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ATAL
First White Men Settled at Durban
Seventy -Six 'limn. Ago.
Natives Were So Xutinessod With `theta
That The% Elected Thong Chiefs,
Fair Natal, the Garden of South
Africa, the land of green and grackal
bushes, of verdant, rolling, tumbling
hills, of seething streams, and foam-
ing falls: of gorgeous multice:lored
flowers, and of jeweled and be -spangl-
ed birds and butterflies; has a mo-
mentous history. The up-to-date vis-
itor from the murky Motherland,
'strolling iu his tepee and knickers
emong the flaming poinsettias of Dur-
ban, or the rustling gums of Maritz-
burg, does not see the stains of blood
with which the soil beneath his feet
is saturated. rat bears no echo of
the din of the bygone battle; no phoe-
nix -cry of anguish floats flown from
the heretofore to quaver the festoons
of emblazoned bou ;ainvilleae, bignon-
ias, and ipomeoas, and startle his
nerves into tremulous turmoils. He
is haunted by no terrifying pbanta--
ru,ns of the sport of the dusky unto-
ertts; of vholestilo buteheries, auc1
hideous tortures of helpless people.
Over leis s?tntltlers there cones no
*co la -itis or the dying, plaint of dis-
men lseretl vic'tint, or mend of the
tiled of the l,'err ie, the squish of the
stabbing spur, or the swish of the
,t<>lrsl:.esveling blade. The verdant
v :"1.'ye Glial rise; hummocky hill, the
sir.trelu:, streams and the blossonrful
bush, the pregnant plantations, the
ohequeicd crops, and the throbbing
tos.ale, all speak to hire of peace and
prosperity, of elvilization and eel-
ture. Anel yet tliesn things had been.
TO TRADE WITII N:1.TIVES.
Seventy-six years ago a tiny brig,
with many a creak and groan of her
racked old timbers, lifted heavily to
the topmost ridges of a mighty roller,
£ttaaltl s llive•ring thele for an instant,
and then. stern downwards, and her
bowie prit p eit:te'tl up at the screeching
0ea ,ir:la•, steep .i clown into the seethe
of watte'r a behind l ir. Another roller,
mightier tam:. the last, and painted
with reariats wears rs rn tl figures of
eputne tiara its elate elegis, towered
: •l,ater Ile". with evil Wan, n, swttssted hor
eleek s :shit 0 tracts ). stf $11rf,eeteeel her
roughly in ite re flee ennbraee, shook
her reedy until the quivered from
trunk to l ,,sienna, carried her along in.
intpet-eons triumph upon its crest, and
thou. broke in an irantensity of froth
and sud, havi:i;, her dripping, and
Etta;ggeriug on nett fom:r, us though she
bad arisen with a mighty effort from
the bottom. Titer., under topsail and
jib, the Seth awry drifted in under the
great rounded Plufx, and anchored al-
most within reach of the big palmate
shining leaves; of the Ricinuses which
•movered it. Tinder the command of
Lieutenant J. S. King, R. N., and
with Lieutenant F. G. Farewell, R.
N., as sutiereargo, she had come there
from Capri Town to trade with the
natives. The young supercargo was
vao impressed with the beauties of that
lovely bay, with its graceful rounded
lines, and its fair fringe of woodlands,
blotched with grecit masses of purple
apomceas, that ho determined to es-
tablish himelf there for good. The
Salisbury had yet to go to St. Lucia
and Delagoa Bays, but on her return
•to Cape Town he persuaded a small
party to join frim. They ch,e•rtered a
couple of small schooners, the Ante-
lope and the Julia, and in June the
following year the party pitched their
tents upon the sight of that most
beautiful of modern colonial towns,
Durban. The parity numbered eleven,
but nine of them, terrified by the
great herds of elephants that roamed
all over the country, and by the signs
of the devastatiou of 'Tchaka's marau-
ders which everywhere appeared up-
on it, in. a few weeks repented of
their enterprise, and returned on board
lie Julia, which had remained after
he departure of the Antelope. Five
• •of them were Dutchmen. Farewell
and B. F. Fynn alone determined to
'remain, but three plucky sailors of
the Julia, John Cane, Henry Ogle and
Thomas Holstead, the latter a lad,'cast
in their lot with them..
