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a m, an and hon .- excitedly and confused * for expressing the terribleness of them, and tion " i : was becomirg himself, they belies necessity which was driving them on. They cast their lean and hungry eyes longirgly on the fertile land of Can- aan. is was the land of promise, worn to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and also to Moses, Gen. 12: 7; Exod, 18: 11. Before it could be appropriat- ed it must be reconnoitre: Some knowledge must be gained of the char- acter of its population, the quality of its soil, and the type of towns to be found in it, vs. 18-20. In ancient as in modern times it has been che prac- tice to obtain recret information by means of spies as a preliminary to warlike, moveme. Twelve spies were sent--one from each tribe. This was a wise neasure. It would re clude tribal jealousies; nor could any tribe at a later date claim that they had oeen induced to invade Canaan under false pretences. In sending out the spies, Israel was observing an en- d. ring necessity of life. Man is not content to live in ignorance of the world about him. "Our spirits yearn," said Faust, "for revelation." The practice of sending out spies has been trensmuted ino the nobler pursuits of science, art, literature and, above all, religion. All of these represent valiant attempts to determine the na- t. re of reality in life and the sorld.. II. CONFLICTING REPORTS, vs. 25-20, 'When the spies r.turned they spoke ly of all that they had scen. The one group (vs. 27- 29) tried to give a balinced account in which justice would be done to both the advantages and disadvantages of pro.eading against Canaan. They acknowledged that it was rich and fe tile. "It was a land 'ltwing with milk and honey' "--both of which were articles of food greatly prized among a nomadic or an agricultural people. As a guarantee of the truth of what they said, they exhilited thc prodi- ous cluster of grapes which they ad carried off from ihe district about Hebron, v. 23. Over against these more favorable features, however, they asserted that tke land was al- ready inhabited by a strong popula- tion. The Canaanites dwelt in wailed cities which it would be difficult for the sons of the desert to capture. In this they acknowledged the superior- i. of the material civilization of the Canaanites in contrast to their own more rudimentary civilization of the desert. For the Can-anites had long dwelt in a land which had been c oss- 2 Says Blood Spots in Eggs Fears of housewives that blood spots in eggs indicate a lack of fresh- ness or that such eggs are not fit for food are not warranted in most in- 8, according to Professor C. S. Jersey Agricultural Experiment Sta- tion, who says blood spots may be found in strictly fresh eggs and in eggs that are normal in all other respects. The cause of a blood spot is the rupture of a small membrane in the sac which envelopes the yolk before its release into the fowls oviduet, where albumen and shell are added to make the complete egg. Often only 'a small blood vessel is ruptured and the blood spot is hardly discernible. At other times sufficient blood may accumulate on the yolk to cause a de- cided discoloration of both yolk and white of the egg. "When the blood becomes diffused throughout the white," Professor Platt explains, "the egg should not be con- sidered as edible. When there is only a small speck of blood on the yolk, however, there is no reason for dis- carding the egg. After the egg is broken the blood spot can pe removed with a fork or spoon and the egg uscd for any desired purpose. "The presence of this small amount of blood in the egg is not in any way indicative of diseased birds, as prac- tically every bird produces a few eggs containing some blood at some time dring her life. Under most condi- tions blood spots can be detected by candling, which is the general prac- tice on many farms where eggs are sold at retail, Even with the best of care there is a possibility of some eggs being mixed when candled, par- ticularly if the yolks are dark or the e4gs are brown shelled, and buyers of eggs should not be too critical if occa- sionally eggs are found with small blood spots." fertilized by great civili o Esbylon and of Egypt. They declared alse (v. 29) that the population of the land was mixed rather than 'ipi- form. There were deposits of popula- ti a from the great Hittite Empire of 'Asia Minor and from the Amorite Tingdom of north Syria while the 'A:.alekites, a fierce tribe of nomads, roamed at will in- the barren steppe land to the south of Canaan. Another group (vs. 81-33) were out and out imists. Their report was wholly unfavorable. They lost sight of the glorious objective and fastened heir attention only on the dangers, and the probabilities of failure. They laid stress on the unsuitable nature of the country which "eateth up" its in- habitants,--mea.aing either that its climate was trying, o that it did not roduce enough to support its people. t was the gigantic stature of the people, however, which most impress- ed them, They compared the Anakites tc the giants, or Nephilim, which, ac- cording to Gen. 6: 4, were a race of demi-gods. "These men are trying to find the strongest possible language antic Anakites; and this they gen by saying that the Anakites are veritable demigods." Now this "Your cook sits on your front piazza every evening." "Wall, we like the back porch just as well, and of course we never say anything to hurt cook's feelings in the hot weather." rts TICKETS, PLEASE The country station-master did not wear a uniform, and one day when a train came in he stood at the plat- form gate to take the passengers' tickets, A pretty girl came up to him, and when he held out his hand for her ticket she seized it, gave it a tight squeeze, and followed by giving him a hearty kiss. The station-master was surprised, but managed to say: "That's all very well, miss, but I want your ticket." "Oh," replied the girl, with a blush, "aren't you Uncle John?" Lion--"Was the banquet a success last night?" RBagle--"T'll say it was. Two of the speakers swallowed fish Platt, poultry husbandman at the New | ordered to fly from our fleld at Just south of the Uluguru Moun- ) a place called Logi 'Logi Logl was .bout 45 miles ic | due south. 