The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 13, 1903, Page 32

THE SEERAY Big Game Joseph B. Bowlet.) ber, 1896, found CRharles Mc ck and myself en- camped at Matadi on the Congo, hav- ing Gebarked the night before from the big ocean steamer which brought us from England, where we had equipped our expedition for a five years’ stay in the interior of Africa. I had been home and completed the studies 1 had determined on when leav- ng here three years ago, and I felt dent that we were equipped with knowledge and materfals neces- to culminate our plans sucess- Mr. McClintock was a young man who had become very much inter- ested in my plans for future explora- i nd a year before T was ready to had declared his intention of g with me if he had to go as a among my goods. When I t, in spite of all the discour- agement I cc possibly throw in his way, he w 8 ined, T became nced he had the real exploration away fever and quite as bad as my own ini- tial & k That morning when the African sun first shone on our little camp at Mat- adi Mr. McClintoc nt off to climb the adjacent hiils while I kept camp, cooke ner and cleaned our scien- He after a two hou hunt ving made a discovery. He had » an rmy of white ants i , and by way of en- tertainment for the savages had danced the Highland broadsword dance He “When I eat ants 1 stopped to see were doing. There was a m about a yard wide, as ould crowd to one an- ig and some little, the bees. All at once something stung me. 1 thought it was 2 bee, and 1 felt more stings, stings in plat nd battal- jons. 1 grab S then the ther, charging up the hill at double- quick time. They would not brush off. and I had to pull them off one b cne, and sometimes they would®lea their heads before they would let go. He snent the rest-of the day looking t & in o atural his- and t wrote a treatise on the rmes Juci s that build hills twen- to thirty feet high Ants were the most P2 wonderf: al 8. where had been-taken S0 lar white ants in 2 stat ege. Some he standard Amer- ed in the rough Te enacied all the in miniature. "ks had There wer nil- hig white ones cov- picket line about ground. The white too n the en- ant would get the big fel- on like grim por the big struggle uld get pinchers and pinch then chase up the tree with kis & 1 untii he was beyond the danger line, and then he and his comrades would gather ind the little brave nt and make a meal of him: but t never neglected to keep the picket line supplied with pickets. ul things In the struck unted tre was one which lion ered the lim three feet fr ar the vanee and a li line out of a ¢ the If he emies charge low by death t after K, leg and h wWas not s short between his him nearly in ty black b > We notic the enemy the: reem to lister and then ants were not often whe by reinforcements the big fellow’s every to death; he would gle, but ‘all to no purpose: soon the struggling would «c and the vic- torious band would him off 19 24d his corpse to their food supply. We never saw the blac eat any of theirspoll, for they € took them to their underg ehouse. We watched this battie ¢ hours in the course of our stay here. There were always active hostilities, and every few seconds some of the bésiegers or the besieged would lose their lives. Frequently when a white ant was al- most overcome by a host of black ones white comrade would rush in, and hear him.away bodily, with several black ants clinging to his feet. Some- times the attempt at rescue would fail, with fatal resuit to the white ant. It seemed that they had great generals and great fighters, with all the qual- ities of wonderful strength, sagacity and chivalry found in the history of that when approaching Id always stop d then go But the nd <ain. He L of im 1 strus- humeanity. The sicge was still in prog- ress when we left Matadi six weeks later. We had' waited at Matadi for word from the trading company which I had worked for on the Upver Congo three years before. 1 had made them a propo- sition to take charge of a trading post on the Upper Mobangui River, Mr. Mc- Clintock and T to atterd to it and bu: ivory and rubber for them. Our idea 510 do our scieatific work and our exploring from this base of supnlies, as we couid have ample time. The con- ditions were that the companr was to transport us to the farthest-limits of the known territorr, on the M'Bomu, where we would build a bouse and do i business for them. We did not caref [ savage the natlves were or how | hard the labor o long as we reached a new d. scientific instruments, guns, ammuni- | tion, brass wire,and cloth. When I left Matadi for my trip home brass wire and cloth weye the currency, and every load for the Upper Congo was !