| Show I 1 ND A ND HER ENEMIES Some oj the Ike Sore s on the lize Fr oj lite e flow They Tiley Affect Peace oj of Euro e r Is I the bc t hated tEt tn the world Whether that U It I her fault or her hir tie O are area on vr largely r or nfl an td r There Is I a fart howeVer and AIU that 19 I ln rw pant Great Iboa that nuch eh un be ba v to tn herself to that pOwer eanes attitude ot of chronic In ID hr much like ancient Ath I vel The Te once onoe corn com rill crL tt the to the theaY th In fl I a barbarian box boxe fits UIa aY with the blow U Is so O taken up he t I tut to deliver or has hns Just ro re that lie he never seems to have bave an as to what to expect Idea aea that next to t do lint ct or OF nelt act It must bo be Ish ih uth the tho I same mo manner Great very ery In BritaIn n bill ha been so wrApped rAPpel up In her heruth war that she ha baJ uth toward th the war I ty h her r eyeS eu that haVe beep been gathering parts ot Of the tho world woth flut itt In u ly n fathering they have been and It ts Is In to note just where these cloud hang and what Is theIr character ll tIow w John null to acor anther tar I victory From Irom Alaska to Is n a Car mr cry but In n a ns the tho two are vcr very closely It does de denot not require much to establish how commar commercially lally and Irn logically the Nicaragua ORnal II cC at gret to the peu fIlU pIe plc of oC ourselves Great am Is more Interested In this canal than I III any other country have havo long thu commandIng And tm of at the NiCaraGua route for Cor that country like America has hils round found herself In of oC an eer grow growing Ing markel In the east England has now the opportunity to pursue a dog doc In Inthe inthe the for by InsIsting on tho ot of the treaty t she sh ran can claim that the United States hils no right to the ex clu Ie control and or of any ony waterway across the tho mus mUI ot of Panama Thre Thero nave ne St it Is true been heen numerous official on the or of against the perpetuity ot or this treaty ot of haf ha C a century ago At man Juit at pr present sent eer every one In the tho Ile from count to concierge Is I bent on mAking the coming exposi exposition Uon tion a 11 great and It Is only nat Ural that the or of France wilt will bend every overy chergy toward remaining on friendly terms with all the groat greal powers until the city on the Seine shall he Wrung the ex number or of francs from Crum Its lis tew million viSitorS dur durIng trig Ing the summers But there are certain terrItorial lions that are on even more than a 11 afew low few million francs franca and Paris Is III alt l g only for tor the iii leAst excuse from Lon London don to open ollen the old ie of the question and fling the In the face ot of her enemy Then too I rance has stilt another quarrel or of long stAnding wIth Ith Greet Britain and one that ReemA hopelessly In its This Thia I Is that Is known ns as the th French shore I question In The recent undIsguised hostility ot of the I prose prOAl and amI a portion ot the nIn In with the tho at ar artall tall fair has linn given this old matter a new Importance There Is 18 a touch louch or of orthe the ludicrous In this old quarrel ot of ci al two standing when It Is II remembered that It practIcally on the vital query quer Is the tho lobster a fish The l that the ler to nl all Int intents And purposes Is n a The cl claIm hn that this delectable crustacean Is not neer was a fish fly Dy old treaty rights th the have the privilege ot of fishIng on the west wesl and northeast ot of Newfoundland Accordingly they have hare lob lobI I r for tor the packing ot of the detectable delectable To tM Ihl s the N fishermen most vigorously objected The French fishermen went enton on catching and pack log their lobsters so the Newfoundland fishermen went to work and broke brok up upa a factory or two Jut just ns as n a gentle hInt as to their attitude In the matter ot of reo re the as fish were charges and countercharges and the matter Datter had to be taken up by bythe bythe the two homo governments and then I carried before n a board ot of A modus woe and the theto two to agreed to enact for tor the arbitration awards the adjustment 11 b by no means Inan enUs Newfoundland chard chafed un den der the ot of the home restrictions lion but thIngs drifted along untIl the end nd of when hen the term lerm ot of the modus ex expired pt as was the theca I caul ca with the Alaskan boundary die putt pul was tol at this time In a position for fat outside trouble so eo a crisis was I b by an extension ot of time or of one year eor French fishermen are still re reo I gardin lobsters liS as fish Osh and New Newfoundland ew ewI nd fishermen are still till making It I flu DB disagreeable for tor the as possible hut the adjustment Is only temporary and the Is n a die one The recent I iy appointed b by Mr dr Chamberlain dId not bring In un an alto altogether solacing re report report port Among other things thine the English bed lo o tell how Iton French whilo permitted under the to frequent the seaboard only during the summer months and erect temporary structures for tor drying lUr poses lions had assumed the right to von oon trot the entire region had put up big III permanent factories and had the sparse and poverty stricken n native population along ul coast None Nono