The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-02-19
FAURE FEARED SHANE
Gutter Journalism BIaCkmail-
ed Him to His Death.
ANGLOPHOBIA IN FRANCE
Niceans Hiss a Stage Queen
ViCtoria--BritiSh Gossip,
ANGLOPHOBIA IN FRANCE

CCopvrighted, 1899, by Associated Press-)
Ton6on. Feb 1S.-There is little doubt
that the Dreyfus crisis and the scurrilous
attacks Of a portion of the Partisan papers
are largely accountable for President
Faure's sad end. The ''gutter papers
have been constantly raking up court in
cidents rejecting upon members Of NJ.
Faure's family, though not affecting the
honor Of President Faure personally. Only
on Thursday last the Libre Parole at
tackled the mother of NJ Faure's son-in-
law with reference to a house whicA It Is
claimed, she wants to force the city OF
Paris to purchase at her own price in or
der 10 prolong the Rue Mogdar. The
city officials, It further appears, found the
price exorbitant, and determined, rather
than pay the sum demanded, to make d
bend in the street. after offering her
larger and more valuable house lew
doors off, which she refused. The mat
ter vas taken. before the council Of state,
which decided against the proposition TO
make a bend IN the street. Thereupon the
..iobbery." implying that N. Faure eXer-
ctsed his influence in the interest OF MS
son-in-laws mother. The president was
much upset by this attack, foreseelng IN
II only the opening Of a campaign against
him The sudden death Of NJ. Faure has
not affected the program drawn up 1or
Queen Victoria's trip to the south OF
France She will go TO Cimiez un-ess
civil discord breaks out. The attitude OF
the people in the southern part OF the
French republic toward British subjects,
however. is still lfar from cordial and con-
siderable Indignation has been aroused
here by the anti-British demonstrations
which have been occurring there recently.
An English visitor at Nice writes that
twice when he attended an entertainment
at one of the chief pleasure resorts on
the eJtee Promenade, where an actress
gives limitations Of well-known women,
when the curtain was raised, displaying
Queen Victoria, and the band played God
Save the Queen" there was an outburst
from the well-dressed audience. one man,
it further appears, breaking forth into a
vol.ey Of invectives against her majesty.
The book OF the week, Love Letters Of
the Brownings," published on Wednesday
last. makes interesting reading, although
the story is simple. There is little variety
in the sentiment, and there are no lovers
uuarrels. Browning, writing in 1916 speaks
thus of the late James Russell Lowell:
He has refined fancy and is graceful, for
an American critic; but the truth is, he
knows nothing Of English poetry, or next
to nothing; and has merely had a dream
Of the early dramatists." About the same
time Mrs. Barrett had a proposal from
a firm OF Boston publishers to collect and
edit certain letters. She asked his opin-
ION on the subject. and Browning, reply
ing and advising her to accept, character
ling the offer as a ''good, straightforward
un-American thing" at the same time in
Inmates that American publishers are
given to printing incorrect copies and
"eking out with supposititious matter, as
they did with the book of Dickens" But
he adds: st like the progress of these
Americans in taste; their amazing leaps,
like grasshoppers up to the sun"
Mrs. Bradley-Martin, It IS now asserted.
has decided finally TO take up her resi-
dence altogether in England and sell her
New York establishment. She intends to
entertain lavishly during the coming Lon
don season.
Mr.. Joseph Chamberlain. the secretary Of
state for the colonies has not yet recov-
cred from an attack Of govt, which con-
tinues painful, and he. whose proud pubic
boast was that he never took physical ex-
ercise. is now ordered by his doctors to
change his habits and indulge in moderate
cycling.
The engar cement Of the Earl OF Crewe