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Dodson, a prominent planter of Crowville, near Winnsboro, La., was shot and killed by John Evans on Dodson's plantation when Dodson defended a widow who had fled to his house for protection from the insults and attacks of the drunken Evans. Dodson attempted to make Evans leave the place and Evens answered by instantly pulling out his revolver and firing. Dodson shot while dy ing in defense, and got Evans in the right arm. W. H. Wells, chief engineer in charge of construction for the South ern Railway at Washington is in New Orleans conferring with Mr. A. D. Lightner, president of the New Orleans Terminal Company for the purpose of letting the contract to dredge the Frisco slips at Chalmette which will cost approximately $50,000. When dredged the Chalmette slip will be the marine terminal of the Sou thern Railway and the Frisco lines. Prof. Taylor, chief of the Bureau of Plant Industry of the Department of Agriculture at Washington and Prof. Rawl, chief of the division of dairying in the Bureau of Animal Industry at Washington, are making a series of agricultural observations in different parts of the state to jus tify or not the government establish ment of an experimental farm for the purpose of studying suitable crops to substitute for sugar cane. An additional five mills has been added to St. Bernard taxes for the Lake Borgne Levee Board 'needs. NATIONAL NOTES. A little dredging and the Panama Ctnal is open. DeLesseps dream, has become, true though. DeLesseps did not accomplish it..' Piesident Wilson touched a key that set off a gigantic blast of dyna mite which exploded the Gamboa dike the last great physical barrier be twcen the anxious waters of the At lantic and the Pacific and the canal was completed, and the date was Oc tober 10th, 1913, the hour, 2 p. m. . Lieutenant Colonel. David Dubose Gailla d, who direeg bme of the most difficult engineering; feats in the Culebri Cut division, iis dying in Baitimore from a growth on the brain S: resumably due to his eight years of arduous labor in the tropical climate of the Canal Zone. The London Press praises the com pletion of the canal most highly and unanimously asserts that tie work ac complished deseives the praise and commendation of the wor:d and the -: whole humasi race,. ., Russian explorers report the dis covery of a continent as larg: as Greenland and 500 mnilis north of Asia extending beyond .latitude 81 S north and longitude 102 east. The S discovery wpas reported by Comman Sder Wilkitzky in command of the :_ Russian government- steamers Tal ::j--mir and Waygatch and the report •"comes from St. Michaels, Alaska, where the Russian expedition made ·".their first stop on their way back .. to the world where people live. :-, After extensive field investigations - of the Ohio flood districts -made by */- members of the Federal 'G~ologieal Survey forces it wasr iound logical '.:.;and necessary to advocate Federal * ..controlled system of levees and sto. rage reservoirs as the most reliable means of flood prevention. The British steamship V'olturno was S destroyed by fire while in mid-ocean in a fuirious storm. The Vulturno carried about. 700 passeng~ers most of them steerage passengers, immi ". grants from England on their way to the peopleless places of Canada. By ..means of the wireless telegraph the ::.news of the peril was flashed to ev ,::: ery ship within the reach of the spark and ten ships answered.:s and stood by i:: helpless to give help on account of. . the - raging gale. Boats were launched . and were overturned by the ,.mad waves before people got in them some timens and sometimes with people in S/them, who went down with the bat i:: tered boats. The crew of the blazing i· boat :neglected their.duty in a. mad ': scramble to save themselves, and when *:'· it was all over and when thbse that wore gone were gone forever and those :-.that were saved were certainly saved;, : o.:the hunt for the number of missing -:-:men was started andit was learned' ;; that 186 had gone past death wher eie.:. er that place mar be and 5Si had _ lived:. after seeing death and theose 5i: 21 were happy. And these'men were c:': oming to Canada to build another i nation. And like some of those who K,: built our nation, they went down to te sea in ships and died. S-:: ome Senators attempted to': get a .reess of the Seate proper until No. : v:iPember 15th, while the Senate banking andcurrency :. committee is studying •.the House bill. .i:: President Wilson let it be known be did not favor .uci a recess He