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The Brussels Post, 1891-4-17, Page 3APRIL J7, 1891 THE tRUSSELS POST. LATE ERITISHNEWS. Collapse of a Grand Stand. AN ABORTIVE MURDER TRIAL, SltoeltingBarbed WireAccident.-AI'erlious Adventure. Tho late Duke of Bedford nont1a the twelfth peer to commit suicide during this century. A son of Henry Irving, Mr. J. Irving, is about to play "David Garrick " as an ama- teur in St, Petersburg, Tho oonsumption of tort in the 'United Kind= during 1890 notched the unpreced- entedly high figure of 5,0:1 pounds per Bead. The Bristol Town Council have resolved to spend: 166,000 in lighting all the central streets of the city with electricity, the syr• tont to be extended if found to work satis- factorily. A Midleton (County Cork) telegram reports that at Lisgoold Ramos on Tuesday a stand, underneath which was a refreshment bar, gave way, and three met were severely in- jured. Total abstinence dinners are becoming so frequent in .London that enough clissatisttn. Lion has been caused to produce the sugges- tion that luvitations to such oitertainments should be marked with a blue ribbon. Excavations at WVinchester have brought to light the massive foundations of the palace of William the Conqueror and the Norman Kings. One fragment of the wattle eighteen feet long and four feet thick. The six Malay pilgrhns, now in London on the way from Cape Town to efeoca, visit- ed the Houses of Pat'Iialnont on \ircduaeeday. They expressed themselves delighted with their recent visit to Buckingham Palace, when the Queen conversed with them. A most painful occurrence took place at Belfast on Tuesday, when two well-known magistrates -err. Colgan, a director of the I3ushmills Distillery Company, and Mr. Maher, of the extensive linen firstrof Messrs, Maher a& Co. -fell dead from heart'aliens°, the former in the street and the latter at his residence. A debt collector in England has just been fined £3, at the instance of the fneorporat- ecla�hSociety, for having reprosented in a letter at he was instructed by his " client to take proceedings for the recovery of a certain debt. The whole matter turned upon the use of the word "client," It is a noun substantive sacred to lawyers, end must not be employed by other poreots. At Sligo Mater's, on Monday, Michael Considine was charged with the murder of Bridget Flaunagbnn, the daughter' of a boy- cotted farmer, Last October moonlighters who visited the ]rouse fired shots through the windows, and killed Bridget as she lay in bed. Ultimatoly the case for the Crown broke down, and the jury returned averdict of acquittal At the old Bailey, two men named Saun- ders and Norton were indicted for enrleavotr- ing to obtain money from the proprietors of the People. It was alleged that Saunders had written an account of his own suicide, and that Norton threatened an action for libel in respect of this account, The jury acquitted the prisoners. The regulation of railroad rates has been carried to such a point by the British Gov- ernment that the great railways have replied by withdrawing all proposals to expend any more money ter extension during tho present session of Parliament, Bills for very heavy expel' d i tares on the part of the Groat North- ern Company anti the Mid landCompany had all clauses for the extension and widening of lines etruolc out. Tho Welsh papers describe an extraordin• ary incident with the Flint and Denbigh Foxhounds. Closely pressed by the hounds and to escape his pursuers, the fox pre- cipitated himself down Garn Dingle, sixty feet deep. Before the pack could be whip- ped off they also went over, and when the huntsman arrived they found three valu- able hounds killed outright and thirteen more or less injured. Tho fox got clear away. Late on Monday night the police at Gate - Isere, near Liverpool, were informed that a young man was lying on the road, having been thrown from ifs bioyolo, On going to the place it was found dud, the young man, who was aged 18 , was the son of a publican maned Tomlinson, of Hale, who ]lad been on some business on the bicycle, and had mot with the accident, The doctor was sent for, but on his arrival pronounced the youth dead. While hunting with the Green L ,lg drag•hounds near Newmarket on Saturday Mr. Harry Enoch, son of Mr, J. Enoch, of Zebland Lodge, trainer to Lord Zetland and Mr. J. Lowther, was caught in the mouth by a barbed wire stretching from tree to tree, and severely injured. Several of lois tooth wore torn from his jaw, end he woe thrown violently to the ground. No limbs were broken, but the unfoetnnato gentle- man's face was vory much torn, The London County