The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-21
MADAME CAST HAS
 RETURNED HOME Spent Eleven Months in Mo-
 rocCan interior THE GUEST 0F RAISULI Is Preparing Report for Agricultural Department Through Which
 She Hopes to Better Con-
 ditlons in Morocco.
THE GUEST 0F RAISULI
BY PAUL VlLLlERS.

pr FAOG NlLElEnSs
 Special Cable to the Age-Herald from the
 Hearst News Service. Copyright by
 W. R. Hearst.)
 Paris, July 2o-Madame Camille du Cast. the intrepid lady explorer and sportswoman, has just returned to Paris from her mission on behalf of the French agricultural department to Morocco. She arrived in that country last September, when it was in the midst of the dis turbance through the murder of Dr. Mauchamp, and French vessels had been sent to demonstrate off the coast.
 Madame du Cast was received by Mo- hammed el Torres, the foreign minis ter of the Maghzen, and by the French representatives but both refused her safe conduct into the interior.
 "I then said Madame du Cast. "turned to my old friend Ralsull. the famous brgand chief, and he put four horsemen at my disposal as long as I wanted them For three months my es- corts came 10 fetch me every morning at my hotel and remained with me until the evening"
 Madame du Cast was eleven months in Morocco and she Is now preparing her report for the agricultural depart ment after which she will return to Tangier She is of the opinion that d great deal of good may be done in Moroc- co by pacific settlements in the inland agricultural parts.
 A committee of the Societe des Gems oe Bettres in Paris is looking for poet, and a poet of just the kind they want they find it very difficult to lay their gH,,1l. Noleran French singer, received the Nobel prize two years ago. he instituted prize himself to be awarded yearly to the best young poet in France whose works had not been published.
 Last year the prize was awarded but il looks HIS if it will this year have to be withheld on account of the paucity of poets fulfilling the required condi- tions The committee could have found quite a number of young poets worthy O. being thus honored, but they were debarred from the competition on account of their works having already ben pull lisheu, and French poets, and poetasters rusn into print all the more easily since tha Minister of Fine Arts gives trav- cling scholarship for this art, which is really worth more than the Sully Prud- homme prize.
 1t is an interesting fact that the com- mi.tee have this year elected as their president Madame Daniel Lesueur. the first woman elected to the Societe des .ff Gems de Lettres since Georges Sand.
 One of the most wonderful archaeologi- cal discoveries of modern times has just ben reported from the coast of Tunis. While some sponge divers were the other day cruising in n boat on the northern coast Sfax, one of their number, who had gone down to the bottom to if there were any sponges suddenly to his in tense surprise found himself amid the columns and fallen monuments of some great ruined city the bed of the ocean.
 At first he thought he was the victim of some remarkable mirage, but as he proceeded further incredulity gave place to certainty, though his surprise only grew the more as he walked on and found himself surrounded by what was to all intent and purposes the ruins of great ana terrestrial temple with marble and bronze statues in profusion on either hand
 Large numbers of stately pillars are still standing and it Is presumed that the ruins are those of temple and city on the coast. which, having been destroyed has in the course of centuries been covered by .he sea. One or two of the statues were raised and brought aboard the boat and taken to SfaX.
 The discoverers have communicated the discovery to the naval and Tunsian au- thoritles, and concerted effort Is to be made to get up as much as possible the sunken city. The discovery recalls a strange event of some three years ago. which at the time was put down the ina gina ton of an over-heated brain
 In the same neighborhood at that time the ren aims of a town which had been swallowed up by the sea was similarly discovered by q Greek diver. He also took the news to SfaX and a scientific expedition was fitted out to look for the submarine city, but both the diver and the ship on which he sailed had forgot ten to take the bearings of the spot where the discovery was made and the city was never discovered again until the other day as it Is believed the new discov- cry is really only the old one.
 A sensational point was introduced hv the council of twelve men charged at inc central assze court of the Seine with printing and publishing sedltious and anti miltarist posters in Paris of character to seduce the soldiers from their duty Counsel called as witnesses for the de- fen ,e the three ministers, Messrs Clem- enceau, Briand and Guyot- -Dessaigne. of the departments of the nteglor. of edu- cation and of justice, respectively who were as matter of fact, the prosecutors It was contended that these ministers had in the course of their career active 1y supported and propagated the theories which were held by the accused and which had brought them to their present positions. The court. however, ruled that the ministers were not indispensable wit nesses, as accused had confessed to sign ing the placards but would not say who wrote them. Their reason was if possi- ble to prevent military intervention in strike Whether or not their bold stroke