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AMERICA has already an aristoc
racy. In another two or three
generations It will possess' a
fairly numerous hereditary nobility.
There is a great difference between
aristocracy aind nobility. The latter
Implies titular distinctions, but not
necessarily much in the wayof line
age, whereas aristocracy indicates -ancestry,
but not necessarily the posses
sion of nobiliary titles.
No one in their senses can deny that
this great American Republic, like that
of Switzerland, has a thriving and well
established aristocracy. The list of pa
triotic societies Is increasing every year.
These are signaHzed by the peculiarity
of being composed, not of the people
who have done something for the Na
tion, but of their descendants. There
are the Order of the Cincinnati, the
societies of the Daughters of the Rev
olution, of the Mayflower Descendants,
of the United States Daughters of 1812,
of the Colonial Wars, of the Aztecs
rer of a Golden Spur,
Lord Grey de Ttuthyn.
fna Black aad- WluM.
in the sense which I hare Indicated
abo e may, therefore, be regarded as
one of the guardian angels of the peo
ple in the new world as well as in the
old. It exercises a restraining in
fluence and causes men and womei.
of every degree to pause before em
barking upon courses of action 01
speech entailing possible disgrace, no .
only themselves but also the nam
that they have inherited and whlct
they are bound in honor to bequeath
free from stain to their descendants.
While few would be disposed to
cavil at an aristocracy on such lines
as these In America, there are many
who frown on the idea of her possess
ing a titled, nobility, even If it remains
without any statutory or official pre
rogative and immunities.
It cannot be denied' that it is con
trary to the spirit of .the National oCn
etitutlon, which provides, in Article I.
section 9, clause 8, that "No title of
American citizens who owe their pos
session of foreign titles to heritages
from which they cannot escape. Thus,
nearly a hundred years ago Charles
Walter, younger brother of Sir Ed
mund Waller, of Newport. Tipperary,
went to the United States, married in
1830 a Miss Marie Burgher, of Staten
Island, and became an American citi
zen. There were three sons born in
(composed of sons of officers who took nobility shall be granted by the United
part in the invasion of Mexico in
1847), of the Descendants of the Sign
ers of the Declaration of Independence,
of the Loyal Legion and Innumerable
other associations all over the country,
each one of which exacts certain ances
tral qualifications.
Now, pride of ancestry, the respect grant any t,Ue of BObnlty
xor uncage ana iu preservauuu ul
family traditions are In no manner in
compatible with true democracy, pro
vided no endeavor ' is made to secure
for these advantages of birth special
States and no person holding any of
fice of profit or trust under them shall,
without the consent of Congress, accept
of any present, emolument, office or
title of any kind whatever front any
king, prince or foreign state."
It further provides, in Article I, sec
tion 10, clause 1. that "No state shall
Moreover,
the laws of the United States explicitly
require that foreign applicants for nat
uralization must renounce any "here
ditary title, order or nobility" which'
they may possess before they can be
prerogatives and immunities withheld admitted to citizenship
from other citizens. So long as the
While thi., clearlv indicates the nir!t wh P European titles. First of
Tespect for ancestry has no other ob- of the constitution and law of the a 1 como the veral hundred American
Sect than the endeavor on the part of United states. there is nothing in either woraen hav obtained them by
the possessed thereof to live up to the of them that Bpec,ficallv debar8 an or. matrimonial alliances with foreigners,
standard of conduct of their forebears. d, non-offlclal American citizen Strictly speaking they lose their Amer-
to keep the family name untarnished from ,nnerltlnK a foreign title of no- Ja clt'zenshlP bv thelr marrIa?' and
and to maintain in all their integrity Dlm or from acceptlns a dlstinction althouE mstt ""y bema
the traditions of the family, nothing of that klnd ,rom s)mo torelsn ler Permanently expatriated and rear their
but good can result to the Nation. Any- or sovernment. It is perfectly true ,ff!,prln ,n, Eu,rope, as citizen, of the
xmng tenas xo Keep roora.1 that American school books for a num- " " ' J " , "
of the citizens up. to a certain level
is conducive to the welfare of the com
monwealth. In no country in the world is democ
racy more advanced than In Switzer
land, where the doctrine of civic equal
It? Is carried to such a degree that
Have Accepted Titles.
