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SUJIDAY EDITION. ALEXANDER III AT HOME. The Czar and His Life at St. Petersburg. iLONE UPON THE STREETS.

A Monarch Who It in love With Bit Wife. How the Emperor Wonderful Estates and Grand Palaces. Correspondence of The Call. The Czar has returned with his family from a visit to Denmark and he is now dividing his time between his two suburban palaces of Gatchiua and Peterhof. He never spends his summers in St.

Petersburg, but he comes to the city about once a week, and it will be surprising to Americans to know that he drives aboutquite like an ordinary citizen. I saw him on the Nevski Prospect, which is the Broadway of St. Petersburg, a few days ago. Ills carriage was a rich dark-blue landau and he drove without outriders, the only sign of his rank being his liveried coachman and footmen. Down at Gatchina you may see him almost any afternoon walking about the palace grounds end now and then taking a stroll outside of them.

He may have a guard about him, but if so it is invisible, and as far as 1 can see his Majesty has fewer attendants than the other mouarchs of Europe. The most of our information concerning the Czar comes from England and the English newspapers disseminate more false reports about public men and matters than any other newspapers in the world. They represent the Czar as spending hi? whole time trembling in his palaces. They say he is a tyrant and a sensualist and that he never has a peaceful moment. The truth seems to be just the reverse.

Of all the people I have met in Russia, including many enemies of the Czar, I have ot found one who could say anything against his private character. All say that he is a brave and conscientious man and his relations to bis wife and family are the models for the empire. I saw the Sultan of Turkey at Constantinople a year or so ago, and the contrast between him ana Alexander 111 is striking. The Sultan is a lean, sallow, nervous fellow, with a frame and a face for all the world like that of Jay Gould. He lacks, however.

Jay Gould's nerve, and as I looked at him I could see by the way his eyes restlessly wandered from one part of the crowd to the other that he was afraid of assassination, lie bad a troupe of about 7000 soldiers about him, and General Osruan Pasha, the hero of Plevna, sal in the carriage by his side. Nevertheless he trembled as he passed along on the way to worship at the mosque, and be inspired me rather with pity than with respect. I was told at Constantinople that he feared to go to bed at night and that he often sits up until daybreak. He has bis watchmen always about him, and in the towers of his palace theie art; guards who are ever on the lookout. The Czar has nothing of the coward about him.

He looks like a. monarch and every inch of his six feet four is kingly. The Romanoff family, from which he has always beenjnoted for the splendid physiques of its members, and Alexander 111 is a giant. He stands six feet four inches in his stockings and he weighs 250 pounds. His biceps are as big around as the ordinary man's leg and his strength is prodigious.

He can take a horseshoe, iam told, and bend it double in his hand, and he can take a gold coin the size of a dollar and fold it in halves with his fingers. His bead rises above those of his suite, and the Russian costumes which he wears make him look even taller than he is. Wheu I saw him the other day at Gatehina he had a Tisorless Russian cap on his head and his massive frame was clad in a long overcoat, and his trousers were thrust into a pair of top boots. His uniform was that of one of his regiments, and he wears different uniforms from time to time in compliment to Each companies of his soldiers as must see him. A regimeut considers it a great 3 ittery to have the Czar wear its uniform, and this is one of the ways in which he shows his approval of the drill of his soldiers.

He is very fond of his soldiera. addresses them as his children and they call him the "father The daily life of the Czar is simple in the extreme. He keeps his great frame in good condition by regular exercise, and, like Gladstone, he often goes out and cuts down trees in his forests, lie sometimes saws these trees into lengths with a cross saw and he does all sorts of manual work. He is an athlete of the first order and he is fond of playing with his children, and during his stay at Denmark he bad a number of wrestling matches at the palace there, in each of which, I am told, he came out victorious. He it fond of horseback riding and he has 150 saddle-horses in his stables here.

His stud contain" some of the finest horses in the world, and he knows all about horses and is anxious to improve his stock, and is very careful as to the character of the norses which are brought into army. He often drives himself, with bis wile beside him. in a phaeton about Gatschiua and he his reins with his arms stiff, in the Russian fashion. I visited the museum in which the imperial carriages are kept the other day, and spent hours wandering about througn the hundreds of golden coaches and gorgeous landau 1 each of which is worth many, many thousand dollars. I handled harness A BALL IS THE WISTER PALACE.

which was Inlaid with precious stones, and the metal work of which was of solid gold or silver. 1 harness-cloth embroidered with pearls ani the total value of these trappings runs high into the millions of An I looked at them I could not but think of the simple carriages which the Czar really uses and how far bis suirit is removed from of ostentation. lie leads a more simple life, in tact, than many of his nobles, and lie cares uothing whatever for style. He is one of the hardest-worked men of hit empire. He rises at daybreak and takes a cup of coffee, says his prayers and then becrins work, looking over his state At 1 o'clock takes breakfast with his wife, and after breakfast he exercises for a while before going back to work.

He keeps his system in perfect condition and his stomach never goes back on He. has his dinner at 6 o'clock, but, like many big men, he eats little, and drink is confined to a glass of Burgundy. always dines with his family, and his family relations are most beautiful. The Czar of Russia is in love with hu wife. This is an extraordinary thing for a Russian monarch, and both peasants and nobles have spoken to me in the highest terms ot lils purity in this regard.

He spends his evenings with his family and often reads to his wife while ehe embroiders, and there are a number of stories here which illustrate this part of his character. It is now twenty-five years since he attended a court reception at Paris and met Empress Eugenic. All the beauties of the Paris court were present, and as the Empress chatted with bimshe asked him to point out to her the most beautiful lady in the room. The future Czar replied that he was too much of a barbarian to think any woman more beautiful than his own wife, and his actions toward her from that time to tbis Lave shown that he bas cou- of this opinion. Still his marriage to her was one of diplomacy rather than of love.

