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Buck, Backwoods Guide, and the “Bangor Sports’ 1

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LOSE DUKHOBORS

Peculiar Sect in Canada Going Back to Russia.

!» Their Departure a Few Years Aq»

Would Have Been Hailed With Delight, but Sentiment Has

’ARHIXGTON.—Back from the Maine woods with the latest thine In draft j Undergone a Change.

stories came a WaMilnctonli.n recently. He and u friend were paddling up the Magalloway river one day shortly after September 12. that blf day when

f8.000.000 men went qnletly to repietration places thmuchout the L'uitcd

Btatea to sign op for Dade Sam. Buck, a hark woods guide, crnstl-

tnted the third occupant of the canoe. Waa he hackwoodsT He w«s ao far Backwoods. It Is declared, that beyond him wna nothin’. They don’t come •ay more backwoodA-y than Burk. A young old fellow, gray-halm), tanned. calet. determined, there Is only one _

Buck In the world, friends say. They were going through the "big

i The announcement that TYter VerlI gin. the leader of the 10.000 to 11.000 Itnssian Dokbobon. or I lukhoborisy. has declared his Intention of returning to Hu'Sia with his followers has eaused r mild sensation In Canada. Fifteen sears ago • similar unnounc*«»ent would have been received by the people of western Canada with expressions of devout gratitude. The Illiterate peasant •’spirit-wrestler*," as their name Implies, were disliked as rellgtoua fanatics, who herded to-

____ gt tlu-r In community hooaea, and eddy." when all of t sudden, ont of the dear «ky. enme the so-j.-ids of firing. Pcwecn*’’" and industrious "What’s thatr said one camper. peasants, refused to conform to OannBuck took a few paddle* before he answered. dl,n ln "^ a 1 ” 5 regulation* or to ae“Couple o’ Bang-r sport*," he replied. nationality. But now everywhere A "Bangor fport." by the way. Is the backwoods term for some sport*- ,n Canaria they ere recognlEeri men who frequent the big woods. They nsunlly are blustery fellow*, wlio “* remarkable eolonM*. even !f bad affect to mate comrades of the guide),, who. In .their turn, accrctly dcsploe ci,lrcn *- *' hlle r, ‘ ,cr '• r| F ,n ** the sports. knowlcdged to be a g'-nulne loader of

Sure enough, there on a promontory could be seen the sport*. One was

fishing for trout, while the other, with a Jf2 ride, was popping away at a The Pukhober has never beena wentarget- The "Bangor sports" could not ns yet ace the canoe and lf» occupant*. dctp r of his own free will. He ha« Tlirn the canoe rounrted Into sight of the men. The man with the rifle n ' ovpd frmn ,l,ar, “ f '‘ I, ‘ ac, ‘ ,n Ean, I*‘ lowered his piece and looked across the eddy. BS i,,e result of consistent persecution. "Well, well, well.’" he shouted, familiarly. "If there ain’t old Burk! How ( " ,iurrh ““d **nte went for him •tiam •re you. Buck? Have you registered in the draft. Buck?" nKr “ n<1 ,on F* " ,h *' on,> Idling him If the question was meant as a slur on Buck * age. It didn't work. The th,t religious "ecta mist b-- broughr

1—Ruins of the neanttfai twined ml of Albert as the t.ciuan* left it. «i.i. k, m tnarp contruot. tbe cathedr.; which I be Amertrac* are striving to save In their boubardm-nt of that city. S—Gen. Jules Janln, now on Lh w from America to Slluria to take command of the Czecho-8 lovak forces there.

‘An’ I ain't wastin’

It to conformity with established Greek Catholicism, the other that h« most Income a addier under the cooacrtption act of 1W7. At first he compiled with the military law and went off to

~ l>*ttle. but with the distinct underSmall Girl, Japanese looter and the Conductor

his rifle he would fire It In the air.

guide shot the canoe forward.

“Toy bet I'm registered." be called across the water. "

no ammunition on this side, either."

Those “Bangor sports" haven't thought up a reply yet

BARROOM IS NOW USED BYY.M.C.A.

