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TITFj OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: OCTOBER 27, 1907. 5 BRIDESMAIDS' OPEN REVOLT They Object to Dresses Planned for Them by Miss Breese. THEY ARE GLAD THE BRIDE WOIJ "elty of foMiniM Worn Man Quit lilt at tht Writ In f I.ard Alaatalr lanrilirr Triumph of American Girl. IONDO.V. Ort. 12.-(8:icfnl.) Tlir la rarely a wedding In London without a dif ference of oilnlon anionic the brtde and fcrldeamnlils anent the burnlnjr question of 'ie Utters frorkg. Tho recpnt marriage Ml" Anno Hrecne to Lord Alartair , ftTnt -Ker was no exception only In this cane tho trouble waxed more serious than usually happens.' A week before October 10 two of the bridesmaids threatened to alve up their all important duty If the bride-elect did not come round to their way of thinking. Hut Miss rtreese, that was, proved herself worthy of the occnslon and with American spirit emphatically declined to alter her decision In regard to either tha color or the stylo of tho beautiful frocks tipon which she had set her heart for her attendants." In the selection the bride proved herself xtremely original, for they were decidedly novel. One of the bridesmaids objected es pecially to tho long floating veil from tho hats. This was really the most chic addi tion and gave a cachet most definite and picturesque. The Oranny muffs Instead of bouquets were another bone of contention, but In regard to tills, too, the bride carried Two Prominent Figures in the Public Eye of Europe - . v ,. .., t ' Great Preparations Are Being Made for Her Marriage. lha day The beautiful point d'Alenco.i lace ? which the brldo'i dress was trimmed wa. historic. It was said to have belonged to Josephine. The Comtease do Paris, mother Of the Duke of Orleans, one of the pre- I tenders to the French throne, tried to pur chase It to trim the gown of her daugh ter's bridal robe, but Mrs. Hlgglns offered for It a "fancy" price and secured It. Thus once more American dollars triumphed over royalty. Lady Orford Mark Improved. Lady Orford, who has been In poor health (or a long time, has improved greatly dur ing he stay at Margate. She was about the only arlstocratlo visitor at this resort of tha oockney during the holidays, but her doctors Insisted that its maglo air was the only thing that would benefit her. And It did, dealpte the fact that she was bored to death, for the place was over-run with ex cursionists from London. Iter girl. Lady Dorothy Walpole, is a great success socially. Bhe has all her mother's brightness and a good deal of the Walpole talent. Just lately some dull and stately house parties in Scotland have been enlivened by her wit and vivacity, for he has been paying a series of visits In ' the north with her father. The family are now at Wolterton Park, Norfolk, where they are to remain until the end of the shooting season. The re sponsibility of hostess Is taken over by Lady Dorothy, as her mother Is not yet strong enough to be overtaxed with many duties of the kind. Lady Dorothy Is very anxious to accompany Lady Orford to America, but whether she will do so Is not yet definitely settled. Mrs. Mackay Is living very quietly at her beautiful fiat In the Bois de Boulgne, Paris. Bhe Intends to make It her head quarters all through the winter. Not only because she Is In mourning, but through a natural desire to be quiet she has, for RT. RIW. JOHN STTETEPRHANKS. .;ishop of Norwich, Who Proposes to Sell Bishops' Palaces and Put tho Money Secured In the Fund to Pay Better Salaries to Clergy. Bister of the Pretende . Whose Impending Wedding Has Again Called Publlo Atto .tlon to the Family. considerable time, been living In great jLifment, practically seeing none but ln tTuate friends and relations. She now con alders society with a big "S" a bore and tells her Intimates that she never wants to ! return to It. She was never seen In London during last season, all her time being spent at a oeautirui oia nouse ax iriawicnurst in Kent, which has a perfect rose garden. Her particular friends visited her there and both Countess Telfener and PrinceBS Co lonna stayed for a considerable time with her. , Overtures of Fortune Hunters. Never for a moment has the Idea of re marriage entered Into the mind pf the widow of the "Silver King," but that has not saved her from the overtures of fortune hunters and others. Like Mrs. Potter Palmer she, too, receives proposals by post during breakfast, luncheon and dinner. Such advances amuse Mrs. Potter Palmer, who has a keen sense of humor, while they thoroughly annoy Mrs. Mackay, who