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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1913-2-27, Page 6,1 THE PRINCE AT 01.0 OXFORD UEIII TO THE THRONE IS liU1TE DEMOCRATIC. Fotutr "es of Student Life in the 1. real University Town of England. It is half a century since Oxford had an English prince residing within her walls, and times have changed. The difference between the liberal aristocracy which char aoterized the late Icing Edward and the conservative democracy which characterizes the present sovereign is nowhere more apparent than in the status of the present Prince of Wales at Magdalen College com- pared with the position of his grandfather .as a member of Christ Church in 1859. The latter never ceased to be and to appear the prince; he wore the distinctive cap and gown of the nobility, he was treated with ceremony, and lived, not within the actual confines of his college, as does the present prince, but in lodgings, or; in Oxford par- lance, diggings, says a writer in the Brooklyn Eagle, But nowadays things have changed, and there 'is nothing in the appearance or behavior of King George's son to suggest that he is not as other men. He lives in rooms in the college proper, attends leotures, goes to the theatre, plays association football or soccer, fel- lows the hounds, much as any other graduate of plentiful means. His garb is not in any way distinctive, nor is there any ceremoniousness in his intercourse with his fellow stu- dents, The Prinee Described. The first thing that strikes the average person about him is his boyishness. Although he is in his nineteenth year, he looks not a day over sixteen. He is rather short and very lightly built; his complex- ion is fair, his hair flaxen, his fes - tures delicate and sensitive. There is a winsome shyness in his man- ners, which are singularly free from any affectation or awkwardness. There is a certain pathos, perhaps, in the fact that this fair, slim boy, not made for this world's • pain, should have so little choice in his ways of life; and it is impossible to believe that he does not feel some of the uneasineese of the head that wears a crown. But if he is ever to approach the joys of normality, of being like other people, it will be while he is an undergraduate at Oxford. Life at Oxford is a curious med- ley of picturesqueness and affecta- tion and it has its lessp leasant aspects, But it is safe to say that Pierer Edward will see Oxford at its best and that Oxford in turn will see the young prince at his happi- est. Already he has made many friends, and they are for the most part men known and respected by the whole university for charm of personality and athletic or intellec- tual achievement. Oxford is too democratic, England as a whole is too intelligent, for any note of fiunkeyism in its attitude toward royalty, even if royalty did net go halfway in dispensing with its old- fashioned dignity and aloofness. As far as the prince is concerned, this is an unmixed good; it allows him to choose his own companions on their own merits, and it allows those who come in contact with him to be quite at their ease. There is no formality of address, no cere- monious lifting of the ca.p, nothing to emphasize his superiority in birth or position: A S College .'taker. There is nothing more typical of Oxford life and of what it means to the prince, than a college smoker, or smoking concert. it is a phaze of university life that the outside world knows nothing about, but .£t is, at the same time, one of its most interesting and picturesque phases—so much so that au account will not be amiss of a university college smoker, which the prince recently attended as a guest, Not a guest of honor, but at the private invitation of one of his friends. The evening began with a dinner. The first part of the programme, lasting from 8 o'clock till 9.30, ooneisted of various tunes by sing- ers, pianists, entertainers, conjur- ers, etc., some professional, some amateur, but all amusing in their various ways, The bass soloist of Magdalen choir sang the Toreador Song from; Carmen, and the audi- ence, flushed with wine and high -r, spirits, took up the chorus in a mighty voice; a conjurer from Christ Church performed during the half hour's intermission and the •traditional ceremony of pro- gramme signing had begun, and everyone who could find a peneil and ooarld remember his own name was busy writing his autograph on the p.regrammes of