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RIGHT OF ASYLUM.
FOR AXAR0U1STS
Piagui of Ko-Lw Propagandists Ii
Spreading Under Liberality of
Great Britain,
SEVERAL GR0UP3 OF THE CULT
Averted There Is No Closely Knit
Organization.
BOTH VISIONARIES AND FIGHTERS
" Great Many "Sons of Rest" Supported
by Women.
DANGER IN INNOCENT BEARING
KU l,rr la HmkarrMwd aad la
Inclined to li Prookfd at tar
Praooul for Present Fran
f!rree.
BT r.M'U LAMBKTII.
LONDON, March 2T. PpHal to The
line ) The anarchltlo plague in spreading
under the. fostering care of what has Ions
been known "the right of asylum."
There are anarchists and anarchist, and
any notion that there is a closely knit gen
eral anarchistic organisation may be dis
missed at once. Anarchism covers many
shade of thought. We have at the one
end the mild anarchism of M Tehertkoff.
We have the anarchism of Prince Krapot
kln the anarchism of study. The anar
chists from a aeries of groups, some little
more than debating societies of visionaries.
Others reed fighting organizations. Pome of
the, most effective of the latter work on j
the "circle" system, as the Fenians dirt.
The "circle" plan was adopted largely both
by Russia and Polish groups. l"ndr It no
member, save perhaps the "bead center."
knows over of more than, at the most,
twenty of hla "comrades." This is to re
duce the, risk from traitors to a minimum.
Many are "sons of rest" and are oared
for by strong armed female companions
who keep them supplied with tobacco and
beer money. A great change has come over
the anarchistic propaganda here.
There is no secret about anarchism in
I.ondon. The different groups meet mainly
at two clubs, the "Workers' Friend" club
in Jubilee, street. Whltechapel. and the
Communist club In Charlotte street, off the
Tottenham court cuad. There are smaller
organizations around London of which that
at Kdmonton Is among the strongest. In
the provinces the most sctivs center Is at
Liverpool.
(.'alt Flonrlshes I ad latarhed.
The murder of three policemen by an
archist baa forcibly directed public atten
tion to the fact that, in spite of Kngland's
CAMORRA TR1ALWNG STUNT jQERMAX RULL1ES j LOGUE ON MIXED MARRIAGES jUE MEDICI QUEEX ,HAVY ESTIMATE
SANCTIONED
OTer Six Hundred Witnesses Under
Summons to Testify.
POPE PIUS SEES AN AEROPLANE
Watched Airship Fir Aronad Dome of
St. rrtrr'i wilt Keen Joy nt a
Itoy Robbers l.ootlna
Palace.
LOSE THEIR UllIlVrc,vpl,'!
Officers of Army and Nary Cannot
Any Longer Insult Civilians
With Impunity.
WANTED AMERICA FM,ible
IIY CI.EMKNT BARRETT.
HOME. March 25. -(Special to The Bee )
It Is believed that the trial of the Camorr
assassins at Vlterho fr the murder of
Genaro and Mario Cuorcolo. man and wife,
will last until July, as ? witnesses are to
be examined. The government is deter
mined to put an end to the criminal or
ganization to which the prisoners belong.
The crime, one of the worst ever com
mitted by the criminals, is rendered doubly
atrocious since the woman had never done
anything which even the most degraded
member of the gang could construe into
an offense. It is thought she was killed to
prevent her from becoming a witness.
Pope fees Aeroplane, i
The pope, who Is concerned In nearly
everything of human Interest, the other
dsy from the window of Ins library for
the first time in his life saw sn aeroplane
In flight.
For the first time In history' an aero
plane encircled the cathedral of St. Peter's.
The aviator who achieved this feat was a
Frenchman, M. Fischer, who made a flight
which was watched by thousands of people.
The holy father watched the course with
as much eagerness and apparent pleasure
as a boy would look on a new or wonder
ful toy.
Beaatlfal t'onntess Arrested.
Countess Zola Delltala. said to be the
most beautiful woman in Sardinia, has
been arrested at Sassarl. Her husband
was found murdered In a field last June.
Soma months later the police arrested a
married couple, named Nuronl. and shut
them up on the charge of having assassin
ated the count. They are now said to ad
mit the crime, but allege that their serv
ice were hired by the countess. Her pretty
lS-year-old daughter, it is said, was deeply
in lova with a young military' officer. Her
father. Count Delltala, ttefused to sanction
the match. The countess, however, per
suaded that this marriage would seal her
girl's happiness, and It took place. It has
long been thought the count was murdered
by the Mafia, whose public enemy he had
long been.
Slabbers Loot Palaces.
Robbers have been devoting their ener
gies recently to looting places where works
of art or articles of historical value are to
be found, as there is big money In selling
LIEUTENANT HAS FACE SLAPPED
Tries to Kill Man Who Hit Him, But
Is Restrained.
