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JAPAN LEADS ALL
IN DIVORCE EVIL
United States Follow in Second
Place on Liit of the
Mismated.
COMMISSION FINDS STATISTICS
England and Wales Hare Few Sep
arations. FRANCE ON A MIDDLE GROUND
In Florida "Violent Temper", is Plea
of Action. .
DIVORCE NOT A PUBLIC ISSUE
General Belief that Matrimony Con.
cerna Only the Partlea Wko
Are Directly lav-aired.
BY PAUL. LAMBETH
UJSDOS, July (.-(Special Dispatch to
'i'he Bee.) Japan leads the world In the
' number eof divorce, with the United
States a poor second. Thla waa brought
out In the testimony given before the
royal commission on divorce, which has
resumed its session. Mr. It. Newton Crane,
number of divorces, with the United
States and also of the English bar, gave
thin information. He quoted figures show
lng the number of divorces per 100,000 of
population. They were:
Jo-Pan 215
United States 73
Switzerland , 82
France 23
Germany , 15
ttrigiuna and Wales 1
.He gave the' commission much other In
terestlrxr information concerning divorce in
the United States.
Dlvorco in United Soatea.
It appeared to be fairly well established,
he said, that at the present time one mar
riage in every fifteen, or possibly sixteen,
ih the United States would ultimately be
dissolved by divorce. In all the states
adultery was ground for divorce, but, in
dependently of adultery, there was
variety of other grounds. Desertion and
cruelty, in varying forms and degrees.
were common grounds of divorce. In six
teen states the desertion need be for. only
one year; in seven states it must be for
two years, and in one state for five years
Cruelty was a cause in nearly every state,
aad in some of the states "outrages ren
dering life together insupportable," "In
dignities ' rendering condition intolerable,"
"personal abuse or conduct rendering life
burdensome," and "treatment endangering
health or reason" were also specified
In thirty-five states habitual drunken
ness waa a cause lor divorce. ,- In a very
9 1 . fAlrhttt, nm -r .... -I
' Minor 'Causes,
. ' 'In five states conviction for felony prior
to marriage and unknown to ' the other
party, and In one of. the states the fact
that a spouse was a fugitive from Justice
" " m .un,i,icin inLiar. AflBUCIBiea Wltn
drunkenness in some of the states was
habitual addiction to various drugs, sucb
as opium, morphia and chloral. Insanity
In varying degrees, from mental incapacity
to incurable lunacy, was a cause in nine
.states. Vagrancy was a ground In two
atiitea, and-neglect to provide for the wife
and oliildren of the marriage was a cautie
, ' in nineteen states. In Louisiana "public
defamation of one party by. the other," in
Florida "violent temper," and In Kentucky
' "violent and ungovernable temper" were
causes. In Kentucky, New Hampshire and
, Massachusetts the Joining of a religiou
chi. vr Buuieiy wnicn Believed, or pro.
fessed to believe, that the relation between
husband and wife void or unlawful was a
ground ror divorce.
Despite the widespread belief n England
to the contrary, in no state waa "Inoom
RatlblUtjr- of temperament" a cause for dl
vorce, with -the possible exception of the
state of Washington, where the statue au
thorised the oourt to grant a decree when
It should be satisfied that for any cauBe
the parties could no longer live together.
In two, at least, of the states divorce
operated automatically, and without the
- Institution of legal proceedings, therefore
In case of a sentence to Imprisonment for
lire.
Ns - Coneera of Public
Tha view was spreading, he said, that if
a,n unhappily married couple desired to
have their marriage dissolved It was 1
matter which waa peculiarly their own at
fair, and one with which the public had
notntng to do. or nearly 1,000,000 divorce
only about 16 per cent were defended. II
waa of the opinion that tne frequency o
divorce in the United States and the grow
Ing Indifference to the duty and obllna
tlon of marriage were primarily due to
the fact that marriage In America wt
denned by statute to be merely a civil
contract, and that no form of aolfinnixin
the ceremony was provided or required.
wv.w iMKiiy i-imnes tor (Ilvoro
in America and too few in England.. Th
health of the race, from a eugunlc noin
or view, was imperiled by obliging
woman to live in marital relations with
husband who waa a confirmed drunkar
or waa subject to recurring attacks of in
sanity, or who had In him the seeds of a
Incurable disease. When the strain
to
men rimer spouse was subject by trio
continuous cruelty of the other ia.
reached the breaking point, It waa wie,
not only In the Interests of the partita
themselves, but of the state and the church
that the law shuuld Intervene. '
ot a Slau of Immorality.
Mr. Crane added that the greater num
ber of divorce cases In the United States
as compared with England did not mean
that there was greater Immorality In me
States. It was due rather to the levity
with which people regarded marriage, and
K'gal laxity as to the marriage tie.
