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TH E SPORT 100 By Sterling Helllg. Special Correspondence of The Journal. ARIS, March 17.An oriental po tentate, who has 100 dancing girls, is putting the French pro tocol to much embairassment. He is Sisavath, late Obbarach and present king of Cambodia, brother and successor to Norodom, who died two years ago, but who was burned and finally disposed of only last month. Now the new king of Cambodia, having ful filled all his pious duties, comes on an official visit to the gay French capital the capital of the great European country that "protects" Cambodia. Sisavath comes on an official visit there are political reasons why he should be treated fine and the French government will either lodge him in some palace or rent the whole floor of a smart hotel for him and his suite. His suite! With that suite comes the em barrassment. I do not refer to his ministers, who, tho they be jewel-studded aristocrats in broadcloth and goldbraid, go bare footedand do not wear trousers. Nor do I refer to the three bakons, guardians of the sacred sword, lineal descendants of Brahmas, perhaps the three most pure-blooded aristocrats of the world entirealtho they fall into embarrassing cataleptic fits .at unex pected moments. 100Beauties100 The embarrassing part of the suite of Sisavath consists of just 100 of the daintiest little buds of Oriental femin inity. Three of them are Sisavath's own daughtersroyal princesses. Four of them are Sisavath's own wives. Two more are Sisavath's own leading favor ites. And all of them are such consum mate little artists, such perfumed little flowers of grace and beauty, and such learned little reciters of Cambodian classics, that King Sisavath cannot get on without themso he brings them. What will the French government do with them? How will it find a way to honor them and protect them, at the same time, from wild Parisian curiosi ty? They come in the beginning of May, by way of Marseilles, a whole Messag eries Maritimes liner being chartered for their transport from Cambodia., that Indo-China kingdom, lying be tween Siam, Annam and French Cochin China. It is a mysterious old kingdom, terribly depopulated by old wars, filled with noble castles and magnificent tem ples, the mass more or less in ruins. But between the seventh and the elev enth centuriesthat is to say during a golden period of some 400 years that ended about the time William the Nor- Being Planned. Special Correspondence of The Journal. HOW MAN NORWEGIAN HBtSTIANIA, Norway, March 13. While we kere at Christiania have experienced an unusually mild winter, and during the last week even had a temperature much like that of a very fine spring day, the popula tions along some of the coast district have indeed had a different experience. This is the time of the year when thousands of men are engaged in the cod and herring fisheries, the main part of them following their pursuits in small open boats on the open sea. And this is also the time when the weather |fis the most treacherous. The thous- f- ands of fisher boats may start out in the morning having fine weather and, consequently a happy crew, only to be overtaken by a fierce storm when they i are the farthest from their homes. The tale of disasters at sea is not new in Norway, but such a series of them as ft" has occurred during the last fortnight is, happily, almost without a parallel in the history of the country. First came the disaster on March 1, at Lyngholmen, near the town of J^ Haugesund, where the fishing steamer Thor,'' during a hurricane was thrown on the rocks, and thirty-nine men lost their lives. Nearly all of them had their homes in Haugesund and its vicin ity. All were people in poor circum stances, many were married, and about forty minor children became fatherless thru this disaster. Thirteen recovered bodies 'were one grave in Haugesund0 The Story of the Disasters at SeaThe Season's Catch A couple of days later came the news of another sad affair, this time from Gjeslingerne in Nordre Trondhjems Amt. Between 1,200 and 1,400 fisher men had sailed out in the morning and were overtaken by a hurricane, and at first it was feared that several hundred people had found a watery grave that day. Fortunately these people pos sess wonderful qualifications for manag ing their boats under the most critical situations, and therefore the final re port is that only thirty-three men were lost. The greater .number were heads of families, and thus leave many sor rowful widows and dependent children behind. Also the loss of implements in the ease amounts to several thousands of dollars. Such a storm as this is not remembered by the present generation. Gn the 8th came the third calam ity. This