HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1924-3-6, Page 2Compasses the Trees Wear
BY RUTH HARRISON
BudaY and the Professor were ethn- tree?"
g back thaelegh the weeellet, lima "Hale' eaid Buddy, surPrisea. "Hanle
grain sacks hung ever their arms, fer ly any at all."
they had beeu scattering corn and "What side of the tree is thier
'Whn'at under the brash aad inpratect, asked this prote'isa,
ed fence corners for the quail, Taey "A tree doe-sn't have sicees; it's
did this every winter arid TIOW the round anewered Buddy.
quail were nuarieroue ama almost ' "Yes," latigbed the Professor, "it has
friendly at times. sides. Nat right; and left, of cause,
"Ab," claueleled the Professor. but north satin' east and west. That's
"There they go,' as a covey of (Dail, a what I mean."
little startled, scurried ,under cover. "Oh," seed Budde, squinting at the
They really aren't ,afraideof us, Rad- sky. "This is the south side."
dye Coulcin't be but I suppose they "And the opposite side where the
thinie it is just as well never to take lichens are irowing is the eorth side."
any chance's." "Why do they grow more on the
A long time ago the Professor taught north" side tb.an on the south?" asked
botany in the universtty, Now he Buddy. oe
lived on the farm across the road /roue "That's just it. Why?"
the rural echool 'that eittady went to. "You said the lichens grew better
"Look, Buddy!" said the Professor, where it was cool and damp. Isn't any
stooPing and brushing; a little snow colder on one side of the tree than the
from the bottom of a big white oak, other Is ite"
"Here is something that le always ha "Well, Bud., it is. The sun shines
teresting to look at," and he pointed more on the east, south and wast sides
to some grayish -green, fiat, leatherlike of a tree than on the north. Think of
patcbee growing on the bark of the the windowon the north side of your
tree. They were curly oti the edges. house; there are only a few days in
"Queer kind of a plant," said the Pro- the year that the sun shines through
feesor, breaking off plectea of the thick- them. So there are many cracks and
Iy covered bark. creviced in the bark on the north side
Seen lots a that," said Buddy, "on that are pretty much shaded and pro -
aid fences and stumps, and logs." teeted from the heat and drying of the
"I should eay so," =nett the Pro- sun and you can see that in winter the
tessor. "Know what it is?" smear that lodges there stays longer."
. "No," said Buddy. "Never thought "How did the plant know enough to
about IV' get on ta the north side of,the tree?"
"Well, you should," said the Profes- "There we have it again," smiled the
eon "Why didn't you break off a- piece Professor. "The plant doesn't know a
ad come and ask me about it? You thing about it. It just happens that
do pretty well, Buddy, but I do think way by chance. Most all plants have
you boys ought to be mere curious seeds ,ot some kind, and the seeds
about what you see every day." Short- when they happen to fall In a fayer-
ly he continued: able place grow and form more plants.
'Mies Is a. lichen, Buddy, and see The lichens have spores instead of
how close and tight* it grows to the Itrue seeds, very much like the spores
hark,' and he lifted One edge of the that are formed by the moss I have
lich.en and peele,d it back gently. ; told you. about. Now suppose these
l,'herei See all that black spougy-ispores, blown by the wind, happen to
leelting inase be the underside of the ;light on a tree trunk, some on the
:ien? Well, those are " and, he ; south side and some on the north.
