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-I. 7 si 4 II tV J F BW places in America prent - more Intcreatins features of in- . duetrlal and 'domeatla life than areeeen'ln' one i.ot.JlJlf"A locclng canQa of the Columbia river baain. The vast forests , of pine and fir shcrter many of these settlements that. , In population ' and . activity, com pare with the average country town, but In the strenuous and romantic ele ments-far -surpass any ordinary, town . The, log-glnr camp of a treat timber company Is -a beehive of industry by day snd' a maelstrom of social activity by night. Xlke the Inhabitants of a new and rushing gold -mining town, the people of. a logging camp are almost a law unto themselves. The company Is the nominal owner of the property, and controls the business' organisation, but th, loggers and their families: practio-. SHy regulate their cmo arrairs witnout the aid of the outside world. . In the recesses of .the' great forests. far from any legally constituted govern ment, and almost Inaccessible to the peace officers of the state, by volun tary association . they conduct their aiiairs in a manner inau as a ruie, is harmonious and pleasant. - Usually the camp , is managed on a cooperative basis, the larger part of the population- boarding at the same place. and Joining In all the amusements and wwalwmenB4,thatL!iJaW lonftfy life enduraWe The camp' of the 8. Benson-- Logging company, six- miles west, or the little settlement of Stella, on the Columbia river in Cowl its county. Is a fair Illus tration of the larger camps .of the Paclflo northwest. A fores of ISA men Is regularly employed; and many of them have their wives and families, re siding In the board shanties that' make up the rude village. These men are the real woodsmen of America. They, do not depend upon the ax, - as did - the woodsmen - of pioneer times in this country.- The ax could accomplish little against the giants that covsr this country for. hundreds of, square miles In the region of the Columbia river. They work with the most modern appll ances steam engines and gTeat saws that. enable them to Dandle the monster frees with comparative ease. . v i ne xorce or men at tn uenson camp every week drop 2,000,000 feet of saw logs Into the Columbia river, on whose wstere-the-logs are floated to 4he big lumber mills of Portland. Since Janu ary 1 they have banked 60,000,000 feet of logs. . -,-.-' The camp hag its own railroad,; with From the Washington. Star. Y f NPATRIOTIC , though it - may 11 sound, the - American . bison mv was great only In appearance. t ma snaggy rrontiei, nis wua eye snd his mighty coronet concealed as cowardly a ton of flesh aa ever stirred. But even If we have, to admit that the big Bos Amerlcanus ' of the United States Is not worthy of honor except as a marvel of the animal world, tha Span ish-American war saved our face; for when we acquired the Philippines we acquired with. them a buffalo that is the wickedest thing thst ever moved on four legs. The Philippine carabadorj water buffalo Is wicked enought when wild, and even in- a tame ststs Is prone to 'at tack human being suddenly. But the ttmarsu, although much smaller tnan . th.t i?" r?.t- h wiiT seaYCh eurTaratmo Wnd kilt them for the mere love of the killing. - Nobody has ever tamea a iimarau. no body in the .Philippines wants to try; Indeed, few natives oi tne i-nnippines hoeae-t xhof tiger uidaionu,lnJndla Is . as notlilng compared with the fear of the timarau In tho island of Mlndoro. v So deeply rooted .is- the fear of the furtive, belligerent, relentless little os that Professors Worcester and Bteere were unable evened find out- what kind Of beast It was when they visited the Philippines In 1881 on an exploring ex pedition. . -' i . Kverybody warned them against the creature, but no two deacrlptlons agreed. Professor Worcester says that one men solemnly assured them that It had only One horn, which grew atrstght from the top of Its head. Another declared that he had never seen any horns on It. hat that It certainly hnd only one eye, which was set right in the middle of its fore besd. .. These tales spurred them on. and they ylslted Mlndoro, only to search in vain for ie vera! Jmonths-UfttH-1 tribe celled the Mengyans, who knew IP k . ; Terrible Timarau of"M well. They seid that It was like a small buffalo, with straight horns .running Upward and backward like those of a ....