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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1910-9-29, Page 7.4.408+• •#++4.•t^t#4-++++ 4s:l.+++++4-44.4 +++chef# ie/Enif FIER '1)0Will P els ace Or, A TRUTH NEVER OLD. tz te+++bF+*++4-b-0•d- 4 -+++a.4 - ++*44+4 els++fi4-+F++ CHAPTER, VL -(Gonna) . anything approaching to a prig! Science and 'class -rooms . make Prigs, net, Latin verse axed cow- slip meadows," "That is true, I think," says the Princess Xenia, with hoe serious smile, "If they are beginning to agree with ono another I shall be de trop,," thinks Usk, who is very good-natured to his guests, and popular enough with women 'mete be resigned to play what is vulgar- ly termed `•second fiddle" (though why an expression borrowed from the orchestra should be vulgar ib were hard to say), So he goes a -few . paces off to speak to a gar - donee; and by degrees away toward the house, leaving Blanford and Mme, Sebaroff to themselves ,in the green yew -helmet arbor. Blanford is in love with his sub, jest and does not abandon it. "It is absurd," he continues, "the way in whioh children are made to loathe all scholarship by its ,association with •thole ;own pains and subjection. A child is made as a punishment to learn by roto fifty lines of Virgil, Good heavens ! • It ought eather to be as a rowaid that he should bo allowed to open Vir gil ! To walk in all those delicious paths" of thought should tie the highest pleasure that he could t•t brougne to know. To listen to the music of the poets should be at once his privilege and his recom- ,pense. To be deprived of books should be, on the contrary, his cruelest chastisement!" "He would be a very, exception- al child, surely," says Mme. Se- bar'off. "I was nob an exceptional child," he answers, "but that is how I was brought up and how I felt." "Didn't 7 tell you 4" whispers the ;Babe, climbing up behind 1llarifoad, des you did," returned Blan- ford, "and you wore quite right; ki ,t it is abominably bad =tuners whisper; my dear Cecil, The Babe subsides into .silenee with hot cheeks;, when anybody 'calls hila Cecil he is oonseioue that be has committed some flagrant of tense; "Those brats are always bother - Ing you, princess," says their fa - 'Sher, "They are very kind to me," re- plies Xenia Sahara in English whioh has absolutely no foreign accent.., They make me feel et home l What a charming plane this is! T like it better than your cas- tle, what is its name, where I had the pleasure' to visit you at Eas- teel "Orme. Oh, that's beastly --- regular regular baro -obliged to go there just for show, you know." "Orme was built .by Ingo Jones and the ingratitude to fortune of its owner is a oonstant temptation to Providence to deal in thunder- bolts or have matches left about by housemaids," says Blanford. `I think Lord Usk has not a con- tented mind," says Mme. Sabaroff,. amused. ''Contented ! By Jove, who should be, when England's going to tho dogs as fast as sho.ean1" "ln every period of your his- tory," saya the princess, "your country is always aeserineaala go- ing headlong to ruin, and yet she has nob gone there yet, and she has not done ill." , "'Our constitution is establish- ed on a Caere equipoise, with dark You had an exceptional train- • preoiplces,and deep water . all ing then V' around it. So said Burke, re- 'It ought not -to be exceptional; that is just the recisehief. Up to the time I was seventeen I was brought up at my own place (by my father's directions, in his will) by a most true and reverent schol- ar, whom I loved as Burke Loved Shackleton. He died, God rest hie soul, but the good he left behind him lives after him; whatever grains of sense I have shown, and whatever follies I have avoided both what I am and what I am not, are due to him, and it is to him that I ow.o the love of study which bas bees the greatest con- solation and the purest pleasure of my life. That is why I pity so profoundly those poor Rochfort children, and the tens of thousands like them, who are being educated by the commonplace, flavorless. cramming system which Feople call education. It may h.'