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pointed out that the document did not
mention M. Delcasse and declared the
fact to be that M. ePaloIogue, the foreign
office expert, had refused to countersign
1T. Gen. Andre, minister of war, drew
Maj Cuignet's attention to this conduct
and asked for an explanation which the
officer refused, declaring that he would
withhold his explanation fors an officer
of the judicial police Gen. Andre at
once ordered him to return to his home
and to await orders there A Few
minutes later an officer of the military
governor of Paris called upon Maj. Cuig-
net at his residence and informed him
that he had been ordered to surrender
himself at Fort Mont .sNalerien before
this evening. Maj. Cuignet obeyed. .
Gen. Chamoins~was wassalse@questioned by
the minister of war during the after
noon. $50, -F - o
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JONES DENIES IT.
Arkansas Senator VIII Not Resign
Democratic Chairmanship.

WASHINGTON, Dec Ex-senator
Jones. of Arkansas, chairman of the
Democratic national committee, said to-
day that there is no foundation for the
report that he contemplates resigning
the craftsmanship.
'I have had no correspondence on that
subject with any one he said and
no suggestions of that nature has ever
been made to me by any one, nor have
I suggested it to any one. Indeed the
subject has never entered my mind until
I saw the report in the newspapers.
There is no occasion for a meeting Of
the national committee at this time, and
no meeting is liable to be held. In a
word, the report is without foundation" {"
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PARIS, Dec. 2O.-Major Count Walsin
Esterhazy, who figured so prominently
In the Dreyfus case. has sunk into utter
misery. His divorced wife's suit against
her mother, the Marquise de Lancourt,
for an allowance on the ground that she
is in profound distress and unable to sup
port herself or her young daughters,
has brought forth the following letter,
written by the count to his wife, Nov.
10: 81 have Been unable to write to my
children lately, not having money to buy
a postage stamp. I am at the last ex-
tremity Of strength. courage or resource
I have not eaten FOR two days, until this
morning in the workhouse. I have no
clothes, am shivering with cold. and am
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family. and had been planning this coup
At night the men released young Cud-
hack. He was driven rapidly through
the darkness to Thirty-seventh and Leav-
enworth streets, where he was allowed
to leave the carriage
From there he walked home, arriving
there shortly after l o'clock in the NOM
ing; The bandits made no explanation
to him why they gave him his freedom.
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The suppression of the papers raen-
toned in the above dispatch is undcubt-
edly due to the so-called Russifca don of
Finland. Recent mail adVlces from ths
principal town in the duchy of Finland
indicated that the final touches are to he
given this winter by the Russian gov
ernment to the classification of Finland.
Ali papers in the grand duchy which
criticised the government in any WY,
whether printed in Swedish, Finnish Cr
Danish, were being suppressed 1t Is
said that the press censorship, the sup
preston Of recognized organs of pull c
opinion, and the loss of legislative au :
tonomy, will be followed by the procIa-
maticn of the Greek orthodox IeIigion
as the state religion, Notwithstanding
the fact that 98 per cent OF the popula-
ton belong to the Lutheran church.
In view of the fact that the popuIa-
ton may oppose this legislation the gov
ernor general has been vested with the
power to declare the duchy in a state of
siege, and to exile persons who are po-
htically suspected. All garrisons made
up of Finnish troops have heen ordered
to Siberia, China or have been distrio-
uted among garTisons in Central Russia
while Solnia or Cossacks are garrisoning
a Helsingfors, and others at Aboe the
ancient capital of the duchy, and SECS
were heing taken a month ago or mere
to garrison all the large centers of Fin
n1sh population with Cossacks.
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and you will have the - - coppers'
sympathy Do the right thing by US and
We will do the same by you If you re-
fuse you will soon see the saddest sight
this night or never. Obey these instruc-
tons and no harm will happen to you or
yours
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WHAT BRYAN HAS TO SAY
GROVER HAS NOT DEFINED E'DEM-
OCRATIC PRINCIPLES

ATLANTA, Dec. 2O.-Hon. w. j. Bryan,
in a telegram today to the Atlanta Jour
nal, makes the following comment on
former President Cleveland's article
which appeared today:
Until Mr. Cleveland sets forth definite
ly what he considers Democratic princi-
pies there is no necessity for comment.
The rank and file of the party expressed
themselves in 1896 and 1900, and I have
no doubt they will continue to express
themselves on issues as they arise
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Wertheimer's counsel, Maitre FoucauId,
in a speech lasting. several hours, made
a most vigorously worded reply to the
Casteflane contentious. He said there
was nothing serious in the observations
and criticisms 9behind whica the Cas-
tellanes were screening their temporary
insolvency" He denounced the counts
conduct scathipgly, referring to his ''pre,
texts to delay payments and did not
hesitate to accuse him of telling untruths.
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RUSSIA AND FINLAND.