J, A. Barrett, another American bar.
rlster, thought the Comparative cheap
ness of divorce In tike States wan the 01
rec means of avoiding a great deal of ir
regularity. The statement that one mar
riage In fifteen waa likely to be dissolved
waa, true only so far aa registered ma.-,
riages were concerned, but there wjie
ttwhiiuttde of marrlacM whlfh rr
w. . . .
registered at. all, so that the figure was
misleading. The causes of divorce wtr
aa numerous and UberaHn other countries
aa in the United States. In Fomi'wa
"loquaoity" was a cause of divorcing a
wife.
RISU POLITICIANS ARE BUSY
,i
Memberi of Parliamentary Party
Hustle.
LEADERS MAKE MANY SPEECHES
ddea Death of General Batler
Is
Greatly Deplored Through
oat the British
Isles.
BY THOMAS F.MMETT.
DUBLIN, July 2.-(Speclal Dispatch to
The Bee.) Realising the Importance of
presenting a united front in the next parl
iament, the Irish parliamentary party is
campaigning as actively almost as though
general election was In progress The
Redmonds, Devlin, Dillon, O'Connor and the
other loaders are making speeches con
stantly and are paying especial attention
to the constituencies represented by O'Brien
malcontents.
It Is confidently predicted that the
O'Brienltes will not be able to cany more
than three or four seats at most, and it
Is regarded ns well within the line of pos-
Iblllty that both O'Brien and his lieuten
ant, Timothy Healy, will be defeated.
Bishop O'Donnell of Raphoe said re
cently: "I do not remember any time
when the country was more united In sup
port of the Irish rarty than it is at pr?s
ent; neither was there any time when that
upport waa better deaerved."
Thla seems to about sum up the situa
tion.
Belfast Harbor Improvements.
The Belfast Harbor commissioners have
tentatively adopted a scheme for the re
lamation of nearly 1,000 acres of slob land
and at the same time have agreed to a
proposal submitted by their engineer for
dredging from the ship channel to the
sea 1,600,000 tons of soil so as to provtdo
sufficient depth for liners and warships of
the largest class.
Borrow for General Batler.
The painfully sudden death of General
Blr William Butler, will be deplor.-d
throughout Ireland, as well as in Eng
land and in those colonies where he had
seen much active service. A brave and
capable soldier, he served the British em
pire in Canada and Africa and rose to
within a step of the highest rank in the
army, though, owing to his frank, honest
and, as events proved, sensible advice given
to the government on the day before the
outbreak of hostilities in South Africa, he
was for a time most unpopular in England
and scarcely received the full measuro of
reward which his services merited. Ho
was aa skilled with the pen aa with the
sword and some of his books make most
entrancing reading and will be regarded
valuable additions to British military
history. His wife, too, as MIbs Thompson,
earned undying fame by her paintings,
two military subjects, "The Roll Call" and
The Scots Greys at Waterloo," bain
among the most admired of the pictures
shown at the Dublin International exhitn-
ttarrof lrr."'rTt'ta,-liawever1 Tail' patrJcUo
Irishman that Sir William Batler will be
best remembered In this country. He was
convinced horn ruler, but, though his
name was several times menuonea tor
constituencies, he never entered Parlia
ment 6U11, in another sphere, he rendered
good services to his country, being a prom
Inent member of the National University
commission and of the senate.
Real Pish Itory.
The leading Irish papers published the
other day a queer fish story from County
Cuvan. It is said that two anglers in a
Hinall boat near the mouth of the rwer
Finn saw an enormous fish approaching
them from Lough Erne. Its back wu
above the water and it raised great waves
on each side. The men quickly pulled
their boat aside, but the tlsh gave cnase
and was soon alongside, plunging on the
surface at a furious rate. It appeared to
be fully ten teet long, with proportionate
girth, and had a very large head. The
scared men Francis and Philip M Donas h.
shot into a weedy place, whence thr
watched the monster dash up the river
to a small, deep lake, where it disap
peared from view. The brothers say that
It was unllko any other fish they ever
saw. Crowds of people. It is stated, are
watching for the reappearance of this
strange monster of the deep.
Redmond Children Busy.
Among those called to the Irish bar re
cently was Mr. WUiiam Archor Redmoii'J,
only son of Mr. John Redmond, M. P.
Miss Johanna Redmond, daughter of
John Redmond, has written a comedy
sketch, which la to be produced at a Lon
don muaic hall.
TORTURES WIVES TO FIND
GOVERNOR'S TREASURES
llaler of Fes Is la Prlsoa. While the
Women of His Household Are
Snbjeeted to Indignities.
