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we were met by a dozen men with
two crude carrying chairs made of
branches and attached to poles. Our
elephant driver had carried back to
them the story of the hive of bees.
Chu was with them. He had brought
his teakettle, We had some refresh
ment and then went on our defeated
journey to the village.
Just as the jungle night was falling
the three men who had ridden the
second elephant got back. They had
slipped off their animal as we had
off ours, but not until the branch of a
tree had injured the drivers head.
Stung as I was, 1 managed to treat
the drivers wound with white mans
medicine" from my kit. For his
stings 1 could do nothing.
The next day a half dozen parties
went out to look for the men who
were on the lead elephant and for the
animals themselves. They were found
near the kampong. around which,
with the keen sense of direction be-
longing to female elephants, they had
made a sort of circuit. Both beasts
had been cruelty stung and the one
Osman had ridden was a pathetic
sight. The bees had found every
crease in her hide and covered her
poor trunk with bumps.
On the second day after our battle
with the bees the party that had
gone out to search for Osman and
the two men on the lead elephant re-
turned. All they brought with them
was the spear that had done the ter
rible damage. They had made three
graves, they said, for the bodies had
not been found together. Just what
had happened to the unfortunate trio
I did not ask; 1 preferred at the time
not to know. 1t is probable that,
since the greater number of bees fol-
lowed their elephant, they were liter
ally stung to death.
The people of the kampong took
the tragedy in their matter -of-fact
Malay way. Osman had woman mad
ness, they said, and acted the fool.
To act the fool in the jungle was to
be caught in the net of death. 1t was
a wide net and entangled in its
meshes not only the fool himself but
| all who were near him.
Tunku Slueiman regretted the, loss
of his most skillful krismaker.
| "Tuan," he said, "Osman was as one
who escapes from the tigers claws
| to fall into the jaws of the crocodile"
And after a moment he added: THE
devil which inhab bits the bad elephant
| rejoices."
To the weaver Of sarongs it all
came as a warning from Allah. was
told that she removed the pins from
the rag image of her elderly husband
and returned to his arms.
| After a weeks time, when we were
all, animals and men, pretty much
recovered from the bee stings, there
were fresh reports Of the whereabouts
Of the rogue elephant. He had practi-
| cally destroyed a small plantation Of
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rumor that she had had native
witch doctor make rag image Of her
elderly husband and had stuck 1T full
of pins. This, 1 was gravely told.
would be sure to bring on the slow
death of her husband. When 1 saw
her she was overseeing the weaving
of the sarongs and wearing very
beautiful sarong herself. She was not
bad looking. About her eyes there
was a touch of Siamese slant that
probably did for Osman. 1 felt that
Osman would better go after wild
animals.
The Tunku suggested, and thought
| 1t a good idea, that since We did not
know where the elephant was at the
time, we go out Informally and see if
We could find any recent traces of
him. Somewhat to my astonishment,
he said that he would go himself and
| that he and 1 would ride on the same
elephant.
We started out the next morning
about o'clock. The beast the Tunku
and l rode was not the one that had
shaken me to pieces on the journey
| from the river. but a female with a
| tighter skin. In fact, all our ele-
plants that morning were females.
Osman and another smith were on
one, together with the beasts driver,
| who sat with his feet behind its ears.
Two of the finest young fellows L
could pick out were on the second,
and Tunku Suleiman and 1 on the
| third.
We went through the jungle, fol-
| lowing parallel courses until the
growth became so dense that we were
| forced into single file. Osman and
the other smith were in the lead, and
| the Tunku and brought UP the rear.
We saw no fresh traces of the mad
elephant. 1t became a game of
patience.
1t is possible that the young kris
| maker, being suddenly torn away
| from his lady love, became a bit
touched in the head. At any rate, a
mad thing happened. Finding him
self under an enormous beehive at
least a yard in length. he lifted his
spear and thrust it deep into the hive.
The weapon stuck in the wax. He
| gave a jerk and pulled it free. The
hive fell and broke wide open. Sud-
| denly 1t seemed that all the bees in
the world were let loose!
The lead elephant, believing with
rage and pain, bolted into the jungle
straight ahead. The second one
turned to the right. I yelled to our
driver, Turn! Go back!" and shouted
to the Tunku to drop off and run. We
got our legs over the side of the bas-
ket and slid down. I managed to jam
my Panama hat over my eyes. BY
this time. we were covered with bees.
! We grabbed blind1y for branches.
broke them off and thrashed the air
and our bodies.
| 1 gathered up a handful Of dried
palm leaves and lighted them. I felt
as if. my body were on fire. We hung
over the smoke and gradually the
bees were stupefied. I think the
Tunku had the idea that the devil
elephant was mixed up in some way
with that beehive. He seemed awed
We were both terribly stung.
We got back on the trail and began
to walk to the kampong. When we
lhad covered about half the distance
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who was not ready to swear by Ala

