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THURSDAY, DHCHMBKR 2S, 1511.
?Nil,I, Ulli VN IIOMI.VATt: TIIK COX
\ IhXTION f
On Jackson Dn>' the .Democrats will
gather from the foui uunricrs of these
l.'nitcd Slat cm to take counsel and r<--i
Stf-.cr in anticipation a.* men that di?
vide tho spoils. Despite the ancient'
and well grounded prejudice against
counting chickens before they arc!
hatched, the Democrats are gleefully
preparing for an almost Inevitable)
victory. We say "almost inevitable"!
because the "If" 11 'his Instance doesl
not cover many or difitcult conditions.!
All that is needed to nsure lb-moot a-j
tic s'.icco!=<. is a Bound platform andl
Democratic harmon>. "Not impossible!
conditions," Mie average man would
say. but the average man neither1
knows nor comprehends in the sllgiit-j
eat degree tlie vanlt> and arrogant,
t?u-B?fkins of William Jennings
Bryan.
Already the word hau gone nut that
Mr. Bryan will wr-.te the Democratic
pisiform, snd It ? staled by Holland,
a well known newspaper correspondent
In New York, that Mr. Bryan declares
that he has already secured control ofj
the committee on resolutions. Thisj
will enable Mr Bryan to prepare a|
platform of such a character that no'
I
one who would be distasteful to htmj
could be nominated for the presidency.]
The Implication is that neither Har?
mon nor Underwood. on this basis;]
could stand on the- Democratic plat?
form, anil the Held would therefore be
left to some man who would be In
full accord with, Mr. Bryan's per.'onall
views and purposes.
Xuw. thin would all be very effee-,
tlve for carr> Ing out Mr. Bryan's planj
If he had the committee on resolutions.j
That committee consists of one mem?
ber from each State?Nevada, with ltsj
handful of people, has as much weight j
In the committee on resolution? as
New York does. also, th' delegates
have not been chosen, and It is by no|
mean- likely that Mr. Biyan has at!
present any idea as to who w.U con-1
staute the perponnel of the comm.ttoc.|
The statement, therefore, that Mr. |
Bryan will write the platform may be;
disregarded, except as an Indication
of what Mr. Bryan would like to do.
We believe that Mr. Rrytm would he
clad to declare and promulgatt anoth
t :? paramount issue. He has tried free
itlver. and lmperallmn and government
ownership of railroads, and htnk
turtranteep. yet somehow aJl the.-,"
ritramount Issues have a queer llttlo
way of leading back to the sage of
Lincoln, Nebraska, who is followed
?round by the Spotlicht because he
controls the machinery.
This year It will be very different.
With the exerctte of even ordinary
common sense In the construction of a
platform and the^chcCcei of a candidate,
the Democratle-.party-can win whether!
Mr. Bryan '.Ikes It or not. also, the'
Democratic party can lose if It takes
counsel of its fears. The duty o'. a!
leader la to lead, and those che- rt
representatives who will not stand Up
and take sfSes because they arc afraid
they may alternate a few followers at
home are not the sort of men that can'
make or keep a party great. Bast of!
the Mississippi RD er Mr. Bryan's}
fupport will probably do the candi?
date who receives It mor? harm than'
good, and west of the Mississippi, Mr.'
Bryan's dleapproval ma> turn nut to
be a harmless thunderbolt The truth.'
Ir, that the Democratic party hau out?
grown Mr Bryan, and evorybody
knows it but Mr. Bryan and some of!
the party leaders, a? the three-times
candidate of the party Mr. Bryan
naturally be consulted on the platform,
but tha day of his dictatorship lia ?
passed, if the Democrats part) a to
have any hope of succt
Even as vital and strong principles
as those wh'.ch lie behind Demo
cratlc party cannot win -l we
have a repetition of what took plat c
at Denver, where apeakei ?.?.
er was put up to harangue ami ap?
pease the delegates, whijc Govcfnoi
Haskell and Mr. Bryan decided )>?.
telegraph between Lincoln and Dei
yer v. hat the platform should he. Tin
Democratic parly in convention as?
sembled, writing Ita own platfoim ami
naming its own candidate, can
this country In 1311. but the Dcmoi ra
tf>. party cannot delegate those umi.'.
to any living man and succeed, ."sot
even If he to whom 'they intrust the
high responsibility of expressing th<
principles and formulating th<
and choosing the candidate, be a muri
who has hlmaelt on three Hepa t.
occasions been unable to elthci j
Or speak himself into office.
