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9 < Traveler Suffers as Historic Sanaa Is Reached on Perilous Journcy — Adventures Among Pirate Islands of Persian Gulf—H:ld by Suspi- cious Natives in Arabia—Trouble on Red Sea and Red Land—Man Chained to the Ground_ for Forty Ycars—An At- tempt to Escape from Turkish Fort. Auhrey Herher “one rar sonali that hecome un tution, # point of coniaet Mo friends.” left lenind him 2 chronicle of adventurons and vhen ha . at the early of 3. From record =nd anoiher Aescribial wnd vi ner insi id oheervation that follow are taken He was the secon fourth Earl of ¢ son of the who v mi Dt ard v the half: Lord Cornor. il Egypiian oof Ain le St the ros 15 ety tries Lord Derby in Engiand, an lientenant of \d rvon. in ot of brothi th: BY AUBREY met by e L of and conver ERT. nd Buxion the Houss ninons i 10 2 the anciant vl n time ne h e the e ad el oy, if not vhen We chanes o wowers makin he ind campii heln mal ht that h b wor foreign office the *ttsmnt was ing \We met again in ( iro. he ful auz set To some frav them--the ie cdm in t slare of <nil on n Greek hoat 1 am af the for elers-—and pensatio Se. <oul Red ite wicked = steamahip or the dArift Ing dhow ft<alf part of the stationary panoram From the mirnzes of Suez 1o the blinding “vhite. the salt works of Aden there hinc that is ordlnary: the grim s of the Twelve Apostles tof <ospel can they have hesn the Lut the wrecking of slave i the death of men by thirst?) sterile I forbiding: suvage the desert thar the Knights of n what aposties na mountains i< still the Araby When darkness has fairy dawn may show the impaccahle Tsland of Kamaran. with all its h gienic prope Where English ex- jles wash. sterilize and are forgotten hevond Kamaran the tiny Island of Perim. hetween the Gate of Tears- the Dritish link Dbetween Asia and Africa We where surround home of lofi the sea 3 Massowah, were pressed We had calm the Red Sea in erossed smuggled pearie upon us a price and rough weather August was like itself. and so was Greek cooking oll. Finally we landed from a wilderness of vellow waters into the confusion of Hodeidah We had had trouble on the Red Sea. now we were to have trouble on the red land. 1t began at once in the enstom house. where the officials tried to take my tvpewriter from me. An indescribable scrimmage fol lowed. and the rumor of our coming went all about the town ok ¥ I3 (i windows n aver 1o the town of all gray ‘s of madrepore. with lart d lines of wattled hate * sandy paths. where the hare hurrving natives make ne sound. Near the center of the town infortunate man wase chained 1o We protested that his | chain should be taken from him. and were toid that he cared for it more than anyvthing on earth He had been tied to that 40 vears The crime for which he suffered was forgotten: the punisament. if punish. ment it could siill he callead. remained in force. Now, however, the poor man was bereft of his wits, and had be come almost a saint. as well as a spectacie. A few planks nsd heen erected between him and the tribula tion of the sun. and well cooked meals were zerved tn him. I saw his daugh ter-inlaw and his relatives eat these. | and take many offerings on his behalf. After 24 hours we went to Day our respects to the Mutesarrif of Hodeidah. A long conversation in Turkish fol lowed between the Mutesarrif and the Stamboul Tprk. the upshot of which was that neither Ahmed Feizi, com nder-in-chief of the Yemen. nor the wte. would he willing to travel to Sa Rut at length he promi=ed th: in of time the ot should le | We hegan the « 4 oclock in ng prepatations. arly hou and we DIAH is a fant e the ground. one spot e ovided ow departure the morn'ng with un The hoat. even sermed to us dis lefi. finally, very with un escort’ of 150 | at end at gracetul late, at men We marched with changes of ascoris and mounts all that dav and all that night. and all the next day and the best part of the next night. until our senses failed us from weariness At the end of thiz 40 houre’ march we had three houre' sieep. The Turkish captain, Buxton and were shown into a reeXing hole. whey three I e i huddi together. These w> dragged outside from the Mvinz mcil. and. stretching | ourselves them, we fell into in tant and complete e5). A moment passed. and the ske flamsd with lightning: 8 aterfall of rain dArenched us to the skin. We awoke and groaned and turned