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fcii ii m j tee jbxplober 8 endless toil the steal benefit to mankind ol his dis coveries when mr stanley was last in this coon- try he expressed the opinion that many people did not sufficiently distinguish be tween mere travellers and competent ex plorers backs of travel ha said aro often wanting in the qualities of minute and ac curate description needed to make them specially important the well equipped explorer on too other hand collects at the cost of an immense amount of drudgery material that is most useful in various branches of science mr stanley nentien- ed burton as an example of a born traveller and speke as a great explorer the solentigo results of dr junkers re cent explorations in central africa just published area conspicuous example of the re enthusiasm and perseverance which lh best explorers bring to their work all luroute maps are bised on observations taken every five minutes durldg his jour neys at the end of eaoh five minutes he entered in his note book the direction he had marched j and at the end of eaoh day ho computed his average direction and the distance travelled at neatly every camp he was able to take i the bearings of dlshint hills to aid in cor recting any error in his route surveys the notes he had taken on the way were then oopied in pen and ink into his journal they inolado a great variety of information such as tho geology and vegetation of the country the character and demity of the population the political boundaries crossed and all the explorer could learn of the btreams ana rivers when it is remembered that day by day for four years during which junker travelled some thousands of miles on foot he kept up this laborious routine it is easy to believo that wonderful patience and per severance were not the least of the qualities be brought into play the great geographer supan criticising an innccurato book on germanys colonies recently wrote that he serves his father land best who tells the plain tiuth gar man explorers certainly excel in the faculty of minute observation and accurate report ing it is said by those who have visited tho route which wiasmann end pogge fol lowed half way across afrio i thnt every im portant feature of topography for about three miles on either side of their path is clearly and accurately shown on their route may the other explorer nsohtlgal whose extensive travels in the sahara and the sou dan made him famous was marvellously painstaking both in the collection of data and in preparing them for publication he was seven years writing out his great work and it is a monument of tcientifij obser vation and a worthy modul for the study of all geographical writers a while ago ir oneill took over eighty observations to dctermino tho longitude of blantyre and his further ubours carried out in tho same toilsome aud conscientious msnnor have led to considerable changes in tho position of places on l ike nyasea whloh bad been accepted by geographers accurate we often read the results oi competent exploration with little thought of the immense labour involved in the earnest endeavour to attain the ex tot truth major powell testified four years ago that with the machinery then employed in making tho great topographic map of this country it would still nqnire sboir twentyfour years to complete it no txporer has surpassed livingstone in conscientious devotion to his business though with better tppliancfs some explor ers have achieved in some respsots more txaot results the world has not yet seen in print and probably never will more than a third of the material he collected and which he did not have tlmo to prepare for publication his work is monotonous or confining daring tho entile years of service is not iho one to find himself in specially easy circumstances later in life a w cheever a strange place for babys cradle i wlndi lullaby is in tie treetop by iodise esteixe boos tho not always gentle and when the bough breaks what will become of poor baby i how many mothers have in trusted their little ones to the oak trees airy nursery do yon think t the oak stands jut at the torn of the road overlooking tho field and if it only kept a record of the guests it sheltered beneath its strong outstretched boughs every summer it would have a highly inter esting visitors book in spite of all dangers there are many cradles rocked in that tree top and the good old oak gives the little one shelter and often food as weli first we see the robins nest which they have built with such care from sticks and straws plastered with olay and lined with horsehair but they were foolish robins to set np housekeeping there for fquirrels like oak trees too it is a melancholy fact that squirrels and robins jannot live peacefully latest from europe the dock laborers strike suppressing crammine at monaco another smoke less gunpowder the dock laborers are all working quietly enough now but it took them a few days to settle into their places again naturally they were irritated against the men who worked while their comrades were fighting for their rights and frequent scrimmages were the result oa the other hand the direotors unduly favored the men who bad stuck to them in their hour of need and gave them the preference on all occasions and sometimes by means not entirely straight forward barns was equal even to this emergency and with a degree of tact rarely equalled in a straggle of this kind he has succeeded in smoothing things over the strikes in england however are not ended wlvh the laborers resuming work the london tailors are still out and the bakers of the metropolis meet tomorrow to in the same tree and the oid oak could j air their grievances in hyde park and as erobably tell us of many a terrible battle j burns is to addrecs them a resort to a strike etween them if it had only taken notes at is not improbable the fear among the the time but these robins may think that capitalists however is that success on this ancient letters mr ptries excavations have brought other longburled wonders to light halt a mile from the pyramid of illahun he came upon a christian cemetery of the fifth and sixth centuries the rich garments of the pious copts bnried there are described as being from the extreme dryness of the spot still quite sound and even wearable below the cemetory were found the founda tion deposits of userresen ii about b c 2960 cioso to tho temple are the remains of a town of tho same porlod evidently built atone time and originally itissupposod in tsnded for tho architects and workmen em ployed upon tho pyramid it was here that the pottery with the alphabetic signs was found hero also dozens of invaluable papyri were revealed of some of thes3 mr petrio writes thoy are apparently a oountbah in ruled columns aud linesexqni- bltely neat and in a beautifully clear hand many of tho entries being in red 1 have fl ttted and laid under press seven rquvre feet of sheets and fragments all of tho twolfeh dynasty bat the most remarkable