Arizona republican., 1899-01-05

entertained with regard to the military
 career of the royal lad, will necessarily
 have to be abandoned.
 The emperor of Germany has just purchased through his master of the horse, the stalWart Count Lehndorff, a
 number of biooded mares, bred and trainsd by Mrs. Langtry, including the i Bride Of the Sea and Lady Rosebery. each of which fetched five figures-in ! dollars. At the same sale. which took i place at Newmarket, Mrs. Langtry like wise sold another mare of ith3 name of Lillie Thorn, by Hampton, out of 1 Jersey Lily, for S12,0 to the French | government, so that it would seem that
 the eX-actress is doing distinctly bet | ter as a breeder Of horses than on the
 stage.
 Her success on the turf has naturally given rise to much jealousy, and like wise to no little islander, some of the calumnies evidently finding a certain amount of credence among the public 1 For at the Manchester races when she declared to win with Norman, the
 greater part of the public, and espec- iaIy the horsey crowd, immediately proceeded to back the other horse which she had entered for the same race, namely, Dancing Wave 1t was perhaps fortunate that they did so. fer Norman came in absolutely last, Whereat Mrs. Langtry, although never until now known as emotional burst into tears on the race course, tears which gave rise 10 more sarcasm than sympathy on the part of the public
 present.
 There are many points of resemb- lance between Colonel Esterhazy, whose name figured so prominently in connection with the Dreyfus case, and Libri, formerly inspector general of the state and public libraries of France, whose career is recalled to mind by the death few days ago at Paris of Lud- evic LalannS, chief librarian of the institute of France.
 Iibri, like Esterh3zy, was a scoun- drel of the worst dye, but was shielded just in the same way as the ex-coloneI in the most extraordinary manner by
 the French government
 Charged. with having made use of his office to purlOin the most valuable books and manuscripts from the state and public libraries Of France, and to have subsequently, sold them abroad Inspector General LiDri was subjected to a searching investigation on the part of a committee composed of Lalanne and two equally accomplished and re- spected French bibliophiles.
 Their evidence was final, crushing and complete. Yet Libri was shielded in the most extraordinary manner by the French government. The proceed ings against him were delayed indef- 1itely, and when finally the public in 5iSted on a settlement of the case he was warned by the authorities to leave France before sentence was pronounced 4gainst him, so that he escaped all punishment
 Lalanne, however, and his two col leagues who had assisted in the investi- gation, and who had helped to draw up the case against Lfbri, were subjected to such an amount of persecution on he part Of the French government, both before and after his condemna- ion by the tribunals, as to give much ,OIor to the widespread r5port that Libri had shared the enormous pro- ceeds of his extensive robberies with influential and powerful officials who in consequence thereof w5re compelled to shield him as far as it was possible.
 It is precisely because Colonel Ester haZy has as cOnfedeTates in his vil- past and present, of the headquarters staff of the French army, that he is shielded in the same way as Libri, while Colonel Picquart, who may be described as the counterpart of LaI- anne, is subjected to the most gross and shameful prosecutions by the French auth0rities-MarQuis de Fon- tenoy in Washington Post.