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THRILLING
Divers at Hard Work in Bay of
Biscay Spurred on by Ro-
mantic Story.
COUNT DE ST. PAUL LOSER
pert diver, to investigate. They did ! SCENES AND PORTRAITS OF PERSONS INVOLVED IN EXPEDITION HUNTING FOR PRECIOUS STONES
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Noble Family Ruined by Shipwreck
Remains In PoTerty Till American
Woman Marries Into It and
Regllds Escutcheon.
PARIS, Sept 20. (Special.) Untold
treasures lost at sea 100 years ago are
now being sought by the latest devel
opment of physiological science and
the enterprise Is stirring up France
from center to circumference. In cafe.
club, restaurant, on boulevard. Champ
Vive anrf Avenue des Accacias noth
ini t holnsr talked of but the lost
trnrri of the Bav of Biscay.
Stores involving a Croesus or a Monte
Crlsto or a Carnegie Invariably appeal
m the French imagination. And wnen
to gold galore are added love, romance,
stnrm at sea. mutiny.- and a woman
compared with whom Helen of Troy or
Cleopatra were homely, one can im
atcine what a fever the story is mak
It has a special Interest for Amerl-
. cans. The lost treasure came irom
America: the ship which bore It sailed
from America; the noble family ruined
by the shipwreck remained in poverty
until an American woman married into
it and regllded its escutcheon; the
young woman who is directing the
seach for the lost millions in the At
lantic Is the daughter, or. to be strictly
accurate, the step-daughter of that
American woman.
One Man Knowa Story.
There Is only one man In all France
alive today who rememDers tne iaiai
night when the ship went down with
Its precious cargo. Tnat man is
Schamel. of Versailles, who used
play at soldier with the King of Rome,
son of the Emperor and Marie Louise.
M. Schamel, who Is 106 years old, says
he remembers distinctly tne awiui
night of December 8. 1820. when the
thlp was lost. He states that In 106
years of life he recollects no such storm
save on the night that Empress Eu
genie was carried to England in "The
Gazelle. ' owned by Sir jonn uourgojne.
But as he is the only living being who
shook hands with Napoleon I. he meas
ures everything by some Napoleonic
incident.
The basis of the treasure story
brieflv this:
D urine- the French Revolution, the
' Count de Saint Paul, instead of flying
to England like most of the emigres,
went to America. There he grew enor
mously wealthy, and with his wealth
he decided to return to bis native land.
For thonzh he liked the country which
had given him opportunity and hos
nitnlitv a nroud beauty of Brittany
held his heart captive. So he resolved
to return, and place his heart and for
tune at the feet of her whose dark
eyes haunted him in all his wanderings.
His wealth consisted of precious
stones, mostly diamonds and gold bars.
All were carefully packed away in an
enormous coffer specially constructed
for the treasure. The Count chartered
a three-masted schooner, "Le Jeune
HenrL" to carry home his diamonds
and gold. Their value Is said to have
been at least $20,000,000. The good
ship weathered all storms until It
reached the Bay of Biscay. Here is
one of the most dangerous coasts in
the world. And the most treacherous
spot of all is the vicinity of the Island
of Oleron. off the shores of Brittany
and near the mouth of the Charente
River, which runs from the mountains
of the ancient province of Limousin
and empties Itself Into the Atlantic
Ship Founders Jleir Land.
Here within sight of the Port of
Saint Penis the good ship Le Jeune
Henri was wrecked and with it the
hopes of the fortune of Count de Saint
Paul.
But where was the hero of this
tragedy while these indescribable
things were happening? Happily for
himself the Count de Saint Paul de
layed In the New World to purchase
some presents for his lady love In Brit,
tany. This delay saved his life. He
took passage by another boat, only to
learn when he reached Brest of the
wreck of all his fortune and hopes.
