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To Express Ideals of American People Officials of Daughters of American Revolution Hear Description of Project, Which Is Spon- sored by H. K. Bush-Brown, Sculptor—Keynote of Structure Would Be Statue Representing Spirit of Liberty With Peace—This Idea in Combination With Government by Law Not Previously Expressed in Architecture of Nation—Location at Washington End of Lee Highway. BEAUTIFUL temple to liberty, to express Ame n ideals in concrete form, i H. K. Bush-Brown, American sculptor and pre Arts Club of Washington last Friday evening at a speci ing of the state regents and national officers of the Daughters of the Amer- ican Revolution, over which Mrs. George M. Minor presided at Memorial Hall. Mr. Bush-Brown has long had this | fdea in mind and has designed u statue | of liberty that expresses the keynote of tha temple, the spirit of liberty with | peace. On the scroll carried in the left | hand s inscribed the single word, “Peace.”” The poise of the figure, wi right hand uplifted as in benediction, conveys the idea of a freedom that is peaceful and not the result of hysterical inspiration. “Every people has had national ideals embodied in architecture and other forms of artistic expression in order to perpetuate them,” said Mr. Bush- | Brown. *“The Egvptians built their pyramids, the Hindu: and Japanese their temples and the Chinese their pagodas. Traveling westward from Egypt we find Greek temples, Roman forums, pantheons and gothic cathe- drals. “The American ideals personal Hberty and government by but we | have not expressed them in archit ture. ““That these things may be more thor- oughly understood, we have designed a | temple of liberty which we deem neces- are essary in this period of reconstruction | aqgitional meaning by erecting this | 66 after the world war. for it seemsasthough dent of the | g Copyright by H. K. Bush-Brown. “We are the most cosmopolitan peo- | basilican form—that of the old Chris-|ant professor of architecture in the ple in the world. freedom under our Constitution, i1l greater example than Switger- land in finding unity in following a | great ideal. Each unit of foreign nationality would be only too glad | to have its people represented sepa- ately in the temple to American lib- lerty “For instance, the Hebrews could be depended on to contribute their | statue of Moses, who led them from bondage to the promised land; the American Greeks, their = statue of | Plato, who first put into written form the outline of a republic; the Italians, their statue of the Gracchi, who es- tablished the Roman republic; the Swiss Americans, a statue of Hoffer; The central position in the erty. The approach to this temple is planned from the memorial bridge, arranged by architectural treatment | possibly by the planting of trees with recessed bays to form & background for statues of leaders of men seeking| freedom. The first group of these statues will represent other peoples from whom we have derived inspiration and hope. Immediately following these may be a recogpition of the Mayflower Com- pact, the Mecklenburg Declaration and other influences preceding 1776. Then, passing through an archway of trees into the next section, there will be statues of the signers of the Dec- laration of Independence and beyond the Dutch, William of Orange; the French, Jean Jaques Rousseau or| Voltaire; the British, Cromwell, etc.” | The plans for this temple would | locate it on the Lee highway on the | boundary line between Virginia .nd} the District of Columbia—on the line | connecting Lincoln Memorial with the Lee Mansion. This location considered very appropriate and has received the indorsement of the Lee Highway Association. There is spe- cial significance In the placing of | this temple in proximity to Lee Man- | sion for the crowning work of Lee's | life, following the civil war, was the | Testoration of the Unfon in the hearts | * of the southern people. | The new memorial bridge will have temple to liberty on high ground | them, through a second archway of trees to the circle surrounding the plaza will be the temple itself. This circle is to be 1,000 feet in diameter, simllar to the circles at each end of the memorial bridge. In the recesses of the trees about the tution and have found the way of |attainment easier because of our suc- cess and stabllity. This would in- clude all of Central and Sout Ameri- can republics and, since the late , nearly all of Europe and Asia * % % HE completion of this temple in all its details will and every existing form of government, and, | gverlooking the national capital. The |should require years to acoomplish. therefore, civilization, w that of the United Stats rest. It is not too much to say this is a crisis in our history that requires a new emphasis on the meaning and value of our fundamental law, the Constitution. * ok k% ‘¢ VE sometimes do not realize how #uch we have been the in- spiration and the leader in written | others in symbolizing the organic| freedom of the American people. | * ¥ Kk ok | on trial, and | capitol in the east