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THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1913.
THE SEMI-WEEEY JOURNAL
ATLANTA, GA., 5 NORTH FORSYTH ST.
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Corn Clubs for the Nation
So fruitful has been the work of the Boys' Corn
clubs in the South that the federal Department of
Agriculture now plans to make this movement na
tionwide. What the organization of youthful farm
ers has accomplished for grain culture in this sec
tion, it can accomplish for other rural interests
throughout the country.
In the boys and girl of the farm, there is a tre
mendous store of energy that can he turned to crea
tive and progressive account. It is through them
that the cause of scientific, as contrasted with hap
hazard, methods of agriculture can he pressed for
ward most speedily and most permanently. When
they are made to feel that they have an active and
definite part in the affairs oi the farm and in the
advancement of their country’s interests, when they
are given an opportunity to win honors and to pro
duce results, they will have little inclination to
abandon the life to which they were horn for that
of the city.
The old cry of “hack to the fi rm” has been suc
ceeded by a wiser slogan, that of “stay on the farm.”
And this appeal is being supported by intelligent ef
forts to make rural life truly attractive, or rather
to bring to the front those advantages which are
inherent in rural life. Among the most interesting
and, perhaps, the most effective of these efforts is
that represented by the Boys' Corn club movement.
This enterprise has not only increased the yield
and improved the quality of corn in those States
where it has been inaugurated. It has also quick
ened and enriched the interest of the boys in their
native environment. It has proved a wonderful
agency in the agricultural education and progress
of the South. It is gratifying to know that this con
structive movement is to be extended throughout
the nation.
Rural Credits.
The appointment of a committee by President
Wilson to co-operate with the Southern Commercial
congress in a study of rural credits marks a for
ward step in an enterprise of the utmost importance
to America’s agricultural interests. The govern
ment’s aid in this undertaking -,,-as authorized at
the last session of congress in recognition of the fact
that a freer and more responsive system of farm
loans is essential to the country’s progress.
The South is particularly concerned in this mat
ter. In order that its resources, and especially those
of agriculture, may be duly developed it is necessary
that ample capital he available at reasonable rates of
interest. There are cheering indications that this
problem will be worked out in the near future. In
deed, the subject of farm loans is now appealing
with unusual interest to foresighted business men.
Institutions to meet this vital need are being estab
lished, and when the way is once opened, results
will no doubt speedily follow. The South is being
brought into easier and more intimate connection
with the sources of capital; and as this continues its
development will hasten and increase.
' There is no better guarantee for loans and invest
ments than a farm well situated in this section
where a wondrous combination of natural advantages
makes possible the production of practically every
thing needed for man’s sustenance. The commission
on rural credits established jointly by the govern
ment and the Southern Commercial Congress will
make a thorough study of farm credit systems in
Europe, where this subject has long been considered;
and from the information thus gained a plan suited
to American needs will doubtless be perfected.
.Scholars in Chinese Politics.
The idea of the scholar in politics evldenly ap
peals to progressive China. There has been appointed
as assistant secretary of state in the cabinet of the
republic a member of the 1912 graduating class of an
American university; and he has under his direc
tion seven other Chinese graduates of American col
leges.
The United States has good reason to be proud
of the part it is thus playing in the transformation
of a faraway land. The Chinese have modeled their
republic largely after our own and from our his
tory they have drawn much Inspiration for the splen
did. task upon which they have entered.
It is a distinctive fact of the Chinese that their
dominant statesman have been of liberal scholarship
and that education and character are the standards
of public fitness. The movement that overthrew the
Manchu dynasty was led by men of learning, by
thinkers who had traveled far seeking the ideas
and the culture of the world. For such a people,
there is an abundant and hopeful future.
Farm Marketing.
State governments, as well as the federal gov
ernment, are recognizing more and more widely the’
need of business methods and facilities in the con
duct of the farm. It is not enough that crops be
scientifically cultivated; they must also be mar
keted economically, they must be well managed
from seed to harvest time, from -the soil to the con
sumer, if agricultural interests are to prosper and
progress. The same principles that make a factory
or a bank successful must be applied to the farm.
