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r~—■» HE REV. JAMES C. HANKS,
j *" I"* missionary, stepped from
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apolis In New York, took a
1 surfnce car over to llroadway, went
Ito Twenty-third street, stared up at
I the lofty height of the Metropolitan tower, and
(laughed
If you had been close enough you perhaps
would have noted that it was a queer, mirthless
(little laugh Then the Rev. Mr. Hanks went over
(close to the stone rise of the great building and
'patted it. He had leason to. It was that build
ing that had saved his life three months before
las he sat in a tent in the middle of the Arabian
{desert with thirty murderous Arabs squatting on
If he ground around him and monotonously whet
'ting the long knives with which they would cut
Ihitn into small pieces. Could you blame him for
|a feeling of friendliness for that cold, ruthless
| granite which he caressed?
Missionary llauk tells it thus: “I had been
I working among them for three years—the desert
| Arabs," he began. “I'd learned their language
iand their customs, and I was practically one of
Ithem, riding and pitching my tent and working
'with them like a .brother. And they were broth
ers worthy of the name, those wild, free men
jto whom honor is the first consideration. New
'.York could take many a lesson from them in
(morals and in respect toward women.
"One night we pitched camp after a hot day's
j ride, and as darkness fell we were suddenly
I aroused by a courier from another of our camps
(with (It: news that the Aneza, a warlike and mur
derous tribe, had attacked and carried off several
i women aud children.
, "That was a signal for all our able-bodied men
to ride to the other camp and try to recover the
!kidnaped women and children. In five minutes
the beat of the hoofs of the ponies had died out
|ln the dark, aud 1 was the only man left in our
scamp
"I crawled into my tent and went to sleep. It
[must have been near midnight when I was awak
lened by the sound of hoofs. I imagined our own
men returning and paid no attention until the
‘flap of the tent was laid back and five strange
,'Arabs entered. Each held a long knife, and bo
‘foro 1 could roll off my blanket these knives
were forming a circle within an Inch of my
throat I lay still.
“Silently more and more men entered the tent,
all with the long desert knives. 1 knew then
they were the Aneza. They had learned of the
departure of our men. and had slipped into the
,camp to steal in their absence.
For a time not a word came from the lips of
this ferocious desert band of marauders, bent
upon pillage and murder. Stealthily they crept
about the tent examining our luggage. They
broke open my chest and tumbled out upon the
blanketed ground the few treasured books I pos
sessed. the trinkets 1 had saved as mementoes of
my journeys through the wild regions, a few
gifts that served to remind me of pleasant memo
ries among the tribes in which I had passed
months of pleasurable labor.
The gaudy trinkets of American manufacture
they pounced upon like children turned loose in
a toy shop. They were quick to appropriate ex
tra blankets, boots aud a couple of saddles. But
all the while I could have no doubt from their
men, and I doubted not their actions when my
nationality and ray mission should be discovered.
"One huge black fellow seemed to be the
leader Then, for the first time, in the flare of
;a torch he carried, they seemed to notice that my
skin was white. In ait instant the discovery
created the greatest excitement. Several lunged
forward with their knives, as though to cut it
short right there, but the chief waved them hack,
ert for aii the attention they bestowed upon me.
The search over, they gathered around more
closely. Meantime It is needless to say I was
frightened, I knew the ferocity of these wild
All this time but little attention had been paid
to my presence. I might be a native of the des
actions that they were hunting for gold. They
were convinced the party was well supplied with
money and proposed to have it. They were de
termined on that score, and they held life worth
less
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was surprised when I answered him in the
:) same tongue.
Tj “ ‘We must kill you,' he said, ‘but there is
y no hurry. We shall wait.'
"As though acting on the suggestion, the
thirty black fiends squatted in a semi-circle
about me and fell slowly and deliberately to
sharpening their knives.
“ ‘There is no hurry,’ the chief said again.
'We must do so before the coming of day,
that is all.’
“Then in a flash it came back to me (hat I
had heard from men of our own tribe that the
Aneza were sun worshippers, and that it was the
greatest of all religious crimes among them to
commit murder when the sun —their god—was In
the ascendancy. Like a shot it came to me that
if I could delay the execution until sunrise my
life would bo saved. But how?
