Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1899-07-15
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I anu IuIuIe u young people pOS-G>SSu
of fine voices, zen tout ben ct tout
hcnneur." Thus the dow8ger countess
OF Craven, mother-in-law of the Amer
Jean Lady Craven (nee Bradley-Martin
of New York; maintains a magnificent
choir for the private chapel of her
country seat at Ashdown park. Her
choFisters are all gentl=men's sons.
There are about thirty of them alto
gether They all live under her roof,
and not only does she provide for their
musical training, but likewise for th=ir
education as the sons Of gentlemen,
keeping three private tutors. gradu-
ates of Oford university, on the prem
Uses for the purpose. When they have
completed their education and have be-
come useless as cho-isters, she uses
her influence to procure than appoint
ments Of one kind and another, and I
am assured that she maintains a very
kindly interest in their welfare ever
afterward.
The late duke of Buccleuch ran
private choir on almost chemically
similar lines. and there are several
vote money to the same purpose On
the continent, especially in Austria and
Hungary. l know of numerous in
stances Of the same kind. notably the
la-e Count Nicholas Esterhazy to
whom not merely scores. but even
hundreds of men and women now
prominent in various professions are
indebted for their education and train
ing.
Nobody dreams over there of i'm
putting questionable motives to money
thus we'll spent. and the role Of Mae
cenas IS regarded as thoroughly In
keeping with that of a great noble or
of a great lady. In fact it 5 consid-
cred every bit as worthy use of mon
ey as the maintenance of a racing sta
BILE or of a hunting pack.
Life before the mast on beard a ship
is characterized by SO much hardship
that it is difficult TO conceive what
possible attraction II can Off5r1to men,
especially when they happen TO be of
gentle birth and education. But the
fact remains that there are quite
number of Instances o. this kind that
could be ciVed, the most recent being
that of the young marquis of Graham,
eldest son ard heir of the duke OF
Montrose, and who is now serving be
fore the mast on board an Australian
liner He cana of age the other day
while on a trip home from the anti
podes, and it is doubtful whether the
heir 70 any great dukedom and % es-
tates comprising hundreds of thou
sands OF acres has ever celebrated the
alta 1ment Of his majority under more
peculiar circumstances than young
Lord Graham The freak eff the young
marquis IS all the more strange as ne
was entered for the royal navy. grad
uated with honors from tha Britannia,
and served for a time as midshipman
and as sub-lieutenaEt- That a man
who has held d commission as officer
in the royal navy should embark sub
sequently on a merchant vessel as
common sailor is almost without prec-
edent, since it is difficult 70 conceive
the tremndous gulf that divides these
two branches of the seafaring profess
sion from each other.
The only other instance that I can
recall OF Englishmen of wealth and
title shipping before the mast are the
late earl of Aberdeen. who per:shed
while working as common sailor on
a sailing vessel bound from New York
to Melbourne, after having allowed
six full years 20 elapse since his sue
cession to the earldom and large es-
tates worth some $4,000 year, with
out taking possession thereof. Then.
too. there is the mysterious case OF the
real Sir Rodger Tichborne, who van
ished while serving as a sailor before
the mast of a sailing ship on It's way
from Valparaiso to Sydney.
One of the royal Bavarian princes,
a son Of Prince Louis. the future king,
ran away from home al Munich with
the object of securing a position before
the mast as cabin boy or something of
the kind on board d sailing ship as
soon as he reached Hamburg. He.
however. started out with too ltds
money in his pocket. and after the
most extraordinary adventures that
have ever happened to any scion Of a
reigning house. including impFisOn-
ment for vagrancy, he finally wound up
n the pauper ward of public hospital
half way between Leips.g and Ores
den. where at the end Of three days his
identity became known. The young
duke of Montrose- by the by, is very
good looking youth, and has inherited
much of the comeliness of has lovely
mother.
That exceedingly pious youth. Lord
Beauchamp. who achieved distinction
as a Sunday school teacher and
street corner preacher before securing
the appointment of governor Of New
South Wales, has inaugurated his ca
reer as a satrsp of the antipodes in an
extremely unfortunate manner II
there IS enc thing mora than another
about which Australians Of every de-
gree are undu1y sensitive il = about
the fact that the original cO-onists Of
Australia were convicts, and that the
ancestors of most OF the leading f2mI-
lies in Australia are people who were
sentenced TO transportation across the
seas by way of punishment for their
crimes. 1t was because he realized
this that the late Sir Henry Parkes,
popularity known as the Grand O-d
Man of Australia. while premier. made