Arizona republican., 1899-04-23

aristdcracy. There are also actors who, by reason of their professional eminerce, have been knighted.
 But the cases mentioned above are remarkable in that the countess, the earl. the duke and the prince in Ques- tion are all aristocrats by birth, have blue blood in their veins, and owe their mobility not to marriage or to modern creation, but to bona fida an- cestry.
 Crown Princess Stephanie has inau- gurated a new fashion III connection with incognito names which is creat- ing 3 good dsal Of talk. Instead Of contenting herself with some conti- mental name to conceal her identity she has coolly assumed an English title. and is traveling about under the name Of Lady BOwchurch,' the lat ter being the name of pretty village in the Isle of Wight, where the crown princess has on more than one occ;.- sion sciourned for the sake of the sea bathing. Fortunately there is no house Of the British nobility that in cludes BOWchuTch among it's titles, So that the crown princess is unlikely to
 
 the English arist2cracy But if con tinental royalists follow in the foot steps of the crown princess and be- gin assuming English titles by way of incognito there is certcin to be storm of prc.est in England, all the mere as once started there Is no know ing " here the matter would stop. The English mobility is so proud and con vinced Cf it's superiority to everything forsign that it would regard the as sumption of it's names and titles for purposes of incognito by foreign royal peTsonages as an insult rather than as an honor.
 The persistent reports which are be- ing circulated in the European and American press with regard to the aI- lzged project of marriage on the part cf the 50 recently widowed Austrian emperor are a source Of much annoy ance, and even distress to the imper- ial family, which, in the hope of checking them, has now for the third time issued an official denial of the stories, declaring that nothing of the kind IS in contemplation.
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 So devoted are the English people f the middle classes to their aristoc- racy that, not content with insisting upon being kept duly informed as to the dcdng8 of chose members of the nobility who are at liberty, they even display the most touching and friend Iy solicitude in the welfare of those lords and ladies who may happen to De in prison.
 aro notified hu 1711-or7c,, of very sympathetic daily and weekly newspapers that Lord William Ne vile, condemned to Q long term for forgery of a particularly disgraceful character, lis bearing his punishment in penal serVitude with far more fOrti- tude and resignation than had been expected. He is now employed in the kitchen, and finds the change benef- ciaI to his health. Lady William has been allowed to visit him, and de- lights to tell her friends how sine found him and what he has to do.' This extraordinary paragraph then goes on to add that Lady Williams Wifely devotion is heroica.ly pa- thetic'
 The Denitentiary where Lord Will liam is undergoing his term of penal seryitude is at Parkhurst, in the Isle of Wight, and the governor of the prison Is married to one Of Lord Will liam's cousins. Lady William often says on 2 visit to them.
 From this it will be seen that Eng fish law, in difference to English pulp lie opin5cn, temp5rs the wind to the shCrn lamb when the latter happens to be of what may be described as ped- igree stock.
 It will also be a relief to the people in this country to learn that the Ger nan nCbleman Of ancient lineage who was caught in the act Of cheating at cards at the Turf club at Berlin, after he had managed to secure ever $100,- GOO by means of unfair play, was forced to give his word of honor not to play at cards again before be- ing shipped off to the United States. He was permitted to resign his posi- tion in the army and to quit the coun- try without any public scandal CT so- cial execution on the condition that he bet1ok himself to the United States.
 It does not seem, however, to have struck the managing committee and members of the Turf club that there was a. certain amount of humor in asking a man who had been caught req handed in the act of cheating at cards to give his word of honor about or to attach any importance thereto when given.
 The bar a1on-perhaps it would be charitable to abstain from giving his name-is now in this country, and let US hope that he is endeavcring to turn over a new leaf, and to reueem his very CdiOus past.
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