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Show Unwritten Law Notable Instances ne T'abl, eot. and l! M ' " and .tj i ner. cur, and" Jlj and nln il;. Coast ouch nrlcc cuger h, ' Aent Application. Bereaved the Emperor ofAustria, Who Took jjo Revenge for the Killing of ffis Son Prince Baldwin of Belgium, Heir Apparent to the Throne, Violated Its Provi . sions, and Bis Slayer, an IndigWas Never nant Husband, Troubled by the Authorities It Has a Relation, Too, in n Countries to the Duel, Cheating and to Suicide, Recording to It the in a Divorce Case Is Ex-pect- ed to" Perjure Himself Like lafroaj HUks ltUk, ret 1( SU. ind Sll' 14 lion 4J iOrejoji OF Unless StanGentleman Was Actually ford White Caught iu tbe Act of Insulting t d Harry Thaw. Ber Was Not JustiBed in Killi' ng Ihm Under tbe Unwritten Mrs lids-han- La. the popular phrases of the there is none that language lgllsh more misused and misunderstood And aa that of unwritten law. t at the present time It Is on every-idy'- s lips In connection with the lal for murder of Harry K. Thaw. To Judge from popular comment, ie would imagine that Its Jurlsdic-jwas restricted exclusively to one at the most two particular classes But it covers a far homicide. almost rger ground and affects ery phase of our life. Among the several stories current incernlng the mysterious tragedy of eyerilng, which robbed the vener-ilemperor of Austria of his only n, the most accepted generally rslon is that he was slain by the ides of Baroness Marie Vetsera or se that he was subjected by them such bodily Injuries that he blew s brains out, the men having learned the princes Intention to cut adrift cm the girl, in compliance with his of edge to his parents. Instead arrying her aftter securing a from Crown Princess Stephanie. Of all MM inicec 'lnlm fcL Leu araoul linlni Ca b of richet is It Lake : SSQ 14-- 3 e irk. rin rocer.ef :x di-rc- e Like ince Baldwin Paid Penalty. leC it ti F CfU urefo' as, Fee eliet. WILU iwli replied the burly slon, extorted from him In a moment of exasperation and when smarting under a sense of Injustice, resulted In the ruin of his political career and in his being blacklisted by English society. Perhaps the most mortal of all sins In the eyes of unwritten law is unfair play at cards, and there are few families of birth and breeding on either side of the Atlantic who would not infinitely prefer to have a murderer among their relatives than a man who has been caught cheating at the card table. For It infilcts a stain upon the family escutcheon which can never be effaced, and which Is remembered against the house concerned from generation to generation. A man caught in the act of unfair play Is exempt from punishment by the tribunals of the land. But the penalty Imposed upon him by unwritten law Is Immeasurably more severe than anything that statute could devise. For instetad of being restricted to himself, It extends to those who are nearest and dearest to him, and he aide-de-cam- p hood had been a page of honor of Queen Victoria, had been graciously permitted to resign his commission In the army. How an Emperor Avenged a Blow, In the same way that European officers are debarred from fighting duels with people of the working classes, so are they precluded from meeting royal personages and crowned heads on the field of honor. If a young officer during a heated argument with some comrade of royal or Imperial rank receives a blow, he has no alternative but to blow his own brains out. On one memorable occasion Emperor Francis Joseph Intervened In person to prevent an act of of this kind. The late Archduke Otto, his nephew, while In a drunken freak to con- , of Its Application. to nd damned to you! old royal prince, swinging on his heel and ordering his In waiting to show the colonel to the door. A few days later It was announced that Col. Wellesley, who In his boy- man and race horse owner, In the apartments of Mrs. Deacon on that memorable night in the hotel at Nice, and shot him as he endeavored to conceal himself behind a sofa, he acted strictly In accordance with the demands of unwritten law, and it may safely be assumed that if he had been a Frenchman Instead of a foreigner, and an American at that, he would never have been sentenced to even the brief term of Imprisonment to which he was condemned. Unwritten Law and the Duello. Duelling Is even more strictly forbidden by law in England than on the continent. But if a member of the English diplomatic service, or an officer of the English army or navy, receives while abroad a challenge to fight, or Is made the subject of an Indignity calling for redress to fight, he is forced to resign not only his commission but also the membership of his clubs. Not even all the immense social Influence of colonel the Hon. Frederick Wellesley, brother of the late Earl Cowley, and now husband of the widowed Duchess of Wellington, was able to save him from a fate such as this while acting as charge daffaires of Great Britain at Vienna some 12 or 15 years ago. Col. Wellesley, who was also A. D. C. to Queen Victoria, became Involved In the Austrian capital in a quarrel about a woman with an Austrian nobleman, Count . ho resented to such an extent his behavior, as well as his remarks, that he struck him with his glove across tbe face and challenged him to fight. Wellesley refused, however, to accept the challenge on the ground that by so doing he would render himself liable to dismissal from the army, owing to the fact that the English articles of war prescribe the penalty of being cashiered for every officer Involved in a duel either as a principal or as a second. Called to Task by His General. Wellesley was at once relieved of his office of charge daffaires at the suggestion of the Viennese court, which did not relish the Idea