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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1911-1-12, Page 6..4 4t4Fesse "For Tea Yon Can't Beat Lipton's"' Our Success Depends Upon Your Satisfaction. That's Why We Employ the World's Greatest Experts to Blend. LIPTON'S T • f HESE, MEN . MADE GOOD EXILES PROM BRITAIN WHO ILtVE DONE SERVICE. Almost all 'Their Lives Spent Abroad in the Interest of Their Country. Lord Kitchener, who has return- ed to England after an absence of eight years, has been remarking that when he saw London last it was a city of hansoms and horse- - 'buses, while now it is a city of tax- is and tube railways. Eight years make a lot of difference. But some of the Empire's most distinguished men have been exiled for longer than that. It is only three years since Lord Cromer came back from Egypt, after spend- ing a solid quarter of a century in building it up. What was once a helpless, neglected country, practi tally as backward as China, is now one of the best irrigated and best administered countries in the world. So highly have his services been valued, that the yi.ang Artillery of- ficer, who first took Egypt in hand, soon became a baronet, then a peer, then a viscount, while now he. is an earl, Lord Cromer has spent nearly thirty years in banishment. " A YEAR FOR A GAS -LAMP. Robert Louis .eitevenson was, when at the height of his fame, sen- tenced entenced by his doctor to exile for the rest of his life. After a few years' wandering over the Pacific he set- sees—tied et- ;;Ytied down at Samoa, in the South Seas, and there he died years af- terwards. . So much did he long for home that he said he would wit- tingly give a year of his life to see the gas -lamps shieing on the rainy pavements of Edinburgh. But it was as well he did not come, for It would have meant a speedy death. Besides; we owe many of his finest books to his seven years of exile. "Catriona" and "The Master of Ballantrae," were written in Sa- moa. Sometimes, even while there he was in such pain that he could not speak, but had to dictate his books by the deaf-and-dumb alpha- bet. Lord Roberts spent forty-one years withering in India. He ,first _went to India in 1852. After serv- ing through the days of the Mutiny, he, returned home in 1858 to re- ceive the Victoria Oros from the Queen and to be married. When he went out again it was to remain in Tndia for twelve unbroken years. By that time he had won fame ' by the march of Kandahar. A Brit- ish force had been defeated at Mai - wand, and retreated on Kandahar. Roberts, aftermarching at top speed for weeks with exhausted !; troops, along roads which were •‘irastly..the dried-up beds of moun- tain torrents, relieved the town, and on the very next day sailed out and crushingly defeated the besieg- ing Afghans. A LIVING SKELETON. Livingstone spent nearly thirty- five years in the heart of savage Africa. So long was he away, in- deed, that that other famous ex- plorer—Stanley—was sent out specially to find him. When he did tind'.him, it was practically a tie- ing skeleton that he found. But Livingstone rejected all entreaties to return to civilization, and died in exile. During those years df ban- ishment he added a great deal to Tui• knowledge of Central Africa, exploring- the Zambesi region and up towards the sources of the Niles In fact, before ;Livingstone's time maps of Africa usually showed in the centre only pictures of ele- l. phants,fnstead of towns and rivers, Whenyoung Robert Clive—then a boy f eighteen --first h o tc.an--{r: St Y t; arrived at Madras as a clerk, he was so poor and so wretched that he twice tried to shoot himself. When he return- ed home ten years later he was Bri- tain's !most famous general. When be first went our; the present Em- pire was resuesented by a few scat - Weed grams of English traders, de- pendent on local princes, When he teturned it was the native princes Who relied on British protection and help, And after those ten strenuous years he was away again for another five. One of the most striking cases Rr, `of Britain's exiles was the famous t "Rajah Brooke," A shier lore of ` atl}';tutu, e made him$ bay a yailit and sail for Borneo. During hit quarter of a century's stay there he added half of that immense is- land to the Empire.