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A story of "sorcery" and superstition, worthy of the Middle Ages, comes from near Melun,
men and women.
"
HUNTERS FOR WEALTH.
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'Klondike,'
JAPANESE TRADE.
RECOVERING FROM
DEPRESSION.
There are signs that the depres- sion which affected Japan's economic and financial world has
in
increused value of the yen.
of
The hordes of Koreans, Japan- whero a parish priest was stripped ac and Chinese who have been of his clothing and scourged looking to the Aldan river gold definately ruached rock-bottom, with thongs, Ull he became in-fluids, Russia's new sensible, by a group of a dozen doubtless will be thrown into and the indications are that, from consternation now that the Soviet now on, a recovery-oven though government has issued a decree it will have to be necessarily slow Melun is not far from ari, giving all non-Russian, prospec-ean bo confidently looked for- and the party had come all the tors and residents one month inward to. This is best to be seen way from Bordeaux....
the splendid recovery which to dopart. The great mass They
well-known and of gold is to be for Russians Japan's expert trade and in the respected people, belonging to alone. sect, known as "Notre Dame des Tho commission of investigd
Full recovery will, however, Pleurs" (Our Lady of Weeping)tion sent to the gold fields by the depend largely on the foreign and they
declared that they Soviet estimates there are some trade of the country and the the scourged the priest to drive the 400 tons of availablu gold in the Government has enjoined devil cut of him.
6,000 square milos of the Aldan nation, in a New Year, message,
district and the scarcity of pro- The outlook, according to the visions, however, make effective Government, is very bright. The control by the Soviet. authorities restoration of peace in Europe: of this new Klondiko very difficult. the prosperity in America; the The priest, Ahbe Denoyef, aged
SOVIET GETS FIRST QOLD. 59. hud just concluded a service
The richest part of the new gold all these are signs of a world re- in his village church of Bombun dis rict is the valley of the Tumen covery from which Japan too cun, and retired to the vestry, when river, one of the many streams and should profit. the 12. who, bad, been present which low into the Aldan river, The excess of imports over ex- followed him.
Itself a tributary of the Lena. ports for the year just closed was This region is some 300 miles Yen 260,000,000; while, for 1024, from Yakutsk and about the samo it was so much as Yeni 645,000,000.. distance from the nearest point Japan expects to import. much on the Amur railway.
* EVERY MILE A PICTURE."
For some time, they said, he district. The remoteness of the to so-operate towards this end. TRAVEL HOME
had enst a spell over certain members of their sect, some of 'whom had died, and others had been taken ill.
It seems that the priest's woman servant was suspicious. She lock ed the door of the vestry.. and Prevented the 12 worshippers
from Bordeaux from entering,
But the party followed her to the presbytery, and, there bound and gagged her, and took the
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less raw cotton this year than she
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The government has staked off did in 1925 as she has large the most profitable sections of the supplies on hand; the importation gold-bearing ore and let out the of rice is also expected to be much claims to groups of diggers, smaller owing to the bumper vestry keys, &
These surrender to the govern- crops which
rumped Thus they were able to enter ment from 10 to 40 pounds of gold towards the end of last year." the restry, where they threw for their collective claim, accord-
All in all the future seems pepper into the eyes of the priest,ing to its productivity, and after rouate, and bankers and business bound and gagged him, stripped that may dig for themselves. But magnates believe that 1926 will off part of his clothing, and then all the gold dust and nuggets ob- see Japan balancing her imports each. Ju turn gave him several tained must be handed over to and exports., "If just that can be lashes with a thick knotted cord the government, which pays for achieved," remarks n staid busi- They were preparing to search it in Soviet currency at the rateness man in the columns of the his
No man bare feet.chanting the of about $14 an ounce. "Magnifient" at the same time, upon leaving the gold fields is press, "we ought to be satisfied, when an Inspector of police broke allowed to take more than five for then the economic fabric will
have righted itself." pounds of gold with him.
in.
