Rev. and Mrs.
. and Mrs. J. C. Glessner, of
creek Township, who sailed for
potamia last August, wrote back
ery interesting account of their
and of conditions in the Orient,
follows:
er a very peaceful voyage of
weeks duration with stop over
its at Alexandria, Jaffa, and
we reached Beirut, Syria, the
of the American University, the
ican Presbyterian Mission and
merican Press.
b wheels of progress grind slow-
the East and after a week of
ling and patience our convoy
arranged for the five hundred
desert trip. All desert travel-
refer to travel in groups as a
of safety. After reading de-
descriptions concerning the
of bandits on the desert we were
eyed up” for the voyage. Our
of ten, carried in a Dodge,
ler, and a Chevrolet, turned
hard to climb the hairpin passes
¢ mulberry-clad Lebanon. The
paying that, “Where the Turk
his foot the grass refuses to
was impressed upon us rather
ly. During the war the
ain side- was laid waste to such
ree that not only the grass re-
to grow but the noted cedars
banon were all destroyed save a
group near the summit. = At
the trenches are still in tact
get ce living villages
nothing put ruins, the inhab-
; being brought to starvation
{ the war. However there is a
f light and hope under the
administration. The hill-sides
bing terraced to retain the soil
aking agriculture possible and
dars are being replaced with
la pines. Aley is a typical vil-
It is the summer station of the
administration and is compos-
a cluster of villas, cafes, and
L. As the sun was sinking low
ksed Murad, the highest point
Damascus road and descended
Damascus.
hscus, an oasis on the edge of
kert, contains the true Syrian
of blank outer walls conceal-
bautiful courts and fountains
It is considered the oldest
the world still inhabited, with
nt population of five hundred
d Christians, Jews, and Mos-
his city has over two hund-
sques and can boast of the
and most beautiful in the
The homes of Ananias and
he street called Straight, the
of Saint Paul and other places
ed in the ninth chapter of
b of great interest to the tour-
®
ling East from Damascus one
choice between two motor
These routes reveal them-
to the traveller only by the
cars which make their way
d forth at regular intervals.
e of our choice leads first
i to Palmyra, and thence
astward until it strikes the
os at Deir-ez-Zore. As Da-
disappears from the horizon
Lk himself on the wide sandy
f Syria. This immense area
Lbited in the summer but in
or and early spring there is
bain here and there to pro-
sture for occasional Beduin
ith their camels and sheep.
the second day found us
e ruins of ancient Palmyra
engaged in taking pictures
oring the town that we al-
ot that we had to eat and
“our way. The impression
from the Sun-god Bel and
palace will abide forever.
e on the desert is quite as
ant life but once in a while
ion was attracted by a flock
L rouse swiftly making their
ward. As we approached
ates we all sat up and took
J. C. Glessner
ECENTLY APPOINTED
MISSIONARIES RELATE
EXPERIENCES IN ORIENT
} T
‘tribes of the _ desert as well as the in-
‘habitants of the city. He gave us
| shelter for the night in the operating
‘room, and the old hard benches hever
[felt quite so soft as they did this
jnight. Lack of blankets compelled us
| to sleep with clothe on, but in spite
of the adverse conditions we all felt
refreshed in the early morning. Af-
ter boiling a quanity of Euphrates
water for the day’s supply we ate our
breakfast of water-melons and tea;
loaded up and proceeded to cross the
Mesopotamia. No bridge
spanned the river at this junction so
we were compelled to cross on a raft
which was propelled with oares. The
| oarmen, judging the velocity of the
| current, first rowed up the stream,
| then crossed so that by the time they
i reached the other bank we were di-
!rectly opposite the place of starting.
The eastern bank of the Euphrates
was a massacre center during the
period of expulsion of Armenians
from Turkey and our driver went into
great detail explaining how he made
his escape.
