Evening Star Newspaper, April 25, 1883, Page 2

§ " or THE DIs- TRICT. Nearly 70,000 Local T: People Make a Li Census Statistics. The Compendium of the Tenth Census con- tains an Interesting table. showing, by states and territories, how every man, woman and child, who worked in 1890 with either their head or hands, made a living. Included In this isa table for the District of Columbia. This shows that in the District 66,624 were employed solving the problem of life so far as victual and clothes @re concerned. Under the head of agriculture, 1.464 found employment. Of these 410 are classed as agri- cultural laborers, 333 as farmers and plante: 422 as gardeners, nurserymen and vine-growers, 18 as stock ralsers, drovers and herders, and as “others In agric 231. Under the head of professional and personal persons are enumerated. Of These 101 are artists and teachers of art, 336 barbers and hairdressers, 149 boarding ‘and lodging house keepers, 250 clerzymen, 412 clerks and sts (not specified), 75’ den- tists, stic servants, 56' civil en- “| and restaurant kee Journalists, 9.403 laborers, 18 257 livery s cians and tes diers and. ¥a and employ sicians amd sonal servi Under the he: 9,843 persons are Of these 120 are nd accountants mpioyed. 1 in banking and ) in saloons as as traders and Jn transportation 1.199 persons are employed as dra en, teamsters, &c. ave employment. to 100 per- AS and pilots, ved in transportation not spe- add. al, and mining sof the District gave employment to 7 persons. Of these pprentices prs, 534 olacksmiths, 50 bleach- 8. ana scourers, 212 bookbinders and Binishers, 612 boot and’ shoemakers, 56 brass- founders and workers. 63 brewers and maltsters, 946 brick and stu ns, marble and stone- kers, 13 broom and turing, me rs and joiners, kers, 157 clgar 3 clerks and establishments, l repairers, 17] ik and curriers,” tanners, her, and 412 engl- nen and oystermen, id und silver ad locksmiths, tovray and tuners, _ ers and gas fitt: or IN THE SCHOOLS? © CAM MENG PUBLIC Who Is Responsible? Fo the Editor of T: Ina late issue 01 reviving the su Evestse Stan. ur paper a communication amming in the Publi ponsibility, as us an exe ly popular ding, because of the no- ant character of the party Sehovis,” places the r upon the teacher nt, or the fear 5 the seeret of n this subject. it is their repre: 1 by these consider- rticte, in which Tshall en- briefly what I believe to be the if inaccurat any particu- ‘al to be set right. too many nt. upils to each in some of the reentaze of pupils atiy or totally un- led at there is ment of vitrusted. So have the assign- at home than is nt's waste st there has been ther either of teacher nowlede of our I sine no dims il. Pros own schools am convin gence that in point o: tion to their arduous vocation Washington rank second to is done them he manifold cares of their ¢ is ald upon them of errors ent for which the sys/em ulone or the i sible. E.G. R. o- —_— Look After Nurses. te Pditor of Tax Evenis@ Sram: their trust? Frequently have we felt moved to Temonstrate with careless (if not cruel) girls Who Were pushing the baby carriages, bee: the poor he to the full ae of the sun. paired sight for life pesure. A few dear Little child. stunt run after She a calling to it to make haste. not even take ‘ts hand to help it but st ¢ d child ut angry ery. lessly ph lute power of girls who do thus treat them. -NTH STREET NORTHWEST. ‘The Gas Company. To the totter of Tux Evexixo Stan. We can see no wisdom in superseding the Present x and from him by a swarm i to drive them away. drop of blood in my veins!” pro the public good-—the citizens and government paythy their cas bills into the public treasury— a4 is done by and in Philadelphia, and, probably, But we want no more gas compa- ether cities. Biles; we have had Exoven. ‘The Plucky Hey and the Big Treut. A little boy at Lineberger’s factory, on the South Fork, North Carolina, went fishing one day last week. His mother soon heard him ealtinge for help. fem an sows to the river and ooked a fish Ke that it had pulled him into the iver. we mined to save the fish, the youngster, who is an | the fostees found that the expert swimmer, had thrust his hand an into the fish’s mouth and out at the gill. mother drew both to the bank in saiety. an immense trout, weighing eight Ts, hucksters | persons, the | x) persons found employment. and | binet-makers | mothers know how many nurses abuse | Phe nominal reduction In price will be no rem- s children’s eyes were exposed It will be a won- der if some of them are not afflicted with Im- in consequence of such ex- }3 ago wcolored girl kept a out Two years od, Ina con- and hurried up the nfeeling manner with her Certainly no mother would id to be thus treated, yet they their little ones in the abso- < company with another (and new | Stook hands with him. He did not relish the It will be au illustration of the old fable swallow: The former was | ‘A compasstonate: secine eee stand aside, gentlemen, and let the But the wiser fox ed: “ No; let them alone, for they are pretty well corged, and ff you drive these away a more hnnery swarm will take their place and will rob is a remedy I have not seen named. “ongress authorize the vacation of the charter of the company, and condemn thelr erty fer public use and hand It over to the city or District at valuation, to be managed for | SOME USEFUL SUGGESTIONS. The mistakes that people make in sending articles by mail occasions a large proportion of the matter that finds Its way to the Dead Letter office. These mistakes arise mainly from ignor- ance of postal regulations. In order to farnish the public with the proper information, Major E. J. Dallas, the chief of the Dead Letter office, has prepared a compact digest of the postal regulations, which has just been published In convenient form for free distribution. It is en- titled “Suggestions to the Public,” and is ad- mirably adapted for the purposes intended. It 1a the only publication of the kind, and the in- formation is given in clear and concise language. The following are some of the suggestions: DIRECTING MAIL MATTER. If you are not certain that the place to which you wish to send Is a post office, inquire of the Postmaster. Matter not addressed to a post Office cannot be forwarded, Write or print your name and address, and the contents, if a pack- age, upon the upper feft-haud corner of all mail matter. ‘This will insure its immediate re- turn to you for correction, if improperly ad- dressed or Insuffictently paid. RATES OF POSTAG! 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Pro- duetions by copying press or the type-writer are first-class matte Fourth class.