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O THE druggist, what happened
one motionless July evening, on
one of those streets of lower
New York that after dark,
whether merited or not, take on a sin-
ister gloom, while by no means routine
was nonetheless not without frequent
precedent in the years of
shopkeeping.
He knew the ear-marks so well
The strangely lit the smeared
pallor, the elaborate manner of asking
for rat poison. In the case of the girl
with the strawberry-colored hair and
the pitiful lower lip with a tiny mole
that looked like a court plaster beau-
ty spot, it was much the same Aas
usual, except that she was so young.
Not over sixteen, if the druggist was
any judge, and be flattered himself
that he was.
The thing to do in these cases was
not to interfere; to interfere was to
invite desperate and frightened recoil,
There was a little shelf In the store
for just such emergency. Neat little
phials of barley water duly labeled
“poison.” In this wise, chances were
the subject would have time to re
cover from the mental abberration and
in all probability not repeat the at
tempt at self-destruction.
That had been the druggist’s experi
ence where he bad been in a
to follow up the case, but
Just drifted out of sight
co he thrust on them, and it
to his intuition, he
gauge the resuits,
on
be
thank
more us
druggl
sheep
many his
eyes,
position
usuall
after the fins
y they
wilich trusted
One or two ocen
ishly
In any
regard the
suaged his unease
The sixteen-ye
Strawberry hair
in the odd times hi
to wr after
vd
fallu to
Jerked her to he
The drug
in tl!
fittle
1 in the spi
than that
ment store
depart
had over
taken the corner
druggist,
And oven
by-street
spread
perfectly
own there on the
tidings of
among physic
filled
remote
this small shop
18 to whom the
prescription meant
much. Motor cars that seldom, If
frequented that part of town
swooped now with frequency into the
druggist’'s street. His shop became a
trademark
Curiously
ever,
of quality.
modern
the son
and against the
tendency of the modern So.
had returned to fit himself with en
usinsm and valor for the cause of
ine, in the old shop.
Eight after his
from the college, he was prac
tically carrying the Increasing
responsibiiities of the drug store.
Meanwhile of course the neighborhood
had changed, becoming in a way even
more remote and even more sinister
in its implication,
Various the opportunities that had
come and the offers from doctors to
help finance the removal of the shop
to a more likely part of town, but the
old druggist, half bed-ridden now, was
querulous when approached on the
subject, and for one reason or another
his son, twenty-nine past, of steady
caliber, and his father's passionate
pride, did not urge it.
After all, the store was the old gen
tleman's life and work, It was he
who had created it out of pennies;
nurtured it, tended it in infancy and
seen it flourish with the years, The
world might well be ald to have
beaten a pathway to the door of the
little shop. It was because of his in
tegrity that doctors with national and
international reputstions recommend
ed It to their patients, and once gained,
a customer remained,
No, this was scarcely the time to
eross a bedridden old man in his de
sire for the stabilization of his life
work, :
Not that it was a strenuous or tor-
mented old age into which he had en-
tered. The little rooms above the
shop where he had dwelt the twenty:
elght years following the death of his
wife were snug to him as the prover.
bial bug in its rug. Reace and pride
ruled here; the peace of honest
achiey®ment and high pride In a son
whose ideals were the Ideals of the
father and whose youth stood aside
years graduation
sinte
alone
In deference to the conservatism of
age,
Some day, naturally,
blossom out into a new
terprise. It was right that he should.
He had the ability, the oppgritunity,
the ambition. ut while thé father
lived, there he remained in the shop,
right-hand to right-hand
to the parent,
And of course, along about the time
the older man began to feel upon him-
self the Shadow, there began to move
across his mind torments, fears, heart-
aches, even terror for the future of
this boy. There was something so
naive and trusting and simple about
this son. His wenkness In the
affairs of business was his tendency to
take every one at his word.
Such a youth would fall easily and
readily Into the hands of any woman
who desired him sufficiently, and at
twenty-nine there was dignity té this
fellow, fine clarity of and brow
and a naive quality that him
added attraction.
