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Show ritou in ii to mouse. A few days ago tho empress of (formally (for-mally went shopping In a Jewoler's eturo In ilerllu aud while there was sublected to the greatest Indignities by a mob of citizens both outside nnd lu the building. It Is said that eveti after tho Imperial shopper had regained her carrlagna llnely dressed and respectable respect-able looking womin opened the (ljor of tho vehicle and ecred Insolently in aa If mentally taktug her rnajeity's meatureineut. This undo the latter exceeding wroth nud she bestowed upon-the perpetrator cf the rude Inso-leme Inso-leme n showir of verbal mis-nlvea mis-nlvea lu such manner as only n "woman scorned" ran. Kmtror William, on hearing ol it, sui ususl llew Into a violent passion nnd nt ouce Issued nn order that thereafter, wlin lie or tils wife enter uuy shop or store to make (urchaies the police are to shut oil that union ofthoitrcit from the publlo until the lm trial pair have flulsl el their shopping nnd retired a ma.tt.ir Involving some consldtrible deluy In the matter ol locomotion In that neighborhood, If her msjrsly trades it leisurely and lingerlngly as most of her sex have tho reputation of doing. This circumstance has more thin oue side tj It and la luveitol with more of consequence than the lndillereut reader wou d suppose. On one hand the royal family has a right to be protected from rude treatment nud by such uuatis as were adopted If otliers nro unavailing; ou the other, considered alone, such nil order Is des. potlv, arrogant and liioutislderulu and will provoke moro harsh oom merit and be thu source of greater Irritatluu thuu It will du good. William's grand father Is reported to have doue a goui deal of shoppliij In hla later days, a did his Other, these mingled freely with the cruwda, especially at hull, day tliuos, nud It la not rtcord-ed rtcord-ed tint they or either of them ever linJ to close up a strut In order to get along without anuoyance. When wu think of how free their ofllclal lives were from reprisstva liieasu en toward the populucouud how friquout such thliige havo become lu thu life of the piessut ruler, ltmakea us understand nt olios how It Is that holding aloof, exorcising 1 mimical authority, und always acting the part ol "bully" nnd "bjsi" ouce begun must be kept up aud lucreisid luorder to unlutaln authority at "11, When, uuder normal cltaauistan 'es, the bead uf a nallou or a community cauuot mlugle unreservedly with his people ll argues one of two things Ibsl he has no confldoncd In or liking lik-ing for them, or they Inve none for htm. Once creito simpleton and It Is lo re-enact Frankenstein, who raised n demon by his Incsntntlons, but could not control It tbouaftor. Illchard III, aflergilnlng his crown by the slaughter of tho kings, found that the legitimists, ha J etlll heirs In tho line of succession, nnd that therefore there-fore his "goo lly kltuhm re.tod on a weak foundation;" whereupon he soliloquised solil-oquised Gonaeienrr, lie still. Mors Urea mm! ;al l, dralasd. Crnwn got br Mood Mini La with Mood maintained. Paraphrasing which wu would say, power wlolded by the exercise ol power mustbe continued In that way or not ntall. Nothing destroys ooulldenceso easily as In show a want of It. II docs nut follow that those In authority should mix up with the rabble, should give lovuea tu loafers or Invite mendicants mendi-cants to sit at thtlr tables; between these two estromes of conJurt there Is a happy medium which moat of William's Wil-liam's predecessors stem to have understood under-stood and eserclsed l-ut which he unfortunately does not or will not comprehend. |
