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Political and Social News by Cable and Correspondence from the Old World
The
LLOYD GEOKGE IS
SOT REALLY ILL
Chancellor Suffering from a Severe
Case of Sore Throat Because of
Much Talking.
TOEIES WISH HE WAS WORSE
Society Scandal Mongers Circulate
Startling Stories.
WOMEN TO RESIST THE CENSUS
Will Not Answer Questions Unless
Government Relents.
WANT A VOTE ON SUFFRAGE
RUrk Soldiers Srralna I ndrr British
Colors to Re Ilarred from Any
Participation In Coronation j
lrrnonlr.
BY I'AVI, LAMBKTH.
UNIXN. March 4 (Sectal to The Bee.;
Lloyd George, leader of the liberals, ha
bn'ii In poor shape, but not In a serious
condition. He has anion,' other, things
been Buffeting from a sore throat. The
torles have taken advaniaKe of his Indis
position to circulate a report that he Is
suffering from earner.
There Ih not the slightest doubt that,
offing to the serious ntraln the chancellor
of the exchequer put upon his throat dur
ing the elec tion, complications have arisen
that make It nectssary for him to keep
exceedingly quiet.
Nowadays the mont trivial complaints
are magnified by society scandal mongers
Into the most horrible di sea sen the wish.
In some canes, being father to the thought.
The talkative wife of a tory marquis Is
credited with having set the story afloat
In social circles.
Women Hoy colt Census.
In moving a resolution at the Women's
Freedom league meeting proteHtlng against
the omission of women's suffrage from the
king's sixwh and threatening the hamper
ing of government business by tax resist
ance. Mrs. Despard said they were calling
upon the women to absolutely refuse any
Information when the census papers came
round. So far as they were concerned
there should be no census. If. however,
the government gave a pledge that the suf
frage bill would bo taken up this session
there would be no occasion for this form
of protest. Tho resolution was carried.
Hlark Soldiers Barrett.
The coronation committee Is completing
the arrangements In connection with the
representation of the self-governing and
crown rolonles at the forthcoming corona
tion, aud also as to the inclusion of con
tain of the colonial military forces In the
procession. ,As to the civil representative.
Invitations are being Issued to the prime
ministers of Canada, Australia, New Zea
land and South Africa and Newfoundland,
who will on the occasion be treated as
royal guests. (
The Colonial office has decided to exclude
the contingents of black soldiers from West
Africa and other crown colonies from tak
ing part In the celebrations. On the occa
sion of the coronating of King Edward the
native soldiers were "housed" in the Alex
andra palace grounds, but as they were
not strictly on military duty, and had a
good deal of leisure. In many Instances
they ran out of bounds, with consequent
tcaudal.
During their stay here they went about
the streets linked arm In arm with white
women calling themselves respectable. One
duchess Just showered attention on a big
black darkey out on the Strand. English
women think It altogether .proper to walk
'n piddle with black men.
rlpprn's Will.
I'r. l. U. I'rlppen'a will, bequeathing all
to Ethel C. I.eNeve. made a few days be
fore his execution, reads: "I devise and
hciiucsth all the real and personal estate
whatsoccr and wheresoever of or to which
at my death 1 shall be aelxed,"lossessed
or entitled, or over which at my death 1
hall have any dismals power, unto and
to (he use of Kthel Clara LeNeve, spinster,
absolutely,': aud I appoint the said Ethel
I'lara I.eNevw sole executrix of this my
Will." Ills estate Is valued at S1.310. Miss
IrfNcve may not get the estate.
New Zealand's Proposals.
Amongst other suggestions for considera
tion of the Imperial conference which la
to be held here the following have been
submitted by New Zealand:
That there should be an Imperial council,
with representatives from all constituent
parts of the empire, and, In fact, advisory
to the Imperial government on all iiuesUun
affecting the Interests of the over-sea
dominions.
That the high commissioners be Invited
to -attend the meetings of the committee
of defense when questions on naval or
military Imperial defense affecting the
over-sea dominions are under discustdon.
That the conference recommend govern,
ntent to approach the governments of other
states favorable to universal penny post
age, with the view of united action being
taken at the next meeting of the Universal
I'ostal union.
That a state owned cable he laid between
Kngland and Canada, aud that the powers
'f the Pacific cable board b extended to
nahle the board to lav and control such
cable.
