ROOSEVELT DAY BY DAY. OYSTER BAY, Thursday.-Mr. RooSEVELT has announced to-day, through Judge Tinkler, of Ephesus, Mc., that he is in favour of infant suffrage, and that the platform which he will submit to the Chicago Convention will contain an absolutely unreserved declaration to that effect.

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weekly collections in church or chapel.

language on the links after missing the a suitable sum to contribute to the
globe three times running. He was
convinced by this experience that the
moral tone of the country would gain
in uplift by penalising indulgence in
a pastime which was so provocative of
objurgation.

OYSTER BAY, Saturday.-Mr. RoOSEVELT has authorised Colonel Nahum Quiddle, of Smyrna, Mo., to announce that he is in favour of a grant to supply all the public schools in the United States with free chewing gum.

Bishop Blo.t added that Mr. ROOSEVELT had been moved to this declaration by his own experiences in carly youth, when on more than one occasion he had been reduced to placing buttons in the bag. He was fully convinced that the country would gain in selfrespect by the removal of such humiliating temptations.

Judge Tinkler, in communicating the above statement, added that Mr. OYSTER BAY, Monday.-Mr. Otis ROOSEVELT had been induced to take Conger, of Snakesville, Ga., has been this definite stand by what Lord Colonel Quiddle went on to explain empowered by Mr. ROOSEVELT to state AVEBURY had written on "The Child is that Mr. ROOSEVELT had been prompted that he (Mr. ROOSEVELT) is in favour Father of the Man." Feeling as he to take this momentous step by his of non-contributory pensions of five did like a two-year-old, he was con- studies in anthropology, which proved dollars a week for all boys and girls vinced that an immeasurable advantage that only those races which system- between the ages of eight and eighteen. to the country would be gained by atically exercised their jaws had left Mr. Conger, in conveying the above placing the ballot in the hands of their mark on the world's history. It announcement, made it clear that Mr. babies. should be the ambition of every true ROOSEVELT had been induced to take OYSTER BAY, Friday.-Mr. RoOSE- American to be able to say that he had this definite stand by the representaVELT has intimated through General never bitten off more than he could tions of his son KERMIT. When I Biffer, of Utica, Pa., that he is in favour chew. had no pocket-money," he told his of imposing a super-tax on all golfers. OYSTER BAY, Sunday.-Mr. ROOSE- father, "there was no crime of which General Biffer in explanation of the VELT has commissioned Bishop Hiram I felt myself incapable." Mr. RoosEabove statement, added that Mr. ROOSE- P. Blott, of Damascus, N.J., to state VELT is dead sure that the supplying of VELT had been led to adopt this attitude that he is in favour of a State subsidy this long-felt want will add electrifying

House of Commons, Monday, June 10. next year. In such circumstances Delightfully characteristic of House -Hearty cheer from Ministerialists as reasonable to suppose that every of Commons' ways that, having thus PRIME MINISTER briskly enters from moment of time would be jealously pointed out that speech-making was behind SPEAKER'S Chair and seats him- safeguarded, every hour rigorously put sheer waste of time, RONALDSHAY proself on Treasury Bench. Back from to useful purpose. What happened ceeded to deliver address of considerable Mediterranean by way of Bay of Biscay, to-night throws lurid light on way we length. Happily situation too palpahis face ruddy with sea breezes. Has have at Westminster. bly absurd for undue prolongation. unconsciously assumed slightly rolling First Order of Day consideration of After brief reply from MONTAGU, who gait peculiar to those who go down to Government of India Bill on Report as Under Secretary for India succeeds the sea in ships. Also finds it impossi-stage and proposal for Third Reading. in hitherto almost impossible feat of ble to refrain from hitching up his Bill having passed Second Reading and interesting House in affairs of his trousers afore and ahint, as sailors do, Committee, wherein full discussion was department, Bill read a third time more especially on the stage. Almost permitted, only exceptional circum- without division. expected as he passed SPEAKER'S Chair stances would justify fresh debate on Business done. Government he would turn aside and, touching later stages. Exceptional circum- India Bill, and what is known by his forelock, report to Mr. LoWTHER, stances truly there were. Bill legalises grimly picturesque title, White Slave "Come aboard, Sir." Settling down changes in Government of India, nota-Traffic Bill, advanced on way to Statute into his old seat before brass-bound bly removal of capital from Calcutta to Book. box, relaxed into landsman manner, presently rising, Question paper in hand, to make the short answer that does not always turn away wrath.

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Delhi, dramatically disclosed last Ses- House of Lords, Tuesday. Weary sion in message received from HIS Titans of Legislature returned to their MAJESTY, at the time on a visit to India. labours after brief Whitsun holiday. But as RONALDSHAY shrewdly pointed Met at customary hour with no other As all the world knows, Parliament out, discussion at this stage must needs sign of anything unusual astir save just now exceptionally pressed with load be academic. Provisions of Bill already exceptionally crowded gathering. of work. Arranged that there shall be in operation, having received Royal due time there came familiar procession Autumn Session to wind up on Christ- assent in fashion closer akin to methods of LORD CHANCELLOR to the Woolsack. mas Eve. More than probable, cer- of Plantagenet sovereignty than to Par- Mace-bearer led the way; wigged and

