TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT, JUNE 15. 1911*
Norman French Still Used In
Lawmaking In England.
RUSSIAN
OFFICIAL
FARCES.
Amusing History of a Royal Daily Ra
tion of Rum and the Astonishing
Story of a Stolid Sentry and an In
nocent Grass Plot.
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In Europe there is perhaps nothing
more astonishing to tbe American
mi nd than the persistency with which
certain old customs are maintained.
The Romans, for instance, keep up the
saturualia of tbelr ancient pagan HQ
i cestors in a harmless way, and tbe
; Florentines go on one morning of the
, year to catch crickets tn the grass
\ simply because lhe Etruscans did the
, same thing 2.000 years ago.
John Bull bus always bad an affec-
' tion for the old ways. So persistent
is be in keeping to the forms and
iraditloas of tbe past tbat bis French
neighbor over tbe way has dubbed lhe
Cm ted Kingdom a "museum of an
tiquities" among modern nations.
It is somewhat odd that the Norman
French of Edward the Confessor
should still be tbe language, tbe le
gal voice, of purllament, blit so It Is
In a way Whenever a bill has passed
the commons tbe clerk before be
forwards It to tbe bouse of lords
writes upon it, according to tbe ancient
usage. "Solt bailie aux seigneurs"
(I.et It be sent to the lords). If It Is
sent from tbe peers to tbe commons it
bears tbe like Indorsement, "Solt bailie
aux communes'* (Let it be sent to tbe
commons).
Should a bill pass both bouses It
needs only tbe royal assent to become
a law. Here the Norman French ap
pears again. The commons, summon
ed by tbe usher of the black rod. are
admitted to the bar of tbe bouse of
lords to bear tbe statement of bls
majesty’s commissioners.
When all
are assembled tbe lord cbancellor
makes a sign to bls assistant who
reads tbe title of tbe bill and then
says In a loud voice, "Le rol le veult"
(Tbe king wills It). In tbe case of
financial bills tbe form Is this: "Le
rol remercle see bon* sujets, accept«
leur benevolence, et alnsl le veult*'
(Tbe king thanks bls good subjects,
accepts tbelr faith and so wills It).
For private bills the form is, "Solt
fait comme II est desire" (I-et It be
done as Is desired). Sometimes. if the
bill Is of special Importance, the sanc
tion of bls majesty Is given In person.
In sueb a case tbe king, seated on tbe
throne at one end of tbe chamber,
bows bls assent as the clerk reads the
title.
The inflexibility of Russian official
orders has resulted In some queer nud
needless fixtures In the official sys
tem. Quite a ludicrous discovery of ibis
sort was made by the Empress Cath
erine, who was the mother of that Em
peror Paul wbo was assassinated In
1801. Catherine at one time whs tn
spired by some passing whim of econ
omy to scrutinise tbe Imiierial house
keeping Hceounts To bet amazement,
she found among other quet-t Items tbat
'one bottle of rum dally" wu* charged
to tbe heir apparent Inasmuch as her
son. N'aalednlk. then a young man. bad
never evinced any signs of Intemperate
habits, bls mother was greatly as
tonished. Going over tbe accounts to
ascertain how long this sort of thing
had been euduring. sbe found to ber
still greater astonlabment tbat tbe aald
expenditure went back to tbe day of
bls birth, and. Indeed, far beyond IL
So. It appeared, tbe betr to the
throne bad not only been charged with
drinking over thirty dozen bottle* of
Uno Jamaica rum ever since be waa
born, but for ■ long time before that
It la hardly necessary to add that tbe
empress made a thorough Investiga
tion of this queer entry. Finally, by
the aid of an antiquarian, she at last
reached tbe original entry.