—All mailable matter not included in the three preceding classes which is so pre- pared for mailing as to be easily withdrawn from the wrapper and examined. Rate, I cent per | ounes fraction thereof. Limit of weight, 4 tbs. Full prepayment compulsory. y UNMATLABLE. Obscene books, letters, papers, pictures, and postal cards; lottery circulars and letters; liquids, gunpowder and other explostyes; live animals, pois6ns, and any article Hable to injure the mails or the persons of those handling them. PERMISSIBLE WRITING. No writing Is permitted on third or fourth | class matter except as follows: The name and address of sender onthe outside or Inside of package, preceded by the word “trom.” On the wrapper may also be written the names and nuinber of articles inclosed. The sender Is fur- | ther allowed to mark a word or passage in a | book or paper to which he desires to cail special attention. He may also write a simple inscrip- tion or dedication upon the cover or blank | leaves of a book or painphlet. There may be | attached to articles of merchandise, by tag or amark, number, name, or letter for pur- f identification. Printed cireulars may written name of the ler, or of re, aud the date v1 ird or fourth ¢ packaxe to letter rate: the sender lable te RATES OF POSTAGE TO CANADA, Tetters and Postal Cards.—Same »nditlons of prep nt of postage c letters and postal cards. er Matter.—Same rates and conditions of | transmission as fur matter for delivery within | the United States, except that merchandise is rigidly excluded. Samples of merchandise are ¢, but they must not exceed elght ounces: in weight, and are subject to a postage of ten cents each. ‘They must also be strictly speci- pods for sale. (The Dominion of Canada embraces all the British North American provinces except New- foundland.) TO OTHER FORE N COUNTRIES. The limit of dimensions and weight for parcels | addressed to foreign countries 1s not uniform. For example, to Belgium, France, Great Britain, vitzetiand the maximum welght for sam- of merchandise is 12 ounces, and the limit size 1s 12x8x4 inches; while to Austria, Ger- Prussia, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and f the Postal Union, the maxt- mum size fs 8x4x2 Inches, and the weight {s lim- ited to 5% onnees. Every postmaster is furn' Postal Guide, containing information respecting rates of postage, conditions of prepayment, | manner of wrapping, limitations of size, weight. ., &C.,and should be consulted before mailing any package about which there may be a doubt 3 to its admission into the mails. nding of coin or artic foreign countries Is prohibite: REFORWARDING. Letters and postal cards will be'ferwarded | from one post office to another upon the written | request of the person addressed, or of the writer, if his name appears upon the envelope, | Without additional postage charge; but pack- | aves cannot be forwarded to a new address ot returned to the sender until stamps are furn- fshed to pay the postage anew. The postaze | must be prepaid in full, otherwise the pac | will not be forwarded.” ee hed with an official sof jewelry to | gas company to use the proper gas materials in the manufacture of our gas and change all the present sas meters, substituting for them me- ters that will register, as near as may be, the quantities of gas actually consumed, The price (nominal) of zas per 1,000 fect has been reduced to about one-hal! what was charged a few years since, but the books of the company or the re- ceipts or bills of consumers for many years past will show that the nominally reduced rate car- tied with it no reduction in the monthly cost for the same number of burners in the same houses. The meters are either made so that they can be manipulated and tampered with, or they have been made to register 25, 373. or 50 er cent more than the actual consumption. edy with the present meters. Justice. ne Pee aoe Kissing ‘Booth. Mr. Edwin Booth’s theatrical campaign in Germany has been a great success, says the St. James Gazette. In Hamburg all the places were bought up weeks In advance at a premium. The press notices were very cordial, and the stage manager, a pupil of Devrient, said that he had never till then seen Hamlet or Lear. Rerr Maurice, the manager, pronounced Edwin Booth the greatest actor who had been seen since Talma’s death. When he was playing Lear an eye witness states that it was most 5 thetic tosee the peoplesobbingat the wings. The actors engaged to support the star are described as perfectly wild with enthusiasm. In fact,their admiration took an unpleasantly demonstrative form. The men fell upon his shoulders and in Continental fashion kissed him on both cheeks, while the women wept and sobbed ax they | kissing. In vain he cried out, “Mind the paint.” | And at last, in a sort of comic desperation, he * | exclaimed.” “If kissing be the correct thing, adies advance.” On another occasion we learn that after the curtain had fallen amid deafen- ing applause Mr. Booth was embraced by every member of the company, “except the extra Ilt- tle girls enguged to act as pages.” But as he left the theater the extra little girls were walt- ing for him In the hall, and, “in a perfectly art- less and modest manner,” one of them a) proached him, and in broken English ead through her tears: “Mr. Booth, you make us | CTY; We do want so much to kiss you.” We do not know whether Mr. Booth cried out “Mind the paint” on this occasion. A sensible young lady made the followlag re- quest to her friends: “Do not lay me down by tne rippling brook's side, lest babbling lovers wake me from my dreams, nor in the beautiful cemeteries in the valleys, lest al; ning over me; the counter of the con- mut let my last slee] and the peace which passeth all |. His | understanding, and a deep sleep on which The } neither the buoyant footfall of youth nor the it | we shuffle and of old will ever in- t wary ¢ drag age Adventures of a Foundling and of Ad- miral Carnegie’s Divorced Wife. The Carnegie case, which is now before @ Paris tribunal, and is apparently destined to come more fully betore the English courts, reads like a sensational novel. One side represents a French diplomatist as palming off a foundling for his deceased wife's child by her first husband. The other holds up the daughter of a distin- guished French general as disowning her grand- son for the purpose of securing 150,000f. out of her daughter's property. The facts not in dis- pute, says the London Times, are these: Admt- ral the Hon. Swynfen Thomas Carnegie (the ad- vocates persist in styling him Lord Carnegie, perhaps because he was once a Lord of the Ad- miralty) married, in 1858, Louisa Albertina, daughter ot the late Mr. John Adrian Hope, a lady thirty years his Junior, her mother being a French woman, daughter of the Marquis Rapp. Ip 1872 the Admiral obtained a divorce on the ground of the wife’s adultery with Baron de Billing, then attached to the French Embassy in London, and