Show COLONIES TO BE Kaisers Kaiser's Secretary Favors Lafor Law Lav for Protection of Big Game BERLIN NEWS AND GOSSIP i Malcolm Clarke Writes of In Interesting Interesting In- In tere tirig Happenings in European Capital I BY fly MALCOLM MALCOL CLARKE Berlin May ra 16 Today Torla Today tho the German German Ger Ger- man secretary of the colonies Privy Councillor Dernburg leaves es England for tor or an nn extensive tour through the German po possessions in Southwest J Africa He lIe goes from England di dl- dl to Cap Capetown town where ho will re remain remain re- re main ninin until end of June and will vill then spend moro more than two months looking into conditions in the tho colonies with the special purpose of finding out for fOl himself how a great gleat a part of ot I tho German territory Is lit for the I raising of 0 cotton cOlton and what that hat the government gov gov- nt should do to encourage this branch of or farming arming which is Is- o of great Interest to German manufacturers I who desire nothing more than to beS become become be be- S come in independent of the American cotton cotlon speculators Another object of or the s strip trip is to C fin find out how much tho co colonists col col- have suffered from the long wars against ag the rebellious natives naU S and what ma may be done lone to promote tho the development of the countr country Before leaving lea Secretary Dernburg came out S strongly against Professor J Hobert Kochs Koch's suggestion of or exterminating exterminating I all nil big game same in Africa in order to get set rid kid of or th the tue plague of the tsetse fly which lives Jives on their blood bloo an and which Is tho the primary cau cause e of the sleeping sleeping- disease On the contrary he lie declared it was his intention to lo work for tho the passage of or suitable bills hills to I protect the big game In tho the German colonies Because a well known actress re refused refused re- re fused to let him hint Kiss her after he ather at ather her suggestion had shaved 0 oft off his mustache a la Ia J Kaiser ai er a a. wealthy Berlin BellIn Ber Bel BerlIn Ber- Ber lin silk manufacturer has sued th the theS S lad lady for damages in connection with tho loss of his martial face fac adornment The manufacturer after afler a brief brier nc nc- ac- ac asked tho the actress for fOI a kiss and was told that sho she could not grant his wish as long as he wore a mustache 0 Though vcr very proud of oC his mustache the manufacturer longed enough for forthe forthe forthe the kiss to shave sha It o oft off IT but when he claimed his reward tho the lady told him that while he was as deliberating deliberating- she ghe had become engaged to another man ai dared not Ils nn on one and d naturally J butcher her fiance I riun the lC manufacturer went to r cou court l v the demand that tho the law procure for him either the tho desired Ul 11 kiss 5 s or Us its equivalent It Is fe feared red that the Uie Impresario and journalist Moritz Guttman also known under the name namo o of Joseph le Fey Pey for whom the police of or Bavaria are arc 5 looking has ha succeeded l in making his escape to tho United States Guttman Is accused of having stolen stolen stol stol- en from a certain ballet dancer Zar- Zar i ina ma whom he met in Italy TS Jewels valued at t quarter of or a million mil mU- lion lire hire He is only 35 years rears old r and has already twice visited AmenI America Ameri Amen J. J ca so o it is most most lIkel likely that there Is a a. aS S chanco chance of the American police getting a a. t. t Toward reward of ten thousand marks mark ed for Cor his arrest Tho I Kaiser altel may soon ha have to lee lee- S tire ture his people Q 11 the subject su of ace raci suicide for fOl tho the statistics just published pub pub- lIshe by b the Prussian lan government Show that th-lt the number of or births In Inthe Inthe Inthe the German empire is Js gradually decreasing do- do creash creasing ng In southern Berlin tho number of or children born luring during 1907 was 5 1 ra against In 1876 Although this is apparently an Increase in increase increase in- in crease th the proportion pc per por l' l thousand has fallen Callen from flom 4 47 i during th the latter year lo to 23 in the tIie former olmer a decrease 1 of or more than 50 itar Ier cent rhe The number o of families having having- ono one or two children shows an nn increase but buL the number of families with three four and more children is rapidly growing owing smaller During During- the tho period between 1887 and 1907 the number of families with three children fell from rom jOSi 16 tO with four Cour children from to 1070 and anti with five from to 2509 f A dispatch from announced announced announced an an- that the wife of or a a. prominent citizen Peter Kisz had been heen arrested accused o of having killed her two children chil chill dren Iren Immediately after r th the arr arrest t sho she broke down and anti conf confessed ll that with tho the assistance of or her husband she had I killed the 20 O children to whom she had given birth during her married life As her only excuse for these horrible crimes slie she said that she thought there thero was too little happiness happiness happiness hap hap- in life and that the children were better off ore dead There is a c conflict on between the Kal Kaiser er and the authorities of oC the city of Berlin caused b by tho the emperor re refusing refusing re- re fusing to sanction the tho monument to tho the late Professor ProCessor Virchow Vircho which it w was sas s intended to erect at the tho Karls- Karls 1 Ja it It was first thought that the kaiser lid did not want a monument in honor of or ofa ofa ora a man who had always been opposed to him politically lInt But this has been absolutely ly denied and the kaiser de- de cs clai-cs that his only objection to the monument is that It Il is ugly It ha has always been heen the custom during dur lur- lurIng ing tug tho the reign of or the present kaiser to submit all statues and monuments Intended in intended intended In- In tended for erection in Berlin to him and he ho has hitherto always sanctioned the designs approved b by the tho city au authorities au- au Now the they make the statement state state- ment meat that there is nothing In in l Prussian Prussian russian rus- rus sian law which makes It necessary to ask the kaisers kaiser's permission to put up upa Virchow monument monument mont a statue and that the ment mont will go up In the no matter mattei whether hether the kaiser likes it or 01 not I |