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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1914-07-31, Page 6GLAND'S GRAND OLD MAN N1QUE CAREER OF THE EARL OF IIALSRURY. e Last Living Link in the Lair With Days of Queen Elizabeth. Lord Halsbury isi the last living kin the law with the days of Ding urge IV. and Queen Caroline. He in very truth, e. sturdy survival forgotten times. He has seen a ronia1 ghost. He was awakened ora his :sleep in an old oak -pan - led bedroom in a Devonshire man - to chase the spectre of a butler a had killed himself beside that aside, says London Ideas. His rdship wasat Oxford before there ere any railways about, and he s a "briefless barrister" when his ther died, and left him absolutely ith his Ivey to make, No files set - ed on Hardinge. Stanley Giffard, +wever. Within twenty years he as solicitor -general, with an in- )me of (;15,000 a year. Lord Hala- 1 ry is the sole survivor in harness E long forgotten governments. For - years ago he was solicitor -gen - ail in a cabinet which included eh world-famous politicians as ord Beaconsfield, Viscount Cross, +rd Salisbury, Earl Cairns, the ekes of. Richmond, Northumber- nd. Marlborough and Rutland, the earl of Derby, Lords Bandon and dlesleigh. and Mr. W. H. Smith. 11 have .gone—the last to pass way being old Lord Cross who died few months ago at 90 years of age. my one other member of that ab.iizet lives besides Lord Salsbury Viscount St. Aldsyn—the one - me chancellor, •so well-known as Black Michael." Lord St. Ald- yn no longer figures in the affairs f the time, but Lord Halsbery still ruts and whistles along Whitehall wirling his cane as nimbly as a 'nut of 19. Will he be the first tember of the House of Lords to ut up a hundred ? It really does ick like it; May Lire to be 109. No peer has ever yet lived to be 00. Lord Salsbury has a wonderful pportunity of crowning a. stupend- us career with a "record," there - ore : How laird Salsbury: climbed he ladder of fame and took a clean uarter of a million out of the law s perhaps the most fascinating life tory of the day. It is unlikely ever be paralleled. Long before the Iewish lord chief justice of to -day was born, Lord Halsbury, as Mr. Giffard found himself called down to sleepy Market, Drayton to defend a. man who had achieved an unenvi- able notoriety fur harshness and murder as the representative of u Queen Victoria, in Jamaica. This was the famous Governor Eyre. the t rights and wrongs of whose case s kept the country agog for mane months in 1857. It was the sort of trial that makes or breaks a bar- 1 rister. Horrible deeds and brutal murders had been put down to the account of Governor Eyre, and the $ governor boldly entrusted his life $ in the forthcoming fight to Mr. t Citified, With tears in his eyes t y'nung Giffard pleaded every possi- e hie excuse for his client; forsix •hours on end he spoke in his de- v fence, and eventually Governor o Eyre went forth a free man• and s lived for another thirty years to d offer up prayers for and encourage- hnient to the young lawyer who was t destined to occupy the Woolsack : a The 1 uhborrie 'Trials. e t trials—they lasted two years—Mr. Giffard's progress was meteoric. In all the excises celebres of the next few years he :figured conspicuously. Ire had to swallow some nasty pills by the way however. High judicial. offices was scarcely within his grasp without a seat in Parliament, and repeated serious efforts to achieve this end had all ended in disap- pointment, For years he had nursed. Cardiff—an expensive constituency, 'too --only to be ignominously re- jected when the fight .came. Matwas his second attempt, too. Hor- sham also gave him the "go-by." It was such hard luck for a really deserving and determined young barrister that Lord Beaconsfield ac- tually gave him the solicitor -gener- alship without his ever having sat in the Commons! When Sir Har- dinge Gifford, Q.C., eventually walked up the floor of the Commons he was over fifty years of age. How little, all those weary years, did he think that he was to enjoy the Wool- sack for eighteen eventful years! But it is always the unexpected that happens. 