however, did not occur on sea Jaut on land. A snowslide coming down from the steep mountain peaks, which hang over the small fishing sta tion of Stene in Busknes, Lofoten, swept away four dwellings, in which sixty fishermen had their lodgings. "The greater number of them escaped with their lives, altho many received grave injuries, but eighteen mei found theiT death under the avalanche of snow and broken rocks. Thus nearly 100 Norwegians nave lost their BAREFOOTED, BUT A TRITE ARISTOCRAT THIS IS THE KING'S PRIME MINISTER. man conquered EnglandCambodia was a great and splendid realm of riches and culture, having all Cochin China for one of its provinces and cov ering large parts of present-day Siam and Annam. It was the legendary Khmer empire and its line of princes, ending for the moment in Sisavath, the sport, possess diamonds, emeralds and rubies that might make even the shah of Persia sit up and look surprised. Wonderful Dancers. All Paris interest, naturally, centers in the 100 dancing girls. No oriental blossoms of young beauty and old cul ture like these have before been seen in Europe. Japanese geisha girls are clumsy, empty-headed little parvenues beside them. Theirs is an artor col lection of arts forming a profession that dates back to a period when all Europe slept in the Dark Ages, that has its beginnings in the mists of Old Unusually LargeNorwegians Will Welcome the St Olaf College MusiciansFourth of July Celebration BY M. ALGER, ointerred the 8th Th loss of implements on this occasion is esti mated at 50,000 kroner. about one week's time thru the great play of the elements, and several hun dred of those left behind are in a sore plight, and public and private charity will have to bring more or less aid. The Fishermen Have Good Luck. Altho continued stormy weather has been a great hindrance to the progress of the fisheries in most places along the coast the results up to date are very satisfactory, and the catch has been very good almost every day when the weather has permitted the fishermen to be out. To the 10th of this month, the total catch for the whole country was 14,600,- 000 cod, which is 8,000,000 more than up to the same date last year. Appar ently, therefore, this year's result will be at least about that of- an average'' year, and if weather and catch during the comiug weeks continue favorable the final result may be even better than that. At the beginning of March this year the catch is as much as the aggre gate catch of the three previous sea sons, but then the last three seasons have been "the worst ever known." What has been a great item this season is the* heavy loss of implements sus tained by the fishermen owing to the stormy weather. The prices are ruling high, .especially in the Trondhjem districts, where the notations have been 30 to 48 kroner per 100 fish, in Nordland the price has been 28 to 35 kroner, and somewhat lower than that in Lofoten. The price on liver is 11 to 15 kroner per bbl in Lofoten, in other places 13 to 14 kroner. The catch in the Lofoten district alone up to date is about 4,750,000 against 1,300,000 to the corresponding date last year. While this is a result for the district for better than that of late years, it does not by far come up to the catches made some twenty years ago, when the average catch at this time of the year was some 7,000,000 to 8,000,000 of cod. The fishery fleet in Lofoten this year is a large one. Some 5,000 boats are reported stationed there. The total for the herring fisheries up to date amounts to about 500,000 "maal" (bbls.). The Holmenkoll Race With Innovations. Better late than never. We did jjet the promised races" after all. To say that conditions were favorable from a sportsman's view would certainly be a case of stretching the truth, but as it was, it was better than nothing. Also this year the races included eross country raeea and the leaping contest. The boys from the district of Trysil came out as winners in the 50 km. race, the best one covering the course in a lives in little more than five hours, which was 14 Neves Section. THE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL. Sunday, Aprili, 1906. isps NEWflKlNCiOF KING SISAVATH, THE SPORTY POTENTATE OP CAMBODIA. Times lost, now, even in tradition. These girls, in whose veins runs the blood of a thousand princes of Cam bodia, whose maternal line goes back thru countless delicate and learned little artistes like themselves, have qualities that are extraordinary. Their bones are as flexible as steel springs. They can bend theirt fingers to touch the backs of their hands. They could be contortionists such as the world has never seendid they not deem all mere contortion stunts too vulgar. The King's "Living