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EPltOIIEf EVENTS PARAGRAPHS THAT PERTAIN TO MANY SUBJECTS. # —— WE SHORT BUT INTEBESTINB Brtd d What Is Transpiring la Var>aus Sections of Our Own ana Foreign Countries. • WASHINGTON. !i.-erticatioa of (he use of senate aur tarry in the promotion of a North « aruitna sold mine has been started before a resale committee. e • e Twenty-on* naval offleera were placed aa t ie retired list, fifteen of the asmber baling been selected by the piarkuig hoard, while the other ail tc.untartly asked retirement, woo burgeon • General Blue of the public health service wiU go to New Orleans to take marge of the campaign again*! buhaekr plague, which has appeareJ there One death has ah ready been recorded • a e A eonierence of democratic senators was called by Majority Leader Kern to art aa a resolution announcing to the country that cuagreas will stay in Washington until it has disposed of all trust legislation one Ttrick Duviwer. the minister from Hasu. informed Secretary Bryan that I* had been recalled by bis govern meat and that he uuuld be succeed ed by ffolaa Means, whom be replaced at W ashing! <m in 1913 An .tecs of IIVMM for the boring at arte.iau noils u arid districts for too purpose of discovering the exist ence of supplies of water available tor trr.gaiion purposes, has been dropped tram the- agnrultura! appro priation hill. • • • Pre».<iett tt :iM>u w ill take no action la the strike situation at Bull", pend ing further developments. Federal troops »ill not be muted from Van cooter barracks to Fort Missoula to be in nodniMS ta case of trouble, for the preoent • • o Pre» 4ect Wi.ton has signed t'je tstai appropriation MU. which car ries a provision for two new dread noughts and permits the sale of the Mtttrcsfeips Mississippi and Idaho to Greece Negotiations now aro being Conducted lor their sole. • • • The administration trade commis Mon Ml) was further supported by Bens'.o Cummins, republican, who continued his discussion of its consti tutional phrase* He particularly de fended the provision of 'he bill mak tng "unfair compel it ion" unlawful. • • • Seus’or fiaviJmar Theodore, the Hatties r*-volii'ijn.et leader has been killed in n battle with fifty of his fol lowers near the dominican frontier. Captain Ebert# of the cruiser Wash Mfum so reported his information from swo members of the Maiden caMact • • • Ise’ters of commends':on for con spicuous gallantry during die occupa tion of Vera Crux mere written by Secretary list:tel* to George H. Boyd, quartermaster and Augustus J. Hall berg. gunner’s mate, of the cruise” Chester Both men have been ad • aa<»-d to the rank >4 petty officers. DOMESTIC. There are X railways in tlie I tilled States, operating 120XU miles tut track match last year carried «•»> >'*.<•» passenger* without a sin gle fatality • • • The teaching of sex hygiene In Sunday schools wan approved jn the report to tae contention of th<* Inter national Sunday School association by E K. Mohr, superintendent of the purrty department. • • • The germ which caused pyorrhea and a cure for the disease has been dMcotered by Ur Michael F. Barrett of Pbiiadelph^u according to an an pouncement made at the annual meet ing of the Pennsylvania state dental •artel y. • • • Hope for an early settlement of the strike of the Wewtinghouse employes at Pittsburgh man checked by the de cision of 7.tew of the strikers not to accept the terms made in signed aaaiements hy the heads of the affect ed industry. • ee Joseph Burton, the negro who was recently captured la a spectacular at tempt la blackmail the Cunard Steam ship company ia Sew York was sen CcaceA tu htteeo yearn ia Bing Sing • e # Kat.ms es mads baaed on the total aamai of income assessments paid lato the office of t'harles W. Ander son internal tax collector, indicate that ia this one district, which in clude* the Wall sir re! financial hous es 11.M0 persons have a total an nual income exceeding 91,000.000. see Adi tees have reached Galveston that the schooner Sunshine, which sailed from here with 2.0H0 rases of psr.ii arms and ammunition arrived safely at Tampico The report Bald the cargo had been discharged. e a e The admtaietratioa anti trust pro gram wan definitely started oa its n ay to the statute hooka when, the boose, with the legislative machinery working under forced draft, complet ed eeaeidcrnUoa of the Covington . Trade Commission hill aad laid that measure aside for final passage. • e. • >.