That there should be more uniformity
ihiongliout the empire in the law of copy
right, patents, trade-marks, eomimnlee. ,e
. tdeut compensation, naturalization, immi
gration, alien exclusion, currency and coin
sue. Hlorle Tkleurs Ba.
'I he stolen hicjele trade muut be some
time considerable. In this cite alone dur
ing the last eighteen minths 1.2i machines
"lave been reported as missing and every
city and loan has a lengthy list. The
maglstratea appear to regard cycle thefts
i a irnal offeii.,- Tlie other day a man
concerned in five si patate thefts was re
lesel on aufcixnded sentence.
Muannr f r Is4i.
It Is proposed to erect a ino.iie here,
the Hplt.il of the xieate.-t Mohammedan
power in the world. The building Is to
coitt S.o.(0. to which the Aa Kahn hf
contributed SX.uuO The committee In con
li wl la presided over by Amir AM. and In.
eludes Urn Turkish and Persian ministers.
RATEPAYERS UP IN ARMS
Extravagance of Irish Officeholder.
Has Gone the Limit.
I
DAY TO BE SET FOE KICKING
Two Men Die Wko Had Lou Passed
the testarr Mark lllshop
Chad Irk Takes a Bride at
evenly-One.
KV THOMAf EMMET.
DCBL1N. March 4. (Special to Tlie Be.)
The extravagance of certain office hold
ers, who have been wasting public money.
Is likely to cause trouble. In various
towns and dlstricta ratepayers' assaciatlons
have been formed to protect the Interests
of those who directly provide the money
spent by rublle boards. The Idea has
occurred to the Limerick Ratepayers' as
sochit'on to establish a ratepayers' day.
when a public demonstration will be held
with the object of banding together all
who pay rates In the county, so that a I
un ted effort may be made to put down i
excessive and needless expenditures by the .
county and district councils. j
Lived Store Than Crntary. j
At Kdenderry, Kings county, the funeral i
has taken place of an agricultural laborer
named John Green, who died at the re
markable aueof 113. Green was born In
IT'.tx when the Irish rebellion wa on. He
worked In Birmingham. Manchester. Pum
frles. Edinburgh and London. While em
ployed In the latter place as a laborer
he witnessed the coronation procession of
Queen Victoria In 1K.T7. Subsequently he
tried life In the Antipodes. He worked up
to about twelve years ago. and then, bent
down by the we'ght of a hundred summers,
he entered the Edenderry workhouse,
where he became a very popular figure.
Peter Slane of Boyle. Roscommon, who
had never known a day's Illness and haci
worked on his farm long after becoming
a centenarian, has Just died at the ago
of 108 years.
Mary Brannigan of Armagh, who is 101
years old, recently voted at the city elec
tion In that city.
Aired Bishop Weds.
Society people crowded the Church of
St. Bartholomew to witness the marriage
of a septuagenarian bishop, Rt. Rev. Dr.
George A. Chadwick, bishop of Perry, to
Helen Jane Crosier of Dublin. The cere
mony was performed by the archbishop
of Dublin, assisted by Canon White. Dr.
Chadwick, who is In his seventy-first ;ear.
In a leading Irish churchman and was
strongly In the running for, the Irish
primacy.
Tronble with Hlch Wanaa.
The Gorey district council has served
notice to quit on Robert Farrell, the occu
pant of a laborer's cottnge. Farrell's wife
Is said to have Inherited SlSi.OOP by the
death of a relative In America. The cottage
has been erected on the site of the house
wherein Mrs. Farrell was born, and she
is not willing to leave It. One of the
councillors, however, said that ' It never
was the intention pf the council to build
houses foe- capitalists to turn them Into
villas. ' '
Criminals Drain la oalh.
Lord Justice Cherry does not hold with
tho?e who assert that crime Is an Incurable
disease and that the only thing to be done
with criminals Is to punish them severely,
so as to deter others. In a paper read
before the Statistical society lie maintained
that If we could get rid of juvenile crime
society would soon be rid of the habitual
criminal. The habitual criminal, he said,
nearly always commences his career of
crime when young, and the old established
form of prison punishment only hardened
the boy In vice; certainly It very seldom
reformed him. The lecturer praised the
system of reformatories and Industrial
schools, which have proved so successful
in Ireland In saving many a youth from a
life of crime, and to this system Is now
added the Borstal Institution, which deals
with youths who have already acquired
criminal habits.
qaeer Food for Flah.
