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BURIED IN JUNGLE
Tropic Growth Overwhelmed City
of Angker Thom.
Devastation Wrought, Especially by
the Deadly Fig Tree, Is So
Complete as to Be Almost
Unbelievable.
In the heart of Cambodia, one of the
five provinces of French Indo-China,
lie the ruins of the royal city of Ang:
kor Thom, built somewhere between
the fifth and seventh centuries. and of
the marvelous temple, Angkor Wat
The architecture, which is Hindu, is
being disentangled from jungle growths
by French archeologists. The city and
temple are thought to have been built
by the Khmers, a long-vanished race
which certainly has no connection with
the Cambodians of the present day.
“Writing in Harper's, Ellen N. La
Motte describes a trip through the
jungle on an elephant in order to visit !
one of the more remote ruins.
“In about ten minutes,” she writes,
awe found ourselves climbing over the
fallen stones of an imense temple
that lay completely buried and over-
grown by the forest. So thick was the
foliage that only a dim twilight pre-
vailed. The supreme loneliness of that
buried temple, the utter isolation and
silence that enveloped it, were appal-
ling, and our scrambling feet and
hushed voices only intensified the aw-
ful stillness—the silence of centuries.
“The horror and vindictiveness of
the jungle! Everywhere ciant stones
were overthrown, pushed out of place |
and toppled over in heaps through the |
sipister vitality of that deadly tree, the
fig tree of the ruins. The roots of
this tree begin as innocent, hairlike
filaments which insinuate themselves
through the crevices of the great |
stones and slip through tiny openings i
and cracks, then grow and develon
with an evil vigor that nothing can |
withstand. They never die, never are |
starved out, these fine, hairlike roots. |
The big stones never crush or kill |
them. Year by year. century by cen- |
tury. their fierce stron life is fostered |
by the fierce heat and fierce rains of |
the tropics until they overthrow and |
destroy everything in their pathway. |
One {earful root that wandered in ta
course through a whole corridor
mighty carvings 00 meters in
length, with the circumference of an
elephant. And the tree is useless, toon
—just spongy, porous wood, unfit for
anything. {
“or an hour we wandered though ;
dim, ruined chambers, scrambled and |
climbed over fallen pillars and carv-!
ings of great beauty and delicate, in- |
tricate design—all in utter ruin and
the fig tree of destruction in supreme
control. It was good to reach our
elephants again and to leave behind
that overwhelmed and evil spot. * ® of
“Only the most important and beau- |
tiful rnins are being reclaimed from |
the forest. those in Angkor Thom, as
well as the Angkor Wat. These out- |
lying ones are still left as originally |
discovered, buried and smothered by
the everlasting forest. To me they are
far more interesting in this sinister
setting. choked and swamped by the
mizhty growth of the tropical jungle.
they aftord more thrills to me who am
not an archeologist than the picked
up, restored and cleared ruins that
the government is reclaiming.
“Of course, one cannot see them very |
well, theze buried temples. swamped |
in undergrowth, enveloped hv a twi-|
licht gloom. And as IT scramble over |
fallen images. over harbarie seculp-
tures. my mind is largely set on ser-
pents. And when we reach a fairly
open space it turns to monkeys—the
agile black gibbons that hoot and leap
overhead at our coming, furious at the
intrusion upon their solitude. Between
snakes and monkeys there are times
when 1 forget to admire these old
temples, supposed to be among the
most marvelous in the world.”
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Marshal Feoch’s Cane.
From the first days of the war
Marshal Foch always carried a dap-
per stick with him. There is an in-
teresting story connected with the
eane that the head of the allied
armies regarded so necessary. “It
was carved for him in the early days
of the war by one of his beloved
poilus of the trenches,” says the
Home Sector, the ex-soldiers’ weekly,
“since which time, if reports are true,
it has nver left his side. It has made
itself useful as well as ornamental on
occasions, and there is a legend that
it was used to map out the great
strokes and counter-strokes of the
summer and fall of 1918 by which the
war was ended.”
Saving the Wood.
“Our noble forests must be saved,”
exclaimed the theoretical conserva-
tionist.
“They must,” assented the man who
goes into small details; “even if manu-
facturers are required to produce
matches that will produce a light with-
out using up half a box to each cigar-
ette.”
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No Soldier Did This.
According to the new Standard die-
tionary it is:
Craps, n. (Local, U. 8.) A game of
chance in which the object is to guess
the numbers thrown on two dice.—
Home Sector.
I of state.
ANIMAL LIFE AND CLIMATE
Abundant Proof That Extremes of
Temperature Do Not Preclude
Possibility of Existence.
