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comes from Italy, and it sells for twenty
dollars a ton. If it could be supplied by
Mexico II would mean gross income OF
S14.O0o.WO year, and the sulphur IN
sight at half the above rate would be
worth a billion and a half of dollars. AS
Col Sellers said of his famous eye water:
There's millions in it,
In case the mountain is sold, the min
ing of this sulphur will be by modern
machinery and the cost of bringing 1t
to the market will be comparatively
small. The millions of tons already pro-
duced have been dug up by the Indians
and carried in bags by means of rope
ladders out of the crater to point where
it could be drawn up with windlass
and rope, worked from the rim.
AS soon as the sulphur comes to the
top it is handed over to men who place
it on straw mats and slide with it down
over the snow to the timber line, from
where it IS carried by horses and mules
to the cars.
Although the crater is exceedingly hot,
il is three miles above the sea and its rim
is bordered with perpetual snow With
the exception of the holes. it's floor is
freely over it. Now and then water
bursts in. and this, striking the floor,
causes steam, which rises high over the
mountain.
PODOcataDett is next TO the highest
point on the Mexican uplands. being only
surpassed by Mount Orizaba. 1t is the
fourth highest mountain in North
America. kissing the Clouds at 1850 feet
above the sea. The only mountains on
our continent that are higher are Mount
ST. Elias and Mount Mckinley in Alaska.
the latter being over $1,000 feet. Pixies
Peak is more than 3.GO0 feet lower and
Mount Wash neton not much more than
one third q high.
I have seen most OF the worlds great
volcanoes. One of the best known is
Stromboli, called the lighthouse of the
Mediterranean sea. down the side of
which lava is continually pouring. 1t is
not far from Sicily, where Etna is now
in mild eruption. and near Vesuvius.
whose smoky cone is less than one-fourth
as tall as old Popo. I have been on
Vesuvius during mild eruption and have
seen the golden lava flowing down in
narrow streams. One could cook an egg
over them by holding it in a wire basket.
The Island of Java is made up of so
many volcanoes. the fires of which YOU
can as you go along the coast, that
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odd pfennig goes on an artists colony
at Darmstadt. Even SoVereigns who
willing to pay are said to feel un-
easy. For it is the initial step that
counts. For the first time in history
the sacred principle that royalties are
tax free is broken
If we may he taxed for army in
crease. reason the SOVereigns. why
may we not for a navy increase. for
an education increase. or even for old
age pensions for hens? If we have to
pay a non-recurring tax, why shall we
escape a. recurring one If are to
pay imperial taxes. won't soon
have to pay state and even municipal
taxes" And. having SO argued, the
twenty-five sovereigns strike pa
trotic pose and profess their joy at
suffering for their country's greatness.
The sovereigns feel all the more
doubtful because each complains of
suffering from chronic poverty. and.
therefore, feels that his miserable
taxation mite will not help the eX-
pensive empire. Kaiser Wilhelm, it
seems, feels this most. He has the
biggest income. hut he is only the
fifth richest individual in Prussia.
Richer than him are Frau Bertha
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homecoming tax ON only about S:;o .Oo
600 and he may also have to pay > per
cent income tax every Year on his income
of $1,000. o01.
No other sovereign or prince will pay
anything like Kaiser Wilhelm The crown
prince is worth 300, 900 This is chiefly
made up by the crown estate Of Gels.
which came to the HohenZolerns thirty
years ago from Duke Wilhelm of Bruins
wick. Kaiser Wihelm's knsman. Prince
Friedrich Heinrich of Prussia is worth
S1..DO,oH, and at | per cent he VIII have
to pay S7J.hN0: Prince Friedrich Leopold.
another kinsnan. will pay on S3,IO9.Gn.
Kaiser Wilnelm's brother Henry has es
tates in Posen. Brandenhurg and Sches-
igHolstein, which worth S2,UDo0isp.
Altogether the kaiser and these relatives
are worth SCI, .tG.tVt The younger sons
of the kaiser and the other Junior Hohen-
Zollern princes have no property worth
mentioning. Fifty-three million dollars
would cover all the Hohenzolern wealth.
and So30n50 is the utmost they will pay
in tax.
Rudolph Martins Dictionary of Mil
lionaires' says the wealth of the King
of Saxony is S6.2.O.n00. Most of it con
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and we have it again here in Popoca
tapetl and the now steaming volcano
of Colima not far away.
