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when the male forgetu of meals, stood for hours at
time in interested expectancy beside the nest. The
strong chicks within the eggs were beginning to stir
and chip the shell. 1t not the day that the big
mink should have chosen for his expedition to the et
FOR several weeks the mink had been on the point
of swimming out to explore that little patch of rocks
and grass and bushes, sentneled by dark fir tree
Such secluded spot of reach of most forest prowl
ers might we'll afford something special in the way of
good hunting Hitherto one thing or another had al
ways diverted him from his purpose, and he had gone
off on another trail But to-day nothing interviewed.
His long, 1.-the black body curving like snakes, he
down the bank, lifted his triangular, vicious look
ing head for survey of the lake. and plunged into the
water with low splash
Now the vision of the mink, though sharp enough
at close quarters has nothing like the power and pene
tration of the looms. The mink could the islet
the rocks the bushes the sentinel fir ree but he could
not make out the figure of the loon standing beside
the nest. The LOOM the other hand, could see him
with absolute dstinctness, if not than fifty
feet away. -
AS has already been noted the day was not we'll
chosen for the minks trip the isle The loon stiff
fened himself with anger, and his round bright eyes
hardened mplacably. The mother settled down closer
the stirring eggs and turned her head to stare
malevoently the long pointed trail which the SWIM
mers head was drawing the lake surface. Her mate
stood for seconds motoness charred stump.
Then slipping noselessly down the bank, he glided
into the water and dived from sight.
The lake deep at this point the main channel
of the stream, upon which the lake threaded like
great oval bead slender string running between
to the bottom that he might risk of being de-
tected by the enemy. More than ever like torpedo
he pierced the brown Depths he darted forward to
the attack Two three great lake trout seeing the
approach of the black rushing shape, made way in
terror and hid in the deepest weed patch they could
find. But the loon not thinking of fish. The most
tempting ttbit in the lake, at that moment, might
have brushed against his feathers with impunity.
At last, still far ahead of him, he the enemy's
approach As he looked upward through the water,
the under surface like radiant but half transparent
mir uh he TIME f1v
wild cherry petal, stood out with amazing distinct
The dark body of the swimming mink was large
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moment he CHANGED to look down. then he paused.
THE sight that met his eyes to stir the blood
of any fisherman. He just the purse,
that fatal chamber whence so few who enter it
find the exit The narrow space crowded with
every kind of fish that frequented the lake. except for
the slim eels and the small fry that could swim through
*The togue peculiar gray lake trout of Maine and
New Brunswick which grows great size, and is to be
caught only with bait a spoon.
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and black and menacing against its setting
of silver, and the ripples spread away from
his chin, ever widening, till they faded in the
shore behind him. The loon kept straight on
till the mink was almost above him, then he
turned and shot upward
THINKING, doubtless, of some wild ducks
L nest we'll filled with large green eggs,
which he would devour at his ease after suck
ing the blood of the brooding mother, the mink
swan on steadily toward the islet. The worn
gray rocks and fring1ng grass drew nearer, and
the details began to separate themselves to
his fierce little eyes. Presently he made out
the black shape of the female loon, sitting on
her nest and eying him. That promised some
thing interesting. The blood leapt in his
veins, and he raced forward at redoubled
speed; for the mink goes into his trays with
a rampant blood lust that makes him always
formidable even to creatures of twice his
weight.
1t was just at this moment that his alert
senses took note of a strange, vague heaving
in the water beneath him, a sort of dull and
broad vibration. Swiftly he ducked his head,
to see if perchance the whole lake bottom
was rising up at him. But he had no time to
see anything. 1t was as if red hot iron was
jabbed straight upward through the tender
back part of his throat, and swarm of stars
exploded in his brain. Then he knew nothing
more. The looms steel-like bill had pierced
to, and penetrated the base of the skull, and
with one convulsive kick the robbers body
Strengthened itself out upon the water.
Shaking his head like an angry terrier, the
loon wrenched his bill free and hurried back
to reassure his mate leaving the body of the
mink to sink languidly to the bottom. Here,
among..th weeds, it was presently discovered
by the eels and crawhsh, faithful scavengers,
who saw to it that there should be nothing left
to pollute the sweet lake waters.
ON the following day the two awkward,
~ dingy hued, downy chicks were Matched,
and thenceforth the parents were kept busy
supplying their extremely healthy appetites.
The havoc wrought among the finny hordes,
the trout and togue* and club, the redhns,
sinners, and minnows, was enormous. The
loon chicks, enterprising and industrious,
speedily learned to help their parents by
hunting the small fry in the sunlit shadows
along the shore.
But the loon family were not the only ardent
fishermen on those waters The newcomers,
the man family they too liked fish, and had
skill in catching them. In fact, their methods
lpidly and slaughterousy destructive, we'll cal
to quite clean out the lake in two or three
They set big purse seine right across the
and, worst of ail they dragged the deep, dark
wherein, now that the waters were growing
under the mid June sun, the biggest trout
Tie were wont to gather for GOODNESS. Their
ught was to get their larder we'll stocked with
sh, against the coming winter. Future winters
ok out for themselves.
ometime the great loon, though more enter
and wide ranging than his prudent mate, had
eful distance from the nets
stakes, as from all the other
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jacket is more or less inexact under
taking, as many have found in expert
menting with wounded hawks and
eagles. By some lucky wriggle the
loon got his head free. Instantly,
with all the force of his powerful neck
muscles, he drove his beak halfway
through the heshy part of his old
enemy's arm. With a startled yell
the lad dropped him. He bounded
from the gunwale and rolled into the
water. The man snatched at him,
and caught Topping sleeve of his
jacket. The jacket promptly and
neatly unrolled; and the loon, diving
deep, was out of sight in an eyewink,
leaving his would-be jailers toexpress
themselves according to their mood.
When he came to the surface for
breath he was hundred yards away
and on the other side of the boat;
and, as he thrust little but his beak
and nostrils above water, he was
not detected.
A FEW minutes more and he was
"a laughing derisively from the
other side of the islet, swimming in
safety with his mate and his two
energetic chicks. Nevertheless, for
the discontinue of his foes, the grim
,,,t I;,,, o,,f of corca;f With tho
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all his triumph and the discontinue of his foes, the grim
lake That same night, when the white moon rode
high the jagged spruce ridges, hollow globe of
enchantment. he led his little family straight up the
1t small lake, shut in by brooding hills, with
iron Shores and few fish in its inhosptable waters;
but it was remote from man and his works So here
the outraged bird to establish himself till
the hour should return for migrants to fly south.
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. -
Child labor in Austria, in fac.
tories, domestic industries and
commercial blishments, has
been recently made the object Of
governmental inquiry. It appears
that about half Of the children
50 employed have been put to
. work before reaching their
eighth year, and . great many
moro before they were six. Their
annual earnings average from
about $1.4o in agriicu ltural purr.
suits to $1.50 per month in the
best paid industrial ones. 3
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there might be something saved
in the way Of human life if the
roads took proper care Of the men
who are now producing the
profits Mr.. Brandeis thinks in
adequate. But that would neces-
state 1essening Of dividends,
and dividends are sacred. Mr..
Brandeis is out to save money,
not save lives. He does not men
ton whether or not, under his
plan of making fewer men do the
work now done by larger num-
Der, or through making the pres
ent force work harder, he would
increase the danger. The last re:
ports showed that railroading is
becoming more and more danger
Gus. A larger number Of men are
killed, a larger number are in
jured. 49,.
If a smaller number of men
have to do the, work or if the
present force has to work harder,
will the men in the industry have
any opportunity to look out for
their own safety?
That question does not enter
into the consideration. Let the
men look out for themselves, if
they can. Mr.. Brandeis is look
ing out for profits. His remarks
about saving a million dollars a
day caused intense excitement
among the stockholders and Of
ficials Of the roads. The recent
report concerning accidents hard
ly caused a ripple. Probably it
produced nothing but a yawn,
for it really is an old story.
But to save money-there is al
ways something exciting about
that.
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GOMPERS WELL 2ARMoRED :
AGAINST MANAGES WRATH