With the old gentleman standing
by to add his pinch of cynicism when-
ever necessary, all that was well and
The boy had had his threats
of pitfalls and come out unstathed.
It was the aftermath the father dread-
ed. What about after he had passed
on?
It therefore became almost a secret
with him. What about this
boy's future? A woman could break
or make him, What untold relief to
see this boy settled in life before . . .
Intuitive always, the old man
watched for signs. The reticence of
secret thoughts—there was none of
that. The absorption In
the many charming young women who
come into the shop—not a suggestion
of personal interest with anyone. The
telephone's unexplained demands that
hidden
were no clews there to indleate
aration for
the boy would
and wider en-
the business,
one
eve
gave
good.
obsession
might suggest a sweetheart—
there
a preg the inevitable,
attempted
but the boy would
Not
Countless imes he
interested
S80 strongly
of unt
“If 3
ld nervousness
Long List of “Ologies”
in Alphabtical: Form
following
Anthrops log
sms; blontolog
|e “He 8 Or genau f
of fruits and see as
acteristic
0
f
i
i
, structure
char-
erin
etymology.
s of skulls: criminology.
inals: entomology, Insects;
derivation of words:
of the earth: genealogy, descent and
ancestors; graphology of char-
acter from handwriting ; . Hime
hydrology, waters of
iyology, fishes; limno-
mammalogy,
nao
geology, structure
study
+ horol ogy
measurement ;
the earth: fchtl
logy, lakes and ponds;
mammals: mineralogy, minerals;
logy. stical architecture; oph-
thalmology. structure and diseases of
the eye: pathology, morbid condition
of the body; physiology, organic func
tions ; paleontology, fossils’; phrenology
character a8 Indicated by form of skull ;
pomology, fruits; society as
a whole; theology, God or of religion,
and zoology, animals,
ecclesin
sociology,
Native African Houses
The native of Kirdi-Massa,
west coast of Africa, builds his home
of a stiff clay much like the abode
used by Mexicans and Indians. This
is poured over a framework of slender
wooden poles used as reinforcements,
and allowed to dry In the sun. The de
sign Is worked on with a erude trowel
like tool while the mud is moist,
The houses look like huge anthills,
with only an inadequate opening for
a door In the side and a small round
chimney hole at the top to admit light
and air. The design on the outside is
often elaborate and worked out with
the greatest pains, for it serves to
identify the owner of the hut,
Lightest Known Gases
One cuble foot of hydrogen under
ordinary conditions will iift 071
pound, One cubic foot of helium gas
will lift 006 pound. These are the
lightest gases known and practically
the only ones used for balloons, It is
stated that the government helium
plant in Texas ean produce helium at
about £12 pef thousand euble feet, or
at a little more than twice the cost of
hydrogen. Hydrogen Js inflammable
while helimm Is not. While heated
gases and smoke have a Tendency to
rise, thelr lifting power will depend
on thelr specific snavity gnd on the
tempercture,
on the
(Prepared by the National Geographle
Society, Washington, D. C.)
NE of the most outstanding ex-
plorations of recent years out-
side the Polar regions was
made recently when Bertram
Thomas, British traveler, journeyed
from south to north across the Roba el
Khali of southeastern Arabia,
in area never before penetrated by a
Westerner. The world's geographers
and map-makers knew nothing what-
ever of the Roba el Khall even by
ports from nati for it is dou
whether Arabs have been
trate the sandy for many cen-
desert
YS,
able to pene
wastes
desert was
vas discovere
ern desert cover
les of
ately 30C.2%00 squa
It is 8 vast
SOO miles
600 miles
This aren, sin
itral Africa
Australis
Cer
est J in tate, the
Helnz and Nejd. On the
Yemen The Hadramant, a
strip une
es the desert
narrow
ler British protection,
on the south. The
wndent state of
territory, curves
and southeastern
costal
tonct
crescent-shaped, leq
Oman, also a 1
around the eastern
edges of the desert.
