ed
out, they asserted that they could find plenty of men to fill their
places.

This is all very well from the point of view of the agents seated in
their comfortable offices, but very few of us would be willing to trust
our lives on the high seas to inexperienced engineers. We do not care to
ride on the cars in times of strikes when green hands are put on to keep
them running till the trouble is over, and on the cars we can get out
any moment we feel afraid. But on the ocean it is altogether a different
matter. There is no stopping the car and getting out at the next block,
and it would probably pay the steamship companies better to agree to the
engineers' terms than to run their ships empty.

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The Duchess of Marlborough (formerly Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt) is now
the happy mother of a baby son who may one day be the Duke of
Marlborough.

When it came time to christen the infant, the Prince of Wales sent word
that he would act as godfather to the noble baby.

The child has just been christened, and a grand ceremony was made of the
affair in the Chapel Royal, St. James' Palace, which, by the way, is the
same church in which Queen Victoria was married.

According to the Church of England, three sponsors are necessary to the
christening of a baby. If it is a boy there must be two godfathers and
one godmother; if a girl, two godmothers and one godfather.

It was therefore necessary to have two godfathers for this infant, who,
as eldest son of the Duke of Marlborough, is known by the title of
Marquis of Blandford.

The Prince of Wales was one godfather and the other was Mr. W.K.
Vanderbilt, the grandfather of the baby.

The christening was a very grand affair, and after it was over the
Prince of Wales presented the infant with a golden cup engraved with his
own name and coat of arms, and the baby's name, John Albert Edward
William, and the family coat of arms.

It seems that the young gentleman has good manners even at this early
age, for when he was handed to his royal godfather for inspection he
never whimpered, but, seeming to realize the honor that was being done
to him, behaved with perfect propriety.

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It may interest you to know that the Princess Kaiulani has arrived in
this country.

The Princess is the daughter of Liliuokalani's sister, who married a
Hawaiian gentleman named Cleghorn. Kaiulani, who is known as Miss
Vi