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THE CHABi.OT- - JE'a . ♦AUCUsT 13, l»ll
NEWS OF
CAPITAL
The English People
Appiove Of Couise
Laid by Goveinmeni
(By PHILLIP AVBRETT)
London, Aupust 12.—''iMille the ma-
:or;rv o: the English people have
Tftkfn httie or no part in the prcat
I’onftituticual fight which has been
going on ever since the lx>rds threw
out Lloyd Georgea Budget two
vpir? a so, they do take an interest
in foreign affairp and wherever you
£o now YOU are bound to find your-
in rht> midst of a polifica'I de-
^3’e on The crisis Europe has just
r^ssed through unscathed.
Wonderful to say everybody ap
proves of tne action of the govern
ment rn:onists and socialists alike
'hat under the circumstances
Kr.iKini '.ad onlv one duty, that of
ruai!!fa!n;ne '.n the fullest and most
wai the entente with France.
K.f>r>liod- seems to realize that in
face of the peiii to the peace of
\xo;!d v-au>ed b-' Oermany's poll-
' ' K i.'Sia. I'r;incp and England niust
. 1 'ocr'ii ■ Th‘='ivfore there will
' no n.-sr for iJennanv s allies 'vili
to co uith her in an attack
■ i ■'n the trir> entente and Uer-
wi.’ nt^\«=>r do it alone.
, m;i’!e liir nilslaiie of im-
1. • - I' : the English lib-
1,. tl. -
■,i»' i‘.’ n Mieir intention ;uui
■ •■t! •-«» •' he Oil better terms
tha’ *hey were ready to
K;.-.n.e P’t no niat'er •what
1->■ England nobody is ?o-
to Westminster to real and lasting
power.
The unionsist success in Scotland
at the ejection wa^ attained
ch’pflv OT’ the home r’lic issue biit
that issue will not a.?ain nring su,ch
good results The unionist ' majority
in Scotland in l?00 '^as the outcome
of war fever—a cause which It is
hoped will never aeain be operative.
Thus, of the caui=e.^ which contrib
uted to the greatesr success of the
unionist party In Scotland one must
be ruled out as a ne?li?ib!e quantity,
and the other regard* d a diminish
ing force.
Mr Baltour, with '"•hom I had s
talk i!i the (''onstitu! loual Club th?
o^her day, gave me on idea of what
the caiises of Scotland's devotion of
radicalism are. The first one. he
'iiid. is Hereditary.
A largf numl'er of Scottish radi
cals. ' he (.ontimied. "are radicals be
cause their fathers ami ffrandfathers
V p’e 5-0 and "ith tneii’ r.-idicalism it
IS diflicul: to deal. It must be left to
die out ^:«ith the men who fess it
and its future operation stooped b:.
the education of tup ’.oung and com
ing ?:ei'ieratioas in 'he true principles
ar-jsnd b-netit?; of unionism.
\ se 'oud cau.'e of Scotland's devo
non to radicalism." said Dr. Balfour,
•arises from a peculiarity of a cer
tain type of Scottish character. Most I
I Young Guard is
Making Big Fuss
Paris, August 12.—The young revolu
tionary guard is creating sensation af
ter sensation. It is scarcely in exist
ence, but It has already been able to
accomplish several characteristic ex
ploits. The police have at once set to
work on a counter campaign and a
number of the guards are now in
prison.
The facts throw a lurid light over !
this organization and methods of the
Bonapaitisis Cause
Stiengthened By
Escape From a
(BY GEORGE DUFRESNE.)