POLICE CHIEF JAGON HAS GRIEF
Husband of Actress-Alleges Chief Was
Indiscreet
WROTE LETTER TO THE WOMAN
Practice Firing; at Drad Ilodlea by
ioldlrra t.lics HUe to nclallt
Protest, t.oadly Voiced la
Ike Reichstag;.
HELD TO BE A SACRED CONTRACT
Caart-a laslata oa Right ts Prescribe
Conditions for Sacrament Jast
aa the State Deea la Civil
Contracts.
HV MAbfOLM CLARKE.
BKKI.1X. March Ji. ( Special to The
Fee.) Heretofore an army or navy officer
mlpht Insult or assault a civilian with
impunity. Such Is no longer the case.
Reitntly a naval lieutenant at Wi:helms
haven had words with a commercial trav
eler In a bar and was struck In the face
by, him. The officer endeavored to re
turn the blow, but was restrained by an
other civilian. He thereupon procured a
pistol with which he fired several shots
at the traveler, none of which struck him.
thugh the barmaid was slightly wounded.
He threatened to prosecute the civilian,
who declared he wouldn't let the empersr
I himself hurl an Insult at him.
llrrr Jiiow la Limelight.
i A few months ago two petty naval of
ficers were sent to prison for fiendish
treatment of an enlisted man and now
Herr Jaguw. our unique and eccentric po
lice chief has been at it again. He Is the
man who caused the slashing of American
newspaper men who were sent to cover the
now historic Moablt labor troubles and
thought this akin to a Joke.
Max Relnhardt's latest play, which turns
on the accidental dropping of a lady's
garment, was censored by the poice. Af
ter alterations, the play was allowed. The
police president attended the dress re
hearsal. and there made the acquaintance
of Tilla Durleux, a star at the Deutsche
theater. Next day ba wrote to her that
as he performed the functions of dramatic
censor he wished to get in touch with
stage circles, and, therefore, begged per
mission to call oa her. Fran Durteux
handed the epistlo to her husband. Paul
Caselerer. art dealer, who wrote an la'
BY THOMAS KM MKT
DIBLIN. March IS. (Special to The
Bee) Cardinal Ix.gue, the Catholic
primate of Ireland. In his Lenten letter
discussed the position of the church on di
vorce and mixed marriages at great length.
Sreaking cf the agitation of the Presby
terian church against the pone's recent
decree relative to mixed marriages, the
cardinal says:
"One thing, however. It Is not ia easy
to gather from the discussion how the de
cree 'Ne Temere' affects the settlement of
the case. The avowed object of the agita
tion Is to prevent, through the interven- j
Ition of the civil power, tile pope's writ, at
'least cn the marriage law, from running
!n those islands. A penal enactment, de
slgiied to fetter the conscience of Catho
illcs. would leave matters Just as they
'stnnd. It could never force them to ac
knowledge as valid a marriage declared
' ...... I i ,1 V. . !.,-. n. A , V, . - nhnrnh far
Instance, the remarriage of divorced per
sons. It seems needless, therefore, to
urge the civil authority to assume powers
with which It Is sufficiently armed at pres
ent. "The teaching and practice of the Cath
olic church with regard to marriage art?
pictty generally known and easily under
stood. It holds that marriage among bap
tized Christians Is not a mere civil bar
gain, but a sacred contract. It was re
called by our Lord, from the laxity which
. ! had crept In under the Jewish law, to Its
primitive Institution of unity and indis
solubility. He raised It to the dignity of
a sacrament, endowng It with sacramental
Finding of an Old Manuscript in
France Indicates Catherine Was
Very Ambitious.
-.aa-asaa-asa
SHE HAD NAMED TWO VICEROYS
They Were to Take Possession of
American Continent
BAD FORTUNE DEFEATED PLANS
Death of Leaders Put an End to the
Great Project.
ACADEMY CATERS TO NOVELISTS
Attempted Slnaghter of a PI agree-
able Parrot Resalts la Kllllaa of
a Woman by the Owner of
the Bird.
BT PACL VILLI ERS
PARIS. March S. (Special to The Bee.)
What Is regarded as an important histori
cal discovery hss been announced by most
respectable authority. A librarian of the
Ribllotheiue Natlonale, the "Bemaine Lit
teralre," announces seriously that they re
cently came upon a document which en
abled him to guess "le secret de Catherine
de Medlcls." This was nothing less than
the conquest of the two Americans. Tha
document In question is a map. dated 1384.
in which both North and South America
were marked out as being French colonies.