The third day of our journey re-
vealed nothing new or exciting. Our
lunch, which consisted chiefly of wat-
er-melons and cookies was consumed
in mid-desert. I do recall one epi-
sode in regard to this lunch. After
eating what we term the meat of the
melon we thoughtlessly threw the
rinds in the sand. Before long we
noticed several members of the Bed-
uin tribes gathering up the remains
land in a short time all the members
of the family were seated in a circle
partaking of the repast. Even the
extreme outer shell was used as food
for their donkeys so nothing was
wasted. It made one think of the
words of Mark 6:42, “And they did all
eat and were filled.” = The day was
far spent by the time we reached the
French outpost but we were all anx-
ious to reach the land of our choice
although first impressions were not so
favorable. Upon reaching the first
town under English mandatory we
were informed that no travelers were
permitted to travel after “sunset.
After much persuasion we were per-
mitted to continue, being escorted by
an officer: of the law who carried a
rifle slung over his shoulder. Trav-
eling after dark is very difficult and
the clo¢k struck the mid-night hour
before we arrived in Mosul. Rev.
Willoughby, the only missionary in
Mosul during the last year, was anx-
iously waiting our arrival and had ar-
rangements for our comfort well in
and.
The Arabic form for Mosul means
“a joint” or “meeting place”; and the
city is in truth a meeting-place of
languages and creeds. The present
population of eighty-four thousand is
composed of Arabs and Kurds but no
Turks. The majority of the populace
still adhere strictly to the Moslem
faith. Perhaps the most distinguish-
ling feature of the Moslem of Mosul
is his dress. As one takes a look at
the throng in the bread market you
get the idea that they are all dressed
for a Shakespearian play. Sir Mark
Sykes gives his opinion of them as
follows: “Eloquent, cunning, excit-
able, and cowardly, they present to
my mind one of the most deplorable
pictures one can see in the East.
Diseased from ages of foul living,
contemptuous of villagers, with all
the loathsome contempt of a stunted
cockney for a burly yokel; able to
quote poetry in conversation— idle
beyond all hope, vicious as far as
their feeble bodies will permit; ready
to riot and slay for the sake of fan-
aticism as long as they are in no dan-
ger, detesting Europeans with a big-
oted, foolish, senseless hatred; inso-
lent yet despicable; ready to cry
“Kafir” to a stranger and flee ere his
head is turner, with minds of mud-
larks and the appearance of philoso-
phers, they depress and discuss the
observer.” This description may be
overdrawn in spots but it cannot be
our Armenian driver pulled
throttle and steered off in a
Our first thought was that
one into hysterics, but we
vered that he was simply
yun down a bustard as a di-
Night came on and many
lost our way before reach-
.,-Zore at ten o'clock. Here
{ the residence of Dr. Hud-
. Presbyterian mission wh
) a medical and sur
inister to e Bex
)
cal tira of tl
uin | time
denied that their cleverness is of a
superficial kind, and that many among
them are vain and in money matters
grasping. During the war, when the
Turks held full sway over the city,
provisions grew scarce, bringing many
of the inhabitants to starvation. It
was during this tumoil that a man
and his wife opened a secret eating
place, where they cooked and sold the
flesh of their own children and the |
1 ity. In due;
discovered by |
|
)
commu
their kitchen
| the Turkish military police and the
{ pair of offenders promptly hanged.
From Mosul we derive the word
muslin. While it is true that the
meat, vegetables and fruits have
largely displaced the products of the
loom in our bazaars; yet if one walks
around the walls of the city >n 3
bright day he can see many Zofks en-
gaged in weaving and dying the de-
|licate fabric which at one time in his-
| tory spread the fame of the city.
The Turks, may it be said to their
credit, are responsible for the one
wide street in Mosul. During the
war, when it was necessary to invade
[the city, a broad, straight swath was
[cut across the city from East to
| West, bisecting slums, palaces, cof-
| fee-shops and convents. Up to the
present time Mosul has retained the
traditional features Mosuliote archi-
tecture. The buildings are not only
attractive but of extreme antiquity.
