The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-07-19
CURRENT TOPICS IN PARIS
President L0ubets Return Visit to King Edward.
BY PIERR e ROSTER.

Paris, July Ill am afraid after the
Elysee and the Luxembourg, President
Loubet will think St. James Palace dark
and shabby lie spent, as president Of
the senate, seven years at the Luxem-
bourg, and as minister of the interior
one year at the stately home office in the
Place Beauveau. The French mi listers
live in finer palaces than the King OF
England. Nothing can exceed the ele-
gance of the Elysee. The first floor there
is decorated just as 1t was for Nine
de Pompadour in the perfection of the
eighteenth century style. The furniture
is on par with the decorations The
state rooms on the ground floor are also
in the eighteenth century STYLE Beau
jon, a financial king of his time, who
bought the Elysee from Nine. de Pom
padour's nephew, spent a mint of money
In decorating the ground floor.
The details of M. Loubet's visit are
not yet settled. But he cannot stay more
than three days in London, and he will
be back to transact business connected
with the national fete of July IA In MEM
DRY Of the taking of the Bastille. He
has also to prepare for the visit Of the
King of Italy, who arrives on the 18th,
and will take up his abode on the first
floor of the foreign office Victor EN-
manuel III will be there, "close-tiled,"
and can mount and descend In a lift.
M. Delcasse will continue to transact
public business on the raised ground floor
which is really first floor. The min
Istry for foreign affairs dates from the
reign of Louis Philippe, seventy years
ago. AS you know, 1t presents an Inn
posing aspect and is well detached from
the palace of the Petit Bourbon next
door. The garden at the back Is spa
cious and quite private A REGULARITY Of
this palace is that It has no central hall
door in the frontage and no ground hall.
The entrance at the side is on a narrow
vestibule at the foot Of a narrow stair
case. The rooms on all the floors are
spacious, but the furniture wants style
and also belongs to the prosaic Louis
Philippe period To make up for this
shortcoming, tapestries, and Louis XIV.
tables, chairs, sofas and desks will be
fetched from the state furniture stores.
The king will have a grand view across
the Seine and the Paais de la Concorde
from his sitting rooms and on the gar
dens from the bed rooms. His visit to
Paris BODIES no good to the vatican.
If Victor Emmanuel does not confne
his conversations to the vatican, Medi-
terranean, North African. and CONNER
cial affairs. but let's himself wander into
Irredentism in connection with Trieste.
his visit may be a source of European
trouble and not a guarantee of peace.
It is sheer madness for the Italians to
clamor for Trieste. There are they say
as an excuse, 10000 Italians In Trieste.
Are there not as many Irish in Glasgow.
and does that prevent Its being Scotch?
But Trieste belonged to the Republic Of
Venice. True, Venice wrested that port
from the slav family, and governed so
badly that the people rose against her.
and preferred placing themselves under
the House of Austria. The Germano-
Austrian peoples cannot do without TrI-
este I cannot believe that so astute and
sensible man as the King of italy could
enter into a pact to help France to take
back Alsace If France and Russia helped
him to take and hold Trieste. lie ieu
no vaudrait pas la chandelle," and Tri-
este would not do without the Austrian
states back Of It, Garibaldi, Irredentists
plead. claimed for Italy all Istria to the
Fay Of Quarnero. What If he did? He
said many foolish things. If he performed
some heroic actions
And the Karageorgevitch. trunks and
bundles have set off for Belgrade, where
Peter is king and brother Arsene Of the
blood royal. Naturally all the Kara
georgevitch family are iubilant. Brother
Arsene will ask concession for race
courses and hopes to draw the nobility
of Hungary to Belgrade. He has large
ideas as to the benefits OF the horse races
on tax burdened people. Peter is fifty
eight. He will endeavor TO lead quiet
life until his eldest son is old enough to
take his place. Peters proclamations are
poor stun. He talks in them of his royal
will and pleasure. They are like what
a swndler trying to pass off as a king
might write.
The whole Karageorgevitch clan seem
to imagine that the Act of Oblivion of
the Skupstchina washes out all traces Of
the massacre. Peter will, however. order
the demolition Of the Konak, where his
partisans operated and take up his abode
in the new palace. 1t has 'never been In
habited and Is more commodious and
stately tim the building In which Alex