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but 1t sells to each of them almost as much
as it buys, while our Belgian imports are
a bagatelle in comparison.
A Sporty King.
But I started writing on the Belgian
king. He is so wrapped up in the country
that it is hard to separate him from it. And
still in many respects, if gossip tells the
truth, he gets his fun out of other things
than business. Notwithstanding his sixty
seven years of life and thirty-seven years
OF reign he is gay and giddy. His eye is as
keen to recognize pretty girl as it was
when at eighteen he married Marie Hen
riette, the daughter Of Archduke Joseph
Of Austria. All sorts of stories are whis-
pered about Brussels Of the kings esca-
pades, and of his liberality to certain female
persons who, to say the least, are no better
than they should be. He is said to be a
patron of art and especially of that kind of
art connected with the opera bouffe stage,
the prima donnas of which when in straits
appeal to him and seldom tn vain.
me king is fond of the theater and of
the ballet. He is great lover of
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HUNTING THE MUSK OK.
Animal Falls an Easy Prey to the
Man With the Chm.

Con mander Robert E. Peary in Leslie's Monthly.
huntlng musk oxen in northern Green
land and Grinnell Land, though entailing a
great deal of work, is not difficult, and see
Ing the animals is tantamount to securing
them. Either from natural stupidity or as
the result of their freedom from molesta-
ton In their arctic Businesses. they are COM
paratively tame. A large herd, on the ap-
proach of men and dogs, leisurely forms in
a bunch, tails together, heads radating
calves, If any, under their mothers, and the
big bull leader standing outside of the
bunch, head down and paving the ground,
ready for charge in any direction. Single
animals, or two or three together, run only
to the nearest rock, ledge, hilltop or other
natural feature, which may afford them
some protection in the rear, when they
prey to the rifle. AS will easily be seen,
this popularity means their determination
In any locality within very few years
after man gains foothold.
If there is not much skill required in kill
Ing musk oxen it frequently requires
quick eye and trigger to save a dog from
being crushed or tossed mangled. into the
air. 1t also requires some experience to
kill each animal with single bullet. With
the light cartridge of the Winchester car
bine the only safe shot is back of the fore
shoulder, through the heart lungs, and
in late fall and winter when the animals
coat is very thick and heavy, even this is
not always sure. With the 1870 cartridge
my own favorite shot is just back of the
ear. Frontal shots are entirely useless un-
less the bullet can be placed over the low
cred head into the back of the neck
der the muzzle into the chest.
Though the danger to a man from the
charge of a musk OK is very possibly real
one, l have never yet seen any member of
any Of my parties in peril even of slight
accident this account.
The skin Of the musk is too heavy for
any use except as bedding, though the
short-haired skin of the legs I have occa-
sionally used for heavy winter boots.
The meat of the musk OK is as good as
any beef, and it Is only when the animals
are allowed to remain uneviscerated for q
night or day after being killed that the
meat acquires any musky flavor.
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road projected from Hankow to Pekin is
being built with Belgian steel rails There
are three steel plants here, now working on
a 5OO00-ton order of steel rails for Mexico
and other Factories are making tons of
railroad iron for Maryland. 1 have travel
ed pretty well over the world, but l have
never been able forget out of sight of Bel
g1an goods, nor to find country where
Belgium had not more or less commerce
A Big Commercial Kingdom.
Think of a land like this not more than
one-third the size eff Indiana which is thus
able to put it's fingers into the pockets of
all the world and draw the dollars out They
say its king is sport. and my information
inclines me to believe they are right but
he must be a business sport in order to ac-
comolish such business results.
Let me give you few commercial facts
In 1900 Belgium sold more than hundred
dollars worth of goods for every man, wo-
man and child in the country, or more than
$500 per family. Think of land that can
produce SO much more than it needs that
every family can, sell $500 worth year to
foreign nations. That is what Belgium did
1t buys as well as sells and in this 1t is in
teresting to US. 4. Its imports amount to
about 500, GO0o0Q annually, and of these
more than $5O000.0O0 worth come from
Yankeedom. 1t buys even more than this
from France. Germany and Great Britain.
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Rebuilding a Tree.
From Country Life in America.


