The Brussels Post, 1915-4-15, Page 6EUROPE'S OREAT DIPLOMAT
SIR EDWARD GREY, BRITAIN'S
FOREIGN SECRETARY.
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Broke the Spell of German
Leadership, and Cemented the
TriPM Entente.
Among the diplomatists of E
rope, Sir Edward Grey is easily t
.outstanding figure, He dues n
tower above them as Bismar
towered above his eontemporari
or Metternich above the men of
earlier day, But if axi Europe
congress .were to meet toonorro
- to wind up the war I imagine th
fiir Edward would be unanimous
chosen to preside over it, The pr
stige and confidence he commanr
place him in a class by himsel
writes •Sydney Brooks,
For one thing, of all the fareig
secretaries now in the service
the great powers Sir Edward is th
oldest, not in years, but wh
counts for far more, in tenure
office, For now aII but a (Mead
without a single interruption, h
has guided the foreign policies
Great Britain. That in. itself is
considerable asset. Every othe
power has changed its -Foreign
icier in that period at least ono
and several of them twice and three
times; There has been somethin
impressive about his fixity.
Then, too, his position differe
radically from theirs in characte
What is the Foreign Minister i
Berlin, or Petrograd, or Vienn
or even in Rome? Little more tha
the mouthpiece and clerk of his s'
vereign. What is he in Paris1 Th
:football of political parties that ar
forever forming new combination
Not a man among them has fel
• really secure. They were in powe
to -day; fur all they knew the
might be gone to -morrow. But n
one in or nut of Great Britain ha
ever 'suspeeted Sir Edward Grey o
h.1diiag office by the favor of any
Bingle individual or as acting
tthet• man's deputy and shaclo
ur .11 being likely to be ousted b
a p,itt.cal intrigue, an eleeiora
turnover or sons purely persona
whim.
M reo er, the ten years during
whi,h Mir Edward Grey has been
charred with the conduct of British
foreign policy have been years of
alasist constant crisis and comma
ii ,n. They have pretty thoroughly
i•• -t• l hint, and by the universe,
j,i ment of friend and foe he has
stead the test well. He entered
Downing Street just when the
Franeu Uernian feud over Morocco
was in its opening stages. Ile at
•ouco took a definite line and backed
France fur alt he was worth. It was
a c•:.urse of action that on. at leas
three . eparate occasions, long be
fere the crisis that came to a heat
last August, involved the risk o
war i;it it Germany. Sir Edward
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diel n shrink from it. He held
that Great Britain was bound to
support the third Republic with al
the diplomatic, and, if necessary
all the material power at her dis-
p_,sal, and after many anxious mo
means the issue abundantly justi-
fied his prescience and pluck. From
his long duel with the Wilheim-
straese between 1E05 and 1911 over
the Morurieo question he emerged
decidedly the victor.
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Danilling Balkan Crisis,
That in itself gave him an envi-
able position and reputation
throughout Europa. He had broken
the spell of success which German
diplomacy had inherited from. the
Bismarckian days. But besides this
Sir Edward is the first British Min-
ister who has sought and concluded
an aecommodatiun with Russia and
so ended the insensate antagonism
that used to separate the two pow -
ere. The triple entente that ex-
panded 'tutu the triple alliance be-
tween Great Britain, France and
Russia was very largely his work
and the value of the agreement he
effected with Russia in 1907 was
abundantly proved when Persia lap-
sed into anarchy, and when shut for
the understanding between London
and. Petr„grad and the demarca-
tion of Russian and British
"spheres of influence” in the realm
of the ,shah, all the old enmities
would have revived and a collision
could with difficulty have been
averted,
But what raised ;Sir Edward to
an easy first among European dip-
lomatists was his handling of the
Balkan crisis in 1919 and 1913, He
took the lead in keeping Europe
together. All the suggestions he
put forward were wise, timely, and
txuitful, and the acceptance they
met smith among the powers was a
tribute both. to his initiative and
)ersonality and to the peeuliarly
sinterested position that Great
ritain occupied in the affairs of
oath-,
eastern .Europe,
And then last August came the
Supreme crisis of all to add 000e
more to 'the greatness of his repu-
iiattion. Si' Edward, as the record
shows, struggled ,with, the powers
of darkness to the last minute of
the eleventh hour, cool and permits.