and slept. At Bafil the people were unfriendly: | the women, picturesque and pretty, wore the sugarloaf hats of medieval witches. We rode on. first through the low. Iving Tehemah, with its ever-shitting <and. and (ften ae we rode sleep came o ciose that the Arabs on their cam- els seemed shadows as thev passed Then we began 15 climb the uplands. An enornminis nioon shone out upon wds of an almost insufferable bril- nee. and like the Israeliies. we led by o umn of silver fire, 1 e = trdstlas q inz * x % x J_EAVING the low.Ising. fever-haunt. < ed lar’ behind us. we rode swiftly into tae mountains, From Ma- nahka at length, we rode to the high- est point of our journey, Beit en Sa- laam, the House of Peace.a ruined and n nantled camp 9,000 feet above the whose condition belied ita name. We nad come up dressed in tropical khaki, and now where we had to sleep we suddenly met piercing cold. I had always believed that fleas could not | live at that height or in that stmos phere. hut we spent a night of tor- ture in bitter wind. and in sand that was infested with millions of feas. the camp-followers alike of the Turk and the Arab armies But if the night was unhappy, the dawn was magnificent. When the SuD rese the mosn was still in.tbe turbed. Ons | Sanaa and on | 1an,” tan | he advised THE SUNDAY ininous as & perfeet moon- vovelsd v Rana oW with the v funine writtes unon i flence nlong the decrepit mud wulls Vidch in some plices were 0 feel | Here and there they were | W the land. Iy the town itself 1 es re all and old They riroidersd with white stuees omamented with great doors wronght iron. heavily clumped. the econd third sic there sm lconies. and the «ir is ful the > of buckets ascending de-cond o ung from them, Al ey the Turks had qaa &ht to red in 1, for tha Avih wos exiremely strons Ui @ over which the Turkish A 10 advance w.s often boulda Tt saemad incred ille to us that the wrtillery should hive succeeded in crossing the moun- t2ine. Before its siege it had nnm- Lored snme 70.000 inhabitants: when we wers thers the entire population sstimated at 20.000. Nine thou- hd nerichad from starvation a4 in the tropics is a plewsant city in the 4 ne. hul’ éven nt =t ypight. when from e of the houuse the flicker Summer lghtning is visible like a eantinnons pulss of licht. lend the moeonlight &nd | outlines of the hills ancircle the eity. A pinea with such o stormy tion it had a auiel atmosphare. silent city AMiny of the masquas ara heautiful | well as old: but of the 68 which re in the town. a foreigner was per mitied to enter onl the two that were exclusively Turkish, and those vor without dificulty Mahmud Nedim Governor of Sanaa spoke qui'e franklv. \hmiad Feizl were going to n. past ik <lope 1o siant Wi ¥ and tragie memories There was We < oh. n o and peins herd A nosi N he 1 ery I " nites of o N more o to showinz the whieh For Rey, temporary received us. He <aving that hud Pasha known that we Sansa he would ee tsinly have prevented our fourne Lut that now that we had arrived he would desire us to be treated wiitn | conrtesy: he would not earnestly that we should return ne speedily ax npossible. No permission would he granied for us to travel Aden. as wa pronosed. but every con sideration would be shown to us at our return journey We took the road again to Hodei- dili. down the same great gorge np which the Turkish ariillery had tra - €led at amazing sapeed. At Bajil we were treated with discourtesv by the commandant. and in haste to get away I drank from an infected well which had disastrous conseauences. for later 1 daveloped virnlent ty- phoid. in deck desire less - x oo« BACK at the coast. Leland Buxton and I decided to go down the Persian Gulf with a view to crossing Arabia. and for this snterprise we engaged an Arab boy ax servant called Abu Salaam. the Father of Peiace. [ told him that our ways would be adventurous and that we | should go into perilous seas. “Wal- STAR, WASHINGTON, D. JANUARY 24, 1926 — PART ARABS dave larer bunk by my mom on deck and ent “1 WOKE UP T I was thrown half out of a violent Jerk. The néxt there was a thudding of feet the air was rent with Lanentations. Huxton came down Thit we hud the «hip hed hey The Father upon to while not nlled clined cabir Was to = with cold w coward before Tt appeared that the pilot. | he | Providence ve unother Africa miles from limlted powers ax un interprefer