The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 29, 1896, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MARCH 29, 1896. SECRET BARGAIN NOW SUSPECTED, England May Not Be Made a Fool Of in Foreign Adventures. SUBJECTS ARE RESTLESS Military Authorities Openly Against the Project in the Soudan. ATTITUDE TOWARD GERMANY. Great Britain Probably Backed in the Invasion of the Deserts of Africa. LONDON, of the week fi to believe that there bargein somewhere b; ot to be made an v Ex s are now s to health saster and ian even nd even if Germany has matter seemed to be burst fo: appre- prospect, | t e that a t to them 1n South | ih meet w dist certain a t o that t instance, I hat England holds nt of the King of oa Bay and of Umhlenga land Limpopo, whi e British girdle und but that King is nervous about how hisown Cortes and Ger- announcement of the bar; the comes off it is make an immec - one of a dozen things happens in eger di his inability or igness to and the tremen- -English pre: e of his bur; German and D to see how Englan out at once fal many, even in the far East, where Russia g over Port Arthur and to active operation all sorts of f expansion which the English ways sworn they would resist to the death. It isa fact that Germany is Russia’s ally on the Pacific coast, which compe the British to sit quiet and eat all their brave words. At the two poi ts on the map, then, where English interests are the most important and most gravely menaced Germany is the enemy. At both pointsa ‘mminent and either m: plunge ito the most arduous and serious ugh to everybod amazement this to ever; anxious meaningless camy desert, which, even achieve resuits which nobody wants or val and which at the very outset estranges and angers England’s next-door neighbor. As was said at the start people try to force themselves to believe that Lord Salis- yury has something up his sleeve, and t Germany has really been put under bonds to see England through this dark sea of troubles on which she 1s embarking. | That would be distasteful no doubt, for Germans are at a savage popular dis- | t just now in British minds, but at least would render the situation intelligi- 1t weeks go on and bring nothing but tions that no such defensive bargain ck, and people grow aghast | ity that England is to be | aught in another Khartoum tragedy, this ae with enemies on both sides instead most moment is chosen for a fantastic, the heart of the ceessful, can only t The public suspense has not found voice because the mystery is so hope- atuitous that it seems incon- | sable tbat an explanation should not thcoming day by day, but itisin- h ministerial collapse at such a international politics would be unusnally exciting. It is not so clear as might be wished that this will not come xt week in the remaining struggle over the budget, but I am inclined to the belief tiat the Bourgeois Cabinet weathered its . | all | sional examination to discredit and im- h | dishonor to tLe plain v | the consequent wholesale slaughter of dogs, | ter, who knows the Queen very well, told no votes to spare, but an analysis of its | taken as full compensation for the dwind- backers shows a fairly homogenous body who ought to hold together in Monday's final tussle. If they fail something more than the fate of the Ministry is notun- ligely to be pitched into the melting pot. In other words, there will be a dead set to drive Faure from the Elysee as well. What effect Berthelot’s retirement will bave on the possible crisis it is difficult to guess. So long as England played the game of Frencn reconciliation, he seemed to be the ideal foreign Minister, but the emergency of England’s sudden shifting found him lacking in diplomatic expe- rience and calm, and the French politi- cians seeing that he was, after all, only an amateur began bumping on him. So Bourgeois had been compelled to throw him overboard. The Germans have been having their fill lately of quarter-century celebrations, and bave yawned perceptibly over some of them, but mnone fell to the same level of public contempt as the twenty-fifth anni- versary of the first session of the Reichs- tag. It was only after a prodigions amount of correspondence and bargaining that a majority of the members could be induced to meet one another at a formal banquet, and tne only toasts that they agreed to allow were to the Emperor and to Bis- marck, who may hardly be said to tvpify the triumph of the parliamentary idea of r interest in the event. e was not the slightest sign, and the omment on the thing was almost universally disdainful. Eugene Richter, in the Freisinnige Zeitung, says that after ve years of the Reichstag Ger- many is more split and divided by fac- i all and hatreds than it was be- e empire was founded, and nobody contradicts him. Bismarck’s specific ailments are not more active than usual, but his general failing, and his eighty v, Wednesday, will be kept v ] y. Oaly a torchlight march of the Hamburg Society is to be permitted in- side the Friedrichsrube grounds this year, he other organized pilgrimages being warned off. The vast crowds which gathered in the streets of Constantinopie this week to watch the arrival of Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria