The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 11, 1897, Page 22

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, APRIL 11, 1897. SUNDAY. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDUE, Editor and Proprietor. Daily Daily Daily snd Sunday CALL, one week, by Sunday CALL, one year, by mall #ud Sunday CaLy, six months, by mall Daily and Sunday CALi, three months by mail Daily and Sunday Caxy, one month, by mat Bunday CALL, W REKLY CaLy, BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Marke: Street, £an ¥reucisco, California. Telephon Maln—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: D17 Ulay Streer. Telephone...... > ..Main—1874 BRANCH OFFICES: t, corner Clar; open antil street; open uniil 9:30 o'clock. street, open until 9:30 o'clock. th ana Mission sireeis, open et. open untll 9 o'clock. 1ock. 1505 Polk street; open until 9:30 0'clock. corner Tweuty-second and Kentucky ; open till 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE: 998 Broad way. EASTERN OFFICE: Booms 31 and 82, 54 Park Row. New York Clty. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Eastern Manager. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL- War in Europe. The carnival has gone glimmering. Good weather for rest and recreation. Try a trip to-day on the Balboa boule- vard. Read our ads. for bargalns in spring novelties. The fighting in Europe is lively, but ac- cording to diplomacy it isn’t war. England had better let Greece and Turkey fight it out and attend to her dia- mond jubilee. Who will get Constantinople when the Turk goes out is & good subject for a guessing contest. The Greeks and the Turks will have to recognize one another as belligerents for the powers won’t. We are to have no Golden Gate Carni- val this year, but it is possible to have a Balboa road opening that will be just as good. It s just as easy to call an international monetary conference this year as next and there is no reason why it should not be doze. The so-called “pacific blockade” Crete hasn’t pacified anybody nor block- aded anything, but otherwise it deserves the title. While the Greek fights the Turk the Servian is on guard. Hemay not take part in the battle, but he intends to share the spoils. In your meditations to-day think of the unemployed and make up your mind to subscribe to the fund to provide them with work. The House has done its share in putting & good protective roof over the industries of the country and it spould now whirl in and puton the silver lining. The surest way to get the officials at Washington to begin work on the Federal building in this City is to make every day of delay unpleasant for them. Weyler has lost his grip not only on the trocha but on the telegraph wire, and we now hear stories of Cuban victories without any counter stories of great Span- ish successes. 1t needs no expensive zarnival prepara- tions to make a joyous festival in this kind of weather. Let each individual furnish the gayety of heart and nature will do the rest. Put the money vou intended to expend on the carnival into the boulevard fund snd you will get just as much pleasure outof it as ever you expected, and per- haps a little more. The Chicago Inter Occan asserts that at the Moody revival meetings in that city “men are moved to tears” and perhaps that helps toaccount for the extraordinary floods in the Mississippi Valley. The governments of England, France and Ttaly are willing enough to co-oper- ate with Russia in coercing Greece, but their people will not permit them and that is where the laugh would comein if it were a laughing matter. It has at last been explained that when President Kruger called Queen Victoria “een kwaje yrouw” he meant she is a woman who will stand no nonsense and once more the British public breathes easily and without snorting. None of the powers that have parlia- mentary governments are able to explain what their fleets are doing at Crets or what they intend to do,and perhaps if Russia had a pariiament and her officials were calied on to explain their policy it would be found they are as much at sea s the others. Since ex-Senator Peffer has gone back 1o editorial work on the Topeka Advocale he announces that he will continue to support the principles of Populism, but hereafter it will be on conservative lines. This world, he says, is too big for men to recreate it. There is wisdom in the maxim and Mr. Pefler might have added that it is as much as the average man can do to recreate himself. According to a report of the Labor Bureau of North Carolina the cotton-mills of that State increased their spindies from 344,000 in 1890 to more tban 1,000,000 in 1897, and the number of operative: creased from 8515 to more than 25,000, This development shows why the pro- tective sentiment is growing in the Soutn and why that section of the coun- try is getting into harmony with the rest of the Union. The proposel to establish in the univer- sity a College of Commerce is one for which much may be said. To carry on trade with foreign countries we must have 2n understanding of the commercial needs of their people, and that cannot be ob- tained without study. The success of German commerce of recent