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Show HAS MBT 11111 AGISIKLE Si France Has Taiifi' Troubles of Her Own Without Taking Up War With Others. WOULD HAVE ALL TO LOSE. AND NOTHING TO GAIN Every Effort Will Be Made by Frenchmen fo Meet -American Requirements. BY PAUL VILLIERS. Special Cablo to Tho Tribune. PARIS, 2darch 1-. Tlio suggestions which have appeared in some scctiona of tlio A'mcrlcan press, according to tho cables, that France was endeavoring to build up a tariff combination against tho United States is laughed at here, France has tariff troubles of her own and is seeking war with no one, least of all the United States. She rcalizcu that she would have much more to 103c thair to gain In such a contest and, as I havo previously pointed out in these letters, every effort will be made to meet the requirements of the American tariff. "President Taft Is fully acquainted with the difficulties in securing satisfactory tariff legislation." remarked a member of thu government recently, "and he knows that tho French chamber of deputies must work and compromise to perfect a measure as muoli as tho American congress con-gress does. T can say thero has been no disposition shown by tho American government gov-ernment to hamper us in our tariff work or to continue the American law to tho disadvantage of Fiance. All in due time these matters will be straightened out !n a perfectly friendly way. and you can put1 down all this talk of a tariff war us pure nonsense." Curious Kidnaping. A curious story of the supposed kidnaping kid-naping of ii young American girl at a cafe in the boulevard des Itallcnn was related to tlio police, commissary of tlio faubourgc Montmartrc the other day. The young girl in question. Miss Helen Layton, aged 1.1, was bom In New York, but brought up In Germany. She recently re-cently came to Paris with her brother and stopped in lodgings in tiie rue Lafayette. La-fayette. The brother took hlo sister with him whenever ho went out in the city. They wore sitting on -the terrace of a cafe in tho boulevard des Italians, when the girl said to her brother: "Stop thero a minute. I'm just going to the kiosk to buy a newspaper." 'With these words she walked across the pavement, and before her brother could interfere Jumped Into an automobile, containing two young men, which was standing in the Btrcct. The auto drove off at full speed In the direction of the Opera, and was quickly lost to sight. The brother Immediately went to tho police station and told tho story, and a description of the girl was circulated throughout the citv. Later, however, the brother again went to the police station und declared that his sister had returned after three hours' absence, but gave no further dc- Prize for Painting. Mr. Sanford Saltus, tho American ar-tlsr. ar-tlsr. has offered to found an annual prise for competition at the Kcol des Beaux Arts- to be awarded for-the best battle picture painted in the year. Mr, Saltus reserves the right to fix the conditions con-ditions for the competition.. Ills oifcr has been accepted in principle, but It must yet be approved by the minister for fine arts. Kings Lio to Their Wives. lCvcn kings are compelled sometimes to follow the. example of common mortals and make excuses to their wives. I; or ,.;sui5,"a: A little difference of opinion iit 'sakt to havo arisen bctwn a ?o-ahead ?o-ahead monarch and his consort, owing lo the former's mysterious absence for Mjiiio days. He was supposed to he shooting in the country, but an urgent message sent to him failed to elicit a reply re-ply for three days. It subsequently got to his wife's cars that he had been paying pay-ing a strictly Incognito visit to parls. and gossips aver that a reigning Parisian beauty was the attraction. Ho is known to have a fine eye for feminine loveliness. loveli-ness. Just what was said when his malestv got. home can probably tie Imagined Imag-ined by sonic married men at least. Franco Has Philnnthropic Woman. France has her Mrs. Kussel! Sago In Mm? Maranlin. who has just given 1.000,'non fanes to -St. German. An only daughter whom she has lost was fond of Mint historical placed. The bereaved mother gives now what she had Intended for Mile. Baran tin's dowry. The memory of the departed child Ib lo be kept alive in a hofpllal and a building devoted to K workshops for women and girls. It Is Mmc. Darantln's wish that sisters of charity should not as overseers, but she does not make It an absolute condition. All her foundations arc to be named aft- i i- her daughter. A large fortune remains re-mains to her. She will, as she sees her w to acl with good judgment, spend the best part of It in similar good works, for her feeling id thut harm may be done by ' Injudicious philanthropy. Terrorized hy Madman. The VouVlrard district of Paris Is being be-ing terrorized by u young madman, whose insanity takes a form similar to that which made 'Mack the Kipper" notorious lu London. This individual, instead of selecting women as IiIh prey, makes night attacks on nion and boys, wounding them dangerously with a. long knife. So far this man has attacked half a dozen people, peo-ple, two of whom llo in the hospital In danger of their lives. These are the lat two cases, but the. first attacks of this kind were reported at the end of .January. .Jan-uary. The maniac would shadow schoolboy's school-boy's going homo late, lu the evening, or shop assistants, and pounce upon them when they won near the fortifications. ; Happily In each cae, he-succeeded only In cutting their clothes and wounding i them slightly. |
