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the ruins of Carthage. The French
have been excavating there, and
are making many discoveries. The ruins
lie on the shore of the Mediterranean sea
beyond the lake on which Tunis Is situ-
ated, and cover some thousands of acres,
The center of old Corthage was about
twelve miles from this cltj, and the Phoen-
Ir.lan capital reached even to Tunis Itself.
The city had a wall twenty-three miles
long 10 aerena that part of It, which was
back from the sea: and It is said to have
had more than l.OOO.eoA Inhabitants In the
neigni- or its glory. When It was des-
troyed, after Its long war with Rome, It
contained more than 700,000 people, and
during that war li furnished armies of
enormous slse. When Hannibal went from
Spain to invade Italy he took 90,000 men
and forty elephants with him over the
Pyrenees and tho Alps; and during the
first Punic war a fiet started out from
Carthags with 350 ships of a capacity of
IjO.000 troops. Each of the ships had an
Iron beak to ram the boats ot th enemy,
and the sailors were the best of the then
world.
Cart ha ae the Mlshty.
That was during the closing day fit Car
thage the Mighty. A short time later the
Romans destroyed and plowed up the
ground upon which It stood. Later still
they founded a city Upcn Its site, and made
It heir capital of Africa, and it was for a
loAjr time the third city of the world.
.'arther on In this letter I shall tell you
ow the ruins e Roman Carthage are
till to be seen he, .; .
F" m," Jnterestlng to me Is Carthage
he Mighty, that famous city which was
.'Wvored by Juno, Jupiter's henpocklng wife,
i ' and founded bv IX do. tha Jrwlah nrtnrojia
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iv er lyre. LHdO's nusDand had been assassl-
Bated by her own brother, Pygmalion, and
Dido bad fled and come to this part of ,
North Africa. Like that other Jewess of ( tense and for a barracks to contain the
fiction, Jessica, old Bhylock's daughter, she army aa well. In them were stalls for 300
did not go away empty handed, but leaded war elephants, 4,000 war horses, and stor
her ship with the treasures of the royal age sufficient to supply all with food
palaces of herself and brother and took
enough people along with her to start
new empire.
. Qieea Dido's Ills Bargain.
When she first set foot on African soil
Queen Dido bought some land of the na-
tives and by a real estate trick obtained
this big tract upon which Carthage stood have restored. In miniature, and this was
for a song. When our forefathers pur- so arranged that the entrance could be
chased the site of New York of the Indians shut up by chains at night. The door lead
the price was a peck of glass beads and ng Into it was only sixty feet wide but
brass buttons; It Is said that all Chicago this admitted the ships to two port's so
was once offered for . pair of old boots, connected that the vessels could sail from
and that the ground upon which Mel- one to the other
bourne, one of the richest cities of Aus- old Carthage was a city of fine houses
tralla. now stands was sold for two old and civilised people. It was a city which
wooden blanket,. The thrifty Dido bought owned quantities of gold .W prtou.
the- location of this greatest city of an- ,ton8( ana one whoM U,
tlqulty at a somewhat similar price. Ac- ,een ln tne mUBeum wnlch ony ,
cording to tradition, she tld the natives was equal to any sold ln our best
that ahe only wr nted a pach of land big Btore, today,
enough to be Inclosed ln a bull's hide and -they
made a contract of sale on those , . x .
terms. But Queen Dido cut the bull s hide ' Ab" Kom Carthage.
Into leather shoestrings and, tying them The Carthage I have described was ut
together, took ln what seeme to the na- terly destroyed 146 B. C. and It was almost
tlves all out of doors. The tract ran around half century before another city began
a a beautiful harbor. Inclosing the whole to rlse on Its ruins. This was the Curthage
' peninsula between the lake and the sea. f"tered by Julius Caesar and Augustus,
It was gently sloping, with a little hill here which In time became the Roman capltul
and there and with great rocky mountains ' north Africa, and which once almost
In alght In the rear. The land itself was rivaled Rome ltself That Carthage was a
xoeedlngly rich and the country about It c,ty ' theaters, the remains of xhlch still
produced so abundantly that It was for atnd on the ruins of the old Phoenician
centuries one of the granaries of the world. cny- It was a city of gladiatorial shows
f , where Christians were eaten by lions, gored
A Great Bnb'neaa City. to Jeath by wild bulls and slaughtered by
Aa X drove out to Carthago today I saw gladiators. On the hill of the museum I
asveral American windmills on great towers saw the tombs of Saints Perpetua and Fell
Of steel,' agitating the air Inhabited by the cltaa, two young women who were killed ln
ghosts of the old Carthaginians. The wind- the arena, which I describe farther on.