and his subsequent publ ments have surprised everybody knows Stamboul. They are said to have far exceeded anything in any one’s recol- lection. No one suggests a satisfactory theory of its special meaning, but the fact itself im- pressed the imagination. The Sultan has paid extraordinary honor to his visitor, who will return to Sofia with a recognized dynastic position, and apparently with a U §30 kish mandate to go ahead and muke of himself the biggsst man in the Balkans. It is said that in Stamboul the pointed him out to one another asa rince who some day would be ruling m and hearing the Greek mass in St. rk: Sofia. That Ferdinand would cut th | tan’s Te: Stambuloff’s | ed not be doubted, and that his ambi- | tions reach to the Bosphorus may be" aken for granted, but, be he ever so able | and audacious, Russia is more capable and | > has used b 1 break him like a reed. ¢ were recognized | ace there could | on of general vy the jury’s ver- amages against| to her needs If the medic enemies of the g knowledge obtained by profes- who is hi i v. The development of the case during the week excited all Eng- iand, and it is hard to say whether the revelations of treacherous mea the Playfair family or the some of the most famous physi London com Dr. Playfair through thick and thin most d ted the enraged public. The dam- are by far the heaviest on record for r, but the jury arrived at the sum alizing a 4 per cent the allow- ance of $2000 which Dr. Playfair’s perfidy robbed Mrs. Kitson of, and it 13 hard to ny an appeal can upset that. It should be added th e verdict is every where taken as meaning not only that Dr. Playfair’s ethics are abominable, but that | bis al d:u:uo,fl‘ which 3mmued is no good. man motives could o4 nside | of ring see I suspect thatif b be laid bare it would be discovered that there is prevalent here just now a popular anger against doctors in general, directly due to the arbitrary muzzling laws and hich we owe to a panic about rabies ed up by the medical press. Within sti the past three months nearly 18,000 dogs have been asphyxiated and cremated at the dogs’ home in Battersea alone, and similar butchery is going on all over the country. As Englishmen love dogs rather more than they do their own children—or at least are more solicitous about their diet and comfort—this harrying of pets amounts to a national grievance, and nat- urally the blame for it is put on the doc- tors, who, it is said, spread entirely fabu- lous reports of hydrophobia for their own benefit. Indeed, half of the people in England seem to be coming around to the belief that there 18 no such disease at a; Speaking of dogs, an ex-Cabinet Minis- me the other day that she takes the keen- est interest in this Battersea dogs’ home and in similar institutions, and that she is especially vehement in antagonism to vivisec Of his own knowledge, he said, whenever an anti-vivisection socief seemed to be lagging in its public propa ganda, its noble chairman got a personal letter from the Queen stirring it pp to fresh exertions. During the week local census papers have been distributed by the police and otler enumerators throughout the admin- istretive district of London, which are to be collected Monday, and' are expected to show the whole number of living persons inside the metropolis at midnight to-mor- row. The census is limited to sex, and whether householder, lodger or servant, and the numbers of houses is also to be re- corded. The object isto secure statistics for a municipal rearrangement of taxes, and is in the bands of the Registrar-Gen- eral and of local registrars, who combine the functions of surrogates and county clerks, and the returns are expected to be compiled by the end of April. It being passover time a special clause of the act provides that Jews may withhold their pa-~ pers if they wish till Tuesday. A more comprehensive census of all France is to be taken to-night. This isthe quinquennial count of which I have spoken before as being awaited with much patri- otic anxiety, as it is almost certain to re- veal meiancholy facts about the French population, which for the first time is ex- pected to be less than that of the British islands. For the first time, too, it will put on the census record the fact that the Eng- lish sovereign and three of her children are on French soil, not to mention the King of the Belgians, the Dowager Empress of Russia and the Czarowitch, and an ex- ceptionally large number of other foreign Worst storms in the narrow straits of the inome-tax divisions Thursday. It had I royal personages now in the Riviera. It is feared, however, that this will not be ling of native stock. £ Americans are as much interestea as those directly concerned in the decision reached yesterday at the Boulogne traffic conference to initiate a new and additional fast service via Folkestone between Paris and London, the trains to leave each capi- tal at 4 . M., the passengers reaching the other side at 11:30 the same evening. Im- portant reforms will be made on both sides of the channel to facilitate the trans- fer of baggage, and the promised service will be a model one. George H. Boughton’s election to full honor as a royal academician is the most popular thing that the