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�re}vxia AUOvIC BBECIICN$.
?trchdent'tttt Contrite es Present Frac-
dittorts With -First Voyage.
le contrast to his first voyage to
the Arctic regions twenty-one years
ago, Arehdoacon Fleming oY the Are -
tie Mission
re-tie-Mission of the Church of England
Missionary Soeicty tells of the com-
parative luxury of.he aceoinmodsr
tion on .tie recently completed tour
of tate Aretie mission stations of the
eastern division.
Oa his first journey he travellCd om
a halting schooner andslept on a pile
of canvas on the thek. Throughout
the recent trip Archdeacon FIeming
enjoyed the blersins of the wireless,
Which gave eontac:; with the world
and which permitted him to carry' on
his executive duties as superin.en-
dent of the Arctic mission, altnough'
many miles distant from his office in
Toronto,
Archdeacon Fleming was a passen-
ger: on the Hudson Bay Co.'s steamer
Nascopie, which left Montreal recent-
ly'.. The return journey totalled. some
10,600 miles. The Nascopie visited,
Quebec, Newfoundland and went'
thence along the east coast of Lab-
rador, through the Hudson Strait, I
and on to Baffin Land, putting be at
impor.ant ports and distrieuting
freight and supplies.
The ,gyrocompass is among the
many modern safety devices installed
on the Nascopie. It is a mechanical
device, always pointing to true north
and used in place of the magnetic
compass, which does not act in the
Arctic. The instrument on the Nas-
copie is similar in design tothe com-
passes installed on the recently com-
pleted Caxuadien National steamers,
the Prince Henry, Prince Robert, and
Prince David, for the Vancouver -
Alaska spun.
Unique among the incidents of the
voyage was the wedding ceremony
performed by Archdeacon Fleming
on board the steamer while off the:.
Bain Land ,coast, The bridegroom,
who was being transferred from a
Labrador post, ,and the bride, •a pas-
senger on the .steamer, had planned
for a wedding atone of the ports.
The plans went awry owing to
changes in •the steamer's schedule,
so the eeremony took place aboard
ship.
Archdeacon Fleming was delighted
with existing conditions among the
Eskimo missions and the steadfast -
fleas with which the Christian con-
verts were holding to the faith they
have adopted. He found great cause
for thanksgiving for the progress
which was evident in the construe-
tion of the hospital being erected un-
der the auspIc of the M.S.O.C., and
ably supported by the Dominion Gov-
ernment at Pangnirtung, the first
hospital to be built north of the
mainland of Canada. It will be pro-
vided with eight beds and a modern
operating room.
Eronle situ I GHTH017SE,
Has .Safeguarded Msa'inesa Por Oyer
232 Years.
One of the most famous light-
houses in the world recently celebrat-
ed its jubilee. .L slim white pillar,
known to nearly all sailors, rises out
of the sea fourteen miles from Ply-
mouth,England. This is the Eddy-
stone Lighthouse, or rather, the
fourth Eddystone Lighthouse.
For 232 years, the light from this
beacon has safeguarded mariners
-during the °night ..against the treach-
erous reef which is its foundation,
and which lies directly in the track
of vessels entering and leaving the
English Channel.
The first of the lighthouses erected
on this reef was a queer affair. It
was a tower that looked like a cross
between a Chinese pagoda and a
Turkish minaret: The outer walls
were circled with wide galleries, and
were ornamented with painted suns,
wooden candlesticks, weather vanes,
and strange gabies. The tallow -can-
dles in this wooden lantern were lit
for the nrst time in November, 1698.
For four years this queer structure
withstood the onslaught of wind and
sea. Then one fateful night a ter-
rific hurricane swept away the light-
house and Its occupants. The present
lighthouse- was designed by Sir Jas.
Douglas, and its first stone w'aas. Iaid
on August 19th, .1879.
F� PLAY I N THE 7IJNGLE.
Bold and .Fearless Maoris Knew Mow
to Be amorous.