THE FIRST WHITE SETTLERS.
Those five men were the first volun-
tary white residents of Natal. But
others had preceded themagainst their
,wills. As many as 140 years previ-
ously Natal had white residents. The
fifty -ton ketch Good Hope, on a trad-
ing expedition, was wrecked on the
bar. Nine of her crew started for
Mozambique, and were lost for ever
in the myteries of the Dark Continent.
Five others went south, and fell in
with a party from another (Dutch)
shipwrecked, crew, whose vessel, the
Stavinesse. had been cast ashore near
the LTmzimkulu. Together they re -
tinned to Durban Bay, and rejoined
their comrades, who had remained
there, and had been joined byyet an-
other shipwrecked party '(the ketch.
Bona Ventura) from Limits, Bay. Here
John Kingston, the carpenter, built a
large boat, the Centaurus, and gall but
five of the Good Hope's crew, who
tad gone inland, left for Cape Town.
The fate of these five was never
known, .but ahoy most probably lived
for mane' years; for natives with. plain
traces of white blood in them live to
this day in Country southwest of Dur-
ban. Another white man, Vaughan
Goodwin, was, with two others (who
were killed by the natives), put ashore
tor. mutiny from' the Fidele, and ' was
oou d in 1705 by the trader, Postloop-
er, living with two wives and several
children..
A .BLACK NAPOLEON.
Farewell and his companions lived
lives as strange and adu^ttturous as
any that has ever fallen to the lot of
white men. Previously to the nine-
teenth century Natal had been thickly
populated with a peae:efal people,
obiefly Amaswizis and Amahlubis,
who followed pastpral and aericul
tural pursuits, and engaged. in 'the
chase of the numerous wild animals
which swarmed alike in the bush and
the open. But in its very first years
the Blaok Napoleon and ruthless
bntoher, Tcheita, commenced his
bloody ravages.. Before his well -
drilled. regiments of assassins. armed
with their terrible stabbing spears,
whose blades were nearly a yard long,
the pacific pastoralists . melted away
like fields of snow before the warm
west winds. The old people were
slaughtered, and the young ones for-
cibly incorporated with 'Tohaka's
motels hordes of mixed races, which
he had subdued one after the other,
and which were afterwards designated
by ignorant people who did not know
their history as the Zulu nation, and
blubbered over by silly sentimental-
ists as a amble anti suppressed race
whose traditions of military renown
and herbaria splendor under a long
line of illustrioushereditary princes
came down from the dim shadows of
ages. And yet the last "King of the
Zulus," otherwise the last bloodthirs-
ty savage, who do:a bated, the south-
east of Africa, was a nephew of the
first!
WHITE MEN MADE CHIEFS.
And so Farewell found but a miser-
able remnant of the aboriginal popula-
tion, living in hiding upon the fruits
of• the forest, and the harvest of the
hunt. where they had but a few years
before owned smiling crops and tkent-
ed herds of dainty cattle. Aud but a
couple of days' journey off, upon the
banks of the Umvoti, dwelt the mon-
ster, 'Tchalca, now in' the plenitude
of his power, and consoling the last
years of his ill -spent life with daily
speetaeles of torture and dismember-
ment. Farewell made friends with
this: remnant, and collected all the
fugitive,: around hila. And with
their aid he made war upon the remit -
lees s::'ar1U, Of elephants to \v1iit<h the
neighborhood of the bay was a favor-
ite resort. The courage and prowess
displayed by the white men in these
expeditions, and the strange weapons
of offence possessed by thein, so im-
pressed the unsophisticated. savages
that they hailed them as chiefs worthy
of ruling over them. So the four men
became petty Kaffir chiefs, with at
first but a few score of fugitive, tim-
orous outcasts under them, but event-
ually, by the flocking to them of refu-
gees from all points of the compass,
at the head of clans quite respectable
in point of numbers. Indeed, in a
year or two Cane and Oglo's tribes
numbered 5,000 souls.—Tho Old. Pion-
eer, in South Africa.
