The Sunday Oregonian., December 21, 1919, Magazine Section, Page 3, Image 83

WOMEN
LADT MacKBNZIE talks about
stalking a Hon or shooting a
rhinoceros as nonchalantly as a
United States revenue officer tells
how he rounded up a crowd of coun
terfeiters in an Bast Side subcellar.
In the pink-tea, jazz-band environ
ment of a Broadway hotel her narra
tive sounds no more realistic" than
the captions on a cinematograph
"thriller," until all at once you rec
ollect that this Englishwoman has
been farther into darkest Africa than
any other living white woman, and
as a nimrod has to her credit a long
list of such harmless little animals as
the kins of the Jungle, the rhino, the
leopard and tho cheetah to say noth
ing of snakes as thick through as the
largest of the Adirondack firs.
"I just took a second too long to
take his picture and he charged me,"
is the way Lady MacKenzie tells about
her most Interesting eplsodj on the
Tana river country of East Africa.
Sounds perfectly easy enough just
like the lion-tamer stepping out of the
cage in the circus. But the way it
really happened in Africa was tills
way:
Lady MacKenzle'was photographing
wild animals during her last trip for
rare specimens for the Smitheonian
Institute and the American Museum
of Natural History. Instead of setting
her camera to go off with the click
of"a shutter set off by a wire run-
MacKenzie got right out in the thick
of the jungle with her moving-picture
camera set out in front of her. Guides
were sent out to beat up the jungle
and drive the beast of prey into
range of the camera. G-r-r-r-ror-ror!
Out stepped the lion directly in front
of the lens. Clicketycllckety milady
began winding up the majestic pic
ture. At that particular moment Mr.
Lion sensed the presence of the
huntress and noted the ubiquitous eye
of the movie machine. His tail
switching furiously, he began closing
in on our fair photographer and her
camera. Fine! Wonderful picture of
a tur-r-ible African lion creeping
right up on the enemy.
A second too long waited Lady Mac
GERMANY TO RECONSTRUCT HER COMMERCE
WITH LARGE FLEET OF SKY MERCHANT MEN
Hamburg-American Line Takes Advantage of War Experience and Builds New Super-passenger Zeppelin;
Dainty Trips of 375 Miles Are Made in Six Hours.
THE other day Charles Von Hel
molt, American representative of
the North German Lloyd steam
ship line, returned to this country
from a visit to Germany with a typical
Teuton hard-luck story. He said he
had sized up the German shipping
situation and had found very little to
entourage him in reference to the re
sumption of trade,
The onco great transatlantic line
which he represents, he said, now has
but a fow vessels, all under 1600 tons.
Tho only ships that are carrying the
line's flag are those small ones which
are doing a sort of ferry business to
Scandinavian ports. In his opinion
because of labor conditions in Ger
many it will be long before new
liners can bo built.
Mr. Von Helmolt no doubt stated
the case correctly as far as It goes,
but failed to tell the whole story. He
did not mention, for instance, that the
directors of some of the big German
transatlantic steamship companies
since the close of the war and the
loss of their ships to the allies have
been very seriously debating the wis
dom of making any great immediate
effort toward- building new merchant
hips, but have been devoting much
more time and attention to German
sky merchantmen, which can be built
In Germany today much more rapidly
than ships to sail the seas in the or
dinary way.
Many Teutons are of the opinion
that as they were, thanks to the late
Count von Zeppelin, years ahead of
the other nations of the world in dis
covering the possibilities of rigid
dirigibles and of perfecting this type
of aircraft, they are in a much bet
ter position to start building this typo
of ships for passenger and freight
traffic across the ocean than they are
to build up a merchant in i. : of the
old type.
in brief, in quickly building up a
RAN FROM MICE, NOW THEY PHOTOGRAPH LIONS
Lady MacKenzie Who Has Just Brought Some Rare Movie Films of Wild
Beasts to American "Museums Tells Thrilling Tales of Her Jungle Adventures
Kenzie just as she relates it without
the frills. Swish! The great body of
the great beast leaps from the brush
and describes a graceful arc directlj
upon the target. Lady MacKenzie
deftly levels the camera and leaps
for safety but she Is too late, and
the shaggy shoulder of the big brute
dashes her to earth. She is up in an
Instant, however, as the lion leaps for
one of the most ftithful of her safari.
She raises her rifle and, presto! the
giant king of the jungle has gone to
his fathers.
