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port of Saint Johns in Newfoundiand. Hix years after the first voyage of Co-- & lumbus, John Cabot had rediscovered : the American mainiand, naming and s @munmm-u'n + wort for Henry VII of England. Since then for nearly a bundred years the . #ishermen Oof Europe had come to this ceast for cod, but the Wigiishmen <laimed and held the ports where the : fish were smoked. Now, in 1583, GH-- 1 bert met the Ashermen, English and fesx gtrangers alike, who delivered to him ~~. a stick of the timber and a turf of the , : toil in token of his possession of the '-- laund, while he hoisted the flag of Eng-- s land over her first colony, by this act P Counding the British empire. "When Gilbert left Saint Johns, he 7x Bad a secret that made him beam for Yoy and hint at mysterions wealth, Ferhaps his mining expert had found 3 pyrites and reported the stuff as gold,. Y gm-mmm_m es precious stones, -- Maybe it was the parce! of specimens for which he sent. e _ Bs page boy on board the Delight, who, -- _' Salling to 'bring them,--got & terrifie. es thrashing. f e 4 ©When the Delight, his fingship, was. e tast away on Sable island, with a hun-- "Wirors migjing, Gilbert mourned, it was fe-->. thought, more for his secret than for 3 ten--ton frigate, the Squirréel, weighed _ > tGpon him. 'They were in rags, bungry and frightened, 2o to cheer them up he left his great ship and joined them. A lc F "He is not worthy to live at all, that fim"d"d"" weth hts country's service and his own This message to all men of every Wagiish nation was written by a wan who once with his lone sword covered n retreat, defending a bridge against W:.."--w."-. as his wound was healed, at his enemies, and even of his friends, while in his writings one finds the first Miea of British colonies overseas. At the end of his life's endeavor he com-- wanded a squadron that set out_to #ound & frst British colony in ¥ir: ginia, and on the way he called at the SIR HUMPHREY CILEBERT A green sea flled the Squirrel and she was near sinking, but as she shook the water off, Sir Humphrey Gilbert waved bis hand to the Golden Hind, "Fear not, my masters!" he shouted, "we are as near to Heaven by sea as An the night fell, be was still seen mmm.boolhlbhfl. Then at midnight, all of a sudden the trigate's lights were out, "for in that moment she was devoured, and swal-- Towed up by the sea," and the soul of Humphrey Gilbert passed out of the great unrest. A -- While Sir Walter Raleigh was in the widst of that remarkable career which d'gnmdaly.n'n'h.u!oeu- pied the throne of England, it was then that a gentieman and adventurer, Cap-- tain John Smith, came home from for-- At the ago of seventeen Smith was a trooper serving with the Dutch in their war with Spain. --As a mariner and gunner he fought in a little Bréeton whip which captured one of the great suved a Hungarian town besieged by the Turks, then captured from the in-- Rdel the impregnable city of Stuhiwels-- maburg. So he became a captain, nerving Prince Bigismund at the siego of Reigall. Here the attack was diM-- exlt and the assault so long delayed "that the Turks complained they.were *mmfimxafl" Ho the Lord Torbishaw, their comman-- agmMthum«m gall longed to see some courtly feat Hwf urms, and asked it any Christlian officer would fight him for his head, In atngle combat. The lot feoll to Cap-- tain Smith, In presence of the ladies and both armies, Lord Turbishaw entered the Mats on a prancing Arab, in ahining ar-- wor, and from his shoulders rose great wings of eagle feathers spangled with gold and gems. Perhaps these fine or-- Huments marred the Turk's steering, for at the Arst onaet Smith's lance en-- tered the eyesliit of his visor, plercing butween the eyes and through the «kull, @mith took the head to his gon-- eral and kept the charger. Cepyright by Bobbs--Merrill Compuny CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH By Roger Pocock of his aticer Md not wish to keep an aoficer of high rank named LSoun! x. mn:mmfi m t well--matched .....:"':..".