BIIITAIN AND 'EillOPE
The Frequent Taik About Coalitions
is Sheer Nonsense.
She is the noel, if not the .Acknowledged,
arbiter of Europe. •
No sooner does England get into any
sort of difficulty with a foreign power
than a large number of American jour-
nals give themslves up to the manu-
facture of ''European coalitions."
There were several exquisite products
of this kind during the Armenian
agitation, the Venzuela fuss brought
forth another, and at the time of the
Jameson raid a devotee of that portion
of the American press for which the
polities of Europe have no mystery
must have been expecting, from edi-
tion to edition, to hear that the allied
fleets of France, Germany and Russia
had swept the channel clean and were
comfortably at anchor off Gravesend,
The Chinese oriels was drawn upon
unsparingly for similar predictions,
and now that England has on her
hands a costly and troublesome war
with the Transvaal, we ere told once
more that the hour of retribution. has
come, and that Germany is about to
recoup herself here, and Russia make
demoustratious there, and .France
avenge Fashoda somewhere else, It
hardly needed Lord Sralisbury's quiet
reference to these rumors, in his
Guildhall speech, to snake intelligent
people see things as they really are.
Esq, or Mr,, Which.
The word "esquire" is perhaps the
most woefully misused one in the
English language, being used, as it is,
so indiscriminately in form of address.
The old Puritan pian of writing
simply "Oliver: Cromwell," which is
used by Quakers to the present day,
has much in it to be admired, but
most people like a handle to their
name and so it has come about that
"Esquire" has become common pro-
perty, and a youth of 16 will address
his chum of like tender years as
"John Brown, Esq."
It may be interesting to know,
therefore, that only the followinsr per-
sons are legally "Esquires" :—All
sons of peers, baronets and Lelights ;
the elder sons of the younger sons of
peers, and their eldest sons in perpet-
uity; the eldest son of the eldest son
of a lmight, and his eldest son in per-
petuity ; king of arms ; heralds of
arms ; officers of the army and navy
ranking as captains and upward ; sher-
iffs of counties for life ; J. P.'s of
counties, while in commission; ser-
geant -at -law, and Queen's Counsel;
Companions of the Orders' of Knight-
hood; the principal officers of the
Queen's household ; deputy -lieuten-
ants; commissioners of the Court of
Bankruptcy; Masters of the Supreme
Court; and those whom the Queen
may see proper to style "Esquire."
All others have no right to any-
thing beyond the simple prefix "Mr.,"
and the present universal use of "Es-
quire" is nothing more than a piece
of general presumption. — London
Daily Mail.
Aid For Doukhobors.
Mr. John Ashworth, of Manchester;
Eng., who has been investigating- the
condition of the colony of Doukhobors
recently settled in the North West,
says:
"In the spring, assistance will, in
all probability be required in order to
provide the new settlers with horses,
cattle, agricultural implements and
seed. Whatever money is needed to
assist the settlers should be in the
form of loans, at, a small rate of in-
terest, and repayable as may be ar-
ranged in each particular case. These
loans should be issued under the care
of the Government. Since coming to
this decision,. 1 have learned that the
Government is preparing' a scheme of
loans to the Doukhobors. If this le
correct, it will relieve those who are
interested in their welfare from the
necessity of subscribing private funds,
which would be in the nature of
gifts."
HARD TO BRING ABOUT.
Coalitions are a good deal easier to
speculate on than to bring about.
Even for pacific purposes it wants the
highest diplomacy to induce the na-
tions of Europe to act together, and
there is no guarantee, as the last
European concert showed, that their
untied efforts will result in anything
useful. For warlike objects, it is
worth remembering that there bas
been no coalition since the coalition
against Napoleou. There have been
attempts at one, but they have all fal-
len through, and each succeeding year
shows the great Powers of the world
loss and less anxious to draw the
sword. Moreover, in the present in-
stance, there is this very practical de-
terent that the war with the Trans-
vaal, arduous as it is, leave' ling-
latol's real strength uuimp treat. So
long as the British .levy relllative+ 1un-
euaged, foreigar nations will think
twice before attempting to provoke a
conflict.