TANGIER, July 2. (Special Dispatch to
The Bee.) After the imprisonment of Hal
Benalssa, the governor of Fex, who was
arrested by the sultan's orders a few weeks
ago hla womankind were all aelaed. Aa the
saltan's agents failed to discover the
governor's hidden treasure, hia wife waa
tortured In order to make her disclose ita
whereabouts, which aa it did not exist,
siie was unable to do. Her handa were aewn
up in damp rawhide, which contracts and
causes extreme pain; her breasts were
crushed between bars of wood closed by
screws, and she was suspended by her
wrists from a beam of wood. She died.
Letters from Fra state that her aon is
undergoing torture, and that HaJ Benalssa
himself Is at the point of death from cruel
ties perpetrated upon him.
It Is about a month since the European
lepiesentatlves at Tangier received a volun
tary and explicit undertaking from the 1
...It.n to abolish all cruel Duni.hmni
Mulal llafld haa been known for aome
time yal- to be addicted to the use of
druga, and letters rom Fes atate that the
v liters havs difficulty in dissuading
i htm
of af-
from wholesale murders. The state
(alts at Fea is critical, and the general
impression reigns nere mat tne exaspera-
tion ..f the native population will soon Ceremony.
find aa outlet. j ijeLGUADE, July :. (Speclai Llspatch
' 1 to The Bee.) The reception of the Turk
BOMB MAKERS ARE ARRESTED I he" apparent here waa of the most
I sincere character. Prince Ixxeddla was
Herfs Men and (tne Woman Aro met at the railway station by King peter,
Taken lata Castody at 1 the crown prince and members of the
Toklo. j cabinet. The mee.g waa very cordial.
Hla Imperial highness ..rove with the
TOKYO. July 1. trtpecial Dispatch to The king tnrough the streets which were
lice.) Seven men and one woman have - decorated with Turkish and Servian flags,
been arrested hers on a charge of manu-. Enormous crowds cheered the party sn
facturlng bombs for anarchlatlo purposes, I tausiaatlcally.
MEN OP AFFAIRS
ARE COMMONERS
Notables of France Are Inclined
to the Plain, Simple
Life.
1
PRESIDENT SETS THE EXAMPLE
M. Briand of the People, and Glad
of It. .
CHILDLESS, BUT ADOPTS THREE
Home in an Unfashionable Section of
City.
GREATLY DEVOTED TO MASONRY
loans Men n Seem to Have the
Ascendancy la French Politics
Many Good Thing's for
Officials.
By PAUL VILLIERS.
PARIS, July 2. (Special Dispatch to The
Bee ) The men of the hour in France are
all men of simple habits, the quiet unaa
sumlng democracy of President Failures, is
pernaps the most noteworthy character
istic; M. Briand the premier who may suc
ceed Fallleres, is also a man of the people
and la not ashamed of It. M. Brlsson, who
has been elected president of the chamber
of deputies, is a worthy confrere of Fal
lleres and Briand.
its measures up to former President
Roosevelt's Ideal citizen of a republic. If
he has no children, he and his good and
accomplished late wife adopted three or
phans, whom they brought up as if they
were their own. They belonged to a close
friend, M. Albert Joly, an advocate, who
rendered noble services to the cause they
had at heart under the empire and during
tne moral order regime.
M. Brlsson takes life and his duties aa
a public man too serlouKtv not in inni. .
little solemn. .
Witty and Accomplished.
Tet he can be witty and even humorous
and Is a man of the finest culture. He has
never attempted to climb the beaten nath
of Parnassus. None the less he mleht hv.
shone on them, for he Is a poet of rare
finish and delicacy. He never took up
residence in his wife's time in the Petit
uourpon. They gave their official dinners.
concerts and receptions, but continued to
have .their home among his electors in the
unfashionable neighborhood of the Chateau
a j!.au. More than ever he prefers the
noma wnere he lived with her in close com
munlty of sentiment and intellectual nur
suits and of parentage to the orphans of
the dear, cherished friend, whom they
adopted. His private fortune,' without be
ing large, is sufficient to secure Independ
ence. ..The goeot part of hla talari. ..
deputy and president goes In works of
republican and Masonic fraternity, for he
la a devoted Freemason. - All his infiu.n.
tact and experience will be needsd In nr..
aiding over this chamber. It contains far
more young members than any previous
one.
Adreata-ge of Deputies
i ia, ny tne way, a aomewhat peculiar
development of French political life that
an unuaual number of quite young men
are taxing an active Intereat in nohtlcn
A seat in the chamber now brings a
aalary of 18,000 franca a year, a flrat-clasa
nonet tnrougn rour yeara on all the rail
waya of France and Algeria, patronage In
all directions, the freedom of stalls and
oaiconioa or all of the subsidized theaters
ana access to the wings.
