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The Lower Goast Uazette. Devoted to the Interest of the Lower Coast Agriculture, Horticulture. Fisheries and Commerce. Vol. V. POINTE-A-LA-HACHE, LOUISIANA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1913./ No. 38. LATEST NEWS. STATE, NATIONAL AND FOREIGN STATE NEWS. Assistant Secretary of the Navy c Roosevelt will inspect the New Orleans i Navy Yard before he makes his final t recommendation concerning it. In the l event it is found unfit for a naval, sta- i, tion it is rumored he intends to urge 6 its use as an army base. Its area of I1' 225 acres could be profitably utilized r for the dual purposes of the concentra- e tion of troops and the warehousing and ' shipping of ammunition and stores. f The extra session of the Legislature actually lasted a few 'minutes over a four days. f The bill which the people will ap prove or disapprove provides for an ( election on October 28th at which the 5 people's will in the matter will be I sounded. . r The convention, if approved will meet in Baton Rouge on November 10th at noon in the Hall of the House of Representatives. It will be com posed of 80 delegates, one from each a parish and one from each New Orleans ward. They must possess the quali- ' fications required for members of the House of Representatives. The' convention is empowered to adopt a new constitution but is pro hibited from enacting any article in consistent with any existing constitu tional provision. This prohibition shall not apply to any matters or actions appertaining to the subject-matter of the State's Bonded Debt, or to any thing connected- with the subject-mat ter of the powers and duties of the Sewerage and Water Board of the City of New Orleans. It is further prohibited from enact ing any article on the subject of the State Dept other than the bonded debt. All provisions now in force with regard to the State Debt will remain in full force and effect. It is also restrained from touching upon, in any manlier, the present 1 status or condition of any Public Board I or commission of the State, or of any 3 political sub-division of the State. : It cannot discuss or order' changes I of any kind in any educational or elee- t mosynary institltion of the Stt e. It cannot regulate.f order dhanges I in the educational system of the t State. Parochial or municipal corporations I are exempt from its consideration. I The term of office, duties or com- c pensation of any existing officer are c immune from its workings. The question of registration is with- I out its legalized sphere. , The question of elections is, like. wise, none of its concern; The levee system is beyond is legal a hand to alter. Delegates are to be elected on Octo I ber 28th at the same time as the main i proposition is voted on. A plurality elects. . Party nominations will be made at Sa primary on October. 14th. Candi-t dates must declare their intentions to I Sthe chairman of the Parish Cdmmittee ( by October 3rd. A lone candidate be comes the nominee and the chairman ( of the Parish Committee must so cer tify. A plurality elects in the primary. I The convention is limited to 15 days. The sum of $25,000 was appropriated to reconstruct and enlarge the Monroe Reform School for juvenile criminals. A bill passed, authorizes the Gov-I ernor to appoint successors to United I States Senators who have resigned or died! appointed successors to serve un- , til such time as the people can elect. 3 NATIONAL NOTES. - The tariff bill passed the Senate by I a vote of 44 to 37. LaFollette, Repub-1 Ilcan, and poindexter, .Progressive, I 'voted witl the DemOcrats. The Vice-i President appointed Senators Sim- i mons, Stone, Williams and Johnson, t Democrats, and Senators Penrose, 1 Lodge and LaFollettee, Republicans, as the Senate conferees, Stone re-i signed; Shively, took his place. The ! House conferees will be probably Un- 1 dewood, Kitchin and Rainey, Demo-] crats, Payne and Fordney, Republi- I cans. - Acting upon instructions from the Minister of the Interior of the Domin-* ion of Canada, immigration officers forcibly thrust Thaw-into Vermont. He was free and at the same time penntl less. Newspaper.men offered him the use of their automobile. He accepted, knowing that there was a standing warrant for his arrest in Vermont pre. fixed because of the possibility of his being deported into Vermont at any moment. He