The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-12
GREATEST BAPTISM OF MODERN TIMES Witnessed When Viscount Milton Was Christened LAST, OF POST BOYS Six Hundred and Eighty-five Divorce Decrees Granted in England in
 1909-Agnew Left Thirteen
 Million Dollars
By PAUL LAMBETH

sense of novelty at least.
 viscount Milton, the infant son of tho Earl Fitxwilliam. was christened in the private chapel of Wentworth Woodhouse, the most splendid mansion in England. Tho baby's wrap at the christening was the. scarf which William the Conqueror took from his arm at the battle of Hast irgs,s in 1O66, and handed to an ancestor CT Earl Fitzwililam as a mark of appre- citation for valor.
 Monster rejoicings of the earl's tenants took place in the great park around the house. where eight great tents were filled with the 1000 guests invited to the feast.
 The baby. who was the hero of the day. Is the child of good fortune. He is the long awaited heir of many millions, tho future owner of many great estates in England, Ireland and Canada, and some of the richest coalnelds in Yorkshire.
 The health of the child was toasted by thousands of men who spend their lives in digging for the treasure which will make him one of the richest men in tho realm.
 The cake was much larger than the baby. It was a giant cake of wonderful architecture, suitable to an infant who is to be so monstrously rich. It weighed S0C pounds and was nearly six feet high. At the top was a cradle containing a sngar baby. It aroused the admiration and enthusiasm of four little girls. to whom the arrival of a baby brother has brought a new source of delight.
 Out of the park of 5000 acres, which makes place of sylvan loveliness in the midst of the black cornfields were crowds of miners and their wives. They saw elimpses of woodland temples, of white statues gleaming through the trees, of beautiful lakes in the parkland, on which the sunshine gleamed with golden light Then they saw on d gentle eminence the mansion of the Fotzwilliams, a long class ical building, with a front of 800 feet, and two great wings and in the center an inn rnense portico with all white pillars above flights of stone steps.
 Immense preparations had been made for the entertainment of the TOGO guests, and it took 300 walters to serve them.
 In the tents where the miners sat down to the long tables there was a great clat- ter verses speaking in the broad York shire dialect and roars of laughter that shook the tent poles. Glasses were raised to the health of the young heir, and when Earl Fitzwilliam came among them they sprang to their feet and gave such cheers as scared the rocks in the park.
 In the evening there was a great dis play of fireworks and high above the park rose swift rockets bursting like shells and scattering balls of colored light and golden shows of stars which were re- fected in the mirror of the broad lake The next day the miners went down into the black mines to dig more wealth for . the noble earl
 An old man who is said to be the last of Englands old post boys, William Hinnen, left the Midway union workhouse at the age of s4 to marry Fan ny Wadhams aged 80. The couple met a. the workhouse and by subscriptions and gifts a comfortable home has been fur nished for them. The church was crowd ed. thousands assembling in the street to catch glimpse of the interesting couple The old people were loudly cheered as they drove up in motor car.
 Sir John Macdonelis latest report on the law courts issued, contained a long anayisis of the divorce cases. The con cusion is:
 Divorce petitions in 1909 numbered 7s7, against s46 in 1908. but the decrees granted numbered 6S5, against 672.
 In almost one-half of the divorces the marriage has lasted from 10 to 20 years and in about one-third between i've and ten years. Petitioners for the most part belong to the middle classes. A small number are engaged in farming, mining, or domestic service.
 Out of 110 petitions S1 were by wives. But among merchant shippers, mates and seamen, postal employees, civil servants soldiers and naval seamen and police, the majority of the petitions were presented by husbands Out of the 35 petitions in- volving actors. musicians and the like g were by wives.
 In 70 per cent of the unhappy marriages there was no child. and in g per cent there was only one child of the union. Parents of six or more children were in- yolved in only ono of every 70 divorce cases. f
 The numbers of petitions from tho working classes was 27o, out of the total of 7s7, being slightly more than in 1908, and slightly fewer than in 1sN
 Probate of the will of Sir William Az new, the famous art dealer and connois- seur. has been granted in Manchester. .s The gross value of the personal and real estate as sworn was $l3,00O.00o. The only charitable bequest is sum of 5000 to the General Hospital and Dispensary for Sick Children at Pendlebury.s
 The will of Lord Winterstoke of Biag- don has been lodged for probate by tho executors. the estate being provlsionaliy sworn at $5.0oo000.
 The removal of the papper disqualifl- cation for old age pensions will not. ap- parently make much difference with many aked inmates of workhouses. From many Irish Poor Law unions reports are being made of the number of inmates who, af- though otherwise qualified for the pen sions. prefer to remain in the warehouses rather than attempt to live outside on 5 shfllings week. At tho Athy Board of Guardians 1t was stated that although F inmates were eligible for the pensions, only II were willing to leave the house in order to obtain their modest allow ance. At the close of 1910 there were nearly 30000 paupers in workhouses in England and Wales eligible for old age pensions. and as yet not more than 5000 of these have applied for their discharge.
 At tine West Derby Liverpool Board of Guardians 1t was stated that 73o inmates of the workliouse eligible for pensions would not leave the house In the Man chester union there are 437 persons in the workhouse qualified for pensions. and as vet not more than B have given notice of their Intention to leave. The Phest- wich workhouse has only 167 eligibles, of whom only s applied for discharge, and at wilmington, out of about aoo qualined inmates only 36 are leaving. The reason for this reluctance to leave Is simple
 To those who have friends or relatives outside willing to receive them the 5 shil- lings week might appear sufficient. But many of the aged inmates have been in these institutions a long time. They are y,racticallv friei,dlese many are feAnlA ar