TWO FINNISH NEWSPAPERS SUP
PRESSED BY THE GOVERNMENT.
STOCKHOLM. Dec 20. IL dispa tch
from Helsingfors, Finland, says the It'd
ming, daily newspaper of Christine
stadt and the Isandman, weekly pa
per, were suppressed yesterday, and tnat
another paper was suspended Tor four
months
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aAITRE FtUCAULD TALKS PLAIN
COUNT DE CASTELLANE is De
NOUNCED BY COUNSEL FOR
WERTHEIMER
HIS ACTIONS WERE CHILDISH
Wanted to Conceal HIS Indebted
ness From the GouIds and
Get His Brothers to
Settle.

PARIS, Dec 2O.-The suit of Charles
Wertheimer, the London bric-a-brac
dealer, against Count and Countess de
Castellane, to recover payment for art
objects sold the Count and Countess de
Castellane, began today in the first civil
chamber. The test case involved the
sum OF 1896 francs. The hearing was de-
voted to the arguments of counsel None
Of the parties was in court. The total
sum involved in the transaction is {, 6,500,-
600 francs
Count and Countess de Castellane have
replied with filing a counter suit, de-
manding a full statement of all transac-
tions, claiming that various objects, adj
mittedly authentic, were sold at scam
dalously exaggerated prices. and that
many articles were represented as au.
thentic antiquities when they were really
limitations, modern or useless, while in
series of exchanges in 1899, Wertheimer
took back a number of articles at prices
greatly below their true worth The
defendants, therefore, demand a reduc-
ton of the debt, Professionally estimated
to. be- at least 100000 francs, and tho
restitution of the objects taken in ex.
change by sWertheiJner under the penalty
Of 1,g0n francs for each days delay in the
restitution on the day of Judgment.
Finally they claim damages to the amount
of 100000 francs. Count and Countess
de CaStellane also ask, in case the judges
decide it is necessary to throw further
light on the case, that experts shall be
appointed to appraise the articles In
volved. The appointment of these ex-
perts is the first aim Of counsel for Count
and Countessvde CastellazleS
z.- csftOEFtJITJcs \. - I5A TcsnIRhTsN1rI1
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THE BANDITS LETTER. :

