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Taranaki Herald, Volume LX, Issue 143773, 23 April 1912, Page 2

Sir Henry Lucy mentions a startling Biblical commentary by a young lady aged seven, daughter of a well-known member of the House of Commons. She and her sister, aged eleven, were listening to the reading of the 20th .chapter of Exodus, wherein it is written “1 the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate Me.” 1 am very sorry to hear that,” said the youngster, a note of profound disappointment in her voice. “I have always understood He had no faults.”

A double record has just been published (says the Sydney Sun), one by Mr. Holman, and the other by a sportirio- writpr. They concern the achievements of two heroes —J. C. L. Fitzpat' TTc,. —J Oh. Hi irutalgar. According to the sporting writer, the latter galloped for Ihr. ISmin. 21Jsec., and in that brief total of time won stakes amounting to £20,707. According to Mr. Holman, Mr. Fitzpatrick talked in the Legislative Assembly for 38 hours, '-uthe total beneficial result of his effort is not recorded. This forces a comparison between the two heroes, and invites everybody to consider which of the two is the more valuable. On the whole, we are inclined to think that the honors of the dispute belong to the racehorse. Certainly any man offered cither of the two as a present would choose Trafalgar.

H. Morgan, who is destined to remain an invited' guest of his Majesty King George at the Fremantle prison for seven years, is a unionist first, a prisoner of the Crown very much last (says the Sydney Daily Telegraph). Morgan, having been a tailor in his days of freedom, has been working in the tailoring room in the prison over since his incarceration. Frequently ho has expostulated on tho ground that it was against his unionistic principles to assist in thus unfairly competing with the outside people. This objection availed him nothing, however, so a day or two ago he decided to “go into conference,” and refused to continue work. He sent an intimation of his action to the Tailors’ Union, but apparently no notice was taken of it. Because of his unionistic principles Morgan was sentenced to three da3’s’ “soliary,” and was ordered back to work.

Circuses arc not tho only places in which men perform wonderful feats on horseback. A farmer was filling a thousand-gallon tank placed on a wag- • r-nv.ii by six horses at AVarracknaboal when the team took fright at the “honk-honk” of a motor-car. Tho farmer, on a pump stand seven feet above I'iis team, jumped on to the back of one of tho horses and from there attempted to arrest the panic. Clinging to the reins like grim death he man-, aged to keep them in hand for a quarter of a mile along tho road, when one of the shaft horses bashed into a big tree. The force of the collision threw the farmer 21 feet away into another tree, while the horses careered madly along the road until the harness was torn to tatters and the waggon smashed to matchwood. The plucky young farmer was picked up in an unconscious state and taken to the hospital, where it is feared that he has sustained a fracture of tho skull.

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