years has been largely due to her commercial train- ing schools, and now the English ars pre- paring to establish similar courses of edu- cation. Sooner or later we must follow the example or fall behind in the race. of | | conditions will then be more propitious | loyal to bim at every turn of fortune, THE EUROPEAN SITUATION. According to the dispatches from Europe there has been fighting along the Turkish frontier and war is imminent. That is the language of diplomacy. of fact, there is actual war between the As a matter Greeks and Turks, and that which is im- minient and menacing is a general war which may involve all Europe. The situation bas two phases, distinct from one another but equally complex. The first is that which concerns the nations of Western Europe. ments of England, France and Italy have Russia in coercing Greece, but their hands their peoples. and Italy have shown that the Ministry of The govern- shown a willingness to co-operate with have been withheld by the opposition of The debates in Parliament and in the Chamber of Deputies of France neither power could hold its position if it undertook to deciare war against Greece and put into effect the blockade which has been threatened. This being the condition of affairs, it is evident that a concert of action between Western Europe apd Russia is extremely difficult, and 1t will tax the skill and the energies of statesmen to devise & plan by Levant and save Europe from participation In the Levant itself every condition is nationalities and races of that region are is the grass of & prairie in autumn to fre. which they can localize the war in the in it. favorable to war. All the various states, now as inflammable to the war spirit as The fighting begun on the frontier is not only liable to spread but is almost certain to do so, unless some very powerful force interposes to prevent it. Itis not simply a question of Greeks peni: than three generations the Servians have themselves as a nation. conspired, intrigued, rebelled and fought and Turks, There exists in the Balkan ula another element equally dangerous to the peace of Europe so long as the Turkish empire is maintained. Thatelement is the Servian people. For more been animated by a desire to establish Under the influence of this aspiration they bave plotted, almost incessantly. They have accom- plished the establishment of a Servian state, but the boundaries of it do not by any means correspond wiih the full extent of the habitations of the Servian peo- vle. The present state is to the real Servia sbout what Piedmont wus to Italy. It is not so much a nation as the nucleus out of which a nation is to be made. The Servians will watch with swords in the Greeks against the Taurk: their hands every step that is taken by Their sympathies for the time necessarily will be with the Greeks, inasmuch as their interests will be advanced by the fall of the Turkish empire. When the Turks go out, will be antagonists in the distribution of however, the Servians and the Greeks the spoils. Each is an aggressive race. Each hopes to become the dominant power in the Levant, and each is ready to fight for supremacy. The wmore carefully the situation is studied the greater will be the number of difficulties discovered in the way of preserving peace. anachronism. been outgrown. The whole sitaation is an The existing order of things is a survival of a system which has It has been said by Goethe that if you plant an acorn in a flower-pot one of two things will happen: either the young oak will die or the flower- pot will be broken. The acorn seeds of root and are flourishing in the old flower-pot of the Turkish empire. rope must destroy the national instiucts of the Greeks and Servians, or else the | two vigorous nationalities have taken Either Eu. empire which confines them must be broken, and a new order of things consti- tuted which will allow room for the full peoples, wth of these strong snd progressive THE LOST FIESTA. | ‘While it is a matter for much regret that the Golden Gate Carnival has to bs post- poned to another year in hope that the | for its success, it was nevertheless a wise | decision; and that the executive commit- | tee had force enough to decide promptly to renounce the hoped for pleasure rather | than dally and prolong an attempt at s fiesta, which would probably have provea to some extent a fiasco, is a subject for | congratulation. It is ample argument for the renounce- ment of the frolic that the report of the director-general and the grand marshal howed the funds forthcoming would not be sufficient to make the festivai credit- able. San Francisco cannot afford to risk her reputation and mate herseif fool- ish by performing even a frolic by halves and slouchily. Let the design fully meas- ureup to the rich fortune and far fame of a State which, being pre-eminently the land of gold and fruits and flowers and nature’s generous lavishment of both plenty and beauty, is therefore pre- eminently the land for carnivals. Then when the plans are adequate let the ex- ecution of them be a safe expectation b fore a move is made to bring people here irom near and far who might otherwise find their anticipations turned