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is restaurant cooked. They simply call
en- half the great establishments to
loan their chefs
A banquet to the. London county coun-
ell was served in the Hall of Fetes, ia
nous for its architecture. sculpture, fres-
co painting. carpets and wall hangings.
Well, ten minutes after the banquet a
promenade concert was in full blast in
that same Hall of Fetes. The county
councillors We're almost frightened. 1t
was like a transformation. Presto! count
less lackeys, silent, deft and rapid. ap-
peared from nowhere and vanished into
thin air again. and when they disap-
peared the banquet table, with its massive
services and decorations, disappeared also.
The whole transformation took six min
utes, but the trick had been rehearsed
some twenty times to get it perfect.
They will show you all kinds of munich
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has a meat shop tand a university educa-
tom. one is a bookkeeper and one travels
for distiiiery. These make eighteen
out of eighty Pars municipal councillors.
The others are: Nine journa lists. i. e..
newspaper men: three eX-army officers.
one iourneyman butcher. two photogra-
piers. seventeen lawyers. one architect.
five scientific men and teachers. three
doctors. four clerks and bookkeepers and
seventeen workingmen. True, they are
skilled workingmen, making their SD
to $3.50 a day. and also men of push
and moral force. Such are Jules Henaffe.
type ehgraver: Emile Landrin. metal en-
sraver; Ernest Moreau, workman iron
smith: Alexander Pa:enne. Autograph en-
Sraver and Emile Pory. workman
painter
They have a right to attend to their
business and work at their trades ON
condition not to neglect municipal affairs
AS councillors their salary is handsome
one-for PARISH. seq a year; but. you
will see. it is not in itself an income for
entertaining London county councillors,
who Eve in sumptuous mansions. Indeed.
it is to be doubted if one out of ten OF the
municipal councillors Of Paris has such
a thing as a spare bedroom.
Yet when the London men arrived, the
humble councillors waved a magic wand.
May they wave it for the city coun-
ellis of St. Louis!
This is what you would get
They lodge the visiting councillors at
the expense of the city in the biggest.
newest and most central of Partisan
hotels. 1t occupies a city block. Each
councillor has his bathroom attached to
his bedroom with one private parlor
for two in between the bedrooms.
Then they make you simply gift of
the whole town.
Two details of a banquet are worth
giving, when go foremost Paytsians OF
every rank were asked to meet the
visiting municipality of Prague Usu-
ally these giant banquets are jobbed
out to banquet caterers. But when
Paris entertainS a sister city each dish
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heavy annual fines to the municipal cash
box.
With all these projections YOU might
think there is no need of the economy
and genius for detail OF women.
''Undeceive yourselves" said Jeanne
Laloe. when she was running for coun-
ellis. in six months past the roses 70:
the presidents private office cost 2,'II
francs L would not stop the roses; the
hospitals should get them,
These are the Paris councilmen who
visited the London county council. re-
ceived the municipalities of London, Brus-
sells Prague and Barcelona, and expect
TO receive that of Rome this summer.
:;
When will Clevelands turn come?
Socially, the Londoners did a thing that
struck the men OF Paris dumb with
astonishment When one calls the county
councillors SO many merchant princes one
does not err far. They live in great and
sumptuous town houses and suburban
mansions lying in their wooded grounds
Into these-served by their buffers. foot
men, lackeys, drivers. chauffeurs. SOU
hrettes, matrons housekeepers and boys
in buttons-the London county councillors
invited, TRANQUILITY and simply, their ut-
known Paris confreres.
Every one of the eighty members OF
the heterogeneous Paris municipality kept
his panic stricken surprise and gratitude
and admiration 20 himself. They had
naturally expected to be entertained in
London hotels When they found them
selves instead, made honored guests in
sacred London homes. il is d question
which thing touched them most-tiIe lux
ury and richness of The princely interiors
or the hattering intimacy so Unexpectedly
thrust upon them by typical members OF
a race additionally imagined by the
French to be cold, proud, standoffisl aud
supercilious.
In any case you may be sure that more
than seventy of the eighty visiting
Frenchmen as the London iackeys
brushed their clothes each morning. and
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except that But you shall see.
