Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-11-19

Of Canada in the hollow of his hand as if
they Were so many wires and he the wire
puller There Is hardly a single big work
in Canada which he has not promoted, and
he has given away hundreds of thousands
OF dollars for benevolent purposes in the
dominion, another man might give away
dimes.
Made Him Power.
But perhaps his greatest achievement was
to come back to England his fame and
fortune made, and marry a beautiful and
socially expert but penniless girl, who has
made him one of the greatest powers in
British society. He has become, through
her help, an intimate friend of King Ed
ward the German emperor and most of the
other potentateS of Europe. But he does
not care much for the social racket he
spends the evening of his life in promoting
the interests of his beloved Canada, as high
commissioner in London.
Another peer whose right to a titular re-
ward cannot be questioned is John Burns,
first Lord Inverclyde. He is the founder Of
the Cupard Steamship Company, and has
probably done more than any other man to
bring up EnglandS mercantile marine to
its present position. But this was not the
reason, or at least not the main reason,
why he was made a peer. He was the first
to recommend to the British government
the adapting of merchant steamships as
scouts and reserves in naval warfare. he
example was widely followed by other
countries, until it is now general among the
naval powers of the world; but John Burns
was the first man to get the idea.
The wonderful work done in Egypt by
Lord Cromer is well known, but many peo-
pie in America seem to have the idea that
he inherited his title. That is not the case.
He started his career as Evelyn Barring, and
won his peerage by his own good work as
a soldier, a financier diplomatist and an
administrator
By Their Own Efforts.
Lord Miner, who ranks second in public
estimation among British colonial admins
traitors. although he is probably by no
means second in ability, also won his title.
He was once an obscure newspaper man,
but got a billet In the board of trade and
worked his way up to his present position.
Lord Curzon of Kedleston is generally re-
garded in America as a member If the
house of lords 1t is true that he is peer
who won his title by brilliant service as
statesman before he was made viceroy of
India, but he is an Irish peer, ana not one
of the representative peers at that. He
chose this kind of title in prefaren re to
an English peerage because he did not wish
to sit in the house of lords. after ne
finishes his work in India, be intends to re-
sumo his parliamentary career, His ac
ceptance of an Irish peerage does not debar
him from reelection as a member of the
house of commons for a constituency in
Great Britain at the conclusion of hts term
Among the scientists who have been re-
warded with peerages, William Thompson,
first Lord Kelvin, is one of the foremost.
He has made many important additions to
the sciences of electricity and magnetism,
and he gained the blue ribbon of English
scientists, the presidency of the Royal So
ciety. 1t is, however, in connection with
submarine biography that his name is best
known, and he has also invented several
electrical instruments of great value TO
navigators. These practical services to
mankind won him his title. 1t is very evil
dent, in looking through the list of men
who have been made peers of the united
kingdom, that none of them is a mere the
orist, none devoted to pure science or alb
stractions of any kind. They all men
who have rendered services to their kind
men who have done real work in the world.
Patriotism and Philanthropy.
1t might not seem, at first sight, that this
definition fitted Lord Rothchild the famous
barker; but he won his title by patriotic
services to the government in the financial
sphere and by his munifieent benefactions
to the Poor of London and other cities.
No title was better earned than that of
Lord Lister, who discovered the antiseptic
treatment in surgery. Like Lord Kelvin, he
was once president of the Royal Society,
and he is unquestionably the foremost Eng
lish surgeon today. His name will go down
in history beside that of Jenner Morton,
the discoverer of ether, and och.
The Marquis of Ripon was at one time
one of the greatest men in England. but in
recent years he has dropped out of sight
Qne Of Mr.. Gladstones most trusted ueuc