The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-28

Aeeps Up the dignity OF ID er station by
Ordering Patent Medicines by the
Gross-Eer Consort Person of Great
Sense and Shrewdness.
From the Philadelphia Times.
Antananarvio. Madagascar, Oct l.
What they would do with me if this letter
'ell under the eyes of the powers that be
in this island 1 do not know, for nobody
has yet ventured to tell me the penalty
that attaches TO the publication of gossip
regarding Queen Ranavalo Mandaka III.
by the grace of God and the supreme will
Of the people, sovereign lady of Madagas-
i car protectoress of the Kingdoms laws.
crowned Nov. %, 1888.
That is all the title she can boast of.
No more, no less And if a. native should
dare abbreviate it, American fashion, one
Of royalty's spies would at once dispatch
him with his ever-ready spear.
But l know quite well what would hap
pen to me for sending you her majesty's
portrait for publication. 1 should go to
jail for the rest of my life. and Jail in the
capital is a shanty erected over a semi
subterranean pig pen covering several
thousand feet of ground. The royal pork
ers in day time rummage through the
streets of the residential town, but at
i night assemble in the prison basement for
4 sweet repose's sake.
| received the photograph 1 sent you
from his royal highness, the prince con-
sort and prime minister, Rainilaiarivony,
on condition that / must not exhibit it
while in Madagascar, it being part of this
mans policy to make the queen out a
hoo -
Il approachable, on-apprehensible to COM
merce. She shows herself to her people
only at rare intervals, and as TO allowing
Europeans to gaze upon her swarthy coun-
lenanCe, that is out OF the question.
Halneto-I have TO shorten that name
old me her majesty could not receive me,
as her new palace was still unfinished.
he truth of the matter is Ranayalo hates
whites and is smart enough to know that
before them she appears ridiculous in her
rariS toggery and alleged royal costumes;
also that her manners are not above res
proach. Still, to the MalagassyS, Ranan-
Valo is every hundredth part of an inch an
imperial being, and they accept her airs
ana graces with profound admiration and
humility When q few months ago her
brother Carnot" was murdered the whole
nation grieved with her. and again when
Frlnce Henry of Orleans arrived here the
other day all shouted for her majesty s
cousin" The young, blonde, blue-eyed
Henry did not understand the situation.
= -tNA ne DTOke out IN a very diSttcpCNNAul
4 Fi-oh -trei" I told him he would have to
sleep with his cousins pigs If he was not
careful.
A member of the London Missionary
society, VINO once gained admittance to
ne royal presence, tells me that he was
obliged to go through the entire routine
q native humble-piedom on that memoir
able occasion. He had to kneel in the
gust rub his nose into the mud and hand
Ranavalo 5-franc piece for new pair of
This is no joke. In other monarchical
countries taxes are levied for the queens
Pm money; here, native and foreigner
auke, are constantly asked to clothe the
royal legs in other colors than those pro-
rlded by nature. The first pair of stock
4 lhgs worn by Malagassy sovereign were
Dought of French sailor. He paid D.
Iancs for them, that is, the courtier in
tlttendance to the king was asked to do
r.. The operation pleased the royal mind
~ know nothing of the attendant feel
&ngs IN the matter) and as one pair of
Ucks would not suffice, he forthwith is
sIge9 proclamation, ordering all loyal
r1aoagascars to open intercourse with