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FLYING MACHINE OUSTING (MLBY Remarkable Lessons Are Be ing Learned at British Army Exercises. FOOD FOR THOUGHT GREAT Is Knjrllsli Military Force Helpless and I'nable to Move for Luck of lliir-rn, as France Feara and (.rrtnuny Pretends? BY CAPTAIN C. WIENER. LuNlJti.V, Dec. SO. (Special) The Uritljh army exercise as the military maneuvers tills year are officially htyled, have ended. ." The arlons. of which over a score were In use. behaved admirably, as did thre airbhips, hut these last to a far irser decree. As predicted more than four years a.'", the ca bag will be an anomaly fn military work in ten years. This is being more widely acknowl edged anion; expert every day and miy v.-ell Kive the German Emperor and Count Zeppelin food for profound thought. It is admitted that the information procured by air by the Invading brown force against the skeleton cadres of the uis-osing whites was accurate, do tal eU and extremely useful The white.-. who had a predominating trenih in aircraft, showed that If arlons do not yet take the place of cavalry for security and information, they certainly obtain accurate and val uable news of the disposition, strength and whereabouts of their own and the hostile forces lung before cavalry ever could, and that generally the fourth arm hus become an absolute necessity to any pouer fighting on the plains of Europe. ' . o Cause for Alarm Seen. A good dcul of attention has been coin entrated vn various sensational 1 uruors that have flashed across Europe and tlie l lined states to the effect that t.ie iitirso uoppiy of the British army is hoj-lt:iy inadequate and that all the best young nurses in England, ire iand and tv.-onand have been secretly snapped up by Uermany and Belgium. The ButUn military authorities, with the exper.eni'e of these exercises oe uvnd tnt';, t.tiil hold that there is no caiiuti for alarm. Trie horse surply of an army has to he considerou uiiut-r two entirely dif it-rent cotiuuioits. i here Is the ques tion of the maintenance of cue peace establishment in peace time, and tnere is the it. .sin of the peace establish ments to v.-ur establishments on mobili zation. The first proposition is merely the buying "f some 3uu young horses each year. This is a impc matter, and the British army authorities declare they have the cvmmar.d -of the market and are in no way hampered by the action of ;oriia-n buyers. Horse production is a iradt. and the moie foreigners buy. the inoie liorse-l-reeders thrive. The army purchases eacli year are but a urop in the British horfce trade, which, had it not oeen for foreign buyers, wouli navo suffered severely from the aivei:L of the auto. Thus foreign buy ers are ti'.c best fciends that the horse trade, and. incidentally, the iii itish army have. Draft l:tre May Be lard. After all. the draft horse of civil life Is as fit to perform the work of artilleiy or transport as the doctor or the baker Is to perforin his trade for an army in war. For this reason the regular British cavalry will have es tablishments so high that they will practically mobilize from tneir own re sources. Thi' yeomanry can only be fitted out on' mobilization with horses trained to saddle. That is one of the defects of a second line cavalry In a country where there are few yeoman farmers w ho oin or will serve. - for mobilization in Kngland on a scalo less than a national emergency there exists tile army horse reserve, vhiih should number 25, 000. with an artu.il strength of I'l.oOO, and which probably will increase to 25,000 by the end of tne year. These are horses which. In return for a retaining fee, are -under contract to be delivered at 4 8 hours' notice, whenever any portion of the army reserve Is called up. There is a 1150 penalty for each failure. The fees paid vary from S2.60 a year for a transport horse to 920 for an artillery horse (the vanishing class). In future the heavy draft horse pro ably will be largely used for all army transport vehicles, which will reduce the total requirements and tap a class of horses little affected as yet by autos. COUNT WINS SINGER-BRIDE Aristocratic Soloist Engaged to Wed Kobert Bentlnck. " . IaNDOX. Dec 20. (Special.) All eutgements are announced as inter esting, but one which 1s not yet an nounced and to which certain Interest does attach Is that betwee Lady Norab .Noel and Count Robert Bentinck. Ljirty Xorah Noel toured with the Sheffield Choir on a memorable occa sion when it went through the United States and Canada around the world, and the tour offered the rather unusual spectacle of a leading lady chaperoned by her brother, the eldest eon of a peer. lxrd Camden accompanied his sister! who la possessed of a fine voice, trained at Dresden, and whose greatest desire was to try her luck on the operatic stage, -a wish which her father. Lord Gainsborough, had promised to gTatlfy "some day." That . some day la now likely to be. ouni nuotn nentinck Is a young man wirn serious interests, ills family is the Continental branch of the Bent lnck family, which achieved fame and 'Dukedom In this country. SWISS BRIDES EXAMINED -Kit Subject" to Marry Is Aim of Society in Geneva. GENEVA. Dec 10. (Special.) The Society of Public Utility for Women, which has branches in all the chief Swiss towns, started a campaign last year on new and daring lines. They demanded that young women before marriage should be medlcallv examined to prove that they are "fit subjects" to marry. T.