Evening Star Newspaper, March 28, 1926, Page 80

| Buried Riches in Libyan Sands Become New Goal of Expedition Guide'’s Book of Treasure and the Stampede of the Caravan's Men—At- mosphere of the Hovering Menace Unexpected Turn “Arabian Nigfl'lts.w of the Senussi—An to Mapping Tour. Making’ Use of a Sandstorm—Story of a Tribe That Leaves No Tracks—A Surprising Encounter. An exploring expedition into the trackless and waterless Libyan des- ert furnished adventures of a far different what Mr Harding King anticipated. As re lated in two preceding articles while traversing the sands with the intention of reaching the border of French Sudan, he and his caravan were put in a sorry plight by the treachery of an Arab guide, who had emptied all the water tanks at &n advance statlon, thus causing the abandonment of the journey. Harding King had become picious of this guide, Qway Has Qway, because of his assoctation with members of the Senussi, a sect of dervishes who had always shown hostility toward any non-Moham medans entering the desert stually Qway, after belng tracked through the sands, surrendered himself and was lodged in prison as a traitor. But Harding King's ex periences with the Senussi had not ended, as a reading of this article, the concluding one in a series by him, will disclose. That there was a basis for the ‘belief of Harding King's men in the existence of burled treesure in the desert, as related in this article, is shown by the recent findings by an expedition headed by Count de Porok in the French Sahara, bor- dering the Libyan desert. There, in a tomb as large as those ex: plored in Carthage and Utlca, the expedition unearthed a wealth of gold, silver, bronze and precious Jewels. BY W. J. HARDING KING. AVING disposed of the ques- tion of Qway, the guide who had betrayed us by spilling our reserve water in the sands, I went to Rashida for the fete of Shem en Nessin (the smell- 1ng of the breeze). The officials of the oasis were also there, and we cele brated the day in the usual manner In the morning we put on clea clothes and took our breakfast out of doors literally to “smell the breeze.” Then we went up among the palm plantations to a primitive swimming bath the 'omda had made by damming up a stream from one of his wells The natives stripped and disported themselves In the water, swimming about, splashing each other, and en- Joying themselves immensely. The next day I returned to Mut to pack up. A number of callers came round to see me during the short re- maining time I staved in the town. For since I had come out on top in the affair with Qwa: had become wonderfully friendly. Among them was the Sheykh el Afrit from Smint. He was extremely oily in his manner and kept on ad- dressing me as “Your Presence the Bey!” He gave me a lot of informa tion about afrits (evil spirits). spoke in the tome of a man who had had a lifelong experience in the matter. It was most important, he said, to use the right kind of incense when invoking them, as if the wrong sort were used the afrit always be. came very angry and killed the magi- nature from clan—it seemed to be a dangerous | trade He gave me a lot of information of the same nature and recited a number of instances of encounters with afrits to illustrate his remarks. Among them he mentioned—quite casually— that it had been an afrit that had led Qway astray. The object of his visit had apparently been to put his opinion, as an experienced magician, “IT WAS A NEAT LIT- TLE TRAP THAT I HAD FOOLISHLY WALKED INTO.” before me, for he left almost imme- diately afterward On leaving the dunes for Bu Gerara, I sent Qwaytin, who had replaced Qway as guide, and Abd er Rahmann off to look for another oasis that the former had heard of, that was said to lle some distance to the west of our road. This, however, he failed to find. In the evening before his departure, he came into my tent and announced that “his book said” that on the fol- lowing day we should reach the Gara bu Gerara. There, he said, the road forked, and one branch, leaving the usual road fol- lowed by caravans going to Dakhla, and keeping more to the west, led to Bu Gerara—the oasis we were in search of. This was the first mention he had made of any “book,” so I inquired what the book was to which he re- ferred. Qwaytin seemed rather sur- prised that I had not heard of it before, and said that it was his “book of treasure!" Cautlous questioning elicited the fact that he had never been to Bu Gerara before, but that he was relying entirely on the directions given in this precious volume to take me there, and evidently, when we reached the place that we should all fall to digging in search of the buried riches that the ook £aild weio to be found. the whole oasis | He | |stead of getting on and mapping the | desert Jleven miles’ march from our camp brought us to the Gara bu Gerara—a |long, low, flat-topped hill with a small | peak at its eastern extremity, where fthe road to Bu Gerara branched off from the Derb et 1, according to Qwaytin's