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Date 1912-07-16

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irst. of The y placed in gt; best of its - La Fon- American tne summer? BR. A. PHIMSTER PROCTOR is one of the best known sculp- tora in the Unit d special study of the wild animals of th American. continent and bis various expe- ditions have brought him many adven- tures, He in also an bia water colors, in which are depicted the scenes he fas wisited, form.an important addition to conten art. sinplichty of Ne srork are owing to Mis close contact with the antmal world which Cooyriebt. 1011. Gy Ue New York Weft Co. All rlabta reserved. IFB has moments WHICH are so intense that in them seems compressed the action of years. The longest and most thrilling minute I ever Paised was on the Cascade range of moun- talns In the State of Washington. Was on a sketching trip in the Northwest, ob- serving the traits and the habits of wild antmats for use n my Work as a sculptor. So far as form is concerned, one may find in a 200- logical park or in a menagerie models which. well serve his purpose, Only by observing the creatures of the wild in their native surroundings, however, can the MEDIGINE H A sJcutrror Describes the. Thrills of Clinging to a Bowlder, Tottering Far Above a Gorge and of Plunging Down Mountainside to Sway Over the Brink of a Precipice. would have essayed with ease. Martin went ahead, leading the way at this point, and he went nimbly enough. As was making.my. way Jasped with my aris a bowlder which was projecting jo this region 1 ages, for aught I know, balancing insecurely there, with nothing to disturb Its equilibilum. It needed only my weight to disturb the statist things, As I rested my hands upon It I felt the rock give and sway beneath me. acavppese that I ncted Jargely from tnstinet. The moment I felt that pecullar vibration of this half ton ffaginedt OF stone-t threw-myselt upow tt; tuce town, fand so placed my body over its edge that I was-able. to stay there for a moment, holding myself to the stone by pressing its sharp edge up into my lower ribs. This left my hands free, and as quickly-as I could 1 grasped another projecting rock and drew myself over to it. The bowlder from which my weight had been re- moved-stirred, paused for a moment, then slipped from tts resting place and went plunging down the mountainside, It woke the echoes in its swift de- scent and tore Its way over unaccustomed ways, and smaller stones, fragments of tce-and d bris, dislodged by Its passage, followed more slowly in: its flight, From the compuratively secure footing which I had gained I worked myself up to a region of safety, We gained the top of the itiountain at noon after five hours climb and sat down to rest. to feast our eyes upon the glorious panorama-and, what was more materially Important, to feed our famished stomachs. There was a flock of goats at the top of the moun- tain, and after luncheon we. spent an hour or so in Sculptor portray those subtle qualities which are 80 essential to a true interpretation of the ways of the world of beasts. My guide was a sturdy youth of eighteen named Martin, and although young he had had considerable ice as a:mountain climber. We. travelled in as light climbing order a5 posstble- Opr-suits.were of kbaki, light in welght but strong and stout: We wore legging, and our shoes were covered on the soles with projecting spikes and clamps, -whieh-would-en- able us to get W Mrmr-foothold-as we-climbed. I car tied a revolver in a bolster strapped to my side, while the sketching outfit, containing board, brushes and painis, was in a thin case which was strapped to my j axe-and-provistons. We started in our ascent .of one of the tallest peaks one-bright winter morning to make our way to a realm of-snow-and ice. Although we were ascending at what might be termed. the rear of the mountain, the climbing was arduous and often pain- fully slow. The summits of the Cascades are always crowned with white, and even in the fall of the year the sides are in glistening coverings. Half way to the top we worked our way up the slippery steeps among the clouds, which hung like bands upon the purplish crags. 3 It 1s one of the wonders of nature that goats are able to keep so secure a footing upon what seem to men naccessible perpendicular helghts. We could s them at times leaping with ease fromi one ledge to another, although in the distance even the narrow holds which they had found were not visible, + As one essays these pathways himself he gains some idea of the agility and fearlessness ofstii se wonderful creatures. Even they, however, ar likely to err and to miscalealate thelr distances, although that ts rare. We bad started at seven a'elock in tue morning and at times we crawled 80 slowly toward the regions of mist amd snow that It seemed as if we should never reach them. The air was cold and bracing, but for all watebing them I-made several sketches. Then. as we were In need of fresh meat. J killed one of them with my revolver. We started back to our camp tn the valley, proceeding along the top of te-mountain, intending to go back by the same way in which we had come, .I was in the lead. and behind me, a few that sxe were in a glow and the biood tingled in our velns from the exercise, Beyond us were. the sheer cliffs, which, In the distance, loomed as great walls, with bere and there-a light pate, which suddenly ap- peared to be endowed with life and shifted its position in the twinkling of an eyo a goat changing its toot trot: For the: niegt part, however, we had lttle time to wateh the