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Home My WebLink AboutThe Wingham Advance, 1908-06-11, Page 3--aernienaeenner",11111mlinlinenteellrellee VOWIC WINSTON CHURCHILL MUTER. ths A.clventurea in the Boer War and in India Preparing Him For Public Battles. 'Englishmen, 25 years old, about 5 t. inches high; indifferent build; walks a little with a bend forward; pale appear - anon red, brownish hair; small mus- tache bardly perceptible; talks through us licalei Minot plosiounee the letter properly and does not 'know any Dacha Thus ran the hue and. cry notiee 'widen the Boer authorities sent through the Transvaal a little more than eight yearage after an eecaped prieouer of war, says tt, wend inethe Boston Trans- cript. The fleseription was eorrect es far as it went, but in a complete inventory of the fugitive's qualities, it Would have been neeeseary to add that ite poaseased imperturbable self-pessession, dauntless coarage and Inexhaustible resouree- characteristic* which go far to compel -l- ento even for ignorance of the Dutit hieguage when a man is 'making a dash for liberty through an unknown coun- try. Hence it came to pass that while etts.pected. louse a at Preterite were still being eettrelted enl the pollee all over the Transvaal were alert to snake such a desirable capture there walked into the office of the Britten Consul at Del - ogee Bay a figure 5 feet 8 inehee tali; uo longer, however, of pale appearance, hut grnuy with the coal dust of a freiglit trine in which he had bidden for two and a half days. To -day the quon- slain eseaped prisoner is President of the Board of Trade -that is, Minister of Commerce -hi the British Cabinet and one of the most, conspiceaue lead- ers in British public He. That was by no meals the first time that Mr. Winston Churchill had got into a tight place and out of it. As a lea he had passed from Mon into Sandhurst and thence into thearmy, Where he was A lieutenant in the Fourth Hussars, Be- fore he itad come of age lie had seen fighting with the Spanish forces in Cubaand had been awarded n first class of the Spanish Order of Military Merit. He next took part in British campaigns .an the Indian frontiers, receiving a med- al and clasps, and afterward writing an account of his experiences in the "Story of the Malakand Field Fame." Daring Kitchener's campaign in the Sudan young Churchill received permission to combine service with the Twenty-first Latieera with the post of war correspon- dent for a London paper, At the battle of Omdurman he rode unscathed. through the famous cluirge of his regi- ment, In the account he wrote after- ward of that enploit lie gave a remark- able reeord ofhis personal impressions. In his account of thie expedition, un- der the title of "The River War," M. Churchill showed his independence by shatmly criticising some of Lott Knells oiler's actions, noticeably his destruction of the malnli's tomb. After such a be- ginning it was scarcely likely that he would be willing to stay at hozne when the Transvaal war broke out. He went to the front at the earliest opportunity as correspondent for his paper, the Morning. Post. He was unlucky enough to be in an armored train width was ant: - balled. Hence his confinement in the Pretoria jail. A Boer paper, the Volks- stem, noticed after his escape that he Ilea been reading Alill's "Essay on Lib- erty," and seriously deprecated the lax- ity of the authorities in Allowing pri- soners access to such inflammatory li- terature! The s escape, whether due to Milne inspiration arena, was carried but in an ingenious yet simple fasaion that reminds one of some of Stepniak's stela les of Nihilist adventure. A career eueh as that now described is anything but a normal preparation for a seat in the House of Commons. A record of this kind, however, is not at all against a man's chanees when he ap- peals to a popular constituency. At the general election of 1900 Mr. Churchil was returned as Conservative member for Oldham; a- busy Lancashire manufac- turing borough. At a by-election two years before he had made an unsuccess- ful attempt to win -the suffrages of the same constituency. At the close of that previous election he shook hands with his successful opponent, a young Liberal named Runciman, and said to him: "Good -by; I don't think the world has heard the last of either of us." The pre- diction is appropriately remembered to- day, when the same reconstruction of the Ministry which has brought Church- ill into the Cabinet has brought Bad- man in also as Minister of Education. The new member for Oldham carried into politics the qualities lie had display. ed on other fields. The self-possession, the courage, the resource that had stood him in such good stead on the South African veldt and in the hill campaigns of India made him °pa of the most pro - matting assets of his party in Palle- mentary conflict. But it became evident before long that his capacity for inde eirideM - nt judgment. was likely to ake im at times an embarrassment to his political associates. Sotnething like con- sternation was roused on his own side of the House by his frank declaration that if he were a Boer he hoped he would be fighting with the Boers in the field. When Mr. Brodrick brouglit ht his unfortunate scheme of so-called army reform the critieisme it received from the member for Oldham were as damaging as any that came from the Opposition benches. It was Mr. Cham- berlain's fiscal proposals that strained his party allegianee to the utmost and finally broke it down. At this time, too, he was engaged on the