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PAGE TWELVE BIOGRAPHER TELLS OF PEER'S ROMANCE Earl of Ronaldshay Writes| } Sparkling Account of Lord Curzon The romance of Marquis Curzon's ent to his first wife, the beautiful Mary Leiter, daughtet of the Chicago avheat king, is disclosed By the | rl of Ronaldshay in the au- Sicgraphy, "The Life of Lord 2," the first volume of which has just been published in London. Lord Curzon's memory will be firm- ly established in the admiration and the affection of most people who read Lord Ronaldshay's frank and reveal- ing story, which carries Lord Curzon's career to the point where he became Viceroy of India. Lord Curzon em- erges as an exceedingly "human man, blessed with the greatest of all virtues--courage; endowed with one: of the finest human traits--ambition ; enobled by a rare quality--an inner humility of soul; and lifted above the generality of men by a consuming passion--for hard work. . Heroic Courage His courage was heroic. While he was a schoolboy at Eton he suffered from an ailment which at times crip+ pled him all through life, and event ually hastened his death, Lord Ron- aldshay discloses that the disease was "an incurable curvature of the spine." The discase was already re- cognized before he went to Oxford, It caused shooting pains in the side, and an unusual prominence of the hip. He saw doctors in London, and wrote: "They said it was weakness of the spine resulting from natural weakness ET. A A ST-- Are You Coughing? Are your throat and ton- sils sore? Are you troubled with Cough, Bronchitis, Catarrh and Head Colds? Use Mrs, Sybilla Sphar's Tonsilitis, Money back or good results, Sold by Osh- awa Druggists. n on my back. 1 I obeyed Striet injunctions --- wear" appliance, lie down for a good deal, and take no violent, or, indeed, very active exercise." Years later," he writes' to Mary iter i-- ho knows what an effort, and often a pain public a ance of an Kind? 1 seek the footlights, know what a sine i : on the stage many wonder, have any idea of the long hours spent in bed, of the aching back, of the incessant nerve pain in the 4 of the fearful steel Sage. in which I have to be incased when I un- dergo any strain in which standing up is involved? "They think me strong and arro- gant and self-sufficient. Little do they reck that it is an invalid ad- dressing them, who has only been driven to the duty because it is a duty, who has to be mechanically supported in order to stand upright for an hour, and who probably goes back to his bed to writhe in agony as an expiation for his foolishness." Yet this man travelled all over Asia, penetrated the Pamirs--the "roof of the world"--and won the Royal Geo- graphical Society's gold medal by de- termining the source of the Oxus. He bore the burden of the vice-royalty for seven years, He went to Geneva as Foreign Secretary, and dealt with the Turks in exhausting negotiations a year or two before he died. | George Curzon--then the Hon. G. N. Curzon, M.P, not yet even an Under-Secretary--met Mary Leiter by chance in a London ballroom in the summer of 1890, He was thirty, "a veritable pauper," as he described himself, with no prospect of the great prize--the Vice-royalty--which fell to him before he was forty, although from his Eton days the East had al- lured him, The meeting with Mary Leiter, says Lord Ronaldshay, "quickly led to something much more than mere ac- quaintanceship. Each recognized in the other tastes and interests which provided the basis of a natural and easy intercourse; and when on the eve of bidding cach other farewell at the close of the London scason he gave her, as a memento of the parties and pursuits which they had enjoyed together, an amulet, she returned the compliment by taking a peatl from her StoBiE-FORLONG & ad Office; Reford BA AD WELLING Ton SEs. Tomato ' "8. F. EVERSON, Local Manager . Private Wire System II King Street East, Oshawa ~-- Above C.P.R. Office Brick, Lime, Tile and Cement BRICK We still have a few cars of the old size which we can supply at the old price. Anyone thinking of building should get in touch with us at once as you will save about 10 per cent on your purchase. Sand and Lime Brick, $18.50 per thousand in truck loads Several f Pressed Brick at the low pri Severs cass of Premed | ek he price of $27.50 No matter what want in Brick, we guarantee to meet the of all outside competition. [ McLaughlin Coal & Supplies COAL, COKE, WOOD, SEWER PIPE and BUILDERS' SUPPLIES 110 King Street West Phone 1246 chain--'almost the only thing that is my very own'--and having it set as a stud and tie-pin for him, 'as em- blematic of the tear I shed on leaving London.'" Next Meeting She returned to Washington, and he went to St. Moritz for his health, working at the same time on his mon- umental book about Persia, Next summer, 1891, he saw her again in London, That settled his fate, Their engage- ment was kept secret for two years, until he had brought off his memor- able visit to the Amir of Afghanistan, but it dated from that Paris meeting. "Not even his most intimate friends," says Lord Ronaldshay, "were aware of the romantic story of his engagement; the secret had been preserved with extraordinary fidelity . + + During his lifetime George Cur- zon was strangely averse to making known the story. But before his death he wrote a note, from which it is clear that he was anxious that some day the facts should be disclosed, , . "For two years they had been en- gaged without the knowledge of a soul except Miss Leiter's parents, to whom the secret had been confided morc than a year after the engagement had been entered into, Unpremeditated "In the little sitting-room, in the hotel Vendome, on March 3, 1893 --the day that he had spent in Paris on his way home from his sccond journey Jeon on hie x Wien . the © he was Viceroy, court, an opponent, 'but a wrote, in a postcript 10 a letter of congratulation : "Let me beg as a per sonal favor that you will not make war_on Russia in my lifetime." An anonymous "Fervent Admirer" wrote earlier: "Of course it is a mat- ter cf no moment that--as a conse quence 'oi your policy~and the Gov- ernment's want of one--the markets are overborne by a keen sense oi anxiety; speculation is at an end and confidence exhausted. Nor will it even fractionally disturb the wonder ful balance of your intellect when you leaf