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around in his favor ana theIe 10 ho" :"
large and powerful public and omciai
opinion which excuses and even appiauds
his killing of his valet.
This change of front is due entirely To
sober reflection and to the searching lsht
Of publicity which has been trained on the
events leading up TO the unfortunate
death of the valet. There is a very bitter
feeling among the Servians over the un-
satisfactory ending of the negotiations
with Austria Hungary and 1t is generally
felt that had Prince George had his way
the little Balkan state would nave
emerged from the encounter of wits with
more glory and prestige. 1t is now real
lied that however much truth there may
he i'm the numberless charges against the
high-spirited prince. he was undoubtedly
the victim of series of cleverly planned
Vaccinations on the part OF the dual
monarchy.
THE paper which first printed the report
Of the assault upon the valet is In the
nav of Austria who has CROWDS or spies
in the Servian capital and manages TO
rive the prince as black character as
possible. On making careful inquiries IL
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GONE UP :

was found that the paper had no better
authority than a woman who said she was
the dead valet's sister. She said that the
prince gave a letter to her brother TO post.
A short time afterward he asked if it
were posted. Yes, your hghness. it is. -
was the answer. The girl affirmed that
on hearing this the prince got into a
rage. threw the valet down stairs. ran
after him and kicked him with his spur
red boots. till. bleeding and exhausted.
the valet was taken to the hospital where
he died shortly >afterward.
This version of the story was spread all
over the world and religiously believed.
OF course the prince is an impatient man.
but to anybody who Knows him at all 1t
would be incredible that he. having
thrown a man down. continued to kick
him. BY the majority who do rot know
anything about him except what they
hear from Austrian journalists, thia part
of the story was accepted in good faith.
Some went so far to say that il was
the fifth man he had killed within the
past year. The prince. with all his
faults, is truthful person.
II did not kick him to death" he said.
when spoken to about it, land. what is
more. even had / killed him, he deserved
it,
This statement also was exaggerated till
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and a months labor. did they renounce
giving a civil status TO their babies? 2?
Even so.
Even SO: it seemed to explain half the
free unions of Paris. In word, Prof.
Rertillon's statistical curves show that in
the six months previous to the new law.
19.0SS marriages had been celebrated in
Paris. In the six months succeeding the
marriages had already amounted to .6,-
S59
Spendthrift unions are not within the
scope of Prof Bertillon'S statistical
curves Why then. in possession of :;3
per cent increase of Paris marriages. does
he mourn: We lack the American atmos-
phnre"?
The statistician of Paris mourns. and
the Able Lemire Is pensive because the
newspapers of the gay French capital
have been registering vertable epidemic
of comic opera elopements, farce comedy
heiress winnings and babeS-in-the woods
spendthrift unions since the law was
promulgated.
Is France. the land of prudent fore
sight. to be continually upset by such
imitation American marriages?
Or did all the lisht-headed hasten to
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France Attempts to Adopt American Methods Of Marriage


has sought an idle title. They marry
active men. participating largely in the
worlds affairs.
Living in France. they marry out of
France. Living out of America, they did
not return to seek a choice. Neither
constrained nor impeded by surroundings
tyet not struggling against themD. they
yield to loves sweet unrea eaSonablenesS
mot unjustified by reason in accepting
men they happen to know well.
X
Here" says Prof. Bertillon. "are OBJ
ject lessons in that American marriage
which we endeavor to accimate in
France. In its interest French legislators
passed the Lemire law of 1908.
How we'll known to the Paris popula-
tion are the families of these American
brides / will show YOU" he continues.
Both Miss Murie White and Miss Elaine
Whitney-Hof were objects of historic
deputation of the market women of Paris
bearing baskets of flowers and fruits SO
did the DANES de la halle congratulate
the blushins Anne of Brittany and the
lovely Marie Stuart Sure y we look to
these Americans as leaders Only the
American example could have persuaded
French legislators to throw down the
bars of 2.09 years protecting marriage
interests from mere love,
"Helas.'' continues Prof Bertillon.
eve lack the American atmosphere
He is obliged to admit that while the
first six months of the new marriage law
yield magnificent statistical results they
have brought their own disorders 'aS
the fermentation of new wine in old
wine Skins
Prof. Rertillon is not he whom you
know. He is not the inventor of the an
thropometrc system of the world for the
present identification of criminals and the
future registration of all citizens. but
his brother. the statistician of the Paris
municipality. For years past he has cal
culated those warning statistical CURVES
which showed French marriages station
airy. Paris marriages on decline and
race suicide staring its victims in the
face.
Then comes that Christian man. the
Able IIemire whom future genera tions OF
French youth may possibly venerata as d
new ST. Valentine.
He sits i'm the chamber of deputies for
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Busy Little 0hmS.