academy has done for a long while. He would have achieved it years ago had it not been for his sweet good nature in standing out of the way for Founger men, to whom distinctions signify more thin to him, and in always refusing to make a strenuous, embittered personal question of hisselection. He reaps l:is re- ward now in seeing everybody rejoice at his preferment, not only because he is one of the foremost painters of Eneland, but also one of the soil of the earth at large. At last night’s quarterly dinner of the Omar Khayyam Club, where Hardy, Holman, Hunt, Bryce and many other lights were gathered, a letter was read from Swinburne, who never goes to pub- lic places nowadays, but who has numer- ous interesting things to say of Fitzger- ald’s immortal translation. As to the greatness of the poem he says: *I know none to be compared with it for power, pathos and beauty in the same line of | thought and work, except possibly Ec- clesiates, and magnificent as that is I| can hardly think its author comparable to Omar either as philosopher or poet.” In the same letter Le recounts how in 1860 he and Rossetti bougnt the first editions of this great work at a bookstall for a penny | each, they having fallen absolutely dead at the published price of one shilling. Now they are scarce at $8. Oxford’s victory to-day under exciting conditions was a popular surprise. Word had gone round that Cambridge was in better form than since 1889 and was bound to win, and the betting was heavily in her O THEVERGEOF A Wi Louisiana Parish by a Shooting. Politicians Call at the House of a Negro and Two Deaths Quickly Follow. NEW ORLEANS, La., March 28.—St. Andry parish, in the western part of this State, is aimost in a ‘state of war. Last evening while a party of white men from Arnaudville were passing on the public road near the house of Julien Stelly, a colored man, in the neighborhood of Port Barr, five of them turned aside and called him out to have a talk with him. He had used some threatening language to the effect that he intended to register and vote if he died in the attempt. Seeing that would be against the wishes of the white people of that section, he had sent a message by another colored man to Dr. Martin, the leader of the white supremacy movement of that neighborhood, apologiz- ing for his words and promising to take no part in politics in the future. The purpose in calling at his house last night was to assure him that his promises and' apology had been accepted and that he might feel secure. He refused to open | his door or parley with the men, saying | that if Dr. Martin would come that way | he would come out and talk with him. Dr. Martin then came and called to him | to come out and talk with him; but in- | stead of doing so, he opened a side windew and instantly shot dead Alcoe Bouett, a resident of Grand Coteau and an excellent citizen and young man of 19 vears of age. The men on the outside thereupon fired into the house, killing Stelly and probably one other negro. This is Dr. Martin's statement of the occurrence. He is the leading physician of that section and a gentleman of the highest standing. RACING AT LITTLE ROCK. Four Favorites Win at the Opening Day of the Meeting. LITTLE ROCK, Ark., March 28.—About 4000 people witnessed the opening races of the Little Rock Jockey Club this after- noon. It wasa good day for the talent also, four fayorites and a heavily backed second choice winning. derby was a pretty race from start to finish. Sidkell started in the lead and maintained it until well in_the stretch, | closelv hugged by Garland Bar and Ben | Eder, but Lady Inez came up from behind with a rush, winning from her running mate, Ben Eder, in a driving finish by a | neck. Five furlongs, Empera won, Petrolene sec- ond, Helena Belle third. Time, 1:033 Four furlongs, Chappie won, Manzanita sec- ond. Chatlie HReiff thied. Tim F | and C. A. Grenfell's Father O'Flynn was | Mile, Arkansas derby, Lady Inez won, Ben | third. Eder secc sarland Bar third. Time, 1:4314. e Mile, C: won, Toots second, Joc 0’Sot | Run Over and Killed. third.” Time, 1:46. Six furlongs, Bing Binger and Leavitt ran a dead heat, Kirk third. Time, 1:17}5. Bing Binger won run off. S e Made a Quick Passage. QUEENSTOWN, E~c., March 28.—The Cunard line steamer Etruria, Captain Fer- guson, from New York March 21, which arrived at Queenstown March 28, made the passage in 6 days, 1 hour and 1 minute, making an average of 20 knots. The best previous eastward run of the Etruria was tdays, 3 hours and 6 minutes, madein Sep- tember, 1891. The present run isan ex- ceptionally good one for this season of the | year. e A Nationalist Elected. DUBLIN, IreraNp, March 28.—The Par- liamentary election in the east division of Kerry, which took place yesterday, re- sulted in the choic: of Mr. Roche, Nation- alist, by a vote of 1952 to 663 for Mr. Gilli-. cuddy, Unionist. The seat was made va- cant by the decision of Michael Davitt, who was elected for East Kerry and South Mayo, to sit for the latter. e M. Berthelot Resigns. PARIS, Fraxce, March 28.—M. Berthe- lot, Minister of Foreign Affairs, has re- signed. M. Bourgeois, Prime Minister, has been appointed Minister of Foreign | Affairs. M. Doumer, Minister of Finance, has assumed charge of the Ministry of the | Interior ad interim | e Three of the Crew Perish. LONDON, Ex6., March 28.