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DEATH OF SISOWATH

OF CAMBODIA.

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A Beuter. Paris. message that the Indo-Pacific Agency nn- nounces the death of King Sigo- wath of Cambodia at the age of 87.

SEPTEMBER

10, 1927.

WILD BIRDS HOLD CONVENTION.

A GATHERING OF WOODPECKERS,

In one of his lectures delivered at the Banff Springs Hotel, Dan McCowan, the well-known Can' dian räturalist, tells a wonder. fully interesting story concerning The King of Cambodia, a French Protectorate in Indo-Chin wild bird convention held in the of 40,000 square miles, was the Canadian Pacific Rockies during talk of all Paris when he visited the fall of 1926. At that time the the French capital 20 years ago; Banff Springs Hotel Was under In his train he brought 20 wives construction and large numbers he was reputed, to have 500 of structural steel workers were his elderly daughter, a whole engaged in uproaring the fabric host of ministers, chamberlaina, around which a dream palace had and pages, and 69 sacred dancing been evolved. There was the loud. girls,

clanging of steel as the heavy girdens were lifted and guided in- to place. Winches rattled and en gines hissed incessantly. Above all other sounds rose the staccato rat-tat-tat" of scores of riveting hammers. Far up the Forty Mile Valley of the Bow this sound was borne; it re-echoed from cliff and crag on grey Mount Rundle, it shat- tered the silence in the deep green woods that clothe the valleys and the mountain slopes.

After his state entry to Parts he became a popular figure. The quaintness of his dress and the cheery smile which never left his countenance captivated the fancy of the people.

He usually appeared in public wearing the national "sampot," half knickerbockers, half petti- coat, made of rich silk in gaudy

surmounted eighteenth century evening dress cont, black silk stockings, red shoes, and a bowler hat, som pleted his costume.

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extensive

Throughout this forested area around Banff and Lake Louise, many

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OUR CROSSWORD PUZZLE.

Across.

Australian birds,

4 Beginning. 8 Pleading. 11 Landscape. The hat was worth about 4dare to be found at all seasons 13 Enclosed space.

woodpecker's 12 Engle's meat. but on the top was a diamond of the year.

To these feathered 15 Amphitheatre. knub, something like that

foresters came the sound of the 16 Yield. artilleryman's helmet, which was said to be worth many thousands preted by them as the noise of a

rivatters at work; it was inter- 18 Education.

10 Larger.. of pounds.

Handfuls of Coins..

on an

On the journey from his eastern kingdom to Marseilles the weather was rough and. Sisowath suffered much

from seasickness. He sent at frequent intervals for the captain, asking why the ship shook him about so and whether the machines were big enough to pull it out of the hollows.

host of tree boring birds, hummer- 20 Rims. ing and drilling in the bark and 22 Morning reception. timber of Douglas Fir and Spruce. 25 Belonging to us. Instinctively they hastened to the 20 Messages. source of the sound, confident that 29 Dons.

31 Sullen. a keen-eyed and enterprisi z

32 Trifles. member of the tribe had discov 33 Overlaid with silver. ed an army of tree-infesting gruba 36 Tittered. and that there would be a feast 30 Vegetarian dish. for all who cared to answer the 40 Vegetable. summons broadensted so clearly. 42 Dashes.

43 Middles. The Dileated Woodpecker, 45 Venders. larged plumaged bird with crest of 47 scarlet, vivid as huntsman's coat, čo flew through the woods like a 51 fiery torch and caused the dim 62 aisles to echo with his loud and 63 raucous cry. Downy and Hairy 64 The special police commissioner Woodpeckers, lesser birds in the 55 Land of the Incas. detailed by the French Governancient order of foresters, clung 56 Transgressed. ment to act as his guide and pro-to the gnarled bark of trees and 67 Turf used as fuel,

aslant, hearkened tector begged him to desist, but with heads

The king was so delighted with the welcoming cheers of the crowd outside his hotel nt Marseilles that he flung handfuls of silver roins out of the window, his generosity leading almost to a riot.

to no purpose, and he finally had querulously to this strange drum-. King Sisowath removed from the ming of hemmers on steel. window by force amid a torrent fof.objurgations from the offend d

510narch.

