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Evening star., 1925-01-11

position behind the stump of a tree,
about 80 yards below the top of the
ridge. l estimate that we covered
this 80 yards in considerably less
than record time. / did 1t in about
three jumps, while Knowles, with a
high initial velocity impaired by the
elephant, rolled down most of the
way. 1t was somewhat precarious
position, as the tiger, making most
unpleasant noises, was sitting on the
top of the ridge in a little piece of
grass which concealed him from view.
He sat there growing for some
time, but eventually seemed to settle
down, and we quietly moved away,
went to the end of the ridge, found
the elephant on the lower ground
and proceeded to go up along the
ridge again TO where the tiger was
sitting in the grass. When we were
about a hundred yards off the tiger
stood up. 1 could see the line of his
back above the grass and fired at him
again, and he disappeared, evidently
hit.
We went on and found him lying
apparently dead on his side with all
four legs outstretched. l had given
my rife to the mahout and taken
from him my 12-bore gun, loaded
with black powder and spherical ball
a weapon which l always carry when
at close quarters with a wounded
tiger or leopard 1 was>- sitting in
front on the,~elephant and said to
Knowles, I'VE had better throw a
cartridge at him before we get off
the elephant, to make certain"
AS l spoke, the tiger jumped to his
feet and charged straight at the ele-
phant. 1 fired both barrels at him as
he came, and Il think because of the
black POWDER he sweryed off the ele-
phant when within few feet and
galloped down the steep hillside
where we later found him lying In a
clump Of bamboo, and finished him Off.
X X I:
OCCASIONALLY, the tiger appears
~ to be especially good natured
particularly in his dealings with
other animals. observed an instance
of this few years ago in the Kheri
district. There was q very old and
notorious tiger which lived partly in
Nepal and partly in the dense gov
ernment forest on our side of the
border. He was q very cunning old
animal, and was particularly fond of
killing buffaloes which were grazing
in large numbers in some swampy
country in adjoining forests.
He frequently killed valuable huf-
falo bulls OF the largest size. A
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Stephen Leacoc Dscouses What Is Happening Language

Good remain with you as a form or
exclamation used in parting in seven
letters"
+ x x
THERE are evidently large posi-
l. bilities in this form of speech
think that a lot of our literature could
be frightened up with words of ro-
nance and mystery by putting it into
crossword puzzle language.
Even our poetry would be none the
worse for it. Here, for example, is
once familiar bit Of Longfellow's
verse turned into this kind OF dialect:
Under the spreading chestnut tree.
The village snithy remains erect,
upright or in vertical position
common to man and the apes but
not seen in other animals,
The smith. mighty man, is a per-
Sonal pronoun
With large and sinuous extremities
of his limbs in four letters.
And the muscles of his brawny arms
Are as strong as company Of
musicians.
Admirable! Isn't it. II only needs
a little industry and we can have the
whole of our classical literature
translated in this way
But unfortunately the results Of the,
heard last week of a rather dis
tressing case of the i'll effects of
puzzle solving. A man of my ac-
qualntance was at an evening party
where they We're solving crossword
puzzles and he was brought, with the
rest of the company, to an absolute
full stop by one item-what would
you rather be out of then in, in tweIya
letters? The thing absolutely beat
him.
He thought of It all night, but with
no result. He was still thinking OF
it as he drove his car down town next
morning. In his absolute preoccupa-
ton he ran into a man on the street
and shook him up quite badly He
was arrested and tried for criminal
negligence.
The judge said to him: st regret
very much to have to impose a prison
sentence on man of your standing.
But criminal negligence cannot be
tolerated. I sentence you to six
months in the penitentiary."
On this the puzzle solver threw m
his hands with an exclamation of iov
and cried, "Penitentiary, of course.
penftentiaryi Now I've got it,"
he was busy scribbIing on a little
Dit OF paper when they led him away.
Copyright 192J)
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J. w. Davis on Desert Trip

