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NeweeRecord e CLINTON
The position of the dnsniinions ander
the Angler -Japanese treaty was dis-
cussed in the British Parliaments last
•
reek. •
This Privileges and Elections Com-
vnittee voted by 15 to 10 t 'acquit'
Mr. Lane -hi. M. P. The • 'minority
•broughtt in a report finding him
geiihy. Both report's have been - pre-
,se.•ttcd to the 11ouso.
MARITtM E BRi DGES
And Other Railway irnproverrent*
Under Consideration
The O.P.F. tiaas had several survey -
•ora eve riabking the Joggin and ether
bridges between Digby aad .Anna -
polls, N.S. Several of these bridges
arcs not constructed etifficientry heavy
y
oflar toloco-
allow passage e
ala the i g4
motives, and it is necessary thea trey
be r:built in the near future. It is
contemplated to abandon the two
bridges that span the Joggin. and pus-
silay a third, and creat a steel bridge'
at the first location made by the Wes -
fern Comities railway a short die.
ranee beyond Digby town. • This
bridge will be much longer than
either of the, present structures span-
ning the Jctgin, but will do away
with both of them, and the approaches
will be greatly improved and much
easier than at present and make the
read five miles shorter. Other int
prover:tents are contemplated, which,
when completed, will, afford a . more
rah"id trip tram Yarmout'x to Halifax.
NOT. FOR THE CHURCH.
Was Lord Morley --No Sign as' a Boy
of Becoming Great
•There are still'peutile in Blackburn,
who can 'recall Lord Morley who, as
the son of Jonathan Morley,
of that town, spent his boyhood
much in the same way ee other boys
do, preferring the op:n air to the
study. John Morley in those days
evinced no signs of forthcoming great-
ness, "1 shall put him into the
Church," old Dr. Morley upset to say.
"He will he able to earn a living at
that.” But John Morley had r10 de-
sire to enter the Church, and, if he
did not flatly 'decline to go, he soon
showed, that he would prefer to rough
it In a vocation he cared foe than es-
cape the worry of haying to hunt for
to.ncrow's Meal by adopting a call-
ing which could. not awake any sym-
pathy. in hint, At twenty-one he was
uiilad to the liar, Then . he began to
write, and ultimately turned to poli=
tics, Curiously enc rgh be made, his
first O ttem.pt to ':enter the • House by
contesting .B',ackburn. and was re-
looted. Ieleven years Inter be put up•
for Westminster,. and bore again met
with .defeat. • His :opportunity came
witha by-election at Newcastle in
.1883, when he headed tine: poll,'
BIRTH-RATE LOWER.. •
In Great •'R itaino is the Death -
Rate -=-Latest Figures
An official return shows that the'
birth-rate and the death -rate in Eng-
land and Wales during the quarter
ended September 30th were the lowest
ever recorded.
. Births numbered 227,246, or 24.9 per'
1,000 of the 'population. That is .2.6
'per 1,000 below the average- for the
ten preceding third quarters, Deaths
,totalled ;10'088, or - 11:4 per '1,0.00,
which is 2.8 •per :1,000 below the aver-
age., • •
In the whole of the United Kingdom
282,5.19 births and 135,015. deaths were
registered, the birth-rate being 24.7
zed the •dcatierate ALS' Per 1,000 of
the population. Ths population . thus
increased by 147,504. •
During the quarter ended June 30th
the marriages of 122,006 people were
recordedt or 13.6 per 1,000, againstan
average of 16.8: per 1,000 in the cola
responding quarter of the preceding
ten years, . . '
SIGN POSTS FOR AVIATORS ..
A German aeronaut has devised a
system of orientation which will belp.
the German aviator, at least, .in find-
ing his way through . the "air. Each
German : province is. provided with a
number,. and every' comntunfty is pro
Sided with a letter.. A guide book to
be 'carried by the aviator contains a
list •of• provincesand towns similarly
designated Thus,. if an aviator sees
the character "40 .A 1" .painted upon
the. roof • of a , house in Rhineau he
knows immediately where he is by i•e-
forcing to his book; At night -these
signs' aro to be Illuminated. The sys-
tem is now actually being installed in_
,Germany.•
• 'When a .fellow is,'
slippery it is
sometimes -necessary to walk over him
rough shod. • '. .
