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THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, MONDAY, JULY 29, 1929. PAGE FIVE Britain Possesses 4 Wonders of Is Still Far Ahead of London, Eng. --Great achieve- ments of business and industry are not by any means confined to the United States. The possible belief that they are is clearly dispelled by Herbert N. Casson, of London, who calls attention to the "elght wonders" of British efficiency, e point he makes is "that Great Britain is still far ahead of all the countries in most of the po Rd that create a solid prosper- ity." "After all," he says, '"'sky-scrap- ers are not the only criterion of 5, What Britain does lack g in the art of self-adver- ent." Mr, Casson proceeds to enumerate the "eight things tnut 'are mot to be found either in the United States, or anywhere else, and each of which he declares to be "the. highest point in human achievement in its own line" Here they are:-- 1, The Midland Bank. This is the largest bank in the world, The big banks of New York are not to be. compared with it. It has deposits of over £2,000,- 000,000. Its total assets now stand at the unparalleled figure of £2,- 200,000,000. Most Progressive It is the most progressive Brit- ish bank, too, as well as the larg- est. It is not a vast inert mass of capital, It is dynamic. It is con. stantly offering new services to 1he British public. This big bank is not exceptionally large as compared with other English banks. There are four others that are almo 1 immense -- Lloyd's, Barcla's, Westminster and National Provin- cial. These are the "Big Five panks of Great Britain. They stand in a class by themselves. Their combined assets amount to more than - £9,000,000,000. What five banks in the United States, or what ten banks, can make such .a show- og! London Stock Exchange. This exchange in unique, not only in its size, but in the fact that it Is ational. a New York Stock Exchange lists mbout 1,100 securities. The London Stock Exchange lists more than 4,000. It has four times as many members as the New York Stock Exchange. As for volume of business, it has few artificial booms, . but it thinks nothing of handling 3,000,000 shares in a day. It is the one great international mart for the best securities of all civilized countries. It is well man- aged. It is under control. It does not antagonize the banks. That is why it is and will remain the centre of the world's finance. It is run primarily for investors, not for cliques of "bulls" and "pears." It hag its speculative side, but it is never overpowered by speculators, as so many Other stock exchanges are. There is al- ways a steadiness that makes it dif- ficult for panics and violent move- ments to arise. In other words, it is the best-managel and most reli- able stock exchange in the world. 8. Lloyd's. This famous Mari- time Exchange, too, is unique. There is nothing that even slightly resembles it in any other country. It dates back as an organization to 1771, and as a group of brokers to 1689. It has stood the shocks of eight generations, and it has never broken down. Lloyd's is an association of about 1,200 men. Individually, they are underwriters; collectively, they are Lloyd's. , They have a reserve fund of over $30,000,000. They have made the seas safe. If you ask why Britannia rules the waves, the un- swer is--"Lloyd's." 4. Dispatching-room of the Mid- land Rallroad. As every oue knows, the British railroad service comes nearest to perfection. In no other countries do trains run 300 miles without a stop. And in no other country are there so few ac- cidents. The entire Midland Railroad is operated from a single room in Derby. Not a train moves without an order from this room. This is the highest point of efficiency ever reached in the operation of rail- 0) 2 3 LORD QUEENSBOROUGH . Chairman of the London board of the 'third Canadian general in- vestment trust, will land in Quebec on July 27, to study the opportunities for investment ! 