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History of the Month. 



19 



Duly 



Chronicle office. E.riii)itner office. Tile Cull office. 



Newspaper Land in San Francisco. The recent Earthquake. 



the Chriinide office was uninjured, and liere the newsi)ai}er8 combined to briny out a joint iystie. 



ferred tlie magic virtue upon the wearer of it being pleasing 

 to (jod and to men. In eacli successive 2-enieration the poy- 

 fiessor lianded it on to a new wearer. There came a man 

 wlio liad tliree Hons, all of whom he equa.ll.v loved, and he 

 got a skilful craftsman to make two other rings so exact 

 in resemblance that he him.self hardly knew which was the 

 genuine rinj;'. and when he became ver.v old. and was on 

 tlie point of death, lie gave to each of them jirivately one 

 of tiiese rings. When death came and took bini awa.v. each 

 son came forward with a ring and claimed the honour and 

 the estate. They went before the judge, and the julge sail, 

 "I understand that the possessor and the wearer of tliis 

 ring is a man who is pleasing to God and to men. Now 

 lie of you who will first show his supremac,\- in gentleness. 

 in peace loving, in right i:'oing. in tolerance, in considera- 

 tion — that is the man to whom the honour and the estate 

 sllould go; and thousands of years from now, if vou come 

 before this tribunal, then your children's cbiblren will 

 know which after all was tlie possessor of the true ring."' 

 <Jentlemen, the application of this to our present quarrel, 

 our squalid quarrel, I think is pretty visible to you. Let 

 us see, let the cliurch remember— yes. and lei the chapel 

 remember— that this is the test, which allows most of these 

 great virtues. 



A \'ery prt-tu u.iy of illustrntinf; the truth of the old 

 s.nw tli.Tt the proi.f of the piulcHng is in the e.Tting 

 of it, aiid th:it still more familiar saying, " By their 

 fruits shall ve know them," 



The 



French General 



Elections. 



parlies. If so 



The general expeetation seems to 

 lit- that the French General Kler- 

 tions now in jirogress will make no 

 serious ehange in the Iia lance of 

 it will lie a remarkable deinoiistr.i- 



tion of the impotence of the Clericals. The vehe- 

 ment protest of the Pope and the clergy against tlie 

 separation of Church and State — a measure which 

 it is asserted has practically dried up all Peter' s- 

 pence in France seems to have had little or no effect 

 u]ion the Frencli electorate. The Socialists dejiiand 

 jieace abroad and the transformation of the Re])ub- 

 lic into a Collectivist State. The Radicals favour 

 sane Imperialism abroad, and ,it home a progressive 

 income tax and olrl-age iiensions. I'he Conservative 

 Republicans hold the Ceiun- ,ind the Reactionaries 

 the extreme Right. Fraiice has beeii nuich more 

 disturlied by the strikers in the mining district and 

 in the capital than bv the I nhiilnations of the Vati- 

 can. M. Clenu'iiceiu. (he most Radical of Home 

 Ministers, has shown the uliiiosl energy and alacrity 

 in defending onler an<l in m,iint.iining the. peace. It 

 was the irony of fate that a Minister with such popu- 

 lar and trades unionist syni|")athies should have had 

 to face .so formidable aji industrial insurrection. But 

 so far the crisis has only afforded proof of the sterl- 

 ing luetal of the man. 