moat important literary work be had so far undertaken, the biography of his father, Lord Ran- dolph Churchill. It is 'hardly possible to read this book without feeling that the close and de- tailed study of his father's career must have done much to prepare him for his conversion to Liberalism. However, he may have supposed at first that the Coeservative party might be made an cf. feetive instrument of democratic and eocialprogress'he could scarcely beve pondered the significance of Lord Ran- dolph's struggles with Tory tradition without beemeting convinced of the utter impracticability of emit hope. .The Very warning of the Tory press that hi criticising his leaders he was hi (tenger of "repeating again the mod disastrous mistake of las father's weer" must have helped to convince him that he would have to seek differeet Every fresh heresy made it dearer to hint that he was really .ont of mympatIty with those among whom lie sat. :Per- haps the most strikiiig. instance was one, oceesion, before he had left the lanionist party, when us he rose to speak twu. hundred and fifty Conservative members ostentatiously left their place; end evalkea out of the House, It was in 1904 that the break wee definitely mane. At the general election of MO Ain Wineron Churchill Inni been in Puna- ment only a month or two over -five years, But within that period his per- sonality had made a distiuet impression. upon the wholeweary. in outward iippearence he had changed little slave, on his entry to ParliaMent Air.. Shan Dulloek Imes described lain as looking like a boy grown up. Ilis insignificant height was amusing- ly illustrated a few dune ago at one of his. Mandeester meetings, where he gave his speech standing on the chairman's table, that every one miglit see liizn, Mr. Chars:Wile" prance as a writer has cow tributed largely tothe finish of ltis pub - utterances. On speeial occasions he has not trusted to his native quickness, but has prepared carefully, sometimes writing out beforehand as many as six times 'vitae he intended to say. A, Par- liamentary journalist has aeseriben him as perhaps utiequalled at debate when at his. best. It was net surprising, then, that hi attack upon a Coneervetive seat. in Northwest Mandteeter wee one of the most piquant ineidente in tae 1000 gest- eral election. Adroit as Mr. Churchill is in escaping from enemy's etrougholds, 1u1 is much mere at home. in attacking them, It was therefoin .eharacteristio of him that at that eleetion, instead of aeekina to represent keine constituency wider; might be counted on to return. a Lib- eral, he ad himself to capture a Parlia- mentary division in whieh the Conserva- tive supremacy had awn so strong that at the 1900 election it was not eveli chal- lenged. The ,seat was won by a pair- - ality of 1,241 vi tee out 01 a total poll of 10,037. Mr. Churchill returned to the Howe. of Commous as Under Secretary for the Colonies. A, subordinate pest Of this nature gives little opportunity for initiative, but he has at any rate shown in it competent powers of administra- tion, which give good promise of success in the high office to which he has been appointed, ihning these two ,sessions, as tbe Col- onial aecretery himself has been e peer, Mr. Churchill has had the duty of repre- senting the Colonial Off* in the Com- mons, and his services to the Govern. meat as the exponent and defender of it e colonial aohce- in that Rouse have. been of great value. the record in this capaeity has be eu one, es it competent jituge nas expreesed le, "of aelf eestramt IA expression, Sad at the saute time of a eteaday expanding statesumnsidp, grow- ing power ane more confident -grasp in odate, a widening outioon on. affairs, aid above all, a min advance in the re- gard of thenelause of aomaions," now- adays not even the most irreconcilable oi nis oppnoents would deliberately lose the chance of he Churchill when he eises ill tale 0001:$0 01 A debate. Aleanwhile ins care,er has been man: pentionally served by the pereistent at- tacks nude upon hun by the Conserva- tive press. zi.s tit the case of Air. Lloyd- Ueorge the Cpposation Journalists have contrib'uted not a little to his reputa- tion by their insistence that he shah con- stantly be prominent in the public eye. The camp ea -Bannerman Go eernmen e has perhaps ;suffered somewhat from the very diligence with Which its membeo have a,auressed themselves to their' de- partmental "hide% So anent time has been neeessarily absorbe,d In carrying out executive refcania and. piloting import- ant measures through the House that the tactical neenasity of keeping the en- thusiasm of the party alive throughout the country has received •comparatively slight attention. Air. churcuill, how- ever, has contrived to get through an amazing amount of plattortn work, while ne one could charge him with negiecting any official task. Everybody has bit that Mr. Churchill could not stay very long as an under secretary, and. that his appointment to &and Cabinet office was inevitable as soon as the first opening preeented The Convervatives have been eagerly awaiting the moment of his promotion, in the hope of tieing it as an occasion for a damaging blow at tue novermuent. By tut antiquated law, dating from the time when politicians were sometimes bribed to change their sides by the offer of a Ministerial pest, a member of Pa - 'lament who enters the nabinet. has to vacate his seat and pass through the or- deal of a re-election. ID is on this re- quirement that the Conservatives have counted. The story of his defeat at Miumheater and. of the hating way in which sub- sequeutly Premier Asquith eame in the House of Commons to endorse his stand on Home Rule Lire too recent 'history. eince then he hae woa a seat in Dundee, Scotland. e•-•* -- MANY SYST.gms ARE IN USX Railways in Thigland Are Operated thidee a Variety of Conditions. It is ad easy for an American rail road mak to conceive of the conditions existing in the Beitish islands. 