. education; It is not culture. What will ytie Babe always associate with nes La- tin themes. Four walls, hated books, inky, aching fingers, and a headache, Whereas I never sae a plies Blanford. At the present moment everybody has forgotten the delicacy of this nice equipoise and one day or other it will ose its balance and topple over intd'the deep waters and be ingulfed. My- self I confess I. do not think that timeis far distant." "I hope it is; I ani very much attached to England," replies the. Prinoess Xenia, gravely, "and to naughty English boys," she adds, gassing her hand over the shining locks of the Babe. "She must bo in love with an Englishman,'' thinks Blanford, -with the one-sided construction which a man is always ready to place on the words of a woman. Must we go indoors?" he asks, regretfully, as she is moving to- ward the house. "It is so pleasant in these quaint, green arbors. To be under a roof on such a summer afternoon as this is to fly in •the face of a merciful Creator with greater ingratitude than Usk's ingratitude to Ingo Joaes." "But I have scarcely seen my Latin line in a. newspaper, bee it ever so hackneyed, without plea- sure, as at the face of an old friend, and whenever 1 repeat to myself the words I always smell the cowslips and the lilac and the hawthorn of the -spring mornings when I was a boy." Xenia Sabaroff looked at him withsome little wonder and more approval. My dear lord," sire says, seri- ously, ,"I think in your enthusiasm you forget one thing, that there is ground on whioh good seed falls and brings forth flowers and fruit, and there is other ground on which the same coed, be it strewn ever to. thickly, lies always barren. Without underrating tho influenc- es of your tutor, I roust believe that had you been educated at an Eng- lish puu,ec school, or even in a French lycee, you would still have become a scholar, still have loved your books." "Alas, Madam l" says Blanford, with a sigh. "Perhaps I have only been what Mati.iew Arnold calls'`a foiled.' circuitous wanderer' in tho orbit of life!" "I imagine that you have not very often been foiled," replies the lady, with a senile, "and wan- dering has a great deal to be .said in its favor, especially for a man, Women are happiest, perhaps, at anchor." "'Women used to be ; not cur women I have bored yon too much with myself and my opine ions,'' "No, you interest me:," say a liis ticompauion, ii'ith at seri-ohs senil- ity whiohdeprives the words' of all sound of flattery or encouragement. "I have'long admired your writ- ings," she adds, and Blanford colors ,a . little with gratification. ay hostess,"'- says Mme. Sabaroff; nevertheless she resigns herself to a seat in the yew -tree cut like a helmet. "Why do -you let those innocents be tortured, George 4" ashes Blan- ford. "Books should, like business entertain the clay," -replies Usk; "so ,yen said . at least just now. Their governesses are of the same opinion." 'That' is not the way to make them love books, to shut them un, against weir wilts on a siummair aftern oon.'1 - "How will you educate your children when you have 'e'm, then?" He always gets out of any im- personal argument by putting some personal question," com- plains Bkanford to Airco, Sabaroff. "It is a common device, but al- ways an unworthy one. Buenas a system is very bad it does not fol• low that I alone of all men must be prepared with a. batter one, I think if I had children I would not 'have .them taught in that way at all. I should get the wisest .old man I, could find, a Samuel Jellis- on touched with a John Ruskin, and should tell hien to make 'learn- ing delightful to them, an•cl associ- ated, as far as our detestable cli- mate would allow, with 'open-air studies in cowslip 'meadows and "under hawthorn hedges. If I had only read dear Horace at school, should I ever have loved him as I do 1 No; mayold tutor taught mo to feel all the delight and the sweet savor of him, roaming in the oak woods of my own old place," "I am devoutly thankful," says his host, "that Dorothy, 'among her caprices, had never had the fancy you have. for Dr, Johnson The same bind of phrase is said to double with a Ruskin,, to correct him on an average five hundred my quotations, abuse my arehiteo- times a' near, and his usual emo- ture and make prigs of the chit- tion is either „ennui or irritation. then." The, admiration of fools is folly, "Prigs I' 1 exclaims lllantord. and humiliate!! him, Bttb the ad- "Prigsl When dick ever real schol- ,niration ly as lovely a woman as keshrp sail lo,Te of eaturc make Xenia Saeerpff would lay a.flatter- GBI ?PLEO HY �NEOMGiISM 8uflerod.0 ertures Until "Vrult-a.tives" Toot • Itway mite rain, "Fr'ait,a-tines," the fatuous fruit modteino, is the greatest and most scientific remedy ever discovered for Rhoumatfam, Trott -a -flues," by its marvellous. a tion on the bowels, kidneys and Richt, prevents the accumulation ' of Uric Acta, whioh oauses_Rheumatlsn Anil shoroby ]seeps the blood pure' and rich, Airs. Walter. Hooper, of