Evening Star Newspaper, June 21, 1925, Page 68

2 Woman THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHI tish East Africa Faints as Lion Is Attacking Hunter in Bri GTON, D. ¢, JUNE 21, 1925—PART Novice Who Has Had No Previous Experience With Big Game Finds Thrilling Adventure as She Ventures Into Realm of Wild Beasts. To very tew women experiencce L Mallett. an fore the events narra cerding art ¥oid of thrill~ however have come the o MarEe e ted in this and suc. o d % e In British Enst Afrien she was to find herself m the thick of danzer. her life frequently im DOFIed by Wil eusts d oo S Swling_from England. Britih East Afriea at capital And chief seaport of t tion of e British Emnire = Th, went into the interior to jom man of wide experience n shooting bis £Ame And possassing An intiniate knowl sdge Of native characterietics. Impae ALY her Aaventures hagan BY MARGUERITE MALLETT. I0INED A. at Kijabe. from which lace we were start for “home.” It was a cold morning and thick mist enveloped the hills. as we stepped from our tent to view the preparations for our journey. About 30 bullocks munching the short 2r wagons were being loaded to their ut most capreity. A buckboard car was drawn up on one side, wuiting to re ceive us. At last all was ready for the hul locks to be voked in. The-tent was struck, and every one’s attention was turned to the animals: bustle and con fusion reizned evervwhere. The quietly munching animals suddenly seemed to become possessed. With tails erect and heads down. they rushed hither and thither, intent only on_escaping the voke. The last refractory heast was finally caught and voked. the last drop of oil \pplied 1o the wagon wheels and our journey began. the Lumbwa drivers Ziving full play to their lunas in their sar-piercinz shrieks to the bhullocks The animals pulled well. the “hoys" sanz merrily. the sun was not ov hearingly hot. I was feeling satisfied with myself and with evervhody: I had really made & start for the coun try of the great Masai About & fortnight after we had com menced our safari. or journev. I was fast asleep when & terrific roar sud denly awoke me. At first I thought the hullocks must have =ot out of the boma (for # barricade of brush and thorns had to be constructed every night, wherever we stopped) and were fndulging in a free fight: then. as an other blood-curdling roar sounded in the stillness, A.’s words came back to me vividly “It is more than likely hear or, perhaps. see lions fonizht 1 had hastily jumped out of hed. but on this second and unmistakable roar hopped fn azain with marvelous celerity re vou awake? frightened.” from the other T heard A. moving about “Not at all. TIsn't it wonderful? I had come on this safari,knowinz well that I should probably. nav cer tainly, see and hear lions—had looked forward to it. dreamed Df it and was not going to acknowledge myself heat en because a lion had roared. As quickly as possible 1 dressed and seized my gun. but as roar succeeded voar I knew perfectly well that it was useless as a pipestem: how could one shoot, shaking as if one had the palsy? 10 stood quietly sx and three you will Hope vou are not tent. and LAXE NADIBEK ) Locale of the A. meanwhile was calling to the| boys. Quickly fires were replenished | and flames shot up evervwhere. and extra lamps were hung around the | thorn boma, where the bullocks were | bellowing, the donkeys anc mules | straining at their ropes, and the dogs | making a’perfect pandemonium. Lan-| tern in hand, we walked around our camp, assuring ourselves that all was well. Gradually the roars became | more indistinct. | This was my introduction to lions. | and it was some time before their | roar ceased«to unnerve me. Every night for the remainder of our safari the same thing happened, save when the moon shone brightly. On moon light nights we were not troubled. and | could sleep on uninterruptediv: but | the slightest sound was sufficient to| wake me now, and seldom a night passed without somethinz to break | my repose. P I had slept ab a terrific ro This time | NE night hours. when rudely in on my slumbers I was wide awake instantly. the ex-| perience of previous nights was not vet forgotten: the impression made was far too lasting. I had no uncer- 1ainty whether it was gombes (cattle) or not, or, if 1 had, it was quickly d pelled, for the cry “Simba'—sim (lion) rang through our peaceful camp. Strangely, I felt none of the fear and trembling of only a few| hours before: instead the wildest ex-| citement seemed to take possession of me. “That's the style,” was A.'s answer to my interrogation. “Where are| they?” Even he appeared to realize a-change in my demeanor. 