Omaha daily bee., 1910-10-16
Corporal Punishment Believed to B
the Only Remedy.
ENGLISH EXAMPLE is QUOTED
French Parliament Thought to Be
Opposed to Proposal,
HOTEL THIEVES THRIVE IN PARIS
DarInE-COffin Makers of French
Capital Latest 10 Organize
strike for Better Pay.
BY PAUL vILIERs.

BY PAUL NILLIERS.
PARIS, oct. l5.-(Special to The Bee.)-
Many serious-minded men. public officials,
clerics, and men who interest themselves
in all public affairs are seriously consld-
ering whether or not it would not be
good thing to revive the custom of lash
ing dangerous criminals, commonly called
"apaches.' There is a very general opinion
that magistrates are too lenient and do
not punish them to the full extent of the
law
Men interested say the re-establishment
of corporal punishment is necessary. Moth
ing is so humiliating to a man as TO be
whipped. The practice Of using the CATO
nine-tails may be revived. The Figaro
says: There are no longer any apaches
in England since the revival Of corporal
punishment An old English policeman
said that this is the only punishment that
has any effect, and this is the way 70 get
rid of the apaches. Yet but between the
apache and his victims there is a parlia-
ment which thinks that, with forty years
Of the republic, no man should be dashed
in the name Of the law. The English peo-
pie have no such scruple, and yet there
is no country where self-respect is greater
or the dignity Of independence felt more.
tween the person who accepts the laws
of society and the creature who does not
The protection of the former in his eyes
is sacred; and those who abide by the
law and those who break it should not be
treated in the same way This is the only
| equitable way of viewing things and we
know that at one time London was full
of bandits. and that now they are 80 afraid
of the cate nine-talls that they have
almost disappeared"
Hotel Thieves Doing Wen.
Hotel thieves continue their work They
have just carried away a large tit-bit
from a hotel in the Rue de Rivoli. viz,
f960 I'm bank notes. The thieves seem to
belong to a rather better organized class
than those who are usually called rats"
and who as a rule, purloin purses and
| jewels from hotel bedrooms. 1t was the
/ cashiers till they ralded, and the old tele-
! phone trick was brought into use success
! fully. Three strangers were lettering in
the hall Of the hotel, and managed on
various preteXts to get all the attendants
out OF the cashiers room except the
/ cashier. A confederate then rang I'D the
| hotel on the telephone and the cashier
went to answer the call. Why he went
when there was no other clerk in the room
is not explained. The telephone box is a
few steps from the cashiers room in the
hotel I'm question.
! The cashier, on leaving his ROOM double
locked the door of the latter but very
unwisely omitted TO lock his safe The
telephone call proved to be, as he thought.
a mistake; but this was no surprise to one
used to our local telephones, and he went
back to his office, when a real surprise
did await him. The contents of his till
had disappeared. How the thieves got into
his room is not knwon. as there were no
marks of the door having been broken
open. They made away successfully with
their plumber, and have not been traced
The booty might have been larger a few
minutes later, as a clerk arrived with
some 5000 more in ready money num-
ber Of American tourists have been robbed
by the thieves.
Coffin Makers on Strike.
The coffin makers following the ex-
ample recently set by the grave-dlggers
and monumental workers, have gone on
a strike. They are only ninety in number,
but turn out annually some 5000 collins.
the sale of which, like all other funeral
arrangements here is a monopoly Of the
municipality OF Paris, which, the makers
complain, shamefully exploits them maxi
ing a profit out of the collins alone OF
300 per cent. They are, therefore, agltating
for shorter hours and better pay.
Wine Crop n Failure.
The prospects for Burgundy wine this
year seem worse than was anticipated
The department Of the Cote dor, that OF
Dion, usually yields 100000 gallons an
nually. This year the highest estimate
places the probable figure al 100000 gal
Ions, and some put It as low as 22O 90,
gallons. Worse cases seem TO be those
OF the famous district Of Gevrey, Cham
bertin, which expects to press LOO gal
/ Ions at most instead Of $4,000 and OF
the Meuravot winners, who generally pro-
duce from 800 to 1000 casks, but who this
year will not have a single one The
lowest yield hitherto I'm the Cote dor de.
partment since 1868. was 100000 gallons
in 1892, whereas that Of this year NAV
be as low as One-thrtieth. The pecuniary
loss, Of course, will be enormous.
A remarkable story is told concerning a
popular dancer In one OF the halls OF
Montmartre. She wished to settle down
quietly and give up her life on the boards
so she married a young man. He. how.
ever found that his pretty wife was earn.
ing enough for both, and refrained from
distressing himself by seeking employment
Of any kind. His wife thinking that a
taximotor might tempt him to try and
earn something at least, purchased an
automobile for him with the profits OF hes
dances. The man, however. at once de
cided to apply the car 70 another use "A,
selected another young woman, with whom
he was going to elope 20 Brussels in ths
motor car. His wife heard or II, and cam,
upon the couple they we're removing
trunks from her own flat. Driven out OF
her mind at last she whipped out a re
4 vOlver and fired right and left At IN,
woman and at her husband who was takeT
to a hospital for the extraction OF tvs
bullets In his leg and thiT