The typical street is nothing more
than a long winding lane which takes
on the appearance of a canal during
| the rainy season, bounded by walls of
“juss” (the popular building material
composed of ground stone.) Only the
door breaks the monotony of the ex-
terior but there is a surprise waiting
for those who have not seen the
houses of Damascus, as they step over
the threshold to the inner court. The
houses of Mosul, almost without ex-
ception, are built around a court, car-
ried by means of arches on pillars of
alabastar. In the houses of the rich
a fountain occupies the middle of the
court while the overflow supplies re-
freshment for the beds or iris, vio-
lets, and roses, The rooms are spac-
ious and barrel vaulted; and although
the building material is of short dura-
tion, the type of construction has re-
mained for almost three thousand
years. The excavations at Nineveh
have disclosed a type of house that
Mosul has never ceased to build. The
houses and mosques alike contain
alabaster which is common only to
Mosul. Miss Stevens in describing
the minarets says, “Every minaret in
the place has a conspicious kick in it,
except the principal one which has
two.” The Arabs explain this poor
work of art by saying that when the
Prophet Mohammed passed through
Mosul on his celetial flight the min-
aret bowed itself in reverence, and
could only recover its balance, after
its top joint had been given a con-
trary inclination.
So much for the living city of
Mosul. Now this brief description
would not be complete without a word
about the dead city of Mosul or
Nineveh as we know it in the Bible.
gris we see long low lines of earth-
work culminating in the two mounds,
Tell Qoyunjik and Tell Nebi Yunus—
“the hill of the little sheep” and “the
hill of the Prophet Jonah”—where
stood) the residences of the Assyrian
Kings, The former with its palace
of Sennacherib has been excavated
and yielded a goodly treasure to the
British Museum while the latter is
more in tact and crowned by a small
village which contains the supposed
mosque of the Prophet Jonas. Hav-
ing seen the city of Jaffa where the
Prophet was so unfortunate as to be
thrown overboard, this mosque was
of special interest to us. Upon ar-
riving at the entrance ofthe sepulture
we were requested to leave our shoes
which we did. The interior is very
spacious, the floor being covered with
Persian rugs. To our surprise they
pointed out not only the sarcophagus
of the Prophet but also the remains
of his whale which are saspended
over the tomb. They consist of three
sections of the skeleton of a sword-
fish, posing here as the backbone of
the whale. The most recent guess is
that this tomb contains the remains
of the Nestorian Patriarch John the
Lame. Regardless of the spot where
Jonah’s bones lie buried, one thing is
true, viz; that the Prophet’s popular-
ity in the neighborhood is remarkable.
The fast which was proclaimed to
avert the doom he proclaimed for
Nineveh is still observed by the peo-
ple of Mosul. The decree of the As-
syrian king, “Let neither man nor
beast, herd nor flock, taste anything;
let them not feed nor drink water” is
still carried out for three days before
the month of Lent. This fast and a
few scattered mounds are possibly the
only visible links between the Nin-
eveh of to-day and the Nineveh whose
name filled the people of the ancient
world with terror.
We stated before that the city of
Mosul and the plains that surround
it contain a preponderance of Arabs
and Kurds, yet the remnants of other
people are scattered over plain and
mountain. It is safe to say that all
of these have suffered tribulation and
oppression for the faith to which they
adhere. Manv of them have under-
gone martyrdom for Christ, for Je-
hovah, and even, unlikely as it may
sound, for the Devil. For to the
West of Mosul there live a gentle,
long-suffering people, the Yezidis,
whose principal divinity is none other
than Satan. The true origin of these
devil-worshippers is not known, but
they are thought to be the remnants
of the old majian religion of Persia.
As it exists today their faith is one
of the most curious mixtures that one
can imagine. It comprises a venera-
tion of nature worship, of the sun,
moon, and stars, many of the Jewish
and Christian beliefs of the creation,
an acceptance of the Old and New
Testaments, and of the Koran as Di-
vine revelations, and above all the
worship of Satan, who, they believe,
is the ruler of this world at present.
Satan is apparently a personage more
to be feared than loved. While God
is all powerful, he is also forgiving
and merciful, and is
will do no one any
As we look eastward across the Ti-!
