Evening Star Newspaper, October 16, 1921, Page 78

& 'THE ' SUNDAY ‘ STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, OCTOBER 16, 1921—PART 4. How Whole Climate of Eastern Canada May Change If Proposed Dam Be Built! BY C. T. HARRI SYNDICATE of British capital- ists have applied to the Cana- dian government for conces- sions to build a rallway from Quebec to St. Johns, N. B. The most important of these concessions is the construction of a dam crossing Belle 1sle strait from the Labrador shore to Newfoundland. Walter Noble Burns in describing this scheme in the Fop- ular Science Monthly says: “The Strait of Belle Isle, a narrow channel separating Newfoundland from Lab- rador, is a hole in the wall of the At- lantic seaboard that is mainly re- sponsible for the bleak winter climate of eastern Canada. Plug this hole and eastern Canada and New England would have a climate as mild and de- lightful as that of the Carolinas. Such a dam would cost about $10,000,- 000. It would require a solid strip of stone and concrete ten miles in length and fifty feet wide.” The dam.would block the Labrador current from flowing into the Gulf of St. Lawrence. The Labrador current has {is origin In the Arctic ocean and is the dominant factor in moldjng the climate. of eastern Newfoundland, Quebec, “Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick. Nova Scotia and the New England states. It makes the sum- mers cool and pleasant, but it adds to the already severe rigors of the northern winter. It affects not only climate, but business. With the dam obstructing its passage through Belle 1sle strait, the Labrador current would be forced out into the Atlantic ocean. What would become of it out there is a matter of speculation. The pressure of water flowing up from the south, the engineers declare, would eventually force it in a giant curve back into the Arctic in the re- gion of Spitzbergen. But its ey flood Wwould no longer wash the shores of Canada and New England. The en- gineers say that with the Labrador current diverted eastward the gulf stream would swing in against the northern coasts. “The gulf stream makes the olimate of England what it is. ~Without it Eng- land would be as cold and possibly as desolate as Labrador. If after a run of several thousand miles across the ocean, ‘Wit icebergs melting along its northern ¥ the gulf stream still has enough caloric to make the climate of such a northern country as England temperate and livable, how much greater would be its effect in ameliorating the climate of Canada and New England?" Mr. Burns admits the engineer's scheme sounds plausible, but he asks: “Will the ocean currents obey the be- hests of human pigmies essaying to di- rect their courses? Then, again, is there not a chance that while the gulf stream is replacing the Labrador current on American shores, the Labrador current, diverted eastward, would envelop the British Isles? While the climate of eastern Canada Is being changed to that of Virginia, is there mot a possibility that the climate of England would be changed to that of Labrador? These disturbing questions are answered by the engineers in the negative, but there are other persons not quite so sure.’ A dam ten miles long and fifty feet wide would seem to be a slight barrier against a mighty current, which fn ad- dition to its own weight, ‘carries with it icebergs weighing millions of tons. The Dressure against such a dam would be ‘enormous and the difficulties to be en- countered in fts construction would be many. At an estimated Initial cost of $10,000,000, it is highly probable that a dam of sufficient strength would cost many millions more. It is a matter of speculation whether the proposed dam would divert the course of the Labrador current in all its force to the eastward. It may, to the contrary, cause it to round the northern shore of Newfound- tand and continue on its way south with undiminished force. * ok k% DURING the deep sca explorations of the British survey ship Chal- lenger from 1872 to 1876, the North Atlantic ocean was charted from the tropics to the Arctic circle. It was discovered that a cold current flowed southward along the east coast of Greenland, and after rounding Cape Farewell joined the Labrador cur- rent down to the latitude of New- foundland. The eastern this current extended as far north as latitude 80, with a much higher temperature. and after bathing the west coast of the British Islands and Norway passed to the polar regions along the coast of Spitzbergen. The warm current observed was _con- sidered to be an extension of the gulf stream. In the absence of this current, or if its place were taken by a polar current, the climate of the Hritish Islands would be the same