Every passing storm seemed to wreck its
vengeance on the big elm tree that grew by
the roadside. One late winter morning we
awoke to find the world transformed by Ice
on every tree and bush. In wonder and
amazement we looked abroad. But In front
Of US the elm tree lay a shapeless mass,
broken and splintered by the weight of ice.
Ay It's many hardships, In which all the
family had sympathized. The tree must
not perish now.
With ropes and pulleys the great limbs.
some of them now several inches in dame
ter were drawn back to their places; for
every one of them still chung to the parent
stock by a strip of bark and wood at its
base. Iron bolts were made from half-inch
rods, long enough to reach through branch
and stock just above the split. With long
auger half-inch holes were bored through
the tree, the bolts driven in tight and then
drawn up by means of a nut and thread.
A large head and washer, and another
washer under the nut at the other end,
prevented the ends of the bolt from draw
ing into the wood. So tightly was the
branch drawn to the trunk that no gaping
crack was left, and the crease was her.
metically sealed with melted wax. Then
feet apart, other rods were run to hold all
the members in place. We knew that If
the bolts fitted tightly in their holes, no
harm would come to the tree; but that IL
bands were placed about the branches they
would soon crease and girdle the parts
and work much harm. When the storm had
passed the dear tree stood in its Gus
tomary mood; and all the following sum-
mer it grew as If with renewed determine
ton.
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Indirection.

By Richard Reaf
Note the likeness TO Swinburne in the thought
and the form of this poem.
Fair are the flowers and the children but their
subtle suggestion is fairer;
Rare the roseburst of dawn, but the secret that
clasps ii is raIer;
Sweet the exultance of song, but the strain that
precedes it Is sweeter;
And never poem yet writ but the meaning out
mastered the meter.
Never a daisy that grows but mystery guideth
the growing;
Never river that flows but a majesty seepters the
flowing:
Never a Shakespeare that scared but stronger
than he did enfold him;
Nor ever prophet fortels but mightier seer
hath foretold him.
Back of the canvas that throbs the painter is
limited and hidden
Into the statue that breathes the soul Of the
sculptor is hidden;
Under the joy that is felt lie the infinite issues of
feeling;
Growing The glory revealed is the glory that
crowns the revealing.
Great are the symbols Of being, but that which is
symboled is greater;
Vast the create and beheld but vastar the inward
creator;
Back of the sound broods the silence, back of the
gift stands the giving;
Back of the hand that receives thrills he sensitive
nerves Of receiving.
Space is as nothing to spirit. the Iced Is .utdone
by the doing;
The heart of the wocer is warm put warmer tina
heart Of the woong;
And up from the pits where these shiver, end up
from the heights where those ,Ei1e
Twin voices and shadows swim starwar1, and tie
essence of life is divine
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Flatterers Of Royalty.
From NJ. A, p.

One Of the difficulties of royalties-one of
the things that account for the tendency
to selfishness which has been considered
one of the weaknesses Of the royal caste-is
that they so seldom hear the truth. Ore
could give many examples of this in even
the lighter affairs of life For instance.
when Louis XIV was once playing at back.
CANNON, favorite game with him, q dis
pute arose as to doubtful throw of the
monarch. The courtiers, appealed to by the
KING: said nothing-not daring to give the
verdict against the king, not caring to tell
too palpable lie. The Comte de Gram
mont entered at this awkward moment
and the king asked him to decide the mat
ter. The witty courtier replied without a
the wrong" How" said Louis. "can you
decide before you know the question:"
Because" replied the count, had thare
been any doubt, all these gentlemen would
have given 1t in favor of your majesty"
heard similar story with regard to the
late Car of Russia. He was one night
playing game of whist at Homburg. and
the present king, then, of course. Prince
OF Wales, and several of his friends were
of the party. Among these friends was Sir
James Macintosh, a well-known bon vivant
OF the eighties and nineties. Sir James
was one of those blunt, downright. roueh-
spoken Scotchmen who didn't know fear
OF God or man. In the midst of the game
revoked" Everybody's blood ran cold. The
Prince of Wales, have been told. kicked
the Scotchman under the table. and the
car, blushing and confused, exclaimed in
oeWiioeIment, Revoked! Why, never did
such thing In my lifeH But Sir James
persisted, and the monarch was proved tn
be in the wrong; whereupon Sir James re-
piled to the observation of the czar II
oaresay you've often revoked, your majesty.
but this is the first time you were ever told
So"
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USED FOR FIREWooD.