of being compelled to accord diplomatic honors to a man who had thus shown the white feather, and shortly after his s return to London one of -- his of the Guards, Capt. John who had witnessed the affair Rt Vienna, brought the matter before the notice of the other members of the corps. In due course It reached the ears of the old duke of Cambridge, cousin of Queen Victoria and generalissimo of the British army. He sent for Col. Wellesley and asked him if it were true that he had taken shelter behind the army regulations to avoid FRANK A. BRIGGS. Paymasters Department Hae $2,911,-73of the Regulars Money. Abandoned Vessels Are a Constant Menace to Shipping. Even If our merchant marine Is languishing we still seem able to lead the world In derelicts. The great proportion of them are American vessels abandoned in American waters. Few are reported west of the sixtieth degree of longitude or south of the Bahamas, the Caribbean sea being very free from them. The reports to t the hydrographic office last month allowed no fewer than seven of these menaces afloat off the coast There was one off tbe New England coast; two off the coast of the Carollnas,. one each off the Virginia and Florida coasts, and one still farther out at sea. Lumber laden derelicts are the most It takes them a long troublesome. time to sink. One such reported In the early 60s drifted over 7,000 miles In 850 days. She was sighted 38 times during that period, showing that she was frequently putting herself in tbe way of charted ocean travel. Turn Against Woman Suffrage. H. G. Turner, the literary banker of Melbourne, Australia, has publicly proclaimed bis apostasy from the He advo cause of female suffrage. . MONUMENT DISPLEASES NEW ENGLANDERS fellow-officer- in the Avenue Louise, reign visitors are still shown a house, where Prince Baldwin of Igium, favorite nephew of King Leo-iand heir apparent to the throne, is killed by an indignant husband In princely but not royal rank. is Instance, however, the tragedy is followed by a separation of the ible couple Involved. Baldwin of dglum, In spite of his popularity, In Brussels, Del-acou- r, de-rte- d of last j fl cFFFFFJF OFFAFF COFiFFO FFF'FW. fWARO duct a bacchanalian party of men and women Into the apartments of his wife, the Archduchess Marie Josepha In order, as he explained, that they might see what an archduchess looked like In bed was stopped In the corridor leading to her apartments by I who drawing his j his to run through the j threatened sabre, body anyone excepting the archduke who endeavored to pass him. The crowd, sobered by the seriousness of the situation, hesitated and then withdrew. But the archduke was so beside himself with rage at being balked in his project that he struck the young officer a blow In the face. The matter was brought to the Immediate notice of the commander of the garrison, who communicated by telegraph with the emperor. Francis Joseph ordered that the young officer be prevented from doing, himself any harm, at all costs, hastened to the scene from Vienna and, having assembled all the principal offices summoned both his nephew, Archduke to Otto, and the young his presence. Apostrophizing the latter In his kindliest manner, he exclaimed: have to express my gratitude to you. the de sir, for having undertaken fense of my dear niece at a moment when she was In urgent need of your protection. In so doing you received a blow for which you yourself cannot obtain satisfaction and which you could not return. But I can redress that indignity for you; and with that he strode up to Archduke Otto, and before all present slapped his face, thereupon ordering him under arrest for a period of six months, and deprived him of his command. The decoyoung officer was promoted aid rated. But had It not been for the and for the emperors Interference manner In which he avenged the af front Imposed upon the young A. D. C.. the latter would have been comblown pelled by unwritten law to have out hli brains. Unwritten Law and Perjury. Perjury Is according to every criminal code of Europe a felony, yet the In a divorce case, no matter how guilty, le compelled by the unwritten law to perjure himself In the witness box like a gentleman." and failure to comply with this rewhich quirement entails an ostracism worse than as Is regarded by puny death, as one of the most eminent of English statesmen found to his cost In endeavoring to exculpate himself of the unfounded charge of havwoman ing betrayed a young married whom he had known from childhood, he admitted under examination that he had been gallty of too great in- confestimacy with her l other. Tbl aide-de-cam- 1 r rh m nRC nouns 1 Orro of a QurrJ discredit to bringing thereby Vienna, the famous of officers of the corps W ells belonged. he which ' to regiment to was obliged course, lev, of the of been ' guilty uthnrltles In connection there-'th- , admit that he had Then said the duke, you and remained a reapectod mem-i- charge. "f h' class, and of the comm uni-- f had better leave tbe army." exclaimed in "Leave the army, sir?" 1 general, and of society, both at to do If am whnt But and abroad. the colonel. " 'n the late Edward Parker Dea-,,- I leave the armv?" master found A. Abelile, the French club"Turn dancing universally rjPcftivsd his regarded as having deserts, and his assailant ketl upon ia having complied with requirements of the code of social hie. xor Was ha ever troubled by n - C 7 The American soldier Is not highly paid, yet he Is a thrifty chap. Last year 64,260 enlisted men saved and deposited with the paymaster's department $1,495,228. This is a respectable eum and represents about 12 per cent of the total pay of all tbe enlisted men for that period. Had every enlisted man made a deposit the average saving for the year would have been $27.50, but that la the least Interesting feature of the system. The figures show that the soldier can deposit, under the law of 1872, only sums of $5 and over. Aa the pay Is small, the total deposits for the year show that the saving habit la continuous with many enlisted men. These deposits bear Interest at the rate of four per cent a year, btt they can not be withdrawn until tbe soldier receives his discharge. Last year there was repaid to soldlera the sum of $1,168,236; Interest was also paid to the amount of $70,112. The number 01 men discharged Is not given, but the amount repaid shows that their average saving must have been considerable. Since the enacting of the law of 1872 the total deposits have amounted K-- altiraLi state The inied 1 Tbisa tbm . DERELICTS OF THE OCEAN. 