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In a Far Country
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Th» Gold SeeKers Who Journeyed Into the
cynce and Peace of the Arctic and Who
jvjver Came Bach By JACK. LONDON
(Copyrl^rht, by Jack London)
MEN a man journeys
into a far »•ountry he
must be prepared to
forget many of the
things he has learned
and to acquire such
customs ns are inher
ent with existence in
the new lend. He must !
ahandon the old ideals j
anil tin 1 o!»i god-', and !
oftentimes he mu-t re- <
verse the wry code h.v I
which
r«
induct bus
hi tii
,' 1 'tc been
shaped
To
w
!..
have the
proteat
file
lit y of
: • I ' ( '•
liility t lie
novelty
of
sm*!i cliuii
my e'ea
lie a
sour*
e of pie:
•aire
but to
t hose
win»
happen to
be
hardened
to the ruts in which they were crest ted
the pressure of the uttered environ
ment is unbearable, iu$ they chafe in
body and in spirit uno.»r the new re
strictions which they do not under
stand. This chaffing is bound to act
and react, producing «livers evils und
leading to various misfortunes,
were better for the man who cannot tit
lilmself to the new groove to return to
his own country. If he delay too long
he will surely die.
When th«> world rang with the tale
of arctic gol«i and the lure of ike north
gripped the heartstrings of men Car
ter Weatlierbee threw up his snug
clerkship, turned half of his savings
over to his wife and with the remain
der bought an outtit. There was no
romance in his nature. The bondage
of commerce had crushed all that. 11»
It I
!
... .....
was simply tired of the ceaseless grind
and wished to risk great hazards in !
view of corresponding returns. Like j
many another fool, disdaining the old |
trails used by tin* northland pioneers j
for a score of years, he hurried to Ld
inonton in the spring of the year, and
there, unluckily for his soul's welfare,
he allied himself with a party of men.
There was nothing unusual about
this party, except its plans. Even its
goal, like tliat of all other parties, was
the Klondike. But the route it had
mapped out to attain that goal took
away the breath of the hardiest native,
born and bred to the vicissitudes of
the northwest. Even Jacques Baptiste,
born of a Chippewa woman ami a ren
egade voyageur (having raised iris first
whimpers in a deerskin lodge north of
the sixty-fifth parallel and had the
same hushed by blissful sucks <>t raw
tallow), was surprised. Though he
sold his services to them and agreed
to travel even to the never oi»euing
ice, he shook his head ominously when
ever his advice was asked.
Percy Cuthfert's evil star must have
been in the ascendant, for he, too,
joined this country ot argonauts, lie
was an ordinary man, with a bank ac
count as deep as bis culture, which is
saying a good deal. II« 1 had no reason
to embark on such a venture—no rea
son in the world, save that he suffered
from an abnormal development of sen
timentality. He mistook this for the
true spirit of romance and adventure.
T.lany another man has done the like
and made as fatal a mistake.
The first breakup of spring found
the party following the ice run of Elk
river, it was un imposing fieet. for
the outfit was large, ami they were ac
companied by a disreputable contin
gent of half breed voyageurs with their
women and children. Day it» and «lay
out they labored with tin* bateaux and
canoes, fought mosquitoes and other
kindred pests or sweated and swore at
the portages. Severe toil like this lays
a man naked to the very r«>ots of his
soul, tind ere Lake Athabasca was lost
iu the south each member of the party
had hoisted his true colors.
The two shirks and chronic grum
blers were Carter Weatlierbee and Per
cy Cuthfert. The whole party com
plained less of its aches and pains than
did either of tlnetn. Not once did they
volunteer for the thousand and one
petty duties of the camp. They thought
nobody noticed, but thetr comrades
swore under their breaths and grew to
hate them, while Jacques Baptiste
sneered openly aud damned them from
morning till night. But Jaetpies Bap
tiste was no gentleman.
At the Great Slave Hudson bay dogs
were purchased, and the fleet sank to
the guards with its added burden of
dried fish and pemmican. Then canoe
and bateau answered to the swift cur
rent of the Mackenzie, and they plung
ed into the (Ireat Barren Groind. Ev
ery likely looking "feeder" was pros
pected, but the elusive "pay dirt"
danced ever to the north. At the Great
Bear, overcome by the common dread
of the unknown lands, their voyageurs
began to desert, and Fort of Good
Hope saw the last and bravest bending
to the tow lines as they bucked the
«•urrent down which they ha«l so treach
erously glided. Ja.-ques Baptiste alone
remained. Had he not sworn to travel
even to the never opening ice?