Paris, Aug., 12.—The recent narrow
guards. At the beginning of la&t escape from the war with Germany
month it seems that tw'o revolution- which most Frenchmen openly admit
ary socialists had given umbrage at would probably have resulted in
the Guerre Sociale, the revolutionary another “debacle,” has enormously
organ. They were invited to appear, strengthened the Bonapartist cause
and as soon as one of them entered and has added to the followers of
the room of the revolutionary paper Prince 'Victor Napoleon hundreds of
the doors w'ere shut, and he was i thousands of Frenchmen who care
surrounded by men w'hQ aimed their; little for him personall.\', but who
revolvers at him. He w'as told then and i convinced that if France is to
''fiuen i.osseis independence of
• - '• '' '"^I'manV so tat as !0|n:iha and si’irit. and many succeed in
• old aiMes and et^Tijjjp-s battle by ihe possession of
-I ’0 '>riendi'll;> isolateu po-hhe&e qualices. But in the case of a
-• r. '-'.ere on>'e so Mro-'.d of. great number a hom through ill-luck
• •-’.;-.r.--i; ~ of which are now clear-.or lack of opportunity, have not
-ea'.:.:e1 If German.' wants war|i)een successful, the native inde-
' a ~;r.e!e rower she will ne\ er I pp^rience becomes warped into a
L -r E'.rope. species of class s’lspicion and even
~ ~ , gaming more and [ hgij-ed. and they take their political
'»erma;'.^’5 sudden moveivie\is from anv source other than
was caused by her fear,that of the better classes. This class
Fr.;n».e9 declared intentions of j§ often increased in intensity
a black army to send U,y the lack of unity and co-operation
!;st t ie Germans in case of an- among the classes in parts of the
■' -.r ’ M.ir .ind !' is confirmed by Scotland. It is un-
’: Berlin, which assert;® doubted that in Scotland, in the coun-
•. .T 'iie F;ench have for years la- Lj-v, there is not the same life of
-‘^ntea the increased superiority of and take between the rich and
German population and rate of,^j,p poor as there is in'England. For
rease over France.’ ithis the rich, and particularly the
T ■> make up for this inferiority on j landowners, are often to blame, as
’ !•’•(•n-'h ^ side the directors o^jin man,'’ cases they are "absentees”
r'av.i'O'.cy • ha\e adopted during the sporting season,
.r. to:rr.!ng an immense force when present attend what is to
most Scotsmen an alien Church—
MRS. CLINCH SMITH
Paris. August, 12.—The latest American woman to achlcve fame !n Paris
is Mrs. Clinch Smith, formerly Miss Bertha Birnes, of Chicago, who has
captured the French capital with a waltz she- has just composed. It is
called the “Waltz Marie/’ and is her sixthteenth composition.
The “Waltz Marie” is now the fav-brite of bj.uleyards, cafes and draw*
ing-rooms. It rivals the popularity of Tammany,.a song which swept Paris
from Maxim's to the Moulin Rouge a few years ago.—News Note.
n-jr’-;ke native*; from Northern
,-.-n K>•
Aiidir ar.; .
h ^
' ■ .inirr.f .ar.
‘ ’ T' ‘ r:'
1 ...... . f . Vc
h, in ("ase of a war be-
namely, the Scottish Episcopalian.
■■t;d Germany, jv-ili be i . short.” he concluded, ”there is.
; •= fo ^’.r•?nz^..e^ t-.e L^j.^ -.vhcle. a lack of endeavor on
t ~ better-off people in
'■'r-r-'.-.r.z.-, .0; ountry to win the local people
:o 'hem and to show- them the value
01 class unity and mutual respect and
co-or‘=“ ration."
A.zer:a
THE FIRST TAXICAB
Enzii'i
.'..-.-rrr
rr^-^-
, _ . ' Ta.\icab=. ar? rather automatic regis-
’ ter; attached to horse ca’us were in-
' if ' about 6L10 A. D.. during the
hi an e-Afn-i T ang Dynasty in China.—Hannah
.■> grave militKry con-
.t;c ni'.rt engage the at-
';'!u’..*.n statesm'^-n and
r V,-
out
j “Eastern Asia." Stokes.
No Damage Ftom
Electric Display In
The Political Sky
there that he was before a revolution
ary tribunal and was to be tried as a
traitor who had given information to
the police. Questions were put to him
with revolvers pointed at him. His re
fusal to answer was followed by his
being to run, astl w^ere, the gauntlet
In improved revolutionary fashion.
Every man present thumped and
pounded him until every bone in his
body ached.
Then two members of the “tribunal”
went to his room and announced them
selves as examining magistrates. They
compelled the concierge to open the
door and took aw'ay all the papers and
objects w-hich they deemed fit. It was
only later that the concierge learned
that she had been imposed upon. The
second man w-as treated in the same
way, and as he refused to answer he
w'as condemned to be executed. A re
volver was fired off at his back, but it
was only to frighten him. He obstinate-
maintain her ploce among the great
nations of the world some way must
be found of establishing a firmer
government—a government which
does no reel at the slightest breeze.
