Show B old I 1 world news oct ia 7 1888 one of the most ext enAve strikes ever known in file coal district of yorkshire in expected to commence in a few days unless boino arrangement call bo effected over sixty thousand men haydl determined to turn out if the y are not granted an ad vanco of ten per cent find as if this were not a heavy calamity to trade it Is bel caved laved that another sixty thousand 12 scotland will follow the ex amal whatever may be taken as to the odthe movement all will regret the immensity of auf that will be en failed upon lens of thousands of women and children by a strike upp so gigantic a scale that it should commence just m winter Is about to wt 1 Is perhaps haps inevitable from the conditions of the trade but that vo fact makes circumstance the mor e 9 ad for at a aline when food sad fuel and shelter are required the most they awill be partly or wholly wanting to women and children who have no voice in settling the dispute much has been written at various times concerning the struggles of those who seek for employment at the dock gatts of london and anyone who I 1 eally wants to know blat imus cular poverty alij like should pay visit to akem when hands are bein g taken on but of their struggles have not done much to benefit the toiler and it leonly now w lien the talk of th a public is a irain largely d I 1 erected to the condition of the east end that a practical effort being to alleviates allevi ateL some of the miseries necessarily essa rily attendant upon the daily strife fr work A shelter for the a borers Is being erected in which tile men can rest while waiting to taken on and this will be it boon to them in wet and 0 1 weather the struggle for existence Is exceedingly keen at the dock gates and the weakest go to the wall in a fashion men gravit a to to the spot who are at ITO of all grades of society for it they have strength enough stay cantry can try for employment there und the who have received good education and every opportunity and who have put everything to a bad often use tb is as their last resource As a body ilia dock laborers are far from being the dregs of the working population they to often described but a mon g their casual helpers there are many whom their own folly and dissipation haye brought to such a pass the discovery in an irish bog of the body of a yorkshire gentleman who went on a tour some months since bad disappeared no man knew whither Is a reminder that this kind of sad occurrence is not confined as it Is sometimes thought to be to fiction there it is familar enouCh and all who bare read ITI e 11 by sir wilkie collins or the pavilion on the links by R L son will remember the effective taso that is made of this terrible form of chuch more lingering and agon laing can in fact be imagined Ima lined than the sinking slova y into a with the py victim knowing that no help Is at hand and that the more he stag aes in iiii natural desire to extricate hi m rolf the more surely lid will go to his doom it is no wonder that so thrill ing i see nd should have appealed to some of our novelists as material for description boeing that even the least imaginative can c i construct aucta pie ture from the hire as Is startling mr alderman whitehead the lord maor who will formally as flume tile baties of chief magis t ra t a of tha aty of london on the n atit h of next month Is determined to ind ate his mayoralty in somewhat dif ferent fashion to his pred he has intimated to the committee act ing for himself and the sheriffs his wish that aile the Qua tomary pro cession boand from the law coarts shall be worthy of the occasion and of the corporation of london it shall not contain any ok of the circuit element or alle acal displays which fielt bee accord with his tastes nor in his OPI Alon with the dignity of the city As an earnest that this idea is not dictated by economical considerations for so censorious is the world in such affairs that the worst motive Is suspected where t h e bes t real ay 0 x ests white head has added that should the cost of the procession be less than usual he has determined to give the surplus to charitable institutions it rid the poor a practically benevolent way of dis posing of it which all but what the crowd which always throngs the streets of london on november 9 will say when they see the lord may ors show thus shorn of its is another matter altogether china Is a land of big things ana whether it be in the shape of millions of people being starved in a famine or 1 who ll 11 IT I 1 vince being submerge sub merga by a a news which comes from the celestial empire Is often startling kind As more news perhaps the general public would not be interested in the details det alls but theres th ereis often a curiola pendant to the tall in the shape of a kina of bilal moral which Is worth looking at this Is the one in one of tata latest disasters reported from china here nearly a thousand laborers were drowned bythe sweeping away af the whole of the new embankments of the yellow River which were commenced last at jhb wiltra he old embankment had broken down result was sad enough bua there was a further consequence which was do striking in china the gov always severely punishes any of its servants per whom it co no ide re t 0 have failed in their duty and in this cies tao bagh at in charge of I 1 eta awk find the Jo vornor af the province were dismissed and degraded a aatto other ghigli were b In labod I 1 there la 4 sweeping style about such punishments cannot avoid IM pressingly pres single popular imagination and many Eng lishin oil hot object in similar cases to ie imitated I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 i A |