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With 'a Fortune ' Almost ' Beyond " Counting, Hugo ti Ices
"Funs the Ctrtnan Goverinnent anal ;Dreams
-storing the . Monarchy, While. Controlling Enormous
Financial Enterprises.
" 'Who is the cleverest plan in Europe his own,.'W nal, 'bis own, s'l:eel, and, hie
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to-4y?,:Haas. penetrably Hpgh Stinnes, own timber.
a I -Tun, "knew el to :his friends as the Big •Intereot .Abroad.
Geeetart Phoe1 x: w)w lies .arisen inn skt present he is engaged in ship-
'Menne an . allep•owerful. from the invading olierations in Sewden,• where
yl, k, o the Snllenzolkex be 'has erected huge wharves: for a
Stinnes was born in the Rhineland mercantile fleet which vial soon be
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about fifth* years ago He is of medium .twiefs,,ti eesize, p'f tliesHnm'i urs -Am
height, heavily. 'built; -With, close-erop- erica Line, and which will iso`. entirely
ped,' black,;li'ajr; ,a hiring , vandYke :outside the central of the Allies, He
• beard, a Spanish east of countenance, ,has agents, official and secret, all.
--stuck, bushy eyebrows, and elark, nese; over the wor14.• , Someof the foreign
*rating; eyes. , Unlike • most Million- neighboring goVerninents are iadireet-
sires, he is not entirely self-made,'lii5 ly under his thumb.
a foxtuile of Stinnes nevem:, hesitates' at bribery,
,, faeher having e£t' , hiili- right and
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,QQ0,marks when Rio was not and squanders his money ., •
;t mole ,than twenty-three.
"Running" the Government.
At that time Stinnes' ' fortune was
considered very large, and with it he
• tried to gain foetiieg•,in the exclusive
world which, surroiinded the ex-Kaisex, Germany than the .last three Hohen'
and , Inns cotert -sit Fobsctiam. Despite ' zallern s and alltheir Ministea e, He
'his wealth, however, he was n'o't has some of his own -men in the Ger-
"taken up ' so he' retired °to hieniseeoun- man Foreign Office, .Home Depart -
try .home to nurse a badly ebruised lovement,:the'.Post Office, and in that big
neart,.,£or han ad. �fall�en; •n ' will- red building in the centre, of Berlin
no other than a princess of the Im- Which, was formerly red' headquarters
serial Family. of the General Staff of the Prussian
Shortly aftererards he married a Army. 4. diaughter'of one of Gernmany'�s',i'ndus The man who was once the head of
brdal kings, and he applied all hie en= the German Military Intelligence Ser-
;, srgies'to increase his health, .11e hasviae ie now title. general manager of
succeeded 'beyond Ins wildest dreams, his numerous newspapers. A former
and' although he'' was unknown• outside Minister is interested in many of his
his own country -before the war, to- manufacturing concerns, and a Mayor
day he . "runs" the German Govern- of one of the. largest townie in Ger-
• ment, an unlimited number of many is 'in -charge of his real estate.
clef enterprises, and is the sole owner Nearly the whole town of Hamburg
or principal shareholder of seventy belongs to him, as. ,well ae the whole
newspapers. ' There is no parallel to of. the German chemical and dye In-
Stiimes in; Great Britain,: and:'the only dustiy. •
1, man . he has ever feared was the .late ' During the war tStinnes was the
Lord Nortliclifi e. confidant of •tfhe ex -Kaiser, and after
Stinnes is quiet in manner until, the latter was driven -into exile, he
• anyone "da'ree'to-`challenge his opin- .still continued to negotiate with him.
s sons, when his eyes flash, and he be- et was owing to Stinnes' enormous M-
eanies ' almost insolent.' He lives very fluence over the German Government
simply, •dresses shabbily, and wears that the ex -Kaiser's fortune was not
the same suit winter and slimmer, seized.. The former sovereign -t=hen
with stout, country, hobnailed boots, 'hastened to invest' moats of it in the
• stria a black tie. He: possesses,' no; finaincial concerns of which Stinnes
' evening clothes—at least, nobody has
. ever -seen him wear ,them.
