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VOL. XXXV1I1 NO. 34.
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OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 7, 1909.
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Domestics
Bleached Sheeting Rem
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wide, worth 27Vc and So
yard Monday lac
$1.39 Gray and Tan Blank
ets, full 11-4 size; Mon
day, pair 89c
SVic and 10c Bleached Mu
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Sheets, sizes 81x90 and 72x
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eheetlne;. worth 8e and
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Libbey Cut Glass at HalfMonday, j
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Valentines
Beautiful boxed Celluloid
and Lace Valentines. .10
One specially attractive line
made for iOc. selling, on
sale at 85o
Thousands of other clever
idea, done In water col
orn hy artists, elaborate
foreign novelties, ete.
at 60o to 9B0i
Valentine Poat Cards, per
dozen 10o
Book are ideal Valentines.
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Our Greatest
and Final
Markdowns
The February Clearance
The selection of shoes k a matter of one comfort
for month to come. Try 6a a single pair of "Dorothy
Dodo' Shoe before you decide. They coft only
$3.50 and $4.00 but they are worth many times
that sum to any woman who values stylish appearance
with entire comfor'
Complete Range of Late
Styles ! New In.
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An aggressive clean-up campaign to rid the stocks, of all winter merchandise, odds and
ends and broken lines. All profit and much of the cost have been thrown to the winds.
It's an absolute clearance with greatest bargains in the Dennett store's career. These new
prices go into effect Monday morning.
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February Clearance
Women's Suits and Coats
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This week's cut prices In the garment department mark the climax In value giving There
have been innumerable sales, but thin one for a final clearance topa them all. Monday
we put out for Uie first time, SO WOKEI'I SUITS of very fine all wool, two-tone or
shadow stripe worsteds, with satin lined c oats and with coat and skirt both trimmed
with black satin buttons, spring weights and atylea, worth to I -'5. 00. greatest bargain of
them all, at '
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WONDERFUL CLOAK CLEARANCE
We ara offering unrestricted choice of our matchless coat
stock for ten dollars. Tour pick of the finest black broad
cloth models and fancy gray and other mixtures. With
out any question the most fetching styles
. of the year, and positively worth three
times our price
$10
OXE.X.S' COATS Price la no
longer any object. Every coat
simply .must go. We give you
your pick of little girls" bear
skin coats up to 5 year sixes,
also cloth coats for girls up to
14 years, worth to 4tt
$00, choice, at
WOMEBT'S COATS SS.I
Another lot embraces
dark fancy mtfrtures, all
heavy seml-fltted, 54-lnch
models that sold up to
$12.60. all this fK
aeason'a styles, at....""
The World's Newest Fashions
"At Your Elbow"
New York and
Paris styles, beauti
fully Illustrated and
simply described in
tba new
Spring Quarterly
Style
Book
What a mine of information for the home dress
maker or the woman planning new spring gown.
190 pages brim full of Interesting fashion news, 1,600
illustrations of the smartest syles of the day. The
biggest, brightest best publication ever printed de
voted solely to featuring the world's most advanced
style tendencies.
All this splendid book Cp "
costs you is Wt
When purchased in connection with any ISc pattern.
The Spring Quarterly illustrates every one of the
new Ladies' Home Journal patterns for 1909. Select
any of the hundreds of 16a patterns shown and
with It receive the Style Boy tor 6o extra.
It's an authority on correct style In women's an. I
children's wear that is alone worth ten times five
cents.
Beady now at tha ATTa5Mr COWTIS.
Phone your order If you can't come, tliy ma.l,
12c extra).
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February Clearance in the pJy'Y'Qp
Bsth Room Fixtures on Sale Monday, all kinds of Q(?o VkfT
articles, brass goods with nickel finish, nonrustableawt? Iq Oil
Galvanised Wash Tubs with wringer attachment, usual $1.46 kind.