Council value the rental of London as " au hereditameub" at ! about forty-two and a half millions sterling, 1 and they articulate that, counting their as- , I sossments in the laity; these figures add about a million sterling to the present gross valuation. These figures aro astounding enough, butcapitahsed they run into a more surprising total still. At twenty years' per. 1 chase London is at this moment worth £850- 1 000,000 sterling. Truly, a tidy piece of proporty1 ' A sum of money is paid to any person who brings or sends in a roa'nit who is ac- °opted fat' service in the army or militia Theorem's, which may bo varied from time • to time, are at present 5s for any army re - omit and les 6d for a militia recruit." This is what is written on each soldier's furlough. Ote soldier thinking it to bo trete took a recruit to Woolwich tho other day, and after said recruit was °°°opted, asked for his five bob, For this he got into a row, was tad 1 w threatened f with imprisonment; ' f he ' persisted in expsothng it. Tho Birmingham polios aro ooarohing for a man named Harry Spoors, at operative electrician, for causing the death of an elder. ly woman named Gallagher. The latter, i hbour intervened who evonatlin W a quarrel between Spears std hie wife on Saturday night, hon in his drttnkon rage Spears threw a araffin lamp ab her, She rrusted screening into the °enrt to whicit the house was sibuated, and her clothes worn all burnt off her before the neighbotnus could oxtin- Suitlt then. She died in the hospital on unday morning, Charles Borrison, who was given up for ,lost on tho Sutherland mountains, has turn. ed up after most miraoulons esca)tos, For two days after leaving Cortykmloeh he ',wandered tho hills without food or shelter, .: ani wottld have perished had he not titan a deer roan'°, which, by following, enabled d,y ititn to find n shepherd' shouse, the higher inhabited dwelling in Co Io eassley, whore he was storrnstayed for several shays. He afterwards threaded his way over the tnountaitls to 8ailachy, southeast of Loch. shin, wheneo after two clays' rent be pro• seeded to Overscaig, which he reached after eleven days'absone, The female convicts at Woking Prison, including hors. Maybriok, will shortly be removed to Aylesbury, tho War Office, an has airway been stated, being aboub to take over the building at Woking for barracks. Croat reductions are taking place, or are in contemplation, int leconvloteatablisloments The eon vhctprisou 01Cll!ahem isbeing clamed altogether, and the Admiralty Is about to convert it into naval barracks. Tho affects of this will be to throw time governor's, a medical °Meer, and many wardres out posts. The reason assigned for those changes is that the judges are now' passing so many short sentences that Homo of tit contiob prisons have for some time been merely more than half full, An Unwelcome Visitor, For twenty years -ever since thegreat war of 1870 -71 -rho relations'- seamen Germany and France have boon ,uhfne supicious, and at times threateni ,;, rho peace of leu rope. The French have never become reconciled to the loss of the provinces of Alsace and Lorraina, which were taken by the Germans as a part of the voile of victorious war, and they have not ceased to cherish the hope that those provinces mildnt one day be re. covered. On the outer hand, Germany, conscious of this strong feeling on the part of the French, ban felt obliged to maintain heavy armaments, and to keep a suspicious eye ova' upon the conduct of her republican neighbor. More than one in the last twenty years the two nations have seamed upon the very verge of another war, which has, perhaps, beep averted only by great patience or by the mediation of other powers. This being the state of things between Germany clod France, the sudden visit of the Lmprees Dowager Frederick of Germany to the French capital, in the last week in February, was an event of marked import- ance, and had nafurtunateresnits. The Empress Frederick is the eldest (laugh ter ofthc Queen of England, the widow of the Emperor Frederick, and the mother of the reigning German Empower, Milian - She has always been known a s a wo- man of great ability, to whose opinions her husband paid much deference, At fleet, her visit to Paris seemed to be essentially .one of pease and conciliation. A great art exhibition was to be held in Berlin, and ib is said that the main purpose for which the Empress went to Paris was to invite thebestFrenchartiste to display their works fat this exhibition. But if the intent of the Empress's journey wase peaooful one, its result was far from reducing the friction between the two nations, The