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THREE DOMINION MEN
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The British dominions will have half of the six delegates from the
British Empire who will sit in the arms parley, Loudon and Melbourne
reports are In agreement to that effect. Australia has named her repre
sentative. It Is reasonable and probable that Premier Arthur Meighen.
of Canada, will be on the list accredited to the British Empire. It may be
that the third Dominion member will come from the South African 1'nion.
The United States w4ll welcome warmly dominion representalion.
'America may, as Premier Hughes asserts, have "slammed the door on
separate Australian representation. The fact that Australia holds a separ
ate membership In the League of Nations may or may not have had some
thing to do with this. It is more likely that seperate Australian repre
sentation was frowned upou for a number cf other reasons, including the
fact that this meeting was called as a six-power conference and that the
dominions could be represented adequately on the British delegation.
Whatever the reason, it was doubtless a technical one. Certainly it
was not because we do not want domiulou men in the conference. We do
want them very much. They will be looking at some of these thorny
problems of the Pacific through glasses very like those of America. We
want that fresh, other-world and afar-from-Europe viewpoint these men
will bring.
We know also that some of our problems of the Pacific are peculiarly
the problems of the domluions that look out upon the Western ocean. We
know that we see eye to eye with the dominions on many of these mat
ters and that we will be an aid to one another. The Canadian and the
American views are as one ou some of the mure dangerous of these ques
tions. The Australian view is similar, and that of the I'nion of South
Africa takes the same groove.
Increasing the British representation to >L\ members and maklug
room for three dominion men will necessitate the rearrangement and re
alignment of the British delegation Some one of the four Britons picked
must give way to a man from overseas if the decision stands.
But the rearrangement ahd the realignment will be worth much to
ward the success of the conference and the permanence of its results.—
Philadelphia Public Ledger.
THK Ol'KMMi <a X
Newspaper comment Indicates that Chairman Hughes took the dele
gates off their feet by his frank and unexpected proposal for naval re
duction. The concensus of opinion is favorable to the proposa! made by
Hughes. That the t'nited Stales administration is back of the plan gives
added weight to it. That it was the one thing which tne I'nited States
could do is also obvious. Our army is the smallest of any of the prin
cipal powers, our capacity for building up the strongest navy is aUo ad
mitted. Brita.n will still maiuiuiu her supremacy in point of tonnage, a
tact which will disarm any suspicion of seeking to supercede her in that
realm. Japan is certain to acquiesce, for to fail to do so would give ait
indication that she had designs which this plan frustrated. Trance and
Italy would not menace the world with their navies, and Russia is in like
position. The saving made In this way by the three nations would go far
to paying the interest on the war debt. Agreement on this proposa! will
pave the way for agreement on others which may coma up. Frankness
and straightforward action here will make it easier in every other question
which may arise.
London newspapers are impressed but wary. It looks as tho a bold
stroke has given a tactical advantage and decidedly healthful tone to the
conference at the very beginning. From the publicity standpoint Hughes
could not have attracted the attention of the world more markedly than
he has done.
I'KSSIMIST—OITLMIVT
OR PKITIM1ST?
The Wall Street Journal puts some
good advice in the form of a para
ble. as follows:
Pessimist and Optimist met one
day aud they began to discuss the
merits of their respective philoso
phies. "Everything that is isn't."
said Pessimist. "Nothing can be set
to rights." Optimist replied. "You
are wrong, friend; everything that
isn't is. From nothing everything
was created. For everything wrong
there is a remedy." Then 1'essimist
challenged him: "Come, let us take
the open road together: we will see
what we shall see."
They had hardly started before
they were overtaken by a stranger
His fUce had no trace of bitterness,
l'essimist felt indifferent toward
him. He was very silent; no invit
ing smile illumined his countenance.
Optimist felt no attraction toward j
him. But he seemed civil enough,
so they invited him to join their phi-|
losophic walk.
The three were only an hour or
so on the road when tliey came up
on a car. stalled in a ditch. "That
fellow will never get that car out of
that ditch in this forsaken place."
said Pessimist.
"Oh." replied Optimist, "he will
get clear all right. Some farmer with
a team will be along by and by."
They turned to their new compan
ion for his opinion, but in the same
moment they saw him get down and
under the car. They watched him
for some minutes. Soon he rose,
covered with the dirt of the road.
He said to the owner of the car.
