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the present owners father In cold
blood I wouldn't put it beyond 'cn,
to do the same to this one il it wasnt
that he's smart lad and carries III"
only firearms on the island
NO ones come here since, no one
that I'd trust Then. too. what
if l found the stuff? What good
! would it do me-now?" He spread
out his deIicately shaped hands in
deprecating gesture. 81 should die H.
! month If I left here. Finest climate
on earth. this is. - SudJGnl,
he laughed low. reminiscent <ackle
of mirth.
But that wasn't all that decided
me. I'd got to the planking. Guays
quill oak II was. and / was steaning
1t on when a nail drew. and the pIanh
| caught me in the chest, knocking ne
six yards. and broke a rib. Us
broken yet, / guess; there was no one
to mend it. Well. that finished il. I
wasn't meant to build that ship"
He stopped abruptly and stared
down at his battered rawhide shoes
The inference was obvious.
well, what about it?" l suggested.
He looked up at that.
i've been thinking about 1t ever
since you came here" -he confessed.
'tI'll go with you: but mind this, you
mustn't curse me IL nothing comes OF
it. I don't promise anything. An I
say is l think know where the stud
is. IL some one hasn't got it
I'm let you know tomorrow said
]. and left him sitting there.
Was the man senile? There Wa
nothing to make one think so. Was
he liar? There was equally nothif.e
TO prove it. At least half his storN
was a matter of island history
E i =
WYE of the Dream Ship held board
w meeting on the subject Of loot
that evening. We discussed it rroH'
| every angle. and came to the conclu
sion that, with the present atrocity
/ called a motor auxiliary and the
weather conditions of the group. W.
might take three days over the bus -
ness and we might take three months
! that the chances of finding somethins
| were outweighed by the risk Of losin !.
the skip, and that we were In pur-
suit of something visionary. anyway
SO We had better get on with II.
The voting went TWO to one agaiuS'
and leave you TO decide whose WIS
the deciding voice.
I give this interview with dad J"
what il is worth. and simply becau>"
! see no prospect of undertaking tho
search as It should be undertaken. I
am aware that it reads like tn"
purest romance. but 1t is true IN
every particular as any one Will soon
discover on visiting Wreck bay.
Cristobal island. in the Galapagos
group.
The old man still waits there on
the beach for a ship and some one
he can trust: but, judging by ms
frail appearance the is seventy
seven), he will not wait much longer
Often during the days that followed
found myself standing at the pssam
Ships rail looking seaward to a am
outline of mountains against the olue
and wondering. But oni.' IN,
ash heap knows.
tCopyright.l
(Continued in next Sundays Stnr'
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LARDNER ON QUAINT
CHRISTMAS CUSTOMS
sIetoe Slap Punch Jaw in Rasdw inThey Hang
Up Ashcans Not Stockings in Portugal.

day is set aside for the grown ups
to take away all the toys that the
kiddies prize most highly and hide
them so as they can play with them
themselfs after the kiddies has wen
to bed nights. Children that lilies
to play with toys has to buy them o"
steal them from Jan. I on through
the Vt. only to have them stole at
xmas by the parents.
x x X x
THE difference between here and
i the Arctic regions is natural.
The natives of the last named re
gions would like nothing better than
have there presents delivered in tE.'
normay way by Santa Clause and by
his bevy of reindeers but unluckly
that gentleman and his vehicle are
busy makeing deliverys down our
way at the time. So the northerners
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has to depend on bicycles and GO
carts which is libel to have hAEl
shedding in that climate. ~
sneaking about reindeers the stu
alton here on Long Island is-eren
worst than up there in the far north
IN acct. of the fact that neither Long
island Sound or the ocean or the
East River is very seldom froze over
at this time of yr. 80 that Santa has
only ways Of getting here. namely
TO come on a train through the tube
which is vs. the rules of the railros9s
company, or (2) cross on the ferry
which genally always makes the
deers sea sick, or CD try to make the
deers hurdle which ever body Of
water they choose to try and many
IL the time in this case that the
deers has failed to make tho jump
and been drowned.
