Arizona republican., 1900-09-12
KING CHRISTIAN
 FAILING RAPIDLY

King Christian of Denmark iS S'' able tn take his drives daily, though | h. has fallen into state If senile de- cay. has developed all sorts of eccen- trci.ies. and is giving no end of dis trcss and worry to his relatives ana at t-ndants. In spite of his advanced age he is restless and always wanting tn be doing some tXtraNagant thing. or to go to some extraordinary place He has also developed an irritab bilh.y which renders him very difficult to manage. The other day he sudd nly announced his fnte ntion of going first to Ki,l ana then to Cowes for the Yacht races. and !t was only with the utmost difficulty that he was dissuade2 from putting this project into execution. Until four days hCfore the arrival of the widowed czarina and of her two youngest child len at Cop nhag II, it was arranged that he court should spend the au- tumn as usual. at the chateau of Bern scnrff. Suddenly the king declared tha- rothing in the world would induce him tO set foot at Bernstorff. and that h was determined to talk up his quart CTS and to receive the members of his family at Fredeusborg. which has been closed ever since the ath of the late cZar. It was the fdvorite villegiatura cf that monarch. and inasmuch as there was hardly a stick of furniture ir the palace or q shrub in the garden which did not call forth memories n- Alexander III calculated to pain his widow, not only she herself. bur her father, the king had not been near the place. II was naturally great shnck when the empress landed at Copenha- gon ta learn that she was expected to stay. not at BernstOrff. but q Fredens Lorg. But she quickly recognized that the king was not mentally spdnsblA for the strange disregard which he had shown for her feelin%s. and that hfs mind has given way to such an eXtsn: as to render him unable L. aiminisi-aF any longer the business of stat. which i.; now conducted wholly by the crown prince, although no establishment of regency has yet been announced. The old kings health is exceedingly prrca- rious. He is breaking u9 rapidly and his death may be looked for at any mo- ment.
 An official denial has been Issued at St. Petersburg of the statement that the ear was to visit Paris alone next month, proceeding via Cherbourg. and making his headquarters a. his embas- sy during his stay in the French capi- tai. The czar will under no circum- stances visit France this year. and whatever lingering hesitation may have remained about the matter was set at rest by the attempt to assassinate the shah of Persia during his recent so- journ on the banks of the seine.
 The French may find some compensa- tion. however. in the entertainment of l.
 dom Of Laos who are now staying in Paris. They are the mast dminutive samples of old world royalty ever seen il; France, being all of them less than four feet in height. However, what they lack in stature they make up in dignity, which was such as to dispel any disposition to regard them with Tidicule when they ware at the Elysee the nth r day IS the guests of President Louhet. Their stay in Paris must be a source of satisfaction to King Francis of Spain. the dwarf and squeaky voiced husband of old Queen Isabella, who makes his home in the French capital, and who is four-fee--fve in stature, since it relieves him of the i'm putation of being the most diminu- tive and abbreviated scion of the sov- ertign houses of the eastern hemis- phere.
 
 Shootings If one kind and another. such as deer forests grouse mOors. and sporting states in general in the north ern part of the United Kingdom, are being rented at such enormous rates this year that each stag killed costs the lessee of the shooting on which it has been "grass=d tha trihe of $2O0 In the same way each grouse GaggeG may be said ta have cost the lt ssce If the moor on which it is brought down the sum of $15 The hshings are equally high priced in Scotland, and year in and year uu. each salmon caught may be calculated to cost the lessee of the fishing at least Sl6 if not more. Those Scotch land owners who, from m tives of prid. and prejudice, do not lease out the shoot ings over their lands and ghe fishing in their waters to southern sportsmen have the knowledge, therefore. that they are losing a large income during inc autumn months. Of course it is only very rich pe1pls. indeed. who can afford to lease shoOtings 10 fill the rOrths rn castles and country seats with guests, and to invite, say. twenty or thirty Of the men of the party to stalk and shoot as many of the stags 4s they can at S2O0. That is why Scot land. during the shooting season. is be- coming more and more monopoiZed by 'he new rich to rhe exclusion of the old Scotch and English aristocracy. The moment a fnancier of the humblest English antecedents or of some unsa- worry foreign origin happens to strike Gil. he at one consid IFS it necessary to charter or buy a steam yacht and to lease the best shooting that can be got in Scotland in order to establish iis claims to gentility. and to the good will of impecunous people If greai, so- cial inhuen nee.
 Smart people accept the invitations of these new rich all the more readily as they feel no delicacy abou. mulcting the rurse of their host to the extent of shooting stags that cost him s2OO apiece