The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-15
IRON HAND
 FOR INDIA Lord curzon Speaks of \ Danger! Ts,
 l. CAMPAIGN OF ASSASSINATION General Unrest Throughout
 Europe. All Governments Are Threatened--A kins at Arms Has writtensa work In Twelve Volumes of
 the old NobIes.
CAMPAIGN OF ASSASSINATION
BY ". HAMILroNs RHODES.

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 BY VI. HAMILTON RHODES. i. London. Aug. 14.--Rblitical crises never rain but they pour. As Lord curxon pointed out in ! .briiliani speech at the dinner given last Tues day to the Turkish delegatesg no few CT than three sultans have been de- posed or resigned withinj the course of . few months. in Morocco. Turkey and Persia respectively. But the East has no monopoly of thebe incidents. 7 Germany has only just Exchanged an old Chancellor for new one. and France has but lately emerged from the. throes of ministerial crisis. King Alfonso. of Spain. Is sitting in the crater of e volcano. and King Manuel of Portugal. is on the edge of another. The Austrian monarchy seems to be about the safest at the mQfhent. with the Kaiser's realm a clossBecond. and the rest strung out. Continental agitators of the Pataud type declare that the end of the Twentieth century will see not one monarch reigning in Europe. 2 es
 Lord Curzon, the former viceroy of India said he rarely remembered time when there was a greater sense of in- security at home and abroad. Abroad they might describe the state of Eu- rope as one of unstable equilibrium. and that of Asia as ne-of unconceal- certain England did not want to make any party affafr of the army or the navy. They wanted to be safe: and the only way to Dc safe as regarded the navy was not merely to have Q naval program. but to have what Germany had, continuous program, stretching over years.
 As to Indias he feared there had been some lack of firmness and strength in the policy the government had pur- sued. He would be reiuctant to say one word that would embarrass the position or deepen the anxisties of viscoupk Morley. who had their sym pAthy, and on the whole their support He doubted, however. if either here or in India there had been lately any re- aIixatIon of the menace and the poasi- bilities witn which we were confront cd They were now confronted with a campaign of assasslnatipn, and the worst of it was these eriminalss sgiAried in their crimes. TASy wrote letters i'd the newspapers--whicb he ventured to say ought noe to be publighed-justify- ing their deeds with ufbiuBhing eff frontery. Because of these few men 1t WOQl0 DC N A1bot upQH. AnuS4k tU HIS agine that the whole of India was dis- affected. Stili.y it must be remember cd that there was Q minority whom nothing could piacate and whom no reform could please, and he only wish- cd the people of this country could understand that there were but, two sections of the popuIatiohs in India, the loyal and the disioyd. The pres ent conspiracy might have been con siaerabiy checked if it had been real ixed earlier. Tn India there must be no policy of vacillation between concilia- ton. and coercion. and they wanted to draw to it's sources this horrible con- spiracy-not merely the perpetrators hnt the instigators of the outrages. and In this country 10 cut the sscatiket which was now known 10 exist in the heart of London itself. He hoped the government were alert and vigiiant in the matter. If so any measure propos- ed by the Home Government and the Indian government in combination would. he believed. receive the enn- phatic approval of Parliament and the country.
 The Noble Families.
 A remarkable record of all noble families, the rare Complete Peerage." by Mir. c. D. Cockaynes Clarenceux King ofaArms. of the Heralds' College, is to be published in a new edition. The original volumes of this "detec- tive dossier" of the lords have been out of print for nearly twenty years, and genealogists have paid $250 for a copy. The bold bad barons and nauRh- ty earls who NFode through history would probably have blushed had they known thatNthe full story of their lives would be published in twelve large volumes in the twentieth cen, tury. F t>4 + ro
 
 his work thoroughly. His book is a perfect store house of the history and traditions-with the skeletons in the cupboards-of noble families The cu- rious may here learn all about the can onized earl of the fourteenth century and the btgamous barons of the nine. teenth. Here are printed the names of the Scottish nobles slain at Fled- den. and the record Qf how two mo- ble ladies were locked up in "the cage'' for being drunk and disorderly. There Is one note of caution. Tt has been thought well to exclude from this edi- tion any account of persons who have become peers Since the death of Queen Victoria" says the discreet CIarenceuz King Of Arms in his preface.
 New peers may take breath aRair after reading this. but the lives of thC lords of earlier days are set down witt faithful and impartial detail. The tex, gives. concisely and precisely, particu, lars Of the percentage. birth. honors. or. ders, public service. marriage anG cause of death wherever possible. 'ol every holder of a peerage-with com, nents in the footnotes.
 Here Is one example,
 Romantic Details.
 Charles Lennox, Duke of Rich. mond. married December ( I7is. at the Hague. Sarah, first daughter and co. heir of Earl Cadogan."
 In a footnote some romantic detail. are given of the marriage:
 "She was then aged but 13 and he bti, IS. It Is said the marriage was con. tracted to cancel a gambling debt be. tween their parents."
 The Complete Peerage" will be sol( in twelve volumes of about 800 page, each. and a small number will bt printed on writing paper so that read CTS who know any further details ear write them in the margins.
 MT. Andrew Carnegie has just tnttrnat. ed to the Liverpool Library, Museun and Arts Committee his Willingness tr provide $76,0o0 Tor the erection of twr branch library buildings and three reading rooms. on the condition that the city undertakes to ind the nits, and to maintain the buiIdinks. m, matter came before the committee ai its meeting the other day when 1t wa, unanimously decided to recommend n, City Council gratefully to sneant thu