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THE CHARLOTTE NEWS JANUARY I 191 13 JEWS OF FOREIGN CAPTfALS ustria P} evented leNew Year From Ending Peacefulli, rP'ZDERICK WEFINER.) 1 rUo olii year ; . >(1 awa\’ quietly ■ i>‘us problems behind r *ho tinsottloil po- ' 'n Austria. No 5n- ! . lii ntii'U-^ are thrcat- . rs !*?lioa;o European iiiinliorinR political ' ^ ail' calm, even • Nm’!' .’.ny It is Knovn, • ■ ■•r.l'- tbo oup whioli ■ . but the elec- I- ,) ■ 'bo’-e to cast any ! \v. up^>n tiio holiiinys. ' u: ria. i'lowevor. r*,)- ■ u:’.’. u'-' t f Kmperor ’ ■ benltb nud I" '’!'- ■ Iv affili!'.' ‘f his I ' s'*.\ j>r(' soi’.rcc of . .'.iiich b;ts dis- ir.a.' jiiy of our M \’ ?ty and enforcing upon Great Britain four other powers Interested the duty of maintaining this state of affairs. Unleee the Dutch government agrrcB to this contention, and gives a solemn pledt?e to allow freo pas- ^’a?e to forcer, crteriue: the Scheldt j for the defence of :3elgium, the lat- ‘ ter will probably propose to refer the matter to the arbitration court of the Hagrue, meanwhile fortifying Zoebni^c to enable Great Britain to land forces there instead of at Antwerp, in ease of a German in- v:u;ion of Belgium during a Franco- OiMiuan war. A report ia current here that Herr von Doi'nb'.ir;;. the cx-colcnial sec retary who has iust returned from iho Far East. )ias acc-'pted. or is about to accepc, a i:.eat. on the board of direct crs of tiie General Flf'ctrio Company (Allgemeine Elec- trif 'tats (Jc; v'll'^chart), t’le larges^t t' 't Lrical ih ;a in the world, with a view of !;cro!0.iiu; its presiof'nt, m hen Herr Kniil >) years of stated that : r tbo last fi'W ■' ■ tlif’.;i on;\)ur- t that Fran- ’ -’ic-ply the i !'.■ im:‘ *Iu- L.r'.at h ■i.ilic’.a, 1 oil-j the i *'v;>cnt oc. apai’.t. Oi'»*r avid Vis- Ratheiuu!, who s nv r •>”i . 1 I’ol^-^ (!e- ago. iciircs. li is :>Ir o ^jiMjooouiai t' I ' onpp. With Ho;t von i'»ev:ruu! kT’s pro^ri'am as :s P’l'iiK lnii! I (-(viti'oi . v of this f;if:antir cnnccru ■*’ ' ; V.ou!',l ir.cUulo ihe fi:n;(i'.;al substit'.i- 'io” (,f oi-.ctriciiy ft’r ytoam a'^ the motive i>ov,*r on all the German stnve vaiiwayr-. 1 lOrr voii nrrr.K'ur,'^ himself and all lifv'r porsor.s connected with iie projected arvansement maintain ;■ fo’i'plete rcse’’ve. bvit. the. story is re'rr.rciri as airhonfio in v/oll-inform- cd an 1 iii.Iustr!al circles. . t.» nep( tiat? for 'if' in Francf, and I'v the liniclirat’'. ' (> reconstructed r. . •>ens. it IS said. .1' '':'reii;n affa-vs. ill dc Inlti-iy • :!•’ -V o’kI : . .'V’.oqa- !• - :arv up cr. 1.’, Fr-’ -.1 t n I.ir.T’ fo'-- ’'‘-'ijie v'T confide) a- tiie .-\us- be c;>le- a n t b or; i a t i voly ar. nrsun ced i.bird volume of IMsniarrk's ^•.t^''rr 1 ;i;’.c,^ hi.- death in r, of the Haiti; of Fn;.]:la’id. i-' nubii;dic’d during the I’tetime f>f the prese.it liniser. They conttiin, of ccurse, the Jron Chan- It that tbv- iKcivoirs. th(' vault s'-'i’l i;..;; >roi- colior's own v?rsion of his fall from Fi.rj^ach, \si'h tlie U'an e.' to fcirging I:y the A;; t(' !’»'of. Fried- ' - r> v]o»-W'l.’iits ■d his chai'i-.es. "Xo'-e Freio >.U iii’’. dt'b'- pov.er a".d the evems which preeed; ed and ioHoYv''d il^e historic “drop ping of the pilot.” cherish the classical superstitions — by those worn-out antiquists again. Old age is the one s-tandard of respectabil ity and talent, “The Futurists are going to alte. all that. ‘Italy to young men!’ is our watchwQj^d. Away with the rubbishlv old past. Let us look to the future' Our national destiny depends on the | propaganda. As inevitably as the sun rises and sets we shall have to struggle for our life against Austria. That contest is absolutely bound to come. If it comes when Venice i’ still sunk in the lethargy of its old romanticism when Rome is living on its classical traditions, when Flor ence is nothing but a picture gallery, we are doomed. “We, the