The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-25
By a Snow Storm Which Caught
Him While Fishing.
UNHAPPY PRINCESS
Maude of Wales Displeased With
Her Danish Home.
Albert is No Longer the King of
Fashion.

-derwent a complete change Last week
it was warm and summerlike. This
week it has been bitterly cold every
where. London participated in the WIN
terry weather, but here it was tempered
by bright sunshine. The duke of York
has been showed up at Abergeldimains,
near Ballater. He went there for the
salmon fishing, but the weather
changed quickly to Arctic cold and a
heavy snow storm cut him off from
communication with the outer world. 1t
will be days before he is liberated.
The center of gravity of the fashion
able world has shifted to the Riviera
where Queen Victoria is now sojourn-
ing.
There will be three more drawing
rooms this season and the queen has
privately intimated that she will attend
one in May.
Her majesty has given two additional
instances of her womanly feeling this
week which has made a pleasing I'M
preston in southern France. While out
driving at the beginning of the week,
she overlook a peasants walking fun
era1 and had no room to pass. The
mournerS paused and stood aside, but
the queen requested the cortege to pro-
coed and her own carriage followed re-
specially at a walking pace for half a
mile until the roads diverged.
Again while driving through Nice, on
Wednesday the queen passed a child
which was crying bitterly. She ordered
her carriage to be stopped and sent a..
member of her suite to inquire the
cause of the child's distress and to give
it a few coins, which had magical eff
feet. The little face frightened up and
the queen drove on smilingly remark
ing: AS long IS nothing serious is the
matter, L thought few sous would
make the little one happy"
AN UNHAPPY PRINCESS.
NJ A. P. (Mainly About People, says
Princess Maude of Wales Princess
Charles of Denmark) is VIGOROUSLY I'M
happy in her new Danish home, and
that it required all the persuasions of
her parents to reconcile her to return to
the gloomy environment of the Danish
court Her love for her alien home, it
is added is not increased by the fact
| that the prospect of any child of hers
reaching the throne has ben destroyed
| by the birth of an heir to Prince Chris
| tian, the eldest son of the Crown Prince
| Frederick. The queen of Sweden and
| Norway has become collector for the
| Salvation Army, a money box having
| been placed upon the dining table of the
| royal palace.
| A correspondent in Paris writes that
| young Partisan dandies are distressed
| at the loss of the Prince of Wales as
! king of fashion" 1t is now said the
| prince "neglects his personal appear
| ance wOefully, his OvercOat is shabby,
| his hat shapeless and his tie is so much
| on one side that his shirt studs are visi-
! ble''
Considerable interest is taken in the
| announcement Of the coming marriage
| of Lady Edith Douglas, daughter of the
| marquis of -Queensberry to Mr.. ST.
! George Pitt, who is head of the psychi-
| cal research society and a great author
| ity on "spOOks."
| AMERICAS PUREST CITY.
| Mr.. Sidney-Webb, chairman of the
| technical education board, handled
| American institutions in a severe man
| ner while lecturing recently before the
school of economies. Among other
| things he said:
| ''Tammany is no worse than the Re
| publican organization of New York. IT
is not to blame for the corruption. The
! purest city in America is the Mormon
| Salt Lake City. You must not imagine
that a boss is a wicked man. He does
not rob the poor, but does good to the
| poor at the expense of the rich. The
| bosses are the nineteenth century Robin
! Hoods. The cause of the corruption lies
| in the character of the American. He
does not believe in government and does
| not have the Englishman's delight in
| governing. He enters politics to make
money, and can not conceive of any
body doing anything else
| marked: THE American individually
is the kindest and most cOnsiderate,
, most polite individual living. But col
| lectiVely they are not yet a success
Sir Benjamin stone, president of the
| National Photographic Record asso-
| citation and the author of several books
| of travel and articles on various scien-
| tific subjects, has unearthed in the vati-
| can library, among the documents re-
lating to English history, autograph
| letter from King Henry VIII to the I'M
| fortunate Anne Boleyn. The epistle
| which is written in French, is in the
| approved style of a lovesick swain and
is signed with a drawing representing
| a heart.
TERRORISM REVIVED
The condition of County Mayo is
| causing anxiety at Dublin castle and it
is expected that the crimes act will be
reapplied. Agrarian terrorism is being
| revived. bOycOtting is rife and jurors
| have been shot at.
In spite of the signing of the Anglo
| French agreement regarding Africa, one
| Of the leading topics of the week on both
sides of the channel has been an article
published in the Revue des Deux
| Mondes, seriously outlining a scheme
| for the invasion of Great Britain 1t
| proposes that 1,50O steam pinnaces be
| built and collected in the canals and
| rivers leading to the French coast; that
each of them be armed with two quick
| firing guns, and that they convey an
army of 100000 men and 500 cannon,
with the necessary ammunition stores,
| etc The cost of their construction is
estimated $50, 900, 600 francs and the
pinnaceS are to be provided with tor
! pedoes to keep off hostile ships while
the Quick-firing guns are to repulse tor
| pedO boat attacks The writer Of the
| article says there will be no difficulty in
getting the boats across, pointing out
| that Napoleon had a far more difficult
| task at Wagram, where he crossed the
Danube in the face of the Austrian
army. The English coast defences are
classed as being a negative quantity.
| and the operation is looked upon by the
writer as being matter of few hours.
| Three divisions of IL, 500 men each are
| to be landed in Ireland and the Irish
are to be armed with the old Gras ri
hes. The English papers pooh pooh the
| scheme but the French newspapers
discuss it as being a perfectly sound
| proposition. The Petit Journal praises