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THE SCRANTON TRIBUNE-TUESDAY, MAY 29, 1900.
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GON NOLLY c& WALLAGE,
SOMETHING ABOUT
SULTAN AND TURKEY
IS T.1IE GREATEST DIPLOMAT
OF HIS DAT.
This, Being Intorproted, Moans That
Ho Has Reduced Lying Down to a
Fin'D Art How He Has Held at
Bay Many of the Most Powerful
Rulisrs of Europe.
From rfte Chtcijo Tribune.
In their efforts to compel the sultan
of Turkey to pay long-overdue claims
for indemnity President McKlnloy and
Serretury Hay have entered upon a
struga'le with the past grand master
of th'i Fabtan school of diplomacy,
Abdul Ilamld II is far and away the
craftiest and most daring ruler In the
old world. His fllnesse, skill, cunning,
boldness have been constantly exer
cised in contests with the ablest
statesmen of Europe for a quarter of
a century, and, while ho has not al
ways come off victor, ho has won
mote 'requently than he has lost.
Abdul Hamld is a Turk and Mussul
mnn of the old school. Ho is flfty
cight years of age, and the innova
tions of modern civilization have left
little Impression upon him. lis rules
Turkey as his predecessors ruled It,
and his only yielded grudgingly to
the progress of the age.
Up became the ruler of the Ottoman
empire in August, 1876, at a moment
when the Servian and Bulgarian prov
inces were In the revolt which Imme
diately preceded cho Turko-Russlan
war. and when the combined powers
of Europe were exerting their utmost
pressure to compel Turkey to adopt
new policies.
HIS FIRST DANGER.
Upon his accession to the throne
Abdul Hamld was confronted by tho
immediate danger of disintegration of
his empire. At that tlmo Turkey in
Europe included Servla, Bulgaria,
Roiunanla, Montenegro, Dosnla, Her
zegovina and Thess.ily. Theso prov
inces were not only In a state of revolt,
but Russia, and Austria were known
to hao designs upon territory which
would extend their own frontiers to
the Mediterranean. The dissolution
of Turkey was freely predicted in ev
ery capital of Europe, and the rtrlfi
between the powers for possession of
the broken parts of the empire, for
tho spoil of Constantinople and the
control of the Dardanelles promised to
embroil all Europe In general war.
Abdul Hamld undoubtedly realized
that It was to'o late to save the Balkan
provinces, but he was quick to rec
ognise in the general European sit
uation the opportunity of savin his
throne and his footing in Europe and
of still maintaining Constantinople as
the seat of Mohammedan power.
For the first tlmo he played his gams
on the chess board of Europe, All the
world knows what followed. The wr
with Russia lost Servla and Roumanla
to the sultan. Bosnia and Herzegov
ina went to Austria, but Montenegro
was erected into n buffer stats that
for tho time blocked Franz Josef's
pathway at Salonica. The czar's vic
torious armies were at the gates of
Constantinople, and Tut key's position
in Europe hung only by a thread.
Then It was that Abdul Hamld
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taught Europe Its first lesson in orien
tal statecraft. By a secret treaty with
Lord Beaconsfleld the sultan ceded
to Great Britain the Island of Cypress.
In return Lord Bearnnofleld itunrin
tteu tno UrrlM.la.1 Ihi-h.lty "f AMn,
Minor and sent the British licet
through the Dardanelles.
Russia was checkmated. The czar
at ence realized that his troops march
ing into Constantinople would be
shelled by the British fleet. He wai
reluctantly compelled to give up a pro
ject long dreamed of by Russia and
to submit to the terms of the treaty
of Berlin, dictated by an European
congress demanded by Lord Beacons
field, who really acted as tho agent
of the crafty sultnn.
In June, 1878, tho powers' wars com
pelled to take steps to secure the en
forcement of the terms of tho rtreaty
of Berlin with reference to the ratifi
cation of the Montenegrin frontlor. In
this controversy the sultan lost. Ho
endeavored to save himself by chang
ing his ministry, thus giving Great
Britain almost complete ascendency
at Constantinople. He watched tho
negotiations of tho powers closely,
waiting to make tho most of any ap
parent disagreement. But in tho end
ho failed, being compelled to cede Dul
cigno to Montenegro, but not until af
ter having received two ultimatums
backed up by the alllod fleets of tho
power
HEAVILY IN DEBT.
