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CHAPTER I
A carless "Yes!" in New York pro-
vokes back -handed heliolarter and
"trips" the dynamite of "Rend --rock"
Mulkern in the fax Toban.
I The bulletin -board in the chapel's
vestibule at Manor Verona—rnost
select institution for the education of
, young women who are well-sponsor-
ed—is made up of tiles of shiny white
porcelain; there are silver pegs on
which bulletins may be impaled. In
general 'atmosphere Manor Verona
bears out the peculiar suggestiveness
of its bulletin -board. After looking
at the board the casual visitor has
few questions to ask regarding the
conduct, educational methods, and
exclusiveness at Manor Verona.
One morning int April, in the middle
of the shiny board appeared announce -
merit that the college man-
agers, considering certain ex-
gencies , and conveniences, had
decided to shorten the school year by
two weeks; the graduation day of the
seniors was changed from June 22nd
to June 8th.
The select young ladies did not
seemto be surprised when they
gathered about the board before
chapel. They had gossipingly dis-
counted the news some time before.
Cora Marthorn of the Senior Class
° had been planning, had been organiz-
ing. She also had been talking! She
proposed to arrange an Alaska ex-
pedition for her own special set in
the Senior Class, and everybody
ONT. knows that Alaska is fliost interest-
ing at the season of the midnight sun
in summer—and summer is short and
Alaska is a long way from Manor
Verone! ,
The posting of that announcement
simply meant that Col. Stephen
Marthorn had said "Yes!" to a plead-
ing daughter.
Colonel Marthorn had it in his
power to secure respectful deference
of various sorts at Manor Verona be-
cause he was president of the trus-
tees, donor of the observatory, and
had dropped certain encouraging re-
marks about the need of a new recrea-
tion building.
The colonel'i "Yes!" was indulgent
and rather careless assent. The mat -
tee of an earlier Commencement
seemed to have nothing whatever to
do with his business interests—and
that way lay his chief cautiousness
in action. His business interests, for
the most part, outside of director-
ships, in half a dozen banks, 5ere in-
volved in the presidency of the Great
Temiscouata Company, powerful syn-
dicate of pulp and papereinterest in
the north country: He Administered
its broader affairs, financial and
legal, from its New York offices and
carefully kept away from the big
woods in order that his "sense of
perspective might not be dulled by
the details of mere Operation."
That the elate of: the Commence-
ment at Manor Verfiut could be con-
cerned in any way!, however remote,
'
with the vital interests of the Great
Temiscouata Company was contin-
gency so unimaginable that Colonel
Marthorn certa;inly would have ques-
tioned his own;senity if he had found
himself giving. serious consideration
to such a possibility.
Clare Kavanagh, also of the Senior
Class which was so gloriously decor-
ated by the daughter of Colonel
Marthorn,, mentioned the change in
date when she wrote her perfunctory
weekly letter to her father. She
made only listless references to the
matter; Miss Kavanagh's letters to
her father were not very spirited af-
fairs. il
Once—it was in her first year at
Maned& Verona—Clare Kavanagh had
overheard a contemptuous reference
whicb;. was made concerning her when
the ernatter of class elections was
carreasited. Some omniscient young
miss had volunteered the statement
that the Kavanagh girl's father was
scorne kind of a wood -chopper and liv-
ed Away off in a camp in the forest.
'That statement was never contradict-
ed during Clare Kavanagh's stay at
the college. The isolation. M John
Kavanagh in the Toban largely ac-
counted, of course, for lack of defin-
ite information regarding him in a se-
lect college for young women. In
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from any drug store and just try it.
Just a Little Tired !
This Is the Beginning of a Nervous
Breakdown
How often do we
hear people say "Ole
there's nothing the
matter, just a little
rundown, that's all."
This may be the
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Diaziness, pains in the region of the
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It drives away Fear, Nervousness.
find Despondency and makes your
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Heart, the Nerves, the Brain and the
Body. .