THE DOWNFALL OF HISYF.S.
It is to be trusted that General it. 1 -
pado Reyes meant what ho said whet
on surrendering he announced that hi
"hod enough." II? did not put it |i
exactly those words, but that is wha
his remarks In accepting bis humlUa
tlon amounted to, and If he'doosn'
to. Ho was repudiated by his own
stntc, of which he had long been gov?
ernor, and he admits that neither the
soldlors nor the pcoplo would give
his self-seoKlng cause support.
Reyes supplies but another of the
many examples of ambition's o'er
leapins itself and falling "on 'tolhei
side." after a more or loss brilliant,
useless anj prominent career, within
certain limits. Indeed, he Illustrates
"How have the mighty fallen."'
During many years of the Diaz or?
der he was the most conspicuous llgure
in Mexico, ills popularity was almost
as great as that of hl.? master, mid
the populace invested him with the
attributes of a hero. In the descending
days of the Diaz sun. however. In
< merged from retirement ill Hurope,
where he had been for some time, and
returned to his native land, hyping u
build up a Heyes regime on the ruins
of the old one. but to succeed only
in crowning an honorable career witl
a series of blunders that have rendered
him lit'.le less thnn ridiculous.
Had lie accepted the Mndcro situa?
tion and recognised (hut a reactionary j
policy of the Iron hand of militarism .
could no longer evoke sympathy from1
the Mexican masses, ho might easily
have retained tin admiration and per-'
SOnal loyalty uf :. host of his fellow- j
cltlstiiii in truth, he might have be
conic a potential factor In controlling
the destinies of a more liberalised ;
Mexico. But he chose to organic a :
revolution, and. raising an invading!
"army" of tatterdemalions. to.ne.I !
the world lo ii military extravangn
which utterly destroyed his prestige.
The abbrtiveness of his campaign Is
almost pitiful.
None the loss his ?elf-conceded col?
lapse ?>( his "cause" and his surrendei
ate not unimportant as bearing lipon
the assurance of tranquillity In Mexico;
they will hasten that condition. Por
to long as Heyes might be In actlvi
opposition, even though impotent U
do rise than agitate, hi could but provi
contributory to unrest; there would
always he certain elements that would
make his opposition an excuse for
lawlessness and sporadic brigandage
uprising, thus demanding ttctlvitlei
from the govcrnimtit in I lie way ,,f
military expeditions, which otherwise
and in different form could be turned
Into th? channels of civic reconstruc?
tion and economic development.
As matters now stand. Reyes's
downfall leaves Mexico with only one
or two Insignificant rurales and t. rrl
torlslly circumscribed revolts In the
south, the suppression of which, it is
generally conceded, is only a question
practically of day?. In fact, it Is highly
probable that the moral effect of the
Reyes fiasco will be to cause these
demonstrations to suppress themselves.
As to what of the future of the erst?
while hero, which is a natural ques?
tion, serins the leading part he so
long played oh the Mexican stuiuc, it
Is to be earncstlN desired thai if it
is demon strahl? that he has honestly
taken to heart Wolsey's Injunction
and warning to Cromwell, the new
president of Mexico will turn him loose
to rh'w the cud of failure and draw
such consolation and psare as may be
possible from reftcrtinn on what he
has been.
By so doing Madcro would not only ?
risk nothing but secure the respect
nf tlv nations and pur honor upon
himself and his government.
.4 JEWS CHRISTMAS filFT.
