The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 26, 1897, Page 6

THE SA FRANCIS 30 CALL, SUNDAY, Call éEPTEMBEl; 26, 1807 SUNDAY JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Propri ctor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE . .710 Market street, San Francisea Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS veess D17 Clay street fain 1574. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) is served by carriers in this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents & week. By mail $6 per year; per month 63 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL. ..One year, by mail, $1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE. 908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE. ..... Rooms 31 and 32, 34 Park Row. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay; open until 9:30 o’clock. 339 Haves sireet; open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o’clock. SW. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open until § o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open until 9 o’clock Misston street; open until 9 ’cloek. 1505 Polk strest; open uii 30 o’clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky sireets; op till 9 v'clock. " CHARITY’S BRASSY BAND. S DISKAELI spoke of “‘an organized hypocrisy” his pro- phetic eye must have been looking forward to a time when a yellow journal would go into the baseball business for charity, collect turkeys for charity and blow its horn for charity; with the usual rake-off, of course. To rebuke the swollen pride of the Eraminer is not a pleas- ing task. To call that paper’s attention to the fact that 1t is a false pretense, that its banevolence is a sham, its blare of brass only a method that draws attention to the mockery of its claims, 1ts alms an insult, and that everybody knows it, is a matter of duty one approaches with pain, especially when knowing the hope of making reforms to be baseless. With immodesty still unabated, with an absence of shame that in any other concern would seem appalling. the yellow in- stitution speaks of “ihe $1000 presented to the Ezaminer by the baseball tournament.”” O, unapproachable generosity! O great heart beating for humanity! The Ezamineris the base- ball tournament. Mr. Hearst’s merrymen and brothers reach into their pockets, find there money collected for charity, and turn a portion of it over to the very use for which, with many a protestation of goodness, it was gathered from the people. Why not turn it all over? Why, with ample funds remaining, beg for turkey and harangue the populace for contributions of ham ? The public during the whole baseball season has been touched. It gives the $1000. The credit for the gift goes to Hearst and to a den of Hearstlings. Time was when weil-conducted plays of this kind had the power to delude. The turkey is in some respects a noble bird. Never belore has he been dragged from his perch to advertise a fraudulent exhibition of charity. Never until now was the fat of him employed to basie a set of professionaily benign people cooking in the fervent heat of their own esteem. The turkey has fallen. He has become a piece of ‘‘pronert on the stage of a show that does not live up to the bills. It would be well for peoole having turkeys to give away to the mendicant FEzaminer crowd to present them witn feathers still on. The b 'ggars could utilize the feathers in dedecking themselves and take joy in the speciacie. Naturally the Ezaminer pines for turkey, anyhow. Has not the only known sentiment of that fowl always been ‘*‘zobble, gobble, gobble”? And if the sentiment of the paper has sometimes been interpreted to be *‘gabble, gabble, gabble,” with untiring zeal, it has striven to live up to the utterance of the bird of its choice, and it is striving stiil. ¥ The police official who connived at a litile lynch law prac- tice in Mexico has killed himself in jail, using, so cispatches relate, a revolver. The praciice of permitting a prisoner to carry arms has generally met with disfavor in this country, and it is surprising that Mexico should tolerate it, the impulse of a man in jail being more often homicidal than suicidal. The possibility intrudes itself that perhaps Judge Lynch has been getting in a little more wor Warin the Central American republics, or whatever thev sre, 13 much after the style of a “‘continuousperformance’’ show. Nicaragua has no sooner retired from the stage than little Costa Rica emits a few wild whoops and dancesinto place with a tin sword. These exhibitions seem to please the people, and being more refined than bull-fights, are not particularly ob- jectionable. It was a pleasant surprise to Federal officers here when a man for whom they had been lookinz for two vears with a war- rant walked in and surrendered. He has been in the city all tbe time engaged in business, yet they could not find him. The conclusion is inevitable that he does not advertise. There is soon to be held at Columbus, Ohio, a convention of Mayors. May we suggest