-. Kach man in turn reeled senscless in the saddle, but the fAght was renewed without gain to either, until the Eng-- lfl-n.lemnchh:;?udl;nu. a Give to catch it, was dragged Emith's horse, grabbed by the bridie, reared, compelling the Turk to l6t 59, and giving the Christian time to re 's fulchlon caught him between the plates of his armor, and with a how! of anguish the third champlon Reigall, Smith, with his uine Kaglish comrades and his fAne squadron of cay-- m,mluw.vfl.wmi ently 'caught in the pass of Rothen-- MWIWMM.j big Tartar horde. * By Smith's advice, the Christian cavailry got branches of trees soaked in pitch and ablase, with which they made a night charge, stam-- with--her--slave, and sent him to her ' brother, a pasha in the lands north of the Cascasus, begging for kindness to the prisoner until he should be convert-- ed to the Mosiem faith. But the pasha, furious at his sister's kindness to a dog of a Christian, had him stripped, Rogred and, with a apiked, collar, riv-- some . -ummw this starved and naked wretch had once been the champion of a Christian army ; but Smith presently caught him a clip behind the ear with his thresh-- Ing bat, beat his brains out, put on his clothes, mounted his Arab horse, and fied across the steppes into Chriz-- the eleven thousand Christlans were enclosed by the Tartars, the pass was heaped with thirty thousand dead and wounded men, and with the remnant only two Englishmen escaped. The pil-- lagers found Smith wounded but still alive and, by his jeweled armor, sup posed bhim to be somg very wealthy noble, worth holding for ransom. So he was zold into slavery, and sent as A gift by a Turkish chief to his lady in tian Russia, Through Russia and Po-- land he made his way to the court of Prince Sigismund, who gave him a purse of fifteen thousand ducats,. As & Hich man be traveled in G~rmany, friends with Captain Merstham, whose ship lay at Saffee. He was dining on board one day when a gale drove the whip to sea, and there fell'in with two EBpanish battleships. From noon to dusk they fought, and in the morning COaptain Merstham said, "The dons Lm.tpmfi-uh,t@"fi They shall have some good sport Tor their -- "Ob, thou old fox!" cried Smith, mm'afl%hm again, Smith in command of the guns, and Merstham pledging the Spanilards in a silver cup of wine, then giving a llnntost:zu.()n«thomm aged to the little merchantman, but Merstham and Smith touched off a few bags of powder, blowing away the forecastle with thirty or forty Span-- fards.-- They set the ship on fire, but the English put out the fiames and still refused to.parley. SBo afternoon wore Into evening=and evening inteo night, when the.riddled battleships sheered off at last, their scuppers running with land he was twenty--Ave years old, of singular strength and beauty, a learned and most rarely accomplished soldier, a man of gaintly life with a boy's heart, i 5 §.5% Hir Walter Raleigh's settliement in Virginia had been wiped out by the red Indians, so 'the second expedition to that country had an adventurous fla-- vor that appealed to Captain Smith, Me gave all that he had to the venture, but, being somewhat masterful, was put in frons during the voyage to America and landed in deep disgrace, when every man was needed to work In the founding of the colony, Had all left behind, the enterprise would have had some chance of snccess, for 1t was matr 'y an expedition of wasters led by Idiots, The few real workers follpwed Captain Smith in the digging and the building, the hunting and trading; while the idlers gave advice, and the The summer was one of yaried inter-- est, attacks by the Indians, pestilence, famine and squabbles, eo that the col-- ony would have come to a miserable end but that Captain Smith contrived to make friends with the tribes, and Induced them to seil him a supply of He was up--country in ~December when the savages managed to scalp his followers and to take him prisoner, When they tried to kill hinm he seemed only amused, wherehs they were terri-- fe4a by feats of magic that made him seein a god. He was taken to the king ----Powhatan--who received the prison-- er in state, ghve him a dinner, then ordered his head to be laid on a block and his brains dashed out. But before the first club crashed down a Uttle In-- dian maid ran forward, pushed the ex-- ecutloners aside, taking his head in her andther chargplon to arms, and holding on so tightly that she could not be pulled away. Ho Pocs-- hontss, the king's danghter, pleaded for the Rnglishinan and saved him. King Powhatan, with an eye to busi-- When Captain Smith Teached Eng two messengers with Bwith for a brace of the demi--culverina with which the, Um.-htm the bastions of their fort. the captain returned *'a triumph to his own people, and glad-- bearrasaed, because. the. pair presented Ale demi--calverins. At pie. This lady fell in love and there made of show their good condition, the Indians were quite cured of any wizh for cul« verins, and departed with glass toys gto the king and hit family, -- In return came Pocaboutas with her attendants Inden with provisions for the starving for guccor that.they charged Captain Bmith with the Arst thing that entered their heads, condemned him on general principles, and would have hangedhim, but that he asked what they would do €heered the whole community by put-- mhm-uhmld ig sole command.