Omaha, Dec. 19-Mr Cudahy: We
have kidnapped your child and demand
$4,000 twenty-five thousand dollars) for
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was more truth in the retort which her children
provoked by their constant criticisms of her
economies Who knows" she would ask
whether all these kings will not some day
come and beg their bread of me?"
She was the sole member OF her house to
whom the stability of the Napoleontc regime
seemed doubtful We Corsicans have seen A
good many revolutions" she observed All
this pomp may come to an end, and what will
become of my chiIdren?" She saved her money
with view to the sinister possibilities of the
future. and when the crash came her purse
was Indispensable TO her Inundated children
Avarice was not in her blood. Simplicity was
beyond all question In a letter of Cardinal
Feschs there is an amusing picture of Nine.
Bonaparte visiting Rome in 1904. The Pope
had ordered a seat to be arranged for her in
St Peters similar TO that occupied by the
Queen of Sardinia and the Duke of Mecklen-
burg. But as it was only possible TO place her
seat behind those of the Queen and Duke who
had held theirs for more than a year she felt
it advisable to refuse the intended honor, under
the pretence of fatigue after her journey" OBJ
viously she could stand upon ceremony when
she chose. and hold out for the precedence which
she considered her due. But against this anec-
dote we can set that told by the lady who in
Withdrawing from the ROOM with her face tow
ard the Emperors mother. caught her foot in
her train and nearly fell. Go straight for
ward" exclaimed Nine Mere: etiquette had
Well nigh brought you to the ground"
In her heart. to the end of her days she was
still the Corsican mother and housewife. impa-
tent of ceremony, undazzled by the luxury OF
court life. conscious always with grim pIacidity
of the caprice of fate. In public she paid
her great son all the Difference required BY
usage. but in family meetings she held her place
as his mother. She would not kiss his hand.
she offered her own to his Iips-and he kissed
it. Flatterers could not blind her to the help-
lessness of her son in the hands of God When
she was told that victory on the field of battle
was habitual with him she replied: You are
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The late Ernest DOwsOn was q clever young
man, with Il streak Of poetic aptitude. He was
the kind of writer to whom we offer the need
of passing notice and then, with justice, forget.
But his friends took him seriously, and, one of
them having printed Il eulOgy of the deceased
writer, The London Spectator is moved to an
expression of disgust, and adds Mr.. DowsOn's
poetry seems to us all afectatiOn and he him
self man who, by his admirers testimony,
loved sOrdid squalor, squalid places and the
people who haunt them, and drank and
hasheeshed himself not only to death, but into
is really an admirable person we can only say
we prefer the nearest plOughman." We sup
pose ought to weep over language so brutal.
AS matter of fact, it strikes us exactly the
kind of language that is needed. 1t is all very
we'll to put the defects of Il man Of genius in
their place, TO consider a poem as a poem,
bad personal habit as the moral blot that it is.
But ever since Beaudeaire was discovered by
the rising generation it has been the fashion to
look with kindling eye upon every author fol-
only Verlane but even man like DOwsOn
receives laudatiOn that his work, considered
purely on its merits, could not justify. Squalid
Bohemianism is labelled ''the romantic indie
pendence of genius" At such a time it is re-
freshing to have a literary periodical of weight
frankly express its preference for "the nearest
plOughman.'
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kings queen and two reigning Processes was
a parsonage Of extraordinary dignity and force
Of character.
Carlo Bonaparte made her a poor hus-
band Vain. restless. extravagant and seIf-seek-
ing, he was not long in making his beau
tiful bride acquainted with poverty. He
showed some courage in embracing the cause
Of Paoli and COrsican independence but he was
one of the first to approve the union of the
island with France, and his efforts to ingratiate
himself with the authorities reflect necessarily
the weak man. He rendered little service TO his
many children. 1t is doubtful if he understood
them or took the trouble to study their char
acters. Whatever virtues any of them possessed
were handed down to them by their mother.
Napoleon himself realized this. 1t is to my
mother" he said, in the funess of his power,
ito her good precepts and upright example, that
I owe my success and any great thing that l
have accomplished" She had. he said. the
head of man. though the body of a woman"
BY her own account she never allowed her de-
voton to her children to degenerate into mere
doting fondness. Il was indulgent or severe, ac-
cording TO the need of the case" she stated late
in her life and in the present volume there are
divers interesting anecdotes Illustrative of her
methods
She brought her children up in strict Corsican
fashion, and never overlooked fault Napoleon
objected 10 go 10 HnurCn on sundays, but a
couple OF boxes on the ear soon reduced him to
submission. on one occasion she had gone out
with friend, when turning round some dis
tance from the house, before descending steep
path she sped her second son following her
She was angry that he had dared 10 come with
out permission, ran back and gave him such
violent box on the that the child fell and
rolled down the slope. He got up crying and
rubbing both his eyes with his small fists but
L9titia paid no heed to him, and calmly went
on her way.
This seems callous, but, a matter OF fact
there appears to have been no brutality in this
Spartan matron. You are very good to me ="
said Napoleon in St Helena to his physician
and you shrink from no effort to alleviate my
sufferings. but this is nothing compared with
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maternal tenderness" When she was fugitive
from Corsica with her family and Napoleon
was still an obscure captain of artillery. she
established her household in poor, underground
lodgings in Marseilles. mended her children's
clothes. cooked their frugal meals. and Iabored
for them with passionate love She won later
q repute for stngness. Napoleon, when En-
peror would chide her for her parsimony- Il
have given you house in the capital, and
lovely country villa, with an income Of a million
francs he said, and yet you live like bour-
geose of St Denis. You must not scrape your
money together, but spend all that give you"
She was still ObdUrate. Then you must let me
have two millions instead of one she would re-
ply, for l must economic; it is my nature"
Here she was unjust to herself. The habit of
looking twice at coin before she spent it was
forced upon her by the difficult circums tances
of her married life, and by the terrible poverty
with which, as widow she had to struggle in
order to keep her family from starvation There
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right. and yet one bullet IS sufficient TO KIN hin
God has not pledged Himself to work miracle,
in his behalf To Cardinal Fesch she writes
Il foresee that your nephew VIII bring abou.
his own downfall and that of the whole famfv
He ought to be satisfied with what he has a.
ready attained, and by striving for more he VII
lose all In the presence OF observations Ike
these of which she was never chary. and con
sidering the candid. independent manner she
bore toward her son. speculation as to her fail
ure to arrest him in his recklessness is not IN
natural 1t is promptly cUrtailed, however. by
recognition Of one large fact lying c0nspcu
oUsly on the surface Of Nine. Mer='s biography
She was a woman Of strong character she had
energy and shrewdness. She was not. in any
very lofty sense of the word a woman Of brains
Her intellect had been cramped by her TOO cary
marriage to a man incapable OF making up the
deficiencies of her girIh0od's training Educa-
ton was not supposed TO be needed by The
women of Corsica in her time. She like all he,
coUntrywomen, was happy in bringing up he.
children. She never attempted TO repair The
omissions of her earlier years She lived am
died practically uneducated-
To this fact may be ascribed her inability ID
guide the meteor she had turned loose upon the
world. Napoleon, as We have seen. acknowledge
that he owed her much. Had she possessed i
broader intelligence ne might have owed her
more. 1t is curious. too, to observe that for al
her insight into the fragility OF the NapoleOuE
fabric her imagination was really limited
scope. With brains and Imagination OF hig-
order she could not but have been taken captive
by her opportunities A great position was
within her grasp From first to last The mar
rowness Of her mind. her native scepticism and
her domestic tastes. paTalyzed her masterfl
nature and kept her a spectator OF her sons
triumph rather than an active factor IN it
she. nevertheless. rOUses interest and commands
respect. it is because for all her love u homeI
gossip, for all her limitations, she was never
petty Carrying herself with dignity, acting
again and again with courage and vigor, she was
stately even in exile. and the years of her retire
ment in Rome. with her children dead or dying
with one sorrow after another falling upon her
have in them something impressive, somethnS
worthy of the astounding history of her house
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A book that needs to be written is one com
memoratng the men of genius whose great
gifts the world is willing 10 take on trust not
writers like DowsOn but men of the stamp of
the late Il. \. NJ. Stevenson. He painted pict-
ureS, not particularly valuable He wrote one
book study Of NelasQuez, which contains good
criticism, but is far from being Il masterpiece
But when he died the other day the papers
teemed with tributes to his genius. No other
word, were told would tit the case His
talk is said TO have been miraculouSly brilliant
He was, in fact, profound philosophers he
laughed at most things and understood them
all. His hard intelligence pierced every OBJ
security, and no man ever looked at life in n
juSter relation" He was the sternest classic
Of his time He spoke of all things with in
comparable courage and invention Those
who knew him have suffered a supreme loss"
What more could one say: Here was a man of
tremendous powers. if We are to believe his
friends, bat he produced nothing that will stand
as an enduring proof Was he then really Il
genius? 1t is permissible to doubt it, Genius
leaves its mark. A life diSsipated in talk is
perhaps after all Il life manned and incomplete
The thing that marks man of genius off from
his fellows is, in the last resort his over
towering desire, his indubtable ability, to
produce. Nevertheless, there is something to be
said for men like r. 4. NJ Stevenson. The
book we suggest might not be convincing, but
1t could not help being interesting.
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4 LANIERIQUE.

