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When Theater-Goers Smoke.
From the philadelphia Record.

From the Phlladelph1a hecofu.
You wouldn't suppose on the first
thought that there is any connection be-
tween the state of the drama and the re-
tail tobacco trade" says man who runs
a cigar store close to one of the down.
town theaters. but there is such con-
nection, and it Is close one. On any
night when the theater has a musical
comedy show or anything of that kind
get twice the business do when the
performance is comedy drama or trag-
edy. Now that have pointed the thing
out you see the reason for it, of course
The lighter FORMS Of entertainment in
which the good-looking chorus girls are
a feature are attended largely by men
who go by themselves. They go out be-
tween the acts in crowds, and during the
play and after 1T is over my business is
good. But with the other kind of show,
even though the house be crowded, the
bulk of the audience consists of couples
Men take their wives or their sweet
hearts, and, as general rule, sit still be-
tween the acts to discuss the play The
difference Is so marked in my business
and the fact is so well established that
make it a rule to know the coming shows
as long beforehand as possible and gov
ern the kind and amount of stock 1 have
on hand accordingly. The theater natu-
rally runs largely to cigarettes"
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opened and the master Of the house greeted
him.
ITS a perfect blizzard outside" he said
at is a good thing for you that you came
our way. There isn't another house for
miles around
There was something sinister in the way
he mentioned the fact of their isolation.
1t was as If he wished Halliweli to under
sand that though he had accepted the hos
pitaltty Of the red cottage. he was ut
the mercy of its master.
As they talked Of hunting and similar
things Halliwell noted the ease of his host.
His manner was that of a man of the
world His clothes were suitable to noun
tain life, but bore the hallmark of a city
tailor. He was witty. polished, debonair
but his eyes were too close together, and
his chin was weak.
When they went into the other room the
baby was nowhere to be seen, but the girl
bent over chafng dish on a table drawn
into the center Of the room and a pot OF
coffee steamed on the oil stove
II know you are starved Mr." she
said. and paused for his name
Harvey Halliwell of Hallwell & HALL
well, New York, attorneys at law"
In the sudden breathless pause that fol-
lowed the announcement It seemed TO Halli-
well that the man and the woman exehang-
ed a glance of fear, but before he could be
sure they We're presenting themselves gaily,
MIR. and Mrs. Duval of Nowhere, aristo-
Gratis by birth, vagabonds by inclination
and at your service"
After supper the two men smoked and
Mrs. Duval set the room In order. Later
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1t has stopped showing" he reported
stamping his feet on-the threshold land
there is beautiful moon.'
Through the open door they could look
out upon half-lighted world. where tall
trees showed black against a steel-gray
sky: and where the silence was broken only
by the occasional howl of some half-fam-
ished wild thing, stealing spirit-like across
the trackIess waste of snow.
Then all at once through the stiffness
came bell-like baying
1T is my hound Cerberusv' cried Halli-
fore he could reach it Duval Shut 1t and
stood with his back to It.
NO" he said easily. I'm sorry, Mr.
Halliwell, but l don't want your dog to
find you. He might show others the way"
You can't stop him." said Halliwell
with his eyes alight. He'd follow me to-
Hades."
But Duval stepped forward and reached
for his gun, which stood in the corner.
He will precede you to the happy hunt
ing grounds. l am afraid he said coolly
"If he interferes with my plans for you."
What plans?"
ITO keep you here, until I am ready to
leave-you see l am hospitable."
The girl stood with the babe held close to
her breast, her eyes luminous.
Suddenly she spoke. Don't hurt his dog,
Jerome" she said. Don't hurt his dog
Take the child upstairs" he ordered. 81
can manage this without you.''
Into her face came defiance "Oh, you
cannot" she said You have needed me
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The Poor Of Paris.
rom the London Chronicle.

