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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1916-3-16, Page 6� :ABLEMAN `M EXCITING. PRESENT.Df Y ROMANCE BY WEATHERBY CHESNEY gious, but he aontzives to preach the gospel of Mammon too and inn way that makes converts. He'd be hozl- estly surprised, though, if anyone pointed that out to him. Now how about you, Phil?" "Wait a bit," said Varney. "What made you choose the cable service?" "For one thing the exam. was easy: for another, I'all rather keen on elec- tricity and electrical nlac'hines; for rt qcsla third, it seemed a good way of seeing I a little bit of the world. Curiously CHAPTER V, :ringmaster must go, Unless,"' he ad "Steady, Phil!" said Scarborough, ed, turning suden'y to Scarborout:'i incredulously. '"Don't fling accuse- •'by some lucky chance I could tin Vona. about in that reckless way. It's . anoth:� ' clown. Can you clown, sir,? rot, you know." "Not sufficiently well to be of us "I can prove it," said Varney. ' to you," said Scarborough, laughing. "That Miss Page le the daughter of ; "No, it's harder than it looks. That the elan who ruined your father? Ob, why good clowns are scarce—air come( you don'C, know her, or you dear, very dear, let me tell you. Goo would see that it's nonsense. Here, day to you sir. Honored by meetin hurry up and get into ordinary clothes, you." andwe'll have dinner somewhere, 1; And this time he went out finally. want to hear. what r4•ou've been doing , Varney turned with a muleall for the last two yea s:' twisted face to his friend, and Sea Miss Page the d. ughter of Rich- ; borough, as soon as he judged tha W T mond Carrington, m bt t • e notorious fin- Val B.4fonta�ue was out of earsho ancial manipulator, 'hose name was burst into a roar of laughter. accursed in thousanc 4 of the poorer "You asked me just now how I hav homes of England—t* idea was ab- ! spent the last two years," said Varne surd! Scarborough was not even an-: "Now that you've met the man, yo gry at the suggestion; it was to ridi- have a faint idea of what it mean culous for that. He went with Varney,' when 1 say—in the company and Se to his dressing room, and waited fort vice of Val B. Montague! But he's him to change. i good sort, mind you." The English Cowboy divested him -1 "Is he always like this ?" self of the leathern jacket and fringed! "More or less, yes. The degree o trousers, in which custom decreed that absurdity varies, but he's never crdi the character which he represented nary. During the first six months w should be dressed, and was donning in quarrelled. I daresay I was bit un its place the mufti of plain blue serge, lick't, and I didn't like his hectoring when there was a sharp bang on the then I got to understand him; and fo door, and the manager entered. I the last year and a half I've been hi "Mr. Varney, sir!" said Val B. Mon-! right hand man. We had a row roya tague, as he held out his hand to ' this morning, and you see how littl Scarborough, without waiting for the he bears malice. formality of an introduction—"this I "He said you were a serpent he ha d enough the service is rather e'rowdee with m:an who originally intended to d be something else, Somebody bas ' dubbed us the 'legion of the ploughed'; e; but on the whole 1 think we're rather ' good sorts. I'm quite satisfied with nry life and with my colleaguee." al The other ant's explanation of his cl. positive was equally •inatl.�. Sear - g borough was what. he was laeeause he ! had failed in an t'vzunii ittoo. Var- ney had never sat for t tt t the examine- e x:urt.t. . e ; tlOu be.au..e. the misfortune or crime Sem of others had thrown hire sw1deniy t on his oven resources, and had than,- i. destiny •'O V t,, cd h l tri � from that of spending an allowance to that of earning a liv- e ing. These two causes between them Y• I account for many a curious cluu]ce of tt I profession. s! "You remember the smash?" he Sex , asked. al "Yes," said Scarborough. "earring - ton and Varney, stockbrokers—every- body knew about it; but I never ender - f I stood it." "Few did, and I think the pour old e governor ]east of all. He had trusted Carrington in everything, and Car- . I rington used him as a tool. The pian ✓ was a thorough paced blackguard. s, "So I understand. Why wasn't he 1, brought to book?" e 1 "Too clever. Slipped through the lawyers' fingers on a technicality, and d left his partner as a scapegoat. The show is going to the devil!" ! been hugging in his bosom," said Scar "Oh? More so than usual? asked borough, laughing. Phil Varney