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Show INTERNATIONAL WHITECOPISM. In London, the empire city of the world, a committee insisting of nothing noth-ing less than leading bankers, who conferred with other -and no less personages per-sonages than a government renresen- tatUe of Brazil and icprcsentatlves of loading jobbers in coffee, decided that "the Interest of the market" required re-quired that a tenth of the coffee now growing in Brazil, and which will begin be-gin coming forward for market by the 1st of July, be officially taken from the planters and burned. It is calculated that the bonfire will consume 2,000,000 bass of eolTec. The London coffee arson is nothing peculiar to England. According to a story, current during the first half of last century, a lady of the British nobility, endeavoring to bring home to an American young lady the superiority of British institutions, institu-tions, explained to her. very much In exieuso, me glories or a nobility a class of people who did no work, yet traveled all over the land enjoying Its sunshine. "In America," concluded the noble lady, "you havo no suca people." peo-ple." "Oh. yes, we bave." promptly answered the American girl, "we call them tramps." |