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!Ski CHIEF "HUJffR-IN"
.BAT ,t WITTY ,4:aiil+,liil,CAN
SAID OF EMPEROR.
.
Stnarek Expressed the Same Idea
Mote Than Thirty Years
Ago.
t was a witty American .w11;01
ring once in Berlin that the Kai-
had found time to object imper-
Y to a proposed tramway:line
oss TJnrter den Linden, said :
ay, William II, is 'sure enough
logical candidate for the presi-
cy of the International Society
Butters-in:"',A "butter -in" (i.e.,
who "butts in"), is 'one of the
mological gears with which our
ns'atiantic cousins have enriched
King's English, says the Lon
Daily Mail.. It is derived from
gout, who bultts. It means a
son who not only rushes in where
els fear to tread, but does reo
ituelly, incessantly, '-joyously.
a egregiously.
`he facetious American phrased
ifferently; but 'the idea was ex -
seed more than thirty years age
Bismarck himself, when he said
he future • Kaiser : "Thie young
will be his own Imperial Chan -
r." 'Sagacious as he was, Bis-
k, destined to be the first vic-.
of his own prophecy, never
d that William II. would be
n•ly his own Chancellor, but his
le Government; like another
r, the State itself.
Pooh -Bah of Germany.
e Emperor Williaw, like the
of the Germans, was an admir-
of "The Mikado." You will
w what I *mean, therefore, when
y that he is the Pooh Bah of
ern Germany. It is the busi-
of the Quadruple Alliance to
that he dies not become Lord
h Everything Else.
o one who has not lived in Ger-
y can possibly comprehend the
r-aIlness of the Kaiser. His
'al title is not the All -Highest
son without a reason. He is it.
lin carers erect a public foun-
t, an operahouse, an elevated
way station, or a statue with -
his all -highest approval. I•f his
ipotence extends to the uncon-
red
t afies of national life, vis-
ze his -almightiness in connection
i the affairs which count. A
tt career is impossible without
favoring smile; a frown from
wrecks it irreparably. Chan-
rrs, ministers, generals, admir-
and burgomasters propose. The
er disposes.
Steel -Gloved Hand.
rpitz the Eternal," I believe,
only statesman who has ever
approximately imposed his
'Will of iron upon that of his
rial master. Prince Bulow used
t his own way occasionally be -
anecdotes in a promenade
the gardens of the Imperial
cellery. But the point re-
. Germany under William II.
een a one pian country so far
administration is concerned.
s have helped built it but none
1ped to "run" it.
hand on the throttle of the
of State is the steel -gloved
of the Supreme War Lord'.
another of the All -Highest
's official titles, by the way.
newspaper readers, soane-
hink its employment, is heavy
tistic irony. The military
fW it
frim II. in peace and
that of the Obexstenkrieg
ighest War Lord):
Kaiser Willed lett Wa,r.
is fatuous to think that any -
the wide world could have.
.sponsible for this mad war
ated by Germany . except
II. The military party may
shed it; the Navy has been
for it. But the Kaiser will-
aeoause only He—they spell
h a capital. letter always--
oso, I believe that herr
von Betihmann-$oZlweg,
,s been called the incarna-
assionaate doctrinairism, ri:sm, un-
ly would have preferred
I am quite sure that the
've aand knightly. Herr von
Secretary of State for For-
airs—a. bridegroom of only
eeks-sighed for the joys of
on and not for Armaged-
it cannot he possible that
any.of; them had a word to
really counted. The Kai-
interfered always in the
rf peace. Ts it conceivable
would keep his hands off in.
rs of war
Muzzle Taken Of.
tovean.ber storm ' of x000,
J, .... ' �• � 1. .:. ' w! M6a MMS. '.',3.•"A�� T -n :. �
sro �i �FR(111 MERRY ENGIA
Pay-Day for Wires and Children of French Soldiers.
