The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-08-25
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MONARCHY NEAR
My Son Will Be Last King,
Says Wilhelm
BABY is GIVEN AWAY
Two Famous Paintings Sold to
Charles NJ. Schwab's Expert.
How Soldiers Fed at Masked
Ball in London

BY MALCOLM CLARKE

BY MALCOLM CLARKE
Berlin August 24.-(Special)-"M son
will be the last of the Emperors. That is
why I am bringing him up as I was
brought up-under firm discipline He
must be credit to the house of Hohenzol-
lern and TO the throne that, after his
will cease to be-"
Emperor William thus expressed him
self to the historian, Karl Won Kroon, in
a recent talk following his inspection of
the Berlin school of history and literature
His majesty predicted that the end of
monarchism is in sight "All the world
will be republican within so years" he
said Germany will be the last of the
empires. It is inevitable
| From Robdenitz, Thuringia, where Wag-
ner found so many of his plots comes a
story which reads like the opening chap
ter of a paper back novel, The succeeding
pages have yet to be written in the life of
the little heroine still oblivious of her
part in a romance. I'll
| peasant woman was working In a
lonely field when she heard a motor car
/
| prise ii stopped and young and beautiful
woman, who. with young man. was the
only occupant of the car, beckoned to her
and handed her basket and an envelope
| In the basket is baby" said the girl
Keep 1t and bring it up kindly. The en-
velope contains $1,000, which will pay for
its keep Before the woman could an
swer the motor car had driven swiftly
away.
| Following the recent announcement that
an improved method of handling cancer
| cases had been discovered by a German
scientist comes the report that still an
other advance has been made towards the
| successful treatment of this disease Dis
patches from Stuttgart state that at a re-
cent conference attended by representa-
tives of the Royal Wurttemberg College
of Medicine, DIR. Adolph Zeller, a wurt-
temberg physician, outlined a new meth
Cd of cancer treatment which. 1t is alleged, |
has already produced some remarkable
results. OF 81 patients treated by the new
method 1t is claimed that a were cured, |
among them some who had already been
operated on two or three times. No ink |
ling is given as to the nature of the treat
ment further than that it does not in
volye operation.
According to the report, which naturally |
will be received by the medical world !
with some reserve, DR.. Zeller exhibited a |
number of successfully treated patients
/ to his colleagues at the conference
Two great and famous paintings, one by |
Rubens and the other by Titan, have
just been sold to an art expert who is act |
ing for Charles NJ. Sehwab. the Ameri- |
can millionaire, according to information |
received by Berlin art dealers from the !
Paris and London representatives. Mr. |
Schwah, 1t is stated, intends to present /
the pictures to a museum in the United ,
States
The picture by Titan represents an un-
known man, wearing a black cape and |
mantle and precious ring on his little
finger. His gray hair reaches down to |
his shoulders, and the background is
fine autumn landscape The canvas |
ascribed to Rubens represents Philippe lie
Roy, a Spanish councillor of the treasury |
in the Netherlands, who lived in the mid
die of the 10th century. He wears white
ruff, black mantle, and golden chain
over his breast.
AT a ball given recently by the Grand |
Duke of IIesse-D armstadt, the rule printed |
on the invitation card that everyone must |
come either masked in a domino, led to |
peculiarly funny consequences.
In one of the rooms of the court a buffet |
had been set out, and the attendants
there soon came to remark the unusually |
active appetite of one guest, duly masked |
and cloaked who consumed extraordinary
large quantities of the more expensive del
icacies and wines. After several minutes
of vigorous eating he would leave the
buffet and disappear among the throng of
dancers. Soon, however. he would be
back again, his appetite apparently as
strong as ever
After the fourth visit at short intervals
of this hungry guest the head waiter
called the attention of the master of GER
emonies, who waited at the buffet until
the masked stranger once more returned.
He was again served with a full supply of |
food and wine, and as he turned away
was politely asked to show his invitation
card.
At this some confusion was noticed in
his bearing, and the master of ceremonies
requested him to remove his mask and
cloak. To the establishment of the SER
wants and the amusement of the guests
there was revealed the shamefaced figure
of one of the soldiers of the guard on
duty In the hall below. TIL 'uard had |
found a spare domino lying IN the hall
and they had been putting /, on one after
the other during the evening, so as to be
able to so boldly into the ball rooms and
eat their fill at the buffet unchallenged.
So amused at the story was the grand |
duke that he refused to allow the greedy /
soldiers to be punished.
German newspapers continue TO criti- |
else the acts of the new English adviser
TO the president of the Chinese republic. !
Specific instructions have been sent to
the German minister at Picking to watch
carefully every move made by DR.. Nor
rison
/ In the course of a long article, bitterly
rebuking the Kaiser and the chancellor
for allowing themselves to be hoodwinked
by Sir Edward Grey in the management
of far eastern policies, the Taegliche
Rundschau says: Morrison is well known
as an enemy of Germany His prolonged
activity in China has had for its chief aim
the undermining of German influence in
the far east. How does the German gov
eminent In the future intend to defend
itself from these underground intrisues?
At Frankfort a meteoroid has been
picked up which is a perfect representa-