Austrian Count In College

AUSTRIAN COUNT IN COLLEGE

He Has An Income Here of $500 a Month

IS HERE FOR WORK

Will Soon Become a Member of Austrian Reichtag and Had Decided Views to Express

Count Jean Marie Horodyski of Austria is spending a few months at the U. of M. pursuing studies in English and political economy. Count Horodyski is somewhat different from the ordinary titled European who visits this country in that he has a well defined purpose which he hopes to accomplish when he becomes a member of the Reichstag of Vienna seven years hence. He is now twenty-three but has been in the country two years. He says:

"The people of Austria are ignorant and the Americans and Germans are wresting power from our hands. We want to get the Germans out of the Reichstag and then we will be able to do something with the business interests of the country. You Americans have the right idea about business, I shall adopt it. Your god is your dollar. These trusts are all wrong. They have had their day and served their purpose just as they did in the seventeenth century in Europe only in a smaller way."

The count believes that he can revolutionize the business interests of Austria and in a few months, as preparatory to it, he will go into business with the Oil City Supply company at Oil City, Penn. He thinks that this will be especially advantageous to him as his own country abounds in petroleum and kerosene. "I will not start a trust like Rockefeller has," he said.

While talking the count was rummaging through his photographs and the picture of a very pretty American girl by the name of Miss Perkins arrested his attention and he held it out for closer inspection. "She is pretty, is she not?" he asked.

"Are you going to take her back to Austria with you?" he was asked.

"How do I know, these American girls--you see I can't say," he answered.

Count Horodyski lives in a very unassuming quarters for one who gets an allowance of $500 a month and frost may be seen on his windows, which, however, overlook one of the prettiest landscapes in the Athens of the West. In his room he has few decorations save a set of wine glasses and some expensive cigars, which also serve other purposes. On his study table the count keeps a silver statue of one of his ancestors, who was a soldier. Upon this is emblazoned the coat of arms of his house, which King Ladislaus Lokietek gave this ancestor in 1375 for bearing him safely across three rivers when returning from a mission to the Pope. The count has a very imposing figure and entered the University unknown. However, it leaked out some way that he was a count and now the mail is flooded with invitations to dine, dance, etc., but Count Horodyski is averse to amusements as just at present he has more serious purposes in life.

He visited the University gymnasium and demonstrated to the member4s of the Fencing club that they knew very little of the art.

Count Horodyski has visited every continent except South America and says that he likes America best of all. He is a thorough student of political economy, but does not altogether like the way it is taught in American universities. He uses a dictionary when he talks so that he can express shades.