The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-30

ness he was mace DUKE 0He Hdu
i've other children. One, of them,
girl. was never married. She became
nun. but that did not prevent hei
from becoming a mother. Barbara
had lovers by the score. But it was
her connection with Charles that has
her and enriched the
house of lords. She fattened, by the
kings favor, on the national revenues
to the national detriment, and she was
made Duchess of Cleveland in con-
sideration of her own personal vir-
tues That is why the motto of the
Duke of Grafton is EFT decus ct pre-
t;,m recti' For his Grace descends
from her second son, Henry Fitzroy.
King Charles refused at first to ac-
knowledge the child as his, but in the
end he gave him the benefit of the
doubt. and made him Duke of Grafton.
Lord Southampton also descends
directly from the frail Barbara. He,
of course. voted against the Budget.
Then his Grace of Buccleuch was in
the ducal band of twenty. His sur
name is Scott, but it really ought IT,
he Walker, for the first duke resulted
from the 1aison between Lucy Walker
and Charles II. Poor Lucy! She took
up with Charles when he was boy,
and no dllcheys ever came her way, for
her lover was then in exile and hard
up for cash. Poor Lucy again! She
went altogether to the bad, and her
carly death was attributed to her way
ward manner of living Strange that
her descendants arc among ones
hereditary legislators in the Twentieth
Century! Lord Mortagu of BeaulieJ
descends from Lucy also. He voted
against the Budget. The CARDIGAN
peers. it will be observed, are very
anti-Budget.
Now we skip the centuries. and
come to the times of the Regency. We
notice Lord Conyngham's name in the
division list. How came this young
fellow to be a marquis? In this way:
His great grandfather, one Henry Con-
yngham (the family name was origin
ally Cunningham, was an Irish baron
But he supported the Act of Union
and was paid partly in cash, partly
in titles. He grew into an Earl. But
his later advancement of fortune he
owed chiefly to his wife The Regent
she, and her hubby Can accommodate
ing chap instituted a cosy menage al
trois in st. James's. She was the
Regents mistress, and she led him by
the nose. Even George Canning had
to get on the right side of her. Her
husband was made marquis. and
her children We're advanced in various
ways The Marquis of Conyngham is
a marquis because his great grand
mother was the mistress of George "
That's the truth of it. From her, also
is descended Lord Londesborough. an
other anti-Budget peer The Earl OF
Munster was also against the Budget
The first earl his grandfather, was
the illegitimate son of Mrs Jordan
the actress, and the prince who be-
came William ". Mrs. Jordan was
more sinned against than SHINING. The
daughter of a scene shifter she was
taken advantage of by a scoundrel. by
whom she had a child. Afterwards
she married one Ford, by whom she
had four children BY William she
had ten. Her royal lover allowed her
ed to reduce it by half. She, a
celebrated actress by this time, OBJ
these words at the bottom marked:
No money returned after the raising
of the curtain" She died in great
indulgence at ST. Cloud, neglected by
all her children. BY William she was
also the great; grandmother of Lord
Enrol and Lord Falkland.
Although the West End had it's usual
joyous Christmas, with all the accom-
paniments of the holiday season, it
cannot be truthfully said that the re-
cent holiday brought any great pleas
ure to the great and rapidly increas-
ing army of London's poor. New
York's proud boast that none go hun
CRY on Christmas Day finds but a scant
echo in the British metropolis. While
the charitable organizations feed a
great army, their dinners and distri-
buttons are not carried out on nearly
as broad a scale as in American cities.
In consequence there were thousands