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THE OREGON SUNDAY' JOURNAL PORTLAND, SUNDAY ' MORNING. MAY1 28, 1911. Hotels Combine To Boost Rates i; , ; Composer Schumann V,:.(,Wm,i ; Revolutionist I People Reject' Pemions Law LOTS OF f FIRST. PUBLIC APPEARANCE OF BRITISH ROYAL FAMILY DURING CORONATION SEASON L r .ii - PLEAS OF WIFE REFUSE TO ACCEPT ' E ITE t; 4M r i M Extortionate Landlords Fear Although Preaching Foregive Efforts to Put Into Effect. Pet Scheme of Radicals Meet United Opposition From La bor Sources. That ' They - Have Scared , ,rc-.".. ness, Minister Refuses to Practice It When Discarded J k Away Intending Tourists by "Agreement To Triple Rates. Wife Appeals to Him. BERLIN R I S VIENNA ROOM PASTORSPURNS FRENCH lira ONDON DESPITE GREEDY HOTELS PUBUCLY MAD PENSIONS STAT! i ' P ' By Cheater Overton. i. London, May 17. London hotel keep er and shop keepers received a rude elt thla week when dtapatchea from America, auted that departing steanv mps were not rmed aa many Amerl-l ea.ua were giving tha coronation a wldel berth on account of extortionate price demanded lor houaea and hotel apart ments. A campaign waa promptly atarted to counteract thla Impression, but tha fact la that tha hotela by agreement naval trebled their regular ratea for June and refuse accommodation for vlaltora ar riving after June 1. The reply, "booked! tip during coronation," haa been given to til applicant at tha central hotel for tha laat three montha. Nobody be- Jarre way reaiiy were "booked up;" Mhay are merely holding out In expecta tion of extracting large auma from prodigal Americana arriving at the laat moment. ' Even long atandlng patron have been Informed they would either neve te surrender their rooms for cor onation week or pay double or treble rates. Meaty of Been veileel. -.,i-5..: ww---i u' ' -;.'' i is j ',. t-ti . I '-''c iAV :v r vVAiam'. fn1.ii,0thM,i B2wlf. rb2 i r00' 0ra-e. Queen Mary, the Prince of Walee and Princess Mary riding' In their royl carriage to, the opening of the Fttlvl of the Empire at CrytJ B sou is ana actor ana ectrs in Elixabethan coatume are in the foreground. Thla picture waa taken aa the proceaelon passed planning the trip need fear for lack of accommodation. Certain West End ho tel may be filled despite tbelr high tianded methods and extravagant prices, but a few minutes further out there are hundreds of typical BTngllah private hotels where any number of vtattors can find comfortable accommodation mid surrounding fully aa attractive a those nearer Piccadilly. - Central London Is already full, la at least one sense of the word. The streets are a crowded with traffic that It often takes a motor ear bus or taxi half an hour to go half a mile. This "corona tion orawl" Is so maddening that men in a harry are often seen leaving tbelr taxis In the middle of the eruah and Palace, London. Boy through Southwark. (Br tk InternetlM! 1w, ferric.) Vienna. May C7. A acene of a dra matically pathetic nature wu enacted one Sunday recently, during morning aervlce In the Protestant church at the Hungarian village of Okany. A paator, young and brilliant, named Alexander Rkel, while addreaMng hi congregation on the duty of forglvlrur Injuries, spoke with such fervor and elo quence that before he had completed hla aermon there waa acarcely a dry eye In the church. A woman who had been sitting at the back of tha church had come to the front without anyone noticing her Throwing heraelf at the pastor'a feet aha said In aobblng tone: "You preach forglvenesa and recon ciliation. Now forgive your poor wife who doea not know what wrong she haa don you, and let her return to your home!" The young preacner, who a moment before had brought the teara to the eye of the listener, now ignored hi wife' appeal. H declared coldly that he knew that he had aent her back to her parents after a few weeka' marriage, and that he could not take her back on any condition. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW'S ATTACK ON E s r AROUS ran By Phillip Everett. (By the lataroatloaal New ferric.) London, May 17. George Bernard proceeding afoot In order to arrive at Shaw's iconoclastic tendencies have their destination on time. Naaaau again got him into hot water. Tha tal- street at the noon hour faintly describes ented writer sticks to the pernicious the conditions of the Btrand. Piccadilly habit of saying Juat what he thinks and the neighborhood of Leicester .a vi. ... - n- . tTquare. Many American faces are seen ,,,.. t ... ' among the crowd, of oquree, but the vast majority of strangers are colo- be has undertaken to crlticiee the late" male, or country people attracted to Count Tolstoy and the thousands of inena ot w aaa pnuosopner nsr ana In Russia are hot on his trail, although town for the occasion. . Alexandre Creates Comment. The significant absence of Queen I Shaw at the beginning of hie essay peys Alexandra from' the Victoria memorial a warm rrioate to Tolstoy genius, ear unveiling recently has been publicly lng; "He was a man of jgeniua and in commented on. This, combined with the me very xirst rugnt or mat rare ape official announcement that during thelcles," and ends with the eloquent pas- month .of coronation fete, the aueenleage: mother will be absent from London, yu ve baby - who caa' speak has already begun to Intensify a shrewd with, tsars In the gate, who can make uarJelon '.that the health of Alexandra I a-urope ana America stop ana listen Is not so satisfactory as official reports I when he opene his mouth; who can smite Imply. This general disquietude Is re flected In the Increasing rush of hotel keepers, shop keepers and speculative builders of stand to take out policies In Lloyd's Insuring against postpone ment -of the coronation through some untoward event In the royal family. Even - the majority of members of Lloyds, who pride themselves on their willingness and capacity to Insure any thing and everything, now refuse to ac cept any more poatponement business at any price. A few daring spirits did write a certain number of riaks at If guineas per cent and then advanced the rate to 20 per cent and even thla ex. orb! tent premium waa readily paid, but towards the week end the underwriters became frightened and now refuse any further business. ' WIC MAY INSPECT VESTMINSTER ABBEY (Br the International Newi SerTlce.) London, May 27. It is understood that after the coronation. Westminster Abbey is likely to be open for the In spection of the public for a longer period than on the occasion of the crowning of tha late King Edawrd. Everything will be left exactly a on the day of the great ceremonial. In 1S03, after King Edward was crowned, the Abbey was opened for seven days and 97,000 persons made an Inspection. After the coronation of King George" said Mr. C H. Kadcliffe, chapter clerk or wesmlnster, on Saturday, "we are hoping that the Abbey will be open for ten days and even longer if posslbel. Public charities benefited nearly SIS, 000 on the occasion of the last corona tion aa a result of this publlo Inspec tion, a charge for admission being made. It is probable that this year any surplus remaining, after making good lost col lections to the Hospital Sunday fund and other Institutions through the sus pension of the services, will be devoted to removing the debt on the Abbey. SCIENTIST ASSUMES AN UNKNOWN GAS with unerring aim straight, at the sor est spots 1n the world's conscience; who can break through all censorships and all barriers of language; who can thun der on the gates of the meet terrible prisons In the world, and place his neck , under the kecneet and bloodleat axea only to find that for him the gates dare not open and the axe dare not fall, then Indeed you have a baby tnat must be nursed and coddled and petted and let go hla own way. In spite or all the wisdom of governeaaes and schoolmasters." Tolstoy's Honesty Attacked. What Shaw attack is the Intelli gence and honesty of Tolsoys personal conduct and It is these characteristically vigoroua and Irreverent paasagea whlctr nave aroused indignation here and' In RuMla, He writes: " And yet, no English old maid of country family, living In a cathedral town on 1800 a year, could have made more absurd attempts to start an Ideal social aystem by private misconduct than he. He put on the dress of a mou- Jlk exactly as Don Quixote put on a suit of armor. He tried to Ignore money aa Don Quixote did. He left his own skilled work to build houses that could hardly be Induced to etand and to make boots that an army contractor would have been ashamed of. He lt hla prop erty drift to the verge of Insolvency and ruin like the laciest Irish squire be cause he disapproved of property as an Institution. . "And he waa 'neither honesty nor re spectable In hla follies. He connived at all aorta of evasions. He would not take money on a Journey, but he would take a companion who would buy -railroad 'tickets and pay hotel bills behind his back. He would not own property or