The Maoris of a few years ago
loved to fight, Before the white man
came to New Zealand the various
tribes fought among themselves; af-
ter he came they united to fight the
common enemy. But if the Maori.
warriors were bold and'fearless on
the field of battle they could also be
generous. For ee.ample, this incident,
which occurred' some seventy years
ago, and which Mr. William D. Boyce
relates in his recent book, "Austra-
lia and New Zealand," shows that
lair play may,exist, even in the
Bungle;
During a battle the white sol-
diers had used Sring, and the Maori
thief sent out a Sag of truce to in-
quire why.
"We are out of powder for our
guns," was the reply.
Obviously the game couldn't go ' en
if one side had no powder; so the
chief sent half of ills own supply to
the white men. Ile wanted to fight
and win, but more than that he want-
ed to fight on' even terms,
The Guards' floh ere.
The large bearskin hats or helmets
scorn by the Grenadiers and other
Footguards of the British Army al-
ways keep their shape and stand axp
en the head without any sagging, We
Might wonder how it is that a sub-
stance like fur could be made to, do
this, but when we see the Inside of a.
Guardsman's bearskin hat we see at
once how It is that it keeps a good
ehape.
The hat is like,the human body, in
that it is haft Up en a ttsere or less
rigid skeleton. A kind of basket
matte of the best willow ie first con-
structed, and when this.; is complete
the fur is Pitted round it, The -Metter
strueture is very substantias, and the
hat when completed would have to.
ateekve st very severe blow to b
dented nr pttt out of thews ilk eh
way.
OR +f AVA Es -
Copyright
by Charles Scribner's Sons
WHAT HAPPENED SO FAR NOW READ ON --
Bud Lee, horse foreman of the Blue
Lake ranch, convinced Bayne Trey
-
ors, manager, is deliberatly wrecking
the property owned by Judith San-
ford, a 'young woman, her cousin,
Pollock Hampton, and Timothy Gray
decides tothrow;•up his job. Judith
arrives and announces she has bough
Gray's: share in the ranch and wil
run it. She discharges Trevors.
The men on the ranch dislike tak
ing orders from a girl, but by subdu
ing a vicious horse and proving he
thorough knowledge of ranch life
Judith wins the best of them over
Lee decides to stay.
Convinced` her veterinarian, Bil
Crowdy, is treacherous,- Judith' dis-
charges'
is
charges ' him, re-engaging an old
friend of her• father's, Doc. Tripp.
Pollock Hampton, with. a party of
friends; comes. to the ranch to'stay'
permanently, Trevors accepts Hamp-
ton's invitation to visit the ranch.
Judith's • messenger is held up and
robbed of the monthly pay roll.
Bud Lee goes to the city for more
money, getting ' back safely with it,
though his horse is killed under him.
Both he and Judith see Trevor's hand
in the crime.' Hog cholera, hard to.
account for, breaks out on the ranch.
Judith and Lee,` investigating the
scene of the holdup, climb a moun-
tain, where the robber must have hid-
den.
A cabin' in a flower -planted clearing
excites Judith's admiration. It is
Lee's, though he does not say so.
They are fired on from ambush, and.
Lee wounded, Answering the fire,
they make for the cabin. Here they
find Bill Crowdy wounded. Dragging.
him into the. building, they find he
has the, money taken from Judith's
messenger. Beseiged in the cabin,
they are compelled to stay all night,
Hampton, at the ranch, becomes
uneasy at Judith's long absence. With
Tommy Burkitt he goes to seek her,
arriving in time to drive the attack-
ers off, and capturing one pian, who
is known as "Shorty."
"Shorty" escapes from imprison-
ment in the grainhouse of the ranch,
to the disgust of Carson, cow .fore-
tnan,who had hint in charge. Lee be-
gins to feel a fondness for Judith, the
he realizes she is not his womanly
ideal. Marcia Langworthy, one of
Hampton's party, typical city girl, is
move to his taste.
The discovery is made that pig-
geons, with hog cholera germs on
their feet, have been liberated on the
ranch, Lev• captures a stranger Dick
Donley, red-handed, with an accoin-
plice, a cowboy known as "Poker
Face", Donley has brought �;,ore'pi-
geons to the ranch,
At a dance given in honor of
Hampton's friends Lee appears in ev-
ening dress, He is recognized. by one
of the party as an old acquaintance.
