The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-06

erage extensions and building reguia-
lions. No public business was too pet
ty or tiresome to receive his personal
attention. He would give up house
party or yachting trip in order to
check the vouchers of an assistant sur
veyor, or attend a meeting of the sub
committee on street cleaning.
Once. in 1895, the House of Lords had
to decide momentous question, and
Lord Dudley was asked to attend and
swell the vote of the Conservative ma
Jority to which he belongs,
I'm sorry l can't he said. "Our
Town Council meets the same night,
and l must be there."f ~ %flf|N
Hang your parish pumpy" exeiAin-
ed the Conservative whip in dispute.
This is national question. Parlia-
nent is more important than the Duds
ley Town Council"
Il don't think So" replied Lord Dud-
ley. The British Empire is big enough
TO get along without me, or without
the House of Lords either, for that
matter. But the town of Dudley needs
lot of looking after. Municipal adj
mlnistration is far and away more i'm
portant than anything one can do In
Parliament. It's better to mend one
sewer than to make a hundred elo-
quent speeches about preserving the
unity and dignity of the empire"
Helping Some Dogs Over stiles.
Lord Dudley made a strong stand for
honesty in municipal affairs while he
was mayor He left no loopholes for
graft Once he discovered some de-
falcations by a subordinate clerk, a
young man of good character, who had
Just been married. He ordered his ar
rest.
The wife begged, even with tears, for
mercy; but the mayor was implacable.
our husband must be punished for
the sake of the example" lie told her.
Lord Dudley, the mayor, was just.
Lord Dudley, the man, was merciful.
He spoke strongly in the clerks favor
! at the trial and got him a light sem
| tence. While the embeZzler was in Jail,
his wife received a check for his for
mer salary every week from Lord Dud-
| ley.
AS soon as he was released the man
went to Whitley Court to thank his BEN
| efactor
Glad to see you, Jones'" said Lord
! Dudley, cutting his words of gratitude
short. You're just the man l want
| Open to an offer, aren't you? Would
| you care to go abroad? l want a man
to take charge of some of my business
affairs in the West Indies. Do you
think your wife would mind living in
| the tropics?"
MY Lord, it is too good of YOU" ex-
claimed the man. But how can you
trust me after-?"
"Pshaw! That's past and paid for"
was the answer. Don't you know the
best cricket bat is the one that's been
broken and spliced?"
And Lord Dudley sent the man out
to the West Indies on a salary more
than double that which he had got
from the Town Council, and trusted
him with the handling of large sums of
money. The man proved himself to be
worthy of the confidence.
This is only one of many conspira-
cies of kindness Matched between Lord
and Lady Dudley They are contin-
ually helping lame dogs ever stiles.
Their single aim in life seems to be to
make other people happy, and the
amount of thought and ingenuity that
they spend in doing so is by no means
small.
Lord Dudley is the patron Of no few
err than thirteen church livings, and
has to support the incunlbents of all of
| them. This system of patronage in the
Church of England is bitterly denounc
ed even by Anghcans themselves, but
il all patrons were like Lord Dudley
there would be no complaints. He
chooses his clergymen most conscien-
tiously. Mere scholarship or social in
fuence has no weight With him; he
wants a man who doves his fellow
men. The late Bishop Creighton once
said at a public meeting, that LORD
Dudley would have made a model bish-
op.
Lord DudIey's Charming Wife.
Lord Dudley owes much of his sue
cess to his wife. Lady Dudley is
beautiful woman, but not half so beau
tiful as she is clever, and not half so
clever as she is kind.
She is the youngest daughter of
Charles Quincy, the great Quaker
baker. After his death she was
adopted by the Duke and Duchess of
Bedford. The philanthropic Duchess
taught her to love and help the SICK
the destitute and the miserable. She
made her ward a warm-hearted, be-
nevolent woman like herself.
The Duke of Bedford is one of the
largest landlords in London, and owns
a great deal of slum property, His
marriage was one of the romances of
the peerage. When he was 80,
Lord Herbrand Russell. as he then
was served in India as a major in the
army and an aide-de-camp to Lord
Dufferin the viceroy. The heir to
one of the greatest titles and largest
fortunes in England, he was naturally
a mark for dozens of matchmaking
mothers. Had he chosen, he might
even have won the hand of a royal
princess, as the Marquis of Lorne did
But he fell in love with a clergymans
daughter in Lahore and married her.
The Duchess took the responsible
ties of her rank seriously.
1T is not right" she told her
friends, that we should draw large
revenues from the poor, and never
trouble ourselves about how they live
and how they get the money which
they pay u.s." So she set the fashion
in looking after the welfare of the
poor in the East End of London, and
many women of title followed her ex-
ample.
Before her marriage Miss Quincy
always accompanied the Duchess on
these visits to the homes of the poor
She has a beautiful voice, and is prob
ably the best singer among British
peeresses. Often she would sing for
hours to please sick or aged folks,
while the Duchess inquired into their
material needs.
Since her marriage. Lady Dudley
has spent a great deal Of time and
money helping children's hospitals and
orphanages. She is a devoted mother
TO her own three young children, but
her mother love is great enough 10
overflow for the benefit OF any child
who is sick. lame. blind or poor. The
greater part Of her pin-money is spent
buying toys. books and flowers for
children's hospitals.
The Duke and Duchess Of Bedford