That was a fine spirtt shown by
5. Groening in Detroit Christmas day.
-ie haunted R telegraph office part of
he d* evidently waiting for a trie-'
rram. ' came and his face was stif-:
"used ith joy as he read It He
>uried his face in the yellow papT,
ay'.ng: "My children, rpy little ones,;
tre safe." Groenlhsj then explained
hat he had feared that the Russ'.ans. |
iggrleved at ihe attitude the UnitedI
States would thk' toward Jewish pass-:
lot ts, would be infuriated and mas
lacre the .Tews In Russia He had
tent money for his wife and children
it, 1?bvp for th- United States Im-'
mediately and hi* telegram told him:
thai they*ware snfely ncross the Rus-1
fia.n frontier.
What did Groentnc do to show his
gratitude to God for the safety of his
family? "1 want 10 make every one
happy." he exclaimed, "I have Jual had
a great happiness and i want to share'
it 1 am an Orthodox Jew, und Christ?
mas means nothing to me. but It does;
to many, and I am glad m> happiness'
came at this time." Ha walked out;
Into th< streets, found a dozen heart-!
sick nid hungry men out of Jobs,
look (hem into a private dining room,!
and t lie meal was I lie best the hotel,
ild t>
Spirit of the Samarl-j
single sect nor creed.1
church hullded upon'
brotherhood of man.
srous act was
l?d and noble j
i m ." ii IVC CI.C.MU.VCA
TU A ST.
mas by pardon
csiablish'ihg a
'breakers at lib*
- prisoners wcrcj
we re convicted j
t onvlcted on the
irid larceny, an
f arson. Seven
chartrc of man?
es ranging from
a is. The Colunv
ecu rate with re?
that the service of the convicts par?
doned would have amounted to 23j
i years, but foi the intervention f,f this
? executive Santa Claus. The financial
iosS entailed Is ?2:1,900 In labor. Sain
pel Roe was among those pardoned
lie killed his wife ar. she lay KleeplnB
I In fed* bed at homo. A jury of his
poors said that lie should spend his
lite In the penitentiary?a sentence
none too light?but lilease. In the
heavy role of I he chief purdoncr. wills
that this man shall go free and wan?
der about tin- community, a living
monument to the kindness and polite?
ness shown io a wlt'c-murderor In
South Carolina. 1 Murderers, burglars,
incendiaries, thieves, mm men. drunk?
ards and second-story men have been
loosed by LSlcusc to in.-piii- the people
i?f the St.ue With respect for justice
and order and to encourage them to
uphold the Iii? of the land. Convicted
criminals go buck to their eoiiitnuo'1
tios Id laugh in the faces of Just
Judges and conscientious jurymen, and.
Incidentally, to vote for Mouse.
That was what the Governor of the,
State of South Carolina did as a Christ
inas gifl to criminals. In stttkltig and
significant contrast stands out the re?
fusal of Governor Mann, ef th s Cdiji
monwcalth, to pardon' any convict on
Christmas day. This is a law-abiding
Slate, wherein ?the people believe In:
the law and choose magistrates who
will exercise their authority on Up?
side of justice. Governor Bloase
thinks that it is tlie function of the
ebbt' executive t" rehear and retry
cases: Governor Mann does not. Ex?
treme ill health <s practically the only
consideration which now moves Gov- ,
emor Mann in setting free a convict.!
Governor Blcase freely pardons a man1
who shot his wife as she lay in her
boil; Governor Maun refuses i?i pardon
wife-murderers.
There Is n vast chasm between the!
law as it administered In South
Carolina and the law as It is udmlnts
tered In Virginia. Judges and juries
here are swifter and nioie severe than
they are In South Carolina, and the!
chief executive of Virginia would
never drcunt of freeing convicts]
wholcsulc as this man Bloase has done.