does ' nt want mto frce the currency ques itdoneit as sloon as pos hle t (~aon~:~grbes~on elcions - place a year hence and Wilson wants the Democrats to go to the country ye with a record of accomplishment. He he plans to revise the anti-trust laws, w rural credit legislation, immigration of changes, consideration of arbitration ir treaties and appropriation bills. To n delay currency consideration until the ti regular session would be to take away ci unnecessarily for the time to do now as is available, some of the time for the e; consideration of these other very vi- w tal questions. C Oscar Underwood, Democratic house w leader, has announced as a candidate p for the Alabama Senatorship'in op- cc position to Richmond Pearson Hob- si son, the hero of Santiago and now a it Congressman from.-Alabama. Hob- u] son and Underwood clashed on the ai floor of Congress. when Hobson ac- s5 cused Underwood of being a tool of di Wall Street and the liquor interests. sa Underwood appealed to the entire di membership of the house, Republicans di as well as Democrats, dramatically asking if any man that sat before him believed that he was Wall Street's tool. The Board of Education of New York suspended three teachers be cause they were mothers. The names of -the three has not yet been made public. On October 22nd, at the meet ing of the Board of Education the superintendent of schools will submit the names of all teachers who have become mothers since January 1, 1913. The number of them will be close under 100. :A German warship has been sent to Mexico. Washington is not displeas ed. Germany had recognized the t Huerto government. President Wil- be son is pleased with the latest develop ent. It shows 'Germany's disposi- ti tion to disbelieve in Huerta's ability to control the unstable Mexican situa tion. It is said that England will soon repudiate the recognition of Huerta which it so hastily gave. Huer- b ta arrested 100 Liberal members of the Mexican Congress for strong re- D marks uttered and supported by them. which called the attention of every one to the weakness of the Huerta government. The United States has officially called upon Huerta to pro- bi tect w.ke lives of these imprisoned De puties, whose only offense was that p1 they told the truth and tried to pro fit by the publishing of the truth they knew. hi riseo,ý : stockholdeklivi Ji St, Lo is started their figh:t'o keep the T codntrol .of the -Frisco' in St. Louis by voting to continue a committee of b two and to add another member -to represent their interests in the reor-l 'ganiion of the road. It About 100,000 shares of stock were d] represenited at the meeting either by 'their owners or by proxies. About one-half of the Frisco stock' is own- tF ed in St. Louis and in the vicinity el of St. Louis. Mr. Fordyce, one of the members of the committee blamed the Friseo failure upon the Mexican Revolutiop. The Brownsville road de pended upon Mexico and the more nor them lines of the Frisco depended 1 upon the Brownsville road as a south western feeder and this 'interdepend- ei ence made one line a co-sharer in the failure or fortune of the other and the Brownsville road failed and the Frisco failed. ' .Mr. Fordyce said that the Frisco owned lands 'in Arizona and New Mexico which would in time be worth from $10,000,000 tao $15,000,000. , . The Frisco lost $2,500,000 because of the floods last year, and the Frisco will lose this year $1,500,000 because of the operation of the two cent pas. t senger law. ... After January 1st, 1914, Arkansas is a dry state. That is, no one who tl is not able to buy a brewery.and a distillery will be able to' get drunk,, after January 1st, 1914. The country bankers are vigorous- B ly opposing the proposed currency leg- , islation. .They oppose the proposed forced investment of one-fifth of their: d capital in the regional bank, which s are merely parts of tle.machinery for a rediscountand the clearing of checks. i .The Grain Dealers: National Asso- tl ciation began their annual conyention a in New Orleans on Tuesday, October 14 1918. The esastate of Adolphus Busch who died in Germnany last week is:.estimat ed to be worth $75,000,000 and though B it is not known positivel¥y it is be lieved that the value of charitablea bequests will be close to $20,000,000. j "The United States court at Min *'eapolis, Minn., sustained the confis cation by government officials ' of tl S861 cases and cartans of Radams mi erobe ldler which 861 eases cost $25.82 and which would have been sold for $5,166. Judge Chas. A. Prouty wii resign as a member of the Interstate Com merce.Commission' to become director of the physical valuation of railroads. F - I::: OREIGN :NEWS. t The.valuer of Philippine taxes has " inicreasedeJi p~rly $700,000 .this year I over last year. -This increase is due 1i principally to thheimincrease in manu- r frito i .ie.. The reports exhibits the. I lprogress made towards reducing the '; ]-umber of Alnercans in the Philip. C b feroilipines .'