The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-28


man who became his wife really pro-
posed to him. He had gone to ask her
to marry his nephew, whom she had
refused. Il viii not marry your ne
phew," she told him, but I viii marry
YOU
The president of the National Agri-
cultural Laborers' union. the Grand
Old Man of actual politics. Joseph
Arch, has come early into the field with
a manifesto, in which he cries. with
no uncertain voice, for Free Trade and
Liberia ism. whatever may be meant b.
that. Mr. Arch's manifesto has the
highest Importance, for he is one Of
those who can talk from personal e.
perience about the distant days when
he subsisted upon that horrid pro
tectionist loaf" which he, with a con
siderable instinct for eIectioneerfne
has unkindly termed the TORY barley
bread which got into his bones. -
and thence, apparently, into his brain.
The case of the agricultural labOrer
was. from whatever causes, desperate
enough in Mr. Arch's early life He
began, like Mr.. Hardy's Jude, by
frightening birds off CROPS for a wage
of four pence a day. He led a cramped
and starved sort Of life-only going to
school between the ages of six and nine.
and making up the rest of his educs-
uCDs ike jude again, by reading books
bought with his meagre wages as he
walked home from the fields in the
evening What a triumph for boy
come leader of his fellows. and to
/ have represented them in parliament
for years. The contrast between the
| boy and the man is nicely indicated by
the fact that his mother was servant at
Warwick Castle, while the sons auto
biography. when he came to publish il.
was prefaced by Lady Warwick with
| all the approval which that socfalistIo
countess has for the poor and strug-
Cling. Mr.. Arch first met Lady War
wick about ten years ago. She drove
up to his cottage near Warwick in a
pony trap, and appeared suddenly in
the doorway May I come in, Mr..
ARCH I am Lady Warwick You
nave no need to ask such question"
How is that2' Because" said the
/ old toller of the fields, my family has
been connected with your house for
upwards Of two hundreds years"
Everyone will sympathize with Lord
/ Orkney in the anxiety brought uDon
1 him by his wife,s grave accident in the
hunting field This has been one Of the
theatrical matches, like that Of Lord
and Lady Clencarty- which has turned
out singularly successful. Lord and
Lady Orkney have not gone much into
F the social world since their marriage
which was, of course. made a treme1-
i dous sensation of. though as a mat
ter OF 1act. attended by compare lively
/ few people, and by scarcely any mem
/ bers of the theatrical profession. Taa,-
! Orkney, as she looked when she v-aq
| Connie Giicnrist, came like ghost be-
/ fore art-loving people when her nor
/ eIals ps W nlseief was exhibited at the
Ays1IlaA sdileiLes rev weeks ago A
psaeLlss 1I e S.llia-like person she seemed
made one of her dances famous anT
/ looking, in her shadowy surrounrlfrs--
/ as though she were a dancer Of -SoE1a
/ ~ ~ soLla' conoeInned 70 hold the
/ sAAppihs rope as KIND or penance.
Sir Arthur Hayter. who has hoe,
/ granted a peerage in the new wear il -
/ 80 y ealt5 " man whose maternal
one Of the original members OF T1o,-5ss
bank. and laid the foundation ~ -, >
l 1870 soIltile. from MS mother Sir
~ - ~ -, iSsu d quar- Ter or million
-. s ~, vi De one OF me most popu-
- u eil pSefesSes She is a
4Saas, Il Ter u the ia1e captain Adrian