The morning call., 1893-06-22

Colonial hopes are falling low when a
number of Australians possessed Of means
are selling out and going to Paraguay in
search OF prosperity and contentment. A
group of disappointed Antipodeans, who
have ceased TO regard the land they are
leaving as flowing with milk and honey.
passed through New York the other day to
join sUcialistic community in the country
watered by the Parana. They are not
likely to find their life Utopian. bnt they
intend to plod along as a brotherhood. and
possibly may succeed in doing what has
rarely been done. Why they should settle
in South America in preference to the
United States they would find it nard to
explain nationally. They do assign as
reason that they want TO get away from
the Anglo-Saxnn as far as they can. II by
this they mean European entanglements,
they need be under no apprehension in
this country, where all races finally merge
in the American type.
The bomb OF dynamite which has been
exploded in Madrid must have been toll
erably large one. 1t partly destroyed a
building adjacent in which circus per-
formance was proceeding, and it made
enough of noise to startle the capital and
set it wondering what was new in Spanish
politics. The police ought TO have no diff
Guilty in tracing this outrage to a source. as
one of The men guilty is badly injured and
will let his tongue wag. The anarchists of
Barcelona are credited with the explosion.
1t calls attention to their existence but
will do little else toward solving any of the
problems of Government.
Europe will have an Indifferent harvest,
much below the average in some countries,
and in no case bountifui This is the est-
mate formed by Bells Messenger, a recog-
nized agricultural organ. but the informa-
ton 1t publishes is not from official
sources. France is better off than was ex-
pected and GERMANY has moderate crops,
but Austria and Hungary seem in bad
paralleled failure in various crops. Scot
land and Ireland are not injured mate
rally. The cause of all the disaster is
drought-a long period of desiccating
weather which has shrunk plant life UP.
1t will be II winter of unusual suffering in
parts Of Europe.
The ingenuity of the swindler is not ex-
hausted. In Indiana smooth-faced man
who called himself preacher got leave
TO stay over night at farm. During the
evening man and woman called and
| asked where they could find clergyman,
giving as reason that they wanted to get
married. When told that there was a
preacher inside they were overioyed and
soon they were pronounced man and wife.
The farmer and his spouse signed the mar
rage certificate and all seemed happily
ended. But it was not A bank soon
after ward notified the farmer that It held
promissory note signed by him and his wife
Tor $685.. That was the certificate.
Dvorak's opinion that negro melody may
be woven into the music Of distinctiv
American school is being ridiculed by,
some musicians in Vienna. 1t is q ques-
ton what Is original in that music, even
ii some Of 1t is striking and catching. Have
any OF the themes come from Africa
or is the music modification of what has
been heard in churches or at concerts?
has 1t really racial characterp The
ballad and dance music of old countries
can be traced very little in written compo-
slilon and some of it is general, but the
greater part has local or national associa-
tiODs.
The Great Northern under the control of
Jim" Hill is doing the Pacific Coast the
service of showing how good thing in
dependent management of railroads is.
lie goes on lowering fares overland