She is, you know, the daughter of Christian IX of Denmark, and her name was Dagmar. She had been engaged to the Czar's elder brother, who died at Nice, and in this way the present Czar became heir to the throne. The Princess Dagmar was much in love with Alexander's brother, and she did not want be married to her present husband. Alexander himself had a sweetheart whom he was anxious to marry, but state reasons made both these young people give up their cherished ideas, and Alexander 111 wooed the Dagrnar and married her. Love came after the marriage, and, though this was more than quarter of a century ago, they are lovers still.

The Empress of Russia i 6 the reverie of her husband in appearance. She is as slender and petite as he Is strong and massive. She is not beautiful and not homely. Her nose is slightly retrousse, but her features are otherwise well formed pnd her are bright and kindly. She is one of the most beautiful dancers in Russia, and she is ns fond of dancing as a Danish country girl.

At Winter Palace in St. Petersburg are given each year some of the most wonderful balls of the world. Seven thousand people can live la this palace, and the thousands of dancers trip tjie light fantastic too over of ebony, of rosewood and ivory. Now and then the Empress appears at these dances in her royal robes. She wears a gorgeous frown which fairly blazes with diamonds.

Her necklace is of many strands of the purest pearls and her vest is a mass of rubies, sapphires and diamouds put together so that they blaze Hue tire. One of her gnwiis is of emerald velvet with a train of white velvet which is fairly covered with gold embroidery and the front of which is linked with 'strands of the purest coral. The jewels on one of these robt would make an American village rich, and their value computation, in the treasury at Moscow I saw the Empress' coronation robe. The train of this was of woven silver, and there was enough of silver cloth in the roba to have carpeted nn ordinary parlor. I noted the shoes that she wore at this time and I can tell you her Majesty'? foot has a high instep and that her size is No.

2 B. The Empress is the member of the imperial family who most fears the assassination of the Czar. She is in suspense whenever her husband is away from her, Hte Crown Prince. every time that his life is attempted her nerves become shattered. She worries about her children, aud I doubt not she olten longs for her girlhood life in peaceful Denmark.

It is for this reason largely that she is so fond of dancinp. She can forget herself whrn she is on the floor, and as long as the mad goes on does not feel the presence of the specter which continuously hangs over the Russian throne. The Czar narrowly escaped assassination at the funeral of his father. He knew of liis dan- ger and be went away with his wife and children down to Gatchina, talking about oilier matters as though nothing had happened. It was not until the children had gone to bed, and that he was out.

driving alone with the Empress that he told her of it. She was terrified and she wept bitterly, lie told her ho looked upon it as a matter of destiny and said lie was ready to do his duty and would do it whatever happened. An incident occurred here at St. Petersburg a short time ago which illustrates the character of the Czar of Russia and which snows his bravery and kindness as a man. Bis English nurse, whom he loved greatly and who taught his baby lips to prattle in ttie Anglo-Saxon tongue, died.

This nuree was living at the Winter Palace, and I think she died there. The Czar and his brother came to see her while she was sick, and after she was dead the two lifted her with their own hands and placed her in the cotlin. At the time of tie funeral the Czar arrived five minutes -late. lie came in walking and said, "My friends, I am sorry 1 have- kept you wHiiuc." It was Englishwoman's desire that she be buried after the ceremonies of her own church, and the services were held at a little English chapel on the Neva. In going to the church the Emperor walked behind the coffin with his hat in his hand, and he took his seat In the church during the services.

While those were being pronounced he seemed greatly moved and held his handkerchief to his eyes. With hat in his hand he walked behind the hearse in tbo middle of the street to the cemetery. This was quite a long distance. The streets were lined with crowds of people, and such policemen as were present must have been in citizens' clothes. Through these masses Czar marched without visible guards.

When he reached tlia cemetery lie kneeled down in front of the grave and then he and bis brother lowered the coffin into the grave. This is only one of a Dumber of funerals he has attended in this way, and whenever be goes to a funeral he walks, after the Russian custom, behind the hearse. Ho is a pre-eminently a religious man, and ho believes in tne Greek Catholic religion. He goes to mass every morning and crosses himself often and Drays much. Ho gives a great deal to the church, and one of the chief troubles with him Is that he is too much influenced by the church.

The cliurih is the millstone around Russia's neck. It drags the people to the eaith and grinds them financially to powder. Tim of Russia are continually the people. They are opposed to education Mid advancement and their whole tendency is backward. The Czar is the head of the oiiurcti, but he is influenced by its priests, and it ig largely through them that the persecutions of the Jews and their restriction of free thought The Czar himself is very kind to his people.

They call him their father and be looks upon himself as such, lie gave a large part of his imperial revenues to the famine nnd millions of dollars went from his own packet into tho huugry districts. Both he ami his wife are very charitable. They visit the various hospitals and they are always giving. don't Mif.pose there is a family In the United States which has a more happy home life than that of the Czar. He has five three boys and two girls.

The eldest is the Grand Duke Nicholas, who is now 24 years old and who shows himself to be a bright, aggressive prince. tin has hvJ charge of the whole of the famine fund, as he has worked as bard as his father does at governing his empire. He is a far different looking man than his father. He takes after hit mother, and his slight form and delicate features look but little like those of the Romanoffs. He is of a temperament and his manuers are pleasant.

Tho second son, George, who is now just 21 years old, hns nu re of the KoiiiHMofTs about him. lie is said to take after Ills father, nnd is rather obstinate and capricious in his disposition. The eldest daughter. Grand Duchess Zenia, is a beaHty. I had a iresent of a photograph of her from one of her friends this afternoon.

Slio looks a little like her THE MORNING CALL, SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1892-SIXTEEN PAGES. mother and her form, though small, is beautiful, and her face is a winning one. She was 17 years old last March and the question of her marriage is one that is already whispered about here at St. Petersburg. She is probably destined marry one of the great princes of Europe, and sho will not likely have much to say in the matter.

She is very bright and she is said to have one of the sharpest tongues in St. Petersburg. She knows a number of languages and she has considerable artistic talent. All of the Czar's children speak English, French, Kussian and Danish. The Czar himself speaks half a dozen different and the Empress can talk in French, German, English, Danish or Russian equally well.