who was not ready to swear by Allah
to having seen the elephant
He was supposed to have been seen
at several places far apart at APP
proximately the same time. When 1
pointed this out, heads were gravely
shaken. A wrinkled old man NUT
tered. THE tuan, being a witch doc
tor, knows that such is the way Of
devils" The reports of the beasts
size varied, but in this they were
agreed, that he was larger than any
elephant ever before observed. I con-
cluded that he must really be a good
sized bull. 1t was clear that during
the Tunku's absence he had wrought
much damage in the rice and sugar
fields. The sooner he was done away
with the better.
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PARIS, May To-
"ITA, net long ago empress Oh
Austria, sits perplexed in the
little Spanish village looking
out on inhospitable Bay of Bis
cav, where she is trying to bring
up her eight children with the scant
means left her at her husbands
death. The outlook for living roy
atty is not bright-but her present
perplexity is for the dead bodies OF
kings and princesses, her ancestors.
Once already she has fled with them
from war Now they face a worse
fate than that of Tut ut-ankh-Amen.
In the great war. when Zitas hus-
band, Emperor Charles, was still
ruler, news came that the italian
front was drawing dangerously near
to Gorilla On a height above that
town there is a monastery in Who-e
church there lay the bodies of En-
press Zita's royal ancestors. They
had been some body in their day and
our history books still speak of them.
But it has been easier for the SOW
ereign people of France and America
soldiers than for these failing Dov-
ereigns to keep their kings and prin-
ceSses properly buried
The word came to anxious EN-
press Zita that Italy's big guns were
throwing bombs toward Gorilla and
the royal tombs were in danger of
hseiDg smashed. So she had the cof-
nns transported ha.tily to the convent
of Carmelite nuns in Doebling close
to Vienna. There, in the peace Of
the cloister and in the shadow of the
Imperial City. she would build worthy
and everlasting homes for her royal
dead.
In a few months emperor and en-
press themselves were fugitives from
revolution, bred of war. And so the
coffined bodies Of her ancestors lie
In caseJ in the temporary refuge
where she left them.
What is to be done and who shall
do It? .r.. ...s.
The oldest Of these royalties, wait
ing not for the Judgment day. but
for common burial, is Charles y, who
was the last descendant of the grand
monarch Louis XIV to reign in
France. The revolution of 1880 drove
him first to England and then to
Austria, where he died in 1886 and
was buried at Gorizia. There his
great-great- -granddaught Empress
Zita rescued his bones, only to lose
them at Vienna.
Fleeing with Charles X and buried
beside him in 1851, there was the pa
thetic figure of the French revolution
the Prisoner of the Temple" For
zong months she had been imprisoned
with her father Louis XVI and her
mother, Queen Marie Antoinette. until
one after the other their heads fell
beneath the guillotine. Her brother
was the Lost Dauphin." He would
aave been Louis the XVII, legitimate
king OF France, but she was told In
her solitude that he had died in pris-
on without her being allowed to see
him. The heart OF the poor boy, who
really died in the TamnAe- prtsona VA
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u. S. Men of Lafayette Escadrille
Have Share in Memorial Garden

