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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1915-05-06, Page 7"014 Fisher" and -the British Fleet to Wag the BMA Navy to its Pr at Etlieleaey• at , - Hi Werked to Writingin reeent iesee.of the "World's Work," William. Corbin trivet a very interesting amnia Of Lord Fisher's methoh and work in the Britieh Naeys,and from which - we cnake the following extracts : lie has no bilinees, no deceit, no indireetion, no eraftineest he has, indeed, thcee-vorteroue. qualities of direettites, explosive "epeeeli, and somewhat uncouth disregard for the feelings of others which we esso- elate traditionally .with blot Bull. Fisher's meatet operations do not suggest .the stealth of the rapier,. but the elinisy, hard -bitting goad- tiekof 44. sledge-hanuner, Re does not approach hie 'subject in crab - like fashion, but pounces ot it like tbe• typical English bulldog. Take-, for example, his celebrated descrip- tion of war : "The, humanizing of war! You might as well talk of hunmnizitig hell! When a silly ass got up at -the "[ague Conference andtalked „about the :ameniti.e0 civilized warfare, ,putting your pet:. senerit, feet IA htle watee, Anet•gbe: iiag them gruel, my teply. *as eoge 'eldered totaaly unfit for publiete treit war emild .be Civilized If .1 azn in yonimattl :When' '..*Ar • breaks out, I shall issue as me ecnne inandei• 'The' essence of war Is vio- lence. lgodenatton in war is imbe- • eility. Kit Vet, hit hard, hit all the time, -hit, everywhere!' 'Hu- . Mine warfare 1 When you wring ,the neck of a ehieken, all you think :About- You don't, give the chicken intervals for -rest and refreshment." ,. There is no subtlety or -vagueness in Admiral Fisher's ghost nor has there been in hie.achieveinents: He came to the leadership of the fleet ' with the definite:perpose Of making . ' the British Navy .instantly prepar- ed for war; -- He -stamped Apon: everything' and evetybody that in- terfered with thhesupreme purpose:" He tore t.o•Piecet the 'red tape that had !een aceyinfileting for centur- ,stes; men, .ships, guns, • methods, tilmis, ideas -fell at a stroke from • •:lie strong Atm; Admiral Fisher's' •_achievement was simply this: Be- oretleoe; England had no efficient tghting navy, • It had several huge tarn:mate tscattered all over the ete • yen seas, but, se far as constituting • effectivettroteetion .to the Empire •wasteoneerned, they wera really huge ciellitiotee, TO -clay England's ,navy, under the Command ef Fisher *ild one of his 'favbtite pupils; "Sir' ttjehii-Jellicoe, is straligling to death ' • the German- Empire. • • Englant's-Te* 'Strength. • . What Sit Jan. strttggled,.for t -through flee tempestUcies: years, - ' was' extietly thething that hap, ti mined" in the early days•of August, _ 1914: an :overwhelming natal force, in instant readiness for Wit, con- • centrated exaetly at the Spot where -TAU-was Thitist needed,. Had it net \.raay safely b: „taidttliarthitie-preetsely,--thel whioh could tiotqtame.'hitpPened. In 1904, a British admiral; then not widely known Outside the ser- ViCe-e, sailor, shortof. stature, • with a round round eyes, stubby nose, withhair like ia scrub- bing liruslit and a, profile that, ;twit 'forehead to :chin, „stitek _ Out : _trent his • f 'ace like the ptow of '0., Slip -entered Whitehall vittially eemman eran-ctief. Had any • t tither Man than Fisher taken this t post just- At that .pertieular - ince • Merit,. AO one can say what might have been. the positiontOf-Ettglind at this -present hour. "There is not ••a min in , Germany,." said Lord ' ; Esher in 1e08, "froin the Emperor ' downward, who Would not welcome • than Fisher's, attempted to impres8. the Portuguese at the expense of the British fleet. It sailed proudly into the harbor, atel auchoreel be- fore the city in, magu.deesit'double row. This little proceeding roused all the British tar in Fishes eoul. He got up ,steam, salutedthe Ger- man ships, and sailed of the harbor between the .two'liiiee. On either .side, the English ships had a clearance of only twenty yarns; Only a sailor* with iron nerves and eon4nanding skill would have att4 tempted such at risky enterpriSe. Along came the Btitish,Shipi.4. how- ever, one following directly m the wake of the other. The whole city • population, amazed at thesplendid seamanship, gathered on the doelet: and even the Germans elieered the English fleet uproritiousty. at "the side*. of the ships alinost grazed their own, ,, ' By laelt •when Fisher.