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Show A VISIT TO ROYALTY. What It Costo tho Noblos to Bo Neighborly. Tllcli Gifts and Mach Money for tlfc Poor Are Anions the Ncces-sarles Ncces-sarles A Story in Line. Though EmpeTor William II. has not gene to Russia on his $1,000,000 special train this year, hi3 trip is as costly and splendid as on former occasions of the hind. lie has taken a fleet of tc:i men-of-war with him, besides the usual throng of secretaries, officers and servants, ser-vants, numbering all told some 150 men. " In his strong box, which is a part of his baggage on every trip to the court of a foreign sovereign, he carries $209,-000 $209,-000 of presents brooches, gemmed snuiT boxes, rings, watches, diadems, and less pretentious trinkets for less pretentious persons. About $30,000 in cash is taken along, as the poor of the Russian capital must have their conventional con-ventional gratuity of $5,000 cr $G,000, the men aboard the German ships must have their "drink money" on the da3's of. greatest rejoicings, and gold pieces must be scattered lavishly among the hundred and one servants and petty officials who come ia contact hourly with the imperial party. As may be president to the minister. lie then proceeded pro-ceeded to dwell upon the impropriety of a minister telephoning regrets to the chief magistrate of the great French people. "The president requests em-phatically," em-phatically," he said, in conclusion, "that hereafter you observe the etiquette of the Elysee by communicating with him only by letter when it is impossible for you to communicate with him in person." per-son." Now the minister thus addressed was in bed. with gout at the time. Rut he is from the south of France, and when he went to Paris he took his temper with him. lie rose in wrath, planted his bare feet on the floor, and pointing his finger at the master of ceremonies, shouted: "Mr. Master of Ceremonies, as a man you have my respect; I have no quarrel with you. I shall be glad to have you sit here with me and take a glass of Madeira. But to you as maslcr of ceremonies cere-monies I have this to say: "To the devil with you and your Mr. Faure and your etiquette. Tell him that tell him that for me." The master of ceremonies did not wait for his glass of Madeira or his j little conversation with the minister, but hurried off in confusion. It is owing to this story and a dozen more like it that the French newspapers refer daily to the growing proportions of the president's head since he learned he was to be the guest of the czar, and that they ridicule him as Felix I. N. Y. Sun. seen from this incomplete list of the emperor's present expenses, it is a i costly thing to be an emperor abroad in Europe. It is also a costly thing to be the host of an emperor abroad in Europe. With 1 the items of the naval demonstrations, military reviews, illuminations, garden parties and household accommodations included, it is estimated that the czar must spend some $10,000 a day to entertain en-tertain his German cousin. Tlardly will the German emperor be oH of the w .w when President Faure, of France, will arrive at Cronstadt with more ships, more attendants and more demands upon the capacity of the Uomanoff court to dazzle and amuse. Faure, too, will be under obligations to play the open-harded chief of men, though not on the magnificent scale which is required in the case of a monarch mon-arch "by the grae of God." Of the $100,000 traveling expenses allowed Felix Faure by the French chambers he will give $0,000 to the poor of Moscow Mos-cow and St. Petersburg, $5,000 to the officers he takes with him and the Russians Rus-sians who do him services that merit gratuities. The grand reception at the French embassy in St. Petersburg will cost $S,000. The two horses to be given the czar have cost him $2,000, and "drink money", for the men of the Du-puy Du-puy de Lome, in which he will sail to Cronstadt, will swallow up $1,500 more. The French newspapers say that the prospect of all this splendor in the Russian Rus-sian capital has turned Faure's head, and they maliciously mention him nowadays nowa-days as Felix I. They tell a story to illustrate his growing consciousness of his own importance. A minister recently re-cently telephoned his regrets to Presides, Presi-des, t Taare a few minutes before the hour set for a cabinet dinner. The next (by the master of ceremonies at the Ulysee called upon the minister, drew a long face, and announced that he had an important communication from the |