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A PEX-PICTURE BY T. P„ O'CONNOR.
ST. PAUL'S COLLEGE.
ANNUAL DISTRIBUTION OF
PRIZES.
The annual distribution of prizes to thef [FROM THE NEW YORK HERALD.]
students of St. Paul's College took place LONDON, December 17th.
The at the College on Thursday night, John Ward "was one of the many Bishop of Victoria presided and among picturesque Sgures that entered the House
others present were the Hon. Dr. Claud of Commens after the great Liberal vie tory in the general election of 1906, HeSevern, C.M.G. and Mr. S. W. Tsc. Pro stood out from even the tail men of the cedings commenced with an entertain- House there were many--by his height,ment provided by the pupils, after which something like six feet two or three. The the Rev. A. D. Stewart read the annual body was not stout nor yet thin, but just report which, inter niin, mentioned the in exact proportion to the tallness, and organisation by the students of a commit- he bad
aaraying movement which to welcome new boys and the prae tical working out of the idea of Social brought out the grace of the figure and Service. On hearing that there were yes did not seem to be artificial.
many poor boys at Tai Hang, Causeway Bag, without any educational facilities the students raised subscriptions and established a free school for boys in that locality, They also opened a free night school in the College and carried it on themselves.
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His dress was peculiar; he wore the shortest of short sack coats, rather baggy trousers; but the most remarked thing was a tall soft hat-the tallest soft white bat that had ever been seed at West- minister. He belonged to a type of par
The CHAIRMAN thanked the Headmaster lianicatarians not very common; known generally as Buffalo Bills, the figure and the teachers for the hard work they of that indomitable soul being familiar had put in during the year and to the memory and the imagination ofgratulated them on the splendid report, English men and women, upon both of He said that he always felt that the College was a live concern and that really whom he made an abiding impression.
fasting work was being done there. When one sees in England-where mo was more than twelve years ago since be notony of dress is almost universal, and came to the Colony and be found that one especially in the House of Commons, of his difficulties was the question of what where that monotony is cultivated more was to be done to St. Paul's College of It had been a than elsewhere-any member with certain which he was Warden. peculiarities of dress there is an inevit training school for cathechists and future That school was transferred able tendency to ask oneself whether he clergymen. is the real goods or merely a man who to Canton and he thought the College secks by singularity to make up for in- would become a white claphant telligence and who looks to notoriety as ever, through the assistance rendered by his chief asset. If anybody had that im the Rev. A, D. Stewart, the College pro gressed. The Headmaster had put his pression about John Ward it was soon heart and soul into the work nad us moved, and especially when his somewhat result recently they had romantic history was known
ficent hostel. He was delighted to that the training of Christian workers and clergymen was going on and he had the privilege of ordaining three old students of the College a
fle,while back, loyalty and He thanked the boys for exprit de corps. He concluded by pay ing a tribute to the Hon. Dr. Claud Severn, who he said bad gained great popularity by his graial disparition and connected kindly interest in-
*WITH KITCHENER IN AFRIČA"
with the Colens. (Applaust.)
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John was a navvy, and his chief asset in getting into public life was that he had succeeded in founding a navvies union-not an easy task, for they had been un to this time a rather uncertain body-precarious in work, heterogeneous. adventurous. nomadic. But it became known that John had not all his life been a mere trades union leader. Ha bad found time to enlist for service in the
The Hon. Dr. CLAUD SEVERN, addressing army that was being led by Kitchener and others in those sporadic fights those, present at some length, stated that against the Mahdi in Africa which took the Bishop had just said some very kind up so much of our money and blood in words about him but he was sure the Bishop was Fating when he spoke the closing years of the last century.
of anything
he speaker) had been John bad stood inside that column able to do for College. Perhaps the which at one time was hemmed in by the praise was me for any small thing he r) The well armed and fanatical dervishes and might do in the ture (Laughter.) had escaped from destruction solely by report which haust been read was very They had that steadiness of British troops shown satifactory in my ways. in all hours of stress. It was one of the worked hard under certain disadvantages worst quarters of an bours in the history which he hoped would be removed before of the British army, and years afterwards long. But whatever the disadvantages and I heard men who had gone through it might have been the whole tone speak with still fresh horror of the alter-atmosphere of the School was, he thought, nations of hope and despair, and of the a splendid example to all schools in Hong sickening smells of dead men and dead camels and dead horses which ligunted them after the battle had been won.