MEYERSDALE COMMERCIAL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1929
shipped lest he become angry with his
subjects and take} vengeance upon
them.
Over the Ye#idis the Mir exercises
an absolute Jjnd autocratic sway.
While on the whole the Yezidis are a
very peaceful and well behaved peo-
ple the Mir usually appears to be in a
state of melancholy. This is due to a
brutal custom that prevails, viz; that
any relative of the Mir or ruler may
kill him and thus become chief. As
the leadership carries with it an au-
tocratic sway over all the members
of the faith and commands no small
income, it may be inferred that few
of these “infernal” representatives on
earth have died 'a natural death.
Apparently the sect have many
strange observances such as abstance
from eating lettuce and cabbage and
from eating fish (out of deference, it
is said, to the Prophet Jonah). They
not only have their only feasts and
fasts but seem also to observe most
of the Jewish, Mohammadan, and
Christian feasts.
In the main their belief consists
in the fact that Adam and Eve in the
Garden of Eden came to know sin
thru the Melek Taus, or Peacock, who
was a dethroned archangel destined to
rule the earth for ten thousand years.
Approximately four thousand years of
that period are still to come. At the
end of this period Melek Taus (or
Satan) will be reinstated in heaven,
when he will see to it that those
who have been faithful to him get
their reward. Christ will then rule
for a ten thousand year period after
which a new creation will be made and
things started all over again. Such
are the curious beliefs of these sim-
ple folk, and though often persecuted
and sometimes massacred by the
thousands for the sake of their faith
they have never relinquished it. It
will be of interest to know that a
certain chief of the Yezidies has com-
mitted to the care of our girl’s school
here at Mosul his\four young children
to be educated and brought up in the
Christian faith. This same chief
with his flowing robes and flashing
sward met us in our hotel at Beirut
to wish us God-speed in our mission
work. It is possible that in a few
decades the Yezidis will have become
beings of the past. The sword could
not wipe out their faith, but that
which is mightier than the sword is|
already descending upon them. In
spite of the Yezidis prohibition in
the arts of reading and writing edu-
cation has already spread among
them. Once education has gained a
foot-hold it is difficult to believe that
they will still cling to the tenents of
such a confused melody of beliefs.
It has been said that either people
hate Mosul or they like it very much.
I believe that we can truly say that
we like it very much and are happy
in carrying/ tke Good News to those
who are hungry for it. We wish all
our friends in America a very Merry
Christmas and a Prosperous New
Year.
Sincerely,
REV. J. C. GLESSNER.
SCIENCE AND THE FARMER
Science is perhaps the greatest
help of the farmer. One out of five
prominent scientists in America, Sec-
retary of Agriculture Jardine points
out, are engaged in work of an agri-
culture-chemical nature.
As the result of the extensive scien-
tific agricultural work going on, the
percentage of tuberculous cattle has
been reduced from 4 to 2 in the last
decade.
Hog cholera is no longer a check
to hog production. Tick-infested cat-
tle in the South are reing reduced in
number. Animal parasites have been
greatly reduced in number.
Plant research of scientists has
saved immense sums to farmers.
Many new plants from other countries
have been introduced. New plant dis-
eases are guarded against.
Bud selection in the citrus industry
has saved the growers of California
i several million dollars.
The above are only a few of the
great achievements of science in re-
(lation to agriculture. Reading the
|news, it seems that a great percent-
|age of the new inventions and discov-
eries have to do with the “arm.
Scientists seem interested in the ag-
ricultural problems of the nation
more than in almost anything else.
That is not surprising, agriculture
being the great industry that it is.
The surprising thing is that being
such a great industry, and drawing
the attention of the leading scientific
|minds of this era, it has been unable
'to obtain action creating a favorable
plan of distribution and marketing of
its products.
MARRYING A HOBBY WITH HIM
Peoria, Ill., Dec. 26 (Autocaster)—
William Jones, 62, a Negro, has been
married fifty-six times, and he was
recently been arrested for passing a
bad check just as he was leading
Bride No. 57 to the altar.