Hillview, Ont„ says; "1" suffered from seVere Rheumatism, lost the use of my right arm ant( could not do mYit'ork. Noth- ing helped me until I took "I•ruit-a tines" and this medicine cured me." IC you aro subject to Rheumatism, don't wait until a severe attach comes on before trying "l'rutt-a-tines." Take these fruit tablets now and thus prevent the attacks. "Fruit-a-tives" is sold by al1 dealers at 60c a box, 6 for $2.10, or trial box, arra, or may be obtained from l'1011 -5 - eves, Limited, Ottawa,. ing function to the soul of any man, oven if she were absolutely mind- less; and alto gives him the . im- pression that she has a good deal of mind, and cue out of the com- mon order. "My writings have no other merit," be says, after the expres- sion of the sense of the honor she does hien, "than being absolutely the chronicle of what I have seen and what I have thought; 'and I think -they aro expressed in toler- ably pure English, though that is claiming a 'great deal in 'these: times, for since John Jlewman laid down the pen there is scarcely a living Briton who can write his own tongue with eloquence and pur- ity." "I think it must be very nice to leave off wandering if one has a home," replies Mme. Sabaroff, with a slight sigh, whioh gave him the impression that, though no doubt she had many houses, she had no home. "Where is your place that you spoke of just now -the place whore yon learned to love Hor- ace?" Blanford is always pleased to speak of St. Hubert's Lea. He has a great love for it and for the traditions of his race, which make many people accuse him of great fancily pride; though, as has been well saidapropos of a greater man than Blanford, it is rather than sentiment which the Romans de - tined .as piety. when he talks of his old home ho grows eloquent, unreserved, cordial, and he- de- scribes with an artist's torch its antiquities, its landscapes, and its old-world and :sylvan charms. "Ib must' be charming to care for any place so much as that," says his companion, after hearing him with interest. "I think one cares more for plac- es than for people," he replies. "Sometimes one cares for nei- ther," says Xenia Sabaroff, with a tone which in a less lovely woman would have been morose. "Ona must suffice very thorough- ly to one's self in. attelr a, case?" "Orr, not •necessarily." ,At that moment there is a little Sydrnonbb', Lord Knutsford, Lord 7lnlebur�y, Lord Abergavenny, Lord Lister, Lord Aslrcombe, 'Lord Mount Stephen'd Lord I a vershLord Peel, Lord Stan - more anm a Contrasted with the great age of these members of the House of Lords is the comparative youth of nearly all the sovereigns of Europe, George V, is a comparatively young man, His cousins, the King of Nor- way and tho Gear of Russia, are also young, while another cousin, the German ICaiser, is still le the prime of life, having barely turned 50, The King of Spain and the Ding of Portugal are mere boys, while the Queen of Rolland is only 30• The Emperor., Francis Joseph of Austria is the oldest sovereign in Europe and celebrated, his eighti- eth birthday on August 18, Re is in sound health and bids fair to live many more years. FINDING- REST. Matthew 11: 28, When our hearts are sad and lan- guid And we feel depressed, Unto Thee we come, Lord Jesus, And find rest. Thou hest marks ` to lead us to Thee; For Thou art our Guide: In Thy feet and hands are wound prints, And Thy side. And Thou haat a crown, its .Mon- arch, Which Thy brow adorns : Here on earth Thou wast by sin hers Crowned with thorns. There may be for those who love Thee, In Thy service here, Many a sorrow, many a trial, Many a tear. When we ask if in the conflict Thou -wilt cheer and bless, All Thy prophets, saints, and mar- tyrs Answer "yes." Thou to those who truly seek Thee Wilt not answer nay; For Thyprecious word will never Pass away. Those • who know Thee as their Saviour Rave in Thee at last Sorrow vanquished, labor ended, Jordan passed. Soon rsevealed in all Thy glory We Thy face shall see, And shall by Thy grave for ever Dwell with Theo. The author of this hyinn is known as Stephen the Sabaite. He was one of very many who wrote hymns in the Greek language. He was born in the year 725 A.D,, and died in 794. There is -a melody and a spiritual value in the hymn which will cause it to live for all time to come. Dr. Neale modestly cans his own work upon the hymn a translation. Probably the hymn as found in modern hymn books owes as much to Dr. Neale as it does to the original author. For some hymns, Tike some resolutions would