mills came from Chicago and the city on Lator still, when Rome was converted,
whose alte they now stand once ranked far CarthaM became the chief Christian city
greater than Chicago does. It was the chief of Africa, while still holding its place as
, bualnesa center of the old world and it bad one of the great porta of the world. Here
Society Burglar
w 8LNQ society notes as his guide ln
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Ui rujiDg me nomes or ine ncn, -a-
I ward James, who has' proved
himself even superior to the flc- Wakefield decided upon another plan. He or rul1 roadway, no longer will the thou
tttlous Raffles, was arrested while slid down a post from the second story anl who pedul thither on bicycles, the
leisurely helping himself to everything In
sight at the home of Mr. and Mrs. James
' O. Trainer ln Chicago. Ills Imollclt faith
In society notes caused his downfall, said
the- police.
-V Found epon Ms person were a score or
more of social Items which. It Is said, "the
aoclety burglar" Intended to make use of
on the dates given.
Pressed In frock coat, pearl gray trous-
era, patent leather shoes, snd wearing ac-
eessoiiea which defied even the connols-
eeur to pVk a flaw, De Groat sauntered
down Fifty-Third street shortly after
O'clock last olght. Peeling off a perfectly
fitting glove and holding his. cane under
.his arm, the man stood for a moment on
fthe steps leading to No. IIS. Then, with
'perfect confidence, he produced a skeleton
key and unlocked the door.
govern! dsys before the local papers told
01 a uiuw.1
give at a country club.
The society Item, however, failed to say
thst Kbeneser Wskefleld. who la stopping
with the Trainers, would be unable to at-
tend the function.
Wakefield heard Pa Groat enter tha
feous. Kvr a Uma he listened to the
'au-autfur. wtikiug throuU tha tuxrUuta.
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"CAHTTTAGB TUB MIlillTlf" TTTB AJTCTEKT CITY A3- gKETC'HEO BY M. PAtti
lt captains of Industry and truat maa-natea
Dido J.787 years before Christ, it was prom-
Inont hon Athfika a. m m vm,n anil Inner
before Rome had begun to be.
The Carthaginians had their colonies
throughout the known world. They owned
the greater part of Sicily and many other
Mediterranean Islands, and had large set-
tlements on the Spanish peninsula. More
than 2,000 years before Bartholomew Dial
or Vaaco da Gama started out to explore
Africa. Hanno, the Carthaginian, had
sailed out of the Strait of Gibraltar with
sixty ships and something like 80,000 men.
He had made his way down around the
west coast of this continent to the Gulf of
Guinea, and had brought bock stories of
ebony negroes, mighty elephants and gor-
lllas. For centurlos thereafter many of
his tales were thought to be lies, but they
have since been proved to be true. The
Carthaginians established colonies on the
west coast of Africa. They sent their
ships to Great Britain and they had com-
merclal centers everywhere. They were
among the richest people of the world and
about the best traders. They carried on
business as a close corporation. They did
not allow foreigners to deal with their col-
onies, and such as dared do so were cap-
tured and drowned. As time went on, they
sent caravans across the Sahara to the
Soudan and over the Libyan desert to the
valley of the Nile.
Carthasre In B. C. BOO
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m f rfh'6 me "il Picture
or oia Larthage as It was recently repro-
duced by a French "antiquarian. The city
wa of vast extent, and Its character was
umewnai internal or tne great oriental
capitals of today. The buildings wore white
and flat roofed.- It had a wall about It.
and this wall was higher than the great
wall of China. It ni nv flftv.fl. r.
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mgn, ana tne lowers, which were found
regular intervals upon the wall, were many
reel Higher. The walls were used for a de
There were quarters in the walls for a
larger army than the United States had at
the breaking out of the Spanish war, and
this wall, as I have said, was over twenty
miles long.