and this temple |said Mr. Bush-Brown, “for it should | among the | jn the west would supplement each | be done with loving care by the best | artists which each group can select | trom among themselves. “The completion of such a building | |in Washington will demonstrate that Tu temple of liberty is Greek in design, following the general type of architecture of important buildings of the District. Mr. Bush- 11 people can live in harmony together only when theyr have a com- mon purpose in the pursuit of happi- ness for themselves and each other. constitutional government and that | Brown again points out the suitabil- | Inasmuch as all nations will be rep- oldest written mental law. France has rightly pressed the relation of States to other countries in the statue erected in New York harbor—"Lib- erty Enlightening the World"” We have furnished an object ours is the United States and all other repub- | lics, The essential features include a| funda- | ity of this adaptation of Greek archi- | resented in its sculptural decoration, ex- | tecture to American needs just as the | the temple will be not only a na- the United ethical life of the Greeks inspired the | tional, but also an international shrine.” Harold Bush-Brown, son of H. K. Bush-Brown, is the architect who de- lesson of | flight of steps, some twenty-one in|signed the temple and surroundings. general prosperity enjoyed under our | number, leading up to an open por- |He is Harvard graduate and grew constitutional government. The pro- posed temple of liberty, when erected, tico, supported by three rows of Corinthian columns. From this por- up in the offices of MoKim, Mead and ‘White of New York city. He was also will further embody and express this | tico one enters the nave with side | with Ralph Cram of Boston before fact. | Old Cape, Valued at Million Dollars, America’s Most Expensive Garment isles and chapels. It is in the early It Is Not to Be Found in the Wardrobe of Any Lady of Wealth, Nor Is It Displayed in Any of the Exclusive World—Product of Savage Skill and One of Few Heirlooms of Long-Lost Art—In Process of Construction During Kept in This City. BY EDNA M. COLMA} HE most expensive garment in the United States is a cape valued at a million dollars! The mere thought of one garment representing values of such proportions sends the imagination plunging hysterically through billows of gem bespangled laces, cobwebby gauzes and leaping wildly over masses of elegant velvets and costly brocades and rich' fabrics from every Jand in the search for some rare cloth or combinations of materials elaborate enough to be consistent with such outlay. Try as one may. it is not possible to fashion in one’s fancy a coat whose beauty equals & million dollars in value. Buch a coat exists, but it is not to ‘e found in the wardnobes of the lady of wealth, nor is it displayed in any of the exclusive shops of the fashion marts of the world. It was never fashioned for feminine adornment, and it goes far beyond the conception of the average modern mind, since it follows neither modern art nor any known style of the civilized world, but with all of its marvelous beauty of censtruction and coloring, is the aioduct of savage skill and is one of and attempted fo Fe-sstablish the fLoo & Shops of the Fashion Reigns of Eight Rulers. the few heirlooms of a long lost art, and an echo of a royal glory long since vanished from the world. One of the wonders of the great National Musuem at Washington, where marvels abound, this garment is a ceremonial cape, once the prop- erty of the Hawallan kings, and is made of thousands uvon thousands of tiny feathers of a small royal bird now extinct. It was presented to Commodore J. H. Aulick, U. 8. N, in 1841, by King Kemehameha III, and is one of the handsomest of the very few specimens of these marvelous| feather cloaks still in existence. * Kk X : {ONG the old papers and records pertaining to the gift of this treasure to the musuem was found a copy of a letter, evidently dictated, relating to the origin and history of this particular cloak, which has never before appeared in print. It reads as follows: “This feather cloak formerly be- longed to Kekuaskalani, one of the highest chiefs of the Sandwich Islands. After the abolition of idolatry in the year 1819, that chief rebelled against the reigning king taking his present position as assist- ancient religlons. A sanguinary bat- tle was fought and that chief was slain, and this cloak, which he then had on, fell into the hands of the conquerors, and thus became the property of King Kamehameha III, by whom it was presented to Capt. J. H. Aulick, U. 8. N. “Two yellow feathers only are ob- tained from under the wing of a very rare bird, which is caught alive with great care and toil, the much prized feathers plucked and the bird set at liberty. “One dollar and a half was for- merly the price of three of these feathers and from 60 to 100 years the time occupied in making the cloak. “PRINCE OF SANDWICH ISLANDS." This interesting and historic relic is forty inches long, measures eleven and a half feet around the lower edi and