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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1896. HENRY £, EBBEY DIES SUDDEALY Close of the Career of the‘. Noted Manager of | Operas. From a Humble Position in the Box Ofice He Became a Theatrical Napoleon. BROUGHT OUT FAMOUS STARS. To Him Is Due the Many Musical Treats Epjryed by the Ameri- can Public. NEW YORK, N. Y., Oct. 17.—Henry E. Abbey, the operatic and theatrical man- ager, died suddenly this morning at his home in Osborne Flat House. He had been in bad health since early summer. At that time he and his wife had concluded to separate, and shortly after the operatic firm of Abbey. Scnoeffel & Grau failed. | Abbey’s poor health took on a critical in the | Tex., goes to the Presidio; Battery B, Fourth, Captain Anderson, now at Fort Adams, R 1, goes to Fori Riley, Kuns., Battery D, Fifth, Captain Thorpe, now en rouie “from the Presidio, zoes to Fort Hamilton, N. Y., and Battery F, Captain Riley, now en rounte from the Presidio, goes to Fort Rile, - OF INTEREST 70 THE COAST. Postmasters Appointed and Some Addi- tional Pensions Granted. ‘WASHINGTON, D. C, Oct. 17.—Tie | following postmasters were appointed to- day: C. P. Hone at Clovis, Fresno Cuur{- ty, Cal., vice J. G. Ferguson, removed; W. t Rucker, Santa Clara County, Richter, removed; M. L. Hub- or., | vice 8. bard at Stone, Clackamas County, vice H. L. Berrian, resigned. The postoffice at Yacolt, Clark County, Wash., has been discontinued. A special postal service has been established be- tween Mojave and Randsburg, Cal. Mail | will be carried between these points three | times a w | By direction of the Secretary of War the leav - of absence eranted Captain Seiden A. Dav, Fifth Artillery, in special orders is extended six months. Leave of absence to inciude October 21 is gra 1 First Lieutenant Samson L. i Faison, st Infantry. Pensions have been granted as follows: | California: Original—Silas A. Austin, Los Angeles; Alvert F. Bicking, East River- side; G. L. Underhlil, Ventura; Lafayette | V. Franks. Solaiers’ Home, Los Ange es; Leonard H. Morley, Forestville. Origi- nal widow—Julia E. Waterbury, 8an Fran- cisco. Mexican War survivors—Robert McCleary, San Francisco. Qregon: 1ncrease (special October 9)— Nemiah T. Moore, Aibany. Washington: Original (special October 9)—Eliei W. Lawton, Newaukum. G R BROTHERHOOD OF ST. ANDREW. An Active Programme for the Remain- Drays of the Convention. PITTSBURG, Pa., Oct. 17.—The pro- phase early Wednesday morning,when he | gramme for the remaining two days of the HENRY E. ABBEY. the Noted Operatic and Theatrical Manager, Who Died Sudd enly Yesterdayr was attacked with hemorrbage of the stomach. All efforts to check the ailment proved futile. Shortly after 2 o’clock he became unconscious and died in a little while. The funeral will take place next Tuesday. The interment will be in North- ampton, Mass. Henry E. Abbev was born in Akron, Ohio, in 1846. He learned the trade of jeweler irom his father, who was in the jewelry business and who bequeathed him his business. Having musical tastes Ab- bey soon gave up mercantiie business and became manager of a summer opera- house, a venture that turned out disas- trously. Subsequently he went into the box-office of the Eunclid Avenue Opera- house at Cleveland under the veteran John Elisler, and still later became treas- urer for Ellsler's Opera-house at Pittsburg. He became very popular in- the the- atrical of offers to take chargze of the tours of prominent professionals. Of these offers he selected that made by Lotta. In 1889 he brought Sarah Bernhardt and her company to this country at a | preat expense. Then, secure in his new fame, Abbey, in conjunction with | Scho: frel, became interest. in operatic | affairs and brought over sson, Patti, Langirv and Irving. Their fae as managers increased, and in 1893 Grau was taken into the firm in ad- dition and plans were made for a mag- nificent grand opera season. When the firm ocecured the Metropolitan Opera- house it was its ambition to give grand opera. This ambition was realized. The history of the brilliant managerial career of Abbay is inseparably linked with the glories ana reverses ol the Metropol- itan Opera-house. On May 23 the theat- rical world_and pubiic was astonished to hear of the failure of Abbey, Schoeffel & Grau. Henry E. Abbey will be a loss to the | He was| the greatest plunger the profession has | theatrical and musical' world. known. He took tremendous risks and odds on anything in ois line. To him we owe the original Bernharat and Irving seasons in America, and most of the leading European celebrities made therr first American aprearance under Abbey’s management. He also had several of the most prominent American stars and companieson his list. The Metiopolitan Opera Company, which for three years has charmed the Eastern cities, was another of Abbey's daring ventures. He handled hun- dreds