'One of our infantry col |' | umns had reached the Rufiji River, on which the place was situated, but were farther up. However, with the excessive optimism of youth, I de-|, cided to do without the help which our own men could afford in an emar- gency, and flew due south, over coun- try which was totally uninhabited in parts and as thick as the African Jungle can be, Stn I was about three .niles from Logi 'Log! when my engine began tc cough and sputter. I eased the throttle, and then tried jerking to clear it, but I | knew it was ignition trouble, and in a few seconds my propeller stopped and my precious 855 feet of altitude was 600. I selected a "nice green oval stretch of grasa" to set the plane down upon, released my bombs, and pan- caked the bus (that is, made a slow landing without running far). To my great consternation I' found that the grass was six feet high, and the ma- chine turned on her nose. It was a bog, and the water nearly covered tho top of the landing wheels. My first impression was of the eerie silence, which sent a shiver through my spine, I remained perched up in my cockpit for a minute, I suppose, before a bird screeched and broke the silence. Then I reached for my revolver, ammuni- tion, sun helmet, water bottle, some quinine and a tin of sardiies and a packet of chocolate which were in a small emergency kic. I realized that I probably had a long walk of about forty miles. So off came the compass, and I let myselt down into the water. Due north was the course decided upon, chiefly to avoid running into the enemy lines. It as 4.45 p.m. so 1 (eo cided to make for the nearest lot of trees before sundown, at least, and probably to do a couple of hours' hik- ing. Unfortunately I had had an at- tack of malaria three days previously and was not -in cross-country form. We were right in the rainy season, so the traveling was particularly difficult. My compass proved very valuable, as the growth was high and dense. 1 soon came across fresh elephant spoors, and then came face to face with an ugly black animal about four feet high and with vicious-looking tusks, Wisdom cautioned making for the nearest tree, but the animal must have been nervous, too, for it crashed off into the undergrowth. When the silence died away there was another of those eerie silences. Dark came on, and although my tree was not a very comfortable one, I had to stay there. About seven o'clock a terrific thun ler storm came on, and in less than a minute I was drenched. When the storm abated the mosqui- toes came out. I was wearing shorts,' 80 my knees were left to every hungry mosquito, and they were all hungry. About nine a lion roared close by. 1 tried to doze off when the roaring ceased, but suddenly a twig snapped beneath my tree. The moon was com- ing up, but all I could see was two green lights, The two lights circled round and round my tree. I couldn't fire my revolver because the rain had soaked everything I had. The circling of the bright lights kept up for ten minutes, but it seemed more like ten hours, At last I began to shudder; my nerves seemed almost at the snapping point, Suddenly something seemed to give way inside me; I yelled at the top of my voice. At once the leopard slunk away in the undergrowth, the eyes disappeared. I as ashamed of my fearful exhibi- tion of fear, and tried to sing. That helped, and for hours it seemed I sang everything I could think of, even hymns which ended 'ith a long-drawn Amen, It did seem incongruous to be singing "All Things Bright and Beauti- ful" while wet through, with jungle animals prowling all about, and the incessant sound of frogs and mos- quitoes. About 8 a.m, I began to get very evil report would readily find an open bones and couldn't say a word." hungry, but I managed to withstand costumes of the district. that is, the bicycle. the temptation to touch my scan'y stores. As soon as it was light enough I left my tree and pushed off, keeping to my compass course. My khaki drill shirt and srorts and puttees were wet and clammy, I crossed two streams, which I had to swim, and by 8.30 a.m. I was confronted by a substantial river running east and west. I could not throw my clothes across, so I put the revolver and food in my tunic pocket, fastened it rounc my neck, so tbat the revolver would not have a chance to ge: wet, and tied my boots to the back of my belt. I had only gone a short distance when [ caught sight of the ugly nose oi a crocodile quite close to me. In the excitement and the extra energy used at the sight of him the tunic came undone and down went the precious revolver, my compass, and the bit of food. But I reached the shore all right, only to be confronted