His Simple Home -Life.
Hpe s ends a:..g+otx deal of his time
frugally, at ' Muilheim-on-the=Ruhr,
t !inhere his house is furnished with just
q• 'e necessary tables and chair's to ac- .
comneodiate an ocoesionai Wiest: There
., inn no workseot art or picture's of• any
Aired, no flowers . or •photogrepli•sseat-
'feted about, and hardly any signs of
feminine. influence. "
eA pie no "stands in one ooriiier' of the,
left with a superb uneoneera her iC
appears to be , generosity, but; is ectu
,a.
ally onlyd+eepand subtle aoilemeto
achieve his ends.
Recognising, no • restraint. but his
own will, he .-Wields More power in
tiring room, bienit` et never opened- or,
played irpow There" 1s a. gramophone,
~however, to erhiah' •Stiniies • listens
emetimes after' dinner. The' food
served at his table is id, but very
plain, while the table 'linen 'is frankly
; T'iii.e wife of ;'this rema'rkaible man is
shout his owrl;age " and ' still good-:
leaking, with zatightly'fading hair. She
senses in keeling' with liar surround
ings her niettiage , and . betrothal
rings are the only jewelers she wears.
Undo ih edly :Minns.; is one of the
most picturesque ' and 'Interesting
figures • in 'modern • Germany, and, 'a
Tian with whom the new British 'Gov-
ernment will soon find itself compelled
lo` reckon, -because .the .questionof
tine payment of reparations is largely
in his handis.:: All the resources of
rmnany are at his command, and he
hes an interest in most -a£ the Indus,-
al, concerns' in that country. To
ep those concerns going he can use
is master -
One of Stinnes' ambitions is '.
sureadhis business activities through -
much -to make friends with Br -taro
where he; has vast interests,' aboutwhich he nevers�peals, except to one
on two of his: 'most trusted and con-
fidential -agents
The -motive which lies behind, these,
schemes• of •Stinnes is to re-establish
the' ,Hohenzollern•, dynasty, and to' be-
out Russia, and he would li ke. very
,
-AND THE VVORST IS YET TO COME
a
FIRST GREAT GO
RUSH IN HISTORY
come the ehanclldor of the restored
empire: Then only will he be 'satis-
fie'd and cease to work, if a man such
LAND OF OPHIR IN DARK-
EST AFRICA.
Rhodesia is the Site of Fabul-
ous Wealth of,Days of King
Solomon and the Queen
Of Sheba.
Throughout the centuries• one conti-
nent has remained• a puzzle and a mps-
tery to mankind. To this day we speak
of "Darkest Africa" --of the "last
frontier."
Sounds paradoxical, does• it not, tha
the continent which gave birth to the
world's oldest civilization, that e.
Egypt, should .remain to this day th
most unexplored part of the globe?
Recent discoveries and exploration
made bye. group of South, African
,plorers go to prove that tie old Ro
saying "Semper. aliquid noxi ex A
as he can'srest. ` Otherwise he will. car, (always something new from Al
never relax his activity or hie efforts ca�-is to -day as applicable as it was
to resucitate the 'mighty = Germany when first coined over 2000 years ago.
which, according. to Bismarck, was These scientists, . according' to South
created 1"etit'h'blood and iron." African dispatches, have subjected the
The.ex-Kaisers! marriage to Prin-famous ruins of "Zimbabwe" in Rho- o
cess Hermine. of Reuss. has; however, desia to a very thorough examination, -:t
destroyed any chance which the for -1 in order to determine once and for all
mer ;monarch: may: have had of re-� by what 'manner of men they were
Monarchs of necessity lead rather
sheltered lives; their cominee and go-
ings area ueuaily well. guarded by ponce
and military.