With all his greatness the Czar is more simple in his manners than any monarch in the world. There are no frills or furbelows about him. He talks in a simple way to his friends and to his officials, and though he Is the Czar in every sense of the word he is not puffed up with conceit. He is probably the richest monarch In the world. His income amounts to more than $10,000,000 a year and he owns more land than any otner person in the world.

He bus more than a million square miles of cultivated land and forest, and tie has gold and silver mines in Siberia, and his receipts are so large that no one knows how large tney are. Ha uses his money jtisi as he pleases. No one has any right to criticize his cash account, and his will is law over his subjects. No matter what the laws of Russia may be, the Czar's will or the Czar's word Is above nil law, and things are right because ho ys they are right. I wish I could describe for you his wonderful palaces.

There is nothing like them on the face of the earth. 1 saw a single crown in the Winter which had more than a million dollars' worth of jewels in it, and the treasury at Moscow contains cartloads of gold and silver plate. The Winter Palace is so lnrge that it covers acres, and there is a story that when it was burned not long ago a cow was discovered in one of the united rooms, where a servant had been keeping It and the people of the palace, knew nothing about it. There are 2000 acres about one of the summer palaces near here, and it takes 600 men to keep these in order, and the palace of Peterhof surpasses in its beauties those of Versailles. Fkaxk G.

Carpenter. St. Petersburg, Aug. 27. I mi.

I SONG. Tbe mill goes toiling slowly around. With steady and solemn creak. And my little one bears In the Kindly sound The rotce of the old mill speak. While round aud those big white wings Grimly and ghostlike creep.

My little one teat the ohl mill sings, "Sleep, little tulip, sleep!" The sails are reefed and tbe nets are drawn, And, over his pot of beer Tbe Caber, agn Mt the morrow's dawn, Lustily uiaketb cheer. lie mocks at the winds tbat caper alone from tr.e far-off clamorous deep. But we, we love their lullaby song Of "bleep, little tulip, sleep Shaggy old Fritz, In slumber sound, Moans of the stony mart; To-uiorrowbovr proudly he'll trot you around Hitched to our new milk-cart. And you imli help me blankoi tbe kino, Aud fold the gentle sueep. And get the berrlnc a-toak in brine; but now, little tulip, sleep.

A Dream-One conies to button the That wearily droop mail blink, V. ie the old mill imtfets tho frowning skies And ecolds at the Mm tbat wink. Over your race me misty Of tuat a. Dream-One And, rocking your cradle, the softly ings, mile tulip, sleep bit: i. WAR UNDER THE WATER.

uriont Craft Mad' for Fighting Under tiio New York World. The boat Is one of the smallest submarine boats ever constructed for actual service. The central chamber is occupied by two men, and carries bnt a six hours' supply of air. The crew enters through a low turret in the top, which is provided with bullseyes. The boat is driven by electricity from forty-five storage batteries, which are placed iv the central compartment.

There is enough power to run -the boat ten hours at eight miles an hour on the surface. She is Bunk by screws working on vertical axes, which, wheu re. tend toward her. Ibe French beat Gymnote shaped like a Whitebead torpedo, is 59 leet long and 5 feet 11 inches It lias two horizontal rudders worked by hydrostatic the Maker Submarine Boat. pressure, or at will, and two vertical rudders worked by the usual appliances." The power is electricity, which steers, propels and Uchts the boat.

The propeller is fourbladed and the shaft connects directly with the armature of the motor. The estimated speed is ten knots for six A series of experiments was made to ascertain whether the boat could escape from and re-enter a harbor blockaded by torpedoboats, which were on the lookout for her. At the appointed hour she went down for forty minutes, during which time she crossed the line without beinc observed and came to the surface two miles and a half beyond it. In returning she passed immediately under one of the boats and was seen for an instant, but not distinctly enough to be pursued. The Goubet, another French boat, has a hull of cannon bronze made in one casting which weighed five tons.

Oxygen, compressed at a pressure. of seventy atm pheres, is supplied for breathing. Him crew of two men was hermetically sealed in the hull for eight hours, boat lining submerged to a depth of thirty-three feet, and the only communication with the surface being telephonic. At the end of the time the men were found to have experienced no discomfort. Since that time naval officers have frequently been gent down to familiarize them with the mysteries of submarine navigation.

The Spanish boat I'erai is one of the best known of the torpedo-boats for subsurface work. Electricity on the storage-battery principle is what ehe depends upon for all purposes. She carries sufficient air to enable her crew to remain under water two days, and has a device, similar to a camera lucida, for purposes of observation when running near the surface. This boat involves no new principles, hardly fulfills conditions promised by its designer and throws but little light upon the question of submarine navigation. The Peacemaker, experimented with in the Hudson River some six months ago, was in many an improvement over numbers of similar craft of earlier make, She had a pair of horizontal rudders at her bow for submerging her.

When in rapid motion, moment her engines stopped she rose to the surface. When not in motion she was submerged by taking in or forcing out water ballast. A tin extended fore and aft on the upper Dart of the boat to guard the conning tower from collision. A depression in the fin between manhole and the dome was intended to afford a holdirtg-nlace for the boat when under a vessel's keel while releasing torpedoes. By inserting his arm In one of the indiarnbber sleeves abaft the dome the captain could release the torpedoes by means of a tripping device outside the boat.

Near the middle the boat is a Meant boiler, abaft which is the engine. Electricity on the storage-battery principle was first tried as the motor power, but It was replaced by a firnless boiler and a 14-horse-power engine. she was an easy boat to guide, cither when at the surface or below, and, for the length of time she was running, was always able to keep up sufficient steam to keep her readily under control. The latest craft for under- water work, and one that promises to develop more satisfactorily than any of the others is tits Baker boat that has recently appeared in Detroit. contains within its shell a furnace, boiler, steam-engine, motor dynamo and storage batteries.

The steam plant is todrivo the dynamo as an electrical senerator, and in this way have a means of charging the battery. -The smokestack when the fires are burning stands erect, but when they are drawn it telescopes into the boat. Water admitted or ejected controls the submergence of the boat. When under, water no discomfort has been felt from want of air. It is said to be very.

warm Inside the boat even when the air is chilly at the surface. The pumping in of the water ballast compresses the air In the boat at times to an uncomfortable degree and makes it necessary to lift the turret and allow some of the air to escape. A Question. Could a man be said to flirt with bis wife? don't know, I'm sure. Ask me something easy.

