Arizona republican., 1900-09-20

through the air and suddenly close it as if the fly was caught. He would then carefully open it, usually without finding even the ghost of any insect. No disappointment. however. was dis cernible on his benignant features, and q minute la.er hc was as actively en- eaged in his peculiar chase as ever.
 This strange taste for fly catching ap pears to have been shared by the fath CT of the prt sen king of Bavaria. and il is related in Munich that one day when two If his cabinet ministers called upon him wi,h the draft of a new law for which they required his approval and signature they found him seated in his arm chair with an open book upon his knees. Af,er reading the statute to his majesty the ministers stood for a long time yiler:ly waiting for an ans wer. At length, when their patience was nearly exhausted. the king sud- denly closed. his hook with a bang and exclaimed with a look of unUtterable triumph, "I have got him; I have gOt him" He had caught and crushed q fly.
 But this takes us far away from Cy- prus and Jerusalem. If I draw. atten- tion to these two titles of Itdly's new king it Is because there is no modern ruler. or even royal parsonage, not even Emperor William, who is so well known at Jerusalem and so familiar with every corner and stone thereof as Victor Emmanuel. who has visited this cradle of the Christian religion more . 1oo 1,- ten vars. Moreover it is known that one of the subjects most dear to his heart is the promotion of Italian inter es,s in the Holy Land. and, indeed, throughout the entire orient, and h. is firmly resolved to ;ake political advan- tage of the fact that Catholic interests at Jerusalem, as elsewhere in the Le- want, are almost exclusively i'll the hands If the clergy and members of monastic orders who are of Italian birth and imbued with love for their native land. Until recently the Cath ollie clergy throughout the orient were all of them, ire spective of their na- .ionaity, subie ct to the jurisdiction and protection of France, which derived no little political importance tferefrOm in Asia and in Africa. But Emperor Will liam was the first to rebel against this and 10 ins.s. on assuming the protection and the con,rol of all German Catholic cltrgy and laiety in the orient, and It. ally is following suit.
 The Hon. Alan Johnstone. who has just been promoted fir, m the secretary ship of legation at Copenhagen to the position of charge d'affairss at Darm- Sta1t, is the fourth son of Lord Der went. and while attached to the Brit ish embassy at Washington married about eight years ago the only daush- ter of J. w. Pinch1t of New York. The Johnstones have received this promo tion largely owing to the tact displayed under very difficult circumstances by the Hon. Alan and more especially by his American wife, the principal, nay, almost the only cong nial and trusted friend of Princess Maud of Wales, mar ried 10 Prince Charles at Denmark and whose eXis -ence at Copenhagen is ren- GeraG supremely unhappy by her own aversion to the people and tc the place and by the tyranny of the mother-in- law, the Crown Princess of Denmark. who has always dislikeG her extremely, and did everything that she could 10 oppose her marriage to Prince Charles.
 It is largely owing to the wise cOun- sel and soothing influence of Mrs. John stone that the high spirited and ultra English Princess Maud has been pre- vented from rcsor,ing to some coup de tete, which would have eliminated in a public scandal. Not that the princess Gislikes her husband: on the contrary, they ar a devoted couple. but after having had her holiday in England cut short, she has been forced to reside against her will at Copenhagen ever since last spring. although throughout that entire timy her husband has been away on duty at sea. As he was ab- sent. she might just as well have re- maired with her own relatives in Eng lanG. Forcing her to remain at Cop enhagtn during that time was merely an instance of the espOtism to which she is subjected by her husbands par ents.
 Al Darmstadt the Johnstones will have task qvite as difficult and quite as delicate, and tho dp.omats accrcd. ited as charge d'affaires to the Hessian court are always people who have ao- qUiI-d in a special degcee the c5nfi- dCnce and the regard of the British royal family. The grand duke anu the grand duchess, who are first cousins and both of them grandchildre of Queen Victoria. are far from happily married. and what with the high spir- tied sense of dignity of the beautiful grand duchess and the predilection Of tho grand duke for practical joking of a school by and sometimes coarse na- ture, the qIarrels are constant and so bitter that already on two occasions the grand duchess has left her husband being only persuaded 10 return with great difficulty. It will be the duty of the Johnstones to keep the peace be- tween th-m.-Marquise de Fontenoy in Washington Post.