1honeg.- lish railway systems, tout only 22,0m! Tulles. Yet this comparatively small mile- age is the property of 230 companies, more than halt of whichabave their sep- arate administration and executive. Inc others are "leased and worked Imes." Allotting an average of eight, directors apiece. to each of the 125 independent (mummies, the English railways support 1,000 directors, %Neese fees can hardly be less than $1,250 a year each. %he railroads of Italia cover about 20,- 000 miles, Yet Thomas Robertson, the -expert, who recently reported to the British Government on Indian railway administration, says that the task of supervising the lines of that vitae coun- try might safely be entrusted to a board of three qualilied men, assisted by a secretary, a chief etrepector and a num- ber of inspectorsbind auditors. Three experts With a small staff are considered. by Mr, Robinson eapable of perform- ing dutiee of about the same character as those for which in England are mil - employed 1,000 amateur directors, with their secretaries and assistant Serretai- les, accountants, auditurs,„elerks, mes- sengers, ete. If °illy the stun of $1,250,000 paid away anually in fess to railway <Brea - tors were available for a centralized rail- way beard, it would be poasibie to at- tract the ablest men by offeringthee largest known salaries and yet make Iteltt4sAving by "standardization" is also to be eoznitlered. The Inarrinute roads, 17,000 mile, ere ti unify their Machinery so that all "parts or tolling Ibete gone men farther than in Britain. etoele .shall. lie letereltangeable, . lhe consolidation of American wade The Vanderbilt and Pennsylvania eye - teem contain about 20.000 tuilee t4telt, either one of them nearly equaling the ee.000 miles of all it:nebula. And though. the individual retitle in these Systeme here in some eases their separate beer& they 11811411y eonsist of practically tlas sante mot Natty importent lines are also "leased end worked." Against the e30 systems of 2.000 milesseless . than 100, miles to a line- in Eugland . the Vanderbilt and Pennsylvania sySteme he elude together less than twenty cona ponent lines, or an average of snore than :400 utiles a line. The longest :I:: line in the United Stetes. the ;Southern Paeifie, bee over Doc inilee of , . . . ...... .. .. • , Alai BEARS IrIXE PEANUTS, Favor of the Animals May Be Secured , by Feeding Theni With Goober, All bears appear to like peanuts whe- ther the beasts Nine trqm eouthern re - gams, where the peanut grows, or from Libe moitataifie of the frozen north, where the peanut is quite unknown, lf the taste for peanuts is not implanted in them aaturally they acquire it very readily, as is shown, for esetanpIe, by the grizzly and the polar nears m the me- nagerie in Central Park, The big grizzlycoma' to the front of i its great cage n the bear den and thrusts its nose between the Imes an opeus its cavernous mouth, thus afford- ing to visitors en opportunity of indulg- ing in the sport of throwing pettauts down its throat. This is a pleasure that appeals chiefly to ebildren. But those who try it don't alwaye suceeed in tossing the palmist into the bear's mouth- There Is a railing in front of the cage that keeps the people. at a little distance, and the thildreirs fear is likely to make them nervous,. ond so their aim is uncertain. Therefore the peanut nifty hit the grizzly's nose in- stead of going straight into its mouth, of it may hit one of the bars of the mge and fall outside on the stonh in which the bArs are iMbedded. But when the children throw more Peanutsand when they have thrown all they have and have seen the grizzly eat all it caught they have another sight waiting for them that pleases them more, if possible, than it did to see the bear catch, the peanuts in its mouth. Whim no more are coming to it the grizzly lifts one of its big paws and thrusts it out between the bars as fax as it esin recteh on the stone ledge and sweeps up alai gathers in the peanuts that have fallen there and eats them. To see the boat eat the peanuts it catches is amusing as well as interest- ing; to see it stretch out through the bars that ponderous anw powerful paw is almost startling. The polar bear comes up and thrusts its nose through the bars for pettauts in just the same way, and it gleams those Shat hill outside in the same. manner, with this addition, that besides thrust- ing out its big white clad paw between the bars to rake in stray peanuts that have Idlest outside it sometimes; for this purpoae thrusts out its tongue. The grizzly bear eats the kernels of the peanuts only and rejects the Owns; She polar eats them shells and all. But the grizzly has been here the longer time -perhaps the polar will come to be equally fastidious. All bears, grizzlies and polars, as well as those from milder dimes, appear to_be fond of peanuts. - New York San. et.