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MONDAY, january 15. 1p12.
DEMOCRATIC PROSPECTS.
Both those who listened and thojo
who spoko at the Jackson Day han-i
quet took It for granted that tho
Democrats were sure to win in tho !
nest election, and, indeed, al) signs at
present point thut way; hut a popular |
majority of 1,250:000 is not easily over- 1
come, and Mr. Taft'a plurality in ipos |
was more than that. This means that :
Democrats will have to chnngo 600,000'
votes If tho nominee of tho Democratic !
party la to bo elected In November, '
1?12. Id the electoral college of ipos
the Democrats had 162 vote's; since
then Arlsona and Now Mexico have
been made States, and In 1012 the:
Democrats will require 2b6 votes if
they arc to have a majority in the,
electoral college.
Xn commenting on there facts, the
New York World saya:
"This la U'ue. In comparison with
Demcoratio opportunity, Mr. Bryan waa
lndoed a weak candldato, but Mr.
Bryan polled 6,409.104 votes. This was j
1,300,000 more than Judge Parker
polled In 1904. It was 802,186 mors
than tho Cleveland vote In 1S92. It
has baen exceeded only by the vote
for Mr. Bryan hlmsolf In 1896."
Even with Mr. Bryan out of tho
naming: even granting that Harmon
Is nominated and that Mr. Bryan sup?
ports him oordlally and without re
aervo, there are yot enormous Repub?
lican majorities to ba overcome. In 1
1804 Rooaevolt received a plurality of
s,s45,S1B; In 1900 McKlnley'a plurality
was 849,790; and in aplte of the onor- j
mous vote polled by Bryan in isps ;
MoK!d1?7*B Plurality was 601,854. The1
great Democratic landslide ot 18p2
only swept Cleveland into power with
a plurality of 380,810, and oven so the ,
plurality against Cleveland In 18SS was
only 98,ooo. :
Since 1896 Republicans have polled!
more then 7.000,000 in every olection.
Beginning with 7,107,000 in 1896, the
popular vote for the Republican party
haa grown to 7.678,000 In 1p0s for
Taft; and though Taft Is a weak candi?
date and was running against Mr.
Bryan, yet Taft received more popular
votes than Roosevelt did when he ran j
against Parker In 1004. I
The Demoorata may well ?><- confl-j
dent about the coming election, but:
they have no reason to expect a walk
over.
A BnX'TAD BLUE) LAW.
That waa a horrible story which
th? people of the country rend yes?
terday concerning tho merciless whip?
ping of two prisoners at the county j
workhouse In Wilmington, Del. with
their arms tied to the arms of
wooden crosg and w,!th their backs
bared to iMtlng wlndB and tho sting|
ef the mow, In this fearful w<athcr.
three two helpless wards of thei
State were brutally end merci?
lessly lashed, -Suffering fearfully from
the cold and (s/ocn the stinging wounds !
of the whip, these men staggercS back
to tholr cells, one with forty lashes,!
one with tv-fsnty, half-conscious, with j
their Uvea endangered by tho terrl-ble
torture and exposure to which they
had been subjected. The heavy leather
strap with Its nine rasping thongs had
dons its work. In his f'ir-llned 1 oat,
the warden wleldc-d The lash, tak- i
tag care that the whip should strike
those poor bodies at an angle so that
the narrow edge would cut deep.
There was "a perfect crlll ef em?
bossed flesh." saye the account, w.hi 11
the dirty deed was dor.-- When (hcs?
men had been beaten almost Into In
sensibility and th<- law a Mat 00 with
blood, they were sent hack to their
cells, with heavy, coarse undershirts
drawn over their ihllstcrcri, raw huck?
Whether the;, received onj further curt
or medical attention i> doubtful -vh.it
cares the Stale of Delaware, hnvinu
exacted Its damnable .lue. ?vi.
these, men die of cold or ?-. ?
