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AUSTRALIA RULES
GERMAN ISLANDS
NATIVES LIKE THE CHANGE TO
BRITISH SWAT.
Proclamation in Pidgin English An-
nouuced New Master—Big,
Strong Fellow.
Whatever the ultimate destiny of
the black, ugly, barbarous, and yet
pathetically childlike people of what
was until the war German New Gui-
nea ---that is to say, whether, when the
grand settlement takes place, they
will remain under the Union Jack or
be ret'u rned to their erstwhile masters
—it ie. certain that they are hap-
pier under the Australian military
administration than they would have
been had Germany been victorious in
the Pacific. Notwithstanding the
Commonwealth insists on keeping it-
self "white,"it must be said for it that
a just and kindly spirit has animated
it in its relations with and its at-
titude towards the natives in Papua,
which is Australia's one dependency,
and, for a year or more, the abor-
igines of Kaiser Wilhelm's Land and
the Bismarck Archipelago. These last
have, by reason of the war, become
Australia's charges.
In a hash of pidgin English words
fur the better understanding of the
colored. populace Col. Holmes signal-
ized the seizure of those colonies of
the Kaiser something more than a
twelvemonth ago in a proclamation
beginning like this:
"All boys belongina all place you
savvy big fellow master, He strong
feller to much. You like him all
ship stop place; he small feller ship
belongina him; plenty more big- fel-
ler he stop place belongina him; now
he come ,here to take him all place.
He look out good you feller, now he
like you feller look out good along
him. Supposing other feller master
he been speak you. 'You no work
along new feller master,' he gammon.
Supposing you work good with this
new feller master he look out good
along with you; he I out you get
plenty good feller Kaikaid (food); he
no fighting black feller boy along
nothing , .
The purport of this proclamation
was that the "new feller master,"
King George, personified in the Aus-
tralian military, would see to it, if
the "black fellers" obeyed the law
and did not fight with each other,
steal each other's wives, or practice
cannibalism, they would be well treat-
ed; and this promise has ben lived
up to,
Floggings Abolished.
One of the best executives in the
Commonwealth, Col. 5, A. Pethebridge
was sent, from Melbourne to Rabaul
in New Pomerania to act as admin-
istabm• when Col. Holmes and his
troops Imd been withdrawn, and one
of the first acts which marked the
Australian regime was the abolition
of flogging of natives on plantations,
e, sept inheinous casts. Planters and
the Germans remaining in Rabaul
say that the Australians have in this
Made a mistake, because unless a
planter has power to whip a "boy"
plantation discipline suffers; but, how-
ever this may be, thiere is no doubt
that under Gorfman rule flogging was
tar too often and much too severely
resorted to, so much so that in at
least one ease a native plantation
hand committed suicide rather than
undergo punishment by his brutal
Gorman employer. Nor were lashes
the only thing under the former
Governntenb, for it is on record that
some German planters cut off the
toes of refractory "boys," and other-,
wise mutilated them.
Of com'se it will be offered in ex-
tenuation Of this that the average
Patient'orNew Pomernnian is lazy,
treacherous, greedy, brutish, and, at
heart, anthropophagous; and thatthe
only principle to be followed in -deal-
ling with him is to keep him in a
} state of fear; yet the Australians
have done much for and with the na-
Papua, and they are manag-
tivos int
ling their wards in the former German
' possessions with neither the rigor
nor the exploitation, one or both of
which Germany displayed toward
subject races. Indeed, the Papuan is
not' the hopeless savage that he is
credited with being, as Christian mis-
sionaries and equable and promotive
government have proved. So there ie
a like good prospect for the New
Pomeranians and all bhe rest of the
peoples in the Bismarck Archipelago.
A Scene at Rabaul.
A pleasant pen pieture is afforded
by Lieut. W. H. Phipps, of the Aus-
stralian garrison. Rabaul, in a re-
cent issue of the Sydney Sun, Writ-
ing under the date of October 31 the
lieubenant says:
"Tumultuous cries from the natives
signal to the whole population of
Rabaul the incoming of a steamer
from Australia. A merry lot they
are, these laughing 'boys' hurrying to
the wharf bo assist in unloading car-
go and wheeling it along the truck -
way to the garrison and private
stores.