Fr ' r,ch w * ««< popular!-"

forgivable crime, but It was perfectly obrious that every poneot of war of all kinds tint. In exile

passenger on the car wanted to choke 'r the Osucasu*. the mmmenity threw off a small girl who tooted her way eway the weapon* that hail t-een eoofrom Capitol hill to Center market the sirirred necessary to nrntect Its mom - otlter forenoon. Her presumable moth- ter* from wild animal*. «T lore the afflict;.* with • chronic pa- !.i the first year of their settlemwt Hence chnrnrteri*tic of parent* who | D Canada, the men scattered in order are too mistakenly fond to make tb-!r to cam wage* on farm* on rati ways, youncMer* behave, but the pus*, ng. ra end sawmill*. Mi*anwhHr. the women ) around were rot >o placidly resigned, built the future residence' and. UckTwo Jolly, commonplace women, each ing horres. plowed the land by barloaded with empty basket* and cord ce«sing themselves 12 pair- of wornbag*. Lad thing* to aay on the subject, rn to a plow with one plowman to

-<.d they said them good and loud: drive them'

■1 Ilk, kid, all rlcht. but II Unit r™«k OM bri-njM It. m, W ««Dk b.r Brtlllu,t. In BrlU.l. MnnMt l.oo,

of the great rmkhole r centers and the socialist’s Utopia. Here the c.tnrou-

n'ty Is wholly

Drink Emporium Is Bought

at Auction.

SOSA INSTEAD Of ABSINTHE

American Girl in Sky Blue Uniform Attsntfa to the Want* of the Thirsty Soldierr and Sailera.

By BOY DUR8TINE.

Barto.—In the very heart of French port town, where traffic

•If-eontalned and has thickest, there stood a barroom.

was so low. then op stepped Mr. Taylor. and bought all the fixture* for the

Y. M. C. A.

After that l.e dickered with Hie landlord, and came to an agreement which permitted him to leave the fixture* where they were, to leave the tor where It wa*—but to change what

passed across the lor.

That was roly n little while ago. But today, ns yon mount the hill of the town, os you see the door* of Hie tar stretching out their Invitat.on to • ring In your thirst and have It quenched, you will see n strange thing. Over the door yon will tee In

large letters the words:

The Red Triangle.

so hnid that

“What can you expect with a mother like that?”

rtiplld* nra°a window^Tonc^orVbe^'ta^ v^Md and s«ind^™ farew^l ^ th,ckc * t t,ler * tt0 ° 3 “ barroom. It I Inside, behind the bar.'you will

equality of wa* Just at the point where a sailor’s j c n American girl In the sky blue uni-

conduct or. goaded to Intervention, politely Invited the young to coo- ,1Ur * t *** C™'" 1 ** b * f °™ ^ tht f nD,WD wwk "- And you alder her radial at an end. ^ “ . raurh ***** * the world to- trudged up the hill. It did a rattling —*

--—" “

nra evldcntlr no dlrtslims b,-tween Whenever a military policeman had "mine" and "thine" no Jealousies or «e nothing better to do. he would stroll • >es over the pocscatfaes of another, for up to this bar to see how many men

r.o man Is richer than hi* f.-lk,w. No were draped over It.

money la In drrulntlou. One member Accordingly, its trade languished, of the executive doe* oil the outside for there are more desirable thing* to «.t.„„ —• Ik- a consistent drinker In

conspicuous place In town.

it takes all sorts of people to make up badly laundered white, topped with a rose pink sweater, charged a lance In

behalf of the breaker of the peace.

"Let the child play if she wans-ter! Don’t you know that the angel* In heaven play horn*I If you don’t. I can show you n picture of little winged

rberuhr a-Mowing gold "

"That's all right, lady. I ha vet, t got a thing to do with running heaven,

but I'm expected to look after this car." . . . . ..

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lady. Urle angels all heads and wine* mnA Mn | lr B ,n r " c, • ba * n« Before long the madnrae found that may. ur an heads and wlnga. and not purchasing value within the comma- her buslnraa had fallen on evil way^

All the necesaurie* of life are Her success ' ‘ -

“I know all about

a lang In the lot to Mow with.’

Somebody chuckled and the nruill girl dlscard.-d the born thing

d been so great that »!

.-•■mr,.,-,. eu'j'AK*! ana uie siruiii gin aiKarOi-O tbe born tbir.g to con- i. t . . .

Ur “^ ,rM <****‘

the wherewithal, which I* not of ; A public sale

s'lrar and mid. and there is no theft. ' , (lh ^ Little Incident in a Washington Antique Shop loent la the people. Once s week they ' ■nrttnn v- 1

M OST people n- booest. but It Is H,c exception that give* punevuej to the ™-wd Into the larm asaemhlr U:i and JCl' 7 '"' ,n L" Wl> ‘"'T rule. One man. lor <me Im-tanc-. keejm medieval Junk. Among hU ens- < lacuas the affn. a of the o n mu- - ^u «nciuL Aril.ur K*^)lw T °^ho

*w- used to be a nrw»|«p,r man In rhlla‘o- dalphla. and who la now the head of the V. M. C. A. In the district of tbe

