Evening Star Newspaper, October 25, 1925, Page 76

2 5. THE SUNDAY STAR, 'WASHINGTON, D. C, OCTOBER 25 1925—PART Auto Travelers Courageously Ride at Armed, Hostile Dalbandin, Iy only ‘I'he; orsemen b = ritls rge and the sta watering posts are also forts for the protection the line, and ach station contains a detachment of Ba'uchl levies. They are built to withstand the doors are armored, and «ll windows open into an_inner courtyard | tr from ons are re for the train in near our g struck an_img away on the railws a trolley with ficer. He put way coolies at our disposal worked ahead of us and by clearh and filling up there we did that fou miles in eight hours. seemed Find Supreme Struggle in Final Mile as They Make Only Run by Motor Car From England to India. i of Continual Battle With Sand—Baffling Pursuers With a Dust Screen—Sta- bling Horses in the Palace of Xerxes. Theft of Ammunition. it a snail's sand and times at Ma two companions Moving trequently o mud over rocky roads, and raining bursts ¢ Forbes.Leith have now reaciied Persin in their huzar jonrney by automobile from England to India. This was ramiliar und to the author his service during id War, but country speed be. and his made Letth wticies d the os experien s<s through As 15 thelr Maj. | pertis 1in their Minor ndden en + sund storm, through drove blindly. Felix, t ky 1 car used through ot fail in velopment in which they horder was Forbes-Leith's Wi was leaving the edknap to one of companions ken by tor rry Ma Allar Mont to their and BE F. A. €. SLEITH IVE hours’ Teheran, the capital . brought 1s 1 sre the Indo- Telegraph Com: pany kindly placed their rest house at our disposal. Iere we were right in the Salt desert, every stream wus of salt water, and even that from the deepest wells was very brackish Even m it into tea with lots of sugar ¢ disiguise its Havor, and whisky was ne anything but sauseating An ho mn fr 18 to the shores « lake of Kum. which is very slowly drying up. As it came Into view it was a beautirul sight. The lake on our left was a mass of sllver, and the plain, which was once the bed of much lurger lake, stretched for mil 10 & saucer edge of great rocky mouxn tains The extent vision was tremen dous, and the caravan track, which was perfectly straight. was visible for miles. Redknap estimated that we could see 5 miles of it, and 1 thought miles, but the speedomn- eter showed us that we wers both wrong. and the distance visible even- tually proved to be 15 miles. At that distance small dots which afterward proved to be camel caravans could be plainly seen with the naked eve in the clear atmosphere, and the air was so crisp and at that hour of the morning that it was good to be alive. Two m and we emerged onto the fertile plain of Ispa han, where the domes and minarets of the ancient capital of the shahs shone brightly in the face of the setting sun we were enjoying itish consulate as guests of Mr. Bristow, the consul gen- eral. Ispahan is beautifully situated on a plateau at a helght of 6,000 feet &nd has a perfect climate. It is a lasting monument to Shah Abbas 111, who 1 responsible for most of the fine buildings in the city It was here that o it rs Liere the brought great sa we days of desert t baths in the F the game of polo originated, and in the huge maidan | (square), which is nearly 700 yards the old original stone goal posts are Il to be s 1. In the sixteenth ent polo was played over the whole area of the maidan by 60 play ers to a side The _River Zenderud, which is 600 feet broad here, is crossed by three noble bridges, one of them 1,000 feet long and containing 34 arches. Ispa- han was taken by Timur in 1387, when 70,000 of the inhabitants were sail to have been massacred During the seventeenth century it reached the climax of its prosperity ing | over | ancient” writers, |wide and 2 i I had a nasty feeling of funk and sensatfon of my heart Stipping quickly into my boots. When held up by well armed horsemen it is not at all heroic to try and fight an uneven battle, Only two courses are open. One is to siy “Bismillah”—help yourseives; the | other is to run, if possible. We de cided on the latter, but as to turn around would have been impossible, [ trod on the gas and went at them frusting to luck, und found myself | dering how it would affect the car 1 hit & horse broadside on We had to take that chance, and as we approached them with quickly easing speed they split up, and I iissed one fellow by a fraction of an inch. They turned and started after us, firing wildly as they came, but Iuckily did not hit us ave a faint recollection of look ver my shoulder and seeing one fellow almost up to the h 1 worked up to 25 miles and Ly the greatest piece uck we then hit 4 long patch of du I could not see what