Arizona republican., 1900-08-18

they are going to stay with Lord and Lady Curzon in order to acquire it. &&*#
 It is impossible to refrain at the pre- sent moment from profound pity with | those misguided European and Ameri- can women who, in defiance of the laws of race one might almost say of na- | ture, have become the wives of China men. and it is difficult to imagine d more awkward position than that of the American wife of the Chinese aGn- | bassador at Paris at the present mo- ment. The ambassador. rejoicing III the name of Yu Keng, is a Mancnu mandarin of about sixty, who distin- guished himself as a soldier while quite young fellow during the war against the Taiping rebels. About a quarter of a century ago he married, while goVer- nor of the province of Ngang HOay, d Miss Pearsons, the sister of an Amerl- can Methodist missionary, and with this lady, by whom he has two grown up sons, he has repeatedly visited both this country and Europe.
 The ambassadress remains q MethO- dist, but her husband and sons are fol- lowers of Confucius, and if they have any leaning in the direction of Chris tianity it is altogether in the direction of Roman Catholicism. The position of | ambassadress was already rather dlsa- greeable at Paris prior to the present anti-foreign outbreak in China, as in spite of all that is said to the contrary, Europeans are disposed to regard white women mated U Asiatics or Africans as having lost caste and degraded themselves. But her position has now become intOlerable. all the more as her husband and sons. like all other Chinese diplomats living abroad, do not hesitate to profess their sympathy with the movement aginst the foreigners in China. and with the policy of China for the Chinese.
 A very painful controversy has arisen in connection with the disposal of the remains of old Mrs. Gladstone. a con- | troversy which is a source of great dis tress to her family and friends. As everybody knOwS. she was inferred in Westminster Abbey. beside her illus trious husband. Now there is a stiict rule that in all cases of intermural in
 
 embalmed and a certificate to that eff feet is required by law, to be furnished to the authorities in charge of the ec- clesiastical edifice in which the inter ment takes place. Indeed it is only Ou this condition that the government, which on sanitary grounds objects 10 intermural entombment. gives a grudS- ing and rare consent to the burial of a corpse within the walls of a church still used for divine service.
 It now appears that the body of Mrs Gladstone was not embalmed. and that the customary certificate was not de handed. The spot where she lies in tered is one which is crowded during divine service on Sundays and her cof- fin. lying above that of her husband. is only about two feet from the surface of the floor of the church.
 All this might have been quietly re- medied, but unfortunately the Church of England Burial Reform Association has got hold of the matter. and is mak- ing it the theme of a violent attack upon the practice of intermural inter- ment in general It is declared by the expert authorities on the subject that lt is too late now to think of embalmng Mrs Gladstone's remains. At the same time, it is admitted that the presence of the coffin containing them, with only d few inches of earth between it and the stone tlagging constituting the floor of the abbey, is objectionable on sanitary grounds. The family and friends Of the universally reVered old lady are. therefore, now confronted by the pain full alternative of having the collins of Mir. and Mrs Gladstone dsinterred and buried elsewhere or else of having every vestige of the remains of the grand old couple destroyed where they are by means of quick lime, precisely as is done in the casa of murderers bur- jed within prison walls.
 MARQUIS DE FONTENOY.