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The Washington herald., 1911-06-25
cial Cable to me washington Herald.

Special Gable to The Washington Herald.
London, June 24.-In the remi-
niscences of N. Xavier Paoli, the
famous French police commissary. just
published here, which are causing quite
a sensation, the inside story of the
late King of the Belgians and his af-
fection for Baroness Vaughan is told
at some length.
Incidentally, the romance between
Leopold and Cleo de Merode is shat
tered, for NJ. PaoH asserts that the
monarch only met the dancer q few
times In his life. The story. Of how
Leopold met blanche Caroline Della
croix. the beautiful Roumanian girl
who later became Baroness Vaughan.
Is an interesting one.
At the time the King met the girl
she was twenty-five and he sixty-nve.
He had heard OF her great beauty and
requested Paoli 70 arrange a meeting.
She was SO hustered, Paoli relates.
that she thought Leopold was the King
OF Sweden and kept on calling him
King Oscar"
she succeeded IN arousine IN the
old mans heart a love which was manf-
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ing, and one day. when Kilossy was IN
another part of the house, she peeped into
the room in which he spent most of his
time, and saw Frau Gaspar sitting ON
q sofa.
She ordered the woman to leave the
house at once, threatening to inform her
husband. At this point Kilossy appeared
on the scene and began to laugh. He
pointed to the supposed Frau Gaspar.
That is a wax figure" he said. but
tell no one what you have seen, other
wise I will shoot myself"
The landlady promised. Kilossy ex-
planned that when he made the acquaint-
ance of Malwine Marmorstein she gave
him her photograph, from which he or
dered a wax figure made. The story goes
that he made love to the wax ngure for
year, and when the real Frau Gaspar
became a mother Kilossy ordered the fig
ure of a child from Paris.
Recently Kilossy had a nervous break
down and showed signs of madness. A
few days ago he began to rave and was
taken to an asylum
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Forthcoming visit to England, no doubt
Prince Edward will have an opportunity
to note their beauty and graces. An
alliance between the reigning families OF
Great Britain and Russia is highly fav-
ored by the politicians OF both countries.
= Two others of the group Of seven
girls are daughters OF the Crown Prince
OF Roumania- The eldest daughter is
the Princess Elizabeth, the prettiest
princess Of all Europe. but Prince Ed
ward must hurry Il he would choose
her for a bride as her betrothal to
another royal prince is already being ar
ranged. She was born september y,
1904 Her younger sister, Princess Marie
(Mignon), is also beautiful girl and was
born in 1899.
After these four Of the seven comes
the Princess Marguerite, of Saxony, eld-
est daughter OF the King of Saxony, but
she Is only eleven years old, and Prince
Edward would have to wait at least i've
years to wed her, although her betrothal
might be arranged even now.
Then there Is Princess Margarette Of
Sweden, eldest daughter OF Prince Carl
OF Sweden. She Is only twelve years old.
The last OF the seven Is the Grand
Duchess Marie OF Luxembourg, eldest
daughter and heiress OF the reigning
grand duke. and considered one Of the
most important unmarried princesses In
Europe She Is sixteen years old.
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CZARoVITCH HAS NAVY.
Future Russian Ruler Builds MInIa-
ture Battle Ships.

Future Russian Ruler Builds MInia~
ture Battle Ships.
st. Petersburg, June 24-Peter the
Greats taste for practical shipbuildins
seems to have come down TO his descend
ant, the present Czarovitch, who is six
years old.
The little heir TO all the Russias has
had complete miniature navy yard con-
structed on the banks of small lake in
the park at Tsarskoe 'Selo. his fathers
country palace There, under the tuition
Of a naval engineer, be amuses himself
with building model war ships and other
craft.
In this pastime he IL following the ex-
ample of the Gar Peter the Great, who
200 years ago, disguised as a shipwright,
worked for wages in = Dutch ship yard.
and afterward at Deptford, on ths
Thames.
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BARBER GETS MILLIONS,
But continses calIins ont sNextD to
Customers.

Budapest. Hungary. June 24-Rn-
dolf UttinEer. young BARRIERS APP
prentice Of this city. is co-heir with
his mother to $4,000. 900. left by his
uncle Leopold Nowak. who emierated
to the United States forty years aga
Eogak died after amessing great for-
tune by specuiating. and his heirs were
advertised for.
Ifls sister. uftinger's mother. was nj
tlmateIy found. and informed that she
and her son would share uncle Leo
poldss millions.
Tho amazing turn of fortune does not
Boem 70 have turned the young bar
bars head. for he continues to trim
hair ara shave es usual
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MULES WILL DASH
TO SOUTH POLE
Animals from Northern In
dia Trained for Work.
CAPT. SCOTT IS OPTIMISTIC
British Antarctic Expedition to Have
Unusual Equtpment-Transp An
finals Chosen by Leader-Mules
stand Hard Work in TibetRn Ex-
pedition-Training with SIedges.
sDec,al cabls to The washington Herald.

