The Arkansaw traveler., 1889-09-07

grown almost into . proverb. He is never behind time and he is about the only member of any of the royal families of Europe who does not keep . special train waiting for hours after he has ordered it. At ten o'clock he walked into the library with . fresh cigarette in his hand, and
 talked half an hour with the secretaries who attend to the vast correspondence of the prince Only . small portion of the letters were submitted to his royal highness. The others, which were in . meas petitions, gifts invitations of semi social kind, were attended to without the princes know ledge. While his royal highness was looking over one or two letters of special importance Hon. Harry Tyrwhitt- Wilson, who Is a fAvorite equerry of the prince, and who always accompanies him on his continental tours, hurried in and began an excited talk about fox terrier which was just then the property of Lord Arthur Somerset, and which Col. Tyrwhitt- Wilson was very anxious to get for the prince. It transpired that the prince was anxious to get 1t for certain sprightly and handsome somebody else but Lord Arthur Somer- set was inclined to hold to his prize winner stubbOrnly. The thing was to get the dog secretly and quietly.
 All the details of correspondence were thrust aside, while the discussion went on concerning the fox terrier Col. Tyrwhitt-Wils talked with the utmost absorption and without much ceremony. Perhaps his usefulness to the prince in his con- tnental tours had something to do with his ease in the presence of his future sovereign.
 He left the room by one door the prince of Wales strode out by another and went back to his dressing room to select some wedding presents for the daughters of several peers of the realm, who were shortly to be married. The presents had been spread out artistically, and his highness picked them out with wave of the fore-fnger, and told his secretary for whom each gift was intended. This duty over, he drew on his gloves, put on his hat, and deoending to the Pail Mall entrance of Marlborough House, stepped into the heavy family carrige, which he uses on civic visits, and drove over toward Kensington Oval.
 The duke of Beaufort, who is a stanch old ally 0f VI hoaid arriu He drove with the prince to the cricket grounds. The dukes spare figure was held upright by stiff stays, and his face displayed the amiability of 6 beau of the last century, despite its hundreds of wrinkles and the marks left by life of extraor- dinary dissipation. The occasion was 6 game for the championship between the gentlemen amateurs of Great Britain and the professionals. Both of the elevens stopped playing to cheer the prince when he appeared at the window of the club house. Then the game went on
 The prince and the duke sat side by side with their hats tilted their eyes and their feet on the window sill The president of the club and half a dozen officers hovered around the chairs of the two distinguished visitors, but they were chatting together in 6 low tone about the game and paid no attention to their hosts.
 At twelve o'clock precisely his royal highness rose and, bidding the duke remain where he was, descended the stairs rapidly to the main ground. Though the move was quietly made, he found nearly one thousand people waiting around his carriage and he passed the lane which the police made for him, he bowed politely to a feeble cheer. The footman slammed the door of the carriage, climbed up to the box seat, and the prince was driven rapidly to the studio of one of the most distinguished portrait painters in Great Britain. The tenants of the princes country seat had mb- scribed enough money to pay for portrait of the prince, and they were having it painted as present for the princess of Wales. A dummy in the per- son of an abandoned alcoholic swell of rather handsome physique sat every day in the princes clothes 90 that the artist could get what is pre- sumed to be his figure, while his royal highness gave half hour sitting once Q week for his face It was scarcely half hour this time, however. The prince sank into . luxurious chair, prepared for him directly in the way of whatever light could struggle through the fog of the north window. answered the artists questions with