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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1904-11-14

| Our guarantee is like Bank
J Check-if your purchasedoes
! not suit you, bring back the
goods and draw your money!
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1904-08-15
BUQUES QUE Sc ESPERAH
7 saiidas de este puerto

xConde Wifredoo procedente de
Barcelona sali6 el 13 del corriente pa
ra este, con las escalas de costumbre.
In vapor de la Companfa Tras-
atlantica saldra dc Cadiz para nuestro
puerto boy seguira sviaje para la
Ha5ana.
&Olinde Rodrigues2 del lG al II del
actual Sc aguarda procedente de Puer-
to Plata seguira viaje para Europa
via Saint Thomas.
~Julfa> eI 10 del corriente debe es-
tar aquf procedente de Ii Habana y
escalas.
&Buen0s Airesp, est1"a aquf del %
al - del corriente para contjnuar via
ie con destino 4 Canarias, C&diz Bar
ceIona Y Geneva.
~Coamoo saldrd de este puerto pa
ra New York manana.
&Ponce> del puerto de New York
para 81 nuestro sali6 els13 del corrte.
~Cort6s1 saldra directamente para
Palma de Mallorca en- la presente Sc
mana, admitiendo carga para dicho
puerto.
&San Juan7 saldra de este puerto
para New Orleans del Il al p del Co
rriente.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1904-08-15
CAPITULO XII

Contadas personas gisitAban Ia
tranquila aidehdela de Pomsr.
cuyas comodidzdes para los fo.
rasteros eran mas Que reducidas,
blen que iss haitaciones sc conse-
gplsn 4 precios moderAdoz. NJ
habls ali nj IN hotel de mpor-
taucis, pero ST an psrquecito
frecuentado por las geates cue
lban de temporada. FL 1nico
attractive de L. poblgci6n era ell
mar.
A esa tranquila aIdea llegs-
ron una msf.na de febrero tres
forastersy, que Sc dirigieron 4
casa de msdama Peregrfn, Gu
yas hebitSciones de alquiler Sc
conRiderabsn como las mejores,
seg1a Sc les ipform5 allf.
30 linta de IL Acacis. Pa
SEQ del Sur.-Pomsro Tai era
IL direction de madame Pere-
grin.
La mas repetsble de las tres
recien llegadas, que dijo lamar
sc sLsdy Nelys. manifesto &
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1904-08-15

madame Poragrfn. que In joven
que Ia aeon pan4ba era gu hiis,
slG sefIora dc Sim 5ns, 2 Ia otrx.
81 donc8lla, Jaana Hern5n, V
soiicit6 tres hsb!t,cion CONT
Rl4s para ana tern porada de tres
meses, por 10 men ID. El es2o-
so de l. sonora De Sim5a Sc h.
liab2 on An6cic3. Dsro irfa 4
reunirselss ALI ( priacjDios del
verano. La sonora Nelly no te.
MA inf1rm9s que dar, por care-
Ger de relacionss en esa parte
del pals. pero psg aria aoticipa
dam9nte un mas ds pension.
MAlsm1 Peregrfn. con f.z
risuenl dscisr6 qo9 nAia IL ESQ
era nee 3s2rio. porq1s tsnf4 ell
don de conoc3r a una sef1ora
primerA vista. LII ssFI1rA N sly
tom5 inne liAtam snts posesi6n
do los .cuartos qaa ls gastaron.
Ma hia est4 may delicsda
de sxlud, diio, y 10 que busca-
mos aqui es tranquilidad y re-
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1904-08-15

En- cste establecimiento, montado
en- eondiciones 4 Ia al1ura De los me-
jores de SD clase en- la iSla, 80 kacsD
toda clase de trabajos tipografcos por
diLullea que sean, tanto en- espan9l
como en- ing1es.
Para clio Sc cuenta con ezcela4-
tes maquinarias de imprimir, preeio-
SOS tipos acabados de recibir de los
Estados Unidos y un personal tipogra-
fico intoligento practico.
Sc hacen Iibros talonarios libra
mientos, Pana los Ayuntamientos.
Las tarjetas con sobres, Sc impri-
men mas baratas que en- ninguna i'm
prenta de Ia isla.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1904-08-15

