The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-05
CROOKS ARE WORKING MEMBERS French Rural Legislators Need
 Body Guards B0USSION LOSES VOTE Does Not Show Proper Respect For Solemn Act of Voting-Modern-
 ism Is Said To Worry
 Pope Plus.
BY PAUL VILLIERs.

BY PAUL VlLLIERS.
 Paris, April 4-(Special) 1.-The Paris papers are having great fun at the ex- pense of number of members of the chamber who have been victimized by clever confidence swindlers and suggest the advisability of giving each rural or provincial legislator a special body guard
 to protect him against the viles of Paris
 crooks of both sexes.
 Women have been used to work upon ! the sympathies of the deputies who are
 to protect him against the wiles of Paris smaller amounts
 The scheme was worked in this man.
 ner:
 About lunch time Q lady calls at the deputy's house, having previously been coached with certain information regard ing the deputy's constituency. She gives herself out as the wife of one of the most influential electors who has come to Paris
 with her little boy for an operation. The doctors fee has taken the whole of the $15O with which she had provided herself and requests the loan of a sum varying from s10 to $40. Her husband, the
 influential elector, will return the money directly she reaches home. Some 50 deputies have been victimized. Among the band are two well-dressed
 young men, "nephews of a distinguished
 H.
 in the train"
 Because he did not show proper re-
 spect for the solemn act of voting at the election of member of the chamber NJ. Boussion was deprived of his vote. The mayor of Lacove, M. DesclauX, who
 was guarding the urn in which the bal
 lots were deposited refused to accept
 his ballot because he entered with his
 head covered and cigar between his i lips.
 i "Go back outside, take off your hat, throw away your cigar and leave your i cane in the hall" the mayor said, then i you may vote.'
 M Boussion did go outside but he did not return. He began suit against the
 mayor for depriving him of his rights l as French citizen.
 | Yesterday the court of appeals at Tou- 1 louse fined the mayor for abusing his l authority and ordered him to pay 100 | francs damage to the complaining voter. "Worry and the tendency of Catholics l towards modernism are slowly but sure i ly ruining the once robust constitution ] of Pope Pius,' says the physician of his l holiness, according to an Italian paper | sThe prosecutions to which the church | has to submit in France, Italy and Spain
 are a source of grief to the holy father but he does not think that the acts or ! deeds or men cdn ueStroy dL hiotieueioii | of Divine origin. It is the insidious poison of modernism he fears, because he sees that even the clergy are becoming af- l fected by it.
 I It is the fear of modernism spreading | euong the bishops and priests which 1 will kill Pope Plus and neither gout nor | the ordinary ailments of high age. The police of France and Monaco ara looking for a young Belgian, M. Pai, who has robbed an aristocratic Russian lady of 230,000 fires and who. it is thought, is trying to reach America in company with a Parisian actress. A couple of weeks ago an aristocratic looking young couple arrived at the Pal ace hotel at Milan. They travelled Tn great style with many servants engaged a whole floor and seemed very devoted 70 each other.
 Every night the man turned over to the proprietor of the hotel and his "wife's
 diamonds and other jewelry and he al ways kept large amount of cash in the safe.
 The other day he told his wife in the morning that he had an appointment with a friend and left the hotel, taking
 with him a portfolio containing 2S0OOO fires and all the jewelry which the clerk turned over to him as usual.
 When he did not return his bride" be- came suspicious and when she found that he had carried off all her valuables, she sent for the police, whom sne told that her name was Zavina Wolpola, that she was unmarried and that she had met M Pal in Switzerland short time be- fore, had fallen in love, and upon the strength of his promise Of marriage had trusted him with everything she pos sessed.
 When shown a portrait of M. Pal, the police recognized well krown swndler i of international fame, who was known to have a love affair With Partisan actress, seen at Monte Carlo until few days ago, but she has now disappeared
 It is thought that the couple have taken a steamer from Marseilles or Genoa, but no clues have been found.
 The latest method of treating cancer [ is that D.. Piquoir, who has described it in a paper read before the Biological society. Not only cancer, but tubercuio- sis and other diseases may be treated bv Ir. Riquoir's method, which Is based on rev combinations of drugs used in in- Jectons. It is believed that Dr. Riquoir experiments mark an enormous advan.o towards the final triumph over tuber- culosis and cancer.