· Mons, l'Abbe was then uncon-
seinus, with his back and legs
FOOD SHORTAGE ACUTE. Although some of the Russian
terribly. cut. He was taken home.papers have painted a rosy picture He will be laid up for at least of Russia's new Eldorado," it is a month.
.
"Not an order, but a seet," the magistrate remarket.
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DEPARTED.
known that there are nearly 5,000 CONFESSION OF FAITH. prospectors in the Aldan district Without resistance the aggres-without employment. Many of sors were taken to the, gendar- these men, so far from finding marie and magistracy at Melun. gold, have not been able to find a “We biglang to the order of crust of bread. There is an acute Notre Dame des Pleurs," said shortage of provisions, due to the their spokesman..
inaccessibility of the gold fields to any point of civilization.
Last your twn steamers set out "It was founded the spokes From Yakutsk in find their way man went on) some years ago by to the new Klondiko. Much of a holy woman, Marine Mesmin, their course up the tributaries of who lives on the Boulevard Pierre the Aldan had never been navi- Per ss. D'Artagnan for Europe Premier, Bordeaux,
gated before, but they arrivedi ports, February 16-Mira, M. U, Beazley, Mrs. A. Beo, Mr. JE "There are 80 members. Marie foly about 35 miles from the Patmor, Mrs. Tiran, Mir, I. A. Buers, Masmin, in her visions, found that fringe of the gold fields and Lieut. and Mrs. J. A. Parker, Mr. the Abbe Denoyer was working landed about 200 tons of pro-born, Mr. A. Morrison, Mr. R. A.
Brandel,
Mr. J. Mr. Kinno,
C. Sand- visions. Since then, more or less against his brothers and sisters.
Mr. Galie,
Rouillon "Several of them were ill and regular communication by acro-
R. E. Boisy, Mr. and Mrs. There is still insufficient food thighera, Mrs. Quiovrecouri and three the priest.
chitiren, Mr. and Mrs. Morrison, Mrs. Lart year Marie Masmin wrote take care of the 12,000 or more Rose McConnel, Mrs. 4. Gunderson, gold prospectors who now are Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Snyder, Dr. and to the Public Prosecutor asking protection from the machinations there,
some died, victims of the spells of plane has been established;
2) Mi T. J. Poosercizky,
of the priest.
*Nothing was done; so we came
to scourge the priest and chase ABANDONED away the evil spirits which were
urging him to harm us.
The band of 12 included an accountant and two farmer's sons. One of the women is the widow of an officer who was killed in Syria-thanks (they say) to the Abbe's evil spirits.
Mrs. Geo. P. Stubbs, Dr. and Mr. 4. Strong, Dr. and Mrs, Marle W. Smith, Mrs. J. C, Worley, Rev. Holman, Mrs. Gentier, Rev.. FLIGHT. Pere Souvey, Rev. Sisters Caridad Tayuyao, Ilev, Sister Edwige Sulignac Rev. Sister Emillenne Jeanne, Rev. Fr. Gh. Beurmi, Mir, C. Ressic, Mr. V. Ghelming, Mr. B. Grassa, Miss A. M. Sideri and Mr. Dessollers.
"We left Bordeaux by train, Ras NOT GOING TO EGYPT. stayed in Paris overnight, and came to Bombon in motor-cars. It is stated that the projected
"Had the train fare not been so flight early this year of the big york vit ports, Feb. 16-Major J. W. Per s.s. President Garfield for Now dear, there would have been 50 rigid airship R36 from England to Lawrence, Mrs. J. W. Lawrence, Mrs of us."
Egypt and India will not take G, M. Pratt, Mrs. B. B. Howard, Han place. This decision has been Mr. Henry Morgenthaw, Mrs. Henry Teached partly in the interests of ergenthaw, Miss E. C. Bayne, Mr. W. A. Eder, Matr B. M. Eder, M. economy, and probably the au-. R. Hancock, Mrs. V. Forrest, Mr. thorities were influenced by the W. A. Maritzen, Mr. M. II. McDowell,
Mr..É. A successful research work done by Mrs. O. Mellowell, the R33.
