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ground. The old king wrote to her frequently, and remained constant in his affection for her, but fears for the throne he had agreed to abdicate with in a year kept him from insisting on her return, and Lola Montez drifted off into the world, again soldier of for tune. Her subsequent career is an oft-told story She died in New York in the winter of 1861, and low mound in Greenwood now marks her resting place.
 Among these favorites of dead king Katharina Bozzaris, an imperious southern beauty, with raven hair and dark burning eyes, next deserves at- tention. She was a descendant of the illustrious Marco Bozzaris, the hero of Missolonghi and the champion of Grecian freedom. King Ludwig took a deep and active interest in the strug- gles of the Greeks to free themselves from the rule of the Turk, and it was largely by his personal efforts that his son Otto became king of Greece.
 Demitri Bozzaris was Grecian seere- tary of war during Otto's reign, and the DeauGlIul hdUhdrlna q ineHpef oI hls household. Introduced in this way to King Ludwig, the history of her family excited his interest, and her own rare gift of mind and person his affection, and it was thus that she se- cured speedy and welcome entrance into his gallery of beauties. Tradition, however, has it that she was too proud to win friends and too willful to live in peace with other sharers of the royal bounty, and in consequence the Greek womans sway in the palace at Munich was almost as short as that of the Montez.
 The portrait of Amelie von Krudener shows her to have been one of the most beautiful of King Ludwigs favorites.
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GAN A CAT THINK?
Mickey Finn Reasons Sagely in
 the Affirmative.
He offers an Inustration-The Finn Fami- y Divides Upon a Momentous Issue, But Listens to Its Young Hope
 fups Facts and Arguments.
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The style of the Finn shanty archi- lecture was of the most primitive or der. There was a slight trace of Gothic ideas in the gabled roof, but here all ref erence to accepted forms of grace and style ceased. But if the outside of the shanty was unprepossessing, an at tempt had been made on the inside to conform to recognized and convention al forms of decoration and convenience. For instance, the rusty stovepipe, where 1t protruded through the clapboards, had been encircled by a collar of bright new tin, while red paper shade around the lamp chimney added touch of brightness to the kitchen, which was all the more agreeable because of the Stygian darkness of the April night. These conditions, however, were not subjects of comment to the occupants of the shanty. The Finn family, when gathered around the fire in the evening, were usually engaged in the discussion of much graver problems, such as: "Why does a pig cut his throat wid his feet whin he swims across Browns pond?" or some question equally enigmatical. So on the evening indicated the ques- tion arose: "Can a cat think?"
 The house of Finn was divided on this question, the elders taking up the negative side of the problem, while lit tie Mike as stoutly asserted his belief in the affirmative.
 Nonsense" said MT. Finn; "thim b1atherin', howlin' scuts, that does be ma1vatherin' around on the fnce in the nightl Shure, they can't think. They make too much noise to be thinliin', Mickey"
 "That's whar ye are mistaken, fa- ther," said the boy, waving his finger didactically in the direction of his progenitor. "Whin the eats are upon the fnce they are singin' love songs and coortin', and coortin' takes a dale O thinlxin'n 5
 sTroth, ye are right thar, Mickey" Mr. Finn replied. "Coortin' do take hape O thinl1in', but not by cats"
 Well, can tell ye about a eat that did hape O thinl1in' to save the life of another cat, :" continued little Mike, pos itively.
 .tWas the cat tal1in' poison, or did she try to cut her throat with a razor?" asked Mr. Finn, derisively.
 "No," continued the boy, seriously; ''wid wan stroke of her paw she saved the other from losin' her backbone. :"
 ssArrah, look at that now, Mickey; faith, you are goin' crazy" interjected
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until her death she remained the friend and confdante of her king.
 Anna Hilmayer, another of Ludwig's favorites, was as generous and free handed as Frau yon Hagen was grasp ing and miserly. She was a second rate danseuse, but a first-rate beauty, who easily won the kings affection, and for a long time held it with a firm grasp. When another came to displace her she wasted neither time nor tears in useless repining, but, retiring with excellent grace and good humor and a whole heart, speedily proved to the world that the royal favor was not es- sential to her happiness. The Hilmayer may have been as f1clsle as she was fair, but she was the friend of the poor and dried many tears in secret.