Abandoning their river craft at the
headwaters of the Little Peel, they
consumed the rest of the summer in
the great portage over the Mackenzie
watershed to the West ltat. This lit
tle stream fed the Porcupine, which in
turn joined the Yukon where that
mighty highway of the north counter
marches on the Arctic Circle. But they
bad lost in the race with winter, and
y a day they tied their rafts to the
thick eddy h e and hurried their '.roods
ashore. That night the river jammed
and broke several times. 'I In* follow
in'' morning it iia»t fallen asieop lot'
go» »d.
plyii
"Hudson hay ;
use um now."
ther had a ide
icmcaii) in the
marking the tr
frozen toes.
"We can't he more'n 1»»» mil»
the Yukon." eoncludeil Sloper,
his thumi
ije map. T!ie eouneil. ii
wo lu» apables had wtiin
■nt d'»- advantage, was dra wing !»
lo'-e.
with
Ami
hand.
ing
I
• petty
from ^
multi-j
nails bv the scale of
whieli the
1 to ex ei
Tied aiiolh«
"Sufferin' cram
the party. "No whitesV"
"Nary white," Sloper sentent iously
atfiriued. "Hut it's only ÖIHI nmr«> up
the Yukon to Dawson. Call it a rough
thousand from here. '
Weatlierbee and Cuthfert groaned in
I chorus.
! "llow
long'll that take. Baptiste?"
The half breed iigtired for a moment.
"Work um like h-. no man play out,
ten, twenty, forty, ii f t y days, I'm ba
bies come" (designating the incapa
bles), "no can tell. Mebbe when h-*
freeze over; mebbe not then."
The manufacture of snowslmes and
moccasins «'eased. Somebody called
the name of an absent member, who
came out of an ancient cabin at the
edge of the campfire and joined them.
The cabin was one of the many mys
tories which lurk in the vast recesses
! of the north. Built when and by
j whom m> man could tell. Tw .> graves
| in the open, piled high with stones,
j perhaps contained the secret <*1 those
per
tile
(llo
the
sc
In
t y
out
in
in
early wanderers. But whose hand had j
piled the stones?
The moment had come. Jacques j
Baptiste paused in the fitting of a
harness and pinned the struggling dog |
in the snow. The cook made mute ;
protest for delay, threw a handful of j
bacon into a noisy pot of beans, then
came to attention. Sloper rose to iris .
feet. Ilis body was a luiliorous con- j
trast to the healthy physiques of the
incapables. Yellow and weak, fleeing
from a South American fever hole, he j
had not broken his flight across the
zones and was still able to toil with
men. Ilis weight was probably ninety
pounds with the heavy hunting knife ;
thrown in, and his grizzled hair told j
of a prime which had ceased to he. !
The fresh young muscles of either
Weatherbee or Cuthfert were equal to
ten times the endeavor of his. yet he »
could walk them into the earth in a
day's journey. And ail this day he
had whipped his stronger comrades j
into venturing a thousand miles of the j
stlffest hardship man can conceive. He
was the incarnation of the unrest of
his race, and the old Teutonic stub
bornness. dnsited with the quick grasp
and action of the Yankee, held the
flesh in the bondage of the spirit.
"All those in favor of going *>n with
the dogs as soon as the ice sets say
aye."
"Aye!" rang out eight voices—voices
destined to string a trail of oaths along
many a hundred miles of pain.
"Contrary mindedr?"
"No!" For the first time the incapa
bles were united without some com
promise of personal interests.
"And what are you going to do about
it?" Weatherbee added belligerently.
"Majority rule! Mn jo-" v rule!" clam
ored the rest of the party.
"I know the expedition is liable to
fall through if you don't conic." Sloper
replied sweetly, "but I guess, if we try
real hard, we can manage to do with
out you. What do you say, boys/
The sentiment was cheered to the
echo.
"But I say, you know." Cuthfert ven
tured apprehensively, "what s a chap
like me to do?"
"Ain't you coming with tis?"
"No-o."
"Then <lo as you please. We won't
have nothing to say."
"Kind o' calkilate yuh might settle
it with that canoodlin' pardner of
youm," suggested a heavy going west
erner from the Dakotas, at the same
time pointing out Weatherbee. "He'll
be shore to ask yuh what yur a-goiu'
to do when it romes to cookin' an'
gatherin' the wood."
"Then we'll consider it all arranged,"
concluded Sloper. "We'll pull out to
morrow, if we camp within five miles,
just to get everything in running order
and remember if we've forgotten any
thing."
