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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 21, 1925)
THE LOST WORLD] By SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE ^-—---/ IlmllHM from Ynltrdij.) For a fairyland It was—the most 'wonderful that the Imagination of man could conceive. The thick vege tation met overhead, Interlacing Into a natural pergola, and through this tunnel of verdure In a golden twilight Unwed the green, pellucid river, beau tlful In itself, but marvelous from the strange tints thrown by the vivid light from above Altered and tem pered In its fall. Dear as crystal, motionless as a sheet of glass, green a* the edge of an iceberg, it stretched In front of us under lls leafy arch way, every stroke of our paddles sending a thousand ripples across Its shining surface. It was a fitting ave nue to a land of wondera. A|| sign of (he Indians had passed away, but animal life was more frequent, and the tameness of the creatures showed that they knew nothing of the hunter. Fuzzy little black-velvet monkeys, with snow-white teeth and gleaming, mocking eyes, chattered at us as wc passed, with a dull, heavy splash mi occasional cayman plunged in from the bunk. Once a dark, clumsy mpir stared at us from the gap In tlie hushes and then lumbered away through the forest; once, too. the yel low, sinuous form of a great puma whisked amid the brushwood, and Its green baleful eyes glared hatred a i us over its tawny shoulder. Bird life was abundant, especially the wad ing birds, stork, heron, and Ibis gath ering in little groups, blue, scarlet and white, upon every log whtch jut ted from the bank, while beneath us the crystal water was alive with flsli of every shape and color. For three days we made our way up this tunnel of hazy green sun shine. On the longer stretches one could hardly lell as one looked ahead where the distant green water ended the distant green archway bp The deep peace of this strange waterway was unbroken by any aign of man. "No Indian here. Ton much afraid. Curupuri,” aatd Gomez. "Gurupurl Is the spirit of the woods.” Viord John explained. "It's a name for any kind of devil. The poor beggars think that there is some thing fearsome In this direction, and therefore they avoid It.” On the third day It became evident that our Journey In the ranocs could not luat much longer, for the stream was rapidly growing more shallow, 't wice In as many hours we stuck upon the bottom. Finally we pulled tlie boats up among the brushwood and spent the night on the hank of the river. In the morning J.orrt John and I made our way for a couple of miles through the forest, keeping parallel with the stream; hut as It --.--— -- \ r New York --Day by Day l_____' ny O. O. MTNTYRK New York, Feb. 20.—There 1*. "* somebody or other has aald. no fool like an old fool. Tha other night the biggest lee skating rink In New York opened. In my day hack on Chlea maugoa Creek. T cut a mean and graceful spread eagle. All the alluring advertisements of the new rink stirred me. "Come,” they said, "and be a boy again." So not being Interested in glands I shop ped for a pah- of skates and went L^-^^und to the rink. A military band plaving. The Ice was filled with flying figures. 1 stepped out on the smooth sur face wth just a shade of timidity. Being a bov again Is not so easy a" it sounds. Rut I struck out. with what was Intended to be a long sweeping glide. The glide began all right but something happened mid way. There was a ronfuetng blur of faces, the building spun around—a thump In the back of the head. Where was 1? O, yea, I know, don't tell me. I was sitting down on the Ice. f might say 1 sat down precipi tately. In fact I will say It—precipl lately. An attendant rushed up and naked me if 1 had flipped. I summoned all the dignity one can In a silting pos ture and explained that I had not slipped hut the skates had. He as sisted me to my feet and gave me what I suppose he intended to he a geptls push. There was no stopping me then. KII'/h crossing the he was simply nothing at all. 1 whs headed In the wrong direction and hopstepping like a chicken on a hot tin roof. T heard someone yell “Hook out, here he comes!" Rut he hadn't finished It before t was there. There was the outer rail of t!)e handstand and the way I slam med Into It one would get the Idea that bandstands meant absolutely nothing in my life. "Come hark f again." said the gatekeeper. "I will. And you must come to see me some tlmt." X replied as 1 sneaked out a aideway and limped home. From