Evening Star Newspaper, August 9, 1925, Page 64

2 THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. (., AUGUST 9, 1925—PART 9. Life Held Lightly Among Lawless Cattle Men of South Ameriea Personal Quarrels Quickly Settled by Quick Thrust of Knife on Argentine Ranges. longer he West of the m is still ap While “wild” can applied to most of the United the te able to immense plains of 1s Capt. Mills tells in this article. And the author has had abundant opportunity to learn of the “other Americans” through three cx surs of the conti- nent below Bduc and the : no the outh America Wellington Militar the ted a Roya College College at apt. Mills, after join tish army, saw service in in France in the World wounded in the first f Ypres. While invalided he married iy Dorothy 1 granddaughter of Daniel Spokane, Wash. Later operations in Tr \fter the armistice the editorial staff of the Daily Mail, for which he ur of South America ndhurst ing the China War, b home Walpole Corbin of he servec Jordan he ma He books eing N ns. ind BY ARTHUR MILLS, HOUGH mtry paper civilized in his any in a one cad Kill the of life hold-up jewelry store, cattle plains ir America ings, the heart of e last part s it T vat un watch ba 1 where really wilc 1 these plains, wade of an ombre tree ucho cattle men p potro (wild stood on the 1 ed the wild zebu and steers, sat d the ing in my fingers my roasted sheep, sucked able one is lived is still m mpfire 1 of ir fier: na some degree thelr These cattl ire @ pictur temper, eye n adv their boo 19 they them { My in effect, shared lives. 1 people, hand turous count But the call them—is safe he keeps himself to him only knowledge of the South- west of United States has been acquired from motion picture plays and books. From these it would seem at the code there is very different from the unwritten laws of the cattle men of A and Brazil In the 1 gather bis enemy a chance—he shoots. In Argentina a man never draws gun or knife unless he means to kill. To point vour gun at man in Argentina is a deadly insult. vou don't shoot him then he will shoot vou later. Actually the knife on Argentina knife, carried he ‘men eat quick ey live in among f B a man is the favorite an ordinary the belt, with their meat, w n ng which +nd A in skin * * a man’s longevity n the South west used to depend on his quick ness dra tina today. The may instance this A cowboy came to wo morning with still long following scene k on Monday na_ spirit He had his fore Correntino. in the corral her, eve to 1y hand was tense and With one man in- quor and the other in lood was sure to flow. the cowboy drew fights can S of sec the fie 2 veins Jinst burning i had dge a black-eyed, w The two came to word They od facing eac ve. his The foreman’s side; the cowb: his Knife momer with inds lay v's righ It was a amed uthor Suddenly nife. N measured in frac in the fraction of 1 sized the knife was b Correntino for It must t behind his be nds. Yet ond that passed on up. As the n on him, the od motionle left his knife was this that ument with drunk on cana and inst I He ssured] oy's w knife best hearin, would his life iken as he went 1t an ap- it always i another—in this than with help s was sight when one case mor the Corr d mething was difficult seemed the the Cor ente to see the point of of an inch sagged for heap at the e Correntino was wipe his knife way and walk out ction body in of hand. Some at the tacked 1, the a knife. Using no more than a the decisive blow will he had perfect accuracy 15 the latter foreman was one hters in the dis of the reasons he nformal fights among ch are of such that at most of booths a man weapons ac the the har man will serve or In this way on *AS THE BULL CAME ON HIM, HE STEPPED ASIDE, CAUGHT IT BY THE HORNS AND THREW IT.” mate bowl, drunk | Englishman in| reigner—gringo, | forward warns | happened, | is | Saturday afternoon a row of knives {ana guns may be seen upon the shelf behind the bar. If a man is unwilling to part with his weapon, he must stay {outside and be served through iron bars But sometimes fights are staged on | more orderly lines. They then ke on the dignity of duels. The men face one another, each with his poncho | wrapped around his left arm and his heavy rawhide riding whip in his left hand, knife held in the right hand flat {in the