as that of Labrador. The results ob- tained by the Challenger were the iT\Tot(_es of Art and Artists An extremely interesting collection of etchings of the desert, by George Elbert Burr of Denver, Col, is now on view In the Corcoran Gallery of aAsc. These etchin thirty-five in humber, give an extraordinary inti- ey with the great desert stretches i New Mexico, Arizona and Califor- nia, showing both broad views and intimate glimpses. They are in mez- zotint, dry-point, equatint, soft ground and pure line etching, and the style of rendering is exceedingly diverse. For over twenty years Mr. Burr bas made his home in Denver, having a summer studio in the kigh Rockies, from the door of which stretches ou before him a magniiicent panoramu of mountain peaks and gorges. Be- fore going west he did illustrative work and was known for his illus- trations for the catalogue of the He- ber Bishop collection of jades at the, Metropolitan Museum of Art. His breadth of manner artistically is therefore built upon an extraordinary knowledge of form and trained ac- curacy. No wonder, therefore, that in this collection of etchings, now on view, his rendering of ‘the flora and vegetation of the desert is so ex- quisite or that his landscapes display such firmness in contour. There is nothing more difficult to picture than the grandeur of nature. Many havé attempted to paint and to pictortally interpret our great west, but few have succeeded in ren- dering both its beauty and its scenic majesty. These elements have found their way into Mr. Burr's little etch- ings. His picture of the Grand Canyon carries with it an impression of vast- mess. His_moonlight scenes suggest in a very big way the awesome soli- tude. His pictures of a cloudburst and of a sandstorm give one a tre- mendous appreciation of the power | and fury of the elements. His compositions. furthermore, are excellent. He has an admirable wi of contrasting light and shade. bringing littleness to scale with big- ness, of indicating quantity as well as quality of illumination. No me- chanical process can adequately re- produce an etching. particularly these etchings, in which texture plays so large a part. They must be seen to be _enjoyed, to be understood. It s hard, perhaps, to_understand why & prickly pear cactus should be fouhd pictorial, but as Mr. Burr has rendered it it is. So also is a group of glant cactus and A curfous rendi- tion of a barrel cactus. No less in- teresting in the collection is an etch- ing of a selitarv nalm in a canvon flooded with sunlight. There is not a line too much nor one too few. The jagged sides of the canvon are vig- orously indicated—the palm, with its head high, stands enveloped in hot atmosphere. Miss Lena McCauley. in an excel- lent monograph on these etchings. recently said: “The wonder and the glamour of the desert invest them. They stimulate the imagination and create an atmosphere. Mr. Burr's variations on desert aspects keep consistently to the dominating spirit of the arid land covering areas in Arizona, New Mexico and California. The scientific student and keen ob- server detects the difference between the Salton sink. the Mojave. the New Mexican wastes and Arizona. but to the casual traveler and dreamer of the desert world certain charac- teristics maintain and are always true, true of the desert. Mr. Burr. as a devotee of landscape and nat- ural grandeur in its subjective moods, has escaped the pictorial notes that frequently weaken the value of a sublime idea. In only a very few instances does his tool draw signs of life in the landscape. The trav- elers. knee deep in the sands. accent the difficulties of the road. Once the etched line expresses flying birds and once there is a suggestion of fertile meadows, with cattle feeding. near Kingman, Ariz.. but in every case the desert invincible is dom- inant.” . Those who have visited the far west will find this collection of ex- traordinary interest. and to those who have not it will prove a genuine revelation. * % * % The exhibition of paintings by the late Bertha E. Perrie. now on view in the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Is engaging. Interesting, colorful, varied in subject. essentially fine. It is only a strong painter whose work gains through aggregation and it is safe to say that even Miss Perrie's closest friends were not fully aware of her capability until this ex- hibtifon was assembled. These pic- tures do not represent amateur work, the craftsmanship is exceptional, the art is of a high order and the pic- tures that are exhibited. almost with- out exception, possess a naive charm which was also her own. ‘Boat pictures of familiar Glouces- ter wharf scenes are delightful but no more so than