that Mr. Britt betake himself ana his distinguished title thither? It wiil afford him 2nd it a chance to shine, such as cruel circumstances do not permit at home. Everybody will bope that the efforts to save Captain Jenks from the penalty of starving a lotof horses will be crowned with distinguished ana merited failure. Rev. C. 0. Brown’s conscience can’t rest, but it ought to give the innocent world a chance for repose. THE GREAT GAME IN EUROPE, O MUCH stress has been placed upon the recent inter- change of visits among the monarchs of Europe that to most people it will be a surprise to learn that Prince Bis- n.arck, in a late interview, has characterized these siately functions as “the decorative element in politics.” It is aiffi- cult to believe that all these august ceremonies have been oniy *fuss and feathers,” instead of high imperial acts fixing the destinies of nations, but it may be so. Prmce Bismarck, of course, knows what he was talking about. He has in his time arranged a good many imperial visits himself and well understands all the complex mechanism involved in such functions; is familiar with the mode of fashioning an imperial speech and is aware just how much such a speech is worth. When, therefore, he says ail these things are mere decorations his words are not to be carelessly dismissed as of no value. It is possibie the world has been deceived alter all and that the real alliances of Europe are quite different from what they have been msde to appear by the imperial spectacular performances. At the time when Bismarck was in power a series of im- pressive visits were made to one another by the Emperor of Germany, the Emperor of Austria and the King of Italy, and the world dazzled by the splendor of the great ceremonies sc- cepted with unbounded confidence the pledges of alliance so frankly expres-ed in the imperial speeches. Itis now known, however, that at that very time Germany had arranged a secret treaty wita Russia and was prepared to abandon the Dreibund the moment it became bher interest to do so. In that case the real power in Europs was reposed in an agreement between two crowned heads who did not visit one another and made no decorative display. It is possible that something of the same sort may be going on now. Diplomacy as practiced by masters of the art is a great game, and it is never played with the cards on the table. In fact, when the time comes to make a show down it is nearly always found that some man at the game had cards up his sleeve. Revival of the old siory that Cuba may purchase peace will not meke anybody beiieve it. Cuba hesnot been fighting two years for the privilege of buying anytning. Sir Roger Tichborne has turned up once more, arousing a fervent hope that bie will be turned down again before getting extensively into the pape: People of the San Joaquin have a clear duty to perform. There is nd evading the call upon them to send missionaries to Boston. OF TRADE. CRIMES IN RESTRAINT OW that prosperity has dawned upon the nation and N business of all kinds is reviving, we shall not probably hear much more about trusts, pools, monopolies and other things with which the politicians and demagogues con- jure during political campaigns. Prosperity has a pleasing way of distracting the minds of the people from the various schemes for the reform of the government with which the politicians are constantly pestering them. In other words, when the people are making money they have no time to listen to ‘the plaintive “appeals’” of the office-seeking classes for a chance at the treasury. Nevertheless, before the calamity era passes into history it is well to notice one phase of it which has given the courts a great deal of trouble during the past four or five years. We refer to the demand of political agitators for the passage of laws making pools, trusts and other agreements in restraint of trade criminal in their nature. This kind of legislation forms an entirely new chapter in the criminal codes of the American republic. The theory upon which it is founded is that the agreements referred to would in some way prevent the evils of which the mercantile and laboring classes have complained. Entire sight of the causes of commercial depréssion seems to have been lost by the promoters of these enactments. The people through their legislators have looked only upon the surface of things. They have made no attempt to reach cor- rect conclusions. They have, in fact, struck right and left at the results rather than the causes of hard times. A lawyer named W. L. Royal has recently issued a pamphlet upon this subject, in which he reviews a celebrated case that was recently argued before the English courts. It involved the doctrine which underlies all the legislation to which we have referred. It was not a criminal proceeding, but an action to annul a contract in restraint of trade. It arose over the steamship traffic between China and England. One of the lines organized a pool by which another line was shut out of a portion of the trade, and the line discriminated against applied to the English courts for protection, on the ground that the combination, being in restraint of trade, was illegal. All the English Judges before whom the case came in the various stages of its progress upheld the contract, not on the ground that it was legal but on the ground that the courts had no power to interfere with it. Lord Morris, who wrote the opinion of the High Court of Justice, said that “it was not illegal for a trader to aim at driving a competitor out of busi- ness, provided the motive be his own gain by appropriation of the trade.” 