REV. T. COLLINGS' DEVOTION TO SMALL-POX PATENTS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7317, 10 June 1902, Page 5

REV. T. COLLINGS' DEVOTION TO SMALL-POX PATENTS.

AcmnViiif; tn tlie London '"Express," the fii'v. T. t;. Culling* is don;,' heroic work .-iiiiriiiH ihr intin,ts of llie small-pox isolation hi)s|,it ; ,i ;l( i;,i monto]l , Middlesex. He lms !,(•(,, [1,,.,,. f()1 . vix wee fc S- :ilu l, if rpmv.l. will |.iol, : ,t:U- ~( . ,n . ,in th.-re several !i>.mirli. : ii!!iilli,, L , | lis self.impose'l T1,.. ~!.(=..„!. ~t. ,!,.- 1.,0|.i,-,l ivwc uii!,----"llt ™I>'J . ■•"ti'-i.. Hmall-po-x puts 11..-! fvnr ■■■„ lm . n - s |~.,,t , as f,. "tlior t.l ■Mr Cf.llin^ s:uv what apporttmilii-s llmt r.fTe.rod liiin. cnnnteil 111- risk :iiul si,erificf as mn.hin". and vuliintpdird for I hi- work. At. t.lmt time lie was in veeoipt of a ■;il:n-y of £50 :i vfar as curnre of St. ,r>riM\s'. Up))w Edmonton, and that he still 1 icci'.'ps. Tint the nttiftsities oT a large

family compelled him to increase his small J stipend by literary work and taking Civil j Service pupils. These latter sources of in- i come ho has had to abandon. . I