—London An. savers. THIS WOBBLY OLD GLOBE MAY HAVE TURNED TURTLE ONCE UPON A TIME. A. Scientist Says the Poles Onoo Melted and Tropics Had Icebergs. One of the most fascinating spec- ulations in which men have ever engaged (says a writer in "Scien- tific Siftings") is that which Profes- sor Garrett P. Serviss has advanc- ed. dvanceed. It assumes that the axis of the earth, in Some long ago time, tip- ped over, so that the poles and the equator changed places, tropical vegetation and a crowdedlife in all its varied forms flourishing around what are now the snowy and ice- bound poles, while regions of the earth which are now the most thick- ly inhabited were buried under tre- mendous accumulations of snow and ice, which never melted away, even in the hottest summers. HOW THE EARTH MIGHT TIP.' This theory has been thought to find support. in the 'unquestioned fact that exploration around both the North and South polar regions shows that at some time in the past they have been habitable, since the remains of plants and animals which cannot survive there are still to be found in those regions 1 But if it be assumed that such a tre- mendous change occurred — a change which would imply a com- p e tipping over of the earth— the next question is: How could such a change have been produced? It has been suggested that it might have come about through the piling up of ice and other material around one or both of the poles. WHAT SHACKLETON FOUND. The recent explorations of Lieu- tenant Shackleton have shown that • GERMANY'S GREAT FIRM ployes wears the Krupp badge This is a miniature artillery she made of platinum,. Those of twen ty years' service wear the she mounted on gold, those of short,e service on silvan,• This 'applies t d k CI k ono who does not? Simply enough Every ono of the i00,o40 T�ruliP em KRUPP'S, UNLIMITED, EM- PLOYS 150,000 NEN. Originated 100 Years Ago—Buying Laud in Holland to'Extend Its Business. The great German firm that is known to everyone as "Krupp's," and which supplies half the civiliz- ed world with what it wants in the way of cannon, ib buying a large tract of land in Holland with the object of erecting new works there. If so, this gigantic business, which already gives employment to about 150,000 men, and owns a city and several towns and villages in` -Ger- many, will soon possess no fewer than nine different groups of works. The rise of the firm has been re- markably swift. In 1810 a working mechanic called Frederick Krupp, set up a forge in the village of Es- sen. Wretchedly poor, he yet con- trived to keep four workmen in his pay. He had ideas which, he hoped, would revolutionize the manufacture of steel. Handicap- ped by his poverty, however,. and by a ten years' lawsuit, he accom- plished nothing, and died, wornout by failure, in 1826. When his son Alfred, for whose schooling the widowed mother had scarcely been able to pay, entered the business in 1848, he found, to use his own words, "three work- men and considerably more debts than cash." Before his death, fifty years later, he was one of the most powerful footers in the wars of Europe. <. LIVING LANDMARK. Wedged in between two huge workshops in Essen, which is: now a city of a quarter of a million in- habitants, and is practically the property of the firm, there stands the tiny old-fashioned cottage in which the founder, of the firm strug- gled for a livelihood. It bears an inscription in the handwriting of Alfred Krupp, commending the ex- ample of his parents to the work - people. The site of that cottage is worth thousands, but it still stays unused. It would be difficult to name three European countries in which the Krupp firm have no interests. In Germany they own, besides Essen (their headquarters), the'Germania Dockyard at` Kiel (where they build Dreadnoughts), three coal mines, many iron mines and foundries, and great steel -making works at Rhein- hausen on the Rhine, and at Magde- bourg. They have coal and iron mines all over Europe. The fam- ous iron -making town of Bilbao,' in, Spain, is partly theirs. It is from Bilbao that Britain gets most of her supplies. of iron ore. HOTEL FOR KRUPP'S GUESTS Everything Krupp's do is on a gigantic scale. At Essen they keep an. hotel solely for the use of the firm's guests. These are'ohicflyt °reign military and naval officers nspecting the work Krupp's are carrying out for'their respective countries. No bills, of course, are presented. This hotel costs Crupp's a dear $125,000 a year. Alfred Krupp was succeeded'by is son, the second . Frederick Krupp. The new head of. the firm as a peace -loving scientist with a passion for botany and zoology, and aposi,tive distaste for cannon - making. Rumor has it, however, that on at least one occasion he ade his presence felt. ` On one oo- asion he bearded Bismarck in his en and told him flatly that a cer- ain war must not break out. And did not. There are several uncrowned ings in Europe, and the head of e Krupp firm is certainly one of em. There are very Mw. nations at can wage a war without the sistance of Krupp's. The firm is now managed by a and' of twelve directors, the airman of which