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' LURE IS • VARitD
Mem Have Odd Motives est for Seek -
Ing Exile in South Seas.
'Matinees It Is More or Less Humor-
ous, Occasionally Deeply Tragic,
but Always Interesting.
1 have utter, speculated eel the mo -
lives actuating the meta and women
who t,uue to 111e• south seas-- utoa of
thein of a class neither adventurous
nor Imaginative. Why have they left
borne •1 a11, and shy have their wan-
derings led to t place so Insignificant
and remote?
In some cases, of course. the mauver
are not complex. I remember a ani.
dle-aged Californian. who did not hest -
tete to be frank. We wery sitting on
the hotel veranda. wasting an atter
-
newm In idle talk.
"Why did 1 coeur to Tahiti?' lie said.
1 "That's simple—I ttnnted to live In a
plae•e where I could have a drink wllh-
out breaking the low. I reckon I'm •
good American, but I like to be he
_I sloop. The French are great fellows
to mind their own business; 1 found
that out daring the war. Yes, 1 was
there—over age. but I got into the
National Guard at 'the start. When I
got home 1 took a look around nod
then nude niy partner ■ propoettion
to buy me out. We had a nice little
bu aiuw; my share of It, turned into
Donda. brings In about three thousand
i■ year.
"When the deal was fined, I got a
Ileap WA heated rip the nearest Fr•uch
eotony—I reckoned tt would be quieter
there than In France. 1 guess I'll leave
coy hones on Taldtl. My house will be
finished In another month; it's clam
to the water and a big shady veranda
where you oto alt and look ort across
the lagoon to 6tosea. I immediately penned the Immortal
don't newspapers,wartpplantatlens.'` carried ithome, and It became
want any After
every soldier
elate or •
a business of any kind—i Just want f national anthem.
to be let alone; but any man who.. The greatest lyric of heart and
Uesn't talk politics will be wele•eme hearth 1s "Home, Sweet Home." One
Ito drop In for a drink." - -- would think It the production of the
Hers was one accounted for. A teal happy father of a united family. But
moments later, on the sante veranda. such Is not the case. It was written
by a homeless wanderer who never
.nether our told his story In eight knew anything of the Joys and com-
wosds, pregnant'as they were brief. torts of which he sang so sweetly.
There was an Englishman with fie— Two of Browuing'■ beat -know*
a resat -ler, who was stopping over a poems are "Oh, to be in England."
steamer In the course of an eastward and that poem of galloping horses.
tear around the world. He had been "How they brought the good news
1* Iodla, and was showing us hie cd- from Ghent to Ali." They were writ-
' Mellon of photographs of that land. ten at sea, after the poet had been
(While the pictures were passed •boat, dreadfully rick. The ant is easily
understood. It is the cry of the
i noticed an elderly American. of mo- poor woman who said: "Oh, to be on
rose aad corpulent mtes, sitting at terra-cotta!" but the reason for
tome distance from the rest of the choosing the other subject is not so
rompany and taking no part in the obvious. Perhaps he said: "Anything
conversation. though he uttered tram rather than this choppy sea!"
tune to time a aeries of nasal sounds Robert Bloomfield composed "The
vaguely suggstive of Freugh and cor- Farmer's Boy" to the tap of a shoe -
reedy Interpreted by the native gift
maker's hammer. n fact, he was
to mean • ''One rum punch." one --rot half-a-dosen men similarly,
In time we ramp to the Inevitableemployed. Having no opportunity to
rt'.urc of the TaJ Mahal: and while transcribe them. he was often nblig-
ed to carry a hundred lines in his
gazed at it, marveling anew, the head until evening brought leisure
,t spoke of the vast ez(.ense of
tic such ■ monument. When he
nisi -std, the man who wanted to
t ■Ione was the first to ;peak.
of think of that guy." be re -
e, "aeending 10 million dollars
his wife!^
'ng on the ancient and costly
lentlment. we sat for a moment
wee --n silence broken by a
sl vole..
ve more than
�l—
BEAUTY OF THE SKIN
ie 13. Mural Metra of .v.r7 mama.
and 1s obtalaabb by lh. was
Chases Miasma r(malsa, War 11, s.saa.
rough.maa tad mama of thea11*
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Ma Wm la Het son. aeaase► sad •
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woollens ibis paper.
