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THE ALAMANCE GLEANER.
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VOL. L
BRITAIN STARTS
LEPROSY FIGHT
Fund of $1,250,000 Sought
i 'to Combat the Malady j
in the Empire.
Manchester, Englund.—More tlinn
300,000' persons in the British empire
suffer from leprosy, it is estimated.
In this duy of advanced medical
Science leprosy can be cured. So the
British Empire Leprosy Itellef associa
tion has been formed to ruise funds to
wage a campaign ugulnst leprosy in ail
prtrts of the empire. For this pur
pose $1,250,000 is needed.
To arouse interest In the work a
public meeting took place in the Man
chester town liall recently. Lord
Mayor Jackson, who presided, intro
duced Sir Leonard Rogers, a Fellow
of. the Royal Society, one of the
scientists responsible for the discovery
of the new cure. In un interesting
survey of leprosy and its treatment,
first by segregation and latterly by
ineuns of both segregation and injec
tions of preparations from oils, Sir
Leonard said the disease still exists
in European Countries, including Rus
sia, Turkey, Crete, Spain und Portu
gal.
Disease Not Hereditary.
"Leprosy is not highly infectious, us
used to* - be thought, and It is not
hereditary," he continued. "In 700 cases
h have Investigated in the last six
years It was found thnt at least 70 per
cent had lived In houses with other
lepers before contracting the disease,
and that at leust.3o per cent had slept
In the sume beds with a leper. At
tendants on lepers frequently get the
disease, which Is essentially one of
house Infection; children are especial
ly liable to It.
"Segregation," Sir Leonard con
tinued, "is of undoubted value, but it
Is a slow method and there are great
difficulties In carrying it out In tlia
tropics. It Is Inevitable that as long
as we have nothing better to offer than
Isolation, amounting to Imprisonment
for life, the leper will hide the disease
us long as possible.
Up to a few years age the only
remedy of any value ljnown was the
old Indian remedy of chaulmoogra oil,
and Its nauseutlng qualities were such
that most lepers could not take
enough. In 1916, at the request of
Doctor Helser, who had obtained gome
success by ineuns of Injections, I, with
the aid of chemists, begun research
work which resulted in the extraction
from this oil of salts, solutions of
which, when Injected, proved far more
effective In destroying the leper bacilli.
It was the first Instance known of the
destruction of budlll within the tis
sues by a vegetable substunce. Toduy
similar vuluable preparations are be
ing mnde from six different oils und
used in the treatment of leprosy.
"The next advance came In 1919,
when two American workers, Pro
fessor Dean and Doctor Ilollmann, dis
covered a compound sailed etliylester
chaulmoogrute, which cun be Injected
directly Into the muscles Instead of
Into the veins, and as this Is loss
troublesome It Is now In general use."
Americans Aiding Leperc.
After giving figures from several
sources showing the remarkable suc
cess obtained In treating the disease,
Sir Leonard said that at preseut only
10 per cent of the lepers In the Brit
ish empire are getting the udvantage
of this treatment —"although, the
Americans nre applying It to every
leper In their dominions" —und that
the British Empire Leprosy Relief as
sociation is being formed with the ob
ject of bringing It within the reach
of all.
At the Strasbnrg international con
ference last July, Sir Leonard con
cluded, a resolution was passed at his
suggestion that nations are not justi
fied In segregating lepers for the bene
fit of other people unless they provide
those lepers with the best possible
treatment ! .
, Sir William Mllllgan of the Royal
Infirmary, Manchester, said he had
seen a case of Jpnrosy In Manchester.
He could not; rot_ -slon
made upon his mind by lepers while
he waa in Vienna. Some of them were
most revolting. Manchester, buving so
large an interest in countries Ilka
Ti»«u« the peninsula and Africa,
h«« a special duty to help in the ell in
(nation of this disease.
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King of Flesh Eaters
The kodlak grizzly bear of Alas
ka is the biggest flesh-eating animal
existing on the earth.
London's Coal Consumption
t About tens of coal ve
consumed annually in London.