• *••••*
The sleds groaned by on their steel
shod runners, und the dogs strained
low in the harnesses in which they
were born to die. Jacques Baptiste
paused by the side of Sloper to get
a last glimpse of the cabin. The smoke
curled up pathetically from the Yukon
stovepipe. The two incapables were
watching them from the doorway.
Sloper laid his hand on the other's
shoulder.
"Jacques Baptiste, did you ever hear
of the Kilkenny cats?"
•The half breed shook his head.
"Well, my friend and good comrade,
the Kilkenny cats fought till neither
hide nor hair nor yowl was left. You
understand—till nothing was left. Very
jjooii. Now. those two mon «Ion'f like
work. They won t work. We know
that. They'll he all alone in that cabin
all winter a mighty Ions, »lark winter.
Kilkenny eats—well?" ,
The Frenchman in Bapt i<tc* shrugged
his shotihlers. hut tin* Italian
was silent. Never!lieless it was at
eloquent shrug, pregnant w;th pr<>ph
Things
at tii st.
eoinratle:
< 'nt lifert
prospered in the little »ahin
The rough badinage <'f fhetr
» had made W'eatherhee and
conscious of the mutual re
sponsihility which hail »levoive»! upon
them. Besides. there was not so miP'li
work, after all, f»»r two healthy men.
Ami the removal of the ertU'l whip
hand. or. in other words, t In* bulldoz
ing half breed, had brought with it a
joyous reaction. At tirs! «'mil strove
I to*outdo the other, an» I they perform.-.l
petty tasks with an un» tien
^ would have »'[leneil the eyes »
comrades who wa re now weal
of bodies and souls »>u the long ti
All cure was hunisheil. Tin»
which shouldered in upon the
liim :
ail i
w lii'-ti
their!
out
st
I
up
in
per
sist ill
f : (M'/.ii :!
up and ih
its -j:
iv
tile
i\ max
i.v a miserable 1 1 > » » «
• iif
it«»
(llo
UillLT.
The m
ikiiown but
nie! s
of
the
<*abiii
had ext
•inli'ii the s
i<!»* 1
•ITS
sc
is to
.apport a
cache at t
ho ri
ar.
In
his w;
is store«!
nhe bulk of
th*' i
ar
t y 's provisions, pood there was. with
out stint, for three rimes the men who
were fated to live upon it. But the
most of it was of the kind which built
m
j
j
xV
m
J
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»
;
!
!
j
!
Sprang to Their Feet, Shrieking With Terror.
up brain and sinew, but «lid not tickle
the palate. True, there was sugar in
plenty for two ordinary men, but th«*se
two were little else than children.
They early dis«overed the virtues of
hot water judiciously saturated with
sugar, aud they prodigally swain their
flapjacks and soaked their crusts In
the rich, white sirup. Then coffee and
tea, and especially the dried fruits,
maile disastrous inroads upon it. The
first words they had were over the
sugar question. And it is a really seri
ous thing when two men wholly de
pendent upon each other for company
begin to quarrel.
Weatherbee loved to discourse bla
tantly on polities, while Cuthfert, who
had been prone to clip bis coupons and ■
let the commonwealth jog on as best
it might, either ignored the subject or
delivered himself of startling epigrams.
But the clerk was too obtuse to appre
ciate the clever shaping of thought,
and this waste of ammunition Irritated
Cuthfert. He had been use«l to blind
ing people by his brilliancy, and it
worked him quite a hardship, this
loss of an audience. He felt personal
ly aggrieved and unconsciously held
his muttonhead companion responsible
for it.
Save existence, they had nothing In
common—came in touch on no single
point Weatherbee was a clerk who
had known naught but clerking all bis
life; Cuthfert was a master of arts, a
dabbler iu oils and had written not a
little. The one was a lower class man
who considered himself a gentleman,
and the other was a gentleman who
knew himself to be such. From this
it may be remarked that a mnu can
be a gentleman without possessing the
first instinct of true comradeship. The
very presence of either became a per
sonal affront to the other, and they
lapsed into sullen silences which in
creased in length and strength as the
days went by. Occasionally the flash
of an eye or the curl of a lip got the
better of them, though they strove to
ignore wholly each other during these
mute perioils. And a great wonder
sprang up in the breast « >f ea» h as t>>
how <;»»d had ever »'"me t" « reale the
ut Iter.
