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SLEEPING SICKNESS BAFFLES MEDICS Mysterious Flies Spread Infec tion Throughout All of Nile Protectorate. DEATH 'ROLL NOW 250,000 Scientists Make Strange Discoveries In Effort to Learn Cause and Care : of Disease ' Now , Claiming Thousands Every Tear. LONDON, June 80. A correspondent of the Times at Nairobi says: "Only the traveler who has made a 'safari' right through Uganda, steaming past the de populated islands of Victoria Nyansa, visiting the newly cleared foreshore at Entebbe, Luzira and Jinja, Journey Ins down the Nile through Lake Kioga, from Namsagali to Nasindl Part, and thence along the 70 miles of forest road to Butiaba, on the shores of Lake Albert, can form any Idea of the terri ble significance of sleeping sickness. "Still to be reckoned an 'approblum medlcorum,' It has, during a short but malignant regime . of less than la years, claimed close on 250,000 of the native population of the protectorate. The irony of the present situation lies in the fact that, whereas the govern ment Is doing all that, with limited ways and means, IS possible to check Its ravages, the natives actually regard the introduction of the malady into their country as British work. Seeing, moreover, that it really did travel to Uganda from the Belgian Congo by the trade routes opened up by Euro peans, there is a half-truth in their view of the matter which Is almost In capable of explanation to the native understanding. "The culprits in this case are a group of terrible biting flies, .than which only the dragon flies that prey on them are swifter on the wing, exceedingly mysterious In their habits of feeding and reproduction, and the vehicles of a parasite, or trypanosome, not like those carried by, the 'Culicidae,' amenable to treatment with quinine, but dashing through the' victim's veins like an eel, defiant of all drugs hitherto Indicated, and poisoning him with a dreadful dis ease that ends in madness, or at best in stupor. "That the natural enemies of the tsetse are few and far between must be apparent to any one who has had an opportunity of watching the insect's secretive habits and lightning flight. A naturalist now studying the problem on the .Sense Islands, in the Victoria Nyanza, has come to the conclusion that the only -native bird capable of capturing it in the air Is a bee-eater. It seems that the bee-eater devours not only the fly Itself, but also a dragon fly that preys on It; and, as If still further to complicate this cross ac. count. It also destroys a larger dragon fly hostile to the 'Cacergate.' "The only measure which promises definite results until our knowledge grows Is the clearance of bush on an extended scale." EMPEROR WILLIAM'S 80S. MAKES MORGANATIC ALLIANCE. Bride-to-Be la Tall, Graceful, Beautiful and of Sunny Temper Marriage Will Be Result of True Love Affair. BERLIN, June 20. (Speolal.) The fact that Hohenxollern Princes have never been given to long engagements leads an interested publlo to believe the marriage or Emperor wiiiiams fifth son, Prince Oskar, to the Count ess Ina Marie von Bassewlti-Levetzow will be celebrated shortly. No date, however, has yet been set. The en gagement was announced on May 26, to the surprise of Berlin society, since It means a morganatic marriage, con trary to the traditions of the Hohen zollern family. There are plenty of instances where that tradition was oronen, out tms win be the first time In 60 years that any of the Hohenzollerns have married be neath their rank. King Frederick Wil liam III himself did so. In 1824, when he married the Countess Harrach, after the death of his first wife. Prince Adalbert, nephew of Frederick William IV, did so wnen ne marriea toe vieu neee dancer, Therese Elsler. Another and the latest instance Is that of Prince Albrecht, brother of Frederick William IV, who married a Fraulein von Rauch, daughter of a former minister of war, in 186S. The Empress Is widely credited for obtaining the imperial sanction of Prince Oskar's Intention to marry the Countess Ina, for she believed It to be a true love match. She knew the young woman well, for she had served as her maid of honor until 1913, when he close attachment between her and the Prince is said to have resulted in her resignation