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IT is the most popular and the most
accomplished of the Hohenzollerns
who is in a few weeks to visit
America as the guest of the nation
and the personal representative of His
Imperial Majesty William 11. of Ger
many.
Prince Henry of Prussia, the Kais
er's only brother. Is indeed one of the
few princes in Europe who fulfill the
romantic Ideal of what the son of a
royal household should IK I . A naviga
tor. a scholar, a musician, handsome
and dignified in appearance and lova
ble in personality, His lioyal Highness
a vlll decidedly be the most Interesting
visitor the United Slates has seen in
many years. And there is every rea
son to believe that the olive branch oi
peace which It Is his mission to offer
i;s afresh will be extended by a most
graceful hand.
Henry, the sailor prince of Germany,
"Unser Helnrlch," as he is affection
ately called, Is now forty years old,
having been born on August 14, IB<>2.
Among the many points in which he
offers a striking conlrast to his broth
er, none is more significant than the
fact that he was the favorite son of
both his mother and father, and that
he was loyally devoted to them both
fit. a time when William, then Crown
Prince, was pursuing a decidedly un
lilial course. Personally Prince Henry
is a little less tall than his brother,
PRINCE HENRY OF PRUSSIA'S WIFE AND
FAMILY.
but is far more symmetrically propor
tioned, and so well have his twenty
years of seamanship agreed with him
that he gives an impression of perfect
health. He has a handsome face and
head, and wears a close-trimmed blond
beard and mustache, after the fash
ion of the present Prince of Wales, his
cousin.
While Wllhelm's various, remarka
ble, alarming and erratic attributes
and acts have earned for him all sorts
of titles among his loving subjects,
from War Lord down through all the
degrees of Icli und Gott, Wilhelm the
Sudden, Wilhelm the All Knowing,
Jack of All Trades, the Mailyphlst, the
Plckelhaube, and William the Vain,
Prince Henry lias made himself so
well beloved among the Germans that
they have honored him as they did his
lather. They called that good
man "Unser Fritz," and they call his
younger son "Unser Ileinrieh."
lie has earned their love by—
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PRINCE HENRY, BROTHER OK EMPEROR WILLIAM 11.
(1) Keeping his mouth shut (except
once in Kiel):
(2) Bearing the haul lot of a younger
prince without expectations and with a
nailyphist brother, lu silence and w:th
Jignity;
(3) Minding his own business;
(4) Selecting for that business that of
sailor.
LL ENTERTAIN L(A)t^PAttTY^
—From the New York Tribune.
Every nation with a crowned head
demands a sailor prince, and the sailor
prince always is the favorite. Henry
is a real sailor prince. There wasn't
any fooling about it. Few admirals in
any service in the world have seen as
much s«a service as he has. lie
worked his way up and served as a
captain so long that all Germany be
came excited over It, and insinuated
that his imperial and absolute brother
never would let him advance.
Besides being able to steer a ship or
get up steam in her or paint h*r or fire
her guns or scrub her decks, he can
make excellent clocks.
If there ever should be a revolution
in Europe that would make it desirable
THE KAISER'S YACHT AS SHE WILL LOOK
WHEN COMPLETED.
for the Admiral to emigrate and begiu
life over again In a free and easy coun
try, he could hang out his shingle In
Maiden lane confident that the merit
of his goods would bring a reasonable
amount of business to
Albert William Henry Hohenzollern, :
Formerly Member of the Firm of :
: William 11. (Limited), :
Now Manufacturer of Clocks. :
For Priuctt lieary learned clock
malting as a trade, following the Ilo
henzollern custom of teaching each
child a manual art. Wllhelm the
Mighty Is a glovemalcer by trade and
is said Is to he as good at it as he is
at emperoring, sculpture, statesman
ship, oratory and poetry. Whatever
else lie is, he is no slouch, hut does
everything with all his might.
