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reposes the bones of Spain's royal
dead. That portion of it reserved for
the kings and queens is an octagonal
chamber, with twenty-six splendid
urns, all of a size, arranged around
the walls, blaZoned with the names Of
those whose dust they contain. Rare
oronzes and marble statuary gleam
ghost-like in the dim light Despite
It's gliding and grandeur, the dominant
impression the place creates is one of
august simplicity, which instinctively
causes the visitor to sink his voice to
a whisper. And here Spain, that drove
Isabella into exile and would not per-
NIT her to return while living, gives
her SepuIchre among her ancestors,
near to the urn that contains the re-
mains of Charles ", like his son, Philip
H., half monarch and half monk In
other chambers are buried the children
and members Of the royal house.
The palace is now tenantless and
deserted, save for the attendants who
guard its treasures and show visitors
through it's apartments. Most of the
latter have been remodeled and redec-
Grated from time to time by descend
ants of the monarch monk Lacking
his austere simplicity of taste, most
of the changes they wrought have
served only to mar the symmetry and
harmony of the original design. The
gaudy tapestries, designed by Goya,
which might enhance the gastronomic
attractions of a fashionable restaurant.
appear little short of desecration in
these Graeco-Roman halls Because it
remains unchanged, and in it's grim
barrenneSS seems to reflect something
Of the stern character of the man to
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level, on the bleak, wind-swept slope
of the Sierra Guadaramma, this vast
building, palace, church, monastery
and mausoleum combined, is certainly
one Of the most impressive in Europe.
At each corner of the parallelogram
Which it forms stands a tower 200 feet
high, and above the church in the
center of the pile rises a magnificent
cupola, its summit 312 feet above the
floor. The building contains lii WIN
dows, Al affairs, SO fountains and 5000
feet of frescoed paintings. The con-
struction of it took twenty-one years.
Erected over three hundred years
ago when Spain, at the zenith of her
power, dominated the civilization of
the world, it constitutes an enduring
monument to the nations fallen gran
deur and the memory of its builder
that 'morose monk and misanthropic
tyrant" as Theophile Gautier calls him
king Philip H., whom no historian
has yet undertaken to WhiteWash, It
was for the dual purpose of commem-
Grating his victory over the French at
st. Quentin, on. st. Lawrence's day,
Aug. 10, 1867, and providing a burial
place for himself and his descendants,
that Philip started an army of laborers
at work on the rugged slope of the
Sierra Guadaramma. The first stone
was laid in 1863, the architect being
Toledo. After his death four years
later his pupil, Herrera, carried on the
work to completion. There is still
shown to tourists the lofty seat, hewn
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Special Foreign Service.


LONDON, May 21.- Twenty seven
native postmen were killed and eaten
by tigers and other wild beasts last
year in India, while no fewer than 1876
met their deaths through being bitten
by poisonous snakes.
These figures throw a lurid light on
the conditions incidental to the deliv-
cry of letters in some parts of our
great Eastern empire
But, then, it must be remembered
that India Is large country, and the
ordinary rural carrier simply will not
take precautions.
He insists, for instance, on going
barefooted and bareIegged in regions
known to be infested with venomous
reptiles, and he will calmly lie down
for nap in tiger-haunted jungle.
Moreover, he persists in wearing a
number Of small bells about his per-
son. The jingling Of these as he jogs
along, he says, serves to scare away
the snakes. This may or may not be
so. But it most certainly gives warn
ing of his whereabouts to lurking til
gers and prowling panthers.
Nor can he be induced to arm him
self properly. All his forefathers car
ried. when on similar errands was a
small spiked stick. And that is all
your true native postman will consent
to carry today.
1t is doubtful, though, whether he is
in more danger than the postman who
delivers the mails in many of the little
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Ing of its rusty hinges i'll prepares one
for the sight revealed when it is
thrown open. So close that an out
stretched hand might almost touch it
stands the magnificent altar of the
church From his bed in this little
room the king could hear and see the
mass when he was too i'll to rise.
Every morning during the years that
he lived at the Escorial he was awak-
ened here by the chanting of the
monks, and it was here that he died.
The Escorial was formerly rich in
paintings and though in 1897 a hun
dred of the best were removed to Ma
drid, it still contains many fine works
of art, including specimens by Coello.
Carbajal, Tibaldi, Zucarro, Lucca
Giordano, Trezzo, Zurbaram, Ribera,
Tintorette, Veronese and Titan. OF
the latter the most striking is a great
canvas on which Charles V. rides
eternally forth to battle The library,
once one of the richest in Europe,
though greatly diminished by a fire in
1881, and by thefts by the French
soldiery in 1908, still contains over 30,-
OO0 volumes and nearly 5000 valuable
manuscripts.
Situated thirty-one miles northwest
of Madrid, the Escorial is an easy days
jaunt from the capital by railroad,
mule teams completing the journey up
the hill from the station. Often boys
may be seen playing football in the
courtyards. At the early masses beg
garS and old women constitute the
major portion of the scant congrega-
ton. 1t is place of departed glories,
pomps and ceremonies, a monument
that reminds the modern world of
what Spain once was.
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TIGERS DEVOUR EAST INDIAN POSTNEN
Twenty-seven Fell Victims to Man.eaters.