Then there are the Americans who
have accepted titles from foreign sov
ereigns. Most of these honors have
ber of years contained an alleged
amendment to the Constitution, which
they numbered XIII, and which actu
ally passed through both houses of
Congress at Washington by large ma
jorities, stipulating that "If any citi
zen of the United States shall acceDt.
the $4000-a-year President is not al- claim, reeeive or. retain any title of been obtained from the Papacy. They in
lowed to. hold Office for more than 12 -nohllitv or honor, or slml! withnut t.h two riuVorioma nmlv th. f
months lest he should become imbued consent of Congress accept, retain any Joseph Loubat, of New York, and that
with an undue sense of superiority. Tet present, pension, office or emolument of the late Michael Jenkins, of Balti-
not even in Austria or Germany is there (rom any king, emperor, prince or for- more: several marquisates, among. oth-
more importance attached to ancestry, eIgn power such person shall cease to ers those of Mrs. Hugh McLaughlin, of
lineage and family traditions, no mat- DO a citizen of the United States and Martin Mahoney, gas magnate and phl-
ter whether the family is of the peas- Bhall be incapable of holding any of- lanthropist, of Philadelphia, and of
antry. or tne great mercnani aynasnes flce of trust or profit under them or Mrs. Cecil Wentworth. of New York.
i mo iuiuum -rt.B wi vj x iuai, uui.nv.vi eitner or xnem.
patriciate whose line goes back with- This amendment was ratified by 11
out a break to the era of the legendary o the states, namely, Pennsylvania.
Maryland, New Jersey. Kentucky, Ohio.
New Hampshire, North Carolina, Dela-
national hero, William Tell.
Influence of Ancestry.
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Mr .'Maurice Ttocli. J tZ?gjfr fffg " A.
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Marqni Martin Moloney.
I'Loto by Gilbert coa.
' after he had settled down at Edge-
water, in Nrw Jersey. He has a son,
born and bred in the United States, who
has Joined him in his business and
who will in due course succeed to the
baronetcy bestowed upon his great
grandfather for his services as Chief
Justice of Canada. He is descended
from a ceVtain Christopher Robinson,
who was Colonial Secretary of Vlr-
Kew York of this union, the eldest of glnia in. the reign of King William and
whom, Charles, succeeded in due course Queen Mary.
to his uncle's baronetcy. He never mar. sir Arthur Eliott. of Stebs, was a
ried, made his home in the Broadway member of the New York Stock El-
Central Hotel, New York, and died in change, consequently an American citi-
1911 at the Hahnemann Hospital, the xen. when, a few years ago. he inherited
baronetcy, which has a checkerboard ni3 uncle's Scotch estates and baronetcy,
for its escutcheon, passing to his the latter dating from the reign of
nephew. William E. Waller. The latter. Charles II. His eldest son. Gilbert,
also a native of New York, owns a Dorn in the United States, is now in
chain of department stores in New charge of the Eliott brokerage business
Jersey at Rutherford, Madison. Ridge- jn Wall street and is married to Miss
wood. Westwood, Closter and Has- Fiournoy Hopkins, daughter of Mrs.
Heights. His eldest son and Wllloughby Sharp, of New York. It
heir has recently been graduated from was slr George Eliott. a member of this
Cornell University.
Sir William, has retained his Ameri
can citizenship along with his New
Jersey emporiums, and has continued
to live in America, as the ancestral
castle in Tipperary is now a pictur
esque, ivy-clad ruin and quite unin
habitable. It Is familiar to tourists as Cully
particular line of the EMotts. who won
such lasting fame by his heroic de
fense of Gibraltar in 1782.
