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Show TIirDUKE: DiHT rAZZjTT DID YOU ! t .... DETSmi:il MORG, UTilll, SUNDAY CUITZ. f TV 27, 1891. S2 A CHRISTMAS t FROM .a Somo one whom you little thought had you in mind ? Do you feel now as if you must return the gift ? Of course you should, and" the remembrance should consist of something substantial, serviceable and useful. What can be more appropriate than V ' ' ; A; HANDSOME FOLDING BED, AN ELEGANT SIDEBOARD OR A - TABLE? DINING-ROO- M Is such a breent too costly for your purse ? Then, how will a nice Easy Chair.Leather Rocker, or Rattan Goods do ?i A Hall Chair, Hat Rack, Cheffonier, Curtains, Rugs or Carpet are always acceptable, and imost always needed things. Have you seen our Big Offer, to last through the Holidays? A Bed, Dresser, Commode, two High Back Cane Chairs and a Center Table for DOLLARS x Because we do not advertise aS aii: installment house, do not think we won't ineet all your requirements. We are here to please and serve the people. , i - - s LAST HIS By E. CHANGE. J 41 rf wttd. ''"LI drlti ma. bu gou, m; frUsd, ... ADAML wbtrt w LIIDIAT i U aut OOBXtOX. :l j i T la a ffact, ibe papers say, are about that there broken-dowwell-know- n Belvllle township is on Belvllle "run, and Its Inhabitants are not less . ardent than other colonists in the matter of horse racing. They number some; two hundred souls not many more pr less. Yet behold the Belvllle Amateur Turf CI nb, a flourishing and most respectable institution. The Belvllle Plate, tho Belvllle :Amateur Turf Club Cup. the Bel ville Handicap, Steeplechase, Ladles Bracelet! and Members' race are events which anybody would be proud to win, and sensibly enriched by that token; and,. In point of fact, I rode my own Fidgety Dick in more than one of these, not wholly without triumph, at that meeting whereat I next encountered the romantic Jones, t X' was I Leeson's guest, as before as many; times before and since- - for my own station was forty miles further back. The course was four miles from the home station tjnd close to the township, which runs the stock and coach through We route. sent on our racers (for Lee son was riding, too) .rather early in tho ourselves followed in tho morniug,and buggy a! little lanr. The township was crowded. In the postoffice tyeranda we deserted Jones, in clean moleskins, lieH'was alone there, He's drawn a check for the last farthing," Leeson told me, when we saw him. We'll stop at tho postoffice, too; the mall 'came in this morning. I hope Jf our; friend I sober still I" i He was Indeed was sober, very Jpues also pale As we drove up, he came roupd toithe off side and handed Leeson a letter, and Lseson explalmed, "Qood -i r.God I" li I .stared at the men, who were staring at one another and beginning to smile. Then Lesson turned to me and said, , ML 1 11 V w, blue-bush- i ; n a dozen baronets knocking iabcut tho colonies and picking up a ro- manitlc livelihood In the bash. I cannot 3J5ffl ,1V answer tor a aozen baronets, but I did .UIIC SUUICUUB of the kind, who lived In a hut on' liel ville Station, New South Wales. They called him Jon,j but his distinguished real name wasjpo seereti He had talked yery frauklv about himself in the town ship once, whenj the township whisky nearly killed him, but he was equally candid with my friend Leeson, the JJelvtlle overseer, when the latter stopped for tea at the hut. where for months to gether Jones touched nothing stronger. Leeson was a goodlfriend to Jones who must be Jones to us and nothing more. Jones drove one of the Belvllle whims. He spent most of the day un der a great wooden: drum, round which coiled a mighty rope with its two ends down, two deep shafts, and a full bucket alfeays coming up and ab empty one go ing down. The bucket's ullod a tank. which fed the sheep troughs; and what Jones did was to drlvb a horte round and round to torn the arum; to cracic a whip sometime and smoke continually.talK to the! horsei his only comand -panlon in forcible terms. It was not tapping Jones's letter: an intellectual employment. In times Thls 3s frojn a Sydney lawyer; this of plenty in the? paddocks, when the fellow's father and brother have died rains had filled the tank and freshened within & 'few weeks of each other, and ,' 1 'v the whim was not ho's up the Leeaon said what; and I confess I rewanted, and other work was found for Mr. Jones with Jones. But these were rare periods. garded ragged-bearde- d n awe. Perhaps it was vulgar in for Jones was on Belvllle during