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"While in Canada, I had some splendid moose hunting, and I remember nearly getting drown- ed at an ico carnival at. Québec, but I had left the regiment before the Crimea broke out. I am proud to think that it was my old comrades of "Is life worth living? I should just think the 3rd who formed the thin red line that it is! I have seon ninety-six years of it in all wonthers, and I'm glad enough that, if, all goms faced the Russian cavalry at Balaclave, and grand stuf. I had fore months
Set here, and weat saved the English position. From my own kept alive during part well, my doctor promises me twenty yours more friends who were there I can vouch for Caline that tins with LEXICO. Come what will, it is good to be between earth and eky, and I for one mean to get all I cat of Campbell having really given his famous order, Natal.
of Boys, we'll have to stand here and die if it, to the Inst gleam of sunshine and breath of be
The boys were greyhaired veterans, Here is a philosophy that is the fruit, not of Tany of them, for those were long service days,
I think that is
is one of the masons why, they theory, but of experience-the experience of remarkable Scotsman, old
who was discovered" stood together as they by a Daily Chronicle representative in a quiet was for seven years in prison--not, happily, as a cottage his actual
at Wimbledon, "Ho remarkable, not only for
but for one of the most of Perth Penitentiary. It was there that I had adventurous and varied anreers that any man one of the narrowest squeaks of my life, in s could hope to survive-also for cortain strong struggle with a convict who was trying to opinions that shall be duly sat down.
aweet dir !"
and
dict. To tell the truth, after leaving the Army I
compulsory tomate, but as the dopinty governer
His name is Smeaton John Batenton-escape one night. He was a very desporate coming of an ancient Fifest ire family, and customer, was in for life, and had already he wis born on December 31st, 1813, in escaped from several other prisons.
Dunfermline town," where on а
the bluidrod Patrick Spens
SAVED BY A DOO,
"We had put him to weaving, as that was
eaxion "the King ant, drinkingnil with his trade, and be had made a sort of poinladder-
wire,"
As I chatted {writes...our
feling that
"while bold Bir the Soots lords for Norroway d'or the foem."
with old John Smeaton I not holp
Dould omethi
of Sir Patrick's hard must have been infused hood must
into this iron frame that had braved well-nigh a bag dred winters, and was still sound as a A typient Sert, with tho
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out of bits of the loom. I managed to get him down off this just as he was climbing a wall by its means and we rolled into the ditch together. was absolutely unarmed, and only in my pants and vest-in which I used to sleep then in case AB PTO stru gied together alone- Dbg senitered all over tho place-
of
ibe
Hard only just time spreading, dan managed to whip out a blade from some
with white, koon, bright, brown oye, and streng, masterful features no one who talks with Mr. Smeaton would take him for a day over seventy, As for spirit, ovou A man sixty year hia junior, his
company was an invigoratics... The truth is, of course, that the very vitality that has given adventure to his life has given a cheerful beart and undoned faculties to his old
Hie age.
He does not, of ia mellor lembar Waterloo, for he was course, sotbelly remember
months old at
at the time, but he only one vividly the aftermath, and the arrival of the news of Napoleon's death.
reiner
PROTECTION'S LEAN DAYS.
As to the state of the country in those old days and the "k
"lean Fears" of Protection, one could not find a more clear and candid informant, "It was just awful," he said. "Starvation was everywhere. People
lived on black bread that they wouldn't
at nowadays. The labours wages round our part were often as low as 78. to Be a week. Tea was 48. to 58, a pound, and even then filthy stuff that bul never been dat of
of England-hedge-leaves
weaver's shouts made into a kule, Ho would certainly have done for me if my dog Hector hadn't come up just at that moment, and goca for him in sol ugly f shion that I was able to get free almost f
f my
get
And
Calling Rector 250 ball
Borb rd and almost as big as a pony-I jus told the man that I would set the dog on him again if he didn't go straight back to his cell. Sure enough, be wen like a lamb, and we walked back in procession-convict, dog and myself. I really believe the fear of the dog was more effective then any loaded gan would have been.
With my experience of prisons, I was, of course, immensely interested when Charles Heade's Never Too Late to load came out, and I see that there is another movement now towards making life pleasanter in gaol, Wall, I don't want to be hard, but I admit I am a believer in the old-fashioned idea thot panish- has got meat is a necessary thing, and that
to be punishment. I don't believe in a grand
most of it. Salt was 2d. 4 gmall cupful Cloth Plano and a sing-song us a reward for crime,
keep
were wretched. Men woro fuetian and paper exps. Anyone who had such a thing as a watch was considered quite wealthy. And all the time the pier were being robbed. I have seen the shore of the Firth sotunily ridged with washed back corn that had been thrown into the sea to
the price. Altogether, it is almost inconceivable how life of the people has improved all round in
since my
my young days. In England, of courro, there is
added difference in odnes. tion, But in Scotland everyone was well educated even then, and it was rare to flad, berin town or country, a man or wojnah whe conid not read and write.
mach
As it happens, however, Mr. Smeaton's own life is so eventzni in itself that one might almost
history to o
hars. Thus he is one of the few people though the reverse has often happened whose temperament has turned them
leave
and even as it is I have often thought of committing a trifling felony just to get a week at the old place.