'which Canada offers, He will visit Montreal, Ottawa and To- ronto. all Other Countries in Most Import- That Create a Solid Prosperity, Says . Herbert N. Casson - [] SAY WITCHES MAY EXIST IN ENGLAND Author of Witcheult History Says Country Districts Have Them London,--"Witches still exist in this country, and, of course, every- one of us has his or pet superstitu- tion." Miss Margaret A. Murray, author of "Witchecult in Western Europe," and assistant professor of Egyptol- ogy 'at University College, London, made this statement to a Daily. News reporter when discussing the strange case of the Somerset farmer who was charged with using threats against a man whom he believed had bewitch- ed him, and very often it is a man who be- lieves himself bewitched," she said. "All our country districts have them, but I imagine Wales, Corn- wall, East Anglia and Lancashire are favorite places, "In France," said Miss Murray, "the witches have their organization or society, Their folk-lore shows that each canton has a fixed number. When one dies another takes his place, rather," she added with a laugh, "like our civil service--promotion by seniority. "I don't know if English witches have their secret society, but it wouldn't surprise me. "Motor cars which fly through vil- lages have not really brought them much nearer to the towns, or civil- ization, Witches flourish abroad in the Basque country, in remote parts of Finland, in eastern Europe, and the Balkans, "We all have our pet superstitions. We throw spilt salt over our left shoulder, or we refuse to pick up a pin whose point is towards us, or we won't walk under a ladder, or take off a sock that is inside out. "Broken mirrors, falling pictures-- these spell bad luck to a great many people. "Students commonly take charms into examination rooms. One I know took a potato, a piece of coal and several foreign copper coins. "Some parts of witchcraft have a sound basis.. For example, toads have always been associated with deadly charms, Liquid distilled from toads' skin is poison, "It is true also that the ointment with which witches have been known to anoint themselves to make them fly contained aconite, which affects the heart powerfully, making it irre- gular, If used before sleep, the witch might well suppose when she awoke that she had been flying." WELL FOUND IN CASTLE Portsmouth, -- During excava- tions in the Norman courtyard at Porchester castle, near Ports- mouth, a large well was uncovered at the foot of stone steps leading to the entrance to the keep, It is sald to have been sunk during the Napoleonic war, when a number of French soldiers and sailors were prisoners in the castle, roads, and it has been wholly de- veloped by English experts, Great Shipyards 6: Shipyards, The three greatest shipyards of the world are in the British Isles--at Glasgow, Newcias tle, and Belfast. Apart from one shipyard in Germany, there is uo other shipyard in any country that can be placed in the same crass with the "Big Three" of Great Bri- tain, The largest American ship- yard is a child's playground in comparison with these. 6. 'Carreras Factory. If a prize were offered for the most perfect and unique factory, it would not go to America. It would go to the new Carreras factory in London. This factory is an industrialized copy of the Temple of Bubastis, a goddess of ancient Egypt. It manu- factures its own climate, Its ma- chinery is so automatic that it makes $2,000 net profit a year per worker. It has created new stand- ards of comfort and hygiene for its workers. 7. Cadbury Factory, In spite of all the improvements that have been made in the humanizing of in. dustrialism, this old factory is still at the top. This is the only factory, so far as I know, that is managed by the brain-power and heart-power of 1s rank and file. It is the only: one that has received 35,000 sugges- tions from its workers, It has been practically self-governing for more thn twenty years. If you want to '| see the ripened flower of induustri- alism, you must go to Cadbury's, 8. Underground Station at Picca- dilly. This is London's latest Won- dor. It was opened last December 10, 1928. There is nothing else like it in any country. It leads to two subways that run 1,600 trains a day. The deepest of these subways lies 140 feet beneath the surface. ; 90 This station has eleven escala- tors. It has a vast Booking Hall | with display walls that show the latest fashions. It handles B50,- 000,000 passengers a year. It has a subterranean marvel, so deep that it could hold the highest sta- tue in London--the Nelson Monu- ment in Trafalgar Square. =Financial Post. "Women, as & rule, are the witches: The above illustration shows King George, ster Abbey after thanksgiving services held for the King's recovery fi London turned out to honor their King upon this his first public appearance since his illness, AFTER THANKSGIVING SERVICE Queen' Mary and Pring of Wales leaving Westmin- his recent long illness. All CASTLEREMINDS ONE OF SCOTT'S IVANHOE Famos Trysting Oak Pre- served on Lawn of Duke of Leeds' Agent Toronto.