twenty-three inches in the neck. Its durability is demonstrated by its age and the brilllance of the color- ing. It is made of rows upon rows of tiny tufts of the feathers, laid on 80 smoothly and so thickly that the garment looks though it were made gf heavy velvet or plush. Across the center in the back is a huge double crescent of the scarlet, while smaller crescents and sections of crescents are placed at intervals over the surface. These figures are also made of feathers and worked in to gonferm with the rest of the cape. A million dollars is the value, sayp the label in the exhibition case where this remarkable feather coat is dl: played, and when one studies the garment it can be appreciated on those terms, particularly when the fact is recalled that it took the in- cessant labor for years upon years to collect and secure the feathers at the exorbitant price of 50 cents aplece, s quoted above. This sum was paid litle sufh of shree- s Aves All countries of |tian churches, with a large apse at|Georgia Institute of Technology In the idea o BEurope are represented in our popu- |the end. famous | 1ation, all are brothers in peace and E apse is for the colossal statue of lib- a {Atlanta. Mr. Bush-Brown worked with his father, the sculptor, in designing this temple of which his fathers statue of liberty will form the cen- tral feature. It s planned that all the patriotic | socteties in the United States und | state organizations have a part in erecting this memorial to American liberty. The Daughters of American Revolutiof is one of the first organi- zations asked to participate and the members have shown a great inter- t in the proposed temple of liberty. | Water in Deserts. | | (YNE region of the Colorado desert, where the ercape of the Colorado river has more than once caused seri- | ous trouble, has been made fertile, the | underground water being utilized for | irrigating several thousand acres. | Among the products that are mak- !lnx this reclaimed land rich are mel- ons, barley, aifalfa, oranges, grapes, | sweet potatoes, sugar beets and dates. & | ctrole will be placed statues of heroes | On the agrioultural experiment farm gor other nations which have attained | at Mecca, in this region, are to be [ 1tberty since we adopted our Consti- | found rare varleties of dates, which | for a long time were produced only in | oases of northern ! !Arabla and the { Africa, but which are now successful- {1y grown in Colorado. | It has been found by government 1 experts that the fertility of soils de- | pends largely on their capacity for | retaining motsture. In Many western localities crops grow luxuriantly with | scarcely any summer rain. It is even | thought that it is possible that the permanent water supply existing at a depth of from 40 to 100 feet may be | responsible for the ever-présent mols- | ture. e ‘The Phonoscope. ;IT is reported from India that & |+ Prof. Albe of Lahore has invented a machine that he calls the “phonoscope,” the use of which enables the totally deaf to percelve sounds by means of the eye. The machine can be used in | conjunction with either speech or music. | et avilable, although it is surmised that it employs photography In some form or other. In the past motion pic- tures have been taken of the effect of difterent sounds, particularly in con- Junction with telephony and wire- less telephony, and Albe's invention may be similar. THE MILLION-DOLLAR CAPE, PRESENTED TO COMMO! H. AULECK, UNITED STATES No detatls of the “phonoscope” ure | Obliterates Original German Records These Machines, However, Still Inefficient Compared With Soaring Birds—Langley’s Arrange- ment of Wings Uu4 in Best French Glider—Duration Less Important Than Distance—Small Field for Soaring in Commerce—Gliding Can Be Carried on Only in Spots Favored by Good Steep - ) Hills and Stiff Winds. BY NOEL DEISCH HE great American gliding meet for which arrangements are mow belug completed, snd ‘whose rendesvous i3 a matter of commerce frem coast to coast, 18 bringing dDack & certain vestige of the burst of gliding eathusiasm that developed last summer. Soaring was at that time thought by those unacqualuted with. aero- nautic history to de something en- tirely new in kind, and it was the common opinion that the season’s German recerds were not likely soon to be surpassed, especially since it had been given out that success lay in secrets which were to be won from nature by dint of no end of patns and industry. Whatever was accomplished at the French gltding meet held almost at the same time near Clermont ocould {not be thought to contradict that; opinton, and when, shortly after the close of the German concourse, the records there established were eclipsed by the feats of allied avil tors, public Interest had shifted. The German soaring record of three hours and six minutes, established by Hentsen on August 19 at Gers- fel6, was first broken on October 21 at the English gliding meet held at Itfrod Hill, Sussex. Several fine flights had been recorded, mnotably one by Raynham, who, on his second experience at gliding, stayed up one hour and fifty-three