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them are as great as the chances
against only sons OF millionaire
fathers. Their royal or imperial papas
and mamfnas, not to mention the peo-
pie. were nearly always disappointed.
Alexander OF Serbia has been forgot
ten. Danilo OF Montenegro lives only
In Lehar's tuneful The Merry Wild
ow." Boris Of Bulgaria figured only
MS "A King for a Day" The most
heroic feat OF the Grown Prince Of
Rumania was his marriage to red
instead OF blue blooded gicl--the
daughter OF a Mater in the Rumanian
army. He may be perpetuated in q
grand opera.
Little. pitiable AleXieff Of Russia is
reported murdered. The Crown Prince
OF SaNony broke into print for one
day by being among those present
when Gen. Won Gallwitz had as a din
her guest in st. Quentin New York
newspaper man. Izzedn OF Turkey,
heir to the throne OF the Sultan, and
whom l used to see in Berlin, was go
weary OF his Crown Prince role that
he committed suicide.
No statues will ever be- cast in
honor OF any military achievements
by Charles, until the end OF 1916 Crown
Prince, OF Hungary. The young Prince
OF Wales has not been mentioned for
achievements on the battlefields. The
Crown Prince of Belgium Is mere boy
end the happiest. Of the lot because
soothing was expected of him.
To what extent did the Crown
Prince share in the responsibility for
tho war? That is a question often
asked. 1t is OF particular interest in
View Of the efforts now being made 10
place the responsibility and fix a PEN
atty. To me he several times denied
most vehemently that upon him rested
any of the blame. That denial does
not necessarily mean much. On the
other hand, that he may not have
had anything to do with the final acts
which ushered in the world tragedy
and was not consulted about the Aus
tr!an note To Serbia or about the de-
cison to mobilize could easily be true.
TM general attitude OF the Foreign
once and Of the General Stafr toward
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him would tend 10 support that visW.
But that his encourage was largely -
the Junker clement which formed one
part of the so-calied KriegspartoI
whose motto was "macht" (migftl
there can be no denial II the ar
chives OF the Foreign Office. the Mir
istry Of War or the General STAFF show
any documentary evidence Of tAe
Crown Princes influence for war }.
may be expected that the psesent So
cialist Government viii dig It out and
publish it II for no other reason than
to eradicate sthe last hope that may
still linger In the hearts OF SOM %
the old regime that eventually tie
Hohenzollerns will be restored.
The manner in which the Kaiser ard
his eldest son f1ed to Holland douotles=
has settled the Hohenzolerns fac.
Nothing could 80 quickly and so eflcc-
lively have disillusioned the German
people or rendered so hopeless any al
tempt at counter revolution IN their
favor as that fight. The Kaiser could
expect no different judgment from Ms
own people than that passed by him
on Prince Wilhelm Of WED. some time
King Of Albania, for alleged craven
conduct in the presence OF danger
The Prince OF WED as King Of 4.
hania took refuge for few hours oN
board OF an Italian warship In tho har-
Dor OF Durazro during revolt Of his
Albanian subjects when lie gave up
the Albanian throne and returned 70
Germany after the outbreak OF war
the Kaiser would not receive him. do-
claring. as a friend Of the German "a.
King of Albania related TO me. that -
would not receive tt Prussidn OF Or
who had turned his backhIpon Gansx
Prince Wilhelm's plea that he !ad
gone aboard the Italian warship only
for the purpose Of bringing his family
TO safety and had then returned %
shore was OF no avail. The kal.or
maintained that the Primo 49, lb"
Prussian officer that he was, had "a. ]
to uphold the traditions,
The German people have passo,.
similar Judgment upon Wilhelm II.
and his eldest son.
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Drake made a present Of potato r.o'S
10 Raleigh. who planted them ir his
garden In County Cork In 1894. p.t t
is not until 1910 that We have any AZ
thentic record Of potatoes in Ireland
In 1897 a hook on herbal mo-. ,n'
was written ny, Gerard. the fr'r'ss-
piece 10 which was a portrait o. TIE
auSor holding IA potato in his G''a.