carelessly. "Horace, this; "Yes, that's his way. When h is our proprietor, Mr. Van B. Mon,' abuses you in metaphor, you kno tague—Montague, Mr. Horace Scars, that you are forgiven, and you star borough; old friend of mine." -j afresh on the old footing. It's his no "Proud to meet you, sir. More se' tion of making an apology. Mona d than usual, d'ye ask, Mr. Varney/ la Mar was the cause of our dust -ail Well, may be no; but things are ap this morning. She said she wasn' proaching a crisis." !going to perform to -night, that eh "Anything fresh ? Or the same row ; wanted a holiday, and had privet continued?" ' business to attend to. I didn't in th "The same row coming to a head, I least know what her reason was, bu sir! The canker in the rosebud is Montague began to bluster, so I back working its way to the outer leaves,' ed her up, and said I wouldn't perform and is beginning to be visible to the either. I make a point of standing public; the malignant boil is becoming up to him whenever he starts in t acute, and developing a head, which 1 play the bully. I fancy that's partl will have to burst; the hidden rotten-: why we're such good friends." ness is refusing to remain hidden any! "A bit inconsiderate of the lady longer, and the fair flower of our cor-; isn't it?" said Scarborough. porate amity is withering, sir, wither -t "Oh, very," agreed Varnty, but th ing! Before we leave this place I ex- i point was that Montague couldn't be pect to witness the premature decay! allowed to bluster to a lady. We have and death of an organizm which I have , to treat him on a system, you see. We _' poor old governor's only crime was over -trust in a scoundrel --even the WAR COMPENSATIONS. Philosopher ,l)iseusss the After-I4.'f- fects of Strife. Forget for a moment, hard though it is. all the horrors of war—widows, orphaned children, maimed men, the sad gaps in so many home circles, a devastated countryside, and the like —and consider what is the effect of war en a nation, as a whole. It is evident, and past experience is the proof, that a nation is not th same after it has passed through th awful furnace of war. All ancient empires have, after a quiring their possessions by war, live ; and prospered so long as they sti warred. 1'Irere is a national stamina a pride, hardness, a virility, a some thing that it ih hard to name co rectly, which dominates a natio which irs repeatedly' baptised in bloo and fire. And, judging from histo' eft pines which, after much fighting peace z i )cat e o their laurels and 1 t "t d l their possessions, inevitably collapse. Britain, with its long war of his tory, heti avoided the fate of othe 1 empires, inasmuch as just when th critical peaee period began to length- en to the danger point, war again ! came. To read a summary of our histor for the last. 250 years, from the Dug.] War of it1G5 onwards, is to read, witI short peace intervals, of a nation a war. Ilas war supplied something t our Empire whieh after dissolved e pires lacked. It may bring a rus fo caustic criticism; but it is a fa that war seems- to prevent nationa decadence. The cost is tremendo•.is the sacrifices great; but the fact re mains. Something, nationally, i gained from war. t Peace brings prosperity, and pros i perity means wealth. Wealth mean i luxuries, easy living, a rush of vice and the exit of virtue, These al ways are the heralds of a nation's decadence, and an empire's dissolu I tion. J.77.....44 u "bedece 'l .orae day by a.n imitation of and possibly �ra�t1 will not detect this :.. t : I w1a:< ' kits{ c- th tea-pot reveals it. D'f�:ed"atiann. t"l1",'ua %h'A.S1 {,;cadgels1h ° dl gad I d " an •.I 1 1.7,44. r,., Il c'4 the aluminum. �G a..ag w:.ci�� a�. , thatyyt(3� you to,t.,.sw 9if�tjgif��Vyou/�wpayr:�gyt that om :un pique iii!avou.e �ayYs EYY W.TaJ.99 clean leaves properly prcpt7.1.red A..+ a t pat:heel. n_ ._. 77.77 .. _ .. —._... _. __• d ., e 1 Reasons Why Every .