-,'. ..... i V .. ' M f . II !! ft I i 4 IN SERVICE ' IS miles bf broad-gauge track and four locomotives f seven donkey -engines;. Its own machine shop, manufacturing - all kinds of tools used In the woods; - its TnachtBtstTCarpenters, blacksmtthantf others -mechanics.' - There is a camp grocery, a barber, a steam laundry and a bathhouse. .-, .: -, . . The camp supports a- school, with a eacher at $60 a month, who teaches the Ideas of tS hopefuls how to shoot.' - . In a' large dining-room, with seating capacity of 200, moat of the residents of tha camp take their meala- The popu lation ' Js Industrious. J- well-read and peaceful. The ' lateat 'magasines and newspapers find their way to the read ing tables in. these forest homes. Once every two weeks a dance-is held In the large dining-room and frequently the loggers play . baseball In . the . clearing. Tha camp 1 in operation nearly the-en tire year, and the school Is in session 10 months or the year, j - - A few of tha great logging camps are operated with ' varying degrees of ac tivity the year round. The Benson camp in cowllts county , is run at full blast ' from March 1 to October 1. and in the months of the winter season there is a partial cessation of work, The ' sum mer season Is the great log harvest in the Paclflo northwest, where logging Is done by steam power., but in the Wis consin and Minnesota pine woods'' the f wintertime1 Ms the tiuslesc logging1 sea son, when-' the logs are transported by sleds and teams to tha river bankV where they are piled up to -await the spring floods that.- carry, yiera down the Mis sissippi river.- ---'.. - -vv Hero in 'the Paclflo northwest absence of snow necessitated some other plan of .transporting logs from the dump to the water cohrses. Tha donkey, engine came In and supplanted the ox Team and sled. ; . -' i .. . In the-summer most of the logs are taken out of the forest In the Columbia river basin. This year the Benson com-' pany will drop about (0,000,000 feet into the water.. Already 40,000,000 feet have been cut since March L The Cowllts county camp Is In yellow fir timber, and the trees are large. The company has enough marketable timber left there for another season's logging. Unless It can secure more timber in the locality of its ramp, , the ramp will be 'closed for all time next fall. t . ' Xt.lg salL the coropanywllLlhen re- sort to its red flr timber on the Clats- kanie. In Columbia county, where ft has a complete camp and railroad that have been -closed this year. -. Along the Clats- goat ' They expressed great 'fear of It and told him It attacked and. killed the big water buffalo every time' It got a chance, and how It-would charge a man whenever it was approached. ' - Finding out about timarau and finding timarau were two different thlnga. The creatures were so marvelously shy. and cunning that ' although the party fol lowed trails day after day which ahowed where whole herds hnd ; congregated, they never even caught a glimpse of the animal Itself. . . r . , . At last after more weeks f hunting, a native tracker led them to a-hiding place of timarau; but. he did. go .only after -he - had . forced an agreement that he be permitted to run aa soon as he had located the game for" the hunters. He pointed into . the f bushes, whispered, "Timarau,: senorf -and raced ;' madly 1 awaf , nis race gray witn. rr. -. Lrosworcesur - workad hU way away, his face gray with fear.- carefully through the bushes, but coilld not see the buffs lo' for a long time, ao perfectly was the animal concealed.- At last he &v his head and Hred,bit Just -P did. so the i b the shot missed him. "AST fired ac6ndnme.wsays professor, ."there rame eraehee in ' the Jungle on every side of .-me.- I1 had walked into a whole herd of timarau without knowing It: One old bull stood his ground and I gnve him. a bullet in the shoulder.- ' Furiously, he- whirled around on me. As I pushed the .sliding block of my rifle to throw another car trldge into the magastna the mechanism jnmraed and left me to face a wounded timarau with a useless gun. ; Why that brute did not chsrge has always been a mystery to me. ' I never atterward knew one to fall to do It under similar clrcum itll inmaj hlH mnn 1 jstanees. What-he .did do -was in dsshllosLjn i tbe mountains Of 'A-veyrnn.ls madly inta tha brush aftee-the herd." Professor Worcester found his tracker up a tree and had ao hard a time coax' Ing him to coma down, that they lost the trail and-daapits the fact that they were In timarau coun try, they got no other shot that trip: and It was not until the next" trip that Jloleasor '.Worceser got oaa of these " iwki - iT n . . . i r s , r- i n , ' 1A ilk I M r' - - . x F - ' U in - SCHOOL V IK kanle the company owns about 10,000 acres of red fir, and has enough timber to furnish raw material tor the logging operations of a lifetime?1 . . i Tha woodsmen go . Into the . forest early in March and do not oome out until late fall. 