capers of our fellow climbers, for we had to concentrate our attention at every turn on, the prob-' Jems of asceit. The mountain streams: were covered TS with masks of Ice and snow, which arched like bridges over the beds of torrents, Here we had to proceed with the utmost-cautlon, for x misstep would have. caused us to fall'Into the gorge, and after that a rolling descent of hundreds of feet would have marked the close of the expedition. Often we cut steps into the tee-which-velted-the-roeks; hollowing out places where we could plice our feet, after the manner of Arctic explorers, gt;- Upon the Tottering Bowlder. This was painfully slow work, and under any other conditions it would have been a task which I should paces distant, was Martin, the guide. not have cared much to undertake. Mountain climbing in the Cascades 1s difficult and exciting work enough. After cutting foothold in the glasslike surtace we balanced ourselves, cut one immediately above it-in the slightly sloping side, and then swung ourselves to the next notch in this quest of atmosphere. Cer- tainly there was atmosphere of all kinds'in that re- gion. At several polnts we worked our way upward t LA SHAFER je Te sic eaters PS Three thousand feet below was the: valle: at the base of this great rampart of nature. Gregging the body of the goat after me by its hind legs. I turned to look for the last time upon the scene of varied beauty which mftretched fot miles in every direction. Tumbling Down th: Mountain. The body of the goat sradenly slipped on the by these companionways of ice along...the..steop-.graund,..alid.downwardy kawked-agaimet amy legs, which 10 the distance would seem Inaccessible and im- penetrabie to man. hurled-me from my feet and in a second I was sliding down the side of the mountain not the one by which from the mountain side. Tt imy-te+e-been there for we bad come, but the steeper one. qyh 1 nt Hhunt-forty-five degrees, and that tor only a few, feet, o Perilous Adventures Fold-by and of Living Persons ri a My Grip Held I Was Swinging Between Earth and Sky, My Feet Hung Over Death Abcve Me W as Life. I was sliding down-a-descent pitched at what seemed an angle of. which served as the approach to the edge of a great precipice hundreds of feet-in depth. The action of that time must have been compressed into seconds, yet so vividly was everything Impressed upon my mind-and memory that every Incident seemed to have its lelsurely course, I realized that 1 was on my way gt; dure and sud- den death. Only a brief respite intervened between the then and the future. I pletured to myself all fer ttmbbes lows fint again started on its course. the horrors of that Swift descent, yet my senses at the same Ume Were attung to the tension of alertness. The slope was uneven and rocky, and I bounced from one hard projeetion to nother. I flung.out my arms and lege in elther irection to stay what seemed the The body of the goat, Wlthough it had been the frst to slip, strangely enough slid down more slowly than my Own. . Being lighter than I was and a dead, limp tnass, It must have found occasional lodgement in hol- Risthg from the surface of the mountain af Yhis at dusk we picked up the body of. THE KNEE-EENi CORSE Then vsain T Aung all my strength tafo pek escape. 1 lt;hiftet my geaspiee the bapb. able to face the mounteta and slowly dragged a self to the bush, It was fitm enough to. hold: and I dung my legs over tt and eat TMartin;- Who wus the custodian et the slender rope to me, and by a to the crest of the towering helght, I was saved. After that the story is soon told. down the mountain by the waj we oo horns bad been broken off and its bones, Ward found, were bundles of splinters, That night T counted seventeen black a bruises on my body and smil d over ev the sign of my escape trom the peril of tie O 5 THE SUFFRAGETTE AND MARRIAG HE question ts asked, Why stould a nian j marry a suffragette? The answer . s enough. He should tot, because if te willl Festrain his Impetuoslty and wait around until suffragette gets her clutch tightened on all the right she thinks belong to ber equally with. the mien he wilt marry him, thus obtaining results without effort on his part, and at the same-f me promoting the: pise sibilities of domestic harmony which nobody rer knows how it will sound before it is too late, What has that got to do with it? you inquire, Listen. Savante-who: investigate and are proficient in sociologic, sclentific, blologic,. psychologtc- dom mestic statistics reliably. Inform us that under exist ing. soclal conditions something like ninety-nine per cent of marriages are cases of men marrying womena These highbrows of statistics do hot affirm that this 1s necessarily the cause of so much domextie dnfelicity we read about and hear about and get next My to in our own families occasionally, but the fact rea mains that the mien are. doing the martying, and they are either not properly qualified for the work or they are careless and neglectful. - Be that as it may, tt 1s evident that there ts avast amount of domestic infelicity which is preventable, 7 if taken in time, and if the women were doing the merrying it may be predicated, upon thelr realizing that they hold the majority of the stock in the do mestic corporation, that they would exercise such care fn thelr selection of minor stockholders as. almost to guarantee perfect dnd permanent eatisfaction: If they made mistakes they could -not.