Sive, trying one door after another,
offering even to wash his hands of
the Consequences if I''ranee and
Russia refused any reasonable ac-
commodation that 'Germany might
suggest. No one mild have work-
ed harder or more pertinently to
,preserve peace, But manly Eng-
lishmen feel that when it coon° to
the point of deciding between peace
and war .Sit' Edward was caught
between two minds, began dealing
in half measuresand was only saw-,
ed by Germany's unutterable folly
in invading Belgium and her debas-
ing proposal that Great Britain
should 'bargain away the French
overseas empire. There was a day
or two of fearful suspense and hesi-
tation. Finally the blunders of his
adversary, Sir Edward Grey came
down- on the right side and in the
eyes of the world lost little and
gained much• for his country, and
himself by his delay in committing
Great Britain to draw the sword,
Will Dictate Terris.
One may see at this moment that
the greatest of all + the obstacles. in
Germany's path is British sea pow-
er. Two months hence the new
British army will be beating her
down on land, and when peace
comes the prediction may easily be
verified that Great Britain would
emerge from the conflict more pow-
erful and in a better position to
go on fighting indefinitely than any
of the belligerents on either side.
This means, of course, that the
major share in settling the terms
of peace will fall upon Great Brit-
ain ; in other words, upon Sir Ed-
ward Grey, A year or so hence
may find the eyes of the whole
world fixed upon him.
He is one of the least theatrical
of men. If ever an orator might
have been forgiven for making a
great speech it was Sir Edward
Grey when he rose in the House of
Commons last August to unfold
thediplonnatie -controversy thathad°
led up to the war and to announce
the policy of Great Britain, bt was
eminently characteristic of him
that he made no attempt whatever
to be eloquent. He delivered a plain,
unemotional statement of the facts,
reviewed the negotiations, explain-
ed and defended without heat or
rhetoric the line he had pursued
and enunciated in a few grave sen-
tences the further developments
that might be expected. It was a
typicalperformance, weighty to
the point of lucid orderliness, un-
adorned by any play of the imagin-
ation, but strong and telling in
its straightforwardness, the sure-
ness of its grip, its sincerity and
quiet assurance.
An ardent fisherman, a Iover and
student of nature and flowers and
birds and it devoted Wordsworth -
fan, he brings into the arena of
party turmoil, the philosophic
poise and detachment, the silence
and self -continence, born of or at
any rate fostered, by his favorite
pursuits. A strong man and a
sane man, with a larger fund of bu-
manity and a greater warmth of
temperament than he allows the
public to suspect, absolutely with-
out personal ambition and with
very few illusions, pregnant and
impressive in all his utterances,
firm but adventurous in action,
there is something in him that re-
calls the self-possession and sober
dignities of a bygone age.
Hydraulic Cartridges.
It is often hard and sometimes
dangerous to use ordinary explo-
sives far mining and excavating in
confined spaces—a fact that has led
to the development of the hydrau-
lic mining cartridge, described in
Chambers's Journal as a safe and
effective •su'betitute. The cartridge
consists of a steel cylinder, con-
taining numerous small pistons that
move at right angles .to the.longitu-
dinal axis of the main cylinder, and
that expand when water is inject-
ed into them with a hand pump. Af-
ter drilling a deep enough hole, the
workmen insert the !main cylinder,
and then set to work at the hare/'
pump. The tiny pistons expand
until their free extremities . bear
against the mass of rock with con-
stantly increasing force, and the
rock is gradually fractured under
the tremendous pressure. The
operation, it is said, is not only
cheaper than the ordinary blast,
but disintegrates a large area of
rock,
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Do Your Best.
We talk mucic of the courage of
hose who do not shriek and howl
when for an hour or two they face the
pproacb of death in shipwreck or
ther unexpected calamity. Do we
think of. the courage, of the miner
he goes cheerily to the daily work
rom which he knows too well that he
ay never return? Do we realize that
very aging man or woman la watch -
ng the daily approach of death, month
fter month, and yet keeps a smiling
ace, and sows crops for next season,
nil plants trees and preparss dwel-
ngs for the coming generation? For
hough the young know that they may
e at any moment, the old understand
that they cannot live much longer, and
at it must be their last days which
re flying past them with such In-
redibie rapidity Thus, even without
ny eensatfonat occurrence, to oath
fe mines. the heroic opportunity,
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Sortie girls are 'musical, while
hers play the piano.
The feIlr t' who puts up a bluff
ith a girl can't iblktne her for
rowing hint over,
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Germany's Food Markets Under the Supervision of the Government.