palm, some inches of the blade | projecting. ' They circle around one | another, watching for an opening, on | guard with riding whip and cape | The point of aim fs invariably the {enemy’'s stomach nd, the target found, a quick upward rip ends the | matter. Very occasionally an artist |in knife fighting will try only to di: |figure by slicing at the opponent’s nose or ce. If he succeeds, the other will become what known lame,"” as the cowboys talk of & steer or horse, and an object of ridi cule among his fellows. Th fighting, as I have tried to | show, is mostly among the men them | selves, and a foreigner may go among them unmolested. But sometimes a \e cxploits of | newcomer brings trouble on himself. Such a one was a young Englishman 1 knew, who came Iintre Rios to learn ness. The morning after his arrival he rode into the corral very immacu late in glossy polo hoots and smartly cut_cord breeches. They were handling calves that day ind the Englishman noticed a cowboy roping the calves, as he thought, too roughly. He spoke to the fellow, but the man took no notice, swung his lasso, and brought a to a big ranch in the cattle busi heels! “Get out of the angrily. cowboy calmly roped another The Englishman now drew his corral,” said the The, calf. en of Gaucho stock |revolver and approached the offender. of | “Will you get out?” he shouted. | The cowboy looked him over from | head to foot, spurred his horse, came with two quick sideways | jumps, freed his boleadores (weighted |ropes used for tying around the legs | of ostriches), hit the Englisman over | the head, knocked him senseless from | his horse, dismounted, took his r | volver from him, stuffed it in his belt {and rode laughing from the corral. Needless to say, the young English- man’s reputation in the district w gone for life. Old-timers in Argentina do not in e themselves in such predicaments. realize that these cowboys, with | their strong grain of Indian blood, are {just children of nature, and treat | them as such. The Argentine never speaks rudely | to hi#neighbors, even when he inten | to pick a quarrel. His manner is ways suave and polished. He con | siders rudeness of speech boorish to | degree. | dom produce good results and shpuld | never be used when a man is drunk, |for an Argentine cowboy inflamec s0 it does in Ar-|with liquor is like a mad dog and in capable of self-control. such times there are only two things to do with him—shoot or smile. * [ue « * * peon (cowboy), line old Gaucho stock, is the most ‘esque personality in Argentina. also the foundation stone of the count prosperity. Proud, quick tempered, high-couraged, born in the saddle, nimble alike with lasso or knife, he is well fitted to belong to this land ‘of great'open spaces where 27, 000,000 cattle graze. The horse is the Argentine boy's god. Every cowboy possesse: | own horse and his own saddler; the workless tramp who comes at sun- set to the Estancia gate and claims, according to the custom of the coun- try, food and shelter for the night, rides his own horse. He would be in low water indeed if he came on foot The peon saves nothing of his wages. The great part is extorted from him by the keeper of the local store, an autocrat_with a monopoly, who ‘makes from 50 to 100 per cent profit on every article he sells. remainder goes to the local Sunday ra or on taba, the great gambling game of the “camp,” played with hock bone of a steer. Above all, the peon loves a morn- cow- ing’s horse-breaking,*and as his man- | r of taming a horse is very different om anything I have seen in any other part of the world I will try to give a description of it. It was away D in the north that I saw for the first time an exhibition of potro riding. We were returning from a cattle in- spection, when my host pointed to a paddock containing a hundred horse: t one of those horses has had a man on his back,” he said. | see the boys riding?" | voung black | strip 1 | the colt’s lower jaw. He gave a sign. A dark-skinned wiry-looking fellow came forward hand on the fastening of his lasso, moment later the cowboy began gal loping among the horses with his lasso whirling around his head. A colt was marked down The lasso fell unerringly around the colt’s neck. Then the fight began a high-couraged animal and fought for his freedom every