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Limited, lalontreal CO4tflialifj 'Mann/adorers of the fantinte Edwerdfaure Brands 29i .4r637 X/h1, /A'4rf4 .01,601,7 '1771 fal me-e- A Teriderfoot's Wooing :ay nalvE PsilatePP•a:WoLLEY (nether Of "Gold, Gold In Cariboo," Etna' CH.A.PTER It was all so simple aod so quickly done when you anew ko-w to do it, but, it was annoying to have worked for half an hour to no purpose. "I dou't seem to be much good," said. Mr. Anstru ther. Mrs.. Bolt laughed and Shook ,her head at the cowboy, "jiima she said, "you are an ol hear. Why didn't you tell Mr. An struther what kind of sticks to eut? ped for a little while, and no wind touched them under the fly which Jim e had rigod -up on the -lea side of the hut. With. a good bed of pine brush on the geound, and a great fire °flogs in frontethere is110 place cosier than a fly. Like a great reflector it catelie "'When III naratIll'r h all the light and haat, and yet it gives ' you all the benefit of the sweet fresh d air. a That interior ;made a pretty contrast o to the da -oar and lonesome uplands, of every -day life that he, anti ' those' of his klad'played the mOntabankS It watt well for 'the .more scholarly Ans strutherperhaps that he -did not fols; low the coevisoy an anet foreign. tongue: Initead he sang them "'the Hoands of the Meynell," and for the first time during that picnic Frank Anstruther laced himself,, and was at home. AS he sang you knew what that spare horseman's figure meant; you realized where that lean high -bred nee would seem a true type, and to Kitty, dreaming as he fang, came a vision of an old, many -gabled house, set, as one's ancestors'1oved to set them, in a wooded hollow, all the lawns of it alive with hounds, and round the porch of it a group of fetch mot and horses as only Eagland can turn out. Amongst them all that duffer who could do nothing right in Canada, had been the best man in •the county. "Say," said Carnbe, when the song was finished, "ain't it pretty harcl to find a fox nowadays in the Old OW:M- e Anstruther came back from the Vale with a start atid pasha s be cause you cannot adjust youi•self to your environments in five seconds, an- awerecl a little superciliously. 1 in why ehould it be.. People don't shoot foxes there." • • They are wild, Jim, Iike our- Coy- otes," put in Mrs. Bolt. There ain't no bounty on them then. Don't they play old Harry with, the ranchers ?'.' "If they do we pay for it" "Oh, well you ace, I ain't been in England myself. I was raised in Can- tle, and it is good enough for me, It knetv there were plenty of foxes when •my grandfather hunted the Old Leek-, shire, but I fanelea abet the people would have been too thick on the ere's a Subtle Char about the delicious flaVour of B106 • This flavour is unique and never found • ih cheap, ordinary teas. Let us mail you a sample. Black, Mixed or Preen. "Areyou men u ?" "What does be say?" asked Anstru- The ;Met wreathes of early morn- ther. . Ing, the vow last of them, were slowly! "Say a he thinks they were Chilco- 'mailing away line 'dainty long -skirted. tin Indians. Why,do you think so, clams from the hollow below the ea- Dick?" bin, and the top half of the sun was "Me see old canna See plenty little showing through the timber which sticks go this way,a pointing south. etowned the rise to the east of the s'You come along, ',show you." Camp, when Mrs. Rolt's head was pre-! The two went away. together, and truded from the cabin door to ask the after a short absence 'returned. When above q.uestion. they did so, even Kitty could see that But no one answered her. The fire something' had gene 'wrongs had been inade up and the men's "What is it., *Jirsi?" asked Mrs. blankets were hintg on the bars . of Rolfe the corral, but there was no other • "Chileotins, lahelowne's band, • I sign of life if you except a grey bird think." • like a say, who was making a care" "That doesn't matter, does it? Old ful inspection of relics.