one of the longest and most obstinate droughts me,' but one doesn't meet r a titled, Crimean-shirte- d of late yours. ;And, I remember finding landed," gentleman on In a him conscientlqusly:at work Sunday every days the bush. There may bo a afternoon, when most men would have dozen bankrupt baronets there; but a been "camping"! In the hut, the first dozen would scarcely leaven flva colonies of ordinary bushmen. time I set eyes oq him. I was luendlntr tha weak end at Bel. " We ought to have a iirlnk on it," ville with my friend, who wanted to see observed the landed, titled gentleman, Jones on some matter Connected with taking back his legal communication.) I the whim; and I was very curios to see noticed we noticed, as I discovered him myself. I' accompanied Leeson In later that he had another letter jibe- d we the buggy, and Jwq found our broken- tween his ;flngers, a down swell serving Mi employers very arq both positive by a woman's hand " Yes, yes, said my friend; " we will. zealously, as I say and toftly swearing at their horse, We drew up in the of course.; But but the down coach checkered shade of the) beams and un. passes through at 3 o'clock. You'll' go rights supporting the drum, and tied the by her, won't ybu? I don't suppose you reins to the brake; and when Leeson had have left any valuables in the ihut; but said what he had come to say, we all I'll send them on if you have; or may I threo walked oyer to thelhut, where the keep thamjln m;cmory of ?" lie-diwhim driver nido tqaforjus. I watched hot say Jones; and I shall never him in the stronglsunllght outside, and forget tho rakish, reckless toss of the I watched him lu the hud as he bent Jow head he Incurred from the man whose 10 diow me emoers 01 nis ore. nts own name 'was no more Jones than mine was. face glowing at every putf. lie had an "Qo!!" lo crlod. with noble scorn. uusteady, uumorpuf eye and he was "To-da- v t oy good sir, I'm going to tho certainly, though the hair races: on his faco was very disorderly, lie had In vain we tried to dissuade him. We a singularly quiet way of speaking, ,and told him td take that day's coach they d he made me such ivilltlep'as a ran but twice weekly and shake the Englishman makes on usiiering one into sand of Rlterlna from his boots forever; lits bouse, 'xnerej was something very or, better still, toavo that decayed pair Incongruous in! his ;alr f gentlemanly .behind,' and return to civilization de when ona considered his po- cently shod, by our Belvllle storekeeper. boepitality looked at! his Crimean shirt But we spoke to dear cars, wo sition and to and dirty moleskins; but my friend had an told'sportsmah., 'Leave then,spoke in the by Introducing very middle of the races? Not he. He begun the Incongruity us. I found it hard-noto eye the man had backed! Fidgetty Dick already (on with unmannerly curiosity. its merits),: and Leeson's horse, too (for We talked on are Called Indiffer what Leeson's sake, I suppose); besides, he ent subjects. ' I was Cousqlous of putting was going forever, of course, and he was a restraint on the conversation. As we not going Without saying good-by- e jto drove away I observed: the hut and .to his; friends. But we 'It's drink that he came to th were not to think Of that yet; we were to grouud on; I see it iu his oye." only to drihk to .It, and he Drink among! other things, said us still, if w pleased. He thrust the Leeson, carving arabesques with the lawyer's document carelessly Into his whipcord on tho horses' flanks. "He was pocket, and wo. saw it in a leather pouch u arouuu, 1 iancy; ana & at the back of his belt. We accompanied pretty on the turfl" terror rapid him to the Royal Hotel, the least dis "II drinks stilt, I gather; knocks reputable shanty in Belvllle. down a cheque pretty regularly?" my last chance for a bit of real "It's "No. I can't say he iros to the town sport," he said gaily, grlnniug at us ship so very often; thbughj when hs does with bis restless eyes. "I'm going to his cheque goes too, as you say. jNo; raako the most of it. Ascot'll be dull y I'm Jones racing's the passion that sticks tightest. fun, sir, after this! r, He lost every penny at Waverly last the out on the bust; to v ChrUtmas he'll lose every cent at our morrow " We I drowned ' .And we meeting next month.' "And a great deal hotter than drink wore not the last people who drank at 's ing it all," I remarked. "Has ho entirely tho expense that day; nor broken with his people? Don't they the only ones who heard of that startling kDow where he Is?" news from Sydney and the old country. "Tbey do know but have no Idea Jones "shouted" for the whole townwhat he Is doing, I should say. Very ship, I should say, on the course; and likely they don't much care, either, lis the township very soon knew who Jones Is a yoantrer son; he played the fool had become, for he ne,ver could keep any .;i awfully In the old country went bang secrets save one. to tho do;. 