Sultan Abdul Hamld's position in
Europe was rapidly becoming precar
ious, He owed money to every banker
in Europe. He could only pay In ter
ritory, a cash he had none. The ter
ritorial demands of Oreece wero still
unsatisfied and the Russian war In
demnity yet unpaid.
So long as the concert of the powers
existed the Ottoman empire was doom
ed. This was Abdul Hamld's situation
in 1&S0 and 1881.
The English and French rivalry for
possession In Egypt gave Abdul Hamld
the coveted opportunity for breaking
the concert of tho powers. The pow
ers had united In pressing tho demand
for tho completion of the Berlin treaty
with reference to tho territorial claims
of Greece. The Grecian government
was clamoring for a settlement and
was actively preparing for war. Glad
stone had succeeded Beaconsfleld and
was encouraging Greece. Austria was
suspected of designs in Salonica bay.
Gladstone, reversing the policy of
Beaconsfleld, eldtd with Russia,
The sultan saw in tha situation an
opportunity to dlvldt the powers. Ha
appealed to Francs, reminding the re
public of its Interests in Tripoli ani
Tunis, to which England was hostile
and Gsrmany and Austria friendly.
EncUnd and France were at one em
broiled In a quarrel over northern Af
rica, Rusila elding with England.
The powers were pitted against each
other and the European concert
broken. The sultan fortified the Dard
anelles, called the redefs to their col
ors, and made a brave show of pre
paring for war. His tactics partly suc
ceeded, for, although in the end he
was compelled to glvo in to the de
mand of Greeco, he only gave a part
of the territory originally demanded.
GLADSTONE- A MARK.
In 1666 the powers again came to
gether to consider the Bulgarian ques
tion after the revolution which finally
ended in Prince Alexander's resigna
tion. Russia and Austria; working to
gether, demanded the lestoratlon of
Prince Alexander, who was entirely, un
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Fine Muslin Skirts with dcp embroidery
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der Russian Influence. Germany and
Italy took the same position. The sul
tan nppcaled tn England, asserting
that Russia was intriguing to secure
perrmnont Tmtml f P','i;rH, from
v 1 1 . h to menace TurKuy with anotber
advance on Constantinople.
The sultan's appeal to England was
not misplaced, for Gladstono had
been succeeded by Lord Salisbury, who
regarded Russia as England's natural
foe. As a result England refused to
recognize tho treaty of Berlin as bind
ing. The European concert was brok
en, Russia was compelled to consent
to the election of Prince Ferdinand as
ruler of Bulgaria, and that province
was kept under the suzerainty of
Turkey, Russian influenco for tho time
being destroyed.
AMERICAN EXPERIENCES.
The United States' first experience
with Turkey came during President
Cleveland's administration, after the
Armenian massacres of 159J-94. Tho
United States and Great Britain both
presented demands for indemnity and
tho pressure of tho two governments
became acuto. Tho sultan adopted tha
ruse of calling upon a conference of the
powers to adjust tho claims, knowing
that tho policy of tho United States
precluded tho participation of this gov
ernment. Tho result Justified tho sultan's
statecraft. The powers Joined in ap
pointing a commission of Inquiry, to
which President Cleveland, following
traditional American policy, held aloof.
President Cleveland, however, did di
rect American Consul General Jowell
to accompany tho commission and
make a report to the United States
government from the evidence gathered
by the delegates of the powora. The sul
tan refused Consul General Jewell's
permission to make such a report.
Great Britain was compelled to not
Jointly with the powers. As a result
British claims for Indemnity have been
involved with a mass of general claims
and the demands of tho United States
were lost sight of.
In 1835 tho powers again Joined In a
concerted effort to compel tho sultan
to consent to reforms In the adminis
tration of Armenia. Great Britain fa
vored a naval demonstration and sent
n fleet to the entrance of the Dardan
elles. The sultan promptly appealed to
Russia, asserting that England con
templated the seizure of territory in
Asia Minor. Russia and France, both
Interested In Asia Minor, naturally re
fused to Indorse a policy of fores and
tha Europtan concert waa aglan
broken.