This discovery put the finder on the way
to obtain some proofs of the projects of
this ambitious queen. Bhe had named two
viceroys. Trolle de Mergcnez was to con
quer the north of the continent and Ad
miral Strozzl was to take possession of
Brazil. The two viceroys sailed, furnished
with secret orders, but an unkind fate
ordained that Trolle should be shipwrecked
FOUR DREADNOUGHTS PLANNED
Abnormal Head of Trolee Peasant
tat from Body a ad Delivered ta
Scientific laatltatr, aa Per
t oa tract.
BY EMIL ANDRASSY
V IKN'N'A, March IS (Special to The Bee 1
Austria-Hungary evidently does not Intend
to be caught unprepared should war be
tween this country and Italy or Turkey be
declared. The Hungarian delegation adopted
the navy estimates on Tuesday without
modification and this sanctioned the pro
gram according to which H.lfil.W Is to be
spent on building four dreadnoughts, three
fast cruisers, and a numbcy of torpedo
boats during the next six years.
An acute conflict Is being waged between
the Austrian delegation and Admiral Count
Montecuccoll. owing to the divulging of a
secret agreement made by him promising
I Hungary specisl contracts for supplying
much of the new navy.
During the debate on the naval appro
priation some of the speakers declared that
itji other European countries and leading
nations of the world building navies Austria-Hungary
could not afford to be un
prepared to defend Itself on the seas.
Knallsb Vlaltora of Note.
The news that the lord mayor of Lon
don, with the sheriffs and a number of i name of M. Stolypin. the prime minister
common councillors. In resonse to the in
CZAR NICHOLAS
Sl'KIXUSUKTKlSE
Avows He Desires to Complete the
Work Begun by His Grand
father, Alexander II.
WOULD ELEVATE THE PEASANTRY
Desires Thev Should Be Land Owners,
as Well as Free.
MAY LEAVE PEASANT COMMUNES
Russian Ruler Advocates Improved
Agriculture.
HAS CONFIDENCE IN HIS SUBJECTS
Wolves Raa Pons Wcddlna Party of
One llaadred and Twenty and
Only Trro K.scape to Tell
the Story.
BY C.EOIIOK FRASER.
ST. PETERSni'RH. March S (Special
to The Bee.) The czar of Russia has
taken In his latent Imperial rescript the
most forward step ever taken, perhaps,
by a ruler of the country. Tt Is the fur
therance of his work of reform bogun a
few years ago.
The czar took occasion to declare his
policy for the betterment of 'the peasants
In an Invperlal rescript Issued In the
them.
One of the most curious robberies of ar-
kabitual immunity from anarchist outranv' t'stic objects ia that . Just discovered in I false conclusion
dlgnant letter to Jagow. The latter sent ! mentable example of the pernicious con-
a friend to glva explanations which would .sequences to which suoh usurpation leads
.prevent me nusoanu irom jumping. iu a i civli iavr ot divorce. It sets a pre-
tho cult af anarchy nourishes mor- $rFeiugla. In front of th cathedral Is ' a
lass undisturbed Irt Lc.ndon. Apjuircttlr i Tine statue of .I-oi-e Jul'us III.' the worfe
tha perpetrators of the. Houndsdltch crinp of Vlncenzo Dartl. a boy. who carved' it
ssrera no ordinary burglars, but rather -de- over five centuries ago. Some days Hfn
' aeradoea of tha red revolutionary tyie It wss discovered that ths hood of the cane
ajvto. being In Dead of funds regarded the i which envrioied the figure had been re
packing of -a Jeweler's shop as the most j moved. It is suppovfl -this treasure ha
promising; method whereby their coff rs , ben carried off to America.
might b refilled
grace to enable those who embrace the and 8troxxl defeated and killed in a battle
married state to bear Its burdeus and dis- off the Azores. The death of both the,
leaders brought the royal project to naught
l-nd nothing would have been known of it
but for the diligence of the learned
librarian.
4 Arademy Caters to Novelists.
Owing to the fact that a great number
of Its members made their name by novel
writing, tha French academy has decided
to endow an annual prize of tZJtO for the
best novel of the year or other work of the
Imagination in prose. It seems that
hitherto novelists had beer, rather left out
In the cold by the academy. Eloquence,
poetry, history, criticism were richly re
warded, but not romance writing. The
new prize Is obviously a counterblast to
the Qoncourt annual award of half 'the
amount made under Edmond de Goncourt s
will by the academy which he founded.
nd which, by h!s express wish, ra jst never
Include a member of the Academle Fran
calse. Theater Rioting Condemned.
The riotous demonstration at the Theater
charge Its duties with Christian fidelity.
What Cbnrch Claims.