11 he went home a re We had oar own Interests to absorb formed character; well and good, but us We hadn't been looking forward for they won't fret if he doesn't; they have months to making the most of an aristowashed their hands of him. That's his crat In very plain clothes, but was cylnlon. Ha 1s a very simple-heartesprung upon us, rather; but we 'had fsllow at the bottom; he has told me been looking forward to riding our own horses In tho various events everything. Yet they write to home-bre- d rai!y 'ri now and then, his people. And ordained by the Belvllle Amateur Turf ''1 itsraeona who writes oftener Club, and rldlns to win. We. were or.s who was very fond of him, I keen sportsmen. We rode, and lost. ;.:r, tat ha hssu't actually told iae and woo, and backed ourulves, and paid is soaa roraance, but I up or received, fes ths c:sa wis. We o i, It; I 'say ta treated her were not continuity rilrJful of our : I 7 f' vtt. essIinoway of rutting ft frlsnd,;tte whin-- ? rive?.-z ? f it, I i rat TV j - j I SAW HIM HALF TUMBLE FBOM ZtIS HOKSE. fully at all. When I won the ladies' bracelet on Fidgetty Dick he fell; upon my neck nearly, as he had a right to do altogether, for we had started at considerable odds. He was excited, cermore. After the tainly, but nothing we could see him last race, however, nowhere, and my friend and I, as we drove home, made sadly sure that the excited stage was passed, and our noble r on the broad of his .back or verandah.) under some blue-bus-h We wero wrong. We had to travel some distance along the stock route after leaving the township before hitting the track that led to the home station. And long before we reached that turning, we espied aman among the low trees, sitting on a stump, with his head between his hands. It was the whiteness of his moleskins that attracted miles across country "Eight Is he safe not to go and get bushed? The snn'lrbe down in two twos." "My good fellow, said Leeson, "He's traveled it blind drunk before this!" "On foot?" ' "He never brings my hordes to the township. He goes on tho spree more conscientiously man any may we over had. But I'm glad he hasn't gone on the spree t." And when we reached the road we saw the last of the white in the same spot, but now at moleskins, the pnd of a long rea lane painted by the setting sun in its jasb moments, me lading sky was without a flaw; there was no wind; the locusts were already chlmins their lilllputian chorus; it was very still, a very innocent evening. whim-drive- to-hi- i letteF-dlrecte- y, good-lookin- ' g, 1 well-bre- - - I ' t was-Jono- s - i ! ! I s To-da- whim-drive- ? ', w. whim-driver- f i v 1 . d J , "j'T ' Ia hia-rr-- -- dl-ZTv- mean when the infernal thing began. Before long, I might have been going forward or back, I should not have known which it was you couldn't see three yards ahead you could only stand still to be chocked by the stupendous ; whirlwind jof dark yellow sand. I stood very still indeed (having dismounted), jwlth my face to the face of my two horses; I was leading Fidgetty Dick.yott understand, who hitd no fidgets now, , but only trembled. The vision was as completely hindered as In a very bad November fog in London--, and the prevailing tint was .similar; but these dust forms are a far more palpable horror. They assault the throat, they batter the skin, they blind the eyes, they fill the ears. Fortunately when they are so very violent they seldom last long. This one lifted, as a fog, while I could still seo aud hear and draw la laboured breath through the sand that had accumulated in my throat and lungs. And it lifted all at once; in haf an hour I saw a vague yellow sun; before noon the sky was blue. 