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espies a wealthy man. he approaches him
and soIicits orders for the Hohenzollern
store. When the orders are given the
kaiser extracts a gold pencil from his
pocket and after the manner of commercial
travellers jots down the particulars on his
snow white cuffs. When he goes yachting
along the coast of Scandinavia in the sum
mer the kaiser never forgets his shops and
canvasses for orders with the same COM
n1ercial zeal. Even when he visits foreign
courts he frequently seizes the opportunity
to solicit orders from his fellow royalties,
who are vastly amused by his business
enterprise. The kaiser experiences TN
bounded delight over his success in this
capacity and he estimates that he could
shape of commiss obtained from the
Hohenzoll2rn store if he were its employe
instead of its proprietor.
The total amount of capital invested in
the kaisers works at Cadinen and the
Hohenzollern store in Berlin is given as
s5G0.0G9. The average annual profits dur
ing the last three years amounted to
s46,oC0-that is, fraction more than per
cent on the invested capital. Considering
that the profits decreased by the hui
manitarian institutions at Cadinen. this
result must be regarded as an achievement
of remarkable success. Altogether the
kaiser employees more than 1000 persons
in the various departments of his two
businesses.
The kaiser's participation in practical
business has considerable political i'm
portance, for the old-faShioned aristocracy
of Germany until recently entertained deep
rooted prejudces against trade and above
all against shopkeepers. The kaiser's enter
prise has gone far to remove these relics
of bygone times. Since the kaiser is him
self shopkeeper it can no longer be such
extremely bad form to keep shop. The
kaiser has partially broken down the bar
riers between the aristocratic and COM
mercial classes. but not entirely for it is
still impossible for the son of a shopkeeper
to become an officer in any cavalry regi-
ment or indeed in any smart infantry
regiment. Even the kaiser has been unable
to overcome this dislike of shopkeeping
Nevertheless some prominent members of
the highest German aristocracy have fol-
lowed his example and gone into trade
Prince Christian Hohenlohe, Il member of
former reignng family, which still holds
equal rank to the reigning houses of Eu
rope carries on several different businesses
on his ancestral estate at Oehringen in
south Germany. One factory makes oat-
meal, sold under the name of Hohenlohe
oatmeal. Another makes cakes sold under
the name of Hohenlohe cakes. A third
factory produces corsets. sold under the
name of Hohenlohe corsets, much sought
after by German ladies on account of their
princely trade mark. Prince Egon Fuersten-
berg owns large breweries and Prince
Guido Donnersmarck conducts a large silk
factory, the products OF which are sold
under the trade mark of his royal arms
RUDOLPH Won ELPHBERG
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Goldfish in Pennsylvania Streams.

From the Philadelphia Record
Some of the streams in Paramount Park
are inhabited by goldfish. Where they
came from nobody knows, but they are
big, rat fellows, with whom outdoor life
appears to agree perfectly
1t is supposed that they are descended
from some goldfish thrown into the stream
by nearby residents who had tired of them
as pets. 1t Is not generally known either
that the goldfish is a. species of carp with
all the voracious and predatory instincts
of that disreputabIe fish.
The wild goldfish are to be found in the
pools at the bottom of dams and rifles and
appear to be lazy. cOntented and healthy
rather surprising to such of us as imagine
goldfish lit only to inhahit a glass globe
and to be fed by hand with specially pre-
pared food.
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ing 1t, you and your partner face. without
touching each other, do a sort Of double
shutne with your feet, snap your finger:
above Your heads in limitations of casta-
nets all the t me gazing fxedly into each
others eyes. This last is the prime. pal rul
OF the game, and if you let your eyes wan
der for an instant to where another girl is
aahelhs, your partner stops work instantly,
gives her shoulders shrug, her head a
loss and goes back to the horse skulr' in
a huff.
me cato is better: in it all the dane
ing you have to do is a kind of rhythmic
surglng to and fro, like the action of n
couple too fat to swing around each
other in Il waltz. and you are allowed
to put your arm around the girl This
is a prerogative however, which. if you
are well advised, you viii exercise only
in the most brotherly manner; ether
wise YOU will lay yourself open u being
invited by jealous sweetheart to aC-
company him off into the moonShine to
fight for the hand and heart OF the girl
to both of which his pig head has made
him believe you aspire.