the LOnuOn ChfUHlcIe
Depression reigns in Paris, owing to the
poor men in society who have to make pres
ents to the rich at the New Year. Says one
unfortunate: For two months after New
Year day / hesitate to buy a pair of
gloves or take a cab when it rains. Cigars
are forbidden luxuries and at home l smoke
pipe. What has become Of my money?
1t has been spent on flowers and bonbons
for the wealthy hostesses whose invitations
accept. And they are not amusing, those
dinners! Observe that am invited by these
ladies solely because they know shall have
to send them presents: and when their
salons look like the sweetstuff shops or the
florists. they have to give most OF the
things away and run the risk of letting the
donor recognize his gift in another hoHseY'
Truly, Partisan society Is very complex.
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.PR[FECT OF POLICE
In Paris He's a Man of Varied
Duties.
TERROR OF THE MOB
A POSITION THAT CALLS FOR IN
FINITE TACT.
M Lepine is Most RauarL a hlo Par
TERROR OF THE MOB
M. Lepine is a Most Remarkable Per
son-His Autocratic Powers-A
Big Force Under Him.

Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
PARIS, January 4, 1905
All Paris has been amused by the way in
which the Queen of Portugal called down
Monsieur Lepine, project of police.
1t happened at the Salon de rAutomobile,
on a high-priced day when scarcely 100000
people were present Thanks to NJ. Lepine
she was not hustled off her feet and suffo-
Gated like thousand other ladies; yet she
said to him impatiently:
Monsieur, less zeal, beg-we are not in
the habit of being surrounded by police!'
So spoke the Queen of Portugal, habit
uated to shopping unaccompanied in the
streets of Lisbon; but some say she ought
to have remembered she is also a princess
OF Orleans, whose brother Philippe, the
pretender to the throne of France, was in
continently arrested and hustled across the
frontier the last time he visited his native
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the Condorcet Lycee made dspara ging OBJ
servatfons on Joan Of Arc. Now. although
Joan has been dead 900 years, she is one
of the great herotnes OF France. The thing
angered the generous minded PATRIOTS
boys, and the tendency aroused their par
ents as many more aggressive If less pic
turesque examples of it had not done That
evening the history professor was Missed. =,
The next morning he was hooted.
That same evening all the boys of that
particular lycee marched en- ''monome" to
lay vioiets at the foot Of the Joan of Arc
statue of the Rue de Rivoli. The Paris
papers were full Of the affair. Parents
We're scolding. And from ell the different
lycees of Paris came news of ''monomes'
that would march to the statue with flow
ers and bowling.
When Tact Was Needed.
What was NJ. I-epine to do? The boys
were the hope of Paris. the sons of the best
citizens. To bar their route by the police
might lead to real riots in riot-loving
Paris. To let the police arrest or mishan-
die them would make martyrs of them. and
who could know where 1t might not end?
So the wise, white-faced, haggard little man
took care not to bring out his big stick
Auto-blcycIe scouts and the telephone kept
him Informed of the movements of the va:i-
Gus troops of boys. They were all march
ing to the statue sure They all got there.
yes. But no group ever got there at the
same time with another
Like an expert checker player, who knows
how to block a game without exchang-
ing men, NJ. Lepine would bar one bridge
and let them take another: now and then
at corners they would be stopped for ten
minutes-"not to trouble the circulation
and here and there they would find street
barred in a way that would force them 10
make a long detour. They never knew that
they We're being led!
Other children know well that they are
being led by NJ. Lepine. These are the or
phans and children of superannuated po-
licemen, the beneficiaries of the work that
L have already mentioned How it looks
after them would make q story by itself.
1t will be enough to tell how NJ. Lepine,
Christmas day. found time TO make an adj
dress to their guardians and nearest rela-
tives, met together in the Professional
School for the Christmas distribution Of
toys. Then NJ. Lepine surprised them all.
On the table before him he displayed a pile
of savings bank books. There was a bank
book for each policeman's orphan, with
the first deposit made already-out of the
pocket of the project of police of Paris.
STERLING HELLO.