is the second sband of Frau Krupp, the late rederick's widow. Frau Krupp, she is still called, is the largest hareholder. The name, by the ay, is pronounced "Kroon " BOUND BY A BANDAGE: ace -clowned Antarctic Continent, where the ice covering a continent i two-thirds as largo as North Amer- ica, towers up thousands of feet, is now in its mean elevation the high- est part of the earth. The axis of the earth now runs through, its shortest diameter; in' other words, e the poles. But if we can imagine vast accumulations to be made w round the poles, the polar diameter I would become greater than the equatorial, and the earth would be - f n to wobble andffthr g ee was a lack of perfect balance between theI two ends the centrifugal force t m would cause the axis to swing l d round until at last, perhaps, the, t whole' earth would turn over in l it such a way as to swing its"poles round to the place where the equa- tor formerly was. SCIENTISTS DOUBTFUL. k th th There is a multitude of scientific th reasons why this theory will probe- as bly never receive the support of - scientific men, and yet the remark- bo able fact remains that the polar re- ch gions were once inhabited by tropi- hu cal forms of life. And we know also F that, the axis of the earth, even to- as day is not absolutely steady, but''s wobbles a little, and it, has been W thought that this wobbling may arise in part from the lack of bal- ance caused by the great weight of to the lofty ice -covered continent of en the far south,, On the other hand, E it has been solemnly argued that de when the axis tipped over the whole to earth changed its position with it. in The sudden extinction of the mom,- t moths in Siberia has been attributed S to the change of the equatorial to b the polar regions, th f ge NO FUN IN IT. E r[ , ,fi.. ti Where s your father1 asked the minister. to "Up the river fishin," answered a, the boy. K "Where's your ibrother'?"V r yo r b g r Down the river f'ishin'." ar "What.are you doingl" a ' `Diggin' bait.'' a1 "Hasn't you& family anything to e do but amuse itself?" to K ti Frau Krupp and her two daugh- rs have all married German bar- s, friends of the Kaiser. The mperor, indeed, ss said to have ne the match -making, es he na- rally wishes to bind the Krupp terests as firmly to those of the ate as .possible. Round Essen four towns have be • built b the Krupp r y pp fi.m for eir workmen. Two of these are. Eden cities, much like those of ngland, and are reserved for re - red and disabled employes. In Essen itself the Krupp insti- tions are innumerable. There re two "housekeeping schools" for rttpp girls, Besides the usual lib - ries and toobnical colleges there c Krupp cafes, Krupp churches, Krupp hospital, .c Krupp park - 1 solely for the use of the firm's mployes. There is a I(ruppfi,,,,, �•es- urant, in which two thouiihnd rupp workmen can cline at one ime. But how is itpossible to tell a Mart who works: for Krupp's from "Mister, if you think we're dein' this for fun, you wait an' hear what ma, says if we come home without itey fish." a. 11 11 r 0 engineers an won men, e on the other hand, have to w two pairs of small platinum she each pair being coupled by a eh and are thus recognizable by th slebve-links,—Pea•rson's Weekly. TILE FAMILY RECORD. Museum of the Family Wardrobe a Quilt, - r. s, car lls, aim, eir The old patchwork quilt was elaborate arrangement of d monds, squares and stripes - of quisitely faded colors. It was work of years, and as soon as Gray had spread it'out on the gr In an is ex - the rs. eat four-poster it became evident to h visitor that it was really a muse of the family wardrobe of save generations. "That lilac patch," the old la began, "is a bit of .Great -Gran mother Gray's flowered gown. 5 had 11 when she was married, a when her first daughter -in -1 came into the family she gave it her, and she wore it„ for second be every summer as long as she lived It was one of those French ca toes; you couldn't wear one oil It cost three shillings a yard, b it was like a piece of silk. "That blue diamond is a piece the gown I had when my husba first came courting—it was o Sunday night, and I'd taken off i best barege and 'put on my bl print, to help get supper in. I r member that I felt very bad, th I'd changed my barege—it was a r al soft buff, trimmed with quillin of pale green satin ribbon. Bu David always said that little btu print was the neatest thing he e er saw on a girl, and because h liked it, I put in the diamonds. ``Those three pieces ofgreenan orange and brown were once pa of Sister Caroline's garibaldis—s always wore deep or flaming colors they seemed to belong with. he rich' color and dark, handsaw face. "Those white squares are