to such disappointment as would send them home spreading disparaging commentson Cali- fornia, This argument is supplemented by the cogent one that even if we did have the money for the carnival it would look in- congruous that we should be givinz up our energies and substance to feasting and frolic when s0 many in the City are indis- | tress and a hali-executed plan for tneir relief is halting for lack of the very funds the festival would consume, This is the criticism passed upon the proposed frolic by the men who have been expending their generosity in the Balboa relief scheme, and who have been asked to contribute also to the prettier and more | enticing enterprise, but which is not an imperative behest of duty like the provid- | ing of work to the City’s unemployed. | Such givers as these have a right to decide | the question. | The relinquishment of this hoped-for | pleasure, as well as advertisement of the | State, is only a temporary self-denial, and | is by no means an abandonment of a | wisely designed enterprise. Another year | we can hold not only a better festival, bus | we can do it with far mors grace and | make it ethically as well as esthetically perfect. It is written: *‘To everything there is a season, and a time to every pur- pose under the heaven”; and when we have done the sterner duties of life we can | enjoy better its happy festivities, | DANIEL W. VOORHEES, The deatn of ex-Senator Daniel Wolsey Voorhees has followed swiftly upon his re- | tirement from office. He bad not time to pass into obscurity in private life before he vassed from earth. Death summoned him while !li'” a notable figure in our poiitics, and around his grave therefore his services to his party, to the people and to the country will ba freshly remembered. In his prime Voorhees was one of the foremost of Congressional orators, and it is by his oratory he will be longest and chiefly remembered. His acts of construc- tive statesmanship were few and of minor importance. This of course was lareely due to the fact that as a Democrat he was in opposition during the greater portion of his political life, and had Iittle or no chance to show his capacity for adminis- | trative work. | So far as opportunities offered Voorhees | did his work well. While bis politics estranged him from the great mass of the American people during the controversies arising out of the war he nevortheless re- tained univeral respect for his personal charzcter and won admiration by the elo- quence and the energy with which he maintained the cause he bad espoused. | He was five times elected to the House of Kepresentatives and thrice to the Senate, and in both bodies held an influential and distinguished plece among leading de- baters. In his death the country loses one of its favorite and most picturesque figures in | politics. Voorhees on the stump or in the Senate was always interesting. If his elo- quence possessed no element of immortal- | ity it was always glowing and vital for the occasion whenit wasuttered. Bold in the use of Saxon words, beautiful in rhetoric and ferviil in sentiment a speech by Voor- hees never failed to rouse an audience even if it did not convince. His political actions moreover were as interesting as hisoratory. A true pariisan leader, he never failed in any element of dash, strategy or vigor to hold his followers | life of the time and ot the Nation. NORSE LITERATURE. A petition, started by the Scandinavian residents of the City, is being circulated requesting the establishment at the State University of a chair of Norse language and literature. Whether the finances of the university justify the institution of | such a professorship at this time is a ques- tion which only the Regents are able to decide, but of the general merit of the proposal there can be no doubt. From Scandinavis came many of the myths and legends that form the founda- tions of the early history of our race. From that ancient language bave also been drawn many of the words which help to make up the strength of our Eng- | lish tongue. A study of Norse mythol- ogy and philology is therefore re- quisite to a full understanding of our own history and langusge, and it is clear that | no little profit could be derived from it by careful students. The number of Scandinavians in the United States 1s larze and rapidly increa ing. Many papers of merit in that lan- guage are published and the support given them shows the interesi which the Scandinavians take in the intellectual It is natural that these citizens should desire to have their literature and history recog- nized in the work of the university of the State and as they assist by their taxes in supporting it they have a right to have this desire receive careful consideration. | The subject 15 one in which the general public may well take an interest and the petition therefore deserves and will re- | ceive the signatures of many citizens in | Scandinavian origin, | addition to those of EMPEROR FRANZ JOSEE. A unique necromancer with the pen in a Stockton paper chooses as bhis manner of being funny on Monday—which differs, please God, from his manner of being funny on all the other days of the week in his perpetual