ot of these theM things was wa for tor forJohn John Hull to swallOW but wallow swallow them ho had hod to b aU fuet about that time vis 1111 giving him sn an up un i easy eay d Oem Oom Will was get getting getting ting on hIs Itis S England over a 0 above d this has ba al alWI alwa WI wa i had a w V I developed tNt at French In waters witter because I 1 nn ance enjoys the ab absolute tOMe solute and anno g a ot of St t 1 group ot of little I IlAMs lAMs oft off the tho Mad head t bay ThIs ftc Frenchmen Ipke th their lr tens during the ehing St StPierre PI Pierre e the capiti O of r the little group Kroup I is end lind indeed It Is believed that the land holds holda Immense moro more and less lees expansive methods ut of enlarging his map maJl This great white bear laar Prefers to work In his hla QUiet Implacable way with no hurr hurry and no waste Jen tho will ot of the Great advised the extensIon or of the ern empire lre down to the J gulf gult cod and that It would be welt well to 10 hn hns ten the decay or of Persia During the last lall 40 years has truly the decay ot of but In A very ery overt manner A railway now runs runa from to nu la has and tOwns In the north ot of the Iho old time empire or of Xerxes and halt half WRY way down to the gulf gult Russian Interests ar ate Not Nat mpg ago the government authorized the Loan flank ot of to take tako up the national loan of oC The czar In the honda accepted nl as security the rl rev enu or if nil all the custom CUllom hous houses ot of lx those th on the gulf Persia Peril has not to contract any for lor sign loan leap until thu present loan is 11 en trel paM paid ort oft In othir words orill Xulla Irsla la is and politically political under the I lice heel of the WhIte Czar and England Is hut but stretch h out on one and It II his D t this thiu he dart daro do So he tentatively runs uns n a toward towaN It ItIn ItIn In fact he is IN II A firm in rail railways ways was file has hili been pu pushed hed through from on the sea Irom flunder Abba Abb on the gulf gult he is III stealing Into Inlo At and by the time John huh has is II eyes Oes thoroughly open It Is moro more than likely that troops will b be marching through the streets ot of that ancient city The construction of oC the tho raIlway by I ii ci al already ready absolutely decided ulton The Tho Theline line will Ia be milts mIles Ion long and will Colt coet the government rubies I Abbas Abba will be by way ot of Tabriz n nand and Herman NO NA nation In the orld has done moro more railroad building than Ihan has hAB Russia durIng the last ten years eats At these rold have ben been hullt not by private c corporations hut by the flue Hus ship Ilan government That Is III the WRY way Hu Bus Busai ai 81 has hus been n her greet great army out ot of mischief Laying tails rails taku taki the exuberance ot of spirits out ot of would be fighters and besides It comes cheap is II lot a c country like Greet has Ii 4 tremendous standing army to kelP liP up and It Is just as 1111 11 that this army 1 earn its salt Title This It oan do by building and operating such a tine One biG concern as the I 1 i J oJ I II I I cF I Ju f i i ra f I if IW I c cv 14 9 I IR c v R t I ii ft i t tt L i I and dancer Attention has hall been direct Iii rd ta t th them m afresh because of the jaunty jaunt but hi manner In Cn which Eng England land has declined all mediation In the up or of her bitter and In the tho lower end ot of the dark friendless however En Eng lead land feels secure because of at the tact that each or of her enemies Is jealous ot of the be This International enmity she he Is II so PO strong as to render an effective alliance against her herand herand and hr plans ot of empire building The British empire today has no less leu than II tender spots none ol of which bear Very ery severe handling b by el elther flier ther herself or her enemies The first ot of these to sUgGest Itself Is the Alaska boundary One year en ngo England was try ery noli noisily 11 for tor a solution of the Alaskan boundary difficulties Ca aldian had hod even een been sent up Into the disputed territory and for Cor n a atine tine Urne feeling wi ot at a danger us pitch h Then John Dull saw that trouble was rg and cooled down downer er eny Doth Both the conference at and that at Washington demonstrated the lack or of Unanimity In the different members ot of the of at arbitration Hut when trouble in South Africa arose the ofil this at Washington not wishing un to embarrass an ostensibly power flOwer allowed the matter to 10 tot t over on suspended Judgment But Dut or of late a new culty has arIsen It 11 hs been by our govern that eVen ot at the present time Great Is busIly engaged In her tremendous tion at The government of er tha r republic tt It mIght J be e added has neel just why Great lint aId Iia this British bia bt into Inlo a second GIbraltar This cem particularly Inscrutable h n II i Is remembered that this fort rort menaces J Portland Seattle Tu T loa and other cities log the ta fact t that English statesmen hue hae most s In declare to ot f their undying admiration and love for tor this country While Great has Ih the tight right to fortify every Inh or of British Columbia and all allot ot of Canada for tor that matter It must not nal seem leem n a little strange that she