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D THE pMAIIA SUNDAY BEE: MAY 3. 1909. I MSB'S PART IN POLITICS V.' "Wtaitoa Churchill'i Campaign Eecalli What They Do. VJUDT RA5DY EID VA1IA5T WOEK i Klac EIwiH la SpeaaJas; Mntf RMklmlr ( IssBrae aadriaa baas Palae, Alrear a how riaee. LONDON. May 2. I Special.) The pro- 4'et!on of Winston Churchill to cabinet " ' y rank and the consequent bye-electlon In Jforthwest Manchester recalls to mind tha fact that thla precocious aon of a famoua American woman ascribes hl political success to the genius of his mother. "Lady Randy," a - her frlendsN still like to call Mrs. George Com wall Is West. Is tha bt political canTasaer of her age. . Borne women In English public life have wielded far more Influence, but when it eomes to getting down to the plain pco- tile and winning their support she is with out an equal. When Winston first stood tor the great northern city she made old campaigners sit up and take notice and helped to roll up a record majority lu ' eitr traditionally hostile to liberalism. ."Lady Randy" has what the Irish would call "a wonderful way wld her." When the gets at an elector he has simply no escape. -Before he realises it she has got him "to turn his coat and sell his soul." as one of her victims forcibly put It. Mrs. West cannot be called an elab nrate dresser. On such occasions, how ever, she puts on her war paint and. aa she expresses it. "gets herself up to kill." ThouKh persistent and determined, htr i manner never suggests anything but (geniality and cordiality. That is why tha Is so successful. I "Damae Pleasfa mile." I Mrs. Lulu Harcourt, another American t 9 woman. Is a clever canvasser and she ?, has what Burne Jones used to call "the !, damned pleasing smile" which Is so use- V ful to a woman working in the political I arena. At .the same time she lacks the 'y serenity and Imperturbability of "Lady J Randy." If electors are rude she feela It and. worse still, shows that she does f by taking to her heels. The explosion of a bomb would not Incommode Mrs. West. I Che would still smile and In all likell--aod say to the perperator of the.out- .age. "How sweet of you," or words to I tlist effect. I "Lady Randy" Is now abroad and it is floubtful at this writing whether she will return to lend a hand to her strenuous on. . She Is still a remarkably young looking woman even ' her dearest enemy would not accuse her of looking more than ti and Winston Is so ridiculously aged In appearance that she might very well pass for his younger sister imon( i w, mowe who am no Know ciiner. I The king is again enjoying his expensive hobby of pulling his mansions to pieces. It la Bandrlngham which ia being demol ished and rebuilt this time to the tune of tiOo.OOft. This Is a piece of wild and most unnecessary extravagance. His majesty's Norfolk seat is one of the most luxurious modern houses in England. When he came to the throne he had a new wing added to it, ard after Queen Alexandra's private apartments were damaged by fire he had a number of improvements made. The most fastidious who have visited Sar.iring ham will assure you that the house Is sumptuous and luxurious in every detail. The new landscape garden, which la near lug completion, is a copy of the one at place near Tunbridge Wells, but on a smaller scalt. It is to have an artificial running brook around which will cluster gorsc and furse bushes, while on its banka will be purple and golden Irises. Klac Edward Popalar. At present Edward is ertraordtnarlly popular among the vast bulk of his sub jects a fact which is undoubtedly In a great measure due to the press. One of these days there will, however.'be a reckon ing. Socialistic and democratic fueling Is stronger than most people realise and there Is beginning to be a good deal of grumbling abjul the sovereigns extrava gance, which takes more forms than one. Taxes are high; there are thousands of un tmployed In every phase of London life and ell the royal gush over the hospltala. which does not cost either the king or queen a penny, won't blind the common people much longer. Not once In a year doea the king or queen or any one of the ('Taltlos give a generous subscription to anything. People are beginning to awaken to this fact.' Certainly his majesty's fore thought, tact and diplomacy have done I 'k much to shut the eyes of his subjects to -e the real state of affairs. . The rr"mptltude with which he and the jrnecn send an empty telegram after a mine disaster la regarded as magnanimous, and how little it costs does not oornr In lh. recipients and the public, they being over- some by the favor of the roval recog i frttlon. . It is pretty 'definitely known now ik.. w "n nucut-RS oi ievonimire on - 4 lime leader of English society ar.d even more powerful In that respeot than the J ueen herself, will