more recently Consul General in Tunis and Egypt. The Admiral stated that there had been no issue of the marriage, and this alle- gation passed uncontradicted. The respondent and co-respondent did not, indeed, appear in the sult, and subsequently intermarr For several years prior to the divorce both Mrs. Carnegie and her mother had spent a great part of their time in Paris, and on the 23d of October, 1866, Mrs. Hope’s maid took to the Foundling Hospital an infant which had been discovered, she said. abont noon on the door mat of the fifth floor at No. 19 Rue de Pen- thievre. The child was registered as “Maurice Alexandre Gentil,” parents unknown, and ap- parently a fortnigit old. Two days later Mrs. Hope had the child brought back. Her daugh- ter, she said, wished to adopt a~child. In 1868 the child was baptized at the Madeleine as Ca- mille Louis Napoleon de Roland, the date of birth being entered as the 14th of August, 1866. In 1883 Mme. de Billing died, leaving all that she could leave by French law—viz., half her property—to her husband. The latter assigned the regpining moicty to “Camille de Carne- gie,” beIng the sole offspring of the first mar- riage. Mrs. Hope seeks by the present proceed- ings to have the second marriage declared null, to have Camille excluded from the succession, and to have M. de Billing mulcted in 100,000f. damages tor putting forward a spurious child. An affidavit made by Lord Northesk described his stay at the same hotel as Mra. Hope at Zu- rich in 1869, when he noticed a little boy with her. he told him this was her daughter's, but not by her husband, and that out of gratitude for the kindness of the Carnegie family ita claim would not be enforced unless the direct line ranout. Lord Northesk wrote to his uncle, the admiral, repeating this conversation, but the latter, notwithstanding, declared himself child- less at the time of the divorce. He died intes- tate, and in subsequent proceedings before the Master of the Rolls Mrs. Hope volunteered an affidavit that her daughter was never pregnant. In her telegram of congratulations, however, on the second wedding, she sent kisses to her “dear Camille,” and invoked a blessing on hin, her daughter, and son-in-law, as ‘all mine.” She also’ wrote to the bey as her grandson; while her daughter's letters to him were fall of mingled tenderness and severity—his governess having great trouble with him. raze.” Which Isays for a heathen Injun, Who hasn't elvilized waya, That Yellow Dog of the Wichitas, Was a reguiar draw-poker *-craze.” When we camped on the Canadian, Down low on (he Southern fork, “Missourl Dan” had a greasy deck, And we setuied down to the work. pers to “Baltimore,” so hs name); Dog “staid in,” ume. Hal “raised the blind” 1 3 Wkewlse T did Une ‘Then Dan “passed out, And “th vd to Ure center” to draw, And Yellow Dog stood the raise of Hal, Which the same I also saw. I drawed two cards and Hal drawed one, And Yellow Dog he drawed three, And I knowed that Hal had “filled hts haul” By the wink he wunk at me. Then the fun began, and the Injun “bucked,” And I saw “Missouri” laugh; He knowed whoever won the “pot,” ‘That we was all “half and half.” When all the “rocks” which the party had Had been put up on the board, And all the fixin’s about the camp, ‘And even the stock we rode, Tealled for a “sight,” throwed dewn my hand, When, as sure as I'm alive, . “Balumore Hal” he hilt four ones Whilst the Yellow Dog he hitt sive! Stranger, of course we tas surprised, Butthe rules of the game declare ‘That “whenever the redskin cheats the white He must ‘climb the golden stalr.’” And there he was a wicked Intun, For he tried to “raise the gate” By “roping” us innocent cowboys; So we “Luck him off the tralL” "Way down on the South Canadian, Where the waters wildly sweep, ‘Where the oster sighs to the sage bush, ‘The Wichita Yellow Dog sleeps, Which ts why I says of the Injun, Who hasn't civilized ways, For to tackle a cowboy at poker He must have a “poker craze.” —Mempnhis Appeal, =i SS AND CAPITAL, amour on the Position of the ice Church with Itespect to ‘Trades Unions. THE DYNAMITE POLICY CONDEMNED. A dispatch from Cleveland, Ohio, says the Right Rev. Bishop Gi ur, of the Catholic Church, gave his views Sunday on the rights of labor, communism and trades unions. sald: “Not for three hundred so restless as at present. The changes in the political worid and disintegration among non-Catholics are marked characteristics. Con- servatism is giving place to revolution. This restlessness is oceasoned in many Instances by a false conception of human equality, Allmen are not equal. Neither in mind nor in body are men equal, nor with the same chances will any two men accomplish the same result. It is true that technically before the law it is assumed that all men are equal, yet iggeality It is a well-known fact that men are not ual before the law. Wealth gives men standing before the law that poverty has not. It is untrue to say that men who have- less physical or mental powers are juals of those who have more, or that men’s r, whether mental or physical, is to be equally rewarded. It ts a manifest solecism to assert that idleness and incapacity are to be re- warded equally with labor and talent. Men un- questionably have a right to band together and agree to sell thelr labor at any fair price within the limits of Christian justice, and so long as men act freely and concede to others the same freedom they claim for themselves, there is no sin in labor banding together for self- rotection. But when men attempt to force others to work for a%given price, or by violence inflict injury, the church will lend all its efforts to crush out all such conduct. If men are tree to band together and agree not to work for less than a given price, 8o others are equally free to work for less or More, as they please. All men have a right to sell their labor at such a price as they deem fair, and no manor union hasa right ‘B force an- other to join the union, or to work for the price fixed upon by the union. Here 1s where Bee unions are lable to_fail, and in which they can- not be sustained. Ifone class of men are free to band together and agree not to sell their labor under a given price, so are others equally free not to join such unions, and also equally Iree to sell their labor at such price as they ma‘ determine. Catholics cannot be partners (A al attempt to coerce others against their just rights, nor can they by overt or secret acts of violence do injury to the person or property of others. What one man claims for himself he me “On the other hand, capital must be liberal towards labor, and share justly and generously its profits, belng mindful of the command not to muzzle the ox that th out the corn, nor to defraud the laborer of his wages. Capital bas no more