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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1928-04-26, Page 3ij ,411 Jewels Possess Peculiar Powers Indian Rajahs and Jewel Own- ers Believe This Implicity The fabulous crown jewels df Rus- sia have no attractions tor the jewel - loving rich and great of India. There was, for exalmple, tie wife of a Cal- cutta dealer in gem who, wearing some $160,000 worth of ornaments, and attended by 'a 's•ervant 'carrying more, showed her treasures. to Michael Pym. In one of the Loxes wliioh she opened was an exceptional pair of dia.- mond ila-mond earrings which, she said proud - 11y, had belonged to the late Czarina. Bystander cried out that it was no wonder that the jeweler's wife was' in 111 -health, that she tad troubles. Sure- ly, we read in an article by Mr. Pym in the New York "Herald Tribune" Magazine: Every .one in India• knew by now that the ca+own jewels of Russia had a .curse Den therm. And there was an- other jeweler, equally as great as thle Calcutta Haan, to prove It. He had tried to bay all Ile could of these jewels. And his fortune was wiped away, clean, like butter off the palm of your hand—for no reason. And there was the ex -Maharajah •of Nab- ha—he had bought .soane. At once he lost his throne. The lady gazed upon the .earrings with growing horror. I know 'that by nightfall she had them no longer. They were sent away at once to be disposed of, even at a loss.' Jewels Have Personality? India, in.a word, believes in the per- eonalitry of gems; and to the Indian the emerald is particularly sacred and sought after, we are told. It is• the stone of purity, and guards against poison and other 111x. To -day the great historic emerald 'which Akbar wore, and which can be seen in all portraits .of Mogul emperors, is on the market. Mr. Pym passes on to tell of some of the famous jewels and jewel collections in India: The Maharajah of Jodhpur has per- haps the best collection of emeralds in India. His Highness' of Palaupur and His Higleness of Pedals hold sec- ond place in this. Tho Gaekwar of Baroda also has beauties, but per- haps the most unique thing in. his possession is a carpet made solidly of jewels. The carpet is about four feet long, National Music Stirs Air Again The 2nd Battalion of the Coldstreams GUARDS CAME MARCHING HOME on their arrival in the rain at Brentwood, England, after thirteen montats' service, in Shangbai. in jewelry worn by the women. Tule Indian does not believe in banks, and even the b.aneya prefers to bury his I wealth somewhete in. the back gar- den. That is one ot :the main reasons why a gold circulation is impossible in India --each bright new :sovereign leaving the bank would bid, it a last farewell and go almost dirotly under- ground. Fashion has. its say in jewelry just as much in the East as in the West. For both men and women the plane- tary bracelet is very popular. This is made of gold or 'platinum links set with seven stones, a•ch sacred to its. pit, in which a man crouched. Con- the beast -ridden wilderness, we are Coopers gun particular planet; the ruby to Brihas tinually it seemed that the all-too-fra- told; but— Ithe pictures. But the Lao peoples do pati, or Jupiter; the [yellow- sapphire gile roof above him must be caved in,1 They did not know that a tiger 'not kill tigers. Quite simply and liter - for many of the beasts weighed three {ally, they let the tigers kill them la- thing or Heronry, and so on. But . could climb a tree. by stones I mean stones, not some- I sous. Suddenly there was a crash , And it is a literal fact that a tiger I stead. ti is estimated that in the Pro - thing you have to take a microscope i and splintering, and the foot of one of . can not 'climb" a tree. . .. Only i wince of Nan between three hundred to find, The Majarajah of Patiala al -1 the animals, enough in itself to kill, something happened to Cooper and ,and five hundred natives have been ways wears one, and so do many oth• l came through. It was all over, the . Schoedsack that offers a poignant il- :killed bx. tigers in the last five years. I man decided, but the elephant regalis- ' 1ustration of possible differences be- Dr. Hugh Taylor, the veteran mission - ti s with - Jungle Picture Caused Risk of Lif liming "Chang': Was Sinecure, and Death Hov- ered Near As Camera Clicked REAL THRILLS i the rest, they were gentle enough, ac- customed to man, but not so complete- ly trained as to be wholly amenable. e There was not much danger of their getting angry—although that was pos- sible—but there was danger from them, because they were big and stupid and so very numerous. { Tigers Can Climb. camera -men hada decidedly bene English Women Lead Their S as Smokers Erheieh woLn.en are the most cone stunt women smelter's in the world, it is revealed, but the hea,vierit smokers of all are soldiers and out, tfo'c* workers. What will surprise Canadians even more, however, le the habit of British clergymen to puff away very much more than does the average %molter. • Most cigarettes are smoked be- tween 0 and 7 p.m., this survey dis- closes. • Despite "temperance" drives, the number of English wo- men smokers isteadily growing. would come to the water -holo. The men just waited. In the case of the picture of the tiger drinking, they waited almost a month, Schoedsack has rated patience above courage in the requirements of his job. It was oa one of these occasions, however, that the tiger jumped up the tree. 