The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-02-01
GOLD Brick PLAN
OF FRANCE FAILURE
Imitation "Gold" Tips for
Cigarettes Arouse the Ire
of Many Smokers.
PROTESTS ARE POTENT
Naughty Monopoly Recedes
From Attitude of Indif-
ference to Public.
PROTESTS ARE POTENT
I Special Cable to The Tribune.

Special Gable to The Tribune.
PARIS, Jan. 31-The French govern
ment has gone into the gold brick
business, or rather it had gone into it,
but having now been ''sold,' it has
gone out of it again.
My American readers are perhaps
aware we are blessed here with a gov
eminent monopoly in matches and to-
baceo, AS a result the French smokers
language is as shocking as ! am told
is that Of the American golf player.
Not content with giving us matches.
the majority Of which are absolutely
freproof, and cigarettes either as hard
that need haiTpin operations before
they will draw and tobacco contain
ing alien fragments Of all kinds, from
cockroaches to brickbats, the Reggie re-
Gently tried to palm off copper tips for
gold.
This gold bEick scheme might have
been a great success if the Reggie had
cigarettes get damp and the tips be
gan to run, with the result that
splotches Of verdigris mottled the pa
per and complaints began to pour in
from smokers who did not desire to
be poisoned even to add to the in
come Of the government. The Reggie at
first, with its usual callousness, paid
no attention, but finally had to admit
that its gold tips were made from cop
per after an official doctor had as
sured them that copper tips were per-
fectly harmless. In the future. how
ever, the tips are to be made from
real gold, which will mean a decrease
in the annual revenue Of the Regie Of
at least $4,000.
Influx of Royalty.
It certainly never rains but it pours.
/ mentioned last week that this year
and said that we expected to see
King George and Queen Mary of Eng
land and the czar and czarina among
us, but that is by no means all. King
Christian of Denmark, the tallest
monarch in the world and a brother
in. law of William Of Germany, is to
come here with his beautiful and
tine Of Greece will make another
bid for our favor, carefully avoiding
any meetings with his imperial
brother-in-law On his way here, and
the emperor and empress of Japan
will spend a week among US, and of
course King Peter Of Servia will como
to visit his old military college now
InaC peace Is once mOIo TesIoIeu III
the Balkans.
That this influx of royalties is sure
to result in an increased number OF
American visitors makes us even more
happy. Our royal guests will leave be-
hind them a shower of decorations and
the Americans will leave shower Of
golden eagles.
In our Joy at the return Of Sgnora
Mona Lisa to the Louvre we have not
fnrroftap fhp uoun0 IgnutaoaDf who in
the year Of the Commune saved the
priceless treasures Of the Louvre from
wanton destruction by insane vandals,
for memorial in his honor has just
been erected ct the foot Of one Of the
stairs ut the Louvre.
The young officer, whose name was
De Bernardy de Sigoyer, came up JUST
from the Tuilleries threatened to reach
the main building. Promptly he gave
orders to his men, who set to work
with q will until the danger was
averted The task accomplished, he re.
sumed his pursuit Of the rioters until
he was struck down by baH IN the
Place de Ia Bastille. The feroSious ;
eSea the CORPSE assn and sarnsd it, Po
three years have passed since then,
and no monument, in this city of monu..
ments, has commemorated the deed OF
the hero, The loss of Mona Lisa
sinks into absolute insignificanee com
pared with what the world would have
lost but for the timely arrival of
that sinister day Of May "a, 1871.
Boy With Slayer's Heart.
At the moment when books are being
published with statistics showing that
crimes among children are increasing
in France, the daily police reports
furnish new facts to prove the ap-
parent juvenile degeneration. The
latest incident" of the kind has just
quarters of Paris. A youngster Of Is,
three shots at girl of 16 because
she had refused to go out walking with
him on Sundays. Fer mother was Ill
in bed, and the precocious young Grim.
inal broke into her room and
brandished new pistol in her face.
VIf Lanra does not promise to go
out walking with me every Sunday l.
will shoot her," said the young cut
throat.
In terror the mother promised to let
her daughter do as he desired. As soon
as he had left she. sent word to the
how sound thrashing and took the
pistol away from him. But the boy was
determined. He let a week pass by,
and with his next pay he bonght an
other pistol This time he made no
threats, Waiting until he
saw the girl Laura, about whom he WIS
raving, return to her mother Is room, he
entered, hourishing the weapon, and
fred at the girl, One bullet grazed her
ear, a second hit her in the hand and
q third struck her in the thigh.
The house was Immediately in an
uproar and the young ruffian, thinking
~ Lo1 lrtI1o5 f6a rY1rt fool- to HiubA