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Viscount Ullswater Tast month inaugu On January 8th of this year the Deanrated the jubileo session of the Glasgow and Chapter of St. Paul's after consulen Parliamentary Debating Society, when tion with the Lord Mayor of London, addressing a crowded assembly, he de- appealed through The 'imes for a tailed many hints for young debaters, and of from £120,000 to £140,000 for the pre-related in racy terms experiences as servation of St. Paul's Cathedral. Thanks Speaker of the House of Commons, to the generosity of the public the large There, he said, he had listened to at

irast 50,000 speeches, but, like the sailor's author of the poem. In our own country, sum was reached by January 22nd, Oa August 20th we hanounced that the lund parrot, he had thought a great deal and at was, the tobacco plant must take had passed £250,000; and donations have said nothing. However, that experience precedence of the one as the trend of might enable him to give some useful for some 500 years it has been at not yet ceased to reach us

118 call, tu duotaa tire ret inevitable in The time will come when the Cathedral criticism and hints upon speaking and

CIVILIZAlion which corn lounavu and the method of speaking. Oratory was wille as lustered.' it. nag stezaled the authorities and the others now joined

soselera "and others during the art of persuading. The best way to

norveg "of with them in this great taak will be able persuade was to show that they had a

grvas" danger or exacting abdurk. mas kuipa thinkers to think clearly anu to say to each subscriber: Ni euentum re complete knowledge of their subject. serenely. In the bone und JE SOCIORY 11 quiris circumspise. The work you en. Therefore, they must saturate themselves.

ms releved intercourse of strain, nade with it. Let tacar think over butik wrya- trasted us with is done: the Cathedral ments, for if arguments did not, conviute

Bilebicu a friendly communion, nu found a companion for the lonely. As it in 1s safe. But that time cannot, yet tarmselves they would convince nobody

direct answer to the nus of a life that It is natural that those who have given else. They would do well to disregard

has grown yearly taster and more trying to any of the funds should wish to know sati pounts and gu for the bag argu-

cate this most timely gift, which now what progress is being made with thements, arranging their topics so as to

pervades all with its caum and makes o work, and should even hope SPC some low camly. Regarding form in speaking.

study to be quiet") a practical counsel. of the results. It will be long. before there were taree golden rules: such hopes can be fulfilled. Indeed, it up speak up, and bus up. (Laughter.) This is tobacco rightly uasi Like a

good gifts, and especially, wine, it can be may be anid that they can never be jul.

chier object was to enable the filled, because the object of the preser- voter to travel. He know one brilliant wrongly used; lige wine, it can be ce clared not necessary to human welfare. vation is to make. St. Paul's look exactly man who apparently read his entire

But the most vocal opponents of tabaceo as it looked before, save for the absence speech out" of the door, therefore, to use

Eave rarely beca men with the steadiness of certain cracks and fissures in the a vulgarism, he counselled, Spis iz

Gladstone warned mind, the well-balanced judgment, states. To the eye the Cathedral will out." (Laughter.) be as it always was; but it will be as son Herbert never to get down on the which tobacco inducca. King James I. wise only in streaks. William sound building and no longer a specious despatch-box. If they did not speak up shell. Meanwhile, if there are no results the reporters could not-take them down. Cowper would have been a happier man to be seen, there is plenty of evidenceNothing was more disheartening after could he have watched his gloomy fancies to eye and to ear (and also to any throat delivering a good speech than to read, dissipated with the smoke from a church warden. The works of Mr. Ruskin ar nostril that is sensitive to dust) that Lord ullswater, who was indistinctly. wark is being done and we are now able beard, was understood to observe would have filled fewer volumes, but to give some particulars of that work (Laughter.) Personaly his rule was to have contained as much good senee, had speak to those in the extreme end of the he now and then lighted a cigar with an the FORTIFYING THE PIERS! ả

hall. They must be careful not to bawi outburst instead of sending it to At present the principal field is, the They should never speak too long; it was printer. Moderate smoking might have crypt. The lower parts of the piers sup better to leave an audience hungry than toned down some of the dramatic extra- porting the dome must be made secure satiated. They should also avoid repeti-vagance of Signor Pirandello and of before their upper parts are taken in tion. Frequently he had heard a speaker Mr. Bernard Shaw. It is rarely that man, like the Inte Lord band. All day and every day (undisturb use the same argument three and four one Ends ed now by the Cathedral services) the times until the speech pefered out. Thuy Roberts, who is remarkable both for What steadiness of mind and for a hatred of workmen are drilling the necessary series should avoid tricks of action of holes in the piers and forcing into them ever you do, never put your hands in tobacco.

