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THE STORY OF TRIP, THE TRAMP
Adventures of a Homeless Dog as Told by Himself
Chapter 2.
WHEN the robbers returned and
found me at tbe bouse they were
for killing me at once, one of them
eaylng:
"This puppy must be known to many
people, and should any one from the
village get sight of him It will be known
that -we robbed the store. I will take
him out and shoot him."
But both the women pleaded so hard for
my life that It was finally decided to.
keep me for awhile, and I must say that
things were made very pleasant for me
for the next six months. I had plenty to
cat and nothing to do, although I heard
the men say I would make a good watch
dog after X was a year old.
There was but little work done on the
term. About once a week the two men
drove off with the wagon and were gone
ell night. Sometimes they were alone,
eometimes one or two other men were
with them. They always brought back
stolen goods, and after a few days the
"goods were carried off and sold. Many
and many a time I heard the women tell
ing the men that they would end in state
.prison, but their words were only laughed
at.
Several months passed when X was
awakened one night by the footsteps of
men. I had a kennel near the kitchen
door, and as I rushed out I saw six or
ight men. close to me. I set up a bark
ing to alarm the family, but as soon as
I uttered the first sound one of the In
truders gave me such a blow over the
head with a club that I rolled over un
conscious. When I came to my senses I found an
awful row going on. The strangers were
officers of the law, and had come to ar
rest the whole family. The robbers
had resisted them, but both men and
women were made prisoners Just the
great ringing In my ears I heard one of
same. "While I lay on J2ie grass with a
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.the officers say that the robbers would
get a sentence of at least five years each.
"What was I to do? If the family were
taken away I could not stay behind, and
I knew that the officers would not let me
go along. It seemed the best thing to
sneak away, and although I staggered
when I got up I was soon in safety be
hind some bushes. "While I was lying
there one "of the officers said to another:
"You didn't kill that dog after all. He's
got up and sneaked out of it."
They made no hunt for me, and when
ready to drive off with their prisoners
they had forgotten all about me. I crept
out to the gate to see them go away.
What was to become of me I could not
say. The question was"tb be decided
pretty soon, however. While I was at the
gate a spaniel dog came trotting along.
As soon as I saw him I knew that he
was a stranger In those parts.
"Hello to jou!" I said as he came up.
"And hello to you I" he replied as he
halted. "Well, youngster, why are you
sitting out here at this time of night, in
stead of being asleep in your kennel?"
He was a fine-looking dog, a good deal
older than myself, and I liked his looks.
In reply to his question I told him every
thing as I have told you and when 1
finished, he said:
"Those officers will be coming back to
morrow, and other people will bo tramp
ing about the place, and if they don't
shopt you, some one will get a rope
around your neck and lead you home. He
may prove to be a good master, or he
may misuse you. Plenty of men deserve
hanging for the way they use their dogs.
As for me, I call no man master."
"But what do you do?" I asked.
"I am a dog tramp. I travel about and
see the world. Now and then I have to
go hungry or sleep cold, but on the whole
I fare very well indeed. The best thing
you can do IS to join me. I have long,
wanted a partner, but have found no dog
to my liking. Tou say your name Is
Trip; well my name Is Ned, and I believe
we shall get along together first rate."
It seemed to me to be the best thing
I could do, and when I said I would go
with Wm he replied:
"It is only midnight now, and if we
start out at daylight that will be time
enougn. Let us take a look around the
house ajid then have 'a nap."
The officers were in such a hurry to get
away with their prisoners that they had
left the kitchen door open, and of course
I was at home as soon as we entered. I
went to the cupboard where cold victuals
were' kept and stood on my hind legs and
turned the button, and then we had plen
ty of cold meat and bread before us.
When we had eaten our fill and lapped
up a pan of milk Ned said to me:
"We will now sleep till daylight; and
then we will be off to see the world.
There are lively times ahead for you."
"How long have you been a tramp?"
1 asked.
"More than a year, and in that time
I have traveled hundreds of miles
and met with many strange adventures."
