The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-10-23
BLUE BLOOD TO THE FRONT.
Titled SciOns of English Nobility
Have Gone to Fight Beers.

Days have gone by when a commission in
a smart British regiment was looked upon
as giving a convenient professional stand
ing 10 the younger son or cadet of a titled
family. For long the pet troops of London
called the Household Brigade, spent their
time between Westminster and Windsor.
so that the officers were seldom called upon
for active service in war. There were some
grounds then for regarding the subalterns,
and even officers of many years standing.
as merely carpet knights. They were the
curled darlings of society, and their brother
officers in ordinary line regiments had a
ready Jest at their expense as more at home
in the salons of Piccadilly and Mayfair than
on the frontiers of the empire. Such is not
the case to-day. In recent expeditions to
the Nile the crack corps Of guards and cav
airy have borne their fair share Of cam
~paigning.
Not since the Crimean war, more than
forty years ago, has England sent out an
army on so comprehensive a scale as in
the present crisis. A deeper interest at
taches to the Transvaal campaign for this
reason, as it touches more closely aristo-
cratic families and country houses through
out Great Britain and Ireland. A more pa
thetic note will sound from the news sent
from South Africa, and many a village
church may have, in consequence. additions
to its war relics, such as may still be seen
recalling the great Waterloo days, the
Crimea and the Indian mutiny.
From the Queen downward the upper
ranks of Great Britain are sending out
their best and bravest. The names among
the officers whom the transports week by
week are hurrying TO the Cape include most
of those which have been familiar as house
hold words for centuries in English history,
and still fill a large space in to-days So
ciety.
The royal family will be in the closest as
ISOLATION with the front through the service
Prince Christian Victor OF Schleswig-Hol-
stein. who holds a staff appointment, and
himself much military credit. Prince Fran
els of Teck. the Duchess of York's brother,
may also go to the front with his m
the First Royal Dragons. The Premier's
soldier son. Lord Edward Cecil, who was
Lord Kitchener OF Khartum's abide
camp last year at Omdurman. Is by this
time helping Colonel Baden-Powell to hold
the Boer leaders.
Lord Lansdowne, the secretary of war. has
two sons in regiments under orderS-the
Earl Of Kerry, his heir, who is a lieutenant
in the Grenadier Guards. and Lord Charles
Fitzmaurice. a lieutenant in the First Ora
and Portland have a scarcely less vital
stake in the struggle than Lord Salisbury
and his immediate colleagues; for the Duke
Of Buccleuch's third son, Lord George W.
Montague-Douglas-Scott. is a captain in the
Tenth Hussars, while Lord william Angus
tus -Bentinck holds the same rank
in hat gallant regiment. This Is the corps
known as the Prince of Wales's Own
Royal" and the officers form perhaps the
most exclusive set in the army, as they in
clude. besides those named. the Hon. f.
Barring. OF Lord Revelstoke's family. the
well-known banking house; the Hon. t. w.
Brand. Viscount Hampden's heir presump-
tive: the Earl Of Shaftesbury, the Hon. ID.
.Anderson-Pelham. and the Hon. G.. Il. Port
man.
The Earl Of Derby's youngest son is a
lieutenant in the same regiment. His father,
when known as Lord Stanley. was a gov
ernor general of Canada from ISIS 10 1899.
and his uncle. the late Lord Derby. was the
minister of rather "A cross bench turn of
mind. but of reputed common sense, whose
omission TO define the rights of suzerainty
In the convention OF 1884 has been seized
upon by the Transvaal government as the
recognition Of the complete Independence OF
the republic In Its external as we'll az It's
internal relations. yiscount Downe's heir.
the Hon. J. Dawnay. Is now the adjutsnt