The city council accepted an invita-
ton to honor Mr.. Sam Gompers with
their presence at his speech this even
ing. - Is : -. .-@s :p'- u:
This man comes as part Of a well
laid plan to make trouble for Battle
Creek, its Workmen, merchants and
citizens. Ill.
He is now under sentence to jail
and, is free under an appeal.
Why the council should so far for
get itself as to "honor" him is not
understood. He is the head of the
crew that has called Battle Greek
1.-The running sore on the map OF
Michigan" denounced our people as
"scabs," advertised their town az
"scabtown" and announced that the
daughters of our workingmen walked
the streets as prostitutes to earn
money enough to patch out the poor
wages Of their fathers.
This in the face of the fact that
the Battle Creek wages are the high
est in the state
How many such vile insults will the
workmen of Battle Creek stand and
what do they think Of council that
would "honor" the convicted GRIM
inal who comes here to help carry on
the plan to insult us and our daugh-
ters. and tie our workmen up to fees
to him and his labor trust. when we
have a peaceful town, a Trades and
Workers association and the highest
wages going in the state?
The above article, taken from
the Battle Greek Enquirer, ex.
presses the feelings Of Grape Nuts
Post, who owns the paper, because
the council accepted an invitation
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LABOR CRUSHERS HAVE <.=.
FOsTERED STRIKE FILMS

