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You arc right in saying in the issue
which has just reached me that 1 here
is no serious idea of letting1 "the Prince
of Wales go to America. With your
usual astuteness, you will have observ
ed that there are certain American
papers which live up to the motto,
"When in doubt play the Prince of
Wales ," and which trouble themselves
no whit about the accuracy of their
so-called "news." It is true, however,
that H. R. H. has remarked, on sev
eral recent occasions, that he would
"jump at the chance" of going; he
said so particularly to one charming
lady, adding at the same time that
"there was no chance existing, worse
luckl" Your contemporaries did not
derive their rumors from this fact, I
will wager, Vmce they had no possible
opportunity of becoming' cognizant of
it! The good gentlmcnis very cheer
ful still. "The Tory," as he alwayss
calls his daughter is in. evoted at
tendance. She is less reserved with
him -than anyone. Many people were
surprised at her ready consent to stay
behind with him instead of going
to Denmark with her mother, espe
cially as she thus misses the chance
of seeing Frincess Maud, her married
sister; but the fact is that there is a
small mystery surrounding that Kt
tle lady. She remains in Copenhagen
possibly for reason of nealtiv
whereas her mother and the rest of
the Danish Royal family ore at Bern
storff; moreover, the Princess of
Wales hardly sees anything' of -her.
Either there has been some little
""tiff" between her and her own peo
ple or whicli is more likely he has
at last found it politic to aviod ex
citing the jealousy of her new rela
tions, which was powerfully excited
when she made the -abortive auempt
to wean Prince Charles Irom his al
legiance to his own country. The
Prince of Wales promptly "threw her
over" then; and I fancy the high
spirited girl has never forgiven this.
The Prince's knee is not going on
as well as the doctors would like. I
mean that its progress is very slo'w.
When the president of the college of
surgeons was first called in, the
Prince, in his- cheery way, said, "It
might have been worse, you know; I
might have broken my leg!" Sir W.
McCormac gruffly said: .Vish' you
had!" He saw the possibilities of
the future.
The Duke of Marlborough has had
trouble again with his throat, and has
gone to Mount Dore under advice.
The Duke of Westminster has caus
ed a good deal of amusement by a let
ter to the papers. "M. A. P." that
very enterprising if somewhat daring
personal sheetr-had a paragraph
about him lately. The Duke writes to
contradict the statement that he was
named Jack Sheppherd at school "be-
cause he was so plain" (he says iP
was becuse his hair was so short); he
also denies that has income is 400,
000 it is not half as much. Further,
he begs to say that the rents of his
London houses do not full in exactly
one shilling per house! I sympathize
with His Grace; but Teally he might
have let the Jack Sheppard incident
alone! What can it matter to a man
of sixty-one if he did get called
"plain" at school?
Mrs. Gladstone has been taken by
her family to a Welsh health resort.
She is very well, considering all
things, but quite vacant, poor old.
lady! She hardly seems to know what
is going on around her, and will sit
for hoars in a sort of a dazed silence.
Another item of Welsh, news is that
Adelina Patti has obtained from the
Bosun Catholic authorities permis
sion for a priest to live at Craig-y-
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nos permanently, as domestic chap
lain. This has surprised the world,
but not her friends, who knew that
she was all along deeply attached to
her religion and seCre..y miserable
under the ban which her connection
with Nicolini brought upon- her. Her
Greek marriage to him was, of course,
regarded by the church as no mar
riage at all, and therefore stood in
the way of her being admitted to the
religious observances necessary for in
clusion "within the pale." But of late
years her relations with him' were
purely p'atonic; and when she was
in London or on the continent, her
greatest consolation was to go quietly
to some church and hidelierself in'the
crowd of worshippers. Undoubtedly
she was wretched during her most
brilliant years on account of her sev
erance from her faith. On one occa
sion, a young woman, a Catholic, of
course, wrote her an earnest letter,
urging an admiration amounting- to
affection as an excuse for the liberty,
pointing out that no worldly success
could satisfy the soul. "I cam see by
your face that you are not happy,"
she said; and went on to promise Pat
ti her own lifelong prayers. In con
clusion, she asked the diva, instead -
answering the letter, to send her pho
tograph as a sign that she was not
offended, and, "as a proof that you,
too, long for the day wnen true peace
can be yours." Apparently Patti de
tected the sincerity of the unconven
tional appeal, for she sent a magnifi
cent panel photograph one that was
never seen in public and signed it
"Adelina Patti-Nicolini," underlining
the last name as though to intimate
that there lay the obstacle to the hope
which she shared with her unknown
friend. If the woman She can be no
longer young who made that vow of
intercession be still living, she is prob
ably happy in the fulfillment of her
desire. The story for the truth of
which I can vouch is one to make us
worldly folk pause and wonder.
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SPEND AUGUST IN THE BLACK
HILLS.
Go first to Hot Springs. There you
can bathe, ride, bicycle, climb moun
tains, dance and play tennis to your
heart's content. If your limbs are stiff,
your kidneys out of order or if you are
troubled with exzema or any other form
of skin disease, a month at Hot Springs
will make a new man of you.
Sylvan Lake and Spearfish are within
a comparatively short distance of Ho
Springs and every one who visite the
Black Hill should see them. Sylvan
Lake is the prettieets and cooleest sum
mer resort in the west Spearfish is
reached after a railroad ride that ranks
among the experiences of a lifetime
There is nothing like it anywhere else on
the globe.
During August, the Burlington route
will run two low-rate excursions to Hot
Springs; one oa the 9th, the other on the
36th of that month. Tickets Will be
sold at one fare half rates and will be
good to return any time within 90 days.
. Organize a party. Arrange about
yocr hotel accommodations at Ho
Springs; arrange for ticket at B. fe. M
depot or city ticket office, corner 10th
and O streets.
G. W. Bonnell.0. P. fc T. A.
Aug. 26.
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"Why did he sign the pledge?"
"He dodged a trolley car one night
for several minutes and then found it
was a lightning bug."
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