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LORD KITCHENER'S KHYBER
RAILWAY.
ITS MORAL AND MATERIAL, SIGNIFICANCE.
Writing in the London Daily Mail, Mr. Ian Monosim says:
The more suggestion of a schome to connect the plains of India with those of Afghanistan by means of a railroad running through the Kbybor Paus invites as to two most interesting considerations.
The rat is the oxtraordinary advance in civilisation of the tribes on the North West Frostier of India during the past few years, without which co such schomo could be conceiv
able in theory or practice. This is very largely due to Lord Curzon's policy of peaceful penetration, of guarding those frowning frontiers by the good-will of their native inhabitants, and of 8-caring that goodwill by dividing up the unwieldy province of the Panjab and rassing in the new Froutier province all that is mass capable by instinct agil training to deal with fronti and trilul problems as they arise. The second consideration follows directly from the first viz., that the condition of these same native races is now the malleable moment when the -appliance of salone, constructive or commercial Rust have an impor un effeot upon their fature development. And if, as may be expected, the arent and thus to the furtherance of trade between two commersially-inclined peoples, then way we hope to see the dawn of a new era when better knowledge will inspire grastor confidence and drier friendship between tus Governments of Afghanistan and of India.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS...
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IS SPORT RUINING THE NATION?
LAW OF TELEGRAPH ENROUS.
In the Standard the topic of debats his bean At Lowestoft County Court last mouth an
"The Use and Abase of sport." The distine interesting point was raised in a case which arose out of an error in transmission of a tele-development sport is the greatest benefit: but tion is very simple. As a moans of physicsl gram from Monmouth to that town.
when sport is allowed to became the be-all and tologram was telephoned to Monmouth for despatch to Lowestoft ordering "one" barrel end-all of life, when it pushes aside work and proventa serious realisation of the dalies of of herrings, but on the arrival of the message
citizenship, then sport boconos a monoco to the it read "bine," and this number of barrels was accordingly sunt. The consignes would only nation's prosperity. take in ons barral, and sont the others back, and he was now seed for the coat of the other eight. It was coutouded for the consiguen that the Post Ofies only became an agent to transmit a partienlar telegram, and was not au agent for one that had become altered in course of tusmission, and judgment was given for the defendante,
A TRIUMIN OF MODERN ENGINEERING. The members of the British Association arrived at Victoria Falls on the Stat ult., und the new bridge ner ss the Zamled was formally opened by the president, Professor Darwin, who mindle a speeck to the assembled visitors in the midd'o of the bridge, where the train had drawn up.
That is the postulate with which "Sports- mar 'opened the discussion:-
I want to warz the English people, writing as one who has consistently followed spart for forty years, that they are allowing sport to become an obsession and a magio: 遵从踏 cricketor, a golfor, as sherman, and a motorist, I claim to know something about sport. As one who has played for his school and Einn aneh, aut for his college at Oxford, I claim to know something about cricket. I am now a member of two golf clubs. I have for five years been a rory kosu mortorist, and I With all shall always be an ardent fish-rman. this, it is being borne in upon me that we Englishmen are becoming a nation of sporting gaines. I regard the whole thing with as great serioneunsa us 7 would the spread of somu fatal disense. I have kept silent about it for long. but it is on my conscience to say, with all the strength in me, that this country is going sporting und.
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His quarrel is not with sport but with the anniverary of the empation of Mashonalari. giving to sport. They read sport and tik
is very fitting that the faremst vopr sentaties of scieze should b. asociated witit, to the exclusion of every serious interest
in life. the inauzuation of a triumph of moderu
It is an awful subject to argue about, beezuso at the! euginearing. Regret the founde country is not alive to witness the ralisation holy is arroul Uut sport is an admiraldo thing-it inodoration. But how are you going of part of his great ideal.
› compel moderation? In all this correspon dence we find columus of conviction that sport is carried to erenss, and that the welfare of tho
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ion is thereby end ingered, but vo fail to discover a single suggestion of remedy. Now, if no remate is forthe ming for thing it is a fair inforonoa -I
-remembering Natures law of compensation that 10 remedy It is quite possible that fl 15, l-d. this talk on the abuse of spert is over- Tropian mustals, you are not seeing models of za Romember, you are not dealing with Sobriety and industry decoyed away from nobler pureuils to the playing-ids, you are dealing with ond-uary human beings with an inborsat fondness for play and it is a fast-an inherent disasta for work.