Think of the field of operations whth
this gives to theatrical sirens and the sus
ceptibility of a young provincial to their
"..00. a naraenea boulevardler slips
through their handa. They can do what
iimy piease wun a member green in yeara
and In want of knowledge of la vie Purls
lenne. At the last elections the von
candidates seemed ravenously aHvs to the
good things membership of the chamber
offers. They elbowed out with aplrlt the
aiu pates ana the greybeards.
Pontifical Zouaves Dccllnluir
. oi.wni.-tti zouaves are thinning
...v.. c, oui t.vau years ago when thv
lojKiu lor tr.o Pope. But recently at th
muster in Paris only, about 3u0 answered
the roll-call. The celebration began bv a
parade outside the Sucre Coeur th o.',..
basilica that dominutes all Parla and the
.-erne valley from the northern point,
w. uue inn 01 tne city, the Mount of Mar
1v TK. ........
... ,ic,no, arey or white, all of
atraignt backed still, as flKht
... men moma oe. were reviewed by thel
uwn cniet, ueneral de Charotte, who gav
them h11 th t,m,.K!..
1 re.n n HccoiHde an
th ErrAtlr.v n . i . . .
- ' um uroiner in arms
Aiier me review, high maea, with an ora
oi.eigneur ae Cabrierea,. bishop
. ...lv-..e.T wno made the interesting
reflection that most of the volunt.r. in
the Papal service wero of noble blood su
that an Italian general, into whose hands
- mhi.., m mem naa fallen by th
.uc ui war, said the roll of his captive
read ilk a guest list from the court of
Louis XIV. The "De Profundls" was sunp
...o uu ui me legion, and then th
, t. ,,.., n urove on to the social celebra
nun miner me presidency of their chief.
Journalism In Purls.
iwu nery j-ans Journalists met In th
nltlit telegraph office of the Boui sa. whenr
tney telephone to their Journals, Hnd fe
nilt thrrtulncr !...(. ........ .
...c TiaiiiiiK carus In eao
other's faces. This meant a duel, but th
antagonists were too much in a hurry to
wait until aeconds had arranged meetinri.
The two, who always carry loaded re
volvers, strode out Into the atreet walked
twenty paces apart, drew thtlr firearms
ana nias.-a away without rs.ni
n?fnr
"'"rp ",ul coula D exchanged the Dol'ee
! ar,ived nd th impatient duellists will be
I ulnmn'-
1 HONORS FOR TURKISH HEIR
j Kin Meets Prince Isaeddl
la at Hall.
nay Station vrlth Great
AUSTRIA SEEKS THE FINISH
Anxiously Awaiting End of Cretan
Difficulty.
ELEMENTS OF GRAVEST DANGER
Turkey Btaads Ready to Administer
Last I oar Leasoa to Greece, It Is
Believed la Official
Circles.
BT EMILE ANDRA88Y.
VIENNA. July '.-(Special Dispatch to
The Bee.) The Austrian government will
be heartily glad when the Cretan situat
ion Is finally settled. That Is contains ele
ments of the gravest danger is felt certain
here. Advises from Turkey indicate that
the Turkish government will avail Itself
of any reasonable pretext to administer
another and lasting lesson to Greece. The
boycotting movement of Greek goods Is
spreading. This boycotting movement was
organized by a committee at fcalonika,
where the harbor is closed to. all OreeK
vessels, the stevedores being forbidden un
der pain of death to unload Greek ships or
to assist their passengers. j
Outbreak at Smyrna.
At Smyrna the Greek tradesmen were
forced by the Cretan Mussulmans to close
their ahepe. The foreign, consuls Inter
vened with the government to protect the
Greek opnsul, who was threatened with
serious Injury. Pourparlers on the subject
of Crete continue to be conducted by the
four protecting powers. It is understood
that the four powers are not contemplating
final solution of the Cretan problem, but
Intend to address, a warning to the Island
ers that they must readmit the Moslem
deputies to the assembly and respect the
right of Moslems In general. Should this
warning fall, energetic steps will probably
be taken.
It is felt here that unless some decided
action Is taken there is liable to be serious
trouble.
Hot la Vienna.
Vienna has been suffering from almost
tropical heal. The thermometer at mid
night has registered as high as 101 degrees
Fahrenheit, and the evening and early
mornings are abnormally hot. Many cases
of prostration from the heat are recorded,
and there appears to be little prospect of
any immediate change.
Work oa Dreadnoughts.
The keel of the first Austro-Hungarian
Dreadnought has, according to the Zelt,
Just been laid in the yard of the Stab-
lllmento Tecnlca. The keel of the second
Dreadnought will be laid In September, and
It la hoped that the first veaael will be
ready for launching In the summer of 1911.
Centenarians Wed.
