The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1911-04-05
POLITICAL HONORS
FOR a YOUNG LORD

Of Dudley went to Australia as governor
general in 1908, so that his full term would
not expire for two years.
Lord Denman is well equipped for
the position he is going to assume. He
short Of forty: he is good looking. he
has a considerable knowledge Of affairs,
and he is an excellent speaker. Espe-
cially is he fortunate in his wife,
charming and accomplished lady. who has
played a great part as political hostess.
The new governor-general succeeded to
the title while he was at Sandhurst and
before he had completed his twentieth
year. He is only the third in line, al
though the first Lord Denman, who ap-
peared for Queen Caroline on the occa-
sion OF her divorce trial in the House of
| Lords. was created as long ago as 1884
The second peer. the present Lord Den
! mans great uncle, lived to very ad-
vanced age, and his venerable appear
ance and adherence to the dress and
manner Of an earlier period made him
remarkable figure in the House of Lords.
From his boyhood the young peer had
been inclined toward a military career,
and the South African war gave him OPP
prtunity. He served as captain, COM
handing the Middlesex Squadron OF the
Imperial Yeomanry and saw much serv-
ice. A wound received On a farm-burn-
ing expedition near Harrysmith, compli
Gated with an attack of dysentery, re-
suited in Lord Denman being invalided
home. A Liberal. Lord Denman's chance
came when the party came to power in
1906 He was appointed a lord-in-wait-
ing to the King. and since has acted as
whip in the House OF Lords, of which he
is also deputy speaker. As spokesman
for the Irish Office he has had many OPP
rortunities for a display of tact when
dealing with Irish landlords.
When Earl Beauchamp. who has also
had experience as an Australian gov
ernor. vacated the post Of captain of the
corps of Sentlemen-at-arms, Lord Den
man was appointed to the command of
that famous royal bodyguard. which last
year celebrated the 400th anniversary of
its foundation in the first year of Henry
VIII.
Both Lord and Lady 0enman are en-
thusiaSts in all forms of sports. They
hunt regularly. while Balcombe Place.
besides extensive stables. possesses a
squash" racquets court, and there is a
golf course in the grounds. Lady Den
man. who has been married eight years.
is a daughter of the famous contractor.
Lord Cowdray. better known. perhaps, as
Sir Weetman Pearson.
The vanity Of riches" has never been
more strikingly demonstrated than by
the story OF Mr.. G. F. Dering. who re-
Gently died at Locksley Hall, Welwyn For
the greater part OF half a century this
lord Of many acres and of a quarter OF a
million of money has been content to
lead the life OF a hermit in his magnif-
cent home surrounded by a thousand
acres OF park land. His valuable pic
lures, by Holbein, Fra Bartolomeo, and
other old masters. have stood for a gen
Grafton stacked three deep. with their
faces turned to the walls; a generation
OF dust had settled undisturbed on Ores
den vases. gold and enamel clocks, statu-
airy, and costly furniture.
Gorgeous carriages, rich with hereldic
painting, lay rotting in his coachhouse;
his front door was overgrown with ivy
as high has the stone shield OF arms that
crowned it Not a lamb was allowed 70
bleat within hearing of the lord Of this
desolate mansion, and even the high road
was diverted. that no sound OF traffic
should vex his ears. Thus. amid dust, de-
cay, and desolation, lived and died the
owner of f25,0O0 a year, stunning the
world and scorning his wealth
And so II has always been and will be-
One man squanders his gold another
boards or despiseS it, 1t is but few
years since one of the wealthiest British
baronets-a man with a rent roll of 10000
year-died in a miserable attic near
Waterloo Bridge, London. His sordid
room was papered with illustrations from
the weekly papers; he never crossed its
threshold except for an occasional soil
tary ramble by night; no one was ever
allowed to enter his drearv sanctum his
meals being left for him oustde the door,
and his long days were spent looking
through his attic window on the moving
panorama of the Thames.
While Sir Henry Delves Broughton was
sitting at his attic window a man inf
nitely richer was walking the streets of
st Petersburg in the guise Of a beggar
pocketing the aims of charitable passers-
by and Gleefully carrying back his spoil
to his miserable two-storied cottage in
one of the citys slums This was the
only palace" of the multi millionaire
Solodovnikoff. where he lived, among his
decrepit sticks of furniture, with an old
housekeeper. Here he would sit SILVER
ing through the cold winter davs. too
miserly to allow himself a fire, or even
to brighten the dark house with the light
Of solitary candle. For twenty years
Re was known to wear only one suit, a
thing of shreds and patches" scarcely
a vestige of the original cloth remain
ing. And yet this sordid-lving hermit
was one Of the greatest landowners and
railway magnates in all RUSSIA man
who left uehind him a hundred million
rubles. Far weather. than MANY kings.
he led a life from which most peasants
would have shrunk.
A few years ago there was no Weather
man in all Paris than NJ. Colasson, who
for a generation had lived as a pauper
in two rooms of his manitcent palace
in the Rue Galilee. During all this De-
riod he never once left his splendid
prison and no one was ever allowed to
enter it, except his one faithful attend
ant who kept him supplied with his daily
food OF bread and eggs. AS in Mr.. Der
ing's case, it was the death of his father
that consigned him to his hermit life, SO
with M. Colasson it was the tragic death
by fire of loved nephew and heir. in
1874. that decided him to forswear the
world and all its vanities. |
Within a few weeks of the death of
NJ Colasson there died in an attic in
a Berlin slum Herr Schwarz, who was
known to and pitied by his neighbors as
the poorest of the poor. He sailed out
daily into the fashionable quarters,
dressed in rags and carrying a sack in
which he collected crusts. He lived alone
and died alone, a mere bag of bones,
surrounded by riches; for in his room
was found 100000 marks in gold coins, |
stor in scores Of jars and bottles, and