The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-11-27

ton thinks well to mention mental Inn
becility',, as, one. That, Of course, is q
matter for the Judgment OF electors. But
aInonls the disguaiifleations T. also tic tic
crown
I nesd not say that THIS psrtictliLr.
metllod Of ejectment Is q relic of one OF
tho deviccs hT which cur forefatilers made
us free The theory is still that mon
arch must not l'e enabled to bribe Par
lament man by appointment TO lucFa-
such a post be cannot continue member
unless he obtains afresh the suffrases OF
his constituent electors. lus seat must be
aecarss vacant; % new writ OF election
In short. must ba taken 70 sec that he
shall not have been bribed into undue suo-
serriency to the crown.
mons is as dead as Queen Anne. the last
monarch who put hand to It. bit the pre-
caution survives Because 1t survives Mr.:
himself anew to tho opinion OF the electors
Of Warwick end LyInington upon accept
Ing that place of profit under the crown"
. G5nial ss rgE M9T The !.
also place of profit in the eyes Of the
constitution. though it has long ceased to
involve any duties or warrant any pay.
the EacheTue- when a member desires
to take tho onlnien of his constituents
aiIeW ug IlC3Us OF d U.S~elcCIOL, lOI-
lowing notice appears in the London Ca
Zette:
Treasury Chambers, March % 1874
ps.d 81 ssad a1shdalsl sha ssa e. q e.
GhiItera Hundreds
;. This being brought to the cesn,sance of
IS issued. and in the votes and proceed
!ngs Of the House the following record ap-
pears:
ross, New ~fi. for tho ceunty ,,st,1 g. IN tbs
Tho retiring member has put into opera
that 4. 1855 wears cd
Should q former member who thus ceases
soino Of his new leisure In visiting The
locus Of his stewardship he will 1nd It a
very delightful district indeed
The C,1!itern Hills are q. range Of chalk
en-Thames. in oxon, through Ruckins-
hainshire to Trins, In the county of Iierts.
Though the .Ctiltern Hundred. are three
4, nrea .or ths nsssTe only t, 1as, q hi,
county mentioned in Donnesdav Book-,s
supposed 10 heYe Indicated the land oc
eupied BY hundred families In Eleventh
Century days
The thrse Cf,lltern Hundreds are Burn
ham. Desooroush and Stoke Anciently.
Burnham was Bonenham: Stoke, Stoches
snd oesboroush; Duftenbursh.
Camden records that the Chiltern Hills
used to be clad In forests which were in
tested by imitators Of bold Robin Hood
until an abbot Of st. Alhans arose in his
wrath and cleared away both beeches and
call Burntiam Beeches is coevai with law
less times. when 1t was needful that the
King should send some stout steward, "a
good man Of his hands," to harry the
knaves and foster the true men of the re-
Eion Such was the origin Of the ngmen-
tary stewardship. which ailing men OF
peace accept in our day.
SOME HISTORICAL SCENES.
Not one modern steward and bailiff in a
score. ], may safely warrant. was ever
aware that his brief and phantom suxer-
Pogis. Chaltont. st. Giles and Chenies,
Slough and Hughene-n. Mcdmenham
and Bcaconsheld. Taplow and Burnham
The three hundreds incloee region Of
hunting memories and rural charm
Within the Stoke Hundred Charles lay
Of the reyenges ef tho time. that terrible
Assize., was to come and dwell
=, A Judge more nobly famous, Chief Jus
in this hundred his seat. At Stoke the poet
of tho "Elesy' passed his youth. and to
Stoke returned fol. bur,ai--by all report It
heard the "curfew toll the knell Of part
fng day"
Hard by lies the Hundred Of Ruruhsm.
In a letter to Horace WalpoIe Grav
wrote: Il have at distance Of half
mile, through a grcen lane, forest all my
own-at least. as good as so. for spy no
human thing in it but myself. 1t is a little
chaos OF mountains and precipiees; noun
tSlns. 1t is true. that do not ascend much
above the clouds. nor are the declivities
quite so amazing as Dover Cliff, but 1ust
sucn hilis as people who love their necks
may venture to climb. and crags that give
Inc eye as much pleasure as II they were
dangerous"
This was one of the earliest references
to Burnham Beeches in literature
tradition reports that these beech trees
those reverend vegetables" as GRAY
called them.-were first pollarded by Crom.
Reuian soldiers IN sssrch Of Eunstocks.