F\iturists, make the call of modernity. We w'ant to leap ahead and lead the way even to those who call themselves modern. We are lY'- turists not only in a political and economic way., but in every brincb. of art-^art i° at present slumbering in old superstitions. It is hide-bound »n tradition—not only in Italy, but in France. “I went into a picture gallery the other day where there were 5,000 mod ern’ paintings, more than 3,000 of them were paintings^ of nude women How absurd. In our cold climates ladies do not .go about naked. The modern artist E-hould paint ladies in modern toilettes. He should go even forward and paint the toilette of the future, “I would have our artists paun the characteristic scenes of the new age of industry; the great factories, v.itii their smoke and flame and murky at mosphere, the docks with their c”(rvd- ed shipping, the towns and street scene» of modern life. I would have our poets express the modern spirit of restlessness, of seething turmoil, of life in crowds. “The existence of Italy depends un- Rumors Of Republic Being Pi oclaimed at Monaco Are False (BY Paris, COUNTESS SZECHENYI Countess ?zechenyi, formerly Gladys Vanderbilt, whose, charitable acts among the poor of her adopted country, have won for her the title of “Greater Bcrl’n" claims a popula- ‘'Lady Bountiful.’' lion of ;i,r.OO,'.iLt5 pniiU^ Tl'.e ti'rurGS | Although she entertains with a frequency and in the style befitting her rcquifo to I'e formally confirmed, | position, the former American girl spends most of h?r time among the ln;t They aro bol^'vrd to be approxi-j poverty stricken. She believes it the duty of the wealth}- people to alle- m.Tcly corre ct Tho.'o lia.- heen an ! viate the suffering arJ destitution ov children, and for this reason she has '.n l :t;n;iht an iiu-'-. a-'o of ri;!,'..")Oi inhabitants sincc j become vice-president of the National Society of the Protection of Children. i;.;sr him vhirh, the ' i‘^l qninqueni'ial ccii; us in Do- The general public knows little about the Countess’ benevolent actlv- 1. wn., ::uuailv I ccmiier VJi'>5. or a fr::iciion over 19 ities, only knowing her as a fashionable v/or.ian at the opera bedecked with 1 H. fV.o I-ore T'cr cent; “Greater Jh rin,” in its' diamonds. The Count and Counters are taking the greatest interest in the il i:"i)1i('ation ;u 1 lOurinriulaitie .inxitty not to la- too j construction of their new mansion and goto Budapest frequently to inspect 'ir '''I I I not but 'fur hch’r.d Pnris aiul T'ow i u;!;iii ti.e !'op-1 Yor;.. h:'.? lonch'"!' out and taken ' ;r. ; r-^snousibb' rp j - ,M)ticio;is l)osor.i no I v ' than uf talc i:ivolv-j outiying citics. icwiis and vi!- 11 . GEORGE DUFRESNE.) 1 tion. Quite recently Lieut. Colonel , Dec. 31.—The rumors that Elagin, of the Colonial Infantry, has a republic had ben proclaimed at visited the African colonies o Monaco «re without foundation. The France for the purpose of raising situation is unchanged and the peo-1 troops. All that is needed in parlia- ple at Ivlonaco are waiting for the mentary support to ihe scheme, and promul.gation of the constitution ’ transplanted central Africa wil Avhich has been promised them by . li^®rate the Algernon Irenchmen and the prince. The constitution is being | Arab for service in France itself. drawn by a commission ’ of French . j Anxiety about the floods, embar* Among the 19,000 inhabitants of rassment with the traffic, and the the principality only about 1.5000 dread that one of these days Paris ares ubjects of Prince Albert. These ^lay actually be threatened ^'^h apparently will furnish about 650 shortage of provisions, have had the electors. Of the remaining 17,500 effect of bringing the question of Its about 7,000 are French and more conversion into a seaport, to boirow than 8.000 Italians. These figures, of familiar expression, once more course, do not include