This is not to deny that there exists
ou the Continent an intense and per-
manent hostility to Great Britain.
The hatred. of America that ran like
a tornado from Paris to St. Peters-
burg at the outbreak of the Spanish
war is as nothing compared with the
venomous enmity cherished for Eng-
land. Except in Italy, where it thrives
on the memory of England's help in
the war of unification, and also in
the part of the Vatican's opposition,
there is no cordiality felt by the peo-
ple of any European country for the
people of the United Sinedom. Even
when the official relations are all
that could be wished, as they are this
moment with Germany, the people
still maintain their deep-seated dislike
and suspicion. The willingness to
wound is always there.
. REASON EASY TO LOCATE.
CAPTURED BY THE BOERS.
A London Standard War Correspondent's
Experience.
One of the special correspondents
of the London Standard, who was cap-
tured by the Boers, gives the follow-
ing account of his experiences, which
he forwards from Ladysmith :
The victory of General French at
Elandslaagte enables me to forward
youan account of an exciting and
novel experience that has befallen me.
On Thursday I left Ladysmith for
Dundee to join the force under Gen.
Symons. hoping to be in time to re-
cord the engagement that was thein be-
lieved to be imminent. . I found that
a passenger train had just left, but a
goods train of five trucks was on the
pint of departing, conveying cattle
and a quantity of stores and equip-
ments consigned to the camp at Dun-
dee. Together with a photographie
artist, an employe, and the cattle
contractor, I deoided.to proceed by this
train.
We got through safely as far as
Elandslaagte, but at this point the
signal was dead against us, and the
driver pulled up. The signal had
been cleverly manipulated by a party
of Boers, numbering about fifty, who
bad been lying in wait for us. The
moment we slowed down, the driver
was covered by their rifles, and we
were called upoat to alight. The pas-
senger train, we learned afterwards,
had mauaged to "rush" the station,
The Boers had tired'upon it, but the
plucky engine driver put on full stea.m.
and went safely ahead, though he
was compelled to leave the guard. be-
hind. The Boers had. then taken pos-
session of the station. and ordered the
men in charge to get the signal at
"stop," in order to cheek our train.
Our driver ran right into the trap,
and we found ourselves prisoners be-
fore we all knew what had ocourred,.
Directly they had secured the train,
the Boers cut the telegraph line and
tore lip the track. We ourselves were
treated well, though the Field Cornet
in command warned us that any ons
attempting to escape would, if dis-
Euglishmcn wonder casually, from
time to time, why this should be, but
the reasons are not hard to find. It is
the unforgivable crime of Great Brit-
ain that she has had a hundred years'
start in the race for trade and empire,
and now that the great nations of
Europe are turning all their thoughts
in these two directions, it is not to be
expected they should feel kindly to-
wards the power that has occupied
most of the best places of the earth,
and for many years held an easy su-
premacy in the world's commerce.
Envy of England's greatness, stabil-
ity, and success is the greatest element
in the hatred felt for her. Another
ingredient is ahearty and instinctive
dislike for the British national char-
acter, and especially for that portion
of it which comes out ,most promin-
ently ie. politics—its unctuous recti-
tude. A third is the keen resentment
at England'g self -chosen position of
splendid isolation.
It is an old reproach against Eng-
land that she is a bad European. Her
attitude during the Spanish war was
of course only another proof of the
justice of the reproach. More and
more is England drifting away from
Europe to entrench herself behind her
empire. Palmerston's idea of making
England an active power in the chan-
cellories of Europe is no longer the
idea of British statesmen.' She stands
alone because she so chooses. There
is not a nation in the world except the
United States that: would not pay any
price asked for an offensive and defen-
sive alliance with Great Britain. But
it is her deliberate opinion that she
can best preserve her, imperial pos-
ition by declining to enter into any
such agreement, and ' this indifferent
attitude gives her an enormous
streugth. It makes her the real, if
unacknowledged, arbiter of Europe,
and if it exasperates other nations, it.
also prevents them from carrying
their- resentment too far.-llarper's
Weekly.
An'improvement.
Belle -There they go now: They
seem to be as good friends' as ever.
