The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-08-17
FRANCE STIRRED BY
ASSOCIATION s Law.
Place de Ia concorde May Be
Called Place de Ia Discorde.
IITALYs KING NOT SATISFIED
His Cry May Be Rome to Myself and
Myself ne."-Appendicitis Not
New Dsease-Salisbury
Out of Politics.
#ITALYS. KING NOT SATISFIED
Gable Dispatch to the Times.)
TX O'ReIl paul Blouet.)

Pa Jug. 16.-France Is still great
ly: eAc-tr,. over the rougn enforcement OF
the Associations law, Paris especially.
1t seems to be a great anomaly to see
republic arrest a citizen Tor crying
Long Live Liberty!' It is no less ano
malous to see the different factions meet
and indulge In free fights on the Place
de Ia Concorde, which henceforward viii
be better known as Place de 10 Discorde.
You should not however. believe too
much in the martrydom Of the expelled
monks and nuns, because all those who
have set themselves right with the law
have been lett free and unmoieSted, and
those who have been expelled are prac-
tically only those who have listened to
clerical agitators and have protited by the
occasion to make demonstration against
the Republic.
1 believe that M. Waldecl-Rousseau
was right in passing the Associations law
but it required his diplomatic handling to
enforce 1t, not the rough and inconsider-
ate one Of his successor, NJ Combes.
I don't believe that the King of Italy
is satisfied with his present position
He is much more of a man of action
than his father. and it is no secret that
the presence of the Pope i'll Rome not
great extent. Since the fall of the
i emporal power the Pope has never
been seen outside the precincts Of The
Vatican, where he delights in calling
himself q prisoner. King Victor En-
manuel is, l believe. dreaming of the
complete liberation of the Quirinal.
1t is he VINO now considers himself
prisoner in Rome, on account of a dual
power which stands in his way. He is
cip inf 1yhic baI
him from the anti-clcrical Free Masonry
to the cordiality Of the Emperor of Rus
sia and Of the President Of the. French
Republic.
The war cry Of Garihaldi was Rome
or Death" The cry of the King Of Italy
may soon be heard to be Rome to my
self and TO myself alone
The result Of it all is that Italy may
get out of the triple alliance with Aus
tria and Germany and join the dual al
lance already in existence between France
and Russia If this should happen che
European "equilibrists" will have to start
new combinations
Appendicitis is not new disease, since
it is we'll known that Princess Henrietta.
daughter of King Charles I. Of England,
and sister-in-law of King Louis NV. of
France died of it In those days it was
called a mysterious disease: but now that
it has a grand name, and that has
beer located by the famous American sur
Econ, DR.. Charles McBurney, whose name,
find, is medical household word ii!
Europe as we'll as in the United States.
appendicitis is not only common attic
ton. but a fashionable one, all the more
fashionable as it is asserted that it most
ly :fflicts people Of rank and intellect.
Fools, they say, never get it. an asser-
tcn the truth of which very much doubt,
as appendicitis is very often the result of
indiscretion in diet.
Of course, now that King Edward, it is
affirmed, has appendicitis. this disease is
not only fashionable in England. but
perfect craze. In fact. if you haven't got
it, you are not Sin it, Men look sad and
hold the lower part of their ahdomens on
tie right. so that people who behold them
may say:
Very chic, this man; he has got ap-
pendictis.' y
All this is only a revival of the time
when Queen Alexandra. then Princess
of Wales and in the height of her popu-
larity, got rheumatic fever. which left
her lame. For months and months all
women in society walked with a little
limp. This was called "the royal limp"
And when the hearing of the charming
Princess became much worse than her