Parisians became restless, and the more extreme spirits became hostile, as her stay was prolonged ; andwhen she drove to Versailles, in order to visit a spot eon- neeted with her husband's memory, so much ill feeling was aroused that it wail thosght prudent for the Empress to leave Paris prromptly. For itwas at Versailles that the Germans, having conquered and desolated France, proclaimed their now Empire in January, 1871, and placed William of Prussia at its head, an event which hits always bitterly rankled in the French heart. Ivioreove', 1t was her husband's commotions with this historic event, so humiliating to France, which led the Empress to go to Versailles. The fact that the Empress Was forced to leave Paris so suddenly, and take refuge from insult in her native England, caused great excitement in Germany. The young Emperor hotly expressed itis inclination. The German papers teemed with denuncia- tions of the French, and it was freely pro. dieted that the Emperor would reverse his recent policy of friendliness toward France, and recall Bismarck -always the inveterate foo of Franco -once more to the chief place in his councils. Already the administration of the former French provinces of Alsace and Lorraine had been made more mild, while the regulations concerning passports had been relaxed. But arbor the incident of the Empress's visit to Paris orders worn sent from Berlin to Prinoo Ilohenhole, the Governor of the provinces, to maintain the regulations with absolute etringency, On the other side, the French artists with• drew theirpromise to exhibit their pictures at Berlin, and at a ball in Paris the ladies pledged themselves never to dance with a German again. While it is true that a war between the two nations may not immediately issue out of the Empress's well -meant but unfortunate journey, it is a lamentable feet that the re- lations between the two have become once more strained and critical, and that a slighter provocation would probably now preoipitate a conflict between them than would have sufficed before the recent events occurred. Religion at Home. "The man or woman or child makes the sanctuary after all. A woodshed, a path in the woods, a bridge, under the ample, loan be for the thio one'5 synagogue, of the wor- shiper feel the nearness ofGod. What if the everlasting light be not there, the Scroll of the Law be missing, the prayer book be not in our hand -dons that stake ib less a sena. teary for earnest thought, lofty aspiration, sweet and tender resolution that shitll blos- som into enduring action ? "Above all, it is the host° which i5 reli- gion's fairest trysting-place. Its rites there Hoed not necessarily be mechanical, although outward aids to devotion In tho householdare not to bo despised. But, if gentle courtesies beoxtendee, if the ki nd ly vino° prevail, thorn too, shall dwell angelic visitans, and that, home shall be blossed, For there religion abides in its purest and serenest form, frond from the shackles and etings of superstition and bigotry, dovolopingg Coat larger faith in perfect humanity which is soul and centre 19 r' of all coli sol lit nvn "-Jowl f std.° 1 salol er. g t; U Preparing for aOoloe p n, g y "Marriage licossos hero?" ho whispered to the Clerk. " Yon," " Get onto any week day 1" "Vos' "Girl have to be hero?" ‘,140.1, " How soon can I get ono (aber She agrees 1" " Int fifteen minutes after you got hero." "Sure, pop?" "'Yes. Any particular hurry about it?" There is, Thorn's seven of us after the same girl and if sho says 'Vonto mo I've gotto bo spliced fnsido of half at hour or she'll change her mind. I am just prospect• ing, you Soo, to prepared for a oyelouo about two Hays hence. Mrs, Bono, aged 79, was killed by a Grand Trunk eves* tib lyorobeoteeb Out, itwt wNk. CONFLAURATIONS IN HISTORY, Some Groat fires Wlaioh Haye Startled the Worjd. Among the great fires of history, nndonbl• odly the burning of the Serapu•om library at Alexandria, in the year 040, by the Caliprh Ouar L, is most widely moureed, es the de- struction of 100,000 vohtmen cut uil'mun'. of the lnumon knowledge at that time, The general impression of the importance and significance of this fire is, an doubt, Reg - wonted in go'eat mealier° by the alleged an. ewer of this Saracen cumgaot'ole who replied to the protest against the burning with : " If these books are ogainst the loran, they aro pernicious anti must be destroyed, 11 they agree with the Koran, they are redun- dant and need not be preserved;" and itis not generally retnenobe•eol that Julius Ctesar burned a larger library of 700,00(1 vol - tones at Alexandria, known rte the Brucian library, B. C. 