visitors. | to the fore. “Paris port do mer was The value of real estate in Mona- the theme cf a good deal of ani- co, apart from the domain of the mated and rather enthusiastic discus^ prince, is estimated at $40,000,000. sion in the eighi.ieB. The idea of two-thirds of which is possessed bringing Paris into easy cominunica- ,t...l .in’’ •rlty . i-; !:■ a ' • ii iufMr ! ;-i ion i.,,n 'ifilcr as ►•'U'hi!i." fcriifica- i- not lo qu,sti; ti pro;; inilf“', F. Ai(‘ tho a heard Ivin:’: wr, hin a ra'-i^is of 15 Cf the cerJre of i'>e cr»,pital. ;)f them a>e svi i'‘’'.iote and i.iibodded between inic. voni'.i" cf fc’fcsts ard farms that cragc ••Clro.^.'-bvTlincr” hjs nev- of Them, and could only ocerationn. i !;ivl ihem with I and 11',;'.p. j T::.-^ ’iictropolis if^elf numbers only ! L:,vi4'J,]4.-{ inhahitani,s, and forgets the i rank of tiio fotirth city in the world , lo ('hic.';go. Berlin’s growth since trai- uui r V * r ' A- ■ aid of a guide ■■'•I it.> i'i\or' track but to iu- i y nu'an to , -'hs on :hv* '''’uiug, j 11)05 . ■■‘visiors only a tritb? of 24.- ' i( V ■m='nt (iiio. hi’i ,’i'e ?:ront cniti^iious su- i ! a- roach-: ;,i;i-i)s of Charlottonlnirg, Wihners- T' tec; Bel- ! ijr.vff Scboneberg, Rixdorf. I'reptow, '’Mverp. 1'r;..-i;,;o’’.{cf* and Friod.-'nett have in- :’r' tho I (.refi-.,; ii t^iinrT'iousi..' some cf them as mt’ch a-^ |Kr c;'n". The )>;rcat normal of Berlin’s cen sus that ivr’'lo and industry are h';t j 1,,-niping old-iime resiuental space by leaps and bounds, and are driv ing tl:e house-dwelling class out of tho ine; rojiolis y.’'oper into the for est of ‘ flats” springing up in the en- vir'-us. The insistent lesson of the na tional census, which is expected to reveal the e.'cistence of 05,000.000 Germans, is that the Fatherland is becoming more and nu)re industrial ized. Populations in the towns and c-ities have increased lieavily at the eypense of the a.gricultural regions. There are fourteen cities with more than 250.000 inhabitants, and six of them have over half a million—Ber lin Hamburg. Nunich, Leinsiz, Dres den and Droslau. Hamburg is the second largest city in the country with a population of 93(1.000 an in crease of 1C3.217 since 1905. British Sends To by Frenchmen, hut if the value of tion with the channel had originally the Casino be taken into account, fascinated Vauhan, and in recent then French interests in the coun- times it was Bouquet de la Grye, a trv mav he raid to total $80,000,-, very distinguished engineer, who QQQ ' took the question up in an extreme- Apropos of Jlonte Carlo, the steady earnest fashion. In 1882 h© downpour of rain during the last plained his plan for the construction three weeks has driven practically of a canal without locks from Poissy every Aroericau»«ijisitor awa.v, leaving to Rouen, and when it was criticised , only English Tourists, who are far beingfl too extravagant he set •less poimiar, because of their eco- again to work, and four years-later noniic ways, but an American inva- another scheme which he had drawn on the success of our creed, because, expected with the open- ''as submitted to the then minls- on the one hand, as I ha"o said, she is of " the opera season and from ter of public works by Admiral decaying with the putrification of dead program, which has’ just been Thomasset, chairman of the “Paris things, and on the other she Is being pujjiiy^ed the i91l season will be Port de Mer” society. The second weakened by the most dangerous of all behind that of its pre- based on the almost ex- yhilosophies, the Gospel of Coward- rjecessors It will commence on Jan- elusive etilization of the Seine, the ice. Tolstoyism and pa&sive resistance uary" 24th, v;ith “Mefistofelo,” in sole exceptions being the construc- are so debilitating the working men of ^hich" Chaliapine has made such a tion of little canals at Sartrouville Italy that I believe that if it is nou remarkable success. This will be and Oissel, in ordei to avoid inteij checked by the awakening spirit of followed by “Leo Contes d’Hoff’- ference with the railroad lies at Futurism., the Italian people will he as „iann.’ “La Tosca,” and “Da Vie de these points. As the winding coiirse helpless sheep before a horde of t^oheme.” In the following months of the Seine was thus to be follow- ihe performances of other new ard ed almost entirely, the deepening o ivell knov.n operas will be duly an- the river was necessary. Its aver- noiincpd I ^ge depth between Paris and Rouen I is not more than 10 feet, and Bou- Greatlv shocked by the disaster to Q»et de la Grye pro posted that this , the Pluviose, a French lady has should be brought to about 20 feet TtI presented the ministry of marine so as to enable the ships of 3,00Q 1 Ulli IS I $20,000 as ap rize in a compe- tons, which can get up the S^ne lion, for which all French people as far as Rouen, to make their way and French subjects are eligible. The to Pans. Such was ® prize is to be awarded to the in- dra'-e up by the enterprising engi- ventor of such an apparatus as will neer m the eighties, but he ^as en- enabie the crews of submarines to thusiastic over his Pans port de extncate themselves, and to reach Mer’ project in the adn maintain themselves on the years, nearly a the water' in case of ac- "hen he passed away at the ad>anc money will not, of ed age of 82, without seeing wolves, when the frontier.” Austria marches over Account of His London, Dec. 31.—A very interesting account of his tour in the East is contributed to the “Mission Field” by Bishop Montgomery. He says: “I must hasten on to Ping-Ying. This trip of 45 miles w'as to be undertaken to our huge delight, in wheelbarrows; but in two days, with a Chinese inn for the night. surlace oi cident. The Government Submarines Chinese Waters without seeing the Bishop course, be given until t’he naval coun- realizaticm of the dream ot his life, has mJde the exiierimeuts. and i Tho Matin, is now taking the mat^ The apparatus ^^d it has just published a noteworthy article. cil which it is |' PRINCESS ROYAL r'.ccta Royal, Siiter of King • r.* And wife of the Duke of Fifc» has gone to Egypt with her fam- to spend the winter. 'ut half the animal^ recorded in ‘•rdbooks ought to have been aincd as veal. Princess Royal Visiting Egypt London. Dec. 31.—The Princess Roy al. with her husband, the Duke of Fife, and her two daughters. tho Princesses Victoria and ^laud have left London for Egypt and they will not return to England until iMay. .Iu‘”- before she left Knig George offered his sister the use of Frogmore Ix)dge as a country residence until the young Prince of Wales is old enough to have a separate establishment of his o^n. but the Princess Royal declined the offer with great firmness. She is still in a very nervous state of health and dislikes publicity snore thoroughly every year. Now and again the unfortunate princess is seiz ed with ungovernable fits of temper, which prove a great trial not only to her husband, who has of late be come much attached to King George and Queen Mary, but also to her daughters As- for the servants, the princcss finds it very difficult to keep the same set for more than a month at a time and both at her Brighton and London residences there are con stant upheavals and a changing pro- clssiorof butlers, footmen, chauffeurs and maids. , The young princesses are growing very attractive and although they too di&like "living in public,” matrimon ial schemes are already being prepar ed for them by their uncles and aunts. Housekeeping has a wide mouth.- German (By PHILLIP EVERETT.) London, Dec. -Tl.