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Evening star., 1915-05-23

HIS has been a vexed question for
centuries-the whereabouts OF
q the biblical Ophir. Every ancient
digging in the countries about the In
dian ocean or the Red sea has beer
Mysore, the ruined cities in Mashona-
land and the prehistoric remains in the
Nubian mountains, besides other coun-
tries and places from the highlands of
Abyssinia to the mountains of India.
Now, however. it appears certain that
Solomon's mines were in the Zambesi
region.
Between that great river and the Sabi.
in the modern Rhodesia, there are many
thousand old mines, 240 of which were
the scenes of undertakings which of
recent years have been actually ex-
plored. This big series of old workings
reaches from the north of the Zambesi
to the Murchison range in the Trans
vaal- 1t is estimated that the area COW
cred is 100000 square miles. Within
this area are ruins of entire cities,
fortresses and temples.
The discussion of the fascinating
problem has three features of particu-
old legends impute the gold of Ophir
to Arabia. where gold in quantity has
not been found, the idea of rich re-
sources having grown from the fact
that the gold of the ancient world
passed through the hands of the Arab
pirates of antiquity. The gold of
Arabia" therefore. Is sort of mythical
term. Secondly the African negro. as
we know and find him, never could have
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WHERE SOLOMON GOT HIS GOLD

done this work except under directions
from superior race. Then. too. If one
accepts literally the biblical statistics,
the output of Ophir must have been
colossal In ! Chron.. 4. it is noted that
King David contributed to the build
ing of the temple no less than three
thousand talents of gold. of the
gold of Ophir." A talent being ia
pounds troy, these three thousand tai
ents would be worth over sS0.0O0.0oo,
These must have been the diggings
from which such tribute could come to
the Hebrew monarch. No such scanty
offering as has been seen in Nubia will
explain the wealth of the Semitic kings
nor that Of the Ptolemies, all of whom
obtained great stores of gold from an
unknown Ell Dorado
1t appears likely that Solomon's treas
ure vaults have been uncovered. 1t is
still fascinating subject how the ore
was treated and shipped from the in
terror to the Red sea, although the
methods of the Arab traders serve as
a connecting link between the trans
port systems of widely separated pc
RODS. Historic sentiment is not lack
ing in the consideration of the fact
that if the Hebrews did indeed direct
the work of this ancient Ophir in the
Zambesi country their descendants to-
day in Europe are the active pro-
moters of mining development that has
reopened this very tract to the indus
try of the modern world.
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WILD BIRD RESERVATIONS

Mosquito inlet and other reservations
on the west coast of Florida. AT Pass
age Key. Breton Island and East Tim
balica are to be found laughing gulls
and terms of different sorts which also
nest Dotted along this coast and that
of Louisiana are breeding colonies OF
brown peIicans, while the Breton Is
land reservation affords a harbor of
refuge to ducks which winter in the
delta of the Mississippi river
Gulls, ducks and white pelicans are
the most frequent visitors in the lake
district, which comprises two reser-
vations in Michigan, two In North Da-
kota and one in Wisconsin. The two
in Michigan contain the largest known
breeding colonies of the herring gull
on inland waters. and the reservation
at Green Bay, Wis. has as well a
breeding colony of these birds. The
reservation at Stump lake, N. D., lies
surrounded by breeding grounds of
several species Of ducks. AT Chase
lake are considerable colonies of white
pelicans and ring billed gulls.
With the exception of Niobrara res
ervation, Neb., noted as a breeding
ground for sharp-tailed grouse and
prairie chickens. and that at Lock
katrine, Wyo. reservations in the
mountain district are located on recla-
nation service reservoirs and chiefly
valuable as refugees for water fowl and
shore birds during spring and fall mi
grations. This group embraces twelve
states South Dakota and Nebraska.
Reservations in the Pacific district
include three in California. four in
Oregon and eight il Washington.
