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yi of these two regions apart from are at the monly called passengers, pies a WINDS DELAY BOAT Sable disiance : "The first night, Aug. 6, we landed very wy pesiea, She mown at Kehehs to eleep and eat. An un- Mrs. Bingham's Subjac r. and |ocheduled landing on the 7th; due to i 43 Sa peaks at an altitude of from ¥ g g 5 : i i 2 & © Upper Congo basin, - SS THAN 1,000'LEFT 'Ever since Paul do Chaillu pene-]| trated the forests of Africa and brought back thrilling stories of en- counters with gorillas, these great apes have been the prey of the big game hunters of the world. Because they plopagdte slowly "aad because many have been shot, authorities have the gorilla population of $his ares to 'be fewer than 1,000, In 1921, the American Museum of Natural History yin New You sent an on }eaded by €arl Akeley. It was he who, Se return to America, directed the te nef the scientific world to the y and magnificence of the the. richness of its plaat and ani. mal life, and to the danger of exterm- which threatened the gorillas. . Enlisting the efforts of scientists, a movement' was launched which led to the promulgation of a decree by Al bert, King of the Belgians (1925), that the area should be made a per- petual sanctuary for the gorillas and for all ether animals inhabiting it. The reservation is situated in the northeastern part of the Belgian Con- #0 between Lake Kivu and Uganda and includes three volcanoes--Mount Mikeno, Mount Karasimbi and Mount Visoke. In honor of King Albert, to hot erect, the reservation is due, ated, "Parc Na J; as heen de ignated, r tional INCLUDES 500,000 ACRES Last year the protected area was £ ly. ged and now includes ap- proximately 500,000 acres grouped in four reserves lying fn the Kivu dis- trict, in proximity to one another, In addition to protecting all forms of plant and mma) Wie in these four reserves, the royal ee express] forbids "the destruction, APLare pursuit of the gorilla, as well as all forms of hunting this animal," i The expedition was undertaken not only to obtain authoritative informa- tion about the behavior of free-living gorillas but to investigate the feasi- bility of co-ordinating such observa- tions with lines of anthropoid research already established at Yale, and the programs contemplated for the anthro. Joi station to be established in Flor- Dr. and Mrs. Bingham seiled from New York on June 7 and landed at Dar es Salaam on the African coast, July 23. From this point they pro- ceeded by train, boat and automobile transport to sixty kilometers north of Lake Kivu and three days distant from Akeley Camp, their objective in the Parc. At Rutshuru they were re- eeived by Parc officials, who provided them with comfortable living quarters and helped them to obtain competent guides and porters and to make the JIeasations. for their observational N my over Lake Kivu at the present time. comfortably ihad learned from: experience to take There is a passenger and mail boat, but' unfertunately it carries no heavy baggage. We could have chartered thie little boat and Pp i to. Kisenyi had been equipped with sieeping and eating accommoda"ons. Already we no cha: ces of being separated from our baggage and food. "Arriving at Kisenyi August 8 we established camp and began the selec of our personal boys, 'securing three during the week. Progress with the Swahili language became more [rapid when we hud to make our wants limown to the boys in their own lan- guage, None of them could under- stand French or English. "On the 17th we reached Rutshuru, the headquarters of Parc officials, and, greatly to our surprise as well as de light, found 8 house surrounded by tropical s awaiting us, We were told that it was ours while we were there; ind that we might take the key with us when working in the gorilla a 4: 1, 4, behind 1° yy id 8 ry that we would not need in camp. ; |. "Following the advice of the admin- istrator of Rutshuru, and the conser- vateur of the Pare, we made Lulenga the base of our fleld supplies. Moan. 