As the sugar pile atnl other little lux
uries dwindled they began t»> he afrniil
tiny wire not getting their proper
shares, and in »»nier that they might
not h»» roi»! >ed they fell to gorging
themselves. The luxuries suffered in
this gluttonous roiitest. as did also the
men. In the absence of fresh vegeta
bles and exercise their blood became
impovdished, and a loathsome, pui
phsh rash crept over their bodies. Yet
thrv refused to heed the warning.
Ne\! their muscles and joints began
to swell, the flesh turning black. while
their mouths, gums and lips took on
the color of rich cream. Instead of
heilig drawn together by their miser),
gloated over the other's syuip
; toms as the scurvy t»»ok its course,
The. lost ail regard for personal ap
pearance and. for that matter, common
docencv. The cabin became a pigpen,
ami never once were the beds made or
frr-h pine boughs laid underneath.
lid m.i keep to their nlank
, would have wis
Y »
a -
l»»r I
-I v. a
.11 t !
I-P
l.ai
I'.l.t
«lid
til**!*
was
To
i h*
the
111 VI
Besides, it
hollt.
a in vv t rouble
This fear was
real cold and
and was horn in the
is nf December, when the sun
dipped below the southern horizon for
good. It affected them according to
was no one to
., :') painful to u
all this was add»
fear of the n«>rtl
joint child of tht
the great silein
diirknt
their natures. Weatherbee fell prey
to the grosser superstitions and did
Iris best to resurrect the spirits which
slept in the forgotten graves. It was
a fascinating thing, and in his dreams
they came to him from out of the cold
and snuggled into his blankets and
told him of their toils and troubles ere
they died. He shrank away from the
clammy contact as they drew closer
and twined their frozen limbs about
him, and when th«>y whispered in ids
ear of things to come the cabin rang
with his frightened shrieks. Cuthfert
did not understand, for they no longer
spoke, nnd when thus awakened ho
invariably grabbl'd for his revolver.
Then he would sit up in bed, shivering
•l;
nervously, with the weapon trained on
the unconscious dreamer. Cuthfert
deem«Hl the man going mad and so
came to fear for his life.
What with the fear of the north, the
mental strain and the ravages of the
disease, the pair lost all semblance of
humanity, taking on the appearance
of wild beasts hunted and desperate.
Their cheeks and noses, as an after
math of tlie freezing, had turned black.
Th«rir frozen toes ha«l begun to drop
away at the first and second joints.
Every movement brought pain, but the
fire box was insatiable, wringing a
ransom of torture from their miserable
iMxlles. Day in. day out. it demanded
Its food, a veritable pound of tlesh,
and they dragged themselves into the
ftirest to chop wood on their knees.
Once, crawling thus in search of dry
sticks, unknown to each other they
entered a thicket from opposite sides.
Suddenly, without warning, two peer
ing death's heads confronted ea» h oth
«•r. Suffering had so transformed them
tliat recognition was impossible. They
sprang to their feet, shrieking with
terror, and dashed away on their man
gled stumps, and. falling at the cabin
door, they clawed and scratched like
demons till they discovered their mis
take.
Occasionally they lapsed normal, and
during one of these sane intervals
ohief bone of eoirient imi. the sugar, tunl
l,oeu divided eipniil.v between them.
Tin v guarded their separate '»ticks,
stored tip in the cache, with jealmis
oves. for there were bill a few cupfuls
left, and they were total!) devoid of
faith in each other, lint ......day « Uth
fort made a mistake. Hardly able to
k with pain, with his head
r and eyes blinded, lie crept
a» he. sugar eanisler in hand,
ok Weatherlies sack for his
the!
' and
some
southern
ly
fell
l,v
fori
and
m
move, si»
swiinmin
into ttie »
and mist»
own.
January tiad been born but a few
days when this occurred. The sun bad
time since passed its lowest
ledination and at meridian
now threw flaunting streaks ol yellow
light upon the northern sky. On the |
dav following his mistake with the , a
sugar hag Cuthfert fourni himself feel a
iug better both in boil y and in spirit. | to
As noontime drew near and the «lav j
brightened lie dragged himself outside ;
to least on the evanescent glow. whi»-h | in
was to him an earnesl of the -un s fu
tun- intentions. Wealh.-rbee was also
feeling somewhat belter am! . lawled ;
Tl>
Pr*»
I
l»c
Hl III
and waited,
of »lentil
sllill 111»
til
j
:
:
,
!
!
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1
!
j
j
!
