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HIGH SCHOOL LIFEVOLUME II Harbor Springs, Mich ., January 26, 1922. NO. XVHARBOR LOSES

TO MANCELONALast Friday n:gM the Ha rbor teamlos t an exciting game of basketballon th eir own floor to Mancelona.Ha:bor took the lead in the firstr.

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HIGH SCHvuL LIFE

HIGH SCHOOL LIFEPwblished weekly by th e HarborSprings HLgh School.Subscription price: 50c .per year.Ch:ules L. Beck;on Editor-in-ChiefLes te r Stanton Bus-in ess ManagerCecil Willis Ass't; EditorE::t:l DeL aVe:gne Ass't. EditorT heodo re Bl ackman . Ath letic EditorM::mi e Wh eaton Jok e E dito rMUSKET N ~ C R I B E 1671

PURCHASED BY BERENSTh e musket said to ha ve beengiven to Alex:mder Selkirk when b.ewa.s put as ho re on the Island ofJuan 400 m:Ies off theChil ean coast, ha s be en going therounds of !British mus eums. It wa sSelki rk' s adv enture upon which wa.sbased DeFoe's fam-ous story, "Robin son Cru soe ." The musket is in.scr ib ed with tJhe name of "A. Selkirk, Largo, 1671." It was purchasedby Randolph Berens fair $6.2 5, bu tth e owner has insure d it fo r $10,000Selk : k own ed a tave rn nealr Claph am, bu t died in 1723 at se a as alieut cn3nt aboa1d a n av al vessel.

EXPLOR E RS BRING BACKW EI RD TALES OF SAVAGELIFE FOUND IN ECUADOR

Tales of head :hunting savage.swho worship th e devil an d spendtheir Jives gathering wild anim alsk '.n s to us e in pu rchas ihg wives,were told by George K. Cherris,famous explorer and Harold Anthony, of the American Museum ofNatu al History. who etu rn ed fromSouthern Ec ua.dor, acc oi,ding to th eE l Paso Times.Mor.e than 3,500 specimens of ra r ebirds an d mammals w er e bl'oughtba ck by th e exp lo rers, who spenteight mon ths in the wildest andleas t explored fores t lands. Amongth e most in te.re sting tJrophies areth e heads of tw o Javal'o Indians,slain in a tJri bal b at tle th e exp lor erswitnessed.

A STRANGE LANGUAGEAn It alian missionary to Cent ralAfrica h as fo uhd a tribe which us esa language that cannot be wr it ten or

re cord ed. The Baoongo tribe. !hashanded down al l its hi story fromgene.:ation to generation by word oilllDUtb as the tongue is composedof queer sounds which to a Europea n ea r seem to be a variationof grunts and gutteral noises. Noone ha s ye t discover-ed th e meansof in terpreting thes.e sounds in to letters or signs. Th e codes of moralsand gav e nm ent are express ed inIjroverbs. Th e n Jotto of the tribeis : "W here ver man has passed misery follows."MASTE-R VIOLIN BO W

MAKER DIED IN LON IDOI'