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in
DEATH OF CANON VAUGHAN.
P
A LOVER OF NATURE AND
AGE IN PLANTS. ·
DO THEY ACTUALLY GROW OLD 1
THE CHINA MAIL.`
DIAMONDS
WHERE THEY ARE FOUND.
There are many mora diamond That science is on the eve of re-mines in the world than the ordinary volationary discoveries in connection
BOOKS AND THEIR AUTHORS.
A NOVELIST ON THE GENIUS OF DICKENS.
Mr. John Galsworthy, the novelist, with control of the growing old of observers imagine; the difficulty is to
delivered an address on July 10 at trees and shrubs and also lesser planta, find them. They frequently occur on is indicated by Professor Priestly, alluvial soil, above which rock bea
the Indian Stud:nte" Union and Professor of Botany at Lecda
formed, thos hiding them from human Hostel, Keppel-street, W. C., on University, in the Journal of the Bath
"Three Great Novelists, and Some and Weat Agricultural Society.
gazs, to which they are betrayed by Ho shows that it is an open ques-mere accident, as recently in British Personal Reflections on the Novel." tion whether plants do really grow Gaiana, Mild and unobserved scismic The novelists were Charles Dickens, old. "*Trus," he says, "the older force may slightly fracture the cover- the Englishman; Ivan Turgency, the tress soom less vigorous, but they are larger and more exposed to a relative-ing goarts, and rain and loud waters Russian; and Guy de Maupassant, ly hostile climate, and have endured percolating through the soil will soon the Frenchman, To him beyond dis- longer tha attacks of their natural widen the gap, permitting the pate, said Mr. Galsworthy, Dickens enemies-fungus, parasites, and insect diamonds, as the earth revolves, to was the greatest English novelist! peats. Their apparent senescens may work their way to the surface of the and the greatest example in the only be due to external factors, and not the expression of external factors inherited by the tree, which would be the case if the tree exhibited a true sonoscence,”
Professor Pricatis quotes the case of the Tailpot palm of Ceylon, which in the Cathedral on the Sunday pre-grows to over 100ft., produce a single vious largely on the Richard Martin gigantic flower, and then dies. It is centenary. He was taken ill when he a type of an older civilisation among was about to celebrate the Holy Comprennial plants. As the latter are munics, and was removed to his know today, they flower year after year and survive. Have they auc house, where he died.
ceeded in avoiding ageing and death?" "Limits to existence must obvious ly be imposed by external conditions," says the profesor. He quotes the banyan tree, which stads out its in the face from the walle of the massive branches borizontally, and Dat:h farmer's adobe-brick dwelling,
A GREAT WRITER.
The Rev. John Vaughan, Conon Residentiary of Winchester, died suddenly on July 10. He preached
Canon Vaughan was a cultivated man who combined with a sound
Sir Valentine Chirol, discussing the "the outlook in India" Quarterly Review, anya:—
"There is only too much evidence that racial bitterness and suspicion- nat confined entirely to the Indian side and constantly fed-by-the-misk wledge of botany and natural his chievous utterances of British reacti. tory a gift of historical imagination.
Born in 1855, the second son of the oustics in this country-and greater in India to day than at any time late Rev. Matthew Vaughan, vicar
the Maciny, ard,
sinca
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et the triumph of sheer Even when seen, it needs an expert exuberant genius. He had eye to detect their value, and to culture, no art, and yet by differentiate between a piece of round native imagination and force of ex- rock and a real diamond in the rough. pression be bad left kuman nature in- FILSON YOUNG O South African prospectors call there and vividly than any other Western printed on men's mind more variously
ART CF RESTING. novelist. Though Turgenev bad been fissures "diamond pipes."
Collinso made himself famous as surpassed in scope by Dickens, by the discoverer of diamonds at what is Tolstoi, perhaps by others, the poetic now known as Kimberley, in Grignar by any other novelist, With de art of bie zovele was unequalled so land Wert; but oven when he observed cupareant we reached the apex---tbe children playing with veritable diamonds, and saw them staring him
very top of the shaped novel and story; the highest mark of fiction, which knew exactly what it was about; and had far sitt revelation of the strange depths and shallows of bumes
THE
A LESSON FOR RESTLESS PEOPLE IN THE ART OF
BEING QUIET.
Mr. Filson Young, the Editor of the Saturday Review, urges the need for cultivating the art of reating,
PEOPLE WHO NEVER REST,
"There are people in the world
of
INTERESTING PHONO- GRAPH TESTS.