minytes, when, on the last day of the meet, Alexis Maneyrol flew for three hours and twenty-one minutes. On January 3 of the present year Lieut. Thoret of the French drmy remained aloft for twice as long—seven hours—at Biskra, Algeria. Not to be outdone, Maneyrol again went up, on Janu- ary 29, at Cherbourg, and, with the same glider he had used at Itford. succeeded in mtaying aloft just over eight hours. Finally Barbot, at Bisra, remained in the air for eight hours and thirty-six minutes, unofficial timifig. * %k ¥ % GREAT deal has been written on the subject of gliding since the subsidence of the first blush of pub- lic enthusiasm of six months ago, and from all this material it is evident that responsible judgment has con- firmed what the present writer ex- pressed In an article that appeared in The Star of September 10, written shortly after the close of the Euro- pean meets, and before any other attempt had been made to give an explanation of the factors on which the new feats of soaring were based —the opinion, to wit: (1) That the difference between or- dinary “glding,” which had been known and practiced for a long time, and the new “saring” resides essen- tially in the existence of a wind rush- ing up a stecp ascent with a velocity sufficient to glive rise to an upward component acting on the wings of the machine with sufficient force to com- pensate for the welght of the ma- chine due to gravity, and that there- fore the fallure of the contestants at Clermont was due to the contour of the 1and and the nature of the weath- | er at the grounds where the French meet was held, rather than to any fault of design in the better ma- chines, or to any deficiency of skill in the pilots. (2) That the value of soaring as a contribution to aeronautic science was being much overrated; that. in fact, we might expect these experi- ments to influence the design of pow- ered aeroplanes in no greater degree than a study of the behavior of yachts would influence the designs of steamships. (3) That there was no essentially new principle embodied in the con- therecords were established. (4) That we are a very long way in- deed frm the perfection of a machine which will soar under the conditions of wind and weather which are ade- quate for buszards, gulls and the other soaring birds. It is this last point especially RE J. NAVY, IN 1841, BY KING HAME- HAMEHA III OF HAWAIL THE CAPE IS MADE OF BIRD FEATHERS. scarcely the Bize 6f the little finger; and not years but generations of patient skilldd labor wete réquiréd to make the garment. Computing cost of feathers, time and all labor attached to its production, the result is written {n seven figures. The feather work of the Hawalians, which, by the way, was far superior to that of any of the other nations that inclyded it among their arts, is now a lost art, but of the samples of the various articles still in existence the leis, kahills 834 mablole, And the shuula or cipe, the last mentioned is the most baautiful. * % % garments were in reality a refinéd form of war paint. Their primary use was as a war-time deco- ‘ration, though they were often pré- sented as tokens of friendship and great esteem. None but kings, princes and milie tary chieftains of highest rank were allowed to wear the abuula, and with these dignitazien ihe-Jength of fhe. struction of the gliders with which | . THE PEYRET GLIDER, WITH WHICH MANEYROL FIRST BROKE THE GERMAN SOARING RECORD. THIS GLIDER, AS THE PICTURE SHOWS, CLOSELY RESEMBLES THE ORIGINAL MACHINE OF PROF. which merits restatement. Success- ful soaring is a matter not only of the kind of wind but the velocity of the wind, and soaring birds are able to ride on currents of air in which any glider yet made is help- less; in fact they can “yacht” in winds of such slight force that it is often hard to prove that any wind exists at all. Gulls cross the qcean by riding on the bump of air that is pushed aside by an ocean liner in its course. Burzards wheel for hours in the twisting eddies of wind that rise on a hot day from a perfectly level plain, when the atmosphere is otherwise apparently calm. But a man-made soarer will stay in the atr only in such a gale as would drive most soaring birds from the air altogether. All this means that any glider yet built is, by comparison with the most awkward soaring bird, woefully inefficient. It means that gliding can be carried on only in circumscribed spots favored by good steep hills and good stift winds. * * %k % EARING on this fact is another which is & kind of corollary to it, and which was in the writer's former article: “Under the proper conditions of motorless alrplane, if it possess stability and ability to remain in the air &t all, will fiy as long as the wind blows and the operator cares to sit in his seat and steer it." To many who thought that there must be some uncanny secret in- volved somewhere in the art of soar- ing this statement seemed rather far- fetched.