copyrighted but he -would make them over to his wife and children and live In their country house In Tasnaya and in their town house In Moscow very oontfortably, only occasionally easing his consoience by making things as dif ficult and unpleasant for them as pos sible . Shirked BeaponslblliUes. . "In the ordinary affairs of Ufa he shirked every uncongenial . responsibil ity, whilst availing himself of every luxury he really cared for. And he railed at his wife and family for en abling him to do It, treating his wife aa ethically Inferior because she Insist' ed on saving the family from ruin, un til at laat aha gave him up ae Impos sible, and managed for him without say ing anything harsher than her Ruasian formula, 'Nothing matters so long as the baby la not crying." In another passage Mr. Shaw anows that Tolstoy's discontent with his en vlronment once took an aspect of "inhu man callousness," aa it led him to leave home and keep hla wife for houra In the greatest anxiety at a time when the most ordinary oonsiderateness would have led him to save her all possible ex citement. Mr. Shaw la amazed at the extent to which a man who was bound lessly sympathetic on paper with Imag inary beings could be so outrageously Inconsiderate to real people In his own home. SCHUMANN WA UIN I IS A M ADVANCED EMPRESS EUGENIE AT 85 YEARS LIVES IN DREAM WORLD OF PAST Discovery of Several Unpub lished Songs of the German Composer Shows Him to Have Sympathized. r CHINA TO BECOME PREDOMINANT POWER IN EAST RUSSIAN'S OPINION r (By the International News Service.) Berlin, May 27. An interesting dis covery has been made by Professor Al fred Wegener of the University of Marl- urg, who has already written treatises on the atmosphere. He has come to the conclusion that at a height of 124 miles from the surface of the earth there exists a space filled with an unknown gas, which Is lighter than hydrogen. He has not ascertained whether it Is a simple chemical body or a combination. He calls It geokoronlum. PRIESTS ACCUSED; OF v POISONING CHALICE (B the InternitlonJ Newt Service.) Rome. May 27. On a charge of at tempting to poison another priest by pouring .eulphurlo acid Into the wine used In the celebration of mass, two priests have been arrested in a village In the neighborhood of Cremona, Lom bard r..- i'-'-.i;-'.'"''. J . when after the Eucharist, the priest drank of the consecrated wine, he no- tlced sn acid -taate and threw the? chal ice to the floor. - Chemical analysis proved the presence of auiphurlo acid la the win.- j, ,r. :r. .-v , (Br the InternaUoatl News Service.) Berlin, May 27. "It is the conviction of every Russian officer on the Chineae frontier that the Tellow Peril Is no myth." said Lieutenant P. T. Etherton, who has Just arrived In this city. Lieu tenant Etherton Is the Indian army of ficer who recently ' completed a won' derful Journey across Asia from India to Siberia, accompanied only by hla In. dlan orderly. ,. "I have talked with many Russians from the Pamirs up to Siberia, and they are all of the same opinion," he added. "It will be a thing, they say, not of to day nor of tomorrow, but they feel assured that the yellow hordes will eventually sweep through Asiatic Rus sia Into Europe. They have great res pect for potential value of the Chinese as soldiers. Trained and properly led, they believe them to be of the same standard as the Japanese. . "China," said Lieutenant Etherton in conclusion, "Is desirous of consolidat ing her power, and since the Eusso Japanese war Is ' awakening to a sense IRATE CONDUCTOR STOPS PERFORMANCE (Br the1 International New Service.) Paris, ' May 27. The Russian opera season, at the' Theatre Sarah Bernhardt afforded another sensation on Thurs day night Bakanoff, the Russian bari tone, was to king the Vernon. and the theatre was Crowded. The curtain waa supposed to rise at 8,; JO, but nothing happened. . At 9' the, audience began to clamor and finally with 10 o'c el ock an nouncement waa made that no perform- ftfrCti WOUld kw7; f4 T0 - ftl4 "'tll " inOlMpF ' would be returned at the door. ' ' The side boxes at the left were filled with Americana. Including Bradley Max ef responsibilities and the latent strength, she possesses, she haa real Iced fhat to get at the root of the evil aha muat purify the aystem of admin istration, corrupt and rotten to the core. This shs Is endeavoring to do, though time Is needed to cleanse and remodel a system In Togue for centuries. With the formation of the new model