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"FIGHTING" & "GARRULOUS" ADMIRALS.
"MERE SMOKESCREEN."
The poet, according to an an- The Prince of Wales and, an New York-A severe reproot cient adage, is born not made. hotel waiter, named Tom Cox-was given to "fighting and garrul- Almost as soon as he begins to head, were the central figures in jous admirals," when the Secretary talk, he spa in numbers, and an amusing incident recently of the Navy, Mr. Wilbur, excused rhyme comes as naturally to him, when the Prince visited Windsor, himself from attending the sixty- 08 does breathing. But it is not as Lord High Steward of the fourth birthday dinner given at so with the orator. He is made borough, to take part in the his- New York recently in honour of Plunkett. not born. He comes into his king-, toric venison banquet.
Rear-Admiral Charles While a number of men were who was about to retire from ac- dom only as the reault of the most strenuous effort and of the stern-, being presented to him the Prince tive service to become a member hold out his hand to a smartly-of the Stock Exchange Arm of est disciplines, writes J. Hugh;
dressed young man who was in Josephthal and Company, New Edwards, M.P.
But the young York, the assembly Of Demosthenes it has been ob-
Mr. Wilbur had been announced served that nature had deprived man faltered, in obvious em-
Karrassment. him of all the requisites of a great "I am sorry, your Royal High- a letter of apology to Colonel as the principal guest, but he sent arator. He had a poor voice, his mess," he said, "but I am only a Simmons, president of the Ameri lungs were weak, his utterances, member of the hotel staff." can Marine Association and gen-| were marred by atammering and The Prince smiled and replied: oral chairman of the testimonial his gestures were aggravated by "Well, why not shake hands; it dinner committee, which the reci an ungainly figure. However, in doesn't matter," and with that plent described as a "mere smoke. his eagerness to become a great they grasped each other's palm screen." Colonel Simmons admit- orator who would be able to sway firmly and burst into laughter. tod later that the Secretary of the}; the multitude and thus affect the
A "High" Buck.
Navy's absence had been explain- destiny of his own country, he re- With the Prince at the ban-ed to him as due to fear that the solutely set himself to triumph quet, which dates to the time of Minister's presence would be nils- over so heavy a handicap. Hy de-James I., were the High Sheriff, understood if he attended the din- claimed by the seashore in his members of the corporation, and ner 80 Boon after Admiral effort, and made his voice heard 120 guests. above the roar of the
in waves
The King had sent a fine buck at the National Republican Club, order that he might accustom him-from Windsor Great Park for the Mr. Secretary Wilbur's absence, self to the noise of a tumultuous feast. It was killed last October, Colonel Simmons told the reporters, assembly. He recited speeches but owing to the death of the is a public rebuko to Admiral with pebbles in his mouth that he Marquis of Cambridge the ban-Plunkett, which we all regret." might correct the congenital de- quet was postponed and the buck Admiral Plunkett's speech to his feet in his speech, and he practis-had been kept in cold storage admirers Was another ples ed speaking at home with a naked ever since.
for a large merchant marine
time.
Plunkett's recent warlike specch
not
sword suspended above his shout- In a humorous speech the which, together with a big navy, der and thus rid himself of an un- Prince, responding to the toast of he considers the bost protection He complained that graceful gesture on his part. He his health, said: "The ostensible against war. became the greatest orator of all object of our meeting this even the American people were
ing was to eat as much venison "ship-minded and do not appre- as we conveniently could of the clate the basic relation of a sound “No Man.Spake Like This Man."
fine buck presented by his merchant marine policy to com- The slang phrase "the gift of Majesty in accordance with an-mercial expansion and national de- the gab" has passed into currency cient custom. Like many other fence, and to the happiness and na a term of contempt for skill in the art of public speaking, as this one has a history, and prob- people."
good old customs in this country, prosperity of the American though it were something sinister ably
one of shady origin. in its significance and demagogic (Laughter).
"England Flaring Up.* Lively scenes and hot question-
in its display. And this in spite "I believe the usual explana-ings marked the appearance of re- of the incontrovertible fact that tion is that it was only by such a presentatives of various church or the whole history of the world is gift of buck that the burgesses of ganisations, in Washington when but a commentary on the thrilling Windsor could be dissuaded from the House of Represen- power of the spoken word. going out into the Great Purk tives Naval Affairs Committee
Of the Founder of Christianity and shooting at the King's deer, were told by Dr. William Hull, a it is recorded that "no man apake so in this sense we have to be Quaker, that "every true American like this man." Unlike Job and thankful for the poaching propen-will resent and resist the Govern- Isaiah, Plato and Socrates, Hesitics of your ancestors for the ment's dangerous, seventy-one ship wrote no book. He confined Him- excellent dinner we have had this self to the task of preaching, and evening.
the common people who thronged
to hear Him on the hill-sides |
|"heard Him gladly," And His dis-
proposals."
During three hours there was uproar as the witnesses protested against a big navy, which, they said, was quite unnecessary for the
ciples, as they set out to turn the 14 NATIONS PRESENT. country, and which Dr. Hull and
world upside-down, followed His | example. They sought the accom- plishment of their apostolate in
the power of, the spoken word.
Gift of Thrilling Speech.
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those associated with him declared would call forth an alliance against the United States.
