The National tribune., 1910-12-01
PEOPLE.
T SEEMS unfortunate that the

TT SEEMS unfortunate that the
youthful Republic of Portugal
while still on probation before the
world, should feel herself compelled to
resort to the establishment of a Monte
Carlo in its midst for the purpose of
raising money. Portugal is in terribly
straitened circumstances. and tho at
present it has no big bills to pay for
royalty, the new Republic has made
promises which require large sums of
money to carry out, and this money
they have not found it easy to obtain.
The famous gambling establishment at
Monte Carlo, at whose tables men and
women from all over the world are
found seated-the Russian Countess,
blazing with Jewels. beside the man
who has just ventured his last dollar,
perhapS-iS not owned and run by the
Prince of Monte Carlo, as might be
supposed. but by a syndicate which pays
for the privilege by financing not only
the Prince, but also the Government of
Monaco. Now. the noted gambler, Mar
quet, who ran a big gambling hell in
the fashionable Belgian watering place,
Ostend, for many years, wants to do
for Portugal what this syndicate is
doing for the small Mediterranean
principality. According to the Mar
quise de Fontenoy, so great is Portu-
gals need of money just now that she
has given her consent to this, and the
palaces of the Portuguese Kings at
beautiful, picturesque Cintra are to be
used for this purpose. MarQuet was
a great crony of the late King Leopold
of Belgium, and already has flourish
ing gambling establishment in Spain.
tho he was driven out of. Ostend sew
eral years ago. While undoubtedly
gambling goes on in every large city
of the world more or less under cover,
public opinion is against it, and none
of the first-class powers would think
of maintaining a Monte Carlo. ma
tion deriving most of its revenues from
gambling has taken A step backward
instead of in the advance, and removes
itself from the sympathy of other ma
tions Apropos of Portugal, it is said
that Manuel, the dethroned boy King,
who has just passed his 21st birthday
in exile, is entirely without money and
that he is dependent upon his mother
for everything. Luckily for that royal
lady, she possesses a large independent
fortune, much of which she has always
generously employed in charitable un-
dertakings, in founding hospitals, or
phan asylums homes for the crippled
and blind, etc. Queen Amelie inher-
tied from her father, the late Count de
Paris, s750.000, and soon after the
murder of her husband. Carlos, received
from the American companies that had
insured his life very considerable
sum. All of which mitgates the gloom
of the position of herself and Manuel
as exiled. dethroned royalty very de-
cidedly, and compels a consideration
from those members of the exclusive
circle in which they are destined to
move most certainly denied them if
shorn of both power and wealth. oh,
yes; Queen Amelie's money will make
lot of difference.
CIMPLE indeed were the final cere-
- monies connecting Count Leo Toll
stoi with this mortal life. Borne
on the shoulders of his sons. the coffin
containing his remains was carried to
the spot under the poverty oak" des-
ignated by him in the directions for
his funeral, and. after a hymn chanted
by students, lowered quietly into its
final resting place. That was all there
was to it, and all that he wanted. Hav-
ing refused to become reconciled to
the Church which he had so severely
attacked, its sacred ministrations were
denied him. In the eye of the Church
I'VE should profane the service of the
dead
To sing a requiem and such rest to him
As to peace-parted souls"
and nothing of'the kind was done. It