demand what & poor Bahrein was «till half and n it W morning Arah szmbuks surrounded the veasel proc shou cries, down about un hour's row rein imi rise. we and our int o hicks ¢ B HREIN is tw the Place of Sleep. mile and a half away in ha:te 1o sa “truek wpon a rock. that vary hexvy fist upon she might ge do Pence blubhered Maker. | firmly de the warmth of my our fate was in doubt berter for 0 death thut of hix leqve arm than shaking a1l beholders owing to A manifestation of to which the captain name. had driven the upon reefl some six Beuhrein. Finally, as iy were went called b A 1 dressed and hidden in the mist. Alveady « feet of a1l wes lost if the Finally, with raucous helonzings were leg Arab harque. After we reached Bah ried through the sex the groaning men oo means “two seax.” and islands, of which Manama is the capital, A lies the Island ng sen an of Muharrak (The Place of Burning). where Shelkh This island has one very usual festnre, : off its coast, the sea men they is home. alxo rica of and whic wate dive and Ba destiny. 1867 In n h v ) cein It ought to have a quiet and that it has never achleved. the ruier. has his un which I believe is found shore of Tripoli in_ Af: vising from the floor fresh-wuter springs dive dwily fresh water, brin in skine, The good. though an unskiliful (v allow it to become mixed Kkish Island is & Esu. the pleasant oasis agricultural Sheikh Mahommed of Bah rein broke one unreasonable clause of “WHILE TRYING TO BEAT OFF THE DOGS. | SHOT—THE GREAT DOOR OF THE FORT STOOD OPEN AND THE MEN POURED OUT." he said, but [ eome.” “a man ean die once. tunity arese of Acting upen stoicism he could not have shown more desire to avold hix end than if| that end had been death by a thou-| sand cuts. He proved to be an Amal-| ekite of the worst kind. He wax a son of the Inimical sand. He tasted Leland’s medicine and he underclothes. left Aden for my We Bombay &t the ! firat opportunity by a Krench ship. | That afternoon my head feit like a globe of coke. H When we urrived at Bombay the chlet_doctor of the hospital told me | that 1 had had a really dangerous at- tack of typhold, and that I had not been looked after on the French beat; returning to England as| soon as 1 was well I, however. he- came convinced that the Perslan Gulf, | At that time of the year, offered ad- mirable qualifications for recupera- tion, and soon after arriving in Bom- bay. weary beyond words of the min-| istrations of Abu Salaam. Leland and T took tickets British Indla line. During the voyage T remained in bed, except for a casual hour when the sun shone on deck. The quiet of our veyage lu dis- mscaing early a | el A treaty concluded with Great Britain in 1860; this clause bhound the péor Yet whén any shadow of an oppor-| man to abatain from piracy. He went “eapital” of the adjacent villages. the sacular was Sheikh | condemned 1o pay wore ' seemed to me hard upon Al | not rexponsibie, he ApD Sheikh hud taken refuge on the pir and help of Arab treacher capture to aftel brother, dent was subsequently | satile Mahommed, < lattempt to make all possible friends, fiving the British, French, {stan. Turkish und Arab Ali this!to the mainland and sacked Bidaa. the of Katar, and plllaged some For following ctice of his ancestors and his brother, his place and was 4 great fine, took Who was but 1 was told that it o the native sense of justice. Mahommed. Son of Trouble, te count. by the V. he was able Manama and kill his Sheikh Al. The British resi- captured the ver- who, In & pathetic roa_couple of vears, Per- fings at the | same time. It see t, was not long before 1 my way be sown with many thorns. Leland Buxton had been a long time that time. ways. He left for tinusg te inhale the n 8. S. Africa of the away from England. and he was anx- jous now to go home. my It was obvious convalescence would take We decided to %o our different ad while I con- convalescent | which might stamp him as | on | which | began to | across Arabla would | of Bahreln un- 0 HEAR THE DISCUSS THE | til T should be wall enough to attempt | the erossing of the desect from helow the pirate coast at the port of Ofair th the oasis of 11 Hasa. and thare With promises Yeward. per sumide the Ar mduet ACTOSS the peninsuls Capt. Prideaus rieh he to me the Rritish resident suid he could give me no official help: | <hvuld the Turks take me prisoner. or sven hold me np. a political question | vonid avise if 1 had an offcial permit | from the consulate. 