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.BUDGET BULL'S-EYES,
.BUDGET BULL'S-EYES, (FROM THE BUDGET LEAGUE.) During this week the House of Commons "ilas had a test from the Budget, and both -sides have taken a holiday, but the fighting •'Will begin again in a few days, and this -ft-ime it will pass oil to the Licensing Duties. It is notorious that the town pub- lic-houses in England pay an extraordi- narily low licence duty, especially the large -public-houses. The new licence duties pro- posed by the Government in the Budget '.Bill will equalise the licences between the ■ big public-houses and the small. At present is a scandalous inequality. The small public-houses pay very heavily, and the big public-houses pay very lightly. Let. us compare London and New York in ,¡the matter of licences. The London public- s'ltonse pays on an average in licence duties £ 38. The public-house of Greater New pays £ 205. London, as a whole, pays £ 200,000 in revenue on her licences, .vhlle New York pays £ 2,200,000. Last year the Government offered to leave .the brewers alone if they would limit their ;licences for the good of the community on ,JIle- lines of the report of the Licensing Com- mission. They refused, and under the leadership of Lord Rothschild they induced iAhe House of Lords to throw out the Licens- ing Bill. They preferred to keep the 30,000 liieette.es above the proper limit, which ac- cording to the Licensing Commission exist >2ft England. Having, therefore, preferred "to keep those licences they must pay duty them. They cannot have it every way. ".Remember that every other trade that is given a monopoly pays something for the n I- e. Even a poor hawker pays some- lUri'fcg for a hawker's licence. It is perfectly therefore, that a brewer being given i .3 IJwnopoly of selling drink in a certain "cdistrict should have to pay something for sfhat privilege. Nor should he pay less, but stfctVr more, if the public-house is a tied and not a "free" house. We are opinion that the publican who goes bail in liis own character for the goodness of his fnlvlic-house and the purity cf his beer ;.ought to be encouraged and helped against "dito big companies which so often really own ;>€W }>nbl ic-houses. Nwr forget when the licence struggle kSioiwes on next week that the brewers have r made the public pay for their liiisences, although the duties are not yet n llortv, The working man has already been -Asked to pay d. a pint extra for his beer, 2 "iwhieh amounts to 12s. a barrel on beer. "Tl\e barrel licence which has been col- lected does not mean more than Is. on the barrel. The brewers have, therefore, been Us, on the barrel already in vir- f," ir higher licences. As they have ,o:t. :11. m-oney from the public, it is only fair that they should hand it over to the "Ifmaiimry. That is what they are going to At a.ketl to do next week. While the debate pauses- in tr;le House of ,Zorn in the country it goes on as as ever, and it still turns very on the land taxes. Those taxes are -popular. Meetings are pronouncing •iR f.lvour all over the country, and it '^5 indeed for those who oppose '■m&m to carry their resolutions. We strongly "^pxec&te any disorder at these Budget Pro- huntings, as we are of opinion that (he to the Budget only require to be hi order to be refuted. It is quite "Certain th;t nothing has done the Budget m^ch good as the extraordinary display selfishness on the part of the very •A landowners who have been asked to W&y their share of taxation. ]Biit these gentlemen do not seem to have wisdom from the attitude of the Here is Lord Londonderry, who ought to know better. He is an ^*reme*y wealthy man. He owns over acres one big house in London two English provinces; and one in Ire- l! .draws immense revenues in min- Jft'yalties, and a large income as a coal JP^chant and a wharf-owner. There are -■"&W richer men in England. yet this very rich man, instead of --j^Vety undertaking to pay his share, like fe!* fathom, practically threatens to ii&i- the Dukes by cutting down the expendx- Im* estate. He goes down to one of Ft'operties and practically threatens to '^inployment. I | fading this speech it is impossible, avoid one reflection. Here is a noble-, v Wot a bad nobleman, but a public-' ittajj up to his lights, who, when With new taxation, seems to have no 'how to recoup except by dismissing But is there no other way out < difleulties? Take the case of Lord When he came into his estates kj i himself with three country houses, vlji '^ided that he wanted only one to live promptly sold two, and both those are now occuP'ed instead of being tord Londonderry owns five houses, .