Tlio hospital is without funds to buy books. papers and llowers. Tlio.se things Ah1 Coliings has supplied out of his i«ivn pocket, as far as lii.s means .would permit. Night and Jay he is at the call of any patient wliq needs him. Thirteen hours ho considers a- short, day's work. He has taken separate lodgings for himself, to avoid the danger of infecting lii.s family. Before leaving the hospital he. always takes an antiseptic bath, and, of course, dims an entire change of clothing. i Mr Collings' ministerial labours have alj ways been among the poor. The costers lof Spitalfiehls know him well, and swear Iby him. He went among; them in his shirt ; sleeves, and talked religion while .smoking » PipeFIGURES CONCEPvXIXG LONDON AND MANCHESTER WORTH NOT- , ING. The London United Temperance Council has issued the "London Temperance Handbook,- 1902," in which \s given various interesting facts pertinent to the temperanco question. Within tlit- fifteen-mile circle from Charing Cross tliu'.- au 6809 publichouses, 5171 "beer-ou." 1053 "b;vr-olf." 282 "wine-on,'' 6SB "wine off." 2353 "wine and i-pirits-olf," or a total of 11.562. In 1890 the mimW. f persons npprehendei! for drunkenness and diunk and <li>orili-i--ly conduct, in the metropolitan police district was 5.374 per 1000. In l^o this had increased to 7.704. During the same year there weie 294 convictions against publicans and beerhouse-keepers for various offences under tin- Licensing Acts. In all 475 summouses were issued, bin 181 were dismissed. The convictions included 121 casts of per-mit-tin}; betting and training. oxr, Aciu-; Xxv a pub. Taking the average number of licenses to acres, it is noteworthy thai the Lily claims ouu to every acre, aiid the Strand follows with ono to" every two acres, whilst I'insbury, Hanover .Square. f>t. Marylcboue. St. Patu.-ras, and thu Tower claim oik- to four acres. lilaekhealh is in this respect the. least provided for. and only numbers one tv every 2b acres. So far as a comparison with houses is concerned. St. James's heads the list with one license to every 14 houses. The Gity aud the .Summl have one to every 16. Stoke Xewington has the greatest iinmmiitv from licenses, with its figures of ..lie for every 98 hou--e.-\ Taking the average of ailult, males. theCitv has a. license for every 12 male inhabitants. : the Strand one for .-very 2/ : St. James's ipne to 23; and Stoke Ne.winglou one to 137. In tlie.se enmpaarsousone has to rouu-inher that the ordinary census returns of some portions »i London afford no conception of the immense day population. MAXCH i'.HTKH STATISTICS. Similar liguivs have just- been published also in regard to .Manchester. There are 486 public-houses in the city and 2396 beer and wine houses which possess licenses. During 1901 the .police made. 67 reports airaiust,publicans and 281 against beer and wine-house keepers, and lines to the amount of £332 were indicted in the cases brought, to the notice of the Court. Of .-the 28.82 licrncd houses 383 hod al.-o licenses for* musical oniertainnicnts. four have-both dancing and music licenses, and 197 are licensed for billiards or bagatelle. For being drunk and disorderly 7767 persons were arrested in the streets, and in addition 329 were, proceeded against by summons, making a total of 8096. or an increase of 2033 on the. previous year : but in addition to these figures 1063 persons were taken into custody for other olVenccs while drunk. A NIC!UTS WANDF.IUXG THROUGH THE T;Y PATHS OF NEW YOUK. Aft-e:- one of the last and most gorgeous of Urn series of banquets at. which Prince Henry was entertained I found myself talking io a certain earnest-eyed, handsome Teuton about it. Tt was a very cosily entortaimuent, wonderfully served by an army of perfectly trained waiters, the decorations were .superb, and speeches crisp and telling-, but it was just. like, others that, had none before. "Would you not like to come with me and see something of the real life of this city? It is not even now too hue. to see something, because this i.s the City </ Unre.it." "Wait live minute* till I take oil" this uniform." In less time than that the quick-ehniu:.-- expert appeared in a. soft, cap and with the collar of his overcoat turned up. By going out through the hotel and doubling'around its passages we managed to get free of the army of detectives. A drizzling rain was falling outside that •was .slowly melting the huge heaps of snow from the last blizzard that still lay heaped next, the side-walks. The centre of activity at that moment uea.fo.st. to us was .■'. great newspaper otlice. with the paper just, goin<r to press. Through on.; of these, revolving doors turbint.< kept perpetually revolvim.' by the stream of humanity - -we entered. For fifteen years in that newspaper otlice that door had never closed except- once, and then for five minutes —the live minutes after the funeral of Mckinloy had started to enrrv the body of the murdered President to liis grave. Passing along a. warm cloister of olliees. we went, through the various rooms where the linotype machines like quick-tiring muis, were- rattling their parting volleys. We, saw I he account of I lie speeches at ihe banquet, we had left already set up and a pictute of it on the machine, Helow. amid a. de.-i-fening, whirring din, ihe Sunday paper of ninety-one paj;es. with \{e> illustiations. coloured, was dropping out folded and cut faster than a card player could deal his cards. WHERE THK PEOPLE PLAY. We left the building with the last of the tired men wlioso brain-juice throughout the- day had been squeezed oul upon these pages—pair men with their hair tossed by the passage of nervous fingers ihloiigh it — anaemic, nervous, and nerve-tired from thai wine press that squeezes every day. Outside ihe door we took the. trolly car that came on with a booming moan under the avenue of iron trellis woik that supported the track of the elevated railroad that rattled above it. From seeing .something of the work of the night, we wanted to see Mirno of the places where the people play. Up :i few blocks and we got out opposite a ilaring electric sign, one of the latent (in sense of hours) and most popular of the.Yew York restaurants. A hot gust of tobacco smoke struck our l'aees as we entered. Tile Iwobiir rooms were crowded. A din and rattle of clattering dishes, clinking ulass. and jangle of eating implements strove with the music o I'the- band for .supremacy. About a foilrlli of the men weto in evening dress ; the women—as we watched them from a corner table where we found room —of various types.