-- Every Ave days came the Indian princess and her fol-- lowers with a load # provisions for Captain Smith, 'The people calied her the Blessed Porafioptas, for she saved Mmfi-'zfldw e3 During the: eaptiy-- Jt7. mmin mak ols the Idites airy tales about Captain Newport, whose ship was expected Roon with supplies for the colony. Newport was the great Merowames, king of the sea. . i When Newport.arrived ho was, fear» fully pleased at being the great Merow-- ames, but shared the disgust of the of ficials at Captain Smitbh's importance. mQMmthfl&mm be traveled in state, with Smith for in-- terpreter, and began by presenting to Powhatan a red suit, a hat and a white aoq-mm-mmaw Then, to show his own importance, he heaped up all his frading goods and effered them thr such maise as Pow-- hatan cared to sell, .expecting tons and that the colotffy would starve, precious jewels," he told Powhatan, "composed of a most rare substance, ndoui-gnmmanm Indeed, only th be wotn by the great-- est kings of the world." As i 'The Virginia company sent out more-- Idlers from England, and some indus trious Dutchmen who stole most of their weapont from the Englizh to arm the Indian tribés; James I had Pow-- :::-mfised 'w.l' all th , Bo mzmm'imnm'gl'dto starve the settlement. 'The colonists swaggered, squabbled. and loaféd, in-- stead of storing granariés; but all par-- ties were united in one ambition--plan-- lun§ unpleasant surprises for Captain wace Ais trading party was trapped for slaughter in a house at Powhatan's camp, but Pocahontas, at the risk of her life, warned ber hero, so that all m-mm-&mm In a house where he had called to buy grain of their chief, Smith led the chiet outside, with"a pistol at his ear-- hole, paeraded his fifteen musketéers, 'and frightened seven hundred warriors into laying down their arms. And then he made them load his ship with corn. This food he sarvred out in daily ra-- tions to working colonists only.. After the next Indian attempt on his life, Smith laid the whole country waste until the tribes were reduced to sub-- mission. So his loafers reported him to the company for being cruel to the clals and wasters were sent out from England to duppress the captain., 'This was in .September of the third year of the colony, aad Smith, as it happened, was returning to James-- town from work up--country. He lay asileep in the boat against a bag of The Englisn leaders were so grateiul powder, on which one of the sailors was pleased to knock out the ashes of his pipe. The explosion falled to kill, but almost mortally wounded Captain Bmith, who-- was obliged to return to England in search of a doctor's ald. After his departure the colony fell into Its customary ways, heipless for lack of leadership, butchered by the Indi-- ans, starved, until, when relief ships arrived, there were only sixty surviv-- ors living on the bodies of the deéad. The relieving ships brought Lord Dela-- ware to command, and with him, the beginnings of prosperity. I When the great enaptain was recov-- ered, his next expedition explored the 'coast farther north, which be named New Engiand. His third voyage was to have planted a colony, but for Smith's capture, charged with piracy, by a French squadron. His escape in n dingey seems almost miraculous, for It was on that night that the flagship which had been his prizon foundered in a storm and the squadron was cast away on the ctoast of France. * Meanwhile, the Princess Pocahontas had been treacherously captured as a hostage by the Virginian colonists, which led to a sweetlove story, and her marriage with Master John Roife, With him she went on a visit to Eng-- land, ndmvieopnhdylo- becea RoKe was received with royal honors as a king's davughter, winning all hearts by her beauty, her gentle= ness and dignity, In England she agrin met Captain Smith, whom she had . evéer revereficed as a god. But then the bitter English winter struck her down, and she died before a ship coukl take her home, being baried in the churchyard in Gravesend. The captain never again was able to adventure his lifé overseas, but for six-- teen --years, broken with his wounds and disappointment, wrote books com-- mending Ameérica to his countrymen, To the New England which he explored and nomed, went the Pligritm Fathers, Inspired by his works to sail with the MayO»wer, that they might found the colony which he projected, Virginia and New Engiand were called his chil-- dreéen, those coloniés which since bave grown into the glant republic. Bo the old captain fAinisbed such a task as "God, after His manner, assigns to His Rnglishmen," Conalderate Murderer. Warden (to murderer in clectric chair)--Is there anything you would like to do before I push the fatal but tom*? A .. Thoughtfu} Nuederer--Yes, 1 would like io give my seat to A &.