Daily British Whig (1850), 8 Jul 1914, p. 10

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CLEVER FAMILIES $2 " i Counc ANNALS FULL OF INSTANCES OF BRILLIANT BROTHERS, he Butlers Have Produced Some Re markably Clever Men and the Asqaiths Are Notable In Eng | « lafid's 'Academic Circles -- "The "Eytteltons and Ceclls &od the Are Also Notables. ~ When the scholastic history of the ¢ péople comes to be written of Butler will figure latge "in the records, for no family has layed. such classical genius as 8 Butlers, the eldest member of , Mr. Spencer Butler, celebrat lis golden wedding a few week: . Bpencer Butler, who is a se son of the Very Rev, George r, Senior Wrangler of 1794 and master of Harrow from 1805 tc , won high academic distinetior early « taking a Orst-clas: ics at Trinity , Cam: . He 'Is the elder brother of bridge's G.O.M., Dr. Butler, Mas- of Trinity, whose three sous hive rot themselves classical 0 of the highest distinetion. 'eldest, Mr. J. R. M: Butler, swept board of prizes at e, and list of triumphs is unprecedented . Spencer Butler has nine sons, of whom have won honors at bridge, L it Is an interesting fact that Mr. 'grandfather was the Rew, Butler, with whom the in al distinction of the family be #an. He was born in 1742, and was '& classical master at Chelsea. Thus a century and a half the Butlers ve malntalied thelr reputation. as ) the most remarkable classical . y in the country. © achievements of the Butlers rally recall those of the Prime ter, his brother, Mr. W, W, As- , the late head master of Clifton ge, and the Premier's sons, Mr. ; and Mr. Cyril Asquith. All four have appeared in the "Greats" 'Hit at Oxford. Indeed, the scholastic bilities of the Asquiths lend some Justification to a "gag" which has been current among undergrad: tes at Oxford. When working for a \ luniversily prize or a scholarship, the fon Is often asked, 'Ts there an : rosie in for iL?" If so, every other 'aspirant is fdvised to give up hope and close his books, The Premier won a classical schol- larship at Balliol tn 1870, his son Ray- nd achieved & sinfilar distinction {in 1897, and €yril.n 1009. A first wlass iy Clossioal Moderations, a {Craven Scholarship, and first-class in ,'"" are among other classical [honors which the father and his two have won. The Liytteltons and the Cecils are 4 torent ng examples of clever fami- A e Cecil Tamily has produced | almost unbrokes sequence o ev men for more than a century: ut he least notable of whom have ed in our time---the late Mar- of Salisbury, Mr. A. J. Balfour, Hugh and Robert Seeil, and great ability if of less fame. er death of the Right Hon. Lyttelton caused a gap in a of clever brothers. The best Wh, perhaps, are the Rev. Ed- the well-known head master of and Sir Neville Lyttelton, who one of Britain's cleverest generals. ther there were efght biuthers, more or les: mous in the intel- al and br world. Then there is the Benson family " of the late Archbishop Ben- Ison---whose mother was a Miss Sidg- wick, sister of the brilliant family of 4 Prof.. Henry Sidgwick, and Mr. Arthur apg Mr. Alfred Sidgwick. A. C. Benson, Mr. E. F Benson, Benson carry on the in- ) ual reputation of the family, iid fare shining lights in their re- ective eres Bir George Laurence Gomme, for- ply clerk of the London County , has good reason to be proud achievements of his sons. One » Mr. Allan Gomme, some gained the Siemens gold electricity at South Kens- secured one of the sclen- itments in H. M, Patent ming out sixth in the exam- while his younger brother, ! B. OC. Gomme, gained an his scholarship at Trinity Hall, ] In the meantime, at the chant Taylors School two younger , gained distinctions -- A. W. Gomme, & scholarship at Trin- Collegé, Cambridge, and R. E. imme, the Senior School Scholar- In the distinguished Irish family Plunket brains are hereditary. The Lord Plunket was a barrister ir. Gladstone declared him to be the : usnt orator he ever Msten- #0. Lord Plunket's son became 0p one grandson Arch- e Hon. Dunbar Plun- , who became Selicitor- for Ireland in 1898, and has in falsed to the Irish Bench, phew of Lord Ratimore, He nt career at. Oxford, and ohe of the véry few men who have twice president ofghe' Oxford "brilliancy of the famous Dr. , AL one time head master of nol + 'poet and essay- [dn turn passed to grand- 6 Mrs, Humphry Ward, ii of Dr. 