Jewels." They can use their toes as other peo ple use their fingers. Their small rosy brown toes are so many fingers, bear ing rings with diamonds, rubies, emer alds, topazes, tourmalines and car bunclesand the ten little toenails of each are so manicured that King well done under the circumstances, but then they have had far better chances for training during the winter in their home district than the competitors fromf Christiania and vicinity. Sunday, the 11th, the 15-km. race was held. The weather was not bad, and also that day the results were as fair as could be expected. The Trysil boys once more proved their superiority. The best one covered 15 km. in 1 hour 17 minutes and 53 seconds. Then a trial leaping contest was held for those who for the first time cared to try their skill at the Holmenkoll jump. Those whose performance does not come up to the required standard are not eligible for that competition. Then came the big events on Monday, March 12. A snow storm was in full action from the early morning and con tinued till after the contest was over. The weather, however, did not prevent the usual Holmenkolday audience, say about 20,000 to 25,000, from attending. From the break of day a stream of hu manity, in all ages and in all stages of life, began making for this one spot, the main portion of them afoot, but the electric cars and the "cabbies,, had also all they could handle and a little more. The king and queen were Sisavath Can't Get Along Without Them, Even on His Official Vi$it-^The French Protocol Doesn't Know Just How to Receive and ProtectJ the Marvelous Artistes of the OrientA Description oSTheir Wdnderful Performancesr I Sisavath calls them his Living Jewels. song, very* gea^Qj- on~Jtje rhythm of VOKSENKOLLEN SANATORIUM, Where the Royal Family of Norway Enjoyed the Winter Sport of the Country. present, also several of the foreign dip lomats, and despite the lateness of the season and the fact that the original date had been postponed about a month, the number of foreigners present was not small, and the United States was largely represented. While the storm, or still more the new snow, was a serious drawback, the game came off in pretty shape. While the mercury stood about at the freezing point down in Christiania it was four degrees below at Holmenkollen. At 1 o'clock the king and his suite arrived and was greeted with cheers from the crowd. The band played "Ja vi elsker," and immediately after the signal for the start was given. The judges, veteran skirunners, came first as usual, in order to test the fitness of the track. Then followed the real competitors. It cannot be denied that the falls were more numerous than usual, even men of the greatest experi ence had to go down that day. The skis had to be greased thoroly with wax in order to slide on the new snow. Nevertheless some fine leaps were made.,/ The longest of the day was 28 meters,*made by two of the competitors. The contest was over at 3 o'clock and the king and queen remained on the stand till the last man had finished. mmmmJmmmmilB "DO THEIR ACT SEATED ON A SMALL TABLE.' Their minds are cultured with a spe cial erudition. Classic poems, in the old court language which the common people do not understand, run into thou sands of verses. They recount the ad ventures of old Asiatic knights and demigods the hierarchy of Brahmin deities, their attributes, relationship and works, their love affairs and jeal ousies the lives and conquests of old kings, the sorrows and the happinesses of young princesses and princes. These they know by heart. They reel them off by the hour. I Their diction is' perfect. Their voices are naturally as, soft as the cooing of doves bflt when they com mence Jto tear off a fjSw thousand verses they take the old cljwisicjjU high-pitched artificial sassy ^m^ff^^s finicky as the pronunciations o*f. Preneh at the Theatre-Francais. They sing. It is kind of hymii- The caf e^j&ncf^h'otel ttt^Holmenkpllen then becante crowded^ ajjd, thousands who could* not find accommodations there returned to th& city, where tb pnblic^safes and restaurants did a rush ing business ti.