The Gastonia
_______ _ I»»Tot«4 to tha Protoutlon of Homo and tt»o Jnumata
Vol. XIX. _ Gastonia, AT. c., May 20, 1898.
THE ISLE OF TRINIDAD.
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To the Editor of the Gasatte:
PoKT-or-SrAts. Trinidad, U. W. L,
April ant, !898.—The store* of Trini
dad ara numerous. I sore and well
stocked. I think I mentioned In a
former letter that one establishment
alone employs some two hundred
clerks (pronounced nUrke). They vary
In site from this do wo to Uw small
one-roomed shop In which you can
stand In the center and reach overy
article II contalas. Competition Is
keen enough to bring prices do«u to a
reasonable rate. Bngllsb coinage,
twands, shillings sod pence. Is that
used, but the prices quoted are usually
In dollars sod cents. This Is confusing
to anyone, unless rsmillar wilb both
rolaeg. A shilling, or -bob,” la Mo:
four shillings two pence make one dol
lar; a “WtT* equals JOe. though we
have oo single coin of Ural value; and
all tho postage stamps on my letters
home are worth two-pence half-penny
(to be "English'1 yon must say-tup
penee—hsypenoy,”! or live oents It
is rather amusing sometimes to listen
w UIIIH ni|UUIV'IM HIIU Biter*
cations in tbe storm. Tbe practise,
I am told, wee once universal, and it
is atilt common, for tbe merchant to
place a private mark, indicating tbe
prioa, upon any article displayed for
sale, and the dark is allowed to gat aa
macb aa he cau from the ouatorner
above tbe figure named. Consequently,
a stranger la. oo occasions, abouilosbiy
fleeced, where tbe wily Trinidadian.
»ho U up to the dodge, cannot be
enugtit. Kor instance 1 know of many
cases somewhat on Ibo order of this;
A Creole peasant woman, colored, of
courea, wbo, however, must tin called
a lady (custom Insists upon it), goes
Into a dry goods store, and pointing to
a cretonne or something or tbs sort tbe
following dialogue between hsrself and
tbs clerk ensues;
Ladv: “How you does sail die?”
Cleric “Sixty cents, madam, beat
quality.”
Lady: “Kh, eli ! You is link use
foolish If'1
Clerk: “Wall. I’ll give it you for
half a dollar.”
iAdy (without ooodeacsodlog a re
ply), ttrJu her tcetA, with an air of
supreme contempt, wheels rnuud and
proceeds to leave Ilia store with much
dignity,—but wbeu nearing strei-t—
Clark: “Here, madam, take it for
four bits!”
Tbe “lady" relents at once, abe was
expecting tbe offer and would have
been disappointed at not receiving it,
but atUl with a view to keeping up ap
pearances, aod not to oome off her
stUta too readily, the says, with an air
of Indifference: “Ole me, quick now,
ain't have uo time to waste.” aod be
comes tbe happy purchaser of the cov
eted bit of print.
In Uila bargaining it will have been
noticed that one of the parties “sucked
teeth.” Till* la a must impressive
form of speech and means volumes.
You require to tee or I tear it to appre
ciate Its fall sigaiacance. Whole
pages, quires, foams of words could
not more forcibly express disgust or
withering contempt than does tills ap
parently harm leas aod facile proceed
ing. I commend It to year powers of
observation whenever you may meat
with it.
i ou win oe a very snort time in
Trinidad before you have made tbe ac
quaintance of the moequlto. He U
persevering io the pursuit of hie prey,
lie la lanatUbU and lie le s great gour
mand. If yon am clear skinned, rosy
oomplexiooed, with a good circa let ion
of American blood coursing through
yoor veins, rely upon it befuru you have
been landed twenty-four bourn, Mr,
Moequlto will have spotted you, break
fasted, dined and supped very much
at your expense, taking sevaral coaraea
at saolt nasal. After yoor Oret night
here you will wake up lu the morning
Hading to your surprise that. In spit*
of DSttlng and other preventive meas
ure* you may bare taken, yoor fane,
arm, bands, etc., aft speakled with
bump*, which you have aa Irrepr***!
bis deslr* to scratch and rub. How
ever, you most consider this a compli
ment, H* has given up bla every-dny
withered end dried op West Indian
fare for what It to him a sort of Ice
•blp luxury, i-eave Hi* bumps to
tbsmeelvee and they will anon be all
right; or rub a iltUv lime juice (limes
are very plentlfnl bare) on tbe Irritat
ing part, but rlo not tcrnicA it. It you
want mosquitos la all tholr glory go
into the woods for a day's bunting,
especially near swampy laud. Tlisy
are simply meroihi** and bite through
soy amount of clothing. Ouoe soling,
under advloe. 1 wind what smearing
tha lao«, neok and hand* with cocoa
nut oil would do. Horrors! tbe reme
dy aggravated liie disease' After all,
there I* nothing llko potting up with
aa evil— when yon cannot help your
self! One variety of Insect torment,
alleged to be a moequlto, esuae* a pain
ful sore, and In a week or two a small
carrot-shaped worm forma In the spot.