Old Carthage had a forum.
a market
place and magnificent public buildings. It
had an artificial harbor, which th Pr.nnh
Caught in the Act
It was Impossible for him to reach the tele-
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pnone and notify the ponce without
trading the attention of the intruder.
back window to the ground. He went to'nunlre1" who come in motor cars be met
the next house to telephone. Officers b' the representatives of the rival houses
Kavaa ttiwn a nih. r.t th vrda Wrk
station soon surrounded the house.
"You. will pardon me for being Inquisitive.
I am sure; but would you mind telling me
by whose permission you enter my
home.' N
These were the words of the "Raffles"
when an officer faced him:
"Don't hand us that; Just come along
like a nloe society chap that you are,"
replied the officer. s
"Sir, this Is an outrage. I demand an
explanation."
"Raffles" was being led toward the door,
Outside awaited tha patrol wagon,
"I have no objection In the world to go-
Ing to the station." continued the socMy
burglar, "other than the gross Indignity
of the thing, don't you know. Now let's
w, our, can up
some of my friends."
At this the man made a break. He loosed
himself from the officers, and. throwing
cane and silk ha; to the wind, ran down
the street.
Three shots were fired Ufora the men
pursuing him were able to brlug likn to
a haJt,W-"Wct Iuto m .
Through
St. AuKuatlne atudird and preached, and
killed. When the Vandals Invaded Africa
thaw inna PariDn thnlf psnttat unA It
remained great until the seventh century,
when the Mohammadan Arabs
came In
and destroyed It.
Quarry for the World.
Slnce then Carthaen has been a ouarrv
for the artistic bulldlnir material of nil h
palaces along the Mediterranean sea. In
the great mosque of Santa Sophia, at
Constantinople, I saw marble columns
which came from here; many of the won-
ders of architectural Rome originated In
Carthage, and shiploads of Its ruins have
gone to Palermo and other Italians cities.
The palaces of the bey of Tunis are
built of Punic marble, and the baaars of
Tunis are flanked 'with marble columns,
which the Arabs have painted over In red,
yellow and green stripes, so that they
now look more like barber poles than any-
thing else.
Many of the houses of Tinus contain ma-
terlals from the same source, and the ruins
here have been furnishing building stone
of one kind or another for more than 1,000
years. -
During recent centuries the various mu-
seums of the world have been robbing this
ancient city, and travelers also have been
allowed to pick up and carry away what
they pleased. This is so today, although
the French have established two mueums,
one on the site of old Carthage and the
other at the Bardo, In the palace ef the
bey, and are trying to preserve what Is left
.
Exploring- the Rnlna.
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Befn except . few broken-down cisterns
Passing of
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ARIS, June 7. Mont Saint Michel,
said Victor Hugo, Is to France
what Uie Pyramids are to Egypt.
To this comparison may be added
another, that the omelet of
iiiue. foulard is to Mont Saint Mlchl what
Mont Saint Michel la to France.
But now, alas! sad news comes from the
tourUt-haunted Uland. No longer will the
hundred thousand visitors who arrive each
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t. r ujr ne uiue railway which runa' from
the mainland along the mile and a ouarter
of Poulard.
longer will those signs be needed
which hitherto have warned the newcomer
not to confound the house or "Poulard the
elder" with others of a similar name, nor
those that told him that "the Widow Pou
lard" was the one and only original, while
yet a third notice advanced similar claims
on belialf of "Poulard the younger."
For now twentieth century methods have
thrust themselves upon the rocky Island
where St. Aubert built a chapel about the
end of the seventh century, and a limited
liability company has bought out the Pou
lard family, elder, younger, widow and all.
and henceforth the tourist will be at the
mercy of a soulless trust.
There have been those who )nv. vi.it.
Mont Saint Michel without seeing, except
irora me level or tne sea. the glories of the
Mervellle, or entering the Salle des Cheva-
Uers, which has been called the finest gothlc
chamber in the world, because to do so
they must climb Innumerable steps and be
taken round by a guide. But the
few. If any. who havev not watched tha
cooking of tha omelet which has m..
aliue. Poulard XuvULa throughout tha
Excavation in Ancient City of
ANTTIKR,- A' TOFNCH-ANTIQUARIAN.
which once supplied the city with water.
making excavations ever since they have
nfiil Tnnkla undor t Vi r 1 r (.nntrnl . I
so not only here, but In all parts of the
country, and they have unearthed ruins
which will compare with those of Athens
and Rome'. They are anxious to Increase
their work along these lines, and the re-
mains are such that It misfit well pay our
rich American" colleges to establish schools
of exploration here, as they have done In
old Qreece-
Take this city of . Carthage alone and
Imagine what might be found. Suppose you
could blot from the face of the United
States eitherBoston, Philadelphia or St.
