HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1908-10-15, Page 14NOTES AND 'COMMENTS
A brief'despateh from Dublin re -
rascal), sleeted that at the rectieg of
the British Association its presi-
dent, Professor Francis Darwin,
son of the great naturalist and one
of -the modern authorities on bot-
any, declared that planta had me-
mory and
emoryand eonseiousness, That was
startling enough, but'the full text
of the address, with the evidence
and illustrations therein given, is
even more startling. That it is im-
pessible to draw a dividing line be-
tween plants and the lowest forms
of animal life has long been a tru-
ism in science. Nature, said Spen-
cer, is all alive, but that phrase
was used in a peculiar sense. Fro-
fessor Darwin maintains that the
influences of environment produce
permanent changes in plants, that
they can acquire habits, disclose
what we would call memory in ani-
mal organisms, and, in short, that
there is a psychic element in them.
The sleeping plants, for example,
droop their leaves at nightfall and
open them at .the appearance of
daylight, This, it has been sup-
posed, is merely an immediate re-
sponse to an external stimulus. But
it appears that duck plants, when
taken at night into a dark room
and kept there, will still raise their
leaves in the morning. At night,
in the same dark room, they will
droop the leaves again. The stimu-
lus has been removed, the environ-
ment has remained the same, but
the acquired habit persists. Is
there something in this that is akin
whom it may be most freely exercis-
to memory? Professor Darwin and
other naturalists are inclined to
answer the question in the affirma-
tive, though they would avoid hasty
interpretations based on human ex-
TIIE INF1MTF
ISOUND WOR6D I40 DAYS
EALITY
A . Man Is Godly in the Measure That He
Reaches Out to Men.
"He that habh seen me hath seep child is the expression of the father;
the Father." --John xiv. 9. the family of the parents and its
•
Still are mon crying, as of old, members, is not 1 uuianity
after all
wbo will show ns the way to Goal
The heart of humanity is hungry
for the infinite reality. Therefore
men flock to the cry of each new
voice that proclaims, here is truth,
here is the divine secret. Yet again
and again we have to turn away
disappointed; it was not a voice ;
it was but the echo of some outward
creed or superstition.
Who will show us God1 How can
another reveal truth to us? Each
man must discover his own truth;
it cannot be borrowed ; it cannot be
imparted. Another's hand may
point out some new glory, some
shining spire of the far off city of
truth, but each for ourselves we
must make our own way there.
But what is the way; how may
one find this city wherein dwelleth
the Lord and Maker of us all?
Shall we climb to the heavens where
our childish fancy painted a gigan-
tic being seated on the clouds? through
Shall we find the infinite by sitting HIS LOVE FOR THE CHILDREN,
with the Caere in other lands, those
who peer into life's strange inys- tlnerd ithrough himself, their invited niezeto vhrother,
tortes? The more our lives go out in love
.After all is not God nearer than t, other lives, the more fully and
we know? If we are his through clearly shall we he more divine,
may we not find the Father through Christienit tells of a God who
the family? If we have grown be-
yond the necessity of thinking of loves men, who seeks them, who
goes out amongst them, winning
THAT INFINITE AFFECTION
them to the higher, fairer ways. A
as confined to a definite face and rnan is godly, not in the measure
figure how can we hope to better that he reaches up to the heavens,
know it than through those in whom but in the measure that he, too,
affection is best shown and toward reaches out to men; he is divine in
the measure that he catches that
glorious spirit of self -giving. He
best believes in God who most be-
lieves in teen.
Heaven is found in humble places
here; the divine is in the faces of
our follows, in ways of lowly ser-
vice and suffering. Not in the
vaulted skies shall we find the
ttuth about the infinite, but in the
faces of our fellows, in walking the
ways where men and women weep,
in leading little children out to
fields of happy laughter, in doing
for all our kind what we believe the
highest would do for us all.