and Mrs Howard Van Sinderen have
just formed themselves into COM
mittee under the chairmanship OF ii.
c. Hoskier, the we'll known tinancler'
to put $4,000 at the disposition of
the memorial. to make the garden,
gift of the French government, an
architectural and landscape marvel
worthy of our country-at the very
gates of Paris.
One of the men proudest of the
memorial is a Frenchman at WASH
ington. D. c., Capt Georges Thenault,
who commanded the Lafayette Esca-
drjIle from beginning to end. and is
now French military attache f"F
aeronautics at Washington.
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plosive bullet. in a great air battle.
along with Thenaut, Prince and
Rockwell: and thereafter, for year,
as the wounded American airman,"
he did more good to the allied cause
than any active fighting man could
| do! :,
Balsley is now a movie actor at Los
Angeles, and Chouteau Johnson, by
curiosity of fate, is a real estate man
in the same town. Archibald Johnson
(Pittsburgh), married, with two chill
dren, is a real estate broker in Brook
line, Mass.
| Wainwright Abbott (Pittsburgh),
son of the original treasurer of the
Carnegie Steel Company. is first sec
retary of the American legation at
! Athens He was married four days
ago. Paul Baer (Fort Wayne). an
"ace" of the Escadrille, is in charge
of a motion picture expedition in Pc
ru-looking1 for elongated heads"
1t is astonishing how some have
settled down-and others haven't. c.
c.. Bassett (New York;, claimed by
the United States naval air service
as an exceptional single-seat fighter,
is married and in the bond business.
Stephen Bigelow (Boston) has just
been divorced by Anne Meridith, who
was a Follies girl and has since mar
ried an English lord. Ellison Boggs
(New York;. last American accepted
by the French aviation, is in the
automobile business Along with
Tommy Hitchcock (Westbury, N. ".
he was, also, the youngest member of
the Lafayette.
Hitchcock, international polo play
er, sticks. all the same. to the oil
business in New York. Everett Buck
ley (Kilbourne. Ill.) is farming. Thorn.
as Buffum (New York; has a motion
picture company of his own. 1t will
lnever film a more dashing adventure
than Buffum's fall in flames behind
the German lines and his escape from
Trausnitz Castle, in Bavaria. Only
young Hitchcock's escape was more
ensational-Tommy jumped from a
railway carriage full of Germans.
William Graham Bullen (Chicago)
travels for pleasure. He is one of the
(Philadelphia) is married and manu-
| facturer Charles ]. Biddle (Philadel-
phia) is married and practicing law.
James ]. Bach est. Louis), first
United States citizen and Lafayette
pilot captured by the Germans, is
vice consul at the American passport
bureau, Paris. Pierre Boal (Boals-
burg, Pa.) is married and happy as
first secretary of the United States
Legation at Bucharest
Another Lafayette pilot who was
reported killed all over America is
Edgar Boulighy (New Orleans), at
the time an "ace" of the Foreign Le-
gion. He is a world traveller, just
from Alaska, now in Paris on his way
to Central Asia. He may easily strike
oil.
T MET Bouligny the other day. He
and Paul Rockwell introduced me
to Charles Kerwood (Bryn Mawr,
Pa.), reported killed on March 81
1918, in dog fight" above Mont
didier, and wounded, later escaping 6
from that same Trausnitz Castle, in
Bavaria.
Kerwood, aretired colonel from wal
services as chief of aeronautics In
Honduras and Greece, is unofficial
purchasing agent for certain coun.
tries. He is also probably the most
popular man "in the Escadrille," be-
ing in touch with more former Fafay-
ette pilots tAan any other. except
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betel nut breaking down the little
palmlike trees with his great rushing
weight. A man whose statement /
was unable to shake with cross-ques-
tioning had seen him about a two
hours journey from the kampong.
concluded that it was time to act.
had the Tunku send for the three
headmen of the nearest jungle kam-
pongs. Each was instructed to bring
Evening star., 1924-05-25

Telescope observations of the surface
markings will be more successful II
made in the southern hemisphere where A
its height above the horizon will b."
much greater than in Europe. Good
definition is necessary, and this will be
far more often and more easily attained
in the southern hemisphere than in the
northern. Mars will be nearer to the
earth (S4,650,OOo miles distan) on Au-
gust % next than it has been for long
period OF time.
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BY STERLING HEILIG.

