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in. powers England,
Russia, LONG SEA VOYAGES. ussi
Ra,,g and France—he is there -
Bark Port to Port fore considered ono of the richest
liarld 389 Days From rulers in Europe. The court ex-
--Ship ]flown Aeross Paeiiie. pensee, both private and public,
The other day the Italian ship aro limited; no one could a,ecu e
Ninfa sauntered into the Channel the King of undue displayorof
with a change of wind and signalled squandering his royale a
off Prawle Point, 196 days out from Both he and the Queen set an
Astoria Bay, without onee having example by their sixnp reify of liv-
been reported, says the Pall Mall ing, both at home and in their
Gazette, To the nautical pea•cep- travels abroad. They brought u�p
tion the sea is full of such lonely their family as becomes the dem
craft battering their way round the cratic spirit of the country.
Horn through a region of .almost Forty-three years ago the King
perpetual gales, or idling in the married the young and beautiful
doldrums to the irritation of their Grand Duchess Olga Constantin -
dispirited crew's, who only find par- ovna of Russia. The Crown Prince
tial consolation in the reflection and his song Prince George, having
that every flap of the mainsail
means half a crown out of the own-
er's pocket and a corresponding ad-
dition to their own hard earned
pay.
Within the experience of the deep
sea sailor such passages are nothing
unusual, particularly onthe out-
ward voyage to the Pacific, when
Cape Horn has to be weathered and
its prevailing westerly winds won
through, On March 2, 1910, the
been born in Greece and broug
up in the national creed of the
country, the Greek Orthodox'
Church, are looked upon as native
Greek Princes by the nation with
which they have wholly and entire-
ly identified themsehes. ono
It was a difficult task for anyone
coming to a country that had been
divided by internal strife, after ex-
pelling its ruler, to reign over a
turbulent race as yet atnused to any
four masted bark lnvernesslnre higher authority. Happi]Y,
sailed from Hamburg bound for
Santa Rosalie in the Gulf of Cali-
fornia. During a passage which in-
cluded such incidents as her tem-
porary abandonment by her crew
in dread of her foundering, she was
forced to put into the Falklands to
refit and sailed again on her inter-
rupted voya8e on September 27.
From that time -she was neither
seen nor heard of until she arrived
safely at her destination on Febru-
ary 2, 1911, 338.days out from her
original port of departure.
The voyage of the Invernesshire
almost compares with the perform-
ances of the lumbersome craft . of
earlier navigators, except no doubt
that it was ill tedious passage and
not enlivened by encounters with
carracks laden with pepper from
Malabar, of which the King of
Spain was owner. On November 19,
1587, the Desire, under command of
Thomas Cavendish, a gentleman of
Suffolk, set sail from the headlands
of California for the Channel.
At break of clay on June 8 of the
following year she fell in sight of
the Island of St. Helena; on July
3 she crossed the line, and after
holding the brave trade winds to
the limits of 40 degrees north lati-
tude recovered the long wished •for
port of Plymouth on. September I,
1588. Not much better could be ex-
pected from the ships and their
equipment. h Desire
The sailing master oft e
thought it worthy of record that
running merrily before ,the wind
under all the sail `'site could carry
his vessel compassed 140' miles be-
tween noon and noon, a boast
which would expose the modern
shipmaster to the derision of his
companions in every shipchandler''s
shop of the ports frequented,
Among some extraordinary voy-
ages made by deep sea sailing craft
within recent years there may be
mentioned that of the Beacon Rock,
engaged on a shc,rt coastal trip be-
tween two Australian ports. After
all hope of her safe arrival had been
abandoned she turned up at Tal-
rahu ane.' Chile, some 6,000 miles
from her intended destination. Be-
ing in light trim and consequently
with no grip on the water, she hacl a ship If it be so, ex
STIRRING STORY OF THE ILD
WEST OF LONG AGO.
Remarkable Feat of Fred DI. Hans,
the Famous Scout and Indian
Fighter.
