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Cullen Explains Ways Of Press Agents

friends. has been observable in the man.
ner of this renowned declamatory Thes-
plan since his recent return from his
annual tour abroad.
1t now appears that in June last, while
Mr.. Whackett was travelling on ostrich
back through the wild deserts and rug
ged mountains of Morocco, he was sud-
denly set upon by a swooping cavalcade
of ferocious Kurdish brigands from Fee.
who. as every schoolboy knows. the
most bloodthirsty and relentless bandits
in the world
So sudden was the onslaught and so
closely was he pressed, that Mr.. Whack-
EFT did not have time to draw either of
the pair of full teweled pistols which had
been presented to him a few davs be-
fore by the WheefWhaff of Whoosh as
mark of his appreciation of Mr. Whack
ett's firm refusal 10 recite "Osler joe
to the Wheef-Whaff's encourage.
In fact. Mr.. Whackett bare'y had time
to draw his ruby-incrusted scimitar
(once owned by Omar khayyaml before
the horde of brgandS of the desert Were
upon him. aiming wicked blows at him
and his faithful ostrich with their long.
curved blades.
At that sort of work. of course, the ont
come was a foregone conclusion. since
the entire world knows that at sword play
(as demonstrated by him nightly and
two matinees week i'm The Con Man
of Zingda'D Mr.. Whackett stands with
out a peer on the civilized globe
Before he succeeded in guiding his
Stampeding ostrich out of the s"uirming
and shouting pack of Kurdish brigands,
however. Mr.. Whackett was rompelled,
to save his life, to cut down no less than
four hundred and seventy-one of the des-
pe-adoes
This. then. is the cause of the brood
full expression in his which causes
the discerning pupils of the voun~ ladies'
finishing schools to eNclaim. as they
MUNICH their matinee caramels. that the
brilliant young actor and swordsman
must have some carking, cankering sor-
row in his life.
CLARENCE L. CULLEN.
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A Little Too Primitive.

A UGUST BELMONT. at a dinner in
~ Saratoga, praised the seaside towns
of New England.
But some of them" he added, ARE
little too primitive I remember a story
about the primitive town of Rockford
Rockford had rough bathing establish
ment with a shower bath. You stood in
your bathhouse and pulled rope and a
deluge of cool water descended from the
ceiling.
well, a lady visitor stood one day in
her bathhouse, ready for the shower. She
pulled the rope and braced herself. but
no shower followed. She gave the rope
another tug, when the gruff voice of the
sailor proprietor of the establishment
sounded from aloft.
Stand a pint more to the nor-east.
num- it said, If We want to get the full
force
"And the Mortified lady. looking up, saw
the old sailor frowning impatiently
through a hole in the ceiling and fitting
a barrel of sea water for the shower"
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II has now forests Of quick-growing trees
and parks which have been stocked with
game from Europe. The khedive has a
camel corps on the farm. and he starts
out from there with Bedouin riders tn
make long excursions into the desert.
The place lies right on the sea and the
khedive's yacht is often seen there at
anchor.
His royal highness has a turbine
yacht which is said to be one of the
finest on the Mediterranean. 1t was
originally two-funneled paddle steam
er of about eleven knots. built forty OF
more years AGO. This was sent back to
Glasgow and rearranged throughout The
ship has now Parson turbines and three
screws 1t can make seventeen knots
an hour. and has AVERAGED seventeen and
three-fourths knots for long distance.
The yacht is beautifully furnished in
European style, and Its appointments
are those of a millionaire.
AS to the wealth of khedive he has
I doubt not, millions and to spare
is money maker as well as a none
saver, and the English governm mt -
lows him out of the revenues Of 2
country $1,000 a year. He ha IN
estates which will. / ve~ ture az rvs.-
mate a million dollars each IL set'.I
value. and stocks and bonds in roaay
the best institutions OF Egvnt iia
owns anartment houses in Cair COZ
ton plantations In the delta an mir.i
land which would sell at auction for
from 500 to 81 600 per acre.
His highpess has good business judg
ment, and everything he torches Gems
to turn into money. His subjects often
criticise the simplicity OF his living,
and say 1T would be hetter for the
country if he spent, as his old grand
father Ismail did. tens of thousands OF
dollars a month on entertainments OF
one kind or other.
The khedive was married years ago.
and has five children, all by that wife.
According to the Koran, he has the
right to four wives and any number
of concubines: and a story is current
that he has increased his harem
within the past few months. 1t is not
polite to ask a Mohammedan as to the
ladies of his family, and practically
nothing is known of what goes on i'm
the royal harem. The khedive's chill
dren consist of four girls and a boy.
the latter being the heir to the throne.
In addition to these he has a brother,
the Prince Mohammed Ali: two uncles
and an aunt, all of whom are promi-
nent features of this city of Cairo.
FRANK G. CARPENTER
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The Huckster.