^jjj ■ai^y given time four of them must be Py, Is there not a way out here? » j possible that in England the :-jfcc r^Using of the people at one end of sea» may have some connection with of the people a,t the other ? ,e crowding of one family into one ifl towns like Glasgow and Devonport y n<,t have some connection with the families over five houses at the oi society ? We would advise Lord Merry to take a day and think it out. \t ''iot;b'b Tord Londonderry talks more in tvll- ,an8er Lord Wemyss does t W aM-> bnt acts, and acts in anger. f^JTSS ^a^r it''appears, closed all his •I tlif. 1 Public in the neighbourhood ce Wir, Wa 01 He thiiiks that 1 e' ,ja. town to its knges by a We think that he is *i.a ..se great noblemen are mistak- of modern England. What Lord ss will do will not be to Drmg Peebles to its knees, but to turn the people of Peebles into Socialists. If that is his ob- ject, then n3 is going the right way about to carry it out. The only chance of prevent- ing it is for the Liberals to show that they can prevent a great landlord from defying the public and abusing his rights. The Marquess of Tullibardine, who hap- pens to be a Unionist candidate in a, Scotch town, ia wiser than Lord Wemyss. He has found out in his electioneering experiences that a nobleman must justify himself in the possession of his property'; so he has in- vited a party of working men to go, over his deer forest at Atlioll and issue a report as to whether he is putting it to its best pos- sible use. -it- But we really do not know what he is driving at. Deer forests unhappily are not taxed under the Budget Bill; certainly not deer forests like the Forest of Atlioll. The real question in regard to deer forests is quite another thing. It is whether these great spaces of vacant forest, land would not be better used by being afforested than by being devoted simply to the sport of killing deef.
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PREFERRED DEATH TO PAIN. A tragic story of a sufferer's suicide in order to escape further pain was told at Loughton on Monday during an inquiry into the death of Ralph Godin, a retired underwriter at Lloyd's, who died from the effects of poisoning. A verdict of "Suicide during temporary insanity" was returned. Mr. Godin was greatly depressed owing to the fact that there was no hope of his ever again recovering the use of his limbs, which were severely burned through an accident, six years ago, with a gas making apparatus used by him to illuminate his residence. He was quite unable to use the stumps of his hands, but somehow procured a bottle of insecti- cide which was used by his gardener. This he secretly put into a glass of stout and drank it off. In the short interval between the taking of the poison and death Mr. Godin called his sister and family round him and told them what he had done.
BARMAN'S MURDER CONFESSION.
BARMAN'S MURDER CONFESSION. In a field off World's End footpath at Enfield early on Monday morning Lucy Smith, aged 19, employed at a factory at Harringay, was found dying with II, wound in her throat and a razor by her side. She succumbed shortly afterwards. An out-of-work barman named Sydney Bun- yan, aaed 22 years, of Mvddelton's-buildings, High-street, Islington, gave himself up to the police, and later in the day he was brought up at Enfield Police-court charged with the murder of the girl. A constable stated that while on duty he was accosted by Bunyan. "I have nrardered my girl in a field," lie said. The constable accom- panied him, and the girl was found dead in a field .sixty yards from the road, her windpipe being severed, and a razor, with which the pri- soner said he had committed the deed, was lying near at hand. Bunyan when charged at the police-station said, "All right." The prisoner was remanded.
AIRSHIP I A RIVER.
AIRSHIP I A RIVER. At Maisons Lafitte on Monday four Russian officers had a perilous airship adventure. They had been for a trial trip in the great Bayard Clement dirigible, and, during the descent, the gas bag burst when over the Seine. They were about to land after an experi- mental voyage when the balloon flew against a telegraph post on the side of the railway. The envelope being torn, the balloon struck a willow tree on the bank of the Seine, and then fell into the water. The aeronauts managed to swim to the land without suffering any injury. Th« accident was due to a gust of wind. Help was immediately forthcoming from all sides, and! assistance was procured to save the balloon, which, after being deflated, was taken back to the shed at Sartrouville on a motor lorry.. I __j The car, which is lying at the bottom of the Seine, was raised later on. The'rent in the gas bag was only a small one, and the damage can easily be repaired. I The balloon was carrying out its last trials before being delivered to Russia. Among the passengers was the Russian Colonel Vacli. The trials had, up to the time of the accident, beem perfectly successful.
— 'i "ART" FRAUDS.