) la to look around, for something. Those on the • north side may get
„ere! Thafewill do," 'Walking over .Iodged in a crevice where it is cool
tc. thorn -apple busk he broke off a and recast and start growing.. Those
lease; thin. thorn. "New look," and he on the south side fall where it is dry
nirated the epongy mass with the and warni and may stay there a long
• petat of the thorn. Itime in a clorm,ant state or die. It ,
' said Buddy. "Look like a simply is true' that the conditions oni
lot of little tangled threads. 1 sup- the north side are such that the lich- I
poset they're the roots." ens cart grow -there; on the south side
..“Ainnet," said the Professor. "Not they die, so very few or none are found
true roots but pretty much like them; there. So, in. a Way, lichens may be
anyway they behave like roots , and ternaeci compasse.s that trees wear, for
grow into the cracks and crevices of they' indicate the nerth.".
the bark or wood and sometimes stone I "And you know, Buddy, there Is
and hold the lichen firmly in place and something eleat about thia. plant. It
take up water. The lichen grows bet- isn't just one wind of a plant, but two
ter in cool damp places, though after kinds. The lichen itself is grayish or
it gets started, it can stand a lot of dry- whitish."
Ing without dying, and after a wetting ,Ta say it was quite a lot green."
lt revives very quickly and goes on "Yea, but the green is aot the lichen.
growing. What you hearcalled the It is a tiny green plant that lives ie.,
reindeer moss that grows In such the whitish part of the lichen.,We call
rth is really a 1ichee:ate:1 it a single -celled plant, and It Is one of
,act a moss at all. 8C8 tal-e(7), rook *tile simplest and lowest forms of
at that tree again where we found this. plants, There are a great many of
"Notice anything?" said the Profesn these sihgle teens living all through
ebr, walking all round the tree. "Note the lichen and we (-sale them algae.
ice anything about where these liChene They can do what the gran cells in
are growing?" the leaves do—that is, with ,thet.air,
"No," said Buddy, walking round af- water and. sunshine they make starch
ter him. and sugar and pass some. of it on to
"Um -m," eald the Professor, "Let' a the lichen. The lichen alone cannot
go round again. You see," he sada, do this but it d,oes get waterthrough
poking the snow away from the base its roots and passes some of it ou to
of the tree, "lichens grow all around. the algae.
theatres down here near the earth, "Hum," said Buddy, "emne more
but -'What about farther up?" partners like those little knobs on the
"Grow up the trunk, too," said Bud- bean roots you told rae about."
al. "Only not so many." "Right you are," chuckled the Pro.
"Ali right," smiled the Professor, lessor, pleased that Buddy had rentem-
"Bow about the other side of • the bered.
The Right Time to, Sell Pigs.
Yee, the old Irish peasant knew his
pigs, knew them rather intimately as
a matter of fact. When to sell tb.era
in order to get the best prices never
troubled him; he hado his little rule for
paging. But, Let Maj. A. W. Long, in
Irish Sort of Yesterday, tell what that
rule was. The major writes':
Here in a straggling wood of stunt-
ed. oak and birch trees was a low
thatched cottage where Robert told us
• a river watcher called Pat Lyden lived,
Lyden net us at hie door, reurrounded,
by barefooted children.—the ataallest
In a dress made of a flour sack and
bearing the brand of the Rear in large
bine lettere across his little ahest—
*sea, ducks and several doge, and. with
the western peasant's usual courtesy
7ae insisted that we enter his cottage
to rest. But Charles firmly declined.
Seeing a. look at pain and surprise in
the man's eyes, I at once entered and
tried to make myself agreeable.
'While in the river watcher's housa.
heard the loud' grunts. of pigs, but
flailed to catch a glimpse of them. On
the way back. I asked Robert whether
he knew where the pigs, Were,
"Indeed and I do well, yer honor," he
answered with a laugh. "Sure, Pateea
alwaye kepis's, his pigs under his bed."
Charles shuddered, thankful that he
lead stayed outside, and remarked that
li was an unusual place,
"In troth yer right, Maater Charles,"
eeplied Robert, "but sure that sante
man has a fortune made out of theta
eame pigs' fend all through kaplate
them 'neaththe bed,"
• For Memo time Charles aid not
ale; but at last his ourioeitY got the
eatter ot his dignity, and •ha asked
r Robert how a man eould. Omuta a for-
tune by keeping pigs under hs bed.