The contention of Dr. Abbott of the
Smithsonian astrophysical observatory
that because of the cold climate of
Mars life could not exist upon that
planet is not convineing.
Polar bears rejoice in temperatures
so low that little vegetation at any
time of the year exists in the latitudes
in which they are found. The exist-
ence of tigers in Korea, which has a
New England climate, supposedly
changed by sea currents when the
country’s fauna was tropical, shows |
how animals common to the hottest
parts of the earth adapt themselves to
climate as cold by comparison with
the tropics as the climate of Mars is
by comparison with the regions in
which the Eskimos llve.
loses in heated houses that the mor-
Monkeys |
from Africa died so fast of tubercu- !
tality rate forced an experiment, as |
the result of which African monkeys |
are llving out of doors all the year |
in one of Chicago's parks.
If life as we know it, human, ani- |
table. conld not withstand
of Mars, might not life
Sada
mal or vege
the climate
adapted to the climate flourish? The |
fabulous salamander lived in fire. An |
Eskimo, newly arrived in Moscut or |
Bagdad, could believe that since men
could live in such places reptiles easily |
might bask
:n flames. Why might not life, adapted
thereto, exist in a temperature of 300 |
degrees above, or below, zero if a man
from the polar regions can become
acclimated in the tropics, or vice
versa ?>—Louisvillie Courier-Journal.
TAKE HIGH OFFICE MARCH 4
That Day Officially Sst for Inaugura-
tion of the President of the
United States.
President Washington was inaug-
urated for his second term, beginning
March 4, 1793, and all the other pres-
idents, except four, who were inaug-
urated March 5, because the 4th fell
on Sunday.
The four exceptions were Presidents
Monroe, second term, 1821; Taylor,
1840; Hayes, 1877; and President Wil- |
son’s second term, 1917. President
ayes took the oath March 3, 1877,
and was formally inaugurated on the
following Monday. President Wilson
took the cath for his second term on
Sunday, March 4. The usual inaug-
uration parade took place the next
day.
"The question as to whether, in the
ovent of March 4 falling on Sunday
at the beginning of 8 term, there being
an interregnum of one full day in the
office, was first brought by John
Quincy Adams when he way secretary
He appiied for a dictum of
the Supreme eourt to guide the man-
ner of inaugurating President Monroe
for his second term. The opinion of
Chief Justice Marshall does not pro-
upon live coals and frolic |
hibit the president from taking the !
oath and entering his dutles imme-
diately after midnight of March 3,
even if March 4 falls on Sunday.
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Rare Biblical Collection.
An interesting collection of Bibles,
some of which are rare books, others
of which are valuable on account of
their former PpOSSessors or donors, is
installed in the Mount Holyoke college
library. In one group are found the
ancient versions of the Scriptures; the |
inciugd- |
ing a miniature copy of the scroll of |
original Hebrew and Greek,
the law. called the Sefer Torah, the
ancient Syriac, the Septuagint and the
Latin Vulgate.
mong the four editions of the
Latin Vulgate is one bearing the date
1568, with Luther's portrait stamped
on the leather cover with a Latin
inscription, of which the translation
is, “If you wish to see the face of
Luther behold the portrait; if you
would know his mind, consider the
book.”
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“Insult to Injury.”
Little do we realize when we use
this expression that we are indulging
in a bit of wisdom. Unknowingly we
are alluding to the classic of the
classic, an old Latin fable quoted by
Phaedrus from the more ancient ver
sion of Aesop. It is a fable about a
baldheaded man, and as usual the
baldheaded man is at a disadvantage
In this case It is a mere fly that takes
advantage of him. Well, the bald:
headed man was bitten on the head by
a fly and when he attempted in retalia-
tion to smite the insect he succeeded
only in giving himself a vigorous slap
on his bald pate. Whereupon, accord:
ing to Aesop, the fly said jeeringly:
“You want to kill me for a touch—
what will you do to yourself now that
you have added insult to injury?”
Our First Person Singular.
Is not English the only great lan
guage in which the pronoun of ths
first person singular is capitalized?
How monumentally imposing is that
upper case “I!” If a writer is ego
tistic the capitals stretch across his
page like a colonnade. When he
writes “we” he descends to the lower
case. But this orthographic solipsism
mark you, is shared by Americans
Canadians, Australians, New Zea
landers—all who use the English
tongue. It is therefore not to be set
down to insularity, but to individual
lsm—a stark, ineradicable, valuable
quality of these various folks whose
thoughts and feelings have been
nourished by the same language.—
Henry Van Dyke in Scribner's Magh:
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