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HAVE WE BRAINS IN OUR STOMACH ?

This unusual question way well be asked, in view of some wonderful experi- ments which have recently been made at the Imperial Institute of Medicine, St. Patorsburg.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19TH, 1918.

THE CROWN AGENTS. ABSOLUTELY UNIQUE" GOVERN-

MENT DEPARTMENT.

A PUBLIC INSTITUTION WITHOUT PARLIAMENTARY CONTROL,

The London Morning Post has been printing a series of articles called "The Dominions in London," the third of which has for its subject the Crown Agents for the Colonics. They are thus referred to:-

One of the most remarkable, which practically proves that the question should be answered in the affirmative, showed that when bread, meat, and milk were each put separately into the mouth, Bir Ernest Blake, who was the head of the glands in the stomach found out just the Office of the Crown Agents for the the right proportions and combination of Colonies for nearly thirty years, said in juices for digesting such particular food. his evidence before a Departmental Com- After the digestive organs have done mittee which inquired into the organi their work, each organ takes what it resation of that office some time ago quires to repair the waste it has under-This department is absolutely unique." gone through our actions. It is impern What he meant by this remark was that Live, therefore, that the food supplied to the Crown Agents are under the Colonial the body should contain sufficient of the Office, and yet they are not of the important nutritive elements to make, up Colonial Office; they are appointed by the this loss..

Secretary of State for the Colonies, but he does not provide their salaries; they are the official heads of a department under the jurisdiction of the Colonial Secretary, yet they appoint or dismiss their own staff and regulate the pay and promotion of that staff without reference to the Colonial Secretary; they are public institution, yet they subject to any form of Parliamentary control; they and their staff are not paid out of any public, fund; they are self- supporting as an institution, and there- fore the cost of the administration of the office is not a charge on any Parliament-

Through disease, or a temporarily weakened condition of the system, it often happens that we cannot assimilate from our food the ordinary body-building material and phosphorus which are of primary importance for health.

THE VALUE OF PHOSPHORUS, What is essential under such circum- stances, as Dr. Claude L. Wheeler has written in his book, "Nerve Energy in Hot Climates," is that not only protein (the body-building food) but phosphorus must be forthcoming in ample quantities, Chriously, a combination of pure protein with that form of phosphorus which normally exists in the body and nerves will be exactly what is needed in such cases. Reasoning thus. Science has pro duced the combination demanded. It is known all over the civilised globe as Sanatogen."

The result, as innumerele doctors and many of the world's mo distinguished nico have stated, is that ere is an im- mediate sensation of well being, a feeling of revitalising force which those who have been ill or are below par" experience with a thrill of delight In fact, all sufferers from nervous disorders with their imamerabic symptome: those over worked and despondent, those troubled with

nervous dyspepsia, indigestion, Anemia, disordered nutrition and wast ing discases, and those convalescent from acute illnesses, all get better rapidly and inercase in strength and health through taking Sanatogen. In this connection the later king Edward's Physician at Maricubad, Dr. Ernest, Ott, writes: 1 have been using Sanatogen for a number of years in my practice with excellent results-notably in cases of convalescence after serious illnesses, and when it was desirable to build up the strength, to stimulate the bodily functions and to improve the circulation of the blood."

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The explanation of these apparent anomalies is that the offico grew up without any settled plan or definition of its status and responsibilities. Experiments show that when Sanatog Crown Agents are the business represents is taken the stomach pours out juices which cause it to be absorbed almost intives of the Crown Colonies; the fees they mediately. Indeed, as Dr. Wheeler draw from those Colonies provide a fund vividly says, "the debilitated nerves and from which the Crown Agents and their

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salaricd and pensioned. tissues take up Sanatugen as the parched Hence there is no call upon Parliament earth drinks up water.

to vote their salaries and pensions. The Crown Agents are appointed by the Colonial Secretary, but they in turn appoint their own staffs, and both the Agents and their officers are responsible to the Crown Colonies which practically employ then and pay the fees which And the most provide their salaries. remarkable thing is that the system works well; that the office has grown in size and usefulness by virtue of its efficiency perhaps for the very reason that it is not a red-tape Government department, and that it depends for its existence upon the measure and value of the service it renders its many employers, the Crown Colonies of the Empire. To again quote Sir Ernest Blake: "We (the Crown Agents) stand to be shot at by every- body. Everybody is trying to get his knife into us, and the Crown Agents would be mad if they did not make their

