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ADVENTURES ON A TO FETCH HIS POOR

FLOWER-HUNT.

In the Wilds of Persia and Kurdistan.

LONDON BOTANISTS.

Your tulips and, mine may have finished flowering, but there are some very special tulips in London that are still being watched with the utmost care. They, too, have finished flowering; it is the first time they have flowered in Britain and yet they are believed to re- present the parent stock of the whole tulip tribe.

DOG A BONE.

When He Got There a

Buddha Was Bared

He looked for found a Buddha...

a bone and

Mr. H. Silver, of Anerley, took" his dog for a walk on Hampstead Heath, and now Mr. Silver is in venting bad names to see if they stick, writes a Delly Express cor respodent.

Near Ken Wond Mr. Silver's dog began to dig. It unearthed gold and bronze statuette of the gold Buddha, about eight inches high.

dog tried. vainly to swallow the insalt. but Mr. Silver salvaged it.

So, far the public has not asen then. They-are-still-being-tended-The-startled in the seclusion of the 'research de- partments at Kew and at the John Innds Horticultural Institute, Mer- ton.

of

A Londoner, Dr. Darlington, of the John Innes Institute, and Scotsman, Dr. J. M. Cowan, Kew, brought them back from the wilds of Persia,, Kurdistan and Luristan after an adventurous journey. Dr. Darlington described this journey to me.

The statuette was superbly carved and inlaid with gold, and in its centre, which was hollow, was a lump of soft gold.

And on the face of the Buddha was a grin of such comic devilry that Mr. Silver admits frankly that he hated the sight of it!

Buddhas are supposed to bring bad fortune if touched by infiel hands. There are thousands of

"If you want to know what tulip- hunting is like you must first pic-examples of men who swear that ture the setting," he said. "Im- their luck had been execrable

OKLAHOMA OIL INDUSTRY.

Order Issued Shutting "Down Wells.

MARTIAL LAW PROCLAIMED.

Oklahoma, To-day." The Governor has jesued an executive order shutting down 3,106 oil wells and establishing martial law within a distance of fifty feet round each well-Reu- ter's American Service.

[On July 27 the Governor of Oklahoma, in an ultimatum to the oil industry, declared, that if all prices were not increased to one dollar...a barrel by Saturday night. he threatened to sign an executive order shutting down all but strip- per wells in Oklahoma.

The Governor made it clear he would enforce the order if neces- sary by military authority,

The Governor's action is due to the fact that the State and schoola are not receiving, taxes from oil at the present price of 50 cents per barrel.]

RUBBER FROM PETROL.

The claim that Russian acient-

half a ton of rubber from petroleum! is believed by Mr. Thomas Edison,! the famous inventor, to be a "fake,"

ugine a vast tableland, 4,000 to (Continued at foot of next Columnists have succeeded in extracting 7,000 feet high, burnt bright reddish-brown by the sun. In the distance are mountains 10,000 to 15,000 feet high, capped with snow. The hunters are four mule-riders -Dr. Cowan, myself and our escort of two Persian soldiers.

"We make, for the clumps of her bage which dot this treeless, water- less waste. We examine each clump. There might be gladioli, irises, or the long-sought tulips; straggly plants with flowers, but most valuable for research work.

we

Commenting on his own extan- sive researches for a commercially profitable synthetic rubber process, Mr. Edison said:

Persian women remained hidden. We saw them only in the streets, almost always wrapped from head to foot in long black 'chuddahs,' which they drew closely about them when they caught sight of us. We "The atory that the Soviet, has were especially warned not to sveceeded in the synthetic produc photograph may woman; to do so tion of rubber from petroleum is would have been to disgrace her. improbable. It just can't be done. I heard that one American had From my own experience it does been stoned to death for taking a not appear that a synthetic rubber snapshot of an unveiled country-process will ever be a success. woman at her ritual ablutions.

"In towns, their seclusion is be- Mr. Jahn Howeson, chairman, coming less strict. A'woman may Anglo-Oriental Mining Corpora now drive unveiled in a car, be- tion, Ltd.--That four separate the cause, although she may be seen Governments, representing through the windows, it counts as producers of 86 per cent. of the a "house," and I was told she may | world's normal output of tin even wear European lingerie under should have come to a completo the traditional trousered dress. Loutput agréement is momentous.