"The church has always claimed and ex
ercised the exclusive right to prescribe
conditions for the validity of the con
tract. Just ss conditions were prescribed
even In the old law by the Institution of
certain Inabilities, and 'as conditions are
prescribed by the state for the validity of
civil contracts. The state may legislate,
within the bounds of justice, for the civil
effects of marriage; but where It touches
the essentials of the sacred contract It
goes beyond its province, usurping right.
to which it has no claim. We hare a la
jmlum on conjugal infidelity, leads to the
Foasht a Wildcat.
A fight between a wild cat rind a peasant
la reported from Sassarl. Sardinia. N'lcolo
Pemartls, - returning horn from labor, In
the fields, was annoyed to find his frugal
store of cheese, bacon and meat diminished.
Although he carefully secured the door of
hla habitation the thefts continued. Finally
he resolved to get to the bottom of the
jystery and arming himself with a gun he
hid in a clump of bushes.
He had not to wait long before he per
ceived an enormous wild cat approach the
cabin and disappear through the window.
Cautiously opening the door, he found the
animal devouring his provisions. To aim
and fire was the work of a second and the
It was up again In
a moment and. springing at the peasant's
throat, bit at him and tore him ferociously.
After a struggle Demartts managed to free
himself from the beast which he finally
killed. Unfortunately, however, the second
barrel of his gun was exploded and the
charge entered the peasant's thigh, wound
ing him severely. He now lies in a serious
condition, caused by the terrible lacerxt'ons
inflicted by the wid cat.
Tha leaders of the extreme revolutionary
movement, the world over, axe men who
would be the last to be suspected of advo
cating violence and who w ould probably be
mistaken for profeaalonal gentlemen. Per
haps therein Ues the greatest danger.
. Their organisation la remarkable. Noth
ing l ever left to chance and once a coup
is determined upon every detail In connec
tion with it Is worked out with the great
est exactitude as though It were a math
ematical problem and not a scheme of cold
blooded murder. Time is no object. It
only provides opportunity for rrttltr pre
cision. Traitors there are. sometimes; generally
ine agents provocateurs oi sum i.jt.., n beast fell to the ground
Kuce lurc-r. iui m ruc iuvj io de
tected and then played with as a cat
amuses Itself with a mouse, till the day
dawns when they are found dangling from
a beam. In some empty house, a grim re
minder that the Iron hand of the anarchist
is far-reaching. Aseff, Lapoukhine, Qapon.
are names which occur to one names of
hideous mystery and of dally juggling with
death.
Finally, the militant anarchist Is content
to leave his own nest undisturbed; in other
words, he I prepared to pay for his free
dom from active police Interference by not
practicing his methods upon the people
amongst whom he lives. Hence the usual
Immunity of England from terrorist out- J
rage. It la believed trial me ponce win
at the existence of these criminals since
their malice la directed against monarchs
and officials outside of England.
One Typical Noble Lord.
Lord Wlnterton has been In the House of
Commons ior ear. The only thing he
baa done In all bis legislative career has
been to roar "Hee-ah, nee-ah!" He has a
voice like a megaphone and a nose as red
M a beet, lie Just alts la bis seat and
roars every time any tory member says
aomethtnf against progress or human
rights.
Hla "lordship" la aafully perturbed by
the fact that after visiting Pentonville
prison Mr. Churchill advised the exert-Ue
of the royal prerogative to reduce a num
ber of sentences on prisoners- Wlnterton
thinks that the home secretary strolled one
day Into the prison, talked casually to a
few prisoners, and than remitted their sen
tences as an act ot self-glorification. Mr.
Churchill made It clear that he went to
the prison for tha specific purpose of in
vestigating the cases of all the youthful
effenders, and that his action was the re
sult of careful inquiry. In each rase he
-a I1 the offense bad been of a trivial na
ture, "for which, if the noble lord had
committed them at college, he would not
hae been even rebuked."
Casslerer declared hlmseir satisfied. There , run of (mMea Bni outrages public
Is now- another development fo the incident. ; morality. In some states of America dl
Csssrerer is publisher of a weekly paper ! vorce Is granted with such facility that
called "Pan," and Jagow, as literary cen- j there Is one dlve-rce for every twelve mar
sor, recently ordered the impounding of an ; rlases, Kome time since I have read of a
Issue of this periodical on the ground that'jude in France who granted ninety-four
exUucts which it printed from the diary of I decrees of divorce In. Itss than two hours
(Jusiave Flaubert were indecorous. .It 1b clear that this usurpation of the civil
Now the conductors of "Pan" have ob- authority threatens to reduce marriage to
talned possession of the correspondence be- mere sham, a mere compact between the
tween Jagow and Herr Casslerer and de- parties to live together Just as long as they
clare their Intention of publishing It. tnd It convenient. If the pracUoe pro-
presses, as It has done up to the present,
jit will soon reach a point when a man
'may change his wife or a wife her hus
Iband with as much ease as they would
viiation of the Vienna burgomaster, will
visit this capital in September. Is received
here with unusual demonstrations of sym
pathy. The entire press mentions the visit,
adding many friendly remembrances of
former Interchanges of courtesy with Eng
land. The visit of the distinguished Eng
lishmen Is pointed to by the press as a
mark of friendship between the two coun
tries. The Neue Frele Presse. after declaring the
visitors will receive a warm welcome In
Vienna says: "In the lord mayor and the
sheriffs of the city of London Vienna will
at the same time welcome part of the
history' of English self-government. It can
only be to the advantage of both countries
to recall the circumstances of friendship,
to dissipate misunderstandings, and to re
vive natural sympathies."
