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1T MADE A DIFFERENcH

If | slip down on defective graft
ing in the street pavement and SUSTAIN
severe damages. can l get redress?" he
asked a lawyer.
you can"
Whom shall l sue?''
The owner or occupier of the prem~
Uses. You can hold him responsible. ;.
Il was laid up seven weeks and n
think l ought to have Gee"
Il think we can get double that. Do
you know the owner OF the property ?"
Il can find out very easily. It's No,
so Blank street"
What? Why. that's my residencen
Better drop the case at once. sir. for-
got to say that the law is so defective
that you can't get verdict once III
twenty times--London Tit-Bits.
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was followed be a wagon load iv
forgeries, bogus affidayies an 9th
er statements iv Major Esther
hazy. Afther thin, come tn for
mer ministers iv tn Fr-rinch gov
er'mint, maxim an imposin' line
which took three hours passin
given point. AS they marched it
was seen that they were slyly kic-
kin each other.
An interval of silence followed in
which cud be heard cries iv "Abase
Dhrduss" an "Abase Fr-rance,"
an thin come tn man on whom tn
lies iv all the world is cinthered.
Cap. Dhryfuss plainly shows his
throubles which have made him
look tin years younger. His raven
hair is intirely white an his stall
wart frame with tn shoulders
thrown back is stopped an weary.
His haggard face was flushed with
insolent confidence an tn cowa'd-
ice in his face showed in his fear
less eye. AS he passed, young
Fr-rinch sojer was with diff Guilty
restrained firm sthrikin' him an
embracin' him with tears in his
eyes.
In tn court room tn scene baf-
fed description. 1t was an inspir-
in sight FIR tn judges whin they
were awake Row on row iv jour-
nalists sharpenin' pencils an slap
pin each others faces r-rose to tn
ceilin'. Here an there cud be seen
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"Abase La bock,")
Il says to mesilf thin, This man
is a thraitor.' But tn thrainin' iy
a sojer makes wan cautious. |
determined to fortiry mesilf with
Evidence. I put spies on this man,
this perfiejous wretch, an disciv-
cred nothin'. I was paralyzed An
officer iv TIN French ARMY an
nawthin suspicious about him,
Damnable. | was with difficulty re-
sthrained from KILN him. But
desisted. (Cries iy "Shame'D |
said to mesilf. TIL honor iv FIR
rance is at sthake. tn whole war
ruld is lookin at me. at me, Bill
MeIceer. l will go 20 bed an
think it over / whit to bed.
Sleep, blessed sleep that sews UP
tn confused coat-sleeve Nv care,
as tn perhejouS SHAKESPEARE (cries
iv' "Conspuez ShAkespere! says,
dayscinded on me tired eyes. 9Th
coort weepS) l laid aside me
honor (Cries iv Brave Gin'ral.'')
with me coat. CMunnurs.) l slept.
/ dhreamed that | see tn Ger
man impor playin' a Jews harp.
(Cries iv "Abase Rothscheeld," an
sensation) l woke with vi'lent
start, tn perspiration poorin' firm
me rugged brow. Cap Dhryfuss
is guilty. / cried. But no, / will
confirm me Evidence. | daTed in
to me r-red pants. dhruv with
fury to tn home iv Madame Clee-
pathry, tn CELEBRATED Agyptian
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TYPICAL WOMEN OF
THE DREYFUS CASE.
Though Not Exactly at Bottom of the Affair
They Had Their Recognized
Place in 1t.

PARIS September 7.-"Cherchez la
femme" says the wisdom of diplomats
and detectives. In the Dreyfus case the
proverb, Look for the woman has
not justified itself, no fatal female hay
ing doomed up to supply the ever-miss-
ing mobile sin presence of whose abb
sence," according to the jndicious Ber-
tulus, 1.-The magistrate is troubled but
in revenge, any number of interesting
mesdames have been brought upon the
scene in minor parts, from tragic. mis-
cry to farcial insouciance.
At one time the fatal female was to
be the mysterious Austrian Frauline
Derry, discovered by the opera bouffe
detective Guenee, 'the frequenter Of
high society and the grand BARS" and
serious minded French officers-like
that Lieutenant Colonel Gendron, who
himself hoped to procure from the frau
lein only interesting notes for his
course of lectures at the Ecole de
Cuerre-lamented Dreyfus' imprudence
in taking afternoon tea with for
eigner, L'Autrichinne! Louis XIII,
Louis XIV, Louis XVI. and the great
Napoleon all married Austrians. not to
mention the present Orleans Pretender.