Monday 8o
Nickel plated copper tea and coffee pots, 68c kinds, Monday aale..45o
Bathroom and kitchen sets, nickel plated soap dish, tumbler holder,
towel bar, tooth brush holder, 7Ec kind, at 4o
Garbage or Ash Cans for...... $31.60
Heart shaped Cookie Moulds lOo And 10 stamps
Valentine Cookie Moulds, put up in sets of (.180, 20O And 10 stamps
2Sc I.lnen Mop Heads, Monday...... - ISO
2'Je Cotton Mop Heada, Monday ISO
lOo Sure-Catch Mouse Trap, Monday 6o
Itire Root Scrub Brushes. 10c And 10 stamp'
Kanner Clothes Lines, 60 foot 10 And 10 stamps
46c Hash Cord Clothes Lines, 60 foot aso
Wash Boilers, up from Me And 40 stamps
February Clearance
BROADCLOTHS AT HALF
100 pieces of fine broadcloths and almost as many shades.
A sweeping February markdown on our entire regular stock.
Kroaricloths in four different qualities all at halt price, blacks
and evening shades only excepted.)
Choice of $1.60 Broadcloths, yard 7Se
Choice of $2.00 Broadcloths, yard S1.00
Choice $J.60 Broadcloths, yard 11.95
Choice of $3.00 Broadcloths, yard tU.SO
Imported Vorelty Dress Goods Another sensational mark
down our Immense assortment of new high grade novelties,
fancy stripes mostly, suitable weights and excellent r)
spring colorings, all regular $2.00 and $3.00 fabrics MXtf
in greatest sale of the year sJ
Fine Showing NEW SILKS
Advance arrivals of the smartest silks for spring of 1909
are on the counters. Most effective styles in New ioulards,
fancy Mescalines, Pongees and Rajahs.
STOW rOVIiAXDS Now here else so attractively priced
t SSo, $1.00, $1.85
ICESSAXZirZB Exquisite light colorings with hair line
stripes, at $1.00
HEW BAJAHS Mote beautiful than ever. All the late
shades ? $1.35
rOKQEES Ideal for Spring and Summer wear. Serviceable
and washable $1.35
BENNETT'S BIG GROCERY
February Clearance
HOSIERY GLOVES ETC
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A sale of interest to most every woman. Genera Silk Hos
iery Is the nearest approach to all silk ever made. It
has the swish of allk when crushed In the hand and haa
the brilliancy of silk. It's regular 60c quality 9Qr
we offer, black only, pair
Women's Mercerlxed Seamless Hose, best 25c quality, Mon
day only, pair 17o
clear-
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ary clearance, two excep
tional Monday drives.
Women's pure linen initial
handkerchiefs, best 1 6n
quality, on sale, at To
Lot scalloped and embroid
ered handkerchiefs, fine
60c values ISO
Good staple lines
Bennett's Golden Coffee, lb.,
Teas, assorted, pound
Tea timings, pound
Corn Meal. s-Jb.. sack, white or ysllow,....
Kgg-O-See. 4 pkga .Y.
Diamond Crystal Table Salt. ....... .........
Flllnt of Herring with sauce
Kugene Tomatoes, can
'Mignonette Marrowfat Peas
Capitol .Oats, 2-lb. pkg . .
Yankee Rose Toilet Soap, cakes......
Hurnuam'a roc Clam Chowder, can
15c ran Refugee String Beans, "Best Ws Have,"
Cnpltol Wax Means, loc goods for
California Seedless Raisins, 12Hc quality, lb..
.Ih Rice, regular 10c quality, 4 lbs
Capitol Mince Meat, t pkgs
Swansdoan Codfish, I pkgs
Small Sour Pickles, per dozen
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LIBBEY CUT GLASS at
HALF PRICE
Sale opens 8 A. M. Monday morning. The most sweeping
clearing this city has ever heard of. Libbey, world-famous
Cut Glass and other makes. Nine big tables full
rich, sparkling vases, punch bowls, nappies, jugs,
bowls, decanters, comports, sugars and creams, tum
blers, liquor sets, etc., in fact, choice of greatest dis
play of cut glass ever in Omaha.
Every piece
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8,000 pieces fancy chlaa, inoladlng- most every article
that is mmam oi cnina, posture values so $a
pick of any piece for.
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CLOTHS February
ance Monday only.
Women's long kid gloves in
broken alxes, values ac
tually up to $4, all on the
tables, for choice. .. .98o
Silk lined and Mocha and
Pique street gloves, worth
$l.o0. for S9o
TJHDESWEAJt February clearance.
half price to reduce the stock.