A scene in Paris showing women and children waiting in line for
their turn to receive their allotted sum, which the paternal Govern-
ment of France pays them in consideration of the services given to
the -country of the husbands and fathers of those in line. Al]. are de-
pendent upon the' gratuities of the Gov - .—.n't since the breadwinners'
have
Y
been called on to battle for their flag,a,nclacountry. And 'ther'pay. `—�"—
amounts to five cents a day.
towns now German, like Stettin, are
Russian names. And when one
gets up into Russian territory he
finds Riga, a city which has been
owned by half a dozen nations at
one time or•another.
Riga Was Founded in 1201.
Its population was chiefly German.
Gustavus Adolphus conquered it.
Peter the Great took it. It has
been Swedish, Russian and German.
And in like manner Krakow, the
ancient capital of Poland, has been
the fighting ground of many an an-
cient king.
The Slav character, too, is being.
read more clearly than ever be-
fore. To most e •
o, 1P
P
. Russia, p means
Iii
sthzneff, of the massacre tales, of
Siberian horrors and of terrible in-
justice to downtrodden races. The
Russo-Japanese War brought :forth
more tales, only serving to add to
the picture little details like a navy
utterly unfit to go to sea, officered
by incompetents; an army fighting
blindly and stupidly, though
bravely enough.
Even such novels of the eanntry as
reach this country, like Tolstoy's
"Anna Karenina," gave no very
pleasing notion of Russia's own
people, and the :sequence was un-
broken right down to the recent
"Nach�ta•syl.' Such horrors cannot
be forgotten easily.
Naturally enough the Tsar has
shared the low opinion held of his
people. To millions of 'people the
very word "Tsar" means semi -sav-
age tyrant, cruelty personified.
Yet it was the preeent. Tsar who
made a temperance reform law clos-
ing all bar -rooms at six o'clock an
the evening, who set a whole corps
of scientists at work to devise a
"world calendar," and who gave
the first impulse for the foundation
of the one great power for world
peace in existence to -day., The
Hague Tribunal, and it was the pre-
sent Tsar who gave Russia its first
P,aa liam•ent.
Russia. certainly°' has had the
tions them S' bot, and. Pliny worst of it in foreign public pinion.
She needs a press agent.
Amoy to Use Telephone.
MANY RACES ARE :Ili THE WAR
which set his throne rocking as it
never rocked before, taught the
Kaiser the perils of "butting in."
But not for long. The muzzle which
Prince Bulow placed upon him soon
grew irksome, and when Prince Bu -
low himself was compelled to retire
the muzzle went with him.
If the records of the German For-
eign Office could be .scanned they
would unfold a wondrous tale of
the interfering aetivity of William
II. It is one of his penchants to
go over the heads of Foreign Secre-
taries and play international poli-
tics on his own. He sent General
Liman von Sanders to Turkey as
head of th
e reorganization commis-
sion of the Ottoman Army after un-
derground negotiations with the
German military attache at Con-
stantinople. The Government at
Berlin was not even consulted. It
was notified of a fait accompli.
Modern Bourbon.
The Kaiser ranks as the most
modern and progressive of mon-
archs. His intimates have fre-
quently told me in ultra..00nfiden-
tial moments that he is the most
medieval of kings•.
They say there is no span in Ger-
many harder to win for a new idea.
His ideals of art and music and lit-
erature .are described as at least
three generations behind his time.
When you asked such critics how it
is that Germany under him grew
great and powerful—not as great
and powerful I fear •as the most
studious observers among us
thought—you would be told that the
Fatherland had aspired greatly and
mounted high in spite of William
IL—not because of him.
One of the most vehement assur-
ances dinned in, my ears was that
the Kaiser knew nothing of Aus-
traa's• plans to 'humiliate' Servia.
