The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-08
LORD KITCHENER
GOES TO INDIA
This Is Gossip in High Circles
in London
GRACIOUS LITTLE ACT
Princess of Wales Comforts Frightened
Child in the Street-Romance
of the Rubber Boom in
England

London. May 7.-(Special. Field
Marshal Lord Kitchener after serving
a short time as commander in chief of
the forces in the Mediterranean will
go to India as viceroy. That is the
gossip current in high circles concern
ing of the great soldier who has just
returned home from the United States
The situation in the Indian empire
has been growing steadily worse and
it has become imperative that the
power of the English government shall
be in the hands of a strong, cool-head-
ed man whom the Indians both fear and
respect. Just such man as Lord
Kitchener in fact There is high au-
does not become viceroy of India 1t
will be because he cannot be induced
to accept the post.
Lord Kitchener is not what may be
called an enthusiastic man but he is
as nearly enthusiastic as he gets to
be in speaking of America.
The great soldier smiled rather GRIM
ly when 1 asked him for an express
sion of his opinion of the United States.
Il am rather shy of interviewers, he
said, after NY experience in Chicago.
I may say though that was most IA
vorably impressed with the American
people and the American country. There
are wonderful possibilities In both and
from the little I was able to see l am
inclined to believe these possibilities
are being fully developed.
"West Point Is a great institution.
1t is as nearly an ideal institution for
the education of officers as can be
ina gined. The American officers whom
I had the pleasure of meeting DEM
orstrate its efficiency. I hope some
day to make another visit to Amer
lea and make a longer stay"
A gracious little act was performed
in a street in Windsor the other day.
A girl of some 10 years of age. OBJ
viously belonging to the poorer classes,
was sent out with a perambulator con-
tanning a baby. Owing to some acct
dent, the girl managed TO run the per-
ambulator off the curb and to over
turn it, The tiny occupant was more
frightened than hurt and lady pass
ing by stopped and having righted the
conveyance. took the baby from 1t and
comforted 1t in her arms until Its cries
ceased, and 1t fell asleep. Then the
lady sent the elder child on her way
with silver coin toNconsole her for
the fright she had received. The lady,
1t may be added, was the Princess of
Wales, though the little mother" is
probably ignorant of the fact to this
moment.
When the romance of the rubber
boom, which, by the way, shows no
sign of abatement, comes to be writ
ten, it will be found that practically
every class, from royalty to police
men, has proflted-some, indeed, beyond
the dreams of avarice. The dreams of
Law and the south sea bubble have
been surpassed Up to now there are
no losers, for the shares have gone
steadily upward with little variation,
but what the future has in store no
body knows. Some of the fortunes
amassed are almost Incredible. One
Broad street firm of stock jobbers Is
stated to have made 100000 in the
last six months. One prominent f1nan-
cier bought $4,000 shares at Is and
sold them for COS thus clearing the
substantial sum of $4,000. An amaz-
| ing instance of good fortune befell O.
for loan of $780,. II have lost money
heavily" the borrower remarked at the
time, "but l will give you the title
deeds of a rubber estate-although /
do not suppose they are worth much"
That loan of $4,000 which was not re-
paid was one of the most profitable
financial transactions ever made. The
lender has disposed of the rubber es-
tates to a company and has made a
profit of $1,6O0,O00 Another surpris-
ing piece of good fortune befell
man who was bequeathed $4,000 a
few months ago. II wish to invest
the money on Consols,' he told his
broker, but the broker strongly advised
him to put the whole sum into rub
Der. He followed the advice and made
1925, 900, which is now safely invested
in Consols. A city man who had In
vested in rubber plantations years ago
left his properties, worth some f10,-
| 900 a year, to his widow who has
since increased her income to 1900, 900
ANNUALLY. In many towns round Lon
don it is not unusual to find 20 to 80
families who have made modest for
tunes from rubber.
The archbishop of Westminster,
head of the Roman Catholic church