The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-31
Young Woman's Millions Wilied
TO Nuns in a Remarkable and
Roundabout Way.
FRENCH WAR ON JESUITS
Monastic Orders in the Republic
Alleged to Be Greatest of
All Trusts.
NEW PAPERS IN PARIS
One Is Sahara, Organ of Jacques
Gossip and News of the
French Metropolis.
BY Emily Crawford.

Correspondence OF the Indianapolis Journal.
PARIS, Jan. 1.-Two new weekles have
made their appearance this week and the
newsboys are calling out their titles on the
boulevards with all the vigor OF their youth
full lungs. One of them is the Sahara and is
the official organ Of mad Jaques Lebaudy
and opens with sort OF opera bouffe mani
festo of that emperor cursing his I'M
grateful native country and heaping in
vective upon the COmbes government His
style and points of view are those of the
Nationalist and Clerical orators of the
Chamber OF Deputies
The diatribes of NM. Deroulede Jules
Lemaitre and Francois Coppee have excited
the young millionaire's feeble brain beyond
what he could bear Emperor Jacques does
not intend TO proceed just vet 10 his
states on the west coast Of Africa lest
his yacht should be the object of a .'piratical
raid" by French men-of-war. The "em-
peror' will continue TO reside in London.
that metropolis of the world" until his
sovereign rights are recognized. Liberty,
ne AYERS, Is dead in France, wherefore he
felt 1t a duty To found his African empire
as a land OF freedom.
The other weekly paper is called Radium.
Its title sufficiently explains it's object II is
to be record of that youngest. most PROM
Using and most thrilling branch OF science
that might be called radio-activity. Radium
only exhibits to an extraordinary degree
properties which now found to exist in
all matter. Our whole physical sciences are
to be reconstructed TO harmonic with the
new facts arising from NJ. and Nine. Gu
rie's amazing discovery
NJ. Curie, whom have just had the privi-
lege OF meeting, tells me that the problems
arising from radio-activity will give occupa-
ton and celebrity to as many scientists as
please TO engage in these researches The
field he told me, such a promising one
that any labor in ii was certain TO meet
with this reward
FROM the very beginning his wife and him.
self have impaired to the whole world the
results of all their researches. If other
| scientists get ahead of them they will not
| be jealous. 1 wonder some pubIc-spirited
Americans do not send NJ and Mime. Curie a
! few tons of radium- bearing pitchbIend L
| nave reason TO know that such a gift would
be gratefully received. and it would further
a most noble scientific cause. Would II not
be better than TO found a free library?
| STATESMEN REPUBLISH SPEEHCES.
Following one another at an interval OF A
few weeks, the two most eminent living
French statesmen, M. Waldeck- Rousseau
and NJ. Combes. nave republished In book
| form the speeches they delivered in the
Senate, the Chamber of Deputies and on
| public platforms on the question OF
monastic orders. NJ. Combes's book is
graced by a preface of the leading French
| stylst, Anatole France
The view taken by the two French states
men is that the war waged by the French
republic on the Jesuits, the AssumptionIsts
and other orders of men and women is
1 really one Of self-defense The French
monks. just like the Spanish monks in the
Philippines, were getting all the wealth OF
the country into their hands
Through fear Of hell and purgatorv the
wealthiest people in the land left them
huge fortunes. part Of which was used to
subsidize a reactionist press and wage war
on the common school system and other
republican institutions. The monastic or
ders, moreover evaded payment OF taxes,
and state officials who dared to bring the
law TO bear against them found that some
mysterious influence was at work to re-
move them from their posts.
Talk of American trustsl There was
| "A
monastic orders in this country. All this
is admirably set forth in the books of NJ.
Waldeck-Rousseau and NJ Combes. which
l would advise everybody interested in the
| subject to read.
| startling confirmation OF these states
mems allegations against legacy-hunting
converts. and on the strategems used by
| unauthorized congregations TO turn the
law prohibiting them from receiving Legal
| cies. is supplied by the mysterious story OF
| a young Chilean heiress, who died recently
| in a Paris convent.
The young woman in question. Senorita
| Maria de la Luz, was the daughter OF
| Sonora lsadora de Cousino, who died in
| Paris some years ago. leaving an immense
| fortune TO her three sons and three daugh-
tiers. The bulk Of her estate consisted OF
coal mines in south Chile. Each child's
share. at the time OF her death. was worth
| 100000 TO $12.0000OO. and is now worth
four times that amount.
The eldest daughter became a lunatic II
| is said; the second married. and the third
one, falling under the influence OF French
nuns established at Santiago was sent by
them TO the Convent Of the Assumptionist
nuns in Paris.
HOSTILITY TO GOVERNMENT.
This convent has distinguished itself by its
hostility toward the government. and II was
sold up three years ago on account OF the
nuns refusal TO pay taxes. why were the
nuns so anxious TO remove Senorita Maria
de ia Lux 10 France? The answer IL that
under Chilean law. all requests or legacies
TO converts are null and void. $50 they are
now in France. but this is quite recent)
Senorita de la Luz. who was about thirty
years Of age at the time OF her death and
was one of the beauties OF Paris society be-
came a novice at the Assumptionist convent
| She was anxious TO become nun. but the
mother superior would not allow her Why?
| The answer Is given by the Chilean consul
general In Paris, Senior Aldunate: Had she
! become a nun her fortune would have gone
under Chilean law. TO her relatives
The woman's connection with the order
was therefore kept secret She had house
in town. but never lived in IL. Within the
| convent walls she wore the novice's robe.
but whenever she paid visit-and she was
! a good deal In society-she dressed Of
/ wealth.
These sort OF in-and-Out arrangements
need surprise Us all the less. the recent
| French legislation on mOnastic orders con-
tains clauses aimed az nuns and monks who
| disguise themselves in plain clothes
Maria de In Luz died suddenly az the
| Convent of the Assumption and the mother
| superior, ia announcing her death 10 he
4 registrar stated that the tQC@dfpf was a