—In order to be pre pared for any eniergencj", which may arise in vhe Far East, the British admiralty have decided before the new year grows much older to s-end a num her of submarine boats to Chinese wa ters. The fii’iit flotilla of three siruiil boats of a lictle over 300 tons are in fact to start for the Pacific where there are at present no submarines but the unknown number oZ Japanese boats and the United States five su’d- marines in the Philippines at Ca»ite. Officially Japan is' known to poiooss 12 submarines, the first of waicii were built in America and put to.eether in Japan, but it is asserted that in reali ty Japan possesses many more -^1 ti'cse battlef>hip destroyers built sec retly at home, and Russi',* is iil.so said lo have sent some across tnv> eoatment via the Trans Siberian railroad. In viev/ of the warlike lisposition of a certain part of the Japanese press, which may result in a clash either with China or the United States, the British government is going to increase her naval forces in the Paci fic with all the modern vessels that may bo spared at home. Th:? first vessels to leave here wil nrobablj' be the battleship& Triumph and Swiftsure which will convey the submarines. The present British naval forces cast of Suez consists only of three armored and three protected cruisers. The torpedo flotilla is composed wholl.v of obsolete ships. There are t^ven destroyers in commisison theve, of these four were launched in 1895 and three in 1896; all wouM have been scraped two or three years a,go unde the German age limit for destroyer.- * * * To Scotland has fallen the hono of making the carpets that will cove: the floor of Westminster Ahhey foi the coronation next June, anl tiie ac tual work will be started in a ie^' days. The floor-covering has from tlie earliest time been a specific feature in the preparations for the stately ceremony, and In the Liber Reguli-. prepared for Richard II, a copy of which is in tha safe keeiJing of the deans of Westminster, there is definite order as to the “Ray cloth or Burrell ” to be laid “under the king’s feet as he goeth,” and again In the "IPtle rK vice” for the crowning of Henry VII there Is the injunction that “♦h> king shall go upon Raye cloth to he layed by the Almoner, from his siege iu the hall to the pulpit.” The new carpet wil follow very closely upon the lines of that ordered for King Edward’s crowning. That it may be recalled, was made at Woic.es- ter by Mess'rs. Edward Webb and Sons, and mohair was employed for the sur face. This presented certain teciinical difficulties in weaving which were most successfully overcome. Then as again now, the color chosen was a sin gularly ric.t .jort of blue. The lesign was symboiica!, and embodied the badge and motto cf the Order of the Garter and the Tudor Rose, with tho T1 isrie. Shamrock and Lotua con nected with festoons of bay leaves and ribbons. These were effectively sl:0'.vn in a rather lighter shade of color, and tho whole formed an admirable back ground to the magnificence of the state robes, the ecclesiastical vestments, Jio crinii^-on of the peeresses’ dresses a^^d the diplomatic, naval and military uni forms. ^ * Every seat has been sold for the farewell concerts v.hich John Phillip Sousa is to give here tomorrow and twice daiiy for the remainder of the week. Nobody, by the way thinks it Avill really be a farev/ell tour, but that the popular American leader and com poser will be heard here many times m.ore. Ke and his music are so popular through England that we really can not afford to lose the pleasure of his ’'Visits. * * * English and tYench troops will dur ing the year, that begins tomorrow fight their battles in part of Africa shoulder to shoulder. A treaty has just been signed at Brazzaville on the frontier of Bahr el Ghazel, and the English posts in southern London are now in constant friendly commun ication by wire with the French posts at Ubanghi. The officer in com mand of the French troops. Colonel Modat, could not wait for the offiical approval of the Fi’ench government as the rainy season