In 1S: Great Britain threatened tho
sultan with the occupation of Constan
tinople until the reforms in Armenia
were put In operation. The sultan re
plied to the threat by asking the csar
to appoint officers to inspect and
strengthen the fortifications of the
Dardanelles and giving the Russian
fleet permission to pass through ths
Bosphorus. Great Britain was again
balked.
Just at present Turkey Is unques
tionably under Russian influence, and it
Is believed that If tho United States
pushes Its demands to tha extent of
making a show of force the sultan will
promptly appeal to tho esar.
Abusive.
Mrs. Illngo You must be careful whit you uy
to the cook, dear, or the will leave.
Hlnjro Why, I hard on lierf
"Were joul Why, anyouo would hive thought
jou were Hiking to me." Life.
12.7
THE DYING CENTURY
PASSED IN REVIEW
IN THB WORLD OP ART AND
LETTERS.
An Ago Given Over to Invention Has
Had an Appreciable Effect Upon
Letters and a Btill Greater Effect
Upon Painting and Sculpture.
From the Chicago TimM-HereM.
Whatever elso tho antiquarian and
the archaeologist of the dim future
may find of the nineteenth century, its
materialism will bo significant in near
ly every avenue of human endeavor.
Necvssurl'y !hls has affected both lit
erature and art. Of tho Victorian ago
In literature- Garnatt pays: "It repre
sents the fusion of two currents which
had alternataly prevailed in succes
sive periods. Delight and Utility met;
Truth and Imagination kissed each
other. Practical reform awoke the en
thusiasm of genius and genlun put
poetry to new use, or made a now path
for Itself In prose. The result has been
much gain, somo Iojs and an orglnall
ty of aspect which would alone render
our queen's reign Intellectually mem
orable." PROGRESS IN ART SLOWER.
Art In general has had not even this
adaptability to a utilitarian age. S.
G. W. Benjamin, writing of the Amer
ican landscape painter, saya: "There
la a general absence of warmth and
earnestness In the Impression which a
survey of tho Hold leaves upon tho
mind of the candid observer. There
Is nothing in this to surprise or dis
courage, If we frankly consider the
surrounding circumstances. Great art
Is tha child of repose; tho restlessness,
tho feverish activity, of the country,
eminently encouraging to some pur
eulta, Is, If not fatal to the art, at
least opposed to their higher develop
ment; the vast multiplicity of aima
agitating tho people has thus far pre
vented the concentration of effort
which meets with a response in the
enthusiasm of artistic genius. Instead
of being discouraged, therefore, by the
quality of the art we have produced,
we should accept it as strong evidence
that the American people have a de
cided natural turn for the art which
only awaits a mora favorable condi
tion of the nation to reach a higher
plan, of excellence. We consldsr that
the wonderful Inventive quality of the
American mind toward sctentltlo and
mechanical discovery argues a higher
crsatlvo imagination.
Here, then, are the two Influences of
utilitarianism upon letters and upon
art ths one it has bent more or less
to ItB purposes; the other, less flexible
tn the hands of materialism, haa been
blocked or crowded out in less ambit
ious endeavors.
ENOUGH FOR ONE CENTURY.
All of which Is an acknowledgement
that a century cannot bs all things in
nil. To ths classic and middle ages
bclonr tho undying laurels for philoso
phy, .oratory and art; to thlei century
the wonderful results of mechanical
genius, rivaling the dreams of tha
mycologists. There are those who
hold that in inventive fields man has
reached almost his limitations; that in
after ages tho nineteenth century will
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129 WASHINGTON
be looked unon for tho wonders of Its
patent offices. Just ns ancient Greece
and Romo to-day are the Mcca of
the art worshiper. If so, In that after
lipM tho reip!" .' he tlmi' Virdly
will be censured. They will have done
enough to preserve the Venus do MIlo
and tho Apollo Belvldero, to hava
kept in print ths philosophies of the
ancients, to have preserved tha muse
ums of the antiquarians,
Aa late as 181ft In America, the paint
er Trumbull turned from his canvas to
the ambitious Frozen to say that
"sculpture will not be wanted here for
n. century." To some extent he was
prophetic The statuary of tho century
has been for critics rather than for ad
mirers. The national capltol has been
styled a morgue for graven images that
should be burlad without the service
of coroners' Juries.
