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ENGLAND’S DISGRACE HER SOLDIERS AnE STARVING IN SOUTH AFRICA. RUNDLE’SIWEN short of food famishing while food is ROT TING ON WHARVES. An Engliah Correspondent Paints a Dark Picture of the Distress of the Arno —R it w Floor nnd Kan- Meat the Only Ration*—Men Too Weak to Do the Work Before Them. Often Seen Rnai-reUng With Ne groes for Food. (Correspondence of Associated Press.) London, Aug. 4.—Mr. A. G. Hales, rep resentative in South Africa of the Daily News, is the latest war correspondent to attack the methods and the red tape of the British war office. He says: "Let me tell you hov4 our army In South Africa is treated by the Incompetent peo ple of the good city of London. I pledge my word as a man and a journalist that every written word is true. I will add nothing nor detract from, nor set down aught in malice. If my statements are proven false then let me be scourged with the tongue and pen of e V:>rn from every decent Briton's home and hearth forever after, for he \yho lies about his country at such an hour as thfs is of all traitors the vilest. "I will deal now particularly with the men who are acting under the command of Lieut. Gen. Sir Leslie Rundel. This good soldier and courteous gentleman has to hold a frontage line from Winburg via Senekel. almost to the borders of Basuto land. His whole front, extending nearly a hundred miles. Is constantly threatened by an active, dashing, determined enemy, an enemy who knows the country far bet ter than an English fox-hunting squire knows the ground he hunts over season afte.r season. To hold this vast line in tact Gen. Rundle has to march from point to point as his scouts warn him of the movements of the tireless foe. Ilnndle'a Men Starving. "Gen. Rundle’fi task is a colossal one, and any sane man would think that gi gantic efforts would be made to keep him amply supplied with food -for his sol diers. But such Is not the case. The men are absolutely starving. Many of the Infantrymen are so weak that they can barely stagger along under the weight of their soldierly equipment. They are worn to shadows and move very weary, listless footsteps on the march. People high up in authority may deny this, but he who denies It sullies the truth. This Is what the soldiers get to eat, what they have been getting to eat for a long time past, and what they are likely to get for a long time to come, unless England rouses herself and bites to the bone in regard to the ppople who are responsi ble for it: "One pound of raw flour, which the sol diers have to cook after a hard day's march, 1* served out to each man every alternate day. The following day he eats one pound of biscuits. In this country there is no fuel, except a little ox dung, dried by the sur,. If a soldier is lucky enough to pick up a little he can go to the nearest water, of which there is plen ty, mix his cake without yeast or bak ing powder, and make some sort of a wretched mouthful. He gets one pound of raw fresh meat dally, which nine times out of ten he cannot cook, and there his supplies end. Where Food la Going to Waste. "What has become of the rations of rum, of sugar, of tea, of cocoa, of gro ceries generally. Ask at the snug little railway sidings, wnere tne go as are staca ed—and forgotten. Ask in the big stores in Cape Town and other seaport towns. Ask in your own country, where count less thousands of pounds' worth of food stuff lie rotting in the wa rehouses, bound up and tied down with rep-tape bandages. Ask—yes, ask, but don’t stop at asking damn somebody high up In power. Don’t let Some wretched underling be made the scapegoat of this criminal state of affairs, for the taint of this shameful thing rests upon you, upon every Briton, whose homes, privilege and prosperity are being safeguarded by these famishing men. "The people In authority will probably tell you that Gen. Rundle and his splen did fellows are so Isolated that food can not be obtained for thorn. I say this Is false, for recently I, in company with an other correspondent, left Gen, Rundle'e camp without an escort Wc made our way in the saddle, taking our two Cape carta with us to Winburg rallw’ay sta tion; leaving our horseflesh there, we took train for East London. Then we went back to the Junction and down to Cape Town, where we remained for forty eight hours, and then made our way back to Winburg and from Winburg we oatm without escort to rejoin Gen, Rundle at Hammonia. “If two war correspondents could tra verse that country and get through with winter suppllea for themselves, why can not the transport people manage to do the same? These transport people affect to look with contempt upon a war corre spondent and his opinions on things mili tary, but If we coaid not manage trans port business better than they do, most of us would willingly stand up and allow ourselves to be shot. Their Minuter Is Desperate. “Our men on the fields of war are fam ishing. whilst millions worth of food lies rotting on our whaives and in cities, fool that ought with ordinary management to tie within easy r arh of our fighting gen era's. Britain asks of Rundle the fulfill ment of a task that would tax the ener gies and the abilities of the first general In Europe, and with a stout heart h' faces the work in front of him. faces li with men whose kne s knock under them when they march, with hands that shake when they shou der their rifles; stake, but not with fear; tremble, but nqt from wounds, but from weakness, from pov erty of blocd and muscle, brought about by continued hunger. Are thos“ men fit to storm a kopje? Are they fit to tramp the whole night through, to make a forced march, to turn a position and then fight, like their fathers fought, next day? “I t 11 you li*. And yours be the shame If the Empire's flag be low. red—not theirs, hut yours, for you—what do you do? You stand In your music halls and shout a chorus of songs full of sentiments of pride for your soldier, full of praise for his paiience, his pluck and his devo tion to duty, and you let him go hungry, so hungry that I have often seen him quarrel with a negro for a handful of raw mealies on the march." Lenn County's Taxes. Tallahassee, Fla.. Aug. I?.