, 1867, stbe Emperor
Maximillian of 'Mexico, the Em-
press' brother-in-law, was shot by
a firing party at Quaeretaro, His
consort, the Belgian Princess
Marie-Obarlotte, dost ,her reason,
and has been for the last 30 years
under restraint at the Chateau of
Bouchut,
Tragedy After Tragedy.
Archduke William Francis
Charles died in 1894 alt Baden, near
Vienna, from injuries sustained
through a ,Fall from hie horse. Arch-
duke John of Tuscany, who had re-
signed his rank and taken the name
of John Orth, disappeared on the
high seas off bhe coast of South
America. King Ludwig II. of Ba-
varia, the Empress' cousin, com-
mitted suicide en June 13, 1886, in
a fit off insanity.
Count Ludwig of Trani, Prince of
the two Sicilies, husband of Duch-
ess Matilda, of Bavaria, a sister of
the Empress, committed suicide at
Zurich. Archduchess Matilda,
daughter of Field Marshal Arch-
duke Albert, was burned to death
in her father's .palace as the result
of a blazing log from the fire hav-
ing set fire to her ball dress. Arch-
duke Ladislas, son of the Archduke
Joseph, came to grief wale hunting
by an accidental discharge of his
gun,
The Hohenzollerns.
The story of the Hahenzollerns
is more cheerful. They take their
name frome,a castle which stood
upon the rill of Zollern, near Ho -
hinges', on the borders of the Black
Forest. The family gained -power
rapidly, and in 1701 the Elector
Frederick HI. became King of
Prussia. The Elector's son, F•red-
erick I., married his second cousin,
Sophia Charlotte, daughter of So-
phie the Great, Duchess of Bruns-
wick.
Her son, Frederick William T.
of Prussia, was noted, as Macaulay
says, for actions never before seen
outside a madhouse.
One of the most 'famous of his ex-
ploits was the formation of (the
Potsdam Guards, a company of
giants gathered from all .the na-
tions of Europe. This eccentric be-
came the father of that 'mast dllus-
trious of the Hohenzollerna, Fred-
erick the Great.
In 1871, Prussians and Germans
being brought together by the
crushing defeat of France, Ger-
many became a united state. And
on the 18th of January, 1871, King
William VII. of Prussia was pro-
claimed German Emperor.
From that day to the accession of
the present "War Lord" seems but
a step. William L, as the new Em-
peror was called, died in March,
1888. His son, Frederick III., sur-
vived 'him by only four months.
And Williams 11 ascended the
throne,
The Ronrinovs.
Turning to the Romanoffs, or the
Romanovs, as they are more cor-
rectly called, this paradox is found
—the family of the Czar, who re-
presents absolutism to the world,
gained the throne by popular elec-
tion,
The Romanovs had little associa-
tion with the court of Russia 'be-
fore the election of Milkhail iu
1613.
In 1598 the ancient ruling line of
Rivuk ended with the death of Czar
Theodore I. For 12 years Russia
seemed to be in the throes of dis-
solution, and •Sweden and Poland
disputed for the possession of the
land. But on October 24, 1612, the
Russians succeeded in driving out
the Polish invaders.
Immediately all classes of the
population were invited to send
freely elected delegates to Mos-
cow to form a oonvention which
should elect a native Czar. On
February 21, 1613, largely because
of the strong support he received
from the common. people, Michael
(to use the modern spelling) Theo-
dorovitc'h Rom•anav was elected
"Tsar-Goserdar of the Realm of
Muscovy and Whole State of Rus-
sia." . Thus did the Russian people
of 1613 ordain, of their awn free
will, that the Romanovs should
rude over them.
From the death of Peter the
Great down to the succession of
Nicholas III. in 1894 :the life of the
Romanovs has been a tragic his-
tory. Few reigns have been without
desperate conspirators, and every
Czar has eonetanitly before him the
fear of death 'by assassination, like
Paul I.
Striotly speaking, the present dq'-
naety should be termed not
Ron'ianov lbub Oldenburg-Romanov,
or Holstein -Go -Warp, for, like the
Austrian Empire, Czar Nicholas
deseends:from the female line.
Finding the Leak.
Mistress --Why have you put tiwo
hot water 'bottles in my bed, Brid
gest '
Bridgetrt Sttre, 1iem, one av
therm was leaking, and I didn't
know 'which, so I pulb both in to
make sure.
RUSSIANS GOOD FIGHTERS
WILL MAKE TIMMS S H0,1' F Olt
GERMANS IN EAST,
Murk Has Been Learned by Russia
Since the War With
Japan.