'Plane to Try 7,000.- ile Hop British Secretly Build Craft -- for Cape Town to Scot- land Trip A potentially record-breaking air- plane, designed to remain 80 hours aloft, thereby adding at least 28 hours to the existing world's endur- ance record and not less than 3,289 miles to the Cltamherlain-Levine ficial (trans -atlantic non-stop distance re. effect on the death -rate in that part !cord of 3,911 miles, is being construct. of Siam. Concerning which we learn: led secretly by the British Air Ministry They liked the natives immensely, for an early attatek on these records. finding these people of the Lao tribes The government undertook the work kindly and intelligent. And Major lin the deepest secrecy. Sections of Cooper has explained that they never I the aircraft are being built in differ. could have got the pictures at all if ant parts of the country so that no they had not first won the absolute Inkling of the Ministry's purpose lite native folk. could leak out. confidence of When Schoedsack and Marian C. O into the Siamese jungles get the animals alive they were ob tion -picture of what thea The pilot, who is Yet to e Two hundred elephants charged "natural drama," they already knew And their habit was to cover the ani will follow the Great Circle from Cape madly over the log covering of a little more than most men about the life ot .mal they were photographing with ISchoedsack took I Town, passing Kenya Colony, Cairo and Central Europe, making the jour- ney approximately 7,000 miles. The machine will be flown from Scotland to Cape Town in easy stages. There is no airdrome in South Africa big enough for the heavily laden air Draft to take off from, and a special runway will have to be constructed. It was the Air Ministry's search for a field that gave the clue to its inten- Cooper, who worked with him, went Of course, although they wanted b- Now it is disclosed that the Air .Ministry intends to sponsor an official to get a mo flight from Cape Town to Scotland. called the disci to kill many, to save themselves, b selected, er people. ed its balance, extricated its foot and"pragmatic" ary of Nan, who shot two ger just big enough for two people to sit Among women the large nose -ring, ,tween literal and truth. in a Pew yards of his own ]louse in on, and every inch is sewn with ala mad of thio gold and adorned with plunged on with the herd. The heat A tiger can not climb a tree, but a and stench in the five-foot square well four hundred pound tiger leapt up the "town," told the picture hunters of tions. monds, emeralds, rubies, and pearls pendant jewels, has gone out excpt- village of one hundred inhabit The chief feature of the aircraft will —an almost incredible sight. But among the peasantry, wear the nose ornament at all prefer end. So, amid thunder and with the Ilalled by urgers ui one year —and small diamond inserted into obsonly two feet away. told Cooper and Schoedsack, too, standard types used at present by the wing of the left nostril. To 'Western- looks prospect of death at any moment, Ern- ' It made a magnificent picture. j ars this sounds absurd, but it est B. Schoedsack, in his pit, took mo- It is one of the most hair-raising when their work *as finished, that Royal Air Force. It is understood rwell on the delicately cut nares tion pictures of an elephant stampede moments in the jungle drama, their jangle activities hadrabsedout that the Napier Comp byy tLi of very under the feet of the elephants them- the death -ratty from tigers by about the power unit used Flightt Lien of the Indians, "Chang," when the great snarling two-thirds, in spite of the boasts' ter tenants Webster and Kinkead in the Guarded then, Baroda's jewels have been valu- ed by European -experts, at five mil- lion dollars in India—which probably means more elsewhere—and when the Maharanee is. fully dressed for the coronation she has to be lifted to her feet, her jewels are so heavy. It was from the Gaekwar of Baroda that the late Queen Alexandra, when she was devoted to religions, we are told by in India as Princess of Wales, got the i Mr. ted who goes on to say that: pearls that made up her famous neck Temple treasures are very difficult lace. to see. It is comparatively easy to Here enters, in the person of a Mr, visit Mohammedan mosques and Bud Jacob, awall-ltnawn clharaloter of fly hrist temples, but Hindu temples and tion. Mr. Jacob was trying to sella t 1 rim certain diamond to the father of the present Nizam of Haidarabad, whose treasure is famous.. Mr, Pym tells the story in this style: Jacob was the original of Marion Crawford's Mr. Isaacs and of Kipting's Healer of Pearls, in "Kim"; he is one of the Indian's semi -legendary figures. Whence he came, or where, at inter- vals, he disappeared to, nobody knows. He spoke practically every Oriental language perfectly, and would travel across India Pike some gorgeous meteor, in a private carriage, magni- ficently appointed, with his servants in a semi -royal livery of a peculiar red. Finally, luck turned against hint. He had agreed to sell for a French ee•nidicate th valuable diamond I 'hiave referred to. His Exalted Highness of Haidarabad took it oil approval, pay- ing sixty thousand sterling on deposit. ltir. Jacob speculated with the money and ',viten the diamond was returned he