Women's ribbed balbrlggan Vests and Pants, regular Srtc
lines
Women's wool ribbed vests and pants, regular $1.00 gnr-
ments, Monday 69o
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February Clearance
SILK CORSETS
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Sizes to 22 only
Monday we put on sale a quantity of "White Silk Bro
cade Model Corsets, worth $5.00, daintily trimmed
with val. lace and satin ribbon, long hip JtO
and medium high bust, at I HP
Another Lot Silk Brocade Corsets, white, pink and
light blue, these are medium models, with medium
length hip and bust, regular $3.50 $4 29
Corsets in Mondav sale, at -
Tsry large, miscellaneous lots odds
- .pleoea Dollies, Centers. Trays ai
scalloped and lace effects!"
rolllea 10c to ft&c
Centers 49c to $4.60
Trays S6c to 98o
Scarfs 60c to $1.00
White Mercerised Watstings,- in
goods, at yard
India Linons, good 12 He grade,
St. 60 Beit Hnreuris. hemmed and
B6-inch Curtain Swiss, 3 6c goods
15c Indian lead, linen finish, at
$1.60 Linen Sheetln. 90-lnrh, at
TABLE LZHEST KEMITAirTS 500 short ends
yard pieces, any quality from 29o to 12. 2a
'and ends and eholee
1 Scarfs, . la drawn.
Price
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February Clearance
EMBROIDERIES
On sale Monday, several tnou
sand yards of Embroidery
Kdges, Insertions and Fin
ished Bands, 3 to S-lnches
wide, all values 4 f
to 19 cents. 1UC
at yard
On another big table you li
find handsome, showy
Flounc.lngs, 9 to 18-lnclies
wide and daliny bands in
wide variety of very pretty
and rine Swiss
embroidery ef
fects, values 60e,
on aale, at ....
25c
SALE MONDAY
Feather Dusters
Turkey Feather Pusters at
about half regular prices:
The 38c size for 80o
The 16c size for 8c
XBTFOBTED SCBAT
BASKETS
New line Just In, genuine
French made goods, aquare.
round and oval 0
Shanes, values
to $2.50, Mon
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l)l)C PROBLEM ' IX TURKEY
Constantinople Thinking of Clearing
Its Streets of Curs.
MOHAMMEDAN PREJUDICE BALES
Plana for Getia St 14 af llnndreds of
Theajaaada of Da$a that from
Time 1 Memorial Have Been
the City's Sea veneers.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Jan. IS. Within a
sh rt time the new Turkish government
will have to decide definitely the question,
"What Is to be done with the. dogs if we
provide other and adequate meana of scav
enging and cleaning the streets of the cap
ItalT'1 lliuulrtdi of thousands of homeless
ka fur generations have scavenged the
r: recta and have been almost absolute
monarch! of the night, enjoying a freedom
which waa denied to man. Since man has
nerd himself from the tyranny of spies
the tide of civilisation Is gradually advanc
ing, and with Its advance the extermination
of the caplne population is threatened.
But the difficulty la how to set rid of
tbeee diga.. A Christian In mercy kills a
maimed, suffering animal; a Moslem takes
food to It. believing that misfortune will
iMfsll him If he destroys that to which
Allih has given life. So the great unedu
cated mass of Turks. Mohammedans all,
niil resist the killing of the dogs. For
merly the killing of a singlo dog was pun
ixliaMe by e ral days' Imprisonment.
It Is said that the g nernor of a certain
Turkish seaport town once gave orders
that all dVga should be stilptd off to an
island In the Marmora. His orders were
executed, but the Island waa not far enoug-h
away. The beasts starved and many In
desperation attempted to swim ashore. The
Inhabitants of the city then became ,so
frlghtehed that they went out hi boats and
brought the remainder back to the main
land, believing that Allah in his wrath
would destroy, their city if the dogs per
ished. 80 the does were reinstated and
continued to scavenge the town, from
which the wicked governor shortly disap
peared. American Enterprise Balked.
