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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1932-09-08, Page 7.-..4 01! esook..c• ' or. • ' - 11 • • • 4 1 it ' • ' . • • .• fat , • A• • rVe a ar3r t";,, ,•:. , 4 • ,L ..Seritember fa. 1,e'S)II-The e ports crf the 4,.pies--.1\1u'rnbors. 13:- 4-34 25.33. 'Golden. "I', extTbe', ILord '16.the strenititAf myilife; of Wpm Shell •be afralitt ---Psalm, 27; 1.• • • - A -4 -07 -SIS.- • - i:TE SPIE.S*PC! ED, 'vs. 1-34 CoNpuonN4 R000nts, ; 8143. • tg. :THE MINOItt17 T, VS. 32. 1 •3 THE SPIE DES vs - Israel •bad heen •• for ,isorim, time in rtienVitreTifan7:01.7?/it er.FatrivAlite- /. • they '.natl -etrziplained.*' 'tbo 'slight produce which the, ;WI peas yie them: . Their flocks- 'and herds Aad eforibed bare -the eanty Verdure cif the oas;s Where'-thei„Vie,enSamped. ••:;a11:„.b, flesh -pot ,bf., p,•e..lay4..liehind • ..thiWand the ltdul wAtli honey" 'beffire7the 4. 'Their Vol; :-wes .lietoming,intolerabler,. •Gcid, luznse1t,/theY 111 .• the _theedality which :•;vits.- ving then: AL: • They 4ast their lean td hungry..e.yes Icing:hey on the fertile land Can- aan. • Thi.' -wag the Unit 'al:promise, sworn -to Abraham, •rsaitei,and Faco land also to Wises, cilen.,:12:; 7; qt1:;• 13 : 11. Before;it cotlOg'ap_PrOPrig• ltAnUat Sonic ihowledge'roust begained ofethe char-. • acter its population,. the quality ,pf. its. soil: and the type of towns...0' found *4- In tit:L.:Mut 4!3 in modern times it has heen 'che,pra0 tice• to -obtain secyet. infOrMation by means of spies as a preliminary.to warlike 'moire:me:Its. Twelve spies •iereqsent--ono from eticlvtribe. This was a wise measure. It •would -ire- elude tribal jealousies; nor Could 'any tribe ata tater date claim :that they 'bad en -induced .to. invade Canaan •. undo.• false pretences In sending out the spies4srael was Observing an ea-, •d, ring' necessitY of life. Man is not . content to live in ignorance of , the about him. "Our spirits yearn," said Faust, "for revelation!' The rpractice of sending out: sPiei-has been •itransmuted inl-O the nobler pursuits of seienee, arti literature and, abqve all, religion."'_All of these, reIresent •Oliant attempts to deterinine t. re .0,f reality in- life and the icOrld': CONFLICTING REPORTS; Vs. 25-29.; 31-33. . '" ••' ' • • When the spies nturned they spoke e.xciteal ,y-apti-ecrefuseally-of they:lad seen. The one group ('vs. 27- • ,0 tried to give a balanced accOunt ih whieh, jUstice would done to both the advanta es nit disadvantages of • pro.eading agams They •• acknowledged that it was• rich and :tile: "It was a land tflawirigvith -reillramlitoneyboth-of-whieh-were artielei of food greatly. Prized among a nomadic or an agricultural people. . 'As a guarantee of the truth • of What' they said, they 4hibited thc prodi- gious cluster of grapes Which they led carried off from the district about. •:Hebron, 23. Over against these. • More favorable features, however, they asserted that the land Was, al- • .ready inhabited by, a strong popula- tion. The Canaanites dwelt in wailed cities which it Would be .difficult'for the. sons of the desert to capture.' qn • this they acknowledged •the superior- - -L---ef•theiniterial civilization of the Canaanites in conttast to their, own more rudimentary civilization of the desert. For the Can,-anites.had long dwelt in a land which had been e use- - fertilized'by the great civilizations of Bt.bylon and Of Egypt: They declared also (v. 29.): that the population of 'the land was mixed rather than •ani- • form. There were deposits 'of popula-• ti from the great' Hittite Empire of Asia Minor and from the P,niorite rngdom of north Syria while the katilekited;- a fierce tribe of nomads, •loarned at *ill in the -batren steppe land to the south of 6'anaan. Another group • (vs. 21-33) 'were out and out pessimists. Their report was wholly ,lanfavorable.4, They lost sight. of the • ,• glOrious objective and fastdhed .heir a+tention only on. the dangers, an 3` the probabilities '• of failure. They laid stress'on the -unsuitable nature of the country which, "eateth up" 'its in- • habitaiitst/reaning either that its climate was trying, cr that it .did not produce enough to support its people. •It VMS -the gigmitie -stature of the people, however, which most impress- ed them. They compared the Anakites to the g:ants, or Nephilim, which, ac- cording to. Gen. 6:' 4, were a race of • demi-gods. "These men are trying to find. 