re I gards thcin as Impertinences. At all times an earnest Catholic, of late Mrs. Mackay hus become more devout than ever. She never fails to attend morning mass, whllo most of iter spare time is spent embroidering beautiful handiwork for the church. She Is one of the few secular two pie who have the privilege of keeping up a regular correspondence with the present pope. The talk of society for days has been the snub given by Miss Alice Rothschild, the chutrlalne of an Immense estate in liuckliighum,. to the king's forces while they were manoeuvring in the Country. Bhe refuxed to allow the troops on her property. The refusal came with peculiarly bad grace from her since she Is of alien stock and tli Rothschild have accumu lated much of tlitli vast wealth in this country. King Very fceusltlve. The king Is rei-iilHu-ly sensitive to a snub, but nevertheless lie will never permit a mlsundcratamtltiK. lie Is known among Ma frlendJ for tl e Ueici mlnatlon to "have It out," so he wrote to Miss Rothschild for an explanation, which was In no sense lerogutory to his dignity, her family hav ing always been on terms of the greatust Intitnucy with the king. Tho reply was sharp and bitter and as Jiscotirteous as It Is only possible for a woman to be who feels she has a slight to avenge. She pointed out that the property belonged to her and that she had the right to prohibit trespass upon It. She objected to war on principle and, therefore, to sold iers. Furthermore, she objected to .having her grounds littered with the rubbish which soldiers camping out Invariably leave be hind them. The truth was Miss Rothschild was glad of an opportunity of resenting the attitude of the king, then Prince of Wales when, one morning while visiting her late brother at Waddesdon Manor In 1898 he tripped on tha polished floor s,nd broke his knee cap, the occasion bringing forth from the suf ferer the remank, VOh, theso stupid polished floors. Why will people have them? It Is so silly." This remark so worried her brother for years afterwards that Miss Alice never forgave the king. Lord Curson'a Future. The late Lady Curxon's sisters rally round their brother-in-law and fly to his assistance on all points more especially domestic. They are keenly anxious that he should re main a widower, which Is in a way human enough If selfish, for so devoted to and proud were they of "Mary" that they dread the thought of a successor to her. Mrs. Lelter has been known to say that she be lieves If "George" were to marry again she would lose her reason. Since the death of Lady Curzon. Lord Curzon has scarcely , ever been without some of his wife's family residing with him or he with them. It was Lady Suffolk who superintended all the decorations and arranging of his new house. She engaged the housekeeper and servants and saw that the new governess for her little nieces was all that she should be. In every other part of the house she saw that there were photographs of her dead sister, while the tables In Lord Curxon's private rooms she lltterally covered with them. Lord Curzon worshipped his late wife and by all account's his memory Is very sacred to him, but people who know the Letters best say they are going the wrong: way to keep him a widower, their very attitude be ing considered sufficient to drive him to contemplate matrimony for the second time. If only for the sake of opposition. Lord Curzon is a man with too fine a sense of the fitness of things to remarry soon, but that he will do so when a decent In terval has elapsed Is pretty generally be lieved. Even now It Is well known he ad mires "someone," but I hasten to say she Is not an American. LADY MARY. SALE OF BISHOPS' PALACES a message. He found a man sweeping out 1 the house and hidden in a cloud of dut "Can I soe the parson 7" he asked. "Yes," ' said the sweeper, sweeping harder than English Prelate Startles Dignitaries of' ver. "i am the parson Established Church. PROPOSITION TO HELP CURATES LONDON UNDERGROUND CRASH First Passenger Killed In History of Head After Installation of New Biennis. LONDON, Oct. 26. Three persons were killed and a dozen Injured this morning In a rear-end collision at tha West Hemp stead station of the Metropolitan under ground railroad. The rear train, It ap pears, ran past the signals In a fog and crashed Into a train standing at tha sta tion. This in tht first accident of the kind since the London lines were electrified, when a system of eleotrio signaling was Installed, which the company claimed would abbso lutely preclude the possibility of such a catastrophe. It Is also