threatened and his own responsibility he march- 1 from Mebele to the English post, aflakingi, in 18 days with a small orce of 40 native soldiers and was scorted back by an equal force ot British E-oldiers. The co-operation of the troops will be of great help to the trading cara vans and will, it is hoped, put an end to the now flourishing slave trade though, perhaps, not until after hard fights w'ith the Arabian traders. * * * I have just interviewed the famou? Signor Martinetti, head of futurism in Italy, who is at present here in Lon don, and who intends shortly to visit his> countrj’^men In the United States. Signor Martinetti wants to clea: away all the classical traditions m painting, literature and music and the religion of old things, and old men, which he alleges is the ruin of Italy. “You can hardly realize,” h3 said, “the tragedy of the young men of Ita ly, and the way in which their am bitions are blocked. If a man is a painter he starves because of the cult of the old masters. If he naa any modern spirit moving him to ex press himself in modern terms as poet, or musician, he is kept down and trampled upon by the old men who Scott and I were on first barrow; Lan- chester followed on a second, the lug- reported favorably. .. nnipnorthv article in ,age on a third. We did it luxuriously must be worked Iv* the crew alone, the Seine was only with three men to each barrow-one but whether it rescues them topther L,. ® ^ Rouen Paris in front, one behind on the handles, or singly is a question that is not only be securl agS tainly not, it .ould he no („n it there lo«d^ tor^^the ^co^plet.o. ^ Europe.'^hls „,a? or may not 'SprS‘’tLrrir ~ - thrdevSS;^or such ap ort withdrT«'n i concerned. But there really do ** ’ ^ I not seem to be any serious objecti • of the Seine were. Bumps? ‘ Of courr;e. On the first day we calculated we had 25,000 of them; the best were caused by drops of six inches or more from one stone to another. I got quite used to them, and found I could sleep stretched out luxuriously on my mat tress.” Great Enthusiasm For Young Queen Brussels, Dec. 31.—The enthusiasm that greeted King Edward, when, as Prince of Wales, he triumphantly sur vived his severe attack of typhoid fever, is equally manifest in the case of the young Queen Elizabeth of Bel gium. As it is known that the young queen, who is now slowly recovering from her illness, was herself trained as a nurse and takes special interest in the victims of tuberculosis, special France’s recent Pyrrhic victory in to the utilization ^f the Tchad country has awakened nuch ^ purpose. Perhaps the om public opinion on the folloy of em- troub e thth is even building on econ..mical lines, conditions v>Ah which PaHs is even >Vadai territory is a lon,g way now confronted, as the time off and the elector at home does come when, instead of there beingr not care ;io lots aboul k U Is a considerable excels of water there only when a partv gets cut up in wou.d be too little udnng the sum the Bush that (he ^lan in tho cafe mer season, for example, remerabers Vc’.gucly that the tricolor pi re The ]>ostage stamps, known as charity stamps, have been issued for internal thous^and Wadai tribesmen and re does float somev/here about there. Poor Moll, who perished with half a dozen other officers, commissioned and non-commissioned, had asked in vain for reinforcements. Men cost money, even black men, and the co lonial enthusist, v,’ho proposes cred its for fresh military eft’ectives in the heart oF Africa had better be prepared for a snubbing from the budget committee, for he is sure to get it. And so three hundred Senegabin Tirailleurs faced five circulation, at double the ordinary puiggfj them after they had left price, the surplus money to be paid nearly half their own number dead to the National League in Aid of the wounded on the field. Consumptive. Thousands of these; sublime