Here is a woman who says thou to
BRAND and Poincare. Clemenceau and
Cafl1auX. BRAND regards her as a
mascotte, and at times he calls on her,
when depressed o. doubtful even i'm
her absence, to breathe the air she has
breathed and gather strength, luck and
comfort from the surroundings of the
strong woman.
Just before the last elections she
sprung it on BRAND:
My dear prime minister, the cleo
tions are at hand she said. II es-
TEEN. that the progress realized by
women justifies their appearance i'm pub
lie reunions"
II suppose So" said BRAND
Even if the candidacy - woma n
remains practically useless tor deputy
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population seem to be engaged in dane
ing, promenading. eating, drinking IN
the endless halls of light. the gala
suites of this superlatively rich and
easy-going municipality.
The walls are frescoed by the greatest
modern painters. Marble statues and
vast vases from the Sevres state man
ufactory. alternate with great malaclIite
and onyx tables, gifts of kings. vast
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doled to YOU by women" said Nelly
Roussel when she stumped the BatiS-
nolles ward It's a Paris practice to hand
wages or checkbook to ones wife-and
depend on her to make the combinations
Paris men are brilliant--and erratic: or
they are Misunderstanding enthusiasm
but grass would grow in the Paris streets
without their women.
This is why there is no graft in the
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pal novelties-the bourse OF labor. palace
of the beauN arts. municipal flower Sar-
Gens. the city's wood-paving. etc Bou-
cicauIt Hospital with its ozone machine
for conSumL.ives. The Sevres porcelain
factory. the tapestry factory of the GO
belins. the professional and housekeeping
schools in every ward. the school can
teens. by which primary scholars are
furnished free luncheons; the WATERMAN
schools and "creeches. that keep chill
dren while their mothers work: the local
parks of Paris. with their concessions
and attractions: the sewers that have
railway trains and canal boats running
in them: the municipal slaughter house.
the network OF the under ground railway
and the "home assistance OF the poor,
as a special French distinction from aims
house charity.
What impression viii the city council
men of Rome have of their guides about
Paris by night? Such as are taken by
the Count d'Aulan a member OF the
Jockey Club, or Fortune d'Andisne, son
OF senator and general. will surely
feel fatterod; but what of those who
find themselves introduced to the green
room of the grand opera ballet by Hep
penheimer, the socialist cabinet maker,
or presented TO Guitry or Rejane by
Marchard. the journeyman jeweler?
What will they think of the women in
and out of the Hotel de Nille-woman
lawyers pushing claims. woman doctors
demanding sanitation. woman food, school
and poor inspectors bullying committees
and councillors wives and daughters in
and out he place at all hours, bent on
civic errands?
Women are nearer to the Paris munich
patty than to any other in Europe.
Some are sure to get in at the next
elections.
The principle of counting votes cast
for them has been admitted as French
law.
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II II HTSl 9iiitIi
can city councils
to visit Paris as
a corporate body
will have the Of
fetal trip of their
lives.
The times are
ripe.
You have but
to open the ques-
ton. tentatively,
through the French
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pality of Paris gave his resignation He
found that there was a greater man than
he in his own city.
But those stenographic notes are pllin.s
up The councilmen have dumped them
on their president. The president dumps
them on the committees. And the COM
mittees are playing bridge or swapping
oil paintings or art antiquities. Henri
CALI the actual president. collects books
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municipal councii-women's ideals rule
this city Once u woman gets into the
council there will soon be nifty.
Glance at a sitting of the proud munich
pality
pleasanter than hustling in the store or
office 1t is even better than cafe. over
cigarettes and cordials the Parisians cha,
of the one thing intereStnS-other peo-
pies business.
Each councilman receives one DAY
each week. And half his visitors are
women come on city business. Every
adult in the ward division has right TO
call and talk. II is an all-day session
His city-paid stenographer and secretary
takes down their schemes and demands
They keep him going.
So the president OF the councli-the
proudest officer of Paris-"receives' in
turn once week.
The councilmen bring their stenog-
raphers stuff to him
\ proud Office indeed, y recent ttular,
Andre Lefevre. hung the walls OF his
suite with $i.c0Oei0 worth of old gobelin
tapestries from the Galleria Museum.
Being a musician he has grand piano
in a corner. There he played soft in the
twilight when meditating on parks. house
facades. new street vistas and ornamental
lamp posts.