Lena -Batter.. They haven't quarrel
err since they broke their . engage -
1 Ment.
covered, be shot down. At the same the time the one which was now on he assured us that the Doers the way was in fighting trim, there
were not savages. Those under his would likely not be a necessity for
charge consisted of Transvaalers, Free mato.
Staters, autl . Dutchmen from Cape 'eDo you think the Canadian centin-
Colony who were British subjects. gent will be carinii on to fight?"
My enforced stay with the enemy vas "That is wimt they've gone out for,
not without its amusing features. I but it will be some time before they
found them a great deal less truculent are ready. They're a fine lot of men,
in manner than in appearance, At well officered and every way a credit
first sight, thanks to the infinity ver- to the country, but they need a
ioty of their customs, they might month's systematic drill and practice
have been mistaken for a picturesque in rifle shooting before being called
into action."
COL. AYLMER. ON THE WAR.
lie Thi,facs Due Ramiro(' Thousand lien
Will be Needed in. Africa.
Colonel Hon. Matthew Aylmer, Ad-
jutant-General, who is still suffering
from the aocident to his foot, gives
the following view of the Transvaal
war. He says:. "I was in England
during the critical period preceding
the outbreak of hostilities, and while
peace was desired and diplomacy -did
its utmost to avert war, it was
thought that from the attitude of the
Boors such was the only solution of
the trouble. When it assumed a seri-
ous aspect they commenced to mol$o-
lize and equip the troops. We bad
$5.000 mobolized at Aldershot. The.
valise equipment was need and the
clothing was of khaki, even the boots
being yellow and corresponding to the
uniforms."
Continuing, Col. Aylmer said that
the war occasioned the most intense
excitement all over the Mother Coun-
try. Nothing else was talked of. "I
was there," he said, "when intelli-
gence was first received of Canada's
intention to send out a contingent, and
the announcement caused great de-
light. It merely tended to show the
reality of Great Britain. Those who
attended the Queen's Jubilee, how-
ever, needed no stronger evidence of
Colonial loyalty and unity in the Em-
pire's interest. The embarkation of
troops was attended by great outbursts
of enthusiasm, although. the men went
off in comparatively small detaoh
meats whenever a ship was ready,
"How long will the was last'?' was
asked.
"In England it was thought that
the Boers could be wiped. out in a few
weeks, but after the recent develop-
ments, I think they have changed
their tune. The country is quite large
and full of rocky fastnesses and al-
most impervious passes. To my mind
at least 100,000 men will be required
to bring the issue to a. successful ter-
mination."
Asked if there was alikelihood of
a second contirgeent going out from
Canada, Col. Aylmer thought that by
band of brigand::. The majority of
them wore attired in shirts and trous-
ers, with. red and bine fancy -pattern-
ed. scarfs, and formidable slouch hats.
Some of them, the day after the cap-
ture of the train, when its contents
had been looted and shared, came out
in the most fantastic garb. Several
appeared in military greatcoats, and
ono young fellow strutted about proud-
ly wearing a staff officer's cap, while
another was considerably inconveni-
enced by a huge sabre clanking at his
heels. But, unsoldiorly as they might
seem to an eye accustomed to the neat-
ness of Aldershot, there was no mis-
taking their physical fitness. Nearly
all of them were strong, powerful
built men, while a few were veritable
giants.
They were all in the highest spirits.
For instance, on the night of our caps
ture, the Field Cornet was induced
to preside over au impromptu smok-
ing concert. The Boers are extremely
fond of music, and it was amusing to
see a Johanuesburger playing the pi-
ano,
iano, with his gun still shmg over his
shoulder, while his more rustic com-
rades stood around him spellbound.
They sang the Transvaal "Volkslied"
with .immense fervor and volume of
sound. The one subject of their talk
was their resolute determination to
fight to the last for the independence
of their country. Gen. de Koch, with
a few guns and 1,500 men, including
a German contingent, arrived in camp
the same night. It was evident to us ject."
from the conversation of the leaders
that a battle was impending.
