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The Daily Mail's Berlin correspondent swyw:- There is's now power alongside the throng in the Fatherland, a German-Austrian, who owns allegiance to no fower, than four different monarchies an! holde hereditary, seats in the House of Lords of esel of them. His name is Prince Maximilian Egon sa Furstenberg, sad the world is destined to hear more of him, Forty-Ave years old and a Roman Catholic- multi-millionaire-a subject whom the Kaisar is reputed to treat as an equal the unique *CAPRI,"

international status, gigantic wealth, and In. having arrived from the above Ports, Con-magnets make him one of the lost remarkable perial connections of this sportsman courtier. signes of Cargo by her are hereby informed that figures in contemporary Europe their Goods are being landed at their risk, into the Inzarious and/or extra hazardous Godown of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd., whence, delivery may bo ob.nized. Perishable Goods to be taken delivery of immediately.

All Claims must be sent to the Offe of the undersigned before Noor on the 15th fast, or they will not be recognised.

and extreme progressiveness, Prince, Fürsten- A striking mixture of romantic medímralism berg is fery much a man after the Kaiser'e heart.

Unknown to the country at large, the prince, who is still called Max" by Prague, bsa made his blant personality his ocopies of former days in Vienus, and and wise counsel en vital s fastor in the authoritatively understood to have singled Emperor's estimation that his Majesty him out for fatore Chandoller of the

Kociety and sport to the burdens of exalted | vincial rank. Meantime ha la the object of hoessing fiattery and intricate devices upon tje part of those who realise the weight of his word with the Emperor, and who would themselves be either Chancellors or the friends of Chancellore, The prince's self-denial has unquestionably. strengthened the Kaiser's unrestrained con- dones in his counsellor's square dealing and frank traits.

Pricca Farstenberg's colossal fortune consists of breweries in Bavaria, coal and iron mines in Silesia, vant timber sad farm tracts ju Baden, Bohemia, and Austria, nad huga Blocks of Germany and Austria. His wife was a Countess buildings in various metropolitan contres in von Schonborn-Buchhols, one of a trio of The couple have five children. Austrian sisters who wore calobra tod beauties

COUNT TOLSTOY AT EIGHTY.

THE UNITED STATES AND THE FAR EAST.

(FROM "THE TIMES

CORRESPONDENT)

WASHINGTON, August 14th. An interview with a Chinese offieisl in Paris, who is reported to have declared that Japan mosus to as Chins as her tool, a spasch of Conut. Okuma which, if correctly reported, is somewhat ill-fimel, together with the stagnation in the country's affairs under the best of summer, bare sorrel to start in Irresponsible. alliance with Ching. quartera bore au agitation for an American The easpa of the pro posed alliance is left very vague, but its object is to counterbalance the power of Japan, and its precedent is the British treaty with that country. The Neto York Herald, over ready to air anti-Japanese sentiments, leads the move- ment, which, it is hardly necessary to say, has no real weigh. As pointed out last stomer, appears in the July "Minsey's Magazine "2----

The following skotok of Count Tolstoy afloat, the United States has at present, despite when rumours of a treaty with Germany were

years, he is not to be judged by his incontou's farewell address of avoiding entangling When a man has reached the age of foursvore ug from its policy, first formulated in Washing- its oolonial development, no intention of depart

sistensies, or by the oxceptional and perhaps forsiga allionem. Eron if it were seeking an No Claims will be admitted after the Goods Empire, Hitborto, so one beira-is those Berlin eodentrio-things that ho has dono: Hie life i ally it is hardly likely that it would eases one

formed, Prince Fürstenberg has pleaded his things neieved at Eas been the or to do quarters euphemistically known as "well in-should be regarded as a whole. What great ashle to confer any substantial qudi pro q40, Thexperience for stellar political honours. whole tenor of his inflsenos?

anft ing, except in cartais circuna- Meantime he has remained behind the scenes

giances, to othbroil thi in the incataniable powerful position of the

iscountry la complications, bodily

diplomsey is simed at avoiding.

sentiment is not coufided to the Japanese, would countenance for a moment the conclusion of such nor the Western - Stats, whose assi

a tresty. The United States is triendly towards China, but, as has been repeatedly told in high offeinl goarters, its only aim is to secure for the Celestial Empire "fair play, to maintain the "open door," and secure for its ni rebate the most favoured-utatin treatment, and this is already in-fores with the Paking Gorament amply ensured of the commercial conventione

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rightly proud of him. He, almost alene in Russia, has been able to utter fearlesdy the thing he thinks, to speak out his whole mind, to affront the established church, and to criticis the Car, oud yet remain unharmed aird even unmoles od..

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determination of our intentions in the Eastern Japan's treatment of Korea, the Hemisphere.

Tatm-Mira inoident, Japanese oppo dition to the Fakumen Railway, and Japan's course in Manoharia hava, according to the "Now York Washington Government. It is necessary, the Times," orooted a distinctly bad impression on the "New York Times" holds, for the United States to take steps to safeguard its trade interests in China.

The enthusiastic reception accorded to the American Fleet by Australians is useil of an anti-Japaness elab and as an indication that

land her support to the United States in esso Australia, no less than the United States, reade

she found it necessary to exert, her strength in the signs of the times and would be the first to

the Far East.