- Don't Worry and don't give up be-
cause others naedicines beve exile to placing Clare in an institution of
help you, buy a few boxes of Hack- learning he had used a Congressman
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your dealer does not keep yt, we win •
gladly send it by mail. Wrice 60c a gressman's wife.
box, 6 for $2 50. Mackin's LimitedTherefore, Clare Kavanagh had not
,
requiredthe doubtful aegis of the per-
. ;
Listowel, Ont. sonality of her father.
By rail, by stage -coach, by tote -
team, and in the cap of Elie Lebel—
for part of the last leg of its journey—
Clare's letter traveled to the hands • of
- John Kavanagh, A man -named Mike,
finally delivering the letter along with
so a Coat Kavanagh's other
failed to complete the journey. In
mail. Elie Lebel
his haste to arrive at the field head-
quarters of his master; the_ lord of the
Dyed Her
Skirt,
i'Diamond Dyes" i Make Shabby Apparel Toban country, Elie Lebel soug
cross the black ice of -Ragmuff. After
Just Likei New—So Easy! lee had fallen through the crumbling
shell of wintersheathing and had thres-
Don't worry . about perfect results. ed the dissolving needles of the rotten
'Use "Diamond Yedyes," guaranteed to give ice, •seelcin'g arm rest in vain, he used
a new, rich, faeadees color to any fabric. his last strength to throw his cap,
whether wool, tilk, linen, cotton or mixed with the letters, as far out upon the
goods,—dresses, blousee, stockings, skirts, ice as he was able. Then Elie Lebel
k
thildren's coats, draperiese—everythingt went down before help from ' shore
A Direction Iltook is in package. could reach hands to him. His last
thoughts, so his act showed had been.
To match iiny material, have dealer ,
phow you "Dientonet Dy0" Color Card.
of the interests of his master. They
who served John Xavier Kavanagh,
they all brought to their service that
measure of devotion. Even when the
flat of the master's hand was lifted
from the smitten face of an offender
the grin which the lifted hand disclos-
ed would be beseeching and forgiving.'
" A good lad, a brave lad, and slerYt
I don't just mincle me if he was mar-
ried," said Kavanagh, sorting his let-
ters.
"He was," said the timekeeper. "At
Christmas, last 'come! I have been
sending his pay to her."
"Ay, and send the poor lad when, the
grapples have found him. Pin an.
extra five hundred on his jacket where
'the little widow will see it quick."
He stripped the soggy envelope
from Clare's letter and flung the dis-
carded paper to the wind.
* "June the eight,' you say! Dod
butter 'ern! That's the way they
save money, eh, docking two weeks
from the last of herschooling and
me paying a thousand dollars a min-
ute for the girl to be made wise and
well-mannered! June the eight'?" He
shoved the letter into. the pocket of
his shirt and thumped his fist 4gainst
his breast where the letter lay. He
addressed all in hearing.. "June the
eight'—two weeks early, and the
dead -waters still ice -bound, .all clouds
and never a glimmer o' sunlight, and
the snow sticking to the mountains
instead of cloieg business in the river!
Two weaks early, and the drive all
of two weeks late! nit a stick
moved yet from ramdewn to land-
ing! 'Dod butter 'em! But -pass the
word to the bosses and the boys!
We'll have the head of the drive
down -river in the sorting -boom in'
time for me to see my girl step out
on the platform among the best of
'we I'll blow the bottom out of the
damn' river else! Let me at that
sun!"
He climbed to a pinnacle of rock,
out -thrust of gray ledge above the
deep gorge where Abol's sullen
waters grumb-ied under early Aieril's
black ice.
Thatching the snowy slopes and
piled high on the blackened ice were
countless logs, each notched with the
talismanic "X. K.," the registered log
mark of John Xavier Kavanagh.
And those two letters, so far as
the speech of men availed the mas-
ter's back, were notched into the per-
sonality of Kavanagh; 'they called
him "Old X. K." in all the Toban
region, and that region ranges north
even to the lonely mountains of Notre
Dame.
Lifted there in the gray morning
above the blinking eyes of his men—
an army with pick poles for lances
and cant -dogs for . maces—his color
matched the dawn and made him ap-
pear almost a part of the ledge on
which he stood; his toiesled„ roached
hair and his bristling beard were as
gray as the belted jacket he wore.