Our staff are staff efficient.. staff; they are responsible to us and we are responsible for them. The Secretary of State does not know our staff he simply knows the Crown Agents... The office is regulated all round on very much stricter lines than any Government office; it is much more like a mercantilé institution." In those few terse sen tences we have the secret of the success of a publie office which, as Sir Penrose Julyan, the first Crown Agent, used to say, began from nothing, for he found only 6s. 8d. in the till when he took the office under his direction, and to-day it employs something like two hundred people and handles hundreds of thou sands of pounds annually in connection with contracts and indents on behalf of its clients, the Crown Colonies.

A QUEEN'S. PHYSICIAN'S WONDS. Sanatogen's power over nervous dis orders, even when they extend to the limit of neurasthenia or nervous exhaustion, is not less striking. On this subject, the physician to the Queen-Mother of Italy, Dr. E. Persichetti, writes: "I have used Sanatogen in several cases of neuras- thenia, with the result that in every case the nervous symptoms were greatly diminished.

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the best years of her life on a hundred soul into the work of saving this man's a year in two workmen's cottages in a reason. Not for weeks, but for months, Village far away in the country. Shehe lay begging for death, for release, for would have loved and been loved, extinction. He was a writer, a poet, and married, and brought up children with he had failed to win recognition. Of She even tenderer care than that which she what use was life to a failure? devoted to her sweet pens and hollyhocks. meant to show him. That was her work. But she was plain and an orphan, who It was for this that she had grown oldish had lived with two maiden aunts in the and been born plain. And not for weeks, flat, low-lying, brick-making district of but for months, day and night, night and Middlesex, and there was not even an old day, she mothered this poor man as she Robin Gray to come a-courting o' her. had mothered her flowers, and presently, She had before she had won him back from the She had been plain. always. irregular features, and her eyes were shadows, there was a gleam in her heart weak, so that she wore glasses. She far brighter than the gleaming eye that always had known that she would never bad made her catch breath in the woods, meet romance. All the same she had and it was love. Spring came, and herTM hoped. But at thirty-five, with grey in merry family of spring dropa danced her hair and eccentric ways that had been upon her little lawn and all the red eyes developed by long loneliness, she laid in all her hedges opened to the sun. hope under a metaphorical lumbstone and remained in mourning. Love and mother- hood were not for her. So she gave all her undrawn-upon love to her flowers and played mother to them. She told herself that she was one of the superfluous women of the world and was bitter to frequent hidden tears. Nature was her only friend.

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Well, he was alive again, with half a life before him. Could it have been just an accident that she saw him at that

And birds sang and went busily about their work, choosing sites for their houses, and building them with joy. And then tho day came when the rescued man canc out into the garden with normal eyes and steady pulse and gave thanks to God that. he was alive, with hope budding again Too acutely sensitive of her failure as in his wounded soul. His things were a woman to mix with village life, she gavo packed, and in less than ten minutes the her confidence to and found consolation old man who drove the cab would come up from the trees, and listened nightly to the lane to carry them down to the cab.- their whispered stories of life and the He looked ahoat and saw the yellow beads struggle for life and the greater here- of daffodils, the spotless faces of narcissi after. It was when she was wandering Soft air touched his ugly face and stirred on the edge of there woods one night that his obstreperous hair. He stood there in a gleaming eye suddenly peered at her all his ungainliness in his uncared-for Down on her knees, trowel 'in From among the trunks and made her clothes, catch her breath. She was startled and hand, glasons on nose, streaks of grey in frightened, and then, when she realised her bair, was the plain, lonely woman that this gleaming thing was a lamp who, in face of scandal and of ingrati- hanging in a tent, resentful. Could she tude, liad closed the door of Death in his not keep even the woods to herself? She face and kept her back against it. The Mauritius, the Cape of Good Hope, Malta, etc.," the Agent for the Cape

turned to go back and stopped. Some sun fell upon-her-softly, A-cheeky robin was the First Commissioner of Woods,

