The Parisians are greatly excited by these crimes, which interrupt
their pleasant lives, and reveal the fires over which they are at present living. It is thought that the dy-namitarde may have scores of bombs, and threaten houses chosen by
accident, and M. Loubet, as Minister of the Interior, has organised a thorough search. In thirty-five districts of Paris, the houses of all known Anarchists were searched, many documents carried away, which point to an international League of Anarchy, and a quantity of shells and chemicals discovered. No dynamite, however, has been found, and no cartridges ready for action. The public buildings are specially watched, as they have been threatened in anonymous letters, and the secret-service money is being liberally employed. Out- side a small circle, said in the Chamber not to exceed one hundred persons, there seems to be no sympathy with the criminals ; but the entire absence of clues points to the organisation of a Secret Society which punishes all who betray it. The evidence suggests the presence of some one among the confederates acquainted either with chemistry or the manufac- ture of explosives, and as the number of such persons is limited, and their special knowledge remarked by their friends, some guidance may yet be obtained from that source. Unless, how- ever, the Anarchists should keep a stock of the bombs, certainty can hardly be attained except from a treachery rare in these anti-social confederacies, which are moved by a fanaticism like that produced by some devilish religion like Vaudooism, or the worship of Bhowanee, the deity of the Thugs.
