New-York tribune., 1907-10-18

would undoubtedly be ruled to-day by king in
stead Of by & president
Colonel Patrick de MacMshon. who refrains from
using his fathers title of Duke of Magenta, COM
manded the 18th Regiment of infantry at Havre
and is married to Princess Marguerite of Orleans.
daughter of that Due de Chartres who served on
the staff of General Mcclellan during the war Of
the Union In America, together with his brother.
the late Comte de Paris. Princess Marguerite, who
is very charming woman, engaged for a
time to the Duke of Orleans but was Tilted by him
IN the most shameful fashion when he emerged
from the prison at Claremont to which he had
been condemned for visiting Paris in defiance of
the law of exile
In insisting on being styled merely Colonel de
MacMahon the heir of the old marshal is com
plying with a sort of unwritten law in the French
army according TO which officers refrain from
using any robiliary title which they may possess
until they have become generals. Moreover. he re-
calls thereby the fact that his father was far
prouder of being known Marshal MacMahon
than OF his dukedom, although the latter had been
won on the battlefield of Magenta in 1859. Tne
colonel who takes rather after his mothers family
and is disposed to embonpolnt. has two brothers.
one of whom, Emmanuel, is a soldier like him
self and has just been appointed to the lieutenant
colonelcy of the 105th Regiment of infantry. The
third brother. Eugene, was source of great trou-
bic, financial and otherwise. to his family and is
unless am much mistaken, vegetating in one or
the colonies, either in some part OF Algeria
or In Cochin China. Anyhow, his name is never
mentioned by his family and he has long since
vanished from its circle of friends and acquaint-
ENGLAND'S SERVICE TO GERMANY.
1t speaks volumes for the anmosity which pre-
walls in Germany against England that little
appreciatory mention should have been made in the
Teutonic press of the service rendered by the
British in killing Morenga the Herero chief in
Southwest Africa. Morenga, extremely able
Hottentot Cheftan, had for the last five years been
waging fierce a against Germany in its
Southwest African possessions TO arrest all de-
velopment of the colony and to retard its chances
of prosperity for perhaps quarter of century tc
come. The insurrection has cost Germany in mere
military expenditure least 500 000.coo and prob
ably a good deal more several thousand men h8e
been killed. considerably larger number have sue
cumbed TO the climate, or else have had their
health ruined by wounds and maladies, while the
repeated failures of the magnifcently trained Ger
man troops TO defeat and destroy the dusky enemy
had seriously affected their morale.
Whenever MoTenga became hard pressed by
his pursuers he would cross the frontier The other
day he encountered while on British territory
English patrol and his refusing to submit 10
arrest ana showing fight he was killed, his death
bringing about immediate collapse and termi-
nation of the entire Herero insurrection. 1t would
be difficult to overestnate the service thus
dered by the English to Germany, and while
doubtless Emperor William and his government
have expressed their sense of obligation TO the
authorities In London. yet the German newspapers
and the Teutonic statesmen in their public utter
ances have so far refrained from giving word
OF thanks. MARQUISE DE FONTENOY.