It is shameful that in a free country
such nn outrage should take p|nc<
under color of law'. T?i si- men bail
broken the law. t-it lhe> had liiheti
no life, shed no human blood. Tbl* Is
an enliphteneeJ age- It i> well for Man?
kind that brutal blue hav almost
vanished, and that the .- ? en punish?
ments of th<- Puritan arc kr.a? n iio
longer. The whipping lav In Delaware
Is s horrible anomaly tnd the blood
boilings and disgust which this one
incident hat Incited have done the Stute
of Delaware more harm than Its whip?
ping lew; have over t'onc it good, f
seems str?ng" that In one of the old?
est States this . rucl relic of tin ila.Vfj,
of the Inquisition should remain. If
Delaware would" be eonslHlont. let li
bring back the stake. th< Ma! ?
flrc. the ducking stool, the lion maiden
and the exquisit? toriures --f thi brirk
Ages, for these are nt .complement? "f
the red leather lips of/ the cat-o'-nine?
tails. The State has a right to punish
Its criminals rwarouaMy. but i>o( 1?
shed fh.-ir blood 'save In . iff : , .i ,
in a Christinn civilIxntioti sh>- .vh pp
post Is ail ou(rage. Thla Moody,
biutlsb process of Delaware makes
snen ar.arclilstK and mui..< ?, wbb leav<
?
tHelr cells cursing tho State and ro
solving to hnve revenge upon It In
some form or another. A prisoner ta
human, he may ho a social outcast, but
ho still has a henrt und a BOUli and
no part of society has tho right to
torture hint as It might a wild animal.
"O judgment! thou art fled to bruttoh
beasts."
Euglahd still lashes a few of her
criminals, the terror of the knout lives
in Itussln; but Delaware alone retains
the whipping post |n this enlightened
nation. The whip Is the disgrace?
ful hat sinister across Delaware's
escutcheon. Is there no Tortla there
to cry out thnt though the pound Of
flesh be due. no tttltlng or blood wns
"nominated In the bond"?
BAIMtlXn TUM I.OIIBYIST.
Delegate Martin Williams performed
an excellent public service In
causing the rules of the House to
be so amended as to exclude from the
floor nl) paid lobbyists. The House
adopted this rule unanimously, and It
is to be hoped that It will be vigo?
rously enforced against all those who
violate it. The amendment applies to.
among others, those who have, by pres?
ent or past public service, gained the
privilege of admission to the floor of
the House, but who have abused that
privilege. What should always be re?
garded as an honor has been converted
by some into a money-mttklns device.
R'ormer members und officers havo
taken advantage of this priviiosc ns
pa id lobbyists, and have lobbied for
special interests in an open and shame?
ful way. The new title bars thesa sal
tiricd abuseis of an honorable custom,
and the whispering attorney of this or
thai private Interest can no loiiKCi' uc
fcat measures of public interest by
using the fact of his former service
ns a pass whereby to reach on the lioor
some who are "not with us,'' and pos- |
slbly change the result of a vote.
There have been boiiio glaring cases ol j
this abuse of the floor privilege, and ]
tho session of 191" furnished rump.
HOUSEKEEPING AND OTTIXISNSMIP.
In a rocr.nl address before the Con?
necticut federation of Woman's Clubs,
.Mrs. Henry Wade Rogers, wife of the1
dean of tho Vale law school, doelaved
there Is vital necessity for recognis?
ing "the need of something radical be?
ing done when we come to kuow the
multitude of underfed, overtoil and
badly fed people, the wreckage of
homo fife from bad home niniiHgcitient.
the lock of knowledge of money values
as related to food, to shelter, to cloth?
ing and to other household demands."
This declaration was Introductory
an argument by th* speaker that lt
might become Imperative for the Stale
to rcejuire thBt woman show tjualltlca
tlons for housekeeping In order to ob?
tain license to mnrry. At first blush
a somewhat radical proposition that.
It strikes us. Arid yet. If not, why
not? we ask. without, however, essnj
Inc. to answer.
The Indianapolis Mows, like ourselves, |
wns Impressed with the declaration,
and while, also llko ourselves, It would |
rather not commit Itself olthor
Ihr aniltnarriage license suggestion,]
uses Mrs. Rogers'* "Indictment" to
point a moral In another direction.
following the observation that wo?
men plead for the ballot on the. ground j
that il would be for the benefit of the |
nation, our Indianapolis contemporary
expresses the opinion that Mrs. RogerF
is rieht In h?>r argument, by unavoid?
able und logical Implications, thai good
housekeeping Is Indlssolubly bound up
with good citizenship. It Is only a
matter of broad*nine In reasoning en?
tirely warrantable by analogy, the ap
pl'ration of her doctrine.
