Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1895-04-24
CENTILITY SPRICS.
Her Majesty and the Prince
of Wales.
THEIR TASTES WIDELY DIFFER.
Sir John Adye is About to be Memorial
lied In the Shape of Book
OF "reminiscences.

way the associates of the Duke of York
do not find favor in the eyes of the
prince. This fact has been brought
home to the public by the refusal of
Albert Edward to permit his son to en-
tertain house party at Sandringham.
This is the story at any rate that is
going the rounds of the clubs in Pail
Mall and the boudoirs of Mayfair.
Every year the prince is compelled to
lease at heavy expense house for
the Ascot week, although Windsor
castle is within an easy drive of the
course and is unoocupied by the queen
at that time Of the year. 1t has over
and over again been suggested that
her majesty should lend her home
there to her son.
But she has always shown herself
strongly disinolined to do SO, and on
one occasion when, 80 to speak, pressed
to the wall in the matter. declared that
she would only consent to the PROPOSE.
tion If the prince undertook to submit
for her approval the names of all the
people whom he proposed to entertain
during the week, and to bind himself
that there should be no dancing, no
baocarat or other game of hazard, and
no smoking save in certain secluded
portions of the castle. the queen having
holy horror of tobacco.
OF course the prince would not hear
of being tied down in this manner. and
the consequence is that each year he
has to spend some $4,000 or $15, 900
for the hire Of one of the country seats
in the neighborhood of the race course,
the royal carriages coming from the
castle stables to drive him to and from
the course.
In the same way that the queen is
touchy about such matters, so. too, is
the Prince of Wales. remember on
one occasion his having an alteration
with his youngest brother, the Duke of
Albany, who deeply resented the
princes refusal to permit him to enter
tain few friends of his own in the
pavilion set aside in the international
exhibition at Paris in 1878 for the per-
sonal use of England's future king.
The pavilion was unoocupied at the
time. Yet, although the Duke of Al
bany had already invited party Of
friends to dine with him there and had
made all the arrangements, his eldest
brother declined to permit the enter
tainment to take place. and forced tho
duke to take his friends elsewhere.
Now there is the same thing with
the Duke of York. During the first
year of the latter's marriage the young
couple spent good deal of their time
at Sandringham. where they occupy a
handsome residence known as York
cottage, and they had quite a number
of friends staying with them most of
the time, particularly the friends of
the duchess, commencing with her
brothers, who were almost constantly
there. As York cottage is not very
large the duke quartered some Of them
at his fathers house close by, and even
when they were put up at the cottage
they were in and out of the hall, as the
mansion is called, most of the time.
This by no means suited the views Of
the prince. He gets very easily boreo
and takes strong aversions to people
especially when they happen to get il
his way at moment where he does mo-
especially wish for their society, the
result being that qvite little feeling
has cropped out between father ant
son. The party which the duke hat
invited down to Sandringham has beer
put off indefinitely by the orders Of the
prince.
I hear that good old Sir John Adye
who for so many years was the genera
and governor in command Of Gibral
tar, is about to be memorialized in thu
shape of book of "reminiscences.
wonder whether they will include {
record of singularly funny inciden
which took place while he was in com
mand at Woolwich. Somebody hat
invented field gun intended to b.
fred from horseback. The experimen
took place, the horses head being tie,
to a post and the muzzle Of the gul
being directed toward an earthen butt
the committee standing ON the othe
side of the animal to watch the result
The gun was loaded, and in order t
afford time slow burning fuse wa
used to fire it Off Unfortunately. tn
committee had only fastened the AMI
NAL by the head. The result was tina
when 1t heard the fizzing of the fuse o.
its back it became uneasy and com
menced prancing round the post, S
that the gun, instead of pointing at tn
butt, was directed straight at the head
of good old Sir John and all the othe
generals and officers who had assemble
to watch the experiment.
Not a moment was to be lost. Dow
} they all went fat ON their stomachs i
} the mud. Then the gun went off an
the shot passed over the town of Woo
: wich and fell in the dockyard, the n