Show toPics BEFORE BRITISH PUBLIC 1 illness of Rudyard Kipling and the Pope + VATICAN INTRIGUES AGAIN DISCUSSED r Leo Recalls the Prophecy of a Spiritualist Told the Pontiff That Ha Would Quickly Follow President Eauro to the GmveGenernl Scramble Among the Powers Over the Partition Par-tition of the Chinese Empire Italy Now Demands a Door American Speeniative Boom I Copyright 159 by the AssocIated Press London March 4PoPular interest here Is now divided between RudYard KIplings struggle with death and the lick man at the vatican The Kipling bulletins are followed wIth Intense interest In-terest and the news of hIs probable recovery Is receIved with profound re lief which Is expressed throughout the press the Times during the course ota ot-a long itoriaI sayIng The deep sympathy manifested in America may be regarded as a fitting tribute to the writer who has lately done more than diplomacy treaties arbitration and speechmaking to CQn vInce the two nations sprang from the same stock that they are still in many ways one The Illness of the pope gave rise to speculation as to his successor and revived re-vived the stories of the intrirues at the vatican But the latest favorable bulletins have dispelled the gloomy forebodings It appears that the pow himself was responsible for the attack as after the audiences ot Monday when very tired he insisted upon drivIng driv-Ing In the garden to Leos tower in spite of the biting north wInd He returned re-turned to his apartments shivering with cold and on feeling himself in pain he said he recalled the prophecy of Mile Coueder whose spiritualIstic prophecies were the talk of Paris sometime some-time ao and who declared that The archangel Gabriel had announced to her that the pope would die immediately immedi-ately after President Faure Perhaps said the pope Gods will spoke through her mouth ITALY WANTS A DOOR The political event of the week un doubtedly was Italys demand for a door In the celestial empire The Saturday Review says It can hardlY be doubted that this twIll prove the signal for a general and final rush Japan will advance her longexpected claim to the provInce of Fuklen on the mainland or China and opposite the Island of Formosa and Russia will seize a pretext for urging further concessions injurious to British influences out of the helpless guvei meat at Pekln Italy however has not jet got her concessIon and a dispatch from Pekln says there are indicatIons that the dowager empress is disposed to reject the demand The attitude of Russia regarding the guaranties of the British loan on account ac-count of the northern ChInese railroads has caused considerable anxiety among the Investors who however rely upon Lord Salisbury to carry out his promise prom-ise and insist that China respect her engagements and ignore Russias protest pro-test against the terms of the railroad contract Up to now Lard Salisturv has taken a firm attitude and It Is generally believed that RussIa wIll not so beyond a protest AMERICAS STOCK BOOM The monetarY and industrial situation situa-tion In America is followed with close attention here The Economist takes e pessimistic view of railroads Speaking Speak-ing of the recent boom it says The holders of these securities among British investors who have not availed themselves of the opportunities of the last six months to realize on their securities are we think few and far between for in most cases the Improvement has long tince run out to such a level as may have been warranted war-ranted by Increased earnings or other tangible factors The advances of the past few months had nothing more solid than remote prospects and apparently appar-ently oersanguine IndustriaL forecasts fore-casts to go upon every kind of unfavorable un-favorable contingency being cast into the shade by glowing statements of the unpreeedented prosperity which was coming into existence in all directions direc-tions The Statist takes a more cheerful view of the monetary situation It thinks thee ought to be no danger If a serious dearth of money lIt America during the present year or at any rate not before September The paper expects ex-pects trade to further expand and that there will be an outburst of new enterprises enter-prises SETTLEMENT WITH FRANCE Very favorable reports were received this week regarding the negotiations on outstanding questions between Great Britain and France It Is saId that M Dupuy the French premier has decided de-cided to endeavor to settle all questions ques-tions and that In the question of Madagascar Mad-agascar he has made up his mind to propose important tariff modifications In favor of Great Britain thus removIng remov-Ing the cause at the bitter cOIIlplaint that the French practically killed BritIsh Brit-Ish trade immediately after the protectorate protec-torate over the island of Madagascar was declared by entering a tariff barrier bar-rier The question of the Bahrel Ghazel valley is also said to be in a France has of settlement fair way agreed to barter her claIms for 0 fair consideration elsewhere and the muscat mus-cat Sultanate of Oman difficulty has been tided over by an arrangement by which France gets her coal sheds and saves her honor but does not make any territorial acquisition Great Britain got her back up against the latter feature fea-ture of the question because she sue pEtEd France wanted a coaling station sta-tion in Oman not for herself but for Russia who would make it the termInus of a central Asia railroad from Turkc stan to the Persian gulf AUTOMATIC COUPLING BILL So great a pressure has beats put upon the president cf the beard 02 trade C T Ritchie that he has postponed th second reading of the automatic couplings coup-lings bill a measure which gives the board of trade power five years hence to CQmccl Et < ig to supply the whole of their roIling stock wIth automatic au-tomatic coupUn Reports Indicate thaj the coSt Ot the innovation liIl be 50 l OOOWO Thereare It isadded a mlj < oJ I lon ears in Great BritaIn oJ hieh OfleaIf are owned DY private onebaI ae ovne prve compa j expense whieh are up in arms gant the A Ockout of 10000 plasterers wi begin be-gin in Ldon today owing to various diff lces between eplQyee and e pOyer The former objet to the o ploymet of unindentur boys and the L later complain tM the men are trying I to for the foreman to join the union I The prdUCtOl of Meihacs farce Decore nder the title o The Cuckoo at the Avenue theatre ha2 served ugain to bring a storm of abuse on the 1ice of pIa G A adtord Decole Is described a beIng the Frenchiest of French fares and while It 15 bright and amusing and spledi S Iy played by Charles lawtrey it abounds in nastiness Mr Redford hle permitting the prducion r fue Beohm Tree perission to present Oedipus TrannuS George W Ldeer has bought Henry Lwenfelds ledse of the Prince of Yale theatre The presentation copy oJ Rudrard J lplngs Echoes by two writer frOm J L x the authors father I fetched 10750 this afternoon when auc I tone off at Sotherbys I A copy of the fnt edition of De patmenta Dltlc was sod for 150 |