of service. She Is described as tall and graceful, beautiful and of a sunny temper. While her rank is that of lower nobifity. her family lineage has been traced back as far as 1254, to one Bernhardus de Bassewicze, and the title of Count dates from 1728. She undoubtedly will win some new title when she becomes the Emperor's daughter-in-law. Prince Oskar has had the training of a typical Prussian officer. Although Oskar's general education has been comparatively neglected, he Is de scribed as a man of much shrewdness and of quick Intelligence. He Is a cap tain In one of the footguard regiments at Berlin. People who know Oskar best predict that he will be heard from in any future war Germany may have. He will be 26 years old in July, while his bride Is Just a half year older. She enjoys the double distinction not only of having been born In the year -when the Emperor ascended the throne, but on his birthdays. January 27. LEPER COLONY IS PLANNED Late Lord Stratneona s tut or 3o,- 000 to Be Vsed Next Kail. LONDON, June 20. With the late Lord Stratbcona'e gift of $26,000. the first leper colony in the united King dom will be established next Fall in a deserted part of Essex. There are now only 20 cases of lep. rosy in the entire United Kingdom. They are isolated, but widely scat tered, and. the bringing them together for care at a central colony will not only assure more comfort for the af flicted, but will enable new research Into the disease. A specially equipped hospital will be a part of the new col ony. i.K,fVt (J 2 XiUriUr Xliluaio, ' 7 t 1 KWT M-'V-- t Oow7 &ri'r?ce and Prne-afsr, of Germany erne? T&mfg'. SnW. TsFasI Mr. Fleischmann, of Buffalo, Wins Immortality. PAPERS GIVEN HOT RETORT Charge That Dublin Police Lapse Into Cruelties or Chicugo'e Peace Guardians Nailed by Answer Which London Cheers. LONDON", June 20. (Special.) E. Fleischmann, of Buffalo, X. Y., has won deathless immortality in London by a sudden fearsome attack on English snobbishness. In an unguarded mo ment a newspaper writer compared the Dublin police to the police of Chicago, and that was enough for Fleischmann; it made him mad. In a flash he wrote to the London papers: . . "As an American spending a few days and dollars in dreary, drizzly Lon don, I desire to protest most respeot- fully but emphatically against the Imaginative flight- in which one ' of your provincial editorial writers In dulges when he assumes that the con duct of the Dublin police in dealing with the starvation-wage strikes there. had too much of the bludgeoning reck lessness one associates with the sup pression of industrial riots in Chicago or Denver. "This is a libel on the American peo ple and their police administration, based on sheer Ignorance and unworthy of a great Journal. "The fact is that our police are too often In sympathy with strikers and rioters also a discreditable condition. 1 admit and many believe that the militia Is not called out promptly or often enough. "Really, I do not think England, either contemporarily or historically speaking, is in a position to take other nations to task on the score of cruelty. brutality or selfishness, we Americans have nofT as vet at leastanything to our credit, or discredit, equal to the corruption -of the Chinese nation with opium for sordid gain, or the forcible grabbing of the Transvail, not to men tion the rower or Lonaon aiiu innu merable bther manifestations of na tional and personal brutality. "Further. we . have no ancient nor contemporary nobility sucking the life blood of the nation, and can therefore pay our workingmen wages which. If allowed here, would give Great Britain immunity from strikes for centuries to come. . "If the Irish love of a row ,or wmcn you speak, now and then results, In America. In an excessive output of force, it at least offers the encourag ing spectacle of as large a percentage of sons of Hlbernla on the police -as nn the lav side of the sauabble. We do not hold either the Irish or the English down. "To sum up, people In glass houses should not throw stones. The papers here should Join hands with Lord Haldane In Increasing the good-will. and not the projudlce, between Eng land and. America." And funnily enough, the newspaper men onlv smiled, threw ap their caps, and cried, "Three