could not provide the necessary the .surface was intricately engraved. cash. The French. ,syndicate forced There was a solid gold umbrella, him to sue the Nizam, and he lost after many years of fruitless legali- ties, ' When it had be en decided against Jacob, the ruined 4an had a final in- terview with the Nizam, when the lat- ter told him that had he only come to L;im frankly he would have lent him the money unhesitatingly. Once a lawsuit was started, however, his honor obliged him to fight it. That was what killed J'seo•b, He had no successor. Enjoy Possession Another story concerns the present Nizam, and shows that the Indian has esthetic a:s well as commercial cense Mr. Ppm tells it: A visitor of special importance was going round his treasure houses with him, and came to a room in which were tables piled high with golden sovereigns to the tune of 2,000,000 sterling. "But, your exalted highness," said the visitor, "don't you know that if you invested this it would bring you, at 5 per cent., 250,000 a year?" "Por% ably," replied ,the Nizam. "But what would 1•have to look et7" The visitor Wats Dilent for a Eew eecoltds. Then: t'VCre ell," he said reflectively., "I towns. The formidable array of worst- guess that's the most 'expensive ilio ere who have not been trained to 'their We I've ever eon.' jobs, the cba11mercial people, the jab - Dream ,' Jewels seekers of all kinds, the useless pro - But jewel -owning is hat confined o fess ossa melt, who 1001110 o and those who were almost unendurable, but the man eleven feet of tree -trunk in one tre one had to stick it out, and wish for the !mendous bound; and Schoedsack was ants where twenty people had been be a high -efficiency engine with lower =and he gasoline consumption than any of the selves. 'One o1 his most difficult tasks, �' gets Closely G d d as Katharine Woods explains in Per- beast, coming nearer and nearer, ' rible destruction of human life, the Schneider Cup sir races and by Mal- Many of the finest jewels of all are 1'ty, so close that his great angry head making more or less blots out the carats itself. Ii natives will not kill the tigers,.. be- calm Campbell in the world's fastest believe ve that the animals sone r was e f 'How cause they a e' tame elephants behave as if wild. As did they do it?" people have bean ask - are possessed by evil spirits and will visit a horrible vengeance upon any human being who' slays one. In one village where the Americans wanted to set a trap, a tiger was caus- ing a reign of terror, and no native • we read: 'Animal Peculiarities. The elephants had all been in con- tact with men, and some of them had been domesticated and were, there- ing with unbroken monotony, since the film -was first shown. "How could they make it look that way?" They made it look that way, Silch guarwaras• are no always- be- cause that was the way it was. And fore, colltrolable. The famous mon when their jungle drama hacl unrolled would try to harm a hair of his heath pia mratters•. Since the Akali troubles key comedian was also tame—though itself, and everyone who could find an They explained that this tiger was of 1919 the great Golden Temple of it happened that the picture men opportunity was rushing to the pro- the hunting steed of a particular devil Amritsar, whioh is a Sikh combine found the small monkeys hard to ducers with "I•Iow?" the men who who rode hi mon his devilish rounds, tion of St. Patera and the Vatican all photograph, because the noise of the made the picture smiled and remark- who rode him on his devilish rounds, in one, does not admit Westerners camera frightened them, and the ed that the tiger going up the tree straightway turn his slayer into a with the .same freedom as be•fore.;bright sunlight made them sleepy. tiger aped And perhaps of all its. visitors only al The elephants' charge, of course, score or so of Europeans' at the most • was just as marvelous an achievement have been shown the treasure, • l as it looks. It -vas difficult and dan- I sat on the floor thre one blot morn- i gerous, and just as much an adven- ing, together with the leaders of the i ture as making snapshots of wild committee which now manages the beasts. temple. The heavy armored door of I First of all the elephants were round - the inner room was unlocked, a book . ed up, between two and three hundred was signed, great iron -bound chests of them, chased into a kraal as they were similarly unlocked, another book are in the filth. One of these ele- signed, and the smaller chests the phants was a well-trained household first had contained were then brought' assistant. Four or five of the others out. I also qualified as farm helpers. These I musk shy th treasure was rather were the leaders in the destruction impressive. There were .massive gold- I of the village, and it was very hard en doors, about the size of French :for the mento persuade the domesti- windews in a country house—but Some ,' cated animals to destroy what they four inches thick. They ever solid' had been trained to respect! As for gold all through, and every inch of ! .