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WASHINGTON.?School teachers in
Alaska must have a thorough
knowledge of medicine as well as
pedagogy. The Alaska school service
is the only system of education in
the United States or any of its possessions
which is under the direct
control of the federal bureau of education.
In the northwest territory
there are large areas in which the
services of regular physicians are
not obtainable. It often becomes the
duty of the public school teachers not
only to render first aid to the injured
or sick native, but to care for him
throughout the entire course of a
severe illness without the aid of a
physician.
For the assistance of men working
in Uncle Sam's Alaska school service
Dr. Emil Krulish of the United States
public health service and I)r. Daniel
S. Neumann of the United States bureau
of education have together writ
?;u a medical handbook which has just
Smithsonian Institution H
THE Smithsonian Institution presents
to visitors within its grim
brown walls and quiet halls an attractive
Zoological Park exhibit. Many
spectators, hat in hand, gather to
study the pictures of wild life in the
zoo which arc displayed here. In the
central ailsle of the main hall to the
right on entering is a large topographic
plaster cast, the legend on
which reads: "Modeled under the direction
of Mr. S. P. Kangley, secretary
of the Smithsonian Institution." It is
a number of years old, but always a
thing of freshness and interest to the
streams of strangers that pass the
itortals of the building.
On the topographic model Hock
creek ia represented by a strip of mirror,
and the curving, winding line is
as bright and shimmering as the waters
of the creek in their happiest
mood. The hills and vales and lawns
and the shady groves and woodland
stretches are all shown. In a big
glass case on tho right hand of the
entrance there hangs a fine map of
the Zoological Park, Indicating many
of the familiar things in that popular,
educational resort.
Surrounding the map is a collection
of excellent photographs. One picture '
City Hall Girls Rise in I
IN a dark corner of tho dim corridor
leading through the flleroom of
the city hall to the room where papers
and documents are kept typewritten
and compared by the young ladies of
that department, stands a seductively
baited trap. And thereby hangs a tale 1
?a rat tale.
A few days ago, when the ladies
wero nil terribly busy, a great, big, 1
audacious old rat scuttled across the |
room, disappearing behind Home
shelves. The ladies honored his ap
pearance by courteously rising. It is
Baid that they kept right on rising till
they had risen high as the tops of '
Iron Watchdog Is Not Ys
THE Iron watchdog Is not extinct |
in Washington. Ho may not ho i
ho numerous as ho used to be. Time ,
was when it was not unusual for ,
the owner of a city home to have a '
pair of iron dogs before his house, 1
one on each side of the entrance.
Prom time to time the writer has re- I
ported the presence of dogs and lions !
as aide to architecture or as guards
of i ortals In Washington. The list
of theBo things has not been exhausted
Ttere is an iron watch dog, freshly
painted black, with a very glossy
coat, on the north side of H street
betA-een T'inth and Eleventh streets.
There is only one of him. Usually
these Iron dog doorkeepers come in
pairs, and there probably was a pair
here, but the other dog is missing?
strayed or stolen. The remaining
dog is a Newfoundland, or it may
be that he is a setter.
It is a big, red pressed brick double
house three stories high and four
windows wide, and its number 1005
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Professions in Alaska
been published and sent to every
school teacher working for the kov
ernmeut in Alaskn. The authors liavo
taken particular pains to describe the
symptoms and outline the methods of
treatment of the common diseases of
the natives in simple, plain language.
In a word of instructions to the teachers
who will receive the book the author
says:
A little learning is a dangerous
thing, and this is especially true in
medicine. Teachers are warned to be
careful in prescribing. It is often difficult
to make a diagnosis of the disease
which the patient is suffering.
To lessen this difficulty symptoms of
all of the common diseases are thoroughly
described so that the teacher
may have assistance in determining
any case. Remember, this handbook
is not intended to replace the services
of a physician and all cases
should be referred to oue whenever
possible.
Agents of the government have
found that outside of performing their
educational duties Alaska school
teachers are called on most frequently
to assist the natives in solving
their health problems. The new medical
handbook instructs the school
teachers on every phase of medical
practice through which it might bo
possible for the agents of the bureau
of education to he.lu the nntives.
as a Large Plaster Cast
shows the llagstafT hill closely covered
by a crowd, mostly of children, and
the inscription under the picture is
"The Crowd at the Zoologicul Park
Raster Monday, lit 10." There is a-picture
of the bear yards, showing one of
the furry beasts posing for the camera,
one of the Hying cage with its
busy-winged tenants; one of the yard
of foxes and wolves with the sly and
hungry dwellers there; portraits of tho
>\iasKan Drown boar, the male moose,
the frightful looking harpy eagle, the
polar boars in their white robes, the
yak standing comfortably in deep
snow, California condors in their
youthful and downy plumage, the slowgoing
Galapagos tortoise, the zebra
and his fancy markings, the elephant
taking a bath, and a bull snake roiled
gracefully around a cluster of her
eggs.