book of treasure. Much to my surprise, we found a very well marked road branched off from the Derb et Tawil, though, judg- ing from its ppearance, it had not been used for a very long time. Away to the east of our route—by the side of the Derb et wil s a mall but very conspicuous mound of bright vellow earth — probably ocherous {which T was told was the Garet | Dahab (golden hillock). | Here Qwaytin and Abd er Rahmann |{went on ahead in their search for treasure. After wandering about for a | time, seeking the marble palaces and ‘mlzipd domes of Bu Gerara, we at length caught sight of two figures in the distance, who, when examined through the glass, proved to be Qway- tin and Abd er Rahmann. We found Abd er Rahmann and Qwaytin diligently engaged in :grub- bing about in the ground. In reply |to. my question as to whether they | had seen anything of Bu Gerara, 1 was told that we were standing on it. Qwaytin pointed out the foundations of several walls that could just be seen showing above the sandy surface of the ground and a lot of broken pottery Iying about on the desert. He then led me a few yards away where a circular patch of unusually sandy soil, a few feet in diameter, was to be seen, which he said was the mouth of a well, and produced as the first Instaliment of the “‘treasure” to be found a plece of broken purple glass, but had apparently once formed part of a cup or bowl, and a copper coln of the Ptolemaic period, which he had dug up. The sight of that coin was too { much for my men. It was all I could do to get them to unload the camels and pitch my tent before they were IuIl digging away into the ground for dear life, execting every moment to | find the untold we: h that the book | had described. They continued until it was too dark for them to see. ok ok % WAYTIN came into my tent in the evening highly elated at hav. ing found Bu Gerara. To my disgus I discovered that he was not thin ing of going on Into Farafra, which was my objective, but was fairly off {on a treasure hunt, and seemed to imagine that he was going to drag me all over the desert with him searching for buried riches. His book, he explained, not only de- | seribed the road as far as Bu Gerara, but said that close by there was a hill to the west, standing in the same wadv—Qwaytin pointed out a hill | standing by itself to the west as a | conclusive proef that his book was | correct—and that a road ran past the |foot of the hill that, if followed, led to a big hill, on the top of which was {a well in which the treasures of three | Sultans were buried. His mind w fairly obsessed with the idea of treas- ure and I could get him to talk of nothing else. The morning after our arrival at Bu Gerara, the men fell seriously to work o dig about the site, with the result that by midday a few pieces of broken pottery and glass and two or three more small copper coins had been un- earthed. As I wished to ascertain whether any water was to be found in the well, in the afternoon, much to their disgust, I set the men to clear it out. ed Qwaytin's men, after they had been working for a short time, tools, declaring that that sort of work was a job that was only fit for the fellahin, and beneath the dignity of the Arabs. It was not until I pointed out that the well was the most likely I place in which to look for treasure, |and reminded them that the three Sultans were. said to have buried th in the well on the top of the hill described in Qwaytin's book, that they could be induced to resume their work. Then they fell to with a will |and soon had the well cleared to the | bottom. It was about 9 feet in diameter and 8§ feet deep. Before we com- menced to dig - the well was completely fiiled with sand that had drifted into it. About half-way down our expecta- tions were raised by the sand becom- ing damp; but though the well was cleared out to the bottom, and the | sand got considerably damper as we {descended, no water to be seen. | We stayed for a day or two more at |Bu Gerara, during which time the men found a small earthenware pot, | some broken fragments of glass and | pottery and one or two more copper | coins—and that was all! Then as we had drawn a blank, so far as treasure as concerned, at Bu Gerara, the men | wanted to be taken off to the hill here ghe-riches o the three Sulianglfsll- pefore wa - could -wi& wel Heveral simes L hflt_lh—mo 4ipns. in-the “THE SIGHT OF THAT COIN were buried with the least possible de. lay. Qwaytin was the most Insistent of them 1, evidently assuming that I had given up my plan of going to Farafra and had committed myself to a whole season's treasure hunting instead. The hill where the mystical Sultans had buried their riches was not far off, though it did not lie in the direction in which I had intended to go: but it was in a part of the desert that had never been mapped, so 1 thought it best to humor him once more and let him take me there.. * *x E got off early the next morning. Qwaytin led us straight toward the hill in the wady, near the