1 saw the point nd 1 readily agreed. When 1 asked the Father of Pence if he were pre. | paved to go with me. Abu Sulaam r ed ax at Aden. though in ndent tonex. that “man could die oniy once.” hut adding that he desived. if it Aus convenient me. to postpone denth He said necessary who knew the engnged A po who wasx as tor as The sivoceo I hired » dhow Teresn dollnrs to ta be advisable and notorious rogue fatal country. and he marked Arab, Said ilent and unpleasant Through this criminal for a number of Maria and went ahoard her THE clamor *sounded londer from the Arab that Atscovered hoats than of nest ik zulls. Once aboard 1 that she was erammed with k hu manity: the frigal Arabs knew of the foreigner's and 1 had unwillingly man. wom erafty journey unconsciousiy. and pald half the fare fo an and child on b The 1l and most every rd nofse abonrd this dhow-bungalow. or merkub, ware abominable. She was a boat of a few tons. drawing perhaps & feet of water. The deci was on one level. The cover ink above the paop was open fore wnd 4ft, %0 that the helmaman could steer and also help to reef the wails by a rope passing over the steaw reof through an opening 1 ix 2 marvel he was ever able to steer at wll. There was constant!y n crowd in front of him and un cpen five wax lighted on an iron frame a couple of yards away, for cooking rice and boiling water, the smoke of which burned one’s eve-balls and made the wind seem a lotion of relief. As we 16ft at dawn. the whole world of air was stirred by a storm of sunlight which swept the mist away. When a storm came up in the course of the voyage, the capiain called out ders from the helm. wnd thexe were repeated. not only by himeif. but agAin and agnin by all the passangers #nd the crew, in hoarse shouts. One morning Arabis Iny before us, x lonk low line of vellow sand above th varinble blue und green of the sea. It was bitterly cold. I woke up two hours bafore dawn, to hear the Arabs dis cuswing the possibility of taking all 1 had from me. But I fell asleep again We moved down the const help of a swift breeze and arrived in | the afternoon at Ojair. A soldier came | to meet the dhow. dressed in Turk- ish-Arabic uniform. On a bench out afde the fort. & hundred yarde away and beside iis archway. sat all the |local officials: the Yuzbashi. or cap. tain. Tewfik Effendi, rose up as I said howldo-voudo in Turkish. He sald [that without an izn (permission) 1 could not go to El Hasa. [ gave him my passport. They promised. and sat down and wrote three letters. which {they read to me. all of them vers fa- vorable. and which they promised to xend that night. The guardian of the | customs looked a poisonous weed. I thought there was little chance of be- | ing able to get away. The fort was a big quadrangle: it had a courtyard inside which resembled an |inhabited gravevard. where camels | restad. 1 noticed the Bedawin women |4id all the work, even to the loading of |these camels. T was given one cell to myself; my servants had another. My ceil had a bolt on the inside and on the antside of the goor, and four windows | well barred. h¥kh up out of reach, in |the very thick wall. My hope was to be able to reach a well some five miles distant from the Turkish fort, to which Arabs frequent- Iy came to water their camels, und these Arabs 1 proposed to Induce with fair words and Maria Teresas, in which my faith grew, to conduct me to EI Hasa. The Turks made no objection to my walking about close to the fort and provided me with a soldier to keep {off the pariah dogs. * o ox ok N the second day the Turks pro- { " posed a hunting expedition. which filled me with keen antieipation until T {found that its limit was to be 500 yards from the fort. and that our safe- ty WAk to b secured by advance, flank And rear guards. These guards effect- ively insured not only our safety, but the safety 4f any possible game. Pres. ontly the party sat down and began to drink native spirits. After an interval. during which the captain and T smoked apart, t! began wrestling for a revolver, which went off in the middle of a group which scattered, laughing heartily. Graduaily life began to grow un- pleasant. The soldiers were Arab and dlscontented: there was no town of any kind: the land was a shadowy nullity by night and a fury of wind and light by dav. The