Of clessly related Swabian autastry, in the days before the Hohenzollerne atia nel rogaty in Prussia, Emperor Williams is credited with treating Priuse Fürstenberg on terms indistinguishable from those of equality, while the prince for his part is said to deal with his periods of experience. in his youth, he was Tister has gone through four important angust kinstrap with frankness and outspoken the jovens, pleasure-loving man of the world, a ness no mere subject-counsellor would dare favourite at Court, a goldier, a great landowner. employ Firstenberg tells the Kaiser the After that, he became the literary artist, and truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the sad wrote books which by their simplicity and irath.

was the sententions observation of a power brought him the world's applause. Berlin diplomat in commenting on the relations Tolstoy, in fact, was alicted with & wearine's which have come to subsist between the two of the world. The secret of the true Russian man

His Serene Highness was born at Iman,

natuze is simplicity; and in the end Tolstoy Bohemin, in 1865, the scion of an ancient noble to return to a simple faith as well as to bou, twelfth gontury, and to one of Buperor Plan civilization he 10 10 Lendings of house which its lineage.

simple life. All that belonged to our com- Charlemagne's paladins The Farst inbe ga of Christ, literally accepted, were his sole religious

mad house existence."

They received the rank of princes from Emperor occupation for a man who knew the truth, the early Middle Ages lived in the Black Forest, guides The tillage of the soil was the only Sit Frans I, in 1768. In 1901 bhe Brabian-Gurmat Therefore, this genius turned his back line died out, and the titles and estates pissed Lo the Austrian branch of the family. Generation he splendour of great ospitals, and after generation of Furstenbergs produced betook himself, with his wife and daughter, brilliant statesmen and soldiers, so that the pre to his farm at Yasnaya Polyaus, in Southera

there

ho live to-day, s sent prince ie not departing from family tradi Russia and tions in serving at the elbow of Kaiser. far, hs on, the life of one who sees no good in anything that is not of the essence of simplicity. Graduated from the aristocratic University of

Tas Donat wished to give away his entire Bonu-on-the-Rhine, where Emperor William studied, Prince Faret-uberg passed his early prevent this, and so it was turned over to her fortune; but his wife took legal mansures te life in Vienas and Prague and on the family's various estates, gentifying a pass which are free to every publisher throughoutest thing will be to firm one with Germany-loaders from 30s.each-Illustrated-oatalogue-of-

keeping. He will not copyright his books,

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for Bunting and other tastes of his osrts, the world, while their author will not bikea Inheriting the Upper Chuabies of

F-Austrin. Prussia, Waer omberg, and Baden, eat from their normen sales. Hadresses in the prince interestan bilf in politios

shopatius or in rough wontlen clothes. He before he was thirty. In 1892 he attracted at-gines Luat he fares like the humblest monjik

in the land. tention to himself by a stirring spesch in tho Reichsrath, at Vienna, advoosting German nationalism. Later he became vio president of the Austrico House of Lords and one of the re- cognised political leaders of the monarchy. As the head of the Constitutionalists, or German Anetrisa Liberals, bendrer misses an opportunity of rspouting the claims of Austro-fermans, himself

ia sprong.

As a matter of fact, this simplicity of over him as tenderly as if he had never deplored Tolstoy's is hardly real His wife, who watches

marriage to be vite, seas to it that he is not deprived of creature comforta Under his Though his food be simple, it is of the best, and shaggy outer slothing he wears the finest luon is cooked with all the skili of a Parisian shef,

Though the majority of the important news- tralasian progross of the fest, it has undoubt papers coatings to ignore editorially the Aus- edly tended to bring up the Japanese question. Praotically overy journal, including the New York Sur, that has commented upon the reception of Admiral Sperry's battleships at Auckland see in it, as before mentioned, a siga that British Australasin is pleased at the an Amirios pue to be it the vision of the prospect of having, in default of a British fast,

Tello Peril miterializes; Tas futile, but American one bear the beant of the

Herald for an Anstiest alliance with Chins is apparently popular, agitation of the Nole Fork sino directed against the Japsness, whom the average Americas regards as the embodiment of the Yellow Peril. And this mocaing onze a three-aluma despatch to the New York Times" from its correspondent here to prove that not only the American people regard Japsa with profound suspicion, but that the Government, ia consequence, is about to define integrity of which they tear. It suggests that clearly their policy in regard to Coins for the as an alliance with Chius would be abeard; the for the purpose of checking Japanese Eustera aggression

a German irsaty is almost as impossible as

Though wanifestly over-coloured, and though Chiness However much it may be protested to the om- the despatch is founded upon truth, Que,

trust of Japan, a distrust that Mr. Roosevelt's trary, there exis's iμ £18 country a latent-dis- failure to deny Captain Hobson's assertion at Denver that the President himself fears war bepad in diplomatie quarters that the visit of as done thing to diminish. It had been the fleet to Yokohama would misimiza this fe-l-

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NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES,

LONDON, COLOMBO AND SINGAPORE.