out-of-the-way Alpine villages. In the
winter time these men literally take
their lives in their hands, and even
during the summer months they have
to be constantly on their guard against
avalanches.
This will easily be understood when
it is stated that there are several post
offices in Switzerland at a height Of
seven and eight thousand feet: while q
pillar box on the very summit of the
Laugaud, and from which four cCI-
lections are made daily, is nearly 1G,-
600 feet above the sea level.
Near here, some few years back,
three letter carriers were crushed to
death by an icefall They We're return
ing together for companionship, having
delivered their letters, and perished
simultaneously.
In an adjacent canton, in the sum-
mer of 1863, a postman fell into a Gre
vase while crossing a glacier, his two
full bags on his back. All efforts to
recover either the body or the mails
were fruitIess. But thirty four years
afterwards, in 1897 that is to say, the
glacier vomited forth it's prey many
miles lower down the valley, and the
long-lost letters were duly delivered to
as many Of the addresses as could be
traced.
Not infrequently, too, these Alpine
postmen are attacked by the huge,
fierce eagles that soar hungrily above
many of the loftiest and least fire.
quented passes.
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Special Foreign Service

Speclal FOfelSn Service.
U ERLIN, May 21.-Germanys pro-
gressive women, whose fight for
emancipation" has been one long story
of rebuff and disappointment, have
just completed arrangements for what
they believe will be the greatest con-
clave Of the fair sex the world has
ever knoWn-the third international
congress for women, which will be
held in Berlin from June 12 to IS.
They hope and intend that the con-
gress will be so eventful that it will
constitute an eloquent rebuke to EN-
peror William II, whom they regard
as the arch-enemy of womens prog
ress in the German fatherIand.
The kaiser, like German men of all
ranks, holds fast to the German tradi-
ton that woman's sphere should be
limited to the activities of the "haus-
frau" and that she has no right to
mix herself in affairs beyond the realm
of the three German Ks kinder.
kuche and kirche children, kitchen and
church). No imperial welcome there
fore, will await the 1000 women from
all parts of the world who will attend
the congress as delegates of organ
lied womanhOod in all classes. Indeed,
1t will be a miracle if the congress ad-
journs without adopting resolutions
strongly sayoring of censure of the
strenuous monarch for his old-fash-
ioned ideas about womens rights.
The organization of the congress has
been effected by the National Council
of German Women, and the tremen-
dous work it has involved has rested
largely upon the shoulders of Frau
Marie Stritt, of Dresden, president of
the council, and Frau DIR. Eliza Ichen-
haeuser, secretary general of the con-
gress, The programme of the con-
gress covers practically every subject
comprehended by the "womans move
ment
About twenty-five countries will be
represented at the congress. Japanese
Siamese and Indian women are already
booked as delegates, and China and
Korea will be represented by native
women resident in Europe America
will occupy the chief place among the
foreign delegations, because it has
been the pioneer in wOman's progress
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ones, as Mr.. Gilbert puts it. Anxious
to avoid this, Rosebud has been watch
ing a sort Of double barreled love af-
fair that has been going on in her vi
cinity, the suitors in the case being a
somewhat timid country vicar and
baronet in the Life guards. The vicar
is in love with a learned judges daugh-
ter, who, for courtship purposes, has
disguised herself as a hospital nurse,
but Rosebud notices that the baronet
also frequently offers attentions to this
lady, and the fairy believes that the
military mans intentions toward her
are not honorable Here is an oppor-
tunity to intervene She seeks the as
sistance of Demon Alcohol an evil
spirit with, however, conscientious
scruples that handicap him consider
ably, and after some trouble induces
him to carry off the lady to the baro-
