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WILD PRINCE.

STORY FROM JUGO-SLAVIA......

We take the following intereat- American ing story from 8633 paper

"Wine, women and song--too mucir wine, too many women and too much song--have led to Prince George of Jugo-Slavia, being lock- ed up in a private madhouse where hereafter he will not be nble to trouble the sorenity of his royal brother, King Alexander, whose throne he should really be necupying.

That's the real truth behind the communique recently issued by the Jago-Slavian, premier:

FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 1926,

INCOME OF G.B.S.

| KING TUT SECRETS.

BIG RECEIPTS FROM AMERICA.

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This eye-witness's account says: "The little group that assembled [in 'the, so-called laboratory In the

| DEATH FROM CONSUMPTION? tomb of: Sutt the Second on the

morning of November 11 to wit-. An official bulletin issued Instness the penetration of the heart It is said that George Bernard month signed by Mr. Howard of the mystery, found before them Shaw receives a gross income of Carter and Dr. Lacau, Director of solid gold coffin of Inexpressible

to from Antiquities over $100,000 each year

the Egyptian beauty. summarises the America from the production and Government, sole of his plays. Last season examination of the mummy of "Candida" and "Caesar and Cleo Tutankhamon,

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patra," and "Saint Joan" were A crown, fully revealed by the thirty weeks on tour, Mr. Shaw removal of the linen wrappings, has the same contract with each proves to be the most wonderful producer. received 12 per end of a

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cent. of the gross receipts each Probably it will be reckoned the. week up to $12,000. If the enter-greatest artistic masterpiece of tainment is so successful as to the jeweller's art surviving' from gross over $12,000, he exacts 15 perantiquity as well as a relic-un- cent. of the total.

Lequalled for its sentimental and

If the average gross receipts historical associations.

"In view of the state of health of Prince George, elder brother of King Alexander, which is such that he urgently needs a change in the manner of his life and being put under the constant supervision of" a doctor, the king has indicated, under the Royal Family law, a place of permanent residence for Prince George and appointed a special doctor.

All of which metus-exit sold more than 38.000 erpies since and gold have been found.

$10,000 the playwright's were

Bulky Necklaces. share was nearly $80,000. Plus

The Pharaoh's face is still this he has yearly check from scattered amateur productions of covered: but the outline has been felt of bulky necklaces, which the his plays of probably $2,000.

Shaw bas four productions investigators have not yet been able to secure without injuring operating in New York.

the body

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About 100,000 copies of the various Shaw plays are sold each year. "Saint Joan" has already

As the work of uncovering the chest has proceeded, more jewels

NEW INDUSTRY.

AMERICAN CHEMISTS'

DISCOVERY.

American chemists give promise of developing a new Industry destined to grow to the propor tions of the famous coal-tar In- .

Important Fact Suppressed. "Not one of us but realised that dustry which gave Germany its here, in this outer shell alone, we commercial supremacy in the daye saw one of the greatest trensures before the war and enabled Ger- which humanity will henceforth many to hold out at least a year longer in the war than she might have otherwise.

posscus.

"You have criticised the averscy of our proceedings; and

the

This new industry, according to

it is true all possible 'sccracy Mr. Carl S. Mider, famous Ameri- was used; and the fact that the can chemist and head of the Miner coffin was of solid gold was Laboratories of Chicago, is the suppressed in

Bulletin furfural industry. issued. In October.

The Importance of furfural was "But consider Mr. Carter's rug-recognized by the executive com- ponstbility. The Valley of the ittee of the Tenth Exposition of Kings is one of the loneliest, Chemical Industries at New York, who had it included in the Court exposed places "un" earth, For thousands of years it has been of Achievement at the exposition... raided by desert bandits. Had This court included the recent

important achievements world. of chemistry. immense treasure gone abroad,

Like the coul-tar industry, the the remote possibility existed of n'sudden organised raid.

farfural, industry is destined to "Soldiers are on guard, but grow out of the chemist's hatred,

Saying "waste" to a

news of the removal of such an

in the

Prince George from the European it was published two years ago.. Announcements of the amazing what would have been said had of waste..