"It Is a generally conceded fact,"
says Benjamin, "that slnco tho death of
Michael Angelo the art of sculpture
has made little progress In the ex
pression of the ideal. It has rather in
dicated until recently a lack of steadi
ness of purpose and a want of fresh
ness and Intellectual grasp that place
tha plastic art of tho last three cen
turies in a lower rank that that of th
classic middle ages. It is true
that we havo not yet produced any
masterpieces that rank with antiquity,
but, on ths other hand, some of our
plastic art compares favorably with
the best that haa been created in mod
ern times "
The pculptor of tho nineteenth cen
tury in great measure has lacked
originality; has been content to copy
that w'hlch has embalmed another ago.
And it has been insisted that "It is
only by copying nature directly under
the inspiration of its own ago and
country that a school of art haa tha
slightest chaneo of immortality."
FRANCE THE WORLD OF ART.
Franco has led the century for art,
as England has led it in letters, Paris
has been the capital of art and the
Mecca for the world's artists. Through
the period of romanticism, realism and
Impressionism it has held as the world
center, upon which Napoleon's impress
was made so early In tho century.
Every nation has sent its pupils to
that capital and yet French artists
have led the world for tho last one
hundred years. In Oermany, Berlin
and Munich have stood as art centers.
All three of these have graduated the
world's geniuses In the last one hun
dred years. Of the famous canvases,
however, Franee ha3 claim of nation
ality upon those of Millet, Carot, Mels
sonler, Regnault. Ingres, Donheur,
Courbet, Ds.vid, Gerlcault and Dela
croixan imposing number as com
pared to 'England's Constable, Turner,
Lelghton and Rosettis, and to Amer
ica's Whistler, Inness and Stuart.
In Benjamin West tho United States
had its first born artist. Copley, Trum
bull, Aliston, Stuart and Vanderlyn
followed. Colo, Doughty and Durand
laid the foundtalon of Its landscape
school. All these "havo been revlewod
and criticized by tho masters.
In black and white, however, the
United States recently has produced a
school that is tho wonder and delight
of the world. Tho American Illustrator
Is unapproachable, while printing pro
cesses, so largely perfected tn America,
make the periodicals of Om country
the standards for the ngc.
In literature tho Victorian ago has
marked sharply the progress of letters.
When Victoria succeeded to the throne
in 1837 Scott, Byron, Coleridge and
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Keats wero dead; "Wordsworth, Sou
they, Mooro and Landor wero past
their best works. Epic poetry was on
tho wane. Scott had abdicated In favor
of T!mi 'ml urn. tn n vt-1 wrltlnK.
such as had given tho world now taste
for prose. That which the Waverloy
novels excited, tha work of Dickens,
Thackeray and George Hllot came to
put upon the high, firm boats of living
literature; for tho novel at the begin
ning of the century ras a mora- or less
I despised vehicle for thought.
TWO GREATEST NOVELISTS.
Dickens and Thackeray will have
found placo In tho future ns the great
est novelists of the century. One com
plemented tho other, and their work
went to show tho wldo field of fiction
and Its possible bearing upon the
world. From 1837 to 1865 was the period
most fruitful of the English novel, and
in these years Dickens, Thackeray and
Eliot, at least, earned immortality.
With ths English novelists belong
ths English poets of the same general
period Tennyson and Browning. If
no other finger-print than Tennyson's
had bten marked upon the nineteenth
cetury the period would havo been im
mortal for Ungllsh lyric poetry. Tho
Browning erase that came upon the
heols of that poet's success has made
his rank uncertain until another age
shall pass upon it. Still, aside from
his obscurities of style and concep
tion, h has done enough to earn
more for him than a resting place In
the poet's corner of Westminster Ab
bey. Carlylo, Ruskln, Iimb, Froude and
a score of other great names belong
to the period.
In America tho century began with
the English query: "Who readn an
American book?" As If In answer to
it came trvinx with his "Knickerbock
er History of New York" and his de
lightful "Sketch Book" with the Im
mortal story of "Rip Van Winkle."
James Fenlmore Cooper followed with
"The Spy" and "The Pioneers," From
these sprang a distinctive American
literature that haa been recognized as
freely as it onco was scoffed.
MANY CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS
Nathaniel Hawthorne with "The
Scarlet Letter" in 1850 awakened the
world to the possibilities of an Amcil
can fiction, following It up with mas
terpieces that have put his name at
the head of American letters. Mrs.
Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin," coming
at a time when tho world was ripe for
this greatest of all novels with a pur
pose, won fame for her. Emorson,
Holmes, Holland and others of New
England settings have their niches.
Longfellow has been the American
poet of his age, with his "Hiawatha,"
"Evangeline" and "The Courtship of
Miles BtandUh." Whlttler, Emorson,
Lowell, Holmes, Bryant, Po and oth
ers have ranged down toward this
end-of-the-century present in which it
is conceded that poetry is not read,
and in which certainly very llttlo pos
try is being written.
France, leading In art, has been
second in letters. One needs to name
only Victor Hugo and "Lea Mlsera
bles" to fortify the assertion. Then
when Balzac and Dumas are named
tho measure of tho place for (Franco
cannot be questioned, Out of Its
stormy political history Its accomplish
ments have been ono of the wonders
of the century, until It Is recalled thit
It has (Jone little else than to quiet Its
own public pulses that it might bend
energies to art. Its population Is stag-
nant, Its growth arrested. Zola stands
AVENUE
for Its present In letters n figure that
may bo better gauged by the future.
In letters, ns well ns In art. mucH
of Europo has lain lifeless In this cen
tury. Italy has been content to re
member that Dante, Boecacclo, Tasso,
Petrarch and MaehUuclll once lived
and wrote; Spain that Cervantes had
made a classic and that Do Vega and
Calderon belonged to it.
WORK OF TRANSLATORS.
If Europe, here and there, has been
"ilacid and drained" of its literature,
tho translator has been seeking a wid
er audience for men of letters In mora
or less provincial tongues. Tolstoi and
Turgenleff have had the admiration o
a world to the credit of Russia; Ander
son, Ibsen, Welhaven, Moe, Wergeland
and BJornson havo been heard for
Scandinavia and Its kindred peoples.
America, especially, has been cosmo
politan in its tastes as it has been in
Its people. Even the Hungarian, delv
ing In a language wholly his own and
keeping within his geographical hori
zon, has found himself famous here.
Klsfaludy, Bcrzsenyl, Petoil and Arany
of tho poets and Joslka, Eotros, Kuthy
and Lanka of the novelists are known,
while Jokal and Kemeny are of tha
living present, read In America as theji,
are read at home.
Time has wrought changes in meth
ods, styles and themes for the book
makers for the English tongues. An
nuthor no longer Is a social wonder.
Tho aristocracy of literature Is over
thrown. As a profession it has been
cheapened In the face of the fact that
n, successful book writer Is paid now
aa ho never was paid before. Tho
book publisher has become a book
manufacturer. Nnmes upon tltlo
pages are legion. Today a book Is a
croze tomorrow it is a. dim recollec
tion, euillclent only to draw smiles
from a company in which its tttle Is
mentioned. Reviewers of books nro
buried under avalanches of fiction In
attractive covers. The bargain coun
ters of department stores are piled
high with it. Magazines are filled with
It, and still author nnd amanuensis
aro busy with tho contracts of publish
ers whot are measuring literature by,
the ton.
FROM ART TO LITERATURE.
No one seems able to account fully
for the change. No one knows whero
bookmaking is to stop in its rapid
decline toward an industry, rather
than an art. The reading t)f a novel
fifty years ago was reprehensible in
many circles of society; is a now cen
tury one day to recognize It as a vice?
Art has not suffered as has litera
ture, but a reactionary spirit is ob
servable at this end of the century. A
movement toward Industrial art seems
nothing less than a tacit admission
that tho flno arts ore dragging an
acknowledgment that it is more nearly
possible to design a new parlor sot.
having the stamp of originality, than
It is to paint a canvas or shapo a clayi
that shall win a name.
Wo are ready to give Into the hands
of tho next generation tho means and
the appliances or luxurious ease. Its
art cravings may havo to bo satisfied
from within itself, unless it shall harlc
back to the consideration of things not
wholly new that havo outworn tho
brief limits of a sensation.
A Fair Exchange.
"Conerntulato ine, Dings," cried Howaonj
"l'e juit been manledl"
"My dear boy," replied Banc "and you con
pratulate mc. I've Jiut been divorced." I'lilli
delphU North American.
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