It is the practica Dowadays in the Unite States to pat Edison phono- graphs to the severe test of reproduc- ing a great singer's voice what time the singer repeats the song in unison with the phonograph. Auditors de clare that, when the lights are lowered and either the phonograph or the singer is silent, it is impossible to tall whether the music is proceeding from the singer or the machine. Peoplo
of Finching Geld, Essex, he was these are supported by prop roots he could not feel certain and bad to sature. To him, the temperament of whom it may tanly be said that they have declared, confidently, that the during the Matiny, outside the re-educated at Felated School, graduat- which start from the branches, reach travel away to procure expert advice de Maupassant was clearly visible iu never rest," he says; "who go from singer and not the phonograph is be latively small area to which the outing from Corpus Christi College, Cam and enter the ground and become enp-before making his discovery known his work; but it was never dircoty morning to night and from season to beard and the lights have been
So in British Guiana, the discoverer
lashed on and it has been found that the singer has left the stage. It say a good deal as to the perfection ata
loyalty and contentment, however ourate of Stratton with Baunton, Glou- | It is difficult to say that such a tree, mner. have possessed experience be-floods of an experimental period; and cupation to another; who never tained by the phonograph that such &
iparticulate, we bad hitherto taken castershire.
break of 1857 was confined. The bridge, in 1876, He was ordained porting pillar.
"Thus roots and leafy crown both to the world. rapidity with which the infection in 1878 by Dr. Ellicott Bishop spread amongst the masses whose of Gloucester and Bristol, and became cover an ever widening territory, and
He began his long unhindered by the competition of its fore being able to confidently declare for granted, is an ominous symptom, service in the diocese of Winchester neighbours, should ever reach a naturhe had seen real diamonds.
in 1881, when he accepted the curacy al limit to its activities. In India, WBB where the trees rre considered sacred, of Alton, Hauta. In 1890 he nominate by a private patron to the grova arising from such a spread. the vicarage of Forchester. In 1807 ing tree may cover several acres," the Archbishop of Canterbury, then Bishop of Winchester collated him to the vicarage of Langrish and in 1902
This re- But that is not all. crudescence of racial antagonism bae imported fresh difficulties into the whole scheme of constitutional evalu- tion embodied in the Statute of 1919.
POLITICAL EDUCATION,
"Found and courageous judgment
chester
collated
yeals Central the
him to
for
EXPERIMENTS ON POTATOES.
Pointing out the inability to find
Toots.
MOST FAMOUS STONEA.
shown.
cason with every minute accounted We were all just now struggling for in advance; who are always going continued Mr. Galsworthly, in the from one definite and organised o there were even eigas already of a read and never think, but who speadshing should be posible. The honse raction towards something more their time in moving from place to furnishing value of the phonograph modern than medernism. Personally, place and is talking.
bas also been realised and one san "Before their eyes life moves with have them eased in the style associat he was for experiment just so long The largest diamond in the world sad so far as it attempted sincerely the vibration of a cinematographed with the famous names of Chip-
to create the 'ive thing. Realcula and if they were to attempt to sit was the Cullinan diamond, found in needed a sympathetic brooding over down and rest they would probably padale, Sheraton, Happela hite or the Premier Diamond Mine, near ideas, circumstance, and character; never get up again, but would dissolve
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is, after all, the fruit of long to that of Droxford, and he was made an answer to the question: "Do Pretoria, in January, 1905. In 1907 a deep penetration into human into old age and helplessness; as some honorary canon in 1903. In 1009 plants grow old 1" the professor cite it was presented to King Edward minds and nature, and into the cosmic substance, bald together by | schools and colleges sad many other Bishop Ryle, then Bishop of Win- various experimente which have been VII in commemoration of the grant- mooda of nature. No good end was centrifugal forors and aying the..agh political training; and whilst our
conducted to discover more about the ing of self-government to the served by throwing over recklessly space, would, if its movement were Tran vasl. It weighted 3.030 carate and callously the efforts and achieve arrested, fly asunder into dust. There internal factore" of plants.
" Miss Violet Drummond $75,000,000, ments of the past; nor by plonging are men of this kind, but there are daughter of the Hon. Mrs. Drum- agencies imported by as into India
Some of the most interesting of and was valued at have created the Western educated residentiary stall. In addition to hir
these experiments concerned potatoes, being finally cut in pieces. many into ink before the plunger and more women; they are often what is mend, of Megginch Castle, Forfar. claren that compose the bulk of the pastoral work ho was active
in lecturing for and the indications they give of of which now adorn the Royal crown bathed in life, and stored within bis called leaders of society; they are shire, having anished her appren-
Church Reading
present at every function, their names ticeship as an engineer in Dundee, now Councile, we have only recently many
There was too much of trying to coased to grudge them the one effective
(anout) wound (as when tubers are cut across weighing form of political education, which is Usion, and was for twelve years the vigour in their capacity to heal a of Great Britain. The "Excelsior," self feelings and experience.