Now and: then, however,. a sovereign
has a•.chaace .cot showing in more
human fasbioh, this attxft that he or: else
is niad'e of,
• Such, fpr instance, as the saving 'af
a rehte,e's. life. The most reheat in-
stance wen the seems, performed by
the ^King "of Italy. Out fishing atthe
mouth •o#' the Arno with,: •oire of • his
daughters, be saw a small boat being
carried out to sea by the strong : our -
rent. The occupant had lost bis oars.
Fulling up his armhole the king and
boatman rowed' hard after "the
other boat, ' The; river was in `Hood.
and the current fierce, and before .be
reached the derelict his own boat was
tossing In an ugly : sea; It was di -M-
oen and dangerous .business to, OS the
other ,man aboard, ,but it was accomp;.
' --shed in safety, and after a hard pull
the ,king's , boat reached. :the. shore:.
A Courageotes Queen, , '
Pluckier still was the exploit of the,
ex -Queers Amalie of . Portugal. Her
favorite home in former days was a
Portuguese water -;ng -place called `C2s-
cites, where every morning she went
for a short row in a boat owned by a
fisherman called Catalao. .
One morning her Majesty landed
about ten o'clock, and Catalao turned
his boat round to beach it in a, shal-
low place. •
A great wave struck in at tbat mo-
ment, caught the boat, and upset it.
Catalan tried ,to grasp the capsized
craft, but the boat. had fallen on him
and broken his arm, and he was help-
less. .
The queen was just entering her car-
riage when she saw whathad happen-
found alalgearrayof
crucibles, ,
which
ich
were made of a sort of glazed soap-
stone, and in these the scientists found
specks (et gold which still adhered to ed. She rushed back, plunged into the
the glazed surface, ( water, ewam out, and seized the drown
The old gold workings are found in ing pian. Other fishermen ran to the
great profusion within a few miles of rescue, and the queen and her boat -
the hill, fortress. They consist• of man were pulled ashore ina trice.
numerous vertical shafts,most of Pluck seems to run in the Portu-
which are full of earth and rubbish. guese royal family, for the Iate King
As, e, resuit of the present-day over- Carlo once proved his powers in very
grown nsature of many of the shafts, striking fashion,
they are not visible until one Ls quite He was driving' home at night
near., and there are seen cases on re-, through the outskirts, of Libson; when
cord where elephants and wild ani- as the carriage 'flashed by a side
mals have tumbled into these holes, •,,,„-,
and 'even .hunters of big game have
fended by several email round battle called by the. natives Zimbache—the
fate.
etreet, he caugiaL:a.gilMnee rat nne niau'
bending ores• another in the, distance.
He nevem waited for the horses" to
strop but' 'swansoust of the elenne and, •
stbclz 'iw hand; ran down the side
etreet.
Ile vias just in nixie. ' A burly high
way man had knocked est pian down;,
robbed him and was attempting toy
finite lithe- A creek on the head: from
the royal ';stick stretched` him beside
his victiree then `the `iel?%S eked aa-
sist.a'iice, and `fheetietlia;n• was in nri,eset
before lie regained oonscic,ueseees.
'Feats' of Strength, '
One of the most treasured possesee
sions of the tete King Pacer of'.Swed-
en'was the medal of the French Hit'
mane society, ele•°gained this •di'stinc-
tion by 'a piece of really spieudid
pluck,
' He was in Paris at the time, and Was '-
walking'with only ane attendant, when.
a pair of runaway horses came 'plunge
brig ,down the street with a carriage
swaying behind them, He dashed out
from the .pavement, seized the bridles,
and, using•ail his exceptional strength,
mana'ged'to throw them back on their ,
haunchees
One of the strongest • of rayalties,
was the late King George of Greece,
and some idea of his muscle- canhbe,'
gained from an exploit of his in the
streets o2 Athena.