nes sociales, respondent esta vez al
llamamiento que la Federation Libre
hace q los obreros de su Jurisdiction.
La American Federation Of Labor
trabaja activamente porque la situa-
ci6n de los asalariados de este pals
Gamble; y ella necesita, como es natu-
raj, del concurso de todos los hombres
de buena voluntad sin distinction de
principles religiosos 6 pol1ticos, razas
nj naciOnalidad.
Enthusiasts trabaj jadores nos han
escrito y visitado manifestandonos
que la hora de organizarse ha llega-
do, y tienen raz6n, pues & medida que
los acontecimientos Sc desarrollan,
la clase asalariada, nota de cerca Ia
necesidad que tiene de unir sus fuer-
zas para salvarse de la exploitation
de que es vlctima y salvar al pals de
la bancarrOta ep Gi1e Sc hay.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1904-08-15
M0yimienfO 0bTer0
y O r.
Santiago lgIesias
Marines y LanCher0s
de Mayagiiez

Hemos recibido una importante
communication de Ia Union de Marines
ndmero $50 de Mayaguez, autorizada
por Ell Secretarip Eustoquio Cancel,
que incluye IN convenio realizado en-
tre los Lancheros y Marines uniona-
dos yagiezanos.
Con este convenio quedan destrui-
das todas las dihcultades Y la solida-
ridad union edidcada sobre una fra
tenal inteIigencia
Re aquf el convenio segun copia:
Condiciones en que debera celebrarse
el pacto Union de Marines, Lam
cheros la Union local de Ia te
deraci6n Libre.
u que cada una de las dos Unio-
nes gira para 10 que Sc refere a su or
ganizaci6n interior iudependientemen-
te de "a otra, este es, que podra cOnti-
nuar nombrando su Directiva y dejar
en- vigor su Reglamento interior en-
todo 10 que 10 afecte al Regl lamento de
a Federation Tibre.
~ Que como que Sc nos ha dichO
que para inqresar en- In Federation
debera cada aspirante pagar un dere-
cho de entrada de dos pesos, nosotros
esperamos que a antes dicha cOntri-
buci6n sea suprimida, toda vez que no
Sc trata del ingreso de un individuO,
sino do un convenio con una sociedad
constituida, Que no va como ell aspi-
rante que ncQa, 4 gozarlos benefcios
DC Io5 trabejos anteriores de la Union
j5G, sino que esta Sociedad disfruta
por el presente ds trabajos equitativa-
mente lemunerados y que no afectan
On modo aIguua los trabajos que al
presente disfruta a Union sos.
3a que esperanto que nuestro ira
baio en- las lanchas y el convenio con
los armadores sea respectable, como
nosotrog nos comprometemos q respe-
tar 81 trabajo de 10 Union $50
Az Que il en los trabajos de la,s
lanchas nos faltasen hombres algdn
dfa, nosotros nos comprometemos a
cubrir esas vacantes con individuos
de los pertenecientes q la Union 566,
asi como 81 le faltaran a ellos en- sus
trabajos, los cubrirdn con individuos
pertenecientes nuestra Union.
52 Que los trabajos ca dias festi-
vos y noche se pagan doble, 10 mismo
en- descarga que en- carga, como hasta
La fecha esta convenido entendi6ndose
"a noche desde las sois de a tarde has
"a las cinco de la pa6ana.
az Los miembros de Ia L ni5n de
Marines y Lancheros pagaran Ia
International de- Marines en- los Es-
tados Unidos por medic del Tesorero
dc q Union sos, a cantid ad de cinco
centa7os por miembro por mes paga-
deros por trimestres adelantados el
poo de suS entradas mensualcs por
81 Consejo Executive de la Federaci6n
Librc; la dicha Union do Lancheros
desi gnara la Quota con que ha de con
tribuir al Comit6 Central de este De-
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1904-08-15
HuelqaS menudaS

Los trabajadores de la carretera
de Cagu&s, Sc levantaron en- huelga.
Los capat4Geg inmediatamente Sc
prestaron & buscar &roIaPe- huelgas, ,
concluyendo aquella.
Iso repetimos: mientra5 los traba-
jadores no Sc organizer en Unicnes y
Sc federen, no ganaraa ri la menor
netici6n de iusticia
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1904-08-15
ATecib0 obrar0