never commend themselves to intelligent people if it were not or the wise amendments which are ltimately incorporated into the original production. In the pres- et rendering the soul of the hymn s free to speak as at first it spoke The form of the hymn is changed in accordance with the desire for the glad and wholesome fellowship of the sanctuary rather than the gloom and- literalism of the mon- astic cell. To those who love the allowed associations which gather ouncl this grand old hymn and who an see its real message and caning even in a less ancient set- ting this variation is respectfully submitted. bustle under a very big cedar near at hand; servants are bringing out folding -tables, folding -chairs, a Silver camp kettle, cakes, fruit cream, liquors, sandwiches, wines all those items of an afternoon tea on which Blanford has animad- verted with so much disgust inthe library an hour before. Lady Usk has chosento take these murder- ous compounds out of doors in the west garden. ,She herself comes out of the louse with a train of h is her guests around her. "Adieu to rationalconverse- tion," says Blanford, as 'rte rises with regret from his seat under the evergreen helmet. • Xenia Sabarofiis pleased at the expression. She is too handsome for men often to speak- to iter ra- tionally; they usually plunge headlong into attempts ab hom- age and flattery, of whioh site is nauseated. (To be continued,) ENGLAND'S AGED 1'E.EI1 S. Sixteen Born in George Ir.'s Eeigu-3'onlItfnl Sovereigns. Lord Strathoona who celebrated his ninetieth birthday recently by working all day at his desk in his office as. High' Commissioner for Canada in London, is not the grand old man of the peerage despite his robust old age. The Earl of We- myss is older and is as spry at 94 es Lord Starthcona is at 90. Lord Wemyss•-ho pronounces his name as if spelled Weems -holds another record he has been a member of the House of Commons uninterrup- tedly for more than sixty-nine years, The peerage, like the poorhouse, seams conducive to old age, Lord Gwydyr died last year at the fine old ago, of 98, There are £urteen peers besides Lord Strathcona and Lord Wentyss who were alive when George IV. was on the throne, and George IV. died in 1830x' They are Lord Nelson, Lord Cross, Lord • T. 1VATSON. Grtn,..tu'st, Ont„ 1910. • FRUIT DISHES. Orange Salad,-Ons''and one-half pints cif water, juice of four lemons one-half pint of maple syrup, and sugar to suit taste. Let boil slow- ly twenty minutes, then thieken with yolks of three eggs and a little cornstarch. Stir constantly until eggs and cornstarch are well cook- ed. It shonid be as thick as ordin- ary syrup and a yellow, clear mix. titre. Cover thirty sliced oranges with the dressing. Date Forte. -Four eggs, one cupful of sugar, one-half pound dames, one-half pound English wal- nuts, three tablespoonfuls bread crumbs, one teaspoonful baking powder; beat yolks of eggs and su- gar to a cream; add dates and nuts chopped fine, then bread crumbs and baking powder; last of all, add whites of eggs beaten very stiff. Bake one-half, lour. Serve with whipped cream. A fool may give a wise man ad- vice. but if the latter takes it his wisdom is apt to go wrong. Why is a washerwoman the most extraordinary thing in nature? Because she goes from pole to pole, silo crosses the line, she goes to bed a washerwoman and gets tip flee linen.' relieve uindigestion-acidity ar d cure f s om 1 -- 1 ua -• 1• u c o the t ac n bl to Itess fat fen e -dyspepsia. They r -enforce the somach by supplying the active principles needed for the digestion of all kinds of food. Try one after each meal, 50e, a box, 1f your druggist has, not stocked them yet, sand us 500, and we will mall you a box. 33 National Drug end Chcmicat Cempo,w of Canada. limited, •t •� . Montreal. elisiveeteweeLe.,Q.,a0.1a4a.tve.m.a4a68 0n the Farb toibiertaiswortvieve is SHELTER FOlt HENS. The ,purpose' of a'iT poultry houses is to protect the fowls from rain, sun and wind, Fowls can stand a great deal of cold if they are kept dry, Web fowls with the water changing to lee on them are the picture of 'wretchedness, Under these oonditione their usefulness is destroyed for many a day. - All Houses should be built so as to 'confine the fowls on wet days in winter. . The house should always .be built with a southern exposure, not only to give the advantage' of as much sunshine as .possible, but also todry the houses. For the same reason the house should be located on as dry ground as pos- sible with good drainage. IL should be built tight on the