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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1914-10-1, Page 6ClIA.PIER VIL-(Centinued). Doctor Crewe was a hateliet-theed little man. He greeted the adorer euetlY. "lYlao.tes the meaning of tine toje 14a.r. •Craddock Ime been pourteriato rnY ear?" he demanded, "She says the Wall I drew up for poor Camas:line een, t found!. I told her you raw& ell be blind, for X put it in the to right hand drawer of las desk, locked itthee the key back to Carwardine, tiad he saw mo rept:lee the etey on the bunch to when), it belonged.' -There ie no Will M any of the answers of tee desk," repliea Mr, Norton. "Come and, (see for youreelf, But first tell me who benefited by this Will?" "A lot, of ebarities-I forget their neras," woe the reply. "Martha Crate dock wae left a few thousand emaude, I think. and the two girls fifty pounds a year eibeh, I maw tell you, Mr. Norton„ that X did 331y best to pereuade Mr. Cer- wardine to leeve his money to his daughters, but he seemed to have taken , vuslent dislike to them., and threatened s that if I would not write whet he asken, ae would leave them completely peune leas. I thought they svouldn'e thank me reeL 1 did wh4 aie iket." "Who were the witnesees?" iaquired Norton, "Myself end James the gardonsr," was the reply. The lawyer was silent for a few min- utes. "I suppose Cerwardine wag $01111d. in mind. when he eigned the Will?" he aelte-d. "Perfectly," was the reply. Air. Norton led the way in eilence to the study, but Doctor Crewe was no luckier th ane sear eh than the others had been. "With ray awn hande 1 planfd it in the drawer. in e long envelope, he said, gIarhag angrily around aim. "Some one has taken it!" eried Martha.. "It looks uncommonly like it." said the dotter. "But who could bey° taken it?" aeked Duthie. "Only Doctor Crewe and Martha knew weer& it was placed, and it seems scarcely possible for any one to take the key of the drawer from my father% bed- room without his knowledge." Dulcie's remarks tseepaed very mueli to the point, and. Martha regarded lier viciously. "When it is found, you will not be so hoity-toity. nay lady," she snarled. "You forget youreelf, Martha," said Dulcie with dignity. "You are an old servant and privilege& but yrat are get- ting too presumetuone. You had better go out. of the room." "I shall do nothing of the eort!" re - r ed the woman rudely. Duleie turned to Mr. Norton. "Please get rid of this woman for us," she mid. "Pay her what ie ewing, and a month's wages in advance. My sister and I have endured her insolence for many years becauee eho was an old servant, but we will not do so any thnger. Our minds are quite made up on this point, and if she has not left the house by twelve o'clock to -marrow I hall ask you to send to Stalstead for a policeman to remove h" Dulcie was perfectly cool, and her voice was determined. - "Do you svieb. to -dismiss the woman?" Mr. Norton asked Prbairose. "Yes, please," wee the filen reply. "She has been no friend to my sister or my- self. I shall be very much obliged if you -will arrange for her to leave the hoese • at the earliest possible =omelet." "You will be scary - for this before anariy- days are over,- said Martha, laughing unple-asantay. "I 'will heve the law on you for doingaway with that Will. I know your goings on for the last three months, meeting men CO). the sly, and kissing them in the woods, and—" She did not finish her sentence, for the lawyer etopped her. He spoke a few wordss of -warning to the angry woman, who flung out of the room with this parting Ghot: "Wait till the Will turns ua!" But the Will did not "turn up," al- though a eyetematic search was made throughout the house, both by Mr. Nor- ton and his clerks, who thoroughly en- joyed the task, as it brought them into frequent tents:et with Duthie, who looked Prettier than eeer in her elegant mourn - thee At the end of a fortnight the search was abandoned as hopeless. for it was evident that the document Doctor Crewe had drawn up was not within the wails of Blue Poets. Martha Craddock remained in the village while the search continued, and then took eervice with Doctor Crewe, who happened to be in need of a cook. To him eho asserted her firm belief that either Primrose or Delete Carwardine had learned of the Will and destroyed it. "I am sure X do not know what bas be- come of it," said the doctor. "You should have taken better eare of it -yon had plenty of opportunities for