When potatoes we're first as'I 'rf
food Il was the seed" or app, a.
was used, and 1t was some tlN'n .
fore the tuber was found 10 ,g -"
most delicious food. Up to the Ell q
the seventeenth century the }u!i'o
was out Of the reach Of people - r...'
crate incomes. II Is recorded t.' n
1862 potatoes were sold az ono t'-
ling (2o certs) a pound n the L.1.y"
markets. but the sale was sala.
cause so many people believed '..' re
potato caused leprosy ana t'''.
Others declared that they Were o. ..''
sering their souls II they ate ~, no'
tato, since the tuber Was ~ I
toned in the Bible
IL appears that nothing IT '"f
was known Of the potato IN - ',AJ
until long past the middle OF the t.s1!'
zenith century. The Duchess q, ...''
cleuch, in her "Household lio' .'
the year 1901. speaks Of the pot.
IAN esculent OF great rarity"
There is no doubt that tho i''
were the first people 10 recoGn..' "'
value of the potato as a stapl' .c'
OF food
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honors, yet his wife, Lady, -Erne. is
firmly convinced that he Is still alive.
There is particular American in
terest about the disappearance OF the
Hon. William Eden. Lieutenant Of the
Kings Royal Rifles. missing ever since
night attack on a German trench in
March. 1918. in France Eighteen
months later his father. Lord Auck-
land. having died in the meantime. Il
became necessary to judicially assume
the young offlcer's death TO admit Of
inc succession OF his brother Freder-
lex 10 the family peerage.
The present Lord Auckland. who
therefore owes his seat in the House
OF Lords to the fact that his elder
brother has been missing for three
years or more Is an officer OF the Fly-
ing Corps OF the British army and has
an American wife. Susan Hartridge.
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The Germans once borrowed cheap
money in London. and through their
numerous small banks In Latin Amer
lea gave credit for twelve months, at
: per cent. per month, cumulative, or
"a per cent. on the cheap investment.
Baron Mitsui's large company rep
resents a great trade between America
and Japan. His houses discount bills.
He Is but the leader. however, in a
campaign for trade the alert Japanese
are at this moment seeking. They will
be world competitors, especially in the
Pacific.
, Take this instance of the way TO tie
up a customer:
A certain international trade expert
sold 100 oil engines to a japanese
house in Nagasaki. Upon receipt Of a
cable that fourteen of these were APP
pareptly imperfect. a shipment of four
teen more was started, the house was
cabled 10 junk the ffrst' fourteen. and
a courteous letter. was. written. In
this 1t was discretly asked u the
directions for. the regulation OF oil and
the air draught had been carefully fol-
lowed. The outcome was a cable TO
the seller saying that. the first four
teen 'were Q. IL. and that the, buyer
would also take and pay for the ad-
ditional fourteen coming. No competi-
tor will ever take that business away
from this man. "
There are banking and advertising
agencies in New York and on the Pa
cific coast. organized TO promote our
foreign trade In large way, Upon
presentation and authorization Of the
financial responsibility OF. exporters
they will discount the sellers hills and
will by their own agencies make coll
Lotions from the buyers,
These. banks and other timely or
CARNATIONS are middlemen designed to
be OF the utmost value, not only in ac-
lively promoting foreign trade, but
also in facilitating its acquisition and
the liquidation Of all accounts.
The Secretary Of Commerce, Will
lam C. Redneld, recently made this
statement: 80
. "a programme of readjustInen. was
suggested, and, we were to push ahead
with business as usual, These ardent
spirits-whose energy is not 10 be
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ssng Acon Saddest of All Reports Received of Fighters

he was Seen to land. after which he
vanished, and Although his father. Sir
Thomas Fermor- Hesketh, spent q for.
tune in searching for him, no trace has
ever been found Of him.
