The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-05-02
Greece Thrown Not Wanted.

There has just been another Of those
scandals at the court Of Belgrade which
| contribute so much to the enforced bachel-
orhood of the young king. since. naturally
| no parents OF royal rank care to- entruss
their daughter to = man who lives in such
a perfect hotbed OF unsavory intrigue as
the unfortunate Alexander. In the presen,
| instance the incident is attributed to the
discovery Of the treachery of the kin'a
physician, a man in whom the young mon
arch reposed the most absolute confidence
and trust.
1t seems that this doctor, Iowanowitch
has been "got at by King Milan, who had
persuaded him to draw up long and high
ly cclored report concerning alleged &C.
centricities Of conduct Of the young king,
with the object of showing that his mind
| was in such a condition as to render him
incapable of reigning. This was to have
been produced at the proper moment. and
| Milan. on the strength thereof, was i'm
mediately 10 assume control of the govern
ment as regent, by means OF a coup d.
etat.
In every conspiracy there is always some
traitor. The present instance was no ex.
! ception to the rule, and thus King Alex
| ander was able TO nip in the bud this Ettle
plot, as he has succeeded in doing with so
many others. The doctor was arrested in
| the kings ante-chamber and lodged in jail
| while ex-King Milan, who only terminated
| his last visit to Belgrade few weeks ago,
has been informed that his sons dominions
are closed to him.
OF course the secret of the whole affair Is
| that Milan is once more in terrible straits
for money, and no one knows now just
what disreputable things he IS going to do
next, unless it is to pose as a candidate for
| the throne in Greece, in the event OF tho
latter becoming vacant. 1t is about as
much of a king as the Greeks would be
able to get, it, by any chance. they were
! to get rid of King George. for it is unlikely
that any one else would care for the job.
Crowns go a-begging nowadays. That Of
Bulgaria was hawked about all over Eu-
rope before Prince Ferdinand was found,
while that of Greece was declined not only
| by princes Of the blood. but even by British
peers. A definite offer of the throne of
Greece was made to the father of the pres
| ent earl of Derby. The latter. greatly &c
! the disgust of Dssraeli (who declared thai
| the Stanleys had no imagination whatso
| ever. unhestatingiy rejected the proffered
| crown, expressing the opinion that the life
of an English peer OF ancient and historic
| lineage, with a rent roll of some s., Co., 600
! per annum, possessed, in his eyes, infinitely
greater attractions than that Of any petty
continental sovereignty. The English parlia-
ment was reminded of this the other day
by Sir Charles Dixie, who. in the course of
a speech, suddenly turned toward young
Lord Stanley, the eldest son of the earl of
Derby, and remarked: ''Why, 1t is only by
an accident that my noble friend here is
not crown prince Of Greece, instead of be-
ing chairman and president of the kitchen
committee of the house of commons"
There are few more ultra-respectahle
peers Of Great Britain than Lord Farrer.
who was raised to the house Of lords a;
the close Of a particularly long and conven-
of the crown. His horror may be imagined.
therefore. when he learned that his sister
in-law. Mrs. A. IA Wedgwood. had set up
for herself in London as a professional
ciairvoyant, advertising her business in the
papers under the name of Nine. Septimus.
a pseudonym that is somewhat superfiu-
Gus, since she is at pains to inform the
public on her bushes cards that she is
sister-in-law Of Lord Farrer. She is doing
rushing business, the middle classes of
England in particular being firmly convinc'
ed that the sister-in-law Of q real live lord
is infinitely more likely to possess the
power Of looking into their future than any
one less grandly related.
In these days when peers Of the British
realm and continental princes resort so fire.
quently to the bankruptcy court in order
to secure that so-called ''whitewash' which
enables them to evade the payment of their
debts and liabilities (some noblemen even
resorting to this process three or four times
in succession), IL is pleasant and refreshing
to recall the memory Of the late Lord Foley
whose widow, one Of the queens twelve
bridesmaids. has just died. The third Lord
Foley's father was one OF the associates
of the prince regent (afterward King Geo.
IV), and lost enormous sums by gambling,
besides indulgnZ in other insane extrava-
gances, for which the so-calied Carlton
house set" was noted When he passed
over to the majority he left liabilities to the
tune of several millions Of dollars.
His son and successor was under no OBJ
legation whatsoever to pay these. but, un-
Ike so many Of the mobiles of the younger
generation, he had so high a regard for the
name and honor OF the family that ne pre-
ferred to incur even poverty rather than
that the escutcheon OF his house should b
in the slightest way snirched. SO he set
to work and sold all the family estates in
Worcestershire. including the magnificent
country seat. Whitley court, to Lord Dudley
for the sum of s4.T5c0oo. This enabled him
TO pay off all his fathers debts in full, and
still retain enough to buy little Bit of a
place down in Surrey.
BY dint of economy and tudicious invest
ments he was also to increase his means
considerably before he died, so that with |
this and the large insurance which he car |
ried his widow remained very well off, in |
deed. That is why she Is able to bequeath |
to the present Lord Foley, her son, an |
amount OF money which will enable him 10 |
revive some OF the former glories AMI |
splendor for which the first Lords Foley |
we're so famed. Let me add that the for |
tunes of the Foley family were originally |
derived from iron smelling. iron mining |
and iron manufacture which. since the ac- |
ouisition by the earis OF Dudley. OF tho !
Foley Worcestershire estate, have proved /
the principal source OF the great Dudley /
revenues.
10 me at the present moment OF children |
who have paid their parents debts without
being compelled TO DO so. These are Queen |
Victoria and King Humbert OF Italy; SC
that Lord Foley may be said 10 occupy q
somewhat unique position among the Eu-
ropean aristocracy.
Men, Women and Children.
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