Canal Boats, Having OUTLINED Their
Usefulness, Being Broken Up.
From the Philadelphia Ledger.

Over near Reading. Pa, last week Capt.
John A. Hester completed the tearing up
OF his hundred and tenth canal barge
to be sold for firewood. The coal barges
We're gathered from the canal graveyards,
all along the Reading company's Schuylkiu
canal system. Many of them did service for
thirty years. The cabins of these old canal
boats are interesting studies. In one were
found pasted up pictures Of the Keenan,
Sayers fight in England, together with en-
cravings of all the famous fighters OF Amer
lea and Europe. Evidently the captain who
piloted that old barge was interested in
prizeighting and the illustrated history of
the manly art of self-defense. Another
cabins paper on the wall was made>up OF
pictures of singers and actresses, beginning
with one of Jenr : Lind's arrival at New
York. Every actress singer Of note fig
ured in this collection, but the engravings
We're soiled and yellow with age. Another
cabin was fun of illustrations of the asSas-
sination of Lincoln and Garfield. The old
boat had been laid up and abandoned be-
fore the shooting of Mr.. Mckinley at Buff
falo. Another cabins walls were pasted
full of Illustrations of the leading battles OF
the civil war, with pictures of jefferson
Davis, Ulysses S. Grant, Stonewall jackson,
Robert E. Lee and other commanders on
both sides. In another cabin the captain
had pictures of sea fights of the civil war
from the Monitor and Merrimac to New
Orleans and Far1 1gut and the Mississippi
gunboats. and the sinking OF the Alabama
by the kearsarge. Each captain apparent
~ had made a speciality of one subject dat
ing from the civil war. In one cabin were
simply the Presidents ard Vice Presidents
of the United States from the Buchanan adj
ministration down to Cleveland. One cap-
ta1ns tastes evidently ran to dogs as his
cabin was filled with engravings of all
Kinds OF show winners. Pictures of Flora
Temple and other crack trotters of wears
ago We're in another cabin. Another curious
study was the title lines of the leading
newspapers of the country.
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year. The system enables deposits to be
made in the smallest villages, and every la
borer has a safe place to put his savings if
he wishes it. 1t is pity that some similar
arrangement cannot be made tor the United
States.
The Belgian Capital.
like Brussels. 1t is one of the best built
and best managed cities of Europe. 1t has
only about 200, 600 people in the town proper,
but with it's suburbs it's inhabitants are
more than half a million. It is in the heart
of Belgium, and as such is within a couple
Of hours or so of the whole population of
more than six million.
The town is divided into two sections
one of which is high above the other
1t is in the upper part that the
kings palace and all the government build
ings are situated. 1t is here that most of
the foreigners live, including about 1000
English residents. Our minister has a fine
and the consul general is about equally dis
tant from the palace in an opposite direc-
ton.
The government buildings are especially
fine. Take the palais de justice, which
stands upon a hill high above the business
part Of the city. 1t is said to be the grand
est structure Of the world. 1t is bigger than
the capitol at Washington and covers one
acre more than the enormous Church of ST.
Peter at Rome. 1t is built Of marble and
it rises high over Brussels with a dome 100
feet higher than that of our capitol. The
structure in general is pyramidal, each sue
cessive section diminishing in bulk. 1t is
beautifully decorated, the rotunda being
embellished with colossal statues Of justice,
law, strength and mercy, and the vestibule
adorned with statues Of Demonthenes and
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however, they would have to initiate the
coupons, and, 1t Is declared, they could not
Another theory, that the Humberts borrow
ed or rented genuine bonds from time to
time to represent the fortune, is supposed
to have been quite disposed Of in a recent
interview with the Notary Lanquest, who
no doubt, served Therese very faithfully.