Honor of a Visiting Bat
the tables nnd chairs In the room.
Be that as it may. the rat didn't tarry
to receive the homage intended for
him, but he got around that way a day
or so later, and that was the limit.
There just had t* he a trap, and without
another day's delay, at that.
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?4.c ncfciu tn'ppttr or trie tiles was
summoned and told of the impending
trouble, and n trap was installed the
next day and temptingly baited. Hut
it seems that he is a wise old rodent,
for nary a nibble has he taken at the
bait. And in the meantime the girls
are declaring they are not the least
bit afraid of an old rat.
Miss Elizabeth Wilson, in charge of
the department, says rats are nothing
to be scared of, and that she can't see
why the others are scared. Mw.s Mary
Greer says she knows well enough
that rats are not dangerous, but she
just doesn't care to have them around.
Miss Lydla Gardner says she can't
understand what's the matter with the
city hall cat.
it Extinct in Washinntnn
H street. Hrownstone steps lead to
the doorway from the herringbone
brick sidewalk. On one side of the
step is a bit of grass that grows behind
an tron fence. The dog is stretched
on the brick pavement close up to
the iron fence on the east side of
the entrance. He looks toward the
west.
In front of the iron fence and
grassy strip on the west sldo of the
entrance, presumably where the companion
dog was wont to rest. Is a
green slat bench, where dwellers in
that hou-.ie rest in the cool of the
evening, when it is cool, or the heat
of the evening, when it is not cooL
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The city of KnoxvlUe, Tenn., Is ci
Conservation Exposition, which open*
two months. Eleven large and hand
of which are shown in the illustration
acres, a beautiful park among the foe
NEW THE/
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Boston Woman Arranging to
Erect Model Playhouse.
Sho Aim8 at Moral Growth?ReadingRoom
and Lunch Stand in Rear of
Stage Will Aid Comfort of the
Performers.
Huston, Mass.? Mrs. Josephine Clement,
probably tho best-known woman
theatrical manager in the country, lias
a scheme for a model theater which
she hopes to build within a few
months.
She has not yet decided where she !
will erect the theater, but she has
abundant financial backing by persons
who have been attracted by her
success with tho theater of which for
several years she lias been the manager.
It is to be a theater in which every
seat will givu an unobstructed
view of tin; stage. The cost of a seat
will bo ten cents and the entertain
ments will be of a type that will have
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the approval of leaders in the "uplift
movement" throughout the l.'ulted
States.
"It will be different from anything
there Is In the I'nited States," said
. Mrs. Clement. "Only performances of
the highest class.will be given and
ihe theater will l;o unique, as it will
have light and air on all four sides.
"It will have dignified entrances,
and everything inside will be arranged
for the comfort of the patrons and tho
actors.
"I believe that actors who have ,
brains enough to amuse audiences are
entitled to as much as the patrons, I
and that is why there will be as good
an entrance in the back lor them as
there is for ilie public in front.
"Actors who are sntistied with their
surroundings will cooperate with the
management, and that means success
for the theater."
The llijou theater, under the direc- j
tion of Mrs. Clement, has made a fea- i
ture of moving pictures, and it is her
intention to give pictures in her new
theater, but they will be of a typo
different from any now in general use.
There will be nothing in them to offend,
and they will bo entirely free
from the weird features which have
brought forth cirticisms from clergymen
all over tho world.
Mrs. Clement's idea Is to have pictures
that will educate and aid in uo
lift work.
"1 am going to show pictures that
will tend towards moral and intek
lectual development," said Mrs. <'lej
mont. "I intend to givo one long j
Him, a short one of a humorous
nature, two musical numbers and two
HOlOS.
"My scheme is to have a theater
that every one will enjoy attending. !
and one in which a person will see
' and hear for ten cents what now costs
not less than half a dollar. Moving
pictures so far have been used to
amuse, to startle the imagination and
to reproduce many things which the
public would be better without having
seen. These pictures will havo no
place In my theater."