No more a.b.surd fiction was ever
perpetrated. The Kaieer's whole
record banishes the thought to ,th'e
realm' of the groteeque. He proba-
bly did riot actually write the Note
from ,acceptance of which even the.
self-respect, of Servia reeled; but
he was not far off when it was for-
mulated. William the Meddler
could not be an innocent by -standee
when things are done which mean
the eventual clearing of his fleets
for action and the hurling of 'his
legions at all and ,sundry. '
What Is a Kaiser?
A teacher in a school had been
busy . all morning instructing the
childrep about kings, queens and
emperors. Thinking that she had. at
last got it into their heads what she
meant :she questioned them to see
just how much they • knew. ' "Can.
any one of you children tell me
whit, ,a, •Kaieer is?" For a'.inomen't
no one answered; but the teacher
noticed that.little Nellie's face
seemed to brighten up. ".Come,
Nellie, you tell the class. what .a
Kaiser is?" "Please, mum;" said
Nellie, -"that which comes up from
below and disturbs the whole
earth." The teacher removed Nellie
to the top of alae class. She bawd told
the truth.
HAD TO RELY ON HIMSELF.
None Supported the Young Man
Who Lacked Self-Relianee.
There was once a young man who
felt that 'he needed help. When he
was poor in spirit and saw that he
must needs prove himself he com-
forted himself by saying.; "This is
my' own town and here are my
neighbors and acquaintances. Their
good will must bear me up."
And he leaned on them, but they
were as a 'broken reed under him.
They did not support him, writes
14largaret O. B. Wilkinson in th
Craftsman. Then
•
he said: "1
go -to my •best friend, who is a
powerful man. Surely he will c
me. through."
But his 'best friend gave him
sympathy, and it was easy to
that by the very giving of that
pathy doubt was augmented.
the young man called ha
friend a traitor and left him,
he could not win bis .support.
then the young man said, "I
go to those,:of my own :blood,
family, and they have confident
you when to lean. Surely they
not leave me in. the lurch."
But'though his family offered
much advice and a little mon
they did not support him, nor
they encourage him. And he
them sadly. And, finally, tbeca
he, could think of no one else w
would be likely to help him,
sought out the Sage Who Ne
Slumbers and told his tale disc
so?ately. And he did everythi
that could be done for the you
man, for he ,said : •
"Noise will bear you up or ear
you ;because you are not sufficie
for yourself Why should you h
more confidence in them . than
yourself 1 What else have you b
Yourself to guarantee your unde
takings t' Rely on your
strength; support,,yourself 1"
THE SLAVS AND SERBS ARE
.A Nt 1ENT PEOPLES.
War Ras Prompted a Study of
Theist as Well as Other Peoples
of Europe.
The war of the eine mations, like
every other war, has done a great
deal to remove the haziness from
our recollections of European geo-
graphy), and as time goes on it will
e+doubtl as also change a great many
will l no'tio
concerning the yeti
g omelet's
very'
a
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cs
4firt -
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an .
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Y sons• r
arry talking glibly about Slav and Serb
to -day who never heard of Croat or
only Wend before. Emperor William's
see warning of - the danger of "Pan-
7332- Slavistn" has opened a whole new
Anbesd subject.
for The history of the S1a.v is a f.�a,soi-
Aiid rating study, and part of it is writ -
will ten in the etymology of the race
my names. "Slava" means "glorious,"
e in or, in another shade, "a stint's
will day" or glorious day. Yet because
the Slays were conquered by th.e
him Goths and Germans, and the pri-
ey, soners became slaves, "Slav" .actu-
did ally gave the derivation, both in
left fact and in etymology, to "slave.''
use A curious opposite effect is trace -
ha able in the word "Serb." "`Serb"
he means "kinsman," and the Euro -
ver pear spelling of the name of their
on country is "Serbia:" Only in Eng-
lish is it "Servia," and the Serbs
ng are said, to rese,n•t this sealing be-
cause of the suggestion of a derive-
ry tion from, "servile," the Latin word
ne for "slave"from which "serf,"
ave' the Reestian name for a qualified
in slave, is -derived.
rtThe Country:.H<as a History
wn to which the dignity of antiquity is
added. The ancient Serbs - called
themselves' "Srbi." Ptolemy men-
gas Sir• boi,
them the "Sirbi."