"For faithfulness; .daring, and
durance, and good Judgment he is
the superior of any scout and guide
I have ever known,"
In these words General,Sheri-
clan, of the American Army, nee
paid tribute to the bravery and
prowess of •Mr, Fred M. Hans, the
famous scout and Indian fighter,
whom the Sioux na'cnsd We•Chac-
Pe -wan Ce -La (.Lone Star), owing
to his custom of scouting alone, Re
accomplished all but incredible
feats., and hacl many hair -breadth
escapee but it is doubtful if .be was
ever in such a• tight corner as
when, single-handed, he tackled a
band of desperadoes in the notor-
ious "Hole -in -the -Wal]" retreat,
Wyoming—which, by the `way, to
this day remains a favorite retreat
for outlaws -killed two, captured
three, and smashed up the gang.
"SIIACI{NASTY JIM,"
King adapted himself to circum-
stances, and aided by a natural
gift of foresight and keen intelli-
gence won the respect and
devotion of his subjects. He as-
sumed for his motto, "My strength
lies in the love of. my people,"
which pleased every Greek heart.
r
At the time he was attached to
Fort Mead, and one day the eons-
mander, General Crookl a famous
Indian fighter, said ''o him, These
outlaws in Central Wyoming are
causing too much trouble. Can you
put a stop to it, and capture or
kill them'? How many men do you
want, and when can you starts" "I
don't want any men at all, and I
can start at once," Lone Star ans-
wered, and before half an hour had
passed he was in the saddle and
had left the fort behind him to go
into the den of the worst set of
men in the West.
The leader of the gang was one
"Shacknasty Jim," as thorough a
ruffian, thief, and murderer as the
frontier ever produced. He, to
gether with his gang, had robbed
overland stages and mails, and nev-
er hesitated to kill men in cold
blood. Their headquarters—Hole-
in-the-Wall—was
eadquarters—H the
-
in-the-Wall—was situated in
heart of the Big Horn Mountains,
and was reputed to be so safe-
guarded by Nature that one man
with a Winchester could prevent
any number of persons -from pass-
ing its portals.
Not content with this, Lone Star
determined to see what outer bin.
.lits there were in the,'"Eolean"
tno-Wall" ; and after handcuffing
the two outlaws to a tree outside
the entrance to the valley, he rode
for ten miles down the valley. Then
he suddenly +same fn sight of a
large tent, but aa he could not dis-
cover how many men wet'e within,
and fearing to ride up without see-
ing ]ns opponents, he dismounted,
and made as though he intended to
b int into firemt three Just toughx he had
looking
characters came from the tent,
mounted their horses, and rode to-
wards the scout, They were three
more members of "Shac'knasty
Jim's" gang—Tom Lawton' Jack
Hawkins, and a stranger to Lone
Star.
ANOTHER SU:1tP1USE.
Allowing these men to get within
twenty yards of_ him, Hone Star
whipped out his gun and demanded
their surrender. Instead of cern-
plying, all three. t.liceled their
horses and.attempted to escape.
With three shots, however, bit kill-
ed the three horses, and nothing
remained for the deeperadoes but
to surrender or fight. They were
not the kind to suii•ender easily,
however, and as quickly as . their
horses fell each man rose with a
gun ieady for work.. Then ensued
a thrilling scene. Lone Star jump-
ed behind a pine tree, while the
bandits took refuge behind the car-
casses ofheir dead horses.
CHARTS FOR- AIR -VOYAGERS.
French Commission Presents Plan
for All Governments.
A permanent aerial navigation
commission, empowered to elabor-
ate a system of air chart; recently
reported to the French Minister -45f
Public Works a plan which the
commission suggests should be ad-
opted by all the Governments of
the world in order to ensure its
effectiveness.
The system counts longitude from
zero to 136 degrees west and east
from the Behring. meridian, and
latitude from zeio'to 180 from south
to north, starting from the South
pole. will be cut according
The charts
to meridians and parallels, each
chart including one degree of long-
itude and one degree of latitude.
Corresponding land maps will be
laid out with the special aim of
aiding aeroplanes in times of fog.
"We were only a few yards
apart," says Lone Star, "and ev-
ery time a part of my clothes show-
ed -and my tree was a small one,
not half large enough for my com-
fort—it was promptly riddled with
three bullets.
"Then I heard them planning a
rush at my tree, expecting in the
resulting mix-up to get me excited
and so manage to kill me. Sud-
denly, with a whoop and a hail of
lead, all three men jumped from be-
hind the dead horses and started
for me at a run. Two of them. car-
ried a revolver in either hand, and
all five guns were working as fast
as they Goold. fire.
