The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-26

its cost. In April. 1854. the government went TO
suTrey's county town with 4loeooO In Us hana
Constructing. on the downs overlooking its sleepy
cd High street, permanent military camp 10
would not hear OF such a thing. 1T would lower
our lsocial prestige" Il gurgled IN dlsmay' ana
city, Wb V sbs ssIIss are interehangesbe
synonymous, absolutely Identical. On, no! Please
anxious to oblise if possible db replied oh
certainly; just you like, OF course. and went
away ten miles to a little village called Alder
shot, which was very insignificant that no
body knew whether 1t ought to be speit with one
nnal y or two: And Aldershot or Aldershott
the government warmly and let IL have 1900
acres OF land at about six times its proper value
and grew and pfospered exceedingly. And Guild
ford was very Jealous and exceedingly sorry
w i1s.a II saw what a chance ii had let slip
We are no low-down garrison town"
oh aren't your, retorted the nouted govern,
ment Wen see about that" And it went and
otilt nasty. staring red brick barracks there
and made 1t the depot for the Royal West Surrey
for Ii saw IL had been doubly dished. 1t had
eontemptuously rejected the chance Of becoming
TO be forced to confess itself later on the unwil
ing center of small regimental district All OF
whichyDoes 10 prove that an annoyed government.
in addition to boycotting a town. passively can
also al times punish IL actively, III IT SO chooses
But Guiidford console itself. IL has q
companion town in MISUNDERSTANDING. in
Germany There they treated corps OF the
whereupon his Majesty ordered their instant
transfer to crefeld. in westphalia. Dusseldorf
society was in despair. especially the feminine
portion thereof. At their request their parlia-
mentary representative Herr Kirsch. raised the
question IN the Reichstag But the Kaiser was
obdurate. Dusseldorf had dared to affront the
army. Therefore, Dusseldorf must be boycotted.
Nor would he even consent to reconsider his
decision when Dusseldorf, TO prove the reality OF
Its repentance, offered TO spend G20O 900 In build
Ing new barracks for the accommodation OF
the sighted regiment
II is to be hoped. by .he way, that Dusseldorf.
owing to the withdrawal OF its garrison will not
sink 10 the same level as has Gusinje in Monte
negro, under similar circumstances. For this
latter city, now the most dangerous spot In
Europe and the Lhassa of Balkan travellers, Of
whom, hardly one has ever reached 1t. was once
a fairly law-abiding and wholly prosperous place
But Ii offended the Sultan, who withdrew his
troops from the vicinity and refused 1t all pro-
lection Of any sort whatever. The result Is that
1t Is now literally nest OF cutthroats. wherein
no one who is not known murderer and avowed
outlaw Is even passably safe.
Northfieet in Kent. might have been a second
Portsmouth or Plymouth by now If the proposal
made early In the last century, OF constructing
| there great naval dockyard and arsenal had
been carried into effect. Two millions of money
were to have been spent the scheme forth
| with and everything had been cut and dried
when a friend of the King whispered n word In
| the ear. OF the government and the whole bust.
| ness fell through Sheerness got tremendous
/ lift UP over the affair for the important I'm
provements had perforce to be naugurated IN the
4 existing dockyard there: but that small
satisfaction to poor Northheet, whose hopes had
been raised so high only to be so cruelty dashed