happened, Lut Redknap told me later that the dust screen we put up saved us, as it must huve nearly blinded the horse men, and they gave up the chase We did not op until we were well 1 the gorge, where the track iwas rrow and we felt that no sensible gand would follow us in a place where only two could ride abreast. We put a good 10 miles between us and them befors we halted to wipe off the nervous perspiration and to seck & little Dutch courage from our smaull store of bottles. Felix had again helped us out of our troubles, and in that first short b I am sure we took obstacles t 30 miles an hour that in the ordi- | way we should have crawled We were more than relieved to find that there was mo damage The next day, after a slow, dreary A over a terrible track. we arrived the Plain of Persepolis. the ruins city with which, according to the “no other city could be compared efther in beauty or wealth,” and which was generally designated the “glory of the East.” Darius, Herstaspes, Xerxes, Artaxer- xes, each in his turn contributed to- ward its aggrandizement. It was burned during his advance of con quest by Alexander the Great., in a drunken orgy, at the instigation of Thats, the courtesan * % % % HE ruins are among the finest in existence, and to see Persia in her present state of decay makes one marvel at the wonderful state of cfv- flizatlon that must have existed here in the early ages, a civilization that rivaled Rome in its splendor The whole internal area of the city ‘was built on three huge terraces ahout 1.800 feet long by 1,000 feet wide, ris ing about 80 feet above the plain and reached by a huge double flight of narble stairs. Each step was 22 feet "hes high, and with a 15-inch tread which enabled horsemen to ascend them The whole city was built of dark gray marble, and many wonderful carvings are still in a well preserved state in the palaces of Xerxes and Darfus. The main portals are still standing and bear figures of animals resembling the Assyrian bulls of Nineveh. Above the ruins and cut | in solid rock are tha tombs of Jam schid and Xerxes, and we elimbed the | hill and entered the tomb of the| former. The actual coffin was looted years 8go, but the sarcophagus still remains intact, with its 10-ton broken lid of solid granite. Wandering Persians use the tomb for shelter at night, and nothing but filth surrounds this won- derful mausoleum. In the great pal- ace of Xerxes, with the few remain- ing of its 40 pillars, we found three Persians stabling their horses. As on it cur an ur | mountains tersected w runge of mountains, stay- | ing for an tomb of Sadi, the great Pei In this part of the world, ticularly in Persia, he is held in far greater esteem than the great Omar Khayyam. The golng here was ver: hours of heavy going bad, and 10 through a | barren but heautiful country brought us to the miles long wuters ar no lfe at move wer there also taining soldiers. the night 1 shall never forget that night if 1 live to be a hundred. We were actu ally at an altitude 1,000 feet lower than we were in Shiraz, but it was so intensely cold that sleep wus i possible. 1 was lying in a warm fleece bag with a blanket both under over me, and during the night I kept adding to my clothes until I had on two pairs of pajumns, two pairs of khuki trousers, two flunnel shirts and three palrs of socks. This was no help to me, und Red knap was feeling it just as much, so at about 3 w.m. we made up the fire and sat huddled round it wrapped in blankets and watched the most glori ous gunrise lmaginable. + wonder: ful coloring and the re tion of the in the perfectly su th water of the lake made it a subject that Turner would have sold his soul shores of Luke Niriz, 60 by 10 miles wide, whose 50 salt that they contain 1Il. Some tribesmen on the camped by its banks, and vas a shabby mud fort con two much shabbler Persiun We camped near them for | for the opportunity to reproduce. Next day we were in a country that was almost uninhabited, but which teemed with game. Moufflon and ibex abounded, and gazelles were moving about in thousands. Oxeranxlety on account of losing our ammunition made me so nervous that in firing at a herd not 300 yurds away I missed every one of our remaining flve cartridges. They must have had pri vate information that they were our last cartridges, as for the rest of the day they came in herds of 20 or 30, and stopped In the road almost within revolver range of the car, where they seemed to be laughing at us. That afternoon at the foot of 4 pass we met a few Persians, one of whom was covered with blood from head to | foot. He had been stoned and robbed in the pass an hour before. I cleansed and bandaged his wounds and we moved on in fear and trepidation, hut luckily the brigands had gone