Arizona republican., 1899-03-01

The result was JnaJ the kdlS6F euu6t by banishIng both the baroness ant her husband from the court of Berlin and it is probable that it is the memory Of the trouble which he experienced or her account that has led him to turr
 such an exceedingly cold shoulder tc
 the peace propaganda. which owes its
 origin to the father Of his former bal
 now discarded charmer.
 
 Ivan Bloch, who has but one child
 and heiress, namely, this beautiful
 baroness KoscIelski, is a man of most
 extraordinary character. Today he is
 d noblemau and the principal financial
 adviser of the cz8r and of the latter s
 minister of finance, Count vOn Witte,
 filling much ihe same position Of in-
 te-mediary between the state and the
 financial world as the Rothschilds do
 in Paris and London. Yet he com
 menced life as a Jewish peddler of the
 very lowest class in Poland, one of
 those individuals who wander about with long, greasy coats reaching to
 the.r heels, and long, still more greasy
 curls of hair hanging down on either
 side of the face. He had no education
 whatever, but taught himself to read and write. By some means he won a
 prize of $100,00O in a s.ate lottery, and
 instead of embarking this money in
 any business venture determined to de- vote it to hs education, settling down
 at Berlin to a regular course of study. Three years later he returned to | Warsaw a gentleman in appearance, manner, and, above all, in culture and education. He secured an appointment in a bank, where he gave proof of eX traoTdinary skill as a financier, and at the same time he undertook the man agement Of a number of Polish nObles. Not only did everything that he touch ed seem to turn into gold, but he won devoted friends on all sides, and finally marrying the beautiful daughter and heiress of the well known banker, Kronenberg, be became the principal banker in Poland.
 He never allowed, however, his financial undertaki to absorb him SC much as to prevent him from study ing the social and economic problems Of the day, and in course of time he brought out lis book entitled The War of the Future" which, based on scientific reports and official statistics, shows how terrible will be the next great European conflict, since every arm has from ten to a hundred times the death dealing powers that it had thirty years ago.
 In 1870 a bomb exploded into forty two pieces. Today the same sized bomb, filled with pyroxilin instead of gun powder, exp,Odes into 1, 200 pieces, | and everything else is in proportion. It is the perusal of this book which prompted the czar to issue his peace manifestoes, and which awakened the autocrat of all the Russias to the hor- TOTS of any war in the future.
 It is to be reg 3etted that Emperor William should be prejudiced against the great fnancier in consequence Of i his daughter. Fer otherwise there is no knowing whether he himself might ] net, like his brother monarch at St. i Petersburg, have become a convert to i the views of old Ivan Bloch.
 A correspondent writes to ask me what I mean by the pat.icians of Rome . as distinct from the other nobles of . Italy
 The Roman patricia!5e differs much in the same way from the remainder of the Italian aristocracy as the Spanish grandezza does from the ordinary dukes, marquises and counts of the Spanish nobility
 Strictly speaking, the Roman pa -1iciate consists of sixty families, known as the "conscript families whose names are enumerated in the Golden Book of Rome" The con script families are those which, during he reign of Pope Benedict XIV Q74S o 1756), had at that time belonged for >Ter POO years previously to the Ro- nan arisbocracy, and had for that sphere of time possessed fixed resi- lence in the Eternal City.
 Until the loss by the papacy of it's power in 1870, the annual re- ,eption by the pontiff of the Roman nobility at the Vatican, was restricted T the most stringent manner to those Cnscript families. But since 1870 5oth the late and the resent pOntif have admitted to these nnual receptions of the patriciate { arge numbers of relatively new en- ,ObIed persona ges, whose only merit { 5 that they prefer to give their ale i ;ianca in social matters, at any rate, l 0 the pope, rather than to the king of ' taly. The TOrlcnias, for instance, do not z elong to the Fatriciate, although as ukes and princes they figure prOmi- s entity at these annual receptions, be- ng the descendants of a sutler of the f rst NapoleCn's army. s On the other hand, the Massimos, the ( ifsinis, the COlonnas, the Cencis, and s he Dorias are all bona fide patrician5 | f Rome.
 The four new peers created by the ueen at the beginning of the year will Q known in future by the following t tiles: Sir Henry Hawkins, the popu T 1T judge and Jockey club member, will t Q known as Lord Brampton; Sir Jo- i eph Bialey becomes Lord Glamisk, | .hich must not be confOunded with the t tile of Lord GIenesk, borne by the wner of the London Morning Post; V IT. Robert Gu.don becomes Lord Gran 4 rorth, while Sir Philip CurMe. the | ritish ambassador at Rome, contents s imself with his family name, and will ( known in future as Lord Currie. c -iscCunt Cromer retains the name Of I romer, which he bore as baron. r With the exception of Lord CrOmer, ' IO F, cd Q in tho bOJSP