'I noticed an odd thing asl remounted. I had halted out of reach of shelter, in middle of a sandy plain. Yet there the was no track, not the mark of a single hoof, to show how I had come there. It was as though the storm had been a snow storm, and the snow yellow. I did not get home that day; I spent the night at an intervening station. I did not get home at all just then, for a horseman arrived at this station, before next morning, with a line for daybreak me from Leeson. I read it by candle- it oeiore me as 1 am ugni, ana i,,nve now: writing j ; I i?5 y0' WE DKOWXED ALL SORROW. our notice, and we felt sure that It was r. We bumped over the the salt bush,: and our wheels left eccentric curves among the trees; but we were quite right. It was Jones.wasMoreover, when he spoke to us, he entirely ' sober. are "What the devil you doing here, whim-drive- - . man? cried Lesson, as wo pulled Up. Thinking!" said Jones, very quietly and distinctly. "What's the matter?" my friend asked. "- 'v J Cr "Nothing; I've been winning money like a man's luck when he don't require It: "Then what Is there to think about - - 4-v..,- '.v here?" ; ' ".-. - .,,:,v Leeson?' persisted, greatly puzzled, too, by the wildness of the man's eye and the complete sobriety of his tones. What?" Repeated Jones, with quiet , C: Jones has not bee a heard of Bine emphasis. "Have you forgotten the weDkab saw Mm last nigbt. He nerr reached the news I told you this morning this hut. We are organizing a earch party. Can change in my affairs? I'm thinkicg you 301a? X tuougni you wouia ink to know about that! I'm trying to realize It; anvnow. 11 uhowiui especially now I J. It. I'm trying to believe ft; I'm trying to was Belvllle at that forenoon. a I It all and means; again of can't. I get sight To go back to my old world. I can't for No one was at the homestead.! I found the life of me realize what It will mean, my way to the hut by the whim, and or make up my mind that I shall be bet- fell In with some of the party; but noth ter off there than here, buried in the ing had been heard of the whim-drive- r. bush. Yet I wish I'd made a start this He had not returned to the township, afternoon, as you advised me to. I've lie had never reached his hut. Only too had other chances to go; this is the last clearly, be was lost In the bush. He was not found on tho first day of one, and I wish I'd seized it straight all hands were seek-fn- g away. If a three days till the next the search, though were him and there coach passes, I was a fool not to clear many volunteers - V from 1 the township. We were able to j exclaimed 4 Leoson take a fairly straight line from the spot "Jump bp," can't be helped now, where we had left him to the whim, and It promptly. g and I'm glad myself aiOtf to have seen work from this line on the printhe last of you yet. Jump up and I'll ciple. But the line was eight miles we never came upon a single give you as lift- to tho station and a bed long, and save our own; for the same dust-storthere." track, that bad obliterated my horses "No; Vxa going to the but. 'fYou'r not your coming with me." tracks on that- plain miles away had t'No, sakl the whim-drlvfirmly. wiped out Jones's foot marks here. Even Tni going back to my hut. ' I'll have the deep cuts of our buggy wheels had two mora nights there, and two more made, oil the track, were faintly vblble days I'll drive the whim for; you. I in one or two; places only, under the never expected this, as you know; trees. He Is dead," said Leeson, in the and I have a sort of affection for the ho whole concern, I find, now I'm going to evening. "H had not a water-baleave it. Two more days there will do was nowhere near aay water, except he me: good. They'll help mo to realize got back to tho township, or ou to his station. He things a littfe, and to pull myself hut, or struck across to the anywhere that we know of; ke together, lib, I'm not comlngr to the never gotdead at this monxent, under station; I'm iroing straight to my hut. is lyln? But of course I'll come that way round these very stars dead froiu tfarist Wo and shall find him 00 Saturday, and say s good-byMy friend shuddered. I did not reyou'll look me up when you take a trip mind him of the question I had put him home. We'll fraternize then." lie was a difUcuit man to di33ua.de, when we wers levlr Je:icj KitUr. ctl c:r-td- a as I hs.4 sstn. Lcrrcn gave It up. We tli tucip whetLcr La quU-'"Ll--"1 rc .. I, leaving a tzzzzx notto'-.