Romance is dead! Don't you believe thing, some unseen hand, some unheard who knew her well and had not forgotten The necessity of conducting the office Forests, and Inland

it! It lurks round every corner, comes

voice that seemed to come from her own her winter favours, hopped perkily about, on business. lines may be understood Agent for Ceylon was the Secretary to

from prosaic places bearing the penny heart, told her, or dared her, to go for with dimming waistcoat. from the mere recital of the list of the the Board of Commissioners for the the Affairs of India; the Agent for Mauritius

stamp of commerce, rushes into life at ward. She was needed, needed at last. functions which it performs as

the unconscious bidding of a beautiful Romance had come into her life, even business representative of something like was a clerk in the Colonial Department: twenty or thirty, Crown Colonies and indeed, it was usual for clerks in that

air played by a down-at-hed fiddler, hers. It was most odd, most curious. department to hold the offices of Agents

and may at any moment turn the Should she go on. What could it mean? awful moment and placed her hand upon about

Protectorates. dozon * Departmental Committee

channel of your monotonous life into a She went on. She saw a tall, awkward, his arm? No. If, then, that was no previously for the Colonies. It was because of this alluded to elicited the fact that the Crown fact that when the Agencies were amal-

churning mill-stream. You will be dead, loose-limbed man standing in the teat accident, his life was saved for a purpose.

She heard it was intended that he should pick him- Agents Office is the general agency in gamated in 1833 under the designation

Iried, and forgotten a hundred cen- with his back towards her. this country for those Governments. It of "The Joint Agents-General for the the new office was

turies before a Hamaner has grown out him heave a great sigh that was a groan, self up and press on to a goal. At any She saw the shining barrel of the revolver rate, he had now to justify himself. At purchases and sends out the materials Crown Colonies'

of youth. and goods of all kinds which are required placed under the control of two clerks

She lived in two workmen's cottages that he deliberately placed against his any rate, there was now one person in by those Governments from the United from the Colonial Office who had had

temple. In an instant she stood at his all this big world who wished him to As Agents. The "Joint that had been knocked into one.

What was Kingdon or Europe; it issues their experience

work satis- Where the workmen went nobody asked side and held his arm and looked up into succeed. He went forward.. public loans, keeps the registers of their Agents" systern did not stock, pays the interest and invests the factorily, and in 1858 the Colonial or sared. By the few people in the small his contorted face, and said, "Don't be to say? Good-day! Good-se? The old man came up the lane and rattled on oh, don't. !" sinking funds: The office forms a kind of Secretary selected Sir Penrose Julyan, an village who saw everything and invented

And in her cottage there was another the gate. The woman stood up, but never clearing-house for the adjustment of experienced Commissariat Officer, to take what they didn't see she was called "that

"Suffragette."ugly person, another failure, a man who raised her eyes. accounts between the various Administra the post of Senior Crown Agent, with tions served and it transacts all kinds the other two agents as colleagues. Sirere spin uplong

broken dreams. She had caught this of miscellaneous financial business, P. Julyan was succeeded by Sir William They were not kind names and they were had fallen crash under the weight of his including the payment of salaries to Sargeaunt, who was succeeded by Sir not intended to be kind.

The truth is that the village disliked stranger on the very lip of eternity and had led him back through the woods to Colonial Government officials on leave Montage Ommanney (who afterwards and the pensions of those living in went to the Colonial Office), and he in her. They found many reasons. For one nurse him back to health. Flowers were Europe. It acts as the channel of com- turn was followed by Sir Ernest. Blake, thing, she had no one in to do her garder neglected, gossip and conceive the gossip

The former tenant, an overworked KC- munication between Colonial Govern- who retired in 1909, ments and their consulting engineers, and The present holders of the offices of who used the place for occasional week- unheeded while she put all her heart and selects candidates for Colonial appoint- Crown Agents for the Colonies are-Bir ends, had in old 'Arree Stacks three days Antrobus, K.C.M.G. a week, and the dear old fellow found ments. Lattorly, also, the Crown Agents Reginald L. have been acting as shipping agents, (Senior), Major Maurice Alexander the barn conducive to delicious slumber. for the Cameron, C.M.G. (late R.E.) and Mr. To be paid for sleeping seemed to him to packers, and warehousemen Crown Colonies--work which had pre- William Hepworth Mercer, C.M.G. Sir be better even than the promises of "them viously been done by private firms Reginald Antrobus was Private Secretary Radicals. She worked all day long in to no fewer than four Colonial Secret- employed by the Crown Agents.

