TOPICS OF THE DAY.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 12014, 15 October 1904, Page 6

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

It will surprise n«M§iP English people to learn thattblfc||i Mahometans are Mahometan n England, and ft* II pome four hundred fJnglish people J**!! become con\erts to the faith of The movenvent wae founded by slx Quihain, a well known Lnernool soiieifaiifj and temperance advocate, who went 'jm 1885 to Morocco for a holiday, and Vttl induced to study the Mahometan religumj'i with the result that ho embraced it. mi Quiiiam expounded the tenets of r*i* ! ligion to his family and hut friends, abfl in a few years o\rr two hundred tn§slt*| class people m Liverpool became MoMcbiP Mr Quilmm then visited Turkey tamed permission to establish, a Liverpool, and the Sultan appointed, Ifiwi bheikh-ul-Islam, or Head of the in the British Isles. Mr Quiiiam oftd&tf in the Liverpool mosque in 4' gotproj turban and flowing Oriental robes. Jfi«s| position as Sheikh ul Islam main* j registrar of all birthu, marriages, deaths among the Moslems in Services are held at tho Liverpool on Fridays and a nory cosmopohtwj $2j| h gregation aerombles there, Negroes, Hiaml 8j Chinamen, Arabs, and EngUshmenl»ijw p eeen praying to Allah side by side. X of the English 'loskms are polygtttW f> Women are admitted on terms of *jjwtfj§; Watb the men, and eit on tho I that go\erne the mosque. |' frequently celebrated. The Mostaraw fdrng ceremony m said to bo a w tifol cne. Both the bride and havo to testify three times marrying of their own free will, aaCwull there is no impediment to the and tho bridegroom has to Sheikh that he can suppait » aooording to the Koran, all *nrln nrast know a trade, and bo and write before they can marryr ? P^^S . Protection ciety was from . eooaer or later Motorwte. where the evils tfci | ctJ^ ' glaring for some tune poet; A body, whidh does not call name, but takes the more of Highways Protection league^ , with these objects (1) prmntrog s tlis||||||l| vrays being used to the annoyance, or dMoomfort of (2) to'afford information rights on highway*, and to nuutson as to cases of investigate cases of danger. to a»ist persona injured in °bM MNHBJ||jli dress; (5) to enforce the procure amendment* of[tii6 vaable,. -The secwrtaiy preody statrs that the membera|j|j|Jßi| " moiorphobwts," but that nil it that "motorist* of a eerUJn not monopolise more than their'faiw»ffl of the use And epjoyroenti hi which were intended for tamed by, all dasse* of The Txegtw^Mends 'to wt<tmg forth, the law <ft hopes etpedally to cyclists. T.he "odour. m«pbit)cf of cedes, and ihe dustjraiaejl -"iP^fcWjHßHm wheels, though, lliey wMSBBI ten will Tμ difficult lojdeal ; matter to be taken %q» '^" identifying ing that the an the tf IliMwl. %uiv* being- &*s»* plaut'eaougb, "IShnuJtaoeqiMlyrtjl announeemettt of League, a [return Home Officf, vW w manner the • growing 'pOjfll|ttltw |h9bX motor-car and ,tfoe nw<|c4H9«^^^mn L lht Jast' 1 tbt»\jwereAnd |4,88? ittoioi>c^-3 , United Kingdom/ " * and 13,302 jrars werei 1 Walt*. * X A ver/ rem«rkahl«i the return is thft, ■ increase f place btetween January Ist amounting t0.'5121 in the and 8400 in tlie number of tins wan largely doe to the Mbfor-oac Act, which ? at the beginning of the reliability of tha cJieap* tlie fact that in a trial >y tlie Club" 1 of can m\h *iffiff^WEsffisfo £200 and untfer/iwsoty-ooe-c made {ho run from loir wnJiout a «top League the Motor-car Act inadequate, and will have when lit «xpirce in 1906. '^^^^}»ti A Noted B trd), wlioan Traveller, "nounoed &* v yfJ^H||ipsj record of travelling deyx, from her first expedition twenty-two, to withifajj» Tory jsk ffimmk of her death, at WEBSt youth J°he wan one jof few v W, ** l *|| lens, and if In Wwf timea , PM«m SSHjifr h« honours, "' her booksspecially welcome as tfap T^P^^^mH^ 1 ' trainc<t obeenration aihf i terci* both in nation* end eea>wUß|pMg| \ stance, the volume produced \, " The Ynngtiftß and *' account of journeys ia }{ to*dcrtak«tt for recreatioii L some months of severer * was a happy contribution tfcour tJjHHEei Si of another much volume incidentally gives view of wbat js recreatioa rfar Manderer ncerer seventy thfla date of the exploit. Oβ, Yangtrse, for instance, fJI» » motl «f the Hsin-tan rapy*^ test by her hearing being mnw days afterwards * I **/ fijjgra| roar of the catctroct, the JiBEBm tracker*, and the beating ° r gm«« to ward eft ««1 J^" 1 assisted the rfight nn«««w«< Ibhß| Bftdiop records in became uwl" ,to Tn s*J? tlvere was no irfasinrre ni mg a sleeping room ' with.» had been unbuncd for five :2?sSjß»bl|| geomonciT of tho family