--nu, gy}vanin r-' Bort, yisv¢.am** with gold, sllver, gems, spices and all sorts of precious merchandise, Much as her sailors hated to see all that treasure wasted on Spanlards, wmhuwmm Spain, becauge Charles II bad his crown jewels in pawn and no money tor such luxuries as war. ish mywflcfihfip ful lamentations about aaughty sailors, who, in the far Indies, bad in-- wolently stolen a galleon or sacked a town. Charles, with his mouth water-- ing at such a tale of loot, would be In: ¥rench" must have done this, or the "pernicious Dutch," buat not hig woolly lambs--his innocent mariners. mmumulfi were of many nations besides the For Instance, they would scorn to seite a Protestant shipload of sait fAish, but It is only a couple of centuries since Spain was the greatest natton on garthi, with the Atiantic--for her duck pond, the American continents for her back yard, and a notice up to warn away the English, "No dogs admitted." England was a little power then, mumummdz_"l- the French king whistled, and the Brit-- ish. were so weak that the Dutch burned their fieet in London river. Every year a Spanish feet came from the West Indies to Cadiz, laden deep on doctrine, and only made their plous excursions to seize the goods of the un-- sound on all really important points of dogmatic theology that they could al-- low themselves a little induigence in that treasure wasted on Spanlards,| uye on exc Emgland bad to keep the peate With | as the piri Spain, because Charles II bBad BiS| 6g, loring t crown jewels in pawn and no MODCY {heart of t tor such luxuries as war. A and moywullc-th_&_ k m bery and murder, or fry Spanilards in olive oll for concealing the cash box, Then, enriched by such plous exer-- clses, they devoutly spent the whole of their savings on staying druok for a ¥From such smaill beginnings arosea pirate fieet, which, under verious lead-- erg, > French, Dutch, british, Portu-- guese, became a scourge to the Span-- ish empire overseas. When they had wiped out Spain's merchant shipping and were short of plunder, they at-- tacked Lortified cities, held them to ranzom, and buzned them for funp, then in chase of the fugitive citizens, put whole colonies to an end by sword'and drels rose to captaincies, and the worst of the lot became admiral. It should thrill the souls of all 'Weishmen' to learn that Henry Morgan gained that. bad eminence,. He had risen to the command of five hundred cutthroats when he pounced down on Maracaibo bay in Venezuela. At the entrance stood Fort San Carlos, the place which in recent years resisted the attack of a German squadron. Morgan was made of. sterner stuff than these Germans, for when the garrison saw kim coming, they took to the woods, leaving behind them a lighted fuse at the door of the that fuse himself in time to save his mmnwm. Beyond its nerrow entrance at Fort San Carlos, the inlet widens to an in-- landsea, surrounded in those days by Epanish settlements, with the two citles of Gibraitar and Maracaibo, Mor-- gan sacked these towns and chased their fiying inhabitants into the moun-- tains. His prisoners, even women and children, were tortured on the rack until they revealed all that they knew Burned by inches, starved to death, or These pleasures had been continued for five weeks, when a squadron . of three heavy warships arrived from Spain and blocked the pirates' only line of retreat to the sea at Fort San Carlos. Morgan prepared a fire ship, with which he grappled and burned the Spanish admiral. The second ship was srecked, the third captured by the pi-- rates, and the sailors. of the whole squadron were butchered: while they drowned. Mnl'qfll'i(hflcl.ncd bristling with new guns, had to be dealt with before the pirates could make The fArst buccaneers sallied out in a Naturally only the their escape to the sta, Morgan preé-- tended to attack from the land, so that all the guns were shifted to that side of the fort ready to wipe out his forces. This being done, ho got His men on In perfect safety, £/2% And yet attacks upon such places as Maracalbo were mere trifling, for the Bpaniards held all the wealth_of their golden Indies at Panama. This gorge ouk city was on the Pacifc oeean, and to reach it, one must crose the Isthmus of Darten by the route in latér times of the Panama railway and the Pana-- ma canal, through the most unwhole-- Lome swamps, where to slieep at night in the open was Almest sure death Herom Cever.~ Morsover, the lafnding placa at Chagres was covered by a _atrong fortress, the route was awarm-- THE 1 F Bir Henry Morgan. By way of preparing for his raid, Morgan sent four hundred men, who stormed the castle of Chagres, compel-- ":.