LEFT NO IMPRESSION ON WARD.
kong He noticed with particular plea
are in the report that part which referred to social work. The boys of the School were helping a number of destitute boys "kind. On John Ward it seemed to have left who had so far practically no opportunity
of profiting by education of any no special-certainly no morbid impres He was afraid that the district referred sion. His checks had the bloom of early to was only one of many in this Colony vouth, his form was erect, bis" manner
where there were thousands of boys in self-confident, and his voice rang out similar position. This had awakened But he was not very noticeable until the the sympathy of some of the leading fateful days came of the Curragh Camp Chinese gentlemen in the Colony and be revolt against the Home Rule act, and hoped that, before long, the Government, when England went through a violent with their assistance, would take steps to spasm of that hatred of militarism which remove that very serious blot from the is ingrained in their characters and his educational system of the Colony.-(Ap- It was in accordance with the tory-unless indeed in the exceptional plause);
every case of Ireland--and even there the policy democratic spirit of the age that of the present administration has enemies boy, whatever his station in life, might be as fierce among the masses of the English able to do his best and without any privileged position achieve what he rets population as in "Ireland herself.
himself out to do. Dr. Severn next re To this seething feeling it came to the ferred to the proposed extension of St. lat of John Ward almost by accident to Paul's Church, stating that before long give expression. He was making they would have the extension of load speech, very simple, very direct, not they had asked for. specially eloquent, during which he almost In conclusion Dr. Severn referred to stumbled on the expression that the people the impending departure of the Bishop, of England would not stand military who, he said, had spent some of his hap interference from soldiers "or. thrones"; iest days as Warden of the College. It and at once, and as quickly as the report had enabled him to see the growth of the after the discharge of a revolver, there College and to take part in much work came the loudest and longest, the forces of all kinds, which might not have been chrer I have ever heard in the House of possible if be had not been living there. Cocmons during the forty years I have it was with deep and sincere. regret that been there. The cheers were loud enough they had heard of his departure.
The prizea e then distributed by Dr. to reach Buckingham Palace, not many hundred yards away; and, it is rumoured that they produced rather mixed feelings there, and perhaps the attempt to get the Irish parties to terms, which the King, inaugurated soon after, was due to the apprehension that might arise as to his own position on the Irish question and to the army revolt,"
From that time forward John Ward became a notable man in Parliamentary circles; he took his honours with quiet self-satisfaction-for, John is by no means A coy little violet that blushes unseen. But it required the war to bring him to the position he now holds. Before the war had gone on for any length of time, John came down to the House of Com mons, no lenger in the short sack coat and the tall soft white hat, but in the trim, tightpess of the khaki uniform; and there wasn't a handsomer gure, even among the professional and aristocratic officers, than the ex-navvy.
RAISED A FINE BATTALION.
Severn.
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of the soldier spirit, and scenes be bad beheld of Bolshevist atrocities turned him into one of the most violent enemies of Bolshevism and all its works and pomps
Immediately after his return home he found himself in the House of Commons in the midst of a debate upon Russian Bofthevism. To a crowded and thrilled house John told the story of his experi- ences. It is one of the peculiarities of the House of Commons and perhaps of every body of men-to listen with rapt attention to men who speak the authentic words of an eye-witness; and the House bang upon John's words. It was a fierce and merciless indictment of the Bolshe vist regime, and a defence of the policy of helping the anti-Bolshevist tactics of Winston Churchill and of the govern- ment generally. John had the greatest triumph of his life, except the triumph of the great cheer that rang definance to the crowood heads and the military party.
He frequented the lobbies of the House of Commons for brief space; then dis appeared. It was known that he had raised among the navvies a ane battalion. But it d he added that John does Little was beard of him until one day not represe he dominant feeling of the the papers announced one of those iso-class from wth he springs. I would be lated acta of heroism which break through misrepresenting aninion among the work. the general monotony of trench warfare, ing classes of England to-day if I did The ship in which John was carrying not add that the majority of them are his troopers was torpedoed: at once Jobs vehemently against the intervention of jumped out of bed, called the men to English money and English weapons in This may ulti attention, commanded them to stand still the Russian struggle.
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in regular formation; and in that why mately bring John into collision with his managed to prevent a panic which might own people; for the moment, however, he have lost them all. Not a man was lost. is the daring of his constituents. The episode, was duly recorded, and so It is among the possibilities of the John advanced to the position of one of hour that that astute little Welshman the heroes of the war.
who, like the great dramatists, takes the He was heard of from time to time in material where he can find it, will try Siberia: and thus he was brought into to enlist the eloquent and gallant ex-navvy| the maelstrom of the desperate and hope among the same labour men whom he bas' Ass civil war in Russia. By this time succeeded in tying to his chariot wheels, the labour leader had taken on something with ez-Tory ministere as their coach
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