removing it to a safer place than the study." "Ho-sv was 1 to know it would be stolen?" asked Martha angrily. "If aon had given me a hint I would have kept the Will in my *wii possession, and we should both have been lecher by several thousand pounds." "I do not know what you moan," was the doctor's reply. "If you have forgotten what your share was to be for doing what old Carwardine wanted and keeping it quiet, I have not," muttered Martha. "Your memory is playing you a trick," call the doctor. "It may suit you to say so now," re- torted. Martha, 'but 1 tancy you would have been singing another tune if the Will had not disappeared." "I do not want to heat, anything more about the Will. X am weary of the whole affair, and if you, cannot hold your tongue about it you won't stay in my 'house!" Martha, Craddock, sullen and disap- pointed, entered, reluctantly on her duties. The hopes she had cherished were shat. tered with her cunning plans, but one crumb of eomfort remained to her when she heterd that the Misee earwax -dine were leaving Blue Posts and going to live in Loird,an. "Thankwoodnere I shall never see their fates again!" :the said. "Idle, good-for- nothing creatures! No good -will come to either of them!" She ecoured her pans vieiousay, wiehiug she could serve Dulcie and Primrose as she treated the kitchen utensils, CHAPTER VIII. When 1> was evident that no Will eat. oept the one Mr. Norton possessed was fortbcomieg, steps were taken to put it into effect. The sestets found they had money in plenty-severaI thousand Pound's a year, Primrose asked afr. Nortoe to take charge of their affairs, and seen Duleie 'said she> did not -want to Meath at Blue Posts, they derided to sell the fumaiture and take a furs:tithed Ilse In London for the -winter. The furniebed flat was Dulrie'S euggese time ahe wrote to Piiilippa Heriott, ing bee of the change in theie fortunee, and aelting for •asefetaitee in the selection of a flee Philippa Wel the news to her brother tit breelefeet. "What on earth do they want to come to London for?" he asked, with an India ferent air. Duthie tainke that Blue Posts ie a de - Decoying old batiste, anl eertainly 1 do not eee elay they should bury themselves -there rtow-cepeeitilty as tbey appear to be telt extremely well off. I' shall offer to find a fiat for them" Pei int grml ted. • 1 elamesse Belturbet will be coming to tas n too," be Said "Duasie Seats not mention eine" wes the ror.'77. Horott hrugxect b le ehould e re, and ceanged the euleleot, A few week's later Duthie and Pritnrcee were inotalled in a, fiat not .yery Inc from the frezsetta :VW for Ehe fleet time in her Dutcle experienced the bliesset tamed - 1, a rtiny• frt•o1y, Sim went item sbop to 011 011, 11 uy g whatever thee her . Fa trey , and before many +lays -were over she lied aequiredan exteasive and elaborate wardrobe, She revelled in the thought that there woe no one to eay her nay, for although Primrose eluded ber gently for being er- trnvagant, yet he agreed that, after ell, there eves no reason -why they ellould uot now purobases the things that bad been denied them for so inanY years. "I am going to make ui for lout time," announeed, Duthie, "Ceine along, Prima, let las Re shotaniage We will take a, taxi, a-nel eau tor Phaillea• She has teeti saw - fully rieeent to us, aud I ern goieg to aelt her to oeeept the fur eoat sho ad- mired so =mph the that time we ,were nt Kay's," Duthie was certainly not solaria with her newly -acquired. . wealth, and the naceltY of having money to spend oontented her for a •while, occupying the wbole of her time; but at length it began to pall, and she longed for some other form of ex- citement. She eultivatea Philippa's acquaintance, .but lit spite of her efforts, saw very lit- tle of jira. If elm and Primrose weut to tea with Philippa, Itericate did not eppeer; be was either out or ia his workshop, If they aelted Philipme and her brother to dinner the latter alwaye ha4 it busivesse eaeagement. Duthie did not easeear to no- tice it, but ales .defectien wounded her in a very yutherable part -her venitY. When she had bought more clothes time she could possibly wear during tale next few yeare, she began ouce more to experi- ence the sensatione she had suffered whei Jim told her that be -would have nothing more to do with her. Three times a -week Belturbet wrote her dutiful letters, to -which he replied in the eeme strain. At the end of that, period, however, instead of sending the usual