- Yet it has certainly recei ed the strongest confirmation by sub- sequent developments in the art, and it is remarkable in this connection that each one of the longer flights has been terminated by nightfall —Hentzen, Maneyrol and Thoret each landing in the dusk. There is every indication that if daylight had con- tinued their fights would have been terminated only at such time as the aviator decided to descend. I have said that nothing has so | far come to light in gliding experi- ments that would be likely to modify the design of airplanes intended to | iy by their own motive power alone. Some departure from orthodox de- sign has, however, been adopted in the gliders themselves to fit them better to the special exigencies of soaring. The most striking diver- gence from conventional airplane de- sign 1s embodied in the machine con- coat indicated the rank, those of the kings falling clear to the ground. The chief who captured or killed his enemy took as part of the spoils of war his feather cape and helmet. These trophies were prized as chofc- est treasures and only displayed on most formal public occasions. ‘When Capt, Cook anchored off Wai- mea, in 1778, on his first discovery of the Hawalian group, he and his of- ficers at once noticed the feathered robes and all records made by mem- bers of the expeditions contain mention of them. Capt. Cook’s account is as follows: “Amongst the articles which they brought to barter this day (January 21, 1§78,) we could not help taking notice of a particular sort of cloak and cap, which even in countries where dress s more particularly at- tended to, might be reckoned ele- gant. The first are nearly of the size and shape of the cloaks worn by the | wonfen of England and the men of Spain, reaching to the middle of the back and tfed loosely in front. The ground of them is a network, upon which the most beautiful black and yelloew feathers are so closely fixed that the syrface might be compared to the thickest and richest of velvet, which they resemble both as to feel and glossy surface. “The manner of varying the mix- true is very different, some having triangular spaces of red and yellow alternately; others kind of crescent and some that were entirely red, had a yellow border, which made them appear at some\distance exactly like a scarclet cloak edged with gold lace. The brilliant colors of the feathers in those that happened to be new added not & little to their appearance, and we found that their owners WoulA Aok-RACH MAUN-RaR- AL A58 Lo thus expressed | | seit to use a “glider” LANGLEY. structed by the engineer Peyret, fore- man of the Morane-Saulnier Com- pany, and used by Maneyrol in his great flight. It combines the fol- lowing-plane arrangement of Prof. Langley with a system of control closely resembling that used by Prof. Montgomery in the tandem plane machine with which a twenty-minute glide was made at Santa Barbara in 19¢ ow the placing of planes behind each other is known to produce & decidedly less efficient machine than their arrangement one above the other as in a biplane, but, on the other hand, the former arrangement glves greater inherent stability to the machine. When, in addition, the wings are designed to be warped or are fitted with large ailerons or “flaps,” as in Peyret's machine, @ very high degree of controlabllity results. Both of these qualities are at a premium in a glider, which must adapt itself to every draugh! and puff of air, and though they were purchased in Peyret's machine at the price of a certain lowering of efficiency, the purchase would ap- pear justified. In a word, though Peyret's four-winged machine could not soar in as light a wind as a two-winged monoplane or a biplane, it can stay aloft in a gustier one and maneuver under conditions of weath- | er and terrain which will, demonstrated at Itford. force ordinary glider to earth. o x was an UT that, after all, the machine is an entirely secondary affair in soaring is proved to conclusion by the achlevement of Thoret. who in his long flight did not trouble him- at all. He simply mounted to a height of 600 feet in a regular Army biplane—a Hanriot weighing about 1,300 pounds with its driver—took his place over e ridge, shut off his engine and tacked back and forth at a speed of about fifty miles an hour until he decided to come down, which, &s stated before, occurred a matter of some seven hours after he had gone up. The hill in cuestion is that ot Ed Denouatt. located about three mijes southeast of Biskra. It is about a mile long and rises at a very steep inclination to a height of 500- 700 feet above the Sahara. A thirty- mile-an-hour wind was blowing at the time of the flight, and that is about the velocity that obtained dur- ing the record-making flights at the German meet. It must be eviden anything we offered, asking no less a price than a musket. However, some were afterward purchased for some very large nails, “They have another dress appro- priated to their chiefs and used on ceremonious occasions, consisting of a feathered cloak and helmet. which in point of beauty and magnificence is perhaps nearly equal to that of any nation in the world. As this dress has been already described, I have only to add that these cloaks are made of different length, in pro- portion