-.e society urged young women to undergo the ordeal for the sake of themselves, their future hus bands, and for their country. At present the society -hopes only to make the measure voluntary, but it la trying to Interest the Cantonal author ities with a view of making it com pulsory In the near future. Many girls a'ready have accepted the advice of the come widely read In Western litera oclety, and will thus become "cer- tare, and every Chinese student is now tfcated brides." J PORTUGAL EETTJENS TO FOEMiIb YOUTHFUL MONARCH AND HIS MOTHER MANY PALACE CUEIOS. ,1' '- '--.. : ' ii',l FROM LEFT TO HIOHT KIXO MASI KI. A.D KX-QIEE.X MARIE MANUEL GETS GOODS Portugal Finally Decides Honor Deposed King. to n a nr i nKI IIMTOIlPUrn! PALAUh LUNu UH 1 OUuriuU; But Now Xecessidntles Home of I'or. nier KulcrS Would Xot Be liocog nizecil Mother's Boudoir Thick With Ilust, Mirrors Broken. MY V. PERC1VAL. tlSBON. Dec. 20. (Special.) The Portuguese republic has now agreed to send ex-King Manuel all the ar ticles In the Necessidades Palace which could not be regarded as property of the state. As a consequence, for somt days expert packers from London havo oeen preparing them for shipment by se.. Seven pantechnicon loads of furni ture, draperies, bric-a-brac, books from the private library, and even chandeliel fittings already have been dispatched to Twickenham under the watchful tyes of republican guards, who first checked and ticketed every article. Until this great clearance began, the palace stood exactly as-the King and his mother left it three years ago. Nothing was touched, not even the il lustrated papers in the King s study. Home All raaigtd Xov. King Manuel would recognise with difficulty the interior of his altered home. Tapestried walls are stripped to the raw wood, and priceless old paneling has vanished. His mother's boudoir is thick with dust, and the silk hangings faded and soiled beyond repair. Here and there you find a shattered mirror, with a bullet Im bedded in the wall behind, or a door way knocked askew by a chance shell. I went Into the King s little bed room. There was the narrow rencn bed, exactly as I saw it a few hours after the King's flight the mono- grammed pillows still piled at the head, and the white blankets rolled back at the foot as Pom Manuel tossed them when his equerry awoke him to tell him that he had lost his throne. This bed remains the property of the republic, blankets, pillows and all. Everything else has gone from the room chairs, dressing table, pictures. In the modest bathroom adjoining I found a workman wrapping up the King's shaving stand and mirror. He stopped long enough to come into the bedroom, sit down on the bed, and tell me of the past glories of Necessidades, of the army of servants, the ex-King's hobbles, of little intimate details of his home life. He spoke with a cer tain guarded affection. Qaeem'a Masle Wrapped. The music-room was distinguishable only by piles of Queen Amelia's music (many of the volumes and loose sheets contained the names of personal friends), each bundle wrapped loosely with twine. I walked down a servants' corridor, and found a set of electric bell indi cators on a wall near the ex-King's apartments. The white disc that in dicated his-bedroom was shown. The King had rung for a servant that last morning of his reign and the Indicator had not been touched since. Piles of china incumbered the white- and-gold state dining-room, and the I Mt.&W " " i ll I I i:'V'Kr p . t ; I -it uncovered tables (broad strips of un- poorest families will use it for light painted deal of trestles for the guests),' Ing purposes In place of petroleum. It were still ranged In position. The : remnants of the palace pictures lay against the walls, most of them medi ocre, some of them excessively bad. Dust lies thick on the. hundreds of copper utensas in the glass-roofed kitchens. Many of these utensils are being sent to Fulweil Park. There were the aprons of the chefs, just as they had cast them off, and in a drawer of a little table was the menu of a dinner that was never served. CHINESE GROWTH RAPID Bryce's "American Commonwealth" Now Becomes Classic. PEKIN. Dec. 20. The Chinese trans lation of Bryce's "American Common wealth." has become a classic in this country, a fact whlah accounts for the close copying by the new Chinese Gov ernment of American political Institu tions. Young China already has be- familiar with the works of Rousseau, 1 TIIF SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, f . ; AI.KO0, OF SPAIXt M. AMELIE, OF PORTICAL, "frtci"'i!ou, Spencer, Huxley. Darwin. Ttl nnd Adam t'mith through the zne-":- ci excellent translations. Thd CMne&e always have been a liter ary ieilo, and since the abolition of the literary examinations of the ancient eviiiie in "hf::Hse classics, they have chrosvn themselves into the study of !a.v wfth astounding energy. Standard t-xl bookp in Chinese pchoois and col trps consist of Bryce's "American 'cm mon wealth," Lowell's "Govtrn nicnts and Pp.rties in Continental Eu rone,' and Burgess "Political Science and Comparative Constitutional Law." In almost every Chinese homo may Iouri ngni literature translates from every European language. Scott's ivanhoe and Stevenson a "Treasure Island" are popular favorites. It is said tt'Mt a total of 2000 different books by Jhe best authors of America and Eu rope have been translated into Chinese. While there is no translation of Shakes peare, every schoolboy in China has a ft a nee to know the bard from Lamb's "Tales ot Shakespeare." SiGEBU 6H0WING FIST (.1IK.IT HOUDK 5WKBPIXO ACROSS BOKUKR 1XTO CHINA. Omsk Inteads to Become .Modern City, as la Indicated by Condition of Streets Prosperity Seen. PEKIN, Dec. 20 The City of Omsk. Siberia, has become the outfitting point tor an extraordinary migration, esti mated at 2,000,000 people annually, which pours into the country border ing on Mongolia. Notwithstanding of ficial denials, it is known that this great horde is sweeping across the border into Chinese territory. Nothing in Kurope or Asia has ever been quite so like the springing up of the great cities of the American Middle West as is the growth today of new towns in Siberia. Except that the tide is moving east Instead of west the movement has many parallels to the wonderful migration which won the West for America. There are, however, two striking differences. The first is that the pioneering Is comparatively lux urious compared to the American move ment, while the natives Instead of be ing swept aside are being absorbed by intermarriage with the settler. The 10-day Journey up the Irtish River from Omsk Into the promised land Ib made by steamboats which are the last word in luxury and conven ience of river traffic It is by no means a monotonous Journey, aa the river banks swarm with wild fowl and. four footed game, while the scenery in many 1 places is wonacriui. That Omsk Intends to become a modern city as soon as possible la In dicated by the condition of her streets. In the business section of the town, sewers, gas mains, and underground telegraph- and telephone wires are be ing installed, while' streetcar track layers are working over the heads of the diggers. Similar work la being done in many other of the new Slberr ian jowns, and, so prosperous are these places, that not a single bond issue has yet been necessary to carry on the work of municipal improvement. American harvesting machinery and oil companies are active in this section, and an American corporation has un dertaken a contract to build grain ele vators from one end of the Trans-Siberian Railroad to the other. ELECTRICITY SOON CHEAP roorest of Families of Berlin to Be Cooking by Current. BERLIN, Dec 20 Electricity will soon be so cheap in Berlin that the win oe usea even ir cunning aim neai- Ing because no kind of fuel will be able to compete with It. This material reduction in price is promised by the company which sup plies the city with Its electrical cur rent. Some time ago it acquired lands with extensive deposits of lignite or brown coal, at Bitterfield. 83 miles south of Berlin, and decided to build a power plant there to generate electric ity for Berlin. Upon further explora tion, however, the deposit of lignite turned out to be so enormous that the company determined to build a plant large enough to supply, all the towns within a radius of about 100 miles. This embraces the greater part of Sax ony, where manufacturing towns are numerous, and the Thurlngian states aa far west as Goths. The plant will go as far as is now possible In turning coal directly and economically into electricity. The lignite, which will be mined largely by machinery, will be hoisted from the shafts directly to the boilers by automatic elevators and fed Into the fireboxes automatically. The company thtnks that It has an ample supply of lignite for nearly 100 years. s J I EUGEN1STS SCORE ROYAL MARRIAGES King George and Queen Mary Puzzled About Matrimonial Plans for Princess. SPIRIT OF REVOLT VIEWED Lessons of Keccnt. Royal Scandals Taken