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WEALTHY SCHOOL -BOYS
Marquesses and Eerie in Eton Jeckete
—.Own 6aO,000 Acres
An'nng the boys who are this ter'n
wrestling with Euclid and Horaeo at
l'+an and who are not superior to the
Fascit'ations of the "tuck -shop," are
two Princes and no fewer than
teen youthful lordlings, who among'
them will one day divide fifty-three
titles, lord it over 600,000 acres ----an
area the:e and a half three that of th
entire County of Middlesex, and,
roughly speaking, as large as Cheeh re
or Notti"r^,hamshIre--e'.d will ba able
to pick and ehoese among forty-two of
the most palatial "pleasure -Houses" in
the United Kingdom, -
Probably the most enviable of these
aristocrats in Eton jackets is the Mar-
quess of Hartinton, heir to all the vast
sossessions of the Cavendishes, with
their dnkceronr and five other titles of
peerage. He will have six magnifi-
cent mansions in England, one alone
of which is said to be worth $20,000,-
000, and a seventh in Ireland. His
pictures alone at Chatsworth, Hard-
wicke, and: Devonshire House repre-
sett�t More than a king's ransom; and
the land that will call him lord will
be more than Rutland County, with
the County of Leaden thrown in,
Then there is the
seven
teen-ye
ar-
old Marquessof Titchfield, future
e
Duke
.-of Port',aud, and owner of the
priceless treasures of Welbeck Ab-
bey, cy, oY tlrree castles and mansions in
Scotland, and a house in Grosvenor
Square, He will be duke, marquess,
earl, viscount, and baron, all in one,
andwill wi l cR•n more acres than are
crowded into Middlesex,
Bruce . Arthur Ashley Ogilvy, an
Etonian of fifteen summers, is known
in Scotland as the tenth Earl of
Airlie, and holder of a barony more
than four centuries old. His ances-
tral home is Cortachv Castle, in For-
farshire; arid he owns more land than
you will find in Banffshire or Linlith-.
gow, A fellow -peer of the same age
at Eton College is the. Earl of Latho:u
and Baron Skelmersdale, who bas bad
a title 'eine' since he .bad .bis That
rocking -horse ride • in the Lathom.
-House nursery, and who owns con-
siderably more than a hundred square
miles of laird. And a still younger
schoolboy earl is .nee.. Lord of Stam
ford,- aetat.fourteen, earl and baron,
and a descendant of the old-time
Dukes of Suffolk,.
These three Etonian earls are all'
peers in ih'_ir own right, . and not
merely courtesy • lords; and •within •a.
few years they - will . probably • have
exchanged their stamen jackets for .the
ermine ;and scarlet - of the House of
Lords. •
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G.N.R. EXTMNSMONS
Big Programme of Railway Building
Outlined for 1911
Sir William Mackenzie says the Can-
adian i n Northe.'n Railway l)uiit. 560 miles
of track is 19t0 at a cost of $13,000,000,
and plans to build 600 miles in 1911..
In Manitoba additional grading will.
be done on. the'Walcopa branch, which
• runs south-west from Greenway and
serves the country close to the inter-
national boundary line. This yeer
this line will reach I)elotaine, Moose
Jaw, Saskatchewan, will be reached
by the continuation of the Maryfield
branch from ;,se south, work on which
will be rushed this year. Farther north
in Saskatchewan the Rossburn braise I
{will bo continued through to Russell,
and to join the main line of the Cana-
dien Northern near Canaria ' Grading
will be conducted on the Thunderhiil
branch north of the main line west
from Swan River. This line will
probably be extended to Prince Albert,
or to join the Prince Albert -Regina
road. The Prince Albert=Battleford
branch will probably be completed. It
will pass through the .country north of
the Saskatchewan River, where a large
• settlement has already been Started.
The Delisle lino will eventually run to
Swift.Cur•rent to join. the railway that
the • company is building from May-.
field to .Lethbridge. Work will be
Bono on four branches in . Alberta.
Two lines will be completed to Cal-
gary, one from Saskal.ron and one
from Vegreville• A large force of
workmen will be employed on the main
line west of Edmonton to Vancouver.
A great amount Of grading will be ac-
comp/Jibed on the railway to 'the Bra -
scan coal Holds. 'This road begins at
.Stetter and. crosses the Canadian Pa-
eific at Red Deer, whence it proceeds
west to l3raz.au. Large 'expenditures
will bemade for betterment on'the
various branches and on the Male line
in the Prairie Provinces. 'East of Win-
nipeg- a grade of rock will be • built
across Rainy Lake. The yardsof the
railway will be enlarged andimproved
at many points, acid a large mileage
of new sidings• will be' built. Heavy
.steel"will be laid from Beaver to Grand-
view,. a stretch of 132. Miles.' A station
will also be constructed at Dauphin.