—The British ship Staniey, ashore on the island of Texel, in the North .Sea, is full of water. | Three of the crew were drowned. The weather has improved and the vessel's | cargo is being discharged. g Top Importers Assign. BALTIMORE, Mp., March 23.—Rogg & Koch, top importers, assigned to-day. Liabilities are estimated at $150,000; assets of the same amount. Won by the Tigers. PRINCETON, N. J., March 28.—The | Bieber (Trinity Hali), 180; T. J. G. Dun- The Arkansas | 1JOY’S OXFORD WINS THE BOAT RACE From Putney to Mortlake the Rival Eights Row. OLD SCENES REPEATED. An Immense Crowd Witnesses the Struggle Between the Varsity Crews. CAMBRIDGE AGAIN DEFEATED. This Is the Seventh Consecutive Beat- | ing Administered by the Cham- pion Oarsmen. LONDON, Exc., March 28.—The annual Towing contest between the Oxford and | Cambridge eights took place over the course from Putney to Mortlake to-day in the presence of the usual crowd of Lon- doners and provinciais, and was won by Oxford by a quarter of a length. The weather was extremely disagreeable. At 10 o’clock the wind was blowing hard and the rain was falling in torrents. This con- dition was followed by glimpses of sun- | shine, but several times later there were heavy hailstorms of short duration. The length of the course was four and a quarter miles. The boats got off at 1:03 | p. M. Camvridge was pulling forty-eight | | strockes the first minute and at the soap works led by a half length. At Hammer- smith bridge Cambridge still held her lead of a half length and at Chiswick she was nearly a length ahead. From tbis point, however, Oxford be- gan to gain, and, nearing the bridge, drew rapidly up on the leaders, who had lost more than half of their advantage and | were only three-quarters of alength ahead. | In shooting the bridge Cambridge was hampered by the rough water and failed | to maintain her lead. Oxford gradually | crept up on the Cambridge boat. | TheOxford boat from this point drew | ahead and reached the Ship Hotel at Mort- | lake, the finishing point, a winner by a | quarter of a length, adding one more to | Oxford’s list of six consecutive victories, while Cambridge bas won a varsity race. The usual cheers and screeching of whis- | tles greeted the victorious crew, and the usual scenes in other respects were en- acted. Only for slight differences made | by the weights, one year's show along the | Thames championship course from Put- | ney to Mortlake is exactly like another. | Following are the crews and the last | weights posted, but the men were each | about a pound and a half lighter at the start than these indicated. Oxford—J. J. Deknoops (new), bow, 159 pounds; C. K. Phillips (new), 172; E. C. Sherwood (Magdalen), 180; C. D. Burnell (Magdalen), 191; E. R. Balfour (Univer- | sity), 190; R. Carr (Magdalen), 178; W. E. Crumps (new), 171. Cambridge—T. B. Hope (Trinity Hall), bow, 155 pounds; H. A. Game (first Trinity), 175; D. Pendington (Caius), 174; R. Y. Bonsey (Lady Margaret), 180; W. A. canson (Emanuel), 195; F. 8. Bell (Trinity Hall), 170; W. J. Fernie (Trinity Hall), | stroke, 170; T. R. Paget-Tomlinson | (Trinity Hall), coxswain, 117. This is the seventh consecutive defeat administered by Oxford to the rival uni- versity of Cambridge, and not since 1391 has the latter club given the winners so close a race. In 1891 Oxiord won by a quarter of a length, as it did to-day, the | intervening races having been won by | from one and a half to three and a half lengths. In the last twenty years the time made to-day, 20:01, has only been beaten twice. In the race of 1892 Oxford won by two and a quarter lengths in 19:21, and in 1893 she won by two and a half lengths in 18:47. e Barnato’s Slowmarket Won. LIVERPOOL, Ex6., March 28.—The for- ty-ninth race for the Liverpool spring cup of 800 sovereigns for three-year-olds and | upward, one mile and three furlongs, was run to-day and won by Barney Barnato's Slowmarket. William ~G. Singer's Teie- scope was second and Lord Derby’s Din- | elesly third. The sixieenth champion steeplechase of | 300 sovereigns, about three miles, was won | by J. C. Ddrmer’s Graig Olway. aged. ¥. C. | | Stanley’s March Hare, aged, was second | ST. LOUIS, Mo., March 28.—Danny | Daly, the feather-weight pugilist of this city, was run over and instantly killed by a freight train near De Soto, Mo., last DR, MCKENLIE, | 1 The world is on its nerve just now. Every | one is getting nervous—nations and individ- uals. You see it in the “Chewing-gum Craze | and in the Nerve Specifics.” It is fortunate, therefore, for ‘mankind that the celebrated | Dr. McKenzie’s Nerve Treatment can be had by | the rich or poor.” This great Nerve Treatment | isnota simple nerve sedative or tonic, but1s really an elaborately prepared nerve treat- ment, that will build, renew and make over old, worn-out nerves. YOU CAN GET Dr. McKenzle's Nerve Treatment at Joy’s Baldwin Pharmacy. JOY!S Tidings of reasonable prices at Joy’s may have reached you. If not, “Know thou then that Joy’s Baldwin Pharmacy is the reasonable price drug concern inthis city.”” Why? 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