If this is to he accomplished the State and the
Nation, as well as the individual planter, must do
their part, especially in respect .to the sale of prod
ucts. Governor McGovern, of Wisconsin, has recom
mended in his recent message to the Legislature the
enactment of a bill establishing a State market com
mission through which the farmer may he kept in
formed concerning the supply, the demand and the
prices of commodities and through which he may
he brought into more direct contact with the con
sumer. From the rural communities of Wisconsin,
there has come an insistent demand for the State’s
co-operation in placing farm interests on a business
like basis and in protecting them against monopo
listic or speculative schemes. The farmer must know
his market before he can proceed intelligently.
It has been estimated that of a nine-billion dollar
food crop in the United States about three billions,
or one-third, remains on the farm, so that the pro
ducers actually sell something like six billion dollars
worth. But by the time these products have reached
the consumer, their cost has risen to thirteen billion
dollars. This it is evident that between the producer
and the consumer there now stretches a great gulf
of unnecessary waste and expense.
If only a fraction of this intermediate cost could
be wiped out, the consumer no lees than the farmer
would be benefited an* the burdensome expense of
living would be appreciably reduced. When the pro
ducer receives only six billions and the consumer
pays thirteen billions, there is clearly some radical
defect in the system of farm marketing. This dif
ference of seven billion dollars arises partly of course
from necessary and legitimate expenses, for instance,
of transportation and of a fair profit to the distri
butors. It is nonetheless evident, however, that a
tremendous saving could be effected by the estab
lishment of shorter and easier methods for bringing
the farmer’s products to the consumer’s pantry.
A market commission directed y the State or
the federal government, or better still by each of
them, would go far toward accomplishing this use
ful end. Senator Hoke Smith’s bill creating a divis
ion of markets in the United States department of
agriculture is directly in line with this progressive
purpose. The national government can render ines
timable service by keeping the farmers continually
informed concerning the demand for farm products
in trade centers and the current movement of such
products. A State government would promote the
welfare of all its people by supplementing such an
enterprise with a view toward giving the farmers
of a particular section more detailed and local in
formation.
It will be interesting to watch th'e progress of
the proposed movement in Wisconsin. If such a
measure as Governor McGovern recommends is en
acted, it will prove a far-reaching advantage to his
State and other commonwealths will inevitably fol
low the example.
A Just and Generous Policy
Toward Latin America.
President Wilson’s statement concerning his ad
ministration’s policy towarn Central and South
America should allay all suspicion that this Gov
ernment covets any of the rights or property of its
neighboring republics and it should also serve as a
timely warning to adventurers and trouble-breeders
who may seek to overturn the peace and law of
(.hose countries for their personal or selfish in
terests.
The President declares that one of the chief ob
jects of his administration will be “to cultivate the
friendship and deserve the confidence of our sister
republics of Central and South America and to pro
mote in every proper and honorable way the inter
ests that are common to the people of the two con
tinents.” At the same time he emphasizes the truth
that “there can be no freedom without order based
upon law and upon the public conscience and ap
proval.” For all Latin American leaders and peo
ples who recognize and conform to this essential
of liberty and progress, the United States will hold
the friendliest and most sympathetic regard; but
for “personal intrigue and defiance of constitutional
rights” it will have no toleration.
Under this just and far-seeing policy, the rela
tionships between our own nation and its Latin
neighbors should be cordial and commonly helpful.
If the United States is to enjoy profitable trade with
Central and South American countries, it must as
sure them that it has no selfish designs upon their
territory; it must also assure them that It will
not connive at schemes to overthrow tneir estab
lished and constitutional governments.
Upon this broad basis f fair play and genuine
friendship, the commerce between North and
South America should develop rapidly, If the peo
ple of the latter are equally responsive and sincere.
Tariff revision will be the only subject for the
extra congress, showing that the Democrats are not
going hack on their promises.
Mr. William J. Harris
For Census Director.
It is announced through The Journal’s Washing
ton dispatches that Secretary of Commerce Redfield
has certified to the President, with his official recom
mendation, the appointment of Mr. William J. Har
ris, of Georgia, as director .of the United States
census and that the President will send Mr. Harris’
nomination to the Senate when Congress convenes
in extra session on April the seventh.
It is a matter of cordial satisfaction to the en
tire State that so important a trust and so distinc
tive an honor are to be conferred upon a Georgian.
Mr. Harris is pre-eminntely qualified for the census
directorship. His business ability and attainments
together with his familiarity with public life and
his genius for organization will make him a credit
to t*his responsible post. Incidentally, It Is of in
terest to note that Mr. Harris was one of the “orig
inal” Wilson men in the South and that he rendered
valiant service not only in the pre-convention con
test but also duri..g the regular campaign. He is
now chairman of the State Democratic executive
committee and has served with distinction in the
State senate. He has the congratulations and good
wishes of all Georgia.