"The speeches of admirals and Representatives of fourteen nå-generals, the statements of the In every great movement which tions, members of the two American Navy League, and now hos thrilled men's hearts and Houses of Parliament, and thou-this proposition for a stupendous our navy," he said, affected their destinies, the source sands of other Roman Catholics increase in of Inspiration has been found in thronged Westminster Cathedral "are precisely like those things the great gift of thrilling speech. recently for the commemoration which bamboozled
the Gorman
It was the eloquence of a simple of the coronation of Pope Pius XI. Reichstag and made the German: monk that called forth
It was the first time such a people mad." the Cru-
He declared that England was sudes, and it was the mesmeric commemoration has been held in
England, although on the Cón-"flaring up" under the stimulus of power of speech on the lips of a tinent it has been the practice to the American building programme. miner's son that brought about the give Roman Catholics this oppor-Not only was it adding fuel to the tunity of expressing their loyalty old flames," he continued, "arch
Protestant Reformation.
It was the thrilling note of an to the Pope, and to unite in ane Mayor Thompson, of Chicago, impassioned oratory that enabled solemn prayer of thanksgiving had been stirring up; but it was Mirabeau to marshal the forces of for the graces bestowed on him kindling the fires of religious the French Revolution and Daniel during the years of his ponti-hatred as well," O'Connell to revive the national ficate,
Mr. Butler, chairman of the spirit in Ireland. America ja the Dozens of glowing candles in Naval Committee, who is himself a land of millionaires, but its most the foreground raised the depths Quaker, proteated that the opposi-| cherished possession is the memory of the dull blue ceiling to a lighter tion witnesses were not given fair of Abraham Lincoln, who, reared hue, and the pillars of marble play. "Oh, he hasn't got a pro- on the squalid hearth of a log-formed a worthy setting for the gramme, anyway," remarked Repre-[ cabin, succeeded, by the sheer skill robes and vestments of the sentative Britten, referring to Dr. of speech, in attaining to the bishops and priests.
Hull, who appeared before the height of the Presidency of the
Vespers ended.. A bell sounded committee as chairman of a dele- Republic,
sharply, and a procession of gation representing the World-Al- priests and acolytes walked slowly liance for International Friendship through the cathedral, from the and the Church Peace Union. passed sanctuary.
Dr. Arthur Brown, representing the Presbyterian Board of For-
The Speech at Gettysburg,
Sixty-five years have
since Lincoln delivered
his brief
Cardinal's Blessing.
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but memorable address at the bat- Cardinal Bourne, in' white vest-elgn Missions, said he did not ob- tlefield of Gettysburg, when it was ments worked with gold, gave his ject to the ropelacement of ships, {solemnly dedicated 13 # burial blessing to the kneeling men and but if replacement was the only ground for the repose of the re- women of the congregation, purpose of the Administration's mains of those who had laid down There was a moment's pause. proposals, as was claimed, it was their lives for their country on that Then the priest opened the taber- misleading, as understood by the historic ground. It was on that nacle, and incensed the Blessed public, and was widely misinter- occasion that he declared that "we Sacrament, as the hymn, "O preted in Great Britain and Japan. here highly resolve that these dead "Salutaris," was sung..
ahall not have died in vain--that The Benediction of the Sacra-i this nation, under God, shall have ment was given, the Host return- a new birth of freedom-and thated to the tabernacle, and the government of the people, by the triumphant strains of the "Te
BOXING MARQUIS.
people, for the people, shall not Deum" echoed through the great TWO HEIRS TO PEERAGES AS perish from the earth,"
cathedral.
Cardinal Bourne held a recep-1 after the service. tion at the archbishop's house
CANDIDATES.
The gift of the gab" has been the biggest factor in the moral
Two heirs of peers who made] and spiritual development of man-
their name in Oxford athletics are kind-the motive power,in the pro-
seeking similar success in the poll- gress of democracy and the most
[tical arena. They are the Marquis potent instrument In Improving the
of Clydesdale, heir to the Duke of condition of the masses of every proach. It is said of a member of to the Earl of Home.
Hamilton and Lord Dunglass, hefr They will civilised community."
the House of Commons, who has both be Conservative candidates To those of my readers who an unenviable notoriety for empty for Parliament at the next election. eagerly desire proficiency in the Ing the House whenever he rises to Their ancestral homes in Lanark| craft of public speaking, I may be address it, that he invariably says shire are near one another. permitted, on the strength of thirty nothing and that he takes an hour
The Marquis of Clydesdale, whe years' practical experience in its to say it.
is known as the "boxing marquis.” daily exercise, to offer some sug- The preparation of a speech can was at Balliol College. He repre- gestions which I venture to think be likened to the construction of a sented Oxford for three successive cannot fail to be of service. | building. First of all, there years in boxing against Cambridge. The Objective and the Route. should be a definite plan, in which but each year lost after a magni- The first essential requirement all its salient features are set out. ficent fight. He is now twenty-Ave fa, unquestionably, that- of know- Having secured such a plan, the years old. He will stand for ing, before one even opens one'a wise builder proceeds to accumu- Govan. mouth in public, what one is going late all the various materials that Lord Dunglass, who is twenty-||| to say. It is not sufficient to know will be necessary in the process of four, will stand for the Coatsbridge the chief objective to which the constructing the building-lime Division of Lanarkshire. He was apeech is to be directed. It is and mortar, timber and tin, grates at Christ Church College. He was equally necessary to have a very and slated which can be duly an excellent bowler and a capable clear idea of the route along which wrought into the fabric of the batsman, and received a number of it is proposed to make the ap- structure according to plan.
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