HENRY F. COPE.
i
in its development and particularly
in ire social realization the oxpres-
siori of the divine? These aspire -
Duns, longings, ideals; these com-
plex adjustments of our manifol
living and this growing sense of a
life that belongs to us all and binds
us all together, may not all these
be but the heavenly and eternal
moving in us all?
Now if we would conte to know
any truth there is une safe and sure
path for all feet, that is to do that
truth. If we would know the truth
es to the lord of all being, the in-
finite source of lila and this father
of us all, is there any better way
than the free, full living of that
which seems to spring From heaven-
ly sources in our living with one
another 7
This is the way of the Man of
Nazareth. He found the Father
ad 7
Through the ages men have been
seeking after the divine; they are
es flowers that have through many
eta es of development ever turned
erionce. Another naturalist mains;their faces toward the sun. ,. e
p coanot bear to look at the sun w
tains that plants have eyes and a
form of rudimentary sight. This,
iF true, would not necessarily
strengthen the case for a psychic
element in plants, but it is so mar-
velous that it tends to render the
other theory more credible to the
layman.
It was another Darwin, as a com-
mentator reminds us, that over a
century ago poetically spoke of the
"loves of plants." To -day a des-
cendant of his, in a severely scien-
tific address to the greatest scienti-
fic body in the world, argues that
plants possess some degree of con•
sciousness. Science hath its won-
ders as well as fairyland and ro-
mance,
TIIE LIMERICK CRAZE.
British Paeliameui'r to Prevent Its
Recurrence.
naked eyes, may we not read some
of his glories in the glowing hues
of rose or daisy or poppy? So the
who are, as it were, shadows of the
infii-iite must find that infinite
through one another.
Too, may it not be that somehow
the groat source of all life is ex-
pressing itself in our living 7 The
THE S. S. LESSON
INTERNATIONAL LESSON,
OCT. 13.
Lesson 'IL David's Kindness to
Jonathan's Son. Golden
Text, Eph. 4. 82.
Verse 1. David said, Is there yet
any --Undoubtedly the king made
diligent inquiry to discover whe-
ther any members of the house of
The limerick craze has had its Saul were still living. The picture
day in England and will become a drawn for us in 2 Sam. 21, of same is true with other names hav-
thing of the past, Several persons David's bearing toward the house ing the same ending, as, for ex -
committed suicide from disappoint- of Saul in general is not nearly so Esh-baal, which in Samuel
meet at never gaining a prize. Onetfavorable to him as is the picture ample,s Ish-bosheth, From 2 Sam.
or two men were imprisoned for i portrayed in our lesson narrative. becom4 4, eswe learn that Mephibosheth
cutting limerick competitions out of From chapter 21 we learn that at was five earn at the time of
public library papers. least seven other immediate de- Jonathan's ars old, and since i of
A few disappointed ones tried to scendants of Saul besides Mephibo- time ho himseldefhada t
waylay the ed}tore and explain with Sheth survived the conflict with the ealreadyyoung
y y p h
x sses in i is Saul seven
sons considerable eriod of years must
than were slain. These seven sons have elapsed, The parallel account
or descendants of Saul David is in Chronicles makes no reference
said to have handed over to the to the events here narrated.
Gibeonites in order that the latter
death. His name would seem to
associate him with the tribe of Ma-
nasseh (compare Num. 32, 39, 40:
"And the children of Maohir the son
of Manasseh went to Gilead, and
took it, and dispossessed the Amor-
ites that-avere therein").
Lo-debar—The same town which
is called Debir in Josh. 13. 26. It
was situated east of the Jordan and
not far from Mahanaiut, the city
occupied by David for a brief peri-
od during his exile from Jerusa-
lem.
6. Mephibosheth — Called in 1
Chron. 8. 34, and 9. 40, Merib-baal.