1 was no longer the quaking morsel of human ity of a few nights past. On occasions such as these one gets an insane feeling of having a griev ance against the moon. What right has she to absent herself just when she is wanted? Utterly idiculous! Lions close by, which you can hear,| bhut cannot see. Of what use a hurri cane lamp? One burst of moonlight would be worth a dozen lamps. You almost forget that if there were a | moon there would probably be no lions. | Stampeding gombes and another thunderous roar took aquickly to the boma. Still we could see nothing. | The fires were kicked into life. black | figures danced weirdly against the | fiames, dogs rushed madly hackward and forward, as roar succeeded roar. | Evidently our udden activity made them think they were to be balked of their prey. How maddened the gombes were! Would the force. their | way through the boma? { It was hopeless trying to restrain | the dogs: their barking alone told us where the brutes were stationed. | Then there was a howl of pain, and Hector. a big dog and utterly fearless. crawled in, lay down and died. That | caused every vestige of fear left in | me to evanorate: all I longed for was revenge—revenge, ~crtain and sure, | on the brute who had robbed us of s faithful an ally. There was no time | for wasting platitudes on the dead: | the living now needed all our atten-| tion ] How many of the creatures were there? Just exactly where were they situated? Branches well alight were | taken from the fire and thrown in the | direction from which the roars ap. peared to come, and three big forms were distinctly seen. Quickly we decided. us The boma was foocew IBRITISH EAST AFRICA Author's Adventures | seemed hetween stand b ns: we must go outside the circle of fire “Don't_come if vou don't feel of yourself,” counseled A. But there was nothing I should te Anvhow. I could not there in tincertainty Then a seream of pain reached our ars from the other'side of the homa. One of the horses.” said A.. hurry ind I after him, as quickly as 1 from the lantern would 1 too slowly, | ex were mad with terror ~hen we nrrived on the scene. A mule. led in case of accident to serve as a mount for either should we need it. had disappeared. Which way to )7 1t was hopeless trying to follo in the dense blackness. and by thix thne the mule was probably dead i ‘Remain here by the horses. Fire if you see anything. You will hardly hit, but yon may succeed in scar it snd A was gone. I heard his shots, which, accustomed hough the horses were to shooting. only seemed to intimidate them more. The boys had great difficulty in re- | straining them at all At length A. came by A shouting crowd | 1t was impossible to shoot with any | degree of accuracy.” explained A.. | “although T think one fellow got it.| Still, it has scared them for the time being. No, 1 hardly think it will be | safe 1o 2o to bed again. 1 expect they | are still hanging about. In the morn h= | will try to trace the mule. We ve u bit too close to the str might have happened any So wll the rest of the night we sat, s in hands. listening to the roars faint. now louder. ax the heasts circled round and round the bhoms ¢ trailed off in the distance. What 7e of light there was from the fires: Surely nothing would opproach within measurable distance of them. The boys sung and shouted. danced and capered s they threw fresh fuel into the blaze Once or twice we heard the grunt of a chui (leopard), and A. remarked that it was a good thing we had no sheep | with us “Good gracious’ 1 said should have our hands full L DR T to orange all was again activity those early morning Breakfast finished. A. marshaled the boys, and we set off tn trace the mule. At first this was quite an easy matter For some distance there was a mark as of some henvy hody drawn over the ground: then bush and scrub hid the tracks. Still we went on. an occa sional broken branch alone denoting the lon's progress. A huge bowlder of rock at last confronted us. more brush and scrub pressinz close tn it on the farther side Go carefully.” warned A. Then glacing at me: “You would have been better at home: this is no work for a novice.” Novice. indeed was my Indignant and sure 1 did like bet remain allow. The hut hor back, followed “My first bullet fetched him out; he was 100 gorged to show much fight remarked A. “Isn't he a biz one”” So. leaving the hoys to the skt ning, we returned to camp. 1 to it down and mend a jazged rent fn my riding breeches caused by my mble throuxh the thorn. after first doctoring nasty gash across my hand from the same cause "ORE - B stream down it many convolu tions, und came on huge clumps of lovely Amaryllis belladonna What great bulbs they had made! 1t would be almost impossible to get them out, and yet my potential garden—how its beauty would be enhanced if only 1 could obtain a few! Calling the hoy who had cerried my gun. with pointed sticks we sel to work clearing away the earth Presently as if by magic dropped from our hands. s a vell of pain. followed by others in quick g lon, broke on our ears, The boy was |feet. and 1 quickly f made our way into