The N'ews deplores the obviou? and
Increasing deterioration of good house?
keeping, as embracing the ills Mrs
Rogers cites, the results of which are
nil too frequently seen "in men's being1
driven to the dogs or to financial dis?
tress by home conditions," and thinks
that, after all, woman may have over
lookcd the great part she has to play!
in tht nation through remedy In? those
conditions.
Our cohtbmporary doe? not believe
that by addressing herself to the re-1
f?rit}.woman would necessarily be eon- j
fined within thr walls of her "old
sphere." bin it would like to know
''whether she will not bo better nunl
Ifled in a voter, if thai comes. If she Isj
fiURlliierl ns n housekeeper." Again wei
ask. if not. why not? and even venture
so fat Int? this delicate field as to re?
mark that the News'* qiiesllon Inir
IH-ositC! us (is not altogether Irrclevnhl
or barren <u food lor thought from
eon! 1 Secure LHe niosj male votes.'
Wlisch ta iior. would win ' That which
i'otild muster iiie greatest number ??!
good housekel pors, .t soc?- without say?
ing, .ill iiillucncoj.und arguments other
than gustatory to the contrary notwith?
standing
r.!?? wiuti.vc niiiri'N ciixstitutiox.
|t?t\e "a t'lg order on their hands.''
?||.<y were chosen by popular vote at
tm laM election to rewrite the funon
n er.tal law of Ohio, which, with it.-:
population of. :.llmosl i.?'JO.OOlV ?ranks as
(he fourth Stan
? 1.1,t i hinstlt titlu
nhtli has lev ri
l't modeln ideas In government.
A large majority; of Ihe delegates' to
this Convention are pledged to tho In?
itiative, tho referendum and tho recall.
Such direct legislation will unquestion?
ably be provided for In- the now or
gnnic luw. Hqunl sutrragists say thut
weinen will be allowed tho ballot by
tho new Constitution, but there la some
doubt about this Innovation.
These two are said to be the moat
Interesting matters to be considered,
but the convention will nlr.o take up
regulation of the liquor tratllc, home
rule for cities, prison contract labor,
abolition of the Governor's veto pow?
er, revision of the machinery of the
courts, giving heads of State deport?
ments tin- right to seats in the Legis?
lature without the right to vote there,
in. a six-year term for the Governor,
the use of voting machines, compulsory
arbitration in all Industrial pursuits
ai d many other vital mutters, which It
is thought can he bettor llxcd by the
Constitution than by Hie statute law.
There ur< many judges among the
rliiegaiv :.-! these men. because Ihe
judiciary in Ohio is elective, are
thought to be tu close touch with
popular sentiment, li is assure.I thai
whatever Ihe constitutional convention
does, it will not be reactionary. Who;
ttici the new Stale charter will please
the poopie will be settle.1 by mein next
fall.
AHM VOI Kill < AT I*-11 ?
Not so very long ago a lecturer at
the University Club of Chicago handed
out one huhdied typewritten sh et- to
as many men in the audience. These
sheets contained twenty questions, rind
the loeturer declared that if any gen?
tleman present coiiid answer .ill these
questions correctly he. mlislit look upon
himself as an educated man "Other?
wise," advised tie lecturer, "he' Pud
better go hack and take a post-grad?
uate course for fear that his college
degree might receive the recall."
These wero the questions:
1. Name the VIce-PrOBldent ot the
United States.
2. Namo the Treasurer of the United
States.
3. Name the conductor of the Kew i
York Symphony Orchestra. ,
4. Name the leader of Tammany Hall.
5. Name your Congressman.
K. Who is Hugo Munsterburg'.'
7. Who was Sir Christopher Wren?
8. Who Is Mi Baba?'
P. What is the Pentateuch?
10. What Is seismograph?
11. What is a clevis?
12. How many Justices are th?re on
the bench of Ihe Supreme Court vof tho
United States?
13. Name five of them.
14. Who said "The child is father of
the man"?
16. Who said "The groves were God's
first temples"?
Hi. Who said "Once more unto the
breach, dear friend.*, once more"?
17. Who wnn Mommsen?
15. Who Is president of the Lake
Shire, rtallroad?