"friend, if you will get in and take
the wheel I'll shove from behind,
and I think you'll pull out all
right." In a few seconds the car
started off. The willing stranger
began to dust off his clothes with
his palms. Then it occurred to the
two philosophers to ask his name,
for hitherto they were unaware of
his cognomen.
"Friends, my name is Peptimist.
I am by occupation a doer. What
is not. I cause to b«. What is wrong
I right. My tools are thought and
action."—Wall Street Journal.
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CT-^lsS^COPYRI6HT,BV PETER8.KYNE
I
CHAPTER I.
Tliey hart seen the fog rolling; down I
[ the const shortly after the Macyie |
had rouuded Filar Point at sunset and i
I readed north. Captain Scruggs had j
I been steamboating too many unprofit
' .able yeurs on San Francisco hay, the '
Suisun and San i'uhlo sloughs and |
dogholes hrid the Sncrnuiento river to I
he deceived as to the character of !
I that fog. and he remarked as much t<> 1
I Mr. Glhney. "We'd betler turn hack i
to Ua!fmoi<n hay and tie up at the ,
•dock," he added.
"Calamity howler!" retorted Mr.
' <5lbney and gave the wheel a spoke or
two. "Scraggsy, you're enough to
make a real sailor sick at the
stomach."
"till! I tell you she's a tnle foe. Olh
She rises up In the marshes of the
Sacramento mid San Joaquin, drifts
j down to the hay and out the Golden
J gate and lust naturally blocks the
wheels nf commerce while she lasts.
Why. I've known the ferry boats be
tween San Krjinclsco and Oakland to
get lost for hours on their twenty-mln '
ute run—and nil along of a blnsteit
tule fog."
"I don't doubt your word a mite
Sornggsy. I never did see a ferry-boat |
skipper th»» knew shucks about i
saUorlriiig." the Imperturbable Glhnej
responded. "Me. I'll smell my way •
home In any Mile fog."
"Maybe you can an' maybe you (
can't. Gib. although far be It from tne
to question your ability. I'll tnke It j
for granted. Nevertheless, I ain't .
a-goln' to run the risk o' you havfn' j
catarrh o' the no<e an' confusln' your I
stm-lls tonight. You ain't got notliln' ;
I at stake hut your Job, whereas If 1
' lo*e the Maegle I lose my hull for
tune. Rrlng her about, Glh, an' let's
hustle back."
"Pon t be an old woman." Mr. f!lb- !
nay pleaded. "Scragcs, you Just ain't :
got enough works Inside you to fill r
wrWt watch."
"I ain't a-goln" to poke around In I
the dnrk an" a tnle fog. feel In' for i
the flolden gate," Captain Scraggs j
shrilled oievlshly.
"H- I's Wlls nil panther track*!
rve got my old courses, nn' If I fuller •
them «f r\n't help cettln' home."
Captain SiT«gp laid his hand on I
Mr. Glbney's great nrin anil tried to ,
smile paternally. "Gib. my dear hoy." |
he pleaded, "control yourself. I>on't I
argue with me. (ilb I'm master here 1
an' you're mate. Vo I make myself
clear?"
"You do. Serawj". But It won't
avail you nothin'. You're only muster
hecii7. of a gentleman's agreement be
tween us two, an' because I'm innn ;
enough to Agger there's certain right* !
due you as owner o' the Mafrcle. But '•
don't you forget that accord'®' to the ;
records o' the Inspector's ollVe, I'm
master of the Maggie, an' the way I |
flgger It. whenever there's any <1i!I to
show a little real seainnnshlp, that j
gentleman's agreement don't stiin<l" ,
"But this ain't one o' them tltiit*. i
f Ilb."
"You're whlstlln' It Is. If we run I
from this here foe. It's skiffs to bat
tleships we don't get Into San Fran
cisco hay an' discharged before six
o'clock tomorrow night. By the time
we've taken on coal an' wuter an"
what-all. It'Jl be eleht or nine o'clock,
with me an' McGufTey entitled to
mehbe three dollars overtime an"
havln' to argue an' scrap with you to
git It—not to speak o' havln' to put to [
i sea the same night so's to be back In
Ha If moon bay to load bright an' early
' next mornln'. Scraggsy, I ain't no j
j night bird on this run."
j "Do you mean to defy me. uit>7"
• Captain Scraggs" little green eyes
gleamed balefully. Mr. Olbney looked
' down upon him with tolerance, as n
Great Dane gazes upon a fox terrier.