The president of the councils has his
two-horse coupe all gratis. with footman
and driver in cocardes of red and blue
the city colors. Do not try to stop that
coupe, Lefevre had played dominoes loI
thirty years at the Cafe Cardinal. in the
boulevard On mi-careme. when the bou
leyard was cleared of vehicles. the CO.
carded coupe had trouble to get there
through the crowds.
The domino game was at its height
noise came from the street. In ran the
cocarded footman-red- and blue-to sa.
that policeman said the coupe must De
taken from the boulevard.
The first man of Paris got hot In the
collar. He went out and told his quality
and gave his orders; let the coupe stand
And I've got my orders from Lepine
project of police, said the policeman
dragging the ehamping horses round >hs
corner OF the Rue Eicheiiet..
Next day the president Of The munic'-
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less of its political control, to confirm for
senator the man who receives the high
est vote for that honor in the previous
popular election. The only other state
in which this seemingly anomalous con-
dition has arisen is Oregon, whose re-
publican legislature has just had to elect
10 the Senate a democrat. Harry Lane,
who in the Move mber election received
higher vote than his nearest republican
rival. The same thing occurred four
years ago. when under the Oregon sys-
tenn a republican legislature confirmed
the popular election to the Senate of
George T.. Chamberlain, democrat
The consttutiOnality of the direct cleo
tons of senators by popular vote in these
states has not been seriously attempted
regardless of the fact that the proposed
the system has not yet been confirmed BY
anything near the requisite number of
sta legislatures.
Service as a page in the Kentucky leg
islature was the beginning of the legisla-
tive career Of Ollie James of Marion. NY.
another man now to be promoted from
the House TO the Senate. He studied law
under his father and gained fame as one
of the attorneys for the late Gov. Goebel
in his contest for the Kentucky governor
ship upon the eve of his assassinat ton
He was chairman OF the Kentucky dele
CATION to the first convention which nomi-
mated Bryan and ten years ago came to
the House. He will vie with Senator Pen
rose for the honor of being the tallest
member of the Senate.
y naval career was aimed for Johr
Wingate Weeks of Boston. who is pro-
NOTED from the House to the Senate to
succe ed the powerful Murray Crane of
Massachusetts. He went from his birth
place IN New Hampshire to the Naval
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the smart soubrettes brought up their
shaving water-cogitated painfully about
the style of return entertainment they
could offer.
You see, the Paris city fathers are not
merchant princes. CALI is former news
paper editor. There are just two rentl-
eres,' ie.. men living on the income OF
investments-one being a French noble
man. There are four manufacturers, two
contractors and ten commercial men. One
of the manufacturers makes clocks in a
small way. another surgical instruments
OF the commercial men three are repre-
sentatives of commerce." selling for other
firms, one runs y perfumery store, one
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WILL Tour America
w Wants American City
Councils to Visit Paris
Practical Feninism at the
Hotel De Ville-Era of Visit
ing Municipalities.

Special Correspondence OF The Star.
PARIS. February 10, 80
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HENRI GALL, THE ACTUAL. PRESI-
DENT OF THE PARIS MUNICIPAL.
COUNCIL.
HIS sunrREette sentiments are well
known, and he has recently cOnnded
To influential Americans I'm Paris the
desire of the municipality to exchange
visits with American city councils.
the Paris municipality would rather see
something real. Ii knows that women
vote in many of our states. and i'm par
ticular hold municipal Office.
Also. there is much practical feminism
at the Hotel de Vile. Ii does not seem
silly To Parisians. Woman traders pay a
third Of the commercial licenses. HuS-
bands put the business i'm their wives
names.
Papa plays dominoes i'm the cafe while
mamma runs the store.
Half you men have your pocket m 'nes
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tlIHbeO the ldOUtE 10 tIltl -"
ton by rungs of various calibers.
Scrutiny Of. these steps up which the
way has been fought to the nation 5
council of elder statesmen proves once
more that seat in that body. the higher
house of Congress. is regarded by men OF
ambition as second in 1oftiness to no
other office in the gift of the people. IL
proves that men who have served even as
governors of sovereign commonweai'hs'
and who have worn the gown upon the
high federal bench consider the toga OF
q United States senator as st'Il hiSher
horror to which to attain. Indeed IL
precedent and popular opinion can be ac-
cepted as trustworthy. sehatorlai tosa
is considered as even within the diehi'!
of p man descended from the presidency
itself one former chief executive tAnarew
Johnson) having passed from the :" hi'e
House to the upper legislative chamber
Of the nation. and the senatorial tosa
having been recently suggested as the
only federal honor worthy of the man
who. in the fun glow of his glory. left
the Executive Mansion four years ago.
