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Cri Soir rr ¢ BY 2 ¢ ) HARVEY F. THEW? Illustrations by o . 4 3 J. NORMAN LD 00 ) 2 Soo Sotet "HIS, bein' the log o' the Truth ful Mate, is . warthy o' proper credit, far be scribbled it all on his little slate, which he kept corrected an' up F to date, anc if ~ ; one doubts as the 3 oes him ua Tetue words is straight, tain That "There She Blows. Tember LES Mate bas said it: . "Seventyseven o' stalwart crew, an' six foot two o' master, with a Malay Mate whose re- marks Was true, a shanghaied map an' a Chink or two, all sailin' the shimmerin' seas 0 blue an' spickerin' at disaster. Bich was the case o' the good ship Wock on her cruise to the northern ocean, for to hunt the fountainous whales as flock to the shivvery seas, where the Riprap Rock gives blow for blow an' shoek for shock, a-keepin' things in commotion. "An' the wessel Wock was a whalin' raft an' a taut an' trim three master. schooner riggin' was fore an' aft, with both a port an' a starboard shaft, an' never yon sighted another craft as could run her eastin's faster. Why, 'twas seven bells on Friday night when we puts .out from Savannah, an' our sheets runs free an' our halyards tight, an' by Wednesday morn does the lookout sight the ghostly gleam o' the Montauk Light, as we stands out off Tiana. : "An' mever yoy sighted an abler crew, an' never a crgw was gayer; for the shanghaied person always knew a joke or a yarn, or a song or two, and 4 wit was he, an' a poet, too,an' a beautiful banjo player. At night 'we'd sit on the fo'c's'le deck, w'ich the same was softly swayin', w'ile that shanghaied feller'd stretch his neck an' sing whatever he'd Irecolle¢' in the matter o' songs o' a sad effec', with the banjo gently 'playin'. i "An' he sings this song 0' the Rip-rap Rock, w'ich the place we was abound for, in a woice so sweet that the skipper's clock was stopped w'ile the crew o' the good ship Woek remarked to each "twas the sort 0' stock they'd wilin'ly pay a pound for. : 'A sailor from a whaler ' 'As had just reached dock Bat a-boozin' ap' a-musin' V Through i rou ' In his the wheezes o' the breezes, «#" childish glee, wh Bang a pretty little ditty » hi ; a O' the sad salt sea. 3 ¥ Sing ho for a sail on the vad salt sea! . | Who cares how the billows shock! 2 Bing a gory little story : : Mo the everlasting glory if a sailor from a whaler n the Rip-rap Rock! > a " 'We was crossin' on t p |" Wild Pacific sea; he town, iWerry chipper was the skipper, | Who, o' course, was me. When we rig across the tide, Upon our port beam aft, A crew composed o' two Upon a rake-rigged raft, "Bing ho for a ride on a ra e-rigged ! Ring ho for the billows' hak mp! For this ripper of a skipper Was no other than the chipper Little sailor from a whaler - | On the Riprap Rock. | pu x in - 'Now, this crew composed Upob this jibless junk, Was a Dago out from Pago, An' his Malay monk. , They was laughin' an' a-quafin' o' two, gq BY MICHAEL J. WESTOVER. ~ iCopyuright, a2, by the New York Hergid Company---411 Rights Reserved.) ROUT] HEN the British government Ag filed formal protest with the Sec £4 retary of .State against the pro- od 4 posed . Panama Canal bill the GENRE 4 verage American citizen wanted to know what business John Bull lad to eb- ject. to anything Unele Sam cared to do with the $40,000,000 trench for which the United States is paying. ; + To be sure, article 3 of the treaty says: --<"The anal shall be free and open to all nations on terms of entire equal- ity, so that there shall be no discrimination in respect of charges." ; ; "But," says the average American eitigen, et A ae Bee 3 3 cana Or b A tolls only to 'United ata coastal vessels. > Wessels are barred 'by las from n a 2] + pitt imposes exaetly and regulations on the Unit RE, Aud Vachs Sam may be SARC ta aE nt True Inwardness ports, are from L800 to 2.500 miles from the Hay Pauncefote eho Souten aol he Neat ¢ an ly the same yy Hates vessels as aT Her | ' Their kianty wine, With spaghetti'an' confetti, On the bright blue brine. "Sing ho for a bite on the bright blue brine! Who cares how the billows shock! For this Dago out from Pago Was removed to San Diego By the sailo#from the whaler On the Rip-rap Rock! "Well, 'twas seventeen days from the Pol loek Rip, in a sea as we just had sounded, when we finds as the Skipper had made g slip in layin' the course o' the noble ship, in' the first we knows with a sickenin' tip the good ship Wock had grounded. An' there we stuck on a sunken stone--"twas the sixteenth o' Sep tember--an' we liad to wittle on heans alone, for our sausage. froze in the Aretjc zone, w'ich Why does: Great Britain lodge formal pro- test against the United States