'while I had talled on the White Fath- ers at Lulenga Mission in company with M. Hemmeleers, conservateur of the Parc, by whom we were received most cordially. The administrator, M. Dubuisson, had made official arrange- ments at Lulenga for our porters, stor- age of our supplies, supplies for the porters and for our personal accommo- dati in their guest house. VISIT AKELEY CAMP, "Many 'of the successes which we experienced are due to the generous aid of Fathers Provost and Van den Houdt, of the mission. Through the Litter especially our practical arrange- ments were completed for three separ- ate porter safaris which started from Lulenga as a base. On August 26, Dr. and Mrs. Bing- ham with native guides, gun bearers, personal boys and forty porters, left Lulenga for the three-days' climb up the wooded slopes of Mount Kikeno to Kabara where they established their first field camp. It was to this spot that Akeley re- turned in 1926 for the purpose of ex- ploring the reserve and of obtaining accessories and background for the gorilla group which he was preparing for African Hall in the American Mu- seum of Natural History of New York. It was with difficulty that he reached his old camp site, for he had con- tracted fever on the lower levels and was not well, He failed rapidly and in two or three days the end came. He was fittingly buried, as he wished, within the avea tlat through his in- itial efforts has become a #afe refuge for one of the two existing gorilla species. : © CONTACT WITH GORILLAS. k. In telling of thi £ the tri DE ay he trp "Motor service from Uvira to Cos- The by Dr, and width, in which {gorilla ranges in hia search for food. forthcoming passion play. of Akeley's grave and here the expedi- tion remained for the first month of work. During the period they were in frequent contact with various gor- lla groups, following them as they fed their way along, carefully record- ing for future study, observations on the nests, the feeding habits, the so- cial responses, the nomadic behavior, and the individual traits of the ani- mals, They took moving and till pie- tures whenever conditions favored, A belt of forest growth of varying bamboo predemi- nates, encircles the central mass of ihe three great volcanoes of the Kivu region--Mikeno, Harisimbi and Visele --at an altitude of from about 7,500 to 10,000 feet. In places it is so dense that it is impossible for one to pene- trate it cxcept by cutting trails, It is in the bamboo belt, and for a iderable dist above i*, that the The succulent thoots, the "suckers," | which the hamboo roots send through the soil into the air above constitute an important item in his food. The young and tender shoots aro eaten en- tire; the older and tougher stalks are torn open and only the inner portion selected. FOND OF WILD CELERY Wild celery is another growth that the gorilla apparently finds appetiz- ing. This plant, which attains a height of six or eight feet, grows Jux- uriantly over extensive areas. The stalks are thick and filled with water and the young shoots are tender, and crush or break readily, The gorillas pull the stalks out of the ground and eat the succulent roots and jnmer and lower stalks, That the gorilla, however, is not limited in his diet to bamboo shoots and wild celery, that he feeds upon other plant varieties, is a conclusion which Dr, and Mrs, Bingham found much evidence to support. They gave particular attention to the growths upon which the gorilla feeds, and brought back a number of guch plant specimens for examination and identi- fieation. It seems to be evident that gorilla bands are continually moving, though in a leisurely manner. Apparently they have no abiding place, but e¢on- stantly wander about as the lure of food impels them, though, of course, their movements are limited to the zone in which they find conditions to be the most suitable. Indications are that they sleep but one night in a given "nest" which is a very simple affair made by pulling and breaking down plants and vines which chance to be at hand. OBSERVE ANIMAL BEIAVIOR Some reports which reached Dr. and Mrs. Binglwmn indicated that these animals frequently built their nests in i camp i re. Bingham was set up within sight Edouard Bleeling of Oberammergau, Germany, makes a picturesque figure delivering bread, since he has let his bhaly grow in preparation for habite. environment adaptations. old nests made by chimpanzees. from 6,000 to 12,000 feet. TRAIL BUFFALO, ELEPHANTS homeward. out further study and observation. ham said: we found fascinating evidence." ----ps New interest With tariff and such, lesser things Mere man will fuss no more; The only question now will be: What's the score trees; other repurts had it that the him for it.