— The Board of Leon County Commissioners has made the following (ax levies for the current year: For general revenue, 3Vi mills; for fines and forfeitures, 114 mills; for bridges, cul verts and permanent improvements, 1 mill; for county schools. 5 mills; for county li censes, 60 per cem. of state licenses. The County School Board has arranged for the usual number 4f schools, and has selected twenty-seven white teachers, and twenty-seven negro teachers. Other teach rs win be selected after the September ex amination. The board has also contraot ®d for a number of new school buildings. lt AILAA AY AND THE TELEPHONE. | The 'Plinne Versus the Telegraph la Railway Operation. I (From an address by Henry W. Pore to Association of Railway Telegraph Su perintendents.) It is frequently asserted and g neraly believtd that the telephone is ill-adapted as a substitute for Morse in the manipu lation of railway traffic. As an old tele giapher, I had strongly held to this cpn ion, rut with the knowledge of what has been done and a more thorough consid eration, of the subject, I am a firm be liever in the superiority of the telephone. Railway people are too apt to judge the pCssibiliti s of the telephone by the crude systems they install and operate, rather than by the s'anlard of the system famil iar to the telephone exp rt. As one of the superintendent's frankly stated In his re marks before this association at a pre vious meeting, referring to certain exper iments with regard to simultaneous teleg raphy and telephony which he had been making, In a desire to furnish satisfac tory telephone service to tvs company. "I don't suppose inductive noises to them trailway employes) was any objection. I know our people would not for a moment tolerate any such noise as that on a tele phere circuit, because they were accus tomed to the long-distance service, and you know what that is.” Assuming that a railroad ia equipped with a standard system, It is- pretty safe to say that there is no part of the service but what can be handled more economi cally, more rapidly and with g:eater safe ty by telephone. A large percentage. If not the entire transmission of service, would be performed by the practical rail way operatives, men more familiar and more experienced in the operation of a railway than telegraph operators, many of whom are mere boys, preferably employ ed because of the small eompen-a i.n the position justifies. In the use of the tele phone evtry operative becomes to all In tents and purposes -a qualified operator, the switchman equally with the track foreman. If you install a system in the manner that obtains on the New York. New Ha ven and Hartford road, your regard and opinion for the Morse system will dispel Itself like the morning dew. The rapid introduction by railway companies of pri vate branch exchanges is bringing you nearer and nearer to the very - scheme of railway operation just alluded to. As these exchanges are established at one point and another, the demand becomes more forcible to hitch them up tandem from one end of the line to the other and the first thing you realise you are operat ing your system by telephone and It be comes an indispensable feature. At the same time you are woven into the great intercommunicadng system and are like ihe states of the Union, "One and Insep arable.” The obstacle to the Installation and expansion of this service is primarily Its cost, but In considering this cost you shoud ooncede there is a factor of expense ir, the maintenace of wdres and stations, established by long experience, below which telephone organisations in the busi ness to stay cannot go. A railway com pany knows to a mill what it costs to haul a ton of freight a mile, and below that figure he management draws (he line. It costs more to ride than to walk, more to telephone than to telegraph, more to telegraph than to write, but weigh the difference. If your general manager sit ting in his sanctum sanctorum had the peculiar and exclusive ability of making every official or employe subject to his control, hear his voice and command without the interposition of third parties end without the detail of correspondence and red tape,what would his services com mand in the railway market? The private branch exchange and its con necting links provide him with this quali fication and is It not reasonable to assert that the employment of these acquired tal ents moves the wheels of commerce with Infinitely greater rapidity, less friction and with wonderful economy of time? There Is no red tape involved in telephone transmission; greater privacy and secrecy is assured, but above all, elasticity of op eration is the predominating advantage In the railway service. lan Maclaren, In expressing himself re garding America, exploits a line of reas oning worthy of your sober consideration: "No one, unless he leaves the country, or becomes a crank, can escape from this despotism of activity; he is a part of the regiment, and must march with his fel lows. No man goes slow if he has a chance of going fast, no man stops to talk if he can talk walking, no man goes In a trolly car If he can get a convenient steam car. and by and by no one will go In a steam car Is he can be shot through a pneumatic tube. No one writes with his own hand If he can dictate to a stenographer, no one dictates if he can telegraph, no one tele graphs If he can telephone, and by and by. when the spirit of American invention has brought wireless telegraphy Into condition, a man will simply sit with his mouth at one hole and his ear at another, and do business with the end of the earth in a few seconds, which the same machine will copy and preserve in letter books. It is the American’s regret that at present he can do nothing with his feet while he is listening at the telephone.” Humming Rlrils vs. Monnnltoes. From the New Orleans Times-Democrat. "Speaking of mosquitoes," said a New Orleans real estate agent, “I see that the Department of Agricuture Is experiment ing with the dragon fly as agent for destroying the pest. lam inclined to believe that the scientific sharps are on the right track. A few friends and myself have a little