The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-23
FRANCE STIRRED BY ADVANCE IN MEAT Legislation for Relief Is De-
 manded CALAIS IS THE VICTIM Alleged Flying Man Gets Money and Has Troops Stationed To Guard His Entrance Into the
 City
Ky PAUL VILLIERs

Paris. July. 22.-(Special) )--France Is stirred by the appalling advance in tho price of meat and the demand for legis- lation which will put an end to 1t is grow ing insstent More than 100 deputies and senators att tended a meeting called recently by syndi- cates interested In the meat trade. Reso-
 utions were passed condemning the new customs regulations, demanding a return to the law of 1892, and urging the en- couragement of importation from the colonies free of duty
 The customs commission of the chamber has now decided to listen to a delegation from the butchers syndicates, and ques- tions are also promised in the senate immediately. During the last decade the price of meat has been nearly doubled. Last year s2o0o0,O0o more than in 1902 was paid for the same number of cattle at the Willette market alone. Tn 1903 the duty of foreign cattle was introduced Besides breeders are exporting more and more to Germany and Switzerland. It Is stated that the lower classes at present do not know how to make ends meet. What,
 
 workmen are really far worse off than they were before they went in for strikes and won steady rises in their wages.
 It is not impossible that the French government will be before long faced with the same problem as is that of the United States; that of revising the tariff down ward, particularly on the necessities of life. It is urged that for the great mass of the people the high tariff has proven a burden almost unbearable.
 France now has her Mormon problem. The active propaganda now being carried on by the Mormons at Lyons is the sub ject of diocesan note just issued by Cardinal Couilie, achbishop of Lyons The archbishop condemns Mormon teaching, which he says, is spreading like an epi- demic at Lyons, and declares that it is absolutely opposed to the Roman Catholic | faith.
 l All France is enjoying a hearty laugh at the expense of Calais and Calais Is an- noyed with itself. It has allowed itself to be beautifully hoaxed by an individual dressed as an aviator, who represented himself to be M Legagneux, the we'll known flying man. He called on the mili- tary commander and said he had left his aeroplane at Tourcoing not far away intending in the evening to fly to Calais in order to join in the Calais London stage of the great aerial race. Troops were re- duested to line the ground and maintain order, and the news spread rapidly
 The supposed M. Legagneux was then invited to lunch by the officials of the town. In the course of the meal he men toned that >in his nasty departure from | Tourcoing he had forgotten his pocket book. A number of persons immediately advanced him some money, and in tha afternoon, the supposed aviator left for Tourcoing, after going carefully over the ground where he was to come down in the evening.
 | At o'clock tremendous crowd sur rounded the aviation course, guarded by troops, but hour after hour passed with out speck appearing in the sky. Finally night came, and the crowd, to It's disgust, l learned it had been hoaxed. These peo- lple who had been swindled laid a com plaint with the police.
 Airmen and conductors of aviation | schools in France advocate the wearing of the harem skirt by airwomen, and that their advice has not fallen on deaf ears is demonstrated daily at Maurice Farman's aviation field at Buc The rule is intended to apply to women passengers as well as aviators. Madame Maurice Farman, who often makes aerial trips has ordered one of these skirts.
 | The marriage of girl of 17swho | was charged with vagabondage by the | police was arranged under romantic ] circumstances before the Eighth cor rectional tribunal in Paris. The girl, 1t appeared, was engaged to a young joiner, but she had taken to fre- quenting the Grand boulevards at night
 so the police took her into custody.
 When she was charged it was mem l toned that her sweetheart was in court. M. Flory, the president of the
 court. ordered the fiance to come to the
 bar. The president is mayor of Etretat. | s"I do not wish 1t to go forth that
 I am discharging the duties of mayor
 here" he said, addressing the young | Joiner, but l must ask you if you
 are ready to marry the accused" "Yes.
 monsieur le president" replied the young man, "I am ready to marry her" | At this point a voice was heard In
 the court, And I am willing to give you my consent" It was the mother of the accused who spoke The case was remanded for a week so that the
 police may make inquiries about the | joiner.
 A remarkable case of a husband. who | for several years only communicated with his wife by notes left on the table ] in their bedrooms, came before the 1 courts here when the wife petitioned l for divorce.
 The husband Is clerk employed by
 a drapery firm. but in his domestic life he was stated to be ultra -autocratic He drew up an ordinance couched in l true legal phraseology, providing that husband and wife should live on their
 own means each contributing a fair share to the common costs of house.
 keeping, the husband having the right | to decide which these should be. The husband, by clause of the ordinance. further provided that he would, as a lhule, dine at restaurants, but should he decide otherwise he would buy and cook his own food.
 For years the couple lived in this at mosphere Of silence the wife receiv- ing every day notes which varied from
 the mildest notification to the severest
 admonition, but all alike marked by a
 stern and lofty tone more fitted for a dictator than husband
 Then came the final blow, when the lhusband wrote his last note in the form t.of an official decree to. the effect that | he would no longer live with his wife The wife has now been granted di- vorce. A new turn has been given to the | sensational Hamon embedding case if | Paris by the suicide of Mile. Jeane Ga
 riel, a girl who played prominent par
 in the affair. M Hamon was chief ac. countant of the foreign office and is now under arrest on charge of having
 embezzled large sums of official money | The reason for Mile, Gariers suicide is | probably to be found in the events ot
 her last meeting with M. Homan, which took place on June IA in the room ot | m of