The prevailing feeling towards
England here is one of gratitude,
because the British government did
not fail to show its faithfulness to
the entente cordiale in a critical mo
ment but back of this gratitude is a
feeling that Germany would have
been taught a much needed lesson
and have been forced to eat hum
ble pie if England and France had
sent a warship each to Agadir imme
diately after the arrival there of the
French gunboat Panther.
Had this been done Germany
would never have dared propose that
France, without any apparent reason
but the monetary weakness of her
government, should cede to Germa
ny part of one of her most profita-
, • i. j u j j , • I ble colonies. To avoid a repetition
ly resisted, however, and he and his , inincident of this kind a grow-
colleague were kept prisoners in a majority of the French people
dark room for three days. The police
had got wind of these doings, and
would have arrested the revolutionary
^ards, but for the fact that the two
victims refused to bring a complaint.
But a third case enabled the police to
apt.
; The revolutionists broke into the
room of a third colleague, w'ho was
also accused of being a traitor. But
the room was occupied by a young
woman, his friend, w'ho was indignant
at the proceeding. She did not have
the same scruples as the others, and
she roundly denounced the revolution
ary guards to the police. An interrup
tion was, therefore, made into the
offices of the Guerre Sociale, and al-
are sighing for the appearance of a
man with some of thee haracteristics
of the great Napoleon to grasp the
reins of government and save the
country from the eternal changes
which are sapping its vital strength,
ruining the respect for t’le laws and
degrading France in the eyes of the
w'orld.
Most alarming of all is the indis
putable facts that these continual
changes are affecting the efficiency of
the French army to such an extent
that not only is it at present any
thing but ready for a big war but it
looks as if it is not even ready for
the usual great annual manoeuvres
in the north, which are, so to speak,
Sillicus—"But how does a fellow
, ! really know when he is in love?”
!.'■ r-if'a. the armier noire gjj.j ^gUg
II only required to;
' dp\r.;.);fyi and increased The
rr- *nobilization and trans-
■'1'" -'il to l.e developed or
■ T:. h!*^nh armiei' noire of
''"•1 :'’i”m‘d around its
' * ‘iii^rd the formidable
fhe Foreign Le-
tMr. whn-p »hen thousand desperate
■ ‘■• •';ins Jcrm one of the most effl-
' 'ell a^ one of the most
which ever
, .*'i n- irri.ii 'rade in ancient
•' ' '*'1^ 1!. times.
• f ;• • h‘- Whole of the enormous
s| r er f)f Krance'F African Empire
: is ^epf or restored, the
natrolled or extended, frlend-
’ Irir.- ' n-.uurafed and hostile sul-
“ ■ . ( i oi sl^in by companies
a;.'] .tiir-np of native troops of
■'1.0.- and race? all raagnifi-
■ !._ht;n material, and splendidly
iutd rirtudled by Fren'‘h of-
i'rf-n'-n par!i->ment the nec-
'■ "t '1p'•• !-jp’rir: the immense re-
nf l-reri'-h African fighting
r.; t, L.'is he^n orenlj advocated
iii'-J anpp^ed l.v leaders of all par-
■Vp ran raise two hundred thous-
n i, .i million men,” is t},e boa.st ot
*T adm!ni?;t rfitors and dashina;
»I n-!.:T;der. v r.o have led the Al-
?':'.in T;raiileurB and the Toucou-
leu:- nfie- all over the Sahara.
T if-rp ran he "no doubt that the
r. rrrip noir^ is already a formidable
and that the Berlin general
is av.Tre of ita possibilities.
l)0d.‘ of the Senegal sharpshoot
er.'^ has !»een recently rbrought to
assist in the campaign in Morocco;
;’nd the n*»w troops have proved a
'aiu.'ihle reinforcement. The non-Arab
n.jfive.- indeed recommend them
selves to the French officers by rhar-
ar teristics of bravery. Some Pagan
tares also are admirable soldiers,
and possess the additional advantage
in French eyes of being entirely
proof against the Influence of the
ze.il of priests of Islam who never
realh acrept any rule but that of
.Moslems.
