The Washington herald., 1913-05-15
Court Gossip of Interesting
Events on Two Continents

and In Parliament he seems perpetually
conscious that much mummery is at
work. But at "Maison du PeupIe"-
among the people-he is another and a
happier man.
AS soon as he enters the great CO.
operative 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 ..tbo,I''
c'tu'D. Beaming with pleasu he leads
his visitors into the cafe attached to
the peoples building, and drinks that
curious beer, called faro" Wander
veide loves the big store, its bakeries
and grocery rooms, but most of all, he
loves the peoples theater, with its fine
bioscope shows, curious performances,
where alternate cowboy and comic ad-
ventures. or the one hand, with pictures
lof industrial tragedy on the other.
Pleasure and Revolt" under the same
roof.
The cafe and the theater are the
places where Vandervelde finds himself
expressed, for he loves the people, when
they are happy, moro than when they
are sorry. There is no rigidity in him:
he detests puritanism, as he detests no
less the bourgeoisie, Its prejudices, its
ill-will, its scepticism, and it's obstinate
inertia If he is a leader and maker
of men, 1t is because he loves life and
seeks TO make 1t finer; if life would be
little better Vandervelde would not be
tribune, for he is a lover of life, of,
as he himself calls it, beautiful and
generous youth
That is why he could not bear this
waste of youth and life; why today ne
is marshalng the workers against a sys-
tenn from which he has ceased to hope
for justice and equality. His "one-man
| one-vote" slogan led to victory. Though
very reluctant in instituting the political
strike. 1t Is very characteristic of the
man that he was doing it all the same.
for whatever the consequences, once be-
gun. Vandervelde is not of those who
run away.
King Alfonso is credited with forming
| a collection of objects associated with
the various attempts against his life
Among other items. he possesses the tear
of a feeding bottle, with which an at
tempt was made to poison him at the
age of eight months: the walking stick
with which a discontinued servant tried
to brain him, pieces of the bomb thrown
at him in Barcelona, the skeleton of one
of the horses killed by the bomb attempt
in the Rue de Rivoli, Paris. and frag-
ments collected in the street after the
explosion of the Internal machine hurled
day.
a small Roman farm, similar to others
traced in various parts of Wiltshire, Eng
land. has been discovered at Cranborne
Chase. on the border line of Dorsetshire.
The farm, which was ninety-six acres in
extent, was surrounded by low earthen
Enclosure, while the buildings. consisting
of a dwelling house, bake house. and
granary, were in a quadrangle $50 feet
by 50 feet and inclosed with a ditch
Among the remains found were a guam
tity of corn. bones of horses and oxen,
large number of fragments of New
Forest. Samian. and other earthenware.
including a perfect jug. pots, a Purbeck
marble vessel, spindlewheels, knifeblades,
and coins from Gallienus to Constan-
tine.
Inside the ditch is a barrow belonging
to the bronze age. The discoveries We're
the result of excavations made with the
permission of the owner, Lord Shaftes-
bury. FLANECR-