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The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-01-03
FOREIGN GOSSIP.


There is ono pauper in evory thirty
seven inhabitants in England and
Wales.
Powdered wigs on private coachmen
in London are going out OF fashion. 1t
is a custom kept up by very fow fami-
lies
An English plaintiff has recovered
damages and costs for injuries done to
his clothes by barbcd-wiro fonco
while walking along public path after
dark
Tho International Association for
the suppression of Gambling at Monte
Carlo has scored one success by a sido
movement upon tho Casino OF Tangiors.
1t has shut it, up.
France receives yearly revenuo
Of over fifty million dollars from its
monopoly of tho sale of tobacco About
two pounds per inhabitant arc con-
sumcd yearly there.
Inquiry made in France in order to
carry out tho new law giving certain
advantages to fathers of more than
seven children has elected among o thor
things the fact that there arc 2. 1000, 600
households i'll which there has boen no
Child.
Among tho largo estates thrcc ad-
vcrtiscd for sale in Queensland may DO
considered. Tho first has an area of
45i square miles of which tho rent is
$1,000. Tho second has GAS square
miles, and tho third 553. The one most
advantageously situated is ''within 100
miles of a railroad"
Bank of England, various precautions
are adopted. Tho doors arc so delicate-
ly balanced that n clerk, by pressing q
knob under his desk, can close tho outer
doors instantly, and they can not DO
opened again except by special process.
Tho bullion departments of this and
other great banking establishments are
nightly submerged in several feet of
water by the action of tho machinery.
jean Thiery, rich merchant and
ship-owncr in tho Rhine provinces, died
in 1916 leaving 4 fortune of 80, 600 Louis
dor in Paris and 500, 900 thalers in tho
Venice Mint. His heirs, for somo I'M
known reason, did no. draw tho money
from the depository in Venice, so at tho
end of tho last century Napoleon found
it still untouched and appropriated t
to the use Of his army. For tho last
thirty years the descendants of Thiery
have been trying to find way of re-
covering the 500, 600 thalcrs. with inter
est. Three weeks ago they all met in
Cologne and resolved to send thor law
ycrs to Paris to move the French Gov
ernmcnt to pay over an indemnity. 1t
was said that the French Chamber had
already considered thcir claims and ad-
viscd the government to pay them.
in the Fen districts or Lincolnshire.
England, the rat plague has dono a
good deal of damage. Thousands of
rats have been killed, but there is no
appreciable diminution. On some farms
as many as 100 n day have been killed,
and ono rat-catchcr living at Spalding
has destroyed some 1000 of the rodents
during the past few months. Tho rat
catchers, however, declare that tho
worst is yet to come, and that in tho
winter tho rats will swarm in larger
numbers than ever When in close
quarters tho rats arc very vicious, and
in some cases they have alta clscd poo
pie. A largo number of ducks and
chickens have been killed by tho rats,
which have also taken to devourinr
large quantities of corn. mangolds, po-
tatocs and the plants in tho fields.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-01-03
Likely nr Would.

Mrs. Wiclwirc-lf you go first. you
will wait for mo on tho other shore;
won't YOU, Goar?'
Mr.. WicAwire-l suppose so. never
went tnywcrc yet without having 10
wait for you at least half an hour. =
Tcrrc uautc Express
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-01-03
CASHlNG FORGED CHECKS.

Sharp Practice That II,s Dccome Very
Common In New York.
Tho most curious criminal trado in
this country is that OF certain money
lenders who advance cash at usurious
rates OF discount on paper which they
know 10 be forged There AFRO several
OF tacsc miscreants among the habituos
Of Dclmonieo'e, @hero thoy are as VOL
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-11-19
STORM TRACKS AND RATNFALLS.