Though reports are nivierous that the foodstuffs of Germany aro dwindling to such an extent that
the nation is .en the verge of starvation, the scenes of activity which are witnessed in the market places
of the Kaiser's domain seem to belie the rumors which persist in being spread broadcast. Sines the
outbreak of the war the German Government, appreciating the fact that food plays a greater part in
war than bullets, has taken charge of its public markets, and the sale of food and foodstuffs is now
directly controlled by the Government. The photo shows a scene of activity in the world's largest bop
market at Nuremberg, Germany,
TOWED BY A. SWORUFISII.
Exciting Adventure of Two Fisher-
men 1n the Mexican Gulf.
A thrilling fishing experience is
described by Mr. Charles Frederick
Holder in the Outer's Book. Run-
ning through heavy seas in a
launch, Mr. Holder approached the
two fishermen who had hooked the
swordfish. They wear in a skiff that
could not have weighed over two
hundred pounds, and in almost
pitchy darkness were going out to
sea, towed stern first by the fish,
which gave no sign of weakening. 1i' here the Natives Sleep—The Mar -
They had been playing him for two riage Ceremony.
hours. He tells what followed; G, •
Pinchot bent back, straining at That happens only once' in a life -
the rod ; his face was drenched with time The native I�oryak of K4111-
the
The fish, two hundred chatka, •far up in the penlnsulathat
yards away, towed tliean• by a is washed by the Bering Sea, can
thread of twenty-one strands that sleep comfortably in a room four
would break the moment that Pin- feet high with six by eight feet of
Chat permitted a ` strain of more floor space, and have it fire smok-
than forty-one pounds to fall on it. ing near all night, (while the doors
Now on the crest of a wave, now are tightly closed, and then, does
deep down in a ghastly abyss, they not object if three others share his
rushed on behind that vigorous apartment with him. To -morrow
steed. he will have chance enough to
My craft was too fast, and I con- breathe more cold, fresh air than
tinualiy surged ahead. I sat with he cares for. His picture of the
my right hand onthe clutch of the happy hereafter is a snug, cosy
engine. When I came dangerously place, where every Dail of his body
near I threw off the clutch or can perpetually enjoy warmth, and
backed; when they got beyond me where neither ears, fingers nor
I came on again_ As the sea grew toes shall be frozen.
heavier and the sky darker, I slow- Once in his life, however,. things
ed down, and had to sheer off to get a little hotter than he can hon -
avoid them; when I did so, the big estly enjoy; and that once he can -
seas would eatoh me side on and' not escape if he is to be a man of
nearly roll the launch over. Time importance in the community; for
and again that happened, but we it is his marriage ceremony. As
always carie to time and got round soon as the youth falls inlove in
near the skiff. Going stern first, I dead earnest, he calls on ,the maid -
feared the skiff might founder; am,d ens father to find •out what dowry
T wished to be on the spot to pick she can bring in case of eventual
the fishermen up at once, for frown Since reindeer is the
what I know of Pinchot he would
not let go 0f the rod•, marriage'
Koryak's medium of exchange, the
It was a weird and wanderfiLt dowry eer,
If the father oonse is consists oto thf e en -
sight to see that light boat toss, a anent and the dowry leases the
leap and squirm in the pthosphores- g g p
cent sea that set up its blaze of young man, he interviews the girl
lambent lights all about, and the and if she reciprocates his affection
darker it grew the more brilliant he enters her father's service, (Bop -
the exhibition became,, At last the ping wood, tending the her<ls, culti-
stars filled the sky, and I could see voting the garden, and all other
the two in the skiff plaiinly, How kinds of farm work fall to hie
many times I saint off that long- share. The period of service lasts
sttffeisng engine and backed away from two to three years.
into outer tlarkness I do not know; The marria,ge ceremony begins
but it was six or seven miles out in about six in the evening. There la
the channel in an ever -rising sea a building in the village into .which
that I heard the cry, "I've got he villagers crowd ab twilight. A
him l" large hall runs through the centre
Pia>,ohob had drawn the boat up of the 'building, on either side of
over the swordfish, and now held which are from ton to fifteen little
him while Zoe reached for him with which
called pologs. Fetch polog
the gaff, I Dams up astern, and is separated from the next by heavy
Ygi
shut off m engine
as I stluouted
my congratulations, when a big sea reindeer curtains, and the entrance
etstiok me, and I went bowling ynto Elam each polog into the hall is
them, o OMIT
ivy similar curtains. j\To-
As liht j fu60Ii sm,Q,sltecl into them WhGra 111 altrab buildingexcept in
Joe lost Itis icyd df rho gaff ; but the hall could a good-sized man
Indust oad deer and grabbed. stand upright, .