all bit of my babies' bias --Jamie s, Meg gie's, Susie's, Emily's and John's And those buffs and blues an pinks and cranberry reds are piece of their dresses when they' wer KITCHENER IS HONORED BRITISH LORD HIGH CON - "STABLE A'I' CORONATION. The Office 18 One of Much Dignity —It Outranks the First of the Dalma.. $ing George, in' appointing Lord Kitchener to hll the duties of lord high constable of England on the occasion of his coronation. in West- minster Abbey next June,, has be- stowed upon the field }marshal a most signal mark of honor. For the office in question is of such dignity that it will enable the victor of- Omdurman to rank at the ceremony before the duke of Nor- folk, although the fatter is not only the first of the dukes, by seniority er of creation, and premier peer „f um the realm, but also hereditary earl nal marshal of England. The duke of Fife figured as lord high constable Great -Gran at the coronation of Edward 'VII., he who was his father-in-law, although nd it had been generally anticipated that Lord Roberts would be called to upon to act in this capacity. For st it has been .customary ever since the abolition of the lord. high con li` stableship as an hereditary office t to confer it upon great military ut commanders, the first duke of Wel- lington acting as lord high con - of stable at the successive coronations nd of George IV., of William IV., and ee of Queen Victoria. ny IT WAS RING HENRY VIII. ue who abolished the dignity of lord e- high constable as a permanent and at hereditary office on the ground that e- it "endowed its holder with too t much power for'any subject to e hold, with due regard for the pres- tige and safety of the crown."And e when Edward Stafford, duke of Buckingham, who had attended the. d Blue Beard king in that capacity at rt his coronation, and subsequently he at the famous meeting of the Field of the Cloth of Gold, was attainted ' by parliament in 1521 on charges of e treason and deprived of all his hon- ors and distinctions, the office was abolished as permanent and as here- _ • ditary,- and is only temporarily re- vived at coronations. d In fact, so apprehensive were children. "Those handsome deep - orang squares I colored myself with on ion; I dyed enough for severe quilts when the children had th measles. . Some I gave away, o traded for colors I didn't have. "I did most of the quilting at od I was waiting for my husband to come home to meals and when he had his sore thumb and wanted me to sit- with him al the spare time I had. "And that square," indicating one of rose and violet stripes,, " was just piecing in when they came and told me Johnny had got into the mill pond through the ice, and I'd better get the bed hot, for they were bringing him home. I put in all those silk' patches the next few days, while I was nursing Johnny.; He was always delicate, and the wetting and cold threw him into a kind of low fever. "Those • borders belong to the next generation," the old lady con- cluded with a tender smile. "Yes, II pieced them out of little dresses my grandchildren wore, and I quilted them in little hearts and' rings—for I had more time _ then, and I wanted them to have some- thing pretty to remember grandma by." Y. STEPPING TO THE FRONT. Boy With a Resolution Better Off Than One With Money. • some of the former sovereigns of e England lest undue advantage should be taken of the vast powers e inherent in the office of high con- stable, that Queen Elizabeth, in 1' nominating Henry, earl of Arundel, e to perform its duties at her core- e nation in January, 1559, express- ly stipulated that his tenure of the dd dignity should not extend beyond forty-eight hours. In England the office of lord con stable first came into existence with 1 the Norman conquest, and King William's lord high oonstable seems to have fulfilled the duties I of quartermaster general of the court and of the army. But the of- fice grew in importance, and by the time of the troubles between King Stephen and Empress Maud it was granted as a hereditary hon- or, the greatest in her gift, to Milo of Gloucester, Earl of Hereford, who had been her principal sup- porter. Many youths are trained along the lines of least resistance. Their, careers are watched so that they* may not run against obstacles and disappointments. They get all the money, clothes, idling, pleasures they want, .without making a single effort to possess them. "';re want John to have a good time now, for after a while he may not have it," is the philosophy upon which many parents act. •It is great folly. The boy who is put on the lines of least resistance and meets with Mw if any adversit- ies, gathers little strength of mind or character. There isno