In South Carolina, criminals on whose'
hands ihe damned spot" will not otit.l
wall; abroad with proud Cltrriaare: In I
I Virginia, they die in tlx* chair or spend
i their lives in prison colls. In South
I Carolina, thu pardoning power is used
'in mich a way that It In not 'exemplary:
In Virginia, it is. Crime is encourag?
ed In Spilth Carolina when almost
; every day Infamous lawbreakers are
! freed, while In Virginia the minimum
use of executive clemency is a whole?
some deterrent t" would-be criminals.
In the filial analysis, people alone
are responsible for the administration
Of Justice. rhe law-abiding people of
Virginia would not and could not elect
a man to 11 ? ?? Governor's chair who
would abuse the pardoning power, but
the people of South Carolina are not
so careful U6 to lh<rlr choice. Once in
South Carolina the law was a thing
sacred?in those days McDufTie, Hay no
and Hampton sat in the Governor's
chali ? but the times have changed and
the Governors with them. The ad?
ministration or justice in south Caro?
lina Is a shame and reproach upon the
South and the nation, but whether the
people of that ancient State will de?
stroy this ever-flowing cornucopia of
pardons by their votes next summer
seems a doublTui thing.
Justice is swift and terrible in Vir?
ginia, and the lav. la a luminous, liv?
ing thing. It Is so, because Virginians
arc a law-abiding and a law-fearlr.g;
people, and because they will elect!
none but high and honorable men as|
their magistrates. Thcro was a day
when the righteous were in authority
1n South Carolina, and for a : cturn of
that era its people may well and fer?
vently pray.
WOllSK than OUTRAGEOUS.
ii win be recalled that several
months ago the Diamond Match Com?
pany. In the Interest of humanity,
voluntarily relinquished Its patent, so
that other match manufacturers cere
left free to use in making their pro?
ducts the harmless form of phosphorus
over which the Diamond Company had j
control.
Whereupon a bill was Introduced In
CongresS, known as the Esch Mil
inhibiting the use by these other and
rival concerns of poisonous phosphorus,
which Is the cause of that terrible
disease, "fossy jaw," from which so
many workers in match factories
suffer.
The bill failed of passage, but now
the American Association for Labor
Legislation Is demanding that there
be no further delay in enacting It into j
law, nnd noticing this, a Chicago con-j
temporary says that failure to pass :
the measure Immediately after the re- '
ass< ni litig of Congress would be "out- j
ragcous." It would be worse than that
? It would be little, If any, short of
a national crime.
a i?ost-oi-rtCR iikcoiid.
If any other post-office in Ihc country
with the same volume of business made
the showing ours did this Christmas, wo
should like to know of it. The Rich?
mond post-office, with Its several
branches, handled during the three days
just before Christmas Day 1,200,000
pieces of mail, and Bold about J3.000
wortli of stamps a day. Not a single
complaint has he*n made. No packages
have been reported lost. Just 230
people were employed in the distribu?
tion of this, mass of mall?and this
? car's business was almost double that
of any previous year. Everything was
deliccrod, and because of a splendid
and efficient system, the Richmond post
<-.fli- , gave the public the very best ser?
vice. Tb.- employes of 'he post-office
worked until after midnight to get
Hios- presents and lottcr? to the folks
who wanted to get them at the right
time, and who got them. Postmaster
Allan and all his force are to be con?
gratulated upon thla record, not only
because it wart excellent service to the
<lty. hot also because It was n great
credit to Richmond.
??I'-l -ll-l.-!-tV
<>tie oi the progressive school prin?
cipals of Virginia, Ira 8. V/. Anthony.
or the'Strasburg lltgli School. In Khcn
audouli county, writes uo Ilms:
"I um delighted to know Ihat the
leading paper of our Stute Is striving
tu teach the p'e?plo that the word
"public" spells simply p-u-b-l-l-c, nml
that it Is attempting to Substitute the
specific personal pronoun "1" for the
more general ?they.' it is a sail fuel
that In towns whero there is a bad
school; people always say. 'My. but
don't they have an awful school.' and
In towns whore there Is a aood system
the people always, proudly boast. 'I
tell you, neighbor, we certainly do
have a fine school here."
A v cry penetrating criticism, that.