*«• |■art town.

i table, something In

tomer* the other afternoon was a woman who wanted

Chippendale to match a whatnot. The proprietor wa* starting off to bring

forth ChJppeadale when the woman. fV. rCVT y x •eelng a chair •i-rvenlrn». aat down. <jo

Sf4ndle-legged furniture la artistic c_I.—

‘•ut t^scherouA. ns the lady should ^

have rvtnen.to-r, d before she weighted her overstock Of too, too solid etcetera. on spidery lcc« that cracked the

Instant she let herself go. The tag price of the chair

•omethlng awful—though as the pri-tor protested what could y.ku

pert of a treasure that had had Ha hrn<kn-d place in an Italian palace fo. ,

ZZZ*" 10 ™ >nn ' bUl lf lhV *** WOOiU ‘ mi ( ' J -' for Xhv ,1 * auls, ^ tUv “ r ” 1 rx- rf rciminunl'r who ^ CtJ ‘ , ° n ' er "*>***'>”* looking the chair over stepped wh'.T’miMue'-MeTa

tbe mld*t Of the wild 1-4 hriaua*

.1 :.M Hie exact value of this Science Monitor. !*rtlt uiar*. let ll;e suggest, tnulnyp. f

:«nc and trouble In mending It; and kn--w and 111 go Into court myself '1 of this sort. air. that ruin* any

nlry. and Hie m.inacrr* of Hie eral department- are given theii structloa* arc ::ag to popular Hment. The DukbMkor* ]<o-.>-u

synem of Initiative, tvfermdnm and 8o he went to (he sale And when

',”h •O.MiM <»• Ml ,nd It,

form, their nSWal* and tempo-

ral rcpri-wntatlve* b< !i| ••«!.*■ as ^ - - - long HA the, do their worn weii. WEARING “FLU” MASK

What I* the extdnnation *■* these peculiar people who live a*, simply on a farm or ranch whlih may stretch for mil,-* along Uie road and stately Co’utnbla liver? And can

Canada afford to lone the

wlU see sailors and soldiers leaning their dhows on the shining mahogany •nd beer them aay thing* like*

"Make mine pineapple.'

"How’s the T. M. specie I today?" "Package of cookies and two straw-

berry sodas."

Think of It 1 Sodas, In France! And yet this Is only one of three places In

1 Prays That God Will Damn German Empin i C* yveland.—Not irr.v.i but with much firallnr. It w. H. Crawford, preside),i ,.f aMa gbeny college, brought A : from the throats of i0w> llrttw dlst divines In this clll • prayed ferveotly f.,r -ted n damn the German etnplr,had Just returned fmtn and a half service with il. T k C A. on tbe western fr

that one port town where the Y. U A ha j a soda fountain. Beside tbe bar sits another Aa can girt selling soda eh ret.* and, the lull*, changing the trod ca phonograph. Nothing old abost tt rec.irda, ritber. With New Y<rt Jd “r few days away," the supply I tanrs Is kept op to tbe mloute In the back room then- on t tables and chairs. Those who p io rest as they drink may do ao. many do.

along tbe bar, "I figured It o half the attraction «r a bar l« ttel» ciufcillty of drinking slowly end (W Siplng while you do It. And. jxa* It lar

YANKS DIE WITH FACES TO THE FOE

Valiant Spirit of Fallen Men Is

Typified in Attitudes of

the Dead.

Into the situation.

"I happen to b- In the bu*ln< -» r chair. Without going Into eraharra** that you pay tide man 15 cent* fur l If you boar any more from him let with a charge of false pretenses, li

trade. Better come out with me. madam, and the next Ume you want a

take an expert along."

HQUei

Psychological Study of Sweet Potato in Capital «A D '’ ENTX IlES ° r • Potato In Washington." K,mnds a* If It aw be the title of n no- ’ about a war worker, but It Isn’t. It m^r.H ; do with tht Bight and landing of a sw wt i.i.. . .

might ha* to

at a street

the h2evei,:b street going rayly dowaof a aud l.-n. a hefty line e hiri ng through vr. mlA»«*! an eld«rly • and lamh-d squar, I v .■f the cun lu<iar. have all It.* element*

Uast of Km of Great Novelln Dies. William IHi-ki-n*. U.e la-; kl.-, of the great novelist. 0:.r!e. |