I have seen these worms taken from
dogs sad.other animals and am most
eredlbly Isformvd that we frail hu
man a tre tab)ect or Debit to similar
Infliction.
Another little pest Is tbe aaed-fly.
It rrqnlraa e keen eyesight lo see thaao
little creatures though they may be
swarming in tbo atmosphere around
yoe- It la not until you bavufslta
aeries of I tab lam, now on the face,
now on tbe hands, or any part of the
body wMefa mat be exposed, yoe make
the discovery that taod-llva are both
ering yoe. They will, however, only
annoy you at curly morning and late
afternoon. The country people act lire
la "bask," that la, dried leave* and
iwtfi or eoeoaoat haaka, anything
that will easoalder wet), and Dm Basoks
drive* away the enemy. It Is so open
qaeaDoa which of the two evils Is the
IWK.
There la a itlU more diminutive peat
ju the shape ot Mte-rouge. A beast
he Is In truth, sad withal rod. though
you oaunot often get a glimpse of him.
Hs makes his attacks ou your legs,
aueks or stockings being ao obetaole Co
him, and as you cannot vastly dlsorrn
blUJ,you soratcb away until you pro
duce an sxoorlstton, and your fancied
evil becomes a reality. The bfite
ruuge frequents ooarse grass mid dis
turbs graaing anlmala oooslderably
wbo, poor thing*, get this wretched
little torment on tbeTr notes as well aa
their llmlw.
We hava titolUer ourloatty lu tb«
•'•at* of ths ehlgo, which Is nothing
leas than a peusUating flea, tint round*
or In ahape aud with a harder epider
mis. It is very small and usually
boriea Itaeir lu the feet, gensrally the
tow. At first the sonsutlou is rather
pleasant, but It soon becomes aggra
vating, and you had better eject your
new tonaol In as summary a ra sonar
as possible, home of tbo Creole and
Coolie tenants are adepts in the art of
extraotlng ••Jiggers.” and when tlte
operation ie well performed the seuao
tioe It charming. Tint object the ehlgo
hss in Inserting Itself, is to deposit Its
eggs, and ths grand thing Is to get out
the bag of larvae intact. When you
■ee Ubowanernaraad. the Coolie, or
Luelnda.the black maid triumphantly
displaying lbs little ruund bag whole
and ootire on the point of a needle,
yon feel (hat an operation Ima beau
successfully osrrled throogb which lo
volved skill, delicacy and not a llttls
science.
Hrsldcs these tiny robbers nod sssss*
sin*, we have toms larger cues, such
a* scorpions, oentl pedes, ants and
spiders. Taking them in inveiee order
the ooly harmful spider Is the hairy
legged gentleman—the tarantula of
whteh there are two kinds, white and
black. The bite is nearly always se
vers and In some cases, I am told, bss
proven fatal. I have n very choice
specimen of tbe black tarantula safely
onrked up In a bottle or rum. lie 1*
aa large as my hand, and a creature
with whom 1 desire on close Intimacy.
Ants are abundant mtd. generally,
harmless enough, the moat common
bslug "crsty ante,” so called from the
apparent aimlessness of tbelr alg-ssggy
movement*. I need scarcely ssy that
there le a great deal or method In thalr
madoeaa, as you will ase for yocraolf.
Spill any eatable on th# ground, and
the scouts of these Industrious little
fallows will shy It out In a vary few
momenta, rsporl upon It to tbelr su
periors, and In do time n whole army
will be clearteg it up. taking It away—
forage for the future, hocus morning
you may Qnd your rose-tree stripped ot
iU foliage, autl looking about you will
discover a large line of ants marching
away lu Me. each with hi* leaf, or pert
or one, stuck up llks n anil or banner.
Those are tbe “Parsed” ante, borne
inontbi ago I gave you a newspaper
clipping describing a neat of tbsas
ante, which was about slaty feet
square, had half a dozen “roads.”
each six inches wide, leading to it,
sod was located Just on the outskirts
of Port-of-Spaln. Some anta bite s
i I'ttle. others sting, and still others,
larger and more anoompllrhad than the
rest, do both.
Centipedes are more common than
aoorplona. and some of them are large
—eight to twelve Inches long. Kowls
are extremely fond of them and catch
kill and eat them with dexterity'.
Tbme, and scorpions too, bits or nip
rather badly, sometimes severely, but
one rarely bears of a ease.
Cockroaches and mote-crickets era
ugly In appearance, but so common
that you will soon gat used to them.