and we had no trouble. But what a pass that was! It was “THE NEXT V DAYS WERE A GHTMARE -WHEN THE SAND WAS HOPELESS, WE TOOK TO THE RAILWAY AND BUMPED OVER THE TIES, AND WHEN THE TIES WERE IMPOS- SIBLE, WE WENT BACK TO THE SAND.” and under the Shah Abbas became the capital of Persia. Its wally were then 24 miles in circuit, and it is said to have contuined nearly 1,000,000 in- habitants. It was then the emporium | of the Asiatic world and the ambas- | sadors from Europe and the East, crowded to its court. In 1722 it was | devastated by the Afghans, after which the seat of government was | transferred to Teheran. Now it con- | tains a population of 100,000 only, but 18 gradually regaining its standing as the most important trading center of Persia * ok Kok [T was 100 miles nort of Persepolis that we had an adventure which | ‘night_have brouzht cur expedition to | « sidden end. We were approaching and about 5 miles from a range of hills intersected by a gorge. The plain was fairly smooth and sloped up to the hills on our left and down to & distant river bed on our right. We were rolling along the track at about $ miles an hour when from the cover of trees on our left we saw about a dozen armed horsemen ap- proaching the track. They were about 100 yards ahead of us and, thinking they were tribesmen on the trek, I took little notice of them. Then I saw a similar group approaching from the opposite direction, and they galloped up to the road and barred OuR Waye other famous ruins here in Persia, vandals for many centuries have de- taced the wonderful carvings by cut- ting thelr names across them. As we left Persepolis our. rumina- tions on this scene of former splendor were brought to a sudden end, as with « severe jerk the rear wheel of Felix fell through the earth and rotten tim- ber of a small bridge. It was right in the water, and we had a dusty and tiring job for two solid hours getting him back to terra firma. There followed a long drag over the hot, dusty plains and a long climb up a steep pass. Suddenly we came upon a glorfous view, the city of Shiraz studded with cyprus trees. ~ Arriving in the city, we spent a few days there and in the surrounding country, visit- ing the tribes. The night before we left Shiraz we had a serfous misfortune. Felix was left unattended for an hour or so, and in that time every round of ammuni- tion we possessed. with the exception of five rounds, was stolen. It was not possible to replace them here, and as we should have to be dependent on our gun for meat for nearly all the {JLATER that day certalnly the worst hill T have ever attempted, and 1 must confess the ef- fort frightened me =0 much that I was in a cold sweat when we got to the top. What the estreme gradlents were 1 do not know. but in parts they seemed like the side of a house, and most of the way we had a sheer wall on one slde and a drop varying from 500 to 2,000 feet on the other. The surface was so loose that in parts the wheels would hardly grip, but we manipulated it unalded, which was another great achievement for Felix. Later I heard that during the life of the South Persian Rifles an officer named Grant engineered this pass. and ever afterwards it was named Grant Road by people who knew India. * * we arrived at a gendarme post at Saidabad, where we were entertained by the of- ficer commanding troops, who had just returned from a scrap with a notorious band of brigands, in which he had killed two men and taken eight prisoners. But we were men of remainder of the journey, it was a matter that caused us a deal of anx- fety. We set oft from Shiras through peace and all this news made us very nervous, especially so near the end of the journey. From here the continual disuse of the caravap track had made itbardix | cuse hour to photograph the |saven miles an hour. nd | perceptible, and going was extremely herd. Floods had washed great trenches across our path and in many the whole track as washed away for hundreds of yards on end, and we could average only about In one place we found an exception, and this was on the dry salt bed of what was once a huge luke. As we approached, it ap- peared to be a huge sheet of water, but later it resolved itself into a large bed of salt. It is Impassable in the wet season and is nothing but a morass, but in the Spring the camels make a Straight across it which gets as hard as fron, and which is perfectly smooth. Later, ns the season gets warmer, the whole lake, with the ex ception of the track, bubbles up and leaves waves of dry salt whi have the same rmation (bhut on a much larger scale) as a sandy beach when the tide recedes. Across this track we had seven miles of perfect going without a bump, and for the first time for three months Felix had a brief spell of