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Liberal-Conservative Convention.
4 convention of the Liberal Conserva-
ve electors of the Second District of Kiog’a County will be held at Morell Hall, on Wednesday,the third day of January, A D , 1900, at Zo’clock, p m., for the pur- pose of selecting two Candidates to contest the district at the approaching election. A full attendance of delegates from each
poll ta requested. L. P. DOYLE, Convener. St. Peter's Bay, Dec 19, 1399, 21
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NH’ WATT V OVAMINGD
Pil fii
was a year of universal ac lrade
[he United States
War rood
A anneal a and Canada in a marked degree, with the Mother | try aud all Kuropean nations, enjoyed a larg: measure of commercial prosperity. Man ocean steamships, including the Labrador, the Paris, the Castilian, the “cotsma and the Portia went down, —fortunatels without great loss of human lives, There were terrifying earthquakea in Lialy,
Japan and California. There were hu
Indies,
rri- canes inthe West 3ermuda and New found!lanod
but productive industry in field and fac-
destroying much property,—
tory, in mine and shipyard much more
than made up al! the losses that were
In
s considerably better off than it
s8us-
tained. a material sense the world
at large was & year ago.
With activity in industry and commerce there were, continuously,{wars and rumors The Pbil last year by the United States, or rather the Filipino rebele against the States, Only the lar general of the Great Repub- lic killed in the Philippines. The extreme difficulty of conducting success- ful military operationsin a distant coun~
of wars. ippize war, begup by is not yet ended other day an able | and pop
was
try, even whenabundance of means are available, and even against an i!l-armed
and unwarlike people, has been made manifest to our cousins across the way. If Agvinaldo should prove to be dogged and persistent our neighbours may have to sacrifice men and money for many a year before they conquer the Philipinos and fulfilthe beneficent mission of carrying to them the blessing of American civiliza, tion.
Grea’ Britain has been much more fortunate in respect to the Soudan. Early in ‘the year Lord Kitchener decided to send a strong force against the Khalifa ; and not long since that disturber of the peace of North Africa, with the remnant of his Dervishes left after Omdurman, was brought to bay and completely routed. Northern Africa, or at least Egypt and the Soudan, will now probably have peace and be enabled to prosper under the improved Conditions resulting from partnership with Great Britaia.
But Southern Africa has yet to be made subject to progressive ideas and free gov-
ernment. President Kruger and those who support his policy of reaction remain ts be dealt with. At the beginning of the year a petition setting forth the civil and political disabilities of the British people resident in the Transvaal was pre- sented to, the Queen. When the conven- tion of 1881 was entered into, Mr. Kruger, representing the Trassvaal, promised that the British people resident in the Trans- vaal should have the same political and civil rights as the Boers themselves ; and it was upon this understanding that the privilege of internal self-government was granted. The stipulation was never ful« filled. On the contrary, the exactions and tyrannies of the Boers increased year by year until they became unbearable, The Queea’s Government-took ihe Ui:! sanders L petition int> consideration and called up
n President Kruger to introduce reforms. The wily President spent much time in diplomacy. After a long correspondence witn Mr. Cbamberlais, a cooference was arranged between him and Sir Alfred Mil- ner, the Queen’s representative in Cape Colony. The conference was held Bloom fontein. Certain propositions were made onthe part of the British, every one Of which President Kruger re- fused to entertain. Upon his return ty Pretoria, however, the Volksraad passed a law wh provided that upon conditi after a reeidence n the country of seven years,a Uitlander might be permitted to vote in the election
in
ich certain
Ons
|}of members ofthe Volksraad whick im- | poses the taxes that the Uitlanders were } lled tn nav Ti
} competied to pay. The Uitlanders con~
tended that tk were such that
extended was It was then suggested
conditions | the franchise 5 ‘getellies | merely
nominal.
het a mmission of enquiry into
Bui this was,—after much correspondence and sev-
the matter should be appointed.
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| eral couater propositions had been made— | refuse The British Government at } last awoke a knowledge of the fact | thatthe Boers were bent upon war and | th ai tne Briish possessions in South | Africa were in danger of invasion. Cor- i *3 .
