The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1905-11-30

toner's tomorrow evening to take into
serious consideration what color we
shall whitewash the national schools"
A Shakespeare Legend.
Visiting Stratford-on-Avon recently,
writes a correspondent, l met with the
following legend, which may or may
not be based on fact. 1t was told to
me by a man whose father had lived
ninety years, having had the story
handed down from his great-grandfa-
Their, who had lived 104 years. The
story was as follows: At the grammar
school at Stratford- on-Avon, which
Shakespeare attended, a dog named
Fidler was great favorite with the
boys. But in the course of time the
dog grew so old and decrepit that the
head master, who was a clergyman, or
dered his clerk to hang the dog.
Upon this becoming known in the
school one of the boys chalked on one
of the outer office doors the following
lines:
Now that poor Fidler has grown SO old
He can no longer bark
He is condemned by the parson
To be hung by the clerk.
The head master, seeing these lines,
demanded that the boy who had writ
ten them should hold up his hand, and
William Shakespeare did SO. The 9th
er boys were dismissed and left
Shakespeare, as they thought, to have
~
this the head master gave him 8 shil-
lings and promised him that Fidler
should die a natural death.-London
Chronicle.
The Mexican Herald prints the re-
markable story that it has information
that the governments of Great Britain
and Japan have practically decided to
construct a ship canal of their own
across Nicaragua, Great Britain to fur
nish the capital and Japan the Labor.
-o7r,on The state department
has learned that Ger
W. many has protested to
OF INTEREST. Great Britain and
France against the conclusion of GER
tain negotiations now on foot between
those two governments and the gov
eminent of Liberia. Liberia wishes to
borrow some money and is willing to
hypothecate certain territory as securi-
ty. Germany sees in this proposition
threat of undue expansion of British
and French influence in that quarter
of Africa.
There was another poverty parade
in the streets of London. Some 5000 to
5000 unemployed men and sprinkling
of women marched along the Thames
embankment to Hyde park, listened to
speeches and adopted resolutions CON
demning charity as cure for lack of
employment and demanding the sum-
moning of parliament to initiate works
of national utility. Red flags were seen
and banners bearing such devices as
Curse your charity, we want work.
and There's a limit to human endur-
ance"
The Sofia correspondent of the Lon
don Times says that the disregard by
the Turkish government of Russia's oft
repeated protests against the strength
ening by Turkey of her Notifications in
the Bosporus and on the Black sea
coast has resulted in demand by Rus
STA for the immediate payment of the
arrears of the Russo-Turkish war in
demnity, threatening in the event of
nonpayment the occupation of point
on the Turkish coast.
In Glasgow the most terrific fire that
has occurred in Great Britain for many
years broke out in a cheap lodging
house for men In Watson street and
resulted in the burning to death Of
thirty-nine men and the severe injury
of many others
The English channel steamer Hilda
struck a rock near st. Malo, France,
and her boilers exploded. OF the crew
and passenger list, numbering 129
souls, only six were rescued, the rest
being drowned.
The German torpedo boat S 126 was
in collision near Buelk with the small
German cruiser Undine. The torpedo
boat sank, and one officer and thirty
two Of her seamen are missing.
The Count of Flanders, brother of
King Leopold and heir to the Belgian
throne, is dead The new heir to the
throne is Prince Albert of Flanders,
only son of the late count.
The London county council has de-
cided to construct a plant to supply
all the electric energy for London and
the suburbs at a cost estimated at
SAC. 100000.