"Jack Hawkins's second leap
was his last one, for he dropped.
with a bullet through his heart.
As Hawkins fell dead, I stepped
from behind my trees and covered
the other two bandits, who were
only a. few yards away by this
time. They hesitated, lost their
nerve, and promptly dropped their
guns and surrendered."
WALKED 150 MILES.
A DARING PLAN.
Lone Star's plan was to endeav-
or to fall in with some of the out-
laws,
ut
laws, posing as a fugitive from jus-
tice, and ask to be allowed to join
the band. Then, at the first op-
portunity, he intetnded to either
arrest the leader or kill him, and
then fight his way through to the
mountains. Having thus learned
the route to the rendezvous, he in-
tended to return later with a com-
pany of soldiers and break up the
infamous gang.
SHIP`S ENGINES.
The trial -trip of the tramp
steamer Vulcanize, built in Holland
for trade with Borneo, and equip-
ped solely with internal combustion
engines, marks, according to the
Engineer of London, the first clear
step in a new epoch. There' are
nae;' ]boats propelled bye internal
Camhuetl0Yl sue5,ie9, but they ..are
nearly all pleasure craft or vessels
svhich do not venture far'from
home. The Vuleanus is a regular
seagoing ship, although her en-
gines are of only 500 horse power.
It is predicted that within ten
years large steamers driven by in-
ternal combustion engines will be
seen crossing the Atlantic. Yet
doubt is expressed whether
level: h
such
engines can be applied
more than abort 24,000 horse-pow-
tremelV
been unable to make any pxogtes.
against a persistent head wind and
her master had been compelled to
square yards and make a fair wind
of it across the broad Pacifica
Another large four masted hark,
the Bnteshire, had the remarkable
experience last year of circling
round the windless Gulf of Panama
like a circus horse until she was ob years ago that the
liged Se put back, ninety days out It was not many g
• and short of provisions. to her port newspapers of China were not to
of departure, It may, however, be be compared with those of Japan,
an exaggeration that the lighthouse but I would to -day rather read a•
keepers in the gulf fell into the Chinese nowspaper than any for -
habit of regulating their calendars eign newspaper that reaches the
by her appearances. Empire, writes a Shanghai corres-
pendent. They contain as much
news as many of the papers of
. Europe, and their policies, editor-
ial and otherwise, aro vigorous.
Au Adopted Monarch Who Has Got e.. --
Along Very Well. BIiTTER THAN A (1.001) RAIN,
er 1
o be
drivenvby5 engines of the old s will continue ttype.
C'HINA'S SPLENDID PAPERS.
One of the most remarkable ad
vances the Chinese have made is in
the character of their newspapers,
Three days after leaving Fort
Mead, Lone Star came in sight o
the famous "Hole -in -the -Wall it-
self—a narrow gateway, seeming
scarcely wide enough for a horse-
man. to pass through, but which led
to a large valley, surrounded , on
all sides by inaccessible eliffs hun-
dreds of feet high. Apparently the
outlaws considered themselves
quite safe from interruption, for
Lone Star passed through the gate-
way unchallenged. With his freld-
glnsses_ he carefully scanned the
valley, and Wt. located two men
who were eating lunch at the foot
of a great tree, "These men saw
me about the same time as I saw
them," says Lone Star in his ac-
count of the incident, "and, hast-
ily mounting their horses, they
rode towards me. As they drew
closer I recognized them from the
descriptions which had been given
me; the gigantic man in front could
be none other than the redoubtable
`Shacknasty Jim' himself, while his
companion was his chief lieutenant,
Bill Cole.
The Danish royal family was \Voile it has not been found pos-
lucky . in 'securing. thrones, but it ruin something
t' da will hr lined coals on the fire, You have not
g, Bible 1e. make
Prince William Christian iii ut Alphonso even :better has been discovered, miler the d hut ) d t
George, who reigns in Greece to- at the firing and lumped George 1. and .that is that the moisture can :s :l Stchener„ VVin<lurva along site
dayander. the came of t ill the suit. Wltan a n of hiui, lrnvtng him expo t Ii 'steelier), how �onN have you he<:rr
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I .$s$,000,000 IN JEWELS.
Some Ileautlful limns Will Be Seem
at the Coronation.