Seriously to Heart Sym pathies of Public at Large Gen erallj With Emperor Joseph. LONDON, Dee. 20. (Special.) It cannot have escaped notice that the modem Princess is as deeply touched by the modern spirit of revolt as the militant suffragette. The sad suicide of Princess Sophia, of Saxe-Wetmar because her family would not let her marry young Hans von Bleichroeder is only one of the latest and most tragic manifestations of this spirit of rebellion which has rapidly gained force In recent years In almost every royal family. on the con tlnent of Europe. King George has had his troubles In this respect just like Queen Victoria and King Edward had; and It is clear to people in royal circles that sooner or later the ancient rule which stamps a royal Princess as a member ot Riinerinr caste, and forbids her to mar' i-y outside a charmed imperial, royal, or srand ducal circle, will have to be swept out of existence. And any rrin oess will have to be free. If she chooses, to marry any plain commander or any American millionaire. Francis Gribble Talks. Francis Gribble, the biographer of dead European monarchs and the re- vealer of many a grisly skeleton in royal cuuboards. is keen on this point and he calls to his aid the eugenist who knows beyond disproof how these arranged royal marriages usually mean unions between two near relatives and consequent Insanity or disaster. Par ticularly he cites the annals of the ancient house of Hnpsburg. "The sympathies of the public at large are generally with the Austrian Emperor Francis Joseph," he points out. "It pictures him" as a most un fortunate old gentleman, whose rela tives are perpetually disgracing him by their matrimonial caprices ana nnnks. Do what he will, it seems he can hardly get a single one of them In these latter times to marry a person of 'equal birth. "The widow of the Crown Prince Rudolph Archduchess Stephanie in curred the Emperor's displeasure by marrying a Hungarian nobleman. Count Lonyay. One of the kmperor s grand daughters came to r.lm with the con fession that happiness was out of the question for her unless she was al lowed to marry young Otto von "Windi schgraetz; while another of them gave her heart, and then insisted upon giv ing her hand, to the Baron von See fried, a mere Lieutenant in the Ba varian -Cavalry. List Long Enough. "The list Is long enough, though It is not complete; and much pity has been lavished on Francis Joseph on the strength of facts set forth in it. 'How sad for him' people say. 'So many mes alliances. He must feel as if there was a skeleton in every cupboard in the house.' "But the eugenists know better. The eugenists say. quite frankly, that the Hapsburgs are 'degenerates, and they attribute that degeneracy, with equal frankness, to that 'inbreeding' which has, in the course of centuries, perpetu atcd and accentuated both physical and mental family taints. As Dr. Gallppe has put It 'The Hapsburgs of Spain have long since been swept off the stage of history, disappearing in ster ility or Insanity. The Hapsburgs of Austria, numerous though the repre sentatives of the house are at the pres ent time, will end by disappearing in their turn, as an old historic family. if they persist in their errors that is to say, in their marriages with their blood relations. In England the matter will certainly not be left where It is. It is an open secret that King George and Queen Mary are Just now gravely concerned about the future of the Prince of Wales and of Princess Mary and it may well happen within the next few days that King George will take a defTnlte line upon the subject. He will then ex press his public disapproval of this system of intermarriages, with partic ular reference to the matrimonial plans afoot for his own children. ' He has already spoken freely to this effect to his Intimate friends In private. There are Indications, too, that Fran- els Joseph, In his later years, has come to saner and more-tolerant views of royal marriages. He seems, at any rate, to have come to realize, albeit rather late In life, that the restrictions on royal families in the -pursuit of happiness, and that If they cannot be altogether removed, they misht, at least, be modified with advantages. And King George and Emperor Fran cis between them can do a great deal to alter the present marriage rules in the royal families of Europe. WOMAN HOLDS HER HOUSE Order for Eviction of Irish Tenant Met by Fortifying Place. DUBLIN, Dec. 20. (Special.) An amusing and unexpected sequel has oc curred In regard to an attempted evic tion in Ireland. . Although Mr. Dawson, the owner of a house at COotehill, obtained legal permission to evict Mrs. O'Donohoe. his tenant, that woman by a display of violence, has managed to obtain a new lease. When the Sheriff's representative and half a doxen policemen reached the bouse, they found