The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-02-11


cribed, and that after paving lawyer
$500 the young lady was able to escape the
clutches of her strange prosecutors. The
defense OF hypnotic influence made IN the
Eyraud-Bompard case is surpassed IN
romantic interest by the circumstances OF
this absolutely unique diamond swlndle.
The unpleasant notoriety in which the
Bomp ard-Eyraud affair has brought hyp-
notism naturally dissuades this lady's
friends from the slightest publicity in the
affair.
Strange as the use OF hypnotic arts to
entrap wealthy strangers may seem" tins
gentleman continued, cit is of piece with
the whole money getting craze which has
given Paris the dry rot and has converted
the capital of the world into city OF
sharks and sweaters. There is an aston
ishing, universal air of decay pervading
the entire city. | have been familiar with
Paris since 1867 and have visited it at not
infrequent intervals. The change wrought
in twenty years OF the republic is beyond
belief. There is no longer any society
worthy the name that must be sought in
the European capitals where there are
courts-London, Vienna, Berlin, st. Peters
burg The once wonderful spectacle OF
the Partisan streets is old, shabby, played
out. The hotels are poor, perhaps the
poorest in any great city in the world,
while the restaurants continue to be the
best in the world. The theaters are dirty
and tawdry The shops have nothing TO
sell that can't be bought in other cities to
better advantage, except, perhaps, women's
clothes, dresses and pictures. The Partisan
on the boulevard is no longer well dressed
and merry even the famous Parlslenne
has become slovenly.
1.-THE French beau of today wears hat
and boots such as old Boffin might have
dug out of his dust heap. There is no
longer anv style about him, and even the
Bots de Boulogne is decayedl The mag
nifcent avenues and buildings of the sec
ond empire have cheapened and run 10
seed. The whole race of Frenchmen has
deteriorated. AS Jules Simon said In a
public address two months ago, there Is
no longer any patriotism in Paris The
predominant passion is gain The nation
has abandoned everything else and gone
TO money-getting.
THE war of revenge? 1t is battle of
dollars. The people of Paris no longer
pant for revanche on the Prussians; I'M
less it be they want the gold OF the Prus-
SLAMS, and of all the world besides. The
universal passion is for the peoples
money. And one of the best illustrations
of the spirit of national greed is the fol-
lowing experience OF Ex-Governor Richard
Mccormick, now of Long Island, well
known as a public man as wei as gem
tleman OF wide travel and cultivated
tastes:
"In the apartments louer which Gov
ernor Mccormick took when he established
himselfin Paris, on the occasion OF his latest
visit, were a number of the gilded and
spidder-legged chairs so familiar in the
average salon, several antique sofas, won
derful old beds with quaint and musty
hangings, and one particular tall, impos-
ing and magnificent looking vase, which
had some mysterious stcry OF royal owner
ship and princely intrigue attached to it,
and was apparently valued by the owner
at considerably more than all the rest of
| the household appurtenances, including
the American tenants.
"After while Governor Mccormick got
! tired of so much decaying splendOr, and
gave up the apartments. Alter clpherlng
| for hours to see how many candles he had
| lighted, how many times he had raised
| the window and slept in the bed and sat
on the chairs-which was always peril
Gus proceeding-the landlord figured out
bill as long as his skinny arm and
| calmly added 5000 francs to it for damages
| to the royal Dresden vase! Sure enough,
when the vase was examined, a deep and
| long crack was discovered in its enameled
sides, and the grief-stricken landlord
vowed this ruined it forever in his eyes,
royal ownership. princeiy intrigue and all
In vain Mr. Mccormick protested that
neither he nor any member OF his house
hold had ever so much as laid finger on
the vase, that they had hardly looked at
il, indeed, except to steer clear OF IT; that
it wasn't worth $4,000 anyway, and that
as he hadn't hurt his precious old crock
cry he wasn't going to pay for 1t.
THE Frenchman bowed, smiled and pro-
tested that he must have lis money or the
law. And Partisan law, as shown when
two American ladies were baselessiv ar
rested at the suit OF their dressmaker some
time ago, seems to be made for the citi-
zen shopkeepers-th stranger be hanged.
There was no use permitting the law to
take its course. But an inspiration came
to the tenant He defended the suit on
the ground that the crack in the vase had
been make long before he rented the
apartments And to establish this claim,
which didn't declare the vase worthless, or
| the damage incOnsiderable, but simply
maintained as it were an abb, he got an eX-
pert to come on from Dresden and testify all
about the vase, when it was made, when
| the crack was made and all the rest OF 1t.
And he won the suit, for the expert testi-
mony showed clearly that instead OF being
| a few weeks the crack in the vase was ten
| or fifteen years old. But it cost a great
| deal more to defend the rascslly French
landlords suit than it would have done to
paw his bill And the beauty of il all is
that the Johnny Crapaud had been soak
ing that crack onto the bill OF ever SO
many Americans already and has got it
on tap now probably, waiting for fresh
prey.
Zone no longer feels the comforts of life
| in Paris, much less the eiegsnces. The
| hotels are Wiley furnished with feather
| beds and tallow candles the lifts 90 up
| one floor in ten minutes if they work well,
and complaints to the management meet
| with no response, since the hotels are
controlled by syndicates and your money
| is what they want, not your satisfaction.
| The huissier confronts the mental eye
constantly. If you get run over by car
riage in the street, you, and not the
| driver, get arrested"
A DEAF MUTE'S STORY.
| Senator Hoar Tells the Most Pathetic story