Rowdy, cluttering, noisy, the. Americans themselves have invented the, word that exactly applies to their scenes of dissipation—that, word is'"toned." What. Maxime's is to l'nris tliis place is to New York. Yet although theie is probably twice as much ir.onev spent here in ;in evening us in Maxime's, they have mil got the redeeming s.imsu i>i' genuine gaiety, i.he brightness, the fun. 'They load up with champagne, but. they have not the light ch;ini|);ij;ii^-liko effervescence. SAD AND SORDID. llf Englishmen lake their pleasures sadly, still more .sadly and sordidly do American men when it comes to the pleasure they strive to force by dollm' pressure out. of tho midnight and mormn/4 hours. 'Jhere !wa.s nothing interesting in the place, except tho discovery of how uninteresting il was. and how the best of such places in Kew York was explanatory of the word "tough." I thought tho next most interesting of tho night. KijrhtA to show my companion would be mm of Uie bi;_' gambling-houses, over lifty of whicn are within a few blocks of our hotel. in.siJe me outer door is .-■nollier one covered with green baize, through an aperture in which we wcie carefully -crutiiii^e.l liy a gigantic nogio with 11 wondcifttl mci'iii'iiy fur faces and I names. Smarily dressed attendant.- were v.aitimr inside to take our hats and coats, and shadowed us into one of the rooms mi tho ground thuir. It w;is like enuring :i bath of light, so brilliant, was the electric illuminalioii. 1 have never seen a house so luminous. The lights nbove shnne fro mbchind a I cornice, so that they did not strike the j eye, directly. The "whole scheme of the decoration was white and yellow. There were some pictures on the walls, some of them (jnito good, and a few bronze and marble statues in the cornels. Croupiers were .sittinu; behind roulette and faro tables but there wa.s nothing doing in these lower rooms. We went upstairs, and there, in a long and equally well furnished apaitmeiit, things were more lively. On each :-ide of a roulette table men weic ramred, most of them in evening dress. The play was carried mi with counters, usirtiiy for five dollars each. Thcie wa.s almd-t sil-in-.-o in tile room. Inokeii only by tlie clink of tho ivory counleiN or the hum ol the roulette bull as it spun round the board to finish its coui-se in the rippling rattle that brought, it to rest in one of the eire!o of spinning compartments. Zero and double zeio in favour of llic bank accounted for the liveried wailei.s that over the thick carpet noiseless] \kapt bringing ajnmid cigars and cigarettes, cliamrpngue, or anything olsb the players