--Hodgson, nests in the region were never built off the ground. While, in general, it poems; improbab.e that the great weight of the fully grown gorilla's body permits him to eperid much time in trees, nevertheless, from the .evi- dence obtained Dr. and Mrs, Bingham believe that the varying physical con- ditions in the areas over which the gorillas range may lead to important differences in- feeding and nesting It is probable, too, they feel, that changes in climate, seasons and rainfall, may affect the behavior of these animals, resulting in significant Fer nearly a month the ebserva- tional work of the expedition was oar- ried on in altitudes above the bamboo belt. A similar period was later de- voted to exploration from three differ- ent field camps in and below the bam- boo belt on the slopes of Kikeno. On these lower altitudes they found tree nests of the gorillas, sometimes as high as fifty feet above the ground; and, east and west of Berungs, also Both above and below the bamboos they observed gorillas and trailed var- jous bands for distances varying from one to three days of gorilla travel, In the course of these studies they vir- tually girdled Mount Mikeno, and Kar- isimbt in part, at altitudes ranging On October 11 the party struck camp returning to Rutshuru where a few days were spent in trailing buffalo and elephants in order to compare the activities of these animals at lower altitudes with their activities on the slopes of the volcanoes, On October 29, Dr, and Mrs. Bingham turned Just as with all research workers, study of a problem always raises in- numerable queries not before thought of, so with Dr. and Mrs. Bingham. While they obtained valuable informa- tion about the behavior of these great apes in their free and untrammeled habitat, they returned with many fresh questions relating to behavior- istic adaptations, questions that can not be answered with assurance with- In summarizing results, Dr, Bing- "After all, perhaps the greatest contribution of this expedi- tion may be the deviting of methods for future study of these varieties the social and adaptive behavior of which mre pens Thete 1s something in every man which, it you knew, you would love that : Given by Mr. Alex Waugh, In "The Coloured Countries," hag written an unconven- tional travel book. He tells of the Hebrides, Haiti, Martinique, Siam, | Ceylon, and the West Indies; fearless. ly and frankly discusses the moral problems of the coloured races and the 'white people; and has that rare gift of revelation that enables his non-travel- ling reader to enjoy the journeyings he has undertaken. Ia his chapter on Tahiti, for example, the following passage gives a real glimpse of the life as it is lived or endured: 'One by one we have found, those of us who have made the experiment," writes Mr. Alex Waugh, "that there is something in the atmosphere of Tahiti that prevents the modern sephisticated Westerner from relax- ing. He cannot forget Europe, He cannot take root. And before he has been there many weeks he is beset by the last thing that he had expected to be beset by there, a curious restless ness and irritability, His nerves are on edge. He cannot settle down to anything. He loses all sense of pro- portion, He embarks on the most ab- surd quarrels with his acquaintances. He loses the very thing he came in search of, tranquillity. "Looking back in.a calm remem- brance of all that happened there, I have wondered sometimes whether it is not to the monthly arrival of the mail boat,as much as anything that this restlexsness is due. It introduces the idea of time, whereas timelessness is the essential condition of island life. A few days before my first visit there 1 dropped and broke my watch. It did not matter much on board a ship, and in Papeete 1 would get myself an- other one I thought. But when I reached Tahiti I found that I had no need of a watch, Hours did not mat- ter, When the si%1 rose you got up. When the sun was high you siestaed. 'When the sun sank you began to think of supper. During my six weeks there I had no watch, and never missed it. And it seemed to me a fitting symbol of a return to Western life that practically my first act en my return to San Fran- cisco should be to buy ome. 1 was back in a world where time mattered." lumingting: 'It is not so much that one sees the world through it,' says the author, "as that one comes to a whole series of sengations that are to be won to no how else. For, in point of actual worldliness, the sailor, though he has touched at so many corners of the world, knows little of it, "1 have travelled, I suppose, in all, on gomething like thirty ships, vary- ing in size trom the vast Atlantle fer- ry boats to the little trading steamers that coast round the lagoons of the New Hebrides; I have seen something of the sailor's lite, and, knowing much the actual conditions governing it may change, in ite essentials it remains the same, 'We listen enviously at first to the sallor's account of the seas he has crossed and the lands that he has visited, but in actual fact he sees noth- ing of