Arizona republican., 1898-10-14
QUEEN VICTORIA
 AND DIVORCES.


 sanction to the rescript issued by the bishops and archbishcps ol the much mcoted question of divorce. writes Marquise De Foniency in the Washing ton Post. The queen intimates that the procurement cn the part Of the prelates might have been written in stronger terms, as she is ''total.y averse' to divorce under any circum- stances whatsoever" Her majesty is willing to admit that ''in no institution are there more people wrongSd than in marriage" Nevertheless, her belief is that an Infinitely more s.isfactory state Of affairs wculd arise were mar riage made indissoluble, bo-h by church and sets." The queen adds that she has mo objection to judicial separation" her strong d.sapproval to divorce being due to the liberty which 1t imparts to divorced people tc. marry again. And to the remarriage of di- vorced pSople, no matter what the grounds of their divorce, she is ''unal- terably and most strongly opposed"
 ID1smuch as this is the first official given of her views on the subject of di-
 
 head of the Established Church and supreme hsad of the s,ats, it is worthy Of being placed on record Everybody has known that the qusen was oppos- ed to the appearance of divorced wo- men at court. But onIy d few were aware that her aversion to divorce lay mainly in the liberty it afforded to di- vorcsdI people to marry again. It serves tci explain the unfriendliness with which the widowed Mrs Hammer sley of New York (ncw Lady William Ber5 sford), was treated by her majesty at the time Of her marriage to the late duke Of Marlborough, who was a di- vorced man, and shows that women whose past lives have been entirely free from scandal, but whc had the lcok for no gracicusness CT gccd will on the part of her British majesty Ye- her cwn mother-in-law, the late duch- ess Of Ssxe-Coburg-G -Gotha, was divo-c- ed and married again.
 Albert Calvert, the claiman. to the earldCm of Baitimors. who has just been figuring in the London bank ruptcy courts, is another onc, Of these shooting star-like multi-miliicna;rSs who have flashed across the Armament of the London great world, disappsar- ing in perfect flood of widespread ruin- Like Hocley. he made his men ey by bold and daring speculation, and like HCCley, he lost his vast wealth in the same manner He came prem ine1tly bsfore the public about year ago in connection with the lawsuit be- tween an English and an American agent in connection with the division Of the sum of sS0O0, which Calvert had paid th5m by way of fee to sa- cure for himself tne colonelcy Of crack volunteer or militia regiment. This lawsuit tock place about thrse after Calvert, who knew abso- lute1y nothing about mili .ary matters, l had been gazetted and received the queens commission as colonel Of the regiment in qustion, both the militia and the volunteer regiments in Eng land being part and parcel of the reg ular army. So great was the scandal by the revelations in this suit ! that Colonel Calvert's resignation Of his commission was at onca demand sd by the secretary of stata for war, ] and his connection with the army sey-i d.
 The astounding bags Of game which the kaiser has just been securing on l nls sporting estate of Hubertustcck, i about three hours distant from Berlin, 1 IS due to the fact that for a thousand | ears back, in fact from time imme- | stags from all parts of Ger many appear to gather in a scrt of an aual convention on the great heaths hat here and there Tighten the dsns- ty of the grand old forest which S.f5tches for miles and miles in every lirection over hill and dale around 
 The features of these SO called stag conventions are single ccmba,s be- i ,wsen the various full grown males or the leadership Of the various bands. | ke ether stags, as wall as all the thou sands of female deer, standing in a ;ircle. rcw upon TOW, attentively look ng on at the combat As soon as one $ finished straightway another one .akes place, not attempt being made oy luc oluSI 5tdSS lO 1ut0fIor1. l. IS estimated that at this time, of the yaar he ordinary number of stags in the forests around the Hubsrtus.cck are increased by several thousand males l he female deer being beyond counting.
 Many Of the stags shct in September 1 and October Jy the imperial sportmen Il the district, which is almost strictly preserved, belong to species unknown i n northern Germany, and indigenous 0 Russia and to Hungary.
 In order to understand how these ;tags could have made their way from such distances it is necessary to' bear n mind that owing to the care with which game is preserved in Germany. md to the vastness and wildness of the estates of the great feudal nobles, it is quite possible fer stag to wander rom the shores Of the Adria.tic unto he shores of the Baltic withou. ever .nce leaving the forest glades.
 Let me add that this annual species