"But what do you get to eat, and where
do you sleep?
"You will find out all about that as we
go along. Even it we-have to go hun
gry sometimes and sleep under the bushes
It Is better than being kicked about Now,
youngster, you are so sleepy you can
hardly hold your eyes open. Tumble
down and go to. sleep, and leave me to
wake you up at the proper time. To
morrow will bo a great day for you. You
will probably have an adventure before
noon." gfi
(Tp he continued.)
POCKET RAT AN EXPERT ENGINEER
Halo, the InTentot of tie Mode o! Unc'e ground Travel.
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ONCE AHEAD OF CIVILIZED WORLD OF EUROPE
HOW DID CHINA RUN DOWN?
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HE more the history of China is in-
estigated, the more certain it
seems to be that many of the inven
tions a"nd discoveries supposed to have
first become known in Europe were
really known centuries before to the
Chinese.
The Chinese made use of these inven
tions and discoveries for a while; then,
as the life of the nation stagnated and
all progress stopped, they were allowed
to become lost arts in the land where
they originated and were forgotten un
til they were reintroduced from the
West.
Centuries before the .people of Eu-
rope began to manufacture paper the
Chinese made it and used to write on
it. Sven Hedln, the explorer, found
buried in the sands of Gobi Desert a
ruined city, and in the city many manu
scripts of. paper covered with Chinese
script.
These pieces of paper were 1650
years old, and very good paper It was.
According to the Chinese chronicles
paper was made in China 2000 years
before the Christian era, whereas it
first became known in Europe in the
ninth century, and its general use and
manufacture dates from comparatively
recent times.
Long before the Europeans began to
mine coal to use as fuel the Chinese
were using it. Marco Polo, the Vene
tian traveler, who visited China in 1275,
being then a young man of 21, .was'
much surprised to find the Chinese
"burning stones," as he expressed It.
He says in the story of his travels:
"Through the whole province of Cathay
(that is, China) certain black stones
are dug out of-the mountains, which,
put intothe fire, burn like wood, and,
being kindled, preserve fireva longtime;
and if they be kindled in the evening
they keep fire all night; and many use
these stones, though they have plenty
of wood."
Recently there was celebrated at the
City of Amalfl, in Italy, the 500th anni
versary of the birth of a sailor named
Gloja, who has been commonly regard
ed as the Inventor of the mariner's
compass.
Though his claims to having invented
the compass have been discredited, it
is certain that it was about his time
that the magnetic needle began to be
used by European sailors, and the in
vention became generally known. .Yet
an ancient Chinese record speaks of the
compass as having been used by one of
the old Emperors 2635 years before
Christ, when the Emperor, being caught
in a fog, made himself an instrument
which told him which was north and
which was south.
"Wliep the interior of China is at last
opened to civilization and all the his
tory of the decrepit empire becomes
known, it may be found that many oth
er inventions, comforts and luxuries
which Europe and America enjoy were
old stories to the Chinese centuries be
fore they became known to the West
ern world.
UliO, Expert Engineer," Is the
sign which should hang above
the dorway of a strange little
fellow who makes his home a foot or
more under ground.
"That south subway of ours that runs
through the peach orchard," remarked
Mulo. to his wife one morning, "has all
caved in. The heavy rain last night com
pletely destroyed It. I must get to work
on it at once."
"Not before breakfast," remonstrated
his wife.
"Oh. I'll take a bite as I go along," said
the engineer, hurrying away. Mulo
worked with a will, digging out the sub
way till by and by he came to the root
of a peach tree. "Now," said he to him
self, "I think I have earned my break
fast," and he cut off the root, bit by bit,
with his great incisors. "I am very fond
of peach," said he, smacking his lips,
"It's one of the most delicious roots I
know!"
Just then there was a sound overhead
which sent .the cold shivers down Mulo's
back. Ho turned and hurried toward the
west subway, then through that to the
center of the village. There was a great
commotion. He saw daylight streaming
down Into the livingroom, and his little
son ran up to him, crying: "A terrible
beast broke our roof in and seized mam
ma. He has carried her away!"
