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FORMER * UNTUTORED " SERBIAN IMMIGRANT,
Loxpos. Oct. 6th.. Wild cheering greeted the Chair-
Declaring that his belief in a man's announcement at the Co-Creator is justified by the facts of Six Guy Gaunt, former Britishservative Party Conference that science, Michael Pupiq, noted in- M. P., is now living in his schooner 21 kas it," marking the close ofventor and professor at Columbia Four Wind. If one of Sir Guy's a debate which, though eagerly Scribner Magazine the direction of University, describes in the' August friends wishes to call upon him awaited, lasted for ly half an his religious thought since he secured his first employment in a how he must go to the South Seas, hor No women participated. or to Cocos Island, or to Porto The early speakers received a factory in New York fifty-two years It taught me that the firs mixed reception." Rien, or possibly, now that Septem-
Mr. Frank East, in moving an under the boiler supplies thr ber is here to Venice. There he amendment to inake the franchise driving power to every machine must go down to the pier or beach equal at the age of 5, said that in the factory," he writes. "To and hail a sturdy 500-ten schooner. athelent political education to un- who had never seen such things in women had not attained an, untutored Serbian immigrant If he succeeds in cousineing derstand important matters like his native village that was awe those on board that he is inflated the gold standard and invisible inspiring knowledge, and it thrilled with the spirit of truc romance exports
ine. It stirred my emotions and fays a writer"in the New Fork Other dissentientsxpressed the my imagination, and I almost 11 Dr. Times Magazine), a launch manned opinion that there afrody were too became a fireworshipper.' by Chinese sailors will put out niany unintelligent lectors, but Pupin then points out other from the schooner, or a gangplankoniaian began to get in favour of facts which he discovered dur will be let down, and the visitor the resolution after a vigorous ing the following " half-century, will find Sir Gay comfortably and speech by Captain Ian Fraser,nud sums up his philosophy in hospitably at home.
championing women's rights, also these words t Sir Guy calls it is doating torate, which, he said, was intel-
the general intelligence of the elec Bat, and the Four Finds repre-ligent enough to return our Party sents his solution of the housing to power at the last election." problem.
A Lumber Schooner. Two years ago, on the Pacific const, he bought a lumber schooner named Erie, and the next day his secretary in London received a eablegram directing him to disman the the Lidon flat to which he had been planning to return, and to ship its most treasured furnishings
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The Erie (renamed the Four Finds) has a length over-all of 174 feet and a 38-foot beam-more space than the average city dweller, of considerable means, can call his own. Sir Guy built four bedrooms 18 feet long and 18 feet wide, with a connecting bath for each. He put in electric lights, hot and cold running water, and an artificial refrigerating plant.
In the lounging room he con- structed a fireplace, with a mantel- piree of carved teakwood that might have graced a crack Atlantic Ener. The Four Winds even has a floating woodshed, so that the open. fire may erackle every night in the year if the owner desires.
Huseum And Ibrary." Sir Guy furnished her with the artistic and curious'mementoes of
his wandering life-paintings, drawings, photographs, and relies from "every civilized country, and nearly all the ansivilized ones. He has good taste in such matters, and the Four Winds is a seagoing] muzeum of no small nierit.
She carries a well-chosea library. Sir Guy is a bird lover, and one end of the lounge is screened off as an aviary, There are other arts too-notably Mexican Joe, a squirrel whose ability, Sir Guy will tell you, is equalled only by his sagacity
Finally there is what might be enlled the garage-a heavy tarpau- Enjon deck under which, securely Inshed against marauding waves, is a motor bont which can be swung off when the Four Winda makes port. On such occasions Sir Guy ipes up the chauffeur, & China man in animeachable livery, and goes ashore in style.
Chinese Crew.
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Pure Beer Bill Advocated.
LONDON, Oct. 6th. were 347 agricultural bankruptcies last years farmers at present are failing at the rate of 10 per week" was the remark made by Col. I. W. Burten, M.F.at the Conservative Party Conference. He pleaded that the Government should adopt the duty of malting barley.
Birth Of Beautiful Castings,
The smooth and steady motion
messager
of the piston in the boiler room, assisting the trained hand of man in the factory; the roaring furnace flames in the foundry- announcing the birth of beautiful castings: the radiating chaos of our central star, the sun, sustaining the ceaseless terrestrial cycles of co-ordinated energy movement; the transmitted to man by the galaxy of stars, proclaiming the lavish expenditure of their inexhaustible store of energy as a preparation Lord Hastings uggested that
for higher forms of creation; all an improved market for barley of them tell the same joyous story could be effected by reducing the price of beer. He wanted a Pure which Tyndall first told me fifty Beer Bill (Cheers). That would years ago, the story of transforma- prevent the brewers from using tion of the primordial chaos into a cosmos, a universe of beautiful maize and other inferior imported law and order. This is also the corn.
story of the universe of organic life.
