Evening star., 1945-08-05


Royol BODY lation in London al
Hondjcopped2 leging Prince Edward
the son of the Duke
and Duchess of York, to be deaf
and dumb. Whether the stories were
true, it was explained, could not be
learned. Photographs of the infant do
not exhibit trace Of mental defect,
but the report of the calamity is
bruited widely as fact" The royal child
was born June %, 1894, the account
continued, land may live to succeed his
father, King George v; his grandfather,
King Albert Edward, and his great
grandmother, Queen Victoria, at re-
mote date in the 20th century"
As the Duke of Windsor, formerly Ed
ward VIII, the erstwhile baby is the
living refutation of the gossip con-
cerning his capacity to hear and to
speak.
An editorial in- The Star, for July -26.
1895, frankly declared: "Third-tern
rumors are very
Mr.. Cleveland plentiful e. just now.
Again? lne existence 0a oi
mors is undoubtedly due to the fact that
the summer season is the time when ru-
NOR -mongers are more than ordinarily
active. But all Of the rumors as to
President Clevelands desire for another
term of office do not originate with those
who may fairly be termed professional
gossips; they proceed in many instances
from persons who are undoubtedly ia
miliar with Mr. Cleveland's ideas as to
the immediate future of Government
in this country. 1t cannot be charged
that Mr.. Clevelands ambition Is an
unreasonable one. The desire to be
President of the United States has an
abiding place in the breasts of a great
many men, and having been twice
elected to the chief magistracy it is
not altogether remarkable that Mr..
Cleveland should desire to achieve
phenomenal honor such as no Ameri-
can has as yet been permitted to call
his own. = 1t is to be presumed, how
ever, that public sentiment is adverse
to any movement which can be sus-
pected of favoring the establishment
OF a dictatorship"
Charles Dickens owed much of his
success as a novelist to the fact that
he was skilled in writing
ethnolo9lst shorthand. A similar
Dies pronclency In stenography
made James Constantine
Pilling, whose death was reported in
The Star for July 27, 1895, distin-
guished ethnologist. Born in Washing
ton, November Is. 1916, he was at first
reporter of proceedings in the District
of Columbia courts and later chron-
icler of the discussions before various
congressional committees. Maj. John
w. Powell invited him to take part in
the geological survey of the Rocky
Mountain area in 1875. Mr.. Pilling
accepted. The result was that he be-
came one of the greatest authorities on
Indian languages and the literature
referring to Indian cultures, manners
and customs. His last years were made
sorrowful by what the Dictionary of
American Biography calls advancing
disease" but he had devoted wife and
little daughter, born about 1889, to
console him. Associates in the Bureau
Of Ethnology were the pallbearers at
the funeral. One place in which he
should be remembered is Gonzaga
College, where he was educated.
The Post Once Department, according
to The Star Of July 20, 1895, succeeded
in (its) fight
ConeeIine Machines with the stamp
Again a ceims ma,
when new contracts were made with
the American Postal Supply Co. of
Boston and the Barry Canceling Ma
chine Co. of Syracuse 'by which the
Government secures the use Of 200 ma
chimes for less than $4,000" It was
explained in front page article that:
This action leaves the Dolphin machine.
which was the first to be used and the
mainstay of the post ofice where it
was introduced, entirely out Of the
situation" In further comment, 1t was
observed: "The result is exceedingly
gratifying to : the department,
for the canceling machines have come
to stay. They save the work Of hum
dreds Of employees and many thousands