ay to undue reward than has labor, nor should capital be unduly protected at the expense of labor. Capital ‘and Ebor should work hand in hand, and proportionately share the wealth they have mutually produced. They are dependent on each other, and should labor for each other's interest, capital recognizing the rights of labor and labor in turn recognizing the of capital. ‘The Catholic church is at war with all all communistic and sovialistic societies, whose alms are revolution against le- gitimate government. All societies that resort to such means as the use of dynamite to destroy and demolish legitimate governments are forbid- den to Catholics—these and all others of like character, let their names be. what they may.” detention’ a Thos. F. Casulls, a colored man, formerly of Oberlin, Ohio, has entered upon his duties as collector of the port of Memphis. The new col- lector gave a bond for $30,000, all the sureties, with one exception, belng colored men. ars has society been He | QUEEN VICTORIA. An Englithman’s Views of Her Per- sonal, Familly and Social Life. From an Occasional Correspondent of N. ¥. Tribune. Lonpow, Aprit 7.—All the time that can be spared from the discussion of dynamite 1s devoted to that tofty subject, the loneliness of the Queen. Society stands; or professes to stand, aghast at the isolation In which our Sov- ereign Lady Is left-by the death of her personal attendant, John. Brown, incomparably greater than that of elther Bloom- field or Knighton, the pages of his sainted Majesty King George the Fourth. Enough, however, has been sald or written concerning John Brown, who was a servant and hand- somely rewarded. A fat more interesting ques- tion is that of the Queen’s future. Her utter loneliness i a condition which she owes entirely to herself, or rather to the advisers in whom she trusted. She has, just as Mr. Abra- ham Hayward, Q. €., declares he has, ‘‘out- lived everybody she could look up to,” the Duchess of Kent, her domineering mother, Leopold of Belgium, Lord Melbourne, Stock- mar, the Duke of Wellington, the Prince Con- sort, and, must it be added, John Brown. She has not a friend in the would, and much senti- mentalism ts talked Just now on this subject. I confess that Tin comman witha few others who know the ins and outs of the Royal existenceam very sal bee upon this int. Poetic twaddlers talk ot the throne being like a lonely Alpine peak high above the world, cold and soli- tary. To me if seems that it is much the saine with a sovereign as with an enormously rich man. Ifhe choose to considerevery man’s hand against him, or eager to find its way Into his pocket. he will be solitary indeed. And why not? Ifthe personage does nothing to make you Jove him, and, and doesnotgive you anything, why in the name of common sense shouid you lovehim and waste your time upon him? To estimate tairly the character of the Queen and clearly understand her habits, thoughts and position, it should be distinctly kept in view that the Royal family, Including the Queen, 1s not English at all, but entirely German in ideas, sympathies, and a whole mass of chiidish tradi- tion and prejudice concerning etiquette and routine folly of all kinds. Readers of the Tribune are already aware that the home language of the Royal family is German, and that not one of the Princes and Princesses can speak English without a German accent, very strong in the Prince ot Wales and the Duke of Edinburgh. This, to Englishmen, is a ridiculous short- coming, except to a few fashionable imbe- ciles ‘who actually employ the guttural German “r” in imitation of Royalty. A for- eign accent in a man who will one day be King of England is absurd enough, but is not half 80 much to be regretted as the intensely German mode of thinking, which affects the Queen quite ‘as powerfully as her children. It is not difficult to see how Her Majesty has be- come separated by a great gulf from her sub- Jects, and has fallen into that well-known habit of despotic sovereigns of loving servants better than loyal advisers, adherents and friends. It is a vice of ralera to love, as far as they love any- body, their personal servants, their valets, their lackeys, thelr barbers and such like. The differ- ence In rank is so vast that it Is thought there ts little danger‘of the mere creature forgetting it- self and assertifg its individuality. In fact, however, Olivier Le Daim and John Brown had very great power. Thanks tomodern and liberal institutions, the dislike of the lat- ter was not fatal except to a few poor souls who can only breathe freely in the atmosphere of a court; but soverelgns gradually weaken the allegiance of those on whose support they count by interposing a common servant between them as a kind of moral and if necessary, mate- rial buffer. When a sovereign shuts herself up year aiter year at the Isle of Wight or in the Highlands with a confidential servant, an ordi- nary gillie, the *‘Vehetian oligarchy,” as Disraeli called the English nobility, naturally take um- brage, and’ complain, not without reason, that ‘the Queen who finds levee or draw: ing-room, state concert or ball, a tre- mendous effort can travel many miles over the Highlands to be Present at the wedding of some insignificant Scotch serving man or wo- man. The German idea of soverelguty was early im- planted in the Queen. Her father was a kind of idiot with a special tendency toward military drilland uniform. Her mother of the house of. Leiningen had been first married to the Prince of Hohentohe-Langenburg and had children, which explains how Prince Victor of Hohelohe, better known as Count Gleichen, is her nephew. This amiable gentleman, by the way, {s an ad- mirable In the Royal Navy and a clever ‘draughts- man and seulptor. The Queen's mother was a decidedly clever woman, very masterful and ag- xressive. She easily outlived both her husbands, was fully impressed with her dignity as mother of the heirapparent tothe English throne, and lved at daggers drawn with Willlam the Fourth, on whom she looked with # contempt which was richly merited, for he was quite as imbecile as the Duke of Kent without being so respectable. Intellect and decency did not go together among the children of George the Third; but idiocy and indecency were combined in, at least, the Duke of Clarence, afterward William the Fourth. Charles Greville, the ‘Gruncher,” nas told us that the Duke of York, whose whole hfe was a scandal, was the only one of the Royal Princes who possessed the manners of an Engilsh gentle- man; and it issignificant that not one of our pres- ent princes wears the title of York, Kent, or Clar- ence, ville has also told us of the indignation of old William at the seclusion in which the Duchess of Kent kept the Princess Victoria. This seclusion from a court full of the king's i