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GREAT INDIAN CHIEF DEAD
BULL IIEAD, WAS 'WAR CHIEF
OF TILE SARCEES.
Was a -Link Between the °M. -Wild
Days and the Present—Big
Belly to Succeed.
Absolutely blind, worn, bent,
and helpless, but in his prime one
of the greatest fighting chiefs which
British America has ever produced,
there died the other day at the
Sarcee leeserve on the banks of the
Elbow River, near, Calgary, M-
berta,,Bull Head, chief of the
tribe.
A thorough -going pagan who had
never professed Christianity, seven
feet tall, mighty of muscle, absol-
utely fearless, and foolhardy of
adventure, Bull Head was a figure
of the past father thanofthe prey
one, one of the few remaining con-
necting links between the romantic
days of the buffalo bunt and In-
dian wars and the Western Canada
of to -day, with its rt. a e:awls of
miles of railways, milli is of acres
of grain fields, prosperees cities
growing like the mushruc.in almost
in a night, its coal mines, smelters,
and manufactures.
The day following his death, Buil
Head was laid to rest in a seven,
foot coffin, with full pagan rites,
on the banks of Fish Creek, seven
miles from Calgary. He ruled his
people with -wisdomn, and when the
pale face finally came he was one
of the first to take treaty, smoking
the pipe of peace with the white
man in 1886.
Bull Head was a war chief,
plain and simple, The Sarcee in
their palmy days carried the laurel
for being the most dangerous fight-
ers of the North-West, "bad medi-
cine" in any conflict, They held
the friendship of the Blackfeet, the
Bloods, and the Peigaus, by reason
of their prowess and their undying
hatred of the Crees; and they
fought the Cress at every oppor-
tunrty.
KILLED FIVE MEN.
Bull Head was born about 1832,
and when a lad of eight years of
age he lost the sight of his left .eye
by the smallpox plague that de-
vastated the North-West Indians
early in the forties. He grew to
manhood, a mighty man, seven feet
tall, and his reputation as a hunt-
er and fighter grew with his stat-
ure. Fifty years ago Bull Head's
brother was elected chief. Five
years later, in a battle with the
Cries, the brother of Bull Head
was mortally shot, and as lie fell he
handed his rifle to Bull Head. Thus
was he elected chieftain,, for the
brother gasped out his Iife as he
parted with the weapon. Bull
Head, who was fighting from atee-
pee, shot at and killed a Cree war-
rior standing near by, then he and
Isis squaw crawled forth and snak-
ed the dead body into the teepee,
where they scalped it.
In the Indian roll of honor, the
trophies of war collected by a war-
rior set his standard of efficiency
and reputation for bravery. To
capture a gun from an enemy was
the height of bravery, a sort of
Cross of the Legion of Honor; to
take the scalp was bat a notch be-
low, and then followed lesser
grades of bravery for the capture
of bows, knives, spears, and ttom-
ahawks. The war history is paint-
ed clear and simple on the tanned
side of two great steer hides, that
are on the reserve, south-west of
Calgary. In red and black and
blue paint ebe hieroglyphics stare
back at the reader and tell the
tale of the tall chief's prowess. Be
fought in thirty battles, he killed
five t•rcu with his own band, he
stole horses from the Crees, took
guns, scalps, five bows, five toma-
haees, one spear from bis ene-
mies,
BRAVE) AS HE WAS WILD.
The crude painted figures show
of night attaaks, of successful and
unsuccessful raids. of ;bloody bat -
ties, and hurried flights, They show
Bull Head's brave resettles of
friends, and .an action that, had he
been a British .soldier, would have
won for him the Victoria Cross.,
Ilnll Head, one of his braves, and
the squaw of the brave were nears
ly caught by a large party of Crees.
