The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-26
WEI Esfnbish School
 To Teach Shop Girls

postcard received. which was consider- ed to be remarkably lenient treatment. As the actors circle of acQuaintAnces Is very large and he sent the offend- Ing postcards to almost everypody Ee knew. the revenue has netted out or his friends somsthing near e12s.
 As result of exhaustive Inquiries which have been conducted by the nil- itary authorities in conjunctton with detectives belonging to the Criminal investigation Department, tt 10 assum- ed that the corporal of the lQSsh Line Regiment who deserted recentiy and carried on with him machine gun from the chanzy barracks at Chalons Is now at Strassburg. Little hope of recovering the gun is entertained. The loss Is deplored all the more because although the sighting apparatus ap- pears to have been overlooked and left behind by the thief the theft of the breech and barrek involves the dis closure of the secret of the improved mechanism for cooling the barrel. Ac- eording to telegrams from Chalons, the authorities are actively engaged in tracing the traitors accomplices. The eorporaPs mistress has been arrest ed.
 Important Documents Taken.
 In some quarters the reported theft of documents relating to mobilization LIOul bnt hcnQQuAIE6IS HL Sl6iQuBA la denied. On the other hand 1t is stated that the safe of. the sth Battalion of Chasseurs. who are quartered Tn the citadel of Amiens. has Oeen rifie and that the latest mobilization plans. to- gether with 6 sum of $500 which 1t contained, are missing. To add to this extraordinary series of disquieting in- cidents news has been received from Versailles that an electric detonatcr (exploseur, has disappeared from the general stan officers st the fort of Saint Cyr. in which 1t was kept un- der lock and key. At first 1t was he- lieved that the 'exploseur'' had been mislaid or passed on to some other fort. but although every fort in the vicinity of Paris Is being ransacked. no trace of it has yet been discover ed.
 In view of these thefts, which in- volve the disclosure of important se- crets of national defence. the French press points out to its German, con- temporaries that it Is idle to describe opinion in France as sunering merely from a "bad attack of spymania." As A matter of fact, although French public opinion Is profoundly exercised. the prevailing note in the comments upon these incidents is one Of de- termination to prevent their recvr- renee A favorable impression In this sense has been created by the conn parative equanimity with which of- ficers of experience and high standing like General Leon Durand, commander in-chief of the Chalons army corps. view the unconcealed activity of the German spies who swarm in the eastern frontier districts. Frenchmen nre con- vinced that familiarity with an ever presente danger has not brought any loss of vigilance in its train. but they are strongly of opion that the CO., operation between the military end civil secret services might be more effectively organized. Cases of espion- age are now being investigated at chaions. Toul. verdun. Sedan. Rheims and Versailles.
 Win Abolish Copper.
 Tn a few years copper will no longer weigh down one's pockets in this coun- try. As it is no more bronze money Is now coined and the shortage Is te- ing felt Aluminium will be substitut- ed, and it Is hoped that the new coinage will have been begun by the end of the year. The metal. orr rather an alloy of 1t will be used only for penny and alf-penny piec@s, which will be about the diameter of. but both much thicker and lighter than. francs and hall. francs, and thus easily dis tingufshed from these coins. The re- cent quarter frac piece in nickel has proved a failure. because 1t is con- stantly being taken for a franc. as tourists here know ito their cost. Pe- sides lightness. cleanliness is anethsr advantage of alanfinium. which does not oxydize in air.