ago and is now to be regular. Be-
ginning with January 2, a service
will be inaugurated twice a week
between Paris and Timbuctoo. Paris
to Marseille by the rapid trains
which whirl tourists to the Mediter-
ranean; then, by steamer, with tour
lists to Algiers; from there by the
North African Railway to its last
station at Colomb-B -Bechar; and then
the automobiles of this transsahara
line.
The recent Democratic candidate
for President, Mr.. Davis, and his
wife are on the spot. They have
been offered and have accepted
part Of this desert trip in automobile.
Clear across the desert. more than
1000 miles away, these automobiles
stop at Bourem on the river Niger.
There motor boats take passengers
and post and parcels down to Tim
buctoo. This whole trip can be made
from Paris in Il days. This line
will be the first to be exploited reg
ularly. 1t ought to make the year
1925 memorable in France and the
world, just as the opening of the
Pacific Railway in America made the
year 1869 memorable. Automobiles
may not be railway trains, but they
are more than the old painful horse
or foot trail across continents.
The Paris-Timbuctoo route was
explored on caterpillar automobiles
and these are to be used on the reg
ular line. The six twin wheelers
will also be used. Both have been
pretty we'll tried out with transport
trucks in France and different max
ers are rivals in this new wild field.
Their autocars make provision for
water as well as food and fuel.
In the first week of December. yet
another expedition left Tunis to ex-
plore and lay out a still longer and
bolder line of autolocomotion. 1t
aims at going through from Tunis to
1 the Cape of Good Hope. Cecil
| Rhodes, whose dream was the Cape
to-Cairo railway, may turn in his
grave. The chiefs of the expedition
are Precourt and Ressiou, and they
have already run in an auto 800 miles
across full desert in Is hours. They
are accompanied by a Swedish officer
in this trip of 5000 miles from end to
end of Africa They are going on
four cylinder motors. with solid twin
| wheels fore and aft.
Finally, efforts are being made to
cross Africa in auto from side to side
l-Dahomey to the Nile. with Fashoda
on the way. Kitchener was sur
prised and disgusted when the
Frenchman Marchland, with his SOL
| diers, turned up at Fashoda not SO
| long ago. The French resident gem
eral is himself on his way to Belgian
Congo in automobile.
The world is small and civilized
machines are good missionaries to
open up even Darkest Africa. The
French are doing their share.
STERLING AEILIG
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glimpses once or twice Of the male
tiger moving forward. At the ex-
tTeme end OF the beat there was n
small piece Of very heavy grass with
some bushes in it. Beyond this was
fairly open ground. The old tiger sat
down in the last bit of heavy coven
We knew he was there and tho ele-
plants. shoulder TO shoulder, tried
to force him out.
But, alarmed by the shots already
fired, he was not going to face the
open, and from the last few feet
of heavy cover left sprang at my
elephant. l had a sudden glimpse Of
an enormous animal rising out of the
grass, but was all ready for him and
with a snap shot with a 12-bore gun
knocked him over with "A bullet just
over the eye. He was an enormous
old tiger. | have his skull now. In
measurements it ranks sixth among
Rowland Wards records of big tiger
skulls.
(CopyriRbt 1927
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T HIS last week has seen things
which we ourselves scarcely
thought possible six years
ago, when war was over. AS
to our fathers who looked
with awe on Stanley crossing Dark
est Africa on foot and our grand
fathers, who gave up Livingston for
lost until Stanley found him, they
would have to go to school before
believing.
This is not a story of airplanes.
Plain automobiles, with wheels on
the ground and gasoline motors, are
here, and now criss-crossing all AT
rica, dark or not, in every direction.
The African king in the Sunday pa
pers who talks to the slangy twins
in his oxford English can now explain
his automobiles to them. For the
cross-African automobiles are pecu-
liar-and they work.
On December one expedition
which started from the last station
of the Algerian Railway, at the border
of the Sahara, reached successfully
clear across the once terrible desert
the last railway station of the Daho-
mey road over from the Atlantic
| Ocean.
1t was a mission Of the French
| government. with one of the great
SOiuleTS Oh the war, MdTSudl = TdHCnet
d Esperey, at its head. Kings and
| chiefs and tribes all along the desert
route welcomed them as soon as they
| recovered from their fright at the
white devil machine. They had seen
missionaries and explorers and trad
ers, but never Iocomotion like this.
| They could only confess, as Aneri-
can Indians did when Columbus came
a-sailing in, I'VE are discovered"
This particular expedition is in
| tended to blaze the way to regular
land communication and transport
from north Africa all across the con-
tient to equatorial Africa on the Gulf
\ of Guinea. In a straight line this
would be more than 1000 miles, but
the winding ways of the desert and
| wilderness without roads make it
half as much again. The expedition
reports by wireless:
I'VE have done it In Is days. We cal
! culate that automobiles can do 1t In 10
| days regularly and airpIanes in 81
| That is something even for the
| twentieth century. 1t must be added
| that the automobile maker who fur
nished the machines did his best
| There were four autos. each with
/ six twin wheels. The expedition COM
prised experienced explorers and en-
| gineers for such travel. They went
| forward with perfect regularity and
| without break. 1t can be done,
| it has been done-and it is going to
be done right along. Paris to Da-
homey-all aboard.
| Recently the official announcement
was made Of another automobile
service which was tried cut . year
Evening star., 1925-01-11
Curious Oyster Find.