The imperial yacht Hohenzollern,
which will sail over here, is the most
powerful private yacht in the world
with the exception of the Standart,
belonging to the Czar of Russia. Like
that vessel, the Holienzollern really Is
a warship. She Is well armed, and
capable of being armed far more
heavily than she is. Her sides are
armor plated and she has a ram. In
fact, in all essentials she is a cruiser
of no mean strength.
Iler crew is uniformed, and the dis
cipline aboard is that of a naval ves
sel.
Her interior is as lavish as her ex
terior is grim and threatening.
Miss Alice ltoosevelt, who will
christen the schooner yacht that Is
now lying on the ways at Shooter's
Island, in the works of the Townsend
& Downey Ship Building Company, is
a tall well-built girl of the modern
athletic type. She is the daughter of
the President by his first wife, and
was cared for by his sister, now Mrs.
Cowles, wife of Commander Cowles
of the Navy, until Mr. Roosevelt mar
ried again. She is in her nineteenth
year.
Prince Henry's Itinerary.
This program of Prince Henry's
American tour was submitted to Em-
GERMAN EMBASSY AT WASHINGTON, D. C.
(I'rince Henry's stopping place while at
the National Capital.)
peror William and the Prince, aud has
been approved by them:
February 22—The arrival of the
Frince aud his suite at New York.
February 23—The official welcome
by the represent- .j of President
Roosevelt, the Governor of the State
of New York and the Mayor of New
York City.
February 24—The launching of the
yacht at Shooter's Island and a dinner
to be given by Prince Henry.
February 25—A reception in honor
of Prince Henry, a dinner in his honor
to be given by the Mayor of New
York and, if consistent with these
functions, a reception by the Press
Club.
February 26—The Prince and his
party will proceed to Washington,
where the Prince will reside at the
German Embassy. He will exchange
calls with President Roosevelt and be
entertained by a dinner at the White
House.
February 27—Official receptions and
visits aud a dinner at the German
Embassy.
February 28—The Prince and his
party will start for Chicago.
The appointment of the Prince's
time between Chicago, Milwaukee,
Niagara Falls and Boston, all of which
he will visit, has not yet been pre
cisely made. In fact, any part of the
official program may be modified.
Before sailing for home Prince
Henry will spend two or three days in
New York, visiting the city's objects
of interest and receiving privately
some of New York's notable citizens.
The old wooden boat bridge over the
ancient Oxus, on the line of the Trans-
Caspian Railroad, is to be replaced by
an Iron bridge 5000 feet long, support
ed on twenty-four piers. The esti
mated cost of the structure is $2,t>00.-
000.
COMBINATION CHAIR.TABLE.
Something Now and Odd in the Way of
Furuitnre.
Tills unique furnishing piece, the
combination chair-table, is designed
especially for piazza or lawn use; but
COMBINATION CHAIR-TABLE.
It is quite attractive enough and suf
ficiently finished to form a decorative
addition to any room—ln smoking or
lounging rooms especially, or where
economy of space Is a consideration.
"Multum In parvo" might well be used
to describe It, as It combines a most
comfortable chair and convenient
table, wltli large drawer, in one fur
nishing piece. It may be had in sev
eral designs in ash. dark green or
dark brown, or finished in weathered
ash, as desired. It is covered with
waterproof varnish to withstand
moisture or rain when used out-of
doors. Its attractive appearance,
convenience, substantiality and very
reasonable price (from 98.50 to sll in
different sizes) will commend this
piece to many.
The Doctor's Circle."
Each physician in the United States
has 055 persons to look to for his sup
port, for one to 055 Is the proportion,
according to the latest Government
statistics. California stands at the
bottom —or top, depending on the view
—of the list, for there are only 410 ac
tual and prospective patients for each
M.!>., while in Alaska 2341) persons
have to depend on or take chances
with one doctor. New York is near the
average, with 003 persons for each phy
sician to look after, and Pennsylvania
comes nearer the average than any
other States, with 002. Lying partially
between these great States comes New
Jersey, where the number of medical
practitioners falls oft' until one has to
care for OSO persons.