cheers for Fleischmann 1" CHEAP OPERA IN SIGHT NOTED PILLMAKBR BACK OF PLAN AFOOT IN LONDON. Rick Set, Anxious to Prove Blnrest City Wants Music, Will Bnlld The ater Capable of Seating 4000. LONDON, June 20. (Special.) Plans on a more ambitious scale than any thing so far attempted are being pre pared to give London the benefit of a grand opera at cheap prices and in vast and magnificent theater which it is proposed to build. The scheme ori Inated In the fertile brain of Thomas Beecham, the pill man. and Is being backed up by several wealthy music lovers. They are prepared to spend a vast sum of money in putting up a ouuaing. Oscar Hammerstein spent a fortune in erecting the London Opera House, and this, doubtless, would nave been ac quired by the newly-formed syndicate but for the fact astonishing as it may seem that It is too small. It seats only 2400 people. It la proposed to build an- opera bouse with a seating capacity of 4000 the largest house ot entertainment in London, with the exception of the Al bert Hall. The cost of the building will run to over a million and a quarter dollars. SOB HURLED BACK : AikXi Xi v Xi.' x a viu nviu .v - .v T ST MA Ufa- 1. i r ir k5 is 3rv As a result of the pleadings of the Empress of Germany, there has just been Issued, from the Royal palace,, the announcement of the betrothal of Prince Oscar, the fifth son of the Em peror, to Countess Ina Maria Vcn Bassewits, a great favorite or the Em press, to whose suite she has long been attaohed as lady-ln-walting. ' As the Countess is not of equal rank, the marriage will be a morganatic one that is to say, while strictly In conformity with the legal statutes, she will never be able to take her husband's , rank. The Countess, who is about 26 years old, the same age as her affianced hus band, belongs to one of the oldest Mecklenburg hobllity, the members of which have served their sovereign But it Is to be an opera house for the masses, with popular prices. The millionaire promoters of this scheme of grand opera for the masses ar j anxious to redeem London from the reproach of being indifferent to opera, and to this end they are putting down a hugs sum to bring grand opera with in the reach of all. Their first aim will be the filling of every one of the 4000 seats. WIDOW PUTS END TO GRIEF Mrs. Julias Stern, Patron of Art In Berlin, Drowns Herself. VIENNA, June 20. A large section of Berlin society has been shocked by the suicide of the widow of Herr Julius Stern, director of the National Bank. Her husband died suddenly of heart disease a few months ago, and as early as the funeral she told friends that she could not live without him, and was de termined to follow him to the grave. These words were not taken serious ly, but recently she went out alone in a small motorboat from the estate she owned on one of the beautiful Havel lakes, and when some distance from land deliberately upset the craft and was drowned before assistance could reach her. Herr and Frau Stern were well known as lavish patrons of art. and a selection from their collection of mod ern French pictures forms the most Interesting feature of the exhibition of the "New Secession," now being held here. - t .- : - r r . . x 'v- Vj, - , - i , . i ' : f FJJ. - ... , t I Mil ff -hw " i ! ' v ' i m mm FT-- r. :v !' ;f ' : ft' "1 'VnTl Pill -1 4 ' " . 'JI -m . . ,. . .i.min 1 ' f X' 1 V v - - .vw - - 'A it-' 7--OV v . n ill t- -Ji with honor and ' distinction. Prince Oscar is a captain In the First Garde Regiment and as a student in Bonn he provoked much comment owing to the seriousness with which he took his vocation in life. A striking new exclusive group of the Crown Prince and Princess of Ger many, with their four sons. Both the heir to the imperial throne and his consort have evinced a marked liking for Americans .and a warm friendship for the United States. Assisted by his mother, one of the young Princes, It will be noted, is holding a Teddy Bear. The Russian aviator. Slkorskl, has built a plane which seems -likely to solve the problem of long flights. It is a regular omnibus, and carries 16 passengers with comfort. It has a DUEL TAX IS PROPOSED REVENUE OF $0,000,000 MAY BE OB TAINED, SAYS DEPl'TY. Graduated Fee Ranging In to MOO for Flrst-Claaa Combats Advocated Affair Is