troops, the management of the schools on mod ern lines, and reforms In the adminis tration, signs are apparent that China Is desirous of developing her illimitable resources. "With a view te resisting aggression along the western and northwestern frontiers of the empire, she Is showing great energy and determination In re organising her military . forces under foreign supervision and this , coupled with the scheme to constitute a force of irregular cavalry from among the Mbn gol population may well give rise to perturbation In. Russian circles. The awakening of China Is at hand! She will be the predominant power of the east!" i : ' t By Wederlck Werner. (Br the tatmatioasl News Su-rioa.) Berlin, May 27. That the famous composer, Schumann, waa a revolution 1st has Jus been discovered by Berlin Socialists. He wrote. In 1848, revolu tionary party songs, which have never yet been published. The discovery has been made through a Frenoh muslcog. rapher, M. Charles Nalherbe, keeper of the library of the Parts Opera. The find has involved several curious questions of musical history and musical oopy- rlght, it Is, In reality, no new discov ery. Stoma time ago M. Malherbe, at a publlo sale, bought a bundle of manu scripts. Among them, to his own great surprise, he found the score In Schu mann'a handwriting, of some songs for four male voices on revolutionary words. evidently suggested by or composed for the outbreak of 1848 all over Europe. The score was. as far as can be deter mined, unknown to the best lovers of Schumann, and had certainly never been published. Copyright Sas Expired. M. Malherbe communicated the man uscript to no one for a long time Event ually a friend of his brought out a vol ume about Schumann and M. Malherbe showed 'him the score, which was men tioned In the book. Immediately after wards the librarian of the Opera waa approached by persons on behalf of Ger man choral societies, asking to look at the manuscript. M. Malherbe refused. and has continued to refuse to show it. He gives fairly cogent reasons for his refusal. On the one hand, the copyright of Schumann's works has now lapsed. Therefore, M. Malherbe contends, the ownership . of an unpublished manu script by Schumann rests solely with the possessor of it, who is the sole Judge as to the advisability of publication. The term of copyright having expired, Schu mann'a heirs have no more claim In the matter. On the other hand, Schumann never tin. This is the, best Russian opera company 'which Mr. Russell, of the Bos ton opera house, had engaged for Amer ica. '.' The final explanation . of the. fiasco was that the conductor had taken away the score of the opera because another man had been put oyer his head, so the orchestra was unable to Blav. Alex ander Kahiv agent of the Boston opera House, went to the police and asked thenr to try to got back the score In time for the performance, but they re fused to interfere. I . published the revolutionary songs In question. Therefore, acting only as an Interpreter of the composer's wishes, M. Malherbe oonaiders that he would not be Justified In making known work by Schumann which Schumann himself withheld. The argument against M. Malherbe Is that the importance of any unpublished and unknown work by Schumann must perforce be such as to override all other considerations. Has the owner of such a work the moral right to withhold It from the public? That Is the question. Meanwhile, on the atrength of Schumann's 1848 revolu tionary songs, which neither it nor any one else but M. Malherbe knowe any thing of, the Vorwarta of Berlin is Joy- iuny, ana wim retrospecuve eninusi- asm, claiming Robert Schumann as brother' revolutionist, which is, perhaps, a larger order. ; CELEBRATES SEVENTIETH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY (Br tk Intmatlon(l New Sarvlce.) London, May 27. The recent eighty- fifth birthday anniversary of the Em press Eugenie, she who Srhared the throne with tha laat emperor of France, and contributed, as fashion's arbiter, to the pomp and glory of the last days of the French monarchy, sgain lenda inter. est to stories of this charming old lady, who, bereft of fortune and power, Is quietly living out her allotted span of life In a half forgotten, lonely little bouse at Farnborough. This charming, frail, white haired old lady, whose wit Is still keen and whose spirit Is still strong, and whose courag has always been great, lives In I dream world of old ghosts and memo ries. To the present