FL organization del Distrit0 de
Arecibo companero z. Padilla, nos
envfa algunas notas interesantes del
movimiento obrero de aquella ciudad
Y que publicamos para satisfaction
del obrero organizado puertorriq ueno.
Los trabajadores de UtuadO Y
Barcel oneta estan aaciosOs de de or
ganizarse ofcialmente bajo los auspi-
clos de 10 A. T. Of l..
Los Torcedores de tabaco de Are
eibo tuyieron una conferencia intere-
sante de mss de dos horas, con el or
ganizador del Distrito L. Padilla.
La Union de Torcedores de Are
cibo muy pronto pedira su Charter d
la International de America.
FL doctor Martinez E0sell6 pro-
nunci6 una couferencia en- la Fedora
ci6n Libre de Arecibo, so5re la Tu-
berculosos como enfermedad epid6mi-
ca Y cOntagiosa. FL cOnferenciante re-
cibi6 del auditorio. que era numerosO
Y de todas las classes, aplausos calu-
rosos entusiastas.
La conferencia fu6 ilustradfsima y
selecta, recibiendo la aprobaci6n de
todo el mundo por los benefcios que
con ella adquieren todos los ciudada-
nos Y Ia comunidad.
Una veil ada ezpl6ndida llev6 &
efecto la Federation Libre de Arecibo
el llltimo domingo.
FL mismo domingo, el organizador
e. Padiila organize un barrio mas
agrlcola del Distrit0.
Sc celebr6 un meeting enthusiastic
en- el Coto, en- Ell que hicieron usO de
o palabra distintos oradores obreros.
A una COMMUNICATION recibida So
bre 81 los mienbros de IA Federation
Libre pierden Sd derecho polftico no
pudiendo votar, le diremos
xQue la American Federation Of
Labor y la Federation Libre nc cohi-
be absolutamente ning6n miembro
que vote por el partido pol1tico 8 los
candidates que sean de sus simpatlas.@
Los directories de la Federation
Libre de Arecibo estan trabai ando ac-
tivamente, para Obtener un conv ahio
entire las Is UniOnes agr1cOlas del dis
trito, y los duenos de las haciendas de
azdcar. Este coEEenio fiji ara salarios.
hcras de trabajo y condtciones gene
rales que han de estabIecerse m&tua-
mente entire pGtronos y obreros y que
ser5n observadas ourante In proxima
zafra, SabemOs que un bacendado
importaate ha djado va 81 minimum
de salariO para los peones en- 80 ctvs.
Lamentamosque algunos hacenda-
dos, en Hez de estimular 81 peincipio
de asociaci6n entire los eampesinos,
les tengan nal que Sc organicen y Sc
unen para mejorar sus condiciones.
Propaganda obrera en Ahasco"
La pr6xima semana 81 otg0nizador
del departamonto de Mayagtiez, @isi-
tara ell pueblo de Anasco, donde per-
algunos dl&s & fin de orgn-
nizar i los trabaj jadores bajo los aus
picios De Il Fodoraci6n Libre
Ahasco, pueblo viriI que siempre
ha respondido q las grandes ovolucio
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1904-08-15

terno' al despacho de las prescrip-
clones facultativas.
La fnejor garsntfs de esta ca-
50 es el creciente favor que el Do
blloo arecibei1o lie dispensa y ia
especial recommendation que los
PARTICIPATES m6dicos De la ciudad
Facen de ella a sus cIieates
Precios, sin competepcia
s hacen ana,isis lie oriuas,
por un m6dico estipendio.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1904-08-15
CoIegio de Ia. Y "a. taSshaala
90
Sc admifan aiumn0S intern0s Y
externos