The Count de Saint Paul belonged to
an ancient family. There are Saint
Pauls living in Paris. And the lady
who more than anybody else is press
ing this search for the lost treasure is
Mademoiselle Guillard de Saint Paul, a
collateral descendent of the emigrant
nobleman.
The Count de Saint Paul whose hopes
were so rudely dashed by the storm off
the Island of Oleron was engaged to a
woman of surpassing beauty, who lived
near Morbihan. in Brittany, hard by the
old castle occupied today by the Duke
and Duchess de Rohan. His fortune
having gone to the bottom of the sea,
the Count did not proceed to the home
of his lady love to lay his ungllded
heart at her feet. His lady love
thought that he had gone down with
the Le Jeune Henri. She mourned
liim as one dead and her heart was in
the depths of the sea. Finally she
went to the convent and the long buk
en tresses, as black as midnight, were
cast off and instead of silks she wore
serge.
Romance Comes Anew.
Twenty years later, on the Feast of
St. Hubert, the patron of hunting, the
Count de Saint Paul was Induced by
the De Rohans to attend the ceremony
of the blessing of the pack and to take
part in the subsequent chase. The
stag happened to run into the spacious
grounds of the convent. Sister Marie
Immaculata caught a glimpse of the
handsome huntsman. At once all her
old love came back. She wrote a letter
to the Pope setting forth in a simple
pathos all that had happened. She ob
tained permission to leave the convent
and to marry. Just as did the Queen
Mother of Spain, who was the head of
a religious community in Austria be
fore she married King Alphone XII.
Her spiritual face was little changed,
but where, oh where, was the raven
hair? Twelve young girls of Brittany
were about to renounce the world and
to enter the convent which Sister Marie
was leaving. Their hair was cut off,
as is the case at such ceremonies.
Sister Marie managed to seize enough
of their long locks to wear at her own
wedding. The story got abroad and
some enterprising man saw a fortune
in the tresses of the girls of Brittany.
Thus originated the annual practice of
shearing Breton girls as a matter of
merchandise.
The Count and his bride made no
effort to rescue the lost treasures. But
some 20 years ago Mile.' Guillard de
r-aint Paul learned all that the family
knew about the lost treasure, and col
lected and shifted the traditions of the
people of the Island of Oleron about
the ill-fated ship. She satisfied her
self beyond yea or nay that the strong
box of precious stones and gold was
embedded in the bay near Saint Denis,
d Oleron. and she and other members
of the Saint faul family engaged ex- I
so without, however, arriving at any
Dractical results.
Another effort was made in 1906.
This resulted merely in raising their
hopes. Some friends of the family
have now associated themselves with
Mile, de Saint Paul. They have formed
a species of family company to pursue
the investigations. Acting in the name
of the company. Mile, de Saint Paul has
engaged a specialist to pursue tne
work until, as she says, "I find the lost
treasures which the valor of my- an
cestor won In the New World."
The man to whom she has entrusted
the work is M. Leon Fromont. a well
known specialist in raising sunken
ships and recovering treasures swal
lowed up by the sea. His scaffolders
have already completed most of the
preliminary work. His men are push
ing ahead so fast that they rise with
the sun and quit work only when the
evening star appears.
With M. Fromont. who is really a
scientific man. is associated a species
of wizard. The latter Is M. Falcos, a
native of Dijon. He was credited with
having worked wonders in the waj of
discovery by means of a divining- rod.
At all events', the wizard Falcoz is
working in the Bay of Biscay with his
divining rod to locate the S20.OOC.000
worth of treasure lost there S7 years
ago.
AND GOLD ESTIMATED TO VALUE $20,000,000,
WOMEN SHOW DISLIKES
IjLOY D-f.EORGS and other big
MEX WATCHED.
Prime Minister and. Party Leaders
Live In Deadly Fear of Militant
Suffragettes Now.
