Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-03-20
FOREIGN NEWS NOTES.

The kaisers answer to the Cars
disarmament proposal is an increase ~
$4,000 men in the German army.
A pension has been granted to the
WIDOW OF Colonel Henry of the French
army, who committed suicide after
confessing to forgeries which convicted
Dreyfus of treason.
The sum of 100000 which Kitchen.
er asked the public to donate for a COL
lege at Khartum was pledged within a
week, and twice as much could have
been raised just as easily.
The Mahdi, whom General Kitchener
defeated and routed at Omdurman, mas
for thirteen years suppressed education
IN the Soudan. The people are intelli-
gent, though utterly uneducated ac-
cord1ng to the European standard.
While London is still talking of the
taxameter as an interesting curiosity,
Bradford has already introduced it
into the cab service. The beginning Is
modest one enough, but it promises
to become general and successful, the
taking of the cabs using the taxameter
being greatly in excess of those not
provided with it. Arrangements are
also being made to use this method OF
registering cab fares in Manchester,
and beginning is to be made in Lon
don. Short Of police ordinance Of
course, no cabman can be forced to
drive a taxameter-furnished cab, but
once it can be shown that this instru-
ment earns a larger amount for the
driver, its use will soon become gen.
era1
Good progress is being made by the
English and American missionaries in
Armenia, particularly in training the
people to Anglo-SaXon ways The In
dustrial bureau and orphanage at Van
is great success. Cotton spinning is
now given to $50 women, and in ad-
dition 600 looms are kept running TO
turn the yarn into cloth. The expense
of maintaining these at work averages
81 800 per month, and involves on bal
ance a monthly loss of about $500. A
daily dole of bread is given to 800 per-
sons, many of them blind or old and
enfeebled, and quite unable to work
Last year rations were issued to 1000
persons. In the orphanage $50 child
rem are housed.
John Lane is about to publish a
handsome volume containing over 100
drawings by the late Aubrey Boards
ley. The collection comprises all of
Mr.. Beardsley's most representative
early work, with the exception of his
'Morte d'Arthur." 1t includes his re-
markable illustrations to "Salone,"
and the whole series of drawings
which he did for the yellow Book"
and by which he first became known.
The volume contains two photograv-
ure portraits of Beardsley from stu
dios by Frederick H. Evans. There is
a PREDATORY note on the artist by H. G.
Marillier.
The Prussian administration has a
drastic way of Germanizing provinces
which the fortune of war has added to
the empire. For some time North
Schleswig has suffered seriously from
the eviction of persons whose only Of
Tense was that they were Danes. 1t is
true that the Danes are far from docile.
They cling to their old nationality of
thirty-four years ago, and they stead
lily vote for a Dane at every election.
Nevertheless, there is no desire to de-
tach themselves from the reich. They
ask only that they shall be allowed to
use their language and keep their ma
tional enthusiasm.