I i the narrative in Samuel the de-
tested name of Baal has been drop-
ped and the word "Boshethe'
meaning "shame," substituted. The
force what they thought of their Phil' which 5 1 and J soli (verse 12),the conclude that a
judgment, and hundreds almost
ruined themselves iu sending six-
pences and poor verses that their
sixpenres might return to them as
pounds,
Now that the excitement has qui-
eted down there comes a report
from the joint committee of the two
Buses of Parliament recommend-
ing this (levies for increasing the
circulation of newspapers should be
made illegal. It is rather late in
the clay for this decision, but it is
not so useless as it seetng, for the
craze for competitions is one that
revives again and again in England
and tale national taste is eaterod to
b3 many newspapers and weeklies.
The report demands that an end
let put to the possibility of any
more systems of coupons, entrance
fees and prizes as offered by these
perterticals to their readers. Even
competitions in which there le an
el stn ent of real skill are proscribed
by the committee if associated with
entrance fees and coupons.
To.discriminate betwec',t prize
c onpetitions was thought andosie
able, porno fhey ns,, .til in*teed te-
gether and a e mwen bat: is- pro-
nouneed upon them which ' ill pro
bahly he pet in statutory 'omit al.
the next srssiot, of Parliat ant.
\Aiiluty llrtnrstty ... "A'
O'Fl:tl:rtt.; whin ,,,n <,14.1d tr
it left at• big lt',Ie in 1uy
U F1nhereto " i1,', 1{ienis;
yr ivied putcl-,in' it cid a. be
mute r"
tel ted Aire bc..l,e'1 1 0,1,1, t, 1,,,t 1'„.
fader ,.hound l f .1.,
ri t i. will h:.!,1 hS ent, !lark
:sou (1;, h,1 IiO, 11 nl t s nl lo, ,.•,l',•
„'
.11 that �i elalt st
'r . it rr lird then 't c idem„xn.
j 1 p tl;
'I don't, lik+t the id'.t of 1eitig;iete
4114;,;.:44. iit' my faroily..wr'-t 3s e
infernally sl„ ; :»i all that.”
might take summary vengeance up-
oe then because of Saul's earlier
bloody cruelty to the inhabitants of
their city (compare 2 Sam. 21.
1-0).
For Jonathan's sake ---Out of re-
spect for his anointing to the office
of king, David had on different oc-
casions refrained from taking Saul's
life when the opportunity afforded.
After the death of Saul, however,
it was the immediate - family of
Jonathan in which David's interest
centered. He docs not seem to
have concerned himself about other
members of Saul'e family, or to
have,proteeted them of their do-
srendante in any special way. In-
deecl, from the preceding note and
narrative of chapter 21, to which it
refers, the 1ontrar, seems to have
been the rase.
2, 7,iba- crafty dose}veil who
later seughf, to acquire for himself
and his tit r, the:, land and personal
property o` i11 'l td a ;,h{+th, his mas-
ter, he I ,r, ai,out him to David,
having lir 1 LL . : a,1ve11te ger of his
lasuenr••t;,, ;: i tido it impossible
Int .i,1ept;ih. +lt,ah hurt'll to lor,k
out for hi., o.Iu itt;orr•,ts (ei,mparn
i -ern.
16. 41; ; l',. '24.;.i0). •
tt. 'i'hu eimdncs of God ---David's
nth to } to than (1 Sem. 30. 14)
st nil+tt fv +ve1•dec1: "; i,uw Inc
r to 1,,,t,''!.inilitosa of Je i t tI,,"
7. Fear not—In view of the fate
that had befallen other surviving
members of Saul's family (compare
rote verso 1 above) Mephihosheth
night well think his own life to be
in danger.
Eat bread at my table continual-
ly—A mark of very great distinc-
tion and honor at an Oriental court.
8. A dead dog --The vilest and
most contemptible of objects among
Orientals,
10. Till the land for him --The sta-
tus quo of affairs in Mdphibosheth's
household thus received the royal
sanction. From henceforth he and
his servant, Ziba, aro to enjoy un-
dieturbod the fruits and produce of
the land of which they seem to have
already been in possession.