'They are a 'rough but whole-souled class of men, and as a rule are industrious "and "honest Their can ing, is attended by many dangers, and they have plenty of courage. The work of . the woodsmen requires - a special training.' and the best men are those who have been . handling the ax and plkepole for many years.. - An expert f alter can squint up a 150- foot tree and gauge its leaning quarter, and then cut it at the butt In a manner that It will fall within a foot or two of the place where he wsnts It to lie.. The tree selected is surrounded by a scaffold or springboard, elevated to a height of 1UUI PIIU VV ,UV,t itllll VMn a . position on the board and notch the buffaloes, and then only' by firing half on guess-Info tha bushes where he could' see one Indistinctly."- It Is' rarely" that these. -buffaloes, are-found In 1 any-except cover ao dense that the hunter must cut - hlsway ' through .. it with a knife, foot by foot i This and the fact that if he happens to get within scent of a lurking buffalo the animal will charge him as quick ' as lightning and gore and trample htm to pieces combines to assure the little forest - buffalo of Mlndoro a long season of Immunity; . " The natives like the meat of the timarau, and as other food often if alls them they are eager. enough for It; but they are far too much afraid of these cattle to hunt thera. eveo when they are starving.-" " ': N V .. . -.-'""." Attempts; have been made to catch them alive, but the timarau usually kills itself by Us .wild struggles aa soon s-trapped, snd even if it does not struggle to the death it refuses to ' eat In captivity. - The natives say that even the, youngest calves. if caught -and put to suck with a tamo carabao' will not only refuse to eat but will try desper ately to kill the foster mother.. . The timarau and its cousin, the pretty little anoa of Celebes, are the. smallest of the ox family. The biggest standing higher at -the .shoulders than eveiLOut bison. Is the gaur or aelndang. . From the Jewelers'. Weekly. According to a report. Just issued' by the French minister of fine arts, the churches of France, ahd not the Louvre, the . Luxembourg, , the Musees da. Cluny and Carna valet, ontaln tha- art treas ures of the nation. ; . r' ' It la estimated that. If drought under the hammer, the pictures,"1 tapestries, statue's, carvings and other works of art in the churches, would realise the fabulous sum of six milliards of francs tll.30t.00O.000T. . ! ' .-.. The little Roman church or conques. view at the-exhibition in 1 tort. It was of such' marvelous beauty that a Syndlr cate -of art dealers offered for it the sum of 11.000,000 francs (IM0O.0O0). It rm'i'm -li titfmt oml i-.-K world, reliquaries given by : the -early kings of France, snd Roman atatuea In gold and silver- .Fortunately for (France, the art feyadlcate did pot bur 1 ' J. a ul. HOUE ; HT iNSON LOGGINe'CO. w;; ; 'if' lftUNXJKV AT EEM5C5N LOGGING 3GLK6 CO. tree-On the side toward which. It is to falL' Thsy out into tha tree to a depth of a quarter or one third of Its thickness. Then with acrosscfut saw they saw into the. other side,, and by tha clever -use of wedges lores the tree to lean In the direction in which they wish it to fall. The felling of the tree is the nicest art of the "woodsman," for on the character of the ground depends the convenience of ' trimming and sawing it into cuts. The average 100-foot tree Is sawed Into six cuts.- These cuts are the sawlogs that come to the1 mill. . the trees when sawedlnto cuts In the forest are ready, for the donkey engine. - Steel cables are attached to 'the cuts, and with a don key engine, chained - to a convenient stifmp In the neighborhood,- they v are "snaked" into camp and placed on the "rollway"' near te railroad track. Here they are' loaded on cars, and hauled to the river bank, 'dumped Into the water and-rafted to the Portland sawmills.' . HEN a man has spent 10 -. years .' and - more - than . 