north, east and west, but so as to admit an abundance of fresh air without drafts. If it is possible touse some other building for a windbreak on the north or weft, •so much bile bet- ter, since this helps to keep the house warm. If the poultry is bo be kept in yards, then the yard should he built to include enough trees or shrubbery to make ample shade, for shade is as essential in. summer as sunshine in winter. If a farmer is a loser of fowls it is a groat advantage to have the poultry house near the barn, then the fowls can have more Iiberty. The barnyard makes the best scratching shed that can be devis- ed; besides the fowls clean up a great deal of waste and do little or no harm. There ars farmers who allow their place' to become infest: - ed with rats and mice, yet they would take a fit of they taw }brief a dozen hens in their feed lot or horse stalls Other farmers watch without concern a flock of three hundred crows on their corn piles,. yet if he notice three hens in a corn pile they would call the dog and give chase. The poultry house for this class should be as far as possible from the barn and feed lots so that the fowls can be out of reach of temptation. ' 1 Thera is :but one remedy for the fowl hater, and that is for the good wife to get some eggs or fowls of good breed stock and then keep an accurate account of the proceeds and expenditures. Then when the farmer is shown that as a revenue getter the despised filen is second to no animal on the farm, he may ex- perience a change of heart. BUTTEIIMILK FOR PIGS. The amount of flesh produced by a pig fed on buttermilk will depend upon the age of the pig or hog to which it is fed, its condition, the feed which has been used prior to that time, ete. Buttermilk should not he fed alone. It will not pay to try to raise a pig or to maintain an old hog on buttermilk,, Its value is greatest when fed incon- neetion'with grain, and oorn is Cho hest grain to 'feed it with. Ex- periments conducted at several sta- tions indicate that buttermilk lies the same value for feeding as elcint milk for pig feeding. A series of experiments conducted at the Mas- sachusetts station .pieced the value of 15 oents per hundred pounds on milk whencorn was worth more' than 28 cents per bushel, provided not more than three pounds of milk are fed with eicli pound of Born, Wimp nino pounds of milk were fed with, each pound of corn the milk was worth but 9 cents per hundred pounds. Skim mirk and buttermilk both contain too great a percent- age of water in comparison with the dry matter available for nour- ishing the animal's system, When fed with corn they serve to balance the cern ration and increase the value of the corn. When fed alone the pig is required to drink so much milk to get the solids neces- sary to maintain the system that the digestive organs are thrown out of condition and he becomes pot-bellied red and stunted. Neither buttermilk nor skim milk should he fed in greater quantities thanthree parts of milk to one part of grain. RUSSIAN PRINCESS'S ]LIFE. Life of the Grand Duchess Eliza- beth Now Devoted to Charity. A book dealing with the tragic life of the Grand Duchess Eliza- beth, widow of the Grand Duke Sergius of Russia, is about to be published in Germany. The Grand Duchess is a German princess by. birth. The Grand Duke Sergius was as- sassinated in the streets of Mos- cow five years ago. The Grand Duchess heard the explosion of the bomb that killed him, and rushing out of the palace found her hus- band's mutilated body lying ather feet. After that experience the Grand Duchess withdrew from all the gayeties of life and found consola- tion in ameliorating the sufferings of the poor. She founded hospitals, nursing homes and other charitable institutions. Sho herself directs operations, and devotes eight or ten hours a day to the work of superintending the different branches of her chari- table activity. She devotes practi- cally the whole of her immense in- come, amounting approximately to 8625,000, to charity. Not content with directing opera- tions she also participates in the work of her various institutions. Sometimes she works as a nurse, and sometimes she attends as a do- mestic servant the destitute har- bored in her refuges for aged pau- pers. On such occasion site dons the dress of a nurse or servant and performs the necessary duties with- out revealing her identity to the in- mates of the different homes. Money you blow in quits working for you. x is the turning -point to economy in wear and tear of wagons. Try a box. Every deale? everywhere. The Imperial Oil Co.,Ltd. Ontario ageuls 1 The Queen City 07 Co„ Ltd. klavoriair used the same ns lemon or venni disaplvin,q ttrenulated sugar in water any a ding 85s to,no, a dellelous_y{yrul' is made an sytvp barn than ma le. aro leiae to sold bf tracers. If flat sand 508 for 2 es. bottle and roatpo beat. Crassest Mfg Ce., Seattle, Wy,, MOTOR CARSTAGES AWARDED DEWAR TROPHY. 