Servia And Austria

The Chicago Tribune, discussing the situation in Europe, says: " It is not ia, poBBible that a new element will arise ij the Eastern complication that maj l( to a general war, growing out of th$ manifest determination of Servia to fol. low in the steps of Roumania, and svet her connectiou with Turkey. Notwith. standing the strenuous cfïbrts of fa Czar and Prince Gortschakoff to W Servia quiet and neutral, it now looks n if ahe would declare her independen and prepare to maintain it by force, .'. soon as the Bussians are over the l)m. nbe. It is no secret, also, that at the recent meeting of the Czar and Pri Milan at Ploiesti an arrangement n concluded allowing the Bnssians passa across Servían territory, if thcy desús to approach Turkish soil f rom that dit tion. Any movement wliich tends to draw Servia into the conflict, whitfc threatens to chango her relations towan] Turkey, and constitute her an iiidepcuj ent Slavonic state, or which indicatesthe possibility even of nnoccupationbyBiB. sia, must of necessity involve Austria i the struggle and compel her to ocenpt Bosnia, Herzegovina and Servia as as the valley of Morava, thus realiá the cherished dream of her millions cj discontented Bclaves of nniting the priucipalities inone grand Sclavonic em. pire. The mobilization of the Anstii troops in Transvlvania and on the Si rr. an frontier, which has already beend. cided upon, i an unmistakoble inJi tion of Austria's policy and of the pu. dominance of the Sclavic element ia h conncils. "And what then ? Will Austrinn ciipation localize the war in Bulgaria, will it increase its area and drag in otlu powers? Will Bussia consent to tliii occupation, and, if she objects, liow ík is she able to oppose it? The ansia to these qnestions undoubtedly depejj upon Germany, and what response tie sphinx in the spikedhelmetTvill maken one can foresee. Bussia ceitainlj iü ot care to enconnter Austria nnd Tu. key combined, while if Germany efe with Bussia for the sake of secunij the Germán provinces of Austt most certainly England must s& with Austria, or at least cjpose Bussia, for the sake of secmiig Egypt and the Suez canal, wkieb, iá turn, must antagonize the Mediterrane; states, whose interests migUt be maiced by English monopoly of the canal It is evident that it only needs the mató to fire the material which bas m beaped up for a general conflagratkj, The auccess of Bussia does notdep altogether upon the issnes of the butfefield. She not only has to ent her m through the Turkish forces and forta es, but she must follow a very tortsoa diplomatic path without treading upa I the interests of other powers, which ts ' as thickly strewn in it as torpedoce ■ ] tlie Bissian harbors. If slie eau hd ize the war and confine it to Bnlgri i the one hand and Armenia on the ofe, . tlicre can be no doubt of the result. j ; very plight misstep, however, like h Servian complication to which we hm I alluded, may precipitate Austria, Qt many, Italy, and even France, iito 1 1 struggle whose duration and final alm I trophe no one can foresee." Dn. Daid Livinostone, a nephfi and namesake of the explorer, is nï; in San Francisco. The only other m relatives of the traveler are a brote John, wlio lives at Listowell, Ontario; fl son Oswald, a physician in Trinidsd, West Indies; an unmarried daughtct, Anna Mary, who is finishing her ednestion in Germany; anda marriod datigbter, Mrs. Bruce, who lives in EDglanl A Texas sheep raiser says there ík about 2,(XX),000 head of sheep on the borders of the Bio Grande, the ñaca hcep-raiíing country in the wtd. Owinq to the competition of India the tea trilde of Shanghai is declining.