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WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 1". 1PH.
maim: really r.oEs "dry."
With all cities, towns and planta?
tions In the State of Main-? reported,
and all but one hundred und ninety-,
six of the returns verified by the clerks
of election. Prohibition won In the
election on Monday by a majority of
four hundred and sixty-five. This Is
a very close margin, but It is quite
enough to show that Maine Is consti?
tutionally opposed to the open bar?
room. All the cities voted for the re?
peal of constitutional prohibition,
but their majorities were not sufficient
to overcome the country vote.
We suppose th?t the illicit sale of
liquor will continue In the cities as
heretofore, that the boot-leggers and
blind tigers will flourish, that outside
whiskey houses will keep their agents
In the principal centres of population,
and that men who want to drink will
find some way of buying the stuff when |
they want it: hut the State will be
nominally a prohibition State at least
If the voters could find officeholders
who would be faithful to their trust,
which they do not appear to have been 1
able to do In the past, a more rigid J
enforcement of the law would be pos- ?
slble. The defeat of the repealers will
be of Immediate advantage to the
Illicit dealers, of course: but the peo?
ple of the State have kept faith with
their past and the Prohibitionists nil
over the country will rejoice. ,
Thousands of votes were doubtless
cast against repeal for business rea?
sons Such at any rate was the argu?
ment made at a recent meeting In the
village of Ogunqult by a strong oppo?
nent of the repeal movement who sub?
mitted to the voters that, leaving tho
moral question, which was very great,
out of consideration, It would be bet?
ter for the State to have the money
thnt would be spent for whiskey spent
rather in tho channels of "legitimate
trr.de." This argument doubtless had
weight with many voters who were j
halting between two opinions.
dU A RR i". ling in HARTFOItn.
When Governor Harmon was at
Hartford the other day he was cor?
dially received by a number of the
most prominent Democrats In the.
State, and had a very enjoyable time.
The Courant reported that he said in
the Informal conversation he had with
his friends that he could beat Mr. Taft
In Ohio. Now comes the Hon. Robert
P. Butler, chairman of the Democratic
party In Hartford?the same who car?
ried Governor Harmon's valise from
the train to the automobile in which
he was taken to the hotel?denying
the accuracy of the report In the
Courant and saying: "In all his
(Harmon's) conversation he did not
mention his candidacy for the Demo?
cratic nomination for the Presidency
a year hence, and his discussion of
the next (Pr&SldeJitlal election was
Wholly free from personal reference
. . . . Governor Harmon made' no
such boast. H<; was asked, among oth?
er questions, what appeared to be th
Democratic chances in Ohio next fall,
and he replied thnt If the party should
he. ns firmly together then ns It ap?
pears to be now. he believed President
Taft would lose Ohio."
Mr. Butler also sought In his letter
to the Courant to Impress upon it the
value nf courtesy, saying that al?
though Governor Harmon was not nt
the time of his visit to Hartford th ?
guest of the city, "his position as the
oxeeutlve head of a great State, and
even the most ordinary respect to
the distinguished stranger within our
gates should secure to him on such
a visit at'least that dccenl courtesy
which only the day before was ac?
corded to the President of the United
States by persons of all politic ,1
faiths." Squirming under this re
proof, tho Courant "welcomes this
gently put rebuke from such n model
of modesty and decorum ns the get.',
tlemsn who beat out the Governor <.f
the state and th? Mayor of the City
nt the station and got Governor Har?
mon into his dutches' bet?re either of
these -pushing and self-assertive oil1.
clals could get near the train." thus
harking back to the fact' that Mr.
Butler carried the valise nt the dis?
tinguished visitor, a service which,
probably, neither Judge Baldwin no.
