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)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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laas been retza,r:a
,turninatl,'
site fre'r
sire was
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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
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