Both the Sareees aed the Crees
were mounted, and the horse rid-
den by the squaw stumbled and
fell. Though hard pressed by the
Crees Bull Head stopped, dis-
mounted, lifted the squaw to the
back of the pony which carried the
other brave, and then the Sareees
rode on and escaped,
Bull Head was born a pagan and
died one: He stayed by the belief:
of ,his fathers. When he signed
treaty in 1886, he retired to the
reserve and kept his tribe in hand,
even through the wildest kinds of
Indian excitement, His word was
law, And he saw his enemies
drop off one by one, from disease
and violence; he saw his ceramics
of old battles sicken and pass to
the happy hunting grounds, and
he stayed on,; ruling his tribe. His
lone eye grew dim, and finally fail-
ed entirely; be still ruled. He sat
M his log cabin in the winter, or
his teepee in summer, humped up,
shriveled, a . fearful, rheumy -eyed
horror of what bad once been the
greatest warrior the Sareees ever
boasted, Then finally he died,
worn out, simply lay back and his
spirit passed on. He assisted in
sending many enemies on the long
trail before they could remove
their moccasins, but he died in
bed as peaceful men die.
PRESERVED RESERVE.
So passed Buil Head, chief of the
Sareees. He was dirty, and old,
and crippled, but be bad been the
pride of the tribe. His mental fac-
ulties remained with him to the
last, and only his stubborn stand
against the selling of the reserve
has preserved for the tribe that
very choice piece of Alberta, ten
miles square, on the edge of the
foothills, with a stream on each
side, and the finest range in hun-
dreds of miles. It is one of the
most choice parts of the entire
Province. Bull Head saved it for
the Sareees. Whether the new chief
will do likewise remains to be seen.
Big Belly, fifty years old, is
looked upon as the most likely to
s.tcceed the deceased chieftain, His
one rival, strange to say, is a
Cree who was adopted into the
tribe when peace was declared, ab-
out the time the Indian treaties
were signed and reserves were al-
lotted. But the Cree blood is
against the rival candidate, even in
this enlightened day, and Big Belly
will probably win.
THE DIET IN RHEUMATISM.
Red Meats Not the Only Article of
Food to Be Avplded.
"If there is a disease more than
any other that is caused by impro-
per diet, and that can be helped
most often by a diet properly ad-
justed to the capacity of the pa-
tient, it is rheumatism, in almost
everyone of its forms," writes a
physician in the Woman's Home
Companion.
There is a popular beliefthat
meat, especially red meat, is the
only archfiend that carries into the
system uric acid and the other
members of the purin group. Tea,
coffee, chocolate, cocoa, peas,
beans, asparagus, onions, and a
few other foods all contain the
purin bodies to some extent. Ani-
mal soups and malt liquors are
also guilty.
"All alcoholic liquors are ob-
jectionable, some of course mare
than others. By many the white
meat of chicken or other fowl is
considered much less pernicious
than red meat, such es beef, mut-
ton, lamb, etc., ant by others this
is contradicted. Excellent author
-ties, however„ state that whatever
may he true theoretic liy the so-
called red meats seem most objec-
tionable practically.
"Increasing the easily digested
animal foods, allowing milk, eggs,
a small amount of cheese, broiled
or roast meats, beef, iamb end
chicken in small quantities once a
day often brings a happy result.
Combine with these farinaceous
foods such as rice, farina, tapioca,
wheat bread, etc„ • and suitable
vegetables and fruits. Such pro-
cedure may give just the relief the
overworked machine is craving.
"During acute attacks of rheu-
naatiam the diet should consist of
milk, buttermilk, milk toast,
gruels, eta This should continue
so long as there is any,fever. All
meats and other objectionable are
ticles mentioned above should be
excluded until recovery is assur-
ed.
"Alkaline waters are valuable,
and excellent results follow the
use of generous quantities (at least
three pints daily) of any pure soft
water taken between metes,
DIPLOMATIC.
Voting Alan—"So Mies Ethel is'
year oldest sister. Who comes of -t
tar heel Small Brother -"Nobody
ain't some yet; but pa says the first
fellow that comes can have her."