When two pike caught In the river Shan
non recently were opened one waa found to
contain a new nail brush without a bristle
missing, the other a gold pencil.
Increase of Crime
Quite Marked in
England and Wales j
Investigator of the Home Office is
Inclined to Lay Blame on
Leniency.
LONDON, March. 4. (Special to The Bee.)
H. B. Simpson, C. B., of the home office,
has written a critical Introduction to a
blue book giving statistics of crime In
England and Wales during
The number of persons tried for an Indict
able offence during the year. 7.149, was
less than the total for l' (78,1411. but Is
considerably larger than the correspond
ing figure for apy previous year. The
figures point to a stesdy Increase of crim
inality during the last ten years, and the
real Increase In crime Is probably even
greater than is shown by the record 'of
prosecutions.
Mr. Simpson points to the marked growth
of tiie seniiinent of compassiou for the
criminal, resulting In mitigation of
prison discipline, the Probation of Offenders
act. and the establishment of the Borstal
system. These, be confidently anticipates,
will In the long run help to diminish crime,
and he deprecates exceiudve rigor towards
law-breaker who are not "habitual. " but,
he says, the sentiment which has found
public expression has gone beyond the
desire to facilitate an offence return to the
path ef honesty. "Crime Is sometlmea
spoken of as If It were the outcome of a
revolt of the poor against the rich." he
says, "and the feeling of dissatisfaction
with the inequalities of our existing social
system at the present time la so deep and
so general that any one professing to take
part In such a revolt may lount on se
curing public sympathy."
RUSSIA PLANS NEW RAILWAY
t sar's tablnet ( emalaerla Link te
Jeln Karen and India la Strata!
away Han.
ST. PETERSBURG. March 4-iSpeclal
to The Bee.) The council of ministers In
St. Petersburg discussed the question of a
railway Una connecting Europe and India,
an dieoommended the creation of a spe
cial commission for the provisional con
sideration of such an undertaking.
KATSER WTLHELM
SA A SF, S
Physical Condition is Such that the
Emperor is Becoming Very
Religious.
REPORTED TO BE AGING FAST
Friends Admit He Has Lost His
Old-Time Vim.
BURIAL CORTEGE IS UNIQUE
Funeral of Paul Singer Remarkable
as a Spectacle.
MULTITUDES WATCH PROCESSION
Germas F.xplorer Believes Site of the
Lost Atlantis Has Hern Fonnd
In Africa aperpat riots
A larmed.
BY MALCOLM CLARKE..
BK.il. I.N". March . (Special to The Bee.)
Despite reports to the contrary, the
kaiser Is far from being In good condition.
Those, wno r,a had a chance to see him
have noticed tnat he has been aging rap
Idly during the last year. He lacks the
fire, vim and dash that formerly charac
terirrd him. It has been noticeable, too,
that he has become more and more Inter
ested li. religious affairs. His friends say
he believes he will not live very long, lie
failed to attend the recent state ball, owing
to a cold, and for the same reason the
military ceremony, which was to have
taken place at Potsdam on the occasion of
Prince Joachim's entry Into the Regiment
of Guards, has been abandoned. William
has become a settled, serious man. He
has leached that stage when he worries
much about even trifling matters-things
that a few years ago would not attract
even his passing notice.
Great Fnneral for Socialist.
It Is calculated that 750,000 people took
part In Paul Singer's funeral obsequies,
showing the great esteem In which the
famous socialist leader was held. Twenty
five years ago Singer was expelled from
the country, a political refugee.
The processional route was five miles
long. Along tlie least frequented portion
crowds were standing five to seven deep
or. both sides of the road. Where the
masses were densest the spectators were
eight to ten deep, the back rows standing
on chairs, benches and boxes. In addition
to the people actually In the street there
were flvt miles of three, four and flve
atoried houses with their, windows packed
with tiers of heads, one rising above the
other.
The procession which preceded the
hearse flowed pn for over an hour. Thou
sands and thousands of all different kinds
of people were there. Then came Ilia
hearse, with a drken candles fa" "lamps
burning around it, a body of socialist dep
uties and members of various committees,
and once more a black stream of anony
mous mourners.