* 'PEARLS OF WISDOM. Art has its home in the church, and so also has the drama. -21r, Geo. Har- wood, M. P. Until a man is forty he does not be- gin to understand children. -Rev. R. W. Jackson, at Letchworth. Men who go to edleges and come to the front would tome to the front with- out going there. --Mr. W. Pye, at Lin- coln. The professional elocutionist is always too busy showing the machinery -beat- ing her breast and pulling her hair. - Miss Marie Shedlock, at Wakefield. It is a mockery to erect monuments to the 'memory of those who fought in war, and then leave men to pass their time in workhouses. --The American. Con- sul at Liverpool. 4, I would rather wish to accomplish, a. lade to -day than strive for a mat deal and accomplish nothing fens, generale% ---)Ma. G. R. Thorne, M. P., at Wpiver- hampton. Singers become stoat, writers become moody and reserved, statesmen, become prematurely grey, but artists are always youthful. -Mie W. Pett Ridge in the • Queen. It is nee armor belt on water lines that wins battles; it is the men who sboot straightest and are hardest and can stand puuislonett the longest. - Rear Admiral Evans (U. S.) at San Fran- cisco. I would rather see Westminster 4b - bey and the British :Museum burnt to the grounct than know that one English girl Was dying of phossy jaw. ---Mr. Rob- ert Blatchford in the Clarion. This is an age of -progress, and I can- not help thinking that the chterehes as they grow older will discover smile bet- ter way of raising money thitn by ba- zaars. ---Mr, II, C. Peery at Redfield, It is a very ezmellent thing that wo- men should be in trade, but they must be bound by the same rules and manners and enstoms as male traders. -Judge Peery at Manchester. The month of art has- arrivc)d, smarm certain air of anxiety can be detected in the features of secomnelass passengers, indicating that,they are once more main Mg an endeavor to reeolleet that R. A. has another meaning besides that of Itoyal Pett Ridge it the Queen. Every ehurch has three dominant per- sonalities; the vicar, who knows every- thing about theology, and nothieg abottt music; the organist, who knows 'every- thing about music, mid nothieg about, theology; and the curate, who generally knows nothing about either. -Mr. J. IL Dear, P. R. a 0, at Eastbourte. The Valentine Regained. 'Way tip in the tato room, whore Ine and and eziny Way, There's lots and tots of novOy things that mother put away; And it we were gOOd VA good este be, Why, We can have most all we see, to -day we Mend 5 curieue box, the lock of it was gone, And Shea() WaS a Vtatitre Card 'with funny evritina 011- "1> fairest Jane, iny heert Untie; Meta from ale this valentine, went straight down where raother 'wag, to let ter letve a look Dean% 3 misted it two, in my new pasting hook: But whoa mother saw it, she Just intik it right tram met $i.tto looked se 10n5Y1-alid her face aot ouch a lovely redi "Why, it's en) valentine visitant found!" wee watt irty mother said. And then she hid meay her nYes, Just like our 131113' when he erne1 toy it minute, though, and then ette retinae tie Noma at "Oel what A plumed facet" the eahl, und took me on her hare: "Why, neeteesee 11/010 was Jena yen anew, Onl long end long mei tong lupe." nainizel i. matezia. in the nelineeten 411EAD CtiE WEAKNESS HEART' TROUBLE'' • 0 Suffered With for Years—Fe-ru-na Cured Me Entirely." 011041X141 Vot 60 Rue AguesitEit; Henri, IVIontreals Cane 'writes; "I censider romaa better then tiny other reinedys as it mired nee when nothing oleo could. 1 suffered for years and years with heart trouble, headache and weakelecs. Lnever onpooteci to.fina anything to eare sne„- a saw ono day, 231 nlat Peeese," that Tortilla was exeellent and 1 tried it, One bottle produced a change in me and if tho priee had been S100 a bottle would liave paid it gladly, 1 havo teken six bottlea Paul am entirely cured, Please a,ecept my tba4ke and best wishes foryour roma," ft Please Accept Thanks ans.1 Best Wishes For Your PEPARU=NA." Maine, cases of heart tremble are caused by reflex disturbanees. Derangements of the stomach and liver produce symptoms of heart trouble. Catarrh of the stomach is a very fre- quent cause of synepathetie heart dis- ease. Palpitation, shortness of breath and bloating after meals aro the most proms anent symptoms, !"131NA stich it condition of the stomach is also liable to produce headaches of the worst sort. Medicines that palliate the symptorris will never lead. to a cure. It Is the effect which iperuna has upon the stomach, healing the mucous mem- branes and restoring the natural func- tion of the stomach, that causes Penney, to bring such prompt relief. ANIMALS ALL AMBIDEXTROUS. Why Man Give i Preference to Right Hand. Over the Left. essa Right handedness and right eyedness &me with genus homo. Dr. George M. Gould has watched for them in Aquinas that use their front paws to hold nuts, cats that strike at Mutts in the air or pay with wounded mice, and in many, other animals, but he is coital/1 no pre- ference is given to the right side over the left. But in the lowest human savages all over the world thence in greater expert- aess of one head is clearly present, One cause for its development is in primitive military customs. In all tribes and Countries since man used- implements of offenea teed defence the left side, where the heart lies, has been protected by the shield, and the left heed was called the Weld hand, while the right hand was called the spear hand. Next to fighting mine commerce. The fandamental condieion of bartering was eounting With the low numbers, one to ten. The fingers of the free or reght hand were naturally first used, and. all fingers Io -day are called digits, es are the fingers themselves, while the basis of our numberings is the decimal or ten fingered system. Every drill and action of the soldier from. ancient Greece to modern Ameriest is right sided in every detail , Firing from the right ;shoulder and sighting with the eight eye brings the right eye into peonneence. It is significant that with the dedino of militaisin conies the suggestion of schools for ambidexterity and the (-ebb- lis.hment of a. inovernent .for promulgat. ing the gospel of two handedness mesa its obvious advantagee.