Stray Bit si Wisdom
The man whe fails in love will Mi
(leafy of occasunr-Orli
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Growths of Mangroves
Serve Good PurpoM
The trees known as "mangrove#"
form dense thickets along the sea
coast tn the tropics of the old world
as well as of the new. They are char
acterized by the production of many
prop roots from the trunks and
branches; tliese prop foots reach Into
the mud and form practically Impene
trable tangles. They thus serve to
hold the mud together and are said
to act as natural sea walls, protecting
the soil against the Inroads of the sea.
The bark of the tree Is sometimes
taken for Its abundance of tunning
material; otherwise the several spe
cies are of no economic Importance.
of these species the roots
branch repeatedly before reaching the
mud. Instead of growing straight
down. The root divides Into two
brunches, one 6f which soon dies
away, while ths other continues the
growth. After extending for some
distance this also divides Into two,
one of the branches persisting, and
so on.
The Dutch botanist Van Leeuwen
had un opportunity to study a map
grove tongle near Samarang, In Java,
and he discovered the cause of the pe
culiar habit of root branching to be
a small beetle. The female beetle
lays her eggs near the tip of the root.
The Injury causes a new root to sprout
out Just above the tip and the old tip
continues to grow.
Brings Back to Mind
Days of Golden Youth
His youth was spent In a castle of
dreatns In an enchanted forest. He
danced with the wood-nymphs in the
dusk and leprechauns, laughing, whis
pered the secrets of the woods to him.
The sun and the moon filled u way
side pool with gold for him.
One day a stranger In a scarlet coat
told him of the gayety of cities and
sang him the "Song of Clinking Gold,"
and out Into the world with him he
went, writes Whltelaw Saunders, In
"All's Well."
Now he Is old. The golden song has,
suddenly, dissonant harmonies, and his
own scarlet coat hangs ragged and
faded. A blossom in a market stall,
swayed by a passing breeze, brings
him dreums of long forgotten dances
and In the park he hears the echoes
of forest laughfer. The oak tree whis
pers, he cannot understand the mut
tered words but, somehow, he knows
It Is telling tlie legend of forgotten
youth.
Poor Man Fainted
The man had Just Informed the Pull
man agent that he wanted a berth.
"Upper or lower?" asked the agent
"What's the difference?" asked the
man.
"A difference of 50 cents In this
case. The lower Is higher than the
upper. Tliq higher price is for the
lower. If you want It lower you'll
have to go higher. We sell the upper
lower than the lower. Most people
don't like the npper, although It la low
er on account of being higher. When
you occupy an upper you have to get
up to go to bed and get down when
you get up. You can have the lower
If you pay higher. The upper is lower
than the lower because It Is higher. If
you are willing to go higher, It will be
lower—"
Hut the poor man had fainted.—
Pest a 1 Spirit.
Laugh for Health
The diaphragm beats a tattoo on the
stomach when you laugh. Every time
you let go a good hearty laugh this
diaphragm pops up and down on your
liver, and helps to drive away the very
thing that gives you the blues —bilious-
ness.
daughter Is the best brapd of pills
on earth. Laughter strikes in when it
comes from without, and Instantly
comes to the surface when It starts
from within.
You may laugh because you are hap
py, and you may be happy because
you laugh. It 1s the one thing where
the cause Is the effect and the effect is
the cause. Any man can be a «mllHon
sire of good cheer.—Associate Con
tractor.
Instinct of Bees
Bees are remarkable for the pos
session of Instinctive qualities that
fit them for almost every emergency
of their Uvea, but In some circum
stances their Instinct falls to protect
them. A writer In an agricultural pa
per says that In northern Massachu
setts there is more losa of bees from
flying in chilly weather than from
any other cause. Bees that fly la
freezing temperature, or when It la too
cold fpr them to fly except for a short
distance, seldom survive to get back
to the hive, be says. His remedy to
discourage the bees from going oat
when the weather Is cold or snow Is on
the ground Is to 4hade the hive from
■the direct rays of the sun. Unless
this is done they apparently think
summer Is coming and It is time for
them to be on the wing.—Outlook Mag
azine.
GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY. OCTOBER 2. 1924
Famous Throne Room
to Be Reconstructed
The throne room in the palace of■
Meneptah, believed to have been tlie j
phanioh of the Exodus, In which
Moses warned the ruler of the plagues
that would befall Egypt, will soon ba|
reconstructed within the University of
Pennsylvania museum.
The work will be carried on under
the direction of Dr. Clarence S. Fisher
In the new Egyptian wlpg of the mu
seum. Because the throne room, or
chamber, had been ruined when the
royal palace was burned soon after
the death of the pharaoh, and was
afterward Inundated by the Mle at
Memphis. Its reconstruction will be
unusually difficult.
Gorgeously colored ornamentation
that harmonised with the formality of
the designs surrounded Moses when
he held his conferences with Me
neptah, according to Doctor Fisher.
Whep Moses appeared before the
ruler he stood upon a slope that rose
20 Inches at Its greatest height at the
far end of the room, where the dais
stood supporting the chair of state.
"The dais was of limestone," said
Doctor Fisher, "and.the decoration on
It was cut in low relief and colored
like the floor."
Practical Teaching
Children's garment making is taught
In a practical way at Hutchinson
high school, Buffalo, N. Y. Clothing
classes sew for charity organizations
and children's homes. Materials are
furnished by the institutions for which
they work. In the second year re
modeling Is taught. Old garments are
cleaned and ripped np, good parts are
salvaged, a little skillful piecing or
mending Is done, combinations are
made and a "new" garment evolves.
Proved
fche court was lost In the maze of
arguments produced by counsel for th«
defense, and at last the judge Inter
vened.
"I think," he said, "It will be better
If you do not pursue that matter any
further. Too might as well attempt
to prove to the conrt that two and
two do not make four,"
"I can do that quite easily," said
the lawyer, with a smile. "Two and
two make twenty-two."
Growing Jute in Africa
Attempts have recently been mads
to Introduce jute culture Into South
Africa, and tests made on a farm
located near Hekorsprult. Transvaal,
on the railroad between Johannesburg
and the Portuguese East Africa bor
der, have shown that it Is practicable
to raise this crop. It Is capable of
cultivation In almost any soil, but Is
most profitable In loainy or rich clay
soil mixed with sand.
Voice Runs Typewriter
A Swiss Inventor claims to have
perfected a machine that will type
write direct from the spoken worda.
A speed of from 90 to 100 words •
minute—about as fust us the average
man can dictate —Is claimed for the
new machine, which Is operated elec
trically.—Popular Science Monthly.
Hatpin—What's That?
"She stabbed her sweetheart wit*
n hatpin."
"Mercy, how out-of-date I" —Detroit
Free I'rej.s.
What's Wrong Here?
The Saturday Evening Post says:
"It was that hour of a rather sultry
early summer afternoon when the
merchants along the west side of
Main street In a certain western town
are wont to emerge from their stores,
one after another, and lower their
awnings agnlnst the glare of the af
ternoon sun."
The west side of the street would
be tn the shade In the afternoon and
It be the east side where the
merchants would be lowering their
awnings to keep out the glare—nnless
the Saturday Evening Post had In
mind some novel sort of sun which
sets In the east.—The Pathfinder.
' Thought Giant Eel Serpent
Some of the crew of a Scottish
fishing boat thought they had caught
a sea serpent when they hauled
aboard an eel which weighed 88
pounds and measured 7 feet in length
itnd 20 Inches In girth. It was caught
In the North sea about twenty miles
from land.
Juoenile Woes
A little Chicago girl was in sore
distress, sccordlng to Tits New* of that
city. "Why, Edna. dear, what are you
crying about?" Inquired her mother.
"C-cause." sobbed the little one.
"1-1/ Started to m-make my dolly a
b-bonnet and it c-comhl out b-blootn
era."—Boston Transcript.