The belt widens in the United States
but there are no active volcanoes there.
and it narrows again when it gets to
Alaska. AS it reaches Asia, it has
spasmodic eruptions, now and then
throwing an island up in the sea, only
to take it away few months or years
later. The volcanic zone seems more
active as it goes south through Japan
to the Philippine Islands, and thence
on TO the Dutch East Indies, New
canoes Of the West Indies are said to
be one of it's branches, but those of
the Mediterranean are apparently in
dependent of it or of any other vol
There are some volcanoes in Africa
and many extinct ones in Asia. Among
the most beautiful volcanoes of the
world are Fujiyama, Japan: Mount
Moyon on Luzon. in the Philippine
Islands. They are all perfect cones
There are few mountains. however.
more beautiful than Popocatapetl and
lStaccihuatl; or. as they are commonly
called here ''Old Popo" and the White
Woman" And there are none so high
which may be SO easily assembled, and
which pay SO we'll for tie trip. Both
mountains are covered with snow. and
standing on the cathedral here i'm Mexico
turn to silver and then to FURNISHED cop
per by the rays of the setting sun. "Popo'
is little more than thousand feet high
err than his hister. Old Ivy ard his form
is. perhaps, more majestic.
IXtaccihuatl is called the White Wom-
an" because the top OF the mountain is
shaped like the gigantic snowlike figure
of a woman who lies on her back with
her feet facing old Popo AS one stands
on the cathedral. he can plainly see the
line of ha Wit
eye, the swelling breasts covered with
STOW and the rest of the snow-clad COW
erng through which the mighty knees
and feet seem to peep. The mountain is
over 5000 feet high and the figure
makes one think of giantess lying on
mighty bed and covered with white.
According to the Aztec tradition. in
the days of the beginning of things a
mighty god. named Popocatapetl came to
Garth, and there fell in love with one of
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DUKE OF SAXE-COBURG AND GOTTA.
One of the twenty-five German SOW
rreigns who are inwnrdIy frcttinE over
Kaiser WilheInl's proposal to tax then,
to meet the Increase In the German
army.
known value. Altogether he has
seventy four different estates in seven
different Prussian provinces Wilhelm
III has no power to dispose of this
property. as IT is q family trust. Only
the model farm at Cadinen and some
small farms purchased by himself he
can do as he likes with. His trust
properties are liable to property tax.
Wilhelm IL will have to pay on other
property There is S3.7J0.OOO left by
Friedrich Wilhelm Ill. to which has been
added about S1OO0,OO0 presented by the
empire to Wilhelm / after the war with
France: S2n,O00.0OO left by Wilhelm l and
large sums gained by Kaiser Wilhelm
from the sale of his land in Berlin. Tn
luckily for Germanys treasury, Wilhelm
has always spent more than he received,
and the result is all the treasure now
amounts to only S2o.WOOOn. The land
Friedrich, Heinrich of Prussia. 10 worth
S37 600 900. Out of this. says the Berliner
Tageblatt. Kaiser Wilhelm will pay the
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PRINCE OF SCHAUMBURG-LIPP
Richest of all the German sOvereigns.
not even excepting the kaiser. Unfor-
tnnateIy for the German treasury. his
property is In Austria and cannot be
taxed.
sists of vast Silesian estates. which came
from the Duke of Brunswick who died
in 1884. The Duke of Sake Weimar, who
has big properties in Silesia and Posen,
is worth $1o,G0o0O. and he Is the richest
sovereign after the kaiser, as far as Ger
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cial Correspondence OF The Star.


LONDON, March 10. 1913
GHOSTS are getting tired of wear
r ing just filmy draperes which
they find are too nondescript to
enable them To be recognized easily by
the former friends and relatives TO
whom they appear--and they are TAX
ing. instead. to sure-enough clothes such
as they used to wear on earth Incl
dentally. ghosts sleep. Perhaps you
didn't know that
Both of these two statements are
made on the authority of Marvin Hume.
who is one of the leading authorities
in this country on affairs in the spirit
world. Hume isn't member of 'Julias
Bureau, the famous psychic institute
that was started by the late w. r.
Stead. and claims still 10 be receiving
messages from him, but he is a regular
contributor to the official organ of the
English spiritists, the International
Psychic Gazette. and it was at the of
fees of that breezy periodical. in Bride
we'll place, that he saw the writer yes
terday in response to request for
some details regarding his psychic eX-
perienceS.
x
Hume. who looks rather ghostly HIM
self. says that he has seen end OF
spooks. including his own, and that of
all those he has encountered and com
muned with recently. only one wore the
traditional filmy. cloudy, transparent
drapery.
