New-York tribune., 1906-04-15
Constant Reader Tells What lie
Missed IN Last Weeks Papers.

In The Tribune last Sunday, salo 'iIe DNsy
Man .I read that VesUyius had burst OUT as"li'
suppose 81 soon quieted down
..,rbe volcano has been pouring lava and ashes on
The surrounding country the whole week. was tlAe
replv 1T IS estimated that the eruption ki1eo
TWO thousand people and destroyed 10000" worth
of property. Several villages have been tIleIlS
DESTROYED. Others have been half buried IN ASHES
Even in Naples. such great quantity OF ashes
feII that they caused the collapse Of q score OF
buldtngz Including the market place. where more
than twenty people were killed In the town OF
OttaJano the falling Of churches where crowos mad
taken shelter caused the death OF SIX huhdred peo-
pie IN san Giuseppe the collapse Of q church
killed sixty The region around the volcano as iaT
as Naples, Caserta and Castel-a-Mare Is desert.
Railroad traffic IN the region has been pracucaIIy
at a standstil Professor Matteuccl. Of the Royal
Observatory on Mount Nesuvlus, despite the dan
ger stuck 10 his post, sending reassuring messages
10 Naples where the inhabitants were nigh panic
stricken The King and Queen Of Italy have greatly
endeared themselves by their solicude for the peo-
PIE. The King risked his life in ride 10 Ottajano
What Russian general landed n New York the
other day." asked the Busy Man, abruptly.
You mean Maxim Gorky, the Russian author
and revolutonist." responded the Constant Reader.
with g laugh. He came. he said. 10 raise money
for the overthrQw of the bureaucracy and the es-
tabshment OF q republic. New York deeply i'm
pressed him because Of its lack Of soldiers Mean
while IL his native land the car is again wave--
ing between the liberals and the reactionares the
former headed by Count Wtte and the latter by
n DurDOvO Minister Of the Interior. The VIC
tories OF the constitutional democrats at the polls
have brOaght the struggle between reform and re-
action 10 a head WItte has told the Emperor
that the people. by their votes have asked for
constitution, and that the Gar cannot refuse the
request without stirring up the fires OF revolution
Durnovo tells him that a constitution means the
overthrow Of the autOcracy and the doom Of the
Car himself. Accordingly. says Durnovo, he
should prevent the couvocation of the Douma. To
entrench itself IN power the ucraCy IS nego-
hating for vast loan Of SsDo05ae0 through French
bankers This Joan means yearly addition Of 81 %
10 the tax burden or each family IN Russia, and is
bitterly opposed by the consututioualists. Ger
many meantime borrowed Sl5001opp0. The subscrip-
tons little more than covered the loan Berlin, like
New York Just now has tight money market"
HAS England had any more trouble IN Natal?"
asked the Busy Man.
The English are more interested Just now n the
Educational bill" the reply. 1T IS the main
measure on the Liberal programme, and IS stoutly
opposed by many powerful men IN the Church Of
England and the Roman Catholio Church, who say
il viii tend secularize the schools. IN outlining
the clauses OF the bin, Augustus Birren president
Of the Board Of Education. who introduced il in the
House, SAID that the present voluntary schools con-
Quoted BY the different denominations, II continued
would receive government grants and would be-
come provided schools schools provided by the
authorities), and would have 10 be satisfied with
the same undcnominatioual religious teaching as
was nov given in other provided schools.
General CiDriano Castro retired from the Presi-