•• Khelowna is all right. Thee', won't "No one here, Kitty," mrs,. ,Rolt bother us?" . called back into the cabin. "Now,is "I suppose not. Na, of course,they our chance to make our toilet, and of won't. Old Khelowna is as tame as a course that dear old Jim has everY- wet hen, but I don't lase that," Rad ho • 1 e thing ileac] for ns, basin and wa-ter beeld out for inspection a emelt iiee and towels. Makes me feel gnite 'to of fa -Wei -colored hide.. horne' as he'd say." e Anstruther toolc it and toned "How do you know that it was °Yee in his hand. "A buck's ear" tis , , es o a squ re who had , ;Igieveennd now for any wild thing to: "How do I know, • von an.amthatil found a rabbit wire. "The beggars' girl? Hastat Jim done, theee thing's ' - have been shooting our•cleer, bat yoti • . , 1 the • • ean't prevent them can ou? There's 1 Y Pala - mite - ova since we came to the c t •y • Old Larkshire." Dawes said in such You don't supposet m.„.rn„1„,a; 110 gaine law in, this' frsee%ountry." 1a quiet, matter-of-fact• way that it chum llama; r 1.1 ata-- e.m 'Jim &haled. "I guessed he'd hav known that much." 'How thould he?' He has not ha to chop wood before.", ege,,-,- "You don't saenlgi-a'it all coal ove Mrs. Rolt ignored the question. "You play fir, aim. You've gott • show Mr. Anstruther how to d things. If yoti don't, I'll go home." • "Right away?" "Yes, eight away." , "Stop and have its dinner first," h said, with impudent coaxing, an handed her a alish of bacon, the rash ers cut as thin and as daintily toaste as if they had been prepared by professional ,cook. "Won't you have some, Miss Clif ford?" / To the younger woman his mime was -deferential, it' not nervous, and, seeing ber advantage, womanlike, Miss Kitty "tithed at the bacon an sniffed, "It's too greasy, Jim, I wonder if you would toast some of it o little more for, me, Mr, Anstruther?" Frank hurried to obey her, but the fire had bean knocked together to • make a blaze, and the little flames which hot out, burned his flugers and • smoked the bacon, but would not • toast. "Half it shake, partner. Let me fix that fire for you. Now, go ahead." • A couple of touchee in the right • place from Jim's toe had .created • glowing hollow, oyo which the bacon curled aad sizzled Merrily, but again it was Jitte's doing -and not Frank's, SO that Kitty's pretty brow was bent, and though she laughed, there was a • strong under-ctirrent of annoyance in het- laugh when Mrs. Bolt began inno- cently to hum that popular air— "Yon: ain't; 110 good, • You catint eut weed, Just kiss yourself good-bye." e in which there were nothing but area shadows andeaileyesecaetnta i•uddy glow d of thanatiaelaght throwing out the " 'pretty figures of the women, and the r smokers prone at their feet, in strong trelief. Handsome as Polly Bolt was in a O half -boyish, half -matronly way, tho wite O go and dash of the sportsavoman tem- • pered by a few years of happy mar- ried life, it was no wonder that thes men's eyes passed her plum. profile to e dwell on bonny Kitty Clifford. Even d the Chinaman, who cooked for the ranche, worshipped her. She had been d worshipped by everyone all hes small, a spoilt life. From the crimson Tam o'Shanter, .. which she held unearthed from her saddle bags, to her gleaming gum ✓ boots, she was as dainty a little ap- ple of discord as ever fell between two men. d On anyooe else, gum boots would have been a horror, thapeless, huge, mud-beepattered. On her they only made you wonder where slime boots so astoundingly small and smart could have been made. Besides, they sug- gested an apology, if one were needed, for the extreme brevity of Kitty's skirts, The fire was the most .thering gal- lant ill that crowd. It WAS he who touched Kitty's white throat with his rosy fingers, he who lit the deep blue of her laughing eyes, who threw that • yelvety shadow whielt so emphasized the full curve of her saucy chin, and, . • The slight upward curl at. the cor- ners of alienmouth disi not ,mend matters. ' Ile knew the air, though Anstruther did not. • "Now, I'm going to be lazy and have a good timet" declared Men Holt, put- ting away her plate. "1" know that women oaght to wash up---" "I'll do that, Mre. Holt." ' "No, you won't, neither will you, aim, Just put that plate down in- stantly. I lcnow your idea of washing np. Do you know, Mr; Anstruther, when he batched, lived aloe°, I mean, Jim had more erciekery than all the other ranchers in the neighborhood put together. Fifty plates I think he, had. Kitty counted them one day when she was in short frocics, and we never knew what he -wanted so many' for u»til that poor young Webster took his shaca for a avinter shoot. Than I found out. Shall II tell, Jim?" "Malces