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| Chicago, evidently are under the inn preston that the circumstances under which their father received his title of prince and lost it have been forgotten by the powers and by the general pub lie. It may be hoped that this eXplana- tion will serve to recall them to mind. 1 With regard to ex-King Milan's hur- ried return from Belgrade to Carlsbad, 1 with the object of breaking off the en- gagement of his son. King Alexander. to Mme Maschin it is likely to prove a i far more difficult job than may appear at first sight. In the Greek church the | ceremony of betrothal, which is a reli- gious affair is considered a bond of union as sacred and indissoluble as a full-tledged marriage. Indeed, about the only thing that King Milan can possibly do is to get the actual marriage ceremony postponed as long as possi ble.
 Sir Walter Hilier who is now on his way across the United States, bound for China, under orders to join the staff of the British military commander with the allied forces at Tien Tsin, is a vet ran of the consular service of China, in which country he spent the whole If his official career of over thirty years Indeed, he may be said to have spent his entire life in the Orient, having been born at Bangkok. where his father represented Great Britain as consul general. I observe that in the inter- views published by him he is reported to have stated that he was for many years first secretary of the legation at Pekin. He has evidently been misun- d5rstoOd, for he was never first secre- tary. which is a diplomatic appoint ment. but Chinese secretary. or head interpreter, which may be described as a consular office.
 Subsequently he was transferred to Korea as acting consul general. where he had the misfortune to lose his wife, not through death, but through her clopement with a man of the name of Sanderson, no relation, however, of Great Britains consular repre sentative in New York. A divorce suit ensued in London, which narrowly escaped coming to grief for at the very moment that the London newspapers were printing the legal reports of the pro- cedings in the divorce courts between his wife and himself in London, she appearing in person and he being rep resented by counsel, dispatches arrived from China and were published on the foreign news page of the same pa per- relating in a sensational manner an attack by Japanese soldiers in the Korean city of Seoul upon the British Consul General Hitler and his wife, the dispatches being particularly eloquent in the description of the indignities to which the wife of the consul general was submitted. It was almost imme- diately after this that MT. Hitler re- turned to England and was placed on the waiting list. That he was eventu ally able to furnish a satisfactory eX- planation as to the identity of the lady who was with him at the time of the Japanese attack may be gathered from the fact that he has not only since received promotion in the Order of St. Michael and St. George to the rank of knight commander, but has likewise now been reemployed as political officer Cn the staff of Gen. Sir Alfred Gaselee.
 
 The Countess Schlieben, who, accord ing to dispatches published on Sunday last has just been liberated from the prison in which she has been confined at Berlin, on a charge of arson, is not, as may be supposed, a woman of noble birth. Indeed, she only belongs to the aristocracy through her marriage last year with young Count Schlieben, her junior by no less than twenty years. ! The name which the lady bore until her marriage-she is nearer fifty than forty-was Marie Hartog, and for a number of years she kept a flower shop on the Potsdam street in Berlin Thanks u her taste in the arrangement of flowers and the freedom with which she gave her services in all charitable un- dertakings in connection with organi- zation of the floral decorations. she acquired the good will of number of wealthy ladies at Berlin engaged in philanthropic enterprises, and by de- grees induced them to furnish the means for starting a "woman's move ment,' as well as newspaper devoted to the cause of woman's emancipa ton. Inasmuch as she found plenty of wo- men willing to give financial backing to the movement and seemed to enjoy the control of adequate resources, it is difficult to understand why she should have laid herself open to the charge cf setting fire to her residence. There is a mystery about the affair which is in CT ased rather than diminished by her liberation on Saturday last-Marquise dc Fontenoy in Washington Post.
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 AUGUST FLOWER.