-i ¾Imo ·~r~c~~~~di '4"-,. s Pope Pius X will signi early next year the most important document he has signed since becoming pope. He will sign the completed codification 1 of the Canon law decreed by himself A in 1904. The .work which has taken > more than nine years was done by An a two commissions, one consisting of r cardinals and the other of advisers An r assisted by the Canonists of the great est universities and seminaries of the world with the co-operation of the "N Catholic bishops throughout the a world. The text of the laws were prepared in four volumes by these Y( commissions. The importance and - size of the task can be known when it is sail that the canon law is made A . up of nineteen centuries ,of written and traditional church legislation since the time of the Apostles. Car C dinal Gaspari, the practical codifier says three Vatican rooms are full of decrees and constitutions to be ren dered worthless by the promulgation of the new code of canon law. Tales of a Game Warden.. A By Charles Tenney Jackson. When Bob Manson turned in a some what pessimistic report about.the stop. H ping of deer-killing on the edge of the deep swamp, Willett. the warden, was not greatly surprised. If the hunters O could not hunt along the ancient fields, they could waylay the deer with flam beaux on the trails. It' "But I think we can adopt their own tricks, and come into the Barataria woods from the back and surprise A them," said Bob Manson. "There isn't enough, water in these Is winter tides," Willett decfilared. "No. body but a pirogue-runner, and a good yE one at that, can get in from Bayou Aux Dies-and once over the trembling prairie and into the swamp, it would W take a cajun to find his way out: The Game Commission has never ordered us to go and get ourselves lost. in the big cypress swamp, Bob. There's of plenty to do outside!" .. But the young engineer was not die suaded. The jaunch was on the ways for repairsi; he had little to, do, ,and he sought some plan for stopping the The launch would be of no use in any case. The great shoal salt "prairies" behind the cypress swamps would bear nothing except the native pirogues- tr light, slender craft made of hollowed tel logs that the trappeis `alternately pad- ij died and dragged. do Bob stopped off at "Old Man Cap- da tain" Johnson's camp on :Little Baras taria, and laid out his plan for getting a 1 evidence of flambeau-hunting in the li, cypress swamp. Old Man Captain fad ri Sguided the wardens on many an ad 1venture, and was always ready for M more. And when Bob told him his suspicion that the worst offenders were o old Pierre's gang, the saime outlaws th who had handcufted the guide and the th engineer the summer before, and who de had turned them adrift in the marsh- th es, the old Confederate's blue eyes flashed. o "That scoundrel again?" h i cried.ti S"He's kept well in the swamp ever th 'since he did us up, Bobrbut iftwe 1could get him! I'd guide you in any swamphole if you and -Mr. Wlllett Scould get Pierre into law again!"',: S"Dug Harding and I are pretty suire Shis crown are jack-lighting deer back there. The trade boat brought up fit teen "deer pelts last week, and we couldn't get any straight account of them. But Willetit hasn't any fancy for going into the cypress swamp. iCapl tali, it's upto youand me. Ift we get evidence, Willett will organize a raid. But we've got to find Pierre's camp, Bs - well." SOld Man paptain looked at the gar rden truck ,sprouting round hlis palm 1 shack. He thought he had retired to Sa peaceful life. "Well, Bob, 'll do !it. It any white man can get you: into Sthe swamp, i'in the one! We won't say anythilng about it :round the set' r tlement, though If I bother the una tives too much, theyi.'ll burn me"out. 0 some nighti " - Four nights later, thei:old guide and Bob found themseives In the waterly Ssalt prairie with as slender an" outit B as they had ever traveled wlth.;, They: had each a trapper'spirogue, and enough rice, hard bread, and baOl to last a week, 'Besides those things Sthey had a tiny clay furnace and &0k. of charcoal;: for in the trembling 'PLra ries of Louisiana there 'is not a ttick for a cooking fire. While they. coioked supper, Old: id Captain sat watching .the dim blui walla t the Ba-ratar . woodl,mny. r miles to.the north.' ,Bb yre a Spretty good plrogu-e-rfier,; but if we I: get into a race, -you won't luast with; that heavy old canoe ofiyours. Pierre's a youngest boy, Florlon, fe said to have r- the fastest and liglhtest boat in l the - bayous. He can pick it, up by the i- nose in ::one hand, and: a dozen trap: e. in 'the othiie' and snake i it alont over: e ibogs wher you and I waul mire to r- our our necks: And whn ihe hit.s opei Swater. Well, e s -coot" - . I . ,laughed. He had hoard i ch ,..4'.