A century or so before the Imperial
physician bad prescribed for tbe Nae-
lednik of tbe period, “on account of a
violent toothache, a teaspoonful of
rum. to bo taken with sugar." Thia
dose was given for several days In
succession, and tbe nurse In charge
bad deemed It more fitting to tbe Im
perial dignity, as wsll as more profit
able to herself, to purchase a new bot
tle of rum each day. No one bad ever
given tbe order to discontinue tbe pur
chase. and It bad gone on for a era
tury. tbe rum having constituted one
of the perquisite« of tbe court ours«.
When Bismarck during tbe term of
bls mission as ambassador at fit
Petersburg was walking one after
noon in tbe summer garden be met tbe
emperor wbo Invited the diplomatist
to continue bls stroll with him Koon
Rlsmank noticed a sentry stationed
In tbe middle of a large grass plot He
asked wbat tbe soldier was doing
there The czar did not know Tlte
aid decamp did not know Ko Inquiry
was made of tbe sentry himself
“It la ordered," was bis reply.
Every official gave the same an
pwer. “It is ordered." bnt nobody
knew by whom A sentry had always
stood guard In the middle of that Is
norent gras« plot The archives were
searched, bat in vain. Finally an aged
official was found who gave tbe ex
I planation. He had had It from hie
| father tbat tbe Empress Cathertae
| bad once seen a snowdrop ready te
bloom In that plot aod had ordered a
sentry to stand guard aod allow «s
one to pluck IL For more than a cen
tury the watch bad been maintained
tec*use “It was ordered” *nd l*r»nae
no one toad ever dreamed of dlaoi eying
tbs order or questioning any <>ne as te
therefor.—New fork Prase.
CHANGING A QUARTER.
THE OLD BATES HOUSE.
What Yau May Do With a Twonty-fiue
Cant Piec* In Tangiar.
Tbe traveler wbo goes ashore at
Tangier la likely. If be wanders about
alone, to meet himself coming back to
the same starting place. His souvenir
postal cards may be mailed at four
separate postotfices, with different
stamps on each. Or, writes Mr. E. A.
Forbes In "Tbe Land of the White Hel
met,” at a British hotel be may ex
change French money for Spanish
postage and mail bls letter in a Ger
man postotfiee. But he may not put
British, French, German and Spanish
stamps on the same letter, for that
might lead to International compli
cations.
He may also do coin tricks equal to
those of the prestidigitators. Let him
take an Americau quarter dollar and
exchange it for English money. He
now hus a shilling and a ha'penny
over.
He may exchange the shilling for a
French frauc and receive 3J or 49
centimes iu change. Tbe franc may
be traded for a Spanish peseta, plus
20 centimos In copper. The Spanish
peseta may now be converted Into a
Moorish peseta, “hassanl." with •
handful of copper to boot.
He now has his pockets weighted
down with English. French. Spanish
nnd Moorish copper, yet he can buy
just as much from a Moor with his
hassanl peseta as he could have bought
with his original quarter.
In a thoughtless moment one day 1
held out a hassanl peseta to the Ameri
can vice consul genernl at Tangier «nd
asked him how much it was worth.
“A hassanl peseta,” he replied glib
ly. “is worth ten dbtrems or twenty
half dhlrems.”
“And twenty half dhlrems equal"—
“Two or three cents less than a
Spanish peseta,” he answered. "But
you must remember that tbe valuation
of Moorish silver fluctuates from day
to day; at times it Is officially worth
only a third of its face value.”
"Today Is Thursday,” I said in des
peration. “The hour is 1:45 p. m.
Would you mind telling me how much
this hassanl is worth In American
cents at this moment?"
“I'll figure It all out for you," he
answered.
At 2:30 he was still figuring, so 1
crept softly out and wandered into a
Moorish tea house. There 1 spent the
hassaul In riotous living.
A Hotel That One* Startled Indianape-
'i* With it* Innovations.
I remember tbat when Indianapolis
became u great railroad center and •
city of enormous proportions—popula
tion from 15,000 to 20,000, according
to the creative capacity of tbe imagina
tion making the estimate—a wonderful
hotel was built there and called tbe
Bates House.
