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JUST SO
Pluck loses no time on ac
count of hard luck.
With his first watch a small
boy has the time of his life.
Faith would have an easy
time <>f it if doubt didn't camp
on i.ts trail.
RUSS NOW LOOK TO U. S
DIVER BATTLES
HUGEJIEV1LFISH
Men Formeriy of This Country
See Hope in American Aid.
Desperate Fight for Life That
Was Waged at Bottom of
Cape Town Harbor.
English, or Rather American, Pre
dominating Foreign Language in
Bolshevik Foreign Office and in
Other Departments.
DR. W. S. SMALL
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Moscow, Russia.—English, or rather
American, has become the predominat
ing foreign language iu the bolshevist
foreign office and in all government
A strenuous season makes a
departments and in Moscow’ generally.
I Comrades Use Hatchets to Free Help
society bud look like the last
1 ourteeu thousand Russians or nat
less Man— Creature Measures Eleven
rose of summer.
uralized Americans of Russian origin,
and Half Feet From Tip to
came to Russia when tlie revolution
With the exception of trouble
Tip of Tentacles.
opened tlie doors for them. They
and children, the more the aver
streamed across Siberia for months
age man has the more h e wants.
One for mildness .V IR G IN IA
Cape Town, S. A.—The Union Castle and found their Way to their old
liner Dunveyan Castle collided some homes in the land of resolution.
One for mellowness. B U R L E Y
time ago with the harbor here,
The number of English-speaking per
dislodging many of the enormous sons has been swelled by deportations
One fo r arorna. T U R K IS H
blocks of concrete forming the pier, from America .and by emigrants from
THE EIGHT AGES OF WOMAN
The finest tobaccos perfectly
which fell into the bottom of the sea, Gfest Britain and its colonies who
at this point between thirty and forty were interested in the experiments
A clever woman has arranged a
aged and blended
feet deep.
which the soviet government was
series of tables to show the life of the
The officials of the harbor board set working out.
average woman. Boiled down she
to
work to repair th e damaged pier
Through tlieir training abroad, most
thinks it’s something like this:
In memory of Joseph Priestly, dis and recover the dislodged blocks, by of these English-speaking persons
coverer of oxygen and pioneer in air no means an easy task.
were better equipped for government
Babyhood to 15—Childhood.
chemistry, the American Chemical
work than native Russians and have
One
of
the
most
experienced,
men
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15 to 18—Carefree time; fun society, presented to the National engaged on the diving operations was ; made their way into important places
frivolity and beaux; eleven in every Museum in Washington, D. C., this H. Palmer, who had had fifteen years’ i with the government in both Asiatic
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likeness of him, which was copied experience of underwater work in 1 and European Russia.
Dr. W. S. Small, school hygiene ex
100 marry between these ages.
from the original painting by Gilbert various parts of the world.
Three years ago most of the Rus pert of the United States bureau of
Stuart.
One day Palmer went down in the sians returned from America were ex
18 to 24—Beginning to work, either
ordinary course of his work and was tremely bitter in their denunciation of
for self-support, pin money or a
career; thirty of every KKJ are wage GOES TO PRISON FOR “ BUDDY” engaged in putting a chain around a the United States. But they have
seven ton block of concrete when he modified. Their experience in helping
earners and fifty-».ne in every 100
marry between these ages.
Haley’s Sacrifice for Pal Futile When noticed a curious-looking object pro to run a government has taught them
truding from a cavity below the block. it is not as easy as it looks.
Trick is Discovered at
The water was comparatively clear.
24 to 35—Life in eareost, with nine
They have changed, as the entire
Leavenworth.
Bending down, Palmer examined the Red government has changed, and it is
teen in every 100 at work and seventy-
nine mairied.