each window occu pied by. determined people arai6d with stones, while floating from the roof were flags of all descriptions. The dispute was settled without de lay and the woman was again accepted as a tenant of the bravely defended house. i WIZARD WORKS WONDER Famous London Gynecologist Sur prises Even Peerage. LONDON. Dec 20. (Special.) The recent birth of an heir to the peerage, after a suspense of many years, is an other feather in the cap of a famous London gynecologist, who has achieved so many similar successes. The first case which brought him into prominence was that of another dis tinguished peeress who had long yearned for a son and heir. Tt is said that the medical wizard in question can not only Insure the birth of a child, but also can fix the sex be forehand; a valuable gift in the case of families requiring a son and heir. DECEMBER 21, 1913. i PICTTTRED HIRE ABE TWO RULERS OP EUROPEAN COTJN TEIE3.' WHO LOOK LIKE TWINS, BUT AREN'T, i Vj?- - v ' - LEFT TO rS4rraus N rV$SAi I UJh$ oca & i RIGHT CZAR NICHOLAS OF GEORGE OF EXGtAXD. JUDGES 1! STRIKE Lively Scene Expected if De mands Are Lost. "SABOTAGE" IS PROPOSED Requests to Be Made at Naples Meet ing That Positions Shall Be Sim plified Into Categories With Pay Fixed. ROME. Dec 20. (Special.) Lively scenes are expected at the first national congress of Italian Judges and Magis trates, which Is to meet in Naples. The official organ of the new reform school of -Magistrates prints a short Dractical programme of ends to attain and the means for attaining them. The adhering Judges demand the weeding out of "numbskull," Incapable ana un worthy administrators of justice, who, they allege, constitute at least 20 per cent of the Italian Magistracy. They ask that the position of Judges ehati nfmnlified into three cate gories, with fixed minimum salaries of J800, 1000 and 11200 per annum, witn a system of free competition im yiu- Should the Ministry of Justice refuse to consider their plaint, it Is proposed to resort "to "economic saDotage, con .i,tin. nf o rie-irt annllcation of legal procedure whereby Magistrates can cite numerous supernuous wuLtm whom the maximum' indemnity win i accorded, throwing upon the public ex chequer a heavy Durden or expenoe. The Minister of Justice has been In vited to the- sittings, but in the cir cumstances he probably will not at tend. , 11 HELD SUPERIOR FAIR SEX MORE HTJMAN THAN MAN, SAYS LONDON LECTURER. - ff.lr SIM UII U J " " Material and Females Oat of Only Best Stock, Says Doctor. Ty--roM Dec. 20. (Special.) The British suffragists are delighted with , . .v.ot- ha nisr. oeen kivc" ---- , . , h the Institute or riygiene '.r famous British doctor a. x. for they assert that It proves conclu sively and scientifically that woman is man's superior. Here are some oi us principal points: developed the woman. both physically and morally, the more marked the improvement Whereas man's physique is no longer as Important as it was. ror mouerii inventions have replace unit .h woman's body always is import ant since she is the bearer of the com ing race. "Tk.i nature recognizes the greater rr wnmen is nroved by the fact thatdurlrg the siege of Paris, when the population was badly iea or Bm.ii"6, 11 the .-hildren born were boys. So yo'u see nature only makes girls of good material, whereas she will make boys of anything. "AB-nln. if you come to consider tne points which distinguish the human species from the beasts, you will find that women possess these to an extent ore marked than men. "jpnr inntance. a woman's ear Is more human than a man's, and so is her low er jaw as well as her skin. Nor is there any animal wnose mn ie. er than his third. Now you will find that this Is the case with most women nd certainly witn an gooa-ioomns women." nnailv a solution was furnished of the problem- why a woman buttons her coat from right to left, contrary to man's custom. Woman buttons towards me nearc said Dr. Schofield. "Her -instinct is to protect what she has. Man buttons the other way because His instinct is to rab." BRIGANDS LOOTING CHINA Manchuria Country Is Overrun by - Robbers. PEKIN. Dec 20. The recent ex ploits of White Wolf, the robber chief tain of Hupeh province, have drawn attention generally to brigandage in r i:i4 - . w: rty V i i Wear --- 11 IT 111" Rl'SSIA AXD KING China. At the present time it is being pursued as a profession, with more or less success, in several parts of the country, and the old time method of stopping a robber's depredation by giv ing him a hijrh government post has not always been successful. In Mongolia a considerable band is forming under an outlawed Mongol Prince named Tao Shi-tao, apparently cne of the numerous Mongol chieftains whose extravagance has brought them to ruin with Chinese money lenders. Ilunghutze red haired robbers are indigenous to Mongolia, and of these