The enormous empire of France
in Africa is now known to possess
not (nly Inexhaustible wealth of all
k'nflR, but als) the materials of a
LTeiit and formidable army of devot-
*^d followers r-T their Frenrh com-
msndtrs. Thij? Is beyond doubt “a
new siination; and it would be ;o
trif’e with tha gravest facts if ve
wfre not to recognize that “some
thing has haprened” which Geriiuin
poli-y cannot be expected to ij.'-
nore.
In domestic politics, the leaders of
the conservaMve party have begun to
realize that unless they succeed in
winning a large number of seats in
Srotland, the unionists, the G. O. P.
of Great Britain, will never be suffi
ciently strong in numbers to return
MRS. AVA WILLING ASTOR
London, August 12.—The news of
Colonel Astor’s engagement to Made-
lene Talmage Force, the eighteen-
year-old school girl, has apparently
had no appreciable effect upon Mrs.
Ava Willing Astor, his divirced wife.
She continues her round of social
pleasures undisturbed, and seems only
intent upon attracting further atten
tion by a lavish display of her will-
known taste for dress.
At “Glorious Goodwood” this week
she Outshone her hostess, Mrs. Wil
liam James, and all the assembled
guests, by her splendid attire. Mrs.
Astor’s elaborate toilette and the In
terest that now surrounds her, made
her the center of attrfaction among
the list of guests that included some
of the most famous peeresses in Eng
land and Europe.—Newt Note,
BY FREDERICK WEARNER)
Berlin. Aug. 13.—The summer, which
a month ago looked as if it were going
to be particularly hot ^or the states
men of Europe, has fortunately-prov
ed itself quite harmless. The war
clouds which seemed to be gathering
everywhere in the Balkans, in Moroc
co and along the Pyrenese have again
disappeared after a display of bril
liant but harmless lightning.
^ hen the Kaiser left on his usual
Norwegian summer cruise everyone
imemdiatelj’ realized that no crisis Was
expected and that the Morocco (Ques
tion was to be settled without the roar
of cannons. FVance was to be scared
a little, partly because the German
government, in view of an approaching
election, wished to impress upon the
minds of her voters the inadvisability
of being too harsh with a set of
statesmen, who if not popular at home,
at least had succeeded in making Ger
many respected and feared abroad,
and partly because the German gov
ernment considered the moment oppor
tune for adding to German possessions
in Africa.
In reality international peace was
not in danger for a single moment.
Germany was perfectly sure of w'hat
w’ould happen. She knew' that Eng
land would back up France, and this
was w’hy no German troops were land
ed at Agadir which might have embar
rassed a German diplomatic retreat,
should it become necessary.
The stratagem w'as a success. The
German voters were treated to the
sight of France in a state of terror
and confusion because the German
eagle flapped its wings, and. this done,
the good effect was driven home with
a faint clanking of sw'ords and a beat
ing of military arms in the press.
The final and most conclusive proof
that the whole affair was arranged for
dramatic effect was given w'hen Rus
sia, in the very midst of the "crisis”
and before anybody knew officially the
^■esult of the “conversations,”, con*
tracted to issue a one hundred million
mark loan in Germany. By‘opening
negotiations for this loan, the Czar’s
government plainly showed that in St.
Petersburg at least, nobody considered
the Agadir, incident as anything but
a piece of international bluff. A
country that is thinking of going to
war is not the place to place uninvest
ed cash..
In England, where brains always
seem to work slower than anywhere
else in Europe, it was much later real
ized that German action was not
meant to be an insidious attack upon
the Franoo-British entente, and thef
much discussed speech of Lloyd
George, in which he issued a veiled
though most of the guards had taken | (jress rehearsals of a v,ar wuth the
French patriots believe that a victo
rious w'ar is just what their country
needs to arouse it from its present
wsettl^d state. The French people
js|| a w'hole dote on their army and
cj^nsider it the, finest and strongest In
t^e world. They hesitate to measure
its strength against Germany for the
memories of 1870 are still too vivid,
but with Spain it would be another
flight, three of their number have
been arrested.
Very Mysterious
Tiagedy in Town
kaiser’s legions.