One ghost that | saw twice" said he.
was each time Immediately got up
in his Sundaygo-t to- meetings. Another
wore rough shooting suit. with felt
hat, and another was in workman's
clothes. Ghost stuff is admirable ma
terial; ii makes up into any costume
you want to copy.
Still, of course. the fabrication of any
sort of clothes. even ghostly ones, takes
time. and it was to save all bother, ac-
cording to Hume, that Spooks originally
attired themselves in draperies only.
They are human said he and such
is the way of humanity: also from time
immemorial the proper clothing for
ghosts has always been a sort.of white,
filmy Shroud. very easy to concoct
II seems, however. that the ghosts
found that they We're not recognized
by the old friends and kinSmen whom
they haunted. Hume says that though
walking and wailing are quite correct
things for ghost to do. they are not
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Jungle Tragedy.

IOHN BURROUGHS. at an Audubon
society meeting in Denver. said:
Women who wear feathers don't realize
the tragedy of all this bird slaughter.
That tragedy would be brought home To
them If they could oyerhear the con-
versations that go on among the bird
folk i'm forest and Jungle.
Where's your wife, many a bird Of
paradise must be asking these days, only
to get the sorrowful reply:
oh she's trimming hat for Mrs.
Van AStorbut'
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as the wraiths of departed friends.
How. he asks are we la he sure
that the apparition seen and heard 10
the actual double, astral body, or ghost
of the departed?
The quite natural thing for an
'ousted' double 10 do is To wander about
and haunt it's home or the place Of the
disaster which turned il into n wander
er. II would naturally. appear ia its
own form-that is. the form Of its body
and in order To secure recognition IL
would probably assume clothing made
out of the same fimsy material it
self. the counterpart of what ii hap
pened to he wear5ng a. the time of its
decease.
Hume added with entire seriousness
that the substance of ghosts varied
much their costume-now that
they have taken to orthodox dress
According to the nature of the per-
son they are out Of. said lie. $50
the stuff they are made of will he thick
thin Some ghosts are almost as
dense in substance as the bodies they
inhabit some are transparent some So
fine and so ethereal that you can hardly
see them-you feel them. rather, Witt;
these il is more the perception or a
presence of something wholly invisible
yet occupying space"
1t was with difficulty at times. that
we represSed smile while Hume was
telling about his ghostly acquaintance.
especially when he described seeing his
own ghost
The only time I ever saw it," said
he. lit had gone out without my knowl
edge, but | saw IL come in all tidtlv
folded up i'm wee little cloud and fast
asleep.
The ghost of man who visited me
once" Hume added. was sound asleep.
watched him wake. and was greatly
amused at his annoyance upon finding
himself where he was.
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THEIR Hard Struggles
/ to Overcome Thrift by
Patriotism-How Much Each
Will Have to Pay to Help
Finance the New German
Army Increase-Huge For
tunes of the Sovereigns-The
Emperor's $35,ooo.ooo, Upon
Which a 1 Per Cent Tax Will
Probably Be Levied = The
Duke of Saxe-Weimar Has
$4,000, 900, Mostly in Rich
Properties in Silesia and
Posen-But the Richest of
All. the Prince of Schaum-
burg-Lippe. Has His Prop
erty in Austria, and the
German Treasury Cannot
Touch a Penny of 1t.
pecial Correspondence Of The Star.
RERIJN ApriI IN 1oI.,
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GROUP TAKEM INSIDE. CRATES Of F0PocAEAFETL

it is called the fire island. Between il
and Sumatra is krakatea. the top OF
which blew off about tWenty-seven years
ago with an explosion which was heard
In southern Australia. 200 miles away
That eruption took away two-thirds
of the island and the sea is now a
thousand feet deep where the center
of the mountain once stood. The big
gest volcanic crater in Java is in the
eastern part of the island. 1t is known
as the Sand sea; it is surrounded by
craters and it has other volcanoes in
its center. | rode across the Sand
sea on pony. and climbed to the top
of the Bromo volcano, which is still
active within it,
Some of the finest volcanoes are
those of the Hawaiian Islands, and the
most wonderful volcano park that can
be imagined is that which Uncle Sam
is now making on the island OF
Hawaii That island is composed of
volcanic materials, and it has been
built up from the sea bottom. This
mass of lava is now $4,000 feet above
the sea level and it extends from the
bed of the ocean up to the surface of
the water. a distance of $1,000 feet
more Therefore the volcanic pile
which ends in the crater of Mauna
Loa is really 10000 feet high. or high
er than Mount Everest is above the
level of the Bay Of Bengal Mount
Everest in the Himalayas. is the high
est mountain on earth. The crater or
miles long. two miles wide and
thousand feet deep. The floor Is hard
but quite hot; and there are cracks
through which you can see the hot
liquid rock far beneath.
