The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-19
YOUNG MANUEL MAY BE A DOOMED MAN Portuguese People Lean to Re-
 publicaniSm YOUNG KING IS FITTED Old Historic Landmark of Paris to Be Torn Down-Home of Doctor
 Who Assisted to Defraud
 the Government.
YOUNG KING IS FITTED
BY PAUL VlLLlERS.

Paris, April 1S.-Paris papers prophecy that before long another monarch in ex- ile" will be added to the long list of mod ern rulers whose people have seen fit to dispense with their services.
 No one believes that young Manuel will remain king of Portugal and that if he is not assassInated, as were his father and brother, he will soon be driven out of the country. The majority of the Portug uese people sincerely pity their boy king, but the trend is towards republication, not only among the working classes, but also among the more wealthy and educated.
 Hardly a day passes that the Lisbon papers do not publish long lists of emi- nent lawyers, doctors and financiers who have openly come out in favor of a repub- lie and advocate a quiet revolution-that is to say, they want the king to abdicate and leave the country in return for a pen sion for life.
 The only ones who earnestly support the monarchy are the priests, who blindly obey the orders of the Vatican, but their power is rapidly vanishing.
 The Pope's letter to Queen Amelia which in some mysterious way became known, and in which he advises against all leniency towards political offenders, has donef the cause of royalism more
 
 guese, although good Catholics, are a proud people, who will not allow them- selves to be dictated to in national af- fairs, not even by the Pope
 King Manuel himself is by no means stuck on his position as head of a people who do not want him, and would prob ably be willing to resign if he could do so with honor.
 An old house on the corner of Rue Mont fnartre and Boulevard Foissoniere is being torn down which has played a strange part in the history of old Paris
 In this house lived for years an old doctor with a very strange clientele. He was known as the manufacturer of old soldiers and to him came all criminals who having been sentenced to long terms in the bagnoes, had succeeded in making their escape. All these men were branded on their shoulder with the letters "T. F.' (travaille forcee) and the business of ths doctor was to remove these marks.
 This he did by making the scar look like an old bullet wound, and to make the fraud more effective the men were wound ed in the other shoulder with cavalry sword.
 Thus the escaped criminals posed as war veterans for the doctor also supplied them with papers which even enabled some of them to get government pensions. The police were well aware of the prac- tice of the old doctor, but not once did they succeed in getting sufficient proof against him. Now that he hSs died, leav- ing a considerable fortune the old house is to give way to d modern building. M. Lepine, the chief of the Paris police, is not to resign after all. He will remain on his post until he drops, although he knows that the duties of his office are killing him.
 l had a talk with him a few days ago, and when left him l understood that no man living could properly fulfill the ardu- ous duties of his office.
 q rise at 5, summer or winter,'' he said "and before breakfast 1 carefully read every morning paper. At 6:30 l give out the orders for the day to high police off cials From 7:15 to S:30 l make tour of the outside boulevards on my bicycle to see that my men are doing their duty From S:30 to 10 l read official letters and documents making marginal notes on each.
 'At 10 the audiences begin and for two hours I listen to the complains of people, most of them of a trivial and Irritating nature. After that 1 rush in my auto from one hospital to the other to have a talk with those of my men wounded by apaches during the previous night and there are always quite number of these. About o'clock I get chance to swal- low bite of lunch; then have to put on uniform to escort some royal or p1incely visitor and look after his safety. My afternoons are spent rushing from one po lice station to the other when l am not receiving the confidential reports of se- cret service men or attending to import ant correspondence with police chiefs of other cities. Very often I do not get dn- ner until 10, and then when l am lucky am able to get to bed an hour or two later.
 Prom the hour when I retire until 5 in the morning I have given orders not to disturb me except when absolutely nec- essary.
 with seven working days like this do you wonder that l sometimes feel like giving up the positon?'