doing what it pleases with an excavation that has cost it ($400000,000, and with coastal trafic which no British ship can touch? What is Canada's greatest handicap in trafic? Lack of an all-the.year-round open sharbor. Halifax and St. Jobn, the winter shipping centres .of the wheat provinces. «Méntreal, the furthest inland sea harbor o x . , is open only half the year. "What causes the great glut of freight gvery antumn in Canada? The rush to get the erop to seaboard before the navigation on the lakes and at Montreal closes. How far are all the year ronnd open ports of the Pacific from the wheat provinces? From 600 £0: 1,000 miles. Now. look at your map. Draw a line from yinnipeg down to New Orleans. West of that in the four Canadian provinces up to 1911 12 came t farmers. nis Noh ern aud Canudian Pa cific ralloads: Within the last two years has v ge in the docations of these 'elevator systems. Formerly the elevators of RE - nnea olis 'have bought whole sys Rinaapilin ems ba along the Grand . . AE ye The Fish Keeps Chasin' the Magic Strain, the same I can well remember. #An' terrible high the salt seas ran, an' high the wind Kept ringin', an' none of the crew could inwent a plan 'cept one, w'ich the same was to tie a can to the highly detestable Shang- haied Man, who continual kept 'on singin'. So we just squats round in shiverin' rows, some cursin' an' some a-prayin', with nothin' to do but to mend our clothes, till one day I ups an' for'ard goes, an' | shouts to the Cap'n, "Aye! There she blows!" w'ich the same was a truth- ful sayin'. For just abaft o' our starboard beam was the beast as had eansed the shoutin', an' the Cap'n he lets out a mighty scream when he catehes the glint an' the glow an' the gleam o' the stream fron the whale as we sees a-spoutin', "But all was so weak from the lack of food as well as from weeks o' fastin® that they didn't reply as a seaman should. for only three biggest capacity were planned facing-east, at Montreal .or Fort William or Winnipeg, de- creasing into the capacity of mere collectors as they strung out westward. To-day the big grain companies are planning the biggest ele vators forthest 'west, closest To the Rockies. Why? : : At the present rate of settlement and growth, by 1915 the three provinces----Mani- toba; Saskatchéwan and Alberta--will be pro- ducing 350,000,500 bushels of wheat, or aluiost 'half the normal crop of the United Stites. Last year, with only a moderate ¢rop, there was a car shortage, a grain blockade that left thousands of bushels of wheat rotting on the prairie because the railroads had mot the roll ing stock to rush forward the grain' before the close of navigation. If this is the case wien only a tenth of the arable land is occupied in the three grain provinces, how is thie erop to be rushed to seaboard when all the arable land is farmed? Canada has only three transconti- nental railroads. It takes a grain car three times a to go from the prairie provinces down to Halifax or St. John-as-it weuld to go to Prince Rupert,or Vancouver. Whieh way is Canada to look for relief from a grain block: ade? Lhe Grand 1eusk Railroad has openly de vinred that it plans to ship its quota of West _ern Canada grain by the way of the Parine "eogst and Vav-no, and it has pushed ts dae - # LA water as shoots'in a fountainous ~ HD DAILY BRITISH WHIG, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1912 The table Shanghaied Man Whe . Con- tinually Kept on Singing gs (LL 27 rr TLL J NorMaN LYN . o' the famished brood could manage to sum mon the fortytood to do their share in the |. Then the Shanghaied Maun, as had castin', stopped his song, an' the Cap, a smart har pooner, an' me, the mate, who was alway: strong, no matter if wittles an' drink goe: wrong, we was quick in droppin' a boat along the side 0' the stranded schooner, "An' hard we rows, does the Cap an' me Yi PAGE EILEVEN, rr ---- ¢ he to the incloding '14 » 8OY8 he, y knew it, it dat an' mustn't an' needn't be, that m loaf wile we active three t-&live the ship A it's make the fishies do it.' But the gays, with nner complacent, he, 'If you'll kindiy have the grace to tell me Of We enn use bangs diir base; I would like 10 be placed adjacent! "Tis a simple tl J says-the shanghaled one, 'an' can readily be adjusted, for a whale ag weighs a dozen ton bas a pullin' power as is beat by none, an' to make ". him fast will be only fun to a man as is tried an' trusted." 5 we rows abead with a steady hand to the whale, an' we soon Maroons im. 