Show THE old oid saws troubles troubles never come singly and it never rains but bat it pours find illustration in the present 1 condition of spain having just experienced perle perien ced nedd serious revolutionary trouble and horrible earthquakes allowed isy liy b y extraordinarily destructive storms and with the cholera raging throughout her domain and her stricken people dying like ilke rotten sheep it would seem that she has trouble troubie enough without the german government adding to it by trying to gobble up the Caroll caroli carolinus Car nes a group grou P of islands away off east of the tae philippines which spain established a claim upon as long iong ago as three hundred and fifty years tears by the way it is doubtful whether those almost barren coral reef s which produce nothing and upon which only a few natives manage to eke out a scanty subsistence are worth quarreling over but this latest example of Bis marcks aggressive policy has been sufficient to thoroughly arouse the resentment of the excitable spaniards and though the heads of the government since the first ebullition of afire ire lre when the king resigned his commission of an honorary colonelcy in the german army have been inclined to seek a reconciliation and are apparently willing to make concessions for the sake of peace the subjects of the nation are not as easily pacified padded they do not attempt to conceal their ire and are worked up into quite a frenzy over the affair androw and now as if the causes mentioned were not sufficient clent traubie for poor spain to bear she is racked with internal labor troubles alaan of the wealthy as might naturally be expected have dave become alarmed over the continued spread of the plague and have fled the country and the sources of employment which their wealth has afforded have thus been cut off As a result their poor stricken dependents are left to shift for themselves to starve if they survive the cholera the lab iab laboring orine classes incense incensed dat at this condition ol 01 dmn affairs a irs are now engaged in ricas wrecking the houses of the wealthy and helping themselves to the spoil yesterdays telegrams from madrid report a conflict between these rioters and the soldiery in which eight persons were killed and twelve wounded all thin things thins s considered spain is in a bad fix and ger her should call forth the sympathy of nations as well as in divi duals and that kind hind of sympathy which does not find expression merely in words but something more substantial n |