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God made the little boy tion of those physiosi and mental attributes which so largely enter into the sam total of To hollos off the crow. linrenn success, then, surely, the opinions of
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that the first cricketers wore country folk), that it does not make for the batterment of rustic manners, and so on, and so forth. Indeed, Wick on warm at work or play theme things were actually said to the writer of Edwin Waugh, the wandering post, who in a small out-of-the-way parish in one of the and drink home-brewed ala with them when when, years ago, he started a fostball club loved to watch them at their favourite sport counties that march with Wales, where, by the game was over. It is a very great pity the way, football is the only national game. that the Burus of Lancashire never made a The Rural Deen, one of the best sportsmen song of village football. I asked him to write that ever lived, and the father of two Blaes the course of a moorland ramble, and he pro (the one Dark, the other Light), thought that mised faithfpily. But witches were--and are still the plou would not work out very well. Heumerons in Lanemhire, and always weaving. doubted whether the farmers, vory few of whom wayward spells of rose-rad magic and this were well-to-do, would allow their labourers rars old post was ever so easily bewitched out to take even an occasional afternoon off for of his best intentions. No doubt the song was His une Preakness (which at times in the making in his revolving mind as a pot. football. gave his seasons the obscure intensity of is shaped on the potter's wheel; he had so Tacitus) was a desire to say too much in too very little to say as we traraped homeward in few words; and he closed the first discussion of the owl-light. But when we came to a mall the matter with the epigram, God made tavern at the edge of the moor, where Ben o cricket, but man made football." But, being a Bosoms, the best of his characters, lived of man of wide and deep knowledge, and (what is old, a "gradely lass" served him with ale, and much rarer!) of a scrupulous intellectual the promise to a mere boy was forgotten. honesty, he admitted that the appent to history Urcous exit, would not help the case for hesitation. It is the plain historical truth that, centuries before the first cricket ball begon its devastating career, footballs were kicked to and fro ca village greens and matches were played compared with which the game on Big side" describod in "Tom Brown's Schooldays was a tea party to
oxy, he heard that water was coming in, and later a tremendous 201 was shipped, and he was told that the aas had almost put out the fires. On the 22nd the staw weea, taknu of by the schooner. Pride of the West. According to the ropoti referral to, the observations of the Court on the subject of the water wure as follows:
"With regard to the use of the unusual water in the vessel, the Court, in the absence of trustworthy evidence, was unable to express any opinion. The canso was a mystery, but the Court was satisfied that the cause would not have been followed by its effect, the abandonment and loss of the vessel, if the master and chief engineer had made every effort to save her. The Court was of opinion that she was not prematurely abandoned. She did not sustain serious damage, sud her abandonment was caused by the wrongful default and serious emissions of the master and chief engineer. If proper measures had been taken, she might have been erved."
par cent, less, say, 15 percent, on £10,000, pro- vided that only a porcentage, perhaps 50 per cent., or 25,000, became payable if the vessel. ware totally lost He would thus receive in premiums £1,500, while the owner would pay £300 loss in premiums, batin a certain eventu ality wonll receive £5,000 loss. It must be olearly pointed out that underwriters' term would be the result of personal, opinion and for such a steamer as that premised above would vary greatly. The point to a romern bered is that where that abatement of premiom is small owners might usturally prefer to cover the vessel under the old system for the higher value, and it will require an effort on the part of every one if the new system is to be steadily encouraged. Certainty a succession of Board of Trade reports in which the officials of the Courts, with businesslike caution, find it impossible to trans the origin of the casualties is not entirely satisfying.