Let us first glance at the men who
will now crown their title of governor
with that of senator. and consider that
they are stepping higher up on the po-
Htical ladder There is John +. Shairoth
of Colorado that rugged native OF Mis-
souri, who amazed practical politicians
nine years ago by refusing 10 retain ms
scat in the lower house of Congress upon
the ground that his reelection had been
tainted by fraud and corruption. He had
already served ten years in the House Oh
Representatives when this act OIL renuh-
citation was announced to the constitu-
euts who had honored him thus Ions ana
who were to heap upon him further re-
wards for his honesty. He mas lived IN
Denver for generation. When he ar
rived there, thirty-three years ago. ne
vas a Young barrister who, after earn
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Indeed. Marguerite Durand might
well have got in. had she not tried for
deputy congressman instead. And
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y the new Senate.
W hich Will meet
March I to witness
the swearing in of
its presiding Of
ficer. Vice Presi-
dent Marshall, and
To consider Pres :
q ent Wilson $
@ arl Y appoint
III = N [ $. VIII ST.
tWerty-three new
members. who have
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1913-02-15
FINDS GOLD WHERE TOLD.
Directions Left by Man Who Died Six.
teen Years AGO.

Mayfield, Calico to the bald peak
and wait until the setting sun casts the
shadow of the dead redwood; then dig
where the shadow ends"
Such We're the directions received by
Steve Perkins. woodchopper of the
Alpine district. He Is now richer by
$500. for the money was there in gold.
Twenty years ago Perkins saved the
life of Nathan Comstock. an eccentric
resident of Woodside. and the letter
Just received was written by Com
stock. who died sixteen years ago.
While the letter bore no Identified
lion other than a San Francisco date
stamp recently affixed In the postofiice
Of that city, Perkins believes that il
was posted by the executor Of Com
stocks estate.
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Miss Graham took her pupils out to
Cathedral guloh 10 spend the after
noon.
Jonn Grove r turned to Phoebe
"Wednesday after enjoying visit
~ita his FAMILY.
Mr.. Luke Syphus has been gu r.
i'll for several weeks. His friends
are all greatly concerned about him.
he is very feeble and has Just passed
mis- S6h birthday.
oeOrse ~ adsnorth is running Err
nest Gentry's pool room and barber
SHOP during the latters absence IN
..cs Angeles.
Frank Wilson returned from Los
Angeles last Tuesday.
The meeting of the Felices Horas
club which was to have celebrated
LA coins birth day. at the home OF
IRIS. Henry Lee. had to b. postponed
IN account of the whoopiing cough.
John Wedge made trip over from
/ amo this week.
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sALLows LUMBER FOR cOoPS
Haneman's seaffoId WA Serve Less
Objectionable Purpose.

Reno, Ne,. Put ii chicken coors Is
to be the ultimate fate of the lumber
used in constructing the gallows on
which the first legal. execution ever
held i'm the state of Nevada took place.
This occurred in the courthouse yard
in this city. July 81. 1877.
The man hanged was J. w. Rover
who came to Nevada in 1861 from
Stockton. Cal. He was convicted of
numbering Isaac y. Sharp by striking
him over the head with blunt instru-
ment and then shooting him. The exc
eution was performed by A. X. Lamb.
sheriff. The sheriff cut the rope which
held the trap with hatchet, and death
was almost instantaneous.
The gallows has been lying In the
woodshed back of the county Jail for
years. Recently the shed was torn
down and the gallows taken to the
county hospital, where the lumber will
be used in making chicken coops.