HNTISS JEANNETTE GLIDER saws
ASA that. now Hardy and Meredith
have stopped writing. Eden Philpotts is
the greatest English novelist. OH"
The speaker. a novelist himself snorted.
"Philpotts," he said. lis an imitator of
Hardy. lie is Hardy and water. II Miss
Glider thinks him great she is as igno-
rant of her critics trade as a big New
York editor is ignorant of electricity
He took down scrapbook.
This editor. he said, made a fright
ful error in an article about the Morse
system, and | called him down.
Editor Blank is at 1t again, ! wrote,
mixing up ohms. volts and amperes as
if he were stirring sugar III his coffee.
He says that it requires force" Of
fourteen ohms to the mi'e to send a
current with a telegraph message. Why
not go the whole animal In inaccuracy.
and say that you hang your telegraph
message written on an ordinary sheet OF
note paper on the telegraph wire? ion pick
m fourteen ohms out of the till and hitch
them on behind the message The ohms
prod il up, and the message Is pushed
along to its destination. the busy ..ttle
ohms in the meantime turning the white
naper an official yellow. and in many
cases even changing the handwriting to
characters.
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The Bathing Tramp.

cENATOR NORRIS BROWN, in an ad-
- dress in Washington, praised an Iowa
millionaire.
"His success is a lesson to us. said
Senator Brown There are men III
Maauoketa who still remember him as
tramp. a common, homeless tramp
The speaker smiled.
.'One afternoon in New York he said,
las the millionaire and | were walking IN
9th avenue. a beggar stepped up to MIN
and whined:
BOSS, ] guess you amt never went
cold and hungry. seepin' in wet fields
and gittin kicked from
oh. yes. nave, though. said the
millionaire.
He looked the tramp up and down.
handed him 4 quarter and said. as he
passed on:
But had the decency to wash my
self once or twice year. by George!
You make me kind of sick.
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the paper that first attacked him said.
''The prince says the man deserved the
death he got What better proof do we
want of his guilt
In the. end the indignation against the
prince grew so strong that, disguised al
his unpopularty. he wrote his now IA
nous letter to the skouptschina. or par
lament. saying that, as a protest against
the way his future subjects DETAINED his
name without hearing the facts Of the
case he had made up his mind To re-
nounce his rights to the Servian crown.
He had already demanded an inquiry.
which the paper that spread the story re-
fused to make.
Now that things have quieted down in
Belgrade il is possible to get to the real
facts of the case Since his return from
Russia which he visited with the hope
that the cZar would help Servia against
Austria. the prince has been surrounded
by spies. 1t is easier to understand this
when one remembers that Belgrade, the
Servian capital, stands on one bank of
the Danube and Zimony, the Austrian
frontier town. on the other. People have
no difficulty i'm passing from one side to
the other many times a day as they
wish as the boats run frequently between
the two posts. Austrian and German
Journalists always so over to Zimony to
telegraph their news.
The gentlemen of the princes house
hold declare that the valet was one of
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biased persons who know Prince George
agree in this opinion. Not that he is
by any means perfect. AS he himself
says. he is very rough. Not long ago
he had passage at arms with one OF
the late kings murderers.
when / come to the throne all those
murderers will leave the court. h de-
clared, in one of the reSicldes s hearing.
The regicide said he dare not expel
them.
I'VE shall see. retorted the prince.
Here is a sample of what | dare do"
And he boxed the regicide's ears. Now.
the man in question stands more than
six feet and is broad in proportion. He
went for the prince and thrashed him, as
the latter is not very robustly built.
The officers and people about the court
are afraid of the prince because of his
impetuousness. He likes swift move
ment That is why he bought u motor
car, though Servian roads are by no
means fitted for them, being as bad as
any in Europe. OF course, When Prince
George invites some of his fathers sub
jects for a spin, it is not etiquette 10
refuse. But these expeditions are very
dangerous. Not many years ago he in
vited an old general, who is quite Il
veteran. and. in the princes eyes, a
great hero, because of his services to
Servia when she threw off the foreign
yoke. poet, who is also friend Of
the prince and young officer of the
royal household completed the party.
The prince drove himself. All went
fairly well for some time. though they
got a good deal of humping, tn tile
prince, excited with the rapid movement,
determined to go full speed, though the
general protested.
The prince is not a good driver. and
he soon ran into q wall with such force
that the car overturned and the four
cupants were hurled out The prince
and the poet received many bruises.
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The Warsaw Bacon.