the pictures painted abroad showing glimpses of quaint old world towns or the color- ful pictures of New England streets and gardens, the floral still life sub- jects, the figure sketches. way one turns the eye is attracted, the attention engaged, admiration called forth. Tn addition to the pictures there is a case of miniatures, portrait studies, with but one or two exceptions, which are flower garden themes. Miss Perrie awas Odarticularly successful in her Whichever | miniature painting, which was both broad and intimate, gravely. serious and yet winning in simplicity. In’the anteroom to the semi-circu- lar gallery has been hung fifty or xty sketches in color of figures in costume, for the most part made by Miss Perrie at the Monday Evening Sketch Club, which for so many years met each winter weekly at her studio in the old Art Students’ League build- ing. These are clever and pleasin ing and illustrate an artists way of working. The exhibition continues only one more week. * ¥ ¥ x __Within the past few years great improvement has been seen in the art exhibitions held in the state fairs throughout the country. Tradition- ally, these were sad affairs. showing art ‘of an extremely amateur and questionable order, entered in the same fashion as pies, cakes, vege- tables and live stock, but with far less discrimination. Now in several of the state fairs really notable ex- hibitions are held yearly. Texas is perhaps in the lead. the art department of the fair at Dallas each fall having won enviable repu- tation both for the character of the work shown and the number of high- priced paintings sold. The Tennessee state fair at Nashville has this year and for the past few years mada high record. Michigan and Minnesota have in {past seasons not merely contented themselves with showing works of art of high standard, but have em- ployed able directors and had demon- ! strations given in the art buildings. Michigan, in fact, has erected on its state fair grounds an admirable little plcture gallery. This year the Ohio state fair has set forth as fine a collection of paintings by cotemporary American artists as i not often assembled outaide of an art museum. Forty-seven paintings by the leading American artists were included in the catalogue. which, by the way, was nicely printed and {charmingly {llustrated. These pic- tures were, for the most part. loaned by the artists. There was also a spe- cial collection of more than 200 works by, Ohio exhibitors. As a spur for the r a public-spirited Ohioan 2 prize’of §500. e s worth noting in this connec- tion that whereas a number of states have no art museum and many can | Boast but one, the state of Ohio has Ino less than ‘five. among which are {three of special importance and prominence. [ Ok ok Already the Carnegle In Pittsburgh announces ita twen i fires }l;;:n(ir:lona'lld§xhl;zlgonfl to be held e middle of Apr i die ‘ot June, 152 o el urles will meet in_ Loy Parls In_Januaty. in New York the last of March and in Pittsburgh in April. The international jury this year wlll be made up of two Ameri: can and two European painters, with the director or assistant director of the art department of the Carnegie Institute as chairman. Homer Saint Gaudens, son of the great sculptor, Augustus Saint Gau- dens, fs now assistant director, and will visit Europe jn November and De- cembor In the interest of the exhibi- tion. It is a great pity that this inter- national exhibition’ should be shown nowhere in this countrv but in Pitts- i | burgh. Certainly they should be shown here in the Natignal Capital, and doubtless they would if the Na- tional Gallery had a home of its own. v * kK k k Some years ago thore was organ- ized in Chicago a Society of the Friends of American Art, each mem- ber of which pledged him or her self to give $200 & year for five years for the purchase of palntings by Ameri- can artists for the permanent collec- tion of the Chicago Art Institute. As the society had over two hundred members & considerable sum became available and numerous excellent purchases have been made, stimulat- ing the artists and permanently en- riching the art institute. More late- ly. similar societies have been form- ed in other American cities. Now comes word of the organization of a Society of the Friends of Art in Milan, Italy. It is not on quite the ame basis as the Chicago Society, but its purpose is likewise to en- courage art and secure patronage. * ok kX In New York last season Mrs. Al- bert Sterner. the well known artist and illustrator, organized among the Cchildren of the rich the Junjor Art | Patrons of America, which again is | tashioned on the plan of the Chicago Friends of Art. These young people, mostly In their teens, are