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"THE EOME OF GOOD SHOES" THE DAILY BITISH WHIG, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2. 1912. A WOMAN'S WAY SOME THRILLING TIMES WHILE OUT HUNTING IN NORTH | EASTERN RHODESIA. Same of the Adventitres of Br. Pun. bar-Brunton are Cautious Superstitions Among Black Men of the Country, An interesting account of Northeast ern Rhodesia and its ga'ive tribes haz been given 6 a representative. of The ondon Chronicle, by Brunton, 'who has recently returned the | i { of : Helated---- ine | i i } « br. Dunbar | t country ss a district medic H "There is something strange," | Dr. 'Dunbar-Brunton, 'in i counter of wild beasts in a country which bas the charm and beauty of cme parts of England or Seotland. Wortheastern Rhodesia has net the savage character of tropical scen- ery. In the centre of the country there is a high platean rising fo 6,000 feet, richly wooded from top te bot tom, and extending for 400 .by 300 miles. With a temperate climate, it { has the sylvan beauty of the Tyrol, and the trees rise up clean and free from jungle or tropical undergrowth. Little rivers, like the trout streams of Beatland, run down the hillsides, and in the' valleys and plains there are dis- tricts like the park lands of England. It is curiously disconcerting, there- fure, to see the ugly eid head of a hippopotamus poking through the rushes on the bank of a river, or an alligator lying asleep there, or herds of wild buck through a vista of trees lik: one may see the fallow deer in Jushey Park. It is still more curious to run up against lious, as I came sud- denly upon two of them one day- crouching in the bush. One is inclin. ed to ask 'where are the keepers? and to write a letter to the papers about it!" One of Dr. Dunbar-Brunton's mbst thrilling adventures was with a bull elephant, With a friend, who went oft on another track, he had been fol- lowing up the tracks of elephants all day without success, and just before sundown received word from his com- rade that he. was going back. Dr Dunbar-Brunton decided to return al- 80, but before starting on the home: roy nipe. He was smoking quietly when 18 heard the noise of his friend's meee | beaters; and a native who carried his {gun said "Look!" A great bull ele i phont was close upon them. Very | quietly the doctor laid down his pipe and took his gun, while the natives scuttled up the trees in terror. The | doctor took & quick shot, but just missed the elephant's brain-pasn. It threw up its trunk, opened its mouth, ) | put its tusks forward. and charged A second shot struck it in the shoul | der, but did not check its onrush. The doctor shot again, when it was with- | in a few paces, and-hurtling past him, | iv fell with legs outstretched, with a bullet in its heart. The doctor turned { to hie pipe. It was still alight, and | he finished his smoke while the natives danced round. the body of the | elephant. 3 {Tn spite of the fate 'which so often { befalls "their comrades, the natives | do not look with favor upon lion | hunting. "Dr. Dunbar-Brunton, when | following a man-eatihg "lion, has i found himself 'deliberately thwarted i by the natives, who will' ach ua { beaters because they wi the | lion's life. That is due } { belief that the spirits of theis | cheifs take the form of Hons, and that { when a man-eater is Killed the Spirit tis divided among other lions with the {same thirst for humdan blood: "They { hold it better. thepefore," to let de | lion eat its fill ratBer than incre é | the danger by killing it. T1818 #6 won- { der that they hold to the Superst about the spirits of their end chiefs inhabiting the bodies of man-eating lions, for the ferocity of their éhiefs has been beyond words to describe. The late Mwamba was a blood-thirsty monster. Determined to show his pow- er over his tribe, ard to punish them for the immoralities of which they are too often guilty, he puts them to tor. ture and death for the least offence Filty men and women were spiked on stake€, aud as they did not die quick ly were roasted in their last agonies | by bonfires lighted close to them. For flirting and light behavious woman had their noses, ears, and lips cut off, and Dr. Dunbar-Brunton has seen many of these poor creatures. For speaking against a chief the punish ment was mutilation of the tongue and ears. For stealing, one hand was chopped off for the first offence and the other hand at a second offence. This frightful penal code was in full operation as lately as ten years ago. The present Mwamba'is & msn