The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-04
A Life-LilSe Model of Caesar, the Favor ite Timer of King Edward, Prom ises to Put "Teddy Bearo Out
 of Business in England


 viewed on the subject, told me that Japan is opposed to the idea of making com mercial treaties with any country. and she has only entered into the existing treaties with Great Britain, Germany and France for the purpose of getting rid of | the more pressing evil of foreign con- sular jurisdiction and abolishing the stig- ma of extra territoriality and the Japa- nese have for years been anticipating the moment when they can say that their national administration is free from for eign interference.
 They are in no way disposed to look upon the present conventional tariff as in spirit or form intended to be perpetu- ated. To be independent, they claim, they must have national tariff, high enough to protect their industries rais- ing an adequate revenue and applying to all countries alike.
 | There Is in Japan a conviction that English commercial circles are claiming the right to say how Japan shall adjust her own commercial interests, which at titude the Japanese greatly resent. Rather will they give up the alliance, which does not appear to them as very valuable, since matters have been arranged with Russia, than the right to determine their own course of action without the intimi- dation of any foreign influence or in terest.
 For the great festival of empire. which is to be celebrated in London next year. 1t is proposed to erect in the grounds of the Crystal palace series of buildings, replicas, some two-thirds of the actual size of the Parliament House, or seat of government of each of the self-governing dominions. Newfoundland will be repre- sented by the colonial buildings at St. Johns; Canada by the dominion parlia- ment buildings at Ottawa, and so on round the empire-Australia, New Zea- land, India and South Africa, with the crown colonies interspersed. The Indian section is being arranged with the ap- proval of Lord Morley, and Is In the hands of a representative committee.
 The differe t countries will be so arranged as to suggest as nearly as possible the progress of an "all-road' route, by which a railway will run. The line will be about mile and half in extent and will be equipped with 10 full-sized coaches, enough to supply a two-minute service. In order to give verisimilitude to the tourney, before entering the train the voyager will be taken across the Atlantic from Liverpool-the ocean be- ing represented by realistic panor- anna. Canada having been reached the railway will run through scenery char acteristics of the dominion-the timber belt, the wheat belt, the Rockies and the fruit-growing districts being rep resented Australia and New Zealand, India and South Africa will be trav | ersed in like manner, and at various points along the line there will be stations for each of the great coun tries of the empire, where the trav- eler may alight to yiewe the buildings of the country and the exhibitions con tained in them
 The palace itself, it is now intended shall be devoted to an all-British ex- hibition of arts and industries with a special section for woman's work.
 If old houses and the like have really any value to memory beyond what art gives to them there Is go- ing to be 0 great forfeiture in the
 
 Tabard street.
 This slummy, dingy. frankly filthy thoroughfare, leading from St. Georges church in the borough to the Junction of the old and new Kent roads, has at last been effectively condemned as hopelessly insanitary as well as disreputable
 Although there are few folk living except perhaps It's actual denizens, who a Iad Toh hor ctr l be wiped off the face of the earth as d disgrace to modern covilization, 1t has to be confessed that hardly a street in London Is so famously connected with history, poetry and every circum- stance of greatness.
 In the old. old days Tabard street was the main approach to London for in Kent, from Canterbury, from the Cinque ports, and so on, one might also say, from Europe.
 | Up Tabard street, nearly 500 years ago. rode the Black Prince, conqueror at Poitiors. bringing with him in lrl umph the captive French King. Up Ia : bard street swarmed the peasants of Kent under Wat Tyler and later on. Jack Cade and his Kentish men. pour ing in from the heart of England.s s industry, the Lancashire lads" of thai day.
 Down Tabard street, some time before either of these events. the Canterbury Pilgrims cattered over the stones on their way to Becket's shrine, laughing. 1ostling, Jingling, in the May morning bevy of tollity and color.
 Yet, even in those far-off times, Tabard street seemed to have made up It's mind to prove unworthy of this honor of well coming the coming and speeding the , parting guest As long ago as the thir- teenth century 1t was a haunt of de- pravity and poverty.
 Yet, with it all, the very dingiest- though not the worst features of Tabard street, still have romance for us of to- , day. For their last distinction was that of being touched by the genius of Charles Dickens. Not hundred yards from Ta- bard street Little Dorrit was born. At , St. Georges church, hard by. she was , married. and there too, is the vestry porch where the kindly beadle laid her to sleep with the burial register for pill low.
 Teddy Bear, who was so popular in the nursery and toy room, has at last found a rival who threatens him with