Fifteen sons --A rather insignifi-
cant slumber compared with some
o." the Old Testament family re-
cords,
Twenty servants --From, the em-
ber of Zilra's servants it may be in-
ferred that the estate of Mephimo-
sheth was of considerable size,
12. Mephibosheth had a young
son . , , Mica- -Who in turn had it
ttnnler'fattt posterity as it mouth in
Uhroniclee is spelled .Micah,"
'i'H1i1I1 ADVANTAGE'].
'A doctor,'remarked rite drug.
r;ist,, "has it on the rest of us."
"7—lose do von figure that int'!"
t., tht ,, ;;� of 3rh,vn1 he'd he'll ,ncerim] the young M. D.
en1aili,it, and tnllisnited Lowest] ` r.li'hg" replied the druggist,
, t> c r! + I.e in t,irrt ,les ,',ed to •'even if he is a poor man he can
I ,, hires'f toward the fainity ofn
11;iLnke.Tifc,
s l,folot,, friend.
I 1, ial,tc+hi, ; the to of Atmotcl 4 C'hippy- •"I wits not at all up to
t., e seeadorable wealth, ..i,d ,. _ the. mark lest nights-tried
ni ht --tried to A
ny
n,itforof pre -mamma n„ir,a�lg, but rnu1tn,
t
et tee -;' ^'I,,,,,, lir is mentioned dc, it, somehow ; so at Must T hed.e
them !:_recti -Eye,” Norton --"Ah 1
t„ 1 bit' i 27-215, in cottnection
with 1'i,::•. 1'•. ;te,ture it.'catt. exile fol Then you did manage to say sonse-
loyving -Ills: alutn't; rebellion and I ,,:ring osereeabi,r after all l"
.ANY ONE CAN NOW CUT JULES
VERNE'S RECOIL") IN TWO.
Gross 'Total of the Trip Would not
Exceed Seven Hundred and
Seventy-five Dollars.
Somebody with a liking for
time
table statistics has discoered
that
in the event of the Cunard Line us-
ing English Channel ports it would
be possjble to reduce by one-half
the time taken by Jules Verne's
traveller in circling the worm.
This is how the trip could be dune
in forty clays:
Leaving New York on Saturday,
say, at noon, by either the Lusi-
tania or the Mauretania, a passen-
ger would land at Plylnouth the fol-
lowing Thursday and be conveyed
to Waterloo station in London by
the London and South -Western.
Railway either in the forenoon or
at such an early time in the after-
noon as to enable him to catch at
Victoria Station the 8.35 p.m. train
for Berlin, where he would arrive
the next day, Friday, at 6.45.
He could leave Berlin at 7,12 p.
ns. the same day, arriving at War-
saw at 8.07 a.m.; leave Warsaw at
10.05 a,m. and arrive at Moscow at
1.20 p.m. the next day. At Moscow
he would have ample time to take
a drive around the city before
boarding
THE SIBERIAN EXPRESS,
leaving the same day at 7 p.m.
After a short stop at Irkutsk,
which would enable' him to take in
the sights, the passenger would ar-
rive at Vladivostok the second fol-
lowing Thursday at 10.15 a.m. In
Vladivostok he would have time to
rest and whatever sightseeing and
recreation the city affords, for tho
regular service to Tsuruga does not
leave that point till the following
Saturday at 5 pan., landing at
Tsuruga, Japan, on the Monday fol-
lowing at 6 a.m.
In Tsuruga he would find a train
which would bring him to Yokoha-
ma the same day, in time to catch
the Canadian Pacific Express stea-
mer, which leaves Yokohama every
third Monday.
The crossing of the Pacific re-
quires but twelve days, the arrival
at Vancouver taking place on the
following Saturday but one.
At Vancouver the passenger
would again have several hours lee-
way, for the Great Northern Lim-
ited train to St. Paul does not leave
that port until 4 p.m., arriving at
Si,. Paul the third day at 2.15, and
giving the passenger a few hours to
spare in that city until the depar-
ture of the fast Northwest Limited
train for Chicago, arriving Wednes-
day,
EARLY IN THE MORNING.
