Show V PARADISE LAND FOR 1 LAZY Nigeria a Country Where Everyone Happy and a Few Weeke of Labor 8uffice for Year la Zingeru Nigeria—The Ekol of Nigeria oa the equator should and probably are writes P A Talbot In the National Geographic Magazine among the happleBt people on earth for they have no taxes to pay no wearisome restrictions to undergo and so fruitful Is the land that a few weeks’ labor la enough to supply them with food home and clothes for a whole year The Ekol are devoted parents but It will take years of patient teach- be MASTERPIECE ' ' ' HOW TO vJuk k Ji U IV U u ur-stf- -' j! I ' i ’’1 V” I Ekol Natives before they grasp the Import ance of fresh air and the simplest sanitary measures for the health ol their little ones They have curious beliefs as to the advent and death of their babes One all charming superstition forbids quarreling in a house where there are little children The latter so kind love words sweet they say looks and gentle voices and if these are not to be found in the family into which they have reincarnated they will close their eyes and forsake the earth till a chance 'offers to return again amid less quarrelsome surroundings ! ings At y the new year and on all greal festivals the chief “societies” of men women and children come up to the station to give a series of dances To the Ekol dancing is one of the main occupations of life With them the dance provides an outlet both for the dramatic instinct and for religious fervor In the whole country there are' no open spaces save those which have been cleared as sites for villages or farms The Ekol spend their whole lives in the twilight of the beautiful to their mysterious bush peopled fancy not by wild animals alone of which they have no fear but by and all kinds of terrible halfhuman shapes and by the genii of trees rocks and rivers Here more truly even than in old Greece the terror of Pan is everywhere One hears from certain sources of the hardships entailed on the natives in the making of the splendid roads by means of which the British admin- lstration is opening up their tropical and luxuriant “bush” No district one however is quicker than the natives themselves to see the advantages to be gained from such immeans of communication proved whether as regards personal safety or trading facilities On several occasions towns have offered of their own free will to do more than had been asked of them In some cases even made new a have piece of they road on their own initiative as a surprise for my next visit to their pari of the country LOCKED i ANTLERS IN GLACIER Fatal Fight Between Two Deer Cen--I lieved to Have Occurred turles Ago Be- Ore — Mute evidence of a combat that may have occurred ago was revealed to J K a timber cruiser on the Magnussen slopes of Mount Baker Lying in the lower edge of Roosevelt glacier were the crumbling bones of a buck deer of more than ordinary size Digging down into the ice the cruiser uncovered the remains of a second animal the body in an excellent state of preservation The antlers of the animals were tightly interlocked that the deer had showing died in battle From the position of the skeleton and body in the glacier Magnussen is of the opinion that they had been carried a long distance down the mounAs the glacier flows only tain side four or five inches a day the battle af the bucks may have occurred centuries ago Portland mortal centuries Bight Miraculously Restored Latrobe Pa — Praying for 17 years that her sight be restored and declaring she would then be ready to die Mrs Mary Werner is lead Her sight was miraculously three weeks am The great temple' of Jupiter or of the sun was the largest and most It was sacred to Jupiter (Baal) with whom were asfamous of the temples This magnificent sociated Venus and Mercury building formerly boasted 54 The pillars were formed of three columns of which these six remain Note the man standing beside the pillar blocks and are 60 feet high MAN LARGEST IN THE WORLD STRENGTH OF INDIAN BEETLE Annie Drake writing to the English Seram- from Countryside Monthly pore Bengal says: Last week a naj tlve servant brought me a Ipngicom beetle which he was carrying by if feelers while the beetle was carry! a stone weighing nearly half a poun But how the feelers could stand strain (the beetle was carried in t fashion for about 40 yards) and ho the legs could retain their hold of heavy stone which they could not e T I cannot conceive! coinpass length of the beetle was two and o th its feelers quarter Inches inches and it weighed ounce only while the stone weighed 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