The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-09
MAYOR OF LE PUY
 IS CAUSING FUN Frenchman Nominated Just
 For a Joke CANON CARBON DIES Demise of St. Bernard Superior Re- calls Many Stories of Bravery
 in the Alps-Matha
 Disturbed
CANON CARBON DIES

- Le Puy is causing as much merriment tain Copenick, the fake army officer fur nished Germany few years ago.
 Le Puy itself is having merry time with its new mayor, who was nominated just for a joke. It will be remembered that in his speeches he promised free meals for everybody, lodging house for locked out husbands and as little work between meals as possible. The pro- gramme was a great success.
 The mayor and the councillors promptly handed in their resignations This did not worry Louis Rome, the new mayor, who for the present is calmly carrying on the towns business himself.
 The new mayor Is probably the most interviewed in the country just now. He has been telling the reporters that they will soon find him in parliament. now that he has given up his old business of col lecting cigarette ends. The newest item of his programme is the taxation of pianos. You tax dogs that bark on two notes" he declares. Why not tax a piano, which howls and groans on about eighty?"
 Some of the aristocrats in the town threaten to move or to get away and stay away until his term is ended.
 An ex-minister of the deposed Sultan of Turkey, who has a house in the Champs Eysees, has had three complaints lodged t..-t l,3, t1a tof,, n American lady, jeweller. and a commits sion agent. The lady says that, as there are divorce proceedings between herself and husband, she confided her fortune, consisting of s1so,ooo worth of securities and ss0 GOO worth of jewelry, to the pasha, as she wanted to have 1t in safe keeping but that she cannot get all this property back. The ex-minister declares that she sold the scrip to him, while as for the iewelry, he pledged it in at her own re- quest
 The jewellers complaint Is that he sup piled trinkets to the pasha for which he has not been paid, while the commission agent says that he lent him s5s00. The Montmartre has become a place where foreigners flock. thinking that they see the Bohemian Montmartre such as was years ago. There is no longer any
  ulate on the curiosity of foreigners have opened haunts which did not exist ten years ago, and the French call it Conev Island. It Is far from being a Coney Is land, for there one sees atrocities which can only come from the brain of morbid men who want to make money to aston ish the rich foreign element and give them the emotions of the horrible, such as a man in a coffin growing green with fear.
 The n1ilkcarriers' strike Is over and I work resumed. Masters and men will meet to discuss terms later on. The cod ishermen's strike ar Cancale was also settled in a friendly spirit. The meat porters. after agitating. have not struck at all, for the time being a any rate. A French invention tor preventing the | formation of hail is described in the last bulletin of the International Institute of | Agriculture. It takes the form of rockets, or "hail-dispelling petards," which, ex- ploding at attitudes varying from 1900 to | 16O0 feet, break up the hail clouds. Eighty l firing stations have been set up for the protection of 59,o0o acres of land at Linn ange.
 A few days ago at Cerbere, France, an | eagle swooped down a farm into an open | barn, and was about to carry off a child, when 1t was seized by the neck and killed by bulldog.
 The death of Canon Carron, superior l of the Great Saint Bernard monastery, will remind mountaineers of the many associations of the hospice and it's guard
 fans with their sports Not only has the l convent often served as base of op-
 erations for climbers. the monks them
 selves have accomplished some notable
 ascents. In Clissold's Narrative of an
 Ascent to the Summit of Mont Blanc il is noted that "one of the monks of the 1 Convent of Grand Saint Bernard related to me that one of their order ascended
 to Monte Rosa with only one guide The climber in question was Canon | Bernfaller, who ascended the Pyramide
 de Vincent on August 10, 1879, five days after Vincents ascent; second ascent
 which was almost as good as a first as- cent.
 A still more memorable feat was the
 first ascent of the Velan by Prior Murith
 in 1779 That was the fourth recorded
 ascent of a permanent snow peak, the
 only snow peaks which are known e
 have been scaled before being the Rochemeon, the Titlis, an1 the Buet
 Murith had two guides, who were SC