The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-07-18

the police, ana NJ. Moos was found in
the vesitbule Of the house with his
face badly bruised. A complete exam
nation OF his flat was made, and vari-
Gus objects with finger prints were
taken, but no other trace has yet been
found of the two kind gentlemen.
The police have a suspic'cn that N.
Moos's one maid servant, who sleeps In
the NTH floor of the house. knows
more about the business than she VIII
acknowledge, and she has been ar
rested. She was aware that for sew
eral days her master had In his safe
sum of over $4,000 which. luckily for
him, he had placed In bank Just be-
fore the two unbidden visitors called.
One fthe books of the moment IL
W. Frederic Lollie's volume on Augusta
de Morny, half-brother OF Napoleon Ill
1t gives many side lights on an inter-
esting and picturesque career. De
Morny energies from these intimate
pages, in which his conquests, imam
cial. political. and sentimental. are re-
vealed. neither diminished nor exalteo'
he may be said to be merely human-
ICED Not over burdened with scrupies
feeling that money was the god one
ought to strive for, he had yet extra
ordinary charm of manner--a charm
that belonged particularly to the circle
in which he was born ana always
moved. Before NJ. Lollie's investiga-
tons. which seem to have been carried
out with great thoroughness, we knew
very little OF this figure, which, &C.
cording to some, was the real ruler OF
France He left only scrappy and
vague documentary traces. He flashed
across the political armament like
meteor and disappeared, with all the
audiences Of an apparition, In tins
| Il he l.<.r est
bris behind. He was not an intellect
ual. preferring to read in the hearts OF
living men rather than on the printed
page.
Certain legends are destroyed by NJ
LolIie--notably, the supposed CONVEX
sation between the Duke and de Mau-
pas project of police, on that famous
December Of the Coup d'Etat.. They
are firing on us from the grille. was
the legendary message of the project
to his chief. Then are from your
grille" was the answer. I'VE shall
want a couple of cannon to keep them
in check" Is supposed to have been
the next appeal, to which De Morny
replied, "Oh, go to bedF'
The historian suspects that his con-
versation was afterwards arranged by
people who wished to flatter the esprit
and promptitude of the Duke In all
emergencies. The book Is valuable
enough as giving more light on
really brilliant period of French his
tory.
NJ. Clemenceau Is no friend to lot
teries. or to gambling IN any shape or
form. He has just submitted to the
Chamber OF Deputies bin framed
with a view to the abolition OF lot
teries. and in the meantime to gen.
eraI LIQUIDATION of those which have
been authorized. The method which
he suggests for this liquidation Is
somewhat complicated, and as this
question Is scarcely likely to be dis
cussed for some time at the Palais
Bourbon. and, as IL the bill Is adopted,
the proposed scheme will probably be
modiied, 1t is Unnecessary to enter into
details II the suppression of lotteries
10 voted, the public will be deprived OF
a mild form of excitement. but little
else. as we do not hear of people ruin
ing themselves over lottery tickets
the average price OF which Is no more
than twenty cents.
A Minister Adventures.
An amusing little adventure hap
pened the other day to the French
Minister of Justice, NJ. BRAND. He
paid an official visit to little town
in the southeast of France which Is
famous tut ltS ciVNhS ohN ~
Minister opened the local exhibition,
ana after the speeches the iooal may,r
presented him with a magnificent
chronometer made in the town. II
your excellency will allow" he said,
1--WE wf1l keep the watch for a few
days and regulate it,"
M. BRAND. who, though Socialist, has
a sense of humof. comes from the
South of France himself. and knows
that nronnises there are not always
kept. He knew, too. that a colleague
had the same watch given to him last
year, that IL has been kept to be reg
ulated, and that IL had not yet reached
Paris. So NJ. BRAND. Minister of Jus