no odds," laughed Jim, "so long as you fun't what Mr. Ametruther calls too poetic." ' "Kitty knows it's true, and you daren't conteaclict her. When we went to see how Mr. Webster was getting along, we found him eating' his food off the kitchen table." "Good place, too," chuckled Jim. " 'Hasn't Jim teft tiey Plates for you?' we asked. " 'Fifty-three, Mrs, Bolt; that's the teouble. I've not had pluck enough to tackle them yet. Conte, and I'll show you,' ancl he took us to a pile as high as that, all dirty on both sides. "Jim, had had a clean side for one hundred and sia meals. After that he let the house and the crockery. Here, Pretty Dick, wash . -these things, please, and make them good and clean." When the Meet against Jim had died got, arid the Indian had carried s oft the crockery, Mrs. Rolt thew them all round the firm The hail had stop. _ because even he became timid aod uncertain in such a place, made you Wonder whether that was a dimple just beyond the curve of those sweet red lips. •Yes, Kitty was pretty, and knew it perhaps too well, pretty with that face which has haunted England for so many happy centuries, going a phr is m as sing on the •pillion behind old-fashioned fathers long ago, look- ing down perhape as Guinevere or pevenclohne upon the mailed kniglits of the tourney, or to -day makiog young men's pulses beat as'they pass l'through the Army and Navy stores, where perhaps one meets more pretty women to the acre than in any other spaee on earth. "Now sing, some - one," cualered Mrs. Bolt. - • "You don't mind my tobacco, you?" • ' "No, of: course non". ' • Taking his pipe from his mouth, Jim had started at Anstruther's words 5 and looked a surprised question at the Boss's wife. He had, never deeamed that a man might not smolce in camp. 1 took Anstruther's breath away, Al I yet be, who knew the annals of fo 1.enn maaeaetter ',lam me knew h Isnoble, remembered that one tl best emasters' the Old Lokshire over had was Sir Greville Combe. 1 Could thie fellow in shops and flan- nel shirt, who spoke such • appalling IEhalish, graudson to Sir Greville A quiet smile on Mrs. Rolt's face told him tbat-it so.' Ill after 1years Anstruther learned to loo 'through the clothes of the Vest isa SCO the men beneath, but at the ne • ment a horror, took bite, and he WO dered how long it would take to mai .111in a cowboy. That was what he Came 0111; to b or so he had told his father and h feienels, but looking up he caugl Kitty's blue eyes fixed upon him, an knew that he.had-lied. . "Do you think that I ehould eve cowboy, ass C i ord. The question was veva direct, an merited ht snubbing, but Kitty ha been caught at it disadvantag There had been more in liar eyes tha she meant to how just yet, so sh stumbled, and Mrs. Holt answered for her. "Oh, I -suppose you would loam to ride." "Thank you. I thought Gaut was the one thing could do." "On schooled horees. You 'haven't tried a buck jumper yet," • "Yes he has, though, put in Combs, looking up from the plug he was whittling, "And you did not give us it chance of seeing the shosv! That wee mean, Theta wash t much of a show." "Well, I'm not sure that you svoul do much better yourself over a pos and rails," said the girl hotly, -.1t al depends on what you are used to. suppose you put him on Job. Tha brute would throw anyone but a bron cho busteraa "Didn't throw Mr. Anstruther any - "What! Did not ,Iob get hint off?" The girl's whole face lit up with plea- sure and pride in her friend. "Wasn't to be done unless that cayuse had shed his hide," said Jim quietly. "Your friend can ride," and if Jim put a little too mull stress upon "your friend" the admission that he could ride was very hearty and generous for it cowboy who was jeal- ous. • The girl knew it; knew, too, that horsemanship was Jan Combe's great gift, and for a moment her eyes dwelt enouslyeon that big tome figure in shaps, that old friend who had taught her so much, and bone with her so ong. If only he could speak Englisb, 1 only he was not "so Canadian " evould he not be the better man of the wo A year ago, 'before she had been lazzled by the glamor and luxury of he Old Country, she would have been ble to answer. Now she hesitated, "After Conehe's testimonial, which appreciate, do you think I shall ever make it eowboy?" persisted Anstru- her. "Rialto. is not all. It may make a owboy. I was thinking rather of. a ft e e . lave oug I; of t? "No - we can stop them shooting. 