The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-04-03
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UNIQUE CHARACTER

Into affection. and ono day thoy wero
quietly married at Liverpool, in st.
| Michaers Church. On securing their
certificates as master, Hunt obtained
| tho command of Il sailing vessel, and
Lady Erne5tine accompanied him on
| this first voyage. as we'll as on several
others. beinS quite as competent as
| himself to take command of the vessel
| When tho war I'm South Africa broke
| out She resumed her place In the am
balances. In which $40 served until
tho end of the Boer campaign. Then
she started her ranch In Alberta, where
shc not only bred rorses. but also
trained steeplechasers, and, what is
more. rode them. She has, besides her
ranch in Alberta and her girls school
at Cosham Park. near Portsmouth, n
! country scat In Ireland. near Ennis
in County Glare. where her Canadian
bred horses are accIimated before
being placed on the English market
Sho has one son, now about twelve
years old, possessed OF the queer Chris
tian nano OF Hamo.
An execution which took place tho
other day in the great English prison
of Worcester served to call attention
to the fact that Its governor is the
grcat-grandson OF All English king.
He is Captain the Hon. Harold Fitz-
shire regiment through tho South
African war, and who is the only
brother and next heir of the chldless
fourth Earl of Munster. His grand
father. tho first Earl OF Munster. like
wise Viscount lritzclarence and Lord
Tcwksbury, was tho eldest of the tribe
of illegitimate children Of King Will
liam ". and of the actress. Mrs. Jor-
dan. whose nomme dc guerre In Lon
don was Dolly Bland.
1t may be recalled that King Will
liam. though he discarded Mrs. Jordan
with scant ceremony md but little care
for her maintenance, WAS extremely
kind to his children. as was also his
conscrt, Queen Adelaide, although
their presence at his court cannot but
have been II source of pain and morti-
hcation to her. Upon tho eldest Of his
sons no bestowed the Earldom OF Nun
ster, and conferred upon all his other
children the same status. as If they
had been the younger sons and the
daughters Of marquis. Tho first Earl
Munster had his head SO much turned
by tho kindness and consideration with
which he was treated by King william
and Queen Adelaide that after the &C
ccssiou of Queen Victoria to the throne
he actually put forward pretensions
rank and Wtiien ihsssse were
: not admitted, committed suicide
The present Earrs elder brother was
killed in battle during the South Afri-
can War He himself has no fortune
Whatsoever. and his heir and younger
brother Captain Harold Fitzclarencc
has little beyond his mcagre salary
ana allowances as governor OF Wor-
ccster prison. Both the Earl of Enroll
Lord High Constable of Scotland, and
the young Duchess of Fife, through
hcf father the late duke are de-
scended. like Captain Fitzciarence,
from King William and Mrs. Jordan
Old General Breart. of the French
army. who has just been gathered TO
his fathers. was the military COM
mander who added Tunis to Frances
colonial empire. and who forced the
Bey Els SadoclS to accept the protec-
torate and 3uzeranty of France The
general was rather brusuue. and was.
moreover. assisted in his task by a
very queer mannersm. for which he
was noted He was afflicted with a
sort of nervous movement which caused
him to constantly jerk his head back
when iaboring under the slightest de-
gree of excitement. To counterfeit
this. he would constantly carry his
hand to his throat
When tho general handed to the Bey
the document accepting the protec-
torate OF France over his dominions.
and acknowledging himself vassal
OF that power, the Bey hesitatcd for
a few minutes about signing it, holding
ms pen I'm his hand General Breart
became quite excited. He did not say
anything. But his head began Jerking
BACKWARDS, and he commenced carry
ing up his hand TO his threat. The
Bey, who was ignorant of this infirmity
, OF the general. stared at him with a
considerable amount III alarm, and
then. hrmly convinced that the general
intended TO convey to him by n sign
that If he did not at once afix his
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his throat cut or his head cut off, he
hastily scribbled his sign manual.
President Poincare. the new chief
magistrate OF the French republic.
when he declared tho other day that
NE intended to spend every penny OF
MS salary and allowances during his
seven years term in maintaining the
spIendor and dignity OF his office, with
OUT attempting TO put by n portion
thereof as several of his predecessors
at the Elysee have been in the habit
OF doing. WAS demonstrated with by
some OF his friends. VINO called to his
attention the fact that he had no pri-
Vate fortune OF which to live on his
return to private life.
But exclaimed he, II shall go
back to work. just like President Taft
is doing over in the United States. He
has taken up the duties OF a university
\ proteSsorship s a means of livelihood
Why should | not resume my work at
the bar. in the same way as President
: Cleveland"
Rear Admiral Paul Won Hintze. who
for the past two years has been Ger
man Minister Plenipotentiary in Mex
leo. Is about to be withdrawn from
thence and to be promoted to still
more important diplomatic post in the
Balkans. presumably Bulgaria. He was
formerly military plcnipotentiary of
Germany attached to the suite OF the
car at ST. Petersburg, but was with
drawn at the request OF Emperor
Nicholas. owing to the belief that he
had managed TO become in some way
acquainted with the character of the
new scheme of secret defances of Lrnn