Remarc
Belletonte, Pa., May 8, 1914.
I WONDER.
I wonder if ever a song was sung
But the singer's heart sang sweeter.
1 wonder if ever a rhyme was rung
But the thought surpassed the meter.
I wonder if ever a sculptor wrought
*Till the cold stone echoed his ardent
thought.
Or if ever a painter with light and shade
The dream of his inmost heart portrayed.
1 wonder if ever a rose was found
And there might not be a fairer.
Or if ever a glittering gem was ground
And we dreamed not of a rarer.
Ah never on earth shall we find the best.
But it waits for us in the land of rest;
And a perfect thing we shall never behold
Till we pass the portal of shining gold.
—Anonymous:
FROM INDIA.
By One on Medical Duty in that Far Eastern
Country. A Hindu Holiday Week, Peculiar
Birds, and a Belated Birthday Celebration.
JHANSI, MARCH 28th, 1913.
Dear Home Folk:
Again it is “Holi” time for the Hindus,
and although I was told that it would be
very indecent for me to go into the city,
I had to see a sick woman twice a day
for the past three days and I saw nothing
that was indecent.
The day of festivals is first started by
all the male population of this city build-
ing immense fires of wood in the middle
of the streets. This in itself is unusual
as wood in this part of India is very,
very scarce and consequently so dear
that no poor person cares to touch it.
The second day I saw every person
who was out on that street throwing col-
ored water over some one else—red, blue
or yellow, until the population looked as
though a dyeing establishment had sold
out all its testing cloths and these cu-
rious Hindus had bought them. This
throwing was accomplished by means of
an immense brass syringe that would
squirt a powerful stream clear across the
street.
The third day no money was touched
and the bodies and faces of the Hindus
were daubed with a powder that was
either red, black or blue, while others
had dressed themselves like the “mum-
mers” at home, and paraded along the
streets. :
The fourth day all stores were closed
and streets deserted; the Hindus had re-
tired to a heathen temple some distance
away to do “pugi” (worship.) Today all
are back in their accustomed places; but
the stain is still upon their clothes and
will be until they become rags and are
replaced by new ones. To me this all
seems absurd and meaningless; so would
some of our holidays appear to these
people. Yet I have thought each day for
the past week as I went into the city,
how very natural it all seems to me now,
after only a year.
The weather is still fairly cool, except
for the middle of the day, and the sky is
again one turqoise vault. You cannot
understand how beautiful a cloud could
be unless you have lived for a time un-
der an everlasting blue bowl, such as the
sky of India is, with only a vulture or a
kite suspended, awaiting something to
die, to break the changeless blue.
For some time past I have been an-
noyed by a sound that resembled the
creak of a piece of wood when working
on something else and needing oil. I
wondered what the servants were doing
but finally found my solution in the
trees, where lodged a little bird, long and
slender like a swallow but without a tail,
and such a frowzy looking lot of feath-
ers that I did not wonder that his
rythmical lament resembled a cry of dis-
tress. He worries me no longer although
they are here by the dozens; you see I
can be forgiving to such ugly things
when they know their own shortcomings.
This morning one of the interesting
spectacles I saw was a “nautche” (dance)
girl and her musicians giving an enter-
tainment. This festival took place di-
rectly in front of the doorway of a house
and of course the women folk stood be-
hind a “chic” watching the gesticulating
lady. She was bare as to legs and feet,
but wore a short, full skirt of green cot-
ton material edged with a band of silver
tinsel. Over her head and shoulders was
draped the “chuda”—this time of bright
scarlet; she had dozens of anklets upon
her ankles and many bracelets upon her
arms. Two men, with queerest looking
violin-like instruments strapped to their
body and played in the same way (with
a bow) stood on either side of her, while
behind her was a third man with two
small drums, which he beat with bare
hands. Her audience was a group of
men sitting on the stone floor. The mu-
sic began and in a high-pitched nasal
voice she sang a “budgeon”—a recitative
sort of thing—making gestures with
hands and arms, and when she had thus
sung for perhaps a quarter of an hour
she started to turn around on one foot,
flipping the other to make the anklets
jingle. This was the famous Indian
“nautcha” dance, as given on the street
on holidays; not a bit exciting from my
point of view. What was much more to
the point was, that I was watching all
this on a Sunday morning from a tiny
window, glassless, but with common wood-
en shutters partly closed, while a Hindu
hostess sat at another tiny window and
she, being a widow, called down to the
dancer and the men the advisability of
the woman dancing more, etc. It sure
seemed like the Arabian Nights.