A GREAT DAY FOR WEISNIE'
TIUII INVESTI'T'URE OF PRINCE
EDWARD,
)fost Splendid Pageant of the Kind
I ver W'itlressed in the United•
:Kingdom.
"The King has been pleased to
accede to the wish of the Welsh
people that the aarcient custom of
investiture of the Prince of Wales
should be revived."
Thus runs the official announce-
ment, and "little Wales" is in a
flutter o£ pleasurable excitement
aver it. The investiture is to take
place 'at Carnarvon Castle, where
Edward Plantagenet, first Prince of
1i'ales,• was been, and where, ac-
cording to tradition, he received
the homage of the he
nobles
and chieftains.
At Carnarvon Castle they sliosv"
you the very door—Queen Eldar-
er's gateway it is called -et which
the baby Prince was presented to
their Welsh forbears by his proud
lather, This gateway, by the way,
will be the centre of interest in the
forthcoming pageant of investi-
ture. For from it our present
Prince of Wales will step forth to
receive the homage of hes Welsh
subjects. It faces an immense
slate quarry, avast -natural am-
phitheatre, which, cleared and
barricaded, will, it is estimated,
hold fifty thousand spectators.
WEDDED TO WALES.
The actual anvestiture will take
place inside the castle, in the pre-
sence of some fifteen thousand no-
tables, the pick and cream of the
people of Wales and the United
Kingdom. The young Prince will,
if established precedents are fol-
lowed,
ol
lowed, be presented before his
father the King clad in a surcease
cloak, and mantle of crimson vel-
vet, with a girdle of gold.
The Archdruid of Wales; in his
picturesque flowing robes, will then
advance and place on the youth's
head .a torque or golden circlet, the
distinguishing mark of the ancient
Celtic Princes of Wales. After-
wards a rod of gold will be put in
his hand and then will follow "the
gift of the ring," the most import-
ant and symbolic part of the eere-
money, intended, as it is, to in-
timate to the recipient that he is
expected to be "a husband to his
country and a father to its inhab-
itants, his children,"
Meanwhile, outside in Career -
you the very door—Queen Mean -
Home Fleet, assembled there for
the occasion, will thunder forth a
Royal salute; ..ad the troops on
land will fire a feu de joie. This
latter evi11 in itself be one of • the
biggest things of she kind on re-
cord, for the whole strength of the
Welsh Territorials is to be mobil-
ized, and the King's household
troops will also be present, both
horse and foot,
HOMAGE TO THEIR PRINCE.
Other suggestions have been
made to give added solemnity to
the occasion, and to render it as
distinctively Welsh es possible.
One of these that will probably
be acted upon is that from Aber,
near Carnarvon, shall be brougbt
the celebrated Arrow Stone (Car-
reg-y-Saethau) upon which the
Welsh chieftains of old sharpened
their battle axes, spears, and ar-
rows, while swearing allegiance to
their kings.
Another picturesque suggestion
is that delegates chosen from all
grades of the Welsh people shall
defile by threes before their new
Prince, and do him homage.
First will come three grey old
shepherds from the hills, as re-
presenting the earliest pastoral
industry, to be followed by three
farmers from the dales, After
them will march representatives of
the ploughmen, the quarrymen,
the ironworkers, the tinplaters, the
colliers, alt in threes, likewise
those gallant sea captains who car-
ry the good naine of Wales so high
on every sea that rolls.
And these again will give place
to representatives of the clergy of
each denomination, to lord lieu-
tenants of counties, admirals of
Welsh ports, officers in the Welsh
Territorials, and the Welsh peers,
Ia
TO.BE GUESTS OF THE KING.
It hes been decided that 100,000
children shall attend the King's
Coronation fete at the Crystal Pa-
lace on June 30 as guests of the
King. They will be chosen by bal-
lot. The children to be invited will
taken in equal proportions from all
the public elementary schools in the
administrative area of the London
County Council, the number of boys
and girls being equal.
A NICE POINT IN LAW.
(No. 1.)
