Arizona republican., 1902-06-29
Gossip of Foreign Capitals

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 Mrs Langtrys daughter Jean may be congratulated on having captured so great q matrimonial prize as Ian Malcolm. who is not only very good locking man. but likewise very clever and heir to many landed estates, in addition to the fortune which he al ready possesses in his own right. Ian Malcolm has acted as private secre- tary to Lord Salisbury. has been at tached to the diplomatic service, and is d great friend of the duke and duch css Of Marlborough. Indeed. he was the author of the play which was acted q couple of years ago at Blenheim pal ace and responsible fer the inane verses sung by the duchess and Lady Randolph Churchill on that occasion. Malcolm created TO end of astonish- nlent a Moscow on the occasion of the coronation Of the czar by appearing at all the court ceremonies in his kilt with bare knees. and while attached to the British embassy at Berlin on one occasion attended a court ball in this guise, greatly to the annoyance of Elm | sage to the British embassy requesting tEat he should not show himself in any such costume at court again. Yet only a few weeks later the kaiser himself i appeared in full Highland dress at q banquet at the British embassy, wear i ing q kilt of the royal Stuart tartan. l with sporran, plaid. and dirk com i pletc.
 Ian Malcolm's father. Colonel Ed
 ward Malcolm. has. since the death O; his brother. Lord Malcolm. the other i day. become chief cf the great Mac Callum clan. one of the most import ant in Scotland. and is now known i north of the Tweed as The MacCal- l lum. He is. likewise. owner of Pol i taloch castle and of Argylshire low lands. near the Orinan canal. The late i Lord Malcolm, after losing his first wife, who bequeathed the major DOT ! tion of her properties to the theCsopf- i ists to which cult she belonged, mar i ried a Mrs. Lister of New York wno i survives him. But in the will which :, he has left no provision is made for ! the now widowed Lady Malcolm, and 1 not only the castle and estates. but also money and stocks to the tune of q couple of million dollars have been left to Colonel Malcolm. and will in course of time pass to his son. Ian, the tiance oi Miss Langtry.
 Both Miss Langtry and Miss Viola l Tree, daughter of Mir. and Mrs. Beer bohm Tree, were officially presented at ] the last court held at Buckingham pal ace. Miss LanStry having been pre- viously presented privately to Queen Alexandra by the Princess Pless at ;t ! picture exhibition, where they hap pcned to meet. While it is obviously unjust to make girls suffer in any way for the callings or shortcomings of 1 their parents. a good deal of objection has been raised among the more cCn- servative people to the presentation 1 of the daughter of an actress such as
 Mrs. Langtry at court.
 Not only the Aborigines Protection society of the old world are up in arms against King Leopold in connection with his maladministration of the Con- go Free State, but the infinitely more influential anti-slaVery societies arc likewise taking a hand in the matter
 and are invoking both public sentiment
 against him and the intervention of
 every one of those civilized govern
 ments that have pledged themselves
 to abolish the slave trade.
 It seems that although theoretically
 slavery is abolished in the Free State it practically continues in full force
 What happens is this-wheneVer any
 slaves are found they are officially dc
 clared to be free. But as the price oi
 their freedom they are compelled tC
 serve ;or a term of ten years either
 King Leopold's so-called domaine
 privee," or else one of the companies
 to which he has granted monopolies
 So aVerse are the wretched creature:
 to obtaining their liberty on these con- ditions that they habiIually run away
 from their European task masters
 and are only kept to work out theil freedom by being put in chain gang!
 under strong military guard and
 Iloggcd in the most merciless manne
 if they attempt to escape.
 White men who are in q position tt
 know what is going on in King Leo
 pold's African dominions do not hesi
 tate to say that the position of the na
 tives under the Free State governmen
 is infinitely worse than it was before
 the advent of Europeans, and that the tyranny Of tine Arab slavers such q