The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-03
ART EXHIBIT IS
 PUT IN ORDER Pictures That Might Offend Carefully Removed BURGLARS STEAL ENGINE Only Fire Machine in Small French Town Is Lost and the People
 Mourn-Had Only Been
 Bought Few Days.
BURGLARS STEAL ENGINE
BY PAUL VILLlERS.

Paris, May 2.-To avoid giving any of
 fense to the many subjects of the Kaiser
 who visit the annual exhibition of paint ings and drawings of the National Socle-
 ty of Beaux-Arts the police have had to
 remove from the Salon several brutal
 caricature of the German Emperor.
 The most conspicuous among these was
 a painting of Jean Weber, which repre-
 sented the Kaiser at the automobile races held last year in the Thaunus. The pie lure showed the Kaiser leaving his pri- vate box on his way to his auto laughing in a way which surpasses any of the snapshots ever taken of President Roose- velt The drawing was at the same time exceedingly funny and exceedingly ma 1 licious.
 1 Also other paintings were removed from | the Salon for political reasons, among 1 these a large painting by Renouard l showing the Dreyfus trial at Rennes The l painting showed Count Esterhazy car- l rying in his arms the wooden body of l Colonel Henry. The Count looked more ] like a ghost than a human being, and even less hattering was the portrait of Mercier who looked on with a smile of approval
 | The reason this painting was removed l was because the authorities feared that | the champions of the army might make | a disturbance. But to even up matters ! and not hurt the feelings of the believers in Dreyfus large silver medallion by Boiler, with an excellent, though some- what idealized likeness of General Mer- cier was also taken away.
 The people of the late town of Marnes- la- -Coquette, in the southern part of France, are mourning the loss of their .sat, rl Ftfrlaf
 a few weeks ago and which was carried
 away by burglars A few nights ago the , solitary guardian of the peace of the town at midnight discovered that the
 gate of the firehouse was open and when
 he looked inside he noticed that the en- zine was gone. Arousing the whole town he began a search for the stolen fire ex- | tinguisher, and towards morning the remnants of it were found in a wood
 near the town. All that was left, by the way were the wooden wheels from which 1 even the brass hubs had been removed. l The town people are now praying that l no fire will break out until they have | been able to reconstruct the engine on | the basis of the four remaining wheels.
 That an Italian goaded by the spirit I of vendetta fears nothing is proven by
 story which comes from Rome. 1 Towards midnight on Thursday a young man appeared outside one of the large
 Roman hospitals conducted by the au- l thorites of the Vatican, and demanded l admittance.
 | When the doorkeeper tried to keep him 1 out he threatened him with a stilletto. l and after tieing his hands and feet he 1 went inside.
 Terrifying all the nurses whom he met he walked through all the wards of the hospital brandshing his stilletto and ex-
 amining all the patients.
 First when he had found out that the
 man whom he wanted to kill was not among the patients he left promising to | repeat his visit. In the meantime one of the nurses had called up the police and policeman succeeded in arresting the man after a fight in which he was nearly
 killed.
 In court the would-be revenger declared
 that he would not care what punishment he got and that he would never rest until
 he had found and killed his victim.
 A strange discovery has been made in
 the town of Paradelha on the coast of
 Portugal.
 A few days ago during heavy wind
 storm a part of the cliff upon which the
 town is built was washed away by the
 waves, and the next morning the people
 were surprised to see that a great treas
 ury, evidently used by pirates, had been
 revealed.
 In a cave was found a great many
 very old gold and silver coins, jewelry,
 ings, sacred vessels etc Immedatel:-
 every man in town started to work to did for more treasures, and gold coins amounting to 40,000 ranks have been found