now on 1 am going to be my age, dearies . .fere Is a little room with stucco walls three feet, wide and four feel long on the third floor of the Music Box theater. In It la a small table with an Imitation electrically lighted candle. Also a wall divan. This Is tha studio of Irving Beilin, master of syncopation. It is here that h" writes his songs. Tn the outer room Is an office with » piano. Now and tlion he goes out there to Improvise hut moat of hla creative work Is In the tiny studio. Some Urns ago I met a on# eyed, pock-marked derelict of the saloon hack tooni. He was exiled In a town on the border In Mexico. He strum med hla guitar and sang vagrant times for drinks of the fiery tequila. Its told a group of ua ha had written poetry and much of It had been pith llshed whlrh we put bnwn aa a hit of romancing. Yet In a current lasue of a highly Intellectual magazine Is one of hla poems—a noble and diet in golahed bit of writing. A vaudeville team la splitting with Ih# frank announcement In a. vaude villa paper: "It came to a point where we got on one another's nerves. We have hean appearing to gather for years and decided It we* »e«t to go separata ways.” To repeat tha same lines and "It option* together for )0 years must nm# deadly monotonous. It would teat the most complacent of men. A New York executive who hea several hundred men faring aarh nthei across desks switches them about every few months. Otherwise, h« •eve, they would grow tn hale each •ther. (Cep*rl|ht, ie;i ) t grew ever shallower we returned and reported, what Professor Challenger had already suspected, that we had reached th$ highest i>oiiit to which the cVines could he brought. We drew them up, therefore, and con cealed them among the bushes, blaz ing a tree with our axes, so that we should find them again. Then we distributed the various burdens among us—guns, ammunietion, food, a tent, blankets and the rest—and, shoulder ing our packages, we set forth upon the more laborious stage of our jour ney. An unfortunate quarrel between our pepperpots marked the outset of our new stage. Challenger had from the moment of joining us Issued direc tions to the whole party, much to the evident discontent of Sumrnerlee. Now, upon his assigning some duty to his fellow-Professor (it was only the carrying of an aneroid barometer) the matter suddenly came to a head. "May I ask, sir," said Sumrnerlee, with vicious calm, "in what capacity you take it upon yourself to issue these orders?" Challenger glared and bristled. "I do It, Professor Sumrnerlee, as leader of tills expedition." "I am compelled to tell you, sir, that T do not recognize you in that on parity." "Indeed!" Challenger bowed with unwleldly sarcasm. "Perhaps you would define my exact position.” "Yes. sir. You are a man whose veracity is upon'trial, and this c om mittee is here to try it. You walk, sir, with your judges." "Dear me!" said Challnger, seating himself on th** side «»f one of the* canoes. "In that case you will, <>f course, go on your way, and 1 will follow at my leisure. If I am not the l leader you cannot expect me to lead. Thank heaven that there were two sane men—Lord John Roxton and myself to prevent tlie petulance and folly of our learned Professors from sending us hack empty-handed to London. Such ^arguing ami pleading and explaining before we could get them mollified! Then at last Summer lee, with his sneer and his pipe, would move forwards and Challenger would come rolling and grumbling after By some good fortune we discovered about this limp that both our savants had the very poorest epinion of l>r. Illingworth of Edinburgh. Theme forward tliHt was our one safety. amt every strained situation was relieved by our introducing the name of the Scotch zoologist, when both our Pro fessors would form a temporary alli ance and friendship- In their desla tlnn and abuse of this common rival. Advancing In single file along the hank of the stream, we soon found that it narrowed down to a mere hro«k. and finally that It lost Itself in a great preen morass of sponge like mosses, into which we sank tip to our knees. The place was horribly haunted by clouds of mosquitoes and every form of flyinf* pest, so we were slad to find solid ground attain and to make a rircult ttmone the trees which enabled us to outflank this pes tilent. morass, which droned like an organ in the distance, so loud was it with insect life. On the second day after leaving our canoes we found that the whole char acter of the country changed. Our load was persistently