Daily Yellowstone journal., 1892-12-01
ENGLISH i<F:t{ItiTl4OOD.
Titles E"%.u"e.i <h t+ati.llly That II II na
Fallen Into Uterrpntr.

A'%n 'tHf'p""Ts
kn1yh. .:,nr:: ">l1f>rS no political
privileges lltl it is not hereditary.
and consequently it seems to have
'~colnc III admitted principle that
anybulr a,A everybody has n pr1n!l
facit cl;.i,n to it, III the l&st twenty
years lnuny more than ii Thousand
knights h:ly,' been dubbed. ANIL the
lust hutclI IF persons tu receive the
royal uctuIatl.. AMI tin: ri:,lI: TT pre-.
fixing ":>i,'" IN their nHt,nt'S consisted
m!ti.ly ct prof: <>i,nnl musicians ii
hy M nr;ltIs IL high cl:n,>. ,'1nt'lt::
them tll. music 1nu>ttr formerly ut
Etun college. now W thu Gtl:!'lhtll.
the leader {" the uutt,l> private
mntl AMI u1 orE;lnl>t ut Windsor
Against tl&.:a' kr,'th'n'n ln'r>ula1,
ly WE have nothing whatever tn SAY.
In every moral a'nl >H'i::} quality VT
have no dtuht they urt all that .';t''
IT, desired. uttt that ~ fur their :"1
mission into ln' order t" which they
no~ M'l.n13 ":> perfectly justified!
Hut that h4,l,lt'>.l>tr>. n1::tlli~:- ;n'I
Teachers Of ,n';~lt arc |'ro}.cr ln'!-"n~
IT, IT. k,;::h,t4l can hardly lc ,M.!l
tnin..l ',u t}:n assumption that
kui4Itllmnl il ',nltin1r to b. r.:
Gart('"' u> 1t;' *vl,:"lnalr reward IT
1tllli.' services in whatever tuNtit:
they may IT. rt,nls rr&. More r~iH''
tiul|y il tl4i> obvious 1T relation u
the art with which they themselves
are .*,ntnc!>tl. for u>>1'Hrlly. il
kliyi!,l1onl is. Il >11itit'l'nt rvtu*nl
ton uf ,t..' t1llitr1N'H vi S'r Arthur
Sullivan u:'l @ir Charles Halle ii i:
infinitely more than Ii sut1it h1!t r'*'
uGnlt ion u! ,lt. tnllltitte uf Mf. Par
rutt, DR.. Burn'y anti Mr. tu>ins,
it is tr,1t' tl"1 simple kni=h'li"'d,
as distinguished from knight cu'n~
membership 1T TIN E;th, 1t. Mlr!''t'
a1ltl 1T. George and thu S'ur ut llrlil.
&u say nntilill. uf lie Garter, tlt
Thistle and IT. Patrick. ii not ;t1nl
r:an scarcely 1c t>1n%1t1 I" |" held
IN any great Vtnt1"ti"n. Custom
hu@ n1I'h' it imperative on the s"<tr
4.,.ll to confer it Oh Il lll1in'H'r ot
Inr<t,,!3 Whose Sutinl status Is AltU
Et.1h"r different frtnn that ut tiu3t
who are admitted IT, the royal or
dtr@ But however prumiscunu>ly
enjoyed. tle honur. s1n|t us it IL, is
invariably >llurtrl hy til" Judges ol
the land and the law officers Ut the
crown. ami tvtu city >ln'ri1ls n11f'
1uuvi,n.jul mayors have SOME 1ra>o1
to complain Whtn its value is still
further deprecated. No doubt tht
.lis,,.pute Of kniElltl,,ntl is no Ut"
thing. iltrtltl> u,r accustomed tt
dute the commencement from thu
reign uf James |. who created :W
knights i'll xix weeks, and tlut Of III:
; so,l. Charles |, vino l<1lightnl among
others Sir Jeffrey Hudson. tit
uuei1's dwarf. But it reached Il I'll
max under George ~, who dis"ov
cred in the mere threat of admins
/ ttriug tire royal urcola'|r un cl1:rta'a
protection against the presentation
III unwelcomc addresses. anl nnac]
William ". who kni,htcl every
body who would allow Lin to do st
~nultte1s in this respect were no
! much ncndcd.
In tho earlier years Of tho queens
reign, however, when tho COUNSEL
Of tho lunlented prince ronsort Wcr'
in thu ascendant. kniB BhtIood WI
vcry sparinEly conferred, and it> 20
sition us IL social distinction was pro
}nntionatcly raised. But it il no
too mllch to say that Of late it lla
been distributed with 70 little cir
cunspection tl,ut it has become al
most yaluclcss for tho purpose fo
which it is supposed and ought tt
| exist. .-Lonuun World.