"Rather a narrow escape, hut com
monplace enough among African
huntsmen," says this modern Diana
of the Hunt, who finds life in the
jungle freer and more fascinating
than the life of a great American
city, where one may dwell in a pent
up hotel without knowing his neigh
bor among all the bustling throng.
If you want to Know a real excit
ing moment, according to Lady Mac
Kenzle's way of thinking, it is to be
caught in a stampede of wild beasts
in the heart of the jungle and all but
trampled to death in the mad rush
that follows. She calls it "her nar
rowest escape."
It all happened during milady's ex
ploration of the Tana river, a trip
that was interrupted by the great
war, when she had to turji back to
civilization and postpone her research
work untilathe sons of Mars had run
their course.
The modern Diana came upon a
herd of wild buffalo one day. and was
Intent upon shoot ing the leader of the
troupe in order to get an "action pic
ture." She landed the leader and ac
tion with one shot: It so happened
that some 300 or 400 of the buffalo
were in the immediate neighborhood.
When their leader went down the
monster herd bolted directly for Lady
MacKenzie and her party. Quick as a
flash she threw herself in the grass
and waited developments. On they
came, a mighty, bellowing avalanche.
They raised so much dust that the hot
summer son was temporarily ob
scured. At any moment milady ex
pected to be trampled to death, and
with that thought came the fleeting
picture of a burial out in the wilds of
German sky fleet of merchantmen, it
is said, many feel that they have bet
ter advantages than in starting in
now with conditions as they are in
Germany to construct a new fleet of
steamships they might lose.
They watched with the greatest in
terest the reports regarding the trip
of the British Blimp, the R-34. which
crossed the ocean in four days, 12
hours and 12 minutes, and in a way
they felt considerable elation over
the very successful journey of this
dirigible, because they claimed it was
largely due to German inventiveness.
Before the war, they said, the Eng
lish thought Count von Zeppelin was
a dreamer and a visionary and took
little stock in his airships; in fact.
did not hesitate to sneer at them.
But when the Zeppelins bombed Lon
don and other English cities and per
formed many other efficient and prac
tical feats in the war, the British
people began to sit up and take no
tice and wherever a Zeppelin was
brought down on English soil British
experts took it apart with the utmost
care and studied its construction in
detail, and the pracital result of these
Investigations were the R-34 and
other big English Blimps.
One of the best indications as to
how the wind is at present blowing
in Germany is the announcement the
other day that the Hamburg Amer
ican steamship line, taking advan
tage of all that has been learned by
the German- dirigible experts in
Friedrichshafen during the five years
of war in the construction of Zeppe
lins, has just completed a new super
passenger airship called the Bodensee,
which Is now making, as regularly
as clockwork, daily trips between
Berlin and Friedrichshafen, an air
line distance of 375 miles, completing
the trip in six hours, and if desired
could do it In much less time.
With this auU similar, only larger.
THE SUNDAY OREGON! AN, PORTLAND, DECEMBER 21, 1910.
the earth far from home and old
friends.
But a strange thing happened Lady
MacKenzie calls it the intervention of
providence. For some unaccountable
reason the herd parted right and left
Just In front of the spot where she- lay
and thundered past.
"'That was a narrow escape," sighs
Lady MacKenzie in recollection of the
moment and its what-mlght-have-beens.
But with all its narrow escapes and
its harrowing experiences and general
"roughing It," Lady MacKenzie finds
big-game hunting an attractive prop
osition. She loves adventure and life,
the life in the open and the thrill of
the hunt. And why not? Have men
in these days a monopoly on the
sterner realities of life? Not as Lad)
MacKenzie reasons. She lives the Im
pressive silence of the jungle, the
sense of peril and the aroused interest
of self-preservation. Irt fact, she won
ders how people can sit down quietly
to a colorless .life when there is so
much of action all around you.
And, furthermore, hunting for big
game develops character on a compre
hensive scale a sense of fitness that
you never had before, a wilder world
perspective, a courage and poise and
the abundant flow of health that
comes with life in the great outdoors.
As for a woman enduring the hard
ships of open-air life the rigors and
perils' of an African deep wandering
she points out that science and com
merce have combined to make It much
easier than in the days when Stanley
and Livingstone and Baker and others
first delved into the unknown wilder
ness of the still very much unknown
continent to the south of the old
world. There are no longer the In
conveniences that one once had to put
up with. Waterproof outfits, tents,
portable garages, automobiles, mos
ships of the air now well advanced
in construction, the Hamburg-American
line, deprived of Its steamships,
is preparing to inaugurate within the
next 12 or 18 months a regular ser
vice between Germany and the United
States, something which would be ut
terly impossible if the time was taken
to build steamships.