The different elements in marine insurance Finally, the Court found that the oninable omissions of the master and chief have never been so well organized as at the pressat time. In London alone there engineer indicated an absence of desire to save the vessel. There was no evidence that either are an Institute of London Underwriters, a Lloyd's Underwriters' Association, and now a the master or engineer had any pocuniary Brokora Association. The first of those bodies interest in the vessel and there was no
has done much useful work, and the two young Bvidenco that either of them knew she was s more valuable to her owners when foundered associations promise to exercise a potent influence than when afloat, but the Court noted that to the permanent advantage of an important the history and the story of the loss of the business. Over insuran only occurs in eases Cadzeton was not dissimilar from previous DE a poor type of vessels, but such instances as cases heard in the Court in their salient have been discussed at Board of Trade inquiries do not make plonnant reailing Might it not features-namely, an old veseol trading at a loss, over-insured, sause of loss a mystery, and therefore, be worth the whils of the asseciations neglect of prompt and obviously available to give careful consideration to this question of
over insurances -The Timer.
measures to save the vessel, The Court did not deal with the certificates of either the master or engineer. Haring served this apprenticeship to the art
The Cadogton was a steamer of 1,668 tons, built of being an Englishmen (which surely involves in 1880. At the time of her loss she was learning a little cricket and football) the writer insured for £12,000, with an additional £1,000 found it easy to set agricultural labourers for freight, but the Court found that her outside playing football. The first stop was to visit value was £6,000, and this is an estimate which the field on Sunday afternoon and suggest experts are not likely in their hearts to regardl it would be rather fun to pick up sides. This as too low. Of this £12,000 £5,230 was placed I have found Sanstogan & most valuable which one's maiden aant is invited. Laws and was dono, and the presence of a fair amount with mutaal clubs and £5,800 at Lloyd's and
Sir John Hare gives as a posp into the means employel to sustain the wonderful vitality which is one of his distinguishing characteristics:
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by-laws were constantly being enacted air Englishmen who wasted their unpatriotio
to work very hard under conditions of great hely-daya in playing footboll instead of learning come a challenge from a nnighbouring village
weaknees and ill-health.”
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Lord Sutherland Gower, the creator of the noble Shakespearian memorial at Stratford-on Arch, says of Sanntogen;
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Madame Sarah Grand, the gifted authoress of The Heavenly Twins," says she has found in Sanatogen renewed vigour of body and brain. "Grove Hill. "Banatagan has done everything for me which it is said to be able to do for cases of nervous debility and exhaustion. I began to take it after nearly four years' enforced idlenes from extremo debility, and felt the benefit almost immediately And now, after taking it steadily three times a day for twelve works, I had myself able to enjoy both work and play again, and also able to do as
It was an amazing game. The townsmen
that of the ship Carnedd Llewelyn, lost last your for that vessel was insured for £11,400, though her market value was stated nut to exceed £7,500. The presiding magistrate at the Court of Inquiry then stated that "an insurance system by which anderwiters induce ship ownors to over-insure their ships is opposed to the public weal."
writers, who are not really a totally callous set of men, sometimes require a value to be put on s vessel considerably beyond her real worth and so indirectly put a premium on dishonesty.*******
The first fact to be faced is that thore are.
quite a number of vessels earning dividends for their shareholders that ought no longer to be
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it was oocepted, and the writer was asked to the use of the long-bow, the weapon pick a team and captain it. Everybly played with which the greatest of England's in most alarming boots, but when the ball burst land fights and two or three, it may be, half an hour from the call of time the home of hot famous ses fights were wou to the side was well ahead. That stoning the club amazement of the steel-clad chivalry of France,
was formed, funds collected for footballs and a land with a nobility but without yeomanry goal-posts and nets; a good-natured farmer, Yet it seemed right that football should be who could bowl donkey drops, gave a field rent THE UNDERWRITER'S ATTITUDE. organized in this community of poverty-stricken free, and the villaga school master was appointed
Now those cases and other unsatisfactory farmers and overworked underpaid labourers. secretary and instructed to arrange a few losses show beyond doubt that something is The farmers and the farmers' sons had their matches Excess of zeal caused him to ask the amiss somewhere. If the average underwriter cricket and an occasional day's huating. But
were taxed with the facts, he might reply that "I feel it only due to the benefit conferred on
the labourers had no sport at all except on Sun well-seasoned team of our market-town for a
gamia, and that was the first and most fateful of they wonid make an excellent story for the my general health by Sanatogen to write today afternoons, when they would assemble in a Inform those interested in that wonderia! field and kick a football about in the haphazard nur matches. Nobody in the village boped for newspapers, which, of course, often know even that seemed an idle dream when the day deal, but that the question happened to be a medising that in a couple of months' time it has fashion of their nucesters. Looking into the anything better than an honourable defeat; nothing about the subjects with which they Y popular English Manufacturers. In cursu mo of all genty trouble. Sunatogen has winds of these men, living pelimpaste of ng came and the enemy appeared, & likely-looking highly technical one and could not be disposed team of trim young fellows in noat uniform of easily. It is perfectly true that the subject B
done me far more good than all the waters of lish history, one saw that it would be more pro-
fitable to everybody to the squire, to the lesser whose methods were modelled those of the is not so simple as it looks, and an attempt will Bath and Harrogato."
