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idea is to Increase Size of Working
Families.
kAIsER'S CONDITION KEPT SECRET
German Ruler Subject to Attacks of
Depression.
BERLIN SOON TO BE A SEAPORT
Much Excitement ConccrnIuE the
Presence of AsiatIc Cholera in
the Capital of the
Country.
81 MALCOLM CLARKr.

BERLIN July e5.--(Spoclal Dispatch To
The Bee, )-Whether Colonel Roosevelt's lat.
este European exhortatlons on the race sui
eide question had anything to do with IL.
do not know, but the fashionable suburb
of Schoenberg, made up of American and
English residents, has offered bounty for
| every child born in the families of muni-
cipay workmen
A regular scale of pensions has been
made, out for the families In addition to
their regular wages, the heads OF families
of three children will receive an extra
monthly payment of IS, For four children
they will receive 1915; for five children
they will receive $3.50 and for six children
they will receive S..
A set of regulations has been drawn up
and they are being distributed among the
working men of Berlin.
These bounties will be paid to fathers
whose children are under 16 years of age
and only those families who can produce
evidence that the children are dependent
upon them will receive the pensions Later
pensions are promised to the mothers of
large families, but the measures providing
this relief have not yet been drawn up.
Health of the Kaiser.
Needless to say, the outside world has not
been allowed TO learn anything of the real
man emperor. and probably II never will.
For many years past the strictest secrecy
has been enjoined in Germany respecting
the health OF the various members of the
royal family and especially that of the
kaiser. The court physicians are changed
with bewilderlng frequency, and of late
the emperor has grown more capricious
tiian ever In this direction. .ss-s.s.ss
An even more alarming symptom has
lately manifested itself in the general
health OF the kaiser, and this is the mental
depression that at times overtakes him.
His temper has been petulant and irritable
for several years past, and he has been
known to turn violently upon those for
whom he has expressed unalterable affec-
ton only few hours previously. Today.
this uncertainty OF temper is more pro-
nounced that formerly, and added to It
are fits of depression, some of which last
for a considerable period.
Conduct Extraordinary.
When these fits are upon him, he will
move about his palace moodily, and with
out the least attention to what is passing
around him. He will brush past members
of his own family without the slightest rec
ognition; while If he speaks at all It is
only to reprove some fault or shortening
real or imagined-or to grumble because
something is not quite TO his liking.
He will glance through document of
the gravest Importance when suffering
from this depression, and then, with an an
cry gesture, tear It into shreds and bid
another document OF entirely different tenor
to be prepared and laid before him. His
ministers have however, come to know
him by this time. and they wait for a
more favorable opportunity, when they ap-
proach him once more, and urge upon him
the views that led TO the submission of the
destroyed document, when the kaiser will
assent-grudgingly enough-and sign pre-
csely the same paper when 1t has been re-
drawn out. This sort of thing has happened
on more than one occasion lately.
1t is not too much to say that, unless
some cure for the physical ana mental Ills
which are affecting the emperor Just now
can be speedily devised, there viii be even
graver news to chronicle concerning him
before very many more months have
passed.
Berlin a Seaport.
Within two years Berlin will be a sea-
port 1t was announced the other day that
the ship canal from Stettin to Berlin would
be completed by 1912. The canal will be
ready for traffic two years from this
month.
University professors Throughout Ger
many are subscribing to a movement 10
curtail the beer drinking among the stu
dents at the German universities. The
movement has not yet taken tangible form,
although a number OF instructors at uni
verslties have spoken openly against the
evil effects of unlimited beer drinking
among the students.
Curious court sentences crop up now
and then but the sentence recently inn
posed in the criminal court Of Stuttgart
seems to surpass all others A man was
convicted on three counts, two OF murder
and the third OF assault. lie was con-
victed on all three and sentenced TO be be-
headed twice with a term Of three years
Imprisonment thrown in.
Cholera In Berlin.
Much excitement has been caused IN
Berlin through the report that Russian
emigrants, who are passing through the
city eDroute TO America, are confined 70
outlying pesthouses afflicted with Asiatio
cholera, Three deaths from the dreaded
plague have already taken place in this
city. Two of these victims were women,
the third was man.
The news that others are afflicted with
the plague has created great deal OF
unrest, and the medical authorities OF the
city have caused items TO be published in
the papers denying that there are any more
cases Of tho plague eXtant.
Baron Won schoen has been appointed
ambassador In Paris in succession 10 Prince
Radolin, who has retired He will be sue
ceeded In the foreign secretaryship BY
Herr Won Kiderlen- Wachter, the minister
at Bucharest Baron Won Rheinbaben. the
Prussian minister OF France has resigned
office.