"Here they come, in gayly colored
lava -lavas from waist to knee, frisk-
; ing up their wooly hair with wooden
I combs setting in place blossoms of
scarlet hibiscus, variegated poinciana,
� or the fuchsia, like poinsettia, Nose
I and ear ornaments, necklaces of
teeth of doge or flying foxes, arm
and leg bands which do duty as
pockets, and perhaps some brass
jewelry are worn by these merry
wharf laborers, who turn working
into play. Here is some strapping fel-
low with white hair which to -morrow
will be carroty, for it is in process of
bleaching, with lime as the agent.
All have teeth blackened by much
chewing of betel mit. They joke and
slap one another playfully as bhey run
along under the flame trees, and then
to the wharf bridging the bright
green shallows of the opaline bay.
"At the ship's side they are formed
into gangs in control of 'Number One
boys' and all day long they work and
shout and play, making more noise
than progress, but still doing plenty
for the few shillings a month paid
for the labor. Around the ship and
out on the bay are tate catntarans
of visiting nabives, marketing paw-,
paws, soursops, limes, cocoanuts,
yams, sweet potatoes, pigs, and fowls.
Further off are trading schooners
and the motor boats of the garrison.'
Fringing the harbor are cocoanut
palms, bending graceful beads to the
sea breeze. And under the trees are
'Marys' (women) cutting grass with,
long knives, ,.stopping frequently to
point at the ship unloading, and to
shout welcome to acquaintances.
"Life in the garrison town of Ra-
baul would be dull without these
dusky, full-grown children, Not all
are of New Britain. Many have
come from New Guinea and smaller
islands. Some have made paper
(signed indentures), some are free,
and some are 'calaboose,' boys sero- '
ving sentences for crimes ranging
from petty theft bo murder. 'Paper'
and free 'boys' mostly desire to be
policemen, for police 'boys' wear belts,
carry rifles, and have military drill,
"White men in the garrison are
kind to the natives; sometimes they
spoil them, especially the house ser—
vants. As desired, though some
make attentive waiters and passable
cooks, they are careful nurses. White
missionary women have 'boys' to
carry the children when out walking,"
"Are all these things injurious to
my health?" asked the patient after
he had inspected the list of things he:,
must not eat, "No," said the doctor,'
"but you've got to economize somehow
if you're going to pay my hill."
Willie (looking curiously ae the
visitor)—"Where did the hen bite
you, Mr, Jones? I don't see any
marks." Mr, Jones—"Why, Willie, II
haven't been bitten by any hen" Wil
lie---"14iamma, didn't you tell papal
Mr, Jones was dreadfully henpecked"
F'OR THE THRONE OF ALBANIA
PRINCCJ•, WJL1r1A,l2 OF WILD AND THE, 1 ,iTNOESS
2'lie German and Austrian Emperors are stud to be planting a triumphal
re-entry Into Albania for this "ouple. Prince William was driven
out of Albania after a short rule and. ',as had a most ebeeicerecl
career, He is the Kaiser's choice for Jung of the little country.
AMERWAN DECLARES ;tariftreatment than Germany after'
the war is over. Again, up to the
,present moment Great Britain has
B ITISHr)C 7 IC L O IOIIS completed with Germany on equal
terms in her home markets and those
of her colonies. Nothing is more
certain than that after the war there
SITUATION AT PRESENT QUITE trill be imperial preference between
1 ranee, Great Britain and their re -
CHEERFUL
spective colonies,
in France, Russia, and to some
extent even in Italy, the bases of
German commerce have been swept
Only Way for Germany to Win Is to away. In addition, there has been
Defeat the British . created an anti -German feeling
Fleetwhich will not disappear for years,
III and will act against German inter -
The New York Tribune editorially eats. In such a simple matter as
demonstrates by analysis the per. shipping it is entirely unlikely that
tentous Pact of "Germany's" defeat." France and Great Britain will ever
It is not without design. for the edi-• again permit Germany to use their
tor, Mr. Frank Simonds, who is re- harbors as ports of call in trans-At-
garded as the ablest writer In Amer!- lantic trade, and in Mediterranean
ea on the military problems of the and Far hast transport.
war, chooses the moment at which "As an offset what has Germany
the German successes in the field gained? Her conquest In Belgium
seem to be at high tide in order 10 and France are valueless save only as
emphasise the inexorable fact that they provide a basis for bargaining
Germany is facing irretrievable de- with Great Britain over the blookado.
feat. They look imposing on the map, but
He starts by pointing out that the actually Germany 1s in the position of
absolute mastery of the seas estab- a burglar who has got into a house
lished by Great I3ritaiu constitutes and gathered up the silver but cannot
the most decisive factor in the whole get away with it. In her war wirer
war. In losing the ability to use the Great Britain and France, therefore, ft
sea, he says Germany bas lost a de- is ;plain that Germany has been beat-
oisive battle far more serious than en.
