Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 30, 1913, Winnipeg, Manitoba Imperial and foreign news hat etiquette a House custom which died with difficulty no longer demands Only a episodes in or. Gladstone s career in which headgear played big part. A special to the Chicago Tribune and the Manitoba free press by t p. O Connor nationalist . London aug. Small ques Tion of the hat plays a less important part than it used to in the inner life of the House of commons life but still it i Lilc if l4o1 does play its part. When i entered the House of commons for the. First time there were few members Wao did not their hats it was almost considered an indelicate interference with Ordinary etiquette of. The chamber not to Wear one s hat. It was also considered indelicate not to Wear a Tan silk hat As it was unusual not to Wear a. Long Black frock coat. The speaker of the epoch just previous to mine was. A great stickler for these arts when an Irish member the late John Martin shocked his eyes by appearing in a Low crowned White hat the speaker summoned him to is presence him for his breach of the fashions of the House. Or. Martin explained that he was precluded from wearing a tall hat by the state of his health a tall hat produced headaches and., he was speaker who Foll we d had an. Even More difficult Case Deal with when Joseph Cowen entered the House wearing a soft Black Felt hav the land of hat that is affected by the old fashioned nonconformist minister. Jos Eph Cowen was a remarkable Man. In Many ways he was one of Brilliant orators of his time he was the proprietor of a great newspaper a if Newcastle chronicle he also owned great Brick works arid with All his. Simplicity of attire was one of the richest men in the House. But he Al ways stuck religiously to the soft Felt and to a Black suit of clothes so badly made that they looked As. If they had been bought in some cheap Slop shop ready made he also had to excuse his departure from tiie traditional fashion by the same excuse As or. Mai tin the Tail hat gave him headaches. Blow from labor. Then came the incursion of the labor members and the tall hat. Was still further dethroned. It. Was done however very tentatively. Or. Broad Hurst one of the first labor members was a very shrewd politician who knew All the arts of the Trade and he had tall hat which he wore in the. House the Low crowned hat which he assumed immediately his parliamentary duties were finished for the Day. By and by the labor party be came More numerous and More Power Ful and its first apostle of Plain dress ing and High thinking was that Revo. Luti onary spirit Kier entered the Louse of commons with a scotch Cap and there was a groan of despair and even disgust from the Well dressed gentlemen who farm of tory party. Was al7, the final blow to Hejja Focient tra. Ana of party with the Iper japs of the to he Fly of the tories now enter the House with All kinds of headgear. See the saturnalia of various headgear at its worst when summer comes. In the old Days also summer saw for the White hat was substituted for the but it. Was still a tall hat. Or. Ola Stone who maintained the grand antique manner in Small things As Well As great to the Day of his death used to sport a splendid White hat it stood out even from other White hats by its splendor for it was a Rich Cream coloured hat of some Beautiful material instead of the drab coloured Felt hat which other White hatted members used to Wear. Indeed sir Gladstone remained always something of. he affected usually in Winte r time the old Broad cloth Black coat Heru scially wore a Small Black by the Way in moments of excitement used to get All awry until at the close of a per fervid oration its front had. Got to. The bask of his neck and its Back to the one of the remarkable physical peculiarities of this wonder Ful Man who was As great a phenomenon physically As intellectually was that his skin acted with almost feverish activity. He told me once that this was one of the reasons Why Hev never Inin ded the hot weather of threw most other swoons of despair i saw was addressing a meeting hot july Day in Liverpool perspire so copiously that the whole Back of., his Black coat Ivas wringing wet and the tall Collar with which he started had been so damped that it was a. Instead of an upright Collar this activity of his skin was also perhaps the reason for another physical phenomenon that was noticed and that phrase of Bright you could realize that the Angel of death had passed Over the houses and you could almost head the beating of its wings. An old distinction. It was also characteristic of the period. When the hat was universally Ore in the chamber that you could always Tell whether a member was an or a private if you saw a Man passing1 