•becarae the inteerittendent of ' Portsmouth Dockyards, . he had. already acquir- ed a reputation- in the: navy at az, tiord Wr,orket, & master t of, details; and a raartinett. Entirely' without. iiilluentia,Itritnda, hehad already reached the TaillOc't'telbr-achnir4. Already he -was widely known among *Were and men as "Jacky Fisher," a name that signified a man "whese, will was iron and whose nerves were ilarveyized steel." 'Already the navy teemed with aneodates,'illustrhting his de. terniinatiOn.''Onen a captain who had received orders to have his ship at :a particular -place at te-partien, ler time. made the miatakent -401d-- inff back word that the thing was phy•smally impossible. 'Tell the captain," . responded Fisher, "that if he isn't ready to, start at the date mentioned I will .have...,, him. t,owed "there;"‘ Naturally the •Cati- twin, went. ePortsmouth Dockyards furnished especial eppertuiiities.to 'a rain, of his revolutionary staanp, 'FoundecFin the days of Queen 'Eliz- abeth, the methodsstill prevailing seemed fairly „representative of. the -gXteenth century. The -popular Watchirara theina,vy, `lilt don't do oo work now, hets got a job : in the .doekyard."*..aptly, deserited ,the • existingsituation: On the day Of. his arrival, Fisher,, strolling, over the place, mit several jeekiesi, surely sauntering "Whit are you men eloiog ?". he • askech • — "We're makin' wee for . some others • who are •hringue along- an oar;"the spokesman 'answered, , §eee five or six lazy -going sailors appeared. / s' "What are you , doing?" . asked Fisher. ' • . • . • "We're carrying an oar" was: the answer. , - "But I see no oar answered theadiral. ' • he,thlatsted answer- -edetheeepareeniaete.-141---we-ekeintt- 10-gbr-thetcat.r." Another' ttottr shows that-Fish- artival ezeteited at least acer- tain. wholesome jnfluene ' One of the See: Lords, whose ra- ther Slit -shod drees. disguised his real- importance.; Appeared one day in the yard looking fOlthe 'super-: intendent. He ran against a jackie stationeeLteutside _tee _eked,"se 013" puonding. the pig iron t bricks t served as a pavement. . "Are the Leeds of the •admiralty thie. weyr the stranger asked. _ • "Not =A," replied the/ gentle- man of leisure; "seeing I'm -here Masi of his time to trOaser hattons end blitejackete collars, and de - beta su4i questions as whether the esailors were to hare golden syrup or tresole. :What England needed, said Sir Charleste-And this was aloe Fisher** idea •w* al "war lord in both the 'war *Moe and the admir- alty,. who ehould prepare and ore gitnize for war," There should be reiSp011eible head, :supreme oyer the others, to co-ordinate the work of the department and reorganize the testem with this idea of Pre- Paredness direetly ip mind( Owe England, in Ste Vincent, had a Sea Lord who had broken with tradi- tion, 'gained the Mastery of the navy office, taken, a demoralized fleet and transformed it into the machine which Nelson used so effec- tively. What the present situation needed was an administration simi- !arly draetie to meet a situation equally threatening. The army bad found Its Kitchener -its organizer; the navy also needed a Kitchener. „ • Ingenieus Jackets Or Carrying, Shells, .Collpetlon of Motile Antiquitietit • • Sir ,John'e mad aetaunding Tore. 01.11,r illustration ;how men, Of the Kepi Artitlety wearing' coats latien, however concerned the which 4re to.,Plied for Use. sPe ctAl • einergeneiee, • for carrying 01111Is. DriglarKe's great -idol, ainntUnition on the person directly to the gune in circumstances 11) navy, had feet of clay. °ROW many "vbere• it is teitossible to get 'ammunition up to •t -he firiog-line Englishmen knew that, than were. , otherwise, or for use in rushingt;np supplies to -a battery running An ships, • tte great majority ef short to -Sate time when other methods are rendered impracticable. them on the active list, that were "useless and Worse than aselees'in secatsfe, ('efaarslo"f 'olhaelcy' d°1ifytshoeseeotZse'sti: soppar ease exactly- en appearance, 'like the ordintr,y rdie The jackets have deep pockets And supporting straps awl handles. The weight of the British Rel&artillery shelts' itt lbe each' Modern field, artillery Ammunition is MBA a in one •pieee, ;the . cartridge . an 'detonator' and the shell. being all eneloaed and attached in tuted the .fineet nanseura nafal anticittitie affoat .Did, the Thu.s„its P. 0,4er,i3e9,1•18,-,'sbo.17,•: preffenth., ,.