Nothing is more remarkable than the
present day disdain of the Paris pa
triot" for the foreigner. The English
wife of Labor and the American wife
of Clemenceau point clearly to odious
cosmopolitanism. When reminded that
their own MERCER cherishes British
spouse, good Nationalist are tempted
to doubt the talk as an invention OF the
syndicate. Yet nothing is truer; and
the Generals son recently boosted that,
had he failed in his Saint-Cyr exsmina-
tons, papa could have got him COM
mission in the British army.
The Parisians who carp at Clemen-
ceau's Americana are much behind the
times. That unfortunate woman from
her American home may feel certain
satisfaction in the fact that the man
who spent her money has ranged him.
self on the side OF truth in the Dreyfus
campaign, but it is a satisfaction that
comes late in life to her. Clemenceau
married her in America. One day,
years afterward, when she reproached
him with some more than usually afro
cious gallantry, he replied calmly:
stop making such a fuss. Don't you
know that you are not legally my wife
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in kodaks, there was a commo-
ton near tn coort house. Was it
a revolution? Was this TIL begin
min iv another Saint Barth' news
day whin tn degraded passions in
Fr-rance pent up durin' three hun
dhred years d break forth again?
Was it tn sigma iv another div
lish outbreak thatd show tn thrue
nature iv tn Fr-rinch people dis
geesed behind a varnish iv ojoo5
politeness which our walters know
nawthin' about? No, alas, alas,
twas nawthin' man cud make
more thin a column iv. Twas tn
ac-cursed janitor goin' in to open
tn degraded windows. Abase tn
jan2toE abase tn windows! Fear
followed uncertainty. No wan
knew what moment he might be
called upon to defend his life with
his honor. Suddenly tn brutal po-
lceman who sthud on gyard wav-
ed his hand. What cud the brave
men do? They were obliged to re-
threat IN disordher But our spec
ial correspondent was able FIR to
oStain a fine view Of tn thrilling
scene that followed. First came
tn cocts weepin'. They was fol-
lowed be tn ginerals in tn
Fr-riRcA army, stalwart, fear
less men, with coarse disagreeable
faces. Zach gin'ral was attinded
be his private body gyard iv
thried ana thrusted perjurers an
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to monomania. She sees the duty to
defend her husbands memory in and
way to church, and when she is out
shopping. She thinks that everybody
knows her. She sees it only proper
that men should step aside and lift their
hats as she sweeps by.
There are other tender-hearted wo-
men among the victims Ester
hay, neglected and ashamed; Nine.
Labor, continually worrying lest the
assassin's bullet should by some OBJ
acure accident affect her husband S
spine; Nine. Chapelon, whose only son
and the hope of her old age lost his
scholarship, and with it his future, be-
cause she had promised to testify at
the lola trial; the mistress of Lemer-
cier-Picard, who saw the man she
loved driven each day nearer to the
suicide that ended his career-and hers;
the wife of the spy Lajoux, an innocent
young Swiss girl, who, after hundred
miseries, died in Brazil, her husband S
place of exile, and Mime De Boulancy,
the guiltless confdante of Esterhazy' s
contempt for present-day Frenchmen,
driven from Paris by the silly rage OF
public opinion.
Il am absolutely convinced" wrote
Esterhazy to Mime. De Boulancy, "that
this people is not worth the ammuni-
ton to kill it, and all the little tipsy-
woman cowardices to which the men
give themselves up confirm me in my
opinion. For me there is one human
quality, and that is completely lacking
in FTenhcmen; and if I were to be told
this evening that tomorrow l should
be killed as a Uhlan captain cutting
down Parisians 1 should be perfectly
happy. Oh, their on dit que with the
ON anonymous and cowardly and these
unspeakable limitations of men run
ming from one woman to another with
LiI0lI HIluy SOootp, WOuIu IhCy ACt
make a sad figure in the red sunlight
of battle, in a Paris taken by assault
and given over to the pillage Of a hun
dred thousand drunken soldiers?"
1t is dozen years ago that Esterhazy
wrote this amiable appreciation to his
cousin, the playmate Of his childhood
and the consider of his ripper years.
Nine. De Boulancy does not seem to
have been on cordial terms with Nine.
Esterhazy. On the other hand, Nine.
De Boulancy swears that she herself
did not give up those letters for publi-
cation. In some mysterious way, how
ever, they came to see the light OF pub
lication; and her dearest enemy could
not wish a greater revenge on the
"Uhlans" unfortunate correspondent.