chifaren was perhaps wisely main- d, but it did not prevent the Queen’s early the Elphinstone atfair, before Prince 4 time—and her jeatously of the latter, which led to the cruel treatment of the unfortu- nate Lady Flora Hastings. In trath, Victoria was kept entirely in leading striags, and Ger- man leading strings, until th f her hus- band. At first it was the Duchess of Kent, then of Belginm and Stockmar, and next the Prince Consort, wh lieved her of the trouble of thinking on political suvjects. I was too young at the time to know much of the Prince Consort, but a relative of mine, in whose Judyiment Ihave very great confidence. | tells me that the Prince was simply a “pragmat- | ieal ‘man schoolmaster,” Instead of listening to what Englishmen who knew thelr country | had to say, this conceited foreign prig Inid down the law in the dullest talk that can be imagined, | Wit or humor found no resting place ina dull methodic brain crowded with half truths and dreary formulas. The lish nobles whom he had the Insolence to treat with remote hauteur felt toward him a mixture of hatred and con- tempt. He said one stupid thing and did seve- ral which settled his place in the English mind. His observation that in a country like England “constitutional government 1s on its trial,” his interference in the dispatch-box matter, and his attempt to oferrule Lord Palmerston, decided English opinion in spite of the army of syco- phants who lifted thelr voices from South Ken- sington in solemn hymns of praise. There can be no doubt that the Queen felt hor loss far more acutely than wives generally do the death of their husbands. She was left ab- solutely alone, for the German division had completely segregated her from her natural friends. It is absolutely certain that except to John Brown and Lord Beaconsfield, she has never spokes unreservedly to an: mn since Albert's death. She-found herself left alone in her despair, and she remained alone. Her hus- band, on, whom England looked asa milksop because he was 8 wretched horseman and cared little for fleld:sports, was unbearable as a com- panion, and halgradually driven awayevery soul whose society wasworthhaving. Thusfar a cer- tain amount of pity may be felt for the Queen; but beyond this it can hardly go. When her hus- band died she was of mature years, but not too old to form new friendships. “What did she do? For six or seven yeafs she dwelt in actual seclu- sion, signing. indispensable papers but taking part in no public ceremony. She was, In fact, ab- solutely dead to-her subjects. I am quite aware that [ shall be reminded that during the whole period she saw her Alinisters when it was neces- sary and her children frequently. I will ex- plain how little of actual companionship this Teally signified. When a minister has audience of the Queen on affairs of state it must not be imagined that any- thing like a conference or any approach to an outspoken conversation occurs. Ministers are made to feel that they are fiterally as well as nominally “servants” of the Queen. They do not venture to recommend or advise a certain Course of thelr own volition. They wait tilt they are asked, and then “submit” to Her Majes- ty what the state of the question really is, and listen to her observations thereon. Mr. Glad- stone has never been a favorite with the Queen because he also is master- falin his way and is apt to hint that the course he suggests is the only one that will meet the support of Parliament. This he does of course with considerable deference, but he has never succeeded in “maz aging the Queen as Lord Beaconsfield managed her by agreeing to the utter tomfoolery of calling her Empress of India and other acts of sub- servience. Like thera: tornans of the old school, the whole I appear to ordl- nary Poona almost jusane upon questions -of dignity and prece? Lord Beaconsfield, recognizing fully tae late ch Emperor's say- rs et 5 on pit be tnnored’” pleased the jueen by ng all her little whims on such Subjects, Moreover be was on John Brown's esq. His position was,| side In politics, and knew how to propitiate that Worthy servitor. Hence the Queen permitted him a freedom of address never endured from any other ot her ministers except Lord Mel- bourne, for whom she had almost as much re- gard as for the first Duke of Mot gr, oar It will be gathered from all this that her natural kindliness of disposition and yearning for affection have been chilled and perv-cted by the adverse influence of wooden German eti- quette and court traditions. How ridiculous); Great tg the importance she attaches to su matters is perfectiy well known to every one within the court radius. Last year when the Duke of Albany was married the name of every Person to be present in St. George's chapel was submitted to her. She also actually edited the official program of the processions or order of the ceremonial, making many alterations, addi- tions and suppressions. Above all she was de- termined that the servants of her household should have a_ perfect view of the ceremony. Anybody would have thought that the members of the house of lords and commons would have been considered before a pack of menials, but this is not the Queen’s way of looking at things. Very few of thereally important people of England were placed where they could see the wedding ceremony, while every trumpery Windsor official was accommodated with a seat, and a special stand was erected for the actual household servants. It is still fresh in the recollection that when the Duke of Connaught Lord Beaconsfield was then prime minister, and Lords Granville and Hartington were invited as leaders of the opposition, this course being ac- cording to precedent. "Advantage was thus taken, Incredible as it may seem, to exclude the greatest commoner in England because he was not at that moment the nominal leader of the opposition. The trashy traditions of the court are very convenient for snubbing or insulting people, and when the pablic demand the reason an attempt is made to stop their mouths with a precedent. The demeanor of the Queen toward her fam- ily Is extraordinary, and to ordinary mortals in- comprehensible. Irreproachable as a wife and mother, except In letting her children acquire a German accent, she now keeps them at a dis- tance in a very odd way. There 1s no doubt of the Queen’s love for her children. When they want a start In life she Induces the Premier to ask for as large a grant as he thinks the Honse of Commons will endure. Every item of outlay tor the Royal family that can by any stretch of imagination be considered public is charged to the exchequer; and the Queen herself saves every shilling that she can out of her immense Tevenue. At this moment Her Majesty, con- sidered as a private individual. cannot be worth less than a couple of