Jones explains that marrying has
been a hobby with him. His nick-
name is “King Solomon” Jones and
he thus explains his system:
“I just married ’em when I felt like
it, and left ’em when I got tired.”
SHATTERS BROTHER’S ALIBI
Buffalo, N. Y., Dec. 26 (Autocaster)
—William Hallowell has been extra-
dited to Warren, Pa., to face a bur-
glary charge on testimony of his
brother John Hallowell, who shatter-
Satan must be propitiated and wor-|’
ed an alibi by saying that William
» [was in Warren on the day of the bur-
glary.
Mechanical Unloaders Removing Ore From Lake Steamer.
(Prepared by the National Geographic
Society, Washington, D. C.)
INING the ore that makes
most of America’s steel is a
vastly different procedure
from the burrowing in dark
tunnels that is usually associated with
mining. Approximately five-sixths of
the ore that gives the United States
its age of steel comes from the Mesaba
range of Minnesota, much of it from
the single great Hull Rust mine near
Hibbing.
To get sime idea of this mine, im-
agine a great terraced amphitheater
cut out of rolling ground, half a mile
wide and nearly two miles long. Dump
Gatun dam into it and there would
still be a yawning chasm unfilled. Put
a ten-story office building into the
deepest trench and the top of the
flagpole would barely reach to the
line of the original surface.
Ordinarily one thinks of mining as
an occupation for human moles that
burrow in the ground and bring out
hard ores from cavernous depths. But
when nature laid down the Lake Su-
perior ore ranges she made burrowing
and blasting unnecessary for the most
part. In the Mesaba range—and, by
the way, there are as many ways of
spelling that word as there are of pro-
nouncing Saloniki—the ore has largely
the consistency of sand, and lies so
close to the surface that it would be
as foolish to burrow instead of dig-
ging as it would be to tunnel instead
of cutting in building a railroad
through a small knoll
And how they do make hay when
the sun shines up on the iron ranges!
Panama had its rainy season, but the
iron ranges have their snowy season,
beginning 'in Decenyber and ending
with Easter, when that festival hap-
pens to be late enough. They have
only eight months in which to meet
the vast demand for iron and steel,
and that demand has run as high as
66,000,000 tons of ore.
How do they do it? They do it with
the most wonderful lot of man-elim-
inating, time-saving, obstacle-conquer-
ing machinery ever put to a thousand-
mile purpose. The Hull Rust mine, to
begin with the ore in the ground, is
a series of terraces, or benches, as
the engineers call them, from the
banks to the bottom. On each of these
Brobdingnagian steps there is room
enough to maneuver a steamcshovel
and a railroad train, and up and down
the line go the shovels, shifting their
positions as they eat into the bank,
and loading a big ore train in less
time than a child with a toy shovel
takes to fill a little red express wagon.
From Mine to Lake.
The ore cars on the iron ranges are
of the regulation pressed steel, bottom-
dumping, 50-ton coal-car type, and
they run in trains a third of a mile
long. The railroads from the mines
down to Duluth, Superior, and Two
Harbors are of the best construction,
The haul from Hibbing to Duluth is
80-odd miles. Just before the trains
reach Duluth they come to Proctor,
the biggest ore yard in the world.
Here they run across a scales unique
in the history of the art of weighing.
There would be an endless congestion
and a consequent shortage in steel
were it necessary to stop each car on
a scales and weigh it; so a weighing
mechanism has been devised which
permits the tonnage of cars in motion
to be registered. A train slows down
as it approaches and passes over the
platform at the rate of from five to
eight miles an hour, the weight of
each car being automatically recorded
as it passes.
From Proctor the trains run down
to the huge unloading piers at Duluth.
These piers are vast platforms built
out over the lake, nearly half a mile
long and wide enough to accommodate
two tracks, which are at the height of
a six-story building above the water.