'the strongest possible language • for expressing the terribleness .of the, gigantic Anakites; and , this they effect- by saying that the Anakites are •veritable .demigods." Now this evil report would readily find an open • • 0 ear 0.11101*.IPeCOP1e 00. liVeT,e- Aliee'il,Y, suffering; at ,teinted,'Lte. det)X9ea:„theAr .spirit and to diesnacr them from the ivito raga of adyanci The "trOnhle witfi pOgs nals4l 4imitiishesour vitality.-10:4141E--.VIARA-RFPeRT-4,i3,+-3 , • • Another tN1,4410;witli.."Pes is ttat it does. not...Jake all the fatsinto babsa. Part of our duties there were account. ft leaves out the.greatest Peet of all,Which • is , ,FortunatelY there was among the s l'es one; Caleb, who saw:not only 4 . 5 • 4.14 me 4,4 e44,444444, 010 Lost int the Jungle 4. .9„ragip pescylption of an Aviater's • P...404',!erkeer 'YhGamed, in bistener, • '-'71::17' r1aTptienetiii1946: R. C. P. and lied 'been 'sent to Mom-- to turn our. then' eneMy, the Germans, out of Tanganyika. t4rritory: One day 1 was orzdered tok fly from oer field at rawb4cka and the 4angers,„but TkeinglOgIt4.48tsouth i) the-gr46,011& Ged---Who, --with -sOvereigri. Logi. Logi Logi was .bout '45 ,iniles • due •south. One of our infantry col- umns had reached the.Ruilii itiver, �n which •the place • ,was •sitnated, but powerSas presiding over the destiny of Isi01. The 0/hers were in :4ne. way or anqther materialists': hut, Caleb 'saw the Invisible, and15.0412'4: • li•m he lied.the isaurance c,Vv. Y*--.„-ware7-farther 'ue. Hosvever, with the "Ncro are well able to overcoMe excessive 'optimism of youth; I,de: cided to do without the help which SysJBJood„Spotson atrAwk.,,,ima,,seihionmunAtuom, '• '"NOlirlitt lifid ,14,41tha ,, : • • -•:7gOnef', and Belk!' due-eouth, over corm- / - yr:which was totali7,:qninliabited.M . . Fears ohousewives ) a .f that 't . ,Part -s and as think as 'the •African pots in Ago; indicate alittek.st;„ ,esh-, ,,,,,, ,. . • Jungle call 4,:te,- nese or that eageh:4g,gs,aie•neUrfor• ,2 fA?qd,. are not wirVanted: in ii?41zdn,.! ; :.!. was about three Allies ..from Logi stanceS4'acorcliiig 'to PrOfeiser.'5,::•P°O. *116n-inY 'engi'ne' began- tc. cough 4.n.eisy ,Atrie.ottiravzic.milovii;Esto,,,,,.:theil. tried jerking-, tO:",cleatt it,but y eliveacorids• my Proneller StOnned Snd my precious 855. feet 'el altitude was 'egg i ;ilia are •normal in all •othei Old eased the. threttle, and, peeltryliishandrritin. at; the 14..evv. tioh,' who says 'spets.-4M47.:.1)6::!kOtl'Awi,7ikiitict14.4•41)19,,,aiid..14' found in ,strietly 'fresh. eggsk:. and . • • • . •600. •I selected a "nice',green oval =. • stretchuf: graio" to set theplane down 7 of. a -blood; spot 'tia , • • upon, released • my bombs, And' pan- caked the bus .(that • is, in'ade a. slow ?landing Without running far). -1 To My, great consternation 1 found • that, the grass.- was six 'feet high, and the nia- chine turned on her nose. '• .It was a hog,. and the water nearly covered„the top of 'the landing wheels. My first inipreasionwas of :the' eerie -silence, which sent, a 'shiver through iny spine. I reit-rained perched up in iny. eocknit for a minute, I suppose, before a bird Screeched and broke the. silence. Then • • I reached for 'my revolver, .ammuni- --:tio,n4-4rinAielinet7.--14terzebottler-actme'-' ,qiiinine and a ies a; • itnitiirf i(•:'' ll ineinbrafie in the 'sae which ittiVOnes' the , yolk •„hefere • its' release ' inte '•tlii fowl'el okr;icliict, virlieeel. albninen:_aintehell. are added to:firialge..the complittaregg. .Often On7,y- a small blood vessel _is* ruptured and the blood spot ' is hailly discernible. . At other, tinies 'sufficient,. blood rri,4Y. • aeennitilate' en the 'Yolk 'te cause, a 'de- cided „illicoloration of both yolk and . . White of the egg. . ;. "When the blood ,becomes diffused throughout the. white/' Professor Platt explains, "the egg should net ,hecon-• Siiiered-at-Tectible-4-,-.Wheri thereisonly tin sardi and a titian- speck .of blood .on the :ye1k4 packet of elicitelate which were in ti• lieWever,there ig .no-reason-ftir dig- small emergency • ki.C., I realized, that carding the egg. After the egg is I probably had, a long walk of about broken ' the blood spot can be removed ferty, miles. ' So off came the compass ,With a fork or .spoon and the egg 'used •and I let -myself down into the water. rfor any, desired ptirPose. ' . • _ Due north was ,the course deckled • "The pOraence of this. small ,amount upon, chiefly to avoid running into the :of 'blood in the egg is not inany way enei;ny lines. It as 4.45 p.m, so i de- . indicative ofdiseased birds,, as prat, 1..