Mr. W. Guinness, the Minister of Agriculture was unable to hold out any promise of lessening the local taxation on farm premises, but promised that next year he would deal with the question of long-term credits for farmers. "Democratized Second Chamber."
LONDON, Oct. 7th. The Conservative Party Con ference's resolution regarding the form of the House of Lords claims the attention of the more Ing papers to-day
Beginning Di Civilisation,
The truth which this story reveals was recognized intuitively by inan since the very beginning of civilis tion and, guided by the power of his creative soul, he began to dream of a social cosmos which makes life worth living. The awakening from this beautiful dream is the birth of Church and State; guided by the love of God and of fellow man there social co-ordinators will certainly
* social cosmos, The Daily Telegraph expresses Five 3 the opinion that the circumstances realisation of the highest aspiration require reform en broad lines, com- of the human soul.
endable to the people, by the sub From this point of view science, stitution of a demostatized Second religion, and the fine arts, as ex- of the intellectual, Chamber for the House of heredi pressions tary legislators...
spiritual, and esthetic co-ordination of the creative power of the human. soul, are three inseparable parts of a single science, the Befence of Creative Co-ordination."
The Festminister Gazeite says that having tasted blood over the Trade Unions Act, the reactionary end of the Tory Party intend fur- ther to dig themselves in against the advent of Labour Government.
The Daily News says that the Conservatives wish to change the whole poise and balance of the Con- THEATRE stitution and will play into the hands of those seeking minority rule, because they are distrustful of their influence with the new voters.
i They may reluctantly give) "
them the vete, but they will see to
that their votes will be ineffec tive unless try vole Conserva- tive," adds the paper.
The Times finds that the revolu- tion is not practical polities.
The Chinese crew of 23 was Be- lected, Sir Gay explains, because Chinunen keep sober, whereas its white sailors do not.. The merit of this contention is obviously not one for laymen to decide.
Sir Guy, at any rate, acts upon it. But he hastens to add that he still opposed to prohibition, which he considers all rot." It
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the Baldwin Cabinet has changed attitude towards reform. "Pres versus the People BD longer seems desirabile, as an ele tion cry, so, to too zealous friends of the ill-considered scheme, Mr. Baldwin could only announce that he was-ying a kite, and that Government would announce their
a being drunk at the wrong time policy when they had made up and place, as when one is called their minds.
take the wheel of a schooner on a dark night to which he objects.
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As the Chinese, though they in- vented the company, are not not ably good navigators, Sir Guy both captains and navigates bis ship himself.
As A Naval Attache. Eleven years ago Sir Guy Gaunt As a British Naval Attache, and bow he impresed Colonel House, o whom he called in May, 1916, may be judged by the following entry in House's diary:--
I told Gaunt that he reminded me of Bernstorff, inasmuch as he had courage and good temper, and viewed matters like a sportsman, I wish Claunt was British Ambas- sador!
However, though the Seven Seas and nil the islands and continents that He therein are at his disposal,, be bas his favourite spots.
One of his first voyages was to Cocos Island, 300 miles south-west of Panama. Sir Guy liked it so well that ho lingered inany months in its vicinity; and if he has any headquarters, possibly Cocos Island may be the site of the
Crossing Atlantic.
Having enjoyed Cocos for a time, therefore. Sir Guy drifta on. This year he came through the Panama Canal, and put in many months Eng in and out of the ports of the Caribbean and the West Indies. In May and June he visited Porto Rico, first touching at San Juan, and then going to Havana
At
"Guy Gaunt, bord in Australia, ran away to sea at 10. At 18 he was second mate on vessels sailing to have the vessel's bottom clen red out of Liverpool. Later he joined of the weeds and barnacles that the Navy, and in 1599 he won come accumulate in warni water. mendation from his superiors and Havana he laid plans for seiling. the gratitude of the Americans, who across the Atlantic and spending witnessed the incident when he the Eeptember season in Venise... hoisted the Americas Bag torn Bir Guy has always been known down by rebel Samoans over the nan man who knew exactly what consulate in Apin.
he wanted and how to get it.
Will he ultimately come out of
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In north-western American wat his idyllic retirement and return to public life? He dos vids say that ers it is sometimes a pleasure to he will not.
go
out and pick up salmon or
But he likes Coces land, and halibut and Sir Guy does it. In he likes to sit in front of a chrer- India or Africa there is sometimes ful fire on his floating hearth, gaze an opportunity to go hunting, and at the teakwood carvings of an an along the coast of California ar cient Indian legend of flying boats Southern France Sir Guy may upon the mantelpiece, and listen wish to land for a game of golf to the crenkings of his sturdy roof. or a little dry touring."
tree as the sails take the wind that tramps the world."
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