NEWS AND NOTES.

Evening Post, Volume LXVIII, Issue 62, 10 September 1904, Page 12

NEWS AND NOTES.

fn tjxe. pa^o seclusion of Zion City tho • "Profit" Dowie lv»» renewed hi.s ut tucks upon King Edward. Speaking hi Shiloh tabernacle on 10th July, ho is reported by the 'New York Herald to lwvve used grossly insulting language about His Maje&ty, ending by saying : "Monarchies are in d±jrect opposition to the will of CSoil, and ohoukl be put under. That is why I must get Edward off tho Throno. Germany will be the iw-xt monarchy which Elijah 'Anil have. to ( got after." A Winnipeg tcfognun says that destitution and death for the Doukhob6i» is feared again, as most of the sect 'have ■feta-rlcd on an6ther march in search of the Redeemer, and refuse ail assistance Including food. Moat of the' womon and children are even now destitute of everything concept a few rags, which can hardly bo called clothing, and it is feared tnat unlojtethe journey can bo stopped immediately, many will die. - The Suttnn of Morocco, though only fcw*nty-tb*«o years old, is already quite portly. Notwithstanding the opposition of his subjects, ho persists in his quasiJaptthoso preference* for everything that is ioreign and ultra-modern. Automobiles, bicycles, photogi-ophy, tako up much of ids time. Ho hjw formed a band of ovor a hundred musicians, and has a piano, •which" had "to be' transported from. LarW«h to F*«i on tho back of a camel. He even prefers, it is said, the members of his harem imported from Constantinople to tlie native beauties. His Attempts to persuade his wives to wear corsets and Parisian gowns have, however, .so far failed. Miss Susan Fowler, •nn eccontrio octofjenKitan, living in Nevr Jersey, who has been for the last sixty years an apostle* of women's dress reform, and wears trousers instead of skirts; became- engaged recently to an Englishman, Mr. Greorgo Pi iWler, forty years her junior. Sho lias prepared hor trousseau, which consists of ' a new pair of trousers made by bcrßetf. Bho has nev«r permitted a tailor to make ihfcr trousers for her. A barrel with a capacity of 43,800 galJons has just been completed for a great •#me firm at Sohiltenheim, on the Rhine. It is to be unveiled next week, when a banquet will be given in its interior to twenty-four people. Mis. Carrie Nation, the celebrated American "saloon smasher," struck a cigarette from the mouth of a youth at Ten-nessee-Fair the other day. As sho did it a second tinie the "youth knocked her down, and tho crowd applauded. 1 Sk Jcnkin Coles, Speaker of the South 'Australian Parliament) has established what iA. probably a world's record. Ho Ims completed fourteen years of uninterrupted service in the chair without ever onco being absent during working hours, from iHncrts or any other cause. Sir Jenkin was educated at Christ's Hospital, and has lived for close on half a 'century in South Australia. Ho was in early manhood a member of the mounted police force, in which ho had as a friend and contemporary tho late Adam Lindsay Gordon, the greatest of colonial poets. In tho cirurch at Sucsany, Austria, Herr and Frau Dubou, senior, celebrated their golden wedding; their son Mathias and his wife their silver wedding; and tho tatter's daughter was married all on the same day. Another grandchild of the old people, tho "bride's brother, read tho servico ob priest for the first time. In com« of the patents taken out sixty y«ors ago wo find pays Engineering) clearly stated all tho essential points for the construction of on excellent turbino. Many of these early inventors seem to havo ouch very clear ideas as to essential features of t, successful steam turbine that their failUK to make their ideas commercially successful is somewhat singular. . Says an American paper: "Tho Associated Press tells us that Judge Parker was first notified of his selection for the .'Presidency i by tio Democratic Convention *a he emerged ffoni his morning dip in tho Hudson River. Ii continues tlint he "received tho news of his nomination with his .customary coomess," and ho "exhibited his usual dignified demeanour." If Judge Parker can preserve his dignity in a. bathing suit ho is aH right. Judgo Parker, tho Domocf&tio candidate for the United States Presidency, is not (says a L&ttdoli paper) the 6nly man who tints learned of honours bestowed on him while in tlie privacy of the bftwi. Sit* WiHittih Dew vojux, while Governor of Fiji, in 1883,, had a similar experieoco. -flo was enjoying, his morning tub when, a steamer striled mto the bay and signalled "The Governor has been