~ ENOL' BRAND OLD MAN OF HALSBURY. With Days of Queen Elizabeth, - Lord: Halsbury is the last living 'ink in 'he law with the days of King - rge'IV, and Queen Caroline. He aa pee in- very tru ba sturdy surviva of forgotten ti He has seen a baronial ghost. to chase side, says London lordship was at Oxford balore there "were any railways about, and he was a "briefless barrister" with his way to make. No files set- tled on Hardinge Stanley however. Within twenty years he was solicitor-general, with an in- come of £15,000 a year. Lord -Hals- bury is the sole survivor in harness of long forgotten governments. For- ty years ago he was solicitor-gen- tral in ya cabinet which included such world-famous politicians as Lord Beaconsfield, Viscount Cross, Lord i i the N land, at 9 and Rutland, the Earl of Derby, Lords Sandon and Iddlesleigh, and Mr. W. H. Smith. 'All. have gone--the last to pass away being old Lord Cross who died a few months ago at 90 years of age. nly one other member of that cabinet lives besides Lord Halsbury --Viscount St. Aldwyn--the one- time chancellor, £0 well-known as "Black Michael.' Lord St. Ald- wyn no longer figures in the affairs of the time, but-Lord Halsbury still 'struts and whistles along W hitehall twirling his cane as nimbly as k'nut, of 19. Will he be the firs ot member of the House of Lords to put up a hundred? It really does lock like it May Live to be 100. No peer has ever yet lived to be 100. Lord Halsbury has a wonderful opportu lity of crow ning a stupend- ous career with a "record," there- fore! How Lord Halsbury climbed the ladder of fame and took a clean quarter of a million out.of the law is perhaps the most fascinating life story 'of the day. Iteis unlikely ever to be paralleled. Long before the "Jewish lord chief justice of to-day was born, Lord Halsbury, as Mr. 'Giffard sng himself called eds sles Mpotoriety for- barthinces Gnd murder as the representative of Queen Victoria in Jamaica. This was the famous Governor Eyre, the rights and wrongs of whose case kept the country agog for many months in 1857. It was the sort of trial that makes or breaks a bar. rister. Horrible deeds and brutal murders had been put down to the account of Governor Eyre. and the governor boldly entrusted his life in the forthcoming fight to Mr. Giffard. With tears in his eyes young Giffard pleaded every possi- ble excuse for his client; for heurs on end he spoke in fence, and eventually Governor Eyre went forth a free man, and lived for-another thirty years to offer up prayers for and encourage ment to the young lawyer who was destined tu cccupy the Woolsack! The From that sttiring speech at Mar- ket Drayton Stanley Giffard return eds to conden 'a made When the nutorious forger ri Arthur Orton, impersonating Sit t Mr. Giffard, Q.C _clefended him, nearly me'ted his judges with} tis scalding tears "The Weeping; Barrister." they called young Giff ard, but it was no god! Streams of tears would not secure the ran: est and wickedest imposter that ever lived from conviction, although the whole country was perturbed, as it never is nowadays. about the pros and cons of Ortun's case. Wel inte the twentieth century the gen- eration which still believed the one- time Wapping Putcher to be the lost j Tichborne Trials. ] whe baronet survived to argue and wrangle over the details of this amazing story. Of all the great lawyers who figured in those his-; d UNIQUE CAREER OF THE sed . The Last Living Link in the Law He was awakened from his sleep in an old oak-pan- ri beareten 3 _ a Devonshire man- spectre of a butler whe | had 'led himself pegs oat when his father died, and left him absolutely sei Meee Blog too. fice. a oe Giffard, Q.C., penal walked up the floor of the Commons he was over fifty years of age. How little, all those weary years, did he 'think that he was io enjoy the Wool- nes for eighteen eventful years! t it is ~mwaye the unexpec thet happe i Neak Shave. Lord Halsbury was provided with a seat in Parliament for Launces- ton, and in his gratitude he has néver forgotten the good Cornish folk who did him this great turn. e soon fixed himself up in Corn- ral, at i aber gt mage and there has remained to this day, as aieapioe of Launceston Castle. We should love to recount some of the remarkable experiences of Lord Halsbury during those eighteen long years. Space forbids, however? One event we cannot help recalling. Mr. Bernard Shaw is our excuse. Lord Halsbury is a real pillar of the church, but his. yocabulary is ex- pre ssive--and picturesque! Even as lord high Ganeliee of Romane he has been known 'let it g There nearly perpetrated an abrupt