make nake t a 11 for which she ehe Is so 60 protesting eternal friend ship bip and affection Esquimalt I is can col near nur to Alaska and It Is In the race fare or of such luch circumstances that careful students of the trend of at things 1 are arl beginning to look Jook upon part arl ot of the map lIh renewed ap Not that there must iney be war over this long disputed boUndary line ilae But It take only n a I SPark s I u explode lode the powder and after the result ot or the Caie America is II not likely to r it S I Y N f fI fc c I ri J 0 a 4 C v vI I Jt j c p a 4 fi V I T 7 J IiI IiII I t t A i i m C Chr Hf I hr IT THE mE CZAR OZAR OP OF RUSSIA AND HIS PRIME MINISTER 4 p one time tIme It hooked ns as though Great would insist on the letter ge cC the treat treaty and that the actual construction ot of the canal should be In IndefinItely definItely poStponed But Dut no now that the tho thoma ma matter has baa been look looked d Into and the pu and claims ot th the two to have hao become better understood there seems less and I lees II danger daner of oC serious complications arising Still Nicaragua must be looked upon ns as another nt at Great re SPOtS to be touch etl with the lightest of at diplomatic On fin gers gera for tor come ome time to rom come Another port part ot of the map should hould gIve glo the ordinary English Englishman I man an unell uneasy feeling II he that territory about Ih the ancient little town ton tit of I on the tho Nile lIt have I not nor ner Is IsI I the dispute for It stands b by an any In hI fart 1 has hns been rt re reported I ported that French rench officers and i In thIs country he have been notified by their government that they should held themselves In for ter a Call tal to I arms In view ot of tile the preSent conditIon ot of affairs During the floor war rance has had plenty of DC opportunity to display her real feeling toward England She has Inken of at that opportunity to the full tull and It hu has not been done In a 11 aray way ray alle altogether to the English f ann armS ant ThIs pr HI gives elves o a kc key to the 61 Lawrence the rs doorway ot of Can Great Is fg troops In r h I her garrison bel at heliCaL o very er cn reasons I y yOli Oli Mew Men with r the e present att tude or of hostility tho and fee teo Ime uneasiness rl rj garding 3 the outcome f C when t the o pr nt temporary temporal adjustment exPIre Edt reat hoe lias n a more dread dreaded I ed tt than 1 end And that enemy Is nue tn Ther jis a time when lands land Influence saC 4 aS ae In n It once is II In China ot Of late latea I a has baa c n j r for tor tho ener Slav has hili been doter closer and closer upon Tibet and Peking of 01 eli the great II e the one England most I 1 with the Imperl pAssion is III I th h land ot of the czar So It W iti only nat that when two such uch powers er rub j there theN is III rable crable friction FlIr several Itral yearl years now It hits hils been Jeen fL a l pot t d often orten that the Slav and the wi 11 to come to some tremendous and ond clash or of arms This ina i mn nEy not be true but ine lne thing I te ertain and that thatIs Is II the Mar will never be beGin begin Gin the II 11 1101 bi more effective unable to do n a thing There hH has been no breech or of International no invasions In and nothing that was not entirely legitImate and allow allowable able But won lon and Is II still win winning fling ning what John null huh would have hae given hIli hi eyeteeth to 10 po S Whet What the czar wants more than anything Jut just at tnt ent 1 II U a port on the Per Persian an gulf gUlt Just why he wants wantA that I is RI as dr as water Such a port would constitute a jumping oft oer ground when on once Ii a military rail railI railway I wa way was al laid from Crom lI for tor the thelong long Invasion of at In Indin Indin din oro th the Sla Slav mind Asia AlIa should all allbe allbe be Tile The SIa Slav claims that I Nunry because he Is II more Asiatic than European England In Alii Ashi Is II an Incongruity In snaking sure lure or of a so JO nov no she ho II atilt to meno menace Great at three Cr tn m Tibet Tibt t on the north and from hersla ellIa on the west Ht of oC India and In th the tnt east JOlt at present England Indian army I is lit at Its lowest ebb TrooPS have haTe ben drawn otT from Asia Alia to tart carr on the against the tho Beers and naturallY has 1141 realized that lI is III her So this Is II why h there Is to PO much 51 cc 00 In the neighborhood ot of n t jit wt at the present time scents err To take It the czar need line and ond In al allow allow low to menace Pekin So standing back and at these thee dIfferent International It seems seemA that is II slow I Ir carefully and most calmly calm making gigantic preparatIons for some great struggle With her fter old arch enemy tM th While Great Is 19 carrying on ifs Ils war and grabbIng Its it occasional lIttle bIt of oC territory and pH pHing Ing up gold Rold In street the Sit Slav Is going on growing hIs hll wheat opening up UI his new grain lands and smilingly building his railway bridges and hIs fleet Should war break out irs In time between these two greet great powers anti and should Russia attempt to India train Crom Its present sovereign 8 It I would auld be a struggle In which 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