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Show PELTING THE PRINCE. . New Orleans Picayune: In must hare been a big gamo with Wales in it. British Weekly: Tho revelations sre enough to sober up the strongest supporters sup-porters of the monarchy. Atlanta, Constitution: Tho principals in tho famous baccarat scandal are now suffering from rum, recklessness aud remorse. Minneapolis Journal: The verdict in the baccarat case seems to be, "The king can make no mistakes." It takes live kings to cause a serious rupture. St. Louis Globe-Democrat: "Conduct is three-fourths of life, "says Matthew Aruold. Therefore tho prince of Wales is at least three times as bad as be has any business to be. The prince of Wales now asserts that ho will not come to America. This is sad news. But we might console ourselves our-selves if he would onlv send his baccar- at counters. Denver feuu. Wales is finding the weather in Eng-. land decidedly stormy. He probably would not mind it if It were not that the storm will cut off the wires leading to the pnymeuts of dobts. Kansas City Times. Sir Edward Clarke intimated that tho party at Tranby Croft on September V was "not in a judicial frame of mind." That is not quite as expressive as saying say-ing that it had a "jag on," hut it conveys con-veys the idea. Kansas City Star. "Ich dien," which being translated "I serve," is the motto of the prince of Wales. While it is eminently proper that the gambling, swashbuckling highness high-ness should serve say, about sixty davs at bard labor there is a growing indication that he may not be permitted permit-ted to serve the British people as their sovereign. Chicago Times. |