the rear brought up by Purse-Bearer vast majority of whose Members are Extraordinary on a peace mission to -an arrangement indicative of fore- Tories of the deepest dye must, it was Berlin, he acquitted himself so well sight of a generation long since dead said, be either a studied insult or an that the public readily accepted reand buried. Idea that, if pressing extravagant joke.. port that he would presently assume need of personal refreshment or oppor- Turned out that in his judgment of functions of accredited ambassador to tunity for bestowing benefactions befell men C.-B. was even shrewder than was that capital. Nominated to the Lord on the way from robing room to Wool- thought. The subtle influence that Chancellorship, he is accepted in both sack, LORD CHANCELLOR should have fills and dominates House of Lords political camps as the ideal man for at hand the wherewithal to meet it. wrought its accustomed miracle. In the post. Watching procession, sudden wonder incredibly short period of time the ter- For successor at head of War Office filled the eyes of lookers-on. In respect magant Radical was tamed into the PREMIER found SEELY conveniently at of central figure, wig and gown were courtly LORD CHANCELLOR, pride of the hand. Before announcement of his all right. They were the appanages Bishops' Bench, idol of our old nobility, promotion was officially made the of LOREBURN, daily seen through Ses- stern repressor of astonied Liberals in House with one consent nominated sions stretching over six years and a town and country who, when they had him. He has been one of the most half. But the gait was different, and the put their men in power, presumed conspicuous successes of a singularly LORD CHANCELLOR seemed to have to take it for granted that the LORD gifted Ministry. Appointment is as gained in girth what he lost in height. CHANCELLOR would do something to popular in the House as it will be with When he reached the Woolsack, faced soldiers, who like to see one of themabout and sat down, the secret was out. selves placed at the head of Army affairs.

It was HALDANE, but yesterday Secretary of State for War!

Never in Parliamentary history was there executed such quick change. Vanished from view beneath fullbottomed wig was the carefully cultured wisp of hair drcoping over the massive brow. At rest was the right hand, long accustomed from time to time, mechanically it seemed, to stretch across to the left hip as if in search of sword hilt. When the War Lord seated himself on Treasury Bench in the Commons keen observers detected cautious withdrawal of the heels, as if he feared his spurs (which by the way he never wore in the House) might catch in some impediment. On the Woolsack this apprehension vanished.

His helmet now a hive for bees, NAPOLEON B. HALDANE has gone to St. Helena, where Punch finally leaves him. In his place sits Viscount HALDANE, Lord Chancellor of the Realm.

Business done. - Debate on Municipal Corporations (Qualification of Clergymen) Bill as amended in Standing Committee. LANSBURY'S motion for closure defeated.

"The cartton is called 'The tion in Prussia. The cartoon is called "The round the Kaiser's bed counsel him to be calm and reflect that he does not rule as they did 'by divine right,' but is merely the head of the business firm of Germany and Co."-Manchester Guardian. The cartton's name is crisper, but the cartoon's will, no doubt, appeal to many.

"Arnaud Massey engaged in a three-ball match at Muirfield, to-day, plaving the best ball of Mr. Robert Maxwell and Mr. J. E. Laidlay. Maxwell and Laidlay turned up and were dormy at the seventeenth."-Evening News. We are very glad these gentlemen turned up. It would have been a poor three-ball match without them.

"DOCTOR FORESTALLED" is the felicitous heading of a paragraph in The Devon and Exeter Gazette describing the sudden death of an elderly man while on his way to see his medical adviser.

A Sporting Offer.

"His helmet now a hive for bees." That "good Americans when they redress the balance between Liberals die go to Paris" is a familiar observation. and Conservatives on the Magisterial That good Liberals when they go to the Bench, left a little askew by prolonged House of Lords are apt to drift over and beneficent patronage of Lord to Conservative camp is a phenomenon HALSBURY. not less certain of development. Study Business done.-Irish Creameries and in this school of metamorphosis finds Dairy Produce Bill read a second time. in recent times nothing more striking "Dear me!" said the new LORD than case of LOREBURN. To those who CHANCELLOR when Clerk at Table knew "BOB" REID in the Commons recited Order of the Day, "the Irish during the Eighties announcement of Question follows me even here." his promotion to Woolsack had im- Friday. Striking testimony to mediate consequence vulgarly described wealth of material at disposal of PRIME as taking away the breath. It was MINISTER that he was able at sudden C.-B. who, forming his first Ministry, call to reconstruct his Ministry on did it. Disposition at first to regard retirement of LOREBURN. Only three step as exuberant flash of canny days since HALDANE took his seat on humour. So extreme was the Radical- Woolsack. Already shows himself as ism of the Member for DUMFRIES that much at home there as if he had been he regarded HARCOURT with distrust born within its recesses. The Marine on account of suspected Whigism and of the Ministry, ready to go anywhere was restless under evidence of innate and do anything, he made for himself Conservatism in GLADSTONE. To select a place in history by his administra- day, and shipping is being greatly incon

"In conclusion, Mr. Allen said he should be pleased to come back at any time to marry any of the young people or to officiate at the burial of any of the old stalwarts of the Church." Whitstable Times.

The Filmy Side of Life.
From the advertisement of a Lanca-
shire Cinema Palace: :-

"SINS OF OUR FATHERS
2,500 FEET LONG."

Local Veto at Lagos.

"The bar was closed on Tuesday and yester