Fickle Literature
"To what department of literature
does the check book belong?"
"Your grandfather's Is history, your
father's buyogrsphy and your flsnce's
fiction."—Boston Transcript.
Felon Wins Parole
by His Radio Voice
Philadelphia.—The sweet sing
ing of a sentimental ballad by.
an eastern penitentiary convict
and broadcast from a local rod IJ
stutlon won a parole for con
vict C-1412, who had three
years more to serve ou a ban
dit clidfrge. The name of the
convict was withheld.
Several months ago musically
Inclined convicts broadcast a
concert from the penitentiary
through Station WIP. Hardly
hud C-1412 finished when the
penitentiary phone became busy
with requests for the Identity
of the man. Many letters were
received, and a lawyer who In
terested himself In the cuse suc
ceeded In obtaining u parole.
Among those who Interested
thpuiselves In tl(e convict was
said to be Governor Ritchie of
Marylund.
CAUGHT ON THE FLY
Adam was the first mau to throw •
race.
Charity ulways goes farther than it
is sent.
He who loves and runs away Isnt
worth chasing.
Preaching and practice are twins
that frequently get separated.
A pun covered up In eleven lines
of verbiage Is still only a pun.
You cun fall out with a girl with
out having swung In a hammock with
her.
As some see It. the better part of
valor Is a bluff that does the busi
ness.
All men may be born free and equal,
but they stay so only until they are
dressed.
A woman may be a good talker and
still hnve an Impediment In ber
thoughts.
A woman may gain her point, but
she seldom acquires !t at t£>e end of a
lead pencil.
Boardltog-house patrons are apt to
have liver complaint when It Is served
seven times a week.
Mahy A man who thinks that he is
a hero to bis wife Is ltierely a freak
with a swelled lieus.
Statistics would Indicate that It la
easier to get out of the matrimonial
harness than It Is to keep out.
Whales Leave Waters
Where Quakes Occur
The catch, of whules last year at
Victoria, B. 0., the largest since the
years 1011 and 1912, mounted to more
than 500. According to bbservatlona,
tlie recent earthquakes have played
a part In regulating the supply of
whales in Alaskan wuters, the New
York' Times points out. ■'
After the volcanic eruption In Alas
ka In 1912 the whale catches de
clined. It is thought possible that the
volcanic disturbance caused a migra
tion of .the sea food upon which the
whales fed. The theory slso Is ad
vanced that the earthquake shock
cuused a concussion In the water
which had the same effect over a
great area as that of a discharge of
dynamite in a small body of water.
The great catch of 1923 came Imme
diately after the Japanese earth
quake. It is the general opinion that
the earthquake frightened the wbaiet
out of tbe waters of the earthquake
zone to feeding grounds near Alaska
and elsewhere.
Whale oil represents about 70 per
cent of tbe revenue derived from
whales, blood fertilizer representing
about 25 per cent and bone meal about
6 per cent
Modern Youth t
The dear old gentleman was fond
of children. But he shook his head
nfter he had met the up-to-date Reg
gie Jones, aged seven.
Said the old gentleman to Reggie:
"And whose little boy is this. I
wonder T'
"There are two ways you can find
out," replied the little boy.
"And whst are those, my child?"
was tbe beaming question.
"You might guess or yon might In
quire," replied Reggie In a bored tone.
Another "Don Juan I*
1 was not engsged to one of them,
bat I was on the verge of it with the
whole fl've. They bad letters of mine,
but I'd followed tbe advice of my dying
father, and never used the word msr
risge in any of tbem. I'd never gives
any of then presents—wljen you're
stsrtlng business from whst's little
more than a nucleus yon don't throw
your q»oaey sboqtl Tea or an Ice at
the confectioner's was as Car as ever I
went—and a«t that unless my Usfld
was forced. But tbfre had been djs
ensstons of the subject of love, and
there also had been as opportunity ot
tered what may be called prelimina
ries."—From "Tsmplln's Tales of His
Fsmily," by Barry Pain.
