Arizona republican., 1897-10-20
AT THE BREAKFAST TABLE.

Al bREAhE AOl IA3LE,
 The London Daily Chronicle is re- sponsible for the statement that the sultan of Turkey is making strenu- Ous efforts to obtain the withdrawal of American missionaries from the interior of Asia Minor. The sultan maintains that the Protestant mission aries encourage the Armenians in acts of disloyalty to the state. On the other hand, the missionaries de- clare that the sultan's policy of ex- terminating the Armenians cannot be carried out as long as they are in the land. Hence the efforts of Sultan Hamid to secure their withdrawal from the country. But the London papers say that there is no hope of the sultan's anti missionary policy being endorsed by the British admin istration.
 A very touching incident occurred near Verplanck Point the other day. Johnny Quinn fell from a steamboat at the wharf where his father was loading iron. The father immediately jumped into the water to save his child, and succeeded in placing the boy on the pier, but he then fell back exhausted into the river, and was thus sacrificed for the life of his child.
 Justice Nash of the excise depart ment of New York has decided that a saloon established within 200 feet of a church or school prior to the en- actment of the Raines law has a per petual right to exist in that locality, even if there is a change of owner or temporary suspension. But as two supreme court justices have rendered decisions diametrically opposed to each other, the question will be car ried to the court of appeals as soon as possible.
 The synod of the Indiana Presby- terian churches assembled at Terra Haute held lively discussion the other day regarding the selling of liquor at the Princeton Inn, which is a favorite reseFt~ef -tke students at Princeton university. A special com mittee was appointed to consider the matter.
 The fever craze is at it's height at Mayfeld, Ky, and but for the inter vention of few level headed people a sick man might have been burned in a stable the other day. The man was taken sick when passing through the village and was eventually quar- tered in stable in the town. Be 1ieving that he had yellow fever the panic stricken people made efforts to burn both the stable and the sick man in it.
 The writing of anonymous letters especially when they are defamatory is very dangerous practice. A mer- chant in New York city whose home is in Plainield two weeks ago wen! to Springfield, Mass, with his young daughter, for the purpose of placing her in a seminary in that city. The principal produced an anonymous letter which had been mailed to hel from Plainfield which said that the young girl had been expelled from two schools for thefts After consid- erable effort the writer of the letter Mrs. Cruikshank, was discovered and in order to escape an action fol $3O,O00 damages, the woman wrote 2 complete retraction of her 1ibelous statements affecting the character c. the young school girl
 In an editorial the London Time: says: seWhen we have settled our re 1ations with the United States on tht basis of the Paris award, it may bt practicable to establish a wider agree ment for the protection of the sea life by land as we'll as by sea. Bu meanwhile much more urgent mat ter that the cabinet council will hay, to deal with is the reply to the Vol colt commission"
 A dispatch from Vienna states tha five urgency motions to impeach tn prime minister Badeni, one of whicl involves four of his colleagues, wer taken up in the reichsrath. Her Wolff, who was Count Badeni's oppon ent in his recent duel, was one 0 the movers of the motions. Tn charges al1ege violations of the con stitution, consisting mainly of inter fering with public meetings and tn issuinu of docroos on tho Ian cr11a Q