The former are extremely voracious
have marvellous digestive organa and
are uot over particular whether thalr
pabulem be old newspapers, books,
your silk beaver ur patent leather ahoes;
—all 13 grist that comes to their mill.
It la said that onoe when time* wen
vary bad. ond cockroaches, like other
animate1 were hard put to it to sustain
Ilf*, lo*y 67#n wont so fir its to de
vour the edge of a razor I Yon fro
qoently find them la your wash bowl
and pitcher and some times they
manifest a desire to steep with you
and they are good, aixobie fellows, perl
hape long os your anger. Mole-orlck
eta have an objectionable habit of
M1 Toa ,n th* c°«re* o«
their (light. An acquaintance of mlue
who tea naturalist, assures me they
1k*v»gizzards—I don’t know.
It mast strike visitors as being a re
markable feature that, with a large la
boring claaa of black people, West Iu
dlan planters are still otxnpehed to Im
port laborers all tbe way from the East
I*CI»e. I will In a raw words endeavor
to give tbe reason. The black popula
tion may be roughly divided, at re
gards aalate work. Iota three claeses *
1, Those who will Dot work.
8, Thnee who will do little or no
work.
«, inoM who work rafnlurlf.
No. 1. Tboee who will ootenndeaecnd
lo,“t»u l*bor generally dud aoma go*1
■oil where water la bandy and bulkl
thaw a little ahanty of rough Umber.
UialoblBg It with palm tonree. Here.
If lb« iplrlt more* them, they now and
then dig an boor or two, pUmtag
■mlm, taniaa, banunae—anything lbat
flf** oo trouble. In tho early morn
log or oo a bright moon llgul olght
they go oat with an old fowling-piece
and a lean, mangy bnif-euryad urn. to
pick up a atray aaar, qoeooh or Upa. or
It inayoa a - wild tame” (a neighbor’!
fowL) If thay are lucky enough u> kill
or capture more than they nun eat llwy
•all the remainder to 0* nearwt plan
ter.
No. I oltH alao join for a ">quat
Uag life” but In the dry waaon
they emerge from their obacnrliy to
Uke part In mm well p»ui work,
wkleh they like, aueh aa drlvlagoan
eirta, ate..
No. d, or the drone*, are generally
hard-working, bat uf prim it Ire habit*.
Of the older ooea vary (aw rami and a
Mill lam number write, Out no man
ever makeain aletake ne to Urn amount
of pay be ahooid racelrw. rough notoboa
f*1 • Of m •couuiiiltiioB of peb
blea la the earner of one room ha ualla
bla boma being hie parfaetly IndnltlUa
•yttem of eemputatlon.
I
l>n oc* ucoMion on pay-day aa old
fellow threw down Ms money with a
highly Indignant air, exclaiming, "No!
tn<wuk 94 day, da I/wd sea roe mark
xbbary day behind do do’ (door) wld
de ooal-Uok !”
Tl>e Creole laborer, oepeclally io the
country, drinks rum to a frightful ex
tent, with the renult that, at holiday
anttona. broken bead* are knocking
aboot aa freelT aa If lire scene nrere the
world-famed D<tnrybmok Fair or Lime
rick Haoea.
The lower classes are very Impreea
loDaUo with regard to religion sod to
outward appearance, become earaeei
and attached member* of the chtireli
Whether their devotion le rent or
feigned I do not pretend to eey; pro
bably they are neither better nor worse
than their superior* In social potltinn.
Oae thing f am sure of i* their liberal
ity to their cbnroh. Whether their
dooalion be In labor or in ooln of the
rrmlm tbey give ungrudgingly.
They are auperaUUoua almost beyoud
conception, combining a mixture of
abrewdneeb nod credulity that Us*
xbsard aa It la Inconsistent. They are
smart and quick enough In a way and
can drive ae good a bargain as the pro
verbial Yankee or Scotchman, bat If
Uwy ouce get the impression that
occult lull denote are working against
them, any argument you may adduoe
to the contrary will bars about aa mnob
•’fleet ui the Wing of an Iron tnrgot
with a wooden skewer. A jet or blauk
bead bracelet, for Instance, most be
ivuuu uw wii«( gi *U 10IAQC tO
keep off the “evil eye,” which might
cause It to pine away. If to or rooster,
being of a sociable turn of mind, steps
upon your threshold and gives vent to
bis feellegs by a lusty crow all will bo
well provided he fanes the linoee dur
ing bli exclamation, hot If be turns hta
back to the Interior while crowing It it
a sure algo that somebody In the house
will shortly be carried to his last rest
lug place. If a babe suffer* from hk
coaghs, two little strip* of wet paper,
placed in the form of a cruse; on its
forehead will brlag speedy relief.