millions sterling, 80 great have been the bequests made to her and so great the saving she has made out of income. This latter ts not quite fair to the cortntry, which pays liberally for frais de representation, and is, when foreign guests come, very shabbily represented, but it shows the Queen’s love for her children. In the face of these facts is it not difficult to believe that none of her chil- dren dare go to.see her without permission? Yet such Is the undoubted fact. Not one of her children, except the Princess Beatrice, who is condemned to seclusion with her mother, can visit her without permission. Among them- selves they are loving enough and extremely pleasant and free-and-easy together. Prince Christian, who looks very old to be the husband of the buxom Princess, is on the best terms with the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Edinburgh and the Duke of Albany; and the Duke of Teck, bat- ing his dull stories, learned, I should think,from the late Prince Consort, gets on well with every- body; thanks to his own good temper and his charming wife, the Princess Mary. otherwise “the Queen of the Jingoes” But all of these,in- | cluding the Prince of Wales, are at an immeas- urable distance from the Queen, who is lonely, I | must perforce conclude, because she wishes to be so, or has rather encircled herseif with a hedge of etiquette which she is now powerless to break. That she is absolute monarch in her own family as she is in her own house {s beyond. all doubt; but there is no question that she has not now a single friend to whom she can speak openty and unreservedly. ee MR..MAPLESON JUBI NT. Mine. Patti Secured for Next Season—A Contract Signed to Pay Her $5,000 a Night. From the New York Tribune, April 24. An unusually large company of menials were filing in and out of the Academy of Music all day yesterday. They looked very seedy and seemed sad. It was the last day of the opera season. They had received their money and were evidently looking for something to fool it away on. A great change had suddenly come over them, and it was apparent that they real- ized it. From priests, knights, princes, soldiers, chamberlains and members of royal courts they had passed ont into the common walks of life, and.were to be hereafter no better than any one else. In an Inner room of the Academy the impresario, Col. Mapleson, twirled a gray mus- tache and received an army of callers. “It's great, isn’t it?” Colonel Mapleson re- marked. “What ?” asked the reporter. “Why, this opera business,” he replied. " ngs turn out so queerly, you know, ere’s Nilsson gone to Europe on the same steamship with Albani and Gye, and if | they don’t adjust their differences before the | | voyage ig over, I'm no prophet, you know. | isson is all bluff. I'm glad she’s gone. Do | ua know I had ordered a wig of the Amer- \ ican Wig company? These prima donnas hay: | reduced me to only two or three hairs,” and | the Colonel felt of his head as though he ex- | pected to lose another hair every minute, | “You haven't any idea, have you,” asked the report that Nilsson will sing for you next ' season d | | ‘Net much of one,” replied the Colonel, and } | he winked a knowing wink. “But she'll ad- | just all differences, I mean, with Gye, and then | {we will all be friends. She's a ‘daisy. And | when she once gets started—my Colonel raised his hands in horror, | “Have you signed an agreement with Madame | Patti7” { “Well, the contract is all drawn up and It will be signed by Madame Patti to-mght. I shall | announce it from the stage at the end of the | third act.” “Shall you make a speech at that time?” “D’ve a few choice thoughts to dispose of, and I shall no doubt favor the audience with a few | carefully selected wordsalready prepared. The speech will have the alr of belng more or less extempore. Not too extempore, you know,but about enough,” andthe Colonel siniled audibly. “I shall be unable,” continued the impre- sarlo, “to say definitely Jus now that Madame Patt! 1s engaged. But it’s about the same thing, you know.” “When do you sail for Europe?” “J shall sail on Saturday by the City of Berlin, and my company will go with me. ey are all tired out and need rest. They'll get lots of it. You see they've been strung up for seven months now and have fired’off 220 operas. It is no joke to be all strung up to the top notch.’ At the close of the third act of the o) inthe evening Colonel Mapleson was cailed betore the curtain, and in a few words thanked his — tor their kindness during the season and continuance of favors next season. He said that he shoulé bring with him next year an array of talent such as has never before been heard or seen in the country. ‘I have,” said he, ‘just signed the contract with Madame Patti, and she will sing with my company next season,” mn, Colonel Mapleson said to the reporter later in the evening that Mr. Abbey’s bids for Madame Patti had forced him to agree to pay her €5,000 anight for the next season. ‘I've paid her,” said Mr. Mapleson, “only. 4,400 this season. And now I skip to $5,000—and all on account of Abbey. And It doesn’t do him a bit of good.” ‘How many nights will Pattl sing?” “The contract calls for fifty nights at $5,000 a night ignor Franchi, Madame Patti's business man- ager, wasalso seen by the reporter. “‘The con- tract,” sald he, “is signed, and Madame Patti is thereby engaged to-Colonel Mapleson for next dame Patt wil tall f r Europe early this e fo y morning. She went on board the ip at 10 o'clock Inst evening. His Bopy For DissEcTION AND CREMATION.— Alexander F. Villers, who died last week in Philadelphia, left this odd will, which was drawn up in July last: “My last will and testament: I leave my body to the University of P for dissecting and wish it to be cre- mated at the same institution. In case I should happen to have any money or property at the time of my death I leave the whole to the doctor attending me. In case 1 am cremated I wish my ashes to be thrown away, and not given to or Parl tesa by anybody that had been acquainted Wi me." . —_—_——+e-_—_ Lizzre Fox's Piovs Lover ARRESTED.