The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-05
KITCHENER SUITED
 FOR RULE OF EGYPT
The Empire and Dominion
 Troops Are Separate
LONDON CLUBLAND
Oldest Clown in United Kingdom Takes Bride of 25-Civil List Pension Granted Scient-
 ist's Needy Daughter
By PAUL LAMBETH

By PAUL LAMBETH
 London, August 4.-(Special )-The ques- ton. 'fWhat is to be done with Kitch- ener?" has at last been answered. Tho the best opinion is that no wiser answer could have been found by Premier As- ouith than in naming the famous soldier to succeed Sir Elden Gorst as the ruler of Egypt Egypt knows Kitchener and Kitchener knows Egypt.
 I understand that before Lord Kitch- ener consented to accept the post he in- insisted that he should be given free hand and that his demand was readily granted.
 Egypt is in a state of unrest. It is realized that what Is wanted in that country is man who understands the people and conditions, who will deal with them with absolute justice, who is g. stern disciplinarian and in whom the reo- pie have confidence.
 No man In England, it is believed. so nearly measures up to this standard as Lord Kitchener. It is a pretty safe Ire diction that he will be able to restore and maintain order in Egypt and increase British prestige.
 The peculiar composition of the British empire was clearly brought out at the recent conferences of the Dominion pre- miers here for the coronation of King George No empire in the history of the world has ever organized itself on quite the same lines.
 Consider the position. The Dominion u oops and the Dominion navies are quite separate from the British army and the D. men tell us plainly that their armed forces will not of necessity be at the dis posal of the mother country In the event of war; it will depend on circumstances.
 Again. the Dominions claim, and are actually exercising, a virtually independ- ont treatymaking power, so that British diplomacy, unless ratified in the colonies. does not any longer bind the whole Brit ish empire-at least. it may not.
 A curious instance is that of Japan. our close, faithful and affectionate ally, whose subjects are none the less. given a very chilly welcome when they intrude themselves on Canadian or Australian soil.
 Perhaps the strangest development con cerns India. A native of India Is as much a British subject as l am myself. Yet he is not wanted in South Africa al q has even to undergo the humiliation of being hnger-printed exactly as if he were a convicted criminal
 Some people welcome the growing inde- Bendence of the Domnions; others regret it. For me, I express no opinion unless it be that these young nations cannot stray very far afield as long as they owe such huge sums of hard cash to Daddy Rich of Lombard street.
 The grant of a civil list pension of $250 annually to the daughter of the lato pr. George Gore, F. R. S. IL. D., recalls an interesting and romantic personality of the great scientific awakening of the midVictorian era.
 Dr. Gore, who had devoted most of his long life to scientific research died two years ago at the age of S2, leaving a fortune of some $3oOO0. It is because he left the bulk of his savings to the Royal society and the Royal institution, 10 be devoted to the furthering of original scientific research, that his daughter needs the pension that has now been granted.
 His small fortune represented a very small part of the wealth that he ere ated. His daughters small pension rep resents the return of but a fraction or tie benefits which the nation derived from his labors Upon the chemical dis
  investigations and experiments with pnos- phorus are based the safety match Upon his researches in electro-m o-metallurgy are based nickel-plating and the electro depo- stion of other metals. If he had re- ceived the fraction of a percentage of the profits derived from the commercial uses 10 which his scientific discoveries were applied he would have been many times millionaire.
 But his concern was with pure science and he was content to make discoveries out of which inventors and manufacturers gained huge fortunes.
 George Gore was born in Bristol, the son of working man, in 1S26, He had no education beyond reading and writing, for there was none available He left school there at the age of E and worked as an errand boy till he apprentlced him self to blacksmith and as a blacksmith he earned his living a young man. But the wonders of sicence fascinated him. He educated himself. As a young man he settled in Birmingham, where indus- trial development demanded scientific Knowledge, and devoted himself to re- search Type founding, dyeing, chemical bleaching, electro plating, hundred trades benefited by his discoveries. To the end of his life he went on experi- menting and made modest fortune, bat everybody who strikes match does so with his help.
 London clubland is laughing over a very comical story. Some jovial Caledonians in London ran a Bohemian circle, and they dlned together once a week at their social gathering. Two or three nights back distinguished Oriental visitor was introduced. He was swarthy of color and solemn of men, ands wore magnificent robes. He was presented as one of the Indian coronation guests of the King, ana it was explained that he wished to see I little of the Bohemian life of London. His highness was respectfully welcomed. and the customary complimentary speeches were made. his highness being eccom na pied hv an interpreter