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Show pi-lure Astor's Wi'ilding and Cruie. Tweiity-fivo thousand dollars for tho day's ceremony. '.,00(i,()liO worth of presents, a, crniso in a half idlo yacht costing $10,000 u month to maiulain! When we read ibis wo are reminded of Thackeray's description of tho extravagance extrava-gance of tho prince re-rout during the X apolec'iic wars: "If lm bad been a rii'tiiufacturin,:; town, or a populous rural district, or an army of 5,onO men, he would not have cost, more. Tho nation (rave him nioro money, and more and more. The fitim is past counting." Looked at olx-rly tho minis lavished upon our American commoners aro aj disgraceful to our institutions as wero tho squanderings of Van prince ro;rent to tiioso of KiiKhmd. If tho .scandal is le .s it is because tho disastrous conceutra-j conceutra-j tion of hereditary wealth has as yet ! awakened less serious thought anions us j than the disastrous concentration of hereditary he-reditary power had awakened in Kn;-r-I land. In tho case o: tho Astors, tpiito as I much as of tho princo recent, tho enor-I enor-I nous Minis expended tire tho tfift of tho j nation, obtaini-d without compensatinif i M'rvico on tho part of tho recipients. I The burden upon tliu labor of tint couti-! couti-! try is as threat. Tho benefit to tho com-; com-; fort or culture or character of tho ro-i ro-i cipionts in as umall. Christina Union, i |