—Henry C. Myling, alias Miller, the lover ot Lizzie who conimitted suicide in Philadelphia last day because Mytins had discarded her, was ar- rested In New York Sunday fora number of petty thefts. He ts anex-convict, having served over fourteen years in prisons. His han been pretended piety, an was praying ina Bowery misalon, was married Mr. Gladstone was not invited. | A BEAR WHICH SNORED. And Which Subsequently Found Sheaths fer His Claws ia a Mans Flesh. From the Boston Glove. John H. Kelly, of Brighton, gives the follow- ing story of a recent adventure: ‘I have a farm of open and wood land in the township of Dit- ton, County county, Canada, and go there co- casionally to look after my interests. During the early part of last week I wasthere and went out alone on snow-shoes prospecting, with the intention of buying some lumber. I heard some- thing rustling through the bushes and saw a man with a dog following a largedeer. Seeing that the three were pretty well used up I joined in the chase, until both man, dog and myselt got tired and gave up in disgust. My newly-formed acquaintance was a French Canadian, a wood- chopper, and, like myself, had nothing but an axe. The snow was deep. so we hunted around for arresting place and soon discovered a log some twenty feet long and about four feet through. At aboutthe middie of the log we observed a dry spot, and on going there saw there was a large knothole. We sat down, but had been there but a few minutes when we heard a snor- ing, which alarmed us. We then went to the jlargeend of the log and saw bear tracks, and coucluded that there was a bear inside. Said 1, “My friend. just go to the knothole and raise h—I with your axe and I will wait here till he comes out, when I will slug him in the head.’ This the Canadian did, and the bear came out. T made a clip at him with the axe and missed him. He got on his feet and sprang at me, knocking me down (see the marks of his claws on my legs and feet). My Canadian triend at this moment came to my rescue and split the brute’s skull in two. We then lit some wood and smoked out these two cubs (pointing toa couple of infantile cubs). I kept them and gave my friend the mother, whose skin was of more value to him than the cubs.” These young ones Mr. Kelly ts raising, or try- ing to raise, a8 a mother would a child, the nursery bottle being used for their sustenance. ree Acts of Courage, A small flag had been seen at the side of a rock standing near the flank of one of the French trenches before Sebastopol. No one knew how the flag had come there. It was re- marked that cannon balla and shells had fallen into tife trench with fatal effect, as if there had been an enfilading fire. A sudden light broke upon the officer in command. The flag was a point to alm at from the rampart, and the rock sent the shot by ricochet Into the trench. He called for a volunteer to take away the flag. There wasno reply. In the French army {t Is not enough to give a word of command, which has to beexplained before tt is obeyed. The officer went to aprivate soldier of the name of Victor Picault and asked him to a The man answered that he would if he new why. The case was made clear to him. He sprang out of the trench and ran to the flag under a shower of rifle bullets. He pulled it down. Atthe moment when It fell a whole battery discharged grape-shot at him. He threw himself on the ground. Both the French and the Russians thought he was killed, He suddenly Jumped up, unhurt, and ran to trench with the flag in his hand, He rece! non-commissioned rank and cross of the Legion of Honor. An incident displaying the coolest courage was next related. I am sorry not to have noted down the name ot the young lieutenant alluded to. A small detaehment of infantry under his command had been sent out of one of the French trenches to attack.a the fire, directed upon tt from the trench, should ‘have ceased. Shot and shell were meanwhile discharged at the detachment from |the ramparts. Some of the men remarked to their young officer that by staying there they the cover of the trench in time to return at thi cessation of firing from it. The officer answet that they had been ordered to stay, and that being under fire was no reason for their running away. At that moment a shell fell at his feet, and he thanked the Russians, touching his cap to them, for sending him a light for his cigar, which he pulled from his pocket. He bit off the end of it, lighted it at the fuse of the shell, and held out his cigar case to the soldiers, asking if any of them would like to smoke. The shell burst, and, strange to say, neither the brave youth nor any one of the detachment was hurt by it. The soldiers were thus shamed into standing by so self-possessed and gallant an off- cer. A gunner was then praised tor his courage and strength. French batteries be had remained alone to killed or wounded. He brandished one of the levers of his cannon, like a quarter-staff, striking down five Russians with it. He re- ceived two bayonet thrusts in his shoulders, but still had vigor enough to wrest a rifle from one of those who had wounded him. He shot the one with it, and knocked the other over with a blow on the head from its stock. Some zouaves came to his assistance and saved him by charg- ing the Russian line of attack. They carried him in triumph to the commander-in-chief, who was at breakfast. On hearing the report given ot the affair the great general made the gunner sit down to share his meal. When he was with- drawing a cross of the Legion of Honor w pluned on his “breast by the general himself. The gunner offered his bumble thanks, and asked if he might now go to have his wounds seen to. Intense was the astonishment of the officers present. Among them was a staff sur- geon, who was ordered to examine the man at once. The two wounds were pronounced by him to be very serious, but not mortal, and th happy gunner was sent to the ambulance. Temple Bar. — 0+ ‘The Model American Girt. | From the Cincinnati Enquirer. A practical, plain young ctrl; Not-afratd-of-the-rain young girl; A poetical posy, A ruddy and rosy, A helper-of-self young girl. At-home-in-her-placs young girl A never-will-lace young girl; A toller serene, A life pure and clean, A princess-of-peace young girl, A wear-her-own-hair youug girl; Afree-from-a-stare young girl; Improves every hour, No sickly sunflower, A weaith-of-rare-sense youug girl. Plenty-room-in-her-shoes young girl; No inculger-in-blues young girl; Not a bang on her brow, ‘To fraud not a bow, She's a just-what-she-seems young girL Not a reader-of-trash young girl; Not @ cheap-jewel-flash young gitl; N per of run, Nota chewer of gum, A marvel-of-sense young girl. An early-retiring young girt An active, pris young gitts A morning ariser, A dandy despiser, A progressive, American girl A lover-of-prose young girl: ‘Not a turn-up-your-nose young girl; fot given to splutter, oe any non” A rightly-ambitious young girl; Red-lips-most-delicious young girl; A sparkling clear eye, ‘That says “I will try,” A sure-to-succeed young girl, An honestly-courting young girl; A never-seen-fiirting young girl; ‘A quiet and pure, . A modest demure, A fit-tor-a-wife young girk A sought-every-where young puts A future-most-fair young girl; ~ An ever dls We too rcieniond meet gin ‘This queon-among-queens . dee —Pirgil 4. Pinkley. Putt “England,” sald Mr. Hatch, on arriving home from England on Friday, “is bankrupt in soil, Russian rifie-pit with the bayonet as soon as | would soon all