}""'""'""'"":&'.':" & to destraction. 'The sabhone from the citadel when feet arrived. 'The captain landed one cleared the whole isthmus, driving off the catde, rooting out the erops, cart-- ing awdy the grain, burning every roof, and leaving nothing for the pirates to Uve on 'except 'the miceobes of Lever. As the pirates gdvanced they retreat-- ed, luring them on day by day into the heart of the wilderness, 'The pirates broiled and ate their sea boots, their dgen m thetr pay," and their destination was a walled clty estcemed impregna-- thoussind two hundred men and set off up the Chagres friver with «Ave boats londed with artiliery, thirty--two ennoes and no food. This was a mis-- 'mmmm'm n_.mc.mm'mmum- ber, they took to marching. On the sixth day they found a barn full of mailze and ate it up, but only on the they nounced upon a herd of asses and cows, and fell to roasting fiesh on the points 'of their ewords. On the tenth day they debouched upon a plaly before the City of Pana-- ma, Where the governor awalited with of carairy and four regtments of foot, besides guns, and the pirates heartily wished themselves at home with their hor was too sly, for he had prepared 'a herd of wild buils with Indian herd-- es to drive into the pirate ranks, which bulls, in sheer stupidity, rushed his own battalions, . Such bulls as tried to Hy through the pirate lines were readily shot down, but the rest brought dire confusion. 'Then began a Merce battle, in which the Spaniards lost six hundred men before they~boit-- pirates stormed the city and pos-- Of course, by this time, the rich gal-- leons had made away to sea with their off everything worth moving, to the woods. Moreover, the pirates were hasty in burning the town, so that the treasures which had been buried in wells or cellars were lost beyond all finding. During four weeks, this splen dduflmd'mhw'm the people hid in the ; and the pirates tortured everybody they could lay bands on with fiendisli» cruelty. Morgan himself, caught 'a beautiful lady ang threw her into a cellar full of flth because she would not love him. Kven in their retreat to the Atlantic, prisoners, who rent the air with their lamentations, n,dunnotcvand until their ransoms arrived, -- _ _____ had every pirate stripped to make sure that alt loot was fairly divided. The common pirates were bitterly offended at the disidend of only two hundred pieces of eight.per man, but Morgan stole the bulk of the plunder bimself and returned a millionaire to Jamaica, Charles II knighted him and made him governor of Jamaica as a reward for robbing the Spaniards. Afterwards his majesty changed his mind, and Morgan died a prisoner in the towet of London . .as a punishment for the very crime which had been rewarded with a title and a viceropaity, + From the time of Henry VII of Eng-- land down to the present day, the noa Uouotmnvth'ywlth one enormous adventure, the' search for the best trade route to India and the China seas, For four whole cen-- turies this quest for a trade route has been the main current of history of the world. Look what the nations have done in that long fight for trade. Portucal found the sea route by Magelian's strait, and occupled Brazil ; the Cape route, and ¢olanized, the consts of Africa, She built an empire. Bpain mistook the West Indies for the real Indies, and the red men for Werpt, Puimsire and me whote orer w over Sues canal a the Holland, searching for a route across North America, found Hudson's bay and occupled Hudson . river (New York),. On the South® sea route she built her rich empire in the Reast In-- dian islands. * Rritain, searching eastward Arst, apened up Russia to civilization, then explored the sea passage north of A ia. Bearching westward, she settled New-- #oundland, founded the United States, "hpilt Canada, which creatéd the Cn-- nadian Pacific route to the Indies, and attempted the ses passage north of 'America. On the Parama route, she built a West Indian empire; on the Mediterrancan route, her fortress line Of Gibraitar, Maita, OCyprus, Egypt, Adon, By bolding all routes, she holds her Indian empire. Is not this Jhe history of the world? But there remains to be told the story of Russia's scarch for routes to India and China, That story begins with Marttia Rabe, the Swodish nor# nnu-uu-m--u.:z general, became servant to the Wmmm.um wife of Peter the Grent, and fAnailly succeeded him aAs empress of all the Russias, To the dazsling court of this m'«mflmuhhl route through North America to Indies, ; Long ngo, they wald, an THE EXPLORERS A. D. 1741 who marricd a dragoon, ,bvon.