Though Tuesdays rainfall was not quite all
that could be desired. it was nevertheless a source
of satisfaction in this time Of need. It's immediate
practical benefits were something: and the route
of the storm of which it was feature still
further improved the prospect referred to in last
Saturdays Tribune. of general change in the
weather situation. by which renewed water
supply will be assured The tendency Of any
special meteorological phase. cold heat. drouth
or rains. TO persist when once established. gives
TO these last two rains the character of omens.
The trouble with weather for several months
has been that our travelling wind-systems.
storms, have either crossed the continent too far
70 the northward. or liz coming up from the
West Indies. have kept too far out at sea to
give us rain. In some cases. the path
has been such as 70 prevent thu
storm from securing the necessary vapor supply
for heavy precipitation; in others, it merely kept
the attendant rain beyond our reach. Now.
however, these systems sweep the country
in such a way as to yield abundantly, and To
favor southern New-York and New England rather
more than a few weeks ago.
If one examines the storm.tracks on the Govern
ment charts, for excessively wet and excessively
dry months, he will find many forcible illustra-
tons of the point here made. Lack of space
precludes any extended mention of them here ::
but at least contrast may be cited in evidence.
The dryest month in the Middle Atlantic States
for the last twenty-one years WAS probably
September, 1854. In those thirty days no less
than sixteen storms, many of them Of considerable
energy the Weather Review" for that month
says, invaded the United States One of them.
touching the South Atlantic coast aud then
veering sharply away, gave Charleston eleven
inches of rain. The other fifteen crossed the con-
tluent from the westward but their centres all KEEP,
north of Lake Huron, Toronto and Montreal Tho
result was that Boston received only O3I inch of
rain, Phadelph o.2O, New-Yorll City Obs, and
Baltimore 0.o9 Properly. each of these cities
should get in that month nearly four inches.
But the map for September, 1882. shows only four
storm tracks; and two Of these never came any
where near us. From Maryland to Narragansett
Bay. perfectly enormous rainfall occurred. In
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-11-19
MORE ERRdNCY.

The best thinkers are in bad way. 1t must
seem to them by this time as if not only their
own doll but the whole world, were stuffed
with sawdilst. Confessions of errancy continue
on the part of the oracle and guide they have
deemed inerrant and infallible. Twice during
the last few weeks 1.-THE Evening POST has
been caught tripping by its rival in inerrancy'
"The Times" and once it owned up to it in a
way that was cbidlike and bland. And now 1t
has caught itself in a misstatement OF fact re-
ating to what it called an omission on the part OF
"The Sun" to give the appointment OF Police
Justice Grady favorable notice. Having COM
mented on this omission in playful style, 1t
finds that as a matter of fact there was no
omission. but that "The Sun" did do the hand
some thing by Grady and give him the usual
complimentary send-off at the time of the APP
pointment So in its yesterdays issue it fairly
and souarely said: 1--WE owe an apology to
the venerable Editor of The Sum-" very
proper thing, to be sure, but again we ask, II
this sort of thing is to continue, what is to be-
come of our best thinkers, OF the profoundly
earnest persons who not only swear by 1.-The
Evening Post" but are sometimes ready to bet
on it?
Are we to understand that our lately inerrant
contemporary, now that it has confessed its fall
bility and errancy, proposes to keep up the pfac-
tice of making misstatements and correcting and
apologizng for them by way OF emphasizing
It's repentance? Are eve all OF us"-to borrow
the inclusive phrase with which "Ihe World''
dilutes it's own remorse-to be apOlogized to in
turn? Really there is no need of it. The con-
Gdence and trust of mankind have already been
too rudely shaken. We beg our Grant contem-
norary to forbear further apologies. On the
part of The TRIBUNE, which we judge to be
next in order to be apologized to, we hasten to
assure "The Evening Post" that it is not at all
necessary. If it will just say "verax' instead
of "mendax'; when speaking of The TRIBUNE
hereafter. we shall recognize its change Of heart
and all will be forgiven. The readers of "The
Evening Post" who all speak Latin, will by
that token understand the entire situation.
And vet if our Grant contemporary will do
us a single favor while it is in the apologize
mood-here is our rather boisterous contempo-
rary. 1.-THE World" which seems to be taking
itself quite seriously just now over the matter
Of Mr. Flowers election expenses. That journal
is apparently very much outraged in its feelings
because THE TRIBUNE has said that nobody be-
lieyed that Mr. Flowers election expenses were
NOT more than $4,000. Will "The Evening
POST kindly oblige us while in its present mood
nv apologizing to "The World' for entertain
ing that doubt itself? That will help us all
out, and be a great comfort to 1.-THE World"
which has been dancing up and down in quart
pot over it for several days.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-11-19