landowners, to the farmers, to the labourers themselves, and also to the parson, BOTE County town team, the members-of-which-be made to show hero-how it is that, under received a small weekly wage for their invale sercorum to mend the tradition rather than
able services. They brought their gallery with attempt to end itja vai
Long before then the writer had known them in a variety of vehicles-a small bat inclus another kind of villege football in another part ive crowd, who had cards saying "Play up" in their pot hats and made great fun of their of England in the region of the Fauninos, half rustical opponents and said their team would
in Lancashire and half in Yorkshire, where drop ter goals on 'em. dwells a race of Englishmen with Celtie blood in their Tons, seoing that the Celt had long
ece of scoring, though perhaps losa laorative, end for a voreel. outlived the conquest of Britain in the high were constantly within an places and deep, secluded cloughs of that sea of but never succeeded in getting a goal On to be hammered to pieces by the ship-bresher's purple moorlands (It might be possible to the other hand, the villagers, as a result of mon than to be allowed to subside gently, uphold the thesis that genius in football is the hard kicking and heavy rushing and a faw through the mysterious inflow of water, in deep outcome much more often than not of the single-handed dribbles, got no fewer than Ave, sea, and within tantalizing proximity to land. Caltic temperament.) In the seventies and It was a nine daye wonder in all that country. Yet such consideration for an old and faithful eighties Rugby football was played for its own side. The village owed much to their neutre servant is not universally shown, and the fact sake in all that pity countryside, and the half, a middle-aged ploughman with very long has to be recognized Underwriters must be grave enthusiasm of the players, factory bands Dandroary whiskers, who was indefatigable in tempted to accept the risk they can impose for the most part, was comparable with that defence and offence. Once he was charged over, practically what terms they choose and herein of the Hambledon cricketers. All day they and bouncing up agnia with the aplonah of the lies a great reserve of strength by which may worked in the humming milk, brooding ball itself he said to the fellow who had flooredevil that may exist may be exploded
The second fact is, that for every total loss over wondrons machinery and thinking out him, “Nay, but I fellatmy leisure," which seemed
a memorable saying. Next day the whole team there are a great many minor casualties, and the subtle improvements, hundreds of which have brown patented and have enabled us to hold appeared in church, ailting in two paws at the poorer the class of vessel the more frequently textile industries against far end with an air of half-apologetic self-satis the may be expected to occur. Further, the the world despite adverse tariffs. Even when faction such as appears on the face of an actor cost of repairs per ton is precisely the same for the day's work was at an end and clatter of manager when he is called before the curtain to old as for new boats. The underwriter knows home-returning clogs was heard, like a fusilade, say a few suitable words and stands hither and by experienos that repairs for these accidents in the dusk, the wheels would still be turning in thither dividing his swift mind. The parson will mean heavy percentage settlements, and, the minds of these inventors. Any of the worked an allusion to the victory into his ser- therefore, he cannot undertake to ineare low. career of a village team which, though it never unreasonable rates," as the magistrate in the large towns in that region might be described mon. Such was the notable beginning of the valued ressels unless he is paid high premiums had any combination to speak of, went through case of the Carnedd Llewelyn, boldly described two seasons without defeat. Once only did it the Bat if the shipowner objects to paying enter for a tap competition, reaching the finni these heavy rates and wants his insurance, there and being beaten by the narrowest possible is an alternative. Let him increase the value margit. That game was played in the county of his boat, and so enable the risk of small town, and the coal paper remarked that the casualties to be spread among a larger number par cent, but villagers were of various ages, from 15 to 50, of underwriters. A cisim for £2,000 on a vessel the same claim spread over £10,000 is only 20 but unusually rohuet. So it was. and thuit thoir play was by no masks scientific valued at £5,000 is obviously 40
