Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-08

charter. Not one of the Ave can boast OF
any ancestors at Runnymede. In Eliza
beth's reign there We're only sixty Law lords;
at the end of the reign of George III the
| hereditary lords were increased by 3SS II
peerages are bought and granted at the
same rate. the future government will have
| to build an annex to the house of lords the
| size of the Albert Hall to accommodate the
| LOO or 1.i00 peers who will be ruling Eng
| land before the end of the century.
| Until the simple rule is made that a rec
ord of the services of every man who re-
| cefves a national honor shall be published
at the time the honor is bestowed honors
| will slump. They have sunk from par to
| below fifty A peerage today is worth in
social esteem one-twelfth of its value in
| Elizabeth S time, and only one-half its value
| in the time of George III. knighthoods
are drug in the market. SO many have
| been distributed or bought that some people
| have had to hide themselves in dread of be-
| ing bcknighted.
! excellent man who agreed to pay f2.oO0 to
party funds receiving the honor Of
knghthood. He could not pay ii all down,
| and the party agreed to take four equal an
nual installments. The first $500 was paid,
| and when the second $500 became due the
purchaser had said goodnight to this world.
| and in the land of shadows enjoyed his dis
| tinction with 40 per cent of the purchase
! money unpaid. When the executors were
| asked for the balance owing they pleaded
the absence of an agreement, the imposs-
| billty of exacting its specific performance,
| and, thirdly, the inutility of a knigh thood
| to dead man. He had paid 600 for it
during the few months of his survival af-
| ter receiving the honor and it was hard
upon his sorrowing and impoverished fam
lily that they should part with ready cash
| for the knighthood of ghost. How the
dispute ended is not known.
Kaiser Reconciled to Prince.
The fact that the kaiser chose rrince
Frederic Leopold of Prussia to represent
| him at the baptism of the Prince of the AS
| turias shows that he is again reconciled
| with his cousin. For many years Prince
| Frederic Leopold was his majesty's under
| study. He laid foundation stones and open
| ed bazaars and took a lot of fatguing
| duties off the kaiser's shoulders. Then, for
some reason that remained unexplained,
| there was sudden and violent quarrel. and
the kaiser gave his cousin thirty days close
arrest in his castle at Glienicke. near Pots
dam. and he was forced to do them a
sentry with fixed bayonet was placed at the
door OF the suite of apartments in which he
vas confined. and all the exercise he
allowed was thirty minutes walk in his
own park under the escort of an officer.
1t is generally supposed that it was the
princes extravaganza that was the cause
OF the trouble, for after the period of
| rest was over the kaiser appointed off,
Ger of the Guards to be his cousins court
marshal and personal aid-de-camp, with
instructions to keep close eye on his ex
u
pleasant one, as the prince refused to ex-
Change word with him except in regard to
matters Of service. When the kaiser re-
fused to receive President Kruger, Prince
Frederic Leopold, to show his sympathies
with the Transvaal and annoy the kaiser.
dressed all his foresters and gamekeepers at
Glienicke In Boer uniform, or what he sup
posed to be Boer uniform. 1t vas a sort of
h--ak with abig SLOUGH hat, and really
looked more British than Boer. But at any
rate 1t served its purpose of making the
kaiser furious.
During the Russo-Japanese war the kaiser
ordered his cousin to Manchuria as German
military attache with the Russian troops.
The prince being an officer of the Guards,
could not. of course. refuse to obey, but
he showed such a want of zeal in buying
his Kit and equipment that months went by
before he was ready to leave. He also had
very painful experience which gave him
an excuse for declaring himself i'll for
fortnight. He had gone to big military
outfitters in the Potsdam strasse to order
his uniforms and took the elevator to go
to the upper floor BY some error the
operator started it too soon. and got caught
between the lift and the sides of the lift
shaft. He was crushed to death before the
eyes Of the Mortified prince. who could do
nothing to save him. 1t was half an hour
before the fire brigade could saw out the
that half hour he had to spend with the
mutilated corpse of the unfortunate man.
This gave HIM such a nervous shock that
he was III for couple of weeks and his
delayed. The result was that when he got
out to the Far East the war was practi-
cally over and he had to return. During
his absence his wife, who Is one of the
handsomest and most popular women of
the German court. used her influence with
the empress to smooth things over, with
the result that when Prince Frederic Leo
pold returned to Berlin the emperor and
his whole staff met him at the station with
great apparent cordially Soon after there
were again rumors of friction in circula-
ton. but these seem to have been either
unfounded or it has been got rid of. for
the mission to Spain is not one that the
kaiser would have given to any one with
whom he was on bad terms.
London's Newest Tube Railway.
London's newest tube railway from
CharinG Cross to Hampstead, which will
be opened in June. is eight miles in length,
and there are seventeen stations connected
with it. 1t provides much-needed facili-
ties for rapid travelling to the north and
northwest London populous and industrial
districts. At Charing Cross the double
tunnels are 80 feet below the surface, a
little north of Hampstead 80 feet below the
surface. while the Hampstead station is
1870 feet below the surrounding hills. The
City and South London the pioneer
electric railway in the metropolis, and the
first section from Stockwell to the King
William Street -Ionument station was
opened by the king In 1880. London can
HOW QUASI VI seven great VI
the kind, excluding the District Electric !
and the subway under Kingsway. which |
have involved an estimated expenditure of
f300OOOOO and cover an area of seventy
square miles The kingsway subway will |
shortly be extended to the Victoria EN- |
bankment.
Ii Chin Fan, the new Oh nese minister |
to this country. is not expected in London |
before September. His eXcellency, who is |
between forty and fifty years of age. I'M |
like his predecessor, Wang TIA Sieh. is an |
accomplished English scholar, having pre- |
ceded Mr.. Chen, the present charge daft |
flares, as secretary of the legation. After |
three years In London Lii Chin Fan went |
to the foreign office, Picking, and was after !
ward promoted to the legation at Vienna, |
where he has now resided some fourteen |
months AS the adopted son of the late |