 What merry, laughing face had Au- gusta Strobel, one of Ludwigs favor ties in his youth History is silent in regard to her, and actress" and 'beauty" are all that can be written after her name in this record. Au- gusta Strobel is the womanly embodi- ment of a splendid butterfly.
 Helen Sedlymer was another actress favorite of the king-a beauty who would at first pass unnoticed, but in the end would not fail to win the heart. She came from a family of good repute and her talent and good looks early won her an enviable position on the stage and opened the way to the royal chambers. The kings affection for her was ardent and lasting. and was re- turned in full measure. She never mar ried, repelling the addresses of distin- guished gentlemen who sought her for wife, for her heart belonged to the king.
 Proud and austere, if her portrait does her no injustice, must have been Lady Jane Erskine, the English beauty, who, in some way, found place in King Ludwig's gallery. Her father, Lord David Erslxine, was at one time English minister at Munich, and it was there that she made the acquaintance of her royal admirer. There is no req son for believing that the kings rela-
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beautiful face when it belonged to woman, and would on occasion hazard much to gain the favor of its owner. As felx1e as he was gallant, his favor ties followed each other in quick sue cession, and in the course of his life numbered nearly two-score. From time to time the king had their DOT traits painted by famous artists, and these pictures, thirty-eight in number, now hang in one of the apartments of the old royal palace in Munich. The room which houses them is jealously guarded from the public, and for tunate, indeed, is the tourist who at rare intervals secures an entrance thereto.
 However, in 1881, the mad king" Louis IL, grandson and successor of Louis L, caused photographs to be taken of the paintings. A dozen sets of these photographs were bound in vol umes and presented with the royal autograph to the intimate friends of the dead king, whose memory his ec- centric descendant sought in this strange way to keep green. One of these volumes, beautifully bound in red morocco, is now the property of well-known resident of New York. It lies before me as 1 write, and from it are reproduced the portraits which ac- company this article.
 Prominent among the lovely faces which look out from it's beveled pages is that of a remarkable woman still re- membered by Americans, the gifted and wayward Lola Montez, whom her kingly admirer made countess of Lans- field, and for whom he risl1ed and lost his throne. A woman of singular beauty and infinite charm, she was still under thirty when, in 1846, she made the acquaintance of the king, then past sixty, who was infatuated by her Vaccinations to degree almost un- exampled in history. She appeared on the stage in Munich for a brief period, and then surprised and dismayed the Bavarians by being adopted by the king as his chief friend, associate and
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Her career is shrouded in mystery, but she is believed to have been the daugh- ter of the noted Juliane von Krudener, whose wit and beauty won her so many exalted admirers, a czar of all the Rus sias included, three generations ago. The mother, after a brief marital ex- perience in 1796 secured q divorce from her husband, Konstantin von Krudener, and thereafter was the bright particu- lar star of gay circles in Paris, where a French officer, Count Fregenille, was her preferred lover, and in St. Peters burg, where the dreamy and melan- cholic Alexander 1. was an almost nightly visitor to her salon. By reason of her influence with the czar she was a force which for many years could not with safety be omitted from any political combination. Late in life she became a religious devotee and found a refuge in Switzerland, but her seem- ing piety and lavish gifts to the poor did not prevent the rulers of the noun tain republic from exiling her as pes tilent political intriguante, and with her daughter she retired to the Crimea, where she died in 1894. She left large estates in the Baltic provinces of Rus sia. inherited from her husband, and the proceeds from their sale are thought to have furnished Amelie von Krudener with the means required for merry and luxurious sojourn in Paris and Rome.