mado ICO.B." The news was qnicJriy conveyed to the now Knight of tho Bath, who considers he hoWs the British record in this* way. According to a letter published py tho "Hum.tnite" calling out the reserved has made the wwr more unpopular in Russia than over. The general dissatisfaction was to evident that the reservist)! were pgnb immediately to barracks instead of to - the quarters originally assigned to them, wherv they would have been more /it liberty to tanc. Som» of them, howeyer, complained openly, but the officers <Kd not venture to* pwish them. One of tbo men, who remarked that it was only tiie poor who w«»o being sent to tho w«r, smashed a shop window and was about to be arrested, but the passers-by •came to the rescue. "Every one," says the writer, "is talking. of the absurdity Tof the war. . There is little or no dis- , cipline, ,itnd everybody feels that it is -impossible for such troops as theio to .wia "victories." , Workmen were driving an artesian* well ut Mczzona, near Pisa, recently, when a huge column 6t gas rose up from the -'boring tixuld in the- ground-, followed by -an eruption of warni Water, Band, and ■ mud. Frightened at this unexpected turn > of- events the men ran away-. -Then the "engineer* come up and were investigate . ing ' the phenomenon, when a workman approached with a lighted match. This - ignited the escaping gn» t and a column ~. or Bta rose very high, which Jit up the neighbourhood throughout tho Whole 1 night. Efforts were made without success to extinguish tho file, which, says "the Telegraph:'* .correspondent, still con- •.; tinues, accompanied by eruptions of - eana and subterranean noises. In ancient times a volcano, known as the San Giulinno, existed on a neighbouring hill, but has long been inactive. ' Joseph Pulitzer and J. Pierpont Mor- " gau wore among Hie prominent people j •who returned to New York ns passengers on the Baltic, the giant liner that made her maiden trip across the Atlantic the other day. Morgan, ns usual, was grentIjt sought by the reporters, who awaited the big liner's arrival. He in not a good subject for tho interviewer, and on this ' occasion, in excusing himself, he remarked, it is said, that hie time was money. Thereupon, ono imperturbable reporter offored to pay him for his time, out Morgan declined' to make the deal. Tlie Professor of Physiology In the University of Paris,- a • great lover of peace, entimn-teft that during the enitght1 ened nineteenth century, jsoiae 14,000^000 ' lives were directly sacrificed in war. This ' record makes no account of broken men, widows, and children. The new century, which sees various wars in. progress all over tho^ world, can yet hardly equal this '" total, unless it produces ft rival to " that imcomparoble criminal the first Napoleon, whom Lord Wotoelev, casting bis eye over history from Buddha to Shakee- , peare, rogards as tho greatest man who ' ever lived. The Napoleonic wart were - responsible for eight of these fourteen millions. Amorica does recognise her President, but pays him poorly. Ten thowwnd a year is all that no receives, nnd for that he must devote himself wholly to the businoss of office, and take no other income, Mr. Ba«r does very well M

Foreign Secretary on £1500 a year. The place for the diplomat is not tho SWiU>s of Iho Old Country. It is eminently Turkey. There is whore tho money is made. Tho Grand Vizier, who is also Minister for War, seemi* to bo pretty well looked after with £13,300 a year; but tho gentleman who lots tho Turkish navy rust at its moorings is ho who does himself best out of his country's gialitude. Tho Admiralty is worth admittedly £16,800 a year. There aro "perks." Tho present holder of tho ofiico has cleared j between two and three millions sterling i out of it, and tho Ministers for Foreign Affairs (£8800), Finance (£7500), nnd Mines (£5500) cannot complain of boing underpaid. Refugees from tho Teheran tell terrible stories at Baku, Russia, of the ravages of oholera. They say thnt on somo days tho mortality reached 900. The Europeans are abandoning their property ann arc fleeing to a camp in tho mountains. There is a pitiful condition of a flaws at the quarantine stations, which aro almost without food. Tho Russian Government has. ordered the closing of the frontier, for the purpose of preventing tho introduction of tho disease. Tho new tmdorjrround rapid-transit tunnel in" Now York, which connects tho lowor part of Manhattan Island with tho northern districts of Now York City, has boon completed, nnd trains wore to begin running on Thursday