`armer anould it t Have a Silo. no No danger of late summer droughts, as by using the silo with clover or h other green summer crops, early in cl the season, a valuable succulent feed will be at hand, when pasture in most regions is apt to give out. s' Crops unfit for hay -making may be !preserved in the silo and changed in- -' to a palatable food, such as thistles, s weeds, etc. '' The harvest can be removed earlier, making it possible to finish fall plow- _ ing sooner and to seed the land down to grass or winter grain. -; At a conservative estimate two ,' cows can be kept by feeding silage - at the cost of one cow from the same acreage, fed on hay or other rough- age. Convenience in feeding and economy of storage room, as ten tons of silage can be stored in the same space on one ton of hay. When fed with the proper rations, silage is a greater milk producer and r fattener than any known feed. Ensilage -fed stock, as a rule, are in a healthier state than when other feeds are used. When properly taken care of there is absolutely no waste of any part of the corn crop. The acreage needed for pasture is greatly reduced, and consequently more land can be brought under cul- tivation By providing a succulent forage, winter dairying is made profitable, and no reduction of stock is caused iby a dry season. It is the cheapest food that can be, I It is a certain supp]y, notwithstand-1 ing the drought, the flood or the snows. The silo is the cheapest method of handling the crop, ee • otoring it, and' -•the-beet niethoil of' saving and realiz- ing the fullest value of the crop as ,feed. I More stock can be kept on a certain area of land when silage is fed than is otherwise the case. Silage feeding does away with all aggravating corn stalk in the manure and prevents their waste as well. It excels dry feed for the cheap production of fat beef. It keeps your stock thrifty and rowing all wd �1D t�_.,..+2-•----mac Look at France. Before the trio ulations of the Franco-German War e prosecuting counsel accused hint of! vv nothing more heinous than an easy -I t going incompetency—but the disgrace _ killed him. When things had got as e straight _as they ever would get, I went out to ranch in Brazil; found that the family luck stuck to me in e that it yoked me to another scoundrel, e the man I was ranching with; cut him ! e after a month; fen in with Val B., t Montague at Rio; joined him, and be- _ cause I found that he was honest, I stuck to Trim. i had been with him a year when the news of the governor's o l death reached ate; but I didn't go y. back. There was nothing to go back for, and—Well, that's about all." , "What Became of Carrington ?" For a moment Varney did not an -1 e swer. Then he said slowly: "Till to -day I heard nothing about' him. To -day two things have hap-' pened that make me suspect that he nursed like a father—yes, sir, like a' allow him to wag a free tongue as a father—for two long years Val B.! rule, but this was outsidt the limits Montague's American Circus Com -I See?" bination is breaking up, sir! Excuse, "I see," said Scarborough, "that you my metaphors," he added, without a! are an interesting crew, and I want to pause, turning to Scarborough. "When' hear more." I am excited the sanguineness of my "Then lead the way to your restaur- temperament invariably clothes my ant! And if you're in funds, let it be utterances in poetic imagery, as Mr. fizz!" Varney will be good enough to tell you. "Fizz it shall be. Come along." And, by heaven, sir, I am excited 1 Over _ding t"-virney to a is tale s now!" _ -°-!picking up a thread where he and �sAi�down �� ;•' e e e of the'Scarborou hhad been u ils together packing -case and chewed a straw re- :at an army crammer's near Henley. fiectively. He did not look excited, Both had been working—with no great and there was a humorous twinkle in earnestness, they admitted mutually his eyes which suggested that be was `now—for the entrance exam. at Sand - not so angry as he pretended. Varney hurst; and now one was a telegraph laughed and continued the process of man and the other was a circus per - settling the angles of his tie before former. There were things in this a fragment of mirror. which called for explanation, for nei- "And the worst of it is, sir," contin- ther knew wholly the reasons why the ued the self-styled master of meta- other had given up his earlier ambi- phor to Scarborough, "that I have been tion. hugging a serpent to my bosom. Your! In Scarborough's case the explana- friend there—Pampas Joe, the Eng- :ton was easy and ordinary. He had lish Revolver King—is no longer loyal • failed in the examination, and the un- to his salt." ; cle who was paying for his education "What have you been doing, Phil?" , refused to allow him to try again. 