Mayor Smith c.ired to perform, r<nd
declares that "leading Democrats With
whom he talked informed the Couraril
reporter that Governor Harmon It?.
made the (-tatement to them that n.?
could best Taft In Ohio." We hav<
no._ doubt that he could beat Taft j
Ohl?, and that is one of the feasor
why he Is. an available -candidate fp
President; but we seriously doubt tha
v he really made the statement nttr!
buted to him by the Hertford pnp?-r
The reporter for the.Courant does no
appear to have heard him say any
thing, of the sort, and it Is not 1m
probable that the "leading Dotnporal
*ere mistaken In the information the
imparted to the reporter. Ai a gen
aral thing, the reporter can he de
pended upon to sot down the facts and
not tno inferences.
We regret that there has been a-ny
charge of discourtesy against the Cou
rant, we don't believe that It would
be Intentionally discourteous to any?
body: but the lesson In good monn-'-rs
which Mr. Butler has attomptod to
teach it will not bo lost if in Its
treatment of other Democratic candi?
dates for President who shall visit
Hartford It will exercise greater euro
In Its reports of what they actually
day. In order to prevent the recur?
rence of the unpleasant incident which
Mr. Butler has so gently rebuked, we
would suggest that Dr. Charles Hop?
kins Clark, the distinguished editor
of the Couranl. be always placed on j
the reception committee. He Is a Re?
publican, it is true, of the most hope?
less character, and is also strongly
opposed to woman mffrage, but Jhe ,
very soul of courtesy, besides being
one of the handsomest men In Con?
necticut, he would make the candi?
date feel at home. We feel warranted
In saying, further, that he would not
object to Mr. Butler carrying all their
valises, There would be no impro?
priety in his acting on this commit?
tee. Nearly all the reception commlt
tees that have welcomed Mr. Taft to:
the South have been composed entire- |
ly of Democrats.
! HOOSEVRL.T AND BHYAN ? WHY
NOT?
j There wan a meeting of the two
; immortals, both of whom are still liv
i ing and kicking, In The Outlook office
j in New York City one day last week.
' It was a purely friendly visit, so far
as the public Is informed, and it fol
; lowed a previous meeting down Oys?
ter Bay way a few days before they i
were closeted in the New York sanc?
tum. ?
What they talked about and all that
was said will never be known unless
Dr. Lyman Abbott set the dictaphone
so that it would catch at least the |
drift of the conversation, which, fori
ihe sake of history, we sincerely hope
he did. We imagine, however, that
there was a free interchange of views
as to what paramount issues might
be spruntr a little later upon an ever
receptive public, and possibly there
was much mutual congratulation upon
the successes that have attended the'
planning of the one and the execu?
tion of the other.
Both of them would doubtless like
to get Into the political game again,
and if they would only toss up for
place and bunch their hits, what more
formidable ticket could be put in the
held for the next Presidential elec?
tion than The Colonel from New Y'ork
and The Colonel from Nebraska?
Platform? Why, no platform would
be needed. They would be their own
platform, and they would mage such
D stir in the political life of this
Nation as was never known before.
The Adullamites from Alaska to the
Gulf of Mexico would Hock to their j
Standard, and where they led tens of j
thousands would follow, make no mis?
take about that. Roosevelt and Bryan,
or Bryan and Roosevelt, according as
the coin might determine, and we
should have that breaking up of old
party lines which would make tho
Constitution tremble.
A GREAT JUDGE'S VIEW,
At the recent convention of the I
American Bar Association In Boston. [
former Justice H. B. Brown, of the j
United States Supreme Court, gave his
approval Of the short ballot and the
commission form of government. Ho
said that the plan or commission gov?
ernment for cities is earning a ?'?well
deserved popularity." "The widely
democratic ideas." ho said, "which be?
gan to prevail early in the last cen- !
t?ry," and finally ended in the pop?
ular elections of justices of the peace. '
constables, street commissioners and
other petty officers have begun to give
place to "saner views which look more
to the efficiency of those chosen than
to the gratification of a popular whim
In choosing them." He went on to
say that the argument is (hat if the
people may he entrusted to elect the
Head of the ticket and Its legislative
officers, they mhy he entrusted equally
with the choice of all the officers. "But '?
the analogy fails in this * ital par- |
tlcular.V he said, "the voter may i>e I
assumed to know the h.oad of the t
ticket, as Well as the man who wished |
t.i represent him in the legislative I
1 dy. but ho cannot know the multi?
tude of minor ofRcei'B who are neces?
sary for the conduct of a great bus- \
iness." I
ormer Justice Brown has been
ranked as a conservative. One thing
I? oertaln?his commendation of the j
1 commission plan of government Is ?
praise from sir Hubert Stanley, for
' his lifetime has been given to the study
of government In this republic.