Germany Cured for Madness
"that at the Mare, He proceeds: j Turning to the hast, the Naw York
The right to use the sea Germany can Tribune contends that not even the
pelling Great Britain toorelinquish regain only in two ways—by li cosh most. sweeping victories can Cotnpen-
;the,command of the seas or by coin- sate her losses. If she retained her
plying with the terms fixed by Great States there Would soon be a retrolt
Britain as the price of the use of seas, against her. Europe would never
One would be the consequence of vie- consent to the establishment of a
tory, the other of defeat, - dream of German expansionists, the
East will citable her to resume her
Territory Doesn't Count commercial life because the British
"But up to the present moment Ger- fleet blocks the way.
many has not been able in the small- "In conclusion, the Tribune express -
est way to exert any force upon Great es the belief that. Germany, despite the
Britain to compel her to give up the boasting of her public speakers, has
mastery of the setts. Every effort been cured of her madness, and her
made by the Germans has ended in a dream of world -power has vanished
decisive defeat. If you set against into thin air, "Germany has lost the
the German occupation of 8,480 square war because she went into the war
jI miles of Preach territory the British determined to win world -supremacy,
control of the sea you have measured and she is coming out of the war at the
the exact condition between the con- very best, very heavily burdened with
tending Powers of the West. debt, leaving her great foes unbeaten,
"It is plant that no hardships of, leaving Great Britain her chief rival,
war is comparable with that 61 organized for o n something like
Germany; because France, thanks to the German basis, and having lost the
British sea power, is able to get coal world -markets in which she found het
and iron from abroad. She has now greatest prosperity before the war,"
been able to reorganize her industrial----3---
estabiiehnreets in such a fashion that INDIA LOYAL TO BRITAIN
whet used to be made a Lille, Roubaix, —
St. Quentin and Toureoing- -that is, No Truth in Stories of Revolt, Says i
the things essential of national Y.fe and British Authority
eonrforts—are now made elsewhere. The New York World correspondent'
Now, if peace were to be considered to- ices obtained from hint) seenreas a'
day, it is evident that Germany would statement of conditions in India. Re-;
have to evacuate France and Belgium
as well. In no other day could she garding the presletent reports from
persuade the British to permit her Germany of revolutionary tendencies
in India, which recently have reeeiv
ships to sail the seas, and she has no. sd
ftwide publicity In the Garman press
present moans or eompening encu Br and in despatches to neutral countries,
is consent. But tbis would be to re- it was emphatically asserted that
store things to their exact status be., there Is absolutely no truth in them,
fore the war. despite the fact that everything point -
Sacrifices in Vain f ed to the conclusion that German
"It would mean that for her tremem agents were busy before the war try
dons sacrifices Germany had gained ing to foment a revolution,
nothing from France or Great Britain, It•, was asserted that the trial of In -
but had lost her colonies. conceit-. diet conspirators who were hatching
ably the British would not make such a revolution before the European war
a bargain. Then what? j showed these agents bad worked as -
"Either Germany would have to of- siduously In America and that
far more or she would have to con- German agents undoubtedly gave
tinue in a condition which would mean them assistance,
the paralysis of her industrial estab.! It is declared Shot no unrest exists
Iishments. She might make peace with in India, because of the German
France and with Rutile and with eel boasts that it soon will be an object
her continental enemies, but she wone'd of attack,
not be one step nearer the freedom of, q'
the seas than was Napoleon atter he Founder of Turkish Navy
bad conquered the continent, She I Tito Turkish navy oP the past owed
could, to be sure, send her manatee, almost fes existence to . an English
tures to Russia and France if they. sailor, Hobart Pasha, a bold buccaneer
were prepared to resume friendly re- who was born into the Victorian age,
talions, but would they? T•ldisc one He retired from the English navy in
strikes at the heart of the. real disaster 1868, and during the American war ire
this wet has already forcehadowed became a blockade runner with hair -
for German industry, ibreadtlt escapers innttmornble. Anter
hair -
"Before the war Goete, a was' the war he entered the Turkish ser -
nidethe Russian nfarlcets. She was vice, ntrppreseed the Cretan)' rebellion
pile throtigh the terms of the treaty by lttercteptitig lite aupplfes from
Franc nkfort. to sell advnntagoously to Graeae and then reorganized the Turk.
