The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-30
PARIS SUFFERS
 REIGN 0F TERROR |
 Officials Puzzled Over Preva-
 fence of Crime NEW CURE FOR INSANITY French sts.istlcs Seem To indicate That Married State Gives se- curity for the Mlnd-Notes
 and Personals .I
BY PAUL vILLfERS.

Paris. January es.-<special.e .eParis Is pufeerinS from c new Reign of Terror. It has extended to all parts of France Crime is rampant It nouts the police and Is demoraiizing the army. Gangs Of criminals. among whom are many wo- men, infest the city and are 50 bold and 30 diabolic in their outrages that they sur pass the Indian tribe from which they get their name. "The Apaches". They laugh at the guillotine and scoff at prison walls
 It is amazing, and while criminofogfsts are seeking an explanation of the epi- demic the clericals believe they have found it.
 '.It is a judgment,~ they declare ..France has wilied to be goddess na- ton and God has visited 1t with His .vengeancef' They point to the secular ised schools. the spoliation of ecclesiasti- cal establishments, the prosecutions of oiersymen. the antagonism to the head Sf the church at Rome.
 '~What is the result7~ they ask '"The young people of France are growing up with no respect for religion, and without the moral restraint it imposes upon them. sordidness of sentiment is spreading In the community. Indifference to sacred law superinduces disregard for all law. When France flew In the face of Mother Church she sowed the wind; now she is reaping the whirlwind. She aimed to create a free man after her own idea She succeeded only in fabricatng Tranlxenstein-' It stalks through the land and terrorizes even it's creatorsr'
 The cIerica1s do not exagserats the con- dition, even If in the minds of many : they mistake the cause. The atrocity of many of the crimes is equaled only by the demoniac ingenuity displayed by some of the criminals.
 Judging by the evidence of recent sta- tistics, it seems that tho method of pre- serving ones sanity is to marry.
 A striking report on the relation of marriage with insanity among the French people, just published in Paris. shows that among bachelors cases of lunacy oc- cur at the rate of % per 1000. while among spinsters the rate Is 32 per 1000. In contrast with this rate is only 2 per 10, 900 among married men and 10 per l0s- o0o among married women
 
 D. Leeds has given $250oo to the Amert- can hospital in Paris Is welcome news to the managers of that benencent institu- ton, which is badly in need of funds.
 The new scale of fees introduced by the doctors of Paris on the first of the year is working out to the satisfaction of the doctors if to no ono else. The patients do not find the new scale, which is in- creased nearly double. 70 satisfactory. and there has been q good deal of grum- bling. It has not, however. resulted in any marked decrease in practice.
 Clearing out his coal scuttle, M Bou- det, who lives in the Rue de Eaintonge, was surprised, not to say delighted, to find a gold nugget weighing &0 grammes among the coal The man took 1t to the police station. It was claimed by the woman who had sold him the coal and who had, in fear of "Apaches,' hidden 1t in . sack of coal.
 A telegram from Evreux, in Normandy, says that a worlingman named Mallet, employed as an ironmonger in large fac tory belonging to M. Roger Dsiahays. has just inherited nearly noOoo0oo left to him by a relative who died in America It is not known in what part of America the wealthy relative lived
 A woodcutter named Grassett, of Gfvry, near Fontainebleau, ought to De presented to Mir. Roosevelt when he visits France. He recently became the father of twins, his twenty-second and twenty-third chil- dren.
 Comte de Nun, who has been for many years the chief promoter in France of the ideas which inspired the famous en- oyclical of Leo XIII. known as Bsrum Novarum, on the condition of the work ing classes, presented te tho Archbishop of Paris, Mgr. Ametfts, Aslsga1ssn rep resenting the worldngmen's CAthofic ciubs of the diocese of Paris. Hs sazsd the opportunity to assure Mgr Annette of the loyalty of tho members of thsae oluhs to thsir archbishop '1n the midst of the cruel trials now being experienced by the French church., and he added that the Catholic worldngmen were ready to de- fend the church under the arehbishop's direction against the attacks of its ene- mics.
 The Archbishop of Paris, in reply, heartily approved of the Christian and sociaI' clubs founded by Comte d Nun.