In the last few months France has
had no less than four ministers of
w’^ar; General Brun, M. Boreaux, Gen
eral Coinan and M. Mossiny, each
of them with a distinct system of
his own. To the confusion result
ing from experimenting witn these
various systems comes the fact that
Paris, August 12.—A mysterious' the long military occupation of the
maue"r:“an7canalej'as"i^d weu'Xi'this little town ! ev'v
he stopped irritatin^ the Galic fichtine ■ Samt-Severm, near Angouleme, as much money as there nas ev .r
“ w^here a parish priest the Abbe Guib-} been some talk of giving up the
ault was shot in his ow'n rectory and ■ great manoeuvres this year from mo-
Portueal “is heroicallv after refusing- to tell the name i tives of economy. Germany’s sudden
lie is now firmly established and that! Guibault had been sbme 1 ti^ons, however, quickl> commced
a return of the.dynasty-Braganza is al-'f.^’®“^y parish, ^nd was eovernment of the unwisdom ot
together impossible, but somewhow and esteemed by all his parish-
J^uropean ' diplomats hesitate to be-i^®“®^®- rectory,
lieve that the Portuguese people are Wednesday morning had been
hanpy and satisfied with the new form ^’^ceiving a number of callers. At
of government. The fact is that were to his room to rese him-
a referendum to settle the matter it,®^^^’ there was another call. He
w’ould lindoubtelv be seen by the Por- went dow’n the stairs that
tuguse vote that the countrv was in to the vestibule, which was dark
favor of'the re-establishing of'the mon- because the house door was shut, when
archy, not because it has any particu- 1^® was suddenly fired on by someone
lar love for its profligate young ex-'’^’lth a gun and wounded under the
king, but because the people are de-'j^-^'- The shot was heard by a number
vout Catholics and the priests are ^of neighbors, who hurried to the
preaching day and night that the pres- house. The priest came stumbling out
ent republican government is in league the vestibule, walked a few steps
with the evil one and must not be sup- in the yard, and then fell on the grav-
ported by any true Christian. jSl- As he was being raised up, he said
To offset the exhortations of the! that the man who shot him w’as still in
clergy the government is trying to the house. "I pardon him,” he added,
prove that Manuel and his whole fam- ■ but this was all that could be obtained
the government of the unwisdom
such a step and General Regnault ac-
pathy. The French army ha? now
unique advantage of possessm^
admirable service of militar'. '■
planes. 7'hese aeria! St. Mi, i
will l>e The angel.s to insnir--
French troops to deeds of va' -
The French minister of conr ^
-\I. Couyba, made an aniusin.
fession at a banquet the o'lie'-
ing. One of the s;;eakers \'.'-
ceded him had spoken in en-r;
terms of the new ministers
ot work, and the minister o:
nierce. rising to reply, said iv .;
that his trouble was ',4^ i.
not allowed to work enou
“Nobody knows,■' said M. r 1,1 '
‘‘until he has held ministerial .
what the life really mean?.
think that 1 spend mv day wnr .
You are entirely wrong, I shor- i :
to. I believe that it would be r
ter thing for France if I werp ^ .
allowea to v, ork, but as a ma'i ■
fact I spend my day, and so
my colleagues, in being intern;; .
‘‘La Bruyere said that no :r
ter was so busy that he could ■
afford to lose two hours a day, T
fact of the matter is that every u
ister wishes that he could find ' ■ -
hours in his day for quiet unin - •
rupted work. Unfortunately, ’ -
whole of our time is taken Ui. c
visits, and we do not get two ho . -
uninterrupted work in a month. A-
for Sundays, the ministers are i- .■
only citizens of the republic wh- -
Sundays are untouched by the 1:
of weekly rest, "^’e have to open ^
lie buildings, unveil statues, oivr.
exhibitions and preside at ceremoi".
als of every kind.
“There are fift,v-tv.'o Sundays in •"
year,” he continued. “There .v
tv.elve ministers, and four under r '
retaries of state. So you can cai'.u
late for yourselves that a free Sun
day is an unheard of thing while " s
are in office.
“This frank confession was r'
ceived v.ith laughter, but it is mrv-
than likely that M. Couyba did U't
intend it altogether as a joke.
It has already been decided thit
Queen Wilhelminia will return the
visit o? President Fallieres by con;-
ing to spend a few days in Paris
next spring. The date is not yet fixoi.
but it will probably be in May, ar.l
this reminds one of a curious, r ::
natural, incident having to do v ^ .
the visits, of heads of state, which
worth while recording.