Sir James Stuart-Menteth came Into
the world at Canandalgua. N. Y.. soma
75 years ago. was brought up as an
American citizen in New York, married
a Miss Helen Gertrude Fay, of Fulton.
N. Y.; succeeded to his uncle's baronetcy
Virginia and Massachusetts refused
even to consider it. Thus, failing to
secure the approval of three-fourths of
the states, the amendment was lost.
There are three classes of Americans
CasUe. which was acquired by General vhen 30 years old. and still makes his
Sir William Waller, who distinguished homo at canandalgua.
himself in the Thirty Years' war ana
became one of Cromwell's commanders.
The' present Sir William's granduncle.
the fourth Baronet, was married to a
sister of Sir Benjamin Lee Guinness.
. T T. w fnunder of
. ... ... , daughters and his whole tribe of g rand-
the famous Dublin stout brewing con-
Nobility in Mlrklran.
Sir George Compton Reade, chief of
a family that figures in Froissart's
Chronicles, lives a sort of patriarchal
existence, with his dozen sons and
." Ji: ""y. th ,ue of children, at Dexter. Mich., where he
ACUt-UCl V. 1 tr.-
his father, who arrived in America in
the reign of William IV, obtained
naturalization on marrying, in 1S24.
Miss Lerita Walton, of Dexter, and set
tled down In that then remote Western
town. Sir George succeeded, about 25
of them who end by returning to live
in the land of their birth and to rear
their children as Americans.
painter, and about a score of coronets.
of count and countess. Including those
of Miss Georgine Iselln and of Miss
Anna Leary, of New York; of Mrs.
Spottiswood Mackin, of Stf Louis, and
of Reginald Henshaw Ward, of Boston
Cauhlrts Spottirwood 3IacKhu.
-Waller was the poet Edmund Waller,
of "Go. Lovely Rose" celebrity. Asked
by Charles II. to explain why his "Ode
In Honor of the Restoration" was so
vastly Inferior to his verses entitled
"A Panegyric to My Lord Protector."
rl 14 - "Sir. WA rOrtS
never succeed so well in writing truth on the death of his cousin.
A Baronet In Bay Rldce.
Sir Robert Graham, of Esk. tenh
Baronet, of a line that forms a Junior
branch of the great Scottish house now
headed by the Duke of Montrose and
descended from that Sir Richard Gra
ham who was Master of the Horse to
James I., has made his home for more
than 40 years at Bay Ridge. Brooklyn,
where all his sons have been born,
have married and have their residence.
The eldest of them. Montrose Stuart
Graham, who has a 10-year-old son and
two little daughters. Is established in
business In New York, is a full-fledged
American citizen and will in due course
succeed to his father's baronetcy as its
11th holder.
,tv h- ware Vermont, Georgia and Tennessee,
T3 -KTA . Va-It -nmi-i An a n .1 DVaI - ot. - .. " - ......v.. u . v -
South Carolina, I eanrecall at this moment as having and Dom Pedro, last Emperor of Brazil, Final
to imagine that the respect for an
cestry and regard for family tradition
are restricted to what are known as
the "classes." Their influence is just as
potent with the masses a fact readily
comprehended when it Is borne in mind
that people pn yonder side of the At
lantic are, as a rule, content with their
social status. The yeoman farmer in
England takes pride in the fact that
his ancestors for hundreds of years
Island rejected it, while
to the Reade baronetcy, which was
created by Charles II In the very year
of his restoration. But he has thus far
been unsuccessful in recovering poa
session of Shipton Hall and the very
valuable estates In Oxfordshire, which
from 1660 until about 80 years ago
went with the title. The alienation
from the family forms a most roman
tic and intensely dramatic story, which
might wejl have furnished the theme
for a novel or for a play perhaps X
should say a tragedy to Sir George's
English kinsman, the late Charles
Reade. author of "Never Too Late to
Mend" and of "The Cloister and ths
Hearth."