The people are quick to call theirs
whatever public enterprise or activity
is sin.ssl'ul. but if tt be not so well,
they speedily disclaim responsibility,
wli.-n that responsibility Is theirs and
is liobodj else's. That ii- the trouble
in our public business to-diiy--the
I.pie do not realize their responsibili?
ties and duties, do not realise that
they are the real principals, while
their servants are but their agents If
the people tools a. more keen interest
in their poor school facilities, in their
mediocre or Inctlicieiit boards of su?
pervisors, in their bad roads. In their
public?representatives and their pub?
lic acts, conditions would bo such that
"we" should be glad to acknowledge
that "we" and not "they" are running
things.
Now that ?he suffragist* have told us
who tin- twenty most famous women
are, perhaps they can give tis the an?
swer to the following "twenty most
famous' questions," put by the New
^ orU Olobc:
"Where was Moses when the light
went out'.'
"Who Killed Cock Hobln."
"What are the wild waves saying?
"Who will care" for mother now'.'
"Did you get jours?
"Who hit 'Billy' Patterson?
"Where is my wandering boy to?
night? ?
"How old Is Ann?
"Where in the name of the immor?
tals did that collar button' go to?
? When shall wo three meet again?
' When Is a door not a door?
"Is my hat on straight, dear?
Why does a hen cross the road?
"Did you ever see such weather?
isn't he a bore?
"Isn't sh? (i fright?
"Wb.-re d'.d he get It?
"Why not?
"\\*hati| you havn?"
If coining events nre casting their
shadows before, perhaps the twenty
first most famous question will have
to be, "Will you follow Governor Mann
to Russia?"
Among the delicacies enjoyed by the
inmates of the county Jail in Denver.
Col., on the occasion of their Christmas
dinner fas "spring chicken, Virginia
style." No doubt they are better men
now.
The Allgemeine Lttft-Fahrxoug Aus?
stellung will he held In April In the
AUStclltingshallen In Berlin. under
the auspices ? of the Verein Deutscher
Motorfahrzeug-Industrieller. That * s.
nn international aviation and aerlo
exhibition will be held In Berlin in
April. It Is hoped that not only will
the blrdmcn of Richmond attend In
large numbers w*th their madc-ln
Rlchmond aeroplanes, but that tho
aviators of Barton TTeights and Swans
boro will be there with their cars to
show that "Old Virginia never tire."
The Mayor of Silver Street, South
Carolin*, lately shot a man by mis-!
take, but whether his widow will oe
like the Kentucky woman In a similar
case we cannot say. A Kentucky ma-j
Jor shot a stranger whoso deafness
caused him to be oblivious of the re?
quest made by the major that the
stranger tako a drink with him. The
Insulted major shot tho man on the
spot, and was greatly morttflod when
ho found that the deceased was deaf.
He .ipologlzed to the widow, and. In I
the words of the story as told by ^
Ilopktnson .Smith. "She bein' a perfect |
Kentucky lady, said site understood,!
and that It was all r"ght."
Tho melancholy day is coming, thej
tlrst of the year, when we'll .have to|
pay for the gifts \.-o made to dear.
I Voice of the People |
The Kxprras Nuisance,
To the Editor of The Times-Dispatch:
Sir.? Kindly allow me space In your
paper to express what I bellove arc
the sentiments of an Imposed upon
public. In the matter of charges on
Chnistmas parkagop.
It would be interesting If you would
publish the names of those who make
the same complaint, namely, that they
have paid express charges on pack?
ages received which they have every
reason to believe were paid by the
sender.
Doubtless thousands of dollars are
Abe Martin
No matter how you set in th' itack
soat o' a tourln' car you allus look
like -you thought th' rest 0* th' world
wuz woltln' till you got C your oflice.
You'll nlltiH find th' most kickers
whore ever' buddy'o got u, oqual changp.
RULES OF ETIQUETTE FOR THE OPERA.
_By John T. McCutcheon.