Bis; Head for Dlaseetlon.
Carrying out the purchase contract, the
head was severed from the body of Johann
Rleser. a Tj rolese peasant, after his death
snd delivered to a pathological Institute
The headless body was burled at Zillerthal.
Reiser had bargained his head to the In
stitution before his death for 62 it-'o.Sl.)
The institution purchased the head because
of Its abnormal sixe to study for scientific
reasons.
Great aaday for Marrlagei.
Carnival Sunday In Vienna was marked
by the largest number of marriages ever
recorded in the city In one day. More than
1.000 couples were married. In some
churches as many as twenty couples were
married with a single ceremony. T e minister-
would have the couples arranged
General Smuts
Submits Plans for
African Defense
Easily Mobilized Forces to Be the
MAin Feature Under New
Parliament.
Klac la xCaBfearra
rd.
Kng tieorte Is said to be provoked and
rr- much embarraxd by the scheme
hl. U has been set on fool tor the purpose
ot collecting subscriptions from all male
persons bearing the same Christian name
s himself. He appreciates the sentiment
animating the majority of his subjects who
were christened tieorse. but. llkmany
fiber tplr, he realizes that some of the
mpporters of the projec t are merely desir
ous of deriving self glorification from It.
And that is the sort of thing which King
George thoroughly detests. Moreover,
there are rumors that certain wideawake
and dishonest Oeorgee some of whom have
unite recent')- adopted the name are or
ganising subecrtptlon a. heme lists of their
'Hi of alilch they may. or may not. ren
der accounts before tha coronation.
CAPETOWN. March K -(Special to The
Bee.) In the South African Union Parlia
ment General Smuts has outlined his
Scheme for home defense, and set forth
three main points The first la the pro
vision of small striking forces, easily
mobllted. on the basis of the existing Cape
Mounted Rifles. Theee forces would per
form police duties In peace and would be
equipped with their own artillery. The dif
ficulty of this system would be the pro
vision of a reserve for war times. Sec
ondly, General Smuts indicated the estab
lishment of citizen forces on the lines of
Lord Kitchener's Australla'n universal ser
vice scheme. He proposed dividing the
union Into districts, superintended by In
structional officers, with yearly camps for
all men between the ages ot IS anj
26. Enlistment is to be voluntary where
possible, otherwise b ballot. ,
Regarding the coast defenses, (ieneral
Smuts indicated that considerable sums
would be asked for the adequate defense
of Capetown and Durban, which would be
manned partly by Imperial troops, ulti
mately psJd by South Africa, and partly
by South Africans. He paid the highest
tribute to Lord Methuen and called him
"almost a Boer htm&elf." which evokel
lound nationalist cheers. He anticipated
the eventual withdrawal of the Imperial
troops including reserves, would at no dls
tant date be 100 Ood strong.
HURLIMANN TRIBE NUMEROUS
Alaaeet Half af Total PaaaUtlon af a
SKlaa IllUgf Bear the
Same -Naasa.
GENEVA. March (Special to The
Bee -ln the village of Walchl!,' Swttser
lar.d. out of a population of I 044. no femer
than its persons possess the ram of Hur-ItmanB.
Practiced Firing; at Corpses.
In the course of a debate on the array
estimates In the Reichstag. Major General
Wandel, director of the War department,
declared. In reply to a question whether tt
was true that corpses had been shot at by
soldiers st Spandu. that some years ago
firing experiments were carried out on
corpses with the objec t of ascertaining the
penetrating power of modern rifles.
These experiments, which. moreover,
were made on anatomical exhibits, not on
naked corpses, were, s&id Wandel, essential
in the interests of army surgery. None of
the soldiers who were shooting saw any
thing of the exhibits, which were wrapped
In linen or hidden behind linen. The social
ists . severely criticised the experiments,
saying "it was dastardly to inflict wounds
on a dead body unless it was on a dissert
ing table.
Hoael spoke Too Ulantly.
A curious Incident is reported from Wurz
burg, Bavaria, in connection with the cele
bration of the Soth birthday of the prince
regent. Prof. Rogel ot the local geographi
cal Institute was assigned the role ot call
ing for three cheers for the kaiser.
