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Show I LONG LOST I French Detective Police Aiding Grief-Stricken Mother H Paris, March 1C Undismayed by a H ralluro extending over twoho years, Br the French detects o polico bave R again started a world-wide search for SS the three children of Madamo Sour-Bjte Sour-Bjte dillon, who disappeared in 1899 and jjrcf who are believed to be now living In $5i tho United Statos Tho case Is so liql appealing and pathetic In Its nature jiff that tho polico have asked tho news- fpapors of America to assist In finding somo trace of tho missing children, ( tho oldest of whom, if living is now a young woman of IS years. :jl Madamo Sourdillon has spent her ill? life and her fortune In an endeavor I to find her children. Sho is tho drughter of Charles do la Salle, a surgeon of tho French Navy, who for 1 distinguished and gallant services was presented with a .word bv the city of Brest. Modemolsello do la Salle married nineteen years ago Saesar Louis Sourdillon, who was then a Parisian Journalist In 1899 she obtained a divorce on the ground of cruelty and abandonment The decree de-cree provided that tho husband be permitted to sco their threo children EjBj one day a week. On April 13, 1S99, g' Madamo Sourdlllon's maid took the ? children Louise, agod G; Dertlie, -1, iM and Charles, 2 to tho house of a, JhSt common friend, only to return to say Uj; that thoy had been taken for a walk '" II Since that day Madame Sourdillon Sm has never seen her chlldron. (w At onco tho grief-stricken raothor tul began a search to which was dovoted W all of tho keenest detective instincts of Franco, -England and othor Euro-Kj Euro-Kj j)can countries. Finally tho children irv woro traced to England and then to t the United States. Every French con-SBjj con-SBjj sul or diplomatic representative .in 4 America was at once notified. Tho Sftr trail led to San Francisco, then to San Dlogo and Los Angeles. At Den-kh Den-kh ver all trace was lost and for years mi nothing has been heard. fl Formerly a woman of considerable sit wcnItn "Madame Sourdillon has ex- pended her entire fortuno in her W tearch and is now earning her living M y 4bv conducting a pension. She still j if believes that sho will find some trace 1 nor cn'larcn- ani1 t00 French au-I au-I -j. thoritlcs Join with her in hoi expecta-J! expecta-J! $ Hon that the publication of the facts il throughout tho United States may S crown her years' efforts with success. 1 1 Hf The death of Jules Lefebvro, tho I celebrated French portrait painter, 2 I has been followed by many anecdotes m of his Interesting career. Despito his success, Lefebvro remained what he l '.f was from the start a man of simple If and charming manner. On one point 1 alone was he firm and Intractable Ho detested utterly any form or at- jK I tempt at bargaining. j I One day, so, the anecdoto goes, an S'A ? Amorlcan of wealth called to see J him. J 'l wjuild-llke." the American said , to tho artist, "a full-length portrait "Jfji I of mysolf. How much, if you please j will it bo?" TO "Twenty thousand francs" (about 1 S 5.000), replied Lefebvro. U "Vory well. But if I ask you to M mako two portraits Instead of 6no ffljl ' that 1b, one of my wife and ono of yj 'j. myself, I suppose "your price will be J different" S :V "Certainly." responded tho artist 2 I "And how much will if bo?" 5? $ Lefebvro reflected a moment, then Si '' said Blmply: "Itt will bo forty thousand thous-and francs." Tho American paid. Tho approaching dedication of a monument to Champjain on tho borders bor-ders of the lake which bears Jils nnme and to which France where Champ-lain Champ-lain was born, The explorer was born at Brouage, about eight miles south of Rochefort, In the Department of Charonte-Infcr-ieure. On tho monument wb,Ich was erected In his , honor In 1S7S at Brouago one reads that Samuel Champlain was born "towards 1570." It was from Brouage that -tho future founder of Quebec went to Havre and thonco salled'lo the new world. Today To-day his natal town, formerly an important im-portant city, is no inoro than a modes mod-es , almost deserted illagc, situated in the center of a marshy territory from which tho sea long ago retired. At tho deep ditch, which was formerly former-ly tho edge of tho port, a customs col-lecto col-lecto will today show tho huge rings where vessels formerly tied up. On tho rampants now covered with vegetation veg-etation may still bo seen the arms of Mazarln, who was "Captain of Brouage." Brou-age." Also may be seen in this melancholy melan-choly village a church which Incloses among other tombs that of the Marquis Mar-quis of Cnrnavalet an ancient prison, and, finally, the ruins of tho walls and door of the house In which Champlain was born, ruins which wero recently purchased by an Englishman. Eng-lishman. An Interesting celebration which occurs oc-curs in July, Is that of the bl-conton-ary of tho Abbe do l'Epee, inventor of tho deaf and dumb alphabet An Influential In-fluential committee has been formed to organize the fotos which arc to bo held In Paris from July 2S to August Au-gust -1th, in tho course of which there will be an International deaf and congress. oo |