Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-31

IN ERLIN, July 20.-Sometimes in
B1 the doings of petty principalities
and duchies, as in the affairs OF
great empires, there arise crises
| which rend the state in twain, set
against party, and brother against
brother Viewed from afar by citizens
! of populous states, these crises seem
trivial and unworthy. The citizens of
Berlin, for instance, smile condescend-
rngly at the politics Of Schwarzburg-
Sonderhausen and NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
| and hint that a duchy five miles long
| by is broad can have no politics more
exalted than the problem of paint or
no paint for the arms above the
Rnthaus door. But even superior Ber-
lin sighed 4 sigh of relief on learning
that the constitutional crisis which re-
Gently led SaNc-Coburg and Gotha to
the verge of civil war had ended with
out bloodshcd. 49,
On the prcciptous pine-clad hill. Of
Kallenhcrg, to the northwest of CoburG
city. there rears it's head a. picturesque
and handsomely furnished, CASTLE the
propertyof the reigning. duke Kallen-
berg Castle is seldom tenanted AS a
rule. it is left to the care Of 30 liverietl
servants. who wait With Impotence
+ for their sovcre!grps rare arrivals, and
the harvest of 10 pfennlg pieces then
rcaped in the form. of tips.
STOLE A HEN.
In 1906 occurred an event rare in
Coburs's modern annals. An ill-dis-
posed person stole q hen kept in the
courtyard by the dukes third gar
dener. The landtag or parliament OF
Coburg, which consists of II citizens
elected on democratic franchise, re-
solved thereupon that a, gendar1ne be-
appointed to stand on a hil1ock near
the castle, and guard against future
robbers OF both the gardeners hens
and the sovereign's ancestralaportraits
Although the cost was estimated at
5000. an excessive sum for state
overwhelmed with armaments-Co-
bugs army counts nearly /, 500-tIle
reckless proposal was agreed to. There
upon began that career of extrava-
gance which ended in 1.-The %constit,,-
tional crisis referred to. A second gen.
sdarne was provided to gaurd the ducal
palace of Rosenau: and the unpatriotic
landtag passed without dissent an ,es-
innate Of $l1 for wholly. unnecessary
ycockades.
Bankruptcy or foreign loan would
soon have been the only alternatives
had not Coburg in its hour. of peril
,pipuNSeti q, lew sturdy I)dtClOtS.,t Anew 4.
months ago. the president of the min
istry of state, encouraged by past Inn
munity in extravaganza. introduced a
hill to provide the Kallenberg gem
darme with horse. He was faced at
once by solid phalanx Of friends of
peace. retrenchment and reform. THE
ducal security and dignity said the
minister-prcsident. require guarding
by q mounted satellite This specious
mixed metaphor did not impose on the A
friends of thrift. They resolved 10
wake Sake Gohurg and Gotha up to
its threatened Derils.
ECONOMY DEMANDED.
They began an agitation which soon
embraced the whole land The horse
they Numbered from dozen plat
forms, is not only needless extrava-
gance but piece of incendiary milf
tarism which will lead to competition
with -Meiningen. and other ambi-
tious states within the German con-
federation. The agitation succeeded
The aroused nation demanded economy
and the landtag rejected the bill The
budget was successfully balanced with
out appealing 10 the Rothschilds: and
the gendarme Of Kallenberg resumed