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has no bad luck, find himself In pos.
session of enough animals to start him
on the highway to success.
1t is always best to buy registered
animals for breeding, but If crosses
are used with registered stallion one
can in time breed up to very high
standard. Shetlands are very easily
kept. They require but little grain,
and will do very we'll on rocky hill
sides where there is fair pasturage.
They need shelter in bad weather,
of course, but an open shed, wind
tight on three sides, leaving the south
side open, will be all that is necessary.
A good wire fence is required to
keep them in bounds, as Shetlands are
extremely curious and somewhat rest
less, and will manage to get over, un'
der, or through the average farm
fence.
If handled from birth they are very
easily broken, and at three years old
will be ready to ride or drive. Pure
bred Shetlands find ready sale at
prices ranging from $125 to 5000, and
exceptionally. fine specimens bring
even higher prices.
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violence. Negroes fell heir to magniff
cent plantations after the expulsion OF
their French masters. But they show
a poor accounting for their steward
ship. They have squandered their
subsistence in civil war and the lux
ury Of sluggish ease. A family here
and there camps in the wilderness, liv-
ing on coffee that grows wild, picking
the fruits on every side, and perhaps
growing few yams. Should man
aspire to what he could call a farm, he
would have to leave it for military
service, or perhaps see it ruined by
ravaging hordes of armed politicians.
Consequently, the vast natural re-
sources of the country are not ex-
plotted. The island has been called
the richest of all the West Indies.
Anything that is planted will grow
and yield crop after crop the same
year. The hills are covered with for
ests of fine wood, practically I'm
touched. Cotton might one day mean
great wealth for Haiti, but its an
nual export now does not exceed a
few thousand tons. There are also to-
bacco, hides, sugar, corn, rice, rich
metal deposits, and the great staple,
coffee, the production Of which has
fallen off of late years by almost
half.
White Mans Influence Resented.
But should a foreigner attempt any
thing for the development or uplifting
of Haiti, he is fretted by obstacles at
every turn. The negroes have wanted
nothing of the white man. They are
absurdly jealous, absurdly suspicious.
The cost of the white mans absence
is misery, but Haiti chooses to pay it.
A fair-sized transport, circling the
coast, could take away every foreign
er in the country. They number scarce
ly 500, mostly Germans. The negroes
number about million and a half.
At every turn, the traveller is re-
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FRENCH BOY DISPLAYS PLUCK
While Within Thirty-Six Yards of
Enemy-Enemy Astonished.

A patient in the American am.
bulance hospital at Neuilly-sur-Seine
tells the following story of one of his
comrades:
1--WE had been living in the trenches
for days with the water above our
ankles. At that time our trenches
were only thirty-six yards away from
the German trenches, so that we could
hear the enemy talking and whistling,
and, indeed, we often called across to
them.
"One day, young p, who was hot
tempered chap about twenty-one years
of age, threw down his shovel and
said that he wouldn't work in such
nasty hole another moment, and
that he had rather die once from a
German bullet than live another day
In the trench. Anyhow, he was going
out to chop some wood for floor
and let the Germans shoot him II
they wished.
"Thereupon P. calmly crawled out
of the trench, walked to a woodpile
In full sight of the Germans, and be-
gan making planks from the wood.
He worked whole hour, for the Ger
mans were SO much astonished at his
audacity, and so delighted with his
pluck, that they made no attempt to
stop him.
When he had finished the needed
pile OF boards, P. calmly carried them
into the trench, and the men made a
good floor of them. Com.
panion.
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How Much Radium?