of thousands of dollars in conuec- tion with this venture. Only last season he was involved in financial trouble, threatening failure, through the immense sums expended in opera salgries and pro- ductions. It was tbrough this opera scheme that he lost to Al Hayman the Knickerbocker Theater of this city. Mr. Abbey was ill since last spring, at times his condition being aangerous. Lately he seemed better and his death was not expected. Mr. Abbey and his wife, formerly Florence Gerard, recently separated and the talk tl.aten- sued sffected the sick man seriously. He leaves one daughter by his first wife and probubly no iortune, for in his desire to be the Napoleon of managers he sacrificed hus | private affairs at every turn. Mr. Abbey’s death will probably not interfere with the opera season about to open, as Grau and Schoeffel, his partners, have been manag- ing the business since Abbey’s iliness. Ariillery Batteries Assigned. WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 17.—Orders were issued at the War Department to- day assigning to stations the foliowing ar- tillery batteries: Battery A, Second Artill- ery, Captain Grimes, now at Fort Riley, is ordered to Fort Sheridan; Battery F, | Second, Captain Plainfield, now at Fort Riley, Kan., to Fort Adams, Newport R. I.; Battery C, Third Artillery, Captain Lancaster, now at Washington Bar- racks, D. C., goes to the Presidio, Ban Francisco; Battery F, Third business and soon had a number | convention of the Brotherhood of St. An- drew fills almost every hour with meet- ings. The leading feature of this morning’s | session was the “question box,” conducted | by President James L. Houghtelling, at | Carnegie Music Hall. This was followed | by tne election of a National council, with ames L. Houghtelling as president. Sec- ional conferences and a bible reading by Rev. J. 8. Stone occupied this afternoon’s session. | . This evening President H. W. D. Eng- lish of the Pittsburg Assembly gave a | dinner at his home on Fifth avenue to the visiting Bishops, the officers of the Cana- dian brotherhood and the officers and members of the National Council. To- | night from 8 to 11 o’clock a grand recep- tion was held in the Art and Science Hall of tue Carnegie building. —_— WATSON IN GREAT DEMAND. Demooratic Leaders Hastening to Confer With the Georgian. THOMSON, Ga., Oct. 17.-~It is probable that the next forty-eight hours will fur- nish some interesting political news from Georgia. When the fast train from Atlanta reached Thomson last night Mr. Watson’s carriage was in waiting at the station, and three gentlemen who emerzed from the | train entered the carriage and were rapidly driven to Mr. Watson’s home. They were Evan P. Howell, James A. Robertson and J. J. Hunt, Democratic nominees for electors trom the State at large. They spent the night at Mr. Wat- son’s home and he accompanied them to the depot this morning. The visitors and Mr. Watson declined to speak on the sutject of their conference, but the visit following immediately upon the proposition of the Populists for fusion in Georgia it was generally surmised that this was the topic of discussion. Since their departure it has been gath- ered that the scope of the conference covered a broader field than the Georcia fasion, and had in view bringing Watson and Chairman Jones, with pos. +ibly other members of the National Democratic Committee, together in At- lanta on Monday. = atson when questioned about this rumor saia: “If t e gentlemen who called upon me declined to say anything about the pur- l pose of their visit, manifestly it would be improper fox me to do so.’” | “Ifitis true that you are going to At- | 1anta on business on Monday, will Messrs. | Reed and Washburn await you there or will they come on to Thomson ?” - “I expect them here to-morrow and have so telegraphed Mr. Reed to Atlanta, where he will be to-night."” “If Chairman Butler does not give your | letter to the press to-day, will you then meuke it public?”’ “I will not make any statement con- cerning it until after my conference with the members of the National Committee from Chicaco.” “If Chairman Butler has not in the menné!me nutde your letter public will | you do so aiter vour conferen: it Messrs. Reed and Washburn?” e ‘I cannot say."” This ended the interview, but there can. be no question about the coutemplated conference between Chairman Jones and Mr. Watson in Atlanta and there is reason to believe that it has some- thing to do with the situation in Kansas and Eom&ioly to eetting Mr. Watson to go back there and make some speeches bringing the Populists and Democrats together, Chairman Jones agreeing to a fair basis of fusion in the State. SRR Otney Presents the Dulke, WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 17 —Secre- tary Olney presented to the President to-day the Duke Abruzzi, a nephew of the King of Italy. Baron Fava, the Iialian Minister, was also present. The Duke is a lieutenant on the Italian cruiser Cris- Captain Potts, now at San Antomo,‘toloro Colombo, now at Baltimore, RuSEBERY'S COUP A FLAT FAILURE Liberals Willing to Get Rid of His Lordship, the Leader. In Contrast Was the Brilliant Work of £ir William Ver- non Harcourt. DUMFCUNDED ALL OPPONENTS. Frederic Criticizes the Career of Arch- bishop Benson and Speculates as to His Successor. [Copyright, 1896, by t'e New o Times.] LONDON, Exe.,, Oct. 17.