^1 clw at night. American Business fu in Norway. It may sound odd to talk about America in Norway at this time of the year, but there are a number of Ameri can tourists in this country at present. An elderly gentleman, formerly hold ing a prominent position in a certain branch of Uncle Sam's service, likes the land of the midnight sun so well that he has stayed here continually for several years and has also built himself a fine house in one of the most beautiful tracts of Norway, a place much fre quented by travelers in the tourist sea son. Now this venerable gentleman has recently taken unto himself a Nor wegian wife, and apparently expects to spend the rest of his days here. Americans looking for business are here, too. A well-known packing house is about to open up an oifice here. It has formerly been repre- sented here by a local agent, but has now sent over one of its own men who is going to take charge of the Norweg ian trade, and it will, no doubt, prove a very wise step for the furtherance of their business in this country. Norway Exporting Potatoes. During the last two or three years Norway lias imported quite a lot of potatoes. This year, however, the thing is reversed, and Norwegian pota toes leave the country every week, mostly for Belgium, the very country which, beside Holland, in former years has exported this useful article"to Nor way. Th" strange part of it is that potatoes were cheaper here in former years when they were imported from abroad, than this year when there i3 more of the vegetable than the country itself needs. St. Olaf Band Will Be Welcomed. i The Norwegian "pltpir "Aften posten" of Christiania has published the Minneapolis Journal's announce- CAMBODIA^T O TAK E HI S BEAUTIFU DANCIN XIRLS O ARISWITH HIM the bonzes praying in the evening at the pagoda. Jewels, Jewels Everywhere. Two girls, seated on a little table, will act scenes from romances a thou sand years old. As prince and princess of the shadowy Khmer empire the bro cades of their costumes are actually stiff with jewels. Their pagoda-like crowns are studded with jewels. There are jewels on their fingers and jewels on their toes. There are jewels in their hair and in their ears and round their necks and arms and legs. What each girl wearsand she calls them her own actually represents a very great for tune. Sitting, squatting on the table just big enough to hold them, they will act a seene of jealousy, or the prince de clares a love that is not returned. It is all done with the bust, the head, the face and the hands. Yet~you get it ii" %n 'XL ment of the coming of the American college musiciins'(St. Olaf) to Norway next summer, and the paper adds that it does not doubt that the American niusiciansv will, get thet bestr sort of a 1 rec'eption %ere and tha thei visit will be just as interesting and pleasant as that of the Norwegian student singers to America last summer. I join with the paper and hope the boys will enjoy the trip. The fact that they are to give a concert at Christiania July 4, should at least mean that we exiles will have a chance to get up a celebration of the day without an equal in old Norway. By that time we will also have- an American legatiou here and if luck is good some American warships in the harbor. Signs of Spring in Norway. Besides the high temperature which has prevailed during daytime lately there are other indications that spring is coming by and by. The ships are getting ready to leave their winter quarters, and the young sailor lads have been flocking to Christ iania from their homes in the smaller towns. As to finding employment, or berths as they call it, they have been very fortunate this year. The wages are about the same as in former years. Another sign of spring is the emigra tion. Indications are that it will be large. A few days ago some 250 per sons left from Christiania for New York on the Oscar Il. and in April and May the number of travelers will, no doubt, be still larger. The King and Queen in the Mountains. Since4his return from Denmark, King Haakon has been very active. After taking in the military maneuvers near Drobak, he paid a visit to Horten, the chief naval station. Then he took his family and moved up to Voksenkollen sanatorium, a place most beautifully located on a mountainside, a little way above Holmenkollen, ten kildmeters from Christiania and 1,640 feet above sea level. There the royal family will remain a couple of weeks, in order to enjoy the winter sport thoroly, and this raphy in preparing such work. they seem to be doing. The king, of course, takes frequent trips to the city in connection with government affairs. STUDY "BILLY" SUNDAY Evangelists Close Meetings at Clarion, Iowa, to Go to Austin. Special to The Journal. Clarion, Iowa, March 31.The Con gregational, Methodist and United Presbyterian churches have closed a three weeks' series of revival meet ings. Evangelist Frank Mathis and Walter Pardem, soloist, both residents of Clarion, conducted the services. The meetings were largely attended, and thirty-one persons professed conversion. One afternoon a largely attended meet ing was held in a billiard hall of the city. The evangelists have gone to Austin, Minn., to study the methods of "Billy" Sunday, who is conducting a meeting there. On April 2 they will begin a, series of meetings at Algona, Iowa. Mexican girls are