Efforts to determine the amount of
radium in the ocean have been few.
Prof. S. ]. Lloyd OF the University
of Alabama finds that about thirty
samples of sea water have been test
ed, taken from the Irish and English
coasts, the North and South Atlantic,
the Mediterranean, the Black sea, the
Arabian sea. and in his own deter
mination from the Gulf Of Mexico 200
miles south of Mobile. Discarding ex-
treme results, with a maximum SO
times greater than the minimum, it is
concluded that the total radium in
the sea somewhat exceeds 1,400 tons.
AS rivers contain little, 1t Is assumed
that this supply comes from uranium
in the sea, which must reach total of
nearly 4,200,000,000 tons, making ura-
MUM in sea-water comparable in guam.
tity to gold.
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story. "You see," said Mr.. Fox, that
with all their other accomplishments
the ants are not very good swimmers,
and one day an ant. having ventured
too near the edge Of a brook, fell in,
and was in great danger Of being
drowned. He called, in feeble way,
for help, but there seemed to be no
one to hear him, and he had almost
given up hope when the current Of
the brook carried him under q tree,
upon branch of which a dove was
resting.
The ant, seeing the dove, thought
to himself: Here Is one last chance;
| will call as loudly as can, and II
the dove does not help me shall give
myself up as lost
so he called as loudly as he could,
and the dove. hearing him, looked
down, and when he saw what the mat
ter was, plucked leaf from the tree
and dropped it into the water Just
beside the ant. Though fast losing
strength, the ant managed to crawl
upon it, and the breeze, blowing the
leaf to the shore, he crawled upon dry
ground and was saved
Nov good many animals and q
good many men would have said to
themselves: That leaf fell off the tree,
and do not owe the dove anything
for saving my life,' and would have
at once forgotten the act of kindness.
But the ant did not do this. Instead,
he said to himself: Some day | will
have a chance to repay the dove.
cit was not long after this that a
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hunter, going through the wood, saw
the same dove sitting on the branch
of a tree, and determined to kill It.
The dove, intent upon watching her
nest, did not see the hunter. and 80
did not fly away; but the ant, watch
ing the hunter while he loaded his
gun, knew that the dove was In dan
ger, and determined. if possible, to
save her. He ran as fast as he could
toward the hunter, and reached him
just as he was making ready to ire.
"Scrambling as fast as he could up
the hunters leg, he reached bare
place above his stocking just as the
hunter aimed his gun, and, biting him
as hard as he could, he made the
hunter miss his aim, and the sound
Of the gun alarming the dove, she
few away to safe place"
WELL" said Jack Rabbit, that was
certainly a fine thing for the ant to
do, and particularly as 1t is not likely
the dove ever knew why it was the
hunter missed his AIM"
indeed, SAID MI. FOX, IL was all
the more credit to the ant that he
performed the kindness without ex-
pecting the whole world to know OF it.
And the whole story" continued Mr..
Fox, furnishes proof of the lesson
that even the smallest sort of kind
ness is profitable to the one who
does 1t.
"And now I am going in to take a
nap" said Mr.. Fox, "for / have had a
very busy night and morning doing a
kindness to Farmer Wilson's chickens.
He had built fence so tight That
there was no way they could get out
OF their yard; but have dug them a
nice hole under the fence, and l think
one or two of them will get out by
tomorrow morning."
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eminent, is land of palms, land OF
dreams and Incidence. The people OF
the island own lazy Africa for moth
er. They are the creatures of DALI
ance, they are good-natured, and quick
to laugh, showing their white teeth
and the whites of their eyes.
But they also have the thoughtless
cruelty of children. In spite of their
natural slothfulness they rage under
their tropic sun with the energy of
bloodthirsty beasts, wrecking their
fiowery paradise. They suspect the
white man, fearing a return to slavery,
and they carry on constant political
feuds with each other. On all sides
are evidences of suspicion and hatred.
The island is a land of decay.
The boards of the houses are cracked
and rotting. There are negroes in
rags everywhere, lazily shutting
about, doing nothing. What Is pic
turesque is of dirt. There Is no ma
tional dress, no distinctive local color
The impression one gets is of a
coon hollow" such as the slums of
our southern cities might offer. But
the hghtheartedness of our own dar-
kies is missing. One feels that the
spirit has been taken out of these
Haitians. The sun glares bright and
hot, yet there is a heavy cloud that
depresses. When voices are raised,
they are rarely mirthfui, but high
strung, quarrelsome, In peevish
strain.
Not Far From savagery.
Without the white man, the blacks
have been sinking gradually to their
original savagery of the African jun
gle. Their enlightenment, such as
there is Of 1t. is only initiative. For
instance, an election is but the old
tribal war cry, attended by scenes Of
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SAILOR came BACK"
ROMANCE OF THE SEA As RE.
LATED BY THE WRITER.
O. sId Triumphed In the End, Despite
Effort of Father to Separate His.
Daughter From the Man
She Loved.