- • ••• OsPontiMO C4otetneae0 t know that " the navy as carrying and officers of 'i,niPertanee -were"ortleted HoRtE figom.40LE, t •' , w, Aettally' 41)0:Kling 'Min* on filial t)0 repoit to •-• ,•; " . Anita 40 the Dapper, in 1812, .* A life • spent in, c.arefolli, thinking' • , . the Mercury, in 1826, the Pitt, in about plans for • the. Safety of the • , 18209 and the Havanna,-which first empire began now to flower into expaRTANT FACTittriN OVEN - took the water in Hai ease of 'definite clots. The system that war these.. vessels and their Men had MOW the test • Of centuries" •'SEAS COMMERCE, would. be interned; theynever went to pieces al m•ost in a day. • 'could get home ;„ the &hips them- England'lame liu.fr n fereign - selves would be .no loss but the watere.begen to limp home; many lett Of -their crews would be a. �erl were broken up where they stood ous matter. ' What made thistiittie- and -dozens :were Old at auction tient eetecialtt 'aggravating was At the oame time Fisher, in view.o that,'.,innumerons English ports, a the changed polit.ical situation 1st& number of ships were tied' up, abolished certain fleets that had tothe docks, held in reserve "be- • beenroaming about more or. les cause- there were no men to.' man aimleesly. - for years, The North them, In. the Annual ilianoeUvres, 9Sen, instead of the Mediterranean, these terfeels..- hastily - -"Manned,now became thelmadqUarteriotthe usually made a miserable showing; most powerful squadron. • A new after floundering around they fleet, of twelve battleships and six :Asually•!,f,lhrMe4-.,--ba'ckin-.tlisgraee;=:4tmored cruisers, ;West-, stationed to their' moorings: • Did the gentle- here based upon home Ports., Fisher men know that, as recently'as‘1895; organized a, 'Mediterranean fleet, .45. per: cent; of. British* warships' with eight battleships - based upon were armed % With. -muzzle-loading Malta. He then.created"an entire - guns, and that many were still en ly new 'battle 'squadron, of -eight eyrobererfthis way?. Fisher had fig- battleships .and six armored crins- ured that,by disposing of Useless • ers • which he ealled the • Atlantic ships, -EnglAndteeuld-: save $200300,,t• :fleet, ,-based upon • Gihraltat This 000 a year in repairs -money that was • also known as the„"pivot &Mid be. used for real . defensive. 'fieety ; with . the help wireless °purposes. . .• / . • t , telegraphy it eould. twingtst a mo - And *Wier did 9r1i)p • hesitate to ment's notice, and join either the instruct hie, .asseinhied etatesnien Channel fleet; or the one stationed upon theitteviti"-peetilfar' province: in the -Med'it'ettaneah' • Thit,was that ofEurepean'!Polities. • IsTeems4 the distribution which ca,used a re. thoilldtte.-teluticin in English natal .prepared - tome -correlatiOn between the dis'e ueese• thereal test Of ',which 'dame ttibut463 of the Rea And England'the other day with the sudden ext erellatietts" with Ille:reet.of-thesweilds _plozi�nofwar. The Jais�rdid,net ffe w Many Englishmen knew t.hs'it _find- the' British Son* isee,' ete-red all the: existing disposition of th.e. Brie over the world, Matte ,thein unfit tish fleet was baked upon the Pelt. Trite, service of .any .kina, fOuna. ties of the .eigliteenth cen,tiiry, or a huge armache.ttationed atleasttlheh6firititiohahlf of • the nine. at his:trent door, blocking his .ciwn t nese• .tee egrese.! And Sir John had made israpajdnre eetatiestfi-done most of -iither-prenarationm.