2 Viewing the decision from the American standpoint, Mr. Royal declares that the system which has resulted from the criminal nature of the remedies provided by law for the same | evils in this country practically submits all agreements alleged to bein restraint of trade to the arbitrary discretion of the Judges of courts of equity rather than to the laws of compe- tition. In Mr. Roval’s judgment this in the end will result, not in the amelioration of the evils complained of butin a legislative and judicial despotism. As it is unlikely that either the courts or American legisla- tors will relinquish the theory upon which they are attempting to restrain pools, trusts and monopolies, it is not clear but Mr. De=bs’ idea of a change of system is a correct one. Debs wants the Government to take charge of all business of every kind and work it on state account. This would provide nearly every one with an office and give labor what it wants—a fair day’s pay for a fair day’s work. How the tax-paying classes would get along would be another problem. Presumably their only remedy would be to sell their holdings, go in with the Social Democracy and get an office. A NEW LINE OF BATTLE, EMOCRATIC leaders in the contests now being waged in Oh1o, Iowa and New York bave evidently decided to abandon the position taken by the pariy at Chicago and are seeking a new line of action. Free silver, like free trade, is to be dismissed from the party pla‘form, and until something turns up which will serve as a national battle cry Democracy will confine itself to local 1ssues. It is suggestive of what the new issue is likely to be that both in Obio and in Towathe Democratic leaders are has ranguing the peopls on what they call “the rights of labor,”’ “government by injunction” and the ‘‘common people.” Under these fzir-sounding phrases the desperate politicians of the fallen party are making another effort to array labor against capital, lawlessness against the courts and one class of citizens against ahother. All the signs of the time point to the conclusion that the party which once ciaimed to be the representative of the cor- servatlive element of the people bas cut lcose from its old moor- ings and launched forth upon as wild a sea of political and social disturbance as ever enticed fools to their ruin, There is apparently no limit to the follies the so-called party of Jeffer- son aud of Jackson is likely to commit under its new Jeaders. In abandoning the battle for free silver and free tradeitis about to commit itself to a campaign for the spoliation of capi- 1al, t he overthrow of the courts and the establishmentin this country of class divisions in society antagonistic to one another in interest and in sentiment. There is hardly any creed of radicalism tco wild fora con_ siderable element of Democracy to adopt at this time. Any. thing that promises & vote will be advocated. To caich the favor of the miners in Obio the courts are denounced for issuing injunctions to restrain the strikers from acts of violence, and to catch the favor of the rabble in New York they are denounced for upholding the Raines liquor law. In fact, Democracy seems to have decided to put itself into opposition to the law and the | courts, and to aim at the ruin of the republic it cannot rule. Under ordinary circumstances a party adopling such tactics in the United States would not be dangerous, Our pecple are too prosperous, property is too cqually divided and the social relations of the people are too free from class differences to per- mit of any real antagonism of the many against the few; while the ingraineZ reversnce for law so characteristic of Americans would prevert them in normal times from giving aid to any movement directly subversive of law. At this particular junc- ture, however, there are so many economic errors taught among the people, so many 1ll-founded iaeas of possible good to be obtained from the overthrow of the existing system of society, that many men of honest impulses are led to vote with the demagogues and give strenyth to their folly, 1t is this unsettled condition of the popular mind on the economic issues of the day that renders the new departure of 2mocracy dangerons to the couatry. It is, therefore, not to e wondered at that conservative Democrats who left the party in the last election should refuse to return to it now, The last vhase of Domocnci is, in fact, worse than any of its former ones in recent