Leavenworth, Kan.—Penniless, H ar object which had attracted his atten not unusual to hear them speak with
ry W. Haley, an overseas war veteran, tion. He was beginning to wonder affection of America. They look for
is at liberty here under a War depart what it could be when, without the ward to America for help. Most of
ment order releasing him from the fed slightest warning, it began to move them insist that America is the only
eral disciplinary barracks, where he toward him. A huge tentacle shot country which is 'broad enough in
served five months of a six months’ out from below the stone, moved gauge to develop a country the size of
The future of the young men and
sentence for desertion imposed upon swiftly sideways, and in an instant Russia.
women now entering the business
Almost without exception, the Rus
Thomas G. Jones, his “buddy,” and the had seized his leg in a vicelike grip!
Feelers
Grab
Him.
world
depends very largely upon
sians
who
have
been
in
America
be-
man who saved his life while the two
Horrified, the diver staggered back liev£ the American child-feeding is
their attitu d e tow ard thrift.
men were with tlie American expedi
tionary forces in France. Haley came ward, hut as he did so another great I an initial step toward recognition.
to the barracks under the name of feeler appeared from under the They have ceased denouncing America
If they consider saving a bore—
“Jones,” his r< ason for serving the masonry and alighted upon his arm, as an “exploited” land. Tlie floods of
holding
It
helpless.
abuse
are
now
poured
out
on
France,
spend all they make— don’t keep a
sentence being that he wanted to re
But the young people
Wildly tlie man struggled to free Poland and Rumania.
After the
pay part of the debt he felt he owed
good
credit standing— very probably
who, with their first
Jones in saving his life. Jones, who himself from those awful arms, hut United States, Great Britain seems to
they
will
be mediocre all their lives.
jobs, open accounts at
is said to he married and living in in vain. Where the innumerable tiny be most in favor, with Germany a
the
F
irst
National,
Canada, is being sought by federal au suckers touched the naked flesh of close third.
gather a few hundreds
Language schools In Moscow have
thorities. Because he was not the his hand they stung and seared like
and then invest them
real offender, Haley was released from an electric wire and he felt himself great demand for English lessons, and
under our advice, will
rise head and shoul
the barracks without the usual rall- being drawn slowly but surely toward second-hand book stalls in the markets
find a ready sale for English volumes.
ders above the crowd.
r»’ad fare and small compensation the durk hole under the stone.
For a moment the unutterable hor
given prisoners.
ror of his position held him spell
Sweden has a paper mill both
bound ; even his brain seemed numbed.
Then, slowly with a gliding motion operated and heated entirely by elec-
An electric motpr (l ives a circular
that was horrible to behold, the crea- tricity
saw mounted on a new m itre box.
|U.rS beucatjj J h? s0 p e began to
emefge. As It came out Palmed beheld
with a shudder the cold, staring eyes
the parrot-like beak of an enormous
octopus or devilfish!
Desperately the tortured man strove
to wrench himself free, but the more
he struggled the tighter grew the grip
()i the sinuous coils.
Instinctively Palmer had kept one
arm free from the encircling tentacles.
He noticed mechanically that the oc
topus bad let go its hold of the
masonry and had wrapped itself en
tirely
around him.
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Some men manage to dbdge
enough work* to keep a dozen
people busy.
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At S. Boyd, N . W» A gent
staking ft »b&V.brate effort to throw
off the WVipor of nausea and fear
which benumbed his faculties, the
illVer reached up his free arm and
pulled his signal cord with all his
strength, whereupon the men above
started to haul him up. The octopus,
still clinging relentlessly to its prey,
was drawn to the surface.
The horror of the men above when
they beheld the diver emerge from
the water in the loathsome embrace
of the great devilfish can be better
imagined than described. While some
dragged the now all but unconscious
Palmer up the ladder, others ran for
hatchets and knives and a fierce at
tack was made upon the creature. In
spite o f every onslaught, however, the
quivering tentacles still clung ob
stinately to the diver, and it was not
until the creature had been almost
hacked to pieces that tlie men were
ah'.e to free their comrade and ad
minister restoratives.
When the »lead octopus was laid
out on the pier it was seen to be of
great size. It measured eleven and
a half feet across from tentacle tip
to tentacle tip. •
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