His disappearance was all the moro
mysterious since he had no monetary
troubles or feminine entanglements.
not a single thing. indeed, 10 disturb
his sunny nature or his roseate outlook
on life. His home. Easton Weston. in
Northamptonshire has been in the pos.
session OF his fathers family ever
since the Wars of the Roses. and II It
was not forfeited to- the crown in tho
reign Of Henry VIII. 1t was entirely
due to the intcrcession Of VIII Sum
mers. that fnonarchs fool and Jester.
Two well known peers OF Great
Britain are indebted for the posses
sion Of their family honors and estates
to missing relatives. Thus. IL Lord
Aberdeen. former Ticeroy OF Ireland
former Governor General of Canada
and who spent the last three years o.
the great war in the United States
eighth Earl OF his line. It is because his
elder brother the seventh Earl disap-
peared in 1859. and was last heard OF
as a sailor serving under the name of
George Osborne before the mast OF
board the small clipper Hera. bound
from Boston to Melbourne.
Court Acted After IL Yeas.
It is believed that he had previously
been a ranchman in the Western
States and an orange grower in Flor.
ida. But II was not until some twelve
years after his disappearance from
England that the courts would grant a
judicial assumption of hts death ana
permit of his younger brothers sue
oession to the family estates. while d
still longer period elapsed before Queen
Victoria would grant to the present
Lord Aberdeen the summons OF t,c
crown to the House OF Lords
The other peer whom | have in mind
IL the Duke Of Somerset. If he is to-
day the fifteenth holder Of this historic
dukedom It IL because Of the myster-
GUS disappearance OF Lord Edward s..
Maur son OF the twelfth Duke. out in
India during some frontier troubles
about half century ago. Lord Ed
ward, after all sorts OF adventures in
America during the eiyu war owing
to his anxiety TO see the struggle from
the Confederate as we'll as from tho
Union side and making warm friends
with Lincoln, with Mcclellan and then
with President Davis and with Gen.
Lee, went out ~ India in search ~
more adventure, and there disappearci.
He was reported In The ohicial reports
OF the frontier fighting in Nhic.; he
took part as missing"
Many years afterward an individual
cropped up in England, laid legal CLAIM.
to the Dukedom of Somerset and 70
the entailed property, insisting that ne
was the missing Lord Edward 81.
Maur, who had been held in bondaga
by some frontier tribe of India. Eut
he turned out to be just as much OF
fraud as the notorious claimant TO be
the missing Sir Roger Tichhorn'.
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been first of all reported missing and
then given up for dead. Brought be-
fore a court Of inquiry in Paris It was
hscertained that they had made them
selves guilty Of trivial transgrcssion
Of rules In the Teuton prison camps
while the war Of 1870 was stili in
progress, had been sentenced to fifteen
years penal scrvitude and had been
kept at hard labor in German peni-
tentiaries. Yet at the treaty ofFrank-
fort the German. Government had SOL
efnnly pledged itself that every French
prisoner had been released and q COM
mission OF French officers had been In
vited to visit Germany to secure con-
flrmation Of these assurances that bore
the sign manual Of old Emperor WILL
liam l. and OF his Chancellor. Prince
Bismarck. II recall this It Is In
order to show how utterly Worthless
and unreliable are any pledges given
by the Germans In the matter and how
much II IL to be hoped that the United
states authorities will join the English
and the French Governments in the
most relentless and indefatisa Bile
search OF every nook and Granny. OF
Germany, Austria Hungary. Bulgaria
and the Ottoman Empire for those
near 100000 officers and soldier boys
over $4,000 OF, them Amereans-who
are still recorded missing"
Among the notable instances OF
missing" that occur to MY. mind Is
that OF the Hon. Gerard Freeman
Thomas. Lieutenant OF the Coldstrca.n
Guards, who has boon missing since
the battle u The .\!sne. in .Francs. IN
September, 1919 He was--perhaps
may say is-the eldest son OF Lord
Wilmington. former Governor Of
Madras. now Governor Of Bombay. and
OF his wife. Marie, daughter Of the late
Earl Brassey Who is there who has
not read that 80 popular book. The
Voyage OF the Sunbeam. It is a rec
ord OF the innumerable cruises In
every quarter OF the globe OF the
famous Brassey yacht. its author be-
Ing Lady Willingdon's mother. In
that book Lady wilmington figures re-
peatedly under her name OF Marie"
and II Is sad coincidence that she
should have been called upon to mourn,
not only for her eldest son az among
the missing. but also her gifted mother.