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THE pampas Of Argentina correspond
/ closely with the prairies OF the Mis-
= sissippt valley Of the United States

HE pampds or Argentina correspond
closely with the prairies OF the Mis-
. stssippi valley of the United States
and the great plains of the Canadian north
west. but nowhere else In the world Is there
so large an area that approaches 80 near to
an absolute level. writes L. r. Freeman in
the New York Tribune.
To the average inhabitant Of the pampas
a gentle swell on the bosom of the plain is
q thing of interest, and Hill something to
revere. The most characteristic figure OF
the pampas is the gaucho. As a handler of
stock he Is possibly the peer of the Queens
land drover. but Is certainly not to be men,
toned in the same breath with a Texas,
Arizona or Montana cowboy, nor with the
best of Mexican vaqueros. l had arrived at
this conclusion in my own mind from the
time I what were said to be expert
eauChos working at a roundup; hence |
was the more pleased when, in the course
Of my stay in Buenos Ayres, bunch of
halr dozen Texas cowboys appeared in
that city on an exhibition tour and demon
strated TO the satisfaction Of everybody that
in the handling of horses and cattle, both in
method and execution, the North American
Is far superior TO the South American.
But in the handling of his knife the
gaucho has no peer. 1t is a common thing
to say of the gaucho that he is born with
a knife in his hand and / have often seen
babes scarcely out of arms playing with
knives half as long as their bodies, and
when child once takes to carrying a
"facon'' II never leaves him.
The staple article of diet on the pampas
is "carne aSado" This Is usually leg OF
mutton which has been scorched to Gin
DER on the outside and left raw In the mid
die. 1t tastes better than II looks. and the
principal duty of the gaucho'S knife Is &c
cut off his hunk of 'carne." If he only cuts
| off his own share things usually go on al
| right, but If he cuts away bit of another
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On his farms at Cadinen the kaiser grows
wheat, raises cattle and breeds swine with
conspicuous success. Thus the kaiser COM
bines in his person and In his property the
two forces of agriculture and industry,
which in Germany are hostile, each
struggling to derive the greater ad-
vantages from the countrys protective
tariffs. The empress invariably accom-
panies the kaiser to Cadinen and plays
the part of a middle-class housewife to per-
lection. She enjoys keeping house in the
simple villa. where none of the ceremonies
of the courts are observed. She dusts the
rooms in the morning, assists the cook IN
the kitchen, making the kaisers favorite
dishes with her own royal hands, and in
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A Mile Of Pennies.
the Kansas City Journal

From the Kansas City Journal
Pennies will go into hiding IN Lakin since
members of the Ladies Aid Society of tho
Methodist Church have adopted a penny
collecting plan to raise money for the erec-
ton of new church at that place
The idea is an exemplihcation Of the old
adage: Take care of the pennies and the
dollars VIII take care of themselves" The
object is to gather a mile of pennies, and
to do this each member has been provided
with a narrow strip Of paper a foot in
length. Each foou win hold just sixteen
pennies. 1t is calculated that when the
mile Of pennies is received the sum Of
SSH - win be added 70 the building fund
Pennies are likely to become scarce article
IN Lakin. it takes just i,i4S pennies TO
make a mile.
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They work only seven hours a day from
Monday to Friday, three hours on Satur-
day and not at all on Sunday. Various
local clubs founded under the direction
of the emperor, provide for their sports
and pastimes in the summer and for in
door amusements, such as lectures and
dances, in the winter. A free library like
wise maintained from the profits of the
pottery works provides for the employees
intellectual needs. The kaiser himself
built up these institutions one by one in
his successful endeavor to make his In
dustrtal establishment a model to be imi-
tated by benevolent employers throughout
the country. In this direction. according to
the kaser's conviction, lies the solution Of
the problems Of capital and labor. When
employers reveal more human tendencies
and when amicable relations exist between
them and their employees the intense rivalry
between capital and labor will the kaiser
believes, disappear and give way to a sort
of ideal friendship. He has brought about
this state of affairs at Cadinen but then
he admits himself that he undertook the
task with everything in his favor whereas
business enterprises founded solely to make
the biggest possible profits must neces-
sarily pursue other methods. Nevertheless.
