| Show I PITY POOR OLD SPAIN Carlism Adds Another Danger to Her List of His AN ARCHBISHOPS LETTER PRACTICALLY AMOUNTS TO A CAELIST MANIFESTO Made the Text For Much Gush By Carlist OrganAttack On King George Greatly Overrated Insinuation Insin-uation That It Was Engineered In the Kings Interest London March Copyright 1898 by Associated PressThe consul general gen-eral of Spain is responsible for a curious cur-ious advertisement which has appeared in the London newspapers calling upon Spanish deserters fugitives and youths who have not yet drawn lots for military mili-tary service to come to the consulate and acquaInt themselves with an Important Im-portant royal decree of pardon which concerns them Thus far there has been no response The pastoral letter of Cardinal Casca jares archbishop of Valladolld has added another danger to the long list I threatening Spain by giving such a boom to Carlism and no student of Spanish history would be surprised I were an outbreak to occur shortly In the northern provinces The text of this letter shows that it practically amounts to a manifesto In favor of lesUimism as the sole remedy for the manifold evils eccisting in Spain The Cariists are using the manifesto for all it is worth declaring it to be one of the blackest yet most truthful paintings paint-ings of the condition of Spain under the reign of Maria Christiana CARLIST GUSH The Correo oran of the Cariists calls the pastoral letter An outburst from a soldiers heart suffering for the miseries of the fatherland and indignant indig-nant at the insults offered to the Spanish Span-ish flag by the North American merchants mer-chants from the heart of an apostle filled with compassion for our brave soldiers fighting and dying without glory the victims of treachery and saysThe The relate clearly points out that the Cariists are the only party with the necessary cohesion strength and faith to carry on the glorious traditions of Spain Even the liberal Imparclal stoutly commends the cardinals action The semiconsternation which was created at the time of Prince Henrys visit when the German warships Deutschland Deutsch-land and Gotten suddenly loomed out of the fog without having previously been signalled has aroused the authorities au-thorities to a sense of the necessity of taking additional precautions and they are now erecting quickfiring guns and search lights At he entrance to Portsmouth Ports-mouth harbor there will be a light powerful pow-erful enough to sweep Splthead and guns wIH be so placed that ships entering en-tering must pass under their muzzles THAT KING GEORGE ATTACK After reflection the Saturday Review concludes that the seriousness of the attack upon King George of Greece has not been greatly overrated Indeed In-deed it insinuates that the whole af fair was engineered with the idea of arousing as it actually did a revolution revolu-tion of feeling in favor of the dynasty The Saturday Review compares the known power of the Gras rifle bullets capable of piercing 18 inches of solid oak with the slight dent in the metal lump and the small mark on the woodwork wood-work where the bullets struck the carriage car-riage notes that the horses had several sev-eral slight abrasions and that the harness har-ness was cut and concludes with congratulating con-gratulating the king that the horses did not bolt in which event there might have been some danger JAPANS D IAJ DIf D-If the Tien Tsin correspondent of the Daily Mail waswell Informed in say ing that Japan has addressed a note to Russia demanding explanation of the continued occupation of Port Arthur it must lead taken in conjunction with the activity In the refortlficatlon of Wei Hai Wei to a recrudescence of the uncertainty worry and alarm which kept the two hemispheres on tenterhooks tenter-hooks at Christmastime As the Associated Asso-ciated Press pointed out on Jan 22 the diplomats have always dreaded that Japan would take isolated action in defense of Corean neutrality To this trouble which seems to be brewing brew-ing is attributable the continued dispatch dis-patch of Russian French and British reinforcements to the far east Evidently Evi-dently Japan is preparing for the struggle strug-gle which must come some day and which will be the fiercer the longer it is delayed TO PAINT AMERICANS Carolus Duran sails for the United States on March 12 to paint some of the best known American beauties i A serious misfortune has occurred to the Cambridge university crew C M Steel the light blue stroke has had a sudden attack of gastric > influenza In consequence of the strong recommendation recom-mendation of the bishop of Delaware and others It has been decided to start the Order of the Daughters of the King of England of which many bishops and clergymen are strongly supporting the movement and a meeting has been convened in the church house for Monday Mon-day next in order to inaugurate the order It Is said In Brussels that when Prince Albert of Belgium returns home from the United States he will be raised to the rank of major in his grenadier regiment and that his betrothal to his cousin the Princess Clementine who was engaged to th elate Prince Ba douin will be announced DRINK INCREASE The Times in its annual statement says the drink bill of the United King dom is nearly 3500000 in excess of that in 1S9G averaging 3 16s d about 1912 for each man woman and child The English press has universally printed praises of the statement that Mark Twain Mr Samuel L Siemens has paid the last of his Webster Co debts Dr McAllister wrltng to the Times on the subject says Wtih the exception of the historical case of Sir Walter Scott I do not think there Is to be found In the records of literature anything quite equal to Mark Twains conduct |