to the rank of the wearer, some reaching only ‘to the middle, while others trail the ground.” Capt. Cook was regarded as a god and givén all of the adoration and attention that was considered his due as such. With him the Hawailans were most liberal with their treas- yred feather gifts. * % kX THNOLOGISTS are of the opinion that the making of the feather work dated from a very early period in the history of the islands. How many of these wonderful capes were made and when the idea began is not known, for the reason that the Ha- wailans had no written language prior to 1820, when the American missionaries fitted words to their spoken sounds. No record is to be found of any of their ancient arts. The anclent kings had a regular staff of skilled bird hunters, who were expert in their vocation. The birds that supplied the feathers inhabited the mountainous portions of the islands where the average Hawallan disliked to go since these sections were considered the abode of evil spirits. The native preferred to find his living near the shore, whers ha was sure of his coveted | then, that no peculfarity of the ma- chine or special training of the avi- ator is responsible for “soaring” as we understand {t—that both are sec- ondary to the topography and the weather. Any comparison of the soaring qualities of gliders must hence- forward rest upon their demonstrated capabilities in winds moving at ve- locities that are adequate to keep | birds in the air, that is, in something | of the nature of a good breeze rather | than a near gale. A mere repetition |of the feat of soaring in the condi- {tions under which it has thus far {been done is to no purpose, and of | value only as a sport. We it not {merely duration records, but dis- | tance records. To convince us that | they can soar in the more general acceptance of that term, aviators must do more than merely stay sus- | pended in the air over a ridge; they will have to sally out into the open, 0 to speak, and fly over fixed routes to given objectives. They must go over comparatively level country in a fairly moderate wind. just llke a | condor or an albatross. And it would appear. that a very long road must yet be traveled by inventors before this has been brought to ac- complishment. * % { \TOR does it appear likely that the AN art will find any of those prac- | tical applications which some writers | €0 confidently predicted for it in their early moments of enthuslasm; none {of those “revolutionary advances in {fiying” which the Germans last sum- ! mer promised were to follow within the next year, It does, of course. appear quite possible that an aviator | could succeeed in edging crabwise | the length of & long ridge and in that {way covering a good distance. But though that feat may be well within | the range of possibility, it would probably entail such attention and ekill on the part of the pilot as to make it impracticable except as @ | matter of establishing a record. Perha also an aviator on ordinary ’‘plawe traversing an lane that lay parallel and closely adjacent to a long chain of moun taine like the Sierras or the Andes | might fina it possible at certaiu | sectors of his route to coast along for considerable stretches without the use of his motor. Yet it is doubt- ful if the saving of fuel thus gained would compensate for the loss of time entailed by a longer route and a low ge rate of travel fish. and in the fertile valleys, where he could raise his kale. Hence, when feathers became the gold currency of the kingdom, a tribe of hardy ad- venturers developed, to whom the lure of wealth was strong enough to subdue their natural antipathy to the hardships of the search for the elu- sive feathered prey. which forced them to brave the elements travel long and far. Furthermore, as a result of the fre quent tribal wars, tribute was exact ed from vyarious subjects of the Hawallan kings and the feathers of the Mamo, OO and the Iwli, a similar bird of brilllant plumage, were re quired in payment.' Thus, the kings kept their coffers full of the desirable feathers, and the wives of their nobles fully occupied in the construc- tion of feather capes, which took litetimes, even a century, to complete, and the hunter was able to pay his tax and acquire desired supplies. A yard of nankeen, valued at §1.50, was given in exchange for flve feathers. and it is sald that one of the later rulers offered the equivalent of $I for each feather of the royal Mamo which should be brought to him. The bird hunters made a thorough study of their quarry and in time learned all of the traits of the birds they sought. They found that curi- osity was strongly Implanted in the little wild things, so they catered to it by placing strange trees in the open places in the forest and-among the boughs placed sticks or poles, ismeared with birdlime, usually the sticky julce of papala, to entangle Ithem. For a long time none of the birds were killed, but as soon as the precious feathers were plucked were released, by the king's order, so that Continued on Seventh Page) and

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