"Begorra," 'replied, Robert, laughing,
'many a man • hae gaited that same
question of Pate,en and got 00 satis-
faetery anewer, but sure 111 tell yer
easy enteugh to sell a pig,
kat bad eliongto kaow the right time
'to Sell that *elate pig and tat' l where;
the bed coaices tea"
, ,aegaiti Merlee Walked on, thinking
hard. At eaat he reluctantly asked
Robert to ex -plain.
• "Sure, yer honor's letting on to be
mighty simple to -day," said Robert.
"Pateen has the bed set so that when
his pigs is big enough to make bacon
of it's how they'll be after rising the
bed, on him scrateleing their backs—
se they would, the craytures—and
when he can't sleep quiet raid aisy like
he knows It's time the pigs be gone."
Living in Temple Bar.
Seyeral famous London arches are
inhabited, The Marble Arch, for in-
stance, contains quite roomy apart-
ments, and so does the arch which
forme the entra.npe to Constitution
Hill. • .
Our anceatora Seem to have had a
passion for saving saace. It le con-
ceivable that the City of London can-
not afford to widea its streets or leave
open spaces because land is so costly,
but in the old days why wae et thought
necessary to, ni.ake thoroughfares so
excessively flamer,and to . bulicl
houses and shops over the City gates?
The la.st of these was the famoue
Temple Bar, removed inelune, 1879, It
stood where the Griffith stands now, op-
posite Child's Bank,
• When it 'Wee doomet to demolition,
partly on acemint of Ito serious ob-
etruction to ever-growing street tra,ffice
and partly because it was failing alto
a state of decay, many tons of ledgers
and other records -Were removed from
the roott over the central arch. These
were the aceumulated arehives of
Child' Beek, To this da,y the choquee
of this hietoeic hotteo bear on their'
face a print a Temple Bar,
' In the Way.
• Second Mate (pointing to inseribed
at, 00 otteck)--e'"ahat i whese our
gallaat captain fele,"
Elderly Lady- Visitor ---"No tender;
T nearly tripped ceeee it inegelf, '
Wholeineal •bread is pioasing to tie
eye and the palate and'containi valu
able Mineeal qualitiea Wieleb ere m,hs-
ng ie ibe white Varietal(
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A memorial service at which 12 submarines and three parent ships were
present took place over the spot where the subnuirine L..24- Was suuk in the
English Channel, with 40 men aboard. Photograph shaws the half-masting
of the colors while passing the spot.
Insulin in Diabetes.
The men who won the forty thous-
and dollar Nobel prize in 1923 for the
greatest medical discovery of the year
were Doctors F. G. Beating and J. J.
McLeod, of' Toronto, for their work
in the discovery of Insulin. Not only
is this the most notable medical and
scientific achievement of the year (it
was given to the public the year be-
fore) but it is the most valuable dis-
covery of all time for people who have
diabetes. It means for many of them
the difference between life and death
and every person afflicted with any
degree of diabetic severity will profit
by this discovery.
Many readers have asked me to tell
how Insulin cures diabetes. It does
not cure. It is a preparation made
from certain parts of the pancreas.
Administered to the diabetic patient it
makes up foe the reficiencies of his
own digestive organs by helping him
to digest liie sugars. With this help
he ca,n eat MOTO food and greater vae
riety, and thus build up in health and
strength. But he is not cured, and
perhaps -will have to take Insulin oc-
casionally throughout his lifethne.
Insulin is not U`preparatien that Can
be taken by the mouth. If swallowed
the stomach digests It and spoils its
action. So it has to be administered
by the use of a hypodermic needle.
However, this difficulty may be oyer -
come by having sofa& Member of the
family trained to make the injection.
The material was very costly at first
but the price has now been reduced
some fifty per cent, and may go lower.
Every person who has diabetes should
learn about Insulin. It is well to know
that another name for the same pre-
paration is Iletin. ---Dr. C. H. Lerrigo.
Buying Men in Bits.
A. very strange advertisement ap-
peared in a,Londort, England, daily re-
cently. A man offered hints,elf as will-
ing to, undergo any operation where
there was a "sporting outside chance
of recovery."