the dense vegeta | tion bordering one side of the stream and there judge my horror. for Ner: one of our dogs, who had bme with me, was held fast in the coils of a | gizgantic python To seize the gun held out to me. and fire, was the work of a_moment, but the coils never re laxed. Again and again I fired, get | ting close to the reptile in my excite | ment. At last. just as A. reached me land T wax frantically hitting out with the butt end. I had the satisfaction of seeinz the creature’s muscles become flaccid, and a minute or two later | poor old Nero. very sore from his ex perience, was liherated It was some | minutes more hefore he could limp hack to cam, “Now. I think you have done enough wandering for one morninz.” zrum bled A, “Just sit down quietly, if -an. and discuss vour luncheon e but that lovely amarvilis,” 1 ventured. “Amaryllis he —— some hovs with ganza to get some,” As ok ok then we | HE morning broke with pale amber nd saffron lights that soon turned then the sun appeared, and How glorious sunrises were! luncheon 1 followed the our sticks after response. st night,” the first Well, I'll send <, and tell them was sponse. * AT one point of our journey we came upon a wild pig. or rather ““Have vour guns ready but do not move.” ‘And A. with three boys wormed his way through the brush. Then a big enphorbia almost blocked (“sow, with her litter of nine well grown the way, and I saw A. and the hoys | youngsters crawling on hands and knees. Again Think 1 will have a shot,” said A they rose, then stopped short Her get behind this clump of bush. Have they found the mule? 1 won “What for?" I asked. as he assisted dered. 1 _was not left long in sus-|me to the ground. and a boy took my pense. One of the bovs who had ac-| horse. “Surely there is nothing to companied A. suddenly stood beside fear from a pig? me. He was good shot and no| “No, but this is different bacon from coward the homegrown article,” A. replied T am to remain with you. | facetionsly Hurry up. there! sahib. We have found the mule | Where's my gun? aps the lion ix inside asieep. O the At o ol oerie Bwana will be all Hght: he In Just | deniy made oo aomearnre and o behind another biz rock—no. not as | yer’ udfil 1 0N 3 big as this one—and the Bwana knows Keop. well Behihd cover-2hsaial & how to shoot,” he chuckled softly. a8 e Brocaensiite stellc the o The minutes passed slowly: each one | ynd the sow went granting into safety. an hour to me. If only I| " A¢ soon as the boar divined A.'s in could have seen what was going on. it | tantion it foJlowed the sow at a brisk would not have heen so had. but there | 1100 Kyt it had reckoned without the 1 could see nothing. |dozs. Quick as a flash they were Then all at once there was a sharp | after him. and after a three minutes’ report, immediately followed by sprint he turned and faced them. hideous roar | making savage lunges first at one. Where was A.7 1 could see!| then at another. One dog seized its Perhaps 1 might bhe able to help, al-| hind leg: the next moment the dog though my shaky hands belied me. | was flat on its back, and but for the Another shot and vet another, a|intervention of another dog the first moment of tense excitement. then[would have suffered badly. Poor shouts from the two hoys. The next|beast! six dogs worrving it. snapping instant I alse scrambled through the [ here, biting there—no wonder it dense undergrowth. to find A. stand- | showed signs of distress, although not inz beside what remained of our poor | until two of the dogs had retired from mule, the dead lion about paces | the fray discomfited. Then A. man- aged to get a shot in, although how mem per If only *] WAS FRANTICALLY HITTING OUT WITH THE BUTT END.” | April, certainly | presenting jance from what it did at first when he accomplighed it without one of the dogs was a myatery. infuring | and 1 gave a crv of delight light and shadows plaved over ““They shall have pork for dinner.| water. making a picture for an artist's s a reward,” said A. when the boar was finally dragzed from them. “Pigs are nasty things to tackle,” and he pointed to the bore wounds as evidence of the part they had taken in the proceedings. | One glorious day A. pointed | several well remembered spots. Here {he had killed a lion; here he had escued a woman from a hyena; here he had come on a leopard devouring a freshly Killed sheep; and here again he had been charged by an old wildebeest bull. The whole place teemed with incidents. Was my fu ture life to_be as full” | inwardly | wondered. Time would show: for the present the remarkable panorama stretched before me. the great expanse of graseland. the 'massive rocks hor dering one side, the tender green of the thorn trees. each and all claimed my attention ™ 1 caught sight of another limpid stream. winding over a pebbiy hottom in and out among trees out + % brush, which was scarcely marred by | its