Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-12-31
ROCHEFORTS SON RETURNS FROM
THE CONGO A WRECK.


tween France and China. Big nations do not
usually indulge in such an operette of crack
ing one another's skulls and remaining at the
same time bosom friends. China will soon
have the occasion to demonstrate does she
mean fight. or has she only "a sWashing and
martial outside" What retains France from
precipitating matters is the league of the peu-
ters, where Germany figures side by side with
psrtde AI6i0R. France has never yet produced
the Hue treaty that she caused to be signed
la mode Tunisia. That document China will
Yellow and Black book. A cartoon
represents Tonquin as a pig, the Chinese
pulling at the tail, and the French at
the ears, to see who is to possess the lard. M.
Waddington, on the breakup Of the Berlin
Congress boasted, with eyes turned sky-ward,
that France was the only power that quit the
meeting with ''cleau hands," We know now,
that he had the Tunis seizure scheme with
the Khroumir overture at that time in his
pocket. Since then note the progress of the
t'clean hands" policy-Madegascar, the
Congo, Oceanica and Tonquin. One can apos-
trophise NJ. Waddingt0n with "You dirty
boyv'
RoCHEFORT's son, HENRI H.,
Brazza to the Congo as the rep
resentative of colonial young France, The
lad has returned wreck for the remainder
of his life. He was devoured, not by the
but by feVeb ehese me en mas his ofs father
soled him with the remark that wig-makers
and dentists being now terribly slack OF 3Iork,
owing the badness Of Ministers, he wou>d have
him made up as good as new. but on condition
that he was cured forever of the colonization
craze. Young Rochefort views Rrazza as
visionary. Like the Mahdj, he is
hard up for cash, aga pocket
assignats. Brazza recalls the tme, 1t seems.
when man, free as nature made him. wild
in woods the noble savage RAM" he goes
naked. but that is doubtless to win the good
graces of the natives, for imitation is the best
form of fiattery. He is vegetarian, as he
lives only on cocoanuts and bananas, II the
inhabitants give them to aim. he is a tenn
perance man, as he drinks only water. so his
feats of s'pedestrianlsm" ought to be noted by
hydopists. Brazzas ambition is simply to
keep moving, like the Wandering jew. What
pity not to practlcany PACK up such @ an .ea, en-
his mission is loves labor lost, as the railway
from the Red Sea to the Soudan-wind.
weather ana Mahdis permitting-would,w with
extensions, be the Oest route to tap Central
Africa.
ROSA BoNHEUR's LEGION OF FRIENDS AND
ADMIRERS
must be prepared for the worst in respect to
that great artias. She has obtained moment
ary relief from her internal cancer-the mala-
DIV that carried off her mother when Rosa was
only four years old. The artist is now in her
sixty-second year, and still continues, when
health permits, to give her services, as she has
done for years. gratultously, 10 the School OF
Design for Girls, but it is her sister that prac-
tically conducts that school now.
Mile. Resale Bonheur, that her school
mates bmptised "Rosa" for shortness, is rich,
as she coald ever name her own price for her
paintings, and the purchasers. almost wholly
English and Americans, bespeak them years
i'll advance as they did Deavoche's. Her
life was hard struggle in its youth time.
A native of Bordeaux, she came to Paris with
her father when nine years OF age, but he had
to send her and her two brothers and sister
TO a boarding school in order to leave him free
to gain a livelihood as artist designer.
A all or Aa1f n RnSqJ9
Rosa was one Of the ''jolliest girls in the
schools;n was unequal in romps and ready
wit; that she had the habit of squatting
in corner and designing her class.
m ates with rapidlty and surety of
touch, that Chain only could mate 1t was
this precocious talent for designing that de-
cided her father to bring her home and edu-
cate her III mself. She became not only his
favorite pupil but also his housekeeper. But
what energy she had in her teens. She went
alone during several years, to cattle markets
and central slaughter houses, to study groups
of animals. In order to avoid the curiosity of
drovers, butchers. and the peculiar frequent
ers of the above places, she adopted masculine
toilets, and la later years forgot to reappear
in her old clothes. This motive was cOmpre-
hensible: not vagary or eccentricity, as in
the case of George Sand.
ROSA WAS EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE
when she exhibited her first pictures at
the Salon oil 1910. These were two small
paintings rabbits nibbling carrots and tur-
nips. Her sister, Madame PeyrOl, is the pos
SCISSOR of the pictures, and treasures them as
an heirloom. Rosa's second grief was the
death of her teacher and father in 1919. Love
for him and Tor art closed her heart for any
third affection. save that for her family. When
diving he begged Rosa to bring him the last
picture she had ompleted-Ldb0urdge nieer-
aais She did so, sobbngly, to his bedside.