Both nd man have guarded
the Roba el Khall against explorers.
Mountains rim it on the east and south
iary deserts hem it on the
Before the main part of the
desert—the vast waste
ered with sand dunes—ean be reached
a six-day Journey must be made—In
the south and east, ag least—over an
almost sterile sandstone steppe, Wa-
COARta
nature a
Ov.
reach for a final dash
desert,
All
desert area
into the sandy
around the outer rim of the
are tribes that have had
practically po contact with outside
civilization, and that are even inde-
pendent of control from the nearest
They guard thelr few wells
and water holes jealously and In most
meriting death,
Physica! Characteristics,
In physical character, flora, and
fauna, Arabia ns a whole Is more like
Afriea than Aria. In shape, It Is al
most a triangle, and it runs from
grees and 12 degrees 45 minutes north
latitude and between 82 degrees 30
minutes and 60 degrees east longitude.
It Is hounded on the east, south, and
sen, and the Red sea respectively: on
the north It Joins Syria. As Josephus
of old wrote, “Arabia Is a country that
joins on Judean.” And Roman geog-
raphers drew a map of Arabia that in-
cluded Mesopotamia and the Syrian
desert back of Palestine,
The length of the peninsula from the
head of the Gulf of Akabah to the
Straits of Bab-el-Mandeb, near Aden,
f& about 1300 miles: Its greatest
breadth, In latitude 28 degrees north,
from the Red sea coast on the west to
Rasal-Hadd on the east, is about 1,500
miles.
Ag one salle along the Red sea
const of Arabla, with the low-2000
feet high—-dry and barren mountains
lying just back of sandy, empty strips
of country, he ls reminded of the Pa-
cific side of Lower California above
Cape San Lucas. Many small {slands,
bot and dry and uninhabited except
for half-wild bands of tramp fisher
men, dot the map along this
One of these, Perim, near the
mouth of Bab-el-Mandeb straits, is oe-
cupied by a British garrison.
The mx
empiy a
coast,
called
mtheastern coast,
id marked by sha
I
rocks thrust up from gl
simi
rp.
istening
is broken by several good
bors, like that at Aden, This
i i8 a British possession, not u
Gibraltar. It is fortified
is the entrepot of commerce bet
larly
Jagged
sand
beds, har-
nort
nt a
woen
Three Important Provinces.
Along i Red ser onst lle three
portant In
erly and
Nejd
Arabs
confusion of plant life Is sg
over Ara rich
aflo “unflr
prend
{val-
ished busi
Besid
trees as the syon-
wadis
leys)
ness” pa the
frien
more,
the “gum Arabic”
long list of bushes
scattered up and down the peninsula,
Then there Is the “samh”™ or oatmeal
plant of the Arabs: from its small
grain they make a porridge
gamh, the national breakfast food or
Arabia,
ut, with the exception of
Arabia produces few crops of any im-
portance. coffee, In limited
quantities, comes from Yemen. Millet,
barley, and wheat are all grown, but
owing to drought the crop is small and |
restricted to limited areas. Wherever |
water and soll permit, such products |
as rice, melons, gourds, cucumbers,
cabbage, garlic, and onjons are raised.
The Indian fig, the banana, the |
papaya (imported from India), the co. |
conut, and the betel nut are also grown |
in Nejd
diy palm, such
nd.
mon
aime chestnut, pomegranate,
and a
shrubs are
the acacias,
and
enlled
dat oR,
Good
Crude Agriculture.
Agriculture Is crude, like that of our
old American Indians, A crooked
stick scratches the ground, and seed
is broadcast by hand. Such arts as
fertilizing, rotating crops, pruning, and
enltivating receive scant considera.
tion. Hand sickles are used for reap-
ing; oxen tread out the grain, and It
{s winnowed by being thrown into the
breeze, In brief, Arabia's agriculture
is almost nil—barely sufficient to fur
nish a meager supply of food te the
sparse population.