This is the reason why my kiddies
for example very seldom gets a square
deal at xmas simply because we can't
get stuff delivered.
That Is about all as i know in re-
CARDS to different Xmas customs ex-
cept in regards to the custom Of
hanging mistletoe on the chandelier
dureing the yuletide season. a
RING ". LARDNER. Y
Great Neck, Long Island. Dec. -. =
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Of him sizzling in u frying pan.
Each day that we sailed after leav-
ing Balboa had brodsht r;ua a&he3-
ably nearer the eahator. ahd- ITS
presence began to make itself felt in
gasping moments at the tiller, a glare
from the water that caused blood
shot eyes until Peter the practical
produced pair of smoked glasses.
and deck seams running and bubblin&
marine glue.
Peters watch was a spectacle not. to
be missed. consisting as it did Of
pajamas. smoked glasses and a para
sol. I have often wondered what sort
Of entertainment we should have pro-
vided for a passing steamer on occa-
sion. but as We never sighted one
from the beginning to the end Of our
cruise I fear I shall never know.
Tomorrow" said Steve. after twelve
days of fair though light winds. 1--WE
ought TO raise Tower fslapa"'
We we're approaching the ash heap
Of the world. At the time We had no
notion that 1t was an ash heap. but
you shall judge. Throughout that
night we took our appointed four
hour single-handed watch. slept our
four hours as we had come mechani-
cally so to do during the past four
months. and went on deck at dawn to
see Tower Island.
1t was not there.
Stever, who was at the tiller. looked
vaguely troubled but offered no COM
ment. Neither did We. by this time
being used TO such things. Besides.
Leave a man TO his job had be-
come our watchword through many
vicissitudes. But when night followed
day with customary inexorableness.
and without producing anything more
tangible than the same empty expanse
Of ocean. Steve was constrained to
muttcr, a sure premilinary to CO.
herent speech.
"One of three things has happened
he announced: "The chronometer's got
the jim-jams. the charts wrong or
the blinking island has foundered."
AS skipper of the Dream Ship. it de-
volved uren myself TO; verify these
surprising statements. which, after a
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in our own ship: that what navisa-
tion we knew had been learned in
three weeks; and that l would invite
any one who fancies his bump of To-
cality to test it in the Galapagos
Islands.
We had more than half decided to
cut out Cristobal and its 500 inhabi-
tants. and shape course for the So
ciety Islands. 5000 miles to the south
west'ard. when Steve gave a yell like
wounded pup.
Il see Dalrymple rock he chanted
as one in a trance. with the binocular
to his eyes II see Wreck point, and
bay between 'em with houses on
the beach. What more do you want?'
How extremely simple it was to
recognize each feature by the chart
when there was an unmistakable land
mark to so by. What fools we had
been To- But we left further re-
ordinations till later date. At the
present moment it was necessary to
enter Wreck bay through a channel
900 yards wide. without a mark on
either side in the teeth Of a snorting
trade" and with a lee tide.
** Il X
4 T one time during the series of
[ \ short tacks that were necessary
to get slant" for the anchorage We
were not more than fifty yards from
the giant emerald green rollers
breaking on Lido point to port with
the roar of thunder. To starboard
one could see the fangs of the coral
reef waiting for US to miss stays to
rip the bottom out of US. But the
Dream Ship did not miss stays, and
finally we shot through the channel
into Wreck bay and anchored in
three fathoms off a riekety landing
stage.
While the agony of removing a
three beard was in progress
crowd had assembled on the beach.
and presently boatload of three put
off to u.s. Steve. with his smattering
of Spanish. received them at the COM
panion with newborn elegance
that matched their own. They proved
to be the owner Of the island, a good
looking youth of about twenty-five;
the chief Of police presumably
"chief." because there is only one
representative of the law in the Gala
pago), a swarthy Ecuadorean in a
becoming poncho; and a little. wrin-
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only to encounter the sole owner. still
guarding his ill-gotten gains though
reduced to nakedness and hair. At q
distance dad had seen him first. and
mistaking him for mountain goat
had shot him through the heart. 1t
was the first man he had killed. and
he could not stay on the island after
that-especially at night.
