The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-11-03
THE PRINCE Is FIFTY-FOUR,
ALBERT Edward o. Wlles Celebrates His
Birthday IN Loldon Gi.h Great Pomp.
LONG, WEARY GAIT Fer The THRONE.
Marlborough. the Friacc's cod--on. Takes
Bride for His iwsnty-fourth birth
day John ". Nackay'S Elightcd
]casi-Mrs. Burnett and
Mrs. stanton.

copyrighted. 1885. for The Timcs)
Who FIRST comes to tins world below
With drcar Novcmbcr's fog and snow
Should prize Tie topazs amber hue
Emblem OF friends and lovers true.
This Quatrain is engraved uTon the
back al rose Of topaz that was pre-
scented TO His Royal Highness Aiber,
Edward of Wales. twenty-iour years ast
this month. upon the thirlcth birthday
OF that prospective young monarch.
The givcr was Ills LcrdshiD the Duke
OF Marlborough. AMI thc occasion was
many times happy one-the nifthda3
OF albert Edward and the birth OF "a SOL
20 the house o. Marlborough. and pos
pective heir 10 the title 80 was also O.
ciuistcu.ng present from the Duke or MARI
borough 10 Albert Edward and was pre-
scented the day His Highness stood sd'on-
F0r and godfather 10 thc thy htir Of the
house az Marlborough.
TIE baby christcnod Chlfiea John
Spencer Churchill. Duke of b.an1ioi" "a.
grew and waxcd into a big. bright boy.
And TODAY. twcnty-ionr yca's later, DIS
name is upon popular tongue and Dis
deeds chronicled ty the popular writer
As even His Highnoss tho Prince OF
Walls cannot hope for on this toe double
birth month
MKT YTAh KING fDwARp."
The, Prince ~ Wales celebrates his
birthday this year with particular taste.
as there IS "A growing feeling that next
year II may he ~ King Edward that Dee
will receive his natal congratulations
Preparations arc being made i'm Windsor
for great dinner ana an London is pre-
yaring for fetc day. IRE province
have been gathering money for birth
day gift for three months past and the
aidcrmauic boards Of the towns have
appropriated various sums for the puf-
chase ~ suitable gift Of gold silver
or Jewels.
Bat though knowing this, and being
greatly touched by II. 10 Is am open fact
that the Prince Of Wales Is looking ior-
ward with less anticipation 10 his birth
day this year than any year before. lie
IS bored hv n. I'm one way and the long.
weary waiting Of his life stands out be-
fore him palmer al this time than nj
any otlcr.
Fifiy-f.ur years old, Gray. bald, tired
eurfeited with the world losing each
year his boyhood friends grandfather
many times over. touched yearly more
heavily with the iuEimtias of age. be
recognizes through an that his life-work
has not yet begun and that he must yet
fulhll the mission Of King of England
in way that will stamp him upon his
tory or blot him out forever into insis-
nidcance
Fiftv-four years old and compelled 10
be q loafeli Denied from the profes-
eions. prohibited from all branches OF
work. the Prince has lived ON gaily. de-
honuairiy. easily breathing never a
word % what is the greatest ambition
OF English life. and Interfering never 10y
one look in the policies of the country
which he must some day direct supreme
" as King lie has been compelled 10
come 10 the borderland Of old age with
out ono stroke OF the nfc-work which
81 Is a mans happiness 90 execute.
Sadder stin I'm the fate of the Prince
s. his lovely. failing Princess, now deaf,
quite lame and broken in spirit from
the death Of that son two years ago.
But through IL all Albert Edward is the
eamo even-tempercd gentleman. happy
though doctoriug at Homhurg. diplomat
So though eating At table with heather
visiting Dotentates. never aiding The ef-
forts 10 put him upon the throne. and
remaining forever the same heir appar-
ent and jolly good fellow which he has
been since the time Of tho nursery tales
Of the present generation.
TWAIN ASD MAcKAY.
John W. Mackay and Mark Twein.
two gentlemen as alike iu physioenomy
as different i'm other things. record sixty
years this month. Both OF these gentle
men have made fortunes. and each by a
bit Of clcverness with their brains N'rk
started the eentecly humorous, art
reapcd fortune monthly for many
wears Ills book publishers alone paid