{taken from Matadi by carriers, who were paid in wire and cloth, the rate | being between $3 and $10 for a load of | sixty pounds to be caried over the| caravan road of 250 miles. Thirty ! thousand carriers were employed then, | end hundreds of thousands of loads | were carried annually to and fro Stanley Pool; but now the new ral road transported all the loads Tumba, nearly half way to the pool, and the carriers all started from there instead from Matadi. Another change: When I left Matadi in 1893 money was of little use for transporta- ! tion, but now it was absolutely nec- | essary to pay the raflroad in money, ! while the carriers would take nothing | but cloth and wire. We were in a di- lemma, having no money to pay the| raflroad to transport our goods to the place where our kind of currency was | good. This was what forced us to| make our offer to the trading company, | for 1 knew that, once in the interior with our equipment, we would soon be | independent. to | . We had a chemical outfit for pros- pecting for minerals and diamonds and geographical tools for taking observa- tions and making maps. It was our plan to photograph everything, and we had cameras, plates and other supplies by. the load. For our geographical names of rivers, countries, peoples, we had a phonograph and blank cylinders by hundreds, expecting to y make an authentic register of the pronunciation | of the African names; besides I wanted | these registers to show'the similarities | I had noticed in the widely different | lanzuages. Our guns were the latest model— | small bore, metal jacket balls, the 30-40 | and the 25-35 Winchesters—with am- | munition to last vears. We had Colt’s 44 revolvers and a good all-around ap- | aratus for loading cartridges. We | were stocked with a tennis set and a | bicycle, ar sides all this I had my legerdemain outfit as a side tack. I} ied under a professor and be- | ome quite proficient in all current| sleight-of-hand tricks and meant to see what the natives would think of them. 1 had an elephant-taming equipment consisting of chains, ropes, pulleys, etc. All these things were boxed and most of them in zinc soldered cases, making , many extra lcads besides our beads, vire and cloth, tenting outfit, clothes, ehe re we were waiting for on the During the ti an answer from the company Upper Conzo 1 came into camp one | evening to find McClintock with a | towel around his head and a fever six | degre above normal. That was| something startling, but I kept Iemng[ him it was nothing. I put him to bed, | covered him -with three i W blankets, | bathed his head and wrists with Cn]d} water, and put a cold application on | his chest. It seemed as if he would | never perspire, and, though it is better to wait unti! the patient is perspiring before giving quinine, I gave him fif- teen grains. Quinine generally runs the fever up higher. MecClintock’s ran up to eight | degrees and then he began to perspire. 1 was getting very much frightened, for it seemed as if it was never going to start down. But when perspiration set in T krew it woud go down, but keep | on rising until they burn out the life. | Ten degrees is nearly always fatal, and | just before death it drops below nor- | al. McClintock's fever soon quieted | down 2nd he slent. The next day it| was entirely gone, but he was so weak he could not stand on his feet. I fed | him auirin- in doses of fifteen grains twice and the evening of the third day he was out to dinner, and a day after one would have imagined he had been sick. da and never v newcomers do not take it that wa I knew a Frenchman who after his first few days became tw veak and would lie around and He teok it whimpered. ery like a baby. He made his will, and as there was no priest confessed to | the administra He had been mixed up in some meanness and wanted to die conscience. 1 told him he and not to make a fool sing things he telling of later. But he = geing to die and com- He made his confes- sion and felt beiter. After he made it ¥1 edvised him to turp over and die gracefully, and he chased me out of {the room with his revolver, jumping out of bed to get it as spryly as a well "man. 1 doctored him and in five days | s he was as we!l as.ever. He had not | | taken enough quinine, being prejudiced against it. with a ¢! wes 1ot of himself cgre o ; knew { menced to moan. Imported Gems. The United States can supply all the | wants of its people for eoal, iron, cop- ! per, petroleum and all the useful min- | erals; gold and siiver also are found in | generous, quantities; but of precious | etones, the diamond, the ruby, the em- | erald, the topaz, ete., it has practically none, except what it has bought | abrond. In 1802 we paid $25,000,000 to foreign countries for precious stones | ihat we imported, while during that | year precious stones of ;the value of | only $33%,060 were found within our | porders. These were principally up-! | phires from Montana, turquoises from | Nev Mexico. Arizona, Nevada and Cal- ifornia, and tourmalines and chryso- prases from California.