WOODROW WILSON'S CAMPAIGN '
I I Ml.
One must go away from home to find'
: the news. Here comes the Havana
j (Cuba) Post with the story that icj
cost $100.000 to elect Woodrow Wilson!
Governor of New Jersey lnst year and
that former United States Senator!
James Smith, Jr.. of Newark. contrl-|
huted $70.000 of this large 'sum. ThjM
Posl *.ays further that letters were
lb prlnceton graduates through'
out the country inviting subscriptions,
I to tho Wilson campaign fund, but that I
j only $a,SOo was raised In this way.I
i The Cuban paper wants to know "Who!
I Is providing funds for the Governor
I Wilson Preta Bureau In New York and
! Trenton, and for the Wilson agents.
Who are visiting the various Slates of
1 the Union?"
Stooping only, lohjj enough to say
that It is none of this Havana paper's
I, islnefVa, if howbelt there is a Wilson
I Press Bureau and Wllfion agents in
jail the States, we would remark that;
I Governor. Wilson hai, a good deal of
? money of his own. has many friends
: who believe In him who have money,
and really does not need a great deal
j to keep his campaign going, seeing
that he Is one of the best " nown men
[ In the country, and has caught the ear
; of the newspapers and news agencies
> with the result that he is assnrcd of
j great gobs of publicity without money
? or price. Besides, what's the matter
with tho Hon. James Smith, Jr., who
: hus a long purse and a good memory?!
I why shouldn't he come across hand
'? somely? If It be true, us stated, that
'. he subscribed $70,000 to elect Dr. Wil?
son Governor of New Jersey, thus con
' tining the political activities of tho
'. Schoolteacher to that State, why would
I he not do even better, in the circum
i stances, to get the Schoolmustor out
of the State so that his Influence
might be spread out thin over this!
great Union of States rather than be!
cribbed, coffined and confined to
Smith's ancestral pieserves'.'
UY-ELECTIONS THIS FALL.
The death of George XV. Gordon, of
the Tenth Tennessee; of H. C. Louden
slager, of the First New Jersey; of A.
K. Mitchell, of the Second Kansas, and
of G. \V. Kepp, of the Fourteenth
Pennsylvania districts, will test the
tariff issue even beforo a general elec?
tion- The successor of General Gor?
don In the Memphis district will be a
democrat, and Mr. Mitchell's succes?
sor will probably be an Insurgent Re?
publican. Last full, Mr. Mitchell re?
ceived 23.2S2 votes, and John Caldwell.
Democrat, got 19,851', and K. Richards
O'Hara, Socialist, polled 2,272. The
First New Jersey District is very
close, and the ejection of a Democrat
is most likely. The same is true of
the Fourteenth Pennsylvania District,
In which G. W. Kepp. Democrat, was
elected last year by about 800 plu?
rality.
The outlook Is that four Democrats
may be elected In the four districts.
The by-elections will be considered
straws that show which way the wind
is blowing,
"BULLY!"
The New Tork World has .formed the
pernicious habit of remembering things
thnt the Greatest Living American
would fain forget.
' In the current number of The Out?
put, The Contributing Editor says; "I,
for one, would rather cut off my hand
than see the United States adopt tho
attitude either of cringing before great
and powerful nations who wish to
wrong us or by bullying small and
weak nations that have done us no
wrong." And The World is mean enough
to quote from The Colonel's speech at
tho University of California as fol?
lows: "1 took Panama, and then left
Congress Co debate."