heroism, of the black stamps are being purchased and used, jjjan, harnessed to war, is again so as to produce, for the benefit of gj^own. It is unon these troops that the sick, a large sum, which will at pj-ance in thef uture will have to once constitute a national express-ion largely depend to fill the gaps of gratitude at the queen’s recovery caused by an unexpanding popula- and a delicate recognition of the kind- ness which prompts her majesty to take greater pleasure in the relief of human sufferings than in any other form of personal popularity. This Mayoi was The Exception Paris, Dec. 31.—That mayors should be at once examples of order and deco- j rum is what most people expect, but, i according to a story which has reached ; Paris frorn a French towii, an excep-1 tion to such a golden rule is within possibility. The municipal council was engaged in a serious deliberation when a dispute suddenly arose be tween a member and the mayor, whj seizing a chair, brandished it over the councilman’s head, and when the chair was snatched from his grasp by his deputy he caught up a wooden urn for voting, and hurled it at the object of his rage with so ^accurate an aim that the poor man meas ured his length on the floor. Mem bers of the public, who had bee.i ad mitted to the meeting got a topsy turvy &how gratis, but so great was their indignation at this act of as sault and batten' that they rushed up to the mayor and would have pun ished him severely if he had not been successful 'n beating a retreat. Quick-Lunch Persiflage. “Tea or coffee?” demanded the bus tling waitress. He smiled benignly. “Don’t tell me; let me guess.” Goodness moves ina larger sphere than justice.—Flutarch. The story of how art saved two rats from science is told today. The rodents had been caught for the la boratories of the Pasteur Institilte, and were intended for certain ex periments in the name of science. But just as they were going to be scalped M. Victor Peter, the animal painter arri,ved on the scene. He is at present at work on some small bas-reliefs on the fables of La Fon taine, and he wantd a town rat and a fieid rat as models. The two rats he saw appeared to be excellent specimens, and he requested that they might be handed ovr to him. His rquest was granted. The por traits of these two rats will figure in the Salon. DREXEL. MRS. JOHN Mrs. John B. Drexel, who will be one of the many wealthy American ladies to spend the Coronation season in London. Spoil Football In Austmlia Now Victoria, Australia, Dec. 31.—Foot ball in Australia is in imminent dan ger of being spoiled. For a long time observant s-pectators have noticed that some of the largest and most at tractive games between some of the best reputed clubs have been corrup*. rhls season has sufficed to bring tho truth of the matter out. The officials receiving reports of cases of bribery in Victoria, full investigation was made, with the result that several ol the most important players have beei% found guilty of accepting bribes. The officials have dealt severely with all the cases brought before them and it is likely that a stop will he imt to the practices. Several of the men have been disqualified either for a term of years or for life. Cheese Ffrom Chester. Chester, Dec. 31.—A firm at Clutton, Chester, have sent to Bradford 2,500 Che&hire cheese, valued at ? 19,000. None of the largest Cheshire chees es ever made, some meighing in the ag gregate 31cwt., were included in this consignment. These cheeses were made at Tattenhall Hall, and won the championship at the Royal Agricul tural Show of England. Firmness is the excess of will pow er; obstinacy is the excess of won’t power. Money may not bring happiness, but it will purchase a lot of substi tutes. Good faith is seldom a guest; ’5v^en you have him, hold him fast.—Ger man.
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