' "Just what I feared," said Mulo. "I
heard the man walkipg In his orchard
and hi'i dog barking and jumping about,
and then I heard a squeal. Ii: must have
been your poor mother."
When the village had quieted 'down
Mulo, called all his relatives together;
saying: '"Tonight we must leave, our old
home. It Is no longer safe to remain
here now that the man and the dog
have discovered us. As soon as the sun
sets let us go up into the field and pre
pare a luncheon for our journey."
So at dark every one of the pocket rats
hjfetend to the field and cut a great many
blades of juicy green grass. Each stuffed
his two deek pockets as full as he could,
so that they hung down and touched tho
ground, which made it rather hard to
travel, but then a pouched rat must have
food on a journey. Over highways,
through meadows, across stone walls and
ditches they traveled. Now and then when
they felt exhausted thejr thrust their
hands into their pockets and pulledout a
mouthful of grass.
At last Mulo called a halt.
"Here," he said, "is as pleasant a placa
as we could wish a pear and apple or
chard, a vegetable garden and a pasture.
Liet us begin work on our new homo at
once."
Every pocket rat Immediately" "began
digging as fast as he could, for they all
knew if they were not out of sight by
daylight they- might be discovered and
killed.
When the sun rose there were many
long ridges of earth running in alt direc
tions. These were the roofs of sub
waysL If you had traversed one of them
you would finally have arrived at the
great central station tho livingroom.
where all the Mulos were gathered at
breakfast, which they ate from their
pockets, a bite at a time, as the boys
and girls cat candy in school hours.
As Spring drew on Father Mulo worked
busily, digging out a new rdom. at the
end of the east subway. He brought in
many a pouch full of dry grass to lino
It, and then ho suddenly disappeared. Two
nights later he Introduced Mrs. Muto num
ber two, whom he had won in a far away
village. "See, my dear, what a beautl
lul nest I have made for you!" ha said,
pointing to It proudly.
"Humph!" she said, "gooil a3 far as it
goes, but not half warm and soft enough
for little Mulos," and she began tearing
the fur from her body by handfuls and
spreading it over the grass.
What a fine family was Mr. Mulo's,
three sons and two daughters, every one
with a pair of handsome fur-lined pockets!
All the .rhndren. the girls as well as
the boys, were taught engineering and
spent fully half their time building llttlo
subways in every direction. They all he
came experts like their father".
Now when you go whirling through tho
subways In our great cities, remember
that it was a little pocket rat, who be
lieved in transit that Is, in being able to
escape rapidly from his enemies that
originated this excellent mode of travel.
THIS REMARKABLY STRANGE LANGUAGE OF OURS
It Is Made Up of All Sorts of Foreign Speech.
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ANY words in the English language was wandering in a crooked course, and
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wmen we u erj u,, . ... ftbou- Jlke rlyer
have become almost "slang," have hlstori
cal or classical derivations of which we
seldom or never think. Nearly every lan
guage, ancient and modern, has contribu
ted to make up the English tongue, and it
is surprising to stop to realize occasional
ly that we are using Arabic or Greek
words without knowing It.
To say, "Oh, I saw him meandering
down the street." does not sound very
elegant, but, as a matter of fact, we are
using a classical Greek allusion.
Meander is a slightly modernized form
of the name of a little river in Asia Minor
the part of Asia Minor formerly peo
pled by the Greeks. It is a crooked,
little stream and wanders to the sea by
many turns. The Greeks began to use
the name as a symbol for anything that
The Romans took the word from the
Greeks; the Spaniards, Italians and
French took It from the Romans, and the
English took It from the French.
When you say, "Have you any cash
about you?" you are using an East Indian
word from the language off the Tamils,
a race inhabiting the Southern part of
India and the island of Ceylon. The Por
tuguese and Dutch found the word there
meaning a small copper coin.