(Copyright: ion; By John T. MoO?tob?on.J
?-? i. iii..mm. "r neuen*
Arrive late and take jour seat ostentatiously.
Calmly survey the hou?? and remark In a ringln? voice
that there seems to be a very ordinary lot of people
present. You will thus impress people, with a aenao
of your luiportanoa.
- i ? I? T MMBM ,,,.J
Keep np a running Or* of comment during the boIos
paeolng- btttholy from topic to toplo until 7ou have
exhausted thorn. If the hoi pollot glare at yon. merely
?mil* pityingly at them, for they know no better
If you se? friends In another part of the houae,
wave your arm. gracefully ln token of reoojrntlon
and tell the dress circle how well you tblnk " Oladya "
la lookin?. It will plee-ae the audience If you thus
.take them into your confidence.
Yawn oatentatioa.ljr ono? in a wall? in order ttnt
the common people mar Infer that you have attended
grand opora so often that It ha. become a bor?. Tell
thoee around^you how rauob better the opera waa dona
at the Grand Opera la Parte. You will thu. Mt a
reputation oj a ?aranL
--...r.n.imi ni ItTBH |
Tell a few eprlfc-htly anecdotes about prominent
?Infrer* who have met you and confide In thoso within
fifty feet of your Boat teat Caruao doesn't seem to be
In as rood form aa he vu three years a so
Br following tbeoe ?Imple IrmtruoUoc* yoa win h*
STSI^ 5? KrM,i0 * P'e**,*n} di-rerelon for thcwe on the
?U*? and break up the tedium of thooe'-who came to
h-ar the music.
collected In ihia way every Christmas,
and but a smalt percentage of this
money Is afterwards returned, except
to those who demand it. Who gets
this money?
It Is especially embarrassing to de?
cline to pay the charges on a Christ?
mas box and then write to the sender
for the express receipt, so that It may
bo refunded. Thousands pay such
charges and say nothing about It. i
The express people claim that the
errors are due to the rush of the sea-'
son and Incompetence of employes.
Both arguments arc poor, for the rush
business comes regularly every year,
and at the same time It Is won known
that such conditions will take place
and should be provided for. and it la
passing strange that the Incompetent
force of employes always know how ?
to charge too much, but never too 111- '
tie.
I am confident that If the citizens'
demand it this practice can bo stopped.'
A CITIZEN.
A "Dry"' Reply.
To the Editor of The Timea-Dtapatch:
Sir,?In your Issuo of Dccombor 21,
L. C. O. among other things saye:
"Prohibition does not prohibit and has
nowhere expelled drink or sensibly
reduced intemperance." Thle Is a'
bold assertion and can eaBlly be
proven untrue. Will "L C. G." an?
swer a few simple questions? If pro?
hibition does not prohibit nor reduce
the consumption of liquors, why
should the liquor men oppose and
spend large sums of money to prevent
prohibition? Tf prohibition brings thei
law into contempt, why should there
be more smuggling and blind tlgem
convicted for selling without a McenBe
in tho licensed territory than th"ere
are In the unlicensed territory? If It
Is morally wrong to force prohibition
In a community that a majority of
her people want license and liquor,
why should it be right to ship liquor
to a community that the majority of
the people don't want It sold In?
Since, the lEquor traffic belongs In a
class to Itself so different from any
other business that you can name why
should any object to the majority rule
for any State or even nation?
C. P. GRIZZARD.
Drewryvllle.
La Marquise de Fontenoy
IK tho appearance of Captain tho Hon.
"Coly" Churchill Feliowes. of the
First Life Guards, in the London
Divorce Court last week, on tho
petition of his wife, has attracted so
much attention in English society It
is not so much because of his being
the eldest son and heir of the exceed?
ingly wealthy Lord de Ramsey, but
rather by reason of his relationships.
