New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-04-01

Merite." which created by Frederick the Great.
is a brother-in-law CT the Prime Minister Arthur
balfoCr. the only Senior Wrangler Of the House Of
Lords. and the most learned and scientific member
O. that gded chamber, with the possible excep-
ton OF Lord Kelvin. lie IS tall. handsome man.
with reddish gray whiskers and slightly lame in
MS left leg, has held professorship OF physics.
and shares with Lord Rosebery the distinction OF
teing In the metropolitan milk trade. 1t was only
the other day that he appealed to the courts Of
law for injunction 10 restrain a milk dealer
from attempting 10 cut him out of a certain milk
route II the London suburbs. The injunction was
not granted. tnUch 10 the peers disgust Indeed.
he seems TO find satisfaction though possibly
less pecuniary profit, In tho contemplation OF the
milky way IN the skies than Of his milk routes in
London Lord RRyieigh. who has the English Or
Ge- OF Merit created by King Edward at the time
q has coronation, is the third holder Of the barony
which entitedhim 10 a seat in the House of Lords.
The peerase was originally conferred upon his
grandmother. Lady Charlotte Strut daughter OF
tho first Duke Of Leinster. not IN recognition Of
anything that she had done herself but as a re
ward for the services Of her husband, Colonel
Joseph Holden Strut who preferred remaining in
the House OF Commons TO promotion TO the House
OF lords ills vile died about ten years before
him. and on her death their succeeded TO her
peerage as second Lord Rayleigh.
Emperor William has at length found it prac-
uea5le 20 take step which is bound greatly to
increase HIS popularity fl Alsace and Lorraine
he has given directions that from all re-
orts who present themselves voluntarily for their
military service and who are natives OF Alsace-
Lorraine shall be Incorporated in regiments sta
toned in those two provinces instead OF hither-
to- - corps in remote portions OF the empire. This
shows that the kaiser has no longer any fear con-
corning the loyalty 10 himself and to Germany OF
The new generation that has grown up in Alsaco
and Lorraine. where the objections TO service in
The army Will be vastly diminished now that the
Guv r7er n 70 IN he INN
date neighborhood OF their homes and within easy
reach OF their families.
with regard TO the inquiry from a correspondent
10 the meaning OF the word ''agnates' used In
o. these letters recently. It should be said IN
reply that the agnates tho adult male members
az the regnins or princely house to which they
belong by birth They constitute species OF
family council from which are excluded all those
who are not members thereof through the male line
only. and WELD great power. both regards the
conduct OF the various scons ot the house and the
management and disposition OF the family posses
s3ons.
Thus when the lats Emperor William as a young
prince was about Princess Elise Radziwill.
union for which he had already obtained the con-
sent o. his father. King Frederick William III. and
OF the Prussian OF the day. the agnates
Of the House OF Hohenzollern interviewed and for
bade the alliance. with the result that William was
forced to abandon It. and to marry Princess
Augusta Of Saxe-weirnar instead. This shows IN
deed, that the agnates exercise even in those
dynsstic matters which virtually national
questions a power superior to that OF monarch,
government and legislature
1t was again the agnates Of the princely house
OF sayn ct Wittgenstein. who. when Prince Alex
arder and Prince Frederick marie without their
consent and in defiance OF their chests. forced
them TO surrender both their name and their rank.
and TO accept the one the title OF Count o. Hach-
enburg and the other that OF Count Altenkirchsn.
titles which had been obtained for them by the
arnates from the Prussian Crown.
MAROUISE DE FONTENOT.