gliding forward. T.tere is no buil) in ad- vance that does nob involve an ef- fort. The boy whose path is made smooth and easy for hire is like the pupil in school who studies arith- metic with a key. He got his les- sons, but he•,died, at last, in an in- firmary. Just mark it down, oh rich and loving parent, that your boy, .rain ed in , Ise and comfort, and with every advantage ready at ].rand, provided by your Bounty, will not amount to a hill al beans out in the. world, where het•cism is in demand and true worth is the best of man- bood. It is unfortunate formy boy not to have a straggle during the form- ation period of life, and a boy with a resolution to make Iris way is far better off' than a boy with money to buy it, Stick. is pin right there, KING 'LIKES KITCHENER. Both King George and Queen Mary entertain sentiments of warm regard for Lord Kitchener, of whom they saw a great deal during their prolonged stay in India some years ago. In fact, King George, who was brought up as a sailor, may be, said to have imbibed most of his military ideas and views from Lord Kitchener. During the sojourn of the royal couple at Balmoral last summer, when, desirous of rest and relaxation, their guests were few,. Lord Kitchener was a frequent and welcome visitor at Balmoral, being on each occasion detained by his sovereign beyond the time appoint- ed for the duration of his stay. It is no secret that George V., who as sovereign possesses by vir- tue of the constitution a prepon- derant voice in the affairs of tho army and navy, the officers of which hold their commissions and coni-' mantis entirely at his pleasure, practically forced upon the reluc- tant Asquith government, and still more reluctant cabal at the war de- partment the appointment of the field marshal, first of all as mem- ber of the imperial committee of - -- 1- national defense, anti secondly as Wo then relax ourvigor; and re- . inspector general, and de facto gen- solve no longer to be terrified with STARVATION T.TNMENTIONED. - Is the Standard Article READY FOR USE IN ANY QUANTITY For making soap, softening water, removing old paint, disinfecting sinks, closets, drains and for many other purposes. A can equals 20 lbs. SAL SODA. 'CTsefet for 500 purposes -Sold Et or tehers. 0. W. OILLLIT COMPANY Ln5IXTED TORONTO, ONT. Commence the New Year fight by Using LAMA" TEA AND ' COFFEE We guarantee the' quality and know that if you once try them you will use them always. of Norfolk, hereditary. Earl Mar shal of the realm. Lord Kitchener like the Duke of Norfolk, will beattended by two pages of honor one hearing the train of his corona tion robes and the other carrying on a cushion his coronet of viscount Marching in front of them, and therefore' occupying , an inferior place in the procession—for in func- tions of this kind it is always the most important personages who come last—will be the lord high constable of the kingdom of Scot- land and of the kingdom of Ire- land. With regard to the Emerald Isle its lord high' constable is, as in the case of England, now -a -days only for coronations, and was' held at the crowning of Edward VII. by the Duke of Abercorn. In previ- ous coronations, however. it gen- erally has been .granted' to the Duke of Leinster, as premier duke and premier peer of the kingdom of Ireland. The lord high constable of Scot- land, which is combined with the office of knight mareschal of that kingdom, is hereditary in THE HOUSE OF HAY. the chief of which is the Earl of Erroll, and by virtue of these two hereditary dignities he is entitled to precedence at all times over every other nobleman of Scotland, and is the first subject of the king in Scotland after the princes of the blood. While these offices thus invest their holder with much' rank and precedence, they no longer confer upon him- powers of any kind, and remain more or less honorary dig- nities, to which certain minor per- quisites' are attached. The con- stableship of Sootiand has been in- vested in the house of Hay since 1315, when it was bestowed upon Sir Gilbert Hay of Erroll by King: Robert Bruce, the present Lord Er- roll being the nineteenth earl' of his line and the twenty-third lord high constable. Lord Erroll has royal blood in his veins. For his grandmother, wife of the eighteenth Earl of Er- roll, was Lady Elizabeth Fitzolar- ence, a natural: daughter of King William IV. THE JOURNEY OF A. DAY. a Happy Are They Who Shall Learn From Exaiirple. Human life is the journey of a day ; we rise in the morning • of youth,: full of vigor and full of ex- pectation ; we set forward with spirit: and hope, with gaiety, and with diligence, and travel on awhile in the direct rad, piety, towards the inansh:ma of the