everyone he knew tend many he didn't know. This is always a rather trying time for the prince, He is very willing to sign programmes with his boyish signature --simply Bd- ward, iti a very unformed hand— and indeed he itsuaily tetra the hall togreph his own programme; :but often it becomes a distasteful an- 'loyanoe to him, hatingas he does any hint of publicity. Fortunately he possesses, young es he is, A. Surprising Amount of Teel, and has succeeded in winning the goodwill of 'everyone with whom he has m ine in t:ontnet, The intermission over the screed half of the programme resolves it- self into dancing. The hall has been cleared for action and a hand en- gaged to play swinging rnusio. Formalities liy to the winds, and introductions aro not longer need- ed; your partner is the man near- est you when the music starts. The big room is a whirling mass of hilar- ious young men, and navigation is not easy. If you get off without a fall you are either very lucky or a very good dancer, and a fall is not always very pleasant, as the floor is of stone. But the whole affair is wildly .enjoyable, and you reluc- tantly keep an eye on the clock if you belong to another oollego and have to be inside its gates at the stroke of midnight. No one who has not actually Lived in Oxford can fully appreciate the complete enjoyment which the Ox- ford undergraduate world takes in such festivities. It is difficult to understand how little the absence of femininity mars tho amusement --if, indeed. it does not, for the average Oxford man, increase it, Oxford is a man's city, a paradise where Eve is distinctly unimpor- tant. Whatever part Gretel is to play in the prince's education, her time is net yet come. And in the retreepeet of years, when the shy, sensitive, good-looking boy has be Iceneman, willhe look beek upon his years at Oxford as one of the most pleasant periods of his life, if not the pleasantest. SETING FAIR PLAY. That gallant guardsman and sea- soned fighter, General Lord Me- thuen, has been recalling a rather good story of his schooldays at Eton. Even then "Paul" was a cool customer, big and sturdy, and looked up to by his chums. On one occasion a couple of Fourth Form boys begged the fu- ture soldier to be present to see fair play in a bout of fisticuffs they had arranged to wage, over some disagreement at the gas -works. Young Methuen was not at all keen about it, but being a good "sport" agreed; and. as it was General Methuen. raining heavily when the fight was due to start, held up an umbrella for himself. The combatants skipped about in the pelting downpour, and both seemed chary in coming to close quarters. "Look here," said the Hon. Paul at last, "it's a pity you two fellows should get wet. Suppose you take my umbrella and stand under it, each holding on the stick with your left hands. You'll seen, then, find your way to each ether's face with. your rights." Elaborate Dog Obsequies. One of the most elaborate funer- als ever held at the celebrated dogs' cemetery at Molesworth, Hunts, England, has just taken place. The body was enclosed in a coffin of reg- ulation type, with handles wetaeh- ed, and was conveyed from London in a motor -tsar. The "deceased" was a Box -terrier, and the inter- ment was witnessed by four per- sons, including the lady owner of the dog, A wreath placed on the grave bore the inscription, "To my darling little Punch, from. his lov- ing mistress. Requtescat in pace," l'se of 11'ireless Increased. Wireless telegraph message..s sent to and front elhips have increased 11.8 per cent beyond the previous year, according to the annual re- port of the British postmaster.-' general, The inetease is partly dere. to the larger number of vessels now equipped with sei.reless and partly to a redaction of tariff for vessels rolling Ity aakieg his friends to itu- 'making short voyages, Why Do You Continue to Suffer from Catarrhal Cold last Breathe "Catarrhozone,,'• -1 is sure proteetion against Coughs, Bronchitis, Catarrh and 'Moat Troubles. No Drugs to take—Just breathe tit soothing healing vapor of "Catarrhozone." • e There aro t, day but few parts of the world Tato which "Catarrhozone has not penetrated. From far away Jamaica coined the following letter from Dir. 0. S. Burke of 24 Robert St., Alman Town:— "•1 am elated over the restate of "Ca. tarrhozone." To be brief will say the treatment has cured are; it has done all that heart could wish. I was never better pleased with auY• thing than with Catarrhozone: it did its wcria well. I am satisfied, and will never for- get this wonderful remedy. I am grateful for what it haa done for me, and with great- est gratitude, remain, ao. (S. 0. Burke)." r.