SAID HE OIIL
NEVER BE WEL
°Fruit-i-llres" Restored
Him to Health
Where Poems
Were Penned
"In Flanders Fluids." the poem
wi:I4-11 has mad.` the Flanders poppy
as utseperable from Armistice Day
as the dog rosn is front Alexandra
Day, was woo's' by Dr. John Mc -
Cote, who took part in both the
South .1i11c•a 4 War and the Great
War. and N hu. between these two
events, was a lecturer in pathology at
the McGill Uutrerslte.
During the second Wile of Ypres,
Col. alcCrae was in charge of a dug-
out drawing station. It was in this
dug -out, a bole eight feet square,
that McCrae wrote the poem which
has become [amour.
SISTER SUE f ent ebad u ie tlo libeen l io
wanting when put to the teat of real
aid and comfort. Shu knew that al-
ways 1n her own mind she• had been
By Meaner 11. Porter finding excueee for him, aiwayr she
(Copyrighted and bueued by arrange- had been either telling Mcrae(( that tt
wen with Thomas Allen.) en- -Just Martina way,' or stn turd
Is,'n trying to put name word or
S IMM; lei: --t )J CSTME\'rS action quite put out of her thoughts. As
she looked back at It, there had, for a
long time. leen thls growing eerie. of
butt and 411.aPLs.hitmeut which had
cuimlma(d lu a tblug that prts•lutkd
excuse and that wont sect/duly could
shies. 44.11.11 nue halter right dews to
not la- diswl.�wt with x say.-platalug
it,the tiling --what -Its aria dating—
,_ "e►h, that's evi yLnliu', way." She
was out .., diffo tat from what se `till felt, bpN'l•ve`I, that her was not
had been doing n11 .•r life. She was now that she had lust lover, but
%! mouths ago on that day in F'e•firtary,
mer•ly.attbetlentio; a lover for the just a, '4* felt that tau matter when
banger apple• tar the bigger pi.' 4' of her father should die she • had really
emko, and k•tting little mister intro ft. lost him tau tin day 1.1*1 he was
1:rimly Sister Sue Ladd the thing.
Calmly she thrashed it out in bet utind
There would, Indeed. be no hysterical
or heroics. eche was not that kind.
She thaakrd 11.4114.11 for that.. De.
That ion•. all. Surely .he ought to he brought home uncle from the
used to that e1n'1 of thing hy- this e,tficr..
time! As for May—Martha Kent would
To Is. sore, 11 was not exactly t.-ry likely make May very happy.
soothingto uta'.. pride to 1/1. 111U4 +M, ed (t-ttaiuly alae hophr would. Tbey
slightly tuaseet aside for a younger, could at horst have the same inter -
fairer !soy' There would be a slight eats, and May had to Iaousehuldtwnw
Carlyle described "Scots Wha period of rather manful re -adjust- or filial duties to luereut his taking
Hae" as the greatest war -song in any tarot.' There wash bound to be that. her where lar liked.
tongue. 1t had a wild birth. Burns Women, like the two gossips COW. There remained, then, only the re-
composed
composed it while riding across a guy; out of Sunday School that day, ad/imamet of matters so as to make
wild heath during a thunderstorm. %%oak! lore to null the thing overthelr as tithe commotion and talk as pros -
The storm aeeme 1 cult the poet's tongu% and nod "1 tokl you so" to sink, to Immotlou e..
mood. and a frit e"bo rode at his each other. She must expert that. In the morning came Martin Kent's
side, seeing him Ina state of silent other people, their own friends and note by special melee -neer.. It was a
beautiful note. Not for uothing was
Martin Kent a fiction writer. He
did. as May had predicted, bow him -
well W the dust. lie did not at-
tempt to offer explaaatlotas or ex -
emus. He declared that he couldn't
do that. It would be uaelen. But he
wee all ,ontritiou, all shame in his
/supplication for mercy and forgive-
ness. And in the end be begged,
would elle not take neck his ring and
wear it?
ttister Sue anewerd lsmediately.
Iter note was out beautiful. It
contained na heroics and no thrills.
Sister Sue was not a fiction writer
It contained no bemoaning. no re.
preaches. It was cheerful, matter of
fact, and cordially interverted in plans
for his and May's tappineua It mid
IN., thank woo, she did not caro to
wear the riug again, and she .was
very glad the true state of affairs
had been found out before k wire too
late. It said. ales, that there was as
nation why he and May should not be
married as soon al May's simple
trownwan could be made Brady, and
that he need feel no beeltatlos in
coming to the bonne with tie old free-
dom and informality. and that she
?rally hoped that he would come sous
And she signed herself, 'ethane.
