Daily Kennebec journal., 1901-12-13

hInG Edward has settled once and
FOR all time the question which of the
peers ard peeresSes are to attend rhn
coronation, for an official announce
ment has just been made to the effect
that only those peers and peeressas Of
the realm who have been presented ~
court Will receive royal SummonspS ro
the ceremony. and that no peer or
peerless who has not been officially pre-
sented at a drawing or at
leEee viii be allowed to attend. This
is. Of course. the most sensible manner
OF dealing with the problem. since il is
evident that those peers ana peeresses
who, for one reason 0r another. have
been barred from presentation at court
are not tit people 10 attend the corona
ton. But il may be questioned !yheth
er King Edward IS not ignoring some
statutory right in the affair, as both
peers ana peeresSes no matter what
their conduct. are undoubtedly en-
titled by law TO be present. IN an
official capacity at the coronation. /
do not quite see. however how thev
can enforce these legal rights, such 9
! they are, or how they can secure any
REDRESS from the crown in the event of
their rights being ignored. For there
is no tribunal competent TO deal with
the matter. excepting the House Of
Lords itself, and one cannot quite
, imagine the House of Lords quarrel
ing with King Edward for endeavoring
To- eliminate from their list on official
occasions peers and peeresses whos,,
behavior or anlecedentS have been
such as to involve their exclusion from
the royal court. Indsmuch as none OF
the peeresses who, prior TO their mar
riage, achieved celebrity on the stage
have ever been presented il naturally
follows that they will not be allowed
| to attrnu the coronation, ana the same
| rule likewise applies to peeresses who
have been barred from court on ac-
count of divorce court celebrity
OF all the marriages that have taken
place between foreigners and americans
the one which | shall watch with tEr
greatest amount Of interest is that re-
Gently contracted between Sir Charles
Ross and Miss Ellison of Louisville. Ky
1t is perfectly true that Sir Charles is
enorm 1usly wealthy, has served with
much gallantry in the South African war
and Is possessed of much Of the enter
prise ana snap Of the people of America.
a country in which he possesses vast "a
tereSts and where he spends much of his.
lime. Bat he comes from a family whi>n
is renowned for its ccccntricity, and he
dis tinguiShed himself as soon ever 1t:
came of age ny instituting an cXtrdGr-
binary lawsuit against his widowed
mother for having during his minority
spent more, Of the revenues OF his es-
tates upon him than she was entitled to
by law and by the terms of the VIII.
In her defense ii must be said that u 1r
extravaganccS Were in cases where ne
was concerned. and while he was at
school at Eaton she furnished him With
! NJ II D-C A
Large. sailing yacht, the most Slperbly ap-
pointed and biggest steam ladnch for
river use on the Thames, a coach and
| four. and heaven only knows what else
| besides In fact. in all the history o:
Eton extending over six centuries, there
| has never been a boy there VINO "nJ1v"d
such a command of money as Charlie
Ross He married in defiance of his
| mothers will and the union turned olt
unhappily, eliminating in divorce ana,
| as the original Lady Ross has not re
| married and the mother of Sir Charles IS
| still alive. there are quite a number %
| women who are entitled TO style them
selves Lady Ross.
OF Sir Charles Ross father il Is tod
that one winter he became greatly irri-
| tated over the fact that b" colid ma
nothing for the army Of Morklnslnen @
cne of his Scotch estates TO do, OWING 10
| the frost and snow. 50 ~ last ne MT on
a plan. He gave out thai he had lost :;
sixpenee somewhere on the srolnos anI
| set the men to find IL. 1hey SeaIcn"d
and searched among the snow Win ~
| success. In the end. one of them. anxious
| to relieve himself and his fellow erl-
ployes OF so ridiculous 2 task. even AZ
| the sacrifice of a bit of silver, handed ms
master n six-nerce and informed him th2t
.h he had fonnd the coin. Sir Charles instant
ly dismissed him for lying; expiaining
that he had not really lost any MONEY az
ali His father was still more odd, for i4e
| was 50 passionately fond OF poultry th2.
he insisted on having al the rooms 1T
Balnagowan Castle litered with ,as $ tnrS Z" a
| u-atcb;,y the chickens scratch and Scrapc
among #. In his days there was not !.
| room in the castle in which one was not