The morning call., 1893-11-27


was aghast at the prospect Mr.. Crump
made Inquiries. and finally went to the
Bank of England after hours. The
directors were holding a meeting. he
sent in his card to Mr.. Lidderdale, then
the Governor. and had an interview; He
put the question: us it Barings?" A
slight nod was the only reply. "They re-
qulre outside assistance2" Another nod.
That was all he had to work upon. de
had the rest at his finger ends. and next
morning out came the sensation.
Sir Andrew Clark. the eminent physi-
clan who died the other day. attended
interviewer Of the Westminster Gazette
that the reason why the poets demise was
so, peaceful was that he lived quiet
said. (which few men learn In time to
profit by it. l was his friend before was
his physician. Metaphysics drew US to-
getner. Gladstone. too, is deeply inter-
ested In that subject, and we all three
agreed In our taste for simple life and
lie OF work. Half the disease of this
generation Is due to peoples idleDess-
idleness. the beginning of all evil" Very
lew doctors had more exhaustlng prac-
tlce than Sir Andrew. He was run after
by the great necessarily and had little
time Tor reading or rest Much OF his
reading was done in his carriage between
the houses OF patients. Ii was his mis-
fortune to have many patients who were
not SICK at ali-wh0 only wanted the lame
Of prescription or advice from him.
There are such shamS in a world OF real
suffering.
The need Of something like reasonable
expedition in the trial of prisoners is illus
trated by the position OF the witnesses in
the HQsDnr ac Of I'd the hi oh
seas. Six witnesses are detained at Gov
ernment expense on Alcatraz awaiting the
progress OF proceedings in the courts.
Ihey are held as witnesses pure and
simple, and just because they have no &C.
cupatlon and residence ashore, but are
sailors and are apt TO go off on voyage
they have been almost treated like crimi-
nails for eight months. 1t is not enough to
give them their food and some payment.
Ihey are deprived of the liberty to which
they have right. Why is il not permissi-
DIE To take their sworn dispositions before
counsel, allowing cross-examination, and
submitting this to the juryp Just as much
truth would be got by this process as by
bringing them into court.
The attempt to detain the vessels which
PelxOto of Brazil has purchased in the
United States failed for obvious reasons
De Mello is not recognized as a belligerent.
IL Is perfectly open for Peixoio 10 ACQUIRE
the navy Of the United States if this cOun-
try is willing 10 sell, and to purchase fe W
merchant vessels and convert them into
warships is an ordinary transaction-just
as permissible as buying a cargo of wheat
1t may be bad for De Mello, but is only
International law.
Why does not some Snowman make use
of the photograph to give short addresses
by living men Of eminence? One minute
from each would supply a speech of about
loo or 200 words, possibly more. equal to
twenty or thirty lines If newspaper
Thirty such speeches would constitute a
most Interesting exhibition. Numbers of
men and women in the United States, and
celebrities abroad. could all be obtained,
and by reproducing the cylinders the en-
tertainment might be made general. Tie
Observation-Disclosures device is almost played
out because many of the instruments are
damned and about as amusing when they
do go as creaky windmill. But an enter
talnment with thirty NUM- ers on the pro-
gramme of score of instruments would
be worth paying for literally.
Clement Scott. the critic who was re-
Gently in San Francisco. is enthusiastic
about the brightness ana convenient ar
raDgements CT American theaters. The
aim Is to render them attractive to the
multitude, not repellent, as so many of the
gloomy English Thespian temples are. BE
Is also delighted at The fact that there is
no censorship to restrain and narrow the
dramatists Inauguration and signs for that
species of freedom himself.