Daily British Whig (1850), 20 Jan 1912, p. 8

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The Place That Has Been Restored By King Georgs to Its Rightful Position Dates Back Three Thous- 'and Years and Is a Mystery From the Fact That It Mas Always Held the Reverence of the Hindu Race. On the day of his durbar His Ma- jesty King George the Fifth restored the city of Delhi to its ptatus as the chief city of all India: The removal of the Government headquarters from Calcutta to the city of the Emperors was the greatest tribute which the British Empire could have id to the vast Empire of Indias. s, in addition to the other boons which the King has so graciously granted to his Indian subjects, will cement the bonds of true British pa between ns- tive and English throughout all e provinces of ancient realms of the Mahrattas freebooters and will quash all the rumors of unrest and sedition. Mr. Percival Langdon in an article in The London Daily Telegraph writes the followin BE legs i { ¥ = most historic city of all India: There has scarcely been a period in Indian history, from the misty days of the Mahabharata, 3,000 years ago, to this present year of grace, at which Delhi has not been the key of Hin- i dustan. One is at first inclined to wonder why this somewhat feature- less and unfertile plain beside the brown Jumpa. waters should have so , enthralled the people of India from {all time. Of other capitals there has been the usual ebb and flow of popu- larity. Scores have vanished utterly. It would puzzle ninety-nine out of ay hundred Indian civilians to place ofthand Kanauj, Rohtas Hampi, See Ujjain, Mandu, Nadiya, Gulbarga, atl Sonagaon--scanty though such a list of the abandoned capitals of In- dia. Why, then, has Delhi remained? How hits she escaped the fate of Kan- auj? which once claimed suzerainty over her, or of Hastinapura, from . which her founders came? The an- swer to this question, like most hie torical problems, is to be found upon the map. India has glways been in- vaded from the northeast. Age after age the hardy mountaineers of the rug and unfertile central plateau of Asia swarmed down, through the Kharibat, upon the rich plains of the | Five. Rivers, and there heard of even | richér land, and cities farther away to the southwest. But to reach them there lay- but one road, and across that road lay Delhi. | To the' left of the onconting hordes | =hordes which, it must be remember- ied, were obliged to live entirely on the country--the advanced spurs of the Himalayas and deep rivers barred the way; to their right lay the water- less 'deserts of Sind and Rajputana. Only along the line of what is now the most famous highway of the world. the Grand Trunk Road there opened out an easy and well-supplied avenue towards those other lands 'of corn and vine'and wealth. Moreover it has always been the che point along the route that could not safely be left in the ¢1 mv!« possesgion. . It could not be passed hed Ro it was always around Delhi that the [ercest storm of re- sistance and attack arose and it was always at Delhi that the latest con- queror soon found himself obliged to re-erect the wallg that he had himself so recently levelled. And as years passed the slow but tremendous force of prestige began to invest this little central riverbank with a superstitions importavee. - A man who aimed at the Indian purple was a mere clan chiefs tain, or successlo! buccaneer, until he had force! hia w inte Delhi. There Iwas but ons Tioperial roll of Indian | names, and 8 king whe had not his own upon it could at the best claim but a previneia! immortality. Delhi was the touchstone. Fifty year. ago Lawrence and Nicholson knew this. and this was { the reason why they flung every man { that could by any poksibility be spar- {ed from the Punish and the frontier fagninst these red wall At all cost { Pelhi had to he rotaken. There was ) an end, or even tite, of the great | ating + Dellnt "remained | in the hands of the rebéls; with Delhi in our possessios ihe heart was crush ed out of the rebels' cause That was why Nicholion took the mure timid councils of Wilson by storm, and that is why the name of the already half- deifi "*Nikalsain" has joined the Jong-closed lists of legendary Indian heroes in the mouths of the common people. FoF whatever his generous nature may have said of Alexander Taylor, it was Nicholson's dead hand which gave us back Delhi, and there with the Empire of India which is poming 80 largely in men's minds to- y. + Mat Sm ---- Why He Didn't Do It. The Archbishop of York was a great favorite