the House without his hat you knew a ont a that he was an official of some Nort usually he was a whip whose duties Are so continuous that he could net find time to put on. And off his ii it. He had to go without it in order to avoid unnecessary trouble. Mem Bers of the government sitting on the Treasury Bench in those old Days used some of them to Wear their hats. 1 remember or. Childers who held Many nigh offices and a stickler for old ways rising up once to Why remained covered when a Mes Sage was read from the he contended that he was following the tradition in doing so. But or. Gladstone rarely wons his hat he Hud his own special Toom where he used to Deposit his hat and stick or umbrella he always carried either one or the other to accompany him in the Long constitutional walk he took every of his life. Again in his Case i have to recall we at a. Dramatic effect can Maks. When the great fight was going on Charles Brad laugh should a to take his seat in the House of commons without pronouncing the usual oath or. Gladstone As Leader House recommended his exclusion of or. Bradlaugh sir Stafford half a million on Lan Carlg wares Lancashire s great yearly Outing in which a year s sayings flew away Eike water. Long spell of Good Industrial times has meant huge Sav 11 Ings for this year. I staff correspondence aug. Two or three members of even a. Moderately Treu to do colonial family habitually spent Between Lour and five Hundred dollars on a wee i s Holiday their acquaintances would he Likely to think them extravagant. Yet according to an Al real of a Friendly society in the North with whom the writer talked yesterday it is quite a common thing for Northcote the Leader of opposition recommended his the House refused the advice of or. Gladstone and followed that of sir Stafford Northcote. Other stops were necessary to follow up this decision and i remember seeing with Surprise that or. Gladstone took his place on the Treasury Bench with his hat on his Slick in his hand and also ills gloves. I did not grasp at the a int the meaning of Bills transformation from the bareheaded and Alert Man he was usually occupied Tylij position but it was All symbolic anal meant to be it was that he no longer claimed to he the Leader of the House so far As the Brad laugh Case was concerned. Sir Stafford North Cou occupied that position and or. Gladstone meant to proclaim that it was no longer his business three Mill hands in Lancashire the by the almost hands. Burning heat always of his Straw hat Quito to modern. It was not till modern flays that the Straw hat was introduced to the House but some years ago when there was a fierce summer the Black Nat which even in the hottest All our Bucks Young and old used to was ousted and i remember the horror with which the manager of Lincoln and Bennett s reve aled to the scandalous fact that even coach men were beginning to drive their masters lumbering and magnificent carriages through the streets of Lon Don wearing Straw. Hats. The popu Larity of the Panama helped to bring the Straw hat into the House Atid now it is not at All uncommon to see a Good Quarter of the members of the House taking Tea on the very hot Wea ther with an Straw or Panama of their shameless Heads. An even More important-1 evolution Bow Ever is the gradual disappearance of the covered head sittings House. I fancy it must be the disappearance of the tall hat and the still lingering feeling that it is not town so accustomed to my hat in the chamber that i would positively feel half dressed if r did no it. And i regret the change for the hat could now and then play very dramatic part in the proceedings of the House. When for instance there was some great and Mournful occasion such As a vote of condolence 6n some illustrious death the change in clothes was the proclamation of what Diplomatist Call his Dis As to All subsequent proceedings. Or. Glad Slone was a great artist the Point of order. On another occasion i saw the hat play a part in or Gladstone s House of commons life. It is one of the quaint rules of the House i commons that when a member wishes to Call Atten Tion to some Point of order after the question has been put from the Cnair and when therefore All further debate has become impossible the member must make his Point seated instead of standing and wearing his hat. If any member attempt to make his Point at moment either standing or uncovered he is shouted Down by cries of order from All parts of the House. Or. Gladstone of one occasion wanted to raise a Point of order after the chairman of the House had put the question. Lie did so seated but he for got the Rule about the hat. Now his hat was in his room and accordingly a number of hats were offered to him by his colleagues. To chose that of