SAN JUAN, cALLE DEL Sol N2514
Director: PEDRO MOCZO BANIET.
La instruction en este COLEGIO
tiene un caracter esencialmente pr4cti-
co abraza: IA enseHaaza primaria
completa; Ia preparation para ingre-
sar en- las Universal ades; la Tenedu-
ria de Libros, Aritm6tica Mercantil '
Escritura en- maquinilla, y por iltimo,
Dibujo, Pintura Mdsica. Para Ia
ense1anza del ingl6s cuenta este CO
LEGIO con la cooperation de un re-
putadO Professor americana. la Ca
tedra de Concrete esta i cargo del
Tenedor de libros de uno de los Ban
COS de esta Capital. Ell COLEGIo
tiene su Reglamento Interior que Sc
enviara 4 los padres que 10 soliciten.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1904-08-15

partamento en VII dollar ciucuenta
CentavOs mensu2les.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1904-08-15
EjempIares de LA Demo-
cracia" Sc haIian de geRta:

En- los kios},os ds Ia plaza de
Baldorioty.
En- q cafe LA Margarita. %
Y en- la inpronta. calle de San
Francisco, So.
En- estos sittos sc encontraran tam
bi6n ndnaaros atrasados.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1904-03-18

Port Arthur is manifest, while dash
for Vladivostok might succeed, con-
trary to the opinion previously ex-
pressed. Vice Admiral Togo is unwill-
ing to run the risk of dividing his
battleship squadron and continues to
operate the six battleships together.
II the Russians should make an
attempt to reach Vladivostok it is
believed they will try adash through
the Corean straits rather than enter
the Japan sea through the Sugaru
straits.
A creditable native arrived at Yin
Kow bringing report as late as
March IL from Fung Wong Cheeg to
the effect that the main body of the
concentrated forces had crossed the
Yalu, leaving small bodies of troops at
Antung and other points to guard the
river.
A fortnight ago few spies visited
Antung, but since then no japanese
have been seen west of the Yalu.
Quiet Movement Along Railroad.
The only reliable reports at the
present moment from the main Man
churian cities show quite movement
along the railway, and such cities as
Mukden, which are off the main line
are undisturbed.
| The chief movement on the Fune
Wong Cheng military road is the dis
patch of riders to and.from the Russian
advance forces.
Advices from Fling Wang say th'
Russian troops are showing an ad
mirable spirit in surrounding thu
difficulties and hardships of the march
over the frozen tracts Of Eas
Mancburia.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1904-03-18
MEXICAN FOOD INSPECTION.
An Institute to BE Esfa biished for
the Analytical Examination
of Products.

The Mexican government has author
lzed Lie. Arturo Paz to organize COM
pany for the purpose of establishing and
operating an institute to be known as
the Control Quimico International, to
which manufacturers and other persons
may submit food and medicinal and
other products for analytical examina-
tons, reports w. W. Canada, American
consul at Veracruz.
The institute will issue guaranty
stamps, which may be affixed to all
products, samples of which have pre-
yiously been analysed and will serve to
| assure the public that such products are
pure and unauthorized and as repre-
sented to be by the manufacturer. The
results of all analytical examinations
are to be published in the official organ
of the institute.
This certificate in no case implies that
| the government guarantees the quality
OF any article, nor does it exempt deal
/ ers and manufacturers from having to
| submit samples of their goods for ex-
animation to the board of health, its
| agents, or to any other competent au-
thority, if it shall be deemed expedient
| to make such examination.
Even after certificate has been is
sued, the institute retains the right to
reexamine such products at any time,
and if it should be found that they
| are not as originally submitted the GER
| tificate may be Withdrawn and reasons
| for such withdrawal published in the
| official paper of the company. In no
case shall the institute issue certificates
unless analysis has been previously
| made.
| A legal department will be added, to
which judicial power of attorney may
be given to anyone DESTROYS of prose-
cutting dealers or manufacturers for
| selling fraudulent or adulterated ar
| ticles.
| The company's business will be under
the control of the board of health. An
| inspector, at 5000 monthly-to be paid
| by the institute-will be appointed by
| the government. The company agrees
| to report to the board of health any case
of dangerous adulteration that may
come to it's notice, and all analytical ex-
aminations shall be free to the govern
ment.
This privilege is to be in force for the
term of ten years; rules and regulations
to be prescribed by the government.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1904-03-18
NekooSa and Vicinity