s tai}l of tie {cin:loot, almiost After ooneiderable. eating a d
three - bund edi - p_bund ttwoadfla'h, some drinking, a braes drum, be no
seized :t and stay Back ltrk<fng on to beat, At t e Baena time a, Solofnn-
untiil N. -croon Yoedruid agora get faced )lorye asses from one pd -
his gaff into detect). log to another, dropping •willow
It was a brava trot, and we lot sprouts ,and bleier branin 004out a, •herr. 1 backed off est they inclosura. "Presently the beater bf throughout all the sore membranes,
killed tine fish, hauled him into the
skiff and lashed him to the seats;
then I went alongside and took
them in, and with the skiff in tow,
we hauled round until the North
Star was astern, and headed dead
away from it in the direction we
knew San Clemente to be. Tlhe
swordfish must have towed the ang-
lersagainst the oars of Mexican Joe
five or six miles,
LIFE IN SIBERIA.
the drum begins to sing, to accom-
pany his slow performance on the
drum. Gradually he aceelera%es
his beats and his song. Faster and
faster he smites his drum; louder
and louder he sings, until within
thirty minutes he has worked Him-
self into a state of frenzy—a con-
summation that is not without its
effect upon the villagers. The stolid
calm with which they entered, sug-
gestive of an , impending funeral,
gives place to smiles, to tossings of
the head, until by and by the whole
crowd are as excited as their
leader.
At this point, the front curtain of
each polog gees up, and two or
three women appear inside. In their
hands are the willow sprouts and
alder branches. In a moment the
father of the ;bridegroom enters the
building, leading the happy couple
by the hand. The noise, the sho•ub-
ing and the whirling now become
indescribable. At .a signal from the
groom's father, the bride • dashes
into the first polog to the right.
The women that are within lift the
curtain for her, „and she passes
quickly from one' compartment to
the next.
Not so with the groom. He dashes
after her; but no sooner has he en-
tered the first polog- than the wo-
men begin to beat him with the
willow sprouts and alder branches.
He seizes the curtain to enter the'
next polog, but one or two wo-
men hold it down; and if lie finally
succeeds, there is a hot application
of branches on that part of his an-
atomy that ren airs longest within
the polog.
Meanwhile, the women in the.
next polog are ready to receive him
with equal'warnith, • They ply the
switches energetically, and do not
hesitate to thrust out a foot also, bn
order that the "happy groom" may
stumble, and afford a more endur-
ing target for their blows,
There is no escape from this ex-
perience until the groom has entered
and passed through every°one of
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those twenty or thirty pologs•' The
front ourtains are raised, so that
'the public has a clear chance to 'en-
joy the spectacle.
Of course he never Klatches the
bride. iSha has reached the last po-
log before he is halfway through. If
she passes out of the last uolog,he
must work another year at her fa-
ther's louse, and pass through the
same ordeal once more. But she
usually awaits himin the last po-
log, and when they jn:eet there the
wedding ceremony is finished—they
are man and wife.
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Tho Farmer's Friend.
As Darwin long ago showed, the
earthworm is the farmer's friend.
Its burrows drain and aerate the
soil, while the earth which has pass-
ed through its body is finely divided
and is constantly being brought to
the surface from lower Ievels. Their
bodies are adapted to this burrow-
ing habit. The pointed head -and is
devoid of feelers and eyes, and the
foot stumps are only represented
by rows of bristles which can be
felt' if the finger be passed along
the body from baok to front, There
are no jaws,"but the •muscular part
of the digestive tithe acts as a kind
of pump for talking in•food. This.
includes plants and animals. It
bas a small gizzard, which contains
many' stones, and these are used in-
stead of teeth to grind the food.
Population. of China.
Tits population -of Ohina has ne-
ver been exactly ascertained. The
latest census, taken in 1902, 1s said
to yield a. total of 410,000, 000. Per-
haps 800,000,000 would he a juster
estimate; even that would absorb
no less thanone-fifth of the human
race. From the total it is easy to
estimate that if the Chinese people
were to march past a given point in
single file the procession would ne-
ver end; listing bolero the Mat of tare
300,000,000 had passed .by a new
generation would hthve sprung up
to continue the endless line,
The Bags of a Ship.
On the staff in the bow—Tile jack
of a nation to which vessel belongs.
On elle foremast—Flag of foreign
nation to which vessel is going to.
If going to own national porb she
carries flag of the nation ehe is
leaving, if that nation happens to
be foreign. On the mainmast—
The house flag, always. On the af-
termain (if she has one)—.Flag bear-
ing vessel's name. On the mizzen
—Nothing,' On the staff at the
stern --The national ensign of the
nation .to which she belongs.