-- He had haurf--, jinposantAghti-ng_in_the.xedi...: edthe g'unnery work over to :Sir --tereeneatr-andt-aelfaeefit---Wafierst—PeteY-Scett-'-andt-Sirejehn--Jelticeee the Nile and Trafalgar; ever 'since - 'with results that have been .app_aae England. had. kept her strongest ent in every naval engagement so naval force in ' this part of the far. And he had engaged in another world. : The admiralty.: office tee- scrapping Performainee,compared hiod France as England's greatest. with' which that -of :1904 was trifling. foe -France, whioh, as a Mediter; .The -Conservatiieii.had roared and .rianean Power, could swoop 'down fumedas ship after ahiP. disappear - upon England's ro4icl to India and _;e4 from the navy :list And Went effectually.: blockade it. Polities_; Upon the auction MOBIL . When Sir Tioiviyyer, had e-eiteeo to regard .John • launched his dreadnaught, in France as the strongest Power 1906, it •became apparent 'thathe threatening the British Empire. was a radical indeed. For this yes - Everything indicated, declared ..sel, so fay as the, 04:battle line Fisher, that that empire was to be was ' concerned, "serawed" the saved , Or lot in -the North Sea. whole British navy. . Englai's old. Many Automobile Soldiers Have Plenty to Est and 8k.ot Wblli lionseval of Wounded is • Greatly Fuellitnted by Auto Asebulesees, The part which motor irehioles the number and ooed of the trucks have been playing in the prebent are emiaidered. war has beeoea eouree of pride. as Lots of ;Goat Foot, well as keen niteteet to motoreete • • In all reports received Irma the everywhere, . The, British ariny, trenehei, whether private Or 0017 front .top to hettom„ has been wee eial, the ,etateeamit has eawayi UO4 tOriZefi at much as possible and Madefilltit the befit offood is plentlet • even the Canadian, eMitingenta are 'ful. • The insehisnicat transport Of - provided . with .considerableauto- the Army &Tette Come- probably mobile..04uipment, . can be thanked •tor this ,etete /Of t : • The rootolleatiop of •the Canadian affairs. With the, motor trueka,:the— 'army division is .a prominent fee- fighters in the trenehea. :are able to -ture et the ,developniented the over-' have wakes. foodnot more than et • seae foregiet, Three 'ineter -machine houre .after 'the. aphuola have been. gun. betteriee. . have • been, or are • ...died. and a variety of freele food is being provided for the Canadian supplied- by meaneof the motor fighters in the 'Siftore, Borden And eears. .. The 'splendid diet provided Eaton battery • units •and the Cana- has been means of keeping the diap Army •Service Cerpt ..alee havesoldier mod, health tender teet 'a great many .gasoline'-drirna ng. eontlitionte * 2 • , • clee, which are used in, a less epee- The motor trucks of the Modern taeular, yet highly ,. important, arruy transport are Able ,to earry a, duty -namely the transporting - of load of three tons,. Or. 6,004 pomade, . supplies of food; ..emmiptition • and at least. • Tte old horse-drawn clothing to these nethe front lint's. Otte eatinet carry more than 3,009! , Further, :' the .Tie;r1 °toes Society has pounds of load each and the pees - feared the t motor ambulance. Judie- of the latter is. eoreptratiyele very pensable. To date,no fewer time ow., Moreover, the jefirees get. twenty-eight teat:tort , arahnlancek .trecl and need More or leis 'etreful • , have been donated for'arrey;utedi.` attention, vainest ,i•onstantl,y; • The' ,Teal".parposes, by the. people , of result is that it hAsheta found, that, • Canada. It is almost impossible to one .nittor lorry een. .replace . fear 'ettiiitate- the .value tit',,titese gifts, in Cr, Alm hetet. ve•hietett .: '• :. t the:hu.Menitarlari Work which -they - • Equipineet• for n1)1%14014 .. are lining. • : • Forthe Divisi-orial Supply ..C.O1.# . - tinlif of an army division.. the size •Training On the Road. • , , . • .. . , . of the whele second Canadian con- - • . An interesting part of the train-: tingent,= the foliotving.motor vat. . ing of the motor department of theC:A.S.C, now. in practicei at the recut i Two Motor oars, seven mo. °let -constitute the regular equip- • 'Exhibition Military . Camp, is the toreyeles; th3 itty-eight -ten lorries; . : , helding•Of extensive eentetoura•tY three titietersi" two -won:shop trirek4.7"'" , motor eat forthe purpose of giving tin4 one stare , traek; For U the members of the Service Corpaa pima Ammunition Park, wheskt certain amount -, of* experierke; in duty it is to keel: the fighting uartst,...' road work. •Many motor vehicles, supplied with emmuultien, the fol.: . nearly nil' of whin') are large trucks, lowing- is the motor' e.'quipment:' are used in. -the trips which occuPy Five motor cars, :nine inolorc,yi•les; . six. tractors, tis 3 -ton 'lorries, War workshop trucks, and two strive and totitteke: -.The rnatOrcyeles'arik s,. used forereesengers and eniergencY - purposes. . The, motorcars are em- ployed be .the officers tOtkeep in personal. toueh ' with all parts of, the divisional front, ..