said to be the first sccldent resulting In the death of a pas senger, although 100,000,000,000 people have been carried since the opening of the road. Venerable Churchman Believes that the Present System Works Injustice to Poor Clergymen. LONDON, Oct. 17. (Special.) On the same day that the cables flashed over from America the story of the tennis match between the Bishop of London and Presi dent Roosevelt, Dr. Sheepshanks, the bishop of Norwich, startled the English Episcopal world by proposing that thej bishops' palaces should be sold and the bishops' Incomes substantially reduced. The money thus made and saved he suggested should be used for the relief of the poorer clergy. . If you can Imagine a member of congress proposing that the salaries of representa tives should be cut" down If Standard Oil imagnate advocating an Income tax, or a presidential election campaign manager suggesting that contributions from Hen corporations should be rejected, you can form some Idea of tho sensation created among the prelates of the established church by Dr. Sheepshanks'! proposition. For the great majority of he right rever end fathers In Ood of the English Epis copacy cling to the substantial abodes with quite as much fervor as do the devotees of Mammon to pursuit of wealth. Gnin In Spiritual Power. And on the next day, at the church con gress over which he presided. Dr. Sheep shanks further emphasized how much he differs from mogi of the spiritual peers by discussing the question of disestablish ment, expressing the opinion that the church would really gain in spiritual and moral power If it were separated from the state and made dependent on Its ow,n re sources. He even dared to view with equanimity the prospects of a House of Lords with no bishops to help them answer the "vox popull" with a defiant "no." All of which shows that Dr. John Sheepshanks is quite an exceptional type of an Anglican bishop. While a missionary to the Caribou Indians he went among the miners a clasa not usually susceptible to appeals from "sky' pilots" to seek funds to build a churoh. He got enouejh gold dust from them to erect a substantial structure, but they always boasted that no other man could have got It out of them. On another occasion a smallpox epldemto broke out in an Indian settlement and the future bishop turned public vaccinator with such beneficial results that his fame was forever established among them as a pow erful "medicine man." A lancet which was V broken on the arm of an Indian chief Is among the treasures of tha Episcopal palace at Norwich. When traveling through the United 8tates he visited Salt Lake City. There he natur ally ran across Brtgham Young. So great an Impression did he make on the Mormon leader that ho was actually Invited to de liver a sermon to the latter day saints. "If you want me to be one of, several speakers merely," said the bishop, "I must decline." Then Brigham Young made an other remarkable concession. "You shall have the meeting all to yourself," he said. The great temple had not then been built and the services ,were held on a plot of ground roofed over by boughs. There were about 2,000 Mormons present, all men, and Brigham Young himself occupied the chair, Dr. Sheepshanks began his sermon with simple prayer. While he spoke he felt someone fumbling at his feet and looking down, saw Brigham Young on his knees pushing forward a hassock for him to kneel on. Palace Una Been Expensive, Dr. Sheepshanks gets $22,600 a year. When he was appointed to his see in 1893 he had to spend $16,000 In fixing up his palace, and It has since cost him $12,600 a year to main tr.'n. He says that If the church would permit htm to give up the palace and live In a smaller residence he would willingly submit to a reduction of $5,000 or .even $7,600 In his pay. The money thus saved, he suggests, might go to the relief of the multitudes of Impecunious clerical laborers, For $200 a year or lees he could get house in Norwich that would be quite big enough to satlBfy the needs of a man whose sacred office demands that he should wage war against worldly pomp and vanity. Then if $7,600 a year were sliced RENCH PRETENDER'S SISTER RINCES3 LOUISE VERY PRETTY Prlnee Her Prospective lln.baad, Charles of Bonrnnn, la n Sensible Man llejal Game, LONDON, Oct. M. (Speclnl.) Great preparations are making at Wood Norton, the duke of Orleans' country seat in Wor cestershire, for the marriage of his sister. Princess Louise, to Prince Charles of Bour bon, early in November. Tim ceremony Is to be carried out In royal style, without th omission of a single