years, and hardly less pernicicus than that in which it maintained of old the doctrines of secession and slay, ery and did 1ts best to disrupt the Union. At last a Enmpnn duel involving actual hardship to a participant has been fought. The Austrian Premier having been calied a blackguard proceeded toshow how well founded was the charge by challeng'ng his accuser, concerning whose blackguardism no question has arisen. The Premier will lose an arm. The other fellow had nothing to lose, and upon the wound of honor there has been jlaced the salve of healing. The ducl is a great institution. sl A e, The duty of appointing somebody to succeed Justice Field has been ably periormed by almost everybody but the Presi- dent. Such a wealth of successors has rarely been seen, and the uniform distinction of each is that he doesn’t succeed. ——eg Lieutenant Pearv's cobject in invading the Arctic is not altogether clear. He does not even give rise 10 a necessity for relief parties, the end and aim of most polar expeditions, Bryan is to join a fishing party members of which are bound by oath not to talk politics. Perhapd he is to undergo this ex- perience as a sort of penance for talking already done. THE INTERVIEW IN LITERATURE. FRENCH writer ¢t note, M. Adolphe Brisson, in his A preface to a recent volume devoted to relating impressions of celebrities gained from short scquaintance, makes an attempt to analyze and explain what we know as and call the “Interview.’’ M. Brisson cluims the interview as alegitimate literary form, and he thinks it should be recognized by writers accomplished. With a view te promoting its recognition he gives in detail the qualifications of what he considers a compe- tent interviewer. He says a person who is ambitious of achiev- ing distinction in interviewing must possess a fair iund of gen- eral information and knowledge and have “a certain delicacy which will suggest to him how far he may fairly go in his reve- lations and what limits are imposed upon his discretion.” M. Brisson acknowledges the American origin of the inter- view, but the formulation of these rules shows that he has no idea whatever of the way in which it has been developed in this country. When we assert that the possession of a fund of general information is an actual impediment to interviewing as carried on in America we cast no reflection upon the newspaper profession. Nor does it asperse that fraternity to add that “delicacy” and “discretion” are always in the way of what M. | Brisson calls the “born interviewer.” | A man gifted with the power of expressing his thonghts in words needs oaly itwo qualities to make him a grand success in this department of literary effort. He must possess a vivid imagination and have what is common to most journalists—the vower to remember and record what is said in his presenc:. The value of the latter quality is apparent and needs no expla- nation. The importance of the former is found in the fact that in order to make his work impressive the interviewer must throw in many side observations tending to illustrate and ex- plain the *'views” of his subject. When the interviewer smiles it must mean something. When he looks disconcerted at a pertinent question the fact should be noted and the reader in- formed as to the probable tenor of his thoughts. If an alleged criminal is being interviewed the interviewer must discover in | the expression of his eyes, the twitching of his lips, his uneasy | manner and his shifung glance unmistakable signs ot his guiit. | If a politician or a statesman is upon the rack these same : things must be made to disclose the nature of his schemes and jobs. Inaword, the interview is not a literary production un- ! less it is largely imaginative. | Notwitnstanding M. Brisson thinks the interview arose out of the American desire to.pry into the private affairs of people and that it will die unless quickly established in literature, we are of the opinion that the invention has come to stay. The i most effective method of ascertaining the truth ever discovered 1s that employed by the lawyers and known as cross-examina- tion. Theinterview is simply an adaptation of this invention. When an interviewer moves on the works of a notable person from whom he desires to extract information he merely cross- examines him. No especial acuteness is required in this work, | for it consists entirely in asking questions. Even children can | ask questions, and that method of pestering people isalways the resort of fools. £ But it is not every person who possesses the imagination necessary to make him an effective interviewer. So we are of the opinion that if the interview ever obtains a place in litera- ture it will not be because those who produce it possess a | “*general fund of information” nor because they know what to | write up and what to suppress, but because tney will be able to | interpret smiles, winks, facial contortions and other physical phenomena and place upon them constructions which will pro- duce mental conviction. M. Brisson's observations