politely affectionate reply, she wrote that she feared she did. not care sufaeiently foe, him to =erre' him, that she had been mistelten in her feelings, and Imped he would forgive her, and several pages in a similar strain. • She would have felt anythieg but flat- tered had she realized the immensity of Arthur Belturbete relief on reading her letter. At first he .feared he might have misunderstood it, but ethen he found he was aetually free once more, he got up from the breakfast -table and paced quick- ly about, the room, his heart full of, joy and, thankfulnees. It eemned incredible that after making snob a fool -of hinaeelf -was going to be let off so lightly. His Rest impulse was to Ily to London, eeek Primrose, and esk her to be his -wife; ,but on reflection he saw that to do this immediately on being rejected by her sister would not Place him in a very favorable aight. Beeidee, what reason bad • he for image ining that Primroee would listen to him? How could he expect her to believe -that he was honestly in love with leer when a few months ago he had eroposed to mares' her Sister? Ile thought it over for a long time, and the joy he had felt on receiv- ing his dismissal frora Duthie ssobered into doubt "Whata dolt I wee from the very erct! he told himself. "If I had not overheard her say that day in the woods that ehe intended to -marry sne, I should bane- lov- ed her from the beginning, trusteed of eretending to anyself that I did not. But I wonder what made her say it -when aha did not mean it? I know now that she is the very last girl in the -world to run after a man.--yetshe did say it, for X hefted her. Anyhow, I do not ears what she said. One day, 'perhaps, -when we.aee married, I will aek her the reason, end I expect we slaall both la. -ugh at the very simple explanation she will give!" He wrote a nice letter to Duthie, ae- quieseing in the wisdom of her decision, adding that he had feared they were not in syrapatby -with each other, and that he hoped, .aathough she hael deeided that they were only to be triende in the future, that they would be -warm friends. He mentioned that he was going abroad for the -winter, but would be returning to Bngland in the spring. Duleie received the letter at breekfaet time, and yawned as she read. it. "Thank goodneee, that's all over-" she said. "Whet is all over?" asked Primrose, who had recognized the writing on the envelope. "My engageraent to Arthur Belturbet," -was the cool reply. "I have broken it off. I really didnot care e scree for him, so whet else could I do?" Priraroee regarded her sister with amazement. She had not ha,a the faint. est inkling of DulcieSs desire to end her engagement. "But -but---" she seed, hesitating, "1 thought you wanted above everything else to marry Mine' • "When I hadn't a penny. But -things are .aliferent, now -besides, a -woman earl eleven change her mind if she likes. You can read what the immaculate Arthur says, You will see then that I have net broken his heart." • "I do not want to read the letter," said Primrose. "Teen I shall read it to you, ,retorted Duthie. She did eo, reading Arthur BeiturneVe carefully selected phrase s with apparent enjoyment of their coereetnees. "You Can plainly see, my dear Prim, that ne tender sentiments are broken," she said when she had finished. "In fact, sve Ileac 'both come out of the affair sound tu mind and heart!" Primrose nodded. "All the same, Duleie," she stied quiet- ly, "he must have loved you when he ask- ed you to merry him, and because he seems to accept your dismissal philo- sophically, it does not follow that be does not feel it.' Duthie looked slyly at her sister. "If Primrcee knew as lama as I' did about what barened when he asked me to marry lira, she thought, "she -would not be so sure about it,. Anyhow, I got what I -wanted at tbe time, and no one is a, penny the worse now as far as I can see." "If he IS upset he will soon get over it, she said aloud, "arid it -will do him good to find nut he can't marry the first girl he is engaged to." Primrose saw that whatever Belturbet' wounds anight be, Duleie had come out of t,he engagement, =scathed. She did not allow hereelf to revel on -what might hews happened if it had not oesiurred to DUIcie • that the master of Old Ilauee would be a good mat& for bee Bo barl fallen, a victim to Duthie, ahd Prinarose Mu( there- fore endeavored to banieb all thought -of him, .exeeet as Dulcie's lover. Sbe had de -voted all her energies to aer father