--At the uttermost limit of South Yorkshire, where the Os- bornes, dukes of Leeds, had their chief seat, adjoining some property of the Lumleys, earls of Scarbor- ough, Sir Walter Scott found ample material for several strikingly pur- trayed parts of his immortal work, "Ivanhoe," says Harwood Brierley in the Weekly Scotsman, Doubtless he visited this district--which lies between Sheffield and Worksopp-- to robtain local color for so many of the descriptions given in this won derful romance. It is a foregone conclusion that if he did not get entertainment in passing from tne Duke of Leeds or Earl of Scarbor- ough--the latter owning "Torquil- stone"--he was at least conducted over the grounds by their factors or land agents. The famous trysting oak, a "trysting tree" or place of trusts and confidences, was situated in Harthill walk as part of York- shire's most southerly parish, Hart- hill being the hill of the '"heort," hart. (horned creature), or stag. The early dukes of Leeds, with pre- vious titles of Marquess of Carmar- then and Earl of Danby, lie inter- red in a roomy vault under Hart- hill church; their modest resi- dence, before migration to Hornby castle, being at Kiveton park, which adjoins Harthill walk and the distinguished 'trystel-tree." Some "Ivanhoe" students konwn to the present writer have thought that Scott was a little remiss in not including Harthill walk among his plethora of notes given at the end of the book, Harthill walk points the way to Torquilstone castle at Tickhill, some nine miles to north-eastward, seven miles from Doncaster. This "walk" was an old green trackway or bridle-road through forest verd- ure leading arrow-straight from Harthill to Todwick, which are hardly over two miles apart, pass- ing in comparatively recent times through Kiveton park. The out- law band of Robert Locksley--this being evidently a name for Robin Hood taken from Locksley or Lox- ley village, in the Loxley Valley, near Shefield--met her at the Trysting oak, which stood abous five or ten minutes' walk from the Gospel oak by Todwick church gate, this particular village bea on the Shefield-Worksop high- road. Scott takes leave to make the tree-rendezvous and tis sw roundings rich with memories of the days of King Richard I (Coeur de-Lion), a monarch made very dear to all readers of romance, and the "Ivanhoe" pages have certainly furthered this sense of appreclu- tion. A little to southward of the cele- brated trysting-tree's young suc- cessor there is a slight depression containing a foul pond which is protected from Harthill walk by a hawthorn hedge. Here, according to present-day local tradition, it was the outlaws' wont to water their horses when encamped for conference around the trystel-oak. A Relic Preserved The original tree was much de- cayed in 1860; about 1890 it had quite given over bearing foliage. While apparently waiting to be torn to pieces by the next storm, this "Ivanhoe" relic was sawn down by. order of the Duke of Leeds and removed by his grace's agent, Mr, Mosey, to his residence, Lodge Hill, which is sitnated with- in 800 yards of the ducal Kiveton House (demolished in 1812 after the removal of Hornby Castle in the north riding). The present writer later viewed the remains of this historic tree landmark on the lawn where Mr. Mosey placed it, a brief inscription giving its history. I dare say readers will be glad to learn that his grace was impelled by sentiment to mark the trysting- jtree's site by a sapling oak (actual date of planting, October 3, 1v01), which was grown from an acorn dropped by the major oak in Earl Manvers's park, near Edwinstowe. On this ceremonial arbor day, when several sapling oaks were planted, the Duke of Leeds. through his estate agent, assisted Englishman Goes Back To Stone Age Style of Life Penrith, Eng.--To prove that a modern civilized man can revert to the primitive life of the Stone Age, and wrest a living from nu- ture by his own ingenuity and re- source, is the object of a remark- able experiment that is being car- ried out by a retired Lonaon schoolmaster, For the past three weeks he has been living the life of a "wild man' of the woods in the Lake District, fashioning primitive wea- pons out of sharp flints and pieces of wood, and weaving himself clothing from leaves and rabbit skins, He is Hatton Magnus, for many years a master at a school in the London district, and an authority on nature topics, His present pos- tal address is a lonely cave in the wilds, and his nearest neighbor is a wily dog fox, which has twice stolen his frugal breakfast. Weird Figure After a 15 miles drive in a mo" tor car and an hour's scramble across country, I came across Mag- nus in his Stone Age villa. He had a beard and his skin was tanned the color of dark mahog- any. In front of his cave a wood fire was burning and he was busily engaged in grilling a fish he had Just caught. "I am really doing this as the result of a bet," he told me. 