It was a middle-class crowd. The men,
for the most part, wore black coat, with
white silk scarfs and black ties and , hats.
811k hats were to those of felt In the pro
portion of one to threes The floral tributes
numbered 2.000. As the hearae passed the
hou.se of a well-known family a gray
haired woman threw from the window a
bunch of Immortelles. It Is said that the
woman was In her school days a sweet
heart of the former socialist.
Favors Alsace-Lorraine.
The Reichstag committee, to which the
Alsace-Lorraine constitution bill has been
referred, has adopted by a vote of 1 to 4
an amendment raising AlBace-Lorraine to
the rank of an Independent federal state.
Dr. Leo Frobenlus. the German explorer,
has written from southern Nigeria de
scribing some remarkable discoveries of
an ancient civilisation In the Benin dis
trict. He asserts that these discoveries
bear out his theory regarding the former
existence of the continent of Atlantis. The
explorer, who haa been excavating in
southern Nigeria, la known as an eager
advocate of the theory that Atlantis really
existed and Is to be looked for somewhere
In Africa. The German learned world re
serves judgment a to the value of bis
discoveries. Letter from the explorer to
Trends have been made public giving
details of his finds, and. incidentally, mak
ing attacks upon the British officials in
the colony for depriving him of the fruits
of his labora
f saperpatrlote Alarmed.,
In this empire, as elsewhere, there are
super-patriots, who live in a state of per
petual anxiety for their country's safety.
They are constantly trembling. Their
latest cause for alarm la the menace to the
German script. The true peril does not
yet lie very close. The committee that
examinee the Innumerable petitions that
are showered In upon the Reichstag has
recommended a proposal put forward by
one of them that the use of Latin script
hould be taught in the elementary schools.
Gothic script Is going the same way as
the Gothic print. It Is pretended by super
patriots that the Increasing use of Latin
type, especially ia works . of a learned
character, la a delicate compliment to the
foreigner or a gracious concession to Ignor
ance. This, however, hardly seems to ex
plain why the same lettering la employed
In typewriters uses In this country, for
all shop signs and for all commercial news
and displayed advertisements even in
papers which exist for the dissemination
of super-patriotism. The superiority of
I-atln type and script is admitted Implicitly
even by . those who most loudly extol the
Gothic, and Its ultimate triumph Is only
a question of time.
Clever Diplomacy.
The foreign secretary, Kiderlen-Waechter.
Is a pupil of the late Heir von Holsteln.
and one of Herr von Holateln's favorite
methods In dealing with two powers whose
mutual friendship he regarded as incon
venient was to endeavor to persuade them
that one government was encaged In estab
lishing momentous relations with the other
This is evidently what la now being at
tempted with legaid to Russia and Eng
land In respect of their Persian Interests.
For '.he moment the object is to represent
the Russo-German agreement with regard
to the Russian sphere of Interests In Pers'a
in high contraat to the absence of any
German arrangement with Great Britain
In a similar character. eseclally in regard
to the Bagdad railway and the line which
may one day connect It with the Persian
gulf.
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From the New York World.
AERENTHAL TOO OPTIMISTIC
Trouble on Montenegrea Frontier Dis
counts His View.
ALBANIANS ABE BUYING RIFLES
Anstrlan Military Officer Arrests Oat
Cow and Places Her Vnder lar
veillance Begglsg Is
Made Fine Art.
BT EMIL ANDRASST.
VIENNA, March 4 (Special to The Bee.)
Recent developments would seem to jus
tify the doubt expressed In diplomatic cir
cles of the optimism of Count von Aeren
thal as to the peaceful conditions In
eastern Europe, of which I made mention
last week. The Turkish government haa
dispatched two battalions to Bkutarl Al
bania, to suppress the troubles which have
broken out on the Montenegrin frontier. A
strong band of Albanlana attacked the rail
way station at Kumanova and plundered
three wagons which contained rifles col
lected by the kaza of that place for dis
patch to Uskub. The Pristine Albanians
have again purchased 4.00 Mauser rifles
from Servla. Numerous bands have plun
dered entire villages and the Turkish gov
ernment appears to be powerless and the
next run of events Is awaited with great
anxiety.
This does not look much like peace. In
fact the whole of European Turkey Is In
a ferment, which Is steadily spreading to
the neighboring kingdoms and if there Is
not an outbreak soon which may set all
eastern Europe In a blaze many close ob
servers In Vienna will be surprised.