PARIS, May IS.
~ n the road to Versailles,
1 thirty minutes from Paris,
y amid majestic oaks and
chestnuts, interspersed with
pines and birches, overlooking the four
tiny lakes of Vaucresson, there is an
epic garden. all American, which all
Americans stop off to visit, particularly
around Decoration day.
All the year round, hard sports
globe-trotting as explorers, polo
players: diplomats, consults, oil men,
men in charge of foreign flying and
of motion picture expeditions, and
men at home, now reaping kale az
bankers, insurance brokers, lawyers.
farmers, movie actors, importers and
manufacturers, keep in touch con-
tinually with those in Paris who are
building up their epic garden.
And they (these business men) stop.
now and then to dream of it, and of
heroic days, and of grand things the
garden stands for.
1t is the garden of the Lafayette
Escadrille. 1t points the road to
every heroic cemetery Of the A. E. F.
in France and in America.
Those honored in it were the ad-
vance guard of the great American
armies. They were volunteer Amer
lean flyers of the war. from March,
1916, to the moment when our own
aviation chiefs found them ready for
use as experienced leaders in the
American air service. Half of their
dead fell under the original French
command. The other half fell under
A. f.. F. command. Surely, they were
the elder brothers of all a. E. F.
heroes.
AS for the living, they refuse to be
called heroes. They are business
men" and married men," or else men
thinking about both such worthy in
terests. But, beneath the surface,
their interest in the mysteries and
tragedies of the Escadrille are as
keen as when they were breakneck
air fighters. And they expect their
permanent Paris organization to keep
| them posted!
Paul Rockwell and Lewis Crenshaw
who are it's most active members, re-
port that the memorial Of the Squad
rilla Gas it is. called) is trying to
locate the six missing bodies of La
fayette pilots, and has already dis
covered the unmarked grave OF
Manderson L.ehr Of Albion, Neb., who
was killed in air combat near Chateau
Thierry, on July Is, 1918.
1t has also been discovered from
records of the German war office In
Berlin that Victor Chapman, the first
pilot of the volunteer Americans to
| fall, was buried under the name OF
| H. Clyde Balsley-who Is still strong
and healthy, living, married, in CAL
| ifornia!
The only papers that Victor Chap
man had on him at his death. it seems
were a number Of letters addressed
| to Balsley-who had been wounded
shortly before and was in a hospital
of the verdun region. Chapman hao
planned to land nearby and deliver
the letters, after his flight over the
lines. Naturally, when the Germani
recovered his body, they thought hs
was Balsley.
DALSLEY (San Antonio( had beer
- attached to the air guard Of
Paris, along with Chouteau johnson
est. Louis), as early as February
1915.
Together, they went to the new
Lafayette Eecadrille. In June, 1916
Balsley was shot down with an ex
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Mars to Be Close
To Earth in August

MARS now rises at about ) am,
4VA and is gradually becoming better
situated for observations as well as IN
creasing in apparent briiliancy. 1t IS
SLOWLY moving to the northeast among
tbe stars of Sasittarius. The planet will
arrive at opposition on August % next
and will be very brilliant at that time
though the position will be low in the
armament, its altitude at southing being
only about 90 degrees.
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After his breath taking and
tragic experiences in coping with
as described last week, Mr.. Mayer
here recounts the last adventure
in the present series of articles.
Known as he is in both hemi-
spheres as an animal trapper and
trainer, with few, if any, equals,
the fact that he was summoned
to deal with the lunatic elephant
that was terrorizing the interior
of kelantan was a significant trib-
ute to his prowess.
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DALSLEY (San Antonio( had been
~ attached to the air guard of
Paris, along with Chouteau Johnson
est. Louis), as early as February,
1916.
Lafayette Eecadrille. In June, 1916.
Balsiey was shot down with an ex.
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- DON after l had disposed of my
Borneo catch in Europe and had
returned to my animal house in
- Singapore, a man of some i'm
Phoenix tribune., 1924-12-20
Purchase Dandy Home

