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THE CHINA MAIL,
LORD PROTECTOR IN A NEW LIGHT.
[By Herbert Vivian.] This article has been compiled from papera
in Continental
Court as Lord Keeper, but retain- ing that of the masses by Hie Prov testant views. Now, Mrs. Cromwell had been a great friend of his fa- vourite niece during their school- days. Good news, the girt was now living at the Deanery and délight- ad to see her old friend, eager to do anything she could for her or her husband. And Mrs. Cromwell
THE LONDONER.
PAYS £100 A YEAR MORE THAN IN "THE COUNTRY.”.
IS IT WORTH IT?
Is it cheaper to live in London
archi by the well-known his remembered that her marriage set.than in a small provincial town?!
torial.
Mr. D. C. Jones, of the Liver tlement had been signed "Oliver
of Social pool University School Cromwell allas Williams"; so she Elizabeth Bourchier,; Cromwell's
Statistical Society in London, said wife, had been attracted in the first impressed upon him the wisdom of Science, in a lecture to the Royal claiming relationship with his
the household. budgets of 285 instance by Oliver's ambitious tem namesake (Cromwell's great-grand- families with incomes of between per, and all the wooing had been on her side. In his youthful inter./father was a Jaw' named Robert 2400 and 5500 a year appeared to course with rustic maidens in the Willams). An interview was soon give the lie direct to the idea that Fess he had been wont, as Heath aranged, and Oliver Cromwell, alias living is less costly, in a small
Williams, pulled out his family tree, town. tells, to "ravish a kiss of some low-found no difficulty in persuading Londoners and many people_liv- der satisfaction from them,"
felt like Bishop Willams that they must be ing in towns within easy reach of must and he
have
kinamen. His lordship was most London, disagree. They point to of water when fish. out when found himself in a City gracious, insisted on Mr. and Mrs. the large numbers of London bust- Cromwell staying to dinner, toast-ness and professional mon and ed them both as cousins in a glass women who find it cheaper to live of his oldest wine.
A
Cyrus Locher, Commerce. Di. rector of Ohio, who has been ap pointed by Governor Denahey to n the place left vacant by tho death of Senator Frank B. Wala. Mr. Locher is a Democrat.
dowry.
..
Mrs. Cromwell and the Bishop.
"Now I have found you, my dear cousin," he said to Oliver, "I am loth to let you go, but as you have made up your plans, I will give you letters to the King of Sweden and the Prince of Orange; when you return I must see what I can do to further your interests."... The fact was that the Bishop was delighted to speed Oliver on his way, for he had conceived a passion for Mrs. Cromwell at first sight. Though she had had so many chil dren, she was still young or at- least of that age which many deem n' young married woman's prime, active, aprightly, full of fascinating wiles, and quite without scruples. According to Leti, she remained in London all through her husband's absence, and the Bishop paid her many visits, keeping them very secret to avoid scandal. And the friendship lasted, with Oliver's ap- proval, till the time of the Bishop's disgrace,
Dangerous Rival's Wife.
B. Parker Gilbert, United States. Representative on the Reparations Commission, which la endeavoring to solve the reparations question in Europe, recently arrived in Faris from Rome, where he has been This engaged in consultationE. new portrait of Mr. Gilbert was inken immediately after his arrival in Paris,
All she thought about was get ting on in the world, and she never: allowed anything so petty as jea- lousy to interfere with her plans. Indeed, she actively encouraged her Mrs. furrier's parlour. So the furrier'a
intrigue with husband's daughter had smoothed every ad-Lambert, the wife of his most dan- vance, and taken advantage of his gerous rival, while Cromwell may love for money to hint at a good have been actuated rather by diplo
macy than passion in the affair. She had no success in keeping When her maid Taget commented outside London and travel 30 miles him from wine and women friends
hia friendship with Mrs. or more to and from their work,
Men and women employed in when they settled at Huntingdon, Lambert, Mrs. Cromwell merely but she usually had her way in laughed and said: "Over-scrupu provincial towns declare that they other matters through her superior lous women never make their for would not accept similar employ- foreign historian, tunes." She hoped, her husbandment in London except at bigger Nicholas Comnenae Pappadopoulo, would find out many important salaries, because of greater travel- in "Historia Gymnasii Patavina secrets-through-the-lady, who hading expenses and higher rents, says he owed his "throne" to his other lovers, and if Cromwell were rates, and cost of gas, electricity.
and amusements. wife, "always governing by or kept buay she would have ampler through her," and he profited more opportunities for her own flirta- than once by his complacency in her intrigues.
craft. A
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tions.