| wished tor— all -ratis, free, and for noth- [ ing. Hide is no need for New Votkers to go to Monte Carlo in older to gamble. lliey can gamble all they want nglit in u,e centre of their city. - i'GWUKK AIAGAZI.N'K U.\ TlirJ 15011DKI'.S OF OUK IM)U.\ JiJiPIHIi. I From a Special Correspondent to London I . "Express.." J,. , CALCUTTA, March 26. | 'iitete ;■< a lilUe cloud on the horizon ueyoiiit u»« Xorth-WLst Frontier oi India. Leti us call it for brevity's sake, and to avoid any notion of scare-mongering, thu Atghan qtie-btion. It i.s to-day a little cloliil; it may puss away. liut—it may grow ami grow until die heavens are darkened, anu the thunder of war icverberutw liirmighoiit Die Kmpire. Afghanistan is an upon powder magazine, where men brandish daiiv lighted lurches. It is impossible to predict wiieuce or in what manner or at what hour a spark nmy fall. The strong man Abdur Rahman stamped out ruthlessly the first Ilickev of llame that boded evil.Vius sou Habihullah is siili an uukuowu quantity. In India we should feel" more at easeover the Afghan question ii only public opinion at home could lake a quiet" and intelligent grasp of Ihe main faclois of the. •situation before there is any apparent cause for grave anxiety. We- are nervous, lest a sudden but natural development may occur, and then your politicians, their eyes blinded by culpable ignorance, be seized by hysterical panic. Neither hysteria nor panic will simplify the Afghan question liMPIiUi'S SOLLN'DIXG-BOARD. Think you that the uUeranres of Kngiish press and English politicians cany no weight in a country which boasts nor railway, nor telegraph, nor newspaper, nor public library, normally of your accustomed means of the rapid dis.-vmimition ~f news, views, and opinions? Xo, no! You in London live Empire, and your words and your whispcis echo through tlu- bazaars of Kabul. Kandahar, and Herat. 1 dv not pretend to describe the marvellous system by which news travels i-.ipidlv and accurately across the frontiers of India. That it does so spread is common knowledge. Road Kipling's "Kirn." and remember its greatest improbabilities are plain, undiluted truths. Lord Cm/.on will be at Peshawar on the 24Hi of next, month, liis presence, at the capital of the new frontier province, has noi any direct reference to tin-Afghan question. ifi-for.- reaching Peshawar' Lord Curzon will vist, the Malakand at the einraiH-e to the Swat, Valley, and he will a!.-o travel up Ihe Khyher Pass to Lundi Kotal. This frontiir visit is chieily undertaken in tinier to discuss on the spot the manner in which the new administration is working. A big durbar of Pathan "maliks" and greybeards will be hold. The Mahsud blockade has been successful, and fivm all accounts the rt-p.ise or the restlessness, term it which you will. <-.f the Xorlh-w.st- Frontier is normal. I Silt He a-, great an optimist as you will about the .situation in that rugged coni.-r of empire, you cannot u'et away from that ominous "liut ." For there are determining factors beyond the power and inlhiHico of the ablest administrator. The Iladda Mullah must by now be a familiar name to English readers. This fanatical Mohammedan prelate- lakes his name from the vilage of Iladda. which is in thu Pa.thaji borderland to the north (.1 Peshawar.. MULLAH OF lI.ADDA. The Mullah of Iladda. came prominently to the front in the Pathan revolt of 1C37. though his personality was overshadowed in the popular mind by the Mad Mullah of Swat. He is a restless schema- of great personal ambition. A bigot and a fanatic, lie has a. following and an organisation nor. to bo despised. More than once his influence over the tribesmen has been shattered, but by enift and cunning persistency he has re-established it. In the days of Abdur Rahman he endeavoured to become a power at the Court of Kabul, but he was cheeked. Now he has been quick i..> take advantage of the change in rulers. It is; this circumstance which must be liiiisi cirefullv nolcd down. What the Mullah of llad.li Ins done, other intriguers are. also endeavouring to do. llabibullah is in ;i very vortex of cabals and conspiracies. His strong religious .indt-ncie.-e are Leiim skilfully played upon by fanatics and bisiots. Ho liasy-tto assert himself and to display the stroiiL- statesmanlike freedom of acti'-u" which was the highest .-harfu-tcriiie of h;s father. lic..ai;.-e nothing is heard for a lime of the Mullah of Iladda. or because Xasrullah Khan and the oilier bro-tht-rs keep tin: peace, it- is not to be supposed it is all smooth sailing bond the Kryber. Very sanguine or very ignorant must- be he who would dare predict that Habibulla \\\'\ establish himself firmly mi ihe throne without disturbances of a more or less grave, nature. Five days have elapsed since the "Xauroz." or tin- Mohammedan Xew Year's Day. It was the date of Ilabibullah's coronation, which it- was feared might have be.-n made, the occasion for a serious outbreak. It is too soon for us to have h-aml the details of what actually occurred, but not too eat-'v to feel with some confidence that the ceremony has passed off peacefully. Th.. Afghanis an "f to-day is. from a military aspect, a verr different country to that in which Lord Roberts achieved his great reputation. Abdur P.ahman not iiu.iviv trained his soldiei-s in the art of war. but lie <-ol!ect'.(l ii.geshc-r a vast- store of munitions. TIIK AMEEPv'S TUTTF.KIKS. Only last summer he obtained permission from the Government of India to send his ast-nts to l-'ssen to take possession of thirty mountain gun? and howitzers which he had or.ler-.-d from Krupps. However, they were not- ready then, but llabibullah has now been advised that- the guns are awaiting his inspection, and the Government of India have tiiven him leave to despatch two oilieu-s. from Kabul to Germany to take .-haru'e of them. The Afghan question must always be daikened by Ihe .-hadow of die Hear, for fifteen years and more Ru-sia has scrupulously adhered to the terms of her agreements, but lhe-e fifteen years have been a priod of peace, or of comparative peace, if. Afghanistan. If there is Io be a repel it hvi of'the armed di.ssim-ions and inteine.-inc-strife of the, end of the seventies, wii 11 cCzar's Government, be able to de.-it-l fi'.'.n interference? The. policy of the. Muscovite h-is »n» been to break a, way for itself in the south. It resembles a gteat frozen river ~;' il;e north, which, as the ice melts, ni.-di.v d-iun the warm valleys in Hood. Dam it here, it overflows iheie. Xothing can stop Us ]irogre.<s long. Its dt-.tiny is .i s. ithe-i sea.

Tlit Auulti-.Tap;iiß^c Alliance has chocked for llio moment Russian a^gri-ssiyen-s; 111 the Fiir Ka.-t. lint uutiviiy in I'en-i.-i is redoubled. Slop this. ;uul Where will she break lhrou<,<h next.'.' In Afghanistan <v- ii; thu -Moditfnaueaii, or in both i;|)o;s »t onco ? Who can surely t-ell'.' Tliere is no occasion for alarm, >-q causo for pan-o. Inn it would be fauicus !■ Jly, it- would bo criminal blindness to fchufc 11'ir eyes and ears to ili« elements of iicrii ai.d dauber that underlie the Alclian question.