--- --- which coald not, of coarse, be folded, about three feet in diameter, set with emeralds, diamonds and rubies, and fringed a foot deep with pearls„ -- Literary Digest. Country Hotels Sherbrooke Tribune (Lib.) : The im- provement of our country hotels is an essential natter if our picturesque villages are to be well thought of by our friends, the Americans. There is no point in hiding the fact tlhlat the average crou retry hotel or inn is not sufficiently we•11-managed and does not offer ell the comfort required to con form with modern conditions. Many of them are totally or almost totally deflotent in the .comfort which tourists are looking for, Complaints from the latter are in fact by no means rare. The Classics and the Farmer Quebec Soleil (Lib.); Prom the point of .view of the agricultural life, our system of public instruction is defective, It is to be blamed, for the last tweutty years, far the false men. tansy which has steered our young people fooni the farms towards the like that was just a kind of fortunate accident... . Cooper, his gun trained on the beast from another tree, near by, was about to shoot, but Schoedsack signaled to assurance as meaning literally that. him to wait; the tiger was sure to fall He would serve as the tiger -devil's ride hint about the jungle through time immemorial. And when Major Cooper promised. "On my shoulders be it—" they accepted his back in an instant; meanwhile he was grinding away at his camera, and he knew he was getting pictures that would be unique. What a chance it was! What a chalice. Here was this splendid, enormous, ferocious crea- ture, coming right at him.... Lucky, too, that his shelter had been built thirteen feet above the ground instead of, say, only ten. Natives Profit. It develops that the visit of the horse if he killed the tiger! Too Close For Fun. Cooper had an unpleasanttiy inti- mate adventure with a tiger after this, we read: It was on this tiger hunt that a ferocious creature, caught and caged and being borne by boat down the river to Nan, almost succeeded in gnawing his way out of captivity in the night. Cooper and the men with him tried to chloroform him—he had gnawed through two of his log bars and started on a third—but chloro- form had no effect whatever. Finally Cooper' hit upon the ridiculous -sound- ing, hut effective, expedient of feed- ing hint bamboo sticks. Fortunately there happened to be a. great many bamboo sticks on the boat! And af- ter the man -hunter had chewed up a number of these in rapid succession, he went to sleep. That was when Cooper — the boat being small and the tiger occupying most of it—got on top of the cage and went peacefully to sleep himself! Many pictures, of tigers,, leopards, bears, and other beasts, were got by trapping the animals, and then j hoto- • graphing them when they were let loose, we are told; thus: The picture of the tiger chasing Kru was taken in this way; the tiger ran after the Siamese for thirty yards, covered with •gnus the while. A fel- low explorer had stated that wild ani- mals kept in captivity for a few days, and not fed, become somewhat dazed, and move about slowly when they are released, instead of malting a straight rush back to the jungle, and that in ibis way they become less difficult to to photograph. This .information does not conte from Cooper or Schoedsack or their representatives but it neverthe- less bears the likelihood ot accuracy. Many other pictures were stnip y waited for, at the crossing of trails, and, especially, at water"]holes. Schoedsack and his camera in a camouflaged shelter, Cooper near by 1 ills leis tin, they waited tor hours, i automobile, are the designers and builders of the engine, and 0. It. Fairey has the contract for the air- craft. GabbyGertle "11 one hadn't auto or wouldn't auto where one shouldn't auto." Parliamentary Inconveniences Quebec Evenemen.t (Cone.): Ses- sions of the Federal Parliament take place at a badly -chosen time. Among the members who come from Sask- atchewan, Alberta and British Colum- bia there is a small majority of farm- ers. These are compelled to remain at their 'Federal post at the very time in the year when ,their presence is most needed on their farms. They never get a chance to go back to their agricultural tasks before the end of May, if not before the end of June. It would be easy to remedy this i•�- cortveuient state o affairs, if the Federal session, were always called in November. The Language Difficulty in Alsace Le Devoir (Ind.): The question of principle involved, which is a very •• grave one, is tibe following: Can the German language be regarded its a foreign language in Alsace-Lorraine, seeing that it has been for centuries the natural language of the home with, else ,people of these provinces, the pol)ulatttln of which to to -day one and "All a half million? The question is alit tb,e niOre ttrr,pot't:aitt in, a parttculair„ sense, as there are other racial minimi- ties in the, Prancdi State who, speaks, as their natural language, a different tongue from Ft•encti---the ll'leni1SIt <f it d t i 1 11 corn t uis from MOUNTAIN FELL ON TOWN the Departiri�ent of the North, the I3•re. to we learn: I bite o01.11a3ro are ,the pr'oduets of out WHERE MCl w the pion ath 111anv houses - were buried at Santo,Y flra il. The buildings 'and the neat day they came Anil wait. tons, the Basques, the Catalans et Among the tower clastses °ttte entire primary commet'eial and utcaddnilc : es sated pa5opie w u vOwit in fore -ground have been, condemned As unsafe, est again, Sooner or later, beasts ttousilion, and the Corelcana. savi7m„•s •oC tl;a ltotu�sehold are invested selrocls and our c1a�sSi;ca1 �ooliege�. '