by a huge hippo. That meant another swift sally into a handy tree. My plight was now bad. The under- growth was almost heartbreaking to penetrate, and I had no means of di- recting my progress. At the end of the first houy I was not more than a hundred yards from the river. The hush scratched my face, arms and legs unmercifully, Then it began to rain, and it lasted for a couple of hours-- real tropical downpour. My stomach began to rumble, but there was noth- ing to satisfy it with, my head ached ag though I was in for a return of the fever. I struck a game path which ended in a bad bog, which was an aw- ful trial. Once or twice I heard the drone of an airplane overhead, but my signaling was all in vain, Beyond the bog the country was less densely overgrown, but there was a cruelly sharp, short thorn bush which tore my legs and arms, and :aused ter- rific pain. Added to that were myriads of long, thin flies which also managed to draw considerable blood. 1 was drinking now from streams and any old pool, but the food question was becoming serious. After crossin, mj) seventh stream for the day I sat down to get dried a bit, and spread out my shirt and shorts in the sun. Then along came another huge hippo snd forced me to another tree. When I came down again it was almost dark, and I could find no trace of my clothes. I remem- bered some quinine which I had put into my helmet a few days previous, and took a little of that to help the fever. But it made me violently sick, and 1 soon developed that "fed-up- fever" feeling. That night I didnt mind the lions and leopards so much, because I felt almost dazed. Next morning I managed to start out again. I soon came across a buf- falo and then a family of giraffes. The great Spree Forest festival in Germany, calls forth native Here we see a revival of an old-timer, They moved oft quietly, probably be- cause I was a sorry enough sight to send anything way, clad as I was In only my boots and scant undergar- ments, I trudged on, once almost stepping on a venomous snake, but I had become too tired to care much what happened. With the third night a terrible depression came over me, and I began to feel that I would not get through to the Uluguru Mountains, which were now my sole compass. The next morning a pair of vultures followed my weak and : tumbling way. This frightened me badly at first, but I selected a young bough of a tree as a cudgel, and determined not to give in. About 2 o'clock on the fourth day I came to another bog, and saw odd- looking stakes in the water, rather like a fence. Then, to my great joy, I saw two natives, just as I had tried to ease my hunger with a bit of raw fish. The fish made me sick, but the natives were the means of getting me back to safety eventually, "He's got the foot and mouth dis- ease," "Never heard like?" "Whenever he opens his mouth he puts his foot in it." mrss Cow Swallows $777 And Hides in Herd Lonoke, Ark.--Wade Holloway's savings of $777 went into a cow-- literally--and he is baffled regarding methods for recovery because there is no way of telliny which of the twenty- three of his herd involves such value, A purse containing money the dairyman had saved for months slip- ped from his pocket in his milking barn yesterday. He went back to look for it, but found only the chewed _billfold and a dime. A veterinarian was summoned. He operated on two cows at $10 a cow but found no money, and Holloway called off that mode of search because of the expense. of it, what's it ere fees "I've half a mind to get married." "That's. all you need." In an attractive London restaurant take a book?" The sign hangs be- side the desk where the friendly pro- prietor sits, 3 Above the notice colored cellophane cover are ar- arranged. Although the number is small the selection is varied to suit many tastes. ed are essays, short stories, plays and novels, Includ- verse The service is does the bookseller down, from whom the books are pro- cured, charge the restaurant for their use, book simply tells the reader name and address of the bookseller who has donated the volume. The gesture by both the restaurant proprietor and bookseller is gener- ous, and happily not unrewarded. A book lover who is captured by the scintillating prose or lilting poetry of one of the season's latest books can. not easily give it up because a mere peal is ended. Even when he must hurry through hsi meals, he finds him- self at dinner time automatically turning in at the restaurant which not only serves delicious food, but where waits hig favorite book which he laid aside regretfully yesterday. Some customers, indeed, are likely to patronize the restaurant-library until an interesting book is finished. Or, it that is impossible, they may resolve to buy the book--from the bookseller who so far-sightedly loan- ed it in the first place. Thus, with the slogan, "Read While You Eat," a service as wide in its appeal as lending libraries may be initiated. And benefiting by it will be author, publisher, bookseller, restaurant owner, and, most of all, the average man who would like to read more but never seems to have gufiicient time.--The Christian Sci- erice Monitor. ---- in Ante-Dates Modern Day Toronto.