A plant which has been so loved and the cement which is to make a solid core your pockets. Don't think about your in place of the rubble, now decayed, with bands and they will find their proper se detested, which has caused so many He ilustrated the point by social changes and has so deeply affected. which Wren perforce Elled in the stone place." ensing The foundations, it is held, may aausing incidents in the Commons, and human lite, must needs have an interest

trusted to go on bearing the enormous recalled that Goschen was always fechasing history and a large literature. To weight: it is the piers that must be for his buttons. Another statesman had

tbut literature we add to-day (October an action as if he were an old bathing oth) aTobacco Number," which sums fortilled. When this has been accom-

woman splashing a child in the water.

up all that can be said about tobacco, plished in the crypt, the same process will be begun on the Cathedral floor, two Even the Eart of Balfour-who, he hoped from the time when Columbus discovered of the piers having already been made was not listening in-got into a hopeless

T use in the religious ceremonies of the

of the principal,ports of the Far East have besa secure by the Cathedral authorities be entanglement by placing two pairs of eye West Indies down to the latest researches", angraved by one of the most eminent Firms ie

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into its growth, preparation, trasport, Great Britain, and are annually corrected and glasses on his sleeves. work in the crypt may probably be finish his back on his audience and addressed and proper use in the modern world. brought up to data.

fore the present appeal was issued. The

the few behind him, Another insisted on bucing the House, und had perforce tu wat the dinner hour before speaking. Tricks of action were bad; so were tricks of phrase. One member began and ended every speech with the

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ed early next year but one lesson that every subscriber and every lover of St. work Paul's must take to heart is that of this kind haste is impossible and dan gerous, and that all estimates of time 'must be accepted as very elastic.

end of next year, perhaps later, the core few words, whereas the House could not shortly before his heroic death. Since of every pier has been made solid. Then beip itself.. (Laughter.). Yet another theys of Ralish Lane and Francis Weights and Measures and other Com will come an operation which, it is always referred to eddication." thought, may be even longer and more wife might have corrected, him, but, it Drake the growth and manufacture of tobacco have ccare to be one of the Lord Ullswater counselled his bearers

With industry in which the British Empire is not to be afraid of nervousness. respect to preparation, some speakers gradually taking a more and more im- learned their speeches by bears before portant share, Socially tobacco has so delivery. That was a tremendous effort, established its position among both men and had its dangers, while the effect and women that moderate and decent sigh for Walter. was rather wooden Disraeli and Macau- smokers sometimes lay did that. Fox threw himself into the Raleigh'a servant and his bucket of water, middle of a sentence and left Providence peremptorily to quench the cigarettes smoked in the wrong place and at the to get him out. Preparation was neces sary to preserve the exordium and the wrong time. And while extremists are in- peroration, and they could leave the centre part to take care of itself. Heime and a death like that of the bad found humour extremely useful. Elizabethan Bishop Fletcher, who, amok- Don't become the servant of humouring his pipe, cried: Boy, I die!" and died, medicine assures us that it you become known as a humourist. God help you." (Laughter.) After eulogis ing the House of Commons, Lord, Ulls

"If you water concluded by remarking: know a better hole, go to it.

of faulty stones by sound stones in the masonry of the piers. The failure of the cores has thrown the weight of the drum and all above it ofthe three domes of "St. Paul's" which we described in the early days of the lund on to the masonry, which was never intended to bear it craided, and was rendered the more anfit to bear it by the contractors disregard of Wren's instructions about the proper use of iron rods. The effect has been to split and break a number of the stones--a number which on exaging tion (as the Cathedral authorities found in their work upon the north east and two southern piers) may be found to involve the replacing of many tone of masonry." And besides all this there is yet another great undertaking the brag ing of the drum with a metal hoop.

teat to threaten all smokers with a life of

knows very little yet about the action- of nicotine on the brain, heart, lungs, an throat. The moderate man, giving thanks for the gift, will reflect, with Calverley:

Yet "know I five or six Smokers who freely mix...