-a*ar Una If Roberta of Terra Pan a. lad, charged with conspiracy le corrupt elections, was found not gut ty hy a Jury ia the '/errs Haute prraH court TVs Jury was out thin mlMtaa r Vnited States In 1913 imported 3.267.323 pounds of mica. • • • The fourteenth international Sunday school convention has opened in Chi cago with 4/K*0 delegates • • • Incorporation of the Women's Bar Association of Illinois has been an nounced at Chicago by Attorney Net tie Kothblun. one of the incorpora tors. • • • Major General Leonard Wood haa assumed con mand of the Eastern de 1 partroent of the army, with head I quarter* on Governor's island, in New | York harbor. • • • The twenty-first annual convention 'of the Baptist Young People of Ame rica. meeting jointly with the Young People'* Vnion of the South, has ; opened at Kansas City. • • • Walter W. Davis. Jr., and his brother, Fred, were found dead in a field on their farm near Peabody, Kan. It ia believed they were struck by lightning in a storm. * * * America, the Rodman Wanamaker , trans-Atlantic flyer, rose from the wa ; ter A recent test, with ten passen , gera. Establishing another weight-car ' rying record for hydro aeroplanes. Roosevelt is still taking orders from his doctor, and for that reason will make Sagamore HU1 his campaign seat. He has been warned to curb j his strenuous program and to display ' less eiertion in public affairs. . Chief Wallace of the Charlotte, N. j C. lire department and one fireman : were killed an<i three others were seriously injured by a dynamite ex plosion in a small fire. The dynamite ! stored by a contractor was ignited by I a fire in a barn. • • • Dr Holbrook Curtis, the throat specialist, has told Colonel Roosevelt j he would have to rest six weeks. Then j after the colonel had made a few j speeches as a test, the doctor said, he would be able to tell more deti nitly just what Mr. Roosevelt could do in the campaign. • • • What ia claimed to be a record In | walking recently from the summit of Pikes Peak to the cog station in Man sion was made by Maurice Kubby of i Omaha. Neb. Kubby walked down the mountain, according to timers, in j an hour and thirty minutes. Three hours were required to walk to the summit from Manitou. • • • An aeroplane will be used by Prof. David Todd of Amherst college in ob serving the total eclipse of the sun, August 21, according to plans an nounced. Prof Todd will make his observations at Riga. Russia. With the aid of the flying machine he hopes i to be ab e to rise above any clouds I that may hinder observations from the earth. • • • A carload of beer and whisky billed as gravel was seized by state and fed | eraj officers at Bartlesville, Okla. It was the biggest seizure of intoxicating | liquors ever made in this section. Twenty barrels of beer and twenty 1 five cases of whisky were seized. As no one claimed the shipment, it is to be destroyed. It was valued at near 1 ly $1.0«h. • • • Two battles on the liquor question ; will Htart in Ohio this week. Wet in- ' terests will start the circulation of ! petitions to Initiate a constitutional i amendment forbidding state-wide pro hibition Dry forces, led by the Anti- j I Saloon leaeue organization, will cir- j I culate petitions to submit a consaitu- j | tional amendment establishing abso lute prohibition in the state, i • • • The Federal lergue will invoke the Sherman anti-trust law in its fight for j ;the services of Marsans and Chase, : according to a statement made by i i President Gilmore. Charges that Or | ganlzed Base Ball is a combination op erating in restraint of trade will be made by attorneys for the Pederals when the next stage in the Marsans case, now in the federal courts, is reached. FOREIGN. Moran was no match for Jack John son. and the black fighter retained his title after twenty rounds of easy i fighting. • • • Simon W. Strauss, who has spent several months n Europe investigat ing for the American society for the promotion of thrift, will bring back to America many suggestions. He has found much material in Great Britain. Action of the socialists in remain ing seated while the reichstag cheer ed the emperor is regarded in Ger many as an open insult to that ruler. The incident will not be forgotten by ! the emperor and moves will be made at the next session of the reichstag to prevent a recurrence of such an in ! salt. • • • Two hundred coal miners were en , tombed in the