with the Royal Family. and-a princess upon one cecasion told him e ought to marry, as a wife be of more use to him than a dozen curates. "Bat Auppoting we didn't agree?" é 5 "Well, you don't always agrees With your ourates, do youl "Io; but then always send Mem away! 1 can't do that with a wife." Made the Shoes Fit. / The Maoris, inhabitants of south sea islands, found themselves in possession of a supply of shoes. In stead of seeking suitable sizes 'cut off their toes to fit whenever it was necessary. | South A! foa's Populat 'The Union of South Africa, includes the Transvaal, Cape Colony, Natal, and Orange Free State, his s population of 6,000,000 people. {degrees below freezing i Ay THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG. SATURDAY, JANUARY 20, 1912. : : ih § YE ANCIENT PILLORY. Existed In "Merrie" England as Late as 1887--1Its Original Intention. The pillory was done away with by Act of Parliament in the year 1837, and it is smazing that it should have endured until that date, for it was & mode of punishment which could be made so extremely barbarous as to be 8 crying scandal to any na- tion. This engine of torture seems to have been known be'ore the Conquest, ander the name of "stretch-neck." which 'is pleasantly suggestive of its functions, says The London Globe. Edward 1. enacted that all stretch pecks should be made of proper size so that the life of the occupatrt should not be endangered, and a print of the reign of Henry VIII. shows very clearly what the pillory was like in those days. The culprit mounted upon a stool, at pne side of which was fixed a pole, supporting & pair of boards hinged together, and with holes cut in them large enough to admit the wrists and neck. The hands and arms were thus held on a level with the face and the appalling stiffness which this must have caused can well be imagined. Thus confined and powerless, the of- fender was placed in some public spot, where the riffraff employad themselves hurling filth, sticks and stones at him until they were tired or until the object of their sport suc- cumbed, as not infrequently came to pass. It would seem that primarily the pile was intended for cheats of all inds, such as mountebanks, fraudu- lent dealers in horses, coal, corn, and so forth, and we read in Fabian that the Mayor of London in 1287 "did sharp correction upon bakers for mak- ing bread of light weight; he caused divers of them to be put in the pillory, as also one Agnes Daintie, for selling of mipgled butter." Boothsaying and other magic arts were also punished with the pillory. It would appear that famous men did not appear in the pillory until after 1637, when a star chamber de- ctee forbid the printing of any boek or pamphlet without permission from the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of London, or the university authorities, and also made an order that any printer who did not conform to this and set up a printing press should not only be pilloried, but alsu whipped through the City of London. One of the first 40 suffer under this infamous law was Leighton, father of the archbishop of that name, who, in defiance of the order, printed a book entitled "Zion's Plea Against' Pre- lacy." Leighton suffered for his tém- erity by being pilloried, fined $50,000, degraded from. the ministry, branded, whipped, having an ear cropped 'and his nostrils 'skit. Prynne was'-placed several times in the pillory for having libélled Queen Henrietta by anticipa- tion and on being imprisoned occu- fed himself' with' writing his "News rom Ipswich," for which he was again pilloried and forfeited his remaining ear. -' : ¢ . Burton and Doctor Bastwick were also pilloried at the same time, the latter for publishing. a reply to a cer- tain Bhort, which concluded: "From , pestilence and famine, from Pletons. priests . and ~ deacons good iver us!" Strafford is told by "the way 'in which the three underwent their 'pilloryings. "They stood two hours in the pillory. ~The 1ace was full, of people, who cried and Rowied terribly, especially when Bur ton was cropped. a Dr. Bastwick was very merry; his wife, Dr. Boe's daughter, mot gn a stool and kissed him. His ears peing cut off, she called for them, put giem in a cleab handkerchief, and orvtied them sway with her. Bastwick old the people the Lords had coliar-gays at court, 'but this was his collar-dag. rejoicing 'much in it. Club-8winging Extraerdinary. During" the last few weeks come marvellous feats of club-swinging en durance have been performed in New South Wales. At Tamworth, Tom = Burrows, an Australian, swung a pair of clubs weighing three poufs for 98 hours 50 minutes without a stop. This record was breken a week later at West Mait- land by Jack Beamish, an English- man, who went 100 hours before he | gave in. One would think it would be impos- sible for any one human to beat this, but beaten it was, by a club-swingger named Lawson, who, at Arindale, swung continuously for 161 hours. It % believed that the above are world's records. 