His speech, however, contained such
references to his majesty that many army
officers snd officials gsve vent to their
disapproval. The professor declared that
It was an "obnoxious necessity" to have
to call for three cheers for such people as
the kaiser, "about whom there were so
many objectionable things."
Legacy um Affliction.
Much amusement has been caused among
members of the Reichstag, by the his
tory of a legacy left to a socialist mem
ber by an admiring fellow socialist. This
man. a humble tailor, left all to the poli
tician, having no relatives except his
widow, and desiring to mark bis esteem
for the principles ot socialism. The total
value of the estate was proven to be about
S&0, which was duly handed over to the !
legatee. Then his truuhlen began. 'Ine
widow, who bad been separated from her
husband, claimed half of the estate; and
though her legal rights were nil the so
cialist gave her SITS, for which she asked.
Shortly afterward the authorities came
forward and informed the legatee that as
the tailor had received poor relief for
some time past there was an amount of
l!00 due from the estate. This was there
upon handed over, leaving the socialist
member with only ST6. ,
His troubles, however, were not yet
ended. One day there arrived at his
house a large case, for which he had to
pay the sum of STIM. Refusal to accept
the case was impossible, a it was ex
plained that it contained an um In which
were the ashes of the deceased tailor,
who In accordance with hla expressed de
sire, had been cremated, with "the result
that his estate was liable for the crema
torium fees, snd the legatee was properly
the owner of 'he ashes. The socialist mem
ber has thus found his legacy reduced to
HOB and as there is still some stamp duty
to be paid he will probably find himself
out of pocket before the matter Is ended,
while there appears always to be the risk
of fresh claims being put in.
A novel method of cutting doan trees
has been patented here It consists in
the use of a fine steel wire, which is
looped around the tree and saaad back
and forth by an electric motor.
Francsls during performances of M. Bern-lout ,fi "r and standing In the center
or the semicircle would unite all as If mar
rying but a single couple.
v Most of the marriages were among work
ing people who celebrated the day by mar
rying. When T0 couples were married on
Carnival Sunday a year ago It was thought
to be a record that would stand, but this
year the number was surpassed by more
than 200.
change partners in a dance.
Always Condemned Divorce.
"Even In these countries, where divorce
has hitherto been the lusury and ths dis
grace ot the rich, an attempt Is being made
to bring it within eas reach of the poor.
So much for the Interference of the state
In a sacred contract and the usurped au
thority to rob it of permanency with which
it has been endowed by divine institution.
The evil has come to be generally acknowl
edged and unanimously deprecated. I
have often been asked in the I'nited States
what remedy I would suggest for this
social plague and I could only suggest one,
restore the Catholic teaching on the unity,
indissolubility and sanctity of marriage.
From the earliest time the church con
demned divorce.
"The pope has merely withdrawn a prlv.
liege which he has every right to with
draw. Even If the decree be regarded as
an act of fresh legislation, the pope has
still legislated for his own subjects, pro
hibiting them under pain of nullity to enter
Into marriage with non-Catholics, except
on the conditions prescribed by the church.
The non-Catholic party Is not forced to en
ter Into the contract. He is quite free. In
fact the church would much prefer that he
should keep to himself; but If he enters
into it he does so with his eyes open and
I a full knowledge of the consequences. A
Catholic cannot be reasonably axpected to
enter into a contract which does grave,
sometimes irreparable violence to his con
science, cutting him off from all the aids
and graces of his religion, opening up to
him a life cf discontent, misery and re
morse by which the happiness of both par
ties Is Irretrievably blasted. One ail vantage
has resulted from the late agitation. It
cannot be alleged, aa has been, that the
law exposes non-Catholic girls to the dan
ger of being deceived and surprised into an
invalid marriage by unprincipled Catholics.
There can no longer be either surprise or
deception."
stein s "Apres jloi" have elicited a letter
of protest from some distinguished literary
men. Including four members of the French
academy, who have Issued an address say
ing they protest in the name of art against
the violation of the rights to public per
formance of which a dramatic work is the
subject, and which assails no particular
persons or convictions.
Boy Marderer Aeqaltted.
One day last week the Astlze court ac
quitted a boy accused of having murdered
a man to defend his mother. The man had
repeatedly ill-treated the boy's mother, and
on this occasion he had been particularly
violent. The boy killed him. At the trial
the lad explained. "He beat us every day,
and often threatened to shoot us with a
revolver that lie kept under his pillow."
One Boy Kills Another.
