Arizona republican., 1900-08-13
FOREIGN NOTES
 AND COMMENT

That there is no truth Tn the b'pulii stories according to which Cecil Rhodes is an agnostic is shown by a remark made by the South African Colossus anent the tragic death of that popular American mining engineer who piaVed 90 conspicuous role in the defense or Kimberly. being the creator of Lord Cecil. the big gun presented to the gar riso bv Mir. Rhodes. and which contrib uted so largely ;o keep off the beseiging force of BoerS.
 It may be remembered that this en- cineer-in- -chief of the Kimberly mines was killed by the very last Boer shells fired into Kimberly. He was in his house lying on his bed, resting before joining Mir. Rhodes and party at din ner. The shell came through the next house into his room destroying the lat ter and everything in it. Some time afterward, in conversation, some one remarked to Rhodes what an irony was this death of the Young American il the very moment of relief. and what q piece of sheer tragic i'll luck" Rhodes looked very grave. shook his head. de- clar5d that it was no case of luck at all. bad or otherwise, and then went on to relate how, on three separate Ccca- sions during the last two days of the siege. he saw his Amoric ln lieu,e nant and trusted associate have the m..Et eX- traordinary escapes from death. And so,' he added. you see it was to be. What can you do when God is chasing a man for days?" The solemnity of the tone, as well as the manifest grief of his American fri5n nd. rendered this characteristic remark additionally inn pressive. An ordinary man might have used the phrase "pursu by fate but the idea of chased by God for days" conveys such an idea of th= impossi- bility Of escape that it is almost Euri- pidean in it's tragic intensity
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 Sir Thomas Lipton, after having fail ed in his efforts to secure the lease of Inverary Castle, the ancestral country seat of the Duke of Argyll has now taken Glen Tans. the grand Deeside es- tate of the late Sir William c. Brooks. whose will is now the subject of legal proceedings, brought by Lord and LaGy Hunly, as well as by Lady Brooks, the widow of the dead multi-millionaire. she having been left very badly off by her husband. Sir Thomas LiptOn's oc- cupancy of Glen Tana will have the ef- feet of rendering him a neighbor of the Queen of Ralmoral, and likewis5 of the Duke and Duchess of Fife at Mar Lodge, where the Princess of Wales is wont to Fpend several W, eks de-o stalking eaoi. autumn
 Sir Thomas could have done nothing more likely to further his social asli rations than this leasing of Glen Tana. For what with the presence of the prince at Mar Lodge. and the dispCSi ton which the queen manifests when in Scotland to become personally ac- quainted with her near n5ighbors, it win be very astonishing if he does not make his way into the good graces Of her majesty. It was by becoming first neighbor of the Queen of Scotland. and then a fri5nd of her majesty, that the editor of the London Morning Post became in turn a knight, a baronet and peer of the realm as Lord Glen esk. True. the retailing of a cheap brand of tea Is lil1 ly to initiate against the elevation of Sir Thomas to the House of Lords. But there is no req son why the good will of her majesty should not take the form of his trar-s- formation into a haronet.
 
 Tn reply to a correspondent, who writes to me from Alcona, Mich. 1 may say that it is not true that the Mar quis of Butte died two months ago. On the contrary he is today in far better health than he has been for some time past. and is at the present moment yachting on the west coast of Scotland. as the writer of the letter may assure himself by consulting those London daily and weekly papers which are ac- cCstom1d to chronicle the movements of what the French call 'hig leef," that is to say high life."
 With regard to Ms. Potter Palmer's aspirations U tha French order of the L. .'i"n If Honor, T. fear there is little pros. If tr ir realization, since the "n,y | ign ladies yho possess the Legion of Honor aresthe Queen of the Netherlands and her mother and the queen IL gent of Spain. T. is not true hat the venerable Florence Nightingale of Crimean war nursing fame, pos, ss- rs the order, and save for the three queens above mentioned. no foreign