frill, for the duke Is great stickler for fictitious dignity. He Is, as everybody knows, one of tha pre tenders to the throne of France. In his own estimation, he is King Iyiul Philippe VIII of France, "by divine right." Tho fact that the French people decline to seek their political salvation by summoning hliVi to the throne is a mere detail, which does not count. He assumes all the airs of a reigning monarch. Prince Charles, or "Carlqf," as he Is called In Spain, has been a widower for three years. His flrt wife, whom he married In 1901, was the Infanta Msrla. a sister of the present King Alfonso of Spain, and at that time the heiress pre sumptive to the throne. Had anything happened to Alfonso she stood "next" for the crown. The marriage caused a deuce of a shindy. The Spanish folk were dead set against It, because Prince Charles was a prominent member of the opposition royal house of Don Carlos. His father, Count Caserta, was at the time under sentence of imprisonment and barred from Spanish territory. But the lovers won tne queen regent to their side and by pluck and persistence she carried the business through despite the opposition of people and Parliament. The marriage was cele brated to the accompaniment of martial law In Madrid and street rioting. Despite Its stormy beginning. It turned out a hspry marriage for the three brief years that It lasted. Prince Ctinrlrs Sensible. There will be no tows or rioting over this second wedding of his. for Knclish folk take only a sentimental Interest In royal marriages. Prlnee Charles might be some thing In the pretender line himself If he were not too sensible n fellow t.i take a hand In that game. lie is mill by some to be the grandson of 1-oiilx XVII, whom vulgar historians made to die fn his prison of the temple at the n go of 11. That wus obxlottsly too young for the purpose of succession, and upholders of the dynasty declare that he did not really die until 1M!. and that the boy who died In prison was a weak and sickly youth who had been substituted for the young prince. I'llnce Charles Is a good looking fellow and his features certainly bear a strong resem blance to the portraits of the sixteenth Louis. His father, the count of Cnsertu, has a better claim to consider himself n king by dlvlno right than has tho duke of Orleans. There would be no quibble about his title of king of the Two Sicilies and of Jerusalem but for the accident that tho states over w hich his for' fnllievs ruled were annexed and Included in l"nlte Italy. Among leplt'mlsts In- ranks as one of the European monarchs out of a job. Princess Louise Is the fourth sister of the duke of Orleans, his other sisters being Queen Amelie of Portngnl, the duchess of Aosta and the duchess of Guise. In society papers she Is usually described as a fine type of patrician beauty. That may be so, but as a matter of fact she would stand no show In a beauty contest In which plebeians were not barred. However, one hears none but good reports about her; and she has kept aloof from all the plots and Intrigues with which her brother Is asso ciated. At one time she was persistently spoken of as the future bride of King Al fonso. If there was ever anything In that rumor It has not prevented her from be coming quite chummy with the woman who cut her out. She and Queen Eugenie were much together In Madrid last year and made many excursions together. Architecturally, Wood Norton, the duke of Orleans' residence, does not amount to much. It Is Just a large modern country J !' Ul-IJ- i. Jl tJk ' LUl-S-l house of ordinary type, built of red brlr k wllh stone dressings' But here tho duksi surrounds himself with all the etiquette and ceremony of a reigning monarch. Tli oldest nobility of France are proud to bold appointments in bis showy court. Tha duchess never stlis without a multt of honor In attendance tipon her, mid tha duke's gentlemun-in-wnlting Is usually a, French wearer of the strawberry leaves. The estate Is some in,T acres In extent. Tt Is as zealously guarded ns William Wal dorf Astor's domain at Hever Castle In Kent. It Is surrounded by a socially madn wire netting of so fine a mesh that not even a weasel could crawl through. Th netting Is further fortified by a barbed wire fence. At every coign 'of vantage where views It the estate might be ob tained, tall corrugated Iron sheets have been erected. All this does not tend to make tho duke popular In the country round about, hut it ronves an Instructive object lesson as to the sort of ruler the duke would make If he" should ever siwceed In getting himself crowned king