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0NHE bird reservations of the United
States and its possessions for
q breeding and sheltering during
migrations number something like fif-
ty-six, and with few exceptions are
either small. rocky islands or tracts
of marsh land. These protected areas
yet to be surveyed
Among the smaller reservations are
those of Green Bay, Wis. which con-
tains two acres; Pelican Island, Fla,
with less than six, and Stump lake
y. D., with about twenty-seven. On
the other hand, the Niobrara reserva-
ton, Nebraska, covers between 10000
and 1000 acres; Klamath lake and
Mathew lake reservations in Oregon
each comprise big strips of marsh
lands: the Yukon delta reservation in
Alaska takes in the tundra between
the mouths of the Yukon and kuskok-
win rivers, and the Hawiian Islands
reservation includes the islands in the
tude and twenty degrees of longitude.
All birds on these reservations are pro-
tected by state game laws and by spe-
cial act Of Congress.
In the gulf reservation district.
which includes ten reservations in
Florida, four in Louisiana and one in
Porto Rico, the birds chiefly protected
are brown pelicans. gulls. terms. herons
and ducks. At Pelican Island the only
species which breeds is the brown pei
ican, and on the Tortugas reservation
the birds that breed are principally
sooty terms.
i Herons Of several species frequent
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BOOKS RECEIVED.

SKETCHES OF GREAT PAINTERS.
BY Edwin Watts Chubb. author oe
Masters of English Literature etc.
Cincinnati: Stewart & Kidd Com
pany.
IN Hoo !. vINCES; the Story Of . Red
Cross Flag. BY Florence L. Barclay.
author of The Rosary" etc New
York C. +. rutnams Sons
TRUE STORIES OF GREAT AMERr-
Christie Root New York The Mac
milan Company.
LOSS OF HAIR; Badness. Falling Hair.
Premature Gray Hair and Sehorrho~n
Successfully Treated by the New
Quartz Light Rays. Authorized
translation from the German of Or
Franz Nagelschmidt. BY Richard
w. Muller. NJ. ID. New York: William
II. Jenkins Company
INCOME: An Examination OF the Re-
turns for Services Rendered and
From Property Owned in the United
Stntes. BY Scott Nearing. Phi. ~. au-
thor of Wages in the United
States. etc. New York: The Mac
milan Company.
LIFE OF GEN. JOFFRE. Cooper,s So.
Who Became Comma nder-in- Chief.
BY Alexander Kahn. b. A. With por-
trait New York: Frederick A.
Stokes Company.
TEN YEARS At YALE, = Series OF Pa.
pers ON Certain Defects I'm the nj
Eersity World OF Todny. BY George
Frederick Gundelfinger PHI u. New
York: The Shakespeare Press
THE KISS OF APOLLO. Bv Martha
Gilbert Dickinson Bianchi. author OF
The Sin of Angels. etc. New York:
Duffield & co.
THE GARDENETTE; or. city Back
Yard Gardening. The Sandwich
. system. BY Benjamin r Albaueh.
Cincinnati: Stewart & Kidd Com
pany.
A & OF GOOD FORM. BY Anne Sey.
mour With introduction by Maud
Howe. New York; Harper & Bros
THE INHERIT SHAW LEcTi RES on
DIPLOMATIC HISTORY, I3I4-THE
DIPLOMACY OF THE WAR OF
1872. by Frank \. rpdyke, Ph. d.
baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press.
SONGS THE WHOLE WORLD SINGS;
Containing More than 200 Songs
Which Are Dear to the Hearts OF
Young and Old In Every Nation. Ar
ranged for use as songs or piano
pieces. Selected and edited by Al
bert T.. Wier. editor of .'ihe ideal
Home Music Library" New York: d.
Appleton & Co.
MISS PAT At SCHOOL. BY Pemberton
Ginther. Frontispiece by the author
Philadelphia: John c. Winston Com
pany.
RULES OF ORDER REVISED; for De.
Lucrative AsxembIies. BY Gen Henry
NJ. Robert. T.. s Army Chicago:
Scott. Foresnran q co.