mate was o badly inflamed 1t must naked | have been a standing | all. per felt | eye, handa absolutely rather sight of four hathing, or the mites two dogs which both | knee-deep in the cool waters. “Masai.,” announced A., and 1 that our journey was indeed almost at | had a nasty cut on ope arm, and lini ment for the old woman, and one and | all went on their way an end Then they immediately pear, their mented by of both wenva! caught sight of us, and vanished, only to reap. numbers considerably gug the addition of many adults sexes “Targwenva—Targ wax heard on side Clearly A, waus well known evi dently, well liked One or two girls were dragged for ward, and an old woman sat down al most under our horses and ex hibited a leg which appeared little else but bone. and on which a big swelling just under the knge. She was told zo0 on ahead. we shounld soon be home, and she would receive attention. It was useless: she would not stir until_something had heen done for her. Then the girls were al ternately pushed and dragged for and noses The sun- | ward. and we were fnvited to turn our | Are. the | attention 1o the us nounced tery A months grat many Where done” brought plent: some in the present Talk about the telegraph! . . it was nothing compared with the speed with which thiz was conveyed. and soon children of every size and difficult matter to see at lagze could be seen running toward us. We dismounted owing to their | “Again we stopped. and the sugar tency. and 1 found lotion for the | distribution began once more. Really ges for the other zirl who [T think I caused almost as much di version as the sugar. Who was 17 | Why had I come? What was 1 going [ 10 d0? How long was 1 going to stax? These were only a few of the ques tlons asked. Others were far mo personal. One | remember was, How many children had 12 A. unblush | ingiy told me that he had credited me with nine. It was well that I did | not understand the language. or I fear 1 should have refuted this libel. x ok ox % BOUT midday we arrived at home. Such funny ramshackle old place, with black Minorca fowls every where. Plenty to employ me for the next month. I thought—and indeed | there was, and for some months after. The rest of the day was spent un- packing, and I saw little of my sur roundings for the next three davs Then A. insisted on my going out, it only to see the shamba. It did not surround the house as most gar dens do, but was about 10 minutes walk distant. 1 gave a little cry of surprise, it was so dalightfully pretty | Imagine about two acres of ground fenced in by tall frees: a stream run ning from end to end and losing it«elf in the forest beyond: hills on avery side: grassy slopes leading up wards. It really was as nice a spot as coild have heen chosen. One morning after we had | settled and wera all peacefully | ploved in our several avocations, sud | denly there were cries of imba ' | simba®” (lion). Immediately every boy dived into his hut, produced a long spear, and disappeared as’if by magic A. came running into the house, “My gun-—quick!” he said “Where it the ‘simba’>" 1 gasped “Gombe hoys” (hullock or cowboys) “have just run in to say it is among the bullocks, Coming” Perhaps bet ter not,” and A. disagpeared also From a busy camp of perhaps 40 people it was suddenly reduced to one and that one was | Even the dogs had gone: only ene remained at my feet. un old dog. Trojan, hearing many scars honorably won in battle with How many dirty hands he hese same beasis. He followed *me ed 1 cannot say. nor vet how | everywhere. Like the rast., he was limes we were ordered to stop 8 €rosk hetween a Great Dane and nd hold shauris (palavers, or affairs). an Alredale had he been? What had he | “Shell we go. old chap?’ I asked What had he seen? Had he Instagtly he was on the alert. =o | heads and knives? Had he al%o took my gun and followed in of sugar? the wake of the shouting throng. B was openad and | placed now they were some distance ahead hand of every tote (child) | 1 scrambled across the stream, crawled The news spread like wild | on hands and knees up the slope. drag infirmities. | One had a cataract in one eye, and hecome em “I FIRED INTO ITS EXTENDED JAWS™ rejoleing. | all the tribe ronnd assured,” A. an- “We shall tomorrow have rest It was evident that the last stage of journey had been reached. for all parties of Masai appeared at in Is and seemed delighted 10 see who had bheen absent some A bag . ging my | was an enormous lion—a great gun carefully after me. be seen, not a sound to e the voices in the di= 1 was just wishing T had baen a little quicker and joined the rest when suddenly Trojan bristled and &tond still. Then the sound of a ter rible struggle reached my ears £ ox o % Nothinz he heard, tance. to was on the edge of a deep depres it pit sion might almost be called Thickly creepers, a massive the mouth, =still one <o often sees out little