~•CHINESE SIODE1T CPT`Y• a unable to of a word
aback,w wasg
A. Home for Returning Emigrants out, continued the
Very well, then,"o
]toils to Order. old autocrat, "I will• give yon one
A little. over a year ago a num-, hour. Aat half, past one I expeet
bei of Chinese capitalists inaug• you to be gone."
orated the construction of a mad- Probably those old veterans were
ern Chinese city to order on the very fall of gout, er had become so
shore of •Yehli Bay, ton miles from accustomed to unquestioning obed-
Macao inner harbor and ,not far lance that they; could not brook the
from one of the Lappa customs slightest opposition.; but it made a
stations in the province of Kwang• very strong and painful impression
is
tong. In some respects the scheme upon my youthful mind.
is a peculiarly significant ,one. The
now city to be called Heitngchow.
Of the enterprise the Chinese .Im- CO®hI'E 111GBNUITY,
perial;Maritime Customs Commis- —
sxoner at Lappa, in his annual re- Hott' Re Secured Milk for the Mis-
sionary's says :— Family.
It is openly stated that ''a new
Chinese city with all foreign con- A returned missionary, who has
forts, as it is intended to make acquired during the years of her
Heungchow, will, be a great attrac- service great respect for the native
tion to many wealthy Chinese im- shrewdness of the Chinese peasant,
migrants, who are averse to re- tells the following incident to justi-
turning to their own cottntry and fy her opinion. She lived for a time
making their homes in an ordinary near the, town of Chia -ting in the
Chinese city or village for the reas: province of Szechuan. The region
on that, owing. to long residence in is rocky sand precipitous, the sac_
foreign countries, they have' ac- red mountain of 0-meishan, cover-
quired foreign habits, likings and ed with temples, rising it'the im-
tastes. The promoters' scheme is a mediate neighborhood.
most ambitious one. Of, prime ne- "To the pasture -lands at the foot
cessity there will be the construe- of .the mountain, just outside.. the
tion of an immensely strong break- city walls, the mission -coolie led,
water, over a mile long, and ex- and watched from morn till night,
tensive dredging, as there is no our cow and calf. Little- cows,. these
natural harbor. Jetties are to be are, smaller than the thoroitgh-
splidly constructed of large blocks bred Jersey, which `give, when at
of stone, which exists in large goon- their'best,'only'two quarts of milk
titles in the neighboring hills, sunk a day, Ofttimes has our supply for
in layers between rows of wooden breakfast been but a cupful To ob-
ides. The scheme allows for a well tain even this bit, the.calf is an all
laid out city, 'with broad streets and important factor, for without it the
foreign buildings for shops and re- cow 'gives not a drop' of milk. It is
sidences, which is to b'e governed not an uncommon sight to see a
•by a municipal council, it also pro- •year-old calf running alongside its
vides for schools, charitable institu- mother.
Handcuffing the pair, Lone Star
drove them before him out through
the entrance to the- valley to the
place where he had left 'Shack
nasty Jim" and Bill Cole. There
he found that Jim had died of his
wounds during his absence. Then
he handcuffed the three surviving
bandits together and started for the
fort, 150 miles away; and as no
horses could he found the outlaws
were compelled to walk the whit
distance. One week later. the
handcuffed outlaws, ragged, foot-
sore, and weary, entered the fort,
while Lone Star himself was nearly
dead for want of sleep. The pris-
oners were turned over to the mili-
tary authorities, and duly suffered
the penalty of their crimes. Lone
Star led the soldiers bacic to the.
"Hole -in -the -Wall," but it •w s
found that the other robbers had
taken alarm and fled.
Some famous jewels will be soon.
at the coronation of King George -
V, It is estimated that the value.
of the apparel and ornaments worn,
in Westminster Abbey will exceed,
$55,000,000,
Tho ,yaluo of the regalia was ea --
canoed. at $15,000,000 at the corn-
meneereent of King Edward's reign,
It then ranked second in value only 1
to that of the Russian Empel•or.
Since that time the Cullinan dia-
monds and several lesser jewels,
have been added. The actual mar-
ket value of the famous South Af-
rican stones is probably not less.`
than $10,000,000.
There will be present at the cor-
onation between 700 and 800 peer;
eases, all of whom will wear their
finest gems, Some of them aro•
practically priceless in that they
are ilniquo and have, therefore, no•
standard of valuation.