19. What is the fourth city In size
in the United States?
20. What Is a preposition?
All the men to whom these questions
wer? pnt were college graduates, i
Forty-ono of them Te-ad the questlona
over and gave them up. The other
thirty-nine filled cut answers. Not one
man answered all the queries correctly,
and very few g-avo correct answers to
any of them.
The Montgomery Advertiser donbta
;f tho:-e are six men in the United
States outside of active collogu pro?
fessors who oould answer offhand
every ono of theae queries?If there is
a member of Congress who could do It
??If any Govsrnor could do It. Doubt?
less our oontemporary Is right
Tho questions are too rigid. The
standard Is too high and false. No set
of questions aver determined whether
a :nan was educated or not?mBiiy a
brilliant man "dunks" his colleso sx
nmlnatlons. despite the fact that ho
is well and broadly educated.
rut: c;ovi:nNons and thk c<?.\
ykntio...
'If John Hancock?he who wrote
his name on tho Declaration of In
dopendenco so large that King George
HI- could read it acruss the ocean?
could drop into the Democratic Na?
tional Convention in Baltimore on
Juno .6. his Ideas ol tho important e
of the office of Governor of a State
would he Interesting t-> note." says
the Maeon Telegraph, 'the Georgia
newspaper, usually accurate 'h his?
torical matters, falls into the error ol
saying that when President George
Washington toured the country in
?S9, Hancock, then Governor of Mns-:
sHChusctts, had such an exalted opln-l
ion of his ofiice that he refused to
call on tin- Chief Magistrat? of the
republic when tho latter arrived in
I
Hosten Hum.U relem:..1. apologized,
und later appeared in person to pay
bl.v respects to the President. Ilnn
? m it did not esteem tho governorship
above ihn presidency?-be was piqued!
because he had not boon made Presi?
dent Instead of Washington There'
has. however, been a distinct drill
away from the old Id. a of the Im?
portance of tlo- governorship. In the
old days in -the south, a statesman
preferred the governorship to unj
other ofiice save tie- presidency, but
that day has passed.
in the Baltimore convent ton there
he. it is expected, seven Governors
socking the presidential nomination
They arc: Governor*, l ost;, or Massa?
chusetts: Baldwin, of Connecticut; Dlx,
? if New York: Wilson, of Now Jersey;
llilrinon. of Ohio: Marshall, ol Indiana
and Burke, of North Dakota, There
\ in' lie In ih( lot ohf ex ?Governor,
l? iIi. ot .Ml.->o-.:i Ylil.- Is ihe liirg*
, ? <. number ever aspir'ng :,i one. con?
vention, und it Is Interesting lb ioOW
bad; into Ho- past and sei- how Gover?
nor.-- have fared in tln-lr ambitions to
the hlgnosi Ollice. In the land.
Seither Washington nor Adams wue
a Governor. Jefferson was Uo'vqrnoi
Uefore ilie adoption ot id- national
Constitution, .lames .Mi.lino- was the
Ural l*rcsldohl iviib had III led liiir of?
iice of Governor.
The next Governor to become Prcsi
?1!
In
dent was Martin Van Buren In 1886.
Harrison was a territorial Governor,
und ho wo? succeeded by .lohn Tyler,
who had been Oovernor. .lames K.
1'olU was ;i Governor, but Plllmorc, als
successor, wob defeated for oovernor
of Now York a. few year.* bolore. Then
came a long line of non-(!ovrrnor
Presidents: Pierce. Buciiannn. Lincoln
and Grant. Johnson had been both a
civil and a military Governor, i>ut he
was not elected President In iM'i
the light was bei ween two Governors
?Tilden and Hayes, in 1881 t tic
next Governor elected was Grover
Cleveland, lie was detailed in 1NSS
for Governor by Harrison, win, hail i
been defeated for the governorship of;
Ohio by ?nine .leans'" Williams. In
l?s>ii. McKinley, un ex-Governor, wns!
elected, and he was succeeded bj cx-|
Governor lloosevelt.
Among the Governors w do were!
nominated tor President u *d dele
were Cuss, Seymour und Tilden.
in Hit nominating conventions
Governors have not lured no well.