-, 4~;.:~,~-. ~ - -, ~:~:~ ~ ·~ i ~;,;~':::-,b;i:: T The Ng_ Express. e, wa By Homer (ireene. Of f A royal game is the iight express, a i a When the work of the day is done; jut y And the lamps drive out the loneli. f ness, tt s And the grate fire glows in its deep at , recess, Gu e And the winter night creeps on. bri ,e "Now come!" say to my four-year- It e old, . e "The hour of the .game is here, the e You be the fireman, big and bold, - st d And I'll. be the engineer." mi A train of chairs in a faultless row, With one high chair at the head; l S"Noiv, all aboard! ?Time's. up, you th know. e r Ting-a-ling! toot!- toot!" and away we go. . dr. While the furnace fire is fed. ' "Steam up! Speed on! for the night me is cold,' And the track ahead is clear." A thrilling ride for the fireman bold. tn And a joy to the' bngineer. st - Through farm and forest we thunder ov on,. . M And our light shines far ahead. dli But-"Look! 0' deary, the bridge is fog gone! . ro A wreck there'lln b in the ghostly dawn, ey And a train in tl river's bed!" W He drops the tools that he sought to wI e hold, .- it' SAnd. his eyes grow wide with fear; th SOne leap; and he's $afe,• is the fire. re man bold, . In the arms of the; engineer. ed lo It's many a year' since the night ex- st a press .~ he a Went thundering down to the bay; e And a bearded man in a solider's tr dress b. e Is he who sprang tomy quick caress ru ' When the bridge was washed away. in d Yet I dream, as the winter nights at g - grow cold, - On the nights of anielder year, hi d When my four-yeairld "was the fire g e . man bold,: d m dAnd I was the e rineer. g. e it % of Florlon's 'kill a d of his famous if "running pirogue. nd his own dug : out was clumesy i ' "Well, maybe he will beat me the ge first time-and the second time-and of She won'' Y "That's the right talk, Bob! :But itlo, we ever get lost in the.big cypress da rswampi, remember the swamper's ;dis- m tress signal-three shots at regular in- pe d tervals, and then thr.ee. more If It's er " Jack-lighting we'te udp against, we'll do most. of. dourdetective work. in. the hi . darkness ~: thick you .can cut t.":.. t ' They spent twodays in windering th almost, at random over the lonely and tb Slifeless little. waterways of the pral- he rie, but they edged gradually nearer di - and nearer the cypress forests. Old st SMai Captain was lodking for a pirogue dli trail in. ..some spot where. the hunters "e Scould not find wiater eiough even for de ' their shallow. craft. The.third day, de Sthey crawlod, up: within a mile of the se 0 deep swamlip and.made a camp. Al- I " thongh they had twicte heard gun- a j. shots far iin the wooa0,- tey had he found nothinlg.- Bob proposed that au Sthey should drag their pirogues across al r the prairie, ·'ut the guide :stlll search- hi e; ed for open water.: In the low JVanu- I y - til N ¾ ·: : l ·: · f , ··. y .4AI Y:' :%-. : ' h.` I : Y :. . ý . r : rl N . " , : . < : -" . , .s - - IV 3 - . i. S· 1 ·" -; : -"t ·ý;..ý . "+4`ý"!ýar"aýýý ,{ ý "X:'h:.~."i"``F,'+ýs:ý , , f.ný ýý ::. -.e.: ~ .t .;ý rý'}v yl aýý f4hi.=';' G}ý$ ,iý ' i: '. .i: ýr ,,.t c:d.. '.ýi-,:.s: ;ýý.' ;'r. rý.r .. ýý'.r-'. ary tides, that was difficult to find any but late in the afternoon, while Bob to was cooking the rice on the only.. bit not of really dry land they had found fol he a camp, Old Man Captain came back in jubilant. , spi 1. "Gat the trail! Pierre's, too. I've cir studied his marks before." He looked lea ) at the scud of clouds from the distant in Gulf. "Weather's going to change and fe. bring a norther, aiid we'd freeze here. an I think we'd better dive right into the me woods to-night and see if we can't hit their camp, or at least a jack-light the stand. They'll surely fight; so we the must be careful." . en Bob went with him to look at the rol trail, which was merely a faint crushed on line through the grass that led from a the last open waterway across an hu eighth