lord Herschell then his solicitor general but the head of or. Gladstone was of Gigantic size and hers hell s hat had to be balanced on his head just As the negro minstrel balances his Small Cap and the House burst into Peai upon peal of laughter at the grotesque appearance of Gladstone s venerable and impressive figure. All these recollections have been suggested by a episode in Tho House of common when Handel Booth a parliamentary humorist called attention to the presence in the distinguished strangers gallery of a stranger wearing his hat. Immediately a figure was seen to Rise in hurried confusion and to leave the seat in the gallery and the House recognized in a moment that the stranger was really one of its Best known figures Joseph King. And then old members realized that the Point of order raised by or. Booth was not a Point of order All or. King was quite within his r is hts in keeping his hat on even in the Sal series. A member can Wear is hat always and everywhere unless when he is on his legs. I saw an amusing illustration of this fact once. No two men could be More different in appear Ance than the present and the late lord Spencer As a matter of fact they were Only half Brothers and there was a big difference in their age. I member the present lord Spencer when he entered the House of com Mons for the first time in far off 1sso he looked As if he had escaped from school almost from the Nursery so hopelessly Young was he. He was. As a matter of fact just Over Twenty one and he then As always was dressed in the highest fashion with a big stiff Collar Dainty clothes an impeccable hat and except for a Small Mous tache was clean shaven with Dainly delicate tiny features. His brother on the other hand had a rough Hen face with a Long bristling red Beard and he looked As if he might have been the Ather of his younger brother. His figure Ike his face was in a Strong urged Mould while the figure of the brother was As Dainty As his Ace. The two seated together were to the same family to draw that sum at the beginning Freejr s Holiday and come Back Ait. The end of it with scarcely a Between them r among the Mill hands of Lanca Isi of course the great Colton manufacturing Day making and particularly Holiday spending amounts to a craze. The Mills there dose for a week in s this period that As known As a phrase to late Flat Nous Stanley i Boughton s much discussed during this time it seems to be the ambition of the workers to spend As. Much of their hard earned savings As possible in seeing sights and engaging in other amusements. During the past year been working overtime and consequently the workers wave Laid up even More Money than usual for their an Imal it is estimated that teas been paid by saving clubs in. Blackburn Aline and Over m Preston. Besides this thousands i pounds have been withdrawn from Sav Ings Banks and Tho Preston co opera Tive society Bank has paid out of which nearly went to the workers in one Mill. Some of the families of the better paid workers in which two or More of Tho family work in the Mills have drawn As much As and for uie holidays All of which will be spent during the week. Scatter far and wide. During this week when practically the whole population of these town is on Holiday its scattered from the scottish Highlands to trips in fact Are in High favor with the Cotton workers and of them have left Blackburn alone on Ping distance excursions. Thousands of them will be at Black Pool and thousands More in the Isle of Man where they drive about in brakes most of the Day and dance for hours at night. They rather take a Pride in Home spent As they term it and a lot of them would be stranded at the end of the week if they had not taken return tickets the yearning for among the Mill hands is so great that in hard times families have been known to Pawn or even sell their furniture in. Order to get a spell away from Home. It. F r v and a quiet a or. Morlte in the officers Mei. Canteen and his men would do any thing for him. For so your Jfe a has had an extremely a Refl n experience. He of the Brit ish officer appointed to lick the Ese army into s lips tells Omny funny stories of the Effort to graft mouse military. Practice on to the of the it is said hey no is of Somaliland d Tonari most British soldiers and of course he was decorated for his work in the. 1903 , in he was one of Kitchener s and the Des patches of lord Roberts More than once recorded details of his military skill and presence of mind in pos a tons of danger in recognition of which he was awarded the d. A o. On his mothers Side the family tree goes Back to the daring eat in the six Hun dred years ago and the family have enriched the naval and dip loss Jalc and legislative ranks islands through "the1, centuries. Irish