Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-19
VICTIM SLAIN IN THE STREET
Murderer Brazenly Asserts Guilt OF
Being Arrested,
CRIME COMMITTED IN VENGEANCE
French PhilanthrOpist Leaves Queer
Request for Poor.
MUST LIVE IN A HOUsEBOAT
Medical Authority Says the HRrem
skirt IL an Ideal Garment for
Women and that ~ is De-
cIded1y Practical.
BY PAUL VILLIERs.

b1 EAOh V ll4LlEtNe.
PARIS, March 1S.-(Special to The Bee)-
a police investigation has developed the
fact that gang Of toughs deliberately
went to a cafe recently and calmly played
billiards with a view Of deciding who
should murder a man who was objection
able to them. 1t was stipulated in advance
that the man who won should kill. The
police found lying in the Rue Brancion the
dead body Of a youth named Guillion. He
had six knife wounds while three revolver
bullets had penetrated the body.
Next day they arrested a young Apache
named Jules Diard, who boldly confessed
himself the murderer He declared that
Guillion deserved his fate for twelve
months previously he had killed a member
Of their gang. He went on to tell how he
and others of the gang had met in cafe
and played billiards to decide who should
carry out the sentence.
HOusebOat for Poor,
A unique benefaction has been provided
for the poor of Bordeaux. Nothing like 1t
has ever been provided for by any other
philantrophist. A bequest Of 100000 left
for the benefit of the poor. is to be spent
! on houseboat, comfortably fitted up, on
the Garonne, for the use of the aged poor
fuge to provide for eighty men and twenty
five women at time. Four hundred meals
day will be provided out Of the income
Of the fund.
Echo of old Fight.
/ The religious orders are discussed in
several patches of the Waldeck- Rousseau
collection of documents which the Matir
| is bringing out, but this publication is con
/ fined to two reports to the ministry OF
/ foreign affairs from NJ Nisard, who wa;
ambassador to the Holy See. These reports
give the accounts of his conversations Will
Cardinal Rampolla before and after the
! famous Toulouse speech. Some Of the re
marks made by Cardinal Rampolla ma,
be worth noting as they show how painful
was the impression created at the Vatican
by the prime minister's speech.
How" he asked, "can the pope hence
forth carry on the work of appeasement t.
which he has been invited by the F'rencl
government? What results can be expected
in the presence of so different, so deliber
ately contrary, an attitute on its side
! And this at the moment when he has adde's
fresh evidence to all the proof which ~
had previously given of his desire to facili
tate for the government OF the republic
unanimlty OF opinion in respect TO the in
stitutions with which France has endowet
itself?"
Cardinal RampOla was at that time sec
rotary of state, we'll known for his councili
atory disposition. and in complete agree
ment with Pope Leo, who years before ha
invited the reactionaries TO rally to tn
republic, and whose policy was so wei
understood and appreciated that the mos
friendly articles appeared in French news
papers Of every shade of opinion when h
died in 1903.
Harem skirt Endorsed.
Even the medical faculty must have it
say on the harem skirt. The question wa
mooted at a meeting of the academ!
where Dr. Berg, astonished the scientifi
assembly by declaring bluntly
"The harem skirt has it's advantages.
is an ideal garment for women II
doubly practical because 1t protects tn
body from cold and allows free motion
the limbs. 1t is also a defense againi
dust and microbes that float in the al
Numbers of women have been drowned b.
cause their movements in the water WEI
hampered by skirts. Others were burnt 9
account OF their flowing robes, and II
harem skirt wards off all these dangers
Half a dozen savants were at once {
their feet to combat this revOlutional
doctrine Prof Debove declared 'Trousei
are for men, skirts are for women, az
that is the end OF it,"
Cochin IL Rough Hewn.
M. Denys Cochin. one Of the new acad
micans has a rough-hewn, bearish fac
! with little twinkling eyes. The Cochins
his ancestry were town councillors of Par
in the time Of Joan Of Arc. Their come
tion with Paris affairs has gone on ev
since. The grandfather Of the present ma
founded the Cochin hospital. NJ THE
. named the late Auguste Cochin project
the Seine, an office. when he filled it, tn
included the mayoralty OF this city III
picture gallery in his house is filled wi
impressionist paintings. He saw war
}, 1901 as flagbearer to General Bourbal
When he has time he goes to his chateJ
= near Beauvais to look after a farm
has there. This he calls going out
grass" NJ. Rougon, the other new acad
miclan is director Of fine arts at Il
ministry Of public instruction. He writ
| agreeably for the paper and reviews