Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-05-06
goes IN for good time moro than any
thing plpo
RIGHTS or A pARoNETcy.


Fortunately. 80 noble peers think
the possession Of a bnronetcy docs not
rive liz posscssor the right Ia III IN
the house Of lords. II II did the upper
house. already threatened with an or
gan.grlnder and crossing sweeper,
would have 10 welcome % Ia meetings
one aud perhaps two cN.cnb driyoral
The first ~ these " Sir George Augus.
tus Jcrvis Mcredy,h, Sho NJ TO n few
months ngO was driving Il cab about
the streets of Hobart Town, Tasmania,
Ito has succeeded 10 the baronolcy nv
the first cousin Of SIR Edward Henry
John Mercdyth who died In October
list. leaving a widow and two daUgh.
iors, Accompanied by youthful bride,
40 years hla Junior the oS.c0b driver
has Just arrived by Storage from tho
nntlpodes 70 take possession ~ the
remnant OF the ancestral estate IN the
County Kildare, Ireland When the
tenants can be persuaded 10 pay their
rent II Yields I'M Income Of about $1,000
u year
II nm 7S years ~ age tho old fol
low said tho other day, "and since !
was u boy | have earned my living In
20 different ways, but always by hard
work Now | want to i've Tor the rest
of my days without working, ana
think | deserve II, II " for that my
wife and ! have como 10000 mllos by
STORAGE, Az tho tito IA thrown In
like chrome without any extra charge,
why Of course take that too, but n
nothing went with II I wouldn't cross
the street Tor II Folk Will 'Sir George
mo ! suppose, and III have 10 stand II,
but I'm not going TO sling on any style
ana try 10 live IN 10 H."
A BRITISH MAJOR.
Tho democratic haronets father was
"A British major ana hls son received
n good education ~ far az u went II
would have gone further n he hadn't
tried TO blow up his schoolmns,or with
gunpowdor soon after that oscNpado
he was turned ndrIft to shirt for him.
self For three years he worked ns u
shoemaker ana saved enough money
10 take him TO Australia IN 1851. lie
found that tho cousin from whom no
had expected to obtain position had
meanwhile omigratod to California
Ponnileas and unable to pick up n Job
no worked his passage back 10 London
IN tho ship that had brought him over
Another year found him again IN
Australia determined TO Try HIS luck
In the gold fields, He gained q lot OF
experience and other fellows rot most
~ the nuggets, Then he went TO Ho.
bart Town and spent "A dozen years IN
the employ of q wool-pressing nrm Tho
wandering fever smoto him then and
for four years no was u sailor before
the mast, on top of that ho spent
siy months In the siokohold where"
he says, IN fellow can ecl u better idea
of hndcs than Doro and Dante CONE
hlncd can teach him Then no went
IA. "A. suksl .l-
ous things, settled down for n
Hobart Town police force, blfo there
was not lacking IN excitement Several
times he wae laid out, but, more often
he land out somebody, After he hal
accumulated several honorable scare As
trophies OF many desperate trays he
concluded that duiclor billet would
suit him better ana resigned from the
force 20 drive n cab
DATES BACK TO 1900,
The baronctcy which no prizes 30
lightly dates bacl, 10 1860, carries with
II, of course, coat OF arms and the
inspiring Celtic motto Without dod
there ~ nothing, with God there II
enough"
"rhe motto is a first rate one" com.
nl'''''N vi Ntp'N'i wv " N''N'N W ''iND
me who counts himself rich with 400 u
year and knows what money Is worth
because no hns had to work precious
hard for Il oil his life,"
A baronetcy and incidentally n nna
estato-Thornton Hall In Buckingham
shlre-has been claimed by another cab
man. benjamin Tyrroll, who drives a
four haolor" at Burton on.Tront,
Tyrrcll alleges that he IL descended by
direct madeline from John Tyrrell third
son OF sir Thomas Tyrtcll, who died IN
1905, Sir Thomas cntAiod the estates
upon his sons and their mNlo heirs, but
barred female descendants, The nrst
madeline ended IN l1ip, ana a descend.
ant of tho second madeline held tho
bnronctcy until 1863 when that line
failed also, The original deed ~
ontal should have lot IN the third
Madeline Of which the cabmnn Tyrrell
IN now tho representative, But nj tina
juncture, according To tho oabman's
lawyers, n clergyman OF Thornton pnr.
ish, tho Raw Mr. Cotton, stepped IN
"and NY dangerous injustice did take
possession OF tho bnronot's estates along
with n female descendant OF tho de-
ceased Tyrrollp" And over since, II II
declared, "theIr descendants have oy-
cludcd the lawful hoHs" Like Mere
dyth, Benjamin Tyrroll has no use for
title, but he has n great hOnkorIng
after tho ancestral hall, ana tho broad
na,a. and ina ranl unll la haa .a.. 4.