New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-12-03
King Edward the Austrian Emperor Prefer Cigars:
the Kaiser and the Gear. Cigarettes; and
King Leopold, Pipe. ..~@ Z

the markets of the world. The empire has bios.
somed forth as a great naval power, the growth
of which is regarded a serious menace by
Great Britain. Its military strength has been
increased rather than diminished since William
came to the throne, and Germany remains more
than ever the foremost military empire of the
world The Kaiser has managed to identity him
self with every phase of German life to such an
extent that he has come to be looked upon as its
handspring, in default Of which the entire mech
anism would come to a standstiIl. Yet he is an
inveterate cigarette smoker. "
King Edward was formerly likewise exceed
ingly fond of cigarettes, and used to smoke vast
quantities of them. though in later years they
have been supplanted by cigars, and nowadays
he is seldom seen without a big black Havana
No one can deny that he has shown himself a
wonderfully able ruler and sagacious statesman
since he assembled the throne; and quietly and
tactfully, without exciting any cayilling, even
on the part of those opponents Of the crown who
are most jealous of the prerogatives of Parlla-
ment and people, he has succeeded in completely
altering the course of the British ship Of state
in matters of international politics. with the re-
suit that to-day the prestige and the influence of
England abroad are greater than at any moment
since the NapoIeonic wars at the beginning Of
the nineteenth century King Edward has Just
passed his sixty-fourth milestone and has been
an nveterate smoker ever since he attained man
hood more than twoscore years ago. Judging by
the results which he has achieved ruler Ia
the Eve brief years which have elapsed since ne
succeeded to the throne. Il cannot be said that
the cigarettes which he smoked as Prince OF
Wales and the cigars which he has consumed as
Yipe have in any way untitled him for the
dutias of ruler over one-ffth of the entire known
universe. .#
Emperor Francis Joseph has by means OF
tact sound Judgment and level headedness man
aged to hold together for more than fifty years
the most discordant racial elements that have
ever been before united under single head, and
will doubtless weather the present storms in
Hungary and at Vienna with much success
as he has achieved in all previous difficulties of
the same order Servians, Germans, Rumanians.
C-roats Slavs and Czecks Poles and Magyars,
MosJens in Herzegovina and Bosnia and the
italian speaking races in the Trent and along
the eastern shores CT the Adriatic, while imbued
with the bitterest hatred against one another.
are bound together by the ties Of loyalty TO mis-
person-loyalty which he has managed TO win
from them all Yet he too is inveterate
smoker. his favorite form of the weed being
those long cigars known in Austria as Vir-
g,nIas which have to have a straw through
them in order to enable them TO draw, and have
m he held In the flame of a spirit lamp for
r,inute or two before they can be induced to
light.
King Leopold Of Belgium. no matter what his
domestic shortcomings has shown himself a
wonderfully clever ruler, and has won for his
+tnv kingdom of Belgium Importance politi-
cslIxy and economically altogether out OF pro-
,ortion 10 its size. BY diplomacy, statecraft and
business enterprise he has endowed 1t with an
immense colonial empire. possessed Of latent re-