The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-12-25
KA|SER'S VIEWS |
ARE VARIABLE,
Not Now Quite so Strong Against.
Liquor Indulgence as
He Was.
GERMAN CENSUS EXPECTED
TO SHOW IS 900, 900 SOULS
Erection of Immense Opera
House in Berlin Emperor's
Latest Diversion.
BY MALCOLM CLARKE.

Special Cable to The Tribune.
/. BERLIN. Dec. 24.-The emperor'g Views
on the liquor question. which ne chanseu
once week, may get him into trouble.
Teetotalcrs have been rejoicing and
schnapI'5 producers have been much,
alarmed owing to the keisers repeated
warning TO army and navy students
against drink. People have been ask
Ing anxiously whether the kaiser is turn
Ing a blue ribbon" in his old age. Now.
however. the semi official press has been
INSTRUCTED 10 state in reply TO these in
quiries that the kaiser demands tee
totalism az little as ne approves of al
coholism- 'fHis majesty they say, FAR
from overlooking tine good effects on q
ships crew of a stiff hot grog in cold
and stormy weather. does not suppose for
total abstinence in the army or the
navy. He objects TO excessive drinking,
particularly TO compulsory drinking. but
he has no intention OF combating cxces-
sive indulgence by excessive abstinence"
Once more the kaiser steps 10 the fore.
His love OF opera has taken practical
form. He is endeavorng 10 purchase ..
site on which he intends to have erected
the finest opera house In the world. At
present there is a slight hitch, the city
council having refused TO supply the nee
kaiser is now negotiating for the money
from another source. The great play
house Is to be a most luxurious building.
Eight leading architects are at work de-
vising the plans, Three Thousand peo-
pie will be accommodated in the build
ing while the stage will be hundred
feet in width and ninety feet deep. The
kaiser has well provided for himself. He
seat eighty people. Behind this there Is
10 be retiring rooms for the use Of tho
royal party. The cost will be enormous
SO great, in fact. that the actual price
has been withheld from the public.
Fishing for Diamonds.
A squad OF fishers of diamonds will ba
organized by order of the emperor and
will work in the German possessions OF
East Africa. II seems that diamonds OF
rare size have been discovered along tho
coast. and geologlsts declare that there
must be mines OF precious stones IN the
stratum in the bottom OF the ocean. Now.
perhaps. there will be many lives lost
before the diving will come to anything.
for II is said that fishing for diamonds
Will be much more difficult than for
pearls.
Some extraordinary posers have been
included in the census paper just dis
tributed throughout the empire. The fol-
lowing are among the questions the peo-
pie are asked 10 answer:
II you do not know the date OF your
birth. how many years old are you?
What is your main occupation in life?
Was your mother tongue German.
Dutch, Frieslan Danish, Wallonian. Pol
ish. Massurian Cassubian, Wendsh,
Czech or Lithuanian
II you are not German, do you COM
mand the German language?
What rank have you attained In the
army or navy2
Are you blind in both eyes, deaf, dumb.
insane or weak minded?
Are you subject TO epileptic fits?
II your children are less than year
old. how are they fed-on the mothers
breast. by wet nurse or by bottle?
1t is expected that the national CEN
show a
There were sl.720.529 souls at the end
of 1907. and i is believed that the annual
maintained. In this connection 1t is in
teresting TO note the prospects OF econ
omists on the growth of the fatherlands
future population. Herr Huehbe- schlei-
600 Germans in 1880. while Leroy Beau
lieu. the French economist. believes that
by the end OF the present century the
population will reach 200. 600. 600
Haeckel Quits Church.
will surprise readers of Ernst
just severed his connection with the Lu-
theran church. 1t may be assumed there
is not a scientist living with a larger
reading public than Haeckel. His cele-
brated riddle OF the Universe" has had
we'll over .. million readers. Neither In
appearance nor manner does Prof. Hack
enlist. He is tall. broad. with pink flush
in his face. his gray eyes are lit by an
ever-sus tained smile, and his hair In
white, lie drinks little smokes less;
never misses the opportunity of decIaiT,-
ing the Bacchic absurdltles-the duel
and the drinking bout-for which this ma,
as In aS ssry be years ss
settled down TO practice as q lawyer the
open air called him and he went for a
tour around the world The immediate
results were some hundreds of water
colors which have become almost as pop
ular us his books.