During the old regime an American glove
manufacturer conceived the idea of utilis
ing the dogs of Constantinople in his busi
ness and offered to take the whole canine
community off the hands of the govern
ment at 36 cents a head. Though by this
means the city would hsve been rid of the
dogs and tke government coffers made
richer by some hundred thouamad dollar a,
Mohammedan prejudice was too strong and
the offer was rejected.
Turkish newspapers have now taken up
the question, and the following typically
Mohammedan proposition eomes from on
of them: The male and the female dogs
ahall be shipped off to different islands,
where, with an attendant or two to feed
them, they shall bo allowed to dU a natural
death. ' It It is attempted to carry out this
eld as fnsnaioa achemo the doge them
selves will probably have a voice In the
matter and decide Which shall live the
longest; since for many generations the
scsvengers of one street have looked upon
those of another as their enemies, and as
such to bs fought and conquered.
Each block or portion of a block is pa
trolled by a band of from ten to twenty
dogs, which like a trained army realises
that union Is strength. None of a band
with safety trespasses his boundary line in
search of food. The Invaded territory may
appear peaceful with Its guardians wrap
ped In slumber; but the Invader knows he
must act with caution, for It Is the sleep of
one eye only:
Woe Betides Invaders.
In a moment the signal Is given and the
whole band is at attention. One dog, with
upper Up drawn tightly back, displaying
formidably strong white teeth, advances
upon the Intruder with stately atride, emit
ting a warning growl, while his comrades
support him with short barks. Sometimes
the enemy withdraws, barking cautiously,
to his own territory, where his united band
awaita him. At other times the Intruder,
If caught in the act of stealing a morsel,
decides that fight is better than retreat,
but he always ritlies with a limp and sor
rowful air.
These creatures, which exhibit so savage
a hatred of dogs from another street, are
never vicious with human beings.- The
most stsid Vetera among them fawns
and plays around you like a puppy at the
slightest word of kindness. Standing upon
his hind legs and rubbing his wet nossle
Into your hand, he gently pushes tio
younger ones aside as much as to say:
'1 ara the boss."
And there is no doubt about the fact
there are bosses. Strength is everything; it
la the strongest who Is the largest, simply
because he haa always succeeded in get
ting the beat pieces out of the refuse pUe.
But many streets of the town produce
fine, strong, healthy specimens of dogs,
with coats white, light brown and black,
as thick ss a door mat. In the neighbor
hood of the British embassy you find such
a band, and they patrol and apparently own
the street, rubbing Inquiring noaes Into the
lyegs of paasersby.
vAt the corner is a net of butchers" shops,
and dogs and mere grow fat upon the odora
of mutton and beet. To enter one of these
shops the customer steps over the prostrate
bodies of many dogs, who lovingly caress
the doorstep of such heavenly places and
occaalonally get a lick at soma- carcass
which hangs In front.
Mangy Skeletons Aboaael.
In streets not possessing a butcher shop
or restsurant the doga are often mangy,
miserable skeletons who pick up a more or
Was precarious living from refuse piles
within their territory; while their torn and
bleeding skins tell of some desperate en
counter of the night In search of food.
Boms limp around on three legs, having had
one broken by a carriage before they had
time to move; others, piteous objects, drag
themselves through life with both bind legs
broken, living upon such scraps as tha hu
mane Turk throws them.
A few of these miserable beasts who have
not enough vitality to resist tha coid and
snow of winter for days shlverlns;
against the walls till, stupefied and
numbed, they die. Toung ones lie curled
up on the pavement on top of one another
to keep warm, while snows falls on and
around them; older and stronger fellows,
apparently unconscious of climatic condi
tions sleep In the rosd unconcernedly.
If the city were well paved the dogs
would lose their beds, for they lie in the
deep holes of the broken pavements or take
their siesta on a rifled refuse pile; and
when the streets lack a footway doorsteps
and basement window sills are utilized.
Should the dogs be up and about during
the daytime they never get out of your
way.
There are several methods to follow If
you wiah to pass one. You can get off the
pavement and walk around .him, you can
step over him or you can push him aside.
This last method he does not resent, but
he makes It as difficult as poasible for you
to move him; you must be a strong msn
and exert all your strength to push him
aside. If there Is room for only one on the
pavement and the dog Is already there and
asleep your simplest plan la to step over
his body.