Bedawin some- times camp just out of range of the fort and ut night hostile country began a hundred vards from the door sentries on the roof culled ta each other all night long. At length through surreptitious ar- rangements with one Gabriel, a Greek, and Mirfam, his sister-in-law, it wan settled that I was to meet some Shelkhs five miles away at the well, when T was to be put on a camel and carried to El Hasa, after which all would go well. One evening, after my preparations were completed, the chief of the cus- toms called upon me and talked in a very friendly way. [ said it was with the | | porters 1o carry thexe ahout. ! should not forge | holling center of war. i was needed. they said. impossible for me to give presents until 1 had successtully ended my journey. The only presents that could be glven were Maria Teresa dollars, and it &-man Was going o be at all POSSIBILITY OF 1 TARING ALL generous. he wolild want half a dozen hut that i T conld wecomplish 1 him 1 oexpliined thet 1 did wish get hin into trouble through bheing an axsory my plans, s 1 gave him present and a hottle of por which 1 usked him to xhave with the Keeper of the doo while 1 went for 1 then said wspen. In throuzh the unlocked « The sky was very tramp of the sentiy on the roof audihle. and when 1 heard it passing toward the other end of the fort | slipped away. The pariahs did net even growl in their sleep. my journay not to Wby to the ~ irembling like minutes 1 passed or v of the 7 father whn Pk e, HAD FROM ME. along hastily and furtively, the hurden of the Maria Jars from one hand to the ather. The moon shone faintly upon the Onee ar twice 1 rested in a0d spi Avinking in the heauty of the desert: then u sndden collapse erme nper T had overestimated m sh ‘There was nothing to be dane hut to return to the fort ax aquietls eft it. ANl went weil until their hlack shadow Then & out. T was attac the « pary mon garhage I went changing Teresu d us 1 had ite walls the ront won all b dogs that cus upon <nnd " hroke sldes hy starved VA the o aravans I heard a the vaice hailing loudly from 1 conld pa atten- ne to beat off the dogs while try |ished | win | desien 1 found this impossible without draw- iz my revolver. | shot one quickly This drove the others bick P s apen [ the fort ne- men yred out The extremely whaole fort awake captain was there As 1 came in erim he said: “The xentry on the roof has orders to shoot after shouting thyee tmes. He disoheved these orders tonight: he shall he pun- tomorrow Sulliman Bey, a friendly ofcer, came up me and said: “Oh, my lamb, what wild deeds are these” With him The next he paid frankly. looking 1 walked to my cell morning, after breakfast, me A spoke very He said: “This captain of ours here, Tewfik Effendi, is not a bad man, but he must carry out his orders. Our government, which is not a good government. will not have strangers in these Arab lands. It will be open 10 you to stay here ax long ax you like, but you will get no irther. ” As it I, the poor man who d not shoot vou is in irons, and he Wil suffer u greater penance before has explated his fault safd (o him, “O Suliman Effendi vou and the captain and I are all of us right. My intention to g into the interfor was inevitably a trouble for him. But I am sorry for the man who i fmprisoned. If he had shot me or xhot at me. and do he might silll have been In trouble The world very complicated. | ask Tewfik Effendi pardon it ir to him.” 1 went straight Tewfik KMendi and told him that 1 had intended 1o go 10 Bl Hasa, that I hart no Agamst the Turkish zovern ment and that my attempt had heer defeated by circumstances. 1 hegged him the wha had niled me He answered with sternness that he knew his toward all men guest. anemies <uhardinates I veplied that 1 did not desire instruet him. but ask a favor from one gentleman o another veplied. “Your pleasure Is my he sentry was released: and comrades, quite unnecessarily me brother. The Circassian was very ed. He and sald that the lawe were excellent. There which sent & man to prison for vears to meditaie upon the drawing his knife in anger though he had returned sheath unused to release to fire at unsmiling sentry to te as n He will all his led mar me aside of Turkey was even one aix sin of even to fts his duty, | Japtive on Way to Land of Queen of Sheba a dinner that which wax naval night t a great lieutenant or e’ made