The Weakness of Cursing
By Dr. Frank Crane
We may be permitted to doubt whether it has ever
done much good to tell men how bad they are.
Scolding, fault-finding, satire, irony, lampooning,
exposing, cursing and condemn
ing are all interesting and easy.
Everybody seems born with a
knack for this sort of thing.
But the whole business is a
business of weakness, not of
strength.
Swearing is a symptom of a
lack of proper vocabulary. A
man is profane because he has
not the power to express his
feelings with satisfactory force
in good English.
A woman scolds because she
doesn’t know enough to get her
own way by diplomacy and love.
It is the woman who is impotent
to control her child that hectors
him. It is the consciousness of
her lack of proper influence over
her husband that causes her to nag him.
Complaint is the language of failure. It is the
utterance of self-pity, and self-pity, is the effort of
a contemptible spirit to attract attention.
The only trade in which a failure can be success
ful is fault-finding. In that occupation the les3 your
ability the sharper your triumph.
There are two kinds of critics, interpretative and
destructive. The former seek to help the reader un
derstand the author; such are rare, some of tliem are
great. The latter seem to regard every work as a
challenge, they attack it with all the airs and poses
of jealous egotism; such are plentiful, all of them are
small.
Th© glibness of cursing is fatal. There are two
kinds of prophets and preachers. One kind berate
the people for their wickedness; the other helps the
people to discover their goodness. The former draws
crowds. The latter helps along.
Jeremiah has a deal more to say in the Bible than
Jesus. Jeremiah was the forerunner of downfall,
Jesus the redeemer of the world.
The majesty of Jesus lay in his amazing power of
seeing good in everybody—except Pharisees. To my
mind there was nothing recorded ’hat Jesus ever did
that is greater than his action toward the wcunan
taken in adultery, where He simply declined to curse
her (what an opportunity the orthodox moralist
thinks He missed!), and said:
“Neither do I condemn thee. Go and sin no more.”
Says Goethe: ‘“When I have called bad bad, how
much is gained by that? The man who would work
aright must not deal in censure, must not trouble
himself about what is bad,, but show and do what
is good.” *
Listen to the Dictagraph
Speaking of modern duplicity; they do say that the
gold bricks they used to sell were much more neatly
made than those now on the market.
• * *
Some men get careless about money matters be
cause their wives don’t criticize them any differently
for losing a thousand dollars than for forgetting to
wind the clock.
* • *
“I am a Socialist and I want everybody to divide
his possessions with me.” “So am I; and I am will
ing to make good. All I possess is mortgaged prop
erty and a dyspeptic tendency ”
V V •
Things might be worse in every way! When the
old mule, with might and main, kicks up, be patient
as you say, “Thank Heaven he’s not an aeroplane!”
Pointed Paragraphs
For our part, we are content to feel that the rain
fall has done its t orst.
The weather last Sunday really suggested Easter
advanced on the calendar a whole week.
■ What Texas wants to do is to keep the Mexican
boll weevil from crossing the border.
Huerta probably wonders how long it will be-
before he becomes an ex-president.
No dollar diplomacy for us. The old shirt sleeve
style is good enough for Uncle Sam.
Now that so many world problems are in a fair
way of being solved, we have a new one before us.
It is What to wear on Easter Sunday.
President Wilson has also assured the great body
of American people that he will be friendly to
baseball.
The Extra Session.
I
President Wilson’s brief and formal pronounce
ment calling an extra session of congress for April
the seventh does not indicate the particular legisla
tion to be considered. It is commonly understood,
however, that the chief, if not the only, task then to
be undertaken will be that of tariff revision. Mr.
Wilson stated immediately after his election that he
would convene a special session of congress for this
purpose. The party’s prime pledge is a readjust
ment of the existing tariff schedules. That is what
the country demands and what business interests,
great and small, expect. The sooner this work is
completed, the better will it he for everyone con
cerned.
For several months past the ways and means
committee of the house has been diligently engaged
in the preliminaries of tariff revision. The various
interests likely to be affected by a change in the
present duties have been given ,a hearing. The out
lines of the hills to be presented are now being drawn
and by April the seventh the committee will be
ready to report.