during hie ihneees and .clurieg those ter- dae-eef wateaing and waiting had thrust all thought of self away from her. The question ef the missing Win lied for it time Weed everything elee into the beekground,. mad Primaroee bad little leisure for introepection. Delete had not been in the least worried, (la:hiring' that it was fortunate for them the Will had disarnmered. Primrose felt elle& that there wae a mystery. but no one Seemed able to solve it, eo the matter dropped. .As the •winter easeed away, the rases in Prima -age's pale ebelts begari mice Teem to bloom, the eita•dewe faded from beneath her gray eyes, and she seemed e -very day te grow more like the gaY, lighthearted Priniroee et a. year ego, Dialcie,on the other hand, becense Teets leee and uncertaitt in her moo1s,. for al- tbough Howlett knew lime she -eas now free, he Inaintathed the ettitsade heavid taken tip when the ,sisters frit (some to Modest. 1th dia :not meet tbew more often slaty politeness.: eompelled, and when he dud le a,lkod far more to Pelt/nose than Dnlie, in spite of tbe lattera al. teuiptO to engage lthe in argument or relhipcpaN reception o, 1114' newe that Belturgt Woe Once 11101,0 a Ire& cent, !tad '647 men'ertl“C.:etlIrlidnti'ada r 0114 IV b ft t. made aitti oronose >0Duthie aurwardine,' sbe teas:settee to her twelves sOf csouree, ha iteasott ssheaseeptati wee obvious, slue her Illtjng him now eroves that, site -Never eareea t>ortiv about hiut. L'WOOdet The Undaunted Spirit of the gelgians A. WOUNDIDD Belgian artilleryman after Imaing his wounds dressed, ready tor another battle. if he will ask us down to Cast Ho -we next summex ?' Jim mane no reply. "If lea does, I shall not go." he thought. Because he loved Dulme, and she WM now a.' Wealthy young vollaa,11, Heriott was nearly as rude to leer as a, gentlemaa could peiwalt lihneelf to be on the fele oceassione 'when they met. "She weals tO ilirt with me agaiu till soraebody else eomes along.", he reflectea grimly, "and then treat me as she has treeted Bel- turbet. No, I am not to be foaled again!" He set himself impossible taske to achieve in his workshop, and grave irritable and quick-teraperecl. . His feelingwere patent to Philippe, who regarded Delete far more favorably now that young lady did not -wish to fee nex Belturbet, and .he thought it a.. pity that her brother was growing boorieh. Dulcie'e money -would be extremely -uee- ful to lain, became it was her belief that he -would never make a penny out, of his inventions. Heeled was not only growing boorish, but stale few words he threw to Dulcie often annoyed her exceedingly. One af- ternoon, when the sisters were having tea -with Philippa. Jim came in. His brown eyes looked tired, and Ins former cheerful expression was eeplaced with one that howed he wae -weary of the work on which he had been engaged far many hours. His glance was critical as it rested on Dulcie's highly becoming eat and clrces. She looked like a dainty piece of porcelain and altogether ,adorable, but Jim's remark that, he thought she and aer sister -were teo young to live ailene, and that they ought to get a chaperone or duenna, caused a decidedly dangerous Iselrt namear in her eyes. 'Prim and I don't intend to esti% a chaperone," she said. -"We mean to do exactly what we like, go where we please arid stay there as long as it suits ue." "A very nice programine," he replied, "But I do not deepeir of %making Wee Pelmet:lee lieten to reason." He turned to Primrose, -‘vhile Duloie Omitted to Philippa and laughed to hide her vexation. „ She 'wee furiouely angry to find that Jim's words bore fruit in due season, for Primrose, in apite of all Delete eould 40 to the contrary, engaged a middle-aged lady to live with them, for the elder girl realized that she and Duthie svere plac- ing themselves in a position -which Mrs. Grundy might assert was not suitei to their age, and elle was determined to do nothing they might afterwards regret. So Mrs. Teraplemore, a good-tempered, pleasant -faced widow of about fifty, ene tered their household, and as she was wise aria knew on which side her bread was buttered -realizing that the post of chaperone to two y.oung and wealthy girls was not to be found every day -she made herself sso amiable to her charges, that before long Duthie allowed -that elle wasn't a bad .old thiug." Winter passed away, and when the leaves -were onee more on the trees, Ars thee Belturbet veturned to Old House, and a few days later coeled at