�r`eSK From Secondee, (JUST BREATHE G o 1 d J CATARRHOZONE co as t, west Africa, Dirs. Alvin Roberts writes:— "I received a sample of Catarrhozone through a local merchant that deals in the preparation, and found it had a marvellous effect on nasal Catarrh. I at once bought a dollar outfit and now have pleneure in Baying that for the first time in many years I am able to breathe freely through my nose. Bad breath disappeared, headache over the eyes wont away, throat Irritation has entirely ceased. Catarrhozone cured mo." You can readily euro bad taste in the mouth in the morning. Quickly relieve clogged up nostrils, ease an irritated throat, stop a cough, cure enufilee and running eyes—all this 1s accomplished by breathing the soothing, healing vapor of Catarrhozone. The dollar outfit eoutaine in addition to two months' medication, an Indestructible bard rubber inhaler. Smaller sizes with glass inhalers, 25o., 50c., all druggists and store -keepers or postpaid from The Catarrhozone Co., Buf- falo, N. Y., and Kingston, Ont. K: AS TO FLAVOR. Found Her Favorite Again. A bright young lady tells how she came to be acutely sensitive as to the taste of coffee: "My health had been very poor for several years," she says. "I loved coffee and drank it for break- fast, but only learned by accident, as it were, that it was the cause of the constant, dreadful head- aches from which I suffered every day, and of the nervousness that drove sleep from my pillow and so deranged my stomach that every- thing I ate gave me acute pain. (Tea is just as injurious, because it contains caffeine, the seine drug found in coffee.) "My condition finally got so seri- ous that I was advised by my doe - tor to go to a hospital. There they gave ma what I supposed was cof- fee, and I thought it was the best I ever drank, but I have since learned it was Postum. I gained rapidly and came home in four weeks. "Somehow the coffee we used at home didn't taste right when I got back. I tried various kinds, but none tasted as good as that T drank in the hospital, and all brought back the dreadful headaches and the 'sick -all-over' feeling. "One day I got a package of Postum and the first taste of it I took, I said, 'that's the good coffee we had in the hospital!' I have drank it ever since, and eat Grape - Nuts for my breakfast. I have no more headaches, and feel better than I have for years." Name given upon request. Read the famous little boob, "The Road to Wellville," in pkgs. "There's a reason." Postum now comes in concen- trated, powder forum, called Instant Peahen. It is prepared by stirring a level teaspoonful in a cup of hot water, aclding sugar to taste, and enough cream to bring the color to golden brown. Instant Postum is convenient; there's no waste; and the flavor is always uniform. Sold by grocers - 45 to 50 -cup tin 30 cts., 90 to 100 cup tin 50 eta. A 5-oup trial tin mailed for gra- aids name and 2 -cent stamp for ostage. Canadian Postum Cereal Co., Ltd., Windsor, Ont. e p Possession may be nine points of the law, but that never helped a thief any. F Winter weather roughens and reddens your stein, causing chaps, chilblains and general dlscomiorL try NASDYui Witch Hazel Cream The creamy ingredients sooth and soften the outer skin, while the Witch Hazel penetrates and heals the deeper tissues. Delightful of g for shaving or washing. 25o. a bottle, at your druggist's. NATIONAL DHOC AND CHEMICAL CO, OF CANADA, LIMITED._ 119 TORONTO CORRESPONDENCE INTERESTIND BITS OF GOSSIP FRO THE QUEEN OITY. The Next Provincial Treasurer—Dr. Fe now and tho Gisy Bolt—Tho Windsor Uniform—Report of Chief of Pollee. WYhether wall•founded or not, the belie ds Dumont that Hon. Isaac Brook Lathe who has boon a member of the Whittle Government without portfolio since 190 will get the poet of Provincial Treasure as 'a permanency ae 0011 ad the sesino of the Legislature is over. In the meal time it would be inconvenient to hold a eleetton. It to generally admitted that Dir. Luo will make an acceptable member of tit Cabinet. In many respects ho will rant in strength next to Icon. w, J. Hanna, tit Provincial Secretary, to whom he bear some resemblance iu that be Is a genial clear-headed lawyer, who in the compare tivc Quiet of a ouuntry town has built u a career on law -books and politics. He t a geed opewkar, though nothof the spell binding type. In manner ho reoembl the lawyer somewhat more than the pelt Veal orator. M The Boy Orator. Mr. Lucas le the happy possessor of u smiling, rotund, alterable facet whleh gained for him the nickname of "the e buy Orator" the first day he appeared In the Legislature. The name haa truck even to this day, though "the buy Orator" is now 45 yoare old. 