carry on their abominable traffic in votes; ana
lust 80 long will they find In it pretext 1or
keeping alive the assessment system, when
cperates to deter poor men from accepting nom
nations for public Office. These are the cher
objections to the paster, but they are ho1 inc
only ones. Its exclusion and the adoption OF
the blanket ballot would materially reduce the
annual public expense for printing tickets ana
would relieve the voter of the irbsome duty
which now rests upon him, OF carrying with MN
into tbe voting -booths a handful OF ballots, all
Of which he is required to fold up in certain
prescribed manner after he has chosen and pre-
pared the one which he desires TO place IN the
ballot-box. 1t needs no argument to prove that
wong machinery ought to be burdened with
no detail OF any sort which can be prudently
avoided We are glad to note that 1.-THE Buiia-
10 Courier" the leading Democratic journal OF
Western New-York, stands with the Repub-
licans and all other friends of genuine and thor
ough ballot reform so far as this point IS con-
cerned 1t insists that the law, although 1t has
done much BY giving the voter the protection
of secrecy, has not done enough and Will not
haze done enough until blanket ballot has
been secured
One other point: The thirty-fifth section OF
the law provides that "no person shall DO any
electioneerng on Election Day within any poll
ing-place or in any public street or room or IN
public manner within one hundred and fifty
feet of any polling place" This is a sensible
provision 1t tends to promote the peace and
good order which always ought to prevail at the
polls. But it is disregarded in some places, the
workers refusing to keep beyond the one-hun-
bred and fifty foot line. Let the next Legs-
lature look at this section and see if it cannot
be amended so as to make it more binding upon
whom it may concern. There Is no politics IN
ballot reform. Or at least, there ought to be
none TO be sure, the law is recognized as Re
publican achievement but that is simply because
Democratic lawmakers of the past under the
lead of Governor Hill chose to fight the Saxton
bills. 1t is to be hoped that the Democratic
Senators and Assembymen of 1892 will be wise
enough to make better record.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-11-19

years, under system of bountes in Germany
Austria Hungary, France and Belgium, the beet
product has been multiplied eeven-fold. In
1890 beet-sugar represented 3,63O,O0 tons
cane-sugar. 2.11S.OOO tons. While Europe was
heavily protecting its beet industry and provid-
ing the best possible facilities for technical edu-
cation, England, with cane-sugar Islands IN ooth
the East and the West Indies. was doing abso-
lutely nothing for thens Either a bounty sys-
tenn or tariff discrimination in the markets OF
the Empire in favor OF cane-sugar would have
saved this great industry from destructive COM
petition; but Free Trade was too important an
English interest to be sacrificed for the welfare
of the colonies. The process OF emptyins the
British West Indies of their white population
went on RAPIDLY England was indifferent to
their fate.
Meanwhile those planters who could not sell
their estates have introduced the central factory
system imported coolie labor and cheapened the
cost of sugar production. As cane-sugar was
displaced in Europe by beet-sugar, they became
dependent upon the American market. In order
TO secure that market they were anxious few
years ago to accept generous treaty oher from
the United States Government, but England
vetoed the project because it involved prefer
entail arrangement not in accord with the dog
matism of Free Trade. Within tne last year
the offer has been renewed, but not uncondlton-
ally. nor to the British West Indies exclusively.
Spain has accepted the proposal, and Cuba and
Porto Rico are now enarging their production
of canc-sugar and receiving great investments
of American capital in improved machinery.
England hesitates to do fer its impoverished
Islands what Spain has done for its possessions.
With their own sugar Disseminated against in
the American market after the end OF this year
the planters will have to face destructive COM
petition from Cuba The commercial system OF
England stands in the way OF the negotiation OF
preferential schedules of duties upon American
exports in exchange for the free market for sugar
Lest these comments upon this economic prob
lem may seem prejudiced we shall quote the
conclusions of an English writer, Alfred Calde-
colt. in English Colonization and Empire ::
"Our colonies in the West Indies are, however,
in somewhat critical position. There Is reason
for holding that these islands are just now so
placed as to be far from deriving unmixed adj
vantage from remaining within the Empire at
all. Sentiment is wholly against sepa-
ration from England with either independence
or admission to the Union Of North America !;
but the demand for Liberty to negotiate treaties
must grow as Guiana increases in Importance
and Jamaica continues TO find the relative weight
of it's external trade increase in favor OF the
United States in comparison with Great brltalh'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-11-19
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