1 i Artificial Snow. A curious instance of the formation of artificial snow was witnessed om one occasion in the town of Agen, in France. A fire broke out in a saw mill when the temperature was 10 point: The water thrown upon the fire was in stantly vapotized and, rising in the cold, dry sir, was immediately con- densed and fell as snow. With bright starlight and a strong northwest wind blowing, the whirling snow above and the raging fire below, a brilliant spec tacle was presented. Baked Hamburg Steak. i Take about 25 cents' worth of ham- bur deat, cut 3 Sood sized onion up , season wit pepper and beat an egg into it. Put in drip. ing pan with meat crippings of any Kind snd about a cup of water. Bake until done, take out meat, make a gravy, pour over roast and .. It is also fine tooked in toma- Pour can of tomatoes over it be- IS YOUR NAME TAYLOR? Twenty-Five Million Dollars Awalt Claimants Who Prove Right. Yet another romantic story of lost heirs is at present engsging the st tention of the law; the fortune await ing the rightful claimants being no less than $25,000,000. The history of this fortune is a singular one. About the middle of the eighteenth cent Peter Taylor, a native of Falkirk, mi- grated to Hélland, after quarrelling with his brother, William Taylor. Pet- er not only amassed at wealth in Holland as a grain ler, but also married a rich Danish lady, his for- tune and estate, by a will dated 1785, ultimately passing to a nephew, also named Peter Taylor. An extraordinary provision in the will, however, was dat in the event of the nephew dying childless the money would lapse one hundred years, and then bedivided among the vext-of%kin. The nephew died child- | 1838. A hundred years having passed, legal firms in the city of Glasgow are now engaged in trying to trace the next-of-kin. Of course, there has been a wild scramble on the part 4 the meny members of the great Taylor family, but one of the principal claim- ants to the fortune is William Tay- lor, an old man of eighty, living at Coxhill Farm, near Falkirk. He is in the direct line, and he distinctly remembers his father speaking of his dealings with young Peter Taylor. Peter was a harumescarum boy, and leit for Holland in a hurry. e of- ten spoke of a rich uncle he had in Amsterdam. There is no doubt that Peter Taylor did die worth a huge fortune, and that he came from Fal- kirk. Under a Duteh Act, however, all unclaimed money after five years pass into the hands of the Govern- ment; but as the law was passed in 1852, long after the will was made, the Taylor families are doing all they can to prove that the law was not retrospective. Explorers and the Pigmy Women. Dr. Eric Marshall, a member of the recent - British expedition to Dutch New Guinea, has lectured in London on thie pigmy race of that land. The village, he has said, consists of only about ten huts, buik on piles, high on the wooded slope of a mountain 'of the interior. The pigmies range in height from 4 feet 2 inches to 4 feet R inches. It is believed that they are the original race of the vast island, and that the taller men of the swampy plains are the members of ! the tribe who have migrated and, in | the course of generations, aequired greater stature through getting bet- ter food. The huts are quite unfurnished ex- eept for a box of gand in the centre oft the flpor, which serves as a fire- lace. The explorers were never al. owed to see any of the women, thoitgh for a chance of photograph- ing "them they offered two axes--un- | told wealth to a tribe that has no knives and only one axe, The expedition explored 3,000 square miles of country hitherto untrodden by a white man. Of the six English. men, one was drowned, and two others were invalided home, while the unhealthy climate led to 83 per cont. of the coolies from Java being inyulided out of the country, and the deaths Jf i2 pe: cent. Note on the Bank of England. Drummond Castle, Crieff, Perth. ¢hire, whieh the present Earl of An. caster is reputed to have sold, came ints the Ancuiter family through the present peer's grandmother, a daugh- ter of Sir John Heathcote, a fabul- ously weathy