The Washington times., 1901-10-09

( the nations during his recent visit in
/ France. The pro-Boer society in Paris
distributed 1,009O00 or more postal cards
I in all parts of ofsF'rance with the instruc-
/ tion that those in favor of mediation in
the Transvaal war should sign their
names to the poetical petition on the pos
tai cards and address them to the Car at
| Compiegne. Here is free rendering of
/ the verses:
Thou mighty Car, who wars wouldst end,
| Let bloom the hope which in The Hague took
| Speak the word that peace will send
| Let France bring homage to glorious deed
For home and kin brave burghers fight;
Stop useless bloodshed in the valiant ranks,
And nations. freed from tyrants' might
| VIII kiss thy hand and offer heartfelt thanks.
Though the Car personally would be
only too glad to help the poor Beers in
/ their hopeless struggle against more
numerous foe, he is powerless to do So
| lie is at the mercy of the diplomacy
| which aims at an endless ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
/ oil empire Manchuria is an example OF
| this. While she promises the Powers to
evacuate Manchuria Russia actually
/ makes evacuation impossible. Manchuria
/ Is needed for the continuation of her ST.
berfan empire. She must assimilate this
| vast land. as through 1t must run the
most important section of her gseat trans
continental line
|
peace things look darker than ever. Rus
! sia sets poor example to other nations
as to her armaments. Never in all her
history was so much expended fer the
/ strength of her army and navy. And
/ with regard to helping a weaker nation
against a mightier foe neither Russia
/ nor any other European Power would in
terfere unless some signal advantage
could be gained Besides, what can be
: expected of a nation that has robbed
Finland and Poland Of their birthrights?
| The official returns to the British Par
| lament show that in chancery there is
about e56. .O00 0O0, of which all but about
| e1 100000 is kept subject to the orders of
the court in cases now before it. This
sum, known officially as dormant funds
| in chancery'' is the only amount in chan
cery for which owners are not absolutely
visible, and for a large part of these dor
mant funds owners are pretty tainly
| known.
This statement ought to have some ef-
| feet on the well-established business of
finding heirs" for vast estates Dozens
/ of astute persons, disinclined for ordinary
labor have made comfortable Hvings out
of credulous people who have contributed
| to funds to secure these estates. TO which
1 they believed themselves entitled as heirs.
| These claim agents have not restricted
I their operations to any one country-not
I only Great Britain and ireland, but Can
| ada the United States, the Continent OF
| Europe, and the British colonies have
provided living for them. 1t should be
] almost needless to say that no estate in
| either England or America was ever re
| covered" for the heirs" who had con-
| tributed money
amount OF money In England for which
ro owners are known-how large no per-
son can say. No part of 1t IS to be had for
| the asking. no list of 1t Is published that
! will in any way lead persons to the end
| that they would like - reach. This money
may be divided into ;nree classes. The
| first class is made up of unclaimed dtvi-
dends on Government stock. These divi-
! dends are held by the Bank of England
for ten years. At the end of that time
they are turned over TO the national debt
! commissioners, who keep them until a
! claimant appears When one does present
/ himself he must prove his claim; then
other claimants are advertised for If
: no one else can prove better claim the
/ hrst-cOmer gets the money.
The other classes Of this unclaimed
money are naval prlza money and un-
claimed dividends from hankrupts. In
, both OF these classes the procedure in the
/ matter Of claimants is the same in the
first class. a person cannot go to the
window and ask: rs there anything for
he is looking for and be prepared TO fight
for it. He must say IN effect; I am John
Blank. 1 have a claim against such a
/ fund in your possession for so much, and
my proofs are here" The difference be
tween the idea of the operation inculcated
/ by the estate agents and the aetual
procedure Is evident.
( There are unclaimed states in England,
however, and some of them are large-in
the hundreds of thousands Of pounds.
/ These estates revert to the Crown and
/ are TO be recovered from the Crown only
| by litigation, which Is expensive. In 1879
/ five Italians named Freccia recovered one
such estate, valGed before the litigation
! began at upward OF E2eo,eOO, but they
fought for eight years before the Crown
/ surrendered its title. What the estate
! was worth at the end is not recorded.
| Unclaimed bank deposits make up pos
slbly another large amount Of unOwned
money in England, Occasionally adver-
| tisenents appear referring To such de-
posts, and then it may be possible to OBJ
/ tain them on proof of ownership with
| comparative ease. In winding up "a Dub
/ lin bank some years ago these items were
Z advertised: Box containing diamonds and
articles of jewelry, lodged by ID. Andrew
/ Blake and George Jennings on December
/ % 1875. Box containing thirty-nine ar
ticles of plate some Of them bearing a
CoTonCt."
Presumably the heirs of D. Blake and
! Mr.. Jennings obtained the first box, but
/ what became of the second? There was
nothing in the advertisement to attract
an estate agent. In 1885 the representa-
tives of shareholders in the West Jersey
Z Society were advertised for In England 10
for since 1872. and ten years earlier the
| ROYAL Exchange Assurance Company
paid $500 to the representatives of the
| holder Of one share. par value Gl00, on
which the dividends had not been collect
ed since 1T22. But these are exceptional
cases.
A German chemist. Herr Busse, OF
| Hamburg claims that he has discovered
| the monlsish secret of making the two
| famous iaueurs, chartrcuse and benedic-
ti.e. and that he can, therefore. make
the real article four times cheaper than
that which comes from France.
This is a claim for connoisseurs to de-
eide, and they are going to have the op-
portunity since the article is to be put
on the market
For this purpose Herr Busse Is now in
| London. where nc shows Tho merchants
| a small box of powdered herbs which coz
tains the whole secret.
1t is in this unpromisins form that
| the two raw liqueurs will be sold The
| bcnedictine and chartreuse made from it
will actually have TO be home made" be