LONDON. Sept. 20. (Special.) The
smart women who congratulated them
selves this month that they had got
some of the most famous British Min
isters cs their guests are not now
quite sure whether "the game is worth
the candle." The fact is, these em
inent gentlemen live in deadly fear of
militant suffragettes, and not a week
now passes but some nerve-racking
hoax is perpetrated on them and on
their poor hostesses who, of course,
feel in a measure responsible for the
safety of their house party, and who
are tired of special police protection,
Five detectives were allotted to the
Prime Minister, a similar number to
Lloyd-George, three each to Mr. Mc-
Kenna and Mr. Churchill, two to Mr.
Lewis Harcourt. and one each to all
other Ministers, wh the exception of
Mr. Hobhouae and Mr. John Burns.
The absence of police protection for
the president of the local government
board Is understood to be due to Mr,
Burns' own wishes, but nothing Is
known of the reasons for leaving Mr,
Hobhouse unprotected. Mr. Harcourt,
however, shares Mr. Burns dislike of
being shadowed, and frequently in
dulges in a game of hide-and-seek with
his guardians, particularly when he is
leaving London for the week-end. He
usually sets out from Kings Cross
Railroad depot with his two "shadows
in the background, but by the time he
alights at one of the three depots con
venient to the Hertfordshire mansion
where he stays, he has generally suc
ceeded in losing his bodyguard. Sir
Edward Grey, on the other hand, does
not care to move about in public un
less attended by detectives.
In addition to the detectives looking
after them personally, Mr. Asqulth, Mr.
Lloyd-George, and Mr. Churchill are
provided with officers to watch over
members of their families, who have
been threatened from time to time.
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members of the Ministry outside the lana Ju" now 18 n,,se" l"c
Cabinet are at Dresent under noUce problem, "Is Andrew Carnegie
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Is Ironmaster American? Now
London Problem.
HE BRITISH SUBJECT?
Laird of Sklbo's Xamc Appears as
Parliamentary Voter In Register
of Dornoch Parish, in County
of Sutherland-, Scotland.
LONDON, Sept. 20. (Special) Bng-
protectlon.
American citizen or a British subject?"
Several London newspapers already
have opened their columns to a discus
sion of this question, and the Daily
Chronicle rather unkindly observes:
A little group of people in the States
hold that, having lavished libraries and
university endowments on his native
Island, it would be satisfactory to hear
that he Is a Britisher altogether, in
rights and privileges as well as blood,
and not a cltlxen of the United States.
However, they Intend to ask Mr. Car
negie for an explanation or tne tact
that his name appears as a untisn
Parliamentary voter in the register of
Dornoch Parish, in the County or
Sutherland. Scotland.
One of the guiding spirits in the
matter is an American authoress. Miss
Lilian Scott Trey, of San Francisco,
who is at present in London. She dis
covered that Mr. Carnegie's name is on
the Parliamentary register, and, with
others, is preparing a protest against
this, with the object or obtaining
declaration of nationality from him.
Will Thorne, M. P.. recently brotignt
the question before Mr. McKenna, the
British Home secretary, wno repiieu
back to the hospital iu a serious con
dition.
He and his wife, both now gradually
2 DIE WITH HANDS CLASPED
Fervent Last Embrace Pathetic in
Case of Husband and Wife.
TRIESTE, Sept. 13. (Special.) All
Trieste has grieved over the tragic.
but touching death of Auguste Ternl,
the leading coal shipper of the Eastern
Mediterranean, and, his beautiful wife
witnin Trieste Hospital.
A short time ago Mrs. Ternl was
operated on for cancer on the breast
and a piece of skin was wanted for
grafting on the wound. Her husband
wished that a piece of his skin should
be used and he entered the hospital
for the required operation. The needed
kin was taken from his calf. and. as
he was suffering from hernia, he de
cided to have an operation performed
for this as well.