Vielle-Marihaye col ■ liery. near Liege, Belgium, when fire ; broke out. Two hundred of their ! comrades escaped when the alarm i was given. • • • Counsel for the owners of the Storstad. in his opening arguments at the inquiry, stated that one of the ! vessels was to blame for the sinking of the Empress and that the inquiry ! would fix that blame. In other words, ; the catastrophe was an avoidable ac j ctdent. • • • The new French cabinet, of which I Senator Ribot is premier, was de feated in the first division taken in < the new chamber of deputies by a I tote of 30 to 2t>2. The premier im mediately resigned. • c * Some of the unionists who have t been the strongest supporters of the \ l ister volunteers, including Andrew i l ton a r Uw. Robert Cecil and Leopold | Charles Amery, attacked the govern ment iu the British House of Com mons for its fmilure to suppress the | rxt ions list volunteers. TALK TIGS HR MORGAN CALLS ON PRESIDENT AT WHITE HOUSE. OTHER LEADERS WILL FOLLOW Wilson Will Have a Series of Confer, ences With Bankers, Manufac turers and Merchants. Washington.—For nearly an hour President Wilson discussed business conditions with J. P. Morgan at the first of a series of conferences, which will bring to the White House men foremost in industry and finance. It was one of the very few occa sions during the sixteen months of his administration that the president has received one of the recognized lead ers of “big business." Officials said that while the administration's great est legislative projects were under way—the tariff act, the currency bill, and while the trust program was being perfected—the president felt there would be no opportunity for a charge that they were receiving in spiration from business or financial centers. Now that two of the admin istration reforms have been completed and a third is in a final stage, the president is said o feel that an ex change of thought and information with captains of industry will be con ducive to the business revival he ex pects to see along lines, which the ad ministration holds to be legaL Ford to see Wilson. Next Henry Ford, the Detroit mil lionaire. will confer with the presi dent. and after that a delegation from the Chicago Association of Commerce, including representatives of six cor porations with nation-wide interests, will come for a conference. Out of these exchanges, the presi dent expects business men to learn that lawful enterprise has nothing to fear from the democratic ad ministra tion; that the trust program, having reached a point where he forsees its successful completion, business shall have the rest many of its leaders have been asking, and that under the “constitution of freedom,” as the pres ident has christened the trust pro gram. commerce and finance respect ing the laws \yill not be harassed by the federal government. Whether Mr. Morgan came at his own request or at the invitation of the president, was not established. That point often is left in doubt as to important White House callers. Offic ials said Mr. Morgan asked for the engagement. Another version was that mutual friends arranged for Mr. Morgan to “talk things over.” Adjournment Deferred to Sept. 1. Washington, D. C.—Having formal ly resolved in party conference to re main in Washington until the ad ministration anti-trust program is fin ally disposed of. democratic leaders in the senate were determined to press the proposed legislation to a conclusion. Chairman Newlands of the senate in terstate commerce committee, follow ing a conference with President Wil son announcd that the trade commis sion bill would be passed shortly, and there should be little trouble over the remainder of the program. The hope is now entertained by some of the leaders that congress can adjourn not later than September 1, with the trust program completed. Mediatiin Conference Over. Niagara Falls. Ont.—With the de parture of Ambassador I>a Gama of Brazil, Minister Naon of Argentina and the American delegation, consist ing of Justica Lamar. Frederick W. Lehmann and H. .Perceval Dodge, diplomatic secretary, the Pan-Ameri can mediation conference formally ended its sessions here. When and where the next meeting will be held depends for the present upon General Carranza, who is now consulting his subordinate chiefs about sending delegates to a confer ence with the Huerta delegates for the selection of a new provisional president. lowans Build Tornado Cavm. Iowa City, la—Tornado caves at every school house in Johnson county is hailed as a probably result of the action of the Penn township school board. The board has ordered the construction of a concrete storm cave, to guard against injury to children by a tornado. Other boards are consider ing the matter. Martial Law in Two Town*. Saraveve. Bosnia.