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The Brussels Post, 1916-4-27, Page 6RITZ- LS IN AN , AWKWARD FIX • •BRITAIN AND GERMANY'S FIN ANCES COMPARED. Ieighteen months of the most costly war which Germany, has ever under- taken, her Chancellor of the Ex• chequer has not dared to add ono shil- ling of new taxon to her normal Mer - 1 dens. And all this time he has bore rowed huge amounts for the war, so - that now, annually, a sum of no less than seventy-five millions is falling due by way of interest on Germnn war loans. Contrast this with the sonnet fin- ance of the Bribish Treasury! Every penny of interest due upon our two war loans, and upon our new five per cent. Exchequer bonds, is met from new sources of revenue, princip- ally additional income-tax and fresh taxes upon articles of daily oonsumP- tion, so that each holder of our war securities is certain of the income up- on his savings. Germany has not only piled loan upon loan, in total disregard of all rules of honest finance, she has made I no. provision whatever for the anima interest payments upon her war bonds each fresh issue furnishing the where- withal to pay interest on the previous series, The war was a gambler's throw; it is financed in true gambler's fashion. Already, at the time of the serond Ger- man war loan, loan banks were call- ed into being by the Government, and supplied with a special kind of paper "money," which was only paid out against pledges of Che bonds of the first war loan, and could only be used for investment in the second loan, This trick was repeated at the recent third issue. I Utter Ruin Inevitable. I We cannot, however, derive any immediate comfort from the bank- ruptcy of Germany. The Kaiser and the narrow circle of feudal officers and officials who rule Prussia (and, through Prussia's predominance in the German Parliament, they also rule Germany) will not be stopped by the impoverished condition of the Ger- man Treasury. Prussian tyranny, over whose policy the masses of the people have no control, will take the last coin of the widow and the orphan (it has already taken all their copper), and give them worthless "scraps of paper." It will also take the last grain of wheat and the last beast for the Army. Germany's bankruptcy will not end the war. We must bring it to a vic- torious conclusion. But, after peace is proclaimed, all our workers and commercial men and women—above all, our factory -hands, transport - workers, miners, and clerks—will benefit by the expansion of British trade which will follow the paralysis of German industries. German banks, manufacturers, and merchants will find themselves loaded np with worth- less securit:es, burdened with heavy taxes, and wi;hon; credit in other countries. The Kaiser has arree ei German progress for many years to come, but at present he is still fighting on the stricken body of German commerce,' Unpleasant Facte That the Hun Jug- glers have Got to Pace. If Robinson Crusoe and Man Friday had cared to set up a printing press on their island in order to print bank- notes, they could have presented each other with fabulous sums, limited only by their ebock of paper, printer's ink, and—credulity. The test would have come if they had tried to pass those notes on their return to civilization. No sane being would have accept- ed their home-made money, unless friend Crusoe had been able to state where and when he would be able to produce gold coins in payment for his notes. Cut off from overseas countries by the steel walls of the British and Al- lied Navies, Germany and Austria are, figuratively speaking, like a latter- day Robinson Crusoe and friday on just such an island, and they have actually printed during the war THREE THOUSAND MILLION POUNDS STERLING in paper money and war bonds, which pass among themselves at face value, says London Answers. Banknotes Coin pared. Now comes the measure of German credit! If a neutral were to take a flue -pound note of the Imperial Bank of Germany to Switzerland or the United States, he would be fortunate if he received in exchange more than three pontis ten shillings in Swiss or A.merimn money. If he offered a five -pound note of the Bank of Eng- land, or a Scottish or Irish note, he would be paid as many Swiss francs or United States dollars as the note realized p`r'ior to the war, Itis, of course, the plain, unvarnish- ed teeth that, since August, 1.914, not a single German banknote may be ex- changed i'or gold ab any of the branch e of the Imperial Bank of Ger- many, while, since the commencement of the war, the Bank of England has never r•fesed, or been unable to hand out, sovereigns in exchange for its crisp notes. The financial jugglers at Berlin have succeeded in bluffing their vic- tims at home into the belief that "all is well," because a hundred -marks (five -pound) note will still be taken in payment of German taxes for that amount, or may be exchanged into twenty five -marks, or one hundred newly -created one -mark (one shilling, paper notes. Her Trade is Paralysed. But Germany is bankrupt! Her rulers know it; her bankers conceal their anxiety, although they have part- ed with valuable investments in ex- change for doubtful bonds and IC U's of the German Government. And the eyes of the German people