inch, plunging, rearing, twisting in and out among his fellows. Another peon, coming with a second lasso, flung it around the colt's le A quick jerk and the colt lay stretched upon the ground. First the bocado was of rawhide tied tightly around calf head over | 1 descendant | The | “Like to | The colt was | | | | di | P! h | ir | la Thwack! thwack! falls the “THE DRUNKE STRUCK.” fore legs were loosened. to rise and the le. Then much Lastly, laced For a moment orse stood motionl “Ay, ah! Ay, ah!" The fight begins. nto such or the other, COWBOY'S ARM WENT FORWARD AS HE domad the _dumfounded | pleted . Down with a |assembly point thwack comes the rawhide rebenque the cowboys, Buck! and in or W He was made (horse- breaker) came forward with the sad- adjustment and taut- ening of the powerful girths (with s reason, as we saw later). the domador sat down put on his mighty spurs, with their cruel four-inch rowels, so big no man could walk in them. the colt, who stood with startled eyes sweating and shivering in every limb, hand on mane and jumped into the saddle. and He came up to By 7 o'clock this round-up is com-| and we move on to the next| There we find Don | | Carlos, the manager of the estate, and | {the veterinary officer, and the inspec- 1t is hard | tion be to believe any animal can twist itself shapes—a sort of twisting corkscrew motion, quick side most disconcerting sideways kick. darts to one | with midair The peons watch critically. “Ay, ah! roweling or, th rebenque. . | the rage of the | first time the mastery of man | | d | plain !lm: and ride on each side of the n But the fight The colt_ will gallop until he tires and comes of his own accord to a There Two other ened animal athetic standstill Such is horse-breaking as it | practiced by old Gaucho stock in the Argentine. Brutal, e satl is something magn animal tasting S o hanaie T s ds sel.|denly the bucking stops \3 i ard words sl | neck stretched the colt ¥ horsem perhaps, | alien ideas, but undoubtedly |is a point of honor with every cowboy * * HERE are brave men, too, as well It | * * Ay, ah!" cries the doma flanks, remorseless n ficent { Suc and wit ces over the nen is ove ¥ is sti to as brave horses in those parts. to be able to ride a potro. saddle that he lost his seat | passes it of to have fi A cowboy during ften ask to be iis request is gene catch the eye In Argentina stock n on a grand sc: seen a herds in nest th looking for horse-breaking, lowed to ride a potro. | and | sometimes if he is a good horseman he | will le. s to w ally gr of the and get himself a job, raising is carried | Grosso, west of the Alta Parana. 1t is something rodeo of some of the lavish pastures, where every. beast gets from | what he is going to dv. | four to seven acr land much more as he requires. | al, 1ij | m b c P of | D I b cam much by h camp. the breeze. immediately Though moon bove, the first ght shows over nanager's young uck or two. ar th ¢ Pedro, the old Gaucho horse-tamer, | beast. and a few cowboys lingering around a | hardiest mate, watch | stockman They judge a white man |this breed for the most part that the seat on On, over three miles of rolling | fire over their ritically. arts. Now low at £ the cattle. oints. Now and again A colt b eon, galloping at over the broken pla is a grand sight to watch the slow approach of this vast array of It ts flicker headed by star: he hori; hestnut ear hor: firs silhouetted against the crimson the slow-moving herds Iy. reaks a breakneck in on their fast, wiry horses. of greyhound breed assist, again finding diversion by The cry of the peons, impossi- | ble to reproduce in print, but not un- ! ke the shrill song of a bird, echoes| Then the colt’s | around the hill. | hare applied—a | i | —EaT CO If thrown, {it is not enough that he get into the saddle again He must ride a fresh |brushed like children, each day they | potro as well | as the one that threw {him to prove it was the fault of his vork anted estancier of himself, or as | on as the |great cattle ranges are sparely fenced, throws se in th . but growing |a sheriff in the Southwestern United louder, a sound reaches our ear distant thunder or an artillery barrage | estate in the heart of South America, | heard a great way off. It is the call | three da The rodeo has begun. From all parts of the great estate cattle are