It looks us If The World had thus
deliberately and with malice afore?
thought put The Colonel in tho nine
hole. But as the late Patrick Walsh
answered whan ho was charged with
having changed his views on the tariff
question? with quotations from his edi?
torial rfiliverances to embarrass him;
"Well, that's what I thought then; and
this Is what I think now."
GOOD PUR TUB GERAGHTY8.
These are glorious days for Jack
Geraghty and his lovely wife, long life |
to them! Since their return to New- |
port presents have been pouring in j
upon them at their modest home In j
Everett Street, the cooking of the
Wife Is getting better every day and;
day after day. and the husband's busl
nest is fairly booming, having doubled
since they got back home from their
honeymoon In Springfield. The "Sum- ;
mer Colony" at Newport have taken
them up and men and women havo
been buying automobiles and things ;
for automobiles from Jack Geraghty
who never bought before. There is
also talk about a reconciliation and "n
long-standing friend of the French
family." says The Times correspond?
ent, "has advised Mrs. Geraghty to]
walk Into her home and throw her
arms around her mother's neck." That
would be very line, of course, but It
would be far more like the proper
thing If her mother would walk Into
the house on Everett Street and throw
her arms around "dear old Jack's"
neck. She would in this way gain a
gi id son even ns he found a mighty
line wife.
TOO MI CH GOLD.
A learned professor has lately pre?
dicted before n body of distinguished
British students that the coming three
years will be marked by itilkes. labor
wars and violence, because since 183?
the cost of living hns been rising
steadily, whereas before that time the
cost of living had been going down.
11 Is somewhat striking that th s
year 1S<?6 should be selected from
which to date an Inflation of prices
due to an enormous Intlatlon Of the
mono? supply, but such is "the Irony
of statist lea." The professor says:
"Tho enormous output of gold in
recent years has upset the balance of
prices and the world has not yet
shaken Itself down to a true adjust?
ment"
If it should prove correct that we
are starting upon a period of unrest
and disturbance which can be traced
illrcrt to the gold supply, and that In
"this period somebody should nrls? to
suggest .i change' from gold on the
ground that there is too much of It,
we should have the money Issue In a
new and interesting form.
A very interesting thing happened
at Chicago the other day. A man pro?
posed to celebrate the opening of the
I oyster season. He received a barrel
of the fancy breed for the gala day.
j To get the bivalves In good condition
he fed them bounteously on suited
j cornm-;al. Just ns. itlj the humane nnd
1 thoughtful people of Richmond do
I While dipping his hand, filled with
the meal, into the barrel, one of the.
oysters, blggor and hungrier than tho
others, opened Its shell wide to- sot a
I hugo mouthful, and In closing: down
j on It, Caught tho man's hand ns In a
vise. It wouldn't let go. In great
! Pain, the man ran for a doctor who
j separated the mangled lingers from
I the grasp of the oyster. Tho oyster Is
j of peacablo disposition, but, like the
I cooter. If ho gets the finger In his
j mouth, he won't, let go until it thun
i ders.
j Here Is a question which every stud
j ent trying to enter the medical col?
leges should be asked on his exami?
nations to-day: Why is a glosslna
palpalle, and what has It to do with
trypanosonia gamblenEC? If not, why
not, but" when?
"The campus" of the students of tho !
medical colleges hero last night was ?
alive with embryo doctors, busy re- ;
newing old tlos and friendships, and ,
glad to be here again to sit hanked ,
In tiers at tho clinics.
Saturday the dreadnought "Dela?
ware" shot up the old battleship
"Texas" some more, with exactly what
results we are not informed. Tho |
Dring was done at ranges between
14,000 and 16,000 yards and It was ex- '
peeled that the shots would finish the i
gallant old hulk which brought glory
to the American arms in the war be?
tween the United States and Spain
thirteen years ago. We only wish that
the "Texas" could have tuken a few i
shots at the "New Hampshire" and j
"Delaware" In return for their broad?
sides. Pretty expensive business, we
should say, to use a ship that cost ;
three or^four million dollars as a mark ,
to shoot at!
