The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-14
DEAD MAN COMES
TO UNITED STATES
The Mysterious Archduke Sal
vator Is Being Traced
FRENCH SCHOOL WAR
History Question Is Important Feature
Artists Cherished View of Seine
Is Cut of by an Ugly
Fence
FRENCH SCHOOL WAR

Fence
Paris, August 1s.-(Specal)-Le Courier
European communicates curious piece
of information, according to which
Johann Orth. the missing Austrian Arch
duke Salvador, was In Paris some time
ago and stayed at the Grand hotel. 1t
is difficult to know whether this is true
or whether it is only one more fanciful
legend to be added to those already cur
rent about the long-lost parsonage.
According to this information, a letter
has been received from DIR. Albert Rer-
| encZ. the Hungarian correspondent of
LIE Courier European to the effect that
he learnt from reliable source that
Johann Ortiz, who is settled in Argentina,
where he has built up quite a fortune,
visited London and Paris not very long
ago.
| He made himself known to only a few
persons. He took a room at the Grand
hotel, giving his name as Baron Otto, at
the beginning of February last. He had
an interview with a French, "a Spanish
and an Italian lawyer and afterwards
returned to London, and went thence to
| the United States in company with an
italian lawyer, whose name is not given.
Two months later he had an interview
with Mr.. Everett. the former cabinet
minister, on certain legal questions
Among the persons who formally recog-
nized him are said to be Count de Mar
ulli, the former secretary of the Comte
| "a Jubn nj, OrfI in,
London, and Dr. Madal, a former profess
sor at the court of Vienna, who met
him in Paris
Recently Signor de Gasoretti, the Ital-
ian lawyer. who is said to have accom-
panied him to the United States Is
stated to have returned to Vienna, and
much Importance is attached to his visit,
which is thought to have conceded with
| the revival of the question concerning
the missing Archduke
! The grand marshall, in deciding that
the archduke's rights to the Grand Duchy
of Tuscany went to his heir and that he
would be considered legally dead in six
months, has caused no objection to be
raised by the Italian lawyer, who, 1t
is said. does not interfere simply be-
cause the archduke has no intention of
protesting against the declaration that he
is dead. The archduke. moreover, has
been constantly traced since April last.
when he was in New York
| An important feature in the French
| school war is the history question. There
are two ways of imparting history to the
young mind; you may content yourself
with the relation of facts as generally
accepted, or you may interpret the past
| in the fashion that suits you. In recent
debates in the chamber opposition dep
uties declared that if the history class
were left out the state school would be
tolera BILE. The secularists however are not
likely to give up their chief weapon of
attack, and so caricatures of French
| history still continue to be used. And If
| the clergy in their catechism classes re-
flute any historical calumny taught In the
local schools they are prosecuted and
punished
The process, which is Ingenious is this:
| The catechism class is to teach religion,
and not history. The catechist is usurp-
| ing the functions of a school teacher
| when he deals with subjects taught in
| the state school books and gives long
explanations on historical matters. He
| is therefore, amenable to the law. A
case has Just been decided on these lines
| by the court of Grenoble. The priest
was fined for having at catechism de-
Tended his church against historical false
hoods.
M. Rodin. the famous sculptor, has
been robbed of his landscape. 1t Is not
| a work of art composed by himself. but
a beautiful view made by the hand Of
nature round his villa at Meudon-Cla-
mart The spot. which She had chosen
for his residence and his atelier, is one
| of the most picturesque suburbs Of
| Paris Stepping out into the garden.
he had a beautiful view of valley, with
| q portion of the Seine and Mount Vale
ren in the distance. 1t never occurred
to him that anyone would come and cut
| off this beautiful picture. which he used
| to contemplate in the evening whilst
studying some new composition for
| sculpture.
One morning. however, he saw a num-
Der of men digging foundation in a
property just outside his own. On this
iron uprights were placed, and the whole
thing was boarded in. 1t constituted,
when finished, an immense fence. several
/ hundred feet long and some 60 feet or
80 feet high; and , as might be inferred
| the object Of this singular structure
overlooking the valley was simply to
act as an immense sgnboard for cod
liver oil or some other commercial pro-
duct.
The result to the artist was disastrous
1t deprived him completely OF the view
of his beloved landscape. M. Rodin COM
| planned to the inhabitants of the locality,
| and they held meeting. at which a
resolution was passed to petition the
authorities to order the removal of the
obnoxious signboard. NJ. Rodin. who has
| not much confidence in the result of this
| petition, has only one other course left
open to him, and that is to become a
member of the society for the protection
of the picturesque sites. Perhaps this
powerful organization will be able to
put the advertising intruder to flight and
l&to x,iDt,t inuc 10
the celebrated sculptor.
Paris is literally provided with statues
| of it's great men, and otherwise and
| In later years any number of monuments
| have been erected to recent celebrities
so much so that a certain number Of
its citizens, feeling tolerably sure that
| they will have monument erected to
| themselves are crying out against the
abuse of too many monuments to others
We see stone statues representing prog
ress in balooning and automobiling. and
believe there is already a statue repre-
senting the giant advances of aviation.
Someone has the idea of making dis
| Greet inquiry as to the effect produced
on the popular mind by the heroic figures
| in stone, and the answer of school boys
and school masters have been equally
| startling. Diderot, who was killed dur
| ing the religious struggles of the six
| teenth century. and to whose memory the
modern socialists erected a statue on the
| left bank Of the Seine. is described as
/ a general of Napoleon, was burnt by