It's the most amazing tale "Back to Methuselah" has sold nature of the finds is confirmed they been overpowered, the coffin chemist is like waving a rot flag in the history of modern royally. some 40,000: "Man and

scene.

Super-

Up to about 1905, when he attain- man," the first play, has sold about by the official communique, which carried off and melted down, and in front of a bull. The chemist's

ed his majority-18-he WILS almost a model prince. He was the eldest son, and heir to the Serbian throne. He was the apple of the eye of his father, old King Peter, who, on his eighteenth birthday, before the assembled regiments of the nation said to him:

"My dear son, my joy at your birth 18 years ago was great.

300,000 copies in twenty years. From these sales the auther re- ceives 25 per cent, royalties.

But income taxes both here and

in England tear great holes in the playwright's earnings.

The climax to his career care when his valet mysteriously died. There were sinister rumours con-

says:

The jewellery discovered so far, upon the king, who lies in his cofn of solid gold, is far beyond expectations.

"

the jewels stolen?

"These considerations alone into "by-products." justify the secrecy used.

ambition is to convert "wastes".

"We expected the opening of the coffin and the unwrapping possibly even the official X-ray

The coal-tar industry illustrates this. Coke was formerly made in were ovens which resembled bee- so-called bee-hive ovens. These - Official Caution.

hives open at the top, Mr. Carter and Dr. Lacau state examination, to take place in one

ovens delivered nothing but coke. day. cautiously that Tutankhamen was

"But when Mr. Carter 'removed Then as time went on the by-" "a male, not yet adult."

The the lid, stili partially incrusted product coke ovens were develop. statement that Pharaoh died when with a black resinous substance ed and perfected. Now in addi

Those

To-day when you enter the officers/nected with this and in 1969 about 16 will not be made officially apparently the result of the tien to obtaining the coke, the gua corps of my brave army my pride Prince George, to the relief of th..until a full medical "examination, funeral fibations poured on the given off in the process is saved

the Serbian throne and will be the

highest officer in the army in which you to-day step

as lieutenant."

nation, was induced to renounce

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is possible but the excavators coffin-and we saw the mummy and used for heating purposes. is greater. With the help of Pro-his rights to the throne.

agree privately that he was not wrapped in faded garlands cover. In addition, the volatile mutter in vidence you will one day inherit For a time he lived quietly in more than 16-possibly not over ed, to experts soon saw that the the coal is saved and dissolved in

retirement. When the firest

embalming had been defective. water to form & tarlike liquid, the Balkan war broke out he asked

The face of the gold coffin "Instead of a bundle, wrapped Ho-called coal-tar. for a command. but was refused, (which closely adhered to the in linen bandages, which could be By processes of distillation this and was greatly enraged when his

lines of the body, and was the liftud out unwrapped, they found is broken into component parts In less than six months George younger brother, the present King

work of a great sculptor) is a the wrappings blackened and and put through chemical, pro- had made himself the talk and Alexander, was given an army

boy's face, and showed the in-decayed owing to the action of the cesses that yield dyes, drugs, high seandal of the Balkans. He beat Then he complained that he was vestigators the truth even embalming fluid..

explosives and many substances his aides. He dressed as kingnut given an allowance compatible,

before it was opened.

"It cannot be removed un- which did not even exist before. and held drunken orgies. He with his rank and position. He Tatankhamen, in all probability, injured, at least without farther. Mr. Miner believes, that the threatened to horsewhip the wrote letters to the Belgrade was not murdered, but "died of chemical treatment:. for the unme thing can be done with premier. He drove a car at wild papers, attacking the royal family. tuberculosis. This awaits expert bandages are carbonised,

and furfural. • Įspeed through the narrow, ill- For a time his brother confined confirmation, but is substantiated stick to the body, as well as to the

paved streets of Belgrade, He him to residence In Nish. Re-by the statement of Mr. Carter coffin. paid swift court to pretty leased from exile, he once more and Dr. Laeau that the body was actresses in Vienna.

appeared in Belgrade and would "much emaciated:”. He WAN madabout pretty drive around town in his car, dis-'

One day passing down a tributing posters insulting to his Belgrade street he saw the picture brother, the king. One of these of an actress. He secured her read:. "Beware of the fellow address and posted a' proposal of with the big red nose.” marriage.