 At any rate, it was in the latter city that the wayward Russian beauty first met King Ludwig. At his entreaties she settled in Munich, and by her beauty and the glamour thrown about her by her mothers career long held the king willing captive. She re- ceived a liberal pension just before the stirring events of 1S4S, but beyond this little or nothing is known of her last years
 If the portrait of Charlotte von Hagen speaks true, hers was one of those faces which interests by degrees, but in the end cannot be forgotten-a small head set on shapely white shoulders, mouth made for smiles and kisses, and eyes of limpid blue. She was born in Munich in 1909, and, making her debut as an actress at the age of seventeen, at once
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and winnin' wa, whin she'd ,purr twas like music, so@ssvas. Ye'd think she wore velvet shoes, so ye would. mother, if ye seen her walkin' across the kitchen floor"
 ''Oh, the dear," muttered Mrs. Finn, sympathetieally, melted by Mickeys description.
 "Yes, continued the boy, sbut she had wan fault. She was a flirt. She made eyes at all the cats. But she was fonder of Bolivar than of any of the others bekase he was big and black and strong and fierce like a wildcat. And cats are like women. They like big, strong lovers, that1l ballyrag and bully thim. But Cinderilla used to tease Bolivar by flirting with the other cats and Bolivar 'ud go off and sulk by him. self in the barn. Well, wan night Cin- derilla was firtin' wid wan O thim O'Grady's tomcats, and Bolivar's heart was bruS in two pieces, so what does he do but he goes in the little hole in the barn door and curls himself in wan corner of the barn and groans and cries till his face was wet with salty tears. Thin he gets up, lazy and sor- rowful like, to look at the moon. We'll, he went out of the little door and sat down just outside, lavin' his tail | in the hole, and the little door fell back on his tail and caught 1t. The door came down aisy like and Bolivar didn't notice it at first So he began to pour out his grief in song to the moon. He began to sing the tune the hand organs play, we know, mother: 'Ah, Have Sighed to Rest Me- manin' he wanted to be dead and buried, whin he felt the | door on his tall and stepped out little to get it out of the crack of the door. But the more he pulled the tighter his tail stuck in the hole. Thin he began to yell howly murther, and everybody for near mile around was awake in a minute And among thim that was woke up by the yowlin' and scrougin' was Cinderilla, that was eurled up in her mistress boodwar on pillow And whin she heard the voice of her beloved Bolivar howlin' in the night she jumped up and ran to help him. And whin she came to where Bolivar was she put her arrums around Bolivars neck and kissed him and whispered gentle words of love in his ears, and he became quiet like lamb Thin Ginder- fila walked over to the little door that held Bolivar's tail, and standin' on her hind legs she took one of her velvet hands, and what does she do but strike the little door two or three times and make the door fly back, and thare was Bolivar free, and his backbone was saved, and that's the rayson Pm after sayin' that cats can think"
 MT. and Mrs. Finn gazed thought fully into the fire for nearly q minute. Micl1ie yawned and went to bed.
 "Biddy,n said Mir. Finn, reaeetively, '.thats a great boy O yours. Faith, Pm after thinlSin' we'll have to be mak- in ly'yer of him" MICKEY FINN.
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tions with her were other than esteem and cordial friendship would prompt.
 The same is true of the countess of Ottingen-Oettingen and Anna von Greiver, who also have places in the collection I am describing. The former was the pretty daughter of lifelong friend of the king-the sturdy Count Nallerstein, whose refusal in 1906 to enter the employ of Napoleon cost him his estates-and the latter, a popular actress, who married captain in the Bavarian army and left the stage at 30 to become an honored wife and mother. She was the last in point of time to gain admission to this singular gallery of beaties, and the winsome face that compelled the admiration of a king alone made place for her there. Had the others secured entrance in the same way, Ludwig might have not lost his throne. RUFUS 6. WILSON.
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HE DIDN'T LIKE DOGS.
And He Had Good Reasons for DisIiking
 Them.

And He Had Good Reasons for DisIiking
 Them.
 "Hello" exclaimed Hicks, q haven't seen you for ages! And that reminds me of funny thing about my dog. You sec"
 Interesting, no doubt," replied Wicks, in an offish way; but you see I don't care for dogs"
 Don't care for dogs?"
