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Show WARWICK CASTLE NOW. FREE FROM DEBT. ; . r -v .- ' ... . Ti lull k tail film V - LonJon, Jan. 22. Tho beautiful couutess of Warwick, by a flno strokf of business, has ewept away all tho debts of tho ancestral Warwick estates, es-tates, and she ind her husband, th'; earl, are now car free from debt for the first time in many years. This brilliant woman in U(J'J suggesla that they incorporate all the estates, castle, farming lands, villages an I buildings, and the earl agreed. They were then heavily encumbered. Stocks wore i.-sued in 10-pound shares to a total -of 120,000 poun J . I and first mortgage touds for 210,00 ) pounds at 4 per cent and it is said that either the Rothschilds or W. W. Astor bought most of the securities. Not long ago tho countess was able to sell u big block of South African shaies bequeathed to her by th lato Cecil Rhodes, and this brought hr 300.000 pounds, with which she at cmee bought back all her securities. The property is the only entailed estate es-tate In England ever financed in th.s way. The counters la now blissfully Independent Inde-pendent financially, and as she car.M no longer to go to court, snaps ho--fingers at tho critics who reproach Ivr for having such radical Socialistic views. She Is still as much of a red revo-lutlonlit revo-lutlonlit as ever, and has taken of lato to exercising her feudal rls'nt of appointing ap-pointing the clergy to the livings on bor estate, naming only thoa who accept ac-cept the doctrines of Karl Marx without with-out reservation. All the children of her tenants go to Sunday school wer.rlng red jerseys to shnw their sympathy with her political Ideals and all by ber Instruction sturdily re fuse to lift their hats to the people of quality. They have been taught that they owe very little to their social so-cial superiors. |