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How to Feed the Pony.

A small pony. especially II a Shet-
land. does not usually require much
grain. A quart Of corn in the MORN
Ing and quart Of oats at noon and
at night should be sufficient. Give 1t
what hay it wants and, If the weather
Is suitable and there is good pasture,
turn 1t out to grass whenever there il
q chance,
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1910-06-09
Keep Colts GROWING.

All good farmers watch the condi.
ton of their colts when. put into win
ter quarters. A colt allowed to lose
Its colt flesh and become thin will new
er make the horse he would IL kent
growing from the start.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1910-06-09
The Crusade
:: For a ::
"Sane Fourth" :

HE recent order OF
Mayor Gaynor Of
New York forbid
ding the sale Of fire.
works, frecrackers,
etc., from June 10
to July 10 and edicts
along the same lines
by the authorities
in other communities
have started a ma
ton wide movement
to make the Fourth
of July hereafter a
hnN
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THE SWAN AUTO
A Car That viii Recall Painful oo.
easions to Certain Acton

Some Automobiles say that tho reo.
son so many auto accidents have han.
pened Of late is because the nuhlic
has become used to their warnlng sie.
nails and fail to keep as sharp look.
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Observation-Disclosures

diplomatic usaSes you probably have but
a vague understanding of the Significance
of this title or of the prerogatives which
adhere to it, Every nation sends to each
of its sister nations diplomatic repre-
sentative, who may be a minister, with
access to the state department, or an am
bassador privileged to transact business
directly with the chief executive or SOW
ereign of the state to which he is ac-
credited These foreign representatives
resident at each capital constitute the
diplomatic corps, form part of the court
near which they reside and are technical
IL members of the rulers household.
When questions arise as to where and
when the corps IS to appear, as to the
order of precedence of its members, as to
whether they are to wear full court dress
and as to all such matters, official, social
and ceremonial, there must be some me-
dunn through which official commuliica
tons may be addressed to It as body.
This medium is the AMBASSADOR who has
resided longest at the capital concerned,
and he IS called the dean Of the diploi
matte corps. In foreign capitals, where
French is the court language, he is
known as the .'doyen." His rank is sec
ond after the sovereign and next after
the heir 10 the throne at nlonarchial
courts while in Washington he ranks
next after the Vice President, who, by
virtue of ruling of President Cleveland,
acceded to by the British foreign office.
is the heir apparent Of the United States.
Since ambassadors were first accredited
to our capital Baron Hengemuller Will
be the first dean who has devoted his life
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BARoNE5sl IEL E1nSR III ,E11n5LL A5AHMdAEAN
PEASANT

rulers of the house of Hapsburg from
the eleventh century down to Francis
Joseph himself. Inside the embassy the
fads of the ambassador and his wife
are apparent, those of the ambassador
being autographs and signed photographs
of the great actors I'm the theater OF
events; these of the baroness, exotic
plants, birds from the forests OF distant
countries and dogs.
No ambassador minister in Washing
ton can boast of a length of service ap-
preaching that of Baron Hengelmuller
His nearest rival. as to seniority, is Senior
Calvo, the Costa Rican minister, who came
here in 1899. But this diplomat could not
succeed the baron dean of the corps.
because he is not of ambassadorial rank.
The next in line for that honor will be
NJ. Jusserand. the French ambassador.
The new dean is not a man of great
wealth. Indeed, no American of his
means might hope to repeat his success
in our foreign service. But his govern
ment. unlike our own, considers genius
and training the most important fac
tors contributOry to a diplomatic career.
and besides supplying each of Its high
representatives with a dignified abode,
pays them salaries adequate to the needs
of digni1ed hospitality. These salaries.
regulated upon sliding scale, range
from $4,000 to $4,000. and now that we
one Of the great world powers 1t is
believed that the compensation of baron
Hengelmuller Won Hengervar is at about
the latter figure. or very nearly three
times as great as that of our ambassa-
dor to Vienna, who must rent his own
mansion
JOHN ELFRETH WATKINS
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DARmE IS HSneELrdhLER