never again take her ftlaee aa a hostess on a large' scale. She Is undoubtedly the most historic figure of , the end of the Victorian reign and the brief aart of the present century w'hlcli haa Just passed. Her knowledge of state and great i tUtlcal secrets is tremendous. Were she . Induced to write her memoirs thev would 1 ' heat anything of the klcd ever published in our !" Although she waa twenty odd - - . miu uir ic queen, iney iaj a great deal n common and Victoria jsed to say that the djrhess waa a pillar ef strength to her In time of trial, ao great was her common-sense snd her sympathy. It Is no doubt these two admirable virtues which accounted for the fact that two dukes. In succession saw fit to make her their duchess. She Is at present very ill and la only able to get about In a bath chair. Har relatlona arf extremely concerned about har and the king and queen, whose great chum she la, arc kept daily Informed of her progress. I'-aglUh GtrMlsg ('test. English society is ever keen a something novel. The latest crsae occupying; tha at tention and spars time of the smart woman ta a novel guessing contest. A society Journal haa been offering O to the Individ ual who names correctly every face In a aeries of portraits of fashionable folk. Crowds of the most swagger women In so ciety have been competing for this prise. among others Lady Ieiia rVfrrorx daughter of Lord and Lady Kllesmere of Brtdgewater house, which Is one of our London show places; Lady Evelyn Ward, Lord Dudley's sleter-tn-law; Lady Noreen Bass, Lady Paget, wife of Sir Arthur Pagt, etc. On two occasions Lady Paget came off second tstst, guessing correctly ftfty-three names out of the total fifty-six. When sh received her prize. I am told, aha danced more spiritedly than she had ever done In her life before and waa far mora pleased than when King Edward himself told her that he had made a knight of her husband. The competition, which Is called "Who's Who in bociety?" will be continued for several months, snd. t sm told, several duchesses are now engaged In trying to "name" the greatest number of tha photo graphs appearing In the series. Sir Bscha Ounsrd has ordered for his wife a magnificent set of Russian sables, com prising a large raps stole and a huge granny muff. I hear these furs will beat completely the beautiful set presented by Walter Burns (Plerpont Morgan's nephew) to his fiancee. Miss Cavendish-Bentlnck. be fere her marriage. These latter were said to be as fine ss those of the csarlna. Lady Cunard's furs are being made by a great firm of furriera in St. Petersburg, who are Just now enjoying a great deal of titled and royal patronage. LADT MART. FLATS TO DISPLACE CONVENT Historic Balldlagr la Paris to Give Way Before March of Teem lag Life. PARIS. May 1 (Special.) It is a ro mantic story, that of the Convent des Olseaux. whose death knell was rung when the associations bill became a law. In turn a palace, a prison, a monastery, and the home of the most aristocratic daughters of Franca, It will ere long be handed over, doubtless, to the builder and a mighty pile of up-to-date flats and "es tablishments" will arise In Its stead, re moving one more picturesque link with old Paris At the time of the revolution, to go back no further, this beautiful chateau, situated on the Latin side of the river In the angle formed by the Boulevard des Invalides and the Rue de Sevres, was the residence of the Marquis du Lau d'Allemans. Even then It was known ss the chateau or Hotel des Olseaux. for the marquis, who was a lover of birds, had caused an immense aviary to be set up in the parklike garden and stocked with rare and gay-pluinaged species. These beautiful birds were the admiration of the quarter, but when the red wave of revolt swept over the city, the , good people of Paris, Intoxicated with their new-born Ideas of liberty, equality and fraternity, scaled the walls of the garden and set the winged captives free, thst they, too, might celebrate the dawn of the new era with their Joyous song. Alas! for the poor birds, unfitted for the struggle of life. They soon fell' victims to their tra ditional enemies or died miserably of hun ger. A few Indeed were recaptured to adorn the attic of some Miml Pinson of the quarter, but in their narrow cages they must bitterly have regretted their life of comparative freedom in the Jardtn des Olseaux. A novel use was soon found for the de serted chateau of the Marquis du Lau by turning It Into a prison. The Carmes. Salnte-Pelagie and the Bourbe were full to overflowing, despite the ceaseless click of the guillotine. The aristocratic r.uarter of Saint-Germain was close st hand to supply victims for the new prison. Prin cess Joseph of Monsco. Viscountess de Maille. the duchese of Cholseul. the Mar quise de Crequl. wss was 85 years of age. and scores of