Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-01
KAISER IS CRITICISED
M0narchiaI Paper Points Out
Faults of Ruler.
POLICY HELD TOO PACIFIC
Tired Resignation Threatens to
Send Country to Dogs"
GLOOMY PICTURE PAINTED
Hopes Crown Prince Will Make Up
for Deficiencies of

special CaDegram to The Star.
BERLIN, June lit is not very often
that the kaiser sees anything but praise
of himself in the conservative German
press. but one strongly monarchial pa
per, Die Post. uses the opportunity OF
the highly popular crown prince having
just attained his thirtieth year to make
rather long list of the present kaiser s
shortcomings and to express the wish
that the son may make up for the de-
ficiencles of the father. whose tired res
ignation" it thinks threatens to send the
country to the dogs.
Gloomy, indeed, is the picture the Post
writer draws of Germanys present condi-
ton; her frontiers surrounded py booty
seeking foes, her national feeling wa
tered and sanded.'' herself torn by the
strife Of parties and creeds. confronted
with dangers red (soclallst). black tcIer-
icalism) and golden corruption and ma
terialism), her state authority under
mined and, lastly. in her bosom an
alarming Indifference" to the imperial
and monarchic idea. There are very
probably numbers of Germans who would
like to see the crown prince taking up.
under the cloak of patriotism. an atti-
tude in sharp contrast to his imperial
fathers pronounced pacific policy. Such
an attitude would, moreover be in ac-
cordance with Hohenzollern traditions.
But in reality the crown prince is not
built that way and IL he has not the in
tense feelings of veneraton and loyalty
for his father that Prince Henry has for
his imperial brother, he seems quite con-
tent to pass his days in an easy-going
way, devoting to his military duties the
time he can spare from sport.
Pastor Drinks Poison.
The circumstances attending the death
of a certain Pastor Liebe recently for
a day or two promised Berliners a story
of melodramatic and mysterious interest
The pastor. a retired army chaplain of
seventy. died suddenly after drinking a
liquor glass of what he supposed to be
brandy, but. In fact. was the deadly
poison atrophine. His housekeeper was
present while he took the drink, but
could do nothing toward saving him be-
yond running for doctor. AS usual, the
police authorities came shortly on the
scene. and on making an investigation OF
the pastors lodgings found what APP
and varied assortment of gems that could
possibly be imagined The treasures OF
Aladdins cave or the gold and jewels of
the Count of Monte Cristos secret isle
hardly sufiiced for the local reporters in
describing the number, beauty and cost
Illness OF the collection, and there was
one particular goblet incrusted with dia-
monds and rubies and emeralds, to which
no printers ink could do justice.
Naturally, experts were set to work to
estimate the treasure, but with the ex-
traordinary and lamentable result that
1t turned out to be no treasure at all.
The gems were imitation, of glass and
stone. like those boys and girls purchase
at country fair. for any sum from
penny to a shilling. Some Of them were
decidedly pretty. and the deceased used
the atrophine for polishing and testing
them. The wondrous goblet was assigned
by the experts a maximum value Of So.
Walking Around World.
About a dozen well-to-do Germans. fol-
lowers of the simple life" and consist
ing of naturalists and their wives. a well
known writer who acts as leader, and
photographer have arrived at the Bud
dhist monastery at Lausanne. They have
come from Leipzig and are on a tour
round the world on foot Several on bare
feeD which they hope to accomplish
within five or six years. Their motto is
taken from Heine: "God gave US two legs
to walk with, and IL He had wished US
to be the slaves of the soil one leg would
have sufficed.''
The simple life devotees, who are
all teetotalers and vegetarians. have un-
dertaken this journey across three CONT
nents with view to studying the reli-
gions and customs of the different coun-
tries through which they pass. From
Switzerland they go to Italy. Austria,
Turkey. Asia Minor. Persia, India, Tibet.
China. Japan and North America. re-
turning by boat to Spain. whence they
go to Lapland, returning eventually to
Germany. All the travellers are IN the