 ''Well, no, not particularly. You sec 1 have had about all the experience with dogs that want"
 ''For instance?7
 "Well, in the first place, two dogs live next door to me, and they enter tain particular dislike for me. They have habit of storing their bark until lie down to take my afternoon nap. I don't know how they always find it out, but they do, perhaps by their blamed instinct; but just as begin to doze off they begin to let off the bark they have been saving up for my tor ment, and they never leave off until I get up, and without having had my nap; instinct again, confound theml"
 Not very pleasant
 "Pleasant? l should say not; but that is not all. These same dogs make free with my garden, littering it with bones and decayed meat in winter and scratching up my choice seeds in sum- mer."
 'sYou should be thankful that your seeds come up at all"
 Don't be funny. They're the plague of my life, and the plague of my cats life, too. Fuss can't show her nose out side the door but both of those brutes come at her with a swoop and bark that is enough to frighten everyone of the nine lives completely out of her.
 "Then there's dog that lives little way down the street, and the way he shows his teeth when I go by is enough to make ones hair stand on end. He got at me once when the gate was open, and only quieted him with a foot or two of my coattal."
 ''Wanted it to go with his pants, probably"
 Don't be an idiotl He wanted me for breakfast. Perhaps you'll say you are so dreadful smart, that he took me for bone. But perhaps you wouldn't think it so very funny yourself to have a dog with fine set of teeth, and a ravenous appetite, coming after you full tilt.
 "No, sir, don't like dogs, and don't want to hear any fairy stories about their wonderful instinct or reason, or whatever you call it. Just look at my front door when you re round my way and see how the critters have scratched the paint off
 And, talking of instinct, they haven't got any. If they have, it all ways runs the wrong way"
 But dog saved your uncle's life once. Your uncle told me so himself"
 .'Yes; and he still lives, and is likely to live till all is blue, and, if it hadn't been for that meddlesome, interfering cur, wouldn't have to be working for a living now. hate dogs. ."-Boston Transcript
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This story deals with the follies and caprices of a dead king and the souvenir, as odd as it is dainty, which serves to bring them to the minds of another age and country.
 Louis l. of Bavaria was in many ways remarkable monarch. Sprung from the great house of Wittelsbach, the founders of which Ron the crown of Bavaria by their wisdom in council as well as by courage in the field, he was not an unworthy descendant of his forbears, and left deep impression upon his age. He was a man of strong and original intellect, poetic tempera- ment and marked admiration for the beautiful. Modern Munich, the most curious and unique of European cities, was planned, begun and completed by him, and he enriched it with noble churches and palaces, splendid mu- seums, theaters and academies, beauti- ful statues and imposing monuments. Moreover, he was an able and fore sighted ruler, as well as wise patron of the arts, and during his reign raised Bavaria from condition of absolute vassalage to the house of Hapsburg to a rich, hourishing and reasonably inde- pendent country.
 But Louis I. had one weakness, and in the end it proved fatal. He loved
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saw wid him out to the barn, and saws a round hole no bigger nor stovepipe in the bottom of the barn door. Thin, yell mind, he takes the piece O wood that he saws out O the hole and puts it back in the hole again, and nails a lit- tie hinge on the top so that the little piece of wood would swing inside and outside, dye see? And whin ye were loolSin' at it from the outside ye wouldn't think there was door there at all, at all, it was that small, dye mind? And"
 But what has the little door to dc wid the thinlin' O cats?" asked Mrs Finn, impatiently.
 Mother" exclaimed the youthful narrator, with gentle and flial for. bearance, If yell let me finish the story yell see where the cat thinlfin
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adviser. With natural gift for diplo- macy and political intrigue, she quick ly made her influence felt, and from her study in Munich conducted bril- liant and potential correspondence with the leading diplomats of Europe. Her residence was the most beautiful in Munich, and she was presented at court by the king as my best friend" /" With the consent of the crown prince she was ennobled and presented with an estate, which carried with it feudal rights over two thousand souls
 To her credit be it said, the Montez exerted herself for the best interests of the king and his subjects; but her reign. nevertheless, was destined to be as brief as it was brilliant. Her ene- mics were legion, and always busy and the stories circulated about her
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soon produced perceptible effect. She was hissed and insulted when she ap- peared in public. When the student mobbed her house, and the king re- taliated with an edict closing the uni Versity, demands for her expulsion came from all quarters, and in the end the Bavarian chamber of peers forced from her royal admirer an order for her banishment. Soldiers conducted her to the border, while the people of Munich burned her residence to the
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Anti-Fat.

