Bisbee daily review., 1907-07-14
EDWARD MIGHT BE RAILROAD
 KING
Owns FlouhShing Line in Can ada and Is Immune From Suits for Damages Because of Royalty,
Special Cable to The Reylew9


 LONDON, July 1S.-If King Edward were not a reignirg moarch, he might be railroad king in Canada. He is the absolute o~aer e a iourishing colonial road, the Intercolonial Rail- way of Nova Ssotia, New Brunswick and Quebec.
 Through having a king as owner. this railroad enjoys immunity from legal actions, from which it is pro tected by the international law for bidding the bringing of suits against friendly soveTeigns. Thus an Amer ican Steel company having a dispute with the railroad over a shipment Of rails would have to think twice be- fore suing King Edward VII Several other European monarchs draw large revenues from business enterprises. A notorious instance is the Belgian kings trade in Congo rub Der obtained by barbarities on the hapless natives.
 Kaiser Wilhelm owns the brick fields and potteries at Kadinen, which he is pushing with the energy of an American trader to the detriment of his non-royaI competitors. The queen of Holland is successful with her dairy at Het Loo palace, and supplies milk and eggs to the wealthy residents of the neighborhood.
 George Bernard Show who is never happy unless he is fighting somebody, has declared war on the book trade. and an alliance with the Times Book l club. which has been carrying on a little war with the book sellers.
 The author of Man and Super man" has had his last book published by the Times Book club because their publishers in their struggle with the Times, refused to supply his books, or any books, to the club at trade prices. As there is a great circulation for books through the club, MT. Shaw decided it would be ! better business to go over to the Times side.
 In the preface to this book, George 1 Bernard Shaw" gets in one of his ! digs at the critics who have accused him from getting his ideas from h. sen, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. He 1 replies that he has derived them from Irish and Scottish writers. and some of them out of his own head.
 All England is aroused at the reve- l latiCns made in the house of commons by Miss Squire, a woman inspector of factories, concerning child slavery in English factories.
 Children in Nottingham start lace work at four years of age, and I my | self have seen hundreds of children l six years of age at work every minute from the time they leave their miser- | able beds in the morning until long after sundowr," said Miss Squire.
 Tt is quite a common thing at | the dinner hour to see children rush home from school to take up their work of making lace. They do not even wait to take of their hats, or l jackets, before beginning and what little dinner they get, they have to swallow while running back to school. They also work with their mothers at home, often until it is nearly mid night
 "The wages paid are miserable. 4 woman working all week making on an average about eight shinings, (S2)."
 The monotony of the drawing, as the work done by the children is call ed, is dreadful.
 It means pulling out threads one by ore. till the eyes grow dim and the brain staggers. Children of ten der years are doing thls.
 The following case Is typical of many families: The youngest child, girl about seven, is called from her bed at o'clock She starts work, pulling, pulling, pulling till nearly 9. Then she has a meal of bread and jam, and after that goes to school. Dinner consists of halfpenny worth of fried fish and a halfpenny worth of pickles. This is consumed during a short interval from work; and after school in the evening the same weary round goes on. She reaches her bed again at II.
 Creepy jewelry is the reigning fad with the London women. In spite of her horror of the real thing, she is not adults; out if the bite has been In-