wit and spirits. Lady Evelyn Farquhar Isia laughter of the late Earl of . Her friends envy Irish and High spirits. She is never happier than when in the Saddle v and a few years ago was one of the keenest Hunt ing women in tipperary while in Canada major Farquhar will As is usual take the rank of lady Gilmour has presented a trophy for the compe. Tit Iori is not very frequently seen. Lon Don and spends much of her time. Greek local pm action of Alberta municipalities for supervision heartily endorsed in London. In Fife share. Through her Lany however she keeps in touch with the Canadian life of the Metropolis and gives practical support to mat ters of value to the Dominion Many a crofter around her scottish estate has been encouraged and helped to sail for the Dominion for she is a Strong advocate of the theory that Tho More scottish blood Canada secures the better. It is some Sho City where she spent her Early years her son Captain John go Raour who sits at Westminster for a scottish constituency has extensive interests in. Canada. He quickly obtained recon Netlon in the House and his on subjects of Canadian interest Are received with close attention. Sir Frederick and lady1 Williams Taylor have cancelled their ment to go to Canada and have gone to Carlsbad. Their son will the enter the Koyal military College King Ston. Or. Helen Mae Murohy returned to Canada this week. She is of course no stranger to London and it was sir Lauder Brunton who placed her among the first authorities on the subject has her special study. Her contributions to the deliberations of the medical Congress this year have advanced her reputation still further. The dowager Canadian associate cd press London that the convention of. Alberta municipalities Resolution urging the provincial government1 to exercise supervision Over City Boa owing analogous to that exercised by the British local government Board is regarded Here As a very prudent step. The financial times says it is a Welcome sign that Canadian local authorities Are becoming alive the danger of indiscriminate borrowing. The raid of Cana Dian municipalities has been the feature of Public Bor rowing in recen t years and it is about time that a More sedate Pace was adopted practically All colonial local borrowing is now done by Canada and throughout eight in which the Dominion figures it accounts for More than 63 per cent of All. Colonial Loans raised if the of the provinces had first to be obtained for municipal work there would be some Assurance that the works were Neces sary arid this would undoubtedly add to the Confidence of investors and raise the status of the Bonds. Alternatively a department of the Federal govern ment might be created to scrutinize Anc authorize local Loans if the formation o such a Bureau were not an invasion of the constitutional Reg hts of the prov trouble left Over from Balkan War Italy s attitude As to Aegean islands Tho May later cause Britain alarm., Brish Canadian news Ana Cable Agency London aug. Student of International politics is having the Tim of his life he has More problems t discuss than at any period in the Twenty . Main topic is now the probability of another european War at an Early Date. No one want is it is no use disguise London society gossip by the dowager ing the fact that it is Likely As too Bulgaria feels herself str on suffragettes would not give their names free press special Cable service Elgin Scotland aug. The Tavvo suffrage Taa who attacked Premier Asquith at Losle Mouth Golf links were arraigned in the police court to Day refused to live their miss Violet Asquith daughter of the prime minister has been Over whelmed with congratulations for the sturdy it Flat she put up when her father refused to defend himself against the suffragettes. The Daugh Ter was holding her own when detectives arrived. An almost a Mung Day hey. Sat beside each other when the younger was still a member of the House of commons but the younger Man wore his spotless Jyh at while the older was reverently uncovered. As a member of the House of Peers he was a stranger in the House of commons and a humorist of the period wrote a might be ordered to Block if he had dared to imitate the rakish brother with his hat stuck on to his head. S3b House uncovered and you cannot Rea Lize what a change indeed a transformation it made in the whole appear Ance of Tho Assembly it exalted it to the Heights of tragedy. No Stags Man Ager. However great his Genius could a pc invented a bit of stage play which a idec such emphasis solemnity1 and Joseph King after All was. Within his rights plan exhibition not Side show Home promoters of Imperial Stock taking scheme want something better than entertainment in Mon. Aug. Pieter Stewart Bajin chairman of the