Despite the skin-grafting, Mrs. Terni
failed to make any progress, but her
husband got so much better that he
went in an automobile to Flume. The
journey In the Jolting auto, however.
reopened his wounds and he was taken tJjat tne appearance of a name on the
voters' list was not conclusive evidence
of British nationality. He added that
so far as he knew Mr. Carnegie was
born In .nj United Kingdom, and in
virtue of this he would be a British
subject. Unless he had done anything
to divest himself of his British nation
ality. and he had never heard of that.
he remained a British subject.
'Miss Troy and the other protesters
have been ferreting out the facts- for
some time, and their sole object, it ap
pears, is to corner Mr. Carnegie for a
series of cross-quesiions. ii mcy suc
ceed, this should cause some amuse
ment."
LOVESICK COUNTESS DIES
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Roman Society '.stirred hy Tragic
Death of Beautiful Girl.
ROME, Sept. 13. (Special.) The
tragic end of the beautiful, young and
love-stricken Countess Margherlta Cic-
coni. who has killed herself at a hotel
in the Alban hills, where she was stay
Ins: with her sweetheart, Slgnor Ponte
corvo, has stirred tioman society
deeply.
The Countess was the daughter of
the Baroness Schwartz, of Vienna., and
when she was but 16 years of age she
married a middle-aged Milanese profes
sor of music. It was only natural that
such a union proved unhappy and the
couDle separated.
She was 27. and her fatal liaison with
Signor Pontecorvo dates from only five
years ago. The Countess was a woman
of wide culture, expensive tastes, un
conventional habits and a noted sports
woman. She traveled extensively and
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sugar and Its relation to the "drink
problem."
The doctor said: "The annually in
creasing consumption of sugar in Eng
land is the natural solution of the great
national liquor problem. The more
sugar men eat the less alcohol they
drink. The craving for sugar is very
similar to that for alcohol. If a man's
sugar appetite is kept satisfied he is
much less likely to develop an alcohol
appetite.
"A most encouraging sign is that
J at the most critical age, say from 17
to 22, when their permanent tastes are
developing, young men seem fonder of
sweets and sweet foods than were
those of a former generation. Smoking,
as a rule, diminishes the taste for
sweets, but after the novelty has worn
off the demand of the system for sugar
reasserts itself. Unless the young man
returns to sweets and sweet foods, he
is apt to turn to spirituous liquors."
BURNS
POPULAR
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David Lloyd Georae, Whose Fear
of Militant Snftrairetten Leads
to Placing Detectives Aa Bodyguard.
slnkinar. occupied adjacent rooms, and
the other day they were placed In the
same bed and died tosctner. almost at 8ne and signor Pontecorvo have vis
me same moment, cimping cut" iui o ,ted foreign countries together.
hands in a rervent last cm o race. -rtnth nha and Pontecorvo anDear to
have squandered their fortune, and
Americans Like Ancient Castles. I UBi before suicide the Countess wrote
LONDON, Sept. 20. "(Special.) Eng-l letters stating that sne was penniless
Ilsh country houses, and particularly I and accusing Pontecorvo of having sys
old Scotch castles, are just now filling I tematically ruined her financially, as,
with Americans. The American woman I .h. asserted, he had previously ruined
is declared by British hostesses frank- nthars.
ly to possess no rival. It has just been I one of her last letters implored him
discovered that at house parties amlldno to abandon her, especially as she
form of cheating at cards, which is expected soon to become a mother.
very mucil un me Jin-rir&ae. is I lie liauu
of . overlooking opponents' hands.
Women are worse offenders in this re
spect than men.
The most extraordinary person ever
met at a card party, however, is a
woman well known in London card
circles, and. incidentally, the mother
of a duchess. Every afternoon she
passes at her bridge club, and every
day after lunch she plays three games
of patience. If the cards come out well
he takes It as a good omen ana maaes
straight for her club. If the cards
come out badly she still goes to her
club, but refuses to play. ,
SWEETS REPLACE LIQUOR
London Physician Says Britons Are
Using Less Alcohol.
