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LABRADOR f By Dr. W. T. OranfeTI, C.M.O. Of «a th« many thrtUIim IncMenU . and entered tUe bouse we found th« la 107 lite, the moBt ex*ItlBK uwirted j mother dead on the bed, and the fath«r j <ae eftemoon some edgliteea years , lyl»« on the floor, dying, •fo, with -an emergency call for n»©di-[ Next morning we lmprovt«ed two oiJ help from a place alxty miles eouth coffins, contributed from the ward- ot St. AntlKiny, Northern Newfoundland, robea of aU hand« enoush blaclc ni»- where I mut staying at the time. I t®rlal for a "seemily" funeiral, and later, •taTt«d off linm«.dlat©ly with a team of steaming up the bay to a eandiy etretch fine dOBB, and all went well until I had ot land, burled the two parenUâ€"and to break tibrvugh some pack-ice while found onrselvea left with fire little mortalu In black alttlng on th« grav» mound. There and then we founded car first orphanage. One day a father of eight children croenlng an tnletâ€" a oommcn expert- •nee. To cut a long story Bhort, I found myself on a piece of ice which broke _. uu _< » i„io^,i »,v, Zm> from the main part. In an In- «»»''«' ^^ ^ "If^^'^^Lft^LZ •tant 1 oat loo.» the dogs from the '"^'f^t^i''- T ^J.TaJ^ •lelgh, otlierwlee they would liavel'^'^'«»''» ^*^f ^" °«,'*f â- """'«• «^* be^ toiwn into the vortex, and j j ^ad practically b own It to pieces^ To .houOd hav« been left alone. Then the I \^J- ^»» ^° ""^ «^ ^"""^ ^^ ^^J^: "pan- broke Into two, and I was ^«<» J*" topose ble, eo we brou^t f7 . !_. , .1, . ., !,,„ ,!,» „„i«^ him tn for operatlom. To stop the plunged Into further trouble, tie only .... v i, j i _j i,i i,__j !-»,.« '„° , „v.,„h „o- .» /ij.^ (n*n bleeding he had plunged his hand into McaT>e from whlon wa« to alve inito, - \. . , .. ». j n , •v , . , ... „ , „,„„Ki<.' ft flonr barrel and then tied It up in a the ley water and, with my Invaliuable i,. .i, _ . .. j . _4 , \^ bag, and as a result the wounded arm dogs, awim to another. . â-  _ u *i. .ji waa poisoned away »»p aboro the elL- The "pan" waa about the size of a ^^^ dlnlng-taWe, and on lit I »pent a night jj^ preferred death to kwlng his and a day, clad only in a UgOit sweater ^ight arm. Day and night for weeks and veet, without hat. coat, sm gloves. ^^^ ^^^^ tended him, as he hovered I had been throe times in the water. b«tw>een life and death ; but eventually and I should have been frozen to death j j,g p^j^ through, and at last a but for the dogs. I gecondacy operation for repair be- I was forced to kill three of my faith- ^^^ possible. We took chances on fuil companions during the night, and j>one-grafting to form a hand, and he used their eklns for coverletsv their ^g^g ^^^^ ^^^^ ^ Aipp^r Uj^^ ^ ^^^^.g bodJee for windBhlelds, their harness g^ ^^^^ ^^g ^^ ^.^^ ^^ lt_ g^ ^ fel- for puttee*, and their fro:sen legs 8« j^^ ^^^^ ^^^ j ^^^^ ^he honor of a flagpole, on which I attached my guppjying gomo. •hlrt as daylight came, in the hope of | p^t-for that was hts nam^has attmoltng the attention of someone on ^„ ^ veritable apoatle of the hospital the s^ore or some passing craft. I ever since. Though he has English In this way I drifted som-e twenty Episcopal skin on the palm ot his hand miles, 'when, fortunately, some men vcl- and Scottish Presbyterian skin on the gaged In seal-hunting observed the back of It, the rest of him still re- "pan" V;-lth Its peuuUar burden, and maina a devout Roman Catholic. '^'i.'^ff^^ \ "^^ "r"**' ^''\ ' Tho Substitute Bride. lage. The wind was in my favor, and i . . , . „ , was drifting me In towards the shore.' ^ ^^^^ ^''^'^â- ^ ^^^ Eskimos a slngu- although no boat oould be launched. '^""^ interesting people. They are ex- as the ice along the coast was break- traoi-dinarlly free from convention, as ing up. Before daybreak, however, a,"^* following anecdote will prove. fins voluntew crew had been got to ! ^ travelling minister was called on gether, and they e>ffected a rescue. Fight to Save a Life. at a place named Spotted Is-lands to marry a couple, the bridegroom being a kind of head man in the vicinity. When at last I stepped ashore, tied \vhon the minister arrived at the ia- np in rags s'taffed out with oalrum, and land he found all the islanders awali- wrappod in the bloody skins of my jng iijm in the school-room. It was dogs, my night on the inhospitable ice not till he had actually entered the seemed like a ghastly nightmare. j building that he discovered that the The fouuddng of our orphanage here bride was the deceased