—National i Geographic Magazine, ’ | —_—————— | Strong Hoarhound €andy. Townsend's.s | s etk it ol e o It is time to express Townsend's Glace Fruits ast for Christmas now. . . P ———————— v . Townsend’'s Californja glace fruits and candies. We ‘a pound. in artistic fire- eiched boxes. A tice presert for Eastern frienés. 715 Market =t.. above Call bidg. * l ‘Special information supplied. dafly to ! business banses and public men by the | Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s). 23 Cali- fornia street. Telephone Main 102 ¢ | . v | SUNDAY 1. A 1] wWe had spent all our money buying | | interference became a necessity of the situation? | That refusal has already occurred. What then? | waterway. A SAN FRANCISCO'CALL',‘ SUNDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1903. —ITHE -SAN FRANCISCO .CALL| . ‘| JOEN D. SFRECKELS, Proprietor. . . . « « . . . .mmCmb&nsbJOHN‘RMUGH.MT Publication Office........... «.Third and Market Streets, S. F. HURRY UP THE CANAL. S The Call predicted the minority in Congress will for a while' obstruct) criticize and in some in- stances vilify the administration in the Panama matter and will then fall in and support the new treaty with, the new republic. In this it will follow the course it took in the matter of Cuban reciprocity. Mr. Williams, the minority leader of the House, took advantage of the debate on the pension bill to cbstruct the business of the House by attacking the President, accusing him of disobeying the Spooner law. That law required only that he wait “a reasonaple time” for Co- lombia to enter into a canal treaty and then reopen ne- | gotiations with Nicaragua and 'Costa Rica. Well, the reaty went before the Colombian Congress last August and was rejected. Immediately . upon evidence that neither it nor any reasonable treaty to the same purpose could be made with Colombia a new sovereignty arose over the isthmus, a new jurisdiction. As soon as this jurisdiction assumed all the features of a de facto Gov- ernment and as such was recognized by us and almost simultancously by Italy, France, Great Britain and Ger- many, we made with it a treaty for the canal more fav- orable than any one had ever dreamed to be possible. Mr. Williams said that “this was the first time that this Government had interfered in the domestic affairs of any South American country.” Does he not know that from the moment it was decided by this Government that it and not private parties would build the canal such Does he not know also that his party ceaselessly insisted that the canal must be a public and not a private enterprise, and that as such it could not be constructed without pro- jecting our sovereignty within another sovereignty, than which there is no more acute form of interference in the affairs of an independent state? Of course the right to do this would be sought by treaty. We so sought it in the treaty which Colombia rejected upon the specific ground that it invaded her sov- ercignty. It is easily thinkable that we would encounter the same difficujty with Nicaragua and Costa Rica. In- deed it was encountered long ago with both of those states. They demanded that we offset such grant by entering into an alliance offensive and defensive with them, binding ourselves to support them in military ad- ventures and do their fighting against the world if they chose to embroil themselves with any other power. A treaty to do this very thing was negotiated by Secretary Frelinghuysen in President Arthur's administration and was withdrawn by Mr. Cleveland anfong the first acts of his first administration. Since then there is no evi- dence that Nicaragua and Costa Rica have changed their position on that question, and it was such understanding of their implacability that compelled President McKinley to turn to the Panama route. Having advocated a policy which necessitates inter- ference in other states, what has Mr. Williams to say of the situation that would develop if they all follow the example 6f Colombia and refuse to permit it by treaty? ol lowing the policy laid down by the Democratic leader, Cass, nothing would be left to us but forcible, military invasion of the isthmus, to override local sovereignty by arms and take the rights which we hold in trust for the commerce of the world. Events have spared us this last resort. The de facto sovereignty of Panama assents to abdicate sovereignty over the canal strip twenty miles wide as far as such sovereignty relates to the construc- tion, administration and enjoyment of the use of that The administration, instead of being exe- crated for