The age-herald., 1899-05-31
FOREIGN NOTES
 AND COMMENT

It Is surprising that respectable American newspapers should give space in their cole umns to the vapid utteranees of the Eng fish jailbird journalist, William T. Stead, who is hanging around The Hague in the hope of picking up crumbs from the peace conference table. Stead Is out for cash pri- marily, and after that such incidental no- toriety as may be turned into cash here after. Very few respectable persons in England have any respect for this man. He is almost universally regarded as a corrupt person, and he never has had any standing amongst the really worthy ele- ment of English life. He started out nearly fifteen years ago to make money by "re- forming" the morals of London. He was then quite young man, and his unsavory career as a moral "reformer" was cut short by his conviction of entieing away to France an innocent young girl. For this offense he was sent to prison for several months. His degradation and shame he turned to account by writing to his filthy sheet Letters From Her Majesty's Prison." Since then he has been ostenta- tousy wearing the cloak of the Christian religion, as & non-conformist of some sort. He has printed long imaginary interviews with the pope, the tsor, the German em- peror and others. Stead is not worthy the consideration of any respectable man.
 
 Rosa Bonheur, whom many critics main- tained had no superior in the range of art as painter of animals, always wore her hair short-cropped like a mans and she had a mans face and something of a mans figure Her home was near the famous palace and park of Fontainebleau, outside of Paris, the favorite country seat of the two emperors and familiar in ap- pearance to thousands of American trav- elers. She used to take long walks in the park and along the perfect country roads, dressed in a somewhat short skirt, wearing broad, heavy shoes and a wide-brimmed hat. Her entire appearance was very masculine, and her work resembled that of man. Her greatest picture, ''The Horse Fair" is in the Metropolitan mu- scum of art in New York.
 Benjamin Harrison, some time president of the United States. has been received at the palace of the Elysee in Paris by M. Loubet, president of France. The meeting must have been very interesting to any per- son who had perception enough to appre- ciate it, if there were any such, which Is doubtful. MT. Harrison springs from a long line of distinguished men who have served faithfully the cause of personal liberty, ever since a Harrison, as judge, condemned Charles I. to the scaffold He represents worthily one of the two na- tions of the earth that respect liberty Loubet, the son of a French peasant, and therefore springing from the meanest and most sordid class of Europe, is the head of a government which scorns liberty as a thing unclean. An, if Loubet had askeA Harrison for counsel and asserted the cour- age to abide by the Americans teachings!
 Former Premier Crispi, of Italy, now nearly 80 years old, who lost place and fortune by the terrible defeat of his countrymen in Abyssinia in 1S96 now seeks to explain. As old a man as he should have learned that explanations never ex- plain in politics.
 At time when America is spending mii- lions for more territory, Canada ought to have more discretion than to ask for a slice of Alaska. iAh,
 LUCIEN JULIEN WALKER.