1 xe my neny. eatiosaaanid theeparl. showing for all, but that's not a buck's ear. s mot med. hair. Anstrother saw then that the ear1, nil "I think that you are Very herd on deer and clOn't want to. There's Dimity ta delightfully rose; face, in a mist of The an. •Reneh.dorat =Pk deet." your ictae. I don't avant too'near the. He ia a Chilcotin himself, if he ie half civilized. But held on a utes." •- He 'atood shading his eyes and look- ing far away to the weat. "You haven't -got' that pair of glasses with you, have you, Anstru- ther ?" • "Yes, here they are." Jim fumbled with them , for some time. Like many outdoor men in the West he was not very familiar with the use of binocOlars. • 1 "They Meat no good to me, GUOSS I don't savvy them properly. You take a look through them for me.1 Ain't that smolce there to the -west?"' Anstruther looked alai Jim watch- ed him. "No, hot there," he said ieritably." "Lord! a man could count the rings on a rattler that far. Away beyond on the next big bench towards the giver near those clumps of pine." • Anstrnther could not see the pines. Ile saw a dark -line, but that it meant pines was not obvious to him as it seemed to Jim's naked eye, Mrs, Reit took the glasses front bim. "Let ine try," she said. "I Icnow what to look for, That is half the battle," and then, after a short scree - tiny, the said:- - "Yes, I believe that there is a col- umn of smoke ov mist just to the right of the pines," - "It ain't mist. There's no swarrre up there. I'll bet my seeks that' e their camp. Tell -you -what, Mrs. Holt, if yoe've mMO to come along, I've al- . most it mind to take you. They might not suspicion atything: if they saw ladies along and no gine me a show to see rnore'n I would if I went by my lonely." horse go. Kitty clasped her hands and let bell "Hold on" cried Jim. 'lam% want . . some blankets, won't you? We shan't make it back to the ranche to-night.1 I roan to camp alongside those fel- lows." He toiled, ealling-Anstruther to foist ow hum old -rode after Pretty Dick's; vagon, from which they returned with 11 the bl lc . ie. • "You and me will have to roogh it; tonight, but it won't hurt es any, if 1 ve keep up a good fire." 1 The other made no objection. In Che' vans sunlight the prospect of a cold;1 leepless night doe e not seem very: enable. It is when the slow hours ' give you time to think of your discom- ort that the -pinch tomes. Then you vow that you will for the utttre leave your grub, rather than our -blankets, behind, ' (To be continued.) se ' • "And I think that yet are hard on had been cot in a peculiar 'fashion, so your old--feiend," retorted Mrs. Rolt. as to make it swallow-taildd. e had almost said more than she "Why, that is our mark, Jim," eried had intended to, but caught herself the Boss's wife. hs ? up in time and buried her face health- "That's what Pm thinking, Mrs. "Polly." fly the basin to hide her confusien. Rolt. That's our mark sure. The Boas will have to keep an eye on those k "Well?" blowing the soapsuds out fellows.. There's been a lot of st•colc id or her eyes and shaking the water missing lately." o- her wet hair. "The Boss won't like that." n- "What an object you .do look, dear. "No eor I' afraid ' y ce It's lucky your fringe is matural." ; what I'm going to say, but there's no. "Is that all you wanted to say; help for it. We've got to give -up our ss am an natural and so were shoot and go back. 'We'll have to is you before you went back to England, round up those cattle thieves right it Now you must needs wear that away." • NAVAL STRAT GY d ahingl" and she pointed incii nantl s' I ''• s• 1611. Shti lad looked to it portion ef Kitty's looks whih forward to her shooting picnic r that charming maiden carried in her hated to give it up. WAS SUCCESSFUL a cand i "'What should you do if we woe net a "Yon must wear u toupee in Eng- ' with you, Jim," ehe asked. d land. Hew woald'you keep your head i nasoam hieright away." e. smart without one." is Mee. Reit held up her hands with a!singm_handecv rr. , "Bat you couldn't take them all e little gesture of horo "Spare me that word, Kitty, before; "No, Ito don't want to, but I could breakfast at any rate. Snira•t1 'That see who they were for sure, and May - is your gospel nowadays. Who said be get proofs against them." that you mnet be smart I loathe ' "Why • could we not go with you, smart people." 