'asked Scarborough, smiling. I "I don't think he was really sorry," ...eftWhat has he been doing?" thun-; said Scarborough. "He had the no - tiered Val B. Montague, in the same :tion that I had brains, if I cared to use voice of excitement, and with the ;them; and he didn't think the army same placid manner and twinkling 'was a useful field for their exercise. eye, belying the vehemence of his He is a self-made man, you see, and words. "He has been fomenting re -'has a prejudice against what he calls beIlion! He has bitten the hand that a butterfly life. That was before the fed him! He has—well in short, you war. He's a bit more ready to admit had better get him to tell you what he that a soldier may be a man now. He has been doing. I am busy, and must wanted me to go into the city." go." ! "You struck at that?" He got down from the packing -case "Yes." and opened the door. As he was going ; "And then?" out, he turned, and said in quite a dif- ; "Well, then, as I didn't take what ferent tone—a • tone in which there he offered, he tolyl me to do the best! was a note of real worry. ; I could without him. The only thing "Bythe way, Verne • I've •• e settled to: he stipulated w..� that it o Y, Z,should be' fire out the ringmaster. It was that I something.in which I could earn a deft came to tell you.";Hite salary, and'he promised to a ld Varneysovereigns i nodded. I think pou're three soverer;,ns t!)' every one that I saki ribhegravely.'�:•• t "It's on e or right," saved at the end of theyear." the other," I "Not a had arrangement either!" i "It is so, sir, unless we want murder I exclaimed Varney. to be done. The clown is really the I "No, a very good one for me. The worse, but I can'j replace him, so the dear old plan is by way of being reli- is in this island of San Miguel. Shall I tell you what they are ?" Scarborough was crumbling a piece; I of bread with nervous fingers. He', knew what his friend was going to say,' and he could not feel the same certain- ty as he had felt an hour ago that, the suggestion was absurd. Elsa had told! him that she felt a rush of shame when she heard thg tie. of Page on; is lip . Might this,. after a17 be the reason ? "Yes," he said quietly.•I "One is that Elsa Carrington was with you to -day," said Varney. "Can you prove that to me ?" 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She lost lives, treasure, provinces; but the effect of the war has been that Prance is rejuvenated, and is vastly different from the France of 1870. S1re is sound, strong and has taken to her- self new life, because she has been purged by war. Russia was a barbaric Empire at the time of the Crimea. That wa stirred Russia, and the Japanese Was woke her up completely. She has made vast strides since then. And now it would seen( that, under the stress of the present war, Russia's curse, drunkenness, is to be banished. The gain in Germany will be some- thing that only a German can appre- ciate. The German citizen and the German peasant will be entitled to a place on the pavement! Militarism, with its arrogance gild tyu anny, is the load on every German's back. Ger- many defeated will, at any rate, mean Germany free! War is not all loss.— London Answers. POTENT HELP TO THE NAVY. British Mine Sweepers Prevent Many Ctastrophies. A racy account of the part the trawlermen have played in ,tbe_wal was given in,I,.nndo, at His Majesty's eatre by Se Torn Wing, M.P., who formerly represented Grimsby. Lord Selborne, president of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, who presided, told of one young trawler skipper• who had had two boats blown up under him while trawling for mines, and was now in the hospital for the second time re- covering from his injuries. "And his one great hope," added the Minister, "is to get on to the third and even better boat which he has had pro- mised him when he gets well again." "A most potent auxiliary to the navy." Lord Selborne described the trawling fleet. It was .almost entirely due to the trawlers that the .deet and the merchant ships were able to (:ass to and fro on our seas with :-o few ! produced as well as the best. catastrophies. He did not know how many mines the Germans had placed ! but he was prepared to risk the state- r went that there were very many thou- sands. Mr. Wing ;aid that if at the last great naval review at Spithenil there had been, say, 2,000 trawlers, people would have complained that it was makir' •• the spectacle ridiculous. If at the last army manoeuvres there had been a quarter of million min- ' ere, people world have said, Well, it doesn't add color.' Yet fishermen and miners had proved as essential as any in the great struggle in which vv a were engaged. were the They en with the real technical knowl- dgem 1r n which had proved indispensable. The men who manned the trawlers had swept the Charnel and the North Sea praetically clear of mines and r `a submarines, and in the Mediterran- ean od terr - n can thousands of others had Been do- ing the same. "Itis Majesty has had occasion to realize the size of their hands and the warm grip they can give," said Mr. Wing. "One burly fisherman who had received a decoration said after- wards that he could not believe that he was actually in Buckingham Pal- ace and was to bo decorated by the King; he thought it was a dream un- til the King shookhands with him. g a And when he found the King grip- ping his great fist he was so anxious to make, sure that it was real that he took firm gold with leis other hand also, and really 'help up' the 'King for the time." • Bot.lt Surprised. 