the best that he could with a dhow, a truculent Arab, who accepted a number of rupees on condition that he was te start at once. Then a violent custorns quarrel arose, with which. apparentiv, the lieutenant had nothing to de The new crew with whom I was abaut to embark hailed from heaven knows where. There was no particular rea- =on why they shoild hehave well, and the Father of Peace, the Maria Tera. sa dollars, and I were, to a greater de- gree than I liked. in thelr hande. Tewfik FEffendi took no trouhls ta make the journey safer by warning the skipper and crew of the hoat that he would hold them accountable for our safety; but Sulfman and the naval lifentenant came down and swore oaths of vengeance If anything should happen to us We had an extremely ble nlght; it was very the poop and a lot of people were sick. The boat was very small, draw ing only 4 feet. I did not like the fuce, manners or language of the captain and offered him u lurge bak- sheesh to arrive at Bahrein as soon as possible. There was nothing on the | boat to eat and drink but bread, dat teptd rice and the horrible water Ojalr. We finally Abu Salaam to stand It is tions hetwe 1 crew hoat than had hand thix was ourney the the and “Prince of bargain for the cay uncomforta crowded on anchored off Anghariva. craved even more than T upon the pear! island: he d itke a dog and kept repeating sahfl’s desire.” The 3 n mysell and the capt ch worse npon this the one in which T In the first hoat wa misunderstandings. but no 1aid upoen a the case on our rein. 1 found very sleep the were m had was ever weapnn return It o F ity te opport for That B night of wrath A with onr ar- riving village of R'A shere T was me the shefk « 1 intraduced to his fat nota also greeted me the diving fe Ay has entnally end her. The other Alas d o< < helped respect? i ind hely Thie rade ended m: Rrit h Indin and ce. 1 hrein Strasbourg Honors House Where Poet Produced Immortal Hymn of leerty BY NT ING PAR firstclass The “poor old man only one suit: who “looked <o unhappy that none dared speak 10 him™. who had to eat lunch at ane frisnd’s and dinner at another - he wax the feted young poetcaptain immortal author of the “Marseillaise Rouget de Lisle. gallant and hand some hero of Strashourg! Today Strasbourg immortalizes along with him. the house n which he wrote the “Hymn of Liberty” in a single hour. The house of Mavor Dietriech. in which the “Murseillaise was first sung ax well as written, is being “claxsed” a< a “historic monu ment ory and honors’ In between. the “Murseillaise round the world: wax forbidden. with prison penalties, by kings and em- perors, and bacame the defense chant of the French republic against united royalty in three wars. But its author died poor and obscure, an aged man in 1836 Pierre Giffard knew venerahle dame of Choixy (outside Paris) who was Rouget de Lixle’s neighbor in the lust five years of his iife, and her pic ture of hlm owes nothing to romance or legend T A day.” s lived immed HEILIG. January 14 interest T is A human story had 100 vears apart! went A Ae Liste twice Desperrieros “He n our leftand two housex from ours, on the right hix friend M. Voiart of Metz, who. with scarcely enough for his own sup. port, took on himself the care of the poor old man’s list vears. They Tunched together, often on a erust and n piece of cheexe and theyv wrote Doetry together—it wax the pleasure of thair old age “At & o'clock every afternoon Rou £et de Lisle went out to chat and dine with hix other old friend. Gen. Blein His place at table was Alwave set: the poor old mun never lacked his family dinner. “We used was A pity. hix hair | dred years old. T n have but one suit of clothes. face was something 8o unhappy Rouger to watch him pass. It Aged. broken. lop-sided On hix that | no one dared speak to him. He spoke to point | to no one. Often we used him out. sayving ““It i Rouget de Lisle, who made the “Marseillaise. ‘And people anawered: We know it." " Now for his vouth and g Virth of the “Marseillaiss” in Dietriech's house, which Strasbour is “elassing ax “histori monu- ment." It is s 17! bulwark with the e rashoure in the young republic, Kings at iis gatex Sirasbourg recelved the volunteers. (rained them and passed them out the opposite side, to fight for the soil To celebrate wuch a departure, the mayor, Dietrlech, invited the volun- teer officers to fraternize with