Sisowath, however, bore the pelige official no, ill-will, and the next morning, as a peace offering presented him with his state breeches of cloth of gold,

Ancient Lineage. King Sisowath represented an ancient line stretching back to 4.D. 500. He succeeded his bro- ther in 1904, and two years after his accession decided to travel.

King Sisowath discussed with President Fallieres the exploita tion of minerals in Cambodia, and loft two of his sons in a French military school.

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Of latter years the King suffer- ed from melancholy. He rheumatic and neurasthenic, and complained that the palace dan cera were not as good as they were and that all the elephants were dying.

In 1916. however, he appeared to have recovered his health, and he made a strong appeal to his pe-ple to help France to win the war by working in her arsenals.

Cambodia has a population of

Anderson about 2,500,000. It possesses the

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IT'S QUALITY THAT ONTS

FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS

most wonderful ruins in Asia, in and around the deserted city of Aurkor..

Such an assemblage of Wood- peckers had never

Reverenced. Perennial plant. Perfume of flowers. Knowledge." Tidal wave.

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seen in the valley of the Bow. The woods seemed alive with birds of this breed. Unlike most cor- ventions held at Banff, this one could hardly be termed a success. No doubt the birds were dis- allusioned and deeply disappoint- cd that the promised feast did not materialize. Nevertheless must have been compensation in the number of family re-unions made possible by the call of the that fashioned the lammers framework of a great castle in the scenic heart of the Rockies.

Any hope that Nungessor and Coli might be safe but isclated on the Newfoundland coast or in the interior has been dispelled by the return to New York, after seven thu week's fruitless search, of airmen, Mr. Cy.. Caldwell and we'e Major Sydney Cotton, who

Mr. Daniel commissioned by Gureenheim to carry out a search. They covered 15,000 miles of terri-) tory, and they are convinced that the French airmen never reached the North American coast.

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17 Valleys.

21 Dutch coin.

Lanterns.

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27 One who drinks.

28 Dispatches.

30 Sorrowful.

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43 Ten million (East Indies). 45 Withered.

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46 Sneer.

148 Journeyed without walking.

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Yesterday's Puzzle.

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coach in consultation with a first- class physician.,

The doctor drew a diagram of a famous walker's heart on the man's

chest. After the athlete had walk- ed a mile in seven minutes, an A doctor, giving evidence in a examination showed that his heart motor accident case, recently, stated had expanded three-eighths of an inch. A man who was not in tralo- that his patient had an athlete'sing then walked half a mile in six heart.

minutes--barely half the speed of If was found the trained man. This mysterious complaint has been the bugbear of generations of that the untrained man's heart had parents, who have forbidden their expanded an inch and a half. children to take up athletica lest Similar experiments were conduct- they should contract this affliction,ed with trained and untrained mid- writes Mr. F. A. M. Webster, the dle-distance runners. Then a man well-known athlete, in a London who had been in training for two paper. Many people believe that seasons sprinted a fast 150 yards the untrained man, such exercises as running, jumping, without his heart being affected at and rowing will increase the size of all, whereas the heart to such an extent that in who ran the same distance at no time the athlete's life will become more than three-fourths of the speed of his predecessor, became endangered.

exhausted.

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The danger is grossly exaggerat- Constant exercise undoubted-

Athletes who smoked cigarettes

ly enlarges the heart, but that en- and did not train properly suffered largement is gradual and in pro-the greatest degree of distress. portion to the development of the The consensus of opinion of ath- rest of the body, A large, strong letes, coaches, and physicians, from heart beats slowly, but if a heart the standpoint of medicine and with a pulse-beat of sixty to the applied athletics, is that the minute does the same amount of athlete who trains properly and work and pumps the same amount does

cigarettes of blood through the arteries as does another heart with a pulse- or drink has no reason to fear any lete's heart. A sane system of beat of seventy-two, why should ad effects from the so-called ath- one be concerned?

athletic exercise strengthens the ..In America some years ago, an heart and renders it less liable to interesting series of experiments injuries from a sudden strain or was conducted by a famous athletic shock.

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