The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-30
NEW REPUBLIC WILL NOT LIVE LONG So Think the People of Neigh
 Dor France MAY LIVE SIX MONTHS Rostand Is Fired to Write Poetry When An Aviator Sails over His Home.
 Now He Wants to Fly
 Himself
MAY LIVE SIX MONTHS

royal family of Braganza was forced to leave Portuguese soib and although the republic seems firmly enough established there, French public opinion does not think the republic, founded and governed as 1t Is by men who are more of schol- ars and philosophers than practical men, has come to stay.
 Portuguese revolutions do not count for much as a rule, and it is thought not improbable that within the next six months there will be a dictatorship or a return to monarchial institutions. with the Duke of Oporto on the throne. It Is pointed out that from the days of Louis XVI 1t has always been a mistake for kings to make concessions against their prerogatives. The fate of Manuel today may we'll be that of Alfonso tomorrow. The French republic has owed Its con- tinued existence to strong rule at home. fraternity has not prevented France being governed according to the prefactoral system of Napoleon I. In theory dem ocratic republic. in practice she Is ex- acting and obdurate. M. Waldeck-Ros- seau once pointed out the anomaly of 1t all, whilst admitting its utility. Thus it is that the minister of the interior is the master of the country, his hand being felt in the remotest province of France. The Portuguese republic. for lack of a similar system, will become a prey to public disorder that may quickly engen- der state of civil war.
 Aviators have great deal to answer for. They have sown discord in the hitherto perfectly united Rostand fam fly The flying man Tabuteau is the im- mediate cause of strife He flew from Bayonne to San Sebastian and back, and his course took him right over the poet S house at Cambo.
 The poet immediately penned we'll turned sonnet, which echoed his en- thusiasm for aviation, and 12 hours later the sonnet was published in the press. But M. Rostand did not stop at writing sonnets. He at once decided to go up
 in an aeroplane. like Gabrielle d Annun- zio and write, not a novel, but a long poem, dramatic or epic. about it.
 But when he broached the subject to his wife it was not at all a case of Horse che si forse che mo-" It was .dost certainly not" and Madame Rostand is adamant. She is vainly besought by her husband and her two sons, who are as enthusiastic as their father, and the younger of whom has already given orders for an aeroplane to be built for him. Before Madame Rostand's determi- nation, father and sons have quailed, and the order for the machine has been can celled. But the poet is not best pleased. He has set his heart on flying, and longs for the day when his wife shall remove her veto. That shall be when flying is safer than now" says Madame Rostand, but indicates not even an approximate date. In the meanwhile the poet may write poems on aeroplanes, but has given his word not to go up in one until she lets him.
 Apropos of aviation, NJ Lepine, the perfect of police, has come to the con- clusion that in the interests of the avia- tors themselves it is necessary that there should be some ordinance regulating the air. Every apparatus or aerial locomo- tion will be included in this ordinance balloons, dirigibles and aeroplanes-and the question of free and involuntary landings will also be considered
 The department of the Seine does not possess an aviation field. The training ground at Issyles- Moulineaux Is not an aviation field. It belongs to the war office, and is lent to aviators at certain times on certain conditions There is no suitable landing place in Paris or the suburbs, and aeroplanes flying above the capital and the Seine territory will have to remain at a sufficient height to permit of their landing outside the danger zone
 MT. Louis Barthou, vice president of the Aero club, whom M. Lepine consult ed regarding flights in the department of the Seine, has declared that the most delicate question is that of flying over Paris. It may be that flights above the capital will be prohibited. M. Barthou, however, does not believe In making any hard and fast rule. Flying over Paris may be permitted on condition that the aviator remains at a sufficient height so as to be able, in case anything goes wrong with the motor, to proceed to- wards the fortifications.
 The Apaches of Paris have a grievance Up till now they have had a certain ad- vantage in appealing against the sen tences inflicted on them. The court of criminal appeal issfiooded with cases of the sort. The judges, however, have within the last week or two taken il into their heads to increase. and not to diminish, the penalties inflicted by the lower court. Worse still, they refuse to allow appeals to be withdrawn. It is emphaticaly a step in the right direc- 1 ton, but much, very much. more has vel | to be done.
 With regard to the impudent attacks | on bank collectors, 1t is we'll to point ou that they have created a movement 1T l favor of the check system. Foreign resi- | dents have long wondered how 1t is they l are always made to settle in cash. in l stead of being allowed to give a check 1 People like myself, perfectly well knowr | in the quarter in which they live, ar'
 obliged to pay their landlords in cur | rency The result is that concierges ar, positively in danger on quarter day. Th'
 bank collector goes from apartment tt apartment, adding to his store, until hi,
 sacoche is full. The rascals know 1t ans | 1t is a temptation. The French wil | never be a business people until the, | ''unlearn" many of their methods. | A new fact in French criminology is a present being much discussed. It ha. | reference to a cold -blooded murder com | mitted by a boy of g. The victim wa! | the nurderer's baby brother who wal | done to death because he persisted 1T | crying.
 The details of the crime are almos | increditable. Alfred Duclos. the crim | inal. lived with his parents and thre, brothers in a house situated between
 Fresnaie and Putanges The father | had to work away from home and tho
 mother is described as worthless.
 woman who slept great deal during
 the day.
 His mother was asleep as usual wher | Alfred Duclos went to pick potatoes ir field near the house. His baby broth.
 CT. Henri. was crying in his cradle