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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1915-7-8, Page 2THE FATE_OF AZUMA; Or, The South African Millionaire; 11 CHAPTER XVII. London was not half as surprised as Lady Glaucourt thought it would be, when Lady Judith's engagement to Adolphe Lieb was announced. It is wonderful how many people there are who have the characteristics of the ostrich, and imagine that be- cause they bury their heads in the ground, they are not seen. As a mat- ter of fact, everyone understood that Lady Judith had seized her last op- portunity by the hair, and that the fact of the presence of the Mascotte of Park Lane, made her trust -to his not minding even when he found out, her if she were going to marry Lieb • I; in an undertone, and the member of. parliament,, whom .she . found very charming, and every now and then Adolphe threw a look across the table which said plainly, "since I could not have you next to me, I put you where I could see you, and you. look lovely." And when dessert was going on,he had turned to the women and sai. "The worst of fruit is that it won't last,` it gets too ripe, or we eat it, now if you ladies will look under your npr plates you will find the: everlasting fruit. That is much better." quite hit it off with people de notre He was a little nervous, and the monde. There was Hubert Gresham, fact of his being so rather emphasized. whose mother is just the opposite to his German accent. Lately Judith had a. Jew, hands you a tract when you grown to think his accent fascinating. go to lie down, and puts a Bible in He had not told Mrs. Golling of his your bedroom, and all that sort of plan, because he felt instinctively that thing, and he proposed I know, and the Gollings were not yet quite sure Judith wouldn't have anything to enough of.themselves to Joe able.to ad - say to him," and then that fiasco with vise others, and he knew that women Mr. Danvers." never could resist a jewel. Faust is "Yes, I never quite understood after all only man's philosophy with. that,"put in Lord. Glaucourt, but regard to woman, expressed. there were so many things that be And underneath each plate,. or ra- dian't understand that his wife didn't ther underneath the edge, each woman. begin to explain. She was quite found a small pear formed of one' die - d ig d with ane or two of what Ju- mond of exquisite color, with two satisne " h would do the dith called "Mother's useless lies" to- little green leaves of emerald fasten- m,s made her last engagement a disaster. had pleaded his van cause w!t some "Naturally, one knew," said the mo- success. ther of a plain daughter, "that the "Of course I suppose that I ought Glaucourts couldn't be running those to have seen through it when she ac - Africans 'pour leurs beaux yeux, cepted that necklace the other day," As for the Duchess she now took said her husband. all the credit of having brought it She didn't tell him that he rarely 1 ending to the dinner, and. as Judith about, "You see, my dear, that I + saw through anything, from a scheme said to herself,• gave one an, insight knew what I was about when I asked I of the Opposition downwards, but it into all his possiilities,, and inereas you to be civil to the Gollings," she; was too good an. opportunity to be ed the semi -Monte Cristo, semi - said to Lady Glaucourt. I lost, in which to put forward her Own Arabian Nights feeling, he always "I must say•, my dear Duchess, that perspicacity and its superiority to t I don't see that there is anything to'his, boast about, It is a wretched match "Oh, I have seen it coming for a for Judith, with her looks." long time," she told him, But the Duchess knew, that to use .1 The episode of Judith's accepting' ed them to remember his dinner, the a vulgar expression "Cornelia thank- . the necklace was this first he had given in Louden, and. at ed her stars," and she even had a f Three days before lie had propos- which Judith had. been present, long talk with her son Eustace about ; ed, Lieb had given the Glaucourts a He drew a gold chain from beneath it, begging him to see that people dinner at the Carlton. Mrs. Gulling his plate. didn't say anything disagreeable, had helped him. He bad wanted to "Now ladies I feel sure that you She was so thankful that Eustace was give it at his own house, hut Mrs, are all generous, kind-hearted, full of safe, that she would have done any- Coiling overruled the proposition. feeling for one another, ready to thing to assist this marriage, and She -was always perfectly frank with give up what has pleased you to she was good: natured, and had never, bin, others. This chain you see has four wanted Judith to go completely to ' "I don't think I would do that little hooks with a small green leaf, the well. She had a certain loyalty, I were you," she had told him, "pee- now these hooks are for the four lit - to her own class and sex, which is ; pie are so funny, and they have an tie pears. You see this way." He passing away* with the younger gen-;idea that Azuma—don't you know, held out his hand and they laid the oration. Some one likened her to an ` she stopped. Delicacy forbade her pears in his broad palm looking puz- old rear horse, and her clothes to. explaining further: zled, as he hooked them on to the old-fashioned trappings. ; "But Lady Judith, she quite un- chain, As for Lord Eustace, he was thank-* derstands." "By George, I believe he is going j fur that ha had always been pals; "Lady Judith isn't everybody, at to take them back,"whispered Lord with her. His chiefs future wife least not yet, she said with a smile, Eustace across