May 17, 1917 
LAND 
There was a. vague legend in the town tliptshe yt'as descended 
from one of the fir;4 ^IvenfArejs.inf tjf(| Ne\* AV'orld,\ whQ 
married the daughter of ah Indian chieftain, and brought lipr 
liome. Princess Smith died in the ship, lying off J^iverside ;. 
and they buried lier (tJiey say) in tlie old church. But it is 
projiable that the people called her Princess because she 
niled them with a rod of kindness. 
■ Bessie stood silent, while young .Alf shyly told their troubles 
to the Little Princess ; Bessie only interrupting to declare 
she didn't want no charity. Nevertheless, she yielded, and 
the Little Princess took her away. 
A week went by, and another, and still another, and it was 
Sunday afternoon. Mr. Cradock stood -in his yard, gazing 
upon the river. He was dressed, excepting the coat, in his 
best blue suit, and his white shirt sleeves were rolled back 
from his powerful forearms. From within his house sounded 
a lively music. The door leading from the workshop opened, 
and the Little Princess appeared. Mr. Cradock instantly 
jerked his hard hat vertically upwards and downwards. 
" Your family sounds very cheerful, Mr. Cradock," said 
the Little Princess, glancing up at the discreetly curtained 
windows, whence the music rang and tinkled. 
" We thought a little party, with some music, like, would 
cheer up young Alf. Though the music," said Mr. Cradock, 
apologetically, " ain't quite the Starboard Martyr, I know." 
The Little Princess understood Mr. Cradock to refer to the 
composition better known as the " Stabat Mater," and nodded 
sympathetically. " There's the real Starboard Martyr ' for 
you, over there, in a manner of speaking." Mr. Cradock, 
lowering his voice, indicated the still figure of young Alf, 
who stood at the riverward end of the yard, leaning against 
the stern of a boat, his head bowed. "Port and starboard, 
too," said Mr. Cradock, improving upon his parable. " He's 
troubled about the girl Bessie, you see. Miss. He tells me 
the poor thing has got to die, and though I tell him there's 
as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it, he don't take no 
notice. , Lost his spirit, like. Case of first love. Only last 
night he says to me, ' Dad,' he says, ' I've given up hope. 
They've killed her,' he says. ' Killed her when she was 
doing her best for the Country.' It's true, too, when you 
come to think of it, Miss." 
" It's not so bad as that. She's turned the corner. 
She'll pull through. I came with a message from her." 
" Come," said Mr. Cradock, " that's the best I've heard. 
Better than drink, as they say. Would you speak to the 
boy. Miss ? " 
■ It's all your kindness, Miss," said young Alf, presently 
" All your great kindness. If it hadn't been for you, she 
would- have gone out, for sure. There's a many that do." 
"Many," said the Little Princess. ■■'' They arc at rest." 
An Atlantic Alliance 
To the Editor of L.-^nd & W.\tkr. 
Sir, — Is it generally recognised that the whole of the Atlantic 
ocean-board in this hemisphere from the Hebrides to Cape 
Town is now in the hands ot Great Britain, France, Spain atid 
I'ortugal, while all the American Atlantic coast is Anglo- 
Saxon or Latin ? This means that, given, an understanding 
between an Atlantic Alliance in Europe and an Atlantic 
Alliance in America, or, let us say, one great Atlantic Alliance 
of Anglo-Sa.xons and Latins, the Atlantic Ocean becomes an 
immense commercial preserve held by the greatest combina- 
tion of arms the world has ever known.' 
Commercial FVance was so mucli in love with tlie idea 
before the war that she was studying very earnestly the project 
of making a railway fronfTangier to Dakar, whence to Pernam- 
buco, the nearest port of Brazil, tiiere are only some 1,500 miles 
of ocean. This would bring Southern America within eight 
or nine days of Paris and London. Germany's reckless 
attempt to win for her.self a port in the Atlantic at Agadir, 
halfway between Gibraltar and Dakar, was a move against this 
great enterprise ; but Germany failed, and the London-Paris- 
Madrid-Gibraltar-Tangier- Dakar line will come into being 
so soon as things are again normal and I'rancc and Spain shall 
have pacified Morocco. This line will have short tributaries 
to Cadiz, Lisbon and Bilbao, and it pa,sses through Bordeaux, 
so that it will be splendidly situated for commercial purposes. 
From London to Gibraltar it has been ait work for years; 
certain alterations on the Spanish portion will have to be made 
for the gaining of time, but this is no great affair. The harbour 
of Gibraltar has been completed quite recently. All therefore 
that remains is to construct a harbour at Tangier and build 
the line thence via Fez to Dakar. Until this is done Dakar 
can be served from Gibraltar by fast steamers. 
The military advantages of the Atlantic Alliance arc too 
obvious to require much elaboration here ; indeed, mihtary 
ejcigencies have almost made the AUiance. It is an accom- 
plished fact but for the adhesion of Spain and some of the 
Republics of Southern and Central America. J- H. 
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