More than this the extraordinary de
mands being made by the government for
military and naval purps occasion seri
ous concern In political and financial cir
cles. Leading newspapers point out that
the condition of the national finances is
already serious and that it Is Impossible
to see where the money can be obtained
for the vast future expenditure outlined,
Including the construction of tweive more
dreadnaughta.
tew Arrested plelen. '
An amaxlng incident occurred , recently
outside Marans, . Austria.' A., cow strayed
from the pasturage and came within reach
of the fort. The officer In command sus
pected the presence of an eutomatlo pho
tographic apparatus and had the beast
seised and closely examined, but when he
found nothing to justify his suspicions hs
turned the animal loose again, under the
observation of two of his men charged with
the duty of following the suspect home to.
ascertain whether her owner wss an
Italian spy.
Beaatns a Fine Art.
' Known throughout Austrian and Russian
Poland as "the king of beggars," David
Kochmel la said to have brought the prac
tice of imposing on the charitable to a
fine art. This uncrownsd king Is about
to be tried on charges of polygamy and
curious revelations of the beggars, under
world are expected. This "Polish bluebeard,"
as he la called, started his stormy careei
at the age of 14. An Intelligent lad. he
traveled from tc-wn to town gathering
precious hints from flourishing medlcants
of various categories. Gradually he evolved
an admirable organisation, which, It la
alleged, proved very lucrative. In several
town he la said to have started secret
schools for beggars, clever children being
thoroughly trsined In the theory and prac
tice of Imposing on the charitable public.
Kochmel's downfall resulted from his poly
gamous disposition. In his travels he ob
served the special success of young beggar
women, and It la alleged thst he married a
considerable number of the wealthiest and
thus obtained their savings. The police
allege that he had a home In every town In
the land, and state that they have already
traced twenty of his "wlvee."
Crumpled
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School Teachers
of New Zealand
Eager to Marry
Boards of EducaMui Powerless to
Prevent the Young Women from
Taking Husbands.
WELLINGTON. N. Z.. March 4 -(Speclal
to The Bee.) New Zealand girls
declines to accept Punch's advice
and where marriages are concerned there
is no "don't" In their vocabulary. The
Wellington Education board Is much per
turbed over the wholesale resignation of
the woman school teachers for the pur
pose of embarking In matrimony.
One member wanted an Injunction, but
another said: "You can't stop them." It
waa stated, amidst awful silence, that
many of the girl students at the training
college are wearing engagement rings.
The chairman: "There's no remedy;
they will do It!" Then a venerable and
portly sage advised the board not to get
so many pretty girls into the service.
Unrest in Egypt
is Dying Down
Definite Announcement of British
Policy Has Good Effect on
the People.
CAIRO. March 4. (Special to The Bee.)
The political unrest, which may be said
to have reached Its culminating point with
the assassination of Boutros Paha last
February, has subsided with unexpected
rapidity since 81r Edward Grey's state
ment In the House of Commons last July
put an end to the doubts and conjectures
regarding the alms and intentions of Brit
ish policy; while the assurance that the
cotton crop of the present year will. In
view of Its excellence and the high prices
prevailing In the world's markets, prove
to be In every sense a "record" has In
spired a feeling of confidence In regard to
economic conditions which cannot fall to
react favorably upon the political situa
tion. 7
Occasional Instances of Insubordination,
assuming a political character, will no
aounc, occur rrom time to time among
students and schoolboys. But, regrettable
aa such Incidents must be considered and
unfortunate aa Is the Impression they pro
duce, especially abroad, there does not at
present appear to be any reason for at
taching to them any alnister significance.
Big Royal Camp
Planned for Delhi
King George and Queen Mary Are Not
to Occupy the Official Indian
Residence.
BOMBAY. March 4. (Special to The I lee.)
The Allahabad Pioneer statea that the
king-emperor during his stay in Delhi will
not occupy Circuit House, but will go Into
camp, the Idea of a splendid royal camp
appealing to popular imagination. Motor
cars and taxlcabs are likely to be more In
evidence than horse carriages, thus obviat
ing the difficulty of the management of
wheeled traffic which rose at the Cuison
durbar.
Steps have been already taken to Induce
the Calcutta and Bombay companies to
send several hundred taxicabe to Delhi.