Nekoosa, March 1S.-S. L. Stevens
was in Grand Rapids Saturday on
business.
Mrs. A. NJ. Marvin is on the sick
list this week.
The quarantine on the home of
Will Johns was raised Tuesday. Two
Of his children had scarlet fever.
Joseph Thomas. of,Appleton, spent
Sunday with his family.
Miss Retta Fitzgerald has accepted
a position as saleslady in Mrs.
GutheiPs store.
o. Berger and family have rented
the house recently vacated by Mike
Hesser.
Miss Lula BuSkirk returned to her
home in Westfield after pleasant visit
at the home of her aunt, Mrs. A. E.
Lapham, the past two weeks.
J. G. Jordon, of Marshfeld, was q
Nekoosa visitor Tuesday.
w. A. Single, of Wausau, transacted
business in the village Monday.
H. E. Herrick was in Marshfield
Tuesday where he contracted with
parties to furnish With fifty
tons of tame pressed hay. Richard
Scheibe is his partner in the hay
| business.
Mrs. Mike HeSser moved to Park
Falls Tuesday where her husband il
employed in the paper mill.
The Congregational Sunday school
will give social and supper in the
church tonight.
Miss Ethel Scott, who has been {
guest at the home of Mrs. j. d
i Buchanan, the past two weeks, ex
poets to depart for her home ii
Almond today.
| Miss Winnie Gardner, of Plainfield
is the guest of Mrs. Gutheil.
Will Cool, the millwright, departed
Tuesday for Colorado. He does no
know what city or town he will locate
in
The Misses Retta Fitzgerald, an(
Katherine Gallagan and Mrs. G. q
Hanover were in Ora nd Rapids Tues
day evening rehearsing their churcl
cantata at tile home Of Mrs. j. w
Natwick.
Bert Carpenter left Monday for st
Katherine, Canada. where he ha
secured employment ia a paper mill a.
machine tender.
The Ostram portable saw mill wa
moved to New Rome yesterday wher,
they have quite a large cut.
Take your sewing machine to j. G
Jones, the jeweler, for repairs.
If your sewing machine is tout o
Whack' take il to j. y. Jones TO
repairs; he will make it as good d
new.
Expert watch repairing by j. G
Jones', the jeweler.
Edwin Lawrence, who has beer
suffering from rheumatism the pas
winter, was able to 60 out of door
Wednesday for the first time sine,
his confinement.
Father Feldman departed TO
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1904-03-18
A EUROPEAN NEED
Most of the Countries Are Lacking
in Respect of Chambers of
Commerce.

The German chamber of commerce in
Brussels, Belgium, in it's annual report,
lately published, has reproduced and in
dorsed a treatise on the above subject,
written by DR.. HI. Roder, a German
writer on economics, writes United
States Deputy Consul General Hanauer,
from Frankfort, Germany. He says:
Germany, which stands next to Great
Britain as the greatest exporting coun-
try in articles of manufacture, is not
properly represented abroad, lacking for
it's commercial interests in foreign coun-
tries those institutions emanating from
the home government which furnish in
formation to the German merchant at
home, which show him new opportu-
mites in foreign markets, and connect
him with other nations in amicable trade
relations.
Though all political parties in Ger
many agree that chambers of commerce
abroad are useful, yet the reichstag (na-
tional legislature) has not yet given
practical aid to the project of establish
ing them.
Austria, Of all nations, was first in
recognizing the utility of chambers of
commerce, and as early as 1870 estab-
lished chamber of commerce at Con-
stantinople. The stimulus given there
by to Austrian exports in levantine
countries has caused the Austrian
reichsrath Qegislature) to establish
more of these institutions abroad.
"Great Britain has 100 chambers of
commerce in her colonies, and 80 in
foreign countries. France has 20, and
purposes to create additional ones in
South America and eastern Asia. Hol-
land has seven, Spain, three; Italy and
Belgium, each two; Russia has one in
Paris, and commercial embassy in
Morocco, and the United States has four
GAS early as 1886 the German govern
ment was petitioned by sc chambers of
commerce and manufacturers associa-
tions to establish such institutions
abroad. Similar petitions have been in
troduced since, but rejected by the
government, which pointed to the con-
sular representatives and the few COM
mercial attaches in service as sufficient
for aid to Germany's export trade"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1904-03-18