Mrs. NJ C. Sells, dressmaker and
designer has purchased a beautiful
brick cottage at 1917 East Washing
ton street. The house has seven
rooms and is thoroughly modern
throughout Mrs. Sells plans to oc-
cupy the home soon after January
1st. The sale was made by Mrs
Schelly of the Fred Dibble Realty
Co.
Phoenix tribune., 1924-12-20
Fruits and Vegeta-
b1eS of the Salt
Ri0er Valley May
Be Marketed
Promptly

We Manufacture
CantalOupe Crates
Lettuce Crates
Strawberry Crates
Meat Crates
Orange Boxes
Lemon Boxes
Apple Boxes
Peach Boxes
Can Cases
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Trinity Church to Be Scene of Mss Jerome's
Wedding, Tea at Golf Club Thursday

TmE marriage Of Miss Emily
i 5sromc. daughier q AR. rimoshg
lrroms to Mr Frederick Marion
Hubert. son of Mrs. William Mar-on
iiaibrrt ~ Everett. viii be soiem
\ red Monday evening. June re-. IN
TRINITY church, Rev. William a.
miss reading the service az $50
oriock
Mrs. Albert Charles stuhh vii b.
~ sisters mairon % honor ana
! Miss Media Hubert. 81 Everett. ais.
Ter q the Eroom, maid 81 honor.
The bridesmaids viii br Miss Olive
Leonard. Miss Jane Perkins. Miss
nortense Green. Miss Mildred Far,
ar q Los Angeles, Miss Virginia
Merrill and AIiss Leslie smith %
oakland. Miss Ierome's cousin.
Ar. Glenn Hubert sill be best
nian Tor his brother. and the usherr
vill b. AR. Lawrence Wiley. Mr.
Albcrt Charles Stub. Mr. William
Mcmillan. Ar. Edward Ferry. Mr
Tranrk rcndleton ~ Everett. Mr.
Andrew pooutiic o. Spokane and Mr..
Raleigh Chlun Emily Jane Stub.
,hs brides little niece. viii b. the
flower SRI.
Following the service there viii be
reception az tho Jerome residences.
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Wiu Assist at
Golf Club Tea

~ The tea Thursday afternoon.
nom until 5 o'clock. at the Scat
tie Golf club. for women members
of the club and participants ia the
rolf tournament. Mrs. J. u. Farrell.
Airs. Tidmarsh. Mrs, Henry Car.
stems and Airs Harry whitney Treat
viii preside az tho urns and Mrs.
n. Knox Roberts. Mrs. Theodore
owens. Mrs. Rex stafford. Mrs. N.
\. Peaso and Miss Helen Farrell win
assist.
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Musicale at Sunset Clnb

The Sunset club viii give It's seven.
iy.third musicale on Wednesday aft.
srnoon At o'clock. with the program
presented By Margaret Moss Hem!on.
soprano. and James Harvey. tenor.
with Leone LanEdon a. the piano.
The following numbers viii be rem.
dered.
ca Celeste Aies" 1y.,st
90 Quests o ausIi.r s..........l
Nr Harvey.
fal a Pastoral" ...............
% MY Lovely Celia" ...........
told EnEiish. arranged ~ ". TAas
Wlison.l
Csl 20 SLEEP. why pon Then Leave
her" ....s.t.s..s+..sa..s Handel
MIRA Hsmisu.
(al The links o. Lave ..s.. Essdham
% The cFimson Petal. .s..,. .ouIitsr
(el ~EseatiGa'' ........s.t...R lumsnthas
Mr Harvey.
tsl Der Traum' ........., nubiastsln
ID Der AsrA" .s.ss-s4s..I
tcl 'wili o. the wisp" Rudolph Cans
Ia "Atove che cieuar- .s.s..... .Tsschsr
(sJ ''voci de PrirnsvsrA" ..... Strauss
Mrs. Hsmion.
ta1 arovsly Maid in N. Moon
light ffrom ia Hohsme.J -.
% spring. Her Lovely Charms
4....s..ts-.t .s-*.....ss.+... HsYdn
(ci - hook % Verses from
Persian GardsnsD LIS tshmann
MIS-. Hemian and NJ Harvey
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\ Orthopedic Lunch and
Thrift Shop