An Oxford graduate, who ab one
time tutored young Prince Michael
Obllenaky, son of the data }.'since of
that name, is at present a resident
of Toronto.
"The rank and file of .the Russian
army consists of two main divi-
saone, soldiers and cossacks. The
soldiers are recruited from peas-
ants. The term `cossacks' embraces
all these peoples who owe alleg-
iance to the Russian Empire and
who hold their land on feudal ten-
ure—a cossack or his family own
their land on condition that each
male member who has atbained mili-
tary age shall serve a certain per-
iod in the Cossack army of Russia.
A cossack himself considers himself
to be a loyal eubject of the Tsar,
and a citizen of the Empire, bub he
would no more permit himself to be
called a Russian than a Canadian
would permit himself to be called
an Englishman,
"A cossack is always a mounted
soldier. Without a horse he is
lost. He is regarded by military
experts as the finest light cavalry-
man in the world, and his officers,
some of whom are Russians, were
shown to be the flower of the pro-
fessional soldiery in the Russo-
Japanese war.
"Wild -cattle rangers from the
plains of Kurdifistan, (horse -herd-
ers from the banks of the Don and
the Khirghiz Siteppea, mountain-
eers from the Caucasus and Trans-
baikal regions, •Siberian Cossacks
and Cossacks from the Amur, their:
discipline is characterized by the
very Faults of their (best qualities.
And their usefulness in the Russo-
Japanest war was somewhat cur-
tailed by their tendency to lawless-
ness. But this has Ibsen greatly
changed. I was in Russia only a
year after the close of the war, and
already, the Cossack regiments had
been (brought into European Rus-
sia and subjected to the severest
discipline in military stations and
garrison towns.
Practical Fighting Machines.
"To -day the Cossacks are a prac-
tical fighting machine, and one of
the finest forces of cavalry in the
world. Of these, bbs European
Cossacks are the pick. They are
descendants of the Russian refu-
gees, adventurers, and soldiers of
fortune, who in the tihirteenth cen-
tury sallied forth from the king-
dom of Moscow and drove the in-
vading Tartars from the land.
Thereafter they settled on the banks
of the Don and Dnieper, and oc-
cupied all the re -conquered terri-
tory. The Cossacks have never
known serfdom like thou Russian
brethren. Hence, their dauntless
spirit, bold independence, vigorous
and clear intelligence,
"There are two Russian provellbs
which throw some light on the
standpoint from 'which the Cossaok
is regarded by his compatriots. One
is "The frog flies when %he Cossack
sleeps," and the other, "The Cos-
sack's brother is death." There is
another child, however, of the
"Little Father" who will have a
yet surer title to the kinship of
Death in this present war, and he
is the fair-haired, grey -eyed peas-
ant of north and middle Russia.
There is an old fighting maxim that
a good, big 'un is .always worth
more than a good little 'un. In the
war before us the •masses of the
Russian peasantry entire eclipse in
size -the Cossack hordes. We know
the :Cossack can fight, :bub it is the
stolid lfoujik of the line who will
bear the 'brunt of the battle.
"In the last war the Russian sol -
dier•wes led by !badly disciplined of-
- fioexs and the army diseipliuo was
bad, But in the last six years the
'Russian War OMee has- devoted its
attention unceasingly to the ques-
tion of its officers, The latter
groaned tinder the rigor of the new
system. Drill, drill, and again
drill, was the order of the day be-
fore brealrcrost, where formerly the
subalterns were wont to snore off
the effects of a carouse,
"A strict supervision is exercis-
ed over an ofiiear's mess 'bills.
Drunkenness, scandal, and inef-
fieney are visited with dismissal,
and the men who hold commissions
in the Tsar's army to -day are a
vastly different set to the sleepy,
ignorant, self-indulgent officers who
ordered, countermanded, and dis-
ordered the campaign in Man-
churia,
Lacked Enthusiasm.
"The Russian infantry in their
last engagement lacked "morale"
in that they lacked enthusiasm, and
went like sheep to the slaughter.
The Japanese troops were inspired
with the morale of religious fer-
vor. The Russians were heard to
ask each other again and again
why they had to fight the laps. Yet
these Russian peasants ill -led with-
out confidence, fought with the
persistence of, Wellington's plough-
boys alt Waterloo.