A new kind of birthday party came to :
my notice the other day: Our “Bisthis” |
wife’s young son, who is perhaps four or |
five months old, did not have the proper
reception given to him when he came |
into this world, so the parents decided to
have a “tamascha.” One day last week
big kettles were brought and the “dal”
and rice were put on to cook. The]
friends came in droves, bringing presents |
for the father and mother, and the paid !
singers and drum beaters began their |
racket. We then heard an immense lot |
of crying and thinking something horri- |
ble had happened went to see, to find |
that the women were merely showing i
their appreciation of the gifts given. |
The sister-in-law, being the oldest of the |
family, started first and such wailing! I
do hope I won’t be around if that scrip-
tural text “weeping and wailing” should
ever come true. She finally stopped,
then the baby’s mother took up the la-
ment and let me assure you did her part
well. Finally, sufficient gratitude having
been expressed, they decided that the
men should be fed, and such eating!
Never tell me little people don’t eat—
such gourmands as these tiny Indian
logue are. The “male beasts” having
been quieted with a full “pate” the wom-
en were then served—all seated on the
ground and the viands all taken from the |
two pots. You see it is simpler than
many courses and many knives and
forks—fingers are good enough. The!
singers and the drummers were then
called upon and it was nearly one o'clock
when peace again reigned in our ‘“com-
pound.”
These people seem to need endless
feasts and holidays and take any excuse
to have a party, to make their world go
around. They are generally merry and
happy, don’t seem to worry one little bit
over anything, so when you hear any-
thing to the contrary it is the speakers’
or writers’ point of view. I have had
women sacrifice their children so that
they can go to a “tomascha.” One child
was recovering from an attack of pneu-
monia iast week, but was much too weak
to send from the hospital, when the moth-
er, even after being made to understand
the situation, took him home in order
that she could enjoy the festival. The
child died the second day after leaving
us. It is discouraging work to try to
talk reason and sense to children; and
that is what they all are here.
I am going to join a charming English
woman on Saturday for a little automo-
bile jaunt of two days through the near-
by country and hope to have something
interesting to talk about next week.
(Continued next week.)
Enough is Plenty.
If you do not want to be restless, ner-
vous, lacking in poise, stop overcrowding
your home with furniture and ornaments
—do more than just—unload again;
Go through your house with this motto,
“Nothing that is not useful, necessary for
comfort or a thing of real beauty”—and
you will be surprised how many of your
possessions belong to the junk collector
or in the ash barrel!
Dismantle your walls of the many wor-
rying small pictures (leaving only a very
few of the best and largest) and see
what a sense of relief comes over you.
In the dining-room put away the quan-
tities of showy cutglass, into the china
closet (the one without a glass door,
mind you!) leaving only a few well-chos-
en articles on the sideboard, and find
how much less complex life begins to
look.
Go through all the rooms, taking away
unnecessary chairs and unused little side
tables (at this point better say the motto
to yourself again.) What is the use of
having things just to fill up? What is
gained?
An overcrowded house takes more time
and strength to keep clean. and in order
—but, worse than this, it is sure to have
a disquieting effect on the inmates, mak-
ing them restless, fretful or nagging!
Don’t be afraid of asparse look in your
home. It is the corner-stone of good
taste, bringing with it a feeling of space
—an atmosphere of “un-struggling,”
which seems to say to the tired home-
comers, “Here you can really rest.”
New Set of Beatitudes.
Dr. Edgar Whitaker Work says that
one might easily write a new set of
Beatitudes for the churchs, and suggests
these:
Blessed is the man whose calendar
contains prayer meeting night.
