Evening star., 1915-11-14

these bars was illegal, inquired Sc
verely:
Am 1 to understand that the noble
lord intends to go on breaking the
law"
Yes, sir" snapped Lord Derby, there
by so greatly dumfounding the renown-
ed blue-ribbonite that he desisted from
further remonStrance- soft answer
might not have been so successful.
Big and burly, the head OF the Stan
leys has not much use for rosewater
methods. While he was in charge of the
post office. he once denounced Sec
tion of the employees under him, as
"bloodsuckerS," and such outspokenness
has probably not smoothed his politi-
cal path to any extent. Born IN 1863, he
rejoiced, during his early schooldays at
Perceval House, near London, in the
nickname of Puppy" Later he went to
Wellington College, where he showed
no particular love for Latin and Greek,
but was distinguished among his COM
rades for his good humor and common
sense. Seven years afterward he be-
gan his military career by joining the
Grenadier Guards, and while still in
that smart brigade took a trip to Aus
tralia, returning home through the
United States. thus completing his edu-
cation by imbibing useful lessons from
the big world outside. In 1880, he be-
came de-camp to his father, who,
as Lord Stanley of Preston, was then
Governor General of Canada. While
there he journed with his father to the
far western provinces which had only
few years been opened up by the Cana
dian Pacific railway.
Coming home, the young nobleman
made highly satisfactory mar iage.
his bride. Lady Alice Montagu. being
one of the handsome and talented
daughters of the seventh luke o Man
chester and the late Duchess of Devon
shire, who remarked, admittedly one
of the cleverest women and shrewdest
politicians in petticoats OF he time
Lady Derby is pretty and smart with
a bright, animated manner, and Is ore
of London'S most renowned hostesSeS
AS hobby, in times OF peaue she
raises prize poultry. Lord and Lady
Derby have three children. two sons
and one daughter, the heir to the title.
Lord Edward Montasu Cavendish Stal.-
ley, being just twenty-one.
The earl began his parliamentary ca
reer by getting elected for the West
Houghton division of 1 ancashire. IN the
general election of 1892 After the sue
ceeding election of 1895 he became one
of the parliamentary whips, a pot
which he held for four yeas. until he
left with Lord Roberts sor South Africa
as chief press censor. This position he
later on combined with the duties of
private secretary to the commander-in-
chief 1t is an intere e5ting commentary
on the urbanity. coupled with frmness.
with which he discharged his thankless
duties. that although loud complaints
were heard in England as to the rigor
of the censorship. in South Africa he
was on the best of terms with practi-
cally all the correspondents.
After the war was over it was natural
that he should have been taken into
consideration when the government of
1904 was formed by Lord Salisbury. and
the financial secretaryship of the war
office was offered him and accepted. At
the age of thirty-four he had. there
fore, got his foot firmly on the official
ladder. and ambitious as he was. he
abandoned many of the pleasures which
would have come natural to him in
virtue of being heir to one of the great
est fortunes and estates in Great Brit
ain. (He succeeded his father in 190S.)
Fond of racing. he practically gave up
the track. and devoted his life to
laborious days In the hope, as has been