M. Fallieres has no very great li’;-
ing for journeys, and when souie
time ago his visit to Belgium was be*
ing arranged, it was understood that
the president should go on to Hol
land and enable the one “deplace
ment’’ to suffice for the two visit?.
When this wa s brought to Qur •
Wilhelmina's notice, she replied tb,.*
she would be delighted to receive ■■
president, but that she hoped that h®
companied by the most prominent would also pay a special visit
members of the general staff are
now' at St. Quentin to make an in
spection. On his return he v.ill at
once lay a plan for the manoeuvres.
The army’s progress since 1905 has
been continuous. Anti-militarism has
no success among the peasants, w-ho
after all are the real fighting mate
rial of France. OfScers and men un
derstand each other very well, and
there is mutual confidence and sym-
Hoiland—entirely and solely for H'''!-
land. This, of course, was a ro; .1
comm.and. and therefore the ^ i- '
to Holland after the Belgian visit
countermanded, and special arrange
ments were made for a state vir;
to Holland by sea in the cruiser
“Edgar-Quinet” which obviated
need of the president setting ::'f
on any territory except France auu
Holland.
ily are traitors to Portugal. But,
somehow^ stories like the.one recently
from him.
In spite of all medical attendance,
circulated—that a trunk had been the priest soon succumbed, and, though
found in the royal palace containing. he could have given the name of his
papers in w hich the king promised aggressor, he refused to do so. A gun
Germany and England all the Portu-jwas found in the vestibule, and a
guese colonies if they w’ould crush thte neighbor at once recognized it as his
revolution—do not find credence in' own. He was astonished and wondered
Portugal jhow it had been stolen from him. His
That the republican form of gov- garden adjoins that of the priest and
ernment is far from being firmly estab- ] he usually kept the gun loaded In a
lished is amply pro.ved by, the reluc- little shed. The man who took it must
tance of England and Spain to recog-^ have known this, and it was easy
to walk from one garden into the other,
as the gate was never closed. The
man probably closed the house door
behind him on purpose, and waited
w'ith his gun at the foot of the stairs,
then fired at the Abbe almost point-
blank.
• Not the slightest trace of his iden
tity has yet been discovered, and the
in the deepest
nize the Portugues republic.
The old story, R^issian local fam
ines, with their strange, almost in
credible, concomittants amongst the
still benighted peasantry, is being re
peated again this summer. From the
interior come reports of attempts to
drcrwn old w-omen accused of caus
ing the drought by disfiersing the rain-
clouds, of watering graves where vil- tragedy is shrouded
lage drunkards have been buried, and mystery,
similar mediaeval follies.
At the meeting, ten days ago. of
the Exchange committee of the towm
of Tomsk, where the first Siberian ex
hibition will beheld, it was confirmed
that almost’ a ;complete', famine'is ex
pected in western Siberia the great
granary of Siberia in general. This
warning to Germany, shows that even year’s harvest is estimated at 80 per
this clever statesman had been ta
ken in. It will, therefore, probably
be some time before England realizes
that the entente Is considered favora
ble to Germany because it is anti
cipated that thereby Germany wil^ be
able to obtain British acquiescence in
any agreement arrived at with France,
In Spain the mistake was made, dur
ing the earlier stages of the i^Iorocco
embroglio, of considering it in too se
rious a light and the government tried
the rather risky experiment of play
ing to the gallery by a series of more
or less deliberate Insults to France,
which came dangerously near provok
ing a war. Evidently the Spanish
government thought to please Gei'
many and many w'ere those who
saw in Spain nothing but a German
agent provocateur. Germany, how
ever, lost no time in warning Madrid
and as soon as it was realized that
Spain would have to fight her own bat
tles Spanish statesmen tumbled all
over each other in their eagerness to
apologize to France.
In France a w'ar with Spain would
have been popular, because many
cent, below that iQf ’last . year.
In
Two Killed In
Mountain Climb
Chamoinx, Augu&t, 12.—An unusual
mountaineering accident occurred at
many districts there will be no seed, paiguille de Plan, near Chamonix. M.
i! ^ I t. 1. Icaillet, brother of the mayor of Tou-
The ministry of the Interior has ob- ^g0^ and a guide named Leon Sim-
tained the following particulars from
other regions;
Germany Oideis
Frenchman Out
Northeastern European Russia: Ex
tremely bad crops. In the province of
Perm, total failue of wheat and grass.