I
!
the ;
!
night each ..tlier, A strange
»ver them. They felt
du. d air «.f «-xpe. *ane.v. a wailing he
some small voice t». tak«- up the broken
strain. Not so in the north. The two
men bad lived s.-emiim aeons in this
"h» stly pea e. They . ..nld remember
no s mg of the past; the> » mild conjure
no song of tin* tuture l'ris uneaithl)
calm had always been the tranquil
silence of eternity.
Their «»yes were fixed upon the
north. Unseen, behind their backs, be
hind the towering mountains to the
south, the sun swept toward the zenith
of another sky than theirs. Sole si>eo
tators of the mighty canvas, they
watched the falsie dawn slowly grow.
A faint flam« 1 begun to glow and
smoulder. It deepened in intensity,
ringing the changes of ivdilish yellow,
purple and saffron. So bright did it
become that Cuthfert thought the sun
must surely he behind it a miracle,
the sun rising in the north! Suddenly,
without warning and without fading,
the canvas was swept clean. There
was n»> »«lier in the sky. The light
had gone out of the day. Tin 1 ) caught
their breaths in half sobs. But. lo.
the air was n-glint with particles of
scintillating frost, and there, to
north, the wind vane lay in vague
outline mi tin» snow! A shadow! A
shadow! It was exactly midday. They
jerked their heads hurr'« 1 dly to the
south. A golden rim peeped over the
mountain's snowy shoulder, smiled
upon them an instant, then dipped
from sight again.
There wer« 1 tears in their eyes as
t hey
softening earn«
irresistibly drawn toward each ether.
The sun was ouming hack again. It
would he with them tomorrow and the
next day and the next. And it would
stay longer every visit, and a time
would come when it would rid« 1 tlxrir
heaven day and night, never once drop
ping below the sky line. There would
he no night. The ice looked winter
» would he broken; the winds would
; blow and tb« 1 forests answer; the land
would bathe in the blessed sunshine
! and life renew. Hand in hand they
! would quit this horrid dream and jour
j ney back to the southland. They
! lurched blindly forward, and their
hands met—their poor maimed hands,
swollen and distorted beneath their
mittens.
But the promise was destined to re
main unfulfilled. The northland is the
northland, and men work out their
souls by strange rules, which other
men who have not journeyed into far
countries cannot come to understand.
ere
the
ids
ho
f
•l;
on
so
the
the
of
the
a
the
dry
they
oth
with
like
mis
and
An hour later Cuthfert put a pan of
breud into the oven and fell to speed- i
ating on what the surgeons could do j
with Iris feet when he got back. Home ;
did not seem so very f ar away now. j
Weatherbee was rummaging in the j
cache. Of a sudden he raised a whirl- !
wind of blasphemy, whieli in turn
ceased with startling abruptness. The
other man hud robbed ills sugar sack.
Still, things might have happened dif
ferently had not the two dead men
come out from under the stones and
hushed the hot words in his throat.
They led him quite gently from the
cache, which he forgot to dose. That
consummation was rcachi'd; that some
thing they had whispered to him In
his dreams was about to happen. They
guided him gently, very gently, to the
woodpile, where they put the ax in
his hands. Then they helped him
shove open the cabin door, and be felt
sure they shut it after him at least
he heard It slam and the iat'h fall
sharply into place. And he knew they
were waiting just without, waiting for
him to do his task.
"Carter! I say, Carter!"
Percy Cuthfert was frightened at
the look on the clerk's face, and he
made haste to put the table between
them.
Carter Weatherbee followed without
baste and without enthusiasm,
was neither pity nor passion
face, but rather the patient, stolid lock
of one who lias certain wort
liiere
Iris
to do aud
goes about it methodically.
-I say, what's the matter?"
The clerk dodged back, cutting off
bis retreat to the door, but never open
ing Iris mouth.
"I say, Carter, I say, let's talk.
There's a good chap."
Tile master of arts was thinking rap
idly now, shaping a skillful flank
movement on the bed where his Smith
& Wesson lay. Keeping iris eyes on
the madman, he rolled backward on
the bunk, at the same time clutching
the pistol.
"Carter!"
The powder flashed full in Weather
bee's face, hut be swung tils w»
and leaped forward The ax b
base of t he spine, and i
ly at tin
<hithfcrt felt all consciousness
lower limbs leave him. lln u
fell heavily up"!i him. clutehim
l,v the throat witli feeble linger
-iail'P bite of the ax had »-ai -» »I
fori to drop the pisud. and a
lungs panted tor release lie f
aimlessly for it among the l»la
Then he remembered. He slid a
the clerk's belt to the sheath
and they drew very close to «■;. h
m that last clinch.