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'1.1.0 i;"r Was Seriously Itegard"od by bit Ancients and by Mediaeval Cltaysh, A reader of the London Daily News wants to know. wheat is the meaning of the old custom of say- ing "God Bless Us" after mina - "I know an elderly person who always did it," he says, "and 7 used to wonder why, . Years after I . read in Clodd's 'Childhood' of the World' that the reason was that bad spirits were about us when sneezing, ,and that `God bless us'• was said to drive them away." Some Catholics attribute to St, Gregory the use of the benediction "God bless' you," after sneezing.. and say that he enjoined its use during a pestilence in which sneez- ing was a mortal symptom. and, was therefore ,calked the death -sneeze. Aristotle mentions a similar custom among the Greeks; ,and Thucydidos tells us that sneezing was a crisis symptom of the great Athenian plague. OLD AS JULIUS CAESAR. The Romans followed the same custom, and their usual exclama- tion was "Absit omen!" We also find it prevalent in the New World among the native Indian tribes. But ib is clear that the superstition is older than either St. Gregory or the Athenian plague. The nursery rhyme on the sub- ject connects it with good as well as with evil events Sneeze on a Monday, you sneeze for danger, Sneeze on a Tuesday, kiss a stran- ger, Sneeze on a Wednesday, sneeze for a letter, Sneeze on aThursday, something better, Sneeze on Friday, sneeze for sor- row, Sneeze en Saturday, see your sweetheart to -morrow. Sneeze on a Sunday, your safety seek The devil will have you the whole of the week. If all this is true, sneezing can- not be mach more unlucky than eat- ing cauliflower after sunset or get- ting up before breakfast. WHAT THE SCOTCH THINK. In parts of Scotland, we are told, it is considered lucky for a child to sneeze, "as then all fear of fairies changing it to a warlock is over." 'Lean's "Collectanes," that inex- haustible mine of folk -lore, also re- cords the belief that, if you sneeze three times in close succession, you "will have is present, and a good husband or wife." If you want to sneeze and are not able to do so some one wishes to see you and cannot. THE COURT NEWSMAN. Money in the Job of Telling of the Doings of British Royalty. The official news of the comings and goings of the King and Queen, the names of their visitors, the•de-. sorfption of their dresses at courts ono other information originating; in the royal palaces is distributed by the Court Circular. There is an official reporter called the court newsman who gets up the Circular every day and distributes it to the London and provincial newspapers and press associations. The newspapers have to pay for the Court Circular and it is believ- ed the court newsman makes as. much as $10,000 a year from his of- fice. He has to be very careful in preparing his copy, and he gets in- to hot water whenever a name is misspelled or a title misplaced, Tho late King Edward was wont to use strong language whenever he dis- covered a blunder in the Court Cir- cular, especially if the names of any of his friends happened to be misspelled. A weekly London ,newspaper says of the origin of the Court Circular that like so many other useful in- stitutions the Court Circular arose out of an abuse. For during the days when George IV. was Prince Regent so nn5eh gossip and seam - dal concerning the royal fancily crept into the press that time Prince was driven to appeal to bis Mond, Sir Richard Birnie to find some ono who would draw up day by day an authentic, dignified and discreet epitome of the doings of the court and send it to the press. 1n tete light of modern journal- ism it is particularly interesting to note that Sir Richard Birnie's choice for the first editor of the Court .1r/tiller fell upon an old family: retainer commonly known as. Old Townsend, who prior to his ap- pointment as court news vendor had been a sliocblack, a coal heap- er, a turnkey at..Newgat® and of• ricer at Ilow stres n, Ncrerthcless 01<1eet Townsenpolidstatioper. formed his new duties so success- fully' that the Court Circular was very soon adopted by 'almost every. court in 1ttrope.