At 2.30 p.m. he would board the
Twentieth Century Limited, the
famous New York Central train,
arriving in New York bhe follow-
ing day (Thursday) at 9.30 a. m.,
having thus consumed- a little less
than forty days for the entire cir-
cuit, with plenty of stops, and hav-
ing coverer] 19,000 miles by rail and
water.
Nor would the cost of the journey
he exorbitant. Taking it for grant-
ed that the Cunard Line would
charge the same minimum rate to
Channel ports as it does to Liver-
pool, the trip to London would
cost $135. The cost of the journey
from London to Vladivostok,
in-
cluding sleeping car, is about $240.
To Yokoboma, including sleeping
car, just over $25,
A first class ticket from Yokoha-
ma to New York, including Pull-
man cars aoross America, costs
over 0215.
If we add to this a sum of $100
for tips, meals on trains, hotel ex-
penses at Vladivostok, carriage
from boats to brains, and vice ver-
sa, it will bo seen that the gross
total of the trip would not exceed
$775.
PASSING OF LONDON HANSOM.
Before the days of motor cabs the
horsed vehicles in London number-
ed over 11,000, while in their pros-
perous days they numbered some
14,000. At the end of the half year
completed June 30 the number
stood at only 9,197. Soon the mo-
tor omnibus will entirely cease to
guffer from their obstruction,
t
GREW CONSIDERATE,
"See that you don't get hurt,
Sam. It's dangerous working here
h quarry."
int e.q y
"Ohl nothing can happen to me,
.The. I've borrowed two dollars
from the foreman, and since then
lei doesn't let the do any dangerous
work."
"She told him she must not see
him any more," ,',What did he
,'.o 7" "Turned but the light 1"
Tourist (to Irish jarvey, to whom
110 has just given a nip of whisky)—
"That's made another man of you,
Pat!" Jarvoy: Faith it has, yet
1 anor ; but he's just as thirsty as
the other one!
When Theodora Roosevelb was
f+nlice Commissioner in Now York
lie asked an applicant for a position
in the force: "If you were ordered
a.o disporse a mob, •what would you
dog" "Pass arou d the hat, air,"
w as the reply.
JACK-TIDE-RIPPER AGAiN
AN OLi) CLAY PIPE AND WRIT-
ING ON WALL FOUND.
lettering Was Oblitet'atrd Before
f he Authorities Had Been
Summoned.
•
England's excitement over serer-
al
eve•-al recent murders in which the mur-
derers escaped detection has caused
Sim Robert Anderson, the former
Commissioner of Police of London,
to mention some of the difficulties
which hinder crime investigation in
England. He spoke of the differ-
ence between the legal powers and
status of the English police 5 rce
as compared with the French,
"In Paris," he remarked, "if a
murder were to take place the house
would beat once surrounded by a
cordon of officers, the door's would
be sealed, the Chief of Police would
be at once informed, and no one'
would be allowed to touch anything
until he had completed his investi-
gation. Everything would he left
just as it was found; the most
skilled police officers would see ev-
erything as the criminal left it; they
would note the methods of his work
by the evidences remaining, and
would have placed before them all
that would help them to
UNRAVEL THE STORY.
"See the difference here. 'An
Englishman's home is his castle,' as
w» know, and when the crime inves-
tigator desires to enter a house he
has to take off his cap ceremoni-
ously and say, `If you please.'
"Look at two notable cases that
I had to deal with. There was the
murder of that unfortunate young
lady, Miss Camp, in the carriage
ci. the South -Western Railway.
"She was brought into Waterloo
station and was then taken to St.
Thomas' Hospital. No one thought
it necessary to inform the head of
the Criminal Investigation Depart-
ment, and it was only by accident
that I heard of it several hours af-
ter it occurred. Meanwhile all the
evidence had been destroyed.