of a mile of prairie to the hu > woods. By four o'clock they had lat dragged their dugouts across, and were foi in navigable water under the ragged, thb moss-hung cypresses. The deep swamp sel was dismal enough at its best, but In cr that lonely and unfamiliar spot a fear all smote Bob's heart. The old soldier's the sturdy courage, however, held up his no r own. He would not confess to Old on Man Captain that, after they had pad wi died three hundred yards into the ey forest, he was completely turned un round. gl y "When we separate, Bob, keep your eye on the down timber. All those sl West Indian hurricanes that come this km o way fall the trees to the northwest- be it's easy when you learn it. And so is n the trail in. See the blazes-it's a to regular city street!" ,o Through some mysterious, knowl- B edge, Old Man.Captafl led directly to a ar low ridge that he knew. There they ' stopped, and concealing their fire in a be hollow stumps made coffee. se "Reckon if' Pierre's working these ro trails, he's on Le Grand's, or the one b by the big .'fall,' or the 'upper ridge te is run-they're all fine for head-hunt'- j ' fing deer. But our trick is to catch 'emn ] at it, and that's' a problem." He pondered long and silently over his "drip coffee." Bob respected thet - guide's silence. a At last, Old Man Captain spoke: "I'mn going to leave you on Le Grand's, for = it's nearest back to the prairie. An;l th Lf if, yiou, come on any one, arrest him. E' We'll mrke the bluff, anyway 'No one hi but a flaipbeau-hunter will be out' I'm Le going to sneak along to tIe far end d of the ridge and lay for the 'old miiin Bob left .his pirogue pulled over a a Itl log, and followed the guide :into the is darkness. The moon would rise after - midnight; it" was then that they ex 2- pected to intercept the headlight-hunt- bi 's era returning from the deer-runs. 11 'After Old Man Captain had left Le him, Bob had a lonesome hour or two. For, warmth he sat close up against g the trunk of a, great cypress-tree, with he d the swamp-water at :his feet Soon i he became drowsy; then he slept-he iir did not know how long., 'He awoke 4 still in darkness,: stiffit' and ·cold and Le dispirited. It seemed a fool's errand. ' "Willett certainly has sense when he .r declines to follow'the cajuns into the e y, ldeep swamp!" 'he grumbled to him Le self. "I wish I had as much!" i 1- He got up and stretched himself, a- and felt with his foot for the shotgun d he had laid on a log. Then he knelt T it and felt round for traces of the trail c is along the ridge. Almost every-iwhere i- his hands came in contact with water a- He decided to go back to his pirogue th I and start the. r coffee, in order and l to warm his chill nes. But he had com I not stumbled baclen yards on what sibli .I he thought was the trail before he was r k in a tangle of vines and cypress com spikes. Then he worked about in a far ,e circle, thankful that his boots did not thot d leak, for he was half-way to his knees But t in water. As he stooped to avoid a tim .d festoon of bamboo brier, he tripped thai e. and fell square against a clump or pal Dra Le mettoes. unti it The crash anpd the sharp edges of wat it the fans roused his sleepy senses. And fact re then il a flash all his wits were awak- moi ened; ahead in the darkness he saw a swli re round and blinding light turned full and ,d on him! nev mn He knew at once what it was. Some pirc ýn hunter was in a deer-stand less than a B ie hundred yards away, in wait with his wai d lantern-for the bucks stealing back be- wai re fore dawn. And this flambeau was cau d, thrown wide open, and -at him. The into ip sense of his danger almost made him aro In cry out. .The :bright, round light was the n all he he could see, and suddenly the he 's thought came to him. that he must pec is not look at it! Flambeau-hunters rely tail Id on catching the gleam of a deer's eyes coff d with their light; doubtless a man's ie eyes would show almost as well. The up ad unknown poacher would shoot at any sail glint he saw...- my ur Bob turned his head away, and very sne e0 slowly sank .to his knees. But he the is knew that the rustle of the palmettos ligi :betrayed him. To save his life he hat Scould not keep from stealing a glance pir a to see what the headlight-hunter was haj doing. The globe of light was moving. bu 1- Bob peered at it over the crook of his hay a arm. He' was sure that the gleam of a "Y gun-barrel showed beneath the flam- t a beau:. 