—Martial law I)as . been proc'aitred at Tuzla and Magiaj because of tlie serious rioting in those towns, where much Servian property has been destroyed. Johnson Does Not Keep Date. London —Jack Johnson, the negro heavyweight pugilist, failed to keep his appointment to sign articles for a fight with Sam Langford, to take place in October. The promoters, however, received an intimaticn that he would arrive here later. Fired the First Gun at Gettysburg. El Paso, Tex.—Colonel James W. Pender, 83, who as chief of artillery under General Longstreet, fired the first gun at the battle of Gettys burg, died here last night * Corn From Japan at Seattle. Seattle, Wash. Three thousand bags of corn arrived from Japan consign ed to a local milling company. The price of the grain landed in Seattle is the same as that of corn from the middle states, and the quality is high. Further importations are expected. Condition of-Cotton Good. Washington.—The area planted to cotton this year is 36,960,000 acres, the department announced. The con dition, of the- crop on June 25 was 79.6 per cent of a normal NEBRASKA IN BRIEF. A new theater erected by Louis Meyers, has been formally opened at Germantown. The annual session of the Madison county institute will be held at Madi son, August 3-7. Twenty-two Nebraska counties which have reported already show only slight increases in assessments. An automobile stolen from the Haynes automobile garage of Omaha, was found, deserted, north of Fre mont. Walter Henry, twenty-two years old, committed suicide at the family home near West Point while tempora rily insane. The city council of Kearney has awarded to the United Trust Co. of Omaha $45,000 5 per cent funding bonds at par. J. H. Hale has been elected presi dent of the Dawson county poultry and pet stock association for the coming year. F. W. Alstadt of Norfolk has begun action in district court, for divorce from his wife, Ethel G., and the cus tody of their child. The new German Lutheran Zion church, four miles northwest of El lis, was dedicated Sunday. Three services were held. A committee composed of C. W. Crawford. Dr. H. E. Potter and E. L. Simpkins, is organizing a junior Commercial club at Fairbury. Oscar Graham sustained serious in juries when working at the Missouri Pacific turntable at Falls City. One of his legs was crushed. A new mall route starts from Chad ron July 1, going to Antelope, Pep per Creek. Esther and Manchester, making rural free delivery en route. George Thomas is expected to suc ceed William Royer as postmaster at Seward in a short time, having been recommended by Senator Hitchcock. Miss Lela Berry of Fairbury has re signed from the Tecumseh schools, where she has taught for two years, and was re-elected for the coming year. Christopher Courtright. the la=t sur viving Mexican war veteran in this county and possibly the state, died at the residence of his sister at Mil ford. Subscriptions are being given for the building of a narrow gauge subur ban railroad to the Table, twenty miles southwest .of Chadron. Surveys are being made. C. W. Hunter died and Dr. I.yon T. Hall is seriously ill as the result of high temperatures at Omaha last week. Other less severe prostrations have been reported. Dr. Marie Ames of North Platt0 was acquitted Friday of a charge of performing a criminal operation which resulted in the death of Emma Grieve of Kearney. Entries for the Better Babies' con test of the Nebraska state fair close August 17th. For entry blanks and information write W. R Mellor,- Secre tary. Lincoln. Neb. The Farmers’ State bank of Clarks has incorporated with a capital of $20,000. I. J. Wehrman js president: F. D. Rhodes, vice-president, and J. R. Chamberlain, cashier. The report of Superintendent of Schools Hunter shows that crowded conditions will continue to prevail in Lincoln schools in spite of new buildings and additional grounds. The body of Albert John Bahr was brought to Chadron for interment from Hardesty, Canada, where he had been killed while on duty as conduc tor for the Canadian Pacific Railroad company. Carey Duncan