Special Cable TO The Washington Herald.
Christchurch, New zealand, June "a
Capt. Scott, as leader of the British ant
arctic expedition, is making important
preparations for a second attempt to
reach the south pole should he fan to
achieve his object next season
with the assistance of the members OF
the expedition he IS hopeful, Of course. Of
accomplishing a large amount Of useful
scientific and exploration work outside
the polar dash.
Success depends almost wholly upon the
transport arrangements, and it is this
question, apparently, which is causing
Capt. Scott some n1isgiVings.
His ponies, when landed from the Terra
Nova at Cape Evans, were in good con-
dition, considering what they had gone
through But Capt Scott is entirely de-
pendent upon these ponies, and should
any OF them fail in the coming winter
he would be heavily handicapped, and
might possibly miss his goal Should this
occur, his plan is to make another at
tempt in the following season, providing
that fresh transport can be brought down
by December next.
Capt Scott, before giving directions for
the dispatch of a further supply of ponies,
went thoroughly into the matter with
Capt Oates, of the Inniskilling Dragons.
who is in charge of the transport ami
mails. capt. Oates suggested that, mules
would be better than ponies for the work
required of them, and that trained Indian
transport mules would be ideal.
Mules Are Success.
Both Capt. Oates and Mr.. Meares. his
helper, haYe seen wonderful work done
by mules in Northern India, especially
during the expedition to Tibet, and there
seems little doubt that these animals
would do as well on the voyage and In
the antarctic cold as ponies. while they
would draw greater loads at a more uni
form pace.
The Indian transport mules used by
the Tibetan expedition accomplished re-
markable work at great attitudes in very
low temperatures when ponies and yals
broke down.
Capt. Scott accordingly decided to fall
in with Capt. Oates suggestion, and be-
fore the Terra Nova left Cape Evans he
wrote to Mai. Gen. Sir Douglas Haig,
chief of the staff in India. The agent of
the expedition at Christchurch has now
received word from the secretary of the
army department at SiTnla 10 the effect
that seven mules have been selected to go
south and are now being trained to sledge
work at high attitudes.
Satisfactory shipping arrangements have
been made with the Union Steamship
Company, whose steamer Aparima will
bring the mules from Calcutta early in
August. The agent here is also negoti-
ating with a firm at Vladivostok for a
further supply of trained Siberian dogs.
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shall try it elsewhere" With that an-
 nouneement he went back to his hotel.
 That evening the millionaire called to
 see him. They talked for hours. It was
 way past midnight when they parted
 They met again at 10 a. m. That day
 Emmons closed deal for the biggest ad-
 yertising business probably ever obtained
 in St. Louis It amounts to $500,0O0, and
 Emmon's commission is $s0,000. Today
 this advertisement Is seen in magazines and newspapers the country over.
 There Is an idea that the successful advertising man must be nimble witted, alert of speech, self-reliant and of a fair amount of assurance. There went
 to the office of the most prosperous and
 best equipped advertising man in Amer lea one day young man who was
 clerk in a small advertising agency. The young man believed association with the great house of the country would benefit him in various ways. He told his story to the big man and the big man, who had climbed from a clerk ship himself and who had lot of good hard common sense along with de- sire to help a worthy young man,
 studied his visitor closely. The great
 man was a fair student of character,
 He did not like to hurt the visitor s feelings, but considering it better to l tell the truth than to mislead the youth. he said Young man, you won't do, | You'll never make a success in the ad- vertising business. You are too easily discouraged. Seek some other field"
 The young man thanked him and went back to the Small advertising agency. Three years later the small ad- yertising agency was sold out. Some
 how the young man had managed to raise enough money to buy 1t. Today that young man, who was advised to seek some other field, is the greatest advertising man in the world, He does more business in one year than the man who thought he was hopeless did in three. The man who thought this young man unfitted for the advertising | field was the dean of advertising agents
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tools. Among his farm implements was subsoling blow that he said was no good because it plowed too deep for his land. The agent insisted, however, that 1t was all right, and he did not leave until four mules were hitched to it and the ground was broken up to what the planter said was ruinous depth He then saw the land narrowed, and instructed the farmer about his seed and how to plant it.
 To make a long story short the cotton came up with more vigor than any ever raised on that land before, and when, later on the old man was asked to run a cultivator over the crop to cut out the weeds and keep down the grass re replied that it would ruin the cotton, and when the agent insisted, saying he would guar antee him against loss, the planter gave the order, but went away with tears in his eyes, saying he could not stay there and see his crop torn to pieces. He was surprised to find, however, that the cot- ton grew better than ever, and when, at the end of the season, he found that he had gotten two bales of cotton from that acre, whereas the rest of his land had produced less than one-fourth that amount, he became an active government supporter. His nelghbors at first thought
 it must be in the seed. and they paid him S2 bushel for all that came from that acre. Lately he met the agent again, and in speaking of his conversion, said:
 'I am now over sixty years old and have farmed forty years, but 1t is only two years since have learned how to farm.'