WORLD WAR SERIES-THE FOREST
OF SWORDS: Story of Pnris and
the Marne. BY Joseph Altsheler au-
thor of The Guns of Europe" etc
illustrated by Charles Wrenn. New
York: ID. Appleton & Co
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his friend and partner. William Brock
lebank, who had died of heart disease
while climbing Mount Blanc, cremated
in Geneva. Brocklebank walked into
their offices in London in perfect
health Imagine. too. the sensation of
Mrs. Brocklebank when her supposed
ly dead husband. whose ashes are con-
tanned in metal casket in an upper
toward had happened. Both Reece and
Mrs. Brocklebank were positive that
Brocklebank had died. and Reece had
seen his body placed in the incinera-
tor. No wonder that Reece consulted
an alienist from fear lest he might be
losing his sanity. No wonder that Mrs.
Brocklebank refused to live in the same
house with this strangely returned hus-
band And after days of doubt and
horr1fying questions an answer came
to the riddle, not in terms Of everyday
fact. but SO strange an answer that 1t
taxed the credulity of the puzzled ones.
For vividness of dramatic situation and
suspension of climax, The Brockle
bank Riddle" has few modern equals
In fiction incidentally, it presents an
engaging theory of human life that has
already many believers.
uel Merwin, author of Anthony the
Absolute etc. illustrated by r. NJ.
Crosby Indianapolis: The Bobbs-
Merrill Company.
Miss Hilda Wilson. buyer for a large
New York department store. was ut
terly weary when she had finished her
seasons work in Paris, and in a mood
for adventure. She was entitled to take
long vacation. and her chief in New
York was urging her to rest. so when a
chance encounter with little Ameri
can dancer then performing in a cafe
dansant and a big American pugilist
led her off the beaten track. she follow
ed the new way with a zest she found
at times strangely variant from her
previously conventional view of life.
Her adventure led her to take charge
of an ailing infant. whose mother was
in hospital and who had been left to
the uuskilled and haphaZard care of
group of dancing girls. The big prize
fighter was great comfort 20 her in
the baby-tending days, and she became
interested in him personally, and finak
ly saw him meet the great Carpenter
and lose on points, with a broken hanu.
SUCCESSFULLY steering clear of a romance
in this direction, Hilda suddenly found
an old love affair developing anew. apd
in London she met once again after
many years the man of her heart.
married man, who had at last reached
an agreement with his socially ambi-
2ous wife to separate. But death came
80 atCest back in her work in New
peE no less alert in business.
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E:K n I6eRealmg q Literature aoa1Art@ NIfE

through having touched elbows so
closely with loving. suffering. sacrific-
Ing humanity. A big. broad. pulsins
story of an unusual woman's develop
ment
MERRY-ANDREw.B BY Keble Howard.
author of Love in June" etc. New
York: John Lane Company.
1t was a blithe. confident youth. who
reached London from his rufal English
home. his capital consisting of de-
greeless oxford career. a few clippings
of printed stories. a wardrobe OF good
clothes and SIS in cash. determined to
become a journalist. few weeks
later Andrew was practically PEN
niless. his wardrobe had gone
through his landlady's hands into the
sartorial unknown, and he was taking
a place as teacher in boys school in
the country. This was a sad expert
ence. but it did not deter Andrew from
trying another school with slightly
better success. and from this he moved
to the lowest rung of the Ladder OF
journalism and then his way upward
was comparatively easy. But during
the period of premiership and failure
Andrew was the saddest offender
against all the canons of good sense
and it was a marvel that he won
through at all Meanwhile Sylvia,
DdCh III lHc tOultIS, WdS ll> =
star and source of strength. and at last
Andrew went to her and found that she
had gone off on n tangent of her
own, from a motive of self-depreciation.
Then Andrew did lne most sensible
thing in his career. and summarily
switched Sylvia back from her tangent.
THE LUTANIST. BY Alice Wilson. Bos-
ton: The Gorham Press.
While the lyrical note predominates
in this latest collection of poems from
Miss Wilson's pen, it is in the more
sonorous form of versification-the
portions of the volume which contain
the more pretentious efforts in blank
verse-that the author strikes her most
successful chords Miss Wilson's most
effective frame of mind seems to be OBJ
jective. and it is in the telling of such
beautiful legends as that of Hero and
Leander. rather than in the more lntl-
mate form of subjective lyrics, that her
fine appreciation of word values and
sensuous imagery has opportunity to
develop. The subcoIIection of poems
TO Children" is admirable. There is
none of the jinSlinG nonsense We have
come to associate with verse of this
nature, but each of the songs contains
clear-cut and wholly sweet thought,
which renders it infinitely more de-
sirable for the development of an ap-
probation of poetry in those for whom
it was written. The little volume con-
tains much which justifies the position
which Miss Wilson has won for herself
in the ranks of American poets.