taking advantage of events so favorable, would be justly execrable if it had not. After Mr. Williams had exhausted his ingenuity in finding fault and in trying to make an issue useful next year he exposed the fatuous policy of his party by say- ing: “The minority cannot be made to make the mistake which the majority desires it'to make. The Democrats want a canal. They want the Nicaragua canal, but if they cannot get the canal where they think it ought to be they will take it where they can get it. If the President now refuses to try and negotiate a treaty with Nicaragua and Costa Rica, then in God’s name hurry up your canal.” This is a rather pitiful exposure to be made by the leader of a party. We are taking the only steps to hurry up the canal and are obstructed only by Mr. Williams and his party. The Republicans are not making them oppose and obstruct. They are not trying to make them make any mistake, as their capacity in making mistakes needs no outside help. They now give notice that they will pull back all they can, hinder as much as they may, and then at the end fall in and follow the Republicans, who would have been glad to have them march as one force and keep step forward to the result so long hoped for. Herr Bebel raised a row in the Reichstag the other day denouncing Germany's relations with everything, big and little, from Russia to Vanderbilt. There is prob- ably some consolation to the people of Germany that Russia won'’t respond to the noisily named socialist and Vanderbilt can’t. LIVE AND LET LIVE. CORRESPONDENT who describes himself as one who has been “a trade unionist for near upon a half a century” writes to say that a great deal of the strife between labor and capital of late years is due to what he calls a “contemptuous treatment” of the appeals of \\'(:rlfingmcn when made to the heads of great corpora- tions. His statement, which is well worth noting, begins with ial approval of a recent editorial in The Call on Unfortunate Cripple Creek,” but takes exception to the assertion made therein that “there are plenty of capital- ists, and of corporations too, for that matter, who if they were approached in a proper spirit of fair mindedness, would only be too glad to meet the demands of labor in an open, honorable, straightforward manner, perfectly willing to live and let live.” In stating his objection to that portion of the editorial the writer says: “With the exception of the portion quot- ed I Was in entire accord with the writer of the editorial, I have been a trade unionist for near upon a half a cen- tury and often has it been my duty to wait upon em- ployers touching the matter of wages and such other mat- ters as irom time to time come to the front in the labor world, and I have this to say: I neveruntil just re&ntly met with the least discourtesy, not to say contempt. The recent exception has been so overwhelming in the | contemptuous treatment of the workmen’s appeal for a little consideration during these good times that it has left in the breasts of employés just what might 'have been expected by any sane man—nothing but contempt for employers and their interests.” The writer cites only a single instance of the discour- tesy complained of, but of that he says: “Naturally the attitude taken by this corporation has led to the organi- zation by the men, and so this everlasting strife between émployer and employe is kept alive.” The Call does not know how far the complaint thus made is justified, but the statement is a striking illus- tration of the value of courtesy in all the affairs of life. Here is 2 man who for fifty years has been carrying on negotiations between workingmen whom he represents and their employers and who during all that time has been met with the true American spirit- of fairness and equality, but who now, despite all that experience, per- mits his judgment to be distorted by a single instance of discourtesy. One would reasonably suppose that a man who has met with but one discourteous corporation of- ficial in fifty years would dismiss that case 3s an excep- tional one and go on his way with no feeling of distrust against employers generally. It is a fact, however, that one insult or rudeness rankles so deeply in the mind of a sensitive man that it leads him to overlook for a time all the courtesies that are familiar and unnoted. While the complaint is unreasonable in that respect it is none the less a clear statement of a certain phase of human nature that has to be reckoned with, and the directors of corporations whose officials are inclined to treat with contempt or with rudeness the American workingman would better get a new set of officers. Awed by the strains of that musical monstrosity, “In the Good Old Summer Time,” an Indian maiden, buried in the