14 Near Share. Lord Halsbury was provided with a seat. in Parliament for Launces- ton, and in his gratitude he has never forgotten the `good .Cornish folk who dict hiss this great turn. He soon fixed. himself up in Corn- wall, at Pendruccombe, and there he has remained to this day, as governor of Launceston Castle. We should love to recount some of the remarkable experiences of Lord Halsbury during those eighteen long years. Space forbids, however. One event we cannot help recalling. Mr. Bernard Shaw is our excuse. Lord Halsbury is a real pillar of. the church, but his vocabulary is ex- pressive—and picturesque ! Even as lord high chancellor of England he has been known to "let it go." There was an occasion when he nearly perpetrated an abrupt ex- pletive from the Woolsack. Lord Rosebery had made a speech on,the King's declaration. Lord Halsbury was extremely irritated by the Primrose's unorthodox views on this ecclesiastical matter. Jumping off the Woolsack he said, "As for the noble lord's criticism I don't care a—well I don't care anything at all for it." Heaven knows what would have happened if the lord chancellor had not corrected him- self in time ! PULP MANUFACTURING. Statistics of the InS dustr • in Canada for 1913. During the calendar year 1913 Canadian pulp -mills consumed 1,109,034 cords of pulpwood valued at $7,143,368; during the same year there was exported to the United States an almost equal quantity of ivnanufacturecl pulpwood which was valued at $7,070,571. This quan- ity of unmanufactured sweat was, ufiicient to have supplied 60 mills of the average size operating in Canada in 1913. It would have made .035,030 tuns of grounclwond pulp, or 517,515 tons of chemical fibre. (Ground -wood pulp is worth at least 14.00 a tun. which. would give 14,490,420 for the value of the pulp hat could have been made from his wood by this process. Chemi- al fibre is worth at least $38.00 a ton, which would have brought the alue up to $9,665,570. In reality illy $7,070,570 was realized by the ale of this material. The pulp in- ttS ! lost the!roiitthat couldi lc ave been made in manufacturing his wood into pulp, and the country s a whole lost the value repre•sent- d by the cost of manufacture in he form of wages, etc. Laws forbidding the export of raw pulpwood cut from Crown lands in the different provinces have tend- ed to reduce the proportion of un - manufactured pulpwood exported, although up to 1913 over half of the pulpwood in Canada was exported in this form. The manufacture of pulp in Can- ada in 1013 showed an increase of over twenty eight per cent over that of 1912, increases staking place in every province but Nova Scotia. Over seventy per cent of the pulp produced in ground -wood, or me- chanical, pulp, but the proportion rrf •chemical fibre is increasing each. year. The increased manufacture of avy Kraft wrapping papers has used a demand for pulp made by e sulphate process 1p and the man•• acture of this particular kind of critical fibre- has increasedcon- derably in the last two years. The crease in tie home manufacture all classes of papers is shown the . decreases in the exports of 1p and the increases in the ixn- rt;s of chemical fibre from. other untries. From that stirring speech at Mar- ket Drayton Stanley Giffard return ed to London "a made man •" When the notorious forger and liar Arthur Orton, was on his trial for impersonating. Sir Roger Tichborne Mr. Giffard, Q.C., • Who defended him, nearly melted his judges with his scalding tears! "The Weeping Barrister, they called young Gift - nal, but it was no good ! Streams if tears would not secure the rank- es;t and wickedest imposter that Iver lived from conviction, although lie whole country was perturbed. us it never is nowadays, about the 'ros and eons of Orton'ss case. Well to the twentieth century the, gen- ration which still believed the one - !me Wapping butcher to he the Iest aronet survived to argue and rangle over the details of this he ca th mazing Story. 01 all the great uf• wyers who figured in those his- ch ric Tichborne trials. Lord I•Iais- sid is the only one left. Some of in rix lived to be ninety,•too. Lord of amp ten , the redo.ub.table Sir by riry Hawkins, who led fur the pu wn, was one of the nonagenar- pa survivors of the Tiichbonrc eo Is, But he has been dead ;urine rs. What a wonderful book of iniscences Lord Halsbury could ite ! • 'i'lic Unexpected Iltiptic'iisa. ram the time: of the Tichhorne +l< That's Settled. Bobbie (who has been sent over for the fifth time to find out how Mrs, Brown is) ---"All right, ma; she's dead." K El l's $4.1bLl) T1 British Soldiers Guard IDietator, The former Mexican Dictator is shown ori- the r ?i right, and Generral. Blanquet who accompanied him to Puerto, Mexico. Sir Lionel Carden:; Bli '.sh Ambassador, sent, 3,500 British Huerta, on the journey. 