• tided to mako for"the nearest lat,a'r tically eery hirdp,roduces a few eggs treeribefOre sundown, ' oat. :least, ' and containing' some blood at some time probably to do a couple Of hours' hilt &ring her life. '4Under most condi-hi. g Unfortunately I had 'had an at - blood spots can be' detected by tack of malaria three days previously sandling. tieh is *Elie ge.nerall nra.c.7 ntiLwast ,iat iff oressketavfloy, -fd.r.m.,, 4. In GermanY-7161 Festival Time Atiflav.:•) The great • Spree Forest. festival In GerraanY, calls forth 'native costumes of the district. Here we see a revival of an old-timer, that is, the bicycle. • , • • the temptation, • to touch 'my scanty AS seen as it was light enough I • left my tree and Pushed off, keeping ;1&_.143..ednipawc-ourser-IVIT,Likhaistchrill.= shirt, and kroits%and puttees were wet and clammy. • I crossed two strearna, Which .1 had to Swini, and by -8.30 a.m. I was edhfrontedby a substaptial river running east and vest. Iccould not throw my clothed lacross, so I put• the revolver and fodd In my tunic pocket, fastened it fount. my neck,' so that the revolver Would not have a chance to get. wet,*kand tiea my ,boots to the back or my„ belt. I had Only gene a short distance when I_ caught sight Of the ugly poke o, a crocodile quite. close, to me. In- the excitement andl.the....extra. PTIArgy 111,4All al the sight tice .011 many farms where eggs are 'We. were right in therainy season; Bo at him ,the tunic came undone: and sold at retail. Even with the best of the traveling was difficult. down went the precious rey,.olver, my Care there 'is • a possibilitY-of some. ' My tconiPass proved very valuable, compass; and the bit of food.. But I p being .mixedWheked, ar - ''- „asrthe.groWtharas-hig-h- end -dense. - I reached-the-shere-all...right, only to, icrAlarly if the yolks are -1;4 or the soon came acrOss. fresh elephant be confronted by a huge hippo. • That eggs are brown shelled, aod buyers 4 .apoors..,.' and, thencame „aftice.., to -face -.meant_anotherawift-selly4into. 4-11./eedY • eggs shouldnot be too criticald peiii- with...an itgly_blect.tutimal about -four tree :siopally eggs are found withsinal[My plight was now bad. The underr blood Spots." • ••• grOWth_ *as almoet 11.artbreaking 'fii feet high • and- with vicknis-looking tusks-. *hides ea-utioned making for the nearest tree, but the anirifil must have been nervous, too, for it Crashed 'off into the undergrowth. ' When the silence. died' a•tvaY there• Was another of thoe eerie silences. - Dark came on, and although tree penetrate, and 1 had no means of di - reethig my prcigreas: - Atthe end of the first' hour I:wad not more than a hundred yams frOn the river. The -bush scratched my face, arms and legs was my immercifulli. Then it began to rain, • not a very comfortableone, I had and it lasted for a couple of hours - stay there.' About ,seven o'clock a • terrific than ler:storm cameon,.and in , less than' a minute I was drenched. When the storm abated the groscpii- • -toes 'eame-ent.--I----was wearing shorts, so my knees were left to every hungry mosquito,and they were all. hungry. About, nine a' lion 'reared close by. I tried to doze off when the. roaring ceased, brit suddenly a twig snapped beneath my tree. ,The moon was com- ing up, but all -I' could see wastwo green lights. ' The two lights 'circled round and round my tree. I couldn't • fire my revolver' because the rain had soaked everything I had. The circling of the bright lights kept up for, ten minutes, but it seemed more like ten hours. At last Irbegan to shudder; my' nerves seemed almost at the snapping point. Suddenly something "seethed to give way inside me, 1 Yelled at the top of my