way and peersd branches. There. in was our biggest and best b an animal that had given yec man service, and on its back, iis teeth fastened into the poor creatire’s hide hlack natural overgrown trea had in full here. with fallen over leaf, ax wled hetween the its death-strug I or ” maned brute. It was only abont 10 fest helow me and 1 was hidden by the hranches. &n intent was it on its kill, it never turned until Trojan, with an angry snarl, began making his way down the side. 1 followed him and scon stood facing the lion ih the pit. Now never: Boiling with rage at the loss of m: favorite bullock. zentle as a kitten spite of its great size, half choked with excitement and trembling with fear. 1 ralsed my gun. As the beas with an angrv zrowl and gleaming fanzs turned on poor Trojan 1 fired right into its extended jaws—once twice. then the gun slipped from m hand and I remember no more untii A.. alarmed at the shots, came har to find that T had fainted Your first kil he said. “and a hiz one at thai. Aren’t vou prond? My first thought for the po bullock. Iving dead below Oh' the brute—the hrute 1 said “Poor old Samson® he will never come for sugar again®” and I glanced at the biz black muzzie and sleek hide I should never caress again But what was that | saw not! Yes, at that moment bovs dragged the carcass « lion 10 one side. underneath lax old Trojan. The game old dog %one to fight his last fight handed. and the lion in his death-ir had overpowered him. We 1 where he fell How 1 hated lions Previously 1 had felt thetic, dreading them. and kr sooner or later I should enco them. Now thev had given me cause hate the whole breed. Possihly that. and possibly the knowledge 1 my first attempt at lion shooting been a success. still. from that das lost much of mv nervousness, and 1« me they hecame heasts tn he exters nated at anv cost (Coprrizht Surely as the the biz poar an from that somewha 1925 Flowers Which Are Found in Woods of Capital BY is ¢ DR fact dent of nature that tries where forestx and fowers | are found. there is usually a more or less extensive list of the latter that thrive hest within the confines of the former. This is true of rathér long list of the wild fowers known to grow oniy beneath forest trees, al though some of these may also he found growinz more less in the open. "Where treas grow in-such a way to form a forest. the area covered may he either a small or great extent; and. as we know, some of them cover miles of territory in all directions. although such forests may not be lonz left 1o ns. as the demand for timber ix a constant menace to their preservation. These forests may be composed of trees all of one Kind. such as we see in pine and other coniferous foresta: but upon th other hand. oaks. beeches. and certain maples may constitute a_forest. Often mountains. hills and undulating coun trv. as the case may be, are clothed with open or heavy growth of timber. and. through its extension the intervening valleys may be in cluded As to the character of the woodland floor. it may be of a rich, black loam: it may be sandy or gravelly. rocky moist. or_dry, or be an actual swamp or hos. Where forests cover hill and mountain side, it is not unusual to meet with rocks of varving sizes imong the trees, and these may run all the way from a few hundred pounds to boulders of great size weizhing thousands of tons. Natur ally the varying character of the woodland floor influences such plants as flourish beneath the trees of a for est; as we would not srowing in a bog. nor violets among the rocks. the forests of Eastern we find growing at different seasons many species of most inter esting and often very beautiful flow ers, and these greet us from beneath the trees. all the way from the rocky hillsides to the rich, loamy levels. and the bogs and swamps of the lowlands and vallevs. Their dates of appear. ance vary with the latitudes in which they normally occur: and this not only for different species of flow. ers, but for the same species. accord- ing to whether it is a southern or northern latitude. For example, when early saxifrage has gone to seed in orgia in February, or even earlier, we may not see it Columbia until the first week not before the last days of March, even in the case of a very early Spring. Although not a “rock-breaker,” as its name would indicate, this myth doubtless arose from the fact that the saxifrage is generally found .growing in soil that has accumulated in the clefts of such rocks as are found in the forests of it« normal habitat. It is not always seen in such localities, however, for we may meet with it at_some little distance from the rocks that occur on the hillside where we first observe it in early Spring. It ix a most inter- esting and hardy little plant, which first puts forth an attractive little rosette of leaves close 1o the ground, in the center of which we see a small, tizht