Blessed is the man who is faithful on
a committee.
Blessed is the man who will not strain
at a drizzle and swallow a downpour.
Blessed is the man who can endure an
hour and a quarter in a place of worship,
as well as two hours and a half in a place
of amusement.
Blessed is the church officer who is not
pessimistic.
Blessed is the man who loves the
church with his pocket as well as with
his heart.
Blessed is the man who is generous to
his neighbor in all ways except the ap-
plication.
Blessed is the man whose watch keeps
church time as well as business time.—
Continent.
Why Men Raise their Hats.
When a gentleman raises his hat he
does it simply as a mark of respect, but
the custom originated long ago in the
time when men wore heavy armor. When
knights went to war (and that seemed
their chief business), they wore heavy
steel armor from head to toe, to protect
them from the spear thrusts of the ene-
my. The head and face also were cov-
ered, with a place to breathe through
and two little holes tb see through. The
only way one knight could be distin-
guished from another was by the plume
on his hat or the crest he wore, each
family having its own particular mark.
Naturally when a knight came into a
castle he took off, for comfort, the armor
covering his head, and so originated the
idea of tipping the hat, which in this day
» high official.
House-Building in China.
When a Chinaman would build a house,
he consults a wizard instead of an archi-
tect. He decides the spot for the front
door, for that must face exactly in the
right direction—never toward the south,
unless it is the house of an emperor or
The wizard also determines
the exact size of the door, for an inch
out of the way might prove fatal. There
must be a screen three yards in front of
the door to keep out the evil breath—
not human breath made by tobacco or
liquor, nor malarial vapors, but some
mysterious and fatal something that no
one knows much about.
Then the wizard locates the spot for
the kitchen, and he settles the time to
begin digging, for if the earth god should
be at home, the workman might thrust
the spade through his skull, and the fam-
ily would all die.
The question must also be settled
whether this is the right year to build.
There are lucky years and there are un-
lucky years. For instauce, a man must
not marry in any year beginning with an
even number. Having picked out a
lucky year, the next thing is to hit upon
the lucky month in the year, and then
the lucky day in the month. Lucky days
are yellow, and unlucky days are black.
There are more black days than yellow
ones; so the case of the Chinese builder
is not all pleasure and ease.—The King’s
Own.
Eskimo Sleds.
If an Eskimo boy wishes a sled to use
for coasting, he does not dream of ask-
ing for one made of wood, for that ma-
terial is so scarce that even the sledges
used by the men are not made of it. The
boy goes to the nearest pond or river,
and cuts one out of pure ice. These ice
sleds are much stronger than you would
imagine, and the boys can readily coast
down hill on them without breaking
them. Even grown people sometimes
use these primitive sledges.
Even though the Eskimo boy’s sled is
made of ice instead of wood, he is nearly
as fond of coasting on it as are the boys
in better climates, but, as his winters are
so much longer, he grows tired of the
play before the season is over.—T7rum-
bell’s Child Life in Many Lands.
Queer Facts About Days
January always begins on the same
day of the week as October. The same
is true in respect to April and July, Sep-
tember and December. Again, Febru-
ary, March and November also begin on
the same day of the week. This, how-
ever, is only true in normal years of
three hundred and sixty-five days, and
not in leap year. A century can never
begin on Wednesday, Friday or Satur-
day. Furthermore, the ordinary year
ends on the same day of the week as
that on which it begins.—Yonth's Com-
panion.
Talking s Shoes.
Like the native Africans, the South
Sea Islanders are very proud if they can
get hold of a pair of European shoes.
They are especially gratified if they ac-
quire a pair that squeak, or, as the Airi-
cans call them, shoes that talk.
A story is told of a South Sea Islander;
who came into church with shoes merrily
a-squeak. He walked proudly to the
front and, removing the shoes, dropped
them out of the window, so that his wife
might also have the pleasure of coming
in with “talking” shoes.—FEast and West.
Must Be Left Untouched.