ex- pletive from the. Woolsack. ord Rosebery had made a speech on the King's declaration. Lord Halsbury was extremely irritated by the Primrose's unorthodox views this ecclesiasticay matter. off the Woolsack he said, the noble Jord's criti¢ism I don't care a--well Ri don't care anything at all for it."' Heaven knows what would have happened if the lord chancellor had not corrected him- self in time! PROVIDE DOWRIES FOR GIRLS Funds Set Aside in England, Scot- land, and Germany. At different times thoughtful reo- ple have stipulated in their wills that a certain sum of money shall} be set aside to provide dowries for girls. The best-known example is the Bute marriage dowry, estab- lished by a marqiess of Bute, who left 85,000 fur the purpose. The annua! interest upon this money, about $150, is presented each year to a claimant for it, the fortunate girl being chosen by the Mayor of Cardiff. When handing the money over to the lucky young lady and her apna it is customary for th to read the young couples a portion "the second chapte of} St. John, which refers to the mae riage in Cana of Galilee. Dowries for girls are also "pre- sented at Guilfgrd, the practice of throwing dice for what is called the maid's money" taking place annu- ally. The money is derived from capita] set apart in the will of a certain John How. who requested that duwries should be paid to poor servant girls who had worked faith- fully in the borough for some years. John How was presumably an op- ponent of public houses, for he stip- ulated that no' maid working in li- censed premises should be eligible to compete. The gift generally The former Mexican Dictator to Puerto, Mexico. Sir Lionel Huerta on the journey. { British Soldiers Guard Dictator. Carden, British Ambassador, is the aigntination. shown on the right, and General Blanquet,- who accompanied him sent 3,500 British troops to guard "AGONY COEUMN."" But the "'Times" Most Famous partment, Once Romantic, Has Changed. build a novel by piecing together extracts from the 'agony column'? of the London Times, he would evolve a work suriieuria revelation of character and well worth reading. A history of this column, uniqné among "personal" departments newspapers, would contain a serie of enigmatic romances, thrilling to the curious person with detective} tastes. No better training for BROKEN HEART BITS 1¥ THE] he Sunday evening can remember that If some painstaking person, would) which would. be ajf "who was sepedion to a few years Feceive the wrong end of the knot- fedropeon * * Butone must not yeream: over William. 4 This is More Modern. _ Other advertisements invited the ediate return of other sons in mere modern and oe man- Tr. As this, dated 1 © "Tf youth that left "Telington on ever had a mother he is inform- Bd he will soon be deprived of that ib he immediately W ites with particulars or pereon- uly appears before her That youth probably preferred to deprived, and one cannot help believing that it was the same youth | ater by th » Philip. -- "Would Philip ear of his mother's death ? Perhaps! But we are sure he did ie hear of it just then. His mothe AS like to ambitious inquiry agent could devised. For more than a bai ; men--and women too, for the ' been quite as regular conta een '"'agonizing" s, pursuing what or whit the have lost and exploiting the vi of these things animate or in mate, which they hoped to gain. me of the te a were. h eered the the whole period B tween 1800 and 1870. This ait was a piecing together of broken. bits of hearts whose fractures had been on public display. Half hid- digal sons and neglected mothers and the other eternal figures: of romance exhaled their flowery com- plaints in view. of the reading' world. In those days the agonists went on week after week, sometimes year' after year in an uninterrupted cor- respondence. Different in 1914, Nowadays perhaps, they do not]: linger so long in their pain. Ath amounts to $60 per annum. St. Cyrus, in Scotland, also dis-; tributes dowries, but they are ra- ther peculiar ones. Sixty years ago, a native of the village died, and de- creed in his will that the interest on a certain sum of money should bej| disiributed among the oldest, voungest. tallest, and shortest wo- men to get married in the parish during the year. claim | various 'distinetions i is left to | ithe minister. Notwit hstanding the} | smal] ness the dowries-- 'they! amount te $26 each--there is keen competition among all the brides of the year. no x ee tu claim} the videst i share being | shown. "Bride-measuring day" is} looked upon as a public holiday in St. Cyrus. Another curigus ceremony takes| place every year in the German tewn of Hachmann. 