everlasting snows of Alaskan winter, sent an ex- pedition of obedient swains one thousand miles to get the tune. What an opportunity here presents itself to one who loves his fellow-men. If Carnegie would only suspend the library habit, buy all the copies of the song in existence and send them to Alaska. BURBANK AND CARNEGIE. HE splendidly endowed institute at Washington to T promote the highest forms of scientific research and established by Mr. Carnegie as the greatest of his monuments has declined to include within its purposes the plant creating work of Mr. Luther Burbank. Such inclusion was urged by Presidents Jordan and Wheeler and many other influential scholars and men of science. We are persuaded that the refusal is made because the organic plan of the institute does not permit it to include such work as Burbank’s and not because its recognition and support is unimportant or unnecessary. All of his active life Mr. Burbank has worked in the improvement of horticulture with his own means and without any offi- cial assistance or recognition. Yet it is such work as other Governments delight to encourage and support, The world is just learning of the remarkaole discov- eries in soil feeding and the relation of beneficial mi- crobes to plant life carried on by Professor Nobbe in the Agricultural School of Saxony. With ample means sup- plied to support his experiments he has discovered the office of the nodules on the roots of leguminous plants and their origin in microbe action. Their function is to promote the plant’s absorption of nitrogen from the at- mosphere. He has found it possible to feed these mi- | crobes to soils that are exhausted of their nitrogen, | thereby causing nodular development, and enabling plants to feed on nitrogen and digest it, so transmuting | it into development of a crop. It is probably one of the greatest discoveries in vegetable nutrition that has ever been made. But Mr. Burbank’s work in plant physiology is of no less importance to the food supply of the world. We have become accustomed by long use to the improve- ment of animal life by crossing strains and by develop- ing individual traits into general characteristics. In this way our breeds of butter cows have been developed from an excess of butter fats in the milk of individuals, and our cheese cows from individual excess of casein, until we have neat cattle in whole races and great numbers that can be relied on for butter or cheese purposes. In like manner our beef producing breeds have been differenti- ated by building on the quality of individuals. Mr. Burbank has applied this to vegetable physiology and anatomy. He has proved it possible to have im- proved breeds of cereals, tubers, bulbs and fruits by hybridizing and by building on individual qualities. In this way he has improved the varieties of vegetable and all plant life and increased productivity. His work has been magnificent in its magnitude, and much as he has accomplished he is at the gateway of much more. In another country he would have been long ago knighted and pensioned. Here he has worked alone, and his shy and bashful and modest personality is little known even to his fellow-citizens in California. The name of the man who discovered the mule as a hybrid is pre- served for all time in the Book of Genesis. But here is a hybridizer of plants, who has increased the food supply of the world and has verily painted the lily by giving it new glories that nature did not put upon it originally, who is rarely recognized as he goes and comes among us. The Carnegie institute is open to original investigation in chemistry and physics over all their vast field. It in- cludes the biologist, the astronomer, the psychologist. We hope its organic purpose may be enlarged to include the inventor of new plants and the man who teaches nature how to usefully amend her work. By official decree, there will be no more ice in the staid, stately and sacred precincts of the State Supreme Court. One shudders at the spectacle of carrying ice to those apartments, where a chill and calm riot in oppress- ing dignity. Carrying coals to Newcastle becomes a sane proceeding in comparison. What unknown genius ever conceived the plot to be iceman to the Suprems Court? ¢ Some surprise and comment has been expressed that recently at Gatwick a horse, sound asleep, was a con- testant in a race and could not be awakened even when led back to the stables after the race. That's nothing. We have at least a dozen dead ones racing every day in this neck of the woods and rot even the wise ones, much less the public, show any surprise. Six Grand Rapids boodlers, facing inevitable convic- tion, have pleaded guilty to the charges preferred against them. Their own conception of the fitness of