Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-10-21

| titul and accomplished women in the peerage. will speak on socialism. Not WithstaHdlng her enormous wealth and aristocratc relationships, Lady Warwick is a radical socialist, and one of the most aggressive leaders of that element in Enslaud She supported the socialist labor candidates for par liament i'll WarWickshire at the last election ad "stumped" the county like an ordinary politician She was d delegate to the recent trades union congress in Edinburgh and sat with two or three hundred hOrn-handed representatives of the mechanical trades and the laboring element. She does not do this to pose nor to create a sensation She is apparently in earnest and has convinced herself that aH accumulation of money i'll the hands of one person is an injustice to those who have not been so forum ate as to acquire wealth. do not know what she proposes to do with Warwick castle. one of the most beau tiful and one of the most famous old buildings ill the world, nor with the thousands of acres and other proper- ty that is attached to the estate She has a bunch of bright boys, who un- doubtedly will inherit the great wealth of their father and mother, and it will be interesting to watch their develop ment under her influence.
 She is not the first titled woman to show an active spirit, however. Lady Aberdeen, who is we'll known in the United States, and is herself a woman of much public activity, had an an
 cestress about 200 years ago, in the reign of James II who knew how to do things, and was not afraid of the frown of the law or tne prejudice of public opinion. Her name was Lady Grisel Cochrane, and her father, Lord Dundonald, was one of those fine old Scotchmen who didn't give in to the king His lordship was captured by the government and imprisoned in Edinburgh castle. Lady Grisel came down to see him, and while she was there, unknown and unnoticed, discov- cred that he had been condemned to death, and that a warrant for his execution was on it's way to Edin- burgh. She put on boys suit of clothes, got shooting iron and start ed for Berwick, where she hoped 10 intercept the kings messenger Ar irving at an humble inn, she asked for something to eat. The landlady cautioned her not to make noise. because the kings messenger, who had ridden all night and must soon 1 again take the saddle. was asleep in the next room. Watching her chance, she slipped into his chamber with drew the charges from his pistols, and then, calling for her horse started ahead of him on the road. When he overlook her she held him uu. The messenger, who WAS veteran soldier, tried to fire, but both his pistols fail ed him, and he handed over his mail bag to the hcT.i6hlooking highway man. Tie latter rode into the woods with 1t, while the kings messenger galloped CT in search of seinfulce- ments openii.s tho bag, 5i to"st the death Waranl oi her father ".1, burned it. Then she dropped the beg, with the rest of its contents Hndis- turhcd, in the middle of the road. Re suning the garments of her sex as speedily as possible. she made her way uasuspacted to j1dinbursh and excited the interset of her, influential friends who secured a reprieve for her fa aer. think Lady Aberdeen apprcVes Of this brave and noble feat of hef ancestreSs.