A Celebrated Roman Kilter*
Touching the matter of eating, the.
stories told by the old chroniclers and
historians of the abnormal appetites of
certain Homan and Oriental men of
note fairly stagger belief. Gibbon tells
of Soliman, a caliph in the eighth cen
tury, who died of indigestion in his
camp near Chalcis, ia Syria, just as
lie "was about to lead an army of Arabs
against Constantinople. He had emptied
two baskets of eggs and figs, which
he swallowed alternately, and the re
past was finished with marrow and
sugar. In a pilgrimage to Mecca the
same caliph had eaten with impunity
at a single meal seventy pomegranates,
a kid, six fowls and a huge quantity
of the grapes ot' Tayef.
Itaßgerouß Delights.
A New York physician lias recently
drawn attention to the danger of tu
berculosis infection in childhood from
visits to menageries. These greatly
loved visits of the little ones should,
he thinks, give concern to sanitarians.
To visit the monkey houses In the
zoological gardens and to remain there
as long as nurses, time and temper
will allow Is the delight of every
child. But monkeys also, like the
children of men, are prone to tubercle.
The commotion, dust, impure air of
the monkey house are cer
tainly favorable to the dissemination
of tubercle.—The Medical Press.
A Qieer London Character Gone.
William Day, a l>ondoii character,
is d:ad. He always wore a high hat
Inscribed in gold letters, "Prepare to
meet thy God." He had specli.l per
mission from Scotland Yard to wear
this hat. lie made a special point of
promenading the Strand when the
theatre ercwds were pouriug out
from the matinees.
1 loir She Figured It Out.
Jimmy (with the peanuts)—"A little
girl choked to death eating peanuts
the otjier day."
Jane —"Well, she'd be livin' yet if
Bhe'd known you!"— New York World.
DR. TALMAGES SERMON
SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED
DIVINE.
Sabject: Beauties of a Cboerful Spirit—
Cauaea (or Thanksgiving That Aio Sel
dom Recognized Reuieinber Kully
Blessing*—Comforts of Friendship.
WASHINGTON, D. C. —In this discourse
Dr. Talmago calls attention to causes of
thanksgiving that are seldom recognized,
and shows how to cultivate n cheerful
spirit; tent, Psalms xxxiii, 2, "Sing uito
him with a psaltery and an instrument of
ten strings."
A musician as well as poet and con
queror and king was David, the author
of my text. He first composed the sacred
rhythm and then played it upon a harp,
striking and plucking the strings with his
fingers and thumbs. The harp is the old
est of musical instruments. .Tubal invent
ed it, and he was the seventh descendant
from Adam. Its music was suggested by
the twang of the bowstring. Homer re
fers to the harp in the "Iliad." It is the
most consecrated of all instruments. The
flute is more mellow, the bugle uore mar
tial, the cornet more incisive, the trumpet
more resonant, the urgan more mighty, but
the harp has a tenderness and sweetness
belonging to no other instrument that I
kno.v of. It enters into the richest sym
bolism of the Holy Scriptures. The cap
tives in their sadness "nun;; their harps
upon the willows." In other ages it had
eight strings. David's harp had ten
strings, and when his great soul was afire
with the theme his sympathetic voice, ac
companied by exquisite vibration of the
chords, must have been overpowering.
With as many things to complain about
as any man ever had David wrote more
anthems than any other man ever wrote.
He puts even the frost.-, and hailstorms
and tempests and creeping things and hy
ing fowl and the mountains and the hills
and day and night into a chorus. Absa
lom's plotting and Ahithophel's treachery
and hosts 01 antagonists and sleepless
nights and a running sore could not liush
his psalmody. Indeed, the more his trou
bles the mightier his sacred poems. The
words "praise" and "song" are so often
repeated in his psalms that one would
think the typesetter's case containing the
letters with which those words are spelled
would be exhausted.