those far countries except their coastline, He rarely remains for long- er than five days at any port. There work to be done upon the ship; there 1s not time to go far inland, He has only a few hours at his disposal, He has no friends ashore. As likely as not the language is foreign to him. The cafes are the only places that he can go to; there is not much differ- ence between one cafe and another. "The land lite of the sailor is nar- row, uninteresting, and, in the true sense of the word, unromantic, It is, however, an Iinessential part of the sailor's life. You can get no true ple- ture of hig real life by watching him in a "dive" in Colon, or in the chop sueys that are north of the West India Docks. He is a seaman, and hig life ig on his ship. "At sea he is a very different per- gon, simple and direct, leading a healthy, pleasant, monotonous exlst- ence, His life is centred in his ship and his companions; he has no part in that which constitutes the life of the normal landsman, He rarely reads a newspaper, politics mean nothing to him; his conversation ls not a fabrie of murder trials and foot- Then again his insight into the real} and tangible lure of travel is most il-. e--hig parents, his wife, his children. A sailor, for all they may talk about the 'wife in every port,' is an extremely domesticated person. He has no opportunity of kndwing more than a very few e intimately, and his life is bound up in those few. The excitement of arriving at port is more often the thrill over & mail than the prospect of a hilarious evening. "We picture the sailor's life in terms of adventure and romance. We think of the sailor as some one who has seen life widely; but in poidt of fact there is no class of person who is less familiar with what is held ordin- arily to constitute lite, In conse- quence, he retains that freshness, al- most amounting to an innocence of outlook, that is his particular and peculiar charm." Secret History of Boer War Revealed General Sir lan Hamilton Talks to "Defenders of Lady Smith" in Old London London--General Sir lan Hamilton, speaking at a gathering of the "De fenders of Ladysmith" in London told some 'secret history" of the South African War. He sald: . "1 will deal with matters of which I have intimate knowledge, beginning with Blandslaagte on Oct, 21, On that date General French, who was out Teconnoitring to the north, 'phoned In at 8 am, through the railway tele- graph lines to Sir George White that he was in touch with the enemy and wanted reinforcements. I was sent out in' command of Field Artillery, the Devons, Manchesters, and Gordons. "At 11 am. we arrived at Modder Spruit, five miles from the enemy, who lay at BElandslaagte, There Gen- eral French came dewn . to the line and met us. The matter was talked over, and I was keen on pressing on at ence. General French said he could not until the horses had been fed and watered. "One way and another we did not start until 8 p.m, and did not get Into action till 4.30. "We carried the position at 5.45 p.m, Night was falling. You know the courge of the battle. With half an hour more of daylight none of the Boers would have escaped. Immortal Scoop "But the biggest chance of making an immortal scoop that ever came my way was on Oct. 27," The cavalry reported a big Boer commando with guns to be In laager five miles north- east. of Ladysmith. I was sent out with one infantry brigade and found the cavalry had left to guard the rail way between Ladysmith and Colenso, But an officer left behind showed us the laager and gave us an excellent sketch of the ground. "In the laager were 5,000 Boers and eleven guns, From the farm where my brigade lay concealed a road led right up to the laager only two miles oft, I sent in to Ladysmith and got leave to make a night attack, "They gave me leave. My orders were issued. Start at one am. by the light of a small moon. Empty magaines and fixed bayonets. The thing was a "cert," The cavalry had come back and French had agreed te plan and to pursue whenever it grew light. : "The Royal Fusiliers and Gordon Highlanders were to lead. We said our prayers and lay down to sleep, At eleven pm. I was awakened, I thought the hour had struck. "Alas, it was an order to get back in to Ladysmith at once. Had that attack come off there would have been no mournful Monday and no selge f Ladysmith. But then, dear friends, we wouldn't be here." There was a young fellow named Bee- Bee, Wighed to wed Phoebe; "But," said he, "I must gee What the clerical fee Be before Phoebe be Phoebe Bee-Bee.' with a lady named reer freee "Reasonable prudence is the begin- ning of wiedom."