nets fiat in Whitehall court, whence
she, the good fairy, will rescue her just
in time and restore her to her eccle-
siastical lover.
But when the scene changes to the
wears drawing room, we find an unex-
pected state of affairs. 1t seems that the
churchman's sweetheart's father. the
pompous Justice Wortle does not approve
of the vicar as a suitor, and, in order to
deceive him, the reverend and the baronet
are in the habit, in public, of devotiEg
themselves to each others lady loves
So when Rosebud-appearing through
bookcase-bursts upon the vicar and the
baronet's sweetheart and assures them
that she will devote herself to straighten-
ing out their affairs, they inform her po
litely that her services are not required.
Nevertheless, she perseveres, and soon
afterWard the demon carries off the lady
to the quarters of the bold, buccaneer-
ing baronet," as the fairy supposes him.
No end Of comic happenings follow, but
finally, the fairy discovers that she has
made a fool of herself and helped no one,
and then it is that, out of pique she
transports the vicar, the judge, the baro-
net and his lady love to ''The Revolving
Realms of Radiant Rehabilitation" and
metamorphoses them into the familiar
pantomime figures of pantaloon, colum-
bine, harlequin and clown respectively.
In which guise they are obliged to per-
form in the public streets. but finally are
set down in the wears drawing room, to
find a criticism of their enforced histrt-
onic efforts in the London Times, the
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Special Foreign Service.
LONDON, May 21.-Addressing a meet
ing in Leeds last night the Bishop of
Ripon spoke strongly on the subject of
childless marriages
Much more terrible, he said, than those
irregular alliances which the church had
not sanctioned were those terrible fash
fonahle marriages where the duties of
life We're shirl1ed and where marriage was
made mockery
This was question affecting society as
whole, for the birth rate of every Eu-
ropean nation was declining. In Scandi-
nayia during the past twenty years it had
fgone down per cent, in France a. Great
Britain 15, in England and Wales. with
out Scotland and Ireland, IT, and in Aus
tralia so per cent.
While the marriage rate was increasing,
the birth rate was declining. and the ma
tion was being deprived Of 500 children a
week
The Bishop of Ripon's pointed address
above quoted cannot but draw public at
tention to one of the most vital problems
OF our time, one which. in his words is
fun Of terrible possibilities for the ma
tion.
The bishops address comes with all
the more emphasis since it follows direct
ly upon the melancholy report of the roval
commission in New South Wales. which
has had the painful duty of pointing out
TO the Australian people the results and
causes Of an even more marked decline
In their country's birth rate; and upon
the remarkable paper read before the
British genealogical society on Feb. ii
by DR.. Taylor. the president Of that So
ciety. professor OF gynecology in the
University Of Birmingham. and a scien-
list and authority OF European reputation.
Prom certain facts and figures given by
me Bishop Of Iipon. Il Is plain that he
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Aerial Navigation.

With respect to combinations of verti-
cal and horizontal movements man is alb
solutely without experience of them.
Therefore, as all our sensations of move
ment are practically in two dimensions,
this is the extraordinary novelty of aerial
navigation that it affords US experiences
not in the fourth dimension, 1t Is true, but
in what is practically an extra dimension,
the third, so that the miracle is similar.
Indeed / cannot describe the delight, the
wonder and intoxication of this free dia-
gonaI movement onward and upward or
onward and downward combined at will
with brusque changes of direction hori-
Zonta1ly when the airship answers to a
touch of the rudder-Santos Dumont' g
Ny Airship.''
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WOMEN TOMEET IN WORLDS CONGRESS
International Parliament VIII Gather Next Month IN
the Kaisers Capital Having Overcome
all Opposition.