. -i-:
"George Washington Bailey, editor
of the Houston Post, is spending his
vacation In Ashevtlle." So says tho
Charlotte Evening Chronicle: but It I
Isn't true, as "there alnt no such anl
mal." There Is a man called George
Marcellus Bailey: but he isn't like
George Washington in the least de?
gree. This Is probably the aian whose
name has been changed by the Char?
lotte paper. One of these days he will
probably slip over into Tennessee to'
consult with Governor Hooper, on
whose personal staff he holds the poBl
tion of Colonel.
Abe Martin oays: "Ther's talk o'
buildin' a home fer ole an" indignant
consumers."
Voicp of the People
"Queed."
To the Fdltor of The Tim6R-Dispatch:
Sir,?Shakespeare was said to be one
of the greatest plagiarists ever. He
could take most any old dry goods box
of an idea and hammer it a little (as(
the ladies do) and with a little flowered
chintz to cover the cracks he would
dress it up with pink ribbons so as to
look real original. Only a genius can
thus gracefully steal and improve on i
tho literary junk which he lugs Into
his scriptorium.
Here this fellow. Henry Sydnor
Harrison, has written a book he calls
"Q?eed." .Vow, I am not often deluded
into reading "best sellers," and my rule
is to wait a year an(i then put it off.
but a female Inveigled me into it,:
and 1 have read it. As you might say, j
it is not half had, but I will tell you1
more:- This young map is said to have
once been an editor, but is now reform?
ed, and be seems to have a penchant
for blue-eyed girls (the famous star-'
eyed blondes of the Richmond Times- j
Dispatch). You can doubtless place;
him from this.
Now this 'book would be very fine If
It had not been written by a woman?
thai |s, you ein see that some such
must have told him to do 't. and you
fee! like this Delilah must have been
a very competent female. She makes
this ex-edltor do wonders. He tniks
like Tolstoy in his dramatis personae
movements, and he lias the unreal
realism of the great Russian prophet,
and, |n common, they have that in?
sight into every-day people which only,
women can achieve.
The pink ribbons are very happily
pla?ed, and he has evidently read
Dickens: In fact, he seems to be a well
educated man, which fs unique In nn i
author. The plot la almost as good
as that of- "Our Mutual Friend, and
Queed is just as mysteriously <-u!xot!c,
or blunderingly scientific, as John
Harmon, but :he author IS young yet,
and his artistic values are not quite
accurately balanced?a little slangy now
and then, and Dickens would not have
asked the dying Nicolovlus to tell
whore his stolen hoard was hid.
On the who!.-, the author seems to
mean well, and don't give ns any
erratic problems to solve, and as to
W.Oman's rights, it does not exist?for
the gentle sex do all the wire-pulling
In this tale.
The scene is laid in Richmond, and
the side lights which he spot? on recent
Virginia history are wholesome and
true.
Mr. Harrison has proved himself in
Oils work, and I will put "Queed"
alongside of Owen Winter's "The Vir?
ginian.'.' Here Is a book of real ar
ti--t!c value, which will actually sell.
KI ?MOND FONTAINE.
Sti-?irt for Governor.
To the Editor of The Times-Dispatch:
Sir,?Generally after one election
Virginians begin to get ready for the
next. Already plans are formed in ,
other State.-: and the battle is be- \
ginning for the control of the general
government. Mr. Taft will probably;
? lend thi Republican forces, and while;
he Is entitled to great credit for his
, judicial appointments (certainly II
could not say otherwise, having pro
posed' an indorsement of one of his
earlier appointments and had the mo- :
lion unanimously carried by the City'
Bai Association) he will represent.
|)o Ith illy .13 fat as we are Concerned,
i the forces of evil.
i Under the^r- circumstances Virginia
Democrats outghl to present a united
front, and would not the nomination I
? of Stuart as Governor do more than
. anything else that could bo done to
; bring together Virginia Democrats in,
a solle) phalanx?
As one who voted for Martin and
i Swanson, I >belleve that he.ought to get
i practically unanimous nomination.