Mosinee Wednesday, where he had a
call
Mrs. Harrison, who has been living
with her daughter, Mrs. Frank Craney,
died Saturday nightsat the age of 81
years. The funeral was held Monday
morning at New Rome. Rev. Pinkey,
of the Congregational church. officiat-
ing.
VIM. Griffith has returned to his
duties in A. Fl. Kleberg's store after
his prolong ed Illness.
L. w. Joslin accompanied his sisters,
Mrs. Robt. Day and Mrs. Geo. Dan
pher, to their homes in the village.
Their brother, r. S. Joslin. departed
for his home in Mauston Wednesday
night.
Will George expects to go to Mari
nette TOMORROW, where he will work
! in meat market. He has finished
his contract to furnish 200 cords OF
wood for Mrs. Gutheil.
Ed. McCue, of Niagara, n. Y,
arrived in the village Wednesday and
will work 10 the paper mill as back
! tender.
NJ Moran has. returned to the vii.
lage from Rochester, n. Y.
Peter Christman transacted busl.
ness in Nekoosa Wednesday.
Will Schroeder, of Harmon, Ind, is
in the village visiting his mother-in.
law, Mrs. B. Short, who is very i'll.
Attorney II. E. Fitch was in Plain
field Saturday aud adjusted "a fire loss
Joseph Berard, one of the prosperous
farmers of Saratoga, was in the
village Wednesday.
Mrs. NJ Power was Grand Rapids
visitor Tuesday.
S. N. Whittlesey, accompanied by
his daughter-in-law, Mrs. Harry
Whittlesey, of Cranmoor, were in the
village Wednesday, on a shopping
expedition.
DR.. J. SimonSon, of Tomah, was il
the village the latter part of the Weel
on professional business.
E. Fl. BeaH, the horsetrainer, wishes
to announce that be, will be in tn,
village every Wednesday and ~Satur
day. He has for sale two fine col
trotters, your choice for 800. The,
are black, well matched and will
make splendid team.
! Will Roberts, of Monroe Center
arrived in the city Wednesday to trade
horses. He also has lumber deal tt
close. MesSrs. John Carey and Geo
Boughton accompanied him.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1904-03-18
THE MUSKRAT'S SNUG HOME
Location Cunningly Chosen and the
Structure Is Compact and
Securely Built.

The house the muskrat builds for
the protection of himself and his fam
lily from stress of weather is strictly a
utilitarian structure. The entrance,
dug with great and persistent toll from
the very bottom of the bank, for the
better encouragement of the muskrat's
deadliest enemy, the mink, runs in
ward for nearly two feet, and then up
ward through the natural soil to a
point where the shore is dry land at
the average level of the water Over
this exit, which is dry at the time of
the building, the muSkrat raises his
house.
The house is a~seeming1y careless,
roughly rounded neap of grass roots.
long water weeds, lily roots and stems
and mud, with few sticks woven into
chosen, SO that the roots and stems of
alders or other trees give it secure
anchorage, and the whole structure,
for all of it's apparent looseness, is SO
well compacted as to be secure against
the sweep of the spring freshets. About
about the same distance from the
foundation, a rude, sedge-thatched
dam, of which something more than
three feet may show itself above the
ice.
To the unobservant eye the muskrat
house in the alders might look like
mass of drift in which the rank wa
ter grass had taken root. But within
the clumsy pit is shapely, warm
chamber, lined with the softest grasses.
From one side of this chamber the
burrow slants down to another ana
much larger chamber, the floor of
which, at high water, may be partly
flooded. From this chamber lead down
two burrows, one, the main passage,
opening frankly in the channel of the
creek and the other, longer and more
devious, terminating in the narrow and
cunningly concealed exit behind
submerged root. This passage is very
little used, and is intended chiefly as
a way of escape in case o. an extreme
emergency, such as, for example, the
invasion Of a particularly enterprising
mink, by way OF the main water gate.
The musnrat is no match for the
snake-swift bloodthirsty mink, except
in the one accomplishment of holding
his breath under the water, and a
mink must be very ravenous or quite
mad with the blood lust to dare the
deep water gate and the long subaque-
Gus passage of the muskrat's citadel at
seasons Of average high water. In
times of drought, however, when the
entrance is nearly uncovered, and the
water goes but little way up the
dark tunnels, the mink will often glide
in, slaughter the garrison and occupy
the well-hnilt citadel