The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-13
NEW RULER.
Earl of Mimic Who is Coming to
Canada Soon.
Lord Aberdeen's Successor Will
g Arrive at Montreal
ABOUT OCTOBER 10.
Youngest of All the Governors
General.
He Has Visited Canada Before
In 1883-88.
ABOUT OCTOBER Is.


Records correspondent, writes to his pa
per as follows from Montreal:
The Canadians are going to have a new
governor general next month-the Earl of
Mimic, who was recently appointed to
succeed the Earl of Aberdeen, and is ex-
pected to arrive about the middle of Oc-
/, tober. The new ruler is no stranger here
and will be warmly welcomed, for he
Iansdowne from 1888 to 1888, and is well
remembered.
Lord and Lady Aberdeen are now at
New Richmond, but will go to Quebec
about the 10th inst, where the joint high
participate in a series of Festivities given
in honor of the American and British
Of the Dominion to say goodbye to their
friends and acquaintances and return to
their lares and penateS in Rideau hall for
the advent of their successors. It is ETH
quette for the retiring governor general
to get out of the way in time so that his
successor shall not tread on his heels.
They have been unusually active during
their reign of five years. They began
fair, and her ladyships undertakings there
in the Irish village and in the promotion
her husband, very well known upon this
! continent before the latter actually as
sumed the duties of his high office. He
has taken a marked interest in the ma
in the agricultural and pastoral directions.
Wheel in politics, and offciaIiv has neither
influence nor authority, the Earl of Aber-
deem has made himself felt in many direc-
tons.
The countess has been even more con-
spicuous in good works. She is naturally
an a6ve woman la Lq b OF zea i+ ana le eef
of benevolent movements and social I'M
ed in the Intellectual advancement of wo-
men, and during the last five years has
classes to improve their conditions. The
wife of no governor general within recoI-
lection has created so much of a stir.
The working girls, the shop clerks, the
trained nurses the school teachers and
every other class have received a share of
Her successor at Rideau hail. the Coun-
tess of Mimic, is more of a society leader,
and the gay set at Ottawa and Montreal
are expecting social revival. Lady Alb
erdeen has been much absorbed in her
social work that she has had no time to
give any more balls and dinners than the
Mimic has the reputation of being one of
the greatest beauties as well as one of
the most brilliant bellies at the court of st.
! James. and she, too, is well remembered
at ottawa, where she game as bride and
resided three years during Lord Lans-
downe's administra ton. Her father was
Charles Gray, who for many years had
the honor to be equerry to the Prince of
during mis- journey to America in 1883.
The Mintos have five children, all under
had a successful and exciting career as a
soldier sportsman; athlete diplo9matitsti;
at Elton and Cambridge, where he ranked
equally high in scholarship and athletics.
He pulled in the varsity crew and was
regarded as the best cross-country rider
in England. He entered the army with
the Scotch guards at once after gradua-
ton and saw much hard and dangerous
service With the 13TRs n l04S Sa ana a a
detailed as military secretary to General
Lord Roberts and followed his fortunes in
Egypt and the Soudan until 1888, when he
went to Canada with the Earl of Lans-
times honorably mentioned in thef official
dispatches and won medal for gaIIantry
In 1885 the rebellion led by Louis Riel in
the Northwest Territory gave him an OPP
ence, and securing leave OF absence from
the governor general he Joined the forceS
Middleton, the commander-in-chief At
the close of the campaign he returned to
on his estates in Scotland, which are said
to yield him revenue OF from S6O0J0 to
Lord Minton's appointment as governor
general was a surprise to the Canadians
Toungest man Who ever held the office
and his youth and activity may prove an
expects nothing of the resident represent
atfve of the crown except compliance with
the wishes of the council and the policy of
The governor general may open agri-
stones and present diplomas at the uni
Versities; he may preside at board OF
and balls as his income permits but the
prime minister expects to write the speech
and prepare all papers for. his signature
Whether a young, energetic man of am
bilious disposition and positive character
like the Earl of Mimic will submerge his
own identity and become mask for i've
years is question.
With the coming of a new governor gen
eraI the restoration or renovation of Ri
deau hall, the official residence, is always
agitated, and the propriety OF such per-
torrance will never be denied by anyone
who visits the place. The White House
at Washington is shabby, no doubt, and
unfit for a RESIDENCE of the ruler of
great nation, but Rideau hall is dis
grace. 1t stands in a beautiful grove on
the outskirts of Ottawa and was originally
the country place of a canal contractor
named Mccoy, having been built some so
years ago. The government bought 1t for
an official residence for the governor gen
eral. and from year to year has patched
it up and put addition as necessity re-
ouired until now it is an ugly and incon-
Venient old barrack, incumbering an acre
or more of the earths surface and COW
ering nearly 100 rooms under its leaky old
roof The banquet hall. or ballroom, which
was erected during the administration of
Lord Dufferin, is a noble apartment, and
the Earl of Aberdeen has added a. pretty
pine chapel at his own expense, but a de-