foot of which we found the promised road. We sighted the hill we were in search of in the afternoon, and. in an hour before camping, reached the top of a steep descent on to the lower feet below us that Qwaytin said was called in his book the “Negeb er Rumi (descent of the European). The road down to the valley below was ob viously to some extent an one, and though extremely steep, W negotiated without difficulty We reached the hill itself at noon, and camped on its southern side. A: soon as the camp was pitched the men rushed up the hill and began minutely searching avery nook and cranny for the reported well, while Qwaytin wan- dered disconsolately along its base, vainly searching for the broken glass that his book foretold would be found there. In the evening Qwaytin, consultation. The position of the hill tallled so well with the description of it in Qwaytin's hook that he felt sure that it was the right one; but he was terribly worried over the failure to find the well. After much serious discussion, we cumstances, it was no use for us to waste any more time in examining the hill, but that at the end of the trip would go and get a really fir: highly certified magician from Calro, or some big town, and get him to come out and do the job. In the meantime, as Qwaytin had told me that there were some mounds in the Kairowin hattia we should go there through the eastern part of the Farafra depression and see if they did not contain treas. ure. Whenever I spoke to him day he began gassing out his wretched hill, and ing that he wanted to go back to it; but toward evening he rather recovered himself, and when he came to my tent I again threw out feelers about of the Bedayat. Though he declined the next he started giving me a lot of informa- tion about the Bedayat themselves, downed | which, as they are an almost unknown race, proved extremely interesting. They claim to be descended from an afrit (evil spirit), whom, for some crime, either David or Solomon shut up In a box till he grew to such an enormous size that he burst it open. There still exists apparently a mongrel Bedayat—Tibbu tribe, known as the M'Khiat er Rih, that possess the mi- raculous power of being able to walk over sand without leaving any tracks behind them—a most useful accom- plishment in the desert for a race of born freebooters. This peculiarity they owe to the fact that wherever they go they are followed by a wind that immediately obliterates their foot- prints! ‘'When at length we reached the hattia, my men spent most of their time in grubbing about in some large mounds. As the total result of their treasure hunt in Kairowin the men only unearthed one corpse and a few bits of broken pottery, without finding even a single copper coin to gratify their cupidity. They were consequent- ly considerably disillusioned with their occupation, and 1 experienced no dif- ficulty in getting them to start for Qasr Farafra. * K ok % WE sighted Qasr’ Farafra on the evening of the second day after leaving Kairowin hattia; but as night ground, about two hundred and fifty | artifictal | 3 Abd er | Rahmann, Dahab, and I held a serlous | came to the conclusion that, in the cir- | the country | to tell me anything about the district, | VASHINGTON, D. C. WAS TOO MU camped a few miles away from the village. Two hours’ march on the following morning brought us,into the oasis. On the outskirts we passed a patch of ground on which the sand was encroaching, some palms lying on the north of it being almost en- tirely submerged We camped on the northern side of the village. A large crowd of natives came out and stood watching us while the tent was being pitched. Among them was a sulky-looking fellow who, T was told, was the lomda; so, as soon as the tent was pitched, I invited him and some of the other men stand- ing by to come in. We had foolishly camped too close to the village, with the result that throughout the greater part of the day the camp was surrounded by a | crowd of men and children watching all our actions, peering into the tent, round the theodolite, when I began | to take observations, and generally showing an ill-mannered curiosity that | was in great contrast to the conduct | of the natives of the other oases in | which we stayed. It was not until 1 got to Bu Mungar, about two days' journey from Qasr Fara that T discovered that all the men in my caravan belonged to the Senussia. Qwaytin and his three men, | 1 knew, had always been of that per suasion, and, while in Farafra, Abd er Rahman, Ibra-him and ,Dahab had all been so worked upon by Sheykh Ibn ed Dris that, just before we left that oasix, they too had joined the | order, and showed all the tanaticism to | be expected from new conve: | A party of 30 Tibbus, sent from Kufara for my entertainment, by Sheykh Ahmed Esh Sher.!, at that time head of the Senussia, were hang- ing round somewhere in the neighbor- hood of Bu Mungar, close enough for | Qwaytin to start signaling to them by firing shots at imaginary pigeons |and lighting