Lord Fairfax, 12th baron of his line.
and whose six immediate predecessors
in this Scottish peerage were natives
of America, the last three lords being
American citizens, only secured natural-
ALASKA LACKS DEFENSES
(Continued From Fare 4.
and several claims had already been
taken out. These claims the Govern-
"" "r-""-"'- " ment could not control, and some work
atn. ua.v 3 uccu jr cuuuctu ilijza s lino f . T n
himself, often in the possession of the
selfsame land, and educates his child
Ten to live up to the traditions of their
forefathers. V
Anchorage pass near it. It is almost
under the shadow of Mount Iliamna
and not far from Iliamna Lake, one of
the most beautiful bodies of fresh
water in Alaska. This is the Inlskin
reported along the Pacific seacoast, It
is now about 20 years since attention
was drawn to the Katalla and Yaka
taga fields, and the first drilling at
Yakataga was in 1901. A little later
a survey was made for a pipeline from
Controller Bay to that field.
The first drillings in the Inlskin
field were at about the same time, and
luncheon hour the other day reeclving
"fatherly" advice from Professor Win-
" "e'"K ,n oil ;.n ' . " " wa two year, later that the wells field a Hall, of Northwestern Unl-
"".:" rr" Z,V. .hor. f lT,lBvln wero UI Cold Bay. The work of vers!
T I1M 111. IV Ui IUCBTJ 1UUIO Ul V - ..... m . a. , Inv&t.lMtlAn mas , , , , .
California oil fields greatly Increased
Sir John Beverley Robertson is also
conferred titles upon Americans have the honors In each case having been a an American citizen, in the brokerage
v. .i - 4 N7-w vnrk. wnn succeeaea
i ,v t,... tSt n n wm to his cousin s baronetcy many year u "a ojw " " "
as representative of the New York
brokerage firm of William P. Bon
blight & Co. He is unmarried, and the
next heir to the family honors is his
brother, the Hon. Charles Edmund
Fairfax, a resident of New York, mak
ing his home at No. 162 East Forty-
sixth street. When he succeeds in duo
HOW TO CHOOSE A WIFE
I IX HUNDRED bachelors. som young
a confirmed
"Choosing
been struck. Some of the wells have of the western coast of the inlet.
V. . ..1 . WAm "1 n w 1 " t. I 7, , I .
Thus, at Vaynol. the ancestral domain ."" '"""-" " - ------ rD . BUppoiiea 10 xie in a their output' This took the life out of
of the Assheton-Smiths, in Wales, there !Ti.i T V Vv -aQ"ne- " seeping out the Alaska oil . boom, and before it
are eight of the yeoman farmers whose Vut d,Wn nly " feet an,d nfn ha" f th8. -round. No drilling has been could be revived the conservation erase
f ... . gone aeep enougn 10 actually test ma uone tner since 19
witfirtllt anv Infarriinf Irtn f rr m than field.
A little further south along the well was sunk to a depth of 1000 feet, withdrawn from entry.
tanv. in. Smith Rcsnv ar. n a coast is another oil region. This is It was producing gas and oil when the Among the most interesting of oil
tria who can trace their descent from fnw" m iaaia5a iieio. u water rusnea in ana shut off the OIL discoveries is the one near the Arctic the possible six to 20 girls you are to
a wife. Which one will you
1904, and before that occurred ana in 1908 all the n-
the field was only partially tested. One troleum lands of the territory were
versity Medical School, on
a Wife."
I don't see any bald heads in the
audience," said Dr. Hall, 'so I take It
for granted you are all good candidates
for marriage. By that I mean you
have sound health, are moraly clean
and can support a wife if you win one.