LONDON, Sept. 20. (Special.) The
young man who shows a liking for
sweets ought to make at least a sober
husband, according to a London doctor,
who supplied some Interesting reflec
tions on the increasing consumption oX(
TIPPING SYSTEM ATTACKED
King George's Friends Attempt to
Prevent Practice.
LONDON, Sept. 20. Two particular
friends of King George, Lord and Lady
Sefton, are among the thoughtful hosts
who are credited with an attempt to
Andrew Carnegie, IN o ted As
"Laird of Sklbo." Now Talk of
Lunnon Town.
British Soldier Would See Him
War Secretary.
DAILY 20-MILE WALK AIDS
Aside From Fondness for Walking
With Army Men, Official of Lun
non Town Is Least Conspicuous -Member
Liberal Cabinet.
destroy the tipping nuisance in coun
try houses. At one time the guests
were appealed to, by means of printed
notices, "not to give gratuities to tne
servants."
Recently a celebrated millionaire had
the misfortune to be conducted over a
famous house. As an especial privi-
eee the butler opened the place ana
showed the guests around. He was a
gorgeous person, who probably had
never seen anything under a $5 bill.
The dreadful moment came wnen it
was a question ui n&i iu ki huo
princely fellow. The millionaire fum
bled in his pocket. He was no doubt
extracting a good-sized note. No. He
turned to mc and, in a loud whisper.
asked:
Say, I suppose 2d cents win do tor
this chap?"
The other day a famous Lonaon noiei
manager thus defined his patrons: The
most generous in tips, eomn Amer
icans; the most extravagant in tneir
diet, Germans; the most nnnicKy,
French; the most smootn sponen, Eng
lish; the hardest to please, Americans;
the untidiest. Italians; the best tem
pered, Dutch; the soonest upset. Span-
LONDON, Sept. 20. "Why was not
John Burns made Secretary of War?" is
a question British soldiers often ask.
Whenever the head of the Board of
Works wants recreation he goes into
the country to some military encamp
ment and marches a few miles with
any detachment of soldiers that hap
pens to be on the move, consequently
the soldiers all know him and would
like him at the head of the War De
partment.
John Burns is a great walker. Twen
ty miles a day is relaxation from work
for him. He is much in evidence at
all the Aldershot maneuvers, and he
frequently joins some band of Terri
torials on the march, and then after
day, or an afternoon of tramping in
the country, takes a train back to Lon
don.
Apart from his fondness for walk
ing with soldiers, and a passion for at
tending fires and advising the firemen
about their work, John Burns is in
these days the least conspicuous mem
ber of the Liberal Cabinet. He, who
In his former incarnation of labor agi
tator loved nothing more than to raise
his voice in denunciation of the crimes
of capitalists, seldom gets upon his
feet in Parliament. Some say that this
is because he is out of sympathy with
the advanced social reforms of th
government, and with Home Rule. Cer
tainly he is out of sympathy with his
old time "pals" In tne ranks of labor.
They canot overlook the fact that he
attends court in knee breeches and
gold braided coat. And they never fail
to remind him, since he has been draw
ing a minister's salary of $25,000, that
he once declared It was impossible for
any man to earn more than J10.000 a
year. -
The new Japanese battle cruiser
Kongo, which has just sailed from Ply
mouth for home, is taking with her 40
torpedoes of a new and secret design.
These torpedoes, a 21-inch weapon of
ficially known as the V. L., are as great
an Improvement upon the British ad
miralty's Hardcastle weapon as that
torpedo was upon its cold air predeces
sors. Both are propelled by heated
air, but while the Hardcastle had a
range of 8000 yards, the V. L. can
travel from 10,000 to 12,000 yards at a
speed of 48 knots.
The trials of the Japanese order were
made under the personal supervision of
two officers of the Kongo, and the
tests were carried on with the great
secrecy They aie said to have been
highly satisfactory.
