Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-23
LONDON LETTER
Christmas Season Is One of
Sadness.
MANY HOMES AFFECTED.
And There Are Few Families That Have
Not Felt the Result of the Fighting
In South Africa-VOlunteers Are
Plenty.

London, Dec. 23.-(Copyrighted, 1899, b,
the Associated Press). "A baron of beef
Tor the queens Christmas will be roasted
next saturday. Dec. 23, at the great
krtchen fire, Windsor, in readiness for
the royal dinner party on Monday. The
great joint, when cold, will be garnished
with the royal and imperia, monogram in
shredded horse radish and with a boar's
iead ana game pie will aid in adjoining
her majesty's side board on Christmas
DAY. Ihls quaint announcement in the
court circular, with the spirit of royal
plenty breathed in every line. sounds al
most like a hollow mockery of the sorrow
and shadow of death which have turned
the season of rejoicing into one of
mourning.
bad news from the Cape writes one
society authority, has made London the
dreariest city in the world at this season,
When it ought to be the most gay"
though this may be exaggerated there
is certainly much truth in it.
The queen will spend Christmas at
windsor instead of, as for years, at Os-
borne, owing to her wish to be nearer
the cabinet, thereby sacrificing a habit
very dear to her for years past. With
her will be the Duchess of Albany ard
her children. The Prince of Wales will
spend his Christmas at Sandringham
and the Duke and Duchess of York will
also be there. But, neither at Windsor.
at Sandrlngham nor in the noblest or
oWest homes in Great Britain will there
be much merrymaking. for with 1000 men
Killed, wounded or missing in South AT
RIGA, there are few families which have
not been touched with this depression,
which only serves to make the nation
~ nsn ri % yr, ;rNI %1@-, .
is a silent accompaniment to one of the |
most spontaneous Outbursts Of patriotism
n universal desire to risk life and
give up property that ever marked the
history of any country. Cooks sons are
no less anxious to serve their country on
the the battlefield than dukes sons Or
dukes themselves.
The Duke of Marlborough's offer to
$50 men from his ~yeocnanry regi-
nent for service in South Africa is only
one among hundreds of such offers. Per
sons with vast business, property and
political interests are exhibiting the ut
most eagerness in their desire to have
heir names enrolled among the volun-
GERS who are going to endeavor to re-
rleve the reVerses to the British arms.
The day Of wild war enthusiasm and OVER
confidence has passed ARA there reigns in
is stead q grim determination to atone
or the mistakes of the past by individual
1 - : ANfo vi oIlDeAuSHttS
An instance of the spirit which pervades
country is that in the Cumberland
ana WeStmoreland yeOmanry, of which
the Earl of Lonsdale is colonel, every Of
lter and nearly every ma in the regi-
ment has volunteered ard is using every
to get accepted. Among the
officers is Capt. Hugh Jefferson, we'll
known in America. formerly ~manageroof
the Sand Creek Cattle mpa of wy
omirlg. The Duke of Marlborough will
probably receive an Uo!Eintment on Lord
staff.
In the northern counties there is keen
rivalry as to who shall do the most for
MS country in the hour of need. North
unioeriars, headed by Earl Grey, have
large sums to equip 100 men
IND the Earl of Durham calls on the men
II his county not to be outdone by the
THUNDER and heads the list with
/ substantial subscription. Lords STAN
ey and Nolverton go as yeomanry troop
though the former, at one time. was
IN officer in the guards and the latter is
IN admirals son. Two nephews. of Gen.
Lord Roberts, both ex-majors of the
ocular army. have volunteered to go in
my capacity in the yeomanry. The Earl
II Essex. who is a major of the Hertford-
hire yeomanry, accompanies the oontin-
,ent of his country.
In short, the 500 mounte men who
ave responded to the call for yeomanry
Till have the brains, blood, muscle and |
are deviltry Of the famous American |
ough riders. F..
BY the death, this week of the Earl of :
'ankerville. Lord Bennett, who married !
liss Leonora Van Marter of Tacoma, l
ucceeds to that title. The new earl is q
well known evangelist. He met his
life at a revival meeting at Tacoma in [
The late earl was the Oldest menu q
er of the house of lords. His career was t
by many eccentricities. b
The theaters are feeling the effect of
gloomy phase of the war. The most
Opular attractions are suffering. Even
the Shaftesbury, where 9TH Belle of
CIV York" had come to be regarded as a
ornament institution. notices are up
the company returns to New York Il
The sudden withdrawal of o
lis production, however, is due, partly, a.
a row between the company and the ;.
anagers over a play which was ulti- ="
ately to succeed the Belle of New a
The BLACK Tulip" has failed at Of
e Haymarket and Barrie's new COM II
not being ready as a stop-gap for the
an old comedy will be substituted. &c
Ada Rehan returns to the stage in the d.
ring, opening at Manchester. After a al
ng provincial our she will appear in az