The Countess of Aberdeen pos
sasses some famous emeralds, in-
cluding the five largest in the-
world,
he
world, Lady Wimhourne ross.esses.
the finest rubies in the world,
among them being the hope dia-
mond. 'It is so Mire in tint' that.
by transmitted ,:cit it might
most be taken ter a' very dark ton-
ed sapphire. With her magnificent.
diamonds and pearls, Lady Wim -
borne will carry about 5500,000:
'worth :of jewels on her person at. •
the coronation,
In a mere matter of money's. +1
worth she will be eclipsed by her
American niece, the . 'Duchess of
Marlborough,- who will no doubt•
wear her historic pearls, some of
which belonged to Marie Antoin-
ette, while others formed the col-
lection of the Empress Catherine ,
of Russia. So perfectly matched
are they .in skin' and color that
their equal as a set could not be•
bought for less than $750,000.
Another wonderful •set of pearls
is that belonging to the Countess
of Ilchester. They are the most
perfect black pearls in existenoe.
They were purchased from the
Empress Eugenie for $125,000, but
their market value to -day is pro-
bably three or four times that
amount.
This estimate does' not take -into
account the fortunes represented
by the jewelry of Indian princes.
and chiefs attending the ceremony,
some of whom are said to carry
55,000,000 to' $25,000,000 each on,
their persons on great stake oc-
casions. '- -
AT TWENTY YARDS.
"My quarry were actually coming
to me, and I determined at once
to either capture or kill them
hoth."
Jim and Cole got -within twenty
yards of Lone Star, when the for-
mer called out savagely, "What the
dickens are you doing here 1" "In-
stead of answering, says the
scout, "1 whipped out a Colt in
either hand, and called upon the
astonished pair to surrender. By
way of reply both men slid• like
lightning from their horses, and
from the shelter of the animals pre-
pared to shoot. Before either could
fire, however, I got in half -a -dozen
shots. Jim's horse fell dead at my
first shot, and his master went
down with two bullets in his breast
a sec,rnd later.
SHORT AND' SHARP.
e fri htened with some 04.000 troops, obeyed my orders. rave eptr .
"C'ola's horse liceam g n<I i>lrat flunkey 1„ Gln to instead,
l from fn eonmitnd of i'r,rld Marshal Lord
(not of Greece be ,,, ,rrrva rorl'e are already hong srott to my 1<tvrc,e G
hat
of the lie Greeks),
lest `soil is hull of moisture, as in the 1:rr me; fire• The man lost hrw
h of the Crteeltsl, is the luck ,s rapid.instead stead of shooting big priers, and so rnilnll money. is “Thirty-three ,years my turd,"
nt r stern sf,xixig, tlir, evaporation r i at this, and rn
1] Western
ie the 1.a t•, could easily haw hong spent. es reeling these points ;,aid the trembling ,a et,
of all, e - anrtri'h• if the aani c na wet amounting tne, wltinh he cc t
and Western ILrunkn for rrrnn wee engaged Frith hie of venin;:.•, from which to watch the ;yy grrrtidfn%hci took out bit
dour finite 1 w
C1 eeco it unknown and rev- thous rf inch a week. BY stnt en c�hind promitedoti that Lloyels is cluing an wades,
ism i 1 1
' 1 and unmolested. re }' • ch- enormous business sc,n
alty wants freelyevaporation is stopped 1'n s d�•ad horse, lirfnr•r, h<r tqa
that moisture saves in ` c soil. e< t ., 1 , A t, pomade abanrinnmrilt n r, , rttiaw ton will it tette nu
and arm, and his %aspen from the posstl titeph u,1 k Y
This is.re inns than a and' it
rani hr,eropp(e his ar 1, tlee ro ress through the melr000l• `to rank'i r yon. things 'and leave
the grr adv season, cutd'it'luas. l'rc amine the the ,(rotwi. At the is, for, Rome untoward reason o'' 1 1,
further advantage ago of', lett went ups • m, horse 4
surrendered, atltor, oar op ten, being much ;a
TWO PROCESSIONS.
Coronation Times Will Be Lively
in Old London.