In my text David calls upon the people
to praise the Lord with an instrument of
ten strings, like that which he was accus
tomed to linger. The simple fact is that
the most of us, if wo praise the Lord at
ail, play upon one string or two strings or
three strings when we ought to take a nr.rp
fully ehorded and with glad fingers sweep
all the strings. Instead of being grateful
for here and there a blessing we happen
to think of, we ought to rehearse all our
blessings so far as we can recall them and
obey the injunction of iny text to sing
unto Ilim with an instrument of ten
strings.
Have you ever thanked Cod for delight
some food? What vast multitudes are a
hungered from day today or are obliged
to take food not toothsome or pleasant to
the taste! What millions arc in struggle
for bread! A Confederate soldier went to
the front, and his family were on the
verge of .starvation, but they were kept up
by the faith of a child of that 1 ousehold,
who, noticing that sonic supply was sure to
come, excla'med, "Mother, I think Cod
hears when we scrape the bottom of the
barrel."
Have you appreciated the fact that on
most of your tables are luxuries that do
not come to all? Have you realized what
varieties of flavor often touch your tongue
and how the saccharin and the acid have
been afforded your palate? What fruits,
what nuts, what meats regale your appe
tite, while many would be glad to get the
crusts and rinds and peelings that fall
from your table.
For the fine flavors and the luxurious
viands you have enjoyed for a lifetime per
haps you have never expressed to God a
word of thanksgiving, 'lhat is one o. the
ten strings that you ought to have
thrummed in praise to Cod, but you have
never yet put it in vibration.
Have you thanked God for eyesight as
originally given to you or, after it was
dimmed by age. for the plass that brought
the page of the book within the compass
of the vision? Have you realized the pri
vation those sufer to whom the day is as
black as the night and who never see the
face of father or mother or wife or child or
friend? Through what painful surgery
many have gone to get one glimpse of the
light! The eye so delicate and beautiful
and useful that one of them is invaluable!
And most of us have two of these won
ders of divine mechanism. The man ot
millions of dollars who recently went blind
from atrophy tc optic nerve would have
been willing to give all his mil'ions and be
come a day laborer if he could have kept
off the blindness that gradually crept over
his vision.
You may have noticed how Christ's sym
pathies were stirred for the blind. Oph
thalmia has always been prevalent in Pal
estine, the custom of sleemng on the house
tops, exposed to the dew and the flying
dust of the dry season, inviting this dread
ful disorder. A large percentage of the in
habitants could not tell the difference be
tween 12 o'clock at noon and 12 o'clock at
night. We are told of six of Christ's mir
acles for the cure of these sightless ones,
but I suppose they were only specimens of
hundreds of restored visions.
What a pitiful spectacle Saul of Tarsus,
mighty man, three days led about in phys
ical as well as spiritual darkness, he who
ifterward made Felix tremble by his elo
quence and awed the Athenian phi'oso- 1
phers on Mars Hill and was the only cool
headed man in the Alexandria corn ship
that went to pieces on the rocks of Mile
tus, once Ihe mighty persecutor if Saul,
ifterward the glorious evangelist Paul, for
three days not able to take a safe step
without guidance!
Have you ever given thanks for two
eyes—media between the soul inside and
the world outside, media that no one but
the infinite Cod could create? The eye,
the window of our immortal nature, the
gate through which all colors march, the
picture gallery of the soul! Without the
eye this world is a big dungeon. 1* fear
that many of us have never given one
hearty expression of gratitude for treasure
cf sight, the loss of which is the greatest,
disaster possible, unless it be the lass of
the mind. Those wondrous seven muscles
that turn the eye up or down, to right or
lett or around. No one but God could
have created the retina. If we have over
appreciated what God did when He cave
us two eyes it was when we saw others
with obliterated vision.
Alas, that only through the privation of
others we came to a realization of our own
blessing! If you had harp in hand and
swept all the strings of gratitude, you
would have struck this, which is one of
the most dulcet of the ten strings.