'A colleague of mine said that no civ ilized man could exist if suddeus ly thrown on his own resources on a desert island or in a desolate par of the country, I challenged that statement, and here I am proving that my friend is wrong." Mr. Magnus undertook to take with him no knife, matches, string, or other implements and material which might make life in the wilds simpler. "For the first two days 1 was really hungry, and I thought a would have to seek aid. Then I caught a rabbit in a trap I manag- ed to contrive with strips of fibre woven together. I found some eggs the next day and since then I have never gone really hungry." Mr, Magnus showed me the in- terior of his cave. It was a testi- mony to his conquest of the "wild," "You see I lack nothing," sald Mr. Magnus. And then he added, as an afterthought, as he fingered his beard--"at least the only thing I haven't been able to manufacture is a razor. I did try shaving with a bit of sharp flint, but it was tov painful." He told me, however, that threes weeks of the Stone Age had been sufficient, and that this next week he will be back at home, by the Duke of Newcastle, gave un banquet and joined in public festi- vity with 200 of his tenants, the scene being a large marquee at Kiveton Lodge Hill. I am sorry to report that the oak sapling has not flourished since it was planted 27% years ago, the only explana- tion available being that trophy hunters have crippled it, notwith- standing .that the estate agents have been careful to maintain the strong iron palisading which ought to have afforded it better protec. tion. All the formalities which pre ceded Torquilstone's storming are visualized in the shadow of the Harthill walk trysting tree, where, of course, the cleverly-penned ulti- matum was duly signed. Here we have a small band of daring out- laws concocting outrageous . and even deadly schemes of revenge within the leafy canopy of a tree only 'three arrow-flights from an immenesly powerful, well-manned, stone-built castle." For solid rea- sons of his own, Sir Walter placed Torquilstone at Todwick where no castle ever was, the story being somewhat impaired by this bit of 'literary license." For surely Reg- inald de Boeuf, the never unpre- pared puissant Norman, could have made short work of the rabble of outlaw bowmen if they were assem- bled within merely three arrow- flights of the stormy-looking ecas- tle. It seems hardly reasonable that a few men gathered under a tree could assail with impunity a puissant baron's stronghold with towers and turrets facing them. Great Irish Electrical Project is Now in Danger Dublin--Disturbing rumors have been circulated in the Free State for some weeks to the effect that a mechanical defect would prevent the completion of the contract for the Shannon electricity scheme within the schedule time, While the extent of the trouble has been greatly exaggerated, cer- tain difficulties have undoubtedly been met. According to a semi-official statement, however, these are of a compartively minor nature. Never- theless, as the reputation of the Free State government is so deep- ly involved in the undertaking, which is costing the country £5,- 000,000, minister of industry and commerce will allay public alarm by explain- ing the situation without delay, more especially as experts in pri- vate stated that a delay of at least six: months is inevitable. As far as can be gathered from well-informed sources the trouble has arisen through the subsidence of a section of embankment some 200 yards in length near the great dam which stretches across the Shannon three and a half mues it is expected that the, below the outlet of Lough Derg at Kilalloe, This bank, intended to confine the river, has so flattened out as to alter the level of the wa- ter, which must be restored to the prescribed 25 feet before the scheme can come into operation. When constructing the embank- ment the engineers were well aware of the boggy nature of the surrounding land, and were divid- ed in opinion between this and at- ternative courses--as is commonly the case in large engineering works --but eventually decided to take the risk of erecting the embank- ment in its present position. The series of dry seasons experi- enced since the commencemnt of the work contributed to this deci sion, but a flood in the spring prov- ed that the ground was too sort to support the bank. The remedy lies in resorting to one or other of the rejected alter- natives, which would involve either embanking further inland, or al- lowing the river to assume its new natural