The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-08-18
LONDON NEWS AND GOSSIP

court as he entered the dock, he made the Masonic sign of distress to the jury. A large crowd assembled to catch last glimpse of the condemned man as he left the court for the prison. He was hurried through the narrow pas sage in the crowd made for him by the police, and sprang into closed vehi- cle in waiting, laughing heartily at the excitement he was causing, and seem ingly in no way distressed at his im- pending fata.
 Sioux Have New "Great White Chief.e
 A party of Sioux chiefs arrived in London recently, having come all the way from Manitoba to see King Ed- ward, whom they call the Great White Chief" title until now only confer red on the American President at Washington. Besides adding another to the Kings almost numberless titles, the presence of these Sioux serves to round out London's claim to the larger name of cosmopolis. London is famil- far with Buffalo Bilfs specimens of the redskin tribes of the plains, but never before has the city gazed upon such as Akasha and Kewaykn, spfendidly ar- rayed in their gorgeous skins, feathers, top boots, and radiantly colored pouches, studded with blue beads. Aka sha is a descendant of the first chief of the Sioux tribe, and he wears the medal presented by George III to his famous ancestor for burying the toma- hawk with which he had scaiped the early settlers
 Added to these personal glories Is the importance o1 their mission, which has an international aspect They seek the preservation of their fishing and hunt ing rights, which they declare are be- ing encroached upon by Yankee mill lionaires in search of sport. Prelimi- nary to an audience with King Edward they saw Lord Strathcona, high com missioner of Canada, who, after hear- ingltheir complaint, assured them that the matter would be taken up with the State Department at Washington. The chiefs then left, highly gratifed with the result of the conference and smok- ing the exquisitely carved Indian pipes, half yard in length, which they car ry dangling at their sides.
 John Bull ms Dickens Saw Him.
 John Bull, as typified by Dickens in the immortal Pickwick Papers, is flock ing these days in Piccadilly, where the Pickwick exhibition is in progress. In thus making part payment of our debt of gratitude to Dickens We are remind ed that the exhibition might well have been attended by delegates from these American towns named aIter the Dooh. These American Pickwicks are located in Tennessee. Mississippi and Minne- sota, the Minnesota Pickwick being only a few miles from the Minnesota Homer. But it is the other way round with Pickwick on the Bath road. Here once stood Pickwick House, and here mail coach guard found an infant on the road, to whom he gave the name of Moses Pickwick. This Moses Pick wick became the coach proprietor who suggested to Dickens the name of the hero of the book A relic of him is to be seen at the exhibition. Dickens gave us for all time pages which made the whole world beautiful and glad. but the finest thing in the book, to the Englishman's way of thinking, is that 1t gives a real life-like and tone pic ture of that most misunderstood of hu- man beings-John Bull. The general impression of him, especially among foreigners, Is that John Bull is the es- sence of frigidity, seriousness, Phari- saism, and hypocrisy We who see him from the inside know that more good humored and kindly creature does not