*Thi,„tractors. r hatil . lie iiitt trai le rs - Containing 'sup-, plies, and the lorries are Used in , • himerica 120,600 • Horses to the Wareing . , In these days of automobiles' it is not generally realized that, horse raising is still a 'profitable industry as well as an important factor in -oversea estimated that , more -than 120;000 horses :have beer: .shippedt to Europe since the beginning ,Of the war, destined for use .in the field,. and the shipments are steadily ipeteaeleg. .The horses-a,re Used for the most part in the. cavalry and attillery 'services, 4 single firm .is now cote- ii/etiriff a ehipnient of 25,00Crhorses; doing, crovi for them."• •' • • to the pigeon-hele., "'Crow 7 What's that England h.ad practically no naval. a P.roPorideralwe over Other -.tares ' "Crow is wot I'm a -doing of. -In- fere:es in her home' webers: mean:. as in 1906, when Fisher; by his new TA •shed. ll iee building trogeamine, relegated it. ' , ' sithat athe- matare while England's real enemy was • ationst Europe by etly, of, Italy, from where they will be forwarded as qiiickly as possible to the drilli0 of the Allies at the front. , The horses purchased by the EU' , , ropean,armies are as •a ,ruie snort regeed shaggy animals \ capable of .gteat endurance. probably 40 per cent. of the hates tent abroad for army setvice have not been broken to the halter. . Such horses are of little value-foribreeding purposes and as far • as tbe improvement .of horseflesh in general* is. concerned the teuntry, is well rid of them:. . * The entire 'country is being; ran- sarked to meet .the Earopeae , • utantit--AT large'ttioportion of ;flit. :horsestp1v ia.gathettalieba_t_thes -Westeeneplejnes-The great- ranges and the markets where the horses are gathered for sale are 'pietnr- esque 'surroundings of the wild 'Western life, which is tnow*rapidly 'Passing - • The collection' of this . army of horses for Europe suggests a great wild -west show - onan-immense scale. Thousands of cottbu'ye are required for the work andMuch daring , riding and driving must* be done before the tens of thousands of -horses are etiunded up On the ranges and finally entrained for the But, for tw,e..thirds,, of the year faehioned fle•et had never had such East. . " the . fall' , Sir :John • Fisher."' ' • playin' cards ancl takin' it. .e.asY tillaisfOrmiliff this Korth • Studying NeW'llieelienrem of War: Ont. here keepire witch Sea inte the :Gentian OceanThese changes caused the Sanap- .' And . "There` never was such a plucky , Gerniany was not 'basing her fleet son -Schley controversy" Of the- Bei - for 'em Wh,en. I sees one eerain • ettitelhetigaee't attritnst.rt:itteofe•tille--,eighteeete_ trsh navy; Lord Charles Beresford says .calling 'the tnidshinma,n in 'When 't tit -est Old • 111*er' knocks- century, hat' 'upon . present. day enlisted his aristeeratie. influence tee ,Crimeliii Wart "quick as a like -Thietee; mid when 431;c1!._ Fisher realities. The ICai4er as not Feats •' in , attempt to eittee Fisher's nionkey, keen as a needle, hard as pokes his, nose through • the shedie tea:4 hzs baft,le squaarons isout-'zin*nian:-*Tinta==a few brief years :• -He would do anything ancl all the matiee are workin' like it of -the -way stations; -he he was follow; -has Made it . completely• riclieu. • • lous N • doubt, ,A: hundred years , , . ing Nelson's dictum and train • n , go anyWhere • he didn't know *hat W°. -$062'.-'•- it.fear liras, or that there, was au& a Several. years after his, Ports- his ships in the Waters where they. ago; Many critics proved that Wel- Word III ' the • latleitgt as 'Can't) ineuth, days, Fisher visited one :a WOUter 1:906tr likely have' to,. Wit., lington knew. nothing Of, the,art of And yFk_with.it all hewas one of his old &est:elates of the 'hieteattle tile had.4.gtaken.., CaptaintAith.