scheme of being alvays funny — the experiment of saying that Tur CALL was ignoraat when it referred to the Emperor of Austria as “a fatuous old man.” He goes on to aver with a gravity that would tpset the composure ofan owl that Emperor Franz Josef is head and shoulders intellectually above every ruler in Europe, including, of course, Emperor Jose! himself, as he is a ruler in rope. What a painful accentuation of an al- ready stupid assertion! Franz Josei has long been known to be mentally infirm. Some years ago there was serious talk of removing him from the throne and putting & man of vald in- tellect in bis place. His recent im- becile utterance of faith in the power of diplomacy to maintain the peace of Kurope, when actual deadly, bloody war was going on under the very noses of his | battle-ships, merely addea to the general impression which nad been held concern- ing bim. Tue Caiy incidentally called him a “fatuous old man,” and in doing | 50 stated his reai condition mildiy. THE NEXT THING. The McKinley administration has won favor with the people by the promptness with which it has undertaken the work of | revising the tariff so as to provide a rev- enue for the Government and protection to the industries of the people. It has been in office hardly more than a month, and yet within that time has called Con- gress together, drawn up a tariff bill satis- factory to the people and had it passed by the House of Representatives. That much is good. Now for the next thing. Congress is in session. The tariff bill sent from the House is in the hands of the Senate Committee on Finance. For the time being the House is idle. The Senate will occupy at least two months in considering the tariff, for it believes in the pailosophy of making haste slowly. It can hardly be possible that the admin- istration desires the House to remain idle during the whole of that time. It is clear that some work should be providea for it. It should begin at once on the next thing. There can be no question as to what the next thing is, Not less important than the tariff itself is the money question. The pledge to promote the remonetiz: tion of silver by international agreement was as important a part of the Republican promise to the people during tue cam- paign as was the pledge to establish pro- tection. The fulfiliment of this pledge is therefore the next thing for the Republi- can party to undertake, and now that the House has disposed of the tariff it should at once proceed to deal with the other vital issue of the time. An international conference cannot be brought together in aday. After the in- vitations to foreign governments have been issued, much time must necessarily elapse before replies can be received and | a date for the ascembling of the conter- ence agreed upon. Itis therefore impor- tant that the preliminary work should be entered upon as early as possible, if any- thing is to be accomplished in that direc- tion by this Congress. The situation is just this. The regular session of Congress will not begin until December and will not get regularly to work until after the New Year's holidays. Any business which is postponed for that session can hardly get under way before the middle of the winter of 1888, In the pressure of the other business that will be upon the House there will then be a difficulty in getting any monetary legisla- tion adopted by that body before spring, and as it will then Lave to go to the Sen ate, it may be late in. the summer before any action is taken at all. The result will be that the Republican | party will have to faco the people in the campaign of 1898 with one of its most im- portant pledges unfulfilled. It needs no great political sagacity to see that such negleci would be a tactical blunder of fhe worst kind. Some immediate action on the siiver question is therefore impera- tive. The House shouid put an end to its idle adjournments and meet to do business. STRANGE BATTLE CASUALTIRS Curious stories are often told of men Who have been severely wounded in battle and who have themselves only discovered it after the heatand excitement of the action were over. Others have been known to die of shock from wounds which existed only in their imagination. The round balls used in the cannon of for- mer days often played strange freaks. Their effect in ricochet was often remarkable, the ball in its bounding course carrying every- thing before it. The spent balls would often cause death and leave no external, marks, and for many years death in such cases was DOpU- larly attributed to ““windage” or the effect of the passage of & ball close to the person, but not hitting him. During the Indisn mutiny aspent ball struck & gunner, passing over his body, cutting away & portion of his vest and breaking his arm. No other injury was ap- parent, but three days later the greater por- tion of his leg fell away and he died firm in the belief that he was killed by “windage.” In the Crimean war an officer of the Forty- second Highlanders was siruck in_the body, fell and died while being carried off the field. No trace of injury was visible and the cause of death, as usual, wes given ss “windage.” The autopsy. however, revealed