Beneath the tracks is a series of
pockets, holding some two or three
hundred tons of ore each. The ore is
automatically dumped into these
pockets and the train starts back, to
Hibbing.
Even while the trains are dumping
their burden ships are alongside with
huge spouts in every hatch and a
hatch every 12 feet, with ore flowing
down out of the pockets like water
out of a funnel, at the rate of some
8) tons a minute, as a rule, and as
much as 300 tons as the exception.
Some of them «re more than 600
feet long with only 60 feet beam.
With officers’ quarters and bridge in
the bow and crew’s quarters and en-
gine room in the stern, and all of the
rest of the ship without superstructure
of any kind, and with a flat deck with
hatches spaced six feet apart, a salt
water sailor might well regard them
as uncanny apparitions of the unsalted
seas. The William P. Snyder, Jr. 617
feet long and 64 feet beam, drawing
about 20 feet 6 inches of water, when
loaded to capacity, broke the world’s
bulk freighter record carrying 13,694
tons of ore on one trip.
Modern Ore Carriers.
These ships, in spite of the fact that
they are able to work only eight
months and notwithstanding the won-
derfully low ton-mile freight rate they
offer, are veritable gold mines. With
the progress in the art of bulk freight-
er construction that a quarter of a
century has brought forth, miracles of
efficiency have been wrought. Vessels
of the largest type are operated today
with engines of the same pattern and
power as were fitted into ships of one-
third their tonnage two decades ago.
Indeed, so economical in operation are
the big ore carriers of today that they
use only a shade more than half an
ounce of coal in carrying a ton of
freight a mile—a statement so re-
markable that one could not believe it
except upon the authority of R. D.
Williams, editor of the Marine Review.
Another authority puts the cost of
operating such a ship at between $200
and $300 a day.
Even at the latter figure and ten
days to the trip, with cargo only one
way, the cost of a trip to the owners
is only $3,000, while the receipts may
reach $6,000. But even at a dollar a
ton, moving ore a thousand miles in
these vessels costs only one-sixth as
much per ton-mile as moving it on
the railroads.
When the big ore carriers arrive at
the lower lake ports—Lorain, Cleve-
land, Ashtabula, Conneaut, Erie and
Buffalo—they hasten up to the ore-
handling plants, every hatch open and
ready for the unloading. Gravity may
load a ship, but it has never yet un-
loaded one, and so machinery does the
work. Instead of the old way of hoist-
ing shovel-filled buckets by horse-pow-
er and dumping them into the wheel-
barrows of picturesque longshoremen,
a method by which it cost 50 cents a
ton to get the ore from hold to car or
pile, today gigantic unloaders, the most
modern of them grabbing up 17 tons
at a mouthful, save so much labor that
it costs in some cases less than five
cents to take a ton of ore out of the
held and put it on the small mountain
the ore folk call the stock pile, or in
empty railroad cars waiting on the
track hard by.
Unloading the Vessel.
The Hulett unloader reminds one of
a glorified walking beam of the side-
wheel steamboat variety, with one of
the legs left off. Instead of the other
leg connecting with a crank shaft, it
has a wonderful set of claws at the
lower end, and above them an ankle
of startling agility. These great claws
open and shut by electricity, and they
take up 17 tons with as much ease
as you might close your hand on an
apple. The operator is stationed in-
side the leg just above the claws and
gets all the sensations of riding a
rollercoaster, as he jumps in and out
of the ship hour after hour.
When the claws are full, the oper-
ator turns a lever; the walking beam
seesaws back to the opposite position ;
the load comes out of the hold and is
dumped into a bin. From this bin it
flows by gravity into big coal and ore
cars to be hauled to the furnaces, or
else is delivered to the buckets of the
great cantilever bridge, which carry it
across to the big stock pile. Once it
took a week, with a regiment of men,
to unload a small ship, whereas now
half a day and a corporal’s guard can
send the biggest ore carrier afloat on
its way empty.