The “Treasure of the Lowly” is the
supreme undiscovered treasure, that
is why Maeterlinck writes of it with
a golden pen. Bring the jewel into
the market, let the lapidary take it
from its mysterious matrix and cut it
with his remorseless tools, fit it into
a king's crown, a lady’s ring or the
cover of a silver box and somehow
the wonder vanishes. The crowd may
stare, but no one goes into raptures
any more—Indian Messenger.
Heels Shifted.
How to get your money’s worth out
of rubber heels: When the heels wear
down on one side pry them off with a
serewdriver or strong shears. Go easy,
get the nails up with the rubber. Take
the right and place on left shoe. Get
the points of the nails in the same
holes. They fit. That brings the
thick part on the outside. Now ham-
mer it down. Do the same thing with
the other shoe.
“Prevention is better than cure.” [tis
also a great deal cheaper than cure. That
is one reason why Dr. Pierce’s Common
Sense Medical Adviser should be in every
home. It shows how to get health and
how to keep it. Its 1008 pages are full
of helpful information on all questions
relating to health and disease. And this
great book is sent free on receipt of
stamps to defray expense of mailing only.
Send 21 one-cent stamps for paper cov-
ered book or, 31 stamps for cloth. Ad-
dress Dr. V. M. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.
Longest Twelve-Word Telegram.
There were 450 competitors for the
prize offered by an English journal for
the longest 12-word telegram, and the
winner put in the following, which was
transmitted for 12 cents, the regular
rate: “Administrator general's coun-
terrevolutionary intercommunications
uncircumstantiated. Quartermaster
general's disproportionableness char-
actertistically contradistinguished un-
constitutionalists’ incomprehensibili-
ties.”
——A little fellow who had been told
by his teacher that he must always say,
“I beg your pardon,” when he had done
anything for which he should ask pardon,
didn’t catch the words correctly, and, on
the next occasion when he wished to be
polite, he nodded his head and blushing-
by said, “Baking powder.”—American
0.
Many Good New Things.
“There is nothing new under the
sun” is a statement true only of evil
things, the fruits of ignorance and in-
experience. Good things that are new
come in with every generation, never
in such abundance as in the opening
years of the twentieth century~—The
has become a common mark of respect
to ladies.— Unidentified. Selina
Christian Register.
‘young girl.
. tries, that the impecunious bacheloz
.has a way of attaching a handsome
+ well be envied by the young girl.
A ATCT CE
BREVITY LEADS TO ACCURACY
Form of Old-Fashioned Indictment,
With All Its Jargon of Law,
Is Out of Date. :
Those who krow nothing of the su-
perstitious awe with which the legal
fraternity regard the forms of proced-
ure can searcely appreciate the high
courage required of the district at-
torney of Kings county, New York, to
break with tradition and draw up am -
indictment, say, for murder, with the
aid of only sixty simple words, the
Philadelphia Record remarks. In the
old form the grand jury makes its ac-
cusation briefly enough, but the de-
scription of the felonious act is fear-
fully and woefully designed. A long
paragraph freely interluded with cuch
terms as “force of arms” and other
phrases from the jargon of the law,
is required for the mere statement |
that the defendant committed an as-
sault with intent to kill.
The old-fashioned indictment de-
scribes the course of the bullet in
about 600 words, stating how the de-
fendant “a certain pistol then and
there chargad and loaded with gun-
powder and one leaden bullet”—which
is manifestly an untruth. The weap-
on with which the killing is accom-
plished is not loaded in the presence
of the victim, but is charged with
ready-made cartridges. Nor does it
contain only one leaden bullet, for it
is usually a revolver holding five or
six shots.
This painful striving after accuracy,
which, after all, merely breeds inaccu-
racies and results in appeals for error |
and endless retrials, is intolerable in
an age which lays such stress on effi-
ciency. We criticise the artisan who
goes through twelve motions in laying
a brick when the feat could be accom-
plished in three or four motions; but
the legal tautologist gets paid propor-
tionately to the greatness of his waste !
of words.
The sin of tautology permeates ev- !
ery department of the law, and it is !
one of the prime causes of the expen- !
siveness and dilatoriness of litigation.