“The hope seemed futile. I wondered what
time It was I knew it was after midnight. As
1 lay on my blankets, watching those hideous
black faces that were doubly black and grotesque
in the weird flame of the torches, I began to work
my hand slowly toward my pocket where I kept
my watch. I got it out and dropped my eyes to
the face. In the gloom 1 could make out the
hands pointing to 2 o’clock. It was nearly three
hours to sun-up. There was not the ghost of a
chance of holding them off until then.
“But, just the same. I kept trying to figure it
out in my mind —to devise some plan to that end.
And meanwhile I began to witness the services
that were to precede my death. Squatting there
with their black legs crossed that grim semi
circle of flends began to rock slowly back aud
forth from the hips, humming a strange, un
canny, minor monotone. Out in front the big
chief led them. It was the Aneza sacrifice pre
lude. so to speak. And I was to be the sacrifice.
"I tell you, it got into my nerves. I don't think
l am a natural coward, but half rythmically,
keeping time, as it were, to the beating chant of
those voices and the sway and swing of the black
bodies, 1 heard my teeth begin to click.
"I glanced over my shoulder to the other flap
of the teut. As 1 did so the Arab chief seemed to
divine my thought, for at a motion of his hand,
the semi circle moved forward a couple of feet
closer and. squatting again, went on with the
gruesome ceremonies. There was no chance of
escape by flight, that was certain.
"But never for a moment did I stop thinking;
struggling to drag an idea out of the confusion in
my brain And all the time the Aneza went on
whetting the knives and crooning and swaying
“Half an hour, then an hour went by. I count
ed the minutes, for 1 knew they measured the
time left me yet to live. And then, suddenly. 1
turned cold. My heart leaped and something fill
ed my throat. It was the idea 1 had been comb
ing my brain for. and it was a chance, ever so
faint, perhaps, but. still a chance
"Across the tent, not ten feet distant, was my
trunk with my stereopticon lantern, and my
slides—slides I had made of New York city, of
the Metropolitan tower and Broadway, and ail
the other sights of home. Could 1 but —I 1
must! Speaking in Arab. I addresesd the chief.
Before the time came to make the sacrifice I had
something to show them—something the like of
which they had never seen. Would they like to
see it?
"Breathless, I awaited the answer. There was
silence; then it came. The chief would like to
see. 1' pointed to the trunk. They brought it to
me. I unpacked the lantern and set it up, the
long knives were following me net two inches
away the while. The side of the tent was the
screen. 1 lighted the lantern and dropped in the
first slide. Across the circle of light floated in
color the great Metropolitan tower. As it did so
the muttering murmur of the death prelude wav
ered and died out.
“There was a silence: then sli&rp words of
mystery, or wonder, of—fear. Working swiftly,
1 killed the exterior of the tower and shot into
its place a view of its interior, then another and
another. I followed with pictures from its top—
pictures of the river, of Broadway below, of
motor ears tearing along with no visible means
of locomotion, of the loom of giant skyscrapers
in the distance, of huge bridges across the East
river, of steamboats and liners running out of the
harbor, of Miss Liberty on Bedloe’s island and of
the marvelous tangle of Coney Island.
"The death prelude was forgotten. The fear
gave place to an ever-growing wonder. The
semi-circle leaned forward, a mass of peering,
crowding black heads and black shoulders;
THE COCHRAN JOURNAL, COCHRAN, GEORGIA.
caught, lost, enmeshed in the spell of the old
magic lantern.
“I alone, I believe, remembered the present.
My murderers were too engrossed, too astounded
by what they saw, to remember. But I prayed
only that the pictures would hold out; that the
spell would not fail. It was a trying time. Aft
erward I found I had bitten half through my lip,
but at the time I felt nothing. I dared not padfee
to glance at my watch, but still I held them there
as the minutes dragged to hours.
"At last the final picture went into the lantern.
For a desperate instant I felt my heart go do'.vn.