being driven to the sk troop solemn- | Joe 0 or 100 horses | Westerner. flash by with tails and manes flying in | as lightning with his eyes and hands. back, but is watchfu controlled by 10 men at most | Lank dog. now an coursing for the ther our effective. if he|cattle breeding de luxe in Argentina. will | ro are still | tina. of the sun's|dare not allotted To the right, to the left, ahead speed | We see great herds of breeding | cows with calves at foot intermingled | a_ proportion of great broad-| a |backed bulls. Fifteen hundred 3 |old heifers, as many yea |an imposing hera of Hereford bulls Here these a1l Pilot just a fine stock ord cows with Don Carlos alf. * he says. 14 days old. Tt one day he will | and wad w rings of [ points out a tiny n| “That is Leme Lemeo Pilot |is hard to believe Frow dle solemnly ind the Buenos Aires and Monte Last, we come to the most important | portion of this vast estate—the | ieds where little Lemco Pilot's father | Pi h other famous sires. | One by one they are led out, each by | his own attendant — Moorhampton | Rightful, grandson of Starlight, one of the finest bulls ever bred; Lean Twin and Mansell Hector. The names of | some are famous in two continents, ad backs devolves the | very existence of the estate | No wonder they are taken care of, {no wonder Don Carlos politely asks us | to disinfect our feet at the stable | | door. Each day they are washed and i hi into sh r. go a mile walk for bri eon and dinner. of everything to kfast, ch They have the best | eat. So much for| * oK K ok HE Brazilian cowboy is of rather | different temperament from the | Argentine variety. He is to be found |on”the great cattle plains of Matto He is not so quick to strike as the Argen- tine cowhoy—more given to brandish ing his gun or knife and talking of But Matto Grosso is a harder coun for the stock raiser than Argen- For in Matto Grosso the police go outside the-fowns, the | tr: nd there scem to be no laws at ali | | governiing the conduct of man or It is a country to which the type of Western American best suited, and it is from a e | managers of cattle ranges are drawn. Such a one is old “R. * forme ates. For years he has run a wild north of Coromba. He has | his own private graveyard, where he has given nine men a decent burial, | and the survivors have given up steal- ing his cattle now. A man whom 1 will call was such another—a slow of speec | Montana great big . but_quick | An American cattle company sent .me} jdown to look after a new property | it had acquired. Joe was told there | | was trouble down there. The cowboy {on the range were stealing beef, killing {the company’s cattle, making jerked salt beef, ng canoes and selling in | Paraguay. Joe arrived he found things as foretold. The ringleader was | his own foreman, a big Bahiano Bra- zflian, black as ink The Bahiano resented the way Joe | spoke to him about the matter the | day after Joe arrived. So Joe told him | he could go. The Bahiano accepted | his dismissal with a bad grace, saying that next time he met Joe he would kill him and cut off his ear. The cutting off of an ear is a local custom, arising from the faét that when a quarrel has been picked a | third man is often employed to do the | killing, and he brings along an ear in | proof that he has done the job and earned his maney. In the case of the Bahiano he meant to kill Joe himself | 2nd keep the ear as a trophy! * k x X OE did not like being spoken to in this way. either. and the Bahiano | | nearly lost his life for the remark, only | {Joe didn’t like shooting a man who | wasn't ready. However, they met out- | side the local town next day. The Bahiano tried to get his gun out and | Joe shot him dead. Then Joe dis- mountad and cut off the Bahiano's ear, which he put in a match box for the time being. Having killed a man, Joe had to leave the district. He packed his grip | and set off downstream for Paraguay. | The Paragyavan offlcials, on the look- | out for revolutionaries entering the country carrying arms, searched all passengers’ luggage. In the bottom of Joe's grip they found the match box with the ear in it, and as Joe could | give no satisfactory explanation, | locked him up. It was some time be- fore Joe could get out again, and he no longer follows the local custom of collecting souvenirs when he