At least one modern writer holds
m that the derivation 'of "Slav" :from
d "sla.va" i5 uilten,able, hut is one of
g the ehauee resemblances in lan-
e guage like that which , for years
k, made "Czar" to be derived :from
g "Caesar," meaning "Emperor."
On the:geographical side most per-
r' sons have thought of the Slays as
0 inhabiting almost entirely Russia
- and territory to .her south. But, as
a matter of fact, Germany has been
e Slavic as, far west as Berlin. The
n very site of Berlin wasoccupied 'by
- a community of Wends, the ;advance
• guard of the westward flow of an-
- eient Slays. Wend' cammunitie.s
g' may still be found in upperr and
lower Lusatia. '
Very Confusing. •
Maisie had just returned fro
her summer holiday, full of goo
health and ,spirits, and wastellin
one of her girl friends about th
happenings of the happy wee
Eventually she mentioned a. youn
man whomshe had' met. `.`And
Elsie," she exclaimed enthusiast
tally, "he was simply grand ! 5
square, so upright, so highly polish
ed. Do you know there seemed to
be a sympathetic
interrupted. She hadn't yet ;bee
away for her holiday, and was feel
ing very hot, tired .and irritable
"I say, Maisie," she asked,- wear
i1y "are yott talking about aour
's
man or a piano" y
Money's 'forth.
"Did that hair restorer you tried
elo••you any good f" •
"Oh, yes; it kept me in a hopeful
frame of mind for a whole month."
A stocking factory in Swat/ow,
China,' employes over 200 'women
and girls whose wage avorage $2,to
per month with free board.
The Wends were driven back,
eastward by the Te•u,to'nie knights,
their migration having followed the
westward line that every great race
movement has taken, ;But. Slav and
Serb onee occupied the whole, or
nearly all; of the Elbe basin.
The easterly tongue of Germany,
which pretrud,es into Russia; has
been Ge.rncan and Russian, and even
the territory of other nations by
Wil
day t
Mot
sorry
Wins. Mann of ` other •
October l s;t will see an increase of
the telegraphic detachment of the
German army by a new battalion.
The designation of these troops,
however, is now only a reminis-
cence, for there will henceforth be
no army telegraphic service. The
telegraph ha,s•been replaced by the
telephone. The, only disadvantage
of telephonic :service—that, it leaves
no written record—is' considered to
be much more than counterbalanced
by the fact that the telephonic ser-
vice is faster and does not require
a specially trained ,staff. The gen-
eral ;eommanding will hereafter
have at his disposal thirty wagons,
drawn by 360 horses, and equipped
with sixty telephones; and about 75
miles of, cable and wire.
By Aetnsalll Coiut.
Wil
lie ---Mama, I saw .a dog to -
hat had only three legs.
her -Weren't you awfu]ly
for him ?
lie—Nu; he bed one more leg
1 had.
NEWS S BY MAIL
• ABOUT
f iJO
.7ULL AN..D HIS PEOPIiEal
Occurrences to the Land 1'i
Illetgns Supreme in the Com.
Bler®lat World.
The penny post was .tastitutecd:,''
Great Britain on. January 10, 18i
Many ladies will now be settj
themselves to make garments 1
soldiers.
Miss Mary L. Ellis, Sb. Leonard'
on -Sea, has left nearly 260.000
charitable purposes,
C•atpt. Doring (late Dartieh Ar.
has undertaken to raise a corps.
Danes in England.
The Automobile Association Pia
offered 10,000 motor cars bo the 1•t<
Office for eervioe poses
"Aye Ready" is the tuotto of t
London Scottish, many of who
have volunteered ,for serr
abroad.
A shortage of ceinn has hamper(
pawnbrokers in Birtni•n•gheani, a
several have had to elese the
shops.