Afterward. l asked the owner OF
Cristobal if one might believe half
the old man said. and he nodded
gravely.
There is much, also. that he does
not say" he added with a smile.
from the summit of the ridge
l. where we stopped on our way
to the hacienda in Imagination 10 re-
trace our steps we gazed out upon
a green. gently undulating country,
dotted with grazing cattle and horses.
patches of Sugar-cane. coffee bushes.
and lime trees. stretching away to a
cloud capped range of mountains.
Looking down on this fertile valley
| it is hard to realize that one is stand
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a dazed expression on his face and
his head at an angle after the fashion
of the deaf. When he spoke. which
he presently did with an unexpect-
edness that was startling, it was in a
low. cultured voice and in English,
Dad was type, il ever there was
one. of the educated ne'er -do-well
hidden away in the farthest corner of
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kled old man with a finely chiseled
face and delicate hands.


face and delicate hands.
The owner of Cristobal informed us
in excellent French Che had been four
years in Paris previous to NARROWING
himself on his equatorial possession)
that the island was ours. and the full
ness thereof: that he also was ours
to command. and would we dine with
him that evening at the hacienda. it
being New Year eve?
The "chief' Of police demanded our
ships papers, which, when placed in
his hands. he gracefully returned
without attempting to read and gave
his undivided attention to q rum
"swizxle", and Q cigar.
The little old man. whom We soon
learned to call dad" sat mum. with
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ny RALPH STOCK.

Edltor'n Note: This Is the arst Of a
>eries 10 three articles. each recount
Ing . leg Of the famous 'sCruise OF the
Dream ship"
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0N the strength Of our sudden af-
~ nuence, the dream ship received
a sleek and well deserved coat OF
paint. a new main sheet Of good
ma. ~ a hundred gallons of kero-
sene. a fresh supply OF provisions. and
incidentally a new lease Of life.
We had been advised that Panama
hay was q promising trolling ground.
and for once report spoke true, for
we caught a fine bonito within an
hour Of our departure. We were
doing about five knots at the time,
/. and it was fine sight to see q hfteen-
: pound. fish leaping and splashing
rstern; and a still Amer to see Sections
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CO."G". 18Th. INFANTRY NOTES.


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Corp1. pl;ne specialist As the JOB again.
It Will not Probably two or three
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The New York herald., 1922-05-28
Pulitzer Awards.

OR the second time Booth
Harrington is the winner OK
the prize for the best Amer
ican novel of the year, Alice
Adams" repeating for 1921 the sue
cess of>"The Magnificent Ambersons"
in 1918. The $1,000 prize for the best
book of verse was adjudged to Edwin
Arley Robinson. Eugene O'Neill
received the prize for the best Amer
lean play. Hamlin Garland the prize
for the best American biography.
Rollin Kirby of the World the prize
for the best cartoon and Frank NJ
o'Brien of THE New YORK HERALD
the prize for the hest editorial of the
year, entitled The Unknown Sol
dier,' and appearing in THE Nav
YORK HERALD for November IL. 1921.
The New York herald., 1922-05-28

Chronicle and Comment
BY Arthur Bartlett Maurice 80 8
Authors Works and Their Ways .......... 8
The World of Letters as Others See It.. g
Prehistoric Human Life Observation-Disclosures 10
New Novels in Varied Form.
Hoax-The Love Story of Aliette Brunton
-Indelible-The Eyes of Love-The House
of Souls-Jiminy-Th Sin of Monsieur
Pettipon-The Moon Out of Reach-Happy
Rascals-The City of Fire-What Tmmy
Did. ..'............... ...........-.... II, IL, I3
For Women Readers in Current Magazines. Is
Correspondence Observation-Disclosures. Ia
Books of the Week. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. IA
Two Novels by Women.
Review by Hildegarde Hawthorne. IS
Arthur Wing Pinero, Dramatist.
Review by Algernon Tassin. -. IS
The World of Foreign Books. ............. 10
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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Page
AS Daniels Saw the Navy in War
Review by W. B. Mccormick. -.
The Book Factory. By Edward Anthony.