—Lord Rose- bery’s coup has not been even a nine days’ wonder. To sprak accurately, it evapo- rated on the sixth day, and 1t is exiremely safe to promise that a week hence not an echo of it will disturb the political atmos- phere. It is true that for the first three days or so a tremendous hullabaloo was raised over his Lordship’s resignation of the Liberal leadership, and many timid people were frightened into believing that the party was dead beyond recovery unless he coul'l be induced to withdraw it. This, however, was n.erely because the hirtle group of place-seekers and Whig snobs who had staked everything on Lord Rose- bery’s favor promptly raised a howl so strenuous as to confuse the public jude- ment. When this interesied wail subsided the voices of the real party fighters began to be heard, and then it was a matter of a few hours for the situation to clear itself. Under the earlier impression that the shouts of Lord Rosebery’s squad of re- tainers had unnerved the whole party a hurried emergency meeting of the Na- tional Liberal Federation managers was summoned. They raced to London, im- agining that it would be an easy matter to hustle the Liberal party into a penitential mood, and lead it out, candle in hand, to implore his Lordship to forzet and forgive. To their amazement, they found seven Liberal members of Parliament out of every ten saying that it was a good rid- dance, and two more wavering toward the same opinion. The managers met, ex- changed sacred confilence:, passed a wholily non-committal resolution and hur- riedly dispersed. With their departure R seberyism faded away like a wreath of mist. That it will not reappear is too much to say. Snobbery and political cowaraice are inherent in the human breast, and th- Liberal party of England has more than its share of both; but I doubtif precisely the same unworthy game can ever be played again, Only two months ago England was talk- ing of one of the most remarkable ses. sions then just endec in modern Enghsh parliamentary history. A _ ministry marshaling the largest majority known since the time of the reform bill had fought from February to August, and had sustaned an almost all-round defeat. Of ten contested measures which it had broaght in, only two had been carried througn. On its chief measure, the edu- cation bill, it has been utterly routed from the field. None dare deny that the hero of this extraordinary session was Sir Wil- liam Vernon Harcourt. Though nearing his seventieth year he had never 11t his post for an hour, even when the sessions had lasted through the night and till noon next day. His leader- ship was as sulperb and unquestioned on the intellectual as the physical side. He emerged from the final contest like a giant refreshed, and the Liberals, who had en- tered the session dismayed and utterly hopeless, came out behind him dum- founded at the s-ries of triumphs through which he had lelt them. In that hour of victory one never heard Lord Kosebery's name mentioned except by way of won- dering how most easily to get rid of him. He had contributed absolutely nothing to his party’s triumphs, and no one thought of him except as an incumbrance, to be unloaded when the convenient time came. As soon as the session ended, however, the party managers began tryin: to mini- mize Sir William Harcourt's work and to arrance an occasion for bringing Lord Rosebery forward again as their chief. The party itself took this with indifference until it suddenly discovered a wrong note in Lord Rosebery’s talk about Armenia. it listened then more attentively, and be- gan to get angry. Then Mr, Gladstone swooped down and laid bare to the party’s gaze wnat Lord Rosebery was try- ing io do. Thereafter there wasno course open for him except to get out. As 1 have said, those who were too deeply com- mitted to Lord Rosebery’s foriunes to change sides at an hour’s notice set up a noisy clamor, but that has died away, and nothing remains now of the conspiracy of 1893 except a bad taste in the Liberal mouth. By the time Parliament meets again Sir Wiiliam Harcourt’s position as leader of the Liberal party wiil be no more ques- tioned than is his natural captaincy of its forces in t e House of Commons. For some unexplained réasons ail the precedents that have been accumulating since the reformation were set aside in the burial of Archibishop Benson in Canter- bury Catheiral. None ol lis predecessors of Protestant creation lies:there to bear him company. At