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land In Paris, with the king, she was the
guest of the republic. Every time high
ness comes to the gay capital NJ. Lepfne
has the dread responsibility of keeping
cranks from firing on them, as on the
schah in the Champs Elysees and on Ed
ward VII in Brussels or from stabbing
them, as In the case or President Carnot
and the late King of Italy. There is also
the possibility of an accident, greatly mag
nified when highnesses insist on mingling
on foot in a crowd of 100000 persons.
At the automobile show l saw the royal
party twice The crowd would surge You
would see advancing policemen pushing
people wildly to the sides. Then, surround
ed by more police TO keep the space clear,
the royal party would advance, led-like
Cooks tourists-by a terribly excited white
faced little man with wild eyes.
1t was NJ. Lepine, and among his aids
were a number of hard-looking citizens in
black frock coats and dyed mustaches,
policiers, plain-clothes men the world over.
Did Marie Emile desire to stop at the
Hotchkiss stand, the unhappy Lepine
would fiutter like an overweight hen,
shoong his brood of policemen all around
1t. The well-dreSSed crowd would be thrust
back ruthlessly, women screaming. When
the queen accepted a souvenir pin from
young Mr.. Pool of the OldSmoDile stand,
two ladies were so hustled that they faint
ed. 1t was at this moment that her high
ness protested at the havoc she was inno-
nay1 t1y ci,1cr
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measures. ] was lately in a grocery
store. In walked three gentlemen in high
silk hats and frock coats. They said a
few words to the proprietor. and at once
began in the most busineSs-like manner
trying all the weights and measures in the
shop. They compared the weights with
standard weights from their pockets; anu
the measures of capacity they tested by
weight-the metric system being thus beau
TRULY interchangeable. 1t was over in a
quarter of an hour. Was the inspection
satisfactory? No one could know. The
inspectors only make a report
Again, there is a milk-and eeg-and-cheese
shop at our corner. A week ago we were
astonished to see pasted at IT'S door a no.
tice that this dealer had been convicted
and fined for selling watered milk. The
unhappy. fellow has to leave the notice
there for a month for every one TO read,
A Personal Experience.
Under the heading of "the press once
came personally. \ polite letter invited NE
to the second section of the first bureau OF
= the projects private office.
There a perfect gentleman received me.
He verified my passport and certificate of
residence. Then he asked: what kind of
newspaper work do YOU do?''
L answered: advertising Paris" and |
think | spoke truly. Anyway, he laughed.
Then / pointed to lot of clippings OF my
articles from American newspapers that
1 saw lying on his desk. You ought to
know | said. He answered that he knew
AS he let me go, very kindly and politely, 1
imagined l was called up in routine, along
with the others. Some of them have since
crossed the frontier.
Paris is a great city. and its citizens are
eXcitable and noisy. They are as used to
being governed Americans are used to
not being governed, and they would feel as
loose and queer without IL as lady with
out her corset. They need a determined
man, with vast power. TO keep them
straight. and they have certainly found him
in NJ. Lepine.
See how he handled the rioting high school
boys. If they had been allowed to go too
far. on. the one hand. or IL they had been
too abruptly checked, on the other, serious
political troubles might have resulted.
In class one day tie history professor Of
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which NJ. Lepine mana ged to avoid them.
Since that date he has been continuously
project of police of Paris, and his great
particular work has been the making over
Of the administrative regulation relating
to The circulation of Paris-made compli-
Gated by the conflicting rights and interests
attaching to old and new means of trans
portation, the beauty of the capital. the au-
tomobile problem and the constantly in
creasing congestion of the Paris street. He
is also the author of a vast Repertoire Of
Police whose publication took place be-
tween 1896 and 1899
One might almost call NJ. Lepine the ''po-
lice governor" of Paris. The work of his
private office'-which occupies dozen big
rooms-includes a minute surveillance of
the Paris and even the foreign press: work
fngmen's and other associations bdnquets,
lectures, secret societies, plots and the Sc
curity of the presilent-not to speak of
general and social clubs and societies, book
publishing and bill posting. You can get
into trouble by posting the wrong kind of
a placard in Paris.
