The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-12

- - l high, wearing no hats, and dressed quite simply, but each one carried a dagger in her stocking or hair. The the fact that 50 battles have been fought in her honor among the "Apaches" Her favorite cavaliers were Fernand Cuviilier and Joseph Hum- bert, returned convicts, and we'll known to the police. Joseph is doing his two years military service. and had ob- tained 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 a cake. He walked up to the woman. Come out at once, and bring him with you" he hissed. 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 necktie from his throat, twisted it round his hand, drew his bayonet, and rushed at the other man, who had pocketed his pistol and drawn 4ls knife.
 The fight was fought in silence such silence that, although they saw the crowd, two policemen. who were so yards away, had mo idea that a duel was on. s
 Then of a sudden Fernands foot slipped and he fell. The soldier rushed at him, but Fernand, lying on the ground, drew his revolver and fired at him. The shot missed. Fernand jumped to his feet again and as he rose Joseph fired three shots at him. Two took effect and Fer hand fell dead.
 Since the tragedy occurred a member of the same gang of Apaches named Li- nor has killed a policeman for the pleas ure of shooting. At 1 o'clock last Mon day two policemen stopped at the door of 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 ad- mitted his guilt.
 Lectures by actresses is new fad here. Nearly every small hall is occu- pied Thursday and Saturdays by one or two actresses, two featuring at the same time, with others illustrating by means of recitals and short plays. Actors deign forth to aid their women companions. It Is a fraternity which is most interesting to the large Audiences, for they get their moneys worth in a lecture and in spec -tacular performances The lectures are always well attended by Americans for they have double lesson-one in French, on fha .t1- t~ Dc -Ir.f-x AL. are not considered expensive, although the seats are $1
 Maurice Faure, minister of the interior, declares that he will endeayor to make this an Atbenian republic.
 Faure thinks his compatriots are wrong to study art and construction or archi- lecture in Italy, for there are Roman remains in France which those of Rome dc not surpass. There Is an old amphi- theatre in Orange, where spectacular plays are given out of dc DTS in sum- mer which cannot be surpassed in beauty.
 I shall endeavor to bring modern art more to the fore.' said Faure. Now, in reference to the separation of church and state I think that the republic has not condemned religion; 1t did not in- tend to make a state without a relig- ion; the schools can be neither religious nor anti-religious: they must not deal in the supernatural. Every child must be taught to respect the constitution and the principles on which it Is founded, and must also be taught the rights of man and the citizen, as we'll as the rights of God who made him; the superiority of France in art and letters.'
 The agitation in the wine-growing dis trict of Champagne against the fraudulent description 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 consignment of 40 casks of wine from Touraine reached the sta tion of Damery consigned to a dealer suspected of practicing substitution. As soon as the news spread, a crowd num- bering 1500 invaded the station protest ing that the win de fraude" should not be delivered. They had already preached four casks and had broken the windows Of the offending consignees before the sub-prefect and the officials could in- duce them to desst from further vio.. lence by the promise that the remaining casks should be detained.
 Madame Levillain has been convicted of manufacturing cigars and cigarettes out of coca husks, in contravention of the tobacco monopoly, and has been sen fenced to four separate fines of f160 each. Three and a half millions of these cigarettes had been placed on the market annually. ss s,
 Madame Marie Roche, aged A. who has been a widow three times, has been mar ried at Yssingeaux to M Andre Bryyere, a widower of 75.
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