The reform of legal procedure is prac- |
tically in the hands of the courts and |
the lawyers themselves. |
AS IT WAS 300 YEARS AGO
Definitely Settled That Women May
{ undeveloped countries.
market, when the tap is working easi-
, fuls.
,one can
SH
SENT TO FOREIGN COUNTRIES
Vast Amounts of British Capital In-
vested in Colonies and in
North America.
Take first the capital supplied to
new countries for the development of
their railways, their oil fields, their
rubber plantations, their agriculture.
We all remember the political catch-
word of “capital going abroad,” and
the campaign against British invest-
ments, organized and controlled by the
unionist party, remarks the London
Chronicle. The unionist leaders and
the unionist ex-chancellor of the ex-
chequer solemnly told the country that '
money was safer abroad than at home,
and there is no doubt that the invest-
ing classes, which are largely union-
ist, took their word for it and did in-
vest abroad. Believing that Diaz, Ma-
dero or Huerta was a safer guide than
Campbell-Bannerman, Asquith or
Lloyd-George, they neglected every-
thing English and subscribed for any-
thing foreign—a policy that they may |
| bitterly repent today.
The result of this attitude in Eng-
land was great activity in the new
In the capital
ly, some one is sure to be there with
a bucket, and foreign borrowers did
take money from London in bucket-
Exactly how much has been
subscribed in the last few years no
say,
licly raised in England during the last
five years at £1,044,609,000—one thou-
; sand millions in five years in adver-
tised prospectuses alone! Of this sum
by far the greater part has gone to
British colonies and South America,
Canada alone taking nearly £200,000,
000 and Argentina nearly £100,000,000.
LONDON TO HONOR FRANKLIN
Movement to Set Up Statue of Philoso-
pher in Chapel Where He
Worked as Printer.
Few London people would connect
romance with the name of Benjamin
Franklin, but there is a chance that he |
| may be commemorated in the most ro-
| mantic of England’s few medieval |
but the Economist
, figures, which are the most conserva-
tive of all the published
statistics,
: place the amount of new capital pub-
a
FINANCIAL PANIC OF 1837
| Year That Many Banks Failed and
i Specie Payments Were Practical-
ly Entirely Suspended.
| Political rancor was at its height
| when Andrew Jackson vetoed the bill
renewing the charter of the United
States bank and removed the treasury
deposits, under which opposition the:
bank collapsed and a vast number of
state banks competed for the busi-
ness, which included the issue of bank
- notes. In 1837 there were 634 banks,
with an aggregate capital of $291,
© 000,000.
In the history of banking the year
of 1837 is prominent for one of the
. worst panics that was ever known in
. America, which resulted in the failure
. of many banks and a universal suspen-
sion of specie payments throughout
' ‘the country, which were not renewed
iuntfl over a year and a half later, says
; the National Magazine. During this
| trying period, when banking opera-
tions were practically wiped out of
i existence, all the banks but three con-
tinued doing business in Boston. There
were temporary suspensions of specie
payments in 1857, known as the panic
of ’57; also in ’61, when Boston fol-
lowed the lead of New York, since
it was evident that further attempt
| to tide the popular panic would mean
! ruin to all the interests involved
There are men still living today who
remember with a shudder the trying
times of ’57, when the merchants met
in the Boston merchant's exchange
day after day, insisting that the banks
must be sustained; until finally Amasa
Walker rose up and said: “Gentle-
i ‘men, the banks must suspend specie
i payments. There is no other course
! to be followed.” There were mur
| murs of discontent and they were al-
most ready to lynch the ex-governor
. of the commonwealth for the bold po-
| sition he had taken, but he faced
| them courageously, and next came the
| news of the suspension of the New
: York banks.
CURIOS FROM SOUTH POLE
a
| Geologists and Students of World
Physics Welcome Collection Re-
cently Received in England.
Representative selection from the
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Not Practice Law in the Courts churches, St. Bartholomew’s, Smith-| various objects brought home by the
of England.
Women cannot practice law in the !
courts of England. This doctrine was |
recently affirmed by the court of ap- |
peal which decided against Miss G. M.