NERRILL Il. GATES. secretary OF the
1*1 board of Indian commissioners. was
describing in Washington the splendid
work that his board is doing to wipe out
the tuberculosis scourge which at one time
threatened TO make the American Indian
extinct.
But the Indian said Mr.. Gates. needs
to be educated in sanitation. He Is shock
ingly ignorant there. In fact. he Is as lg-
norant as an old farmer l used to know in
Warsaw.
"A friend dropped in on this old farmer
as he was frying a bit OF. bacon.
...Grand bacon, that. said the friend,
smiling affably.
Grand bacon! Well. guess it is
Grand bacon. said the old man. turning
the slices in the pan. And it's none o
yer murdered stun. neither. That pig
died q natural death.
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a factory working population of the north
and is an honorary canon of the Cathedral
of AK. where Charlemagne is buried. You
remember the scene in "Hernani?" The
A Abbe Iemire has the right to sit in those
venerable stalls. Formerly he was pro-
fessor III the st. Francis 1nstitu-
ton o. Haaebrouck, where he wrote
esteemed books on Christian socialism.
The Able Lemre looked on the youth
of France Two Influences kept them
from spontaneous love marriages. In
the council of Trent 500 years ago. the
French had fought vaniy TO make the
consent of parents essential even to the
validity of marriages. and what the coun-
Gil refused. Napoleon all but granted-a a
man of Gorty had to bring lawsuit
against father or mother should either
both refuse consent TO his marriage.
Worse. even. to protect the state against
hasty marriages. expensive and time
killing formalitias frightened the poor, the
lazy and the undecided into celibacy.
The certificate of military service.
Would YOU know how it worked against
marriage? 1t prevented the generous lover
of twenty 10 cinch his promise before
going off FOR two dangerous years. Those
two years-he spent them in the cynical
atmosphere of barracks. So he came out,
not bridegroom. but a jilt.
Orphans. to marry, must produce nine
teen different stamped and certified pieces
of paper
A mans whole past judicial history was
spread on the papers he must produce
to justify a marriage license. Every
slip of his early life stood revealed.
It took $50 fees and months
searches for a workinsman or clerk to get
the papers of himself and bride to-
gether. They must be registered-at diff
ferent periods-in both her ward and his.
Now, here comes the great change.
The I.emire law of 1908 at fell
swoop abolished ~ most Of these certifi-
Gates and t2, the consent OF parents after
the age of twenty-five.
Zone paper less, a thousand marriages
more" SAYS Prof. Bertillon.
What? To economic fees and stamps
that for a poor couple did not exceed $50
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the young officer came off unscatned
but the veteran general was terribly
shaken UP. When the prince Saw what
harm he had caused his old friend, the
tears stood in his eyes. and lie Was 50
cut up that he Went about miserabls
for days. Then he promised hinset
he would never drive any body again.
Happily. the old general soon recovered
from his injuries. but the impetuous
person who caused them has not Yet
forgiven himself.
The poet declares that etiquette or nc
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owner. with industrial villages.
Tomorrow all France will have eyes
on an American wedding in our Church
of the Rue de Berri. The daughter of
Mrs. Whitney-Hoff. munificent founder OF
the Students Hostel. wife of the Paris
director of the Standard OH Company,
marries the man of her choice. son of a
great commercial house of Holland.
Neither of these rich American girls
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COUNTESS SEHER-THosS.

the counter, gay and snappy. Enough
of the home-ansel role: it's only iii for
slatterns who can't earn good wages.
she laughs. "Why. George scarcely knew
me when he got home evenings, Ne for
a snug-fitting tailor and my hair undu-
lated.'
Besides" she added thoughtfully. my
salary helps the housekeeping
American girls in Paris are Scandalizec
at the new laws results in all the cate
gories.
1t has never been American TO marry
without parents consent" protests Ar
American girl sculptor whose husband
sends her regular check from Boston
Poor things: il was bad enough VIE
they were married for their dots Now
they're being married for their salaries:
STERLING liEILlG.
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An Interesting Sdeet on the Servan Princes Latest Ecapade

powerful than the sword. He is not
only truthful. but very outspoken. He
will tell you of his faults far more
readily than of his virtues He too
often forgot that the position he filled
made such candor dangerous.
In summing him up it would, perhaps, be
best to say that his is a soldierly nature
of the old dayS-a man of action rather
than reflection, more ready to fight for
cause than intrigue for it. This is
the impression your correspondent has
gathered when speaking to him, and un-
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VINO may yer reign over Inc niue Bdlkd0 state
despite his rcnunciaton.
Austra's most active spies. who had for
months past carried wild stories of his
masters doings to the other side of the
Danube. For long time the prince had
great confidence in the man. who had
served him for years Once. however a
letter he wrote was not answered and
his suspicious were aroused. Some time
passed. though. before he could confirm
his doubts.
At last the prince wrote a letter to an
official in Budapest. sealed ii and. giving
il to his valet. set one of his officers to
watch him. The valet, instead of going
TO the post office with the letter. walked
about the town for some time. and.
strollinG down The quay, got into a
Zimeny boat. The officer followed On
arriving 1T Zmony the valet walked
quickly up to Il private house. was ad-
rritted like Il we'll known habitue. and
after some time left it. taking the boat
home.
From the moment the valet left the
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Lemire law. Shortly after its going into
force She disappeared from the American
agency whore she worked.
''Mariette Is married. her side partner
sniGgered Love in cottage-wlth her
mother-in-lawt Her own. father made q
fuss right in this Cffice- Mariette'S salary
used To help the housekeeping.
Six months later Mariette was back at
Evening star., 1909-05-16