The route through which Khyber railway would pass will ofther follow the bed of the Kabal River from Nowshera on to Hio boundary
A golman alverdeing in the Tutes of of Afghanistan, or it will proceed along the road now complot d through the Khyber Pass 1895 express himself desires of partaking itself, having its terminns at or near Lundi daily of a Piain Dinner, about 2 or 3 o'clock, st Kolai. Tam not expert onough to say which a falzily table in the neighbourhand of Road- The advertis-nment, remarks a London of these lines wou'd
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advertisement has gone by. Then the citize Afgan traders with their bi-weekly caravans
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his apprentions over his plusal business, When Thorn is, indeed, nlready a shot railway rau- Hardwareing out to Jund, the lonely fortress on the was so unfortunate na to bava la lico cutside
utskirts of British Ladia from whose flag-startis civic limits, and yet pursue his daily to mound the mountains seem to foster and Trown Within, there was nothing at the chop-house above one, their haro, jagged peaks spearing mest eame round.
for him to turn to when the hour for thy wid-day The chop-house if all we The sky. To the left one looks down into the
hour about it be true, was not a place either for Tiral country; to the right one loks towards Michni. Sabked, and the Kabni River. the
Such gentlemen, like the advertisar in the Tires, Boukht cagerly for some family table and a plain dinnor in order to escap: the heavy, barty unale that oherwise they had to Furtake of. But to-day no one lives in the city, and the elohauge has bee one slusst a tradition. The home is in the suburbs, and restaurants of all styles and all prices provide the city workor with what he needs. Now, instead of the chap-house, we are the eternal hu-shop, and it is matter for argument which of the two in the more proferable.
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Empiry into indopement territory occupied by fighting families with whose quarrels it is no Fart of our business to interfers. They may settle their own differences in their own way but they mast hero to the "role of the road, which is that nobody may fire of bo frul at when on the road, or fifty yards from either side of it.
Ouce in the pass itself, the road is a first-rate eue, enhanced by glorius sc-nery the whole way from Jamrud to Landi Kotal. Two days in the week tho pus is open to visitors, and is substantially protected from accident. by pickets of the Khyber Rifles, whose pests odu communicato visibly from p-ak to pork along the whole length of the pass. Primarily the precantion is tak n to ensure the sto passage of the caravans to and from Postawar
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The love of sport is a national Loritago with Those whom it so completely alurbs that they low all sense of duty to themselves and their country would, failing sport, havgartain- ly be absorbed by some other diveraon fur patron-mor harmful. Those who possess the right stuff in them will leara, as, after all, the majority of us have learned, so to adjust play and work as to protince that aine balance, the sound mind in the healthy body,
The prevalence of Fans as a Welsh ymie has its desmeks, which are cccntidel by the habit of adding John as a Christiau name. Forty John Joneses are playini by the Cardiff Corporation on their fraway sya. Leo, bath wit of the chief officials assured a
identify them with the ease with which a shop reporter that there is a confusion. Is can hord identifies his shop. It is different, la over, with the female Janes. They appear be less easily distinguishable, and a rale btains in drapery Lablishments thenly the senior Miss Joms retains her note The tres have to adopt some other appellation. Another way of getting out of th difficulty insulin factories. It is inconvenient if when a for
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Qua of the most interesting of those lettera is from a min who, highly successful in life, looks back with ecoelasting regret to the fact that he hevor realised this ambitions in sport :
It is my mission to chonicle the fort that I bogan, the life which Mccords childhood with the ambition to play for my country. At the age of sixteen my chanes of attaining this aim were singularly bright. Very soon afterwards the disagreable newssity of earning my own living finally cut short my papirations to a calls "Jones!" forty or fifty men come runuing to liim, so the handle as known by international fame apon the cricket and football their birthplates This explains the astonishads. Sines then the facts dominating my ment frequently felt by a visitor whom a call life have been (1) ny rather comarkable sucess in business, and (2) my uncensing. if uuspoken, for Merthyr," "Sausa," or Wrexham brings a man from his work. But even this gret that I never won my international cap. That is my confession as a staid, respuered, method has its drawbacks when men come from
No sort of material | Llanfairpwllgwyngogogool,
Machynlleurgess of London,
Siktcass can ever, for me, compmsate for the tharfairuchaubach, or some other place just as grief I feel over a rained and broken athletic easily pronounced.
