Show IT V TA ANISHRD ANISHRDJ J Bogey ll Y of f European i Hostility Hostil-ity J and Interference is a Myth I ENGLAND NOW CALM Ii I i Mouths of the PanicMongers Have Been Stopped I I I NO WAR WITH FRANCE Utterance of M Dolcasse Has Restored Re-stored Quiet in Great Britain Wo Power Has the Slightest Intention of Engaging in Hostilities with John Bull at Present and None are I Anxious to Intervene in Behalf of the Boers Sesult the British Empire I Em-pire Breathes Prcor Pacific Condition tion which European Affairs Assume I As-sume is Far More Likely to be Disturbed Dis-turbed by Trouble in the Balkans than by tho South African War or Anything in which Great Britain Is Chiefly Concerned London March Copyrighted 1900 by the Associated PressTho mouths of the panicmongers have been stopped and by a Frenchman I Is a curious commentary upon a certain cer-tain side of the British character which has lately been much In evidence Several Sev-eral papers of fair standing have seriously se-riously been putting forward tho probability I prob-ability of war with France and their 1 sensations have been gulped down eagerly by a small section of the British Brit-ish public though wellInformed people peo-ple are only amused France however J was not the only nation which It was asserted meditated an Immediate invasion In-vasion of England Russia Germany and Austria according to the manufacturers I manu-facturers of panics had designs to take advantage of Great Britains troubles I in South Africa I IT HAS VANISHED I With the cries for home defense In the ascendant Great Britain might have duplicated the scenes when the I island awaited the prospected Invasion of Napoleon But lI Delcassc the French Foreign Minister spoke and the bogey of European hostility and interference inter-ference vanished The hand of the Frdnchman restored calm i to Great Frtnchmun I Britain Without the bias of friendship he disclosed the common sense with I which France and the other European powers were governing their relations toward Great Britain and what had frequently been set forth in these dispatches dis-patches I e that no power had the slightest intention of going to war with I Great Britain a present and no power j was anxious to Intervene in behalf of the Boers BALKAN TROUBLE The pacific condition which European matters assume Is far more likely to be disturbed by trouble in the Balkans than by the South African war or anything any-thing In which Great Britain is chiefly concerned though even the Balkan difficulty dif-ficulty Is most unlikely to result In a I continental war This latest trouble consists In tho apparent ap-parent determination of Prince Ferdi nand to declare himself King of Bulgaria Bul-garia and renounce Turkeys suzerainty suzerain-ty He would scarcely contemplate this without the backing of Russia whence come Prince Ferdinands Generals guns and this week his national tyitn As the Spectator points out for the Sultan to refuse absolutely the request of Prince Ferdinand supported by Russia Rus-sia and not negatived by the triple alliance al-liance would be a very serious event Indeed and It may occur sooner than we who are all looking southward instead In-stead of eastward aro ready to suppose sup-pose However there Is no reason to suppose sup-pose it will not blow over as did the friction between Gr at Britain and Germany over the seizure of the lat tars ships In South African waters To what extent that friction went was only know this week when a blue book giving the correspondence of tho Governments Gov-ernments concerned was published The tart demands of the German Kmr7asa dor and Lord Salisburys astonished comments at being thus addressed by a nation when Mr Chamberlain but n few wcekH previous had lovingly Included In-cluded In the socalled New Drcl bund came an a revelation MIGHT HAVE CAUSED STORM Had not the matter been completely settled thanks to Lord Salisburys glv lug way and had not Great Britain been so completely engrossed by the progress of her arms In South Africa it would have rained n storm of indignation indig-nation against Germany fifty times greater than did Emperor Williams celebrated cable message to President ICrugcr after tho Jameson raid The correspondence itself shows no evidences I evi-dences of reconciliation but it la learned that thin has boon effected and also that rather curious circumstances I tootled the negotiations Whenever the German Kmbassador saw Lord I Salisbury butter would not melt In lila mouth and his words were hon eyed yet when Count von Buelow the German Minister of Foreign Affairs I I spoke publicly he was antiBritish and I when the dispatches which would In the nature of thing be published won I f wjjttefl by the German side they were wTlen formulate In the same strain to quote M British Foreign office official Germany flaunted us In the face of I the world and curried favor privately i Kipling has been quite th disappoint Jlplng meat of the w e tk his The Sin of Witchcraft creating little interest and It is severely criticised all around for its lack of common sense The will of ISOAC Gordon the notorious noto-rious moneylender who died recently rcus < recnty cannot < be found and It Is being advertised adver-tised for It appears this wellknown namo In the English courts though Gordon himself rarely appeared was I borne by n man of only 35 who is credited cred-ited with leaving S500000 On his body was found 0000 and In his olllco S1350CO In cash This accumulation was due to the fact that the banks finally 1 j would not have anything to do with i his accounts SCATHING OBITUARY I This scathing obituary appears In M A P mainly about people A tall wellbuilt erect ruthless daring bird of prey he seemed to spend on his business busi-ness of extortion all the position which an ordinary human being would divide between home pleasure and other Interests In-terests of life During the Inst month Durlub tlO he suffered agony from a disease of the jaw and when his voice was reduced to a hideous croak he kept on working work-ing feverishly at his devils Job of breaking up homes and hearts The eight months which Gordon spent In jail when starting in on his usurious career ruined his health and embittered embit-tered his life Among his victims he numbered clergymen widows orphans I I and spendthrifts of all classes Th England Eng-land and he frankly said In court that neither the tears of the widow nor of the orphan would have the slightest effect on him In pressing a claim Though his interest generally exceeded the principal and through agents or directly he rendered homeless hundreds hun-dreds of people he never charged interest in-terest to his coreligionists Jews and once he took a fancy to a sixyearold boy to the extent of sending him candlesregularly Few dead men hav i ever received the merciless obituaries that appear everywhere on the death of this millionaire miIonaire RUSSIA AMERICAN TRADE IN Nosslloff tho wellknown Siberian contributes to the Novoe Vrcmyla of St Petersburg a bitter complaint against the Inroads American trade Is making into Siberia These things he declares arc not articles of luxury but arc just what arc most urgently needed by the local population Coming through Vladivostock they put on the market In huge quantities and are sold in such a manner that we are led to conclude that the United States has set out upon an industrial and commercial com-mercial conquest of Siberia As hitherto 1 hither-to Siberia has been lacking In men of capital in rails and In Iron works tho enterprising American will have everything every-thing ready to their hands and in or d > r at no distant date to become the real masters of the altautlon and purveyors pur-veyors of the goods needed by Siberia The merchants and traders speak of petitioning for n prohibition to hoI ho-i placed on American Imports but while I jLho discussion continues the Americans I Ameri-cans will secure the market and It Is also quite possible that even China where Russia Is constructing a railroad road will fall Into the hands of tho Americans befxrc the railroad Is completed com-pleted and before Russia Is In f position posi-tion to profit by the riches of China Shall we who as the owners of the Shnl we East have undertaken to Introduce culture cul-ture and civilization now actually handover I hand-over Siberia to foreign capital and enterprise en-terprise and make It forever vassal and black slave of foreigners Incl dentallyNossiloff treats British competition com-petition as bellS of no Importance |