trian minister at Dresden. Thus the
Baroness Hengelmuller. shortly to be-
come the doyenne of the diplomatic
corps in Washington, was, like her hus-
band, reared in the atmosphere of the
chancery. Galzya. her birthplace, was the
ancestral home of her mother. The lat
ter was noblewoman of Austrian Poland
whose family for more than four centu-
ries have been factors in Polish history.
X !.
Had She been destined from girlhoOd
for the career of an ambasSadress her
early training could not have been better
devised. After six years at convent in
Paris she went to Dresden. and, after a
course of study under Tausig, became a
talented musician. But her girlhood was
short. for when only sixteen she married
NJ. Taczanowska, a territorial magnate
of Austrian Poland. Then she was pre-
scented at court and became one of the
reigning beauties, of Vienna, whose paint
portrait. Next, during a period of so
journs at the courts Of Europe, she
learned to speak Russian, French. Ger
man. Hungarian and Italian, in addition
TO her native Polish. And more lately
she has mastered English. This ability
to converse with any European diplomat
in his own tongue has greatly added to
her popularity In Washington. She and
the ambassador have one child. the little
another daughter. Mile. Felicie de Tacza-
nowska, who has been educated in
Vienna.
The baron is a tall, very erect man,
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time to diplomacy. Baron Mayor. whom
he succeeds, was distinguished more as a
statesman than diplomatist before
being sent here, while the deans previous
to him had not had diplomatic service of
consequence previous to their appoint
ment. Thus Count Cass;ni had been a
Russian consular official and NJ. Cambon
French colonial official. while Lord
Pauncefote saw his first foreign diplo-
matte duty in Washington.
Baron Hengelmuller on the other hand,
began an apprenticeship In diplomacy
when a youth, and has persisted at his
trade throughout the four decades that
have since changed the history Of the
world. And that his services at the vari-
Gus capitals of the world have impressed
his sovereign to the extent of elevat.ng
him to the privy council of the empire
means much. for Francis Joseph, En-
peror Of Austria and King of Hungary,
Is famed as the ~most exacting Of reigning
monarchs.
LadislauS Hengelmuller Won Hengervar
was born in Budapest Hungary, about
sixty years ago. After having been edu-
Gated at Vienna especially for the dplo-
matte service he climbed to his present
grade through service in Berlin, Paris.
Dresden, London. Belgrade and Rio His
first great opportunity to show his genius
for diplomacy was at the court of St
James, where he began as counselor. but
soon rose to first secretary. This assign
ment of course meant that he was pos
sessed of great social tact. Fortunately
for him circumstances necessitated the
absence of his ambassador, and left
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EXALTED Flunkeys Ga
L. lore, Who Are Paid Big
Salaries for Doing Next to
Nothing at All-The Heredi-
tary Lord Great Chamber
lain Gets a Salary of S22,soo,
Besides Valuable Perquisites,
and Does Not Put in One
Days Solid Hard Work in
a Year-The Smaller the
Amount of Work Done the
Bigger the Pay Is the Rule
Easy and Well Paid Billets
That Serve as Political Plums
in the Kings Household
Ornamental Sinecures Filled
by Peers Who Do Some
Queer Stunts = How the
Master of the Horse Makes
SI2,soo a Year-Lords of the
Treasury Paid $4,000 Year
for Work They Don't Do and
Nothing for the Work They
Do-Some of the Soft Snaps
in Parliament.
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him for months at a time with the rank
of charge d'affaires, as an under diplomat
is called when he acts for his superior
During these periods of responsibility tho
young baron displayed a wisdom and
cleverness which made him popular
among older men, and he seized the OPP
portunity of becoming widely acquainted
in English society, SO that soon he had
the reputation in Vienna of having
more intimate acquaintance with Eng
lish politics than any man i'll Austria
Hungary.
He was minister to Servia during the
exciting events preceding the close of
King Milan's reign, and at the time of
that monarch'S brutal treatment of Queen
Natalie when the youthful prince royal
Alexander was forcibly torn from his
mother. Baron Hengelmuller did his ut
most to restrain the king. while the Ger
man minister Count Steinburg. arrayed
himself against the unfortunate queen.
Just previous to his coming to America
the baron was minister to Brazil, where
he acquainted himself with the ever-vexed
Latin American problem.
He arrived here fifteen years ago, to
succeed Chevalier Won Tavera. and was
presented to President Cleveland Oh the
eve of the opening of the social season
of 1S94-95. He brought with him a bride
for in 1893 he had married, in Dresden,
an Austrian countess, young and hand
some widow, native of GalZya, Aus
TRAN Poland, and the daughter of Count
DUNN Borkowska, a peer of the empire,
a member of parliament, and once Aus
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liberal when he received the appoint
ment
The master OF the horse is supposed to
look after the royal news as livery
stables are called here and the various
equipages of their majesties. 1t is
doubtful if he ever crosses the threshold
of the kings stables Anyhow, mis- pay
would not he locked if he didn't He Is
only required to show up ON state oc-
casions. When big functions are under
way his majesty is in charge of the lord
chamberlain until he leaves the palace
door, Then the master of the horse as
sumes responsibility for his sacred person
until the place of ceremonial is reached.
where the earl marshal takes him in
hand
Another easy court billet is that of
the captain OF the Yeomen of the Guard.
The salary Is $1,000 a year, which i first
class pay, considering that the duties of
the Office are purely ceremonial, and in
volve nothing that by any stretch of the
imagination could be regarded as hard
work.
The Yeomen of the Guard, in eonjunc-
ton with the gentlemen alarms, con-
stitute the bodyguard of the sovereign.
Their costumes and weapons are those
of the period of King Henry VIII who
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The Ret0rt FiIiaI.