'Jim?", suggested Kitty. "It would be "You prefer—Sim." i better fun than hunting. I'm it born "Yes, infinitely. Jim is a man." !detective." "And air. Anstruther is not?" ! The girl'e bright face was all alive "I did aot say so. I clout know. He; with excitement. The thought of feat' may be o»e in embryo, but he'll tlliCS had never yet entered her head. To; a lot of making." • • tell the truth there are in British! "Would you not rather that Jim had Columbia no terrible legends of In -1 some of your pet aversions 'making' diem warfare to shake any one's 1 in the English language, for instance. 'Mmes. There, the ordinary Siwash ! Or is it necessary to talk like at is a peaceable creature unless he is I broncho buster to be a man?" , • drunk, and then it is the white man's Polly Reit hesitated. She did not faint for in k' rilit 50. • 11 I want to lie. Indeed downright truth- "Yes, it would be better fun, Missl , 1 fulness was one of her oecasionallY Kitty, but not so safe. I think we had t painfulcheracteristies, but she did better Oil of us go back to the Tanche - not like to admit any blemishes in her and et the b you thiisk, favorite.• Mis. Bolt, that you could find the way "Oh, well, fine English is BS easy to back without 1 'All right, :Tina it's only Mr. An- etruther's Englisli frills. Where we breathe we smoke in 13.0., my hus- band says. He is my law. But must I give you a lead?" and without wait- ; Ina for an answer she began to aing the "Old Swanee River" in a rich con- trait° voice, which gave to the worde an infinite pathos as they died awe in that homeless waste.. By a camp fire a song_ must have a chorus; without it the gregarious in- stinct of man is unsatisfied. Perhaps ° an eings, in part, because he is a little afraid of nature's silence and of all choruses those French-Canadian 1 chooses, roaring, rollicking, boating ditties, of which Jim sang one or two, have done more to hunt the Mile dev- ° de from the rivers of lotver Canada than anything else in the world. They are full of a spirit of a reck- lessly daring people, and Jim 'sang them with the dpirit of an old-time voyageur, and an accent which if not Parisian, was at least not London. It Was noticeable in Jim that though his English was apt to stumble anti wander into all sortof by -ways of slang, his Frencb was good enough, and his English vocabulary at least as ample as an Englishman's. It was only the constantly recurring phrases ,"And your ideal of a Western man a a ingh One?" "Just the highest. Your best West- rner is the bdat that can be made ut of the best English material tem. petted by such a life 88 01150 blight to lead." . They were getting into deep' water, and tars. Holt was not •sorry to see Combe reappear, carryieg a huge load of -brush, bong -hs of young pines, which he waved one at a tiine through the smoke of tile camp fire until most of the rain drops had left therm With these he vanished Into the ea-• bin and after a long absence, returned to announce, "Ised time, ladies. I'm afraid that your bed isn't what it might be,'but with your slickers °vet that brush, 'and your blankettnit will be dry,though. Don't worry to -turn oat till Leah you," "Where are you going to sleep?" "We'll deep eiglit here, if Mr. An- struthee don't mind, so ELS to be handy in case You want anathing, Let's go and look at the horses, 'Afistruthea. Good -night," and the two strolled away into the eight :whilst the ladiee turned in. • C1i LT oisarE ER You Pam Prevent this loathsome donate -from running through also stable and oure all the 'dolts sufforin with It i! who,' yee beginthe treatment, alo ..mattek ho young Itrevente all distemperp, tio matter how colto or °roes a OPO,MPill is safe to uso on any colt, It Is wonder ul how it any age are 'exposed, ' All good druggists ttnd turf spode housos and manufacturers sell EIP0111S91 by the boltlo or dosert eld'0101('8 WirnItIAL 00, iih,onaistit and Wittata*. oven% Gothen, anhe v44, . - .._...,.,.. - ..,,.,.._. . put on, for a 'nen like Jim, as your; "1 cotald try. Where is the 'menthe toupee iS for you. A Mall 11111St speak from bei?" the language of a country if he wants to be underetood in it. You used to understand