48, nearly 700 years before the burning of the Serapoium library by Omar I. At times of sack and pillage, Jerusalem has been burned time aunt again ; the most noted =theca being at the siege by the Romans under Tains, during the year 70, when a fac- tion called the Sicarii set the city on fire in many planes, and eventually 1,100,000 of the inhabitants perished by fire and the sword. Constantinople has, like all Oriental cities, suffered severely from fine, a large part of such lessee being undoubtedly due to the fatalism of the Mohammedans, who bow to their kismet. Said a sultan : "If it be the will of Allah that my favorite city buru, it is the will of Allah." In Dillaway's quaint account of travels in the Levant in 1797, it is stated bloat the Fat- ten is summoned three times to a fire in Constantinople, and if the fire lasts an hoar he is obliged to attend in person and bring mules laden :,ith piasters for the firemen. A great fire at Rome, 12 B. C., °aused the Emperor Augustus to take measures for in- creasing the defense against fire, which had been hitherto in the hands of bodies of police numbering 20 to 30, stationed in various portions of the city, and re -enforced at times of fire by companies of volunteers. He ap• pointed new officers with the rank ofmagis- trates, who were entitled to wear magisterial robes. Each attended by two Bofors, and provided with a fire organization et G00 slaves, It is probable that this was not entirely satisfactory in its operation, because six years later another fire caused him to under. take further reforms on a scale fully charac- teristic of him who "found the city built of brick and left it with palaces of marble." Ile increased the fire department to a scale com- mensurate with the needs of the city. Seven thousand freemen were organized into seven battalions, and ono battalion was quartered in every alternate ward 01 the city. Those men made careful inspections of the kitchens, of the heating apparatus, and of the water supply in the houses, and every fire was the subject of judicial examination. The Dost of tho organisation was maintained by a tax of 25 per cent on the sale of slates. Two notable exatnples of contagions atop. pad by conflagrations aro the burning of Moscow by the besieging 'tartars, in July, 1570, when the plague was stopped, and sec- ondly the fate in London, September, 1000, which also stopped the plague, and it has been unknown there since. This London re isproporlycalled doe great fire of modern history, because the redeems which were started in consequence of it are living issues in the municipal affairs of to- day. The tiro was caused by an overheated baker's oven ; and in the course of four days it swept over 430 acres. Mum iug 13,200 houses, 89 churches, and St, Paul's Cathed. ral, causing a damage estimated to be silo,• 710,000, say $53,500,000. Under the direction of Pepys the fire was stopped by blowing up buildings, which was, at the time, tiro only method of reduc- ing a fire that had grown beyond the cape, city of the small fire engines. These wore on large tubs, and threw a stream of water directly on the fire, as hose was not invent- ed until ten years later (1682) by Van der Heide, Tho cities of America, on account of the larger amount of wood in their construction and the prevalence of irresponsible ntetltocis of building, have suffered severely from fires, The first devastating fire in America was probably the one occurring at Boston, March 20, 1760, when 400 dwellings and stores were burned, causing a loss of £100.000. In the colony of Massachusetts Bay, re- gulations in regard to construction of ohim- nays and thatched roofs were made as early as March 10, 1030, and various enactments worn made et later. dates. The ordinance at the town meeting of Boston, March 14, 1045, made provision that each householder should have ladders long enough to reach to the ridge of his house, and a pole " about 12 foot long, with a good large swob at the end of ib;" and various graded penalties were provided for these not conforming to the law. Philadelphia las been remarkably free from conflagrations in comparison with other largo cities. It does not appear behave been visited by a great Ore until July 9, 1850, when a fire along the Delaware River front, at Vine Street, extending ovor 18 acres, caused a loss of life estimated as high as 33, in addition to 120 wounded, and a pecuniary does of $1,500,000. Now York was visited by a severe con- flagration in the southern part of the city on December 10, 1885, which extended over an area of 40 acres, destroying 974 houses, and causing a loss which has boon