The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-17
PAUL CAMbON|S MAN FOR THE PLACE Probably Greatest of the
 French Diplomats WAS LEFT POOR BOY French Hope to Use Aeroplanes to Great Advantage in Directing
 Artillery Fire on Dis
 tant Points
By MALCOLM CLARKE

By MALCOLM CLARKE
 Paris, September 16-tSpecial) )-Un- | doubtedly one of the most interesting
 public men in France today is MT. Paul Cambon, to whom has been trusted the | interests of the country in the negotia-
 tions now pending with Germany concern ing Moroccan affairs, and it may be said
 they could not be entrusted to more com petent hands M. Paul Cambon and his
 brother. NJ Jules Cambon. who Is better I known in America as French ambassador
 to the United States, have won high place in the diplomatic service by sheer | force of ability.
 | M. Paul, who has long and ably repre- sented his country at London, Is generally regarded as one of the worlds really great diplomats. Polite and suave to a degree, he knows when to stand fast for | a point and the fact that he Is repre- 1 senting France in the Moroccan dispute is regarded as a safeguard that France will l get none the worse of the negotiations. He was years of age when his father l died, leaving 8 widow and two sons, not very well provided for. But M. Cambon worked hard, studied for the law, and ul- l timately entered the diplomatic service. He Is one of the most popular men in so- ciety, favorite at court, and esteemed 1 throughout France on account of his keen interest in French charities. He possesses one of the most valuable collections of
 autographs in the world, and is quite an expert at chess.
 l How a mistake of French postoffice sorter narrowly missed causing a fresh diplomatic incident between France and | Germany has just been brought to light Reports were current of a German pro- l s@-@ xs<lo nf 1,a l German governments official post bag
 on French territory. It appears that one | of the bags containing official dispatches addressed by the German government to | the captain of the cruiser Berlin, at Aga l dir, as well as private letters for the l crew, was placed by error among the or
 dinary mail bags to be sorted during the
 train journey from Paris to Marseilles,
 whereas it's proper place was in the sep- arate van reserved for the official diplo- matic mall. postoffce sorter, coming across the sealed bag for the Berlin, failed | to notice the error that had been made
 until he had ripped the bag open in the
 usual way. He promptly resealed the bag when he realized the official nature of | some of the contents, and attached with
 the French postoffice seal an explanation
 of the mistake, signed by the chief of the l railway postoffice staff. Made acquainted | with the facts of the case, the German government readily accepted the expana- | ton, and nothing more was said about
 the matter until some days ago, when the
 story leaked out. The incident happened | a month ago.
 | One great use for aeroplanes in war, which has seldom been referred to, is the l direction of artillery fire. The gunner in l flat country can send his projectiles to an l enemy many. miles. away but. 1t is. .ex- l treTnely difficult for him to gauge the ef- feet of his fire. A shell may explode 100 yards short of the mark, while appearing
 to be a perfect ''bull's-eye." The aviator 1 inclining on high can easily signal down
 to intimate where the shells are dropping l Some experiments in this direction have
 lately been taking place at Chalons. Baroness Staffe, who has just died, vas | a sort of feminine Chesterfield of today, | but whose advice covered far more l ground. She published dozens of polite
 manuals, which left not one detail of so- | cial life untouched. She. taught how 70 | dress, how to receive, how to cook, how
 to write letters, how to be good looking, and, finally, the ars amanda her complete
 letter-wrter, is the completest in exist
 ence. It includes letters from little girls | to grandmothers, and vice versa letters 1 from mothers to elderly gentlemen mak- | ing inquiries about a suitor to a daughters
 hand. letters of congratulation and con
 dolence, letters to thank an attentive doc | tor, letters to servants-from an officer to
 his man, from lady to her husbands S l head gamekeeper.
 Our secrets for pleasing and charm | ing" was equally compendious. Girls who do not know what to do with their hands she advised to wiring them as if | in violent despair just before reaching the house at which they were to call, the ef- l feet being that they no longer felt their hands The baroness art mandi was a difficult art:
 A wife must be faithful and generous in | her friendships, always sincere, gentle, calm and prudent, honest and loyal; never condescending and disdainful; thoughtful of others before herself; never capricious. She must keep all her promises, never be eXacting, importunate or cross; always in- dulgent and kindly. She must avoid affec- tation. priggishness, airs and graces, CO., quettishness, and must always be natural and simple.
 The late baroness does not seem to have attempted to teach husbands3
 Amodern form of accommodation has been invented by Syndicalism, which is practically the French equivalent of English trades unionism, in the shape of punishing blacklegs by barring them from obtaining drinks at the cafes. The Syndicalist Battle, the organ of the Gen- | eral Labor Federation, publishes an order of the executive council of the Builders l union. sentencing certain officials of the
 Labor exchange to the perpetual thirst. These officials have proved themselves | the How f1unkeys" of the authorities, by | refusing to paste up trades union notices | on which stamp duty had not been paid. | In consequence, all cafekeepers, barkeep- CTS, innkeeperS and publicsns of any kind who sell drinks are forbidden to serve the l said traitors with liquid of any sort, tn- der any pretext whatsoever. under pain of
 a boycott. Any cafe at which a traitor Of the kind named Is seen being served with
 drink will be instantly blackllsted and
 not one true trades unionist will hence- l forth give his custom. Barmen must | choose between the custom of the union
 sts and that of blacklegs and traitors. l game of billiards to decide who vas
 to kill a man was played in Paris the other night. s
 A message on Tuesday stated that about 1 10 o'clock at night man was taken In
 a cart to restaurant in the Rue Bichas, l and. recognized as customer named N
 breuil. bookbinder by trade. He had l two deep stabs in his left side and stom- l ach He was at once taken to the St