pledged to spend a certain sum each year in the acquisition of a work of art, sup- posedly of their own choosing, from an exhibition held under the auspices of the soclety. The first exhibition {was held at Knoedler's. The second, | which has just openmed, is in their own little gallery, at 22 West 45th street. Some of the exhibits are loan- ed. Such, for instance, as water col- ors by Winslow Homer and Sargent, owned by the Brooklyn Institute, but the majority by the artists. X K K % H A. Phiminister Proctor, sculptor of the buffalo which dignify and orna- ment the Q street bridge and also the splendid jaguars on the Piney Branch bridge, has been commission- ed to model an equestrian statue of the late Col. Theodore Roosevelt, to be erected in the city of Portland. Ore. LEILA MECHLL branch of | 1same as obtained by the United States coast survey years before. Investigations by the United States land's knights. He was too glad to have the opportunity to head the White Company. At the castle Al- leyne again met the girl he had res- cued in the wood. She turned out to be Lady Maude Loring, daughter of Sir Nigel. On account of .his learn ing, Alleyne was hired to be squire to Sir Nigel, and to teach Lady Maude and her companions until the warriors left for France. At last Sir The White Company (A. CONAN DOYLE.) to attend to before enlisting for the 1G John of Hordle was kicked coast survey from 1845 to 1859 die- out of Lt wars. He wanted to convert a bad | Nigel's home guards were ready, and closed evidence of the existence be- ! o the monastery of egg brother, the notorious Socman | Lady Maude slipped ‘alleyne a green low the sea surface of great bodies Beaulleu, after he had been[of Minstead, and departed on this|veil to remember hm by. 0! water constantly in moticn, al uest. times flowink paraliel with each other ordezed iashed ailiover ithe|d %k . e g :r'."i ut:lher times one passing nl:nvs precincts for <arrylng a maiden 5 i Sha ALL the way to ®ae port of em- e other. It was also ascertalncd facross a creek. Far different was|[N @ wood he came upon a beauti- barkation Sir Nigel stopped that a polar current may extend its ; g ATiation L R S oppelineos onris Long e T o o the |the exit of tender young Alleyne ful black-haired girl, who Was|pe agking in Don Quixote manner, Phe surface influence of the Bdricson, who trickled out gently, being cuffed and collared by a big, «any little wrongs I can right for tropics. Labrador current is felt along our coast to the nelghborhood of Cape Hatteras. Then it sinks, continuing its way southward, gradually yleld- ing to the warmer waters of the equatorial current. Taking the tem- perature of the water In the Florida strait, the United States coast survey found it to be 40 degrees at a depth of 300 fathoms, while at the surface the temperature was 30 degrees. inshore, in the winter season, the Labrador current is a surface stream, Its eastern edge submerges ynder o position by the gulf streami but as far south as latitude 44 its wtrength is so great that it floats icebergs against the warmer current. In the summer season the superheated waters of the gulf stream spread out, |nearing the coasts of the United States and the maritime provinces, tempering the Labrador cyrrent and having the effect of raising the tem- perature of the British islands, the North sea and Scandinavia, The North Atlantic equatorial current splits and flows eastward of the. West Indies, cxtending to the Bermudas, north of which it unites with the gulf stream. Westward the same current in its di- Ivision enters the Caribbean sea. cir- | cles the Guit of Mexico, which it en: ters by the Yucatan channel, and (forms what we know as the gul! stream. A difference of level, about two feet, between the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico, forces the water through the Florida strait, ninety miles wide, at a rate of about three knots per hour, which rate gradually diminishes as, of course, its strength is expended. Furthermore, it has been discovéred that off the Grand Banks the Labrador current divides. one branch continuing along the North American coast and the other taking a_southeasterly course to the Azores, where this branch also di- vides. There is a theory that if the course of the Labrador current can be di- verted, as proposed, Its course will be turned around the eastern coast. of Newfoundland, continuing alon: the American coast, as it does now. Allowing that this would be the case, the chilling influence of the current might be stronger, causing a climatic ; change in the southern portions of the coast The great rivers of the oceans may | be likened to the arterfes of the hu- man body. They keep the waters in circulation, and, as