The Bodensee, while not so large
as the R-34, is, according. to German
reports, even more efficient and a
mechanical and scientific marvel. She
is 395 feet long and capable of raak
lnk without effort between 60 and 70
miles an hour. She is the latest
product of the great Zeppelin facto
ries at Friedrichshafen, which employ
2000 skilled workmen, who arc sur
rounded with as great a body of
scientists as our own Edison in
Llewellyn Park. Some of the great
est scientific minds in Germany have
contributed to the construction of the
dirigibles. The government labora
tories since the war have been placed
at the disposal of these men, who
have devoted their energies to the
finding of means to correct the faults
of the earlier dirigibles.
The Germans have striven hard to
keep the details of the Bodensee from
the outside world, but the inevitable
leak has developed. Her shape in
some particulars is a decided depar
ture from previous German dirigibles.
This is particularly true in reference
to the very tapering tail, which of
fers a much lower resistance to the
air, the result being per unit of horse
power a speedier and withal a more
manageable and economical craft, it
is claimed.
The tapering tail is naturally not
so buoyant as the older cylindrical
model. Accordingly it is desirable to
obtain an upward thrutt. This dy
namic buoyancy is Insured by the
prebvueo of the propeller in its tern
quito-proof tent fronts, windows for
ventilation, insect-proof linings, air
mattresses, more advanced firearms
for protection all these conveniences
make it an easier game than it used
to be.
But Lady MacKenzie is not hunting
in Africa for the sheer thrill of It.
She is out for the scentific end of It,
and on ber most recent trip brought
home valuable records carrying the
native speech of unknown African
tribes and thousands of feet of mov
ing picture film, on which are writ
ten in pictorial delineation the life
and customs of hitherto little known
people.
"English people who go out to Af
rica are for the most part sportsmen,
who are out merely for the fun of It,"
sys Lady MacKenzie. "They have a
lot of money to spend and a lot of
time on their hands, and they find
hunting in Africa a pleasing diver
sion. But there is ever so much more
to it. The world probably knows less
about Africa than any other country
of the world. And there is so much to
know. I predict that Americans will
before very long get Into Africa; then
we may expect to find out all about
It. The American has a faculty for
developing the commercial resources
of a new country of any country.
And there are such wonderful re
sources in Africa; only the surface
has been scratched."
Oh, yes. Lady MacKenzie has made
two trips Into darkest Africa. She is
off now on her third explorative tour,
and hopes this time to penetrate fur-
ther and learn more than on either of
her previous trips. Her exploration of
the Tana river, one of the most
treacherous streams in the world,
winding more than 2000 miles through
dense Jungle and papyrus swamp, was
interrupted by the war. Her camp at
position and at the same time the
maneuvering power of the dirigible Is
improved.
The motive mechanism in the four
gondolas consists of four Maybach
engines which have efficiency for
aerial propulsion. Accounts vary as
to the total driving power of these
motors, but they are said to develop
250-275 horsepower and turn the pro
pellers at 2500 revolutions per min
ute. The power plant Is so arranged
that the engines can be worked in
dependently or coupled up so as to
drive two propellors each. This, of
course, cuts down the speed consid
erably, but makes it possible for the
dirigible to proceed should two of her
motors be placed out of commission.
The Bodensee has three gondolas,
In which are placed the motive power,
and a fourth gondola which is partly
housed within the body of the keel.
The latter form, in addition to the
backbone of tho craft, a connecting
passageway fore and aft by which
all of the cars can be reached under
cover.
In the past the buoyant hydrogen
has not been utilized economically or
handled in anything like a thorough
ly efficient manner. In ascending to
great heights the hydrogen Is affect
ed by two natural conditions, first a
reduced pressure which tends to per
mit the gas to expand and then by
lowered temperature which causes
the gas to contract, and therefore
lose its lifting capacity. Juggling
with these changes and the opposite
ones following upon descent has led
to a thinning out of the hydrogen or
its loss.