175,000 In. studying the ? ways of wild things." bw said Oreenleaf Davis, "it would seem as if he should know .something about the nature of animals snd birds, but I am obliged to own thst I am more ignorant today than I was when my father- came herefromMassachusotts and built a saw mill In 1M4. when I. was years old. He left all his property to me. including miles of timber lands and money In bank, and 'I bave spent all of It except this spof where, my csmp stands." -What have I accomplished?. That depends very much upon how you look at. it The way the world sees things, my life has' been wested. "- Instead of being rich I am-Tory poor, so poor that tho town keeps 'ma-rn-he almshouse free of cost -through the cold weather. I have almost assured myself of very many facta, though. I am Jiot absolutely certain concertilng any except two, The first Is that every woodpecker nngs' a "1101 in ' IfM1 fur a nul Chooses the east - side. - I have spent more thar'halr a .eentOT JT" iWaylBf woodpeckers.- Within ' half a mile of my-csmp are (It woodpecker' nests. : I have the largest collection of woodpeck ers In the world, though none or them Is tame or more than half domesticated. I have spent as much sn J2&0 In a year buying meat to feed) if woodpeckers. Nobody living or .dead has studied the woodpeckers so much as I ha,ve, but ths sum of my knowledge la very email. . I know that these birds Insist on having the holes thst enter their nests race the enst because I have waited un til the eggs were laid In ths holes In posts I hsd put out snd then turned the posts about I have done this when the birds were away, and never has any bird continued to incubate her young when -.the . hnJe was changed from due east. - I think the woodpeckers choose sn eastern- aspect for the resson ' that they. can know whenf the' sun.-ht-- up. ......... , - . : IrVbodpeckersiMke LBirJseye Maple 1 They are all early risers, and having no '-' t .i ., 3 a a n ' A-' ' . 'ji Will 2 m 1 I 1 , The logging railroad Is a standard gauge Una, with' equipment .of fla tears and the most powerful locomotives. These ' engines often are -required to travel .up grades .which no ordinary loco motive could ascend. - When the track Is too steep for using Da tears, tha locomo tive is sent up to the place where the forest giant lies and the logs are chained to the rear of the engine and dragged down to the roll way. ... .There have, been many changes in re cent years from the old methods of log ging, in eariy day-trii handled by ox teams, and only 'timber of moderate slse could be handled at all. Tha Introduction of steam appliances hi ths logging camps has -Immensely In creased the output of timber to the sawmills, and enabled the manufactur ers .to market lumber - at moderate prices to meet the great demands aris ing from the growth of; the cities and towns. : -v. , . ' - --ll- alarm clocks they, make; sundlala of their nests.' '- - . r s '. . ' ... fci ; ' My second discovery Is. of some com mercial use. For hundreds of years lumbermen .and icablnet-makers . have been studying to learn - what r causes maple wood -to assume the mottled and spotted form known as "blr.dseye. ' In 100 jrdck maples trees perhaps onejs a blrdseye.' Nobody. can pick the specific tree. Out by . Inspecting the bark or the manner of growth. You may 'have to chop 200 trees before you find one, but It is worth the sacrifice. ' ' "Fact : la, . the woodpeckers make all the blrdseye maple there Is In the world. In flying about the woods they come to a rock maple tree." that yields very aweet sap-In 'the season when sap ' is running. Most- birds - like sweets woodpeckers are ' very fond -of - sugar. Hovtng-i-founda'- tree yielding a large per cent of sugar the birds peck holes In'-the-trunfcr and theti stand agamt the bark, and drink the sap as It ooses out: r r t. r; -t K- -r " lw an the trees have leaved out new wood fnaarfcSrm'TffCTose pecking snd aap gathering goes on for years" until" "ths trec,"havrng"gtven " up so much sap to the birds, begins to fur nish fluid containing less sugar. - In 10 or, It years after the .birds quit a tree the holes are all grown up and no body can pick out the - big blrdseye from other trees that the woodpeckers did not visit ; "More than 10 years ago I started In to Induce the woodpeckers to help -nre make' blrdseye .maples. This spring I had more than 1,000 birds In my em ploy for two months. , On the sldehlll overlooking )my camp 'are about 100 blrdseye - maples of my own make. ' I know every one of them, though nobody else can guess at the valuable trees. If 1 live a few years longer I am going to begin ; cuttings-after- which I shall have more money than I can spend. Ill I die J have left a recordT of every tree." ao that the Audubon society can market the wood and devote the money to giv ing -protection to, woodpeckers. FTKR an