CommunUatlun between the different
ramps will be by circular railway trains
running at short Intervals.
mm iSL.
RADIUM IS FOUND IN DEW
Bologna University "Professor An
nounces Startling Discovery.
SCIENTISTS ARE ON THE QUI VIVE
Aged Rnsnlan Prlnee Reported to Be
Willing; to Marry a Murderess If
She Goes Free Man Mass
at His Oven Fnneral.
BY CLEMENT BARRETT.
ROME. March 4. (Special to The Bee.)
Scientists are greatly Interested In a dis
covery which has Just been announced. A
professor In the Vnlversity of Bologna hes
made the Important discovery that radium
In to be found in dew. Me has arrived at
this conclusion after observations covering
a long period. He placed at nightfall a
piece of glass over certain plants. At
dawn he found the glass Impregnated vvlth
a radio-active power sensibly affected by
the sun. This power Increased percrptlbly
for some minutes. After that the glass
was removed further from the earth, and
then In about an hour the radio-act! vlty
disappeared.
Poor Chance for Prelates.
Biahop Heaven of the Catholic diocese
of Springfield, Mass., who saw the pope,
says there Is very little prospect of the
promotion of any prelates to the cardl
nalate. Ready to Wed Taraowska.
Several strange stories are told concern
ing Countess Tarnowska and her Influential
friends. Among the latter Is a Russian
prince, a man more than twice the age of
the countess, of-whom he is a devoted ad
mirer. He attended the trial and haa re
mained In Venice since It ended. He visits
her regularly and rarely a Jay lasses that
she does not receive a letter from hltn.
These facta have given rise to the state
ment that if the countess regains her free
dom, aa many confidently anticipate, she
will marry her aged admirer. Her brother
waa recently convicted of murder In Russia
and she was convicted of killing her hus
band. Sings at Hla Own Fnneral.
Sometimes we hear of a man reading Me
own obituary, but It le a rare thing for a
dead man to sing at his own funeral.
Pietro Flcco of Pisa, a shoemaker and
amateur musician, had a great fondness
for the phonograph. He purchased many
records and occasionally sang into his own
phonograph, keeping records of the songs.
He was taken seriously ill. He realised
that he could not recover. Being poor and
unable to afford much of a funeral, he
requested that hla phonograph should be
utilized to furnish the muslo for the funersl
service. He picked out "Angel's Serenade"
and Gounod's "Ave Maria " sung by him
self, and these were used, and thus the
dead man took an Important jart at hla
own funeral service. Ha Instruct! that
his phonograph and seventy-two records
should be sent to his mother, a ho lives In
Palermo.
Wllarlna In Lit the Pepe.
The German emperor. It Is said, will visit
the poje when, traveling through Italy on
his way to Corfu next month.
WOMAN ASKS PULPIT PLACE
Swles Coaareaallen (jets aa applica
tion that Premises te let a
Pre dent.
BERNE. March (.-(Special to The (Be)
There Is every probability that the can
ton of Grlsons, Switzerland, will have Its
first official lady clergyman In the near
future. Among the application received
by the synod les I council there for permis
sion "to practice" as a cleraman in the
canton Is one from a Germea woaaaa doctor
of divinity.
PARISIAN CLERGY
STANDjUM'ALLED
Frightful Spread of Crime Among
Children Attracting National
Attention.
MERE BABIES TRAINED THIEVES
Gang Leader of Ten Laments Loss of
Chance to Steal.
FAMILIES ENGAGE LN ROBBERY
Counterfeiter Kills a Policeman and
Commits Suicide.
THIEVES USE BIRD TO STEAL
Had Trained a Maaple to Rnsmae Ihe
Attention of Shopkeepers While
They eenred Contents ef
Money Horn. .
BY PAI L VILLIERS.
PARIS. March 4 (Special to The Ree.V
The policemen interested in phllanthropla
work and the clergy Is appalled and puzi
led over the constant Increase of crime com
mitted by children and youth. It Is regret
tably and notoriously a fact that most of
the murders and dangerous assaults which
are chronicled In the columns devoted to
crime are committed by young people
whose ages vary from 15 to II.