What could I do? Would they remember if I
repeated? Would they But before I could
complete the thought in through the canvas en
trance of the tent there stole a thin, golden
thread. It. crept across the floor and rested on
the face of the black chief. It was the sun!
“With a short cry the chief jumped to his feet.
The others followed, talking excitedly. For a
moment they glanced at me, but I sprang to the
flap of the tent and tore it back.
“’The day!’ I shrieked in Arab, and at the cry
they fled pell-mell from the tent and beyond the
camp to their horses."
The Rev. Mr. Hanks stopped and smiled.
“When they were gone." he said, "I sat down
on the ground and cried."
HUMOR OF BAD WRITING.
Sheridan's writing was a scandal to his school
and puzzled the town. He once wrote a “pass’’
to Drury Lane, and the doorkeeper stopped its
bearer and immediately pronounced it to be a
forgery, because he could decipher it! To
make matters worse, Sheridan was also uncertain
in his spelling. A “which.” a “where,” and a
"whether” in his hands, for instance, were as
often as not deprived of their “aiches," and a
“tiling" was to him always a "think" and nothing
more.
The atrocious writing of celebrities recalls the
claim once made on behalf of Baron Bramwell
that he wrote three hands: “One which ho alone
could read, another which his clerk could read
and he couldn’t, aud a third which nobody could
read,” and the last-named was his usual style.
Lord Curzon, when a young man at college,
once found his bad handwriting stand him in
good stead. Writing two letters, one to a rela
tive, the other to a chum, he encloses them in
the wrong envelopes. It chanced that in the sec
ond letter he had made some uncomplimentary
reference to his relative, and on discovering the
mistake he had made he awaited developments
with anxiety. There presently came a letter from
the uncle. “1 have tried to decipher your epistle."
it ran, “but your writing is so atrocious that I
cannot make head or tail-of it. However, 1 guess
the drift of it to be that you need some money,
you rogue, so I enclose a check.”
Bad handwriting is not always a handicap in
life. The late Lord Goschen once said that his
father attributed the foundations of his fortune to
the fact that he was abliged to found a firm be
cause he wrote such a bad hand that no one
would take him for a clerk. Of Goschen himself,
Mr. Arthur Elliot records that “his handwriting
got steadily worse, and in his latter years he
might have spelt as he chose. At length his
script became undecipherable, even by himself.
He could not. when speaking in parliament, make
out what it was that he had put on paper, and
he thus came in later days to abandon almost en
tirely his old practice of making notes."
Professor Blackie had a peculiar "fist.” An
elderly compositor on the Scotsman, however,
knew nearly all about the professor. One night
there was a particularly difficult manuscript from
the professor. It was put before the expert, with
an inquiry as t(» whether or not he could set it.
“I could not do that," said the veteran from
Inverary: “but if I’d ma pipes here I could play
her.”—Tit-Bits.
AMBER AS A MEDICINE.
The ancients employed amber as a medicine,
and it is still prescribed by physicians in France,
Germany and Italy Several chemists in Paris
keep it constantly in stock. It has been worn by
ladies and children from time immemorial as an
amulet, sometimes carved into “amphorae,” and
has been pronounced of service, either taken in
ternally or worn around the neck Callistratus
gave the name of chryselektron to amber of a
clear golden color, which, worn around the neck,
cured ague, ground up with honey and rose oil
(t was a specific for deafness snd with Attic
honey for dimness of sight. But to come to more
recent times. Perera says in the third edition of
his "Materia Medica," published in 1553, that am
ber was not even then employed as a medicine in
this country, but that "it was formerly used in
chronic catarrhs, amennorhoea. hysteria, etc., and
was given either in the form of a powder, in
doses of ten grains to a drachm, or in that of a
tincture, a formula for both of which is contained
in some of the European formularies—Family
Doctor.
JUST MEANNESS.
“I wish I had Rockefeller's money "
“Would the possession of Rockefeller's money
make you happy?"
"I don’t know. I was ’Sinking how unhappy it
would make Rockefeller "
HIS CLASS
“If the dachshund were the king of dogs wjat
kind of a class would he be in"'*
“I suppose, a sort of aquatter sovereignty."
"I did not
know then,
though I
learned aft
erward, that
they had
seen but
one white
man before.