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FORFEITURE NOTICE
To w. A. Johnston, his heirs,
and assigns:

To w. A. Johnston, his heirs.
administrators and assigns:
You. and each of you, are hereby
notified that have expended, during
the year 1912. One Hundred Dollars
worth of labor and improvements up
on each OF the following described
lo6c mining claims, situate In the
Pristol Mining District Lincoln coun-
~, Nevada, namely:
Rome No. 3. lode mining claim, re-
corded April Is. 1909, in book CT Of
Mining Notices page 19l, Lincoln
county, Nevada, records. Rome No,
4. lode mining claim. recorded April
~ 1909. in book CT Of Mining No.
II es, page 1o1. Lincoln county, Ne.
dada, records. Rome No. S, lode
mining claim. recorded June 3, 1909.
In book CT of Mining Notices, page
2s2, Lincoln county. Nevada, records
Rdme No. s. lode mining claim. re-
corded June .. 1909. In book CT Of
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1913-02-15
BABY BY PARCEL POST.
Lusty Youngster just Squeezed Under
Eleven Pound Limit.

Batavia, O.-Vernon o. Lyle, mail
carrier on rural route No. out of this
place. is the first man to accept and
deliver under parcel post conditions a
live baby. The baby, boy weighing
ten and three-quarter pounds, just
within the eleven pound weight limit.
is the child of Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse
Beagle of near Glen Este.
The package" was we'll wrapped
and ready for mailing" when the car
rier got It, Its measurements reached
seyenty-one inches, also just within
the law. which makes seventy two
inches the limit. Mr.. Lyle delivered
the parcel" safely to the address on
the card attached. that of its grand
mother, Mrs. Louis Beagle, who lives
about mile from It's home The post
age was Is cents, and the parcel was
insured for $50.
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RESOLUTIONS

whereas: Our Heavenly Father in
MS infinite love and wisdom has call
cd from you your dearly beloved
orotner. John A. Gilabert and
whereas: You have lost a loving
friend and faithful brother, there
fore be It
Resolved: That we. the members
OF Miriam Rebekah Lodge No. 29,
extend to the members Of Phoebe
Lodge NO. 20, ]. 0. 0. F our deepest
sympathy In this sad hour. May
you be ever faithful to the principles
OF odd Fellowship as he was
be 1t Further Resolved: That we
miss him. mourn him and revere his
memory in the years to come. And
be 1t
resolved: That a copy Of these res
Nutions be spread on the minutes Of
our lodge and a copy be published
IN the Phoebe Record.
BLANCHE COAKLEY
EDWIN PRICE
ETHEL ORR
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TO WARN Miners
OF BAD WEATHER
Bureau Seeks TO Lessen Deaths
From Explosions.

Washington. the purpose of
warning mine operG ,Srs at times when
explosions are likely TO occur as re-
suit of atmospheric pressure condi,
lions, the United States weather bu-
reau is notifying the mine owners
throughout the country that it will in
form them. if they SO desire, when ex-
ira precautions should be taken. In
its circular the weather bureau de-
clareS that when there is marked
fall in atmospheric pressure the
chances of mine explosions are greatly
increased"
DIR. Joseph A. Holmes. director of
the United States bureau of mines, ex-
pressed the fear that the warnings
themselves may add to the risks and
dangers in mines where gases occur in
dangerous quantities" Investigations
have been going on for the last two
years. he said as to the influence of
weather conditions. especially atmos-
pheric pressure as indicated by the
barometer. upon the amount of gas in
date have not been conclusive.
AS to the value of warnings" DIR.
Holmes declared that will depend
upon the way in which they are used
If. as is hoped, they serve to make
miners and mine operators more care
full when these warnings are issued
and not less careful at other times.
they may do good in mines where gases
occur in dangerous quantities. III, how
ever. they should serve to make miners
extended intervals between the receipt
of such warnings. the warnings may
Increase the hazards of mining i'm these
coal mines and thus indirectly be the
cause of disasters. 1t should be re-
membered that large portion of the
mine explosions In the bituminous coal
fields are dust explosions. and most of
these occur In what are called nongas-
eous mines. These will hardly be In.
fiuenced by atmospheric pressure"
Professor Edward +. Bowie of the
weather bureau. who has studied the
questions. said there was no doubt that
atmospheric pressure increased or de
creased danger Of mine explosions. de
pending on whether the pressure was
low or high respectively. and that in
England warnings similar TO those pro
posed here had been issued for soae
years The bureaus conclusion. he
said. had been the result OF careful Oh
servation. both abroad and in this
country.