No one seems to know exactly what
is the legal aspect of the case. If
suck an offer were accepted, and the
man died . under the operation, it
seems possible that the operator might
be indicted for manslaughter.
It is, however, a well-known fact
that both surgeons and patients are
sometimes willing to pay large earns
for suitable human subjects for"rnedi-
cal experiment, The blind American
Millionaire, Mr, Charles Rouse, once
advertised for a man suffering from
eye trouble similar to his own who
would be veining to undergo a some-
what painful operation whicla might
result in cure, He finally obtained a
subject, and retail -led him for some
years at nealary of $1,250 a year.
Several operations were performed
upon the substitute, but all without
the desired effect. So the millionaire
at Iasi gave up hope and reeigned him-
self to a Ille of clarkneas,
• Five yeast- ago o Mies Emma Giallag-
her, a wealthy 'young lady, was ter-
ribly ,buened by the explesion of a
'spirit stove. Her chin, neck, and
chest were (Iola almost raw. To con-
ceal othe scare the .doctore performed
twenty-three different operations in
skin ,grafting, the skin being taken
&can tweety-throe different persons,
The sums paid for other people's skin
worked out at e1,000 per square foot.
Art advertisement once appeared in
eaNeve York paper to the effect that a
Weetern millionaire, who wati about
to be married, was prepared to pay
five thottsand dollars, for a right ear
to be grafted upon his own head, in
place of one whieh he had locit in a
mining accident,
An immense mrinber ,of applications
was received, and Dr, Naldera who un-
dertook the opetaticei, selected a suit-
able:candidate, A deed of agreemeat
was drawn up, 'and the' physician
agreed to keep the names of both bay,
er; and, seller secret,
The aperetion performed
The
upper half af the volunteer's ear was
cut away, together with about four
inches Of skin at the, back of the ear,
and grafted on the millionaire's head.
The two men had to lie practically
motionless meth, after twelve days, the
flesh had united, and the rest of the
ear was cut away and grafted.
° Still more wonderful was the case.of
a Scottish lady who sustained shock-
ing injuries in a runaway accident.
Her slmil and bath legs were frac-
tured, and her left arm and one side of
her face badly lacerated.
Her son, a young physician, abate
-
dolma his practice and set himselfto
endeavor to restore his mother's life.
Eveiyone eise had given up her case
as hopeless. Day and night he de-
voted his whole time to her, and so in-
spired not only her nurses', but the
poor sufferer herself, that she sur-
vived and began slowly to mend.
But the mutilation of the face caused
terrible disfigurement. The son there-
upon • insisted upon the attendant
physicians removing skin enough from
his own body Le graft upon the scars.
One bY one, no fewer than forty
pieces of skin were cut from his body
and grafted upon, heeterneeher's face
and a.m. In the end the lady not only
completely recovered from injuries
which would have killed -ninety-nine
people out Of a hundred, but also
very slight disfigurement.
In this case, of course, filial love
was the motive for the sacrifice, and
perhaps similar disinterested motives
have operated at least as powerfully
M cases of this kind as the hope of
manetary gain.
New Airplane Travels 400
Miles an Hour,
leriesat and paotorlees, aiePleaena, Pahl
The,fieet ef Tengineer, Melotai propel -
to be eali0bi0 of atteining a.' speed of
'100 mllee an hour,„ bas e lieeti, received
by the'Technical Erench" Air Ministry
In Paris.
Twelve- others are under construe -
teen la the aubuea . of Colombes xuid
Will be readyee In'tWo- nightlife' 'time.