Louis. Suppose you could destroy all tho
buildings and cover them with earth. Then
let them He for decades and build other
great cities on top. Then destroy those
cities, and let the storms and dust of a
thousand years settle upon them, and you
may have, some Idea of the condition of
the ruins of Carthage today. ' You must
JI. however, the tombs In which the
ancients were accustomed to put Jewelry
and other relics, and Imagine that the
destruction was such that much of the be-
longings of the people were left In the
aeons. . ,
It Is now mere than twenty-seven hun-
dred years since the first buildings of Car-
thage were erected, and many of the oh-
Jects I saw today were more than two
thousand years old. As I went over the
ruins I observed 4ho Arab farmers plowing
UP bits of pottery and pieces of marblo,
which were parts of houses more than
twenty centuries ago, and I have been
bothered, all dav bv dark-faced Mohani-
nin. in nu inner rufnr rhHt nH nniMi
the size of my fingernail, which were prob-
the Famous
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world.
Thanks to the position of her hoted ln
the Barbican, and even more to the fame
of the omelet.Mme. Poulard has carried
off the bulk of the trade and confesses she
Ijuai made hr fortune, but withholds tha
exact figure. She will, however, not leave
the island and has promised to come from
time to time to see that the omelet is still
made ln the traditional manner.
Thus The silver age fli-parts and the Iron
g arrives. The golden age ended with
tha original Poulard, who was tha sole Inn-
keeper of the Isiand. Ha kept no books,
mad out no bills.
At Ui cud ot hi vUit tha rct recounted
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ably worn In the rings of those PunlO
maidens whin all the world was young.
I can't begin to describe the extent of the
ruins. By this I do not mean the remains
of great temples and palaces, of theaters
and tombs. These are comparatively few
but there are vast traqta covered with bits
of pottery, pieces of broken marble, half
ground up-bricks and bits of mosaic. Such
remains cover the ground. The sheep and
goats feed among them, and they are
plowed and harrowed and pulverlied by
cultivation to fertilize the crops of the
. present.
In the Theaters.
My way to Carthage was over an excel-
My way to Carthage was over an excel-
lent road whlen runs around the bay.
The scenery Is beautiful and the flamingoes
fly over the water, showing their pink
plumage as they probably did In the past,
All along the roads we saw Arabs plowing
their farms. Here and there was a little
camp of Bedouins watching their flocks;
and when we left tho road and drove across
the plowed flelds we passed through a
flock of fat-tailed Bheep and black goats
driven by natives.
Nearly all our way was over the ruins
of Carthago, and wo were now in what
annom. me neart or me ancient cuy.
Th, ground was so covered with marblo
and pottery that we felt Hke getting out
na looking ror relics, ana, indeed, during
the whole1 day my eyes have been moving
about among the stones with the 'hope to
And treasure. I have picked up many
beautiful pieces of marble. I have clawed
out bits of moBaic from tho stone floors, '
and have had opportunity to purchase all
sorts of coins and clav lamDS. some of the
i h v. nt Ph.ni.n.
We first visited the amphitheater where
Poulard Omelet
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Th tout CET Hhl
the meals he had eaten, tha drinks he had
drunk. M. Poulard did a little mental
arithmetic and named the sum to be paid,
Perhaps he had less cause for anxiety ln
those days when thtre was no raised road-
wir and visitors had to arrive itnd dfDArt
by carriages between the tides and run
the risk of driving into the quicksands with
which the bay Is filled.