WITT, who will all be active leaders in
various departments of the coming
congress are well known throughout
most European countries as viporo,Is
and relentless workers in their eboeer'
field. 81
Hard to Start.
That German women have dif7o,,1+
struggle to gain the headway women
nave made elsewhere may be compre-
hended from the fact that only a few
years ago were they able to secure the
repeal of law barring women. chill
dren and lunatics from attending
meetings where political subjects are
under discussion" Since the smash
ing OF that medieval barrier the cause
has prospered, but very slowly. Wom-
an has, of course, no status politically.
and may not hold public office OF any
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GILBERT HAS PRODUCED A GILBERTIAN PLAY


Special Foreign Service
LONDON, May 21.-It is just as we
expected, the idea Of w. S. Gilberts
new play, "A Fairy's Dilemma" is so
fantastic, SO droll, SO eminently Gill
bertian, in fact, that it is no wonder
the hankering to work it up and see it
acted overcame all Mr.. Gilbert's reso--
lutions to write no more for the stage
And let it be said at once that no one
but the author of "Iolanthe" and "The
Bah Ballads''-the two Gilbert inven-
tions that the new Garrick play most
recalls-could have constructed, as
probably no one else could have con-
ceived. this brilliant piece of trif1ing
Its chief characters, Rosebud, the good
fairy who bul%les hopelessly the ro-
mantle mission she has undertaken,
and Alcohol" the demon, who, be-
cause tradition requires him to speak
in numbers and he has no knack at
verse, has provided himself with a
rhyming dictionary, are creatures
whose like the stage has not known
since the palmy days of the Savoy.
And this time the famous librettisNhas
out-dared himself. Dignified, judcial
lumin2-leS. bumptiouS military men,
and : .i%0me ecclesiastics always have
been marks for Gilbert's wit, but never
before has he gone so far as to picture
learned and crusty judge transformed
into pantaloon, a baronet in the Life
guards turned into pantomime clown,
or a sanctimonious vicar beWitched into
into a dancing harlequin in the skin
niest of spangled tights To first
night audience the satire gave glee,
but no offense; whether the piece will
be popular success no one has ven
tured TO prophesy.
The whole thing is a burlesque on
the time -honored English pantomime.
When Mr.. Gilbert raises his curtain,
we find that Rosebud, the good fairy,
is in disgrace with the fairy queen.
Her mission is to help along tagging
love affairs. Those in the neighbor-
hood, however, have gone but indiffer-
emily for some time, and the queen of
the fays has decreed that unless Rose
bud brings off a coup of some sort she
will be thrust into the back row of the
fairy ballet, along with the stout
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LADY MARY'S GOSSIP OF SOCIETY
YOUNG Son of the BabbIing Brook Is Coming Over
in Pursuit of Pretty American Girl With
Whom He Is Smitten.