nothing in the eyes of the people engineering staff if one of the Holt rsal responsibility for the exercise of organizing aud lectur¬ secretary of the for planting), as well as to make wae also found in South Africa, and make something out of nothing. No are every day in the newspapers; has accepted an appointment on the
diocesan branch, which became one
the "Great Mogul," 280 carats (cut); good to Art came out of the clever who take auch a life seriously can be Line atesmers trading between Liver -real power.
the country,
carats (onent); ness of cliques and coteries for ever regarded as successful without their pool and Australia. She is the first "Regent," 410 Valuable data are likely to be upon Indians of the lamentable trend besides giving useful assistance to the obtained as to the beat conditions Orloff." 900 carats (uncut), and destroying the past; and talking presence. How do they do it?...
"Nor must one forget the reaction of the strongest in
woman thus to quality," says the Telegraph. of orents in Ireland closely watched central organisation in the arrange under which to make potato sete, and Koh-i-nor," 103 carata (cut), were how not to do it in the present,
potato's all found in Inlis. by all parties in India, and, in quitement of the syllabus and the choice
The "Great Mogul vanished and at opposite direction. of Mr. Chur- of books. H published "The Wild. the relation between B
flowers of Selborne and Other capacity to heal itself and its
has never been since discovered. It rhill's attitude towards British In-
Papers," "The Music of Wildsistance to some forms of disease.
Finally Professor Priestly relates was seen at the Court of Aurangzebe dians in the Colot ier, which Indiens Flowers," Lighter Studies of s of all classes, and also the Govern Country Rector, Winchester Cathedral how at the university porennial by a French jeweller, in 1666; was ment of India, resent as in direct Close, Winchester Cathedral: Ite plant was produced artificially. The stolen at the sacking of D:lbi in 1750, BRIGHTENING UP THE GREAT resting, and whose lives are, in con- The first thing to do is to withdraw conflict with the Resolution passed at Monuments and Memorials, and "A plant, a chickweed, was kept growing the last Imperial Conferencs. For the Mirror of the Soul." Canon Vaughan by the removal of its flowers, and grew British Government cannot shelter married in 1891, the eldest daughter continuouely for about 18 months. themselves in regard to Rear, of the Rev. E. Wbyley, formerly vicar colony under the direct suthority of of Alton, who survives bim with two the Crown, as they have done in
daughters, regard to South Africa, bebind the impossibility of interfering with the legislative independence of a self- governing Dominion.
INDIA'S FINANCIAL DEFICIT.
thoroughly to explore for the first time her immense natural resources, gave a vigorous impetus to their de "India, no doubt bad her fat year velopment for industrial and com during the war when her exports pro-mercial purposes, the pressure of spered exceedingly: bat they have financial necessity may now compel been followed by desperately leau Government to reconsider the incr year, which have not only resulted in dence and distribution of taxation on widespread 'economic depression, hot line better adapted to the new Also ingrave financial embarrassments cross of wealth that are opening for both the Central and the Provin-out. cial Governments. Nothing could bave been more unfortunata for the reforms.
THE NEET ELECTIONS.
of
T
was presumably cut into pieces and ever since seen. The "Orioff" was stolen from the eye of an Indian idol purchased by Catherine of Russia, and placed in the Czar's sceptre. The "Koh-i nor" became the property of Queen Victoria of England, who left it to Queen Alexandra.
AS YOU WERE!
WESTERN.
The passion for brightening up
it
things becomes interesting when expresses itself on the railways, saya
home paper in mail week.
a
"They are extreme cases, of course;
but there are thousands of people,
more normally constituted, who ale will be disturbed and restlers on s are losing or love lost the power of feat er bed in a sound proof chamber.
sequence, not quit nor pleasant, nor the mind from all definite subjects of fertile in any of those fruits which a contemplation and make it a blank. more placid generation so richly This is an easy thing to say, but not harvested; who wooder at the end of an easy thing to do without prootice.
the day why they did all the things I do not mean that it is difficult not that they did, and who must wonder, to think of something, for, in fact,
I think, at the end of their lives if all few people make a habit of thinking
It is doing so to some purpose on the fret and barden has been worth at all for more than a few seconds at
the Great Western line where one while. For them, as for the others, a time: Thinking requiros effort and
Br zil was, hefore the advent of sees the old coloure-a chocolate base the only salvation Les in the art of concentration. South African diamonds, the chief and cream on the upper panels-com-resting.