- t t. I drove tack to U'C-jL- :' sat of curves crtor-- r the tress, tad barep-In- g ;CI;I t &!s r busJa." th y ctot horribly 1 WILLIAM P. POOLE. LIBBABIA3T OF TIIE NEWBEBKT CHICAGO. LIBRARY, : When the American Historical Society meets at Washington on the ,2ith of December, It will draw together in the National Capitol an "assemblage of scholars and historians such as is seldom seen In that city.. Prominent among the concourse of students- of American history, which includes President James B. Angell of Michigan University. History of Henry Adams, author of 4,A the United States During tho Adminis trations of Jefferson and Madison;" Justin Winsor, author of the History of New England during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and other men of equal literary and scholastic. ..eminence, stands William F. Poole, the1 dis of the great Newtinguished librarian now compleapproachincr berry Library tion in Chicago. The Wtndy City illus trates the immense 7 possibilities In-of great centers of money io creating Tho struction f and .'"knowledge. endowment , aggregates NeWberry's 85,000,000 in value,' and consists almost The vast wholly in valuable collection of books bow in the library is receiving constant accessions through the purchases of Tare ' works by its librarian. , ; i - ; - - real-estat- e. zig-za- m - cr , (-,.. -- . g; WILLI A 3X A. WOODS. PF.HSIXEVT HAKKIBOJI SO MLS ATE S . HIM ' AS OXK OF THE SEW CIBCCIT JUDGES. President TIarrlson In selecting the new Circuit Judges has nominated Wil liam A. Woods of Indiana, for the Seventh Judicial District. Judge William 'A. Woods was born In Tennessee about fifty-fiv- e years ago. but subsequently settled in Indiana and graduated at Wabash, College. II practiced law for many years at Goshen, Ind.. and held the oSce of State Circuit Jud?re In that circuit. In ISS3 he was elected Judgeof the Supreme Court of the'IState and held that ctZzn till I;2, wLm he t?as appelate i United atas District Jv2z? to L.l tLs vseascy caur-- a i by t 3 cr: c:atn; it ci end La Grr:b;ra tst rcrtr.srr-Gc-zrz-. l, 13 a ::z;still fccIJs :t pc:it!-i. rs:r:l 1 : w." e; a r-a,- Attr-sy-C- c- c: t fri...-.- 5 -r- -.l 11311 : -- r. tsa Zzzzt "Is it tzT to Lia Lat frorj Jaw?' I n passed by him as tho idle wind. cal opponents tho His im perturbable good temper is to his politi ' MOST AGGRAVATING " THI2 - about him. Hi easv manner under to them insolent in the last abuse seems ' degree. 'It is galling in the extreme," says Editor Stead, "after you have called him base, bloody, brutal Boraba, to lind that you have only sllghly bored Mr. Arthur Balfour, who revenges himself with a merry quip or a parting inThat Indifference is the1 deadliest ofjct. sults, for it indicates far more forcibly than words tho immeasurable disdain which does not honor its assailants.evon with an emotion as active as contempt." Mr. Balfour's references to the Irish was galling in the extreme. agitators Ho once said that Irish patriots, were divisible into classes those who con tributed to testimonials and league funds, and those wlio squandered them. rumpus about tho Referring Ito the theft of lid tor O Brien s Inexpressibles from his cell in Tullamora prison, tho Irish secretary said thcro was somein the eight of thing touchingly patheticover tho loss of the Irish nation in tears O'Brien's breeches. Ou another occasion, when questioned in the Houso of Commons on tho subject of compelling an Irish member of Parliament to. wear the prison underclothing,, he replied that owing to circumstances not alto unconnected with hygiene the gether officials were obliged to remove prison the garments which the honorable mem ber wore. This was an euphemistic way of saying that the "houorable member" in question was sadly In need of clean underclothing. The Insinuation created the utmost uproar in the Irish .quarter of the House, and cries of Vcoward" and cad" were shouted from many a throat. But Mr. Arthur Balfour heeded not these Intuits. He resumed his reclining posture on the Treasury bench, and smiled contemptuously across 'the floor at his opponents. An anonymous writer In the Jxeio Re view of 1889 gives the -- The root of Mr. Balfour's success lies in the one great distinction which differentiates him from Lord Randolph Churchill. Lord, Randolph, although belonging to ono of tho proudest of our ducal families, is at tho bottom a democrat. Lord though he Is by title, he is at heart a plebeian. It Is the secret alike of his strength and of his weakness. But Mr. Balfour, although not blessed by even a courtesy mie, is . ; AS AEISTOCBA f TO BTS FIXGEBTIP3. And the more his career Is studied, tho more we probo into the secret of his phenomenal ascent to all but the first place In the State, the more surely are we drivea back to the conviction that ths truth lies here. It Is because ho is, every inch of his through an form aristocrat of the spare ta'l, erlstocrats, that ha i3 at this moment tL j IJcl c. tL3 Tory democracy. 