The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-02-18
BITTER FEELING
Existing Against England in
Parts of France
Leads to Kisses at Queen Vic
tOria's Picture.
ONLY AN OUTBREAK
Will Stop Her From Going
There For a Holiday.
Paris Papers Said to Have Has
tened Faure's Death.


London, Feb. 1S.-The mild weather
prevailing here contrasts forcibly with
the cold weather in the United States.
For some days past the sunshine in
London has been summer like and the
reports of the terrible weather exper-
fenced in America have been read with
amazement. The temperature over the
greater part of Europe is fairly high.
The Daily Chronicle epitomizes the
general feeling with the cry: God bless
the Gulf stream
The sudden death of NJ. Felix Faure,
president of the French republic, has
not affected the programme drawn up
for Queen Victoria's trip to the south
of France: She will go to Chinese un-
less civil discord breaks out.
The attitude of the people IN the
southern part of, the French repuDIc
towards British subjects, however, IS
still far from cordial and considerable
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
Jetee promenade where an actress gives
limitations of we'll known women, when
the curtain was raised displaying Queen
Victoria and the band played 'GoO
Save the Queen" there was an outburst
of Kisses and groans and shouts OF
Down with the English" from the well
dressed audience, one man, it further
appears, breaking forth into volley of
invectives against her majesty.
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
incidents rejecting upon members of M.
Faure's family, though not affecting the
honor of President Faure personally
Only on Thursday last the Libre Parole
attacked the mother of NJ. Faures SON
in-law with reference to a house which,
it is claimed, she wants to force the city
of Paris to purchase at her own price
in order to prolong the Rue MOgdar.
The city officials, it further appears,
found the price eXorbitant and detern
ined rather than pay the sum demand
ed to make a bend in the street after
offering her a larger and more valuable
house few doors off, which she refused.
The matter was taken before the coun-
Gil of state, which decided against the
proposition to make a bend in the street
Thereupon the Libre Parole denounced
the decision as "jobbery," implying that
! M Faure exercised his influence in the
interest of his son-in-law's mother. The
president was much upset by this at
tack, foreseeing in it only the opening
of a campaign against him
BOOK OF THE WEEK.
The book of the week, Love Letters
of the Brownings," published on We'd
nesday, makes interesting reading al
though the story is simple there is lit
tie variety in the sentiment, and there
are no lovers Quarrels. Browning writ
ing in 1S45 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 dream of the early
dramatists."
About the same time Mrs. Barrett had
a proposal from a firm of Boston pub
fishers to collect and edit certain let
ters. She asked his opinion on the sub
ject and Browning, replying and advis-
ing her to accept, characteriZing 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: Il like the progress of these
Americans in taste; their amazing
leaps, like grasshOppers, up to the SUM-
Mrs. Bradley-Martin, it is now as
serted, has decided finally to take up
her residence altogether in England and
sell her New York establishment. She
intends to entertain lavishly during the
coming London season.
Mr.. Joseph Chamberlain, the secre-
tary of state for the colonies. has not
yet recovered from an attack of gout
which continues painful and he whose
proud public boast was that he never
took physical exercise, is now ordered
by his doctors to change his habits and
indulge in moderate cycling.
PEGGY'S ENGAGEMENT.
The engagement of the Earl of Crewe