Arizona republican., 1900-07-28

1 father in the princes taste in raiment. inst as there is in his horseback riding. and it is to this, as well as to the de- mocracy of fashion in sumptuary mat 1 ters. both for men and women. that must be ascribed the failure of all his numerous attempts to rule the moCe. He once before attempted to intro duce the single breasted frock coat, but
 without success. It has the supreme disadvantage of being unable to be but toned unless it's wearer has the most elegant and shapely of figures. other wise he is apt to look like an attenu- ated curate, or like a pot stOmached Turkish hey CT pasha, who has just buttoned up with difficulty his single breasted frock coat or stambouline be- fore entering the presence of his supe- rior officer. This reminds me that it is
 de rigueur'' at every court in Europe that the frock coat should be tightly buttoned whenever a sovereign or . l royal parsonage permits the frock coat to be worn at an audience in lieu of uniform. or, on the continent, evening dress Sir Arthur Bigge, Queen Vic toria's private secretary; Captain Pom sonboy, his assistant; Sir Fleetwood Edwards and Col. Darlington, when ever summoned to her majesty's court
 may be seen before entering the royal presence invariably buttoning up tight Iy the frock coat which they habitually wear when not arrayed in the Windsor uniform or in military garb. It is diff cult to imagine them doing this with a
 single breasted frock coat, and the Prince of Wales would have been wiser
 had he refrained from repeating his former futile endeavors to make it the fashion.
 The most significant and eloquent demonstration which the present
 French government has given of it's strength and solidity is the fact that it should have been able to appoint Gen eral Brugere as generalissimo of the
 army in the place of General lamont. who has a European reputation. Gen eral Brugere is an officer whose entire
 military career from subaltern upward las been spent m the ante-room of the Elysee, first as orderly officer, then as comInandant. afterward as secretary, and finally as chief of the household 10
 one president or another. The only powder that he has ever snlelled has been when out rabbit shooting with ! Frances chief magistrate, and the only wound that he has ever sustained has been one received in the lower part of the back through an accident on the part of the i'll fated President CarnOJ. The latter was so profoundly distressed by the mishap that he took the earliest opportunity O. promoting the wounded warrior from the rank of colonel to that of general.
 General lamont, on the other hand, is one of the most eminent officers of the French army, is covered with scars If wounds received in battle, is one of the few men who exceptionally Gistin- guished themselves during the disas- trous war of 1870 and is rated alike at Berlin and St. Petersburg as being far and away the cleverest general of the French army In fact, it is to him that France has looked until now as its principal safeguard against any for eign invasion, and the fact that he should have been compelled to make way for such man as Brugere without the ministry being overthrown speaks volumes for the solidity of the admin istration.
 At the same time it cannot be denied that the spectacle presented of one dis tnguished French officer after another b ilS forced into retirement denotes a spirit of discomfort among the higher grades of the army which is to say the lest. cEinous. and it naturally serves to inc!l2se the peril of military coup d'C,a- iA favor of one or another mon archical pretender, which is the ever present nightmare of the republic
 What the Russian government thinks of the matter is best shown by the fact that although General Zakheroff, the chief of the Russian general staff, has been in Paris for several weeks past, and has been in constant communica- tion with the minister of marine and the chief of the naval staff. and has been almost constantly in the company of General lamont and of General De- lame, the former chief of the general staff of the army, he has held none but the most elementary official intercourse with the new minister of war, the new generalissimo of the French army, and the new chief of staff
 The virtual acquittal of young Sipido the would-be assassin of the Prince and Princess of Wales at Brussels-a yer dict which, it is needless to say, has given deep offense in England-is en- tirely due to political consideration Sipido's counsel appealed to the pre- vailing anti-English sentiments by pointing out that the youth had intend- ed by shooting the prince to remove an obstacle to peace in South Africa. The public prosecutor, instead of deprecat- ing this, made the mistake of asking for conviction on the ground of Bel gian gratitude to England for political services in the past.-Marquise de Fon- tenoy in Washington Post.