voice. • At .onee, the leopard slunk away in the 'undergrowth; the 'Ores disappeared. I as ashamed of my fearful 'exhibi- tion of fear, and- tried to sing. That helped, and for hours, it seemed t sang. everything. -1- could- think - 01, ,even - hymns Which endd'erith a long-drabrn ' Amen. It did seem incongruo'uS tQ be singing "All Thingellright and Beauti- ful" while wet through, with jungle animals prowling all about, arid the incessant sound of frogs and Mos- quitoes. • -About- 3---a7m,•-1-• began to -get very hungry, but I managed,- to withstand "'irour cook sits' on yourfront. pittaXif every evening." . •• . "Wel:LI-we like, the back porch, just as well,.and of course we never ' say. anything to. hurt /cook's feelings in the hot, weather." •• . • • TICKETS, PLEASE • . • The country station -mater did not wear a 'uniform, and one • day, when a train •Came in he stood at the 'plat,' forth kale , to fake the , passengers' tickets. , .A.,pietty girl. came hp to- him, and when he held out his hand for her •ticket she seized it, gave it a tight • squeeze, and followed by giving hire •a hearty kiss. The statieremaeter...,was surprised. but managed. to say:, "That's all' veil well,, Miss, ,but 1 want your ticket." "Oh," re.plied. the • giri, with a blush, "arenT/ you Uncle John?" • Lion-AWil:e the banquet a success last nightr say it was. • TWO ef the speakers swallowed- fish bribes and eouldn't say a word." real tropical downpour. My stomach began to rumble, but there was noth- ingto Satiety 11 W -Rh, myThea-d a -c -hat - as though I was id for a return or the ,fever. -__I struck a gamepath which ended in a bad bog, which was an aw- ful trial. Once or twice 1 heard the drone of an airplane overhead, but my signaling was all. in vain. Beyond thr.bogthe country was less densly. overgrown„ but there was a cruelly sharp, short,thorn bush which tore ny legs and arms; and aused ter- rific pain. • ' Added to that Were myriads of -lo.ng, thin files which also managed to draw considerable blood: I was drinking now from streams and any old Pool, but 'the food question was becoming serious. After crossin. m5 seventh stream for the day.I sat down to get dried a bit, and spread out my shirt and shorts in the sun. Then along came another huge hippo and forced me to another tree: When I came down again it was almost dark, and I could find po trace of my clothes. I-rethem- bered sortie quinine which 1 had put into my- helmet a.fewday's previous,, and took, a• little of that to help the fever. But it made me violently sick, and I soon developed that "fed -up - fever" feeling. That n.&ht I didn't mind the lions and leopards so much, because I felt almost dazed. , Next morning I„ managed to start out -Again.- I soon came across a buf- falo and then a family of giraffes. • MUTT AND JEFF- By .BUD FISHER TROTH , 1S, 4.1‘...=EF IS tts) Love wtil-t •SIRPGR4 • AND• Pe SONG* ABoul; Here* • They moved off quietly, probabiy be- cause 1 was a sorry:eel:nigh' sight to send anything :way, clad as I Wast"in only my ;boots 'and scant ,underga,r, entar-74-nteudged-,'--On;!Trcerce:-=ahriost: stepping on a vethomone snake, but I hadbeceme', tpo .tired to_ care much, • whit' happened. With the third night .a terrible depression, came ..over me, and I began. to feel that I would not get through to the Ubiguin Mountains, which were noW my sole compass. •!The; next, morning a pair of vultures follOwed my weak and Aumbling.:way. This frightened me badly 'at -first, but I selected a yotingliough' of a.ttee its• • a cudgel; and determined not to give in. •About 2 o'clock on the fourth day' 1 came to ,atiother bog, and saw 'odd, - _looking stakeeL__iniie water, rathe likm e a fence. Then, to y ;great joy, • I saw two natives, just as t had tried to ease my hunger' with -a bit of raw, t-th natives were the meant of getting. me -back_do4safety..everatually: • "He's got the fOot and mouth dis- ease." "Never heard of it, what's it like?" •"Whenever he opens his mouth he Pets -his foot in .4." R la Carte In an attractive London restaurant " the sign that first met a Mir eye oestrone tho guest: "Are you lunch- -14e -alone?' ;lint; • "If • so, why not take a henkr • The slgn bags aide 'the desk where ,the friendly pro-' • prietr • ve the