• He had been attending a wrestling
match, and was coming home quite
alone, when he was attacked by three
roughs simultaneously. Without any
weapon but his fists, he knocked theta!
all down, and by doing so undoubtedly
saved hiss own life:
There is one ease on record of a
prince saving the life of a monarch.'
Thin was George, son of the •above-�
mentioned King of Greece, and, the life
he saved yeas -that of the late Tsar, a.
The attempt tomurder the Tsar dur-
ing a hour in Japan, before he came
the throne, would unneebtediy nage
been successful had .net.. his cousin
George, who nets with him, pushed.
him aside as the assassin fired, '
dainty yacht was Prince George's
souvenir of this occasion; it was given
to him by the Tsar soon.after'the lat-
ter came to the throne as a token of
his gratitude.
share
Ju
shat
en th
ens
from 'the great number of
the Phoenician servants
en of Sheba, .their companb-
ing Solomon's adventurers
elven an. immense amount
'f this country before the
on Tyre, Terusalem and
secret of the land of
with their greatness
Y1e seafarers were ex-
Of
xof the treasure they
he sea lanes opened
ey kept the ;'natter
ecret.
ing result of the ex-
e discovery' that the
tree must have been
the use, of gement
emoval of several feet
h covered the floor of the
fere, there, appeared a
Poor, which! was found to
nt composition, made of
e -anite, and hard enough to
�gvages of the ages. In fact,
osition' was much more dui' -
gaining his throne, and fore "the second bulln
tune en his life;,Stinnes ambition to Situated in the heart of South, ..&fri-
play a part at.the Hohenzollern court ca, several hundred miles from the
is likely, to be, frustrated.. shores of the Indian Ocean, these little
Stinees;has seven erhil`dren. His eld known ruins were rediscovered by a
est sonie.twenty-five, and betrothed band .of emigrant Boers, who, were
to' the dahgl ter of a wealthy rival. trekking north into the hinterland,
He affects the sante simplicity' of driven by their desire to free them-
dress.as'his father, and often suggests selves of English rule, Such is the
schemes even more gigantic than his tremendous size of these mysterious
parent has ever conceived. Doubtless ruins, and such the towering height of
-the manifold interests which' the eld- their walls, that the Dutch pioneers
ed Stinnes has built up will not de- forst took the ruins for some peculiar
teriorate under the younger man's shaped hill. Even after they discover -
energetic influence. ed them to consist of an ancient -city.,.
hill fortress and temple, these simple
Drinking Water From
Sea Ice.
., No one doubt's that; the ocean is salt.
lt;seems reasonable to' e.teppgse there-
fete that the ice of salt water must
ilio be salt, but the inference is only
fa•xtly'correct na fact that many .polar
explorers, says Mr. Vilhjalmur Sten
canton ' in tIi Friendly Arctic, ` have
never found out, ,
When sea ice forme it ,is salty,
thoiigh perhaps not quite so salty as
thewater from which it•is made. Dur-
ing the winter it probably loses a cer-
tain' amount of salt, -though even in
April and May ice formed during the
previous October is still too salty for
ordinary use in cooking. In June and
July, when rains begin and the snow
melts, little rivulets, trieiuing here and
there over the ice, form a network of
lakes aonected by channels of slug-
gishly flowing water. These ponds
and streams are.: not. salt, . and - when
they freeze the following year the ice
from them wil supply the •purest water
possible both for cooking , and for
'drinking. ;So the polar explorer need
never fear for his water supply.
Encotlr.age: don't di5ceneage;
HISTORIC SCENES IN DUBLIN
A itew;area was inaugurated in Ireland when British'troops handed over
iters work to,tlie troops of the Irish Pree'State. The vice regal lodge wee
tinned over to the new government as the residence of the Governor-
General, atilt', Tim Healey, I.C. The picture shows the changing of the
guards est the Vice Regal lodge,
�kc�'....,..,::
elephant hunters could make neither
head nor tall of their find. '
But then men of scienee heard of
the remarkable discovery in the heart
of •the virgin wilderness, and these
men came to a variety of conclusions.