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present stage of its bearing and scope
To meet this intent, the writer goes
back over the nineteenth century, the
battle-ground of the old and the new
where history and classic tradition and
medieval experiment meet and clash
with the achievements and effects of
science, with the new notion of individ-
ualism. with the dawn of modern hu-
ma nitarianism. Coming on down to the
present hour and outlook. Mr.. E,llwood
shows the inclusive character of the
social problem of today and tomorrow.
Not government alone nor economics by
itself. not industrial reorganization nor
the recasting of political parties. not
municipal reform with its anti-saloon
and other anti-evil leagues, not wom-
an suffrage with it's different fem
mist accoInpaniments, nor eugenics
with its puzzling possibilities-not any
one of these is the social problem. but
all of them. in proper proportion and
right adjustment to the question of
human progress. make up the problem
for whose solution this writer offers a
tentative program. 1t Is this broad and
inclusive vision that gives the book its
highest distinction and promises for
it its best usefulness.
THE PRINCIPLES OF Rural CRED
ITS. BY James &. Norman A. NJ In
PRODUCTION by John Lee Coulter Phi.
p. New York: The Macmillan Com
pany.
This book offers a plan by which a
system of credits may be established
and operated in the interest of the
farmer, just as such a system already
exists for the use and relief of other
industries. 1t is a practical study of
the ways in which the precarious busi-
ness of the farmer may be encouraged
and strengthened by means of an ade-
quate system of financing this business.
The study reviews the fundamental
Importance of land products. 1t de-
fines the usual hit-or-miss character
of farming, with the exploitation of the
soil and the decrease in output result
ing from this methodleSS treatment.
The writer describes the recent awak-
ening to the possibilities of farming
through scientific culture and business
management. And to this he adds. as
the bulk of this study. an exposition of
the principles of rural credit. and
points the application of these by
means of many concrete cases The first
part of the book makes record of an
exhaustive study by an official com
mission of the rural credit systems of
Europe From these studies the prin-
ciples of the subject stand clear. The
second part follows the work that is
now being done in this direction in
Canada and different states of the
Union through cooperation on the part
of the farmers and ameliorative legis-
lation by states and provinces. Upon
this basis of plan and practice in
America the writer expands construc-
tive program of finance for the use of
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ours. he has written books on America
that combine thousands of pages and
now. naturally. considers that what
the average American knows about ia
pan is less than what the average Jap
anese knows about America" Hence
this volume, which, with it's ETHEREAL
paper, touch of oriental decoration and
exquisite press work. possesses an art
value second only to the more pulsing
interest of it's text. Allowing for the
irrepresSible exception who treats our
exclusion of Japanese with a sinister
foreboding in contrast to otherwise
courteous depreciation, the dominant at
titude taken by these mobiles. profess
sors. statesmen and merchantmen is
one of cordial friendliness which pro-
tests the unwisdom of allowing politi-
cal mischiefmakers. sensational papers
and-among other self-interests-ship-
builders who would like orders for
more battleships-to trouble the salts
factory conditions now existing be-
tween this country and Japan. To show
how difficult il is for anybody to know
foreign people,. Mr.. Masaoka adroitly
recalls that Matthew Arnold rallied
at us a. philistines. and that not a few
persons of erudition and experience
have misunderstood us SO far as to de-
clare America to be one of the worst
countries in the world. Some Japa-
nese. too. are not quite free from this
international misunderstanding, chiefly
due to lack of information. How. then,
leans? First, American missionaries
working in this country have been
comparatively poor in scholarshlp-the
founders and reformers of many Sects
of Buddhism and Shintoism were every
one of them men who could we'll rival
Luther. Wesley or Knox in caliber.
Thus American missionaries that treat
ed US as semi -barbarous disappointed
and often worked US into resentment.