Some 80 years ago l sailed with a
.rigantine hailing from New Eng
land town. The skipper had an eight
een-year-old daughter, his only child,
on board, his wife being dead.
The girl became friendly with one
Of our ordinary seamen about twenty
years old, clean-cut chap, who al
ready had his masters papers. One
night, when the young fellow was at
the wheel, the skipper came on deck
and found his daughter standing
alongside Of him, with her arm around
his neck. The skipper became angry,
hit the boy, and sent him forward, and
would not allow him to come aft
again, although the girl told him she
was engaged to the boy.
Now began trying time for the
boy. One day the young fellow, goad-
ed to desperation, defended himself
when the skipper struck him. This
was committing an objectionable act,
as a skipper has almost unlimited
power on his own vessel.
The boy was put into irons and
when we arrived at Rio Janeiro, our
destination, the harbor police took
him to shore. l must state, to the
shippers credit, that he did not prose-
cute the boy, but Of course his berth
was taken by another man when we
left Rio
Five years passed. l was still with
the same skipper and so was his
daughter, but she was not any more
the laughing. happy girl she was be-
fore.
We had loaded pitch pine in Bruins
wick, Ca, and were again bound for
Rio. Nearing our destination, we
were caught in storm. The vessel
rolled awfully, the cargo chafed back
and forth and we soon knew that we
had fire in the hold. We took off the
main hatch to try and put out the fire,
but as soon as we got 1t open the flames
burst out, and we had to take to the
boats.
This happened at night. The YES
sci burned for two hours, when there
was no more left of her. We stood
by her, thinking the flames would
draw some other vessel to our assist
ance. At daylight we saw "fore and
after" near by. In short time we
were alongside. The shippers daugh-
ter was the first up the ladder and I
was close after her to prevent her
from falling backward into the boat.
The skipper of this vessel, young
fellow, stood at the rail and helped
us to the deck The girl looked at him
and he at her; then they fell into each
others arms and the girl cried from
happiness.
The young skipper was the boy her
father had treated so shabbily.
Strange to say, the vessel was bound
for Rio, too, and he arrived there
once more securely bound, but not
with chains this time. The wedding
was celebrated in Rio and the bride
went with her husband on his vessel.
Chicago Tribune.
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minded of primeval savagery. One
need only see the stevedores, at Port
au Prince, pounce upon the bones that
They are naked to the waist, and
their black bodies glisten as they tum-
BILE over one another in their barges,
fighting and scratching, trying to get
at bone. Their screeching is hid
eous, and when one of them clutches
the prize and tears the flesh with his
teeth, until another snatches it away,
one thinks with disgust of unclean
beasts.
Perhaps one Haitian in twenty can
read and write. The educational sys-
tenn is a farce. Yet, the inhabitants
are usually devout. II village is on
fire Zone of the pleasing pastimes of
warning factions), the negroes will
leave their huts to burn and toll fran
tically to save the church.
The lack of public works is pitia-
BILE. Naked children, and grown ones,
too, loll like swine in the ditch water
of the public streets. The only cleo,
trio lighting in the country is that in
the presidents palace. In all Haiti
there is not an illuminated street.
The explanation of all these wretch
ed conditions may be summed up In
one wcrd-politics. A boy of six is
brevetted a colonel in the army.
Wholesale smuggling, winked at by in
terested officials, cuts down the ex-
port tax. The children of the inhuen-
tial are immune from the conscript
system, but the under dog of the sys-
tenn must abandon his little clearing
to the women and serve his term as q
soldier, which in Haiti is worse than
being a tramp. The postmaster of
village pays his bills in postage
stamps, giving double.
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FOX TELLS ANOTHER STORY.
cnpynt0Hr NN,cgye4
RaoeAftS Syssp4cSrLE