-Chicago TrP bune. 10 1. - Fighting the Ruinous Iron Rust. A bitter and disgusted wail has gone up from the farmers of the United States in regard to the miserable qual- ity of the wire Mime they are obliged to use. So writes Rene Bache in the Technical World Magazine for Sune. They can hardly get along without its but is most unsatisfactoryby retie son of the eapidity with which it is destroyed by rust. Of course, this means to them much trouble and ex- pense, and they have been making a good deal of a, row about the matter even appealing to the Government for help. In response to this agitation, the Secretary of AgrieuIture, Mr. Santee Wilson, some time ago, ordered a special investigation to be made, the task being handed over to Dr. Allerton S. Cushman. Since then the inquiry has been eernestly Plashed, and Many, things have been learned which hao not previously bon suspected-as- peciallyin relation to the trim cause of the rusting of iron and etpel, Which is very different from what has al- ways been poptilaely suPposed. The writer goes on to describe the meth- ods adopted for improving the qual- ity of Wire, for guarding it against rust, LaANZI) THAT WAY, "3t55 natter e leaning toteeree the stage?" "When 1 last saw him, about, 1 a m., ho Was Wining aga,test «lanyo-vest." • NOTED RUNS ON BANK 05 ENG- LAND. — The Bank of England has passed through many perils during its history of 212 years, it has been attacked by rioters; it has been besiegen by mobs; its notes have been sold at a heavy dis- count; it has been threatened with con- fiscation by the authorities; Parliament has several times attempted to revoke its .charter; its credit has been under- mined by treachery and assailed, by its enemies Mal it bits suffered from several "runs." But, during all these tribula- tions, it has suspended payment only once, and that was in 1906. It was reor- ganized inunedia,tely after, however, and the capital was increased froM £1,200,- 000 to n2,200,000. The first run on the Bank of England occurred in 1707, about twelve years after its foundation, because of the threatened invasion of Lender' by the forces of a pretender to the throne. The depositors, becoming panic-stricken, demanded their money be- fore fleeing to the interior, but the bank had sufficient funds' to endure the run until the excitement had subsided'. le next et*oenurrea in 1745 and was cause1 by a similar scare, when Charles Edward, called "the Young Pre- tender," sailed for Scotland to head an insurrection for the recovery of the British Crown. The Highlanders flocked to his standard and marched upon Lon- don. The inhabitants of that city fled, but he was routed at Culloden and the insurrection collapsed. During this run the numagers of the bank resorted to a trick that proved successful. They dis- tributed agents of their own among the crowd with cheques of depositors and when they reached the cashier's window they demanded their money in small sil- ver -half crowns, shillings and sixpences. The delay in satisfying these fictitious demands was so great that the excite- ment was over before the bottom of the money chest was reached. Another memorable run occurred in February, 1797, during a threatened in- vasion of London by the French. On this occasion the Privy Council of the kingdom issued an order prohibiting the bank from paying any person more than £20 et one time. During the panic of 1825 the bank began printing LI notes as fast as its presses could turn them out, and fed them to the excited deposi- tors in small installments in order to avoid paying out its gold. The run wale checked in that way. In May, 1832, a panie was stated and a run upon the Bank of England was caused by four Tory members of Parliament, who print- ed thousands of posters which were past- ed 011 every wallan London, beariag the wnrds, "To sStop the Duke, go for Gold." This ambiguous warning meant that un- less the Bank of England was crippled or ruined the Duke of Wellington, who was very unpopular with the masses, would be called upon by the Xing to take charge of the Government and form a Liberal Ministry. It was d'politioaI trick and was suceessful, Duringthe riot e led by Lord George i Gordou n London in attn.e 1780, be - 001150 of the passage of the all of toler- ation for the relief of the Roman Catho- lics front the legal • restrictions under which they suffered, the Bank of Eng- ^ Try a4 Seasonable Diet and Give Your System a Chante. Shredded Wheat with strawberries will be found wholesome, appetizing and much more nutritious than meat; also with raspberries, peaches and other fresh fruits. tt Will Tone lip 'Stour Liver and Stomach., Sold by t.'11 grocers. 