estimated as higgih as $30,000,000, on which there was only $8,000,000 insurance -an amount which ruined several insurance companies. One of tho first of tho morn recent con• fiagrations was the burning of Portland,( Tho grand old Douglas motto, " Tonder Mo., July 4, 1800, The fico was caused by and True," was once touchingly illustrated a boy throwinga firecracker into a cooper's by therepresentativoofanotherboutchfanidly, sloop, for the avowed purpose of scaring the The Duko of Athol° had a disease which workmen, los this respect the act was an , wns certain to end fatally, When he Was unparalleled sneooss, the damage being' assured that he would soon bo taken away, about 810,000,000. ( he called co ell his tenants, and bad° each The Chicago fire, Oatober 9, 1871, teas ono farewell with a cheerfulness that testi. one of the largest in all history, devastating fled to his peace of mind, During his last clays there °courted a to n' au area of uol m incident 3 square mi[ es rant Uansil y � 1 a g , q S+ loss of about $100,000,000, an which inset•- j tvh(ch is told lin Blaclrwood's, angio was paid to the arnonut of ahout$I00,• 000000. Ttohundre v hundred and fifty ]tvos werereported lost he this Gro. THE PROBLEM OF THE UNEM- PLOYED, �1'111I11Itr 59. Salter. The social problem of to•olay has no perplexing plisse, but there to one that almoet fills us with corstoruatioa, What can We arty when men want work, and yet there is ne work for them to d 1 ,If a earn 18 lost able to work, the tnstiu':a of lnunantty tool ua to help hits ; if he will net, lie should either be made to, or else allowed to starve, 3 'mows",rxwuo:uaflm,au,e,mWpa�nav6remLusanrvaa-•••,•-••.wr,evu.•mwvra,,,m ITHE NEWFOUNDLAND CRISIS, ak© 'the Tho Question Aoeumiut, Alarming and @� any Paini'ul Conditioner ''. e0,6 Strong But if we open our eyes and. look bey the enrface of things, ole are led to su:, that there are not sfew ;et'sonswho bet to neither of these categories, Cal observation shows, that there are in 51 Britain, several millions of the unemplo who would shinty work if they could work, and a million such ort this aide of ocean, taking the country altogether, But how can it be 7 we asst. Is not o pair of hands able to add a certain amo to the wealth of the world, to produc least enough to get in exchange what is emery to keep ono alive ? It would rational to suppose so. How is it, then, t an able•bndied person of good habits ort about seeking for work and not finding The immediate answer is, of course, that one wants to employ bins, Bot why the fusel to employ 1 The answer often coo from the employer or business ]rouse, " have already more labor than we can pr tably use." Notice for a moment wha implied in such an answer, "Profitably ns It means that, if a man is hired, it is es ed that his labor is sufficient, not only support himself, but to help in the supp (i, e, to add something to the purse) of the who hires hint The labor thab is emplo in the ordinary channels of industry ba serpins value ; it e'eates more than is nos sary to sustain itself -and rho "more " he to make the profits of those who employ it is to get this " more" that employersfav' as they net front business motives) h labor ; and when it ceases to have this s plus value, they do not hire it. If this is so, the question of the anempl edpresentsa new face. If so man is honest industrious and able to earn hie bread,can find employment only in case his lab will produce a profit for some one else. lois labor is sufficient simply to put clothes Ids back and food in his stomach and provi shelter for himself against wind and weed' (and by himself I mean his family too), may not find employment. The only altern tires are in case he can employ himself, can go back to the original reservoir of force and earn his living directly fromti land. Self-employment, however, in °wipe tion with the Iaege organized industries the present time is almost impossible, is getting one's living from the land so en o matter. First, there is the difficulty f the poor man of getting to the land. S and, rho land of the weary is fast passi into private hands, so that, save to ra instances, one must pay rent for the priv lege of getting one's living from it. Th moans that the worker shall be able to pr duce a surplus over and above what is nese sary for thelmbsistence of his family, th surplus going into the owner's pocket. The ease standing thus, it nee05 to m perfectly possible that there should be coneiderablo body in the community read and able to support themselves, who hat either to secure charity or steal or stare Illi'. Mills, in recounting his exporionc among the