'Iwo stories will always bo told of him. One is that when he was in 1898 first elected to the Donee, and Dame down to Toronto to take his seat, tho doorkeeper' of the Legislative Oheather re- fused to admit him until he had been identified. The doorkeeper thought it was some youth trying to play a practical Joke on him. The other gives an ineident of Lucas' electioneering days, He had called on a farther whom lee expected would vote right, but just wished to make sore of. He introdaoed himself as Mr, Lucas. Po his surprise the voter was standoffish and indifferent. Finally, after a long argu- ment, the farmer gave a grudging oondeut to vote for the Conaorvative candidate. But," he added, you can tell your fa. tiler to emne himself next time. If my vote is worth anything I'm ------ if I don't think he ought to come after it himeutf." In the practice of law Mr, Lucas' forte is his handling of Jury erica. He le head of a firm in his Immo in Mnrkdale and Is also a member of a city firm, In which he has as p)artners such stalwart Liberals as Alex. Mills and W. E. Raney. Dr. Fernow and the Clay Balt. Dr. B. E. Fernow, who hoe been flaying things about the Quality of the soil in Ontario's 20.000,000 acre clay belt, thereby getting into controversy with different members of the Ontario Government, is one of the most Interesting men in To. ronto. He is a German who is given credit by meet authorities for having in- troduced the prsetlee of the conservation of forest products into the American continent. IID, and not Ptnchot, is re- garded no the big forester of the United States. Ho has had an active and inter. eating life, and gots his enjoyment as he goes along. He is a veteran et the Franco- Prussian war and himself tells the story of how, when he first came to 'Toronto. he eat at dinner one evening beside a prominent Frenchman. The Frenchman asked Dr. Fernow if he had over been in France. Dr. Fernow reptiodt "Yee, once for sev- eral weeks." "When?" aekod the Frenchman. "In 1871," replied Dr. Fernow. The sally was enjoyed immensely, but by none more than the Frenchman. Dr. Fernow came to this continent In 1876. He was at that date an enthusiaetio forester. but it was several years before be was able to organize the United States Department of Forestry. In 1896 ho went to Cornell University, and in 1907 was se- cured by the Whitney Government to be- come head of the newly-eetablisbed fores- try department of the University of To- ronto, What He Realty Said. He is one of the most genial men under the sun. His remarks respecting the clay belt have been contributed as being an at- tack. That 10 hardly correct. In the first place, Dr, Foraow is of such a pleasant diepoeition that ha could hardly be de- scribed as attacking anything. In the second place, what he actually said was to advise caution In permitting settlers to go on the poorer portions of the lend and thus repeat the traggedies of the poor lauds in the older seetton of Ontario. Hls Honor's Satin Breeches. His Honor the Lieutenant -Governor ban stirred up considerable comment by his apnoaraneo at the opening of the Lents. haul* bedecked in a Windsor uniform, including white satin knee breeches. Title was the first appearance of white natio breeches in Toronto, and the democrate, who are not no numerous as the preten- obousofthe country might lead one to sup. inoidestaroit scarcely what to Ministers are entitled to wear the Windsor uniform at State functions, and do so. So do Privy Councillors, whether in. power or not. Even the Deputy Ministers have a gorge - Ono outfit with plenty of gold braid. But hitherto State functions in Queen's Park, Toronto, have always been demooratto af- fairs. The Premier and his Ministers ap- pear in conventional black frock coats, being content to leave it to the ladies and the Foreign Consuls, and perhaps en. occasional military officer or judge, to provide the finery for the occasion. Upholding Provincial Digolty. Sir John Gibson was probably