ing in the immediate neighborhood
Mr.. and Mrs. Button will have for near
neighbors Mr.. and Mrs. Norman Loney,
of New York, who have recently ac-
quired Willoughby hall. They are at
present visiting friends in the United
States, but are expected home in
week or two. The Loneys lead a rather
retired life, and although they have
every facility for entertaining they
have not shown any disposition to do
so. Mr.. Loney made his money in
Wall streeT but since he has settled
in England he has given his neighbors
the idea that he does not care for the
excitement of city life. There is a
farm attached to Willoughby Hall
where he cultivates the vegetables
necessary for the household. Cows and
sheep are also kept for the use of the
family. His recreation takes the form
of experimenting the laborers on the
farm when he is not taking a spin on
his motor along the country roads.
The Iconoclastic Roxburghe Duchess.
There is much disappointment that
the Duchess of Roxburghe is not going
to play any conspicuous part in So
clety during the coming season. Those
who were aware that she had aban-
doned the idea of acquiring a perma-
nent town residence thought she would
at least secure a house for the season.
She will not be seen much in London
during May and June as her time will
be fully occupied superintending the
extensive alterations she is going to
carry out at Floors castle. In spite of
the protestations of the dowager
duchess she is pulling the place to
pieces and means to convert it into
residence more in keeping with Amer
ican ideas. Like the Duchess of Man
chester with regard to Kylemore castle
she wants more elbow room. Two or
three rooms are to be knocked into one,
electric lights are to be installed, and
the castle throughout will be heated on
the latest American principles. The
old-faShioned nursery is to be en-
larged and luXuriously embellished.
The servants quarters are to be en-
larged also, and as in the case at Kyle
more, the domestics will have sec
ton of the castle all to themselves.
The alterations will not be completed
until the early autumn. A series of
entertainments will then take place,
and the American friends Of the duke
and the duchess who will go north for
shooting season, will receive special at
tention. The dowager duchess was
much opposed to the modernizing of
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kind. Some municipalities, however,
nave made the experiment Of having
women factory inspectors and poor
law administrators, and they may
pave the way for wider recognition in
higher spheres of civic usefulness. The
fight for suffrage has been altogether
futile. Two years ago, however, when
the great tariff contest was on, women
took the stump in various parts of
Germany in support of the Social
Democratic and Liberal parties and
their battle against agrarian hunger
tariffs" The Social Democrats are the
WOmen's best political friends being
the only great party in Germany which
has pledged itself to help them Sc
cure the ballot.
Owing to the opposition Of Emperor
William, which is fully shared by the
Empress Augusta Victoria, no So
called society women have identified
themselves prominently with the wom-
ans movement in Germany. Court
leaders and royalties are conspicuousIy
missing from all affairs connected with
it. 1t is possible, however, that the
wives of a few cabinet ministers, per-
haps even Countess Won BuelOw, the
spouse of the imperial chancellor, viii
dare to brook imperial scowls by en-
tertaining the delegates to the Berlin
congress at garden parties or evening
receptions. The most pretentiOus So
cial function so far planned is a re-
ceptiOn at the Berlin city hail. which
will be rendered by the municipality
as a welcome to the congress. Frau
Oberbuergermeister Kirschner, Ber-
Inns lady mayoress," and the wives
of the citys aldermen will do the hon
ors on this occasion. Music will be
furnished by Womens orchestra of
seventy-f1Ve pieces, and a dedicatOry
ode written by Fraulein Isolde Kurz,
the first German poetess, will be a fea-
ture of the programme.
The sessions of the congress, which
VIII be held morning, afternoon and
evening for six days, will occur in the
spacious halls Of the famous Philhar-
monic concert building, which has a
total seating capacity Of more than
ten thousand. The sessions are di-
vided, of course, into sectional pro-
grammes, so that discussions upon va
riOus topics will proceed Simultaneous
ly in various parts of the congress
hall. -Four hundred addresses are al
ready scheduled for delivery. Eng
lish, French and German will be the
official languages of the conclave that
language being used upon each oc-
casion which seems most appropriate.
The great concluding feature of the
congress will be a peace demonstra-
tion," at which the Countess Of Aber-
deem will speak in English, Frau Ber-
tha Won Suttner, the great Austrian
peace advocate, in German, and Nine
Bogelot of Paris, in French. There
will also be final symposium upon
Hlnternationalism," led by Mrs. May
Wright SeWall, of Indiana.
Bertha Karr.
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ENGLISH BISHOP DISCUSSES RACE SUICIDE
ChiIdless Marriages Become More Common.

has been deeply moved by this paper in
common with many other thoughtful Eng
lishmen who have studied its revelations
1t is printed in the Medical Press, Nos
33S2-3
Increase CT Crime and Insanity
BY far the most important part of DR..
Taylors address deals with the effect on
the health of the parent and the well-be
ing of the family of this decline in the
birth rate He does not notice-though it
is an important fact from the states
standpoint-that the men who have exer-
cised a commanding influence on their
time have often come from large families
Nelson and Napoleon are examples. the
one of a family of eleven, the other of
thirteen. Does Nature, we may ask, feel
her way in the large family. slowly, ten
tatively, to the creation of the supreme
genius?
As medical man his judgment is that
the small family means grave deteriora-
ton in the health of the parent. particu-
larly of the woman, and lowers the moral
character of both sexes and of what
children are born since the character of
the parent is to some extent transmitted
to the child. THE very life of the ma
tion is seriously imper1Ied and there is
increasing reason to believe that :
isolated children born under
these conditions may themselves suffer
and be degraded by their antecedents.'
The immunity from trouble on the part
of the parents where the family is small
he holds to be very dearly purchased. Il
am convinced after many years of OBJ
servation that both sudden danger and
chronic disease may result"
With the small family, too. there is
the loss of the increased work and self
sacrifice demanded, where the family is
large, of the father. If families are to
be limited without disastrous moral re-
suits, it must be by the exercise of moral
qualities and Of self-restraint.
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SPANS SGREAT ESCOR|AL AWOR[D WONDER
Monument Attention BY the
Entombment of ExQueen IsabeIlas Palace, and
Tomb Bourbon

Special Foreign Service.
MADRID, May 21.-For a short
time, due to the entombment
there with solemn pomp, of ex-Queen
Isabella of Spain, the famed Escorial,
called by Spaniards the eighth wonder
of the world, has taken on something
of it's former grandeur Situated
nearly four thousand feet above sea