The age-herald., 1901-07-14

by the thousand when the coronation cer- emonies come off a year from now. The dead Queen created many new orders, and no doubt the maternal example VIII De followed. There is for instance, the Vie- toria cross for bravery in war, an honor able and deservedly coveted decoration If decoration there must be. There Is sure to be King Edward order of some sort, but what form 1t will take no one can foresee. I heard 1t suggested the other day that there should be a distinct one for the young American heiresges who marry into the English aristecraey. The idea, I presume, Is to place at some social disadvantage the continental fortune hunters who are poaching in what the impecunious British nobIemen are begin ming to regard as their matrimonial pre- serves. Probably we shall have an Amer lean Order of the Garter or of the Bath suitably modified In some way for these young women. To go Q step further in this direction, why should there not be an or der for Americans like William Waldorf Astor who have given up their American citizenship and sworn allegiance to the monarchy? This class Is rapidly growing, and is certainly entitled to some recogni- tion from the financial, social and matri- monial point of view.
 Some Gossip.
 Apropos of the hunt after titles, let me give you little bit of gossip heard in one of the clubs this week. Sir Thomas Lip ton, if he lifts the queens cup in the com ing race, will be lifted of raised as the phrase goes, to the peerage. King Ed ward likes the greet tea merchant, and Is quite "chummy' with him. They ire quently dine at some one or other of the great houses, and 1t has not escaped mo- tice that whenever any host writes Lip tons name among the guests that are to meet the king, 1t Is never scratched by his majesty. tipton IS. therefore, among the envied, and his friends declare that If his cup chase Is again failure that he will try the thing a third time. The expense Is, of course, enormous There Is no shrewder advertiser in the kingdom then Lipton, and in this cup business he has hit upon scheme that Is as effective as 1t is unprecedented. If he captures the great yachting prize, you may depend up- on 1t that picture of the famous trophy will be emblazoned on one of the Lipton brand of teas. Upton Is lucky in every thing except yachting, and his ill-luck in that line may change. Who can tell?
 John Bull Deceived.
 Nothing makes John Bull so mad as the discovery that he has been made the victim of deception, especially in matters connected with the administration of pub lie affairs. It Is just now dawning upon him that during the past two years, for every drop of truth that has filtered out of the War Office and through the col- umns of the jingo newspapers respecting the war, there has been an ocean of lies. In South Africa the government censor stopped the transmission of dispatches that did not suit him. The official dis patches to the war office gave. of course, the actual situation from day to day, but the officials there smothered everything except alleged Boer defeats No people In modern times have been so cruelty kept in the dark during the progress of war as have the people of England since hostili- ties began in the TTansvaal. Considering the terrible suffering of troops and the enormous expense of the struggle which must be paid by the British people, al- misrepresentation of the situation at the front Is a crime against humanity. The tide of popular indignation over the dis covery is running deep and strong, but 1t finds no expression in the newspapers. They are in the first place completely un- der the control of the government, and, In the second, they are afraid at this late day to eat their own dispatches and con- fess that they have been swindling their readers by selling them, day in and day out columns and pages of the most men- dacious rubbish that has ever appeared in print in a great national crises of affairs If the Liberal party were not split In