This is still the case" The author, on
the other hand teStifies to .Japan'S re-
spect for the late DR.. D. E. Greene. who
rule Second, with few exceptions,
the American business men in the
country are sadly wanting in character
and education" Also regret is made
that Yankee journalism has furnished
half-educated Japanese with their ma
terial for criticising Americans" ia
pan reads Americas best literature;
honors Americas great men. from
Japan loves"-while among our boys
Wagner. Cobb. McGraw, Mathewson
and others have won an admiration
bordering on worship" The book IS
so convincing in its logic. SO lofty in
sentiment and so honestly fair. that no
review could vision its spirit. To
quote the good things would be to re
publish the volume.
THE BROCKLEBANk RIDDLE. By
Herbert Wales. New York: The
Century Company
Imagine the CONSERVATION of Lowell
Reece, when, few days after seeing
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humor. 1t is the record of a varied
and interesting experience in country
and town and city. told in fireside
fashion, of one who. with his fellows.
has struggled to change condition"
, ma king the bad good and the good bet
ter II is the story of one who had it
revealed to him that Ito be a Chris
tian is not to be a certain kind of
of such all-roundness of life that this
stirring story rises. that this illumi-
mating study of the Christ that is in
men takes on its concrete beauty.
IN THE OLD WEST. BY George Fred
erick Ruxton. Edited by Horace
Kephart. New York: Outing Pub
fishing Company.
In Blackwood's Magazine of 1S4S was
published story by George Frederick
RuXton. Life in the Far West" 1t
was the story of Ruxton's own expert
ences on our frontier and the expert
ences of the independent trappers and
hunters with whom he had cast in his
lot, and with whom he took equal part
in fighting the Indians and hunting the
wild game of the region. This story
seized by the writer at first hand out
of the perils and eXcitements of pio-
neer life. reappearS here under the edit
ing of Mr.. kephart, who says of it:
y,
neither is it fable. Nearly every page
gives convincing evidence of the au-
thorS intimate personal knowledge of
the scenes and characters portrayed"
Others attest its essential accuracy of
fact and all grant it IT'S due color and
atmosphere. 1t is splendid adven-
ture of the early far west and one for
whose rescue from that picturesque
period we are deeply in debt to this
English soldier of fortune and to those
w
JAPAN'S MESSAGE TO AMERICA: A
Symposium by Representative Japa-
nese on Japan and American-Japa-
nese Relations. Edited and compiled
by Naoichi Masaoka. Toxic, 1914.
THE Japan of today is not the Japan
of Japan. but the Japan of the world"
Count Okuma, chancellor of Waseda
University, voices the keynote of
theme; varied as to causes presented
by the thirty-ive prominent Japanese
who contribute each a chapter descrip-
tive of the Kingdoms present status
from as many viewpoints, but united as
one, in it's basic subject: The new
Japan and its mission 70 the world. Ed
itor Masaoka was newspaper corre-
spondent at the Portsmouth confer
ence, and, afterward, the only corre-
spondent in the party of Japanese bust
ness men who visited some-ffty Amer
lean cities by invitation of the cham
bers of commerce of the Pacific coast.
Inspired to enlighten his nation as to
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MT R. ZOLNAY is also at the present
GVA time occupied in modelling statue
of Sequoya. which is to be placed in
Statuary Hall at the Capitol by the
state of Oklahoma. Sequoya was, it
will be remembered, one of the most
distinguished of his race and to him
the Cherokee tribe owes its alphabet.
The commission for this statue was
given the late Winnie Ream Hoxie and
the sketch model for it was the last of
her numerous works. Mr.. Zolnay is
now carrying out her conception, fol-
lowing II in spirit a S closely as possible.
and none could fail to find much charm
in the design. The Indian of whom
certain portraits are still in existence
is represented with turbaned head in
accordance with tradition and as wear
ing cloak or blanket which falls in
graceful folds from his shoulders. The
figure is erect and noble in its bearing,
the countenance typical, intellectual
and refined. Certainly this statue when
completed will have picturesqueness
quite unrivaled by majority of the
other statues in our national hall of
fame.
A MONG the completed works in his
~ studio Mr.. Zolnay has a small head
in marble of Schumann. the great COM
poser. which is peculiarly charming.
1t is little thing and was cut by the