level. This last would re- sult in the diversion of a railway and the flooding of some 1,000 to 1,600 acres of land. a ER NEW IRISH STAMPS The Irish Free State recently issued a set of stamps to commem. orate the centenary of the Catholic emancipation. The set is comprised of three stamps, two, three and nine pence, and is to be in use for a short period. Daniel O'Connell, whose likeness will be found on all values of this set, was born in 1775 near Cahirciveen, county Kerry, and was surnamed 'The Liberator" on account of his unswervng ad- vocacy of the cause of Irish Catholicism. IRISH PLANTING TREES ON LAND INFIT TO FARM Free State Department of Agriculture at Work on Elaborate Scale Dublin~The growing. shortage in timber lends added interest and im- portance to the efforts now being e by the Irish Free State De- partment of 'Agriculture to promote afforestation. - As elsewhere, during the war the country was ruthlessly depopulated of its trees, and previous to that a steady campaign of prodi- gality had been pursued for some 20 years, Nothing had been done to offset the inroads except for some attempts on the part of private owners. As a natural consequence, today Ireland is not only the least wooded country in Europe, but it is in serious danger of becoming in a few years' time practically a treeless country, A forestry act, however, is now in operation which empowers the De- partment of Agriculture to control the indiscriminate destruction of trees, particularly young trees, by making it compulsory upon land owners to obtain the sanction of the forestry branch of the department before any trees are felled. The trees planted now will not mature for 40 years, and the idea is to pre- serve the old timber until the re- planting has had time to take effect. Under the afforestation scheme planting is being undertaken on an unprecedented scale. Although the project is only in its infancy, a for- est of 40,000 acres lying between Recess in County Galway and Cashel in Tipperary is already being re- claimed and set with young trees. A large estate in Kilkenny has al- so been acquired on which 1,000,000 trees will be planted. Successful plantations are also proceeding in three eat mountain areas--the Slieve Bloom Mountains, Kelworth Mountains and the Wicklow range. This the Department of Agriculture has chosen for a school of forestry. Tracts selected for afforestation are only those which could not be put to any agricultural use. BAN PUBLICATION OF LIFE OF KING Biograhy Rejected Because It Trespassed on 'Privacy London.--Written by an anony- mous, author, a projected biography of the King has been banned on the ground that it trespassed undesirably on His Majesty's privacy. Contracts for publication at home and abroad, in serial as well as book form, had therefore to be hurriedly cancelled. ' "I made an agreement some months ago," 'Mr, Walter Hutchinson, chair- man and managing director of Hutchinson & Co. Ltd., explained "to publish a' life of the King by an Englishman on the understanding that it would be submitted for ap- proval to the officials of the court. I ave been informed that this condi- tion could not be. fulfilled in this in- stance, and accordingly I refused to have anything to do with the publi- cation, . The name of the author was not disclosed to me." Another reason for the ban, it is reported, 'is that the identity of the author could be easily detected ow- ing to the intimacy of the matter. Plea Made For World Patriots London.--H. G. Wells has radlio- cast a speech touching on the prob- lems of peace. "Putting it compactly," he said, 'every sovereign state in the world is now attempting to become--it is being forced by modern necessities to the attempt--a 'world state and in oné world there 'can only be one world state. There is the basic fact of the peace problem before you in a nutshell. We have to cease being national and. become {instead cos- mopolitan. We must cease to think nationally and think instead inter- nationally. We have to put world peace before patriotism." DIES OF PANIC London.