The herald., 1896-05-23
RECENT TALK OF LONDON TOWN

LONDON, May 2.-One of the best rea
sons why all Europe hates ENGLAND is
gave me the other day to account, for
France not having fought England long
before this. 1t is that England is so rich:
remember very well the wise remark of
British admiral when told him the Rus
slams liked us Americans.
Don't believe word of ii, my hoy.
said he, they pretend TO like you because
they have looked over the map and found
no single spot where your possessions and
YOU. Al the nations of Europe hate you.
You are too Internally rich for human ma
ture To, regard you amicably.
And that is the truth about England also.
While all the other countries of Europe
are overburdened with taxes. and still un-
able to indulge in extra expenses. Eng
land, always rich. is now actually enjoying
a glut of money in commerce and the sur
prise of great excess of public funds that
have dropped into the treasury. as it were,
out of the skies. For fortnight the 1inan-
cial writers have been predicting another
mad squandering of money in whatever
now mining craze happens to come up.
They propheSy this because loose money is
superahundant. and an outlet must he had
for it. 1t is a thousand pities that our con-
gress has so disturbed Europe as to make
it out of the question that investors here
or on the continent shall put their money
in our railway stocks IL is admitted that
no better field of speculation is offered,
provided the United States remain quiet
and open to a healthy, peaceful develop
ment of industrial interests hut our leg
islators have alarmed Europe with the be-
lief that peace and quiet are most uncer
tain elements with us.
The news that Timed Ria, the leader of
the, Young Turkey party had been eX-
PEELED from France is now denied. but the
denial did not come until William Watson,
who may now he called the political poet
of England. had emptied a little birthstone
and gall into his inkpot and indlted the
following poem. as able. human
rlainspoken and as in all ways interesting
as anything that Watson writes:
a
Shook her great wings and faced the world
who. if not VIC, reioiced at heart to view
Her proud residence after mightiest woes?
When meath the anarchs knife we saw
OF Carnors day. amid her wecpincs who
Wcpt if not We, for the just man and true
That masked his strength in most urbane
And now again we mourn. but not with her.
Nay not with her though for her,-mourn
A tyrant. ITolrs most perfect minister,
\ man-hend, sun him in her countenance;
And Freedom. whose impassioned name
Lie soiled and desecratc by France the
WILLIAM WATSON"
Ria has been publishing "A paper in
Paris called the "Mechveret." and while
it was very revolutionary from the point
of view of the crime-soddcn Sultan. It
certainly would have been an astonishing
thing for a country claiming to be free
republic like France. to expel him. The
government has now sent out word that
the only measure taken against him is
to forbid the. circulation in France of the
Turkish edition OF his paper that is to
say, he is merely deprived of his means of
livelihood.
We still continue to read great deal
about Baron Hrsch. For a time after his
death it was said that he had committed
suicide, and mystery mongers busted
themselves with stories to account for the
n n nj hp1
snubbed him. and that nobleman had
refused to allow the Prince of Wales to
Chronicle today published what do not
doubt is the exact truth about the baron s
death. a Mr. Ehrenfeld had put his house
and servants at the baron's disposal, and
the baron had invited a number of friends
to meet him at o'clock dinner.
Ihe dinner was the simplest, and the
country, However. the repast was. a gay
one and the conversation singulariy ami
mated, the baron. though dead tired as
he said himself. being full of fun and good
humor. Toward half-past 10 he declared
his intention of going to bed. and left ev-
erybody charmed with his good humor.
without noticing any sign of indisposition
| The next morning the man entered his
masters room, the baron having intended
TO rise early. He seemed to be sleeping.
| The servant placed his masters breakfast
at hand and left the room. In quarter of
an hour he returned and. finding the bar
pll sun apparently SIttDlib, ODtiltu lHe
shutters. The day was fine. and when the
light was let into the chamber the servant
was struck by the baron's paleness and
the rigidity of his hands as they lay on
the bed. lie found the body stiff and cold.
He had already been dead for hours. A
doctor fixed the exact moment between
midnight and l o'clock. The cause of death
was an attack Of apopleXy He died in his
| sleep and without a moment of suffering.
This was precisely the death which he had
always wished Julian Ralph in San
Francisco Examiner.