have
But both Russia and Franco ish fleet so well that the Sultan an-
cient,
taken back theft economic free- pointed him marshal! of the empire,
thin, Both have strongly heindicated Hobart Pastia also enjoyed the unique
their purpose to discriminate
hereof- distinction of being twice struck off
ter against German markets users. the British navy list for' breach of the
Beaten on Markets foreign enlistment act and twice rr+in-
" ,
bngvestlonab]y British products stated. there, And he diad in 1886
and conceivably those of the United with the rank of a British Vice Admjt•
States will receive more favorable, al.
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built up. Canada had the resources
to provide manyof the things that
}� FOR will be required in Europe for re -
AHEADi OR CA ADA csta>tee, iron andtstoolstnttnuftct>uters,
"If I may attempt to offer a pro-
phecy," gymar9ced Lord Shaughnessy,
WAR WILL HELP US, SAYS BAR- "I would say that as a result of the
ON 5HAITCIINESSY. war we arc going to see a new light
in manufacturing and industrial eon-
ditions, and that our .manufacturing
industries will broaden out end •cover
Ties Will Be Broken Up and a far greater field than they ever did
Old
Thousands Will Turn to
New Land.
"After the war is over I believe Surgeon Points to Destructiveness of
that Canada will put into operation High Explosives
the biggest national land settlement
scheme in the history of the world." Wounds inflicted fu the present war
ro far
This was the statement made in amope serious than Qi. any .pre•
trona modern war, declares Sir Atl-
i
in an exclusive interview n-
thony Bowlby, the king's surgeon who
with a special correspondent of the fronted Ifing George after his recent
Wall Street Journal by Baron accident in France, and nothing is
Shaughnessy, president of the Cana- more astonishing than the damage
dian Pacific Railway, and a leading done by very small fragments of high
force in the directorate of the Bank explosive shell,
of Montreal, Canada's premier bank. I Lecturing to the Royal College of
ing institution. Surgeops, Sir Anthony Bowlby showed
"Every authority in Canada who is how a bomb barely as big as a base-
ball
interested in giving great attention -exploded into hundreds of pieces
to the formulation of a new immigra- ranging from large fragments to a
king of thick dust. He illnstruted rhes
tion policy,) he continued. "Our in- by a 1i!m showing the number of frag-
tention is to bring the maximum meats from a British bomb exploded
number of people here. We shall, under water to preserve the pieces,
I however, prevent the resources of Thirty thousand of these bombs said
the mistakes made in the past by Sir Anthony, were used by the British
paying far greater attention to bring- in the attack on the Hohenzollern re-
ing the right class of people here, doubt, and each of them cost a dollar
and—what is equally important -see- to manufacture.
ing that they are properly placed Wounds inflicted by modern projec-
when they get here, either on the tiles he said, ooeld in no way be cone
land or in industrial occupations, ac-
pith
wof those of the Boer war. The
bullets of the South .African battles
cording to their abilities" produced much less smashing and
Settlers Will flock In: rending wounds than the pointed but.
He told how the Canadian Pacific not very frequent in South Africa,
lets of today. Wounds from shell tire,
had absolutely shut down on the sell- were now as numerous as those fin-
ing of land to anybody but actual aieted by bullets, The injuries scan
settlers, and exhibited a remarkable iv the Boer tear were iuflnilely less
series of departmental reports deal- severe and the complications due to
ing with the settlement policy which them fewer and less serious than
the company now has in force on all thosef the past year in France.
