St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-02-15
DANGERS OF LAUGHING.
Brought Down It's Own
Punishment.

INSTANCES I'm Which Untimely Mlreb
Brought Down It's Own
Punishment.
It was awkward for the cars con-
fidential adviser, Baron Enidoff, few
weeks ago, that he had not quicker
control over his features, for q laugh
at the wrong moment lost him his
high position and s $4,000 year, says
London Answers.
While the royal suite was at Com
piegne, soon after the arrival, the
car was tired, and a little irritable,
by the effects of the long journey.
While going through the big library,
which was part of the great apart.
ments prepared for him, he slipped
on wolfskin mat that lay on the
highly polished floor, made wild at
tempt to save himself, and clutched
at one of his attendants.
He nearly brought himself and his
standby to the ground, but he just
managed to avoid fall. The spec
tacle was rather ludicrous, especial
ly in such stately parsonage; and
when the rather irritated monarch
turned round he found his favorite
Enidoff INDUCING in grin of amuse-
ment, which he could not suppress.
The car, who detests levity on state
occasions, spoke very sharply to the
culprit, who, next day, was dismissed
his post, and relegated to an assist
ant secretaryship, with plenty of hard
work to do, and wherein he never
sees the car at all. Although
wealthy and of the Oldest nobility.
the baron dared not refuse the minor
service. His former stipend was 6 49,.
600 a year.
But the kaiser, on the whole, Is the
most dangerous person to laugh at,
or before, and more than one person
has "done for" himself in this way.
So did the unfortunate Cough Mil
banke find 1.-THE clever but bluff
Scottish colonial administrator. 1t
was he who used to command the Sui.
tan Abou Din's troops and manage
the Arabian finances.
The kaiser took him up, four years
ago, as a guest, with a view to max
ing use of him in the new "expan.
sion" policy of the German empire.
and had decided to give him q fine po-
sition in the east, to guard German
interests in China, at a princely re-
muneration, of course. The kaiser
sees to these things himself, and any
body who becomes one of his right
hand men is pretty well set up for
life.
At one of the audiences given him
at Potsdam, Milbanke was giving the
emperor the benefit of his expert
ence, and reeeiving his orders, when
the kaiser made rather absurd sug-
gestion as to eastern diplomacy, pro-
posing to win the confidence of the
japanese and Kurile islanders with
presents.
Milbanke, bursting into guffaw,
asked the kaiser if he thought the
japanese were Congo niggers, who
could be bought over with q few glass
beads and flint-lock gun? The
kaiser froze at once, wished Mil.
banke good night, and never reopened
relations with him.
The moral is, when you are chat.
ting with king don't forget he il
king, and dig him in the ribs. A
still more amusing case of this kind
was the mistake of another Scottish
administrator, Duncan McVea, who
was, next to McLeavy Brown, Of
Corea, the most famous of wander
ing'' governors. Scotland, by the
way, supplies so per cent. of the
worlds pioneer administrators, as
well as its engineers.
McVea was dealing with that pleas
ant but touchy monarch, the king OF
Portugal, who had proposed to put
the rather shaky government OF the
Cape Verde islands into his hands, to
set things going and pull the finan-
ces together. This would have been
a big step, and meant some $4,000
a year to the famous adventurer; but
he had too much of what Scotchmen
are supposed to lack-sense of hui
NOR. At any rate, it was the ruin
of the finest prospect he ever had.
The king became a little excited
and irritated at the various common
sense objections that McVea, know
ing what he was talking about, OPP
posed to some of the monarch's plans,
and though the king speaks admirable
English as q rule, when excited 1T
becomes very odd mixture indeed.
This, finally so worked on McVea's
feelings that he smiled audibly with
the result that he was promptly or.
dered away, and the Cape Verdes still
lack Scottish governor to look after
their affairs.
Rubber from CROSSWORD.