The age-herald., 1902-04-06
Cecil Rhodes Dreamer and Merciful to Cham
 berlain-Emigrants for South Africa
BY HENRY DEvEREAux.

the country. It selects candidates for Parliament and it seeks by means of meetings and the distribution of litera- ture to secure the triumph throughout the land of the cause of self-governm ent. The Government, therefoae, is minded to suppress 1t.
 The Irish-outside a few districts in Ulater-are united in their desire for Home Rule. This most legitimate as- piration was, we were told to be killed by Kindness. The kindness was of very questionable quality, but the Irish have not been prepared to renounce their birthriRht for mess of pottage. The Government has now come back to the argument of the stick. This Is more req sonabie. The Irish must either be CO., creed into accepting our rule, or they must be allowed to rule themselves. These two only alternatives MT. Glad stone never failed to impress upon us. History has conslusively proved that these are the only two courses possible. This Is as true in South Africa as it Is in Ireland it Is, indeed, of universal appli- cation. I honor the Irish for refusing to be cajoled out of their inalienable rights should not blame them if they were to rebel tomorrow. I believe that we should do so were Ireland the predominant part ner, and were she to treat us as we do her.
 Apropos of the Irish cheer when the Methuen defeat was announced in the House of Commons, Labouchere says: q asked one of the cheerers why he had given expression to his feeling in this fashion" His reply was, that, as 1t had been announced by the Government that Ireland was to be subjected to what Is really martial law, he could not help feel ing glad that events in South Africa would possibly hinder the government from waging war against the rights and liberties of Ireland"
 Anent the throng of visitors expected this season, reminds one of the Dirty One from the East. The Shah Is expected. His treasury was 'emptied in the course of his last visit to Paris which. however, was in an exceptional time, the Exhibi- tion year. He inherits the popularity of his fathers. A Shah chimes in with old fashioned ideas of monarchy. He does not, like European sovereigns, go about In tweed suits, and we know that in his own empire he is master of his subjects lives and purses. His diamonds hypnotize the street crowds The late Shah came out in Paris in the character of a Mon sieur Sans-Gene. He poked the plump little wife of an illustrious marshal in the ribs, and presented her with mag nificent diadem. for which her husband had to pay. Mime. Carnot impressed him less agreeably than La Marechale Mac Mahon. and he told her so. His successor found Mime. Loubet to his taste. She has an open-hearted manner a sonsiness that orientals admire. and her appearance is really pleasing.
 The death of Victor Hugo has brought the autograph hunters to the front It has resulted in the discovery that the market Is full of forgeries. Collectors of autographs should scan through a mag nifying glass letters of Victor Hugo dated Hauteville House and written in answers to importunate admirers. Young men and schoolboys impatient to shine as bards, used to invoke his literary guid- ance and try to draw from him letters which they could proudly read to friends or publish. As Lamartine's star sunk be- low the horizon and Victor Hugo's rose, the exile in Guernsey became more and more pestered with bores who felt that they must give him the assurance of ad- miration and sympathy. Not few mou- chards of the Empire pretended to be his votaries, and shattered on him fiatter-