.
Mrs.
The chief trouble was to induce Cromwell to respond to Lambert's advances, for he was too much wrapped up in his ambitions to take much notice of women. However, the fair lady forced her caresses upon him and used to hang about outside his camp, and he sometimes strolled with her at dusk.
She persuaded him to play the part of King David and send her husband to the Scots front.
Missed by the Historians. Au instance occurred in 1632, when be attempted to go and fight for Gustavus Adolphus. It is odd how that journey has escaped the historians. By pure coincidence, Carlyle wrote of this period apropos de bottes. "While Oliver Cromwell walked peacefully intent on cattle- husbandry that winter day on the grassy banks of the Ouse at St. Ives, Gustavus Adolphus, shot Lambert was a crabbed man, "of through the back, was sinking frem
a melancholy humour, and little his horse in the battle-storm far likely to inspire the affection of a off." As a matter of fact, while woman some thirteen years his Gustavus Adolphus was falling, junior, who was very fond of com- Cromwell had already reached The pany and fine clothes," but be Hague on his way to the front. seems to have been jealous and Gregorio Leti, the author of an made a certain attempt to defond Italian Life of Cromwell in 1694, is himself. "Very well" he said, "if the only person to tell us it.
I am to go to the Scots border I He provides an historical scoop. shall take my wife with me." Far from being "intent on cattle- Cromwell; however, countered this husbandry," at this period of his with a general order from Parlia life Cromwell was wondering. whe- ment forbidding officers to take ther to go and reek his fortunes in their wives to their posts of duty. New England. This black Ouse was really beyond endurance! Melancholia and hypochondriašis were his portion. Wild dreams, visions, voices, had already begun to haust his dark and distracted mind.
Poverty and Anxiety.
An Open Flirtation.
Cheaper Houses. Among the views obtained by a Daily Mail" reporter in a number
of town's wers:
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But Lambert grew restive. Kind friends wrote and told him of the open flirtation, how the soldiers were gossiping about it, thought it odd that so busy a man as Cromwell
Mexico City Yesterday. should find time for dalliance, but the more charitable supposed him rebels operating near Guadalajara have captured two Americans, The pinch of poverty troubled to be engaged on some secret ser Him, too, and another anxiety spur- vice. Then came the bombshell W. M. Mitchell and a Mr. Cooper, red on his desire to depart. This that Mrs. Lambert was expecting and are holding them to ransom great fecundity of his wife," says to become a mother and Lambertor 18,000 pesos. They threaten to blunt Leti," was far from pleas rushed back, burning for a scandal, them if the ransom is not ing him, for he foresaw that he and to repudiate the child, and would soon have more children there was an angry scenes but than he could afford to bring up. Cromwell told him of a law that, Consider the ceaseless sprouting of however long man remained his olive-branches-Robert in Oc-aws,, he was bound to recognize Mesquitaldcloro Mines, the property tober, 1621, Oliver in February, his wife's offspring uniese he had of the Pacific Mining Company, in 1628; Bridget in August, 1624; been out of the kingdom the state of Zacatecas. It is re- D Richard in October, 1626; Henry in He-reconciled himself to the inported that he is unpopular with January, 1628; Elizabeth in July, evitable, and when a daughter was the bandita because he refused to 1629; and another now expected. born he invited Cromwell to be god-pay them tribute or let them loot America offered attractions and a father, receiving a colonel's com his property unopposed. Router's possibility of fortune, but it would mission as solatium, whereupon American Service. have meant taking the farrier's people said he had "bought a mill- ~ daughter with all their children, tary honour at the exepense of civil past, present, and prospective. So honoure
forthcoming immediately. The United States Embassy has made formal representation to the Mexi can, Foreign Office about it. Mr. © Mitchell is the Manager of the
Simia, Yesterday The Punjab Government has, Informed the Com-
he jumped at her suggestion thatAccording to Bernard, both mittee of the Punjab_Legislative
he should set out for the Thirty Cromwell-d Years War
they were He even welcomed her proposal epy upon the
bert thought Council, which was appointed to co- the lady to operate with the Simon Commission Iscover that the latter has adopted, the general principle that in the exam- Ination of witnesses and accessible documents
to come up to London to speed him she on his way, all the more thought she might be able to help. him, with Introduction to the
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