At least be was true to the tradition
of the place, for we read ln the chronicles
of the miracles performed by Bt. Michael
on hla Island that "several ueraons havina
dined and not having wherewith to pay
their scot.' the LindlosJ was tald by a
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BEDOUIN WOMAN GRINDING MEAti
the gladiatorial shows were held,
It lies
near an Arab villages and, as I stood on it, can bo seen In many places, and purls of
I heard the shrieking of a spanked baby It have been so restored that it now sup
filling the air whloh once resounded with piles Tunis' with water. The work cost
the cries of Christian martyrs. Tho millions, and It was done by a French en-
amphitheater has been only partially ex-
cavatea. Tne cages tor tno wild Deasts
can be plainly seen and the great vaults
below In which the martyrs waited. The
arena was elliptical in shape and Its area
is more than an 1 acre. I paced It from
one end to the other, and according to my
estimate It Is about 800 feet long and 200
feet wide. It contains marble columns
broken and battered. Some of tho seats
an1 a few of the arches are still to be
Been
Thl8 theater was described by an Arab
historian who was here about 800 years
ago He gayg that there were five galleries
an1 that the building was the most beau-
tiful of its kind ever known. Today I
,aw tha eheep ana the goats feeding on the
eJge ot wj,at must have'been at one time
the second gallery, and a donkey brayed
wne j paoed the arena.
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Great Cisterns of Carthage.
The oldest and best known of the
Carthaginian ruins are the great cisterns
which were built to supply the city with
water. There were two sets of them, one
at eacn siao or me town, iney were oi Mlocli. This brazen , god was made red i
vast dimensions, enormous, barrel-sharped hot at the times of sarcrlfice1, and the chll
caverns, 443 feet long and more than SO ren were placed in his arms. It was the ,
feet ln diameter. They were surmounted custom to give him not only little children,
by cupolas and were connected with pipes but also young men and maidens. The vie- !
for distributing the water. The largest of tlms were thrown Into his red-hot arms, '
these cisterns are near an Arab village, and from there they rolled down Into tha '
and they are now used as stables and biasing furnace below. '
dwellings by the Arabs. They number ' j
twenty-four and. cover many acres. I wont Gay Girls in Old Carthage,
down Into some of them. In one I found The museum at Carthage is filled with
a tiny gray donkey with a little Arab girl treasures which have been found ln the !
standing beside It, and ln another an old ruins. There are dice, razors, spectacles, .
hen with a flock of little chickens feeding surgical Instruments and thnuxamls of I
about her. A part of one cistern has been clay lamps and casks of all kinds. As far '
walled off as a hay mow; another Is now as the Phoenicians are concerned. It Is, I !
an Arab house, arid ln a.Jhird I saw a doubt not, the greatest tnustum In tha
Bedouin woman grinding meal upon two world; and ln Its relics of the Roman
st rones which rented upon the floor. period it compares .favorably with many
The dust of ages has half filled theso others more famous. I was especially Inter- j
great caverns and they make an excellent ested ln the exhibits of Jewelry and other
protection from the weather. As I made things which once belonged to the gay.,
my notes within them I head the cry of P'rls of the Carthage of 2,500 years ago. :
prayer from a Mohammedan tomb nearby. There are a lock of hair which decorated
The cry was, "There is no God but God the head of a fair Punlo maiden, a box of j
and Mohammed Is his prophot!" As I list- rouge with some of the paint still In the
ened I could not but think vof the people bottom, alabaster cases holding perfume
who drank from these cisterns 600 years anl also pins, mirrors, trinkets and other :
before the Christian era, and more than Kwgaws.
1,000 years before Mohammed first saw There are golden necklaces of beautiful
the light of day In the deserts of workmanship, and hundreds of gold ring
Arabia. ' a" s,Ie8' from one largo enough for a .
2-ycar-old baby to some which may have
8.500 Year. Old and Still In Cm. J? wedding rings for 12-year-old
. A ...... T . , ,u . . brides. Many of these rings are set with
Later in the day I visited the cisterns camooa and Blone. There are goIJ par.
on the other side of the town. They are rng. by the hundreds, and beautiful the
2,600 years old. but the French have re- are A, T ,ooke(, at tnem l agked
paired them and they now supply water to whUe father beM(, me about t))c mal(1en,
the villages and towns about. The water who wore tnem t m years ROi ni.ntlollln,
comes from Tunis, and It Is pumped ln by the mortality of all things earthly. In reply
steam engines. The cisterns are thirty he ptntP(j to the shelves under the cases,
feet deep, and something like J0 feet long. x 00ked and saw skulls and bones !n groat
The engineer told me that he had about quantities; men, women and children were
6,000,000 gallons in them at the time of my au mlX(?d together. He then took me to a
vls't. marble sarcophagus nesrby, and showed
These cisterns, as used by the Carthagln- me the bones of a young Punic beau who
lana, were first filled with rain water, lived many centuries since. I measured
Later on they were supplied by an nor- his skeleton and It was six feet two Inches
mous aqueduct erected by the Roman em- In length. On the finger of one hand thera
peror Hadrian.- This brought the water was beautiful ring, evidencing the vanity
from Deugga. about eighty miles away. It of Its owner. He may have been a friend of
carried ,000,000 gallons a day, and the Hanno or Hannibal, or perhaps only some
water passed through underground canals newly rich man of the time! Who knowsT
and over valleys on magnificent arches to- FRANK G. CARPENTER.