sometimes curiously wooed. Their lovers walk u and down on the opposite side of the street for hours, starinj? at their windows. If the young lady is agreeable she appears at the window after a few days, and they soon become aconainted. f*tiT. ^TfJ .,tVL ONE OF THE MYSTERIOUS THREE BAKOTJS THE OTHERS LOOK JUST LIKE HIM. an intense impression of life, love, despair, hope, hesitation, sacrifice, duty, dreamy reverie, repugnance, hypocrisy, revolt, confidence, doubtthe whole gamut of conflicting human emotions. Now, as to the King King Sisavath is 60 years old. Tho under middle height, he is ex ceptionally vigorous. He is affable and gay, with an aristocratic air that can not be mistaken. At home he is a mighty hunter, sticking pigs and shoot ing tigers for'sport and trapping and taming elephants for sport and profit mingled. On this Paris trip, however, he will be chiefly notable by reason of the ele gant chastity of his European dress and the truly oriental magnificence of his jewels. His perfectly tended fingers will be covered with rings with enor mous stones, each worth a fortune. His canes, of the most rare woods, have Art Aids for Busy People By MARTHA C. WELLS, Chairman of the Art Cbmmittee of i the State Federation. IX.STUDY PBOGRAMr FOR ENG LAND, COMBINING HISTORY AND AKTGENERAL SUGGES- TIONS AND REFERENCES. (Copyright, 1906.) I is a very important period for clubs when the decision must be made for the subject of study and program prepared, not only those which would be of general interest, but it must be along the line of avail able material in reference books. England and France are the best written up, and each year adds many well illustrated books. Some of the best books are first printed in sections in magazine articles. American art, with its late development, as well as modern German art, is finding many able writers. Travel, combined with art, has proven a popular form for study, and the history of a country with its art is also very interesting. In its usual significance art com bines architecture, sculpture and paint ing. To this could be added dramatic art and music. This would give a wftle latitude, but too diffused for the best results in one outline. A program is a boundary and is weakened by being overcrowded. Three or four topics each lesson is all that can be taken to advantage. A very carefully con ducted discussion is occasionally helpful. 5 A map is the foundation for correct study,^whether it be history, travel or art. The topics are "much better re tained if localities are traced. Very useful mapa may be made on cloth with watercolors or ink (if a map is not available) which can be seen at a fair distance. Only the most promi nent features are essential, as it can be gradually added to as the study pro gresses. It might be a stimulus to school children to apply their geog- The following program oh England combines history (one topic in each lesson) and art: England, Its History and Ait. FirstMap study, physical features. History, Celtic and Roman. Stone henge, Roman roads and walls. Mili tary architecture, Warwick and Wind sor castles. SecondHistory, Saxon and Danish. Romanesque architecture, London Tow er, St. John's Oratory, Durham Cathe dral. Court patronage of foreign art, Holbein, Rubens, Van Dyke. ThirdHistory, the Normans and Feudalism. Gothic architecture, West minster Abbey, Salisbury Cathedral. Hogarth, founder of English school of painting. FourthHistory, the Plantagenets to Edward I. York Cathedral and its stained glass, the Royal Academy. Sir Joshua Reynolds, paintings and literary associates. FifthHistory, the Plantagenets, concluded. Renaissance architecture, Oxford and Cambridge colleges. Archi tects, Inigo Jones, Sir Christopher Wren. Artists' monuments^ in St. Paul's, London. SixthHistory, Lancaster and York. Country halls and mansions, Gainsbor ough, West, Copley. English pottery. SeventhHistory, the Tudors to Ed ward VL Figure painters, Wilkie, Mol- ^m their "pommes," or handles, made of single emeralds or rubies. His opera glasses are studded with diamonds. His watches and chains are studded with more diamonds. So also his betel box, f his cuspidor box, his cigarcase and his p" cigar holders. Behind him, wherever IP he appears officially, are the three Bakous, guardians of the sacred sword, concerning whom the French police are wondering much, being skeptical and unbelieving of things that are told them. The French police are preparing to watch the three Bakous and protect them in a special manner. In appear ance they are aged and feeble ascetics, slender wisps of dried-up humanity, un able to protect themselves, much less the sacred sword. Sword Worth $3,000,000. The sacred sword is -something price less. The