The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-12-20
They Think He Will Counteract the Belize
erent Sentiment of the Senators.
THEY DO NOT EXPECT TROUBLE.
AS Long as He in the White House and They Promise d
Have the Rebels Wiped Out by the Time That
Mckinley Assumes the Reipns

his small stipend and limited snf1ara al
enjoyment. took TO the more l,lcrafival
profession Of begging Mr. Labbnchars
got upon his track early in his foaraer
nnu week after week, for years, de-
nounced him as an imposter in the col.
umns of Truth, with pungency and Il
persistency which were al. abitiinr, iniyy.s iiy.s
10 the readers of that smart paper. Be
spoiied many q deal of Brooks, but for
az mat there are too many fools iii
peculiar talents to starye 1t was hlsI
custom to study the Weaknesses OF pub-
nc men ana ascertain the political md
reIlgious views of private citizens OF
wealth; ana to write his begging letters
accordingly. BY these means he sue
ceeded In extracting large sums of
money from Cabinet Ministers DiJkasss
Archbishops, directors of the Bank of
england, generals and at least one
american millionaire. William WALDORF
Astor, to wit. ~ 80 80
FLIMFLAMMED ROYALTY.
But undeniably his best achievement
was the obtaining Of grant OF a2Oo
fVoted every year by Parliament ia fTen =
able the Queen to help necessitous Iite-s
rhry men and women, and Brooks auslf-.
hed Tor inclusion in that category by
wriling trumpery pamphlet of some
kind. People who were conyersant with
Brooks career could scarcely credit iths
oiiicial announcement, and It has never
YET been satisfactorily explained how
This professional beggar MANAGED y To
bounce the Rt. Hon. Arthur Balfour,;
Loru OF the Treasury, In recon-
mending him to the Queen as the r,ro-s
per recipient of the royal bounty. but
ne ala 1t, and success emboldened him "a
iurtner ana even more ambitious efforts
IL also put Henry Labouchere upon his
inettle, and Truth denunciations there,
AFTER became u
mat brooks income began to diminish. !.
ana ilnally he resolved uDon the daring
ana desperate expedient or prosecuting
ruth for libel, No more impuderit ac-s
, ,loi' WAS ever Drought in any court OF
law, but such Is the operation of the
lsngllsh law OF libel In protecting scottns
drels like Brooks, that the action was
by no means as hopeless as it looked at
iIrst slsht. The case occupied the High
Court Of Justice for three daya FtI5fs
week. and resulted on Thursday in MIR.
i-abouchere's triumphant acouittaIs n
was SHOWN in the evidence that iii e.
period OF five years Brooks, by the sim
pie method of begging letters, gathered
IN no Tess sum than 100000. and THAI
Whlie posing as Il broken down. deSery-i
ilG man OF letters, plunged in the deep
est distress, he was keeping up country
houses. with servants and horses and
carriages. The Jury practically stopped
me case and thus unfortunately pre-
l..
four as Il witness to show the means
by which Brooks duped him and fha
Queen, and the world therefore, will
propaoiy never be given the oppoTttinity
OF enjoying that story, but in the RbieI
hands of Sir Frank Lockwood. who rem
resented Mr.. Labouchere, the case was
iull of fun from beginning to end. ard
the entire country read and roared overi
it every day. .9iaI]l "a "a III
Mr; Labouehere is now engaged In
Fn,. . "a
ton. but he is not likely to geteanything
BROOKS is sufficiently ast1te to Ii ave cofs- &
Veyed his money to his wife or to have
put it in some other way out of reach.
LOOKING FOR a QUEEN.
The latest report OF the matrin6ntsl
intentions OF young King Afexander Of;
Servia credits him with aspiring to tha
hand of daughter of one of.tiie Aus- :;
trian Archdukes. He has, however & 20
me story runs, met with unexpsctetlj
dithculty from the lady's parents. This.
imperial couple, although able to frat,A
their pedigree through untold years.
graciously waived their bjectlons tn
the young Kings suit Objections be-,
ing based on the ground of the upstairs
character OF his family. but pointed ySliE
that the Austrian royal and inineriaI
mouse could not possibly receive Into ;its
bosom young man whose parents ifyetii
apart, thus giving, rise 10 a scandal. ff
VIII be remembered by the few people
who take an interest in ex-King MilaI,,s b
erratic career. that a couple 6f years
ago he and his wife, Queen Natiiie, swere
upon the very verge of reooncifiatissr
and the world had been notified 6f I riieifs
intention to fall upon each other s fsack
and let by-gones be by-gones, when ti,A
pretty picture wes utterly. spotted bv:
the inopportune discovery nv q, I,
Natilie that her remarka bic iit,S 4 {sIiYii
had just installed a fresh tress sff,s ss
new and surnptuous domicfies ia fsM f.iS;s
The discovery REQ opened the 6te aeils Hes.
tween the royal people. and IL q & t.s,,ss Il, !
raj impression seems to he tha fsi i.ii tiien
hopeless. owing ID com Is ID
sibility of t1ustiriS III sslahs i52iS
of peniteIlce NO ssS u