Thus the processes of revision, which are neces
sarily complex, have been greatly simplified and
measures looking to genuine tariff reform can he
pressed through the extra session without tedious
delay. The advantage of a session where the tariff
alone will be considered is obvious. This issue, which
was paramount in the last campaign and for which
the people have so long demanded a square settle
ment, merits undivided attention. It must be settled
in the consumer’s interest, yet with a prudent re
gard for the great economic fabric with which it is
interwoven. There should not, and will not, be any
revolutionary course in this matter, but at the same
time revision should be “steadily and unhesitatingly
downward.”
It is a significant fact the country's business
awaits the Democratic tariff revision with thorough
confidence and composure. There is a nationwide
conviction that the -wrongs of the tariff must be
righted in order that we may have true prosperity;
and a nationwide assurance that the administration’s
steps toward this end will he well and wisely con
sidered.
GUITRY
T0PIOD
Concerts Enrons. v: hjeltoa
SMILE.
Like bread without the spreading 1 ,
Like a puddin’ without sauce,
Like a mattress without beddin’,
Like a cart without a hoss,
Like a door without a latchstring-,
Like a fence without a stile,
Like a dry and barren creek bed,
Is a face without a smile!
Like a house* without a dooryard,
Like a yard without a flower,
Like a clock without a mainspring,
That will never tell the hour;
A thing that sort o’ makes yo’ feel
A hunger all the while—
Oh, th e saddest sight that ever was
Is a face without a smile!
The face of man was built fer smile,
An’ thereby is he blest
Above the critters of the field.
The birds an’ all the rest;
He’s just a little lower
Than the angels in the skies,
An’ the reason is that he can smile;
Therein his glory lies!
So smile, an’ don’t forgit to smile,
And* smile, an’ smile ag’in;
’Twill loosen up the cords o’ care,
An’ ease the weight o’ sin;
’Twill help yo* on the longest road,
An’ cheer yo’ mile by mile;
An’ so, whatever is your lot,
Jes’ smile, an’ smile, an’ smile.
—Augustin W. Breeden in the National Magazine.
There is a big volume of philosophy in these lines
above quoted.
i*.nd why not smile?
The good Lord has been too good to you to carry a
grouch, even if you are little and unknown. You owe
that smile to your family and your wife will lose
her worries if she can se you smile. I don't mean
you must laugh at her, or laugh at anybody who is
worried or w’ o has made mistakes.
It is a long step between friendly smile and a
boisterous hors e laugh. It is the kind, encouraging
smile that I am persuading you to encourage and per
fect in your daily life. Be good to yourself while
you are being good to others and make your way in
peace and comfort by aid of the smile.
THE TYRANNY OF PARTY POLITICS.
I verily believe that our new congressmen, when
they are asking votes, are generally honest and be
lieve what they say when they tell the voters that
they will vote against extravagance and try to con
duct public business according to common sens e and
an eye to the people’s interests.
They stay in that mind until they start to Wash
ington City, but then there is a new story to be
heard and to be told. They are then, as they tell
you, obliged to do what the caucus says do, and the
time was when railroad magnates put in enough men
to rule the caucus. I hear it said very frequently
that Standard Oil and the steel trust have been rul
ing the caucus. I have been too far away to see the
grip of the “octopus.” We were promised economy
with a big E to it two years ago, when a Democratic
house was elected in 1910 They were going to put
a check on extravagance, and do it with a “big stick.”
I have no doubt but they felt that way until they got
to Washington City. Then it became a horse of an
other color. The house c_ representatives, controlled
absolutely by Democrats, passed a pension bill last
week, .taking $200,000,000 out of the tax payers’
money. The report of the committee was brought in
by a Georgia mejnber who said he was opposed to it
per se, but his party said “pass it,” and he would
vote with his party. He * ad promised to vote down
extravagance, and h e was sent • - Washington to vote
down such outrageous extravagance; he pledged him
self to his constituents to vote it down, and yet when
the time came to stand to his pledges he chose to fol
low his party, and thus explained his failure to vote
down the bill which, by head and shoulders, far above
any other pension grab ever known to the United
States. I presume he does not expect to run again
for the same office and hopes to get a plum from
some other tree, but his duty to party has been a
most expensive affair to the people of this country.
ONE WHO LOVES NATURE.
Madison, Ga., Mar. 10, 1913.
