Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-01-05
DEMANDING VICTIMS.
London Public Wants responsibility
for South African Reversos
Determined.

Determined.
London. Dec 29.-Miserable rain, fog
and dirt made Christmas week of evil
memory for ENGLAND. Depressing gloom,
III thorough harmony with the weather.
settled over the country. The coasts
were strewn with wrecks, commerce was
out of joint and the public was bitterly
| dlgesting the criticism of the British
army. The demand for Major.-Gen. Sir
| Henry K. COlville'S resignation, thrown
| as sop, only served TO whet the raven
Gus appetites of those who are bowling
| for the responsibility of the rcVerSCS in
| South Africa being brought home to iudi-
Viduals. More heads are demanded
! Where so many must be blamablc ii is
felt that the selection of Gen. Colville is
woefully inadequate, if not unfair. In
deed, it is already said that had not the
yeomanry force at Iindley, which Col
vile failed to relieve, included some of
the nobility and other influential persons.
/ Colville would never have been recalled.
! The bitterness felt by these yeomanry ut
being compelled to surrender because, as
they alege, Colville refused TO render the
aid within his power, has never died out
and il will probably result in one Of the
most interesting court martialS in the
annals of the British army, upon the re
| suit of which will depend the fate Of
several other high officers who have
| proved unequal to the occasion.
Will Infnriatc the Dutch.
| The Liberal papers comment severely
on the acceptance by the war Office of Il
contingent Of Maoris from New Zealand.
| The Star says: The effect of this stu
| pid blundcr on the Dutch will be terri
| BILE. After declining to employ Indian
! troops, we are taking patry hundred
Maoris. This will not only infuriate the
| Dutch but it will insult the Indian troops
who win regard it as declaration Of
their inferiorlty to an inferior colored
race. Go on, o government of muddlcrs:
even the gods could not save you from
Your own invincible folly"
| However, there are signs of the dawn
! of that common sense, the lack of which
the English critics so dcplore in the mill
/ tary system. for the cavalry now going
out to South Africa is diScarding the
lance and carbine and substituting for
! these weapons rifles and saherS. After
| over years fighting the authorities have
| Weakened to theutter uSeleSSncsS of lanccS
and carbin"S. considering that thousands
| OF British soldiers have never seen a Boer
/ during the many engagements.
While Great Britain is tied hand and
foot to South Africa, the navy. which is
not escaping the wave of criticism, is
quietly increasing its strength and NOR
ais. For months both men and ships
have been kept in an unusual state Of
readiness, and there are now building in
| British yards no fewer than eleven bat
| tleshipS, nineteen cruisers and fourteen
| smaller vessels, totaling nearly 10000
/ tons. These exclude vessels which have
| been tried, but are unfinished.
Social Barriers Removed.
| The gradual removal Of the social bar
/ mrs which formerly restricted English
political and educational life, were never
| better instanced than by the appointment
this week of Joseph Owen to a fellow
ship at Oxford. Six years ago Mr.. Owen
was a millhand at Oldham. helping to
support his poor parents. He attended at
night the university extension lectures,
and so much ability did he show that the
lecturers got up a fund and sent him to
the great university, where, with his
! wife, he settled down in a humble cot
! tage. He knew no Greek and little Lat
! in. His first success came when he won
the Brackenburg history scholarship, to
the surprise of many learned. aristocrat-
&c competitors. Four years of determined
uphill work passed and the final cxamina-
tions drew near. On position in these
depended Mr. Owens whole future. A
| few weeks before the ordeal his young
wife died suddenly. Mr.. Owens friends
thought ii impossible for him to accom-
| pllsh anything; but the millhand'S grit
stood the strain and Mr.. Owen gained
the coveted first class, with the degree.
His appointment as extension lecturer
quickly followed and Mr. Owen lecturpd
where, six years previous. he had learned.
The climax in his career came this week,
when Pembroke college elected Mr..
Owen, out of all of the Oxonians. to the
lucrative and honorcd post Of fellowship
Picture of Washington.
There are few original pictures of Gen.
! Washington in England, hence the dis
! coTery of another miniature is interest
/ ing. 1t is by Sam F0lwen and is dated
! I91. Another by the same artist is now
| in the possession Of the Historical society
! of Philadelphia. dated 1896. The new
ind is supposed to be an excellent like
ness. 1t represents Washington wear
ing a pigtall
Glasgow, which the Christmas and
New Year season has made notorious for
| the drunkenness exhibited in it's streets,
| has acquired possession Of an old man
sion house situated in a deserted part OF
Ayrshire, al cost Of $1,000. where habit
ual drunkaTds will be sent for terms
! varying from three months 10 two years
/ Ihe authorities hope TO effect cures by
making the inmates do farm work