satiated by a deeire to uphold the dignity of the Province, He was entitled to wear the Windsor uniform and if Oabinet Ministers at Ottawa wear it why should not a Lieutenant Governor at Toronto do like- wiee. Resides, 0o1. Gibson has been a soldier' almost' since infancy, and there aro not many soldiers who do not fanny themselves in 'a new uniform. He is. however, not merely a parade soldier, for ho saw servieo in the Fenian Raid. When he gats tired of his Oolonel'e uniforms and his Windsor dreeo, and his uniform as Lion. A. D. O. to the Governor-Gonorah and his decorations as a Knight of Grace, Or- der of the Hod ital of St. John of Jeruea- tem, he am indulge himself in Free- masonry deooratons to hie heart's con. tent, for he is.a Past Grand Master and reputed to be a thirty-third degree mem. ber of that Order. Toronto's Crime Record. There are fele more interesting blue booke than the annual report of the Ohio" of Police of Toronto, Me figures for the year 1912 have just been made public and reveal the remarkable toot that 34,380 per- sons were arrested or summonsed during the year. This means that about 000 per- son in every 16 of the entire population during the year haw come into 'collision with the police department. The percent- age would be somewhat greater if allow. anon waft not made for the fent that a goon many persona have more than one arrest er summons to their credit, The figures constitute an tnoreaee of 6,724 over 1911. Drunkenness on increase, One of the moot marked Inereasos ap- peared under the heading of db'11111ie and disot darlteee. Titts le due, no doubt, 10 l two reaeon8, One being the Manx of foreigners, and the. other being greater etringenoy on the apart of the pollee. It ' may also Indicate an aotual increase in' drinking habits. Certainly the number of drunken men who may be obsorved'. on G Toronto atreete-is not to the credit of the • city, end does .ant. one fears, compare favorably with meet other ottles i0 Ater!. ea or England of like elze, f The number of proaeoution0 for keeping houses et fit fame prneticatly doubted, there being 240 &urine the year, 'Ihie in,: t ereaeo also le no doubt largely dila to, greater vigtlanoe 011 the part of the pence,;: It la noteworthy that of the serious f erimee the oily ie comparatively frog, i 1 elms, daring the entire year there were Married 'Mon Settle Down. According to ago wales eaotu to be moat addfotsd to crime between the ages of 30 and 41 and females between the ages of 20 and i. Out of the 34,380 naeee, only 2,690 were. females. 1J: married men In the pollee collo numbered 18,108 as oom- eared with 13,632 married, witloh 5001110 to Drove that n bnaholor settles down when he takes unto himself a wire, Of the months, September le the worst of the year, With 3300 Vaasa. Title may bo due to the I;xhlhltion and the loose races, It is very intereetfug to note that Jauuat'y, the month of good reeohttione, hao the lowest record with only 1912 oaths. SELF -CURE AMONG TOILERS WHAT TO DO TILL DOCTOR CONES TO WORKSHOP. Row Workmen Treat One Another In the Case of an Acci- dent. Self -cure among workers luta many curious phases, In glass works splinters of glass aro extract- ed from the hand with beautiful simplicity. The victim takes a little molten glass, with which he fashions a head on the splinter of glass pro- truding from his flesh, and then it can be drawn out with case, says London Answers. Equally common an accident among users of edged tools, each as carpenters, is a cut, and the handi- est remedy is invariably that most approved a spider's web. Caustic workers have as ready a way of treating a splash in the eye —another commonplace of toil. If the quantity of eaustio is small, the sufferer gets a follow -employee to squirt a mouthful of water into his eye; but in a more serious case the eye is first washed out, and then sucked. Several classes ' of workmen, again. have special remedies for "gassing." When anybody ongag- ed at a Dement works on the Med- way is overcome by noxious gases, he is placed on the ground, with ills face over a newly -dug holo. This practice is declared by doctors to be.dangerous; but is supposed to "Draw the Gases Out of the Body." A somewhat .similar remedy is plied in a case of gas poisoning at the top of any of the blast furnaces in North Wales. The insensible man, having been carried tela grass patoh some distance from the fur- nace, is laid on his back im a newly - dug