Further, notice how many pass through
life in silence because the ear refuses to
do its office. They never hear music, vo
cal or instrumental. The thunder that
rolls its full diapason through the heav
ens does not startle the prolonged silence.
The air that has for us so many melodies
has no sweet sound for them. They live in
a quietude that will not be broken until
heaven breaks in upon them with its har
monies. The bird voices of the springtime,
the chatter of the children, the sublime
chant of the sea, the solo of the cantatriee
and (he melody of the great worsh ping as
semblies mean nothing to them. Have we
devoutly thanked God for these two won
ders of our hearing, with which we can
now put ourselves under the charm of
sweet sound and also carry in our memor
ies the infantile song with .which our
mothers rut us to sleep and ths voices of
the groat prima donnas like Liiid and Patti
and Neilson, and the sound of inrtrument-s
Ike the violin of the Swedish performer,
or the cornet of Arbuckle, or the mightiest
of all instruments, with the hand cf Mor
gan on the keys and his foot on the pedal,
or some Sabbath ture like "Coronation,
in the acclaim of which you could hear
the crowns of heaven coming down at the
feet of .Jesus? Many of us have never
tharked God for this hearing apparatus
of the soul. That is one of the ten strings
of gratitude that we ought always to
thrum after hearing the voice of the loved
one or the last f-tra'n of an oratorio or the
clang of a cathedral tower.
Further, there are many who never rec
ognize how mucli God gives them when
Tie "ivcs then sleep. Insomnia is a calam
ity wider known in our land than in any
other. By midlifa vast multitudes have
their nerves so overwrought that slumber
has to be coaxed, and many are the vic
tims of chloral and morphine. Kler')>ss
ness is an American disorder. If it has
not touched you and you can rest for seven
or eight hours without waking—if for that
length of time in every twenty-four hours
you can be free of all care and worriment
and your nerves are retuned and your
limbs escape from all fatigue and the ris
ing sun finds you a new man, body, mi id
and soul —you have an advantage that
ought to be put ia prayer and song and
congratulation.
As long as you collect vast dividend?
and have health jocund and popularity un
bounded you will have crowds of seeming
friends, but let bankruptcy and invalid
ism and defamation come, end the num
ber of your friends will be- ninety-five per
cent. off. If you have been through sim:
great crisis and you have one friend left,
thank God and celebrate it on the sweet
est harpstring.
But we must tighten the cords of our
harp and retune it while wo celebrate gos
pel advantages. The highest style of civ
ilization the world has ever seen is Amer
ican civi'ization, and it is built out of the
gospel of pardon and good morals. That
gospel roc.ced our cradle, and it will epi
i taph our grave. It soothes our sorrows,
I brightens our hopes, inspires our courage,
forgives our sins and saves our souls. It
takes a man who i3 all wrong and make,
him all right. What that gospel has done
for you and me is a story that wo can
never fully tell.
What it has done for the world and -vili
yet do for the nations it will take the thou
sand years of the millennium to celebrate.
The grandest churches are yet to be built.
The mightiest anthems are yet to ba
hoisted. The greatest victories r.rc yet tc
be gained. The most beautiful Madonnaa
are yet to be painted. The must trium
phant processions are yet to march.
Oh. what a world this will be when it
rotates in its orbit a redeemed planet,
girdled with spontaneous harvests and
enriched by orchards whose fruits are
speckless and redundant, and the last pain
will have been banished and the last tear
wept and the last groan uttered, and there
shall be nothing to hurt or destroy in all
God's holy mountain! All that and more
will come to pass, for"the mouth of the
Lord hath spoken it."
So far I have mentioned nine of the ten
strings of t'.io instrument of gratitude. I
now come to the tenth and the last. I
mention it last that it may be the mora
memorable —heavenly anticipation. By the
grace of God we are going to move into a
place so much better than this that on ar
riving wo will wonder that we were for so
many years so loath to make the transfer.