Ask me if man ever would flirt with his wife. The United States, Great Britain and Germany send the greatest number of letters through the mails. The Universal Postal Union Bureau's report of the annual receipt is: German Empire, francs; United States 315.451,284 frauc9, and Grpat Britain 246,276,950 francs. The United States sells more postage stamps and makes more profit on tueui than any otber nation. WHERE ROYALTY DWELLS Windsor Castle and Its Surroundings, ITS HISTORIC MEMORIES.

A Chanct Meeting With Queen Victoria Id the Albert Her Maj'ity Looks and Taliti. CcrtMroudcDce of The Calu If one could wholly disassociate from the mind the royal and historic impressiveness of Windsor Castle, aud, standing upon the battlements of its creat central Round Tower, merely contemplate the place and its surroundings ad a bit of English scenery, the color, feeling aud suggestiveness in all the scenes within range of vision would still prove engaging and characteristic to a wondrous degree. Almost at the very of the castle walls are the gleaming curves of the wiudine Thames, here a pure and crystal stream between velvety, emerald batiks. "Winding Shore" the locality was anciently called, whence the present corrupted name of Windsor. The silvery surface, threading away to the west underneath tiue old stone bridges, hints of the river's source, far beyond classic Oxford, among the liills of Berks Gloucester.

In its eastern way through broadening meads, past noble demesnes and through quaint and sleepy hamlets, it carries the thought past huge old London and the gleaming sand reaction of Mapliti and Margate to the wild North Sen. In this one little ribbony strip of England as much The Xonnan Totcer, Windsor Cattle. potential history has had its origin a 9 ad ne the Tiber from Oatia back to the crags of Aqulone. In every direction from Windsor the eye falls upon meadows like lawns, great parks and forests of gigantic oak-, and yews. You can count nearly 100 seatg of the gentry and nobility from where you stand on the tower.

Interspersed aro the quaintest of Old World primitive farmhouses, avenues of limes and elms, luxuriant hedges gardens flaming and lush, quaint arched ancient mills, giay or white turrets breaking through Masses ot trees, roadside inns and cottages buried in vines and flowers. It is all a vast panorama of pastoral Kngland, ''entering in, nnd dominated by, this royal pile of historic stone. On the north, east and south the royal parks of Windsor close in snugiy upon the town and castle. The Home Park, so named from its immediate, vicinity to the castle, is nearly four miles in circninferer.ee and comprises about suO acres. It is beautifully t-tuddod with clumps of forest trees.

There are many avenues of stately elms planted during the reign Ol Queen Anne, and George 111 annually coursed here for hares. Besides numberless artificial ponds, grottos aid picturesqne bridges, Umne Park contains many structures and appurtenances peculiar to royalty. Some of these are Adelaide Lodge, the royal kennel, the Queen's the royal dairy and the royal gardens. The Iw'lith consists of only two rooms and a pace's residence, but they are sumptuously lined up with furniMiiDics from lite royal lodge. A short distance from this is a handsome cottage in ihe Gothic style, the residence, of the keeper of the park, ana in the rear of this are the extensive kennels for the fancy of the Queen.

There is not a hospital in Victoria's dominions 60 perfectly arranged, ventilated and appointed. The Queen very (oud of these dogs, especially of the collies and terriers, frequently inspects the kennels and lavishes genuine affection upon her favor- The bnrying-grouud of these canine pets indeed a place for reflection. When the dogs die they are laid beneath the turf where they are bred, exercised and came to royal dogs' estate. An inscribed stone tablet marks each canine grave. It may be there are those who loiter in these avenues of the dead pensively conning such inscriptions as "Prince, Scotch terrier.

Brought from Balmoral June 14, Died February 6, "Maurice, favorite Mount St. Bernard of H. H. the Prince Consort, Died November, 1854," and "Nellie (collie), mother ol BessJ Flora and oailor. Died October 12, The royal garden contains an area of thirty acres.

Its total range of glass- Mi'un the Conqueror's Oak. covered structures is about 1000 feet. There is a luxurious residence for the head gaidener, with two sumptuous apartment! for use of the Queen. The vineries are each upward of 100 feet in length, besides two pine-houses 59 feet long, two peach-nouses 50 feet long, a conservatory 50 feet in length; while a space 150 feet wide by 1077 feet long is divided into three huge pits for forcing lemons, cucumbers, asparagus and the like. The (lre.it Iv.

rk liea to the south of Windsor. It contains 1800 acref. Several magnificent roads intersect it. The long walk, three miles in length and bordered by the finest elms in England, is the most famous. The royal farms are in this nark and were converted to this use by George 111, and QeotfSl IV always made the present royal lodge his summer residence.

The noble structure, called Cumberland Lodge, built by William, Duke of Cumberland, uncle to George Hi, is near the royal lodge, and is the present residence Of Prince and Prinres9 Christian and family. Just west ot Great IV. i along the high road to Reading, lies what remains of ancient Windsor forest. Its circumference) was originally 120 miles. In the northern poition tiie forest it still primeval, and here are found oaks rivaling in girth the must famous of Robin Hood land in Nottinghamshire.

The King Oak, over 800 years ago the favorite tree of William the Conqueror, is still standing, aud is twenty-six feet in girth three feet from the ground. There are also four other famous oaks here, respectively known as ihn oaks of Queens Anue, Charlotte, Adelaide and Victoria. Besides these aud many other features of immediate nnd present interest round about this royal palace there is a genuine fascination while high up here upon this huge round tower in (canning the landscape and recalling objects and places mellow with the traditions of long ago, or ispots famous in the world of to-day. Just over beyond Great Park arc Ascot heath and racecourse. The course is the finest (n the kingdom.

