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Milosh Forced to Abdicate.

Russian intrigue. which from the first
lad been at work in Belgrade finally
succeeded in getting hold of thea senate,
which was composed of the descendants
or the ancient chiefs, and by a stroke
of state they seized the reins sof gov
eminent. Milosh was forced TO abdi-
cate, having first. however. secured as
surances that his eldest son Milan
should succeed him. Milan did mot live
TO ascend the throne. Thereupon the
regents, who were to administer af-
fairs during Milan's minority. declared
that hereditary right had expired with
tho death of the heir.
Nevertheless, Milosh's second yson was
elected prince. with the title ofGMichael
Obrenovitch III Then began a long
period OF intrigue on the part of the
regent to GUST the new prince, ReVolts
were almost of weekly oc currence
Michael was finally driven out of Servia
and, after brief provisional govern
ment, principally under the au spices of
Russia, Alexander -Ge,>rgovitch
tson OF Black George was elect ed prince
in 1912.
1t will thus be seen that, although the
claim of the Obrenovitchs dates from the
rise of Milosh. who actually freed his
country from the Turks. THAI of the
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An Addition to Racing Circles.

american race courses are about to
receive picturesque addition in the
person of his highness the Kour Sahib
OF Patiala. an uncle of the reigning Ma
haraJah Of that great Sikh state Of
India. For the prince, who is a noted
sportsman, and who has been carrying
everything before him in France and
england with his crack steepIechaser
record Reighn II, contemplates bring
ing this well known horse over to this
country very shortly, in Difference to
the suggestions and invitations of some
leading American sportsmen whom he
mas met on the other side The horse
which first won fame in India, where 1t
was raised. is cared for by a perfect
Dodyguard OF sikhs, who never leave the
animal night or day, and who with their
white turbans and dusky complications
look exceedingly picturesque
Patfala has always been noted name
In the annals of sport, and the late
Maharajah who died only a year or so
ago. owned the finest racing stable in
INDIA was the champion polo player
there. magnificent cricketer, splendid
sporting and pigeon shot, and, according
TO the opinion of John Roberts, the
finest amateur billiardist of the day.
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Alexanders Education.

Alexander was born August II, 1876.
German soverness and later on Ger
man professors were brought from Ber-
lin to Belgrade to educate him. When
still very young he began to find amuse-
ment in the same pleasures which his
father was enjoying. The mother, who.
whatever her faults may have been, was
cevotedly attached to him, contrived so
&c intrigue with Russia-yet without
showing her hand to Milan--that repre-
sensations We're made 10 the King by
the Russian minister that his abdication
was desired. Milan. worn out by his
excuses, tired of domestic strife. and
assured OF q stipend through life by
the Servian government. finally decided
to yield. He abdieated March 6, 1889. and
proclaimed his son King of Servia under
regency until he should attain his
majority at the age of eighteen.
Milan, evidently suspecting. but too
late, the part played by his wife in the
affair. secured divorce from her soon
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MAY SEND MORE TROOPS
TO QUELL ARIZONA RIOTS

In reply to the telegram from the War
Department directing him 10 send troops
TO Morenci, AriZ.. to quelI the strike
riots. General Baldwin. commander Of
the Department of Colorado, has ad-
vised the War Department that he has
sent three troops of the Fourteenth Cav
airy. dismounted. under Colonel Lebo,
from Fort Grant. and two troops Of cav
airy from Fort Huachuca under Major
O'Connor- The soldiers have gone By
rail.
General Baldwin asks for authority to
send additional troops from other posts
without reference TO the department in
case the situation demands more SOL
diers- General Baldwin says that he
will go to the scene himself If the trou-
BILE does not soon subside.
Colonel Hall. the acting adiutant gem
eral. has informed General Baldwin that
the department desires an early and full
report upon the conditions, and has
given him authority TO send additional
troops upon his own responsibility
when he deems it advisable to do so.
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Reiuvenating the German Amy.