the greater num- ber of these rivers are warm currents, | they make the earth habitable. The gulf stream. by following the comst and imparting_its warmth to the land, tempers the climate of the At- lantic states. Should there occur a convulsion of nature whereby the Is' nd f Cuba should be submerged, then what? With the rush of waters the peninsula of Florida would be overwhelmed, also the Florida keys, the Bahamas and the Bermuda islands, a_catastrophe the direst in } history. Cuba, a barrler of over 700 | miles in length, is. under existing | circumstances, the key to the situa- tion. A diversion of the Labrador cur- rent may prove to be a benefit to hu- manity, and then again it may not. Pygmies of Africa. JJERODOTUS recorda the existence of pygmies in Afrlca—“a nation | of little men who wore garments! made of palm leaves.” Hundreds of vears after the “Father of History” wrote, Stanley saw them in the gloom | of a central African forest and held lan interview with one of their nrln-] jcesses. Later Capy. Burrows of the |Congo State came across these little | treaks more than once. The pygmies' height brings them | to the shoulder of 2 man of average stature, although some of them stand no higher than his chest. There are black pygmies and red pygmies. The bodies of the red pygmies are mot so hairy as those oNthe negroes, but the :blav:ks' bodles are covered with down. Although a well-proportioned race. ! they are socially inferior to other} tribes. They are nomads by nature and wander from place to place, sup-} porting themselves by hunting. One place seems to be as much a home to them as another, if it is good hunting ground. Their revengeful nature and their! kardihood in war causes them to be| feared. They will lie and deceive, but | they will not steai. The pygmy is an excellent archer. iHe will shoot three or four arrows, one after the other, with such rapid- ity that the last will have left the bow before the first has reached its goal. When an arrow misses its mark the pygmy flies into a violent passion, breaking his bow and arrows in his rage. When it hits he pats his left arm with his right hand and chuckles. A certain chief of the Momvus was big and so corpulent that he had to be carried about in a litter borne by four men. On a certain occasion he was going with his warriors to fightd a neighboring chief, for he always ac- | companied a fighting expedition and | directed its attacks from his litter. | His wife, a massive matron, was in] the litter with him. As they passed an invisible pygmy encampment whose inhabitants he had offended, a flight of arrows from a concealed foe ! caused the chief and his wife to drop| back from their sitting posture and turn over on their faces. A pygmy darted out from behind a tiny bush, shot two arrows, hit both the chief 'and his wife and then, ut- wrmfi a crv of gratification and pat- ting his right arm with his left hand, disappeared behind the bush. The pyemies take up their abode near the village of a big chief, where banana plantations abound. from which they may glean when they please. They have two methods of doing this. One is as follows: A pygmy will mark out a bunch of bananas in a plantation by shooting an arrow into the stalk. The arrow signifien that the pyERmy desires that yarticular bunch when it is suffici- ontly ripe. The owner of the plan- tation stands in such fear of the DPYRmy’s vengeance that he never dreams of removing the fruit or the arrow, but leaves both to be claimed by_the awe-Inspiring dwarf. By the other method the pygmy buys the bananas, he fixing the price and paying for it in that which his flat makes currency. On returning home from a day's hunting, with sev. eral pleces of meat wrapped in gra: or leaves, he goes to a plantation, se- lects several bunches of bananas, shins up the truee, cuts off the bunches and in payment affixes one of the small packets of meat to the stem by a wooden skewer. He has not, in his view. stolen the bananas— he has bought them! The pygmy's appetite for bananas is such that he will eat several.dozen at a meal. Then he will lie and groan tiroughout the night. but when morning comes he is ready. to repeat the meal. Strangers passing through the bush are fair game to the pygmies, who are cunning in the art of compelling a man to make a target of himself. The pygmy fastens a cord to his foot and affixes the other end to‘the bough of a .tree that stretches.across the forest path. Concealed a few yards off, the pygmy waits until he hears some one coming; then he gently pulls the string o as to shake the bough. The stranger stops to watch the moving branch and is shot in the back by the pygmy. Solved a Problem. From the Edinburg Scotsman. “Dickey,” said