Klasl to Mother Dots,
For the mother with her litter of pups
other beds are found, and she is always
made mora or less comfortable. An in
habitant In one street puts out an old
piece of matins under the shelter of a
broken step; another rigs up a kennel In
the gutter way; another throws her out a
box or some straw, and here the poor bag
of bones, with beseeching look, brings
up her strong, pushing, thriving, fight
ing youngsters, who, when only a few
weeks old. display all the inatlncta of their
elders and the habits of free bom city
dogs. They, like their mother, d rouse In
the daytime, but it you take up one and
fondle It the old dog Jumps around you,
pleased at the admiration of her offspring.
A glorious time of feasting and glut
tony, a day of days for these wolfish, pig
like dogs, comes when a useless beast of
burden, limping, worn out and suffering,
is led by its owner outside the city walls
to the boneyard, where it la slaughtered.
Scenting the debauch, a hundred or more
dogs follow at a distance, clamoring and
voicing their delight.
As the goal is reached the victim stands
still a moment gazing around wonderingly
at the expectant, upturned faces of the
eager, straining pack, which gradually but
surely closes In upon it. The pause is
brief; in an instant, before the breath Is
out of the poor, starved body, the dogs are
upon it, tearing it to pieces.
Has pickers Klght Them.
But It is at sunset each day that tha
dogs' real sttuggle for Ufa begins, for it Is
then that householders throw out their re
fuse and the dirt piles assume Interesting
proportions. Tha beasts are not tha only
searchers in the dirt piles; they have a
common enemy upon whom they wage
eternal warfare the ragpickers.
This man sets out en his rounds at night
equipped with a huge basket strapped on
his back, a pointed stick with which to
pick up his booty and a lantern. As the
streets ara dark sacept tor tha light of aa
occasional lamp fixed to a wall, the rag
picker's lantern la seen afar, and its apt
pearance is the signal for the doga to
arouse themselves.
They bark themselves hoarse with rage.
As the man approaches they assemble and
continue barking furiously, while he. quite
accustomed to this demonstrative welcome,
pays no heed to them, picks over the pile,
then passes on li!s way to the next, which
ha similarly Inspects. The dogs, thinking
they have scared him bff, chase him with
renewed noise to the edge of their terri
tory, where the neighboring band receives
him In like fashion.
Tet another nightly enemy to the dogs
Is the beckjl, or night watchman, who
taps the pavement incessantly to let house
holders know that he is about. If a dog
liapi-ens to be In his path the beckjl play
fully knocks It over with the heavy club
he carries, and the beast, having been
touched perhaps on some raw and tender
wound, sets up a prolonged wail of agony
in which other members of his band hasten
to Join.
In the vicinity olher howls are heard;
the sound swells and swells until the glori
ous mystery and peace of night Is mado
hideous wtlh unearthly din. Tou can
imagine for a moment that hell is 'let loose
upon the earth.
EQUALITY FORJHE JAPANESE
Secretary of Colorado Association, 1st.
slats on Same Treatment as
Other Foreigners.
DENVER. Colo., Feb. .-Equality with
other foreign nationalities In the United
States or a very good and sufficient reason
why not is the demand of the Japanese In
America, according to Takeo Sogara, sec
retary of the Japanese association of Colo
rado. "We consider ourselves superior ss a race
to the Chinese, Koreans and other Asiatics
and we do not want to be claased with
them, and will demand our rights granted
the Japanese by treaty and under the con
stitution 4f the United States to be treated
on equal 1 terms with the French, German
or American or any other natloa." said
the secretary. "The Asiatic scare of the
Pacifio coast amounts to little," hs con
tinued. "The number of Jspanese in the
United States Is decreasing and will prob
ably continue to do so. There are about
4.000 Japanese in Colorado and 600 in Den
ver." N
The statement that there are only 600
Japanese in Denver la denied by Chief of
Police Armstrong, who says that a con
servative estimate shews between S.OuO and
4.0W In this city.
ANTI-RACING LAW IS UPHELD
Track Man Few ad Cnlltr and Sen
tenced to $:BO Flno and
Imprisonment.