--The . story of a wife who committed suicide through fear for her husband's safety since he had taken up flying was told at an inquest here. The woman was Helen Ada Burt of Hyde Park Ter- race, and she died from poison self- administered. Stewart John Burt, the husband, told the coroner that he was a mo- tor engineer, and took up aviation about three years ago. - Since then his wite had been very nervous be- cause she considered flying danger- ous. He took her up twice to con- vince her that it was quite sae, but she was not convinced. His wife told him that she would poison herself, and also that she would use - an. automatic pisto}, which he gave her during the war, but he did not pay any attention to those remarks. Before he took up flying his wife was always very cheerful. \ "When I arrived home in the evening after flying in Bucking- hamshire," he sald, "my wife told me that she had been terribly anxious and thought I had been killed. She was distressed and very excited. I suspected she had taken something, and sent for the doctor, who sald - he thought she had been poisoned." : DARWIN'S HONE IS OPENED T0 PUBLIC National Memorial to Great English Naturalist in Kent London.--~Down House, the home of Charles Darwin, at Downe, in Kent, which has been presented to the British Association by Mr. Buck- ston Browne, F.R.C.S,, as a national memorial of the great naturalist, was declared open to the public recently by Sir Arthur Keith, F.R.S, The opening was attended by a large com- any, who travelled to Downe from Burlington House in motor-omni- buses, the village being remotely situated, four miles from Orpington, the nearest railway station, and un- served by public conveyance. After leaving the high-road, the way to the house lies through miles of coun- try lanes. Down House was purchased for Darwin by his father, Dr. Darwin, and he took up his residence there on September 14, 1842, Darwin was then in his 34th year, and three years previously he had married his cousin, Emma Wedgwood. His reason for moving into the country was, as he said, that attendance at scientific societies and ordinary social duties in London threw too great a strain on his rather indifferent health, Darwin worked continuously at Down House for almost 40 years. Preparations for the "Origin of Species" went on from 1842 until the | work received its final form in 1858- 59, As has been well said, from Down, s Darwin shook the world and gave human thought an impress which will endure for all time. Down was also the home of a large and happy family, perhaps the most gifted family ever born in Eng- land. There the great naturalist died on April 19, 1882, in his 74th year. Mr. Buckston Browne has pre- served numerous articles associated with Darwin's daily life, Among them are the snuff-jar which Darwin kept, not in his study but in the hall, in the vain hope of breaking himself on which Mrs, Darwin used to play when her husband came to the drawing-room after his regular peri- ods of two hours' work. In the study is his circular revolving writing table fitted with many drawers, and his chair, In other rooms there are re- Jlicas of the portraits of Darwin and commissioned by Mr, Buckston Browne. The bust of Darwin by Mr. Charles Hartwell, R.A, now in the Royal Academy, is to be removed to Down House as a present from Dr. Joseph Leidy, representing the Am- erican Association for the Advance- ment of Science. Another interest- ing gift is the microscope given by Darwin to John Lubbock (afterwards Lord Avebury) when he was a boy. Sir William Bragg, President of the British Association, presided at the opening. "A Great Man" Mr, Buckston Browne said that Disraeli, who was almost contempor- ary with Darwin, asked in one of his novels what was a Great Man; and he answered the question by saying that a great man was "a man who influenced the mind of his genera- tion," Darwin influenced the mind riot only of his own generation but of the whole world for all time. Therefore, Darwin was superlatively a great man. - Like Shakespeare, Darwin required no monument, But it might be permitted to them to treasure, preserve, and keep sacred always the house that sheltered Dar- win, the things in it that he had handled, and the grounds he had walked upon. It was this which he (Mr. Buckston- Browne) was extra- ordinary privileged to accomplish, assisted by Major Leonard Darwin, the surviving son of Darwin, and other members of the Darwin family. Sir William Bragg thanked Mr. Buckston Browne for his national gin and accepted it on behalf of the ritish Association. Sir Arthur Keith, speaking after he had declared Down House to be open to the public, said that he had enshrined the personality of a great man, Darwin's home was one which they were justly proud to claim as English. Their distant successors, he was sure, would be proud of it, not so much, perhaps, on account of the books which were composed and written within its walls, but rather because of the personality of the man who wrote them. In the ulti- mate scale of reckoning, men would ness; Darwin was both good and eat. They had the best of reasons or believing that he came of a stock which had lived for more than 3,000 years on English