Neyt Explanation for
Disasters on Ocean
la explanation of collisions at sea
It is said to be a scientific fact that
a very large. moving through
shallow water will attract small craft
toward her. This theory was first put
forward. when the White Star Uner
Olympic collided with the Brit'sh
destroyer Ilawke, whose captain
seated on oath that his vessel was
suclwd toward the big liner and re
fused to answer her helm at all. He
was laughed at then, but not so long
afterward the 111-fated Titanic started
on her maiden voyage. As she steamed
down Southampton docks the Amer
ican liner New York, an eleven-thou
sand-ton ship, began to get uneasy
at her berth alongside the quay. Pre
sently her stout mooring ropes
snapped, one after another, and she
started to move out toward the White
Star ship. The Titanic was Immedi
ately stopped, while tugß got hold of
the New York and towed her back
Into safety. During the war there was
another proof of the theory, this time
by the Olympic again. A German sub
marine sidled up to her and was set
ting ready to torpedo her, when the
suction drew the U-boat close up un
der the liner's stern, and the blades of
her great propeller ripped open the
submarine from stem to stern.
Old Weather "SW
| Based on Good Sense
Admiral Fltzroy, who Invented the
barometer and commanded the brig
Beagle on ita expedition to the Amer
ican coast in 1831. declares that most
of the old "saws" regarding weather
are reliable and based on common
sense Investigation. As a weather ex
pert he commended an old saying to
the effect that the glow of dawn high
In the sky denotes wind, and a low
dawn fair weather. He bade us believe
that soft-looking, delicate clouds mean
wind-fair weather, and hard, ragged
ones wind. Mist on a hilltop means
rain and wind If it stays long or comes
down—fine weather if it rises and dis
perses. Rain is due when distant ob
jects look near as on what is called a
good hearing day. And rain Is /6r#>
told by pigs carrying straws to sties.
The pig as a an
old riddle: Qoestlon: Why Is s
storme to followe presently when s
company of hogg«* runne crying
home? Answer: A hog Is most dull
snd of a melancholy nature; and so by
reason dqth foretell the ralne that
cometh. In time of ralne. most cattell
doe pricke qp, their ears; as for ex
ample an asse will, when he percelvetb
a storme of ralne or bail doth follow.
Story of Elgin
We might use the glamorous words
of childhood's fsiry tales, "Long ago
and far away," to tell the tale of Elgin
cathedral, whose seven hundredth
birthday was celebrated last August 5
and S. So long ago as the twtHght
time of the early Middle ages, so far
away as Rome, must we go for the be
ginnings of the story of this hoary old
pile, whose Influence has been casting
its spell upon the lives of the dwellers
in the old province of Moray from that
far-off time to the present. There Is
an old tradiUon that the Culdees
founded the church to begin with, just
as they did that of Blrnle. In any
case, the site was already hallowed by
many sacred associations, when
Bishop Andrew Moray, scion of the
powerful house of De Mora vis. moved
the Cathedral of Spynle to the Church
of Holy Trinity In Elgin.
Up-to-Date
Mark Twain's home at Redding,
Conn., was at one time visited by
burglars. After their visit Murk
Twain tscked the following sign on
his front door: "Notice to the Next
Burglsr: There Is nothing but plated
ware In this house now and hence
forth. You will find It In the brass
thing In the dining room ov4?r In the
corner by the basket with the kittens.
If you wont the basket, put the kit
tens In the brass thing.
"Do not make a noise; It disturbs
the family. You will find rubbers In
the front hall by that thing which has
umtorellaa in it; dilffonler, I think
they call it, or pergola, or something
like that. Please close the door when
you go!"
"Prestige"
Strange are the "trays of words. Of
which there is no better exsmple than
the fsct that "prestige," which names
the power or Influence of a good repu
tation. should have bad Its beginning
In the tricks of a Juggler! Yet that Is
bow It started. j
"Prestige" goes bsck to {he Letln
"prsestigiae." meanlog juggling tricks
—the same derivation aa our "pres
tldlgitatlon" which Is slegbt-of-band.