Inndealing with Me effects of shell
the vast agricultural lands owned by are wounds, the royal surgeon said
ahem. This shows that the company , the wouuds were such as he had never
not only provides settlers with land, seen in the worst maclihtery acci-
but builds on each farm a house, puts dente of civil life. Ile had seen gap -
up fences does some plowing, and ing wounds as large as a clenched
supplies cattle. For this the coinpany asks one -twentieth part of the est caused qma.grti tvhielr evidentlyby aweduitestheirllfrapowmeer of
purchase price in cash, and the settlor destruction to the extraordinary vel -
is given 19 years to pay orf the re- petty with which they travelled anis
=Meter. Dur ng that time the apt- to their ragged edges,
Tine rending asunder was the emrt-
tler has the benefit of guidance from sial characteristic of alt typical guil-
e hig rganization of experts in agri- shot. wounds, and it bad been shown
culture and animal husbandry. that the injury caused by the bullet
"That," he said, "is the kind of was wholly due to .the wave or eom-
scheme we are now hoping will bo pressed air which the bullet drove in
carried out on a national settle after front of it and white!' expanded within
the war, by means of the united efe the tissues,
forts of the Dominion and Provincial t "1 titiuk,i said 510 q\nthtu)y, "that
Governments- If my advice and in- b • Ut g t tat would .t1i)de most for -
fluence are of any avail, we shall see to bly any observant person bought: in•
to a room fllled with u large. nnmbri•
in Canada bhe biggest thing in the of wounded encu jttat brought down
way of land settlement that the world from a big fight is that nearly all of
has ever known. them are asleep in spite of wounds
"Those of us who aro familiar with which one would think would cause
the work of securing immigrants su'lt suffering a< to render sleep fat --
know that on the European continent, pose!bir
and in England as well, there are a An extraordivarr operation has jest
great many men who would have lik- been performed on n wounded British
ed to come to this country or to the sold!'ar at Sunilerlaa:l hospital. 'When
at. the front a piece of shrapuei struck
Ignited States, but were more or less on the head mid 111,404ed a piece
tied to the small plots of land they of bone. The Sunderland surgeons
were cultivating, and there:fore'ltesi- tools scrips of bone front the patienl.'s
toted to break up their homes and shit and filled -them into the skull
leave for a new country, These men cavity, tyhicb ryas 3 inches by 4 1-4
have been disturbed by the war and inches. The new bone knitted with
their pies have been broken. any that or the skull, and the patient rap
of these, will emno here to strut again fitly recovered. He is now walking
tunes
and rehabilitate their broken for-
for
with no sign of his injury except
for the scar on his head,
More Manufacturing, Too. HEARING NOT LISTENING •
"Thenagain, there are many thous -
English Lawyer's Experience In an In -
and of strong, healthy young men titan Court
with ambition who hitherto have
been engaged in indoor occupations let the enures. of avisitin Negmur,'
who will hesitate, I think,with the wintl)". crenpilahit•, Stanley l of the Ventral sntral I'rovinecs,'
in his ln-
experience of active service and the thou reminiecences, I heard of an
outdoor life, about going back to onntslhg ending to a civil case. It was
their old occupations, They will an appeal case, and an one side was
want to try farming. If we tonna— a Mr. Stsuyon, an English 'barrister,
late at scheme to get them started, and on the other, a >tttntber of native
with a reasonable clegrett of know- •pleaders. Clic argumenta an boot :tides
ledge of farming caress, 1 believehad been heard, anti the rase closed
I
they will be very glad to avail them- fax inclement,
selves of it, That is what we must f Suddenly one of the native pleaders
do.i gat tip and addressed 011e court once
"I don't- tonic for any rapid itnpravc- Ettore. Mr. :Runyon Fluttered it for
mens in business," Lord Shauglmeesy + stood t.UI), but losing patience, hr. also
Up, and addressing the court,
ond, but I l)ve page- f;.i.pod
said, "Your Honor, 1 would beg with;
ocrt rhotinuebottom of thetltfcItlowthen gradeleaand ; all , espeet to point to tine court that;
are climbing towards the summit' my teamed friend opposite is entirely
agent. It will take some time to reach i out. of order in addressing the court,
the summit, but I cannot help feel- I and if i may be permitted to any sot
ing that we have passed the worst, ;; the-eotnv i>as no right to be listening
The condition of Canade. might bei to hint,"
r haba f a convalescent,r 't•he clout, who at that time wait 1
likened to t > We writing, put. his bead over lire Geste, I
have past the worst and may now i nucl said, ems, swam,it's ti gt'eat
look for continuous itftprovemenl,' Piece of Impertinence on your pert o
ns -
Lord Shaughnessy said be lookedi f
mei the cnin•t. le llsiririiu,; 10
for a large export business to be hih.,e
erore,"
THE WAR'S TERRIBLE WOUNDS
From the Middle West
BETWEIIN OPP141IR1O .A ND Bei-
TISfJ COLUMBIA.
