Show I EASY VICTIMS OF BLACKMAIL When Royalty Is Indiscreet There Is Generally Nothing to Do But Pay Up In spite of all precautions no one more readily falls a victim to the blackmailerssnare than a member of I a royal house If the blackmailer has I the faintest shadow of a hold It Is Impossible to light It out In court and the unhappy prince must grin and pay It The German crown prince Is the latest lat-est victim When he was at Ploen college col-lege he struck up u friendship with a young German noble Count Hochberg who was also a student at Ploen The friendship was Itept up after college days were over and for some time I letters were exchanged regularly The count fell on evil days and had to emigrate o America where he became be-came chauffeur to a man named Barnes After some time he dropped his own name and having adopted that of Barnes vanished from tho sight and hearing of his friends Recently he has reappearedwith the crown princes letters These ha threatens to publish unless his Imperial Im-perial highness cares to buy them The princes attitude resembles thai of the duke of Wellington In a similar situation Publish and be hanged He says there Is nothing In the letters he wrote to Count Hochberg that Is worth paying a penny for Recently King Leopold of Belgium received an anonymous letter from Liege saying that the writer was an accomplice In a plot to blow up the royal palace at Brussels and to kill the entire royal family He demanded JC 1000 which was to be placed at the foot of n certain tree in the Klnkera pola wood near Liege In return he would reveal what he know about the plotTho The king sent messengers to the place named with orders to place an envelope at the foot of the tree and then watch what happened The watchers had not long to wait A man who had evidently boon keeping an eye on them was seen to take tho envelope en-velope The messengers promptly closed with him and ho has had an oppor tunity of thinking out fresh scheme in prison |