The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-22

crisis and general uncertainty ae swamping the public offices or tnes De- partment of Labor and at no previous time have they handled similar number of applicants for work.
 Oderberg and Oswiecun two towns on the frontier of Austria where tens of thousands of Austrians. but the Amer:cans pass are crowded with these people and as the Austrian rail roads cannot carry more than two thirds of the arriving crowds condl- tions are daily growing worse.
 Barracks have been erected by the troops to give sh elter to the homeless, many of whom have spent their last penny for their return tickets, wniie tsey are waiting Tor trains, purins the first three weeks of December 40. 900 men. women and children have been handled in these two towns. M
 From Vienna comes the report that the government is very much worried. A quarter of a million Austrians are returning from the United States des- titute and starving. The number of unemployed in the city on the Danube bas broken all records, and the charf- table institutions are unable to relieve but a fraction of the suffering people. s5 Kaiser's Versatility.
 The Kaiser has given new proof of his versatility by painting six illus | trations for picture postal cards which are to be reproduced and sold by the thousands for charitable purposes. The idea originated with Princess valderhar of Denmark, who is talent ed painter and whose paintings have repeatedly been exhibited at the Paris and Copenhagen Salons, under | an assumed name.
 Two years ago the Princess issued | her first series of Christmas cards l with her Royal Crown and signature | to be sold for the benefit of the poor l children of Copenhagen. Now her cards are on sale in every European | capital and even in New York, and thousands are realized from their sale, l The widowed Queen of Saxony and | Princess Mathilde of Saxony took up the idea last year and are founding a home for consumptives from the pro- | ceeds. The Kaiser's picture postals are the | first of the series which are to be I painted by all the crowned heads of Europe possessing pictorial talents
 New Naval Port.
 The German Government have de. ! cided to create a new naval port al | Brunsbuettel, opposite Cuxhaven, ir | the mouth of the Elbe. and at the western end of the Baltic Canal. The first step, the construction oi | dry dock at a cost off $7,O0O.' | 900 will be followed by the construc' tion of other docks. Brunsbuette will be more strongly fortified in pro- portion to its growing importance.
 The decision to create a naval bast at Brunsbuettel. following so closel, on the resolve to transfer the head quarters of the German fleet from Kiel to Wilh helmshaven, is extreme l ly significant, inasmmuch as 1t re veals the concentration of German naval power in the North Sea.
 A Love Tragedy.
 remarkable love tragedy is re ported from Tarnov, in Austrian Pc land.
 FaIa, a police sergeant was passion ately in love with a cook named Ann; Mikovski, but she rejected his ad vances. and owing to his threats onl, left the house .n company with he father.
 The sergeant saw the pair out to gether, and, taking the father for an other lover stalked them, and brough them down with bullets from his ser vice rifle. He then killed them botl with his bayonet.
 | Witnesses of the crime attempted t
 seize Fala who escaped to his hous Land barricaded himself within. H
 kept the police at bay for day. bu
 yesterday on the appearance of
 company who had been called to storr Il the house. he shot himself through tn
 head. E ar s l non,t +all too long to the brett