trench, and his body and legs are then covered with sods, leaving the head and neck protruding above the trench. This treatment, it is said, seldom fails. Besides specifics for accidents such as these, workers have their own modes of treatment for dis- eases of occupation, as well as for some of 'those arising from other causes. To neutralize the effects of inhaling dust, fox instance, there are many singular remedies. The most remarkable, perhaps, is that well known to men employed in granaries, storing grain which gives off much durst. It is treacle, which, say such workens, "clears the chest." Among the general diseases for which there are workshop remedies are influenza and consumption. If anybody wants a cure for the for- mer plague, here et is: Go to a works where dyes are made from goal tar. The men employed, there are certainly the healthiest manual workers in the world, and 'they de- clare that weaklings who join them gain strength with wonderful rapids ity. Two years ago a man who had long suffered from catarrh, obtain- ed work among tar, mainly with a view to improving his health, with the result that IIe Is Now Splendidly "Fit." For consumption there is a still more remarkable cure, About Bow. there are works in which is a "black house"—that is, a place wherein. oil is burned for the sake of obtaining carbon. The men who feed the fires necessarily inhale a good deal of this substanoe, which, it is said, makes them consumpltion-proof, if they have net already contracted the disease, and, if they have, curee them, For this reason, niers employed in other pants 'of the works or else- where in the neighborhood, fre- quently obtain a situation in the "bleak house," when they become consumptive, And the effect, ac- cording to local report, is remark- able. Sufferers are actually loth' to leave the "black hou so" at night, and. return home. COLLIERS ARE MODEST. Boys Preferred Stealing Turnips to Trouselless Walla home. A singu.]ar custom on the part of youths employed at Marsden Oleg - and) Colliery and living in South phielda was brought to light during the hearing of a charge against a fourteen-year-obd' boy of willful lamage to turnips, According tar the explanation put forward by a solicitor', who appeared for the de- endant, when a South Shields boy tarts to work tut Mareden Colliery, he other youth compel him to get citta of the train and' ;mail 1t turnip rom a certain field adjoining the Should the' new boy refuse, two warders, but 46 burglaries, 36 his tretteer5 are taken from him, nd he is put one of the train, and arcs of robbery by violonee and 43 caaee 8 of pookot plehior<. aognamitiontsmaiwittarktiont TRY IT WHEN 'YOU'RE TIRED You will find it wonderfully refreshing Li y It sustains and cheers compelled to walk Moine in that con- dition, Ib was stated that the far- mer in question ;anal lost about two tons of turnips, so that apparently, while the recruiting;' department at Marsden colliery must be on R pretty extensive scale, few of the buys have proved to possess suffi- cient hardihood to walk been: 'trou- serless rather than break the sixth Commandment. FOUND SECRET CHAMBER.' Relies of By -Gone Mehl Partaken of in Charles L's Reign. A secret chamber in which were the remains of an unfinished moat, reduced to dust, has been found at the Foarm Fturnl, near Mold, Flint- shire, England, built in the early part of the sixteenth century and once the manor ]rouse of the Hart - sheath estate. Some workmen wore engaged in repairing an ancient fire.pl.aoo and chimney, when they dtsc'overed to revolving stone, which tipo•n being o,pt:'ncd, revealed a secret chamber. The apartment contained oak furniture of antique design, including a table on which lay antiquated firearm's and feeding utensils and tho remains of a meal, reduced to dust. It is surmised that the chamber was utilized as a place of concealment by royalist fugitives during the civil war of the reign of Charles I., from which per- iod it had remained undisturbed. g What She Wanted to Know. "So your daughter is engaged?" "Yes." "Is he a nice young man?" "Very." "And you approve of the match?" "Yes. They seem to be just suit- ed for ono another." "That's so nice. Are his people all right?" "They're delighted." "How old is he?" "About 32.,, "Just a fine age. Is he hand- some 3" "Well, he's not what you'd call bad looking." "I'm just crazy to see him. I suppose Agnes is very happy. But I must be going now. I'll drop in