Should a child In the course of Its play
stumble across the spiteful little anl'
mal, tba oeotluedt, the mere repetition
of the formula "St. l’eter, at. Paul.”
several times, will render tbe crest are
powerless to do any harm. If, while
you are going on important business,
you should have the misfortune to
strike or “stump” tbe left foot. It 1*
all up as regards tbe success of tbe
business, and you may as well right
about-faoe, and weed your way horns
00 Ure other hand If It Is your right foot
Ihst “stumps." It is a Capitol partent,
sod things look promising ahead.
On no acoount step over ?. eofflo If
you qappan to meet one lying aerost
the road. It has never fallen to mr
lot to ses anything of this description
lu suoli on unusual place, and If I did,
1 do not think ( should feel at ail dis
posed to stop over it, If there was any
alternative—who would ? It la la.
possible, however, lo over-estimate tbe
evil results which might ensue II such
an indiscretion ware committed. Of
course It must he clearly understood
tbe ootllo is not a reality, it is pieced
thereby tbe “jumblea," anil If you deal
with It respectfully, aud with becom
ing reverenoe. by snotty putting It on
one side. It wilt at once ranis!: Into
•pace, which I think is about tbe
wisest thing It could dn.
I ought to stop, but I have him more
example, this one so ridleuluu* and
preposterous that, like the perplexed
dregoons in “Patience." I must fain
leave you to "explain It If you can."
Ton will be told that serial o maleva
leot Individuals, to league with tire
Evil One, sod called aoarovyaa*, have
no unnatural aud Indelicate propensity
for casting off tbslr *kln, which they
usually conceal In or under a chocolate
mortar. Divested of epldenulua they
have Lbs marvellous faculty of flying
throngh the air, resembling at the
time baits of lire. They then, vempire
Ilke, stick tbe blood of those against
whom they have any animosity. There
are two plans f.-r counteracting the
machinations of such a dire and un
canny anamy. One U to sprlnkla salt
upon the east-off akin, should you mast
with It, (there’s tbe rub!); the other
Is to. when you are oxpectlog a visit
from the “thing” straw the floor a
round yoor bed with rtoa, tbe stmow
yan. by some aysterioua law. Is com
belled to ptok up this rioe, grain by
grain, Uios affording you an opportu
nity for slaying or otherwise disposing
of the monstrosity.
Faithfully,
_Dims 1. VfiLeoN-.
ftM Wo Point r
bOoOir Tuple,
■'Wo wonder whether Sonin will
■Rree to co-operate with Ueo Milo*.
Tf'?*,di£w !“««•- r**f«*oo. odueation
and habit*, hot happen to think alike
on the one sobjret, of free Onbe. That
lath* paramount laaue end thoy will
hardly wasto time discussing aobjeeta
0,1 ***|W do not agree. The
morel of lhl« lie* oo the Surface.”
Ttile paragraph Is taken from a fu
sion newspaper, aud evidently tba fal
low thought he had Rottnfa off some
thing very smart. We wonder II Oo
met will try to trade with both tide*,
and wWIrefue# to eoeept help u a leas he
It allowed to hold tba biggest office In
the whole layout. Win the fusionlets
who got off suob rot ubout those who
"think ullke should vow together ” he
able to see the application?
Many old aoldlere now feel n,#
eftcota of tlio hard srrvlon they en
dured dorlog tlw w»r. dr. Qg„ %
Anderson, uf rtoeevllla, York Mllnty'
Keno., who saw tbs hardest kind of
eervleo at the front, Is now frequent
ly troubled with rheumatism "[ iuti
a sever* attack lately.” he saye. -‘aud
Kr'Tr-, * nf (•’hannaruin’e
Pain Halm. It did so much good that
I weald like to know wbat you would
w# for out diiiffii twiilM •*
Mr. Andoreon w.awd It bothTn hi,
own us, and to supply It to bte ftleuda
end neighbors. as every family should
have a bottle of It In their homo, not
oely for rtwumstlam, but fatut« Wok
vptalna, sweMtaga, cote, hraUee and
burns, for whioh it l« aneqnattad ysr
■slo by J. u. Carry * (fo
WILLIAM EWART GLADSOME.
FTU OF MITH1I ROIUM ASM
m i sxuruwnp.
Ck»«Mi«r>*d UfANktwkaf a>flu*'>
Urrat rwwlo-m wnt mt taMM
■Am*, bal liar a ax latutb Ml-Ftm
TIomo Fmolar at Wrrat Mrliala
I’MM-Urtr, Poo-Iakw, aa* on.
nalCkrkUaa.
dwrtouc OlawTi-r. Mur 19.
William Ewart Gladttooe was, lu
the A’rorldenoe of God,' bom of Scotch
pared* on Eogliali aoit and destined,
for the beat part of a . marvelous con
tary to lead ibe van of pragmas of the
splendid Hritteh Kmpie*.