 The demonstration men give me many stories like this. They show something of this movement which is now permeat- ing the south, and which promises to make 1t far richer than ever before.
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Telling the plain truth has been the rule in advertising in that establish ment from that day to this.
 What amazing rewards there are for the highly successful advertising man may be judged from the experience of an agent named Emmons. He had a happy way of writing, was student of business paid a lot of attention to the interests of his clients and always gave to them the very best service it wat possible for him to supply. There is one great peril the ad. makers en- counter. That Is convivialiey. Unless a man has a lot of will power he Is likely to develop a taste for liquor. Emmons had line of clients to whom entertaining meant a good deal. He was sociable, was making money and apparently was making good headway After time. however, he lost cus- toner or two and made up his mind he would lose others if he did not look out More serious than losing clients was the danger of losing control of himself.
 Emmons went into executive session with himself and determined upon radi- cal course. He decided to take trip around the world and start as quickly as he could wind up his engagements. He went He had enough money to carry him through in good style, so he was in l. no hurry. He banished all thoughts of advertising from his mind and gave him. self up to enjoying everything that came to his attention aboard ship or in the lands he visited. After a time. however, he began to think of America and of business. He was astonished to discover that the further he got away from the United States the more clearly he under stood the problems that used to bother him and the better idea he got on busl- ness subjects. His perspective was better,
 He had been away six months and was in Australia when he began to itch for work likeness was beginning to wear on him. A man cannot make busy brain tune itself to slow action after half a lifetime of activity.
 He knew of great business that was sorely in need of good advertising. The men in the business were immensely wealthy, but were set and conservative in their ways. They had suffered a decided
 loss in trade in recent years and We're l likely to give a fair amount or consdera- ton to a good, legitimate proposition to increase their business. Emmons began to think deeply about his idea before he left | Australia. His ship was in the Indian
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Makes the C1rfew Needless

From the New York Mail.
 Hail to the brass band of our boyhoodi How the memory fingers. No wonder Mayor Gaynor, not to mention some al- dermen, acclaimed it as sAll right; tho best ever,' and quite the proper figure cost nothing-if reproduced by home talent for our city playgrounds. That band was, as we remember in eternal fame, made up of one mlkman, three clerks in the coun- try store-over which 1t met for monthly rehearsal all winter--the blacksmith. who played the drum; the doctor, if illness was dull So. that he could bring his pie colo Indeed, scattered all over town were men who had served and could be called on like a veteran corps. All communities have these veterans, with souls to music set, men who can whistle. or play the acc cordlon, or jam the twanging cymbals.
 With such recolections of the homo town crowding the mind it is no wonder that there seemed no need of a great city paying $12,000 for professionals. Any street can readily scrape up q band, be- ginning with the German grocer at the corner. The advantage of such a vigorous hand are known. In the village it lowered rents over wide area about the general store over which the members met for practice. It would make curfew bell needless
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is no weevil as yet, 3900 pounds of seed cotton has been raised on one acre, making a crop which, with lint and seed, was worth s195 These demonstra- tinn farms have shown a mighty in- crease in production over all others about where the old methods of farming were used, and in most localities they are showing profit of $15 per acre over that of their neighbors.
 In one of the worst weeyil districts F. l.. Maxwell of Louisiana grew $50 pounds of lint to the acre on planta- ton of 20o0 acres, and this on land which is said to be especially favorable to weevil production.
 Converting an Old Farmer
 This demonstration work is revolutions izing the south. Both young and old arc engaged in it. Many of the boys have been each given an acre upon which to raise cotton, and there are now boy cot ton clubs as we'll as boy corn. clubs, These acre farms are to be seen every where, and the poor farmer cannot help knowing the big yields of his neighbors. The government is trying to get the very best farmers to make the exper1- ments. The agents pick out those who are noted for their success and common sense and ability, In many cases they per lsuade the older planters to engage in the work. and that with great difficulty. Take, for instance, one old Georgia farm CT, who had been growing crops after the ordinary methods for 40 years. The man stood high in his community, and it took much persuasion to get him to promise to set out an acre, and work 1t on the new plan. About two weeks after that the agricultural department man again appeared. He found nothing doing and asked the planter why he was not carry ling out his part of the contract. % >''To tell the truth my man, I never thought you wouls be around again.
 But you promised to set out that acre and plant it just as l told you."
