The herald., 1898-12-11


work among sailors, has just had an inter
view with the queen at Windsor, who is
keeny interested in her labors. Her maj
esty recently gave cabin" to the Sailors
rest at Devonport, and Miss Weston re-
lated to the queen an incident of sick
sailor who, after having been placed in the
cabin, asked if the queen really gave the
cabin out of her private pocket When told
it was true the sailor said:
Il would not have believed it unless had
seen. She has been my queen always. Now
she rs my friend
Miss Weston says the queen wept on
hearing this simple story.
Her majesty has contributed f250 to the
Gordon Memorial College fund, which is
now fully subscribed.
WANTS A FREAK
General Kitchener, who resembles Mr..
Cecil Rhodes in several ways, is insisting
that he should have only young, unmarried
men with him. He called at the Foreign
Office before he left London and said he
wanted somebody to take over the financial
department OF the Soudan. When he was
asked what kind of a man he wanted, Gen.
Kitchener replied:
Il want man thoroughly up to all finance
problems and not over 25 years of age
General Kitchener is still waiting for this
financial prodigy.
A KIPLING POEM
Rudyard Kipling has published in the
Times poem, supposed to be the transa-'
ton of song by Sikh infantryman on
hearing that General Kitchener is about to
establish the Gordon College at Khartoum.
The last verse, speaking of the English,
runs
They do not consider the meaning Of
things, they consult no creed or clan.
Behold, they clap the slave on the back, and
behold. he becometh man.
They terribly carpet the earth with dead,
and before their cannons COOL
They walk unarmed by twos and threes to
call the living to school,
Kiplng has accepted the vice ce-presidency
of the Navy League and proposes to take
an active part in the movement to which the
present efficiency of the British navy, it is
generally admitted, is in large measure
indebted
THE CZAR'S SINGING
A letter from St. Petersburg relates that
the Gar who is rather proud OF his tenor
voice, which is admirably trained, though
not of volume, was in very gay spirits and in
excellent form at a recent musical party at
the imperial villa at Lividia He sang a
couple of airs particularly well, and was so
pleased with himself that, turning from the
piano to an appreciative audience, he laugh
iIgly exclaimed:
"Well, my children, my enemies say many
harsh and unkind things of me and accuse
me of being destitute of many capacities.
But | defy them to say | cannot sing as well
as the best Of them
A CHURCH SUBSCRIPTION
Although the subscription list to the fund
Of one million guineas which the Wesleyan
Methodss are desirous OF raising next year
will be informally open until January |,
fifth part OF the total has already been guar
anteed Central meetings have been held
in six out OF the thirty-four administrative
districts into which Wesleyan, England is
divided. Three London districts guarantee
100000 pounds, Birmingham guaranteed So,
coo pounds Leeds 10000 pounds, and Man
chester 10000 pounds Twenty-eight dis.
tricts have not been heard from.
\ RACEHORSE SALE
The auction sale of the Lorilard-Beres-
ford stable did not evoke the keen competi-
ton anticipated Diakka. however, was
bought in for 1850 guneas. and Elfn was
bought in for 200 guineas; Dracco brought
go guineas, and Bayara III was sold for
so guineas.
A MYTHICAL FORTUNE
The United States Embassy was recently
asked to make known the fact that Mrs
Kelley of Los Angeles. Cal. died. leaving
s25,0 ,000 to heirs unknown, The Embassy
officials published this, and ever since they
have been inundated by thousands of let
ters from persons claiming relationship with
the deceased or asking for particulars about
her. One letter came from a Glasgow lady,
who wrote that she had lost sight of her
sister years ago, and thought she had prob
ably married man named Kelley. Would
the Embassy kindly investigate the matter?
THE WOLUD-BE DUKE
The parallel of the Druce case it an
nounced in dispatch from Johannesburg
South Africa, where a man named Charles
Gum has been arraigned on the charge Of
fraud He declared he was brother Of the
late Duke of Hamilton, and left England
after fighting duel. For private reasons
be added hi, death was formally announced
there was a sham funeral and his coffin was
placed in the mausoleum at Hamilton
Palace, Lanarkshire. Gum asks that the
coffin be opened in order to verify his state
ment. The story has aroused great deal
of interest here, as it is tantamount to
claim upon the Dukedom of Hamilton, the
present Duke only succeeding to the title
owing to the absence of a nearer next of kin
than a cousin. The late Dukes brother,
Lord Charles George Archibald Hamilton,
was supposed to have died at Nice in 1856.
His death was registered at Somerset House,
hut the cause Of his death was not given.
MINOR MATTERS
Unprecedented secrecy obtains as to the
conditions OF the Shamrock, the challenger
for the American cup. Not merely are the
most strict precautions taken to prevent
leakage of the details of her construction,
but even the place where she is being built
| is kept secret.
Interviews with Maurice Grau and the
operate stars, cabled from New York in re
gard to the breach with Faber over Covent
| Garden have caused a sensation among
opera -goers here and it is hoped the trou-
bles will be patched up at the coming meet
hg OF the Grand Opera syndicate.