Maitre Lanquest still is the notary Of the
multi-milionaire Nine. Jules Lebaudy, who
is alleged to have loaned out the millions
1.-The story is absurd" says Maitre Lam
quest. Apart from other considerations
Nine. Lebaudy's fortune is not at all in
French per cents, and to have sold out
100, 900, 900 francs worth of gilt-edged stocks
and bonds for the purpose Of their tempo
been an absurd operation. No one person
in France has that amount Of government
bonds, and to suppose that an institution
could be persuaded to get them together for
Nine. Humbert is equally absurd"
And yet she had them" The Parisians
fall back upon this logged reiteration. They
are equally convinced that Nine. Humbert
still has millions sailed down and that she
has in the same safe place documents and
Photographs that compromise high politi-
Clans Doubtless she played an influential
part in the politics of her time. She OBJ
tanned decorations for her creditors, she
got pardons and promotions for her pro-
teges; she got enemies declared insane and
made them languish in asylums of the
state. She could tell great deal about the
wrecking Of the great bank Of the Union
Generate, and not little bit about the
Panama adventure. Why, ask the Paris
ians, should Nine Jules Lebaudy, the pious
widow OF the bourse Spectator who SO
profted by Minister of Justice Gustave
Humbert's wrecking Of the Union Generate
Bank, have made good the $500 900 francs
deficit of the Rente Viagere, the least
crooked Of the Humbert enterprises?
Revelations Promised.
Therese Humbert was for twenty years
the great lady" Of the French republic.
No presidents wife received so much as
she in quantity or quality. Daughter-in-
law of minister Of justice and life sena-
tor, wife Of deputy, and in the full en-
joyment Of mysterious millions, her salon
that she will have to fight for the very life
Of herself and her family, she may be pre-
pared to make strange revelations.
THE sensational revelations we shall
make" says Roman Daurignac, her
brother In his Madrid prison, will lead to
great happenings in France. We shall de-
stroy great regulations ruin great pres
tiges and honorabilities up to this moment
judged beyond reproach.''
He added:
I'VE fled to prevent the seizure of the
los, 600, 900 francs worth of securities con-
tanned in the freproof safe, because Of the
10000, 600 demanded Of my sister by the
money lenders from whom she had received
scarcely 100000 francs. The rest is usur-
ious INTEREST,"
Il beg you to suspend all judgments, .
says Nine. Humbert to another interviewer
who had permission to visit her in the Mad
rid prison. Await the developments of
events, because when l get back to France
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fortune of its founder who was a news
cealer originally, starting with nothing.
he distributed his paper free, and gradu-
ally built up a business out of the adver-
tisements. The only charge for the paper
is for delivery, which costs cents a month
If the customer lives on the ground floor or
II cents if he lives upstairs. Mail sub
scribers pay merely the postage, and the
cent and pocket all the profits.
In addition to these two papers Belgium
has a number OF other journals which are
paid for. but no other daiies of large circu-
laton. There are in the whole country less
than 800 journals, of which 429 are politi-
cal, IFS commercial. industrial or agricul-
tural. $50 financial and 155 devoted to other
subjects. FRANK q. CARPENTER.
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THE KING OF BELGIUM
Gossip About Leopold II and
the Royal Family.
A SPORTY MONARCH
GETS A BIG SALARY AND has
AN ENORMOUS FORTUNE.
A Prosperous Country-How It is Gov
erned-Railway and Telegraph
Methods.
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
Copyright. 1902. by Frank G. Carpenter

Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
Copyright. 1902, by Frank G.. Carpenter)
BRUSSELS.
I saw the King of Belgium walking alone
in the park near his palace this morn
ing. Yes alone! He was sprinting along
with a springy step, his shoulders well
back as though walking for a wager. He
had cane in his hand and his trousers
were rolled up, although the paths were
perfectly dry and the sun was shining.
He was dressed in business clothes and
wore sack coat and derby hat. Alto
gether he looked more like gentleman
farmer with touch Of the sport in him
than the king of one of the busiest little
nations Of Europe.
Nevertheless Leopold II is a king in every
sense Of the word, and as kings go he is
not so bad after all. He is now sixty
seven years old, and he has been ruling
Belgium for more than thirty-seven years.
He assembled the throne just about the
close of our civil war; and has held his
own through the various changes Of gov
eminent in France, Germany and the other
countries about him. His title you know.
is Leopold II, King of Belgium. He Is
the second king that Belgium has had.