The Parisians, rather timid of the re-
doubtable commandant, took it out on
Nine. De Boulancy. AS for Nine. Es-
terhazy, she has her divorce. Refined
and retiring, she bore the eating up of
her fortune without a murmur. She
bore the insult of Esterhazy's collage
with Marguerite Pays. She permitted
Esterhazy to complain in the Paris pa
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asthrologist an medicine woman
9Th coort: I'VE know her, she
supplies Evidence to all Fr-rinch
coorts.'') I told her me dhreanA She
TURNED r-red king an a black
knave. TIL Impor Willum an
Cap. Dhryfiss.' l says. ina fury.
l burst forth. ! had Cap. Dhry-
fuss arristed. I dashed. to tn pris-
idint. He was a-receivint arayfus-
ais f'r new cabinet. sIs have
found tn thraitor.' says I. Hush
says he. IF tn Impor Willum
hears We he'll declare war he says
I was supplied. oh. my beloved
country l cried. oh. hivin.~
cried. What shall do?' I cried.
They was not a niinyit to lose.
disbanded tn ARMY. ordered
tn navy in dhry dock. l had me
pitcher took. l whit home an hid
in tn cellar. FIR wan night FIR
rance was safe!"
They was hardly a dhry eye in
tn house whin tn gin'ral paused.
TIL coort wept. TIL audience
wept. Siv'ral of tn minor iourn-
alists was swept out iv tn room
in tn flood. A man shovelin' coal
in tn cellar sent up FIR an umbrel-
le. TIL lawn shook with tn con-
vulsive sobs iv tn former minis
tiers. Gin'ral MERCER raised his
damp face an blew a kiss to for
mer minister at wan iv tn win
dows an resumed his testimony.
eINo be continued next Sunday
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pers of her family's stinginess and his
own sacrifices to support her-at time
when she was giving him money. But
when he had the indelicacy to speak of
the state Of her health-and that false
ly-as an'excuse for his gallantry Nine.
Esterhazy revolted and shut her door
forever on the man.
THE PAYS.
Meanwhile Marguerite Quatre- Doight
as she was once called at the Moulin
Rouge, laughed gayly and proudly as
''her commandment" steered their frail
boat, overloaded with sinister secrets.
through the rapids of the lola trial, his
own courtmartial and dozen criminal
instructions. 1t was Marguerite Pays
who made the saying: "A general is
only man." Marguerite Pays invent
ed the fiower-pot hiding place for Sc
cret papers Marguerite Pays carried
E9terhazy's poison for him, lest it
should be taken from him before he
could swallow it. The devotion of this
Moulin Rouge girl to the ruined French
officer never wavered. She went cheer
fully to prison for him. She sneered
at bride of $4,000. 1t broke Ester
Hays heart because she did not take
it, Think what. time we could have
1. boY cd to hnf. N
London. Whereupon she only laughed
again. In London she is the rage, as
1.-The right sort" and real little
brick" to men who tolerate her man
only by night around the supper tables
of the Cafe Royal. Yet Esterhazy is
a great and sombre genius of whom the
world has not yet heard the last To
Marguerite he is "the man who took
me from the hell Of the Place
Blanche"
Then there is Nine. Bodson, for whom
Dreyfus-oh, a long time ago-forgot
his studies for a moment. A witness
at Rennes has testified to a remark that
will make Mr.. Bodson historical char
acter in France. The witness did not
like the company he met at Mrs. Bod
sons. and he blurted it out frankly at
the second interview. But / am very
happy to hear that cried the friend
and confidante Of day, who had ''pick-
ed him up" in the Bots, don't think
those people are my friends. They are
the friends of my wife, and you must
have perceived that Dreyfus is her
lover" He wanted to chase Dreyfus
from the army; and it was then that
the solemn Monsieur Du Breuil made
the remark that has made the name Of
Bodson synonymous with Christian res
ignation: Il attributed this TO his dis
content as a wronged husband, and l
responded: Monsieur Bodson, if they
were to chase out of the French army
every officer who has taken his neigh
boris wife, perhaps there would be a
famous cleaning up of the listsi"
EORUP THEIR GUEST.
The Bodsons ought to be peculiarly
interesting to Americans, because it was
at their reunions-now so famous
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that our own one-time military at
tache to France, the engmatic Captain
Borup, figured-at least in the eyes of
The Information Dependencies a
vague menace to the patrie. Borup
served his country, they say, as
Schwartzkoppen and Panizzardi served
theirs, at risk and peril. When caught
trading forbidden secrets he could not
in honor plead the baby act" and tell
the truth that all the other attaches
were doing the same thing So he ac-
cepted his lot in silence. If this Drey-
fus case will have done no other good,
it will at least have demonstrated the
evil Of transforming honorable soldiers
into spies. And Nine. Bodson still ex-
lists She still receives. And there are
gay times at her Sunday evenings.