Resolutions were before the St..
Louis convention of the A. F. of
l.. embodying protest against the
pictures often exhibited in NOV
ing picture theaters processing to
depict scenes of occurrences in
strikes, these scenes, embracing
riot, bloodshed, assault, murder,
etc. It is suspected that behind
this class Of pictures, if the veil
could be removed, would be the
National Association of Manufac-
turers. The convention endorsed
resolutions advising wage earners
to protest, and protest strongly,
to the local management when
ever these pictures were shown,
and if the protest did not pro-
duce results to resort to other
methods: - + r III. I. T.. 4 =.
It is simply another Illustration
Of the. truth of the adage that
eternal vigilance is the price Of
liberty, Or; in this instance, reter-
nal vigilance and prompt 'protest
are necessary for the protection
OF the toiler. y 49,.
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plutocratic gang is hard at work
trying to indict law-abidine
workingmen for perpetrating q
dynamite outrage" which was
in fact caused by an accidental
explosion Of gas; but what's the
differences - s:
In the name Of law, plutocracy
tramples upon the law; in the
name of free speech, free speech
is forbidden. :; in the name Of
equal rights, the principle Of
equal rights is being destroyed.
But what's the difference7
Now It is a Goldman. a Social
list, a labor .unionist, that guar
dians Of the law assail in defiance
OF :the laws: soon these aggres-
sions will go higher up. But
what's the difference?
The difference! !. .s. ~
Read Carlyle's French Revo-
luton if you wish to know.
Society has it's diseases, which
sometimes become violent in spite
Of palliatives and heroic treat
ment. u IN.
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WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?

The Washington authorities
President Taft is mayor of Wash
ington-prevented Emma, Gold
man from lecturing in that city.
This is in defiance of the law, but
what's the difference? >.-s;
Warren, the publisher of the
Appeal to Reason, is sentenced
to Imprisonment for sending
through the. mails an open adj
vertisement offering q reward for
the kidnapping and return to his
state for trial of a Republican
politician indicted for murder,
just as .workmen In Colorado
we're. kidnapped with the ap-
prevail Of the United States SUI
preme court. The postal law in
Warren's case, constantly vio-
lated by: bankers, etc., with inn
punity, is enforced only against
this publisher Of a Socialist pa
per; but what's the difference?
A labor procession in Los An
geles is forbidden unless the ordi-
nary labor union Inscriptions on
the banners are efaced, while q
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to listen to 3 speech delivered B,
President Campers, in that city.

to Listen to g speech delivered By
President Gompers, in that city. s
President Gompers replied to
Posts attack il : dignified man
ner. Among other things, the Ia
Dor official said:
II am here tonight. not to defend
myself against the attacks Of an
ignorant and self-exploittng advertise
ment. but to plead the cause OF mil
lions Of American workingmen who
demand q position in society, and the
means thereof, consistent with their
value to society. 4.s
It Is not me that mine enemy at
lacks. He would say the same things
It were Smith. Brown or Jones. 1t
is the principles for which I stand,
and to which he is opposed, thinking
at the same time that he is voicing
the sentiments of all others who
chance to disagree ..sf 5jl
Mr.. Gompers went on: Il hardly
know how to meet it. His personal
attacks are so unprincipled, untrue
and unreal, that it leaves one to
doubt whether It. is best to MOLD the
author Of them up to the whitening
scorn. Of the community as he de:
serves, or to ignore him on the basis
that the lie cannot live, and will die
of its. own sweet accord in due 'time:''
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OTIS "EUIOGIZED" IS
OTIS TRUE TO LIFF