Dave Lae, once wealthy but ruined
by trusting false friends. Judith, in
her womanly finery makes each an
appeal to Lei; that, alone With her,
her forcibly kisses herr, t•eceiving the
rcbtttio deserved.,
When he had drawn on: his working
garb and stuffed his trousers into his
boots, he went to his bunk and tossed
back the blanket: From the mattress
he took a heavy, old-style colt revolv-
, er. Carson, watching him, saw • him
spin the cylinder, slip a box of fresh
t cartridges into his pocket and turn
1 to the' door.
"Riding, Bud?",He. got to his feet,
- stuffed his pipe into his pocket and
- reached for: his hat. :"Care if I .mosey
r along?"
, "What for?" asked Lee curtly.
• "Oh, h-l,'what's the use of being
a' hawg?" Carson . grumbled deep
1 down in his brown throat, "If;you're
` on your way to little of Rocky hunt-
ing trouble, if they's going to be
shooting -fun, why can't you let me
in on it?"
Lee stood a moment framed in the
doorway, frowning down et; Carson.
Then he turned on his . heel and went
out, saying coolly over his. shoulder:
"Come on if you want to. Quin-
nion's in town.."
` w * * 5
As their horses' hoofs hammered.
the winding road for the forty miles
into Rocky Bend the two riders were
for the most part silent. All of the.
explanation which Lee had to give, or
eared to give, was summed up in the
brief words: "Quinnion's •in town:"
To Judith, Lee had said that night
they fought together at the Upper
,'End that he had recognized Quin-
nion's voice,, "I played poker with
that voice not four months ago."
That he had had ample reason to re-
member the pian as well, he had not
gone on to mention. But -Carson
knew,
Carson had sat at Lee's left- hand
that 'night, across the table from
Chris Quinnion, and had seen the
look of naked hatred in two pairs of
eyes when Lee had risen to his feet
and coolly branded Quinnion as a
crook and a card sheik. For a little
the two men had glared at each oth-
er, their muscles corded and ready,
their, eyes alert and suspicious,' their
hands close to their pockets. Then
Quinnion had sneered in that evil
vdioe of his: "You got the drop on
me this, time, Look out for the next"
He, too, had risen and with Lee's
eyes hard upon hint had gone out of
the room. And Carsonhad been dis-
appointed in a fight. But now—now
that Bud Lee in this mood was go-
ing straight to Rocky Bend andQ uin- o
Mon, :Carson filled his deep longs o
with a sigh of satisfaction, Life had
grown dull here of late:there wasn't a
a fresh sear an his battered body. i
Though the railroad had at last o
hug the:lk tg dusty days, But at night,
always an .a Saturday .evening, there
came into Rocky Bend front l.utnb';r-
camps, mines and eow outfits a crowd
of men whose blood ran red and tar
bulent, seeking a game 'of cards, a
"Whirl at the wheel," a night of drink-
ing or any other amusement which
fate might vouchsafe them, Good
men and bad men, they were all hard 1
men and quids., 'Otherwise they would
not have come into Rocky Bend at
all.
Lee and Carson riding out of the
darkness into the .dim •light of the first
straggling street -lamps, passed swift-
ly between the rows of weather-
boarded shacks and headed toward
the 'G&iilen :Spur Saloon.
Though the hour was late there
were :n ny saddle -ponies standing
with drooping heads: here and •there
along dire sidewalks: from more.
than one barroom came the gay rag-
time .of an automatic piano or the
scrape and scream of a fiddle. Men'
lounged up and down the 'street,
smoking, calling to one another, turn-
ing in here or there to have a drink,
or watch ,a game.
The two newcomers, watching each
man or group' of men,, rode on slowly
until they came to the building on
whose false front, was a gigantic spur
in yellow paint. Here they dismount-
ed, tied their horses, and 'went in.
