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But now came a fret calamity, Spring, instead of bringing relief, brought the locusta. The remembrance of them still haunts me and gives me WOMAN'S EXPERIENCES IN THE a feeling that I can only describe as dramatic illusion. To me a play is a As a rule, I am wholly free from the
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nausea. It seemed rather interesting at performance, good or bad as the case may first, a new experience. All around us the people went out into their fields and, but bearing little or no relation to reality. An exception to this rule was gardens beating tin cans and shouting to supplied by John Ball's Other Island." scare the enormous insects away before When the fiberal carpet-bagger pro- they settled down to feed. They flew in claimed to the Irish peasants the immor light swarms some 20 to the square foot tal truth that What Ireland wants is a perhaps, une or two layers above each strong Liberal Government," my own ather
voice came back to me, echoed from the platform of the eighties. John Bull in: Ireland is not seen at his best but, be- fore we discuss his doings, let us con- sider his character.
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war there is impossible. From our varied and manifold impressions during the two years we passed there I shall select a few of general interest,
In the late afternoon they disappeared Next morning they returned. The swarms were heavior now, and gave geeyish cloudy appearance to the sky. They few high and passed over ns with out apparent intention of settling. A few lower now and it still denser clouds hours later they appeared again, fying The steady sub-tropical sunlight was wavering half-dimness. The rustling of changed into a futtering, uncertain,
wings became very strong. they passed they suited the ground and Everything on it. They stained our lothes when we went outside. It was impossible to hang out washing. The beating and shouting still went on around us, but it began to grow tired
general discouragement scened to make itself felt.
Wherever
Next morning the locusts were out be- fore we were. Their masses now seemed almost solid. We noticed that the young shoots and buds in the gardens were eaten. They stayed for about a week. Every evening before sunset they settled, When, at the beginning of September, always eating, of course, though not 1914, things began to look black for At the end of the week they all settled quite so ravenously as we had expected. Turkey, the British Consul General in on the sandy plains between the coast Beirut, Mr. Cumberbatch, showed a re-and the fertile mountain slopes, covering square miles with a heavy coating of after having laid their eggs.
as Ruskin used to say that we
In the first place, we are no longer,
were. undegenerate in rave-a rave mingled Inst fifty years abundant tributaries of of the best northern blood." Within the
foreign blood-French, German, Jewish, life-current of the nation. Amerionn-have flowed into the mixin Even I who pen these pages, though a thorough-going Englishman, am not of purely English blood. I am compounded of English and Celtic blood in the proportion of two and two. And, whenever the Celtic element is introduced, it modifies even visibly the
phlegmatic temperanient which used to
characterise John Bull.
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Then, again, as to his external charac- teristies, the type has changed out of all remignition, as everyone san Sce who compares a snapshot of a contemporary. crowd with Park's John Bull of fity years ago. When the external characs 8 and 10, MOUNTAIN VIEW teristics are completely changed, do the internal characteristica remain what they professed his reliance on were? In
Burke. some respects, yes.
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markably clear insight into conditions black and yellow. There they died the most religious country in Europe.LATS in "EWO MESS" No. &, ran
HORRORS OF THE LOCUST PLAQUE,
as they were then and were probably going to be. A general warning whe given to British subjects-especially to those in out-stations--to leave the coun-
Now we began to realize that the read try, if possible, at the first opportunity, plague was yet to come. Hundreds of The reasons given for this advice were ten and boys were sent out by the the expected scarcity of money, dearth Croan to dig up the eggs buried in the of food, and general tied-up conditions and, thousands of bags full were gather. all over the country. Many of us were ed and destroyed-all in vain. After inclined to think that he was exaggerata short time the little ones began to come ing. Several English families which out. They do not fly, but like armies might have left without great losa to of large black ants they marched across their positions laughed at the Consul's the sandy plain until they reached the alarmist ideas and stayed. One family first field. There they stopped to eat, we knew went to Cyprus, stayed there and never moved until every plant had for a few weeks, and then came back, been stripped. Herbs, bushes, and trees greatly annoyed that nothing wae hapwere left naked, robbed even of their pening after all. Mr. Cumberbatch, hark. The diabolical armies moved on, however, went on advising all families, never pausing, stronger every day. and practically ordering all single Everywhere as they approached the vit. ladies engaged in mission work in Byria lages there was at first a burst of deter to leave the country,
That part of the British Consular archives which Mr. Cumberbatch did not destroy before leaving was left at the Consulate under the protection of the United ·States Consul-General The American protection, which at first reep ed a safeguard, proved a pory little value. The United States Consul-General sealed up the archives, but as soon as the Turkish officials realized that there was no military backing behind his refusal to give them up they daily become bolder in their attitude, and at last broke the seals and seized them..
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THE RELIGIOUS ENGLISHMAN But while this characteristic of easen- tial religiousness remains the same, it certainly has gathered round it, of late years, some less admirable attributes. The old John Bull was obstinate, pig- headed; narrow-minded; but he was hypocritical or rather, bis was an in- verted hypocrisy. He was ashamed of seeming as good as he really was, and was apt to keep his spiritual experiences to bimself. Quite different is the aspect which he presents to a critical world to of him. The Briton is the modern day. Here is an American appreciation. mination. The people were goingPharisce, who has looted the world, and fight them; they would protect their for a pretence makes, long prayers. He crops their families sustenance for the never ceases to boast that he whipped brambles were built round the fields; bested the whole Continent at the Game next winter. Hedges of thorns and France at Waterloo and Trafalgar, and
at the locusts came on, silent, gnawing, of Grab," growing one often cating another if he when John Bull's grandchildren thus happened to get hold of his neighbouratifise his methods instead of a leaf or bough."