Prince Tao Is reported to have col lected 18.000 In Eastern Inner Mongo lia to ravage the Manchurian and Chih 11 frontiers. An army has been sent against him and more will doubtless be heard of him. In Manchuria there appears to be a chronic state of brigandage as indeed for 50 years past. But numbers of the outlaws are being constantly taken and executed. At Puningy in Kiangsu province, there is a well organized band whose purposes are now indiscriminate killing and robbing, bv4 the systematic de spoiling of the rich. These men, how ever, are being relentlessly pursued by General Chang Hsun, who only a few dnys ago caused the execution of 56 of them at one time. - In the south may be noted one Choo, who tried unsuccessfully to loot Can ton and fled to Fushau. Unfortunately some of the soldiers sent against him threw in their lot with him, and Choo is at present driving a brisk business. The immense distances, the wildness of many regions of China, and the want of even passable roads make it ex tremely difficult to proceed success fully against these bandits; and to some extent China has always suffered from such. But it cannot be ques tioned that two years of revolution and relaxed authority have given them ex ceptional opportunities, and the terror ism they exercise Is badly holding up trade. BiSTBOSTlilllSSil GERMAN NEWSPAPERS AIR OPIN IONS OF UNCLE SAM. Correspondent Says People of Braall and Arsrentlna Now Under Spell of Roosevelt. BERLIN, Dec 20. German newspa pers are deeply distrustful of the atti tude of the United States toward the republics of South America. Articles are published regularly in which Amer ica is accused of cherishing the idea of eventually establishing a protecto rate over all South America, and with the approach of the,, opening of the Panama Canal their appearance Is be coming more frequent A characteristic article la published by the TageblaU from Its correspondent at Buenos Ayres. This correspondent says; "South Americans are beginning to perceive that with the opening of the Panama Canal an era of economic and political guardianship by the United States, coupled with the forcing out of Europe, will be Inaugurated in all the 20 Latin-American republics. This real ization gained such ground lately that It seemed necessary to the farsighted Yankees to send their leading states men on speaking tours, in order to dis pel the suspicions of their sister re publics. As a result the political op ponents, Roosevelt and Wilson, have united to defend the interests of the Union and divert South American sus picion upon Europe. "Theodore Roosevelt interrupted his triumphal propaganda trip to Buenos Ayres at Rio de Janiero and sang there an inspired song of praise of the Mon roe Doctrine, the strict upholding of which, he said, was a vital question for all South American states. True to his soothing purpose, he quietly abandoned the aggressive, imperialistic form of the doctrine as formulated by himself. and said the Union had no thought of territorial conquests, but had in mind only a policy of mutual trust In the sense of a Pan-American community of interest directed against the Old World. In spite of this, he claimed for the Union the right to 'exercise the inter national police power' against the South American republics, in other words, 'annexation,' In case the South Americans should show themselves in capable of upholding 'civilization. Speaking further on his policy of leav ing Europe out In the cold,- Roosevelt declared that the 19th century was the century of North American develop ment and that the 20th belongs to South America. "In Brazil and Argentina the people are Just now somewhat under the spell of Roosevelt There is no lack, how ever, of important South American per sonages who see the Panama Canal and the Yankee friendship In their true light During the fiscal year nearly 32,000 eras ing permits were issued in the National forests and more than 20.y00,0('0 head or domestic animals were given advantages ot the privilege. Out of . the vast number of permits Issued only 144 case of grazing trespass were observed. COUNTESS ELOPES; .WEDS . MERCHANT Despised by Family, Elsa Se renyi Aids Hsuband by Gettina Job. $20 MONTHLY IS SALARY Da iir liter or Former Hnnjrarian Min ister .Marries Man Who Kescued Her From Convent Kxoitlng" Life Story Told. . BUDAPEST, Dec. 20. (Special.) Great excitement has been caused here by the escape of Countess Klsa Serenj . the niece, of a former Hungarian Min ister, from a convent near Vienna, and her elopement with Herr Alfred Bader, a merchant, w'hom she married in Lon don. , It had been represented that the Countess was of weak mind and sanc tion was obtained to have her plucid under guardianship. Telling the stury of her adventurous life, she says that she was put in a. convent when she was 7 years of