Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-22
Nine. Durand, Leader of Movement,
Expresses Surprise at Results.
THIRTY VOTES is THE TOP NOTCH
Returns Demonstrate Positively that
France is of Republican Trend.
AVIATION PRIZES ARE OFFERED
Police Dogs Make Dismal Failure in
Tracking smooth burglar
Uses Perfume TO Battle
Canine Pursucrs.
BY PAUL YILLIERS.

PARIS, May 2l-(Special Dispatch to
The Bee.)-The recent elections have de-
monstrated that the suffragette movement
in France is not yet in the realm of prac-
teal politics a number OF woman suf-
fragists offered themselves as candidates
FOR the chamber of deputies but they
hardly received votes enough to qualify
them for the also ran" class For in
stance, Nine. Durand, the suffragette
leader, who made an especially vigorous
campaign and who expressed the con-
fident hope that she would get a vote
which would surprise the opponents of
suffrage, was about the most surprised
of all when she was credited with only
thirty-four votes Other women candi-
dates did not do 50 well as this.
Another fact was demonstrated by the
returns-France is overwhelmingly re-
publican. Extraordinary efforts had been
made by the church party and the various
varieties of Royalists to get out a big
vote, but of the S,563,716 votes cast at the
first ballots the parties of Republican
union and concentration (Radicals and
Socialist Radicals, Liberals and Independ-
ent Socialists) poled 4,S09,347, or nearly 60
per cent The center parties, the Progress
lists and Liberal Collectivst and Revolu-
tlonary Socialists, 1,O94SS7; the Conserva-
tives, 1852; and the Nationalists, 149, 564.
over 10000 voting cards were counted out
as blank or spoiled. .a..
1t is significant that the Liberal Re-
publican Left, with an increase of nearly
| 200, has gained more ground than any
other party since 1905. The Radical gain
amounts to some 100000
--'as-".- Big Prizes Offered.
Fully 100000 will be offered in prizes
| for aviation meets during the year 1910
When the smaller meets and special con-
tests are considered it is probably that the
figures will exceed the million mark by a
very considerable margin.
AS the number of aviators who will share
| in these prizes is as yet very small this
profession rivals the opponents of grand
opera as a high salaried profession.
M. Guitry, who plays the name-part in
"Chantecler" is guaranteed by contract q
minimum of $4,000 and 10 per cent of the
| gross receipts.
The takings are growing less. During
the first few weeks the average evenings
receipts at the Porte St. Martin were be-
tween f450 and 600. They now average ESQ
Police dogs are useless in tracking the
aristocracy of the French criminal com
munity, as was shown in a recent case In
Paris. series OF daring burglaries had
been committed at Chantily, Malmaison
and other fashionable resorts near Paris
and were pronounced by detectives to BIZ
the work of one man.
In his last job the burglar left behind
him a, pair of shirt cuffs. Here was g
valuable clue, the police thought. I'm
mediately Cherry the best police dog il
Paris, was sent for and the hunt began
the detectives following hot foot. The trai
was wearisome Over hedges and stiles
through fields and bitches, the dog LED
them until small stream was reached
! Here Cherry lost the scent completely
and the man hunters returned discom
fitted, the disappointment being all the
greater because the burglary was an affair
of some Importance. $4,000 worth o.
jewelry having been stolen.
Purely by accident the burglar finally
fell into the hands of the police when II
the act of selling some of his plumber to Z
jeweler at Rheims. Lepine closely ques
toned the man, one Andre Lamoulon,
master of his craft, as to the means he EN-
ployed in battling pursuers,
Nothing simpler" same the answer
Nothing else but personal cleanliness
Whenever have cracked crib 1 chang
every stitch OF clothing l have on me
Besides, on my lasc job took a bath in tn
little stream, and perfumed myself prett!
strongly from a bottle OF scent which
always carry for the purpose"
Thus the police have run up against tn
problem how to circumvent the well
washed and daintiy- perfumed modern pro
} fessional craftsman.
Unpleasant Adventure.
young American woman seeing
Paris met with most unpleasant adven
: ture a few evenings ago. She and he
l escort. an American, had strolled into tn
Rat Mort, the well-known Montmartr
: night restaurant and two Frenchme
started making eyes at the lady. on -bein
, demonstrated with by her escort, they in
suited the latter and called upon other
! present to join in. A general scrlmmag
ensued. and the American, taking up
> champagne bottle, used IL with telling eff
feet The lady and her escort finally man
aged TO get out OF the restaurant, and
jumping into a taxicab, got away. Inas
: much as the police had been Informed o
the affair the escort thought discretion tn
better part of valor, and left for Englan