One said: "Here was the landeifOphir,
whence Solomon and the Queen. of
Sheba . draw the gold for all their
glory!" Another said; "Here we have
the remains of an ancient civilization,
unrecorded in history." And a third
said.: "When the first inhabitants of
liar.
be
Pon
res
thee,,,
able 'stints several blocks of hewn
granite, composing the altar, which
was dug up by 'a previous Zimbabwe
expedition, and 'which' fell into pieces
when exposed to the air. guese adventurer and explorer, who For lifting motor trucks out of mud,,
As a result of these finds, scientists with matchless bravery set forth from sand, or snow, in which they may 1e1 -
have reconstructed the story of the ` Mozambique as long ago as 1600, and stranded, a portable attachment fort
Zimbabwe ruins somewhat as follows: I who, in his "De Asia," thus tells of his connection to a mired wheel, is in the! ,
towers and the • entire fortress
strengthened by buttresses and 'Other
devices. Behind thiswall came an-
other and still another, making, the en-
tire place,. a veritable labyrinth in the
mazes of which the invaders, should
they by chance : surmount: the •firstbar-:
rier, would be lost and shot to : death
by the invisible' defenders. -
Such was, and such in its. main lines
still is, the great hill fortress. of Zim-
babwe. How immense it: musthave
looked in the olden times :aa the, curi-
ous eyes of the prehistoric savagee he -
held it—with its tortuous and well -
guarded approaches, its. immense walls
bristling with round towers and mune mines from which the Queen of Sheba
lithe; and its temple decorated with
weird -looking birds mounted on tall took the greater part of the gold which
she went to offer to the• Temple of.
columns. Solomon, and it is Ophir, for the. Katt
the of th
Credit for re -discovery e
Zimbabwe ruins was given, caritar in firs called it 'Fur' and the Moors called
this article, to a band of Boer pioneers. it `Afar.' And with characteristic]
But it should be 'emphasized that the exaggeration he adds: "The veins of,
Boers were only the re -discoverers of gold are sbig that they expand withi•o
the ruins in modern times' after four' so much force that they raise the'
roots of trees two feet."
centuries of loss and . oblivion. The
honor of actually finding the colossal, Lifts the ancients and the land of
wails ofAttachment to Wheel
Ophir belongs to De Barron, a Portu- •Mired Motor `Trucks.
royal residence: or court. When and
by whom these buildings were erected.
is unknown to the natives, who have
no written characters. They merely
say they are the work of the .devil, 'bee;
cause they are beyond their powers to
execute. Besides, there is to be found
no other mason work, ancient or mod-
ern in that region,' seeing that all the
dwellings of the barbarians are of
wood and rushes:"
The theory of Ophir finds furthers
substantiation by a remarkable line
an. old Portuguese chronicle, written..;
about the tithe that de Barnes -saw the
rulIte of 1550. Says thfa.writer of the'
late Middle Ages: "Here are • the.
The Phoenicians, in their triremes,' discovery:
form; of a wooden four-sided block, in)
Bailed and rowed down the east coast' "in the midst of the plains,:in the length about half the width of the,
of Africa, or possibly; as related by kingdom of Batua, in -the: country of truck. About the middle of this block.