— "ART" FRAUDS. At Huddersfield on Monday, Tom Duncan, aged 21, of Glasgow, and James Houston, aged L0, of Edinburgh, were charged with obtaining money by falsely pretending that they were con- nected with the firm of Messrs. Lever Brothers, Limited, of Port Sunlight, and each sentenced to six months' hard labour. Mr. Prank Sykes, for Meters. Lever Brothers, said that the prisoners called upon persons at their houses and asked them whether they were users of Lever B i others,' Sunlight Soap. If they received affirmative answers they said that Messrs. Lever Brothers had ceased giving pre- sents in connection with wrappers, and had de- cided to give oil paintings to customers once a year. They generally obtained portraits from such people, and then made arrangements with them for supplying frames for which they made charges. In one case an intended victim wrote to Messrs. Lever Brothers, who advised the police. The prisoners, who pleaded guilty, said they formed an art firm, and used Messrs. Lever Brothers' name as "business tactics," as people closed the doors when the mere word photo- graphs were used.
SAVED BY A DOG.
SAVED BY A DOG. Mr. Gillis, manager of the Northumberland Arms Hotel, at Backworth, Northumberland, which was totally destroyed by fire on Monday morning, had a marvellous escape from death, his life being saved by his faithful dog. It hap- pened that his wife and family were away, and he w&s the only occupant at the time. He was aroused from sleep -by the barking of his dog, an^ wjhen fye cto investigate the caustS he found 'that the' lofrer part of the building was entirely ablaze. ,He made his escape from the upstairs window,, and succeeded in rescuing hie dog.
TEA TABLE TALK. j
TEA TABLE TALK. j The Duchess of Bedford is one cf our beat I l*4y skaters on srtiiicial ice- ft is estimated that Loud it's laundries use nacre than 750 toiis of soap a week. II Queen Alexandra's favourite recreation is music; that of her only unmarried daughter, Princess Victoria, is it W -:l' Lady Charles Beresford collects ball pro- grammes as a hobby, specially favouring those painted by hand or designed by lady artists. A Bright-hued scarves knitted of silk and finislied will-i a fringe of tassels are the latest things that occupy thff amateur needlewoman. They are very warm and ornamental. v & Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, who is a skilled artist, has promised to design a mas- ) sive Argyll Challenge Shield." to be com- 1 peted for annually at a iixghland gathering pipers' contest. & # The latest advertising innovation amongst country drapers is a free omnibus service for customers. The two-horse vehicles run several times an hour, and no gratuities are allowed to driver or conductor, iI- & The Princess cf Wales has never cared for any form of athletics, never gone in, to any extent, for riding, entirely disapproves of bicycling, and is indifferent to the fascinations of bridge. She keeps up her music, out is more genuinely interested in art (visiting picture- galleries is really one of her hobbies), and she sews during every spare moment she can snatch from other duties. While on her long set trips she sewed and -ratted endless garments for poor children, and when she visits a country house she invariably provides herself with a picce of embroidery. « » » A romantic story is tokl concerning Lord Kelvin's marriage. When the famous scientist was on his schooner yacht Laua Rookh in West Indian waters, he goi up a system of sim- plifying the method or signals at sea. lle asked Miss Criini, whom he greatly admired, and' who was the daughter of ins host, if she understood his code. She said she did. i I sent you a signal." he asked, "from my do you think you could read it and could answer?" Well, I would try," she responded. The signal was sent,, and she did succeed in making it out and in transmitting the reply. The question was, Will you marry me?" and the answer wft3 # Sister Eliza, the senior member of the All Saints' Sisterhood, who died