8AVINGS OF THE SOLDIERS. aide-de-cam- pk NEW SENATOR FROM NEW JERSEY the consequence PWAftPfolGOF. has no alternative but either to kill himself or else to disappear and seek his fortune in some remote foreign country, where, disguised as to appearance, silent as to his origin, and under an assumed name, be passes his time In tear and trembling lest he should be recognized and be once more driven forth like the wandering Jew of old from his temporary refuge. Construed Insults. There are all sorts of minor provisions of the unwritten law which it would take too much time and space to enumerate here, but among which may be mentioned tbe rule which con strues it as an insult when a man In filling his neighbor's glass slant- the bottle backward instead of forward More than one sanguinary duel has been fought to the personal knowledge of the writer in Austria for a breach of etiquette of this kind. In the same way In the orient. If In showing the blade of a sword to an acquaintance one happens to turn the edge thereof toward him he will consider his honor Impugned, and If by any chance he Is a Japanese of rank he Is capable of going off and committing suicide by ripping himself open leaving a document stating that hav ing been Insulted honor demanded and that he should commit hara-kiri- , calling upon his nearest relatives to avenge him. In Relation to the Thaw Caee. With regard to the application 0!! the unwritten law to the case of Harry Thaw, there are several considerations to be noted In endeavoring to bring It to bear upon the tragedy of Madison Square root garden. If young Mrs. Thaw had been without any stormy antecedents, and had been subjected by Stanford White to Indig-nltlcand Insulting proposals since ber marriage, her husband would have been justified, according to the terms of tbe unwritten law, as understood abroad, In shooting him, though ol! course It would have been more chivalrous to have given him a chance ol! defending himself instead of taking htra at a disadvantage and unarmed. But, unfortunately, young Mrs. Thaw Is not without a past; that she was educated at the cost of White, and had known him first as a school girl, then ss a model, and finally as a chorus girl, for several years prior to her marriage, cannot be denied. Her relations with White before becoming Mrs. Thaw, and also her career In New York and Paris prior to her marriage were of a nature to debar her husband front (hooting White unlesa he had actually caught him In the very act of insulting her. That at least Is the status of the Thaw-Whitdrama from the point of view of unwritten law, New York World. e Tbe Tower at Elena, Italy. Design Bald to Have Been Boirfir Most Popular Design tor the Monument Architects and sculptors of Boston have been rather amused at the design for a memorial to the Pilgrim fathers at Provlncetown, which, It Is said, has been accepted by the committee having the matter In charge. This design Is simply a copy of tbe tower of the city hall or communal building of tbe city of Siena la Italy. Why this old tower of tbe late Gothic period In Tuscany should be selected as a model for the memorial to the Pilgrim fatbere down on Cape Cod la greatly puzzling architects. to $27,798,553 and discharged soldiers have received $1,682,993 In Interest on There remains deposits withdrawn. on deposit with the paymaster general tbe sum of $2,911,737. Water Is a Nerve Tonic." nervous women would only drink more water they would not be so nervous, remarked a trained nurse the other day. Nearly every phyBlclan will recommend a woman who Is suffering from nervous prostration or nervoua exhaustion to drink lots of water between meals, but many women who do not come under the doctors care would feel better and look better If they would drink, say, a quart of water In the course of a day. Water la a nerve food. It has a distinctly soothing effect when sipped gradually, as one can test for herself. If Probably. saw a picture of a dren who will be rulers day. Must be girl children, Houston Post 1 cated It for many years on the ground of equal rights for adults of both sexes; but now that it hat become an accomplished fact In Australia he Is Wb&t he disappointed. grievously saw and heard during the recent commonwealth general election revolutionized bis views on the aubjoct He draws a terrible picture of the effect of female suffrage In the constituency In which he lives. According to Mr. Turner, In this electorate evil has been wrought that It will take years to eradlcato. Dissension and disintegration have fallen upon the dome-ticircle. Lifelong friendships have been withered and an attitude of defiance has replaced that affectionate trustfulness which Is woman's rhlefest charm. A Redeeming Trait She There was, at least oae good thing to be said for Ananlae. He What was that I'd like to group of chil- know? When he was She (wltheringly) of men some caught lying, he didn't say he couldn't aren't they? help It; It was all Sapphlra's fault- .Baltimore American. |