A little boy of 10 was recently killed by
a lad of 15 years of age at a Breton vil
lage. They were walking along together
when the bigger boy began to molest the
smaller. wMo protested. The bully took a j
knife out of his pocket and stabbed his
companion seven times. The child's cries
brought several persons to his rescue, and
while some wrested the knife from the
young ruffian's grasp and held him, others
carried his victim to his home, where he
expired an hour afterwards. When the
villagers heard that the little fellow was
dead they would have lynched his mur
derer if gendarmes had not arrived.
Linguistic Pnrrot Caaeee Tragedy
Crasy Man AttarWa Family.
A Budapest dispatch gives details of a
shocking tragedy In the Croatian town of
Varasd. In which a carpenter named Ignai
Kavor, who had presumably become sud
denly demented, attacked with an axe his
father, mother, sister and brother, all of
whom were asleep at the time. The father
was so shockingly injured that he expired
immediately, and the madman also infllctefl
ghastly wounds on his mother and sister,
but his brother was only slightly hurt and
took to flight. Kavor surrendered himself
to the police, still holding the blood-stained
axe In his hand.
Our Meat Trust
is Not Popular
with Australians
Frontier Raiders j
Given Hard Lesson
British Commander in India Has an
Effective Method of Stopping
Outlawry.
CALCUTTA. March S (Special to The
Bee.) Ken reached Lieutenant Colonel bir
George Koss-Keppel, chief commissioner of
the northwest frontier of India, who was in
camp at Charaadda. that a band of thirty
raiders, under the notorious outlaw, Hakim
Kahn, was hiding In a cave near AbazaJ.
Sir George at once preceded with hit
escort of ?jQ men ot the Eighty-second
Punjabis and fifty troops of the Guides
cavalry, with two mountain guns, and sur
rounded the raiders, calling on them to sur
render. Next morning, as the outlaws refused to
yield, the guns opened fire upon them.
Hakim Bey and twenty-two of his fol-
leaers were killed and seven were cap
tured, too of these bring severely wounded
The troops suffered no casualties, but a
villager was wounded.
Agents Sent to That Country Will
Be Prevented from Getting a
Look-In.
MELBOURNE. March KSii.i
A parrot called Plato, remarkable as a The Bee.) The following memorandum has
heen Issued to the press by the Common
wealth Minister of Customs:
"For several months past It has been
an open secret that representatives of the
.American meat trade have been visiting
Australia with the ostensible object of ex
tending Its operations. The government Is
determined to take Immediate and drastic
action to aiscourage, and ir necessary to
prohibit, its operations In Australia. It is
not proposed to wait until the combination
secures a vested Interest In the country.
The minister of customs Is consulting the
Attorney-General with a view to bring
ing the full force of the present law Intj
operation, and, If necessary, to obtain fur
ther legislation. The action of the govern
ment will extend to trust operations In
Australia whether conducted directly or
Indirectly. It will not permit a repetition
in Australia of the scandals and merciless
methods characterising monopolies in other
parts of the world."
Greek and Turks
Fight on Frontier
Authorities of Several Nations Axe
Taking Drastic Measures to
Keep the Peace.
CONSTANTINOPLE. March S -Special
to The Bee.) During the last few days
there have been many reports of encount
ers on the frontier. Fights have taken
place between Turkish and Greek frontier
guards, between Turk sh troops and Bul
garia bands in Macedonia, between troops
and Albanian bands near Dlbra, and be
tween troops and Montenegrins on the
Montenegrin border. The authorities are
said to be taking drastic steps to clear the
European Hayes of bands, but it Is doubt
ful whether their measures will be success
ful. In Mscedon s bands form themselie
of
linguist, was the principal character in a
recent local tragedy in Paris. Vincent de
Carvallo's landlady is In a hospital. Plato
could utter military commands In Spanish,
make charming speeches in several lan
guages, demand sauerkraut, beer and men
tion the kaiser in German, and also talk
French with uncanny fluency. M. Csr
vallo was very proud of his pet, and w hen
he returned from his lectures he spent
hours teaching the bird new phrases. It
ap-ars, however, that Mine. Mauchunel,
his landlady, disliked the parrot and she
urged M. Carvallo to get rid of it.
While at breakfast one morning Carvalla
noticed a murderous look In the landlady's
eye when Plato amicably Invited ber to
come out and pick violets with him. Car
vallo left to attend a lecture, but became
uneasy and returned an hour later just In
time to see ber wringing the parrot's neck.
In madness he threw her down the stairs.
She was taken to a hospital to die and he
to prison.
In which he pays a tribute of Kratiturte
to all those who co-operated In Alexan
der IPs great work of the emancipation
of the serfs and lays stress uim Hie spirit
of self-sacrifice manifested b the Rus
sian nobility.