A remarkable wedding has just been
celebrated at Bralla, The bridegroom was
Joseph Stopf, a centenarian, and he mar
ried Maria Llga, whose age was 101. These
aged people hud loved each other in youth,
eighty years ago, but their parents would
not consent to their marriage, and the girl
waa 1 married to anotha? snao. This ana
died a few months ago, and now the sweet
hearts of eighty years ago are man and
wife. The bishop of Bralla officiated at
this Strang marriage and several thousand
people i asaembled outside the church.
Both the bride and bridegroom are in good
health and comfortable circumstances.
BtraaBO Pair of Twins.
Remarkable Intereat has been arouaed
among members of the medical profession
in Vienna by the birth of another pair of
Siamese twins. The Infants, which have
some remarkable developments, were born
to a gipsy woman In a field near Brunn.
Both children are normally developed In
the upper parts, but there is only one pair
of legs, while from the back what appears
to be a third leg haa grown, with six dis
tinct toea. Both infanta ate well. The
stronger cries a great deal and takes nour
ishment eagerly, but the other, though
breathing regularly and normally, shows
little activity and takes very little nourish
ment.
Russia and Japan
Have Old Scores
Fourteen Points of Dispute Are Yet
to Be Adjusted, but Only
. One is Serious.
ST PETERSBURG, July S-(peclal
Dispatch to The Bee.) The question of
Russo-Japanese relations, which has lately
given rise to sensational reports in the
foreign and In the Rusaion press, may be
briefly stated as follows. Both countries
have realised the expediency of a closer
understanding. This 'view has been dic
tated by political and economic considera
tions. The attitude of the other power
In aome casea friendly, but in othera ad
verse to the respective interests of Russia
and Japan has only strengthened the ten
dency on the part .of tit. Petersburg and
Toklo to come together.
The road to a final understanding, how
ever, must be cleared of disputes arising
out of the late war. Altogether fourteen
controversial matters are pending. All of
these, with one exception, are trifling. The
exception rebates to the capture of Russian
hospital eh hps. which the Japanese Justify
on the ground that they carried war stores.
Russia contests this assertion, and raises
the question of principle. The case Is one
which seems to pertain to the jurisdiction
of The Hague tribunal.
M. Isvolsky and Baron Motono will prob
ably resume in the immediate future con
versations which will tend towards a settle
ment of the outstanding disputea. The de
sire on both sides to pass to the more
Important negotiations for a general agree-
ment la coupled with a hearty readlnesa on
the part ot the allies of Russia and Japan
to co-operate, ao that there la aubstantlal
ground for the hope that that desire may
be untitled without loas of time. The
statements that Japan contomplutea the
Immediate annexation of Korea are mla
leadlng. When that event occura it may
be presumed that Japan'a allies and friends
will not suffer.
BUILDS MANY
DA I ILConlrS
1 -
Partaaraeae Government Is Strengih.
Its Naval Ko.uIb
raent. LISBON, July 2. (Special Dispatch to
The Bee.) Two battleships, six protected
cruisers, eighteen destroyers and six sub-
marines are to be built by the Portuguese
government at an estimated cost ot 130,000 -
000.
FIGHTS BIG ODDS
AND STEPS DOWN
Departure of Herr Dernburg- Ends
Ministerial Experiment in
Germany.
RESIGNATION NOT EXPECTED
Strong- Opposition of the Center
Party.
OLD STORY OF "PLENTY OF ROPE"
Southwest African Policy Very Un
popular. GERMAN POLITICS IN TURMOIL
Kaiser Is Provlasr to Bo a De
cidedly Eipenairt Proposition
to Maintain Tear After
Year.
BY MALCOLM CLARK EX
BERLIN, July 2. (Special Dispatch to
the Bee.) The- resignation of Colonial
Minister Dernburg waa not expected.
The Importaance and significance of
Herr Dernburg's departure far transcend
the limited sphere of German colonial
policy and enterprise. It Is the end, at
any rate for the present, of about the
most remarkable ministerial experiment In
modern German history, and it will ac
centuate afresh not only party differences,
but the deeper divisions of economic in
terests and social traditions which still
underlie German politics. When Herr
Dernburg was brought to the colonial of
fice from the Darmstadter bank, In 1906,
he was expected not merely to sweep away
the traces of unpleasant colonial scandals
but to put the Uerman colonies on a busi
ness basis for the encouragement of the
public and the edification of foreign coun
tries.
Plans for His Administration.
His appointment was to be the intro
duction of the commercial aplrlt into Ger
man administration, and was to forge a
link between the government and the im
mediate Interests of an industrial people.
Those who know Germany beat have always
discounted the exaggerated hope of the
experiment.
Since Prince Billow's fall and the re
newal of the' alliance of the conservative
and center parties Herr Dernburg has
had to fight against increasing odds. The
conservatives are necessarily opposed to
a primarily commercial colonial policy not
least because they fear that colonial Im
ports will hurt their agrarian interest.
