Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-04
CIGARS AND LOVE
INTEREST PARIS
France Fails to Obtain Revenue
Expected by the Tax
on Tobacco
TRAVELLER THRICE TILTED
Practical Joker Who Frightened
Many People Is Shot
by Police
TRAVELLER THRICE JILTE[

PARIS, Aug. 3.-The rise in the price
of the better sorts of tobacco, cigar
cites and cigars has not responded to
the fond anticipations of the treasury
department Far from more money
having been taken since the new taxes
were imposed less than was previously
the case has been received. The ex-
PLANTATION is that, in order to be even
with the officials, people are either
smoking less than they did before or
are falling back on the cheaper arti-
Cles. Perhaps this said disappointment
is responsible in some measure for the
increased vigilance which is being eX-
ercised at custom houses, which had
already diminished the small quantity
of tobacco, cigars and cigarettes that
travellers coming from abroad are al
lowed to bring in, ostensibly for per-
sonal consumption during their jour-
neys. The Petit Journal" which is a
very practical newspaper, draws atten-
tion to this matter. lit says:
The customs have for some time past
received merciless instructions. Their
inquisition is more intolerable than
ever. You may we'll imagine that it is
not against the great fraud, the lin
dustrial" fraud, that all this activity
is directed. No. The administration
is short sighted by nature. 1t only
sees things on the small side. Those
over whom it tyrannizes are mere tour
lists who cross the frontier with few
more cigars or grammes of tobacco
than it permits. Well, the English
suffer more than any others from such
methods. Many of them when they
come to France bring the tobacco to
which they are accustomed. Either 1t
is taken from them or they are made
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drawn up against them. They are
furious.
All this will tend to keep them
away, So concludes the Petit Journal
''You see that a stupid and brutal
administration is a country's worst
scourge," concludes the paper.
TRAVELLER THRICE JILTED
A commercial traveller from one Of
the provincial towns has had the most
extra ordinary matrimonial adventures.
Three times he was on the point of
marrying, and three times the brides
to whom he had been engaged took to
flight before the marriage ceremony
could be held His last bride was twen-
ty years younger than himself, and he
had fallen profoundly in love with her.
The marriage was to take place in'
Paris, and he Travelled in her company,
first to Nice, and finally to this city.
Ali the preliminary formalities had
been gone through, and the bridal
couple went to Saint Cloud to lunch in
a restaurant in the park. At the end
of the meal the young lady disap-
peared. In vain her Romeo waited for
her. AS the hours passed by he was in
despair, for he realized that this was
the third time that fate barred him
from attaining perfect happiness. He
returned to Paris and left the follow
ing note:
my dear, why did you abandon me
thus at Saint Cloud? 1t was very very
wicked. I returned to the hotel to
wait for you, but in vain. In view
of your prolonged absence. I have de-
cided to take to flight. 1 shall be back
at Saint Cloud in three or four days.
Meet me there; 1 shall be waiting for
you"
The desperate lover waited for some
time, and then wrote again:
MY dear, it is now twelve days since
YOU abandoned me. I will not attempt
to tell you that l thought you were
ILL., Why did you not let me know?
Have l refused you anything? When
I first knew you, what did 1 say? That
nv past misfortune made me melan-
choly, that I needed affection, solid
friendship, and that if you could give
me these things you would be the hap
time flies like shadow and that one
tim flies like a shadow and that one
grows old quicker than one thinks"
The Romeo who wrote this was al
ready past so. Strangely enough, the
answer TO these amorous letters came
in the form of a suit for damages
brought by his sweetheart, whose law
YER stated that she complained that
her lover had beaten her at Saint
Cloud and that was the reason why she
fled. She had also learned that he had
beaten his two previous sweethearts
and she thought she was fortunate in
having come to this knowledge before
1t was too late. Romeo is completely
overwhelmed at this turn Of affairs
and he declares that never in his life
did he raise a hand to strike woman.
ORIGIN OF HYMN
When Rouget de Lisle, who had re-
tired to Choisy lie Roi, felt, on n lovely
June morning in 1896, that he had not
many hours to live, he was heard to
murmur, "I know that the end is ap-
preaching I have made the world
sing and I am about to die" Hearing
that the end was near, people flocked
during the day to the house, and when
evening came the doctor had the win
dows Of his chamber opened and then,
in the cool air, crosse a song, sung in
almost hushed tones by the crowd but
with wonderful effect. 1t was while
''rThe NIarseillaise" thus softly reached
his ear that Rouget de Lisle passed
away. ,
1t was in the night Of April 25, 1892,
when war against Austria had just
been declared that he, then a captain
in the Strassburg garrison, wrote The
Marseillaise," which he entitled war
Song of the Army Of the Rhine" 1t
was sung by Mireux, the deputy for
Montpelier, who had accompanied
some local volunteers at IA banquet
given to them at Marseilles by volun-
teers belonging to that town, and so
il was called 1.-THE Marseillaise,"
whereas the name "Strassbourgeoise'
would have been more correct.
oddly enough few Frenchmen have
an accurate knowledge of their ma
tional hymn, with the exception of
the first and last verses, which, by
the way, were not written by ROuget
de Ijsle. Take a score of persons at
hazard.a put them to the test, and the
fact Will be clearly demonstrated. 1t
is interesting to learn that the last
verse which is the best known after