Educated at Ktou. whore ha wa* tba
Intimate friend of Arthur Holism and
Frederick Tennyson, sad also at Ox
ford, where the principle* of Church
sod State and Toryism wen instilled
into hi* IsUsUect, lie severthetos* sat
loosely by all iraddUoual teach I Dps aad
doctrine* of men. and with a kern eye
aad open mind sought ever to know
aad teach the truth, the wbnls truth
aad nothing but the truth. It was no
doubt Mt life-long attitude that lad to
the ditto’* charge* of Instability and
vacillation. Wbat statesman of mod
ern lima*, who has left the tmonea of
his mind upon the history of his coun
try nod hi* ago, has not been open to
Ui*a> V
In Partiasent In 10*3. at lb* agt of
». a Conservative and auto Church
men or the slral test sect, as his public
career rounded Itaslf out through ths
stormy years, lie bsoams s Liberal of
tbs nitre radical type. The advocate
Church twtubllsbmeot became the ad
vocate of disestablishment. The pro
tectionist became the free trader. Tbs
pet of the aristocracy became the great
••commoner,” the wxloui advocate of
the extension of lbe suffrage. This
prooees of evolution io poll dual faith
led him, in hie old age, Into tba cham
pionship of homo rule for the Irish.
Whether be wa* ahead of bis time* or
whether he blundered, b* split bis
party aad failtd utterly Is carrying Die
measure to a successful Issue. Hit
championship of it, however, was the
logical sequsuce of hU early weening
away from the cause or royalty and the
aristocracy to plead the causa of the
people. Whether the Story l* true or
no, It le often related that her gracloas
VU)eaty, Victoria, once protested to
the Premier that a measure be favored
was distasteful to Ur. Upon Mr.
Gladstone's stubbofriT defense of his
policy, the Queso. losing her temper,
haughtily remarked, “You forget who
I am. air. 1 am the Queen of Eng
land I” “And Your Majesty forgets
who I am,” replied tbs Prime Minu
ter. “I am the peuple-of England 1”
Whatever the cbargeaof Inconsistency
brought against Mr. Gladstone, wa* b*
aver aolalwtul to hit task of guarding
the Interest* of the vast class of bis
countrymen, whom Abraham Lincoln
would have designated us “the plain
people”? Gladstone per*latently re
fused a peerage. It was he who dared,
with startling bold nets, to cry out,
“The Lords must go !” till tlie moss
back Hosae of Lord* boesme affrighted
sod made pacifylug ooiceasion* lo the
Commons.
"wnataia Gladstone ever accom
plish ?" is a question not Intreqseully
heard from his erltlc*. While It easy
be impossible to put one’s Unger down
upon soy single achievement of Glad
stone for lbs 11 rl toot, so stupendous as
the unification of the German Empire
by Bismarck for the Teutons, It would
oevertbelee* be ebsutd to say vital Eng.
land’s Grand Old Man bad never done
anything for bis people that will stand
the teat of time. The disestablish
ment of ths Irish Church In 1B68 sod
the extension of the suffrage In 1964
are among ths notable results of bis
public ministry. HI* services to his
country us a bounder have, too, beao
of lueatimable value u> England as the
money-leader of the nations and as
Brat upon ths waters or the globe with
her argosies of commerce. Mr. Glad
stone’s apeclnlty In public oilics stems
to lisvs been Um Chancellorship of tbs
Exchequer, sod at times he added to
this trust that of the First Lordship
of the Treasury. A comment falling
Under our eye reads as follows :
It was in 1849. whan Gladstone was ■
vice-president of the Board of Trade I
under Feet, that, for the first Urns, lie !
had a great obauos to display hit ex- |
traordioM/ powers as financier and de-'
baler. His duty was to explain to tbe ,
House tbe meaning of e revised tariff
that had abolished or reduced duties I
1,*X) articles. Ths way he performed
this difficult teak, whieli only e mao of
mathematical sod mercantile accom
plish meala could oope with, made him
reoogulwd as a master of Unsocial
statesmanship. From this session It
became apparent tbst a man whooouM
tariff schedule* glow with Interest was
of no uncommon stuff.
uanwii «U uwmmi a utHMOM
rirnl in the Common u»-d |„ the in id
•fetnent of public effeln. In the grant
debate* Dleraeli excelled In keen ear
ceata. Gladstone exoel Ion In the clar
ity of bln explanation* and the ability
lu prwmnt a m«uere popularly. Both
were of epteodid Intellect*. Both war*
loyal Englubmen. The former, to
arl.tncral and ilattermr, stood fait In
the regard of I be Queen. Tim latter
■ ocrdlilly bated by oer for hie demu
i nracy. Jew end Anglo 8axoa t Knob
a epleudld type of the two tnnel re
markable races that ever peopled the
earth- Which wee the abler T Which
wee the greater f Their struggl* for
the mastery, for U»« ft«t ptena iu Urlt
leh •latreraXt, wees duel uf giant*.