drove into New Hamp shire to dodge the service of this war rant and his possible return to Ne¶ York. He was afraid and showed it. Three. hours after, he was arrested by a New Hampshire sheriff at Colebrook, New Hampshire,. Jerome hastened in a ape cial train to Colebrook froi. Greens field, M'ass. Thaw telegraphed num bersof lawyers. L ~. Il. Voreheus, of New York, will "lead the ight against extrailtion.... T. R . M lnnts, one of'r Thaw's ~,-ass~oaitei Co..........use, Ii one o thiei fram~ ers of the Canadian immigration laws which formed the legal basis for Thaw's deportation. When arrested Thaw seemed re lieverd. Then he hired almost every lawyer in Colebrook. Mayor Gaynor died of heart, failure y on his way to Europe. He was shot 1 in 1910, the last attempt on his part 11 before this trip to go to Europe, Then Le he hovered between life and death. An V- Insane discharged city employee, who :e died after-wards in the insane asy )f lum, was the attempted murderer. The d mayor did not die. The bullet, how a- ever, could not be removed. Ldtely it 4d worked in his throat and brought on fits of violent coughing. e Mayor Gaynor was born in 1851, the ,r poor son of a poor farmer. He studied for the priesthood, then gave up his p- desire to become the Ambassador of ,n Christ. He then taught school and e studied law. He became a newspa e per reporter. He began his career of reform by fighting the unlicensed sa 11 loons in Flatbush, a sction of Brook. . lyn. He won. From that time until e his death he was always doing strange . things, always reforming, sending his h opponents to prison and himself to i judgeships and fame.. His excellent ' .- letters and unique policies excited na tional attention. He was of a warr' disposition and he died like a warrioi. o The State Railroad Commission of . California has ordered the representa - tives of the Pullman Company to ap • pear before it and answer the follow 11 ing questions: L (1) How much the company de ! pends upon passenger's tips in figur. F Ing porters' wages? ,t (2) Why upper berths are pulled down when unoccupied, making lower e berths stuffy and cramped. (3) Why the answer' "No lowers left", proves to have been a mistake the next morning. 1 (4) v hy a passenger must wait the porter's pleasure when Wishing his berth made up. h (5) Why the same berth is often In sold to more than one person. The cost of living on June 15th was ig 60 per cent higher than the average it between 1890 and 1900, 15 per cent 'd higer than it was two years ago, and iy 3 per cen thigher than it was in 1912. The price of bacon in 1913 is 128.5 as per cent higher than jt was between e- the years 1890 and 1900. ,Iork chops.. ark ,4sl4 in 191;3,, atti. is price which is more than double what te they sold for twenty years ago. Of all the articles upon which this is investigation was based, sugar alone showed a decrease in price of 8 per a- cent. During the past year the price *e of bacon went up 16.2 per cent, smok ed ham 14.1 per cent, pork chops 13.4, h- hens 11.8, eggs 11.7, round steak 10.1, sirloin steam 9.8, lard 7.2, rib roast e. 6.8, butter.5.8 and milk 4.1. The prices on these fifteen ordinary al articles were secured from all the large cities of' the country and an average *- price deduced from these several In prices. ty What a man bought for.a dollar in 1895, he must now pay'S1.60 to get. at Since 1895 we have had combina li- tions and centralizations. We have to had trusts which ,ltepublicans in 1895 e declared would lbe able to reduce the 5- price of articles by diminishing the In expenses of securing the raw materi r- als and manufacturing the finished Y. products. This has not been done. s. The boon of trusts has never yet come rd to us. e Congressman "Big Tim" Sullivan, the political Good Samaritan of the v New York Bowery, who shod the shoe !d less, shivering feet'of his constitu rents in- winter, and fed them and I- clothed many of them throughout the t. year-who fought Tammany and kept it out of his district for a. while, then Joined with it that the added results Y of his alliance he might use to make b the place he held in the hearts of his e, poor Bowery people more durable if - such could be done; is dead. And n- the Bowery is weeping, for the hand n, that helped them is lifeless, its am e, bassador, its Good Samaritan is gone. B, Twicee he served as Congressman e- and was elected again, but he did not ie serve., He' was crazy. Thirteen days n- he was gone from his house and dead. 0- He had been kiled by a suburban train i* In New York. Hfis- body lay in .the ihorgue unidentified, before the eyes of 1e the keeper who had long -knowr the n* dead man, but still unrecognized; 'the rs mangled, dead body lay until when e it was about to be buried in the pot 21i ters field the identity was discovered. be Sullivan was worth more thau, $3, a, 000,000. H:ebegan as a newsboy. Mosit ag of his money he amassed from a proft re- able .theatrical circuit he was inter. 