950 lend wee attaehed by a snob. it Ives &feuded for several tleye by the elc)rie' of the eeteleishment and volunteens who fiteltee •the ink *tends, the watt.; pipes and all the lead to be found in the building and emit their own bullete, Siam that date et military foree bus been statimied in the batik; every night. In 1830 daring the agitation for the re- peal of the ma law the beide was again besieged for several days by it mob which threatened to loot its vaults. Bub the massive doors resisted the aesaults upou them until the mob was dispersed by the military. During the ehartist d,emoustration in 1838 for a repeal of the cora law the bank wee Again be- sieged for several days by a mob whiele threatened to loot its vaelts. But the amseive doors reeisted the assaults upon them until the "mob wits dispersea by the military. During the thartist de- monstration in 1833 for a repeal of the property quelifieation for voting and, a demand by the workingmen for uni- versal suffrage, the batik was 'again be- . sieged and was ilefenned by ea military guard. For fifty years there have been no -disturbances. 4 t - INDIAN PRINCE V-ISITS LONDON, —0— The Maharajah of Nenal ,,Travel e in Regal State.. Nepal, Which covers an area of about 5.1,000 square miles, and hits a population of over 4,000,090, is somewhat bigger than England, and is a very interestin little country if only from the fact that it is fro311 there the Goorldias come, The de facto ntaltarajab, Sir Chandra Shfunslier aang, Rene Belinda, was born in 1863 and educated At Calcutta Uni- versity. He Is an honorary major -gen- eral in the British army, honorary colo- nel of the Fourth (noorklie Rifles, be- et:tine Prime 'Minister in 1885, eucceeded to the Supretne government of the.eoun- try in 1001, and was inade C r C. S. I. in 1005, He has translated several military books into Nepalese. London'May 30.-A picturesque In- dian vieitor is now in London, This is his highness Sir Chandra Sheansher Jang, Bona Bahadur, Prime 'Minister of Nepal. He travelled in regal splendor, with a suite numbering twenty-two, persona and with twenty servants. The maleirajah and hie suite broaght an extraordinary amount of baggage, consisting of hundreds of packages, in- cluding the case containing his highness' famous regalia of jewels. These jewels are said to be worth nearby $500,000, one headpieee alone being valued let $e50,000, It is a magnificent ornament. The front is composed ef glittering mass of diamonds,wbile border of pure emeralds hangs over the wearer's forehead. Extraordinary precautions were takeu to guard this valuable luggage on its way to London, and speeial detectives were on duty at Dover and Victoria: The question of catering for the maha- rajah and his. suite is one of no little dif- fieulty. Special sheep, bred in Nepal, were brougla to England, as this is the only kind of mutton the party is allowell to eat. Many other provisions were also being prought from India. The retinue includes a large staff of cooks, as all the food has to be specially prepared. The maharaja comes to England as the guest of the British Government, and Morthner 'House, near Belgrave Square,. lately the residence of Lord Penryn, lees been taken for his use. Although alio house has been gorgeously redecorated and fitted throughout, it forms a strik- ing contrast to his palace at Khat- mandu, a banding nearly as large ge the whole block of government buildings from the treasury down to the corner by the Houses of Parliament. The mabarajah, who is an exceedingly shrewd and alert man, is 43 years old. He is an energetie ruler, ana es fre- quently at work from 6.30 In the morn- ing until late at night supervising the various Matters connected with the ad- ministration of his country and his allay. He is a splendid shot, and a keen big -game hunter. His highness will probably remain in London for about eight weeks. He has already been received by the King, and almost royal honors are heiag paid him. *. Chemist Creates Plants. , Artificial planta, as well as arti- ficial seaweed developed from arti- ficial cells, have been developed by Prof. -Leduc of the .College of Medi- cine of Nantes, Prance. Theb asis on whibc these were pro- duced consisted of cane sugar, cops per sulphate, and potassitnn ferracy- anide. To create the artificial plants Prof. Leduc proceeded in this wise: An ar- tificial seed was made of two Tarts of cane sugar and one part of copper sulphate. This seed, about one-silez ieenth of an inch in diameter, was immersed in a solution of potassium ferrocyanide, sodium chloride, • and gelatin. In a few hairs the seed germinated. The germination can be regulated by the professor, however, according to the temperature be utiliges. He can prolong it over sevral days if he so wishes. Leluc's artificial paints would defy many botanists in distinguishing front certain water plante and other repre- sentatives of the vegetable kingdom, although they are not living, ut are artificial bodies formed in the chemi- cal laboratory. It is startling to observe how from an artificial seed a Small plant or shoot springs up and develops • with apparently the same foram of stems, leaves. bade and bloisoras as the ac- tual living plant, and all within a few hours' time. Marvelous as are the results' that he has attained, Dr. Leduc has little of the sympahty of other scieritific men in. his work, While the ttans- mutation of tnetals and the delatieiri of artificial life was a dream Of the alchemist of old, tht modern scientist has a strong feeling against convert- ing one element into another or of putting life into inert matter. An outward indication of this is the feet that Prof. Leduc's work has been at taelted by 'Prof, Gaston Bonnier of the Paris University end Academy of Mentes. Not a Chip of the Old Block, wrott meta a job, do you, young men?" said the manager of the depatt- meat dor% sohn.» yevilling to begin at the foot of the ladder?" "No, Sillier answered the applicant. "That'the way my father began, 05 years ago, Red he's dill cerrying a lied. tnhefettit.ion something a little higher up than So