Hie long list of men who hiive been
Iiiebented t conventions only to fall
of the desired end are- many famous
mimes. including .Many, Wright. |
ttewnrd. Ponton. I lofi man. Hill, j
Plower. Morion un-' Hughes, ??!? Sew,
Vork: Cbtise. Allen. Poraiicr, Campbell
and Houdley, of uhlo: llendricks, Mor-I
ton. Ptilrbanks. Gray und .Matthews.'
.if Indiana. CUItlll. 11 a it rail 11, Ult? I
Pattlsou. of Pennsylvania; Moths' and]
bnotv, of Iowa; Parker, 61 New I Orsoy*;
Jewell, of Connecticut; L.i tSiilelie and
P.hsk. ..r Wisconsin; .lohnson. ol Min
ticsotii; Tlllinan, of South Carolina;
Peniioyer, of Oregon, find mull} others
whose rote went in the "scattering"
column.
Before the timi>s ot conventions, the
Clintons, ol New York, belli George
and DeWllt. secured nominations from
tho caucus, but failed to so: the' re?
quired electoral votes.
The Governors. It will be seen, are
not an especially favored class, bull
some of them have become President,!
and In thnt fact lies tho hope of thoi
septet whose names will probably J
go before the Democrats nt Baltimore,]
Charloltesvllle is eonsldorlnc the
question of municipal government. At
the regular meeting of tho Chamber
of Commerce of that city this month
Professors Bidgood. TTur.le;.- nnd Kent,
of tho University of Virginia, will dis?
cuss municipal government, and the
Charlottesvlilo Progress saye that thia
will be "one of the most Interesting
and Important meetings" the chamber
has ewer held. If Charlottcrvll'e would I
try the commission form of govorn- J
mor.t, the experiment would he benefi?
cial to the city Itself, as well ns most
educative to the entire State. Tho Al
hemnrlc county at-at would have tho
adv.intago of expert advice from ex?
pert's In government at tho university,
nnd tho change would bring about
much good. Ruch a stop would put 1
Charlottosvllle In tho front rnnk
progressive Virginia oltla?
of ;
It seems aj If the high cost of llvln.q
is bringing about a renaissance of rice.
The Boston Globe Is advising its read?
ers that a pound of rlca contains a.-t
much nourishment ns ?everal pecks of
potatoes, and "the supply Is ample. '
I'.'rhaps some day this will be a rlce
t'd nation?If so, all the hotter.
I Voice of the People
.No Woman's taiud.
When but a hoy in my teens
1 had a passion [or scenes
And sights of other lande.
Which otteutimes feii In my bunds.
Among the res! 1 earn.; across
Was one that put trie to a los?:.
And filled me, .il* John Bun.vau nays
in Pilgrim's Progress, with ?amaze."
'Twos eslt'd, so all might understand.
By a strange title?No Man's Land.
And then I thought there sure nuint be
Some other land beyond the sea.
To balance It. on other hand,
There .^nre must be No Woman's Lend.
A and where men. aye, man uone,
:-Us undisputed on the throne.
Without a brat or woman nie Ii
To "put a finger In file pie."
Well; as 1 sold; I thought and thought,
1'nlil a dream the answer brought.
One night as on my " inch 1 lay
I drcnm'd that I was far iiway
In country strange and poor and mean
With hot a woman to be seen.
About the houses everywhere
Wert sighs enough she wasn't ilnre.
Th? yards were full uf weeds, the gates
Wort off their hinges, broken plates
And cups and saucers, cans galore
And other rubbish at the door.
Tin- hogs were rooting up the ground
In yard, and all. the house around.
The house itself whs full of dogs.
Whose business to bite the hogs,
Or frighten them with canine roar
Prom boldly coming thro' the door.
Well. I was hungry iniu began ?
To suffer with the "inner man."
So to h door I bravely went
In search of drink and nourishment.
I klioek'd and nt the door was met
Hy one I never can forget.
Ho seom'd Indeed to In- n man.
Abe Martin
!MAi? IUF0R1
/Uiy unaur. r.r
Xtririoil on iyt
f-AR r of rut
iva it ? "
? Uife Bud say- In never realizes he'
married tin ho nets u circular from
tailor. Oi.' lb* worst things sbOtl
rlcrkln' Is lh' folks that drum on I
counter.