age. Seven years ago her parents forced her into marriage tfiat turned out lo be unhappy. She became separated from her husband and shortly after wards lost liiy little son. Entering a sanatorium, she made the acquaintance of Herr Bader and tell in love with him, but her relatives op posed a marriage with the merchant and had her placed In a convent. Lator her father had her taken to Duka, in Hungary, and urged her to many a Count, threatening to put her in aa nsylum if she did not fultU his wishes. On her refusal to marry the Count She was put in the convent, from which her sweetheart rescued her. A young man took a letter to Herr Bader and when the Inmates of the convent were asleep the Countess en tered the garden, climbed over the wall, jumped into an auto and was driven to Vienna. Herr Bader took hor to London, where the marriage took place. The couple then returned to Vienna and tried to obtain the forgiveness of the Countess' parents, but without suc cess. Her father took action against lier husband for abducting her, but nothing came of It ileaiwhile doc tors declared that she was of weak in tellect and her relatives, acting on this report, sought to have her marrias annulled. I The Countess and. her husband ttif.n traveled to Zurich, where she placed herself under the observation of two mental specialists, who found that her Intellect was normal. She has given up all hope of obtain ing her father's forgiveness. Her hus oand is now connected with several lVcnna firms and she herself has ob tained a position in an office and earns a salary of J30 a month. mm courts agtp.e NEARLY 6,000,000 LAWSUITS FOUGHT . OCT YEARLY. Cost, Both In Time and Money, Is . Enormous, Lawyers Pay Run ntng to V',500,000 Annually.' BERLIN, Dec. 20. Nearly 6,Q00,000 lawsuits are fought out in the Ger man courts yearly. This number does not include criminal cases; the myriad of proceedings to recover a penalty, nor the quasi-criminal actions brought for insult etc The figures mean roughly one Tawsuit 'for every 11th person in the empire, counting women and children, and since each suit in volves at least two persons, the pro portion Is much greater, even allowing for the fact that many persons are chronic litigants, conducting a number of lawsuits at the same time. These facts are made the basis for an article In a current German publica tion by a Dortmund jurist He refers to the situation as a "lawsuit plague,' and says it demands more victims year ly than does tuberculosis. The cost, both in time and money, is enormous. A case which goes to the Imperial Su preme Court requires at least three and one-half years for final disposal. Costs In two courts In a suit for an object valued at' not more than $13 amount to $20; for an object worth up to $120, the cost is $115. Germans pay to lawyers each year $7,500,000 in ac tions on account, involving - $12,500. 000, in cases where the debt is not de nied. In the. so-called collegial courts, that is, courts presided over by two or more judges and corresponding roughly to American courts of record, parties to the suit may not represent themselves, but are compelled to engage attorneys. This is true even in the case of liti gant attorneys themselves. The author of the article In question cites a case which Is, he declares, by no means unusual- One farmer sued another to compel the return of a saw. The trial court decided in favor of the plaintiff, and the case was appealed. In the meantime the saw was lost The putative owner thereupon brought ac tion to recover Its value. . xne panic being unable to agree, an expert wit ness was called, who testified that the saw was worth 12 cents. The process lasted three years and the costs amounted to more than $25. The writer says it should be impossible to set such ponderous machinery in mo tion for trivial cases, and commenting on this tendency In the German people says: "The German Michael will sue the shirt off his back in order to ob tain a decree in black and white in the King's name, setting forth his theoreti cal rights." ' SERVIAN HER0 IS KILLED General Ansberg Mirza Dies on Hon eymoon at Hands of Wife. ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 20. (Spe- clal )' General Atisberg Mirza, of the Servian Army, died upon his honey moon In Russia at the hands of his wife, a beautiful Bulgarian. Engaged to the woman before tle recent hostilities. In the course of which he repeatedly distinguished him self, the General, as soon as he could he spared from his military duties, married her. Political disagreements, however, ! I, .llcff.H that Hiirjnr arose, . - - ' an angry outburst, which had racialism for Its basis, tne wire raurucieu hci husband. Assuming the population of the United States to be 100,000, uuu, one man out of every 40 ones his means of livelihood and usefulness in some degree to Sdisoo. -
