"Anxious Parent" asks us for a categorical assurance that the python, whose adventures are re ported elsewhere in this issue. did not take to the water when opposite the Waterworks If we are unable to give him this assurance, he asks. in the most solemn manner, where it.is possible to obtain a membership form for the Men's Total Abstinence League. We state in our report that the python left the ship when a few hours out from Shanghai, but our inquirer seems to fear that wa are cloaking 'a real disaster to the community, and that in the immediate future there will be a possibility of a python emerging from the kitchen tap, or even disporting itself in the matutinal bath. But why does he ask for the address of the Men's Total Abstinence League? Surely, in the circumstances, it is just the other thing that he wants.
"Dr. Jim"
Events of about a quarter of a century ago are recalled to mind by a message stating that the remains of the late Sir Leander Start Jameson have been taken from England and buried beside those of Cecil Rhodes at Matopo Hill. Thus two noteworthy, greatly adventure ing empire-builders are once more together in death as they were so often in life. Nowadays we must look back with regret at the foolish and ill-timed raid which Jameson made into the Transvaal in 1895, a raid which did no good but which roused youthful enthusiasm throughout the country to a terrific pitch. Perhaps it was because we were growing lads in those days that the man seemed to have attained un-recedented popularity, for somehow or another we can search carefully through the intervening period and fail to find another whose name had the same magic. Even Kitchener after Khartum scarcely surrounded himself with the same atmosphere of chivalry and romance. And in the Great War there is no such figure, probably because grand strategy cannot capture the popular imagination. In thinking of Jameson now resting in the silence of Matopo, we must remember that by his subsequent statesmanship he repaired the harm which the really picturesque episode of his life wrought.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.