And the explanation or this strange
transition is In the fact that In the
myth and goblln-tenunted days of the
far-dlttsnt past, juggling trices were
supposed to manifest enchantment,
which was regarded with the very
highest admiration and resftect hence
"prestige."
MOVEMENT TO POPULARIZE
- NATIVE FILMS IN CHINA
■*
About Nine-Tenths of the Huge Popu>
lation Never Have Seen a i
Moving Picture.
Shanghai.—Out of an estimated
population of somewhere between 400,-
000,000 and 500,000,000, It Is believed
that 00 per cent of the people of
China have never seen a motion pic
ture.
For this reason an effort now under
way to provide movies acted and pro
duced by Chinese is Interesting.
In Chlnn's largest centers and In
the treaty ports the picture screen
long has been cofnmonpluco and
mixed audiences of Chinese and for
eigners are thrilled over the film fa
vorites, Just as are audiences In the
United Stutes. Itut hitherto the spo
radic efforts to popul rlz.> the movies
In the interior of China hnve failed.
Within the last year several com
panies'. In Shanghai have undertaken
to produce Chinese pictures, and
perhaps n half dozen of these have
been exhibited with varying degrees
of success. As they necessarily were
made by unskilled actors and more or
less Inexperienced directors, they hnve
appeured crude In the eyes of the Chi
nese used to the finished foreign pro
ductions. These films are being sent
tentatively into the centers of the In
terior, where It Is necessary to throw
up temporury mat sheds In which to
show them.
A' Shanghai picture man explnined:
"It is altogether a problem of educat
ing the Chinese people to the mov
ies." He then went on to tell the ex
perience of a showman who Invaded
the Interior with a number of films.
The people wouldn't go to see the pic
tures, and so the showman adopted
the expedient of paying hts audiences
to come, doling out handfuls of cash
to each person who entered the make
shift theater. The showman's money
guve out before his films, which were
of foreign production, had gidned
popularity, and thus his efforts came
to
Later enterprises In Shanghai In
clude one started by China's largest
publishing concern, which Is making
to Improve the quality of the '
pictures, the acting, costuming and
settings. - Several of the country's :
leading actors of the speaking stage
have been recruited for this work,
which Is being confined to plots bused
on stories purely Chinese.
How the efforts of these organiza
tions will be received by China's In
articulate masses, and whether a Chi
nese Churlle Oluiplln or u Mary l'lck-1
ford In silken trousers will capture
the country, are matters us difficult
to conjecture us the answers to any
other of the country's many questions.
Reporter U Kidnaped
and Branded on Arm
Lucien San Souito/'
newspaper of I»rovldeuee, It. L, sayi
i be was kidnaped and branded on th
arm by members of the Ku Klnx klao
during a klan meeting near Woon
socket, It. L San Soucl said he over
heard a conversation regarding th
meeting, and, anxious to get a story
for his paper, hurried to the scene. H«
says be was seized by about twenty
men of the hooded tribe, beaten and
then branded.
Muscles Too Strong
Wltl) a snap heard by players and
fans, John Corcoran's' right arm
broke as he was pitching to a batter
at Portland. Maine. An X-ray showed
fracture, probably because the muscles
were stronger than the bone.
NO. 35
Spanish Swamp Home
of Wild Camel Herd
Wild camels exist In western En-
rope, within two days' Journey from |
Piccadilly circus, writes a corre- j|
spondent of the London Mall. There -
are a considerable number of them !n
this mysterious "colony," but -no one
knows exactly how many. To survive
they have actually L- come seml
aquatlc.