 "So. I did was the reply, "and now that you have come again I will do itP Well" said the agent, suppose we go out now and start your men to blowing, and I will come around every week and see how you and they are following my instructions
 The old man laughed, but he went with the agent to the barn and picked out the
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and remarkably we'll informed, but he did not know all of the elements that make for success in successful adyertis- ing,
 Expert opinion Is unreliable. A jury of great advertising men chosen to award the prize Is one of the richest competitions of recent years for a catchy line for advertising a certain commodity selected the offering of woman who never had written an ad in her life. The company offering the prize paid the money and then threw the ad. In the waste basket. It was not worth the paper 1t was written on for the particular industry intended to be advertised, althought it might be good for another,
 There is one man who spends In ex- cess of s1,O00,OOO a year in advertising who declares the value of a catchy bus mess phrase is incalculable. He got one years ago that he believes has brought hundreds of thousands of dol lars to him. It is Your money back if you want it." It is a rare thing, he says, for happy phrases to come to ad. writers as the result of hard study. They are the flashes of quick minds. Nicholson, the postman, probably Is father of more in use today than any other one person.
 Does advertising pay? Good adver- Using pays immensely, Just as good ad. writing pays handsomely the one who writes. As to advertising results, there is the case of a New Yorker who as- founded the country by his lavish ad- vertising. He was publisher. and reg ularly he would gather all the money he had to his credit, turn it over to the newspapers and advertise his publica- tion. Every advertisement was at least one page, There was no art, no brains. no particular merit to his ads, but the money came back to him over and over again. He spent millions in advertis- ing and died great millionaire, but he never printed an ad. of any kind in his own publication. a
 Copyright, 1911, by Richard Spillane.
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ocean before he had his plan all thought out. He wrote ads. there in the middle of that ocean, and when he had the ads. to suit his critical taste he got to work making sketches. He was a fair artist and his drawings were attractive, but he had all the time he wanted and more, too, to devote to the subject. so he did his best on them. By the time he had his drawings finished he was eager to get home. He craved to be in harness again. But he had a lot more to do after he returned to New York. First he had to make study of the man to whom he was to submit his proposition He went to the best libraries and read everything he found there about him. Then he read all he could find about the mans business. One thing he learned about the man was his pet hobby It was history. and particularly historical paint ings. This broadened Emmon's idea, He started at once to add to his sketches and excellent lot of pen and ink drawings of famous historical scenes, particularly American. He worked on this with a zeal that surpassed him.
 The trip around the world had cost more than Emmons anticipated, and his bank account was down to 5000 when he finished his work. He never had met the man to whom he was going to submit his
 idea, and all the work he had put in on tho project was purely speculative. He
 got on a train and went to St. Louis, where the millionaire lives, and his bus
 mess makes one of the city's chief indus
 tries. He had obtained letters of intro- duction to the millionaire, and these he
 presented. He had his speech boiled down
 to as few words as would tell the story
 adequately. He had all his proposition,
 with drafts of ads, estimate of cost. etc., reduced to writing, and he had all his drawings arranged for easy examination. q am to be here three days" he told
 the millionaire, when he had outlined his
 scheme '' lam stopping at the Planters.
 Any time within three days that you wish to see me I shall be within call. At the
 end of three days, if you are not favor
 ably disposed toward the proposition,
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to use a vulgar expression, is right on the job" It has small wings and it flies upon the cotton boil when just about forming. It bores a hole in the pod with Its snout and then turns around and lays it's eggs in that hole. It now makes some wax or gum and | smears over the hole, closing 1t tight.
 By and by the eggs hatch into worms and they eat out the heart of the boil
 so that it falls to the ground. The
 worms continue to eat and within a short time grow into weevils just like
 their mother. They in turn lay their l eggs in more bolls of cotton, increas-
 ing so rapidly that in one season a single family will become 15,000,000.
 Our Greatest Mexican Invasion l There has been wild talk about an army ]! of Japanese joining with the Mexicans and invading the United States. The greatest Mexican invasion and the most serious invasion is that of this little bug which came in from Mexico in 1892. It then crossed the Rio Grande, and began to increase it's army at this fifteen mil lion per family ratio, You remember Cadmus, swho sowed the teeth of a drag on, whereupon a regiment of armed men spTang from the soil It is the same with the boil weevil only it's regiments come up by the billions. They continue lo nUlu tNtfy Ut UT Bipuiid tiiCy take, and increasing by geometrical ratio they march onward, conquering every year strip of territory which Is 75 or more miles wide
 I have before me map prepared by the United States bureau of entomology which marks out the lines of advance ment. In 1892 the boil weevil had infested a short strip in south Texas. Tn 1893 il had moved father north and west and continued it's progress each year until, in 1900, aided by the storms and winds which brought about the Galveston food it had spread far beyond that city and was eating it's way into the heart of the cotton belt.
 A year later 1t had attacked a portion of Louisiana and now it has covered all most the whole of the Texas cotton plan tations and cut deep into the heart of Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana. It has jumped the Mississippi and is rav-