After wo have seen Christ face to face and
rejoiced over our departed kindred there
are some mighty spirits wo will want to
meet soon after we pass through the gates.
We want to sec and will see David, a
mightier king in heaven than he over was
on earth, and wo will talk with him about
psalmody and get from him e::actlv what
he meant when he taiked about the instru
ment of ten strings. We will confront
Moses, who will tell of the law giving on
rocking Sinai and of his mysterious burial,
with no one but God present.
We will see Joshua, and he will tell us
of the coming down of the walls of Jeri
cho at the blast of the ram's horn a id ex
plain to us that miracle—how the sun and
moon could stand still without demolition
of the planetary system.
We will see Ruth and have her tell ot
the harvest field of Boaz. in which sho
gleaned for afflicted Naomi. We will see
Vasliti and hear from her own lips the
story of her banish inert from the Persian
palace by infamous Ahasuerus.
We will see and talk with Daniel, and
he will tell us how he saw Belshazzar's
banqueting hall turned into a slaughter
house, and how the lions greeted him with
loviig fawn instead of stroke of cruel paw.
We will see and talk with Solomon, v.-hosa
palaces are gone, but whose inspired epi
grams stand out stronger and stronger as
the centuries pass.
Wo will sec Paul and hear from him
how Felix trembled before him and tin
audience of skeptics on Mars Hill were
confounded by his sermon on the brother
licod of man. what lie saw at Ephesus and
Syracuse and Philippi and Home and how
dark was the Mamertine dungeon and how
sharp the axe that beheaded him on tho
road to Ostia. Yea, we will sec all the
martyrs, the victims of axe and sword and
fire and billow. What a thrill cf excite
ment for us when we gaze upon the heroes
and heroines who gave their lives for the
truth.
We will see the gospel proclaimers Chry
sostom and Bourdalous and Whiteiield,
and the Wesleya and John Knox. Wc
will see the great Christian poets, Milton
and Dante and Watts and Mrs. Ilemans
and Frances Havergal. Yea, all the de
parted Christian men and women of what
ever age or nation.
But there will be one focus toward
which all eyes will be directed. His in
fancy having slept on pillow of straw; all
the hates of the Herodic Government plan
ning for His assassination; in after time
whipped as though He were a criminal;
asleep on the co.d mountains because no
one offered Him a lodging; though the
greatest being who ever touched our earth,
derisively called "this fellow;" His last
hours writhing on spikes of infinite tor
ture; His lacerated form putin sepulcher,
then reanimated and ascended to be the
centre of all heavenly admiration—upon
that greatest martyr and mightiest hero
of all the centuries we will be permitted to
look. Put that among your heavenly antic
ipations.
Now take down your harp of ten strings
and sweep all the chords, making all of
them tremble with a great gladness. I have
mentioned just ten —delightsome food, eye
sight, hearing, healthful sleep, power of
physical locomotion, illumined nights, men
tal faculties in equipoise, friendships of
life, gospel advantages and heavenly an
ticipations. Let us make less complaint
and offer more thanks, render less dirge
and more cantata. Take paper and pen
and write down in long columns your bless
ings. I have recited only ten. To express
all the mercies God has bestowed you
would have to use at least three, and I
think five, numerals, for surely they would
run up into the hundreds and the thou
sands. "Oh, give thanks unto the Lord,
for He is good, for His mercy endureth
forever." Get into the habit of rehearsal
of the briehtnesses of life.
Notice how many more fair days there
are than foul, how many more good people
than bad you meet. Set your misfortunes
to music, as David opened his "dark sav
ings on a harp." If it has been low tide
heretofore, let the surges of mercy that
are yet to roll in upon you reach high
water mark. All things will work to
gether for your good, and heaven is not
far ahead. Wake up all the ten strings.
Blessing and honor and glory and power
be unto Him that sitteth upon the throne
and unto the Lamb forever. Amen!
[Copyright, IW2, L. Klopaciul