Bebb in a suit which she had brought
against the Law society and in which
she claimed the right to practice as
a solicitor. The master of the rolls
said that 300 years ago Lord Coke
had expressed the view that women |
could not be attorneys, and so far as
this case was concerned, the master
of the rolls said he decided it on the
ground that, at the date of the pass-:
ing of the solicitors’ act of 1843, there |
was a disability on the part of women
to be attorneys.
The act had not destroyed the pre-
existing disability. He disclaimed any
right to legislate in the matter. No
doubt many women, and in particular
the present applicant, were in educa-
tion, intelligence and competency su-
perior to many candidates who would
come up for examination. But with
that the court had nothing to do.
The lord justices concurred and the
appeal was dismissed.
Early Suffragette.
Militant-minded women were known
in England before the suffragettes,
one of whom lies in Henry VIL’s
chapel—Margaret, countess of Rich-
mond, its builder’s mother, with her
brass effigy by Torrigiano. She hated
the Turk, and she made, as Camden
reports, a sporting offer to the chival-
rous of her day: “On the condition
that princes of Christendom would
combine themselves and march
against the common enemy, the Turk,
she would most willingly attend them
and be their laundress in camp.” That
position of laundress to the Crusaders
would have been an easy one, for it
was the fashion to make vows to
change no underclothing until the
holy sepulcher was regained.
Korean Marriages.
Marriages between widows and
bachelors are very much in favor in
Korea because not nearly so much
money is required from the bridegroom
as in the case of his marriage with a
The impecunious bride
groom is scorned by the parents of the
girl and he is also unable to pay for
the elaborate wedding ceremonies
which must take place. All of this he
escapes by running off with a widow.
It happens in Korea, as in other coun-
is often more desirable from every
point of view but a mercenary one
than the well to do member of the
community. Consequently, the widow
young husband to herself that might
Smile, and Others Will Smile.
In an elevator of one of our large
stores I saw a lady turn her head
and in so doing, struck another lady's
face with her feather, the lady struck
was angry and scowled at the first
lady, and in so doing turned her head
and struck with her hat ornament an
other lady. This lady turned her
head and struck another lady’s face;
this lady was annoyed, but she had
geen the others, and as she looked ug
she saw two gentlemen with broad
smiles on their faces, and she smiled
and soon the others in the car saw the
humorous side, and there were smiles
upon smiles in that gloomy store ele
vator.
field.
Some one has discovered from the
parish rate books that he once worked
i at the case in an office housed in his
day in the Lady Chapel of the church.
Franklin records that he was ems-
ployed on setting up the second edi-
tion of Woolaston’s “Religion of Na-
ture”
positors’ racks.
The posts of these racks were still
there in 1885 before the Lady Chapel
was cleared of its workaday fittings
and prepared for worship again.
In the wall over the Lady Chapel
altar (and in Franklin's day actually
in the printing room) are five tall
niches, probably filled with figures of
saints before the Reformation. It is
now proposed to commemorate Frank-
lin by placing one or more “female
saints” in these niches.
Poor, But Proud.
A lady who is a district visitor be-
came much interested in a very poor
but apparently respectable Irish fam-
ily named Curran living on the top
floor of a great building in a slum dis-
trict of her parish.
Every time she visited the Currans
she was annoyed by the staring and
the whispering of the other women |
living in the building. One day she
said to Mrs. Curran:
“Your neighbors seem very curious
to know who and what I am and the
nature of my business with you.”
“They do,” acquiesced Mrs. Curran.
“Do they ask you about it?”
“Indade they do, ma'am.”
“And do you tell them?”
“Faith, thin, Oi do not.”
“What do you tell them?”
“Oi just tell thim,” was the calm re.
ply, “that ye are me dressmaker, an’
let it go at that.”—Pittsburgh Chroni-
cle Telegraph.
Washington’s Return Home.
On December 4, 1783, Washington
bade farewell to his officers in New
York and rowed across the Hudson to
New Jersey, thence proceeding to
Philadelphia. There he handed to the |
‘proper officers a statement of the
money he had spent out of his own
pocket after he took command of the
army more than eight years before in
Cambridge. The amount was $64,315.