Held Advertisement. PARIS, June 20. When tha new Chamber meets a newly elected Deputy intends, it is said, to propose the Im position of a tax on duels. His argu ment will be that duels are a form of advertisement, and as such are as liable to taxation as posters and prospectuses. He suggests that duels, like railway trains and funerals, shall be divided Into three classes third, second and first In ascending order of taxable magnitude. " For a third-class duel, with the or dinary four seconds, a couple of gen eral practitioners, and a scratch In the forearm, the tax will to $10. The proces-verbaux, or official accounts of the duel, must be written on paper stamped with a 12-cent stamp. For a second-class duel, giving a right to decorated seconds, that is, sec onds with orders in their buttonhole, hospital doctors and descriptive report, ere, the tax will be $20. There will be an additional charge of $4 per camera and $12 per cinematograph apparatus. Those who desire a first-class duel must be prepared to pay Jloo But for t J v m t m r' . hi. , sw-r. uTracTAW AtrTATfVR. on cabin which Is heated from the exhaust of the engine and lighted at night by electricity. The wing span Is 120 feet and the total length ea reet. ii re ported that the stability of the large sized aeroplane is greater than that or smaller ones. But the chief value of the Slkorskl design lies in tne inae pendent multiple power unit. There nni- mntnrn on the Slkorskl aero plane, running Independently, and It Is reported that in trials it nss uttn sible to stop three of these motors and still keep the aeroplane afloat. It is said the Russian government nas or riarmA t.n at thCSB biff CI.1ir Car nr. .f n cost of 160.000 each. It is believed by many that if the ocean Is crossed in an aeroplane it win oe in one of the Sikorskl type. tnat mey .re .iikiuvu . ......... a Jury of honor, a famous swordsman as oirector ui tum'. . ...... tion on the field of honor to the ao- coinDaniment of a brass band or stringed orchestra. The sanguine Deputy estimates that such a tax, loyally imiiuwu anu acted, will bring more than $5,000,000 I year to the exchequer. BARON IS BLACKMAILER Conviction Follow Theft of Dlarj and Demand for Money. VIENNA, June 20. (Speolal.) Baron stralendorff. who was arrested In March on a charga of blackmail, was today sentenced to one year s severe imnrisonment with loss of his title. The baron came to Vienna the past winter and took a room In the same ,aii ss the Immensely rich Countess Vera Esternasy. He learned from her maid that she had a carefully locked containing certain secrets. The baron bored a hole through a wall of his room Just opposite the Countess' apartments and managed to obtain ac cess to her rooms and carry off the large diary.- Then he began negotiations with the Countess for its return, demanding tisono for It. Tha Countess' lawyer laid a trap for the baron, and had his conversation when negotiating for the return -of the diary taken down In shorthand. This led to his conviction. In tome parts of oermany and gwltsw land cliurclic are heated nilh lettrlctiy. ' 1 . Hmu,,,!,,,,,,!!,,)!-,,.,. '- r 'RTTTT.B9 PLA1TE TO SOLVE PR0B- this side or water. HAZING SIS ARM! German Seniors' Cruelty to Recruits Causes Action. EMPEROR TAKES STAND General Ordered to 6eo That Morn Measures Are Vsed Against Old er Men YV!u Torture Xew Arrivals In Camps. PRRLIN-. June 10. (Special) The question of cruelty to recruits In the German army is once more inniu public attention. Beth the recent speech In the Relchstar by the Mlnls-to- f w.r raneml Falkenhayn. and irinl on nonesl of a couple of curias slcr guards at Potsdam, have brousht the matter potently to notlie again. nr,ri Kslkenhavn adopted the usual attitude of the Prussian Minister of War in making out tnat cases oi enmi ty were lews grave and less frequent than generally alleged, but later in the speech he surprised his hearers by an nouncing that the Emperor had once more Intervened In person In hopes of abating these disagreeable atiairs. Renreaaloa Measures I rani. In his annual confidential address to commanding Generals, too, be made a very pressing appeal for sterner meas ures of suppression. It was a strange coincidence that a few days before there had been a serious Incident, Involving