<l‘ed recently at hi* l**:),. In Ha. : ;'„n. Ont. Mr. Dickens wn» Dim In Braunstone. England, where U* father, George Adam* iNckm*. kepi the Admiral NelMiu. an old public h„c«c. WilTiam Itteken* came thi* • ••untty al-ut ten >«*ar» ago. aerr>tn|t.nled by his wife. Ktnily Rteam-a. nnd h<- ,.-unge*t daughter. Mr. Dirii-n* »n» Aeten-tv-five years of ngr. and j-.--.— a

n-ori lMer,-riing chararter. r,-** in some way. hi* great cairin iTiart"* Dickens wa. iwuing i the little town of Brum,-i, t''-pi«*l at hts co.irin’s Inn. c ticiog the little !>rig!.t-ey, l D-y

the back and quaintly t>

t<i grow up to be a l»ette ! father. Mr. Dlck.-ns tie

Phologlat a>ST -Ah. bar aay.tb the p. the effect of aaid sweet potato and It* •onagea of this novel—er street e»r -

Add he doe* It. aa follow» :

The sweet potato made the eondn-1

a i-ar-lo studv ■a* pel* |

Mil t

r triad

mliad the art *

he food admlmstrtt.. a and And. Ur.ag dune all thaav HUM* U fihe^J —4^! in the gutter.

I UW given point.

TROOPS EAGER FOR BATTLE

Ever Crouching Forward With Thalr

Face* Toward Germany. Impatient to Make World Safe

for Humanity.

Pari*.—(Tui|dalna of two Yankee regiments that stormed the slope above

me wearily back at e task of burying were two men splrid their eyes were ade their brief but

ting sun as they waited In tb< 1 port for Hie trains to take ibr France. Their eyec gsxci! bmt i : the east, and they eagerly strained vard as U to bear 'he far-oS ho*^

Um gun*.

Every one of these Tank.-- -'W frisk from the homeland * Ing forward—as did th<- her-* chaplains told of—with their fsc* »

ward Germany.

A completi division, c.mi) - - 1 ' • ** an American major gen- r: ’ barked. And It was Jost on- >

convoy of the unending si" -*

Unde Sam is sending aero*'

Chafe at Long Wa-t.

The only worry was «!" ^ u

would be a long wait l>efor. ’

tbelr turn “at bat” ag*lu*i f ! Submarine rumors hadn't !■ era on thj way across «b-' 11

They had drilled dally, a. I- "

Hefield." they said, i owl1 ' 1 1,1 ‘f**’ <i*m|s-d ship * '' 1 ■ single exception. 1 h,d ,,kwi da,I J r ««<*» 1 f those boys died I h «* 1,M »l and fit. And lb- 1

: guard. In turn, with eyes "i

otic story—a p#trl- ^Jnarlnes—toortly hopeful ras an epitaph for WOT|1<1 tnro “l* Jn»t f° r ,l “'

American herot-s—came first under my

hree weeks' Journey

iched Parts. ‘

Faces Ever Eastward. 8lories of the valiant American spirit are old. Yet the {troud words of the chaplet!)* were tremendously Ua ITessire. They Interpreted the spirit of America on the fighting line In the same terms as I had seen tt among the fivsli troops in the convoy acroaa Hie Atlantic. In England. In the Franck l>ort and In the trip scross Franc*— troops yet to face the Run.

Tk

,-lrd" I*

• f

•• atram -u.il a cer Chlcagti street eweetM

In that convoy. And

their faces w ere ever toward Germany. They were grim faces i-f serious-mind-ed. silent men during Hie t.dl.ms ocean j !r lp' Silent Strangely, until actually

on French soil.

Then they underwent a change. The • -urtaln of volrmulty seemed to lift. The frown of impaUrtice at delay UBS gime and. la contrast to the si!awe In which they bad received the homage of British crowds, they MU g roHlrktng war songs, laughed and cracked Jokes rod refilled with a Yankee roar to the ■anng i.!. chorus of welcome Freed crowds cave of the b*w!tb | tnem. I Their faces wars away from the act-

on t of all usefulness.

There wa* a boat drill dally ■• 3 convoy; each mao answer*-! > In his allotted plane beside a I -''' And cunrtanUy. save lo Me. iman hod to wear a lift- l : •trapped about hi* chest and I Now they’re at Ibr end of «hJourney—in France a bog with Hon and a half fighting uk-b ft United State*. Tbej-rv MmwI" ' that great American aplrit—c forward, with their faces to* many, impatient to mrke tb

unsafe for Huns.

If* a pity Kaiser Bill ono',1 stood on the dock at that Free, t wben they landed—Just to «"

Dead Men Convicted Bt Louis. Mr%—Whan “ reached the cuurt of crimim-. tlon here recently from the *'• court affirming the coovlrtb-n Schucurt, for adulterating s*^* In violation of the [