/ The Kaiser. by the by, is continuing
his process OF reiuvenating the Ger
man army by eliminating Gb,efrom all
elderly Officers. striking evia<&h, there
of being furnished by the "Rangiiste, .
or Military Annual" just issued.
From this it Will be seen that the av-
erage age of the twenty three com
manders of army corps is fifty-nine
years. The average age of the generals
Of division is fifty-four years, that of
the origadier generals being fifty. For
ty-nine years is the average age of the
coIonels commanding regiments, while
that of lieutenant coloneIs commanding
battalions is forty-fiv years
With the exception OF General Won
Witch. commanding the Ele, enth Army
Corps. who was a major in 1870, there
Is not a single general now holding an
active command in the German army
who was more than q lieutenant at the
time OF the war with France three
and-thirty years ago.
1t may be added that during the past
twelve months there have been but
thirteen officers who have been dismiss
ed from the German army, an amazingly
small number, when one bears in mind
its vast size and the iron character o.
the discipline maintained therein. All
the officers in question belong to the
infantry-not one of them either to the
cavalry or TO the division of guards
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The Fat Nan.
Why He Is Abused and Sometimes Irri-
table.

Let me have men about me that are
fat, said slender Caesar. but the reason
he gave is not correctly stated by VIII
liam Shakespeare. The astute Julius
well knew that he would be no safer
among men Of large girth than of as
ccrtainable waist, especially in temper
destroying summer. How Caius J. actual
y expressed his desire was thus:
Let me have men about me that are
fat;
For fain my comfortable skinny self
Would gloat upon their overfieshy
misery,
Honoring the creed that Epicurus
That he dimes best who gazes on a
starveling.
That's the stout and the lean of it,
and every TT man will agree that this
version has. the ring CT reason in it.
For fat men are the irritable men. And
why not? The hayward shaft of every
wanton boy must hit the barn. but
only a skillful bow can score the willow
wand. And SO, tbs true that fat men
suffer tens Of thousands of annoyances
10 which their lath-shaped brethren are
strangers
When Boreas shoots an icicle at
serene Slim Jims. whom does he easily
overlap with acres of the Behring foe !?
When the sun beats down on Il SUI
fering city. giving to each square foot
of human skin taste OF purgatory. who
is IL that gets more than his fill of the
other place?
Sir John FaIstaf has never been
pitied. though it cost more sack to NIL
him than that jibing eeIskin. Prince
Hal And more food TO sustain him, and
more cloth TO garb him. But the jibe Is
the woe, for what would be jest and
zest on a thin epicurean Roman must
be gall 10 the rotund cause of his COM
PLEASANT enjoyment. And so ii is today
A Eat man can never be shabby gen
teel. As soon as the glaze comes upon
his Goa, he looks Ike tramp. Similar
clothes on a gaspipe figure would look
almost respectable. II the fat man fail
20 shave every day. he's again disreput-
able; no one will lend him two sous
But the clothespole chap may even grow
a board without calling down the slight
est suspicion on whatever confidence
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A. Hint From Vienna.
How to Establish an Equitable sys-
tenn Of Street Car CHARGES.

That the world moves we cannot
but be convinced. From the city of
Vienna comes the delightful tidings
that solution has at last been found
Tor the vexed problem of half versus
whole fares on the ears of the city
tram lines. Thousands of despairing
street railway managers have gone
down under the strain of trying to
solve this worse than Chinese puzzle.
Vienna has solved it. Henceforth all
children above a linear measurement
OF three feet and four inches will be
compelled to pay full fare for trans
portation. All under that height will
be carried for half fare.
1t IS easy to see with what aviditv
this magnificent idea Will be taken up
and expanded in this country. It
seems little singular that the Ger
man magnates have taken no thought
OF the horizontal as well as the per-
pendlcular measurement in fixing a
tariff or scale of charges. WHY
Should fat child of three feet three.
Tor instance, travel for just one-half
the sum charged for an attenuated
one of three feet fve7 Under the
rule of strict justice, the computa-
ton would be based on cubical meas
urement. But the Teutonic mind is
Slow though very sure 1t could not
be expected to solve the Yexed cues
ton IN more than one way at once.
1t will remain for the more rapid
Yankee mind to take up the matter
where Vienna has left it and develop
II to Its ultimate possibilities.
We shall expect, then, that in the
near future our transportation com
panies will charge for passage not ad
capitandum or adj valorem, but. so to
speak, ad measurandum. The fat
woman with two market baskets and
o bull pup hidden beneath the folds
OF voluminous attire viii no longer
traInple ON the rights and corns of
thin men and delicate women by Sc
curing passage for a nickel, nor will
the fulfilled and superabundant man
called by some inconsiderate per-
SONS the street car hog"-be able to
secure transportation for four at a
single fare. Exact justice will be
done to all, and the thin man will have
reason to rejoice that he is not as
others are-given to overmuehness of
embonpoint.
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EXCEPTIONS To SALE OF
LORD BAL IMORE HOME
One of Calvert Heirs Believes Sale
Price to Be Inadequate.