club house on the lake, and during the early part of the season It was almost untenable on account of the swarms of ferocious mosquitoes that in fested the locality. Some of the boys were so badly bitten they became 111 In conse queuee, and the wretched little bloodsuck ers simply destroyed all the pleasure one might otherwise have taken In an outing. About six week’s ago we began to have our attention attracted by the great num ber of dragon flies that circled about the clubhouse of evenings, and at the same time we noticed that the mosquitoes were apparently thinning out. Naturally we connected the two circumstances, and carefully refrained from doing the dragon files arty harm. At present the mosqui toes have almost entirely disappeared, and I certainly attribute It to the presence of Ihe larger insect. The dragon fly Is fome what of a nuisance himself, but he has no sting and is delightful company compared to the 'skeeter.' Another great aarlal po liceman Is the humming bird. My father had a plantation up the river when I was a boy. and ottr front porch was covered with a magnificent growth of Virginia creeper, or ‘trumpet vine,’ as we called It In those days. The deep scarlet blossoms attracted a small army of the daintiest little hum'mlng birds Imaginable, and when not engaged In dipping sweets from the flowers they lunched on whatever mos quitoes happened to be In the nelghbor- I hood. I have seen one of them plunge In to a cloud of the Insects, and, upon my word. I don’t believe there was a solitary survivor of the massacre. The humming birds moved like flashes of living light, and with all their swiftness the mosqui toes had no earthly chance for escape. It was very curious and amusing to see the tiny sportsmen clfltfl through a drove, •cooping them up by the dozen, and dart ing hldier and thither to pick off the scat tered fugitive*. I am decidedly In favor of starting humming bird and dragon fly ctil ture_ on an extensive scale In New Or leans.'’ The game warden of Illinois has de cided to free all the native birds now held In captivity, on the ground that they are useless In cages, and would be very use ful In destroying Insects If they should be liberated. The gsme laws of Illinois authorise the warden and hi* deputies to seise oil such bird* held in captivity and to turn them loose to ahlft for themselves. THE MORNING NEWS; MONDAY, AUGUST 13, 11X10. EXPRESSIONS OF GOOD WILL MITt %L FELICITATIONS OF PRESI DENT AND EMPEROR. Will In ni Glml That We Have Ac quiesced In flic Selection of Von Walileriec for Leaderehlp In Chi nn—Walilcrßee'e Wife an American I flirth—Prenldent Replied Speak ing of the Kindly Tleci Between America nnd Germany. m Washington, Aug:. #2.—The department of 9tate to-night made public the corre spondence had with the German govern ment and the Emperor, relative to the se lection of Field Marshal Count von Wal dereee for the chief command of the co operating foreign forces in China. The United States government, in the course of the correspondence, expressed itself ns gratified to secure the command of so distinguished an officer as Count Waldersee. and made its attitude in the Chinese imbroglio perfectly clear. The President received last night the following congratulatory telegram from che German Emperor: “Homburg Schloss, Aug. 11, 1900.—His Excellency, the President of the United State®: I received with pleasure the de cision of the United States that Ameri can and German soldiers shall fight to gether for the common cause of oiviliza lion under one commander-in-chio?. The trav4 army of your country, nhich have shown of late so many warlike qualities, united with Europe, will be irresistible. Field Marshal Waldersee, who will have the honor of leading your forces, is not a stranger to America. His wife is an American by birth. I beg Your Excel lency to accept my heartfelt thanks for the confidence the United States place In the leadership of Count Waldersee. “Wilhelm II.“ To this telegram the President cabled the following: “Washington. Aug. 11, 1900. His Imperial Majesty, Wilhelm II.—I am gratified to receive Your Majesty’s message of good will, in relation to the selection of Count Waldersee, and. like you, I see in our com mon efforts to discharge a common duty to humanity an additional recognition of the kindly ties and mutual interests that exist between this country and Ger many. William McKinley.” APPOINTMENT *OF EARL LI. Continued from First Page. new. It was encouraging to the officials to have renewed assurances of his ability and determination to "hold dn” until re lief reached him. That Gen.' Chaffee will communicate to the besieged minister tld ingß of hope and good cheer, if the op portunity be afforded him, officials here are quite certain. Mr. Conger's expression of hope that the long looked for relief may soon reach him simply adds to the determination of the government to press forward to Pekin as rapidly as may be possible. EDICT GIVES SOME RELIEF. * Leads to the Belief China Will Do AH In Her Power to Protect the Foreign Ministers. Washington, Aug. 12.—The official con firmation of the rumored appointment of LI Hung Chang as peace envoy, received at the State Department this morning, Is In many respects the most Important information which has been received from China since the first cipher message from Minister Conger told of the safety of the ministers and the legation force. This indicates more clearly than any thing else has that .the central govern ment at Pekin at last realizes the grav ity of the situation and the need for speedy action on Us part. It Is regarded by officials here as in a sense a ray of light piercing the gloom which has cloud ed the situation. State Department officials believe that LI Hung Chang is the one man in the Chinese empire capable of Judging the sit uation In its broadest bearings, and they believe that he will do everything in his power to bring about an early under standing. For the past three days they have watched anxiously for confirmation of the Shanghai report that Earl LI had been designated for this Important office, and at the hour of closing yesterday they had about reached the conclusion that there