1amaica is the'destirnx`a,tio'n. Ilto;'guard neck and dishevelled hair, beating "who" he loved oe. + y READ I THE LONDON T the breast did the e at a distance: ble TIMED Ketinble rouse, the another fifty years the young noble - pit. , But" one doubts man's emotional .gram Har set th whether his poor mother "fetched," tone of the .00luxnn. "Amiable fe William by it. The boy had been males" abounded in it. reading nautical . romances Capt. In 1801 'a gentlernan tells one o Marryat was but a few yearie dead, diem that he r`will shortly be oblig father, who was. no doubt ed to leave town in a few months,' a Samuel Butlerian father' of the and we" are' not surprised when he instructive type made classical by adds that heis going to Ireland. In Janes Mill; had veined the boy no better style, but' with feeling that if, he ever so much as mention -as satisfactory, was "0; S." : (in ed the •sea: to him again he should 1852)'created to. `leave off this .cruel receive the wro1g2n3e nd of the knot- silence" and (in •1801): , ted rope on tt oneBMus moot. ."7•':P. P:isiznplar•ed, for'merhy s dreamoverWil. sake; to varus again, 11 .not:ycY u•. This is More wretched father will b± a xnan ac l e )lodern. and your poor . �.rnhappy mother Other advertisements invited the will die broken-heaai•ted. immediate return ;of other sons in + .a more modern and :Shavian man 'O PI�f� DOWRIES FOR GIRLS ser, As this dated t Islington C" "Zf youth that left Islingtoir on. Sunday evening-aim'zenaember that ]Frtids Set A:side: to England, Seot-. he ever had a..m.other'he is inform larrt><, alatl .a'ralaaaay. ed he will soon be deprived of .that At different tixnes'thoai htful reo blessing, except he immediately pie have stipulated iln their wills writes with p before l'her or person-- that a certain sum of money. shall any appears before 'her.,, fiat youth probably referred to ' be set aside to p Ovide dowries for T 444?„,. r ,a, .. ,3 p a girls. The bent-knowri :orae t e: boli ` ` j~$t w #i t v`"€CII.Ie y out l t3:le 'i ufE?---j''a.ra tyg ~ tiu`,, u sseessi est ing that it was the same youth lished b a mar uess of. eBute `who who was appealed to a, few years q ' Iater by tiros; left` X5,00(? for the'• purpose. The' Philip, •=- Would' ,Philo) like'to annual interest upon this m°aney, hear of his nttotlter's death $ about $1.50, is presented each year 7'erhapa! Birt .ve are sial°e.lie dick to a claimant far it, the. fortunate not hear of it jixst filen, Hi;s mother girl being chosen'by the Mayor of was waiting for him behind the Cardiff. When handing the money door, and perhaps his uncle too, for over: to the lucky young -lady and evidently the poor boy's father was her'sweetheart, it is oustontary. for no more. We trust Philip never. the I ayor.to read the young couple went home. We always feel ,gym a portion of the second chapter of Paths' for the missing. St. John, which refers to the mar- riage in Cana.'of Galilee, Dowries for girls are also Eire- BROKEN HEART „BITS IN THE "AGONY COLUMN." Rut the "'Times" Most Famous De- . pat -fluent, ranee Roinantie, Ilas Changed. If some painstaking person would build a novel by piecng together extracts from the "agony column" of the London 'Mimes, 'he would. evolve .a work which would be a wonderous revelation of character and well worth reading. A history of this column, unique among "personal" departments of newspapers, would donstain a'. series of enigmatic romances, thrilling tci the curiou:e person with detective tastes. No better training for the ambitious inquiry agent couldbe devised. For more than acentury men—and women too, for they have been quite_es regular contributors —have. been "agonizing" 'the Times, pursuing what er whom they. have Jost and exploiting the virtues of these things aminate or inani- mate, which they hoped to gain. Some of the specimens were col lected years ago, in a small.- book which covered the whole period be- tween. 1800. and 1870. This work was a piecing- together of broken bits of hearts whose fractures had been on public display. Half hid- den lovers, separated parents, pro- digal sons and neglected mothers and the other eternal figures of romance exhaled their flowery cora- plaints in view of the reading world: In those days the agonists went ort week after week, sametimes ' year after year in an uninterrupted cor- respondence. Different in 1914. . owadays perhaps, they do net linger so long in their pain. :j: comparison of the old agonies with 5J'FY THE SrilAl tl S li L N S. iChe l'.aticuc rfails,Is'1'ortbr..Or `tiote. Sli0u'n b 13aisl 0111 It ifi a'' fact that; women, consistent and clear'a;.boi the thousand' details of a Icouseli)ld, often become con -- fused over bank • deposits and • cheque book's. • A wanian may ban - die the household accounts, run bills and pay bills ori :a cash' basis, with -the abilit• of an expert.ac- countant, yet- 'give her a deposit book, cheque'. book and slips and the tangle in which she envelopes herself, ' her business affairs, the erediitor and the` helpless bank is in- teresting as well as' surprising.., The, patience and consideration to- ward women depositors shown shy bank officials are worthy of ,note, Except in extreme and aggravated cases it :is seldom that a bink re: fuses to;honor a, wonra•n's cheque for a moderate'sum, Bank officers know that it is confusion of mired and methods, not deliberate, dis,hon- est.,, which sometimes maker- a• n o- niaxz draw a cheque for- Ss when she has but 50 bents to her credit. Some women: consider their accounts in e . working _carder as.long- as a blank cheque•remains in the cheque book. Some of the stories, told by. bank f tellers of their experieitoes with wo- g xnen are amusing, On' one occa- sion- .a, young woman received a cheque as a holiday present from her lather with the suggestionthat: she start an aceount at some hank - Selecting a bank, she told the eash- ier •, of her;iritention. and the cashier after filling out.the deposit, book, in- structed' the young woman about depositing, indorsing and making out• cheques. Then he told her she mustdndorse the cheque given her by her father. • The girl went to a desk to make the indorsement. When she' returned the cheque to theca sh erithis is what he read':. zabetb' frorn Father. Merry Chriistinas." Started tr Rua, In Washingtort about six .,esus ago a perfectly solvent bank andel.- went what proved to be a serious run through a woman's .ignorance. of banking methods androeedmze, She had received a cheque for •$15 ane ` •sin hip- hy' pre esa + -iv at 'tile bank. Payment was refused, the cheque being returned to her pin- ned'to a- small slip which read, ''Not sufficient funds. Without stoppingfor any sore of inquiry she left the bank and hur- ried to the Government office in which she was :employed. . In this department worked numbers' of no• men who had their •sayings accounts in the bank. Calling some of these depositors together she .said excit- edly "The blank lianls is about to g' finder, It was not able to pay even a paltry fifteen -dollar cheque 1 pre- sented there this marring. : Don't take my word for it; here it is in black and white, "Not' iiuffiezent funds" .. The women read, gapingly, and. then ran to, 'tell ethers, not what they had Beard, but whatthey had. seen with ..their owe. eyes. The'. news hely like wildfire, and when the doors of the bank opened'' for busi- ness the° nest, queening police re- serves•• were handlingthe mob of /nee and women who, scrambling, positing, had gathei'red t,) draw ,their funds from. the. brink, Street: C". m -foul <drrear traffic was- teeelecidirec- tions. tions. It was some ' Gime before th, run was -stopped. Macy in Cipher: Stich material, paternal or filial sentecl at tGuilford, rii co practce r'f agonies, however., have always b; lzal throwing dice for tvliat is callecl�the been "maid's money" taking place anxiti- IIlees, common in the''.c<iliimn .thane ltl oise si>izply s�ent•iniental. Many of ally, The money is derived froth these `iltiring ea half -century or mre capital set. °,part in the will of a we isi in ciphers N°e1 on sin le certain john How, the requested persons_ advertise in cipher Were- should be paid to poor as 'a pursuing parent tui. ht not di servant girls who that; dowries should worked faith - cover •:an advertisementrgii full En - :fully in the borc,ugh for some years. dish,• his attention, and indeed the John' How was presumably` an op - the aciver i , l attention of everybody -`Il ,inevit pi nett of public houses, for he stip- t serpents of the present ably .be invited and c l by a. Mated that no maid:working rkin in shows toot o g that the er son i ' al rte ••"t i Sof r..a p nl . • the fant<itts column, t J le of capital ••leti,ers, asterisks "sensed premises should be eligible end more and and queries or by such •somehow more to be of a pecuniary rather Irish -looking dialects as, this, tis, from than of a passionate, order. if one one of the- efpheied-'agori�ies c,f J. were asked to compose atypical de:• -W. in 1852: - agony cif this year he. `, rc y Haight give in u�. I�rri i'I+' n i. n 1:1 � - m illustration this : Oinrg p 1? th hgi ql� ohif F. ng a Khq. 19th nligtn oinf'g, "Professional man, sick of living IgkitFifiy * , in town, would like large house in Qne.tnncb prefers to see the sen - country with large income to keep up same. 0 please help! Or again, this: "Young rnan wearyof work o zn an office, seek any sort of rernun erative adventure; would risk all, provided he got paid a Tot; good Alpinist; call drive motor' car*' or motor bicycle ; some experience of flying; who will help's" Grammar Does Not Count.. tut in an agony one does like to find a paroxyism. It doesn't mat- ter ter about the grammar, which was, the delver into the files .found, fr. e- quently very bad from. 1800 bo 1870. What one seeks is emotion, not faultless English. Thus, a fine par- oityism of 1851 read thus: "William„ thou wilt go to sea— thou shalt go; but oh return and first receive the blessings.of a heart- broken father, of a heartbroken mother ! 