Here is the '*Eulogy'' pro.
nounced by Hiram johnson, Re.
publican governor Of California.
upon General Harrison Gray
Otis, the Los Angeles newspaper
owner who is trying to fasten the
accidental destruction of. his
|ETimes'' building upon members
Of trade unions: ..
I'm the city from which I have
come we have drunk to the very
dregs Of the cup of infamy; we have
had vile officials: we have had rot
ten newspapers; we have had men
who sold their birthright; we have
dipped into every infamy; every form
Of wickedness has been ours in the
past; every debased passion and every
sin has hourished, but we have moth.
ing so vile, nothing 50 low, nothing
so debased, nothing 80 Infamous In
San Francisco, nor did we ever have
as Harrison Gray Otis. This man has
attacked me on the only side to which
I will not respond, concerning which
rather than respond, would lose the
governorship of the state of Cali
fornia. He sits there in senile de.
mentia, with, gangrened heart and rot
ting brain, grimacing at every REFORM
chattering impotently at all things
that are decent, frothing, Tuning,
violently gibbering, going down to his
grave in snarling infamy. This man
Otis is the one blot on the banner OF
Southern. California; he is the bal
sinister upon your escutcheon. My
friends, he is the one thing that all
California looks at, when in, looking
at Southern California, they see any.
thing that is disgraceful, depraved
corrupt. crooked and putrescent-
that is. Harrison Gray Otis.'' 80. -,.
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Those Awful Free Lovers

to do in the last Massachusetts leg
He introduced 4 btH giving the
! cities the right to use the initiative
and referendum. sS -. =. ~:
A bill ! to raise the age at which
children may be emplnyed.
A. bill to permit, cities or town to
| own and operate street railways. ~
A i bill memoraHzing congress to
| establish national ownership OF rail-
OF course these bills we're defeated
but this dangerous demagogue intro
duced another bill which was, passed!
And this bill provided that every
employer advertising FOR men shall
state in the advertisement whether or
not q strike is taking. place in his
establishment e ssz.:, 49, 1~s: II. 1.
So we see there sissmethod in this
Madness and that what: the Socialists
are trying: to do. In Wisconsin,, they
are also trying to dosinsMassac husetts
r And when one reads in cold type
| Of the actual habits ofthese men the
immortality Of it is positively sicken-
ing. ;. = ~ ., $751;, -~,.-z
In the heart of every true lover Of
Individual and social Justice there
arises revolt against these. attempted
! iniquities. =, r. 5.
There may be SONG stupid unen-
ltghtened ignorant workman who will
| not understand the relation of these
bills to free love, anti-marriage and
atheism. .g.
But look behind the bills and you
Immediately see the real purpose
actuating these dangerous men.
In the first place these acts, every
| one Of them, show that the Socialists
advocate free-love. ss
Today the. old parties are paid to
grant legislation but the Socialists
want to give it free, especially to
those who have no money.
That is free-love for the working
class. ==@@.s
Could there be better evidence Of
how Socialists try to inculcate their
views on this dreadful subject?
These bills also show that Socialists
believe in the abolition Of, marriage.
They advocate divorce and are trying
to break up the home. n. .s3 ss
Study the above bills and see what
they mean; they are deliberately try
ing to destroy q happy home wherein
political crooks and financial plutes
now live together In perfect happi-
! ness. III M
!, Can you not see. brother. in the
above flegislation an undetermined,
! vicious and unprincipled attack upon
that happy family
In every line Of the above leSisla.-
tion there IN also evidence Of the
8rossest atheism. / III
/ Has It not been said that the
i American God Is gold ? a.
Well can you imagine any bitterer
or fiercer attack upon that God than
these Socialist bills? N B &
Why they would tear him out Of
the halls Of our Legislatures.
I They would throw him out Of our
municipal councils and even our
temples and leave him . vagrant in
the streets. .s55 s5
For him there 10 every evidence 81
undying hatred. They bear him nd
Irespect. neither bow before him nor
i reverence him. 38 4#
I'D So you see thsir atheism \ Is also
rampant: and nnasl1Am ed
The bills thendsel ves look innocen,
enough. But don't 30 carried away,
Il dear brothers. BY appearances. Lnok
behind those bil
1yo resp ctable po,littci2n Of all
Y 4 enatorI eFs Gnil ~ s1slell
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LABELS MEAN PROGRESS
MENTAL AND PHYSICAL