'Arnold's second son, afd to the late Mr. HMO. , son of Willtam Ar- son of the great head HC oof L. ; en 1868 and 1912" food in Esglund increased 26 per i »" | Fo Explore "Rings. jumburg Rings, the olé Roman theatre at | rchester, England, Y and explored. soul of wit, but just n't tickle a man if short. rl bad hair of spun would say It Tooked | WHEN THEY TAKE POSITIONS IN SOUTH AMERICA. Eke Out an Awful Existenée--No Way of Escape--Drawn Into Net by Deceptive Bait--Then Stay In Debt' Forever. London, July 7 ing, "A Warning," the South-Ameri ean specialist, John H. Harris, tells fu the ont-of-the-way places of south- ern Mexico, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, or Central Africa the white peon slave lives, moves, and has bis being. Under the head- "Is your brother, cousin, or former | s¢hoolmate a peon in some distant region?" he askes in The london Moraing Chronicle, and adds that "ir you do not know, find out, and you may save him from a tragic end." He quotes Mr. Fuller, and: American consul, as 'explaining the ari "batting the peon' and "the way of Capturing white peons He says that the employer makes It Wi. chief object to keep the pon fn his debt and to inflate .it by, eompound inter est and Ges until (here is no way of escape either for the , his wife, his children, or even his children's ehildren, . And he makes the follow- ing quotation from a letter recently received by him from a British sub- ject who hod been fortunate enough to escape from the {oils of white peonage: "lL was a peon. From this day on, my life was a living hell, and it must uot be wondered at that for a while I lost all hope of ever becom- ing a decent member of soclety again Others are not so foriunate, and are today still held in debt bondage, while others again have ended their lives under tragic circumstances." The méthod of capturing the white peons is thus detailed "But by what bait are these Youngimen canght and ultimately drawn into the web of the underup- ulons exploiter of the tropics? The gaudy blankets, those pots, pans, and cutiasses which attract (he simple Indians have their parallel 'in the seductive advertisements of the Eu ropean and American capitals, Offers of high wages, rapid advancement coupled 'with oil and rubber 'hooms', are dangied before the eyes of youths, who, pulsating for adventure, greedily respond All wnsuspect ing, they sign away their freedom never counting the cost of living and travel in countries where productive duties change the value of a sixpen ny un of salmon to half a crown, and a4 three-gninea suit of clothes three times that sum: The history and aceounts of certain of thesa young men have come into my po session; here is the story of one---a Britisher "A Lancashire man of some thirty sunfmers, married to a charming wife, sees an advertisement of a po- sition which he rightly guesses he is eminently fitted to occupy. His ap- plication is favorably received: he is by doi ded to his son, Matthew interviewed, approved, and offered the post at a comfortable salary ris-| ing in three years to nearly double that upon which he and his wife are then living on happily, if, carefully The employer, who had, "of course advanced passage antl outfit, insert ed _a clause that in the event of any bréaeh 'of contract, or other ward cdirenmstances, the employe must. refund all moneys expended. Three months later (he healthy young Britisher reaches his destina- tion in the Amazonian valley, already weakened in health by travel and fe- ver, heavily in debt to his employers, with a Su, ply of provisions, so'inade- quate and unpalatable that he is plunged still deeper into debt by purchasing the food and clothing ne- cessary to keep body and 'soul toge- | Escape is impossible, for he | has no means to pay his return pas-| ther. sage, and his nearest friends are 5, 000 miles away---as well cry to the moon for succor." 2 'Many rich men have nothing but sympathy for the poor. a ari el of to | unto-, me = sm SCIENCE WOULD FRO BE . BRAIN FOR FEEBLE-MINDED |Ronmanian Physician Advocates | "Peeling Gray Matter to Build ! Up Defective Tissue. Tit-Bits | i 1t {s possible to provide the feeble | | e : rinded with more brains until they | 7 normal? Wild though the pos sibility may seéni to the lay mind it ras, nevertheless, heen seriously dis {eussed at the Congress of Medicine | {in Paris. Furthermore, experiments | iin the science which is known "organotherapy" have already beer attempted. i Thig science really ' consists of | (treating diseased orgsus with medi { cines made from similar organs. Jt! is pointed out by 1 {London i as | asi similar experts that i the building up ér docioring of one | [Organ with extracts from a similar one was. practiced 2,000 year 280] 'although, of course, in a very crude | fashion. | It i on record that patients suffer- | ng from an affection of any partic-| | Wlar part of their system were given | {the same part of an animal to eat, | | with 'the idea of repairing the local waste and damage. Thus consump- | tives were ordered to eit sheep | | lungs, while for dyspeptics was pre- | eribed a let in. which the stomach | {of calves ranked as the chief item. % In an address un the subject de | livered by a widely known Rouman- | fan doctor, Dr. Tscovesco, he remar ked that special importance is at | tached to the treatment of anemia by | this method." The old treatment with | iron." he declares, "was never abso lately satisfactory, while if a liquid | extract of blogd corpuseles is admin | istered to patents the corpuscles ra pidly multipl¥ and appears." Prebanly the anemia ais the most startling sug-! of curing the feehle-wvinded by th i method. This physician held iat 86 | long as organotherapy worked well along other lines. it stood with regadon that it would work | with the feeble-minded. By giving | them a Hquid extract of gray matter, | 80 | | in be [sapani SE POOR PEOPLE | BUY | Pur hase Meal of Macaropi for Two | tents--Queer Sight to We ster ners. { $e | The toward when looking fellow with a travel- iurant landed on the ng a little bell, and announ- all that the evening repiist Many of tite] It wa slovenly ng r orner, to i evening i | ! street le ced poor people nowadays find it hard toy buy a morsal of rice or even barley, and as a last resort turn to this caroni'" restaurant, where they are ible to get a meal for one or two cents. 