Show TRAITORS LIFE A HARD ONE t profession of trea treaon on Is not prof t able do not always receive what they expect paris le figaro apropos of a re cent trial of a french soldier who has been convicted of selling plans to a foreign power remarks that the profession of treason la Is not a profitable one and wonders why so many frenchmen embrace it tl one soldier Is reported to have ex petted for the sale of an automatic debouck air or trench digger which he had purloined but the military authorities ask in amaze men ment t what could have put euch such an idea into his head or into that of an other soldier who carried can led off a lease else and believed that he would pocket but only got As for the old soldiers wha hat hav ing turned traitors have rem remained abroad their lot Is a poor one they began by only receiving small sums and then the tho were ivere utilized as spies with the prospect of being turned adrift it if they failed to bring in any in formation worth having then con sider it ti e risk that they run it if detect ed in france and berton are condemned to detention for life an oti er man his 20 years hard labor and so on so soldiers have a great deal more to gain by remaining loal as even if tl ev are successful in such nefarious practices at the outset their earnings are poor and they have a wretched future b fore them abroad |