the time of the great upheaval the spoliation of Becket’s mag- nificent and then surpassingly rich shrine at Canterbury R'roduced a deep impression in Englapd. The early Archbishops of the new order, thoush they bore the Can- terbury title and insisted on their apos- tolic succession, wisely managed to see as little as possible of Canterbury itself and would not have dared to seek sepulture there, This grew into a habit, and why after 350 years the rule is broken now no one seems to know. Itiscertain enough, how- ever, that a few years hence this fact thal Dr. Benson, in his burial, set a new fashion will be about the only thing remembered of him. The gushing floods of eulogy in the pressdo not conceal rom anybody the truth that he was a very paltry kind of a prelate. Perhaps the Queen’s description of him as ‘the dear, kind, excellent Archbishop” best hits off the popular conception of him. His trimming instincts led Dr. Benson to patch upa peace between the various factions of the church, and especially to make the ritnalists and evangelicals pres terd to shake hands and be fri nds. This oily smothering of differences pro- duced a semblance of harmony inside the establishment, but it was at a heavy cost of inteliectuality and spiritual vigor, Dr. Benson leaves the English church to the eve more prosperous and contented than he found it, but with a sorely weakene | hold upon the liking and respect of Eng- lishmen as a whole. Speculation as to Dr. Benson’s successor revolves around a 1ew names—those of the Bishops of Win- chester, Kochester, Peterborough and Ripon—but the question is really all in the dark. It might not be impossible to argue out what Lord Salisbury’s choice would be, but these are matters on which the Queen is very tenacious of her pre- Tozatives, and where her fancy may alight heaven only knows. There have been numerous indications lately of friction between the Queen and Lord Salisbury on personal select ons of this sort. At least one of the two does not grow more pliable with age, and this fact alone would render the matter one of pure guesswork. L There is still a lingering doubt in the minds of the Liberals as to whether Glad- stone is quite certain not to be seized by a whim for returning to Parliament him- geif, and thus complicating everything. Any number of seats would, of course, be at his disposal if he wanted one. Pritchard Mqrgan has been reported as intending to resign for Merthyr Tydvilin order to offer Mr. Gladstone his piace, but what he is really going to do isto hold a meeting of his constituents on Wednes- day and let them say whether they would like to haye this done or not. All at once and without any warning the English and the Germans find them- selves engaged in a violent newspaper war, which threatens to be at least as embittered in spirit and as extravaeant in tone as that over the Transvaal affair in January lost. One cannot say that it was precipitated from a clear sky, because the Eurovean heavens have been blackiy overhung in every direction auring the whole of this troubled year, but it takes people by surprise none the less. The journalistic combats as arule im- press Englishmen hardly at all, because the British have been abused somewhere and are used to it. With Germans, how- ever, itis the exception to be made the object of attack. Since the row of last winter Englishmen have been rather anxious than otherwise to take offense in thut quarter, and the present concerted onslaught of the German ‘‘repiile press’ on England, although de'iberately pro- voked by Tnursday’'s London Times, is treated here with aimost as much gravity as if the Kaiser were writing the attacks with his own hand. .This very swiitness to umbrage on the one side only inflames the rage of the other, but, wh.le the Ger- man press can always be called cff by the German Foreign Office, that is not at all true of the English press. On the contrary, any sincere and vehement outburst of journalistic passion here not only curries the people along with it, but generally the Government as well. This fierce anti-British demonstration is most important for the moment, how- ever, as throwin. light on certain obscure places in the diplomatic situation. From the tone of the London Times and the fury it has voked, one gathers that Eng- land has really arranged some line of joint action with Russia and France. The very vehemence of the German pro- test that such a thing is impossible and that both the Russians and the French are incapab e of being such idiots as to forget that England is their chief rival and enemy, shows how scared Berlin is over what it knows has happ-ned or is happening. To make the matters worse, the inspired German editors declare that England has been intriguing at Rome 10 detach Italy from the triple alliance. That is old news to the readers of these dispatches, but the Germans do not know —what is really true—that these