that most business men have long since written you down a con- genital idiot. With every expression of my unalterable esteem, allow me to subscribe myself--" It says something for Curzon's Jense of humor that he preserved this etter, INFLUX OF TOBACCO GROWERS STARTS NGRFOLK COUNTY Brantford, April 19--That part of Norfolk County including Delhi, Langton, Lynedoch, Windham Town- ship and near-by territory has been completely revolutionized in appeay- ance bY the influx of tobacco growers this scason Greenhouses have been built on almost every farm and gmall drying barns erected. A few fields of burley will be grown, but hundreds of acres this season will be seceded to flue tobacco, The result is a boom in all branches of industry, service stations, general stores and hotels, OCEAN STEAMER , DOCKS AT QUEBEC Quebec, April 19--St, Lawrence River navigation for the 1928 season was officially opened today when the steamer Philip T. Dodge docked here on her way from Newcastle-on-Tyne to Three Rivers, Five liners are due at Quebec this week-end. Coming to Detroit? Ask Hotel Fort Shelby to purchase theater round the world--these two had spok- What was said was wholly unpremedi- | tated. When George Curzon had en- | tered the hotel for dinner it was with out the slightest anticipation of what was to be the evening's issue. containit were told her, he had felt that they destined for each ther; but for thre years he had not dared to speak, he cause there was certain work in his scheme of Asiatic travel and study which he had resolved through and which no ma would be justified in undert "The greater part of it was now accomplished, but some of it--the con- templated journey to the Pamirs and to Afghanistan--was still to do, And until that journey was either com pleted or definitely abandoned, he did not régard himself as free to enter in- to matrimony, illing Acsent wore en to each other words which they | alone in all the world might hear. | "It was just that the hearts of these | two people were no longer capable of | : the song which their souls ing, From the beginning, he! *To all 'this she bowed a willing come it would be the same with he as it was today and as it had bce vesterday.. A few more months, or il need be, years, she offercd in wil, sacrifice upon the altar of her devo tion, "The doubts and anxieties of th past three years, exaggerated by the necessity of warding off the all too frequent advanees of other suitors, vanished in the joy of the present cer- tainty. Before he left England the mutual pledge of secrecy and fidelity had been gladly given. It was faith- fully kept." It was not until March 2, "1895, that the engagement was announced, The day before he wrote to her "To- morrow is the day of the great deliv- feranee; we are delivered of our great ret." When in 1894 he finished his jour- ney to the Pamirs he sent her from Gilgit the pre-arranged cable "Saic" she wrote jn reply "Bless you-- your cable met me here, and [ cannot speak for thankiulness. I be- lieve T never had a moment of such transcendently blessed thankfulness in all my life. » , Thank God, Pamir is behind." assent. Tomorrow and for all time to] When Curzon returned to India to take up the viceroyalty a second time, Lord Lamington, at a Welcouling din- | per in' Bombay, proposed his health and that of Lady who was too unwell to accompany him from Eug- land. Curzon, says d Ronaldshay, "overcome by a sudden wave of emo- tion induced by the proposer's kindly | reference to this RA . . stood | for some moments choking with sobs, | unable to utter audibly the opening sentences of his reply." | { Curzon, in fact, was a man with a | tender heart and 2 nervous, emotional | nature, U, iously, mo doubt, and by way of self-protection, he hid his | real nature under a screen which gave | the world an impression of intolerable | ub hich was a leading spirit. The and fast verses run :-- | Charms and 2 man I sing, to wit--a MOSt SUPLNIOr person, Myself, who bears the fitting name of George Nathaniel €urzons From which "tis clear that even shen in swaddling bands I fay low, There floated around my head a sort of apostolic halo. i | { 1 That I am most remarkable there can- | DETROIT SPEAKER ANALYSES ACCIDENT CAUSES N.Y. Doctor Tells Toronto Convention Human Ele- ment Leads » Toronto, April 20.--Speaking on the human causés of accidents," before the Retail Delievery Association's an- nual convention here, Dr. C. P, Seg- ard, of New York City, said that the first point to be considered in de- veloping a scheme of accident preven- tion, is analysis of accidents and a grouping as to cause, The first grouping of accidents, he said, arc those caused by cquipment defects and those from human causes. Less than five per cent. of accidents can he attributed to equipment failure. He contended that improper handling of equipment is still a leader in accident | causes, and advocated more intensive ment to impress the student, because he believed that unless the instrpe- tion emphasizes the points they are apt to be forgotten, Dr. Segard expressed the opinion that conditions under which people work has an effect on accidents. Un. sanitary conditions for employees breed disloyalty, and disloyalty breeds accidents, he contended, Col. A. B. Barker, of the United States Chamber of Commerce, Wash- ington, 'spoke on "Street and High- way Safety." POLISH IMMIGRANTS 26000 THIS YEAR Montreal, April 19--Roman Mazur- kiewit, Polish Vice-Consul, stationed at Montreal, stated today that it has been estimated that 26,000 Polish immigrants will take up residence in Canada ths wear, an increase of two thousand over the number of sons Edinburgh, April 20~More than 60 ts of the Lanarkshire mins ing village of Harthill leit on Satur~ for Canada. ¢ groups of t and their families have emi- this area in recent years. ile the younger folks t- heartedly, many of the older ai were in tears. . The population at the 1921 census was Notices that work would cease in- definitely during the week-end of this week were posted at nine 'collieries in Lanarkshire. More than 2,000 miners will be thrown out of employment. FIREMAN FALLS THIRTY FEET + Port Arthur, April 19--Stanley Wilson, city fireman, was injured to- day when he fell from the roof of a louse here while assisting other fire« men in fighting a fire. 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