his mother. “when you divided those five caramels with your sister, did you give her three?” “No, ma. I thought they wouldn't come’ out even,. ro, 1.ate one 'fore I Lezan to divide a 1 l i i blonde Dempsey. “Make this big stiff beat it,” cried the girl. “Away, varlet!” ordered Alleyne. only because his father had placed him in the monastery as a child, with instructions that his son should see the world before he had renounced it forever. Wandering worldwards, Alleyne saw many prints of John Hordle's vigorous feet, two murders and a nice collection of scuffles. before he parked hi¥ bewildered body at an inn for the night. There he was insulted by a wight, who laugheq at his rosy cheeks, and was befriended by no less a personage than big John. One Samkin Aylward blew in at the inn In time to prevent a fight, for no one had ever heard so much talk, large or small, as Samkin was blis- you today?” But they had to reach the coast before the little knight had what he called a decent setto. o | This was a sea fight, with two pirate The vellow-haired giant turned: |gnips, armed to the halyards, and Sir and Alleyne found it was his blac - INigel capturea the two and camly Shacp Moo ‘“d"c'"‘:é““;:: 1ad | proceeded to France, carrying them always held a grudge B feyne because their father had pald | in tow of his own leaking vessel. for the younger son's education by [ They '",f“s‘;, i e‘,cmy S Pardeale selling ail his land. The Socman had | Where the Black Erince Tetd court. ho weapon and, besides, the lady |Preparing to carry the war into Spain. had Dbitten his arm, so he turned | Here Alleyne upheld the dignity of loose and ran back to his house, |his squiréship by fighting a duel, threatening to turn the dogs loose iasalnm;rl‘-e:hl':l:“coinphfioon. :Ir;d §?é“} i e ¢ ling 8 e on the remaining branch of his fam- | ing out alm Glamay, (hat the Witte e he ta11 | Company heretofore had been a mere Alleyne and the girl bit the tall @ aGing corps, bent on plunder, but timbers and reached safety. Sadly he told her he had given up all hope | he promised the entire company to tered with. y Samkin was a bowman of the|of converting his brother, and would | the Black Prince Z en_once he got White Company, just back from |go on to the castle of Sir Nigel Lor- | them under ‘hand. The Black Prince to Jjoin the service with the |gave a great tourney before he left ing White Company. At this the flapper ng to her horse and rode away without telling her name France with glorious tales of Cha- teau-Thierry and other battlefields. sSamkin recruited Big John right off and they started for Twynham Castle, Bordeaux, and Sir Nigel vanquished all opponents except a with whom he broke even. the French knight du Guesclin, as it newcomer, This was the abode of Sir Nigel Loring, who Sir Nigel Loring nceded money Was to command the White Company. | pretty bad. Durins wars he made & |later developed. Alleyne, however, had other business | tidy income beca he was U Then Sir Nigel,. accompanied by at about half the prices we These blanketls are now in our warehouses at Washington or on call from our other stores in Baltimore. It is without question the biggest single blanket purchase ever made in Washington, and un- doubtedly the best. The sale overflows the regular department, hence will be held in a special section—the entire first floor mezzanine. Olive drab U. S. blankets That contain about 80 per cent wool and average 9 about 32 pounds each. Double-bed size—66x84 o inches. Great for home or camp and with a gay ribbon binding they'd make attractive slumber robes. Worth regularly about §6. (Mezzanine, First fioor.) Art-Loom is a special velvet rug woven like the Wilton—with the same density of pile, lustrous surface and beauty of designs. Art-Loom, like the SALE: Art-loom velvet rugs priced Wilton in this Art-Loom Velvet. The sale price is $44. 44 Continuing---sale Axminster rugs $36.50 to $53.50 grades 337 9x12 and 8.3x10.6 ft. Thoroughly reliable and nationally known makes in this sale. Patterns and colorings to please the most discriminating. Seamed and seamless. 