"IS THERE A COOLNESS BETWEEN THEM?"
_ By John T. McCutcheon. _
[Occyrttrbt! 1918: Br Jotra T. McOottto?n. 1
But where dirt stop'd and mun began
TV/are hard tu tell, but anyhow I
I nt In a land of wonders now.
1 could not tell, could only guces, J
Whether Iiis visage or bin dress
n-avo greater tokens of distress.
IIIh toes were out. his board unshorn.
His pants unpatch'd. Ills coat all torn; I
lit a ringer nails were lung and blue,
The dirt beneath them raua'd 'ho hue.'
Ilia face and hands 'twere vain to hope
Had water known, or dronm'd of soap
l'-or many a day, but I must close
This category, and dispose I
Of other things that came to foie
Whllo 1 w,as standing at the door. (
I wan bo mov'd j aslt'd him Whore I
Mis wife could ho; ho gave a ntarr
That forthwith made mo roe.li/...
In asking thin I was not ?-lo?.
And thus he spoke: "My friend 1 see,
Hut Buch a question put to rr.e
You've lost your bearings, latitude;
So I will ton you. making pond
By explanation making clear
Tho strangeness of surroundings here.
Some years apo a band of men
Got frlghtcn'd by '? erov.ins?hen '
Presum't] 'twas sign of horrid luck.
So on a proposition struck
To Blloneo them in ev'ry State,
Or else urao met, to migrate.
And so. when woman stouter grew.
For female suffrage also 'crow,'
The '.llg' was up and here we catuo
Tncrens'd by nil who hn<i a claim.
The woman-haters, cynics bluo.
The pessimists all looking through
Old spers that ma.de them almost
blind.
And twenty years at least behind
Tho ?iro In which they lived In short
We broucht nut men of all this sort.
And then, to tell the naked truth.
Bui few wore left behind, forsooth.
"Of course, we hnd no nerd of sehools,
For we were educated- -fools.
Our theatres they did pay
Without a woman at tho play;
1 >ur operas not worth a song.
No Patti's wero allow'd nlong.
< oir refuge last. It war, the 'club.'
The morc's the pity, 'comes the rub,'
l*'or In ihe land from which w,c hail.
The clui, wn3 never known to fall
To furnish refuge from tho tongue,
Of which tho poet lately sung.
Hut here we are without excuse
t>f any kind, but may cut loose.
Nor make pretenHe wo have a call
When seeing tokens of a squall.
Ho when we please, come when we
may.
Without regard to night or day.
"And now the saddoth tale of all -
The church and its decline and fall.
Of coins-, we brought such preachers
here
As wero pronounced on Woman's
sphere.
Who preach'd 'hat she Fhould never
stray,
But hoop Ot home the live.long day.
And cook and darn and patch and
mend.
This was splendid, world without end.
i >;? course, 'twas scandalous for her
To - peal.: in church, or e'en aver
She hud a message to impart
That fairly flam'd within her heart.
Nay, more than this, our pa'sJLors said
In church work women should not aid
In aught or any other way
Except in raising preachers' pay.
Well, sir. ihe church begun to fall.
The preachers rats'd a dismal wall,
Sah; tho' they preach'd with willing
mind.
Thcv couldn't live upon the wind.'
Result: Thcv quit, ::nd church is
hloekd.
And for a yeor Its 'loots are lock'd.
The members now no longer pray,
But flsh and hunt op Sabbath day.
It makes me r.nd, but I recall
Wo have'no Sabbath here at all.
Wi! send no missionaries here.
For all Iho heath. :i folks are near.
Arid truth to any. 1 will relnto.
We've fallen back t" savage state."
He pnus'tl: f veniur'<i to inquire:
"Mv friend, now tell me your desire."
Hn" look'd ill mo and made reply.
?I have one. I will not deny.
When vou go hack will yon not bear
from me this, message Of despair.
\nd boa the women, one and nil.
its to forgive, us to recall.
Teil them we'll put up with her tongue
we. |'et her vote from sun to sou.
Move any fad she's set upon,
i'ell her we've-not a placo to sleep.
Sc v.- rooms where dusl i? ankle deep:
No ulaco to eat. f.a-,.- restaurant.
With prices high und victuals scant.