upwards, and as we ascended the woods became thinner and lost their tropical luxu riance. The huge, trees of the allu I vial Amazonian plain gave place 1° the Phoenix and coco palms, glow ing in scattered clumps, with thick brushwood between. In the damper hollows t lie Maurltia palms threw nut their graceful drooping frond*. We traveled entirely by compass, and once or twice there were differences of opinion between Challenge end ihe two Indians, when, to quote the I-'rofe^sor’s indignant words, the whole party agreed to “trust the fa. laclous instincts of undeveloped sav ages rather than the highest prod uct of modern European culture. That we were justified in doing so was shown upon the third day, when Challenger admitted that he recog nized several landmarks of his former journey and in one spot we actually came upon four fire-blackened stones, which must have marked a camping 11 The road still ascended, and we crossed a rock studded slope whim took two days to traverse. The vege tat ion had again changed, and only the vegetable Ivory tree remained with a great profusion of wonderful orchids, among which I learned to recognize the rare Nuttonla \exil laria and the glorious pink and scat let blossoms of Cat!leva and odofitog lossum. Occasional brooks with peb bly bottoms and fern-draped banks gurgled down the shallow gorges in the hill, and offered good camping grounds every evening on the banks of some rock-studded pool, where swarms of little blue barked tish, about lhe size anti shape of English trout, gave us a delicious snpi>er. On the ninth day after leaving the canoes, having done, as I reckon. Could G. W.’« Reputation Stand the Modern Te*t? By BRIGGS NOW LISTEN GEORGE - I DON'T CAR6 WHAT' I Your rrpu iaitqn 15 — Do You mean to __' stand there anp tell me you're r—/ .Down in sSIX »? \ajHY POG CONit I . / .SAW You TAKE THRee IN THE TRAP. / --—--_ Don't try i To POLL THATJ t 6KJ J- ^ * /« ( NEWER THELE SS \ INSIST \ ( I counter each stroke) ^AMD - | TOpK -$_tX ! /. MAYBE. SEOPGE r>A | WASH NO COTTA .Oova/N da CHERRY J Trce But he Cu’tta hou)n i Hi ?> ' SCORE Alla RIGHT I ABIE THE AGENT Drawn for The Omaha Bee by Hershfield TIIKV WKHKVT WORTH IT r=-z- 121 - ®- | UlHY AIL = the pictures »y makes in your iy look OFFICE. ABE? MORE C07Y AIN'T IY?3/ ^ FI L __ lOHV tMt> Vou \ TA*E AU_ ' have NOU AKiy V THO$>E PHOTOS '^A how much ] \ t>CWN OFF THE I ' U/ASTEO 'v UJAU.?? \ tUHO ^ " V 'THEN ARE *" J © • bout a hundred and twenty miles, we began to emerge from the trees, which had grown smaller until they were mere shrubs. Their place was taken by an immense wilderness of bamboo, which grew so thickly that we could only penetrate It by‘cutting a pathway with the machetes and billhooks of the Indians. It took us a long day, traveling from seven in the morning till eight in the night, with only two breaks of one hour each, to get through this obstacle. Anything more monotonous nmi< wearying could not he Imagined, for. even at the most open places, I could not see more than ten or twelve yards, while usually my vision -was limited to the backsof Lord John’s cotton jacket in front of me, nnd t«* the yellow wall within a font of one on either side. From above game one thin knife-edge of sunshine, and fifteen ieet over our heads one saw the tops of the reeds swaying against the deep blue sky. I do not know what kind of creatures inhabit such a thicket, but several times we heaid the plunging of large, heavy animals quite Hose to us. From their sounds Lord John judged them to be some form of wild cattle. Just ss night fell we cleared the belt of bamboos and at once formed our camp, ex hausted by the interminable day. Karly next morning we were ag-ain afoot and found that the character of the country had changed once again. i'.ehimi us was the wall of bamboo, as definite as if It marked the course of a river. In front was an open plain sloping slightly up wards and dotted with clumps of tree-fern*, the whole curving before us until it ended in a long, whale backed ridge. This we reached about midday, only to find a shallow valley beyond, rising once again into a gen tle Incline which led to a low, rounded skyline. ;t was here, while we crossed I the first of these hills, that an inci dent n*-curred which hi a \ or may no$ have been important. (To l*o ( ontttturd Monnnr.) Tf you're room's too dry and yotl can't regulate the heat with your old, hasp burner, open the window and the air’ll be a little damper. THE NEBBS {wEYER . 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