8s ested'in. ' . ny In one week New York loses its two p- most unqique political leaders--the vio it" lent Gaynor and "Ei Tim'" Sullivt~. " .. OREIGN NEWS8 ee Rumors are. heard, then are not )w heard-and then heard again of a new iw revolution in Mexico with FElix Diaz - as the head revolter. i.esigned once as- members of Huerta's cabinet:are ru m- mored coconspirators. Their reuig nations are :reasons enough to prob ill ably connert themn. with: any move mient which isag~ainst the governNment F's of which they are reged t Ii m- Me ic~egntlon ~ Ireeds didacy or a revolution in nine cases c out of ten. And to send a prominent a member of the governiental party on as a foreign mission is equivalent to an. a nouncing to the people: "I don't want i this felow around. He is'a stumbling I block." It is equivalent to a public n admission of dissension. Diaz was 14 sent on a foreign mission which was ti never accompllWbed, and which per- a haps was never asupos-4 to be accom- h plished. Thus far wi;: , . - .. ias done -s and Huerta is doing hf.- all been most n alarming. But the -;mst that thess ominous acts have doie,4: far is to . give food for rumors. a At one time during the past week a Carranza'was supposedly hemmed in b by a band. of Federals exceedingly n larger than his Carranzista .compan- d ions. It was feared his capture and a death were as close as the day after s, the report. But, so far, he is not dead h and lately no one has heard of him, or. from him. One hundred American refugees are b reported to have fallen into the hands 11 of the Rebels while proceeding over t fand from Torreon to Saltillo, Mexico. a Envoy Lind still awaits further in. € :;.'-uction at Vera Cruz. b ":i#uerta will address the Mexican I C!ongress and review recent, develop- a bents affecting the reations between u -.exico. and th United States.. o0 The Forbidden. North. v By Honore Wilsle. r -0 One hot morning, a year or so ago, an Uncle Tom's' Cabin Company ar- s rived in a small Arizona town; On the 8 platform of the blistered station- the s members of the company learned that t] th& hail in which they were to. play G had just burned to the ground. That o was the last straw for the company., a They were without money; they stood, a disconsolately staring at the train, a which waited for half an hour while n the tourists ate breakfast in the lunch room of the station. tl The stage-manager held in leash ti tlree dogs--the dogs that the bill posters' displayed as ferocious blood. f hounds, pursuing Eliza across the ice. were two well-bred. well-trained Great G Danes. The third dog, Saxe Gotha,, a puppyof ten months, was their son. A well dressed tourist eyed the dogs t intently; finally, he came up. and felt them over with the hand of the dog fancier. "Give me fifty dollars ofor the three t of them!" said the manager, suddenly. The stranger stared at the manager suspiciously. Fifty dollars was- a low price for such dogs. The stranger did i" not believe that so poor a company could have come by them 'honestly. I However, he shrugged his shoulders! and drew a roll of bills from . his I pocket. . "All right," he said.' "Only I don'ti." "want the pup. He's bad withdistem-I per; I haven't time to fuss with him." 't The manager in turn shrugged his shoulders, took the fifty dollars, and while the new owner-led Coburg:and - Hilda. toward the baggage-car of the ' train, the Uncle Tom's Cabin Company boarded the: day coach.