was no truth In the report, for nothing then had been heard either by this government or any other In confirma tion of it. When the faqt of the appointment was made officially known to them to-day, they were, therefore, as much surprised as they were relieved. They regard this appointment as a good indication, looking as it undoubtedly does, to ultimate peace. As yet nothing has been received from LI Hung Chang on the line indicated, but the transmission of the edict to the Chi nese Minister here with instructions that it be laid before the authorities, will doubtless be Immediately followed by ac tion on the line indicated. This appointment undoubtedly strength en* the feeling of confidence in the good faith of the Chinese central government, and seems to give renewed assurance of the continued safety of the ministers. There can be no doubt that the imperial government will now protect the foreign ers if it is within the power of the gov ernment to do so; and recent events at Pekin have strengthened the belief In the ability of the government to give that protection if it so desired. Yesterday's cable from Ldndon, which reported the Chinese Minister there as reporting the receipt of telegrams, show ing a renewal of trouble in Pekin had had a tendency to create anxiety in official circles here, hut to-day’s developments h3ve changed that feeling to one of con fidence In a favorable outcome. It looks as If the Chinese Emperor and his advisers had fully determined lo meet the conditions laid down by President McKinley in his reply to the Emperor's request for mediation. FRENCH LOWS IS SIXTEEN. Minister Plrhon'B Delayed Dispatch Is Rereiveil. Paris, Aug. 12.—The French foreign of fice received this morning from M. Pi chon, French minister at Pekin, what la evidently the delayed dispatch which he referred to In the first message recelvd from him. publlshd here last Thursday, aa "my cipher No. 1, dated Aug. 3." It Is as follows; “From June 20 to July 17 Chinese troops besieged, fired upon and bombarded us Four legations have been burned and that of France three-quarters destroyed. We still hold out. thank* to the heroic de fense of the Frnnco-Austrlan detachment. Our loss is sixteen. The general loss Is sixty more and lit) wounded. "All the missions In Pekin have been j burned, save the Pei Tan* mission, which Is standing, but its condition is uncer tain. Despite anguish and privations. the personnel of the legation is In good health. “The bombardment cetsed on July 17. Offensive works. Chinese barricades and. Intermittently, shot continue without vic tims “The government is attempting Indi rectly to negotiate with us for departure, but we cannot leave without some pro tection other <han that of the govern ment of China. “Our force®, ammunition and provisions are almost exhausted. The interrupted attacks may re-commence and place us at the mercy of the Chineae government. “On July 19 I received a telegram which I was not allowed to reply to In cipher.” MISIO\AR!IM l\ DANGER. It• port of Ala*acre of T.Ot'O Chris tians at Pao Tin *. Paris, Aug. 12.—According to dispatches received to-day from Vice Admiral Oourre- Joles. French naval commander in Chinese waters, native Christians and missionaries on the line to Hankow, 500 kilometers from Pekin, are in great danger, the point be ing entirely outside the sphere of allied operations. He has also received bad news regarding New Chwang. captured Aug. 4. which, as he is advised, has since been evacuated. According to his advices fromthe French colony in Pekin, eight marines, one cadet, and one customs employe have been killed. He says a Danish company has laid a ca ble from Che Foo to Taku. The Pa trie publishes the following: “The procureur general of the congre- , gar ion of the Lazarist missions. Mgr. Bettenbourg, infoims us that he has ju = t been advised by M De’casse that ac cording to a dispatch from the French consul general at Shanghai, received yes terday, 7,0-0 Christians have been mas sacred at Pao* Ting, east of Pekin. No other details are at hand. ' If such startling news has been re ceived by the foreign office It has been kept secret, as the usual news channels have not been made acquainted with anything of the kind. THREE CHAPELS DESTROYED. Baptist Mlaslonarf e-n Toll of Violence • Swotow. Hon* Kong, Aug. 12.—The United Slates consul general here, Mr. R. Wildman, has received a telegram from the American Baptist mission at Swatow, province of Kwang Tung, saying that three more cha pels have been demolished and that there has been much looting of mission prop erty. The dtspatoh also says that an attempt was made on the life of the preacher there and that the officials are taking no ac tion In the matter. No troubles are attributed lo the "Veg etarian Society,” probably an off-shoot of the notorious "Triads,” though some be lieve the "Vegetarians" are connected with the Boxers. FRANCE'S FORCE FOR CHINA. Inspected l,y Loubet and Cheered by the People. Marseilles, Aug. 12—President Loubet, accompanied by M. De'casse, minister of foreign affairs; Gtn. Andre, minister of war, and M. de Lanessan. minister of marine, arrived here this morning a, 6 o'clock and went immediately to the re viewing ground where he inspected the China expeditionary corps. There was much enthusiasm with cries of “Vive Loubet," ‘"A'tve La Repub llque,” and “Vive l'armee." The cheer ing was continuous. After the review M. Loubet presented the flag to the corps In a sp-ech. The transport Melbourne, with a thou sand troops of the China expeditionary corps, left at midnight. YOUNG'S MYSTERIOUS DEATH. Tlionght lo Be Murder hat no Vio lence Is Indicated. St. Louis, Aug. 12.