the fact that sllof the internal organs had been ruptured by a blow from & spent bal!. Coins, buttons and pieces of clothing are frequently carried to the body by the strik- ing bullet. Pieces of knives, watches, swords, etc., are found in arms and legs after every great battle. The story is told of two French «oins formerly in the Nutley Museum. These were found in an English soldier's leg during | the Crimean war. As ne was a noted spend- thritt and never had a piece of money about him the mystery remained unexplained until it was found that a French soldier fighting beside him had had his pocket and its con- tents entirely carried away by & shot. Soldiers who are hit in battle frequently complain that they were shot by their com- rades from the rear. This is due toa curi- ous fact, well known by surgeons, that the | first twinge of pain may be felt, not where the | bullet stikes, but where it comes out. When a bone is broken or a nerve ruptured the pain is intense, but If the bali only passes | through the flesh it mey not be observed at all | ormay be felt only asa blow from a stick might be. Much depends on tempersment. Many | faint and die from wounds which others would scarcely feel. The nervous shock due to a severe blow is frequently not felt for some hours after it1s inflicted, and then the patient is suddenly prostrated. Tae fecling proauced by the passage of a | buliet is variously deseribed ss like a blow irom a sledge-hammer, or, again, like a red- | hot iron. The actuai pain experienced by the | wounded on the battle-field we may conclude | has been much exaggerated on the whole. The principal sufferings are due to lack of at- | tention after the battle resulting in fever and thirst. Prompt treatment will do much to al- leviate this. With the greatly fmproved sani- | tary and medical service of modern armies | and the respect mow paid to hospitalsand doctors we may expect that the principal suf- | ferings of the battle-field will be in future | greatly reduced. PERSONAL. | | Dr. G. H. Barr of Marysville is in the City. D. E. Thompson of Salt Lake s at the Palace. M. E. Hill of Cayucos arrived here yester- day W. P. McFaul, a merchant of Ukiah, is at the Grand. J. & Dougherty of Anaconda, Mont,, is at the Palace. Thomas Lindsay of Nevada arrived here yes- terday. The Rev. W. E. Smith of Menlo Park is at the Russ. Dr. K. M. Lundberg of Ukish arrived here last night. James A. Miner of Salt Lake City is at the Occidental. I Kahn ana &ee Kohn of Leadville, Colo., are | st the Lick. Ex-Senator E. C. Hart of Sacramento arrived here yesterday. £.N. Griflith, the real estate dealer, of Fresno, is at the Grand. A. J. Pillsbury, & business man of Tulare, ar- rived here yesierday. G. Francis of the Eureka Lighting Works, Humboldt, is here on a visit. P. P. Maloney, a prominent citizen of Menlo Park, is at the Cosmopolitan. D. I. Leats and wite of Tacoms, Wash., are registered at the Cosmopolitan, W. W. Stewart of Los Angeles is in the City and is staying at the Occidental. F. J. Mason, the fruit buyer, packer and shipper of Newcastle, s at the Grand. George Mainhart, the mine owner and super- intendent of Grass Valley, Is in town. Herman Weis, postmaster at Astoris, Or., and an extensive merchant, is at the Russ. Colonel T. B, Rickey of Carson, Nev., isat the Palace. N. Clark of Roslyn, B. C., and who owns in- terests in several mining properties, is at the Grand. | J.S Dougherty, general superintendent of | the Anacounda smelter at Anaconda, Mont., is on a visit here. Arnold Wolford and wife of New York are in the City on & visit and have taken apartmen:s at the Cosmopolitan. J. M. Dounshue, general manager of the Butte, Anaconds sud Pacific Railroad, is among the arrivals at the Palace. J. E. Langford, a mining man whohas just returned from Panamint, Nev., where he has een looking over the field, is at the Russ. C. F. Montgomery of the Antioch Ledger, A. B. Lemmon of the Santa Rosa Republican and G. F. Fraucis of the Napa Register are at the Occidental. Mrs. French, wife of Captain French of the steamer Gaelic, which is expected {rom China to-duy, arrived here yesterday from London to meet the captain and is at the Occidental. Willard Teller, the widely known lawyer of Denver, who arrived here nearly two weeks ago, accompanied by Mre, Teller, and who has since been seeing suburban places, bhas returned here and is at the Oceidental. Judge Carroll Cook will leave for Fresno to- day to preside at the Sanders trial. During Judge Cook’s absence Judge J. R. Webb of Fresno will hold court 1n Department 13 of the court of this City and County. CALIFORN:ANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., April 10.