rest... - In a short time we reruit our fervor and elideavor, to find some mihigaticn of our duty, and some more easy means of obtaining the same end. we let fall the remembrance of out original intention, and quit the 'on- ly adequate object of rational de. sire, We entangle ourselves in basil. ness, immerge ourselves in luxury,. and rove through labyrinths of in. constancy till the darkness of old age begins to invade us, and dis- ease and anxiety obstruct our way; we then look back upon our lives with horror, with sorrow, with re- pentance, and wish, but too often vainly wish that we had not-forsak- en the ways of virtue. Happy are they who shall learn from thy ex- ample not to despair, that reforma- tion is never hopeless, nor sincere endeavors unassisted; that the wanderer may at length return, af- ter all his errors, and that he who implores strength and courage from above shall find danger and difficulty give way before ham.—Dr, Johnson, BILLIONS OF KISSES. Love Letters of a Korean Gold Miner Read in Court. Miss Mary Egan, a young Irish woman, living at Penarth, near Cardiff, was at Swansea, England, Assizes, awarded $1,000 damages in an action for breach of promise of marriage against William Henry Griffen, an engineer, now living at Newport, Monmouthshire. , The defendant, it appeared, made an expedition to the Far East, and from 1904 to.1808 was gold mining in Korea, In letters to Miss Egan which were read, the defendant called her his "dear pure white rose," and sighed for the time "when we can sit together under our own vine and fig tree and on our own blarney stone." He sent her "forty-five billion kisses" and addressed her as "My Rose of Sharon." Mr. Griffen gave evidence, and was cross-examined by Mr. Ivor Bowen. On returning home from Korea you thought there was a little social distinction between you and the parlor -maid at Penarth? No. In Korea, I see by the letters, you had a high position—you occu- - pied the Emperor's palace when he was not at home and before he was beheaded? Yes. (Laughter,) ' What , were you -a mandarin 1 (Laughter.) A liner.. Wasn't there some disappoint. Ment in your fancily at.the ,success - fill miner coming back laden with Korean! gold and expected to marry the plaintiff? No. 1Vereu't you trying y g t o get rid of the girl because yon wero travel- ing first-class and staying at the (:rand Hotel, Paris, and the Em• pel'or's palace, E.orea? .The da fondant made no reply. eralissimo of the military forces o£ crimes at a distance; but rely upon Drink water, t y y ins an m` toussli ; we thus enter r tho bowers of clinations, but by the knowledge ssise, .and report in the shades of that by so, doing he was satisfying securit ,. see the hopes and the wishes' of his J 4 the h.att scriesis people. AS LORI) HIGH CONSTABLE, Lord (Kitchener of Khartum will have nothing to do at the corona- tion but to walls in the procession, almost immediately in front of the' king, bearing' a staff of office, one end tipped with the royal arms and the other with his own. He will walk to the right of the peer of the realm bearing the sword of state, who on the occasion of the corona- tion of Edward VII. was the Mar- quis of Londonderry and who was a the empire, prompted thereto not our own constancy and ventui'o {'o fever. - 1 Driirlc will and ge typhoid only b his own convict. d ' al'proarli rvliut et tete ‘e never to and got tuber. anti vigilance. subsides; then we are willing to enquire whether another advance cannot be made and whether we may nob at least turn, our eyes upon the gardens of pleas- ure. We approach them :with scru- ple and hesitation; we enter lihemr but enter timorous and trembling and always hope to pass through them without losing the road of ru - tie, which for as while we beep in aur sight, and to which we purpose to return, _ But temptation sue - nods temptation, and one compli- ance propanes tis for another ; we in calosis. D,,ink whiskey and get jitujantc. Drink soup and get fat Eat meat a'icl enaourae cantor, apoplexy airs? appendicitis. tat oysters and absorl:, typhoid goatri< p,,i.vn germs.. linin v igetables and give the system Asiatic thin-b'loocb ed wt•eakness. Eat dessert and die with paresis or something else, Drink coffee and fall . into insorm pia and nervous prostration. Drink tea and get arca!; heart, Drink wino and get gout. You can take- your choice. attended. merely byone yae, time lose tn� t Tho banana seeds only on rine , g 1 . 1 app!/ ee of lnnn- allot on. Cartlt, the Andaman On the left hand of the bearer of crate, and sofacc our disquiet with n i 5.s q lands, Elsewhere tho plant is tai+p the sword 0= atata'tvill be Iain Duke s°ureal giatiCacation. By clegrecifrom shoots,