'? WILLIS B. SMITH.
Richmond, September 11.
The Ueattlc Trial.
To th.- Editor of The Tlmes-DUpatch:
Sir,?I read with interest your edi
torl?l in your daily of 9th instant in
regard to the Baattle trial. I heartily
concur with you in the praise accorded
Judge Watson for his wise and Impar?
tial rulings and Instructions to thoso
twelve level-headed and patient jurors,
and praise for the attorneys on both
sides. Too much praise cannot he
given to all concerned In this romark
j able trial. Rut the public should, ns
1 I do. thank you fdr the manner in
which you reported the proceedings
J in the case. Nothing but chaste, refined
Uftge v.- used throughout tho
trial hj. paper, arid,, best of all,
voii very wisely und prudently re?
frain, <i i writing one line in your
editorial columns about the trial and
v. opinion of the case, whether
Beattle was guilty or Innocent.
A CONSTANT READER.
Gilltamsviiie, va., September 1J.
Daily Queries and Answers
Sale of Embroidery.
1. Whore can braiding and embroid?
ery be sold?
2. What claim has a husband on a
wife who hasn't seen or made no pro?
vision for her In throe years?
3. Would it bo necessary In applying
for a position as llnun-room mistress
to say you aro Inexperienced?
AJS'XIOUS.
1. Try a woman's exchange in any
city.
2. Ho has all legal claims until di?
vorce proceedings are begun.
3. Yes.
Itlght to Appeal.
Inform me whether or not Henry
C. Seattle can take his case to a
higher court If he Is convicted by the
Chesterfield Jury. J. M. T.
Yes.
Population of London.
Please publish the population and
area of London. J. J.
The latest census returns for Lon?
don give a population of 4.522,961 for
tho county, and 2.730,002 for the outer
ring, thus making the total for Greater
London 7,252,563. The area of the ad?
ministrative county la 116.8 square
miles, and tho area of Greoter London,
which Includes all pnrlshe.-. within
eleven miles of Charing Cross, Is 693
square miles.
rive Tlmc? In 400 Yearn.
When, before the present year, has
nny decade started on Sunday?
E. K. S.
The beginning of 1911 was on the
first day of the week and the first of
the month, but It is forty years slnea
nny other decade has opened with
Sunday, and prior to that it was 130
years?In 1741. This has happened but
five times In the last 400 yeurs. In
1511, according to the Gregorian cal?
ender (new style/, It . was the same
cs now. 1911. Again It occurred "n
1561. 1651. 1741 and 1871. The next
time It will occur will be in 1961, or
fifty years hence, ntid thereafter in
I
2051, 2141, 2271 and again In 2311?400
years hence It will continue so down
tho ages In periods o<. 400 years.
Aocordlng to the Julian'calendar tho
seventh and fourteenth centuries (601
and 1301) are the only centurlos up
to the present time that huvo started
on the tlrst day of the week and first
day of the month.
Argentina's Area and Resources.
Can you glvo your readers an Idea
of the size and resources of Argentina,
which Is now having built tho btgge3t
battloshlp in the world? H. K. P.
?rgentlna is about one-third the sizo
of tho United States, occuploa nearly
all of South America which lies In
the temporate zone, and can produce
abundantly all the agricultural pro?
ducts common to this country. It is
the greatest flax-ralslng country In
the world, and stands second in corn,
cuttlo and sheep, and third in wheat
and horses. Its remarkable develop?
ment covers only twenty years, and It
is predicted that It will soon take Ha
place among the leading nations of
the world, commercially, socially and
polit'cally. In the Chaco and Mlsones
territories. European farmers are try?
ing the experiment of cotton raising?
employing native Indians and peons
to pick the cotton?with good prospect
for succoss. Tho yield of cotton seed
this year has varied from two and a
naif to five tons per acre.
Tho capital, Buenos Ayree, which Is
In the same relative latitude as At?
lanta, Ga., Is the largest city in South
America, and second only to Paris an
a city of Latin peoples, and compares
favorably with London. New York and
Berlin In metropolitan and conmopol
itan features. It is growing at the
rate of 100.000 In population, which
consists mostly of ltullans. Spanish,
English, Germans and French, In the
order named.
