Show ng Leopold j ness an anand anand and Spender 0 of His Income of a Year Does Not Begin to Provide for His Necessities and Luxuries Luxuries Luxuries-I lead Head of Congo Condo Of Rubber Company L By Van nil nn a. Republican Special Services Service Washington I July The The king of tho the Belgians probably hits has the best business business business busi busi- ness head of all the tho European monarchs mon- mon archs At the lie same time ho lie Is the tho most magnificent spender for the gratIfication gratification gratification of hl Ills lils own desires and the accomplishment accomplishment ac nc- of his own purposes Not that h he h. Is personally ostentatious lie goes about Europe Incognito nn and with 11 very few fety attendants In Paris Palls he Is taken for an English millionaire In n Berlin for Cor a n wealthy German Gennan manufacturer and In Constantinople for an Eastern In potentate who wishes to see sec secand and Jl Ind Indulge e In Mohammedan pastimes no nu matter at what co cost t. t Leopold II has hasa a 0 civil list of three and a half hal millions of francs or a little less than gf seven soven Ven hundred thousand dollars out o of which fort forty thousand dollars must be bo paid to the count of Flanders as heir tire This official stipend would hardly hardly hard hard- ly h furnish the money ho he once expended on un a n single le visit to Paris when he presented pre pre- presented necklaces worth twenty five thousand dollars to the tho since famous Cleo de Merode then a u rat In the opera ballot ballet There Then Is Is by hy the tho wa way a characteristic sequel to 0 the stor story of that Paris Parisian Inn ex- ex excursion ex ex- It I Is said that lint after aften making the magnificent gift girt to tho ho dancer the tho business Instincts of or the man asserted themselves On a subsequent visit to toMile Mile Mille de Merode's Uro es e's abode In hi the Rue des Leopold su suggested that sonic some of the diamonds nee needed ed resetting r. and asked the privilege of or having his jeweler jeweler jew jew- eler cler perform the work In due time line the necklace lace was returned shining more brilliantly than ever over A couple of years passed when Mlle Mile de Merode Iero c being temporarily pressed for funds un s thought that she might easily raise something on the royal gift gin The expert export appraiser er el who examined It Informed her that the jewels were paste But whence came the lie magnificent sums which Leopold Is understood to 0 have thrown to the tho lie do dogs s In half haIr the capitals of or Europe The Tho answer I Is I simple lie I Is the ho chief stockholder In inthe he the syndicate which controls the lie Con Congo o Free State Slate ant and as such has all the privileges and emoluments of oC a trust king Ills Income from the African rubber output alone goes Roes far Into tho Ito millions The royal roal establishment In Brussels Is on a modest scale and the king ting spends no great reat amount of money for or household expenses Ills his fad Cad for horticulture howe however Is quite a costly one The magnificence o of his private greenhouses the lie rarity and beauty of the he plants and flowers he cultivates are unequalled Two years ears ago he paid a hundred thousand francs for what Is said to be tho the only onh specimen of a rare variety of orchid ever er brought from the tropical morasses of the upper Amazon In personal persona appearance I Leopold II Is ono one of oC tho the most striking figures In Europ Eu Eu- rop rope More 1010 than six feet In height his erect almost military carriage and powerful shoulders belle his lils age of threescore and ten A magnificent snow white beard beam as distinctive c an appendage appendage appendage ap ap- as a peacocks peacock's tall a pair of wonderfully penetrating eyes ees an eagle engle nose nos so long as s to bo LIf all but Inquisitive 1 ive a decided limp such limp such are the lie chief personal characteristics of or I Leopold II It He has lias a n strong dislike for Cor display seldom seldom sel sel- dom dom dam wears wears uniform and much to the lie dl distaste of his sp spectacle loving people appears rS In hi state only on the rarest oc oc- oc He lie C cares little for society at li least ast for such society as his capital af affords at- at fords fOlds and still less for the opera that lint favorite amusement In Brussels lIe He Is said hJ to have admitted that classical music music music mu mu- sic bores him and after having seen him sit alt yawning through a gala per r performance of or Faust Fausto given Iven In III his lils honor hon hon- or or I have no reason to o doubt thy stor story Ills tastes aRte lie He In the opposite direction He lie is a thoroughly competent civil en engineer n en- a sId skilled lied architect a landscape gardener of oi no mean ability a n bril brilliant mathematician an omnivorous reader and a keen student of modern affairs lIe Ho Is a hard worker cl rising at fj 5 o'clock oven even in winter r and being frequently frequently fre fre- the last of or his household to re rf re- tire In the he morning when his routine session with the secretaries has been disposed of of h he spends several hours In Ina Ina ina a perusal of the time leading newspapers and th the reviews of oC Europe anti and Amer Amer- ica During the he day ho lie makes snakes personal Inspection of oC nn any building or 01 other public work UI that t may be going on In Inthe Inthe the lie neighborhood usually on eu foot and unaccompanied After dinner ho Iw plunges f's In Into to his favorite recreation o of drawing up plans for fOI further improvements Improve improve- Improvements ments In iii the cities of or his kingdom sometimes toiling tolling with ruler and compass compass com coin pass far Car Into the tho night The beautification of his capital has been King Leopolds Leopold's special hobby Not NOI on only I did he suggest s the series of fine Cine boulevards mind and parks and plazas which make malee Brussels one of the most attractive attractive tive of or J European cities but ho Iw drew with his ails own hand hantl the tho plans from rom which the engineers ers worked Despite his interest in Brussels he hI Is so seldom seen there as to be he almost unknown to 0 the citizens Let the tho visitor ask osk a cab tah cabdriver cabdriver driver a n shop-keeper shop or a gendarme If It Is possible to gc get t a glimpse of the lie king anti and the answer is Ilkley to 0 be a shrug sInuS of the shoulders and a grumble You will not see lee him We Ve do cIo not s see him TI lie Is 19 never nc hero here Only for a afew afew afew few weeks during the year far docs does the tricolor tricolor tricolor tri tri- color float over time the great t re white palace In lit Brussels sl signifying that the sovereign sovereign eign Is In residence Ills summers are spent In hi his seaside villa at Ostend that wonderful dt city of pleasure of which heiR lie he lieis lieis is iR th the creator Autumn finds him abo aboard abord rd his yacht ach cruising among the Norwegian fiords lor s. s The winter he spends quietly at or of In Paris oron or oron oron on the Riviera |