After Vasco da Gama had rounded the
Cape o Good Hope, those nations began
to trade with the East. The word was
Kas In Tamil and the Dutch adopted it
without alteration, the English taking It
from the Dutch and calling it cash. The
word soon became to stand for all sorts
of money.
When you say "I can't listen to that
long rigmarole." you are using an ancient
legal phrase which was once applied to
the most solemn and portentous docu
ments. The word Tvas originally Ragman
roll, and long, complicated deeds with
seals attached to them were so known in
law. In the middle ages even Papal proc
lamations or bulls were called Ragman
rolls with no thought of disrespect. In
fact, nothing was more solemn and re
specting than the ancient rigmarole.
Perhaps it was because solemn and
stately writings are apt to be rather
long-drawn out and hard to understand
that the word came finally to mean what
it now does.
Why these ancient documents were
styled Ragman-rolls or rigmaroles is a
more involved question to answer. A roll,
of course, was the regular form of every
document before books were used. Writ
ings on parchment used to be attached
to pieces of wood, on which they were
rolled up when not being read.
The word ragman, us It appears in this
word, does not mean a man who sells or
buys rags, but is a corruption of the Ice
landic word RagmennI, a coward or crav
en. Somehow the word got mixed with
the Anglo-Saxon language while it was in
process of formation, but it has now
disappeared except as it forms a part of
rigmarole. While Ragman still meant a
craven, King Edward I, of England,
bound such of the Scottish nobles as he
could to serve him by .a long document
of 36 pieces of parchment sewn together
Into one "roll."
This was called by the Scottish patriots
tho cravens' roll, or ragman-roll, and
from that calling we Inherit rigmarole.
A word of everyday use with us is cot
ton. When we say it we are speaking aV
most pure Arabic. When the Moors were,
established in the South of Spain, they
were familiar with cotton and Its uses
and they called it "Al Godon" "Al"
meaning -"The." The Spaniards took the
words from the Arabian Moors, making
one word of them Algodon. The English,
taking the word from the Spanish,
dropped the "Al" and with them from
being godon the word soon changed to
cotton. And there isn't really much dif
ference between godon and cotton, if you
say it quick. Thus In these four words,
taken at random from the English lan
guage, we find that we are really using
Greek, East Indian, Icelandic and Arabic.
THE ARTICLES WHICH UNCLE SAM "SWAPS"
He Sells and Ships Queer Things and Buys Queer Things.
STRANGE DANCES OF .REAL WILD DERVISHES
Wherein Fanatics Bite Red-Hot Iron.
N THE past few years there have been
many exhibitions of Oriental desert
dwelling tribes In Europe and the
"United States, and their performances'
have served to take away a great deal of
the romantic glamour that used to en
velope tho name "Dervish."
Now. whilo there Isn't anything ro
mantic about most of the Dervishes
whom I have seen' in the Mohammedan
countries they aro far from being the
rather poor kind of trash that I have
seen in the exhibitions in tho Occident.
Tho real Dervish is dirty, hut dangerous;
lazy, but quick as a snake when he
wishes to be; ragged and poor, but proud
as Lucifer.
The good people who have witnessed
what the programmes announce as 'a
genuine dance of wild Dervishes," should
have seen the decidedly genuine dance
that I saw three years ago in tho sandy
country a'few miles east of Bagdad; then
they would havo understood the difference
between the Dervish of the shows and
the Dervish of the plains.
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KITCHEN RANGE TO TOT UP.
This diagram represents a kitchen range, though you would not, perhaps, sus
pect It. . A lery little cutting and & little more folding will produce It In per
fect condition, so that It can be put into a doll's kitchen. If you follow the.in
alructlons )ou -nlll find that there is not enough trouble to be worth mention
ing about making It.
Cut around outline. Then fold under and paste to the under part of the
tops of the range the parts AAA. Close the front by pasting the flaps BB to
the sides. Then fold so that the flaps C paste under fetters C on the sides.
Paste the double sides together and paste the flaps D D to the top.
Paste E E Under the rim of the range and the work is done.
