The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-04-15
Will SOON VISIT
KING OF DENMARK
Duke Of Cumberland With En-
tire Family to Celebrate
Monarch's Birthday.
a JOKE ON Mr.. CARNEGIE
Town of Rrecon Wanted a Library
and Addressed a Two Pound Let
ter of Request to Him Written
in Long Hand.

eOAAsS lIat tue olo IeuQ between tue
house Of Hohenzollern and the house Of
hanover may come to al and
The first step was taken when the Grand
Duke Frederick of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
was recently bethrothed, with the ap-
prevail Of the kaiser, to the Princess Alex
andra OF Cumberland.
And it is now announced that the duke
Of Cumberland, with the whole Of his fam
lily n his future son-in-law, will visit
the king of Denmark in celebration Of the
venerable monarch's eighty-seventh birth
day.
Among the guests will be the highly Hs-
ceptible crown prince of Germany. With
her father and sister travels the beautiful
and witty Princess Olga OF Cumberland.
To Visit King of Denmark.
Queen Alexandra, who. like all good
women, Is an inveterate matchmaker, will,
Of course. be by the side Of her aged
father, and the result may be easily fore
seen. Both King Christian and King Ed
ward VII. are thoroughly conversant with
the kaiser's sentiments on this subject,
and all Germany hopes that the influence
Of the English queen may result IN the
betrothal OF the Princess Olga to the
crown prince.
OF all the American women who have
won a distinguished place in the English
peerage. the countess OF Taakerville per-
haps nearer approaches the ideal type Of
the great lady Of the middle Victorian era
han any Of her compeers.
Born of one of the famous old Dutch
knickerbocker families. the Van Marters.
whose homes lay around the Greenwich
village, her girlhood was mostly spent in
Rome.
Rarely, save at some great court cere-
monial at which her presence is COM
handed by the king, is she seen in Lon
don. Whiia har co1nfrvwomar rh{r1
through the maelstrom Of f~rivolity and
gayety In London n Paris, and the re-
sorts Of southern France, Lady Tanker
vile remains almost secluded in the beau
aful C~hilltngham castle In Northumber-
land.
Her time is spent In researches into an
sient literature. In music and In miniature
painting, Of which both she and her .hus-
band are passionately fond.
Joke on Mr.. Carnegie.
Andrew Carnegie. blindly cropping for
escape under the avalanche of letters,
mostly from literary societies or municipal
corporations hungry for libraries and coll
leFs endowments, has at last turned upon
his tormentors with q mild protest.
The Brecon town council among others
recently addressed several communica-
lions to Mr.. Carnegie in reference to a
proposed library, but unfortunately for
their purpose the council had not yet
reached the stage OF modern Improvement
In which a typewriter Is brought into
common use. and preferred the old method
Of letters written in longhand on thick
paper.
A series of these letters Weighing about
two pounds each provoked this reply from
MI. Carnegie's secretary: II would draw
your attention to the fact that we lave to
carry about with US some thousands Of
sets Of correspondence; and If every cor
respondent wrote on thick paper and In
l%onghand as o do 1t would be impossible
for US to do business. Will you kindly
typewrite you communications on bust
ness paper?"
Death of Duke of Cambridge.
The season of 1901, Just struggling into
birth after the darknes Of Lent, has at
Its outset received a staggering blow.
For the recent death Of the venerable
duke OF Cambridge, on the very eve of
the first "drawingroom'' has thrown all
things Of the court into confusion.
The two drawing rooms are. of course,
Indefinitely postponed until a date after
Easter to be hereafter named" to quote
the official phraseology Of the Lord Cham
berlain's clerks.
Thus many debutantes, trembllngly
awaiting the ordeal of formal Introduction
to the king and queen, have been exposed
to the modification of delay and to many
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ere the event of their young lives has
passed into memory.
American girls. as usual, figured largely
IN the list OF presentations by Mrs. Jo-
seph Choate, and the duchess Of Marl-
borough, among the p%resentees being a
daughter Of William Mckinley Osborne, a
cousin Of the late President Mckinley.
Court in Mourning.
While the date of the drawing room is
still In the air. 1t Is certain that the king
and queen, IN benevolent regard to the
cry of the impoverished tradespeople. will
hold them at the earliest moment con-
slstent with the etiquet Of court mourn
Ing.
save for the temporary interruption OF
the court c~eremonials. tho death Of the
lonely, almost forgotten duke Of Cam.
bridge would have evoked scarcely more
than passing attention.
The announcement of his death waa
placafded on the newspaper contents bills
cheek by jowl with the result OF an i'm.
portant trial for the Lincolnshire handi.
cap.
digested the bitter lesson Of the man who
has lived beyond his time.
The q in which. as first cousin t.
Quen Victoria. he a been q leading
figure had long gone: the men and women
whom he had known and loved were Ill
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