Judge Merrick will hear the exceptions
10 the sale of Mount Airy, the old Lord
baltimore home, tomorrow morning at
Upper Marlboro. Nd.
The celebrated old estate near Upper
Marlboro was sold several months ago
Tor si2.4o0 to the Wilcox Real Estate
Company. Limited. of Pennsylvania.
Mrs. Title r. Littell. of New York.
moved into the house as soon as the
sale was made by J. c. Rogers and J. x.
Roberts. the trustees of the Calvert
estate. Mrs. Littell is supposed to be the
person for whom the company bought
the estate.
Exceptions to the sale have been filed
~ Mrs. Elizabeth Peters, of Washing
tor. who is one OF the Calvert heirs.
Mrs Peters alleges s12,400 is not an
adequate price for the property and is
erdeavoring TO prevent the ratification
CT the sale Herbert Wright. OF Cleve-
land. Ohio. is said to have offered 3d.
Geo for the old place.
Secretary Hay offered $4,000 for
Mount Airy and at one time a report
was circulated that he was 10 get the
property Mrs. Gibson, OF New York.
offered s11. 600 and Secretary Hay with
drew his offer. The Pennsylvania com
psny then made the offer of $12, 400,
which the trustees accepted
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A Problem in China.
Losses From Breakage and Servants
Responsibility.

Some time ago a decision was
given IN London court which
let new light, not especially agree
able, fall upon vexed question in
housekeeping. A maid broke a plate
OF value-it cost some seventv-five
dollars-and her mistress attempted
To withhold the value of the plate
from Inc maids yearly wages. AS
domestic service IN England is not as
remunerative as it Is in this country.
tins was serious loss to the servant.
who brought suit to recover her
wages. The court decided that when
china as expensive as this was used it
was at the mistress own risk. and the
maid should not be held responsible
for breakage.
The number OF households In which
SO plates are habitually used is
necessarily small, but the question
whether the maid who cares for the
china should be required to paw for
what she breaks has been frequently
discussed among housekeepers. 1t is
obvious that when fine china is used,
the hole made in the wages of the ser
want by paying for breakages might
easily become considerable, even if
more than ordinary care were used,
for nobody can wash dishes every
day, and three times a day, without
some danger of accidents, especially
ii the work Is done in the usual haste
and hustle of housekeeping.
There are few mistresses who, in
such circumstances, would not find
that their breakages amounted to
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after. A few months later the divorce
was annulled. In 1893 Alexander, lacking
one year Of his majority, took the royal
authority into his own hands and almost
Immediately issued z royal ukase which
restored his mother. as we'll as his faith
er. to their constitutional rights as
members OF the royal family.
In the last ten years the chief inter-
est that the world has had In Alexander
has been in following the rumors OF his
love afairs-unrequited though they
were in every case but one These ru-
mors at one time or another connected
his name with nearly every eligible
princess in Europe Directly and indi-
rectiy he paid his court-now through
his father, now through the Russian
representative ct Belgrade, now by per-
sonal correspondence. The young Prin-
cess of Orleans, the matronly Arch
duchess OF Austria. who finally married
the Bourbon-Orleans pretender; the
young Queen OF Holland, and Princess
Anna OF Montenegro all came IN for
their share OF gossip. Once even the
story got abroad that Milan would
shortly bring his son TO this country in
the hope of securing an American
heiress for him
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Married Draga Maschin.