the untriager, who hadn't encoun- tered that type of boy before, put him in the peeking department, oil the top floe. BRIGHT prtogotoirs. OM Letly-DoeS this parrot nee bald3irldimISieutturIeerP-Nolln; but hate * Young bird and uv it, • INDIGESTION CAN lit CURED. Or, Wiliialue Pink Nis Succeed • Atter Other Rexiedles There are twenty .drugs to help your digestion for a time, but there ti• nitiy one medicine, that eau poeitively cure yea indisestion tor goon. To ail elle with Indigestion a hail dozen boxes ef Dr. Williams!" Pink Villa are worth all the purgatives teed inixtueeei the- ' ed the worst eases of indigestion by go- ing .ifelautititeljic.:1:1;,5ti:10:it'ti.teliart4t1'sn' Ptits01.41ilteilligii3vehel447- ,straight to the net of the trouble Yea can tam a purgative to tear through your bowelsend make a clean sweep' of your food, whether it is digested or not,'You,ran aake otomach lettere to creates a false appetite -if yott tiOlet OaVO -what heavens After you 'mellow your meet. You can drug your etemeeit with tablets tk.4a. syrups to gest ,yolir food foe you -if you dou't eare how semi yott ruin your system together, 'Vote ean do alt thou; thinge- but don't eall it "cueing your indiges- tion." a'here is opae one evayto cure indigestion, and t)z., is te give your eystein se mucli good, pure, reit, blood that your stornitee and liver Neill )Ave strength euoughto do their natural weak in a heelthy. and vigorous way. •That is why Die Williams' Pink Pills cure inuigestieu-they actually 'melee new blood, Here is the proof. Mr, 11. hie- Corketl, St, Thomas„ Oet., eitysi "About, A year ago ma system became generally wrecked, My stomach was anveys in a state of nausea, The eight. of any kind of food often turned les. stemath And I would ,arise from the table witheut eating Doctors; advised different medi- cines which I took without benefit. Fin- ally I became so run dotwn. that I had toabuild myself up With the aid of doe - tors, but as time went on and my COD:. aiti011 Wit stet improve I became much diecouraged, Then a fried told me he thought Dr. Williams,' Pink Pills would help zue, and I began their use. In three week e time I was so improved that I Went back. to my work, but I eoliths:sled using the pills until I lied taken twelve boxes, and, now my *tome& is strong, and 1 am ready for a good meial three times a day, and life now really seems worth living." . 111 18 because Dr. Williams' Pink inake new, •red blood. that they cure such common ailments as anaemia, with alls its headaches and backaches, ilieth motism, neuralgia, St. Vitus dance, par- tial paralysis and the secret ailments from which women and young girlssuf- fer so imich.• You can get the pills from any medicine dealer or by niail at 50 cents a box or six boxes for $2.50 from the Dr, Williams' Medicine Co., Brock- ville, Ont. • •48. SHOPPING IN HALIFAX . All the Stores There Give You 10 Per Cent. Off on -Everything You Buy. The shopper in New York takes it for granted that she will not buy at even figures; she pays 08 cents, or $L43 or $3.87, whatever it niay be, and. is content so long as she is certain she has made a bargain. So it is a shock to her when she goes to Prune place where a differ- ent system of pricing goods and of offer- ing bargains obtains. , eI got, my greatest shock in Halifax, N. 8.," said a, New York woman. "They're the queerest people up there. It's a queer old city anyway, It heolcs as if it were built in very ancient times; reminded me of an old English garrison town. At every step you took you met a soldier. "Beautiful old place, though, built on a• steep hillsidethat lovely harbor. But was telling about the shops. "Yousee, rd been told that it was a good place to buy things much cheaper than in New Yorkyso when my husband and I landed there for a three day& stay I made up my mind I'd. do some shop- ping. "Well, the shops were lovely -lots of room, attentive salespersons and all that. The first thing I got was marked $3,. and I thought it was a bargain and said I'd take it, I counted my change and. found I'd got $2.30 back for 'my $5 bill. you've made a mistake,' young woman who waited on giveneme thirty cent.; too /ta "'Gid uess "oulrusaetosnhde' vIe handed back the 30 cents. "Oh, no, that's all right,' she told me. 'Ten per cent. off, you know.' "I supposed it was some special dis- count on the einem of goods I'd bought and went on to another shop. "The same thing happened again. I began to wonder, then, thinking it odd that I'd struck two 10 per cent. dis- counts in one morning's shopping. "At the third sto-shop, I mean, I nearly forgot myself and said store - you mustn't do that in an English town -I picked out something I wanted fot $10: I hesitated it moment over the price and the young woman said: fo.,course, with the discount off it's only "'Mercy inel' 1 said. 'What do you mean by your discount? If you only want $9, why don't you mark it that?' "'You're a stranger here: she goad. 'Why., we always give 10 per cent. dis- count on everything.' "'4.11 the shops?' I asked. "'All of them,' she said. "But what good does that do?' I burst out. 