Anti-Fat. In order to reduce his weight He purchased him wheel; Before he'd ridden it q week He fell of a good deal
 Cleveland Plaindealer.
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BEAUTIES OF A KING.
Louis T.. of Bavaria and His Gal
 lery of Court Favorites.

Lola Montez as Pompadour-Pretty Women Who Won the Kings Pickle Favor and Helped to Lose
 Him Ills Throne.
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comes in at the end, and no to be con tinued in our next in it, either"
 Then he resumed, while his father blew contemplative rings of smoke
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-11-14
LAND FLOWS WITH W.HISKEY
MINERS ARE REPORTED IN GREAT
NUMBERS Ar COOKS INLET

Additional Light is Thrown on the Affair
Miners in Considerable Numbers Are
Reported at Cooks Inlet-None of the
Miners Are Reported as Very Rich.
Washington. Nov. 1S.--The treasury
department has adviees from Alaskas
October 15, which throw some addition
al light upon the affairs of that terri
tory. Miners in considerable numbers
are reported at Cooks Inlet, where ex-
tensive gold mines have been found.
None of the mines are very rich, but
they run from ten to twenty-five dollars
a day per man. 1t is expected that e.
900 men will be in the Cook Inlet coun-
try next summer. Deputy Collector Nc
Nair reports that Circle City, the CEN
ter of the gold excitement along the
Yukon river, eighty miles above the
mouth of Birch Creek, has now pop-
ulaton of 500 He estimates that $780,
900 in gold has been taken out of the
Birch Creek district this summer. Many
claim ownership and most of the mirls.
| efs are aliens. N
THE LAND FLOWS WITH WHISKEN
| The country around Circle City pro-
duces fine grass and hay, and immense
droves rof moose and caribou dec
abound.
Assistant Secretary Hamlin, who
made visit to Alaska this spring and
who has immediate charge of affairs
there, stated to-day that he was con-
vinced that there should be a radical
change in the enforcement of the law in
Alaska.
Either the military should be cloth
ed with civic authority in certain cases
or else the civic officers should be back
ed up by the military in Alaska said
Mr. Hamlin. "In the present state of
affairs the civil authorities are power
less to enforce processes. IF the cap
tain Of a United States troops had the
power of a commissioner the interests
of Americans in Alaska would be pro-
tected. + rather favor the quartering
of a respectable number of United
States troops in Alaska to support the
civil authorities in enforcing the laws
there"
The sending of troops to Alaska has
been the subject Of consultation be-
tween Secretaries Lamont and Carlisle,
but no action has been taken, as 1t VIII
require legislation by congress.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-11-14
AFFAIRS IN HAWAII.
Importation of Japanese Contract Laborers
Has Been Stopped.

II as been StOppous
San Francisco, Nov. 1S.--HonolIlu adj
vices to November 6 say:
The Japanese consul general, shinunl-
ara, arrived yesterday. Fte says his
government is dissatisfied with the fall
ure Of the Hawaiian government to-
live up to the terms of the immigration
treaty with Japan, in trying to check
the influx here of Japanese. He is to
give special attention to that subJect*
This government has for some time
looked with much apprehension upon
the increasing predominance in NUNS
bers of Japanese in Hawaii over the
other nationalities, as well as upon the
restless temper shown by them. On this
account they have stopped the importa-
tion of Japanese contract laborers and
caused Chinese to be supplied instead.
On the evening of November 100 Jas
anese engaged I'M riotous conflict. The
police had to be called out and in force,
and they used their clubs freely. Sew
era1 Japanese were cut with Knives
Sixteen were arrsted These people had
been drinking heavily on their emper-
or's birthday. Yesterday the men ar
rested appealed TO Consul Shimidize
against the rough clubbing they receiv-
ed from the native policemen. The Jap
anese show a tendency to antagonize
the authorities.
Judge Henry E. Cooper succeeds the
new minister to Washington, F. M
Hatch, as minister of foreign affairs.