"In France the doors of the car-
riage would have been sealed, it
would have been run into a siding
or an engine shed, and a guard
would have been placed there to
see that no one disturbed the body
or anything else.
"Something of the same kind hap-
pened in the Ripper crimes. In two
cases of that terrible series there
were distinot clues destroyed, wiped
out absolutely, clues that might
very easily have secured for us
proof of the
IDENTITY OF THE ASSASSIN.
"In one case it was a clay pipe.
Before we could get to the scene of
the murder the doctor had taken
it up, thrown it into the fireplace,
and smashed it beyond recognition.
"In another case there was writ-
ing in chalk on the wall—a most
valuable clue: handwriting that
tnight have been at once recognized
as belonging to a certain individu-
al. But before we could secure a
copy or get it protected it had been
entirely obliterated.
"No law hinders a police officer
from going into a private house or
private grounds to arrest a crim-
inal. But the law gives him no right
to enter for the investigation of the
crime and the securing of evidence
that may lead to the detection of
the criminal.
"That brings me, of course, to
the question of en alteration of the
law and the reconstruction (if that
be necessary) of the Criminal In-
vestigation Department, and that is
too big a question to be settled or
even discussed profitably here."
wesees—
TWO FAMOUS LAWSUITS
BOY ARRESTED, <AG1'1)) 11, TO
BE TRIED AT 49,
:Pitmans Austrian i,nwsnil'.Origic.
ated When ))melt Fettled
in America.
Two little bops in Roane were ear -
vying their father's pistol to the
gunsi'nith's to be mended. They
quarreled and the pistol was not so
Inuclt out of under 48 to keep Pietro,
aged 11, from shooting Paola, aged
8.
The little fratricide was at once
arrested, the magistrate commit -
Ling hint to prison, while the,' pro -
pared to deal -with th.e case. Un-
fortunately for Pietro, the day on
which he shot his brother was Sept.
18, 1870. On that day Gen. Bixio
began his march toward Route and
.ewo days later he entered the city.
The Papal magistrates had ample
excuse for forgetting Pietro, and
Pietro was forgotten for ahout six
months, when the newly -appointed
functionaries took up his case. So
deliberately did.they take it up that
ib was
NOT UNTIL 1882
that all the material for the prose-
cution had been completed.
Then the abolition of the death
penalty in Italy caused a fresh de-
lay. Three specialists were ap-
pointed to enquire into Pietro's
state of mind, and they disagreed,
causing the affair to be shelved in-
definitely. There is no one now
who remembers at first hancl the in-
cidents of the crime.
Pietro is 49, having spent thirty-
eight years in the House of Deten-
tion, and once more efforts ars to
be made to bring him finally to
toOf greater antiquity than Pietro's
Casa is a famous lawsuit that has
just ended at Agram, Austria. It
originated in a dispute between
Croatian nobles and srnall peasant
farmers at the time when the Dutch
settlers in America were just be-
ginning to build New Amsterdam.
The big land owners in Croatia of
the time illegaly annexed the pea-
sants' lands at Bredovec, and the
peasants appealed to the Emperor
Ferdinand for justice. An enquiry
was opened, which lasted so long
that the peasants lost patience and
A BATTLE WAS FOUGHT
between a force of 10,000 peasants,
under Matthew Guhle, and the
nobles, in which the latter were vic-
torious.
The matter lay practically dor-
mant until forty-two years ago,
when the inhabitants of Bredovec
resolved to have the case reopened.
Now at last the Court has announc-
ea its verdict, which forms a bulky
volume in itself, •.
Basing its decision chiefly upon
the redistribution of lands scheme.
inaugurated by the abolition of serf-
dom in Croatia in 1848, the Court
Itas found in the main for the pea-
sants, many of whorl have now sud-
denly become well to do. Those
who benefit chiefly by the verdict
are, appropriately enough, the lin-
eal descendants of the peasant lea-
der, Matthew Gubec, who was cap-
tured by the nobles and crowned by
them as a mock king of the pea-
sants with a red hot iron crown.
