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The profound linguistic researches of Pictet, Fick, and others have made it probable that at the time when the Old-Aryan language was broken up into the dialects from which the existing languages of Europe are descended, the Aryan tribes were passing from a purely pastoral stage of barbarism into an incipient agricultural stage, somewhat like that which characterized the Iroquois tribes in America in the seventeenth century.

"Cigarettes are scarce and we look for smokes all the time. The Red Cross and the Salvation Army are the ones who look to our comforts. If any one wants to give, tell them the Red Cross and the Salvation Army are the ones to get it." But Corporal Fick uncovers another Hun procedure that has no fun in it.

T.N. Fick, who had been General Cronje's chaplain, and who only the night before had joined in the general flight from Magersfontein. These two, both ministers of the Gospel, had been for two months on different sides of the famous kopje. One had been praying for the success of the Boer arms and the other for the success of the English!

Margaret Heyes Hall, Vancouver; Member of National Executive Committee, Miss Adella M. Parker, Seattle; Historian, Miss Ida Agnes Baker, Bellingham. Other officers of the Franchise Society were: Assistants, Mrs. Edward P. Fick and Mrs. D. L. Carmichael; corresponding secretary, Mrs. F. S. Bash; recording secretary, Mrs. W. T. Perkins; treasurer, Mrs. E. M. Rininger; financial secretary, Mrs.

"I didn't think it was necessary. And besides, he never told me about the letters till the night before last." "And all this time that poor young man has thought Florence tossed him over because of some ridiculous notion about bad luck?" "Well, more or less, and the general fickleness of the sex." "General fick ! And you, having seen Florence, let him go on thinking so?"

Parlin, presently. "Yes, grandma; the berries are just as thick." "O, just as fick!" repeated Katie, clapping her hands. "In the Crossman orchard," added Dotty. "Prosser Horcher," put in Katie, choking a little at the large words. "May her, gamma?" Now, Dotty knew, as her grandmother did not, that there were two orchards; and the one she meant was a mile and a half away.

Thus the diffusivity of common salt through water was found by Fick to be as small as 0.0000112 square centimeter per second; nearly 200 times as great as this is the diffusivity of heat through water, which was found by J.T. Bottomley to be about 0.002 square centimeter per second.

Ferguson, Mr., on the courtship of fowls. Fertilisation, phenomena of, in plants; in the lower animals. Fertility lessened under changed conditions. Fevers, immunity of Negroes and Mulattoes from. Fiber zibethicus, protective colouring of it. Fick, H., effect of conscription for military service. Fidelity, in the elephant; of savages to one another; importance of.

Nelle Mitchell Fick was elected temporary and later Mrs. W. S. Griswold permanent chairman. On the afternoon of August 21, old and new suffrage workers joined in a celebration at Seattle of the final ratification by the Legislature of Tennessee, which was attended by over two hundred women. Election returns furnish conclusive proof that the women of Washington use the ballot.

Mihiel fight, mostly in letters written home by men who were in it, go far toward showing how completely the Germans were taken off their guard. Corp. Ray Fick of the 103d Infantry wrote home in this wise: "We got into the woods and then kept on going until we reached a big city where there was a brewery, but they had set fire to the whole city before they left.