Up the Guadalquivir In Andalusia Is
the dreariest malarial swamp In Spain, \
and perhaps In the world, an endless
vista of waterlogged wfl( rncss, brok
en only by occasional lov Islands cov
ered with willow scrub. Here, among
enormous flocks of gulls und greylag > a
gtfose, teal, widgeon, poet -d and mal
lard, dwell the outlaw ca. els. In an
other Ave years the colony will have
completed a century of life In western
Europe. Their ancestors wre brought
over from Africa In 1829 by the Map- ■;
quia de Vlllafranea for farr work. f |
Viilaffnncn's horses pan ted, how
ever, as horses will unles* carefully
"acclimatised" to camel, nd there
were some nasty accident". Rather
than have the work of his t states up- , J
set by labor trouble, the nuvrquls
turned his camels loose. 8 me were
killed. The descendants of t iose who
tools to the "marlsma" survl- id.
Vision of Cookhouse
i Reads Like Gulliver, i |
In Paul Bunyan's camp there was a ■'
great cookhouse with a kite' en Ilka
another Mnmmoth enve, and a dining,
hall wherein, under huge ari lqfty«|
beams, the tables were rang :d like !
the ranks of an army corps drawn up i-i
tor parade on a plain. Here were!
served breakfasts of ham and eggs and J
hot cakes, and huge and Incomparable
Sunday dinners and the simpler week* J
day meals of which the coffee was V, 3
most highly praised, writes James :
Stephens In the American Mercury, j
Paul Bunyan Invented a machine for ,
the mixing of the hot-cake batter, so
perfectly devised 'fiat paving contrac
tors now employ small models of It tor
mixing cement The range on which
a battalion of cooks fried the not
cakes was greased by a ski champion i
from Norway, who skied to and front
with sides of bacon strapped to his *
feet. . . ■
And that the men In the far end of
the eookhouse might be served before
the hot cakes cooled, the flunkies
speeded on roller skates. It required
a crew of 11 teamsters with teams
and scrapers to keep the yard back of
the . cookhouse cleared of coffee
grounds and egg shells.
Kerbau's Sensitive Nose
Malay bull fights are not like those
we are accustomed to read about, •
writer In the Youth's Companion tells
us. The contestants are generally
water buffaloes—animals that, says
Mr. Carveth Wells in Asia, the Malays
call kerbau.
A kerbau, or carabao, as It Is often!
written in English, makes, continues]
Mr. Wells, a white man's life miser-' vj
able because be does not like tbe
white man's smell, though he r'oesnl "
mind the smell of a Chinese or a ij
Malay. If you think you have no] '*
smell, Just go near a ker'iauf He not] j
only sees you a long way off, but bei
Instantly begins to sniff the nlr. ThenL
he lays bis ears back and rushes at] -
you. I remember once jelng chased J *3
out of a. rice field by a kerbau. The "ft
rice was growing in deep mud, and I]
was rushing along ujf t > my knees,
with the great animal fl- mderfng be-' 1
hind me. While I was irleking for_
help a little Malay boy- about four j • |
yeiirs old and quite na; "d ran up.'
caught the bull by the c se and led i
him away! Never In m; life had I 1 ;?
felt such a fool I
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Extremes of Temp« •ature *
ilawaii has tie highest noun tains
In the Pacific. They are tli 'oftlest of
any Islands In the world. It as eleven |
separate and distinct mour.Mlns 8,000
feet in height and upward, of which ;
four have snowfalls and twe rise near- j
ly 14,000 feet into perpetus Ice and :
snow. "I have camped at tta summit I
of Mauna Loa on the first of August in J*
a temperature of 18 degrees Fabren- r|
belt,** writes a Hawaiian ed .or, "cut
ice ten inches thick and pac ed it by '|
moleback to where it pro- ded Ice i
cream tbe same night, amid can*
palms and the odor of orange and' cot
fee blossoms t"
Oar Country '>>
We Inliablt a country which ! as been |j
signalized in the great history of free- J
dom. We live under forms of govern- jg
ment more favorable to Its diffusion '1
than any other the world has known. 3
A succession of Incidents of rare curl- ,1
oslty and almost mysterious connec
tion has marked out America as .n.jn
great theater of political reform. Mnj| J
circumstances stand recorded in our 9
annals connected with the
of human rights which, were we net 9
{ami liar with them, would fill even oar 9
minds with amazement— Edward K*> 9
erett