The chroniclar played with them for several per cent. The owner is paying underwriters seasons, and found them very wholesome fellows. in the way a considerable amount out of which Eren when, on the ocassion of an antmatch, they may meet the innumerable claims that some of them wore persuaded to drink a skintul arise, and all goes well until a total loss occurs, of oidar after the game was over nothing offen- There is nothing to be gained, then, sive ever slipped out of them. They would from inquiring if the not result of the loss to the owner was a substantial addition to his sing on the way home, each man his own song, and some of their ditties were very old und some bank Inlause; but the anderwriter takes a tem- rather new. The song made to celebrate the porarily despondent view of marine under
writing in particular and of things in general. first of all their harmless victories was ulwoye
A third point bearing on the position is the called for as the drag entered the village. It. was a rhyme of a sailor who came from Bristol risk of constructive total loss. Briefly, under- tawn, where the great ships come and go, to the writers consider that constructive total loss village and met a girl there and married her occurs when the cost of reinstating a vossel to out of hand and lived happily ever after it. The the condition in which she was befors the choras bade all who wished a wife for a country casualty would cost as much as or more than her insured valne She is then abandoned to the life to go to the same plage for the sum are underwriters. Clearly the lower the valas the
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As a rule, the backs playing for the many olubs in the region of the Pennines were not up to the modern standard. They lacked phoe
more likely are underwriters to be saddled with and knew little about passing, preferring togain peso. An o' rhyme ran through it, like the ground by kieking into touch her a single drone of a threshing machine through an total lose claim, and the less attractive handed run through seemed impossible. Bat satumaal afternoon; and that is the reason, yo they certainly tackled well (always trying to doubt, why it is still sung there to the tane of is the proposition. Thus there are many fair bary" the man with the ball), and the an old hanting song. One or two lines were factors in favour of fairly high valustione. length and accuracy of their kicking were often rather too "literary, but they have cared those Underwriters like us because they moon pro migms and spread the risk; brokers like them admirable. But the forwards were invariably defeste. For example, the bad lines
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Her voice was sweet and low,
owners like them because they are fally covered outside its own small sphere of influence. would possese two or three scrunagers were much improved by patting "vermin" for in the event of total loss; and if there are any of the gradely owd tree-root" type who "vermeil on the last occasion the Inventor dishonest shipowners living they must likes them were good enough for any side Bead heard it, mung by carters on a bench outside an immensely. Yet no one will deny that in certain Visitors to Brighton, Eastbourne Tastings from hipponet that one of these forwards inn st the other end of the country. These met case the principle has a bad effect and needs Bournemouth, Wye Valley, Severn Valley would be discovered more or less accidentally of the Welsh marches ware as honer and to do bha Mts juvert the words of the old FACH 1ST JANUARY, 1864 TO BIST DECEMBER, Weston-super-mare, Maivers, Heraford by the county authorities; and, the light of right as the football players of the Pennikes, proverb, nobody's business is everybody's
Worcester, Gloucester, Liandrized Wells publicity having been cast on his native team Haring seer and studied the commonalty of business. Llangollen, Aberystwyth, Towyn, Barmouth 49a result, there would be a small run on its many another land, the writer thinks that the
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The
Ideal
Engine and
Stear
Pump
for
CHINA.
Idghleet Pump on the Market.
Weight
Car, Lin
carried by few mea through
zarrew
streets,
docsware,
Ask for Titustentni Posiphist Ne, 1889,7
HERRYWEATHER & SONS, B, Long Acre, W.C.
--Work-Sze+nwich, ako London
74-1
RIGAUD'S
KANANGA
OF JAPAN
TOILET WATER
of imitations.
RIGAUD & C
PERFUMERS
8, rue ViTiovane," 8
Paris-France
108.5