Mr. E. Person, Mrs.
A.
W. D. Mr. D. G. Thompson, Mrs. M. Thom son, Mr. W. H. Bradshaw, Mra. F. G. Bradshaw, Dr. Gro. H. Bradt, Mus, Alice. Bradty Mrs. M. Daws, Mr. J. R.
Harmon, Mi
Mist Harcourt, Mrs. G. A.
Harian, Miss K. Harmon, Mr..... C. McGovern, F. de Krieger, Mr. R. A. McGovern, MS guard, Mrs. C. Neergaard, Matr. Chri Neergaard Jr., Mr. L. Prochatel, Mrs.
1.
The women were released, but the men kept under arrest.
Such a fight would be bound to entail considerable expense, and It is stated that. Denover unless there was much to be formerly belonged to the sect, gained by the venture it would hence its visitation on him. prove a honvy commitment. The One of the aggressors says: abandonment of the light was Te are relids as a foreshadowed some time ago, and Marie Mesmin. As a woman was the ship which is 672 feet long.
M.
a victim of the evil spirits, it will has a capacity of 2,000,000 cubic Trout Mr. M. E.
LOURDES, AND LEVANT.
became women to take part in the feet and a speed of 65 m.p.1. M. P. Smith, Mrs. d. L. Therman, Mr.
while seating fifty passengers F. C. Burmeister, Mr. E. D. Murr, M punishment."
will hot now be recommissioned. G. S. Marr, Dr. H. Louise Cater, D.
Marila
ihn E. Clark, Mr. G. F. Hurrell, When the suct was founded Ini The intended flight to Egypt Mrs. H. G. Harrell, Miss Trene 1906, Marie Mesmin was a con- would have taken two and a half Hume, Mr. Geo. H. Lippincott, cierge or Bordeaux. She had days and to India another two. Lippincott, Mr. J. Polstein, Mr. 5. Palstein, Dr. N. I. Rairden, Mis brought from Lourdes a small and a half days.
1... Stott, M. M. D.
statue of the Virgin.
In Meshin's apartment, it was!
ir
pence."
A.
Mra, C.
M
J. M. Wickenhiser, Mr. A. Van Suct deal. Mes. B. Van Suetendeal, Mr. Y.
M. Myers, Mrs. C. M. Snyder, Mrs.
said, the statue would sometimes he kissed her as a token of Arai, Mrs. M. Arni, Mr. R. Arai, Mrs. "weep," and believers in the miracle formed a sect, which by
J..C. Belford,
ord, Mrs. Mary H. Ciprice, When, later, she was ill and a Mess Grace S. Cameron, Mr. R. J. Co 1910 numbered 600. They built Jump grew on her face where the goshail, Mrs. L. Coggeshall, Mr. Pres a thapel.
vicar kissed her she had a toothley Coggeshall, Miss S. Frank, Mr. Inquiry by Church authorities extracted, which tooth, she said, Monro, Mrs. H. Toeg, Bler W. E. Larkin, Mra, L. C. MeRac, Miss showed that the "tears" ware com- belonged to the "Vicdr."
Victor Toeg, Matr. Philip Tocg, Metr posed of public supply water.
Marie Mesmin, as reported at Ronnie Toeg. Miss Nora Toeg, Mr. After removal the statue ceased the time, went, with four of her Chas. L. Wells, Mrs. M. Wells, Misc to ween, and the authorities for-seet, to Nantes (where the "Vicar M. Bateman, Mrs. Jean M. Vallette, bade the faithful to take part in was teaching) broke into his room the rites of the seet.
and lashed him with a thick whip Under Marle Mesin there and a strip of lead, and thus re- served formerly a priest who paid his treacherous kiss. enlled himself Vicar-General of After that the "Vicar" left for Sidon, in Syria.
his native Beirut in Syria: but not Ho quarrelled with her, but till he had "had the law" on his when he left the district in 1917 assailants.
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