That man
never has
come out of
the desert.
He was
slain as a
sacrifice, it
looked a s
though I
was about
to share his
fate.
“The chief
a d d r essed
me in Ara
bic, and
RAISING QUEEN BEES
Feeders, by Artificial Mucelli,
Produce Any Number.
Every Hive Has Three Kind* of In
sects, Worker*, Drones and the
Queen and These Come From
Two Kinds of Eggs.
America leads the world in the pro
duction of queen bees. One Ohio man
j alone rears about 3,500 every year and
; sells them in every part of the world.
While it is generally supposed that the
most profitable bees are raised in
Italy, the truth is that the finest speci
mens of Italian queens are produced
in America.
The scientific bee breeder has found
a way to outwit bee colonies in their
natural method of producing queens
j and can now produce as many of these
royal insects as can be disposed of.
In their natural condition bees will
| permit only one queen in a hive, but
i feeders, by feeding artificial muceli,
are able to produce any number.
Every hive has three kinds of bees,
workers, drones and the queen, and
these are produced from two kinds of
eggs. Unfertilized eggs produce noth
ing but drones while the fertilized
egg will produce either a worker or
a queen, depending on whether the
larvae is fed on royal jelly preserved
for queens or upon the common food
which makes the workers.
The larvae produced in* a queen’s
cell is fed the royal jelly, and develops
all the qualities of the queen. Here
A Well-Arranged Apiary.
is where the breeder's skill comes in.
He makes a queen cell of wax about
the size of an acorn and so skillfully
is this done that the bees are de
ceived.
Into each of these cells he places a
larvae and the workers, not knowing
any difference, promptly proceed to
feed it with the royal food. After she
has eaten of this for six days she re
fuses any more and the cell is then
sealed up. In this way a breeder may
start a hundred queens in a single
cell, but he must be careful to re
move the frame from the hive into an
incubator and observe the greatest
care in separating the queens as they
are hatched out.
Each one is placed in separate quar
ters in a hive and given a bodyguard
of about 25 workers, who attend to
her every want. When full grown she
is placed in a little wire cage with her
attendants and shipped by mail to
any distance.
The queen bee lives about four
years and produces, when she is work
ing full time, from 1,500 to 3,000 eggs
per day. Placed in a cell of the most
vicious black bees a hive bred queen
will, in a short time, transform the
colony into a happy family of gentle,
hard working Italians, as the workers
live only about 40 days.
When the queen bee becomes old
and incapacitated she is supplanted by
a new queen, although she is allowed
to live in the hive until she dies. She
is managed and her wishes are con
trolled by her attendants and if she
refuses to obey her instructions she
is quickly stung to death.
TIMELY NOTES OF FLOWERS
Aim to Have Something New Every
Year —Sensitive Plant Is Very In
teresting in Its Habits.
Mass the different varities of a sin
gle flower and the effect is more pleas
ing than when made up of a dozen
varieties. On the lawn as in the vase,
popular taste has been trained to ad
mire the harmony of unity.
Soak seeds of cypress vine for a few
hours in hot water just before plant
ing. The hard seeds of the canna may
need a bit of filing ere the germ can
push its way out; but care should be
taken not to injure it in the process.
Poppies will perpetuate themselves
by self-sown seed.
Aim to have something new every
year, but not a high priced novelty.
The sensitive plant is handsome and
intensely interesting in its habits. If
you have never grown it, try it for
the children.
Study its queer habits, and you will
always find it entertaining.
The Japanese morning glory is slow
er in attaining the blooming size than
the old fashioned flower, yet its larger
size and clear colors make amends for
slower maturity.
Habits of Geese.
If sexes are equal geese pair. The
laying season usually opens in Febru
ary. Young ganders make better
breeders than do young geese. As a
rule geese are free from disease. Old
geese are more reliable and lay more
eggs than do young geese. Geese
live longer than do any of our domes
tic poultry.
Selling Produce.
In marketing various kinds of farm
produce it is well that the marketer
look well —as well as the produce that
is being sold. This has a great effect
on customers, and it will pay to have
a good appearance in selling produce
to city or town people.