2,200 sq. yds. SANITEX floor covering, Cut from full rolls No, not remnants, but fresh, full pieces. First quality, too, at the price 41 C some stores ask for seconds. Felt-base floor covering, in tile, parquetry and! geometrical patterns. Bring room measurements with you. Furniture sale — Dining, living and bedroom suites, $2 45 Sale Monday—See Today’s Post for Particulars. The Hecht Co. 7th at F' Where prices are gquaranteed 71h at F' Fourth floor. feistlest little gamecock of all Eng- I Samkin, John of Hordle and Alleyne. | Black Prince kni, started out for the: headquarters of his floating troop. They again met the French knight, du Gesclin, and his wife, Lady Triphaine, who was a second-sight-seer. At Villefranche Castle, she gave a seance, and Vvi- sicned Sir Nigel's home being bom- barded by a big blond man, but well defended and 'the leader of the at- tackers killed. The latter turned out to be Alleyne’s brother, thus making lands the Lady Maude. The night of the seance there was an uprising of the starving peasants, who entered the castle and killed all but our five friends and Lady Tri- phaine, and then set fire to the chateau. All would have roasted but for some wandering soldiers from the White Company. * k * T last Sir Nigel faced his band. He told them he would lead them to fight, but never to forage, and almost’ the entire company trotted 1 efter the quiet but gritty little man, who followed the Black Prince into Spain. Sent ahead to scout, the White Company was trapped far from the enough to marry rest of the army. A bloody battle ensued. Sir Nigel lammed seven Spanish onlons at one time, and Nigel asked him to risk his life by climbing down a steep ravine to go for help. lleyne was wounded so badly he stfapped himself on a horse. But alas, when he had brought assistance, they found-all of the White Company gone west, save seven weary zrchers, They, with Big John of Hordle in the center, still grasped the banner in their unyielding hands. Sir Nigel had been captured. Long Alle: lay gonvalescing. The T 1 We own and offer 45,000 brand-new (not reclaimed) blankets bought at auction from the U. S. Government usually pay. Alleyne the Socman of Minstead, with ' Alleyne manhandled many before Sir | hted him for his brave ride for succor. Sadly Alleyn: returned to England, just in time to hear ‘that Lady Maide Loring was hout t. enter a nunner: z him dead. 3. hinking Whoa, Maude, he cried. ahove the Dilics. So they were mrried. to Sir Nigel “I'm still And leave it about this time he came rolling in with « rich cargo he had captured from a Moorish pirate after his escape from the Spaniards Needless to say, he continued to live lust.ly on. Spcols of Maine. A[AINE is the pine tree state and many other kinds of a state. It is also the spool state. It turns out more spools than any other state and the number is set down as 1,000 mil- lions a year. valued at about one and a quarter million dollars. White birch is the wood which makes the best spools. The woud is cut in winter, sawed Into one-half to two and three-qurrter inches square and [two to four feet long. About two and one-third cords of timber are required for one thousand feet of bars. After sawing, the bars | are piled criss-cross, in ord-r to fa- | cilitate seasoning, and. protected |from the weather, are allowed 1o | cure., About fifteen million feet of | bars are consumed by the spool fac- “bars” | tories, and an equal nount s ex- | ported to Seotland and England. The spool-making machines are very interesting and up-to-date and { furn out spools at tie rate of one a ond. Extra clerks and wrappers will be on hand to book and deliver these blankets as fast as ordered and everything will be done to speed through each transaction. All these blankets are fresh and new—made for and inspected by the used. All come direct to United States, but never us in their original bales. All the blankets have been graded and are now grouped at three prices. The biggest lot for $2.95. homes—stock up! We can supply you in any quantit Finer olive drab That contain about 80 bed size—66x84 inches—for h for auto robes. Worth at ret about $7 to $8. per cent wool and average about 41 pounds in weight. Double- Soft, warm blankets, containing about 75 pure or worked-over wool. Similar grades would retail in a regular way at $5. Size 66 inches by 84 inches (double-bed size). Gray only. Excellent condition. They aver- age 314 1o 4 pounds in weight. Hotels, boarding houses, clubs, schools, U. S. blankets $ 4.95 ome use or ail regularly Mail and telephone orders will be filled for any quantity Sale of Simmons Steel bed “Uncle Sam” paid $5.75 These cots were constructed for the U. S. by Sim- mons to withstand hard army use. been inspected and passed on by the government. The cot stands rigidly and folds compactly. Con- structed with continuous post—and made with Sim- mons patented, galvanized size. Some subject to rust Dark japanned finish; can be easily enameled any shade you wish. Cot Pads and Mattresses Sizes to fit above cots—priced exceptionally low. Special jude pad, $1.95 Special cotton pad, $2.95 2l4-inch box cotton pad, $3.95 (Mezzanine, First floor, alse Fourth floor.) cots, d for them 1 39 Each cot has twisted spring. 264t or trifling imperfections. 2Y-inch 'box felt pad, 5.inch boxed cotton mattress, Seinch boxed felt mattress,