WEDDINGS of Our Am
" bassador's Daughter and
Miss Whitney Hoff High
Examples of Girls Choosing,
But I'VE Lack the American
Atmosphere" Says Prof. Ber-
tillon = Epidemic of Spend
thrift Unions Developed by
New French Marriage Law
Marriages Without Dots Met
by Young Wives Earnings
Though Partisan Marriages
Have Increased Wonderfully,
American Girls Abroad Are
Shocked at Their French Sis
ters' Hard Luck.
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f / N 4 Il GEORGE.
KARAGE o r G O.
WITCH. despite his
renunciation of the
throne of his faith
er. may yet reign
over ServIa. In this
funny little land,
where they change
their minds as Oft
en- as they do their
clothes. public sym
pathy is veering
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r of renuncation read.
etiquette, nothing on earth will induce
him to so motoring with the prince
again. But I'm sure h won't ask
me-" he concluded. The prince always
keeps his word. and lie told me lie
would never motor, unless quite alone.
without a chauffeur" Others about the
court are very much relieved at IN :
decision. as there were four royal spills
this winter.
tCnpy:icht 1909 hy Curtis Brown
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T. S T + r ID a Y all
France had eyes
on an American
wedding in our
Church of the
Avenue II oc h e.
The daughter of
the American am
bassador married
the man of her
cfioice-an officer
of the German
army and land
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do with her prize when she has won it,
They will make population says the
Abbe Lemire.
And destroy the French family wor-
res Prof. Bertillon. tFrench parents can
not disinherit their children. Also. they
can sue their children for sIlpport.
So the statstician of Paris hopes that
the vast increase of marriages will be
Evening star., 1909-05-16

DRINCE GEORGE, Who
/ Renowned His Success
sion to the Throne of the
Little Balkan State, May Yet
Reign-Public Opinion Veer-
ing Around in His Favor
His Killing of His Valet Con-
doned and Even Applauded
in Some Quarters-Dead Man
Said to Have Been One of
Austria's Most Active Spies.
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found to draw its quota equally from the
real rich and the solid working popula-
lion.
Is ii an American characteristic for
married girls to continue working in
shops and offices?
x
The statistician of Paris sees no harm
in it. 1t has always been "Parisian'' for
wives to sit at the cashiers desk; and SO
far as the first statistics can show, mar
rages in the clerk and shop girl quarters
show jump up to 1850 against an aver
age $50 marriages in the bourgeois quar-
ters
The pretty girl from whom | buy my
carbon paper is a cheerful victim of the
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Special Correspondence of The Star.
PARIS ApriI 20 4
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Y1Nl1W RING e GE

Special Correspondence Of Tho Star.
BELGRADE, Nav = 1909
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doch's questions. She just wormed 1t out of me, and can't evade like some

doch's questions. She just wormed 1t out of me, and l can't evade like some people"
 The professor rose and came around to her. You know l wouldn't hurt you for the world"
 But you have hurt me-" Patricia sobbed "and I wish you'd go away. l don't want to speak to you any more to you or to Mary Morris or-any- bodyw
 Then she fled from the dining room, and the professor had to take his pun ishment, for Patricia refused to make up. She did not stay for the after breakfast chat that had become so much to the professor. And after din ner she shut herself in her room and could not be coaXed down to sing the Irish melodies that had been the de- light of the boarders.
 "Its too bad the professor said in a worried way to Mary Morris,
 "Yes,' Mary agreed, ''but l can't do anything with her. went to her with tears in my eyes and begged pardon, but she said that you and were just alike; that we had judged her-and she would abide by our judgment"
 "PoOr little Pat" said the professor, tenderly.
 He didn't like to say how much he missed her, the little friend whom he had come to know In the big boarding house.
 On Saturday he sent her some fowers-pansies tied with pale purple ribbon, with a little card, "For thoughts" And Patricia had sent him perfunctory little note of thanks and had not worn the pansies. How could he know that she had slept with them against her cheek and had press ed two purple ones in her Testament?
 l. was all very unpleasant and un- happy, ard it might have lasted long CT if it had not been for Mrs. Mur- doch.
 The big landlady told one day a bit of scandal. It related to the hus- band of meek little woman who al- ways appeared at the breakfast table in a red tea gown.
 Mrs. Murdoch, having breathed her precious bit of news into the ears of a half dozen spInsters, rejolced in the furry of exciting comment And ex-