Show GODS AT THE AUCTION I SPOILS OF DEN IN DISPERSED TO THE WINDS seem Kaatrllnn to Many Walton That Are ttllrtnl In Sitting Ml ilonarln and lirlnklitf Ilurut Jne r scene In London KCI3NTLY In London lon-don n firm of auc tloneers sold at R A high price various It spoils that had If y been 1 captured when 1J Ilrltlsh troops overthrew j over-threw tho capital 1 ttJ and kingdom of lte OJ nln There la I a fascination OO fas-cination about these relics of an almost unknown country that will add greatly to their Intrinsic value Leopards Leop-ards In metal with curious work suggestive sug-gestive of primitive Damascene manipulation manip-ulation one or two Idols l also In metal a bell used to warn tbe common herd that the king was In the neighborhood and It behooved all men to abase themSelves them-Selves and In addition thereto three or four roomsfull of enormous tusk carve all over with skill and uniformIty uniform-Ity such were the relics Some of these Ivory treasure weigh as much as UO pounds and rejoice In a vicious curve and tapering point highly suggestive ot danger to those who meet one of the native wearer In aggressive mood However the wily men of llenln have been too much for the guileless elephants Great Britain has been too much for Benin and now the trophies that delighted the untaught un-taught African mind have been parceled par-celed off and sold In n brokers olllrn This Into has led a Ilrltlsh philosopher philoso-pher to express himself as follows Why do the foreign nations strive I M 1 4 I Nj 1I CARVED TUSKS nOM IIKNIN together In faroff lands and risk life and limb In securing the spoils of war or chase Sooner or later on some pretest or other comes tho missionary with his Illbla and the trader with his rum and though the merry native reject re-ject the Illble eat th l trader and the roiilonnry and wash thorn down with L fTL Jhe y laUi red line Is never far 9 PfIS wnff r fftil that the natives I stronghold was raptured after a short khsrp fight rind that civilization Is I In full progress let the native lake heed even In Ibo part of the world remote re-mote and let them desist from the acquisition ac-quisition of goodly things For as the JMlmlst remarked riches acquire l logs and when all Is I said and done Itbe ultimate path of the trophy lead Itut to auctlonroom The king lovn treasure his bell his Idols the Ivory of his successful and richest adventure ad-venture some Ilarnato or licit of lie laall are fallen from their high crate cr-ate and must pas Into private col reliving until great Ilrltaln falls like ome Into the hands of Vandal Goth kind Hun and l the curiosities take afresh a-fresh tease of life In other quarters Nunlnc car Inilrilon 1 Noble In the renic Is tho Provision pro-vision of nursing In fact of all the l > rofesslon that have been chosen by latelllgcnt women of late years that it a trained nurse seems to be ono of lie most useful as well ns successful In no way perhaps Is I a woman seen Ii I such an advantage as when she mia ten to the need of others As a ellknown physician has said The Irofesslon of a trained nurse demand l 1111 courage extreme trnnqulllt llm less patience faithfulness 10 all aImed a-Imed obligations and as much self Ticemcnt us Is I consistent with her To safety and health The law that I acts such lunlinrutlonu should be Isldly applied to every nurse by the lirslclnn who commits his patients to Ircare k |