Prominent Lawyer (at home). --
"Where was I night before testi
Flow do I know, Do you expect me
to remember every little tiling I
dui"
(No. 2t)
Same Lawyer (hi court)- The
tecl mt ri.y of the witness is plainly
unreliable, As you see, he cannot
res hest where he was on the 18th
ea? cf "ctolber, 1887, between 11.50
a.m, orad 12,01 p.m."
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THE EAST ENO OF LONDON
•
.l. NEWSPAPER MAN SEES IT
AI!TLSR DARK.
An Amazing Description of a Per-
sonal -Visit to. London's Crime
Centre.
The small room, with its coke
are and its atmosphere reeking of
vodka and tobacco smoke, contain-
ed eight men," seven of whom had
done penal servitude. The eight
was myself, says a writer in Lon-
don Answers.
The man who had brought me
there was one of the worst crimin-
als in the whole of the metropolis,
How I enlisted his services is not
material to the story, but he did
his work well, protected me from
insult, and took me to places where
no journalistic foot had ever trod'
before.
It was sight o'clock in the even-
ing when we left the District sta-
tion at Whiteohapel, and, walking.
some distance, plunged into dense-
ly populated streets, so drab and
dreary that itis little wonder that
a email proportion of the inhabit-
ants turn to crime for excitement•
and relaxation --not to mention the
means to live.
Our first visit was to a certair.
place which, my companion ex-
plained, was a well-known exposi-
tory for stolen property. The pro-
prietor is in with every thief in the
district, and even in the small..
hours of the morning can commans-
any kind of vehicle to collect the.
proceeds of some robbery,
I POSE AS •A PICKPOCKET.
The fact that the proprietor has
been in prison does not deter him
from caressing on his business. He
is alleged to have a fat bankingac-
eoimt, but lives in a dreadful
style, snatching a few hours' sleep
on the floor on a miserable wooden
couch or in a chair. The solitary
bed -room, dreadful to relate, is
occupied by his wife, three sons,
and four daughters—the eldest ab-
out eighteen years of age,
A beautifully -trained lurcher dog
gives warning of the approach of
a strange footfall, and this and oth-
.ar precautions enable him to defy
the police.
My companion accounted for my
presenee.by saying that I was "one
of the boys," just arrived from Bir-
mingham, who intended to do a bit
of pocket -picking in London. He
took sole responsibility for my good
behavior, and soon whatever -re-
straint there was ie conversation
vanished, and story after story of
criminal achievement came from
my guide and our host.
In front of his wife and children
the latter openly bragged of his
crimes, and they followed him with
breathless attention. The wife
gazed with pride on the husband
who had put a warder "to sleep,"
and she looked with stoical equan-
imity on the sears of his flesh he
showed me, left by the cruel cat-
o' -nine -tails. They were the strang-
est people I haveever met.
A TERROR TO THE WARDERS..
One thing I was not long in dis-
covering. The criminals of the
East End are loyal to each other.
When one of their number is in-
quired for, there are always plenty
of scouts to give him warning.
Should there be a fight with the
police, there are seldom wanting
ono or two who will run any risk
to rescue a companion.
In the locality where my investi-
gations commenced, policemen nev-
er venture singly. Thee patrol in
pairs, and there is always a com-
rade within call; and it is whisper-
ed that on occasion they regard dis-
cretion as the better pare of valor,
and let a man go free rather than
risk the certain vengeance of his
friends, a: familiar
We traversed again the f m
ground where years ago there was
a reign of terror, consequent on the
unsolved Ripper murders, and
then, •diving down an alley, li ay
guide took me into a little P b sof
house, to introduce inc to on in
the most remarkable criminals
England. .e to
His body waso
. misshapen, n s
was wood, and he got aboutg th
wretches, but he had a face of e
gulrir beauty; his hands were long,
white, and elven; Inc' eyes were a1..
mon. gast zelle-like in their' expect.
siir
Itis services are worth ten
poundd a week when times are
good, In his misshapen. body there
is an amazing amount of strength,
and those lean hands can grip like
a vice, He is used by a very smart
gang who, having planned a bur-
blary, drop him unceremoniously
downa cellar grating, where he lies
in wait until the time is ripe for
him to commence, operations. Then,
it appears, his wooden leg and
crutches are discarded, and he
moves about with a strange, silent,
S1' AKE-LIKE MOVEMENT,
collecting all the valuable he can
lav hands on, and handing them in
sacks through the grating to ac-
complices.