of the relics ol tho anoiont oiviuztrlon or at least those whloh como home to us with most of the freshness and pathos of a living and per sonal interest were those turned up at tell gnrob five or six miles from illahun hero the head oases of mummies wore found to be made of many layera of papyri plastered together separated by soaking eya tho account before us those papyri have been made to tell their story sometimes trivia sometimes pathetic after the lapse of count less tgs one is a letter from a youth at colloge telling his father of his progress and saying that he now understands mensuration and can draw a plan of a houso another from a royal goose herd who states that he cannot supply twelve geeso for king ptolemys festival how those revelations of oommon feelings and wants of humanity bridge tho ohasms of soorea of centuries and bring back to us the real life of thoso aotors on the stage of a world so ion past that it is hard without saoh assistance to ooncelvo of it as peopled with beings of like wants and feelings with ourselves familiar talks- take notico of this young mon while working by the month never think of on nlng a horso and top boggy i never knew a young man to rise in the world who used bis first money in this way so says da baker in the niw tort tribune and now i think of it i can recall several young men of my acquaintance who put their first money into horse flesh and pleasure carriages but on not recall any who have made a marked sucess in life who began that way the young man who makes himself indispensable to his employer doscnt have much time for tiding over the country ontride of service boars the young man who complains that the highway running close by will be protection to them for their furry enemies are shy and prefer to live in tne woods ont of the reach ol passersby at any rate the birds have seen their pretty blue eggs hatch into ravenous little monsters with great yellow beaks and are very happy and very busy feeding and keeping them warm and as yet no cquirrel has disturbed their peace but this oradle that we may see so easily is not tho only one ic the oak tree close by the robins nest grows a little brown ball round aud hard it does not look as if lb ccud be the homo of any liv ing creature bnt in it are hale a dozen or moio tiny infants they like their dinners of sawdust as well as the robins enjoy the fat worms their busy mamma brings them no body brings any delicacies to these closely tea ej bails nobody rocks the cradle but the wind nevertheless it was prepared for these little white inmates by a careful gauzy witg6d mother that looked like a waop ani who stinging the oak twig caused this little brown nursery to grow upon it then she laid some tiny eggs within and strange to say they straightway began to gi jw larger which is more than the robins i gg could do the ball grew too till it was marly as large as a cherry and then the oggs withm hatched into tiny worms which found the world a very crowd ed little place indeed though well filled with nice sawdust to eat all day longt how astonished they will be when they eat their way out at last and arriving at the surface of their little globe look around them at tho great world of light and air that thoy never saw before i then they will fly about fa tho sunshine grown up gallwasps to make more oak balls for their little ones but now they are snugly housed and know nothing of the hum of life going en all about them small as they are these quosr nurseries are not tho tiniest to ba found in the tree- top another winged oreature goes flying about with a long piercer than looks like a sting uurmurlng to herself i must find a leaf i must make a place for my eggs and then she thrusts the sharp piercer between tho uppet and lower surfaces of a leafjust think how little space bhe has 1 and finds it a capital plaoe for her little i ones so the eggs hatch in the smallest possible room as fiat as a sheet of paper yet the tiny creatures got more exerolse than tho babywasps this we can see by looking at the leaf they live in for it is covored with wavy lines that show where they are making tunnels inside as thoy crawl along eating the green pirt of the leaf bat never touohihg the outer portion else they conio through into the air before they were ready to live there that time will come by and by and meanwhile the leaf is their world another leaf is rolled up in a curious wav and scoured with a little sheet of pure white silk this is a daintier cradle than che others and it contains something very curious a pale pink ball the sizi of a pea formed of many little grains fastened to gether and lo i in time these grains put out eight little legs apiece and there we have a whole family of baby spiders still clinging togsther as thoy will continue to do till thty grow a little larger and feel more at homo in the world but what is this loud rapping the oak tree has a new visitor and this time it is one who will make sad havoc iu the nurseries that aro the most carefully hidden bold strong and hungry his red cap showing like a single of danger among the leaves tho wookpecker alights on the trunk on which he can run as fast as you oan on the ground and taps to find out who is at home woo to tho insect that answers the tapping i even if thoy hide in the oroviuoa of the bark or in tho wood itself woodpecker with his sharp eyes and sharper beak will find them ont and eat them- and more than all he will even take pains to prepare an attractive plaoe for various insects to pass their infancy that he may be sure of finding them at home and this is how he does it he first drills a goodslzid hole in tho tree then eoes fa serch of an acorn and finding one pops it into this hole some times people have fancied that he was storing it away for his own use but he does not mean to eat the acorn itself he knows that there are those who will and when he oomes again he will find many little gmbs and worms and baby flics of all kinds enjoying the feast he has provided for them then you may be sure the woodpecker enjoys a feast in his turn yot in spite of dangers there are happy uvea in the treetop and all the year round the good old oak stands by the road with outstretohed boughs ready to welcome every new guest and protect as well as it can the little ones committed to its care the wind blows but the branches are strong the sun shines with fierce heat but the leaves give shade and when the rain falls it cannot harm tho sheltered homes in the oak tree occasion will cause the strike leaders to organize a universal railway strike in eng land it wonld be by far the greatest labor trouble that england has ever seen the oab drivers of london are also talking of striking and burns has informed them that his services are at their disposal whenever they set about improving their lot the young mens christian association will be glad to know that the dix seuvieme siecle of paris publishes the statemo thai the british 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