- .i: I Thus it happened that a thorough- I bred Great Dane puppy, whose father : and mother had been born in the soft green dusk of a German foresj-ao youing.boarhound-was left to fight for - his sick life on the parching sands of an alien desert. -There had been no: need to ie:l Saxe. Gotha. When the puppy: :had started doWn the platform after hisr father and mother, the manager had given him 'a hasty kick~ and a "Get back, you!" Saxe Gotha sat down On his haunches, panting .in the burning sun, and stared after the recedingl train 'with the tragic loo:k of under standing common to his kiin:d. Yet in: his .eyes there:wasl less regret than fear. TbO Dane is' a "one-man dog."'; It he is given freedom oft choice, he chooses for master a man to whom lie. gives his heart. Other men may own : him; no other man except thls choice of his heart wins his love. Saxe (iotha i had yet tbftid this man.: The stati6n-master: started toWard the dog, hut Saxe Gotha did not. heed him. He rose and trotted toward-thel north, through the little to::wtn, lte as if he had -bisiness in that direction. The pup was not+ handsome at t.i ;period of hiis itfe. e was marked]i rik: a tiger with tawny and gray stripe. His feet aind his hea looked too large for him, aind his lonig back seemed to: Isag with- the weight: of his sitomach.. But even to the osta ignorant observ er, he gave promins o o'distnctooi superb strength and intelligence At +theddge of the ittle town, sa :e Gotha buled hiseversh head in th arank. till : hi.s sde swelled visibly thn.tartid oL. albongathetrll wlithhis buuineeslike puppyr trot;. !Whet the% got ontinto :the open desert which stiretchea thirty miles widr !of l t e" - river srange to the ~Halpsn , au4' Qso ~- otentalwtn enl - culty.- He might easily have been at a loss. The desert sands holds no scents. There was no verdure except strange, spiny' cactus growths, with which neither he nor lids forbears had had any experience. They had known nothing like the long, .burning, water. less journey, for whic! he had tried to prepare himself witth his deep draft at the Wrenns'. Saxe Gotha was headed for the north. for the cool, -sweet depth of the forest that was his natural home. 'ie tok fairly good. care of him e.; f. At intervals he ~ropped in the shade of a joshua-tree;, nd after strug sling to bite the cholla thorns from his feet, he would doze for a few minutes, then start -n again. His distemper was easier in . the sun, although his fever and-: he desert heat soon evaporated the nmisture that he had absorbed at the Wx enns'. About three o'clock he stopped, wrinkled his black musale, and raised his finely domed head, The trail now lay along the foot of tb- Hualpai. He turned abruptly to thleright, off the main trail, and trotted, into a little Canon. On the other side of a rock that bid it from the main::trail - was Jim Baldwin's tent. Jim caiie to the door, at the sound of Saxt ;(tha drinking up his little spring.- Ji; was a lover of dogs. He did not now axe Go tha's breed, but he di recognize his promise of distinction:. "Howdy, old man!!' .id Jim. "Have a can of beef!" Saxe Gotha respondSd to the greet ing with a puppy gabol, and de voured the beef with gisto. Jim went into the tent for a::r'e. When he returned, the pup was receding dot on the north trail. About four o'clock, the triweekly stage from the Happy i:ck camp met Saxe Gotha. Dick Furian, the driver, stopped the panting horses and invited the huge puppy to ride ith himn. Saxe Gotha wriggled, chasedis tail round one witha :bark lilke t e>booming of a town, clock, and -Wit his: exchange of courtesies Dick drovi on southward, and the p-up continued is way to the north.: . At five o'cloci the in was edging the Hualpal. ,:The yellow -sand was turning to delicate '..aYvender. The mountains were black 4with tops of fire.. -Hawk and b:uzz wooped to w"ard their canov.::. T an ' or Gotha, a tiny speck in the Infinite land scape, limping with cholla thorns in his paws, pegged along bravely. But the world must have seemed strangely wide to him, for all his pluck. : As darkness came on, he slowed his Iace, paused and sniffed,: and again turned: ot the main :trail to a rough path up the side of the mountain,. Be fore a silent hut of adobe, he found a half-barrel of Wiater.:: Sale Gotha rose on his hind legs ,thrust his nose into the barrel and drank'lustily. Then he stood. rigid, with uncropped ears lifted and nose thrust upward; sniffing. After a minute he whined. The busi ness to the north as piressing; the pup did not want to stop; yet still he stood, listening, sniffing.- -At last, he started back to the main trail; when hereached it, he stoppedonce more, and once more sniffed and listened and whined; -then he deliberately turned back 'to the Silent hut; and trotted along the narrow traii :that led up behind it to thie west. : ' i :J·.. f., .. .i . '-4' : 'k",;?iý';:- 1 A PI 'P!