I Let a* My tla»y were Peer*. Certain
ly the Anglo-Saxon will be remembered
In history as lone a* the Jaw.
Gladstone wee ee able lu literature
and lu theology a* he wae id itite
oraft. Ilia writing* am numerous and
era always dleouiiloae of profound
•nhjeou. He wee e moetor of tho He
brew I lingua ge nod load Busier to rest
hie mind
Great eta teamen end great thinker,
bn wae withal an hambla Christian.
Hauidle a diumsulean American
tain liter, who »lalte« him upon nee
occasion, that earn *lo*e bte earthly
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manhood had hU taltli in the truth of
Christianity ever oooe keen shaken,
lie dsepleed the blood-thirstiness uud
llcentkoaaaoa* of Muhammadanism,
and, Indeed. ooiimJ the expressive
Dlirase, “Tbs unspeakable Turk," la
hie loyalty to Jeeua of Hasaieth,
Gladstone was ones Indaced to ready
to articles by Robert G. lofenoll in
the North American Renew. Tbs In
Adel was enable to meet the lofty ar>
Kuiorote of the Cbrletlan, and, la Me
reply, took refuge In bis usual flippant
ridicule and frothy re tori*, whereupon
Gladstone refused to continue the ooo
troverey.
Gladstone was a peace-lover and a
peace-maker. Ills foreign policy wee
always e subject of severest criticism
but Preseat events Justify Me position
then. Hays a writer In a loading
Southern contemporary:
"Let ether peopte’e territory alooe.”
was his frequent adyloe to bis political
associates. Ha was pro ad of Knglaod’e
possessions, bat be did not
tblnk that it would bn wise to conoear
additional territory. In his greet
Midlothian address is UG» be gave
“uTSST”
“The daily responsibilities of ibis
Empire overtask tbs energies of the
ablest of her statesmen. There Is not
a country In the history of the world
that baa undertaken what webnveun
dertakan and there U no precedent la
bistory for tb* formation ofaueb a
government. A small island at ooa
extremity of the gtoba imtnlss the
whole earth with Its colonies, but It 1*
not satisfied with that. It goes amour
the ancient raoae of Asia, and n sub
feet* 340.000,000 people to it* rule
t hers. Along with all this it dltsami
uatea over tb* world a commerce such
at no IDMUrioatlon ever cooooivad la
lurmer ub«i, ana such n* do poet tin*
“r*r painted. And all this U done
with a strength which lies within Uw
narrow limbs 0r tbts* shore*; not a
•trangth that 1 disparage; on the non
irery. I wish to diaeipetc, IT I caa. Urn
Idle dream* of tbo** wbo an alwan
lolling you that tb* strength of Eng
land depeuds upon her prestige aad the
exUuatoa of tbo Kmpire. Bely unon
It our strength Is within the United
Kingdom. Whatever la tobedooaia
governing and pro tea ting those vast
Miooie* with their teeming mUUons
must be done by the force derived
trem voo and your children, from yon
sod the peopU of this country. And
*‘‘fy t They are about 33,.
JOO.OUO people, * pooolatloo KM than
that of Krunoe, lees thau tbot of either
jeraany, Austria or Kami*. The pop
liatloo* of those countries hod It bard
suough to enttio thalr own mature
Fttlnu their own limits, but we liave
sndertaken to settle the affairs of a
Coortb of ilia human ran* scattered
»vei tba world. I tell you that human
itreogtli mod hntnnn thoaght are not
rquid to the discharge of the dutlM
ippertalolug to tbo government of this
wonderful and world-wide Empire V*
This utMfunoe reads like a prophecy
to-day t Jin,laud baa reached tba
puinl of ovar-Uxiog her strength.
Jealous continental neighbors frown
upon and threaten bar at many points.
As a result she may move to unleash
[be dogs of war. But the booming of
lbe gum and the spilling of blood will
not reach the Mrs »or dlatraau the heart
»f England's Gnsod^ltd Man. With all
the world an armed camp; with Lbe
hat Iona adding army corps to army
norpa, aad buUleahipt to baUleahlp
with the beating of drum* aad the
marshaling of men, the weary Com
moner of England, m a green old age.
ha* been gathered to his fathers. If
th* world !* not at pesos it i* not his
fault, but he bus goo* to receive tb*
reward of the peacemaker*, they wbo
“•ball bo called the children of God."
Gladstone wrought for International
ptaoe. Ko doubt otban of tha aged
great of the earth, wbo are soon to
follow him to tlie grave, thought their
llfu work would make for universal
P«ec*_ Victoria. Htsmsrck, Frans
Joseph. Hut man propuae* aod God
tba storm of baUla
will break after thsM gray hairs bava
passed beyond. Who knows ?