With all his eccentricities he is maving quarrelled with another brave man and a good soldier. pretty actress, he made dis-When the World War broke out |paraging remarks about her. She and the Austrians attacked Bel- appeared at the Bear restaurant gråde, George put himself at the Lin Belgrade and publicly horse-head of some troops and sucCOBA- whipped him. Of course, she was fully defended the capital. He frrested, but the national feeling was seriously wounded in action was on her side and the matter at Tsen and sent to France to was discreetly dropped.

convalesce. He

worda.

was

made a

It is estimated he proposed licytenant colonel for bravery in marriage to at least 30 pretty the field but scornfully refused women. He was the universal the promotion. lover,"paying court to girls of all nations.

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fic is now locked up a prisoner for life, perhaps as a sick man

Starvation, in the view of the doctors present, could have pre- duced the appearance shown by the limbs as well as consumption, but the look of pathos and suffering on the face of the small wooden statue found, as well as on the face, of the gold

coffin, seems characteristic of disease.

"So the wrappings were cut from head to feet, after the magni coffin had been remoyed. ficont jewellery crammed into the

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Furfural also resulted from the chemist's desire to utilize wastes. Furfural is an oily liquid, white in colour. Its chemical make-up is carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. "Most of the jewellery was chemical compound which is inter- It is an aldehyde, that, is, a Hewn into the muramy clothes, mediate between an alcohol and and much of it is blackened by fluid, but can all be restored to its pristine brilliance.

an acid.

Chemists didn't start out to find the body has lengthened from one out to find a way of utilizing the "Thus the process of exposing furfural, Instead, they started

oat hulls which day to many days."

were left over.

A statement that no documents from milling processes during the An account of the supreme have yet been found on the body manufacture of rolled oats as a moment on Armistice Day has conflicts with information that

breakfast Food; been given by an eye-witness. It Mr. Carter had found King Hundreds of tons of hulls were was prepared on Thursday for Tutankhamen's Book of the Dead, being left over daily and in danger publication together with the which he intends to publish in of going to waste. They could not communique, and can Dow be transmitted, as the bulletin, has at length been issued, four days after the event.

Life Is What

You Make

It

facsimile.

It appears probable that the Book of the Dend was found earlier, not in the inner coffin.

AND IT ISN'T WHAT YOU

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YOU WEAR

IT

-PIT NOW

YOU SAY IT

be used successfully as a fuel and they proved of little value as a" cattle food because they were only fifty per cent. digestible.

Chemists set out to find a way of making these hulls more diges- tible. Various methods were tried out including ди acid method. This method produced considerable furfural which inter- fered altogether with the use of the halls as cattle food.

While studying methods for re- moving the furfural, it occurred to the chemists that sufficient fur- fural could be manufactured in this way to make it worth while to use the oat hulls as a raw material from which to carry on the commercial manufacture of furfural.

This is now being done by a relatively simple proceas in which the hulls are treated with acid and steam in large containers called rotary digesters. The liquid resulting in the digesters is then distilled to remove the fur- fural.

Furfural is of use to the indus trinl world in exactly the samó way that coal-tar is. In its original state, it is of little valuo. Its value lies in what can be done with it.

It is now being used in the manufacture of varnish and. resins, in the manufacture of ger- micides and preservative com pounds, and in the manufacture of“ dyestuffs.

Mr. Miner believes that furfura. offers the same field to the students of synthetic chemistry that coal-tar did, He belleven that an endless number of valu able dyes, druga and the like may be the outcome of further study. in this fold.