In a few weeks tne company manu
facturing this new weapon will begin
work on a large order for delivery to
the United States Navy.
tor went into the haunted rooms and
commanded the spirits to depart "in
the name of the Father, the Son and
th Holy Ghost," in accordance with,
the ancient tradition.
The rectory is an old-fashioned
rambling building, which has in its
past been the residence of many of the
"quality," and the scene of many tragic
deeds. The fable that the building was
haunted has been a cherished convic
tion with the servants, and some visit
ors claim to have experienced happen
ings which could not be attributed to
natural agencies.
The Rev. C. H. Strudwiek, Vicar of
Whetstone, a neighboring Leicester
shire parish, slept for several nights in
the house. He relates that on the first
occasion h"e was alarmed in the small
hours of the morning by a violent tug
gin at his bed clothes. He held on
tightly, but the clothes were pulled off,
and when h lighted a candle the door
was still locked and there was no vis
ible explanation of the mystery. The
sister-in-law of the rector suffered a
similar experience. The rector Bays
that the place has been reputed to be
haunted as long as he can remember,
but since the exorcism the ghoets have
not manifested themselves In eny form.
.
ThrouBh the objection of their de
scendants to the quality of the por
traits of his predecessors, which hang
on the walla of hla private office, Am
basEidor Pase hopes to oocuro an im
provement in the f?sllery. Durinif the
past fortnight one erttndBon and one
great-gtandso:i havo oucurod the Am
bassador with some warmth that the
presentments of their dietlngulnhed nn
ceetors were nimost libelous, and they
offered to reTlcce the offandlnsr por
traits with ones which would b but
ter art, if not better llkenosoei!. Mr,
Page assured them that ouch contribu
tions to the artistic improvement of
the historic collection would be wel
comed, and ha expreiraed tho hone that
other disgruntle! diplomatic doioon-
dants would call to examine tho pic
tures of their forebears.
When President Lawrence Lowtll, of
Harvard University, emlled recently
upon ths Ambassador ho vj nimost
overcome when he saw tne enromo
which serves to perpetuate the features
of his grandiather, Abbott Lawrenc
who once represented ths Ur.ited Btate
at the Court of St. James. The Lowel
family always has run to trains rathe
than beauty, but the Harvard pres:
dent doclared that his ancestor did no
even look intelligent in the emDas
Dortralt.
C. C. Tinckney, of P-ichrnond, wh
called several days later, was the nex'
protestant. When he saw the nlctur
of his great-grandfather, Thoma
Plnckney, first regularly accredited
minister to the Court of St. Jame
from Washing-ton, ho paraphrased tho
saylnB' of another famous ancestor by
exclaiming, "Millions for art but no
one cent for chromos."
Ambassador Page is now patient!
awaiting the arrival of portraits
some of his early predecessors done in
the best Trumbull and Stuart styles.
SMALLPOX GERM
FINALLY IS FOUND
German Fhysician Says He
Also Can Propagate Little
Protozoan.
NEW TREATMENTS NOW DUE
Discovery Likely to Make Possible
Preparation of Pure Vaccine Vi
rus, Which May Lessen Vac
cination Dangers.
KING GOOD SPORTS!
SCOTLAND'S FISHING FAVOIUTE
PASTIME IX HIGHLANDS.
Ruler Admits Love for Country
Arises From Fact He Sees More of
Family' There Than Anywhere.
LONDON Sept. 20. (Special.) King
George Is decidedly fond of Scotland,
which suits him well, but his stay thi
Fall will have to be brief. His Majesty
Is due at Aldershot Monday for the
army maneuvers, and it Is doubtful
if he will go north again this year.
Queen Mary feels the bracing breezes
a trifle too much, as she is subject to
occasional attacks of neuralgia of late,
and consequently won't stay long.