In prison—and he has done sev-
eral terms -this man is known as a
terror to the warders, and it is
during his periods of incarceration
that the man becomes a veritable
demon. His wooden leg and his
crutches are taken away, but, even
so, he can land on the back of a
warder with a cat -likes spring, grip
the man's throat, and almost
strangle him before assistance
comes. He has an eloquent tongue
and when he is punished he appeals
to the visiting committee to have
his crutches restored, but no soon-
er has this been granted than bo
causes more trouble. •
As we travel .along, still in the
back streets, we pass a lad of ab-
out sixteen who is pointed out to
me as having macre a successful
speciality of passing countefeit
coins,
"Lend us a snide two -hog"
(counterfeit twe-shilling piece).
says my guide, and the request is
immediately complied with.
Then I leant that this youth will
Supply me with a pound's worth of
timost perfect specimens of the
nniners' art for tett shillings.
His work is a remarkable exam
ple of criminal cunning. Accom-
panied by four more youths, he
takes a ride into the distant.sub-
urbs. He himself carries but one
"snide" two -shilling piece. The
bulk are carried by confederates.
WELL DRESSED AND AFFABLE
he enters a small shop and makes
a threepenny purchase, offering a
counterfeit coin in payment. If
he is detected he offers a profuse
apology, and hands out s good coin.
Should the worst happen, he volun-
teers to be searched, knowing that
few, if any, prosecutions succeed
unless the accused person has more
than one piece of counterfeit mon-
ey on him,
Coming out, if successful, he re-
ceives another coin from one of his
"trailers," and 'repeats the game
until .the district is "worked;"
We knock at the door of a little
house in an indescribably filthy
slum, where villainous looking men
and one woman are playing bank-
er. The language is horrifying, and
the atmosphere as foul as any to
be found in this foul locality.
"Is Bill here 1" asks my guide,
mentioning a man he knows to be
away.
He receives a gruff reply in the
negative, and we are invited to
join in the game. But, with an in-
timation that we "have a bit of
important business on," my pro-
tector gives a knowing wink, which
draws forth the admiring tribute
that he is "a fly lot," and, with a
whispered injunction to "notice
the kiddies," he ushers me outside.
"Those four children," ho says,
as we emerge into the air, "earn
sixpence a day each, Two of them
go round with Italian organ -grind-
ers, and the other two go with
PROFESSIONAL BEGGARS,
How they manage to dodge the
school attendance officers is a mys-
tery."
The clocks have by now struck
the hour of ,midnight and the at-
mosphere chills one to the bone.
"I am going, to take you to ono
of the wickedest places anywhere
about here," my mentor announc-
es, "and I warn you to lie as law
as possible, and allow me to do the
talking. If yeti bare to talk, use
crook lingo" (thieves' language),
At the moment, we were walk-
ing quickly along a street. Sudden-
ly my guide draws me down a
dark entry,. Through the slush and
slims we pick otir way, and I soon
discover that what is seemingly a
blank wall contains a door, Pass-
ing through this without molesta-
tion arouses my curiosity, and I
whisper a desire for an . explana-
tion,
"We pressed a plank," he mur-
murs, "and that plank rinse an el-
ectric bell, so that the doorkeeper
shall be ready when wo arrive' et
the noire door,"
My guide gives three sharp taps,
and a small panel is pushed back—
to show a terrible face, In lang-
uage which I do not understand,
but which I know to be 'Yiddish, a
low conversation -is carried on,
Then a bolt is shot, a heavy bar
lifted, and we are inside e, club—
which does not appear on the re-
gistor—which shelters some of the
worst criminals in the locality, and
where gabbling and drinking go on
unchecked to analarming extent.