uphill fight of several . years Qovernor Bobert M. La FoIIetta-of Wisconsin has suc- i . . ceeded In having his . rerorm lOeas incorporated In the laws of Wis consin and is now ready to retire as governor and occupy the seat in the United States senate to which be was elected in January.' His organisation Is supreme in the state, and he proposes to that it holds on. , - ... . The men nominated for governor next year by the "half-breeds" will bo picked by him. District Attorney McOovern of Milwaukee- will probably be tho , man. The- "stalwsrts"' - are complaining be cause they are not. getting sny repre sesntatlon in the La- Follette appoint ments, but their complaint does hot move La- Follette. He believes in put ting friends on guard., and will, follow that polloy to ths end. -.. --., The -so-called La Follette laws," en acted at the recent session of the legis lature, form a long list .The most note worthy are: x . . 1.. The railroad commission" rata act ' J, . The antl-pase act. - . y 3. An act Introducing the merit sys tem into the state government - . - 4. An act strengthening the. railroad taxation laws. - -- . ' 6. New ballot' law. ' - ' ' .. fj a. Amendments to the primary elec tion law. ' .- -, . '')'''-- ' -T.BohusaetnrgulatfnfnTOrpdra- (. X - law to prohibit - corporations from Influencing elections.. :..' ;' ... . A law prohibiting the manufacture and sale of -cigarettes In the state. . . La Follette's most notable victory was In obtaining the enactment of his rail road rats bill In ths form In which he hsd It Introduced. Tew "stalwarts- fought it They tried to kill It by load ing It down with amendments, but the governor's forces stood firm, and In ibe end the measure- went through by a unanimous vote. . . . .. : r v The law went into effect. June II.'-A commission has been created by tho gov ernor, and it is recognised as a body, of men that . will enforce the lawV . NOw that the bill Is a law most everybody is willing to say that it is fair to every body concerned. The law confers on tho commission authority to make rates where existing rates are believed to be unjust or discriminatory. ' A - rate so fixed by the commission remains in ef fect until passesd on first by the circuit court and, on appeal, by the supreme ourt An Injunction will He In case. the rate Is shown to be unlawful. . That there may not be unnecessary de lay in hearing rate cases. It Is provided that actions brounght under the railroad act shall have preference over all -other civil cases In both circuit and supreme I courts. .The la wputa tb.e burden of. proof on the railroads "to show by clear and satisfactory evidence that the com mission complained of is unlawful." Under the law the governor, may at any time remove a member of the commis sion" who Is remiss In his duty. Possibly ths most. Important provision of the law Is that which prohibits the granting -of passes to public officials. Ths railroad commission has decided to enforce this provision to tho letter, and the railroads say "Amen!" : The lan guage of the act Is that "No person holdina- any public office or position un der the laws of this.statoishall be given free transportation or reduced rates not open to the- public. ' . To make sure that the psss evil would be wiped out the governor had the legis lature reinforce the provisions of the rate bill by an Independent-act which Is in the - followLnav sweeping languages- - "No. person, association, copartnership or corporation shall or fer. or give, .for any purpose, to any political committee or any member or employe thereof, to any candidate for., or Incumbent or any eeeror' posrtlori under the- constitution- or laws, r under any ordinance of any Town or niunlclallty of the stater oc ta any person st the request or for the ad vantage of alt or any of them, any free pass or frank, or any privilege withheld from any person," for. the traveling ac commodation or transportation of any person or property, or the transmission of any messsge or communication. -: "No political committee and no member joreaiploye thereof, no candidate for and no Incumbent for any office or position under the constitution or laws, or binder any ordinance of any town or municipal ity of this state, shall ask tor. .or accept from any personassodatlon. copartner ship or corpora tlonv or use In any man ner, or for any purpose, lany free pass or frank, or. any privilege withheld from he traveling accom A Submarine Desert 52 ROFRSSOR ALEXANDER -AOA8-. 