The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-17
THEY DRANK
THEIR BEER.
While the Band Played ssGOd
Save the Queen
President Faure and the Duke
of COnnaught.
STOP AT A SALOON.
STOP AT A SALOON.
Other European News of Late
Interest.
A Picture of the Czarina and
Her Baby.

CelA LoI4leAiL A temporary ran IN the
barometer early in the week raised
hopes which were doomed to disap-
pointment. The temperature has again
risen and London continues bathed in
sunshine
The cutlery in the east end of London,
where the supply of water has been re-
duced to dangerous limits, is taking the
form of influential public meetings
which violently denounce the east end
water company for neglecting to take
proper measures to assure a supply of
water and calling for municipal control
of the WaterWOrks
In the meanwhile the sanitary condi-
tons are so bad in some districts that
there is serious fear of epidemic.
The north of London is also suffering
undeserved martyrdOm in the shape of
a street car famine due to a strike of
the hOStlerS and the consequent dismiss
sal of a couple of agitators. The many
thousands of business people who rely
upon cheap conveyance to the city have
been seriously Inconvenience by the
sudden stoppage of traffic which oc
CURED on Wednesday last.
Public sympathy inclines to the side
of the company which has taken the
bull by the horns and has dismissed all
the strikers, engaging outsiders to take
their places.
The whole of Great Britain has been
startled by an epidemic of railroad out
RACES. On the Northwestern and Mid
Northampton, there have been several
most determined efforts to wreck pas
senger trains. Formula BILE Instructions
were constructed across the track and
one express train had a most narrow
escape from disaster. It ploughed
through a veritable barricade but did
not leave the rails. The most alarming
feature of the outrages is the fact that
the police have not been able to obtain
the slightest clew to the perpetrators
though a hundred detectives have been
1Tg-fu
panic prevails.
One theory is that the crimes are the
work of a band of train wreckers look
ing for plumber and emulating the far
west hold ups.
After passing eight weeks in an inva-
lids chair the Prince of Wales this
week FOR the first time, was able to
walk a few PAGES with the aid of
stick. He Travelled to Balmoral, from
his yacht to Portsmouth
Private letters declare the prince late
ly has been very irritable at the en-
forced restraint; that he has even de-
clared that permanent limp would be
cheap penalty to pay for release from
his floating prison. 1t is added that the
attending physicians finally yielded and
allowed the prince to journey to Scotland
in order to appease their patient ana
also to arrest the strong stimulus which
rest and sea air appetite have given to
his increasing stOutness.
The heir apparent will still require to
wear for many weeks to come the ap-
knee.
The Duke of Connaught has been the
hero of the French army maneuvers
around MOuline, which he attended as
President Faure's chief guest. He first
distinguished himself by q splendid
display of Craftsmanship before the
French staff, when borrowed horse,
startled by the firing, tried to bolt, rear
ed and fell. The duke skilfu1ly olsen
gagged himself unhurt.
On the following day during a halt
1,r %ra1~
ier's knapsack He had one Of them
emptied on the ground, weighed the ar
ticles and finally took the knapsack,
Strapping on his own shoulders and
walked up and down in front of the
president and the generals in order to
test whether the straps hampered his
movements. The spectators were great
ly amused and the private soldiers
loudly cheered him.
Yesterday the Duke of Connaught
visited the French camp kitchens and
following the great NapoleOn's preced-
ent he asked to be allowed to taste the
soldiers food, remarking: Ct must only
take a tiny morsel as I am robbing
somebody's share"
Then he forked out and ate a piece
of beef, which he pronounced to be of
excellent quality.
The duke also examined the mems
overcoats, testing their weight and
texture.
These incidents have made the Duke
soldiers and villagers. At the hamlet of
Ennemond, they had a great treat in
seeing the president of the republic and
Queen Victoria's son stop before lit
tie public house and call for and toss off
glasses of light beer, while the hurried
~ assembled band played God Save
the Queen
President Faure has decorated the
duke with the grand cross of the Legion
of Honor.
The leading newspapers scathingly
review Herr MOritz Busch's Life OF
Prince Bismarck" which was recently
published. The general opinion is that
both the author and his idol suffered
greatly by the revelations made. The
British, naturally, chiefly resent the
late princes expressions of hostility to
Great Britain and to the queen and her
daughter, the former Empress Fred
erick of Germany, with which the book
teens.
The Daily Telegraph says that if the
book reveals the real Bismarck, he low
cred the moral tone of the whole of
Europe, adding: .Bvery one knew he
made INSCRIPTIONS use of the press; but
according to Herr Busch he deliberately
instructed his hirelings to disseminate
about falsehoods.'
The Times remarks: 1T was re-
served to the sublime Inconsistencies
of one of his sincerest wOrshippers to
expose all the meanness, duplicity and
many brilliant and admirable quail
ties
A photograph of the czarina nursing
her baby recently appeared in an Eng
lish newspaper and when it reached the
Russian censor the latter was much
puzzled official. He consulted with the
minister of the interior who was equal
ly perplexed and who decided to consult
with the car
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