MATTHEW DE L. ROGERS. the hand
Iva writing expert of Cleveland, recent
ly convicted by his testimony alone a
will forger
my own knowledge" said Mr. Rogers
to a reporter, "shone out by contrast
with the ignorance of the other side.
The opposing lawyer. in his benighted
cross-examination of me really made me
think of the Cleveland huckster
This huckster was giving evidence In
a damage suit against an automobilist
1.-The auto he stated confidently. was
going over a hundred miles an hour
But that's nearly two miles a min
Ute said the judge.
mo yer honor the huckster contra
dicted.
Look here, my man. said the judge.
you know how many minutes there are
in an hour. don't your
1.-The huckster hesitated, then said
frankly:
We'll yer honor amt had much
education-lets have your reckonin' Of
IT."
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The 1HQLY C472RET T1ZCH TIE -ME.27EE
cE1T 70 NECC4

entered straight, stout young man, with
fair face and blond mustache. came
forward and offered me his hand. 1t was
the young kGedive, whom had met when
was In Egypt four years ago. He greeted
me with a welcome back to Egypt, say
ing that he considered it compliment to
his country that the Americans who came
invariably returned. His highness led the
way to a sofa near the window, and mo-
toned me to chair at his side. When
he sat down himself he put one foot I'M
Ger him and sat upon that. I remem-
bered that his father had sat the same
way. The khedive maintained this posi-
ton during the half hour of our audience.
AS We talked I had an excellent oppor-
tunity 10 study the man. His highness is
about five feet eight tall, and he weighs
perhaps 10 pounds. He is as straight as
an arrow. and the red fez cap which he
invariably wears makes him look taller.
Many Americans think all of the peo-
pie OF tbs part Of the world have dark
complexlons. That Of he khedive is fair,
and his brclze cheeks are rosy. He wore
today a black 'ffoek suit, a fashionable
necktie. and. with the exception of his
fez, his costume would not have been out
of place in any American club. Our con-
versatiGn was carried on in English,
which his highness speaks with a slight
German accent probably from the Ger
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ess Auguste Won Borroch automatically
after his wife's death. George 1 went
through a marriage ceremony with the
Duchess of Kendall. George Nv married
Mrs. Fitzherbert, an actress, and William
Nv married Mrs. Jordan, their children
being known by the name Of Fitzclar-
ence. One of the best known cases of
morganatic marriage In England during
comparatively recent years was that OF
the late Duke of Cambridge, Queen Vic
tcria's cousin, to Miss FarebrOther, a
beautiful and talented actress. They
lived happily together for lifetime, and
their children, who are known by the
name of Fitzgeorge, won high rank and
honors in the army and navy. SO OPP
posed was Queen Victoria to this match,
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A BEznaoQ1 ON THE NEUE;5 NC1T