8IZ baa reported, says the Pall , , Mall Gazette, that he has dls . covered a hitherto unknown sub marine desert "8.000 miles long by 1,200 miles wide. In the eastern Pacific, be tween tha Oalapsgos islands and Eaater island." ' That portion of tha Pacific from the Galapagos through which the equator passes on the one side, to' Esster Island, - the t barren rocks - of Sala-y-Oomes, Pttcsirn and Ducle Islands, on ths other, has long been known as - a sea unusually barren of life, either on the surface or below. ' 8ea birds, though they abound on Pit- cairn. Oeno and Ducle -Islands snd the Galapagos, are rarely seen in the wide area between the equator and the tropic of Capricorn and f rom Pltoalrn-lslana to Jusn Fernandes. Some times one may see; high In the air, above this desolste sea, the widespread Wings of the frigate bird, sweeping toward land that may be 1.000 miles away, but ths ocean itseii seems devoid of life. '" - - ' ' The writer of this article well remem bers msking a passage In - a small schooner ' from ' Eaater Island to Manga Reva. in the Cambier group. Midway between Easter Island and ' Pitcalrn island .we met with what our Ameri can .captain .described as -s "furious calm." For bIk days we lsy baking un der a. torrid sun with tha pitch bubbling up In the deck seams, and during that time we did- not see a single- living thing. of any kind either bird, fish or any of those floating minor organisms with wheaas ship Is b cslmed in- tropic seas. Wnen-we- left Eester-lsland we had been attended by seven pilot fish which kent -with us for four- or. five' dava. Then, ss the wind died away, tldey left ue a ' most unusual . thing, for, aa - a rule, these .beautiful creatures will at tend a ship for many days, even weeks. Evidently they knew thst there Wss no food for them In tills desert part of the ocean, and so declined to keep up com psny any-further. - I - have knowledge of two of these barren ocean patches In the South Pa clflc One is off the Island of Eua, In the'Tougan archipelago, the other at Nlue (Savage Island). 300 mites to the eastward. One day I. accompanied by a native' lad, wee pigeon shooting os Mua aim Stopped to rest and lunch- the .summit of the northeastern- eiifs. which here start sheer up-from the too feet below. -..-... . "Jaojal." I said, ss we looked down sat the smooth blue sea, "the water" I modation or transportation of ' i or property,-or tho tranen. I message or communication. . "Any violation of any of the vove i visions shall be punlahad by I npr ment la the stats prison not more t t five years not leas than one year, or 1 1 fine not exceeding 11.000, nor less th4 1200.'. "No person and " no agent or officer of any. corporation within the purview of this act shall be privileged from tes tifying In relation to anything therein ' prohibited; and no person having so. tes tified shslt be liable to arty, prosecution, or punishment for any offenae .concern ing which he was required to give his testimony or produce any documentary. evidence." -. '.' "The term free pass shall Include" any' form of ticket or mileage entitling the-holder, to trace! over any part of tha line or lines of sny railroad Issued to the holder as a gift or In considera tion . br partial consideration of any service performed or t to be performed bjr" such holder, excepts where such ticket or mileage Is used by such holder In the performance of his-duties aa sa employs . of tha. railroad issuing tha , same." -" . '.. .. .'..... It . will be seen' that this law shuts off the telegraph frank, express com- . pany frank, and telephone frank, as well as the railroad pass. In addition, there Is rrntlnn In tha rt rnmmlsslnn , bill that "svery railroad shall, on ths first Monday In Fsbruary In each yeer and offener If required by the commis sion, -file with ' the commission svyerl- . fled Hat of all railroad tickets,' passes and mileage booka Issued free or for other than bona fide money consldera - tion, at full established rates, during the preceding - year, " together . with . the names of the recipients thereof, tha amounts received therefor and tho rea sons for Issuing the same." In a state with a weak man. in tha governor's chair the railroads might try . to. ignore- or evade these sntl-pase provisions, but .they will respect them. In- this state.