Hiniber. wife of George Hiniber, who was recently sentenced to the state penitentiary, has brought suit for $10,000 against Lincoln saloonkeepers, alleging that they debauched her husband. W. R. Mansfield. I’nited States im migration officer, is investigating the case of Stasia Graileza. who was brought to this country by an uncle, who is now in prison for assaulting her. The girl wishes to return to her home. Dr. Leigh S. Krake, of West Point, is in serious condition from a gan grene infection. He graduated from Johns Hopkins university this year and formerly attended the University of Nebraska. Saunders county farmers are busy harvesting one of the biggest wheat crops this county has ever seen. The acreage is larger than nsua.1 and it is estimated that the yield will be from thirty to forty bushels. In an auto accident one mile north of Ogallala Bruce Reed, aged 27, was killed when his jugular vein was sev ered by the broken wind shield. Carl Simson. Tom Cooney. R. C. YoungaDI Bruce Stafford were injure I. but not fatally. Reed leaves a young widow and two small children. With one automobile for every twenty-five of Its inhabitants, Ne braska heads the list of states In the number of autos per capita. Iowa is ■ second and California is third. Ac cording to estimates, 80 per cent of the Nebraska machines are owned by farmers. , Bruce, son of Ennis Horn of Au burn, Is in serious condition as a re sult of injuries sustained some time ago when he was thrown trom a horse which he was rising. Herman Bottger, by Rudolnh Bott ger. his father, of Emerson. Neb., has brought action in this district of Mad ison county to recover $25,000 dam ages from the Omaha Railway com pany. Bottger alleges in his petition that h^ sustained an injury by said railway company which resulted in the loss of a foot J. J. McCarthy and M. F. Harrington are attorneys for the plaintiff. The state railway commission heard complaints of patrons of the Omaha railway at Dakota City. The remonstrators objected to passenger service given. The case wa3 taken under advisement. Adjutant General Hall of the Nebras ka National guar I has gone to Chi cago to confer with officials from the war department, relative to where the annual maneuvers of the Nebraska guard will be held. It is considered probable that the maneuvers will be with other state troops and regular array troops at Camp Dodge, near Des Moines, la. T LARGE AMOUNT IN FEES RE CEIVED BY SECRETARY. GOVERNOR AND AUDITOR DIFFER Howard Refuses to Approve Voucher for Rcische Trip West After Prisoner. Lincoln.—Several corporations in the state have reported to the secre tary oi state boosting the state ex chequer considerably. The Union Pacific Railway company •ent in check for $2,500, being the maximum fee which can be collected from any corporation. They base the fee on a t^pital of $216,216.800. The Brandeis interests sent in fees on the following corporations in Oma'.ta: Boston Store. $90 on a valuation of $200,000. Brandeis Annex Buil ling company, $180 on a capital of $500,000. Brandeis Realty company. $475 on a capital of $1,200,000. American Realty company. $50 on a capital of $100,000. J. L. Brandeis & Sons, $150 on A capita! of $250,000. To Push Norfolk Building. Norfolk people are getting anxious to know when the State Board of Con trol is going to begin the erection of the new hospital building at the asy lum for the insane, near that city and Editor Huse of the News was at the state house in an endeavor to gather some information which he could take back to the home folks. The board was out visiting state institutions and as the governor has several times refused to instruct the board what they should or should not do, it is not supposed that he got much satisfac tion out of the executive. Commissioner Kennedy said that the board was waiting to get the track laid to the institution because of the saving it would make on hauling ma terial to the place, and that proposi tion alone would be quite an item in the matter of submitting bids. When it was understood that the track could be completed at some specified time, and Architect Stitt had the plans completed, the matter would be pushed rapidly. Commissioner Ken nedy thought that August would see things moving. Commends the Boys’ Camp Idea. Lincoln.