---1" 'warfare ; • doubtless . thereore - : the quietest, most modest, fellows iv'ho was 'then lithigonthilf patt a.sepre.....4.g,o.enius- in---naval-straz--2-VientY- ot----:ParlialifentarT' torators- r lt . •.hate. over itnown,"..„.ffe-Partioipat_ He found the• old man comfortably 'tege; and the central Point of Cap- who regarded Nelson as a • fool. ed iri the attaqk tin the Peiho forte settled in :it efittaffe attericled"by an. tido Afaheits , philosophy was ton•# _England Can congratulate ;v.-it...Self ...._eentra 'on._ "11110 15-nyz; totheiesuperannueted.:seaman.--- . n one fact: and ho ommandect t,ne in. the p .2 •..„„ 7.:.flexible at the borribkainent of - "Why :do you have - this other . These were .the Nese 4,4 teshel, _Kmtethe Cabinet, stood firnity, by , • Alexandria, in 1882. This latter.tir- man here I" asked the -admital-.. net only laid before It's visiting, 719tt: • A - Parriottlentaret invea - . :---...-::0111n-staRIP.IS,-etae-Xkoks---4-hP-'11r9g-ress. --...q1,1ceepsflint2' er F i ;" ._ _said.lhe Pen,- -a-tahesgie4 - -:-I-)-u-t---Pttttb-t4- -blitthliel gattnii, held to investigate. charges. Fie*-t-ited made since Orimeen sioner; "t0 eormi. into my ctoatteee DV , all aesiblettoecasions. whe-14trottlateckhytetlieresfordttrepetted , days. Thb-tInflexibla was Eng-. at five o'clock in .the inernin' . an' ever he eoeld get the ear of an. in- whole-hearteday in Fisher's fever.The crisis came in 1908, when Ad - sin 4:,tit 'irri-therel- 'The Had. 'fluential p origin , _ he „ . overwhelmed . • • • E----nyeetle-Beteisfotd.elem . and ' cqnlinarid .*as theeefore,. toirel wints-totsee-Yout A teat , _hien with the rveseity of Ilta, nq by hauling dawn his flag a 'year be- theettreatest prize in the Servide: Merely ,rolls ,overs in. my bed and •ki.eSe, reftoi e Amed. thp. prees: .daily an. periocheagy,, leetetee fore the retiring ageo—d; eiream, ' ;Already rether' had speteatieed in says,, `Tell 'old Fisher to go stance 'that amounted practically to 'en " • • and s ok t• G ldh 11 b q •di 1. M t th a smissa, a ou e. 691110 .0b0etV4ti011,• ViShir Ilad tueepedecl One of his eca slope aPPearante't in 'the Peerage; • The ',final,• triemP the • new developments such as steam, iron, turrets, motilern guns, • that .hti,ve trensfeginiet• navel war- fare, and, in inn?, he already • recognized as .the .greatest'artillere • ist the navy.' . • ., ' a result of his' many years Onee Lied, Charles lietesford, in time Sirtjohn Fiehei. Was raised to diagnesirig the cottplaint then Parliament; -enlogized the :navy, afilieting the I3titioh. navy;there. •tetd.it6matql-amd this tItSite his 1°Ianma,:i'mao.efTv'eolinntinsetani'ts;.agt°11ewhenna:tiob-ri. was toe 11-nicli''eloing:•01'0•'' fndo- .13€1"tur.-0-44 -.Ekliglai'd tailed the - • admiral, now.'whi tc LAS . The next 'few years Fisher. gave leace, Ignorance, and carelessness la reasons tO -SatISfitd with re • up entirely to okudying tho, new clogged every branch of the service, The next day Fisher "tuelied. into loo,Ohaniro of vair, He was always active and Administrative. In 1899, Ins' alEee• ' winle eciimaanding the .i.'Take j back- 1" he eLied • red'o Tight toirvIerile* itlete and life : with :111M was, tattrefore, • one perpetual ..straggletwith . `cold fogeyikat.!' A single episode shows •ttliettra11y recant is the-bonsted.. • Modernism of clar: navies: in the , early •.'eightlee the muzzle -loading cannon 'wait still -tihe.dependente of warbhips; Fisher' had Otie ol his herd' tuasles in his attempt to getr • the hteeeti loader on • „hoard. • Aft was one of theeerlieet, to Welton* the torjeir.clot-the %first .torpede teheol established inrEnk:: • WO WAS EiSharls Work. --13-The .grentlact that vie are all realizing," he said itnei at aub- llc •barkilne4 "is that 611 the Bribith navy teats the British Emptise,_ NOthing..tilte is of any use without • it, not teen 'the array. are dif- •• &rent from Continerital, nation.s. aoltli4 of ours oaft go AnyWheies united is sailor eartieti hitri.there or: hit . ^ ' . When 'Germane Cheered Visher. • ..Onectis ,oti Lisbon, a .Gemiart