of the interview are plainly the resull of a study of it in France. If he desires to reach a just conclusion as to its progress toward an acknowledged literary form he should come over here and analyze it upon its native soil. THE PASSING OF BATTLE-FLAGS. RIT1SH troops, it is said, will no longer carry flags or col- ors of any kind in battle. The military authorities have | decided they do more harm than goo! duringan engage- ment, and have forbidden iheir use on the field. Thus the proud panner which Campbell described as ‘‘The flag that braved a thousand years, the battle and the breeze,” will brave the bettle no more, and hereaiter will float over the armies of | the empire ouly when they are parading in the piping times of peace. According to recent reports from Washington much inter- | est has been manifested by our own army officers in this action of the Britisb. Many of them are said to be confident the ex- ampvle wiil be followed by the military authorities of other na- tions, and that in the next great war there will be no fligs way- ing on either side, and therefore no repetition of those efforts of heroism in defense of the standard which in iormer wars have given rise tosome of the most thrilling and daring deeds of patriotic valor. i In times past the flag served an important purpose in the equipment of an army. It was something more than a symbol that roused the ardor of the soldier and inspired him with a | more formidable courage. It was the mark of the foreiront of the pattle—the point to which the soldier rallied when in the course of the contest the lines were broken and the ranks in danger of falling into confusion. Without tbe aid given by the | conspicuous gleams of its brilliant colerssoldiersengaged in the | close struggles of old-time battles could hardly have acted in complete co-operation, and the flag became sacred to thearmy because the a‘tainment of victory largely depended on it. The conditions of modern battles are very different from thos& of the past. The combatants are no longer close to one another and it is no longer desirable that the soldiers should be massed in compact phalanxes, The tlag ceasing to be of use, has become a danger. 1t affords a conspicuous mark by which the artillerists of the enemy can determine where the | 1ine of battle is, and therefore draws a fire that might otherwise have been escaped. Itisfor these reasons military authorities object to its place on the battle-fiela. Patriotic sentiment, of | course, is still associated with the flag, but we cannot make a | sacrifice of l1fe for the sake of sentiment, The cessation of the use of banners during an engagement does not imply their total abandonment by nations or their armies. It is not likely that these symbols oi sovereignty and of patriotism will ever lose their holds upcn the minds of men, ‘We cannot imagine our America without Oid Glory, and its stars and stripes will float over us as long as we are a nation. Nevertheless, we are not likely to hear in any future war the cry, “Bring the line up to the colors.”” The line will doits own fignting, and the colors will be brought forth only in celebra- tion of the victory. g There is no doubt but the Providence man who stole a gilded lump of coal, thinking he had a Kiondike nugget, got something of more real value than will fall to the lot of many now toiling along the Klondike trail. For France or any other European power to speak of Ameri- can ‘‘aggression” s a degree of nerve past all understanding. It was not America that invaded and despoiled Madagascar, anyhow. e For shooting a scorcher a British Columbia Indian has been sentenced to ten years in jail. Such severity scemed necessary, for the scorcher got away after all with only a temporary punc ture. —_— There is no need of getting alarmed hecause Mr. Roosevelt shows a tendency to larrup Spain, for if Spain hears of it she will simpiy keep out of the way, and peace can’t help reigning. RSP . If the man arrested at Gila Bend, Ariz, for an unusually atrocious mourder be found grilty he may go down in local history as the only genuine Gila monster. President McKinley’s remnark as to cordial relations exist- ing between the United States and Spain is the only appreciabie token that there are such refations. Unless indications are misleading Professor Holden is about toreceive such a blow as will enable him to see stars without ibe 2id of the Lick telescope. Convict Marshal walked out of San Quentin so readily that his forbearance in remaining there so long is almost to be admired. : SEPTEMBER 26, e e A R A e ey | as an invention through which some of their best work may be | 1 | accustomed (o get the lion’s share of everything that was to be had in 1897. Recently 8 mummy was found at Memphis, Egypt, and fom the rolls of the *Book of the Dead” entombed with the budr was learned its name and bistory. The embalming historian was the subjec.’s own father, and he had faithtuily recorded, to be read thifty centuries after, that his son was a spendinirift and