The conservatives, moreover, include a
number of former colonial administrators,
who. resent eversal of-the--policy "which
they applied. Ilia center party was Herr
Dernburg's natural enemy. They gave
him "plenty of rope," but seised the op
portunity afforded in April by a bill deal
ing with the expenditure for suppreaaion
of the risings in-German southwest Africa
to inflict upon Herr Dernburg a series of
humiliations.
When the bill waa carried it waa gen
erally auppoaed that Herr Dernburg had
been reprlevad. It is now clear that he
had already recognized that his position
was in the long run -untenable. The at
tacks at home were supported In the
colonlea themaelves, and eapeclally In
southwest Africa, where, there haa been
violent crltlclam of Herr Dernburg'a ac
tion in regard to diamond claims am)
other company conceaalona. Herr Dern
burg complained bitterly of colonial dis
loyalty, and declared in the Reichstag that
the officials who fought him with public
messages to politicians and the press ought
to be taught a sharp lesson.
These are the circumstances of Herr
Dernburg's resignation.. .Its causes in
clude an Inevitable reaction in popular feel
ing after the exaggeration of colonial pros
pects and possibilities which marked Herr
Dernburg's arrival In oftlce.
Herr Dernburg's resignation will prob
ably Increase, and certainly will expose, the
difficulties of the political situation.
Rightly or wrongly, the public will ask
tnmarrow.' "Who will be next;" and a
very confident answer will be forthcoming.
The dominant parties will, no doubt, pro
test that Herr Dernburg's resignation Is
uncalled for and unnecessarily, but in 110
ouarter will it fail to produce an un
comfortable feeling of insecurity.
This will be increuaed rather than
ritmlnlshed bv the appointment of Herr
Von Llndqulst as his successor,
typical German bureaucrat,
He is
narrow
opinionated and autocratic.
Coat 'of the Knlser,
It ia being discovered in Germany that
the kaiser is an expensive Institution to
keep up. A comparison shows that every
man, woman and child In Prussia con
tributes an average of 20 cents per year for
the upkeep of the kaiser, which Is nearly
three times as much as England pays for
the maintenance ot her royal family, five
times aa much aa the Russians pay for
theirs, and more than twice aa much as
the Auatrlana have to provide. Compared
with theae prlcee republics are "dirt
cheap." for the president of France only
costs each Frenchman a trifle over a half
a cent a year, while Americans only pay-
about 1-Wth cent apiece for their president,
and expect to get a first-class article, too.
During a debate in the Diet on the pro
pocal to Increase the kaiser's "civil list,'
otherwise, his Income, Herr Hoffman ana.
lyxed the latter, and made out that it
1 amounted to M cents a second
To this
I principle, however, Herr Hoffman objected,
' complaining that the wearer of the crown
was often absent, and suggesting that the
I principle of "payment by attendance
J should be applied. Thla Idea of, putting
, the kaiser "on piece," ao to apeaa, ia
decidedly novel one.
Prise for Eighth Child.
True to his promise to stand as god
father to the eighth child In any German
I family, rich or poor, the kaiser, at Berlin,
! recently attended the christening of the
eighth boy of a houae painter named
I Busch. of Bocholt. Herr Buach has re-
1 celved a sum of ttf through the local au.
thorltles, from the kaiser's private purse
The rate of Increase of the population
of the country haa recently diminished
This was regretted by the kaiser, who
uk, Mr. Roosevelt, regards large families
ta a guarantee for the future of the na-
tlon. It waa this feeling that led the
I kaiser to offer a signal honor to parents
J with eight children.
DOCTOR KILLS NOBLEMAN
Poisoning- of Baturlin Creates Big;
Sensation.
SON OF FAMOUS GENERAL
Aed Ph; (Irian Confesses to gusw-a-laneoua
Injection of Poisons
Into Ills Victims'
System.
BY GEORGE FRASER,
ST. PETERSBURG. July 2.-(Speclal Dis
patch to the Bee.) It haa been a long time
since St. Petersourg society has bent so
shocked aa It has been by the poslonlng
of Yaslll Bututlln, only eon of General
Buturlln, a member of a noble family which
haa been prominent in oourt circles since
the time of Peter the Great. The arrest
and subsequent confession of Dr. Pant
chenko, a man of TO years had added to
the sensation.
Young Vasslli Buturlln was 26 years of
age, and in officer In the famous Pre
orbrajenskl regiment of guards. A couple
of years aro he fell in love with a Ger
man music hall alngei named Marie Stecke,
and resigned h.t commission in order to
marry her. He subsequently obtained a
position in the ministry of the interior, and
although he owned a large property In the
province In Vllna, au well as a house In
St. Petersburg, besides being the heir to
about $6,000,000 he lived a very retired life.
Killed By Physlelan.
