1936-08-17 — Page 3

POET'S

ECLIPSE BROUGHT 'SALVATION'

Bombay, Aug. 1.

Three hundred thousand people! crowded into a small village all bent on securing an immortal dip in the sacred pond on the occasion of the solar eclipse. That was the the scene late in June at village of Kurukshetra, Punjab.

The affair is aptly described as "India in miniature." Babus from Bengal wearing white burnooses four yards long, rub. bed shoulders with Maswaris from Rajputana; the tall, hefty, | turbaned Frontiersmen ron. trasted sharply with the puny barefoot, Orthodox Braunin from South India.

Filly thonun "andhaus" Iwander- ing ascetics) belonging to 72 secta had gathered from all parts of India.

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IN MOROCCO

Across the bay at Ceuta, headquarters of the Spanish military forces in Morocco, and now frend point of the revoli.

Some of them, riding on princely Oscar Slater Married

elephants commanded an loss respect dein ruling princes, and realized. several thousand rupees me offerings from the simple village folk.

Besides the endhus," the grounds swarmed with men and women beg gars and lepers, both genuine Take. They carried a cup or utensil in earl hand and demander silver or copper to pay the debt of the run, which, according to the Indian

been in trological calenda, hid

l)

MAN WHO SUFFERED

19 YEARS IN PRISON

BURN

AT

HIS NIGHT

LADY WATSON HITS AT CIVIL LIST

“WORK

PITTANCES

NEVER · APPRECIATED”

By ALAN CLARKE

"SHOULD Britain's greatest men in art, music, philosophy, and literature, or their dependenta, be compelled to live on pittances of £60, £70, or £80 a year?

"Is even £100 or £120 a year the proper standard by which even an honorary recompense for genius should be assessed?"

Maureen Lady Watson, willow ‘of petition for it. The money will Sir William Watson, the famous poet certainly keep the wolf from the whom Gladstone wished to make Port | doer--but it will not be an English, Laurente, put these questions to me door.

her in the humble when I sw Brighton home where she is now living.

SIF William Watson did almo penniless last summer at the age of 77, and his widow and two daughters, aged 19 and 22, have been hard put to make ends meet.

Oscar Slater, sentenced to death in May, 1909, for the murder prisoned by the plates Rahu and of Miss Marion Gilchrist and vindicated 19 years later, was married Ketu for defauli. One of these

serpent by declaration in the County Buildings, Glasgow, recently, to Missed a Civil List pension of £120-a year. planets is represented by

with a man's head and the other by Lina Wilhelmina Schn.

with

serpent's

bend. The A man velipse is enneed when one or

other of the planets swallows

sun for failure to pay his debts, H

is released only when some charitable MINE IN TRACK

person pays them by giving alors,

It was estimate that for this relipe

more than £750,000 was collected to One begear collect. release the sun.

ed £16 in five hours at the tank.

The Maharajas of Nabhu and Patia-

In Calsi Kali Knaniwala fest 70,000

pilgrims free for several days. One

OF THE QUEEN

MARY

bride-

In the official entry the groums Tume was given as Oscar Joseph Lesehziner (54), widower,

bookkeeper.

E.

Alas Schnd, who is 33 and a brut- is a bookkeeper in an hotel in She met sell Square, London. Mr. Slater Goon after his release.

The case of Oscar Slater was

of the dilleulty of classic example

officialdem (writes Imoving

Clephan Palmer),

Year after year the late Sir Arthur Conan Doyle nut evidence before the Secretary for Scotland, and the Lord of a miscarringe of justice. Advocate to show that Slater was the Year after year the official reply was vletim that nothing had been produced The mine was discovered by Captain would justify reopening the case.

SEEMED HOPELESS Knickle, of the motor-ship Andrava, When I was sent up to Scotland by Nees. to write about the

class which did a rearing business Lunenberg (Nova Scotia). Aug. 10. was the "Pandas," who may literally FLOATING wine, weighing a be described as "hosts to everybody. A

ton, has been picked up in the Carrying their bulky account books dating back to the 28th century, they Attuatie, within half a mile of the cause taken by the Curard-White surrounded the pilgrima

vinced them that someone in their Star her Queen Mary. family had deen their "guests," and shan recruited the newcomers as pay ing guests.

that

Professional speakers and scripture while shing on the Grand Banks, the Catil and by the editor of tel

readers invaded the fair area by the hundred and were busy from morn ing to midnight preaching. The circus men, however, attracted more crowds.

AL

case I was

of the leading Scottish papers that I was wasting iny. time.

He told me that the day before

Lady Watson las fest been award-

"OUR PROTEST"

"We cannot possibly live on our snail means in this country," he said, and on August 2 we leave for South Africa, where the pound is worth about fis.. more.

"You may say that our depar- ture is our protest. The smallness of the pension has convinced me further that Great Britain never really appreciated my husband's "work"

An edition of Sir WIism's poems

WAS so poor that Lady was published in 1928. The public. Watson bought up dozens of copies response secretly so that her husband should

not know.