The czar declares that he has set l
tore himself the task of completing tlii
work of his grandfather and of trans
forming the Russian peasants Into n it
merely free but economically strong
land 'owners. This, the czar states, can
be achieved by affording them facilities
to leave the peasant commune and b.
the Improvement of agricultural s.ien
He expresses his conviction that the in
stitutions to which the execution of
peasant reforms are to be entrusted will
maintain civil order among the country
population of Russia.
Waives Devoar Wrddina Party.
Run down on the snow field and de
voured by hungry wolves was the fato
of a wedding party, but two out of 1J0
escaping to tell the story. In Asiatic Rus
sia. The severe weather has been the
cause of many minor tragedies In which
the wolves have played a part, but per
haps none has ever been known so ter
rible as that now reported, since In this
Instance no fewer than 118 persons are
said to have perished A wedding party
numbering 130 persons set out in thirty
sledges to drive twenty miles from the
village of Obstlpoft te Tashkend. The
grouTid"was 'thlcTLly '"covered with snow
and the progress was necessarily delayed.
At a distance ot a few miles from Tash
kend the party was frightened by a
black cloud approaching over the snow.
its nesrer approach showed it to be
hundreds of wolves, yelping furiously and
evidently frantic with hunger, and within
a few seconds the hindmost sledges were
surrounded. Panic seized the party and
those In the van whipped up their
horses and made desperate attempts to
escape, regardless of their companions.
The pursuit, howexer, never slackened,
and the sickening carnage went on until
only the foremost sledge that containing
the bride and bridegroom remained be
yond the wolves' reach. A nlnhtmare
race was kept up for a few hundred
yards and It seemed as though the danger
was being evaded, when suddenly a fresh
pack of wolves appeared. The two men
accompanying the bridal couple demanded
that the bride should be sacrificed, but
the bridegroom Indignantly rejected the
cowardly proiltlon. The men seised
and overpowered the pair and threw them
out to meet a horrible fate. The two then
succeeded in rousing their horses tu a
last effort, and though attacked in turn,
beat off the wolves and eventually reached
Tashkend. Both men were in a senii
demented state from their exiwrience.
second llonndsdlfrh Ha I tie.
Six were killed in a battle between
policemen and two burglars at Tver,
which recalls the circumstances of the
Houndsdltch murders. Policemen tried V
arrest two suspects at Blezhltsk. The
men opened fire, killed a policeman and h
police sergeant, wounded another police
man and then took refuge In a bum
bouse, whence they fired on the assem
bled cordon of police. The singe laated
the whole night and another sergeant waa
wounded. In the morning the desperadoes
were found dead. They were the auifiors
of an armed burglary at the house of a
neighboring village priest, whose wife
they left for dead, and had afterwards
murdered a cab driver.
Woman Aiced llandred Sixty-Five.
Among the peasants are persons of very
great age. Nina Turatavllorf, a peasant
woman at Teley, in the Caucasus, is
probably the oldest person In the world.
Recently she celebrated her 166th birth
day. Though she Is now quite incapable
of using her limbs, she U still in posses
sion of her mental faculties.
BELGIAN THIEVES KILL PRIEST
Old
Man and Hla Servant Mardered
la Search for Concealed
Treaaare.
BRUSSELS. March 15 (Special to The
Bee.) A terrible tragedy has been discov
ered In Dampreray, a Belg an village, the
old and popular priest and his aged ser
vsnt having been murdered by thieves, who
had been watching the house for some
das.
The men entered ths houe by the garden,
and broke Into the room where the piiett
was lying asleep. Having awakened him.
tbey tied his hands and forced him by
threats to reveal ths place of his sup
posed hidden wealth.
After ransacking every room, one of the
thrives struck the priest on the head with
an axe. killing him Instantly. Th noise i
woke up the servant, a ho speedily shared j automatically v.henever the severity
the fate of his master. The murderers the authorities drives the peasants to ths
the fled, and are stilj at large, I mountains.
Married Women
in Swiss Republic
Are to Be Marked
Peculiar Loophole in Law Likely to
- Besult in Drastic Measure
Against Fraud.
GENEVA. March Zi.t He, lal to The
Bee. According to I -a Suisse. Swiss mar
ried women may ere long have to carry
an identification mark tattooed m their
wrists. The reason for this is that, ac
cording to the present stale nf the Swiss
law, a married woman can break a-y legal
contract by stating to tin- curt that she
had not the permission of her husljani
to enter Into such a contract
A few days ago the Tribunal Federal at
Lausanne upheld this m,.ih ,f the law
and a Zurich bank lost l,y the ver
dict. Curiously enough. Imewr. an un
married girl above twenty years of aKe
la held responsible f ,r her s gnature. In
order t rnedv this s'ate of thii.g. the
tattoolnx idea has been suKueMtei) a the
best means of providing a mark hereby
a aornan mar be rec-ogniz.d as inaril 1
by persons with a horn she is do ng b J I
near
