Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-31

orous. He is affable and gay bur with p,
arlstocratic air that cannot be mistaken
AT home he is a mighty hunter. shooting
tigers and sticking pigs for sport and tram
ping elephants for profit.
On this Paris trip, however, he will he
distinguished rather by the elegant chastity,
OF MS European dress and the oriental mag
innocence of his jewels His perfectly tended
myers VIII be covered with priceless rings
each one unique. His canes Of the rpos-
rare woods of the east have their handles
cur from great emeralds, carbuncles. rubies
ana topazes His watches chains nd go
glasses are studded with diamonds G. IL,
are MS betel boxes, his cuspldor boxes bis
cigar and cigarette cases and holders Ana
pehlnd MIN, wherever he appears officially.
must go the sacred sword studded y-ifb
$3,0Oo000 worth of Jewels and rIIarG.,1 ~ ~
tne mysterious three Bakous, concerniue,
whom the French police are wondering.
ia-ea lhcreGuIous of certain things that
nave peen told them in all seriousness
The French police are worried abo,,. H..
levels OF this king and his extraordinary
suite. Each of the 100 girls will have q
aot tune on her. Sisavath will have I'M
counted fortunes on him. But the sword
with Its Jewels amounting to 81 600 600 i'm
particular disturbs the prefecture-because
OF the pretensions of those Bakous.
Inc three Bakous pretend they need no
protection. And Sisavath believes them In
appearance they are feeble ascetics, slender
wlsps of dried-up humanity. unable to pro-
tect themselves, much less a sacred sword
The sword in reality is priceless. Every
diamond and ruby with which it is studded
10 or great size. fawless, of the purest
water. But, in the eyes of Cambodgians.
they make the least detail of the yenerafed
OBJECT. The sword dates from unknown
ages No decorative art experts can place
It's epoch. The stones are cut neither IN the
ancient nor the modern fashion The blade
Is of an unknown temperIng, taking dis-
mond dust edge. Cambodgian princes
Bhuddist monks or Brahmin priests-they
all are really ignortant Of the origin and
meaning of the sword. But 1t must never
be far from the sovereign, and the almost
miraculous way In which the dynasty OF
Cambodgia has been protected during the
past 500 years goes far 20 justify the super
stition.
Possess Wonderful Powers.
Now, here is a thing the French police
Will not believe. although vouched for by
no less parsonage than NJ. Beau, governor
general of Indo-China It concerns the
strange pretensions of the three Bakous.
They are sacred personages. They are
lineal descendants straight from Brahma
these three wiZened, petered-out and dod-
dering aristocratic waits and strays from
an unknown antiquity and they need no
police to help them guard the sacred sword.
Although the live On handful OF rice. al
though they are so weak that they fall into
have strange kird Of power. The most
desperate crook Is stricken with an awful +,
horror-a mind-wracking fear-at one
glance from their watery eyes.
That is all. The would-be thief fees like
an alcoholic with the jim jams. Ever after
ward his faculties are troubled. AS TO ori-
tain. But will the basiiisk powers of the
three Bakous extend to the crooks of Paris?
The Parisians in general are anxious to see
the three Bakous. STERLING HELLO.