The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-11-23

government in the financial sphere.
and by his munifcent benefactions to
the poor of London and other cities.
Peers in Medicine and Surgery.
No title was better earned than that
of Lord Lister, who discovered the
antiseptfc treatment in surgery. Like
I Lord Kelvin. he was once president
of the Royal Society, and he is I'M
questionably the foremost English
surgeon to-day. His name will go
down in history beside that of Jenner
Morton, the discoverer of ether and
Koch.
The Marquis of Ripon was at one
time one of the greatest men in Eng
land, but in recent years he has drop
ped out of sight and gone into strict
retirement. He was one of Mr.. Glad
stones most trusted lieutenants in
the old days when Gladstonianism was
in its prime, but he made his greatest
reputation as Viceroy of India in the
SOS. His name is still revered by the
natives of India more than that of any
other governor-general. He was peer
by birth, with the title of Earl De
Grey, but he was raised a step and
made a marquis as a reward for his
public services. There are many men
In the House of Lords who have been
elevated in that way for the same
cause
No Lads of Great Men.
There is no lack of men in the
House of Lords who have won their
titles by public service fully as dis
tinguished as that of the peers whose
names have been mentioned, but there
is no space in which to refer to all of
the hundred and odd who have been
made lords NV
King Edward.
1t must not be supposed, however.
tnat, these peers who have won their
utles are invariably the greatest mem
pers of the House of Lords. or the
members who have performed the
most valuable public service. The
iuea so prevalent, that a British lord
ts rake and a spendthrifts and a
,Morthless person generally, is most
VINO come under the condemnation
pul the percentage, is. certainly, much
ioWer titan IT would be among anv
ooay or men as numerous. taken al
raHaom, While the percentage of. men
VINO are doing great and good work.
Is Iar higher, even taking only those
peers whose titles have come to them.
because they are the sons of their
Going through the list of +basa.
names, 1t is hard to find one who is
not DONG some public work without.
Zee or reward, or with only such re-
ware as IS trivial to a man of great
wealth, u sieae
rich in Titles and Lands.
Ine Duke of Sutherland is the head
OF a FAMILY which has been famous
tnIoughout English history from the.
Iii teentn century. If any man has a
q isht 10 SIT down and revel in what
his ancestors did, he is Cron,a re IT,.
Sutherland-Leveson Cover. which is
the Dukes .unhandy Christian name
he has eight or nine titles. and
owns l,358,600 acres of land. ana slv
pdiatial mansions and country seats
YET from boyhood he has spent All
ms Time IN the service of his country
ne mas been a soldier, a member of
Farhament, the lord-lieutenant OF a
county, and half a dozen other things
IN 1888 ne decided that he would 20
INTO local politics in the town IF
Longton, which is near one of his.
estates. He was elected a memher
OF the Council, and discharged mis-
work so well that he was promoted
nrst alderman and then mayor. The
titles were not honorary, but were
fairly won by his vigilance in super~
vlsing sanitary inspectors and his,
keen eye for the rascalities of con-
tractors.
Why "My Lord' is RidicuIed.
The House of Lords is a favorite
subject of ridicule both in England
and abroad. a distinguished states
man, on nheriting a title and being
compelled to transfer his political ac-