On May 24, last, Vasslli Buturlln became
seriously Hi and died the next day. After
the doctor who waa attending him had
admtnlHtered several subcutaneous injec
tions. General Buturlln permitted a post
mortem to be held, the result of which was
to establish the fact that the young man
had been poisoned. Suspicion fell upon
Doctor Pantchenko.
Pantchenko, under police pressure, con
fessed that he wilfully poisoned young
Buturlln, by injecting cholera anti-toxin
obtained from the Cronatadt laboratory. The
dose waa calculated to ensure death with
a few days. He declared he was Instigated
by M. O'Brien de Lassy, the brother-ln
law of the dead man, who, however, pro
tests his innocence.
General Buturlln at first resented the
Mesalliance," of his son, out eventually
became reconciled to the marriage, and is
now on very affectionate terms with his
daughter-in-law. The general's only other
child Is a daughter, married to M. O'Brien
de Lassey, a Vllns land owner and a de
scendant of the famoua French Marshal de
Lassy. The police theory Is that O'Brien
de Lassy procured the poisoning so that
he, through his wife, would Bccure some
$6,000,000.
Him liar Case at Warsaw.
The poisoning of Buturlln occurred almost
simultaneously with a similar case at War
saw, where th aon of a wealthy Polish
land owner named Krjanowsky, haa been
murdered in soma tarnished roomfc "WhTGli
he occasionally frequented. By a most
extraordinary coincidence his brother-ln
law, Count Ronlker, who has been arrested
on suspicion of. having instigated the crime,
Is a distant connection of M. O'Brien de
Lassy, -who is now in Jail in connection
with the Buturlln case.
Young Krjanowsky, who was only 17
years old, was apparently killed with a
blunt instrument after a desperate strug
gle. The doors and walls of the room In.
which the body was found were bespatted
with blood. As the result of the police
investigation, suspicion fell on the owner
of the furnished rooms and his nephew and
they were both arrested. Further inquiry
convinced the police that whoever might
be the actual murderer, there waa someone
else who had prompted the crime.
Count Kaslly Caught.
One of the newspapers mentioned Count
Roniker's name in connection with the af.
fair, and the count, who was married to
the victim's sister went of his own accord
to the detective department, and asked that
an explanation should be demanded from
the editor of the paper. The chief of the
secret police confronted Count Ronlker with
the two men under arrest, and they
Identified the count aa the peraon who
had rented the rooma. Count Ronlker was
forthwith arrested. Marks of scratches
weie found on his throat. A school-fellow
of Krjanowsky testified that he had seen
the count conversing with the deceased
very shortly before the murder.
Count Ronlke" la described as being of
very engaging personality. He enjoyed great
popularity in Polish society and is the
author of several novels and successful
playsJ
SEVENTEEN ARE DEVOURED
BY ZAMBESI RIVER SHARKS
Steamer Htrlkes Hock aaa Slaka
Passengers Eaten While Swim
ming to Shore.
LISBON, July 2. (Speclai Dispatch to
The Bee.) Seventeen persona have been
eaten by sharka In the Zambesi river while
Journeying through Portuguese territory,
The steamer IJuruo. loaded with mer
chandlse, struck a submerged rock and
rapidly filled with water. The four pus
sengers and the crew Jumped Into th
boats, which were overturned in thel
frenzy. When they tried to swim ashore
thuy were attacked by sharka, and
despite the efforts at rescue made by the
Portuguese gunboats Tete and Sena, only
the captain, one passenger and two sailora
were saved, the remalnlpg three passengers
and fourteen of the crer being eaten.
OFFICER DETERMINED TO DIE
Tries to Suffocate Himself with Char.
roal and Finishes with a
llullet.
TOULON, July 2. (Special Dispatch to
The Bee.) A curloua suicide Is reported
by the police. A naval officer, 27 years
of axe. who, aa he had failed to aufforat
hlmse.f with a couple of pans of charcoal,
lodged a bullet in hia heart.
He had been living alx years with a
young woman, and he left a letter in which
he asked bis parents, who reside at Bette,
to give her sums of money which ha had
lying at the aavlnga bank, and the re
mainder to hla alster.
The officer's motive for putting un end
to hla daya seems utterly abaurd. He paid
a visit to a barber, and his hair was so
closely cropped that his appeariinco waa
completely changed. Thla, it la said, preyed
on hla mind, and he felt thai he could llvs
no longer.
MAY CHANGE THE
PAPAL SECRETARY
Cardinal Merry Del Val is Likely to
Be Transferred to Some
Other Place.
HE LACKS TACT, IS CHARGE
Places the Vatican in Embarrassing'
Positions.
MANY EXPLANATIONS IN ORDER
Precipitated the Roosevelt Church
Incident.
DETAILS CONCERNING MAD KING
Otto Suffers Acutely from Insomnia
aad Haa a Horror of Soap,
Water aad Maalcara
Implements.