Philippa% flat. Philippa, was looking extrromely hand- some in a velvet gowa which howed the eurves of her beautiful figure to the best advantage, and her chestnut hair -was ae- tietically arranged, yet she might as well have been attired in sackclotli for all the impression her appearance made on Bel- turbet. , They talked of his teavele abroad, and Belterbet inquired tater Heriett, wale, Philippa explained, had elle /rite elle City to see about one of Me inventions. - "I want to give a aittle party te cale. brate iny return," said Belturbet after a Panes. "As ithbody will celebrate it for me, I must do it myeelf. Will you and Jim dine with ala in the West -End to -day week, and then go to a theatre? I am asking a few other people, including the Misses Clawardine." "We shall be delighted," replied Phil- ippa ellave you asked Primrose and Dificie yet?" "Not eet, but 1 hope to do so in person toenerrov." "They are halting e very geed time. Their chaperone, Mrs. Teraplemore, knows some very nice peowle to whom she lined introduced them, and they go about a good deal:" , "Indeed!" murmured Belt -Luta, •wiehine he had not stayed away so long. "Web, you and Jim won't fail me next Wednee day, will your Atter a little more formal conversation he took his leave. (To be eta/Ai/med.) PRETTY GREASY MENU. Man of Shackleton Expedition Will Subsist Very Largely on Lard. While marching across the lee fields the met engaged in the Shackleton expedition to the South Pole, Will have three meale a day--- brealcla:st, luecheon and diner at night. The menu for breakfast and dinner will be the same, each man being given three ounces of lard, two ounees of sugar, one of dried milk, wheat Protein and oats, The luneheon will oonsist 4:;if nut food mixed with oil and dried milk and cla'ffs) "!ou may feel „rather sick when you hear of et, Sir Evilest salel during fa reeent interview, "it's- ra- ther a greasy eompouna. Indeed, When we tried it in Norway we thought ila, very tinpleasant, sort of ration, but 1 ean asenre yeti that, seientifteally eonsitle,rcxle it is the lieest thee has ever been devised. I hope that this time Eitieger will play a very small part, in our trou- bles," All the provisions have been pack- er) 1.11 sausage 5kins, INEIY .JAP3 ARE FIGHTING REASONS WILY THEY A_RE ST WAR WITH GERMANY. Germans Have Been Competing Seriously With Japanese Manufacturers. The Japanese ultimatum to Ger- many was sprung rather suddenly. Like so many sudden, cornet -like things, it has a long, historic tail. None enight. put his finger upon the birth date ef Gerraan ambition in the Extreme East. As early as 1870, however, the Cha,mber of Oora- merce. Etaan.burg made a pointed remark to the Kaiser upon the 'con- venience of having on the China, coast a base, a port. It said that the establishment of a line '"of Ger- man ships might make a trail on the Oriental seas like a prophecy. But the time when Japan earned an intimate introduction to Germany came a little later, writes Adaohi Kinnosuke in the New York World. On April 17, 1895, Li Hung Chang signed -the Shimonoseki Treaty. China, ceded to Japan among other Chinese territory a strip of land on the continent— South Manoliuria: When Mr. Ito Mikiji (not the late Prince Ito) went to Chefoo to laave.the treaty ratified he found his Chinese friends ready, wilding, and waiting for him on, the picture -like water of the Ohefoo Bay, the German, tlie Russian'and the French -ships --all cleared for action. The three great Christian powers did not wish to do very ranch to Japan' s plenipotentiary, All that they wished to do W84 to offer Ja- pan, with all Christian grace and considerateness, a bit of advice: It will not be good for the peace of the Far East, they say, for her to take South Manchuria. Japan gave up South Manchuria, she had to. A little later Germany book Kiaochow, on the Chinese mainland, in the Provin:ce of Shan- tung—evidently for the good of the peace of the Far East ; and evident- ly for the same reason Russia a,lso took South 'Manchuria, and France hers in the south of China,. Chine was very unhappy te show her ap- preciation of the Christian ,servioes rendered by the three powers just in that particular manner, but then she had to do it. An' Enlightened Example. And now Japan finds Germany on the plains of Belgium,' not quite as friendly with her former allies as en that. Iii,sto'ric day at Chefoo. And Japan is reminded all of a sudden of the Germans in Kiaoehow, of the peaoe of the Far East, the dearest of all the old tunes in the diploma- tic repertoire, of the dictum that a good turn merits a, good turn and of the virtuous and compelling yearning of—of giving an adviee. Whieh she has done. She hes given an advice in the name ef the peace of the Far East. In this she is following, like any other well-be- haved kindergarten pupil, the en- ogeeene,d example of 'Germany her- self, ' What !