has to do a killing. The cattle down in Matto Grosso are all of the white humped zebu stock. They do not produce such good results as better-grade animals, but seem to be the only cattle able to re- sist tick and disease in those parts. The besetting sin of the zebu is wild- ness. At Arapua, where I stayed several days with a cattle man from Texas, about 30,000 head of cattle were graz- ing on 2,000 square miles of land. But my host sald that a. third of these he had never seen, and when we were riding out one morning to watch a attle branding and he pointed out to | 1l d | | | |it. | money in two years. the skyline a mile away because théy had got our wind, I understood the reason. The task his cowboys had in brand | ing these animals had to be seen to be believed. Day in and day out they had to ride at full gallop through the woods, regardless of armadillo holes, overha trees—for Matto Grosso is a wooded | cattle b | enced |ana held at one end b: {and sharp up against the post | these Matto Grosso cowboy their necks and some lost their nerve, but the work carried on and the cattle were gradually collected ina HOWEVER, when the cattle were in the corral the work no means over. I'll never forget the first anding 1 Matto The outfit color black Bak an olive skinned Paraguayan was by watched ranged no to in Grosso. in from a They were a picturesque-looking lot of rascals, with their yellow orange dved skeepskin saddles foreman wore a scarlet handkerchief. tled pirate fashion around his head. The cook, ally are, was lame, having lost a leg. We all had lunch together, sitting around a log fire in a wattle shelter, eating rice, dried salt meat and man- dioca. Then all set to work. First the cook sallied forth with a piece of fat and some dry twigs, while others collected logs. When a®*good s burning the cook put in the branding irons. All being prepared, work began The method of handling the cattle was so primitive that some experi cattle men may disbelieve me when I describe it. About ards from the inclosure in which the bul stood walting to be branded a stout post with a hole through the center had been driven in the ground A lasso was passed through the hole man on a horse. Another man dropped the loop of the lasso over the bull's neck and signaled to the man on the horse, who moved away, dragging the bull through the self-closing swing doors Here half stunned by concussion with the post, it was easy to throw the bull and brand him. Occasfonally, however, the sel ing swing doors failed to act, three or four bulls got out at once, and pande manium reigned in the corral. Then showed what splendid cattle men they were. nging branches and stumps of [In a second each man had his lasso vhirling around his head and secured country, unlike the open plains of Ar-|his animal. gentina. Most of the cowboys aver- aged three crashing falls a day, with no chance to land on their feet, as an Argentine cowboy cai Some broke At times one would miss and turn and jump for the stockade, for the men worked on foot in the corral and zebu bull will always go for a man s cattle men’s cooks usu- | it he on foot and occasionally 1e | mounted One incident particularl | me. A cowboy who had fa a bull disdained to run for ade, but stood calmly waiting th furiated animal's approach. A bull came on him he pped a caught it by the orns and th I have seen steer wrestling cont in rodeof. read of the feats of mata | dors in ain, but T have never he {fore seen a man face a bull wit ked hands and re on his skill nerve to save his life. Yet so |is life held today in the wild west South America that the others har | stopped their work to see what wo | happen impress d to las it (Copyright. 19%5.) 