The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-22

mon who were unable to leave the town, were
put to death by tho Turkish irregulars. His
fathers head was cut off with a saw. He gave
the names OF all the victims, and l subsequently
obtained independent confirmation Of his narra-
tive from refugees in other places.
while such acts as these arc fresh in their
memories. the refugees are naturally unwilling
to return to Thessaly until the Turkish occupa.
tion comes to an end. Many have, nevertheless.
already gone back, especially to places where it
is reported that the Turkish authorities are act.
ing with justice and consideration toward tho
Christians. The outraRcs complained OF seem
to have been committed, for the most part, dur
ing the progress of tho war. A large number of
the exiles would now return but for tho difficult
ties thrown in their way by both the Greek and
Turkish authorities. On the one hand, tho
Crown Prince has issued an order forbidding
those who return to take with them their cattle
or beasts Of burden; on the other hand. the
Turks will not allow them to remain unless they
bring their families and property with them.
There can be little doubt that they would do
best in their own interest TO return at once, and
torisk any m~-treatment they may receive rather
than continue in their present miserable con-
dition.
ut is melancholy to witness the sufferinrs in
flicted on these simple. unoffending peasants by
political charlatans and shallow enthusiasts
who clamorcd for war without counting tho cost
and who have brought their country to the verge
OF ruin. A poor peasant woman with whom l
spoke at Oreo laid oil the blame of her misfor.
tunes on the King. "How can you blame the
King l said. when you all cried out for WARP
Very true" she replied" but we did not
know what war was" The remark applies not
only to the ignorant peasants but to the polit.
ical leaders whom they followed. Greece had
not engaged in a conflict since the war OF indc.
pendence. and nobody realized the true signif.
canoe OF war at the end OF the nineteenth cen.
fury. The peasants imagined n kind OF guerrilla
warfare, such as that wagcd by their fore
fathers, which would bring great glory to the
nation and no great injury to themselves. The
politicians may have known better: they were at
least aware that the treasury was empty. that
the army and navy were unprcparcd, and that
even a successful war must entail economic dig
aster."
The domestic service problem is indigenous to
no soil or form Of government. II is a burning
question apparently in all lands. The manner
OF its recent settlement, or ATTEMPTED settle
mcnt. In autocratic Russia will hardly furnish
n working example 10 America or even TO less
absolute monarchies than that of the Car. The
Governor OF st. Petersburg, according to the
Anglo Russian, has disposed OF the whole dihi-
Guilty offhand and with very little trouble.
Don't argue" he says TO both master and
servant. THE authorities exist for no other pur.
pose than TO relieve you OF such mental cNcrtion."
With this object the Governor has prepared n
little "sluzhitclsknya knizhka," that is. a ser.
wants booklet. containing regulations. which
assign practically all rights to the master and
all duties TO the servant. The 'knizhka" will
be supplied gratis to all applicants from the
Office of the Government, and no servant
can be engaged without producing this docu'
ment- Should this order be disobeycd.
the employer will he fined 30 rublcs, the SER
want 10 rubles. Servants OF either sex can he
dismissed IL they absent themselves from the
premises Of their employer during three hours.
Tho regulations make no mention OF any iustif-
| catory circumstances. Another reason for dis
missal Is the case where a servant is summoned
before a court of Justice by the police.
being charged with any criminal offence.
The regulations again say nothing about
the result OF the summons. so that II
even the accused Is declared innocent. he or
she can still be dismissed. and left in such case
without n character to seek another situation.
The employer can also dismiss servants for rude
ness toward him or members OF his family, hut
no protection is offered to servants against any
rude conduct and abuse OF the employer. On
the contrary, the regulations distinctly
give the employer the right TO use ukori.
telnye-i. e., reproachful expressions. What the
Russian police understands under the term re-
proachful " is left entirely TO the employer TO
decide. We know. for instance. how the Gov.
ernor OF Odessa. Nice-AdmiralX clcnoi. gave a
violent slap on the face to an Odessa citizen and
knocked out two of his teeth. in the way OF a
"reproach." for having opened his shop half an
hour before the legal time; the Admiral himself
ultimately receiving a decoration from the late
Gar. Alexander III, for q whole series OF
similar "reproachcs made to the inhabitants
OF Odessa during his Governorship. Even loyal
Russian papers c~riticise the head OF the policies
new domestic service regulations. and point out
that they tend TO make domestic service still
more unpopular, and will increase the number
of those unhappy women who cannot withstand
the temptations OF the easier life offered to them
by vice
Signor Edoe's feat OF memory In repeating the
whole OF Dante's "Diyina Commedia," a brief
mention OF which Icabled the other day. was even
more remarkable than was first Indicated. Tho
Rome correspondent OF the Lancet writes as fol-
lows on the subject:
THE purely Intellectual attribute We call
memory, which Is not n function, but only a re.
sultant due to the concurrence of the various
elementary functions OF the mind. Is capable of
almost inimitable DEVELOPMENT. as Max Mnllcr's
accounts OF the recitations OF the Brahmins or
Sir william Hamilton's references to the feats
OF the humRnists OF the Renaissance sufti-
GENTLY demonstrate. Both the philologist and
the metaphysician however. are at one in think
ing that the habits of the present time-above
all the desultory. particularly the ephemeral.
reading now well nigh universal-are not favor
able to such feats. Indeed. Max Muller says
that the daily perusal OF the Times for ten
years would have sufiiced to impair the strong
est memory ever Brahmin possessed. That the
faata hnReyar nj m Sro1i1ar nv Ia 7 ;,,t,,, o.o
even at the close OF the nineteenth century,
quite possible. was demonstrated the other day
at Sondrio capital OF tho Valtcllina). where the
advocate Signor Edoe, professor in the Istituto
di San Lorenzo. repeated, for u wager, in twenty
hours consecutively-from @ +. NJ. till 2 y. NJ.
Of the next day-without prompting or aid
Of any sort. the entire "Dlvina Commedia''
Of Dante. The achievement came off in
presence of a committee Of brother pro.