"Imagine the girls of your acquaint
anceship lined up before you. Out of
Avoid the daughter of
alcoholic
When he came "to that part of his
lecture referring to ages for marriage course to the barony he will have no
he turned to the blackboard, wrote inducement whatsoever to abandon his
down some figures and said-: allegiance to Uncle Sam or to sacrifice
"According to the best scientific re- his American citizenship and birth
search the figures on the board show right. For the Fairfax peerage, being
the relative ages at which men and a Scotch honor, carries with it no seat
women should marry." in the House of Lords, and the estates
Here is the table as he wrote It: which once belonged thereto have, been
A man of 21 should marry a girl long since alienated from the title.
t, Ac, a Vnnwi.. whh iust beyond the Bering Glacier, and A second well was abandoned at a Ocean. It is in the shape of a mound
imhn them with ..n.. nr r..nn. extends to the. southeastward for a depth of 150 feet and a thinl struck of solidified oil which rises hieh above. i.
eibility and dignity. In the same way flstanc of perhaps 20 miles. The field oil and ras at 170 feet. The Inlskin the country about It In the northern- ..Fou'r thing., must be considered
the retail and wholesale traders of "arked out iy the oil .eeplng out ol field is easily accessible to steamships, most part of our territory. It is so her health, her hereditary qualities.
Europe, in the monarchical as well as
In the republican countries, take an
honest pride in the fact that their fore.
the ground. The southern edge of It although the. harbor
is from a half mile to two miles from blocked by ice floes,
tho ocean shore. The oil goes on to
is
hear, were trader. Ilk. hen,i,.. an unPlored and Ice-covered region
i. ,. ' tributary to Icy Bay. Some is found
which constitute the principal Incentive
for preserving, unblemished by .any
oozing out of the
Yahtse River, and
ground near the
. number of seep-
sometimes near to the North Pole that Smith Bay. ner eauCatlon and her age. Exclude
?"-Ta Dy- 10a ln ,c from the ranks the girl of poor health.
"il. monins or me year, ana jf. calamity for a man to marry
- The fourth oil field on the Pacific tor tnis rei,on th "el3 w hot b such a girl. Some of you may say that
seacoast is on the Alaska Peninsula, commercially profitable. The mound is the girl might get welL Let her ret
that great horn of land about BOO miles te residue of a petroleum fountain or better before you marry her.
long which forms the southwestern- Png. It is several hundred yards In .r, t v
failure or commercial dishonor, the ases are rePrla tne way iroro most point of the territory, ending In o1""!" ana it rises to a height of 150 BO .n1 devoiOI the abilltv to
good name that they have inherited. Yakataga to Yakutat Bay. a distance the Aleutian Islands. The oil has been Ieet aDOV tne leve f the tundra. It wall 15 or t0 mUe8 and retUrn with
in France the lawyers in particular of eeveral hundred miles. found near Cold Bay. a distance, per- 'PP1"", tC b comPOd petroleum out fatigue and with Dame Nature's
are fond of pointing out how their Thls Yakataga oil comes out for the haps, of about 200 miles from the Ke- containing an asphaltlc base. In which pricele,s rouge upon her cheeks. Then
fathers and fathers' fathers have been ost Part ,n a eris of short valleys, nal Peninsula, and Just across the way T mixed vegetable matter and silt. you may jnarry her, knowing she Is
honored members of the magistracy Most of the seepages are small, but fiom the Island of Kodiak. There are 0f good health.
and of the bar, and they, too,vstrive f.o l?e" 13 one on Jonnsion v.reeit mai is a numoer or on seepages in that field uiocovery oi mese several oil "Don't marry a girl Just because she
ckukhcu .u u,v.ua.Bo o. 7iis were urmea mere De- ucivn, oucn wiae aisiances apart, has a pretty figure and large, lustrous
rel or more of oil a day. No drilling has fore the conservation scheme stopped shows how little we know of Alaska, eyes and is a beautiful dancer, if at 20
been 'done in this field, and the dis- further exploration. The seepages are The oil mound at Smith Bay is almost she has only the mind of a lrl of 13
trict is almost inaccessible from the strong and in one place natural gas 1000 miles directly north of the point years old."
ocean, as the landings are.exoosed to flows out of th rrnim ti.i. (j n -v t . . . .