Mrs. d. W. Branch viii be hostess
Tor Denny.Fuhrman Guild at the
orthopsdic lunch room on Tuesday.
assisted By Mrs. Morris Hayes. Mrs.
sampel Hayes. Mrs. Phlneas Pen.
dieton. Mrs. L. A. Parshail. Mrs. A.
J. Falknor. Mrs. s. Il Miller. Mrs.
i. C. Brautigan. Mrs. G. W. Greg.
CRY. Mrs Kari Dehn. Mrs. 7. NJ.
Jenncr. Mrs. a. r.. Berry. Mrs.
Henry p. Morris. Mrs. J. r. Nessor.
Mrs. II. w. Bruen. Mrs Harry T.
Kennedy and Miss May Shelton.
East Highland Drive Guild. with
Mrs. J. c. Moore and Mrs. John
whcatnan. win have charge Of the
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Music
Mrs. Boardman to
Give Pupils Recital

Tho pupils OF Ella Helm H0ardmhn
will be heard in a song recital. Wed.
neSdsy evening. May -. az the Cor.
nlsh. -weaIafsed
The program follows;
tsifsufs EXCUSE ...t..tsss+.ss Hshn
The Faitffing Dusk" a. Walter kramsf
''itsysislis Ard uut'srfliss Del RisEa
GLADYS March.
pprothra Hopper ., the plane,
Tbs ftcss Easiagss the SixhtinEsis"
.4s.s..tst+...... niutsy kefsakost
~slisnes- stsesrssftsstssts haihaNsrett
DARK Clouds -sesssstss.ssss l.emhefE
tin nusslan.l
Vera krirvskr.
ruth Prynns at tbs plane.
-Nnfninx- ......s.....ss.. MsurA.lsees
Fairy TAlsi" s'.s.'..t'..,.. &c, Ne,si
Nellie Patrick.
The Geek RhaI Grew. ,. A. Carpenter
"Asah wishes Tor the Cloths 81 hssy-
en-" .tsss.s.+..s.s .Ciyds Fan Npnel
'-Hrh fever ..saas.ssssss-sI John ifeland
0sorEs Davis
''Wohinf ss.tssss.s.+ssssts.
Death and the Msiafu" ..... Schubert
tina Rablnson.
-Bsnx % Demon" gfrom opsfs
sspemon"1 IN Russian. .Rahsns,sln
- -. YOU. IL rtussian ....,.... Groig
- . Pstiettaf. ....... Marchssi
Paai Ejoff Fodjs.
.-rn, Last Hour" - walter Kramer
Might ..s-..+ss-.vss Hiehafd Snap..
'-FToeds OF spriug' .....s .Rsehmaninotf
Anns LlHdisy.
wild Geese ......sss...s.... .ho9srs
@At Eve Heard a Fists". .ssSirkland
song OF the open" .....t....i-s fofge
Olive HartunE.
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Mrs. Fisher TO Give
Brid0e Tea

To honor her mother. Mrs. 4. ?.
Nordin. and sister. Mrs. NJ. o. over.
man. OF san Francisco. who have
Just returned from a trip around
the world. Mrs. Barnette Fisher l.
extending invitations for bridge
sea NJ her hons on wednesday aft.
srncon.
Mrs. Nordin and Mrs. oyerman
arrived Saturday and are the guests
q Mrs. Fisher until Thursday. when
they viii return 20 their homes.