There will be two processions
of the King and Queen in State
through the streets of London, in
connection with the coronation.
tions, police and fire stations, thea- "One late, October day the coolie
tie, public gardens, electric lights was lazily lounging on the grass,
and trams, water works, afforests- but half -watching in his careless
tion, chamber of commerce, free manner our cow and calf. Sudden
libraries, and in fact evergoad. ly realizing that the calf' was not
that may tend to public good. with its mother, he raised himself
Opium smoking and gambling of all quickly, and with apprehension
sorts are to be strictly prohibited. looked about. What the coolie
The construction of the city was most dreaded had happened; the
commenced in April, 1909, and 'milf had fallen over the cliff which
quite a large number of buildings bounded the pasture to the north.
have been erected, including police A rocky bluff it was, with a sheer
and fire brigade stations, a large drop of one hundred feet. That the
number of residences and business animal was dead was a certainty,
buildings. The work on the break- for it was not the first time such an.
water progressed rapidly for a accident had occurred.
time, but at present is delayed for "Trombliox}g with fear, the coolie
financial reasons. In fact, at pies- hurried down to the narrow road
ant nearly all work has ceased until which led by the foot of the cliff.
it is certain what course toward the Tho mere fact that the calf was
city is to be followed by the Chin- dead mattered little to him, but if
ase Government. the little animal was not beside its
a mother that night, we would have
- - no. milk for -dinner, and not only
A RUTHLESS VETERAN. that night, but for days to come. The
coolie, however, was equal to the
An Instance Which Shows Ills occasion. He took out his knife and
Harsh aril Cruel Nature. carefully skinned the ealf, stuffed
who was.wonndecl' the skin with grass, and carried
Lord Anglesey, the result of his labor and ingenu-
ity the Battle of Waterloo, was a ity to the barn.
man of hasty temper, as several "That evening our family could
stories related by his grandsoin, have been seen standing in the door
Admiral Montagu, in his "Remi- of the barn, looking on with amus
nfseences," serve to show. One ed wander; for there was that
of these, the admiral declares, al grass -stuffed calf, leaning against
ways made his coat stand up like the feed -box within.sight of the
a Scotch terriers, and he found g
cow; and she, our little Chinese,
cow,. was giving her usual supply
of milk.
There will be the procession to it hard to excuse his grandfather s
Westminster Abbey on the coron- action. Others will agree with the
atien day, Thursday, June 22, theadmiral that his grandfathers ac --
route all lined with troops, being tion" was needlessly harsh,. and
from Buckingham Palace via the tlre,.,cfore erne].
Mall, Trafalgar Square, Whitehall, My 'grandfather had long enjoyed
the services of a very faithful val
et, to whom, I believe, lie was much
attached, although he certainly
"dissembled his love" with some
success. Ono very cold morning,
re. the Strand, when he was writing at his table,
Trafalgar Square, to Hill St,. he noticed that the ;fire was low,
Fleet Street, Ludga , anti rang the bell for more coals,
Paul's Clnirchyard, Cannon Street, le walked his valet'.
and Parliament Street. On. 1
following day, Friday, the King
and Queen will make a progress in
state through the metropolis, by
way of Constitution Hill, Piccadil-
ly St.James Street, Pall Mall,
London Bridge, Southwark, 55.
George's Circus, Westminster
Bridge Road and the Mall,. At the
entrance of the city, where Temple
Bar formerly stood, the King and
Queen will be welcomed by t
Lord Mayor .and the Baty fathers,.
will receive an address of welcome,
and will touch the ancient City.
Sword of State tendered to him by
the Lord Mayor for tits purpose, in
token of submission. of the city
nrto
bis sovereignty. The 'fling
Queen will he escorted by a brill-
iant eavaloade, and the Strode, as
Ott
coronation y,
"coals!" Put mere coals on the
fire!" said his lordship, shortly,
Out went the valet in search of
feel; but as he seemed 'to be tak-
ing an unusually long time bring-
ing the coal -scuttle, Lord Angle-
sey became- irnpati.ent, and rang
furiously at the boll, In walked a
anddmred ade up fire, the coals
P
"Bend Stephen here immediate-
ly 1" thundered his lordship; and
when the faithful valet arrived
"Stephen,,, said Lord Anglesey,
"my orders to you were to put
m rt r ci tl surfaro "thus forming a sot cum atimn, het, ran 'o cm . •
b in the wav of I l thin it. le hriteem, twelve..
ratrvel mulch,• this ovapom Pl J „ <, a utsl loss rrsnitrn ]rn rnurrmrmr•cl, cantemplativoly.