over 40 miles an hour, but the frightful glare from the white salt surface was most trying and we were glad to ex- change the good going for the ever- lasting twist and bump. For four m days we struggled in & most uncharitable country where to run a couple of miles without getting stuck or having to dig or clear the k was impossible. n here we were continually salt in almost and one night in we bade farewell in waterless the town to prac- country, of Bam tically see for 880 miles. After two hours' running from here we got onto sand, id to the end of our journey sand was our trouble and continual bug- bear, and 1 do not think I want to see it agalu, even in an egg boiler At Shurgaz we were met by 20 coolles, who had walked 30 miles to push us ucross a patch of three miles of silver sand hills. That took us three hours, and after leaving them we must have stuck a hundred thme a day. Redknap and Hussein worke: like heavers, and on our second day out of Bam we ran for 12 hours, dur- ing which we made only 60 mil and finished up absolutely played out We camped in a valley which T can only liken to the Valley of Despond mentioned in Pilgrim's Progress. It contained no life of any kind, and even the usual crowd of Insect pests that kept us company at our evening meal were missing.” Next dav we stopped at Dehan-ibagh at the house of the loneliest Englishman I have ever met, a Mr. John May of the In- dian telegraph department. He is superintendent of over 1,000 miles of the line that runs from Indi. to London, 1s responsible for its main- tenance, and lives under a strong guard of Baluchi levies. His nearest white neighbor is 90 miles away, and his spell of duty lasts for two years, but he is one of the type of stout- hearted ploneers who have made Eng- land what she is. He had made gardening a hobby;, and had carried o good water supply from far away In the hills by means of a small water channel to a piece of reclaimed desert, where he had a fine show of flowers, fruit and vegetables, and that with photography kept him fully employed. We left the next morning and picked up our petrol dump in mid-desert, which had been made by horse transport e NOTHER day of perpetual sand and we arrived at Duzdab on the Per- sian-Baluchistan frontier, ®where the Indian Northwestern Rallway has its terminus. Here even the well sea- soned Hussein fell {ll and we had to send him on by train to Quetta and as a4 substitute we engaged a Pathan servant, un ex-soldler, who proved a sterling good fellow. Seven years ago the village of Duz dub, Persia, did not exist, but the rail- way was brought here during the days of the war as a means of keeping the British forces {n East Persia supplied. It now contains a branch of the bank, and is a distributing and loading cen- ter for caravans, which move from here to all parts of Persla and Afghanistan. From Duzdab, Afghanistan is seven miles ‘away, and India is a_similar distance away, and we stayed here for 48 hours to prepare for our last 600 miles. No animal or vehicular traffic had passed over the trade route for over seven years, and the state of it was very doubtful. Information was very hard to obtain, but an Indian merchant, who was formerly a sur- veror on the railway, gave us hope that it would not prove too difficult. Nevertheless, we were very dublous. For the first 60 miles to Mirjawa, during which we ran south and par- allel to the Indian border, there was certainly a visible track and this we managed to cover in six hours. There the railway people put us on a track, which was supposed to lead us on to the old trade route. After 28 miles of the most beartbrenking going. we found that the track had ceased to exist, and we were so near the Afghan border that we began to get nervous, and, taking a compass bearing, we headed south again for the rallway. The whole of that afternoon was the most heart-breaking time 1 have ever experienced, and our difficulties can be imagined by the fact that no one occasion I traveled an actual distance of 600 yards, during which I recorded eight and one-half miles on the speedometer. We were saved only by the fact that we carred two ls-yard lengths of wire mnetting such as is used for building chicken houses. Whenever stuck we laid this down on the loose gand, and it enabled us to pull out of the mess. Poor old Felix was tried to the utmost; I trembled for him continually, but breed told and he stuck it. An extra heavy patch of sand told the last vegetation we should on vur sprivg and a main leat broke from sheer weariness. This had been on since leaving London, and, considering that we had not used shock absorbers, it was marvelous to think it had stood the strain. Finally we struck the lne 16 miles from our raflway starting T"l‘llli\l.T_li)'\ ','l;") l\! ; =1 MISSED OANE FELLOW BY point, after covering 42 miles in 11 hours to get this short distance. We then followed the bumped 18 miles in the Warechah station, whe there had been a rald the previous night. Every drop of water on this 400 miles of line has to be carried by | and dark to we found line | sana over the struggled there is there rison ing ing five avery | picked | and further he next Ave davs were a perfect nightmare, during which we did noth- ing but fight the sand, When the of the plain was hopeless we to the railway, and bumped ties, and when the tires were went back to the sand, cruwling a few mfles a day, we on to Dalbandin, whern Eritish garrisor When we w n miles from nd_bumping over the tles a wotor trolley came out to meet us with three Britishers on board, Mr. Pigzott, the subdivisonal officer, and fnd Mrs. Franklin, the former hom was commander of the gar- We rested for a_day and, act- on ady v took to the tles, sain and had fairly good golng, do the 102 miles to Ahmedwall in 14 hours. I'rom here we left the line vhile and as far as Nushki, 13 miles away, we again struggled with our took old triend sand for four and one-half hours n, is o typl station only Afghan border. garrison an harbed wire. Maj. Kirkwood, in command of the troops there, and up our last dump of petrol, with oniy 90 miles to go we 100 he first iime for ove Baluchist frontie the strong behind Nushki, in cal northwest miles from ntains one lives. We lunched with It « a to the hill 500 miles. For the 20 mlles was good. but the track petered out to nothing hours' fight A statios first the going ntually after a h sand for the depressed 1o utmost by the station master told that the four miles of ad of us in the Wassil gorge h its two bridges been washed y 1917 We moved on, but on our arrival there we found he was right. Our wn two spades were useless, and so and nig 1w Another weary 1 les brought us to Kanak, 7 miles from Mastung. an at this latter pluce there is a perfec motor road to Quetta. Here we foun a telegram from Maj. Arthur of the Wosley Co. which gave us a nast shock. He told us that it was & physical impossibility to get the ca to Mastung, but we had been told tk often that we declded to ignors the warning and to try lucik. After struggling for hou during which we covered miles we found ourselves deep in loc sand, about a mile from Mastung We were both dead beat, 50 1 walke along the line to the station. Tk Station master turned out & troll and lent us a guard for the car, putting our kit on the trolley, we wer on to the station znd rested for t} night Early next mornin of 20 men to dig through, after four hours’ work we got ast mile. As we came up the mile to Mastung we iven coratal reception by Maj. Arthur an a Mr. Smith of Quetta, who had cor out to meet us Tor the last we to 27 miles we were © perfect motor road all the wuy ta, but on that bit of good goin I felt n re nervous than I had bee on the whole ev. I felt that having surmounted all our Aiffic something would hay minute, founded. Several t u a cool bottle Over a railw np < of b 1 was dreas and fc there, the 1 plr surely myself there, 10253 Phantom Millions of Former Years Now Haunt Paris, Reviving Mystery BY STERLING HEILIG. PARIS, October 8 HE phantomn milllons again haunt Paris. Therese Hum- bert and her brother Romain Duurignac have reappeared. In the day of their celebrity they raised $20,000,000 on an alleged American legacy and had a valise full of government bonds estimated anywhere from $10,000,000 to $20.000, 000. Last Tuesday a respectable man of about 65 was seen by a woman shop per to walk away from a street ba gain counter with a pair of cloth sli} pers in his hands. On the impulse she cried: “Stop him!” Arrested, he explained that he was merely hurry- ing a few steps to show the slippers 10 & friend who had passed on. The slippers were worth 40 cents The man was Romain Daurignac. At the commissariat he would have been released at once, but that he gave another name: and when his true identity appeared the contrast with his past of millions led to in quiry. In & few hours Romain Daurignac was free, But his downtown office had heen’ visited. Fis sister Therese had been questioned. The art work of her husbund, Frederick Humbert had been examined. And Paris was again wondering about the valise full of government bonds which existed the night before justice examined the Humbert fireproof safe—and had ut- terly disappeared in the morning. During five years, between 1547 and 1802, Therese Humbert borrowed an average of $4,000,000 a year from some of the keenest business men of I The basis was an alleged legac $ 100,000 and accumulations cl to have been left her before her mar- riage by a mythical old American