\ r decided on t!ie» lucky day for the interment. * • \ And with qmtt; v\ual compcmire, when nothing l««tt> r was to be had, tho adventurous lady rvcrivvd Iwr guide's description of tbr- accommodation offered by a ' pcasiir-tV hut: " You won't like your room tn-niff'.ii.'MrP Bishop: it's the pig's room!" And truly ?s.vvn j>ig« •ccupied ft rtiil«l-otl oonifr of it- Small town , * in tlie interior (iliownd more unfriendly manners, if b*t>-U-T rooms, and after enduring an hour and td half of riot outside the door, with yells f>f "foreign d.A-il," "child-eater," etc;, Mrs JJkhop n»t««, we think excusably, that ibeJte rows won , repulsive and fatiguing after a day* journey, " hvei«Ws delaying niv diuwr unconscionnbly, whirli, na it was practically my only meal in tlie day, was S trying-, A notable experience, t«>o, M"is tlw cro.'WRR of the , Ysu-Ku-Shan Pass, 1 3 where the cliair-coolice rtbolled, the most faithful »<-rvant Ml ill of " Pa*s poiron," and a tiij,'ht was spent in efforts which she cinintx j»;-v<.rtr tlinn any amongst blizzarde in the Zngros imd niountauiw Jk)th in perilous and pletisaait ways, Mrs Biahop bos certainly not. been one of thi.«s ■whom fate calls to die " Ix-fore th<>y have begun to live." The British bankruptcy reLifo's turns for 1903, i«?ucd by the Failures. Board of Trade, contains a melancholy story of life's failures. Tliore were 7908 failures during the yoar, an incivn.<te of 401 on the previous "-' year, and tho estimated lota to creditors wns '£7,322,950, which showed a. decrease vt £140,127. An old firm of itolicitor* hoaded tho list of failures with liabilities amounting to £218.732, the powiblo hueets being low than .£20,000. In the table giwn of failures in. the different trades, / groofrs are first, there being 945 failure* in thi« trade, while buildero axe secon-1 with 891/ "Beer, etc.," which apparently include* hotelkeepens comes next, and tlren tho metal trades, tho drapery trade, th-a leather trade., and the farming industry. Solicitors stand lowest on the list, their number being 52, and close to them are merchants, clerk**, and china and gln»w deakis». each with 53. The difference 1/0twern clothiers 88, drapers 360, milliners 70, a r <l tailois 231. is interesting. There were 465 failures of women, of which 64 were in the grocery trade, 54 in the drapery and haberdashery trade, and 47 jn tho millinery and dressmaking trade. ,Them.test businesses, in each of which Ihere 'was only one failure, were brewing, lirkk and tile-iaiiking, decorating and fa'uk'mg, tanning, and dealing in metals. Tho in Bankruptcy comments on the excessive amount of drawings for penwuij and household expenses in catex both large and umaJl. "Little regard," ho my.», "is had to whether profit. , * or losses aro made; the debtor con/mbra liimself entitled to live handsomely on his v bueineHt, «o long an it can be kept going, 1 and ultimately hi» extravagant with- ; drawals go to «well the deficiency of hie ft*B!ts to meet hie unsecured liabilities." For instance, n leather merchant who l avt £21,000 in three years, drew £2000 per ■ ' annum for household and personal ex- ; pensce.' The prefite of two timber merchanta in fifteen years were £29,103, but their withdrawals amounted to £54,021. Two Atistrians Degim bu«ines» as rubber iiieroliaata in 1894, without capital, and after drawing £28,000 in nine yeare, falleJ with a deficit of £92,000. Financial and t upoculative failurre declined in number, but the. average liabilities were larger, and a great proportion of the liabilities were cawed by unsuccessful land and building epeculafions.