m. nrotest to the Imperial Government from the French Ambassador, arising from the German campaign against the French Foreign Legion, and that, a few days later, there should ne an ap peal bv the prosecuting counsel asainst two otherwise rather sharp sentences against a couple of cunaesier giiaraa. This case had been by no means par-n-.iiariv severe. The two men had eomt back to the barracks late at nlnht rather under the influence of liquor. Thv had then routed the younger re- crults out of their beds, and had made them stand, sleepy and shivering, on the tops of their cupboards and tiieis sing comic songs. Home had been rath er roughly knocked about with the flat of the sabres. One, maeea. was wounu nn th. shoulder and cut in the face. Thouah Intoxicated, the two accused were well able to dlstlnauixh between the rooms occupied by ths seniors and those oouupled by the new recruits. Beatrneec Are laereaeed. The prosecutor made' a point of this, and at the first trial the chief culprit was sentenced to two months and his assistant to four weeks Imprisonment. But tho proiscutlon did not consider this exemplary enoush. At the trial on appeal sentences of as mut-h as six months and 11 weeks were asked for by the prosecuting counsel. Surprise would have been universal had such sentences been passed, even though the general opinion Is that the prosecutor was quite ngni in rim that unless examples are made It Is Ilka tlltlna- at the windmills to attempt to put an end to exaggerated hazing of young recruits, t ne coun viumir iu Increase ths sentences. Public opinion is curious to know whether this case 1 to establish a precedent. CHURCH PROTECTION AIM Frencb Societies Start Movement to nestore Old Edifice. PARIS, June 20. (Special.) A new society has been formed to protect the churohes oi rrance,. w - in mint country districts This Is specially true of communities where ins iocai """ - i m.i. nti.rllrtnftL Tn. condition of these village churches has inspired moving repre ...I.... V, v M Henri Lavrdan. M Maurroe Barres and many others. M. Barres has written a book, calling at tention to the subject. Now M. l'ela dan an artist, has founded a society a niiit artists and archl- QBUKUIU . w ..-- - .hi.ii h hti alvan tha name of "The Btona Cross," a reference te the cross surmounting country spires, nr Palawan's idea Is to seek the prac tical halo of artists In restoring churches, beginning with ths most ven .1 . la ihnMa dating from be fore tha itth century, of which there - - nanv HimD Mil in I ( II V w. jmv society will be kept clear of eccleslas tloal or political Influence. BACHELOR 0FARTS AT 16 William James Sldls Youngest Grad uate or Harvard. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 17. Wil liam James Sldls. Is years old. will re celve a degree of bachelor of arts from Harvard this week and will be the youngest student ever graduated from the college. He completed hla full course of studies last year, but was declared then too young to be given a daaree H Is a son of Bjrls Sldls, a psychologist. BRH1SH.III EGYPT FACE GRIME WAVE Native Ethics Encourage Mur der for Fancied or Rral Wrongs Done. LASH IS RECOMMENDED reopl- VTiO Havo No Prrod f Jail Fear TVilp and leaders Taror Old M-thod lo Mop Itapld Increase In Criminality. CAino. Krrpt. June : (p..M ) Egypt, the land of th Thsrsns as wall as ef eontraats and centradlctlona. rinHa hrrsalf today conirontad by an ueir problem. Tor some years crime has grown In volume Tha Jo.ll-lsl Ad visers annual rapnrt. Juat p'll.llaliad. Shows It to be stnl growing Tha fi. uras are ominous. i rimmai in ifnr,. have Incraasad s.l per r-nt, 1 par cant bains commluad by foreign sublets w hanavar the moral proaraas of a oountrv falls to heap pace allh Ha matrrlal proaparltv. la ronar-lrunua-ly the case with K.gypt. administrators basin to 1mibt the efficacy ef thair methods. This unewslnaas msr be r-ad between the Unas o Mr Malcolm Mf Ilaraltn's report. For some of the causes of crime common In I'.nrope thara are to parallels In Tgvpt. povarty. ror i Staaca, that abject, eruahlng daalltil tlon that la ona of the moat e.ctlva In centives to crime In F-uropaao oom munltlcs, hsrdly exists hare, where tha simple wants of tha people and a beneficent climate brings the firat