You understand that this is all enormous
ly the work of clerks, copying private in
formation all day in big books NJ. Leplne's
first division keeps a steady watch over
expelled Frenchmen and foreigners. the
residence of other foreigners, the working
of intelligence offices. shooting and fishing
permits, private asylums, hospitals and
water-cure places, and the health and mo-
rality of wet nurses offered for employ
ment. His second division-to name only
the more picturesque headS-occupies itself
with the inspection of markets and horse
sales, the inspection of weights and meas
ures, the railway and building police. the
healthfulness of hotels and furnished rooms,
the keeping of the sidewalk clear of mer-
chandise, the cab service. the pharmacy and
midwife police, the Justification of food
products, and the functioning Of all steam
engines and gas and electric motors.
Many Under Him.
Ali this is outside of the municipal po-
lice proper, whose force amounts to some
12CC0 men. reinforcable a will by the foot
and mounted Republican Guard. 50 respect
ed and even beloved by the Paris people,
and even troops from the regular army
on requistion to the military governor OF
Paris. Even the hunting of the wanted
has special director, who has under him
three brigades of plain-clothes men AMI
whose entire force numbers 1000 men and
officers The police de moeurS-a deli
cate thing to speak of-emp loys $50 plain
clothes men and occupies twenty-four' doc
tors, who spend all their time Inspecting
Indeed, mere list of the doctors in M
Lepine's employ fills a page and half of
his police repertory.
Take the mere rubric of weights and
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may be judged by the addition of the word
An Actual Governor.

An Actual Governor.
In 1891 he became plain project of the
Loire; in 1893 project OF tie Seine-et-Oise,
and, later in the same year, project of po-
lice of Paris. In his interchanging from
department project to project of police one
clearly perceives the European idea of
governor-one who governs. To get away
from 1t you have to go down to the print
tive French unity of the communicated
even there you will find every citizen ready
to run to the mayor of it, as a child to its
mother, on the first threat of difficulty of
no matter what description.
Succeeding as project of police of Paris
to LoZe, Lepine became known at once to
the Parisians for his activity and firmness
AS has been said, he reconciled the munich
pality with his department, and at the same
time he ruthlessly crushed out anarchy, at
that moment strong in Paris. In the pre-
lecture of police itself he brought about
many important reforms, among others the
organization of the policemen's orphans
work, with its professional school, which
he set up in the police barracks of the
Cite. In a word he worked so hard that
in 1897 his health broke down, and the
government. to reward him, made him gov
ernor general of Algiers.
Here NJ. Lepine found himself in posi-
ton of great dignity, which remained only
with himself to make one of luxury and
ease The activity of the man threw him
at once, however. into a vast scheme of
public works. Then came troubles with the
natives and practical political disturbances
in the big cities of the colony. Governor
General Lepine was for maintaining order
at no matter what price: whereupon he be-
came the object of attacks which. in July,
1893. forced him to resign.
With the Big Stick
He was needed in Paris-tllis little man
with the big stick. The Dreyfus affair
with its riotng and violent possibilities, was
more threa tening than ever: so that when
he was again appointed project of police,
in 1899, the business men of the capital
breathed a sigh of relief. Again and again
Paris was on the verge of grave troubles,
and few will ever know the thousand and
one wise ruses and diplomatic acts by
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A Very Important Man.

The only effect of her protest was to
cause the worthy project of police to feel
misunderstood. He had received the king
and queen as a sacred deposit on their ar
rival at Paris; and he heaved a sigh of re-
lief when they were at last off his hands.
Here is a chief of police whose dignity and
responsibilities resemble nothing in
America
NJ Lepine is more important than cabi-
net minister. He is appointed directly by
the president and he is no more answer
able to parliament than to the Paris mu-
nicipalty-which, indeed, pays him and his
force but whose right to inquire into his
administration as mythical mayor of
Paris has long been Pigment of history.