generation tha fall of the French empire seems to be long to ancient history, and the dust of time and forgetfulnees seems to have fallen upon the pages in which It blunderlngs and tragedy are written. The wprld has moved on apace since Napoleon III introduced his bride to the French senate and legislative as sembly. After tha disaster of Sedan, France rose from the ashea of Its ruins with new hop and vigor, and tha new France seems to have but little In com mon with Its second empire. New men and new manners have come to rule. But the Empreaa Eugenie, almost the last survivor of . that period, hugs to her heart th withered flower of thl remembrance, and I haunted by ghost faces of old friends long forgotten in their graves, and in the quiet room of her English house conjures up again the vision of the splendor of those gay days in which she was the empress ef fashion. - Of Spanish Descent. The daughter of the Count de Mont- IJe, and great-granddaughter of a Klrk patrlck of Dumfriesshire, ahe had the hot blood ef the Spanish race, the clear brain and brave heart of the Spanish strain. She was 26 years of sg when she married the middle aged emperor, and her lustrous southern spirit and youthful gaiety charmed those who were tempted to be her swains. She was th greatest lady In a court whioh waa extravagant In it brilliant pag eantry. Paris was supreme In Intellectual renown, crowded with men and women of genius, free in its entertainment to all who could add to It Interest or knowledge of amusement The empress was- th patroness of art and letters, as of fashion and beauty. For a time Na poleon's foreign policy seemed brilliant In its sucoess, and the empress shared his prestige m Europe. But corrup tion was eating into the heart of the military administration, and political adventurers were a danger to the state, until at last the empire was dragged to the edge of the abyss by the fatal war with Germany. The part that th empress played In that time of disaster belongs to his tory. When the crash came he fled to England, where she was Joined at Chlselhurat, In Kent, by the exiled em peror, who lived there until his death In 1873. Today at 85 years of age, this gra cious lady still has the homage of all the people who have bwn privileged to listen to her charming conversation, and though she has many tragio memo ries, time has healed the old wounds, and her sadness Is like the faint per fume of rose leaves, which brings tears to th eyes of those who have loved and lost In the summer of far off days. FOUR THOUSAND MILES THROUGH WILDS TO VISIT LOVER'S GRAVE A novelty in the way of room heaters that comes from France is an eleotrlc carpet,, fine wires woven through Its texture carrying the heating current and distributing It evenly. ; ? jr -, 1 ' r i i The . Russian . government has- con-; traded: for a kerosena engtn propelled boat for the transportation of cholera patient from infected districts to bos pttaia. V. . - . f . : Berlin, May 27. Herr Frits Furse, who is ninety-eight years old, and his wife who Is aged ninety-one, have cele brated the seventieth anniversary of their marriage at Potsdam, where they have lived in matrimonial harmony for seven decades. When the marriage took place In 1841, Herr Furse was a working carpenter. He soon eetablised his own business, prospered and became . the owner of bouse property representing a hand some income. Both Furse and hla wife are In excellent health. . . ' The kaiser, who takes a keen Interest In - the couple as the oldest , residents of Potsdam, sent the band of the First Foot guards 'to play outalde their house in honor of the occasion. , , , Prince Joachim, with all the officers of the same regiment, called on the coupla and offered their congratulations. so did the mayor and aldermen of Potsdam. The aldermen also tea flOWera, "XT-s-.'v'J-i-: . --. (Br the International News Rerrlce.) London, May 27. Miss Olive Mac Leod, daughter of Sir Reginald Mac Leod, late permanent under-secretary for Scotland, has reached England from Central Africa, where she has accom plished a tour of close upon 4000 miles Into the barely known regions of the interior. This great Journey was made with the private object of visiting the spot at Maironl where Lieutenant Boyd Alexander, the explorer, to whom Miss MacLeod was engaged, lies buried. Miss MacLeod left England In August, last For etc months Miss MacLeod, with her companion a, Mr. and Mrs. P. A. Tal bot, Journeyed In a land where a