NEW ORLEANS. La.. Feb C Max
Boasberg was today declared guilty of
violating the so-called Locke anti-racing
law at the Suburban racetrack on Janus ry
tZ and was sentenced to pay a fine of $360
and serve seven months in the parish
prison by Judge Price Edrlngton of the
district court of Jsflsfsoa Parish. It waa
a test case.
PARIS LANDMARKS VANISH
The Dairy Balzao Made Famous is to
Be Demolished.
SIGHTSEERS MISS MANY RESORTS
Modern t'onrt of Ml rate I es. Resort of
the Seam of Ports, Is Doomed,
ass Famons I.naette, Last of
Its Taverns, Is Closed.
PARIS, Feb. . Old Paris, good and bad.
is disappeailng rapidly in these days of
model tenements, public playgrounds and
skyscrapers. The church and state sepa
ration law gave many of the old convents
over into the hands of builders who erected
iiR-ly, sanitary, modern flat houses on their
sites, and the Commission de Vleux Paris
is having a difficult time In trying to pre
serve for an ungrateful city its poims of
Interest.
It Is true that the homes of the poorer
class of Frenchmen are hopelessly un
sanitary and comfortless, and there are
whole streets of old houses which could
be torn down for the good of the public;
but unfortunately these are not the streets
which are vanishing, except m rare cases.
Just between the Faubourg Bt- Honore
and the Boulevard Haussmann are sev
eral buildings which are to come down.
In one of these is the famous shop where
Honoie de Balzac every morning bought
a penny's worth of milk. It Is still a Utile
dairy and still trades on the name of its
one great customer.
Balzac lived a few doors from there in
the Rue Fortune, reclirtstened afterward,
when he achieved fame, the Rue Balzac.
Uvea when the author of the "Corned le
liumaine" had become rich and great In
the eyes of men, even after he had become
the social snob tradition charges him with
being, he still used to walk around to the
little dairy for a penny glass of milk.
There are those who think that all this
precinct associated with Balzac should be
preserved, and the commission has tried
hard to save It. but has failed, and all It
has succeeded in doing Is to take soma
pictures of the place and present them to
the' Musee Carnaveleu The buildings
marked for demolition furra the last vestige
of the old village du Route.
Another part of Pat is which is being
blotted out and Is full of traditions of quite
another sort is the modern Court of Mira
cles, in Hugo's description of the Court
of Miracles In "Notre Dame" he makes
it Hie place where those who bad been
blind all day suddenly regained their sight,
where one-legged and armless men and
hunchbacks and decrepit beggars dropped
their afflictions, resumed their normal as
pect and counted the pennies they had
gleaned from sympathetic paasersby. In
modern days ths Court of Miracles has
been situated In much the same quarter of
old Paris, just between the Plaoa Mau
bert and the Church of St. Beveria. It too
was the haunt of rogues, vagabonds and
thieves. ,
U waa always under nolle avaparvisioa
to a certain extent anil In latter years the
espionage got Irksome and only one tavern
remained of all those which were the meet
ing places of the scum of Paris. This
last little cabaret kept open doora until a
few days ago.
It was known aa the Pere Lunette and
was In the Rue des Anglais. Now the
lease hss expired and the old man who
kept it has given It up. aa he haa made
money from his ragged customers and Is
going to retire Into respectability in the
country.
The old cabaret Itself will probably be
torn down. like so many of Its neighbors,
for no commission of old Paris will Inter
vene to save these haunts, though the
buildings are old and full of traditions of
a sort.
There was the Chateau Rouge, a cabaret
which went out of existence some ten years
or so ag-o. It was also known as the Guil
lotine because of a picture nn the wall
showing a guillotine with hundreds of se
vered heads piled around It and a flock of
carrion crows hovering'above. This master
piece was a tremendous favorite In the
neighborhood and the subject of msny a
ribald Joke.
Then there was the Malson Parent
across the street, where you could sleep
on the floor for a penny, end the Malson
Gay, famous for its fried potatoes.; cooked
by Mme. Oay herself, a fat little Parisian
with a mustache a man might have been
proud of. She was a favorite with her
clientele, for she did them many good
tarns in saving them from the police.
These places have gone also and are only
traditlona In the street.