The grand stand rival! in splendor aud extent the noted Epsom betting stand, and the races are always honored by the presence of members of the royal family, who are invariably driven to Ascot through the royal parks from Windsor. It seems to that after one iias grown a little familinr with this most famous of all royal Windsor Castlo itnelf, its inmates and all its present splendor takes less and less hold upon the visitor, and that the wraiths of historic associations and memories conjured up by what one cannot but see and feel grow more and more imperative of recognition. To many visitors most interest la found in the state apartmems. the Zuccarelli room, the Vandyck room, the liuneus room, the guardroom, tue audience and presence chambers, St Hall, the crimson, green aud white drawing-rooms over the east terrace and the Waterloo chamber, ihe stern simplicity of the guardroom, the great hall, emblazoned with the armorial bearings of tho Garter Knights and lined with portraits of British sovereigns from the time of Charles II to the present, and the historic Waterloo chamber, whero thH heroes of the battle assembled annually on its anniversary, are by far the most striking and impressive. More keenly attractive to me have always been the two chapels of Albert and St, George; and as the former was tho place of a chance meeting with a memorable personage it cannot but possess for myself the strongest hold upon feelings nnd remembrance.

Both chapels are doubtless, for their size, the most famous treasuie-houses of royal mausoleum and memorial in the whole world. Their enrichment by every known form of memorial art Is sumptuous and magnificent beyond description. In front of the chancel of the Albert Chapel is the cenotaph to the late Prince Consort. It is an altar tomb by the lato Baron Henry de Triqueti. Its base is of black and gold Tuscan marble.

At each angle of the tomb Is the figure of an angel, at the front bearing shields, one with the arms of the Queen and the other with those of the prince consort. Around the tomb, in niches, are statuettes, three on the south side representing Charity, Piety and Hope, and the three on the north, Justice, Honor and Truth. At the ea-t eii'l is a mournfully interesting statuette of the queen in her younger days, and opposite is a statuette of Sciecce weeping. An inscription runs around the. grand antique marble of its cap.

Upon the latter lies the recumbent figure of "Albert the Good," magnificently sculptured, weariug the armor or a knight of the middle ages and clothed in the mautle of Hie order of the gartei. Oh a recent occasion while standing before this memorial, tny attendant having excused himself for a moment and disappeared through tho piivHte dour leading to the deanery two ladies, one an elderly woman and her companion a woman of 30, quietly entered and walked straight to the cenotaph. They were both dressed plainly but richly, and were without and at the time a thought them visitors staying at some seat or near hotel. My own great Interest in the magnificent sculptnred effigy attracted the attention of the old lady; and, seemingly from some impulse ot great self-interest in the figure I could not then understand, she accosted me friendly as though I had not been a stranger, and almost as eagerly, with the simple inquiry 'Dues the woik please you as an American?" "Thank ton, madam, I rejoined with some hesitation," it does but not so much as the heroic equestrian statue of Albert in front of St. George's Hall, iv Liverpool, which, in my judgment, is the most splendid memorial 1 have ever seen, 'lhe Prince Consort was nbuve all else a manful man.

This figure suggests knighthood and its trappings. The Liverpool statue is majestic in its of manhood." Slio soemed buried in thought for a moment, and nodded her gray head silently. Finally her eyes tilled with tears, and- graciously bowing to me she said sadly, "I thank as an American, with all my heart." Then the two ladies turned away and parsed out of the chapel At the same iustant my attendant returned in apparent great excitement. "My God, sir!" lie exclaimed, "you havo neon, speaklns, without a presentation, to her Majesty, the Queen!" Eix.ahL. Waheman.

Windsor, August 29. GARIBALDI'S SON. He Has Wou Promotion Iv the Italian Navy. The visit to this country of Manlio Garibaldi, the youngest son of Italy's famous general, will be made the occasion of great festivities among the Italian residents of this city. lie will arrive on the Italian man-ofwar Gnrigliano, which to bring the statue of Christopher Columbus here.

The young mau will receive almost as hearty a welcome nnd rs many courtesies as would be extended to the illustrious farmer of Caprera if he could visit the country of his exile attain. Manlio Garibaldi is now 21 years of ago, and is stoutly built, tall and has bluck hair and eyes. He is said to bo one of thn handsomest young officers in ttie Italian navy. He was. born at his father's leut.Manllo Garibaldi.

farm, on the Island of Caprera, where he spent his childhood, subsequently entering Uie university at Leghorn, where ho was graduated. While there he became the close friend and companion of Princn Louts of Savoy, a son of the Due d'Aosta, and nephew of King Humbert. During their career both the young men were subjected to the regular discipline of tlio college, and after bis graduation young Gaiibaldi shipped as a sailor ou board the Italian ship Aiuprigo Vespucio and sailed two voyages round the world. lie visited Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Ayres in iv.X), and met with a royal reception from the Italian residents of both cities. It was while at the latter city that the Prince of Savoy received news of the death of his father, the Due, d'Aosla.

which cut short their visit Young Garibaldi, on Ilia return home, entered the Italian naval and has worked bis way up to his present commission of a lieutenant of the Naval Guard of GRAND FALLS OF LABRADOR. They Are bat Slig-lnljr Inferior to the i Cataract of Niagara. Henry O. Bryant, in the September Ceutury. The Grand Falls of Labrador are nearly twice ns high as Niagara, and are inferior to that marvelous cataract in breadth aud volume of water only.

One of their most striking characteristics Is the astonishing leap Into space which the torrent makes in discharging itself over its rocky barrier. From the description given of the rapid drop In the river-bod and the coincident narrowing of the channel, one can easily understand that the cumulative energy ex- Bended in this final leap of the pent-up waters ie truly titanic. If a substratum of softer rock existed here, as at Niagara, a similar "Cave of the Winds" would enable one to penetrate a considerable distance beneath the fall. The uniform structure of the rock, however, prevents any unequal disintegration, and thus the overarching sheet of water covers a nearly perpendicu; lar wall, base of which -is washed by the waters of the lower river. In spite of tho fact Hint creature, except one with i wings, could hope to penetrate this sub-'; chamber, the place is inhabited, if 'M' are to believe the traditions of the Li tior Indians.