—At the Plaza— D. B. Dorsey. J. S Griftin; Warwick—C. R. Cithemore, R Rooves; Everett—Mrs. A. T. Goldsmith; Westminster—H. 8. Liaonell; Marlborough—W. Rosenburg, A. L. Wisner; St. Denis—J. D. Mekle; Holland—H. H. Scott; Astor—Dr. J. M. Fox. Mr, and M:s. F. A. Korn- ber, Max Scherpel and Mrs. Dora Scherpel jeft the Plasa and sailea on the Ems for Genoa. AMERICAN DIPLOMATS. Alone among all the great powers of the world the United Staies has no regular diplomatic service. Its Embassadors and Ministers hold their office only for the term of the administration at Washing- tcn, to which they are indebted for their appointment, namely, four years, and then step aside to make way for others, who aré as new to the duties and to the responsi- bilities of their mission as were their pre- decessors at the time of their nomination. Just at the present moment the resigna- tions of all those who have held office abroad under President Cleveland are be- | ing placed on fileat the State Department, while President McKinley is busily en- gaged in the task of selecting their suc- cessors and, as usual, the question—which | has become a regular feature of each | change of administration—has been re- vived as to whether it would not be more advantageous for the United States to organize a diplomatic service similar to that of foreign nations and to appoint men trsived in the profession to the | cflices of Embassadors and of Ministers | instead of adhering to the present practice of nominating persons devoid of diplo- matic experience. Some fifteen years spent in the foreign service of a European power, during the course of which I have enjoyed a consid- erable amount of intercourse with the divlomatic representatives of the United States in various portions of the globe, may serve as an excuse for offering in print a personal opinion to the effect that the interests of this country abroad, far from being in any way injuriously affect- ed by the absence of trained men at the head of the American missions, are, on | the contrary, benefited thereby. And these views, I may add, are shared by most of the foreign officials, statesmen, politicians and court dignitaries with whom I have had occasion to discuss the matter, it being held that this great com- monwealth is far more appropriately and efficiently represented in the Old World by men of sufficient eminence at home to lead to their selection from among the numerous canaidates for the post by the President and Senate of their native land, rather than by a trained diplomar, who would owe the oflice to seniority and pro- motion, the mejor part of his life having necessarily been spent out of America. The distance between the latter and | Europe is so great that even the most | patriotic citizen of the United States gets | out of touch with American ideas after having lived for a few years abroad. He becomes susceptible to local influences, and losing the broad American manner of looking at things, gradually grows to view them with an eve that may be de- | scribed as European. This 13 apparent in | ihe correspondents of almost every Ameri- | can journal who goes abroad to represent his paper, and it 1s only by frequent trips home tvat even the most brilliant of them can manage to suppress the tendency to be unduly influenced by the character of | their surroundings and by the atmosphere | in which they live. It this is the case | with newspaper men, who are supposed | to consort to a great extent with the world of lettersin the country in which | they may be residing—that world popu- | larly known as the Bohemian, and in | which there is less conventionality and | more intellectual independence and bril- liancy than in any other—it naturally fol- lows that an American diplomat, who is daily and hourly brought in contact with | those foreign bureaucrats and officials to whom etiquette and conventionality are a gospel, and the concealment of thought as well as of sentiment a creed, will in- finitely sooner lose his American breadth of view, vim and freshvess of mind than the American newspaper correspondent. Now the loss of i'iese essentially Ameri- can characteristivs by a diplomatic repre- sentative of the United States 1s a dis- tinet disadvantage to his country and to his Government, since it tends to impair | his popularity and his prestige. The | thoroughly American citizen of the | United States is vastly preferred in the | Ola World to the Europeanized son or | daughter of Uncle Sam—evidence of this | peculiarity being afforded by the fast that | Western maidens bave proved far greater | social successes, not only in England, but | also on the Contineat, than their sisters | from New York, Boston and Philadel- phia, who are considered as beiug too | anglicized and presenting too little differ- | ence with the domestic feminine product to render them exceptionally interesting. It is just the absence of conventionality, the indifference to the frequently prepos- terous and nearly always depressing laws of etiquette, the perfect independence of speech and of bearing that constitute in the eyes of the Old World the principal charm of the American, be the latter man or woman—a charm characterized by an individuality and originality which are as refreshing as they are invigorating to the jaded and blase palate of the Euro- pean; but let these qualities ouce suc cumb to foreign influences and atmos- phere and disappear from view, and | straightway the American man or woman ceases to be interesting—becomes com- | monplace and loses popularity, prestige | and influence. Moreover, it is a great mistake to imag- ine that in order to achieve diplomatic v.ctories for one’s country 1t is necessary to