Jim well enough before you went home," "And now I don't. He seems to me to have changed. In some way he does not seem to be natural any more." "I thought your complaint was that he was not sufficiently artificial -- swot, I mean." "He isn't that, either. But hurry up. Here they cornea! and the two ladies whisked round the corner and into the seclusion of the'r-abin to c , put on the last linithing touches. A minute later they were congratu- lating Combe and Anstruther upon Inc buck whjeh th wagon. "Who shot it, Jim? You, of, course," asked Kitty, her dainty head as trim as if she had lust parted from her maid, though Mrs. Rolt's 'fringe was still a trifle damp teal straight. - "No, Mr. Anstsuthee killed him." "And that le all I haa to do with it," added Anstruther. "Combe found ,his tracks; I went right away from them, walked all over the cotintry until I was beginning to grow tired. He told me to got my rifle ready at the foot of a hog's btudt, and as. we peeped over, said 'shoot!' That le all 1 knew of our hunt." • a'haimehgaii,Lbiin picketted foe you," n Jim laughed. "Piekettecl to his feed, Miss Kitty, 'Paint much of a trick to know 'where a beck' would 'be this lame in the moaning." "It is a trick you will owe your steak to, more than to my rifle," retorted Anstruther generously, and then be- tween them they aet about prepara- tions for breakfast. Before that meal was over, the In- dian Pretty Dick ,eaine op With the horses. • "Plenty man track in the $wamn," he said. "Fairclough's boys been hunting, I expect," said Jim, "though it's along way for them to come for deer rneat, I saw their teas, Didn't you notice them going up that fleet rifle to aeur right, Anetruther 7" "Ina. I eaw nothing, I was looking for a deer." "Not Fairelaw crowd, Jim. Mirka tum tum Ohilooties," pet in Pfetty Dick.- ' "Come to the top of the rise and Ial show you." ITogether they rode to the edge of the plateau, from -which they eould see bench upon bench of grey cattle land, bounded by low hills in the fat !distance, near Which it depression sup- geeted the bed of an unseen rider. "That's tho Fraser and these are e sound Hog mountains," Jam said, pointing to the hills beyend. "It will take you eight hours' riding to get to the rivet- where those big red bluffs crop up. You know them. Yosa cnn Sea the ranthe from there. It's nine o'clock neve." • .4 Than we could be in eight of the ranche by five." "Yes, but there's ao place where you could damp." "Once we ,saw the rancho we shouldn't want to camp." "There's tio telling. It "mike floe enoug•ls nova The storm of the day before had pleared the air so that it was more brilliantly lucid thee usual, and the long sloping lands radiant in • the moiling sunshine and sweet with -the strong scent of the sage brush, ' were cxsunasstly erovocativ f • •1 • lop. • Kitty's horse, not' (naively Mnocent perhaps of his rider's heel, began to dance about and pull at hie- bridle as if he would drag the fawaYina figure from the saddle. Jimal eyee dwelt on her hungrily. That was how he lovecl to see her. Had he not taught her to ride when she was but the ten -year-old darling of the ranche, and was not the hand- some beast who carried her now the colt, on which be had expended such endless trouble whilst she was away in England? It was bard to give up this holadaY, and harder to leave her to spend it with thst haw-haw young fool from the old Country. "I don't half like letting you go back by yourself, Mts. Rolt," he said, "nor I don't like spoiling your pleasure, but those fellows will be out of the country before we can get on toetheir trail if I don't get is move on." "Don't woray about us, aim, we ean get hone all right, only we most aot stand here talking any longer. What are you ohm' to do with Pretty Dick?" "Send him along with you with without a struggle all the added rstrength which the seas offer to a 1 nation in the throes of war., Some effort would .surely be made, either by a 'bolt from the blue' in the early days or by crafty use of some chance • or carefully prepared opportunity, to !interfere 'with our command of tha ocean communications. No German Flag on nese. 1 a iese expectations have not been fulfil:41; for a yeav and 4 half the battleships of the .High Sea Fleet have only ventured on sone oceasiaia beyond the narrow limits of then 'proteeted -waters; exeureions in the - Baltic 'have met with repeated dins - tees; sincethe close of 1914 the Ger- man flag, naval on commercial, has been banished from every . °coati. itt ficarmer wars no lalockacht opera- tions ever succeeded itt keeping all an enerny'a ships in fort; from time to time squadrons have eladed the most careful watch and got away to sea as witness the French squadron which escorted Napoleon's army to EEgypt in 1798, and Villeneave's es- cape to the West Indies in 1805 During the present war the °neuter hae "Only once moved a :tingle bat- tleship from behind :the protection of his mines studthe defence of the shore guns. "That is a remarIcable fact. • Not a German battleship has ;been in the open sea • for many months; not a German battle cruiser _has been out- eute.the &melon., eipee the opening of. the present year, when the Blether was sunk :tad the Derfflinger and the Seydlitz damaged; so far as is known, no protected cruiser- has ven- tured beyond the limited area of water which the Germans are aisle to coatrol. The epemy's main fleet) has lost touch with the sea. Influence 'on 'Morale. "What the influence on the morale of officers and men has been, to what e:e.tent they have lost the sea habit, whether their gunnery has suffered —are questions upon which each of US can speculate. But this at least may be maid. During the last seven- teen months or so the Beitith fleet has had ail the tea room whith the world's oceans offer, while the G r man high sea fleet has been confined vibhin an area so small that an Am- eriean would not describe it as a sal,ct,elhi•arhtattheisreeord of the British fleet probably hatclly realised is the present war has no parallel in istory. In the past enemy frigates "ways succeeded in getting out of arts, however carefully watched — then there were no mines and sub. marines to harms the blockeeling force—and doing great injury to ov- ersee possessions and trade. Since the battle of the Falkland Islands , the only damage done to our trier- ! chant ships has been inflicted by submarines; that has been relatively small in home waters since the of- fensive -defensive measures were de- veloped. "The extent of the success of the fleet is not to be judged by battles or engagements, but by the power which it has been instrumental creating. The whole fabric of our fa in these 'Glenda hangs on one hread. The coMparAtive measure f prosperity whieh we are enjoying traceable let our dommand of the ea. The widespread character of le Military operations is due to the ante melee. BRITAIN KEEPING GERMANY 's OFF THE SEAS, 1 st Coneentration'and Initiative Succeed. ed in Bottling Up Their What the British fleet; has done in 1915 is the subject of an exhaustive article in the'Daily Telegraph by Mr. Archibald Hurd. In the course of this article- Mr. Hurd Writee:— "Concentration ancl initiative -An those two words lies, in large mea- sure, the secret of our success at sea. • The Reet sprang a surprise on the enemy rat 'the early days of Auguet, 1914, from which he has never recovered. It took the offen- sive and thus dedicated. strategy. Our fortunee at sea have been in contrast with our fortunes on land for that reason. For a time the German cruisers hi t distant waters seemed to have things o their own way. Authority was, not is distracted from its primary purpose 's in the North Sea—the containing of 01 the High Seas Fleet. "'All in good time.' it was said ie so many %verde, the other seas will be swept clear; we -refuse to be di- erted from our strategy, which we co are convinced is as sound aa it is ao simple. The nation may be worried pi by losses of merchant ships here anti •!in there; they do not seriously Matter; le what matters is that the enemy a should be thrown back on the defenox - sive war.' Was the policy a success? "If the war has not yielded all that officers and men atudously anticipated ee In the early clays of August last year, it has given us in those islands na peace, and even prosperity. We might have anticipated as much. It avas, it is true, assumed by some persons that w the (lateens woulci not relin.quish rt11-1 Britain Best Market. The United Kingdom leads all the unieles ut the world as it meteket O the domestic farm' and forest •oducts of the United States. 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