Wane the detail's- , of tete' freak' mae
Chime are zealously guarded, the prize,
clple appears to be as follows:
Coneprese,ed. gas and air are fed by
two tubes into a combustion cleember
where an eXplosion'succeede. The
burnt gases then escape violently
through a series of valve. They draw
air with them and this action projects
the machine forward. When 'freed ,the
mixture of burnt gaaesand air com-es
ineeontact with the Open air, and this
shock also pushes the Machine ahea.cl,
* Originally a motor was necessary
to Comprese. the air and gaS, autgtwo
month a ago the lnienter Managed to
effect the compression automatically,
and this eeooad discovery is kept most
secret. It was becauae ot it that the
Air leliniater accepted the Mahhine and.
ordeeed twelve more.
lelelot, Who was badly woundedin
the war, began his invention' w,orie in
1918' on GoVernraent funds, but these
were stopped and alley revived last
• September, • when the fuiportanoe. of
his experiments were manIfest. .
• Two ,great, advantages would'a.'cctual-
if the invention Materializes,. namely,
the freeing' the Machine' of the great
weight of the Motor, , and no More
broken Propellers. Elimination of pro-
nelleas would -also greatly Increase
speed. 'Melroot's chief .difficulty has
been to find Materiel sufficiently light
yet resistant to the,enorrateus tempera-
ture caused by the combuseion of air
and g,a.s.
Melot, who, 10 thirty years old, and
living in a modest apartment here
with his wife and 'child,. is -nearly blind
from „a 1915 wound.' His deterniinaa
tion to suppress motor and propeller
dates frc:an 1918, which year lie spent
vainly trying ,to design a turbine en--
gine for war planes.
Makeshift Medicines.
It seems odd to call ateoth powdera
medicine, yea' Ordinary camphorated
,chalk has been used before now when
bicarbonate'of soda was 'not available
to check a violent attack of heartburn,
When a druggist's shop is not with-
in reach, rough and ready ,remedies
for many ailments are to be Emilie' In
, .
the pantry. Mustard la poaltece form
Is about the flia.est known remedy for
cold onthe chest, while a little ordin-
ary mustard rubbed 'behind the' ear
will often ease toothache and neural-
gia. Mustard and aet water is a good
emetic, '•
Salt mix.ed with coMmen.-.washing'
soda is an excellent Cure for stings, .
and warm brine haseag wonderful ef-
fect In stopping the Irritation of.a 'chil-
blain. Warm larin.e, net too strong, is
also a very goad. thing -for "miffing up
the nose when one heire'te'liad 'Cold. and
as a gargle it will go' far th-warde cur.
lag a sore throat.
While sugar has no disinfecting
qualitiaa, if it is applied . to a clean
wound it helps it to heal rapidly.
. A. poultece made of vinegar and stale
-
bread applied nightly ' Is onee of 'tae
best 'possible ilreeeltiga- fee 'a painful
corn. Olive ,oll Is a goad thing ,to put
on a burn, ane if olive oll is not avail-
able a handful clilour keeps the air
from the injured spot and cheeks, tho
pain.
A raw egg swallowed Whole will
carry dowe.a fishbone evhieh hae -Stuck
ha the throat. •
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, He Refused to 'Answer.
Aunt Jinny, a Carolina negress, was
a great advocate of the rod -aa a help
lix child -roaring. As a result ofan un-
merciful beating which she gave her
yoanges,t arta "oraerieet," she was
brought into court one day by mite
raged neighbors.
The judge, after giving her a severe
lectuee, asked if he had anything to
"Jest eke thing, jedge," She replied
"T want to an you a question,. Was
you ever the parent of a perfectly
wrahlees culiud child?"
Sa eea
Alice for the first time saw a tat
carrying her kitten by he feriae of ita
"Yon ain't fit to he ft. mother," she
cried scathingly 'You ain't hardly dt
to lie a lather!' te
Rivers of Ruin.
We have recently been eentleded by
the floods. in Prance of the ravages
„Weida even in niodern tithes and In
highly developed eduitriee, can be
wrought when 'a great river overflows
its banks.
ollut the damage done by the Seine
,and, other great rrench rivers on such
occasions is not very coasiclerable as
corapared with the havoc caused by ;
othm§ er streain similarecircumstances.
