Show An Unfortunate Heir The little Earl of Arundel is to be carried now to the shrine of Cara vaggio where prayers for the re covet y of his sight unavailing elsewhere else-where are to be offerred We Know of nothing at once more pitiful and mole interesting than the case of this fouryear old heir of all the title estates and fame of the great Howard family There is a notion < prevalent that the family inherits its chief title from tho rough diamond Roger + Bigod Earl of Not folk who when choleric Edward I urged him to a distasteful adventure cried By God Sir Earl you shall either go or hang stoutly retorled By God Sir King I will neither go nor hang I and forthwith raised him an army of revolt so imposing that the King sought a reconciliation Iu reality the Bigods had lost the title and were well nigh forgotten when the Dukedom of Koifolk and its hereditary EarlMarsbalship passed over to the Moworayg and thenco became centered in the person per-son of a young woman together with the estates and titles of the Fitz Alan Earls of Aruuriel early iu the fifteenth century This girl the heiress and sole representative of two great lines was wedded to a smart young Knight of Yorkshire Sir Robert Howard the nead of a family of lawyers who had more wealth than blood It was the son of this marriage John Howard who rode into high favor with tile York II Kings was made a councilor byE by-E ward IV and given both Dukedom Duke-dom and Marshalship by Richard Ill who found those lines which Shakespeare immortalized pinned on his tent door on the morn of Bos worth fight Jocky of Norf Ik be not no bod For DicKon tby master is bought and sold and who died on the field with his betrayed King that same day Eighteenth in succession from that Jocky is tho present Duke of Norfolk Henry iTitzalan Howara the premier Duke and hereditary SariMarshal of England and the foremost Catholic nobleman of Great Britain Even in his religion he is historic for another of his ancestors lost his head in Eliza = beths time for his devotion to Rome and incidentally to that most bewitching of Homes daughters Mary of Scots The Howards have kept the faith ever since through good and evil report The present Duke wedded Lady Flora Hastings a daughter of the famous Countess of Loudoun and of another ancient I I English family which draws its very name from the bsrtlefield that gave Britain to the Normans Their single son Philip Mary Joseph Earl o f Arundel and t u rey v a 3 born blind There has been something some-thing infinitely touching in the devoutness of the efforts made by the stricken parents to avert this affliction The poor little boy has r been blessed in person by the Pope he has been prayed for at Knock at Lourdes and half the other shrines of Europe and special invo cations in his behalf have been enjoined en-joined more than once from the Vatican upon the churches of Europe But the blindness still j lingers and now the lad is to betaken taken as ajlast resort to Caravaggio an Italian town some forty miles east of Milan the place is chiefly known to sinners as the cen tre of a famous watermelon district but it seems there is a shrine of great reputation there as well Surely even those most capable of preferring Caravaggios melons to its holy bones and relics will hope that the atter may have the power to work at least one miracleand that on the eyes of the little Arundel |