again sometime." "Haven't you forgotten to ask me something?" "I don't think so. What is it?" "Oh, 1 thought you wanted act know how much money he is mak- ing." Plain Enough. Suffragette—If you come to our meetings you'd hear some plain things. Male Thing—Ah I And see 'ern no doubt See Open Top Tub Room to Wor See How the Wringer Attached AgWELCS HIGH SPEED CHAMPION the wringer ;;Deed extends from the ahle,, out 0 the way of the 000 'ible Aberra eraoikallr thowhole ton Mum tub to oven up_ Makes n matte put, In end fake out 01,55,1. No oNirr mirlur Sas at 14rpe ttn npenlnp. oNur ,ureber 000 be Mmrhoi ,cell omni/ brindle o1 Meat tell as lop lever. no you sae Maxven'p "ra.ettt.«-ane chdre that milker quality butler) wine us furoataloanon if your dealer ilea, 01 Manflo nine. 89 OMB 111/155211.8 SONS, It MA1113,Ont MARKED FOR THE ASSASSIN SAID TO IIA V 1'1 KNOWN THEIR PATE 13E1! 011E11AND. Instances Where They Have Pros dieted the Date of Their Own Death. "i know thet I am condemned to death, because I possess positive in- lurmetion that two Anarchists have taken an oath to kill Mo. I know, further, that the Anarchist who is to take my lifo is a man who has been banished from Buenos Ayres, and that lie went thence to Paris and Biarritz, after which the police lust trace of him." So .spoke the late Senator Canale- jas, this Spanish Prime Minister, on November 8th last, in a oo11versa- tion with an intimate friend, and four days later he was shot dead by an assassin while leaking in at the window of a book -shop, It must be a terrible strain on time nerves. and pluck to feel, as se many have done, that the sword hangs over their head, suspended, as it were, by a single hair. But such has been the fate of more than one public malt during the past few years, and of .ecures in earlier days. In February, 1910,Sheik Mah- moud, a well-known Egyptian as- trologer, went to Boutros Pasha, Prime Minister of Egypt, and told him that he foresaw his death at the hands of an assassin. Boutros believed the prophecy, cud, as everyone knows, was foully murder- ed a few months later. Trite Prognostications. It is worth mentioning that Mah- m•ntd put in print a prediction of the death of King Edward three months before it occurred. He said that ib would come to passim May. By the way, he also foretold in 1910 tlutt King George of Greece wt'uld annex three Turkish cities. This has also mine true. While on the subject of Turkey and the Last, we may say that the late King Alexander of Servia fully believed that he would meet with a violent death. Years earlier, in fact, when King Milan, Alexander's father, was on the throne, a Servian peasant pre- dicted that Milan's reign would be one of many misfortunes, that ho would wage an unsuccessful war, that he would marry, have one son, and then be divorced. Ho ended by prophesying a violent death for the son. Alexander, realizing how true the rest of the predictions had been, frequently spoke to his intimates of his corning end, but he could hardly have expected that it would have been attended by such horrors as were actually the case. During the long weeks that the late Pope (Leo XIII.) ley on his deathbed, his"physicin.n, Dr. •Lap- poni, was the most faithful of all his attendants, Lapponi was an- other who knew beforehand of the end of his life, Just before the late Pope's ill - nese, the doctor was called to at- tend a monk who lay desperately i11. Said the latter, "You cannot cure me. In two days I shall be dead. Within four months you will join me in the next world," Lap - pouf spoke of the prediction io fiiends, saying, "I cannot help be- lieving that what the man said was true." The Monk and the Medico. It was: The monk died in 48 hours. Lapponi, who then was un- aware of any illness, was suddenly diwcovered to have canner of the stomach, and he died exactly six- teen weeks after the death of the monk. An English clergyman has been known publicly to predict the date of his own death. The late Rector. of South Walsham, Norfolk, told his parishioners thtut both his father and mother had died at the age of seventy -raven, and that he believed that ho, too, would clic on coaching Isis seventy-seventh year. On a Slurady night, exactly four weeks, later, and jnst• a°ter passing his seventy-seventh birthday, he diad quirts suddenly, Of all modern stories of doom, none is .so terrible as that of the Austrian noble family of Votzera. The name will be familiar to all readers, because of the Bareness Marie Vetzea'a, for love d whom the Crown Prince Rudolf killed himself. Every member of that family was beautiful and gifted, yet for generations ill -fate dogged them, are! none died a natural death. Marie, it is believed, poisotled herself with strychnine, her bro- ther, a flee young officer, was burnt to death in the ew•fu.l ooaufitugrtutfon at the Ring Theatre; the father, Baron Vetzor•a, felldead of sun- etroke in a Came street. 