º8 L-Vi ·~- N )·) :I: S- F 5~ i~: 'V~·I Ir l~i~iLil~Pe%_ ~ ALPI NE Th ~ 4S.SUH AK IE A short distance up the mountain, clear in the light of the moon, a tiny spring bubbled out of the ground, form ing a pool the size of a wash-basin. A man lay beside the pool. Saxe Gotha walked up to him, whining, and then walked round and round him, sniffing him from head to foot. He licked his face and pawed at his shoulder with his clumsy paw. But the man lay in the heavy slumber of utter exhaustion. He was a tall, lean, strong young fel low, in his early twenties. His empty canteen, his pick and bar beside him, with a sack of ore, showed that he was just back from a prospecting trip. He had evidently run short of water, and after a forced march to the spring, where he had relieved his thirst, had dropped asleep on the spot. At last Saxe Gotha lay down with his nose on the young man's shoulder, and his brown eyes were alert in the moonlight. Saxe Gotha had found his man! Unkempt and forlorn, unheed. ing and unknowing, still this was Saxe Gotha's man. Why, who can say? The cause of love is quite beyond our un derstanding. We only know that love, love of mother for child, of man our woman, of friend for friend, of dog for man, gives to our every-day living its noblest opportunities. Often it comes to use under untoward circumstances, visiting us when we least desire it. Yet suddenly it' thrusts .into our lives a void to fill .wh!ch we must give our wh.ole selves, let the sacrifice be what it may.. - Saxe Gptha had found his man! A discovery as important as that of course delayed the jonrney toward the north. All through the desert night, the Great Dane puppy lay shivering beside his man. What he saw beyond the silent desert, what vision of giant tree trunks, gray-green against an age old turf, lured his exiled heart we can not know. To understand what' sud den fealty to the heedless form he guarded forbade him his north would solve the riddle of love itself. Little by little the stars faded. At last dawn lighted the face of the sleep ing man; he stirred and suddenly sat up. Saxe Gotha bounded to his feet with a bark of joy. Startled, the young man jumped up, staggering with weakness, and scowled when he saw the big puppy chasing his tail. fHun ger and a guilty conscience are richly productive of viciousl moods:.; Saze hurled it at him. "Git! Yout blamed hound, you!"i In utter astonishment, Saxe Gotha paused his Joyous. barking,' and stood staring at the young fellow's sullen face. It was unbelievable! The young man did not in the least realize that he had been found! And yet, ..despite the eyes inflamed by-the glare of the desert, his face was an intelligent one, withýgood features. 'He glared at the pup, and then walked weakly down the trail to his hilt. Saxe Gotha.tollowed, and sat on his haunches bqfore the door, waitinig.' After a long, time, the young man came out, washed and shaved,, and with tresh clothes.i He pickeyl up his sack of ore, and as he did so, a -hunted look came into his gray eyes. Such a look on so.young a face might haie toTd Saxe Gotia that the desert labad for youth. BiUt Saxe Gotha woiuldnot haVe cared& Ue kept his distance warily and wagged his tail. $ When the young man's glante fell on the dog, he saw. him as sonie thing living on which to vent his own sense of gult. Again he threw a stone at Saxe Gotha. "Get out! Go back where you be ong!" " The pup dodged, and stood waiting. Strangey dense his man ,was! The young man did not look at him again, but fell to sorting samples of ore. Cer tion tiny pieces he gloated over as he found them; and he put them in a sack that he hid behind the door. Now Saxe Gotha never meant to do it, but he was young, and his distem. per made him very ill,. and he had not slept all night. When he saw his man safely absorbed in his work, he curled up in the shade of a rock and went off into the heavy sleep of a sick dog. When he awoke; his man was gone! Saxe Gotha ran round and round and through the adobe. The house was thick with scents of him, but whither he had gone was not to be told, for desert sands hold no scents. On the doorstep lay an old vest of the man's. The dog gat down on this, and lifted his voice in a howl of anguish. There was only one thing to do, of course wait for