Evening journal., 1913-05-15
GOSSIP OF THE COURTS
BY FL A N Z U r.

and uncqualled honesty. II is not
every European Socialist WHO is above
suspicion, but nothing can be urged
against Emile Vandervelde, and no
cry of Bourgeois goes up because he
has been known to sit at the burgo-
masters table The magic of the man
is seen best when he enters his own
element, la Maison du Peuple" Van
dervelde in no sense is a man of draw
ing rooms and courts, and in Parlia-
ment he seems perpetuslly conscious
that much mummery is at work But
at "Maison du Peuple" the
people-he is another and a happier
man.
AS soon as he enters the great CO.
operatives store he is greeted with
mods and smiles; rough-looking men
address him as citizen and ask him
how he is, using the familiar French
thou" ("tu') Beaming with pleas
ure, he leads his visitors into the cate
attached to the peoples building. I'd
drinks that curious beer, called faro"
Vandervelde loves the big store, its
bakeries and grocery rooms, but most
Of all. he loves the peoples theatre,
with its fine bioscope shows, curious
performances, where alternate cowboy
and comic adventures, on the one
hand, with pictures of industrial trag-
edy on the other Pleasure and Re-
volt under the same roof.
The cafe and the theatre are the
places where Vandervelde finds him
self expressed, for he loves the people,
when they are happy, more than when
they are sorry. There is no rigidity
in him; he detests puritanism, as he
detests no less the bourgeoisie, "its
prejudiccs, its ill-will, its scepticism,
and its obstinate inertia. III he is a
leader and maker of men, it is because
he loves life and seeks to make il
finer; if life would be little better
Vanderyelde would not be tribune,
for he is a lover of life, of, as he him
self calls it beautiful and generous
youth"
That is why he could not bear this
waste of youth and life; why today he
is marshaling the workers against a
system from which he has ceased to
hope for justice and equality. His
"cne-man one-vote" slogan led to vic
tory Though very reluctant in insti-
tHting the political strike, it is very
characteristic of the man that he was
doing it all the same. for whatever
the consequences, once begun, Wander
Nelde is not of those who run away.
King Alfonso is credited with form
ing a collection of objects associated
with the various attempts against his
life. Among other items he possesses
the teat of feeding bottle, with which
an attempt was made TO poison him at
the age of months the walking stick
with which discontented servant
tried to brain him; pieces of the bomb
thrown at him in Barcelona; the skel-
eton of one of the horses killed by
the bomb attempt in the Rue de Rivoli,
Paris. and fragments collected in the
street after the explosion of the in
fernal machine hurled at the royal
carriage on his wedding day
A small Roman farm similar 10
others traced in various parts of Wilt
shire, England. has been discovered at
Cranborne Chase. on the border line
of Dorsetshire. The farm, which was
nincty-siX acres in extent, was sur
rounded by a low earthen inclosure
while the buildings, consisting Of a
dwelling house, bake house and gran
airy. were in a quadrangle 150 feet by
so feet and inclosed with a ditch
Among the remains found were a
quantity of corn. bones of horses and
oxen, a large number of fragments OF
New Forest, Samiam, and other earth
enware, including perfect jug, pots
a Purbeck marble vessel. spindle
wheels, knifeblades. and coins from
Gallienus to Constantine.
Inside the ditch is barrow belong
ing to the bronze age The discoveries
were the result of excavations made
with the permission of the owner
Lord Shaftesbury.
(Copyright. 1913. by A. d. Jacobson }