TESTING ICE CREAM FOR FAT
Vermont Experiment Station Gives
Method That Will Prove Satisfac
tory and Reasonably Accurate.
“Carefully weigh 18 grains of a well
melted (but not overheated) and mixed
sample of ice cream into a 30 per Cent,
cream bottle. To this, add four or five
c. c. of lukewarm water. Now add or
dinary sulphuric acid, a little at a
time, thoroughly mixing the fluids with
each addition. Little more than half
and seldom as much as two-thirds the
usual amount of acid is required; and
not more than one-half of this amount
should be used at the outset, and some
little time should be allowed for it to
act. If the color is not yet that of
strong coffee, add a little more acid,
shake and pause for a time. If still
the color is too light, add yet more
acid. In this way the color is built
up to the desired point. When the
contents of the bottle have assumed al
most the desired amber color, add four
or five c. c. of cool water to check the
further action of the acid. The test
is thereafter conducted as would be an
ordinary cream test, care being taken
that the machine does not become too
hot during whirling. If this scheme is
carefully followed, particularly in the
matter of the slow and gradual addi
tion of the acid, the fat should appear
in the neck of the test bottle of a.
clear, light brown color and distinct
from the solution below. When this
distinct, clean-cut condition has been
obtained, the tester may feel sure, pro
vided the work has been in other re
spects carried out in accord with the
well understood details of the Bab
cock method, that the results will be
reasonably accurate.” —Vermont Ex
periment Station, Bulletin 155.
EXPANSION OF OUR FARMING
Great Economic Question Is to Get
Away Completely From Email
Yields and Crop Failures.
(By WALTER B. LEUTZ.)
I believe that the time has come
when more capital in the form of em
ployed labor, fertilizere, farm ma
chinery, animals' food and more ex
tensive intensive tillage can be suc
cessfully applied to our farming. The
great economic question is not small
farms or more acres, but the complete
getting away from small yields and
crop failures. Not only more acres
tilled, but each acre tilled far better.
Any system of crop growing is on a
safer foundation when the bulk of the
field crops are fed to the live stock
and the resulting manure saved and
applied to the fields with as little loss
as possible. Pursuing this course and
buying fertilizers to encourage the
growth of highly organized truck and
market crops enables us to expand
our farming.
WINDOW SILLS OF CONCRETE
Many Odd Jobs Around Farm May Be
Performed by Handy Man—Essen
tials for First-Class Work.
(By J. W. GRIFFIN.)
All traces of the rotten wood of
the old sill should be removed and
the dust and dry mortar brushed out
before the form is put in place. There
should be an inch piece nailed around
the edge or the form, in line with
where the edge of the sill is to be.
This holds the board an inch away
from the wall and which gives the
required extention to the sill. The
inside form, that inside of the room,
this should be half inch above the
one on the outside; this will give the
fall necessary to keep the rain and
snow from leaking into the room.
The concrete should not come up on
the window frames to any consider
able distance, as the wood will swell
it ii
Replacing Old Sills With Concrete.
from dampness aud crack the sill.
The ends of the frame, if necessary,
should be cut off just where the top
of the sill is wanted. The gravel used
in making sills should not be too
coarse, and it should be perfectly
free of clay or other earth. The sand
should be sharp and coarse. A mix
ture of five parts sand and gravel
to one part cement makes a good,
stone-like sill. In putting up the form
for the sill, it is well to see that it
is well braced as any little slip in the
form would make quite an ugly job
of it. Many jobs may be done around
the place with concrete, by the handy
man. But always keep in mind, clear
sand and gravel, clear water free of
grease, are necessary if you would
make g. first-class job.
Action is Important.
The action of a horse is a very im
portant item in his makeup. It should
be straight, free and under control of
himself. There should be no swaying,
nor wabbling, nor throwing of his
feet. The tracks should be in a regu
lar line, and placed in the same gen
eral position when compared with
each other.
Cultivation of Flowers.
There are three things that must
be observed in the cultivation of
flowers; Conservation of moisture,
ventilation of the soil and the destruc
tion of weeds —Josephine de Marr.