named Crawford, and sequestered by agreement with his nephews. Interviewed yesterday by the ex- celsior, Marfa Daurignac. younger sis ter of Therese and Romain, scolded the “stupidity” of Paris capitalists who “tempt” people to borrow their money. “You are astonishing, you Parisians! (the Daurignacs are from the south). ou are stupld! A person tells 1 have inherited a hundred mil- *and you believe it. Voila! You belleve whatever's told you! But where we come from, at Toulouse, when some one says: ‘T have inherit- ed a hundred millfons!” nokody would have an idea it could be true. **One must be v stupld to lend money on such a story,” said sister Maria. “Therese, who told it with- out reflection, just to say something, to make herself interesting, quoi! She perceived that the pleasant tale was taken for real truth! Eh! que voulez. vous? Therese was honest, but she was not a seint! Why not should she borrow. since she found folks imbecile enough to loan? Then, after- ward, the imbectles make a fuss about i * oK N ¥ T sounds easy, but there was more to it. Fontana, greatest jeweler of the Palais Royal, gave up $2,000,- 000 to Therese and Romain from his personal pocket. The Egyptian bank- er, Cataui, loaned between $3,000,000 and $4,000,000. Such men, and 20 others like them, do not advance fm- mense sums on a “pleasant story.” In the shadow was a master mind. Profound legal astuteness and tortu- ous complication of judicial procedure made the basis for “the greatest fraud of the centur: The fatherdnlaw of Therese was old Gustave Humbert, one-time minis- ter of justice, who long held a high place in the Cour des Comptes. Al though no proof exists, all passed as if the gay old spider made the joy of his last years in spinning a terrific web for boosting Therese and bluffing Romaln to use as their own. A won. derful web! Maitre Parmentfer. head of the greatest law firm of Havre, told at the trial how he was duped for years. He imagined himself, always, to be acting for “the Crawfords"—and produced 5,000 letters from and to them, con- tatned in 18 great tin boxes! In nine years Parmentier saw the alleged Henry Crawford three times, and his supposed brother Robert never., although more than half the letters of instructions came from Robert. At their first interview the mys. terfous Henry—"elegant foreigner of middle age, speaking French perfectly with a slight southern accent'—ex- plained that his uncle, the deceased William Crawford, had been over- influenced to leave $16,000,000 by will t0 & young lady named Therese Dau- rignac, since marrfed to Frederick Humbert. ; “When we compromised with her for $1,200,000," he said, “my brother and T were ignorant of a later will made by our uncle.in our favor. We presented ourselves to Mme. Humbert solely as his helrs at law, despoiled by an outsider—herself. We had no doc- uments. So we were happy when she offered us $600,000 apiece as a com- promise. 3 “It is true,” he went on, “the com- promise carrfed a clause of honor, which would compensate us A It was becom w he hushand rignac, her younger “Later we discovered th of our dear uncle. Then we reg the more having come to terms with | that yman, who was already seeking to force us to executo without acknowled honor as to the m: “You sea our situation ncluded the Henry “We have the spiri e law, t 1 and the secret clau Humbert has the letter « the 3 the | signed compromise. We shall, t | fore. he condemned but | as Mme. Humbert has grave financial | embarrassments we hes you to use all the resou legal procedure to make th drag on. In time w to w more wleged compr So was bul Humbert bor * * WHO it was that Crawford has never beer He wus seen but th structed Parmentier in e and Parmentier instructed gi < of Paris. Vast fees costs were paid in cash, by On her side, Therese told her s to great luw firms of Paris. An mense series of dlsputes, con and delays cro Foremost c: T astute m this mass of uine pro- | cedure—and computed the terrific to. tals paid in fees and court costs by Therese and “the It never occurr could it?—that the Crawford existonce. And naturally sumed as truth the basis story of the $16,000,000 lexacy plus ac- | i . up the ba: it posed as Ienry knos He in- | ers, absolutely o cumulatio! In rse of time, crookedness, most mysterious and convincing_element was adde A mass of French 3 per cent govern ment bonds agsregating $20,000,000 by | count of more than one French busi ness man was “sequ in the Humbert fireproof saf aree ment with “the ( Do ou understand? lP;m! constraining of Th bert’ to thus *“immobilize posed btulk of her in this manner occupied procedure—while g Therese and Rom: coquetry mere Hum sup- the | supposed months of | time for | borrow 1 z legacy | to ROMAIN DAURIGNAC VB!GHT) ACCOMPANIED BY H build up a vast financial e's nest, just to exercise his tor tuous ingenuity and 1 fools of 1 colleagues of the Par tlustrio unounts o gate vast sther theory re fascinat THERESE HUMBERT the Cour des hud factlity to fish securities of lapsed or confiscated es sequestered forgotten tunes and even bonds that shou canceled for tk profit of the State, be! without present legal owner or >d with sor illegality. 