El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-09-16
HIGH PRICES
TROUBLING
FRANCE
Jack Johnson Training-Na-
tional Pawnshop Makes
Annual Report.
EDISON rs CALLED
GREAT

Paris, France, Sept. 16.-The cost Of
living in France, which has beer creep
ing upward steadily during 10 years,
has risen with a jump this summer.
One principal reason is the three
months of extraordinary dry and hot
weather, whitening and drying up the
vegetables consumed in large quaint
ties in France. String beans Of the
most ordinary description for example
sell for 3 to II cents a pound and
lettuce at $3.50 the hundred whole
sale.
Producers Attacked.
Discomfort Of housewives has taken
violent form in the north, where at
tacks upon farmers, butchers, store
keepers and other vendors by bands of
viragoes are the daily excitements in
own and cities. The Revolutionary
Labor party has thought this a good
occasion to take part, but the women
manifestants oppose this, and keep the
agitation in their own hands. A loose
organization spreads over the north,
although example more than anything
else keeps the market places in up
roar in half a houndred cities and
smaller centers. Sometimes there is q
meat boycott for a couple OF days at a
three or four hundred women will
rush a market, tipping over all the
tands and half destroying the eat
ables.
The Housewives Demands.
Demands of the housewives are for
milk at eight cents a quart, butter at
80 cents a pound, bread al Is or 10
cents for the five pound loaf and
plain meats at 20 cents a pound So
far as bread n dairy products are
concerned, the women have been gen.
orally successful, but the butchers
utterly refuse to give way. They ar
would cause an actual loss. Farmers
have not been able to combine, as
the butchers have done, and they are
yielding, although increased prices
fled because fodder is dear and scare.
Most of the cows are stable fed, n
the milk supply is possibly a third less
than usual. The long drought has
The Parisians hear of these success
full raids on prices in the northern
provinces with the hope that some
thing will happen to check the rising
living is 80 percent dearer than it
was at the opening of the century.
, johnson Is Training.
: Jack Johnson is training for his fight
with ~Bombardier Wells near Paris.
Every day he boxes 10 or IL rounds
with minor celebrities of the ring at
the Majestic City, the American amuse-
ment park Women form a consider
able part of the audiences. Johnson be-
gins with a speech 10 the house and
then boxes with his trainer, Bob Arm
strong, and others, interspersing
swings. hooks and uppercuts with jokes
and slangy pleasantries.
Edison Attracts Crowds.
Edison has been a~utomobiling in
short stages through France and
Switzerland. He intends to continue
his holiday through Germany TO Ham
burg, sailing from lnere for home.
Everywhere Edison receives impressive
attention, being spoken. of sometimes
as "the great American" He has a
vivid and delighted interest in all that
he sees. and likes to talk about his
Impressions.
who is the shabby little man with
Partisan woman in the lobby at the
Beau Rivage at Geneva Upon being
told that he was Edison, she looked
again and replied:
His clothes look as though they
had cost about so francs, but he has
a brain great enough to make him
emperor of France"
Admires Swiss
Edison feels the charm of the old
pleasant and rich countries through
which he passes, but he admires most
the delicate and intelligent skill of
watchpm nai1srSh NV '1 chief Ien man. Wurt q.
whom 1 nave pensioned," said Edison,
is a Swiss, and I have employed more
1000 of them"
The only correspondence Edison
bothers with on his holidays is to auto
graph the photographs of himself that
people present to him..
The chalet and beautiful botanical
gardens at Sainte Savfne, near Troyes,
have been burned bS the concentra-
ton of the suns rays through an