SECRET GAMBLING CLUB,
Three or four parties are either
playing banker, faro, baccarat, or
nap, and every eye is turned on us
as we enter" the card room, which
alsa contains a email bar, from
which not only vodka but spirits
favored by Englishman are sold.
You have to pay double price for
everything, and, contrary to the
rubes existing in well regulated
clubs where guests are not allowed
to pay for anything,. I was permit-
ted to treat the company.
It was getting towards three
o'clock when my friend, whose side
I had never ]eft, invited me to a
room adjoining the card room—the
whole club only consisted of two
rooms—where half a dozen men
were seated round the coke fire.
drinking the fiery spirit of Russia.
It had loosened their tongues,
and the reserve which surrounded
them on ordinary occasions had
vanished. With one man 1 became
very chummy. He had, he told me
-quite frankly, served time in a
Russian prison—offence not speci-
fied—and he made my blood curdle,
IN A RUSSIAN PRISON. '
"Suppose," said this hardened
^uffian to me in broken English,
Between sips of the spirit, "a man
n Itussie, bas half a clozen friends
in prison. He represents that he
wants these men to do some work,
for which he pays the authorities
sevenpence halfpenny a day. By
bribing the warder he can get his
own particular friends, take them
to his house, make the officer who
accompanies them drunk, give
them a right royal time, and send
thera back to the prison at nine
p.m.
"I have been in the cell," he
went on, "when six of these men
have returned the worse for drink.
Words have led to blows, and in a
few minutes they have been: tearing
at each other's throats. The ward-
ers were powerless, for had they
ventured into the cell, they would
have been simply mutilated.
"The warders 'get their own
back' like this: A prisoner to whom
they have taken a violent hatred
is given every facility to escape.
He 'seizes the chance, and is im-
mediately shot dead by the officers,
who have been on the watch."
'Just before five o'clock "time"
was called, and in twos,
threes, and single we left the foul
den for the chill, raw air of the
East End.
We had escaped molestation, and
thought not of the other perils in
store.
TH11MB Rif -GS, MAG.PI CHAINS
And Ankle Bracelets are in Favor
in Paris at Present.
Thumb rings, magpie chains and
ankle bracelets are in favor in
Paris, France, at present. An ac-
tress started the thumb ring fash-
ion. She wore one of a design so
wide that it reached nearly to the
nail, and the emeralds which com-
posed it matched her green gown
and hair ornaments. After that
theatrical first night the jewelers
received orders for thumb rings of
unique dosigne, and there are many
to be seen now.
Serpents see with rubies or em-
eralds are popular for ankle brace-
lets, and those of plain gold with
jeweled eyes are also fashionable.
The short tight dresses make ankle
ornaments a necessity; it is declar-
ad, and when the gowns are long
the•lowerhems are of laee or chif-
fon, so the anklets can be seen and
appsoaiabcd.
Tho black and white combination
which is fashionable is iettrodueing
itself into -gaols accessories as the
long neck chains or chains for lorgs
netted, which are now made of black
and white beads of satin and wood
or of "pearls and . •bits of jet, 7r;
again, of round' particles of gun
metal and porcelain. 'These are
Icriown as the magpie chains, and
with thernare used black and white
bead bandbags and parasols with
black and white striped handles.
t ed a dT
p
es.
1VO'T'BS FOR WOMEN,
Theis' Bights Recognized in. Backb-
war d/Russiae.
Even in Russia the rights of wo-
men are becoming recognized in a,
way the last generation would have
considered .revolutionary, Time,
bills passed by lbw Delta this cess
sion prove this beyond question,
and it is unlikely the Upper House•
will interfere seriously with the pro-
visions of.two el then:eat any rate.