other great names soon lay awaiting their doom. Bo terrible was the regime that they dared not even pTay aloud. Abbe Texler the queen's chaplain, ministered to the prisoners st the risk of his life . and once, to avoid the vigilant eye of the inspectors, the holy oil for ex treme unction had to be poured Into a common bottle, while the sacred silver vessels were flung down a well. The wafers for the holy communion were con cesled in Jesn Jacques Roussesu's Social Contract, one or me docks wnn-n r.r.c above suspicion in the eyes of the terrible committee. It waa from the Frison des Oisesux that the poet. Andre Chenler, and the Baroness d Hinnlsdael went forth one gray morning In the fatal tumbril never to return. But at last the lust of blood ban spent Itself; Marat was dead: the terror was over and the Marquis du Lau's benu tlful domain passed Into the hands of the Augustine nuns, whose mission is the edu cation of youth Then for nearly a hun dred years the Convent des Olswaux was the most select school In France. Among Its penslonnslres wss Eugenie de Montijo. the future empress of the French. Of late yesrs the Convent des Olseaux hsd been somewhat outshone by the con vents of the Assumption and Sarre-Coeur. Perhaps In its new home at Westgate. near Pover. whither the nuns have transferred it. It will regain Its ancient luster. APPROACHING ROYAL MARRIAGE! 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Her mother di-d when the jiri'ics brother was born snd her father. Grand Puke. Paul, usually lives near Paria. .Some years sfter his wife's Ceith he married Mme. Plstolkors. the divorced w.fe of a colonel In the Cavalier Guarda. and, aa the marriage e not recognised by the rsar, the woman ia not allowed to enter Russia, and. Indeed, the grand duke was himself exiled by his nephew for some time. Before her marriage Mme. plstolkors ss rery popular st the Russian court un til the fatal day. when ahe appeared at a court ball wearing the Jewels which had formerly belonged to the grand duke's mother and which he had loaned her for the occasion. The emperor and empress were furious and the woman's name was promptly removed from the list of those allowed to come to court. Grand Puchesa Elisabeth baa given a very careful educaion to her niece. 6 he speaks French and German perfectly and is making great progress in Bwedish, which Is only natural, as her teacher Is the young Bwedish prince. Most of her life has been spent in Moscow snd she is Russian to the backbone, a devout member of the ortho dox church and an enthusiastic admirer of Russian art and literature. She is par ticularly fond of the moras of Tolstoi and is proud of hsving received several letters from the great writer. Her aunt maje a homs for a number of officers snl sol diers who hsd been wounded In ths war with Japan at her country home in the sooth and do visitor was more welcomed by the sufferers than Grsnd Duchess Marie. She used to spend hours reading to the patients and would help the nurses to tend tbem. The poor fellows used to call her tha fairy princess. LO.VDON. May 2.-(Bpecial.) During the five or six days that elapsed between the resignation of Sir 'Henry Campbell-Banner-tnan as prime minister and the appoint ment of Mr. Asquith as his successor, this great country was practically without a government. The king ruled alone, without a ministry, and he was out of the country enjoying himself at Blarrltx. To him Mr. Asquith Journeyed, to "kiss hands" and receive the appointment to the highest of fice in the land, under the crown, leaving tl.e country, meanwhile, to run Itself, which, by the way, it did very comfort ably. Many experts In that mlfflity mystery. the British constitution, maintain that the king should have came home at once, and that Mr. Asquith should .not have txn required to go to him. They contend that he has violated the constitution. The fact that there Is no means of determining that question has called attention to the strange lack of any hard and fast arreement be tween the king and his subjects as to That are his duties. Nowhere Is It set down in Mark and white Just what British sov ereigns may and may not do. Such momen tous things are left to work out them selves, and somehow they do work out all right. 