last. Tho subway is ono of tho most imposing ongineering works that has bcon accomplished in Amorica. Tho railway is a four-trnck ono, and extends a distanco of about twolvo miles. Express trains will bo run at tho rato of thirty miles an hour, permitting businoss men working in lowor Now York to reach thoiT honios at tho other ond of town in from eight to twelve miuirtos. Work was begun on the tunnel on 24th March, 1000, and the price paid by iho city for it is £7,000,000. A special feature- of tho subway is that each station will bo distinguished from tho othors by a separate combination of colours, thus permitting thoso who habitually use tho road to rccogniso their station without having to look for tho nnmo. Birmingham's now water from tho Wolsh rivor Elan is soft and of raro purity. It will bo convoyed from Cwm Elan to Birmingham, a distanco of seventy mttes, by moans of an aqueduct whoso construction has attracted tho.curiosity of tourists in Mid- Wales for several yoars. Altogothor tho watershed which has boon appropriated by Birmingham in Mid-Wales covers an area of nearly 50,000 aores. This noble work, which. . ensuros tho Midland city an abundant and pure Supply, will stir tho omulous sieal of Mr. W. H. Dickinson, who has for years boon advocating tho necessity of a gront scheme to bring Wolsh water to tlio metropolis. Prosident Diaz, who ha 3 just beon reolected President of Mexico, was originally intended for tho priesthood. JTis day camo with tho death of Juarez. Tho country was overrun with bandits and revolutionists, but thoso wero swopt away, violorico and robbery was suppressed, and gradually the Moxico thai wo know to-day was ovolvod by tho man whom Count Tolstoy once described as "fche strongest ruler of any notion in this day and time" In 1801 Presidont Diaz gavo to his country tho inestimable boon of free, secular, and compulsory oducation. Tho lato Mr. Cecil Rhodes onco paid the Prosident a great compliment, declaring that there was no reason to suppose that after %he death of Prosident Diaz Moxico will have any hotter govornment than that which prevails in the South American countries. Mr. Herbert Ohamborlain has bequeathed his Australian estates to his widow.. This (says tho London Chronicle) rocalls tho fact that his bottor-known brother, Joseph, onco owned a plantation in tho neighbouring Fiji group. Tho island of Nitamba, tho scono of Mr. Joseph Chamberlain's oarly experience as a plantor, in the scvonties, is still locally ■known as "Chamberlain's Island." Mr. Balfour is a property-ownor in Now Zealand, while Lord Rosebory has selected Sydnoy as tho most desirable spot in Greater Britain for purposes of investment. Tho Athenaeum Club, in Castle-reagh-streot, whoro Sydnoy Parliamentarians and journalists foregather, is ono of Umj properties of Lord Rosobery. Sir Willian Macgrogor, who has boon gazetted to tho Governorship of Newfoundland, in succession to Sir Cavendish Boylo, is ono of tho few colonial administrators who bogan thoir careers as doctors. Ho was for somo years resident physician and surgeon at tho Glasgow Royal Infirmary. In 18?3 ho wont to Seychelles as Assistant Govornmont Medical Officer, then to Mauritius, and later as Chief Medical Officor of Fiji. From 1888 to 1895 ho sorvod in Now Guinea, first as Administrator and then as Governor, and ho has also beon Act-ing-High Com'missionor for tho Wostorn Pacific, and sinco 1899 has boon Governor ot Lagos, in which capacity bo reprbsent'ed tho West African Colonies and Protectorates at tho Coronation. -Altogether his careor has boon a singularly varied ono, and ho is still well on the sunny side of sixty. Mention was mado rocontly (says St. JariWs Gazette) of a .curious incident which bofel a distinguished Colonial Governor in Fiji. A man in a tattered white suit, a typical "beachcomber" of the South Seas, called upon him, and I the Governor was porsuaded to put a sailing boat at his visitor's disposal to take him to an island which he had named. Tho man said ho was by right of doscont twentioth Baron SomcrviUo, but he had settled down with a dusky bfidd in a Polynosian paradise, was perfectly happy and had ho dosiro to take fcho status that belonged to him. Tho opisodo is apparently destined to bo royivod. News camo by tho lasl Australian mail that f< ltugb SomcrviUo," oldeat son of Hugh, .rightful twontioth Jjofd\ Somorvillo, had arrivod in Cooktown, Queensland, from somowhore in tho neighbourhood of the Solomon Islands, and was seeking means to onablo him to como to England nnd claim tho •title. He