Show tribulations of mr chamberlain and others A WOMANS VIEW I 1 once heard a lady declare in arm ance of an important and experienced american politician a great orator 0 tupen douiS wire puller a fascinating personality I 1 heard a la dy declare in hiis presence that she loved to go to a political noli meeting A political meeting brought lier more joy than even a theater or a ball and then he described hie various delightful incident as she thought them of such a gathering tho electric excitement in tho ajr the tu applause with which such a leading figure as my friend was received and finally abat moment at once nw ful and entrancing when the orator on his feet found five thousand be i ings hanging on his lips staring at him wondering at him presenting him tho chords of their licarte of hearts to bo moved to teara or laughter or rage ahl said the lady how id like toha on such occasions you men cap have the best of life BEHIND THE SCENES the politician turned towards me with ft meaning look alic look that two augurs gave each bolher when th ey met in the streets of ancient rome ani silently commented thus on the absurd aties and miseries mio eries of their trade when we cat down after the departure of the lady my american friends and I 1 naked him why women were so interested by great political gai nering ho replied that they only saw what took place on the public platform that thai fronted to them the whole of politics that happily spared a know of all that went on before end behind the platform they created for a world of politics which had no more existence than the glor 1 sous and triumphant life behind th acnes of a theatre which appeals to the imagination of the girl ahl we boh bo h agreed if women and the world generally could only pee politics from the inside lio differently would be their it is hard for hem to realize all the tempest of riv alrie hatreds hat reds of wound crying aloud c for assuagement or revenge which lio behind the lucid figures on a platform p hoti the words which sound the divine emanation of genius and honesty tn the public arc to the inner eara of several of these men and as it is thought faithful colleagues on the platform but ane sounding cymbals and the tinkling brass of histrionic dishonesty of how word which to the public have one waning to the fellow politician on tho arc a menace or an insult fit w in fact all the primordial pas tl hunan bearta arc raging under at ine placid surface presented to th 6 and uninitiated masses of ine public OF politician abc sufferings suf feringa of the t ff n but he a lot of resnor bea ach re o tims li arder to S y take up a newspaper 1 ayr 4 0 the icek i or sir H y or mr balfour tt 1050 ry E axll hn to ss or tw town n scotland axial ercal i 6 ow IL tote alvi cv i la 10 01 yov that the ari i it nai 0 t vani 19 usually a get though itgen man hai has had to way joumei tw fatigue of a jong S 1 rail I train he hi hag wa W to oer tv atch h 1 of hour alier th 01 pla bician ti cian arc Meter SP he has had to do th that erobb sleeplessness owing to 6 aad nes as to the cornin i after the long journey bician has had to sll pa I 1 dinner if he iab H and mr john lr able to eat a dinner f bat then the politician lias to tit for a long time in a hall crowded with people and suffocating from bad air and that his speech in which he is expected to be at Ws best has thus to be de acred by aman no tired that instead of icing on a platform he ought to bo in his bed f adventures OF MR CHAMBER LAIN I 1 am reminded of all these things by accounts which are creeping into the papers of the tour of sir in south africa the little inside glimpses that arc now appearing arc the first that give me anything like a lifelike life like idelt of what air chamberlains tour is leally like whim I 1 read of the triumphal professions processions process ions and the like I 1 quite realize that they mean that the colonial has had a reception of which any man might be proud and which is a high testimony to the feelings of admiration he excites among a portion of the population in south af ri carin biome places apparently among all sections but what I 1 have been waiting to hear is how mr chamberlain the man was faring as compared with mr chamberlain the politician in short I 1 wanted to get behind the platform and to the anteroom ante room HIS TREKS J wag quite sure that when one got to the anteroom ante room one would fand ano same story of big fatigues and small which pursue the unfortunate politician wherever he may go and which nave to my knowledge pursued every politician cian of my time who has gone on a tour in the papers of last week for instance I 1 found a telegram one morning which described one of the long treks which the colonial secretary has nan to make to get from one part of south africa to another I 1 own that the story made me almost shudder ns I 1 called to mind other journeys not half FO difficult which the tourist has to undertake der take say when he gets to an out of the way region of switzerland and has tp ride in the open and ramshackle dill which ia the only mode of con I 1 remember once travelling tra velling a hi of the way from st moritz to the frontier on my way back home the journea lasted only five or pik hours but what with the raging sun and the dust and the steep descents and the crowds it wag as near an approach to an idea of what certain unmentionable regions are like ns anything I 1 ever experienced this is then what I 1 read into the following telegram describing mr chamberlains movements mr chamberlains