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Show Heartily in Favor of Removing All Obstacles in Way of Women. FAVORS UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE MOVE Would Open All Universities to Women and Accord Them High Place. BY MALCOLM CLARKE. Special Cablo to Tho Tribune. BERLIN, Aug. G. Emperor William has privately proclaimed that ho is In favor of woman suffrage. For a year the kaiser has been following very closely the suffrage movement In his own country, in England and In America. He has discussed dis-cussed with his various ministers the public influence of suffrage and the effect It would have upon government policies If women should be allowed to voto. The kaiser's view of tho question Is far- reaching. He is looking at the International Interna-tional side of It. An elaborate report was drawn up for him in which It was hypo-thctically hypo-thctically set forth that 'women electors would use tho same discretion as men. The kaiser's view .led to the assumption that women electors might be lnllnenccd to establish a government with Irresponsible Irrespon-sible diplomats, which would, In turn, lead to breaking of alliances. In private conversation con-versation the emperor said". "Within a few years women will bo qualified for every place In politics now held by men, duo to the broadening lnlluenccs of modern mod-ern education. At tho present time J am heartily In favor of removing all obstacles ob-stacles In the way of women earning their dally bread. I would open all the universities univer-sities to women and allow them the highest high-est places In the ranks of teachers. Women Wom-en are gradually approaching to tho point where they will be men's equals In cvery-.iing cvery-.iing In life." Rode With the Prince. Tho Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany Ger-many was motoring with a number of officers following maneuvers When ho overtook a tramping' joinor with his tools on his back. "Have a lift?" asked the prince. "Then we arc fellow townsmen, ,Tnd you must certainly lot me give you a lift." So tho worn traveler was half- forced, half-cajoled into sitting by the side of an aide-de-camp and chatting with the prince, who pressed a gold piece Into his hand when lie sot him down In the suburb of Schonoberg, on tho outskirts of Berlin. Follows Lead of Mailed Fist. Argentlno Republic Is either preparing for war or else It Is following the lead of other "mailed fist" nations and preparing to prevent war at all hazards. This is due to tho fact that Argentine Is placing tho biggest order for rifles, field guns and Krupps of all nations In the world. Four big. battleships aro under un-der construction for Argentlno in the United States, and an order has just been given to a German gun factory for 250,-000 250,-000 Mauser rifles for army service. Ar-gontino Ar-gontino is buying Krupps for coast defenses de-fenses and a score of machine guns, Gorman Gor-man manufactories report that heavy orders or-ders for machine guns aro also coming from Turkey, Scrvla and Roumanla. Exchango of Compliments. A pretty exchange of compliments between be-tween the German empress and an old fisherman's widow Is reported from a little lit-tle placo on the Pomeranian coast. The kalscrln was passing tho widow's hut when sho noticed some fino Madonna lilies growing in the little garden, and slopped to admlro them.' The old woman, hobbling hob-bling out of her cottago, plucked all the flowers, tied them In a bunch, and presented pre-sented them to hor majesty. Delighted with this gift, the empress walked into the hut and Inquired of the widow s family. fam-ily. One of her sons she soon learned was dead, the other was In tho gold mines In Australia. "I am glad," added tho woman, "for your majesty to have the llowers. Lilies are for happiness and unsuitable for a widow," The kalscrln then gavo the old woman a little four-Icaved four-Icaved clover, saying: "I give you In exchange ex-change this four-leaved clover that I havo Just found. I hope It will bring you luck and will bring your son back to you." New Securities in Market. The volume of new securities brought out In Germany during tho first half of l'.HO was not qulto so groat as In tho like period of 19P0. According to the best available statistics on the subject, the new Issues amounted to $155,700,000, par value, which compared with S53S.000.000 last year. These figures shown aro from a compilation of the Frankfurter Zeltung, and Include only such issues as can be traced by tho statistician, Many securities securi-ties aro floated In Germany, however. without a public subscription, and this form of Issuo has been growing more frequent. fre-quent. Hence, as tho newspaper points out, thy figures must not bo regarded as exhaustive. Joius the Empress, Tho kaiser has Joined the empress at Wllholmshohe, following his return from northern waters, where he wa cruising In the Imperial yacht. The kaiser was accompanied on the northern cruise by Prince Albert of Schleswlg-Holsteln. The kaiser and kalscrln will remain at Wll-hclnishohc Wll-hclnishohc for several weeks and then this emperor will leavo for tho scene of tho annual autumn army maneuvers. Romantic Domestic Story. Ono of the most romantic domestic stories that could bo imagined has boon unfolded In the German courts, In which a countess of supposed noble birth was exposed as a foster daughter and the real child of a carpenter. Tho case has Just been concluded In tho Imperial court al Lelpslc In 1859, Count George von Voss, a mombor of one of the oldest families fam-ilies of the north German nobility, mar. rled in Gallcia, a woman of humblo orl- ... nl,o!,n ri'lis.1,. ii.ilM. ni.mrn,l childless. The count, however, fell deeply deep-ly Ibo absence or some being on whom he could lavish paternal care and affection, affec-tion, and In his sorrow he bethought hlrn thai one of his slslcr-ln-laws, who was married lo .a carpenter, hud four children, chil-dren, for whose bringing up too plentiful resources were not available. The family fam-ily was approached on the subject, and eventuully consented to abandon all claim to one girl, who wns" taken over by the count as his own daughter. To put the business on a thoroughly stable legal footing from the outset, he suborned a reprobate priest to Issue him a forged birth certificate to tho olTcet that the girl, llolene by name, was, In fact, his child, and as stich she figures this day on tho courtly calendars. Succumbed to Temptation. When the child was 13, her aunt and ndpoted mother died and the count took a second wife from his own worldly- station. sta-tion. Tho no v. countess was Invited, therefore, and was Initiated Into the secret se-cret of Helone's origin, but was llircat-enod llircat-enod with ilea I h In ease she should reveal re-veal It to another. The girl was married" mar-ried" lo a Prussian army officer, Captain Udo von Grono. Later the .count, died. The widow was sorely, tempted, because tho count neglected to leavo a will, and had she exposed tho fraud of tho girl's curly life, tho entire estato would have gone to herself. Tho supposod molhor succumbed to temptation. Sho threat- encd a lawsuit If the supposed countess should try to mako trouble. Oould Not Bo Bluffed. Countess von Voss had, however, reckoned reck-oned without her host. Captain von Grone. far from shunning the revelations as to his wife's parentage, took Ibo initiative in-itiative In litigation, and before the widow knew where sho was she found herself dofondant Instead of claimant In the action. Tho captain's caso was that he had been Induced lo marry his wife by representations that she was tho child aiid heiress of Count von Voss, and that, consequently, a fraud had been practiced upon him. He, therefore, urged that the Countess von Voss, as her husbatid's heir, nnd herself a party to tho deeep-i deeep-i tlon. should be compelled to pay him the sum of 1:1,000. to which ho would nat-urallv nat-urallv have been entitled had his wifo roallv been the count's daughter. The action lias now been finally decided In the captain's favor by tho Imperial court, so that Frau von Grono will, at any rate, miff or no pecuniary loss through tho dls-closure dls-closure of the secret of her. birth. Will Hcod Advice. If the expressions of the press are followed, fol-lowed, Germany will follow tho advice from England and enter Into an agreement agree-ment wllh the British government as to the construction of warships. In this wav there will bo no more disquieting rumors about ships being constructed In secrol. Premier Asqulth'3 remarks upon this subject havo boon well rocclvod here and the newspapers are urging that an agreement be entered Into. |