Sir William said the company was
building towards -the Yellowhead Pass
and the .main 'line to the Pacific' coast
would • be . completed in about. .three
;rears:
Mr. D. 13. Hanna stated that the com-
pany now look for an opening of the
railway from ocean to ocean during the
tall of 1314. The five hundred miles
through the Ontario clay belt wnuid. be.
•completed either In two or two and a
half years. ' Within a 'few years- six
daily trains will be leaving this city'
for different ' points on, the Pacific
coast' Two will be ruts. by the Cana-
dian- Pacific Railway, two more by the
Canadian; Northern: and twoby the
Grated Trunk Pacific.' "Why, then,"
asks Mr. Hanna, "if a new country can,
support six daily trains. running across
the 'continent, cannot 'we support a
daily steamship service• from British
ports .to the Dominion?" He belleves
that if Britain can send almost a,
steamer daily to an alien country, the
day is not far •distant when we will.
OLD SAYINGS IN RHYMES
As poor as a church mouse,'as •thin as
a rail,
As i'at as a porpois , as rough as a
gale, .
As brave as a lion, as spr3' as a. rat,
As bright as a sixpence, as weak as a
cat. •. I
As proud as a peacock,- as sly as a
fox, •
As madas a March hare, es strong
as an ox, •
As fair as a lily, as empty, as air, 'I
As rich as was Croesus, as ,press as a
bear. .•
As' pure as an angel; as neat as a pin,
As smart as a steel trap, as ugly as
As dead as a •door nail, as white as a
sheet, '
As flat as a pancake, as red as a beet...
As round as • an apple, asblack as
' your hat,
As ' browns as a berry, as blind as a
bat,
As mean as a miser, as full .as a tick,
As plump as a partridge, as sharp as
a stick.
As clean as • a penny, . as dark as a
pall, •
As hard as ,a 'millstone; as bitter as
ball,
As Mine as a, fiddle, ae, clear as a hall,
.As dry as 'a herring, as deep ' as a
well.
As light as a feather, as hard as a
ionic, .
As' stiff. as a poker,as calrh as a
cloeeck, ,
As•preen.as a gosling, as brisk as a
b
.And now Iet me stop, lest you weary
of me:
Bee the e to< Canadiv,n. norts,
April 13m.1911
LONG SPEECHES
IN PARLIAMENT
some oR the Orators of the .Past Whet
Sometimes Amer res t?cccfgied Hours in
Important Debates
"Never in the history of Perlin -
Mont," Mr. Balfour once exclaimed.
with clenched hands and flashing eyes,
"has such .a proposal been made in so
'brief a speech." such was the right
honorable gentleman's surprise and
indignation when Sir •William Har-
court sat down after a 'five minutes'
speech introducing the Evicted Ten-
ants Bill.
Indeed, any speech less than an hour
in lengthon anoccasion like title
would almost have seemed an insult to
the House.
In 1642, after hours of dreary ora-
tory, a member rose and exclaimed,
"The House is empty, and so be our
stomachs•. I pray ye,therefore, ad-
journ the debate for one hour." But
Spealter Long would not listen to the
pleading. lie could sit as long as Leg-
islators
egislators could talk; and sit he did, un.
til he fell off his chair in a dead faint.
I► theStuartdays,When ,.. tienit�vas
1no
uncommon thing for a parson to turn
his • lions -glass three or four times be-
fore lie arrived at "Lastly, my breth-
ren," the man who could not and did
not keep on his legs at I, estminster
for thise hours at least was thought as
litiesi of as the squire who could,, not
- arry 'his three bottles of port, Any
prosy legislator, it is said, spoke for
seven hour's; and another for six, with-
out leaving the perpendicular
In later years Sheridan, speaking on
the Begum case, held the floor and his
audience for five solid hours at a
stretch; and Sir Robert Peel apolo-
gized for the "shortness and inade-
quacy" of a speech on the. Corn Laws
which fell just. short of four hours.
Lord Palmerston once orated four
hours and a half on Don Pacifico and
five minutes later was on his feet
again, as fresh as when lie, started.
