The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1913-11-22


5apdsa school teacher FOR twenty-nine
years and now fhs Womens funi-
cipal party and tie dueh sEaFl
ibofoag hay etthe1nselye the task
81 seeing that elected & the
borough council. They viii dostle
same in an municipal elections Of
The future in which women caldt5
dates are concerned. The party IS a
'no1- party" organization. It supS
ports neither Conservative, Liberal,
Socialist, s~uffragist nor noh-spftFa-
gist; it is simply a women's party
with the watchword: "Reform-Pro-
griess." Men take no part, except TO
vote, all the canyassers, committee,
agents and poll clerks being women.
This is not the first time that the.
duchess has made acquaintance with.
the poorer districts Of London. She
has been carrying on for some time.
in Whitechapeel. and elsewhere, a
work on behalf Of the wives and
children of criminals, who have been
looked after at homes established by
her during the incarceration Of the
bread winner of the family.
Lives of King Edward.
Three lives of King Edward VII
have been published since the death
Of that monarch, one written by his
chauffeur. They all have been in
teresting and gossipy, but in high
circles they are considered a. dealing
lust a little to Familiarity with the.
"Peace Maker" Not one gave a SER
ious estimate of King Edwards
achievements during his reign and,
to cover this deficiency King George.
his son, has commissioned Lord Rose
berry, in conjunction with Lord
Knollys; to prepare a life OF Edward.
The task will not be easy. King Ed
ward, unlike his mother, Queen VIC
toria, never kept a diary, and as most
Of his successes as a diplomat were
made in conversations with the ruI-
ers and foreign ministers of the courl-
tries with which he dealt, there is
little data to go on.
9 Full Squadron. 49,,
j, England now possesses a fnIl
SQUADRON OF eight battleships of the
superdreadnoaght type, the most
compact and poverty fighting force
in the world.
These eight ships, which mount in
the aggregate eighty 1875 inch guns,
cost the British nation something
over $40, 900, 900, but after all they
form only a part Of the British fleet.
The Ajax, the commissioning Of
which completed this squadron, was
the eighteenth battleship of the
dreadnought era to take her place
in the fleet that guards these coasts,
and It Is less than eight years since
the first dreadnouglt was laid down.
England has therefore spent in bat
tleships and battIe1cruisers alone IN
those eight years upward of $780,
100000, and each year>her ships,
each being an improvement over the
last, are costing her more
Causes Talk.
The publication by Lord Eyersley,
a former member Of Mr.. Gladstone's
cabinet, of the circumstances under
which the government refused to
post of minister! at Washington to
Henry Laboucherei has s caused a
good deal of talk in political circles.
As is well known Queen Victoria
refused to have Mr.. KLabouchere
among her advisers. He was conse-
uuently barred from cabinet rank,
Just as have been other clever men
for having made slips or having
faults which the sovereign OF the day
refused to overlook. Mr.. Laboucherc
always posed as a man who never
office, but Lord Eversley shows that
he did ask Lord Rosebery then Sec
rotary of State for foreign Affairs
for the washington post, and be-
cause he did not get it never for
gave his old politictI ally, although
as It turns out, the cabinet and not
Lord Rosebery, refused to make the
appointment.
Lord Rosebery brought the matter
to the attention of the cabinet by
reading a letter from Labouchere, in
which the latter said that not haV-
ing been admitted 10 the new gov"
ednmcnt, and feeling the advance oil
wears, he had no wish to remain long
or In the. House. Of Commons. He
added that If he remained his bust
ness would be, as it, always had
been, to attack the existing govern
ment, and it was therefore to the IN
terest of ministers that he should
withdraw. He had been thinking
over what was possible for him. as
n justification for giving up MS
seat, and had come to the conclns-
ion that the post best suited for MN
was that Of Minister at Washington
Lord Rosebery said that If the caOl-
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