Owing to the fact that his mother is
one of the clever sisters of the late
Lord Randolph Churchill he is a -first
cousin of Winston Churchill, First Lord
Of the Admiralty, as well as of the
Dukes of Marlborough and of Rox-|
burghe, of Lord Tweedmouth and Lord
Ashby tit. Legers; of Lady Rodney and
of Frederick and Lionel Guest, both
of whom have American wives. One
of Captain Coly Fcllowes's sisters is
married to Lord Guernsey, future Earl
of Aylesford; another le the wife of
Lord Esme Gordon Lennox, son of the
present Duke of Richmond, and a third
is the Hon. Mrs. Ferdinand Stanley,
whose husband is a brother of the Earl
of Derby. .Moreover, his uncle, the
lion. Allwyn Fellowes, that is to say,
his father's younger brother, Is per?
sona gratlsslrhn at Sandrlngham, as
well as a near neighbor of Queen
Alexandra, was for many years vlca
chamberlaln of the royal household and
Minister of Agriculture In the last Bal
four administration.
Lord do Rotnsej-'s peerage In of mod?
ern croatlon: for It was conferred by
Queen Victoria on tho occasion of her
golden jubilee, in 1887, upon Edward
Feliowes of Ramsey Abbey, in the
county of Huntingdon, who derived an
immense fortune, from his breweries,
a source of wealth which hla father
and grandfather before: hlio had found
t? their advantage. Ho died, exactly A
month after being raised to the peer?
age. aiM was BUCjCeecled by his eon.
who had served in the Life Guards a_-i
eiaptttln, and who has now become
entirely blind, losing tirst the Bight of
one eye and then of the other. He
lhakos bin principal home at Ramsey
Abbey, which Ir built on the slto of
the famous monastery and Abbey of
Ramsey of ante-Reformation days. It
Was bestowed at the time of tho Dis?
solution by King Henry VIII. upon
Thomas Cromwell, and from hltn pass?
ed through the Titus family to Coula.-.n
Kollowcs, .from whom tho present Lord
de Ramsey Is descended In tho direct
male line. Coulson Kellowcs owed his
first name to the fact that his grand
uncle, Thomas Coulson, M. P. for Tot
nes anil a director of the Dust India
Company, had loft all his great wealth
to his sister. Mrs William Fellowca.
Hlr, wealth was Indeed the foundation
of the fortunes of th? Followea family,
whi<-h at the time of the late Lord de
Ramsoy's elevation to the peerage had
represented Huntingdonshire in Parlia?
ment for tho greater part of a cen?
tury.
Lady de Ramsey's hobby is dog
fancying, and Pokln puppies ?rc her
specialty. At Havorland Hall, her place
in Norfolkshlro. there Is on the bor?
ders of the park a large nursing home,
which she built and founded, and
which is maintained entirely by tho
S?le? of the Peklns which uha raises.
Lord de Ramsey Is, among other
things. Custor Rotulorum of the Isle of
Kly, which although situated within
the county of Cambridge, is the only
division in the country that-Is subject
to a Custos Rotulorum (appointed by
the crown, and enjoying tho right to
appoint magistrates), who Is not also
Lord Lieutenant. Indeed, the Island
of Ely, formerly an oa.sls in the midst
of the marshes and fen land of Cam?
bridgeshire, is wholly independent of
the Lord Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire,
and subject to Lord de Rnmsey. It
was on tho Island of Ely that i;t.
Ethelreda founded her great abbey In
A. D. 073, which wan restored in 970
by Bishop Etholwold, and settled with
Benedictines; where Hereward formed
his court of refuge, captured In 1071
by William the Conqueror, and where
the rebellious barons, after the battle
of EveBham, made their last stand 'n
12C7.