—The dead body of John S. Young, superintendent of exca vations for the Imperial Electric Light and Power Company of this city, woe found to-day In a dense growth of weeds, close to the bank of Dead creek, three miles from East St. Louis to-day. The case is a mystery. It Is not known when or of what he died. When last seen olive he said he was In fear of two men who were following him, and in this frame of mind he departed from the Barnum Hotel, where he lived, early Tuesday morning. , ~, It Is claimed that a young woman of his acquaintance had caused him much an noyance, and It was known at the hotel that he had been dodging engagements with her. Young was about 36 years old. His father lives In New Orleans and he is said to have wealthy relatives living at Selma, Ala. It was thought at first that Young might have been murdered by thieves, but this theory was rejected, as there were no marks of violence on bis body. Search failed to reveal any articles that would indicate that he had taken his own life. a m HOW BRYAN SPENT SUM DAY. H— Went to Uhvirrb, Then Dined With Jones nnd AVheeler. Chicago, Aug. 12.—WHIiam J. Bryan spent the day very quietly. In the morn ing he attended the Emmanuel Baptist Church, a fact which had not been an nounced beforehand, so that the congrega tion was no larger than usual. Mr. Bry an was recognized, however, and was greeted by a large number of people af ter the sermon After church Mr. Brynn drove to the Chicago Beach Hotel, where he took lunch with Senator and Mrs. Jones, Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Towns and Gen. Joseph Wheeler. The after noon was devoted to rest and some neces sary letter writing. Mr. Bryan will prob ably leave for Lincoln next Wednesday or Thursday. tflwmill and I,timber Burned. Thomasvllte, Ga., Aug 12.—The saw mill of Rob rt Dekle, about five miles from town, on the Springfield road, was destroyed by fire on Thursday night, with 12.1X1) feel of lumber. There was no In surance. This Is the third mill Mr. Dekle has lost by fire. The telegraph line over the new Ttfton, Thomssvtlle and Gulf R. R. has been completed. Mextrnn Lady Died Suddenly. New York. Aug. 12.—Mme. Elsie 1.. Ccmncho. wife of the Minister of Rail roads of Mexico, died suddenly this after noon, on a Pennsylvania Railroad train, as it was leaving Newark, en route for Jersey City. Famous Deputy Dead. Salyersville. Ky.. Aug. 12.—4. Sprater is dead at this place of consumption. He was famous in the southwest as a United States deputy marshal, having bren In posses that fought and broke up various gangs of oullaws. —The 19-year-old daughter of Eleanors Duse is not Intended to follow In her mother’s footsteps Instead she will be come a school teacher, and is notv atudy ing to that end in Munich. ROMANCE OF A MONARCH. MARRIAGE OF SERAI I** KI\G M%\ LE %U TO REVOLUTION. Ilrlde Poor nnd I u tit led—“ Why Dn 7 Wnntr >1) Time (oiirtin* Prin ce**©*.” Hr Said. “When Thin Di vine Wnmnn Live* nl M> Door.” Belgrade Dispa ft h in New York Journal. Young Kins Alexander of Servla has as tonished Europe and thrown his coun ry Into convulsions* by ids marriage to Mmo, Draga Masehln. The whole episode is more like n romance of the Middle Ages than of this prosaic modern world. It is “A Prisoner of Zends” story in real life. It should be remembered that the An thony Hope romances are laid in this quar ter of the world. The Middle Ages, truth, still linger in the Balkans. Every exciting and picturesque element of romance enters into the courtship of King Alexander. The heroine Is poor and beautiful, while her lover is a king, young and chivalrous. He has assembled his whole army and told them that he would marry the woman* of his heart in spite of all opposition. He has placed a 'guard of faithful followers around bis sweetheart's house to prevent her dastardly enemies from seizing her and carrying her away to some secret dungeon In the Carpathian Mountains. He has given orders to seize his father, ex-King Milan. If the latter at tempts to cross the Yrontier. All this happened on top of a brief career that has been the most exciting and tur bulent in Europe. ’ When he was a baby Alexander was alternately kidnapped by his wicked father and his beautiful molher. At 14 he was accustomed to throw grown men out of the window. At 17 he personally kicked his regents out of the palace and took the government Into his own hands. At 19 he was wrecking homes. At 21 he was drink ing himself to death. At 21 he has for saken alcohol and devolcd himself to ro mance. There are many reasons why King Alex ander should marry, but these, strangely enough, are also reasons why he should not marry Mjne. Draga Masehln. The throne of Servla Is not by any means se curely - He agitation to topple It over Now. if the King were a respectable married man with a wife belonging to a dignified royal family and with children of his own, the throne would be infinitely more secure than ft Is now. Unfortunately. Mme. Masehin is not a wife who would give this stability. She is of spotless reputation, but not of high birth, and has many enemies in Servla A great many families of higher rank than her own feel offended because she was raised above them, A foreign wife of royo 1 birth is considered necessary for th 4 throne of Borvia. About a year ago King Alexander start ed out In senren of a wife. He visited all the courts Of Europe. His experiences wore highly discouraging. He saw the King of the Belgians nnd was coldly but politely Informed thnt he need not look for a wife there. He went to Berlin, bill 'he Emperor made It clear to him that he was not desired as a member of the Ho.henzo!lem family. He would have gone to St, Petersburg, but Ihe Czar klndlv In timated to him that he would save him self a great deal of trouble by staying away. Then he fried the court of Vienna. He fel' 'hat the Emperor of Austria, having such a deep political Interest In Servla, ought to do something for him. The Em peror has so many relatives that the King thought he could spare a Princess from them. The Emperor, however, had been so thoroughly shocked by the young man's previous career that he would have nothing to do with him. The Servian* at one lime announced that an engagement hod been arranged be tween the Archduchess Christine, daugh ter of the Archduke Frederick of Austria, and the King of Servla. This was denied with such energy and promptness In Vi enna as to leave no doubt of the Empe ror's feelings toward Alexander. The King even attempted to secure s rich American bride, but his efforts In this direction were as futile as they had been everywhere else. Thus the unfortunate King had to re turn to Servla without n wife. He was rejected