—some ma37 say—Japan frightened out of her wibs by'Cier- many when the Fatherland is liter- ally facing national death with practically all the rest, of Eithope at her throat 'I Does Japan think it a heroic war to hurl her "17 battle- ships, 13 armored cruisers, 15,pro- tected cruisers, and 70 torpedo bohts and destroyeeeh against the three old-maidish German creieere now in the waters of the 1ihist7 Not at all, . The Getman' glaost that, turns ja- pan into 41. little boy seeing things in elle dark is not the German sWeiel, We were igraid, once upon a time, of the militant Russia, based in Siberia.; never of German war - 'hips, whether three, or ten times three, We 41.0 riot and never have been, at lea -St-- for some years peat, afraid eitherof the bied-of-paraelise edjectivee in the Kaiser's rhetorioal eeeti:eeilfie:s.co(rmoulftetrbeei4Karsuuplp)r:iize,y. W.diat we are afraid of—let as mike this point Giese and eraphatio this: The German commercial supremacy in the Far East. We have seen and we see to-clay— as do the British, the Freaeh, the Russian, and the Chinese -4,h° army of young Germans land at the treaty ports of the East; we, 'see theta with wide and ever -widening eyes and with our wits halhoocked with dismay how they solve exis- tence on ten, twenty dollars, 1Vtexi- ean ; see them conquer the ()rooks and kinks in the dialects countless and vernaculars innumerable of the East as though they had clotie noth- ing in all their born days but eateh eels with their naked hands; wateh them master the business methods of the heathen natives, and their tastes •and their needs. - Now this is a -vastly different pie- ture from .the one we had been ac- customed to. We used to see the British, the Ameriean, the Freuch, and the Russian Traders at their eountry ,clubs, in foreign 'concessions and at teas and tiffins, cultivating the airs of merchant princes in their white ducks and flannels and trying to revise a certain passage in the first Book of Genesis so that it might read ; "And God said, Let us make white man in our image after our likeness and let them have do- minion over the fish of the sea . . and over the cattle,and the heathen dogs and over all the other oreep- ing things that oreepethla upon the German's Commercial Conquest. Of course, one could, find a. few Germans in this fool's -paradise at- mosphere now and then, but a. very few. The picture of the German merohants at their etaclious toil most day and night in the examiaa- tion of local eonditions and trade methods of the East, in that pa- tient and everlasting analytical way of theins quite different from the bomb -burst, not to nay bombastic, hustle of the American, is extreme- ly impressive, especially so in con- trast to the other foreign traders. We knew how bo answer a power who came ransacking us; we were much embarraSsed what -to do with the array whioh came sacking us comm.ercially. And there was nothing znodest about the oomunercial conquest of Germany in the Fax East since the early se-venties. For the three years following 1873 the annual average oE the number and tonnage of 'German -ships -which entered into and cleared from the Oriental ports beyond. India -were only 48 and 25,- 000 tons. The total of the German shipping in all Asian ports for the year 1901 was 166 ships of 581,000 tons aggre- gate. In thirty years, Germany inerews- ed her Far Yastern trade from prac- tically nothing to one billion marks in -value. Take the case of Kiao- chau alone. Up to 1897 there was no such thing .as German trade there. In 1903, the year when Ger- Many completed her railway to the distance of 300 kilomet-ers there, she enjoyed the trade of seven million dollars, silver. And it did nob stop. Even in the lean year of 1910, with all its financial and business disturbances over rubber specula- tions in Shanghai and Rongk&ng, Kiaochan enjoyed the trade of near- ly sixty-five million dollars, gold, the importation of the non -Chinese wares alone amounting to $25,800,- 000. Japan's Land of Promise. And the following fact did not improve the