wife's sister. was the reau'lt of a grim incident lu : This being a forbidden relationship my life amongsit these siturdy fisher- ' at the time, the minister naturally re- man of Northern Labrador and New- ' fused to proceed with the ceremony, foundland. I had been summonied to a whereupon the intended bridegroom lonely headdand to see a very »Ick quite calmly remarked: family. Among the spruce trees in a ! "Never mind, mister, one of these Moall hut MTed a Sccttiah salmon fisih- ' others will do." er, his wlf» and five Httle children. j So, turning to the expectant crowd. When we encihoiwd off the promon- ' ha selected a partner. She being wlll- tory we were eurpri&ed to receive no , Ing, the ceremony was performed, and •'gas of welcome. When we landed i the merrymaking started. SOVIET AND CHINA A London Times Editorial Gives the British Analysis of How Far Mos- cow May Affect the Chinese Situa- tion. London Times (Ind.): The submls- skm of the Kuomintang to the dicta- tion of Moscow has given thom tem- porary strength In their battle with their rivals. They have learned from Moscow many Jeesons in the matter cf organization and propaganda, and the successes they have wen through Che appllcatioin of those lessons encourage them falthfuJly to follow Soviet advice in the hci>8> of corrying their campaign stiU further iintil all China Is subdued, "nieir whole organization has been renw>del'ei€d on Bolshevist lines; they aj« entangled In the intricacies of Soviet technique; in their public speech they continually re-echo the accents of Moscow. This is their pre- sent advantage and their ultimate dan- ger. For it ie by no means a foregone concIualoD that Chinese Nationalism mnst Inevitably take this aggressively alien form. iy Fish Have Nicknames. A sea tiroot Is simply a river trout wbich has taken to the sea to obtain more food, but it has stiU to visit f reah water to spawn, A sea troust has varlotia names In dlOerent parts fA. the country. In Dev- on and Cornwall U Is atways a peal; in freland lit Is a white trout. In Scot- land, finuock, herling, and whitling are names given to the young sea trout, another uEune for this fish i* salmon trout. - .\s a rule, sea fish, not river flsh, have nicknames. The red mullet, for Instance, is often called the sea wood- cock because ot tta taste, and the dab is sometimes known «s salter. Fishermen call the hako the sea pike because its shape Is a lUlle like that of the pikp, and I hey term a flounder a flook or tluka. On« of the gurnards has the name of cucttoo-gurnard, by reason of the odd sound It makes when caught. The brill is fx>metlmes called kite, no doubt because of its 6bai>e. Dogfish have n\any name.>, noiio of theju eompllineatary. PennyhounJ is the least insulting. The bass is the most sporting of sea Ilsh, but It U not «ntll it roaches the llahmonger's shop that it is called salmon bass. Deserves Credit. Stage Hand â€" "I'm doing a thousand men's Jobs for one man's pay." Manaperâ€" ' ' Nonsense ! " "l3 W ? Every night 1 gotta stand In the wings and make a noted like a Frenc-h Revcltrtlonary MobV -^ Misfoiluno-can make u mitn proud; but suffci-iinj matiea him humblo. ROYAL GRANDMOTHER AND LITTLE PRINCESS The Duke and Duchess of York sailed on Jan. 6 from Port.^mouth, aboard iha Brittsh warship Renown, for Australia, where the Duke will officiate at the opening of parliament In the new federal capital, Canberra. Prin- cess Elizabeth, the baby daughter of the young couple, will be left In the custody of her grandmother, the queen. The latter is shown with her grandchild. A PROPHECY? The French Peasant's Meal-Time. Whem meal-time came, wo all, great and small, gathered about the long table and seated ourselves od pine benches, each bench being supported by four wooden legs. An earthen bowl and a tin siicon lay at each person's place. At one end of the table was the enormous rye loaf, as large around as a cartwheel, wrapped In a linen towel smelling not disagreeably ot the lye in which It had recently been washed. From this loaf the grand- father, with one stroke (A. the carving- knife cut a piece sufficient for the needs oA the moment, and then with the same knife, which he alone was entitled to wield, subdivided lliia piece into as many equal parts as there were hungry mouths to feed. Each tserson then crumbled his share into his bowl In such fashion as best suited him. Next came the grandmother's part. A big-bellied pot was hissing and bub- bling over the blazing Are on the hearth. It sent