had squandered his wealth and time in_aissipation. The sorrowing father then bundied bim away in asphaltum and in tears to be “justified 1n Osirls.” And so you went the pace—the same old story, Tho’ new, perhaps, three thousand years agone When you made Memphis howl and painted gory Streaks upon Thebes’ hundred gates of stone, Till angry Apis bellowed from his stable And every granite pile became a Babel. There’s nothing new beneath the sun, for even Our choicest, fairest frailties all were caught, Perfected, and then practiced twenty-seven Dead centuries B. C. On second thought, Perhaps we only sin reincarnations Of your own wild archaic profligations. However, let that rest. Now tell us, mummy, * How ran your life by sacred Sihor’s stream, Before they left you, spicy, dusty, gummy, To lie throuzh thirty hundred years of dream— Laid you away in asphalt and in sadness To sleep with your accumulated badness. And did you raise the crouching sphinxes, yelling When day was purpling o’er the Indian S=a, And set the morning sonz of Memnon swelling Across the Lybian wastes? Did you set free The prehistoric Memphean tonguss a-talking And all the hawk-head gods of Egypt squawking? You died and found Amenti far too early For Cleopatra’s razzling-dazzling day ; O, could you but have met her in her pearly, Wine-sodden, Casar-fascinating way, And helpad that queen of regal dissipators Meit gems in vinegar and poison waiters ! And yet they thrust upon you much preferment— Put royal beedles on your coffin-lid ; To hold you in your place of dark interment Upon you piled a massy pyramid. i Then wrote your tale in durable papyrus i Aud left you * justified in dread Osiris.” TOM GREGORY. San Francisco, September 25, 1897. WILL THE TURKS BE EXPELLED FROM EUROPE ? ing of a partition of the Levant, that is European Turkey, as an affair contemplated to take place in the near future. The Lon- don papers, which, as usual, pretend to know everything and draw on their imagination for what they do not know, now treat us to the amuzing story that Russie and France are conspiring with Ger- merny and Anstria, probably with Ttaly also, 1o drive the Sultan with all his Moslems from Europe and to divide the Balkan among them- selves. This contempiated division becomes a very tragic ealamity in English eyes because Great Britain has not been invited to take a part of poor Turkey for herzelf. That John Bull, who has always been RECENT reports from London have been very persistent in speak any part of the world, should be leit out in the cold when it comes to the pertition of the faticd calf of Europe cannot be tolerated under | any circumstapces, and all true Britons now unite in crying shame on the wicked Continental powers. For two centuries Russia has been trying to obtain Constamti- nople and the Bosphorus, and for just as long the other powers have prevented her from getting it. Russia’s new ally, France, might | perhaps be induced to consent to Russia’s acquisition of the Bos- phorus, if that country was in a position to assist her in regaining her two Ruenish provin but the three members of the Triple Alliance and Eugland would oppose any aggrandizement of Russia in Europe to the utmost. The integrity of Turkey in its present condi. | tion constitutes the besi guarantee for the preservation of the Euro- pean peace, and all the great statesmen have made it their brinoipal object to keep any other couniry from meddling with the Oriental question. And to do thisis by no means an easy matter. The iu- glorious attempt of little Greece to punish the wicked Turks yester- day may be followed to-morrow by Montenegro, Servia, Roumania or Bulgaria trying to apply the rod, and if that shouid happen it would not be so very easy 10 localize the affair. Turkey is well able to keep any or all these principalities at arm’s length, but the trouble is that these countries border notonly on Turkey but also partly or Austria and partiy on Russia, which could not heip being drawn into the struggle, and that would invoive all the powers. Bismarck hes repeatediy declafed that he would not sacrifice the limbs of a single Pomeranian grenadier for anything that might happen on the Baikam, and-this s still the prevailing senti- ment in Germany, which country will, therefore, do all it can to preventany other power from throwing sparks into the European powder magazine, as Lord Beaconstield used to call the Balkan, It is, perhaps, not generally krown that when the Triple Alliance, or league of peace, us it was first called, was formed in 1888 Bismarck introduced a clause of the treaty, according to which no European great power, in particular neither Russin nor Eugland, shouid be allowed to obtain any advantage in the Oitoman empire. Further- more, the Friedens-Liza should attempt to improve Turkey's vitality by the introduction of European eiviifzation. The Hatt-l-Humajun proclaimed by the Sultan February 18, 1806, accorded equal rights to the Christians in all parte of Turkey, but tho *sick man’ at Constan- tinople had not