,ThCy • who gazed up at him listen-
ed while he bawled anathema and in-
sults at the sun. .
"Eh? What's what?" inquired one
who came to "Rend -rock" Mulkern,
who was coddling his grim pets in
front of the cook -fire.
"A bit of a word in a letter from
his colleen at the big sehool," said
the dynamite boss. 'Sure,- ;t seems
that there's other stuff besides this
that can blow a man up." He wag-
gled a stick of dynamite above his
head.
"'June the eight': I heard him
hooting!'
"It's June the eight' he rides the
king log ef the head •o' the drive into
the sorting -boom!"
"It can't be done!"
Mulkern set the dynamite sticks
nearer the fire. "Then it won't be
his -fault—nor mine—nor the fault
of this! There was some kind of a
red-hot gad in that letter."
"But Miss Clare wouldn't—"
"Then there was some kind of a
jump -your -John behind it—some-
where!"
Kavanagh pulled off his cap' and
„his gray mane bristled like hair on
the back.of an enraged dog. He stood
facing the doors of the east as one
might stand outside the house of a
human enemy hurling provocation and
inviting combat.
"It's a wonder he ain't trying to
fling rocks in t'roo the old sun's
wieelys," remarked "Rend -rock"
Mulkern, warming his dynamite to
business temperature.
"Come out, ye lazy blackguard, and
give us some heat," shouted "Old X.
K." "Ye've been loafing your time
away under clouds too long! Come
out of your blankets and go to
work."
"I've seen him kick a dozen turn-
over snoozers out from under their
blankets of a cold morning," declared
"Sizzle" Cyrus, the cook. "And if
his. leg was long enough to reach
what he's yelling at he'd take the
resk of the heat."
For Kavanagh's army of men a
date which had, been set by the whim
of Col. Stephen Marthorn's daughter
became, from that gray morning, the
talismanic battle -cry for dawn -to -
dark days of sweating toil and furi-
ous haste. There was added another
battle -cry which was to go echoing
down the land, even to the ears of
Colonel Marthorn, enthroned as king
of paper-inakers above the rattle and
roar of New York's traffic: "To hell
with their pulp stuff! The X. K.
timber drive has got to go through!"
A double crew of spume -soaked
toilers, feeding at his wangan-board
and daring death for him, the ever-
lasting roar of rend -rock and the
crash of splitting logs, sacrificed to
clear the jams—an army and a cam-
paign in order that -John Xavier
Kavanagh might have his day of
pride in seeing his daughter step
forth "with the best of 'em."
It was all for "Old X. K." and
the colleen!
The idea that John Kavenagh might
delegate his duties, or fail in his
regular rendezvous with the head of
the X. K. drive at the sorting -boom
in Order to indulge sentiment with
his softer mission at the big school,
came into no man's thoughts; there
was no X. K. viceroy in the Toban.
But in spite of Kavanagh's daily
anathema the solemn masses of the
cirro-Stratus barred the horizon and
the dark nimbus was banked in the
heavens. The clouds flung down
handfuls of rain occasionally, but
the chill air turned the moisture
1
ANOTHER VICTIM
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MR. AMEDEE dARCEAU
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with Rheumatism in the joints of the
knees, hips and shoulders Andwas
prev,ented from following my work,
that of Electrician.
I tried many remedies and was
under the care of a physician; but
nothing did. me any good. Then I
began to take 'Fruit-a-tives' and in a
week I was easier, and in six weeks I
was so well I went to work again.
I look upon this fruit medicine,
Truit-a-tives', as simply marvellous in the
cure of Rheumatism, and strongly
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AMEDEE GARCEAU.
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•
to , sleet. The snows which should
have been sent slithering athwart the
sides of the hills long before, pried
loose by the levers of light and
warmth, sulked in their, valleys and
clung to the mountain -tops. And the
logs with X. K. mark sulked as well!
Kavanagh came, one morning, to
the lean-to where the cook -fire was
blazing in the misty 'gloom.
"Don't be afraid of it, Mulkern,"
he said, using carless foot to roll
scattered sticks of dynaiite into a
little heap.
