The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-02-14

money point of view that hunting ia
uiar, The people love the sport ~
ana 1t affords the strongest social -
All are welcome to the meet. whs,sy
they contribute to the expenses or NJ
ana, as fact, everyone goes yho can 49,
upon.
There is a well-known story of , IA.
snoo trotting up to the Duke Of Beansay
on hunting morning and saving. .,Nas.x
IN IN lord dock. Wot | likes about ~
IN IS as wot 1t brings folks together ~
wouldn't hotherwise meet" He -.
nothing but the literal truth. Hnn,
does bring thousands of people tocsth.
VINO would not otherwise meet. and =
brings them together in the fr1endl;..1
anu pleasantest way. The question thsl
Is not how much money you have got II
VINO or what you are, but whether -
are good sportsman, whether Won Al
straight to hounds, and whether Won -
now to behave under all the varied ~
cumstances of the hunting field III
there IS lunch at some big country bonsx
where all are welcome. and often whs
there IS check, or a blank draw, a a.
mer wife will tempt the gentleme - b
TASTE her home-brewed ale, and 40 tberx ~
talk ABOUT crops, and acquaintance 81
i mriade, anu helghborly feeling is promoted
The young hounds, too, are bosrdad ~,
as 1t We're, amongst all the farmers !, "
countryside, so that even the women an4
children know them by name and are ~
tached to them, and take a lively inte-s'x
IN the pack and in all the doings
the hunt. How far this kind of tb;rY
extends and how much real Influence s.
exercises, depends on the personal cal
acter and qualifications OF the master y
mounds. But when the master is a zeal
wealthy nobieman, like the Duke of Beapy
Tort, who has known every soul in his di.K
trict from his childhood and looks M
them all as his friends and his punjls H.
sport. then there is scarcely any limit p
the iatherly control he exercises over N
country people. They consider il disloySK
TO so against his wishes, and to vote for p
candidate opposed by the duke is deemsY
almost as bad form" as riding over
hound or shooting fox. IL
1t has been noticed that in the gresk
majority of instances where the Gladsto13
lans nave defeated Conservatives in rur&
constituencies Ii has been where there US
no hunting, as in Cambridgeshire. or a.
where the master of hounds happened \
be Liberal. If all masters OF houpdv
were like the Duke of Beauford the Col
sentative ministry would have a pernetu3
lease of power. The late Earl Derby. hiry
self winner of the Derby and the Oak
and thoroughgoing sportsman, had n
great opinion of masters of hounds n
politicians, and on two occasions he gav1
a seat in his ministry 20 the Duke of BsauI
fort. He assigned to him the mos{
appropriate of all offices, that ~
master of the horse, now occupied by NJ
Duke of Portland. The duties of the mai
ter of the horse are not very severe. bui
they nevertheless require q man of It'd
world and one with considerable strength
of character, able to form a connectlnk'
link, as it were, between the ceremonss - -
the court and the practical business ~
popular government. The Duke of Bead
fort made magnificent master of n
horse, quite in keeping with Lord DerhyA,
profuse and stately administration n
the last occasion when he appeared =
public i'll attendance upon tine queen, n
revived the full state equipage of his oih{
and drove to the house of lords in a cod
coach drawn by eight black stations viii
their tails and names plated with FL
satin ribbon. ALI this splendor pleases q
people and is good for trade, as they 81
but apart from that, the duke was a VI
wise counsellor and most useful mem4
of the ministry by keeping them in toa8
with the humber classes of rural folk. n
whom he is immensely beloved.
Of late years the Duke of Beaufort "a
rather surprised and pleased his friends Z
coming out in the character of a Htert1 y
man. Heris oneof the editors of the "Bs1 q
minton Library" an admirable series = u
hand-books of sports and is himself q p
author OF the book on driving. His sd g
the Marquis of Worcester, really wrd1 y
the book, but the dukes unrivaled kuosI "
edge and experience are everywhere k1
parent in it; and there is no better guN1y
in existence for those who wish to hand q
the reins as they ought to be handled. ih
The Duke OF Beaufort married grand
daughter of the celebrated admiral, La. u
Howe, and has 8 numerous family, &vt
whom he is devotediy attached. But ~
has not by any means escaped the brea4
OF scandal. The society papers made n y
with his name at one time in connecti& n
with that of very youthful actress; al N
there have been other such episodes in Z 81
career. But in truth, the dukes iin4 III
tions, like all his other doings, are p4p
fectly free and above board. If at tim40(
he has displayed a somewhat too keen 4eu
probation of q pretty face, dainty tgu&fm
and quick it, he has invariably doneSth
like a high-bred gentleman, and 4eS,
chances are that the worst there was in fitl
was what was on the surface and vita
known TO everybody. BE-
The Duke of Beaufort suffered torme. ~
from the govt for many years, and he Vi
said to have conferred ON humanity tia
inestimable boon OF discovering a reme3 I
for it which is not worse than the disea ~
EDWARD WAKEFIELpT ai