"The first thing to do is to con- source of supply, but until coming back on some of the "swagger” "I call it as art because it is a centrate on nothing at all-which is
thing which
people have a very different thing from not con-, paratively recent times the diamond trains.
0108
By experiments in taking cuttings these and other chickweed plants it was found posible to correlats power of rooting with certain sacer- tainable structural features. More important still, a method was suggest ed by which it is possible experimet tally to restore the power of rooting to the shoots of those plants which
was regarded as inferior to rubies and To carry out the intenien to bave naturally; they have a talent or gift centrating on anything. Resting re- appear to have lost it.
"This research into the control of the emeralds, when the art of cutting and all the trains brought back to thee of tranquillity, and can achieve and quies almost as much concentration growing old of plants bas left problems polishing placed them in the front original colours frous the present rich, maintain that state in the most as hard work, and that is why people
but rather ðull lake, in a very large adverse circumstances. But there is | who have the greatest power of con immediate practical interest, some rank of precious stones.
Cecil Rhodos made a huge fortune order and will take time. For the finish also a science of resting; it can be centration have also the grastenz of which at least, 6378 Professor Priestly, it is hoped to elucidate so by amalgamating all the diamond you reo on a railway carriage's outer learned and cultivated, and if they power of testing. The restless and far that their solutione may prove a companies operating at Kimberley, panels is naly achieved after the wood will but discipline themselves a little over-tired people are the prople who defaite contribution to agricultural and to that fact can be attributed the has been treated u der 22 processes. the most fidgetty and nervous people have not learned the habit of con- and horticultural practice.
ability of American and British And that is a reduction from what can soon achieve at will that blessed centration or mind control youths to participate in the advent-used to bu necessary!
and recuperative condition which we age of Rhodes Scholarships. To Every railway has what may be call rest. word "diamoed" is merely a corrupcalled its personality and a distinctive tion of "adamant."
exterior is regarded as part of thin. Hence th Great West rn's redecor
of
AMERICA IN THE EAST.
MILITARY FORCES REDUCED
"Even the greatest optimists must admit that the future of India's par- "The deportments transferred to liamentary institutions will largely Indian Ministers in the Provinces, depend upon the results of the next instead of bring in a position, as was general elections eighteen months contemplated, to deal more liberally Lenee, which the Extremiste will al with such transferred' subjects as mcat certainly not again boycott, but education, Ranitatios, public works, do their best of their worst to captare. The question which we have got etc., which are the things that India really wants, bave on the contrary to face and it presenta itself under
The War Department, says the been starved as never before and a variety of forms-is whether we
go through Manila Times, han decided to roluce popular expectations have beer alle determined to
the constitutional ex- the forces in the Philippines one hall, more grievously disappointed, with This disappointment not unnaturally pelient upon which we have en-al forces in the islands and Chios not
the
:
BY ONE HALF.
AN UNQUIET MIND,
"It is of no use to place the body in on attitude of inactivity and ra
pose if the mind is active and dissipat-
• To concentrate the mind on the idea of repose is partly a positive, but much more a negative process. The idea of rest must be put definitely in the foreground and regar led as the thing elee must be allowed to receda chiel business of the moment; every-
ation. One of the first trains to wear the new-nld coloure is the non-stoped, or one's thoughts are jumping into the background.
siderable force of submarines express Paddington to Torquay, about from one subject to another, or Ip Addition to the expenso which has been put in for the running round in circles of irritation the art of letting go' that you "It is not until you try to cultivate involved in providing such a defence, soromer. She brings the wonders of
and distress. In such a condition it realise how the mind is clinging to there has now been created, in Article the Itely of England very near to i not essible to keep the body still something or other all the time, and XIX, of the novel treaty, an absolute London.
for long, and the effort to do so proves how the sedulous body imitates it by A Daily Newes reprezentative prohibition against any future increase
more exhausting than activity. That bracing itself and straining itself in. all the provinces that the cor tri-uf Parliamentary institutions in In- of which 3500 will be compared to facilities for the repair and mainten her maiden journey for this year. the move; the mind will not allow incloth to be made by the Provin- dia even if they carry as further and the present strength of about 18,000. saca of naval forces or in the existing She covers the distance of 200 miles the body to rest, but drags it about a very good way of learning how to let
faster than we had originally con- It seems imminent that the Philippine coast defenced
in 215 midates leaving Paddington cial exchequers to the Government
The mission of the garrison wili, at 13 noen
a ceaseless search for the repore which 80. Lie down in bed or on a couch garrison will become only a police
arriving
rid up your of India Exchequer are excessive, templated.