recently at St. Saviour's Hospital, Regent's Park, at the age of seventy-five, began her nursing career at Brighton at the age of seventeen, and just alter the battle cf Sedan went with a band of nurses t) the French battlefields, and'was awarded the Iron Cress by the grandfather of the present German Emperor for her valuable services in connection with ambalan&e work. In 1874 she started the St. Agnes Hospital, of which shv was head for seventeen years, and then wern to St. Saviour's Hospital. a The girl who possesses the charm of being entertaining will always make the best wife. A man may tire of a woman whose attractions are based on a fair complexion, a small, white hand, or lustrous eyes, In the long run it is not charm of person but charm of presence tha: tells. Th# husband of a plain woman once said that she had amply aioned for any defect in physical beauty by the fact that she had ne\er ceased to be enU nun The woman who makes the way of hi ml smooth by her gifts of mind will Ju J tbe affection and respect of her husband. ¡ 4t, Many society womesa are the owners of jewels I worth the proverbial King's ransom. Perhaps the largest collection* belong to the Duchess of Portland and the Duchess of Marlborough, bat Viscountess Iveagh is the possessor of one of I the most valuable necklaces in England. Her pearls are worth over £ 70,000, and took Lord Iveagh a, long time to collect. Lady Rothschild, the Counters of Dudley, the Countess of Anncs- ley, and Lady DfetemiCn all own most beautiful pearls. The Duchess of Rcs-burghe and the Marchioness of Di.?florin both have a large num- ber of turquoises. The okl-f.a&hioned amethyst has cf late eoi-v r»>-ieh into prominence, and is now considered uy many to be the jewel of the moment. A suggestion has bsseu put forward in France that all women over thirty should be addressed as Madame," whether they Are married or single. It has been generally well received by the fair sex, partly, no doubt, because spinsters would thereby be spared the necessity of adver- ) tising to the world their eoadition of single- blessedness. But a famous French journalist j ias detected a difficulty—tins question of age 'I As-he humorously points out. on meeting an unmarried lady who looked to fee about thirty, one could not say Madams?think, or is it Mademoiselle?" In otner words, if the new system were adopted, the of the word I Madame" by a stranger would imply a, reflec- I tion on a, lady's age, which woiiM he intolerable. I No Royal lady is fomier of .osstdoor recreations ( than the Queen of the Netherlands, When a young girl Her Majesty d, i-i, f). immense enjoy- I ment from driving a team eqr^arig of six punies; and driviug is ihe, r&creaiion that please* lid moa»t„ « Queen Helens, of Italy ss-ilf exhibit two paint- ings at the lul^rnaliojviJ Art JKxjruoition at Venice in the wmiing >pi,$or J In* Majesty, who is an enthusiastic & vu-of HJ brush, is busily employed on t)iui under the direction of the riof Vol" >.<i\poli.t&n arlist, Giuseppe Casciafo, wl^o d&ijh to give the Queen lessonfJ at the Qumnai fa lace. It is stated that tht. wilt ieadbibii under an assumed name.. ? Bruised or broken blossoms lose muoh of their fragrance, swid; the <mvos and daughters of the flower farmers of iiig Ijmera are very ex- pert at carrying fclie$c«ri'y« to ihe scent fac- tories, balanced on tfoir huge trays. *■ .I-, Mrs. Helen « is »■ rw (J. if.ic wealthiest women in the w4 > > h,((,.¡j:!>(c amounting to about £ 600 a It c ii I)rcb- ably the only wontrr* <rt Jtev aud rank in the United States ha. t**at .«• a:i or spirits to be served at Shv i",h!4" SSie' is qiic of the most phil»rithropfe*!o.if ,«K»flen„ aîW, re- ceives many iittioia-g th.em being applications for t't0nJit"2t\xh-oU., pianot1, old qfyipieB, sewing inaciihies, ,fp»taeSKa«v Bibles, a monument to a parent. fc iigd AI íJ teetn, and a passage to En^tari<L # .According à).eullw-.tttlei iof A'- fonso'e sister wtf, -,W. bo«r fejfth, pre- sented to ihe Mhmisss. m » wsgw&aent silver
IFUN AND FANCY.