- " They have announced Jlhat no more free transportation will be ' Issued, and men In the- passenger traffic departments of the leading road say there wf!l t ao attempt at evasion. . Already some Interests ' that ' have roads are begging the commission for a ruling. For Instance, the roads have for years carried homeseekers Into Wis consin at -a. low rate and issued free transportation to -, land agents ; who brought homeseekers In -from other states. Tha railroads in their announce ment gave. notice that no more home-: aeekers' rates would be granted. ; The land agents ' went before tha . railroad commission In a body and protested. Ths commission held that -the roaaa--., could- continue -to-grant --homeseekers' -rates. , It has under consideration tha ' question' whether the land agent may travel free. - '.''; -' . : t One of the last acts signed by Oov ernor La Follette relates to the use tf money by corporations In elections. ' It provides that "no- corporation doing business In this state shall pay or con tribute directly or Indirectly, any money, property, free service of -Its officers or employes or thing of value to any po litical party, organisation, committee or Individual for any i political . purpose whatsoever, -or for-. the -purpose-of in- -fluenclng legislation1 of-.any kind, or to ' promote or defeat the candidacy of any person, for nomination, .appointment .or election to any political Office." ' - -- The penalty for a violation of this act Is a flne of jjoOfss. than 1100 jjorjnora than IS. 000, to which may be--added imprisonment within the discretion of the court '""? - T-i"- It isnotneceesary to- review all the other La Follette laws enncted at the recent session The governor, believes they" "wUl . all makeTorv hdhesfTixwhole"J some government, and most of tho peo ulg are1 altli liliu. Undoubtedly some of 'the laws will ba tested In the courts. There Is ono, fea ture of the taxation law which the rail roads. do not like, and which they will ' resist In the courts, and it is expected thst much litigation will follow efforts of the railroad commission to fix .and enforce Just shipping rates.' No-doubt weak spots in the laws will be revealed. but most persons believe thst ths re forms the governor has. brought about have come to stay. 1 The Important thing Is that under tha - La Follette leadership the old regime of railroad domination has been wiped out The "Half-breeds" are now "lay ing", for Senator Spooner and they will try to prevent his return to the senate. very deep here, the cliffs come straight up , from the sea. - It should be a good -place for big fish." : ' "No, indeed.' It Is " no good st all. There-Is nothing lives there; It Is oge (literally hungry, foodless). Tou might fish all day. either close la to the cliffs or half a league from them, and catch nothing except a tew small rock cod." "Why la It soT" . . "Because there is nothing there for the 1 fish to eat no ' growing coral, no seaweed. It is because of tha strong current I think, which sweeps through the : straits between, this Island and Tongatabu and then curvea-around this point Tha bottom ii of hard, flat rock. with here and there great piles of smooth' white stones. ' When there Is no wind you can look down for SO fathoms and see the bottom of the stones, but naught else.' There ere other plsces like it In Tonga between Kao and Tofoa where-fish cannot live. But there It is oge- because of the volcano, which sVims times causes the sea to boll, and tne water Is poisoned with sulphur and ashes -from , the,., great . eruption long . since." . - - t . -,"w, -i..-. -.. ... A day or two latet I took a boat and sailed around opposite to. the cliffs snd anchored In 50 fathoms.' For sn hour I - fished ' without getting -a-bite, then went In close finder the grim cliffs, end -with a water-glass examined the bottom st a depth of about 12 fathoms; i could see ; nothing alive hot v even s CTfih L Sailing round tha weather side of the loiriliu, a, Ul VUfj 111 a r and here In Im tha a an hflllf. mTr or roue ami myaen nuii dredwelght-of fine fish, prlnrlpally great red rocIC cod snd a.flah Hk lbs New Zealand yellow talL The barren patck at Savage Islsnd H Off a point between Alofl and Avetele. It is about five mllee In clrcumferenr and devoid of W- "s bottom Is cow ered with huge white bowlders and r a living bit of coral Is to be seen. Th Is also snother a ad muJi more ext ,Tve sea desert near the voles island of Ambrym. In Ike New Ilebr' and a llrth between the lalan.j Malua and Tututla. In the f .roup This Place Is a patch of . 10 falhoma below the surface and i a mile In circumference. 1 dlsr i. xiatance In. 1171 during a r souadlng and. at.vnre 1 M f twaJiours Jwsa e- -os. Almost snywh- el. pacific thousands of 1 i such s shallow sr " 1 t the hook, A-..-. 1 i-T . "