Mrs. (.lenient will have the cooperation
of the Harvard Dramatic society,
as she had In her work at the
ltljou. and of many clergymen and
city officials who havo been foremost
in the agitation against the moving
pieture shows that are given in many j
theaters
Hack of the stage will he a readingroom
in which the actors < an amuse
themselves between their acts There
! will be a lunchoom, where they will bo
able to purchase menls at cost
Young men and women will be giv
on an opportunity to begin at the botJ
torn and work to the top.
"I have always taken an interest In
; young persons." said Mrs. Clement,
| "and every day am on the lookout for
promising young men and women. I
have a theory that most of us can do '
something pretty well and havo proven
it since I went into the theatrical
business.
"A young woman came to mo and
said that she was a good dancer. I
gave her a trial and sho was an utter ;
failuro. She told mo she could play '
the piano. 1 tried her at this and she
was a success.
"1 had another girl tell mo she
could sing. She couldn't, but I found ,
that she was a splendid stenographer ;
I can find good actors and singers as
fATION EXPOSITION
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owdod with visitors to the National
?J on September 1 and will continue for
I some buildings have been erected, two
The grounds embrace more than 300 j
thills of the Smoky mountains.
*TER PLAN
I have found steogpraphcrs and piano
players, and when tho model theater I
has been in operation a while it will '
have proven that I am right
"We will win in a short time, I am
confident, tho good will and support
of those who see now in moving pic- j
tares only things to condemn."
ICE MENACE TO STEFANSSON
Polar Expedition Meets With Accident
? Members of Crew Say Ship
Has Hole In It.
Nome, Alaska.- The old whaler Knrluk.
which was taking the Vlhjaiinur
StcfuilSSOll rnnnilinn nnl'it* ,.?,,lo^..ii.... '
- ......X. pxyitt x A I'lVfl (II ll'II
expedition into the arctic, met with a
serious accident in the ice oiT Point !
Harrow, the northernmost point of .
Alaska, and may have to unload iter I
cargo, according to word received
here from the revenue cutter Hear.
Phe extent of the damage to the KarInk
is not known, hut it is reported
that a large hole v.as stove in her hull.
Tito Stefansson expedition found
unusual ice conditions at Harrow The
Karluk was caught between the ieo
does and is drifting with the ice. Aird
I lenton, a member of the crew, quit at i
Hat row and told officers of ttie revenue
cutter of the Karluk's plight
The Stefansson expedition on iho
ivurluk as tin- main sliip. and the mix
Vihjaimur Stefar.sson
iliary gasoline boats Mary Sachs and
Alaska, left Port Clarence, Alaska, 30
tnlles north of Nome, late in July.
Aboard the Karluk, of which Captain
Robert Uartlett, who commanded
Peary's polar ship Roosevelt, is master,
are Slefanseon, commander-inchief
of the expedition, and eight of
the fourteen scientists who mako up
ids party. The other scientists were
divided between the Mary Sachs, of
which Kenneth Chipman, the Canadian
geologist, was placed in command,
and the Alaska. In command of Dr. R
M. Anderson, the American biologist.
BURY ALL BOTTLES IN WOODS
Growing Belief That Sun's Rays Passing
""hrough Glass Starts Some
of the Fires.
Centralia, Wash. It. er and whisky i
bottles, carelessly thrown to the
ground in timbered areas, are apt to
cause forest tires, according to the 1
opinion of 11. \V. Kcrris, statu tire
warden.
Mr. Ferris said that firo wardens
had been instructed to bury all bottles
they saw In order that they may not
act as a concentrating medium for
the sun's rays and start (Ires In dry
leaves and moss.
"I have had many reports of fires
that undoubtedly started In this manner,"
said Mr. Ferris, 'and I do not ,
doubt in the least the opinion that 1
there Is danger from this source. It |
sounds odd, but undoubtedly it is |
true."
Recovers for Loss of Disposition.
New York. Max Fenders' four ;
> car-old daughter had a sweet, obedient
disposition until the janitrcss
of the apartment in which Max lived
swatted the little girl with an ash
can. After that the child became dis- j
obedient and irritable and a jury has
just awarded Fender $100 for loss of
the child's nice disposition.
KIN OF ANT EATER
South African Animal That Digs
Mole and Disappears.
Aard-Vark Has Only Rudimentary
Teeth With Legs Like Those of
the Kangaroo?Specimens Very
Hard to Secure.
New York.?Did you ever see an
aard-vark? asks a writer in the New
voir World. PerhapB you know It
better by its Latin name, orycteropus? :
No? They haven't got one In the zo- 1
ologieal colectlon in Bronx park, nor, j
so far as the writer has been able
to learn. In any of the famous zoos or j
menageries of the world. For the j
aard-vark is a delicate animal, according
to Curator Ditmars, and not easily
acclimated.