There are several other types of un-
loaders, some of them having huge
horizontal beams reaching out over
the hatches of the ship and forming
trackways for the big buckets that run
out to the end on carriages, and then
drop down on a cable into the hold
for a load of ore. Whoever has
watched a farmer store hay away in
his barn with a modern hay fork will
understand the roles the beam and the
cable play.
The mining and navigation season
being only eight months long, the ships
must bring in enough ore to keep the
furnaces running during the additional
four months, and so the red ore pile
is seen everywhere at lake ports and
furance plants. Many of the furnace
plants are right alongside the unload-
ing docks and save the cost of rail-
road haul. But there are still millions
upon millions of tons of ore that must
take a second ride by rail before it
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COPYRIGHT BY WESTERN NEWT PAPER Larwrd?
KINDNESS TO DOGS
Nick and Nancy hurried down =a
street, running most of the way and
then turned down
another and ran al-
most all ‘of five
more blocks to
reach their cou s-
ins’ home.
They had just
heard something
and they wanted to
arrive before - it
was too late.
Nick went half-
way down the hall
when he bumped
straight into Jack
coming up from
the cellar stairs.
He was holding
in his arms the lit-
tle fox terrier Ma-
rian had just
bought 2 week before with her birth-
day money.
The dog was still only a tiny puppy.
a lovely little soft white puppy with
one brown ear and one black, one and
two black spots on his soft white
back.
“Oh, you didn't do it,
cried Nick.
“It's ro affair of yours,” answered
Jack.
“Tox terriers look absurd with their
tails long. And everybody said it
would be all right in a week.”
The poor little fox terrier was shiv-
ering with pain. His eyes looked so
sad, his little body hurt him so—at
the end of his little body there was-
such a terrible pain.
“The bones are soft, the man said it
didn’t hurt. And that he'd look so
foolish with a tail,” Marian said.
“What did you care what people
said?’ screamed Nick. “You are hor-
rid and cruel.
“That little puppy never did anyone
any harm, and he was at your mercy.
“You wouldn't want to have g foot
cut off and not be able to do anything
about it.
“And for the sake of a little style
you'd let that tiny loving dog go
through all that ty
pain and misery.
“For shame! For
shame!”
“Why can’t peo-
ple decide they
won't be so cruel
and that they'll
change the fash-
ion and have it
stylish for tox ter-
riers to keep their
tails?” ‘cried
Nancy.
And Jack and
Marian did feel
Nick and Nancy
Hurried,
did you?”
badly after this,
for they loved
their little puppy Th i
Littl
and he was suffer- : Tora Fox
ing.
All the week he suffered terribly,
the next week not so much. But they
always felt ashamed of themselves,
and so grateful to the little dog for
not hating them,
And always, after that, when they
saw his little short tail wagging, they :
thought that they would have loved
him just as much with a longer tail.
There was really no reason in the
world for such a style—and it was
wicked to have a style hurt an ani-
mal who could do nothing about it.
Fawns for Pets
The pet problem has been solved for
the children of the government staff
at Grand Canyon National park. De-
nied the customary cats and dogs
through the park regulations, the
fawns have been given them from the
deer herd in the Kaihab National for-
est, north of the park. Dogs and cats
are forbidden in the park partly be-
cause they are predatory animals and
likely to kill, or at least annoy, the
native wild population. The substi-
tuted fawns were provided by arrange-
ment between the United States na-
tional park service and the United
States forest service, and were trans-
ported from the north rim to the south
by truck. One of the ten escaped,
and one died not long after its arrivel
at park headquarters, but the surviv-
ing eight are thriving and have be-
come very tame.
A Game for Rainy Days
A Japanese fan race is a fine gamer
for Edna and Jean to play on rainy
days. Read this description of it frons
the July issue of Child Life to them:
“The fans are used to fan a three-
inch square of tissue paper towards
the goals. Place two books on the
floor about a foot apart and call that
the goal. Then mark the pieces of tis-
Sue paper on the starting line, When
* the word is given each one tries to fan
his paper through the goal first.”
Postponed Ablution
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your face this morning, =
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Mother—I heard you say we were go-
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