The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-11-26

ately regarding her health. and express
ing the hope that her bereavement has
now lost its keenness- There is some
discussion this week as to whether the
queen will again go to the south OF
France next spring in view Of the anti
English feeling growing out of the
Fashoda affair.
Outbursts on the part of the French
newspapers are having a certain effect
and letters are appearing IN the English
newspapers urging that pressure be ex-
ercised in the proper quarters to induce
the queen not to go to the French
Riviera but to go to Florence instead.
Spanish Appeal for Charity.
The Countess Casa Valencia. wife Of
the former Spanish ambassador of that
name, has written to the newspapers
appealing for further funds to be de-
voted to the relief of the wounded Span
ish soldiers and widows of the slain.
AS generous contributions already re-
ceived will not suffice to meet the wide
spread misery existing among this
class of unfortunate Spaniards a three
days bazaar will be opened at Down.
shire house, on December 1 by the In
voted to the Spanish fund for the relief
of the wounded and the widows.
At Cambridge on Thursday last Gen.
Kitchener was accorded great recep-
ton when he received the freedom of the
borough and was admitted to the de-
gree of Doctor of Laws, which was the
occasion for an outbreak Of time hon.
ored rolliclking under graduate spirit.
The students mustered in great force
at the same house, sang patriotic dittieS
and dangled a life size effigy of a
derViSh over the balcony in front of
the general, who with the university
big wigs had to undergo good huInor-
ed chair. Later the students celebrated
the day with an enormous bonfire in
front of Market Hall, the fire being re-
plen1shed with garden fences, trades
mems shutters and a recently erected
municipal band stand.
WiIhelmina is Arbitrary.
The young queen of Holland, who re-
Gently displayed her strong will by re-
calling a whole issue of postage stamps
because her portrait on them made her
look too girlish, is again showing her
spirit in the question of her betrOthal
to Prince William of WED, an officer
in the German army, which has been
practically settled upon. The official
announcement of the betrothal has been
kept back on account OF certain d1fh-
culties in the protocol, the question be-
ing whether the prince should be in
vested with the rights and prerOgatiVeS
of prince consort, or retain his present
rank. Unless the former plan is adopt
ed neither the laws of Holland, nor the
foreign courts will recognize him as a
member of the Dutch royal family. The
WED family insist upon the title of
prince cOnsOrt, but Queen Wilhelmina
demands that Queen Victoria's prece-
dent be followed and that the title of
prince consort be not conferred until
eighteen months after the marriage. 1t
is expected, however, that the difficulty
will be overcome before long. The we'd
ding has already been fixed to take
place at The Hague next spring.
It has leaked out that the betrothal of
the young queen to the Prince of
WED is of romantic origin. The
princes older brother married the Prin-
cess Pauline of Wurtemburg, who was
Wilhelmina's intimate girlhood friend.
Once when they were staying together
and indulging in dreams of the future
they vowed, according to the story that
they would only wed two brothers. The
Princess Pauline afterwards married
the elder Prince of Wied, Prince
Frederick and Wilhelmina determined
to keep her vow and wed his brother,
Prince William, who is four years youn-
ger than Prince Frederick This it is
added, explains Queen WiIhelmina's
Indifference to other suitOrs, which has
caused so much comment.
Other reports, however, say that the
real reason for the selection of Prince
William of WED as a husband for
Queen WiIhelmina is that his mother
is a princess of the Netherlands and
that, therefore, he is likely to be more
acceptable to the people of Holland than
an entirely foreign prince.
CannibaIiSm.
Advices from Brisbane, Queensland,
contain CHASTITY story Of cannibalism
in the German eyrOIIn Of the Shin iS-