forth a savory odor of turnips and bacon. Armed with an iron laddie plated with tin, she dished up. for each in turn, first a portion of the soup to saturate the bread, and then a good helping of turnips with a bit of baocn. half fat and half lean. To the end of the table, opposite tho rye loaf stood the pitcher ot water for the unreetrloted use of the thirsty. Ah, what sharp appetites we had, and how good the food tasted , especially when a white cheese, home-made, concluded the repast! At one side of the room blazed tho wood liro in the enormous ttre-pI;ico v^here, in very cc-Id weather, whole tree iniuks were burned, lu a cor- ner ot this monumsulal fireplace, which was well coated with .soot, there projected a slab of slate at a conveni- ent height for holding the light used in the evening. This consisted ot a blazing pins splinter, carefully chosen and well tmiu-egnated with pitch. It furnished only a reddish and smoky illumination, but served to eke out tho sleudsr supply cf walnut oil that fed the wick ot the crurlo lamp.â€" Jean Henri Fabre, In "Souvenirs." London Cat, Commuter, Earns I Rail Fare as Rat Catcher, j j Kipling's cat that walked by it.selt is left In the shade of its Cavorim v.oods by the London cat which h:^s leaped tato fame as a conmiute-r. j Every moniiug the cat iKjai-ds the Southern Railway's 10:15 train from' Victoria Station. London, to Dover, I rides down to the Channel port, waits • in the rfttresliment room and catch'js ' the next train back to London. Fluffy, ' however, earns free transportation as uiill as free meals b.v-actiug as a sta- tSou ratcatcher. The British Radio Leadership Suggest That Article In the Manchester Guardian May be Prophetic of Bri- tish Invention in the Near Future. "If the phonofllm wins its cause it ts plain that the great gap between the klnema and the theatre has been bridged and the proper distinction be- tween the two arts, though not des- troyed, will be Importantly diminished. The lovers ct tho theatre have always argued with Justice that the glory of the spoken word and of the thought which it alone can convey Is esseni,ial- ly different from any facial play or subtlety of visible effects which the klnema can coaumand. .\ well-con- trived phouofilm will mitigate that dif- ference." Poppy Legends. Stage Letters. On the »tagt«, letters are usually written at such a furious speed that all actors would seem to be expert stenographers. The reason for this haste, ot course, :s that the attention ot the audience v.-ould flag if a letter were written at the normal slow rate. Stage inkpots never contain ink; the danger of a "siilU must not be risked. Anl until lately quill peu.s were used, because they showed up better than slieel nibs, but the practice has been dropped except iu a few theatres'. Letters that have to be read out are nearly always indited word for word, to save the actor the labor of studying the contents. But the prudent actor takes good care to have a working knowledge ot the words; otherwise, it the letter goes astray, ho may liud himself in a fix. For iustauce, a dressing-room "wag" once purloined the letter of a col- league, a lazy actor who had not trou- bled to study the words, and substi- tuted a blank piece of paper for it. In the play tlie letter was highly im- portant, for It announced in long-wind- ed phrases the heroine's rejection of the recipient's suit. And so wheu the wretched aotor came to the ix)int whi're he had to read the letter, .Tnrt found that he had nothing but a bl-jnk sheet, he sutiered agouii's tor a mo- ment. Hut he ^av^:l the situation. Gasping out, "Site jilted me. . , . There's a mist before my eyevs . , . I can't see to read it," hv> departed hot- foot to lake vengeance on the practical joker. Britain's Old Oak Trees Suffer From Epidemic Britain's cak tro;^, w!>c;-o praises I have hecn snug by bards for hiindr"ds ; of years, are beiug attackt'd by a mys- j tjriou.s epidemic which is being in- ; vesligated by lesaaivh workers on tlie Forestry Commission. | .\n assistant of the comnti.