Cat Makes Trip
EMORSB for the murder he had
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committed led htm to Journey
thirty miles over a road he never
had traversed before to whim
per out his sorrow against the
knees of the man he loved, and that
remarkable feat of trailing by Pluto, big
gest, blackest and sometimes baddeat of
cats, led to his forgiveness by Frans
Frank. Frans is boss cook of a Nassau
street (New York) restaurant and he Is
known as much for his truth as for his
skill with pots and pans. So when he
says that Pluto Journeyed to Nassau street
from a point fifteen miles beyond Maspeth,
Fraux's friends believe' him. A(nd, mind
you, Pluto never had been to the restau
rant before.
Pluto not only seems to have nine lives,
but a Bcent of unparalleled keenuess. At
first Frank could not believe that the cat
of bis home was the one he found mewing
at the door of the restaurant after an
absence of three days. But be identified
Huto by three things tils size, his utter
blackness save for a white spot under the
chin, and his clipped tall.
Pluto was reared on Frank's little farm.
He waa well fed and grew lazy, never
wandering from the house except when he
spied a bird perched on a bush near by.
Then Pluto ould sneak up; but he waa so
fat ha couldn't leap far. and he never was
able to get a sparrow for supper. His
master, however, had thirty canaries and
Pluto 6fta would sit la the tlfd roum gui
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IN CISTERN OF ANCIENT CARTHAGE.
Carthage. The remains of this aqueduct
glneer. Iron pipes have been used Instead
"""''. uui me oia masonry sun up-
holds much of the works. The water sup-
P' 18 much greater than It was In the days
of tho Romans.
Aaiogt the Tombs,
I have spent considerable time wandering
through the old Carthaginian cemeteries,
Many tombs have been excavated, and the
dead of a dosen generations have been
taken from their graves to be shown to us.
the heathen tourists of the present. Some
of the tombs were far below ground, and
others almost on the surface. From on
cemetery they have taken 2S9 epitaphs, and
from another 800, Including tho names of
librarians, schoolmasters, doctors, soldiers.
nurses, dancers and slaves. Some of the'
oldest tombs are triangular In shape; othera
contained marble sarcophagi, and In some
were men and women loaded with jewels.
During my visit to the museum I paw
uu . charred sullen nn.i hr,nu. Ti,i
..miijr mini mono doxcs wnich wore found
KBr,ir u -.., '..
and nr. nn.wto. v, . 'i
asneB of children who were sacrificed to :
of .Thirty Miles
eye the yellow fellows with gluttonous
glittering eyes. One day he got up to the
cage and with unexplained cleverness
opened the cage. He caught a, bird and
soon fluto was purring contentedly and
eyeing a few feathers that were too tl lily
to pass his palate. Mrs. Frank discovered
the loss of the bird and there was enough
cl rcumstantlal evidence to convict PJuio
of the killing.
She feared her husband would sli xt
Pluto and so she, sent her two sons to
carry the cat fifteen miles away and leava
him In the woods. They say they did to.
When Frank reached home that night he
was grieved sorely. The lunging waa
greater next day, when Pluto did not fol-'
low his master to the su. face car, as
usual.
Cats have returned long distances to
their homes, but tha records do uot tell
of a cat who when lost has gone to a
strange place far away In search of hla
master. That Is what -Pluto did. When
Frank reached the restaurant he ijw
Pluto standing penitently at . the door
waiting for him. The cat waved his
stubby tall and set up a howl that made
Frank shout with delight. The coo
placed Pluto ln a bag and took him home.
No sooner had Pluto got Inalda the lioune
than he darted for the bird cage.
"That's him," said Frank, whereupon ha
gave a severe beating to 1'luto i'tne hopa
of making hlin forget the way t opta
the bird csgo.-Ne' Mk Press. .