For his services during that time he
refused any pay. When he reached
Annapolis,
ting, he resigned as commander in
chief of the army, and proceeded to
Mt. Vernon, where he had been but
once during the eight years and a half.
Lawyers’ Favorite Indoor Sport.
“As to the question of good faith
that has been raised here, that has no
bearing whatever,” declared one of the
lawyers for the “taxpayers” who are
trying to enjoin the Hyde case prose-
cution. And possibly he spoke correct-
ly. More and more the element of
“good faith” is ceasing to be a factor.
Many attorneys regard the administra-
tion of law as an indoor sport—a duel
of wits between Artemas Quibble and
Erasmus K. Snitch.—Kansas City Star.
Fixed Furniture.
It is now considered desirable to
have much of the furniture built in to
save buying. This also preserves a
consistent decorative scheme. In the
construction of houses brick is given
renewed consideration because of its
* excellent decorative possibilities.
and in that book there is a
quaint little engraving showing the’
top floor of the factory with the com-
where congress was sit-|
- conductor whispered to her,
| scientific staff attached to the Scott
' Antarctic expedition is now on exhi-
bition at the British Natural History
museum, South Kensington. The ob-
jects include the rock fragments
brought back to within 11 miles of
One Ton depot by Dr. Wilson. These
fragments are from Buckley island, or
Mount Buckley, which appears out of
the ice cap where the glacier begins
to descend toward the barrier ice.
| This “island” as it were parts the
stream of ice. There appear to be
other summits entirely buried beneath
the ice stream. The fragments tell
us of warm weather conditions, of
Devonian fishes which swam gayly in
the waters of a remote period when
the polar area was far different from
what it is now. These fragments are
of the highest importance to geolo-
gists and students of world physics.
Among other interesting objects is
the skin of a young Weddell seal. The
| [fur is of an attractive light brown
{ color. The birds brought home by the
' lexpedition are not yet stuffed. One
iis a very fine emperor penguin, whose
breast feathers glisten under the elec-
tric light. A gray-headed mollymauk
is another fine bird. The only known
, insect (wingless) proper to the Ant.
i arctic is also shown. There are two
Sponges from the ice seas of Antarc-
cS.
i
Not Sam’s Fault.
| © Sam Snedeker, the commissary man,
and held in the community to be a
good churchman, annoyed the minister
‘extremely by getting up and walking
out of the church while the sermon
was in progress. The preacher spoke
to Sam about it.
“It isn’t my fault, doc,” Sam pro-
tested. “It’s a sort of affliction I got.”
The preacher told Sam he'd better
‘see the camp doctor. A few days later
the preacher met the doctor.
“Did Sam Snedeker come to you
for advice?” asked the preacher.
“Yes,” said the doctor, “but I told
Sam I couldn't do anything for
him.”
“What was Sam’s affliction?”
“Affliction! He didn’t say anything
. about that. Sam said he'd been trou-
bling you by walking in his sleep.”—
New York Post.
When She Moved.
“It requires courage to complain of
a woman’s hat if it inconveniences you
, ever so much,” says a London Chron-
| tele writer. “Most of us suffer si
lently, but I saw a brave man one
morning on a tram car, who called
the conductor’s attentica to a plume
which kept jabbing him in the eye.
The conductor suggested he should
move, but the man objected on princi-
ple, and the woman declined to stir.
A scene seemed imminent, which every
one was preparing to enjoy, when the
‘You
should always oblige a gentleman.’
She appreciated the humor, and took
a seat with a vacancy on either side.”
He Knew.
Charles S. Mellen, at a dinner in
Boston, said of a bankrupt:
“His bankruptcy was like that which
the parent described.
“ ‘Pa, what’s a bankruptcy? a little
boy once asked.
“And pa, who had been ‘bit’ that
week, answered bitterly:
“ ‘Bankruptcy, my son, is where you
put your money in your hip pocket and
let your creditors take your wallet and
coat.”