Part 5 (1/2)

So, soive a new lease of life to the kingdom of which Harden-Hickey dreahter should assert his or her rights, which is not likely to happen, so ends the dynasty of James the First of Trinidad, Baron of the Holy Roman Empire

To the wise ones in Ahed at him; to the wiser ones, he was a clever rascal who had evolved a new real-estate scheme and was out to rob the people--and they respected him To my mind, of them all, Harden-Hickey was the wisest

Granted one could be serious, what could beon your own island?

The coraphers, the business hed at his, and guano, with his body-guard of Zouaves and his Grand Cross of Trinidad, certainly possessed s that Harden-Hickey lacked But they in turn lacked the things that made him happy; the power to ”make believe,” the love of romance, the touch of adventure that plucked him by the sleeve

When, as boys, we used to say: ”Let's pretend we're pirates,” as a ”

But the trouble was, the other boys had grown up and would not pretend

For so line of Pinero's play, when the adventuress, Mrs Tanqueray, kills herself, and her virtuous stepchild says: ”If we had only been kinder!”

WINSTON SPENCER CHURCHILL

IN the strict sense of the phrase, a soldier of fortune is a hts under the flag of any country

In the bigger sense he is the kind of man who in any walk of life , leaps to e

Than Winston Spencer Churchill to-day there are few youngfortunes, and none who has more frequently bent them to his own advancement To him it has been indifferent whether, at the ood or evil, in the end always it was good

As a boy officer, when other subalterns were playing polo, and at the Gaiety Theatre attending night school, he ran away to Cuba and fought with the Spaniards For such a breach of military discipline, any other officer would have been court-martialled Even his friends feared that by his foolishness his career in the army was at an end Instead, his escapade was ht him such publicity that the _Daily Graphic_ paid him handsomely to write on the Cuban Revolution, and the Spanish Government rewarded him with the Order of Military Merit

At the very outbreak of the Boer war he was taken prisoner It seemed a climax of misfortune With his brother officers he had hoped in that can to acquit himself with credit, and that he should lie inactive in Pretoria appeared a terrible cala months, suffered imprisonment, it continued to be a calamity But within six weeks of his capture Churchill escaped, and, after many adventures, rejoined his own army to find that the calamity had made him a hero

When after the battle of Omdurman, in his book on ”The River War,” he attacked Lord Kitchener, those who did not like him, and they were many, said: ”That's the end of Winston in the aret another chance to criticise K of K”

But only two years later the chance caer a subaltern, but as a member of the House of Co him from the attacks of others

Later, when his assaults upon the leaders of his own party closed to hi clubs, again his ill-wishers said: ”This _is_ the end He has ridiculed those who sit in high places He has offended his cousin and patron, the Duke of Marlborough Without political friends, without the influence and h fahteen e of thirty-two, he is one of the leaders of the Government party, Under-Secretary for the Colonies, and with the Liberals theman in public life

Only last Christn Secretary, said of him: ”Mr Winston Churchill has achieved distinction in at least five different careers--as a soldier, a war correspondent, a lecturer, an author, and last, but not least, as a politician I have understated it even now, for he has achieved two careers as a politician--one on each side of the House His first career on the Governuished career I trust the second will be evenis that he has done all this when, unless appearances very e of sixty-four, which is the ”

Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was born thirty-two years ago, in November, 1874 By birth he is half-American His father was Lord Randolph Churchill, and his mother was Jennie Jerorandchild of the seventh Duke of Marlborough, on the distaff side, of Leonard Jero to try and discover from which of these ancestors Churchill drew those qualities which in him are most prominent, and which have led to his success

What he owes to his father and mother it is difficult to overestimate, almost as difficult as to overestimate what he has accomplished by his own efforts

He was not a child born a full-grown genius of commonplace parents