Cabinet officers must resign on a hostile
vote of the deputies; and it is possible that
their united opposition might cause
French president to thank" a project of
police of Paris; but 1t would take long
and it has never happened. On the other
hand it was NJ. Lepine who, succeeding to
Loze in 1898, reconciled The municipal
council with the prefecture, their relations
having been broken, to the complete dis
comfiture of the municipal council.
If, has been said of the Paris police
commissary, he Is 1.-The father of his divis-
ion" NJ Lepine may be called the dread
grandfather of the whole capital. The
Paris mob knows him as it does not know
the president; and the exclamation:
sturdiest. He is little man with big
stick.
An Exceptional Position.
I would emphasize the dignity and i'm
portance of his position. He is not a mu-
nicdpal officer. He is functionary of the
general government in an exceptional po-
sition which he has attained by successive
promotions in a vast Interviewing national
administration"
He is a gentleman, a scholar, and brother
to a great medical luminary, Prof. Raphael
Lepine, of the faculty Of Lyons. and editor
of the Revue de Medicine. 1t is a family
of what was called in other days "noblesse
de robe" descending from generations of
lawyers. doctors and government func-
tionaries.
Indeed, the proper name for Louis Lepine,
present project of police of Paris. is "ad-
ministrator.' He was born at Lyons in
1885, went through the university and final
ly became a full-aedged "avocat'-which is
to mere "avoue'' what the English ''barris-
ter is to the simple solicitor" He entered
''the administration in 1877 as subprefect-
but not of police, take notice; and he be-
came full project {of the Indre) in 1885. A
project is kind Of governor-admfnistrato
Of department, In dignity equal and in
responsibilities more than equal to the
governor Of one of our states
In 1SS8-mounting in grade always-he
was named secretary-general to the project
Of police of Paris, something very different
from the plain project of a department, as
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-05-26
Application For Pardon.

As will be seen by reference to
the advertising columns of the
CITIZEN application has been
made to Governor Warfeld for
the pardon of Mr.. Charles Miller,
who is now confined in the Mary
land Penitentiary under sentence
from the Circuit Court for this
county, for the killing of a negro
boy named Roy Brown, at a camp
meeting held in MERGERS Grove,
near Braddock, about seven years
ago.
The Governor will take up the
matter for final action on the
3lst inst. His pardon was rec
commended by all three Judges of
our court, the States Attorney,
aud all the available jurors who
sat in the case, and besides the
petition is signed by the very best
citizens of this city and of Mid
dletown Valley, where both
Miller and Brown resided.
A very strong case has been
made out before the Governor,
who will, no doubt, crafty the
popular feeling in regard to the
case by granting the pardon
unless some good reason is shown
to the contrary.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-05-26
Frederick City Hospital Re
port.

The seventh annual report of
the superintendent of the Fred
erick City Hospital, just issued
from the CITIZEN press, shows
that 1873 patients were treated
during the past year. Of these
100 were discharged in good con-
dition, while of the 8 deaths, 5
were surgical and 3 medical
deaths. Seventy-six OPP, rations
were performed. of which SO were
cured. The free patients during
the year numbered 80, reduced
rate patients II and pay patients
81. Five free beds are constantly
maintained at the hospital and
are always at the disposal of the
deserving poor. In addition to
this reduction is made in worthy
cases, while all ward patients
receive drugs and the use of the
operating room free of charge
Several churches also hold funds
for the maintenance of free beds
and the guild supports one free
bed.
The Frederick City Hospital
Guild was organized January,
1905. Its aim, primarily, is to
materially aid the Board of Man
ayers by interesting those who
are not on the boards member
ship in the hospital work. It's
immediate end is to maintain one
free bed at the hospital con-
stantly and to provide linens and
other necessary domestic equip
ments. At present the organiza-
ton numbers 100 members.
The receipts for the year to
April l, 1905, were $9,4lO. the
expenditures &c. 76 and the bal
ance on hand 80, 533.