destitute poor of Liverpool, tell that one cold December morning he fouu in a certain Souse a baker out of work, an next door to him a tailor out of work, an noxi door again a shoemaker in the sant plight. The trouble with thesepe.opie wa of course, so far as each of then was con corned, that their services could not be em ployed at a profit, by any one, the markets perhaps, being already stocked with bre and clothes and shoes, and their beings mmney in making any more. But why coat not these people provide directly for east ether's needs, irrespective of whether Cher was a profit for any one in 5o doing? Wh should not unemployed batters, and tailors and shoemakers, and masons, and carpenter and tillers of the soil be taken out of th profit-making system into which they d not fit, and making themselves into acollon the bakers bake bread for all, the tailor make clothes for all, the carpenters make houses for all, the tillers of the soil raise corn and wheat for all -each elms produc ing, not to sell to the outside world but for each other's urs, mrd each class receiving in turn of the benefits of all bhe other's labor? Onee Sive up the idea that the present system Is anything like a part of the order of nature, or otherwise necessary and un- changeable (save that selfishness is noses• sary and unchanged), and the thought be- comes easy of breaking away from the sys tem, and founding an industrial order on other principles. Such co-operative colonies are the only hope that I can see for tiro unemployed Sooner or later we shall understand throb there are more people than loan be made use of in a profitmaking system, and that if the serptts population as to have any honor or manlinsss left in it, it las got to be remov- ed from nolo a system. Everything would ultimately depend upon wise direction and management. The state, I think, should have as little to do with these oolonies as possible. I should look with more hope to sone voluntary organize• tion like the Salvation Army than to the State as at present organized. " In Darkest England" aeons to me one of the humaneet,aud ono of the wisest and moat potato's' books that have been prude°, oil in this century. Among the book's recommendations, not the least wise, is the co-operative factory end colony idea - Touching Loyalty. mill Mint tong dui rent yea get the very telt u at ino- eem hat n go it ? no re- nes \1'e °fi- b is el" nm• to art one yell s es. 1105 it ; (so 100 ur- oy d Ile or If on de sr he a- Or all le ti- of IT sy or Se ng re is 0- s- is a y 0. d d d 0, • al e y g e Y, s A la'te'r Statement or the Case. The Newfoundlan'l question is fast I veloping throw paboiul o°ndibfoita which showed to ho probable when tbu dispo first arose, The Newfoundlnitders have the confidence le themselves and the rue nese to defend their rights whicit belong their British ancestry, They have, in clition, like all other colonists, an irresp silde emiae of power as being pert of empire on whose protection they have right to insist, whether It wishes to gra The marked benefit which people in mix down or weakened slide of health dar£v4, r,, from (boll's sarsaparilla, conclusively/wove* we tlteclaim that this mediahte"makes umwee% stn strong." It dors not act like a stlrnulaut, ,iii imparting fictitious strength from tehichthen* di- must follow a reaction of greater weakness to than before, but in the most natural way' ad. flood's Sarsaparilla overcomes on- That Tired Feeling anent creates an appetite, purifies the blood, and, ut to abort, gives great bodily, nerve, mental. It or not. Phe British self-governing colonies everywhere claim practically the right not only to daold° on their own foreign interests, but to use the Imperial power in defence of whatever attitude they may take, The Imperial Goveininent on tine Other Mind takes but a languid interest in remote colonial questions, and looks upon eoloniets as necessarily bumptious, and on colonial demands as certain to be extrava- gant. On queatious between colonies and foreign wearies she is inclined rather to take the view of the foreign country than that of her colony. The reasons for this aro twofold. Not only does she naturally, for the reasons s0 g* - •rested, discount the colonial demand, Put her interest to the goodwill of the foreign country is altogether greater than in that of the colony, In this way the interests of her colonies have been every- where and always SACRIFICED Iv ITER DIPLOMACY, to other interests which pressed her more Closely. At this 'opulent i• ranee has a seri- ous difference with leugltm.t withreacted to Egypt as well as other cliderenoes of more or lees importance, Ever