bunch of white blossoms. At first_the stem is not in evidence, but it _soon develops and grows rapidly with the floweFs atop of it. the plant a_ very different R. W. SHUFELDT. well known to the stu in all coun or of in dog-tooth in States the hlossoms were close to the ground. * ¥ ok ok HE first days of Spring, with the coming of the birds, the first flowers and the awakening of maples and other trees, are, to most people, the lovellest days of all the year; nor is saxifrage the only flower that greets us early, for in the same piece of woods we are more than likely to come across both bloodroot and hepatica in full bloom (Fig. 1). The first named are usually found in little colonies not far from some big forest tree, although now and then a single plant in bloom may.be the only one in sight. From first to last, the growth of a bloodroot is surely a floral dream—a fairy’s fleeting visit, for no other flower behaves as does this one. It aris perpendicularly from the ground in a most deliberate manner, its straight stem bearing aloft the | single white bud, protected by the soli- tary, silvery-green leaf, which is curled about it in a clasping way Soon the bud rises above its protector for an inch or so, when one of the in the District of | in | appear- | the | ak | spreadinz | particular | find _arbutus | rarely United | fore the bright H | I loveliest all white flowers rest opens up. displaying a of snow-white petals to the warm ravs of the sun. As the latter goes down it closes its petals, opening to the sun again next day, which per formance is repeated several times Soon a stff gust of April wind scatter the petals— of which there are fAm eight to twelve -bringing the zlorious display to an untimely end and there remains but the golden center of the flower—its stamens. Our hioodroot the fact that its with an orangered leave a near-hlond stain upon one’s fingers, should one happen to break the root and handle it. As the seed pod develops the sinzie leaf of the plant rises above it and unfolds out horizontally and dis playing a most beautiful outline and structure. Once in a great while we may come across a bloodroot in which the petals exhibit a slight pink tinge, hut such examples are very rare As we stroll through the forest these early Spring days we are sure to meet with another early comer the ahove-mentioned hepatica or liverwort. and one or two fine speci mens of these are shown in the ac companving illustration. Some stu dents of nature, and of flowers in record instances where hepaticas have come up through the snow covering the floor of the forest during the last days of Winter. Indeed, one writer gives December to May as the “flowering season.” Usually they precede the skunk age of the marshlands, to which a snowstorm is no novelty Liverwort zets its name from three-lobed leaves, and the plant is more than six inches in height grown: its flowers are sin- finished hlooming be- green leaves appear. One of its principal characters is the fuzzy srowth upon hud and stem which some of our more sentimental in the circlet is filled root stock fluid. which will blooming cabl plant when fully gle, and have botanists claim is a protection against | to which the plant is sub jected at the time of its appearance. Some of its flowers are fragrant. while others entirely lack this char- acter, and there is no way to tell which possess fragrance than to smell the cold them: their purple, pinkish-white, biue | or lavender petals in no way indicate the difference. With respect to this Burroughs said: “The gift seems as capricious as the gift of genius in families.” * ok o S the season advances other flow- ers of the forests come on apace, and, where the sofl is rich. we soon meet with the purple trillium sor wakerobin. Its solitary dull purple flower possesses a most disagreeable odor; and the circumstance that the blossom is sometimes greenish, pink- ish, or even white, in no way alters jts foul scent resembling decaving meat, which is so deceptive that car- rion-flies gather upon it as upon the real thing. ts of these insects that the wake- robin is fertilized. There are plants called wake-robins, such as the large-flowered trillium. the trillium and the nodding wake-robin all interesting and attractive forest flowers, though generally found in molst places where the soil is rich and a scanf number of trees are in evidence. The well known mandrakes and vio- lets are very likely to be found grow- ing in the same localities, or where the ground is, perhaps, somewhat drier: and. passing up the hillside among the tall poplars and maples, we will see, in places where the soil | is yet moist and to some extent rocky, plenty of wild blue phlox—a plant o familiar to most of us. (Fig. Should we find ourselves among the chestnut oaks or beeches we will come across those singular growths known as beech-drops, curious plants that are