valley. The khedive said that the land
was exceedingly rich, but that it could
be improved by adding phosphates and
other artificial manures. He told me
that farming was improving throughout
Egypt. and that the agricultural depart
ment is teaching the people the value of
good seed and of intensive cultivation.
I asked him what would be the effect
He answered that it would double the
quantity of water that is now being held
back, and that it will add millions
of acres to cultivated Egypt. He says
that the government has other schemes
under way which will materially increase
the farming possibilities of his country.
During his conversation his highness
spoke at length as to some of his farms.
suggesting that 1 might find 1t interesting
to visit them. He has redeemed over 1000
acres not far from Cairo. The land was
poor and swampy and some of it was des-
ert. His highness drained and irrigated It
and 1t now brings In an enormous revenue
He has another big farm near Alexan-
drfa and another at Koubbeh. The latter
estate is a model plantation Of 800 acres
1t is equipped with the most scientific
machinery and implements and it's build
ings comprise model village, with which
an up-to-date fire station. The khedive
has breeding establishments there. and he
imports the finest cattle and poultry. He
is noted as horse lover, and has recent
~ inaugurated company to improve the
blood of the Egg ptian horse. His posi-
ton is such that he can get the finest
of the Arabian sires and the best pure
blooded stations from Nejid Arabia are
sent to him by the Bedouin sheiks He
Is also interested in camel and mule
breeding, and has some of the swiftest
Of dromedaries. Some of his camels can
travel seventy-dve miles day, and are
worth as much as the finest horse. His
highness' exhibits at many Of the agri-
cultural shows. and Is often among the
prize winners there.
X x
During our talk asked the khedive as
to his daily life. He replied that he had
all he could do from daylight to
dark, but that he believed in hard work
and thrfved upon it. In addition to his
official duties. which are many. he has the
mana gement Of his own estates and
various enterprises. He said that many
of his days from 8 o'clock in the morning
until o'clock at night were taken up
at the palace.
From other sources I learned that
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Strong Beer.

INSPECTOR DEW OF Crippen renown
/ told a Buffalo reporter that he was
most impressed in America by the gran
deur of Niagara Falls and the sobriety
of the American people
I'VE have no such sobriety across the
water" said the Scotland Yard detective.
Our slums of a Saturday night are hor-
Able It's the beer. you see. British
beer is as strong almost as American
whisky.
.'They tell story about two British
beer drinkers. One said to the other:
I've been very sick, George For two
days little pink snakes and frogs and
lizards were crawling all over me-
Been sick?' said George. Why. man.
you're sick still. Pink swarmS of EN-
are crawling all over you now.
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ically and lived with her for a number
Of years. This marriage took place after
the death of his first wife, who was the
daughter Of George w of England. When
he was chosen to- MI the throne of Bel
GUM, however, he divorced his low-born
consort. Then there Is the notorious
case of Leopold's daughter, the Princess
Stephanie, who after the death Of her
husband, the Archduke Rudolph Of Aus
tria. married a petty nobleman = called
Count Lonyay.
Somewhat similar to the stor-.- that is
told about King George of England is
that which is current in Russia about
the car. 1t is that when he was young
man he contracted a marriage with
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A Poor Piece of Work.

W. president of the International wom-
an Suffrage Alliance. was talking I'm her
New York Office about an anti-suffrage
orator
HE was badly hazed.'' she said, dur
ing his last speech in Brooklyn. His
theme was the hackneyed one--'woman's
sphere the home In the home woman
welded a power far greater than the
ballot And SO forth.
my wife, he cried. striking his breast
proudly, my wife has made me what I
ami!
That's the way with you men. q
shrill voice shouted from the gallery.
Lay all the blame on a woman""
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privileged Bigamy Disappearing Prerogaive Of Royalty


life is already limited to that Of the aged
emperor who now sits on the throne.
In England it may be said that 1t has
disappeared already. for public sentiment
would not tolerate privileged bigamy'
In these days, even in the case Of roy
atty. In fact, the king now hardly ever
makes any objection to members of his
family marrying persons of inferior rank.
King Edwards sister married the Duke
of Argyll. a Scottish nObleman, with his
consent, and his daughter was won by
another Scotsman, the Earl Of Fife, who
was made a duke IN his marriage. The
children of both these unions would be
eligible to succeed to the crown in the
case of the failure of more direct heirs.
There are rumors that Princess Patricia
of Connaught, niece of the late King
Edward, will soon be allowed to marry
the young Marquis o. Anglesey, with
whom she has been in love for years,
and there will be nothing morganatic
about that marriage.
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He Woke Up.