GREAT WEALTH AND WAST. ESTATES,

In 1896, through the death of biz cousin Karay

titniar head of the House of Furstenberg and give nothing to charity Egon, Prince Meximilian Egon became the I am poor. I have sareely a scpeck.

quariors much relief will be felt who the visit

I

is Avar without any acidunt or contretem s

whion o ta giso give the Press of ofther country

Literally,

Lo speaks the truth; but, actually,

"My food is as simple as any passant's." He does not sea that this food consists of defntily cooked viande, with peaches and other fruit, which many a rich buker could scarosly afford when out of season,

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a chance for renewing Jingo discussion. satisfactory, it is realized that are ornileson

of last year's warlike talk would rosos unfavour.

of the two countries. It is possibly bocane- ably on the social and economic relations they realize this that many of the more respon gible orale bars refrained from making what le the obvious American comment upon the

sel's stay in Now Zaland,

of the Hongkong and Kowloon, Wharf and the holder of its enorm us estates, now valued there is a fortnoe held by those whose plaasuko | Though thoir diplomatic relations are perfectly

at over £20,000,000. Their possession makes. bini one of the very wealthiest ment in Europe. it is to minister to his comfort. He eats off now enabled to play a glittering role in Comparatively poor before, the priuse way the cheapest crockery, and says: aristocratic risty is both Germany and Austria: His castles at Eina and Prague, in Bobemis, his town palaces in Viana and Karlsruhe, and his wondrously mag nivoat and extensive shooting praserta st

Men and women come to see him from all Donau Esohingen, in Baden, broame the scenes parts of the world. To those who listen to bim of samptunas hospitality, outcivalling the one others, who argue that his view of life is wrong with reverende he has kindly worde to say. Ca tainmenta of singe and emperors,

A lavish host, a splivating conversationalist, amateur the president of a leading American University to shows a rougli impatienos. Not long ago FROM MIDDLESBOROUGH, ANTWERP, iterateur, composer and pnet, an inveterate visited him for a few hours, and then came away buat man, fond of soldering and stuḍoni tradî- tions--a grand seigneur from tip to tip-Prince He was a mau of wide learning and great Furstenberg marahanilad all those qualities- experience Calcilated to endear him to

Emperor William, A fow

years ago the Kaiser raised his winning yoang kinsman to the high rank and title of Colonel Maralal of the Prassica Court. Last

It is easy to mook at the incongruities of commer, however, was destined to convert Prince Furstenberg's status from that of a Tolstoy's home in day, but it must not be for- merely bosom friend into the coveted position gotten that he is terribly sincere. Whatever of trusted canâdant. When Prinos Philip za nay think of his beliefs, we must respect Eulenburg's sua bad set in consequence of the bis striving after simple faith and purity sad Harden exposures and the equire of Liebenberg truth, The world he would have it will was banished from the Imperial entourage, doubtless never be; yet his greatness and the Price Maximilian Egen zu Furstenberg stop power of his teaching bave put heart into those ped naturally to the fallen favourites place, who despair of what the world now is, and His rise in power and influssos has bean who look forward to the ideale of a humanity

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AN EPISODE AT HIGHOLIFFE, One day last November, while the Kaiser Was recuperating in England, the German newe papers published the laconie annoncement that Prince Pareterberg had left for Higbolifa at the Emperor's telegraphic sunmoon: German political life at the moment was electric with Fear and trembling as a result of the Moltke- Harden scandals. Prince you Bülow's Chauvel- Iorship was tott-ring under distracting parlia mentary diflollies. Fürstenberg was heralded on all sides na the coming man. It was arted with positiveness that the Kaiser had brought him to Highcliffe to urge him to hurl himself into the brusch and take the Chancellorship, from which Bülow was threatening to resign. It was related that the prince resisted all entreaties, emphasising bis anripsmees for responibilities so high. But he loft

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prince joined the Kaiser at Gorfo, where they were fussparable, and when the Ionian sot had browned the Imperial countenanos for five weeks It was at Furstenberg's shooting box at Donen Rechingen that William II. tarried for a week before returning

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It is a subject of continuous talic in Court and diplomatic oirdles that the Kaiser is importuning I'rince Furstenberg to become Chancellor when Prince von Balow retires. Until now Prines. Furstenberg has declined to liston to the alluring suggestion, seeming to prefer a life of

What do you think of this Amarions scholar was seked of Tolstoy,

"He is only a barbarian,' returned the master."

days the New York Horald" has been devoting It is evident that attempte ars to be made to reviva the anti-Japaness agitation. For som

alliance, the object, it is frankly stated, boing much spate in advocacy of an American-Chiness to check Japanesa pretensions in the Far East. -The New York Herald," has industriously interviewed a great many persons, some of whom have pronounced openly in favour of an allignos,– which has also received some newspaper support. But obviously a formal alliance is out of the question at the present time, and the piril would have to be vital and immediate for the country to muction such radical departure from its traditional foreign policy of avoiding "entang- ling foreign alliances.

The New York Times" gives a leading place today's mane to an article declaring that it is admitted-although it dies not specify by whom the admission is made-thist the events of the last month have brought forcibly to the attention of the Government the désirability of arriving at a more positivo

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