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Ia this connection it rrsy not be oat of place to state that tha Favorite Prescription of Dr. Pierce is the only medicine put tip for the cnxa of woman s peculiar weaknesses and ail menu, and sold through druggists, all til ingredients of which have the un animous endorsement of all the lending toed ic a I writers and teachers of ail tha several schools of practice, and that too as remedies for the ailments for which "Favorite Prescription" is recommended. A little book of these endorse menu will be sent to any address, post-paid, and absolutely re If you request same by rtl card, or letter, of Dr. K. V. Pierce, uflalo. K. Y. Dr. Pierce's Pleasant pellets curs con stipation. Constipation ss tha cause of many diseases. Cure the cause and you curs the Aiseasa. Lasy to take as candy. thst the permission which is granted him would be denied to the king. His majesty is not allowed, even aa a spectator merely, to be present at the discussions of his "faithful Commons." Although the law assumes his presence at every session to sanction legislation he cannot appear in Parliament except when he comes to state to the House of Ijords for the exercise of his prerogative of opening or proroguing Parliament. Hia presence on any other occasion would be regarded as an uncon stitutional attempt to Influence legislation by overawing the assembly. As prince of Wales, the king, from a seat In the peers' gallery, often listened to debates In tlx; lower house, but something awful would happen should he venture even to put his head Inside the door now. The king is popularly supposed to have a great deal to do with International politics and undoubtedly he wields a deal of Influence In that field, especially whn It comea to fixing up entente cordiales and that sort of thing, but all the same he has to play the game as his masters in such matters the ministry may direct. He may write , as freely as he pleases to foreign sovereigns on family matters, the condi tion of the weather, or any of the ordinary topics of epistolary correspondence, but if he ventures to discuss affairs of state with them he must submit his letters to the prime minister or the foreign secretary and they edit them to suit their own Ideas. As a matter of fact, nearly all letters of this kind are written for the king at the Foreign office and he merely signs them. King Grorxc Tailed to Time. Similarly communications on state mat ters from sny of his brothfr sovereigns officially all monarchs aro brothers arc required to pass through the hands of the ministry. When the duke of Wclllntrton was prime minister lie heard that King George IV had received a letter from the king of Prussia requesting him to vote for Prince Charles of te klenburg to be king of Greece, which had Just been wrested its independence from the Turks, and that Kng George had agreed to do so. The ret-ult was that the king received a wig ging from the Iron Puke and promised not to do It again. And the king of Prussia was Informed by the British minister at Berlin that his Britannic majesty would act In the matter soley in accordance with the advice of bis responsible min ister. Whatever Influence the king exercises In politics must be sub rosa. He must not participate openly in the game. He must not be found out. It is a breach of order in both houses of Parliament to even mention the name of the sovereign with a view to affecting the course of legisla tion. In 17a a resolution was adopted by the House f Commons declaring It to be a "high crime and misdemeanor'1 and va rious oilier evil things to report any "opin ion or pretended opinion" of his majesty on sny matter before Psrliament for the purpose if Influencing votes. There Is no reeird of anybody ever having been pun ished for It. though. Nowadays the worst that befalls the offender Is a snubbing ad ministered by Lord Knollys. thine; Absolutely Barred. ("nder penalty of forfeiting the crown the king is expressly prohibited from doing two thlnps in which freedom of choice is permitted the meanest of his subjects. He must not marry a "Papist" or turn Roman C. tholi- himself. The bill of rislits, passed in 16 by the f'rRt ParPamenl after ilie revolution, was explicit on .hese points According to its provisions the sovereign who should offend in either particular thereby d nrivi i himself of all "regal power, authority or jurisdiction." and all of his subjects are "absolved of .heir al legiance." The crown passes to his near est legal and Protestant heir just "as though he were naturally dead." Bi't the limitations placed on the powers of the king exist in the main only In un written law. This is a democratic monar chary in fact, but in theory It is some th'ng very different. Mmt of the ancient and far-reaching prerogatives of the rrown have never teen repealed and Edward yil la theoretically the absolute ruler of mil lion. I'nder the English constitution be Is the pre-eminent executive authority of the land. He night aliatter ;he empire without violating the b-tter at least of the law. He has supre:ne command of all the caval forces and could sell every British vessel snd every British gun. He could make somebody .a present of '.he accumula tion of naval stores and disband the navy completely. He could dismiss every offi cial, noncommissioned officer and man in the army from commander-in-chief down and