the kaiser has frequently expressed the
hope that German employers of labor will
recognize that in the imitation of his own
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of course, I mean The result Of below
the belt thrust or cut Is not pretty thing
to look at by any means put e,d IRON the the
best stroke In the game. 1t is easy TO
speak Of stabbing man to the heart, but
to accomplish that act, particularly with a
broad-bladed knife or AWNING, Ia iac'.
matter. The ribs are placed where they
are as an armor to protect the heart and
lungs Your real knife mani mean the
man who fights for his IRE win a knlie'
unhampered by tradition or convention
recognizes thi5 fact, hence it is that the
gaucho thrusts downward instead OF up
ward and the result of post mortem on
dead gaucho will usually sho" that 'ile re
dead man met his fate in consequences OF
the dissolution of the continuity of part
of his digestive apparatus.
The danger zone encircling a gaucho
with a knife in his belt Is by no means
limited to the circle he sweeps with his
arm. I am not just sZre how far it does
60 and still less haze I a desire to find
out haze small skill with the revolver,
yet, were I able to do the regulation ex-
perts stunts Of blotting out tho spots on q
six of spades at a dozen pa $, [ should
still feel shaky at taking any cnInce at a
draw-andlet-go at the same distance with
a gaucho and his knife. An illuminative
case In point came to my attention in
Buenos Ayres. AS class the American
agricultural machtnfsts sent to the pam
pas are handy with SiX-shooters as any
I have ever encountered. They are mostly
westerners, have used revolvers from
childhood. and their guns, from which they
never separate themselves for a moment
while in camp, are always of the latest
and best pattern. Yet the case l have in
mind is that of a machinery expert from
Montana crack shot-who had trouble
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War Bills.
From the Philadelphia Press.

From the Philadelphia Press.
War is not only hell, as Gen. Sherman
said but 1t is expensive hell. The world
is today paying for the cost of two recent
and highly expensive wars, and yet some
persons wonder where ell the money goes.
The South African conquest cost Great Brit
ain a cool 81 900 600, 600, and the Beers must
have spent a sixth as much in defending
their little republic. To get Il foothold In
Manchuria and drive back the Russian
armies took tidy 81 10O,0O0,oO0 from the
Japanese treasury. while ambitions for a
greater empire cost the ear 81, 800 600 600.
In these two wars, not counting the many
millions which Germany Is still paying out
of $1,000, 100000 was expended. A large
part Of this may he set down as utter
waste of capital.
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Reciprocity.

From the Youths Companion.
a successful school teacher. who is loved
as we'll as admired by her pupils. says
that during her first year OF teaching she
received little lesson which taught her
what st Paul probably meant by the
"fUolishuess Of teaching.
In tile middle of term one of her
pupils was obliged To leave school as the
family was about TO move out OF town.
When the teacher said goodbye to the
little g1rl, vino had been an intelligent
and well-beHavcd pupil. she felt moved 10
add a few words of advice
II l never see you again" she said
with much carHestness Il hope YOU will
never forget TO do your best wherever
you may be, and whatever tasks you are
called TO perform. hope YOU will always
be an honest, upright woman. truthful and
brave.
Thank you" said the little girl her
round. eager face upturned to her teach
erl and / hope youn be the same
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with a gaucho, had an even break on the
draw at twenty-five or thirty, feet, and
was retired from action with a knife
through his shoulder before his auto
matte" was clear of his holster From
this wound he was confined a month in a
Buenos Ayres bAspital.
Except behind his knife the gaucho Is,
perhaps, at his best at a dance. The
knife, of course, goes with him to the
dance and he occasionally gets behind it,
but as it is a point of honor not to fight
under friends roof, these little side is
sues rarely mar the pleasure Of the dance
proper.
The girls present are robustly developed,
straightforward young persons, who carry
themselves with the easy grace of lady
lions. and who meet ones eyes with less
of the insolence but all the assurance of
the dollhouse beauties of Buenos Ayres.
They are dressed neatly in dresses that
cover them from shoulder to shoe top, and
have lot of funny fiXings that are f.
hcult for man to describe. The men are
of the gaucho type, and brave in all the
splendors of their best "chripas" and
ponchos.