King George it. Gifted
y 1 I srni a bullet insurances age
lest, g 1 ' the 1 1 't tI
80 easy time of it. Crrfgu with no
small share of warldy goads, for
besideGreek Stho civil Governmentthe retell/anted es tim
an
additional grant from the three
1 1 t warming up amine re n ers , t atm - fat I l i h taken
tiro soil. I he s
FRENCH POPI'LA'l'ION GROWS:
Suburbs [Iratvilig Trent Congested
Districts of Paris.
The publication o[ the first re-
sults of the census which recently
was taken tbroughoue France
rather gives the lie to the pessimis-
tic view generally taken of late
years regarding the danger of the
depopulation of the country.
'Jwo facts stand out from the re-
port,l received to far. One is the:
decided tendency toward a •partial
abandonment of the, land in favor
of urban districts and. the either is
the decentralization of the most
crnwded sections of large cities.
The heart of Paris, for instance,
is getting Ices thickly mandated,
while the suburbs are receiving the
benefit of the exodus and are grow
1ng steadily.
']hrunghou1 hranee the figures
show a slow 1)011 general growth in
the lroptdalinn, ?'ire most notable
inclreasn has taken place fit Nancy
end '1'„nlettse, due, without doubt,
to the growing prosperity of the
eastern Crueller. It is •sato to say
already that when all the r'etur'ns
aro init will he shown that the pm -
elation of native' lute nonsidernbly
grown since the torsi (tenses in 1906,
3
CLIMBING ARARA'I'.
Only 17 RecordedAseents of th
Roust on Which Ark Rested.
Ararat is not a mountain that is •
climbed every day, or oven every
year. Seventeuun ascents have ben
recorded, says the Wide World, and
there is no .reason. to suppose that.
any have escaped notice.
When James Bryce, : unaccom- "
panied, made his remarkable as-
cent in 1876 he was told by every -
One whom he met. in the vicinity of
the mountain that the top had nev-
er been reached, and what was -
more, that it never could be.
Jinns and fiends and 'giants had
prevented the rascally Kurds from
even attempting to Beata the ter-
rible mountain, and since tho Ark
grounded: there no mortal; nian had
been allowed to trespass on the
sacred heights he was informed.
Hsd not St. Hagop tried aga•n and
again to reach the summit in order
to silence the sceptics al eut the --
Ark, but found himself ea.;1 morn-
ing on waking, quietly deposited
at the base, whence he started?
Finally, an angel presented him
with a piece of the Ark for- -h. ie
pains, but: told him to cease h 1t
len
r C
for
bd
attempts to reach the
ground.
That was in the fourth century of
our era, but the piece of the Ark
is still to be seen at the monastery
of the Eltehmaidsin, where dwells
the Catholicos of the Armenian
Church. That Russians, or a stray -
lone Englishman, had reached the
top of Ararat was not to he thought
of. „
Times have changed during Go
last thirty years, even at the base
of Ararat. The railway now goes
skimming along the great waste of
the Garden of Eden, the. Catholic -
os, or head of the Armenian
Church, who dwells :in sight of the
snow-tl'on-led mountain, is - an en-
lightened man' who presses electric
buttons, turns switches and gives,.
audience near a table covered with
fly pstper, and the Kurds, though
Shay will not venture for more than
two miles up, are willing to admit
that other people have braved the
jinns Lan the third milersand tile still ntoie tliflicult surph
"Your face is a masa of sears. Did
you ens yottrsoif while shaving 1"
"No; but I mane ed to ohave my -
Holt while outtinget
GROWTH OF FRENCH errmS.
"flu, results of the French COMBO
taken during the fist week of
elareh indicate the general growth
of the cities at the expense of the
country clistr•igts. Thus the
De -
pertinent ,of Yotrrte's population
lilts diminished since 1900 from 1313r
153 10 300,741. All important, cwt•,
Department of Saone at
fres in the gains while the
Loire shute gains, uFh villages have fallen aff. Tie, same drift
ritywards is taking place in the De-
artmerit of the Rhone. The City
of 1, •ons gained 59,639. now hats g
a population tri 1210,793.: The sub-
urbs of Lyons also show alt iircreate
from 88,261 to 99,209,
.ti
s.