The aard-vartli was thought to he a
myth until the Dutch aud English he ,
gun to settle Africa. It was iirst de- :
scribed by P. Kolbe in 1712 in an account
of ills travels in Capo Colony,
but BulYon called in question his description.
However, this is known to
be accurate.
The Paris museum has Just received
an orycteropus, which it lias had j
stuffed and placed on exhibition. .
There are three species, and that in 1
Paris is the excessively rare Orycter- j
opus Ethiopicus from the regions of
the Blue Nile and Abyssiula. The
commonest species is that which is
found in eastern and southern Africa
as far nortli as Angola. The third
species ir. peculiar to Senegatnbia. .j
The aard-vark belongs to the order
of Edentata, so called because its
members are either toothless or have j
only rudimentary or defective teeth, j
It is a cousin of the ant bears, the
urmadlilocs and the pangolins of
South America. It is about six feet
long, including the tall, and about
twenty Inches high. Its back Is
arched, its head long and ending in
a snout like a pig's, only sharper and
longer. Its forelegs are short, its hind
legs much larger, like those of a kangaroo,
and its tail is heavy and almost (
as long as its body. Its ears are long
and erect, like an ass'. It has small,
piggy eyes, a very thick skin, like a
pig's, covered with sparsely scattered
hair mill x-r.ll.*.- "11
Its tougu Is very long, extensive and I
always covered with a gummy saliva
It protrudes from a mouth that la lit- |
tlo moro than a round hole. Tho
young animal has eight molars In the
upper Jaw and six In tho lower, but
tho adult has only five above and four ;
below, ami all of these are rudlamen- J
tarv.
The Ethiopian species lives In the
dessert, always near ant hills, for the
ants are its food. In the daytime It
stays curled up and asleep in a bur- I
row which it closes behind it. It digs
a hole even in the hardest ground
with incredible rapidity and disap- ]
pears in a few moments, for the four
toes on Its front feet are armed with
strong claws which it plies rapidly,
scooping out the earth and throwing
it behind itself in a groat cloud of
dust.
At night it emerges and goes out
hunting tor ant hills. As soon as it
has found one it makes sure that no
danger is menacing, then it lies down
with its snout against tho ant hill,
puts out its tongue as far as it can
and waits. Soon its tongue is covered
with ants, caught like flies on sticky
flypaper. Then it draws In its tongue,
chews up the ants and begins again.
It is very timid and so keen of ear 1
that it catches every faint sound. At
the slightest alarm It digs a hole and i
buries itself. It never attacks any- j
thing but Insects, yet when attacked ;
It defends itself with its powerful j
claws in a way that makes It dangerous.
When surprised by the hunter it al- .
moat always has its head and shoulders
in a hole, and It takes so tight a
grip on tho earth that If the hunter
tries to pull It forth ho Is almost certain
to fall.
Its flesh Is highly prized in Africa
and It is said to taste like pork. It Is 1
easily tamed In its native land, and
in the days of Egypt's ancient great- j
ners must have been a pi t for ladies. ,
e. (.11 the tomb of Abd el (Journah of
the nine! onth dynasty there Is !
graven a picture of a noblewoman
v ith an orycteropus following her like
a dog.
SLIT SKIRTS WRECK NERVES
Not of the Wearers, But of the Ankle
G;*in^ Youths, Says Doctor
Walters.
Pittsburgh, Pa. "in looking over my '
statistics I find there lias been a slight 1
increase of nervous diseases among j
young men, and I suspect that the j
slashed skirt has something to do with j
it," said Pr. B. It. Walters, director ot ,
the health department.
"ilovv(!Vcrf I that by restricti
11 k the length of the skirt all will be
well.
"Personally, I have taken llttlo notice
of the new skirt, for i am a home i
loving man and careful about matter*of
this kind.
"And 1 do not know why young men
should bo so closely observant of
ankles?I have always judged women
by their eyes. 1 have found It a much
bettor way; ankles are deceiving.
The ladles Beem to liko slit skirts
and 1 am for anything thnt pleases the
ladles. In that way I think that the
elit skirt may do some good because
people never are sick when they are
well pleased.
"And if the ladies want it, why, my
goodness! why not let them have it?"
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IntchwionalT
SlINMrSOKKd .1
F FWAN
(By E. O. SELLERS. Director of Evening
Department, The Moody Bible Instltut?w
Chicago.)
LESSON FOR SEPTEMBER 21
THE GOLDEN CALF.
LESSON TEXT?Ex. 32:15-20. 30-35.
