Show i 1 FRENCH POSTMAN BUILDS PALACE Ferdinand Cheval a postman in Hauterives Hauterives Hau- Hau France is the builder of one of the strangest palaces in the world As Asa a young man he saw a series of pictures pic- pic I tures in a book of oriental stories and he was struck with the appearance of I the Oriental castles and palaces palacE's with their towers minarets highly highl ornamental tal windows doorways and arches He began gathering stones of various cob col ors and t types pes in his after cOI 1 i hours and to read books on the art of masonry lIe He al also o talked to wor worm workmen m n and watched them at their tasks I He lIe began to build in front of his tle little little lit lit- I frame sign lIe He is house lious a palace of de de- de- de now flow SO years old and his dream creation is complete It has au aU nil the towers and turrets and arches and scrolls that he desired lIe He gathered millions of pebbles and stones used bags baga ot of limo lime and working cement and spent 67 67 hours on it It Is five eighty feet long Ions and forty five feet deep Th mone money used usel came in m at first from his small savings but as the palace tourists visited it grew in obtained hundreds and he a goodly hands lie He hoped to revenue be from their buried in it ft erected and a monument in the but local authorities there for forbade his b burial r l troit News reasons of public De |