will be opened when they attempt, after the war, to resume business in the world's markets, What has the war done for Ger- many's industries, trade, and finance? Millions of men have been taken from factories and workshops, totally re- gardless of industrial needs. True, these requirements are now insignificant, with Holland, Scandina- via and Switzerland almost the sole neutral customers. One or two ex- amples must suffice. German pianos used to swamp the foreign markets, 0 and one of the most famous factories r —in a favored position for the ex- port trade—employed before the war ON ea five hundred men; now it is t empty but for three aged watchmen. The toy -makers of Upper Bavaria 0 and Thuringia have delegated their a tasks to women and children, who merely used to assist them in the heyday of peace. Last year, German toy experts were less than one -twen- tieth of those of 1913. No Import Duties. German shipping, except for a lit- tle coastwise trade in the Baltic— carried on in fear and trembling of British and Russian submarines—has ceased as completely as if German' harbors had been icebound since Au- 1 gust, 1914. Imports into Germany, a solely across the frontiers of the few remaining neutral neighbors, have fallen off so woefully that factories . s using cotton, wool, jute, rubber, cop- I I per, and other raw materials from Overseas sources of supply, would have ;,had to close, even if men had been available to serve the mills and works. 19 A moment's reflection will show g 1 Very Much Experienced • R.A.M.C. Officer: "You wish to go in for The Red Cross. Have you ever done any nursing?" Candidate: "Done any nursing! I'm the eldest of a family of twelve!" —London Opinion, to save himself, the Hohenzollern dy- nasty, and his military fellow -crimin- als from defeat and punishment. He will not succeed, and he will have ruined Germany bobh financially and politically. BOCHE AND BULGAR. King Fredinand Unknowingly Gives Kaiser Proper Description. Even in these grim days we may take a little pleasure in the singular performances of the Kaiser and King Ferdinand, says the Westminster Gazette. They met at Nish one day recently and toasted each other in anguage the absurdity of which is my equalled by its folly. A verbatim eport of the proceedings is now pro• luted, with the confident expecte,' tion that it will impress and astonish, he world and terrify the presumptious enemies of Boche and Bulger, The ' gowning stroke in it is King Perdin-` ndet Latin peroration, which surely deserves a supreme place among in- elieltous classical allusion. Ferdin- and addresses Wiliam in the formula of the doomed gladiator, "Ave Im- perator," to which, as every school-, oy knows, the proper conclusion is,! 'moraine to satutant" As if this were not enough, he adds, "Victor et gloriosus es," the obvious rendering of whiobin this connexion is: "con- queror thou art and braggart." Latin' words, as well as others, sometimes save double meanings, and Ferdinand ,ppears to have forgotten that "glori- ous" more often means boastful than glorious. Files gloriosus is not "the; older," but the braggart captain.", t sounds a little different when we t'rans.late correctly and supply themissing word. "Hall Emperor, Cae- sar and King, we who are about to erish salute thee, conqueror and brag -I art." When that is understood, the t stoat ancient Nissa and Its sand -f our is tit for the Bulgars to put in their pipes and smoke. What tide stoppage of industries and trade means to the German Treasury. IIn a country with such high protect- ive tariffs, the loss of revenue from `customs, due to the interruption of imports, is alone a most serious mat- ; tier, At the same time, shipping and harbor dues, other direct and indirect b taxes on shipping, and, above all, theh huge profits from the carriage of 1111.f ports and exports over the State rail- o ways, are no longer coming in, not to mention bhe inoome-tax previously de- m rived from innumerable factories acid ether peace -time businesses. Go a Gambling Basis. Nothing illustrates the parlous state of German trade and industries more Vividly than tho fact that, during g n Dangerous, A v'sitor was being shown over a ig cotton mill by the proprietor, w o•proudly displayed some of the abrics produced. Holding up a piece 1 printed calico, he saidt "Our latest material. Excellent aterial, isn't ,it?" "It's all right," said the visitor. but you can't hold a candle to the nods was turn out in our words!" "Same line?" asked the host, some- what offended. "No," (replied the other: "ours is unpowder." TRENCH COURTSHIPS THE PLEASANT SMILE, REAL LOVE AFFAIRS STRANGE RESULTS IIAVE BEEN CAUSED BY THE WAR. Brings Young People in Closer Com- munion, and Many Weddings Result. Genuine courtship—real love-niak- ing—as an incident to marriage is one of the innovations that war has brought to France. it may develop into a revolution of the marriage sys- tem, and is almost certain in any case to be the death of much of the red tape that has entangled and more or less strangled Cupid. Marriage was hard hit during the first months of the war, but by reas- on of the authorization of unions by proxy and the infusion of war ro- mance it is rapidly recovering. In Paris there were only '7(38 mar- riages in