II wish Mr.. Fox would tell another
story" said Jack Rabbit. as he pre-
pared to 60 again to the hillside and
consult the source Of wisdom upon
which he had now come to depend
very much.
"That story which he told me re-
Gently of the mouse and the frog was
very interesting, and 1t illustrated so
well the fact that SO many Of us seem
bound to make ourselves uncomfort-
able by binding ourselves to persons
and things unsuited to us. I shall
certainly try to make him tell an
other story today"
When Jack Rabbit got to Mr.. Fox's
house he did not find him at home;
but, knowing that unless something
very important detained him, he would
soon be there, he sat down to wait.
And as he waited he saw on the
ground beside him great number Of
ants, which were rushing about and
hurrying In all directions-at least
that was the way 1t seemed to Jack
Rabbit, although he thought they
must know what they were doing,
else they would not be working SO
hard.
He was busy watching the ants,
when, all at once, he was surprised to
find Mr.. Fox standing right beside
him and saying: How do you do this
morning?"
Jack Rabbit was rather ashamed to
be caught watching the ants, and
started to make some explanation OF
what he was doing, when he was
stopped by Mr.. Fox, who said: Don't
excuse yourself for watching the ants.
There are very few of us animals
who could not learn more than we al
for they are very wise, and do many
things much better than even men do
them. They are systematic and me-
thodical; they know the rules of war
and forms Of government; they can
lift more than their own Weight and
carry 1t long way; they care for
their sick, and provide for their fu-
ture, and, above all, they have sense
Of gratitude, and after I have got
some Of this dirt off my paws and
washed my face | will teach you a
bit Of wisdom by telling you q story
Of an ant that was first told years
and years ago by wise old fox in Per-
STA, whose stories have been retold by
many another fox who was not so
WISE"
Jack Rabbit was delighted to think
that Mr.. Fox was going to tell him an
other story without his even having
to ask him, and he was very impatient
while Mr.. Fox was washing his paws
and face and getting off some Of the
dirt, which, ! fear. had got on them
while he was digging hole under
the fence which Farmer Wilson had
recently built around his chicken
yard.
Finally, however, he completed his
bath, and he had scarcely got to the
door of his house before he began his
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jointly an island comprising
roughly about $4,000 square
miles, and having total pop
ulation of nearly 100000.
Haiti has nearly the population OF
Santo Domingo, but only little more
than half its area.
For 100 years Haiti and for half
that period Santo Domingo have been
a cause of continual anxiety to the
United States. Since gaining their
independence both have been in a
state of constant upheaval and blood
shed as a result of a practically I'M
broken succession of revolutions. In
the last 20 years United States naval
vessels have been in almost constant
attendance about the island, and ma
rines have several times been landed
for the protection of foreign life and
property. 1t is no exaggeration to
say that Haiti and Santo Domingo
have cost the United States more
money in the last 20 years than would
have been spent had this government
assumed responsibility for and control
over the island.
The story of Haiti is story Of mis-
cry. The characters are childish ne
groes, who play at dignity, spill blood
and do no work. In natural advan-
tages, Haiti is land of fertile opu-
lence, but what is human there is de-
based and wretched.
A race Of simple children pretend
there at being kings and emperors and
presidents. All to themselves, they
possess part Of wonderful island,
where once they we're slaves. They
had the entire island at first, but their
quarreling gashed an ugly frontier
across, marking off Santo Domingo,
and now the sets of warning factions
are multiplied.
The fairy country of richly wooded
hills, where these children play at gov
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New Names for Old Initials.

British soldiers at the front are ap-
plying new Specifications to old initials.
For instance, the r. F. A.-Royal field
artiIlery-is being called the Ready for
Anything. The men Of King Edward g
Horse say that K. E. H. means Kill
Every Hun.
The unkindest Interpretation is that
put upon the letters r. A. M. C.-Roy-
al army medical corps. Some wounded
soldiers have complained of missing
belongings after their things have
passed into the keeping Of the R. A.
NJ c., so they declare the initials
really now stand for Rob All My Com.
rades,
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TO START BOY IN BUSINESS
Shetland Ponies Are Easily Kept and
Require But Little Grain-Do
Very Well on HilIsides.

A good way for boy to start In
business is by raising Shetland ponies.
A very well-bred mare can be bought
for $125 to 5000, the latter figure be-
ing for pure bred.
Starting with mare In foal, boy
can, in the course of five years, II he
The Western outlook., 1915-10-09
War Influences Paris Veil STYLES.

The war veil is the latest freak of
fashion In Paris. Though quite gro
tesque in appearance, it is popular In
the sense that it expresses the patriot
ism of the women
The two designs most frequently
seen are those Of black cannon wo-
ven in the mesh Just where it rests on
the cheek, and beauty spot" woven
to the shape of the Red Cross, but
done in white on a black background.
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Heavy Guard for Moroan,s place

]. P. Mcrgar's estate at Glen Cove
is still under guard and is likely to be
until the end of the war. Three men
are on duty by day and four by night.
One is on post at the bridge connect
ing East island with the mainland, and
not only every traveller, but every
package that passes can do SO only
after having been subjected to his
scrutiny. The others patrol the
beaches.
The Western outlook., 1915-10-09

- ~ Att and Santo Domingo share
jointly an island comprising
roughly about $4,000 square
miles, and having total pop
The Western outlook., 1915-10-09
Johnny's Sore Hand.

