Show small land of europe what one might call an after din coffee size country is the ot liechtenstein a tiny land between the austrian province of tyrol and the rhine recently describe ed by a writer in harper a magazine its area 1 about sixty one square miles of territory and its population less than ten thousand although practically a part of austria it haa aten more or less independent for nearly three centuries and was ac cording to a local peasantry forgot ten by bismarck when he reorganized europe after the prussian wara with trance and austria once liechtenstein had a standing army in full force armed and equipped it marched away to join the aus trian forces in the war with prussia and had it arrived in time might have turned the scale for although it con aisted of but eighty men with a captain and a trumpeter it was a whole army in itself and brave for tuna tely the country was mountain ous and the roads bad and when the arrived at the camp of the aus arians the war was over that was its last appearance in pub ac the bad grown weary of supporting the onerous mill tary burden imposed upon the by these eighty idle men and sent a eighty and respectful protest to the prince who discontinued the army so there Is now no military service no national debt no direct taxes the prince Is very rich and pays much ot the expense ot his little country instead ot taxing it to support him lie issues coins with hi bead on them and stamps ot the same design that is a pleasure in itsell worth supporting a small country tor and he is the only member ot the austrian nobility who enjoys such distinction ills little capital vaduz Is but modest city and the prince it but seldom he wears an austrian tl tie as well as that ot liechtenstein and sits in the austrian house 0 lords but from vienna he can call up his own country by long distance telephone and it serves him all the purposes ot a suburban village to which to retire for rest from his da ties as an austrian nobleman |