Unfortunately the average man
seems to think the time to say not
is the next time,
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igglit Catarrh germs breed. Tile germ -
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Catarrhozox(QQ promptly opens up
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Two 014 Mu
They 1ive4 in the same villaigs,
Wiese two laid men, in– cothegelst
which were gpita neap to., one an-
other; but while there were only a
few steps•between the homy of the
one and that of the other, there
was so much difference in their
ranula and ways, .that they did nob
appear tb 'belong to the same.
wool,
Old Potter was always grumb-
ling; when he opened his door, in
the early morning, and looked out,
he was cure to „find soraelhing
wrong with the weather; if the sun
shone it would be too hot ; if there
wea+e 4o101e it would be certain to
rain; if df, dirt rain he was ptuitive
there would bo a flood. And n! any
neighbor passing by happened to
saythat the garden • was looking
well, or the crops were coming on,
Potter, with a gloomy look and e
shake of the head, would isnswet
that "There's many a slip 'bwixt
the oup and the lip," and that,
what svith hail, and ,blight, and
frost in prospect, "he shouldn't be
surprised if .we got no crops at MS,"
It was the same with his health;
to hear hhw ttelk no one had so
many aches and pains as poor Pat-
ter. When the doctor same .to see
him, and, sent him physic, it was
somehow never the right sort,
When kind friends brought him
little presents to do him good,or
tempt his appetite, they were al-
ways things he did not care for,
and could not eat.
When Potter wanted to gp out it
carne on to rain; when -he wanted
to stay at hone his master gener-
ally sent for him to do some. extra
work in the fields. In short, to use
his own words, "Things always
have gone contrary -with Jimy Pot-
ter, and they always will go con-
trary,"
John Piper was :older by a. fuhl -•
year, them James Potter; he was.
rather lame, too, and not able to
work as hard of to earn as much
as his neighbor. Yet no ono ever
heard Piper complaining,
"You moist have hard work,
John, to mslra both ends meet,"
said a visitor, one day, looking
round hie poorbut clean little
room.
"Nay, izva'ani," answered Old
Piper. "You'd be surprised if you
knew what helps I get. It seams
as though some one was always try-
ing to db me a good turn; and, as
for the bit -of garden ground, 'tie
the best I ever saw for growing and•
coming on. It's true I can't get
about as well as I once did, but I
can manage a day's work most
times; and its good to have one's
own little plaoe to rest in of an
evening. Ohl Ian better off than
you think ma'am. I have nothing
to grumble at, Ido assure. you."
That was alwaais the way with
John Piper; and so it came to pass
that'while the one cid man was hike
a wet blanket, only saddening his
friends; the other was so cheerful
as a sunbeam, helping and bright-
ening all.
The Doinestio Machine.
Mr. Meetk was laboriously hook-
ing up the baok of his wife's even-
ing .dress, just as the clock was
striking their dinner hour and their
dinner guests were ringing at the
dooi+liell. Mir. Meek breathed hard;
his Sorehead was damp and his
hands sb.00k.
"I do wilt someone would in-
vent a machine to do this lcind of
work I" he muttered miserably.
• "Why,they have l" replied his
wife,, lirig1 dy, as site applied soma
power nonchalantly to her nose.
"They have, and you are it." •
Deceived.
Little .Willie was left alone with'
sister's beau. "Mr. Clhumplcy,"
he presently said, "wha,t•is a pop-
injay I"
op-injayl" ,Sister'ls beau wrinkled up
his forehead, .'1Wb-why, a ,popin-
jay is a -a vain Bird." 'Are you a
bird, Mir. 'O4runupley7" "Certainly
snot." "That,s ifunny. M•b. said you
was •a popinj{ay, and pa said there
vas no doubt about your being a
ay, an' sister, .s4k1 there was small
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open of you,; pippin', an'now you
say you aintt a bird at all, That's.
funny."
. Finest Frame in the World.
The tErecoge that encloses the
"Virgin an. Child" at tthe.Milan
Oat1,edrel is said to be the finest
in the world, Some idoa of its value
may be gained when it is stated
that the frame iss eight foot long
and six feet wide, formed of ham-
mered g,ald with au inner moulding
of lapis -lazuli, At the corners arc
hearts designed in large •pearJsand
precious stones. This picture
frame is probably worth upward of
$100,000,•
Regimental Dog goad,
The regimental dog of the 23rd
French root Retires to Use te latest ease
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