"Did I ever show that I was afraid
of it?" demanded "Rend -rock,"
promptly offended.
"I meant, don't be saving it!. Give
the old Abol blazes—all she can chew.
You know it's a date for me and the
head of the drive—June the eight'."
"June the eight' it is," agreed
"Rend -rock," stacking his dangerful
pets nearer the 'fire. stick all
the heat into 'em, they'll -stand with-
out letting, go!"
"I wish I'd been a better man in
my life and stood in closer with the
saints," confessed Kavanagh, grimly
jesting. "I've been so long a stranger
to 'em that I don't even know one by
name well enough to call on him for
a little help. But I reckon no one of
'em ever had any experience in start-
ing a balky drive. DO you know of
any saint, Mulkern, who isn't likely
to lay up grudges against me for be-
ing unneighborly?"
"They tell roe that Saint Ant'ony is
_as easy-going as anny of 'em, sir. I
know him best, though I have been
careful not to bother him like some
folks always is doing. But when the
fool toter lost offn his team a box
of dinnymite in the snow I went and
found it after I'd said a bit of a
prayer to Saint Ant'ony. Oh, he's
as kind -natured as army of 'em!"
"Finds things, does he?"
, "It's his spiciality, sir!"
"Perhaps he can find that sun and
send it back to its job."
"He has . done wonderful things,
sir. And it's the pigs he protects,
too! Yes, sir! Every family in
Skibbereen, when I lived there, had a
bit of a word to .say to good Saint
Ant'ony about seeing that the pig
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"Pigs, eh?" The master looked
down on the cookees.whd were ladling
the crew's breakfasts out of the
steaming pots' into the pannikins.
"Looks after the pigs! Then he's
just the saint to be interested in a
driving -crew, Mulkern. Look at 'em
getting ready to eat! So empty, every
morning that you can hear the first
mouthful when it drops into 'ern! You
said a bit of a prayer to Saint Anth-
ony,' hey?"
• "1 did—and promised a candle.
That'll be for the time when 1 get
down -river, sir." * •
Kavanagh was silent fax a little
while, looking down on Mulkern while
the dynamite boss stacked the :little
cylinders --canned. destruction press-
ed in the wrapping of brown paper.
"Hand me up a chilled one,
Mulkern." He tested the stick with
the palm of his hand when the boss
had obeyed:.
"This ought to burn instead of
bust, hadn't it?"
"It's notional stuff, it - is sir! Meb-
be it will burn. It's chilled. Some-
times theyalways bust."
Kavanagh removed. the detonating
cap. He plucked a brand from the
cook -fire and stepped apart and set
the cylinder upright on a rock. • He
lighted it and it burned with a harm-
less flush of flame.
"Sizzle" Cyrus had ducked down
behind the great stew -kettle.
"Rend -rock" Mulkern crossed him-
self, staring open-mouthed at the
flaming explosive, anxious in spite
of his usual careless disregard of
danger. But if that stick had "bust-
ed," the rest of the stock above which
he was kneeling would have be'en
"tripped" into a cataclysm of disas-
ter.
"Well, that's the best I can do for
a candle," stated Kavanagh. "I meant
it in the properest way, and I hope
it will be taken as I mean it. And
I said my bit of a prayer, Mulkern."
"So did 1 when you put the flare
to it," growled the boss. "Sure, it's
a sign that he took it as you mean it,
for he didn't allow it to bust."
John Kavanagh grabbed his pan-
nikin from the cookee and ,sat down
calmly beside the warming dynamite
to eat his breakfast.
While he was eating he watched
Mulkern go slouching away into the
gorge, his grim burden bulging in
the ruck -bag on his back, and soon
the bellowing echoes , announced that
the blasting boss was at his work.
Men of the X. K. army went tramp-
ing off in the drizzling dawn, the
hooks of their cant -dogs rattling as
they marched. And afar on the hills,
like thunder mellowed by distance,
soundecl the boom, of rolling logs,
tumbling down the runways and;
crashing through the broken ice.