Judith to the member as lie now called Judith. Now Lieb'l•"and you want some nice people to of parliament. �� was called "My chief." , meet them. And he had given in. "I bet he isn't," said the. member of "Nonsense," the Duchess had said, f The dinner bad been given at the parliament, who was a staunch friend "when you know that you practically' Carlton, and Lady Glaucourt had con- of Lieb's. "Well, here the neck- , lit -see now,e am sure I dont vented to accept it, protesting a �i ell, you run everything. I, know what they would do without ; tie because it was Lieb's di finer but, lace is perfect, but there is only one you." And the dear woman actually' knowing all the time that Judith in-' necklace. I feel sure that you would believed it. I tended her to go, and to make Lord all rather the jewel was not spoiled, Strange to say it was Lord Glau- Glaucourt, go, and they had been so you must' draw lots and see who court, Lord Glaucourt who never ex- ! agreeably surprised at the people they is to have the whole necklace—" pressed an opinion hardly at home, t had met, Lord Eustace was there, Nobody understood for an instant, who opposed the idea. and the Gollings, of course. No other then the four women burst out. He had a long talk with Judith girl but Judith. The Duchess would. "Oh, but no, Mr. Lieb, I wouldn't which of course a , to the v carious something, which had day, especially as evidently the Jew ed"Oh, Mrt Lieb!" "Issn't. this too exquisite?" "Did you ever see anything so love- ly?" His little attempt at social apostasy had not miscarried, The women were delighted. It made so origami an inspired, But he had his little joke to im- part, for Adolphe Lieb, like most Germans, was a good host, He want about it. It was a most distasteful match, he told her, and if he had had any idea of that sort of thing he wouldn't have had him inside the louse. As a matter of . fact, he had d him to dinner at home and at not go, but she had made her mar- think of such a thing, I couldn't real- ,ried daughter, Lady Adele Spencer,; ly." "I certainly won't give mine to go with her husband, Mr. Spencer, a ; anybody," said Lady Glaucourt em - little insignificant -looking man, who! phatically, and everyone laughed. said all the intelligent things of the; "I don't want to, but I suppose one ing and who took one so by ; of us must be self-sacrificing." - Ju- 4Yci , ;he club and liked him very much. , surprise every time he did, that one dith felt as if she were already mar "You seem to forget that he is a expected to hear Lady Adele from! ried to him, and helping to dispense Jew," he told her, "putting aside the other side of the table, exclaim;' his gifts. (To be continued.) everything else, merely a Frankfort "There, that's why I married him," Jew, the son of a jeweller, or some- and a friend of Lieb's, his only 4 thing." . Briton -born friend, the member of Retreat in. Order. Lady Judith had never realized how . parliament who helped him with his old-fashioned her father was, and schemes, and who was as at home in Even an extremely aggressive en-' now for the first time she grasped South Africa as he was in the House emy can be conquered by strategy;- the fact that she and her mother of Commons. it is only a question of employing the had grown immensely ahead of him,, The dinner had nothing • different stratagem fitted to the case. thanks to the knowledge they possess- about it to any other dinner, till quite An open-air preacher of East Lori • it WAS rather ed of her "malheur," which he did not. How could he know, poor dear, that if she didn't marry the South African she would never marry anybody? "Don't you think, dear father," she said very patiently,- "that when a the end, if anything, don understood this, and his strate- shorter than most, and as. Lady Glaucourt put it afterwards: "We did gem fitted to a charm. He was ad;. not drink out of cut diamond glasses dressing a crowd' when a soldier who or anything of that kind." had been drinking came up and ridi- "Nor even drink Johannisberg," Ju-culea the service. Finding it was man is as rich as that it hardly mat- dith put in demurely. useless to ignore the man, the preach= ters who he was, it is a case of what "Do you think you ought to have er said: he will be, and of course he could go into parliament or do anything. Dizzy was a Jew you know." But it had been quite troublesome to get him to agree, and the fact that accepted such a valuable present? I "Ah! my friend, you're no soldier. mean don't you think it was rather No servant of the King would get bad taste of him making you so icon- drunk and interrupt a peaceful ser- spicuous before?—I mean it isn't as „ if you were engaged." vi The man said he was a soldier, and th didn't think it was it was so, enhanced her value in But Lady Jude Adol he's eyes. He had had just at all bad taste, she thought it was asked the preacher to test him. the kind of interview he had expected delightful of him the way he had "Very well," was the reply. "I will. with Lord Glaucourt, who, because singled her out. Now, then. Attention!" there was no fault to find with the "I suppose he is going to propose, This the soldier did as well as his condition would allow. "About—turn!" This order was also obeyed, though with some trouble.• settlements, had found it pretty Judith?" ; roundly, and with little disguise, with "Yes, I know he is, he told me so." the man.' "How very odd, what an odd way of "Of course I will not hide from putting it I mean. you, Mr. Lieb," he hated. pronouncing But Judith didn't explain, she ra- ',Quick march!" the name, "that I am not in favor of ther enjoyed mystifying her mother, And off went the valiant soldier, this engagement. 