"f am going to burn them," she said. "I would rather know that They were ashes, than that they should rot forgotten in this Eng- land.'

"One night I shall secretly take he had lunched with the then See-them all to the Sussex Downs and! retary for Scotland, who, had burn them. assured him that there was not the faintest chance of Slater being res

VICTORIAN STANDARDS

The mine was first seen by one of the Andrava's crew from a dory in atitude N. 4250, longitude W. 60.29. The fair passed off without tragedy. At the time it was sighted, the fisher- The government supplied ample traite men sny one of the Coned timers and sanitary facilities for the pil steaming about half a mile away. grims, spending nearly $95,000. One

leased, to his ship,

"Apart from my own circumstances, į great hazard old pilgrim recalled that 15 years ngo|

It seemed a hopeless job. Oficial- there was such a scarcity of drinking Captain Knickle had the mine hoisted

dom

SAS

sutisfled that Slater was feel that it is time that Civil List water that speculators reaped small aboard, achers its timing wires were guilty. What chance was there, after the present awards date from Victor- pensions were brought up to date. fortunes, often pocketing the money disconnected. It is not known whether 18 years, of persuading the authorities jan times, when socially £120 was but falling to deliver the water,| This year a water (as was available the mine is of German origin, or to reopen the case? on the fair ground. every twenty how long it has been drifting about But the impossible happened.locked on as the equivalent of say, pages, and bathing tanks with diss the Atlantic:-Reuter, infected water were supplied.

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still remember the excitement of Conan Doyle, when I told him on the " feel sorry for the dependents of telephone that I had discovered in the famous men who have to manage on slums of Glasgow one of the principal only £60. Really, is it not an insult witnesses at the trial, and that she which most of them have to bear to had made a statement which destroy-five?

ed the validity of the fatal evidence

she gave against Slater.

"After that," cried

"But I am concerned with the future

It spells banishment for Wil- lom Watsonfa dear ones, not a very creditable picture for this rich country to look upon.

"We can all make a fresh start,” the said; “our departure will see the last of the Watsons in England."

The daughter Géraldine told me she thought it was going to be great fun. "We shall ret seme kind of work, but we don't know what just yet," she said.

Lady Watson broke in our conversa- tion to tell me of the biography of her husband which she has just cam-

pleted.

A REVELATION

**It will be a revelation to many when it is published-if it ever is for there are some things which will show a new light on people In high places, but it is the truth, she said.

For months before his death Sir william was busy preparing a new collection of the poems which he be lieved to be the cream of his work.

This collection is entitled "The J'ous of Sir William Watson" (Harap. Ts. 6.). Sir William re- vised many of the poems and there are soveral new verses, printed for the first time. It is dedicated to his wife and is prefaced with these lines:

This much I know: what dues so-

e'er be mine.

Of fame or of oblivion, Time the

just Punetitiously naressing, shall award- This have doubted urver; this is:

The volume contains a poem which William Watson wrote in 1894, long before he was knighted for his work:

I do not ask to have my fill

Of wing, or love, or Jamr, I do not, for a little i

Apainst the gods exclaim. One boon of Fortune I implory

With one petition kneel:

At least caress me not before Thou break me on thy wheel,

In these lines William Watson_pro-

thank those people who signed the aisfortune. "I am grateful for my pension, araphesied his own early fame and liter

cried Conan Doyle, of my daughters, for if I die the £120 "they must release him. The whole a year would stop immediately. ense against him has gone now." Soon after Slater was released after the late Lord Buckmuster, the former Lord Chancellor, had threat- ened to raise the ease in the Lords.

"DAILY NEWS" AGITATION He was a late convert. Before this Daily News, started its agitation the editor sent him the evidence at thin trint and asked for his opinion on the verdict, of

of guilty. His reply support-

ed the verdict.

The only lawyer i met who con-

sistently maintained that the verdict

Bite Much Worse

Than His Bark

was indefensible was Mr. Roughead, "COME in my dear," we can imagine the future Sydney

of Edinburgh, who reproduced the

evidence in the "Famous Trials"

dog-owner saying to a visitor, "his bite is much

This remarkable achievement look by place in the Sovlet's 40-acre experi- mental station in the Ukraine, where intensive work has been going on with the cross-breeding of various animals.

series, and insisted from the day of worse than his bark." the conviction that it was wrong.

Slater wrote a letter to the Daily

The report recently that dogs in: News, after the cunviction had been Sydney had been "de-barked" quashed thanking the editor for what painlessly severing their, vocal cords, he had done.

only went half-way towards solving The result showed that officialdom the problem of the noisy dog in will yield only to the pressure of per-noisy world. sistent publiclty. All the self- sacrificing work of Conan Doyle hod been ignored. It was not till a national newspaper took up the case and published daily articles for over a nonit demanding the reopening of the case that offlcinidom moved.

A Special Act of Farliament, was passed to enable Slater to appen, and in July, 1920, the verdict was ret aside on the ground that the jury had been misdirected. Slater later ac- cepted £0,000 from the Government an ex gratia payment for his wrongful conviction. :

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