The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 24, 1914, Page 2

THE STAR—FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 1914, »|ALECK M’NABI RIO000C300006 Link Your Interests With This Chain of Credit Stores Wonders Just What Constitutes Knowledge; He Draws a Lesson From Happening in African Jungle. || Bright, Clever Styles in Men’s Suits Suits that haye the good qualities tailored right into them, just the same as the meat {s grown into the wheat. They have the material, style and the workmanship, and the prices you will find tn a range that you can afford to pay-—from $16.75 up. Open Until 10 P. M. Saturday You Can Have Good * Clothes on Credit § just the same as buy ing a home on the = in- stallment plan — buy ing furniture for it--hav ing a week- ly or month- ly account at the grocery or butcher's to keep it going We give you credit because we have confi- dence in you —because it is so conve nient and satisfactory to pay $1 a Week or $5 a Month Knowledge? What fs knowl | and was examining it under a edge? (asked Aleck McNab, Seat tle soldier of fortune) My friend, Professor Herman Costkneck, t#—tf he be atill alive a knowledgous man, being an entomologist of world whe fame, Yot ‘twas little his kn served him he was most in need. F knowledgous, ignorant Pro! vatkneck! _it was in the Uganda district, Africa, that 1 made the ore acquaintance. with the help of 600 », in cutting a 500-mile h thre ugh the jungle to Lake orla Nyansa, which later the olegraph was to follow, and in stamping out the plague spots along the route. To me came the professor in pith helmet and blue goggles, | | bearing a letter from Sir Edlin | Gost, the plenitotentiary officer | at Cairo, In it | was Instructed to give the learned scholar every | possible courtesy and aid Frankly, I did not fancy the pro- fexsor—a bull-necked, pompous, arrogant German, who ordere | me about as though I were a ser | vant Instead of his host and the personal representative of his | majesty the king of Great Brit- | sickness germs for experimental | PX | didn’t want a mule. ain and Ireland, emperor of In- dia, protector of the faith, and all the rest of It The professor had been sent | to Uganda by the Berlin univer sity to find specimens of the ele phant beetle and other rare bugs. He also wanted some sleeping work. The professor must have a mount. I gave him a mule to ride. Then he let out at me in | broken and profane English. He He wanted He despised mules, He could not a horse. Mules were stupid tolerate stupid animals, There was only one creature in the world stupider than a mule, and that was a nigger. For 10 minutes he railed and taved against the fate that had exiled him to a land of muses and niggers. Just then a butterfly Muttered through the camp and disap peared in the jungle. With a cry | that this 1 wae | | microsope when Night fell! The mule-—the stupid, trnorant mulle-returned to camp, Now, look you, my friend, how itl the knowledge of the entomolo- gist served himd There was no bug, worm or other Incect, creep. ing or flying, anywhere on earth wise man could not classify instantly, giving it @ Greek name as long as your arm, Aye, he could expound for hours most learnedly upon its origin, habits, productivity and habitat. But when they bit him he could only cry out In agony and scratch and writhe and whimper, and scream and moan. All his knowl wedge Hid not tell him that he had but to make a smudge of leaves | from an “old man” tree to drive | the pests away. Any despised nigger could have cured bis hurts, The raw juice of any one of a dozen weeds | would have cured him tnstantiy. Day came, And with tt hunger. ty, A bush nigger, knowing the Alec McNab nutritious from the poisonous, would have filled bis belly with good roots and frulta. For five days and five nights | the professor was lost in the | He starved in the midst of plen. | Jungle. md hen on the | sixth ninth day we te we found | MBTROFOLIFAN— Ail Week ; Mix Nights STANDAMD GHAND OFPMA COMPANY | ye, MARGARET ILLINGTON | AMUSEMENTS MOORE— ero sn — No Performance Ton! ®\ tn Bayard to Ss THEATRE WEEK OF Ai Produ Phone your WANT AD to| MAIN 9400 today, for by to-| morrow today will be yes-| Might Prices, 260 to #2 Paturday Matinee, t5e to 41 56. 3 G3N" MONDAY, APR. 27 Matinees Toeeday and Wednesday Evelyn Nesbit | Thaw In the Musteal, Danetn, “MAL PRICES —the ‘PANTAGES FIELOS 4 LEWIS The Famous Comedy Stars TORCAT & FLOR D’ALIZA’S TRAINED ROOSTERS ae to $1.60 wooderaft of my niggers that brought me finally to his side he babbling, stark raving mad gibbering, face and hands were swollen and ghastly from countless inact bites, and crisscrossed with weratches made by * brambles through which he had flound ered. It was a week before his rea son returned, and many weeks passed before I head him in shape to travel eee Of all. ignorant niggers I ever encountered, none was more lack than Juckala. Juckala was a porter's wife— | of the Masi tribe who dwell be | tween Natrobt and Mombasi, a good 1,800 miles away, Juckala tired of burden-bearing, tired of her husband, tired of camp and hike, and longed to return home, Bo she ran away Mark you, we, who had “knowl edge,” were guided by the sun, taking our bearings in that un- charted ocean of jungle, swamp and plain, as the master of a ship does at sea-—a feat, by the way, that my friend the entomologist could not perform. Juckala had no such knowledge. Yot three years later In Mastland I chanced upon Juckala content- edly hoeing her little meli patch. 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THE MUTUAL WEEKLY Always Seen / of delight my knowledgous pro- terday. , 10¢ AND 20¢ fessor climbed aboard the mule and rode away in search of but- terflies. “You'd best not ride far, fessor,” 1 cautioned. oNighetatl is not far off and its gets dark — in Uganda.” darkness comes in douaa as it comes to a room | at night when you switch off the The World’s News in Moving Pictures. at the GRAND first. Bring the Children to the Matinee ALL SEATS 10 CENTS ALL THE TIME Madison St., Between Ist and 2nd Avs. Oak Buflet so $175 50 “AMATEUR NiGHt | Tivoli Theatre Tonight tate Won aad eee Oe aoe | Regular Offering dees Gag takied. tas ‘soeextaina | | 4 1) A Three-Reet Warner Feature Photoplay, darkness descends between two || The Brute Full of Action, introducing Mise Valentine | ticks of a clock. a But the professor grunted and | The Horse With a Human Brain, and T e away. y Peter Pann Sthersces Vausevite vce.” 24 Tw rode away. 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