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The grading up will be most rapid when the pre- dominant blood in the grades corre- spond with the blood of the sire,: writes Mr. John Michels. id ro use it address. good fortune for me," Adolphe had that when he ever d p p , told him in a very quiet and gentle- would be in his own house. manlike way. "Lady Judith belongs "I think I would like to see the to a different class to myself, to a place again where I. had proposed, if different religion. On the matter of of course, I had been accepted," he religion there will be no trouble, I had said. "You see if you prgpose to am afraid that I 'am. not very ortho- a girl, say in her home, iii a friend's dox, and if there are any children—" house or an hotel, it might become im- "They will of course be Christians," possible to visit that place again, but put in Lord Glaucourt a little hast at home always you would be remind- to put up with. ily. ed where that happened. A worthy citizen of Berlin was "Certainly, if Lady Judith wishes it, It was a funny idea, but somehow once imprisoned- for a week because. and I was going to say," he added, Judith could enter into it. There was he 'laughed at the sight of a fat "that while I quite realize that Lady very little that he said that she could policeman chasing a student who had Judith could have married anybody, not enter into. He had said this tl dined wisely but too well; while I don't think. that any one would make night of the party at, the Gollings, and a womandnotwas finedbtwenty l while her happier than I can I.can, at then at the Carlton he had asked Ju least, give her everything in the dith if she and her mother would because she told a clumsy man, who o d she wants." come to'see his • diamonds and curios, trod on her foot in a 'bus, that he world "Yes of course that-" and he had felt when she accepted walked:' like a hen. "That is the only thing in my fa- the necklace„ that she was to all in- Of course, one of the most: henious ortance in building up a dairy herd frank laugh. She would have known it, even if, the unhappy citizen is fined for doing p a 'pure bred bull•of real "Oh, well,you know, one, can't have Mrs. Golling had not told her. somethin° and another-. day for not to secure p , "He is intenselyinfatuated with i it. :� A motorist merit, Unless the' bull is descended sentiment in a matter of this kind, think doing went slowly from good milkers, it is folly. to ex you will `quite understand that—"you; but of course he doesn't through a' little town in the evening Yes, I understand,"Adolphe re -bit pect'him to produce good milkers, no. plied with quiet dignity, "I under- en matter how fine or ideal he may be stand that the matter lies entirely Laws Made in Germany. eat RIGHTS OF WAR PRISONERS. Crime Against Nations to Ill -Treat Those Captured. According to reliable reports, Ger- many is violating the rules formed by the leading nations at The Hague con- ' vention, and shamefully ill-treating British prisoners of war. This is a crime against the law of nations, which emphatically states that war- ring forces treat their prisoners in a humane fashion. ` The object of internment is solely to prevent prisoners from further par- ticipation in the war, and unnecessary limitation of liberty, upjustifiable se- verity, ill-treatment and indignities are forbidden. The rooms in which prisoners of war are accommodated must be as healthy and clean as possi- ble, and they should not be situated in prisons or convict establishments. Captives must be given the same scale and quality of rations, quarters and clothing as the troops of the govern- ment which captures them, and pri- soners must be paid wages for any work they may do. The latter must have no connection with the opera- tions of war, but may be carried out for municipal authorities or for pri- vate persons at a reasonable rate of pay. In no way must a prisoner of war be used for the purposes of aiding the military activities of the nation which captures him.. A prisoner is not bound to reply to any questions except those which concern his name and rank, and he is not expected to betray mili- tary secrets. He cannot be punished for giving false information about his own army. All personal belongings of prisoners of war, except arms, horses and military papers, remain their pro- perty. To safeguard prisoners of war from Where all 'of the cows in the out being ill-treated; The Hague rules de - calves, stock are grades, none of the aided some years ago: that a bureau of. calves, of course, can be registered, information relative to captives must It is desirable, therefore, to add to be formed at the commencement of the herd from time to time, as means hostilities in each of the warring states. Each nation engaged in the European struggle has such an insti- tution, whose purpose is t� reply, to all official inquiries concerning war prisoners, in addition to keeping a careful record - of what happens to every captive. Each prisoner has a history sheet, which gives his."name,' age, place of origin, rank, wounds and place and date. of capture. When peace is. signed, such records will be exchanged among the belligerent na- tions. While hostilities are in pro- gress it is not obligatory for a nation) to furnish particulars of the number of making it the principal means of of prisoners captured. It must, how - replenishing the herd, especially since the latter can be accomplished much more satisfactorily by raising the calves from the best cows. count for three quarters