Gladstone died full of earth'* honors
aad laurel-crowned. He wao four
tl me* Premier of Great Britain. Hot
the beauty of bla lita-story I* In ito
u*TJ^f4*7- to theewaat
and kindly Scottish maiden, Catharine
Olynne, tilled op tha cup of bappincm
in his life. Bight sons aod daughter*
were born to them, all living but ooe
»* the'f Pereu**’ golden wedding to
1880. From the storm of political life,
the great statesman ever found a liar
bor of not ia the homo at Uawarden.
Men, tor aom* reason or other, toy
atiiw* upon the last words of the re
■■owned of earth. Perhaps men for
gat that if a man di* he shall lire
agaia, and tlist, wheu anal aod body
are re-ualicd In the rvatirrootlou, the
voice, long hashed In dtuUi, shall be
beard again. The last word of Gtad
stea* waa-Amse .»* Fte had bane *»
aousesooa aod little Dorothy Drear had
Just goo* out of the sieh chamber in
(ears because her grandfather did not
know her. His sou want to the bed
side and recited tha litany. Tba oM
auui murmured “Amec,” and then
the tide of life ebbed. It wu a Suing
word to ewd tha career of a mag wh*
ygMflgU ‘foth: “I have fought
arAxoM* man.
A Britan nip Cupiato naB lamw
Pnrilao* Awliri fhto raaotrp m
Bum.
llahliBni* laa, lata.
Captain Wood, of tha lklUah ateem
erXlwicfc, which arrivad at BoU men's
wharfyesterday morning vttkttano
of telpher ooo from Huelva, Spain,
britigi memori-m of experleaoas In that
Hp*^ *?»». ladlcato that
neither UM flag of Gnat Britain nor
JTtStEuiS:th*lD*uH*
WooA "*• U»* April
93 to 87, tha tin bo ramaload la that
port, thoro waa aeooUanatlcn af pa
ndao and tpaooHai evaty night directed
toanUinn the SpaolMdaaad vIHlfy
Urn AmmIohs. and lnoldao tally tba
Laborers paid to load Um Xlwick re
fated to perform tbatr dnty hooama It
waaoomngMd to Baitlmora. an Auer
Captain Wood left without
Qiiltbing loading to tba oapecily of tbo
Ship, which be tmoka never eould have
been done.
An IMtacor of the batted of the
Hpanlah fur America wot tbo attack
upoo the EnglMb hotel whore Captain
Wood and two other Brltbu sbipoue
tera made tbelr homo while aabore. In
the upper story of tba hotel tba Vane
aueloo consol, a rmtdant of Spain, had
tendered his nmtgaaUoo upon the be
gioolcg of tbo trouhlm mod turned
CoreC IS* popon to tbo TeaeMedmi/lag
tbo United States aod the 1 '
displayed baton oooeutate
ware in the poaasaUon of tiat Vi
UnoooMl, tbo mob made an
upoo the botel.
Captain Wood end Mi two friends
and the proprietor of the botel berrl
«oded every eat re see. Mo sea, wood
and kolvaa were bailed against the
dour and It waa Carood. Captain Wood
aad all wltb Mat mode an exit through
Um back ixfid thAiMltM.
Oaptaio Wood soya a rod doth
waved ota bull la a Spanish ring by a
Matador would not infests Um animal
half as much as the Bight oftbeSUra
aad Stripe*, or arm the meotioa of
the Ualtad State* would a Spaniard,
eiUirr of high or lew degree.
Tbe wse tut* b. iwi awimiby.
Xnr y«« World.
When this war teak* out we had
•very opportunity to mi it quickly.
If Dewey's splendid performs** bad
(wan followed ay by tba destruction of
tbe Havana forte, by tbe conquest at
Foru> lUeo, by tbe capture ofJfsUn
aw or by any other operation of the
kind, then would have been as Imme
diate ead to tbe war,
Spain was already on tbe brink of a
revolution. U needed ouly one or twv
mare decisive vioionva to cud the war
aa Kepoleeo’a wait were ceded.
Hut our Washington boards uf strat
egy art out Napoleonic. Tuoy have
pottered aad paltered and wasted time
Ui the greet opportunity Is lorn.
They Dave unwitUagly playad luto
tba bands of tlie Spauiah. InsUad of
■coding oar great naval eoginat of de
struction to repeat Dewey's perform
ance, they bare kept them dodging
about all tbo aaaa In search of an elu
sive fleet wbons aula purpose was to
avoid battle and to restrain our ships
from everything like deeiaire action by
lugeoious unsooaovariag.
The result la that wa tsow bare a
prolonged war on onr bands, when we
might Lave wade an sod of tba affair
in thirty daya. Wa liafa given Jllanoo
time to stretch telegraph wires all
around Cube, and wa have thus multi
plied bin power to oeaoantrate troop*
sod resist our landtag.