--Benito Mussolini, By C. M. PAYNE nd How the Emplo ployment n . ager Fits the Job to theMan = Only a few ears ago had the strange idea that their works ers were just useful machines. That these men and women were human beings and possessed souls never seemed to enter their minds, This has been changed now, and employers realize that their workpeoe ple must be treated fairly it they wish to get the best work from them. And, in order to do this efficiently, a new figure has been introduced into indus- try--the employment manager. Naturally such a position carries great responsibility, for the man who holds it must be a lover of justice, a good adviser, and a keen student of human nature, It is his job to act as "llalson officer" between the workers and employers ,and if the heads are likely to forget their duty to their em ployees, then the employment man ager must have sufficient courage to remind them of their responsibility, Third Time Lucky A conference is to be held shortly to consider the position of the employ= ment manager, and the Industrial Welfare Soclety, which has been re- sponsible for the arrangement of this meeting, is publishing important ine formation to prove how valuable he is to industry, One of the improvements that has been noticed in factories where there is an employment manager is in the engaging of new workers, As he has an understanding of human nature, he is able to get inside the minds of those he ls engaging or those he has already taken on. In a famous motor-car factory there is a window-cleaner who was form- erly a fitter. As he did not like the job of fitter he was transferred to the office, but routine work proved too monotonous for him. So he was set to clean the windows, and that is what he Is doing now. In the ordinary way he would have been discharged as soon as it was discovered that he was no good as a fitter, but the m- ployment manager was able to help him to settle down. "Because I'm Never Late--" Whereas a foreman will engage men or women solely because they have i had previous experience at that parti- cular type of work the trained man goes deeper and is as interested ing character as in experience, Ope of the big London stores re- ceived a request for work from a pavvy. Upon the face of matters, it would be imagined that he was quite unsuited for such work, and he would have been summarily rejected. But the employment manager asked - why he thought he was suited for the yacancy. my late for "Becauge I'm never t work," was the reply. So he was appointed timekeeper, and became @ very useful member of the staff In another store, girls were heing examined for assistants' jobs, One girl failed 'to pass, but the examiner noticed that she spent her time in pricking dress designs on the examig- ation paper. He sent her to the le- glgning department, where she was immediately engaged: Cutting Out Waste The elimination of waste is another of the employment manager's tasks. Therq was a case recently of a big firm with factories in geveral areas. Finding that expenses were very heavy, the manager began to make inquiries. He discovered that one factory was discharging skilled girl workerg, while another factory was engaging unskilled labor which Jad to be trained for the very same type of work. The amount transferring the ro one factory to the other astonished the directors of the firm, and they encouraged the employment manages nto by from that was saved surplus girls to make further inquiries ex penditure. ; ' : This is & promising sign for indas- : 1 ie eo t try, and it is not too optimistic 10 in a few years, the em- ployment manager will have made big strides, and' this country will be in the midst of another industrial boom. gay that, with epee Wise Mr. Fly "will you walk into my parior?" Said Mies Spider to the fly. "Not 1," his flyship answered As he winked his other eye. "por your dinky so-called parlor-- Well, it isn't in my line. It's nothing but a dining room; So none of it for mine. THE CANVAS OF LIFE If we would please God we must watch every stroke and touch upon the canvas of our lives; we may not think we can lay it on with a trowel and yet succeed. "We ought to lve as miniature painters work,( for they watch every line and tint.--Spurgeon, mene A. Very few women. take to drink through love of it, according to one medical expert; there is usually some reason, such as a love disappoint ment. ee pene One of the godlike things of this. world is the veneration done to bu- 'man worth by the hearts of men. Thomas Carlyl i Fir adherence to duty can a man to do without praise, or. agement of adulation from employers