January, 1915, as against 2,941 in January, 1914. In December, 1915, there were 1,289, showing a re- markable recovery under the circum- stances. In a great many' of these war mar- I riages it is noticed that girls without I fortune are for the time being running I their more favored sisters a close race • since in a great proportion of the mar- riages celebrated since hostilities be- gan the marriage con -bract has been uispensed with; no mention of dower nor talk about money; romance has taken the place of finance. The -Flirt at the Front. Wounded heroes have in hundreds of cases fallen in love with and mar- ried their nurses. Nearly every day the story is told of some man in a fighting regiment corresponding with an unknown sympathizer who has come home on leave to find that his "godmother" is worth marrying for herself. Women and girls acting as "god- mothers" to unknown correspondents ab the front have developed what is . lightly called "the flirt at the front" into formidable proportions, and this is at this moment perhaps the most efficient marriage agency in the world. The sacrifices made by some girls marrying soldiers who have been blinded or maimed almost to the point of total helplessness have spread the contagion and love letters are born . at every hand by the close commune I ion of sympathetic minds centred on great events, and through the con- stant movement of soldiers coming in contact with new faces, every one of which under present circumstances is bound bo be sympathetic. Some psychologists have inquired whether there was not in France a crying need for deeper affection, and; whether the decreasing natality in the country was not clue in great part to the obstacles of marriage and the, more material considerations that al- ways entered into it. The soul -stir- ring incidents of the war have un- questionably brought every one into closer union, and there scenes to have been a general wiping out of old scores that kept acquaintances and even families apart. There have been many reconciliations through the exchange of news of the exploits ' of mutual friends, and many instances of divided families reunibed over the tomb of a fallen hero. Will Transform Marriage System. Forced Facial Contortion Not Success as It Is Usually Detected. To discuss personality without men on ng a pleasant smile and a genial hand -shape would be as incomplete discussing good health without men Coning exercise. A natural omits is readily obtained after one has acquir ed a musical laugh, wholesome thoughts and a pleasant voice, A forced smile is easily detected and usually results in facial contortion. The genuine smite prmnpted b3 cheerfulness is accomplished by slight ly parting the lips, gently raising the corners of the mouth, and is completed by a happy expression, in the eyes stand before your mirror and see how easily you can be convinced that this is true, also how well it will pay you to wear a genuine smile. The hand - 1 shake needs no practice, only remem- ber that a firm grip and e. hearty shake inspire confidence and are a token of frankness and accord with spontaneous laughter and a well-piac- i ed musical voice. To prove conclusively that person- ality can be acquired by anyone I have even seen invalids change an irritable and unattractive personality to one of cheer and sunshine, winning all who came in contact with them and accom- plishing for themselves many more hours of happiness and many less hours of pain. If you will but con- scientiously carry out these instruc- tions you will soon have a personal- ity which attracts, giving pleasure to Your friends and great satisfaction to Yourself. I WAR BREEDS MANY LEGENDS, Two Examples in the Present Conflict are Cited, Wars are fruitful breeders of le- gends, And always have been. Nor is the present war any exception to the rule, says London Answers, Everybody, to cite but two in- stances, will be able to recall the story of the Mons angels, andthat other one about the Russian soldiers who came through England from Archangel, Possibly these yarns, anti other eimilnr ones, will be incorporated in the history books of the future. Itis n fact that stories equally without foundation are bought in our schools to -day, Take, for example, the one about the Black Hole of Calcutta. Every schoolboy and nearly every grown. up person is familiar with the details of that ghastly story, It relabes how the Nabob Suraja Dowlah shut up 146 Britons, captured by him in Calcutta Fort, in a small, unventilated dungeon and how, after a night of agony from heat, thirst, and lack of • air, only twenty-three were found alive next morning. :has more than 150 •years the etbry has been implicitly believed. Yet now , along comes Mr. Little, and proves, Iin his "Bengal, Past and Present," not only that it is not true, but that it could nob possibly be true, Nine persons only were, it appears as from contemporary records, confined ' in the "black -hole,' which was really the common prison, and none of these ' suffered any very great inconveni- & once, The remainder -of the garrison numbering -some 120, were either kill- ed or wounded in the fighting, and bhe flatter were treated by their conquer- ors with every consideration. "! Similarly, Wellington never said, "Up Guards, and