of France. lie was born In England In lfWS and ha passed most of his life In this country- his parents, the Comto and Comtess da Paris, having found an asylum here when Frence fired them and the royal family were very nice to hint. Therefore English people regarded It as an act of black ln gratitude when In 19o0 he wrote a letter ti the notorious cartoonist. Wlllette, Oorw gratnl.'itlng him on a Vila caricature of Queen Victoria. Franco at that timo being afflicted with a fit of Anglophobia. The) king, then prince of Wales, demanded ait explanation of him. He wrote denying thei whole affair. Wlllette thereupon published! tho facsimile of the duke's congratulatory letter to himself. That proved the duke to be a liar as well as an lngrate. He was expelled from all the London clubs of which, he was a member and cut by everybody tr society. . He found it convenient to leave England for some years after that. Tha king de ollned to Invite him to his coronation. But King Edward Is an uncommonly good natured man and never beats malice. 8a In response to urgent appeals from the) duke's wife and relatives he pardoned thej lngrate and last year received him at Buck Ingham palace. It la said that be may even attend the wedding. He looks it. too. Tta la 78 v-a rm nM tall and straight, with a long white beard and! oft hl 'ry he would still be better off a face that might serve as a model fori tnan before, though nobody who knows Dr. that of an apostle. He Is the only bishop' Sheepshanks would venture to suggest that In tho church who was ever a missionary,! hl obect In locating the reform Is to a fact which in Itself Indicates that a life I Put money In his own pocket. 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GENERAL STRIKE IN HAVANA Plans Have Been Mad to Inaugural Movement, Beginning; on Honda r. HAVANA, Oct. 2ti. In labor circles, where great unrest has prevailed for some weeks, the statement Is made that plans have been made to inaugurate a general strike on Monday next. The railroad strike shows little change. The officials complain of the police protection nfrid declare that loyal em ployes ant openly Intimidated. of hardship and self-denial Is not one which Is apt to lead to an episcopal palace. As a missionary Dr. Sheepshanks led both the simple and the strenuous life. His cam paigns of conversion have taken him among gold miners and Red Indians, to the sacred cities of Mongolia, and the inner most haunts of the Mormons in Salt Lake City. Referring to these arduous times at a practical gathering he once said: "If any lady here wants a lesson in simple cookery how to make flapjacks or cook bacon let her come to me and J will teach her. It was said of a certain king that he was i fit to be a king because he had blacked ' hls own boots, and taking that reasoning I am more fit to be a bishop than anyone here. I will tell you why because I have cobbled my own boots and mended my own breeches, and I have known, when a mis sionary, what It Is to sleep on the ground j for months at a stretch without even a I blanket to He upon." Missionary Labors. It was In 1859 be began his missionary labors In British Columbia, where be re mained for several years. A small boy wan ouo Mat to hi liousa Uiere to deliver English newspapers gave much more prominence to the Bishop of London's game of tennis with the president of the United States than to the bishop of Norwich's proposal that the prelates of the Established church should be deprived of their sumptuoui J dwellings and housed like ordinary folk. ! Because Dr. Ingram's tennis match rep- ' resents "something attempted, something j done," and there is no likelihood that Dr. Sheepshanks' reform will ever be at- ! tempted for years to come and then, it Is sure to be opposed by a majority of the lords spiritual. None of the other thirty-two palace housed bishops have arisen to second Dr. Sheepshank's motion. The archbishop of Canterbury, who gets $75,000 a year, lives In the stately old palace at Lambeth, and when he visited the United States, toured the country in a luxurious Pullman car under the guidance of that great apostle of i wealth. J. Plerpont Morgan, preserves I discreet silence on the subject. If Dr. Ingram were here he might champion Dr. Sheepshank's proposition, for Dr. Ingram has said that he would rather live unpretentious fat than In his ow episcopal 'lesitience, Fuiliam Palace. OHJIR GREAT :: FiORfUMSEAPI FjTEM NOTHING DOWN. Take a Victor or Edison Talking Machine homo with you, pay us nothing down on the machine. 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