man, who, with others, founded the Bank of England, and in 1723 was made a baronet. It was through this lady that Grimthorpe Castle; in Lincolnshire, ansther state- ly pile, came to the Ancasters. Orig- ally the seat of the Berties, parts of it date from the reign of King John, though by far the greater por- tion was the work of Vanbrugh. Many have been: te visits of sove- reigns to both houses. The last roy- alties to stay at Drummond were the King and Queen of Spain, on their first visit to England after their mar. riage. The present Lady Ancaster is a pieturesque-looking American with { much individuality and a taste in sartorial matters quite out of the common. She is a daughter of Mra. Harry Higgineg, whose huskand is so prominent a member of the board of directors at the Opera House in Covent Garden. epi m------ Football Once Banned. Football was forbidden in Queen Elizabeth reign under pain of im prisonment, the reason being the ex- treme brutality of the game. - And James I. debarred "all rough and violent exercises like football" from his court. In spite, however, of the footballs." Too Oid For a Calf.' There is a certain poe:ireacher in prodigal son. About seven years between his visits to a i i i | hi 4 th: whipper. Wales whe has a favorite sermon on | {the play we witnessed last night was good or bad. Oh, fudge! Suppose 1 do tell it? No | one will believe it THOROUGHLY RELIABLE "ii BAKER'S are obmined PREMIUM NO. 1 ' CHOCOLATE {Blu¥ Carton, Yellow Label) making Cakes, Pies, Puddings, Frosting, Ice Cream, Sauces, Fudges, Hot and Cold Drinks THE. STANDARD FOR 131 YEARS INJURED GUILT, He Felt Hyrt That He Was Not Trust: ed More Than die Was. i Ee had been a good groom, as he | will tell you himself, and had been dismissed from his gréomship with. out, as he argues. rdequate reason. | The unfortunate dispute which led to | his dismissal was at the most a differ- | ence of opinion. His view was that.s | grcom is entitled by way of perquisite | to take from the corn bin and carry home with him as much corn as a | groom's hens require. His master | | held the opposite opinion, "but even ] A In if he was night," thought the groom, "surely a Hater aught not to sack his | servant everytime they disagree in an | . ethical Presley gy if . dis- | Registered 53 Highest Awards in Furope and America miss me it was adding msult to injury 4 Tra to accuse me of theft." i WALTER BAKER QQ CO. Limited | DORCHESTER, MASS. He gave the matter some thought - during the following weeks, per 4 a Eswblished 1780 further consideration occurred to him* "When a man has been called a thiet and has suffered for the alleged theft, surely he is entitled to some pro ceeds?" ' So, having promised an orgy to his depressed poultry and having bided his time, he resorted quietly one even- ing, about a week after termination of his service, to the stables of his old master-in search of vengeance and last basket of corn. In his day the | stable key had been religiously kept | in a niche in the wall, close to the | stable 'door, so concealed by the ivy | that it could hardly .be discovered except by those who knew of its ex- net whereabouts. Ta & man so far removed from being wholly bad as to have an extremely high opinion of | his wronged virtue it was the last | traw to discover that the door was | locked and that the key was no longer | n that niche. A moment's considera. | tion showed him that the reason of tiiia change must be connected with | ! MONTREAL, CAN. "HOLIDAY FRUITS NAVAL ORANGES, SEEDLESS LEMONS FLORIDA GRAPE FRUIT, MALAGA GRAPES, RIPE BANANAS A. J. REES, 166 PRINCESS ST. Phone 58 0 0000000000000 000000000 NEW YEAR'S GIFTS § We carry a large assortment of the following use- ful New Year's Gifts. Nickle Plated Tea Pots, Nickle Plated Coffee Pots, "Fancy Coffee Percolators From $1.50 to $7.00 Silver Knives, and Forks, Silver Spoons, Carving Sets From $1.50 to $10.00. Carpet Sweepers, Etc. ELLIOTT BR OS. 770rincess St 00000400000 00000000000000000 J nse "Well, I do think," he murmured | 000000000 bitterly--"I do 'think that they might | ave trusted me that far."'