The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-07-03
Prominent Officials at This Time
Are Markedly Democratic
and Unassuming.
MEMBERSHIP In CHAMBER
CARRIES MANY PERQUISITES
For One Thing, Deputy Has En-
trance to GreenrOOms of
Theaters.
BY PAUL VILLRRS.
Cable TO Tho Tribune.

BY PAUL vILLIERS.
Special Cable to Tho Tribune.
PARIS, July 2-The men Of the
hour in France are all mon Of simple
habits The quiet, unassuming DEM
, ocracy Of President Fallieres is per-
haps his most noteworthy character
istic; M BRAND, the premier, who
may succeed Fallieres, is also man
of the people, and is not ashamed Of it.
| NJ. Brissou, who has been elected preal-
dent of the chamber Of deputies, Is q
| worthy confrere OF Fallieres and
BRAND. If he has no children, he and
his good and accomplished late wife
adopted three orphans, whom they
brought up as IL they were their own
| They belonged to a close friend, Albert
Jolly, an advocate who rendered noble
service TO the cause they had at heart
under the empire and during the Moral
Order regime.
NJ. Brfsson takes life and his dutfes
as public man too seriously not TO
look little solemn Yet he can be
witty, and even humorous, and Ii man
of the finest culture. He has never at,
tempted to climb the beaten paths Of
Parnassus None the less, he might
have shone on them, for he is a poet
Of rare finish and deGcacy. He never
took up residence in his wife 's time IN
the Petit Bourbon They gave their
official dinners. concerts and receptions,
bur continued to have their home
among his electors in the unfashionable
His private fortune, without being
large, is sufficient to secure independ-
ence The great part Of his salaries
as deputy and president goes into
works of Republican and Masonic fra
ternity, for he is devoted Freemason.
| a T.. IA tnnf nd
will be needed in presiding over tins
chamber 1t contains far more young
members than any previous one.
It is, by the way, somewhat .Pecu,
liar development OF French political
| life that an unusual number of quite
young men are taking an actlve inter
est in politics. A cynic. suggests that
the perquisites of seat in the chamber
may account for this part, at least.
seat Ia the chamber now brings sal
arv of $1,000 francs year, hrst,class
.icket through four years on all the
railways of France and Algeria,
patronage in all directions, the freedom
of sails and balconies of all the snbsl-
died theaters, and access TO the wings.
ThiMk Of the field Of operations
which this gives TO theatrical sirens
and the susceptibility of a young pro,
vincial TO their wlles. hardened
boulevardier slips through their hands.
They can do what they please with a
member green in years and i'll want OF
| knowledge of la vie Parlsienne; At
| the last elections the young candidates
seemed rayenously alive to the good
things membership of the chamber
offers They ebowed out with spirit
the bald-patcs and the graybeards.
Zouaves are Thinning.
The Pontiical Zouaves are thinning;
they were about 1000 fifty years ago
when they fought for the pope But
recently at the muster in Paris only
about 200 answered the roll call. The
celebration began with a parade out
! side the Sacre Coeur, the great basllica
that dominates all Paris and the nat
Seine valley from the northern point,
the one hill of the city the Mount Irh;es ok
| Martyrs. The veterans, gray or Wnite
all of them, but straight backed still,
as fighting men should be, were re
viewed by their own chief. General de
Charette. who gave them all the touch
ing French accolade and the greeting
OF an old brother in arms. After tue
review high mass, with an oration by
Monseippenr de Cabrieres, bishop OF
Montpelier, who made the interesting
reflection that most of the volunteers
of the papal service were of noble
blood, so that an Italian general into
whose hands q good batch of them
had fallen by the luck of war said
the roll of his captlves read Ike
guest list from the court OF Louis
XIV. The "De Profundis" WAS sung
for the dead of Che legion, and then
the veterans drove or to the social
celebration under the presidency or
their chief.
Mania for Making Wills.
The winding up of the estate of the
widow of a former French consul gem
eral at Jerusalem, an old lady who
died two years ago, leaving property
valued at 100000, will be no easy
matter. She seems to have been lnces-
sanity occupied in making wills and
adding codiciIs. The last codicu dis
covered. which is dated August 16, 1907,
s|confirms tho two last testaments,
revoking all others. But the lady drew
UP in all fifteen wills Nine of the
number are plainly revoked by the
codici mentioned, but six others all
bear the same date, May 9, 1904. Two
of these appear to be the 'last testa-
mentso referred to in the codicil. as
no later wills have so far been found.
But which two of the six arc the lat
estl The lady evidently wrote them
at different hours of the same day, but
there is no indication in any of them or
the precise moment. The point is an
important one. as by three of the SIX
wills, but not by the others. female
relative of the deceased inherlts large
sums, which the universal legatco may
or may not have to pay.
The courts are now engaged i'll an
attempt TO determine by ''iDternal evil
dencer which OF the wills most prob
ably expressed the latest wishes OF the
widow, French jurisprudence allowing
in such matters more latitude than thaC
Of England.