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Exeter Times, 1915-4-8, Page 7The Lady of Lancaster; Or, Leonora West Love. CHAPTER VIII. • • "If 'only the earth 'would open and (twee1. low nee up!" ;sighed Laneaeter to Willmar, eniserably, Xt 'e not pleafitent .to he Iliad° tun of, and the most of • people . aretoo thineelfinned to relish a joke direeted regained themselves. La•neaster did •not, Hie ridienlous mistake flashed over biin instantly at the depreoatory worele of the girl, and,. he scarcely knew whom to be Most .fietery with—liimself or Leintora, West, • Ile fetolee a, furtive glance at her, wiele ing in he -Me -dart that he could subdue the croneon timsh that glowed on hie lace. Ito ' was glad that the was not looking at him. She had ,sunk into a chair and buried her fare in her hamde, Evidently she waa not eneerifig her Battey triumph raueli. Those lee( impatient 'words of his had eleverlY turned the tables. - Ho glemeed at the drooping figure in the armehair, and it flashed over him that rDe Vero would ;lever be done•leughing if tDie knew that he, Lord Lancaster, a oily. alry officer, and n, "swell party" alto- gether, had been Iplitle a target for the anateeinent of thie lowly .born girl. How dared she do it? and could he keep De Vero from finding ont? he asked himself In the same breath. And juet then Leonora, West lifted her wet eyes to his face, and Raid. with a sob in her throat: .. "I am glad now that I didn't tell you the truth at first. If I had, I mightn't have found out, perhaps, that you thought me a boro and a nuisance, and that you didn't •wa.nt nee to go to Harem) with you." • Captain Lamm -leder winced.. A.11 she had seiel was quite true, yet be had. not cared to have her know it. It Is but seldom one cares to have people know 011ee real opinion of them. . "And—iend"—elie went on, resentfully, YOU may be quite, quite sure, after this. that 1 WM not go with you. You will have no trouble with rae. My aunt might have oomo after me hereelf. I think. • I ' W116 afraid, -when I got her letter eaying that yon would come for me, that some- thing would go wrong Now I know it. leeeee---elink that eon should call me a baby!" While sale poured forth her grievances dolorously, Lancaster had !been collecting his wool-gathering wits. What upon earth was he to do if she really refused to go with him? He pictured to himself old Lady Laneaeter's fmw. It was quito like- ly that, after such a contretemps, ehe 'would rut him off with a shilling. "It will never do for her to etay in thee mood. She shall go to England, ;miens VO - Dene' he resolved. "Itiehard" began to be "hintself again." The ludirroue 6ide of the no dawned 'upon him. "I have made e, tremendom faux pee, certainly, and now I must get out of i1. the beet way I can/ he thought, grimly; Leonora's sharp little tongue had grown edit now, and her fare was again hidden In her hands. He went tip to her and touehed ber black eleeve lightly. "Oh, come now," he said; "if you go on like this I shall think I made a. very apposite mistake. Who but a baby would snake such a declaration as yours in the face or the ciecumetances? Of course you ere goitig to Europe with me?' "I ant pot," she cried. with a mutinous out of the rieh red lips. "Yee, you are,'he replied coolly. "You have no business to get angry with me because I made a alight mistake about your age. And atter all, I remember now that it, was really De Veee's mtstake, and not mine.' "Wbo is De Vere?" inquired Leonora, 'curiously, as she glanced up at him through her wet lashee, and showing the xeme of her eyes very pink,indeed from the resentful tears she had shed: - "De Vero is my friend and traveling, -companiem." ho replied. .. "And etees he, too, consider me a bore and a nuleastme?". "Well." confidingly, "to tell you the truth, wo both did—that is, you know. while we were laboring under the very okatural mistake that you were a very , entail baby instead of -ea, grown-up one. e -But all that is altered now, of course, eInce I have met you, Miss West. We shall be only too happy to have you for our compagdon du voyage." He was speaking to hor quite as if she were his equel, and not the lowly born nieve of the honeekeeper at his ancestral home. It was imposeible to keep that fact . in his head. She was 60 fair, so :refined. 