respondents resident in Johannesburg as | Serted that they had certain information . A COuspirscy was on foot forthe des-
tion of British power in South Africa
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PAAMINER
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begut t ré, and with
money paid by the tlanders who devel- | oped and worked the Transvaa! mines, had | p irchased immense quantities of all 1 kk 1d4 of mur is of war, had armed ‘f every ms vov in the country, had practiced ~-hooting and mulitury vulutions, bad provided themselves with fficers drawn from the German and other Lropean a killed in every device |
f war \ firet measure of precaa-
he B 1 Government sent about
12,000 troops :nt the country to supple~ ment the «mall force already there. resident Kruger continued his corres- pondence meking offers and propositions
pretending all the while to fear the annihilation of hi®
that could not be accepted,
«mall country and to be extremely anxious for peace. Finally, on the 10th of October, when ready for instant action, a joint ulti- matum was issued on behalf of the Trans- vaal and the range Free State, demand. ing that the British troops stationed near the Transvaal border should be withdrawn, that all troops landed in South Africa ild be sent home,and threatening that if the demands were not complied with in forty-eight hours the British possessions would
after the negotiations began, sho
at ultivfa- tum was treated with the scorn it deserved; and the threat was at once carried out. The Boers took possession of Laing’s Nek
once be invaded. Of course this
and Inogogo Heights, invested Mafe~ kicg and Kimberley, and invaded Natal in what they deemed to be overwhelmning force. Prisoners
taken by the British since the war began have stated that they “thought the war would be a picnic,” that they “‘would rush Natal before the imperia! troops arrived,” tha: “*Engiand would be involved in for- eign complications,” aud that the yic- torious Boers ‘‘would be able to dictate terms from Pietermaritzburg or Durban.” Butthe Boers reckoned without the val- our of ‘ Tommy Atkins.” The small, detached British forces, scattered in little groups at various points near the frontier were ill-disposed for effective defence. They were attacked in such a way as won tke admiration of military critics for the Boer commanders., But they met the at- tack fearless}¥,—and so successfully that the object of the Boers has not yet been achieved, and is no; likely ever to be obtained. At Glencoe and at Kiand’s Laagte, and other pointe,
they met the invadersin greatly superior oumbers, and they were victorious. At Mafeking, Kimberley
and Ladysmith they have. repulsed the heaviest assaulte that a numerically Stronger enemy, aided by the heaviest guns, could make.. Disappointments and reverses have been met by the British— but no serious defeat. All along the ex- teaded line, the Britons hold t heir own. The losses they have suffered, as at Nicholson’s Nek, Stormberg and Colenso, have for the most part been the results of reckless daring and over confidence,—
the face of a hidden enemy, strongly en- trenched, and adead shot, These losses have tanght them the necessity of greater carefulness, a lesson that, is not likely to be forgotten. We may therefore hope that, reinforced by troops now hastening to the front and by the generalship of Roberts and Kitchener, they will soon win tbe success which those who fight for the cause of freedom and progress deserve. Tha’ which is most to be feared is foreiga interference at a critical juncture. But of this—thanks to the admirabie di-~ plomacy and good managementof Lord mach *
Salisbury-there is not pro« bability. Tae United States, Germany and Italy occupy in respect to Great
Britain the position of friendly neutrals. Taeir success and prosperity are so closely coonected'with thesaccesajand prosperity of the British Empire throughout the world | with its “open door” and “equality of that we cannot conceive of any short an irreparable
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Austria, too, the
antagonisms of
is so torn by race the Czechs and Germans within her borders thst she is practically impotent ia respect to fore'gn affairs. It has been reported that France aud Russia have been trying toinduce the King of Abyssina to create a diversion into Lower Egypt. But before King Menelek can do this he mast overran the Italian poss sessions which lie between him and the Soudan. Ip view of al! these pointsin the situation itis, we think, unlikely that
either Great Britain or the Boers will in
any way be checked by other na:ions ; and we hope for a satisfactory conclusion of | the war in the South, as in the North, ef Africa. In view of the warlike spirit that is now all but universal, it is a curious fect that the most notable continental event of the past year was the Peace Conference, at which the principle of arbitration for the settlement of national disputes wae dis¢ cussed and maintained. The sincerity of the great promoter of the Conference was ridiculed, not without reason. in view of the fact that never for a moment did the Czar stay his military prepsrations, and that while talking peace he was forcing the Finns to do military service outside of Finland. The continuance of the Philipino war, and the outbreak ofthe Boer war seems to show that the conference was not of any practical value. But the evolved and spread abroad by means of th Conference may be turned to good account! in future years. That will be a truly glorious time in whick the nations shall not any more learn war, (Continued on page 4.) SS
TOMMY AND DISCIPLINE
“Tommy is not to caine any more goose.” said his mother.
“You let Bill have some more,” grum-: bled Tommy.
** Willie ie a great deal bigger than you are,” replied Willie’s mother, who did not know Dodd’s Dyspepsia Tablets counter- act the effects of too nearty eating.
*“‘No wonder, when you give him twice as much to eatas me,” said Tommy.
“IT do not wish to argue,” said his mother, with dignity.
“Please give me some more goose, then,” said Tommy.
“Pid I not say you were not to have any more.”
“Yes.”
“Well.”
*But I want some more.”
Tommy’s tather seemed to be strug- gling with something that had gone down the wrong way. Tommy’s mother tried to look as stiffand unbeadinz as possible. lt was Christmas day but rules are rules and discipline must be maintained. Be- sides she was ignorant of Dodd’s Dyepeysia Tablets.
“TI don’t see wny Bill should have some more aod not me.”
Bill gazed at Tommy with the greatest scorn.
““You’re only a kid,” said he.
“Who's a kid,” demanded Vommy.
“Be quiet, both of you, interposed Tommy’s mother.
““Me’s only a year older’n me,” mured Tommy.
“I’m fourteen months Willie.
“If you don’t hold you’re tongues you shan’t get any pudding,” said the ‘mother.
“J want some more godse,” said Tommy.
“Leave the table,” ordered Tommy’s mother.
*“What for?” exclaimed Tommy, affect ing indignant surprise.
* Because I tell you,”
“What did I do ?,” utterly mystified.
“Leave tbe table, before I ears,” said his mother
Tommy left the table greatly aggrieved.
‘ Of coarse goose is indigeatible, bat then Christmas comes but once a year, and a Dodd’s Dyspepsia Tablet would have pre-
} vented any ae effects.
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