The National tribune., 1907-12-12

gins HIS SpScCH, pul Is dt
once by one of the women, who rises
! and inquiries, ,Y"What is the honorable
gentleman prepared to do for the wo-
men?" This makes a great uproar, and
the woman Is put out. Quiet is re-
stored. and the speaker begins once
more, but Is interrupted again by an
other woman. and so it goes till the
meeting is successfully broken up. Mrs.
B. Borrmann Wells, one of the most
prominent of these ''suffragets," is eth
er coming to or has arrived in America,
where she ia to spend the next three
months travelling thru the country
preaching militant measures in the
cause of womap's rights. She says this
| is the only way to bring the men to
terms, and thatait was too funny to
see the Hon Herbert Gladstone, who
was the principal speaker at a meeting
which ''suffragets" broke up not long
ago, make for a back entrance, and get
out as quickly as he possibly could.
Thomas w. Lawson, the frenzied
financier, comes out with characteris-
tcaly theatrical statement, in which
he says that he has finished with his
reforming, and shall let the public do
their own in the future, while he de-
votes his time and capital exclusively
| to stock gambling in Wall and State
streets for the purpose of getting back
some of the millions he has given to
his public work. He says he will prob
ably be the next President of the Anal
gamated.
1t is interesting to know that gen.
uine diamonds have been found in what
| is known as the Huddleston and Money
tracts of Pike County, Ark. Prof. Phil
lip Schneider, geologist of the Syracuse
University. has carefully examined this
district, which he pronounces as rich
in, .1T fle lorIxr oIl dc Of
South Africa. The owners of this prop
erty are probably beginning to realize
that this world is not such bad place
after all.
This seems to be the time to buy
your royal crown if life is no longer
endurable without one. Three genuine
| British crowns are now on the market,
| being the Identical articles worn by
King Charles IL, James IL, George ".
and Queen Adelaide at their corona
tions. To be sure all the gems have
| been taken out of the crowns, which
are now merely frames of silver gil,
without even their velvet and ern.i,.e
! Innings, but to your real true Anglo
maniac what would that matter? These
crowns were for a long time in the
possession of Lord Amherst but his
great financial losses compelled him to
dispose of them, and they are now Of
| IeTGu 10 the n1BneSC DluueT. speaking
of crowns, it is said that at some en-
/ tertainment soon to be given in Chi
cago one of those taking part Will wear
| the crown formerly used by the En-
press Eugenie, which is studded with
diamonds, Tubies, pearls, etc, and of
! fabulous value. The crown is in New
York, and presumably owned by some
wealthy New Yorker, but the public is
not told even this much less the name
Of its possessor.
Apropos of crowns, some intereting
! fact about thrones, so closely allied with
them. have lately been made public.
An ornamented, elevated seat for royal
| ty seems to have been used ever since
there were Kings and other rulers. and
that means since the beginning of time.
From the earliest known period the
! Asiatic mOnarchs are represented as
seated upon thrones, and such chair,
set apart for the sovereign, was adopt
ed in ancient Greece, who also repre-
sented their NEUROLOGICAL gods as en-
throned. In the early centuries of the
Christian Church the raised seat be-
hind the altar, where the Bishop sat
surrounded by his clergy, was called a
throne. A royal throne has always been
an object of romantic. awe-inspiring in
| terest, and the imagination is at once
| fired by the very mention Of one. 1t
|
in existence, which from a historical
point Of view is great pity, reposed
| for nearly 40 years in an old lumber
room Of the Bourbon Palace. 1t has
now been resuscitated, fixed up little,
and sent to the State Museum of Deco
rative Art. The last use made of it
| was when Charles x. sat on it in OPEN
| ing Parliament. The throne in the
Tuilleries, which was used by Napoleon
| J. and Louis XVIII, as well as Charles
x. was destroyed by the mob who in
vaded that palace in the revolution of
| 1880, every one of whom seated him.
i self or herself on the throne to see how
IT fel., and SO broke it down. Louis
| Philippe, who succeeded Charles X. as
King OF France, had bran new throne
made for him, which was also destroyed
by the mob when he was more firmly
than politely invited to step down and
out, and as for the throne Napoleon III.
occupied, it was burned up during the
terrible days of the Commune in 1871.
England, having more use for thrones
than France at present, has several.
i One of the most interesting of these is
that at Windsor, which is made of
ivory, beautifully carved and adorned
Z ith all sorts of gems, especially emer-
> Ids. 1t was presented to Queen Vic
toria by some Indian potentate. An
other very interesting English throne
which every sovereign who has reigned
over England during the last 1000
years has been crowned. No one but
Victoria, however, ever occupied 1t on
!; any other occasion. She sat in i. twice,
once when she was crowned and again
on the occasion of that wonderful scene
in Westminster Abbey at the time of
her Golden Jubilee. Denmark likewise
has some very interesting thrones. One
is made of whales horn, adorned with
all sorts of strange figures, and in a
globe at the top of the throne is a
wonderful cleaning amethyst. Another
!. throne is of silver. with three great
silver lions standing near it. These
lions are Denmark's symbol of sover-
eighty, and play very important part
in all her pageants. They are named
, Great Belt,'' Little Belt" and the
Sound" after Denmark's straits. When
a King or Queen of Denmark is buried
these lions are borne aloft in the funer-
lal procession, and returned to the throne
room afterwards. King Alfonso OF
! Spain has his silver lions also, four in
number, which stand on the wide steps
of the dais as if guarding the throne
In his palace in Madrid. 1t is said that
when a child and terribly bored by
7 some court ceremonial he would clint
!, down from the throne and play horse
on the back of one of the silver lions
| which disturbed the solemnity of the
occasion and the dignity of the Spanish
3 grandees decidedly. The most impor.
5 tant OF all Russia's thrones is the one
in the Kremlin which is regarded by
the people as most sacred This has
: three chairs of state beneath the can.