'With a spring he threw him self headlong into the water. The BT a e roar of a gun followed. He heard the Ha e buckshot cut the palm fans and spat- yo e ter on the water all aboutit him. Then ani t e sprang up and ran as- fast as he chi II ould away fromn: the dangerous spot, of :IThe light was turned off iiow. He y o er heard an excited voice,;and knew thatai ethe rhunter was clitbinig down from ant e: tree. Bob's 'wild floundering must yo n have convinced the fellow that le ºad hu or .Wounded a buck. ;Bob, charging away ý1* through the water, wasimaking noise mi . enough for a bole egiment of deer. e iwas about to call out a bwang, wast a dng m when he, r iembered Pierre's hostility wh il to him, -7he poachers might shoot any Sit as an accidents No, he would noti e show himself. - gel er He ran headlong; through the :brash; another shot was sent in his direction, but it was wild. He could see the ' flambeau bobbing, up and down with of the motion of the hunter's hat. Bob of Shad gained the back trail now, but at ma th a spot that in the fitful gleam of the wa - headlight, he did not remember having me seen before. He was sure he had haB e passed his pirogue on the log. But col She dared not stop for fear his pursuer ib would shoot again. for - 'Pounded and cut by the brush and th ecypress limbs, he rushed.on:breath- wh Slessly; then he fell heavily over some. an Sthing in the dark. It was a canoe. He im, 1, Jumped to his feet and shoved it off; .ent as he slid inito it, he seized the paddle, ins in Two or three strokes sent the tiny t craft .far out, and just as the hunter bre rounded a bend in the ridge trail Bob, ly re seizing a clump of salt grass,' pulled cam the canoe behind it. .:- ' we: e He was aware of an exclamation. thf The hunter had stopped; for the first she time it had dawned on him that he ll was chading something else than a In wounded deer. Bob, who was peering sh between tufts of long grass, saw him les throwing his light on the mark'ot his pirogue in the mud. tit.. ' ." ,."Sacre!" the cajun gasiped. "Whatha dis!"" Then lie bent liower and picked ly up something, and Bob recognized it thE as the cartridge-belt that ne had drop. SOC ped when he fell over the canoe. Evi- bu dentily the swamiper also recognized it, er for he held it out and gave a long, ita alarmed .yell.i - . .. •"Papa! Dem wardens!" an SThere was an answering cry off in thi the dark, .Pierre's son was shouttang oy wildly iii the cajunidialect. The other YO voice was rapidly coming nearer. And sai the substance of the clamor was znat pel Bob Manson had stolen Tiorion's fam- chl ous running pirogue! frc str Florion became almost speechless ir with anger. Despite "Papa" Pierre's oy protests, he waded out to his should- i ers. Once, thinking he saw the fugi- 5 tive, he fired into the cane of the prairie, -Bob, meanwhile, had been in silently working the pirogue farther wa away. He had cautiously got out of it try and was stooping to drag it along in c the grass, when he again heard Pierre inl shouting. The head of the clan ha effil discovered Bob's own canoe as he hur- w .ried up tromhis stand on' the deer- a run. Florion went to it, and Jumping the in at once, angrily declared that he ter .would find "dat Yankee man." S as alarmed. -Hae heard the stokes of:the paddle; seizing the light thE pirboee by :the nose, he dragged it out ici bofthe water and started with it across paf thei prariei. Frequently he stepped fro into a bog-lie,i or :got entangled In the it cane; bIut nevertheless he made taif fat progress. Florion :was paddling up a run.of the marsh in an aimless search.h Atthe end ofaquarterof an hour, t, ,up Wr and look about him. Dawn had teen di coming fast, and it was already pos Lt sible to see for a long way on the rs marsh. He had no idea what had be is come of the guide, but finally he saw a far off in the prairie a figure he )t though was that of Old Man Captain. s But the man, after watching him for a a time, disappeared, and Bob concluded d that he was one of the poaching gang. LI Dragging the dugout, Bob flurried on until he came to shallow arm of the if waterways; then, expecting to come Ld face ,to face with his enemies at any k. moment, he climbed in and paddled a swiftly off. He heard them shouting, Il and was convinced that Florion would never give up the search for his prized le pirogue. a Bob had neither arms nor food nor is water. He paddled on, and at sunrise e- was two miles from the swamp. He as cautiously landed, and worked his way ie into some mangroves, in order to look m around without being seen. And on as the other side of the mangrove patch le he came upon the last person he ex