Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-06-02
(By Steven Burnett.)

ten that the Kaiser sees anything but praise of himself in the conservative German press, but one strongly mon- archial paper, Die Post uses the opportunity of the highly popular Grown Prince having just attained his thirtieth year to make a rather long list of the recent kaiser's short comings and to express the wish that the son may make up for the defi- ciencies of the father, whose tired resignation it thinks threatens
 send the country to the dogs.
 Gloomy indeed is the picture the Post writer draws of Germanys pres ent condition; her frontiers surround ed by booty-seeking foes, her national feeling "watered and sanded' herself torn by the strife of parties and creeds, confronted with dangers red fSocialisD, black (Clericalism), and golden (corruption and materialism), her State authority undermined, and lastly, in her bosom an alarming indifference" to the Imperial an6 Monarchic idea. There are very prob ably numbers of Germans who would like to see the Crown Prince taking up, under the cloak of 'patriotism, an aptitude in sharp contrast to his Imperial fathers pronounced pacific policy Such an attitude would more over be in accordance with Hohen- zollern traditions. But in reality the Grown Prince is not built that way and if he has not the intense feelings of veneration and loyalty for his fla ther 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.
 X Fortune Faded.
 The circumstances attending the death of certain Pastor Liebe re- gently for day or two promised Berliners story or melodramatlc and mysterious interest. The pastor, retired army chaplain of seventy, died suddenly after drinking liquer 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 towards saving him beyond running for doctor. As usual, the police authorities came shortly on the scene, and on making an investigation of the pastors lodg- ings found what appeared to be one of the most valuable and varied assort- ment of gems that could possibly be imagined. The treasures of Aladdin's S cave or the gold and jewels of the Count of Monte Cristos secret isle hardly sufficed for the local report CTS in describing the numner. beauty, and costliness of the collection, and there was one particular goblet, en- crusted with diamonds 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 extraordinary and lamentable result that it turned out to be no treasure at all. The gems were imitation, of glass and stone, like those boys and girls pur- chase at country fair for any sum from a penny to shilling. Some of them were decidedly pretty and the deceased used the atrophine for pol ishing and testing them. The won- drous goblet was assigned by the eX- perts maximum value of $50.
 Following the "Simple Life."
 About a dozen well-to-do Germans, followers of the simple life," and consisting of naturalists and their wives, we'll known writer, Who acis as leader, and a photographer, have arrived at the Buddahist monastery at Lausanne. They have come from Leipzig, and are on tour round the world on foot (several on pare feet, which they hope to accomplish with in five or six years Their motto is taken from Heine: God gave us two legs to walk with, and if 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 undertaken this journey across three continents with a view of studying the religion and customs of the diff ferent countries through which they pass. From Switzerland they go tc Italy, Austria, Turkey, Asia Minor Persia, India, Tibet, China, Japan, and North America, returning by boat to Spain, whence they go to Lapland' oyoufuallv tO GnrmanV All