Glimpses of the Old South h.............
Punch and England's Men of Letters. go.
Barrie Poet NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. a
The Aroma of Stevenson Observation-Disclosures. d
The Dead Mans Chanty.
By Michael Monahan.
Don Marquis Digs UP New Doubloons
Review by Allen w. Porterield. >.
The Whispering Gallery. By Donald Adams.
Italy Seen By Journalist.
Review by Allen H. Porterheld. -. 6
The "Ulenspiegel" of De Coster. An Appre-
citation by E. de Cartier de Marchenne,
Belgian Ambassador to the United States. 6
The Literature of Meyerling's Mystery
By Louis A. Springer.
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Icdu ill DdNlu DlSpildiu , dulOD1oS-
raphy that the former President had
a good tenor voice.
The former Secretary of the Navy
has exercised admirable judgment in
the high lights he picks out of the
manifold activities of the navy to i'll
lustrate the resourcefulness and the
heroism of the officers and men.
These are strung like brilliants along
the chain of his narrative, from the
tales of the airmen in France, the
crews of the destroyers and subma-
rines, the repairing of the interned
ships that the Germans thought they
had put out of action for the dura-
tion of the war, the work of the
submarine chasers, the gallantry Of
the gun crews on merchantmen.
None of these tales are new, but they
deserve a place in any history of our
navy in the world war, and Daniels
has selected the best of them.
He describes the navys big guns
that were mounted on railway cars
and did enormous destruction at
ranges of from twenty to twenty-five
miles along the German lines Zone
shell killed forty German soldiers and
wounded sixty at this distance): tells
of the work of tie transport force
with excellent statistics, of what
improvements were made in our
radio service and the erection of the
great Lafayette station in France;
and gives the first complete descrip-
ton we have had of the opera
tions of the naval base at tie Azores,
repeating the thrilling tale of the
collier Orion driving away a German
submarine by firing her guns over
a building on a wharf, feat that
brought to the Orion's commander in
the Azores tie fame of having a
cigar named after>him" as to which
Mr.. Daniels says: And / know OF
no more conclusive evidence of
popular favor than that"
Civilian inventors of ways to
end the war" furnished occasional
notes of humor n all this grave
business. One citizen had a novel
mine catcher, which couldn't possi-
bly, miss one, (which sees and feels
for you' and which he offered to the
for the small sum of
s250.000. Another one had an auto
matte field gun that, placed in
Washington, could be operated by
electricity from Texas" one man
being able to operate a thousand OF
them" Another suggestion was to
mobilize all the dogs in the United
States and send them to France and
sick" them on the Germans; while
still another suggestion was for me-
chanical soldiers which would only
have to be filled up with ammuni-
ton. wound up. and then started at
the German lines.
Tie many photographs and repro
ductions of paintings (including an
admirable portrait OF Daniels by r.
S. Meryman) add much to the high
interest of the book. and the index Is
of that much desired kind which
really works" The narrative ends
with that note of optimism which is
so characteristic of the author when
it says:
IF all the criticisms of what
ever kind or character that have
been made be Jumped together they
would not tilt the scales one degree
if balanced against the navy's
N aah;o,,o,,oo.. Wy ID AfoNnDNsrf.ry
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vered in his admiration for Woodrow
Wilson, trait that he reveals to the
full in his chapter on President
Wilson as a Strategist." He opens
this chapter by writing: 1.-The world
knows President Wilson as a scholar.
teahcer and historian; as executive
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TO the vigorous policleS
which later proved so
su C ceSsful. Daniels.
why don't the British
convoy their merchant
ships and thus protect
them from the subma-
rines" he a S k e d me
early in the war. AS
sinkings increased he
pointed out that their
practice of sailing ships
had proved a failure.
and asked. why now,
with their distressing
experiences, do the ey
hesitate about adopting
the convoy SYSTEM?