enormous diamonds and rubies with which it is studded are valued at $3,000,000. But, in the eyes of Cambodians, they are the least de tail of this mysterious and venerable object. The sword dates from unknown times. No decorative art experts can place its epoch. The stones are cut neither in the ancient nor the modern manner. The blade is of an unknown tempering. Cambodian princes, Bud dist monks, and Brahmin priests, all are really ignorant of the origin and meaning the sacred sword. But it must never be far from the sovereign and its only guardians are the three Bakous. Now here is the thing that the Freneh police will not believealtho assured of its truth by no less a person than M. Beau, governor general of Indo-China. The three Bakous, lineal descendants of Brahma himself, these wizzened, petered-out and doddering aristocratic waifs and strays from an unknown an tiquity, need no police to help them guard the sacred gwoTd. Altho so weak that they fall into trance's, they have a strange kind of power. The desperat est, huskiest crook is stricken with strange fear at one glance from their eyes. And that is all. He flees as one suddenly afflicted with the jim jams. Parisians are waiting anxiously to set their eyes on the three Bakous. Terrible to Contemplate. One problem troubles the French protocol, however. Suppose that it solves the problem of receiving, lodg ing, amusing and protecting the king's 100 dancing girls. So far, so good. But each one of the delicate and dainty creatures bears an almost princely for tune in jewels on her charming person. Technically, they are her jewels. Prac tically, she is a slave. Suppose that one of them should walk off one day in Pariswith her jewels? ready, Morland. The national portrait gallery sculptors* Flaxman, Chantry, Westmacott. &m\ EighthHistory, Tudors concluded. Lawrence, Raeburn, Hoppner. The ^r watercolorists. Pictures at Hampton Court. NinthHistory, Stuarts to Charlem H. Landseer. Landscape painters, Crome, Constable. West Kensington pictures. TenthHistory, Stuarts, concluded. Turner. Ruskin's influence on art. National gallery. EleventhHistory, Brunswick-Han over. The pre-Raphaelites and their influence. Rosetti. Burne-Jones. Wil- 1 liam Morris. TwelfthHistory, Victorian reign. Holman Hunt, Christian art. John E. Millais, paintings and illustrations. G. F. Watts, mythic art. ThirteenthHistory, Edward VJTJ. and royal familv. Sculptors, Thorny croft, Ford, Woolner. Alma-Tadema, historic art. The Tate gallery. FourteenthEcclesiastical history, Canterbury. Leighton, his art and home. The Wallace collection. Fa mous London monuments. References. Most of the material for these four teen lessons may be found in the ref erence library on English painting, in the Minnesota State Library Commis sion rooms at the capitol, which wal presented by The Minneapolis Journal, and consists of the following carefully selected books: "English School of Painting," by Chesneau "Century of Painters of tha English School," by Redgrave "Reyn- olds," by Pulling "Romney and Law rence," by Gower "Gainsborough and Constable," by Brock-Arnold "Turner," by Monkhouse "Rosetti," by Stephens "Burne-Jones," by Cartwright "Watts," by Cartwright "Millais," by Armstrong "Leigh- ton," by Langand "Holman Hunt," by Fyrar and Meynell. To this collection might be added any standard history of England and the following: "The Imperial Island," by Hunnewell "Ancient Streets and Homes," by Rimmer "History of Ar chitecture," by Hamlin "English Ca thedrals," by Loftie, also Bond "Wil liam Morris," by Carey, also MacKail "Oxford and Its Colleges," by Wells "Oxford and the Rhodes Scholars," Minneapolis Journal, Jan. 7, 14, 1906 "G. W. Watts," Review of Reviews, August, 1902 "English Artists and Their Studios," Century, 1882 "Brit ish Academy," Munsey, November, 1902 "Sir Christopher Wren's Churches," New England Magazine, December, 1901 "Ruskin as an Art Critic," Scribner's, April, 1900 "Liv ing English Sculptors," Century, June, 1883, and' "Cambridge and Its Col leges," by Thompson. The following paintings by famous English artists belong to the collection of T. B. Walker, Minneapolis: "Head of a Child," by Thomas Lawrence "Two Brothers," by Thomas Law rence "Landscape," by Gainsbor ough "Portrait of Hogarth's Wife," by Hogarth "The Gypsies," by Mor land "Portrait, Barbara," by Lely "Crossing the Brook," by Turner, and "Yarmouth Jetties," by Crome. HANCHETT JOINS FACULTY. Special to The Journal. Iowa City, Iowa, March 31.Thd* board of regents of the state university of Iowa, has appointed Dr. A. P. Han chett, of Council Bluffs, professor of homeopathic surgery, to succeed Dr. James G. Gilchrist, deceased. Dr. Han chett is a member of the state board of examiner* 1 s&