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nod fear cholera if an unorthodos, He is modest enongh to make no comment on None a small white mosque where the pilgrims bond almost mystical prophylactic recommended by the fact that when he had to earn his own living in prayer as they ps upon their weary way. Dr. J. Cavendish Molson begin ifically sound. he set to and earned it despite his keen de iro The second portion of the journey is oven The doctor, who has altuined many medical for play-in those days of abuse of sport" wore sheer and impressive; but there are more degrees, and residevat 82. Wimple dress avers surely an exceptional thing to do: signs of hfe, and mud villages with their watch that the suspending of a copper lise by a silken lowers are more numerous along the road. At thread from the neck so that the dise rests upon last the night's resting place is reached, and the the abdomen will prove "a simulo, safe, and tiral caravan turus Isaily into the Serai. In certain means of preventing inf eti su," Istalks the camel and lios down where he is told;
case of like caring, or rather the rest of the four-footed family do the same. preventing like," observed the doctor to Women rou about picking up manure for fuel, representative of the Daily Mail. “In copper dagafight, and the men bny from hangers-on poisoning in patient safors from vomitior. within this great walled compound the dkupatabominal cramps, and ints coldness of the ties and lentil soup to which their long waik has body--the chief symptoms of cholera. entitled them. For myself I was reegirad into the fort, most hospitably entertained by the officers of the Khyber Ries, and had some excellent lawn isunis, with khaki-olod Afridis to pick up the balls. Times are changed since 1896!
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In conclusion, let me note the respect and high confidence which are given by all the tribes to the white officers in the pass. On my return journey I was privileged to so evidenca of this. Close to All-Masjid, the Commandaat of the Khyber Rifles bad convened on assembly from one of the clans in the neighbooroud They met by the roadside, to answer for the sins of another clan who had lately fired eight shots on to the road. All were slung about with Fun and knives of sorts--a totes, reggad. look- ing lot as they closed in about us. panion lit a ci. arette and addressed them in fnent Pushtu, which they all applauded. He fined them afty rupees for each shot, and advised them to get the money from the offending clan with something extra for bringing the whole tibe into disgraco.
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No fault was found with the award the money was paid; judge and defendants partou the best friends. There was another "Jirgs" waiting for him further down the pass time to receive praise and rewards for a capture of notorious horse thieves. Both incidents ware full of meaning, and showed something of the gravity of the white man's burden at the Empire's edge.
Such, then, is the conatry and such are the tribes through which the projected railway will probably pass. Incidentally it may bare a military meaning; but if the construction goes Lappily forward, it will be an engine for Encimbu derolapoosnt of confid-Dog and our frontier commerce between curselves, friends and car transfrontier neighboure, miny
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Dombress I should have found it easier to write you a short and dignified traatisompon the disproportionate pare necarded to sport in our national life. To such a letter I might have appeaded my uma; by it, I might have hered your readers even more acutely than this con- fession can, and attained the admitted: Comes of the platetutions moralist. Instead, I have written an absolutely frauk confession, to which I dare not append my name (for pubiios tion), a free confession of the lamentable fact, that all the philosophy of maturity has failed utterly to purge my soul of its first-born long- ing for athletic fame. I deplore, as a citizen, the people untalanced concentration upon sport. Yet as a man, I know that I would swip "the very thought bringe that frank and primitive word to my pan-all such successeO as I have attained in the city for the fulfilment of early ambitions which meant the sacrifice of every other interest to sport.”
The writer go son to attribute his ineradic- able love of sport to his early training:
In sir, you have a vietics to the system of education which obtains in our pablic schools; by retrospection only, if you will, but assuredly violím. I have achieved sneposs in business, my education supplied no sort of ambition in this connection, inleed it tought me that riches were to be despised, their inheritors kicked and strenuously sat upon. Oor, ambitions were simple and most clearly defined. The first was to play for one's house, then to be chosen for he big game, aud, last and most glorious stage to play for the school. Tout there existed greater triumpha in life was only realised when the possibility of playing for the University loowed ap upon one's horizon. Than, to sach ripe minds, come rescate daydreams of playing galest the Australiabs at Lord's, or of the roaring multitudes at Raebern Place and
Blackheath."
But the master who most encourages games at school is the most populer, and the more popular a master is the better de boys work fo: lim-Froin the Rapid Review.
Mr. Beerbohm Treo bas supplied rather pretty commentary on the babit of some Jews in pluging their "amos in order to disguise thair rag, statos the Jew's Chronicle. "I once knew a young man whose name was Wikinson," said Mr Tree. He came from the midland counties, and was extravagantly Algie. Eaton. He had not an ceded in life. nd came to me for adviç as to what he should do.
"I said: Change your name to Mosse.'
Within three years that man was a mil- limaire."
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