have had previous diplomatic training. Indeed, England, France, Germany, Rus. sia and Italy, who have all five of them | splendidly organized diplomatic services, frequently go outside the ranks of the lat- ter in order to find suitable men for the posts of envoy. Frauce, for instance, has for the past fifty yearsregarded St. Peters- burg as, diplomatically speaking, the most important capital in Europe, as a court where it was of more vital im- portance to be efficiently represented than | at any other. Yet, for more than three decades, indeed, until the appointment of Monsieur de Laboulaye, predecessor of the present envoy, Count Montebello, the French Embassadors accredited to the Czar were invariably men devoid of any previous diplomatic experience or train- ing, among the best known having been the late Duc da Morny and the Generals Fleury, Le Flo, Appert and Chanzy. Rus- sia, on the other hand, has been repre- sented at Berlin by General Count Paul Shoulavoff, and in London by General | Count Peter Shoulavoff, both soldiers by profession, who had until the time of their appointment as Embassaaors been as- signed to the performance of purely mili- tary duties. France’s Embassador to the Vatican is M. Poubelle, who, prior to his nomina- tion, was Civil Governor of Paris, and who had never held a diplomatic appointment before in his life, waile the republic is represented at the Court of Vienna by M. Loze, who, until the mément of present- ing his letters of credence to Emperor Francis Joseph, was at the head of the Metropolitan Police Depariment at Paris. King Humberv’s Embassador in London is a general of the name of Perrero, who bas never had any diplomatic training, while for many years the Italisn embassy on the banks of the Seine was occupied by that fine old soldier, General Menabrae, one of the bravest comrades-in-arms of | tion to detail, to precedent and to et King Victor Emmanuel. Yet another general, namely, Count Lanza, is King Humbert's Embassador at Berlin, while for many years the most popular member of the diplomatic corps at Vienna was the one-armed General Robilant, the envoy of Ttaly. Unquestionably the most brilliant of the Embassadors of Great Britain in re- cent times has been the Marquis of Duf- ferin, who at the time of his appointment to the difficult ana delicate post of St. Petersburg, where he won golden opinions, had never held a diplomatic ap- pointment in his life. Moreover, when Lord Salisbury the otherday looked about him for a comvetent man to undertake the duties of English Minister at Peking, he, to the astonishment of everybody, offered the post to the major of an infan- try regiment, who had won some little dis- tinction as the administrator of the pos- sessions of Great Britain on the Niger River on the west coast of Africa. Lord Salisbury’s choice, the wisdom of which was much questioned at the time, has been amply justified by the results which the major has achieved since he took up his residence at Peking. For Sir Claud Mac- donald (as be is now) has succeeded in opening up to the foreign commerce of the world the great West River of China, a feat which his predecessor: office had sought in vain to accomplsh for more than forty years past. Kinally there is the case of Sir Julian Pauncefote, whois recog- nized as being the most successful and in every respect satisfactory Embassador who ever represented Great Britain at ‘Washington. Yet Sir Julian is a lawyer by profession, and prior to his nomination to the American mission had never held a diplomatic appointment in his life. These instances will xuflice to show that even although the great powers of Europe have most elaborately organized diplo- matic services, they generally go outside thereo! in their selection ¢f men best qualified in their opinion to fill the most important and difficult diplomatic posts, being of the opinion tiat greater resuits are likely to be achieved by envoys who are capable of taking a broad, liberal, common-sense view of matters than by professional diplomats whose minds bave been narrowed and prejudiced by their training, and who are, in consequence thereof, inclined to accord undue atten- quette, ofter to the detriment of the inter- ests that are intrusted to their care and control. Naturally Embassadors and envoys | who have not served their apprenticeship {in the minor grades of the *line” and who have often no previous knowledge of the capital in which they are appointed to reside or acquaintance with the people among whom they are called upon to live, are occasionally guilty of infractions of local conventionality and usage, of which much is made by those minor lights of the official world abroad, who look upon the protocol as a bort of all-restraining, all-supreme providence, and any disobed- ience to its laws as akin to sacrilege. These are errors to which even the most brilliant, high-bred and polished men of the world are liable, and they are by no means confined to United States Ministers in Europe, as one might be tempted to be- lieve from the stories current about the matter, even in tne American press. Thus when General Fleury, the Fidus Ach- ates of Napoleon I1II, after several