'That which nlsht Lav been his rula in other circumstances Las proved his solvation. For tho EiOiiSent Ilngland is governing? d ci &rist"icrati j:rinclpl, and in ,;r. i.;a;iour z:.& rrj.3 isuna art criitccrat L ancL-thr.oug- .' V. 3 Ci" z 1: r. : 2 1 -- rli 1 t . wLo ct I'itl!r'J:'2Cl In-e- secret of balfour's success. r -- . ; r to-da- y. TUB MERE . IRISH Loxdos, Dec. 2, 1891. There Is no man in Great Britain toso strikingly day whose rise lias of tho now leader of tho rapid as that House of Commons. Half a dozen years ago Mr. Balfour was not known In the world of politics. In tho last Tory administration he occupied a position in the Scotch oQice, and so disagreeable was tho work to him that at one time it looked like breaking down his health. He was continually taking medicine, demanding cjhange of air and performing the role of tho stereotyped hypochondriac. But with his appointment to the Irish Secretaryship camp Improved n health and a energy. The ho took very day that charge of the destinies of Ireland he went to consult the famous physician, Sir "William Jenner. That gentleman not only pronounced tho hypochondriac sound, but declared that no better prescription could be or dered for tho improvement of his health than steady, hard work. The physician was riht. Tho more absorbing the work of the patient tho better became hts condition. Mr. Balfour positively grew robust on Irish abuse. Night after night he was pilloried by Tim llealey, William O'Brien, Tom Sexton and other prominent members from Ireland, but their scurrility, sarcasm and invectivo . i I Cokrispokdzkcx TKiBtmr.l -: I - ft 0 t . i . -- man. The indeii nable ITeiise of superiority which oven tho most violent Radit cals feel In presence of the eolorcd races is at bottom essentially aristocratic. The senso of equality which is so great a passion with tho French has not eaten into our masses. Down to the last gen4 eral election! tho most commonplace! Radical member of Parliament would have- felt hurt if you confounded hint' with an Irish member." - . III. - - ) He Is an Aristocrat of Aristocrats Poor Opinion of tho Irish Home- Rulers American Ideas Win Sup port. new-bor- ; new-bor- d gh I remember the dust storm only too well tho morning following that demure, sweet evening, I had gone just too far on my homeward! journey to make it yorth while turning back I salt-bush- - GaIlinj? Ite Terences to Irish Agitators h, 1 I The suppression of public meetings, tha eviction of wretched tenants for the nonpayment to impossible rents, the baton lug of tho people on their own streets by "uniformed ruffians," the imprisonment, of tho leaders of public opinion, the He lias Graduated in Wit and Wisdom hibltion of tho sale of any newspaper that had tho couraso to attack the ox in Ireland. ecu live if these bo aristocratic princi pies then Ireland has been governed: uiiuiMiiH most arisioitratic iasnion. Tho anonymous authority above referred to says: "There is a great deal of IMPERTURBABILITY UNDER ASSAULTS. tho aristocratic latent in overy English- THE RISE OF MR. BALFOUR. 1 -- - j ho has been over the ground time after time, and sometimes, as 1 told you, blind drunk? Besides, he wouldn't come with us, you know he wouldn't. God forgive me for not forcing him, but how could I? If I had dreamt of such a shall thing I would have done so. We somo find him under dead, .; Ho is dead now! JSOw! My , Godl" But we did not find him on the second day. Towards evening, on the third day, Leeson, within sight of whom I was riding, uttered a "cooee" which made my heart thump. I saw him half tumble from his horse as I dug spurs Into mine and galloped towards hm; and I found him trembling all over and very sick, for at' his feet lay our whim driver, under a blue-busjust as he had, figured, and stone dead! Tihe letter, from the Sydney lawyers was! at his side. Dinned to the Kround by his knife; and we fonnd, when we took it up, that he had pricked through tho paper, in large capitals, tho words: "MY LAST CHANCE." The charred ahes of another letter were also there, with several burnt ves tas. But at that story, as my friend had said, Jt was no use guessing. - , Copyright 183J, by E. W. Uornvng. and aad wdra and wo. Wnr 1 faint. And Utffuid and low, Fovbla H Ur on tUt dMrt Who over fond of himself,' poor devil! h But It's n'o uie guessing at the story," n VDear me !" said I, very thoughtfully; for the little I had' heard was certainly suggestive, and made one very Inquisitive. " lie's the most interesting character I've ever come across. I should . like to see him again." 