'Why not mark all goods right in the first place?' "The ,people expect 10 per cent. off,' was her answer, and I couldn't get any more out of her. "Why the people like it I'm lure I doe% know, for it reduces shopping to a dead level. Takes all the tun and ex- Citetnent out of it. Why en earth don't they vady their eternal 10 per cent. off and make it ati or 9 1-10 once in a while and give the' shopper a run tor her money? "Still, if you could see the women dress in Ilttlifax, you'd understand. They all dross alike; that is, they're all dow- dy. They don't Care how their clothes fit, se I suppose they don'Jl care how they buy there And the New York woman passed on, in a hary to get to So and So's depart - silent store before all the hats for $9.79 had been grabbed up. -New York Sun. • Novel Wedding Gift. A wedding gift that a bride of this Spring values enormously was given by hor sister of seventeen. It Is a scarf, or. Wrap, for the piece is two yards and a half long and thirty -sir incites wide, the material being a soft, Very satiny crepe of cern shade. Within it, all the way emitted, Is pain'ed a conventionalized border of oak leaved, tine 'rickets wide, the brush work being very sweeping, but light, rather sketchy, in effect. 136th edges are kept absolately even to heighten the conventionality. The colon are /lull rota. and in the nee of her eltadee the girl e,howed exquie• ite artistic -teethe:. ouRaor aten :manual. meet? inzafia itoundanave31 511. got out of the way of the fire engnie. Ono Sure Our. "Yes. Maker twit to be a small drug - lend and poor tee oneify, bus now ,bH linUltifjtaltring awl selling a wire cure," Towne. sme cure for what?" asked Brown. "Why. a sure cure for 111.1 VoVetty. .11 that'a abtalt alt."- Pidtadelphia Pres% Very Sareeetic, ehady," riaid Meandering Mike, et don't benne dat dog et yours for ire PS to bite Ine." "why not" "Reveals/. it shows its intelligenre, De last time F, eame dis way 1 imaided lum a piece of ph. you gave ton Star, Dark and Dank, "Well, I d'knew," doubtfully said Far- mer liornbeak, ,relative to the promised of his nephew, 5 recent terminate from an agrieul tura voltage. "'Alebbe amen money in cultivatin' museromne, but where could we plant 'ent? They require it damp, dark, dank plitee to grow 111, don't theyl" "Yes," was the reply, "Aral I'll tell , you went, Uncle Ezra, we'll raise them in the parlor."-Tuek. Improving, Father -We only fair to tell yen that I'm pleased with your econinny this term Your requests for money were too fee - (plea last term. Son -Yes, lather -I thou& so, too! so this terin I've had everything. charged, No Room, "Simpkins refuses to nava his flat /ift. pered," repelled the agent, of the build- ing. -What's the matter now?" inquired the owner, "He claims they haven't roam enough as it is."-eludge. • Not roe- Him. • "Win - don't ye take a short Cut wein y6're goin' to yer work?" 'asked Cassidy. "Shure, thee is eo dacint short dune replied Casey. . "Or -course, there :is. Ye could go across the Counthry Club's grounds." Catholic Standard and Times. • I want to be took for a golf plaper?"- "ellaire, that's not dacint. D'ye think • The Prize Puppy.. Miss Gaddie-Yes, May Bexley is just as mad at her father as she can be. There was a little puppy with a great pedigree that she wanted hilt tobuy. foe her, mid he wouldn't do it, Miss Aseum-What WWII it? A. French ntandard and Times. count or a- Gen_usin bareaet?-Catholie lb Modesty. "This village enjoys the reputation of being the birthplace of two members of the leagislatute and one Congreesneen, does itenotl" "Nope!" replied the landlord of the Pe ttyvi lle tavern ,2.1o2as peak:title old grouch, anyhow. "It just has it, that's a I I." --Ptielt, Abe a Silver Wedding. Mrs, Knoweitta-Mrs, Be Vorsay cele- brated her silver wedding. y.'4 tardily. Mrs. Askitt-But she hasn't been mar- ried 25 years. Mrs. Knowsitt-No, but she's been married 25 times. -Illustrated Bits. Sworn Off. — She -How did that anti -alcoholic tab- let act that 1)3111 eeeretty alto your tea the other dare He -grille! I haven't touched a drop since. . She -What -of wiliskey? tea!--Illustfated Bits. A Decorative Accompliehment "So ''you are going to teach, your daughter musk?" "Yes," answered Mrs. Thingilt, "just enough to giro us an excuse for having a •piano lamp and a mahogany music rack." -Washington Star. Fashion. Knielee r 110 33.3 think hoopskirts will ,ever retail? Doeker--The women are wearing thent on their heads this /ear. Did He Escape? 'The evsning wore on," ventilated the man who 'MA telling the story. "Excuse me," imenrupted one of his audienee, "but cart you tell me what the evening wore on that occasion?" "I don't know that it is important," retorted the other. "But if you must know, f believe it wits the close of a slimmer day," A Historic Retort, The war correspondents were compli- menting Capt. Molly Pitcher on the con- spicuous (mirage she bad displayed at the battle of Monmouth. "It was nothing," she said. "t merely wanted to show that my other name isn't Coddle." For, verily, true bravery, unlike gelling, vaunteth not itself, is not puffed, up,- - Chiegge Tribune. Them Ca n d ;dates. Wadi 10111 as they mune along With that Cliristuute smile, And the jot 191 grip and stroag And the Wily tile! •Soine are Tories, some are Gene, Nome aro- on the ferule, Still I'd like to be one, It meet be. immense! A Precise Mie,e, "I jump itit all down when I'm happy," declared the New York girb "1 an iintwine :3'4)t1 jumping up," re- Inutded the lioston damsel, "but 1 think the law of gravitation must' be mom- sible tor the alternating deseent."--- Loutiv Hie natrier-,folirnal„ , 'Now Etymology. "Mat do yott mean by fanfare?" in- quired the virerts -enthusiast. *Peanuts and pop," anawered the beer - boll 151331, Followed the Met. Attorneys -What 1.11 the ,firitt toli sent? VI lout -- Tito 1., no lawyer woula bo blamed leo] ciumelt to take my ease. Attorney- Yee; mei then what did y011 110? Client -Caine right over and engaged yon.---CIevciand 'Leader. .Qraikt,