Sue." And Sister Sue did hope that be
would 41)014' soon.- : She longed to
get over the awkwardness of that
first meeting. After that 1t would le.
melee she knew. -
She was glad, therefore, ;ben two
day: later Delia toId her that Mr.
Kent was in the Ilrtng-r000m sad
wanted to see ber . *he went Ma
at once. She gave him a cordite/
and toiled straight Into his
eyes, and she promptly hushed the
rush of woes on his tepee. After al
exaltation. refrained from speaking- I :oqualuhus,•s, might stare and mitt•
Thur., amid Gashing lightning and el a little at flue nw'temorpboris to
rolling thunder. this great war ode the bride.. That, also„ wee to tae ex -
was memorised.
pe, 1.,1.. Itut at the worvet it world
But some o[ the greatest patnotl. but 11 aloe day's wonder, 140911 over
songs have actually been written to 'n -"Ileother matter somewhere
Theo
the round of the guns. Rouget ds %0111.1 claim their attention..
l'!sie wrote the "MarseUlslse" to tDs •t, for her uwu feelings In the mat-
ter - Sistter Sur was etp•rirneing the
the reelleatioo of w etas—issue phrase'.
e•nou ; when•, before. since her talk
with Martie Kent in February about
leaving her father. she had beau try-
ing hard not to think. think. think,
of Martin Kent, .he was now t1)n-
srlons of neo such effort on her port.
She was gull.- willing to think of
him. He seemed already a being
quite apart treat her life. She was
amazed, and It little troubled. that
alae (staid this . of him in that way
so calmly -s. .4)lmort indifferently.
flekle--minded*, Surely, when one's
lover failed one so utterly as to—
Like a fleet, iu the dart therecame
the esplanatiun why the, ever since
February, had been mentally hum-
ming the taesninglww little tunes so as
not to think, think, think, of Martin
Kean. and why tow she t1)uld think
of itlne so calmly, so ludlfferaptly.
It
11/14 cwt now that 'ber lover had
failed her. (A thing that was, al-
ready black vonhl not become
blanker.) She knew now that it
was in February that lie had really
tailed her: in February when 1M• had
pleaded for an Immediate marriage,
pen•mptorily-uggesting a .anitnrlum
for -her father, sad at the same time
see t riltl lifknldy lndieating his own
abhorrence of tine pre•we•mr• so deer to
her.- . lihe• knew- now- hy- some-
thing had ,ie•med to Mtaap 'within iter.
At that throe: like knew-aps w
had then grown so numb and cold.
and why from that moment she had ; very little wattle she tock Alm out
always ntw•ovJ}sei00%ly been patting I on the verandah Where May was
the thought 1St Marten Kent as far waiting; then she left them with the
away as posrlble• she ketene .tot I cheery (suggestion that they'd better
why. when she saw its arm° alMult' be making their plans or the summer
her sneer, there wasn't the sharp l weaild ere gout before they knew it.
Watt of a new hurt, but the dull Ilff kuru► it
ache of an old one. For that matter, I (To Be Continued.)
as she looked hack at It, she could
boom of Austrian guns during the
siege of Strasburg, and to the same
booming bass set It to music on his
fiddle.
"The Star-Spangled Banner" wag
born in somewhat similar circum-
stances. During the war between
Britain and America, Francis Scott
Key, a young American soldier. saw
the stars and stripes run up to the
!rig -staff of Fort MaltHenry, and.
thinking of a well-known tune, hs
128 Avrn. r. flus 1 \, \(oars*&&
"For three years, I was a terrible,
wiferer from Dyspepsia and mr general
health was very had. 1 -Consulted •
physician and took his medicine bet
I did not improve; and finally he told
gat that bomb/ not be cared'
At this time, 1 friend advised me
to try 'Frail -ea -to r.'•. .k fter taking two
lazes, I was greatly- relieved; and
711k1* fruit medicine made nee certplefely
w.fL My digestion and general health
e re now spleudel".
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Mrs- F. e Simmons. 42 C,..