Mrs. W. H. Felton:
Dear Madam:—Would you be so kind as to tell me
some houses that buy and sell butterflies and moths?
I am crazy about such things. I love nature. I
love the woods. I certainly would appreciate it if
you can tell me where to find a house that handles
such things. Sincerely,
H. W. ATKINSON.
Aerograms From Antiquity
BY EDWARD J. COSTELLO
PARIS, March 18 (A. D. 1662).—A modern transit
system was established formally here today, when
seven lines of vehicles called “omnibuses” were opened
for the benefit of lawyers, doctors “and others of the
indigent class.” These “carryalls” for the easy trans
portation of the people to and from the suburbs are
with the authority of his majesty, King Louis XIV,
who permitted the organization of a rapid transit com
pany with the Duke de Roanes at its head. Much
royal ceremony marked the inauguration of the serv
ice this morning at 7 o’clock, when the vehicles began
their daily trips.
The royal dedree under which the company ope
rates provides that the seven coaches, each containing
eight seats and no place for straphangers, shall run
at fixed hours, full or empty, between the extreme
quarters of Paris. This service is stated to be “for
the benefit of a great number of persons ill-provided
for, as persons engaged in lawsuits, their lawyers, in
firm people, and their leeches, and others, who have
not the means to ride in chaise or carriage, which
cannot be hired under a pistole or .a couple of crowns
a day.”
Before the coaches started this morning, two com
missaries of the Chatelet in legal robes, four guards
of the grand provost, half a score of the city archers
and as many cavalry, drew up in front of the assem
bled people. The commissary delivered a splendid
adress upon the advantages of the new omnibus sys
tem, exhorted the riders to observe good order, and
then, turning to the coachmen, covered the body of
each with a long blue frock, with the arms of the king
and the city showily embroidered on the front. Thus
handsomely decorated, the coachmen drove off, their
vehicles jammed to the S. R. O. point. But through
out today a provost guard rode in each - carriage to
maintain the peace and dignity of the kingdom, and
infantry and cavalry, here and there, proceeded along
the requisite lines to keep them clear.
For the fifst few hours it seemed as if the whole
of Paris was striving to ride in the omnibuses. All
along the streets crowds collected and impatient citi
zens signalled the coachmen, only to see them slip by
at full speed. Although Intended for the poorer
classes, the wealthy people of the city seemed in en
tire possession of the vehicles today. It is expected
that as soon as th© novelty wears off the transit
lines will become popular with the masses.
One suggestion which came during the day was that
coachmen be required to stop at street corners on sig
nal, anu to permit passengers to at least enjoy the
privilege of balancing themselves on straps. This
somewhat original plan was communicated to the Duke
de Roanes, who said if the people only would be pa-
Marking the Alaskan Boundary
By Frederic J. Flaskin
When the United States purchased Alaska from
Russia it was believed that there never could arise
between it and Great Britain a dispute over the
boundary between the territory
and British Columbia. The
boundary was fixed under a
treaty, made in 1825, between
Russia and Great Britain, one
end oflt to consist of the 141st
meridian, and the other end to
be constituted by a line drawn
across the summit of several
mountain peaks, from Mount
St. Elias to and through the
Portland canal. So sure were
those interested that the
boundary was plainly fixed that
Charles Sumner declared:* "I
am glad to begin with what Is
clear and beyond question. I
refer to the boundaries fixed
by the treaty/*
• • •
Concerning the 800-mlle
stretch from the Arctic ocean
southward, with the boundary consisting of the 141st
meridian, there could be no dispute which could not be
solved by careful measurements, but southward of
that the other 600-mile stretch Is made up of an ir
regular boundary separating the Alaskan panhandle
from the territory of British Columbia. As far back
as 1878 a dispute between England and the United
States arose, and a modus vivendi with reference to
the Stikine river was entered into, and a similar agree
ment composed for the time being the differences that
arose in 1899 relating to th© country at the head of
the Lynn canal.
• • •
Negotiations for th- permanent settlement of the
disputed boundaries were entered into shortly there
after, and these resulted In the negotiation of a
treaty in 1904, creating the tribunal of London, com
posed of six eminent jurists, three irom each coun
try, which was to hear the evidence in the case and to
settle the controversy once and for all. This tribunal
heard the evidence, reached its decision, and a com
mission to carry out its views was appointed, all
within eight months after the signing of the treaty.