As already stated, the fund out of aries; administered the Government of the garden, and in the summer the little which the Crown Agents office is main- St Helens for a year; became Assistant place was a very blaze of colour. For tained is contributed to by the Colonies Under-Secretary of the Colonial Office in another thing, she took her washing away which utilise the services of the office. 1898, and was appointed Crown Agent in from Mrs. Hornsby, to whose peculiar These contributions are on the following 1999, Major Cameron was for some years and time-honoured method of washing in in the Straits Settlements, where he was dirty water she strongly and eccentrically (1) One per cent. ou. all stores obtained Colonial Engineer and Surveyor-General, objected. She sent it to Studborough by and a member of the Executive and train and fetched it from the station. through the Crown Agents.

(2) One-half per cent, on the issue and Legislative Councils. He was appointed every Monday evening on her bicycle. per cent. on Crown Agent in 1895. Mr. Mercer has These things showed a deplorable lack of repayment of foans and

had a lorg and distinguished career in neighbourliness and right feeling. Then, the payment of interest."

(3) Fixed annual payments of various connection with Colonial Office affairs. too, she refused to subscribe to the cricket amounts from all Colonies whose general He was Secretary to the Earl of Jersey club or to the Rural Horticultural financial business, as distinguished from when the latter acted as British delcgate Society. She said that she couldn't afford transactions, at the Colonial Conference at Ottawa init. Couldn't afford it! She had meat. loans and commercial

day and cream every after- exceeded £10,000 a year when the rates 1895; he went on a special mission to.

for There are also various Hawaii with Sir Sandford Fleming in every noon

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known to and was were last fixed. miscellaneous payments for special ser- 1894 in connection with the negotiations vices. These fees and payments for for a landing place for the Pacific Cable; have given five pounds to a gipsy whose services rendered amount altogether to he was Assistant Private Secretary to caravan had been burned to a cinder. Parson said it was a hint from Providence something like £100,000 a year.

that she should become a useful member of society. Also she knew no one, and the only time she ever left her cottage or her. garden was when all God-fearing folk wore a-bed, and then, all alone, she went up the bill and into the woods and stayed there half the night.

scale:-

PROM 1833 TO 1912.

Lord Ripon us the Colonial Office, and afterwards to Mr. Joseph Chamberlain; The history of the development of this was Secretary to the Pacific Cable Com- office from nothing" to its present mittee; afterwards a member and Deputy magnitude and usefulness, originally Chairman of the Pacific Cable Board; was appointed Crown Agent for the without plan or provision, would seem to illustrate excellently Mr. Alfred Lyttel- Colonies in 1900, and has been joint ton's opinion stated in a Colonial Office editor of the Colonial Office List since despatch some years ago that "it is not 1895. The Secretary to the Crown Agents well to sacrifico elasticity of power of is Mr. P. H. Ezechiel, who was formerly adaptation to premature definiteness of a clerk in the Colonial Offico, but form." Up to about eighty years ago exchanged with Mr. Berriedale Keith each Crown Colony appointed its own (now of the Colonial Office) for the was free to Secretaryship of the Crown Agents Agent in London, who

He took his B.A degree in engage in other occupations. Those were Office.

the days of the pluralist. According to Bombay at the early age of fourteen, a return presented to the House of his B.A. at London five years later, and Commons in 1822 of the names of the was Scholar, Wrangler, and B.A. at Agents for the new Colonies of Ceylon, Cambridge before he was twenty-two.

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All these things tell against a person- in a village.

If she had been born with a pretty face and small white, even teeth, and hair that broke into little wares, and if she had possessed a merry laugh and roguish ways, and had been a member of a large family, she would not have cked out all

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"Come with me," he said, "Come with me, and when we return let this be our nest. Let us begin again together. We have met, we have met. I love you. Don't let us be lonely any more."-C.H. in the Daily Mail.

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