-at-teast, saddle the blame on anybody except themselves, and the average woman will endure almost anything before she will admit that she is in the wrong in getting in - Wrong. Therefore the proposition should be-obvious to the most obtuse that the ian stioula not marry the suffragette, who is, after all, but'a woman In dis- wulge, Re W. J. LAMPTON: S skirts grow dlmier the problem of th corset be comes more and more. perplexing, and the latest solution offered by those who make a special study of fashlon s vagaries in coutille and bone.ts a flexiile garment reaching from bust to knee which, when Properly adjusted, does not show where it 1s discon. tinued. i a It ins littie-resemblance to the old time corset, for there are few bones, sometimes only front steels and moderately stift whaiebene.at each side over the Ips, rz : The, wearer of this corset has perfect freedam o movement. She may bend at the Waist with the: greatest possible ease and ber figure Is not compress ee tt in y one polat. -Phe-stays hont We In aligh point was a ledge which projected above the slope for several fest and im the angle where met ledge and slope was a scragey bush, with its branches rising stily up tothe skys) Here wag Mrag of nope-of which 1 was acutely con sclous, and move emoamb toes I guided my sliding descent as best I could to that patch of green branches. Swifter and swifter I sped, s come the bush and already I felt about me the eddying currents of air as I Folled toward doom. A branch brustied my fect: I suinmoned all my strength and, leaning forward, caught desperately at the whirl of green. My grip-held. 1 was swinging betweem earth and sky. My feet hing over death abaye me was Ute. was on my beck, and, holding with clenched fingers to the wiry branches. Had I caught branches whiclt were pointing downward do not believe that tt would have been possible for me to keep even this slender hold: My posttiow was oily a temporary reprieve and -my life was still hanging in the balance. It was a reminder of fate which whizzed past me the body of the goat, released at last from the grasp of the bowlders. It passed within a few inches of me, so close that the alr which whirled about its swiftly moving form fanned my face. Down it went, plunged off the Incline at my feet and disappeared In the depths. Face to Face with Death. Hanging there at the verge of extinction I passed the longest minute of my life, if Indeed it was as long as sixty seconds, before from the depths of the gorge, hundreds ef feet below, came the dul sound of impact which told me that the body of the goat had: reached the rocks at the base of the wall of rock. I pictured to myself the broken, bruised body. which I knew was lying there when the dull, muffled sound came up from the base of the great crag on which I still bung. In the place of the form which had Just bugiled-gown the rocks I placed myself and closed my eyes as though to shut out the vialon, Then came a larg expanse where there was only the dark surface of the earth and rock an almost perpendicular ascent It seemed, but one which a gout serve as a foundation for the dress... Otherwise f might be discarded for.all the compression and nels they provide, At the bust these unusual corsets may be to sult any Sgtire, and there is a plece of wove rial across the top which fits so. closely that ofte hot See where the corset ends. This feature o 5 or lon, especialy: the kiees, because the fashionable woman wile wear stays which make a line through her gown - WS cistinietly where it the bips, anid often the outline of the hose supporters can be plainly seen through the soft silk or linge tess, whieh 1s usually made aver a very suppl dining or worn over a clinging slip. y ae The corsets fit at the knees like knickerbockers aud are fastened either af the back or front, according te individual preference. Of course they have to be made. to order and ure faturally quite expensive,- hut women have learn d that the weil titted and well made corset is Worth its price, even if Only one or two. Dalrs are ordered a yeur. CAMFHOR FOR PNEUMONIA HERE have beon and still are many varieties of reatment for pueumoniai A long lst would be required fo indicate ail the medicaments which have been employed aguiust ft Some even consider that thts eee ate which, has 4 detiitte eyele. They are ion that 0 medication should be adopted which might act on It aud disturb Its de Yelopment, the proper course to take being one of ex- Pectation, or, better, a th rapeullque arm e more particularly designed to combat complications, The th rapeutique arm e was at one time ta Vogue; to-day It Is almost completely dethroned and Feturn is being male to medication. Dr. Serbert, in the M nchner Medizinische Wochen- Schrift, desctibes the remarkable results which be ob- tained in the treatment of serious cases of pneumonia by means of strong doses of camphor. He tirst had oe casion to use it in 1906 in a case of double pueunionta, where the patient was also sufferlag from typhoid fever. He therefore: practised a subcutaneous Injec- tion of twelve cubic centimetres of -rmphorated oll (twenty per cent) recently sterill The results ob- talned on the pulse and respirativn, as well as (bose on the temperature afd yeueril condition, were ex- tremely satisfactory. He is dune every twelve-hours, and be found duys the trouble had disappeared. 2 Dr. Serbert has since empte the same treatment, in twenty-one cases, one of which was extreuwly ser ous, since It was a question of double complicated Pheumoula hi a woman seventy-two years All these cases recovered. It seems vertaln that the cam phor produced these offeers, sinc there was go real eriaia, the cure being grammy and slowly effected. a

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