The tribunal determined which mountain peaks
wer© referred to in the treaty of 1825, and marked
them on a map for the use of the commission upon
which devolved the physical task of fixing the bound
ary in accordance with the findings of the tribunal.
The commission consisted of O. H. Tittman, of the
United States coast and geodetic survey, and W. E.
King, representing the English government: They
had to identify the peaks fixed by the tribunal of
London, and mark each, turning point in the line with
stone monuments wherever possible. There was one
stretch of 120 miles that was fixed by the tribunal
only within certain limits, and the commission was
authorized definitely to fix the exact boundary In this
stretch.
Before the discovery of gold in Alaska few people
bothered their heads about boundaries in what seemed
to be desolate region where all the land in dispute
was not worth the money and pains it would cost to
settle the argument. But when the rush to the Klon
dike began th© Canadian government constructed a
telegraph overland to Dawson, while the United States
laid a cable from Seattle to Sitka, and a telegraph
line to- Valdez and Fort Egbert. It was then that
Alaska became worth considering, and the United
States and Grea* Britain pointed to different mountain
peaks as those referred to in the treaty of 1825, with
the result that the treaty creating the tribunal of|
London followed apace. *
• • •
The real work of marking the Alaskan boundary,
under the direction of the Alaskan boundary commis
sion, fell upon the shoulders of Thomas Riggs, Jr.,
the American engineer in charge, and his associates,
while Canada had a similar party In the field working
In conjunction with them. Mr. Riggs was no “new”
man when he went to Alaska to help tie a ground
boundary to th© stars, and to fix it so permanently
and so definitely that even though mountains were to
remove themselves into the sea and valleys were to
rise up into hills, that boundary would still be fixed.
He had “hit the trail” when gold was discovered in
Alaska, and had wrestled with the transportation
problems upon whose solution depends the opening
up of this virgin empire of natural wealth.
• • •
The work of marking the Alaskan boundary will
have cost the United States approximately $750,000
when it is finished next . ear. It represents some of
the best boundary work in th© world, and the 600-mile
section of it reaching from Mount St. Ellas to the
Arctic ocean, is the world’s longest exactly surveyed
straight line. The southern part of this line had to be
run across mountains covered with perpetual snows
and over glaciers of eternal ice. But as the work
progressed northward the elevation became lower, and
from the White river to the Arctic there is a brief
summer season fre© from ice and cold, and a region
where game on the land and game in the water
abound in profusion—white sheep in unnumbered
thousands, wide-antlered moose, caribou and bear—-
and where, in the words of Mr. Riggs, greyling are
not caught with hook and line, but are kicked out of
the water.
• • •
i The boundary is being marked by clearing off all
timber for a distance of ten feet on either side. At
points always within sight of on© another aluminum-
bronze monuments are set up to locate the exact posi
tion of the line. At important river crossings and
along highways of travel these monuments are five
feet high, and are embedded in a ton of concrete; at
less important points monuments three feet high,
planted in 1,500-pound concrete bases, are set up.
These points are geodetically determined, or located
by the stars. They will serve as the basis of all fu
ture surveys m
• • •
While the line was being run the-topographers wer#
at work with their plrne-tables, plotting the country
around. They climbed up to the tops of mountain
peaks where they could get a good view of the sur
rounding country, and recorded on their plane-table
sheets the elevations, the drainage, and even the char
acter of the timber. A line of precise levels was run
by which the elevation above the sea of any given
point could b e determined. The resulting maps are
said to be about the best example of the surveyor’s
art that have been made on any boundary.
* • •
The difficulty of mnning such a long line was per
haps greater than any encountered in recent history.
For over 200 miles across perpetual snow and primeval
glaciers, the supplies of the surveying party had to
be carried on the backs of horses .Two miles an hour
and six hours a day represented good progress. Upon
one occasion It took the pack train twenty-three days
to travel less than 200 miles, and of the seventy-five
horses with which it started, only forty-iour reached
their destination.
* * *
In the summer the mosqutoies were often so bad
that mosquito netting and bandana handkerchiefs were
a necessity, and the horses had to be covered from
head to tail and from ear to hoof before they could
graze In the open. But in winter huge fires had to
be built to thaw out things, the packers’ fingers were
frozen and hardship and danger were the rule, and
comfort and peace the exception.
tient, he could guarantee that the era of the strap
hanger woul<’ roll around in due time. Which is
taken to mean that here in Paris the manager vf tran
sit is very wide awake.