On July %. 1900, the following dis
patch was sent out from Belgradei
King Alexander OF Servia has proclaim
ed his betrothal to Nine. Draga Mas
chin" Who was Nine. Maschin? Il was
asked.
1t seems that in 1895 Alexander raid
a visit to his mother at Biarritz. There
he had seen Nine. Maschin and had be-
come enamored OF her. She was sixteen
years his senior and his mothers tray
cling companion. When Alexander re-
turned to Belgrade. Nine. Maschin FOL-
lowed HIM While it was now admitted
in all quarters that this episode forever
precluded Alexander from seeking
matrimonial alliance with any respect
able Continental royal house. 1t was not
supposed at the time that his intentions
in regard to Nine. Maschin, who was the
divorced wife OF a German physician.
We're serious They proved TO be so,
however. On August 5, 1900, he married
her.
The first to reproach Alexander for
his marriage was ex-King Milan. The
latter who IN late years had been al
lowed 10 return TO Belgrade, and even
placed in charge of the army. wrote a
sarcastic letter to his son, threw up his
command, and went TO Paris. Thence
he wandered TO Vienna. and in the fol-
lowing February. broken in health and
in spirit for he had hoped that his son
might strengthen the power of Servia
through an exalted marriage-he died,
cursing his son, and asking forgiveness
of Natalie.
From the time of his marriage until
the day of his death King Alexander was
OccuDiAd with two arThitiOnS-fO haya
an heir to the throne and to relieve
his country from the stupendous debt
which his excuses and his fathers had
saddled upon the country. To arrive At
each he employed intrigue. II ii had
not been for the intervention OF the
Russian minister in Belgrade he would
two years ago have provided a bogus
heir TO the throne. But for interven-
tion from the same high authority he
would have bartered his throne for Aus
trian gold, trusting TO revolution tc
repudiate his part of the bargain.
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Married an Irish Girl.

The most striking episode of his
| career was his marriage in 1893 with an
Irish girl, a Miss Florence Bryan. whose
brother had charge OF the Maharajah's
racing stable. The Sikh chieftains were
up in arms when the Maharajah propos-
ed to wed a Christian girl, and the
English authorities at Calcutta were
much concerned about the matter. as the
Sikhs form the flower of the Indian
army Finally the lovers took counsel
and remembering that the Sikh high
priests had power to admit whom they
chose to their mystic band. Miss BRYAN
adopted their faith aud became a Sikh.
1t was as such that she married her
dusky lover. and became the Maharant
of Patiala, entitled to receive the hou-
age of all the lesser Sikh Rajahs ard
their RAMS
The union. though singularly happy.
was relatively short-lived. The Maharani
was stricken down by pneumonia. while
attending. in company with her hus-
band, the maneuvers of his army. and It
was as corpse that he brought her
back to his capital. where. in accord
ance with Sikh customs and rites. her
corpse was cremated on a pyre of fra
grant sandal wood in the presence of
her sorrowing husband. and of a vast
concourse of his subjects. He did not
long survive her. and when he died ii
was found that he had bedueathed his
favorite charger TO Lord Roberts. the
commander In chief of the Engiisa
army. The present Maharatah is a mare
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an elder brother. He became the tmost
prominent man in his community, and
his position was such that the Turkish
pasha then in charge OF Servia thought
that he would be a good man to streat
well. Milosh apparently became aswill-
ing tool in the hands Of the pashs.. and
through his advice the Turkish reor-
ganiZation" of Servia was cont .nued.
The pasha appointed him knijez, rslieu-
tenant. and addressed him as my ssdopt-
! ed SON" Milosh accepted all honoas as
matter of course, and seemed ITO be
working heart and soul TO further Turk
ish interests.
But in carrying out his advice the
pasha did not see that the plans (which
see med to promise so great an alEymen-
tuition of the Turkish revenue were in
reality calculated TO unite the Servians.
Flow well MiIosh played his game was
shown in 1915. when an insurFection
broke out in Takovo which rapidly
spread to other parts of ServIa-. After
two years of fighting between the, Ser
vans and Turks. conducted on the part
Of the former through effective guerrilla
warfare and by the Turks through mod
erEtely weil-disciplined armies of in
vasion, Milosh Obrenovitch was. made
Prince of Servia, title which the Sui
taa reluctantly recognized thirteen years
later
Milosh, having freed Servia, became
the perfect type of a Slav potentate
whose word was law. This behavior was
entirely contrary to what the Servians
in their struggle for independence had
been led to expect 1t was also contrary
to the feelings of patriotism which Mi
lcsh himself had inculcated In them
Nevertheless. the newly createdt prince
maintained this rule of absolutasm for
nine years
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Plenty of Issues"

The Hon Nathan Straus, who was for
merly regarded as Democratic au-
thority, believes that his party will have
a fine assortment of paramount issues
upon which TO make its campaign next
year He enumerates four of them-tariff
reform. reciprocity, expansion, econO-
my. If the Iowa idea" prevails, all of
these issues are more likely TO be en-
braced in the Republican than the Demo-
cratic platform. and II is not improbable
that there may be enough of the Iowa
idea" injected into the Republican dec
laration of principles 10 take much of
the wind from Democratic sails on this
point. while reciprocity, expansion and
economy are certain to form parts of
the Republican platform.
Reciprocity is pet hobby with the
President, as with many Of his follow
ers. and is a part of Republican doctrine,
the handmade OF protection" as 1t
were; expansion is an accomplished fact,
and Of course the Republican party VIII
stand by It. and as for the issue of
economy. no party is going to place it
self on record as favoring extravaganza.
however much 1t may practice it when
in power.
So that Mr. Straus in attempting to
fix up an assortment of issues for his
party Is evidently "cribbing'' from what
is quite likely TO be the declared prin-
ciples of the Republican platform.
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Apologies to the Emperor.

