To the Editor of the "Norwa-Cuisa Dairy News"
Sin,—I was amused to read some of your editorials on The Tragedy of Washington," and just having finished a copy of Dickens in which he depicts much of the sane kind as you have been speaking of, I thought how very true to life he wrote, even to life in the present day. The description of the working of the Circumlocution Office with the different grades of Barnacles, the immense amount of work put through that department, and the very little result, makes one think of the present day ways of "not doing it." You will remember the great account given by Lord Decimus in the House of Commons, the thousands of minutes that had been made, the tens of thousands of notes taken, and the grand peroration in which he recalled the immense amount of sheets of foolscap used in the year, which someone had taken the trouble accurately measure and calculate and_ which would cover Street So-and-So and leave so many miles over, etc., ete.
Now without knowing anything about the length or breadth, much less the name of the principal street in the U.S. capital, we may hazard the guess that the amount disposed of there would fully match the great writers account. Then we turn to the introduction to the volume just finished, and find that Mr. Chesterton says there that that is the way England is ruled at the present day (1907), and who will dare to contradict. Just think of this dear old country, China, sending over 100 persons to represent her, and the her'? in this case only means the smaller half of the Republic. No doubt the "Lord Decimus'."" accounts will be delivered in due course in all Parliaments of the countries represented, and will be received witl applause, and the shipbuilding will go on as brisk as ever, and all necessary preparations for the next war will be made, after all the good resolutions, etc., will have been pidgeon—holed for life. The real tragedy is that the country has to pay so very dearly for this beautiful outing these famous men have
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.