Show t g r dig D w th the trie Walls valls v alls Ab ut P Paris ris' ris I n fly J. HS K Special Set Portico vice I Purls Paris Sept Sel 21 l.- l. many years ears ari f debate In and negotiations toils lions between the municipal council and the government o the fortifications Which surround Paris Parts have been condemned to le demolition und and the stevedore pick Is In now lI plying ing merrily As a n defense tho they of Ut r course l no military purpose and have ave ae been 11 condemned for years by tho ties tics TIle The u an us they ate are popularly called have c been the tho h harbor of ot a particularly par pU Infamous class cluss They are aro occasionally raided cJ by the police and it frequently occurs that thal wanted for rOl years ear cars by b the thc judicial authorities authorities authorities au au- au- au are arc dj discovered The other morning at i L o'clock N. N Hammond chief of ot the criminal in investigation In- In assisted tl by Innumerable ln- ln numerable police agents and representatives I of ot International police department depart depart- menu ment made a u gigantic round Four I hundred bundred arrests were made S The young Countess dOrb who recently won the applause of hundreds hundreds hun hun- reds of Americans tile Uie Con Con- court CoUl by clearing In the high jump the tho metre mark malk has hns performed performed per pOI formed u a daring feat rent which has hns made her immensely I popular The other oilier day ay while cantering through the tho Bois Bols dc do a u aI I friend dared her brother to Jump s cros a si cub cab Tie lie refused th the young oung countess bo tiO that thal h hi j h-j i Immediately med took up tho the wager The rhe first cabby that was tan encountered was Iad ready leady to loan his tile cab Io for tor tho the perform perform- a Hardly had he his I hirae when the thc intrepid countess counters was I een n sending her In gi great at tyLe over U the lie cab c tu to the jr great at enthusiasm of Dr the w fi-w Pedestrians pedestrian who at tit IheI ull arl morning wall walk did not t e lo to lobe be tie hel treated to ln daring a ud t it if which entIre c Paris Is lit talking now a a aKing King KinS ha has lias even moro inure trouble on oil his itla hands In the the- Con Congo than titan usual and the outlook in jM anything but hut n c-n- for Cor according to letters leUel's re received rc- rc c from French merchants almost the hut whole state Is In up open en revolt In the tho Abir the and the I districts th the nn natives cs refuse to pay their taxes either In coin or labor They 1 are itie moreover I Incited against the authorities by native 1 priests who tho aNthe are aN the fomenters of he hc he European anti and whose intention it isto isto is ts to oust all the whites from African sol soli soil Several punitive forces have been sent i-ent against tho the truculent natives but with 11 little We or 01 no result a S The Tho death deuth has han just occurred occUlTed in Paris of Vice Admiral Franquet who fought rought the only naval engagement durIng during dur dur- ing lug the Franco war var Franquet was at the outbreak of or hostilities commander of or the gu ii and ond happened to b be at Ha Lia- vana na The Prussian gunboat Meteor was 1 lying Iring Ing in the same ame port pert and when war was declared d the lie French commander com corn mander sent a n challenge tb to the captain of oC the German ve vet vessel I which was WUI ac ac- ac Doth Both vessels put to sea gea ea followed fol tol- fol- fol I ac-I towed lowed b by several Spanish warship warships I who Wile agreed to lo act net as aI Judges The Meteor was vastly superior in point of or armament to the Bouvet Franquel Franquet knew mew therefore that to fight light an artillery artmen duel would be disastrous din dis Isu Is- Is u 10 lo his hise e vessel and his only chia cha nr ore would bo bl to bO board Jod his rival He tie bore bOlc down O II on the tho 1 Meteor and the shock of the collision lon carried away the he lie latter's mast and auth damaged the Hal helm hel iii The was s as almost ly afterward placed ho hors du combat by byn n it Prussian shell which burst In tho e engine room rue Tho captain of Lilt lie vessels f then intervened and pointed out that both hud had waters and the tho combat must cea cease e. e Tho Thu Bouvet llou and the teor lay side able by IW side llIo at Havana una until tho thu en end of ot tile thu war e Something In the lie nature of un nit ultimatum ultimatum ulti ulti- has hus been received by the tho French SO government from the he Swiss wIss fed federal eral government o concerning concerning- the proposal of a direct railway runway route rout between between be be- tween Paris Palls an and Milan via Ia tho the Simplon Elm Sim- plon tunnel The rhe Mont Blanc scheme has been practically dropped and aiu the tile choice now noi lies between the thc and th tI tie Vallorbe Frasne-Vallorbe routes The Thc Swiss Swigs government asks ks the French government govern govern- ment meat to immediately decide which of the UIO two rout routes g It Jt elects Switzerland o agrees to offer eUel financial finan finan- cia cial aid but reserves the thc right to open I up on its lib own account tho the route re rejected IC by hy France a S S That France continues to lead head tho ho world In the tile matter of or the automobile trade Is shown by official tt statistics just issued Dl During the thu first t mouthy of the present year France exported nearl nearly sixteen million dollars dollars' worth of or cars or an nn C of oC over 2000 over t U tile the C rl figures for Cor th the saint period last year yea I and und of oC about aboUl G. G f t- t compared with 1 1903 03 A great reat proportion of or the cars curs W wen rt I purchased b by Americans The Tue hn- hn I on huts has kept pace pact relatively with fur for 1907 against fl fur for J tOG 1906 |