H'
HERE AND THERE. •
A man's voice, through .a speak-
ing -trumpet 20 feet long, has been
heard a distance of twenty miles
At the time he casts his first vote
a man is too young to realize that
he doesn't know it al].
No feel sorry for the woman who
has no confidence in either her hus-
band or her dressmaker.
Doctors and lawyers have at least
one good trait in common. They
never give advice before it is asked
for.
"Bromley, I hear you are g'oi ip
to start Housekeeping?" "Yes,
Derlinggor." "What have you got
towards. it 7" "A wife."
Mistress—"Bridget, it always
seems to me that the crankiest mis-
tresses get the best cooks." Cook
..—"Ah, go on wid yer blarney!"
Customer—"Are you sure this is
seal Ceylon teal" "Well -.informed
'Young Assistant—"Certainly, sir.
Mr. Ceylon's name is on every
package."
The bride always stands on the
left-hand side of the groom during
the wedding ceremony, save among
the Jews, when she is placed at, his
right hand.
Pure water will not rust iron. It
is the presence of carbonic acid and
other impurities which cauao the
surface of the iron to oxidise when
exposed to moisture,
Optimist ---"Don't grumble about
poverty, old man. B,o,eemberi
money sometimes brings misery.
P'essiu isi Yes, but in that case
a mart oan get ridof his riches,but
1 can't got rid of my poverty r
A CLOSE CALL,
The Terrible iiiporicuee of a Trap*
per in British Columbia,
"Puflic" is tdla name of one of
the best of the trappers and timber
cruisers who yearly plunge into the
wilderness of the 131g Woods of
Rritislt Columbia to woo fortune
for timber or Inc. A writer in the
Outing Magazine gives Puffle's own
story of one of his experiences
"Boys," said Purge, seriously, ":f
thought last winter I was out of it.
Close call, you ask? Well, pretty
close. I had startnd out from Rev-
elstoke with the tumid outfit, about
six hundred pounds. I went tiway
tip Canoe River, and had been hav-
ing pretty good luck, when I play-
ed the fool. I got in a hurry. I
tc.ok overlong hikes and ate cold
grub to save time. We fellows
don't dare do that. No man itt the
winter woods can stand cold grub ;
he must cook well and take his rest,
Then it doesn't matter if he has to
t tide creeks and sleep wet, and live
net days at a time; bet can resist
it; he's got the fuel in him,
"We have a rule that when we got
ie a hurry we must camp a whole
day and think it over. When I
found myself going, I did camp and
thittic it over; but I guess I was a
hit late about it. I dug Oregon
grape and princess pine, and boiled
them down for blood tonic, and was
lucky enough to find some foxglove
for my heart, which had begun to
kick too hard when I climbed.
"Then I hurt my foot before the
roots had pat me in shape, and
when I found a toe black one morn-
ing, I knew I must pull for down -
river. I cached my stuff and start.
ed. I had to hurry then.
"All day 7 snow -shoed, biting
pard on a bit of pine to 'forget the
pain. Nights I'd end a hollow ce-
dar log, cut holes in it about ten
feet apart for draft, l.indle a fire
at the end, and lie down on the log,
When the fire had burned up to the
draft -hole at my feet, I moved up
another !tole,
"When I couldn't find a log, I'd
dig a pit down in the snow, kin Po
a brush fire in it, and sleep at the
edge of the ashes.
"I reached Smith Creek all rigut,
but by tbon my whole foot was
black. Boys, may I live to forget
it. I fell in, crossing that creek,
fell in over head and ears in ice -
water, and nothing between malted
Revelstoke to help me. If I stop-
ped, besides the ceretainty of freez-
ing, I knew my hurt would never
]et me start again, and I didn't
think I could keep on going. 7 felt
I was gone, but I resolved to die
hard and play the game through,
"Off I hiked on the ragkets. Aw-
ful going it was, the pain killing
me by inches, and every ritg on me
frozen solid.
