New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-07-03

to be $4,000 Horns, but which the "Almanach
de Gotha' puts at only about 10000 orns, or
f2,OO0. Thus Il happens that upon enter
ing Liechtenstcin you have to explain away
The cigars in your pOrtiEantcau TO an Austrian;
but as he is very good Austrian, much more
inqusltvc than strict. you may face him with
out d trem0r. Unless, indeed. you be q smusgieI
on quite a formidable scale. In that case.
scarcely know what the good Austrian will do
with you; for in all the fair land Of Lechtenstein
there is no prison.
PRISONERS ARE "BOARDED OUT"
When a Liechtenstener commits a serious
crime and h seldom 50 far forgets himseif-the
prircipaty has to hire prison accommodation
for him in the neighboring Austrian town d
Feldkirch; so it is possible that # you smuggls
too extravagartly you also will go to Feldkirch,
Why the Prince remains in postal alliance with
his Austrian brother cannot for the life Of mo
imagine. If, instead OF letting his subjects use
Austrian stamps, h. issued STAMPS Of his own
he would assuredly draw from the phiIates1
considerable" addition TO his income.
Liechtensten is as | have limited. a little
Gilhertian in the matter Of her alliances. her
customs. her prisons. and her postal arrange
ments; but she is very much more unconvcn-
tonal and topsy-turvy in other directions. In
1876 when war broke out between Austria and
Prussia. l.echtenstein calamity joined the
former Power. and modifying her little army
Of Sxty-sx men, under Captain Rheinbcrger,
dispatched it toward the scene Of hostilities. II
had marched as far Arlberg when news
reached it If the disastrous battle of K0ng-
gratz. whcreupon the captain and his merry
men. realizing that they too late for the
fair. mar'Sled peacefully back a. IN. Two
y ars later Liechtcasten dsbanded her army,
and forever released her subjects from liability
to military service. and then she recollected-
for surely she could not have recollocted u
earlier that. although she had taken up arms
against Prussia. she rad omitted to make peace
with that Power Prussia had probably deemed
her opponent too insignificant % be worth max
Ing a treaty with. Liechtenst,in mad forgotten
to insist upon the conclusion of the war in the
orthodox manner
From this it results that ever since June. 1866.
Liechtenstein has BEEN 80 far as International
law is concerned, in a state Of uninterrupted
hostilies in spite OF the fact that during thirty
OF the thirtytwO years Nat have elapsed since
she has been absolutely without a soldier. Such
record as this is. I believe unprecedented In
history. Yet the good customs officer on the
Liech tenstein side OF the LuZ.enstieg Pass makes
no difficulty about admitting Prussians
than he makes about admitting Engshmon or
Turks
AN ABSENTEE SOVEREIGN.
Another point in which Liechtonstein differs
from other countries is the habtual absentee
Ism Of her sovereign. The metropolis Is Vaduz
| where the Landag, or Parliament, meets. but
Prince John III lives and has his court in Vienna
ard. Is said. has not been inside his prnci-
pality more than once since 1865. though local
gossip has it that. in addition. he has twice
been within sight Of its borders while travelling
on the Swiss railway between Sargans ard
Feldkirch. There is doubt that for some
| reason he avoids his country on the other
hand. he cannot be charged with neglectinY It
| by him at a reputed cost Of f15OO0 He also
built the much smaller church at the village
| OF Schaan. founded the excellent girls school
| at Balzers. and the mddle-class school at Va
duz. and for years has contributed Handsomely
to the most pressing and expensive Of the ma
tonal public works-the embankment Of the
Rhine. Upon the whole. he probably spends
more In the coun&ry than he makes out " It,
Fortunately he Is rich man; and az he Is
bachelor. with scientific tastes and a hatred Tor
display H. has money to spare Still. it seems
| "A
tenstein. His portrait Is in nearly every Iiech-
| tensteiners house. 70 prince is NOR popular
among his subjects. and Naduz would 20 half
mad with delight at seeing him once more.
Vaduz is but a village II about LILO inhabi-
| tants Its only public buildings possessing any
architectural pretensons the church afore-
said and the Llrdesycrweserei. or Administra-
tive Offices. At the Nsrweserei are tn bureaus
OF the Princey Administrator. who looks after
the roads the markets and the general welfare,
and who Is. believe, president OF the i.ahdtiS.
and those Of the Secretary # state the Chief
Justice q think he Is the only magistrate In the
lamb the Director Of Forests. the Government
Engineer and the Director of Finance These
men constitute the Ministry but Prince Johh
has with him at Vienna a Prncely Chancery or
| Privy Council. which serves not oh'y as a
court Of appeal III criminal "a wen rs civil
| ca scs but also "A kind OF upper house.
The electorate consists. so far rs can ascer-
tain. Of the male population 81 t"'n'y lou, LOU.
years OF age and upward and the Landtag
/ IS compc sod Of fifteen members. II whom three
are nominated 10y His Transparency. Thv House
meets when ihc weather is TOO n.d 10, me iee
members to prosecute their ordinary work IN
the fields and vineyards or on the Hhine en-
hankments: and as Il rule. it experiences nluch
difficulty i'm finding bu:iness wh"reoh |" employ
i Itself for regular PARTIES are unknown. ana
/ there is such remarkable unanimity ~ opinion
that the weightiest affairs demand out niue
time for settlement ON those lew "''asions,
however when the members cannot quickly
f o.rcc and Mh-n the ADMINISTRATOR cannon
reconcile them. each side sends a dcputatoh 10
tho Prince and his council at Vienna. and the
nuts md ~