an enormous and quite unnecessary bonfire at dusk—a well | known Arab signal. Twenty more men had been sent | trom Kufara to reinforce the Maw- corner of Dakhla, which I should have | to pass in ordér to enter the oasis on my way to Egypt; while the inhab- itants of Farafra—the only other oasis I could fall back upon with my small caravan—were members of the | o almost to a man, and were on | the lookout for me if I returned that way It was explained to me that they had | allowed me to go to Bu Mungar in- | stead of to Iddaila—my original inten- | tion—in order that I should leave | Egypt, and then, as I had altered my | plans, no one would know “where it | happenea: | It was a neat little trap that I had foolishly walked into; but it had its weak points. | Qwaytin fired his signal shots that |led to my inquiries, and, better still, a howling sandstorm was blowing. If once we got out into the desert in these circumstan, 1 felt confident of getting away without difficulty. But the prospect of having the camp rushed before we could get off gave me such a bad attack of cold feet that I decided to start running as soon as possible in order to get them warm. Qwaytin and his men, however, when told to’ do so, flatly refused to leave the hattia. But he and his crowd were such a feeble lot that I had little difficulty in reducing them to order. We lost so little time that I got the tanks filled and the caravan off just after su . Before starting, it occurred to me that I might borrow a trick from Abd er Rahman. So finding a sand-free space near the well, I scratched the Senussi wasm with a stick deeply into the ground, and then, to mislead the Senussi when they came as to the direction in which we had gone, drew a line from it pointing toward the west—the direction in which I knew they feared that then set out toward the southeast to Dakhla. * oK ok N the evening of the fifth day after leaving Bu Mungar we arrived in Mut, having lost some of the baggage, two men and two out of our seven camels, and with the rest of the cara- van pretty well foundered from over- driving. The day after our arrival Qwaytin asked permission to go for the day to the village of Hindau. There was, I knew, a small Senussi zawia there, but it would have been useless for me to |refuse hin¥ permission, so long as he was at liberty, and with the existing state of affairs in the oasis it- was quite out of the question to try and gét him arrested. So I thought it best to pre- tend I did not see what he was driving at and allowed him to go. Later in the day I was in my room in the upper floor of the store when, rather to my surprise, I heard Qway- tin’s voice in the court below talking to Dahab and Abd er Rahman. As I had not expected him back so soon, 1 suspected that he was up to some mischief, so had no hesitation at all in listening to the conversation, espe- clally as I wished to know more exactly the terms on which he stood with my men. They were immediately below my window; but Qwaytin was speaking in such a low voice that I could only catch a word here and there of what he was saying. But I caught enough of the conversation to become greatly interested. 3 He was apparently giving them in- structions from a certain Sheykh Ahmed, whose identity I was unable to ascertain. Repeatedly I heard him mention a certain kafir (infidel) and once “a dog,” of whose identity I en. tertained no doubt at all—listeners proverbially hear no good of them- selves. It was nearly dusk when | should go—and | “Sheykh Ahmed 'says—" something that was quite inaudible, followed by expostulations from Dahab and Aber er Rahman, and then again they were told that “Sheykh Ahmed says—" something else that the kafir would have given a good deal to have heard. MARCH 28, 1926—PART 8 Eventually, I heard Qwaytin take himself off, and, shortly afterward, Dahab, looking terribly scared, came into the room, announcing Dakhla was a very bad place indeed, and that we must get out of it as quickly as possible. that | Abd er Rahman next burst uncere- moniously in and asked abruptly when I intended to start. I told him I meant to get off as soon as I possibly could. He looked lmmensely relieved, and sald that the sooner we started the better. 1 tried to find out from them exactly what was in the wind, but I could not get them to be In the least explieit. T went out and- interviewed Qwaytin end told hm I intended 1o start the next di He grinned and refused ab- &olutely to let me have the camels. I felt inclined to take them, but a large trading caravan with natives had come in during the day, and these men all hung round listening to our conversation in what seemed to be anything but a friendly frame of mind, and I thought it best not to make the attempt. After some difficulty, T succeeded in hiring three other camels that were in the oasis. Then, having arranged to leave part of my baggage, for which I had no immediate use, in safe keeping in Mut till 1 could send for it, I pre pared to start on the following morn