The most tragical river in the world
Is the Hoang -ho, or Yellow River,
which Is known througheut the Celes-
tial Empire as China's Sorrow. Earth-
quakes and erteptions claim their viZe
time in tens of thousands occesienelly,
but this river thinks nothing of drown-
ing several millions of human beings.
in 0116 fell flood. -
Note many *years ege, whet. the
Hoang -Ho devastated an area as large
as Englaild, its victims' were estimated
at ten millions. , In historic time it
haa clanged its mouth eleaen times,
and its present outlet is three 'hundred
miles 'away from its former one. e
Another river of tragedy is the Mis-
sissippi, which also has a tendeney to
alter its course and run amok acrossl
field tend farm and city. Its great Plain
Is very flat, and when it overflows it I
overfloWe a long way, earl -king stock
In vast number -s to feed the sharks in
the Gulf of Mexico. As time goes on
• its. banks are obeing mete- and more
strengthened; but when a big river.
takes matters into- its own hands,
human devices eye apt to loele foolish.
The Nile. is a river of blessing, and
a rivet; of blight. if it comes up to
scratch and dose its duty it le worth
tens of millions to, Egypt and mate-
• kind; but if it fails—ate It has Many
tines done in history—that failure
mean farnine. 'SinceBritain has 'come
to the rescue,„ however, and built the
Assuan Dam to canservenand regulate
the water, so that the river 'Sloes not
wash the land away one year and
leave it barren the next, the Nile has
done nothing to justify its former sin-
ister reputation. But in the past its
failure to function normally has coat
•:millions of lives.
1 Qur Changing Skies
"Eternal ae the stars that shinfei"'
How many, tinies ltave we L.28.41,.oat ,
•
::::::,1QT11:3.6 fiNxVodhant,e:sagottfet4tpliosikeei:sot
vast stretches of time it brings to -• our
becoree a byWera with as. Do,.e '
look up at the starry heayeaS'and,
the, Greoat and ,the Little Dipper :di Ate
after aight? Does not the lelialey Way
uneallingly,shine down upon us? Titles
the evening star and the moen have a
-way of shifting their position :from
night. to niglitebut within a shartotiene
they are always bath in their sante old
places,. The changelessness of ,the
ekies Is the foundetion stone 'of our
faith. • .
It conies as Something of. a shock,
.then, to lea,ra that our skies are gracl- -
aally changing year by year. Our
North, Star, or •palesta,r, is not the
same as the , one which painted the
true noetho for the- ancient Egyptians.
The geeat,pyramids; built more than
forty centuries. ago,' everts made with
an opening exactly ficin.g the polestar, .,.
but It was a 'different star from the,
'one
i:we point atit' In eur heavens at
Instead ef having'oney two motions,
that of' thaming deify', on hi axis and
yearly. etroun,c1 , the sun, the earth has
.no 'hese, than eleven enotiona, as.trono--
• Mere° tell 'us.; Insteed of the staid,.
[sober 'old earth t'we thought we in-
habited, ' we :find abet we are keeping
' ,company.with a fievoloite, denting, al.
Imost saimmying earth. d
It is ae third movement af -the .earth,
&Millar to the slow circular motion of
the --upper part .of a fast -spinning top, -
that ceases, our .sicies apparently to '
cba.nge With the centuries.: A Map of
the 'skies made- in 1860 ereindenot da .
for 1880, nee foor'1922. The Southern
Cross used to' be 'visible in Europe,
sone.° thousands of years ago, 'and'
some thousands of years hence conte of ,
our brightest eters, 'will have 'passed '
froth view of our earth's Inhabitants. ' ,
IBut there is, after all, a regularity
: about this irreguivaity of the earth'
movements, And tt la poesible to cal-
culate eiactly when a certain star will
return to a given position. In exactly
25,765 years our -North Star, alter be-
ing kat to view for cenotarle.s, will
again be Jae:ie.:where it is today.