Carson, with a quick eye toward pre-
paredness for what might lie on the
cards, looked for Lee's gun. It wasn't
in his pocket; it wasn't; in his waist-
band, ready'to hand.'It.wasn't any-
where that Carson could see. At the
door he whispered warningly:
"Better be ready, Bud. Ain't lost
your. gun, have you?" •
Lee shook his, head and stepped in-
to the room. At the long bar were
three or four men drinking. `There
were other men at the round tables,
playing draw, solo, stud horse. One
glance showed that Quinnion' was not g.
in the room. But there were other
rooms at the' rear for those desiring
privacy. " Lee, nodding'this way and: 1.
that to friends who accosted hiin,
made his way straight to the bar.
"Hello, Sandy," he said briefly.
Sandy Weaver, the bartender,' look-
ed at him suspiciously. A short, heavy
blond man was Sandy Weaver, who
ran a fair house and gave attention
Strictly to his own business. Save.
�tvhen asked by a friend to do hi:n a
favor, such a favor as to keep en eye
on another man.
"Hello, Bud," returned Sandy, put
ting out a red hand. All expression
of interest had fled from his elated''
face. 'Come in right away, eh? Hello
Carson. Have sornethin'; on me, you
know"
Lee shook his head, f
"Not tonight, Sandy," • 'he said.
"Thanks just the same."
"Me," grinnediCarson. "I',11 go you,,
Sandy. Same, thing --you, know:"
Sandy shoved out ' whisky -bottle' s
and glass. Then he turned grave eyes h
to Lee. h
"One of•these fellers can tend bar 1
while we . talk if you want, Bud," he
offered. • i•
"You, say Quinnion has been talk-
tug?"
alk tug?" asked Lee. e
"Yes: Considerable. All afternoon li
an' evening, I .guess. I didn't hear g
him until I called: you up." I
"Then, continued the man from c
.Blue Lake ranch, "I don't see any call Q
for you and me to whisper, Sandy. Y
What did he say?"' c
"Said you was a' Iiar, Bud, . An' - a. h
skeerd-of-your-life d—n bluff." `. ti
A faint shadowy smile touched p
Lee's eyes. e
"Just joshing, Sandy. But that was -s
n't all, was it?" w
"No," said. Sandy, wiping .his, bar t
carefully. "There was the other word, e
Bud. An—say,. Billy, tell him what y
Quinnion had to say down to the Jail- s
bird." c
Lee turned his eyes to Billy Young,
Young, a cattleman from the Up. and fi
Down range, shifted his belt and J
looked uncomfortable.
""D --n if I dot" he blurted out, "It hi
ain't none of my funeral. An' if you w
ask sne, I don't like the sound of that a
kind of 'talk in my mouth. Maybe I vo
can't find my way to church on Sun-th
day for staggerin' with red-eye, but 1 er
ain't ever drug a nice girl's name in- ha
to a barroom." ho
"So," said Lee very quietly, "that's ni
it, is it?"
"Yes," said Sandy Weaver. slowly,
"that's it, Bud. Us boys knowed of
Luke Sanford an' liked hire, Some
f us even knowed his girl, All of
s know the sort she is, When Quin-
ton started his talk—oh, Nit's a song
n' dance about you an' her all alone
n some d—n cabin, trying to crawl
tit'n•' the looks of things by accusi,l'
Quinnion of tryin', to shoot you tip!
—well, folks jus' laughed at him.
More recent, somebody 'must have
ook him serious and smashed him in
he month, He looks it. lint," and
andy shrugged his thick shoulders
laborately, "if it's tip to 'anybody it's
p to you,"
For a moment Bud Lee, standing
cry straight, his hat far back, his
yes hard and told, looked from tale
ei
another of the "root about hint. In gig
every face he saw the same thin
their contempt for a man like Qui
nion, their wordless agreement wi
Sandy that it "was up to Bud Le
Lee's face told them. nothing.
"Where is he?" he asked lresenrl
6;.
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th
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Y.