-sion says 1 nviidow and rover ni<;lh are rcsp'^us- ; ible for the disease which has spread , over the southern countries and killed j many of the oldPsl oaks. Fears are cx- pr<!ssed that th? ll-.test oaks planted in the seveuleou-th century will bt< wiped cut In another twenty year'*. The poppy 1ms been the symbol ot death since t'ne time the sou of Tar- qiilniu» Superbiis asked his father what should be dene wiiJi the peopla ot a conquered city. Tarquin did not reply, but going In- j to the garden he slashed off the heads of the larges't poppies, thereby com- â-  mending the massacre ot the moat in- fluential citizens. The color of the poppy, resembling blood, also symbolizes death. ^Vllen ! Persephone was stolen by Pluto, her ' mother. Cere?, searched for her day and night. The gods, pitying her and ! unable to restore Persephone, caused '. poppies to spring about her feet. She ; Inhaled their heavy, bitter scent, and put the s«eds Into her mouth, and pre- sently sleep closed her eyelids and she gained that rest which her weary body needed. The State flower of California Is a brilliant yellow poppy, which shines en the mountain slopes under which geld li?« hidden. The Saxon name for peppy is "popig." It used to be a custom In olden days to strike a poppy petal In the hands to ascertain whether a lover was faith- ful or not. If it broke, it signified that ho was unfaithful, but it it held togethsr and mado a noise it showed lie was true. Stranger-Friend. Day had laid a cnipet Bordtred with rills In her wide houae cf sunlight Whose walls were the hills. And tlLTOUgh the flooding noontide We feasted, we men Who first had met that morning And would not meet again. Beside the speaking river With the friendly trees We laughed a while, and parted. Our hearts at There was no room tor sadness Under the sun. The morrow was God's sanding And the world one. "There Is no cause for sighing," Said I, alone. "For any man I meet now Is not unknown." And as I took the long road I seemed to see How^ day had caught the shining Of eternity. â€" T. Morris Longstretch. ABRTnSHVIEW â- nie Indep. Liberal papeor, Th* txnr don Truth, says "That there Is obvi- ously a subctmsclous fear la tS« mlnda, not only of American prof«» SOTS, but of the Government at Wash- ington, tluit lu the next balt-cenCurT thens may be a hostile combination In Buropo :4taln6t the United Stateg. It would certainly be wise, therefore, on the part of the American Treasury to make the 'b«au geste' wlille thers to atfil time, and to earn some gi-atl- tude for tlie remission of debts which they certainly will not be able to coU leet." And Again â€" In the r.,ondon Observer: "In 192« the world has been pas«lng out of the abnormal phase of post-war transition with all its discords and distractions. When even China and Uussta, like currencies nearly everywhere, are tending towards stabilization in spits of aU shocks and temiwrary set-backs, it is fairly safe to anticipate that America will l>e found net hindering tliat broad proct^s, but promoting it. We must not prophesy, nor even force the note of encouragement. But ths geaerrU world looks definitely as though It wore beglnnimg to enter on a pro!oag>Ed period of more nomial conditions and Improved reiattonshiTW. Making Crusoe Live. A film ven^ion of Etefce'a maste^ piece Is now being "shot" on Tobago, which is kni)wn locally as "Robinson Crusoe's Island." Juan Fernandez is, ot course, more treQuenlly associated with the great children's classic than Tobago, the taiTUer being the scene ot Alexander Selkirk's adventures, on which Defoe's story la supposed to be based. But the first British novelist did not keep to the Selkirk story, and the description of the Island given in the book Is a description ot Tobago. Mr. M. A. Wetherwell, who played David Llvlngstcne in another film, is taking the part of Crusoe in the new production. In every sense Tobago la an Ideal background for th» lliim. Mount Dillon, which h.is l)een chosen lor Crusoe's look-out post, commands views of haunting beauty over both land and sea. Then there are great stretches of sand for the mystariuua footprint and the cannibal feasi-, and caves to satisfy a. aim prtjducer's high- est aspirations. Tobago lULS been a British possession since Its capture by Sir Samuel Hood In 1S03. Prior to this It is believed to have changed hands mere frequently than any other West Indian Island* Columbus claimed it for Spain when he discovered It, and attarwards it was held by British, French, and Dutch. In more peaceful days it has become one of the show places ot tho Carib- bean Sea. It is only a few hours' Jour- ney by steamer from Trinld-id, and visitors to the latter colony usually make a point of seeing Tobago. Round Tobago, with its 21.000 In- habitants, cluster many smaJl islets. One of these. Little Tobago, has been converted lauto a sanctuary and breeds ing-grouad for the bird of paradise. So great waa the demand for the beauti- ful