The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-06-24
RHODES PUPILS
TO ATTEND BIG
OLYMPIC MEET
AT Least Half Of Scholars, Depend
ent on Fund, will Go
for Games
SOUTH SEA EXPEDITION READY
Motor Yacht '.Mona," Launched at
White.table, to Garry
Scientists
SOUTH SEA EXPEDITION READY

of the Rhodes scholars at Oxford will
journey to Stockholm for the Olym
pic games. : 1t was expected tina
more would go, but reports Of thu
Eheavy admission and hotel charge.
ldeterred most of the students wht
are dependent entirely on the Rhodes
fund for their support. Lange o
Oklahoma and Ziegler Of Iowa have
been In active training, and they
may appear at Stockholm as mem.
bers Of the American team. Lange
has been sprinting in good time late
| ly, and he hopes to regain his old
time form in the high jump. Zieg-
Ter is easily the superior of any Of
the English college weight men, and
he may prove a valuable second
string man for the American team.
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The Mana" a motor auxiliary
yacht just launched at Whitstable, is
to carry an expedition to the South
Seas to investigate the origin Of
gigantic prehistoric remains Of
Easter Island. This island, the most
easterly Of the Polynesian group, is
| q lonely dot OF land, As miles In
area. 2,000 miles from the South
Americaia coast Facing the sea oB
the island are enormous platforms
made of uncemented stones, some Of
which weigh five tons. Some of the
sea walls are thirty feet high and
two hundred feet long. On the
land side are broad terraces also OF
stone, bearing pedestals on which
formerly stood huge images carved
from lava. Most of these images
have been thrown down, but there
are 555 of them on the island. One
Is 6S feet high with I.sn II feet
long. The figures all extend from
head to hips, with receding forsheads
broad noses, thin lips and power,
full chins. There Is no metal on thl
island, and the only tool found was
a prehistoric chisel, with which it
would seem impossible to execute
such colossal works. Moreover the
island with its scanty water supply
could not have supported enough
people to drag the figures from the
quarry where they were made to the
platforms. Some of the statues
weigh ESQ tons.
There is every evidence that some
great calamity overlook the island
and its inhabitants, for most of the
figures are unfinished, some of them
never even having been removed from
the quarry. A popular theory Is
that Easter Island is the sole remains
of continent which was overwhelm.
ed by the sea after great seismic
disturbance. The designs of the
stone work bear out this theory, for
they are striking like some of the
ancient Peruvian ruins.
The MANA" expedition. led by w.
Scoresby Routledge and accompanied
/ by biologists and other scientists
from the British Museum, will make
excavations in an effort to solve the
Imystery,
A choice pitch on the steps in front
of the Stock Exchange has been Sc
cured by the Duchess of Marlborough
| for the sale of roses on Jun 26, the
date selected by Queen Alexandra for
| for the rose-iete day to be held for
the benefit of the hospitals and other
charities in which the queen mother
and her late husband were inter,
ested.
The roses will be sold by 5000
Lcndon women representing all class
es, and it is said that at least ten
million blossoms will be provided
Prizes have been offered to this
twomen. making the largest sales, and
leaders of society are yying with each
other in securing the best pitches foi
this competition. The rose select.
ed by Queen Alexandra for the fete
which she wishes to become an annu,
al affair. will be the wild rose, which
has already been christened with tn.
(Concluded On Page six.)