BY CLEMENT J. BARRETT.
ROME, July 2.-(Speclal Dispatch to The
Bee.) The papal secretary of atate. Car
dinal Mery del Vat, may be transferred to
aome other port and a man of more taot
be placed In charge of the outaide relations
of the Vatican. Thla opinion is held by
many churchmen aa well aa laymen.
While it la recognised that the cardinal
secretary of state Is a man of ability and
most devout churchman, he Is wofully
lacking In diplomacy and has placed the
Vatican in most difficult position on more
than one occasion.
The latest Instance Is the encyclical re
garding St Charles Barromeo, which is
said to be the work of Cardinal del Val
and which has caused such great indig
nation In proteirtant Germany that the
government haa made formal protest and
the Vatican has .been compelled to make
explanations if not apologies which were
rather humiliating.
The encyclical contrasted the character
of St. Charles Barromeo with those of the
reformers strongly to the saint's advan
tageand the reformera were said to hava
"called the perversion of faith and morals
reform. In truth," it Bays, "they wera
aeducera."
Germany Makes Protest.
The German chancellor, von Bethtnann-
Hollwog, Instructed the German minister
at the Vatican to Inform the curia that
"the encyclical contains opinions upon th
reformers and the reformation and princes
and .peoples favorable to the movement
which grievously offend the religions, po
litical and moral feelings of our protoatant
population. Theae opinions, which are of
fensive also In form, Involve serloua danger
to religious peace."
L-hfi ...yattcah, In response to the note, pre
sented by the Prussian minister, forwarded
to the Prussian government a declaration
that the Barromeo encyclical waa not di
rected against the German p rotes tanta.
coupled with explanations which, according
to the Vatican officials, may be expeoted
to afford Germany full satisfaction. It Is
regarded aa particularly unfortunate that
thla should have occurred at a time when
the agitation for the Revision of the corona
tion oath prescribed for the king of Eng
land and the elimination of the offensive
references to the Catholic church had prac
tically been brought to a satisfactory con
clusion. It is feared It . will furnish the
enemies of the church fresh ammunition
not only In England and Germany, but In
Spain, France and Italy as well.
It will be recalled that It was Cardinal
del Val who precipitated the Roosevelt In
cident, which, to say the least, reflected no
credit on the church. Other similar Inci
dents which have not attracted the wide
attention these have, are recalled aa mak
ing Mgr. del Val'a regime unpopular.
Life of n Craay King.
Some remarkable details relating to the
Mad King, Otto of Bavaria, are pub
llahed from a dlplomatlo source by the
Glornale d'ltalla. Though ahut ud for
forty yeara In castlea (he la not In the
Castle Furstenrled) and though 62 years of
age, Otto la still a fine handsome figure,
with a magnificent beard and flowing gray
locks.
The stories about his periodical fits of
fury are quite untrue. His court la pre
sided over by Marshal Baron Redwla, and
consists of a few trusty gentry belonging
to the most ancient families of the Bavarian
aristocracy. ,
King Otto suffera terribly from Insomnia,
and often sits up In bed half the night
staring towards the door, as If expecting
somebody to enter. He, however, arises
punctually every morning st 8, and mutely
allows himself to be dressed by his valet.
He has a holy horror of soap and water,
and of havlnjr hla hair and nails out, ao
that servants have to await patiently a
favorable day for theae operations, when
the poor patient la in a atate of oomplete
apathy.
The demented king amokea Incredible
quantities of cigarettes, and ia always
puffing away, save when he la abaorbed
In his favorite pastime of studying the
operatic music of his jmt composer, Vsrdl.
Often he causes the castle halls to resound
all clay long with the melodies of "Rlgo-
ietto.'
FEARFUL ACCIDENT IN
BULL RING AT ALHAURIN
Grandatand (olUpspi and Mad An.
mula Charge the Punlc
KtrU'krii Audience.
MALAYA, July (.(Special Dispatch to
The Bee.) Another dreadful accidi-nt in a '
Spanish lull ring has uccimtimI at Alhau
rln. ' v
PeuKuntu from many lullug around
crowded there for a special display by a
famous company ..f bull flthters. Home
exceptionally fins animals wero being pa
raded In the arena prior to the first en
gagement, and tile pe tator stamped their
feet in the f-nthiiHlastlo foreign way in
approval of. their flre looks.
At that moment the supports under the
top tier of seats Kave way and in a few
seconds half of the stands rere In ruins.
The shrieks and groans of the people so
appalled the offlclaW that they completely
lost their heads. Three bulls stampeded
over the broken barricade, and charged
into the helplesa victims before th at
tendants were able to control them. Una
bull had to be killed.
Eleven peraons were extricated in a dy
ing condition and forty others with mora
or lass serious Injuries