GOLDEN TEXT?"My little children,
guard yourself from Idols."?I John 5:XL
It is incredible that these Israelites
should turn aside after gods made
with man's hands in the very midst
of such a demonstration of the holiness,
majesty and glory of Jehovah.
Yet in life it 1b always but a step from
glory to degradation, and ono of the
easiest moments in which to trip up
the saint is at the time of his greatest
ecstacies. The human heart Is
absolutely unreliable, unstable, nay,
it is wicked and is desperately deceitful,
Jer. 17:9. Following the giving
of the decalogue God gave Mosea
n series of laws and ordinances which
are an application of that fundamental
luw and which form "the book of
tho covenant." Then the ciders of
Israel are called up into the mountain,
given a vision of God, and given to
eat and drink in his presence, symbolizing
communion (Ex. 24). After this
Moses and his servant Joshua leave
Aaron and liur in charge of the people
and go up again Into the mountain.
On the seventh day Moses entered the
cloud aud remained for a period of 40
days during which time he received
the pattern of the tabernaclo and the
order of worship. It was during thla
period of time that the people sinned.
Tho llrst part of this chapter tella
us tho fact of the casting of the calf,
vv. 1-6. God's righteous anger and
Moses' prayer of intercession, vv. 7:14.
Israel's boast, 19:8, 24:3, 7, is now revealed
as being but utter weakness
and illustrates the worthleBsness and
unreliability of human nature. Tho
drunkard's promised sobriety, the unclean
man's promised purity, alike
melt in the flerco heat of temptation.
Their sin was a direct, positive violation
of tho first commandment, and
in it they also broke tho second Tho*
did not want to substitute but rather
Eought a similitude of God. Aaron
here appears in a poor light; bo did
not like their proposition (vv. 7, 8),
but did not havo strength of character
sufficient to stand against it. Aaron
Is like those in the church and out of
it who prefer to. control a movement
which is bad rather than to combat
the movement in its entirety.
Human Fickleness.
Notice Aaron's attempt to link old
ideas with this new-fangled religion,
this "modern expression," "tomorrow
is the feast of Jehovah," v. 5. Men
and women are today attempting to
gloss evil teaching and open sin by
associating with it the name of Christ.
To call such an association scientific
is a travesty. The fact, however, that
Aaron gave the Israelites what they
asked for, shows that he had some
idea at least of God's attitude towards
his people. We have here presented
ulso the fickleness of human gratitude.
Moses ia with God on their behalf
(Heb. 7:25), yet they forget him and
God who had performed such mighty
signs on their behalf, and demand new
new leadership (v. 1 and Ps. 106:21).
Art has a place in religious life, but
a spiritual worship a'one is acceptable
to God, John 4:24.
It was a sncrifi'ie (vv. 2, 3) of gold
to make possible this calf which was
doubtless a representation of the
Egyptian god Apis and may or may
not uave neen life-ai/.e, and may hare
been solid or only veneer, but neither
such earnestness nor sacrifice
saved them.
God's Word Immutable.
Moses' prayer of Intercession,
11-14, 1h wonderful. It centers about
tho Idea that Israel 1b "Thy people"
(v. 11), and that God's word Is Immutable,
"Remember," etc. (v. 13).
Moses was moved with pity and bad a
passion for the honor of God's name.
As Moses and Joshua approached the
camp they heard music, v. 17. What
a commentary upon tho debasing use
of one of God's noblest gifts to man.
the gift of music. Reaching the camp,
they beheld tho fullness of iniquity
and depravity which was tho development
of this disobedlehce, v. 25. Seo
also Rom. 1:21-25, Rom. 6:23, Jas. 1:15.
Moses' passion also manifested Itself
against their sin by breaking tho tables,
grinding the calf to powder and
compelled them to drink the water
into which it was flung.
In order to complete this story we
should call attention (vv. 30-35) how
.Moses returned into God's presence,
made a confession for the people, truly
taking the place Of Intercession when
ho desired to be blotted out rather
than havo their sin ro unforgiven. Ho
on into tho next chapter, vv. 13, 14.
nnd rend his great heart cry and God'a
answer of grace.
The Teaching. We have here a story
of the frailty of human nature and
the feebleness of human resolutions.
We see in Aaron the weaknes of a
religious leader who attempts to compromise
or to yield to the clamor of
a mistaken people. There is also present
in this lesson the possibility of
prostituting right things. The Israelites
made a proper request In their desire
to go forward. They lacked patience,
and made the mistake of dasiring
something that appealed to
their senses. We thus see the dleaater
of disobedience, even though thn
end desired be a good one.