Fishing Is a favorite sport of the
King when in the Highlands. Th
royal salmon fishings on the river Dee
are divided into three sections, and ex
tend for many miles. The King
his sons wear the Stuart tartan when
In Scotland, and not the balmoral,
which owed its existence to the Prince
Consort. King George seems to have
inherited Queen Victoria's love of the
"pipes, for their melancholy strain
are now as much heard about the cas
tie as when her late Majesty used to
breakfast to the sound of the pibroch
The Princes, however, are in thei
element at Balmoral and on terms o
considerable Intimacy with all the gil
lies, who tell them rare yarns abou
sport and birds and the tricks of trout
and salmon. The King admits half hi
love for Scotland arises out of the fact
that when he is there he sees more of
his family than anywhere else.
King Edward established a precedent
when he arranged to pass from 5 to 6
o'clock every afternoon with his family
when they were quite young. The
present King follows uninterruptedly
this rule wherever the court is. This
time is the only really informal part
of the day at the court, for their pres-
is A, ' 4
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King George, Who Loves Fish
Ins in Scotland Country As
Well As Any lxaak Walton.
ent Majesties are much more precise
about keeping up the rigid customs of
court life than King Edward or Queen
Alexandra.
POSERS ARE NOT ALLOWED
Coast of Normandy No Pluce for
Supposed "Athctes."
An obstreperous ghost that has an
noyed the residents of Ashfords.by
Rectory, in Leicestershire, for more
than 30 years has been solemly "laid"
by the rector, the Rev. F. A. Gage Hall,
according to published accounts. Ar
rayed in cassock ane surplice the rec-
PARIS, Sept. 13. (Special.) Visitors
at a .popular seaside resort on the
Coast of Normandy, chiefly famed for
its bathing, are in a state of anxiety.
mingled with amusement, at a procla
mation which the Mayor has published
in front of one of the datnty, little
bathing cabins that line the sandy
shore. The proclamation is in these
terms:
"Unusual and eccentric bathing cos
tumes are forbidden.
"Ladies who do not wish to wet their
costumes are, nevertheless, to have
them of a discreet design.
"Men who only appear on the beach
in order to pose as athletes will not be
tolerated.
BERLIN, sept. 20. The germ of
smallpox, a protozoan so Infinitesimal
that It has passed through tho mi
nutest filters and escaped the trained
gaze of mlcroscopists for decades, lius
been finally discovered by Dr. Walter
Fornct, staff physician at the Kaiser
V.'illielm Academy.
Dr. Fornet claims not only to havo
discovered the rerni. but to be able to
propagate It. This means that it will
hence forth not be necessary to inocu
late a calf or cow with smallpox virus
in order to secure lymph for vaccina
tion, and consequently that a pure cul
ture can be secured. The lymph won
by present methods contains numerous
bacteria which must be exterminated
before it can be used lor vaccination.
What further Dr. Fornet's discovery
may mean cannot yet be told, but it
opens iho way for experiments alung
hitherto unknown lines In the treat
ment of smallpox.
Apart from tile possibility that Dr.
Fornet's discovery may result In rcw
methods of treating smullpox, it is im
portant in that it will make possible
the preparation of a pure vaccine virus
which may lessen the Hi results some
times following vaccination, and thus
deprive the German anti-vaccinatlon-ists.
whose number Is ulready consid
erable and steadily increasing, of much
ammunition. The German law re
quires the vaccination of all children
in their first year and again in the
twelfth, and is rigorously enforced.
Recent events in the Balkans have
brought to mind the wise prophecy of
a Queen, nearly 30 years ago, which
prevented unulo and nephew lrom
being arrayed against each other m
the war Just closed by the treaty o
Bucharest.
In 1879 the Bulgarians, having finally
thrown off the Turkish yoke, set out to
choose a ruler. Among the candidates
for the Bulgarian throne was Prince
Waldemar, of Denmark, then but -1
years old. The choice finally foil upon
Prince Alexander, of Batteiiberg.
