Show LETTERS FROM IL- IL FOREIGN LANDS 1 JE It Its It's s Da Dark k When Its It's It s Light S in in Prussia Because Police Say So BERLIN Oct 4 It i.-it It i la is dark in ai fia a wh whenever never the police say it is 8 dark K The mere fact that it may happen still stin F to be be daylight ht in d defiance fiance of police orden order or- or Pv den ders is o of no importance F This i is the tho tho decree of a Prussian suj su- su j preme court in In an appeal taken by a at aI aY I Y t truck track owner accused of driving after R l dark dade without a lantern on his wagon waton I. I i. i Tie The law prescribed that a a. lantern must mustI I vehicles after dark be carried by y ench Buch I and the police poUce have decided that it i is 1 dark dirk thirty minutes after the sun lIun un sets ets The defendant admitted that he had l driven after the prescribed time without without without with with- out a lantern but contended that it was still light Two lower courts perr pore per r mUted him to prove his hia contention and andt t J acquitted him Tho The police the courts held hed have no power to sot set ot a certain L time Urne when it shall bo be considered dark conditions must in L The actual govern iv ea each h cue case The Tho court has reKA reversed re- re KA versed this decision upon appeal by tho the thov v prosecutor r and imposed a fine on tho the z offender An analogous ons ruling has been made in iu inan an action for damages cs brou brought ht by a tenant of an apartment house wm who had bad fallen falten in a a. dark hallway and injured himself The Tho landlord pleaded that tho the hour hoar had bad not yet yot arrived whon when by bv police police po po- po 1 lice Uee rc regulation h hallways must bo be light light- ht ed od The plaintiff offered proof that it was quite dark when the accident hap The Tho proof was excluded as 5 ir ir ir- relevant The Tho police poUce said tho the court had bad decided that it was dark at a specified sped sped- fied 1100 hour and that settled it A decided check in the tho growth of Germanys Germanys Germany's Ger many's population most alarming to 4 the military apostle of the empire is is shown hown by bv the statistics for 1911 which c- c chave have bave just been published i The surplus of births over deaths foil fell from in 1910 to in 1911 a a. shrinkage o in the rate of growth of or over 15 per cent This marked retardation in th the growth of tho the nation wa was s due both to a reduction 3 in the number of births and an increase 4 hi in the tho death rate Despite an increase I t in marriages from to the total number of births for the empire empire em em- pire dropped from in 1910 to i in in 1911 while on the tho other t hand the tho number of deaths rose from to an increase of more than This increase in mortality mortality mor mor- I. I is is attributed chiefly to the extraordinary ex cx- heat beat and drought which prevailed prevail ell during the summer of 1911 and under which infants suffered with particular severity Almost a third of the deaths during durin the year ear were of children under hOl C year old some babies more moro than in in 1910 1010 succumbing to the heat The death rate for br children in their first year vear rose from in 1910 to in in 1911 1011 The Tho general p death rate too after affer a steady decline for a number of r. r years ears rose to 18 2 per 1000 as com corn ared arld with in 1910 Summing 10 tho the statistics in another c form the tho net surplus of births over deaths p per r thousand of population was only in 1911 as in 1910 and for 1906 These TheBe statistics sta bring brinA out also the fact fad that al almost al al- mC most t. t 30 fI per r cent of the illegitimate children ren died tIed before reaching their first firt birthday i.- i. A novel ol interpretation of how hot the Monroe doctrine should he be applied affer after af af- af f ter fer r t the completion of the tho Panama canal lies lust fust been voiced by bv a German dip lip lomat of authority and high po poulton inon In Tn substance it ii s to give Eive ive th the United full control as A fir fAT a A s the isthmian waterway but to lot the tho countries of Europe including Germany Germany Ger Ger- Ger- Ger many have a free field from rom I Panama anama to Tierra del Fue Fuego o. o The hi high h standing of this diplomat may reasonably bo be expected to influence influence influence I ence the tho standpoint of Germany in in any further controversy y involving the tho fa famous doctrine of f American foreign relations re r e- e lations cons consequently his views are not without a certain interest Ho would cut the American l continent in two to at atthe atthe atthe the Panama canal and allow to the tho United States full and free hand asfar asfar as asfar far south as os that waterway but exclude ex ox- elude clude from the sphere of any Washington Washing ton supervision or control the relations of ot Germany and the other European powers with the states of South Amer Amer- ica He believes Germany should hould refrain re ro- ro frain from any interference whatsoever in Mexico and that the tho same rule rulo should apply to all the tho Central American Amerlean Amer Amer- ican lean states This would involve a vir ir virtual virtual vir- vir extension of the southern boundary boun bonn dary of the tho United States to the tho canal so 60 far aar as the relations of these those states to the European powers is concerned This it will bo soon scon is the tho Monroe doctrine for Central America in an even stron stronger er form than is at present enforced But the European states must and should this diplomat believes bo bG allowed allowed al al- al lowed to settle their controversies with tho countries south of this line in their own way and without reference to Washington The role of the United States as guardian and protector to the whole continent is ho believes believe a athing athing thing of tho the past the South American states have reached years of discretion discretion discretion tion they are out of tho the le legitimate sphere of control of the American department de do- of state the countries of Europe are aro entitled to insist on a free freehand freehand hand in their relations with thorn thom Archibald the tho American rider who is is at tho the head of the tho winnin winning jockeys in Germany this year has renewed his contract with Baron S. S A. A von Oppenheim Oppen- Oppen heim helm thereby rejecting handsome overtures over tures to en engage e him for the French turf Thanks lar largely elv to Archibald's talents tal tal- tal tho the Oppenheim stable this year heads not only tho the other German stables stables sta sta- bles bios but those of tho the world in winnings win win- mugs s having up to September 14 taken ta taken ta- ta ken prizes amounting to This is the highest figure reached by a a. private private vate stable in in Germany and is only some somo behind the record scored last x year ar by the government stud at 7 J 1 HZ L. L Ac According to local sporting authorities authorities ties tb th j high winners of the year in other countries of Europe have been Baron E. E de do Rothschild in France with J. J B. B Joel in England with and B. B Mautner von Markhof Markhof Mark Mark- hof in Austria with Encouraged by the remarkable success success suc sue cess of the postal system of open onen check cheek accounts the Gorman German postoffice authorities au an are RTe about to carry government govern govern- ment banking bankin one step further by selling sell ing postal letters of credit designed ned to appeal specially to regular and occasional occa ocea travelers whose financial requirements require ments are not great enough to call can for fora a bankers banker's letter of credit Two great reat advantages cs for fOT these classes of travelers arc are that the letters will be issued for smaller sums than banks are willing to bother with in this lino line and that money can be bo drawn on them at all the tho larger post offices For purposes of identification the bolder holder will be supplied with a special card ng hi his t |