th of the garrison, and the two Young daughters of the mayor asked all their girl acquaintances to grace the ban- quet Among them was curiosity an admired voung poet. become cap tain-—Rouget de Lisle. ardent repub- lican, theugh of ancient and nohle family. Strashourg at . ed the moment was a youth, joy and sorrow, wheré thé nolse of fighting and fetes mingled continually. Al thi pAssed to the voice of cannén and chur¢h bells, sounding to Heaven for mercy and justice. Friends were sisters and sweethearts mothers praying and fathers Alexander Dumas, who knew Rou- get de Lisle in his old age, had from him direct the story how he wrote the ““Marseillaise’” at the banquet. They sought something to The old revolutionary “Ca fra!” wong of anger and civil war. sing. was A What wax a patriotic cry, fraternal, republican. and vet a menace to the invader. ‘Then ali eyes turned to Rouget de Lisle. The young s Cooking by Exhaust. MECHANIC of &olumbus, Ohio, Pas invented a device by which motoriats may now utilize the exhaust from their motors to cook their camp suppers, savs Scientific American. The contrivance uses a small petcock to close the exhaust pipe. A pipe con- nection is fitted to the exhaust mani- fold and foins with a round cirenlar burner. This burner is provided with ecircular ribs, to prevent exhaust flames from jumping. Similar ribs are built to the bottom of pots and frying pans to obtain a maximum of heat. When the motor is idle the exhaust heat is forced through the burner. Sufficlent heat is gensrated for any outdoor cockings who | lived ! snow-white. he looked a hun-| var knew him to | to meet | the face gulped n glass of water and Jeft the room small libr a and worked hour In o Dxic he tween it | de Lisle half an plished and muste! That is 10 «av. he did the words of he first two stanzas and the music— founded at a single pouring,” eave ! Alexander Dumas. “run inte the mould complete, like the statue of a i Rouget de Lisle, returning to the hanquei. came on the mavor and a xroup of guests who had already auit the table. I think I've got it he [ suid. “Listen™ And he began the Come. ol of the natve iand e dny e "M ved e again ark 1S anins T red n lien Do vin hear +countrysdes Ruar those feroeions hordes Come to our very Armes Toratalh aur sone. our To arme o Line 16 Mas an rv adjoining (primitive piano the hle maore wis Be- Rongzet than necom- writing t. scarcely and all biaod water our An electric shive nssembly. (Remember, the invader was netually at their Guests from the dining room crowded into the par lors. Cries of enthusiasm bursi out Ot them ilence’ [ triech’s daughters to the music from the yvoung man's hands. At the little harpsichord she accompanied the second stanza (whose lines and figures | have rendered text ually. 1 have not attempted u singing version it Id he of no use here 1You waunt to know exactly what they | heard The fumous singing version | takes such liberties with the real text (necessarily) that they are only vague resemblances. these Slavish hands and kinge eonenired enared What an outrage ran through the of K for el Ah Frenchmen And the Rrow tense. famous stanza first time: What. shall these foreien hordes Make' the Taw 0f our hearthe? Never was a capidly or received | diate “enthusia | Never!™ and “Yes | chorus was taken room: To arms._ citizens | Line W5 vour hattalions | March on! March on ax an imipire hloo listeners felt their hearts as he continued the now then heard for the song with more imme- To crids of “No! ! Yes!" the terrific up. from room to water our furrows lled out suggestions. It A verse for the mothers Others c: too short!” Some one aseked for the misled Rouger de hands, AV that my wmeh Rising. throwing back noble vouth intoned the in which. according 1o found the Is there ne and deceived? Lisle hid hix face it he g Yo heart does not merit tha his will i ren: his head. the holy strophe Alexander Du entire soul of Freachmen as Strike @ hotd Faisshaod armed Yes!™ cume and purdon for Lrothers pushed onets: Yre, hut Lisle But asainst thos Against tigere Wit for Whase Their woe trom all the misguided nst n the ” Yes! Merey for sides ags took up Rouget de deanote sanzuinary To arms, nattalions! thundered Mareh on’ March on! Mar an impure bleod water our furrows citizens! 