For the late Lady Brassey, while
cruising with her daughters and hus-
band from Bombay to Melbourne on
the Sunbeam down the terribly lonely
Indian Ocean, retired one day after
luncheon 10 her cabin for a siesta and
was never seen again. The portfolios
were too small for her 10 have OBJ
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seen riding UP to them and they closed
around him. His companions, who
were sufficiently near, did not hear any
shot fired. But from that time to this
he has been missing. and although
King Alfonso Kill. Pope Benedict XIV.
and President Ador OF Switzerland
have made the most diligent inquiries
and although Ambassador Gerard took
no end Of pains In the search. not the
slightest clue has ever been obtained.
as TO what has become Of him
His death has now been judiclally
assumed in England in order to admit
of the administration OF his extensive
estates But although his eieven-year
old boy has now succeeded to his
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!; may mention that the late. Land
grave Frederick Of Hesse, elder brother
OF the present blind Landsrave Alex
ander OF that liz and a first caasfn of
Queen Alexandra. disappeared In the
same mysterious fashion from the ship
on which he was voyaging from Stnga.
pore to Batavia.
Case of the Earl OF E&nc.
Then there Is the remarkable case
Of the fifth Earl OF Ernc. who as
Lieut.-Col. Niscount Crichton Of the
Royal Horse Guards. was the favorite
equerry OF King George and as such
we'll known to the Kaiser. He was n
striking looking man. six foot four In
his stocking feet. married to a dsugh-
ter Of the late Duke OF Westminster.
During tho retreat from Mons Lord
Erne rode out in the early dawn No
vember l. 1914. at Wytschaete, to bring
in some men whom he believed to be-
Ions to his own regiment. He was last
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daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Augustus G..
Hartridge Of Riverside avenue, Jack
sonville. Fla.
Lord worsIey Also Missing.
Lord Worsley. Lieutenant OF the
Royal Horse Guards, IL likewise one Of
the British officers who have been
gazetted as missing in France. Eldest
son Of the Earl OF Marlborough ard
married to one OF the lovely sisters of
Lord Vivian, goddaughter of Queen
Alexandra. he was also heir toy the
ancient peerages possessed by his
mother in her own right. the Daronies
OF Fauconberg and Conyers. which
dnte from 1895 and 1909. respectively.
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Here's the Crown Princes Alibi in His Own Words

Elder ron der Planitz, personal adju-
tant TO the Crown Prince. was removed
from that post and transferred TO the
firing line. where he was killed soon
afterwsrd.
Blame for my success III getting to
the Crown Princes headquarters. I
was told, was largely placed upon him.
A demand was made for the Kaiser
pass" which had used, but I refused
10 give It up.
shadow OF Popularity Gone.
Whatever popularity young Wilhelm
once enjoyed was almost completely
lost TO him by his failure at Nerdun.