All is changed now. The priest-
hood of Russia have risen and fill-
ed the souls of the peasantry with
a paean of crusading fervor. The
peasant regiments are marching
preceded by a long -bearded priest
bearing a cross. Their battle -cry
is "The ,Serbs our 'brethren are in
danger. Slays to the rescue I"
"Tak Nyemetz, Tak zshid" (like
German, like Jew) is a favorite
Russian aphorism and expresses
the Slav's hostility to his .heredit-
ary and racial foe to the Teuton.
There will be no lack of morale in
this war. For your Russian peas-
ant can thoroughly understand a
religious campaign. A Russian
peasant is half vodka and hall re-
ligion. When he has no vodka he's
all religion, and when he has vodka
he's all vodka. In this case he will
be all religion, :and a fearsome
creature to meet.
"The average Russian officer is
tall, handsome, . florid, and well
built, with intellectual brows, fine
grey eyes, a weak mouth, and a
commanding chin. He is cultivat-
ed, well educated, and displays a
tendency to shirk unpleasant phases
of existence. The Russians are
bhe most "British -looking" of all
the other nations involved. They
have more natural dignity and self-
control.than either French or Ger-
mans.
"The Russian private is a solidly
built, thick -set, heavy youth aver-
aging 5 feet 8 inches in height. He
has merry :blue eyes, high cheek
bones, a short blunt nose, and a
heavy -looking mouth and jaw. You
see regiment after regiment of men
such as these, dressed in khaki uni-
forms with red shoulder straips
bearing the regimental number, in
every garrison town.
"The Russian is naturally . en-
dowed with a fair share of intelli-
gence, and the transfonmaibion of
the raw moujik into the trim, self-
contained, mustachioed soldier of
the police force lancl frontier towns
is rapid and surprising.
"These men in their millions,
backed by Oossaoks in their tens
of thousands, fired one and all with
bhe spirit of a Pan -(Slavonic crusade
are beginning to invade the Ger-
man Empire. The Germans will
find them no despioalble foe."
A local band was one day playing
in iSsootland•, When an 'old native
'came tap and asked the bandmaster
what the .piece was they 'were ren-
dering. "That's `The Deatft of
Nelson,' " replied the bandmaster,
"Aye, mon,' remarked the native,
"ye has given him an awfu'
death!"
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A BUCCANEER'S ATLAS,
Remarkable Maps In a Sixteenth Cen-
tury Volume.
Surely it is a precious discovery to
find that in 1540 a geographer—and
an Italian at that, rejoicing in the
name of Padovani—drew a map of
Ireland, and wrote across the north
of it the one word "Purgatorlo." Like
other graveled cartographers dealing
with parte beyond their ken, he had
recourse to his imagination. Yet his
choice of a name on this occasion an-
ticipated stronger titles used, say at
English cabinet meetings to -day, says
the London Telegraph.
Last week the remarkable atlas in
which this map is contained was
bought for Germany from Messrs.
Quaritch, who, it will be recalled, sold
Queen Mary of Scots' geography book
to the late Mr. Pierpont Morgan some
years ago, after it had been on loan
at the British Museum for over twen-
ty years.
This Is none other than .Capt, Wil -1
Liam Hack's original "Buccaneer's At -I
las," the sight of which is enough to
tempt one to run away to sea. It
was a labor of love, and drawn up by
Hack in 1684, at the sign of Great
Britain and Ireland, near Wapping
New Stairs, from "a great book of sea
charts and maps" of the coast of
South America, taken from the Span-
ish galleon the Rosario, when that
redoubtable ruffian, Capt. Bartholo-
mew Sharpe, captured and sank her.
The tale of the Rosario is one of the
most mortifying disappointments in
the annals of chartered piracy. Sharpe
and his beautiful band actually mis-
took £150,000 worth of "pigs" of sil-
ver for tin, and revenged themselves
on the unhappy Spaniards. Persever-
ing in their mighty blunder, they tools
only one pig along with them after
sinking the galleon. On proceeding
to melt the "tin" down for •bullets
they discovered their capital error,
and a cinema scene of savage recrim-
ination was enacted.
However, Sharpe had the great
book of maps, and on returning to
Wapping asked his old crony, hack,
to make an atlas for future use. Next
he induced Hack to do a second copy,
less graphical but more ornate, which
he eventually presented to Charles II.
This copy is now In the British Mu-
seum among the Sloane manuscripts.
But the original atlas was destined
to continue its career of criminal ad-
venture. Under the title of the
"South Sea Waggoner," it became the
property of that enterprising baud
who ran the "South Sea Bubble" Com-
pany, and was doubtless treated as a
Bible -atlas by many thousands of be -
gulled dupes.