The last tifine'our,North Stat occu-
pied the poeition it does ecaday, 25,7 le
years ago, none of the present coun-
.otrles existed,. Doubtless men had
made their appearance upon the earth
l at that time, but they were'probably
unculturedandsavage' beings—our
• atone -age ancestors—and they have
.left little record of their -existence. '
' 'Where shall we be, in our turn,
wheat after , another cyele the, Pole
teilumull?h,a,ve -returned to its
, present pose.-
When -viewed- from the staneepaint of
eternity our vanities and petty bicker -
Inge, have a smallness that is pathetic.
Promotions.
Promotions usually come to those
'who 'deserve them meet. Persons who
seem to adaance most rapidly are
those who have really been preparing
for many years for higher promotion.
They are the ones who did ,the
things far Which they Weren't paid;
who carried every task to a complete
finish; who built up a 'reputation for
doing things in a superior way, thus
proving to those higher up their
ability, to handle more responsible
positions.
You are going to get eat of _your
work just -what you put into It. You
are !meter of your destiny. Men us-
ually 'get what they go atter, if they go
after it, in earnest and work hard. Let
every; day be a' big day and every op-
portunity be a beg opportunity.
His Cutest.
She was very literary, and from
America. She had just been "doing"
the home of Sir Walter Scott.
• The guide was aelitele bored.
e `Maranon' is just too ---"she
beamed. "And 'Ivanhoe' why, that be-
longs! 'Kenilworth,' now—isn't that
the real liturry goods? And !The Lady
of the Lake' --but there, anything of
Scott's------"' •
"And do you know his "Thnensioar "
"asked the guide. ,
"For goodness' sake! .Why, 1 tlaltik
that's just the cutest thing he ever
wrote."
The Irish of It
Kelly—"If yez forcee me to pay that
note now, I can't pay it."
O'Brn--:"But ifal wait till yesepay
It, 111 never git it!"
• . A Downright Insult.
Jake—"What made ye leave, SIT"
• SI—"It happened at breakfast this
naoanine Jake, and I'd do It, agin If I
had it to do over. Mrs, Brown was
busy bakin' mites. an' when I took
three or four, she stopped. and looked
etraeght at mean' said, "SI Sempkins,
do you know that'sthe twenty-fifth
pancake yereatin'?" an' it made me ao
mad I jest get up from the table an'
went off without my breakfast.
Ivory Raideis.
Among the unpleasant habits of Af-
rican tribesmen,ln the Karanioja coun-
try is that of 'digging pits for ele-
phants, and attacking the unfortunate
animals thus imprisoned with their
knives; ,literally carving them up while
still alive ancleating the raw flesh as
they do so.
In his beak, o"The Ivory Raiders,"
Major Rayne describes how he saw
tribeg'rnen at work on dead elephants
which he had shot. They crawled
across one of the carcasees' as thick
as ants; :they were even inside it, eut-
Ong and hacking with small axes and
great 'knives.
• Ivory raiders — Arabs, _Abyssinians,
and so on. *he invade British teed=
tory in an illegal quest for tusks find
ueeful, if treacherous, &Wee in, these
tribeeo
sinaknRo.
ma7ue
ruuee bluffed _force 01
two hundred raiders into surrender,
and it was net until they had given up
their arms that they discovered the
farce behind him consisted of only
four policemen.• ,
He Who Knows.
He who knows, and knows that he
knows, is master.
Ile who knows and does not know
that he knows, needs a teacher.
He who does not know and knows
that he does not knew, needs love.
He who does.not know and does not
know that he does not know, is lost.—
Ancient Proverb.
Grose Carelessness.
The young wife sat plying the
needle on a coat of her husband's
when the latter entered the retina "Its
too bad, the carelese* way the tailor
sewed this batten on," she burst out.
`Teals is the little time I've had to put
It back for you."
