Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-07-23

that the authorities have concluded not
10 replace them, thereby providing
what, according to the Figaro, young
couples have missed from the beginning
namely: "darkened, leafy hooks and
comfortable flirting corners''
SIS
The hot weather evidently had an in
spring effect on those inclined to we'd
lock, as the number of marriages in
Paris for the last Week has broken the
record. Among exposition employees
alone fourteen weddings have taken
place since Sunday last.
The most curious OF these romances
resulted in uniting u tiny Roumanian
icwarf Who has become famous in ped
ding outlandish sWeatmeats to bux-
ON English head Mattress in a Jersey
dairy. An astonishing feature of the
affair is that she was courted at the
same time by a gigantic German guard
employed at a neighboring exhibit, who,
despite his gorgeous uniform, failed to
'outrival the frisiN little Mohammedan,
Another strange marriage was that OF
a Russian mining engineer of great
wealth and one of the pretty volunteer
nurses who gtaces an exhibit of a
French ambulance ship The newspa-
persscall this "a new development of the
Franco Russian alliance.
The first attempt al a night nautical
fete was barely u rehsursal. only twen-
" craft taking part The next win be "a
great event. special Examinations and
iirsworks are being prepared and a hun
.dred boats decorated With colored lights
III .Sr
Rousseaus 3 gorgeous yacht, Swift. to
the canoes of the Dahenley sayagas5 will
take part ii. the maneuvsy.a
Three Venetian chorusess are coming
ovsrewith gondolas To give concerts ev-
cry night.
Se@ wreaths. garlands ana medals
continue TO be appended daily To the
'fransvaal building BY distinguished
weil-W hers of the republics
The police are searching sindustriously
for tils Beer Who WAS in charge OF Il
Transyaal side show. where the British
We're beatensoff froma miniature Spion-
4Scp regularly three times a day. Hav-
Ing accumulated considerable gate mon
~. he disappeared with ii and no trace
of him has been found.
y foolish Frenchinan, not satisfied
With dipping his finger tip in the liquid
air exhibit in the United States SECTION,
attempted to swallow a goblet full of IT,
He was stopped after he had taken a
moushful ard, in frightful contortiens
and howling vigorously was taken
20 hospital.
The present feeling#of the ministry
here is that the fiction that the powers
are not at war with China will be rigid
~ maintained, altho China ilers4ff may.
have already dsclared war against Rua-
STA and may Go 81 against the other ma
lions.
There has been an interchange Of.
views on this pnin. between European,
capitals and there seems 10 be nc doubt.
but that this pretense will be gravely.
upheld, come what may. as the most
practical method of avoiding interna-
tional friction. II ia needless To- say
Delcasse $ digniffed and adio:t reply to
the emperor of China's message meets
With unqualified approval here, even on
tins part of the opposition press. but tbs
Paris new spapers. With the exception Of
the Temps. Dsbats. Figaro. Steele and
Matin, are at SKIES and sevens in regard
tothe poncy to be followed In China.
The Nationalist Liberte, for instance,
comes out With a flaming editorial call
ing upon Europe to intrust Japan With
the sole task of the conquest of north
ein China.
Tile Ciaulais the Autorta and Pressc
urge that this mandate should devoive
upon Russia alone. The sciaulois, Cti dc
Paris, and the Autorte ri9lently and IL
logically deciais. that England is, 70
blame for the situation in China because
by her Giiatory attitude and conceal
5ment of the real danger in Pekin she
seitishiy and perfidiously hoped 10 post
pone the necessity Of action until after
the Transyaal war was OVER
The Cri de Paris. the Patrie, the Echo
de Paris, the Journal and the National
ist who may be aptly described as the
French Boxers, still continue TO pandar
70 the lowest dregs of the Partisan pop
ulation by publishing bitter abuse of
England SHOWING. tina. they have not
.prefited by the lesson OF British absten-
ton from the exhibition which has al
ready cest Paris something like $4,000
900 francs, q sum sufficient to turn the
balance from financial failure of the ex-
lhibition to financial success. The Cri lie
Paris says: When the truth is known
it WILDE seen that England .ia entirely
responsible for the nassaeres i'll the far
east. just as she was Responsible for
the blood of the Armenians assassinated
in 1895
Paul de Gassaignac makes a violent
attack on the government for not COM
ing out fiatfooted and declaring war
against China, and accuses tlls. ministry
ofsusurpation of the authority of parlia-
gment by entering upon a campaign ea-
timated to cost over 50.00O,0Oo francs
without first calling together parliament
and consulting it, as would have become
necessary had a war against China been
formally declared
In military circles great Importance is
attached to the skill, scourage and know
ledge of the usa Of military being die
played by the. Chinese forces at Tlen
Ts'n. and it is felt that efforts on a
much larger scale than anything hith-
erto contemplated by the powers must
eventually be made.
France is prepared to send 10000 men
to China, but the military experts gay
the effort Of dispatching that number OF
vel! equipped troops Is nothing in COM
parison with the efforts to continually
supply that force with sufficient quanti-
tiea of fresh soldiers to repair the loss
H.