It was at the Malson Mort that the Bear
gar's Syndicate had Its headquarters and
dlacussed plans for making a living with
out exertion over an excellent red wine.
Of late years, as hss been said. Pere
Lunette has had practically a monopoly
of trade and he has become famous In
spite of himself. In the low. 111 smelling
room of his cabaret was the most motley
crowd Imaginable every evening. There
were Itinerant singers and musicians, swal
lowers of Ignited tow, dancers, strong
men, and in fact recruits from all those
performers who do their tricks in the
Paris streets for a few pennies.
Foreigners visited the Pere Lunette as
ons of the city sights. Great ladies ven
tured Into that heavy atmosphere and
thought they were having a wonderful
experience In slumming and perhaps run
ning Into danger. The risk they ,ran was
small, for. ths proprietor of the cabaret
preferred to keep within the law. .
The name Pere Lunette came from a
huge pair of spectacles painted aa a alga
outside. Just over the door. Further ar
tistic effects graced the inside of the place.
Hideous daubs of celebrities were the pride
of the house. There was a picture of
Zola preserved In a Jar of spirits like an
anatomical specimen, another of Gam
betta, his one eye gleaming horribly, a
third of Louisa Michel, the revolutionist,
with ths fiercest expression imaginable,
and others of notorious aasasslns and other
criminals.
Now that Pere Lunette Is going to shut
up shop It means that the nightly assem
blage of rogues and waifs will hsve to
look for other quart era but he is not
sympathetically inclined. Ha has had
J enough of bis customers and yearns for
respectability and quiet, so the last of
the modern Court of Miracles la at hand.
NUDITY FAD WORRIES DIET
Prasslan Kolons Condemn IVaeahty
Arts of Pretty Artist's Model,
Lender of Movement.
BERLIN, Feb. .-(Speclal.i-It for no
other reason, Olga Dvemond, a beautiful
artist's model, can claim tha attention of
the public through having been the sub
ject of discussion during a whole session
of the Piusslan Diet. Miss Desmond Is the
leading spirit In a quite alarming craze
here known as the "nudity movement,"
which hss spread with amazing rapidity
through the aristocratic classes and which
threatens to permeate the middle and lower
classes.
According to Herr Roeren, a member of
the center, many societies already exist in
Berlin for the purpose of holding social
evenings at which the members make their
appearance wearing a broad smile and
little else. These "gatherings were known
ss "beauty evenings," and as a sop to
public clamor they were recently classed
with theaters and music halls and thus
placed under the control of the poUce. The
latter, however, have been alow In tsklng
action largely,. It is said, because those
taking part were of exalted rank.
At the discussion In the Prussian Diet
Herr Moltke, minister of the Interior,
while criticising the "beauty evenings" as
an abuse of a good principle, went out of
his way to approve of a display of the
nuda,
"As to the limits' of what is permissible
in the representation of the nude," hs said,
"opinions differ widely. My own judgment
on this point is unalterably settled. The
beauty of the human body as God bas made
It Is aa incontestable as it Is harmless. To
represent the human body in Its beauty
has alwaya been the highest aim and the
Justifiable endeavor of every serious and
scientific art Who could feel anything
but ideal eniotjons at the sight of the
Venus de Medici and other Immortal
works?"
This is not the first time thst Olga Des
mond has been In hot water. Although she
has changed her name she is the same
young girl who appeared in London a
Uttto over a year ago as Olga Beldon. She
and her two brothers gave an extremely
artistic exhibition of living statuary at
the London pavilion until the public out
cry became so-Insistent that both she and
the woman who posed as "La Milo" were
compelled to adopt draperies or withdraw
their acts. "La Mllo" did the former while
the Seldons withdrew to ll-rlin, wheia
there waa a more tolerant public. Since
then Miss Desmond, as she Is now known,
has been a popular figure In high German
society, appearing at private functions
with ss little suspicion of clothing as was
possible to imagine. Her photographs were
hawked about the streets of Berlin and
sold like hot cakes. She has a beautiful
figure and Is wonderfully graceful and
effective In posing. While she was In
England two of the foremoat sculptors of
France made frequent trlpa tharn ta ob
tain sittings from hat.)