7 - f' Oh, you will, next month." laughed Leeson; " at the Bel ville races ! ' ..L. AnJ I did.' (HOLMES BLOCK.) ,. II ornnnt, TV, . and Carpet F urniture LITIS vrJ. :Lt Lava a .13 crcatcl rr.::' ;"H;r"'-- SLri.-;-!-y i wioii have never been recognized tha masses of Britons as belug of thebysame flesh and blood as themselves. Mr. tjladstone himself felt this as strongly ; as any one wher. he clapped Mr. larjiell . . .a fj .T..a iui tv t.111 v; I nuuiu iiiw ..it iui uuiimus neverjiii have dreamed of imprisoning either an Englishman or a Scotchman. ' The whole system upon which Ireland has been governed for centuries has been based upon tho assumption that the English are obviously and always tho su- - ' porior race. It is this which constitutes tho whole difficulty in the way of the Home Rulers. They j base their scbcaio upon a diametrically opposite principle. To them I a. 11 1 11 AS IlilSIIMAX IS A MAN AND A CITIZKjr, as much entitled to tho privileges and liberties and prerogatives of manhood and citizenship as if ho were Scotch or English. J This gospel Mr. Balfour to subscribe to. lie firmly beInlieves that the Irish are politically , ferior to the English lit does not deny that they have great gifts. To use his own, words, ."They have wit,! imagination, eloquence, valor; in ' our sumany respects they--arin one But periors! they respect, aro our inferiors and no amount of Glad- - ' stonian rhetoric can make them other wise. They are politically incapable of uy not govern mem as the Scotch, you Because they ask? are not Scotch. - Tbey cannot be trusted to govern themselves, for the simple and sufficient reason-tha- t Providence, in giving tnem many guts, omitted to give them the qualities that onsuro .stabla The-Iris- h are no mora fitted to bo trusted with the control ef lueir u vv li ucsiiuiKs i. ii a ii vuur Jiblv children are fitted to be left in chargo of your house, to pay rates and taxes, to direct the servants, and to manage tha Some day your nnrsery household. In rebellion and demand out break might tho keys of the house. What you do In your nursery England must do In Ireland. You may call It coercion if you please. It isauthority-necessarsimply tho exerciso of the minimum to secure the reof tention of. the reins of government in the hands of the natural head of the household. There,' concludes Mr. BalIn Irefour Triumphantly, policy land In a nutshell. Much as Mr. Balfour may sneer at Ireland, it 'is to that country that he owes nts rapid rise, it may do saieiy said that 1C he had never occupied tha position of Irish- Secretary he would never have developed the abilities that His wit is keener, ho possesses his powers of debate aro broader and deeper, and his bitting is harder than if he had, never crossed swords with "tha mere Irish." re--fus- es and-Scotch- , o j sen-governme- self-contr- ol. . y . "isy ; ? - to-da- y. . TUB AMERICAN IDEA , ENGLISH POLITICS. I3T Editor Stead of the Review of Reviews "To both Ijord feallsoury and Mr. r Balfour the American Constitution has uuioiuiu ou Atriu,ii v 3 lust vuvrv ara American citizens of the acutcr wuu ueiieyi) mat uuiu ouusuury kiqu would give his coronet if ho could but graft upon the British Const!- - tution the consexvative securities en joyed by the freo and Independent citizens, of the American Republic Mr. Balfour has never expressed himself as uncle, but It Is an open strongly as his secret that ho would gladly graft the Referendum, that foreign and republic institution, upon the ancient Constitution of Great Britain, and that he re of ail objects begards as the greatest ctatesmen the fore the modern establishment of good working rela tions between the Empire and tha believes great Republic Mr. Balfour in the English speaking race and deplores the unnatural division created by our folly and obstinacy in the last cen split, and tury. To heal that the unity of the English-speakic- T race, not of course upon narrow bonds of uniformity but upon somo broad iz.d elastic basis which would admit both Empire and Republic to reallzo th:;r r substantial unity while cheriahir. local dlstinciioas, seems to him tho tvoi which of all others best needs doirg day." v :, " "A statesman." says rir. v.. is capable of taking such a arid of welcoming all that t. r .! t the reaHzatio.'i of his i !; is 1: ,1 :,!; without faith; ho Is on tS:. says: - - : t ; re-estab- lish ; . . 3 1 who, if health to him, frrant'( bGnelicia.1 tnarl u;iny j.i mitii v.i.rU." .Mr. Ih5': V -- i :r r 5 I ; ' 1 l , i,: 1 ' |