This has reduced or limited the
power of the dirigible to return aloft
after having gone up once and then
descended. Today, thanks to the
manner in which the engine ex
haust can be utilized to preserve a
fairly uniform temperature of the hy
drogen, these leaks have been very
much reduced and the ability of the
Bodensee to soar high and low and to
cover very long distances upon the
original charge of gas has been In
creased. Not only that, but it is said
that the surplus hydrogen is now
compressed when temporarily dis
charged from the gas bags and being
thus compacted the excess buoyancy
Is neutralized and stored where it can
b drawn upon later when its helpful
lift is needed.
the junction of the Tana and Theki
rivers was taken over by the British
as a military base. Incidentally, Lady
MacKenzie discovered evidence that
the Germans wore preparing for. world
war some time previous to the debacle
at Sarajevo.
Her version of it now is that while
In British East Arrica near the border
of German East Africa early In 1914
a party of blacks from the German
side crossed over and without provo
cation of any kind began an attack on
the British blacks. Moving her camp
out of the war sone, Lady MacKenzie
reported the condition of affaire to
the British authorities at Nairobi. "It
was assumed by the British that some
kind of a tribal war had been started.
But runners sent out by the British
came back to report that German na
tives had seised water holes alt along
the border and fortified them with
machine guns. While they were all
wondering what it was about there
came news that Germany and Eng
land had gone to war with other
European nations. It appeared that
the Germans in Africa had been
ready fo- seven weeks when the offi
cial declaration of war came.
When she came away in 1914 Lady
MacKenzie and her party left nine
tons of trophies stored at Mombasa.
As soon as she gets back to Africa
she will send them to England and
America, the most of the material
going to museums and natural history
institutions. She was about, to pene
trate the Tana river jungle when the
war intervened. To get up this river is
now her objective. Instead of taking
out a safari composed entirely of na
tive blacks, she has engaged a num
ber of Canadian Indians, who she
believes will stick with her through
thick and thin. The river will have
to be negotiated in canoes through
WAR ENDS GREAT HISTORICAL PERIOD,
HEBREW PROPHECY, STUDENTS BELIEVE
Public Interest Stirred in England and Continent Recent Events Said to Lead to Grand Consummation and
Millennium in 1931 Calendar Differences Held to Account for Previous Seeming Failures.
LONDON. Sept. 6. Special corre
spondence.) Public interest In
England and on the continent
Is stirred up, since the beginning of
the war. over the old Hebrew and
Now Testament prophecies.
In the past three years 20 books
on prophecy have been published or
reissued.
Since armistice, In particular, there
is much calculation of the ending of
"the times of the Gentiles." in view
df what seems the near resloration
of Israel to Jerusalem.
"And Jerusalem shall be trodden
down of the Gentiles," said our Lord
Jesus Christ, "until the times of the
Gentiles be fulfilled." (Luke xxl:
24.)
In all ages, the grand old prophe
cies of the Bible have fascinated be
lievers and unbelievers alike. Sir
lsaao Newton, who discovered the law
of gravity, devoted his best analysis
to the dates of the book of Daniel.
Spinoza, Hobbes and Michaelis devot
ed volumes to it. Christopher Co
lumbus wrote a book on the return
of the Jews and the interpretation of
Isaiah and Revelation. He deemed
it a greater work than Ms discoveries
of "the isles."
And something yet more curious
comes out of all this interest due to
war upsetting. Away back, between
1866 and 1894. the Christian Herald
office. In London, and the Bible
House, in New York, Issued eight edi
tions, selling into the hundred thou
sand copies, of "Future Wonders of
Prophecy." calculated to happen be
tween 1896 and 1908. As a fact, they
did not happen; but now, suddenly,
with the world's war, belated verifi
cations have begun reeling themselves
off In practically schedule order!
An explanaion of bis queer thing
comes with a new war edition of one
of tho prophecy, books, alxeady. men
Hyena Struggling in. Trap. Kiotogr-apfi Tolten ( Zady
ftecKejizze. JVete the Zebra (&ed vs &at.
turbulent water and matted brush.
In some places, she says. It is entirely
Impossible to go through the jungle.
The natives have solved the problem
by bearing down the tops of the trees
and warping them together. . Ovet
this they lay foliage and have In ef
fect a literal pathway over the tops
of the trees.