Its splendors were the subject of
woudcrlug commeut throughout the
wesL It had washstands with decorat
ed pottery on them in all its more ex
pensive rooms so that a guest *ojouru-
Ing there ne>-d not go down to tbe
commou washroom for his morning
ablution and dry bls hands and face
on a jack towel.
There were combs and brushes In
tbe rooms, too, so tbat If one wanted
to smooth bis hair be was not obliged
(o resort to tbe uppllances of that sort
tbat were hung by chains to tbe wash
room walls.
Moreover. It a man golug to the
Bates House for u sojourn chose to pay
a trifle extra be might have a room all
to himself.
But all these subjects of wonder
ment shrink to nothingness by com-
parisou when tbe proprietors of the
Bates House printed op tbelr break
fast bills of fare an announcenu ut that
thereafter each guest's breakfast would
be cooked after bls order for It was
given, together with an apiwnl for
patleuce ou tbe part of tbe breakfast-
era—a patience that the proprietors
promised to reward with hot and fresh
ly prepared dishes.
This Innovation was so radical tbat
It excited discussion hotter even than
tbe Bates Hou^e breakfasts. Opinion*
differed a* to the right of a hotel keeper
to make his guest* wait tor the cook
ing of their breakfasts. To some minds
tbe thing presented Itself as an In
vasion of personal liberty and there
fore cf tbe constitutional rights of the
citizen. — Edward Eggleston’s "ltecol-
lectlous."
A FRAGRANT TRAIN.
Cut Flower Limited Expr*** a Unique
Feeturo In Francs.
Every night during the winter
months a special train, popularly call
ed the “Raplde des Fleurs'*—the cut
flower limited express-of ten cars,
leaves Toulon for Parts over tbe line
of tbo Paris, Lyons and Medlterraueau
railway, carrying cut flower* In I .as
ked« and cardboard boxes from all
stations on the line from Nice to Tou
lon to tbe Pari* markets
Certain
car* are switched off to Frankfort.
Berlin nnd Munich; other* continue to
Brussels and others to Calais, where
tbelr perishable freight Is rushed to
lhe tnnrkel* of I-ondon and Mae-
Chester.
Certnln shipment* reach Bt Peters
burg and Vienna, nnd lhe facilities
thus offered the flower growers of
southern France are unique In the
triins|H>rtatl<>n world
A special train
crew sorts tlie*e tells of thousands of
parcels en route, lhe eight or len
sorter* handling the basket* a* care
fully us Hie mail* are handled
Tile cut Hower industry of souther«
Frame Itegtlli with the luipetiis first
given by Alphonse Karr, the wrtval«
Jnrdlnler. a* *.e wu* known «lieu IM
M*itle«l in HL Raphael In th* latter
pari of the Inst century
Today tbe violet* of 11 yere*, like tha
rones and carnation* of Antibes and
tbe narcissus and R-uiuin hyacinths of
Ollloules. Le I’radet and Carqnleranno.
are found In the shops of Paris scarce
eighteen houra after tbej were grow
ing In tbe often air on the Mediterra
nean shores
GRANT WAS JESTING.
But th* Plucky Southern Woman Wti
In Deadly Earne*t.
During his Virginia campaign Gen
erul Graut found it necessary one day
to encamp some of bls troops on the
beautiful pro|M'rty of a Mrs. Btouton
nnd also to take a room In the house
for his own accommodation. He did
so, however, with great tact and
gentleness, quite winning tbe heart of
the estimable lady. As be prepared to
depart be turned to ber.
•'Now. Mrs. Btouton. we've enjoyed
your hospitality very much. nnd I'm
prepared to pity the bill.*’ said Grant.
Sbe protested, but the geuerul assur
ed her that It was a business transac
tion and she wns entitled to fair com
peusatlon for tbe supplies they had
consumed nnd the comfort they bad
enjoyed. Sbe named the amount, and
then the general said, with a roguish
twinkle in the eye:
"Now. Mr*. Btouton. would you like
it In United States banknotes or In
Confederate money?”