be hit. while they might reach | During an attack on one of the | defend it, all his comrades having been either | A LOST “PROFESSION.” Why the Bank Robber Has Ceased es Menace Financial Institutions, DEAD, IMPRISONED AND REFORMED CRACKSMRG AND GREATER VIGILANCE aT THE BANKS. ‘From the Philadelphia Timea, The astonishing exploit of the sate plunderers who burrowed through the wall of a building into a bank tn New Onleana, gagced and bound the watchman and robbed the strong box, was the theme of a conversation with a veteran de- tective. He sald there was a parallel in this im the adventure, about four yeare ago, of Charley Adams and George Mason, who is now under lndictment in this city tor a recent conspt te rob a sate, and that happily ’hiladelphia banks had not been exposed for several years past te the danger of an onslaught of the same kind. Adams and Magon had tunneled through a wall into the Cambridge (Mass.) Savings Fund build. ing, when they were attacked by watchmen an icemen, and were taken after desperate ht, In which Mason was shot. “Do you think It would be possible,” he was asked, “to repeat the Kensington bank adven- ture, for Instance?” where the burglars got ja uriiformed as policemen. “1 don't think so, although it 1s always the unexpected that happens. 1 say no, tor t principal reason that the old generation of de: perate men who organized and formed the bands are all elther dead, in prison, or have reformed, The smartest man by all odds in the profession of bank robbing was George L. Toward, known as Sheeny ( He had all the science, siti and knowle successful. He knew as inuch abont safe manufacturers themselves. 1 ral . Wasa puta. sooner would a new comings tion safe lock come out than he would buy one through his agents and at once dissect it and discover the weak points of its mechanism. He seemed to find them by iustinct. When be was ly to take up his scepter, Old Jimmy Hope was pretty skillful at operating locks, as the manipulations e low Manhattan Savings Bank He and Ned Lyons w nay rd in this city the sate In the old y years ago, and It took Ned Tryon and Ned Carlin nearly a day to pick upthe tumblers In the lock and open the door. Bub Hope ts in prison in California for a few years to come. SOME DARING OLD CRACKSMEN “Ike Marsh is another good one, but he is am old man now, being over sixty, and, besides, he isin the Eastern Penitentiary for @ few years re for participation inthe robbery of the Wells- oro Bank. He was a daring express train rob- ber. Old Allan Pinkerton, who is writing up @ book of rogues, wanted Ike's life from his own pen; but Isaac is too fly. He isone of the nurses In the sick ward, and Is apoken of as gentle, attentive one. Brockie omge was under his care for a time, and died In the pent- tentiary. He, too, was one of the old gang, and had a hand in the Kensington Bank robbery, Red Leary, Billy Conners, Shang Draper, yea, and several more good ones miglit be counted up who bave dropped the Jimmy, the drill and the powder can and manage te live now by some other means. Jimmy Irving has just come ont of the Eastern Penitentiary, and bis partner, Billy Porter, is in the Brooklyn I i Th tively before he use for nmunity of Philadelphia banks fro such as marked Mayor Fox's administr the early part ot Mayor Stowley’s term. pater vigilan the banks. Th side night waichr aphic « tion, time locks and stronger vaults. sington Bank robbery was ® cc part of je and out= nica The Ken- aplete success, at of ins! | hut L don’t believe it could be re Thea was the attempton the Corn Exchange Bank, which came near to being a success, Peto | Burns put up that job because the bank had ob- tained judgment and foreed him to make good several thousand doliars which had been ob- tained on torged drafts. The crecksmen were going In and out of the building for nights, and had thei tools and a dummy w man stored inanupper room, They were waiting fora milk Mon. BURGLARIES THAT FAILED. “Two experts, who were not in t but were on their waste Woodbury, a bit of work for themselves, were arrested om the street early In the morning and were run im and put away on suspicion of designs on the Corn Exchange. Then there was the attempt on the Southwark Bank, which was defeated because the man who was on watch got drunk and went asleep on a housetop aud failed to sig- nal to the workmen when to begin operations on the departure of the watchman, The Coensoll- dation Bank would have been plundered, too, but for the Jingling ot adoor-bell. The thieves i rented an adjoining building and had knocked a hole through the bank wall, and had all of their implements in there. They heard the bell and supposed the watchman had re- | turned and they fled, leaving everything behind | them. [know of a Chestnut street bank which employed only one watchman, an old, ‘fellow. I'veseen him sound ‘asleep in a chai | with the door wide open, on many a night. How that bank escaped being robbed I don't know. There was another that had two ancient watch- men. One of them would let the other out early \in the morning to go buy policy slips. There | Was an opening here fur the men who worked the Kensington Bank. It would have been the easiest thing in the world for a gang to ray the door and get admittance abont the thne the old fellow was to return. It is a fact not known outside of detective circles that a job was put upa few yearsago to reb theUnitedStates Mint. The atttemnpt on dhe Sub-Treasury tn the Custom House building, in 1 only bee cause the crackamen wad and got Fault where pv holding gold coins sv locks and ne anks all have insi men now. The latte have to record their The Venetian Satoeon of the High Hele born | From Olive Loxau's Letter, ‘The palatial eating houses of London are mule tiplying very rapidly. The latest accession of this sort to London architecture ts the Holborn restaurant and eating house, which has long been popular and successful, having been estab- Nished for over half a century, and which is the only restaurant in London, so fur as I know, where bands of music play during dinner. It te situated in one of the bustest parts of London, at High Holborn, near the Lans of Court, a lo- cality which, though wie en over to bust ness, does not lull to the repose of a necropolis at night, as the streets neighboring the Bank of Engiand }and the Mansion House do. Hitherto the deco- rations of the Holborn restaurant's crowded dining rooms have been the stock red velvet and dingy gold, the usual reiteration of the Paris cafe, while the band bas been suspended ina hanging gallery, tinkling the latest valses and bouffe quadrilies from underneath the me- tallic shadow of buge zinc palm trees, witha . abso- lutely novel as applied to @ public restauraat,for the Holborn ls now simply & Venetian ot From a nobie ifs Hl