intrigues have been more than half successful. It was announced a month ago, for in- stance, that Emperor William woul i per- sonaily atteud the marriage of the Prince of Naples to Princess Helene of Monte- negro. Ten days hence and plans for his reception had been drawn up. Now it is learned that William was notified last week by the King of Italy that as the marriage is to be a purely family affair no foreign guests are expected. The news of this affront reached the Germans by way of Balmoral, and it is this that served as the spark in the powder magazine. Advice comes to me from a very good quarter to say that the Venezuelan mat- ter has been settled. No reasons for the statement are given. Indeed, it is said that there are none which could bede- fined, but that, all the same, it is true. It is understood in Germany, as I gather from private letters, that Bismarck's health is again in a rather alarming state. Of a serious disorder there is no hint, but the Prince has once more been aitacked by a faceac!.e which keeps him awake at night. Wuen Bismarck does uot sleep weil he thinks he is going to die and he then gets into a state of devression, which gives the doctors their chief anxiety. The annual gauntlet which the music- hall proprietors of London have publicly to run between rows of elderly British matrons armed with umbrellas afforded the usual amount of popuiar entertain-. ment this week, but it was lacking in that spice of danger to the show people which it had in the turee previous years. It is well known that the existing county council committee takes a lenient, not to say g nerous, view of ‘*art’’ asprac- ticed in .he halls, and there is no dnn’lger that any licenses will be with eld. The lawyers defending these licenses were. there ore, quite genial with their Puritan assailants, and utilized the cross-examina- tions solely in the in:erest of sport. The prolonged rainy westher has made a wonderful season for indoor entertain- ments of all sorts, but most of all for the music halls, and for light, sily musical farces. They all continue to coin money, as well in London as in the provinces. The memoirs which General Trochu left are ready for the printer, and will appear without much delay. They will be inter- esting mainly for their violent attacks on the Empress Eugenie. Trochu went to his grave with the solemn conviction that she was the instrument used by provi- dence to chastize sinful France and he says plainly, besides giving a great deal of testimony, some of it new, to support this attitude. It seems that the Empress distrusted the general on account of a be- lief that he was secretly devoted to the Orleanist Princess, and t at she allowed this base ess suspicion fatally to handicap him in his efforts to save the empire. It is a curious comment on time's whirligig that Eugenie should be belicved in France to be hand-in-glove with the Orleanist in- triguers. Recognized Bcnapartists told me when I was in Paris last week that thev knew this to be true. Augustus Hare’s memoirs, or the first half of them rather, wiil contain a large number of mildly flavored plums, which will be very useful to reviewers, but the latter are unkind enough to explain that in order to get these plums out they had to dig througn great masses of extremely dull stuff. It seems to be the consensus of critical opinion that the book should have been boiled down to half its present size, but at the same timie the glimpses of it siven by the published extracts are un- loubtedly entertaining. Vast editions are becoming more and more the rule as the area of England’s new novel reading class expands. Unwin throws 85,000 copies of Crockett's "‘Gray Men’’ into the market in a lump and Skei- fington got 36,000 of Marie Corelli's ridicu- tons “Murder of Delicia” subscribed in advance of publication. Bv combining English and American subscriptions we get, too, a first edition of 45,000 for Ian MacLaren’s ‘*Kate Carnegie.” These figures a few years ago would have been regarded as incredible, now they scarcely attract attention. ‘With scarcely an exception the popular novels of the past year have appeared from the outset in the single-yvolume form. The old three-volume system seems to be dead and buried, and yet Henry James’ new tale, “The Other House,’ makes its appearance in the library edition in two volumes. This is all the odder, because he used to be the singie-volume exception to the prevalent route. Inany form, how- ever, “T e Other House” must take a foweriul grip on readers of intelligence. 