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DUM VOBIS GRATULAMU*, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS ÜT IN INCfEFTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.
From the B r ie f oj H is Holiness P iu s I X . to T he TABLET, June 4, i8 j0 .
V o l . 90. No. 2990.
L o n d o n , A u g u s t 28, 1897.
P r ic e s d ., b y P o s t 5 ^ d .
[R e g i s t e r e d a t t h e G e n e r a l P o s t O f f i c e a s a N ew s p a p e r .
Chronicle o f t h e W e e k ! Page
The Rush to Klondike— Submission o f the K ing of Benin— Settlement of the Penrhyn Quarry Dispute— Decline in the Prison Population — The Meeting for Spanish Anarchists-Tariff Worries in America— The Post Office and the Telegraphists— The Price of Wheat—The Future of Rhodesia — Mr. Balfour on_ Burns — C ity Bumbles and Their Refreshment — The Manchester Ship Canal— Tsar and President— Trouble on the Indian Frontier— President Kruger and the Suzerainty . . 317 L e a d e r s :
St. Gregory and St. Augustine . . 321 Canada and the British Associa
t io n . . ......................... . . 324 The International Scientific Con
gress .................................... 325
CONTENTS.
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Shorthand in the Christian Church.. 326 N o t e s ... . . — — . . 330 The Albanian Society . . . . 331 C o r r e s p o n d e n c e :
Rome :— (From Our Own Corre
spondent) . . . . — — 333 News from Ireland — — 334 News from France . . . . . . 335 L e tter s to th e E d itor :
The Bishop of Stepney and the
Late Archbishop o f Canterbury 337 A Greek View of Anglo-Russian
Amenities.. . . . . . . 337 An Infant Crucifix . . . . . . 337 The Sailors’ Home in Labuan,
Borneo . . . . . . . . 337 “ Gems and Notes of Roman Con
troversy” . . . . . . . . 337 Mr. Fillingham’s Position . . 337
R e v ie w s :
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The Era of the Great Councils . . 33S A Centenary Memorial . . . . 338 A Woman of Moods .. . . 339 Catholic Truth Society’s Publica
tions ......................................... 340 The Taming of Polly . . . . 341 The Bishop of Salfoid on Educa
tion ................................................ 341 The Marists in Australia . . . . 342 Our Lady of Boulogne . . . . 343 Irish A rt Industries Exhibition . . 343 Catholic Social Union in Sheffield.. 343 The Lambeth Letter . . . . . . 343 Books of the Week . . . . . . 344 O b itu ary . . 344 M a r r ia g e . . . . . 346 S o c ia l a n d P o l i t i c a l . . ... 346
S U P P L EM E N T . N ew * from t h e S c h o o l s :
Liberality of the Supporters of
Voluntary Schools . . . . 340
N ew s f r o m t h e
tinued):
Page S chools (Con-
Church History Readers . . . . 349 The London University Question 349 Elementary Schools in France . . 350 Suggested Transfer of Church
Schools . . . . . . . . 350 Voluntary Subscriptions . . . . 350 College of Mary Immaculate,
Beaconfield . . . . . . « 1 N ew s from t h e D io ceses : Westminster
S o u t h w a r k ......................... Clifton ......................... L i v e r p o o l ......................... Northampton Nottingham ......................... Salford ......................... The Vicariate The Cardinal in Wales A Scotch Priest’s Heroism ..
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%* Rejected MS. cannot be returned unless accompanied with address
and postage.
CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
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TH E American papers are full of stories
sent home by adventurers from Klondike. Many of them tell of wonderful finds of gold. One correspondent tells how he
has packed the skin of a colley dog with gold dust so that the skin is as “ packed with gold as ever it was packed with meat.” Wages in Dawson City are reported as 15 dollars a day. In many cases the men have to live on oats and beans, being unable to pay for such things as flour, sugar, and bacon. One man relates how supplies being very short just before the arrival of a steamer, he came across an Indian cooking some moose meat over a camp fire : “ I sat down on a log, so as to to get a smell of it. That was the next best thing to eating.” The whole country is given over to a lawless nomad population, which yet is minded to see that law or order shall be preserved somehow. Hence the prompt establishment of Vigilance Committees on the well-known Californian model. Gambling is described as the prevailing pastime, and it is no uncommon thing for a thousand dollars cr its equivalent in gold-dust to change hands on a single card. Coin is scarce, and so every player brings a bag of gold-dust, and buys or gambles by the ounce. There are said to be 4,500 people now collected in Dawson City. And yet. says one correspondent cheerfully, “ there is not as much killing going on here as you would think, because we do not think much of ‘ bad men ’ up here. We have planted about a dozen of them in the last two months, and it has had the effect of keeping the tough sort quiet. I write about night, but we don’t have any night here. The sun sets about 10 p.m., and rises about 3 a.m., but it never gets dark. You can read a newspaper out of doors at midnight, so you see it doesn’t make much difference when you sleep. The result is that the people here don’t have any regular time for sleeping or eating. They just live as they want to.” He goes on to explain that everybody is as good as his neighbour. In some of the letters apprehensions are expressed of a conflict between the American miners and the Canadian police, ¡d consequence of the duties which it will be for the latter to collect.
The news concerning the capture of the
simiissioN of < which published a short but graphic account of the way in which his dusky majesty made his submission to the British representative in the former city of blood. It seems to have been rather a striking scene. Preceded by a messenger bearing a white flag and accompanied by a reed band, eight hundred unarmed men, half of whom were naked, ten chiefs and twenty of his wives, the King made his entry into the city on the fifth of the present month. He was received by Captain Roupell, Captain Carter, Lieutenant Gabbett and Dr. Howe in the great open space which spreads in front of the “ Palaver House.” His majesty seems not to have relished the idea of making his submission so publicly. Perhaps he felt some reluctance to humble himself in presence of his twenty wives, but however that may be he asked if he could not be allowed to make his submission in private. On learning that this could not be, he consulted his chiefs, who, like sensible men, seeing that the game was up, sanctioned his performance of a ceremony from the indignity of which there was now no escape. Though decorated in his best coral ornaments, he submitted to the inevitable and rubbed his forehead in the dust according to native custom on such occasions. His chiefs did the same. His Majesty has still to stand his trial, but it is understood that nothing will be settled until the return of the Consul-General, Mr. Moor. The unhappy strike at the Penrhyn S™ eLpenT hynF Q uarries>which had dragged on for eleven ou arry d ispu te , months, has at last been settled. The ease with which the settlement has been brought about seems to show that both sides have, after all, been more particular about the way in which grievances should be presented for redress than about the substance of them. Lord Penrhyn objected to a committee of the meD, but has conceded the point so far as to agree to listen to a deputation. A mass meeting of the quarrymen was held at Bethesda on Saturday night and accepted the terms o f settlement which had been drafted earlier in the week. They provide for the settlement of disputes by the local or chief manager, or failing these, by a deputation of six men chosen from the whole body of the workers, and not from the particular class or crew aggrieved. The letting of contracts is to be left in j the hands of the management, who are to engage all persons ' employed thereoD, and to see that each receives his just New Series. Vo i . LVIII., No. 2.299.