st pected at that minute--Old Man Cap ly tain Johnson, making his eternal drip s coffee over a fire, of twigs! Ls "Now, I just reckoned you'd show le up along this bayou, and hungry!" ay said the guide.. "I got outof the wood myself when I herd that shooting, and sneaked down close enough to watch ie the performance. And when .it got D light I saw. ryou crawling on. your e hands and knees, dragging Florion's ce pirogue, and I almost knew what had happened! I didn't dare follow you,. but I knew a short cut where you'd -: is have to pass." a "That was you I saw, then? Cap-. a tain, I surely had a time of it!" "So did Florlon. : Maddest cajun in Barataria! First he thought he'd got he Harding's big ,buck, and it was only t you. Then he lost his prize pirogue, an and only got your leaky old tub in ex- : he change! He's been watching the edge of the timber for ia. hour, thinkin . you're still in there!" Old Man Cap-i at tain looked waggishly up at his muddy and weary companion. "And, Bob, did St you get that evidence about flambeau. ad hunting that,you .wanted%" "Get evidence! If I hadn't been a se might d sprinter,. I'd have carri r. away -eirngh evjdence in the shape t 'bucksho b uader my skin to convict Swhole o t Let's get out of here and make' portand send wor4€ Pierre'sa tit .lori he'll cie' out' of the deep swamp and get it."--Youth's Companion. OYSTERS ARE H... UL he The great increase In the inethods th of communication between the peoples ob of the world is responsible for a great at many changes in food prejudices. Time he was when the eating orpork In sum. mg mer was thought suicidal; now .we ad have bacon an4 ham for breakfast, at cold pork roast for luncheon and pdos- ,i i Ssibly pork tenderloin or baked ham for dinner, so common has become a the custom of eating what we want h when we lwant it that many doctorsi , and dietitians have.adopted as a ma , im, ".Eat what you crave ." So emini Sent an authority as Dr. Wods Hutch- 4 Le. inson has promulgated this doctrine. S Oysters, too, have benlefited by this ar broader view of foodmatters. Former-i ib, ly the oyster' was much maligned. In ed cases of sudden illness Where oysters C:$ were on the menu, unknowing or un;:ij; ,n. thinking persons, even :-some who ii at should know better, have ascribed the - be illness to the eating of 'the oysters. ' a In vestigation in countless cases has g shown the oysters to have been blame- :: Im less. jg In recent year the unreasoning at titude of many people towards oysters 'I# at has materially changed, due principal* ed ly to, the efforts of the members of t the Oyster Growers' and Dealers' As-.... sociation of North America, which in- , cludes oyster growers and shippers ini both the UnitedStates and Canada, to it, eradicate everything which would mal ig, itate against the use of oysters. lee tallers should take advantage of this and boost'oysters and sea food.. . One big change has come abouti In through the artificial cultivation of thie ng oyster. Contrary to the belief of some /i ier you cannot walk along the sea shore . at low tide and dig oysters out or the d sand. The beds are situated in water:: la perfectly free: from any possible: ": 2 m- chance of contamination by sewage from coast cities; in fact, not even the strongest current setting seaward 's from the shore can touch the modern B'S oyster beds! - Id. Naturally, this has overcome the.. g. greatest objection possible to oysters as tood. Next come the abandonment heof the custom of "floating" oysters en in fresh water to fatten them. This er was a big step, and the oyster indus it try has greatly profited thereby. Then came the adoption of the modern sys-:: n temrn of packing oysters for shipment to ~ To inland points. Due a great deal to the : al efforts of the growers and packers, 1 who realized the commercal value of maintaining ahigh standard of purity, :-' er- all the States ,passed laws forbidding-.: ng the packing of ice directly upon oys he ters, - : - This brought out the shbipping eon . tainers of to-day, with their inner" : he porcelain-lined oyster receptacei and it the heavy outer shipping case with an ";-: at icing space between. In this space is )ss packed the ice, keeping the oysters as ed tresh as the day they were dredged from the bottom of the ocean, making- : he it possible for-the inhabitants of the : sii far West to get oystae swith the same , tasty flavor the dwellers on the coast h.enjoy. All these sanitary precautions have combined tolmake the oygerof " 1' to-day one of the~safest, and most ecow,:,. p nomical foods.