Another characteristic of the tradi tional John Bull was his serene content- mediately began to climb and creep as Sydney Smith said, delighted with NO D
At the thorny barricades, they imment with things as they are. through. Then the owners of the field, every existing institution and almost when the whole hedge, was filled with every existing circumstance. young locusts, set fire to it. Millions of one was Byron's typical John Bull insects were destroyed in that way, but He liked our taxes, when they're not myriads were moving on behind. ereep-
too many
Here thrown down and burnt up again, but the brambles gave out long before
"
To what a pass have we come
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A great panic among the populationing over the smouldering branches and followed. Arrests of members of the best bodies, burning up themselves, leaving Byrian families began to take place in room for the next. New thorn branches quick succession. All the people arrested belonged to families which had been the locusts did. Then lurge bodies, of another social critic who saw life from the OFFICES sis, Connaught Road nected with the French Consulate.. · It became known that among the French men gathered carly, before sunrise, when top, said of his typical Englishman: papers & number had been found which the night air had thickened the wings" He shaved scrupulously, drank port proved political sympathies so strong less to trunks and branches. One big an Englishman may be as hairy as Esau
of the insects and they stuck as if life wine, and believed in the fines." that the Turkish Government termed them high treason. There had been as
missionary college sent out at 2 o'clock his doctor tells him that port is poison great a panic among the Syrians with Pt night some hundreds of students, who to him: and he has views about the British sympathies, but none of them killed thousands and thousands of the Northcliffe Press. He travels which his befer sunrise. But all in vain; next forefathers never did and comes back were touched,
morning new thousands to take their with unnatural preferences for German stores or Italian wood-fires; thinks a skinny:
more than half, inclined to
The arrests were followed by trials by places. | Court-martial at Alsih. Men whom we
At the end of July, when the insects
knew personally, with whom we had had finished their last metamorphosis dietken and thin Moselle the trus
never
been on committees, with whom we had and begun to fly, the whole live and prefer bureaucracy to self-government. dined and played tennis, whom we look-
John Bull honestly despised all for- ed upon as the best and most calightened grape crop of the Lebanon and Southern eigners. Lord Palmerston was
north was damaged in places, but not tish than when he called. Syria had gone. The wheat crop in the more typically and
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of their country, were beaten, tortured, deported, and put to death. There were days when a dozen at a time were hanged in the public square of Beirut at dawn, the dead bodies being left there for some hours. A husa of fear hung over the city. No man dared trust his neigh- bour. The end of this tragedy only came in the beginning of 1916,
in the streets unconscious, and were car- Syria and Palestine have only oneried to the hospitals. We passed women outlet to the sea To the east and southad children lying by the roadside with lies the desert, to the north Asia Minor, closed eyes and ghastly, pale faces.
THE SCORN OF FOREIGNERS. It with which until shortly before the war
Even darker suspicions of his European was a common thing to find people neighbours haunted the unregenerate the only communication was by mule searching the garbage heaps for orange mind of John Bull. Foreigners were con paths and a few carriage roads Beirut, per old bones, or other refuse, and spirators. Foreigners were debauchees the most important port on the Syrian eating them greedily when: found Foreigners were either idolators Or coast, has railway connections with Everywhere women could be seen seeking atheists. I have heard that, after my Aleppo, Damascus, and Arabie but these catable weeds among the grass along the great-uncle, Lord William Hussell, was lines only enlarge the hinterland, and roads.
Terrible reports began to rup murdered by his Swiss valet, it was far do not in any way form a connection through the city. The priest of a moun- many years impossible for a foreign ser with the outside world. French, English, Italian, Russian, and tain village had to come down to another vant to get a place in London.
village to beg some men to help him A greatly increased acquaintance with Greek liners used to touch regularly aturs the dead that were lying about in the world outside Bugland has modified Beirut once or twice a week.
the streets. From a very reliable source Joan Bull. We have been forced to admit these insular prejudices of the traditional EFFECTS OF THE BLOCKADE
ve heard that in the Keaserman, a barren that foreigners can fight and Colonials. Shortly after the beginning of the district in the Lebanon range, cases had ride. We have learnt to behave ourselves in writing for permission to daze to the Captain War all this changed. A strict. French been found of the eating of human with comparative decency in foreign entrance on Conduff Road,
Aesh. Timer.
churches. We no longer denounce the Roman Catholic religion as a lie and a America no heathenish superstition. longer has occasion to complain of that condescension on the part of English people which once stirred. Lowell' indignation. It is chiefly in reference to middle-class Englishman, who has come Ireland that John Bull still vaunts him- forth from Balem House, and Mr. self with offensive superiority.
Creakle. He is seen in full force, of Long ago Matthew Arnold pointed out course, in the Protestant north; but that one of the chief reasons for the throughout Ireland he is a prominent eternal misunderstanding between Ireland figure of the English garrison: Him the and England was the fact that the Eng- Irish see, see him only too much and toc lish were represented in Ireland chiefly often; and he representa to them the by people like Murdstone and Quinion promise of English civilisation.
David Copperfield," and by the pro- Thirty years have passed, and, as far ducta of Salem House and Mr. Creakle, his relations with Ireland are con The Irish people, he said, are capable cerned, John Ball remains the same of fueling thoroughly the attraction of graceful figure that Matthew Arnold the power of manners, but they do not know so well. All this time he has been feel it in the case of those who compose governing Ireland, with the results which the English garrison," The genuine, we saw last Easter, but perhaps he is now unmitigated Murdstone is the common approaching the end of the reign.—Daily
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