"Night came. I kept on lige a
madman, for I dared not stop a sec-
ond. If I drowsed an instant t
was dead.
"1 reached White's cabin, All
not ire urged me to go in for a rest.
I h reason enough left to know
tit would be my last rest, so I hit
the trail steady with an awful limp.
When I had been hiking steady for
fcrty-two hours, I fell in it my own
door, and things swum and went
c'nrk. -
"It was three months even to
crutches. Going out again next
-winter? Sure!"
AIRSHIP RECORD 1%E.t.I'EN.
German Officer in Flight for '!'hit'-
teen hours.
'.Major Gross, of the German ale -
ship corps, the other day, accom-
plished the longest voyage 'yet
rna ?e by such vessels, Count Zeppe-
lin's Swiss cruise in July being
beaten by an hour and ten minutes.
The Gross airship remained aloft
for a few minutes over thirteen
hours.
Some remarkable experiences
were undergone by the crow dur-
ing their voyage over sleeping cit-
ies, towns and hamlets, They start-
ed at half -past ten on Thursday
night. When they were over the
town of Rathenow, at midnight, the
wind, blowing at thirty-five feet a
second, held the airship captive
among the clouds for nearly two
hours. Both her motors throbbed
at full pressure in a ,Aiesperato at-
tempt to snake headway, and Major
Cross was just about to turn round
and return to Berlin when the air-
ship began to move forward, and
continued the rest of the journey
without a break,
The crow (who, by the way, were
spectators of it great farmyard fire
2,000 foot below) declare that con-
ditions throughout the night 'were
as favorable for sleeping as tltoge
in a railway train, but for the ex-
citement and exhilaration of soar-
ing through' the bracing moonlight
air kept them awake.
During the whole night both mo-
tors wete constantly working, The
airship covered only, sixty,fivo miles
during the first eight' hours, lett
from Magdeburg, which was the
turning point for the voyage, back
to Berlin, a trip of eighty miles was
accomplished with the wind in three
and ons -half howl's, The return
journey was over .Potsdam.
Tho descent took place safely at
the '2egol "dock" by moans of the
motor alone, During part of the
voyage the airship was sailing at a
}rgjeh
t of 4,000 feet,
SENTENC IISERMONS.
Many a big sorry is born of a lit-
tl , sin.
Greater work is the best reward
for good work.
Character depends more on con-
science than on creed,
Laws always depend on our es-
sential valuation of life.
Religion is nob to bind hack, but
to bind together all men.
The god who can be expressed in
figures is only a figurative god after
all.
He who sells out his friends lays
his own soul on the bargain coun-
ter.
Success is not so much in getting
there as in knowing what you aro
there for,
Envy is the habit of extracting
`aur own misery out of the happiness
of others.
The greatness of any man's pre-
sent depends on the length of Ms
view of the future.
Salvation is more than coned -
vileness of my soul; it is the sense
,.•f the worth of every soul,
When the preacher gets anxious
tc popular opinion on his brain, ha
has not his people on hie heart.
You are not likely to do pinch for
the poor fellow on the Jericho toed
if you are anxious for the approval
of the •Pharisee,
If you are dissatisfied with your
religion because it does s,ot make
3.00 happy, rile first whether you
make any ,one also happy.
Many a man has a kick coming
that never reaches bins,
During the last year 29,e00 yes
eels entered the Port of London.
Nothing short of a steam roller
can stop a middle-aged wonmtt who
imagings she:, can sing.
Literary Lacy -"I am veryfond
f Bacon, aren't min?" ltcltterrtry
Gentleman--"C!axu i t. a:: t a,in,
but I like haul nail , me,"
Judge ."What t+ ,.,:,. mune,+i'
Prisoner. "I've fetrotteathe mime
giro last night." )ttdge -"Dido c
.
you give idea owe nmn:e^' P rise-•
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