is described as a young man of two and twonty, tall and handsomo, and with a complexion bronzed to tho tint of copper; obviously of partly na< tivo descont, but woll mannered ami pheasant spoken, and fairly woll oducated. Mrs. Maybrick, Accompanied by hor mother, tho Baroness do Ronuos, arrivod recently at Rouen under Iho namo of Mrs. Graham. Sho intended stopping in a religious rotreat near the Norman capital for a few days boforo sailing for tho United States. Her health was shnkon by her imprisonment, but sho is gaining strength and passos most of hor fimo reading novols and light literature in tho open air. In consequence of tho recoipt of an anonymous letter, tho Gorman polico Hit ofchorday arrested a schoolmaster named Bodok and his wife, at Pardubitz, in Bohemia, on tho charge of keeping the half-wMod son of Frau Bodek by hor first husband shut up in a cupboard for eleven years. On his reloase from his loaMisomo prison, which had novor Boon cleaned sMnro ho had occupied it, _ tho lad was found to bo in an emaciated condition, nnd his body a mass of soros. Hi« eyes wcro unable to bfcar tho light of day. The schoolmaster declares ho wns powerless to interfere, so violont Was the hatred his wife bore to her son. Sir George Strickland, tho nowly appointed Governor of Tasmania, hnsspont most of his lifo in Malta, whoro bo holds tho dignity of a Count. Ho is a Roman Catholic, And was educated at tho Oscott CcHlcgo of that denomination in tho vicinity of Birmingham, afterwardn finishing off at Trinity College Cambridge, and tho Inner Temple, London, whore ho was duly called to tlto Bar. On returning to Malta he served for some years m tho local Council of Government, and also as Cbivf Secretary.

Ho was entrusted with a dolicoto diplomatic mission to tho late Popo Leo XIII. touching the Imporial veto on nominations to tho See of Mnltn, and was officially thanked for tho success which attended his efforts. The London Chroniclo has bcon giving publicity to tho now method of performing artificial respiration which is tho result of some years' research on Iho part of Professor Schafor, of Edinburgh. This method is said by our contemporary to bo bho mmplest known. When confronted with a person apparently drowned you are to waste not a precious second in running for help, romoving his clothes, or trying! to administer whisky or other drugs. You must at once place him on his face — thereby ensuring that his* tongue does not. fall back into his throat— squat astride of him, plaico our hands over his lower ribs, one on ouch side, and gently compress his chest by your weight, transmitted through your aims, about fourteen timos to the mirmto. This you must continue — Professor Sohafer has kept it up without fatiguo for an hour — until Assured by expert witness that tho patient's heart has ceased to beat. If anytliintf Will save his life, this will. In a class In a Manchester school not one of tlio children knew what a beo was. This statement was mado at Norwich last month at tho conference, of the Museums Association by Mr. Pritchard, of Boston, America. The ignorance in his own town was oven greater. Statistics showed that 77 per cent, of tho school children tihe're had never seen a crow, 57 por cent, had never beheld a frog, 20 por cent, had not seen a butterfly, 91 pel- cent, did not know an elm tree, j 75 por cent, did not know what season of tho year it was, and 50 per cent, could not say what butter was made of. Madamo Sarah Bornhardt will bo 59 next October. Few people (says tho Yorkshire Post) can realiso that Sarah of the unconqucrablo youth aud golden voice is to old. "Cortaiivly I am a Jewess," Madamo Bornhardt once said, "but not a German. All my family como from Holland ; Amsterdam was the birthplace of my humble ancestors. If I have a foreign accent — which I much regret — it is cosmopolitan, but not Teutonic." Madamo Bornhardt was bom in»Paris. Women moneylenders were lately denounced in strong terms by Judgo Addison, X.0., at tho Southwark County Court. "They lend money at Id in the shilling a week," ho said, "and if it is not paid to the minute they clap on another penny in tho shilling. I know the system. I havo heard so much of it that I mean to get at tho bottom of every case. I intend to put my foot down and crush it. It shall not grow in the Southwark district. So far as my experience goes, there is no greater pest in tho community than women who lond money at exorbitant interest to married women, whdn they know their husbands do nofc approve of their borrowing, and they do it