\t start, sir tall them one find all
That men [oiks here, both great and
small.
want Referendum and Recall.^_
DXJVATj PORTER.
Cascade.
A Wiiinan's Pnrtlnc
T. a woman whom you love ?o deep and
. true.
Fell a clamor that turned my heart
iiway from you:
'I'h.S smiles 1 won h;u( liol the glow
Hint dwelt In thine.
Nor have other eyes looked so true
and bravely into mine:
The flowers bloomed in beauty, vet
'twas strnnc" to See,
And golden fruit had not the last'? of
i h? t von era \ e I" me:
The twilight fell wif-i-rtt the softness
of cvenlnc shade.
I And from briorht. new things all swVet
ne-s acomed. 'nip
I Then 1 k-ew voiir raTthfnl spirit was
I el mv <lde.
I \n.l In taylna "J loved von not." 1
lied- -ves?1 lied.
PFRPY M. SHKPH1CP.P.
Pilchmond.
La Marquise de Fontenoy
THE presence In thle country of an;
American actress who figured j
oh the stage us Ola Humphreys,
hut who now styles herself "Princess
11 r.ihlm Hassan," of Egypt. In spite
of the fact that hor marriage to the
Egyptian from whom she is now part?
ed, was never recognized In Egypt,
tenders timely a reference to the edict
lately issued by the Khedive of Egypt,
which rigorously restricts the Inherit
nnco of the title of prince to the sons
of a IChodlve, and to theIr sons. In
order of primogeniture. This decree
was Issued f^r the purpose Of putting
an end to the ridicule created by the
extraordinary number of sol-disant
princes end princesses of Egypt, every
descendant of th* founder Of the
present Khedlvl.il dynasty, namely
Mehomct All, not only In the male, but
also In the femalo l'ne, assuming the
title of prince and princess.
Now, Ibrahim Hassan, who married
Oln Humphreys at a registry In Eon
don, Is not the eldest, hut the second
son of the late General Trlnce Hnsrun.
n-ho wns brother of Khedive Tewllk,
and son of Khedive Ismail. Ibrahim
Hassan har therefore no right t" tho
title of prince, even according to Egyp?
tian law, the title being restricted to
hlB elder brother, Prlnco Aziz Hassan.
In one word, were the marriage of Ola
Humphreys to Ihrahlm Hassan over so
legal in tho ayes of the law of her
husband's country, she would have no
Vestige of right to the title of prin?
cess.
Moreover, it Is just as well that it
rhould be Known that theso titles of
prince and princess, authorised by tho
Khedive, are of doubtful legality, even
at the very beet: at any rate, ns long
as Egypt remains part and parcel of
the Ottoman Empire, de Jure, and In
a measure do facto, since tribute to
the tune of $t.000.000 still continues to
be paid by tho Egyptian treasury to
the Sublime Porte every year. The
Khedive If regarded at Constantinople,
nnd, In fact, everywhere else In
Turkey, as a Vali, or Governor-Gen
etal of a province, which lias received
by degrees almost complete autonomy,
and whose own office has been made
hereditary. At the court of tho Sultan,
indeed, the Khedive ranks after the
?Viand Vizier, and after tho Grand
Eunuch, while his brother, Mehemet
All, nnd his cousins, aro not recogniz?
ed as "prlnoes." but merely as pashas,
or ne beys, according to tho military
rank which may have been conferred
uron them by tho Khedive, In the
name of the Sultan, or by the Sultan
himself. This vassalage of tho Khe?
dive to the Sultan Is still further em?
phasized by tho fact that while every
; potty German sovereign, and even the
' Prince of Monaco, have orders of
knighthood of their own to bestow, the
Khedive has never been accorded any
such privilege. The only orders which
lie can confer aro the Turkish Orders
of the Osmonlch nnd of tho Medjidleh,
:.i,d whenever he grants them to any
one. It is always understood that he
does so in the name of the Sultan, his
intent being to that, effect.
In Turkey itself, the titles of prince
nnd princess aro restricted to the son?
and daughters of tho Sultan, being
used as a mere matter of courtesy.
