Show I ROBBED BY BT GROT CRAFTY THIEF THIEL Soldiers' Soldiers Bunks Pilfered ed b b by Masquerader Who In Inspected Iii In- Barracks CAMEL GOT ALL LIT UP f j Ship of the Desert Partook Unsparingly of Wine and on Streets Republican Special Service Copyright 1 if 1 j Purls PuI March 10 No Ko Xo longer dare lare w we Frenchmen n lau laugh h at nt our our neighbors across the Ow Rhino who do 10 not hot know now jj the difference nc between an nn ex con fe shoemaker from Koepenick anti and an of- of officer I fleer In the kaisers kaiser's glorious army for fOl JT alas Rb we too tou have hae been heen J by b an ordinary thief successfully haIng haIng ha hav- p Ing ma masqueraded as a- a assistant I tant secretary o of war Inspected barracks and robbed i sleepy sleep fold soldiers leIs r The thief evidently knew mew that M Mf i. i f Cheron like President Roosevelt Hoose when f police commissioner In New York w. w was fond of or making surprise visits tc to r camps and barracks to sec see that all nfl was a well with the thc men nen even een In the quiet inlet hours of or the lie nl night ht It therefore caused little comment when hei a n. man pretending to he be tim tho assistant as as- tant HI-tant in the dead of the night ul ht appeared appear at th the gates of th the bai racks at Chateau au 11 and do- do J to bf hl shown hown through throng and guardrooms Quietly entering a a. room where privates wore vre dreaming of military glory gIOI he h began he an to examine their clothing abstracting whatever valuables ables M ho he found S Some orne rne of the tho warriors war war- s rIOl who woke voke e up h ho lie quieted by hy displaying Ii dis us- playing a n fatherly Interest in iii their 1 inquiring if th the they wore were comfortable com corn well veil foil fed and well treated I At last JaM however a soldier who knew M. M 1 Choron struck a match anti and I yelled that tilt the visitor looked not atall at atall all aU like the strenuous sir secretary y but hut buthis I t. t hi his hl comrades would not flAt 1 believe 0 him and the tiit thief vas as allowed allo to escape with hi his booty Th The Tho story of a eam camel J with a jag on has lias made mad Parisians laugh The Ship of tho ho Desert rt as at an nn advertisement nd for a breakfast food harmless to 10 camels mels and therefore supposedly also to men was as promenaded along th tho ho boulevard boulc jf when It developed d a It strange weakness causing it to walk n sideways This produced a l lre 1 of mishap haps among at the mule tl through the of horses 3 at the camels camel's curious Trembling shuffling along alonS' tin Uw desert ship was tacked to a police station st. While hUe it was waR walling waiting outside the proprietor of a it taking pity on oil th the lie suffering beast aIt it a howl of wine vivie which it greedily I and 1001 looked to for 01 mot more It was wa feeling fooling much better bettor and In 0 a jaunty mood when lowed In- In the thc station rn h h M lj freJ J ep Joep 4 in th the sergeants sergeant's r tep hure It il Ium all nH n iI n n when Hm thOn llio thO n t r. r OO l H l' l was quite sober ocr and anti able ablo to lo walk ii In Its ils usual manner S S the village vil vil- iI May 20 i is the tho date fixed by y lage Jage girls of nf 1 Ec l for forthe forthe or the festival to which the they nr are inviting of the tho world all the lh bachelors b became The rhe which has hai now famous with a n f few vv girls of the village villaJe who thought it was a a. pity that t there was WUi fl no wa way of becoming acquaint d with the Iho great cat number of bachelors h i roaming naming about dying they make I the acquaintance ol ot thought ht to nice and anel pretty girls They The claim that their fete is nc uc n matrimonial 1 marl pt but that tho imply Invite young youn men who Ilk ir U C come ome to 10 tea te-a. or or coffee c and If some of them fall faU in love lore with the tho ladles present anti and to marry mairy so MO much lunch the bolter I The Thc spectacle sp of or a prominent Israel Israel- lie ite publicly owing disavowing his hiM old nid faith and ml becoming a convert to Catholic Catholic- hun ism Is 15 a very rare rale one In Paris nowa nowa- days It is iM still more mOle exceptional and exciting when the person Is a a. leadIng leading lead lead- Ing literary man This is what has Just been en done by hy N. N Francis Franls de do set Ret a distinguished and brilliant dramatist whoso plays plas have recently met with immense success at Paris P and anti Monte Carlo He lIe Is the author of I Le Bonheur ur s a part clever cl Ila play which was one of the greatest greate suc sue of or last winter inter M. M 1 de IC baptism m. m which occurred so i so o that he should have the t sayi same Mme faith as ns his t fiancee took tool place at the thO church chul-ch of St St. Clotild The rhe author will shortly be bo married to Mile DI Monin tz atthe at atthe the Madeleine church S S The death halt hafe just taken place atlie atthe at the lie little town of ll near ar here of Valentin le Ie D o who lo was sas one of the most mOlt famous lancers dancers of the tIme lime when Moulin Rouge was as In the hc height of Il Its fame and the famous cafes and resorts of the tho Wt gay world gained for Paris Parl the r reputation of being tho the wildest wild sid est Jt and the thc most amusing city on ln earth rth Valentin de tie Valentin the Boneless was a n. contemporary of those other famous fatuous dancers Flageolet and anel the women omen La Ia Haon dOr d'Or Grille Gillie dEgout La Sau- Sau Saut t and Patte en the theamous amous arnous high h kickers klI Is I's and he original lancers dancers of that linary folly foll tho the cancan canan can can an 1 I Valentin was the last real lancer dancer o. o of the can n. He Ire deserved deceived hi his sobriquet met for his extravagant postures his frantic a agility wonderful and a astonishing pirouettes phonetics wore sore such Rueh as nl nightly to a astound the tho onlookers and anti nothing lII like c lh m has lias t over vr been j n seen n since The dancer ho whose c real name was Jules Julos TIt ll over r twenty years raI ago o. when n age be began an to erN creep on him and retired to where few dreamed that the little thin gray gray- l gentleman was Willi the greatest Artist of a bygone age Og and anil once the wonder of or Paris S S S had hall been hn lead dead Just one hundred bundled yea years yearl is last year NIt and anda a statue in honor of him Is to bo it e erected In a few lays days la s at his native town lown of GIas Alpes s In inthe the tho south of or C FranceS France which appropriately enough h. h is the tho home homo of the Mower Hower anti and s scent nt Industry of the tho whole of Franco France tho the most exquisite of all the th French Little Masters s last l I or 01 painters paint paint- ers IS IS of 01 gallant subjects o of the eighteenth ligh century which counted among th them m men like the greatest t of till life liCe artists tl the tho man who only painted beautiful on women cn and refused rc a princess as a sitter because because be ue- cause she W was s not pot beautiful enough h and many m n have Immensely Im mi- value alue of oC late lalo immensely CI appreciated in year real and a large lar e number of oC wealthy J 4 Americans Including Mr l Morgan JOI now v possess pO genuine examples examples exam exam- ples pies o of the time wor work of this master of the dainty who was vas always charming If sometimes a It little free At the Cronier sale eighteen months ago ngo n o Le Ie Billet Dot Doux by b fetched etched the highest price yet vet et attained I 1 for Cor a specimen of oC this ihl artists artist's m work French Freud people are nothing nothing- if not nol ar at and Crasso GIa Is particularly proud Jroud j of fth the tho great genius who J gs son IA l w |