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*After my seven years at Perth Penitentiary had an even more ticklish time as superio tendent of a criminal Inantie asylum, and I could tell you some stories, about that which would make your blood run cold, but they would be too horrible to
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Then I went with a friend to India-spond, ing money this time, not malong it - and we had some tiger-hunting in the Panjanb. Boo and Mr. Smeaton bared a right that scar" arm that could still gare a serviceable blow
that wha the
woll over sixty years ago, As I was greatly used by that time knocking about the world, I joined in the gold. rush to Australis, but I did not and any fortune there. As a matter of fact, the condition of
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AUCE WORD
Early in great
The truth is that take the whole world." This alock is presented to the Union Jack over you will fed human nature pretty well Club by Violet Brooke Hunt in honoured like everywhere. You must look at circum: memory of those 4,300 sens of Britain Beyond stances to find the difference Nations are like the Sons who laid down their lives for the regiments, they got a name for this and that. Empire in South Africa, 1899-1902.
of his a good world Viscount Milner in recognition I said before, it is With it all, an but in reality one is much the same as another. April, 1916, when it was decided to entertain services to the Bigire, Miss Brooke Huat acted no, and I am thankful for every minute of my with the Earl of Donoughmore as joint hon.
secratary of the Dinner Committee, It may be added that, in mite of his age. Mr. indefatigabis in her endeavours to secure the Smeaton can still get up at four in the morning success which attended the and hearing are hardly at all impaired, he smokes Cenil on alay 24th of that and onjeys his "drappie, and, cariously enough, his teeth are still amazingly sound. Among other reasons for his cheery outlook he eaunts the fast that he has been a reader of the Daily Chronicle every day since its first number!
banquet under the that year. For the past gretary
from the life of the priest to that of the Boligs at the digginga was so bad t at and go a good walk before breakfast. His sight I presidency of Mr. Chamberlain at the Hotel
After taking his degree at Edinburgh Uni- versity. Mr. Smeaton was duly ordained to the ministry.
not
But soon," he conferand, "I found I had smooth enough tongue for the work. It so happened the elders of my congregation were of the holy Willie ordersanotimonious enough in the kirk, and rankards and worke cat of it. Well, I just told them what they were, showed up their hypocrisy for all I was worth with some good strong bits from the Old Testament thrown in-and naturally they did not like it.
WITH THE HIGHLANDERS,
I then joined the Sutherlandshire fighlanders, the grand old 93rd. With them I terved in Canada, coming home in the Delle Isle-the last vessel, taken from the French, an old wooden three-decker. This was, of course, some years before the Crimea, and life in the Anny was rough enough, but I had a glorious time. Throughout the Army generally. flogging was fearfully frequent in those days, but not to much in the Scotch regiment, where there was a more republican spuit, and officers and sneu were on better toims than daewhere. I have known young private tell old Colonel Sparke that he led in his throat-Sparks having us a conventional parato implying disrepot for the private's mother--and the colonel forgave him is being a lad of spirit.
here
decided it wasn't wor! staying there for all the money in the word: What with for the absence of good food and of "wator, and the large criminal percentage you can have no conception of the state of the place in the first days of the gold; I have seen the diggers rotting by the wayside like bodies of dood sheep. There might lore been no law there either of God or man, anil the number of brutal murders that were-nerer' even noticed must have been enormous.
THE LATE MISS BROOKE-HUNT. Homa
seven years she had been organising a of the Women's Unionlst and Tarif Reform Association, a body of which she was one of the founders, and which now owes much of its eBoiency to
to her industry. She was act only a good organiser, but on effective speaker, and during the last General Election, although indifferent health, she addressed 27 mestings i jim the Unionist interest,.some of them from plat- infinance potont The deceased lady, who was hearing. She exercised and in various capacities I have been almost educated privately and at Cheltenham College. among the younger generation of politicians, and Brooke-Hant overywhere, from the northern snows to Tierra soon Hentifed herself with philanthropie work, the cause of Unionism and Imperialism had no Del Fuego, but for the last forty years I have the organization of boys' clubs engaging at first more devoted supporter. Aliss
a romarkable
able degree the power of much of her attention. During the late Boer possessed in a
South Africa inspiring with her own vathariasm those with been more or less settled in London
the women's For the rest there is not much perhaps War Miss Brooks. Hant
ne the Order of side of the Imperial Fress Conference of last: about my life in England, except as an orgupiter of constitutes, and whom she worked. She organanc that the more I live the more I am convinced that received a war medel as Instinctions
meinber of the Ladies' Committes, of Jerusalem, in year. As race of St. of Grace and
John o the old Iden of
of her services.
threw herself sho On returning
heartily into the business of 1 Scotch is very much be between English al Sou
Thickmont c
she inaugurated a scheme to provide ensuring the success of the meeting, and at a side the point. As for Scotsmen coming to
the English their a club for the Colonial troops who came to this reception given by the delegater sho was pro-
from England and ensting berthis--I have know it calculated that there country to take part in the Coronation of the sabled with an address and is diuind portant are more Englishmen in Glasgow alone than late King Edward (receiving & decoration from in recognition of her labours. Miss
bis Majesty
Backingham Palace us's recogni- Hunt published seroral books, among which are:
Was The Story of the Tower of London, there are Scotsmen in the whole of England,
Then
Memories k Patablishment Women's
the en again, the idea of the Scotsman being tion of her work in this direction), and she
1; &
War, The West- save that one of the chief movers in thrifty and mean has not inueh in Scotland is a barren country, and thrift is of the Union Jack Cab for soldiers and sailors. minster Abboy," "The Story of Lord Roberts' force apus the people, Statistics show, T Her interest in that institution never failed, and Campaigns," and "Golden String," Her in- believe, that Scotland is last of the thres king she remained a member of the Council till her tereats were of the most varied order, and the done in saving bank deposits, and top in taza death. She gave to the Club a beautiful silvor news of her death will be received by a wide timepiece, which bears the following inscription: circle of friends with feelings of genuine sorrow. tion.
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