Without the revelation of the Drey-
fus case many people would still be ig-
norant of the confidential relations al
ways existing between the Paris police
and the janitors Of Paris apartment
houses-yours or mine-when anything
worth notice goes on in them. Este2
Hays conciege, the woman Gerard,
kept diary in which she wrote down
everything she saw, heard or suspect
ed, all the while maintaining the
friendliest intimacy with her tenants
IN. Oscar WILDE" she writes. is he
whose condemnation occupied public
opinion" 1t is a picture as fin de
sicle as could be imagined that she con-
fides to the judges in her precious
diary. Esterhazy, Strong, Wilde Sher-
ard and Marguerite Quatre-Doights
dining joyously with the Janitor and
his wife in the janitor's back kitchen;
Esterhazy giving Marguerite a dis
eiplinary Gaming" when he tracked her
to a house she ought not to have fire.
quented; Strong mysteriously fitting
back and forth with checks and copy;
and the whole troupe making a fete,of
it when Esterhazy found himself in
funds. The intimacy Of Strong and
Sherard with Wilde dates back to the
old days in the early nineties, when
Wilde made an important literary fig
ure in the capital, the friend Of Catulle
Mendes, the Goneourts and a host Of
notables. 1t was only after his return
to Paris, however. that he seems to
have been introduced 10 Esterhazy and
his strangely nicknamed Marguerite.
Strong and Sherard were still living to-
gether in an apartment opposite the
Church OF st. Vincent de Paul, near the
house Of which Jules Guerin has made
a fortress. AS Strong quarrsled with
Esterhazy and Sherard, and Sherard
with Wilde and Strong, with mutuN
determinations in the Paris press, Mar
guerite Pays turns out TO be the sweet
est tempered person OF the lot. She
has quarreled with no one. She com
plains OF no one.
STERLING HELLO.
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thrile opines this way:

thrile opines this way:
"Pris 'ner," said tn prisiden. fv
tn coprt. tn eyes iy f'r-rance is
upon us, tn honor iv tn nation is
at stake. Tn naytiona. definces,
tn integrity iv that ARMY upon
which France must depind in time
iy peace, tn, virtue iv public life an
tn receipts iv the exposition is in
volved. Incidentally we are hein'
thried. But why dhrag in mat
theirs iv no importance? We ar-re
INSTRUCTED, accordin' to tn pa
apers, be tn Coort iv Cessation to
permit no evidence that does not
apply to your connection with tn
case. AS Sojers we bow TO tn SUI
peryer will; we will follow out tn
instructions iy the Supreme Coort.
We have not had time to Tread
thin, but we will look at thin at
Their tn thrile. In tn manetime.
we will call upon Ginral MERCER,
that gallant man, to tell us tn story
iv his life"
Il obey, mon colonel" says Gin
raj MERCER. kissin' tn CooTt.
Not to begin too far back an to
make long story short, am an
honest man an tn son Nv an honest
man. admit it..
Good says tn president Dye
recognize tn pris'ner2" II do"
says Gin'ral MERCER, Il seen him
wanst dhrinkin' a shell iv Munich
beer in a caafe." marked sensa-
ton in. tn Coort an cries iv
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copyright. 1899. by Robert Howard
RuSsAll.l

s1Copyight. 1882 by Robert Howard
Russell)
TIL scene was tremendously
excitin'. TIL little city iv Rennes
was thronged with des'prit journal
lists that had pledged their for
tunes an their sacred honors an
NANNY iv thin their watches to be
prisint an protect tn public again
thu degradin' facts. Niver since tn
war in Cuba has Sc marry iv these
brave fellows beer gathered to-
s gether at tn risk iv their lives firm
overcrowdin' tn restaurants. No
: wan has liver sufficiently described
. tn turrorS iv a corresponding
life EXCEPT tn correspondents thin
silves Gin'rals an other liars is
rewarded. TIL correspondent gets
no credit No wan will give him
credit. Still he sticks to his post,
an ON this pearlous day he was at
Rennes, fightin' tn other CORY
spondints or, or, if he was an Eng
lish journalist, defndin' tn other
iv Fr-rance, again hersilf. IT'S
good thing for Fr-rance that there
ar-re silf-sacrifcin' men that don't
understand her language to pre-
sint her vicious nature to tn Eng
lish an American public. Other
wise, Hinnessey. she might think
she was as good as tn r-rest iv
us.