Still with their neighbours; and with him nale: "Why deny its use thoughtfully taken?" Perhaps, too, he may moralize a little, as George Wither moralized in verse over tobacco, pipe, and smoke; and, should his moralizing

health and his neighbour's convenience, should it bring him but a step nearer to the noble quality of that great gentle man and smoker, My Uncle Toby, the hold of tobacco upon human regard will be firmer than it is already.

WORSHIP DURING REPAIRS. Evidently there must be no hurry to All these different operations are neces see results or to hear that the work 18

sary to the preservation of the fabric, finished. So great a task, moreover, into the worthy maintenance of the Cathe volves preparations and precautions of dral an a Christian church in continuous magnitude and a variety which all lay-

use for the worship of many thousands inen must find some difficulty in appre of people, and to its convenience and hending. The measure of the scaffolding safety as a place of pilgrimage for met -whether of wood.or of steel-alone must reach a staggering "total; and another of all races and treeds. But not all of lead hiar to a tenderer regard for his own them, obviously, fall under the head for object which no pains are spared to which the public has so generously sub- secure is the protection of the, Cathedral scribed. And since no great public work against are under conditions in which of, this kind can be too carefully guard- Sre is a far more pressing danger than ed against any possibility of reproach, it But while may be well that the public should know in ordinary circumstances. haste is out of the question, the various the principle which the administrators and heavy labours are being pushed on of the fund have laid down and to which as fast as may be. A great saving other scrupulously adhere. The various Lime is now effected by the separation works in the Cathedral are divided by

LONESOME LONDON! ; part of the Cathedral where services them under two heads: those which are of

Lonesome seems an oddly named place may be held without interruption of the necessary to the preservation of the repairs. Before the works were begun fabric, and thow/which are not." The, to require a public open-air space,' on the present sale, it was impossible to hold services in the din of the modern farmer are paid for out of the fund; the but time has brought about that parados latter are paid for out of the Cathedral's at Streatham, states the Observer, substitutes for axes and hammers, and other resources. A simple instance will Lonesome is one of the many little the regular and special services in St. Paul's Cathedral take up many hours of make the principle. The removal and the hamlets swallowed up by London whose the week. Now the high altar has been future replacing of the organ are neces very name is unknown to most Londoners. sary to the preservation of the fabric: The Londoner's ideas of topography are brought down into the nave and set up

because it could not have been carried | mostly taken from the buses and not. decently and in order just east of the on while the organ was in its usual many buses seem to go to Lonesome. Wellington Monument. A few of the place. The fund, therefore, will hear The name has a melancholy. sound that choir stalls have also been brought down, the cost. But the Jong overdue in can bardly be matched in this country. and Wren's beautiful wooden pulpit has provements to the organ, for making which There is a place called Lone in Suther- been set up hard by Behind, the altar the present opportunity is to be taken, land, and a No Man's Land in the New boarding has been run up to the top of are not necessary to the preservation of Forest Land's End, also conveys, the the arch, stained a quiet green, and hang the Tabric; therefore no part of their idea of remoteness, and "the" misunder- with fabrics. A separate church, as it cost will be borne by the fund. In the stood title of Moreton-on-the-March were, has thus been made, where as same way, the duty of maintaining the suggests dampness and discorafort as well many as one thousand people may wor-services in a manner as little is possible to those who do not know that it should ship, while cast of it the repairs go on unworthy of the great Cathedral of the be Moreton-on-the-March (or Border), all the working day. And fest visitors

Islands sprinkled about the should be deprived of a view of any of Empire is a duty distinct from that of Of course, there are many, Solitary and

preserving the fabric; and, though miny Lonely the Cathedral that it is possible for them a subscriber to the fund might be glad Aretic. Hegions and other leas frequented to see, boardings have been so arranged to feel that some part of his gift was part of the globe, and more than one that they may be taken, under proper being spent upon so high a purpose, the village in America is frankly named asfeguards, Into the whispering gallery Cathedral authorities have decided that Solitude. But none of them is so frank and even into the crypt, without hinder they have no right to divert any part of su affront to its god fathers as the Lone ing the work of preservation.

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