of somewhat milder disposition. Malice and Superstition, That Most Dreaded Disease : TUBERCULOSIS More people die of tuberculosis annually, other disease--iu fact, } of the total death rate. BEE fs an most excellent tonic for patients suff because they can take if sontinpously A i ive eff ct above ull it has a directly carat Wilson's Invalids' Port i manner and direct] pn } - The . me An te various ftaria for the treatment of tuberculosis ; ul the increased carl Ee a a chamocs The results TLDS iT i from tuberenlosis of the lungs, diy absorh and assimilate it, sud § tr process itsell, ic 'acid formation mn the its hanced nutrition. Wilson's, Tavalids' Port a and digestive qualities causes constitutional and increased strength, thus attaining the same end as in a more simple and improvement is of treatment are required ; wh week of two, | HUGHES, Mayor of Leamington, Ont, says : tug ike - Rak lsant's alder very much any ionic and am | or convaloscents, ML filliap medicine alo? erat. Inhfie pace 1 nye tia : Fberad, Rghever "that tuberculosis is a mors £4 Xes,"" wes In the middle ages malice and sup- erstition found expression in the form- ation of wax images of hated persons, into the bodies of which long pins were stuck. It was confidently believ- ed that in that way deadly imjury would be done to the person repre- sented. This belief and practice con- tinded down to the seventeenth cen. tury. The superstition indeed still holds its place in the Highlands of Scotland, "where," says a well-inform- ed writer, "within the last few years a clay model of an enemy was found in a stream, having beem placed there in the belief that as the clay washed away 80 would the health of the hat ed one decline." Left Jewels In a Cab. Lord lichester, who has decided to sell his estate near Bruton, bad some anxious hours wheh he left behind him in a hansom a quantity of beauti- ful Jewels which he wag about' to t to his fiance, Lady Helen The driver, being honest. took the valliables to Scotland Yard, and there next day they were restored to the owner. Of all Lady lichester's fine so pi as necklace of black pearls 'which belonged to the Empress Cugenie. Ee He Was Their Man. AP fowls Hire th Ye gd I ) 7 in the days before he was Bishop of Ripon Tohim came one day a you man maiden, both bashiul ho ou a very obvious re Mr. Carpenter?" began a I. ) reassuring reply; joiner," = Londen So A > - gems there is none of which she is the | AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM, | Strange Peonle Are To Be Met Day | After Day In the Reading-Room. Of all the places where queer {vies can He sty vars: i and in reading room teresting place in TowWs of elain ating out H i ring i ne a Ge Is ratelv.iit queer sens the « i to England after spending some years * alone runs to 3 »d the room resounds eerily all some pecaliar echoing effect the great domed roof, to the rusti- ing of catalogue leaves. But i is in the occupation of the seats themselves that the main interest lies An Y attendant can tell queer tales of ec icity--and of tragedy One frequent visitor in recent vears was an old Cambridge scholar whose name is still famous in the world of learning. He had a harmless habit of sauntering stractedly round va- cant desks col 1g the paper-knives. His work over, a courteous attendant would help to relieve him of the con- tents of his stufipd pockets at the door, and he would go cheerfully ho 1 Of "plotie sores 0 perienced * the reading room has men who hav® always do great things, and ing about starting. They hours of the migity his- of civilization for which they are sollecting material. They were eollect- ing material half's century ago, and death will find them still collecting. The atmosphere of books is a neces. sity «fF tneir lives, They are hopeful laiiures But the atmosphere not all tragic. brisk journalists, skimming books make oue article; of pallid young women---the reading room headache is one of its steadily earning bread- by doing translation or rk at 80 much an hour; «d women, too, indulging in evel-reading. The present tha literary world for me- the reason why anaemic vouths sit doggedly compiling s&e- counts of the love affairs of numer- ous vanished queens and empresses. In summer there is a steady stream American inquirers, The attendants almost utomatically rect them to the genealogical indexes, It is a curiosity about family trees that brings them. The reading room has its innocent eccentrics, but it has also ils danger. ons There is the "plat thief,"" who comes armed with a piece of thread