JEALOUSY IN HIGH PLACES.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 10266, 8 February 1899, Page 2

JEALOUSY IN HIGH PLACES.

From Dr. Ownstrs. By Tna Cojidcctoi, vs " To-Dat."

It ain't a easy thing fur a chap like mc ter foller the course o' pollertics. I keeps abreast o' the times as fur as I can, but nar an' then I gits'left. I don't tike a mornin' piper, 'cos if I did I wouldn't 'aye no tim Bier read it. If a gent leaves a evenin' piper in the "bus I'll tike it 'ome an' 'aye a look at_it fur ten minutes afore I drops orf. But thet- T don't 4 'amarnfc ter muck -Blokes is very keerful witb anythink as they've pide money fur nar-j*-«ry*»». .Pot-cr night a chap left a piper in the 'bus; it were a 'ipeny piper and Yd bin readin' it fur abart 'ari-a-hower. We'd gone on abart a couple o' 'undred yawds when I sees that chap runnin' after the 'bus an' wivin' 'is umbreuer at us ter storp, which we did. "Hi sye!" he says, "I left my piper in the dus." "Thet 'ud 'ad bin all right, _ sir," I says. "Any vellerbles as is left in the 'bus, we tikes an' gives up at the orfus. In a kise like this the comp'ny 'ud 'aye hadvertised to find the owner. 'Ere's yer piper,' I says. "Put it in yer inside pockit or yer mye git it stela. Yer shouldn't iterry them temptation* abart with yer."

TE didn't 'awf like it. In face wa_ worntin' ter syo sutthink, on'y the 'bus 'ad gone on afore 'ed mide up 'is mind whort it was ter be. But 'ere am I runnin' clean orf the riles. Whort I were goin' ter speak of, though nort settin' myself up as a authority on pollertica, is this 'ere trouble between the birdar an' Sir 'Erbut Kitchener. For theer ia trouble, I mike no dart. I don't read the pipers horfun, nor spend much time on 'em, but I keeps my heyes open, an* when I reads, I reads bertween the lines. Why, theer was barnd ter be trouble. Sur* pose you 'as a couple o' d ; ,fr s with yer an' yer chucks one stick fur 'em ter fetch; theer'? goin' ter be a fight atween them two dorgs, Sime 'ere. If the Sirdar an' the Sir 'Erbut ain't fightin' of a dooel at this moment, it's because we don't live in Frawnce, but in a Chrischun country. * ,; I've seed it comin' on some time pawstr In one piper I read that ar victory was intirely doo ter the Sirdar; another chalked the 'ole tiling up ter Sir 'Erbert Kitchener. It don't tike a man o' sense long ter mike up 'is mind in a kise like thet; the fac' is probably as both of 'em did their dooty; jt were jest six o' one and 'awf a dozen o' the other. And I dessay it wud 'aye wukked art all righb if them dyly pipers adn't gone -tiking sides an' stirring up o' jellersy between the two men. An' jellersy theer 'as bin, as Hi can prove. I gort a piper with a description in it 6* thet little beano at Dover. It spoke o' the Sirdar's 'ealth bein' proposed, an' then it. went on ter speak o' Sir 'Erbert' returhin* thanks. Onpleasantness theer must 'aye bin in cornserquence. Per'aps the piper were right in nort allodin' ter it, silence bein' frequintly best, sime as when a child awstsinconivenyunt questshings art lard, at a teaparty.' But, with all respecter Sir 'Erbert, ter my mind 'c were wrong. I don't surpese theer were any nercessity ter grab at it. If, 'c cud on'y 'aye kep' 'isself in an' wited I don't dart as 'is 'ealth wud 'aye bin proposed nex', an' quite as narce things said abart *im as was said abart the Sirdar. But bein' in a temper through jellersy 'c 'ad ter pertend thet it was 'im as they was alloodin ter; an' theer 'c put 'isself in the wrong, as I don't dart the Sirdar told 'im arterwards. . - Well, we must dew ar best ter kip things even between 'em; Wheerever the alvsfc ter a bengwit, the Sir 'Erbut must feeawst likewise, the price o' otic egstry knife-an-fork when you're tryin' ter ac 'andsom'. I 'ites cheese-peerin'. -. -'* As fur 'Ankin's egsplernition that thefdhe - man's the tother 'an botn is Lord Khartoum, thet's jest the sort o' cock-an-bull story, lt would teU'wheri 'c were beat.