I and my- fellow prisoners were
strictly warned to remain within
doors under guard. During our con-
finement the proceeding of one or two
of the more turbulent Boers caused us
some anxiety. Two of them actually
came to blows in our room, and had
to be separated by force. But the
leaders were, on the, whole, particu-
larly careful to place us under the
charge of well disposed aacl trust-
worthy men. On Friday night our
Field Cornet, although nodding in
his chair for want of sleep, presided
for an hour over another smoking con-'
cert, when the utmost jollity and good
will prevailed. We prisoners slept on
the floor, while the majority of the
Boers withdrew to a short distance
from the railway. On Sunday morn-
ing we were startled by the sound of
the British guns, and began to hope
that there' might be a prospect of res-
cue or escape. Our desire was soon
realized.. The Boers, including our
guards, speedily found enough to.
occupy their attention without troub-
ling about a handful of civilian pris-.
overs, and in the course of the morn-
ing we made our way unmolested to
the British lines. There we wereen-
abled to follow the whole course of
the battle of . Elandslaagte.
"That story about the contingent
being detailed for garrison duty ex-
clusively is all bosh," continued Col.
Aylmer. The War Office, if it ever
entertained such an idea, would never
give it out. If you went on your
knees for such information you would
never get it from the War Office.
There is surely nothing in such a
rumor. The men will probably spend
the first month in Cape Town in dis-
oiplinary and other drill."
' What will likely be the outcome of
the wary'
There is no doubt but what the
British will ultimately win. In the
first place, we'll have the cream of
the army there, lots of experienced
officers, and then the army to -day is
in its most perfect shape, equipped
as never before and one of the great-
est generals of the time, Sir Redvers
Buller, is at its head. The Boers will
likely lose everything, but their fran-
chise. They will never be wholly re-
formed from their customs. They'll
always be Boers.
"Another and very important out-
come of the war will likely be the de-
velopment of Africa by the construc-
tion of a railway from Cairo to Cape.
Of course in this work Germany
would have to be taken into consider-
ation, as it has a possession in Africa,
but the amicable relations now exist-
ing between these two countries aug-
urs well for the success of the pro -
Poor Consolation.
Stone walls do not a prison make,"
quoted the prison visitor..
"Mebbe not, said the convict,
"but they make it darned hard fer a
feller to get out."
PERSONALITIES.
General Joubert refers to Joseple
Chamberlain as "the wicked Naaman:."
Senator clarion Butler of North
Carolina Is studying law.. His present
profession is that of editor
I1`rau Charlotte von Embden, the
younger sister 'of Heinrich Heine, has
just died in Hamburg velthin three;
days of completing her ainety-nintk
year.
Floy Sing, the 11 -year-old son of Ak
Sing, a St. Louis Chinese laundryman,,
has just been admitted to the St. Louis
public schools and is the first of his
race who ever attended them...
William Rockefeller has posted guard:
to keep visitors from his grounds at
Searhoro-ou-the-lludson, because of ane
noyance from curious people, who per-
sist in looking into the windows.
It is sale that Levi Z. Leiter, the Chi-
cago millionaire, intends to erect a.
handsome monument In the old Leiter
graveyardon the Strite farm, near
Hagerstown, 11d., where he was born.
Semler Oliveira LIura, the first sees
retary of the legation of Brazil, has
been promoted to the post of secretary
of legation at London. In whieb capital
he will take up Isis resldenee on Jan, I.
Admiral Dewey barely got Wangle
the naval academy at tbe foot of the
class, and Captain Carter, In prison for
embezzlement, passed West Point with
the highest honors ever given to a
cadet. •
Captain Andrew Tainter, the million-
aire pioneer Wisconsin lumberman,
who died at Rice Lake the other day,
went west alone at the age of 1t8 and
began work in a sawmill at $20 a
month.
George Hertslet, paymaster of the
household, has completed CO years 1a
Queen Victoria's service. He was pres-
ent at the queen's marriage, and bas
officiated at nearly every important
court function of the present reign.
Dr. Arthur L. Ws'ililams ,of ("Wage,
who has just been consecrated i,lsbop'
coadjutor (Episcopal) of Nebraska, is
the son of a Presbyterian clergyman.