The following passage from Archdeacon Farrar's
last book IS good example Of his perfervid rhetoric
as well his nberality, not TO say hercsy Where
would be the popular teachings about hell II we calmly
and deliberately erased from English Bible the
rhree words 'damnation' HE'LL and everlasting
Yet ] say unhesatingly--I say, claiming the fullest
right to speak with the authority Of knowledge say
with the camcst and most unHnchng sense of
ponsiblty-I say, standing here In the sight OF
God and my saviour and it may be OF the angels
and spirits Of the dead, that Of these words
ought 10 stand any longer In English Bible for
In our present acceptation Of them they are simply
mstranslaons."
Fragrant Wood-Few OF our native trees have odor-
ferrous wood like the sandal wood Of the Islands In
the Pacific Ocean but few OF the conicrae on the
Pacific slope have sweet scented.woO The fine
church ut Metakaa, built By the civilized Indians
OF Alaska Is fragrant II Incense was CONTINUALLY
floating through the air. from the wood of tho great
arbor vitae-Thuja gigantea-of which IL Is built.
Libocedrus decurens, found further SOUTH Is known
~ "inccnse CEDAR from Its fragrance. The yellow
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-11-19
Amusrmenrs.


ACADEAfY-6-The Soudan.
AMBERG THEATRES :15-Taming Of the Shrew ane
Cavsllerls Rusucsna.
AMERICAN INSTITUTE-1o q. m. to 10 y. m.-1ndus
trial Fair.
BIJoU THEATRES :i5-Niobe.
BROADWAY THEATRE-s-The Merry Monarch
BROADWAY TABERNACLE-s-Lecture.
CASTN0-s-CaNalerla Rusticsna and the Tyroean.
COLUMBUS THEATRES :15-Superea
EDEN MUSEE-wax Tableaus
GARDEN THEATRE-S-La Cigsle.
GRAND OPERA HOUSES :15-shenandosh.
HARLEM OPERA HOUSES ;15-The Henrietta.
HARRIGANS NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. and the 400
HERRMANN'S THEATRES 3o-The Man with Hun
dred Heads.
HoYT's MADISON SQUARE THEATRES .so-A Trir
to Chinatown.
ROSTER & BJAL'S-s-vsudcvie.
LYCEUM THEATRE-2-S :i5-Bdy Bouutiful.
MADISON SQUARE GARDEN-liorse Show. y. m
"a 10 y. m.-Tower Open.
MUSIC HALI.-S-Concert.
NEW PARK NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. AID Hos.
NIBL0S-S-Thc Limited Mail
PALMEES THEATRES I5-Alabama.
fR0CToRS THEATRE-s-The Lost Paradise.
STANDARD THEATRE-s-Cle patia.
STAR THEATRES :15-Miss Holyet
ITALIA TuEATRE-S-Julus Caesar.
TONY PASTORS NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
UNION SQUARE THEATRES :l5-The Cadl.
18th STREET TBEATGE-s-Mayourneen
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-11-19
PERSONAL.
any point.