the power to cnforce his own command to the satis. faction of Eurore. It was principally for this reason that the congress of Barlin had insisted on making the Balkan principalities indepondent, of turning Bosnia and Herzegovine ovor 1o Austria and the largost part of Taessaly to Greece, thoreby leaving the Snultan no jurisdiotion over any territory predominantly peopled by Ohrtstians. Several of the European powers, partioularly Germany, have Eentoampaient persons 10 Turkey to assist bn fmproving the olvii und military organizations of the cmpire, and there 1s no doubt that muoh good has been socom- plished. Persecution of Chilstians in Buropean Turkey his become a thing of the past, bt it s not & 108g age (hat (he oivilized world was horrified by the massncra of Ohistians in Avimenia (Asiatie Turkey). The cause of this masanoie has bean iivesiigaled by (he \‘umpnr; Powers, whose cuvoys, asilb o Afmenis, wiahimonsly reported that the Armeninn rlots had been 18vgels busiigatod, ov at least provoked by inflammatory speechien i the wath ol Eogilshspeaking misston’ arles, in consequence of Which the Aismentans vefised 1o coultorm to the rules of the Turkish authorities. We 450 aut 1n & position o fudge how far the report of 1hé envays 15 Laaed ol faet, bt (heve aeems to be some foundation for thelr aiatement. e ihat &s it may, the Sultan is not able to keep order 1h his Asiatie dain 1hions, bt hix powver thero wou‘xd on;y be lewaenod if ho was loeeed (6 evacinie his REuropean pos sessfons, for then he would be entirely reimayed N ATl e ¥ Yed from the nfluence of As long as & gonoral war dose nol ohange (he pres Europe out of all recognition the Aultan is n-‘w -lu\‘.pr :\.;lrn‘l'\::lo: prey 10 aay power or allinnee, ior none of the ROW exisiing great pow: erscan afford to lot another power gaih advaninges an tie Balkan, The balance of power In“Kurope eannot be (rifsd with without »ro‘- | tries. PERSONAL. Dr. F. R. Horel of ‘Arcata is at the Grand, G. H. Fancher of tha Merced band is at .the Lick. Dr. Driesbach Smith of Napa is at the Cali- fornia. Dr. €. P. Bagg, U. S. N, arrived at the Palace last night. Dr. W. H. Raymond of Portlend is at the California. J. N. Wood, a Stockton lawyer, is registered at the Grand. Rev. Warren H. London of San Rafael is at the Occidental. Fred Swanton, an electrician of Santa Cruz, is at the Grand. E. Richards of Boston, Mass., is at the Cos- mopolitan Hotel. R. Dolling of Eureka is staying at the Cos- mopolitan Hotel. Raleigh Batear, a lawyer of Vacaville, 1s a guest at the Lick. F. Havelock of Fresno 1s among the guests at the Occidental. Thomas McCloskey, an orchardist of Hollis- ter, is at the Russ. Henry Bird of Birds Landing is alate ar- rival at th: Grand. Major George C. Potter of Honolulu, is regls- tered at the Palace. J. B. Sanhders of Kansas City is registered at the Cosmopolitan. Judge E. C. Hart of Sacramento arrived at the Grand last nignt. John Manuel, & mining man of surphys, is a guest at the Graud. J. E. Poindesire, & mining man of Yuba Jounty, is at the Grand. C. A. Cook, a wholesale hsrness-maker of Watsonville, is at the Russ. Randolph H. Miner, a Los Angeles mer- chant, is at the Palace, eccompanied by his wife. J. A. Williams of Chicago, manufacturer of plows and agricultural implements, is at the Grand. Colonel Harrison Gray Otls, the Los Angeles journalist and newspaper proprietor, arrived at the Occidental yesterday. T. M. Stateler, ticket agent of the Northern Pacific Raflway Company, will leave here on October 2 for Chicago and St. Psul, to be gone three weeks. Ex-Queen Liliuokalani of Hawail, who has been at the California for several weeks past, left last night for the East, accompanied by her two body servants. Horace D. Pilisbury, the young law student who has been critically ill nd at the point of ! death for several days at the Palace, wasa little better at a late hour last mght. T. H. Duzan, freight and passenger agent at Los Angeles of the Burlington route, who has beén visiting in this city for several davs, started last night for home, accompanied by his wife and son. Among the arrivals yesterday evening at the Occidental were C. Adams and O. C. Giffany of the United States ship Monterey and J. E. Cann and T. Porter of the United States ship, Marion. Milton B. Lennon, A.B.,'97 of St. Ignatius College, son of John A. Lennon, left Thursday of this week for Washington, D. C., 10 enter Georgetown University as a post-gradusate to take the degree of A.M. Mat Healy of Susanville, Cal, & big cattle- man of Nevada, who has been ill at the Russ for a month, will soon be operated upon for appendicitis. Dr. A. Abrams will have char, of theoperation. At a late hour last m Mr. Healy was unconsctous. Albert A. Post of New York, a philologist who speaks six languages and reads thirteer arrived yesterday at the Baldwin, accom niled by his son, who is suffering from ¢ sumption. 1wenty years ago Mr. Post was pro- fessor of Greek in the University of the City o Néw York. 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