The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-05-18
By ASSOCIATED PRESS.

BY ASSOCIATED FREss.
Paris. May 17-President Poincare is
strongly opposed to the killing Of ami
mails and birds for sport, and one of
announce himself q patron Of the
French society whose purpose is to af-
ford protection to animals. He does
not. however, wish to pose as an ami
NAL lover merely in name, and he has
just made the official announcemen
that he will not hold a gun in hand
during his term of office.
This decision Of the president is an
entirely personal one. He declares he
has no intention of interfering with the
sport of others. and that when his du-
ties require him to be present at a
presidential hunting party, he will full
fill them.
1t is believed, however, that this at
titude of NJ. Poincare will have a. con-
siderable effect on presidential enter
tanning during the coming years of his
administration. One of the chief at
has been the magnificent coverts of
the presidents country seat at RAM
bouillet, but out of Difference to the
opinions of NJ. Poincare. it is believed
that most royal visitors will refrain
from hunting while in France.
A Young Benefactress.
A young and beautiful Portuguese
woman, Mademoiselle Constance da
Cana, is indefatigable in her efforts to
secure better treatment for royalist
prisoners in Portugal who suffer bad
treatment at the hands of the Portu-
guese government. Court proceedings
do not deter her any more than the
hardshipS of navigation deferred her
famQns ancestor, Vasco da Cana, from
sailing out 20 India in the fifteenth
century.
The activities of this young woman
brought her before a court martial in
Lisbon in April on a charge of con-
spiracy against the government. She
at once resumed her campaign in
Oporto, where she has collected S15,-
AS Mademoiselle da Cana journeys
through the country she is hailed as a
heroine by royalist prisoners, who bow
down before her in grateful acknowl-
edgment of her self sacrifice in their
cause. Her courageous persistence is
attracting considerable admiration even
from officials of the republic.
To the Duchess of Bedford. another
woman devoted to the royalist cause,
belongs the distinction of being the
principal accuser of the Portuguese
government in the matter of their
treatment of political prisoners. Ma
terra. for her revelations, which have
caused something of a sensation, was
secured during visits which she made
in person to the various prisons. The
Portuguese government, however, pro-
tests against these revelations, as well
as the attacks against the republic
which have appeared recently in foreign
newspapers.
Wooers Were Disappointed.
No sooner was the news of the vast
inheritance of Marius Bonnaud flashed
through France, than women from all
parts of the country hegan making
him offers Of marriage. The modest
and demure ones wrote, while the i'm
patient and the imaginative hurried to
& telegraph Office. Seven million dol
lars, thirty five million francs. to an
unknown shepherd of Sernhac from an
English uncle he had never heard of,
was romance enough to hold French
attention for three days, during which
Marius became famous.
Then came the news 1t was all a
mistake; no such fortune had been
left. When Marius was informed he
could not believe it, particularly as the
offers of marriage still continued to
come in every mail. the late wooers
declaring their eagerness to we'd the
good looking young shepherd, money
or no money. Today he is saying: Il
shall wait; am not yet ready to
choose a wife" Some of the love sick
women offer substantial fortunes of
their own, and this may help in the
solution of the perplexity of Marius.
The shepherd has many friends who
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self seems to be convinced that he viii!
yet receive the fortune. Nevertheless,
he takes his flock daily to the pastur-
age. and in the evening considers his
many offers OF marriage.
A Novel Device.
The municipal authorities of Paris
have under consideration an ordinance
making it obligatory for all motor cars
to carry device by means of which
pa ssengers in the interior Of their car
may stop it instantly without the as
sistance of the chauffeur. Such a
would prevent accidents SINH
lar to that in which the two children
of Isadora Duncan met their death
preventable accident of the
same kind was caused in Paris a short
time ago by chauffeur fainting on his
box. The proposed device which the
technical committee of the prefecture
Of the Seine have before thin for con-
is said to be easily applied
to any automobile at a cost of about
ten dollars.
Celebrated Actors.
The two most celebrated moving
picture actors in France are NJ. Prince,
Of the historic Varieties theatre, and
Max Linder. They are both exceed
ingly inventive and manage to evolve
every week some clever pantomimic
cipal parts and stage manage the en-
tire production
Although both regularly employed In
playing leading parts in the best the
aires Of Paris and the provinces, the
earnings of these two actors in royal
ties from the moving pictures far ex-
coed not only their own considerable
from the Legitimate" practice
of their art, but probably the profits of
most popular actor-managers. Max
Under alone is understood to have re-
ceived over 100000 from his moving
picture work. in the past three years.
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