In the popular mind that failure was
largely attributed 10 his lack Of mill
tary skill. and responsibility for the
rivers Of blood that flowed there in
vain was generally believed by the
German people to rest upon him. Nor
were any efforts made TO clear up pop
ular opinion on that point The For
eign Office had no particular objection
TO the Crown Prince being made the
goat" and the men in the General
Staff and around the Kaiser. who had
most to do with II. were quite satisfied
that he should he
80 " MAJ, y. -. v".'c a,e '',a"'
.'son' ~ 80. ...a, -. .',o .e ~ ~.
ny ioi ''e '''''so .''9 ""0 ms. i"o
Gen. Won Falkenhayn. then chief OF the
General STAFF, and in we'll informed pc.
litical and military circles the respon
sibil!ty was placed solely upon him.
ne TONI lr,"ct arm! he,a .ha'
stronghold n saM al Eel" fell to " e. The
Crown Prince remained nominally In
command, SO that II the attempt sue
ceeded the glory would so TO the heir
to the Hohenzollern throne. obviously
the responsibility OF really directing
one OF the most difficult and gigantic
operations Of the war would not be
placed solely In the hands OF the most
inexperienced and by fifteen to twenty
years the youngest commanding Cen
eral in the army,
That young Wilhelm, inexperienced
as lie was, had sense OF coming fail
ure was clear 10 me from u remark
made By Baron Won Maltzahn in May,
1916. had requested the Baron to
ask the Crown Prince for permission
to make another visit to his lines. hav-
ing been there few weeks before, but
without seeing him personally.
do not ask him now" said Malt
zahn. He does not want any news
paper men there. lie doesn't want II
advertised more than is unavoidable
that he is In command there. In fact,
he would like IL IL the public would
forget II. He is very pessimistic."
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the glass OF wine in front OF him at
dinner. That he had a weakness for
pretty women, II weakness that be. and
fondness for flirting was pretty wall
known before the war. But even there
1t often was difficult to dlsentangle
facts and fiction. Upon one occasion
he would tease even Ceclie about tine
stories told Of him. OnSe he Is re-
ported to have sent her a message,
PLEASE send Fraulein So and SO in
Metz o nice present. She has been nice
to me-
To have danced with the Crown
Prince was. before the war, the height
Of the ambition Of every american
society g!rr who came TO Berlin
/ think 1t was in July, 1916. that
Cecilie broke the r;gidly enforced rule
that the wife of an officer may not visit
her husband al the front and with al
most tragic results. Accompanied by
Count Won Bismarck and maid Of
honor, she arrived at Stenay one night
about 9. At the next morning a
squadron Of twenty-five French planes
attacked the place.
While anti-drcraft and machine
guns we're playing staccato sym
phony Cecilie with a coat hastily
thrown over her nightdress was rushed
downstairs into the cellar. where she
remained shivering and fearful for two
hours with her maid and other men,
bers Of the party. Two sentries In
front Of the villa We're killed, but the
house was not struck by a bomb.
Whether Friedrich Wilhelm vas also
in the cellar or played a more heroic
role than when he fled to Holland i
was never able to ascertain. The story
Of the attack was never made public
because II would have revealed that
the Crown Princess had broken the
rule against a wife visiting her hus-
band at the front.
Three days after my arrival at Ste-
nay, General Headquarters. about
forty-fve miles away. ledrned of my
presence, Major Deutelmoser. head Of
the War Press Office. was hastily sum-.
moned from Berlin. A polite invitation
was sent to me to come to the Kaiser's
headquarters whence Major Deutel-
moser will have the honor OF escorting
bach took me to Charleville- Nezieres
in hie car .