Well, while tn sthreets in Rem
mes was packed with these daunt-
less souls ARMED with death-deal-
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a cELEsrIAL 1nKr

The rules Of this club." said The scores
tary. demand that each applicant tell 4
good story before being admHtec'
All right" replied the man who was
going to ride the goat. Here goes. In a
big city two Chinese conducted rival iaun-
dries over one door was Chang; over the
other Ii. One day LII caught Chang read4
ing his laundry tickets through rhe wins
dow. Like a flash he dragged him in.
Now, gentlemen, do you know what hap
pened?'
GIVE It up?"
LII hung Chang" -Chlcarg News.
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Mr. DooIey at Close Quarters With the DreHus Case.
.Rx r.. II. DUNNE.

a brillyant uniform, denotin' tn
prisince iv tn London Times cor
ryspondint. TIL lawn behind tn
coort was thronged with ex-mim-
bers iv tn Fr-rinch COVER mint; tn
gin'ral staff bein' witnesses FIR TIL
prosecution sat with tn coort; tn
pris ner not bein' able to find a
chair sat on tn window sill. His
interest in tn proceedings was much
noticed am caused gr-reat amuse-
ment. Iyrybody was talkin' about
tn mysterious lady in white. Who
is she? Some say she is Dhry-
fussard in tn imploy iv Roths-
cheeld; others says she is Madame
cheeld; others that she is an agent
iv tn Anti-Semites. No wan has
learned her name. She says she is
Madame Lucille Gazahs iv wan
hundred an eight Rue LIE Bonn
bon, an is favorite iv tn Frrinch
stage. She is van iv tn great
MYSTERIES iv this rec markable
thrile.
Afther tn coort had kissed tn
witnesses tn proceedin's opined.
'Tis thrue, they kiss each other.
wanst see a Fr-rinchman go FIR to
kiss a man be tn name iv Doherty
that inthrajooced resolutions in
favor iv Fr-rance again Germany
at a convintion. Doherty thought
he was afther his ear an laid him
out. But in France It's different.
They begin be kissin', an this
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trick from Nine. Labori,'' he explained
at luncheon.
NINE. DREYFUS.
OF Nine. Dreyfus the most that can
be said is that she is utterly unknown.
"A good woman" says the ancient San
scrit proverb, gets her name in the
newspapers only twice-on the occa-
sion of her marriage and her decease. /"
The name of Nine. Dreyfus has been
much in the papers, but it is remark
able how little they have found to say
about her. In spite of the pretensions
of certain women journalists, she never
has given an interview" She has
been accused Of hardness of character.
| do not know on what grounds. Her
great preoccupation-apar from the
rehabilitation of her husband-has been
that her children should be kept in ig-
norance of their disgrace. The little
girl has never doubted. Papa is in a
far-off country serving France. Every
body loves papa. That is why we get
so many letters" But there is reason
to believe that the boy-a morose little
fellow-has long had a vague idea of
something different. Both children had
the habit of inquiring. Where is papa
now?" And the sad mother would
gather courage to concoct pious false
hoods. One day the boy ceased asking
Where is papa?" 1t was bitter day
for Nine. Dreyfu5.
The victims of the "affaire" are Of
both sides. Indeed, the saddest case is
that of Nine. Henry, the doubly be-
reaved widow of Dreyfus's unscrupu-
lous enemy. Sorrow drove her far
from common sense; her husbands
memory drove her far from truth, and
the interested counsels of the generals
drove her to Rennes to make a painful
exhibition OF her unhappy state.
Doubtless she imagined that the pic
ture of those home evenings would
impress the judges and the public.
How Henry would bring confidential
papers from the Ministry of War ito
work on after dinner" while she sat
peaceably beside him. He spread out
the little pieces of paper on the centre
table, "reconstructing" letters by
means of narrow little strips of gum
med paper. How Henry entered her
bed room Every late" that night, the
famous bordereau in his hands, and
how he put it in his hat so as not to
forget it." Yet with each detail the
unhappy Nine. Henry was driving an
other nail into the structure Of her
husbands shame. The work" that he
brought home to do around the cheer
full lamp was forgery. The pretended
confidence of her husband that his most
famous forgery was only recon
struction of verbal evidence"-if true
would make her an accomplice, for she
never saw the wretched man after his
arrest. The audience blushed with pain
as she went on innocently running her
deposition with these terrible details.
Nine. Henry to-day is far on the road