Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-06-20

". >. NJ, no, we re only
J. b. You call it watching, do you,
when millions of dollars are coming from
America to help the lazy Irish to resist
law and orderS
u. S. Now, Johnny, do be reasonable
You never seem to fret when millions Of
pounds come to help pay the English land.
lord.
j. b. o, that is private fundsl
u. S. Just so, Johnny. So is this private
funds!
j. b. BE careful or you will find your
public funds in danger.
U. S. Just SO. / remember you ware
careful of your private funds n few years
ago, when you sent aid by the ship load to
help defeat our nation. Every dog has his
day, Johnny.
J. b. Take care what you say I'm in
no h,imor to enjoy joke Shaking his cud-
gel with renewed vigor at u. s..
U. 5. Smoking calmly. Now, Johnny,
just keep cool l know you hate TO have
us talking about you, calling you robbers
and murderers, but you are too high, John.
ny Come down to the level of mankind
and view things as we do; then you'll see
these things for yourself
Just then a courier rushes into the hall,
crying 1--WE are all going to be murdered!
London is all blown up The tower Is de-
stroyed! The Queen is dead and no one is
safe.
Everyone is panic stricken. Uncle Sam
forgot to smoke; Johnny Bull forgot his
wrath, and disorder reigned supreme. The
man who brought the report had not seen
anything; but the frightened people in the
streets of London, he said, were running
and screaming with terror, as though all
England was about to be destroyed with
/ Irish dynamite. We could not gain any
definite knowledge of any source, and the
night was passed in dread and suspense.
On the first train in the morning a num-
Der of us went down TO see the wreck.
! There was nothing talked of on the train
or on the streets but the terrific explosion.
We soon learned that the Queen had not
been in the slightest danger But the
! great ornamental gates leading to West
minister Hall had been thrown TO the
ground, and the windows on the north
and south sides OF the immense building
! had been blown 10 atoms. The leather on
! the seats in the building had been cut and
| torn, and the horse-hair stufiing was scat
! tered in every direction. The great win
| dow over the entrance to Westminster
! Hall was shattered to fragments, and the
floors were covered with broken glass end
masonry The lobby of the House of Com.
mons in the Parliament building was COM
! pletely destroyed. The strangers gallery
was thrown down. A chip was taken from
! the speakers chair, and Mr. Gladstone's
chair was in splinters. The western eX.
yremity of the building was a complete
wreck.
But the tower was the most perfect ex.
| ample of the power of dynamite. The
doors were completely destroyed. The ex-
| plosive substance had played mad pranks
with the many hundred stands of arms,
! twisting the rifles into the most fantastic
shapes, and scattering them into wild con.
fusion.
Londone s who heard the explosion de.
| scribe il as most terrific. 1t was an awful
| shock, striking at the heart of English
! pride and power, and resounding through
every land and cline with warning notes
Returning to Blue Ridge the details of
! the explosion were commented upon at
great length. Each guest had some theory
! to advance as to what would come next,
and why this atrocious crime had been
perpetrated.
at all comes from this COMPOUNDED agita-
ton that Patnell is keeping up" said the
| duke, as we were enjoying a comfortable
half-hour by ourselves in his rooms.
81 do not believe Parnell is to blame.
! The Irish people think they can only OBJ
tain a hearing in some such way. II En-
land would deal candidly with the Irish
! people us she does with Canada and her
other colonies, men would never resort to
such desperate means"
Talking about that explosion YETI" ex.
claimed Colonel Haynes, as he came into
the room. "Tm glad my home is not in
England"
you'll be having the same trouble In
the United States before long" l said, ''if
your careless way of disposing of public
lands continues"
81 did not know we were careless. Our
laws are liberal but well defined, said the
colonel. mo one can buy our lands of
the government in large tracts, and the
great West is reserved by homestead and
presumption laws for actual settlers only.
Surely that is safe policy"
"Ha, 'ha," laughed the duke care you
an American and know so little of the do
ings in your own country Why, own an
estate or ranch, as il is called there, larger
than any one man owns in England; all in
one body, too! And surrounded by barb
wire fence, that is proof against every
thing, even your boosted homestead and
presumption LAVISH
How did you get it," asked the colonel,
| amazed.
why, / bought alternate sections of
railroad lands, and then sent in different
names as settlers to enter presumption,
homestead and timber claims to secure the
government sections"
But they must be different men," pro-
tested the colonel. zone man can pre-
empt only eighty acres, or, If a soldier, one
hundred and sixty. So, how could you get
whole section"
"Oh, see you are not politician" said
the duke much amused. "You have not
yet learned the ropes, as they say in your
country"
mo, l confess am not initiated" said
the colonel
"You seem to know the workings of the
ring" l said turning to the duke
Eyes, l was interested. Many of the
= politicians in America, as elsewhere, allow
a gold coin to cover doubtful points. II
you should go to Washington and examine
the records you would, If you could trace