Many years ago, so runs lira lf. two Indian maidens gathering fire-' wood near the falls were enticed to the brink and drawn over -by the evil spirit of the place. During the long years since then, these unfortunates have been condemned to dwell beneath the fall, and forced to toil daily, dressing deerskins, until now, no longer young and beautiful, they can be seen betimes through the mist, trailing their white hair behind them-: and stretching out shriveled aims toward any mortal who ventures to the confines of their mystic dwelliuc-place. Tho Indian name for: the Grand means '-'The 3 Ncnow Place Where the Water Like the native word "Thunder of this Indian designation contains a poetic and descriptive quality which It would be hard to improve. From the coint where the river i leaves the plateau and plunges into the deep pool: below the falls, its course for twenty-five miles is ouo of the most remarkable canyons in the world.

From the appearance of the sides of this gorge, and the line of Hm river, the indications are that the stream has slowly forced channel through this rocky chasm, cutting its way back, foot by foot, from edge of the plateau to the present position of the Kf cent investigators claim that a period of 6000 years was required to form the gorge balow Niagara Fulls; or, in other words, that it has taken that length of time for the falls to recede from their former position ut Quoenstown Heights to their present locatihn. If it tins taken this length of time for Niagara Falls to recedo a distance of seven miles by the erosive power of the water acting on a soft shale rock supportiug a staturn of limestone, the immensity of time involved by assuming that the Grand River canyon was formed in the game way is so great that the mind falters in contemplating it, especially when it is recognized that the escarpment of the Great Falls is of hard gneissic rock. And yet no other explanation of the origin of this gorge is acceptable, indeed, we can assume that at sonip former time a fissure occurred iv the earth's crust as a result of igneous agencies, and that this fissure ran iv a line identical with the present course of the river; in which case the drainage of the table-land, emptying into the Grand River, would follow the line of least resistance, and in the course of lime excavate the fissure into the present proportions of the norge. GLASS HIS FAVORITE DISH. Rlchiird Harry Simply Dotai on This Brittle Food.

Chicago Herald. Richard Bnrry found his appetite again last night after an interval of two years. appetite In no ordinary one. Some men's mouths water when confronted by a filet a la tiuaneiere, puddinc, or a well-browned bird, but Barry is another sort of an epicure. lie prefer 3 other provender, and looks with a lofty disdain upon tne man who will tickle his palate with the ordinary good things to be found on a printed menu.

Larry likes good, clear, brittle glass. He would rather chew the neck off a pop bottle than set his teeth in a small steak any time when real hungry. Two ypars ago Barry's fondness for glass overcame bin while he was working as a window-cleaner at the Leland Hotel. Window panes are not adapted to gastronoinical efforts because of their shape, and, after several days' duty In the hotel as a windowcleaner Barry seized upon a pop-bottlo as his tid-bit He chewed aud swallowed about half the bottle before Mr. Leland could interrupt his luncheon and then resigned his position at the request of his employer.

Mr. Leland'a tables were graced with some uuusually fine culglass goblets, which he valued more than Barry's services. Last night Barry was not feeling well. After eating his supper at 319 Michigan street he went into the barroom. He grumbled that ihe grub was setting every day, and complained of the unusual thickness of the water-glasses.

One of his friends invited Barry to drink a glass of beer with him. and whtn the barkeeper filled the order Barry looked with a critical eye upon the schooner that rested on the bar. "Gimme a glass of ice water," Barry said, ha piuued the beer away from liiin. "What's the matter with that beer?" the barkeeper deuiuuded. "I ilon't like the glass," Barry replied, and as the barkeeper filled a thin goblet with Lake Michigan's purest, a smile of settled oil Bany's face.

By this time Larry's friends were showing their astonishment at his refusing to drink beer by crowding around him. "You fellows don't know what's good." Barry explained, as he raised the glass aloft. Then, alter swallowing the water, he bit a scallop out of one side of the and. without waiting to chew it, began to munch voraciously at edges. Before friends could stop him lie had consumed about two-tbiril! of the glass and had fallen in agony udoii the floor.

A patrol-wagon was called from the East Chicago-aveune station, and Barry was taken to the County Hospital. At midnight lie was sleeping us soundly as if he had dined and wined at Kinsley's. EDUCATION OF THE BLIND. What Baa AccnmplUhed by People Who Cannot See. bcrlbner's Magazine.

It seems as though it were only In a few such cases of brilliant talent tuat there can be any real competition between the blind and the seeing; but a blind child, like one who has lost an arm or leg. may learn to make the most of what is left to him, and to that end the workrooms of the institution claim their full share of each day. The boys are taught to make mattresses, to cane chairs, and if they have Rnd brain enough to be tuners, there are models by which they become familiar with the anatomy of the piano. girls learn to kuit and sew by hand and on machines, they embroider and maka coarse lace, and are also tauzht cooking on little gas-stoves. Not lout; ago of them had to go home because her mother was ill, and on her return she was heard to say, half in joke and half in earnest: "It was a bad day for me when 1 learned to cook, fur 1 was kept at it all the time." The list which is kept of the occupations followed by pupils nftcr they leave the school gives some curious reading.

One of the tuners in Slelnway's warerooms is a graduate, and another was for years the organist of Dr. Howard Crosby's church. An insurance broker, a prosperous newsveudor who owns three stalls, a horsedealer, a tax collector, a real estate agent, a florist, tire all duly recorded but the most astonishing entries are those of a lumberman, a sailor And cook, and a switchtender. Once the walls of the institution the pupils find their own level according to their ability but wherever they may go they always keep a friendly feeling (or the who bare literally led them forth, so far ns may be, from the shadow of a great darkness, and these In their turn are repaid for hours of patient drudgery by the knowledge that they have helped to turn a useless creature into a man or woman for whom there is a place in the world. HARRIET HOSMER.

A Woman Who Has Worked II ml and Attained Success. Chicago Art and thrift are almost total strangers. The hand that holds a brush or drives a chisel through the gleaming marble rarely has the miser's clutch. Artists are born to pnverty as the sparks fly upward, and the feminine branch of the profession has few exceptions. Kosa Bonheur lias doubtless fuutbered her studio nest protty well, and Itarritt Hosmer.

our own Harriet Hosmer has carved out a modest fortune with the chisel which evoked her Zenohla from the marble. She worked hard for her succoss. la the first place site was a delicate child, inclined to lung trouble. Her father, who was a Sensible Physician (let us emphasize the case with capitals!) prescribed a boat, gun, dog and horse. The result was that the puny, sickly child grew.

