The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-11-05

case. Should third corps ever be want
ed, think you will find the percentage
OF reservists who answered the first call
reduced by nearly per cent
| Although no orders have yet been re-
ceived for the commission of additional
warships, there is little douot, judging
from the activity on board them, that the
hrst-claSs protected cruisers Amphitrite,
Araidne, Argonaut and Blake, and the
| second-class protected cruiser Charybdis
will soon hoist the flag. In addition to
these there is now at Chatham a power
ful reserve feet, consisting of two bat
tleships, three first-class cruisers, six
seeend-class cruisers, two third-c1ass
cruisers, six torpedo boat destroyers and
seven torpedo boats, ready for all event
ualities.
The efforts of his constituents to induce
DR.. Gaxin Brown Clark, liberal member
of parliament for Caithnesshire, to re-
sign on account of his pro-Boer attitude
have thus far been fruitIess. Meanwhile
DR.. Clark publishes letter received from
the Trarsvaal secretary of state, written
the day the Boer ultimatum was pre-
sented in the course Of which DR.. Reitz
says that DR.. Clark's protest against the
British action has been like the ''voice
of one crying in wilderness Of jingoism,
race hatred and militarism."
Lord Hitlington, of the banking house
Of Glyn. Mills & Co, in a recent address
before the Institute of Bankers, said that
the increase in the Transvaal gold out
put for the year ended August 81, amount
ed to more than 100000. He said he
believed the worlds gold production dur
ing the present year would be nearly
thrice as great as it was ten years ago.
Referring to the enormous proportion of
the gold of the world under contract he
congratulated the bankers upon the fact
that the Venezuelan boundary award had
added to Great Britain's share almost the
whole of the extensive gold fields of that
region.
Mrs. Beerbohm Tree is nightly reciting
Rudyard Kipling's poem THE Absent
Minded Beggar,'' at the Palace Music
hall, receiving 500 per week for her SER
vices and contributing this to the sold
ier's fund. On Thursday night her plea
''Pay-Pay-Pay' met with such warm re-
Spouse that she was almost driven from
the stage by the hail of silver thrown by
the enthusiastic audience
Just previous to the close of nominal
lions for the lard rectorship of the Uni
versity of Aberdeen the students persuad-
ed Sir Edward Grey. Liberal member of
parliament for Berwick-on-the-Tw and !
former under-secretary of state for for |
eign affairs, to oppose the candidacy of |
Lord Stratchona and Mount Royal, the
Canadian high commissioner Sir Ed |
ward now announces his withdrawal, on !
the ground that the contest should not be |
coducted on liberal lines.
The prince of Monaco has issued an |
order forbidding the lending of money on |
jewels except by the ordinary licensed |
bankers and pawnbrokers. His aid is to
rid the Monte Carlo gambling rooms of
the shoals of usurious sharps who have
long been accustomed to take advantage |
of half-crazed losers by lending sums, ut
terly inadequate, upon jewelry pledged
with them and often unredeemed.
Mrs. Langtry, on learning Of the circu
lation of reports representing that she
and her husband, Huga de Battle. had
separated. sent the following dispatch to
the Associated Press: such rumors are
Please contradict in both
our names. My husband Is taking the
cureat AK and will return to London in
a fortnight We are looking forward TO
my American tour"
The place of honor in the Grafton gall
eries is now devoted TO a decorative
painting by Puvius de Chameness for the
Boston public library. It presents the
Muses. raising a hymn of praise to Cen
ous, all the figures being of life size The
wor kis favorably criticised