Lord Manvcrs. after having disposed
last year of most of his family es?
tates, In Nottinghamshire and Lincoln?
shire. In consequence of tho heavy
duties Imposed by the Lloyd-Georgo
budget, has now given orders for the
sale of all his Derbyshire property,
which means nothing more nor less
thnn the almost complete disposal of
one of the former great ducal es?
tates of the United Kingdom, nam'ily.
that of the Dukes, of Kingston. The
Eurl of Munvers Is head of the Eng?
lish Pierreponts, who, like him, arc
Plerreponts only through tho female
line, and it Is no Hccret that the head
of this historic house In the male line
Is here. ? In Amorlca. The American
Plerreponts are descended . from Sir
George Plerropont, grandfather of tho
first Plerrepont Duke of Kingston. Sir
George had a younger son of tho name
of William, whose son, James Plerre?
pont, came to America, and died at
Tpswlch, Mass., towards tho end of the
seventeenth century, leaving two sons.
John and Robort. From these Henry
Evelyn ' Plerrepont, of Brooklyn, Now
Tork, und tho late .lullet Pier poll I
mother of J. Plorpont Morgan, arc di ?
acended. The American Pierrcppiui
or Plerponts, ran. howaycrj ptii '? ?
ward no pretensions to any of the hon
Ora and estates of Evelyn Plcrrcpoul
the last Duke of Kingston, Kino i
various peerages which ho possessed
w ere acquired by his father oonsldei -
ably after the other branch of his tan.
Ily had emigrated to America.
The founder of the family of Plerre?
pont wot. Kir Kobcrt do Plerrepont. of
the Castle of Plerrepont. on the bordei -
i of Plcardy, tho ruins of which ar?!
1 still In existence He was one of tin
companlons-ln-ai ms of William th?
Conqueror at the battle of Hastings
and received from that monarch tli<
Manor of Holme Plcrpont. in Notting?
hamshire, of which he wan the lit.hi
lord, and which is to-day one of tie.
two remaining country acute of the
present Earl of Manvers. Thoresby,
the other ancestral home of Lord
Manvers, Is also In Nottlnghamshtt<-.
and famous for Its hcantlftil fortsi
scenery, its tine' old Elizabethan man?
sion, and Its: grend old park, ten mile
In circumference.
1 The chief of the family In the sev?
enteenth century In the male line di?
rect from the'comrade-in-arms of Wil?
liam the Conqueror, was Sir Georg*
Plerrepont. of Holme Plorpont, men?
tioned above as ancestor of the Amer?
ican Plrrponts. The son of his old?
est son became Ear) of Kingston-upon
Hull. Marquis of Dorchester, and Duk?
of Kingston His son. Evelyn, the sec?
ond Duke of Kingston, married the fa?
mous beauty, Elizabeth Chudleigh, and
died without issue, the English Pler?
reponts thereby becoming extinct in
the male line. The duke left the whole
of his vast fortune and all hit. es?
tates to the duchess, whereupon his.
brother-in-law. Philip Meadows, mar?
ried to the duke's only sister. Lady
Prances Plerrepont. brought charges
against the duchess, to the effect that
her marriage had been of a bigamous
character, and was therefore Invalid.
A trial of the duchess In tho House of
Lords showed that prior to hor majri
age to the duko. she had been secretly
wedded to Augustus Hervey, then an
obscure lieutenant of the royal navy,
who had meanwhile by Inheritance be?
come Enrl of Bristol, and from whom
sho had never obtained a divorce. She
was consequently convicted of bigamy
by her peers, divested of her ducal
title of Kingston, and reduced to the
status of Countess of Bristol. She.
however, retained p.ossesslon of the
great fortune of the' duke, while her
brother-in-law, Philip Meadows, re?
sponsible for the suit against her,
found himself completely ruined. He
was descended from SIt Philip Mea?
dows, master of the household of
Charles I. When she died, yoars later,
It was found that she had left the
whole of tho Plerrepont property 10
Charles Meadows, son of the man who
had robbed her of hor title of duchess,
and whom ahe hud ruined. On com
ing Into tho fortune, Charles Meadows
assumed, by pormlsslon uf I lie crown,
tho patronymic and arms of the Pler?
repont family, and was e.vontuullv
raised to the poerage, first as Baron
Piorropont, of Holme Plerpont, and af?
terwards ns Viscount Newark, anil
Earl of Manvers. The present Lord
Manvers Is the fourth duke of the
present creation.
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