and tries to saw valuable plates out of the museum's most treasured books without catching the keen eves of roving attendants, or of watchers on the narrow gallery that sweeps round the high outer walls A police inspector is not an un- known figure here, incongruous as he may seem in this hushed world of hooks. i eer t A of thé reading There are half a IBC 18 wuozen to scores distinctions and-butter m is rare moirs the the of nuisances. "Alice In Wonderland." . A quarter of a century ago 'Alice in. Wonderland," the nursery classic which has delighted millions of peo- ple, was dramatized, and there is shortly to take place at the Empire, Liverpool, a celebration of this event; for "Alice" is simply worshipped in the North The history of "Alice in Wonder land' is one of peculiar interest. It origitially consisted of a collection of verbal stories with which the author, the late Rev. Charles Dodgson ('Lewis Carroll'), was wont to delight his child friends. He was subsequently persuaded to publish them in beok form, and the work at once .leapt into widespread popularity, and is now recognized as being one of the finest works in the English language. 1t seers almost ithpossible that the writer of a book of such pure imagin- ation should at the same time dis. tinguish himself in the higher mathe: cs, and produce such works as Formulae of Plane Trigonome- try," "A New Theory of Parallels," ete. Yet so it was, and this apparent anomaly is responsible for an amus ing incident at court, When "Alice in Wonderland" was exciting enthusiastic eriticism throughout the length and breadth of the land. Queen Victoria, who had heard of Lewis Carroll's success, ask- ed that any other books written by the same author might be sent to her. You may imagine the royal surprise when an abstruse mathematical vol. ume was placed in her hands! Most Faithful Dog. The loyalest of dogs was probably the little Scotch terrier 4%. which Edinburgh. some years ago erected a statue. 'For over eight years Grey- frinrs Bobby, as he came to be called, slept nightly on his master's grave in Greyfriars. He spent an hour or two a day in the curator's house, but night always found him again on the grave, how. ever cold or stormy the weather. Locked doers failed to keep him in. There was always the window. And i* was not till eight years had passed that Edinburgh learnt of him, and then it was over the prosaic question of finding the man who ought to pay the dog license. That tiny statue on the street corner oufside the grave. yard is worth looking at, eten to the man who does not know the story, Fine Seal Captured. Great exvitement has prevailed at the Mumbles, where a fing seal has been captured. Il was stunned with a stone, and with much difficulfy was got om to the pier, where it was ex. amined by the pier-master, who found that it was a rare specimen.' It was a silver white seal with black apehs. The seal soon recovered (rom the blow that was dealt it, and was placed in a big bath. : New Divining Rod. There is being manufactured in Viv. srpnal, Eng, a water finding device designed to supplant the hazel twig. - ------ ----_--; Too often the mam with the hoe gels the worse of an antounter with the wan with the gald brick, According to an Old bachelor, real fuck 1m love consists in hing able to avoid facing the parson. itself, | { way of antique works of art ex- | ROYAL TREASURE HOUSE, |. Vaulfs Beneath Buckingham Palake Are Littered With Valuables. Beneath Buckingham Palace are tw re vaoits tered the ites of the King and Queen tor Be TOO of found in the tents of a; if the royal resi. cht are already al Iv overcrowded with arpaments in the statuary, cluna and gold and silver ornaments ' all kine The royal treasure vaults are fire and damp proof, and are now lighted with electric light. Each is entered by a double door, each dgor consists of a slab of solid steel three inches thick, the doors are set on steel rails amd open' in the centre; when unlock. ed they can he glided easily and noise. lesc<ly to the right or left. i The keys of the vaults are held by! the King's private secretary. In one | of the vaults are stored large pieces | of old: furniture, some of which ia of) immense value, such, for example, as a huge old Sheraton sideboard with the royal arms inlaid in the centre which is one of the most perfect ex- aniples of inlay work extant. "The sideboard if sold in the open market would fetch certainly not less than] $50,000. { Thete are many large statues, a! number of enormous pi¢tures, and a | great deal of big bronze work