AveC les souvenirs de leurs glOires passees-
L'Amerique ct Ia France, IN &C jour enlacees,
Ne Torment Qu'Une nation
lie Commerce ct les Arts SCellent leur a-iIanee
Et leurs brillantS travauN celebrent IA puisSancs
De la ciViliSatiOn.
De meme qu'autrefois &C steele d son au-OreO1
A WI hotter les pills du drapeau triCOloTs. go
Au tien uni dams lie devOir.
II volt a son declin, claquer les bandes trancne
Oh rouge ct blanc ct bleu, SCENES q etOles
blancheS
Font un armament plein d'espOir.
Que n'etes-vous vivants, ROchambeau, LafAy-
cite,
VOus qui vintes apres la sublime conlUete.
Faire enIendre VOS males VOiX.
Atm de COntempler vOtre Oeuvre, 81 f6coude:
La Liberte. de lOin eclairanJ le vieuN Monde
Et rampant de stupeur les rOis!
Car ellie triomphe, superbe. epanouie.
COurOnnant les efforts de la lutte lnouIe
Des FrankIins IT des WaShingtous
EFT VOuS. Americans fills de sa chere nile,
GardeZ CONNIE tresOr Ia clef De Ia Sastltes
Fetiche pour Vos TejetOns-
Sous le fer boucher de chaque RSpuhAIUe,
missions les drapeauX de France II s. AnerlG-@
MarchOnS en- nous serraEt les mains
Liberte. LibertG, BientOt la Providence
Nous fera triOmpheT dams n Sajnte defense
De tous les Srauds progress humans!
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Biographical literature, remarks a reader Of
it, should be divided into three classes: Ri
Ographies," "AutObiOgraphics' and "Ought-not-
photographers" Pat to the moment comes an
illuminating example of what happens when
careful consideration of what a biography ought
to be is neglected. Mr. Sutherland Edwards
has published his recollections. The volume is
full of amusing anecdotes. Among them are
some relating TO the Tinsleys, an old firm of
publishers in London. Mr. Edwards stated that
one of the brothers in the firm had borrowed
a thousand pounds to pay Miss BraddOn for
aurora Floyd" Mr. William Tinsley writes
to point out that the book was not Aurora
Floyd" but Lady AUdley's Secret; that the
sum paid was $3.50, not fl 900 and that not a
shilling of the price was borrowed Mr.. Ed
wards also saw fit to record certain little fobes
of the deceased Tinsley. The latters brother
describes these revelations as foolish matter
which could hardly be of interest to
anyone and is certainly not good history" in
which conclusion one recognizes common sense.
Multiply this instance in order to embrace the
tons and so on coming from the press to-day
every one of them doubtless containing several
stories as dubious as those to which Mr.. Tins
ley takes eXceptiOn-and the necessity for eau
ton where biographical literature is concerned
is obvious. "Ought-not-tO-b biographies" is a
word which ought promptly to be added to
literary Technology.
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NY ST4RLI9GS -4PRIL.
BY Walter Herries Pollock