Percy l utliferi felt his si l ength
him. The lower portion of his
was useless. The inert w eig
eriislii'd him enistic
• i'lcll
Wcatheibt
and pinned him there like a hca
a trap. The ca »un be. ame .. »
a familiar -dor. and he km vv it.,
to be burning
1er.'
tin-re
in tin
last several
van- ever n
lh
Yet what «h»
•ouid never need
ere all of six cupfuls
•ache. If he had ton
, mild not have been so
I it
•ring now.
•i: the sun t
\\ I i.v
thought tin
.i.v
lire inii.-t he dit. 1 • >•' : ■•■'■' re
in" ill. It must he hc;.»v. :■> .".l
ready, and the i.e • retqdi.g up !» in
side of the door. He ■ "'.rid in»: "o it,
h'.lt his past experience i*Ii:i ('ill (rim
til gauge its progress by the • a bin's
j temperature. The lower hinge must
he white ere now. Would the tale of
: this ever reach the world? llcw
would Iris friends take it? They would
: read it over their coffee, most likely,
, and talk it over at the clubs. He could
see them very dearly, "l'oor old <'uth
fert!" they murmured. "N<>t such a
! had sort of chap, after all." He
! smiled at their eulogies and passed on
■ in search «>f a Turkish hath. It was
1 the same "Id crowd upon the streets.
! Strange they did not notice his incise
hide moccasins ami tattered • iff
j seeks! He would take a . ah. And
j after the hath a shave would not 1«
had. No; lie would eat tirsi. Steak and
! potatoes and green tilings how fresh
it all was! And what was that?
Squares of honey, str«*anring liquid uui
I or! But why did they bring so much?
Ha, ha! He could never cat it all.
! Shine? Why. certainly. He put his
; foot on the box. The bootblack looked
curiously up at him. and he remem
bered his moose hide moccasins and
went away hastily.
Hark! The wind vane must he sure
ly spinning. No; a mere singing in his
ears; that was all—a mere singing.
The ice must have passed the latch by
new. More likely the upper binge was
! covered. Between t lie moss chinked
roof poles little points of frost began
to appear. How slowly they grewl
No. not so slowly. There was a new
one, and there another two—three—
fottr—they were coming too fast to
count. There were two growing to
gether. and there-a third had joined
them. Why. there were no m»>re spots!
They had run together aud formed a
sheet.
Well, he would have company. If
Gabriel ever broke the silence of the
north they would stand together, hand
in hand, liefere the great white throne.
And * toil would juilge them, God would
judge them!
Then Percy Cuthfert closed his eyes
and dropped off to sleep.
BELIEVE BRAIN IN STOMACH
Chinese Ignorant of the Anatomy of
Human Body—Subject of Mi
crobes Difficult to Teach.
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Ignorance is responsible for the
guesswork of the Chinos«' about the
anatomy of the human body. Ji'an
Price writes in World Outlook. '"Noth
ing is known of the nervous system
or of the circulation of the blood, and
every organ except the brain is said
to have a pulse.
The heart is consid
enter of being, and
therefore it must also be In the <en
t«.|* of the b.ily." The ('hint's. 1 also
believe that the brain is in the stom
ach. Perhaps that is the reason that
more than half the thought and con
versation of the common people re
lates to focal!
It is ignorance w hich makes a moth
er chew lcr child's food, before put
ting it in tli«' little ones month. If is
ignorance which allows a mother to
wash tin 1 clothes in a gre«'*i. stagnant
pool while the Child at her side eager
ly drinks the same water. It is ignor
ance which cur mission doctors ha va
to fight will'll they suggest that wom
en should not use poisonous face
paint, should bathe the baby at least
„nee before It is grown, should wash,
the dishes once a month in clean wa
ter. This ignora nee makes the sub
ject of microbes more difficult to teach
than the English in which It is taught.
And. though it's hard to say, it is
ignorance which causes a lover to
take water in which his body is
washed and secretly mix it in the
drink of bis loved one. But, then, that
Is romance and we niusn't mention
germs in the same breath.
Correct.
Little Jim, did not know quite
so much about scriptural history as he
ought to have known, but when
his sister asked him, "Where was Sol
omon's temple?" he was rather angry
that she should think him unable to
answer u simple question like that.
"Don't you think I know anything?"
he asked.
"Well, where was it, then?" his sis*
ter repeated.
And then he informed her: "On the
side of his forehead, of course, the
same as other folks'! Do you think
11 am a dunceî"