at 'em!" at Water- loo, nor did Blucher exclaim, on first • seeing London, "What, a place to sack!" While the phrase, "Providence favors the big battalions," which is usually attributed to Napoleon, is found in the writings of Cicero. j There never was a person named William Tell, and consequently he never shot an apple from his son's head at the bidding of the Austrian tyrant, Gessler. At t, rgterloo, the commander of Napoleon's Old Guard is said to have replied to the challenge of surrender pompously: "The Old Guard dies, but it does not surrender!" In the French army, however, it/ is a tradition that liis answer consisted of but one word, i not at all fitted for ears polite. Similarly, the Girondins had no last supper together. Columbus could not have foretold an eclipse of the moon in order to frighten the natives of ' Jamaica into submission, as has been asserted, for the simple reason that the moon was not in eclipse during the time the famous explorer was on that island, N MAKING UP AFTER THE WAR. Young people are now being brought together, not by contract nor by the attraction of wealth, but simply by bhe greater force now asserting itself of young hearts and common wills, It is asked whether it will continue after the war, and what effect it will have on the future of France; an ideal- istic people, after being held in ma- terialistic bondage so far as concerns so vital a question to the race, le com- ing out so strong in the present irre- sistible appeal to romanticism that many believe it will result in a trans- formation, if not,in a revolution, of the marriage system. Some contend that men will marry younger and marry for love instead of for money, will marry more in reason and eincerity, andi that with bhe stronger tie of af- fection taking the place of interest, divorces will be•.omc less while the population will grow correspondingly more numerous, HORSES DIE OF FRIGHT. Peculiar Effect Which Bombardment Has on Animals. The effect of the war on different animals is described in the "Nord - deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung" by its correspondent on the western front. The big elephant in the Antwerp Zoo, he writes, has since the bombard- ment of the city been suffering from a complete nervous breakdown, and for days tramps backwards and forwards in its enclosure, refusing food and drink. In some cases dogs.slouoh away with wrooping head and tail as soon as they hear the sound of artillery. In others, having discovered that when a gunner handles a shell an explosion is to be expected, they make for the nearest shelter, and return barking to the neighborhood of the fighting the mom- ent the shell has been fired. Pigeons remain in their cotes even when shrapnel files all round them, and singing birds do not cease their songs during the heaviest bombard- ment. Horses have on many occasions stopped as though paralyzed when a shell was fired, and remained emmov able for several minutes. In cases they have died an the spot from fright. In a vilage in Picardy a sparrow was seen carrying hay to its nest on the roof of a shelled church, part of which was still on fire. ABOUT STEEL HELMETS. The New Head Dress Adopted By the French Army. The plain steel helmet now worn by all French soldiers is becoming quite familiar even to people in England. It will surprise most people who have seen these helmets tot sow that there are no fewer than 04 distinct opera- tions necessary in turning one of these, out. The first step is stamping out disks from large sheets of steel, A special machine is used far this. purpose, ex- erting a pressure of 150 toms and capable of cutting out 5,000 steel disks a day, Each disk is placed under a shaping machine, which presses the disk into the form of et helmet with a broad rim. Polishing and cutting machines remove all irregularities in the hel- met, lifter which it has holes punched in the crown, soma for ventilation pur- poses, othere for fastening on the regi- mental areal:. Each helmet is cleaned and (Upped en a special mixture, which makes it a dull, inconspicuous bluish - 'gray, A lintng and leather chin etrape, are then fastened on, a.nd the helmet is complete. Since the French army has been protected with the heirnet the number of deaths due to wounds in the head has decreased to a remarkable extent, Deadly Conflicts Closed in Feasting and Merrymaking, Just how the present war will end nobody knows, but it is unlikely that it will finish in a feast of friendship between the belligerents. Yet this—nothing less—has mark- ed the conclusion of many a conflict in days gone by. The first Boer war, for instance, was closed by a banquet at which General Cronje—the same who surrendered at Paardeberg twenty years later—entertained the British officers and officials in fine style, the quantity of champagne con- sumed being, in the words of one who was there, "truly surprising." The American Civil War ended und- er an apple tree in a garden at Ap- pomatox, a village in the State of Vir- ginia, Lee, surrendered his sword to Grant. It was at once returned to him, and the two men pledged each other in a flagon of cider, the- only 4. drink available, after which they and their staffs breakfasted amicably to- gether on bacon and beans, and "flap- jacks sweetened with maple eugar." On the eve of the last day of the Franco-German War of 1870.