ApoIoSleS TO the Emperor.
Apologies have been presented to En-
peror Francis Joseph by the French
government for the action of the local
authorities at Nancy, in closing the
Church of the Cordeliers, as the Fian-
ciscans are called in France, and the
clergy of which belong to an ol-der
not authorized by the French govern
ment. Not merely has the latter tren
compelled to present its regrets to the
Austrian Emperor. but likewise to re-
open the church and to authorize the
monks who had been expelled to res Gme
possession Of the church and of the
buildings connected Herewith
1t seems that the French goyernn rent
had altogether lost sight of the fact a2lat
this church, and the buildings come. sted
Herewith, are, by virtue of treaty con
Guided in 1923, Austrian property, and
possessed of identically the same ex ira
territorial privileges as If they formed
part and parcel OF the Austrian embassy
at Paris.
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Conquered by Turks.

Then the Turks conquered them. and
for years they were under a pasha. who
received his directions from Constan-
ttnople. For nearly two centuries Ser
via remained more or less under Turk
ish rule. although there were reyolts
from time TO time. now in one. tribal
district, now in another, until Kara
(Black) George came upon the scene
in the last quarter of the eighteenth
century Through his efforts Servia be-
came united, and made a formidable
resistance against her Turkish mas
ters; but when entire freedom meant
only one more effort. Black George be-
came incapable of making it.
Under pressure from Russia and with
a promise of independence for his coun-
try. he was induced to surrender to the
Turks. No sooner had the Scrvian
fortresses been given up and the Ser
Wan arms destroyed. than the Turk be-
gan, by his usual methods, campaign
to extinguish any spark OF national life
that might remain. The Turk, however,
did not wish TO annihilate the Servian,
but rather to make him a slave, whose
work should contribute to the Golfers of
the Sultan.
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The Tranby Croft Countess.

Sir Edward Hulse. whose mysterious
death at Johannesburg was reported by
cable last Sunday from South Africa.
is wrongly described as having been
the person who presented King Edward
with the famous set of counters which
were used for the baccarat on the his
toric occasion at Tranby Croft. These
counters. which figured in the baccarat
trial, were presented TO the King by
Reuben Sassoon. Sir Edward Hulse.
who married the only daughter of Sir
Edward Lawson. the proprietor of the
London Daily Telegraph" owed his
baronetey to the fact that one of his
ancestors. DR.. Edward Hulse, had been
the first physician in England OF King
George II He was the first. indeed, of
the medical baronets.
MARQUISE DE FoNTENoY
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SERvIA's HISTORY MARKED BY TROUBLE AND INTRIGUE
HH Claim Auas Huen Hnrh d-LhK


The ancestors OF both King Alexander
the last OF the Obrenovitchs-an OF
the newly acclaimed King, Peter Kara
Georgovitch We're identified with that
period of romance and blood and crime
III Servia which extended from 1775 well
through the first quarter of the last cen
fury. Neither house is of royal blood.
Alexander was descended from dealer
IL hogs; Peter from a peasant The his
torical ancestor of the second made a
united Servia. while the ancestor of the
first made that Servia free from the
Turkish yoke. The conditions under
which these things were done were as
follows:
Modern Servia is roughly contermi-
nous with the Roman province of Moesia
Superior. In the post Roman days its
population. an Industrious Thracian
tribe. was ousted by Slev tribe coming
from beyond the Carpathians. The new
corners called themselves Servians, and
under the protection of the Byzantine
Emperors they extended their dominions
10 the frontiers OF Macedonia and to the
Adriatic. They remained. however,
down to the middle of the fifteenth cen
fury without organization and without
any special civilization. Until that
period Servia was inhabited by collec
t!on of tribes. each governed by a zhu
pan, or chief. but. in 1440. these chiefs
came together in council. and few
years later one Of their number. Michail
Voislavic. was addressed as King" by
Pope Gregory VII.