1 is quite out ide his usual method. A terrible story is told in the terms of the comeily, almost to the end, and the cli- max ‘s of unique force. Munkacsy aid after all, it seems, seed down roots during his long sojournin Paris, and the pulling up of them has burt him, perhans to death, The painter left for his native land last spring with glowing plans fo1 a renewed career as the greatest ‘man in Hungary. Bida-Pesth was eager to do its sbare in realizing this vision, but at the start there wasa cruel hitch. Munkacsy’s health gave way as soon as he entered Hungary. He was forced to zo to Baden Baden for the summer, without receiving much benefit, and now the Hungarian papers report that he is worse, and unlikely ever to paint again. HazoLp C. . STRONG FEELING AGANST ERGLAND German Newspapers Fan Strong Anti- British Opinion. Bitter Denunciation of Alleged Selfishness, Arrogance and Isolation. GROWS OUT OF NEW ALLIANCE Stories of an Agreement Between England, Russia an France That Are Not Relished. BERLIN, GErMANY, Oct. 17.—Although no facts are known which indicate the slightest change in the coolly courteous relations which for some time past have existed betw en Germany and Great Britain, the sudden outburst of strong anti- British opinion which has been juined in by the German newspapers of all parties has become the leading topic of discussion in political circles. De- nunciation of England’s selfis:ness and arrogance, allusion to her’ isolation and suggestions of how to diminish the pre- tensions of Great Britain appear in the North German Gazette, the Cologne Ga- zette and other organs of less importance, with a degree of unanimity which gives the idea that the utierances emanate from gome common and responsible source. If these attacks had in reality any official origin their line of argument would be worth quoting, but it is emphatically de- nied at the Foreign Office. that there is the slightest foundation for the prevail- ing rumors of an alteration in the rela- tions hetween the German and English Governments. Apari from such denial on the part of the Foreign Office scrutiny into the cause of the present boiling over of the German press proves that it is not foundeu upon anything whatever that 18 going on be- tween the Berlin and London Govern- ments, but that it is purely and simply a case of newspaper war 1u which the journals are allowed unlimited license, the Government not caring now fat they may go. ‘What these newspapers are saying now arose from the publicaiion of articles in tie leading London papers reporting the possible establishment of an English, Rus- sian and French alliance, with the detach- ment of Italy from the Dreibund. The German journalists who are guiding the tone of the best papers in Germany are quite conversant with the truth of what an English_preacher, now deceased, once said, that Eoglish politics is not guidea by such hare-brained chatter and irrespon- sible frivolity. But coming on the heels of the jubiiant articies of the French papers in view of the recent visit of the Czar and Czarina to Paris, the siyle of the comments induiged in by the British press was felt to be intolerable, and to demand some notice. Tope practical significance of this vol- canic eruption of criticism on the part of the German papers, however, lies in the tendency to heighten German hatred toward England, enabling the Govern- ment at an opportune moment to get the country to act in open hostility to Eng- land either diplomatically or activeiy phy- sical. When a calm-toned Catholic paper like the Cologne Volks Zeitung, now the lead- ing organ of the Centrist party in the west of Germany, denounces England as conspiring against Germany at the Quir- inal and exciline the Italian Government todesort the Dreibund, while the Berlin Tageblatt, the Berlin Post and other or- gans urge tie immediate ousting of the British from Egypt, it is evident that Ger- man feeling is ripe for anything against the Enlish. - The story published in to-day’s issue of the Vienna Neue Freie Presse, alleging that the Russian War Otfice has ordered all of the regiments in the dstrict of Kieff, Odessa and Charkoff to be at once put upon a full war-footing, and that all officers on leave of absence and tke retir- ing list have been recalled to service, is utterly discredi.ed here. Nothing is known in official circles here showing that Russia is mobiiizing troops, and the assertion of the Neue Freie Presse that the Pope pro- fesses to be aware of ‘‘a step toward the complete mobilization of the Russian force and portends that Russia will receive a Xuropean maadate to occupy Constanti- nopl " is regarded as too absurd to be worthy of notice. The Pesther Lloyd and the Vienna Politische Correspondenz concur in stat- ing that a concert of the powers has been agreed upon, the probabie basis of the maintenance of the territorial status quo of Turkey, but upon European control of the Turkish adminisiration. This state- ment concurs with thp advices recently cubled in these dispatches, which were ob- tained from official sources. HARTMAN Our Sterling Comedian Speaks His Mind. Tre Epwixn W. Joy Co., % GENTLEMEN: I realize the depth of my gratitude to’ Calitornians, the warm- hearted people of God’s country. 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