All at once, late in the afternoon,
of that day, making headlong speed
from one ramdown to another, Kav-
anagh lifted his nose like a sniffing
dog. The clouds were no longer hard
and striated in slaty density. The,
masseis of vapor bellied and bulged.'
He iiked his finger and held it in
the a r. The wind had shifted into
uth! Its moisty mellowness
ed his cheek. He kicked say -
at the snow in which he stood,
the a
cares
agely
casting damp lumps of it toward the
river.
"On with ye loafing slush! Get
down there where ye belong. and
boost the X. IC. drive! Here conies
the south wind to lend ye a hand."
All that night the soft deluge wept
down from the skies. In4 the morn-
ing the rivulets were babbling, the
mild sigh of spring was in the sweep-
ing breeze and fulled and growing,
was deeper and fuller and growing,
whiffs of spray were floating high
above the banks.
After holding his peace until break-
fast, "Rend -rock" Mulkern ventured
upon a subject "Not that it's for
me to tell any man his juty—but
when: a job is done and done well,
where do the t'anks belong, sir?"
"What kind of a compliment are
you fishing for now?" demanded "Old
X. K.," setting tighter the latches of
his spike -sole boots.
"God forgive me for ever wanting
compliments. I don't need 'em. But
yesterday I said to him for you, I
• says, 'Saint Ant'ony, here's a fine man
who needs—"
"Look here, Mulkern, I pay my
thanks like I pay my debts, measure
for measure! I woke in the night
and told Saint Anthony that little
Father Laflamme shall have whatever i
is most needed at Sainte Agathe, even
if it's a peal, of bells. Is there any
other way of paying a, saint?"
Mulkern shook his head. "Oh, I
see the gleam of the divil in yer eye,
air. Ye're like the most! It may be
the saint say you, but it's more lik
all luck and chance, ye say! Ye ain't
depending on the saint." -
"If it's true that God helps those
who help themselves, then it must be
the same way with the saints,
Mulkern. I'm not scoffing, under-
stand ye! But warm your dynamite,
man, just the same. I'm not asking
the saint to do it all. He has most
like got other jobs on his hands."
He pulled his cap down over his
forehead and set himself at the head
of the X. K. crew. He proposed to
"take the water" with him—and the
paper folks might look after them-
selves!
But the epic of that drive is not
for this tale. It would require a
volume by itself.
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poke Jack" glowered on the passing
drive with their rock faces, but the
leaping water e flung the logs over
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.,_alia Must Be White
ays the Prime Minister
In Answer to Japanese
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F there is one question upon
ii'i which all Australia may be said
li. to be agreed, it is on the tre-
mendous importance of keeping'
:
Australia "white." A long succession
of statesmen have approved the
policy and enunciated it with force
and conviction whenever occasion de-
manded, until, to -day, it has taken
its place as a national postulate. So
firmly convinced is the Anstralian as
to the justice of his position on this
matter, and so entirely is he persuad-
ed dial, as far as he is concerned, it
is really outside the realm of discus -
:3101i fliat, when obliged to discuss it,
he is able to do so with a quite re-
markable detachment. He does not
get round about the matter,- or allow
. himself to be betrayed into saying
harsh things- about his neighbor, or
. into criticizing other people .or their
standards of life and conduct. He
simply takes his stand on the right,
ehe claims to be the sole iudge of, who
shall and who shall net settle -within
, his borders. He is perfectly willing to
,
. extend the same right to other pe9:-
pies without question.
This attitude was particularly well
exemplified by Mr. Hughes, the .Aus-
tralian Prime Minister, in the course
of a recent speech in the House of
Representatives. Mr. Hughes was -de-
scribing the stand which he had
made, during the Peace Conference
In Paris, against the efforts of Japan,
supported by several of the powers,
Abol vomited torrent, ice, and logs.
The ragmuff Dead -water received
impetus of flood which carried along
the head of the drive. Jackanegassis
Rips hurried with desperate haste and
Umsaskis Lake interposed no stay.
Gulf Ragas, roaring canon, waited to
hurl along what was offered, and the
• Black erode Flume, with froth and
welter of waters, sent the swirling,
up -ending logs 'through to Amegue
Bend, where the mighty, steady curi
rent took them in more careful
charge: The water was so high that
even the profile ledges of the Black
, Gods, ranged one by one in ern
' isolation along two miles of white
water, did not demand . their usual
toll in delays and shattered logs.
