Show I L British Baronets Bursting Burstin With Pride t ii uv BY filCh indium Hn London Aug AuA 51 n. i I Baronets al although nl- nl II though the tIme low lowest t rank of or the British nobility are arC notoriously the proudest t tand and anti mo most t snobbish h. h A delightful In Instance instance In- In stance glance of ot this pride o of title has hns been given 11 by b Sir Spencer Maryon Bart Barn strongly strong objects to being addressed ed in correspondence correspondence corre corre- a as Dear Sir Ir and insists I tR that he should he be addressed ed as Sir Baronet He lie has carried his protest so far faras faras as to have printed a t. t notice which he ho sends with their letters l' l returned to nil all who write to him hint as Dear Sir This precious document reads as folI follows fol Col- fol- fol I lows v 0 There j is a strong trong feeling among amon baronets that the expression lon Dear Deal Sir which IJ Is constantly used In commencing common common- cing a letter nowadays b by and to upper upper upper up up- per servants nants clerks In small offices I land and many other persons who are much I 1 below blow the social status of or a baronet is Ie not only Incorrect and Incon Incongruous ruou hut but i is also 01 very discourteous when u cd to members rs of or this Ancient and Hereditary Dc Degree re I will therefore ask you OU In to kindly commence your letters to me mc Sir Baronet Instead in instead In- In stead of Dear Sir Beyond being the tho eleventh elc holder of or I the baronetcy which wa was vas created In 1660 Sir Spencer Maryon lIson is quite quie undistinguished But nut he has just sprung Into fame Came through the publication ion tion ton of or his exquisitely snobbish protest protest protest pro pro- test against Dear Sir Sir The rhe atmosphere of or shabby clothes and labor hat hats seems to have crept into the hou o of lords For years ears and years past no member of the upper upper upper up up- per house has dreamed of or appe appearing aring In the lobb lobby in anything but hut a silk hat and the tle majori majority of or peers have ha a. a 1 ways worn either a frock coat hoever however however how how- ever antiquated or a a. black bIne morning coat To the horror of or the cloakroom at attendants atthe at- at the Earl of oC Mayo no marched In the other othor day wearing a a straw hat lint and anti a blue Itie hl serge suit The ale attendants n who are arc even e more con conservative e than the Tory ory peers themselves received an even greater shock the tho next day when Lord St. St Aldwyn Allwn appeared apparel In a light check suit which could coull only be described as asI I loud iii 1 Lord Courtney Is another peer who had defied delicti tradition b by wearing extremely ex ex- tl light fane fanc sporting waist waist- coats Th The Marquis of or wears the seediest old frock Crock coat anti and hat o of nn any on one In the house Tho The coat dates dales back to early arl Victorian days duys The Tho knowledge that lint the tho lord mayor maor of or Dublin receives 1500 GOO the time party of or oran an Infantry captain was Imparted to tho time house of or commons In rC reply to an nn interrogation This stipend dales dates from tho the time of or Charles Ii I hut but no one seems to know why It was over evem paid to the tho lord mayor maor of oC Dublin The pre present nt lord lorl mayor marol Is Jo Joseph eph Nannetti annett M. 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P who Is a compo compositor lor and never Jw was a military mil mu- ml- ml Ial man War Wat ar Minister has explained to the thc commons that lint Mr Mm Nannetti Is not counted as an efficient officer in iii 11 the tho army J list t Ho Io draws draw's his captains captain's pay as an nn absolute sinecure Analogous Analog with wih his phantom cop cop- is the tho cx ex ex appointment of or ortho tho the lord mayor maor of or Cork COk as admiral of or orthe the port of or Queenstown His Ills naval na al duties dutes arc are confined to the tho picturesque annual ceremony of ot throwing a silver lver dart lart Into the sea to define the tho limits of or hl his command Great slaughter o of Slow grouse e. e as usual In the tho month of oC Au August has been done dona b by aristocratic sportsmen port on the tIme moors moor of or Scotland and ane in the north of ot Eng Eng- land In the lie big big- battues that are arc or organized organized organized or- or for fOl or th the grouse TOI e shooting season season season sea sea- son record numbers of oC brace bract have o been shot shot b by the tho shooting experts I If I there were a worlds world's champion champlon- ship In shooting Lord S 'S i- i Ills His ham hamn would bo be the time proud holder 19 shoot is record In a 11 handed single 1070 birds shot hot In 15 hours On another an- an other occa occasion ion he fired 1100 cart cart- c rt- rt r ridges e and ant accounted for Lord ha has a limit itne g game ne I preserve e at Morton Hall Bali lal In Jn Norfolk which Is tho the traditional scene of ot ttO Babes Bahls in Iii the Wood nursery talc talc and the ghost ghost o of th time the children are arc arc arcs arc's s said ld haunt the neighborhood to t S. S Three Three- Credit Collapses Abroad S Three countries countries Japan F Egypt nt r through h serious serious ser ser- Ar Argon Argentina Li have na-have have passed se ious panics panic In Japan the the peace of ot Portsmouth was waR followed h by a a. boom in the organization of or now new companies ll s. s Their capital was tas In the n aggregate t S fivefold the tho capital of or companies usual usually I ly organized In an average year Last t spring aw saw sudden liquidation In Ina a afew D few weeks 13 companies failed and nt the lie acrid feeling apparent in Japan is S Sin In part due to Ua the depression lon which succeeded this crash S tho Ito of realty of-realty realty 1 Egypt pt has been scene renly oC-renly speculation Land has haR quadrupled In value Irrigation has added a new v ne acreage acre acre- ag age hold hl at extravagant prices Alexandria Alexandria Alex Alex- andria and anti Cairo have hav had hud a lot city lot fever and this has s extended d up the tho I Nie Nile In July the tue crash cite C b exI export ex ex- I port of or gold goM from flom this co coUmas tn j as in inA A measure due to the time demand Ol rl made mado by hy this panic In erIo l Ir r bank failures were prevented pre l lint tt th bottom Is out of or land values and liquidation dation daton will wi lost last for or months y Argentina has las had hotl an Immigration r Uon boom Crops have been large Wheat exports run in some soma recent years cloo to ours our New land has haq b been en brought Into cultivation cul aton Cities s have have expanded Public credits are no not in involved l Ived as in 1890 and no great banking institutions are ale Involved tin bu there 11 has iam been Just such uch a collapse o as new Western boomtown boomtown boom boom- town re regions ions nave have so s often |