No men will be refused who a
physically fit for active nervice. an
between the ages of 16 and 30. (
soldiers up to 42.
Some 50 publi'oatirpas •cievotec,
special interests bed to .suspenc'
Great Britain becaue e• of oonditi.
created by the war.
A Highgate resident 'nee asked t
take down the Belgian flags le.
they should be ruieetttern For Gni
mans and lead to wrindow.em.ashin,
Fe rty clerks, assisted by inter
preters, are engaged ,in :'egisterin
the foreign population of Liverpou]
which runs into sonic thousands.
About 865 tons of geld are esti
mated to be in actual circulation a
money in England, that being ap
proximately the weight of 2110,
000,000 sterling.
Lord Kitchener hi endowed wit•1
an inflexible will, a, heart that ne
ver fails at the b6aokerat �rn.,anents,
spirit that time and again has beer
proved unconquerable.—The Times
American arnty officer,; who are
Europe in connection with the re
Iief of stranded .Americans are
ole
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Stand made by , p
the {�rit'ir�ti trc,•ops
against heavy odds.
Severe measures ,are taken
against the publication of fa.;;•e new, -
by
the press. Every, vanes has t..
be subjected to •rtfl•ctga:l in,�.:�pectio•.'
before it is placed on .:ole, and all
special editions, axe proltib'ited.
The life of a looinwbic:e is 15
years, during which thee it will run
240,000 miles. carrviag 600.000 toils,
or 1,000,000 ereseectgers, ;and earn
£60,000 ; its yard'ic a;ry �• i we r is 300
horse, and its arab colt £2.000.
1,Ir. Matthew Uk 'rc, of ..se Lea.
Willieston. Chester, nand formerly of
Birkenhead, Cheshire, la,te;y joint
managing dire,to•r •:if '1{,•;�r Clay-
ton & Co.. shiplruilnl, rr, •„f Liver-
pool and Birkent,e,.a,i, 1,,�£t. :'.• 11e'.354.
It is quite a , emal ,!a thing to
meet. a German in Prn•!gl,I'lai eh., will
speak against bhe Keiser, :eel even
criticize the army, but in his own
country he is aim: :•,N" rahly
childishly loyet.
The Post Office, at fiire iu•Mtanc,e of
the military a tithe cities., is exerers
ing a ,strict ean�soral ip •f all tele-
graphic naes�s,a eo s
sent in code,e `131 he - are
to •hh�rraa;e•it they are
sent from one British .,town to a+•
other, is delivered,
All the othcersa in elle fmod,nn C'
Police Force Above the rank of s-
ge:ant have been armed with t;
latest pattern qui;ak-firing revolvers
and ball eaftrid. as (atisr,;iblc•s on
special duty have lae.en similarly
armed. Every pet state iia has
been .supplied w t'b :aaffia;ient wea-
pons to arni eery Oi,o,stm.ble ,m the
force.
The Official Serfiau rnnouiaee.s
that the King Etas ,a,p,p,roeecl the
granting •o£ faarduna to all decerters
from the Royal Navy a.nd Royal
Marines who wore in• :a. tate of de-
sertion un August Lith, ';�1.1. and
who surrender tlne�matelve� for active
service between August, 15th.. 1914,
and September 4th., 1914. S,irren-
de.rs may be rmaade, tet the Regal Na.
Nal Barracks., alt .the thea home
ports, or in the ease of :taurines at
the Royal Marino I rcrr,aeks. :'n ex-
tension of the above drst. m.av he
made in the ca,roe 'nf men abroad
who Cannot rettt•ro to the country
by September ON 1914.. Phe e
par-
dons do not ;imply the restoration of
previous service, which wall only be
granted on the, coedit -Zona laid down •
in the Icing', ret;u+la,tioti•:r.a airc1 t1te
Admiralty i•nstructione,
It is proposed Mute each of the
metropolitan county boroughs in
England shall have ae Lea two wo-
men constables. '