since Napoleon fought in Egypt and turned the settlements of tine French towards the shrines of Palos. tine, F race Inas looked upon these countries as her own. When it was found necessary for European powers to interfere in that misgoverned land to protect financial inter. este, France wee asked to share the outer• prise with Britain. She declined and per. eoitted Britain to occupy the country alone. This occupation is France's bitterest griev- nace, next to the German occupation of Alsace and Lone:elle and she is determiner) to worry England wherever she can with the view to securing her retirement from that country. Britain has always promised to re• tiro as soon as the condition of things there is sufficiently stable to stake that possible, but it is evident that Franca has no cont. dense in that time ever coming, if Britain is alone to cleoid° the question. She there- fore brings pressure to bear upon Britain iu whatever quarter of the globe she can. She thinks she has fennel in this Newfoundland oanreel a good opportunity. The interest at take is, to Britain's view, an infinitely small wee, std she would doubtless, make saerifioes ober° for the sake of largerintnr- ests elsewhere. But then to the Newfound. lenders, TIM MATTED. IS A (MEAT 0\E, and they are not prepared to bo sacrifi:ed to remote interests in whicit they have no concern. They are, it i$ true, only a small number of people altogether, less by a good way then there are in Montreal or in To. ronto, but they have not only self -govern• meat bob the government of au island strategically important to the British em- pire, and it they are wronged or their in- terests slighted they can make titins very uncomfortable both for Britain and Canada. The old treaty which gives the French a foothold upon their shore gave to that people the right only to fish and to cure their fish. A hater promise in interpretation of the treaty was to the afloat that subjects of the English king would not be permitted to interfere with rho French in those privi- leges, This treaty and promise have always been interpreted by the English Govern. stent fn the French interests and every ef- fort of the Newfoundland people to fish on their own coast loas been treated es an in. terforenee with French rights. This is quite as preposterous as if a man, having given a neighbor's children freedom to play in his garden and forbidden his own children to molest them, the neighbor should demand that the owner's own children should not play there at all. Nay more, even the lobster fishery, which had no existence at rho time of the treaty, and which loos bo - come important through the enterprise of the Newfoundlanders, loas been suppressed by British commanders as an interference against the French rights on the shore, Which at firsb were only those of building flakes and of drying fish thereon. All this time the British people, embarrassed with a multitude of colonial questions in regions as remote from their knowledge as the orbits of the planets, have paid no attention whatever to the question. They are now, it seems, waking up to its gravity. Queen Victoria visited 1lat sr Athole to brei adient to tho dying puke. Sloe had return. od to tho stollen, whore it crowd of persons Thirteen hnd collooted, but in sympathy with the 1 hirleen ulanths later to a day, Boston ; solotmtity of the occasion, they maintained Woos visited by a fire which extended over' perfect, sibenao. an area of 01 aeons, burning the best seer- I P , , canbil° buildings in tile city, and causing a The train Was about to start, when there was a shout of Stop ' damage of 875,000,000, 1111 which the'° Was l stop !' yfrom the id a brwug- an insurance to over $05,000,000, -[Scion- l ham awas soon driving rapidlytlfio American. A Starter foto a Sonnet. Out of it, wrapped in flannels, staggered the Dolce. Ho went to the door of Lha royal car, knelt, Itissod the Quson'o baud, waved Will "Help mo out, old boy. I'm indit ; his cap called out, " Three cheers for the fug a sonnet, to ler dear, port little nen Queen 1" Thou romntoring his carriage, he rotronss°. Give one a starter."' drove bank to the castle, and never loft it Harry-. Open up with somothing appro.. again atfvo• priatofromShaltspeare.Ver instance :'r 1.htt Witioh we °all a nose, by any other nano "Well," said Mrs. McGudely, after hor would small as well." visit to a notable socialevont, "I have hoard about noddy showing each outer the sold shoulder, but from the way some that He meshes no friend who never made a foo l saw wore dressed X didn't wonder at their -4144intsySiseh boulders being chilly. He Didn't Want to be Brutal