The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-08-07
PREFER TO BE LET ALONE.
Celebrities Who Are Much Averse to
Being Made the object
of Curiosity,

of Curiosity.
Of all famous people with an indy.
lag hatred of being looked at or hav-
ing strangers around them, Rudyard
hipling is one of the chief, says Lon
don Answers. He takes extraordinary
pains to avoid the usual consequences
of fame-so much so that he has re-
Gently given up the house he had lived
in so long, and was SO attached to,
and fled from the face of man. He
settled years ago in secluded house in
the little village of rockingham, near
Brighton, hoping to escape the world
at large. But he was soon found out,
and besieged by admirers.
Finally, char-a-banc owners took to
running special Kipling excursions
from Brighton, bringing wagon-loads
of people to see the house and plot
to get view of it's owner. This was
SO exactly opposite to the tastes and
wishes of the famous author, that he
recently stole away inland-much as
he loves the sea-to a spot among the
Sussex hills, near Burwash, far from
any road or railway station, where
he bought fine old farmstead buried
in the depths Of the country. Every
year he goes to South Africa for
spell, and avoids society as much as
possible. He has the name for being
rude and curt, which belief arises SOLE
ly from his horror of being pestered.
Another strong objector to fame and
inspection and fuss of any kind is Mar
conf, the electrical genius of the day.
His pet method is to take a remote
country cottage for holiday or for
study, and hide himself completely, 50
that no interviewer or photographer
can rout him out and torture him. II
one abode becomes known he shifts to
another and does nearly all his work
either alone or with a single colleague.
He is so followed up"-especially
when in America-that he sometimes
finds the papers publish his entions
of going away to some retreat for a
day or two. upon which he quietly goes
in precisely opposite direction, and
baffied reporters have even declared
that he drops hints Of his intentions Of
going to certain place and then quiet
. ly chuckles to himself and goes else
where, leaving he pursuers lamenting.
The greatest lover Of solitude in
Britain, however, is Lord Salisbury,
who inherits the popularity in addi
ton to acquiring it. When he was not
forced to be in the center of the wheels
even then he was far lonelier than
most Notwithstanding his premier.
ship, he used to steal away in little
brougham-oftena four-wheeled cab
to Kings Cross and bury himself In the
recesses of Hatfield as long as posi-.
BILE. The place itself is sternly seclud-
ed, and even when political garden
parties had to be given there the ex.
premier often contrived to escape and
get away by himself. His father was
an even stronger lover of solitude and
had all the windows and outlets by
which it was possible to see any part
of the house from outside the ground
bricked up or covered in and no one but
members of the household staff was al.
lowed inside the gates.
Lord Salisbury gets carriage re-
served for him when travelling by rail
on any arranged journey, and when
travelling. short distance in public
carriage busies himself In book and
is often not noticed at all by the other
travellers.
But of all famous people who de-
test being surrounded by their fellow
humans the most marked is Rockefel.
Ter, the oil king, and the richest man
In the world. He passes from one house
to another, often seeking solitude in
little cottages built for him in the
Adirondacks and other semi-wild dis
tricts. seeking always to keep away
from, the world at large. His chief ex.
ercise is digging, at which he never
misses at least one hours work day.
and he goes into large cities as little
as possible.
Having n good many enemies-on
paper, at least-he has often been
warned against the danger of isolating
himself for it is said he gets-or used
to get--an average of two letters a
week whose writer's threatened to
shoot him. To these and the warnings
he pays not the slightest attention. but
if he finds himself worried by curious
people in one spot simply moves to
another.