necrssarlee of life wttbla the reach ef alL Taraa Klamvuta Praaaat. In modem Ksypt, where Ks.t Jostled by tha M eat, are thrae dominant elements. Thera Is the active ptiahing Levantine alamant a rnamopolllaa mix ture of dubious ra''s In hsnda Is centared moil of (ha trada ff tha country. This elamant is without anr national tradition, and lis sola aim l make monay. To Its activity and com mrrclal adaptability tha country owes not a little of Its malarial presraaa. Behind this varlatsted fualon Ilea the great Mohammedan element as It a bean modified by Turkish nila. This element has ethical atandsr.ls wldaif differing from and freqiiantlv contra dictory to tha othars. Tn the.e two elements a third was addad with tha British occupation. A faw days ago Mohammarf Klh Korashl Bry, a niamber of tha Lasla latlve Council, proposad a modification of the criminal rode that would pr-. tloally lasallse tha hilling by tha hua band of tha wife and lover guilty of adultery. Many reapa taSle Moham medans warmly sympathliad with Korashl Bay. Aaaorlatad with this dealre Tor van geanre Is tha msnuratute nf falaa charges. Tha Ingannlty lth whi.li these are fabricated and tha aaa wit i which perjured evidence can ta oh. talnad constitutes the grcaust ohsla cle to Justice throughout tha llta. MaraVr Is ("aaaaaa. Murder on soma Irlfllns pto n. Mioti Is tragically common with r:sv.un. murdsr to svanse lapaa of vhtna on the pert of (hair womankind balne si most an unwrlttan law, h1le far nf death Is far lass pnt.nt ss a taairslnt than among a Christian population. Crime generally Is tslian sa a maiiar Of course, unleaa It he an nftmre against the religion of Islam. In many cases It seems merely a pl-tuiso,iie In cident In the village life. Formerly communal responsibility for crime uaed to be enforced, with the re. suit that evil-doers mere almot il"' handed over to tha authorltlee. This method, however, was alMmdoned under ths British administration, end im II Ihe difficulties of detection luimens-W Increased. The Kgyptlan pres baa even inl so far a to recommend the Komhaan as tha most salutary Instrument In tha re pression of crime. Tha paaaant i dreads not Imprisonment dieada tha lash. SISTEBSllE TOGETHER polk H im mnn: MOME IIGH FLAT t r.!i:l. Elder Kalla Irtles Mret aea lease" Call! ealolde. Is the Tae-rr af Tswea V ea Make 1U aer. BKRL1X. June 20. ( Hpeclal. ) A tragic Ulecovery ass made In a small flat in the noithwe.frn part of tha city this week whrn tha polks forced sn entrsnca and found tha t"' two sged sisters, Antoine and Minna Sparser,- dead lhay were the daughters f a blsh state official who riled neaily .' yets ago. and lor 3a years they had lived In a flat In J'otedmoretrsee until the rent became too mm h for them They moved 0 years aso Into 'ha rooms whhh wra tha a. ens t.f the traseuy. Th4 little household i maintained by tha elder eieter. an ar list, but with advancing years her earn ing capacity dlinlniahed and pariatt if lief had to bs eoushl. Than lllneae atlecsed h eld" !. and It Is believed she died on Ihura. day, and thai the younser neter. In her grief, committed suit Ida by hsng- "?he old ladles bad for tha pet 4 yeara lived aa herrolta. and Old not re ceive a slnsle vlaltor. Kven the nei door neighbors would not have known them by slsht ... . On a table In the bedroom was a faintly written note. "Plaaee bury us In the aame grave." NAME SPELLED MANY WAYS Hji.t.cn Vaed In Ms 1 Mven lintrlra In Word "Shake-pcare." IJIMJO.V. June JO. Koine InlMealilia fhakeapearaana are published here. It I, wall kl.On that in hl.skeap.aiea im. nrthr.gr.phy . Inn. account. -J Of and that Shske.pe.re himself would have considered the uue.llon of spell ing his name In one way and net en other a mere waste of time, it Is. how ever worth recording how the nam. struck the Bodlelnn officials, when lha first folio was given a place and inalk In the lihrary. Tha entries are aa folloae. and weia all written In l2J. Hhsk-sper. fUmse-spearr. hhe ki- P'a c. Hhake-spesre. hliake-Fprarc. hhalt sp.are. Shake-spcare. Tha testimony, eo fur a. II -.. obviously In favor of the form "MiaUa-. Kpeaie." and vf I1'. .r.-crt prono. ii.c lt.g of the W.ll.l. II Is cllllooe thai th olnslfl or double hw.hen ahotiM l u,i In slk out of llii! t-ev.n cull lea 6 V