60 well-bred, in spite of the little flashes Of 6pirit indicative of a, spoiled child. !She did not answer, and he continued pleasantly: "I am very sorry for the mietake on my Part that caused you eo much annoyance. I desire to Offer ,you every possible apol- ogy for it." She looked up at him quickly. "Oh, I wasn't mad because you thought Leonora West was a baby," she said. 'Mien why—because I thought you were a -aurae" "Net that either. X was only -asaueede at those .mistakes of yours." She paused a moment, then added, with a rising flush: 'It was for those other worele you seid• ' "I do not blame you at e11. I was a reg- ular brute," said Lancaeter, peuitently. "Do say that you forgive me. I never should have said it if only I had known," "Xnown what?" she inquired. "That you 'were tb.e baby I had to earrY • eo England. I should have been only too haeenY to be of service to you. De Vere • will be distracted with envy at my privi- lege. There, I have (said several pretty things to you. Will you not, forgive me now?' "Yes, I will forgive, you, but yen do not deserve it," answered Leonora. "It was not kind to talk about ene so. even if 1 had been an uneonscio-us baby." "It was not," he admitted. "But think • a moment, Miss West. I am a bachelor. . an 1 know nothing at all of babies. I have forgotten all the experiences of MY own babyhood. I was wretched at tho Idee of hav'ing to convey one of those' troublesome little problems itemise .the Omen. I Would as soon have been pre. • anted with a, white elephant. I should a,ve known quite as mucb of one as the ther. On you find it in your heart to eihide mo for my reluctante?" • Leonora, relleoted, with her pretty ' '-shrows draev•ti together. "Well, perhaps you are rig -ht," she me- knorwledged, stftor e moment. "They are .rOubiceorne--eialblee, I mean—I think you satedthem pro -blame. You eveere right here, too, for one does not know what to make o1 them, nor what they will do text, nor white they will become in the Wore." "Then yon. ca,n not blame me, ca.n not be angry with me. And you will be ready ' to go with me to -morrow?" "No, I think not. I am afraid, after all yoa have Said, Ceptaite Lancaster, that you reales are vexed iit your mind at tho thought of taking me. I Aonot belie -ea I ought to take adventage of your prsted- �od readinees," she replied, eteneetivelY, and with that perfect franknese that ecemed to he oee of her eharaeteristies. "Aed Yon refuse to go with roe?" lie sexed at lier despairingly. .would 'rather not," decidedly. He looked at the pretty fave insome Ellerin. It had. a very. resolute ale. Weald she reatl7 eserry out her threat of etaying behind? lie did not know much about Amerieem girls, but he bed heard that they =Waged their own affales rather more than their English eietere. Thi one looked exceedingly like the heroine 'of that familiar ballad: "When she will, elle will, depend met, And when she won't, ;she won't, And thero'e }1.11 end on't.e She glanced trp and eaw him pulling at the ends of his moustache with an injur- ed air, and a dark ,frown on his brow. • 'Why do you look so mad? I should think you would be glad I'm not going.'' "1 am vexed; warnet aware that I looked mad, In England we put mad peo- ple into insane asylums," he replied, rts tiler stiffly, "Thank you. I understand. Old Eng- land is giving young America a rhetoricd1 hint. Why do yon look so vexed, then, Claptoan Larteaster?" "Because -there will be no end of a row In Lancaster Park when I go there, in- cense yon have not come with me." "Will there, refelly?" "Yes; and My aunt, Lady Lameaster, who ha se promised to give me all her money when he dies, will cut rae off with a shilling !because I have disobeyed her orders and dieappointed Mrs. West." The blue-geay eyes opened to their widest extent. "No!" ehe said. "Yee, indeed," lie replied. "Then she must be a very herd woman, ' said Miss West. in a deoided tone. "She is," ho repl:ed, "Von are certain that she would not give you the money?" anxiously, "Quite oertain,' he answered. "And—hfuve you none of ypurown?" "Only ray ray in the array," he admit- ted, laughing within himself at her naive curiosi ty. "1e that much?" 61ie went on, ereavely. "Enoughto keep me in boots and hats,' he answered, with an owl -like gravity. "And this Lady Lancaster—your aunt— does elle give you tlie ret?" peeseveree Leonora. Ile did not want to be rude, but he burst out laughing. She looked up into the bright blue eyes and.eeddened 'I &tee say you think inc curious and 1.11 -bred," she