Show FRENCH civilization in tho the recent debate in tho the i french chamber ferry replying to tho the attacks of the h extreme left attempted to justify the expedition to tong king and the course pursued there by the french force forces with appeal ing to the national pride men but still more to their greed of gain waiving the question whether france had nn an undoubted lik right to occupy tong king he be pointed out that france needs a ft colonial outlet for her ter overcrowded wor workmen kinen and harmless farr farm aless less peasants as well weil as an additional field for her commerce it was not well take tong king because wo have a right to but well take it right or not right because wo we want to mon ion cicur ferry evidently bad never read reador or quite forgotten thomas beautiful lines where i hosnie to says ia degenerate generate Ik trade thy minions could k t despise the heart loep anguish of a thou t IN y 1 sand cries could lork lock impious hands their tea teeming in i n g stor store ep while 10 fa m i 6 b ed n nations died alone along the shora A could mock tho tile groan of fellow men tid bear fc the rhe auise of kingdom peopled with de pair 41 such is indeed the fate that the 61 34 p og of tho shopkeepers of I 1 france and the innate celtic cruelty at af the frenchmen is bringing over tung tong king the cruelties cruel ties and barbarities committed by the french forces on the physically and mentally though hardly morally inferior natives have been slightly elight ly intimated by the t telegraphic le reports from the oriental seat of war but the whole has only lately been told in the paris pross arc itself which seems to seek a t savage delight in the dreadful de aila ails of tile inhumanity with which tb the e civilized christian bauls treated their powerless antagonist antagonists the tile birk figaro of oct gives an account of tile so called battle 4 0 hue which reminds one ofle lnore more of tl the to barbarities of gallic gallie warfare in the third than of civilized warfare in tile nineteenth century of tho the christian era we ite translate as follower follows the defeated adamites Ana mites were crowded together into the burning village the tile only road on oil which they could save themselves from tie the clatues was within easy reach of the tile guns gulls of tile the fort which wab was manned with marines marines ar armed med with Kro Kropo repe repeating atin Z rifles all these arms fully loaded the tile soldiers kept quietly on oil the tile lookout until a flank movement of the other troops and the re of the bamboo huts would drive the y defenseless multitude out and within rifle reaca saw the with singed hair and clothes halting a few moments at the tile end of the village then tucking up tip their oila long garments as a high na as they could and protecting their theirl toads against the bullet hail by board boards they came rushing on now commenced a huge slaughter awu volleys were fired I 1 it t was a two wo translate verbatim to f nee eee the bail of bullets sweeping down the fugitives the tile volleys were fired on command in a quiet methodical manner two a ini minute nute A it waa was as a aprin sprinkling kling from an im t mense men can in a cloud of sand and dust we could eco see some of them A jump and leap cap and hobble around like wounded beasts As they picked up their long garments garment in a very laughable manner while their Y long on bair hung down oyer their shoulder they looked like women t others endeavored to savo save themselves by swit timi ula goon these were yere elain in the water A few expert in ili diving divine remained considerable time U under uder water but it availed them not as they emerged like s wa to take breath they were shot down our men then had the fun of bounting oun ting the dead fifty fi aty on the left eilitz on the right side eide in the vil village lagge they lay in piles with those killed in the southern ports there mut mutt have been from to 1000 slaughtered towards nine in tho the morning everything was over and the defeat of the Anai was complete the heat was fearful and the tile marines half crazed with heat noise and excitement rushed from the fort on the wounded enc ene blips some had bad crept into nooks others feigned to be dead while others drawing their last breath im cly gly stretched out their hands a and nd cried in heartrending heart rending accents of pain ban han hanl our mea men stabbed them with their bayonet sor knocked their skulls in with the butts of their rifles the manned marines could not be recognized completely crazed the officers endeavored to restrain them thew and told them to be ashamed dastardly butchery but they answered the adamites Ana mites are savages they impaled the head of and inthey if they had conquered they would have quartered us or sawed ua us up between boards this was indeed unanswerable sw 1 I 1 and the men were allowed to complete their horrible work Thus far the account jofs of a french officer in a french journal comment is almost superfluous it would require the pen of the man who so graphically depicted tho tile inhumanities ef of the french terror in 1792 carlyle to mete out the full deserved measure of condemnation to euch such diabolical doings by people ofa nation n which calls itself the grand and with all this it must bo be remembered that it was franco prance who unprovoked wid without bout more than quibbling cause carried fire and aud sword into those oriental regions regious out savaging the ea savages No Yo Vonder wonder that caustic philosopher called the he frenchmen apes and half tigers the tiger nature has undoubtedly asserted in 1 its full sanguinary ferocity aa au apache would pale for envy or even blush for shame at such an unwarrantable inexcusable almost wholesale butchering this is the nation cl claiming to march at the hea head d of civilization and called by victor hugo the light of mankind indeed marching back behind the middle ages and the lurid light ef of gehen ila CITY has been fooled so long with the electric light or rather darkness that it becomes an urgent question whether she is not paying too dear for her whistle not a few merchants have bavo given the I 1 insufficient us u flici ent illumination up others arc are about dispensing with tho the pretentious tent ious carbon and taking to the humble but more re reliable petro petroleum lium again were it not for the contributions from the municipal exchequer the brush would long since have been brushed out aa it is the city council and its finance committee I 1 are doing their duty by their constituent constituents by subjecting the whole matter to a close examination and investigation to find out whether erthe the light the city gets is worth the large amount the city pays tho insufficiency and inadequacy of the present system of lighting as to the intensity of the light the duration and steadiness has bas repeatedly idly been the tile subject of not very flat flattering tei comments in the deliberations of our city Fa fathera there and all are glad to I 1 know that they are determined to get value received from the electric light co or see if something more satisfactory cannot call not be arrived arri 5 at ir IT COSTS franco france to support a state church episcopalian as well aa as roman catholic clergymen aro are paid by the state paul bert in III view of odthe the dd alarm ing influence of which patri patriot oti complain demands that the public worship budget bo be abolished the tile government he pays should beever the last link which connects 0 church hurch and state M ferry docs does not faem to think that it should heap ap peara pears to bo very desirous of concilia con conc cili iii abing the church and the pope pape |