He took her two hands in his and, endeavor-
ing to smile, expired.
In 1853 appeared her celebrated "Horse
Fair" and in 1855 "Haymaking in Auvergne,"
and now in The Luxembourg Museum. 1t
was the Empress Eugenie that not only in
sisted on Rosa being decorated with the
Legion of HonOr-rarely conferred on the fair
seX-but having succeeded pinned the red
ribbon herself ON the artists breast.
Mile. BonheJr is also sculptor, but her pro-
ductions in this line have added nothing to
her fame. Her brother is a fair sculptor, the
other brother being painter OF average
talent. She resides at FOntainebleau, that
hallowed ground of artists. and during the in
vasion the Kron PrinZ of Prussia ordered her
residence to be carefully protected. Forming
an ante-chamber to her studio is stable
horses, Sheep etc, that she purchases herself
for subjects. Thus she is surrounded by all
that can develop and keep up that strength
and surety of design, and the grand charac-
ter Of her landscapes, for which she is distin-
guished. She draws from nature and the die
tates of her heart, and, despite what some de-
scribe as her vagaries, she remains woman
above all-the Corinne, more beautiful at
Leucade than at the summit OF the Capitol.
LIVELY QUARREL IS GOING ON
respecting the salubrity Of Nice this winter.
1t is said fever is in the air, like the volcanic
fiery dust of Java, that philosophers assert re-
Gently produced rsupply OF aurora boreallI.
This is unfortunate for Nizza la Bella and the
International Winter Exhibition that some
spectators hsLve organized. However, an
epidemic Of sOTne kind is as much an attribute
OF a worlds fair as an augmentation in hotel
tariffs. Fortuna ately, only sturdy invalids go
to Nice. to avoid the coughing streets of Men
tone.
or two, and this is, perhaps, due to the new
law, which allows the Magistrates to deal
summarily with ''loafers," the stratum of the
population which furnishes the perpetrators
Of all crimes.
NJ. de Lesseps has escaped being blown
up with kind of dynamite SNUFF box, so
for the future he refuses to accept
tabetieres as souvenirs. He only hopes to be
spared TO assist at the Inauguration Of his
Panama, and make things pleasant all round
for Suez. Then he will chant his Bunc DtDait-
tbs.
cape; while pursuing his lawful calling the
Philistines visited his bedroom, and next to
gutted it. All his clothing was taken, save
very old pair of pantaloons, in which he kept
ali his fortune, 30.0C0 francs in large bank
notes stitched IN the lining. Old friends are
best.
AS THE PIPING TIMES OF PEACE
are perhaps destined soon to cease for France,
may explain why the artillerists paid extra
honors to tile anniversary of their saint and
patroness a few days ago-Salnte Barbe.
This lady, Sc dear to the sons of a gun, was
native of Nicomedia, and existed about the
year 235. Her father was a rich noble, but
cruel and barbarous, as well as a no-surren-
der Pagan. Sainte Barbe was very beautiful
and an heiress. To protect both, her father,
Dioscore, built tower. and locked her there
in when away on business She declined to
marry the husband selected for her, as he was
a pagan; but, further, she had resolved to
wed no mortal Her father then handed her
over to the Project of the Province, one Mar
ciau; but she would not renounce Christian
itv, despite scourgings and scratchings with
broken earthenware; her head was pounded
with hammers, and her sides raked with
heated iron combs. But no use. At last she was
condemned to be executed, and her father
having solicited, was allowed to be heads
man. Hardly had he performed his barbarous
act, when he was struck dead by a thunder
bolt. CannOns being the thunder of war, thus
became associated with the poor Saints fate.
Miners, and all who live by gunpOwder, also
select her as their patroness.
Efforts are being made to obtain free par
don for the Prince Krap0tkine, and petitions
keep pouring In on President Grevy. 1t is
the opposition of Russia that stops the way
Now that the latter has taken again to hirta-
tions with Bismarck. the literary prisoners
chances Of being liberated are greater
An association has been just formed for ex-
tending knowledge OF the French language
in foreign lands. Only one means to effect
this-emigration, and such cannot be relied
on. At the rate the Anglo-SaxOn language
is expanding. French. before many genera
tions. may be limited to France.
THE ocTovI, OK BARRIER DUES, OF PARIS
are on the decline, for products are taxed at
the entrance OF each town, well as at the
frontier. In the case OF the capital. the aimi-
mutton Is chiefly under the heads of building
materlals-house erectiOns now being ah&n-
uohel. But tnere mas been terrible increase