"Mos' likely down to the jailbird,"
said Billy Young: "That's where he
hangs out lately,"
Le turned and went out, Cars
at his heels, all eyes following hi'
In his'heart was a blazing, seari
rage. And 'that rage was not 1
Quinnion alone, He thought of Ju
ith as he had seen her that very nigl
a graceful, gray -eyed slip of a gi
the sweetest little maid in all of t
world known to him—and of how It
brutal in the surge of love for h
had swept her into his arhns, crush
her, to him, forced' upon her laughi
lips the kiss of his,own.
"My G -d," he said within himse
"I was mad. It would be a good thi
if I. got Quinnion tonight—and he g
me. Two of a kind," he told himse
sneeringly.
As he made his way down the i
lighted street, his hat drawn over It
eyes now,. Bud Lee for a moment lo
sight of tile rows of rude shantic
the drowsing, saddle -ponies, t
street -lamps, and saw only the visi
of a girl. A girt clean and pure,
girl, who, as he had' seen her la
was a fairylike creature born, of mu
is and soft laughter and starlight,
maid indescribably .sweet. In ±1
harshness of the mood which gripp
him, she seemed to him superlative
adorable; the softness of her eyes
the moment before he had kissed h
haunted him. As he strode on see
ing Quinnion, who had spoken ev
of her, he carried her with him
his heart.
The horrible'thing was that h
name had already beep bandied abo
from a ruffian's lips.- Lee winced
that even as he had winced at the r
membrance of having been: brutal
rough with her himself. But wh
was past was past; Quinnion had tal
ed and must 'talk no more.
"He'll start something_ the minu
he sees you," cautioned Carson,.h
own revolver loose in the belt and
his coat, his hard fingers like talon
gripped ,about the butt. "Keep you
eye peeled, Bud. Better cool off
speck before you tie into him. You'
toe read, i tell you, for straight, quic
shooting."
Lee made no answer, Side by sid
the two men went on. They had le
the ,sidewalk and walked down th
middle of the rusty,, rut -gouged stree
Every ' man they met, every figur
standing in the shadows, receive
their' quick, measuring looks.
"Most' likely," suggested the cattl
oreman, "by now hes got drunk a
gone to sleep it off."
But Lee knew better than tha
Quinnion wasn't the sort that go
drunk He'd drink until the alcoho
tirred up all of the evil in his ugl.
eart; then'he'd stop, always sure o
is 'eye and hand, It was far mor
ikely that'with a crowd of his ow
ort he was gambling in the car
oom of the Last Chance saloon, th
ailbird saloon as "white"~ men call
d it. For there was an ill=fame
ang-out at the far edge of the strag
ling town, just at the edge of th
talian settlement, that of late 'bad
ome to be frequented by such a
uinnion; men who were none too
-ell loved by the greater part of the
ominunity, men who, like Quinnion
ad served time in jail or peniten
ary. Black Steve, who was both pro
rietor and bartender,, and who look -
d like a low -class Italian, though he
poke the vernaoular of the country
as the god of the "dago" quarter,
he friend of those who had gotten,
ntangled with the low. Only last
ear he had killed his man in his awn
aloon,'then gone clear, through the
ositbined perjury of his crowd.
The street' grew steadily gloomier,
lied with shadows. In front of the
ailbird the only • light came from
within and. made scant war on'the
rking' darkness without. Lee's ears
ere greeted with the crazy whine of
an old accordian, and with inen's
ices lifted in laughter. He shoved
e swing door open with his should.
, Carson pushed the other half
ck, and the two stood on the thres-
Id, their eyes swiftly seeking Quin-
n.
As though their presence had been
a command for silence, sudden hush
fell over the Jailbird.' The accordian
man drew out a last gasping note and
turned black round eyes upon them,
Black Steve, oily and perspiring be-
hind his bar, caressed a heavy black
mustache and looked at them out of
cold, expressionless eyes.
The first glance had shown Lee
that Quinnion was not there. At least
not in the main room, But there were
the card rooms at the rear, ' He gave
no sign of 'having felt the hostility
of the Many eyes turned neither to
right or ,left,'
"Hol' on•there''
r came ide the big
booming voice of Steve, "What you
fellers want, hash?"
