Evening star., 1915-03-07

honor to the lord lieutenant. Lord
Spencer, his not particularly arduous
duties beginning. and to all intents ana
purposes ending. with holding up .he
lady lieutenants train at drawing
rooms and other functions. Later lie
went to school, first at Eistree and then
at Harrow. being sent down win
ignominy from the latter with whose
"swishing- block" he had previously
gained an intimate acquaintance, put
not a sufficient one. apparently.
A ward in chancery, with every pros
pect Of coming into ample fortune.
his youthful lordship then dec,ded 70
try for the army and started off to be
'crammed" by British officer, VINO
had his Establishment, curiously
enough, at Darmstadt. in Germany, and
there this sprig of the peeraHe Ger
tainly had high old time
The whole place reeked," the noble
man declares, with the spirit of Ger
man officialdom and bureauracy. and
naturally we were not going to stand
it, Next to the police our greatest enc
mics were the butcher boys. with whom.
for some reason 1 have forgotten, we
had very special feud, and eventually
matters came to climax in regular
pitched battle between US.
ut was a glorious fray while 1t
lasted, which was until the police saw
we were getting the best of 1t, when
they interfered and marched us of to
the station, not, I may say, without
considerable resistance on our part.
But their numbers were overwheim-
ing: for whenever 1t was case OF an
Englishman being arrested they al
ways sent at least ten policemen to
do the job, although In the case of their
own people one policeman was con-
sidered quite enough to overaWe a
dozen Darmstadters.
"On arrival at the station. the police
were simple enough to put announcer
fellow and me into room in which
were a number of policemen's cioaks
and helmets.
give minutes later, disguised as po-
licemen, we marched boldly out OF the
station. and that German 'bobby's' hei.
met is still in my possession as one or
my greatest treasures.
in the end, we were arraigned before
the magistrate, and / remember the
prosecuting counsel, in pleading for an
exemplary fine, stated that ne was
credibly informed that we were all
very rich young men, in possession Oh
as much as SIS a week pocket money
each. The magistrate was so impress
ed by this evidence of wealth, TO say
nothing of the enorinity OF our ohense,
that he inflicted on each of US the, to
the Darmstadter mind, prod,g,ous ana
prohibitive fine of marks tabout
S1.25). All the whole court gasped
with astonishment when. TO all out
ward appearance quite calm, we PAID
the money, instead of, as they noped,
going to prison for three months
However, he successfully passed into
the army and Joined the fashionable
c>ldstream Guards. only to awake one
morning to the rather staggering fact
that, owing to the defalcations or
trusted rascal, he was to all intents
and purposer penniless. Existence
promptly became a problem, which he
solved by joining the Egyptian army
in 1890 and speedily had experiences
enough to satisfy anybody. Today he
will show you the cartridge from which
was fired the bullet which gave
shot was fred by a willy dervish snip
ing from behind a rock. Consider
ing the range 1t ought to have been
hit" but Lord Athlumney explains