Omaha daily bee., 1899-02-26
Principal One Oenters Around an Intrigue
with a Popular Actress
NEW RULER is A TYPICAL BOURGEOIS
Mother Still Lives on the Little Farm
Where Loubet Was Born.
NOT ENCHANTED WITH HIS ADVANCEMENT
Position and Duties Prevent Her
from Seeing Her Boy-GnIa Events
will BE Few at EIysce Palace
During New Regime.

Copyright. 1892 by Press Publishing Coz
PARIS, Feb. 25--tNew York World Cable
am.-Specal Telegram )-Socialst Leader
Sebastian Faure, no relative OF the late
president has published in Echo du Peuple,
since copied in other papers, circum-
stantal account CT Felix Fanres last day to
substantiate the report that he was stricken
at the house of leading actress for whom his
admiration is declared to havabeen notorious.
! Sebastian further prints a plan of the
Elysee rooms, showing the late president
had had a private door constructed leading
through the gardens to the Rue de Lelysee,
through which II was his wont to depart
secretly to keep his assgnation. This whole
story is denounced by Temps as fabrca-
ton. but the impression created by its
circulation has induced NJ. lie Gall, Faure's
secretary, to give a narrative accounting for
every hour of the presidents time during
the day of his death, but Sebastian points
out lie Gall is unable to account for nearly
two hours of the presidents time in the
afternoon other than by stating he had re-
tired to his private apartments and this
! was precisely the hour at which 1t
serted he was taken i'll at the actress apart
ments. This scandal is the only matter
affecting President Faure in which Parsians
now take the slightest interest.
Drumont alleges Able Herzog who at
| tended the president, returned from sacristy
la madeleine before o'clock and informed
his fellow priests he had seen the president
| dead, but not at the Elysee, and had as
| sisted TO place the body in a carriage for
| conveyance to the Elysee. Drumont's theory
was that the president was poisoned while
| keeping an designation. There has been no
satisfa- ory explanation offered of the delay
in summoning Madame and Lucie Faure to
/ the bedside if the illness originated in the
| Elysee.
The Autorite alleges President Faure had
had repeated warnings of weak heart and
| deliberately elected TO commit suicide by
/ overtaxing his energies in wild reyels. Life
I had te9oIne an fntolerabie burden. He
sSos KEEP az ss.s i the 5le asfhaii-
ers who threatened full exposure of the
alleged fact that his wife's fortune, for
| which he married her, was the proceeds of
gross frauds, for which her father had
| feeced others. 1t is further alleged that
the families who were ruined by Madame
Faure's father had repeatedly appealed to
Faure for some restitution to raise them
from penury but he steadfastly refused
help.
Food for All Tongues.
al 10 ul5tuSSSS lOIulHB Dul lulS dSCuInu-
lation of Faure scandals, which, whether
well founded or not, have gained currency
and credence throughout the country. lie
Calls minute statement in refutation only
4 tended to give Importance to rumors which
might otherwise have vanished from recol-
lection in a few days.
Loubet will inaugurate a new social
regime at the Elysee. While occupying
the palace of Luxembourg as president of
the senate he has lived with extreme sim
plicity. He is a typical French bourgeois
with a taste for the classics. He cultivates
his mind incessantly. but has made little
! change in his mode OF living. His table
has oftener the oldfashioned garlic spiced
! dishes of the Meridional, whence he sprung,
than the newfangled Partisan confections.
His guests OF late have been more fire.
quenny acadcnicians than politicians and
he has said since his election to the preSi-
| dency: Il too fixed in my habits to
change now. | shall be Emile Loubet at
the Elysee, as l have always been. The
dignity of the presidency cannot be en-
/ tranced by any adventitious aids"
The Midi takes the elevation of its late
mayor to the highest position in the state
with little enthusiasm. Frederick Denis,
whose sister is Madame Loubet, owns an
ironmongery store in the little town, his
! father having come there as a tramp from
| Picardy, finding employment in nail
smiths. Madame Loubet grew up in this
shop where her father prospered, leaving a
! fortune OF 100000 francs to her brothers
| This was long after she had married NJ
Loubet, who proposed for her when she was
only 49, Frederick Denis, describing the
new president, said: Emile Loubet was
always up at 6, retires punctually at IL. He
! Is simply good fellow and an honest one.
| His father was a plain peasant, who lived
! by the sweat of his brow. The family farm
where Emile was born is at Marsanne four
miles from here. His mother lives there,
! though Sc, and is clear of eye and a good
walker She still wants TO do everything
/ for herself. Emile has passed through every
grade of civil authority from municipal
! councillor to president. The only regret We
have is We will not see him as often as
| formerly, and NJ. lie Protocol will doubtless
make IL difficult for us to get at him in
/ Paris. l have no political ambitions / am
/ an ironmonger and shall so remain. | have
worked hard for my living. Emile must
keep to the rules and order of economy
I which have brought him TO his high posi-
| tion or he will soon be ruined. / doubt IL
he can spend much money in excess Of his
official income. He has son and daughter.
The former is his private secretary The
latter Marguerite, is 27, and the wife of NJ.
soubeyran De ST. Pierre, magistrate of
| Marseilles."
Mother Typical Peasant.
The presidents mother when seen at her
farm exclaimed "Oh, my poor Emile. AS
It was l saw but little of him. Now he has
gone higher still, / shall no longer see
him at all"
She Is typical old peasant woman, with
sunburnt face the texture Of parchment, but
with fine expression withal A bright
gieam in her eyes is noticeable also In her
sons
you must be very happy. madame?"
Madame Loubet raises her eyes TO the
sky with an expression denoting she was
not so happy as might be imagined Then
I she asked did ] know her husband. con
I tinuinE. He was a bien brave homme