British Empire exhibition administrative committee declares that his colleagues will Endeavor to place the project above Tho plane of amusement exhibitions. They plan to make it a place where people from All parts of the Empire can. As semble. The promoters of the exhibition wish Success to to be held at san Francisco though the do minions were first in the Field having fixed the Date in 1910. It is Felt that since the government has saved 000 by refusing to participate in. The Panama Celebration that there is ground for the suggestion that the Treasury make a Grant to the do minions exhibition. The committee is hopeful of arranging to hold it either at Alexandra pal Ace the White pity or at Earls court Hun Dreels of distinguished people London aug. King is going to pay a series of visits to country houses for the opening of the shooting season. On these occasions there1 is Al ways included in his Luggage a Little folding up Camp bed. For be used to endure sleeping in the historic four especially reserved for him in the Royal suite in great mansions be cause it had been occupied centuries ago by one of his Sovereign forbears. Thu King at last kicked against the unhygienic distinction with its Feather lick and curtains. After Domestic morality George a makes a fetish of Hygiene. I Sven at Home in the various palaces he favors the Small with the hard mattress and insists or his sons doing likewise. When in the Spring he was visiting or. And mrs John Ward an old fashioned housekeeper who has been in the Ward family for years thought she would make tvs majesty More thao usually comfortable and without say ing anything to anyone piled on his bed two Feather ticks. She was amazed when a few hours later the King s Valet arrived with his Luggage and fixed up in the gorgeous room a bed from her Point of View so comfortless that she promptly came to the conclusion it was intended for some Atten Dant. A poor sort of she said for a Royal servant. Were i to offer in to one of mine he d be out of the House in the twinkling of an Eye cures of All sorts. All tile smart women Are taking after season cures for their figures and complexions before they Start out on their round of visits to country houses for the shooting season. There is no place in the world la which a woman is under such Observance As in a coun try mansion for one comes to such close quarters with said the lady Dorothy Neville. It is on the moors and in the country your acquaintances begin to realize you Are growing and h is quite True. The Light is always so dim in London that people never get a really goo d look at a face. L country clothes Are in these Days made so Roomy too they have a decidedly aging effect. Beauty is not of half Bhe importance it used to be youth having it out. Every woman is straining every nerve to keep Young or at any rate to look Young. To be Able to appear at least ten or fifteen years less than her actual years is the ambition of the Middle aged. And Aren t Uliey succeeding but they have to pay the Price in solid Gold. Those gifted in the Art of rejuvenating can demand any Price from their is rarely asked at All it is a question of sending in Tho Bill. Some of Trie great specialists who of course never advertise Are receiving salaries representing four figures women in the social world. This is considered a cheaper Way of doing the business than taking frequent treatments. The Case of a woman who spent a thousand pounds lately in one month on a Beauty doctor because she was afraid she was losing her husband s love is being much talked about the press is dubious on mexican situation daily Telegraph doubts whether country get Ripe for Demor cratic Rule. London aug. London Mornine papers continue to find Little or no encouragement in the situation Between Mexico and the United states and express the strongest doubt As the of president Wilson s policy mainly on the ground that Mexico is not Yot fitted for democratic government. The daily Teleg Hanh fails to see How the acceptance of1 president Wil son s conditions by Gen. Huerta would operate to bring about peace and Security in Mexico and contends that whether Wise or unwise the refusal of the United state s to recognize the Huerta administration has caused an unfortunate situation. U. S. Demands and Huerta. Referring to ambassador Henry Lane Wilson a advocacy of recognition and the fact that the mexican Gress although it was "made1 up1 by Madera nevertheless acquiesced in Huerta s the Telegraph says that it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that president Wilson s de mands Bear rather hardly on _ the Huerta government suggesting that the american antagonism to Huerta is due to the belief that he is a confirmed enemy to american interests while Macro always