Lee gave him no answer
g vV but strode
on. Carson, at Lee'a heels like a
in old dog, showed his teeth a lit -
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slipped through it, Rocky Bend was
still a bad little town and proud of
its badness, Hess To the northeast lay the
big timber trade into which the Wes- t
tern Lumber company was tearing its t
destructive way; only nine utiles due 5
west were the Rock Creek mines, e
running full ° blast; on the ether' side u
it was surrounded by cattle ranges,
where a lusty brood of young moans- v
ed devils were eonstrain�ed ter give e
thernseivee n,obetly td thcit work duty t.
Thursday, January 32nd,
enneeneeneenentemen
tie, Stove, striking the bar with ;e
heavy hand, shouted in menacing
tones:
" I-lol' on, I says Nobody's goiit' to
break in on a play that's running in,
my card rooms. If you fellers want
anything, you ask nle."
"Go ahead, I3ud," said Carson_jos
cosely, "It's only. the of black calf
bawling same as usual,"
But Lee needed no urging. He had
heard voices beyond the closed door
in front of him, among them a certain,
high-pitched, snarling, indescribably
evil voice which he knew. He put his,
J2;
Head First, Shorty Went Throughe
The Window!
band on the knob and found that the-
door was locked. With no waste of
time, be drew back a step, lifted his
foot and drove his heel smashing into'
the lock. Then, throwing himself for-
ward, driving his shoulder into the.
door, he burst if off its hinges..
At last he had found Quinnion:.
Here were half a dozen men not'
playing cards, but interrupted in.
quiet talk.. Standing on the far side
of the table was a man who was as
evil a thing' to see` as was hie vosce
to hear, his face twisted,'drawn^ too
the left side, the left eye a mere slit:
of malevolence, the ; uneven teeth
showing in an eternal, mirthless grin;:
a man whose bands, when his arms
were lax as now, hung almost to bin'
knees, a man twisted' morally, men.-
tally, and physically.
Bud Lee had eyes only for this
man. But suddenly Carson had seen
another man, seeking to screen him
self behind the. great, misshapen bulk.
of Quinnion, and with new 'eagernes• -
was cryingc:
"It's. Shorty, Bud! He's mines"
But Shorty was no man's yet.:At
his back was a window; it was closed.
and the shade was drawn, . but to
Shorty it spelled safety. Head first
he went through it, tearing the green.
shade down, crashing through the
glass, leaving discussion behind him.
With a bellow of rage Carson went
after him, forgetful in the instant
that there'was another matter on
hand tonight. Shorty, consigned to
Carson's care and the grainhouse, had
slipped away and, had laughed at him.
Ever since, Carson had been yearning
for the chance to get his two hands.
on Shorty's fat throat. Before the
smash and tinkle of falling glass had'
died away Carson, plunging as Shorty
had plunged, was lost to the bulging
eyes wihch sought to follow hint
gone head , first into the darkness
without.
(Continued next week.)
Precise—Yes, Sir
The witness had been cautioned to»
give more precise answers.
"We don't want your' opinionp f
o
the question," the judge told hint.
"We want it answered, that's•all,"
"You drive a wagon?" asked the
prosecuting attorney,
"No sir, I do not," ,ot, was the decid-
ed reply.
"Why, sir, did you not tell my
learned friend but a minute ago that
you did?"
"No, sir, I did. not."
"Now I put it to you, my man on
your oath, Do you drive a wagon?'"
"No, sir 1"
"Then what is your occupation?"
p
asked the attorney, in despair.
"I drive a horse" was the reply,
Don't Understand Women
In a court room the other day a
judge was reproving a colored ma ,
for deserting his wife and dwelt a . ;.
great length'on the injustice he was
doing: ""Wife desertion is a thing,
l asttis, that x :must deal with severe-
ly, I'in afraid, and I feel verystrong-
ly
tron -
ly on the subject." S
a
"But, jedge, yo' doan know dat wo-
man. I ain't .no deserter-»-i'se a re,-
fttgee."
The brand of popularity y+
Isn't worth the price,