Region of .Tomsk in a similar condi
tion. In several of the Volga provinces,
the crops are 60 and 75 per cent below
last year's yield. Odessa and Rostoff
regions, 30 to 40 per cent, less.
On the other hand,’ the harvest in
the central and western provinces
promise to be very satisfactory.
false HAIR FROM SILK.
. f^.udon, Aug. 12.—Hair made from
silk is the latest invention of fa&hion.
This hair comes from Germany, and
IS made of artificial silk. It has the
Paris, August 12.—Germany has Ju&t
ordered the expulsion of a French rev
olutionary and anti-militarist. The
victim is M. Yvetot, secretary of the
French trade unions, one of the revo
lutionary figures of the general labor
confederation. He was present in Ber
lin as a representative at the inter
national labor congress.
Although M. Yvetot has been prose
cuted several times in French and anti
military propaganda, he is still one
of the leaders of the Confederation
and he Ts the author of recently pub
lished manual for soldiers, in which
new recruits are incited to desert from
the army in case of a declaration
9f war.
Here in France the speech would
have been considered somewhat tame.
M. Yvetot said at the meeting that
W'ar was a folly, and that those re
sponsible for it were imbeciles; and
he declared that if war w'ere declared,
those same authorities would see
w'hether the people would not fight
against other enemies than the intend
ed ones, and whether they would
fight against other enemies than the
intenied ones, and whether they would
not make quite an unexpected use of
their arms.
The speech made quite a sensation on
his German socialist comrades, and
Herr Lutien, a deputy of the Reich
ond w’ere killed, through the former | stag, answered in his satirical w'ay that
stumbling against a stone. j Pi’ench revolutionary methods might
The party consisted of M. Gaillet,' 1^0 good for French, but were not for
a friend and two guides. They had German socialists.
tf
MLLE. LUCIE DELARUE MARDRUS
ascended 12,000 feet when M. Gaillet j^jext day a policeman -was sent with ' arr
stumbled against a stone and fell an order expelling M. Yvetot from the
Cairo, Egype, August 12.—^Egypt’
are today comment:
against Simond. The guide in attempt- country but, perhaps having been remarkable resemblance
ing to save himself caught hold of warned,’he had decamped, nor has any Lucie Delarue-Mardrus to
fell over the precipice, to be dashed
to death on the rocks below.
further trace of him yet been found, ‘sphinx of the Pharoahs, her strange
As a result of searches this morning demeanor and her assertion that
on the premises of the “Guerre So- • *1. • • , ^
ciale,’’ a number of anti-militlrists /e.ncarnat.on of “She'- a, ^
documents were seized, and two revolu- sphinx was molded r '
tionaries were arrested many weeks Mile. Lucie has campau
in the shadow of the great Sphinx ar3
ARRESTED FOR SHOPLIFTING i‘challenged visitors to refute her asser
JAMES LEWIS DEAD.
London, Aug. 12.—James Lewis, 82,
the recluse of Lower Fishguard is
dead. For the last 20 years he has
Paris, Aug. 12 —Five voune ladies *he sphinx was
existed on shell-fish and lived in his havA been arrested in n iaro-1 woman, pointing out the resemblanse
covered trawler, beached at Lower rtum aw the ooer» on . T.rt?
tevtnro f 1 Fishguard. He never varied his diet-j shop-lifting Thev wer^ trf hi a® Her action created widespre.’-
th« ^ dyed'ary except when shell-fish was scarce, | members of a PortnmiAco i?r,hio she acquired a great fo; '
silk tf ^ natoral'hair. The-and then he substituted bread and ' ruined bv th» rpvnin^l!f i?r^ '"9 among the natives, and there are
washed, and when cheese. I [n^h« /rt '^^o accept lite;a!Iy her
better than To within two davs of his death he oblisert t they were tion that she Is the reincarnated p’'o
ordinary artificial hair.. . - • - In robust healtL ' I of totype of the Riddle of the Ages.^
supporting their rank. ^ News Note.
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