•71 Bis• march gave a supper to celebrate the event, at which, besides the mem- bers of the German Headquarber Staff, there were present several French of- ficers. In deference to Iris guests, the German Chancellor had arranged that the last shot in the war should be fired by the French. A dinner given by General Nogi and his cfficors to the Russian Headquart- er Staff celebrated the conclueion of the Russo-Japanese War of 1905. But as has already been said, it le impos- sible that any similar civilities will mark the close of the present world war. The til deeds of the Ilun, writ- ten in blood and fire, are too terrible to be so quickly forgotten or so easily forgiven, One Guess. Stranger (at the door)—I am try- ing to find a woman whose married name I have forgotten, but I know she lives in this ne'ghborhood. She ie a woman easily described and per- haps you know her—a singularly beautiful creature, with pinle and white complexion, seashell ,ears, love- ly eyes and hair such as a goddc: m;ght envy. Servant—Really, sir, I. don't know Voice (from head of stairs) ---Jane, tell the gentleman I'll be down in a minute, The plain unvarnished truth is bet- ter than questionable rhetoric. SIR EDWARD GRED''TRUE TO THE !S INVULNERAB-LE COSPEL OF HA E HAS -OUTLASTED ALL OTHER FOR- EIGN MINISTERS. Noted British Writer Caths,, Him the MOM English Englishman In England, It is over ten years slime Sir 13d - ward Grey became the BMW). Foreign Secretary. During the whole of that period lie has bean always a Promin- ent and sometimes the outstanding figure of European diplomacy, Ono may begin to realleo something of what that means by attempting to re- call the names of the men who a a cads ago were his more or lees litems• ly rivals, writes Mr. Sydney Brooks. Where are they all to -day? Dead, dismissed, retired, or hovering merely for a moment that Sir Edward Grey rennins. No Continental Chancellor or Sov.I ereign, ,.I should say, ever Imagined for a moment that Sir Edward Gray could be squeezed out of his office by a political intrigue or that his hold on it was dependent upon the shifting opinions of a King, or that the British People war& in the least likely to de- sert him. He was, irritatingly invulnerable.; They could not get at him. He scent ed a permanent feature of the British and European landscape, while they wore more than transient and I awk- ward visitors. The prestige of tone amity—that precisely was what they? lacked and he possessed. He held his office on something approaching a freehold tenure, they held theirs und- er the threat and shadow of a writ at ejectment. I hope I am not being too- insuffer- ably British in thinking that England has always been somewhat envied, at any rate in Europe, for a certain at- tribute of impassive and self-contin-, ent stability. Respected Abroad. REMARKABLE LETTER FR091 A GERMAN, Epistle to An 01d Friend in England Is Illustrative 'of Kultur. The following remarkable letter has been received by an English pro- fessional man from a Gorman now in Hamburg who lived for some years in England and was on terms of close friendship with this particular Eng- lishman. The letter reached England by way of Italy:— Dear Mr. —, It has come to my knowledge that you have been mak- ing inquiries in various quarters con- cerning me and 'my welfare, and I have to tell you thab, despite our old friendship, there can never again he any sort of communication between us, either now or when the war is ' over. I do not deny that during nay stay in your country I received much kindness at your hands, but you, as a British citizen, must bear your share of the responsibility for your coun- try s oun'try's infamous attempt to shatter and destroy the greatness of Germany, and therefore . I, as a true German must forget allpersonal orbenefits g and must regard you, just because you are An Englishman, with an all -conquer-. . lig hatrei. The Only Hope. The history of the last half -century absolutely proves that all hope for the future of Europe lies in the hands of ' my country. Russia is Asiatic and barbarous. France and the other Latin countries are decadent. Eng- land is mean-souled and trivial. Only Germany realizes the possibilities of to -morrow, and only Germany is cap. able of protecting civilization front. the future inevitable onslaughts front, the cast. Germany's amazing pro - gross has awakened the enemity of her neighbors, and it was that en - It was not merely the security ofmity and envy that made this war his position that made Sir Edward up inevitable. to the eve of Armageddon one of the There was no reason for Great main pivots of the Etu•opean system. Britain's interference. Your states - It was also the uses to which he put men professed lip friendship to us. it, The yeaas during which Ile has been Up to the last moment Sir Edward Grey led us to believe that Great Brit - charged with the conduct of British cin would remain neutral. Then when foreign policy have been years of al-! most incessant crisis and commotion,' ann were embroiled with bothRussia They have pretty thoroughly tested and France you sided withhour en - •him, and, if for the moment we leave I envies. the last