"I certainly do, Scraggsy, old pepper
pot," he replied calmly. "What're you
goln' to do about It?" The ghost of a
j smile lighted his Jovial countenance.
| "Nothin'—now. I'm helpless." Cap
I tain Scraggs answered with deadly
I calm. "But the minute we hit the 1
dock you an' me parts company."
"I don't know whether we will or j
not Scraggsy. I ain't heeled right i
financially to hit the beach on such
short notice."
"I'll get the police to remove you.
you blistered pirate," Scraggs
screamed, now quite beside himself.
"Yes? Well, the minute they let go
o' me I'll come back to the S. S. Mag
gie snd tear her apart Just to see
what makes her go." He leaned out
I the pilot-house window and sniffed.
"Tule fog, all right. Scraggs. Still,
that ain't no reason why the ship's
company should fast. Is It? Quit blck
| erln' with me, little one, an' see If you
. can't wrnstle up some ham an' eggs,
j t want my eggs sunny side up."
| Sensing the futility of further argu
ment, Captain Scraggs sought solace
in a stream of adjectival opprobrium,
plainly meant for Mr. Glbney but de
Iivered, nevertheless. Impersonally. He
closed the pilot-house dour furiously
behind him and started for the galley.
"Some bright day I'm Ifoln' to git
tired o' heariu' you quss tuy proxy,"
Mr. Glbney bowled after him, "an'
when that fatal time arrives I'll scat
ter a can o' Kill-Flea over you on' the
shlppln" worJd'll know you no more." |
"Oh, bo to—glory, you pig-iron pol- |
Ishcr," Captain Si raggs tossed boek |
at him over his shoulder—and honor
was satisfied. In the lee of the pilot
house Captain Seraggs paused, set his
Infamous old brown derby hat on the
derk and leaped furiously upon It
with bolli feet. Six times be did this;
then with a blow of his fist he
knocked the niin back Into a sem
blance of Its original shape and Im
mediately felt better.
"If I was you. skipper, I'd hold my
temper until I got to port: then I'd
rr r r-O
"I Certainly Do, Scraggsy, Old Pep- (
per.Pot," He Replied Calmly. j
git Jingled an' forcit my troubles In- j
expensively," somebody advised liltn. i
Scraps turned. In a lit Lie square I
hatch tlie head anil shoulders of Mr. [
Bartholomew Mcduflfey, chief en
gineer; first, second and third as- ,
sistant engineer. oiler. wi|ver. water- '
tender, and coal passer of the Masirle. I
appealed. He «as standing on the I
steel ladder that led up from Ills I
stuffy engine room and had evidently I
come up, like n whaJe. for a breath of '
fresh air. "The way you ruin them
bonnets o' vouni sure Is a scandal," 1
Mr. Mc<!uffey concluded. "If I had n I
temper as nasty us youni I'll take i
soothln' sirup or somethln' for it."
IWfore proceeding further with Il\l? |
narrative, due res|iect for the reader's i
curiosity directs tlmt we diverge for '
a period sufficient to present a tirlef ,
history of the ateamer Maggie nnd her |
peculiar crew. We will begin with the .
M.ifirie.
Sliv had been liiillt on I'uget sound
back In the eighties, and was one hun
dred nnd six feel over all, twenty-six '
feet licum and seveu feet draft, j
Driven l»y a little steeple compound
engine. In the prlile of tier youth she
could make ten kn»ls. However, what
with old age and holler scale, the best
she could do now was six. and had
Mr. Mc<!ufTey paid the slightest heed
to the limitations Imposed upon Ills |
steam gauge by the supervising in- j
spector of boilers at San Francisco, |
she would have been limited to five. I
Each annual Inspection threatened to j
be her last, and Captain Scrapes, her |
sole owner, lived In perpetual fear (
that eventually llie day must arrive I
when, m save the lives ot himself and |
his crew, be would be forced to ship j
a new boiler nnd renew the rotten j
timbers around her deadwood. She i
bad come into Captain Scraggs' pos
session at public auction conducted |
by the United States marshal, follow- |
Ing her capture as she sneaked Into
San Francisco bay one dark night
with a load of Chinamen and opium
from Knsenada. She had cost him
fifteen hundred hard-earned dollars.
