Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-20
WORK FOR HER ATWINDSOR
She Must There Consider Several
Bushels of Petitions
AGAINST THE USE OF BUCKHOUNDS
In Hunting Tame Deer in the Forests Of
Old England
BOGUS HIGHLAND CHIEFTAINs MUST GO
rBT CABLE TO THF DISPATCH

LONDON, Nov. 19.-[ Copyright Queen
Victoria and her court went to Windsor
Castle yesterday, and will remain there
until shortly before Christmas, which, in
accordance with custom, will be spent at
Osborn, in the Isle of Wight During the
journey from Scotland this time precautions
Tor the Queens safety were taken upon
such an elaborate and large scale as to
suggest comparison with travelling
Gar. But they were suggested, not by fear
Of political plotters, but by the recollection
Of the terrible accident which occurred
only the other day to the famous Scotch ex-
press, which travelled part of the way over
the same route taken Yesterday by the royal
special train. The managers of the various
roads decided, therefore, to take no risks.
The royal train. preceded by the usual
pilot engine running Is minutes ahead, was
hand-signaled throughout its passage from
Ballater to Windsor. Ordinary traffic was
stopped everywhere for half an hour, snd
common people were rigidly excluded from
all stations All this naturally caused
good deal of public Inconvenience, but, as
far as can be ascertained from the news
papers, nobody has thought fit to grumble.
\ Crusade Against Buckhounds.
The Queen will find at Windsor large
number OF petitions for and against the abo-
liJion of the royal buckhounds. One
signed by the nobility and gentry of the
neighborhood calls Tor the retention of tame
deer-hunting in the sacred name of sport,
and one from tine traiesmen of Windsor
urges that local business would suffer
il the famous hunts should be aband-
Cned. The petitions against the
rDy-al nl-houpJS low tho
cruelty of hunting tame animals, and hint
that the Queen IS setting bad example to
the whole country. They have been organ
ized mainly by the newly-formed "Humani-
tartan League" which proclaims as its
leading principle that ait is iniquitous to
inhict suffering on any sentient beingex-
cept when self-defense or absolute neces-
sity can be justly pleaded"
As a matter OF fact the Queen, as the
readers o. The DISPATCH already know,
has decided that the royal buckhounds shall
cease to exist at the end of the present sea-
son, otherwise the ianatical pretensions OF
the Humanitarian League might induce her
to change her mind. The Leagues argu-
ments tell against nearly all forms of sport,
aud the Leagues members would equally
brand as cOwardlv scoundrels the working
man who courses rabbits, the Prince of
Wales who hunts foxes, stalks deer and
shoots pheasants with impartial ardor and
the German Emperor, who has just COM
pleted the twentieth anniversary of his de- \
but as sportsman, and claims to have shot |
about Is, SOC head of game since he was first
permitted to handle shotgun.
A Countess Plays in Hard Luck.
The Countess de la Torre is not a member
OF the Humanitarian League, but she is a
iadv of fine feelings and strong language
which quality her for membership. Both
b,, hrourh+
her into collision with the magistrates in
London who have had to adjudicate upon
complaints made by town neighbors as to
the excessive number of cats and OF Ter
animal pets kept bv her ladyship in def
ance Of the sanitary regulations.
just now, however. the Countess is re-
siding in the center of district hunted by
Ihe royal buckhounds, and she witnessed
the other dav a cruel chase OF one of the
Queens tame deers, a sight that did not
please her. and she promptly expressed her
sentiments in this telegram, which she ten
dered at the local postofhce for transmits
sion:
Editor Star, London:
Another disgraceful deer hunt, same
idiotlc bucks, disspated women and snobs.
The postmaster in exercise of the dis
erection permitted to him by law, refused to
accept the telegram on the ground that it
contained ABUSIVE language, ana the Count
esS had to mail it. She means to contest
the postmaster's right to refuse to trans
nit the true, if strongly worded, descrip-
tion OF the hunt by the roval buckhounds,
and as the Countess is rather fond of law,
the offending officer is likely to have an
anxious time for the next few months.
1t is understood that the Countess asserts
that the dissipated women mentioned by
her included a number of titled ladies, who
l. ,ripad 4l,
night previously, necessitating morning
'pick-me-ups.
No More Bogus Highland Chieftains.
Several American citizens who love to
play the role Of Highland chieftain will be
much disturbed to learn that the Govern
ment has decided to appoint a committee to
inquire into the subject of the deer forests
in Scotland. For many years past the
Highland land owners, tempted bv high
sporting rents which American millionares
and other wealthy men have been willing
to pay, have steadily pursued the policy of
depopu ating their estates in order to make
room for deer Thousands of industrious
farmers have been turned out of their hold |
inCs and forced to settle in districts already
congested, TO migrate to town or to emigrate
to the United States or Canada The work
of determination has gone on unchecked
and unnoticed except when, now and then,
the poor people have resisted eviction with
uuaccustomed energy or have ventured in
their desperation to kill the Landlords game
10 teed themselves.
The committee, when it shall have
ascertained the facts, will have little diff
Guilty in recommending remedies. These |
will include restriction of the size of deer
torests-which, it had been borne in mind,
are not as a rule really forests, but pasture
and land formerly under cultivation-and
the prevention of arbitrary eviction. The |
immediate effect of the appointment of the |
committee will probably be the cessation of
the crolter emigration to British Colombia,
for if landlord tyranny and rapacity can be |
stopped there will be no need tor the people |
to seek living in strange lands.