Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-07-25

factories orders for over fifty feaVE guns
for the defense of the line OF lor's puIit
during the past twelve months at anu
around Port Arthur, and orders tor smaller
ordnance have been given 10 tle 'ieuSo'
Company in France.
Mention of Krupp reminds me that 'ile
directors of the Essen firm have resolved
to abolish their secret service department.
This department has done some Wonderiul
things in its time in the way of obtaining
trade, military and other secrets from Iot-
e.gn powers and firms, and a young Ger
man engineer who for two years WIS 4
member of it tells me that the methods
adopted by the department were not all
calculated to promote respect for CONNER
cial morality.
Henley's Bible Work Unfinished.
hear today that Henley has left tie
elaborate terminal essay on the Bible,
which he had engaged to contribute to the
final volume of the Tudor Bible, in 50 I'M
finished a state that it can never now be
published. The last product of his brilliant
pen was short prospectus composed for
this edition of the Bible, in which he eX-
tolled the authorized version RS a piece OF
literature second to Shakespeare only IN
its union of sonorous majesty with the
broken eXpreSSiveness of passion, doubt and
despair
There is always something pathetic in a
fe-long struggle with disease. especially
when the comba tant Is one of those whose
work appeals TO his fellow men, ana yet
there are not few names in literature as
ISOLATED with such a battle. Heine. the
great German writer; Scarron of Louis
Quatorze days; Banim, the Irish novelist;
Robert Hall, the preacher We're conspicu-
Gus instances of this moral and physical
courage of which poor William Ernest Hen
ley was modern type. 1t is likely enough
that some of the acerbity which gave pain
to his friends, as in the ill-advised article
on his confrere Stevenson, was attributable
to the bitterness originating n his constant
suffering, but he has made his mark in
many ways In verse, criticism, in the
drama, and assuredly in editorship, he at
tanned no unworthy place. and it is plea SAINT
to remember that he gave the first start to
many promising young writer's.
Memorial to Onslow Ford.
Old-fashioned responsibility and respect
able Bohemian characterize the district in
which the late Mr.. Onslow Ford resided
and in which a memorial was yesterday
unveiled by Sir l.. Alma Tadema to com
memOrate his life and works. The site
chosen is the junction of Abbey road and
Grove-End road, St Johns Wood. a good
many inhabitants of the Wood assem-
bled to witness the ceremony, with many
people from more distant quarters. The
memorial takes the form of an obel SIX On
one side of it is replica of one of the de
ceased Sculptors works, the muse at the
foot of the Shelley memorial at Oxford
and on the other is a medallion portrait of
the artist himself. 1t is appropriate that
the monument should be erected within :,
few hundred yards of the studio in which
Onslow Ford fashioned the many g.eat
works which will serve a more enduring
tribute to his memory than anything that
even the love and sympathy of his friends
can devise.
Trouble Over the Omnibuses.
The difficulties in the way of putting
motor omnibuseS on the London streets are
increasing, and matters have come to
something like a deadlock. Scotland Yard
has refused to license a bus which has
been built for one of the omnibus compa-
MES the complaint being that it is too high
to go under the many low bridges. After
a long correspondence the matter has been
put before the local government board The
company contends that the bus will be
spoilt If the height is reduced. and they
are anxious that it should be licensed for
"a route where there are 10 bridges Trou-
bles with the makers are also being expert
enced, the motor manufacturers of several
countries being unable to deliver vehicles
without considerable delay.
One of the best indications of the progress
Of the motor industry is found In the