eighteen months out of av { hatred of "Idealists." count, the universal Judgment of Never in the history of the world friend and foe would he that he has has a nation made war for a meaner stood the test wen. His acceptance cause, and the hatred that we have of the post was an even greater relict, for Great Britain is the hatred that to the nation than to Sir Henry Camp•; a nation of idealists naturally feels bell -Bannerman himself. Abroad, for unscrupulous, pettifogging huck- among the friends of England, it had sters. The crime deserves an ade- an instantaneous and reassuring et- quabe punishment, Germany is fight - feet. Among the enemies of Eng- ing for her Life, and it is idle to sup - land, or among those who stood net pose that she will fight in kid gloves. forfeit by a change in British policy, She is more than justified in using and who would have welcomed the pre- all the means devised by the ingen- sence in Dawning Street of a Minister uity of her sons to compass the ruin governed by the Gladstonian spirit, its ' of her foes. Your denunciation of effect was not less complimentary. It our "barbarities" leaves us entirely. Great Britain and her friends and an: unaffected. We rejoice at the killing lies felt that a danger had bean avoid of every single Englishman, and at ed, other powers were no less con•; the loss of every British ship, We setons of an opportunity snatched' remain cold if a few women and chin away. I dren are killed by our air attacks Perfectly Straightforward. on your cities. This is a war to the knife, nation against nation, and it Sir Edward, with that etraightfol, can only end in the destruction of wariness whit% is the very essence bhe race that has for centuries been of his nature, lost no time in show. the pirate of the world. ing his band, He publicly on behalf Slowly Starving to Death. of the new Government, accepted all If you and I were to meet, friends the engagements entered into by his predecessor. With equal promptitude as we were once, I would not raise he took a definite line on the Franco- my little finger to save your life, German dispute over Morocco and un and, indeed, I would do my utmost hesitatingly backed France for all he to cause you bo lose it, because, as was worth. It was a course of action I have said, you are an Englishman. that on et least three separate occa ' To your gracious wife and chil- eions before the final rupture pf 1914 lien, who had no part in malting involved the risk of war with Gar this war, I send my respects. They many, But Sir Edward did nue' are not responsible, though they shrinlr from IL. Ile held that Great l may suffer, But so, too, do we suf- Britain was bound to support the far. If you could see what your war Third Republic with all the diplomatic,! on our innocents has done, how our and, 1f neoessary, all ,tiro material, i poor are being slowly starved to death by your food war, your heart power at her command; and after - some tensa moments the lesue abund- antly justified his prescience and pluck. would harden. So, then, too, if your wife and Children' suffer, do not turn to us for sympathy. You are respon- Possibly if one were to desokibe Sir eible. You are a man who could have Edward as the most English English- lifted up his voice to protest. You man in England it might •help those did not. Therefore, all the pent-up ra- hatred which have for your las- who are not English to a clearer co tail country is also for you, prehension of the man, He has are May you all perish in misery. most all the excellencies and some of mowhe, '1 To mootthelitrimitatiiens tothat foalgo yotuithselftin thetitleMARRIAGE AS SPY CLOAK.- presence of an English gentleman of absolutely the finest typo, ode whose Witty Dodges of Female German dignity is so natural that it 11 ver oc- curs to him t¢o''woader whether he is dignified, one from whose lithe Irame and Roman Lrmperorieh features there radiates' an instantaneous impreselon of entire cleanness and scuaraness of thought and life and conduct. It le in. Agents Described. The French government has decid- ed to pass a bill depriving all foreign brides of the privileges of citizenship . of French nationality. It has been found that many alien conceivable that he should ever do women, have purposely married our contemplate anything mean or Frencht>1en eo that they may conduct petty or underhand—one minute he their business of spying without inter - his company disposes of the notion forance. forever- He is oro of the most trans, Some remarkable marriages have parenil honest mon 1 lav been brought to light, Last August Y 0 over emu, 8 g 19t A wealthy across' So much one efts at a German woman married a glance, and the conviction is renewed Fr'neh shoeblack settling an annuity whenever and wherever one encount- on m in exchange for the legal right fns him. Along with it one is not to use hie name. As they never lived less conscious of an atmosphere of together, all that she really wanted quiet reserve, and as it were, impar. was to be able to live in Paris and somal authority, retain her French property, A rich Hungarian woman artist married a penniless old stonecutter of If you aro In a hurry avoid the 74 so that she might live in Pul'is tie a tra'n of thought spy without inber erence.