1 wondered if this man got his | supply from the manufacturer w hom | I saw kneading the dough on a straw | mat. with his feet, not a great di } | tance away. | Dipping ball after ball of. this "ma- | ironi" into boiling water, and again | In Suecesgion into separate howls, tvendor adds as~sprinkling cheap | 0p and green olfion suttings and {sticking into them the crudest kind | of ¢hopsticks, presents them to his { miscellaneous crowd of customers | Sturdy coolies leave their cart | sharts, haggard women release loads of boxes and bundles from thei backs, preeiGus children sorely | | heed of handkerchiefs and stagger | ng under the heavy lpad of an of-| ten unwearied younger brother or ster, aged from two weeks to three | or four years--all hollow-chested on | {account of excessive toil and their | | toustant stooping posture--- with | | great rapidity bolt down this seeth-| ing mess. The noisy gulpings and | | much gurgling and sucking in of the i now in readiness. i | of Favorite With Th 10 have the | recepiacly, funprotecied t which take the place of {being about a foat gestion made by the doctor was that | $ lany record and dancing | Indians, | expression FOOD FROM VENDORS | na { night shuts | of the orchestra try their { dancing instinct. breath which so distress a Westerner may be excused by the fact that in their minds it only shows a polite appreciation of their food. Kangaroo Has Not the Monopoly of Convenient Way of Carrying Hs Rabies. The kangaroo has always seemed monopoly of that con- venient way of carrying iis babiea in 4 pouch, but it has heen discover at ¥ fish has the same useful which "it used for the same purpose. The pipefish, as ii is called from the length of its jaws, has a pocket in the under side of its ody mnearty patf its length It is found in the maie species only and is the only part of its body which is by. large fiat plates, scales in its ed ti protective armor. If a pipefish is taken from the wa- ter and its little. ones shaken out of the pouch back into the water they always seem either unable' or disin- | ¢lined to run away But if the fa ther 'is placed in the waier again, all the small fish immediately swim Back into the' pouch. These curious little creatures have prehensile tails which they use to hoid on to the sea weed to prevent themselves being carried away hy the tide The pipe- high, is similar to the small eel, in length and an inch in thickness, But, unlike the set it has a yery long law and the pecul iar defensive armor already ! tioned, CRAZE FOR pA NCING It Is All the Trips. - A love of dane ing is as instinctive With the human race as the love. of home, and go as far back into the history of any people as there is is found he life. The Aztecs, the the ancient peoples of Eur- ¢ { Obe and Asia and Afries ur. fore an_exirael of the brain, it ought tc { #, OU, 'op merease their mental faculties, and | in time give to them normal brain Or eourse, if this is possible, it v one of the greatest wouders and most 'valnable things in modern or | Ancient medicipe along with t fathers if you please, all these found | for their feelings in the | away | lee and with it they whiled their gayer hours, "It is not strange, therefore, that | craze' has seized | { the so-called 'dance hold upon the coun ome the one i ment.'. says H, try and has be universal amuse- H Gildersleeve, gen- cral manager of the Northern Navi. | zation company. "In fact, it is the natural thing to expect. jof any sort is enjoyed to-day, s dancife or bit accommodations occasion and resort may have help- ed to give expression to this in- | stinet, yet it was there--ingrained in every person's mature and only awaited a stimulus to bring it forth. "Although steamboat trips are en- joyable in themselves, when the down and the members instru- ments to see if they are in' tune, the feet of the hearers begin to tap in unison with the music and the.» is a desire to give expression to the So the passengers upon its boats may have the oppor- tunity 'to enjoy this fascinaiing amusement the fleet has been eq 1ip- ved with splendid ball-reoms. The rugs were removed from what in the day time is the observation daz and in a tricesit is transformed iito a perfect" dancing pavilion. When a dance is ended the dancers instead of strolling into the conservatory as they do ashore may pass out to the) promenade deck and the cool breez- | es ofthe night. "Tt is interesting to see how traits of our ancestors have expression to-day. 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