quartter at all—especial- ly for the Japanese': To Japan the continental Chinese markets have been and are -the one land of promise, Commercially speaking. And of the needs of China, Japan is not in a position as yet to supply to any great extene the things which call for a heavy capitahinvestenent, suth as railway construction, mining operations, et. The British, the Belgians, tbe. French, the Russians Over thie field es well as the Amerieans; they are baeked with, adequate eapital. We haven't the money, Let -na pause here to empheisize this point: This is the zmason why the British and the French are much more den- gereus eempetitors of the American enterprises in Oilina, ,than the dhie panese, This is. the reason why the pet tinhorn time of the California - politicians over the .Tapaneso ooro- petition in the .Asian market has more fuss than fact back of it. :AU is different With the Gaman activity. The Germans go into small manufactures and things; they fight us right where we make our bread and right where we hope to make a, little butter, Mr. Miyao, Chief of the First De- partment of the Japanese Coloniza- tion Bureau, made his trip of in- vestigation through the traded een- tree of China, in the days following the birth of the New China. "The revolution in China," said he on Us return, "having been brought to a termination, Japanese merchants may be thinking that our trade with China,will gradually increase in ite volume. But when ,conclitione in. China, are personally inspected and the activity of the Gerxnan merchants is observed one cannot help but think that they will tabs away trade from the hands of our business mei' unless we make up our mind to better ourselves,' But it may not be unwise for Ja- pan to recall at this hour an ancient law—the law which has never been amended since the days. of Cain— that he who killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword, and that even as Germany, who killed the Japanese ambition in Southern Ma.ncihuria, in 1805 with an advice, is about to be killed at Kiaechan with an advice:, even so Japan, who is about to- triumph over the Ger- man supremacy in tradal East -in this year of strife 1914, must of ne- eessity be prepared to reap the whirlwind right where to -day she is sowing the seed in the pregnant German memory. .1. DEFENCE OF DIE REALM ACT. Englishmen Are Restricted Some- what During War Time. The proud boast "an English- man's honad is his castle" does not operate during the present war. Here. are soine of the things the naval and anilitary authorities may do under the Defence of the Realm Act, passed by Parliament : Take possession of any land, buildings, gas, electricity, water works, or sources of supply, 'horses, automohiles, or any 'other means of transport. Cause any buildings, statues, or any property to be moved or de- stroyed, and order the inhabitants to leave any given area if necessary for naval and military purposes. • Close !saloons entirely or during specified hours. Mater, by force, if need be, any house or ship which is isuenected of being used to the prejudice of the State. Arrest, or order the arrest, with- out warning, of any ,suspeeted per - 500, Itere are some of the things a free-born Briton may not do :— Loiter near a railwae bridge, Give or eell liquor to a soldier or sailor on dirty. Spread reports be word of mouth or writing, near a defeuded area, likely to create alarm among the troops or civilian Population. Light fires or display lights of any description on hill tept or other . high, ground or buildings without permission. Tamper with or loiter near tele- graph or telephone lines. Civilians ignoring a military de. mend to "halt" may be shot down without a, second challenge. Court martial shall deal with of- fences against the military laws, and ehe tribunal shall have power to indict sentences of imprisonment for life, in ease of infringements. - 1. The cost of experience depends entirely upon how much you ca,n sell it for. hichT ayd.oY uySti -ar? Do you say decisively 5.1b. Package of REDPATH Sugar", or, "A 2046. Bag of BEDPATH", and -.-get a definite quantity of well-known quality,"Canada's bat" —clean and uncontaminated , "–in the Original Package' Or do you say, thoughtlessly: :" uuunanrienoro:wnwn:cirutztahai niottyil t Sugar", g a r " , or "A dollar's worth of Sugar", and get an ---,scooped out of an open barrel —into a paper bag? Extra Granulated SUGAR CANADA SUGAR ARIeFINING CO LIVIAITED# 1443rklirlilltAk