soil; that seemed a sufficiently. long period to make him English to the core. He was gentle and modest almost beyond parallel, loving and loved in his home as few men had been, thoughtful for his community, just and charitable even to those who sought to brand him as an enemy of mankind. Down House was an abode of goodness as well as of genius; that was one reas- on why it should become a national heritage. , International Character The present ceremony had an in- ternational character. and it was right that that should be so. Darwin, EMPLOYED ON OUR ROADS Close to 35,000 persons are em- ployed in road construction in Can- ada each vear, of the habit, and the grand piano |; always place goodness above great-|. Interesting News and Pictures of The British Isles Strange Example of Dual Personality Aired in Court Unusual Plea Is Made in Defence of Well-Dre London Woman Who Was Charged With Obtaini # London,--That a well-dressed Money, woman who was in the dock af Westminster had committed an al- leged offence while under the ine fluence of what was termed her "non-real personality' was the sug- gestion made by a medical expert. The woman who was stated to possess a dual personality is Kath- leen O'Brien, 35, otherwise Norah Harrison of Westbourne Grove, W. She was charged with obtaining £24 by false pretenses from the Pro- fessional Classes Ald council of Brompton road, Kensington, 8S. W. It was alleged that in the au- tumn of last year, over a consider- able period, accused appealed in an assumed name from her res dence for assistance. In her letters she pleaded ill-health and poverty, and stated that her landlord was distraining for rent, and that she was threatened with eviction, ete. As a result of those communica- tions she was asked to give names of persons who could vouch for her character, and she then, was stat. ed, wrote her own references, us- ing fictitious names and accommo- dation addresses in different parts of London. In Mental Home Det.-Sergt. Widocks stated that the woman told him that she couiu not remember what had occurrea. She had formerly been an inmate of a mental home, and had a dual personality. Mr, O'Connor said that on behalf of the accused he must put forward the plea of mental irresponsibility. Describing himself as a specialist in clinical psychology, Dr. Rgbert M. Riggall of Wimpole street, stat- ed that in 1927 O'Brien was one of his patients. The case was: one of dissociation of personality, in oth er words, '""dual personality." Magistrate: "What exactly does that mean?" Dr. Riggall: "It means that she was suffering from an extremely rare condition, in which there is a distinct second personality outside consciousness. The effect is that she would be quite irresponsiple for certain actions--the actions of her second personality would not be known to her true personality." The doctor further explained that what O'Brien did in her wrong moods would be forgotten when she returned to her true personu.- Ye. h Magistrate: "Would such a per- son konw what he or she was do- ing if a letter were written? Woyld the person know that they had written it?" "No." , You mean they would forget that it was a good or bad thing they nad uxley, painted by Mr. John Collier, rb "Yes." It would only be remembered by reviving that personality by a pro- cess of hypnosis." Mr, O'Connor: "When the act was completed she would be In complete ignorance of having per- formed it?" "Not exactly. So long as she was in that second personality the act would be remembered, but when she came back to her true person- ality it would be forgotten." Magistrate: "Is this not indeed a rare form of mental disease?" Dr. Riggall: "It is well known among psychologists." Magistrtae: "Is it now put for- ward in mitigation or as insanity?" Mr. O'Connor: 'Irresponsibility of action at times." O'Brien was committed for trial, bail being allowed. LADY STUDD'S PAIR h HORSE CARRIAGE London.--Lady Studd the Lady Mayoress of London, made history recently by driving the Lord Mayor Sir Kynaston Studd, in & pair- horse phaeton from the Mansion House to the Polytechnic in Regent street, west, It is the first time that a Lady Mayoress has driven a Lord Mayor in a carriage through the streets of the city. The horses were two of those which usually pull the Lord May- or's coach; and as they trotted along Cheapside they were watch- ed with interest by a crowd of peo- ple. Lady Studd, who i§ a Russian princess, has always been a keen driver, and is often to be seen' driving in Hyde Park, -- CANADIANS' HOSTESS the party of Canadian news: papermen and their wives whe recently visited her home a Cliveden, England.