Q,no measure was backed by the•
Government, and provides for eas-
ier means of legal separation. What,
part this plays can only be under-
stood when considered in connec-
tion with the Russien passport sys-
tem. In the ordinary way, thee
wife's name is iuciuded on the hue -
band's passport; she is only ores
Mined with that limited amount el'
',opal ate identity. The only creep•
tions aro when she can prove violent.
ill-treatment—the term is extreme
in its requirements in Russia—oz'
when the husband gives his consent,
Then only san she have a pass/Arra
of her own and so be free to'tra-
vel and settle in another .part of
the country. If she ,tries to live
apart from her husband without
such " a paasport, she effendi.
against the law and must either
roturn to her spouse or suffer pun-
ishment in abs courts.
This new measure enables a wife.
to obtain a separation order from
the court on making a simple de-
claration, according to certain re-
quirements,'after which she can de-
mand a passport at the nearest po
lice depot and live where she choos-
es,
Another bill that has a good
chance of becoming law places.
daughtera on the same footing as,
sons as to their right to inherit le- •
gacios. Up to now there has been
a heavy handicap for the girls, for
whereas they could only inherit one -
fourteenth of their father's estate,
their brothers shared equally in the.,
division. When this new law has.
been signed the division will be•
equal all round.
But when it comes to the bill de-
signed to establish a new instru-
ment of local government, to be
known 58 the "Cantonal Zemstvo,"'
the attitude of the Council of Em-
pire is likely to be much more hos-
tile. For it extends the representa-
tive principle so fan as to admit•
women to a voice in local affairs.
Recognizing the interest of the.
peasant women in communal' af•
fairs, the Duma committee recent -
mended that there should be wo-
man suffrage in the local eleetione.
This was adapted by the Duma,
along with a further proposal that,
women sheltie' be eligible them-
selves for election to the Cantonal
Zemstvo, and even to its executive, '
offices.
The fact that the Government op-
posed this recognition of women's
rights all through the debates au-
gurs ill for its reception in the
Council of Empire, where the at-
mosphere is naturally more conser-
vative.
CHARGED WITH THEFT..
Another Scandal In the French
Foreign Office.
.A. grave development has occur-
red in the scandal of the account
ant's department of the French
foreign office, in connection with
which M. Harron, the head of the
department, is under arrest for al-
leged embezzlement. Recently the
police arrested M, Chedanne, the '1'
architect of the foreignonco, on a
complaint made by M. lJevamberg,
the well-known painter, who was
engaged to decorate the new French
embassy at Vienna.
The artist is alleged to have beea
made to sign a receipt for $8,000',
in acknowledgment of an advance
of $1.400 on the agreed price of $3,-
400, M. Devanbeg now claims the
payment of $2,000, which he states
is due to him,
It is further alleged that three
pieces of tapestry belonging to the
French clipinmatit, service were
found in M. Chedanne'a office. Ao•
cording to the Matin, the under sec-
retary of fine arts learned that vari-
ous pieces of the magnificent Gobs-
lins tapestry, which decorates sevs
eral of the French embassies
abroad, had been taken away da an
unknown destination, The see
tart' in consegltence issued. a circ`
Jar• to the French diplomatic repre-
sentatives, asiiieg them to make out
an inventory of their' art troasiires.
Grave charges are brought
against M. Ramon with regard to
Ude expenditure at foreign office
moneys. He was said to have re.
jotted the offer of Prince Metter•
nioh and au archduke who were
willing to sell' their palactes to ,the
French Government for an embitter
and to hare had a hideous new
building erected at a cost of $100,-
000. in connection with this a Hun-
garian Sp1 contractordwindled, asserts that he '
a
I. Chedanne
was at Rome 'mails
biting at the Fee Arts Exhibition a
model .of Home during the fourth
century, when he w
. , as called track to
Paris by a dispatch from the for -
sign office. He is how in the Sante
Prison,
Queer thing abee,t neeessit , It
is the Mabee of invention asset the
father of toil.
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