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Show THE CURRENT FRENCH CRAZE. Extreme Legislation Promised as thw 7te suit of '.ho Spy Mania. The succession of fanatical crazes ir. which tho French people havo been in-dulging in-dulging in tho past two years has placed upon the statute hooks some of tho most monstrous laws that over disgraced & monarohy, not to say a domocracy. The present spy mania promisos to add soma amazing legislation of this description. The law against espionage laid before the chamber by the minister of war, now awaiting enactment, is of this character. char-acter. The pretended purpose of the bill is to enable tho penalty of death against traitors, such as Captain Dreyfus, to be inflicted, but it contains a number of Insidious clauses which would enable a government not troubled with soruples of conscience to get rid of its enemies by trumping up spurious charges of dip Closing state secrets. For instance, it proposes to inflict five years' imprisonment and 10,000 francs' fine on any unqualified person who shall, even without intent of espionage, havs procured, got hold of or published any plans, documents or information concerning con-cerning the national defense or the external ex-ternal 6afety of the state. This proposal fs strongly denounced by the opposition newspapers, and even the ministerial Debats admits that it is going a little too far. It is hardly surprising that some of the London newspapers are declaring de-claring that tho only safety for foreign-srs foreign-srs is to stay away from Franca Pari Tetter Dublin has a new paper called Today's To-day's Woman. It is edited and written by a group of talented women, many of whom are university graduates. Its leading article, which gives us a good idea of its object, is by Sir Charles Cameron Cam-eron on "Scientific Professions For Women." Progress in England has been along different grooves from what it has been in America. Here women have entered law. medicine, dentistry, the pulpit, chemistry, pharmacy and architecture, while in England they have seemingly avoided these fields and have gone into geology, mineralo gy, botany, zoology, paleontology and higher mathematics. Today's Woman argues the adoption of the American system and the broadoning of tho Brit Ish system. |