anything but fragrant, have brit- tle roots and no green to enliven their leafless stems, which may grow to be a couple of feet high. They flower from August to October, and belong in a class with Indian’ pipe. broom- rape and similar parasitic plants. Tt is usually dry and open where beeches grow, and in such woods we are almost sure to meet with the wood betony. called by some people louse wort—at least some farmers do, as not a few of them still helieve that if sheep chance to eat it a minute louse will attack them and produce a trou blesome disease of the skin. Solomon’: seal frequently flourishes in the same woods with Jack-in-the-pulpit. and, lower down, where the ground is more receives its name from | However, it is through the | other | painted 1){ or nard or berries of which are very attractive— indeed the true a Lbe seen growing near each other will | beechdrops, we must not overlook the pine which from which it suc has 4 wide distributfon in thi as also in many places in the Old World. o until moist of the Orchidal a moreover grant Iv ovate leaves are seen to be silvery | beneath floge to the ground, which latter rare- called pink flower, v a leaves taper to.a point and grow in | whorls of four, with a few others not | so usually and its range is over the northern part | of Eastern United States. | heath family wild names feet stem. | tiful pink flowers—sometimes almost white—are well b same piece of woods with mountain laurel occupy hilly country and where rocks | found plant is known to many as pink lady said !grhlur picking this exquisite flower | that outside a millionaire’s hothouse, it is becoming rarer every year, until the finding of one where it must now hide, has become the event of # day’'s walk. Once it was the commonest of the orchids In fhe cool and shady forests where the soil is rich and where rocks abound. we find. when May here, the pale or pink corydalls Indian pipe and | charming little plant of the poppy family. The blossoms are both dainty parasite and small. and each is shaded with various trees vellow about its mouth. Being in ks its sustenance: it | verted and strung along on a curved country | ctem. they bring to mind the well oceurting | known Dutchman’s breeches, another !plant frequently found growing in the same rocky woods | A great favorite with nature stu dents. and preferring woods where the soil ix rich and dark. is our wild ginger. and it may bloom as early as the middle of March in southern latitudes. Kach plant bears but a single blossom. which latter fs quite unlike an average flower. heing of | rich brown with a purplish tinge Internally the flowers are a very pale cream shade. and the siems are notably short, hardly raised ahove the ground. ~All this renders the flowers quite inconspicuous that when we come across a wild zinzer plant we are at first struck by its big, satiny. kidney-shaped leaves: its peculiar florescence is not noticed The firstcomers among the insects swarm to it, and from the peculiar position of the blossoms they are moré or less protected from the wind and the cold of that time of the vear. In our forest flora we have hoth twin flower and twin leaf, and both prefer a mossy floor with plenty of shade. A favorite author vemarks. speaking-of the twin flower: “But small and shy as it is. does nature’s garden contain a lovelier sight than scores of the deliciously fragrant pink bells swaving above a carpet of the little evergreen leaves in the dim aisle of some deep, cool, lonely forest? One might readily write a long chap. ter on the two plants named—in fact, from the days of the great Linnaeus to the times of Emerson many a printed page has heen devoted 1o {them. Twin leaf, which is a pretty name. is also known by the less pleas ing one of rheumatism root: it is a low-growing species, with flowers of a glistening white and with rounded. long-petioled leaves. It is not found south of Virginia ner west of Ten | nessee. people cannot | g STURNING to where the wood land floor is rich and moist. we run across the star flowers, with their long, wiry stems. crowned whorl of pointed, elliptical, dark green less moist, occurs jhe wild spike faise Solomon's seal. the ripe much more 5o than those of | Solomon’s seal. Both plants interesting, and are often to re very is But, speaking of sap. another leafless grows around far north as Canada, P [ONG the more conspicuous flow ering plants of our forests may mentioned the showy orchis, the ip (Fig. 2) and the wild azalea first is usually found growing hemlock trees from early April Midsummer it prefers rich as do nearly all members The deep pink flowers attract our attention the blossoms are quite fra. | Its pair of bright green. broad- | h springing from the stem it xceeds 6 inclifes in height. Campion. or, as it is sometimes starry campion, belongs to the | family. and its pretty white| somewhat remind us of