Herodotuse they actually' tircumuavi Toroe, nearest the oldest gold mines, is an eyebolt through which a chain
gated ,the ;continent, But as. these .stands a fortress, square, 'admirably having a hook . at one end is passed.
hardy, seafarers :ofthe ancient world built, inside and out, of hard stone. This chain is long enough to encircle
had. settlements: on the Persian -Gulf, j The blocks..of which the walls consist the rim of the wbeel, against which`
the theory that they came by way of ` are put together without mortar and it is made tight by slipping the hook
the east coast of "Africa seems the i are ot,marvelious size. The walls are into a link of the chain. A tribular ex- .
mostrobable.: • I twenty-five spans in thickness; their ° tension at the end of the block Is so,
P
When. the Phoenician ships arrived height is not so considerable compared made that, when two blocksarepla=ced
near thepresent location of the Portu-
geese ',East African • settlement of
Beira; they must have captured some
east coast savages and found that
these natives possessed gold- orna-
ments. And this•, probably, started
the first nushin the history of the hu -
the land of Egypt were driven by. the man racer Like' the California gold
invader into the fastnesses of •the seekers; tithe lett their vessels in San
Libyan desert, they did not•perish, but,'Francisco Bay until the harbor housed among then- a tower of more. than
they
a new made
their
f whiyhsouthe and
ruifos und
a
e'veritabled goveg els honase Phoe de -
twelve yards in height. All those are bank. They can't all be overdrawn"
the relnains." clan adventurers left their triremes
Now, what the average man wants rolling soli the lazy swell of the hot,
to know are not :surmises but.. facts, blue Indian Ocean, and made their way
Which of these -theories Is right . where' no white face ked ever been
Tdoppily for romance, itwould seen seen.• ,And, at last, after having suffer -
that the 'first theory iso the right' one, ed unbelievable, dangers; heat and
and that we have here, ie. Rhodesia,' thirst, they must have come tothat
the land of Opir of the : tremendous spot in the 'plans, where reefs of gold -
wealth "of which we read in the 'Bible. bearing rocks simmered and seintil-
For the recent discoveries ' in: South latedIn the immense silence ander the
Africa. go to prove that' the ruins off; scorching suns '
Zimbabwe aro of Phoenician. origin, Here, therefore,was .a handful of
and the Phoenicians, we know`, Were men ---whits Men M tbat-•-who pushed.
the great carriers, of merchandise,'the , their way into an inhospitable land,
great etplorers of the days of Solo- lured by that smile gold 'lust which in
mon and the Queen' of Sheba: centuries to ooiue sent men from the
with their breadth. ever the gate of
the building is an, inscription which
neither the Moorish. traders (the Arabs
of the coat) nor others learned in in-
scriptions could read, nor 'does any
one know in which oharacters it 1s
written. On the heights around the
edifice stand others in like manner
built of masonry without mortar,
on opposite wheels, they willtelescopie
together. IThe truck is lifted by the
blocks when the wheels are rotated.
Her Advice.
Mr. Broke --"I can't raise $5; that's;
all there is to it! I received a notice
from illy bauk this morning that I had'
overdrawn."
Mrs. Broke—"Well, try some other
One of the most interesting discover- torxid,.tropics to the frozen Arctic..
les made ,by the South African seiente What e strange sight they must have,
late ;is that of the gold=smelting fur-, presented, • these early Phoenicians,
name within these ruine, Which ere lo- breast,pleted ,pad helmeted and, toiling
catecl about twelve, Miles-1ram the spot heavily lender ,the rays of the. South
where : the earth Is literally honey- Africans ,sun, --laking theft way withe
co u..bed, With rows tipon rows of sin• theft .Bleu as Video to where they had
dent gold --nine shafts, filled partially been teld•tli'at the earth yielded gold.
With the debris of the centuries. This The Ovalis :Of., their great citadel they
gold -smelting furnaoe, whit% has eomo built without mortar, of rough but re- gee
to 1101. alter having been buried for
over 2000 years, is maths, of hard
granite cement, and is of great proper -
tions. Close to the furnace- there wlis
gula•r stones, to n freight of thirty-five THE KING AS A G=ARISH R
feet and a thielcii,ess of thirteen feet-- His Ma est is seen in the picture with his prize-winning In , mord heifer',
as wide as a modern highway. The j Y
top of the walls was, furthermore, cle
"Clairvoyant Jewel," at a'tecent cattio show in England.
nen