nnd disgraced. He had sown a good many wild oats between the age of 14 and 21. but that wns not the only rea son for rejecting him His throne Is very insecure, and his family history has been disgraceful. A King so delicately situat'd ought to be on his good behavior. Alexander was In despair and he found consolation. Living in Belgrade wos a voung widow who hod formerly been a lady-in-waiting to his mother, Queen Na thalie. This was Mme. Draga Masehln. She IS very beautiful. Her features have a purity of outline that is classically Greek. Her hair Is black and her skin 1s as white as alabaster. Her eyes are a deep dark violet Her figure is superb. Mm*. Masehln was the daughter of a minor official, and was married early In life lo an engineer, who has since died Her life has been unhappy. Beautiful women are always unhappy. It was her beauty that caused Queen Nathalie to choose her as a lady-in-waiting and an or nament to her court. The young King after hie return from his fruitless quest of a royal wife, was riding sadly along a country road near the royal castle when he caught sight of Ihe beautiful Mme, Masehln. She electrified him He had known her before, when his mother lived at the court, but he had never realized how beautiful she was “Why do I waste m.v time uselessly courting homely princesses,” he asked. when this divine woman lives at my door?” From that moment he fell head over heels in love with her. He spent oil his time in attendance upon her. He show ered her with gifts. He gave her many of the crown jewels of Servie. At first his ministers and courtiers thought that this was only another of his passing caprices but they were mistaken. The King's dlsfositlon changed alto gether. Formerly morose and miserable he now heoamo bright and happy. HL dull eye grew bright nnd hi* bloated, low cheek* resumed the hue of health Sudderly as a thunderbolt he announc ed that he would marry Mme. Masehln On July 22 he . aused It to he. published In the Offi fill Gazette. It ia> and a storm In the country. The cabinet minister* pry tested violently. They tod the K'ng th" consequences of his act might ruin the dynasty “I am the King." Alexander proudly Maid, "and I can marry whom I please Attend to your unties and do not meddle with my private affair*.'' With that lie and amlssed them They went away and resigned In a body. Ex-Kit g Milan, who was then a gen eral in lite Servian army, wa< tit Carl*- bad taking the water* for hi* hopeless liver when he heard of his son's deter mination He immediately starlsd for Ber lin, swearing that he would prevent his son from marrying. He has a large follow ing In the aim)' and might have caused trouble King Alexander ordered him to he Stopped at the frontier. Ex-King Milan r signed hia command in ihe Servian army At the same time Me mithtr Queen Nathalie, rut Alexander out of her will and left hr l.irg" fortune to lh t hnreh. Alexander then took the bold-step of summoning the chief officers of the army and announcing his b t o hal lo them. He told them of the admirable qualities of Mnia. Mrs'-i In and that In her he woul 1 marry in 'rue (taught r of the country. Instead cf a foreigner, as his minister* wish'd him to do. At first the offiiere 1- tened In emb in ussnunt. Tnrn a few cheered him. and fir ally all of them, with the excl'shtlliy of the Servian nature. I broke Into wild anplaute After 111* epia.'d* many of the people began to take the view of the officers.. Still the o po. tion is greit ard may cause a bloody levolutton A NEW KIND OF MINSTREL. Trawls In rarlnr tars. It Appears, nml Mnt.c* It fifty. From the New York Sun. When the 5:15 train pulled out of the Atlantic City station, on Sunday afternoon last, the cl.air cars were pretty well filled with Elks who had remained over at the huge New Jersey resort after attending .Ihelr annual National Convention there. Many of them were In a pretty cheerful frame of mind; perhaps they were glad be cause they were getting away from a land breese that wafted the mercury in the thermometer* on the Atlantic City porches up to the 100 mark and carried rayrindn of utterly fearless mosquitoes right flown to the hoard walk, and perhaps again, some of the joyous E’.ks had loiter ed quite a lot on their way to the station. At any rate, the majority of them w~re obviously feeling pretty good, and ihe ex change of witticisms and gentle "knocks" among the chairs was pretty rapid. In the smoking compartment of the for ward chair car, a foreign-looking young chap with a big mop of very straight and very black hair brushed back frofh his forehead sat gloomily with a black leath er violin case across his lap. Five of the joyous Elks were jollying one another over cigars in that smoking compartment, luit the foreign-looking young chap with the \loltn case paid no attention to them. He looked out of the window at the marshes that hedge Atlantic City around, and the boisterous laughter of the Elks never Induced him to turn his head once He looked blue. He looked like a man who had lost his Job. About five minutes after the train had pulled out, a voting fellow In a blue serge suit and apparently- In possession of a lag of such proportions ihat It must have been a left-over from 'he night before appetrel at the door of the smoking comportment in which the foreign-looking young chap with the violin case and the five happy Elks sat. For all of his apparent ,iug. there was a certain shrewd expression In his gray eyes. The lightning glance which he exchanged with the foreign-looking soun* man wlih the violin ease, who turn ed his gaze from the window for the firs; time when the young man with the Jag appeared at the door, might have told a Close observer that his jag wasn't of such monolithic proportions ss he was endeav oring lo make It appear but the five Elks weren't observing things closely Just then; 'hey were Just having fun among them- SfllVfP. The young man with the shrewd gray eyes and Ihe somewhat unsieady gait took a seat in the compartment, dug a fiazzled elg©r out of his waistcoat pock et, lit It. and leaned back contentedly with his legs on his suit case. In some thing less than five minutes he was in full swing wl'h the fivt F!k He had butted In at a favorable opportunity with a witticism so opportune that he caught the five, and the Elks grinned and were lather inclined to tv indulgent with him on account of his obvious Ja* Inside of V n m,nu,e * *’•* snyin* most of the tunny things In a thick, yet clever sort of way. Hp wa* a Koort talker, and nrettv soon the Elks found themselves incl'nin* fheir ears to catch hi* quaint, humorous remarks. The young man with the shrewd gray eye* and palpable Jag reached into his suit case and nroduc*d © fine bottle of cocktail* after the train had been un <**r way for about a quarter of an hour and handed it around Each of the five E k* good-naturedly took a swig out o* th(* bottle, which was th n panned over to the glromy-lookfng foreigner with the , vDlln ca*e and the mop of black, straight hair The latter rheok hi* htai smiling drearily. “1 drink.’ said he ”1 like, but if I drink I no c.in play,” tapping his violin care. “Who said you could play, anyhaw, Gin ney?” inquired the ycung man with th“ Jag. good-naturedly. “You can’t prove it by us. We ain’t heard you." “I been play in orchestra there,” said the foreign lo king chap, waving his hand bark in the direction of At’nntlc City, “bu I no play ze ragstlme. and zay no want xe good museek. I been discharge." and turned h! face to the window and sivhed somewhat h< avlly. “Got fired becnunc you couldn’t or wouldn’t pay ragtime hey?” inquired th* voung man with the Jng. sympatheticolly. “flow's that for a hum haM-luck story fellow*?” nnd he koktd around at the flv** Elks wl h a grin. The Fks admitted that It did look kind of hard-luckish. “Bay, get out your old wh*rgdoodle and scrape us one or two, will you. Guinea?” said the young man with th* Jag to th foreign-looking ohap. “We’ll make good if you hit us right.” The fere gn-looktng chap looked around a' he fares of h s six comparlment mare with n bland, inquiring goze ”Go ahead,” said one of the Elks. “Give us some of your good /nu*lc.” The muetclan unstrapped his violin ca*e nnd took out the instrument. Tbrre tvns a dreamy look in his eyes as he refined •he bow. From the way he tuned rhe in strument, which was of rich tone and of contralto quality, It opnenred es If he might prove to be a pretty fair performer He put the violin under hie rhln, drew the bow nrroes the s<rings and then rested the instrument on his knees. “Vat I play?” he asked, looking around the circle with an inquiring gaz* “What’s the matter with Schubert’e* ‘Serenade?’ asked one of the Elks, a stou4, broad-faced man “fm feeling kind o’ woozy, myself,, after this whirl, and the ’Serenade’ ’ud about nail me.” “Good thing.” snid the other Elks nnd the young man with the J.ig. "Saw us the Serenade.’ " The foreign looking chap put the in strument under his chin, raised his how. nnd began. Right from the first note it wos ohviow* that he wos a performer of /io mean ability. There was expression in his method and sentiment. His chords were beautiful He hadn’t ployed ten bar* before the Elks and the young mnn with the Jog began to look a bit serious. “Ba y, he doesn’t do o thing but yank the moans and sobs out o’ that dee* he?” said the young mnn with #he Jng. looking around nt the others, but they frowned a bit. They wanted to lie ten. The musicion with the mop of black hair swayed with the Inspiration of the nnd there is no douhr that h* performed the piece remarkably well. When he had finished he sighed and rest ed his violin on his knee*, and the Elks nnd the young man with the Jog seemed slowly to awaken from a spell. Eight or ten other Elks were listening at the dhor of the compartment. “Bay. that fellow’s nl! right.” said the Elks in the comportment to one another “He'll do Tt’a o treat to get o little of that kind of good stuff after hearing 1 • h*se dafnod ‘Ah Hate* Tub See Mnr Baby Ise’ and *Ah Ain’t .Been No Me*. senghu Boy’ thing* twisted out of the merry-go-rounds for a week or *o.’ “Ain’t h*- baby with that thing, though?” wold the young men with the Jog. handing around his bottle of coektolls again “Sort o’ gets a duck around, the neck, eh? Chop u* another, Ginnev, w>ll you?” “Vnt I play?’’ inquired the musician •gain, mopping his forehead with a Per sian-figured handkerchief. “What’s the matter with the ’lntermez zo?’ ” Inquired the atout Elk with #he broad face. “That’s one that'll make you forget for a few minufe* that there’* *uch a thing as working for a living." The foreign looking chap miled and nodded hi* head, and begen to play the gem that made Mascaanl. The fellow was really a violinist of genuine talent. He got the organ tone* out of the “In termezzo” and before he wa* hnlf through the Elk* were blowing smoke rings nnd looking up nt the top of the car. The doorway was Jammed wl'h listening Elk*. The young man with the Jag seemed to he drinking in he music with half-closed eves. The listeners almost gasped when tho foreign looking chop made the finish with the high G on the E string. “Bay, look here," said one of the Elk* standing in the doorway, "you fellows in tnere nre no going to hove all this to yourselves. Bring the man out into the car, *o’s we can oil have a hack at that music. It’s the best fiddling I’ve heard In a coon's nge.” He wa* bucked up in hi* demand by others of the Elks standing in the door way. “Hey. come on out and tnke one Of th© ohnlrs. Tchamkowskv, or What-d’ye-cail >m." said the young man with the Jag o the musician. “Give the whole bunch a chance.” The musician smiled In his childlike way, picked up hi* case and violin and headed the procession o the main body of the car. followed by the young man with the end all of the Elk*. He ent down in one of the chairs, tuned up th© ln*irument again and by the time he was ready to plnv he word had been passed hack hrough all of the cars that there wa* n fiddler of a lot of skill playing In the forward car. and the car became crowded with Elk* In ii cheerful fram© of mind “Vat I play?” once more inquired Th© foreign-looking chap, looking around at hi* vastly widened circle. “Any old thing." chorused the Elks who hod been likening to him in the amoking compartment. “You’ve got it down all right. You can’t put ’em over too