Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1912-08-28
NEWS FROM .FATHERLA 4
A Brief Resume Of tho Most I'M
portant Happenings In tho
German Empire.

German Empire.
A man who had served several years
in the foreign legion of France was
picked up as spy at Karlsruhe,
Bayern.
Prof. Nicholas Murray Butler, presi-
dent of Columbia university, New
York, has been the guest of Kaiser
Wilhelm at Wilhelmshohe.
French aviators say that it will take
ocular evidence to convince them that
a device has been discovered in Ger
many, as asserted In the Tagliche
Rundschau, which enables an aero
pianist to remain stationary in the
air indefinitely. They think such q
thing practically impossible.
Switzerland is to have tax on cats,
and a movement in on foot to secure
the passage of the law providing for
its Introduction. Each household will
have to register it's cats at the local
postoffice and every feline will be dec
Grated with a badge. bearing it's num-
Der. The Law forbids owners to let
their cats out at night in case they
disturb peoples slumbers.
Germany's contribution to the deco.
ration of the Carnegie peace palace
at the Hague is magnificent sample
of German art It consists of four
monumental gates for closing the main
entrance to the building. In the mid
die of each gate is a female figure,
and the four emblems symbolic
Peace, Friendship, Justice and Con-
cord. The design was drawn by Prof.
Moehring.
Those who are guiding the affairs
Of the heterogeneous and chronically
discordant races grouped under the
heading Austria-Hungary have deve}-
oped great skill in handling the situa-
ton. The present restlessness in the
Balkans afforded a new instance of
the consummate statecraft of the i'm
perial government at Vienna. Count
Berchtold, the minister of foreign af-
fairs, has resolved to pursue a policy
Of gradually granting autonomy to the
European provinces of Turkey, which
will put them on friendly terms with
Austria-Hungary. Some of the great
powers have declared themselves in
favor of the plan. Kaiser Franz Jo-
Beph has emphasized his standpoint by
decorating Count Berchtold with the
Order of the Golden Fleece.
"All the worlds a flirt," writes Ed
ward Fuchs, a prominent German writ
err and historian, in his History Of
Flirting" which is soon to be pub
lished. 1t is the first time any writer
has attempted to give the history of
flirting, and Fuchs has gone into the
matter thoroughly, tracing it from the
middle ages and before up to the pres
ent time. He demolishes the state
ment that flirting is only a French
and American custom and declares it
Is an international manifestation that
has spread everywhere. He continues
that it is natural and normal to flirt
and that even certain animals flirt.
Flirting has recognized place in so
ciety, he says, and it is not saying
too much to say that everybody fiirts
some time in their life.
George Berry, deputy for Paris and
author of German social studies, de.
| clares that France need not fear Ger.
many any longer. He says: II have
Just come from Germany, where I find
all political parties unanimous in de.
claring it is hopeless and impossible
| for Germany to survive without con.
quest or without new colonies. On
this question all public men in the
fatherland are as one. Germany must
have an outlet beyond the present
frontiers for her eyer-inreasing popu.
lation. I stated very clearly that I did
not wish to see any further German
| extension at the expense of that part
Of the Congo which France still holds
From the invectives which the press
hurled at me, I concluded the German
government still nourishes the secret
hope of getting more Congo, but the
great bulk of the German people dc
not seek new trouble with France
There are even some who would be
willing to submit our differences about
Elsass-Lothringen to a court of arbi
tration.''
Rope horseshoes are coming into
general use all over Germany, but es
pecially in the large cities, where there
/ ls much asphalt pavement Rope
horseshoes are manufactured both
from forged iron (pressed steel plate)
and cast iron. The shoes are very
simple and consist of an ordinary
horseshoe form with deep groove OF
the under surface into which a section
of ordinary rope is fitted. This groove
Ia so constructed that once forced into
the groove, the rope remains there
without further fastening. The groovt
Ks made for rope about three-fourth.
of an inch in thickness. Aside from
preventing slipping, the rope cushion
lessons the shocks of the pressure OF
the horseshoe nails, which in the or
binary shoe is considerable after thu
shoe becomes worn down. Even with
out the rope the deep grove in thes,
shoes makes them much easier on tn,
hoofs, as on soft ground the groov,
fills with earth, which acts as sub
stitute for the rope in lessening tn,
shock of the nails on the hoofs.
The eighty-second birthday of Kais
er Franz Joseph was celebrated witt
great enthusiasm in all parts of tn