Alexander abdicated seven years later
and the Bulgarian government began
negotiations witl the Danish royal
family to secure Waldemar as Kins.
The negotiations came to naught
through the energetic opposition uf the
Queen of Denmark. "The nationality
and the Interests of the Greeks and tho
Bulgarians," she said, "are so diamet
rically opposed that a lasting under
standing between them is impossible.
Hence, it could happen that the two
brothers, one from Athens (KinK
George, eldest brother of Waldemar 1.
and one from Sofia, would be compelled
to become enemies and to wage war
upon each other. It Is for us to pre
vent this terrible possibility with all
the means at our command. Our son In
Athens shares our view."
The Bulgarians nevertheless elected
Waldemar King. He refused the elec
tion, and ten months later Ferdinand,
of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, was elected.
.
The efforts of the rrussian and Saxon
Ministers of War to secure the co
operation of Chambers of Commerce in
obtaining places in business ror re
tired armv officers, continue to excit
the opposition and Indignation of busi
ness organizations in Germany.
In the circulars sen out by tne min
isters, commercial interests see not
only a campaign to crowd regular busr-
men out of lines or promotion.
but also a decided reflection on busi
ness life. They resent the cool assump
tion that a man who has been found
not good enough for the higher com
mands in the army is, nevertheless
fully competent to occupy a responsi
ble business position. The Senior Mer
chants' Guild of Berlin has adopted a
condemnatory set of resolutions, in
whlnh It la noin ted out that few retired
officers could, at their age, acquire th
theoretical and practical Knowledge re
quired of them, and that they are. as a
rule, no longer able to adapt them
selves to a new calling. Only in a few
branches of manufacturing, in which
engineer and artillery officers can util
ize knowledge acquired in their mili
tary service, does the uuua see any
prospect of success.
In answer to the contention of the
Ministers that such officers are fitted
especially for positions of trust en
tailing the management oi men, ine
Guild points out that full technical or
special knowledge is required precisely
In such positions, and that commercial
firms had no lack of employes, trained
for vears in their own offices, wno
have both the character and the intelli
gence to 111! nigner ponniuuo
torily. It would not tje fair to these
men if outsiders were taken in and
promoted over their tieads. Moreover,
it is argued, the officers would be able
to accept lower salaries on account of
their nensions and thus cut down the
standard of payment for all.
The Berlin municipality. In addition
o Its manv other lines of business and
social activity, has decided to go into
the milk business, and Beginning Octo
ber 1 it will undertake to supply tne
noor of a part of Berlin with milk
from its own farms.
The municipality has been forced into
this business by the results of a year's
nvestigatlon of the milk supplied thn
Board of Charities through private
dealers. Frequent complaints of tho
ualitv of the milk supplied had been
received, and tests in the city laborH
tory surprised even the critics. Tho
milk was far below standard, both in
richness and cleanness. The Board of
Charities first attempted to remedy this
condition by depriving all dfrelht
milkmen of their contracts to supply
the poor. But even this drasuc pro
cedure did not result In material im
provement the dealers beinir Dounn up
by long-time contracts with tsld
airvmen who could not oe y,
the municipal authorities.
it wan then decided to establish an
experimental dairy on one of the mu-n-r.ui
farms in the outskirts of the
city and supply from this the poor of
ne district The municipniiLj win ni
ngage in delivering milk, but will
turn over the proaucc ui no urtny n,
ne of the regular mint iirms tor mm
purpose, it tne e.inc. .,..;., .o
ful, the system w m we rAienueu IW
ther poor districts oi tne city.
Black Bntbrooms Aid Tired Nerves.
LONDON. Sept. 20. (Special.)
Smart people in London who are suf
fering from jaded nerves and can nf
ford to adopt any plan to soothe them
are having their rooms decorated In (
black and white or black and gold. The
result is said to be extremely reRtful.
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