things, thus indicated in their self-accusing plea, shouid not be disturbed by the infliction of a light sentence. They may reflect credit on the town by a long lifc of usefulness in a penitentiary. . Under the inspiration of allegations of gross fraud the affairs of the sait trust are under 2 thorough judicial in- quiry. We didn’t need this investigation, however, to provide the epithet “salted” for many of the corporations of the United States and the conduct of their curious af- fairs. oL : a Inique Campaigning. It was during the days when Chris Buckley was the king of San Fran- cisco. “Bill” Lyman was running for Supervisor out in the Mlssion. Lyman had a bunch of friends who were very zealously campaigning for him. They had been placarding anG posting their candidate’s name in every rovok and | corner of the district. One of Lyman's followers was gifted | with the art of painting. He, with a | number of other select Miission spirits, conceived an idea. Down to oid No. 3 firehouse they sauntered. It was a| gathering place of the clans. While! steward and driver calmly slept the| Lyman forces went to work. First they decorated the sides of the two big blacks that hauled the hose wagon | with legends in_white, “Vote for Biil Lyman for Supervisor.” Then they embellished the wheel spokes of the wagon with similar announcements and completed the job by labeling the bat- tle cry along every length of hose that lay in the cart. A clang of the fire bell aroused the slumbering firemen. Quickly the wagon was roiling. Out into the street went the perambulating zpparatus. When bluff old District Engineer Kinaid arrived on the scene his eyes lighted upon that team of painted blacks. The roar the.gruff firefighter fet up was heard above the din of the crash of axes and hosemen and it took all of the “pull” No. 3's men had to save their necks. A Forgetful Lazcyer. ‘While a number of Superior Judges were eating lunch a few days ago they discussed the idiosyncrasies of the law- yers prominent in the local courts. One of the Judges, who has been on the| bench a number of years, told the fol- lowing on a lawyer whose penchant for borrowing car fare, always ‘‘hecause he had left home in a hurry and for- got his purse,” had been commented on more than once by his fellow practi- tioners. “It was about two weeks ago,” said the Judge. “I was walking down Mar- ket street, and when near the corner of Sixth saw this lawyer crossing the street. I saluted him and we stopped and chatted a few moments about the weather and several trivial subjects.| Just as I was about to leave him he R | + of a mustache. It signified nothing whatever except a badge of distinction from other race: Southern Workman. The Christmas Tree. “It is natural for us to take it for granted that there have always been Christmas trees, yet fifty years ago there were few in America, save in the homes of foreigners,” says a writ- er in Country Life in America. “About thirty years ago a number of duck- hunters cruising along the coast of Maine noticed the millions of young balsam firs which grew along the shores, and the brilliant idea occurred to one member of the party that these symmetrical evergreens would make excéllent Christmas trees. At this time the ‘abandoned farm' era had be- gun and it looked as if the whole State would grow up to firs. The bal- sam fir used to be a synonym for worthlessness. Nowadays ‘Canada balsam' is made «from this tree and thousands of vacation tourists gather its young twigs for balsam pillows. But the wood has always been useless to the lumberman. Therefore, when the New York yachtsman offered to buy a few shiploads of young firs, the honest Maine farmers failed to see the joke. But when the city man opened his purse they fell to with a will. “The first venture proved a success, and others hurr into the business. said, ‘By the way, Judge, I left home | in a hurry this morning and forgot my purse. Could you let me have car fare? ‘Certainly,’ 1 said, searching in my pocket for a quarter. I found one, and had just handed it to him when a young man, evidently a collector, stepped up and presented a bill to my friend. ‘This will save me a trip out to yvour office,” said hé. | “Without so much as a blush my friend paid the bill. It amounted to $7 50, and he abstracted that sum from | a well-filled purse he took from his| hip pocket.” | Without the Light. | The experience of a local dentist the other day brings back to memory the | story told of the Scotchman in the early | days when the use of nitrous oxide gas | first came into use. A young woman, a stenographer by profession, dropped into the tooth-pull- | er's office with a badly swollen ja just as he was about to close business for the day and asked if he could pull the offending