• A Hard Lot ,
Lady—"My good man, isn't begging
hard"
Beggar—"It is, mum: very few pee -
plc) gimine fresh bread."
gle
The shipping tonnage actually
under construction at the end of Sep-
tember was only 1,029,000 tons, the
• lowest recorded for „nearly tourteeit
years in Great Britain and Ireland.
• FEARFUL SYMPTOMS
It was an evil day for me when,I eat down to read the airitan-
o foe '23 sent, out by old Doe Sneed: When I .sat down I felt aa
fine' as ever in ray wieh such buoyant health were, Mine,"
declared my jealoua wife. , Then 'I 'enjoyed unblemished health„
no, ache or pain I icneat; but Old Doc Sneed, lie came by stealth, ,
and.knocited the works askew. laetore ilniehed Chapter Three
of leis vile almanac, I felt fierce tortures in my knee and anguish
iti, my back. "If you behold black specks," I read, as floating
lti. tlie air, it indicates seen be dead; and 'should your house
prepare; yea harbor divers deadly ills, ami soon their kick you'll
feel, - unlese you take my conerete pills—efoereeea before each
meal." "If you are prone to dizzy spells,' the Old Doc made hie
wail, ."the ,undertaker, wearing belle, will soon be on, Your trail,
Is there a ce,ating on your tozigue, . and does -jecter ninutli taste -
gteen? It indicates a spavinea linlg, aed abscess of the en -leen.
Is there a ringteg in 'your, °era; are you anhoyed cliille7 You
troon Will go to other spheres unless ' you take my' Ole." No*
I no longer dance and elicit or chiee' the joyeas wheeze; if earep,
tom a count for anything VITO every ktiown'disease,
The Wheel ,That Squeaks.
The world is 4011 Pof philoSoPhers
who urge us to 'count our many- bless- '
inks, just when we reach the conclu-
sion that there will not be enough left
of our year's crop money to put down
the new rug, much less install electric
lights.. And when ono of our finest
horses died on a hot day and some-
thing broke on the tractor and
Johnny's fever came up and it looked
like measles, soomerine gayly quoted to
as: "Oh, well, ain't you glad you ain't
got a harelip?" ,
Bankswould flourieth if all bankers
were bachelors; the employer of a car- )
pewter little oozes- whether he is mar-
ried ornot; a wife playa" no. part in
the flring af an engine; but wo farin
women know what watild _happen to
agriculture if weall hied ourselves to
the city. Thanks be, there is no dan-
• ger. Down in our hearts has grown
too deeply this desire to belong to the
flrni, thle feeling of working at worth-
while things, and of providing a home
with Natures background for our
children.
The "direeouragements of a. day or a
season -aloe not enough to uproot us.
Vie world appreciation that is grove,
Ing will bring _results. Every modern
Invention will eventually comp to us.
Semeone hese-said that it la the' wh.eel
that squeake which gets the grease.
Our wheel has squeaked considerably
sua,d I firmly believe that the grease is
beeng manufactured, that eleetrict
powea is going to, be Made cheap
enough that we can all have it to help,
eipecially in the home diities that are
a part of our farm firm's' accomplish-
meatea--Lena Martin Smith::
The Prairie Street.
Lovers of beauty lajigh at this grey
•
. "VVItetr*ewdnu' reiegffell
curbsidetrees
And eoaninapaososw-nueedle etreete lead up
• And les th em elyee In empty
prairie seas.
Here le no winding scented Jaxxe, 00
hillCroWznareddewn ,‘steepleci chuxii, 00
Of old grey stone where_ tilaee bloom
11
The 4mnaaidry' resitt41olthe •ffarlitigeorte 'all en tee
•
But here is the unsaftened nuJe0Ly '
,
Of the wide earth \dbe0 oei tile
Wide, steeots end,
And fraoiel teh7:6, cluster coeuer one hi -se
8eo
The full moan .orlse and flan -line 8110
The long -main street, eve euce f -roe
,ors' tearno ' go forth, '
Lies like an old eea re.ad, eta
. rel
nettle
—He/ an Su