--Punch. Ministers at Work. i One of the earlies®™duties Mr. Win. ston Churchill performed, on being | ippointed First Lord of the Admiral | ty, was to go for an inspection trip n a submarine. ok ! There was a gale roaring out-of the | wathwest at the time, but Mr. | Churchill went straight on board thé ' vessel D2, from the admiral's barge, | ind after some evolutions the 'craft | was submerged, remaining below for | over half an hour. | Mr. Winston Churcliill is the first Admiralty chief to descend in a sub. | warine, but he is not the first Cabi. not Minister to perform personal duty | in connection with his post. ! Mr. John Burns, as head of the Local Government Board, is here, there, and everywhere attending to the work of his department, super- | vising and superintending. { During the recent outbreaks of foot | «nd mouth disease the then Minister | for Agriculture, Earl Carrington, in | most cases visited the affected farms, | and saw personally that the nécessary | precautions had been takep. 1 ' TTT : TT TT A former Minister of Education was ; . very partial to paying promiscuous | a, calls at elementary schools, and the Minister for War invariably plays a | very practical and personal pert in manoeuvres and other work of his department. ae IEEE RR PRI Be Fair. Buy a sack or barrel before judging PURITY FLOUR eople have atempied to judge PUR- OME ; ITY FLOUR before he facts Britain's Brick. Of the many relies of Nelson, few appear so interesting as a humble lit. | tle object in an obscure Norfolk town. | At the Paston Grammar School, near North Walsham, Lord Nelson was numbered amongst the pupils, and | one summer evening he spent some | tiie in carving the initials HW. on the wall that surrounds the school. Years afterwards; when he became | the people's. idol, visitors made a point of viewing his handiwork on the | wall, and precautions were taken to guard zealously this memento of the | famous admiral. But in 1881 a great storm blew down a tree, which in its fall partly demolished the noted masonry. On the following morning Mr. Rider Haggard, who was visiting the head master, spent some time in | assisting to' find. the magic letters, and it was reserved for the celebrated novelist to discover the identical | brick required. ! He handed it over to the principal of the school, and to-day the brick rest, enclosed in a shade bearing a suitable inscription, in the most pro- minent position in the school. Small wonder, therefore, that when a Nor. folk scholar was asked the question, "Who was Nelson?" he replied, "He was a brick!" nowing the about it---before using it. So we ask you to be fair and to buy a sack or barrel of PURITY FLOUR and give it a thorough try-out before attempting to arrive at a judgment. Look at the beauty and loftiness of the golden- crusted, snowy-crumbed loaves, fit for a king. Count them and see how many more of them PUR- ITY yields to the barrel than ordinary flour does. Taste the creamy, flaky pie crust, and the deliciously light cakes PURITY FLOUR 'rewards ou with: My! Tow theymake yourmouth water! Such high-class results can only be obtained when using a flour con- sisting exclusively of the high-grade portions of the best Western hard wheat berries. And remember, that, on account of its exira strength and extra qual- ity, PURITY FLOUR ' requires more water when making bread and more shortening when making pastry, than you are accustomed to use with 3 od flour. PURITY FLOUR " More bread and better bread" Buy a bag or barrel of PURITY FLOUR. Test it for a week. Then pass judgment, Nothing is really Santi uit AAPURITY FIC UR to the grocery list right now. things are. / 1a for Diana do not balancs smell P= |SOLD IN KINGSTON, BY J. A. McPARLANE, DISTRIBUTOR Lickings Expensive. . The local authorities of Laechgeily and Dundee are complaining that the charge for birehing juvenile delin- | quents is too expensive. At Lochgelly | twenty-five mischievous lads were birched at a total cost of £1 Hs.~£1 1s. for the medical officer and 10s. for At Dundee it cost 12s. 8d. to flog a single delinguent, the charges in this case being 10s. for the medical officer and 2:. 84. for the | whipper. It is now suggested that the parents of the erring youths | might undertake the punitive work with economy to the authorities. An Autocratic Suggestion. Havé you any suggestion about how this jail ought to be run" said the philanthropic visitor. "Yes," replied the man who had seen better days. "I think it would command more respect for the ward- en's authority if you were to change 4 his title to "janitor." * Papers Sometimes Necessary. Mrs. De Fashion -- Where's the paper. Mr. Be Fe What on earth do you want with the morning paper? Mrs. De Fashion--1 want to see if i ----------------------. § Between Friends. Miss Elderleigh--1'l1'let you inte a secret if you'll promise not to tel] it, Miss Younger--All right. Miss Eider- leigh--1'm g¢ngaged. Miss Younger-- Easy times often socount" for hard RT BRIS Ea he

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