X
The dancing is begun on the earthen
floor OF the kitchen. which, from Its nature,
does not permit of much action in the way
of gliding. The two most popular dances
are the cato and the ''jota' In the
cato dance you begin to the music or a
guitar the musician picking away for hVe
minutes at kind or HOMOGENEOUS
"strumpity -strump'' tune. from winch ne
finally breaks into song. Wheh the song
starts YOU must according TO the rules,
stop dancing and salute your partner with
an appropriate verse of poetry. She in
turn must counter with a smilar verse, and
then. the song being over You begin dane
ing again to the pity-Strump.
The '.jota' is a cross between a High
land fling and a Spanish fandango. Dane
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English Author Calls
*
Americans Niggers
Special Correspondence OF The Star.

! Special Correspondence Of The Star
LONDON. July n. 1897.
Cos'no Hamilton, the author OF "uAe'S
Son and various other novels ard pIavs,
has been giving his Impressions OF AmaYs
leans in London In "A popular vveekiV
journal He goes To the SAVOY Hotel ba
says 10 study them. 1T is a very museum, o.
curios.' he writes. and the quaintcst ma
most curious OF them all hail from CO.
/ lumhia- 1t IS too delicious 70 watch thase
prlnleval and precoClouE creatures tbs
women IN the most elaborate clothes ana
the men IN the weird garments Of Rroad4
way at feeding time Most of the women
are ample. even luxuriant They have.
much the face and arms of rowing men.
In bland and ch'ld-ika way they pretend
to be bored or lase. They affect what
they imagine to he tho airs Of English
fashionable women and murmur peremptory
things to their monknd. after the manner.
OF princesses in the novels of American
writers. They are very fond Of using
French words. such as sassoug,' 'frappe.'
au grattanE' and Billy and they make ths
use Of straw In long glass a thing to
practice In private"
Cosmo Hamilton has some lIttgs r.auta-
ton as writer of witty and epigrarmatic
things \ man who is always striving to
s'nullate runs great risk OF making fool
of himself The truth Of this statement
Cosmo Hamilton proceeds TO demonstrate
in this fashion:
They are really very kind simple neorls
the Americans. / have met many during
the season. They strike one as always
trying very hard to he what they are not.
mean civilized. That Is what makes them
so deliciously amusing, But For their color
they are really nothing but niggers"
That is something which nobody Les
ever said before. And to say something
which nobody has ever said before IL what
the professional smart man is ever striving
AFTER But obviously the statement needs
some explanation
at sounds unkind, even horrible" adds
Cosno Hamilton, but mean Il metaphors
caily, in the sense that they are affected
and dominated by noise, color. ragtlme airs
meiodrama. drums-I almost said tom toms
and brass. They frankly do not under
stand subtlety or sarcasm. Their humor
Is the humor Of the Niger, and yet they are
wonderfully hyper-prim in some of their
notions. They are, as far as my knowledge
of them goes-and of, course | have met
only the women who have become leaders
of English society and their brothers-iust
unsophistcated natives of a raw Young
country, who firmly believe that they were
the first inhabitants of the earth"
The foregoing, presumably is a sample Of
what Cosmo Hamilton regards "subtlstY
and sarcasm. 1t is simply Silly rot Blit
because Cosmo Hamilton writes II he gets
| paid probably as much as Sl5 a column for
! It. And the temptation to write rot when
! you can get that price for IT must he great
| Still, calling Americans niggars is about
! the limit. If Cosmo Hamilton has any
i regard for his health he will not repeat
! that observation in the hearing OF any OF
| them. II may pass muster humor In
England, but in America 1t is classified as
fighting talk"
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what kinds Of pottery were to be made, and
IN many cases altered the designs sub
mtted to him with his own hands
Owing to his initiation into all the de-
partments of the enterprise at the outset,
the kaiser has been able to retain the prac-
teal management of the works in his
hands ever since their foundation. This
fact was rather strikingly demonstrated
to the party of American capitalists during
their visit to Cadnen. autogra PHI letters of
instruction from the emperor to various
heads of departments being shown to them
to illustrate his majesty's personal super
vision over the many branches Of his bust
ness.