WHILE longing oysters in Yeocom-
leo River, Va, a. T. Muir caug'A
with tongs an oyster dish. Engray ~.
inside Of the dish was a flag Of th,1
old Weems Line of steamships-bluG
with a red dot in the center. 4 nat
ural oyster inches long and inches
wide had formed on the side Of tn q
dish. There were no flaws or cracks
in the dish.
Evening star., 1925-01-11
A Lost Island.

TN the far south Pacific is a for
l. gotten isle called Bardoo, which is
ruled over by a widow of an Austria
lian, who went there originally in the
hope that missionary work would
assuage her grief over the loss of her
husband. She is now the supreme
ruler of the island. which contains
only three other white&
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Copyright, 192J.)
A Lightning Question.

CHEAT LIGHTNING' is merely the
reflection of thunderstorms too
far distant 10 be audible, says Nature
Magazine. Whether silent, glowlilSe
discharges of lightning actually occur
IN the sky in some cases or whether.
on the contrary, all apparent sheet
lightning" is the reflection of 'strea K
lightning is an unsettled question
Evening star., 1925-01-11
Uses of Firemen.

D ETURNING from a fire. the Union
IN town (Pa.) Fire Department
stopped long enough to aid a WON
an who, having forgotten her key.
was locked out of her third floor
apartment. The firemen obIigingly
ran a ladder up to the front window
and opened the door from the inside
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Quaint Pine Tree.

THE Torrey pine for the most part
hugs the ground with its quantity
twisted branches, says Nature Maga-
zine. It is remarkable for it's needles,
8 to IL inches long. This vanishing
tree is found only in the Monterey
peninsula
Evening star., 1925-01-11
TurnuniSe Charm.

A CURIOUS belief of the thirteenth'
century was that the owner of q
true turquoise set in gold would not
injure any of his limbs while walk
ing or riding so long as he had the
stone with him.
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that of the deer tribe, but he has a
wonderfully keen sense of smell.
Some elephants, especially those
which have been clawed by a tiger,
Evening star., 1925-01-11

NO, L ought to be a proposition in
two. But I have to go to my effort,
energy or mental or bodily eXertion
undertaken for gain in four letters"
Well, take good care Of yourself.
Evening star., 1925-01-11

/<T BEG your pardon said a man
- sitting opposite to me in the
smoking end of a Pullman
i car. DO you happen to know
the name of an Arabian
Evening star., 1925-01-11

A TAME elephant will almost in
variably show signs of alarm on
coming on the fresh trail of a tiger.
An elephant has poor sight and his
hearing Is by no means as acute as
Evening star., 1925-01-11

PARIS, December 25.
~ HIS last week has seen things
which we ourselves scarcely
thought possible six years
ago, when war was over. AS
Seward daily gateway., 1925-04-17
Congress May Give Funds
 for National Art Gallery

WASHINGTON, D. C., Apr. 16.- The Sixty-ninth Congress will be ask ed to authorize funds to build na- tional gallery of art, at a cost vari- ously estimated from $7,000,000 to $10, 100000, to form a fitting reposi- tory for the s5,O0O,OO0 collection, now scattered nthe walls of various buildings of the Smithsonian Insti- tuition. Senator Shoot of Utah, one of the regents of the institution, will sponsor the project.
 The national gallery would be the legal repository of all works belong, ing to the United States not legally assigned to it's other departments Once a building is completed, art advocates believe, there will be an incentive to collectors to leave their works of art to the nation.
 It is hoped by the sponsors of the project that thru the gallery the na. ton will. take it's proper place in the world of art, just as England has her national gallery and the British museum, France her Lauvre and the Luxumburg, and Italy her national museum in every city of importance
Seward daily gateway., 1925-04-17
LAWYERS FACE TRIAL
 IN CONNECTION WITH
 MAIL TRAIN ROBBERY