practically discharge all ilit civil serv ants in the kingdom He ran make war with any country and purchase peace at sny price. No act of government can te remplete without the king. He is bead of the state, head of the legislature, head of the church, bead of the army, head of the navy. He alone can make money or order it to be snsde; he could make sovereigns of lead snd give them the stamp of the royal mint, lie could make every subject in the I'nittJ Kingdom, male and female, a peer and none of them could legally decline their titles. He can appoint any person to any office of authority and nobody has the right to refuse to be prime minister If called upon so to act by the king. It is sn old saying that the king can do no wrong, but It is not generally known that this is actually and literally the case lr. England as far as the king and the law are concerned. He could not be held per sonally responsible for sny crime which he might commit. Any Injury which he may inflict on a subject is attributed by the law to the mistakes of hia advisers. There is no process known to the law by which he can be compelh-d to pay his debts If he should choose to shirk such obliga tions. His goods cai.not be distrained or his property sold. He has the power of the remission of punishments for sll crimes, because he him self is the offended party. Inasmuch as It Is always the "king's peace" that Is broken. He can sue aip-body, but nobody can sue him. It is in bis name that most of the prosecutions are Instituted. Yet notwith standing this he cannot appear personally In any of the courts, or personally decide any case, civil or criminal. He may not appear even as a witness. But the doing of the things he is pro hibited from doing would not start any thing like the rumpus that would be raised if he did some of the things he is not pro hibited from doing things which the con stitution gives him the power to do. He would lose his billet in no time if he should assume a mere fraction of his constitu tional rights. The Pardoning; Power. Nothing Is clearer than the king's right to pardon criminal offenders, but he dare not pardon anybody without the advice anu consent of hia ministers. George IV was the last English monarch who undertook, without having first obtained the approval of his ministers, to exercise the preroga tive of mercy. In 1K30 an Irishman of good family named Comyns was convicted of arson and sentenced to death. George, on his own responsibility, reprieved him. That was interfering with the functions' of the home secretary, and Peel, who was filling the office at that time, addressed a strong remonstrance to his majesty. Wellington, who was prime minister, read the riot act to him In a personal interview. The king yielded, revoked hts order and the man was hanged. Nowadays the king reigns, but he must not govern. Nor. though the constitution confers on him almost unlimited powers, would the slightest interference with the business of governing be tolerated. Occa sionally exceeding the legal speed limit when in a hurry to get somewhere on his motor car is about the only one of his prerogatives which Enward VII avails him self. His chief business aa a king consists ir signing a lot or documents the vast majority of which he never reads. He signs on an average 150 a day considerably over ert.ntiO a year. It must be a source of great satisfaction to him that he has to sign only one of the long strings of names that have been conferred on him. If he had to put them sll down his job would be s hard one. COST OF SPRING CLEANING French Woman Loses Banknotes Con cealed in Mattress. FINDER ENJOYS LIFE FOR WHILE Moarcattrr standing: Below Gift aa Legacy from and Makes the Most f It. Arrrpta SWy PAItlS, May 2 (Special. Although the ordinary savings bank has its drawbacks, it Is also true that it has its advantages over some hiding-places favored by frugal wives. This truth has been rather rudely brought home within the last few weeks to Mme. Marguerite gchenk, who resides In a mod est apartment In the Rue Ix-ibnitz. Like the majority of French women, Mme. Schenk Is the economist of her house hold. Her husband is all very well when it comes to earning the money, but It was his wife who held the purse-strings and. out of his small salary, had managed to accumulate a surprisingly large bag of savings. Not having an over-great belief in the honesty of others and having a very satisfactory faith In her own care and watchfulness, she kept her savings during all the years of her married life In a con stantly growing pouch, hidden away in the fold of a mattress. Of days she could keep her eyes almost always upon It and at night her slumbers were more peaceful, knowing as she did that her fortune reposed safely beneath her. A couple of weeks sgo Mme. S-henk had an attack of the spring cleaning