To facilitate hts control over affairs the
kaiser erected residence for himself
alongside Of the works at Cadinen. This
building, in which the American party was
entertained at luncheon, is a simple villa,
and here the kaiser delights to sojourn as an
employer experimenting the operations of
his factory hands. The kaiser has been
able to solve the difficult problem of being
a humanitarian employer and at the same
time of earning substantial profits at his
business. His workmen live in neat little
cottages built for them by their imperial
master which they are enabled to occupy
at low rents. Each cottage has garden
and is constructed on the most approved
sanitary methods. Every workman re-
ceives an old-age pension or a lifelong
pension from the time at which he becomes,
through accident i'll health incapable OF
working. The widows and orphans of the
worllmen are provided for on the same
generous scale, all the funds required for
these purposes being taken from the profits
of the business. The workmen thus
made TO feel that they have a direct in
terest in the concern, SO that they, on their
side. do their utmost to turn out the best
possible products.
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20 T fortune had not made the kaiser a
80 ruler he could have achieved great
success in life man of busi-
ness" That is an assertion made by
hard headed leaders of commerce in
this country, but considering that the
sneakers were Germans it might have been
suspected that excess of loyalty had some
thing to do with the warmth of their ad-
miration for the kaiser as captain of in
dustry.
But Andrew Carnegie and the other
American milli0nares who recently have
been visiting Germany have no such reason
for soft soaping' his majesty Wilhelm II,
and there is little doubt thA the marked
tributes to the kaisers efficiency as prac-
teal business man which has just been
paid by these authorities on the subject
were altogether spontaneous and sincere.
AS the cables told, Mr.. Carnegie and his
associates recently We're given an OPP
rortunty Of inspecting the great porcelain
factory and farms at Cadinen, in east
Prussia. which are owned and personally
managed by the kaiser and as a result one
and all expressed themselves as deeply i'm
press 4 by his majesty's evident genius for
practical business and his abilities as
scientific agricuturist. 1t may be added,
ar9ndantIy deserved by the versatile mon
arch. whose efforts in behalf of German
products have led him to be described
the finest commercial traveller in the
world" and whose advocacy of the dignity
Of trade has had SO marked an effect on
the younger members of Germany's reign
ing families
The origin of the imperial pottery works
at highly interesting
and throws light the versatility of the
kaiser's character Some years ago. after
he had gained public honors a ruler,
diplonatist, administrator, orator, military
organizer, naval reformer. musical COM
poser, artist, preacher yachtsman, designer
OF warships and in other capacities too
numerous to mention the kaiser conceived
the Id a of turning his attention to manu-
featuring and trade. He branched out in
this direction partly to show that he could
gain success as a plain practical trader and
partly because he felt that personal ex-
perienca as a proprietor of manufacturing
works would give him a better insight Into
many problems Of modern craftsmanship,
such as the relations of capital to labor,
legislation With a view to commercial in
terests and so forth.
i
The kaiser chose Cadinen as the site Of
his business enterprise and there he erected
model factories where exquisite specimens
of pottery are now produced In large guam
titles William IL did not hold aloof from
the practical details Of the business. but
plunged eagerly with all his wonderful en-
thusiasm into the work of making his
enterprise a striking success. Engaging a
professional expert as his adviser in regard
to technical points. the emperor retained
the actual management of the concern in
his own hands from the beginning. He
engaged the members of the business stan
selected the accountants chose the clerhs
and even picked out the workmen of whom
he personally approved. He gave orders
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The voices of the souvenir hunter IN
heard in the land and simultaneously with
the discovery that a CaXton first edition Of
THE Golden Legend" is mysteriously Miss
ing from the Manchester public library
comes pathetic wall from the rector Of
Stoke Pogis. There a youth-one OF A
party of three American tourists-suc.
ceeded, though hotly pursued by the aged
caretaker, in carrying off a notice 20 visa
itors which hung in the churchyard With
their booty the entire party rode off IN
triumph in their motor car. AS trophy q
notice to visitors to refrain from vandalism
does not seem to be Of particularly thrilling
interest but the American who arrives late
In the season. when the years supplies of
Van Dycks 1!ruidical remains and ancestral
homes of George Washington are exhaust.
ed, must be content with poorer game.