The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-22

nized and illustrated all this. 1t was as
narrow ana strictly partisan harangue as
any orange lodge ever listened to. Under
neath Its speclous arraignment of the
Papacy, however. there seemed to lurk
sort OF hint that personal arrangement
with the Pope isn't wholly impossible.
There are rumors, indeed, that negotia-
tlons between Crispi and Cardinal Calm
berti, who represents the liberal wing of
the sacred college, have already taken
dennlte shape, but what they involve re-
mains purely speculative guesswork.
Two extremely significant Irish Incl
dents claim notice to-day. William O'Brien
has long letter in the Times praising the
work of Arthur Balfour's congested dis
trlcts board, and Gerald Balfour was re-
celved IN the chief town of John Dillon's
constituency with bonfire and popular
acclamations by the way.
Among the passengers on the Teutonic
Is William Murphy, the defeated indie
pendent candidate of South Kerry, who is
visiting America on electric locomotion
matters. He is the largest railway con-
tractor of Ireland, and one OF Dublin's
chief business men as we'll. 1t would not
be bad idea for the Irish Americans who
take such keen interest in Irish party har-
mony to see him and learn what sort OF
men the bosses of the party are interested
in keeping out in order to maintain their
majority of salaried nobodies and their
grip on the party funds.
Ever since Hamburg had her terrible
cholera visitation and it was discovered
that even these islands escaped the con.
tagion, the British public has fatty de-
clined to be interested in bulletins about
the plague on the Continent. The lapse
OF curiosity this year may be said to be
complete. Dispatches have come from
Russia, chronicling thousands of deaths in
the Western provinces, and the Lon0on
papers did not even print them. 1t is
briefly announced now that the cholera is
established in Constantjnople, but all its
intermediate strides, in its advance south
ward, through the Austrian empire,
though chronicled abroad, are never men
toned here. Reports indicate the proper
ton OF deaths to cases to be much larger
in Volhynia this year than it has been
known anywhere before or since the open
ing year of 1894, but Volhynia is a long
way off and nobody cares.
an early winter, for there was slight frost
reported from numerous places in England
last night, and there are signs of autumn
prematurely advanced all over the Con-
tinent, so, probably, the disease will soon
disappear. Unfortunately, however, it
reyiyes now every spring, and seems to
have become a permanent fixture in Eu-
rope.
There are curious stories current among
people IN touch with high politics about
the King of the Belgians. He is said to
have lost all his personal fortune in the
Congo venture, and now since the oppo-
sition in Belgium to that country's taking
the burden off his shoulders, has practi-
cally won the day, he is at his wits end to
know what to 90. He was over here in
cognito last month and saw number of
the principal Ministers with the view of
interesting them in the project of
securing the Congo State for the British
empire, but l am informed with lack of
success.
He is now in Paris and is reported to
have an appointment with the President
for to-day. His purpose is believed to be
to remind France that she always claimed
10 ask her now what price she is prepared
to pay for it. Objections rise to dealing
with him as a sovereign. 1t is said that
he IS even willing to abdicate the Belgian
crown and enter into negotiations merely
as the private proprietor of the Congo
territory. On the other hand England and
Germany are understood to be agreed in
resisting any such bargain, and they are
both certainly magnifying the importance
of the Stokes incident in a way which
suggests a desire for a pretext to intervene
in Congo affairs whenever such action
seems needful. President Faure had con-
siderable trading interests in the Congo,
and in that way became an intimate friend
of Leopold long before any one dreamed
of seeing him installed in the Elysee.
The death of the Princess of Battenberg
recalls temporary attention to one OF the
most romantic family histories of modern
times. 1t is said now that she was of
Polish noble descent, but her father
Count Haucke, was the first who ever bore
the title. His father was schoolteacher
in Warsaw, of Jewish birth, who, being
man of great cleverness and personal at
fractions, got for pupils the pick of the
daughters of the Polish nobility and every
Princess from the German courts. He
married the beautiful Alsatian governess
of one of the Hessian families, and this
clever couple, through the interest of their
influential girl pupils, secured for three
sons fat places at the Russian court or
army and important marriages. Now two of
their descendants are husbands respectively
of daughter and a granddaughter of the
Queen OF England and a third occupied a
European throne and came within an ace
OF marrying a sister of the German EN-
peror before he died. HAROLD FREDERIC.
TO UPHOLD HIS POLICY.
Editor Jones of the Post DisDatch Sc