Its ms From Provinces Where Many
Ontario Boys and (giria Are
Liv
u but
Saskatchewan
now tl
wit
00 a
Edmonton
Targe
s have
seventeen
snow
tent it is now.
ing,
Flour is $7 rel in Calgary,
ateltewan soldiers
number' 180,
Manitoba n trertteua to tax the
midi order firms.
The Albertad land tax will
realize $700,D year.
In 175 new, phones
were established last month.
Additional shipments of Al-
berta potatoe a just been made
to Ontario.
Not for se n years has Fort
William beento the ex -
Fur men m the Peace River district
Claim that this year's catch will
amount to nearly $200,000.
Ana
German resirtent of the
Rod Deer district'was alta other day
Ifined $50 for seditious talk,"
Unemployment is said to be rare
in Saskatoon these days, and farm
laborers are at a premium.
Alberta women will be able, after
next year, to be candidates • for all
Alberta councils and school boards.
A balance of $2,500,000 on the
wrong side is reported -in the cur -
1 rent liabilities account of: Edmon-
ton.
W. E. Koch, a local dairy farmer,
lot seven head of cows in a week -end
blizzard at Weyburn, Saskatchewan,
• Colin Fraser, the veteran fur tract-
er of the north, has arrived in Ed-
monton with 525,000 worth of 'fur
pelts,
Manitoba will be divided into
areas and special committees ap-
• pointed to collect funds for the Re -
I turned Soldiers' Association,
Public school teachers of Regina
in active service are to be granted a
!portion of their s« lacy during 1916
I should the way continue so long.
i Work has been commeneed by the
Imperial 011 Company on their giant
million dollar plant on the old Me -
1 Innis farm just north of Regina,
1 In Edmonton district 1,000,000 tone
!of coal were mined in 1915. The
total production for Alberta was be-
tween 3,250,000 and 8,500,000 tons
Shipments of live stock from Gal.
,gary stock yards during 1.015 have
been announced as 8,605 horses, 30,-
575 cattle, 144,551 hogs, and :12,110
sheep -
4 Gold, thought to be in paying
quantities, has beendiscovered near
D'Arey, Sask., a town on the Goose
Lake line of the Canadian Northern
Railway:
Calgary court• reports for 1914
shows that the police had to deal
,with 60 cases of horse and cattle
stealing, 44 of the former and 24 ei
the latter,
Transportation , difficulties aggra,
vated by the cold weather have
caused a serious falling off in the
grain receipts in Calgary during the
past two weeks.
• One of the heaviest snowfalls of
the past years has been experienced
in the Selkirk range this year, 40 feet
'of snow having fallen to date during
the winter months.
The Mayor of Edmonton is to re-
ceive a salary of 53,500 and the one
commissioner a salary of 38,000 in
future, according to a recommenda-
tion of the finance committee.
I A report issued by the Dominion
Government shows Alberta's timber
wealth as 3,727,900,000 feet of saw
Umber and 10,000,000 cords of cord
wood. These figures do not include
the timber in the fur north :,till un -
surveyed.
THESE TETRIB1 E MONSTERS,
Fattier Bernard Vaughan Speaks an
Ilans' Ulf i Write Doom.
Rev. l+'ttlter Bernard Vaughan,
preaching at the Church''if the holy
Name, Manchester, England, remark,
ed that the allies were lighting in a
noble cause, It was a mem which
was to win back to tho world the liv-
ing Gospel of Christ and tl» t justlre
and civilization which ought to riot
hand in hand with it, We te,•re ilgh -
ing a foe which seemed to he c ninpoit-
ed bf evil ones from below in disguise,
Inert who httd not only inhumanly
treated people in the creeteteiee they
had entered, but tubo hind also sinned
against antiquity as well at" posterity.
"Having drawn the swtt tI " :ntid
Father Vaughan, "we slutil net er
thrust it again into the scabbard un-,
til,from enol to enol in the: cmtti:ies
of the allies, there shall be a shout of
peace that is rooted in cletinil.e victory.
Wo are resolved to 'beat back to
hell,'" he added, "these terrible mon•
eters of iniquity with whom we are
unxngred,"
"Your wile came front a fine ol'i
family, didn't she?" "Nn; she
brought them with her,"
A girl wan asked to explain why
men never kiss each other, while wo-
men do. She replied-•- "Mon buys
something better to hiss; women
haven't,"
Visitor "It's terrible war lids,
young man --a terrible war." ;tutee
(badly 'wounded). --"'Tis thee, sou-- tc
terrible wary, But 'tis better than no
Warat all."