eitatt,droni," that was Much larger ranean 'fleet, -:risher. delivered 'SUIT- It • back! - We're' net ' 'satisfied. eittl lectutes. at Malta on his fiver- Take it back, OL get it flew leteofisea ite Copies, to ,Iltiets-tvhbet the an- thesis.. ' Any -tiitietIthave any reing emit niano,euvreateere .oh; he asked tad* Itfteloit mYeelf ett- severatmembers of the.Govertteent to visit him at Matta.. .seized 'the. "Aiitocrat'?; of tur.,avy, this opportunity to explain' pre- • By this tiine the Governmenthad cisely , how inefficient an metrument 'already called'Fishet to WhiteIuall the navy' was. • These . •gentleteeet as First -Sea Lord. "The old man trained from thilelltiod in the [rndi- is like a torpedo waiting for the tional English conception 4:4 the hi- head • to be screwed oottt an. old •virleible 'fleet; 'stood astounded at salt had renitirked; on ,October his revelations. took 'them le04-ttheteinet,y-tinth etiniverta.ry over the ground, beginning at the of the battleof Trafilgar-:tlit head 'first seat of.:trouble,„ the Board of 1113 soreweel on. Mr. Arthur 3. Admiralty. Ilhis'boarol, he showed Balfour, then Brittle. Minister, and hernt•traeeel its otigie to the•days, one of litelter'e most erithutiestie �f Queen- Annbt and 'had altered' eonverteitteve him -Pritetleally Very little in 164 e0iititittitiell Sincefree hand.. When Fisher 'began to that time. It had no coherence, upset things, many Englishmen, to' head, no organization :that Te.. espetially those of .the traditicalaa cognized fundainental changes in, kind, EX . their shorrified polities and naval art. Ito probably. amazement, • • , quoted from a man*with whom oven - Tho organization of the admiral - then he had hacl'hia trouble, Lord ty, was. ehatiged ;Ito as tb. give him Oliarlcs Deresford, Who"had said, praetically JibixillitAN control; he, in, a public .epeechf that ,the Pirstwsa plioe4 At the lteed. of ,eeveem. Rea tiortV then Admiral Kerr, gaye important, committees anct ;Inota , .•k . . naired,'-ed "seventy-four years 014 --from retirement and plated the destinies of the .British Empire] " tiVliande ' • , • -1-Aceitiding-to-thettelentifie :eerier, jean, the lightest woou in existence is the wood ef amtaelt legU101- nous plant that grows near Isake Chad •and. on the triletteries•Of the upper Nile. The pee, which is sometinies called the pith tree, of - lea atteine &diameter of six inehei iu the two or :three veers tof its life. At: that age it dies, and an -- Other Sheet %tarts from mote. 'When cut,, the wood is ' almost 1Whitat and is soft and brittle, like the pith gel the elder. Some the wood is exported to the United 'States and 1?inglaneltto make floats fcit.fishiog tackle, And in general to be used at a substitute for eerie Atabeelt Wood contain; minute orys- 'tars of ealetotit oxalate, which quieldgdull the axes and bilges of the choppers. On the other hand, the presence of the ertetele Makee tte wood, it is said, an excellent substitute for theustial' razor strop. I •. The largest of the horse markets, which is :located at Miles City, Mon., has supplied thouiends Of the horses- And will econtinue . to ship • thin. • No, wild west. shot. in the Matt Can rival in interest shit great et:Arlen thm-are- req.i ed to round un the horses. kir a tin •glessalet when theasaadetiftherse will lie displayed and disposed of in' a few hours. At one,of these horse auctions more than, 10,669 horseel- were sold.in lessithan thre,e days. , The horses_Are_ driven* in .0"k ship- ped__froin_ the _surreal n ointry for weeks in -advance. They are for • the mest pert gieeit horses, only a striall,percentage having felt the beidle.. On. arriviag et the•market' hey ere driven, in p series, of pang, Paoh eaclosere. holdieg from , hirtst:tietfiftetaitiniatst;-13hte 'Pens - are en4losed by high board fences. of very_ strong Co t t ion 1707.1: a Petted of, One to four days.. The offiCers Of the corns 'travel at the head of the flying coitund in tobr- ing „cars and the privates\ ride in the trucks,' five to a truek,* • A unique feature is that the col- umn camps at the road -side each night, and lives exactly under ac- tive service' conditions. The Bebe- dulet call for a fifty-railedrive each day, whiek Isa loug distance when transporting heavy loade, '• ..