0dd Way to Find Ore. ZR the entran mine of a zona hangs a the Cave F roams about t puffing Mechanics the smoke as it d sees it disapp breaks in the rock workings are extended in n, which often leads to rich in ore. Minerals 1§ seem to have been dey which liel in an_apprec | zontal plane. The | have been v { half a_mile in t are driven ur ore is dropped that it nder emplo round pass: cigarettes He keeps « 1 th enl [ v Telephone Testimony. JFOR the first e Favette County, Pa timony was taken by telepl ard Barton, the Ci accident case, after being a_px & unable to attend c was called by telepho ministered and I mitted and recorded stenographer. "monwealth irst Really American Doorstep In Europe Becomes Reality in Paris BY STERLING HEILIG. PARITS, July 30 HE American Government will be buying furniture and car- pets this Summer in Par! A sum of $38350 exists, in cash, on which to draw. This is what remains of the congressional | appropriation of $300,000 for the pur- se and furnishing of an Amerl embassy property in Paris, after pay- | ment of $200,000 to Mme. Wilson for | the beautiful mansion and grounds | in the Avenue d'lena—which are now | ours,” like the White House in Wash ington. Empty and unfurnished, 3,000 American tourists rushed to it, the other afternoon, when Ambassador Herrick threw the howuse open in an informal public reception, because he had not the heart to keep them guessing! The furnishing will now go on. No- body will see the interior again until October, when the Ambassador moves in_for good 1t is the first embassy property that the United States owns in Europe. Heretofore, Congress left the flag in rented quarters. Is it nothing to Americans that they are now on an equal footing with other world powers in Paris? Ask those 3,000 tourists from all sections of our country! They rushed to an empty and unfurnished house! Bare walls, 300 gilded chairs uphol- stered in red silk (obviously rented for the occasion), and Ambassador Her rick standing before the bare mantel- piece in the big salon! And it was enough Crowds of Americans, without® end, roamed through the empty parlors, into the great conservatory, and down the steps to get elbow-room in the beautiful garden, freely express- ing their pride and pleasure. After 3,000, the counting machine broke down. The lavish buffet, due to the Ambassador's private pocket, re- freshed all who could get near to it. But a time came when his excellency h.d to welcome crowds of new ar- rivals on his doorstep. The first really American doorstep in Europe! | | 1’ [ | | | | * ko % INJO, matter what we thought at home, we feel it when we get here—this is the right thing. We know the greatness of our country, but here, on the &pot. we want to see We don't want second-class coun- tries to have visible advantage over us. We are glad that the Ambassa- dor is, henceforth, in “our” house nd furniture. in grounds fit to cope, somewhat, with the famous garden | parties of the British embassy! Nations own their embassies in Paris. Everybody knows where they are. They do not change. Newly ar- ! riving Ambassadors simply move in. | But the American Ambassador had to rent a house, then buy or rent fur- niture. To our pride, it is a thing of the past! Holland, about two years ago, pick- ed up as a bargaln new embassy property, which it has since remod- eled. “Its value is now ahout $500,000 ~$150,000 profit. Japan recently bought a small em- bassy. It is now worth $100,000. Put down $40,000 profit. Poland bought a chancellery buiid- ing in 1923, It is worth, today $150,- 000—Poland has nearly doubled her In 1920 Switzerland bought a_fine place, not considered cheap, for $140,- 000. Today, after five years, it is estimated, like Poland's bargain, at something about double. Little Siam in 1915 bought a prop- erty for $100,000. Having recently added a small building to it, Siam could now sell out for probably $270, 000. (Of cours®e, Paris real estate was very much “down” in 1915.) And _“little” Spain—in 1923, she spent $400,000 to buy and furnish a proud Spanish Ambassador’s house in Paris—not counting that much of the beautiful old furniture came up from Madrid. Now, it is said that “Spain has got her embassy for nothing,” so much has the value of her purchase mounted! So, it is extremely probable that the United States has made an excellent investment in paying Mme. Wilson $200,000 for the mansion and grounds in _the Avenue d'lena. Two hundred thousand dollars is a large sum in French francs today. By exchange rate, at the moment of purchase, it amounted to almost 4,500, 000 francs! Mme. Wilson s a daughter of former President of the rFench Republic Grevy. Her husband, the famous Daniel Wilson—famous for his ex- penstve living—butlt the house, regard- less, in his day. * ok ok % THE place was in such fine condl- tion that less than $2,000_of the actual appropriation mone: & fuct, used in ils rengation; e, 4 i AT