About 200 Dervishes, mostly Persian
were gathered in a great half-ruined hall
one afternoon when I was enabled to
(smuggle myself In, through the connlv-
Sheikh who presided over the affair and
who was said to be one of the most
learned Holy Men of the Orient.
First, all the Dervishes chanted praises
of the old gentleman. Then the oldest of
them advanced and kissed him, once on
each cheek. After that all the rest ad
vanced on their knees and kissed his
hand.
For half an liour after all the big-lunged
men roared out long passages from the
Koran, while the old Snelkh chanted In
a still more mighty voice a single sen
tence, repeated unceasingly.
Then they all sprang up, and for at
least three-quarters of an hour they
swayed back and forth, one against the
other, keeping time with their stamping
feet, until many of the Dervishes began
to tremble, while others sobbed aloud.
Suddenly they all removed their tur
bans, locked their arms and moved swift
ly around and around the hallt pound
ing their feet hard oh the stone floor and
springing high in the alrat regular In
tervals. At this time their chanting
changed to wild howling, rising Incessant
ly. This violent exercise was kept up
longer than any of the others; so long,
in fact, that men began to drop here and
there. As soon, however, as the mass of
dancers showed signs of weakening, the
old Sheikh would liowl aloud and wave
his arms till they were spurred on again.
After they had worked themselves into
a positive craze, came the most fright
ful spectacle that I ever saw in any jart
of tho wirld. The most violent of the
Dervishes seized swords and daggers and
thrust them Into braziers that were burn
ing in various parts of the hall. "When
they had turned red-hot, they were car
ried to the Sheikh, wno in turn pre
sented them to certain dancing Dervishes.
As soon as the fiery weapons were held
out, tnese men would seize them eagerly,
and lick them with their tongues, bite at
them like wolves, grip them in their teeth
and so dance around or thrust thejn into
their legs and arms. It was wonderful
to see how tne mad excitement of the
ceremony enabled them to bear what
must have been intense suffering.
Very few of them seemed to succumb;
most of the Dervishes danced and
handled the red-hot weapons until they
had cooled entirely. Some even licked
them continually till they steamed and
lost their heat that way. I saw only
three men faint from the wounds; and
even these were out of the dance for
only a few moments.
The next day I saw a number of the
Dervishes who had cut and otherwise in
jured themselves In tne dance. They
wore wounded, but the damages seemed
to be giving them no trouble whatever,
so far as motion or appetite appeared
to be concerned.
Brooklyn boy named Robert was taught
to swim by his father last Summer in a
simple and delightful way. His big dad
merely dug a hole in the sand above the
line to which the rollers reached. He
made it Just deep enough so that the little
boy could float in It. Then he filled it
with water as the rollers broke near it,
and that day Robert learned to float. Be
fore the end of the season that hole and
similar ones had taught him how to swim
like any grown boy or man, and, though
IT is a curious list of things that
Uncle Sam sends to savage and half
civilized countries and as curious a
list of things which he takes from iho3e
countries in return.
In far-off Uganda, where the lions
roar as the train passes on the new
railroad, and the engineer has to slow
down now and then because a hippo
potamus gets on tho track, the natives
buy our kerosene and And it useful,
not only for illuminating purposes, ."but
for anointing their shining black bodies
to make them shine more.
They have also taken a fancy lately
to our cheap phonographs, and a well-to-do
savage becomes a society leader
when he sets one up in his hut. They
also like our watches the large ones,
the kind which it takes about half an
hour to wind up and they are begin
ning to make a market for them.
In return the Uganda natives send us
a peculiar gum which exudes from a
tree which they call the Incense tree.
This gum burns with a clean, pungent
smell, and is the chief ingredient In the
Incense used In Episcopal "high church"
and Catholic churches in this country.
For untold centuries this gum has been
exported from this section of Africa- It
is the "olibanum" of science and the
frankincense of history.
Inferior kinds of incense gum are
found in India and Arabia, but the East
African sort is the one most in demand
and the one which the United States
buys. So when you see incense burned
in a church you probably see the same
kind of gum burning, brought from the
same place, and smell the same smell,
as did Solomon when, at the completion
of the temple, nearly 3000 years ago,
"Burned incense on the altar which was
befora the Dord."