On Deo. 3, 1711, it was offered to
one James Bateman, an official of this
company, by William Hill, of Lin-
coln's Inn, who explained that he de-
sired to sell it on account of being
"confined in the Poultry Comptor for
a debt of £30," He described it as
"a large, laborious, ornamentali guilt
booke of mine with a redd cover, call-
ed the 'South Sea Waggoner,' full of
curious mapps and platts of ye South
Sea, being ye long experiences of ye
Famous Bucanere Capt. Barth.
Sharpe, .ye said Hooke composed and
depicted by one Capt. Wm. Hack, de-
ceased, of whom, I, about 18 years
agoe, purchased the said booke and
paid him £10 for ye same. As I can
make out upon oath. And by a re-
ceipt in writing."
The opportunity was too good to be
missed, and the "Buccaneer's Atlas,"
under its more amiable title, was pur-
chased for the company's use and
stamped with its initials, "S, S. C."
Capt Bartholomew Sharpe's trifling
error over £150,000 worth of "pig"
silver was avenged by his atlas. Those
who were duped by it had the melan-
choly satisfaction of seeing, when the
bubble burst in 1721 the estates of the
South Sea Company's directors, val-
ued at £,014,000, seized and sold in
part reparation.
WAR DOGS.
The Kind of Animal Suitable for
the Present Conflict.
iAt the present moment, no doubt,
clogs will be playing their part in
the war on the Continent as anibu-
1 lance dogs and as sentinels. Most
people are of opinion that the blood -
!hound is the moat adaptable for
such work, but :this is a fallacy, al -
I though the breed might be used in
the production of an efficient war
' dog. Tike majority of bloodhoninds
are of a timid and nervous tempera-
ment, which would naturally be a
severe handicap an the field of ac-
tion, Moreover, they will not allow
themselves to be hurried; if they
are not given 'their own time when
used in tracking they become re-
fractory. Fo•r Red Cross work these
traits of character are much against
them. Itis surprising that the well-
known English pointer has not been
utilized in the making of an ambu-
lance dog. He has long been ac-
customed to firearms, and has all
along been bred for scenting or
nose work. The pointer has had
much more attention paid to its
scenting insbinctw than the much
quoted bloodhound, and would un-
doubtedly be invaluable in the find-
ing of the wounded, A cross with
the Airedale terries should pre -
duce an ideal dog for such work,
giving strength, stamina and intel-
lect --a combination that should be
susceptible to specialized training.
The same remarks world apply to
all the breeds of setters. The collie
and Airedale cross would also pro-
duce an intelligent clog, for there is
no doubt that the collie, through
long and close intercourse with man,
has developed quite wonderful rea-
soning pawera. Such dogs could be
trained to do excellent work, either
among the wounded, or in scatting,
or as sentinels,
7.
Nature's Patience.
Nature never hurries; atom by
atom, libble by little, she achieves
her work. The lesson one learns in
fishing; yruchting, hunting or plant-
ing is the manner of Nature's pa-
bienee with ithe delays of wind and
sun, delays of rbhe seasons, bad wea-
ther, excess or hack of water -pa-
tience with:bhe slowness of our feet,
with the parsimony of oar strength,
with the largeness of eea and land
we mueb traverse,'
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FOOD FACTS
What an M.D. Learned.
A prominent Georgia physician
wemt through a food experience
which die melees public.
"It was my- own experience that
fust led me to advocate Grape -Nests
food and I also- know, from having
presoribed it to comvalesoents and
other weak patients, that the food
is a wonderful rebuilder and re-
starer of nerve and brain, tissue, as
well as muscle. It improvers the
digestion, and sick patients gain
very rapidly, just as I did in
strength and weeg}ut.
"I was in such at low state that T
had to give up my work entirely;
and went to the mountains of this
spats, but two months there did not
improve me; in fact, I was not quite
as well as when I left home.
"My food did not susbain rue, and
it became plain that I must change.
Then I began to use Grape -Nuts
food, and in two weeks I could walk
a mile without, fatigue, and in five
weeks returned :to' my home and
pra,ebice, taking up hard, 'work'
again, Since that :time I have fele
as. well and strong as I ever did in
my life.
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all sufferers; 1 consider ib a duty to
make these facts public," Name
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Anrericait Refugees Fleeing 1i'on1 the War Zone.
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American refugees, with their baggage, ",aboard a hay wagon, making their way along the high road
above Avricourb, 'a Peenoh village near Lunevillle, toward the railway station fet,, Embcnmenil,eight
miles away, to oonmect with the Munich -:Paris express. They retched Emberanenil one-half hour before.
all railway conpounioatien was beniparxerily suspended, and mimed' the fireie engagement of the war, of
Letnevilie, by a few hears. This party was without food from early in the morning of August 1st until
August 3rd.
