Telegram-herald., 1890-07-18
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There IL Haore IN the eession OF
Hel{xoiena by England - Germany
than meets the eve. The little water
ing place Itself Is very small Pertz-
ters." literally sos-hless 10 kngl4Ed.
Who captg yed il from Denmark eighty
years ago. and only valuable 70 Ger
many ia sET4tsglc&l sense It's area
is only three-q uzrters OF mile. You
can walk round it's boundaries In less
than an hour. Its TWO thousand inhAb-
itznts get their livelihood by catching
1sh and letzng lodgings 10 The nfteen
thousand health-Seekers Who visit IL
every summer IL is supposed 70 be Que
OF the heelthiest spots Ia the world.
judging By the average age It's people,
which Is "a high IS stxtY-three years
The giving up OF this biz Of land. Holy
Land, as its name implies. is one OF
those gracious acts which unitss In
dividuals and nations IL the bonds OF
friendship and mutual interest The
acceptance Of IL by Germany pats
prompt end 10 any lingering hops
France may have cherished Of an Anglo
opener-up OF Africa. and 70 England be-
longs the moral right Of priority Of
claim 70 It's dark territory. The Ger
man Emperor freely acknowledges this,
and In ronouncing the prepos ferrous
claims set up by Wissmann and the
rest Germany practically leaves En-
gland in absolute possession Of over
four hundred thousand square miles Of
the richest land in that rich continent,
including Zanzibar, the key 70 Africa
John Bulls only consideration in all
matters OF statecraft is whether the
new schemes are good for TRADE. The
acquisition OF so large a tract, so rich
in timber, crops, and perhaps In mineral
wealth. viii evidently give trade all
over the world an immense boom.
The Prince OF Wales dined on Sunday
with Mr.. Edward Levy Lawson, propri-
etor and nominal editor OF the Daily
Telegraph. Mr.. Levy Lawson has at
last touched the height Of his ambition.
for title will hardly make him hap
pier man. His paper is the one which
always a6vertises itself as having "the
largest circulation in the world" OF
late years 1t has decidedly lost ground.
Its value as an advertising medium far
exceeds its weight as On organ OF pub
lie opinion. yet three huIfdred thousand
Is respectable figure for daily paper.
Shrewd fellow, Levy Lawson, as were
his father and uncle before him. The
story of the Daily Telegraph Is strange
one and will bear being told again 1t
was started by Colonel Sleigh in 1883 as
a peoples paper. So poorly gotten up
was 1t that on the third or fourth day
the in tho title dropped out without
being missed and 1t lived for the day ns
the Daily Telegraph. Those were ante
stereotype days When the American
civil war broke out the paper was just
about broken up Colonel Sleigh got
into pawn with his paper and ink mer-
chants-the father and uncle of the
present Edward Levy Lawson. Being
shrewd men OF business, they secured
the pens of the smartest writer's Of the
day and sent George Augustus Sala out
as special correspondent in the then dis
united States
To Sala's versatile pen more than to
any other agency save the money-mak-
ing ingenuity Of the two Levys was the
Telegraph's prosperity due. Poor
Sleigh died broken In heart and fort
une. The Levys grew richer every
year. Sala had his pecuniary downs as
we'll as his ups of fame, but they kept
his nose at the grindstone right along.
The present owner came in as o
youngish manager. and he saw great
future before him Though without the
mental out fit of journalist, he did
not shrink from installing himself-by
right of his share in the partnership
as editor. OF course the actual editor
was quite another fellow-a scholar and
a writer. no other than Sir Edwin
arnold, translator Of The Light OF