1 And the ne up chorus your again Silence Now." excl to vour knees, wha vou are And he slone remaining resting one foot on the rung of as on the first step of the Liberty.” raising two Heaven. he sanz imprompiu tcom posed while singing) the last invocation * land our venging end med Rouget de all of you Lisle upright chair Temple the et couplets. Conbat bestide th Thirty-eight years wrote Alexander Dumas to me that great night of Rouget de Lisle <plendid aureole of 1 “And it was only fellow. had just heard time in my life. the sung by the thundering people in the revolution knew what it ment, then! (All_his youth. the “Marseillaise" had been ~severely forbidden, in France as elsewhere. by royalty). And whence comes it.” continues afrerwards in describing the forehead hone with the justice! 1. voung for the first Marseillaise voice of the of 1830—1 written more | Dumas. “that myself. at this late day, in writing down the last strophes, am altogether moved? Whence comes it that as my right hand. uncertain. traces the ‘Invocation to Liberty’, my left hand dashes a tear from mu cheek? It is from this. that the holy seillaise.” is not only & cry of war, 1 burst of fraternity-—the honest powerful hand of nce held out all generous peoples! Mar- but and to Wy i b HOUSE OF MAYER DIETRIECH. IN STRASBOURG, WHICH IS TO BE “CLASSED™ AS A “HISTORIC MONUMENT” IN HONOR OF THE “MARSEILLAISE,” WHICH WAS BOTH WRITTEN AND FIBST SUNG IN IT. no matter | The the last M ery of dving of lihert first ery stk ashours, ir The univers French sty <tuder airship junct 1l-Europe line: pened a4 new nical _schaol the Rhine through We have And and France is i gh Alsa urall Marseill Strashour which hac is has just heen Trees Regulate N discus Ixe ,.” Mercury. Leach points | parks supplied ous trees we ald ha were Sumniers and warmer He gives s | the fac | theory n Winter, f If we + hot the tem alone we are in ¥ that has a temparature of 34 degrees i or if degrees than temperature Likewise, | passing from the street into a warmth experienced is due not only to |the shelter afforded by the trees hut | o the warmth of the trees themselves the fixed nheit, the street Winter day the zero temperat in group of trees. the Artificial Gold Exhibit. HE first sample of synthetic gold | which has reached this country is to be an exhibit in the collection of elements at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Dr. George F. Kunz the well known gem expert, who has the difficult task of | Rathering together samples of as {many of the 92 ements as can be obtained or exhibited. siates that the sample of what is d to be synthetic zold tiny sy It is @ product from Prof Hantaro Nugoska of the Tokio lrperail University who ol | tained microscopic quantities of what {hr reports to be Hicial gold from {merenry by ronning u mercury lamp | over a Tong period und employing ex tremely high voltage. Dr. Kunz has in his collection the first crystals of pure fluoride of hafnium and metallic hafnium. He has not vet obtained samples of the two new elements, rhenium and masurium. Handy Flashlamp. NEW is a the laboratory flashlight, designed to aid he man whe needs both hands |on the job. has just been develaped |by & New York ‘manufacturer, says | Scientific American It differs from the conventional style of flashiight in that the lens is on the side instead of At the end. It is aquipped with a steel clip. which makes it possible 1o attach the flash light to a belt or pocket and throw a heam of light upon the task to be done, leaving both hands free for the work. It is particularly adapted for linemen in the employ of public serv ice corporations: for night repairmen in industrial plants: for maintenance Rangs: for repair gangs on bridges culverts, tunnels, etc.. and for the lone motorist with engine trouble or a puncture. A Radlo Sea-Shell. NE South Salem radio enthusiast has a loud speaker which he made from a large sea-shell. The shell which is in itself a valuable possession and has been in the man’s family for vears, has been connected simply with a bit ‘of rubber tape and some wires. It is 2 most satisfactery, as well as |attractive loud speaker. Relief From Riveting? ITY dwellers whose nerves have | “4'heen put on edge by the noise of iveting machines wherever buildingd are going up may get relief in the near future. Their hope lies in electric welding, for its recent growth suggests that some day the staccato voice of the rivater may be a thing of the past for wess ==