1 SUICIDE EPIDEMIC it INDIA.
lnereaved Price of husbands Said
to be the ('apse.
The Statesman of Calcutta
prints the following paragraph:
"It appears that quite a new
spirit has arisen among the girl-
hood af, the Bengali race, Bengal
has of late witnessed with astonish-
rtent olein to a feeling of reverence
and admiration, a member' of cases
of self-imanolatiou of tender Bengal
girls,"
What this Hindu Writer thus
complacently describes is in reality
a cations epidemic of suicide, Ib
began some weeks ago with the self-
destruction of a girl named ,Snehal-
ata, whose father was aboub to
mortgage his property in order to
pay the purchase price of a husband
for her.
The suns now demanded by the
fathers of eligible boys in Bengal is
ruinously high, The price of a Kay-
asth who has .graduated may go up
to 10,000 rupees (93,000); 3,000 ru-
pees is quite a usual demand, and
even a matriculate can command
500 rupees. The enhancement of
rates is due to the law of supply
and demand. Girls must ordinarily
be married sbefors puberty, while.
the increasing requirements of ed-
ucation have led to the postpone-
ment of the marriage of boys. There
is thus a diminishing supply of hus-
bands, whereas the demand is un-
changed.
The suicide of Snehalata, who
poured kerosine oil over her cloth-
ing and set herself on fire, provok-
ed an outbursb of admiration among
marriage reformers and the fathers
of marriageable girls. The natural
result is that other young girls have
-followed th•e example of Snehalata,
while it is common talk among
school girls that when the time
comes for their marriage they will
sacrifice themselves in the same
way.
The mania has not confined itself
to victims of the husband's dowry.
The widow of a wealthy young jem-
adar burned herself to death, leav-
ing an orphan child. More recently,
as the correspondent already men-
tioned relates, we have had "the
heroic sacrifice of yeb another ten-
der Bengali girl at this little pro-
saic railway town of Saidpur."
The girl's husband died of small-
pox. Six days later she saturated
her clothing with kerosine and set
it alight. The admiring chronicler
is divided between two methods of
accounting for the tragedy. On the
one hand he ascribes it to her af-
fection for her husband; on the
other, he suggests that the girl,
"though of tender years, realized
but too truly what a lifelong widow-
hood meant to her."
d
AUSTRALIA'S CAPITAL.
Magnificent Buildings Will Ilo
Erected at Canberra.
Canberra, the new capital of the
Australian Commonwealth, has
nob been much in the public eye for
in long time. The site, however, has
been plansned and a start will soon
be made with the Government
buildings. Arohitects axe being in-
vited to compete for the designing
of the House of Parliament, which
will face the Capitol .and foam, the
principal oor•ner of a great triangu-
la•r group of Departmental offices.
The amount to be spent ultimately
on the building will be limited to
£1,000,000, but the structure to be
erected in the meantime fon' imme-
diate necessities will not Dost
more than £200,000. Prizes of
22,000, £1,500, £1,060, and smaller
sums are.being given for the bast
designs. An rnten•nastional jury of
areheteebs •will be appointed to
judge the merits of the competing
designs, and "all architects" may
enter. In. the conditions emphasis
is laid epee- the observance of cer-
tain standards which will secure for
the new city the characteristics+ of
an imposing and monuenenbaleon-
tee of Government, Me supreme
building will be .the Capitol set
upon a hill, and the soliemre for the
laying out of the city, including the
Parliament group, is to a large ex-
tent governed by this do.mimaling
feature,
What-ilrltain-Is Fighting dor.
Speaking at Alnwick, Northum-
berland, England, on the 17th ult.,
Earl Grey said we were at war, and
he did not suppose there was a soul
in the country who did not reoeg-
nate that the cause of the war was
a just one. We were ab war fight-
ing for the liberties of Europe and
fighting for ,the independence of
three small naitionalities. We weee
fighting fer another principle just
as sacred, namely, the maintenance
of besaty obl,i'gations. German
policy eeemred Ito be based upon the
belief Ibluat might wase right. We
believe �,hb.a might of justice and
of t e pigfibed, word. We were
&g1sth g or the miaaneenance of
treaties, the £ounda'tlon of eiviliza-
titin, the noblest cense for which a
man could unsheath the sword. We
were all prepared to see this war
through. We should keep cool
heads and not diminish employ-
ment, but do all we could to 'in-
creasc it.