0 my son William, my son, my son William! Would •God Weak in One Regard. I had died for, thee, 0 William, niy son, my son !" The young nobleman, as you see, It reads like a minor dramatist bad the familiar aristocratic igeor- of the Mrs. 'steel -mita or Mrs: Cent- ante of the ways of >relative pro- livrc period, or later, .of Arthur-,eplims if not of ladies, and we find Murphy and ".A Cure for the Heart- ourselves hoping that his title lrov ache.' In this manner,` with ba•ed -cid nstllieient allurirement to the July to compete, The 'gift generally amounts to $64, per annum. • St. Oyrus, in Scotland, also di- tributes dowries, but they are ra- ther aalter peculiar ones. Sixty years age a native of the village died, and de- creed in his will that the interest on timental appeal in full or only hint- distrrib: a ceirtam suis of -money should be . inggobscitrely that it could sa' more uted• among the,' oldest; than it does. For .the courtly in youngest; tallest, and shortest Ivo-. tatiun of flus ty men to get married: in the pari"s'h: type you have td to during the'y,e-r bail! to 'the ";Weber period and to columns between , glaa'ice over the coli The: somewhat uneeviali le task of i- 1800 and 1830. At the very begin - snug, in 1800, you find this address to A CARD. the Lacly who a Gentleman handed ince. h r carriage from Cov entiGarden. Theatre en "4Jednesday,': the third, of this month, will -oblige' the Advertiser with„a line to ZZ: Spring Gardens Coffee Rouse, -say- ing if married or single, she will quiet the; mind of a young Noble - mare who has tried but in vain to find the Lady The,; Lady was inmourningand sufficiently clothed to distinguish her for pos- sessing every virtue and •charts that. man.eoutd desire in a female • that he. would make choice of for ,a 413fe deciding which women can.. claim the various dirtinetions is deft to the mi> ist{ei•. Nutivithstaittlia g thesrnallnese of .' the lowrrie t they amount to $30 each—there. is `keen' ztorepetiiion among ,a11 the brides of t 1 0 111 CadnStant, Fear, • This bard;.; On, of the sty L urtg;r ~,t an the city .has:` :never: suite recovered 'froia the fear ,of another, run: Re 'centlie it placed belure the District Commissioiani•L a. request for: .the re-, moral Of a polies) „pateolbox near to doors. The bank otllcials-ar.guesC' that 'whene er, the =be c' as 'pilled nd a p•risvne;r held to await the +irr.ival oaf a patrol wagona crowdwas sure to ooll�ect, and this crowd in•ight spread a rummer of a . run on he Bank, C?oammT.ssioner Siddo ne; arobebly remetgh•e.r•ing � the run of ix years aced, ordered. the removal f the box. Not long ago a, C4tdCi ail w,:Ute her first story and Send it to a Magazine.•Ca hen eigr�pi•iaei and delight it 'yas cc aepted.' Th .4 storywa.s duly p lisped ,aricd ii, che�kue, for pat forwarded. Ailrith thet;hec printed slip reading,. Cheques 'til, he Seto - laas been retza,r:a ,turninatl,' site fre'r sire was 441 the year,, no reluctance toclaim. 'the oldest' bride's share” being shown. , "Bride-naeasuiin ; day" is' looked upon as apublic holiday, in St. Cyrus. Another curioua semon;V-- takes place s place every year in •> the 'Cerxriazt: town cif Hachm,araii. The bender,: a Polish noblelhap; hoped to;render ,1 plain girl's chance''af getting Mar - tied eeslat] to her pretty sister, He left $2,600 to be t ,stt'ibuhed anriuni-: l,y among bride of the tewn, stipu-> latrng 't.! aa4 pian girls slaou1,d eo- ceitie a large portion,- while pretty l;irls 5hoald get; haadly anything., 'you,.iphizi is t}i'v best tir:'e ler a girl •to ctc cragta etd•d?r' should think just belo,r,e~`,iJi Maz r°fed." ' fe )r a 1i e� r ul ei oc 11 ei e it •c or, (pi T. e n rir g s r T1 p' ie on r H itl-, los ty irUt vil, len( less he d -res er 1e:ttE pre Writ • isan iiivo vas 'ed t( ;strut 'while hear that gle do wx gists are side may tutio An "I ny he or F. 4ny hara his 'rise 1e s An no( hirt ve tier odor late enc; at r i An enc en ci .as a' n ate a