THIN and bent, with long white boards
a group Of aged G. A. r. men, seated
about a large stove in a Philadelphia
armory, argued about battle.
"Oh, yes one chuckled. you have
your defense, but you've lost. Losers
always have their defense. Lincoln used
to illustrate that with story about his
boy Tad.
Lincoln and Tad were lunching one
day in the White House.
Don't eat your fish with your knife,
my boy, said Lincoln, sternly. It's not
polite
But. father said Tad, is it polite to
stare at folks when they're eating?'"
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He is paid $1,000 year for acting in the
purely ornamental capacity of captain OF the
Corps OF Gentlemen alarms.
three of these junior lords, who may or
may not be real lords They are paid
5000 a year each for work that they
don't do, and nothing at all for the work
that they do. They never show up at the
treasury department except to draw their
salaries. The work they do for which
they get no pay consists in assisting the
chief whip to muster votes for the gov
eminent, when important divisions take
place. and. in various other ways, help
ing their party in parliament and at
elections.
1t would be a gross exaggeration to
describe the post of speaker of the house
of commons as soft snap. But his
work is not nearly as arduous as that
of the Speaker of the House of Rep
resentatives, for he has nothing to do
with steering legislation. He has merely
to see to it that the rules Of the political
game are strictly observed. He is paid
$25 900 year and provided with hand
some suite of apar. ments to live in, and
a special turnkey to attend him. when
he moves about in his official gown, to
keep it from getting tangled up in his
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s
year for doing nothing, with the privilege OF
riding in royal carriage.
ceremonies, which are really arranged by
minor diSnitaries. But he has to put his
name to lot of pieces of pasteboard, for
nobody is admitted to the show who does
not present ticket bearing his signature
1t is only on those rare occasions when
there is coronation that the lord great
chamberlain has to fuss around a bit
and do some real stunts. On the corona
ton day it is his exalted privilege to
carry to the king his gorgeous state
raiment. For this he is allowed extra
compensation. He is entitled to claim
the royal nightcap and nightgown. the
bedstead and all the rest of the furni-
ture of his majesty's bedchamber. He
never really takes the things. In these
sordid days he takes a tip of 81, 800 In
stead
Another of his exalted hereditary privi-
leges is to serve the king with water in
which to wash his hands before and after
the coronation banquet. For performing
this arduous duty he is allowed to re-
tain the basin and the towels as his spe-
cial perquistes. He isn't particular about
the towels, but he always collars the
basin, for custom prescribes that it must
be of gold and worth at least 81 600. He
gets other perqustes besides. The king
has to provide him with Fifty yards OF
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HEN an English.
man and American
fall to discussing
the merits or de-
merits of the gov
eminent and insti-
tutions of the two
countries the Eng
lishman never fails
To re M n q the
American that there
are "A lot more
Srafters In public
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bargemaSter must find time hanging
rather heavy on his hands.
Some queer billets exist outside the
kings household which are also included
among the spoils of office. OF these the
positions held by the junior lords Of the
treasury afford a striking illustration of
British official anachronisms. There are
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than any state or federal official in the
United States gets, with the exception
of the President.
For his big salary the noble marquis
does not begin to do one solid hard days
work in a year. When the king starts
the legislative mills grinding he steps into
the limelight as the nominal master OF
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ER1 shortly you
will be reading or
the investiture OF
Baron Iiengelmul-
Ter Won Hengarvar.
priv councillor
and ambassador of
the Emperor Fran
els Joseph, with
the exalted rank
Of dean of the dip
lomatic corps resi-
dent in the United
States.
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1ANY ~SOFTSNAP" JOBS HELD BY APPONTEES IN ENGIANI