the| ated single pinks. The plant is tall. its stem being often as much | vard in height., while its oval| ery s a symmetrically found in arranged. It is| very shady woods, | The wild azalea is a member of the | and is also called the | honeysuckle and a few other Sometimes it grows fully 6 | high. and possesses a shrubby 0 it may rightfully be clussed mong our_forest shrubs. Its beau-| known to all of us. | ommonly we find it growing in the ~that is, where the forest trees | re much in evidence. Lovely moccasin flowers may in similar localities, and be | the | ipper. Of this plant one writer has “Because most 5 seems too beautiful to be found in the deep forest, BLUE PHLOX, ONE OF THE PLANTS GROWING AROUND WASH. INGTON AT THIS SEASON OF THE YEAR, with a | leaves. which v in ber. From the center on a delicate stem inch in length, we single white blossom. the which is divided into some petal-like divisions. It is & most ful little forest plant and a tractive one. Although calied the star anemone, it really belongs in an entirely different family. and is no more an anemone than is the vine we call creeping winterzreen. the tins red berries of which are so familiar to all of us, being nne of the attractions of the forest at all seasons the year. They are often called y berries. but incorrectly so. beingz an entirely different p Over the entire Northeast tion of our country any where the trees are more scattered. we frequently mest most conspicuous plant, the stem of which may often srow fi 8 feet in height. At frs nmi: it_leurs a great raceme of delicate white_flowers, which are fully in ev dence by the time June comes around |1ts three-timas-compounded leaves are wonderfully handsome: hut the flowers, so attractive to the eve, shock our sense of smell powerfully—out- | classing in this respect almost any other plant of the forest. The odor is truly fetid and offensive. and this to such a degree that only carrion flies will visit them, bugs and butter- | fies shunning them as we would a | plague. This is the black cohosh. alsn |known as the black snakeroot | tall bugbane of the Crowfoot family | but while it may taint the air | woods during the long days of Sum- mer. we cannot help admiring its elegance and proportions—even though | we must take up a position to the windward of it to do so. No wonder it it a bane to the bugs that in the region. for no bug with a sense of smell would for instant toler- ate it The rme and wood anemones familiar plants to vs all. the solitary white flowers of the latter heinz markedly larger than those of the former. * But botanists have created separate zenera for them: and, as a matter of fact, they are quite different | structurally. However, anemones are great favorites with all 10 whom the everyday flowers of the forest appeal and ‘it is fortunate for our culture {and civilization that there are so man | among us so constituted that their |love and admiration for our wild | flowers are both deep and real size and nun this whor much an the prett note by some rtridge the latier ant h or less with on lside of the an | Mirror Searchlight. OR some time there has been the market a combination of an electric searchlight and a diminishing mirror. The device serves the doubhle purpose of an adjustable searchlight at night and in the day a mirror for rendering visible vehicles approach ing from the rear The device is equipped with all the necessary brackets and wiring a1 tachments, so that the lamp may be installed on a car in a few minutes time. The switch is in the handle of the lamp. so that the driver can turn | the light on or off as desired withou interfering with the other lights. The lamp can be prepared for emergency service by wiring it direct to the bat I tery. 1 The lamp embodies many conven | iences. amonz which may he men { tioned an adjustable bracket twhich {automatically locks at any angle de. sired. and a detachabie back reflector so that the lamp bulb may be re moved und replaced in the reflector without fingering or soiling the highly polished surface. oh . Stream Beneath Stream. N engineer in the West some time ago encountered a real problem in making a stream cross a stream. In order to accomplish this unique feat of engineering, he built above the or’ main stream a concrete bridge trough through which stream No might pass. In a word the situation ‘was this: An irrigating canal 12 feet ‘wide and 4 feet deep ran through a certain stretch of country. Running at right angles to this ditch are a number of natural storm drsins. It ‘was desired that these storm drains should not empty into the main ditch and to avoid this bridges were con. structed. The.water in the main ditch is used to irrigate valuable orchacd land. while that from' the varions washes goes direct to a nearby river. go e bridge is 15 feet in width and ‘in length. Its walls are 8 inches thick and 42 inches In height.