St. Louis was the of the young sculptor's first studies. Many of tier most beautiful works are to be found there, for Rome itself did not wipe out her recollection of what she owed to tier training. An artist's income is, perhaps, more than that of any other worker, a matter known only to himself, but we have one ciew to Miss Hosmer's ability as a money-maker in the knowledge that she is to receive $25,000 for a statue of Queeu Isabella for the Fair. Big Farina in the Nortbweit.

Mlnneapolii Tlmei. Senator Casey of North Dakota has 5000 acres under cultivation. The Dalrymple farm in Dakota contains 30,000 htm It is a genuine farm under perfect cultivation, find yields a heavy income. In the Red River Valley lies the great Grandin farm. Here are found 15,000 acres iiudor cultivation, and in the ten rears it has yielded a profit of $480,000.

Farms ranging from 1000 to 6000 acres are not uncommon in the West. They represent the modern feudal estate without the feudalism of baronial times. A small army of helpers are engaged in working agricultural machines, many of them driven by steam. Senator Casey boasts that he can plant 250 acres of wheat per day with his drilling-machines, and the Dalrymples have a machine which thrashos from 1200 bushels a day. CALIFORNIA'S ARBOR DAY A Plea for More General Tree-Planting.

FORESTS ARE NECESSARY. The Prrmvation cf the Nation, of tba Earth, Depends on the Freieivatioa of the Trees. Written for The Moexino Caii. Man In his vanity goes striding up and down the earth, destroyine whatever ha likts for his pleasure or pront, and foolishly imagining that all things were made for him. But it is written in the Book not that tha beautiful things of earth were created for him, but that he was created for them.

"And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding 6eed, the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed in in itself upon the earth. And the earth brought forth grass, herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself after his kind, and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the third day." So you see the trees stood third in the order of creation, but man stands sixth and last. When the trees disappear man must disappear. "And God said.

Behold, I have given you every herb bearing geed which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat." Plutarch tells us that Alexander planted "THE HIGIILASDS." The Cross ol May Be Seen on the Hillside. in Persia every tree and herb of Greece, and that it a great source of lamentation to him that he could not make the Greek ivy grow on tbe tower of Babel. It is high time to put away from our literature that fiction about this great man Bitting down by the seabeach and weeping that there wero no more worlds to conquer. There is no foundation for it. lie never came to the sea in all that mnd march from Siberia to India and although his journal, of which Plutarch often speaks, is entirely lost to us, we know, as well as we can know anything in ancient history, that he mourned not tnat he could not destroy, but that he could not restore.

He was the first great tree-planter. And it may interest some of our veterans to know that he was the first man who pensioned his soldiers. lie was truly Alexander the Great; not great because' he conquered Persia, but because he panted Persia. When I lived in Washington, trying in my feeble fashion to induce tree planting there and up and down the worn-out and barren banks of the Potomac, I used to see In the Senate and other high places of the nation big. coarse lumber barons from the great Northwest.

These lumber barons imd mowed down miles and hundreds of miles of forests, woods that held back the waters that are now drowning cut the fertile Stales on the Lower Mississipi. They had made their millions, paved their ruthless way to prominence, and so sat serenely at the head of the nation while the South was devastated by flood and the great was swept by tiaraes. Who does not recall the time when John Hay, the poet, a true and truthful man, was f-ent by the New York Tribune to report the fearful facts about the buruine towns? How many bodies in a single well? Old men, young men, maidens, mothers, with babes in their all leaping in together. It is too terrible to repeat! And the great lumber barons sitting serenely in the Senate. And no paper, no person daring to point a finger or say one word ol rebuke.

But let us get away from this destruction of the world as fast possible and turn to the plan of helping to restore it. Only you must read columns, chaoters.vorames between the lines along here. Understand, these resinous pinetops tossed by millions and billions along the. ground and left to parch in the sun made a flame that burned the very earth not even a shrub or root left alive. And so when the rains fell and the snows melted, then mud, ashes and all things swept seaward, filled rivers, covered fields, buried and made desolate a hundred tboutacd hearthstones.

Talk about the slickens and debris of California; why that was child's work in the Sierras compared to the ruin and the destruction at the Lead of the Mississippi and at ihemoutu of the Mississippi. And the pompous lumber barons sitting serenely in the Senate year after year, vnar after year. And the floods and the fires aud the Ores and the floods year after year and year after ye ir. And nobody daring to point a finger. True, there had been bills in Congress, appropriations, and a great engineer, Captain Eads, tltc man to first span the gieat river wiih iron, had been set to work.

Jetties, dikes, dams end all that nt the mouth of the river; but this was rather to keep the river open to navigation and did little good for the drgwning States in the South and no good at $11 for the burning ones in the North. You see he dared say nothing to or about the lumber barons, for it was they who employed and paid him; and they, or rather their influence, could dismiss or beggar him. Again let me beg you read lots between the lines here. I was sent by the Independent to report on these jetties at tne mouth of the river at the time of one of the great 1 went from New Orleans to the jetties as the guest of Captain EaJs. Breckinridge of Arkansas then in and, I think, Congressman Stunner of California and a lot of others were along.

And it was from Captain Jv-id-, on that occasion, that I learned so much of the importance of trees to man. What a strange sight. You view the Mississippi as if riding a horse down hill. The land is below you. You look down into the fields and farms on either side of the river.

You see children down there playing in the road at the base of the mighty dikes of earth, twenty, forty, fifty fret below you. These dikes or levees have been raised year after year by each State; each parish lias its task, its watchmen, trained levee men. The cost has been hundreds of ami each year it is coming to be more costly to keep the mighty river in its place. Some day soun, if things go on in the way they have been going at the other end of the river, all this Southern side of the Union will be lost entirely to the civilized world, and where New Orleans stands only a church spire will point, like a reproving finger, to the serene lumber barons in the Senate. And what singular sights and sounds on the nudity delta! A vast, drear level of sea and the river booming through the reeds, a rungs of mud and slime, in a dozen branches to tha gulf.