'The founder, | a Polish nobleman, hoped to render | a plain girl's chance of getting mar- ried equal to her pretty sister. He left 82.500 to be distributed annual-! | the of toric Tichborne trials, Jord Hals- fly amang bride s of th ne digi i: stipu-} bury is the only one left. Some of! lating thai p'ain girls should re-! them lived to be ninety. too. Lord ! ceive a large portion, while pretty | Brampten, the redoubtable Sir) cip}s should get hardly anything. Henry Hawkins, . led fur the| _ +. | 7 ) ) onagenar . Cee na one eee Tekbeere! IF YOU'RE GOING BATHING. | é trials. "But he has been dead some | years. What a wonderful book of reminiscences Lord Halsbury could! "write ! "The Unexpreted Tappens. From thetime Tichborne trinls--they lasted_ two~years -- 'G atd's progress was-meteoric "all the cauces celebres of the ne: few years he figured conspicuous -*He jad to swallow some nasty pills by the way however. f as scarvely within his ¢ \ in Parhament, repeated pe a éfforts te i this end had all ended in disap *poiniment For years he had nursed | * Cardiff--an expe ive.<6 nstign ney, } too ~nlz a5 ont nousiy ot the, In and: to achieve | re} Hi igh judicial | rasp j Don't venture in the water alone, |! nv tnatter how good a swimmer you | | are. Den't frequent isolated bath-| ing beaches, where there are no j life guards. Don't try tu swim any distance in water beyond your depth! j Don't dive in unfamiliar water Dean't ful to give thought te the! undertow: wateh out for the north- east wind ¢ that t whips i it tap. . That. its beew playing My iegs-ache. - What have you a iad he Small Boy (who ball fer six hours} Awxtous Mgsema been. doing? } aly ; ' Small Boy--I duuny. Iedid w ex- srple on the blackboard 'yester< day. |} comparison of the old agonies with] lillustration this: | faultless English. | first receive the blessings of a heart- the advertisements of the present} shows too that the personalities of the famous peri tend more a more to be of a pecuniary rather: than of a passionate, order. If ene were asked to compose a typical), | agony of this year he might givé in 'Professional man, sick of living in town, would like large house in country with large income to keep up same. O please help! Or again, this: "Young man, weary of work in an office, seek any sort of remy: erative adventure; would risk all, provided he got paid a lot; good Alpinist; can dre 'motor car or motor bieyele; s&me experience of ying; who will help?' Grammar Does Net Count. But in an agony one does like to find a paroxyism. {It doesn't mat- |ter about the grammar, which was, the delver into the files found, fre- quently very bad from 1800 to 1870: What one seeks is emotion, not Thus, a fine par- oxyism of 1851 read thus: "William,, thou wilt go to séa-- thou shalt go; but oh return an broken father, of a heartbroken mother! O my son William, my son, my son William! Would God L had died for thee, O William, my son, my sen! It reads of the Mrs. like a miner dramatist Incebald or Mrs, Cent- 'livre period, or later, of /Arthur Murphy and "A Cure for the Heart- ache.' In this manner, with bared neck and dishevelled hair, beating the breast did the Kemble rouse the pit. But cone doubts whether his peer mother "fetched"' William by The boy had been reading pbutial romances. _ Capt. Marryat was but a few years dead William's father, who was no doubt a Samuel Butlerian father ot the instructive type made classical by James. Mill, had warned. -the bay | Ho more. =} went home. ae for the missing. ee agonies, eT: have always been mo den lovers, separatéd parents, pro-} We trust Phil never We always feel sym- Many in Cipher. Such materia], paternal or filial e column than ental Many of were im cipher. Now only cate persons advertise j in cipher. Where- a8 @ pursuing parent might not dis- |eover an advertisement in full Eng- lish, his attention, and indeed the ion of everybody, will inevit- be invited and held by fone of capital letters, asterisks -queries of by such somehow Finke looking dialects as this, from ene of the ciphered agonies of J. nee. n 1852 +8; Imi F. api. npkl. B. qkng, F. q. 19th nhgm, , inte. fa. hmig Fiffy mlgi. One much prefers to' se © the: sen- Himental appeal in full or ale hint- ing obscurely that it could say more an it does, Fur the courtly invi- tation of this type you have to go ate to the Weber period and to nee over the columns between 1800 and 1830. At the very begin- ning, in kag you find this address to ACA es § 2 - Mey who a Gentleman tended into her carriage from Cov- mt Garden Theatre on Wednesday, 'the third