"Old Lute," "Chief Sockbesin,"
"Mother Machree" (howshe dee;
gather timber to her motherly breas'
in the times of slack water!), "Lingee
Lucy" (siren of all ledges), and "Jil'
,
ANNELIDES.
InGNISWEINIf
an Eel -like Worm Makes the Ocean
Luminous.
One evening early in the February
of a recent year the citizens of San
Diego, California, experienced quite a
scare, almost a panic. About eight
o'clock the calm surface of their
beautiful bay presented such a tre-
mendous phosphorescent glow that
many persons Hiving on the bordering
hillsides becanie greatly alarmed,
rushed to their telephones and anxe
iously called up the fire department
to inquire as to the cause of masseS
of fiery lights that gleamed on the
water.
ft•
nite knowledge relative to the
strange sight was not fully obtained,
however, until the next day, when the,
chief of the State Marine Biological
Station, after closely examining Ai
butketful of the eel -like worms,
which had been captured by an old
skipper on the ferryboat, explained
that the bright light was caused by,
millions of small reptiles known as
annelides that ha -d suddenly come to
the surface: He further mentioned
that these strange creatures bad a
habit of making periodical visits
about once every fifteen years. -
From eight o'clock to midnight
the broad harbor in front of the city,
appeared. to be filled to the brim:
with luminous snakes, its waters be-
ing literally alive with wriggling
phosphorescent reptiles, averaging
about two feet in length, their :slen-
der flat bodies resembling shiny
blades of matted grass. So thickly
massed were the squirming reptiles
that the steam launches from the
anchored warships in the harbor
were apparently barely able to 131aka
headway through them and many
thousands of the lustrous snakes
were killed by being crushed in the
propellers of the vessels.
Annelides appear to consist of one
or more species of red-blooded. sea
-worms that have long, eymmetrieat
bodies and numerous paddlelike ap-
pendages. In outward appearance
these annulated marine worms or
snakes are rather handsome crea-
tures. Some display the rainbow tints
of the humming bird, while others
emit the metallic brilliancy of the
MOSt lustrout beetle, as they grace.
funk glide over the waves or dive
among the rocky crevices on the- hot,.
tom -conceal themselves in the
s
The wormlike body of the annelids
• is susceptible of both great extension
and contraction. The slender trunk
consists of a series of soft rings or
tnnular segments, every transverae.
fold being alike and ail joined by an
elastic skin, the first section forming
the creature's head, the hat consti-
tuting Its tall. The head of the"
marine snake is said to be proVided
with eye specks, feelers and a month,
armed with rows of miniature teeth
It is rarely more than two and a balt
feet in length, although specimen*
have been captured that measured
six feet with bodies as thick as one!
finger. It is made up of laundreds of
rings.
Those who are authorities in Suck
matters assure us that the Whole(
body * divided into segments se
a line and a half long and test
twelve lines broad, thus eonilsting
about three hundred rings.
A brain ef three hundred game
lions from which about three thee-,
sand nervous Inundate proceed, regu-
lates tre movements, sensation* And
vegetative functions. Two hundred
and eighty stomachs digest its feedS:
Ave hundred and fifty brachia refresh:
its blood, six hundred haste distil-,
bute this vital fluid through the
whole body and thirty thousand muss
cies obey the will of the creature"
and execute its snaky movements.
With this astonishing profusion of
bodily organs, we are prone to adaiit
that truly the. annelide is "fearfully;
and vonderfally made."
Each segment composing the
stringy form is provided on both sides
with variously formed silky bristle.*
of a metallic color, which serve its
oars and also as a means for loco-
motion, since they take the place of
feet. The little creature is limbless,
has no skeleton or beckbone and
breathes through little gills arranged
along its back, where the thin eudde
Is pierced by many pores'whet, the
hairlike flea or bristle bearing fest
aid the serpent on swinuning enPee
ditiErcof these sea suites appears
,to possess, tucked away somewhere
'beneath the delicate cutielo of
shiny lakeit, all its own, a sort
ready-made electric light appestat's*
with whieh the graceful swimmer le
abie to Make a dazzling display when.
ever occasion demands. From its in
usual possessions and queer habits
the peculiar ereature is sometime*
called a "phosphorescent snake." .
