The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-10
Keen Student Of Books And Yet An Athlete, Says Mother
(By Associated Press.)

through her husband, King Charles, i she was responsible for the proposed selection Of ther snephewe Prince Will l liam of Wied, to be ruler of the new state of Albania. = In the article, shortly to appear in
 an Austrian magazine. Queen Eliza beth says.
 ..FairyIand called for d king.'' but the world gave no answer until ttthes king on the mighty Danube stood forth, calm and serious, and spoke with the same clear voice which had dictated peace to the turbulent Ba1k- ans. On the Rhine,' he said, deep in a forest stands a tree from which once pIucked my wife. It has many strong branches I will send yous+onea of these to be your leader xs.etsss ssThe young man upon whom the king had cast his eye had been,s from his earliest childhood, a jealous lover of books. He was never seen withou a book in His hand For all that he was of great strength Az tie high school in J ena. where heswas educat- ed, he was the champion gymnast, and it is. told of him that, while a young officer. he often lifted a comradee upon one hand and then laid him aside.
 His work was serious and efficient.
 After he had passed his examinations
 he was detailed toSthe War Academy,
 where only 1 50 out Of 500 applicants
 were accepted Later on he worked in the General Staff. Tall and slen-. der and a magnificent horseman,~ he
 was called in Roumania, sLohengrin,' wherever he appeared in his white
 uniform with the eagle-crowned heI- met of silver es- @ sssss
 ssHis young wife has presented him with two cfildren-a daughter Maria Eleonore. and only recently a son, Karol Vfktor.
 .aThe Princess Sophie is highly gift ed. She plays the harp, mand olin and guitar, singing to her own accom- Danfme1ts. Ssh paints and writes
 roeIass ana she has eai1eefed saro,,nl her in Potsdam a Charming circle of. artists. She grew up in the country
 in Rounlania andzcan ride any h horse.
 Paris, Jan. 1o.rl1e Fl sParisian col ouy of Mexican statesmen. past and present, is fast increasing. Headed ! l5by former president Porfirfos Diaz; as the most conspicuous figure, 1t now iu- ciudes Adolfo de la Lama, Mexican 1 Minister of Finance, who is visiting
 Paris and London to negotiate a loan for the Huerta governnent; Joseph Iimantour. former Mexican Minister i of Finance; Emanual Garza Aldape. Iex-Minister of Foreign Affairs of Pub lie Instruction and of the Interior: William de Linda,s former governor of ! the Federal district of Mexico, and ll Miguel Diaz Iombardo. who was Mex ican minister to France under the late
 President Francisco Madero. and who now is President of a committee rep
 resenting the Constitutionalists in
 Mexico.
 General and Sonora Diaz are living tquietly in a family hotel in the Ave
 nue des Champs E1ysees. The gen
 l erals room faces the Arc de TrioInpf1e coinmemorating Napoleon's success. l Here, where there is a fine view of
 the surroundings, the retired president I spends much of his time. Ministers
 who served under his government .l visit him now and then,r but General sI Diaz is somewhat edeaf and this has
 increased his desire for retirement j Senora Diaz is her husbands con-
 stant companion, acting as interpreter
 t for visitors. Senora Diaz has a good .I general uses none. Porfirio Diaz, Jr., E also lives near his father and makes 2I frequent calls
 The impression among persons who
 ! know General Diaz and who have been I associated with him is that he is not d the rich man he is supposed 10 be Fl He lives modest1y, although paying 'I $2O day for his apartment, and while
 tconsidered to be in comfortable cir , cumstaneess his wealth is said not to : be large.
 q During his active. life he paid but
 little attention to matters of finance, ii '8l is said. The general seldom goes to .9t the theatres, but takes freauent auto
 | lsI is sprightly and he appears to be in Igood health. s
 5 Berlin: Jan- 10.--In accordance with Emperor Williams wishes the Min
 ister of Commerce has ordered that ! 100 s'fre-damp safety whistles be tried out in the coal mines of the
 Ruhr and Saar districts. His decis- ion follows a long discussion and test :. of the new invention at an assembly afcf1<,s - peculiar sound when a sufficient amount of carbon n1onoxide gas min- , gles with the ordinary atmosphere.
 In experiments before the assem-
 bly, a mixture of as little as IT per
 cent. of the poisonous gas was re-
 corded by the whistle, and 10sp per cent | produced tone which could be heard across the large assembly halls. Elk
 perts who have tested the new contri- 5 vance in mines reported that it's tone . had been heard in straight passages . at a distance of 100 yards.
 London, Jan. 10.-London has g [ task cut out for itself to hold it's oWn i. in the export and import trade. Dur 3 ing the year of 1912, Liverpool show 2 ed a much more rapid growth in this . business than did the metropolis, al < though London still led by $5o,oOo,- = O0G. . The trade through 4Liverpoo 8 amounted to over $1,s76, 900, exclud 7 ing coastwise goods. showing an in ' crease of $1s5, 5,ooo,ooo, while Londor t crease of only $75.0OO,eoO. Londol : suffered severe setback througI n strikes and lack of port facilities. e The Port of London authorities ar, : now spending millions in the improve Il ment of the docks in the hope of in : ducfng the steamship companies t, n Isend their larger freight steamer
 there.