9 ENATOR GALLINGER, in an adj
~ dress at Concord, N. H., said Of a
political opponent:
''He isn't half so we'll off as he thinks
he is. He'll wake up with start one OF
these days-like Mr.. Fawcett.
Mr.. Fawcett. entertaining an unex-
pected guest at luncheon, said, as they
sat down to table:
My dear sir, will you have some Of
the sliced bologna sausage. or-or-
HIS eye darted frantically all over the
table, and he concluded:
"'Or not?'"
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however that she never received her
cousins wife. and although the Duke
of Cambridge was at court constantly
she never mentioned her name to him or
in any way allowed him to know that
she was aware of her cousin-in-laW'
existence. Only when the faithful NOR
ganatc wife died and the bereaved hus-
band was mourning her as sincerely as
man ever mourned did the stern old
queen unbend. She wrote a letter ex-
cusing him from attendance at a court
function and expressing her sympathy
with him in the severance of so intimate
a relationship. which had continued for
so many years"
Sometimes the offspring of a morga-
matte marriage regain their royal state.
The present Queen Of England was
Princess May of Teck, and her father.
the Duke of Teck, was the son of one
of the Dukes of Wurttemberg by NOR
ganatic wife. Prince Henry of Batten-
berg, who married the favorite daughter
of Queen Victoria, and whose daughter
is the Queen of Spain, was also the de-
scendant of a morganatic marriage by
one of the Princes Of Hesse.
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A TTENTION Attracted