Now a small boy. no more than 10 years
of age, has suddenly emerged from obscur
ity as the ringleader of thieves. This child
has already been brought before the po
lice commissioners of the neighboring town
ship In which he dwells, on a charge of
steeling, but Id consideration of his youth
fulness he was released. A few days later
he organised a gang which promptly set
to work with a will. Goods disposed for
ale outside the shops In that township
disappeared as If by magis, and every hour
of the day tradesmen were seen hurrying
to the police commissary to report losses.
A couple of lads were caught In the act.
They confessed, admitting that they had
committed some of the thefts, adding that
their gang was under the control of the
boy of 10. who was eventually discovered,
fast asleep. In a van at a railway station.
Brought once more before the police com
missary the lad, gave vent to lamentations
over the capture of his gang at the moment
when It was about to distinguish Itself
by a grand coup.
"In a very short time." he cried, "we
would have made our fortunes, as I had
discovered a way of exploiting the mar
kets. Well, I am caught, and so much the
worse for us all!"
Family Robbed Trains.
A family consisting of a woman and her
two sons, have just been tried for a long
series of robberies here. One of them waa
an employe of the Western railway, and
as the trains In which he wss traveling
were In motion he took goods out of the
vans and threw them off at chosen; apeta.
which were picked up by his brother. The
latter carried them to' his mother, who
sold them at different, markets. It Is cal
culated that during the last three years
this trio succeeded In making S2&.000 out
of these thefts. The railway man has been
sentenced to five years' Imprisonment, his
brother to two, and his mother to eight
months.
Policeman Shot Down.
Prllceman Perin was recently murdered
by a man whom he was arresting, and who
himself committed suicide on the spot at
Chrmplgny. The keeper of a wineshop, re
ceived a false coin from two customer.
Stapectlng that they were counterfeiters,
he sent for two policemen. The suspected
men got on their wheels and escaped. The
policemen gave chase, and saw them enter
a cafe. They entered searched the men and,
finding more false coin In their posses si on
arrested them. One of the men took out a
rexolver and fired at Perin, killing him.
He then fired a shot through hla own head
and fell dead.
Thieves t ee a Maaple.
Think of a gang of thieves using a mag
pie In their work. Six thieves and a magpie
have been run In by the police. The bird,
true to Its Instinct, was an active member
of the gang. It did not purloin on Its own
account, but Its help was Invaluable. The
six thieves, all under 16, chose a sufficiently
simple-minded tradesman, and entered hi
shop. The bird wss perched on the wrist
of one of the boys and did tricks, bowed,
danced and chattered. The Ingenuous shop
keeper w as amused. Suddenly the meg-pie .
flew up and perched near the celling out
of reach. The boy and the shopkeeper
started hunting for the bird; not all the,
boys, however; for one of them stopped
behind, near the till and emptied It. A
whistle called the bird down, and the bird
and boys were off with their booty.
More Wonders of Radlam.
Rejuvenating qualities In radium have
been discovered by Prof. Gabriel at the
veterinary school at Alfort. He state that
two Injection of radium In the jugular
artery of a very old horse had a surprising
result. Despite the comparative largeness
of the dose, the radium had no Ill-effect. '
The ateeod, Indeed, seemed to have re
reived a new lease of life. It put on' flesh
and became frisky. The animal threw off
a certain amount of radium In the days
succeeding trie Injection, but the blood siiil
showed traces of sulphate of radium, while
the red corpuscle Increased In number.
The doctor notes that these Injections pro
duced a lasting radio-activity of the whole
organism and bases on these experiments
the Idea of utilizing through the blood a
radio-active serum.
A thrilling scene took place In the cham
ber when there waa a motion to turn into
an Interpellation a question concerning
Durand, the Havre coal heaver who was
sentenced to death and then reprieved. In
the rourae of a strike last summer at
Havre one Donge, a workman, a noo
btrlker, waa beaten to death. Iftirand was
accused of having Incited the striker to
this action. He was tried and sentenced
to death, but at the recommendation of
the Jury his pardon waa applied for, and
the president commuted his sentence to
seven years' Imprisonment.
The collectives have ever since declared
that Durand was condemned on mislead
ing evidence, and an agitation haa been
started for a revision of the trial. Once
more the words "erreur judlclarre" are
pronounced, and a question was brought
forward In the chamber by Paul Meunler.
He produced deposition from witnesses
showing Durand Innocent. The minister of
justice said a petition for a revision had -been
received by him aud It would.be considered.