said. "Oh. no, no, not at all. I am intensely ,flattered by the interest yOn take in my affairs." "It is only became I do not want to be the means oE your losing that money, if you want it. Do you?" "Indeed .,I do. Anybody would lie glad to have twenty +houseful a, year," he re- plied. "So mneh ae that? Then, of course. =net not be the cauee or your losing it," seed Leonora, greveIy. "Then you will go with me?" he cried, with quite a load liftedefrom b.is mind by her unexpected eoneeseion. • "Vo -es. I suppose / shall have to go,' she anewered. "A thousa.na thanks. I thought you -would relent," he said. "And wiIl you be ready to sail with me to-raorrowi" THE CHOICEST SUGAR No °Weer or purer sugar can be produced than St. Lawrence Granulated White Pure Cane Sugar. 'Made from choice selected cane sugar, by the most modern and perfect machinery, it is now offered A in three different sizes of grain— 7 adh one the choicest quality. St. Lawrence Sugar is packed in 100 lb., 25 lb, and 20 lb. sealed bags, and ;deo io 5 lb. and 2 lb, cartons. and may be had at all first class dealers. Buy it by the bag. ST. LAWRENCE SUGAR REFINERIES LIMITED, NoliTitEAL. Atitt, 23.10.53 prise and delight in store for De 'Vere to. morrow, when he should find that it was a beautiful young girl instead of a erose baby • who was to be their ecnneiaguon du Teems° to England, CHAPTER 1±, Lae -master electrified his friend next =amine by informing him that he must e•et their traps aboard the eteamer hini- OS he would not have time to attend to his own affairs, having some commis- sions to exebute for Miss West. "The nursing bottles and the mem of condensed milk, you know," he laid. with a mischievous laugh, and De Vere stared. "I should think the naree would attend to that," he said. “leurees are forgeteul, and 1 wish eeery. thing to' be all right, you know,' replied his friend; so I shall eme to everything myself.' "Well, you will have plenty of time to do so. We do not sail until four o'cloek." "Well, I hall have plenty.to do in the meantime, so you need not watt for me, Harry. You may just go aboard at any time you like. I 'hall take a carrtage and call for the baby on my way down." "You are getting very kind all at once," De Vero said, carelessly. "Yes, I mean to be. Having undertaken it, T mean to see the poor litele thing safe- ly through." "Well, X •wish you success," De Vero re- plied. as he lighted a fresh cigar end turned away. The tickets and state -rooms had already been • secured. and Lameaster hurried down -town, intent 00 securing all the com- forts -possible for his fair charge,who had suddeuly grown very interesting in his eyes. Ile bought a steamer -chair, some warm, rugs, and a gayly eolored iental wrap that was both•pret•ty and call- fort:Ale, Then he provided himeelf with some nice novele and poems and books of travel. Felten ate had provided everything he could think of that 'Wee conducive to a latesee vonefort, he repaired to a florist and selectee en elegant and -coetly bon - "Oh, yes, quite ready. My trunks have epee been packed several wecles, and I have "I have noticed that ladies always like been only waiting for you to come," she a bunch of 110Were 'svlien they are travel - answered, pxoraptly. •log," he said to hirtesele "But whet will And then She elineed her email *hand 'De Verb say to such reckless extravagance into the folds of her dress and drew out on my peter a. netted eilk purse, through -whose meshes Ile eaniled to himeelf, thinking how the lie eaught the glitter of gold pieces. She counted out a number of eltining come ieto hie hand with quite a bueiness-liks "That Is he price of mer ticket. Will Yon please buy it for me? I will have my luggage sent down all right," she said. He took the money -mechanically and rose, thinking this a dismissal. Then something that had been on bis mind all the time rase to his lips. "I went to aek a great favor of you, Miss West." • .