I FUN AND FANCY. Beggar: "Spare a penny, sir! I'm starr- ing." Swell: "Here's sixpence for you. I don't care a hang about your hunger, but for the sake of decency go and get shaved." "Ef I was thin like that," remarked the telegraph boy. gazing after the retreating figure of a slim masher, I wouldn't pay no 'bus fares; I'd get in a draught and blow down the street." "Why are you crying, my little man 1" 'Cos I don't want to go to school!" "But why not?" 'Cos my sister jilted the school- master last night!" "How is your husband, Mrs. Brown?" asked the wile of a country vicar. "Poorly, ma'am, thankye 'E wor gitten along nicely, but naow the doctor says 'e 'as got the conva- lescence "We obtain wool from sheep. The wool is made into cloth, and with the cloth they make clothes. Now, Edmund, what is your overcoat made of?" "Of an old one of father's, sir I" Young Cook (to policeman lover): "How neatly you carve that goose!" With a sud- den outburst of jealousy: "You have de.- ceived me! I am not your first love." "Do you play any instrument, Mr. Jimp?" "Yes, I'm a cornetist." "And your sister?" "She's a pianist." "Does your mother play?" "She's a z.itherist." "And your father?" "He's a pessimist." I hadn't been talking with him three minutes before he called me an ass. What sort of a person is he?" "Well, I never knew him tell a lie." "Do come upstairs, mother," said the little boy to his mother as they stepped on to a tramear. "Not this time, dear, I'm in a hurry," she said, as she moved inside. "But, mother," convincingly, "doesn't the top go as fast as the bottom?" The Best Friend "I hear her old husband shows her a, doglike devotion." The Casual Gossip: "Yes; they say he is always growl- ing at her." "Mr. Grumbley writes: I don't see how you can have nerve to sell your worthless re- medy for half a crown a bottle.' Oh, in- deed Well, strike out 'have nerve to' and worthless,' and put the letter in our testi- monials." Mrs. Newlywed: "It's just brutal of you to call it this stuff.' You said you'd be glad if I baked my own bread fnd Mr. Newly- wed "Yes; but I didn't say I wanted you to bake mine." First Sportsman (with big load of game): "You don't appear to have had such good luck as I had." Second Sportsman (with empty bag): "No-o! My attendant wasn't as good a marksman as yours." The Vicar: Did you see a pedestrian pass this way a few minutes ago?" Farm Hand: "No, sir. I've been workin' on this tater patch more'n a nower, and notter thing has passed 'cept a solitary man, 'an' he was tramping on foot." A Miss Buchanan, once rallying her cousin, an officer, on his courage, said: "Now, Mr. Harry, do you really mean to tell me you can walk t8 a cannon's mouth without fear?" "Yes," was the prompt reply, "or a Buchanan's either." And he did it. "Young man," said a father, "I don't want you to be too attentive to my daughter." "Why—er—really," stammered the young man, "I had hoped to marry her some-- "Exactly; and I'd like you to marry her, but if you're too attentive to her you won't have money enough to do it." "I never saw such a storm in all my life." "Pardon me, my friend; since you 'saw' the storm, no doubt you can tell us what colour it was." "Certainly! The wind blew and the storm rose, you ninny!" "What part of speech is 'kiss'?" asked a high school teacher of one of her pupils the other day. "A conjunction," replied one of the smart girls. "Wrong!" said the teacher severely. "Next girl." "A noun," answered a demure little maiden. "What kind of a noun?" continued the preceptress. "Well, it is both common and proper," answered the shy girl, and she was placed to the head of the class. Sir Leopold M'Clintock, the Arctic ex- plorer, who died recently, was once giving an account of his experiences amid the icefields of the North. "We certainly would have travelled much farther," he explained, "had not our dogs given out at a critical moment." "But," exclaimed a lady, who had been listening very intently, "I thought that the Eskimo dogs were perfectly tireless crea- tures." Sir Leopold's face wore a whimsi- cally gloomy expression as he replied, "I—er —speak in a culinary sense, miss." During the South African War an Irish trooper on outpost duty one night felt so desperately tired that he thought he would have five minutes' nap. Placing his helmet on a rock, he lay down, and was soon in a sound sleep. Waking suddenly, he mistook his helmet for one of the enemy, drew his Sword, and dealt it a severe blow. Then, per- ceiving his mistake, the trooper picked up his helmet, which he,had cut in two, and gave thanks to heaven that he had taken it off before lying down. "For," he soliloquised, before lying down. "For," he soliloquised, "had my head been inside that, it's ten to one a dead man I would have been seeing mesilf at this moment!" Fullcash (waking with a start in the middle of the night, and hearing sounds in his bed- room): "Who's there? Speak! Who's there?" Hoarse whisper from the darkness: "For' goodness' sake, hush. There's a burglar just gone downstairs; I'm a policeman, and if you'll keep quiet, and not strike a light, I'll nab him in two twos." Fullcash obeys; and the whisperer, whose name is Sikes, amblee gently downstairs and out of the back door with his booty. A teacher instructing a class in history asked one of the children how many ware England fought with Spain. "Six," the little girl' answered. Six T queried the teacher. "•Enumerate 'them, please." 1, One., tw., three, four, five, six," replied the child cheer- fully and confidently.
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