The seemingly happy annelides ere
not without their troubles, however*
for eels and at fish, sea spiders ant
lobsters are their special -enemies.
And untold millions of both old sad
young of the unfortunate creatures
fall prey every year to their foes
while innocently skirmishing alms&
on sandy bottoms where they teed
and pass the greater portion of their
Rees in little lime tubes of their ems
construction.
PREMIER HUGHES.
to secure the recognition of = sada
equality, and the practical acceptance
of the consequences of this recogni-
tion, namely, the throwing open of
the doors of Australia to the Japan-
- ese immigrant. Mr. Hughes, as he
told the story, followed in Paris the
usual course. He at once opposed the
proposal which was put forward by
the Japanese delegate with a fault,
friendly but -quite emphatic refusal.
The Japanese delegate, not unnatur-
ally, declined to take no for an an-
swer. The proposal was amended and
again amended. Pressure • wee
brought to bear in this direction and
in that, and by other delegates than
the Japanese. But Mr. Hughes re-
mained quite unmoved. "I said then,"
he told the House of Representatives,
"that it did not matter how they
altered it, or what way they put it,
we would not accept it."
Mr. Hughes, however, was very far
from refusing to diaeuss the question.
To Baron Makino, when he declared
that the Japanese were a proud_peo-
pie, and that they regarded it u in-
tolerable that they abould not be cow-
sidered as the equals of Australians
and other races, he insisted that he
was amongst the first to recognize the
Japanese as an equal. He hoped,
moreover, that the Japanese people
and the Australian people would al-
ways be 'friends. But, he added, a,
man in les ordinate, life didsnot in-
vite all his friend"; into his house,
and even those he did invite he did
not ask to beceme iiernianent resi-
dents. Because he did not invite a.
Elan to his house was not to say that
he did not regard him as an equal.
It was the right of every freeman to
say who should come in and who
should not come into his house, and
therefore the Austialfans were not to
be regarded as not looking upon Jap-
anese as equals because they desired
to exercise this right. He pointed out
that Japanese ideals and Australian
ideals were different. He would not
venture to say that Australian ideals,
were greater and better than Japan-
ese ideals. He would content himself
with saying that they were different.
The paths of the two peoples lay in
different directions, and the Austra,-
liane, must tread theirs according to
lhe-instincts and imputes which came
from their history and • their race.
Having said this and more along
the same lines, Mr, Hughes just -
stood. It was a typical attitude, and
the = Australian Prime Minister was
quite justified in remarking, as he
did. "I knevr I spoke for Australia."
—Christian Science Monitor.
• A. Japanese Ship.
A Japanese shipbuilding yard at
Kobe announces that it has built a
steel -steamer, the Daifultii liaru, of
9,60* tons in 23 days after the lay.
ing of the keel. The Japanese .com-
pare this with the building of 5,000, -
ton steel steamer in 27 days at the
Camden, N.J., shipyard.
Four ,Hour Hands.
Four hour hands feature a new
watch to tell the time in all four
zones into which North America is
divided, at once.
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Piecework.
Virtually all wages in Anglalid are
• based on. piecework, In March, 1919,
the time rates for women weaverte
were fixed, starting at $3,89 for girlis
under 15, up to 11.79 for wellies
over 21. The piecework rate was See
ed so that a girl of average elentr
could get 20 Per rent eters awl At
time rates.
New Trade for Women.
In Sheffield, England, e scheme
haft been started for training womee
in burniab.ing and buffing itt the sil-
ver and electroplate trade—that is
the polishing of Sheffield Plated
goods, .
Rivalry In Fish Trade.
Chiefly as the result of the rivelry,
between Grimsby and Hull, England.
in trawler trade, it is reported, the
Hull trawler owners recently advanc-
ed the wages of a II hands azimut
skippers and mates,
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