white woman had not before penetrated, and during four months the rout waa In a region new even to Englishmen. Much of the time they made their way on foot along the scarcely native tracks through th brush. Miss MacLeod In a statement given 1 out yesterday said: "French Ubangl was reached In October laat, and after a great reception by the Lam'lo at Lere, a successful attempt was made to find the falls on the Mao Kabl, which by the testimony of the French officials and natives had never been actually seen before. After this suocess the French authorities asked permission to name the falls 'Les Chutes MacLeod. At Lake Chad an excursion was made to the north to, visit the extraordinary plot-urea (rue rocks of HadJl-el-BamU, which are venerated for hundreds of. mile around, and even at Mecca aa the spot on which Noah's arc rested. Though the natives declared It an , Impossible reat, we climbed the highest peak. Lake Chad was crossed In canoes, and It took eight days, of which five were spent without a sight of land.' Among the things Miss MacLeod has brought back are two little Hon cubs, which wer three months old when they were given to her as a present VICTORIA LOUISE IS Fi ENGLISH (Br the International News Serrlca. ) London, May 27. Will the next gen eration see another Queen Viotoria in England T Court gossips who have been busy recently marrying the young Ger man princess to the Prince of Wales, who Is only two years her Junior, have discovered new grounds for answering this question In the affirmative. During 1 hla recent visit the kaiser proposed a visit of the Prince of Wales to Germany for, a month or more 'u the autumn. ; The kaiser ts said to be par ticularly .desirous that the British heir apparent would make a closer acquaint ance of the young princess and there is a possibility that his invitation will be a.ccppted. . '., . Charming, vivacious Viotoria Louise tliaTrwTtainlyTnttden-imprf satoii oh the British. Wlththe crowd that watched th royal progifcsa about tha streets, she waa easily thepnost popular member of1 the Germany royal party. When she was shown over his tori o London tower by Frincess Mary, they entered the mod ern armory from which ordinary visit ors are excluded. Seeing 30,000 stacked rines. victoria Louise laughingly re marked: "I see you are prepared for tne uerman invasion." STEALS METAL, SELLS IT TO REAL OWNER (Br tha International Nam fiarriea.V Vienna, May 27. The exploits of an Individual at Temeavar are so amaxlng that he has not only surpassed the fa mous Captain von Kopenlck, but .has made the German shoemaker a poor seo- ond in the aqt of daring., The Temes var here engaged a gang of SO workmen, went to a distillery which was cloked and Instructed them to dismantle it Following thlB exploit be demolished a fountain and then sold It with Che dis tillery fittings for old metal. .Next he turned his operations upon an avenue. ana cue oowii svii i w irra ana. sola TO wood to a carpenter. Then he vanished Into space, and the good people of Tem- esver are sUU In a state of ferment,' By Oeorg Dufresne. (Br tha International Naws Karri ra I Paris. May 17. A atnaular an....t la being witnessed all over France. The authorities are endeavoring to put the workmen'e pensions law Into ffct and th peopl will not accent It. Thar are more than 1.000,000 wage earners In Paria and only J7.000 have Inscribed their name; st Lyons, out of 110,000 workmen 0000 have made the necessary declarations: at Marselllaa l nnn of J00.000. Everywhere It la th am. tory. At om C laces tha law fa (uinmt,j altogether. Now thl so called reform waa th pet chem of the radicals foe ' year, nd they moved heaven and earth to have It voted befor going to their constituencies at the laat general elec tion. Aa a bait to ecur reelection It ' waa considered InfalllhU Jtila Oiiede, the Socialist waa simply de rided by hi brother deputle when he foretold th exasperation th bill would Incite among th proletariat aa eon aa they became aware of Ita provisions. For the sake of a totally Inadaaual penaion. in the long years to com workmen were called upon to con tribute, week by week, from their scant earnlnga. No dlatlnctlon was mad be tween the better off and the poorer. It waa an lmmena accumulation of fund In th hands of the state without any control on th part of th anbaoHhiira. Th Socialists are now milt nt k mind of Jules Guesde and are doing their utmoat to excite tha nannla against the law. Th Heneral liw Confederation Is equally