A TTENT1ON Attracted
"A to Morganatic Marriage
The Approaching Wedding
of Victor Napoleon, Who
Must Abandon His Low
Born Wife to Marry Princess
.Clementine of Belgium-The
Fight Made by the Duke OF
the Abruzzi and Miss Elkins
to Gain Royal Recognition
for Their Union Royal
Houses of England, Ger
many and Austria Setting
Their Faces Against the
Practice Is the Kaiserin
Morganatic? - Unfounded
SANDER on King George.
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ORLDW1DE inter-
est in the subject
of morganatic mar
rage has been re-
vived by the ap-
preaching wedding
OF Prince Victor
Napoleon, the Bon
apartist pretender
to the throne of
France, and Prin-
cess Clementine of
Belgium. Morgan
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English royalties have had their share
of morganatic marriages, but 1T is only
Just here to explode an ancient and per-
sistent scandal which has been circulated
about King George. That was the story
that he was married as young man,
when he had no hopes of becoming heir
to the throne to the daughter of COM
moner, and that he abandoned her to
marry the present queen when his elder
brothers death made him heir. To begin
with no such marriage could have taken
place. for under the English law any
ceremony would have been illegal and
void by which any member of the royal
family was married to any one-royal or
not-w1thOut the consent of the king In
council. But the writer has been Informed
on the highest authority that there WASH I
even a midnight ceremony to base 1t on.
The favorite story is that the lady was
the daughter of an admiral and that
Prince George married her when he was
q young sailor stationed at Malta. On
the authority of close friend of the late
Princess Mary of Ceck, mother Of the
present queen. who made a thorough in
vestigation of all the stories before her
daughters marriage. the following is said
to be the true version OF what really hap
pened:
King George was always an uncom-
monty serious young man. Unlike his
father, the late King Edward, he had no
taste for actresses and he detested demi-
mondaines. His love affairs, such as they
were, were always with young ladies
whom he met at court or on his Journeys
abroad. and he had way of falling
rather seriously in love One of the most
serious of his boyish love affairs occurred
when he was at Malta. The girl was the
daughter, not of an admiral. but of an
army doctor, stationed there. and the
princess was informed the affair went so
far that the young prince declared that
il IT were In his power he would marry
the girl. 1t was not In his power. how
ever, for no such marriage could have
any binding force In England. and there
never was any kind of ceremony. This
is the only basis for the story so COM
monty accepted as true, that the present
King Of England was morganatically mar
ried.
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the khedive is almost as strenuous
as Theodore Roosevelt. II lie rises at .
O'Clock in the morning, and, after dress
ing and attending prayers at a mosque,
he takes a long drive in a carriage OF
motor car through one of his farms.
Sometimes he gees on parade and attends
a review of troops. He is usually back
for breakfast at 80. or rather for his
After this he looks over his official papers
until noon, when he has lunch. or
breakfast. as 1t is called here. After
breakfast he chats with his visitors and
gives receptions of one kid or another.
and then reads or works away until sun
set. when he again goes to his farms At
Z or O'Clock he is back in the palace
for dinner, and his evenings are spent
with his family.
The khedive is a sportsman. He rides
we'll and shoots straight. and, like our
own strenuous ex-President, can wear
out almost any man of his suite.
The khedive has a half dozen palaces.
The Abdine Palace. where l was received,
is his chief official residence: 1t is a
struggling pink and white building with
grand staircase enormous rooms and
gorgeous furniture. 1t is lighted with
electric lights and carpeted with rugs
mostly from Europe. The furniture is
European.
The khedive's bedroom has marble
bathroom attached, with special arrange
mrnts for shower and douche but there
is no Turkish bath, as in the homes Of
most oriental rulers. His study looks
like a workroom 1t has a big library
table in the center. and his highness has
a telephone always at hand. The ball
room of this palace is large, and it is
especially gay every winter on the oc-
caSion of the. khediyeS annual ball to
which !, 800 guests are invited. Connect
ed with this room high up is lattice
work, through which the yelled ladies of
the royal harem can peep down and
watch the dancers while they listen to
the strains Of the band.
Another official palace is that of Ras-
eileen, at Alexandria. This lies right on
the harbor, with beautiful outlook over
the Mediterranean sea. His favorte resi-
dence near Alexandria Is at Montana.
which is within a mile of Aboukir bay
made famous by Nelson's victory over
the French fleet there aboUt a century
ago. This latter estate was reclaimed
from the desert only a few years since.
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Morganatic marriage seems to run in
the blood of the royal family Of Belgium.
OF course, every one knows about the
late King Leopold's marriage to Baroness
Vaughan shortly before his death, but
ii is not so generally known that his
father, when q Prince Of Saxe-COburg-
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of democratic sentiment this medieval
privilege of kings will disappear, and If
it does the kings themselves will take
the initiative in abolishing it. One can
imagine the rage of the kaiser. who Is
above all a good family man, If he finds
out that under the present German law
his wife Is only a left-handed wife, and
his children not entitled to succeed him
on the throne. That law won't last long
once the courts declare this state of
things to exist. In Austria the laws
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II he were not, however. a good many
OF his predecessors We're, as well as 81
good many ,of his forebears who never
sat on the throne. William III of England
William OF Orange--married the Count
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4. The hundreds of thousands Of &C.
claiming men and women who have seen
Mr.. J. K. Whackett since his revival. a
few nights ago, Of 1.-THE Con Man of
Zingda," may have observed the air of
broodful melancholy which. to the mys-
LITIGATION even of his legions of intimate
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a marriage is usually willing to stick to
the woman Of his choice. Indeed, he often
relinquishes all claim to his royal inherit
ance before contracting the marriage.
such was the case of the Grand Duke
Michael Of Russia and Countess Torby,
who are among the most popular and re-
spected couples in English society. There
is no danger that the grand duke will ever
desert his morganatic wife to mate with
his equal in rank. Such was also the case
of Prince Oscar of Sweden, who renowned
his rank to marry Miss Ebba Monck. one
of his mothers ladies-in- waiting. He took
the title Of Count of Wisborg and the pair
are working as Salvation Army officers in
Lapland Another famous case of this
kind was that of the Grand Duke of Aus
tria, who took the name of Johann Ortiz
and disappeared after marrying Millie
Strubel, an actress.
Another famous case of fidelity between
a couple morganatically married is that
of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand. heir to
the dual throne of Austria and Hungary,
and the Countess Sophie Chotek. He has
been urged by his relatives time and
again to contract a royal marriage, but
he refuses, and declares that his wife
shall reign with him as Empress of Aus
tria She will reign in any case as Queen
of Hungary, for Hungary knows only one
kind of marriage. and it is safe bet that
the Austrian law on the subject will be
changed before the old Emperor Franz
Joseph is cold in his grave.