• , • • • , fight among the horses ora desperA . (ate attempt of pne of ;theliorses to elinth.the 'enclosure. At few minutes iat' mosttiffices Complete the, sale and at 'a signal elhara.at -one side of the enclose .ure, are lifted and the cowboys skil- fully drive the horses ,Ori'a?iother en- closure. .Atipther group Of .• riders are , testi waiting meanwhile . pour the next lot into the enehls.- -ure-; and so the aiiimated.sale goes . '•' . , • Log trains of tare run' among the-horseZpens and the Work_ of ,loading heistit gees .rapidly' for- ward. " • ; • • •TNTENNATIONIAI, • LESSO-N, • MAY .:s. I" • , 1 Lesson Friendship of DavitT' • and "Jonathan. Samnel 29. Golden Text: Pray. 17. 17. Saul Again- Attemiits to Take • David's Lite (Verset -ti -34.). • Verse 33. Saul cast his spear - He btandished it es •in -Sam: ie. ungovertable temper is well shown here. Not only does he make ctn. exhibition of thinfielf. .1tes fpre his whole tonft on' a fast day,: but he would aliematte Jonathan, hs hetoie• son,. ae well as • David • .his great waerioe, With the Phi 16 - tines watching 'hi•s every move, this was the ciente . of footieliae.ss." 34. •Itte. was grieved for Da- vid -Saul had' insulted • 'ler:at:hie sorely. JonatharChe'weyer; thinks only et. the .sheine which his father, .hadeloiletattid.•,.„ tliitild's Danger Made Ii-noien , • to Rini -(Vetees 0%40). 35 -At the Hine appointed. -See 1 Sam. 20. 15-g3.,_, A little. lact-One who woeld ..„•-•' • suspect what was ))- -' "g one. 33. The arrows---Thrqe 1*Iirrows wereshot (1 Sam. E10.- 20). FOr. the :purpose Of the store, :it was net- ueoessety for -the *narrator to stribethe._ shooting of the rnd vi arrows, _, • 40. Riavteapone-:-Itis bow, aligi quiver. • • 'III. The Farewell of jonathta anil,. • tvie (Verses 9 41. , A Place- toward the Sentit- • David.,was hidingto the southward_ of, the...stone Ezel Sam. • Fell on, his lace land, 40-ireki'* himself three time -In token Of reverentece_.andt res_peet, , to • royalty, jonathan being the king's -son. ' But also in gratitude to Jonatheat- becatiteteftehetlove`he- bete - -Jaeob acknowledges-Eeatts superi- ority by bowing to him (she Gen. 33. 3; .see also Gen. 4246 ; 43. 20. : 42. Forasmuelr as ---The 'oath ale ready sworn was binding. . Jena - than relieves all possible dikibt that might have come t.o Pavkl"SI mind by referring to the ogle, • • 4, The Oldest Scottish. Unieersity. •' St. Andrews, *Meth has .juist' lose - its prineipaLzand-viee.ehanotillor,- iSir James 'Doitialgletni, is the oldest • lof the eottis,h universities, ,being founded by,•Bisihep 'Wardlaw in 14.11, leye Months betore the bat- tle of Haetaw, ,and while the Iting, James. I., was still prieonet- . England. Its beginnings,, tays the Pall Mall Gazette, were simple,' for hough. as Bellenden states 'in. hia ",Ohroniklit of _ Stetlaneltit,fetuteyttt.S.... exeelleiet and noble, clerke • ,war.. brocht-out of eindriettentelet to't preceptours- in. it," 'the first .butel- ing, then tailed the Patchigogiute of St. John, but later St.:'Mary's •• lege, was not erected unta. ,1430: y C. c_ plOyed•:. in the ma:ket "dote: • rot:tiding tile the animal's,. ..drieirte, thein frorn.,ope et:eh:sere to another. and. display in; 'them . for 'tale --Thethorseseaittairetitatel-eff in •it-, arge arena.' ':Tli-e-1.•pittehasers' are; seated in re,covered iatoo 'n,t. -one .eade„-ortpetched along ...the • fe..n ces. The.hyyere ip-elude som.e of the most expert -judges of horsefleele in world. -,Theprineipal horse dealiet. -firmer a re . rept eSeti•tie th4i*i.th g.1641'-8, the - The sole: proc.e.cds:yery angl. ten eeveta thettitandtheraeet will • hetptittthrettglie-thetetpseeertiefate - the •purehasers and disposed of ie. a sinle hour. •. - •. • . .A herd ot• perhaps. •,ftrtY hoesta 'wilt be :driven from 40 enelosure along the tie:- ,,boarded•• rLuIivay with the aid• of perluits dozen tido . horsee came • pounding into the etelosit re . ' in ...it 41 Mid of dust. The- anetiotmer, Who. is al - was . Mounted ; creeks a tong whip and, With...the .eiti of his eoettioy 48- olqtantst puts the horses through' their petes. 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