ing. “The police officer and the govern nent doctor—a Moslem this time— isted on accompanying me across the oasis. They told me they had sent & messenger to Tenida to say that we intetided to stay the night there, so as 10 give the ‘omda time to prepare for usd MY ]][MA caravan of three camels and th\ee men seemed extremely small after bhie one we had been ac- customed to; IxIt the men were in good spirits at the paospect of soon return ing to their hownes, and the camels were good ones and stepped On reaching Termla we wen ‘omda’s house, lving' @ mile or two to the north of the town’, where we drank the usual tea. Afterward our host in- vited us to come and sit'in his garden, a delightfully shady piice with a stream running close bestd> it. I sug. gested that we might sit dawn there but the 'omda declared that' the best place was a little farther &n, just beyond a ticket in front of s, and made way for me on the path to\go in front. The other natives suddenly all stop ped talking and followed us in a moxt unnatural silence. I led the way, turned round the thicket—and foun: myself face to face with old Sheykh | Mawhub! Here was the mysterious wealthy * koK K it well. | to the | 4y the whole region of Dakhla Oasts. He was sitting on a rug in tae shade of & small fig tree, ostensibly engaged plous meditation. He wad apparently prepared for a journey. The situation was perfelt clear. ‘The littlo ramp of the Senussia having missed fire, they were desperately anxious that it should he overlooked So the natives of the oasis, with their usual kindly instincte, 3 arranged this meeting in order to “make the peace.” 011 Mawhub, at whose house I had once ceremoniousis dined, expressed | himself delighted to see me; but noticed that he omitted the formality usually made to one returning from = Journey, and did not praise A h for my safety Mawhub explained that he was his v to Cairo to “'sell some horses he had with him. His caravan was a most wretched-looking colleetion, econ sisting of a couple of camels and a mise ble horse, while two sorry look ng screws, mounts for himself and his | son, were appar: y the horses he was tuking into « ro for sale. The old skeykh suggested as we were both of us traveling to Khargs that we should join forces and make | the journey together. Though I was ready to let bygones be bygones to certain extent, I was not prepared to | g0 to this length, so finding that he | was intending to travel by the lower or Gubary road, I decided to take the route across the platean via ‘Aln Amur. Mawhub, apparently much disappointed, jumped up inte his sad | dle with & nimbleness surprising innun of his age, nd ie off journey We kept a carefu and took no risk ing time in the | the night's rest 1 1o get, was me | not heen a night Farafra. a fortni 1 had been able to get wore | very limited amount of slee n a wishing and skout at nig £ our remai At Khargs then manage e; there ha aving Qa before, when than dur de | to get any rest at all on the five days | fourney from Bu Mungar to Dakh It was not till we got to Mut th felt I could trust my men enough t risk being caught by them asleep | en I took the train for Cairo y the “‘romantic desert’” to lnok after xelf, and exchanged the heated | phere of the “Arabian Nights |'sawier one of ] and powerful head of the Senussi in ! Nurses’ Work for Remote Communities Made Possible by Will of Miss Delano BY WILLIAM S. ODLIN. S the quite unanticipated by: product of humanitarian en deavor that Is the legacy and the monument of one of Amer. ica’s noble women, 45 boysand girls of the Southern mountains are receiving an education which a short time ago seemed definitely beyond their reach Early in 1919, the guns had and destruction, as chief of the a few weeks after ceased spitting death Jane A. Delano, who American Red Cross nursing service had mobilized nurses for World War duty by the tens of thousands, died in France. Worn out by the almost supérhuman efforts she had put forth while the struggle raged nd the labors exacted by the over whelming problem of human recon struction that was the aftermath “of | war, even that 'sturdy physique and mighty will with which she was blessed proved unequal to the demands to which sha subjected them. Her life was forfeit not less certainly and gladly than had she been a doughboy dropped by a bullet In no man’s land To the very end she labored with the selflessness that marked her whole busy and achieving career, and when her will was read the deep love of humanity that dominated her life spoke from the grave. The will di- rected that out of her modest estate there be set apart $25,000 and the rovalties from her writings for the establishment of a novel undertaking. | It was the maintenance of visiting nurses to carry the gospel of health to those remote communities otherwise would remain in darkness. She established the fund in memory of her father and mother. Thus it came to pass that since the death of Miss Delano especlally quall fied and selected public health