through other worn on, who pose as poor widows doing their friends a good turn." To all outward appearances (says v Times war correspondent) it would seem that the Japanese havo felt their losses vory slightly. Naval officers will talk to you of tho end of thoir comrades in tho Hdtaiifio and Yoshmo wit)h a smile; in short, thoy will converse- of tho death of their men in a spirit which strikes us of tho West, as uncanny and dovoid of feeling. But lam inclined to think that the loss of tho Yoshino and Hatmiso on tho same day really made a great impression upon t)he navy, and it almost confirms me in tho viow which has constantly drrivod at tho back of my .mind, "that it is only in success that wo know tho Japanese." Aftor tho loss of tho Hatsuso tho enterprise of tbo fleet for a period seemed to como to an abrupt standstill. The special correspondent of tho Now York World in July drew a vory unfavourable picture of tho condition of tho Russinn army, and declared that Kuropatkin's tompor had bocoino so violent undor tho strain that oven his generals feared to approach him. Tho type (says The Times) is a common object, on British bnttlofiolds when things go wrong, and evidence- accumulates day by day pointing to a far from satisfactory state of affairs at tho Russian headquarters. Considorablo indignation has beon expressed at tho virulonco of tho attacks on Sir Henry Campbell-Bannorman, who is dscribed as boing in reality ' a courteous kindly gontleman. Wo think it has nover been denied that Sir Henry's privato lifo is blameless. Tho complaint is that he will moddlo in politics — Punch. Mr. Carncgio gives a. bonus of 10 per cent, upon their yearly wages to all employees upon tho Skibo estates who aro total abstainers from intoxicating drink. Ho bolievos that such are well worth their bonus, both from an economic and social point of viow. Intomperanco^Mr. Carnegio holds to bo "ono of tho crying oviis of Iho day." Tho famous Anntffeoffsky Orovo, near Moscow, which 'has just been levelled to the ground by a storm, has its parallel in this country (says tho London Chronicle). According to the legend the Moscow grovo was tho result of a wish expressed by tho Empress Anna, who thought that an avenue of trees would j improve tihe view from her window, and j it was mado in a single night. The splendid avonue which leads up to Hampden House, the seat of the Enrl of Buck- I ingliamshire, is said to have bad its ori- | g.in in much the same way. Tho story , goes that Queen Elisabeth w«a once staying in the 'house, and remarked to her host that a grove mado in tho forost would greatly improvo tho landscape. Immediately all the woodmen op the estate were bidden to sot to work, and in tho morning tho Virgin Queen saw from hor window that her fancy had been realised. Thero is tho avenue, a mile in length and a hundred yards across, to testify to tho truth of this tradition. It has often been remarked (says the Westminster Budget) that Lord Kitchener's success as a soldier was in great ! measure duo to his capacity as a business man. His father, Major Kitchener, was a soldier too, nnd a business man to boot. It maj^ not be generally known that tho fattier, of England's modern "organiser of victory" wont to Kerry in the first placo as tho practical man of a syndicate formed in England to develop the Irish peat industry on a new plan. The scheme ended in "smoko," the gallant Major lost somo of his spore cash, nnd at tho same time fell in love with tho (icenio beauty of Kerry. Tie accordingly took up his residence at Gunsbovo' House, and there tihe future Sirdar and his brother passod their earliest years. A gentleman who is now a magistrate in Listowol remembers the older Kitchener as a stern disciplinarian and a driver of hard 'bargains. The Service Clubs were yesterday a good deal perturbed {*mirl a London paper the other dnyT Not by a civilian criticism was the equanimity of Pall Mall and Piccadilly ruffled ; but by the last passage of the speech Lord Roberts mado in tlio House of Lords Iho night before. " Some Yeomanry," ho said, " overtook n. Boer, another Boer fell down, and they began to slash at him with their swords. Not very much damage was done, and one officer said, 'Shoot tho poor devil.' Then tho Boer, who said nothing, so long as they merely hacked at him with their swords, called out, ' Don't shoot me, sir.' " The "i-tory" — Lord Roberts only quoted it — is not an edifying ono from any point of view ; and tho mere quotation is very likely to I do harm to the name of our soldiers" for 1 humanity.