to Him, " That young man that visits you likes to be here, doesn't he i" said a man to his daughter at the breakfast table the other mornuog. ' Yes," she replied ; "I believe he is happy when here." 1 should think so," continued the old man ; " why, he's here a good deal more than I an, and I live here.' "Shct117 tell him to make his visits less trauma?" insinuated tiro girl. -Nob in those words my doer," interjected the father; "I wouldn't ire brutal to this young man, but you might give him a delicate hint.; ask him if ho wouldn't like to chip in for rho rout, or something like that," Broke Up in a Row, " I Trish ter goodness," said Mrs, Eve, Hint Tolliver, " deli sin' no use 00 trying' bolt ter hab no soshability When folks is so berry thin•sltinnod an' o:0onsible," " Whns do snnttah ?" inquired Plveliita's ' Dube de shedder palominos n mother, d Il 1 t oafs es dat yob was givin' ins night coma ort' all right?" "Be stah1.0 tocl splendid. 18 Jund Juno an obryboly diel say that it was gran', But Susie Jenkinslood for to go walk out in front ob de sleet ob d0 orginee. She was so black dat ebrybody toolt'or fob her own shedder en' she got mad an' bus' up do polity, "[Wadi- ington Post, A Chejf of Police. There in no body of men more liable to softer ft•oon expoenre than the police. But as an example of how they got rid of their maladies, thefollowing is oibad : Green Is. Fab, land N. Y. U. S. A, lab, 11,1 suiTecod with neuralgia in te lC ead, but found instant relief from the application of St. Jacobs 011, which cared mo," E, P, Bellinger, Chaff of Pollee California,Delawaro, Itetftnok)', antilowa ire practically out of debt. and digestive strength. "I derived very much benefit from Hood's Sarsaparilla, willelr I took for general debility. It built 1110 right up, and gave 1110 an excel - lea appetite,. len.,Ineex oe,Mt,Bavago,Md.. Fagged Out "Last spring I was completely fagged out: My strength left nee and I felt sick and mils•• erablo all the time, so that I could hardly attend to my business. I. tools one bottle 01 Hood's Snrseparllia, and it Cured me. There, is nothing like lt," It, C. BRooan, Editor Enterprise, Belleville, Mich. Worn Out "Hood's Sarsaparilla restored me to good health. Indeed, I might say truthfully 11. saved my life. To one feeling tired a(ed worn out I would earnestly recommend a trial of Hoad'sSarsaparilla." Mns.PrslsuoMosnxtt, 50 Brooks Street, East Boston, Mass. It, B. If you decide to tape Hood's Sarsa- parilla do not be Induced to buy anything else instead. Insist upon having Hoi' 'i Sarsaparilla Sold 67 all druggists. 51; elxfor$9. Preparedouly by 0. r, 00000.0 CO., Apothecereas,I,owen,Miss,, i00 Doses One Dollar A Common Case, Wife (laying down her newspaper•) --."I see by an article here that a cure has been discovered for lockjaw." Husband (with marked interest) -"No, you don't say so?" Wife-" Yes, dear. It says that to render one insoecept the germs of haeili of tetanus ore first injected and this injec- tion is followed by inlaetione of tri -chloride of iodine at interva's of twelve hours. The resultant blood serum after this treatment, is-" Habana (interrupting firmly blot kindly)• -" There, there, dear, that will do. You don't need any mire. Fon haven't got it.' How does he feel ?-He feels blue, a deep, dark, unlading, dyed- in-the-wool, eternal blue, and he makes everybody feel the same way -August flower the Remedy.. How does he feel? -He feels a headache, generally dull and con- stant, but sometimes excruciating- August Flower the Remedy, How does he feel? -He feels a. violent hiccoughing or jumping of the stomach after a meal, raising bitter -tasting matter or what he has eaten or drunk -August Flower the Remedy. How dons he feel ?-He feels the gradual decay of vital power ; he feels miserable, melancholy, hopeless, and longs for death and peace -August Flower the Rem- edy. How docs ho feel? -He feels so full after eating a meal that he cast hardly walk -August Flower the; Remedy. G. G. GREEN, Sole Manufacturer, Woodbury, New Jersey, [J. S. A.,' A Tight Squeeze. Bride -°loot -"Let's see, Hoar, the wedding; takes place at nine and the train loaves at twelve, and I've got to change my satin, wedding dross for one to travel in. Row loan I do it?' Bridegroom -elect-" Well, that will give you three hours, darling." Bride -elect-" True. Bub just think, I've got to be kissed by all of my old admirers." Caller-" How perfectly dovoeted ,yon are to your husband." Yong Wife-" Yes, I am trying to pet and spoil him so that if I die and he marries again no other woman. San live with hint." r.l J.Su osnxrin1natEmni OM Pr R a .t ifil V CURES PERMANENTLY