Itis said that he will be the youngest
looking bishop In the Episcopal church_
Charles Ashton, the Welsh literary
policeman, has come to a tragic end at
Dinasusawedwy. Ile attacked his wife
with a razor and then gut his own
throat. Ile bad been caged for some,
time on e. bibliography of Welsb liter-
ature.
Commissioner William A. Jones, aft-
er careful study of the subject. has
come to the conclusion that "a full
blooded Indian lunatic never lived."
, He holds that Insanity was not known
to the red man until he began mixing
with the whites.
Moses Thatcher, the Salt Lake miI-
lionaire, purchased nine years ago a,
40,000 acre ranch in the southwestern
part of the state of Chihuahua, Mexico,
and be now intends to go Into stock
raising upon it on a very extensive
scale. The land was originally bought
for the timber, and this has been cut
off.
Grouping' of If rtions.
A contemporary remarks that Eng-
land has not in this African campaign
a single friend among the nations of
Europe. Barring the government of
Genian, this is perhaps true. A yen.
and a half ago the United States was
at war, and with the single exception
of England, Uncle Sam had not a
friend among the nations of Europe.
In neither case do these facts cut any
material figure. They do not prove
the American cause4or that of Great
Britain right or wrong. They simply
testify to the grouping of the Nations.
The fact that the Nations of Europe
oppose Great Britain does not make
Russia a humane agent in Poland, the
Turk a benefactor in Armenia, or Hol-
land anything short of a bloody op-
pressor in. Java. It does not set the
wretched rubber -gathering slaves of
the Gold Coast free from the murder-
ous tyranny of Belgium, nor relieve
the dominant German commissioners
from responsibility for winking at
Arabic slave dealing in and about
Zanzibar. Frauce: doea not thereby.
become a beneficial agency, mitigat-
ing the sufferings of the Heves of
Madagascar who are grovelling elides
her heel, nor is Spain any more regen-
erated thereby than she was by the
sacrifice of human misery in her col-
onies. There•is a great deal of flimsy
rubbish passing muster for national
utterances when moral deductions
from the public politics of the Nations
of Europe are crammed down Amen -
can throats as Galvanism is thrust in-
to the religious vitals of aliens in' the
'1 ransvaai.—Peoria, Ill., Journal.
THE GLASS OF FASHION.
Gayly flowered silks for evening
wear have polka dots of chenille.
The popular plaids have found their
way into handsome neck scarfs of silk..
There was never a greater variety in
ribbons, and greater numbers of them
than ever before are made to draw ups
with a. thread at one edge into ruffles..
A long circular wrap of black clods
is outlined with a fold of white silk
braid and has a simulated yoke made
of rows of folded braid stitched closely
together.
Many a small fancy button is seen on
new gowus, and so far the brass ones
predominate. They may be flat or
round. Both are to be found on the
new flannel shirt waists.
Flannel waists with colored figures
are pretty, with ties of the flannel to,
match the figure. A red waist, foe in-
stance, has a green polka dot and a
green tie of the same shade.
One of the most attractive of all the
butterflies is on a bonnet of which it
forms the chief ornament. The mam-
moth wings are made cleverly of feath-
ers, and the underside of some irides-
cent material. It is a unique bonnet
trimming and very pretty.
Handkerchiefs in colors are in great
demand. and some of the prettiest and
newest are in silk and linen. The plaids
are to be found in . these new styles,
pretty soft plaids, the whole handker-
chief composed of them, but in the
most delicate colors, one having violet
predominating and another green and
so on.—New York Times.
PITH AND POINT.
But few people want the things that
are to be bad for the asking.
A man Is very apt to play the races
and the fool simultaneously.
It is a deplorable fact that idle curi-
osity keeps a lot of people busy.
Be sure you ere right—but don't be
too sure that everybody else is wrong.
But fewpeople are able to appreci-
ate a good thing until atter they lose it.
The rose soon fades, but the thorn
continues to do business at the old
stand:
Too often when a man's heart is in
the 'right place there is something
wrong with his bead.
The man who knows the world will
never be bashful, and the 'man who
knows himself will never be impudent.
If a man succeeds, the world envies
eine If be 'fails, it sympathizes with
him -and secretly rejoices—Chicago
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