1 I tary for Foreign Affairs, has been ap- pointed Blockade Minister" in the British Cabinet. He will be charged with the administration regulating the blockade as well as with the gen- eral responsibility for the policy and practice of the Government with re- spect to trade passing into and from neutral countries. Lord Cecil is a Unionist and thus increases the forces of that party already in the Cabinet by one. He is a lawyer of wide ex- perience and has held many high and responsible offices in the Gover'n- ment's service. Hadn't As Yet, Belle--Yone say Bob kis cs you against your 'will? But -Yon surely can stop that! ,lune—Possibly.! • One never knows what one can do until one suppose! , t,. e. Take Plight. "Riches have wing's, they say." "Yet;, :ml whale 'er • I go after them they migrate." Lady (recognizing former servant) --What! You, in, prison, Henry? Well, I am surprised! , • . . Soy was I, Inaarn ', or I shouldn't be • here( e ._= naales the .cow to produce milk and butter more economically. Its use lessons the labor required to care for a herd, if it is convenient- ly attached to the barn. It allows the spring pasture to get a start. It enables preservation of food ' which matures at a rainy time of the year when drying would be almost im- possible. It does away with the system of strictly grain farming, where few of the elements are returned to the soil. It increases the digestive capacity of the animal. :::gni:, The silo supplements pastures and feedingcarries. the burden of the winter The silo will greatly reduce the pas- ture acreage required, and will have a marked effect on beef production on high priced lands. Night pasturing has been found to be a very valuable practice in connec- tion with summer silo. A silo permits of saving crops in years of great plenty for other sea- sons of less plenitude. Experiments have proved that si- lage -fed steers have repeatedly made the heaviest and cheapest gains. Silage saves a large proportion of grain needed in fattening animals. It saves the need of any grain while cattle are growing. Silage -fed cattle gain faster, 'finish more quickly, and the meat is better. The silage system helps maintain soil fertility. The palatability of silage for cattle and sheep is universally recognized by all farmers who have given this food a fair trial. Cattle show great eagerness for si- lage. Its succulent character makes it very comparable with grass or other green stuff. The choicest of milk is produced by herds fed silage. A silo adds to the appearance of a farm. By the use of silo the fodder is can- ned very much as a housewife cans fruit, preserves and vegetables. ' ' In no other way is it possible to pro- duce so large an amount of good feed from an acre of land as by raising corn and making the same into silage. The succulent silage is the best pos- sible substitute for June pastures. It is relished by cows at all seasons of the year. In winter Bows can be fed a palat- r able balanced ration that will . keep , them up to summer flow. Every winter we see a shortage' in the dairy line. This can be over-; come by introducing silos. With a silo you can keep more stock. ! Or keep the same stock on less acres and will leave more land for! other crops. Ensilage has a higher feeding value; than roots. Ensilage increases the milk flow. Your creamery cheque grows larger , by its use.