The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-06-14

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Ireland.
Americans seem to have taken Cham per-
lain's imperial Zollverein speech too seri-
ously. AS to whether he himself believes
in the scheme | would not like to hazard
guess, but it is certain that nobody else
does, either here or in the colonies, whose
assent would be necessary.
The explanation of his fervency on the
subject lies in the fact that his Transvaal
sensation has measurably petered out
and he finds it lnsufferable to lapse into
the background for even the briefest
period. Acting on Healey's advice the
front-bench Liberals have decided to
spring motion for the adjournment of
the House on the Government on Monday
in order, if possible, to commit Balfour to
a declaration of policy in Commons bust
ness before the meeting of his party.
Although the general public has tempo
rarily exhausted its interest in anarchist
outrages and does not care how many peo-
pie are blown up at Barcelona, I under
stand that the police of various European
countries have been exchanging lot OF
views on the subject during the present
week and that project has been devised
for a com bined note of the powers to
Spain, if it has not already been drafted
and delivered. The police say that the
recent series of explosions in Spain pre-
It's the peculiarly that different kind
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try to base the theory that an executive
group of international conspirators is con-
Quoting practical experiments in order to
settle which explosive is the best.
A bill is to be introduced in the Cortes
next week and forced through both
houses with dispatch so as to be in force
by the end of July, which it is hoped will
break up the nests of desperadoes lodged
in the north and east of the peninsula.
They are largely foreigners, refugees from
France, Italy and Russia, who have
taken advantage of the administrative
chaos in Spain to settle there and carry on
the dynamite business, but apparently
there is to be a serious and determined
effort at last to clear them out.
good deal of excitement was stirred
up in Germany at the beginning OF this
week by news of particularly interesting
quarrel which took place at the BANQUET
given by the German colony in Moscow to
the visiting German Princes. The prlncl-
pal figure in the incident was Prince Louis
of Bavaria. He is a man of so, who IN the
course of time Will be King of Bavaria,
and who has taken little pains to dissem-
bic the fact that he resents the way IN
which Emperor William has exaggerated
his own position and minimized that of
every other potentate in the empire,
Prince Louis seized the opportunity
given by a clumsy toast to protest IN
fierce speech that neither be nor the other
non Prussian Princes there were vassals or
courtiers hanging on the Emperor's favor.
but are independent and coequal allies OF
his.
The South German papers have taken up
Prince Louis words with wild enthusiasm,
although the other Princes at the banquet
were so frightened that they trooped after
Prince Henry of Prussia out OF the room.
1t is officially announced that Louis salts
| factorily explained the episode to the EN-
| peror and that the incident is closed, but
! the fact that it struck such a loud respon-
sive chord everywhere in Germany out
| side of Prussia is not to be forgotten.
Jules Simon gets state funeral, but IN
! the official recital of the services emitting
| him to it there is quaint omission Of
perhaps the most important post he ever
flled-that of leading member OF the GOV
eminent of National Defense In 1871. This
is avowedly ignored because mention of il
would create precedent for claiming Q
public funeral for Henri Rochefort some
| time, and against this contingency every
body now in power is anxious to PROVIDE
Simon himself had quite lost touch with
the present republic, and he was only
heard of late years because he was com
PEELED to earn his own living up to the
very last. His death will be chiefly re-
mem bered because it afforded peg for {
practical Joker to hang q bogus telegram
| from Emperor William upon. Doubtless
this cheeky but amusing canard found Its
way across the Atlantic. 1t got into most
| of the London dailies and was treated as
only little more bewildering than pre-
vious imperial illusions.
If the little group of Toronto University
! bigots could have foreseen how England
in whose name they protested TO act
would take their stupid sffront to Goldwir
Smith perhaps they would have though
- ~ Ill NOth Of lota
has done more than this to increase thu
instructive feeling of Englishmen tina
Canada is the narrowest and least hkablt
of all the colonies and the one toward
| which they are least attracted as possible
new home. 1t is perfectly understood
here that Professor Smith holds views
hat are not imperialistic, but the idea o.
allowing that fact to prevent a tribute tt
his high personal qualities and nota bic
capacity as publicist would not occur Il
anybody here.
Publishers and the managers of circu
IatiDg Libraries have been saying fo1
months back that this is the worst season
for fiction that they have ever known, bu
1t was only recently that the explanation
dawned, on them. 1t is not due to hare
times, they now say, for manifestly the
times are very good, but to the fact tha
the women are all out riding bicycles, in
stead of lounging about at home reading
novels.
The papers this morning contain the
announcement that mosquitoes have actu
ally appeard in EnglanA. A Hertfordshire
correspondent writes excltedly to war;
the pubic how to distinguish them from
other insects, which is, il seems. by the
length of their proboscis and also by theil
humming noise, and he gives tobacco
STEPPED in salt vinegar as a remedy fol
their, bites. He thinks the mosquitoes
must have been imported in some cargo Of
lumber, and he speaks as gravely about
the invasion as if lives depended on it.
Aubrey Beardsley is undoubtedly in the
last stages of consumption. He is now
confined in his cham Der, and friend who
saw him the other day describes him as in
a hopeless condition. Acting on this news
the wise are making as full collections o.
his work as possible before the market
goes up, for unless they are mistaken this
curious and unpleasant young decadent
who will die at "a, is going to take rank il
history as one of the half-dozen unique
masters of black and white.
Mrs. Patrick Campbell Magda does no
draw paying houses, and the play Is to &c
off on the Goth inst. to make way for ar
exceptionally elaborate production o
"The School for Scandal" Mrs. Camp