Tar Drldge Disaster.
What was the day and date of tho
Tay Bridge disaster In Scotland?
I. N.
Sunday, December 28, 1879.
PRINCESS STEPHAINE
LOSES MANY RIGHTS
I UY LA MARatlSE DE FONTEXOY.
PRINCESS ST 12 H HAN IE of Belgium
does not seem to be able to re?
concile herself to the fact that
; by marrying Count Lonjay. she for
! felted her prerogatives as a princess
of the blood. She Is constantly quar?
reling with the authorities In Aust
ittla, In Hungary. In England, Franco
land Germany, at her failure to receive
the honors and the Immunities accord?
ed to royalty, and Just now has given
; loud voice to her dlspieanure over herj
; treatment during her recent visit to
Belgium. She went to Brussels with
her husband, Count Lonjay. for the- pur?
pose of visiting the tomb of that fath?
er and mother who during the closing
years of their respective lives, declined
to' hold any communication with her,
I whatsoever, owing to her marriage with I
Count Lonjay, In defiance of their pro?
test.?. She declares that at -the Bel-|
glan frontier her effects were submitted!
to the same examination by the customs
officers as the baggage of ordinary I
travelers: that no one. not even the!
station-master, or the police commie- j
Bary, was present to receive her ati
Brussels: that she was Ignored alike!
by the court and the authorities; and'
that, greatest crime of all. on her de-,
parttire from Brussels, a subordinate'
railroad official had "almost" placed
her and her husband in "a sec?nd-classI
compartment."
Neither King Albert nor his Queen,
nor even Princess Clementine and her
husband, Prince Victor Napoleon, seem
to have taken the slightest notice of
Stephanie's visit, although they were)
all at Brussels af the time. In short, i
the former Crownprincetj of Austria-1
Hungary appears to be once more at
odds with he* entire family.
In Austria Stephanie has been fre?
quently taken to task by the police for
making use of an incognito name when
traveling. She was warned that tho
use of Incognito names was restricted
exclusively to native and foreign royal
and Imperial personages, and that per?
sons not hlonglng to that category who
mado uee of any other name than their
own. rendered themselves liable toj
prosecution, and to various penalties (
On her arguing that, oven though shej
had been forced to sacrifice her rank
as widowed Crownprlncess and Arch-!
duchess of Austria-Hungary on her
marriage with Count Lonjny, she nev?
ertheless has remained a princess of,
the reigning house of Belblum, ic
was pointed out to her that this con-1
tentlon could not be admitted, since by
wedding Count Lonjay, a Hungarian of|
the lower orders of nobility, she hadj
become thereby a mere Magyar noble?
woman, as well as a Hungarian sub?
ject, and had ceased to be a foreign
princess of the blood.
On the matter being referred to high?
est quarters at Vienna, the action of
the police was sustained; and what
was still worse, the ex-crownprlncess
was given to understand thnt she had,
by her union with Count Lonjay. be?
come amenable to the ordinary courts
of law, civil as well as criminal. and'
could no longer claim either ex-j
territorial privileges as a prin?
cess of a foreign reigning house,!
or those legal Immunities, In the shape
of restriction to the jurisdiction of the]
special tribunal of the Hofmarschali
amt, or court tribunal reserved for|
cases In which the members of thei
reigning house of Hapsburg are con-J
cerhed.
Lord Hindllp. who has Just arrived!
In Canada, from England, with Lady
Hindllp, on board the Empress of
Britain, ami who lr.tCnds to tour In
the United States before returning)
home. Is the head of the great brewing i
concern of Allsopp, at Burton-on-|
Trent. Although still quite a young
man. of a little over thirty, he ha*, al?
ready achieved considerable note at*
an Asiatic and African huntor and ex?
plorer. Muoh of what wo know of the
Somali regions of the Dark Continent,
of the remote portions of Abyssinia,
and of the Whlto Nile country, is duo
to Lord Hlndllp, and to his Amorlcan
companion In most of these expedi?
tions, the aon of William Fltzroy
Whltohouse, of Now York and New?
port.