All of the Sandwich Islands are vol
canic, and indeed two-t thirds of the
volcanoes of the world are said to be
upon islands. They seem to run in Ger
tain belts over the globe One belt
nearly encircles the Pacific. Sird!ing
that ocean, as it were, with mighty
smokestacks, from which pours forth
steam This belt begins with the
southern part of South America and
runs up through the Andes to the
Culebra cut, where steam has been
oozing out of the great cash made
for our. canal From there the belt
goes northward through Central
America and Mexico. 7 saw some OF
its steamins craters last winter while
! was in Costa Rica and Guatemala,
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W ~ anu VIZ
sovereign German
princes arc hesltat-
ing between the
rival virtues of pa
triotiSm and thrift.
They cannot decide
whether il is sweet
or TO pay the new
war tax or to put
their sd vings into
sound brewery
stocks. Between
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100000. Kaiser Wiihelm's forests and
fields are valued at $1,000. 900; his
forty palaces, country houses. castles
and shooting boxes at $1,000 600 and
his land sites in Berlin at $4,000. 900.
That accounts for S3200O00O out OF
the s35. 600 900
Wilhelm III also has land in West
phalia and the Rhine province of un-
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nicipal income tax. and now il he has To
pay a third imperial income tax. he will
feel himself as poor as Kaiser Wilhelm,
the Prince of Schaumburg- Lippe and tho
Duke of Sake Weimar. II is hard-up
generation.
Copyright. 1913 by Curtis Bruvn.i
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as we'll afford to pay his taxes can a
lawyer with 5000 year All the more
so, because if sovereisns go into bank
ruptcy their subjects help them out as
Wilhelm III discovered two years ago.
when Prussia's diet raised his salary by
three-qua rters of a million. But SO far
the thrifty princes always stoutly re-
sisted being taxed and until recently
Wilhelm III resisted most of all
Now, in fit of patriotism begotten of
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man property is concerned. The Bavarian
royal family is hard up. The King OF
Wurttemburg is worth S2.JDo.oD and the
Grand Duke of Hesse, s1,2oa,oc0, mostly
PrusSian realty.
All the other sovereign families are
worth about S50.COo, 600. counting German
land. The richest of all. richer even than
the kaiser. is the Prince of Schaumburg
Lppe. But his estates are in Austria.
and under the Austro-German agreement
they will pay no tax. The prince is the
only German sovereign whose main
source of wealth will not he taxed The
total wealth of all twenty-five sovereigns
is S125,oOo.O10. which gives average
property of only about s;.75o,V00. 1t Is
moderate compensation for the work of a
minor German sovereign. who has. per-
haps seven flower shows to open in the
course of a summer. Frau Bertha Krupp
and Prince Henckel Won Donnersmarck
could buy up all the twenty-five. and
some American millionares could buy
them up several times over.
With such doleful poverty. it is thought
fair that the sovereiEns should not be too
heavily assessed They are not likely to
be. The sovereiens will naturally not
make ont their own statements of wealth,
but will leave them to managers and sec
retaries, whom no fear of prosecution will
deter from stretching point in hard-up
rulers favor AS for the ordinary Ger.
man., reason the sove<eigns. The need
not talk SO much about us princes
periodically evading taxation, for has
not our respected Prof. Delbrueck said
that in Prussia only a quarter of the
rightful property tax Is collected. the
state being defrauded of the other three
quarters? What is the difference between
paying nothing and paying a quarter of
what is due?''
The sovereigns. however. have another
excuse. This is that low proportion of
their capital wealth brings them income
Their palaces. parks, art collections
bring in nothing: and the public largely
enjoys them. Prince Friedrich Heinrich
of Prussia has ID garden to his Berlin
palace which is worth s3.1:'o.no0. and as
the upkeep costs him money, and he gets
no return why should il be taxed?