nurses have gone jnto the bleak wastes of Alaska, to the desolate and forbidding islands off the coast of Maine, to the | almost impenetrable fastnesses of the Idaho forests, to the backwaters of civilization in the mountains of the South. In every field they have en- tered their names have been written: large in the hearts of the people they came to serve. The service they give begins liter- ally before birth and it_ends not even with death, for they have given to mothers the prenatal guidance and care that hitherto had been a closed book, while in mare than one instance, defeated at last by the Grim Reaper, that | |and diverse qualifications demanded stamp the chosen ones women of un- | usual attainments. Prerequisite to appointment is unmistakable evidence of th 1 of courage, grit, de termination, perseverance, finesse and diplomacy as well as professional skill |and the willingress to consecrate one: self for a period of vears, in spite of | hardships krown to strew the way, to spreading the principles and practice | of health among forgotten people Isolation. primitive conditions and extreme poverty characterize every | field in which the Delarfo nurse lahor |and every day she must solve prob. |lems of which her sisters of the cities, | even in the slum districts, do not even I||r‘FIIYn. Typical of the Delano corps is Miss Margaret Harry. who for more than hree years has heen assigned to Ma- [con County, 408 square miles of wild | mountain ‘country in the northwest corner of North Carolina. Around | Highlands, the highest village east of | the Rockies, 25 miles from a railroad | station and’ where Miss Harry has | her_base of operations. circle moun tain ranges on which dwell families | of pure American stock amid con ditions that have not perceptibly yssessi altered since the infant days of the | republic. Superstitions that ruled | their forebears continue undisputed | sway in many instances in the candle- lit 1og cabins in which they live. The conjuring away of disease and extraor- dinary “remedies” constitute a well- | nigh baffling problem for the one who | would impart real knowledge of dis- ease, its preyention and control | In this rieh virgin fleld of service Miss Harry, soon found opportunity { not only for nursing and teaching but |also to work for the irn]s:n\PmPnl o |general living condition® Hardly {any problem of life was bevond her | sphere and often as the little mission- jary of health trudged over the flinty mountain trails on her errands of fmorx v she was overwhelmed with the | wish that she might do something to | bring about expansion of the meager | education that was all even the fortu nate among the eager, bright-faced voungsters she encountered was able to gain. She succeeded in a small way first, for she the means of help. ing a few of the children add to their | schooling. Her great opportunity |came quite unheralded. | The Junior Red Cross of had $200 which it wished to devote to two scholarships for mountain ch o TYPES OF MOUNTAIN CHILDREN HELPED BY THE the Delano nurse has prepared the body in which she struggled to keep the spark of life. Between the en- trance and departure of life men, wom- en and children have felt her kindly ministrations. They have been helped to forestall iliness, and when that could not be they have been cared for with all the tenderness and skill that modern nursing affords. Quite as im. portant as these services, however, is the teaching to masses of people the principles of health—how to take care of and do for themselves. Selection as a Delano nurse is one of the most highly regarded distine- mflhfi*lflt&am \ dren. To Mjss Harry was intrusted their selection. This was no difficult task and soon her two candidates were off to Lincoln Memorial University at Harrogate, Tenn. ‘The chiidren must have proved ac- ceptable students, for the school au- thorities wrote Miss Harry they would admit such other raw material as the Delano nurse coula send. Perhaps they did not realize the extent of the virtually untouched mine of collegiate ambition she had tapped. Perhaps just a handful of mountain children were expected. But the nurse had no difficulty in finding hundreds of candi- Atlanta | ites eager to throw off the shackles | of their environment. { As news of the opportunit {up and down the roc ‘hillsides | around Highlands, Miss Harry was be | sieged with applicants. At length the university found it could provide scholarships for 45 boys and girls who would be willlng to work their way through. The list of eligibles ared accordingly, and for this num ber Miss Harr all the while ecarrying on her regular nursing duties, helpea round up the necessary clothing out fits. Off to Lincoln the lucky 45 were packed and today they are opeping doors of knowledge which o shom # time ago seemed definitely closed (o them. Their rescue from the slavery of ignorance will be simply a & product of the vision Jane Delano had. 1t rickled was to the bound coast of Alask Delano nurse, Miss Stella