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A VISITING A JURA

VILLAGE.

MOUTHIER AND ITS CHERRY TREES.

STILL IS "UNDISCOVERED."

can

JULY 30,

1927.

$1,940 LOST IN ONE NIGHT.

EARL CADOGAN'S HEAVY GAMBLING.

700 PER CENT. INTEREST.

It is always pleasant to be a pioneer, if only in a small way, and London Bankruptcy Cart in mail Earl Cadogan, appeared in the to stay in a French village in which, week for public examination apparently, X10 Englishman has before Mr. Registrar Warmington. ever stayed before is to feel an In his statement of affairs the over-so-distant kinship with Ruleigh and Drake and Chris- Earl returned £48,456 liabilities.

and no assets. topher Columbus, Certainly, the American Indian

Examined by the Official hardly have looked with greater Receiver, the Earl said that he curiosity

This upon

had failed on two previous occa- European discoverer than did the inbasions, both as Viscount Chelsea. bitants of the village of Mouthier, The first bankruptcy was in May in the Department of the Doubs, 1910. but in the following July upon their first English visitors, the adjudication was annulled as says, a Times contributor. Even his father had paid all the debts the octogenarian crone, who sits in full. most of the day on her doorstep The second bankruptcy, which muttering imprecations on all pas- was due to batting and gambling "sura-by, was too much dazzled”, nt į losses and to extravagance, our novelty to bestow even a milld occurred in November, 1911. H curso upon us.

liabilities then amounted to It cannot be long before the Eng- | £53,914 and his assets were valued lish visitor discovers Mouthier, and ❘ at £2,375. He had not applied for loses his novelty there (and then his discharge, but the trustees of what will the old lady say to us as the Cadogan Settled Estates had we pass?), for, the vilage is not since remitted to him- voluntary" inaccessible, the railway being only payments amounting to £12,500. three kilometres distant at Lods, which, together with the realisa- or twenty at Pontarlier. Mouthier, Lions in respect of his assets, had, moreover, when one does reach it, enabled the trustee in the bank- is a wonderfully lovely spot, ahu isruptcy to pay dividends equal to endowed with an admirable pen-7s. 6d. in the £ on admitted claims sion--the ancient manor house ef the place at which it is possible 10 stay cheaply and comfortably.

totalling 5,675.

The Earl attributed his present bankruptcy to losses by gambling The village lies on the side of at eards and by betting on horse the valley of the river Loud, just | rates," to extravagance during the below the paint at which the valley past 12 months, and to heavy in tehanges its character and becomes terest on borrowed money.

tion.

Hel a gorge Below Mouthier the val-also stated that the trustees of the ley is wide, with pastures, and vine- Cadogan' Settled Estates had been. yards, and cherry orchards, and on in the habit of paying his debts. each side, above the cultivated After the bankruptcy petition was lands, a sheer cliff of limestone. At served the trustees communicated Mouthier the valley marrows, and with him to the effect, that they less than a kilometre above the refused to pay the debt in ques- village. the valley becomes a gorą with shrubs clinging to its walls. which run for four kilometres up to the point where, already a full- sized river, the Loue plunges rour- ing out of a cavern in the face of the rock. This, indeed, seems to be a habit among rivers in the Jura Mountains, and another river, the Pontet, also leaps out of a cave near Mouthier, and after a brief but turbulent career of a couple of hundred yards or so, joins the Loue,

The Ocial Receiver: There must have been some limit set by the trustees on your spending?--- I do not think that there was a limit.

Once a month all his accounts were sent in and they were paid. He had always disclosed every- thing to the trustees, although he did not include the interest on borrowed money.

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Chemin-de-fer.

Where Two Worlds Meet.

He borrowed £1,000, which he Mouthier lies about 450 metres above sea level and is the highest Paid to a Major Taylor in part village in this district at which payment of a loss of £1,940 at

lost the vine is cultivated. Behind and chemin-de-for. He

that in front the cliffs rise to over sog amount in one night at the major's He also gave the metres, and it is hard not to ima-residence. gine as one sees the cultivation major a bill for £1,000 which was giving way to rock and thicket all discounted with a "financier." round-that one is at the end of all civilisation, with nothing but moun- tain wilderness beyond." But elimb one of these rocks, Hautepierre, for example, which rises to 880 metres above the sea, and you wilf see that another world lies over the top of the cliffs, an undulating world of pasture and grain-erops. Mouthier is not the end of the world--it is where two worlds meet.

The greatest glory of Mouthier is its cherry orchards. The two main products of the village are wine and kirch, and for the produc tion of the latter some nine hundred acres or so are planted with cherry trees.

In late April, or the first days of May, the sight of these trees, against the vivid green of the grass and the grey of the rocks, and with the river rushing down the middle of the valley, is one of indescribable beauty.

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When the bill fell due Major Taylor came to ace him, bringing with him another person, who said he came from" Margate, and was.) he (the car) believed, the repre- sentative of another firm of muney-lenders. This person told him that his firm would lend enough money to meet the bill.

He (the earl) then borrowed £1,000 from this firm, which he gave to the "Gnancier to take up the bill discounted by Major} Taylor. In respect of the $1,000 loan he gave a promissory note for £1,000 which was eventually paid in full out of moneys obtained from other money-lenders, who advanced £3,500 in respect. of pro- missory netes for £6,000.

So the

The Official Receiver: original loan is now beginning to mount up? Yes.

After the loss of the £1,940 he Even when the cherry bloom is continued to gamble-although over the place is very lovely, and not much-in the hope of righting the village itself is not without in himself. but he lost every time. terest. The arches of the early Then he borrowed again from sixteenth-century church are re-money-lenders, with whom he had markably graceful and well-propor-extensive transactions. tioned; and in the courtyard of one

The Offelal Receiver: When of the houses of the main street you first borrowed from a certain there is a statue of the Virgin with firm did you make representations the body of Christ upon her knees, to them as to blackmail?--No.. which is a moving piece of work. The ear! also denied the sug- On the picture posteards (which gestion that he informed them even Mouthier boasts) this statue that his income was £18,000 is reputed to be of the ninth century

year. In fact, the firm's repre but one need not, perhaps, take sentative knew that he was an un- this chronological attribution to discharged bankrupt. All the seriously.

money-lenders knew it.

"Nothing to 'De."

In the middle of June of last

he began to year

bet fairly

It is not, however, the "sights" | heavily. His largest bet had been of Mouthief that give it is beauty; | £100..

it is rather the general aspect of The Official Receiver Did you the village, lying on the crest of a suddenly take, to this betting as ni fold in the valley's side, and in the result of your losses at cards?-- colours and lines of the old farms Yan.

The amount of such loss was, he thought, about £1,000.

which compose it. For most of. I suppics" on balance you fost the houses are farms, and each one heavily as a result?—Yes; on is built with accommodation for balance. both man and beast within its four walls. So that when the village herd of cattle is driven down the It was true that he once won street, on ila way back from the that sum on a race, but that money, pastures of an evening, it gradual was paid to another person on a ly diminishes its progress is enchil

cow is diverted in turn into its own In reply to the Registrar the front door--sometimes the same earl asserted that in front door that its master and instances money-lenders had

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Trout-fishing is to be had in the lovely surroundings, or are suffici- Loue, but, otherwise there is, of ently energetic to enjoy scrambles course, "nothing to do" at Mouthier, among the rocks and long walks by But to those who enjoy idling in which has much to offer.

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