if claimed himself a Champion of those interests. Tie article proceeds intervention must result. Nothing could be More deplorable than the developments in this Situa Tion along the lines of an open feud Between the anti Huerta St american Trade interests and the pro Huerta interests of other foreign the daily graphic asks if Secretary Bryan regards the situation As encouraging when troops Are being rushed to the Frontier and says that presi Dent Wilson s policy is interesting As an idealist Experiment in International politics but carried lout Losi Cally and consistently must end in intervention. I Diaz s plans. London aug. Felix Diaz immediately after his arrival in London from Canada yesterday Tele graphed to Mexico for information As to the latest developments. He de Clines to make any comment whatever on the situation until he receives to rect advices from his own country and his future movements also depend in the nature of the news which reaches him. General Diaz said to the associated press to Day that he had not yet decided whether to proceed on a Mission to Japan or to return to Mexico. Should his friends in Mexico nominate him for the presidency at the october elections he said he would return. His trip to Japan was interrupted he explained because he was advised in Canada that there was illness in the japanese emperor s family. Keenly searching for Oil Empire enough to take action. The proclamation by King Ferdinand to the Arm May be taken at indicating that tins will not he in the life of the present generation but on tins Point no one can speak with certainty. In any Case Bulgaria which is a country of great possibilities is not financially ruined Only since the two wars have not Cost her much Money. Tier greatest loss is in human life which1 is Inot easy to replace until the children of today have become the men problems which re rapine and murder Are now Ripe in Peru sex president Leguia and party of refugees reach Panama with Story of outrages. Colon Panama aug. B. Leguia of Peru and some thirty of his fellow countrymen who arrived Here to Day As refugees brought them a Story of terrify ing conditions in the South american Republic. They say Complete anarchy exists and that Ranine and murder arc Rife throughout the state. Leguia.1 with several of those in his party snows the effects of the ordeal through which they passed being Al most destitute and bearing minor wounds. Injuries were received in escaping from a prison into Whu h they had been thrust by president Bil Longhurst attacked in his Home. Leguia says he was attacked in his residence his wife and daughter being witnesses of tie assault and was Hur ried to jail. After some Days he escaped. Immediately after his re lease while Ile Grula. And several associates were in hiding they Gen eral order promulgating his expulsion from the army and ordering that he be shot As a traitor if arrested. The refugee peruvians declare there is a big revolution brewing and that Bolivia is by no Means Likely to remain passive while the trouble goes Forward. Peruvian troops however Point of importance and president Billinghurst la said to have the situation fairly Well in. Hand. He has filled the prisons with his political it is asserted and threats hold army commanders to their places. Leguia will spend some Days Here inspecting the canal am wiil then proceed other Central american republics. Later he will visit the he report that he is seeking to raise funds with which to outfit an army. If at All diminished. With agric huts it is far otherwise at any Rale in land. After two poor harvests a will simply top fatal to a Large number of our a Micro. Then there growing Scarcity of the farm bore us the correspondent to i have referred above puts h. There Ara not enough people nowadays on land to cultivate it pop cry. Emigration from the country to the great towns to the Oversea dominions and Elsa-3 where has denuded Tho land to a Ercira extent of the English labourer and far user North of the scottish labourer Tor their places Are taken Liy us borers from Ireland More and Triporo every year formerly these irishmen came for the season and then returnee to their own Homes and though this is still True ill the majority not a few have setted Down permanently this. I heart is the Case on a number a a. Firms in the Rich and highly cultivated of tomorrow. What Are the main either of which May cause serious developments the one is the presence of Turkey at Adrianople and the other the continued acc Patlon by Italy of the Aegean in the Case i Turkey one Power cml is Likely to Bell Tho Russia and she naturally is indisposed to take military action unless she can see a Chance of getting something out of it a result which again. Might cause trouble among