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STORIES AND EPIGRAMS.

WHEN "KING'S CANARY"

WOULD NOT CHIRP.

SATURDAY, APRIL

MYSTERY CAVE PICTURES.

BUSHMAN DRAWING IN S. AFRICA.

Lord Dewar made another of his There is considerable difference periodic exeprsions into the faceti- of opinion among antiquaries over ous when he delivered a charac-bushman drawings of a new type teristically epigrammatic speech which were found recently at at the dinner of the Royal In-Rumwanda, about 40 miles east stitute of Painters in Water Col-of Fort Victoria, in Rhodesia. ours at London recently.

Mr. S. P. Impey, of Capetown, a Here are three stories he told: leading South African authority When visiting New York, Dr. on rock paintings, has declared Bridges, the Poet Laureate, re-them to be "clearly and typically fueed to give the Press reporters Egyptian," but other experts are an interview. The headline in the recommending careful study of papers the next morning was: the drawings before any final

opinion is formed.

"The King's Canary Won't Chirp."

The drawings were found by two Rhodesians while reating on an isolated farm. They were done on the roof of a shallow cave, and

any bushman paintings, of which there are many, found hitherto in South Africa,

An American with a guidebook in his hand, continued Lord Dewar, knocked at a door in South Bel-are claimed as quite different from gravia and asked the landlady, "Is this where Goldsmith lived? She said, "I cannot remember a gentleman of that name that stay-

The chief group of figures, nine ed here." I mean Oliver Gold-in number, are regarded as re- smith, the poet." "A poet! Oh, presenting men with white skins he could never have stayed here. and (natural or dyed) red hair. Our lodgers have to pay cash in Seven of them are wearing elith- advance."

ing and two are naked. Some of An Englishman got lost on the figures appear to be wearing Scottish moor. A search party head coverings, and on some it is went out, and a voice came not clear if head covering or hair through the fog, "Hallo!,hallo!is meant to be shown. One figure I'm lost, I'm lost!" Then another apparently has long hair down te voice was heard to say, "Aye, ab'm the waist. hearin' ye, what's the reward for finding ye?".

New Epigrams.

"The Dewarisms" which pune- tuated his speech included the fol- lowing:

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A White Race?

Mr. H. N. Wilson, who has a wide acquaintance with native and bushman study, has examined the "paintings" for the Johannesburg Star and copied some of them. He thinks that:

The race depicted is a white

Artists in their pictures uplift the beautiful so that all enn see and admire. In church neople! uplift the mind-in the beauty race. parlour they aplift the face. Some men fail to see beauty in emply bottles and empty stock ings.

Poets find poetry in rippling brooks, and slushy spring-time editors of magazines will tell you they find lots of poetry in waste- paper baskets.

Pacts are born and not paid. Habits and customs govern the

The men wear clothing of a kind not worn by Bantu, Hottentot, Bushman/ Arab, or Indian.

They wear head coverings of a most distinctive type.

or dress their hair in a most

distinclive fashion.

Assuming that the artist was a Bushman. he considered these men of sufficient interest to try to de- pict them as they actually werc, world-you have observed some instead of making the more or less men from the force of habit try-conventional marks often used. ing to blow froth from the top of

meaning these are men.". a glass of water.

The important point is: What It is very simple to learn how live beyond your means you mort-race do the pictures represent? Gold miners of ancient times àre gage your house to buy a motor, believed to have had headquarters and you' mortgage your motor bo buy petrol. It is not petrol that al Zimbabwe, about 100 miles from

Victoria, and legend makes the motor go, it. is the mort-them with Egypt.

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The possibility of the painting Home to-day is where you find

proving a hoax has not been ruled the mortgage and the motor car out by the experts, but the balance Marriage is a committee of two of opinion seems to incline to- with power to add to their num- bera.

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as repre-

If a man is not wedded to some-senting some anelent race which body, the next best thing is to be was not typical of South Africa. wedded to something,

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Most of the trouble is pro- duced by those who never produce anything else.

It was the third party and in- quisitiveness in the Garden of Eden that brought about all our troubles.

The lowest-motion picture to day is represented by the taxi- driver undressing himself endeav-| ouring to find change.

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A dog book of importance, since it covers exhaustively in two bulky volumes, profusely illustrat ed, the whole range of humani knowledge of what Cuvier called "man's first conquest," was pub-| Haled recently."

were maimed by law to prevent Mr. Ash quotes authority for them chasing the deer. At one saying that the dog was differen-time, the sinews of the log were tinted into types as long ago as severed; at another the ball of the 3500 B.C. Referring to the my foot was cut out. In Henry It's stery surrounding the early deve reign the dogs were "expeditated," lopment of the dog, he says that that is, three claws of the right even the origin of the word "dog" forefoot were struck off

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