legs. When he tires of the Speakership
he can jump into a genuine soft snap
right off-a peerage, with pension OF
$4,000 year for the rest of his life.
to the house of commons. The sergeant
alarms has little to do except tote the
mace TO the table and back. He gets
$4,000 year and a suite of apartments
in the house rent free. He is CARRIED in
black court suit. with knee breaches, silk
stockings and slver-buckled shoes, and
wears a little sword at his side. To
assist him and keep him from feeling
lonesome, there is deputy sergeant
who gets $4,000 year, and an assistant
sergeant, who is pad $3.50.
The softest snap among the officials
of the house of lords is that of the
gentleman usher of the black rod. SO
called because his staff of office is little
ebony wand He Is a species of glorified
messenger, and is invested with no end
of fictitious dignity. When he passes
through the corridors between the two
houses the police call upon all strangers
to do him homage by removing their
hats. He gets 5000 a year. and his
chief duty is TO summon the speaker
and the commons to the upper house on
ceremonial occasions.
When he appears at the door of the
takes place. The Sergeant-at-arms al
ways slams the door in his face. This
is supposed to signify that the commons
will brook no interference with ter
rights and privileges by the peers. When
the door has been closed black rod
knocks humbly upon it three times. Then
the sergeant alarms opens little wick
ct gate, and, peering through 1t, asks
what is the meaning of the row. or words
to that effect. lack rod explains. and
is then admitted.
When the incumbent Of the Office 4Ad-
miral Sir H. F. Stephenson. G. G. V. O..
and various other things. had the door
slammed in his face for the first time he
was so fabbergasted that he could not
recall a word of the ancient formula he
was charged to deliver in Norman
French.
There are some easy jobs attached to
the lord mayors office. The functionary
who carries the lord mayors ancient
Swords-there are four of them, but he
has to carry only one of them at time
is paid $500 a year. The lackey who
The city marshal. for wearing gor-
geous scarlet uniform and shouting,
Make way for the right honorable. the
lord mayor of London, gets $1,000 a
year.
Some day. presumably. most of these
utterly superfiuous and highly paid off,
Gals will be abolished. But there are
no signs of 1t yet The soft snaps are
cherished institutions.
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by Curtis Brown. All rights strictly reserved)
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with a countenance very impressive and
of a distinctly foreign mold--eyes shell
tered by those prominent ridges over the
orbits which always suggest persplculty
and keen powers of observation. strong
ly aquiline nose and firm Wellingt onian
chin. His hair is very nearly white and
he invariably wears a monoclc. The
baroness has handsomely nodded patri-
clan features, blue eyes, very fair
complexion and hair of lustrous black.
The Austro- Hungarian embassy. the
official home of the dean designate, is
upon Connecticut avenue directly oppo-
site the British embassy. All of the
baron's predecessors. from Baron de
Mareschal, sent here in 1888 by Ferdi-
nand j, down to Chevalier Won Tavera,
had occupied rented quarters but M.
Hengelmuller shortly after his arrival
paid on behalf of his government, $4,000
for the present mansion. which had been
the home of that interesting Jewish fig
ure in our public affairs who first rep
resented Florida in the House of Repre-
sentatives as David Levy. and afterwari
in the Senate as David Yulee.
The embassy is a treasury of souvenirs
of sojourns among and intimate ac-
quaintance with the great personages
who have shaped and are shaping the his
tory of the world. In the drawing room
are bronze busts of the emperor and the
late Inflated empress, and upon one Of
the Queen of Saxony. In the dining room
are displayed a profusion of ancestral
plate and the portraits of all of the
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A N Interesting Nobleman
I \ and Man of Many Parts
Our First Ambassador
Dean With Lifelong Train
ing in Diplomacy-Has Been
in Diplomatic Service Forty
Years-Career at Other Cap
tals-Hs Wife Also Bred
in Diplomatic Atmosphere
Daughter of Minister-Is
Accomplished Musician and
Speaks Seven Languages
Their Fads and Fancies.
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created them. Their functions are en-
tirely ornamental, for the real safe
guarding of the king is attending to by
sleuths from Scotland Yard. who above
all things are inconspicuous
Custom requires that the captains of
these picturesque but useless warriors
should be peers. When the liberal adj
ministration came in the Duke of Man
chester was appointed captain of the
Yeomen of the Guard. The duke. it will
be remembered, married Miss Zimmerman
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life in America than there are in Eng
land. And he takes keen delight in rub
bling that information in.
Now II is equally true that there are
many more officials here than there are
in America who get whopping big salaries
for doing next to nothing at all. There
are no such downright, fat, soft snaps
TO be found in the United States as exist
in this old land. \ knowledge of a few
of these extravagant and mostly super
fiuous billets may help Americans to re-
taliate bit when next an Englishman
points the finger of scorn at American
corruption. and assumes an "holier-than-
thou attitude. It is hard to have TO take
all that lying down without any chance
TO hit back.
To him that hath shall be given. The
Marquis OF Cholmondeley owns 5000
acres, has a maguificen palace for resi-
dence and enjoys the softest and best
paid of all the many soft snaps that
exist in the United Kingdom. For the
Marquis of Cholmondeley is the heredi-
tary lord great chamberlain of England.
For filling that purely ornamental billet
he gets $1,000 a year, which is more
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Special Cores pondence OF The Star
LONDON January % 1910
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Copyright 1910. by John Elfreth Watkins,
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OF Cincinnati. and it is supposed that lie
took the Job to show his father-in-law,
who had been urging him to set to work
in America, that he could make more
money over here, and far easier.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-06-23
BANKERS DEFAULT
Rock Island Financiers Fail to
Show at Meeting of City
Council.
NOTICES COME TOO LATE
Advised Shortly Before of Confer.
ence Scheduled for 1880 They
Do Not Respond.