vears spent at Paris as chief of the imperial household, was nomi- nated to the post of Embassador at St Petersburg, he at the close of the first state banquet that he attended horrified one of the principal dignitaries of the Muscovite court by using his fingers in- stead of the tongs for the purpose of trans- ferring the sugar from the silver gilt sugar-bowl to his coffee-cup. With the object of teaching the gallant general a lesson the dignitary in question, to whom the sugar-bowl was handed next, took it from the hands of the servant, walked to the window, which was open, and pitched it into the courtyard, commanding the servant to bring another. The general observed this, as it was intended that he should. He said nothing; but as soon as ever he had drunk his coffee he ap- proached the window in his turn and pitched the dainty Sevres cup and saucer, as well as the gold spoon, down into the square below. **What on earth is your Excellency do- ing?” inquired the dignitary, in utter amazement. “Why," replied the general, “T thought that was the court etiquette here. Isaw you s short time ago pitching the sugar- bowl out of the window.” At this moment the Czar appeared upon | the scene, and having heard the closing words of the generai’s reply, asked smil- ingly what had taken place. His smile changed to a hearty laugh when he was made acquainted with the manner in which General Fleury had responded to he impertinence of the old court official, and from tha! time forth no further at- tempt was made to teach any lesson in good manners to the French Em bassador. The example set by General Fleury may be followed by eny man in the same posi- tion, and similarly deveid of diplomatic training. Provided an envoy has a cer- tain amount of wit and cleverness, he can always return a tit for a tat in such cases s these and turn the laugh on those who endeavor to make capital of any solecism of which he may have rendered himself guilty through ignorance of local usage. ot one of those personages whom I have mentioned above as having been | selected for the post of Embassador with- out previous diplomatic training but has been made the hero of stories similar to the one which I have related about General Fleury, and which are circulated about so many of the American envoys, But as may be seen from the results which they bave achieved ana from the fame which they have won, these little mistakes in no wise impaired the success of their mission, their popularity, their prestige or their importance. People with common sense can afford to overlook the neglect to use the sugar tongs on the part of a man who has distinguished himself on the field of battle, and who is successfully laboring to promote a Iriendly under- standing between two great nations. Ido notdeny that there may be some advantage in bringing the minor grades of the diplomatic service, such as the secretaryship of embassy and of legation under the civil service rule, and trans. forming them intoa permanent corps of cervants of the United States Government. In that way they might be able to supply to the head of the mission the knowledge of professional r. utine, and of local usage of which he is ustally ignorant. But it should thorouguly be understood that tney could at no time aspire to the rank of a full-fledged envoy, since as a result of thelr training and long residence abroad they are lacking in precisely those Ameri- can characteristics which contribute most powerlully to the success of a United States Embassador. EX-ATTACHE. Always pay & compliment whenever it is possible. You may want to borrow money Someryille Journal. “IHE CALL':” NEWS REPORT. San Francisco Post. The public will watch with interest the experiment being made by TiE CALL to bring to San Francisco a first-class morn- ing news report without the intervention of the news-gathering association. The experiment is not new. The California Associated Press demonstrated its practic cability, and we believe it is quité as prac- ticable iu the evening as in the morning field. The independent report published in THE CALL this morning isequal in valne to the Associated Press report published 1n the Examiner and Chronicle. THE CRY OF (KETE 10 THE SIX POWERS Lheard a clear volce cryins, «The sou s of men are dying When in fear to do the right they know, they palter with the wrong.” ‘Thou England of the free, Queen-Empress of the ses, How long will thou endure 1t? © Lord, how long ? How long, Ah France, degenerate daughts ©Of the days of tnat great slaighter. When the Selne rolled redly seaward for tne com- ‘mon rights of men ! Fraternity forgot, Ye are leaving us to ot 2 Like carrion In tite shambles of the sultan's isiand den! Can solfish lust for selt. Can nope of spotl and pelf, S0 dim thy datk oyes, Abstris, to the weal of fel- low-kina? Has Bosnia and its shame Qnenched ali the generous flame. And bade thee 10 the yearnings of humanity be biind? Is German power and pride To Cinsar so altied That they alone are worthy who by force of arms can win Are tne swords of Fatherland Not sacred iu the hand Of the sons who seek thelr fathers? triov’s hope & sin ? 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