Fuller, went. So isolated, so shut in. do the inhabit ants of this area feel that they inva | ably refer to the rest of the world | “outside.” Miss Fuller had her head | quarters at Seward, but she made regu lar trips into the surrounding country and during her first she traveled more than 11,000 miles, | visiting most of the settlements, can- nerfes and salteries. _Sometimes she storm-swept | that the first steamers and often in the native ca- noes or bidarkas. Similar hardships and the fact that she works entirely on islands compli- cate the endeavors of the Delano nurse assigned to Penobscot Bay | Me., Miss Edith M. Spiers. In the | Winter, months of gales and angry | seas, snowstorms and fce hlockade spel! absolute isolation from the main {1and and other fslands. An example of her problems was an experfence during a “fln” epidemi when pneumenia was prevalent also She found one of her patients, an aged man, alone in his camp hy the sea. His two.room s was appal- lingly dirty and he was very ill. No one could or at least would ay with him until the place was cleaned up The president af the village ladies’ aid. three other women and a man volun teered to help Miss Spiers and while the nurse worked at the attic bedside reached only by a ladder. they put in a full day downstairs making the hut fairly livable. length the patient was pulled through, " To carry out her work, Miss v mil DELANO NURSES. Thornhill, the Delano nurse assigned to Buchanan County, Virginia, more | often tRan not makes her rounds of the hills and valleys of that plctur- n on horseback. Not in- frequently her dutles take her on a full week’s journey from headquarters at Grundy. Just after her arrival Miss Thornhill' wrote to a friend: “I find that I shall be called upon to do everything from praying ‘in meetin’’ to cleaning the jail for my office.” In the central counties of Idaho, amid almost unexampled scenic heauty where there are canyons 5,000 feet deep and eternal snow crowns the 1jagged peakggof Sawtooth Mountain, was | fce- | vear of service | traveled in bobbing little ice-encrusted | 5 the gran | condition ur of the matic condl | from de | Janet Wor | has foi spite of ever, of. the s of. nE wHi pment an en, another her field natura she finds the naty people Dels of ser ohstac ready to profit And oL eve her h! ed n | osophy which | have | to th | | = & =4 | Sea Serpents. 'THE appearance o ! off n coast and ported by Capt. C. J. House, cor | er of the Government tiort be ¥ me calls a me o “ew Fug Statewents nesses, s movements shape, struek der nd awe e, 75 ve 18 the statament e's Jyody, he say ightened out, Jhe head wide the rest of the 2 feet wide and clared, adding t monatar a ‘kee The days ago, re appearance of the eyew color gald appearar deseriby | firs with compared 1o 4-gi in Per trustworthy captains 1 sels on our | the serpent no_longey a much and volu ciety of Beswon appointed a tee of eminem scientific profe: collect evidence on the subje drew up a repor! givinz in deta statements the various witne: who had seen the creature fron shore or at sea to have heef monster comm, New | became myth nd Asting ves So was gathere the Linnean S comr The ne of theny ¢ 10 yards of the aim It was reported to hawe come to surdace in calm and bright head being usua avried al 2 feet above the water and b a dark brown colov. It was 1 that the creature of 20 mil er Accordin the lished in thie the i lish officers from Hal ence of the a reality and not | wonder™ which exi | only in the mind of some Yunkee sk | per by some persons The fact that the sea course was not confined to the north Atlantic coast, bhut | far soutn as Cape Hatteras, weathe swant rate hour statement Ameri s eved serpent’s 4 latitud ‘(v’ 35 degrees, was a well verifled siate | ment in those days | Zoologieal writers of eminence, espe | clally in that department or hranch of {the great science which treats fishes their natomical struety form, classification and habits, have it recent vears beer unanimous in their opinion as to the actual existence ¢ this remarkable marine innabit long known by the name of serpent. Wool from Waste. NEW yarn with the warm, soft feel of Tamb's wool now is being made from the waste product of the artificial silk industry, .says Popular Science Monthly. United States De. partment of Commerce officials hold out a great future for the new fabric, which already is being manufactured in the United States ax well as belng tmported from Italy, where it started. The new “wool” ix shimmery @nd dyes in beautiful colors. Combined with reul wool in making serge. and other goods, it Improves its appear ance, as silk_does. : Strfl;’v Shoes. LARGE overstock of Panama hats gave an Eastern dealer the for an innovation in feotwear shoes made of straw-—says Popula | Mechanies. he uppers are cally all straw save " {of black leather. Noles | of the usual i | being comfortalie and readily | to the shape of the foot, the str | shoes afford the contrast desirsd i some costumes and are easily cleaned. i