MAJOR Deutelmoser greeted me with
a hearty laugh. That's one you put
over on the Foreign Oiiieo and on
MAJOR Niceial, The latter was the
mead OF the Kaiser $ Intelligence SER
vice IL was ne VINO had personally
informed me Kaiser IN those July days
tnat kussia was modifying, notwith-
s'anulhe her oehiais'
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HEN you were little you we're
told stories of giants. great
big men who did all kinds Of

bad things to poor people. The tale
of Jack and the Beanstalk was IA
a ,vorite. II must be remembered, how
ever, that once In a while you heard
- about good giant-a fat, Jolly. laugh
~ ing. paunch shaking. good giant--al-
ways doing kind and gentle aets
~ That is the kind OF overseas trade
p giant Uncle Sam must be TO win and
a hold the great world markets. Com
petition among countries is TO be Keen
- Uncle must be courteous, kindly, In
dulgent forbearins and patient. II he
II, is he will have and hold TO his shores
the biggest business OF all time.
p. To anplify. the ambitious manufac-
\, turer OF anything salable abroad, with
a prospective greater business there
than he can do at home. must have all
b. tho attributes ascribed to the good
- giant. He must give time--thirty,
>. sixty. ninety days. six months. He
q, must replace, by return bottoms, dam
=. aged goods; he must even duplicate
-, his entire shipment II necessary. His
investment will be sound as the rock
OF ages. For every thirty days unto
the date Of Anal settlement there will
accrue to his account a substantial in
terest. In the long run he will make
largely.
This is true a. to every commodity
wanted abroad, from tooth brushes to
farm tractors, from shoes to chemi-
Gals. from automobiles and airplanes
TO cotton gins. steel making machinery,
shipyard derricks, gas engines, food,
dress goods. department store equip
ment-the complete hist Of all sorts Of
factory equipment. commercial sales
Items and agricultural development
machinery and innumerable other
i'things.
with tncie's wonderful merehan IT
marine no corner pocket In the world
VIII remain uHapproached for trade.
>" we snall have the speedy ships soon
ana inc men To drive them 1t is now
pit matter Of opening the entrance
.h OF every foreign market.
Consider tho west coast Of Africa.
several banks in New York are now
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ALLIES Have Lost All Trace of Hundreds of
Thousands---NotableC Cases y

uce offers them. A most OF possibili-
ties will occur TO the least ingenious
mind.
Fifteen years after the Franco Ger
man war of 1870 French soldiers who
had been taken prisoner at Sedan when
Napoleon III. surrendered reached
home like Rip Van Wrinkles, having
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tained egress.' No one saw her jump
overheard No one caught a glimpse
OF her after she had closed her cabin
door. From that day TO this she has
been missing. her death being judicially
assumed some years later to enable
her husband to contract another mar
rage
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-05-09
INFANTRY COLONEL
 GIVEN a LESSON IN
 TRIP IN THE AIR

WITH THE AMERICAN ARMIES IN FRANCE, May 7.-An infantry Colonel whose station had served to keep him clear of airplanes was re- gently billeted very near to an American army air station. Taking d stroll about the grounds he came to an improvised desk near head quarters. A sign above the desk read:
 All officers who want to go up must register here"
 The Colonel eagerly seized a pen cil chained to the desk for the reg istering officers. The pencil was made of metal. The Colonel jumped high in the air. He got all the thrills of a real flight.
 Two Lieutenants and an enlisted man apparently attending to some repairs but really awaiting devel- opments chuckled silently. The Col onel, thinking himself unperceived by the men present, was ccnsoled later by the antics of a Major who also desired to fly.
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HUNGARIAN PREMIER IS VERY MUCH LIKE
 SOME POLITICIANS
He Is Described as being all Things to All the. Glasses and Always Keeps With the Popular
 Wave.

LONDON, May 7-The proni- hence given to Count Karolyi, the Hungarian Premier who is credited here with turning the Government Of that country over to the Bolshey- iki, has recalled to one of his Lon don acquaintances that he -s mi iionaire racing man, never weary Cf reminding Europe that one of his ancesors was executed by Francis Joseph az a rebel in 1S49 for having taken up arnis aga!nsr Augtria in
 ne name of Magyar liberty"
 "The present Count karolyL' son. tinues the correspondent, writing to a newspaper, "is always caralal to conceal the fact that he has always been at one with the other Magyar magnates on one point, namely, the keeping under the subject peoples by the Magyars He has oltea par