The Emperor of Germany, the Grand Duke Of Baden
and the Prince Regent OF Bavaria all become
beers OF the German Shakespeare society whose head
quarters are In Weimar.
Justice Bradley Of the United States supreme Court
shows his continued interest in his alma mater, Rutgers
College by establishing prize In Roman law, a course
in which forms part Of the work In the Latin depart
mont in that Institution.
The Grand Duke OF Baden is great fancier of
carrier pigeons. and has devoted much time to raising
and training them. In the exhibition Of such birds;
held recently In Bochum His Royal Highness secured
Of the first prizes.
Dr. Anna Epstein, Russian woman, has been ap-
pointed the official city physician by the council Of
Poxarevatz in Servia. So far Is known, she is the
first woman hOn0red In Europe.
George Rosen, the celebrated orentaist. who died a
few days ago in Detm0ld. Germany was for many
years in the consular and diplomatic service of his
country Since 1873 he has lived in retirement, devot
ing himself TO his studies. He wrote number of
gremmars of oriental tongues, well a history Of
Turkey.
Count Taubenheim, OF Wurtemberg, who has Just
retired from the public service, known in mo
seventies as the recipient of medals decorations
and orders than any other in Europe. Possessing
the confidence Of his King he was sent upon countless
missions to foreign courts and returned each time with
neM distinctions. While returning from a journey to
the Court of Holland few years ago, he became the
victim OF n ridiculous mistake. The customs officers
on the border OF Germany would not believe that any
single man could possibly possess many decorations.
The trunk OF orders, with the jewels and precious
stones convinced them that he jeweller attempt
ing to smuggc goods the border. They arrested
him aud for time refused to listen To his explanations
The unfortunate Count finally, by the use OF the tce-
graph Office, convinced the guardians Of Germanys
boundary that he an official. Bismarck Moltke,
years were the only men entitled to wear so many
ornaments upon their breasts as TaubenlSim.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-11-19
AMENDING TIE ELLIOT LII.

The next Legislature can have no more i'm
nortant duty to discharge than that of revising
the new Ballot law. That great safeguard Of
the right of suffrage has now been in operation
two yeals. thus enabling the voters in every
county to give it a practical test at two impor-
tant elections. To assert that it has given gen
eral satisfaction is merely to record the popular
verdict Even those who were bitterly opposed
to it while it was pending in the Legislature
admit that it has effected wholesome and i'm
portant reform at the polls, rendering them more
free from bribery and more orderly than they
ever were under the old electoral system To-
day nobody calls for the repeal OF the law. 1t
is as firmly intrenched in public favor as the
provision of the Constitution in the interest of
free speech
There is. however, a widespread demand for
the revision of the old law. 1t is good but it
might easily be better. The cardinal defect Is
is failure to provide for blanket ballot. 50
said philosophical men after the election Of
LAST year, so they are saying with increased en-
phasis now. Experience has demonstrated that
in order to reduce bribery and corruption to the
minimum the "paster" ballot must go. So long
as it is tolerated just so long will INSCRIPTIONS
political bosses contrive to defeat the law and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-11-19
ENGLANUS SUGAR COLONIES.

English policy in the West Indies has always
been an interesting economic study. A world
wide colonial empire had its modest beginning
at St. Kits and Barbados, and the conquest of
Jamaica was the first blow directed against
Spanieh ascendancy in the New World Not
only was the great battle for naval supremacy
fought in West Indian waters but the first i'm
portant colonial industry was established In the
islands. During the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries sugar was the chief source OF wealth
in Engand's foreign trade. Barbados and
Jamaica had monopoly of the home market and
largely supplied the American colonies with
sugar. The planters of those islands had greater
incomes than the richest English landowners.
West Indian plantation interests for long period
controlled English politics. Burke never felt
strong enough to offer strenuous resistance 70
them. Even Mr. Gladstone leader of Liberal
ism and Free Trade, opened his political career
with defence of slavery and the West Indian
plantation system.
The decline of the prosperity of the British
West Indies is closely connected with the sugar
industry. The first cause was the enlargement
of the area of sugar production. The Lesser
Antillej as they were settled and conquered were
planted to sugar, and with the opening of the
present century Trinidad and British Guiana had
unrivalled resources for increasing the product.
The French developed their own sugar islands
and the Americans opened the Louisiana cane
belt. Cuba and Porto Rico became centres Of
the industry. Nautilus, Ceylon and other Eng
lish possessions in the East enlarged the supply.
The West Indian monopoly was broken down
at a time when emancipation was decreed and
the planters were unprepared to adapt themselves
TO the new conditions of free labor. Compelled
to compete with slave-owners in Cuba, Brazil
and louisiana they labored under the most
serious Disadvantages. England, by its Flee
Trade system. which accompanied emancipation,
placed the sugars OF all countries on common
level in its own ports. The plantation interests
of the West Indies were Temporarily ruined. A
large proportion of the English settlers aban-
doned the sugar industry.
About 1860 beet-sugar, which had been in
troduced experimentally in Napoleons day,
formed less than one-fifth of the total cane pro-
duction Of the world. During the last thirty