New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-05-13

King Edward to the right of the Walker trustees
TO collect any such fees and by his direction the
Board of Green Cloth declined to act any longer
in the matter, leaving the trustees to do their
collecting The treasury to which the Walker trus-
tees subsequently appealed took similar atti-
tude in the matter, and expressed its opinion that
the fees were limited to purely Scottish honors.
Strengthened by this attitude, nearly all the
peers, baronets and knights who have been created
since 1904 have resisted the demands of the trus
tees, and there at present less than two hun
dred knights alone who refuse TO pay the fees, de-
flying the trustees 10 do their worst, well know
ing that the latter cannot deprive them of their
honors and n-knight them. In fact, the only
dress of the trustees is through the Scottish courts
and it is probable that these will decide against
their pretensons. 1t may be added that none of
the Walker family remain alive, and that the plain
tiffs the of the trust fund established
by the two maiden sisters of Sir Patrick Walker,
the Usher of the White Rod at the corona ton of
George "
REAL HEROINE OF A POPULAR NOVEL
All those who hava read, either in the original
or in translation. Pierre Lofts recent work en-
titled Les Desenchantees' (''The Disenchanted')
protesting to portray the unhappiness of hare life
at Corstantnope, will be interested to learn that
one of the heroines of book-one indeed OF the
two women whose experiences had furnished him
with the theme for his romance-is about TO be
married. The wedding is to take place at Paris.
The bridegroom is Polish noble of the name Of
ter of the late Nouri Pacha, who was the most
able of the Turkish plenipotentiaries at the peace
congress at The Hague in 1899 also Under Secre-
tary of State for Foreign Affairs the Sublime
Porte, and who although Moslem a French
nobeman-namely. the Marquis de Blosset de Cha
teauneuf. Nouri Beys father had gone to Turkey
from France in connection with some railroad con-
tracts, and yielding to the urgent requests of Sui
tan Abdul Aziz 10 enter his Service, became con-
vert to Islam and died in the favor of the Padshah
as Rechad Pacha. His son. Nour was educated in
France, and owing to his charm of manner and his
knowledge of the world became in course OF time
the principal channel through which all con1muni-
cations were carried between the foreign embas-
sizes and legations and the Sublime Porte. Nour1
had two daughters, of them married and the
other single Having too much French blood IN
their veins to be content with the restrictions of
Oriental harem life, they fed from Constantinople,
escorted only by their old French governess, and
sought refuge in Paris, where thrown much in con-
tact with Pierre Lott, the story of their life at
Stamboul and their adventures furnished him the
theme for his novel The Disseminated" Nourf
Bey died few months ago at Constantinople in
such a sudden manner TO convey the impression
that he had succumbed to poison administered TO
him by of his foes at the Yildiz Kiosk who
jealous of the confidence reposed in his intes-
rity by the Sultan.
MARQUISE DE FONTENOY-