Show INVASION CAPE GOLONY I History Fails to Furnish a Parallel to the Move 1I 1 I PART OF A GREAT SCHEME Gen Derwct by the Invasion Hoped to Strike Terror in tho British Colony Almost Denuded of Troops and Trust to a Chapter of Accidents to Achieve Such Success as Would Enable En-able Him to Almost Dictate Terms of Peace Britons Are Disgusted With Policy of the Government Tendon Jan 12 History falls to fur I 1 DIsh a parallel to the Boer Invasion of Capo Colony A whole month has elapsed since the republicans crossed the Orange river and still Great Britain Brit-ain knows next to nothing of their numbers whereabouts or doings and still less of the objects of the Inroad The only tiling known with tolerable certainty Is that they are progressing southward over some sparselyInhab ited tracts where they escape observation observa-tion Other large bodies are traversing tra-versing the very heart of the colony The only logical explanation seems to be the largelyaccepted Idea that the I Invasion forms part of a great organized organ-ized scheme of that Napoleon of war I Gen Dcwct to strike terror in the British colony which unquestlonably I Ito I Is nearly denuded of troops and trust to the chapter of accidents to achieve I such success as will enable the Boers to almost dictate the terms of peace NOT MOVING RAPIDLY The halting policy of the Invaders however seems to threaten defeat of thcir alms andhas enabled the hastily enrolled levies oC volunteers to occupy vital strategic points while there arc some signs that the gatherings of troops In the rear of the burghers Is beginning to press them southwardjnto the arms of the British moving from the seaboard Instead of attempting to I drive them back again across the Orange river where they might be enabled en-abled to rejoin Gen Dcwet DISGUSTED WITH GOVERNMENT I In the meanwhile disquieting hints are arriving of the alarming rapidity with wlil < 1t the British army Is wasting away The long lists of dead wounded I and diseased bear out these stories while there are ajaundant signs that the troops at the front are becoming discontented the general exasperation at home Is J1 becoming more acute and the public Is becoming quite skeptical of the competency of the Government to get the country out of the wretched tangle CONDEMN DUKE OF NORFOLK Seldom has there been such a universal I uni-versal condemnation of the utterances of a public man as greeted the recent address of the DukG of Norfolk to the Pope expressing J hope of the restoration restora-tion of temporal independence of tho pontiff Bitter as have been the denunciations de-nunciations of the Italian press the comments of the London newspapers have > een Quite as caustic DAILY NEWS BITTER Nothing cOuld be njorc contemptible than the Duke of Norfolks behavior says the DailY News If the Italian Government had known he was visiting Rome for the purpose of protesting against their presence in their own capital they would have been perfectly Justified in stopping him atthe frontier Not content with insulting the King of Italy and the people oC Rome his despicable des-picable address also condemned the toleration tol-eration of Italian Protestants by tho Italian Government It would be duB cult for an English Catholic to sink lower Movements at York house Twicken ham Indicate that It is the intention of the Duke of Orleans to return to Eng land whence he had been ostracised since he congratulated Wlllette the Llmnor on the caricatures grossly insulting in-sulting to Queen Victoria which appeared ap-peared In the Paris comic papers The Dukes mother tho Countess of Paris Is said to have been In communication with the Queen and Prince of Wales in the hope of patching up the matter STORIES ABOUT ARMOUR The newspapers devote much space to the late Philip D Armour Columns of storIes have been printed mostly apocryphal us can be Judged from u sample from the Dally Chronicle as follows Mr Armour usually took six weeks each year for driving In a coach I through England It costs me tho t writer quotes him ns saying a fraction I 1 under 2 a day per head for myself and j guests frr coach hire The writer J I adds that Mr Armour wa n careful I but not a mean man and this low cstl I mate ot the coat of the coaching was duo to tho fact that Mr Armour and the guests he was likely to invite drank water at their meals WAS THE CURSE TRANSFERRED The memorial to be used as an institute Insti-tute by the Gordon Highlanders at I Aberdeen which Mrs Forbes Lellh J I formerly of New York intends at a I cost of 1000 to erect In memory of her non Lieut Percy F Forbes Lclth of the I First Royal Dragoons who died of I fever recently at Newcastle Natal recalls re-calls the fact that Fyvle castle Mrs i Forbes Lelths residence is one of the many mysterious places In Scotland I I said to have a curse which invariably J falls on the eldest son of the house I For many generations the property has I failed to descend In a direct line and I when DuffGordon sold Fyvle castle to Air Forbes Leith It was argued that the curse could not be transferred to another family But the death of the young subaltern at the age of 20 has revived the superstitions of all Aber deenshlre Mrs Forbes Lelth was formerly for-merly Miss January of St Louis FOUND A HORNETS NEST United States Consul Church Howe of Palermo who has Just exchanged posts with Mr G M Johnstone Sheffield Shef-field has found a hornets nest awaiting await-ing him which he has since been busily engaged In combatting During the interregnum In-terregnum the ViceConsul who Is a British subject had undertaken to construe con-strue the consular rules In such a manner man-ner tInt he Imposed additional fees on exporters for affidavits not heretofore demanded In a fortnight the Vlce Consul created so much Irritation that the Chamber of Commerce had to draw i up a protest to Lord Salisbury requesting re-questing that it be forwarded to Washington Wash-ington Mr Howe Immediately countermanded coun-termanded the ViceConsuls rulings and a speedy reorganization of the consulate con-sulate is anticipated In spite of the large Increase of American manufacture of cutlery said Mr Howe to a representative of the Associated Press there are some I Sheffield articles we demand and our view of a Consuls duty is lo In every way facilitate the export trade Sheffield Shef-field has been a point of more or less friction for years But I trust I can make reciprocally l more pleasant for both exporters and Consul |