Palaces. parks and collections will most
likely be left free of the tax. In that
case only abou: 81. COS 900 OF royal CAPT
tai will pay. That will give the treasury
at most $4,000. And the soveregns'
total income OF SIoGO1,GD an income tax
of per cent will pcrhaps Yield the treas
ury $:O9,M0.
rs it worth while. ask the hard-up
sovereigns for the sake of these beg
carly sums to rob us of our privilege and
treat us as If were ordinary men,"
They ask themselves this in decent Sc
crecy, but publicly plume their royal
crests and offer thanks that they have
at last chance to prove their German
patriotism, The probability is that they
will get much credit for public spirit
without bearing heavy sacrifices
The 'non-recurring contribution which
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they will have to pay is certain to become
law: but after this is paid they Will again
be taX-free. The imperial income tax
which threatens TO burden them perma-
ncntly is not likely to become law. The
average citizen opposes it. Already he
has to pay state income tax and mu-
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Krupp, who possesses 1000, 900:
Prince Henckel Won Donnermarck.
who has 1000. 900: Baron Won Gold
schmidt Rothschild of Frankfort. with
1000. 600, and the Duke of Ujest, With
$37,O00,000. After these come poor
Kaiser Wilhelm. with miserable $780,
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these temptations they resemble the Vacli-
IatinG lover who says. How happy
could ] be with either" The trouble is
that this is the first time the twenty-five
kings, grand dukes, dukes and princes
have ever been asked to pay pretty
stiff tax on their Accommodations. So.
while patriotic conscience bids them
make the sacrifice. their honest pocket in
tercsts whisper: Do not pay.
There would be no such dilemma il Eu-
rope's sovereigns were ordinary men. So
far from being ordinary they enjoy the
privilege of "steuerfreiheit" "Steuer-
freiheit is freedom from tax paying, and
sovereigns and their families have 1t to-
cether with freedom. if they wish. from
military service. In addition ia the SOW
creigns there are 6no-odd members of
metiatized cx-sovereign families who are
exempt from local taxation and from mil
ltary service.
These privileges are steadfaStly opposed
by progressive Germans. who say that in
hard up times the average sovereign can
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Special Correspondence Of The Star.
BERLIN, April 10. 1919.
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MESICO CITY.
q YOU want to buy
a volcano?
If so. come to
Mexico and size up
Popocatapetl. You
may have to take
Your life in your
hands on account
of the Zapatistas
and other rebels
camped near It's
foot. but you will
be moderately safe
- A. Ins~h
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Man Wh0SawHis OwmGhost
and Found lit Fast Asleep

sufficiently evidential for identification
the wraiths of departed friends.
How. he asks are we tn he sure
that the apparition seen and heard 10
the actual double, astral body, or ghost
of the departed?
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copyrighted. 1915. by Frank G. Carpenter
Special correspondence of The Star.
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According to the Aztec tradition, in
the days of the beginning of things a
mighty god. named Popocatapetl came to
earth, and there fell in love with one of
The Cairo bulletin., 1913-08-26

game Is now certainly before me. II
my reasoning Is correct | shall re-
ceive certain proGt Of that fact with
in half an hour II it is wrong, then
I'm away off, and Eldridge's methods
will win II any can"
What is the proof Aren't you
wildly excited? Tell mel" cried Helen.
The proof is whether or not a GER
tain message has been received over
II certain wireless" said barrow. "Pll
know soon enough. But that is not
the question; can not you get out of
town for little while2"
Helen surveyed him speculatively.
II there is no danger, | can see no
reason for it, she stated at length,
with decision. III there ia danger you
should warn a great many others"
But II that warning might precipi-
tate the dsnger?"
Shall go or stay?" she demanded,
ignoring the equivocation.
barrow considered.
Stay he decided at last. I'll bet
more than my life that I'm right" he
muttefed Now" he continued, a
trifle more briskly, be prepared for
fireworks. Unless I'm very much mis-
taken this little old town is going va
riously and duly to be stood on it's
head at odd times coon That's the
tro be continued,
The Cairo bulletin., 1913-08-26
horrible English Words.

ons can easily add to Victor Hugo's
list OF horrible English words, Gen
teel," for instance, is an adjective
that sets the teeth on edge, and 'se-
lect" fused as an adjectiye) is an
other word that only n second rate
person would select. Emerge" and
"transpire" are both repulsive to use
and any breakfast Is always spoiled
when a correspondent thanks him
In anticipation" or tailor asks him
to come and try on his esteemed
favor nearing trousers.