or more, of the herd by reason of his greater pm - potency. To so great an extent does the bull determine the improvement or deterioration of the herd as to call for the utmost caution in his selection. In the case of a dairy bull, espe- cially a young bull, his chief value is determined by the performances of his ancestry. The points of greatest A foundation of this kind, of course, importance to consider in his pedi- does not produce stock that can be gree are the following: (1) The merit registered, but by continuing the use of his mother and his sire's mother; of good, pure-bred bulls of the same blood, stock is soon obtained which, o far as milk and butter production are concerned, very closely ap- proaches in value that of pure breed- ing. To start with a pure-bred herd is practically beyond the means of the majority of farmers. Furthermore, there is an objection to placing well- cared-for, ell- cared f or, pure-bred cows ` under av- erage conditions as to feed, care and management, because under any such change the attainment 'of satisfactory results would be practically impos- (2) The merit of the daughters of his sire and grandsire; (3) The value of the daughters of his dam and his grandam; (4) The value of his sisters, if he has any; and (5) the value of his own progeny, if he has any. The farther back consecutively good re- cords can be traced the more valuable the animal. It should always be re- membered, however, that near an- cestors count' for a good deal more than those more remotely related. With a first-class bull at the head of the herd, rapid improvement is ef- fected by selecting and retaining sible. Where there is a gradual in-. calves from only the best milkers, at fusion of pure blood, as in the case the same time culling out those cows of grading up a herd with pure-bred whose- records have not been satisfac- sires, the new blood is- gradually ac- tory. This word cannot be done to. customed to the change of environ- best advantage unless records are ment, the herdsman is given the ne- kept .of the quantity and quality of cessary time to change his methods to . milk from each cow for a whole lade - meet the requirements of pure-bred tion period. cattle. found - Where d Where the dairyman understands the management of the pure-bred stock, and has the means with which to buy the right kind, a pure-bred Most of us have felt sorry for the herd may be started to good advent- permit, some good pure-bred cows of hardly -used Belgians, who are im- age. the same blood as the bulls that have prisoned for failing to salute or for One of the chief, dangers in start- been used. This had the advantage laughing at a soldier, but it is only ing; with a pure-bred. herd is the lack of enabling the owner to dispose of what the Germans themselves have of funds to . procure the'right sort of his calves to better advantage. animals. Instead of buying a pure- The purchase of cows, however, is bred bull and a number of pure-bred cows ' of common merit, it is better policy to buy relatively cheap grade. cows, and to add the. money thus sav- ed to that originally set aside for the limited way only. It is, of course, al bull. This extra money is- likely to ways in order to buy cows when the be the means of securing a bull of:object is to add to the herd pure=bred outstanding merit individuals of exceptional dairy merit. Whether the cows be grades or But the. 'practice of buying cows pure-breds, it is of • the highest im- vow," interrupted Adolphe with a tents and purposes engaged to him. offences is to laugh at an official; but always attended with the danger of introducing contagious diseases into the -herd. For this reason, the buying of the cows should 'be carried on in a you would marry him " But the inti - d t of the necklace seemed to show that he' knew that she would, and she hiswayofmain • love to her,it was a little unique, and hither- to here had,been no fight, no .s r'ug- gle, no interference. • At the end of the dinner, the touch of the Oriental had been introduced, the touch of magnificence, as if he felt that it was necessary to make them feel that dining with- a multi- millionaire, the richest man in Eu- rope, was not exactly like dining with any one else rTurt thcught that the Christians had "Pay them for coming," polling -{u-...le a good deal more till 'now, had said, coarsely, with a touch of •"l'-''tla was always rather peculiar, contempt. Lieb had not been able to f' ''i: --cu know, different from `other put Judith next to him, she sat be- ' 'l Ind she never seems to have'L'tween Lord Eustace, who kept asking without sounding his bell, as no one was about; fined. A week later he sounded it well; fined for doing it too vigorously. If you hang your bedclothes out o window; fine. :If they drop out as well; `double fine -two offences. If you run• for tram, and board it in motion, more money goes to the po- lice exchequer.` So much is forbidden, it is surprising that it does not ex- tend to finning.' as an individual. with your daughter herself, and if enjoyed k g 1 It is; furthermore, of importance to she considers the matter and changes f remember that a herd cannot be, sur her mind,": he paused a moment, it h t will be a great blow to me, but shall understand, I do not wish % to influence, her at all, unless she feels pretty contented." "I must say," her husband told Lady Glaucourt afterwards, "that he behaved like a perfect' gentleman. Fri a Jew; it sticks, doesn't it?" 'Weil I don't know." Lady Glau- Interested, "Your name, please, Miss." "Iona Carr." ` "Oh, do, you.? 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