MSi'ssi2sr2: s-rz-iji.. irssrs; rssia!irssscs
- - . v u w a a s-v auAxuaua, a. a a. ill ja ui Vfu iUIUUgUUUl 111 O year, X IllB Oil X161C1
or sold. They can only be inherited pipeline is the Bering Glacier, which is the nearest Japan of those so far
and are a species of inalienable heir- lies between Yakataga and the Bering discovered.
loom, which may be smirched to such River coal fields. That glacier Is said The fact that Detroleum x!t m
an etent as to become an object of to he receding and In time, the field Alaska Is not new. The Cold Bav field rhlrarn om
ignominy rather than of dignity, but will probably be accessible. was known to the Russians as far back ka ban been ,,(n. v-
which can never he transferred or ne- Thes is another oil field only a short as 1865. but no attempt was made to our geologists, and there are probably znindedness.
0.v. utsLuo i.uju u. . uu uio wen uivoaugaw n; ana it years alter we other deposits of petroleum in
Family tradition that Is. aristocracy shora of Cook Inlet. The steamers to took, possession, of the territory, oil was wilds of the unexplored, regions.
between 19 and 23 years.
At 25, one between 21 and 27.
At SO. one between 23 and 28.
At 35. one between 23 and 30.
- At 40, one between 25 and S3.
At 45, one between 25 and 35.
At SO. one between 40 and 50.
At 60. one between 45 and 60.
At 70, one between 50 and 60.
At 80. one between 60 and 70.
"When a man gets to be BO years
old," he continued, "he should not ex
pect to rear a family. I advise a man
to marry a widow with several children.
"When a man of 60 or more marries
The late Frank Work, of New York.
had recourse to every means In his
power to assure the American nation
ality of his favorite grandson and heir,
Maurice Burke-Roche. who has made
his home in New York ever since the
time when, in his early childhood, his
mother effected a separation from her
husband, the Hon. James Burke-Roche,
former home-rule member of Parlia
ment for East Kerry.
Jarnes Btirke-Roche's elder brother,
Lord Fermoy. has no male issue, and
therefore Maurice Burke-Roche is
destined to succeed In due course to his
uncle's Irish peerage as Lord Fermoy,
It Is only for the purpose of having a In spite of all his Americanism, What
nurse during his declining years. It Is is still more odd in this connection is
unfair for him to marry any one that. If Lord Fermoy predeceases his
live up to the traditions of what has
come to be known in the Gallic tongue
as the "Noblesse de Robe."
im . Cannot Be Traded. ,
oil seepages along the Pacific Coast verei
extend, at wide intervals apart, over Don't marry n heiress,
a distance east and west almost as become unhappy with her
great as that between New York and money.
Don't marry Into a family where
there are traces of insanity or feeble-
You
and
may
her
the Look up the health record of her
parents and grandparents.
younger than himself. He
marry a childless widow or
maid." From London Tit-Bits.
How to Make a Problem Play.
Brooklyn (N. Y.) Eagle,
Take the following ingredients and
mix them thoroughly:
One poor but honest husband.
One attractive and ambitious wife.
One millionaire who is
married."
One 80-horsepower motor car,
One gossiping housemaid.
One intercepted letter.
One. police officer.
One revolver, -v'
should brother, James, Mrs. Burke-Roche, of
an old New York, will find herself a peeress
of the realm as Lady Fermoy. notwith
standing all her efforts to escape the
honor, for her endeavors to secure a
dissolution of her marriage have not
been successful, since the divorce which
she obtained from the courts of the
state of Delaware is not recognized in
Great Britain. '
The present Lord Grey de Ruthyn. on
unhappily succeeding. In 1912, to his elder
- brother's ancient barony, declared that
he saw no reason why he should give
up his pleasant existence on the Mon
tana ranch, where he had made his
home for more than a quarter of a
century and where he had secured citl
aenship of the United States.