The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-11-03
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interests of the people.
THE PRINCE is SICK.
Harold Frederic is the London CORE |
spOndent who startled the world. a few
days z with the story that the Prince
of Wales is sick and soon to die. Mr..
Frederic In u writer who il pretty apt
to know what he is talking about, al |
though we question whether he il OF
the same terms OF familiarity with
England's crowned heads as Mr.. Rus
sell Is. Harrison is said to have estab-
lished. In other words, We do not
fancy that if Mr.. Frederic were to run
across the Prince i'm the Strand, some
fOggy london morning. he o VEN
ture to exclaim, Hello. Wales. old boy.
let's have u cocktail"
At the same time Mr.. Frederic
knows what is going on in court circles
and, now that his name has been men,
toned, we may as well put his career
i'm a paragraph. Not SO many years
ago Harold Frederic sold newspapers
on the streets of the city Of Utica, New
York. His home was as modest as
poverty could make it. his earnings Is
u newsbOy were sufficiently meagre.
But he was thrifty and, more than that,
he was bright. When still a lad, he
was employed i'm IA newspaper office in
Utica INT almost before anybody out
side of that sleepy town knew it, he
WAS writing for the Utica Observer edi-
torial comment that attracted attention
by it's vigOr of thought and it's grace of
dictiOn.
by and by Mr.. Frederic was asked to
he editorial writer for the Albany
Erening JoHrHa/, a newspaper which
had rather an erratic career under the
ownership of the Arkells. who have
! since bought Jn'fye and used Russell
B. HarrisOn's name to advertise it with.
For some reason, Mr.. Frederic didn't
get on with the A.rkell outfit. and just
as he was discussing the establishment
of new journalistic relations with n
gentleman now engaged in newspaper
work in Montana, he was asked by the
New York Times tn he it's foreign cor-
respondent. lie accepted the offer, and
| journalism never saw more brilliant
reporting than was one by Mr.. Fred
eric, immediately after his mission
began. i'm his graphic of the
cholera scnurge i'm the south of France
4. little later. Mr.. Frederic made some
petty tad yuesses Oh the prospect of IA
- - ".en Russia and England and
.. me the older correspondents
rat. r had the laugh on him. But
did admirable service in other fields. lie
has now had six years of experience in
Europe and when he that
the Prince of Wales is sick we may be
| pretty sure that the heir to Britain's
throne is not as well III he used to be.
But this bit of reminiscent talk was
not in the STANDARDS mind when the
opening paragraph in this article was
penned. The idea was rather to direct
attention to the fact that the alleged
sickness of the Prince of Wales has
started no end of gossip regarding the
succession. Everybody appears ready
to assume that h eldest son Of the
Prince is a sort of royal chump and
that the Queen would be glad il the
scepter might pass to Prince George,
the second son who. at "a, is a year his
elder brothers Junior II who. like the
heir apparent, is not married.
1t will be remembered hat the illus
triOus grandfather of these two young
men was regarded AS "A complete non
entity when Queen Victoria married
him, yet he lived to be one of the most
esteemed and beloved princes in all the
realm of royalty-and he died young at
that. The fact that Prince Victor has
al a face and an awkard way is
not proof that he may not be u good
king for England. Certainly he has
not the physical disqualitications that
atfiict Germany's new Kaiser, yet that
young man appears to make pretty good
shift in bringing Bismarck to the front
and letting himself be kissed by old fell
lows who have worn crowns so long
thai they are bald headed. Let us hope
that il the Prince of Wales is summon
ed from earth away. no wicked return
ing board will ever seek tn count Prince
Victor out.