The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-05
TITLED MEN AS 1ABoaEas.
Many scions of European Nobilit! Have shown Their Capacity <.
 For Work.

n has been no unusual thing in the rast. nor is 1t exceptional at present For men of high rank-princes, dukes, earis and lords-to engage, in manual lapor' They have not all been compelled by necessity to do this; some have chosen to toll for the experience 1t gives them or because they think 1t conduces to tneir health and longevity. It has been re- served for our own time for the brother or < king, who might have been reigning prince himself, to shovel coals in the stifiing hold of ship, just to see what zf was like.'
 when the Duke of Connaught was re- turning in the battle-ship Repown from hfs recent Indian tour he expressed wisp to see the conditions under which naval stolxcrs work, and althougfih the quarter deck officers tried to dissuade him ms royal highness, provided with proper kit, made his way down to the boiler room But it was not sufficient for him to look on while the panting and perspir- sng stokers labored in the inferno. that lies deep below the deck of man-of-war, and, calling for shovel, he began to ply it with astonishing vigor.
 At the end of half an hour. however, he Bad had enough of it. and when he &merged on deck again, with rivulets nf perspiration streaming down grimy W much hard work in any previous twenty- -Four hours.
 But the stoking record among men of Ritla must go to viscount Cole, eldest son and heir of the Earl of Enniskillen. When Lord Cole, whose title on that occasion was peculiarly appropriate. was returning from America few months ago he put an q whole days work as a stoker, mem Der of one of the gangs. "one must do 1gr.ex %r aalf Gf h ha QQid sand shoveling coals Is a particularly fine Form of exercise.%
 King Edward himself has often been in warmer quarters even than the boiler room of warship. As a young man. as many remember. he was one of the most enthusiastic of amateur firemen and, with the Duke of Sutherland and other Ecmpanions, rarely missed fire of any Importance in London There are old Bremen now living who have seen the prince working away as if for dear life with his ax. amid the roar of the flames and the crashing of walls, and on at least Dne occasion. when an upper floor of warehouse gave way under him. he nar- eowly escaped a tragedy.
 King Leopold of Belgium, has put in as znany days of hard manual labor as any royal parsonage In Europe. He spends many hundreds of hours in the gardens of his palace of I.aeken and has often been seen trundlins a wheelbarrow in his shirt sleeves or digging with vigor and industry which few of his gardeners can equal. The Belgian King has, however. no mean rival in the Shah Of Persia, who is just as enthusiastic lover of a garden and Is said to be never happier than when plying spade or shears in the xnstiest of suits and the shabbiest of slip pers.
 But there are probably few royalties who have not at one time or another worked with their hands as hard as any day laborer, from the King of Portugal. who not long ago used to devote three hours every day to manual labor in the hope of reducing his too solid hesh, to Prince Alexander of Teck, the brother of Ahe future queen. who might have been seen any day a few weeks ago grooming horses wheeling barrows and doing ev- cry kind of stable work as heartily and cheerfully as any of his own troopers at Hampton court
 Of peers who love hard work, the name es legion. although, perhaps, none of them can claim such a record as the Earl of Ranfurly who for many years was one of the hardest workers at the irrigation colony at Mlldura, in Australia. From sunrise to sunset the Earl. who is now so ably governing New Zealand, was at work on his fruit farm. blowing, planting and pruning more industriously than any of his hired laborers.
 The Duke of Sutherland Is an acomp- aished engineer. like Lord Downshire, and can stoke or drive an engine as we'll as any man in England, In fact. very many of his happiest hours have been spent in Tvorkman's attire on the footplate of an engine. bowling along at sixty miles an hour.