—Canadian Farrar. Still Unforgiven. A month ago she said she's never forgive him. And now I hear she has married him. Yes, carried her revenge to the bit- ter end. Observant Child. Teacher—What is water ? i Willie—A colorless fluid that turns; black when you wash your hands. Oh, well, the Kaiser can not be as sick as the world is sick of him. WARNS AGMfST THE 117-EICL1 GUN BRITISH NAVAL CRITIC URGES 'VIGILANCE. Wisciort cf Pinte i,SiiYroton Met Possible Needed. "Reason for a long time 'has whir; perul in the ears of .Englishmen a -:.'a power for granted. History teaches us that hungry vigilance is the price of sea power." James Douglas, naval critic, in an article in a London daily paper, dis- cusses the possibility of 1 German the G . (tan P yr fMet being equipped with 17 -inch guns and in the course of a lengti article sounds the warning note' quoted above. He continues: I think it willb carr admitted nittecl t.h• t a we are putting most of our energy into the organization of vast armies and that in consequence our navy is rap- idly receding into the background. If this navy were to fail us an army of ten million could not save us. We nevertheless assume that the navy is not subject to any unforeseen vicis- situde. That theory 'may hold good in a short war. Does it hold good in a long war? Did It on Land. 1 "The question I desire to raise is this: If it was possible fol the Ger- mans and Austrians to establish :t lead in heavy field pieces before the war and to do it without the know- ledge of the present allies, is it not i within the bounds of possibility that the Germans may establish a lead in naval guns during the 'war? It is not enough to be told that we may safely trust to our secret intelligence branch and to our expl3rts. Nations which have been caught napping once may be caught napping twice. After 1 what happened at Liege, Namur, Warsaw, Kovno, Novo Georgievsk, and elsewhere, common prudence tells us not to trust blindly either to es- pionage or to experts. The Shells at Dunkirk. "Doubtless it was a very- stupid act on the part of the Germans to reveal by the shelling of Dunkirk the exist- ence of a 17 -inch naval gun, but the Germans are constantly doing stupid' things. It is possible that they used this gun to persuade us to, believe that it is a field gun and not a naval gun. At any rates there is no doubt as to the• existence,of at least one German 17 -inch navl gun. We may be quite certain that Krupps have manufactured more than one of these guns. We may even go as far as to assume that they have manuactured !many of them. It is significant that !the 1G -inch howitzers used by the Centrdl Powers are Austrian guns manufactured at Skoda. What was Essen doing while Skoda was turn- ing out its heavy howitzers ? Clearly, the answer to the question is that Essen was turning out heavy naval guns. It may be said that 17 -inch naval guns are useless without bat- tleships or battle cruisers in which to mount them. Here, again, we are at the mercy of the expert. What of the Hindenburg? 1 "It is known that several German capital ships were due to be com- pleted several months ago. There may have been more. The fog of war hangs thickly over the German shipyards. One of the new ships, the Hindenburg, has undoubtedly been completed. Has the Hindenburg been armed with 17 -inch guns? Have other capital ships of the same class been armed with 17 -inch guns ?. If not, what was• the gun which fired on. Dunkirk made for? "The expert may declare that it is impossible to put 17 -inch guns into a ship which was not designed to carry them. Here, again, I say that the expert is not a safe guide. If you can put a 15 -inch gun into a moni- tor, you may be able to put a 17 inch gun into a ship designed for a 15 -inch gun. And there is another possibility. The Germans may have out -monitored our monitor's. They may have put their 17 -inch gun into monitors or into some new type of ship designed to convoy and cover transports. Have we got an effect- true answer w to the 17-inchnaval g un. Please forgive g ve my hungry vigilance." r• How He Would Treat Him. A class of raw recruits was being put through an examination in first- aid work At last it came to Pat's turn to answer. "Now, Pat," said the in- structor, "supposing a man were to fall down in a drunken fit, how would you treat him?" "Faith, sorr," re- plied Pat, "Oi wouldn't trate him at all. I'd consider he had had enough." ! i. sIa.t. e tl• 'Il� t} lr.r_nl,.rr 44 44 a a' i,. 1�11111113 f111111111111111pp11Gm11. 1MIII n X07: Igt )fi 0 rl1 �li�uflt9l �� 1 1; y bear ? • II t -<r tfi ems\ ti A single bottle wall convince you 10 pS Lithmen .Arrests Inflammation. ,Prevents severe com pl cations. fust put a fest, drops ora the pa'i ul spot and the pain diis- appears. ra lr . { 4eigened Wanted to Know. "Pad. "Yes, my son." "Are' an army's right and left wings what it flies with?" The journey of life is tiresome --a man is out of breath when he reaches the end of it. A woman of experience says it is much easier to acquire husbands than it is to get ricI of them. We honestly believe that the man who tackles the beautiful snow with a shovel will make more money than the one who writes poetry about it. •