-. He claimed to have rounded Cape Horn, and thence beat up the west coast of America, ustll ummufiulm'" entered 1%e land. Through this sea channel he had sailed for many weeks, uatil it brought him out again into the ocean, One glance at the map will show theso Straits of <Juan: de ¥uca;~ ad Bow the uid Greek, sailing Oreck mariner,;ope Juan de Fuce, bragged on the ,uquAd_Vt,lieg-.': of Vancouver's island. But the Jegend as told to Catherine of Russia, made these mysterious Strdits of Anian lead from < the --Pacifc right across North America to the *tlantic ocean, Here was n sea route from Russia across acrogs the Pacific, direct to the gor-- geous Indies. < With such a possession as this channel Russia could dominate the world. + Catherine set her soothsayers and ing these Straits of Anian hich Juan de Fuce had found, and t 1y marked the place accordingly at forty--eight degrees of north latitude on the west const of America. --But there were al-- o rumors and legends in those days of a great land beyond the uttermost coasts of Siberia, an island that was called Allaska, flling the North Pa-- on their map until the thing was of no more use than a dose of smalipox. chart to two of 12r naval oficers, Vi tus Bering, the Dane--a mighty man in the late wars with Sweden--and a Russisn -- Heutenant--Tschirikof---- and bade them go fAind the Straits of across the Russian and Siberian plains,; attended by hunters who kept the peo-- ple alive on fish and game until they reached the coasts of the North Pa-- clific. 'There they built two ships, the time of their outsetting from Saint Petersburg. Thirteen years t'.ey spent in exploring the Siberian coast, north-- ward to the Arctic, southward to the borders of China, then in 1741 set out into the unknown to search for the Island of Aliaske, and the Straits of Anian so plainiy mearked upon their Long months they eruised--about in quest of that island, finding nothing, while the crews sickened of scurvy, and man after man died in misery, un-- Hl only a few were vor to his faith in that oficial chart for which his men were dying. At last Techirikoff, unable to bear it any long» er, deserted Bering, and sailing ceast-- ward many days, came at last to land at the mouth of Cross straits in south-- myofldnmworgandwm surf, forests of pine went up to moun-- is poine dxoh a little point rose a film. from some . savage camp fire. Tschirikof %n boat's crew in search of pro-- And water, which yvanished be hind the point and was seen no more, Heart--sick, he sent a second boat, which vanished behind the point and was seen no more, but the fire of the sevages biazed high. Two days he waited, watching that pillar of smoke, and listened to a far--off muttering of sky. 'At sunset, when these clouds had changed to flan s color, they parted, suddenly revealing high above. the masthcads the most tremendous moun-- tain in the world. The sailors . were .terrified, and Bering, called suddenly to the tail after--castle of the ship, went down on his knees in ewestruck won der. By the Russian calendar, the day was that of the dread Klijuh, who drums, then with the despairing rem nant of his crew, turned back to the lesser periis of the sea, and fied to Siberia. Farther to the northward, some three hundred miles, was Bering in the Sty Petr, driving his mutinous people in a last search for land. It was the day after Techirikoff's discov-- ery, and the ghip, fying winged out before the sovthwest wind, cama to green shallows of the sea, and fogs that lay in violet gloom ahbead, like some mysterions coast crowned ~with white cloud heights towering up the rose and azure through a rift of the purple clouds, but a vision of the +rans lation of the prophet. Bering named the imountain Saint El..s. m(.h-omeohmforthodo-- tail of Bering's wanderings thereafter of-- islands which skirt the range of Baint Ellas westward, and reach out ns the Ajeutian archipeiago nearly the whole way ncross the Pacific ocean. The region is an awful sub--arctic wil-- derness of rock--set gaps between bléak arctic islands crowned by flaming vol-- canoes, lost in eternal fog. It has" *en my fate to see the wonders and the terrors of that coast, which Bering's seamen mistook for the vestibule of wbeiter, where the sand drift covered his legs and kept him warm thre gh the last days, then made him a grave afterward. The island was frequented by sem--cows, creatures until then un-- mmmmmm lar's being the only account of them, Thote were thousands of sen otter, another species that will soon bacome extinet, and the shipwrecked men had zqdwmmumum pasabd the winter a cnm«mm' carry them home. In the sapring they weeks, came out again into with a load of sea--otrtr akins oficial robes of mandarins. At the news of this new trade sea--otter skins the bunters of Hibori went wild with excitement so