the man's return. All day Saxe Gotha waited. He drank deeply from the barrel of water, but he went without food, although the remains of the young man's breakfast lay on the table. It was not in Saxe •Gotha's breed to steal. All day and all night he waited. Now and again, he lifted) his great voice in grief. Witb his face to that north which he had forbidden himself to seek, even though he was but a dog, he might have been youth mourning its perennial discovery that duty and desire do not always go hand in hand. Saxe Gotha might have Ibeen all the courage, all the loneliness, all the grief of youth, disillusioned. The' morning of the second day, a man rode up the trail. He was not Saxe 'Gotha's man. He dismounted, and called, "Hey, Evans!" SSaxe Gotha; a little unsteady on his legs; sat on his haunches and growled. "Where's your boss, pup?" asked the man. "I didn't know he had a dog." Saxe Gotha growled. "Humph!" said the man. "Off steal. ing ore gain, I suppose." The stranger prowled around the outside of the hut, and then came to the door. "Get out of the way, dog! I'm going to find, out :where this rich- claim is tdet he's =inelding. freer gold in. -He's his company."' As he put his foot on the door-step, L Saxe Gotha snapped at him. The I stranger jumped back.: "You brute fhound! "-he cried. "What do you mean! If I had a gun, I'd 'shoot you!" t Saxe Gotha's anger gave 'him ! strength to rise. He' stood lurching; his lips were drawn back over his fangs, his ears were flat to his head. 3The stranger walked back a few steps. " iHe must weiglh nearly a hundred ,pounds!" he muttered. "Come on, old 3 pup! H~ire, have some of my snack! SlHere's a piece of corned beef! Come i on, old fellow!" ' .... • Cajolery and threats were alike fu a tile. Saxe G'otha was guarding for his 5 man.' Afteri a while the dog's dumb i fury. maddened the stranger. He be t gan' to hurl rocks at\the puIp. At flirst B theoshots were harnlessi;. then a jag t ged piece of ore caught the dog on the s cheek and laid it open, and knother e Islashed-his back. With the snarl of a - tiger, Saie Gotha made a leap - from the door at the stranger's throat. The man screamed, and jumped for his horse 'so hastily that Saxe Gotha eught only the shoulder of his coat and ripped the back out of llthe garment. Before the pup could gather his weakened body for another charge, the stranger was mounted. He whipped his snorting horse down the . trail, and disappeared, . - Saxe Goths feebly worried at the torn Loat, ;then 'dragged himself back to the doori and lay downh on the vest, too weak to lick his wounds. The rest of the morning he lay quiet. At noon he suddenly opened his eyes. His ears pricked, forward, and his tail beat feebly on the door. His man rode up,. He had a sack of fresh supplies thrown across his saddle. He turned his horse into the corral, then came toward the hut. The: vicious mood seemed still to be with him. I. "You still here?' he growled. 'Then he caught sight of the piece of cloth, picked it up, 'and looked at the mauled and blood-stained muck of it. He stared at Saxe Gotha curiously. "Johnson was ~iere, eh? I'd know that cheek anywhere. The thief! What happened?"'. " As Evansf came up, Saxe Gotha tried to give the old gambol of joy, but suc ceeded only in falling heavily. The young fellow strode into the hut, and walked slowly about. The sack of nug gets was still behind the door. The ma~i that he had long ago prepared for the company for which he was In vestigating mines still lay covered with Idust.' On the table were the hunk of bacon, the fried potatoes, the dry bread. A number of jagged rocks were scatted on the floor. The dog was bloody°.ii Slowly' young Evans turned his whole attentioi to -Saxe Gotha, who Ilay watching him with.. passionate in Stentness. Evans took a handful of raw potato skins from the table and offered "2.. / - them to the pup. Saxe Gotha snatched at them and swallowed them as if frenzied with hunger. Evans looked at the food on the table, then a,- the famished, emaciated dog. He stood gripping the edge of the table and staring out at the desert. A slow red came up from his neck and crossed his face; it seemed a magic red, for it wiped the vicious lines from his face and left it boyish and shamed. Sud denly his lips trembled. He dropped down in the doorway and ran his hand gently along the pup's sensitive back. His bloodshot eyes