the Powers. At the present moment both Russia and Austria Are hostile to the hard bargain which bul Garia h As Bee n. Forced to drive but they so for very different reasons. The. Powers and their desires. Russia wants a Strong Bulgaria be cause she feels she can always Couitt Oil bulgarian co operation Austria wants a. Strong Bulgaria because she does not want a too Strong Servia. Germany is Friendly to the i romanian policy because she wants join the triple Alliance an a also be cause of the family relationship be tween the two houses. Franco is favourable to Greece and greek claims partly for financial reasons and partly also for psychological causes since every. Frenchman thinks the greeks won because they had been trained by French officers and used French munitions of Italy is simply pursuing a policy of self interest and is for that reason retaining Possession of the twelve conquered Aegean islands no Minally until Tripoli is pacified but really because she Hopes when she hands them Back to Turkey to be Able to secure one of herself just As great Bri Tain did under lord Beaconsfield. Bri Tain alone has no personal interest in the matter one Way or the other. Suppose Italy As is Likely takes this step what will happen there will be bitter greek resentment since that nation which certainly has shown Over passing avaricious Ness in her territorial claims will be exasperated it she does not get everything. Then too great Britain Lias stated she can riot be indifferent to the islands or any of them passing into the hands of a great Power since such development would vitally affect the balance of Power in the Mediterranean for every one knows that Rhodes possesses a Magna fluent Harbor. Would any Power try to dispossess Italy if she carried out such a policy no one Ca n say. Obviously therefore there is still much to be settled before predict lasting peace and it is not Oast to find anyone who will risk his credit on asserting that it will come about. On the other hand it is notorious that the threats of trouble often do not materialize and it May be in tills Case. Me its. Hon. T. W. Crothers tour. A Canadian associated Pri so London aug. T. W. Cro thers minister of labor spent yester Day at Liverpool visiting the Birken head Market and the docks. He next proceeds to Manchester Sheffield and Birmingham. No one wants develop to the appearance of the have joined the project or Promise their so Milonee to borrow tha immortal support. Do More so As she has not the Money to pay the Bill. She is in the Royal House hold and the Queen who is far from sympathetic As a Rule in such Circum stances is it helping her All she can. In like Queen Mary can be a newcomers to Ottawa. Major f. D. Of the cold Stream guards Avo succeeds list colonel As military Secretary to the Duke of. Connaught and his charming lady Evelyn Hely Hutchinson sister of the Earl of "malte., themselves Bart reign Ottawa Ana Canadian social circles. With a Fine sense or any genuine offer Canada has to make will be. Most gladly staff London aug. The recent parliamentary debates As the use of Pil and the Paramount advantages of securing. Lies within the Empire causes All reports of the in Al Berta and prospecting elsewhere to be followed growing interest and no Money will be wanting for further exploitation. By really zip inherit experts wherever there is the e. Least encourage ment As a result of the preliminary examination. Or there Deal of political feel ing overt Lei of the government would. Pleased if k sufficient supplies a could be found in Canada in ordervtha4 they might prevent the contracts Weirig placed wit the Oil pm Gainies of. South. America fair a cos pet will be Takens to this if Soiu d thief Churchill took Short air trip free press special Cable service London aug. Churchill the first lord of the admiralty is in. Spec Ting the naval stations with his customary thoroughness. Yesterday he visited the naval aviation depot at Calshot and expressed a desire to take a trip in a water plane. A lieutenant aviator quickly got his machine out and took or. Churchill Over the solent to Spithead. Then the machine was turned up at Southampton water and alighted on the sea off Calshot. The hydroplane was then towed ashore. Rembrandt found. Press special Cable service aug. Discovery is announced in the lumber room of the Calais museum of a magnificent paint ing of the head of an old Man signed Rembrandt. 