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Show NOTED JOCKEY CLUB SEEKSJISIDEU Exclusive French Organization Organiza-tion Mourns Death of Its Able and Titled Chief. PLACE HARD TO FILL Thousand Members Bound by Strictest Regulations of Prescribed Formality. PARIS, Nov. 1. The death of the' Duke de Fczensac, head of tho great fontesfjuiou family, renders vacant the important office of pro3idout of the French Jockey club, ono of tho world's most exclusive clubs. Founded in 1S33 on the same lines as the English Jockey club by tho celebrated cel-ebrated Lord Henry Seymour, it numbered num-bered among its fourteen foundation members tho Duko of Orleans, tho i Duke .of Nemours, Princo of tho Mos-kowa Mos-kowa and Count Lcmidoff. High social so-cial position and largo fortune havo always al-ways boon indispcnsablo conditions of membership; one black ball in six suffices suf-fices to exclude. The etiquette of the club is of tho strictest, and a long period pe-riod of mourning will clapso before the election of the new president takes placo. Tlo post is not an caBy ono to fill. Needs Are Numerous. First, there are the social qualifications, qualifica-tions, which are many; secondly, tho successful candidate must dovoto much time to his duties. Both the late Duke de Fcnzousac and his predecessor, tho Duko de Doudeauville, wero admirable in theso respcctB. The president Is usually taken from among tho four vico prosidents, but of these at present pres-ent two are considered too elderly and neither of tho other two seems to have onough weight for tho post. Tho Jockey club has a predilection for mombors of Fronch noblo families, and outside of royalties, admits comparatively compara-tively fow foreigners. Thero aro at present a thousand members; but it is only on raro occasions that anything liko that number assembles. Tho club is a solemn and dignified institution. It nevor gives entertainments and women wom-en aro raroly, if ever, admitted. Unusual Protectorate. "America's first step toward a new policy,', is the way Georgo Scello, professor pro-fessor of international law in tho University Uni-versity of Dijon, describes tlw Portor proposal which resulted in the international interna-tional convention of 1907 on tho coercive coer-cive recovering of contract debts from defaulting states. This policy has resulted, re-sulted, tho professor writos in the Franco-American Itoviow, in a do facto protoctorato of the United States ovor several Latin-American countries. The "protoctorato" must not bo taken In its ordinary sense, bb "implying tho giving up "of interior govcrnmont and especially tho control of exterior relations rela-tions to tho agents of the protoctor who aro ostensibly installed in tho administration adminis-tration of the protectod country." Regarded Imperialistic "Tho recent interventions of tho United States," says he. "in Central America, in San Iomingo, Ilonduras, Nicaragua and Mexico, recall attontion to the constant manifestation of North American imperialism in tho affairs of the Latin states. This coercive action coinos about as a result of disordor. It takes a logical course according to tho circumstances of the case, appearing at ono timo as a political intervention, or at another in tho form of tutolago, financial in principle, political in of-foct, of-foct, pacific in result, which one scarco-lv scarco-lv knows how to classify among the institutions of international law. Notwithstanding Not-withstanding criticism directed t against this policy, it appears impossible to donv that' tho work undertaken Ib one of civilization." Lioutonant Colonel B. Picard finds thut tho firing of ono shell of tho twelve-Inch nuval gun costs 4350 francs, or about $970. This amonnt is divided as follows: Tho cost of the projectile, which weighs 440 kilo-grains kilo-grains (about 070 pouuds), is 1500 francs ($300). The chnrgo weighs 135 kilograms (about. 207 pounds), and costs 1100 francs (about $220). Tho gun costs 350,000 francs (about $70,-000). $70,-000). Taking tho life of tho gun as 200 shots, each shot would cost 1750 francs, or about $350. |