LITTLE ROCK, Ark, Apr. IT, Another chapter of the famous $2,- 100000 Rondout, Ill.,, mail train rob- bery of June, 1924, is to be unfolded here April 14, when two Little Rock attorneys are to face trial in United States District court on charges of secreting and concealing from pos tai authorities s1O1,OOO of Herbert Holidays share of the loot
 The two lawyerdefendants are Wallace Davis, a former state attor- ney general and son of former governor and United States Senator, the late Jeff Davis, and Tom Poe, prominent young member of the bar.
 They are co-defendants with J. C.. Mckinley, alleged confidence man, who was Holidays cellmate in a Chi cago jail, and who entered the stol- en bond case here soon after Holli- day had pleaded guilty and failed in an effort to exchange his part of the stolen money for a Tightening of his 25-year sentence.
 Davis and Poe were retained by Holiday when he first was arrested here, few weeks after the holdup. Holiday was returned to Chicago
Seward daily gateway., 1925-04-17

and, along with five other principals, pleaded guilty. Three others were convicted, and all are now serving terms at Leavenworth prison.
 Soon after Holiday was taken to prison, his cellmate, Mckinney, came to Little Rock, apparently followed by a small army of postal inspec- tors. Holidays wife and niece, Mrs. Ellen Holiday and Miss Helen Me Neil, continued to reside here.
 Early in January postal inspectors recovered s21,000 said to have been in McKinney's possession. Mckinney, Mrs. Holiday and Miss McNeil were taken into custody and while they were being held for questioning $79,- 900 in Liberty bonds and other gov ernment securities was found in a rural mail box ten miles from the city by postal inspectors who were accompanied by Attorney Davis.
 MT. Davis issued a formal state ment, explaining that he constantly had advised his clients to turn over the stolen money if they knew where it was hidden, and that he took postal inspectors to the spot where he had been informed it might be found.
 
 Mrs. Holiday and Miss McNeil were released on their. own recogni- zance and the matter rested for a month before United States District Judge Jacob Trieber called a special grand jury to investigate the case. This grand jury returned indictments against Davis, Poe aad Mckinney Holiday was brought here from Fort Leavenworth to testify before the jury. His wife and niece also ap, peared before the body.
 Davis and Poe pleaded not guilty and were released on s20,00O bond each. Mckinney, being unable to furnish bond, is being held in jail Demurrers to the indictments have been overrrled, and federal court of ficiaIs say everything is in readiness for the trial
Seward daily gateway., 1925-04-17
Skeleton of Huge Dinosaur
 IJnearthed in East Africa

WINNIPEG, Man., Apr. 17.-Prof. w. E.. Cutler of the University of Manitoba, leader of a research ex- pedition for the British museum near Tendaguru, 50 miles north of Lindi, British East Africa, has dis covered one of the largest dinosaur skeletons in the world, according to word received here.
 The skeleton is estimated to be be- tween S,000,0O0 and 10.000,0O0 years old. It had a probable height of 20 feet and an estimated length of 80 feet.
Seward daily gateway., 1925-04-17

Gateway want-ads bring results.
Seward daily gateway., 1925-04-17
FIFTH STRAIGHT FLAG
 IN NATIONAL LEAGUE
 AIM OF JOHN M'CRAW