notice is a shelf ----a" which a dozen hooka in attractively colored cellophane Cover are ar. •arrallgeti, , Althmigh. Me • 4.4Mb-ex• is small'.the selection is sufficiently ,varied to suit. many tastes. Includ- • Pere essays, short ..stOries, verse 'plays and novels. '• The service la . -free -to--the- restaurants patrOns: Nor. ;doee the bookseller a few • doora, doWii, from whom the books are pre-. • area, charge the restaurant for 'their 7re:71',Iiih-el in trto of ireT bOo14fisiMply tells the reader the, , • ;name and' address,:•of :the bookseller • who has donated- the:voluine. •,• • • - • ". ' 'The gesture i bypath the reptaiirant,, . ,• „ `Proprigtor and' bookseller is Cener- otia; and happily nee. earewarded.4, ,, • book.'"Isiver: who Is caPtured '.by the . • • •',;•' 461.011#04-7prOg.p or IlIting pQ,etr3 ir • one of he season's letest...hoOks.7can.;• '1' • not easily • give it, up because a. mere- ... meal is ended-. Even whon he • must • hurry through lisi Meals, he7finds him- ' self at dinner • • time automatically . turning in at the 'restaurant which not only • serves delicious food, but where . wait, his favorite book which he ',laid asiae regretfully yesterday. Some customers, indeed; are likely to patronize , the restafirant-library ' • • until an interesting book is finished.' Or 11' that_ls Amposilble _they . may resolve to .bey the .bOok-from 'the' bookseller who so far-sightedly loan- • • ed It in the first place. •• • Thus, with the shigaii, "Read While • • r. -You Eat," • a' service, as- wide in, its -appealis-lending -librarieS may 'be initiated. And benefiting by it Will be 'author, pnblieher, bookseller, • . restaurant Owner, and,..:most ,of all, • the average man who would like to read more butnever seems t'a have• . sufficient tline.-•-The ,Christian • Set, ence.Monitor. Paper Written 40 . Years 4g0 •• Ante -.Dates Modern Day Teronie.-To be told 40 • years after 'that the ,paner which .he had .. • written long ago contained the. most modern ideas' .on. colloidal chemistry was the experience •of: Dr., 0"crhu. UrI Lloyd, String-town-on-thePike. who is visiting Toronto in connection' • racheutral'°4asilcrasethiaalnirenArn.''ricali: • More than --40 years "age; co -Molted a pa.pei Which. -he read2to .011eigned at- eetilfg Of the . 'A.nierican Pharmaeeutieal Associan tfon'.: When. they stated they were unable° to understand ., what he tryirigto explain,- Dr. "Lloyd filed his • paper' away. Twci Outstanding Ger- man physicians saw, the •docum",'ent . • reeentlyv and ; declared his theory antedated the most • recent diseev- • . • • , 1 • • eries. COW Swallows $777 '' And Hides in Herd Lonoke, Ark. -Wade Holloway's savings of $777 went intol a cow - literally -and he is baffled regarding methods for 'recovery because there is no way of telling which of the twenty,. three of his herd involves such value. A purse contairiing money the dairyman had saved for months slip- ped from his pocket in his milking barn yesterday. , He went 'back to look for it, but found only the Chewc.0_, billfold and a' dime. A veterinarian was summoned. He operated on two cows at $10 it cow but found no mdney, and Holloway called off that mode of search because of the expense. "Tie half a mind to 'get married." I`That's all ,you need." • " • Another interesting visitor at the conventf�n dStitine: Hines; • president of the Pharmaceutical As,. . _secietion of Great Britain, rhe' Isas been a Candidate for the British' Par- liament and is a. well-knoWn Player. • • . "I have often wondered about the .pharmagy business," said ; Premier . George S. Henry, of 'Ontario, in wel- coming the convention delegates,. "As • a boy I used to go to the ,drug store : as a plare••where one got something to take when one wasn't very well." , • The Dock Dreamer • Down -at the docks on his lonesoine • . beat, • With lirokep shoes :on his shuffiinf • , feet; ' Watching the tugs as they come end • go, • • With a grizzled grin and • his eyes • , aglow; , • . • Fon he's dreaming of soft sapphire • . Far tropic isles , and ocean breeze- Andlongint -again- for -a lost lagoon; • Or a fiddle's .rasp in an 'old salon; But his watch .is 'over, his days •are . done, . 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