--To be told 40 years after that the paper which he had written long ago contained the most Lloyd, String-town-on-the-Pike, Ky. who. is visiting Toronto in connection with the Canadian-American Phar- maceutical Association. More than 40 years ago, Dr. Lloyd compiled a paper which he read to his colleagues at a meeting of the American Pharmaceutical Associa- tion. When they stated they were unable to understand what he was trying to explain, Dr. Lloyd filed his paper away. man physicians recently, and antedated the eries. Another interesting visitor at the convention is F., Gladstone Hines, president of the Pharmaceutical As- sociation of Great Britain, who has been a candidate for the British Par- liament and is a well-known tennis player. "I have often wondered about the pharmacy business," said Premier George S. Henry, of Ontario, in wel- coming the convention delegates. "As a boy I used to go to the drug store as a plare where one got something to take when one wasn't very well." saw the declared most recent discov- The Dock Dreamer Down at the docks on his lonesome beat, With broken shoes on his shuffling feet; Watching the tugs as they come nd BO, With a grizzled grin and his eyes aglow; For he's dreaming of soft sapphire seas, Far tropic isles and ocean breeze-- And longing again for a lost lagoon, Or a fiddle's rasp in an old saloon; But his watch is over, his days are done, As he sits alone in the noon-tide sun, Seeing 'em still where his fancy strays a. Those gallant ships of his sailing days. JGEF Won'T COME AWAY "FROM THAT RADIO TO = HE'S 50 IN LOVE Ha CouLD WALK ON - DAISIES WITHOUT CRUSHING THEM! ~T You CANT CALL \T | Love AT ERST SIGHT BECAUSE HE'S NEVER. SEEN HER? VERY QueEcR. HE'S JUST IN TT FALL IN LOVG LOVE WITH A VOICE. wy d He Might as Well Get Used to it. WITH A V0ICG~ FOR A GUY HEARS (T --By Harvey McKenzie in N.Y. Sun. SE TT AIN'T A BAD \DGA the sign that first meets the eye Sweden where Ten Me as uestions the guest: "Are you lunch. USé my freedom ing alone?" Next, "It so, why not Garbo. ' modern ideas on colloidal chemistry | mere papier- was the experience of Dr. John Uri: Richard Washburn Child. | I "ALT want fs a e." ! "It is a pity that there is a dis- | tinction in the public mind between is a shelf on the statesman and the poltician."-- which a dozen books in attractively Franklin D. Roosevelt, "The era of great naval power is sufficiently ending, that of air power beginning." free to the restaurant's patrons, Nor | which implies renouncement of struge a few doors Ble.--Benito Mussolini. --Lady Drummond Hay. "Fascism casts aside pacifism, "The American masses lave A label in the front of the never discarded the frontier concep- the' tion that nothing fs impossible." -- Harry Elmer Barnes. "There was never a time when in- sincere or gelf-hypnotic optimism could be fraught with more dangers than now. '--Fanny Hurst, "Modern civilization is being threat. ened by the ever-increasing tide of disease." -- Sir Willlam Arbuthnot Lane, "When I'm {n my normal mood the tunes come dripping off my fingers." --George Gershwin, "The best of all teachers is ex- perience and people must learn it in a hard school."--Phillip Snowden, "We ought to begin to discuss the temperance question temperately.'-- Bruce Barton. "The theatrical business would be better if half the theatres and movie houses were turned into garages."-- William A. Brady. "All business needs right now fis something to give it a push."--Jacob Ruppert. "Stop looking backward for the Paper Written 40 Years Ago times are dead, and do not look to- « ward your Government for anythiug more than government."--Henry Ford, "The reputations of our great, and our dishonored as well, are often mache false faces,' -- "Authors used to write scenarios; now they're used to write reports for stock-holders' meectings."--Eddle Cantor, "The fine art of living is to en- deavor to see through people com- passionately." --Clarence Darrow "The big mistake business men and Two outstanding Ger- politicians make is to think that document things stand still."--Sir Harold Bow- his theory gen. "The fine arts, and in particular the theatre, novels and music, have been invented for no other purpose than to distract men from sad mono- logues,"---Andrew Maurols, "No matter how rich or poor a man may be, work in some form is the only honorable occupation," -- Andrew W. Mellon. "Society owes every child a nor- mal home environment."--Lewis HH. Lawes, "Much of our modern life is sum- marized in Thoreau's phrase 'Im- proved means to an unimproved end"."--Harry Emerson Fosdick. "Whatever may have been the causes of this depression, it is our inordinate taxation more than any- thing else that keeps it chronic."-- Richard E. Byrd. "Law has always been a narrow- ing and conservatizing profession.' -- Harry Elmer Barnes, "I think politics is like religion; most men inhert it.""--Gene Tunney. "There are millions of people today who could buy, who want to buy, yet who are held back by an unrea- soning fear of the future."--Alfred F. Sloan, Jr. tive opinions are those who are too stupid to know when their opinions are absurd."--Bertrand Russell, "Social science at the present time has collected too many facts upom which it has not worked."---John Dewey, "Nothing seems clearer than that it the people are to control the Gov- ernment they must pay the taxes to support it. These two go altogeth- er."--Calvin Coolidge. wrt fSorenm THE DECEIVER - A little boy surprised his parents refusing to be scared into being good, "It's no use telling me the angels will write down in their books it I'm naughty," he said. "I might as well tell you they think up in Heaven that I'm dead." "But why should they *hink, that?* "Because I haven't sald my pray- ers for two weeks' 8 { 2