plumage of these birds that they wera threatened with extinction a few years ago. What They Ai'e Saying. Henry Van Dyke: "Christianity is a religion that will not keep; the only thing to do with it is to use it, spend it, give it away." Edgar P. Hill: 'The great lite, the successful lite, has to do with the or- dinary things iu the ordinary way." Amelia Sears: "To suggestible pie without a proper critical sense, there is serious menace lu the daily ! publication ot criminal matter." Mrs. John M. Ilanna: ".My elogau in dealing with girls is "Inform iuste^ad ' of reform.' " | Bruce ijllven: "Good newspapers are growing better and bad ones worsp." Pi-emier Mussolini: "Nothing can liappen to me before my task is done." Count Bethlen: "True democracy coasis'ts in the education of masses and giving the-m opportunities ot education, for d'emccracy does not fall like a ripe plum into the lap ot the people." London Puts Up Signs to Guide Pedestriauis The latest addition to the ever-in- creasing number ot visible trafllo re- gulstions in London Is a conspicuous sign reading, "Please cross here,' stuck up at certain points on the side- walk for the direction of pedia^trians. The first of these signs has just made its appearance on Parliament Square, whore the maze ot Lrafllc makes cross- ing an exciting adventure. This points In the direction of adopt- lug llie .American system of right- angle civssings at street comers, but London stre'Cts, not being laW. out at right angles, require a mathematical genius to discover the logical points ot c:x)ssing. Such u genius appears now to be at work at police heeadquartors. Lit by Fishes. k\. a depth cf a mile the ccean bed is well iHuinin.ated by the luminous o««ns ot tlie fish living there, accord- irfs to one scientist. An English Founder. The founder of Worth's. Ih..' famnu.s Palis dressmaker's bucjincss, was Charles Worth, a Liiicolii.shire solicit- o-r. who went to the French capital to de./!gn frorks in the days ot the Em- jrebs Kugeulo. â-  The Voice of the Pacific. The one common note ot all this country Is tho haunting presence of the ocean. A great faint sound of breakers follows you high up into ths Island canons; the roar of water dwellB tn tha clean, empty rooms of Monterey as in a shell upon the chim- ney; go where won will, you have to pause and listen to hear tho voice of the Pacific. You pass out ot the town to the southwest, and mount the hill among pine woods. Glade, thicket, and gjove tflirround you. You follow wind- ing sand tra<skfl that lead nowhlther. You see a deer; a multitude of quail arises. Bcjut the siouoid of tho sea still follows you OS you advance, like that of wind among th« trees, only harsher nnd stranger to the ear; and when at length you gain the summit, out breaks on every hand and with fresh- tmed vigor, that same unending, dis- tant, whispering rumble ot the ocean; for now you are on the top ot Monteo^ey peninsula, and tho noise no longer only mounts to yoai fiora behind along the beach towards; SautaC'rux, but from your right also, round by Chiaatown and Pinos llghtlicuae, nnd from down before yeu to the mouth ot the Car- mello River. The whole woodland U begirt witli tlumd«rtng surgee. The sileuco that immediately surrounds you where you stand Is not so much broken as it Is haunted by this distant tlreling rumor. . . . you strain your attention; you are cle.arly and un- it suol'.y conscious of fcinall soundd near ;!t hand; you walk listening like an Indian hunter; and that voic>e ot the l^cillc is a sort of disquieting com- pany to you iu your wtUk â€" From •'Across llie Plains." by U. L. Steven- son. Premier Unice's horn? In Australia, where the I>ike and fivichess of York, who are on their way thither, will stay when Uiey open the new federal capital of llie commouweaHh, a town specially btii'l for that ruriose. like Ottawa and Washington, called Cauborm. Like uk st ct the Canberra build- ings it is scarcely compl-jte. but everxthiug is being hastened in the new city to completicn for the gala cvcut. I American Wears More i Shoes Than European .VmcTicans wear fi)i!i' times as jnany shoes as Eui-opeaiw, according to Cliarlcs W. Kinney, .-Vnierican shoe expert, iu Paris studying conditions. The average European wears the some sihoes abtmt a year, whorec3 the oi^ dinary American casts off foi>1gear wht-n it b.?gins to show wear and buys now ev'?ry th»-ee or four months. The Euix-rcan product, Mr. Kinnoiy says, is mrro costly than the Ajitericun, but of better leather.