He also quotes Will
sons personal message
to Sims asking for such
advice from Sims las
you would give il you
were handling the sit
uation yourself, and il
you W er e running a
navy of your own." in
which he said that the
British Admiralty was
helpless to the point
of panic" and in which
Wilson expressed [ h e
opinion that it was no
time for prudence" a
point he subsequently
developed more fully in
his address to the Off
GERS of the fleet on Au-
gust IL, 1917. And
here is another novel
glimpse of Wilson at
that time and in this
connection:
"W h en- we were
tr a n S porting soldiers
through t h e infested
zones he was anxious,
intensely i n t e r ested,
and read every cable
& a m concerning the
troopships. w h e n he
did not come in person
on crucial days there
would come from the
White House frequent
memoranda written by
himself on his little
typewriter asking for
some information or
making an Illuminating
suggestion, signed w.
W. Those w. W.
notes n e v er n a q
a spare word. and
I h ey s how e d t h e
S a m e clearness a n d
vision which John Hay
tells AS Lincoln had
Id go over to see Stan
IN Welles in the dark
,ivil war" Daniels also
do not know a civilian
more naval terms" than
in talking. a note that
surprising as it was to
The New York herald., 1922-05-28

attacking the Germans
at home. On this point
Mr.. Daniels says:
Whatever may be
said of the wisdom
of the ancient pru-
dent doctrine of a
fleet in being" I
shall always believe
that if. at the oppor-
t u n e tt m e, such
fighting sailors as
Beatty and Carpen-
ter, Mayo ana Rod
m a n and Wilson
could have Joined in
a combined assault
they would have
found a way or made
one to sink the Ger
man fleet, in spite of
Heligoland and all
t h e frowning Ger
man guns.
The II told you so"
note is notable by it's
absence, however. Stu
dents of naval affairs
VIII recall that Mr..
Daniels was one of the
earliest advocates of
disarmament. aving
r e C o m m e n d e d this
course in his first an
nual report in 1913.
Yet he merely refers to
that fact in its proper
historical renee.
while describing Build
ing a Thousand Ships"
and notes that the Con-
terence for the Limita-
ton of Armament was
going on In Washing
ton while he was writ
ing that particular sec
ton of his book. In
view of the abuse
poured out on him at
the time, this restraint
from gloating is par
ticularly praiseworthy.
This element in the
book does not appear
to be an attempt at
S u b t ility y, but Mr..
Daniels's shrewdness is
perfectly apparent in
his frequent quotations
f rom Admiral Sims's
book and also from
many of that officers
cable messages (out of
one of which he turns
a compliment to Sims)
and the quotation of a
glowing attribute to
the navy paid by Senate
formal speech in the SCI
8, 1918. In the light @
quent trouble caused
Lodge and Sims, this is q
neat revenge.
JoSephus Daniels ha.
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and statesman. But it does not
know him, as we did. as a master of
military strategy. His grasp of the
of army and navy policies and oper-
ations. his rare judgment, were
demonstrated in important decisions
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that long stress of untiring labor
5000 miles away from any possibil-
ity of action that they longed for,
and which was denied them, first by
the demands of training service at
home and again by that major STRAIT
egy which forbade the allied navys'
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the navy paid by Senator Lodge in a
formal speech in the Senate on June
s, 1918. In the light of the subse-
quent trouble caused Daniels by
Lodge and Sims. this is particularly
neat revenge.
Josephus Daniels has never wa
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when he would go over to see Stan
ton or Gideon Welles in the dark
days of the civil war" Daniels also
says that Il do not know a civilian
who employs more naval terms" than
Wilson does in talking. a note that
may be as surprising as it was to
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and his personal interest and influ-
ence had marked effect on the con-
duct of the war" And again he says:
Long before we entered the war,
when the allied navies seemed i'm
potent before the onslaughts of the
submarines, President Wilson pointed
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-06-29
New Preparations Plan
For Rebuilding France
Suggested to Premier

PARIS, June 27.-(By the Asso.
ciated Press.)-A huge war repara.
tons plan, under which the Germans
would reconstruct France and also
build the long-planned tunnel under
the English channel, has been sub
mitted by the minister of public
works, M. LIE Trocquer, to Premier
Poincare, who has laid it before the
French member of the Preparations
commission. The plan involves the
use Of German labor and materials
to the extent OF twenty billion
francs.