Savages delight in watches and
clocks, but the clocks must have a loud
tick to them and the watches must be
of generous size as well as loud of tick.
Tho story is told of a clock-making
concern which determined to get a
sharo of the "West African trade, where
the natives had taken kindly to an In
ferior brand of clocks sent out by a rival
house. A better article In the clock line
was manufactured and sent out to be sold
at the same price as the goods of the
rival concern. To the astonishment
of the manufacturers the invoice failed
to sell. ,
An investigation showed that the
cheap clocks of tie first house had a
large and powerful tick to them and a
gong which struck the hour like a fire
alarm bell. Thereupon the second firm
set to work and manufacturd a clock
with a still louder tick and a still more
resounding gong "in the striking parts,
and soon captured the desired trade.
The clocks and watches of savage
and semi-civilized peoples come mostly
from Connecticut and Birmingham,
England, Connecticut having a practi
cal monopoly in supplying the watches.
Egypt sends to the United -States and
England a curious article of commerce,
consisting offragments of mummies or
perhaps mummies whole ;which are
ground up and used In mixing paints for
artists. The mummies are not the finely
preserved royal remains from the sepul
chres of dead kings, but the mummies of
the common people of Egypt who passed
away 2000 or 3000 years ago and were
embalmed less carefully and laid away
In less costly tombs than their more for
tunate fellow-subjects.
Appropriately enough, poppy oil is used
to mix the peculiar brown paint obtained
from pulverized mummy. In return Egypt
Imports quantities of Imitation scarabei,
those little stone charms worn by the an
cient Egyptians, which look like a beetle
on top and have, on the smooth underside,
the hieroglyphics of some great prince
who reigned in the Nile Yalley when the
world was young. The Americaps say
these false scarabei are manufactured In
Birmingham, England; but the English
declare that they come from Connecti
cut, where they are made by machinery
and shipped in barrels to be planted by
Arabian guides ,in the desert sands, and
"discovered" in he very sight of confid
ing tourists, who pay a big price for
them.
The United States does a flourishing
business selling patent medicines to the
untutored savage, who is in the process
of being brought Into contact with civil
ization. The savage takes kindly to pat
ent medicines. Imported first by the white
settlers for their own use on the African
coast, the medicines have found favor in
the throats of the natives, and now many
a black; naked, stalwart native chief keeps
in his bamboo hut in the jungle a bottle
of "Somebody's Celebrated Nerve Tonic,"
of which he takes a dose before he goes
out slave-hunting.
In return for patent nerve tonics the
sable savages of Africa send to us among
other things Invoices of some of their own
medicines, not patented as yet, but highly
prized. In the Dark Continent. Among
these is the poisonous calabar, or ordeal
Tieans. In Western Africa these beans
are much valued by the natives for the
curious property they have of exposing
witches. If any one in the tribe is sus
pected of practicing witchcraft, he or she
must swallow a strong decoction -made
from the bean, and the tribe sits around
to observe the result. If the suspected
person is guilty, he dies; but if the stom
ach refuses to retain the decoction, he is
declared guiltless, and the Voodooman who
accused him Is put to death instead. As
might naturally be supposed, the Voodoo
man tries to see to It that the accused
person gets a dose strong enough to kill.
But in his anxiety to do this he some
times gives his Intended victim an over
dose, and then It goes hard with the Voo
dooman. The beans are not used in this country
for discovering witches (though had they
been imported in the days of Salem witch
craft they probably would have been), but
are used by doctors in treating lockjaw,
neuralgia and certain other nervous dis
eases. Thus do civilization and savagery
medicate each other.
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HOW AMERICAN ESKIMOS HUNT
They Run Reindeer Fawns Down on Foot.
A
WHAXJNG captain, who was forced
through tho loss of his ship to
spend almost a whole year with
the Point Barrow Eskimos of Alaska, has
returned with interesting yarns of their
methods of capturing and killing the
Arctic game.