She pressed her lips together, her
eyes flashed Are. and without a mo
meat's hesitation she said:
"In Confederate money,"
Grant looked at her with admlrtt
tlon.
“I was only Jesting,” be began softly
"I was not,” sbe quickly Interrupted.
“I am In earnest—deadly earnest I've
made my choice, and I'll abide by the
consequences.”
And Grant, with bls eyes full of ad
miration for the pluck of the southern
woman, paid her In Confederate
money —Ladle»' Home Journal.
A Q*noral’* Last Order.
It Is over a hundred years since Gen
eral Mallet wns shot for a conspiracy
■ gainst Napoleon The circumstances
of hl* denth (told by Mr. G. Duval In
“Shadow* of Old Paris”) were curious
He had nsked that in consideration of
hl* past services to tbe nation he
might give the command to Are to the
soldiers wbo were to execute him "As
they lifted tbelr muskets to take alm
the general's practiced eye discovered
a want of unison In their movements
which be reproved, ordering them to
repeat it properly, and with tbe word
•Fire!* on hl* ll|>* he fell, pierced bj
tbe bullets of twenty muskets."
Praci**.
“1 Jump up and down when I'ni
happy." declare«! tbe small girl from
New York. and. according to the Untie
rille Courier Journal, the Bouton child
looked at ber gravely and replied
“I can Imagine your j'imping up. but
I think tbe law of gravitation must Ire
responsible for the alternating de
fr-ent.”
Cut*n*M of Madmen.
1« Mr William Butler's autobiog
raphy there is sn amusing story about
six insane soldier* wbo escnited while
tbe con*oral wbo had brought them on
beard tbe trooper was leaving at Dur
ban and who mingled with the I .SOO
sane men on tbe decks. Tbe prob
lem of the voyage waa to find who
were tbe six madmen
By tbe time
tbe boat reached Cape Town twenty-
six men were officially under observe-
tioa. and not ooe of the six waa among
them
In tbe end the crazed half
doseu were Identlffed aa those wbo
had taken an especially eager part In
tbe lunatk- UunL
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Net Hie Language.
Lord Bebeou, at the dinner of the
(Mamorgan «octety. told lhe story of a
Welsh witness In a Glamorganslilrw
eaae wbo. having been sworn to »|mak
tbe troth, the whole truth anil nothing
but tbe truth, was a«k«^i if tie <<>u!<l
apeeh Engltab or would like an in
terpmer
"Me." he replied; "I «-an
apeak aooie English, but I cannot
apeeh the truth, the «hole truth, uixl
eetbtng bat the truth **-Hl James
Gaaette.
Bead Follow»)«.».
'
. Biggs--Ton should Join our club, old
! man. If only for the good fellowship
dt tbe thing
Mlgg* I hitend to
brown »nr of your memlter*. took
H«*ut be
, ■y name only last week
1 Mid anything about It? Bigg-»- No;
kre don't *|ieak to Mcb other.-Itostoa
Transcript.
Important Distinction.
Oangor* »< C*e4lo*«"->«*-
■'What do you think of our patient?"
Lion Tamer (to assistant.-Tott've
asked one alienist.
•■Wholly Irresponsible.*' replied the left hie rage often again One of these
day* some one will come along and
other
“Mentally or In money mattera?"- «teal him.-Ixundon Upluloe
Washlngton Hl ar
Mor* Like a Lever
Mis* Sweet —My brother I* wedded
A Fiend
Mrs Mnnlch- Wedded?
Mr» Gramercy-It's awful to have te bl* art
Nonsense* He’s perfectly devoted to
a husband with whom you're quarrel
Ing all the time Mrs Park- Mine 1» , IL—Exchange
worse He’s get to tbat stage where I
be abaoiulely refaaes to quarrel.-New i One life, a little gleam of time he-
tween two »temiti*« -Cartyla
York Time«