that. eurvivors of Bering's crew led ex tions of .helir own to Alaskea,. By t ccoluywutoudd.lr' Straits of Anilan were #g¥ J« cuars added to their dominions a empire called Russian America, ' uukswu.ldhl.'hthw Stutes for seven milllon, fve bum yields more than that by faur In . profts from fisheries, timber and goid. FARMERS ARE NOT When the big feature filims, "Way Down East". and the "Old Home» . Stead," »were <made ~and placed on the screen the modern farmer was .. caricatured and the great American _' "movie public' doesn't treally know _ . that todar' the farmer no longer _ wears "chin whiskers" or tucks bis trousers in-- his boots, accordibg to -- leaders in the agricultural world -- from: 28 state, who mw ::' * three--day--sesston cof _the ° »national ~' furm bureasu publicity conference at _ the Hotel Sherman, Chicago, today, | The conference is for the purpose . of launching a movemept to educate . the residents of the city regarding . the modern farmer and at the same _ TO FILM REAL FARMER Movie Characters Not True to Xife, Say Farm Bureau Dele-- f gates at Meet. time dcv{s; ways and means of ed» ucating: the farmers of the counm» try, through the use of moving pie tures, in the science of modern sow«» ing, planting and cultivation. £ «Will Show Real Farmer "We are going to have films made that will be shown in the Etate street theaters," said Samue! R. Guard of the department of informa-- tion of the conference, "which will depict the farmer as be really is-- a modern business man of force, vision and c{nnctq;,." He added that already the national farm by-- reau bas sponsored the making of a number of moving pictures, one of which is entitled the "Brown Mouse* from Herbert Quick's . siory of & country girt gchool teacher,. ang --called--**The Yolk-- -oLAsg._': s¥ It was suggested that the appro-- priate title might be "The Yolk of an Egg," but Mr. Guard jnsisied --that the other title is correct, and said it tells a story of a virile yourg farmer trinmphing. over> the "boll weevil," the ~army worm"® and ---- -- dread crop desiroyers. Incidentally, Mr. Guard satd that the modern farm pictures were being made in a stw dio~ in ~Reoria, I!L, and that while there was no difficulty in securing man actors to portray the type of the modern farmer, there was some difficulty in securing" leading ladies who were capable of showing bow the modern millkmaid performs her dailly task®« 3 Ue-- »Movies" Everywhnere The conference 'will give . much time to deciding just what sort of pictures are to be shown the farm-- ers throughout thke country . it is hoped that practically every county farm agent may. be . equipped _with a portable moving picture machine. All the agent has to do the is to drive up to a couftty school house in his Ford, attach the moving pic-- ture machine to the back wher} of his car, jacked up for the purpose, and give a picture sbhow. in cases of necessity the picture may be shown against a barn, a house of :;lcn in the woods, if the follage i# ck. + * The need of movies to ins{ruct the farmer was emphasized by C. L Mo-- Nutt, secretary of the state farm bw reau of Arkansas, who said that in many townships of his state there were farmers who had never seen a moving picture. * eb The conference is being presided over by C. 8. Brown of Arizona, who is president of the farm bureau of his state. Watch two cata in a room. One it suddenty cock an ear, tarn its head and Usten. A moment later it will sad-- denly get up and cross the reom. ¥or some reason A woman's ear can catch a bigher pitched sound than a°> catch a bigher pItCnen mOunu. s1700° it man's. A woman can often hear a bat's high noté, for instance, that is InaudL ble to a man. . * Mer Chalice, --A little girl came to the Brightwood branch Hbrary yery much elated over her fArst fewf weeks at school. She eapecially-- enjoyed . the little dance games and sald to the interested 1+ brarian that two boys had giked het to dance that morning. .. "Indeed," said she}? "which _ one did you take?" s ~AL.. Well, Los Angelen ghost some dishes. Probably the of some movie comedian. A~ venomous . c Oof the: enidet family in the weliknown #@.plon, whicw #ome authorities contider the most dangerous «pecios, The bitc, of rather the 'sting, o" the scorplion is not necessarily fatal tnless neglected too long. 'The pain is yvery great and the «ifected part sweis and throbs, while eitreme nausea is felf'--It Mas beok claimed that the venian of this big 1e« sect gradually lises its effect upoh human baings, snccersive «"Yogn «corte ing to render a person more--or 16s# ns wune to the ukual sdffering. * _--"Oh, I took the cleanest one." was the quick repiy.--Indfanapolis News. OF REAL VISION Tor a walk by the Ved