NEW YORK, Apr 17.-John Me Graw, this season, enters upon his 24th National League campaign at the tiller of the New York Giants in pur- suit of his fifth consecutive senior circuit pennant.
 A managerial record already stud ded with unrivaled achievements leaves to the New York chieftain only an opportunity to embellish the mile stones of his successes. With 10 championship flags streaming back over his picturesque career, and with the outstanding feat of leading one club to four straight pennants, Me Graw can merely add in the 1925 race to baseball marks which now surpass those of any pilot in the long chase of the horsehide pellet.
 McGraw took command of the New York club on July 19, 1902, and two seasons later his first triumph as a leader came in the clinching of the championship. He followed this per- formance by repeating the next sea- son. Then, after six unsuccessful pen nant drives, the doughty diamond mar shal produced another title combina- tion good enough to gain and hold the peak in 1911, 1912 and 1913. The Giants won their sixth pennant in 1917.
 Four years later McGraw develop ed the team with which he broke pre- eedent by standing off all opposition in the last four summers from the Ma tional League pinnacle. Unlike other clubs which have distanced the field in more than two straight races, how ever, the lineup entering upon the present diamond struggle has felt many changes and welcomed many new faces to the fold during the period of it's supremacy.
 Pennant winning streaks in the
 major leagues have usually resulted from the holding intact of powerful combination-such as the Athletes of 1910-19l4 and the Cubs of 1906-190S but McGraw has not hesitated to juggle his lineup often since the be ginning of his championship winning streak.
 The team which triumphed in 1923 was substantially the same as the 1922 lineup, altho McGraw counted
 upon an almost completely new pitch ing staff. Nehf was thelone star of the 1921 team to take regular turn, with Watson, Bentley, Ryan, Scott, land McQuillan contributing their share to the triumph.
 Jackson took the veteran Bancraft' s place at shortstop last year, while McGraw seemed entirely satisfied with only one outfelder, Young, and at times sent Kelley to the gardens and installed young Terry on first base, Wilson, Walker, Meusel, Kelley and Southworth all had hand in the fly. snatching in left and center. McGraw's triumphs as manager
 have placed the team one penant
 ahead of Chicago, last years success
 giving the Gotham team a total of 12
 championships to II for Chicago. Bos- ton ranks third with nine, then comes Brooklyn with five and Pittsburgh with four.
Seward daily gateway., 1925-04-17
Cool Shoes of Straw

LONDON, Apr. 17.-Panama straw shoes are to be worn this summer at the fashionable resorts in England by men as we'll as women. The shoes are bound with brown kid. and dealers say they will be most popular because they are so de- lightfully cool and comfortable.
Seward daily gateway., 1925-04-17
Carnphor for Sore Eyes

It is surprising how quickly eye in- flammation is helped by camphor, hy drastis, witchhazel, etc, as mixed in Lavoptik eye wash. One small bot tie helps any case sore, weak or strained eyes. Aluminium eye cup free. Seward Drug Company.
Seward daily gateway., 1925-04-17
Farm Lands In Canada
 Steady at $37 an Acre

OTTAWA, Apr. 17.-Occupied farm land in Canada showed no fluctua- ton in 1924, remaining at an aver age value of s37 an acre, according to the report of the Dominion Blu reau of Statistics. The figures in- clude improved and unimproved land as we'll as houses, barns and other farm buildings.
Seward daily gateway., 1925-04-17

Oscar Anderson, s, of Youngs- dale, Pa., rescued little Alberta Hinton, 2, when she fell into rain barrel, although she was uncon- scious when pulled out.
Seward daily gateway., 1925-04-17
Quits Work at 125 Years.

LIBAU, Latvia, Apr. 16.-Boris Unaschek, a farmer who says he has attained the age of 125, and has proved his age to the satisfaction of the Latvian government, has been granted pension by the government that he may be freed from labor the rest of his days.
Palisadian., 1925-01-30
APPRoPRIATING AN ECLIPSE

The neighborhood newspaper that
perpetrated its report of the eclipse
Palisadian., 1925-01-30
PROFESSOR DEvOE

The passing of Andrew Jackson De-
character about town in Hackensack
who had become nationally known,
though not widely so, except in his
immediate section. Professor DeVoe
was unique in many ways in that he
took up an impossible theory on
weather and capitalized it into a
meaning it never had. 1t meant moth
ing to him that the whole town joshed
him. He went along making forecasts
just as though he was savant of the
first water. He was kindly of dis
position and very amiable, but very
positive that he knew more about
weather than any living man. That
this could have been an .obsession
seems reasonable, and many men be-
lieve in their obsessions. Since it
takes all kinds of people to make a
world, let the life of Prof. DeVoe rest
on the things he achieved in his own
way. That many believed in his
weather prophecies is a fact. That
he really accomplished something in
Ihe queel theoIy ne Cidlmeu III MS
weather faith, was all right enough
so long as he did no harm with it. He
predicted clouds would blot out the
recent eclipse, yet grieved in his last
moments that he could not see the
greatest known heavenly spectacle
a total eclipse in a brilliant sky. If
Prof. DeVoe believed in himself and
lived the faith, it is something to his
credit. even if it were Immediately
dlscredited When his own daughter
married and asked for clear day, the
father picked one-but it rained
And so this harmless man went along
his way, self-advertised and made an
unenviable name as a weather proph-
ct. Peace to his ashes