of this month, will oblige G he Advertiser with a line to ZZ. nh. ans BLACK FOX FARMING. Western Canada Has Now Taken Up New Industry, Mile by mile thin lines of steel are creeping rapidly » northward from Edmonton into the great win- terland of Alberta. Civilization is making its way into fields long the home of the Indian and the trapper. Fur farms, upon which live black and silver grey foxes are carefully raised and nurtured in surround- ings made as much like the wild as possible, are now being started extensively throughout the gee The black fox is proba e most valuable fur bearing animal j in existence teday, and its compara- tive rarity, coupled with the uncer- tainty in the supply of skins as ta- ken by the Indians and trappers each year has turned the attention -of fur men throughotit the western provinces to the possibilities that jlie in the raising of these animals in captivity. Although this business of raising ; black foxes, is by no means new, having been carried on in Prince Edward Island for some twenty | years, it was not until recently that men in the western provinces be- came*alive to the profits that exist in. this industry. The influx of a large number of buyers from Bester Canada and sons of 1912 and 1913, however, started a boom The great number of live' foxes brought. down from the North during that time and the huge sums paid in many cases for these animals when delivered to Athabasca Landing and Edmonton, instantly brought the business wide publicity. The boom reached it8 height dur- ing the spring and summer of 1913 During the months from March . September of last vear, over half at dollars was invested in ve puppies, and grown animals of the black and silver grey varieties. Most of this was spent by buyers. rom Eastern Canada, . although William H. Kane, representing the fox farm of that name at en, Pennsylvania, took out animals to the value of $237,000. Ten companies, with a combined capital approaching a mnllion dol- lars, are now operating in the prov- ince. Ranches have been started in several districts in North and Centra] -Albeyta where conditions are said to be ideal for the rearing of these expensive little animals. pring Gardens Coffee House, say ing if married or single, she will quiet the mind of a ,young Noble- | man, who aa tried but in vain, to! find the Lady The Lady} Was in eetaing and sufficiently | clothed to distinguish her for pos- féssing every virtue and charm that} 'man could desire in a female that. he ! would make choice of for a Wife! j Weak in One Regard. The young nobleman, as you see, had the familiar aristocratic ignor- ance of the ways of relative pro- nouns if not of ladies, and we find ourselves hoping that his title prov- ed sufficient alluremert to the Jady "who"' he loved at a distance. For another fifty years the young noble~ man's emotional grammar set the tone of the column. "Amiable fe- males" abounded in it. In 1801 @ gentleman tells one of {i them that he "will shortly be oblig- ed to leave town in a few months,' and. we are not surprised when he} adds that he is going to Ireland. In no better style, but with cr as satisfactory, was "* 1852) created to * 'leave off this cruel silence' and (in 1851): "P P. is implored, for merey's sake, to write again. -If not your 8.' wretched father will be a maniac and your or unhappy mother will die broken-hearted.' eens o That's Settled. RBubbie (who has been sent over far the Sfth time to find 'out how that if he everso mueh ae mentian- ed -_ ea e hin agam he shoud | Mrs. Brown re right, mn; phe s dead."' | every any man knows our The enormous export of live black foxes during the past two years did | ed to have been placed in the street not. however, go unwatched by the! iby some miscreant, During the winter sit- | some Ly oer at Portsmouth. gove ronment. ting of t berta a : the taking o to November. whe and during the mon law gives them sufficient time to grow large enough to avoid the dig- | ging out process, which, in the last two years, has been so successfully resorted to by trapper Permits must be now --" from the office of the provincial game warden by people desiring to take foxes during the close seaso It is now also illegal for a per- son to export live foxes beyond the boundary of the province without first obtaining a permit. The cost of a permit In respect to animals raised on fur'farms in the province is $1 not reared on the farms $100 for | black or silver fox exported | f the anima]s from Apri] and $15 for the fox family. These last two reg- ulations are in the way of protec- | tion fer provincial breeders. --_----------F§_--- Stop George. 