They are also extended, in tho same
way, to tho,sons of the Padishah, but
no', lo the offspring of the kilter's
daughters. If the Khedive himself
enjoys some personal consideration at
Constantinople, it is not because he
i.5 the hereditary- Viceroy of Egypt, bui
because hi* mother, tho Dowager Kite
divah. happens to bo a member of
Ihn Turkish Imperial family, of which
ho is therefore looked upon as ft kins?
man.
Only a few weeks ago the newspap?
ers announced tho arrival of. a prince
in Egypt from Constantinople. Ar, soon
las this was known on the shores of
the Bosphorus, some excitement cn
| sued. It was known that none of tho
sons of tho present Sultan had quitted
Cmstnntlnople, and consequently It
was Immediately assumed that the
paragraph must rcfor to some son of
ex-Sultan Abdul Hamid, who It wr.s
believed might have left for the banks
of th? Kile to Intrigue In his father's
behalf. There was much telegraphing
between the Orand Vizier and the
Egyptian government about the mat?
ter, until It was finally brought to
light by means of Investigation that
the prince In question wns merely one
of tho remote relatives, some tenth
cousin of the Khedive, who had no
right whatsoever to the titlo or prim e,
e'.ther by Egyptian or by Turkish law,
and that ho was ;:n utterly Insigni?
ficant Indlvldunl. The Grand Visier
thereupon availed himself of the op?
portunity to remonstrate very *<^rlot!F
1:- with the Khedive, und with tha
Egyptian government, about thin mis?
use of the title of prince, nnd laid se?
vere etreeis on th* necessity of Insti?
tuting Immediately measures to pr"
vrnt the usurpation by Egyptians of
titular honors that at th<> vry best
were restricted to the tiotis of the J=?? I -
tan.
If l dwell at such length upon this
matter, it is because there 1? .- very
pronounced disposition In this .coun?
try to accord the title of prince to
every Egyptian possessed of aro de?
gree of affluence who visits thin coun?
try, even If he happens to be a Syrian,
ti Copt, or a member of any one of
those T>evantine rnr*t who do not ad?
here to Istam. The sol-dlsant "Prince"
Tlgrano. of Egypt, for Instance. Ik a
famlllnr Neuro In certain cl.-clos of New
York society, and I have known hare
i,i New York of an East Indian who
tcsed an a rajah, until l| was discov?
ered that he was n cook, and an adept
a', making curries. Strictly speaking,
thrre are only two official titles in
Egypt nr.rl In Turkey, namely, tnose of
I rishn nnd of bey. There arc threei
grades of pasha, corresponding to field
marshal, general and major-general,
and two i lasses of beys, corresponding:
to colonel and lieutenant-colonel. Thoy
are conferred upon military men and
civilians Indiscriminately, and the pro
fix of excellency Is accorded to all tho
pashas nnd to the beys of the first
das?.
Boner Law, who was oleoted tha
other day leader of the Unionist part>>
in tho place of Arthur Balfour, has'
just made e move which indicates thstu
despite, all reports to tha contrary, hft
expects to hold the position of Prem?
ier when the Elbsrais iro ont of office^
Gladstone was the first to Inaugurate
a rule, and to rigorously enforce Its,
forbidding the members of his Cabinet
to rotaln their connection in any busi?
ness concern In which thay wore in*
terosted, or their sent on the director
rite of any company, after being ap?
pointed to office. Gladstone argued
that the duties of a minister of the
ttown and of a director of a company
might conflict, and that the enforce-*
tiient of the rule was to th? tntsresa
both of the government and of the
company conoerned, since no mtnlstef
could find time to adequately discharge
the duties of a. director.
Bonar Law has gone a step further
than Mr. Gladstone, and without await?
ing Cabinet olllce, has severed his conj
ntctlon with tho great shipping firm of
r; &? .1. Burns, Limited, of which ha
has been until now the chairman, and
Is resigning from alt tho other com?
panies on the board of which Ills name,
figured. Possibly it ia because ho feels
that the close attendance at the House
of Commons entailed by his acceptance
of the leadership of the opposition
renders it impossible for him to devote
the necessary time to business affftii".
But It Is more generally construed to
mean that he looks for a very early
Overthrow of the present administra?
tion, and a return of the Colonists to
power, and wishes to be thoroughly
prepared, not only for tho ovent, but
also for the assumption of the position
of Premier,
(Copyright, 1812, by the Brontwood
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