When the union man boosts his
label he needs something more
than mere friendship to back up
his request to buy goods with only
the label on it. And he has it.
The label is the outward and UNI.
mistakable evidence that there is
a body of .workmen banded to.
gether for mutual benefit, ;uphft
and advancement. 1t means that
body Of citizens are joined to.
gether, and wherever this. is the
case the city is always the gamer.
The better the citizens the better
the city. There is no nondescript
mongrel element connected with
unions. About a century ago
some old English philosopher pro.
jected the philosophy that isola
ton meant savagery Tor human
ity;; that SO much of the time
that man passed in silence and
alone, just so much would he re-
vert to the starting point Of civil
ization. The veriest dolt among
us realizes that the more time W.
spend alone the less sociable W.
are. That is a proof Of the phil
osophy which we have just men,
toned. Ed.
Now, to argue the other way
around. Il VIC revert to an IN
desirable personality through
isolation, we must progress
through contact with our fellows
The very word union, then
stands for conta ct. I'd the un,iio1
Ilabel tlls mi I1'li erssl
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THE PEOPLE, EYES OPEN,
UNDERSTAND VERDICT

And so that Ballinger probe
farce has ended in a whitewash
for Richard Achilles.
Well, what did you expect with
such "trimmers as Elihu Root
and Knute Nelson on the job?
A man constituencies enough
and sufficiently nervy to put up
such a job as that nail manufac-
turing swindle which Ballinger
promoted at Decatur, Ala, years
ago, in which his wife s relatives
and their friends were the star
victims, is necessary to such an
administration as the present
*'stand-pat'' president is giving
us.
Ballinger's elastic code Of NOR
ais has fitted him to serve the big
interests most satisfyingly in his
capacity as secretary of the in.
terror.
1t would have been bad policy
indeed the utmost folly-to dis
courage his servile energy by an
adverse report.
But the people understand II
now. A few years ago they might
have deemed such a travesty cor
rect and above board. But moi
now!
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SANTA CLAUS BRANDEIS
MISSES ToII.ERS' STOCKING

Louis B. Brandeis aroused the
interest of railroad men by saying
that the roads of this country are
run in a wasteful manner, and
that they could save million dol
lars a day. AS his plan unfolds
it is very simple-get more work
out of the men and don't pay
them any more, or as much
wages.
There is no hint of loss because
Of payments to directors and
other officials. There is no hint
Of loss through the milking of the
roads by those who control it.
There is no exposition of the fact
that many of the officials are as
useful TO the road as a vampire
is on, a. mans breast.
But in going 50 directly at the
source of saving' Mr.. Brapdeis
also shows the source of all profit.
The work of the men on the rail-
roads gives the fat dividends to
the stockholders and the fat
salaries to the officials. To in
crease that fat dividends and the
fat salaries it will be necessary
only to make the workingmen do
more work, to eliminate as many
men as possible and distribute
their work around among the
others. It is a very comprehen-
sive, alluring plan and one that
will be acted on cheerfully by
those who now control the roads.
No matter how much employers
may balk at listening to sugges.
tions along other lines, they are
always anxious and ready to
listen to any suggestion whereby
they can reduce the number of
s'hands'' or reduce the amount
Of money that goes to the
''hands. The more work that
is done by the men the better it
is for the employer. The more
men that can be thrown out with
no diminution Of product the bet.
ter for the employer. '
So this gorgeous plan of Mr.
Brandeis means nothing more MOI
less than the scaling down Of the
labor force. The men who are
now roducing the I profits will
produce bigger prof course