swift for ,ii*." * “What’s the mnfter with some of that and. t. Hungarian stuff?" put in the young man with the shrewd grav eves and th© Jag. "That’s wild and devilish enough to make h man feel like walking nine mile* through snow knee-deep to bite his little sister.” “Ah!" said the musician*, and he began to play czardas. He seemed to be partic ularly at home at this sort of music, ind he hud every man In the car swaying in no lime. He was vociferously by the crowded at the end of each compo*ilon. and he was still playing away with remarkable effect when th© young man with the Jag looked out of th© window, "We’re butting Into Camden." he an rvounerd, looking at hi* gun-metal watch, "nnd this Guinea’s made therlde seem Ilk© a ten-minute trip on the trolley, hey?" looking up a the Elks who sa and stood around the musician, many of them with far-away expression* in their eye*. “I guess It's up to us to make a dig for him. eh?” and he took off his Alpine straw hat. pulled a solitary two-do liar bill out of hi* waistcoat pocket, nnd threw It into h© hat. Just then the musician ceased playing, after executing some brilliant pyrotech* nlc* on the E and A string* up around th© bridge. The Elk* came to and began to reach for helr roll*. Few of them stripped off hills smaller than two* to throw into the hat that the young man with the jag was passing around. They ail smiled at the spectacle of the young man with the Jag passing the hat around for the benefit of a fiddler, but they all throw their paper contributions ln*o the straw Alpine. Many of them. In fact, crowded through and Jostled one another In order to put their money into the hat of the young man with the Jag. There could scarcely have been less than $75 or SIOO In the bottom of the hat when th© young man with the Jag walked back to where the musician was strapping hi© vio lin case, and turned his hat upside down In the foreign-looking, chap’s lap. The musician looked stupefied at th© Might of *o much money, and then his eye* seemed o fill, and he paeesd his Persian-figured handkerchief aoros® them. “That’ll keep you In coffee and sinker* for a day or so. anyhow,” said the young man with the Jag to the musician, and then he went un*teadlly forward io the smoking compartment to get his suit c**v. The Elks all dispersed to get their trap* together, for the train wa© pulling into the Camden station. This same performance, identical In almost every detail, whs gone through with in a chair car of a train that left Philadelphia for New York on the follow ing afternoon. The young man with the jag worked up interest In the musician after getting Into ra'.k with the well-to-do traveler* hi the smoking compartment, the musician played for about an hour, the young man with the Jag took up ihe collection In his Alpine straw hat. end th© earful of well-to-do traveler* chipped In liberally. The eye* of the musician seem ed to fill again when the young man with the Jag dumped the content* of th© hat into hi* lap. A mnn who had witnessed the whole performance on the Atlantic City train on the previous afternoon, nnd who had seen it duplicated as a passenger on the train from Philadelphia to New York, strolled up on the ferry behind the young mnn who had been jagged apparently, but rvho seemed to have quite unaccount ably lost his Jag and said; “Anew one, pel?'' The young man who had been simulating a Jag locked up at his questioner with a half smile on his face, and an inquir ing look in his ahrewd gray eyes. "Were you or. that Atlantic City train yesterday nfternoon?" he Inquired. "Yea,” replied ihe man, who had seen the two performers. “Well, ain't It a baby of a graft, hey?” Inquired the young mnn with th# shrewd gray eyes, grinning. The musician who wns leaning on the rail nt his side also grinned broadly. Power of Golden Locks. From the Kansu* City Times. Auhurn-hnlred women have ruled the world; not women with brick-dust-colored topknots, but 4hose whose he4d* are crowned wlih soft, wavtng locks, red-gold only In the sunlight. Xnndppe, Helen of Troy, Cleopatra, Catherine of Russia, Queen Elizabeth, Mme, Recamler. Marla Antoinette, and many others who made history for the world had such hair. The womnn with auburn hair la Intense In her love, and <hus she rule* men. Then, too, auhurn-hnlred women preserve beau ty. Among those of the past whose phys ical beamy lasted till past 60 Is Helen of Troy, who reached the zenith of her charm and came upon the stage of fame at 40. Aspnsla wa* 30 when she wa* wooed and won by Pericles. Thirty years after she was still a brilliant figure. (fieopatra was long pns 30 when she met Antony Henry VII was captivated by Diane of Poitiers when she was 36. The King was half her age, yet hia de votion wns permanent. At the age of 38 Anne of Austria was regarded as the most beautiful woman of Europe. LOuta XIV married Mme. de Maintenon, the governess of his children, when she wa* 43years old. Cntherine of Russia was 33 when she seized the hrone which she oc cupied for thirty-five years. Mil*. Mar w.is In the znl'h of her beauty at 43. and Mme. Recamler between the ages of 35 and 55. ■ - ! ♦ . ..... i Rarity of a flrend of Death. From Health. Sir Lyon Playfair, who represented the University of Edinburgh for seventeen years, naturally enme In contact 'with the most eminent medical men of Eng land. and put this question to moat of them; "Did you. in your extensive prac tice, ever know a patient who was afraid to die?" With wo exceptions. It seems, they answered. "No.” One of these ex ceptions was Sir Benjamin Brodle. who said he hud seen one case. The other was Sir Robert Chrlstlson. who had eeen one case, that of a girl of bad character, who had a sudden accident. —The principal object of Maltre td horl’s lecurlng tour of the United States next winter, It Is said, Is to recuperate his fortune*, destroyed beyond repair In France by his connection with the Drey fus case. No! only did his defense of the persecuted captain bring him no return for his service*, but lost for him hts ex penses, his neglected clients and any proapect of professional succes* In the future on account of the unpopularity of hia sure** In th* “grande affaire.'* 5