This country was a part Of the Neither
lands until 1880, when 1t became an indie
pendent kingdom, and its congress elected
Leopold. the father of this man, as its
king. Holland went off to itself, and since
then Belgium has walked alone. Austria,
Russia, Great Britain and Prussia guar
anteed the neutrality of Belgium, and a
few years later all the states of Europe
recognized 1t oas an. independent govern
ment. ar, a-
Leopold I was the ruler from 1881 until
1895 and upon his death his eldest son, the
present king, took his place. During his
administration the country has steadily
grown in population and wealth. It Is
hardly bigger than some Texas counties,
and its seacoast Is not longer than from
Washington to Baltimore, still it sup
ports one-twelfth as many people as the
whole United States, and 1t has popula-
tion greater than any Of our states with
the exception Of New York
A Well-Managed Kingdom.
Indeed. Belgium is as well managed as
any land on the globe. The soil Is
naturally sandy. but every acre Of
It is well farmed. The country is divided
up into small holdings, and the greater
part of 1t is worked with the spade, so
intensively. that it produces vastly in ex-
cess of other countries. Not only the
we'll handled. There are l 900 stone quar-
ries, which are. worked, employing about
$1,000 men and yielding an annual product
OF $11 100000. I have already written of
the 125,OO0 coal miners and what they pro-
duce, and I might fill page of stories of
the different industries.
Belgian iron goes all over the world It's
galvanized roofing is used all along the
coast Of South America and the great rail-
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ent 100000 francs worth Of French 3

ent 1OO,OO0,OOO francs worth OF French
per cents.
All paris is agreed on this point; and in
the same breath all Paris Will turn round
and speculate mysteriously on what was In
the SAFE That there was something In
it, is just as much apart Of the general
conviction as that there was nothing In
it," All this is mysterious and curious and
highly interesting.
NJ. Haas, for example, declares that he
counted 100000 francs worth of secur1-
ties when "they'-including Senator Hum
bert the father-in-law, and minister of
justice-showed them to him and his lawyer
in 1SS6-S7.
First Of ALL" says NJ. Haas, Senator
Humbert communicated to us the pretended
will. As to the legacy, they spoke of it as
only 100000. They showed us that
amount; and it was not a simple bundle Of
securities which they put in our hands. My
lawyer, NJ. Demole, took his part in check
ing off the bonds very seriously. He did not
hesitate to examine them one by one; and
they were government bonds Of the French
rente that they showed us. If I am not
mistaken, NJ. Demole even took their num-
bers, and there was no disputing such facts.
The total represented by the days quota
ton at the bourse was a little more than
$4,000 600 francs G1OO0O,OOO."
Theories.
One theory is that Gustave Humbert. the
old father-in-law, in his various high offices,
might have put hands on quantities Of can
celed bonds, which might have then been
'doctored'' to appear good. In this case,
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I shall have such things to say, such clear
proofs to furnish, that light cannot but Re
made"
Meanwhile no more light is likely to pre-
coed from the Madrid prison, because the
visits of the interviewers have been stopped
at the request Of the French government!
The envoy of the Matin, new ministerial
paper, thus explains the precaution:
I'm view of the increasing anger of Nine.
Humbert. and in view Of the threats she
does not cease to proffer against certain
personalities (threats which only constitute
vulgar bluff, the charge d'affaires of
France, in order to avoid useless scandals,
has requested the Spanish authorities to re-
fuse furt her interviews between ner and the
press The Spanish governor has grace
fully inclined, and the prison doors are i'm
mutually closed"
What May Happen.
Proceedings like these undoubtedly sug-
gest a difficulty. Will Nine. Humbert be
allowed to speak when she arrives in
France? l spoke of this last night In COM
panys of several experienced Paris.ans.
THE family will arrive in Paris in the
night, surrounded by guards. At the cen
trail police depot they will be always under
lock and key" l said. Months may elapse
before the trial comes off-months during
which the very personages she mos. threat
will be allowed to see no one but them.
Preventive arrest Is terrible weapon In
the hands of a government"
You are right" replied a man who is
very close to Rochefort; I may say that
his views are the views Of Rochefort
This is what will happen: They will prom
Use her formal trial and easy sentence