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good authority. Whether this estimate is
an exaggerated one or not, IL Is true that
since the demand was made for reforms in
Armenia, and even since the fleets OF the
powers have been gathered in the Levant,
thousands OF men, women and children have
been murdered with Turkish collision and
indifference aiding the murderers, and for
these murders the powers who profess to
have undertaken the reform Of Armenia are
in a large degree responsible. II has been
charged that II is the deliberate purpose Of
the porte to exterminate the Armenians
as an insubordinate and misunderstanding ele-
ment, whose removal would be a public
benefit, and there do not lack happenings
which seem to confirm this charge. II IT
should be true that such has been the Turk
ish purpose, the powers are In a large de-
gree responsible fer its execution, 50 far as
1t has gone.
From time to time discussions take place
in the Berlin Reichstag which serve to recall
the oft-forgotten fact that the title of en-
peror borne by William of Hohenzollern is
more honorary than real. and that his
actual rule does not extend beyond the
frontiers of the kingdom Of Prussia. The
other states of the confederation known as
the German empire are jealous of their
sovereign rights. and display extreme watch
fulness in resisting an encroachment upon
lItlT independence ny the bSTlli EONtIn-
ment. 1t is to sentiments such as these that
must be attributed the strong opposition
which has been offered during the last week
in the Federal Legislature by Bavaria,
Wurtemberg and Baden to the emperor's
project for the suppression Of their existing
codes of military law by that of Prussia,
which is of all the most drastic and severe.
The plea upon which he bases his demand
is the necessity of unanimity in such mat
tiers. But the South Germans are shrewd
enough to realize that inasmuch as every
able-bodied citizen between the ages of 20
and SO belong either to the active. the re-
serve, or the "laudstrum' branches Of the
army, and is as such considered amenable
to military justice. their abandonment of the
administration of the latter to the War de-
partment at Berlin would mean nothing less
than a surrender Of their national independ-
ence, and a submission to that very Prussian
yoke which is their principal bugbear.
."
Baron Gautsch, the Austrian minister of
public instruction, has the courage of his
convictions. In discussing the question Of the
higher education Of women before the budget
committee the other day he said that, in his
opinion. the most worthy task which could be
performed by a woman was the proper care
Of her w children. Nevertheless, he reccg-
nized that the existing provisions for the edu-
caticn of women in Austria were scarcely
adequate. No reasonable objection could be
entertained t. the plan of permitting a certain
number of approved pupils to attend the lee
lures and courses held by the philosophical
faculty at the university. Baron Gautsch
went on to say that he considered the ever
increasing desire of women to earn an indie
pendent living a danger to the economic
welfare of the community, for the reason that
the experience showed female competition,
in whatsoever walk of life, to be accompanied
by a concomitant reductions of wages. At
A. .a,.o t,r,a AZ caruo1 70 laStrnv tho idpal
Of family life and the position occupied by
the husband in his capacity Of b~readwinner.
He added that during the past decade only
twenty-five women had been matriculated in
Austria, and of that number only three had
elected to attend the courses of the medical
faculty. The conditions prevailing in the
male high schools and colleges could not,
in his opinion, be introduced advantag eously
into establishments intended solely for the
education of women. Furthermore, he ven
tured to think that, from a general point
of view, women were unsuited for college
life.
That the pontifcate of Leo XIII is now
rapidly drawing to a close is apparent from
the reports which have reached this country
during the last two weeks with regard to
his loss of strength and vitality. We are
therefore brought within measurable distance
Of another conclave, the issue of which Is
naturally a question of absorbing interest,
not alone among Catholics, but to the people
of every faith, race and cline throughout
the world. 1t is beyond the bounds of prob
ability. and even of possibility, that any one
save an Italian should be elected to the chair
of st. Peter, since the choice of a foreigner
would entail the abandonment of the Vatican
and of the Eternal City, an eventuality which
cannot be taken into serious consideration by
any one acquainted with the past history,
the traditions and the aims of the Catholic
church. 1t is equally certain that the con-
claye will be held at Rome instead Of abroad,
and that the Sacred college, in the absence OF
most of its foreign members, will elect a
prelate agreeable to the Italian government,
to the continuation of that course
which has been pursued with so much sa-
gacity by Leo XIII, and which may be said
to constitute the keynote Of Italian politics
at the Vatican as well as at the Quirinal,
namely, the slow, gradual and wellnigh i'm
perceptible development of an alliance be-
tween the papacy and the Italian monarchy
impairing thereby the spiritual allie
glance of foreign Catholics to the holy see.
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Warfare in Africa is fraught with surprises
and unexpected dangers. The humiliation of
the Italian column under Major Toselli by
%, 900 Abyssinians will recall the disaster sus-
tanned by the Italian troops at Dogali, near
.assowah, in 1885, at the beginning of their
OF conquest on the Red sea llttOral.
Other similar instances were the surprise and
destruction of the French reconnoitering col
umn under Colonel BONNER, on January IL,
1894, at TimbuctOo, and of the command of
Major Forbes, later in the same year, while
engaged in the pursuit of Lobengula, the
fugitive king of the Matabeles. But the most
disaster sustained by European arms
In the Dark continent was the humiliation of
the Twenty-fourth regiment of British in
fantry and their native auxiliarles at Asand-
lana by the Zulus. under King Cetywayo. on
January %, 1879, upon which occasion Prince
Imperial Louis Napoleon, who was serving
under the British %colors, fell pierced by half
dozen murderous assagais hurled by the at
ways with the machine gun and the repeating
rife; and in her march into savage wilds
Civilization is often hoist with her own
petard.
The Chinese tore up the first railroad from
to Tien-Tsin a quarter of a century
ago and are now going to lay down another,
his time 10 stay. A new light has dawned
them. not Of sun or star or meteor or
comet, but raging out of the bullsaye Of the
and they correctly recognize in il
he pillar of fire which is to guide them out
IF the night of their bondage and isolation.
As soon as they get used to the scream of
vehicle and welcome its advent among
as they are sure to do In no long time,
hey will find that they have embarked upon
new national career, and outside people will
ind that II is mt sn a Nv a mnrtar IN urhin