Chamber laina journey today amply testified to his physical strength and powers of endurance the thirty miles between and abrahams kraal constitute a formidable trek in any case on account of the heavy nature of the road and in addition to this the sun proved very trying today during toe first part of the journey the original intention of visiting Drie fontein was abandoned and it was decided to proceed straight to abrahams kraal the load led past several farms and in each case mr chamberlain stopped for twenty minutes or more to talk with the fotr farmers owing to several atop pages it was before abrahams kraal was reached considering that mr chamberlain is in hi sixty seventh year aliis was a pretty severe test for him to have to go through and though when he came later on to he was received by a long procession of horsemen cyclists and people in carriages the poor man mut have been done up aad was morn anxious probably to go to bed than to listen even to the buzzas af enthusiastic crowds or the addresses of local celebrities bri ties AT hut it wa at the banquet at jo J late 1 that those sufferings which lie in wait lor the politician descended with something of the violence of a hailstorm on the head of the unfortunate colonial secretary I 1 quote from a letter in tho westminster gazette a description of the which has a grim humor of its owin jf the banquet had been under the secret control of oom paul it could not have happened more fatefully beginning at half past ten arrived and the menu was not nearly through mos of the guests being hungry still someone suggested that the waiting w at fault but said a wag wea arc all waiters here and BO it appeared for looking down the hall from the high table at whick sat sir chamberlain lord milner and other dignitaries nit aries one could seer four hundred of the common bierd wap had paid three guineas apiece with empty plates in front and biagina them in vain did the right honorable gent lemans gentleman who was posted behind the colonial secre chair strive to keep the good things in front of bis master he could not get them thrice did mr chamberlain send down instructions fo serve se veral courses together and cut the banquet short as he wished to and as many times were his orders found incapable of execution j and the smile wasa bitter one 1 1 at length about lial pas t ten and somewhere between the joints and alio sweets the focal toa ata were honored then came the toast of alio governor and with it the liaf hours infliction that caused the colonial secretary to writhe with impatience and indignation As often as company called for the speaker to cutt short so often did he find some new group of desirable reforms which ho hurled hurl pd laboriously at alic heads pi lord and mr chamberlain matters were not improved when the mayor the one loyal member of the old raad took occasion by the hand and n givia V health descanted des canted far tarp on the relative merits lieal jh and climates of pretoria and johannesburg of course to the disadvantage of tho latter town at last the colonial got on his feet and laid about him lustily for five minutes on the one hand wiping the floor with his hospitable hosts who had brought him to what he called a lecture and on the other crushing tha trembling mayor for his temerity in asserting on such an occasion ahat stoke was a far healthier place than the rival parish local celebrities were bewildered at tho visitors froia afar bugged with delight de fight and it was a smile of grim satisfaction that spread over the countenance of our distinguished visitor as he proceeded to more statesmanlike subjects THE POOR IMPORTERS with the inner lights which I 1 have gihei alie fortunes and accidents of a politicians life he will be able to i construct for himself chii choh scene and will be quite able also to appreciate the rage and impatience of mr chamberlain there wa another ilac s at the banquet which suffered perhaps even more than the politicians tic ians and that was tho reporters the speech which mr chamberlain had to deliver was awaited with feverish in all parts of the civilized world tho different papers had made all their doubtless to produce a verbatim report at the first possible moment and they were also to send a telegraphic summary to all the papers in england in america on tho continent and not till close upon midnight were tacy able to get down a line of tho momentous utterance ot the distinguished authors of pera none perhaps hag enjoyed a wider popularity opu larity than baal who lived in the thirteenth century he was a great traveler and a close observer and his anecdotes and abort stories are described aa being rounded on his own experiences and observations in ter alan poetry for english readers mr S robinson quotes the following from sadas writings A pupil said to hils instructor what am I 1 to do for people mo with the frequency of their visits to uch a cereo that their conversation produces a great distraction 0 my val Ume the teacher replied to effry one who Is poor lend and from every one who Is rich borrow they will not come you again another example embodies excellent advice A billy fellow having a pain in his eyes went to a farrier and asked him for a remedy the farrier applied to hi yes which he would have given to nn aad it blinded um upon which they made an appeal to the magistrate the magistrate said this la no case for damages it la plain that this Is an ass or ho would apt hav egone to no manof understanding will commit weighty matters to one of mean abilities |