active. M. Jean Codet, a republican senator, haa Interviewed minis tera on tha atiK Ject. and they too are obliged to con fees that the reform Is a failure. An other bill Is to be In trod ilrowl an,! Xt Codet will be its parent as soon as the cnninuer meets. ares State $10,000,000. An Instance of an emnlova of tha postofflce. who haa saved th atata 10.000,000 is given today. Pari la - connected with all the larg towns by a ysiem 01 underground telegraph wlrea. In 1879 it was found that tha wiraa did not work satisfactorily. In the fol lowing year they did not work at all; The wires were abandoned for 10 years, in 1900 the budget commission of the chambers acting on the advice of the engineers of the postofflce, deolded te abandon altogether the wires, which had cost 18,000,000. The employe of th noatnffira h had read the report of tha bud ret ram. mission called on th under aeoretar of state for that department and In formed him that it was possible te utilise th condemned wires. The em ploye, Quelnneo by name, was listened ; to, but th engineer laughed at tha idea of his doing anrthlna- with tna wires which they had condemned. M. Quelnneo set to work. At small expense he repaired the wires one by one. He not only repaired but Improved ' them. The engineers did not laugh now. ' M. Quelnneo was given an advance of 1100 a year, and made district Inspector , of telegraph wires. He has again been heard of. In con sequence of the floods which devested the suburbs last year several overhead ' telegraph wires were damaged. M. . Quelnneo called upon the minister of works, and pointed out that there was around Paris a network of underground - ' wires which had coat $1,000,000 and which had been abandoned for 20 years. He promised to put them in order. Again the engineers laughed, but the minister""" Of works placeothe lob in hla hand a all the aame. He did his work satis factorily, thus saving the state $8,000,, 000. In recognition of hla admirable work he was decorated laat year, and It la now a question of rlvlnr him another Increase of $100 a year, and making him principal lnapector of th underground telegraph wires In France. Wife Murderer Seat to vriaon. ' The Paris assise court haa had t deal with a murder caae rather out Of . the common, for tha accused, who ban been sentenced to 10 yea re' Imprison ment, is a titled teamster, a genuine . count He was accused of having mur dered h'a wife, . an - equally' genuine countesa. Comte Paul de Castebled, an authentic -nobleman, was reduced ,to exercising; the profession of teamster. It seems to ' ' have been the only means of livelihood ' that he ever had. 1 , His wife, the Countess Angele, exercised no very superior profession, either. They had one child, and oooupled a small work- -man's flat for which they found It diffloult to pay the rent Being evicted " from their wretched lodgings, a chart- ' table neighbor offered them hospitality and gave them a mattress a - thai only bed. Misery notoriously sours the temper, ana tnat the comte became very cross so cross In fact that one night he cut off the head of the comtesse. Asked to explain why he had perpe- " 1 trated .this atrocious act he tatd be fore the Jury that wretched a they wer, he felt exceedingly grieved that nia wire snouia nave proposed to leave him with their little daughter. She had received a very tempting offer from ' some one who said that he would take "' care of her and her child. Comtesse -Angele decided to accept it, and In- ' formed her husband of her Intention to f' leave him. They quarreled over the ! matter and their hospitable ' neighbor i" Intervened and expelled the comte for the night But Comte Paul de Cas- v' tebled returned by stealth before morn ing and severed his wife's head from ' her body with a rasor, whilst she was asleep. , He had acted, he said. In a , fit of blind Jealousy. - The Jury gave ' a rather lenient verdict whereupon the . court sentenced him te 10 years' soli tary confinement r ,( , ",, 55,000 jTROOPS ON : , DUTY IN LONDON (Br Wlntaraatioeal Navi SerrUa. V' London. May 37 The. total number of troops on duty In London n coro nation day will be about 46,000 and an June tt. about 88,000. On each dr every arm and branch of the service will be- represented en tha line of route, th basis of representation In the ca of the special reserve and territorial frm-e being liTof"Tar"Tnkfronr ea'B-Tl.ki- " ment or battalion, with a proportion) representation from other arms at, J branches. -;