The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-01-13
GENERAL PIQUART SHOWS
 MAGNANIMITY TO ENEMIES
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 fspecial Cable to The Advertiser by Henri Dubois.--Copyright 1907 by the International Press
 Syndicate.)
 | Paris. Jan l2.-France's new Minis l ter of War, General Piquart. is show ing great magnanimity towards those officers who were his enemies in the Affairs Dreyfuss and whose military ca- reers it is now in his power to make | or to mar.
 when only a Lieutenant Colonel. l General Picquart became a victim of l the anti-Dreyfussards and in 1898 he l was ordered discharged from the army l by commission of inquiry. among l whose members was Brigadier General Andre who voted against him.
 This same Brigadier General has now l been promoted to the rank of full Gen. | eral by the man he condemned to dis grace nine years ago. but who has now come into power and restored to honor
 by the ultimate triumph of justice. | -
 Mime. Yvette Guilbert has addressed a 1 sensational letter to a Paris paper in which she accuses the people of this l city of being fickle and heartless and incidentally praises the intelligence and | loyalty of American audiences which l she says are above any in the world. | theatrical people. that they can never ibe sure of living, that real talent and l hard work count for nothing, that an \ artists life 10 dependent upon popular fancy and this hardly ever lasts more l than a season. She says that it is only
 in foreign countries that real talent meets with its just valuation, that Pa- 1 ris is a vampire which sucks the young blood of genius and leaves 1t by the | wayside to perish.
 Paris plays with her stage favorites and has soon destroyed them. When
 Paris produces a. genius, she soon ! smothers it."
 | The cemeteries of the city are filled | with the corpses of the children of
 the footlights who have died from neg | lect and desertion.
 Personally Yvette Guilbert absolutely refuses to appear again upon a French I stage except under very exceptional
 circumstances, for she says: If they can get me whenever they want me
 they will soon cast me aside and want to avoid the fate of many who have
 been greater than l."
 fierce jealousy exists in the Amer
 ican colony here between the titled danes who hailed originally from the who has no pretention to title and is continually entertaining in lavish style all sorts of grand personages. I A list of the Mckee dinner guests | generally numbers at least one person l of royal blood, not to mention dukes and marauises and princes in plenty. At a reception given the other day
 in honor of Infanta Isabella of Spain, | Mrs. Mckee received Primo Ali, son
 of Infanta Isabella, the Duke de Mont l pensier, brother of the pretender to the French throne, Princess Oursoff,
 and large number of other fashion
 able aristocrats.
 Italy is losing many of her priceless I art trasuros by systematic thefts from
 the leading collections. One of the latest | is the theft of a beautiful Madonna in bas relief by Della Dobbia. which has | been stolen from a palace in Florence l Statistics show that in recent years l hfty-seven works of art have been
 while such robberies have been equally
 numerous in Tuscany.
 | The law against the export of works | of art, and the high prices which may
 be obtained from rich American collec-
 tors, appear to be the chief causes of this system of pillage.
 Unhappily for Italy, all Americans
 into whose hands the stolen treasures
 fall are not as generous as Mir. Pier 1 pont Morgan and very few of the sto- l len articles are ever recovered. An irreparable loss to Italy and the | musical world has just been reported. the only known manuscript of Pales- | trina the great composer of the six teenth century having disappeared. 1t is | said. from the Lateran Museum. The ru- nor has not been confirmed br denied,
 though similar one was quickly sup pressed three years ago.
 The precious manuscript was kept in a special case placed in room to which there are three keys, each in the possession of a different official. AR a unique relic of Italy's geratest com poser of sacred music, It's value was inestimable. though, according to the rumor, 1t has been sold out of the coun- try for $60,000.
 The manuscript which contained the words and music of the '1mproperia" and Good Friday anthem was marked "Pars mea" (my part) indicating that 1t was the composers own copy from which he conducted its performance.
 Professor Pickemann, a well known mesmerist in this city, has been cre-N ating a sensation operating remarkable cures by means of suggestion on peo- pie who have acquired the confirmed habit of late hours. Among the pro- teSSorS most interesting cures IS that of Baron Outilleuil, who used to rise only at noon and never go to bed be- fore 2 o'clock in the morning.
 Now. at II o'clock, wherever he may. he. at the theatre. a reception or else- where, the Baron is overcome by sleep mess and Is obliged to go home and go to bed. On the other hand he cannot sleep a wink after o'clock in the morning.
 It is a mistake to abolish the death | penalty says Abbe valadier, who. as | chaplain of La Petite Roquette Prison | in this city, has witnessed every exc | cution in Paris for the past ten years. |
 When I interviewed the Abbe the | other day he said that the guillotine | should be maintained as a healthy de- | terrent to the would-be assassin. "One | prisoner" he said, ''who often served | mass for me- asked me if 1t was true that the guillotme was to be abolished. If 1t were he said, should no long, CT hesitate to kill my enemy
 Another man, fin dispute with Q fellow prisoner, said, If 1t were not for the Monsieur de Paris" I should | know how to do away with you
 "Only the fear of capital punish- ment can keep certain criminals within bounds
 The sad story of the ruin of prince-