The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-02-20

HY LA MANQUISE DE EONTENOY.
y MfEtso{ WILLIAM has been made
~ inc OBJECT of Il good deal of dis
IL paFaSing comment in tho AIneri-
can press during the last two
weeks by means or comparisons be-
tween King Georges manner Or nun
ishinE his traducers by the ordinary
laws OF libel and the kaiser's appeal
10 the medieval laws OF lose majestic,
In the case OF anything that can he con
strued as d!srcspect to his person or
TO his acts. In this connection ii Is
mentioned that during the first ten
years OF his reign a thousand years ~
Imprisonment had been imposed BY the
German tribunals by way OF punish
mcnt OF the various cases OF lcsc ma
jeste brought before them.
rms is not fair TO Emperor William.
IS not sufficiently known that pcnal-
ties for lesc majestc arc inflicted not
only upon those calumniating him, but
s1i np'n everybody gully of II,
petty sovercigns Of Germany and tbs
members of their respective houses. II
a careful list OF the charges Of lese
tribunals during the twcnty-thrcc
wears Of the kaiser's reign were 10 he
drawn IN. II would be found that Tho
at, the instance of these petty sore-
rcigns and by the members of their
antilles. and that relatively few have
been brought before the courts AZ 5tha
instance or the Emperor. For VIII
liar is superior TO them AL in tie pos
session OF a very strong and modern
sense Of hnmor, In which they are la
date.
Eleventh Hussars. whose engagement
to the Hon. Lilah White, elder daugh-
Ter Of Lord Annaiy,, has Just been an
~baronetcy Of Lowther, and grandson
Of the late and blind Sir Charles Hugh
Lowther, who died in 1891, at the ad-
ranced age OF n!ncty-onc.
Fol- centuries the Lowthcrs have
been prominent in Westmoreland. In
Cumberland. and in Yorkshire, taking
their name from, the many streams of
I.owther Park. in Wcstmoreland, Low
Their meaning, in An~glo-Saxon, clear
running water Peerases were sew
eral times created in favor or the Low
t!nct. In the eighteenth century the
Viscount Lowther Of the day was raised
to the carldom of L,onsdalc, at the in
stance of Lord Butte, the unpopular
minister of George III. This James.
Earl Of Lonsdale, married Lord Butc's
daughter. When he died childlcss. in
possessions to a very distant kinsman.
Sir William Lowthcr, Of S~willington.
In Yorkshire. This Sir William Low
thcr was Immediately created Earl Of
his own estates around Swillington IL
his younger brother John. who was
treated = b%aronct by George ~. and
who was the Sreat-grandfathcr OF the
young subaltern of Hussars, John Low
ther. who Is now marrying Miss White.
Perhaps the hest known member OF
this so-called Swillington branch OF
the house Of Lowther was the Right
Hon. James. or Jimmie" Lowther. or
Wilton Castle, Redcar. Yorkshire, who
sat in one OF Lord BeaconSiield's cabi-
nets as chief secretary forlrcland, ana
who was more conspicuous n figure on
the turf than he was in politics. In
him as minister for ireland. it was re-
garded as one OF the great Tory pre-
Niars crafactcristic jokrs. Jimmie
Lowther turned out. however. far bet
and character as 4 sportsman appealed
TO the sympathies of tho Nationalist
element IN Parlia ment, and 1t is no
oXagScration to assert that there was
Irish secretary's department and tho
h ZONE rule party during his tenure Of
lion, whether Liberal or Tory. He
never fred a shot in anger or In sport.
never made n bet. and never smokcd
q cigar. But he was a devoted at
tendant at Newmarket and all the prin-
c!pal race meetings, and for many
Years was not only steward of the
Jockey Club. but was likewise, in his
private capacity, always called upon to
act as arbitrator In difficulties. whether
Of a sporting or of n social character.
1Io had a classic and Iollnsonian style
of writing and speaking. which was
characteristic of the British aristocracy
In the early part Of the last century.
and was not afraid to call a spade a
spade. or to nsc strong language on
occasion. Vigorously opposed to grand
mothcrly legislation in every form. no
was nevertheless a staunch churchmar.
and never missed attending church on
Sunday.
Let me add that it Is the Lord Ions
Marquis OF Butte. and who nourishcd in
The last four decades Of the eighteenth
century. who is still remembered in
Westmorcland as THE Wicked Earl"
and not. as so many suppose. the elder