in. the | vaults, but none of these are «of es! pecially high value. They are largely | the works of modern artists, many of | them Germans of but mediocre repu- | tation from whom the late King eon. sented to receivé exsmples of their work, and they would be out of place | among the fine works of art to be seen in the various apartments about the roval resideny e, even if there 'was room for them. The smaller of vaults' which has a floor about twenty feet square is several | times sgualler than the larger one, but its contents are infinitely more valu. able. Here are stored thousands of pounds' worth of old gald and silver, ornaments of all sorts. There are hundred of chains. watches, grotes- que figures, models of anim: and birds of many kinds, and models of ships. This wealth of gold and silver is arranged on shelves covered with purple velvet with which the vault is lined. Many of these valuables are presents to the late King and Queen or to their present Majesties om various foreign royalties or from In- dian princes, and from time to time some of them are placed in the royal apartments to take the placé of simi: lar ornaments which are then remov- ed to the treasure vaults, The treastires are all most carefully | catalogued; and the catalogue is from time to time checked over by an offi- | cial in the secretarial department. In | the smaller vaiilt is also stored the collection of tapestries which the Queen specially values and which Her Majesty has brought together. There | are over two hundred of these tapes. tries, some of which are worth thou. sands of pounds. One of the pieces was purchased by Queen Mary in a Paris saleroom when Her Majesty and King George, as Prince and Prin. ! cesa of Wales, were visiting Paris | some years ago. Her Majesty secured | the piece for $500, at which price it | was a rare bargain, for it subsequent. ly turned out to be a genuine example of fifteer®h century work and was worth certainly $5.000. In the room at Buckingham Palace known as the Bow Reom there was a | secret passage leading to the treasure | vaults, but this passage was closed | up in the reign of Queen Victoria. where are ie the treasure | space of | two Gold Mine Romance. The death in Sydbey of Mr. Walter Hall, a Mount Morgan millionaire, recalis the story of 'the discovery of the famous Queensland geld mine. It! sounds more like some startling fie. tion than a piece of real life. It was a portion of a selection owned by a man named Gordon, but the pastur- | age was very poor, and his existence, | which he maintained by keeping a few head of cattle, was miserable enough. One day, about thirty years ago, two brothers named Morgan, prospec. tors, passed his ramshackle hut, built unsuspectingly over untold wealth, and partook of the hospitality which Gordon offered to them as to all other travelers in the bush. Somethiug | attracted the trained eyes of the two | brothers, and, picking up idly a few samples of stone, they bade Gorden goodsbye. | They reappeared soon afterwards, and offered to buy his poor selection from him, and he congratulated him- | self on getting rid of it at $6 an acre Even then the Morgans had no idea vl the real value of their new pro-| perty, though they were confident it would pay them to work it. They proposed to a Rockhampton resident | a sale of half their interest for $10,000, | in order to buy: mining machinery, | and eventually this gentleman and three others put in $2,500 eack. In a few years they and the Morgans were | all millionaires. . Distinguished Coal: Heavers. The learned English judge who re. cently set himself! to break stone in order to test a case submitted for his judgment was, after all, only copying the excellent example sét by Judge! Moss, who on one occasion traveled | specially | to Bethesda to investigate) the conditions under which quarrying| was done, to help him decide a law: | suit. He seized the trucks and nush- | ed them himself with both hands. Mr. Justice Warrington has also! toiled as hard as any edal-heaver. A few years ago some eighteen tons of | coal near his residence set up eom- bustion, and all his servants thers | were called upon to remmevg it urgent | ly to the open. His Jordiship there | upon took his wheplbarrow and work- | Ho vigorously. with the rest. i English Banknotes, ; One of the curious points abou Bank of England notes is the fact thi they are acceptable practically all ovex the world. Yet in otir own country; few people will change fsem for stran-» ets. 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