—Paul Cathcart of Gresh am is the city delegate from York county for the state fair boys' school encampment. Walter M. Barbee, liv ing near the same town, is the rural delegate In sending in the names of the two j representatives. Alice Florer. super- j intendent of York county, takes oc- j casi*i to commend th° boys’ camp • idea as an important branch of agri cultural education. In her letter she says: "The boys who attended the encampment last year have been very enthusiastic over the work they did and the good time they had and I am sure they get a great deal of good from the week’s work.” Kach county is entitled to one city and one rural delegate. The boys must be between the ag°s of 15 and ! 21 years. Special representation is j provided for Lancaster and Douglas ' counties. Not of One Mind. Efforts of H. E. Reische of Chadron to obtain $185 which he expended in going to the west coast and bringing back a man wanted in Dawes county on a criminal charge have thus far been unavailing. The matter was the subject of a word encounter between Governor Morehead and Auditor How ard.-, The former wanted to pay the bill because it is one which the state owes and should meet. The auditor will not approve the voucher because the expense was not authorized under a technical interpretation of the stat utes. Mr. Reische was delegated to make the trip because he was one of the few men who could identify the man who was wanted. Complains of Charge. J. W. Shorthill. secretary of the Nebraska Farmers’ Co-operative Grain and Live Stork association of Hampton, has filed a complaint with the state railway commission against the South Omaha Stock Yards asso ciation. claiming that the stock yards company makes yarding charge of 8 cents on hogs when but 6 cents Is charged by Kansas City and St. Joseph. F. C. Niles, E. S. Moser and George Rogers, of Omaha, have incorporated under the name of the Niles-Moser Rogers company, with a capital stock of $45,000. Violations Fall After Investigation. 1 'rco'n.—resira of some girls and a few married women to go direct lrom their work to places where they can meet friends and be entertained fcy them led to the filing of numerous complaints of female labor law viola tion with the state labor commission. The complaints have coma from 'par ents of the girls and husbands of the women—because the female laborers themselves insisted that the delays in getting home were due to their long working hours. When investigations began the complaints fell through. Twenty-seven Counties Reported. Linco’n — Twenty-seven counties which have reported to the state as sessment board to da*e show a total assessed *aluation of $111,029,984 for the present year. That is a gain of $328,150 over last year. The counties which have reported are: Antelope, Arthur Banner. Box Butte, Chase, Kali, Harlan. Kearney, I/Ogan, Nuck olls, Phelps, Platte. Polk, Sarpy, Richardson, Saunders, Scottsbluff Sioux, Kimball, Re I WlHow, Stantcn and Frontier. A still better per cent Is expected on complete returns. "America will get all the credit perhaps for completing the Panama canal, but in giving praise where it is due, the work of the French engi neers and tnose engaged in the early digging of the canal ought not to be overlooked,” remarked Henri Borgia of Paris, an engineer, recently. "The French overlooked the most impor tant requisite in the Panama canal zone—that of proper sanitation. Had our engineers been supported in their work by a Colonel Gorgas, the 'Amer ican nation might not have had the opportunity to buy the canal. “I think it only justice that some tribute be paid the French for th«lJ share in this great project. It is true they failed, but not through lack ot funds, as is proved by the beautiful palace, the magnificent gardens, and the record of sumptuous living of the officials. Neither was failure due to the unwillingness of the French peas antry to contribute of their brawn, evidence of which is seen in the overfilled graves. “The success of the American was not wholly due to his greater knowl edge of engineering nor to his improved machinery; neither was it due to his ability to get into his hands large amounts of money, but to the victory over the humble mosquito. The strength of this tiny enemy the French neg lected to appreciate. This, then, was the cause of their Ignominious defeat in the work. "The Panama canal is one of the greatest engineering undertakings iri the history of the world. There can be no question of that. 1 fully appre ciate the difficulties, but far more do I realize that it was a big construction