Arizona republican., 1899-02-14


 that it is no reason because enc man loses more than he can afford to pay, either at the card table or betting on horses. that the entire corps of officers should be debarred from playing cards for large or for small stakes. and should be forbidden to bet on the races, either with one another or with the 'fbookies.
 And because one of their number happens to have squandered a fortune in the maintenance of a racing stable they see no reason whatsoever why they should be forbidden, precisely as if they were children, to use any super fiuous cash at their disposal in the maintenance of a stud of racers. Socn- CT than tolerate this interference with their tastes and pastimes, they prefer to resign their commissions.
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 Talking of the army, it seems that the threats which have been current at Washington to court martial General Miles have excited much more of a sen sation in the old world than here Such a thing as subiecting to the indignity of court martial the generalissimo of the army of any first-class power is without precedent. For when Marshal | BaZaine was court martialed for the | surrender of the fortress of Metz, he was not by any means the ranking gen. eral of the French army, MacMahon and Canrobert, as well as several other marshals, being his seniors in rank
 Not even in Spain, where the con- manders-in-chiefo of the army have oc- casionally during the last hundred years availed themselves of their vast military power to embarrass the crown and to overthrow the government, is such thing as the court martial of generalissimO known, and the only thing of the kind that has the slightest analogy with such a step was the hold ing of a court of inquiry at Paris to investigate the dealings Of General de Cissey. while minister of war, with the adventures and foreign spy, the no- torious Baroness de Kaula. But it never came to court martial
 By proceedin to such eX.remities with the generalissimo of the United States army at the close of the victor iouS war with Spain there is no doubt | but that terrible blow will be struck | by American hands against the prestige | and glory of the American army. It is step which will be unhesita&ingly i condemned by every military man throughout the world unless the charges against the ranking general Of the United States so seriously affect y, age as to render impossible his reten- tion at the head of the army And even in that case it would be preferable for the sake of the American army to retire him quietly, and without any f court martial.
 I do not know General Miles, and am speaking here not as his champion, but merely from the point of view of the deplorable effect which will be created in foreign countries if he is subjected to the indignity of a court martial.
  One royal prince restoring another from blindness to the possession of sight is something l believe that is , without precedent. Yet this is what occurred the other day when Duke Charles Theodore of Bavaria, the oc- ulist brother of the late empress of removed a cataract from the eyes of the reigning duke of SaXe-Alt- enberg. who, as stated recently in these lette-s, is engaged to be married to Princess Marie of Hanover a maiden lady well advanced in years There is just a question to my mind ( as to whether Duke Charles Theodore t; has done Q kindly thing in improving l the vision of his septuagenarian kins- ( man of Saxe-Altenberg, since his eye l will now be more quick to discover any ! or defects in the appear ( ance of his somewhat mature bride.
 Possibly it may even lead to her be- ing tilted, and in that event she would C have distinct grounds fC9 a suit for damages against the royal oculist.
 
 Lord Lindsey, whose death is just re- ported, must not be conf5unded with Lord Lindsay. the Scotch peer of that name. The former is an English mo- bleman, and his patrCnymic is Bertie, whereas the Scotch Lord Lindsay has as his family name Bethune Lindsay.
 There is no name that figures more in the pages of Scottish his tory than that of the Lords Lindsay. It was one of them whose fatal gift Of a gray hC-se to King James III be- fire the battle of Sauchie was the cause of that m0narch's death And another Lord Lindsay was one of the commits sioners sent to Loch Leven to compel Queen Mary's abdication, as all the readers of Sir Walter Scott's The Ab- bot" will remember.
 When the direct line died out at the beginning of the century, the heir to the earldom was found to be a corporal of the PeuthShire militia, a very distant cousin Of his predecessor. He died be fore he had time to establish his claim, his rights passed on to distant relative of his, distinguished general, whose grandfather had been 9 ships carpenter, and on his demise they passed to yet another distant rel ative, the late earl's father, who, up to that time had borne the name of Sir { Henry Bethune and whc had passed portion of his life in the service of the ; shah of Persia-Marquise de Fonte- { noy in Washington Post