The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-07-30

; she fell i'll with brain trobule, anC
was removed in an ambulance to the
lnfirmary. She was then in a dying
: condition, but fingered for a few
days, when she passed away. With
her was Mrs. Lawrence and hel
daughter, Miss Vesta Victoria, who
living in Stockwell have interested
themselves in her case and have
frightened the last twelve months OF
her life. Nothing was known at the
inffrmary of the deceased woman's
antecedents, and in the books she was
described as phoebe Hall, aged so,
suffering from cerebral thrombois ''
To none of the nurses did she SPEAK
of her career. Mrs Lawrence states
that when Madame Senia found she
was no longer wanted as a trapeze
artist she took up the training of
dogs and went on the music hall
stage, but finally she was forced TO
get her living by performing in the
streets, and often she did not make
more than two-pence or .three-pence a
day.
Berlin.-Needless to say, the out
side world has not been allowed to
learn anything of the real nature of
the recent i'll health of the German
emperor, and probably it never will.
For many years past the strictest Sc
crecy has been enjoined in Germany
respecting the health of the various
members of the royal family, and es-
pecially of the kaiser The court ply
sicians are changed with bewildering
frequency, and of late the emperor
has grown more capricious than ever
in this direction An even more
alarming symptom has lately mani
tested itself in the general health of
the kaiser, and this is the mental de-
preston that at times overtakes him.
His temper has been petulant and ir-
| ritable for several years past, and he
has been known to turn violently
| upon those for whom he has ex-
pressed unalterable affection only a
few hours previously. Today this un-
certainty of temper is more pro-
nounced that formerly, and added to
1t are fits of depression, some of
which last for a considerable period
When these fits are upon him he
Will move about his palace moodily,
and without the least attention to
What is passing around him. He will
brush past members of his own fami-
ly without the slightest recognition:
while if he speaks at all it is only to
reprove some fault or shortcoming-
cause something is not quite to his
liking He will glance through a
document of the gravest importance
when suffering from this depression.
and then, with an angry gesture, tear
1t INTO shreds and bid another docu-
ment 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 approach 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-
c1sely the same paper when it has |
been redrawn out. This sort of thing |
has happened on more than one occa-
sion lately. 1t is not too much to say
that, unless some cure for the ply
sical and mental ills which are affect
ing the emperor just now can be
speedily devised, there will be even
graVer news to chronicle concerning
him before very many more months
have passed
Whether Colonel Roosevelts latest
European eXhortations on the race
suicide question has anything to do
with 1t l do not know. but the fash
ionable suburbs of Schoneberg, made
up of American and English residents.
has offered a bounty for every child
born in the families Of municipal
woTkmen. A regular scale of pen
sions has been made out for the fam
lies. In addition to their regular
wages the heads of families of three
will receive an extra month
ly payment of So. For four children .
they will receive $3.75; for five chill
dren they will receive $3.50, and for
six children they will receive s5 A
set of regulations has been drawn up
and they are being distributed among
-he workmen of Berlin. These boun-
les will be paid to the fathers whose ]
children are under 16 years of age.
and only those families who can pro- I
luce evidence that the children are ]
dependent upon them will receive the
Later pensions are prom ;
sed to the mothers of 1arge families
out the measures providing for this :
'elief have not yet been drawn up /
New York.-Secret service agents 6
Who have been work in the Maiden :
1ane jewelry district have found that !
,old is being obtained from coins and !
old, the coins being put back into
apparently as good as t
ver.
The process consists of placing the
oins in burlap bag, which is shaken
'igorously. Thus tiny flakes of metal t
re knocked off the coins and cling G
o the bag, which is then burned, the Il
-old melted into wee ingots r
The treasury department at Wash a
ngton has been getting back lately a
arge quantities of gold coinns. which Il
eemed more scratched and battered d
han ordinary Under the microscope p
became evident that these coins had c
cen handled with strange violence t
pecfal agents were sent here to in r