As part of her equipment she will
take oculists and medical supplies, to
be used in combating a peculiar dis
ease that threatens to blind the en
tire race of the Masals. These Masais
are a race of polygamista without any
religion, who are rapidly becoming a
vanishing tribe through their delib
erate practice of race suicide. They
fear the encroachment of the white
man, and rather than submit to sub
jugation, as they fear it, they are
wiping out their own race. Women
of the tribes do all the hard work
and they are hideous creatures, with
close-cropped hair. The only time they
attempt to adorn themselves Is when
they are offered In the markets for
tioned. In "Light for the Last Days,"
Dr. and Mrs. G rattan Guinness go
deeply into tho distinction between
solar, lunar and calendar years in the
long periods considered. These dif
ferences present an astronomical
margin of from 36 to 75 years in the
case of tho prophecies of Daniel and
from 23 to 54 years in the case of
those of St. John very much the fig
ures needed to Justify those original
errors of calculation.
Here are a few of those most
talked about (remember, they were
originally issued in 1866). And the
astronomical margin, and you get, in
each case, results which follow:
"European wars and revolutions,
not later than 1896 or 1897 (add 23
years. 1919) and Including, especially
the victory of France over Germany,
the extension of France to tho Rhine,
and the change of tho (then) present
23 kingdoms within Caesar's former
empire Into the 10 kingdoms of pro
phecy, not later than nine years be
fore the end.
"All this will bo tho preparatory
work of three frog-like demon spirits
(Revelation xvi:13), while the mys
tic Euphrates, or Turkish-Mahometan
empire, is drying up.
"Complete dismemberment of the
Turkish empise, expected not later
than 1898 (add 23 year, 1921) and
the re-establishment of the four horn
kingdoms (Daniel viii:8) of Alex
ander the Great's Macedonian em-
Lpire. (Isn't this a queer calculation
to be made in 1866?)
"Formation of the 10 kingdoms
(Daniel vil:25) by the division of
all the countries of Caesar's original
Roman empire Into 10." (And is not
this queerer?)
"Rise of a great military dictator,
not later than 1899 (add 23 years,
1922), as Daniel's eleventh little horn.
is'ho Is to "wax exceeding great"
(Dauiel vii;'J about the period when.
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marriage, and then they make them
selves more grotesque by painting their
faces and bodies with gay-colored
materials. These women aro remark
ably strong and possessed of won
derful endurance. Every man-in the
tribe must serve as a warrior for six
years before lie can marry and no
married men are alowed to fight.
Lady Mackenzie has visited unon;
tribes that have killed white women,
but she has traveled without moles
tation at any time. Once a great
chief became enamored of her after
seeing her powder her nose one morn
ing. He was curious of the whole
affair, and when she gave htm some
powder he aplled it to his face and
then borrowed the tourist's mirror to
get the effect. At once he lost his
heart to milady and proposed on the
instant, offering to give other mem
bers of her party five sleek cows in
exchange for her ladyship. It re
quired some supertactful diplomacy
to get away without arousing the
admiring chieftain's ire.
he makes his seven years, covenant
with the Jews (Daniel lx:27).
These must suffice as examples of
the prophetic calculations made in
1866 and so much talked about, again,
at present. They include grandiose
and terrible pictures, in rapid suc
cession, Including Famlns on the black
horse which we have ourselves seen.
They lead us to my final quotation
of the grandiose thing which all Bible
interpreters have looked forward to
with joy and awe, because all Chris
tian hop.e is wrapped up in it, as well
as Jewish:
"Renewal of the Jewish evening
and morning sacrifice about Thurs
day, November 14, 1901 (add 23 years,
1924), in a rebuilt temple at Jerusa
lem (Daniel xit:13-14) leading Imme
diately to the grand consummation
(Daniel xii:ll-12) and the millennium
Itself, at the end of seven years, on
Thursday. April 23, 1908 (add 21
years, 1931)."
Certain thing i (say these exact
date believers) become comprehen
sible only after 1914. For example,
who. before the stirring up of this
war. could have Imagined tho true
nature of the first frog-like demon
spirits of Revelation xvi:13? For
1500 years past, the French people
suffered under the erroneous nick
name of "frogs." Our boys even
called them "the frogs" In this war!
Well, I quote from the Rev. M. Bax
ter, old Christian Herald editor, tho
simple fact that the traditional frogs
were brought to France on the ar
morial shield or Clovis, the Frank!
rt bore three frogs, in two divisions,
while his banner displayed three black
frogs on a whiti? ground. As Was only
just and proper, these frogs of Ger
manic conquest, in course of time,
'became the fleurs-de-Iys the lilies
of Franco rf beautiful national sen
timent and which every American of
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