Very Long Feasts.

',

Taken for Spies! "Well, that is the scene. Some of the tulip-roots went down ff teen inches into the ground baked almost as hard as brick, and we had to use a mining implement, like an elongated trowel, to dig them up.

We found the best plant off the beaten track; but travelled from one hunting ground to an-

were "The feasts to which we other by lorry, and put up at village

Mr. Charles Emerson, chairman. inns. The country people were invited in Persian and Kurdish Malacca Rubber Plantations, * Ltd. courteous, and helpful, but they homes were long and exactingIt is perhaps a' significant and obviously considered that only, mad affairs. Everyone sat round in favourable amen that the Govern- Briton's would take 80 mach a circle on the baked-mud floor of ment of the United States appears trouble to collect weeds! Near the house. Endless courses, con- to have abandoned its attitude of the Turkey-Irak-Persian frontler sisting of various mutton or tough splendid isolation and is adopting they thought we were spies.chicken dishes,-were-served-and-a-polley-which-is-framed-with-a-

"Our route lay through Kurdis- enormous quantities of ten.

view to mitigating the ills from

through the bad influences of the enigmatic little deity.

tan and Luristan. There, Govern "Between courses were long mankind from China to Peru is ment troops were at war with the gaps, during which everyone smok- suffering at the present time, mountaineers, who were resletinged the Persian' equivalent of a the Shah's efforts to Westernise hookak and talked. I'm afraid, them. Rather than exchange their unless the interpreter embellished felt caps tied with a black sash it, my hosts must have had a poor for the kept and welcome foreign opinion of my conversation, for I traders; make roads and give up did not quote any poetry. Even carrying arms, the Kurdish tribes-uneducated Persians decorate their imen retired to their mountain conversation with long, and often strongholds and turned brigands. irrelevant, quotations from thir-

"We watched the triumphal tenth century poets... Omar But - and these are the march of a persian force, returning Khayyam, the only ane I could from Д successful expedition. have quoted, le taboo because Twelve thousand soldiers, khaki was heretic. elad, and wearing the new regula-

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"Anything that has happened to me since I found the thing." says Mr. Silver stoutly, "I do not attribute to it."

facts since finding the god. Mr. Silver has undergone:-

One loss of wallet on Tuesday. One bad headache on Wednes day.

One chronic neuralgia Thursday,

The Buddha hound is also look- ing somewhat peeky.

on

Mir Silver has left the Buddha with a friend, and he says that if anybody cares to purchase it they may. As a matter of fact, Mr. Silver. suggested various things that people might do with roofing it.

tion kopi, filed down a mountain "But only in poetry and religious pass, while their bands played the relics do the villagers, venerate, age. Persian National Anthem. In They will exchange rare old em- Well, they found it so,broideries for cheap new manufac- spiring? but to my Western ears Persian tured goods; or sell á copper camel music is just an objectionable bell for five shillings, although, noise.

aince camels are being driven off "The Shah was trying to sup the reads by motor-cars, these bells press the more barbarous religious are becoming valuable to collectors. rites of the country people.

"Above all, they love petrol tins. they are still practised Illegally. They use them for everything, from At Astra I was allowed is a great making ahop-fronta to privilege to witness a 'head-slashing mosques; and really the tin, gleam- dance-until, A detachment of Ing in the strong Persian sunshine, sarcastic smile got on my nerves. soldiers, who bad orders to stop it, looks surprisingly effective.. I Of course, I do not believe that pushed forward, scized the head-think the only thing that convinced a little carved bronze has any slashers and took their knives them that may bulbs, seeds, and evil property. I am absolutely plants might be valuable was the without superstition. But facts "Although foreigners, Dr. Cowan fact that I packed them up in are facts. Ten minutes ago. T and I were allowed to go almost petrol tina.S.O. In Evening handled the Buddha. Fve got toothache. anywhere among men. But the News

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