Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-23
CRUDE HUT, BUT FINE MENU
Kaiser's New Appointee to Foreign Of
flee Creates Surprise.
pITIFUL CONDITION OF SULTAN
No Longer Takes His Coffee and
Cigars While Out Walking-Sus-
picious of Everybody.


LONDON. September s. 1906.
a correspondent who is staying at a
Scotch shooting box writes me follows:
scotland in September always inspires a
greater sense of wealth than any other part
of the world east Of New York. because
here money flows like water. In the coun-
try in ireland money Is of no account at
all. and the best families are SO hard up
that they actually look with suspicion on
those who throw money lavishly about.
In Scotland the canny gillie has national
contempt for the mon whots frae wi his
silier" but he never lets the gofd of the
southcrncr or of the Yankee get past him
self if he can help it. And the diffusion of
wealth is simply colossal.
My present host has a deer forest and
a grouse moor. In a good year. he tells me.
each stag that is shot may cost him be-
tween forty and eighty pounds; in bad
year much five hundred Grouse may
cost him anything from fifteen shillngs to
three guincas brace. The latter price
will be reached on many moors this year.
The Old custom of asking each gun whom
he would like game sent TO is rapidly going
out Instead. all that are brought down are
dispatched to the London markets. Even
this commerCialism hardly affects the ad-
Still. this is a trife among the plutocratic
owners.
Let me describe my temporary residence
The thirty miles from railway station are
practically annlhiatcd by the motor cars
which bring and take kilograms, parcels
letters and newspapers. The house itself is
bare, hldeCuS structure. Inside ii is fur
nished with splendid simplicity. and though
some of the bed rooms small. twelve
people put up. exclusive of maids. val
cts. Chauffeurs and the ordinary servants
The dinner is cooked as finely by the chef
Ii he were in his own kitchen in Bel
grave square. The dining room may be
mean, but the table is handsomely APP
pointed and the wines good in the
London mansion When the ladies come
out to lunch with the guns the meal is
served by liveried servants. and the luxury
of the menu quantity contrasts with the
wooden hut in which 1t is eaten.
Who come to such partieS?' you ask.
We'll. here is ours Illustration
Our host is peer whose colossal wealth
evokes little surprise. though his great
grandfather was navy. Tie hostess, his
wife. is Il dukes daught vino has eXqui-
site manners, distinguished appearance and
came with a hundred and fifty a year to
throw into the household pot beside the
millions of her husband There are an Aus
trian count and his wife. He is a superb
shot. and she an eXqusitely graCieuSe fem
minette mine host hirts with whenever he
IS not shooting The hostess amuSes her.
self with "A tall dark stoCkbrOker whose
knowledge or funds seems by no means
incompatible with his obviously Semitic ori-
gin. \ barouet and his wife myself.
younger sister of the hostess. an American
girl with whose mother the host and hostess
last year stayed at Newport. a captain in
the Rifle Brigade and the handsome young
owner of a courtesy title make up the pres
ent group
Never. perhaps. since the appointment Of
Gen. Caprivi 10 succeed Prince. Bismarck
a chancellor has the kaiser caused such
tif,r, 1f,1t1r lie Sllhla or at ,St
among his faithful Berl:nerS." by his
present selection of Herr Bernhard Dern-
burg to take the place of Prince Won
HohenlOhe-L angcnburg chief of the
colonial section OF the German foreign
Office. The appointment has acted like a
hombSheu among the BerlinerS generally
but more 50 among the bureaucrats Of the
Nilhelmstrasse, and especially among the
PruSsian iunkerS or cabbage SqUres'' for
Herr Dernburg is as to the ways of
the Official world and particularly Of diplo-
macy. was. for example. Mr.. GOSchen
when. in 1850. he was ptchforked over the
heads of all English regularly trained min
listers and ambassadors and sent to Con-
stantnoplc on a special mission. Above
all things. Herr Dernburg was brought up
in an atmosphere OF political opposition to
the government HIS father Friedrich
DerrburG, was for many years editor of
the National Zeitung" "A journal which
was run in the interest of the national
liberals by the Hebrew leaders of Berlin
finance, and some time ago he transferred
his services to the Berliner Tageblatt,
print which was once described as a paper
written by Jews for Jews. but which, at
any rate, was ever in most active opposl-
ton to the powers that be.
1t was from the columns OF these two
critical journals that young Dernburg de-
rived his views of political life But in the
Interval he had spent several years at New
York learning American business methods
and residence in America always makes a
wonderful change in the mental habits of a
German especially when that German like
Herr Dcrnburg. happens to be of Jewish
origin. 1t has been said that the acutest
business man going IS a Scotch Jew of
German extraction born in America but
he is run hard by the German Jew with
an American training. 1t is not often that
apart perhaps from the judicial career
men Of Hebrew raCe-even when they have
changed their rcligion-are raised to high
offlces OF state in Germany. but there have
been exceptions to the rule. and Herr Won
Friedeherg. minister OF Justice under the
Old emperor and his successor. was one Of
them.
The Dernburgs came to Berlin from
Hesse Darmstadt. but the cradle of their
race was east Of Suez. Their cosmopoli-