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-y ars and lips were pale. sad wy
hands and free ween always cold. 1 wry
Nervous and tamable to deep well. 1l'ad
f'sq_eas taearInekiw, keerxd resale.
essay worr.e,l or wrst.f-d, There ., ..s •
beaming sound to any man. la 1,
woe sloe one of my triages'
*fano was •narked isy west _
saes M • doctor• who la{d ay
anemone, hot as 1 did nes ON 1 •.
t.r 1 dsc;r'e.1 te t•y Dr. Came
I wd. awl rr the 6r.t It
brighter an ' m i•eedacher .
d..a(.pearrel 11 rO ubasod
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mallet
Ile la
ganllnR
chose to
the tow
By. town
estive—t
Murderer
an we k
might be
befitting s
that to bury
he orderer of rum punches
•. ee1lres•ing the company
end last time. He said It
shadow of humor—so earn-
.nvlaeingly, that several
Dsed before any of us
awl hlmself. Curiosity re-
nt an end; If he
the reat of his days In
¢oes1p would pass hint
se others less communl-
s• .`r -Presse rumored
'• 'thing financier. For
• mnr ,se gentleman
+' quite soluble of
4 'rash Mahal --Charlet;
ttleenard Mersin- In the Atlantic
ley.
Vation.Mlnded.
unforne- that every Indlvld-
not bars, real vacation swa7
Ah' ' *t,,ntnhnded,twho
nod to
ee n4 M• ■•g as they possibly
IP next i..•) thing.
,tremor. ,r.• so active In the
to this „ vette let -down In
"I', do any great
.torten hours and
t-• Stetting only such
• -t.e.err M are abae►
iM 1 11110 the exist-
' taking. and letting
ceS The tins.
ilk., any vacs -
and pleasant-
4•ati that work
and a pen.
At the National Portrait Society's tow nee that from the very day of
exhibition at the Gratton Galleries Ithe eatastrophe that had brought
hangs the portrait of a man with a
scarf tied round his neck. it is a
picture of the celebrated tramp poet,
W. H. Davies, who came into prom-
inence eight years ago with his
"Auto -biography of a Super -Tramp"
His first work was done in a com-
mon lodging -bowie In Southwark,
probably the most depressing en-
vironment in which good work was
ever done.
The man who wrote:
PURITY
FLDUR
tier Bre'.t(i ..
dncf Ektter Pastry torr
ll.t' It In All
\()Llr BttkIIIlk
"And better than a poet's fame
---tlktIe grave without a name."
fell In action on the fields of Flea-
ders In July, 1917, and was once a
scavenger in Ireland. He was Fran-
cis Ledwldge, a lance -corporal In the
Innlakilling Fusiliers, of whom it is
said th..t he wrote many of his poems
by the wayside.
Tredbgg_ With Canada.
The favored nation provision In
the Canadian tariff has been Invoked
by Swedish shippers against an at-
tempt by Germany to capture the
ocean trade In Swedish exports to
the Dominion. An inquiry was re-
cently a• ' -eased to the Canadian
authori London by Swedish
shlpplr which have been trad-
ing te. Ric Coast of Canada
via th. . , (:anal. They stated
that 01.. ..., shippers were now cut-
ting rates to secure Swedish exports
destined for Canada, and were carry-
ing these to British Columbia ports
Via Hamburg. They asked whether
th" might not under the circum-
stances In the 1 .de treaty made by
Canada wltb France, which allowed
the b•'nefita of the Intermediate tar -
19f to favored nations, put a stop to
this -aetice by requiring all dwed-
Isb g vols to be carried direct in or-
der L, enter under toe Intermediate
Gelled le. The answer from Canada
WAS the altlnnative, and It Is
uadetatoed that /Le•pe have been tak-
ea to recover the gr and lost oy the
?,wed sh •hipping men to the Ham-
barg shtppen.
sleek. The •
-•r-lI1t men' Sitar. T Wry.
the RN's(
3a.kstchew*n, in proportion to
popul.Uoe, rsnka Yat In poultry
prodt.rtlon among t .3 prusii ces of
Cana It. According .e Fedratl �ta-
tiatics, Baskatchewa (.1 f.I4V 55
bens In 1911, or o1e., about 1,000,-
000 ler than Outer alb. Mar ink-
ed third with Celle. Leel. J1,uIWba
and Quebec are Moat tote -' -*Kb'
3.500,000 each. i,.'e41ab l irdbta
mode a felrly good set'tt:i .,,, ,napsto
lation conoid, red, wild se.... 1.4%4.-
000
.av0:000 hens.
woes.
•sating the
..rata aed
can terees
hick per
Mate, war
titer, re
Is plated
ling, jets
enne no-
r. W. 0
t mortem
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