"Indians who sincerely desire to force as was formerly predicted.
always seems attainable in some relax your whole body. Let every therefore, probably resolve itself into Torquay at 3.95. Her times were The 1923 army bill bas sealed, the one of maintaining order. The auth-eract on our journey, despite fear other place than that in which muscle go slack. Go over every part maintain the British connection da not regard their new constitution as fate of the military in the Philippines, crised peace garrison has ben about compulsory alsskenings of speed where one finds outself. People in that of it in torn with your mind, Make
condition never say, 'I shall rest an experiment, but as an irrevocable nuthing having been put into it 10,000 officers and men, which number there were line repaits.
sure that the lull weight of your head hero"; they alway says. "I eball go is reating on the pillow, that your charter, and they are taking their providing for the construction of ad' includes about 8,000 Philippine
The retura is made in the same somewhere and rost. They cannot limbs are lying limp as they would
finds vent in vehement complainta tered and toutcopt the implications to number more than 9,500 troops-in the Philippines of existing caval¦ travelled by this luxurious train on is why overtired people are always on all kinds of ways. But there is one
and the Goverment of India iterli
is in far too deep financial waters to
educe them at present, though bound
in principle to reda's them as son as
possible.
aloquent. The first Indian Legislative
Assembly elected under the new
constitution has been confronted at
a deficit of £18,000,000 and another s
I
and
at
and make
to
"The figures of the last two A. Parliamentary, institutions very seri-ditional defences. The paval treaty | Scouts. It is the prosent plan to time, Torquay being left at 12.10 noon dissociate reat from the idea of move if you were foating on water, with
ously. Anyone can see that for him has also worked against improving reduce the pe ce garrison to about and London reached at 5.45 F.ment, and it was the almost universal cut any creek or tension in them. India budgets. are sufficiently self who studies the proceedings of the the naval situation."
9,500, only 3,500 of which will be Oatside and inside the train bas Legislative Assembly in the Dahi
"Follow out this mental inspection Hansard. But many Indians believe says the following:-
The last Army and Navy Journal white troops. The above figures in limousine comfort. Her grast speed experience of over tid people that the salmist expres, 1 when he wrote olade the troops now in China. There—we lunched while she was doing a that neither the British Government The War Department has com is no item in the budget for 1923 for stretch of good line at 80 miles ana dove, for then would I fly away and solutely loosened and set free to take the words, Oh that I had wings like to the extremities of the limbs, sas that every finger and every too in abe Delhi in two successive yeate with the nor the British people consider them gluded some important plans in regard now construction in the defences of the hour-has no appreciable effect on be at rest! The modern person the attitude of repass. It is of no worst budgets on tecord, one showing selves finally committed to the new to the army in the Philippines. It Philippine Islands.
hor steadiness and smoothness of relationship established between has been concluded practically to India and the Empire. Into Mr. abandon the place for adequate degress of the withdrawal of the troops line.
There has been some talk in Con-motion. She is a real queen of the translates this into 'Oh that I had a use to do this with the body if the cooter car, or an aeroplane, or mind is rot at reat; but you will find Montaga's downfall and Minco in that quarter.
from China, but this will not be done Aninteresting fast connected with yacht, ara reserved cabin on a line, at this process
of combing Churchill's secondanoy in the Cabinet The war place division of the if the administration has anything to the starting of this summer service is a compartment in the wagon it out, as it were, the nerves and they read the menace of reactionary general staff bas concluded that such do with the situation. Indeed, the that the Great Western is the greatest that I could go away and be at muscles will have a remarkably tran-
defence wenld involve maintaining Bacretary of State has been quite son stop trait-runner of the silwere rest on
quillising effect on the mind, which "The acid test of British sincerity on the island of Luzon a garrison of insistent that this fore shall remain of the world. The 10.30 morning ex
MAKE, TUB KIND A BLANK, will become occupied with the iden of will be above all the question of approximately 100,000 men generons in that country to discharge treaty press to Plymouth, which does the “There is a great fallaxy in all that, } repose; and by the time you have un- India le becoming also a great military expenditure, and that of the 15 provided with airoralt and obligations imposed on the United 2201-mile journey in 4 hrs. 7 min.,, is for if you know how to rest you can crooked the last little muscle it is nob: Austrial country, and, just as the
supplemented by
con-State"
the world's record non-stop run. test anywhere, and if you don't you unlikely that you inay be maleep. war which compelled Government treatment of Indians in the Coloniae,"
deficit of £22 000 000 and both involving heavy ineronzes of taxation NEW SOURCES OF WEALTH.
The limits of taxation in the old
directions, when India was almost axclusively an ogreulfüral country. have probably born reached.
But
forces at home.