Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-03-27
FARMING
OUT AFRICA
Britain and France Come to an
Amicable Understanding.
OTHER NATIONS SATISFIED.
The Gauls, However, May Find They
Have Struck "a Hornets Nest-1he
Pope Much Better-COmments
on Our Trade Conditions.

Pope Much Better--COmm ments
on Our Trade Conditions.
London, March 27.-A red letter page
In the history of Africa was turned last
week when Great Britain and France
came to an agreement in parceling out
the last portion of Africa still open to
"grabbers." The agreement reached
disposes of hundreds of thousands Of
square miles, leaving only four recog-
| nized independent states throughout
the continent Morocco. Abyssinia, Lii
IBERIA and the Orange Free State.
The settlement has given satisfaction
in Great Britain, where 1t is generally
| considered very fair for both parties,
and has especial value in finally avert
ing, as far as diplomatic documents
can risk, future disputes. Moreover,
an important feature of the agreement,
providing equality in the commercial
treatment of the territory between
Lake Tchad and the Nile, is that it does
not hamper Great Britain in the least,
as her free trade system would have
secured commercial rights of France,
while the French concession of equal
| rights improves the English position. In
the face of French colonial protection
this is Il most valuable advantage for
Great Britain, which is fully appreciat-
ed here.
Everybody Satisfied.
The reception of the agreement by
Europe is decidedly favorable. The
Russians do not seem to care, the Ger
mans apparently hope for compensa-
ton elsewhere and are not sorry to see
Frances hands full of colonial embar-
| easements, while in France, except for
colonial faddists and inveterate Anglo
phobes, the majority of Frenchmen are
| daZzled by the extent of empire secured
to them, which they picture to them
selves as a second India, and they also
heave sigh of relief at the fact that
the matter has finally been adjusted.
AS The Spectators remarks: only
French Anglophobes are discontented,
II ~ wnat ssB
not possess. This criticism is quite true,
but Europe has been doing that in Afli-
ca for 90 years and is going to do the
same in China"
One good result of the agreement is
seen in the announcement published in
the Echo de Paris of the suspension of
military preparations for the defense OF
| Corsica. Algeria and Tunis and the re-
| turn Of the troops sent to Algeria and
| Tunis and the coast towns of France
recently owing to the tension of the
! Anglo French relations.
Hot Work For France.
Sudancse experts predict that the
| French will find they have hornets
nest in the region around Lake Tchad,
where several powerful potentates hold
| sway. The leading ruler is Rabeh, for
| morly a slave in upper Egypt, who Went
| westward and carved an empire for
| himself With his sword. He Is now
| STYLED the "African Napoleon" has an
army of 10000 men and rules the terri
! tory southwest of Lake Tchad. He is
at loggerheads with the neighborlng
sultan of Wadai, whose country is also
included in the French sphere and who
has nearly 5000, 900 followers among the
senoIssi and whose troops are said to
! he led by Europeans, Frances policy
| is to foster the mutual hatreds between
Raheh and the sultan of Wadai, but If
this leads to an attempt to subduc eli
ther of them she will have a tremen-
dous struggle before her, especially IN
| the case of the sultan of Wadai, as
thousands of the Senoussi live in Tunis
and Algeria and would probably make
common cause with their coreligionists,
involving confagration in Frances
north African possessions.
A representative of the press has had
an interview with Mgr. Brindle, the
new coadjutor of Cardinal Vaughan,
who has Just returned from Rome and
who had an audience with the pope a
week ago. They conversed at length on
important topics, his holiness display
inc his usual acuteness and animated
and varied thought. Mgr. Brindle says
the pontiff's eyes are like those OF boy
in brightness and that he certainly Is
not suffering from any mental deterio-
ration. The pope sat down at mass, as
usual. and intends to take part in the
celebration of April IL. playful eva
sion of his doctors wishes is the sub
iect of much amusement to the pontlh-
cal household and adds to the view OF
the Vatican and of Cardinal Rampolla,
the papal secretary of state, and others
in the pontiff's surrounding that Leo
XIII will live ten years longer
When questioned further on the sub
iect of the popes views, Mgr Brndle
said his holiness looks upon the domes-
J tic differences in the church In America
as sign Of immense nervous vitality
but as being in no way alarming. He
regards the future of the church with
hope in Its unity and as being tower
Of strength In the councils Of the uni
. versal church.
British, Sunday Papers. -
r Considerable opposition Is developing
against the approach Of Sunday edi'
tions of The Daily Telegraph and Daily
Mall. The government was questioned
ON the subject in the house OF commons
a member asking whether it was in
tended to legislate against such news
papers or cause the postotfice to restric
their advantages of transmission SO al
to discourage the practice of seven da!
papers. The government leader. Mr. a
J. Balfour. replied that her majesty
government had no intention Of inter
fering In the matter. He pointed ou
that Sunday papers had existed for I
long time past The opponents of sever