tooth. The affable ivory ! carpenter saw the prcspect of an extra | dollar or two and with his most win-| ning smile told the patient to. take a seat in the chair. After thoroughly examining the cause | of all the trouble he said, “Well, I'll have to extract it, I guess.” In re- sponse to her feeble question, “How much will it be, doctor?” he replied, “One dollar without the gas .and two dollars if we use gas.” The patient looked nervously at the burning gas jet and said, “Well, could- n't I come back in the daytime, doec- tor, when it is light enough without the gas?” ‘A Winter Night. ‘When out of door a blustering roar doth make the poplars rock And Winter rattles at the door and tries to break the lock, A touch of fear is wakened by. the voices of the nigt, For cold is ever hungry and the north wind loves to bite. The home is like a fortress where our treasures we bestow, Beset by a revengeful and imperishadle oe. But the heart takes on new courage and forgets its sense of dread | ‘When Willie puts his nightie on and cud- dles into bed. ‘Why should the future darken with the shadows of dismay? ‘We are the victors row, and shall be so for many a day. And if he sleeps and smiles with faith in such as you and me, ‘What ought our trust in Wisdom far be- _yond our own to be? Periiaps our place is humble in the toil- séme march of life, Perchance we ne'er snall bear a glitter- ing trophy from the strife. But it's something just to know this youngster's glad and warm and fed When Willie puts his nightie on and cuddles into bed —Washington Star. May Be Missing Links. In appearance tke Ainu, or aboriginal race cf Japan, bear no resemblance to any Oriental race, having neither the scanty hair and almond eyes of the Japanese nor the finer features of the Chinese. They are above the stature of these races and there is no indica- tion in their customs and habits that they have cver had ideas in common. The remarkable feature of the men is a heavy growth of hair upon the body. | This dces not appear In early youth, but in later years. It is frequently a thick coat, black and curly, extend!ng' to the extremity of the upper and lower limbs. Th= hair and beard are much thicker than those of any other known race, and in old age the long, white, flowing beard gives them a meost ven- erable appsarance. The hair is cut straight across at the back absut on a line with the lower edge of the ear and: is free fromn the metted. condition of the hair of most aboriainal races. The | women have the same large, heavy fea- Ten years later the whole coast of Maine was stripped of firs anc. the business moved inland. From beginning the trade has grown until now a miilion and a half of Chirstmas trees are sold every yvear in New York and’ New England, of which about a million come from Maine alone.” Hnd Why Not? After reading a popaular novel, Tom Masson propounds the following queries in Life and announces that any one supplying the correct answers will be given a trip to the north pole: Why did the town nestle among the hiils? Why did she feel a mantling blush steal over her cheeks? How did it happen that a strange sense of unrest swept over him? What was it that she swept out of the room? Why did she never look mors strangely beautiful than upon that evening® What made him fleck the ashes from | his cigarette? How long did her heart stand still? Who deserted the ballroom, and why? TWhy did the cold wind that fanned their checks feel so good? Why did it seem to her as if all the light had gone out of her young life? What made the house stiller than death that night? When confronted by the lawyers, why was he visibly affected? Why was she the life of the whole gathering when her heart told her that all was lost? . Why did the dog look up at that mo- ment and wag his tail, as if he, too, un- derstood her? What choked his utterance? ‘What made her look back on that day all the rest of her life? Why was there a long pause? Why were her hands so nerveless when she let the telegram drop? What made her suspect that he had been drinking? Why did he'clutch the photograph so wildly? What made her feel intuitively? ‘Why did his voice have a ring of tri- umph as he spoke? Whose arm was she on when she went up the aisle? And why was her face, though pale, so radiantly beautiful? And why did the organ peal? g AN How to Do It. RTE According to news from Japan. so numerous were the self-murderers who sacrificed their own lives by jumping into certain waterfalls that the author- ities in Japan put up big signboards of warning, telling the “rashly importu- nate” who intended to commit the crime of suiet in these streams that se- rious coMsequéhces in ths hereafter would surely follow their offenses. 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