'George, generally unappreciative husband, "how do you like my new hat?' "Well, my dear," said George with great candour, "to tell you 'the truth --" "Stop right there George If you're going to talk that way about it I don't want to know. Ged knows our hearts better than aces 5, and in the case of animals | | | | he provincial house of Al- | aged 10, bill was passed prohibiting | others are dangerously ill, i | As the puppies are) iped at the latter end of April) th of May, this; ij any other species of announced a complete reorganiza: i! } } said the wife to her | ected the | FROM MERRY | OD ENGLAND NEWS BY san 'ABOUT eae BULL 4p HIS PEOPLE -- Oscatconses fo The Land Thal Reigns Supreme tu the Come ; Ry. : mercial World, { Breadall acs gre near Derby, alt ee by structure, has been| : wre rae is a strike among the girls at the fly-paper works of Messrs. Hampshire at Burton-on-Trent. Wm: Rellan, of Old Queen street, ng, twenty being twenty-seven child London just now has the four, greatest singers in the world-----Mel, ~, Tetrasioti, Caruso, and Chali Sir George H. Kenrick has gif $90,000 to Birmingham bed anes for the endowment of a chair o physics. Tn jumping off an omnibus which was going at full speed, a wo at Maulden, Bedineduhire, fell ee | broke her neck, For entting off the hair of a you: girl, aged 15 years, Wm. Locke sentenced at, Leeds to six ti hard labor = Job Sirssy, an old Dorset she herd, now an inmate of the Dor- chester Workhouse, has just cele; brated his hundredth birthday. The result of the poll of Bristoh citizens for or against the purchase; of the tramways was as follows: For 18,057 ; against 14,894. The letting of about 200 sites for tents for visitors on the beach at an! English watering place has produc- ed a rental of over $5,500. ® Believed to be the oldest living Freemason Mr. John Froggartt, of Offerton Fold, Stockport, has just! celebrated his 100th birthday. Anthrax has broken out in all stock in Cheshire. Cases in three different forms are reported, and the carcases of cows hare been des/ troyed. aa little girl, aged five, was knock- | 160 miles ed down and killed by an automo- bile inthe old Kent road, driven by, Mr. Gilbert Bentley. A twelve-month-old pomerania dog has- found its way back from Nuneaton in Warwickshire td Taunton in Somerset, a distance a Merthyr corporation has accopted the Offer of Mr. D. A. Thomas of a Sfatue o! of Treyithick, th i invlive wie steam sue pet the Herr Krupp von pail and Herd es yon Bulen, heads of the great Ger- -- man armament firm, recently paid a visit of inspection to Messrs. Cam- mel Laird's works at Birkenhead. A load of hay which was being carted along Fox street, Liverpool, suddenly burst into flames. The outbreak is supposed to be due to the intense heat of the sun. y a fall of roof in the Cawdor mine, Garnant,/South Wales, two fended men and boys were im- prisoned for sixteen hours before hey were rescued. Lord Cranborne, Prince Paul of Servia, and Oldrie Spences Portal,' undergraduates of Christ Church College, were fined before the Ox- ford magistrate for playing polo on bicycles in the streets. Mr. Melvilie Wateon. J.P., one of the leading auctionesrs and esta! agents in hee: shire was shot de: y a client at his offices at Alfeto: The assassin afterwards turned th weapon on iimself with fatal re sults. . A piece of poisoned cake, suppos- was found by One has since died, and three ne of the biggest auction sales of land took place at Swansea recently when the Miers estate, Glamorgan- shire, comprising ten anthracite col- lieries, besides several manors, was knocked down at $1,625,000. . The purchaser was Mr. Evan Be: at ex-Mayor of Meath: . REORG ANIZING CHEN A'S ARME Tuan Chi-jui is 'Named Generalissis mo. With Wide Powers. By Presidential mandate, follew- ing action by the Advisory Council, the office of "'tutuh" in. China has een abolished. The official whe came in with the Wuchang upris- ing has passed from the <tage of Chinese political life. Coincidenf with the abolition of the "tutuh" is tion of the army and a "shake-up which involves many ¢e! lebrated military men, The rank of general. jissimo has been created, and Pres- fident Yuan Shi. Kai has conferred | it upon pp Chi-jui whe has dir- orm of the ariny as Minister ¢ "War. More than 30 new generals announced to head the ated military districts. The unifis eation of the army is complete. There are, 30 separate divisions, and these are to be trained accord- mode 2 . art. newlyjere< ing to the most rules o1 warfare, and armed with PP to dite weapons. China CSSaanet a remarkably + affeier tr rig] corps oa