'An' évervthing - goes as we had planned, for the shanghaied person. an mewe manned the skiff] w'ile the Cap, with amazin' sand, stands fariard an' harpoons 'im. An' the Shanghaied Man when the strong harpoon had stuck in the whale's port rafter his banjo'. tfkes an' begins to croon an' awful allurin' ap' teasin' tune, so softly sobbin' an' sad that seon the whale was a-follawin' after. , "Then we makes im fast tor thd wessel's bow in a true an' & firm positiof; an' the Shanghaied Man in the Cap'n's seow was towed ahead, wile with placid brow he sings as loud as the laws alloy his favorite composi- tion. An' the whale goes wild at the solemn sound, an' was tremulous like nan' teasy; then he gives a yank as was felt all round, an' a ward bound as rock ribbed the lubbers ee + the-saltx nost RIOVR how in the lopely pl a fish for to « Highty Detes- "Ro cheer goes up for the hep the Wock fom th ground an' was floatin' free an' easy, "An' the fish keeps chasiin' the magic strain, an' the wessel she keeps_arighted, an' for seven days through the sun an' rain he tows us on, an' gain gain on bhillowy waves o' the mighty main till the Montauk Light was sighted. Now there ain't enongh o' pieces o' eight as could purchase that eeta- cean, for gratitude's always a scaman's trait, an' the Cap an' the crew an' the Malay mate, which is me, we builds him a big estate "n isle in the Caribbean." she slips we an' thi for the Bhagghaied Man was thinkin' o' a plas by the means o' which we three, or, strictly speakin', the whale an' we, could manage to jiggle the wessel free an' prewent the craft from sipkin'. For the-Shanghaied Man was a man -o' means, an' when days was dull an' rainy he'd gone below in his Sunday jeans an' pensively sittin' behind the scenes had eaten the most o' the Cap'n's beans--an' beans is always brainy. across the Rockies at the lowest grade of any of the railroads for the purpose of hauling its prairie freight to seaboard west instead of east. The Canadian Northern has established a port just a few miles outside Vancouver for the same purpose, and the Canadian Pacific Railroad has spent $6.000.000 lowering its grades- across the Rockies by means of the spiral tunnels through Mount -Siephen, Take another look at the map! What does Panama mean to Canhda? goes by way of the Pacific ports and Panama only for the five winter months of the vear, Panama meas that one-half of Western Cana- dian trafic will go to Liverpool by way of the Panama Canal. But what if distances and pates via Panama were only 8 half and a third distapces agd rates via Eastern ports? Then Panama > mean that the bulk of Western Canadian ex- port freight would find its way to the world markets through Pacific ports and the canal. Now take the Western grain man's fighives. They may be hopelessly wrong, but they are vaguely the figures on which be is hoping for benefits from Padma. Suppose he gets the same rate West as East. That means 10 to 12 cents a cwil. to seaboard. Ruppose he gets as <beap a rate from Vancouver to Liverpool as on the Great Lakes, proportionate to the great er distance. That means 10 to 13 cents. Add half a cent at each end for bandfing. Yoo have N If Eastern traflic Cer An' Pensively Sittin" Behind the Scenss, He'd "Eaten ns Most o' the Boston Beans~An" Beans Is Always Brainy. N' this is the log o' the Truthful Mate, was pever as yet arrested. An' merely in order to demonstrate that the words is faithful an' true an' straight he swore to the same "fore a Magistrate, an' the same is here faittested, of England s Protest Avainst Proposed Panama Canal Bill a maxinum total against the pool rate of 45 10 55 cents 27 cents d ewt. for summer atid wit for If the Western grah rate of ZS cents to Liverpool, total across the continent Liver i avi I BYOWer is going 10 savy that by using Panama, why should bie nase the file a protest gross toll of $1 atonfor the canal? a ton means only forty to fifty conts for cargo ia pet" ton medi ton 1 lens coal, mac hinery and Das i that is only a cent and a batf a b Why should not the Western Canadian farmer be willing to pay that for the/benetits from Pan- dal He is Willing. That is got the point, Fhe point is that iunpocent be railway clanse to the Panan® Canal Lil rail way freighters are to be exuded use of the canal, or if they are to be ¢ while other freighters are not, the B grain shipper seer his chaness of Lenefit from Pauama discounted and pesiniltity of cheap through rates to Liverpos by discrimination Ho be invokes 1h The invocation to the treaty vias prayer to false gods, for the chide Agninst Canadian railroad freighters boars just as heavily against American raliroad (reighfers, Canada wants froe tolls for Lor { * British government against a Toll of $i Hel A ton of vise], roapaiee), and hie toll, rier) the prove n ir "ight: Btripped of the diplopia; f riepven ly fart. tat is the ides, A 14 : protest. :