At night you see little hills of fire; a hear the sulutier and gurgle of uiud aud water, and flames shoot up like rockets Irom the water. Four great mud-tugs are constantly on hand to remove these little mud volcanoes thatspring up in a ght and inn.edu navigation. I marvel that the world knows so little about the mouth of the Mississippi. It is a very sickly place. You see it is all In a state of fermentation here.

The leaves, logs, slickens, debris, soil, the very soil and fertility of fourieeu States, are fermenting here. The warm waters of the gulf here under the path of the sun convert all this into a vast yeast-pot. Sometimes even while the men are at work ou one of these little mud mountains that rose up in a night vomiting fire from the top it suddenly sinks, taking men back with it. Aud the lumber barons sitting serenely In the Senate 1 "It is no use. We are working at the wrong end." These were the constant words of Captain Eads to me.

His last words were: "We must restore tbe trees ai PAGES 13 to 16. other end or this whole region will be a marsh and the mouth of the river closed. Try ami get everybody up there to plant trees." Coming back to California I und that our- own river in a small way bad been shaven to the bone at the head. Sttll are not in such peril here, for the river if stone and snow and will endure a heap. Here let me say, now that mining may resumed, that if the trees are preserved in the mountains jou may work the mines with but little danger of But, of course, the lumber barons will iay all loss and blame at the door of ttta But to get Visiting mf dear old friend of other days.

AdolpU Sutro, he asked to plant a an old custom in Europe. Finding he had planted millions of trees and had trees to to all who would plant, the idea of an arbor day, already in air. perhaps, began to take solid loriu. The Call took up the matter and kept it up month after moo til. The women took it 3uch women as Mrs.

John Vance Cheney, Mrs. Harr Wagnor. Coolbrith, aud so on. Sutro offered 40,000 trees to tbe 40,000 school-children to plant. Mrs.

Chenev baid, 'Let us plant l'orba Buena Island!" The idea took and spread like a forest fire. General Howard came forward with men, the Secretary of the Navy sent ships, Sutro inspected the island, found the soil rich and deep, ex-Governor Perkins set tbe day, Uie 28th of November, and a day it was iiidet-d. Who can forget the scene, the the booming guns, the thousands and thousands of happy school-children, Sutro planting the first tree; dear old General Vallejoon horseback making his speech in Spanish, his very last speech and last public appearance; Senators, Governors, officers In slitteriug uniforms; a thousand pretty women, and gentle old General Howard carrying water up the hill all day with his onearin to water the children's trees? And then the fire that left the face of island a blackened ruin and not one of oar trees alivp. "Plant again," said Sutro calmly. "Plant agaio," cried Howard.

"We will plant them thrice if ueed be," shouted General Vallfjo. And so one of the tree planters bought a mountaiu side above Oakland quite out of dancer of fire. Sutra sent trees as before, Howard seat his men and the whole thing was gone over attain. Only this time there was more work aiul less play, or rather less pleasure. For the children who had helped establish Arbor day in California were not present, nor the ladies.

The ceremonies this time were brief and sober. But the cross, the Arbor Day cross, was set up the same and in the name of the MXOOO schoolchildren of Sao Francisco and Oakland who bad helped set it up on the island that sweltering hot day in November. It is the right of those children and the richt of all who took part or Interest in that tree-planting to kuow that their Greek cross of California's Arbur day has flourished. Some of those children mint be very strong and tall by this time, for it was five ago; but there is not one of them ail go strong and tall as some of thosu trees now. You can see those trees forming the cross all the way from the higher streets of Sau Francisco ou a day of singular clearness, and here is a photograph of them.

You see that the idea did not perish If tha trees did perish on the island; so nothing in lost: although it is indeed a pity that it should lie there idle and be only a blackened ruin all these years. So. ideas like this do not perish. They are in the line of creation; a part of tbe third day. "And God saw that it was good." Letters hare come from every State in the Union on the subject; the Idea is vital ond it is aggressive.

School-children all over this State of ours nave their days and celebrations of Goa's third day of creation. It was only a few months ago that 1 went down to San Diezo, the city of palms, and helped Wagner ami Madge Moris, who did so much toward helping us here, to direct and encourage the children in planting trees there. Oh. the health, the clenn toil, the instruction, the useful education, the solid good there is in trying to restore mother earth to her primeval beauty, as when God gave her to man "for an inhrriiance." Meantime, let me say to the childion, the founders of California Arbor day, that this cross of tneirs near Oakland, which ran now be seen so far, shall not perish. Although, one by one, we the planters of it shall, one after cne, follow on after the way that good old General Vallejo has to the other si'ie of darkness, one of the planters of the cross has pitched his tent under it and tends it carefully.

Ami wh'-n he is gone it will be left to thn children, the school-children of thetwo cities, perpetually. Only let us plant and plant and plant. Tbe preservation of this nation, of the earth, depends on the preservation of the trees. Joaquiv Milles. THE OLD KIRK OF OBAN.

The Primitive Parish. Church Will Boss Be ft Thins: of rait. London Dally Graphic. The primitive oid parish church of Oban will soon be a thing of the past, and give way to an erection more in accordance with tbe For tha new church the parishioners have already contributed £1000, and £1000 is forthcoming from certain committees of the Scottish Church. Dr.

Stewart, The Kirk of Olxnt. moderator of the assembly, In the absence of the Duke of Argyll, opened a bazaar at Obau on behalf of the new church, and Dr. Norman Macleod also assisted. Ainoog tbe visitors taking part were Mr. H.

M. Stanley and Mrs. Stanley. At Oban old church tbe old-fashioned Scottish service still prevails, the hymns being given out line by line, the congregation, who stand to pray and fit to sing, joining in at will, following or less accurately the choir, which is sustained and started by a tuning-fork only. The Swedish mile is 7.U1 yards long and the Vienna post mile is 821K5 yards.

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Ayer Co. Lowell, Mass. i.