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Show I 1 General Metheun's name is pro nounced Mevven a word of two syllables, sylla-bles, just the same as Dennis. ' The common, newspaper spelling of i 1 ihe Boer general's name is Delarey, but I Michael Davitt, . who knows him per- i sonally and has corresponded with him, J j spells it,, in his forthcoming book. De j I I la Hey. His full name is Jacob Hen- I : ! drick De la Hey, and he is of Hugue- ' not -descent. ' ' Very much to his disgust, that ser- ' , nion which Rev. Dr. Albritton of Salt k ' ' Lake delivered on immigration hud not i 1 : the slightest efTect on congress. The bill ' excluding' the Chinese went Ihrough the house with a whoop, and I ; the "beer guzzling: German and dan- I ; gerous Irishman" are not disturbed in I , their right to become naturalized cit- izens. T.:-ginning an account of the crime I ; committed by the boy Felt, a reporter ! , of one of the Salt Lake dailies wrote: I "With large beads of perspiration j ; Ktnnding out on their foreheads, tears streaming" from their eyes and sick at heart. Officers Gillespie and Roberts returned re-turned from Hell's hollow this morning." morn-ing." . The only interrogation to fit such a I paragraph is the commonplace one: I "Wouldn't that jar you?" Language l.ke the reporter's is employed to begin ( hapters of the dime novels found in the boy's possession. Nearly ninety-three million gallons of I alcoholic spirits were consumed by the tipplers of England, Scotland and Ire- land in one year, according to statis- I tics. Averaging the total per head and j ' i assuming that everybody in the islands i . drank more or less, the statistician makes the Englishman get away with I -.30 gallons, the Scotchman 1.72 and the I Irishman l.fi:. These figures explain I the reason why a Scotchman can put two Englishmen asleep under the table, . , dance a hornpipe on top of it, and the liquor never phases him. H drinks less spirits than the Englishman, al- t though that fact has heretofore been- 1 ' d if-puled. We hear little about Senator Rawlins Raw-lins in this neck of the woods, because he has no newspaper organ and there j is not a genuine Democratic paper j published in the state. By his politi- ( cal antagonists, Rawlins is desiribed as an icicle and a person lacking in i personal magnetism. In natural science, an icicle would not be selected as a transmitter of heat; yet In some ' way this senatorial icicle has aroused the c holer of the Imperialists all over i the country and compelled the secre tary of war to reluctantly submit documents, doc-uments, purposely withheld, relating to crookedness in the Philippines. Senator Sena-tor Rawlins of Utah and Senator Pat-, Pat-, terson of Colorado have done their countrymen much service. Through their efforts the reading public is en abled to comprehend the true condition of affairs in the islands. The minority' 1 bill, of course, will be defeated. All N ! the same we are learning the truth, though it is forced from unwilling lips. i How in the world did this paragraph i get into the Salt Lake Telegram? one . " f the two administration organs of this y ' j : city: i As readers of the Telegram probably are aware, it is proposed that the "thanks of congress" shall be extend- j ' to Admiral Kempff, because, when ; . tbe allied fleets were at Taku and the Chinese government was strenuously at : t ' ' work trying to butcher our legation ! people, he manfully refused to lire on' the Chinese forts at the time the other international commanders did. It required re-quired moral courage for Kempff to withhold the enthusiasm of his officers and men, raised to a fever point by rumors ru-mors of a massacre at Pekin. and he should be rewarded. Sampson also always al-ways refrained from injuring the en- emy. and it might be a remarkably jolly good scheme to include him in the thankfulness. "Swearing Bob" Evans, too. although he was in a fight, is said to have sought the seclusion which a turret grants. Perhaps he, too, might be considered eligible. At a recent meeting of the Catholic association. Cape Town, South Africa, Rev. Dr. Welch made a speech protesting protest-ing against the accession oath of King Edward VII, in which he (Dr. Welch) said: "We have all been deeply moved and disgusted at the slanders against our troops (British troops) which have been ciiviil.-itAil in certain foreiirn news papers. Rut speaking from experience of our Catholic soldiers, I doubt whether there is one of these foreign slanders which causes a more bitter wound in the hearts of our Irish and other Catholic soldiers than the calumnies cal-umnies which are leveled against them and their religion in the first greeting with which parliament commands the sovereign to hail hi subjects. At Ta-lana Ta-lana hill, Colenso and Paardeberg and elsewhere these men have risked all that man most values under the deadly Roer fire. For months, even years, they have kept the weary night watches under a burning sun in order to do their duty and fulfill their oath of allegiance to the king. .What is the use of all the praise lavished upon them from many quarters when the religion which they value most is publicly insulted in-sulted by an act of parliament?" And what is the use of all Dr. Welch's talk? the Freeman's Journal pertinently pertinent-ly inquires. Parliament, or at least the government, through Mr. Dalfour, has declared that the oath is not to be altered. al-tered. What is Dr. Welch going to do about it? Resolutions and speeches won't be enough. There have been tons of such during the past twelve months from English Catholics every where. How, if they would try tne Irish plan of stopping Catholic enlistments enlist-ments or service in the army? How if the English Catholic officers would throw up their commission and refuse to fight for a king who calls them idol-ators? idol-ators? Action like this would be better than cyclopedias of talk. But action like this is not to be expected from men who take part in such work as the British are doing in South Africa. |