were blidded with tears. "Old man," he whispered to Saxe Gotha, "I wasn't worth it!" The dog looked up into the young man's face with an expression eager and questioning. And then, summon ing all his feeble strength, he crowded his long, awkward body into the man's lap and laid his great head against the blue flannel shirt, and with a sigh of absolute content, closed his eyes. Evans flung his stalwart arm across the tawny, trembling body, and ad dressed the brooding desert brokenly. "Doesn't this beat the world?" he said. After a moment he' set -Saxe Gotha on the floor and fed him a can of evap- orated milk, carefully warmed, with bits of freshly fried bacon in it. He washed out the dog's cuts, then put him to bed In his own bunk. All that afternoon, while the dog slept, Evans paced the hut, fighting his fight. And like all solitary desert-dwellers, he talked aloud. "They've kept back my pay. They've let me half-starve,, the beastly com pany They sent' me down here with promises they haven't kept. Why haven't I the right to make something for myself? It's the great chance of my life to make money. With the nug gets I have now I coild go home this fall and get married and never see this fiendish country again. I've a right to give them the same treatment they have given me. If they break their promises, why should I keep mine?". He paused to look at the desert.. They promised to pay me regularly, to raise me, to give me a job in the home office after a year. It's been two - years now. Yes, I know, I made some promises. I was to report all finds and 'turs in all vauable ore to them. But they haven't treated me right." Then he turned to the sleeping dog, "and his face softened:. "Wouldn't that. _ ' the tabi! Goodness knows I'd treated him badly enough! It.seems as if even a dog might have a sense of honor; as it it didn't matter what I was, the fool pup had to keep straight with him self; as if-" Suddenly Evans stopped and gulped. Again came the slow, agonizing blush. For -a long time he stood in silence. Finally, he squared his shoulders and moistened his lips. "I can send the maps and what ore I have left by stage to-morrow. But it will take another year to get the whole thing straight- . ' ened up, and gottheal paid back-an- : other year of loneliness, and sand- :/ storms and -sweltering. No snowy : Chrtstmas or green spring or'the smell of burning leaves in the fall this year . for me. I guess the pup will stay by Sme, though.", . As if he had realized that there was:-: need of him, Saxe Gotha woke, and- / ' ambled over to the man's side. Evans :· sat down in the door and the dog . squatted beside him. Evans turned,: . took the dog's great head between his -: hands and looked into the limpid eyes. i S"I guess, old.man, that there are Smore ways than one of making a sue- : cess of ydurself, and money-making is the least of them," SIn Etran's eyes were the-loneliness eand grief of disappointed youth. But " the rest of his face once more was clear and boyish with theq wonderful courage of the young. S axe Gotha pawed Evan's knee wist , futally. Perhaps across the stillness 'of the desert he caught the biaying of the "hunting pack in some distant, rain Sdrehched woodland. Yet he would not Sgo. The dog leaned warmly against Shis man, who slid an arm across the tawny back.' Then, with faces to their e forbidden north, man and dog watched e the desert night advance.-Youth'5 SCompantor . Progress of Agriculture in France. SFRANCIS W. WDOZENCRAIT (t Member American Commission, Rep resenting Associated Farm Papers I and University of Tetrs.) . SUp to the time of the French Ievo elution, the agriculture of France, like dthat of nearly all .Europe, was con trolled by great land-owners, who held the farmers in a state of serfdom. SMost of these men were royalists, and in the dark days preceeding the de Sthronement of Louis XVI they gather. ed in Paris from all parts of France, leaving their estates in the hands of ' stewards. When the kingdom fell, ymany of the nobles were executed; Sthose who escaped death fled from the country. The outer province rose, con Sflscated the property of the mO~arch Itts, and later divided it in small tracts Samong the peasants. In the region o around Paris, the owners of the large estates were republicans, and conse . quently were not disturbed in their Spossessions. So It is that there are S. (Continued on page 4)