1633 photographic work disclosed four other Rembrandt signatures of the Date 16-16 under the paint showing that the master used the Canvas in practising on his Signa Ture before signing other pictures. Leaves from a London letter Book by Robert Machray in one Way and another it i Antly evident that most or sent problem before this country Boih in industrially and politically is that of the land. Agriculture remains our biggest and by far our most important Industry As it is our most but taken by and Large it Daunou rightly be called b. Flourishing Indus try. All political parties Are that so me remedy must be found and found quickly though they Are not-1 agreed where or in what it in to be found. Personally i must confess that. 1 see no easy remedy by is under stood that Tho Liberal programme of land Reform which is to be inaugural de by Lloyd George in october will include two main features Nav regulation of rents by a land cnim.? and the other the regulation of the wages of the labourer by wages two it. Int that Rente will to lowered to Tho. Farmers and wages increased to thai two ideas it will of seen Are complementary the Jartner having less rent to pay can afford. Higher wages to his men. So tar. So Good. But this state of things in to be brought about at the expense of the owners of land. Now i should say5 that almost if not altogether Thespo Ovit est investment . Make at present is As an invest ment pure and English or scottish land. If a Clearing 2 per cent from his property As an vestment it is As much As he is do hike taking the whole country into account an immense proportion of English and scottish a half it is is been bought and soil that is trafficked in like anything in the open Market during the lag fifty years or so on an in vestment Balssi the question then arises How is the owner of land to be compel set i de in it is this difficult complicated thorny subject that will be the main 1 Cussion throughout the country this autumn and i think there is Small doubt that it will be attended no Little excitement anger and disturbance generally but As Small Couff that British Good sense and will eventually discover some working Compromise. Just at present attention Here is concentrated on the naval manoeuvres new coins on in the. North sea time was and that very Long when the annual naval manoeuvres were not much More than a sort of. Show of ships to which our were invited to Send for whom the occasion provided a. Pleasant Holiday of an unusual kind. But All that has been changed. These manoeuvres arc no longer a show and no More does our special Corr Spond out for the time of his life probe i ably accompany Triesc lighting Mon sters of the sea. The truth is thai h to Nylon july is just i the Navy is run on business lines in London july a. 110.1 _ _ j i a and that these a Noeuv beginning in the South of England week or rather than a a week Northern France although As a Gen eral thing in these districts and continue simultaneously. Crops on the especially in Russia Are g 6od, hut Trie same can hardly be res. Pet to England Scotland however. Is in better Case because it has enjoyed much More favourable weather on the it has been a season especially from the tourist Point of View in Scotland than in. Almost any either part of Europe there having been much Sunshine and very hate rain North of the Tweed for the last six or seven Harvest in England last year and the year.pro-. Vious was anything out satisfactory in Scotland it was decidedly better. At the moment of writing it looks uncommonly like this year s Story toeing much the same in froth kingdoms unsatisfactory in the South and fairly Good in the North. In England Harvest will be Long protracted partly because the crops live ripened and Are Ripen ing very evenly and partly because there is a very noticeable shortage of harvesters. With regard to the lat Ter aspect of the situation it is stated by a Well informed agricultural Cor respondent that it is probably True that never in any civilized Community have there been so few harvesters Ancl that no nation has Ever had so few workers on the land As England today. I in Points out that Only s per cent of the population has any traffic with and figure compared with 00 per cent in that a percentage of these will be available this year. The contrast Between the position of Commerce and that of agriculture in great Britain is very marked at Thor present time on the one Side is or eat. Success on the other doubt difficulty and something not far from failure in Many instances. Not with standing dear Money and political uncertainties and embarrassments at. Homeland More particularly abroa.3. The immense Trade Boom which this country has experienced for a considerable period still goes on taut Sligh y that these manoeuvres i tical purpose. 1-v. Two vast fleets on a War. Footing have been engaged in mimic hostilities on our Eastern coast. Re producing most of the conditions of actual warfare. Four of our have been theoretically invaded Ami raided by the troops of a hypothetical enemy thus what a vigorous and powerful actual enemy could ;