The herald., 1896-01-21
TALKS WITH Travellers
Frank Language on German Ma.
tiOnal Political Preferences
PRIEST, POET, PROLETARIAT
Russia, Germany and Frances Attitude
Towards English Aggrandizement
Detectives Dupiicity and Defeats-Revivol of
Antique Forms Of Rings-Some Sug-
gestive Forms Described


question as to whether the German en-
peror was popular in his country: The
best idea L can give you OF this is perhaps
indicated by the many half-critical, half
humorous, and wholly affectionate ap-
pelations we have bestowed upon him ac-
cording to our various tastes and party
likings. They fit every shade of popular
opinion: Reise Kaiser, Weise Kaiser.
Soldaten Kaiser, Socale Kaiser, Agraran
Kaiser, Friedens Kaiser and Kreigs Kaiser.
You notics how one name is almost the
opposite of the other. Wilhelm, emperor
of Germany, is man of necessarily sud
den impulses, and in the firm belief that
he is infaliible, he is almost imovably
stubborn, and averse to counsel from
calmer brains THAI his. The constant
Hopping, to use your forcihe American
slang, makes him pleasing to the different
factions, or displeasing, as the humor
siezes him. His tickle faith in his ever
changing confidential advisers, is due to
form of mental alienation not uncom-
monty seen in subjects of strumous
diathesis, evidences of which he has ex-
hibited in the various roles of poet,
preacher and proletariat. This vacillating
temper SNAKES pubic CODnuonCR.
Personally he is greatly beloved, and
whenever he shows himself in public, as
on the last notable occasion-the anniver-
sary of his grandfa,her's coronation as
emperor-the popular joy is unbounded.
Yet, in the face of this, the opposition to
his rule is strong. Even the conservative
party, the sole remaining prop of the inn
perial throne, is rebellious on account of
the agrarian questions, the liberals oppose
him on account OF his reactionary meas
ures generally and his pronounced deter
mination to enforce absolutism. The
Reichs party entertain fears that his
carries will succeed in undoing the splendid
achievements of his grandfather, and, as
his countrymen lovingly call him, Gruen
derdes Reichs Bismarck. The Central
party is opposed to the kaiser also, be-
cause the Jesuits are not recalled and not
yet allowed to enter the reich. The social
lists oppose him, as is but natural. firstly,
on general principles, secondly and main
ly. on account of his enforcement to the
letter of the Ausnahme Gesetze, which af-
tlicts the socialist SO sorely. One firm, de-
termiued hand is needed to rule the reichs-
tag. to bring order out of chaos; and to
insure the passage of pending bills intro
duced by the chancellor. Hohenlohe is
too weak to do this, and he will very likely
step down and out at no distant date.
The rumor is current in weil-infOrmed
circles that Count Herbert Bismarck will
soon be foreign minister. The whole
country was i'll sympathy with the em-
peror in his congratulatory message to
President Kruger, with the exception of
the extreme socialists. Russia and Ger
many have both an understanding to ar
rest the persistent aggranizement of Eng
lands dominions, and the former being in
full rapport with France, the world may
see ere long triple offensive alliance be-
tween France, Germany and Russia to set
| tie old scores with their old enemy Eng
| land.
A treasury department detective said !:
sit is almost a matter of impossibility to
prevent becoming known to violators of
the law, despite the greatest care and pru-
dence. One who has been an operative for
any heightened period, and whose work
keeps him in one locality, is as we'll known
to the crook as is the face of the president.
The plan that works best is to keep men
covering much larger area, and taking
care to send the same man to the same
place as rarely as possibls. This plan is
generally adopted by France, Germany
and Russia, which have the best equipped
| forces Of detectives and confidential agents
in the world. Not long ego gang OF
clever forgers, countoriieiters and green
| goods men were operating with great sue
cess in Chicago. At the Grand Pacific hotel,
where several big hauls had been made,
| three of the shTewdest and most expert
enced men were detailed. Everyone of
the rogues succeeded in avoiding arrest,
or even being seen by the officers. At the
Auditorium young man who had never
! been III Chicago before was posted. He
knew some of the fellows working that
place from having seen them in other
cities. AS result, four bad
men were arrested and much property
was recovered. This is my first visit
to Los Angeles, nobody knows me here, not
even other detectives, and the number of
all around beats on Spring street and about
the principal resorts are in blissful ignor-
ance OF my identity. Then there is an
other great precaution. We rarely, if ever,
! have our portraits taken, generally destroy
Ing those we had as soon as we join the
| force. On the other hand we have good
| pictures, not only of convicts, but of hum
dreds of men and women who break the
law, but who as yet have succeeded in
avoiding arrest. We do not think much of
| the plan of measuring criminals, or of tax
| ing impressions Of their fingers and toes.
! Once we have seen face it is indelibly
| photographed on the brain, and the trained
| eye enables Us not only to be expert ply
| siognomists, but to read a mans mind as
| quickly as flash. This is somewhat more
difficult in the matter of women, and often
! necessitates the laying Of some simple
trap, into which they arc almost sure to
| fall.
ue very GdClIeSt lueutlOn we nave OF
| rings said a skilled artist in these beaut.
| ful adornments, who has been for many
years in the employ Of the most celebrated
| jewellers in the world, ''Clate back as far as
| 1927 historically, the passage being in the
| bool. of Genesis. Next comes brief men,
| ton of Pharaoh's ring, and that used by
| Darius OF Babylon, and the statement of
! Herodotus that the wearing of rings was
universal among Babyionians by both
sexes. Of course their primary Use was as
| sgnets, and not as ornaments, and their
| great convenience in days when the art of
| writing was only acquired by the few,
made them to have their use extended from
the East into Europe. No mention is made
of rings in Homer, Or of the custom of
wearing them their earliest use was in
Solon's time, as signets only. Here Is a
scarabeus, beautifully engraved, which
was found in the sand in the inner
court of the temple at Karnac.
Notice how exquisite is the delicacy of the
inlaglio. IL was hetrothal ring, and was
worn perhaps by some loving daughter of
the Nile, whose people built the glorious
pillars of that splendid temple in which it
was found. Roman rings of ancient date
were always of iron, beautifully wrought
Some beautiful specimens are in the Picci
and Utfiz museums and galleries at Flor
ence. There is one. with "a fine uncut en-
erald weighing about three carats. 1t was
lent me for copy, TO mako this one, which
is betrothal gift to her lover by a rich
California lady OF nice artistic sense. There
is great demand for antique rings Just
massive. See this one, also a copy, with
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