Waste Places Of The World

The Russian explorar, Prejevalskey said after bisrocentjourney in northern Xhibet.that an enormous amount of animal life was supported by the scanty herbago growing on these bleak half sterile plains that form the highest plateau in tho world, sonie 13,000 feet above the soa. He said the wild yaks there must number millions, and that a full grown yak weighs from 1,600 to 1,800 pounds. Nature's chemistry evolves these great masses of flesh from tho poor herbage of a región so lofty that its lakes are froien over until nearly Juno, though they are 600 miles nearer the equator than we are. Esplorer3 teil us that noi only does animal Ufe abound but that man can live in some of the most desolate parts of the globe. It is a mistake to suppose that the Sahara desert is merely a useless sandy waste. Much of it lacks not so much cultivable land as industrious hands to mike the vastexpanse of withered oases blossom again. The MasBulman sect known as the Senousians has for years been digging wells, irrio-atiDg the land, and turning many hundreds of barren acres into gardens. Twentv-four years ago it planted lts hoadqüarters in the desert near the western border of Egypt, built roservoirs, began plantations, erected convents, and now a population of 8,000 people live at Jarabub, where the soil h hopn restored to fertüity by their labora. There are iarge areas in i-he Sahara that need only rain or irrigation to cover them with vordure. Through these reaions pass the caravan rontes, along which tke 50,000 caniols engaged in the Saharan commoree bear their burdens. . , Mr Anderson, the civil engmeer who last vear completad 16 years of explorations in South África between the Orange and Zanibesi rivers, says the rain that falla for a few woeks every year in the great reo-ion known as tho Kalahara desort covers the blackoned vordureless plain with splendid vegetation. Game is abundant there, especially lious, leopaids and ostriches, and he has counted in this desert 22 lions in a troop, and has seen 200 ostriches in one Hoek. Beusts and birda find sustenance in thi3 reoion whero only a few Bushmen hunters live. F ar northeast of them on the seaii-arid steppes of the Kordofan and Uafur millions of sheop and camels exist on the scanty pasturage of that desert región. A Gooü Mother.- ' One goodmother " says Georgo HerberV'is worth a hundrad schouimasters. In the home sho is loadstone to all hearts and loadstar to all eyes." Imitatioa of her is coustaut-imitaticn whitch Bacon likena to a "globe of precepts." It is instruction; Ibis teaching without words, of ten exomplifvinf; moro than tonguo can teach ín the face of bad example, the best precepto .are of but little avail. The example is followed, not the precepto. Indeed, precepb at vananpce with practico is worsethanuseless, masmuch as it only serves to teach that moit cowardly of vices- hypocnsy.