Omaha daily bee., 1910-12-11
lADLY DUEL OVER A WOMAN
Policeman Shot by an Apache for Love
of Killing.
me MORE UNsoLyED MYSTERY
Poor Girl Writes Book that Has
Thrilled French.
7AURE FOR ATHENIAN REPUBLIC
Minister of the Interior Asserts lie
wtu Bring Modern Art More 10
the F'ront-NO Religion
in Schools.
BY PAUL v1LLIERs.

BY PAUL Nll4Ill2RS.
PARIS, Dec. 1O-(special to The Bee)--
There was ball IN St Denis. The dancers
were the riff-raff Of Parts society-sallow-
faced boys-the "Apaches Of modern Paris
in bowler hats. shirts without colors.
tight-fitting clothes, with humped-up
up shoulders, slouohing walk and sinister
leer.
The women with their hair curled HIGH
wearing no hats and dressed quite simply
but each one carried a dagger in her stock
! ing OF hair. The belle was Casque dor,
notorious Tor the fact that fifty battles
have been fought in her honor among the
"Apaches." Her favorite cavaliers were
Fernand Cuvilller and Joseph Humbert, re-
turned confcts and we'll known to the
police. Joseph Is doing his two years
military service and had obtained leave for
the night
The dancing was over and the dancers
were streaming out into the street when
Fernand saw Joseph walk up TO Helen and
offer her n cake. He walked up to the
woman. Come out at once and bring him
with you" he Missed. A dead silence fell
on the crowd. Both men were known to
be desperate His hand slipped into a
pocket, but the woman bounded on him
like a tigress and his shot only grazed her
shoulder. Then Joseph tore his military
neckte from his throat. twisted IL round
his hand, drew his bayonet and rushed at
the other man, who had pocketed the
pistol and drew his knife.
The fight was fought in slence-such
silence that, although they saw the crowd.
two policemen. who were eighty yards
away, had no idea that a duel was on. OF
sudden Fernands foot slipped and he
fell The colder rushed at him. but
revolver and fired at him. The shot
missed. Fernand jumped 10 his feet again
and as he rose Joseph fired three shots at
him. Two took effect and Fernand fell
dead.
Since the tragedy occurred, a member of
the same gang Of Apaches named Linor
has killed policeman for the pleasure OF
shooting. At l o'clock last Monday two
policemen stopped at the door Of a wine
shop and ordered the proprietor TO close the
house Linor walked out and shot one OF
the policemen through the heart He will
be executed. having admitted his guilt
Mystery of killing UnaOIved.
The mystery concerning the death of
Baroness Devidge has not yet been solved.
Captain Meynier to whom she was en-
gagged, has not yet been found. II is said
she once limited at suicide Her former
husband, Baron oliver, who is one OF the
most chivalrous gentlemen that ever lived.
said in answer to some OF the gossip which
has come from the poisonous tongues OF
slanderers, Her conduct since our unfor-
tunate separation has been above re-
proach. I and my mother and child have
never ceased TO respect her We all visited
her frequently"
Poor Girl Writes Thriller.
This city Is talking of a novel Just pub
lished under the title Marie Claire" It Is
the simple life story OF the authoress her
self-a little seamstress. inexperienced:
yet II has touched Parisians as no work
has touched them for years. The authoress
is Marguerite Audoux, who at the age Of
years was left at an orphanage. There
she stayed happy enough among the
kindly sisters until she was u years old.
when she went 20 work in Bourges. where
she earned a precar1ous livelihood with her
needle. After two months this work was
abandoned, for she got a situation making
cartridges. In her leisure moments she
began to write the story Of her life. The
book was brought TO the attention or
Octave Mirbeau, the dramatist. VINO was
30 impressed by II that no helped to get
Marie Claire" published.
The Academy Of Ten composed OF men OF
letters has decided to award the authoress
the prize d2OW given annually for the best
novel OF the year.
Faure Has Positive Views.
Maurice Faure. minister OF tho interior,
declares that he will endeavor TO make
this an Athenian republic.
Faure thinks his compatrlots are wrong
TO study art and construction or architec-
ture in Italy for there are Roman remains
in France which those OF Rome do not
surpass. There Is an old ampitheater IN
Orange, where spectacular plays are given
out OF doors in summer which cannot be
surpassed I'm beauty.
IT shall endeavor TO bring modern art
more TO the fore" said Faure Now, In
reference to the separation OF church and
state. ! think that the republic has not
condemned religion; II did not intend 10
make a state without religion; the schools
can be neither religious or anti-religious:
they must not deal I'm the supernatural.
Every child must be taught 70 respect the
constitution. and the principles on which
It is founded. and must also be taught the
rights OF man and the citizen, as well as
the rights OF God who made him; the
superiority OF France in art and letters"
The agitation in the wine-growing district
Of Champagne against the fraudulent de-
scriptiOn Of wine from other districts as
champagne has reached a crisis, and has
eliminated in the suggestion OF a general
strike against taxes
Last Monday a consignment OF forty
casks OF wine from Touraine reached tho
station OF Damery consigned TO dealer
suspected Of practicng substitution. AS
soon as the news spread, crowd number
ing 800 invaded the station protesting
that the win de fraude" should not be
delivered. They had already preached four
casks and had broken tho windows u the
offending consignees before the sub per-
feet and the officials could induce them 90
desist from further violence by the promise
that the remaining casks should be de-
tanned.