Scraggs—1'lilneas P. Scraggs, to
employ Ills full name—was precisely
the k'nd of man one might expect to |
own and operate 'lie Maggie. Rat
faced, snaggle-toothed and furtive,
with a low cunning that .sometimes
ipassed for great In eillgence, Srracgs' ,
character is best described In a home- i
ly American word. Me was "ornery." ]
A native of San Francisco, he had I
grown up around ihe docks and had ,
developed from messboy or, n river '
steamer to master of hay ai river j
steamboats, although it Is not of rec- I
ord that he ever commanded such a [
craft Despite M# "ticket" there wag
none so foolish as to truat blto with
one—a condition of affairs which hud
tended to sour a disposition not nat
urally sweet. The yearning to coin
maud a steamboat gradually had de
veloped Into an obsession. Result—
the "fast and commodious S. S. Mag
gie." as the United States marshal
had had the audacity to advertise her.
In the beginning, Captlln Scraggs
had planned to do bay and river tow
ing with the Maggie. Alas! The
first time the unfortunate Scruggs at
tempted to tow a heavily laden barge
up river, a light fog had come down,
necessitating the frequent blowing of
the whistle. Following the sixth long
blast, Mr. McGuffey had whistled
Scraggs on the engine-room howler;
swearing horribly, he had demanded
to be Informed why in this and that
the skipper didn't leave that dod-gast
ed whistle alone. It was using up hi*
steam faster than he could manufac
ture It. Thereafter. Scraggs had used
a patent foghorn, and when the hon
est McGuffey had once more succeed
ed In conserving sufficient stonm to
crawl up river, the tide had turned
and the Maggie could not buck the
ebb. McGuffey declared a few new
lubes In the boiler would do the trick,
but on the other fiand. Mr. Glbney
pointed out that the old craft was
practically punk aft and a stiff tow
would Jerk the tall off the old girl. In
despair, therefore Captain Scraggs
had abandoned hay and river towing
and was prepared to Jump overhoard
and end all. when an opportunity of
fered for the freighting of garden
truck and dairy produce from Half
tnoon bay to San Francisco.
But now a difficulty arose. The new
run was an "outside" one—salt water
all the way. Under the ruling of the
inspectors, the Mnggle would be run
ning coastwise the instant site en
gaged In the green-pea and string-bean
trade, and Captain Scraggs' license
provided for no sttch contingency. His
ticket entitled hint to act as master
on the waters of San Francisco hay
and the waters tributary thereto, and
although Scraggs argued that the Pa
flflc ocean constituted waters "tribu
tary thereto," If he understood the
Knglish language, the Inspectors were
obdurate. What If the distance was
less than twenty-five mile«? they
pointed out. The voyage was unde
niably coastwise and carried with It
all the risk of wind and wave. And
In order to Impress upon Cap'aln
Scraggs the weight of their authority,
the Inspectors suspended for six
months Captain Scraggs' bay and
river license for having dnr^d to ne
gotiate two coastwise voyages without
consulting them. Furthermore, they
warned him that the next time he did
It they would condemn the fast and
commodious Maggie.
In this extremity. Fate had sent to
Captain Scragcs a large, imposing,
capable, but socially Indifferent per
son who responded to the name of
Adelbert P. Glbney. Mr. r.lbney bad
spent part of an adventurous life in
•he United States unvy, where be bad
applied himself and acquired a fair
smattering of navigation. Prior to en
tering the navy he lutd been a fore
mast hand In clipper ships and bad
held a second mate's berth. Follow
ing his discharge from the navy he
had sailed coastwise >>n steam schoon
ers. anil ufter attending a navigation
school for two months, had procured
a license a« chief mate of steam, any
«H%onn nwl nnv tonm***.
(Continued on Thursday)
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railroad is completed, probably be
fore the tirst of April next, an effort
will he made by commercial and ad
ministrative interests to spread be
fore the world the attractions of the
territory as a land of promise for
the homesteader. Governor Scott
C. Bone, the territory's new execu
tive, is said to be earnestly in favor
of the movement, ft'hich, according
to John Lincke. associate edtor of
the Anchorage Daily Times, aims to
bring in 100,000 farmers to settle
the lands along the railroad between
Anchorage and Kail banks.
The Alaskan spiing begins early
in May; summer lingers until late
September, and it is pointed out that
the lands classed ns available for
farming are capalle of producing
everything grown In the northern
prairie states, white cereals, grain,
hay and all hut the tropical fruits
ami vegetables grow twice as fast
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The agricultural belt along the
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the largest birch forest area in the
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