fever Every husband knows what that means. Mme. Rchenk had it In lis most violent form. Everything in the little apartment was literally pulled up by the roots and submitted to no end of dusting, beating, wiping and washing. Among the articles thus treated was the mattress In which lay tne family hoard, amounting to $12.n o in Russian bonds and $750 In French bank notes. Now Mme. Svhenk had no court be low in which to lwat it. so, forgetting for the moment the bonds and the banknotes. she hung the mattress out of her window and belabored It with all the visor and en tliusiasm which the Fpring cleaning fever always develops in a healthy woman. Money from the Sky. Next door to the gri.rijk !.wd a stone cutter. August H'.mmet by name, and his pretty young wife. Now It so happened that while Mme. Schenk was walloping her mat tress Homnjet was standing directly be neath day-dreaming of the time whin he wou'd be rich and live in fashionable nptr. menis. buihlerily there dropped down In front of him. se-minglv from the heaven a fat bag. When ho stooped and picked 11 up. opened It and gjr. d upon its contents. he was Hire that it came from 1 aven. Fo;- l.is eyes f ' II upon French banknotes to tl.e value of f.7V and a pile of Russian boiid.s. The latter wi re much the richer prize, be ing worth Sl'.(, but to Hunnnet. who knew nothing of foreign investments, they were merely paper, covered with printed hieroglyphics. Of the value of the bank notes, however, he was fully aware, and wasted no time tracing their source to any place nearer terra firms- He hurriedly re turned with his find to hts own apartments and told his wife of the miraculous gift he had received. They immediately pscked up their few belongings and moved to bet ter quarters In the Rue Cliamplonnet. In the next few days Hommet gave evi dence that poverty had robbed the wnrld of a prince of spenders. He spent the 1750 In banknotes with a hand so lavish that It would have mae Monte Cristo himself turn green with envy. A stock or fine wines was ordered and the stonecutter and his wife did not give It an opportunity of accumulating the cobwebs of eld age In the cellar, but drank It all aa soon ss It si rived. Furniture, new clothes and Jwtlry speedily followed, and aa a final ffort the couple invited all their relatives who lived near enough toa grand feast. Meanwhile, in the Rue Leibnltx, conster nation had had Its reign and remorse and regret had followed. After completing her cleaning. Mme. Schenk had bethought her self of her bonds and her banknotes. With, the pale face of fear and the cold perspira tion of apprehension, the good wife re paired in a hurry to the mattress, which now reposed once more on the bed. Search as she might In its folds, she could not find the precious bag. A trip to the street below was equally fruitless. So she returned to her rooms In despair to await the home-coming of her husband. When that worthy arrived, he had a whole lot to say that Is not printable, and then de cided to call in a lawyer. Accordingly, M. Hamard. a well known Parisian attor ney, was sent for and the tituntion ex plained to him. BrlnKlns; Retrlbntloa. jlniong his other undoubted talents. M. Hamard seems to possess a keen scent for a trail that would make him a serious rivul of Sherlock Holmes. At any rate, after a few preliminary Inquires in the neighborhood, lie madestraigf t for tha swagger new apartments of thc departed ston utter and his charming w ife. Wltti an eye for the dramatic, he timed his ar rival at the apartment in the Rue Cham plonnet well, for he reached '.here -Just when the feast to the relatives was at Its height. With the delicacy snd politeness which makes arrc?t one of the pleasures of French life, be Interrupted the gaieties and took Hommet and his weeping wife off to the nearest police station. There they both confessed and the former handed over to his captor a 60-centime (10 cental piece, the surviving portion of the $7u. Not considering them of eny value, ffom met and his guests hsd amused them selves by lighting their cigsrettes with the Russian bonds. Hommet has gone to le a guest of the French government for a considerable term of years, while bia wife, whose youth a:id comeliness appealed to the susceptible heart of the French judge, has been set st lib erty. Mme. Bchc-nk has the consolation of knowing that. Wing prudent enough to keep tiie numliers of her Russian lonris. she will be able to procure duplicates In five years. Thus it is that her spring cleaning cost her only 175". Jt.'f pi p;o rswarsBV"" AsV.daft2SM 3 Your - n First and Best Opportunity lo Secure One of the Popular NEW SAILOR HATS FOR WOMEN THIS IS ANOTHKU "SAIIXm" YKAIl They are the fad of the season everybody will wear tbeni. Yoall want one. of course. 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