BY Walter Herries Pollock
My starliugs, Your singing
Is in my memory ringing.
With a voice that knew no sadness.
With each note a song of slatucsS
You sought the Self-same tree
Every morn 10 welcome me.
Then there came a bitter cold
And your little tale was told
When the day had sprung from dawn.
You lay dead upon the lawn.
on the lawn You loved SO we'll
When the day 20 noOntide fell
Though The young OF your UPhr.ugtng
Have taken IN your singing.
How l miss with every day
Your hrst-lOved rOuudelay. Us
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4 DUKE lF CRURCH.

The Rev. II. r. Haweis. in The Temple
There was certain old Duke who used % =
up in the left hand gallery with his old puchesS
believing himself TO be incog. one SUNDAY -
OtfiCiOus steward. on seeing the old noo4eLL~rl-
take a back seat, hurried up 90 him. ana 80
win not Your Grace have a better So
Come along. Maria" said the old Duke, VT
discovered" ana he Immediately walked ~.
with the Duchess. and never showed his ISSs
side my church again
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IN ODE To AMERICA.
THE TRIBUTE OF a FRENCH POET. NJ EpoUARD

THE TRIBUTE OF a FRENCH POET. NJ EDoUARO
LANCE
The great exhibition in Paris has naturally
been marked by an interchange OF courtesies
among the representatives OF all the nations
There have been speeches of friendship at
dozens Of ceremonies. These addresses, how
ever. have been in prose. with but one excep-
ton. ON the occasion Of the inauguration Of the
American pavilion NJ Edouard Lance read al
the American Club an original composition II
verse OF this lode a TAmerique" a copy has
reached US and we transcribe it. IN appreciativs
mood, as follows.