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Show AX Antllll'AV IV ltnANT. The Neereleer r III I'Mlltd Alan lgatlau teiil'lHel lulerfeee. llrul.i.s, June I. Krnitl Clirltllau-eiri Clirltllau-eiri It an American clllien. He Wat torn on the Itland of Kuhr, In the provlncouf Hcleawlg.llol.telu, In 1M7, and renounced lilt alliglanco to the ICalwr. When ha wat fllleen year old he emigrated to America and rot along very well from the atart. lie made money, And lAit year he went to (letmany toteo the old folk. HI mother applied to thu authorlllea nf Iter ballwlck for iiaUalon to have Krncil atay with btr fur a while, l-ut tlio governor gov-ernor aald lio. Kriietl decided lo go anyway, eo lie tkok hlicltlieii )iapvr and went to lianitairg. As a precautlouery meoture he applied to the American emtAtaador at lurllnttatlng hit cate fully. He n celled a courteout reply that the (lerman authority luajo the claim that he (r.rnrtl )owed the Fatherland two year' service In the army, which, by the way. It required of all (lerman youtlit, audlnaiuiucli a he had not rendered such service he would have to fix the thing wltli the (lerman hlnuelf. Minister I'lielp gave him a paatrurt aud ChrlitUnwu went to Foihr. lie had hardly reached there when lie got A big document covered with teals orderlog lilm to leave. Thlt wat March 1 till lail. Cbiltllantcn again apa,alcd to the American minister, ami a lengthy com"ndenco followed. Thin Chrlttranteu uftered to servo In Iho army, but this proposition was declined, declin-ed, aud tho result was that on April till he received a decree of tho military governor orderlug htm to leave tier-many tier-many Inside of Iwenty-four hour under penally of arrest. This waa final, and ChrMlansen had to ckup his trunk and go. Ou hit way to Hamburg he had an Interview with the secretary of the American legation; who after looking Into thu matter told.hlm that lie couldn't Inter- '' . . . Christiansen came back from (irr-many (irr-many jtsterday aud ttld hi story lo a llorfil reporter with the ho that hi exirrleiire mlrfht be of service) to aomo ofhlscouutrymen who am tlmllsrly altuated, |