And, did not Mr. Biggar, that loqua-
cious Irishman,• oro a "hould the flare"
from half -past twelve to half-pastfive
on the thrilling topic of the Devon
Commission?
No matter how trivial thesubject,
an hour was a very modest limit, as
when proved when one honorable gen-
tleman spoke for eighty minutes on
undersized fish, and another took up
sixty minutes wills a learned banangue
on bog in the Hebrides. Mr. Glad-
stone, who, when wound up, "could go
on all day without turning a hair,",
.
spoke
for. five hours without a pause
when introducing his first Budget; and
such was the magic of his tongue that
the kept his auditors entertained and
breathless to the las tword, He made
dry figures as fascinating as .romance.
There have been many attempts to
curb this oratorical flow since, in 1849,
Mr. Milner Gibson proposed a. new
Standing Order ' directing "that the
speeches of members be limited in
•duration to one hour"; but the weight'
of opinion has been fatal •to them.
Mr. Gibson's motion was, negatived by
96 to 02, and a much more recent mo•
tion 'by ' Major Basch, imposing a
twentyminutes' limit, by 'a majority
of 40:
KINGS WERE LIBELLED
Offenders Did Not Get Off, Easily In
•• the Long Ago,
•
People who went out of their way to
•
libel their Sovereign in days gone by"
did not usually get off so lightly as did
the defendant in a recent notorious
case. •
For 'instance, Leigh Hunt, the fain •
-
ons essayist and poet, was sent: to pri-
son for two years—exactly, twice ' the
- length of" Myltus's term—for .calling
George IV: "a fat Adonis.of fifty." And
George was not even King 'at the time,
only Regent. :
Going back further still we find
John Stubbs, a student of Lincoln's ,
Inn, arrested for libelling Queen Eliza-
beth. He was sentenced to have his.
right hand cur off, and the barbarous
punishment was inflicted iii public -'in
the market -place at Westminster • by
driving a cleaver through the wrist'
with a mallet. The moment Stubbs
lost his •right hand he waved his cap
with• his left, crying, "Long live the
Queen."
Then there, was that unhappy Wal-
ter Walker, grocer, at the sign of .the
Crown, who said he would make his
son heir to the crown, When Edward
IV: was told of; this merry jest, ,he or -
gored Walker toa .arrested an
d• @ d put
to death for treason..
Almost as hand was the. fate of the
Buekinghatnshi:re churl who, drinking
one day in a village alehouse, spoke
disrespectfully of Henry' VIII, "King•
Hal," he hiccoughed "is .no true king..
Would I. had his crown. here, that I
might play football with it:"
The libeller was hanged, drawn, and
:luartered, and pieces of his body were
listributed as a warning amongst the
market towns of the county.
OFF WITH HIS HEAD -
Amusing Story told of Louis of
Bavaria
A. service -paper relates an amusing
story of King Louis 'of Bavaria. :His
Stajesty. was Crush Annoyed one one
rccasion when the soldier on guard et.
:he palace gates neglected to present
tries. The truth was .the soldier did
sot'know His Majesty by sight,
"Why don't you present arms?" the
atter asked, angrily, "Don't you know
;0 Whom you are indebted for your.
daily bread?"
The sentry glared angrily at the
King, and, imagining. hien to be the
Army baker, said: ----
,"So you are the miserable son of e
Sakes' who furnishes the soldier's witit
bread, are you? Well, I should like
at have you by yourself in some .quiet
place, I'd spread your ungainly atlas
•omy over three kingdoms! I'd make 'I
lough of you!"
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April 13m.1911
LONG SPEECHES
IN PARLIAMENT
some oR the Orators of the .Past Whet
Sometimes Amer res t?cccfgied Hours in
Important Debates
"Never in the history of Perlin -
Mont," Mr. Balfour once exclaimed.
with clenched hands and flashing eyes,
"has such .a proposal been made in so
'brief a speech." such was the right
honorable gentleman's surprise and
indignation when Sir •William Har-
court sat down after a 'five minutes'
speech introducing the Evicted Ten-
ants Bill.
Indeed, any speech less than an hour
in lengthon anoccasion like title
would almost have seemed an insult to
the House.
In 1642, after hours of dreary ora-
tory, a member rose and exclaimed,
"The House is empty, and so be our
stomachs•. I pray ye,therefore, ad-
journ the debate for one hour." But
Spealter Long would not listen to the
pleading. lie could sit as long as Leg-
islators
egislators could talk; and sit he did, un.
til he fell off his chair in a dead faint.