Johnny, how did you hurt your
hand? / hope you haven't been fight
ing again"
Willie Jones called me q liar,
mother, an then he hit me on the fist
with his tneth. Life.
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WOMAN AND WAR

william shepherd who has re-
Gently distinguished himself cas- a war
correspondent speaks Of The utter
rrief ~ Inc women of France ana
Germany because of the horrors in
aictcd anon thcm by the war lie
Quotes tho words Of "a French woman,
,bo m mo bitterness of her soul said
she was afraid 70 love a dog lest IL
he taken from her
la those words there Is condensed
as much abicet misery as one coulu
imagine IN Describing the after
effects OF the battle of Waterloo
rhackery speaNs OF women in lhe
uareant of victory AS 'hearthroken'
humble professionals. unheurd IN the
upmii Of wur Tie SAYS truly that
tho historians do not ten as Of them.
vet war takes the blood Of men ana
the tears of women.
Mir shepherd says the women OF
France and Germany de- not kno"
why hclr sons are being given 20
aenth ana wounds In the European
war and me further snys that the men
fighting IA the trenches do not KNOW
vhy thoy are fHhung except tha'
Ihe French eay they are deiendlnt
thclr country from the Germans an'
Ithe German soldiers say the frenci
....,t .t...,... invaded Germany had no
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German american Attacks Upon
President Wilson Are Resented

Wilson Is pro-German We have re-
eeired letters from gentlemen who
have positive proofs m fhcf lmag-
nation that This IS Sd Row else cX-
plain his plan t0 take che German
steamships at two prices Why. 9TH
CrWlse. aid he not declare war upon
The kuser for having invaded Bel
GUM And so on oue Of the
strongest expressions Of ihis opinion
which We have seen was 200 a speech
made before The American club in
Paris last June II was Isl an Amerl-
can architect Mr Whitney Warren.
His passionate admiration OF France.
ana the zca' with which he devoted
himself 20 French relief work are
wen known. But they have led him
90 believe that his own country ought
40 Doe openly and officially against
Germany but 20 his grief he has
found what does the reader sup
posot Why this.
Believe me President Wilson is
considered by the pcop.t az France
Belgium. ANA England and by the
people Of Norway Denmark and 4oi-
land, as the probably uncon-
sciously so-0f Germany would
even say that he is considered such ny
the German government itself
This o,rbt ~ ,beer nm M, ty,+.-
mann
Mr Warren bad r,9,b to ty FL
pretso - f-re,,,h ,,i,,..,,ass ID. ~
different from tbe dor,ineerine ,ssVs
m gerrtare p,,t FIX ,,olitoress II
preaidont Wilson in u,. p,tos +, The
German oo,arprnett rousad bis aor0s
rRecaIling mo b1r,a,e ana enlinht
ened nttitnde bitbcrto aesu,nod by tho
in,parial eo,.orr,,,c,,t ir ,,,ttere of ~
tornatioral rigbt n. tbis p,erel,
nalvo9 Mr. Warren manfred No.
NV president IL a man N ntellieenre
Hence b3s nl,nd u,nrds IN Cernanv
must be- taken i'm mo- Iipht thon as
those ~ ,,tho hlind v,hn yitI NOT SEQ
~ tbo daaf o-ha win pot be.r n
never seemod IA occpr +, Mr. Warren
mar ~ mioht ~ tho yilfluv hind
man and h no u,otld sarufinizo me
historic record ne would discover that
ba nresidort's words Moro annI, ms
.tfied bv the farts For evannio in
tqo4 ma oonpress ~ me I-rited states
pnssod F, rnsolutinnt ,ollinv mon ne
nresidoni to seek ~ hring about San
understanding a,peno me principaI
maritime nncere uith d view a.
nrbodvfne In international law The
nrinrinln ~ fhr evrmption If an pri-
waite property al sea- not contraband
Of war, from capture or destruction
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