The record-union., 1897-09-12
Food Shortage Accompanied by a Famine
Of Fuel.
The Tour of the Duke and Duchess
of York Marked With Triumph
Throughout Hera1ded Every
where With the Greatest Re-
ioicings.

pie, politicians and others, admit it
has done a great deal for Irish trade.
The Duchess, for instance, accepted a
Galway fisher cloak from Mother Doo-
ley. The cloak was made at a factory
which Father Dooley started in CAL
way, and already 100 of these cloaks
have been ordered, either in white or
crimson. The later color is correct.
Another result of the visit of the
Duke and Duchess of York to Ireland
is that a royal residence will in all
probability be established in that coun-
try, and in addition the early abolition
of the Vice-royalt.- is everywhere ac-
cepted as a fact The Duchess won all
hearts, and the Duke was almost as
popular, though he did not escape crit
icism
Across the rejoicings, however, fall
the shadows of the coming famine The
Daily Nation" after getting a letter
from every pastor of a parish in rural
Ireland says: Since black 1S47 the
Irish laborer has never faced a winter
more full of privatiOns. The harvest is
as bad as can be in the west of Ireland
and it is pretty sure that there will be
not only a food but a fuel famine. Not
only are the potatoes rotting in the
ground, with the grain crops beaten
down by rain and not worth reaping,
but the turf cut will not dry. Unless
the next few days a famine is a GER
tainty.''
Vanity Fair" says the Queen is quite
interested in the rush to the Klondike
gold mining regions, and has asked a
loo
protection afforded there to her sub
jects. Her majesty knows a great deal
about British Columbia, where a vast
estate for the crown was purchased a
few years back
Everything in connection with the
visit of President Faure to Russia
was thought out with diplomatic clev-
erness, and instances of it are leaking
out every day. AS an example of the
tact employed it is pointed out that
the French President took with him
three speaking dolls as presents to the
Grand Duchess Olga, the older of the
two daughters of the Car and Czarina.
The Czar recently filed up a census
paper in his own handwriting, giving
his name and surname Romanovo, his
social status as Gear of all the Rus
sias" his profession as master of all
the land of the Russian Empire" and
giving as his accessory that of landed
proprietor am agriculturist." For the
CZarina the Car wrote 'Czarina of all
the Russias mistress of all the lands
belonging to the Russian Empire and
patroness of all the houses of employ
ment."
11rr thn 1111h1iS1ar &c t0
to the public Sir Ellis Ashmead Bart
letts THE Battlefields of Thessaly" 1t
is an elaborate defense of the Sultan.
The writer claims that the Sultan de-
sires to be friendly with Great Britain.
He adds that the bad manners of Sir
Phillip Currie, the British ambassador
at ConstantinOple prevents this. Ash
mead Bartlett pays high compliments
to the ability and shrewdness of the
correspondent of the Associated Press
who was in Armenia in 1884, and who
disclosed the real facts regarding the
terrible Armenian massacres, saying
he was the only newspaper man who
had a real insight into the troubles of
Armenia.
AT the Doncaster yearlings blooded
stock sales during the week high prices
We're reached. Sir Tatton Sykes the
famous Yorkshire sporting Baron, OBJ
tanned thirteen thousand seven hundred
and ten guineas for fourteen colts and
fillies. Colts by Saint Simon fetched
top prices, one going for 1900 guineas,
and another being knocked down at
2,200 guineas. A flly by Bendora was
sold for $50 guineas.
The theatrical season has fairly bios
somed, and the first nighters are over
whelmed with a surfeit of farce come
dies and melodrama. One of the an
nual features of the London theatrical
year is the Adelphia melodrama, to
which thousands of enthusiastic the
ater-goers look forward to as the mile
stone of the season. The Adelphia
melodrama of this season was inaug-
urated on Thursday night, and it's
greatly discussed play is woven about
the battle of Waterloo, which its au-
thors, Haddon Chambers and Comyns
Carr, at the last moment christened
with the catchy title I'm the Days Of
the Duke 1t is a romantic melodra-
ma of the more refined sort, in which
there are a number of important but
intense SITUATIONS Inc neaNy act OF
the play, on which great anticipations
had been built, was an elaborate pre-
sentation of the ball in Brussels on the
eve of the battle handed down to fame
by Byron and Thackeray. No more
dramatic episode of history for stage
depletion could have been conceived.
and certainly none more to the taste Of
the Adelphi clientele, which demands
that it's pictures be done in broad col
ors If the enthusiasm of the first
nighters may be taken as a founda-
ton for judgment, the future holds in
store protracted run and good profits
for the play The motive Of the play
is the glorificatfon of the British SOL
der The hero's part belongs to VIII
liam Terriss, who retires from the Sc
cret service, while other important
parts are borne by Harry Nichols. Eve
lyn Millward and Marion Terry.
The Hereford festival, which begins
tomorrow, will be noteworthy because
of the first rendition of several new
works by English composers. Among
them will be a requiem by Professor
Stanford, written in memory Of Presi-
dent Frederick Leighton, the late Pres
ident of the Royal Academy.
Cora Urquhart Potter and Kyrle
Bellew have returned to London after
a globe circuiting tour of three years,