Whereas tho Basses, that Is to say,
the rival brewing house, havo always
bedn Liberals, and even BadlcaU, tho
Alisopps1 have always been Conserva?
tives. The rivalry botweon the two
great brewing Arms has therefore not
been only in the matter of beer, but
alBO In politics. In social matters, und
even In love. For thu now Dowager
Lady Hlndllp, when a young girl, as
Miss Georgians Palmer-Mornwood, was
courted, both by Arthur Bass, the lato
Lord Burton, and by Sum Allsopp. af?
terwards the second Lord Hlndllp. But
eventually the maldun, who had at
first favored the suit of Arthur Bubs.
threw him over und became the fiancee
of Sam Allsopp. On being questioned
by a friend about the matter, she ex?
plained with a laugh, "Oh, I have only
changed my brewer."
It was Lord Beaconoftcld who first
gave a title to tho Alisopps, securing
a baronetcy for Henry Allsopp. Then
Gladstone obtained a baronetcy for
Arthur Bass. Beaconsfield then went
him one better, and nominated Sir
Henry Allsopp for a peerage, with tho
title of Lord Hlndllp; and when Glad?
stone subsequently became Prime Min?
ister again, he brought about tho ele?
vation of Sir Arthur Bass to the peer?
age, as Lord Burton. Along with
Lord Iveagh and Lord Ardllaun. owners
I of tho Guinness stxiut brewing concern
! ut Dublin, they constitute the chief
members of. that clement In tho House
of Lords generally known as tho
"Beerage."
Lord Hlndllp, although a brewer by
trade. Is a soldier by profession, held
p. commission In the Eighth Hussars,
and after putting In a" couple of years
In Australia, as A. D. C. to tho Gover?
nor of Victoria, served throughout, the
war In South Africa. He Is married
to Miss Agatha Thynnc, one of tho
fairest members of that house of whlcl*
the Marquis of Bath Is the chief; has u
five-year-old son and two little daught?
ers; Is a graduate of Trinity College.
Cambridge; a member >t the Boynl
Geographical Society, and owns estate*
embracing about 5,000 acros of tho
best land In Worcestershire, also two
country seats, namely. Hindllp Hall, In
Forcestershlre, and a place in tho
county of Derby.
Lord Hlndllp some time ago furn?
ished a striking Illustration of what I
have so often asserted In these letters,
namely, that the revenues now derived
i from land In England are altogether
j Infinitesimal, and that the new taxes
to which they are subjected are, un
der the circumstances, oppressive. Thus,
Lord Hindlop's 5.000 acres In Worces?
tershire prouce a nominal revenue of*
very large amount. But when. In re?
sponse to a challenge by Lord Hind
j lip. a couple of years ago a Liberal
Association sent accountants to see if
any profit was derived from the prop?
erty, and went carefully through tho
books of the estate, they were forced
?o admit that after payment of the in?
dispensable charges Incumbent upon
the owners of an estate, in the way of
repairs to the houses of tenants, the
maintenance of roads, drainage, etc,
there remained a balance of revenue
over expenditure, of leES than 11,500
for tho year.
King Victor Emmanuel of Italy has
just made his debut as an aviator, and
during the ministry manoeuvre!
Casale Monferrato, has made several
ascents, both In dirigible balloons and
In aeroplanes, expressing himself ea
delighted with, the experience, and a?
much ompressed with their usefulness
for military purposes, especially In re?
connoitring the enemy's positions.
While the King of Italy has been thus
learning how to fly near Borne, the
reigning Grand Duke of Saxe-Welmar
has been accompanying his brother
monarchs, the Duke of Saxe-Coburg
Gotha and the Grand Duke of Hesse, in
flights oti board the aeroplane lately
Invented by the ruler of Hesse, a man
of much mechanical Ingenuity.
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