Rock Island bankers do not wish to
be considered slow, yet they do insist
that. when they are expected to fill a
business appointment outside Office
hours, they should have reasonable ad-
vance notification. The city council
had an adjourned meeting last even
ing, in accordance with a request of
the mayor, the latter having had con-
ference with the bankers in which
they stated they wished a talk with
the council as a whole before finally re-
leasing moneys they have agreed to
advance the city to pay its outstand-
ing bills.
Late yesterday afternoon the mayor
sent notice to the bankers that the
aldermen would meet them at the city
hall at 1880 prompt. The aldermen
were on hand, but the bankers failed
to show up. 1t was nearly o'clock
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-06-23

F. c. Denkmann advised The Argus
today that he would not accept an
other election as member of the Rock
Island board of education; that he
deemed a continuous service of nine
years on the board sufficient, and that
he had determined to withdraw in
favor of some other citizen.
81 appreciate the confidence of my
friends, expressed in their wish that
continue a member of the board"
Mr.. Denkmann stated, but I feel that
l have done my full duty in the nine
years that have served in the position
of director There are many good men
in the city who doubtless would be
glad to take a place on the school
board, and have always considered it
an honor that should be passed around
among the taxpayers. In this connec-
ton l desire to thank sincerely the
people of the city for having repeated
ly honored me by election to the board,
for I consider it a high honor to be
called to that position"
Others who are discussed as ideal
candidates at the election June % are
II. H. Cleaveland and A. G. Ander-
son.