1t is thought that old Gust: might thus have collected a hundred million francs’ worth, more or less, of the commonest French government secur unregistered 3 per cents of tha renta—which ¢ wanld have been place in Gust LAWYER. and borrow, and affording this|dangerous to sell on the market at the obvious touch of explanation they couid not touch her immense for- tune—yet—although it was right there, in their hands, for money lenders to see and touch at rare in- tervals. What bonds? They are still the mystery Humbert affair. Behind them, in all theories, lurks the brooding genius of old Gustave Humbert. He did not care for money.. He seemed, rather, soured against the world in @ placid way and secretly were those government of the why | time. Years later, perhaps, prescription might make them a safer sale. Perhaps today, tomorrow? Here we have the poignant picture of Romain Daurignac, with 4 francs in his pocket, arrested for a misun- derstanding about a pair of 40-cent cloth slippers, which Sister Therese sat waiting, brooding, in her chill little apartment, brooding, won- dering, calculating—can they do it how, in a few months, prescription will be ripe, now, to sell bonds, with se- crecy and care, beyond the dream of avarice! a for glimpsed and estin fllegal favor | In to convince them that t wers 10 z last complaints were made = he fire-proof s f the bonds w In the morning they had terly disappeared It has leaked ou packed in a great valis pened? Were they burned it too dangerous to show them i light of day? Yet were they too able—would they become too v in the course of tin out of the family? Twenty vears ha iption perfe Therese there. t that t we What T ve passe ts title Humt —for new hand perhaps, This Bear Powerful. ‘HE gre: “Kodiak gri: present-day c Alaskan brow is the rnivores, « the the most all eating animals world one His fame powerfu beconie qu the Afric gal tiger. His rem that « plun tes Harold ind him to be a ver amiable and ving big fe extremely curious, highly intell and quite unaware of hfs brute p as lion or the Be tion has been and a most beast. Ye en in Nature rience 1 have mother beax quarters; they not much larger than b birth, and welghing about 9 to 15 ounces. Y tiny creatures are destine into the largest of carnivor In this particular phase lfe is shown one of the per which nature has develoj mother has £ Arctic W tion circum which cor merely the e has stor be: pel surplus 1ces he eners d u r her ns of vour hus for re the until she can food in the Spring The cubs are early their own salmon. find g t enjoyment One of the 1 1 ever saw brown I big ki a shallow riffle at le twice the size of which the heurs usually he had quite big fish was almost s long as the cub, and was too large and heavy for him to carry out onto the bank in his mouth, but after much trying he a last picked it up in his arms ar standing on his hind feet, with the fish’s tail flopping between his 1 hairy brown legs, he walked proud out onto the rocky shore with his prize. The particular district where these animals are most abundant, and where they seem to at tk height as an outstanding species. is the wes ern end of the Alaska Peninsula, pecially alons the Bering Sea side between Port Moller and the hea of Paviof Bay, and the mu Izenbeck Bay and sport imp! vas one of the < trying to ma h he e king & the sal with tussle Corundum Discoverie ORUNDUM is first cousin to sapphire and the ruby. but lac their brilllance of and tra wrency 3 exce brasive material, than eme which is impure corundum, in that r+ spect, but for a long time its rari made it too use. Som able deposits of corundum we: in the mountains north of Kingsto: Ontarlo, and these have furnished large supply of this material. Trace | of sapphire have also heen four among the deposits, but no specimer of the precious blue gem have reve: ed themselves. color is st In Airtight Bags. BSERVATIONS the Natlonal Academy of Sciences in Washington recentiy on five sub were made (three men and in an airtight bag through which a_stream of heated, dry air (about S5 deg. C.) was passed. Loss of weight was five to thirteen times greater than normal, oxygen con sumption increased slightly, while skir temperature was fairly uniform and only one degree or so above normal* owing to the cooling effect of perspira- tion. Jects two placed women)