A pecullarly drabJlooking desert
grouse called “kata” lves on the
edges of desert wastes, When fright.
ened they alight on the sand and
sprawl! out to hide, their color blend.
ing with the sand so perfectly as to
render them unnoticeable to a man
standing a few yards away.
Eagles, vultures, bustards, and vari.
ous hawks, to say nothing of the
awkward old ostrich, are . common
enough,
Except for the lizard family, reptiles
are rare, and no poisonous snakes, save
the “afal® and the “rukin,” both of
the viper family, are found In all
Arabia. There are no scorpions, how-
over, and centipedes; and In old
houses on the west coast a very dan-
gerous spider (“Abu Hanekin") makes
life miserable for the Arab tired busi.
ness man,
be
TALES...
of the TRIBES
By EDITHA L. WATSON
The Dakota (Sioux)
ideal Indian-—superb of phy-
mentally keen and alert, and
with a high stand-
ard of morals—is
best typified by
the Dakota,
known as
Sioux.
This
people
all the
ing
the
the Chippewa,
they were
continually at war,
This powerful
tribe in its ex-
pansion pushed its
neighbors slowly
aw
pressure
who resisted valiant-
ly but nevertheless retreated gre pa
ly In a southwestward direction, driv-
g before them the Cheyenne and the
Kiows. In this manner they reached
the Black Hills country, and here they
settled,
The Dakota was not exactly a con-
federation, yet it was made up of sev-
en council fires, consisting of eight di-
visions, each of which Is well-known
In history—and with good reason.
From thelr first mention in the Jesuit
of 1640, the Sioux tribes have
been liberally Included in accounts of
the country. Their licient fighters
who feared nothi
11% ail
like pr
The
slque,
now
the
magnificent
dominated
surround-
tribes, with
exception of
with
whom
The Dakota
(Sioux). ay, and the
even af-
fected the
floux,
Relations
'
swept across the
18 destri
even in those
1! found
whiles as
more
than any
the settlers
iy 4 4 ro
intimate o«
whites were
which several
th ipate d Some
story were com-
3
mitted by the Indians at this time,
However, not all the
malignant. It was a Yankton chief
who warned the Minnesols of the
ing uprising, and hun-
lives therehy,
Sioux were so
ds of
the
crowded
precipitated a
When gold was discovered in
Black Hills the mine
into Sioux territory
fierce outhreak. We cannot blame the
Rioux for resenting the invasion of
h and consciruceless men,
but, for the good of the growing
states, they had to be subdued. Al-
most the final battie of this period was
“last stand” on the
Little Bighorn, June 15, 1876, which
has attained such a prominent place
in the history of the West, Sitting
ull, Hunkpapa chief, was the medi-
cine man of the Indians on this ocea-
gion,
The so-called Sioux uprising of 1800,
during which Sitting Bull evas killed,
was the result of the "Ghost Dance”
excitement. It is alleged that the Ine
dian agents on the Sioux reservation
were utterly incompetent, and the lack
of promised rations, a serious matter
for people accustomed to rove as they
would to provide for themselves, was
perhaps the underlying cause of the
outbreak. Hunger and fear are very
real sensations, and when In their
trouble the Sioux heard that a revela-
tion had been given, their excitement
led to the outbreak.
This revelation from the God of the
red men foretold a new dispensation,
when the whites would be driven out,
and the Indians would attain their for
mer status, The songs and dances
which the prophet gave induced a
hypnotic condition, and in these
trances the Sioux became once more
the magnificent lords of the land.
The awakening was harsh. Sitting
Bull, whose strong personality had im-
bued his tribesmen and kept them In
a fever of unrest, was dead, and Gen,
Nelson A. Miles rode. into the ple
ture. His was also a strong personal
ity, and he had trained troops at his
back.
(I 1931. Western Newspaper Union
r& who
these uncout
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