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So .spoke the late Senator Canale- jas, this Spanish Prime Minister, on November 8th last, in a oo11versa- tion with an intimate friend, and four days later he was shot dead by an assassin while leaking in at the window of a book -shop, It must be a terrible strain on time nerves. and pluck to feel, as se many have done, that the sword hangs over their head, suspended, as it were, by a single hair. But such has been the fate of more than one public malt during the past few years, and of .ecures in earlier days. In February, 1910,Sheik Mah- moud, a well-known Egyptian as- trologer, went to Boutros Pasha, Prime Minister of Egypt, and told him that he foresaw his death at the hands of an assassin. Boutros believed the prophecy, cud, as everyone knows, was foully murder- ed a few months later. Trite Prognostications. It is worth mentioning that Mah- m•ntd put in print a prediction of the death of King Edward three months before it occurred. He said that ib would come to passim May. By the way, he also foretold in 1910 tlutt King George of Greece wt'uld annex three Turkish cities. This has also mine true. While on the subject of Turkey and the Last, we may say that the late King Alexander of Servia fully believed that he would meet with a violent death. Years earlier, in fact, when King Milan, Alexander's father, was on the throne, a Servian peasant pre- dicted that Milan's reign would be one of many misfortunes, that ho would wage an unsuccessful war, that he would marry, have one son, and then be divorced. Ho ended by prophesying a violent death for the son. Alexander, realizing how true the rest of the predictions had been, frequently spoke to his intimates of his corning end, but he could hardly have expected that it would have been attended by such horrors as were actually the case. During the long weeks that the late Pope (Leo XIII.) ley on his deathbed, his"physicin.n, Dr. •Lap- poni, was the most faithful of all his attendants, Lapponi was an- other who knew beforehand of the end of his life, Just before the late Pope's ill - nese, the doctor was called to at- tend a monk who lay desperately i11. Said the latter, "You cannot cure me. In two days I shall be dead. Within four months you will join me in the next world," Lap - pouf spoke of the prediction io fiiends, saying, "I cannot help be- lieving that what the man said was true." The Monk and the Medico. It was: The monk died in 48 hours. Lapponi, who then was un- aware of any illness, was suddenly diwcovered to have canner of the stomach, and he died exactly six- teen weeks after the death of the monk. An English clergyman has been known publicly to predict the date of his own death. The late Rector. of South Walsham, Norfolk, told his parishioners thtut both his father and mother had died at the age of seventy -raven, and that he believed that ho, too, would clic on coaching Isis seventy-seventh year. On a Slurady night, exactly four weeks, later, and jnst• a°ter passing his seventy-seventh birthday, he diad quirts suddenly, Of all modern stories of doom, none is .so terrible as that of the Austrian noble family of Votzera. The name will be familiar to all readers, because of the Bareness Marie Vetzea'a, for love d whom the Crown Prince Rudolf killed himself. Every member of that family was beautiful and gifted, yet for generations ill -fate dogged them, are! none died a natural death. Marie, it is believed, poisotled herself with strychnine, her bro- ther, a flee young officer, was burnt to death in the ew•fu.l ooaufitugrtutfon at the Ring Theatre; the father, Baron Vetzor•a, felldead of sun- etroke in a Came street. Finally, Jeanne, Countess of Bylandt, one of the most beautiful and accom- plished women who ever- lived, died suddenly in Rome. Poison caused her death, but whether adininia- toned intentionally or not, none cats say.•--leondon Answers, Some mob are al ivays liberal when they start in to give offense.