I► theStuartdays,When ,.. tienit�vas
1no
uncommon thing for a parson to turn
his • lions -glass three or four times be-
fore lie arrived at "Lastly, my breth-
ren," the man who could not and did
not keep on his legs at I, estminster
for thise hours at least was thought as
litiesi of as the squire who could,, not
- arry 'his three bottles of port, Any
prosy legislator, it is said, spoke for
seven hour's; and another for six, with-
out leaving the perpendicular
In later years Sheridan, speaking on
the Begum case, held the floor and his
audience for five solid hours at a
stretch; and Sir Robert Peel apolo-
gized for the "shortness and inade-
quacy" of a speech on the. Corn Laws
which fell just. short of four hours.
Lord Palmerston once orated four
hours and a half on Don Pacifico and
five minutes later was on his feet
again, as fresh as when lie, started.
And, did not Mr. Biggar, that loqua-
cious Irishman,• oro a "hould the flare"
from half -past twelve to half-pastfive
on the thrilling topic of the Devon
Commission?
No matter how trivial thesubject,
an hour was a very modest limit, as
when proved when one honorable gen-
tleman spoke for eighty minutes on
undersized fish, and another took up
sixty minutes wills a learned banangue
on bog in the Hebrides. Mr. Glad-
stone, who, when wound up, "could go
on all day without turning a hair,",
.
spoke
for. five hours without a pause
when introducing his first Budget; and
such was the magic of his tongue that
the kept his auditors entertained and
breathless to the las tword, He made
dry figures as fascinating as .romance.
There have been many attempts to
curb this oratorical flow since, in 1849,
Mr. Milner Gibson proposed a. new
Standing Order ' directing "that the
speeches of members be limited in
•duration to one hour"; but the weight'
of opinion has been fatal •to them.
Mr. Gibson's motion was, negatived by
96 to 02, and a much more recent mo•
tion 'by ' Major Basch, imposing a
twentyminutes' limit, by 'a majority
of 40:
KINGS WERE LIBELLED
Offenders Did Not Get Off, Easily In
•• the Long Ago,
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People who went out of their way to
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libel their Sovereign in days gone by"
did not usually get off so lightly as did
the defendant in a recent notorious
case. •
For 'instance, Leigh Hunt, the fain •
-
ons essayist and poet, was sent: to pri-
son for two years—exactly, twice ' the
- length of" Myltus's term—for .calling
George IV: "a fat Adonis.of fifty." And
George was not even King 'at the time,
only Regent. :
Going back further still we find
John Stubbs, a student of Lincoln's ,
Inn, arrested for libelling Queen Eliza-
beth. He was sentenced to have his.
right hand cur off, and the barbarous
punishment was inflicted iii public -'in
the market -place at Westminster • by
driving a cleaver through the wrist'
with a mallet. The moment Stubbs
lost his •right hand he waved his cap
with• his left, crying, "Long live the
Queen."
Then there, was that unhappy Wal-
ter Walker, grocer, at the sign of .the
Crown, who said he would make his
son heir to the crown, When Edward
IV: was told of; this merry jest, ,he or -
gored Walker toa .arrested an
d• @ d put
to death for treason..
Almost as hand was the. fate of the
Buekinghatnshi:re churl who, drinking
one day in a village alehouse, spoke
disrespectfully of Henry' VIII, "King•
Hal," he hiccoughed "is .no true king..
Would I. had his crown. here, that I
might play football with it:"
The libeller was hanged, drawn, and
:luartered, and pieces of his body were
listributed as a warning amongst the
market towns of the county.
OFF WITH HIS HEAD -
Amusing Story told of Louis of
Bavaria
A. service -paper relates an amusing
story of King Louis 'of Bavaria. :His
Stajesty. was Crush Annoyed one one
rccasion when the soldier on guard et.
:he palace gates neglected to present
tries. The truth was .the soldier did
sot'know His Majesty by sight,
"Why don't you present arms?" the
atter asked, angrily, "Don't you know
;0 Whom you are indebted for your.
daily bread?"
The sentry glared angrily at the
King, and, imagining. hien to be the
Army baker, said: ----
,"So you are the miserable son of e
Sakes' who furnishes the soldier's witit
bread, are you? Well, I should like
at have you by yourself in some .quiet
place, I'd spread your ungainly atlas
•omy over three kingdoms! I'd make 'I
lough of you!"
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