job.” BRIGADIER GENERAL SHARPE’S BIG JOB f More armies have been destroyed by starvation than by battles. The duke of Wellington once said that he did not consider himself much of a general, but that he prided himself on being a first-class commissary officer. "Many can lead troops," he remarked; "I can feed them.” The big job of feeding Uncle Sam’s fighting men is in the hands of Brig. Gen. Henry G. Sharpe, com missary general of the United States army. In war there is unavoidable waste of f#od supplies, and for this reason it is necessary to furnish much more than is actually eaten. American sol diers in the field waste quite as much as they eat. The waste of our trocps in the Philippines fed half of Agui naldo’s insurrectos in a way that sur passed their wildest dreams of luxury. The quantity of stores required for one day’s subsistence of half a million men in the field is: Hard Dread, 500,000 pounds; bacon. 262,500 pounds; sugar, 100,000 pounds; desic cated vegetables (potatoes and onians), 37,500 pounds; coffee (roasted and ground), 40,000 pounds; beans, 75,000 pounds; tomatoes, 50,000; jam. 33,750 pounds; vinegar, 5,000 gallons; salt, 20,000 pounds; pepper, 1,250 pounds. These supplies have a total net weight of about 1,300,000 pounds, and to transport them requires 50 freight cars of 40,000 pounds capacity, or 214 army wagons. Of course, this dietary may be varied by the substitution of equivalents, such as canned meat or fresh beef when procurable, for bacon. It goes with out saying that fresh vegetables and fresh beef cannot be supplied to an army in the field unless procurable from the local resources of the country in which the' troops are operating. Leaving such local resources for a moment out of the question, the busi ness of obtaining supplies is simple enough. Officers of the subsistence corps either purchase them in open market or invite bids for supplies, which on ac ceptance are forwarded by the government to the main supply depots. ALFONSO’S PRIVATE .BARBER An undersecretary of the Spanish legation told at a dinner party a little story about the king of Spain, accord ing to the Rehoboth Sunday Herald, “King Alfonso,” he began, ‘‘is fond of taking motor trips incog. He mo tored recently through a wild region of Castile. He put up with his modest entourage at a more than modest inn. “ ‘I am sure,’ he said, laughing, ‘that they won’t know me here!' “Well, they did not know him there. They treated him like an ordi nary traveler. So much so, in fact, that when he went to shave the next morning he found there was no mir ror in his room. So he went down Into the inn yard in his 6hirt sleeves and there a chambermaid brought him a broken piece of mirror, which he set up beside the well and proceeded to lather cheeks and chin. "The girl stood chatting with him. Finally she said in an odd voice: “ ‘You are not just an ordinary traveler. ar£ you?' ""Why do you aek me that?’ laughed the king. “ ’I don't know,’ said the maid. 'But there’s something about you—per hap8 you belong to the royal court at .Madrid?’ *“Yes. 1 do,’ he answered. "'Perhaps you work for his majesty himself?’ •' ’Yes. I do.’ * “‘And what do you do for him?’ asked the pretty chambermaid. ‘“Oh, lots of things,’ the king replied. Tm shaving him just now.' " LOVE WINS KAISER’S SON German nobility, society and offi eialdom are astonished at the an nouncement that Prince Oscar of Prus sia. fifth son of Kaiser Welhelm. is to marry Countess Ina Marie, daughter of Count Bassewitz of Mecklenburg. It is the first instance on record vhere a man of the reigning branch if the Hohenzolierns has been mor ,'anatically engaged to wed. While 'he young countess is a woman of ;nnltf she is not of royal blood. It is assumed that the emperor, <«ho consented to the engagement, e* ill confer a higher rank in the nobil ity on the young countess. The em peror’s consent is said to have been granted owing to the lack of an avail ifcle German princess and to his aver sion to foreign marriage for his son. The countess met the prince while she was a lady in waiting to Empress \i,gusta Victoria. By flatly announcing hie intention to marry the girl of his choice, regard lew of Hohenzoiiern precedent and family tradition, Prince Oscar won the Instant admiration of the German public. The revelation of the romance was s street morsel under the tongues of all Berliners. Until the prince came forward with his announcement he was not a