SR s et L GRAND STAIRWAY RAy v i et ‘& 5 OF WHITE AND COLORED MARBLE IN THE NEW EMBASSY IN PARIS. Copyright by Sterling Heilig terest accumulation on the first half of the appropriation, running up to several thousand dollars, I have heard, went into the redecoration of Amer- ica’s official “home” in Paris. Original construction details, which would cost great sums today, were not always noticed by the mass of Amer ican visitors at the reception. Such are the white and colored marbles lining the main hall and mon- | umental staircase. The white marble is beautifully carved—hand-work, in quantity, bevond price at the present moment. The steel and bronze balus- trade is another little extravagance of Danfel Wilson. All exclaimed, on the other hand, at the great conservatory, or house,” lined with high palm trees and all kinds of other greenery, which forms, In an old-fashioned way, a solid portion, you might say, of the mansion itself. All noticed, equally, the delicate mosalc work of the conservatory’s “green- | floor and sides. As a fact, less noticed the main hall has the same mosaic flooring—some more of that expensive and lasting artistic work due to Danel Wilson's lavish building. Today such quantities of high-class mosaic designs would cost a veritable little fortune. 5 noticed the high ceilings. From the right of the great recep- tion hall, which extends back to the principal dining room, we entered a magnificent long main salon, or par lor, in carved oak panelings, at_whose bare mantlepiece Ambassador Herrick stood to receive the crowds, until they overhelmed him. Bare of all furniture as the vast salon was, all exclaimed at its spa- clous vista, continued by that of the conservatory. At its left extremity this spaciousness is added to by the principal dining hall. Parallel with the long salon and equally extending to the main dining hall is the great entrance hall, already mentioned. All these, thrown open together, form a : ARLAT 7 | ON HIS OWN DOORSTEP. PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN AT THE_-GARDEN SIDE OF THE NEW UNITED STATES EMBASSY IN PARL future meeting place for at seen the new examples Americans | emb tha peopie it nin Franklir ed I Cha a fine ol ington, i understood Lafayette grace this walled with large colored Caen s Another gift of 2 del Alex The of Pennsylvania has ing of F der, the An beautiful br These are With the gif | habits of our peoy | what the American | will become? The rallying point terests A permanent Paris nder State Soci ank Amer Accuracy vs. ELOPMENT i D learning more to operations, land 1 nts porta do Mye rep. in Clev who w perim pev of seven minu other each tr no error the period not gained m group; but later, a without practice, copied, for speed for 10 m average of iracy squ 451 words. The curacy worke per 100; tha A later series of exper roborated the finding that tion was directed solely suracy tended to dimin other hand, if ¢ solely to accu increase. the unfamiliar ites, the speed. mater to spee How Thick Is the RACTICALLY all phere is confined to a ing outwaurd from the eart than 200 miles, accord: available evidence. ven a of 50 miles above the earth tity of air is believed to inappreciable. The densit mosphere decreases rapld tude increas If the were at the present se from bottom to top, confined within five r earth. One-half of the m mosphere is within thre miles- of the surface of three-fourths is below level and seven-eightl 10-mile level. Thus t has but a thin coating about one-fortieth as thic diameter of the earth a or, if we consider the only in its appreciable e 40 miles above the earth), only at one two-hundredth as thick as the di- ameter of the earth—a mere coating not thicker, relatively speaking, than the skin of an apple of ordinary Air? and one Flower-Scented Tea. ‘LOWER-SCENTED tea is the latest beverage in Peking, China. The flower is heated with the tea leaves and imparts an unusual flavor to the drink. = The white jasmine is the flower most used, and the practice is becoming 80 popular that large fiel of jasmine are now being planted. —— Highest Mountain. THE highest mountain Everest, in Asia. 29, above sea level. The average air pressure on top of it is abogt four pounds to tHe square inch, I than a third of the pressure at sdll levol. is Mount It is 29,002 feet