We shell "do tbe Job," of course.
But tbe coat of Its doing, both in
moae> and in brave man's Urea, will
be very greatly increased because of
Sunday school strategy and debating
•uoirty directions of calltLary opera
tlOU4.
Wby not even now make an and of
tbe pottering? Why not turn Samp
son and SehUy and tbe military people
louse and let umm do the work? Na
poleon said that "one bad general la
better than two good owes." Surely
one geoeral under orders to capture
Cuba would do more than any board of
strategy beat npon making tbo moat
peaceful and blood Isas war poatbie.
" Yon aaenot make an oserfet with
out breaking eggs,” said Bismarck.
Aad the more promptly am greeted to
break eggs the fewer eggs shall wo
bare to break.
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* «Hw—o» t«i»i«« am,
TIm St. I/onto Sr public mjK “lodi
eettoas point to %a early MUMMUM'
of tbe deal tot Um organization of UM
gigaetle Ueatlaaotel Tobacco Com
pany. Ittoaademood that tba capi
tal (tack of Um new corporation will
be Qxr4 at fJO.rOO.fiOO and that ft will
uka la all of Um bu plug tobaoeo fao
tortoa «t> tba United stataa.
I bad a little boy who was nearly
daad from an attest of whooping
coorh. My neighbors recommended
Chamber lain’* (>.ofh Remedy. I did
not tblok that aay medteiee would
help him, bat after firing him a few
dome of that remedy I helloed aa im
provement and om bottle acred him
entirely. it to the heat eoagb modi
-aae I soar bad la tba boom—Jill.
Meora, South Burgattetown. Pa. Par
■•to by 1. E. Carry A Co,
Oeorga Downing, •llaa ttawllao, tba
man arrested asdar * tuple lea of betM
a apy la UW aaratoa of Spalo. baagad
biaaelf at tba Washington. I>. C. ton
raeka on Thursday of 1am walk. A
tonal ami alto Uaadketahtof wera aaed
aa tba lastrnmaats of danlb. TheetV
doom agaiaat him was strang and he
taallaed hto fata aad aeUelpmed li.
I hate been a aaflktor from akteato
dtorrfeem ever (lam the war aad bate
umd all klada of madtetnaa far it. Jkx
torn I fbaed <me remedy that baa baaa
a aaaama m a tare, aad that to Okam
bmtoda’e < tolla, Obalara aad Dtorrtww*
niMidy.«F, 1 OfMiam oanMIIh
1m. Por mto by J. K. Carry * Co.
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Tte following, mm M
* by ttePopatlK
I—Tf nnnBSwl
. oooternoo** ^
■tellte Mtbodnd tonmCwT__
principles AOd Mrpoifi sstf Vltfdi
Swom co-operation wiUi Fopaltot par
ty, to mury tea anna into effect mm
mod bate an wOl maintain tetaef tte
1 “*tertty ot tbo Falk's party, and u
ww to •* ooc ten* than IM
P»nt nvnMMatloa lb both mate
noU national affair*."
Onr Raleigh oorroapoodant ra
marlnd nry tral? npoe this la yes
terday’a paper; “J.tte tba postscript
of a woman’* tatter. that UK niauaa to
tte really important one. It monte a
demand far a Fopnltot Senator. Ova
Congressmen, and plenty of ’pie’ gen
erally.” That U what It means. Tte
Fopoliat patty of thla State moatared
In tte UK election aboat OO.CMO voter*.
Upon tba basis of tte ante in tte mate
convention Tuesday night It May In
•aid that haunter Hotter controls two
tblnte of tte party dad Wsnrsaaatatl**
Sklswr ooo-thlrd, or ooa 80,000 voters
and tba otter 10,000. Suppose, then,
that Senator Butler eaa teHwr tte
whole of Ills iu.000 te a Damocratlo
FopnlUt fusion deal. The Ilwannrstin
ijarty baa a strength of about 148,000.
Tte naked proportion to that tte 1*3,
000 mate a deal in tte sKoat with U
00.000 aad ghra than tba lion’s tear
of tte booty.
That to tba only way te look at it
nod looted at in that way what do
P«!»o°r«» think or ten proposition T
Im considering It they eoad to tear la
■tod tte retara of Mr. Batter to tte
teaatowrtte aaodtag to bit stead af
•omo otter Fopultotaf bis faction.
•* 4 Bnk* at T*»-,
Tto Balttaeor# Mm potato out >
omm rmwktolt daUcrttr la Um
uhto*MU4tof Ctamnodorn Ytowy at
M—JM.to tort «rfSir tnca* Onto, *
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tSIrtSR
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Tto UoUahta dtata Mila toa flMto*.
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sa-Tiwra i k
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toiadBa aad latatod toattilf ataa t*M
wtotnwaa ft# told ttotoaapfaT
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