"At first," said he, "I thought that
they weren't good hunters. I saw them
hunt reindeer and, without either trying
to work to leeward of them or to crawl
toward them until they got within gun
shot they started right for them. Of
course tho reindeer ran, and the Eskimos
had to run after them, firing at intervals.
Most of the deer got away. I tried it
myself afterward and then I found that
the Eskimo method only looked clumsy;
in reality it was the only way in-which
the beasts could bo hunted in that coun
try. There isn't any cover and the ani
mals can see an approaching figure so
far away that there wouldn't be much
use
"Then I found out that the Eskimos
are cunning hunters, all right. In places
where the reindeer had regular trails
they drove stakes In such ways thathe
beasts would be diverted gradually from
their course and made to pass over
ground where they could be shot with
the least waste of time or ammunition,
and near enough to the villages, so that
the hunters wouldn't have too muca of
a distance to carry the meat.
"The Eskimos prize the soft skin of
the young fawns highly for clothing, hut
they do "not waste precious powder and
shot on them. The women and lads are
sent out and they actually run the little
things down on foot. It's hard to believe
that a short, ungraceful being like an
Eskimo can do It, but It's so.
"They have great times there In the
Summer when the flies begin to bite the
deer. Often a reindeer is so maddened
by the insects that it will rush straight
Into the arms of the hunters.
"The most interesting thing to me was
to see them hunt seals. They had several
methods, but the best one was carried on
In the darkest nights only. They wouldn't
try It even In a bright display of North
ern Lights. ,
"The day before the hunters would scout
around on the frozen sea for a "lead,"
that Is, a fairly wide crack In the floe,
showing the open black-water. As soon as
they found a promising one, they would
three-legged Ivory stool, an Ivory rattle
and an Ivory 'scratcher, with three sharp
claws of bone.
"The Eskimos gravely climb on their
little stools, which are onlv a few inches
high, squat on their heels, drape their
sealskin garments over their legs and feet,
and begin to scratch the ice gently with
the scratchers. At Intervals they cease
scratching and work their rattles softly.
"After a half hour or so, the value of
the funny little stools became apparent to
me, for I didn't have one; and my feet,
although protected by fur boots, were
nearly frozen from standing on the Ice. I
was Intensely grateful when one of the
hunters offered me his stool.
"The sight of so many of the grave little
men scratching and rattling like children
for the seals to come struck me as lu
dicrous. I thought, of course, It was be
ing done simply out of savage supersti
tion. But to my .surprise, within three
quarters of an hour, five of the nets had
caught one seal each.
"Then I learned that the rattling and
the scratching were far from childish, but
were the results of thorough hunting
knowledge. The Point Barrow Eskimos
had discovered generations ago that the
seal is intensely curious. Knowing also
that sounds made on ice travel a long
distance tinder water, they devised this
way of attracting seals from far away. The
m trvine to ret to windward of them i-drag all their nets, which are beautifully animals, lured on and on by the myste
JnS.rj? Tn"J th? S.Sr.aae of slnew. to within about 100 yards tton. sounds, will I swim strait toward
of one edge of the crack. There they cut
holes, parallel to the lead, and Into these
holes the nets are lowered so that they
hang quite straight In the water, like cur
tains suspended In the sea.
"As soon as darkness has settled, the
hunters " assemble on the ice just behind
the nets. They are armed with three
queer implements besides their harpoons
and spears. These three objects are a
them until they run head first Into the
nets, the meshes of which are so con
structed that they choke the creatures.
"The object in setting the nets near a
lead or crack is to get as near to the
seals as possible; for the seals always con
gregate near such breathing spots."
She I will scream If you klse me. He Then
I won't kiss you. She-But er I feel Just like
screaming, anyway. Judge.
he is still too small to be taken out into
the breakers, he will be carried out beyond
them this year and enjoy his swim in the
deep ocean.
SOLUTIONS
OF LAST
PUZZLE.
SUNDAY'S
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To see the wheels all tired."
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