• She looked at him with a elight air of -wonder, and answered: "Yes." , "Yon will meet my friend, Lieutenant Do Vere, on board the steamer. He is a very nice youth indeed. He will be good friends with you directly." "In -decd?" svid Leonora, ill a 10W, in - gutting voice that implied. n distinct doubt on the subject. ."Yes, indeed. Yon need not look eo in- credulous. You will be sure to like hien. .Tho ladies all adore him.',' She 'looked up at him with the dimples coming into roguish play around her mouth. !And you wish to warn me not to fall 'a victitn to hie manifold perfeetione?" she sail.. "Oh, dear, no, not at all. I never thought of such a thing. You see, Mises West, my friend intensely enjoys a joke." "yea?" she gazed at him with an air of thorough mystification. "Ile late06e4y enjoys a joke," repeated Lancaster. "3 -want you to promiee me now, upon yeur honor, that you will not tell hint how unmercifully you quizzed me awhile ago. He would never have done chaffing me! if he knew, end he would telt the whole regiment once we landed in England." "'Would they tease you much?" inquil. ed Leonora, highly interested, "Tenbearably,". he replied. "They shall not know, then," she an. ewered promptly. "I will not tell your friend about it," 'Nor any, one?" he entreated. "Certainly not," she answered, sooth- ingly, and involuntarily he caught her hand and pressed it a moment in his own, not displeased to see that she blush- ed as eho drew it hastily away. He went away, and when he looked at his watch outside the door he was hon- estly surprised. "Two hours! I really do not know how the time went," he said to himself, When he 'went back to bis hotel he found De Vero in, a state of surprise, too. "You have been gone almost three hones," ho seid. "Did you find the balby?" "Yes, 3 found it, lee replied, careleeely, "Was it -well? Shell we have the pleas. tiro of ite company to-ntorrow 1" enrolled the lieutenant, "Yee, it Was well, but it Is te (moiled child. I am afraid we shall find is (t. source of trouble to vs," replied.Ceptain La,neatiter, smiling to himeelf at the sur- • - . -,:tattato.goe FREE,. Sold ley best cleatera. OELAIDF., and jARVIS STS,, l'ORONTO,.ONTe ' Also at. IVIrmtrcal, Vancooyer, young, lieutenant would chaff. "Anyway, I Shall have got the start oe him," he thought. "He will be on the qui vive for a flirtation with Leonora, West." %%en be looked a; his watch and found that he ha.d roneumed so neueb, Hine in makine his pureletece that he only had time to take a carriage and a11 for his cherge. Having eent all his purehases to the eteamer, an.d being enetunbered with ruithing but the 110WelNi, he made all haste to execute hie last and pleasantest task— accompanying Mies West to the steamer on whicb they were to embark. "Drive fast, • he said to the man an the box; and -when they paused befere the genteel boarding-houee Where be had made Mies West's .acquaintanee the day before, he jumped out with alacrity and ran up the stone. The door was opened by the sirapering maid of the day before who had. giggled at his ridiculous mietake. He could not help coloring at tbe remembranee as he met her recognizing smile, a little tine - :fused with surpriee. He asenmed art air of coldnees and hau- teur, thinking to freeze her into pro. 'priets'• "I have tailed for Miss West to take her to the steamer. Will you please see if she is ready?" "Ob. sir!" tittered the maid. "I have called for Mise Wet," he 're- Peated,. more sternly. "Can you infante me if elle is 'ready?" The maid bridled resentfully at his im- patient air. "Why. laws a enereer, she 'was ready ages ago, mieter!" she said, tartly. "Then ask her to come out, If yeti please. We have .barely half an hour to go on board," he +said, gla.neing hurriedly at his -watch. "T can't ask her. She is not here," was the answer. "Not here? then where—" he began, but the pert maid interrupted him: "Lor', sir, Mies West went down to the steamer two hours ago." An audible titter accoeupanied tile .10 - formation. Lanca.ster bounded down the steps with. out, a were, sprung inte hie carriage, and &mimed the door with a vim. "Drive down to the steamer just ae fait es you cam coachman!" he ballooed, Ob ramly. • (To be contieuede A. Cusfoni Violated. ..,''Mister," said the . wayfarer, "could you spare me a, qtiarter "Yes. Here it is." "Ain't :you goin' to wagn me not to spend 'it foe drink?" eNod, "Nor give me a lectu-re on indus- try?" 'Ain't you goin' to band out no adviee at all?" "None whatever," "Here, take •your money. I got too much self-respect to take your luere if you're going to hold out, on de customaryeivility an' sociabil- ity. . Real "Business. "You know, Miss Blank," said the proprietor of a railway station restaurant, "there is a. greab deal in having your sandwiches look at- tractive, "Yes, siraI know it," replied,the girl.. "I have done ttierythlikg tonld. '1 have dusted them every morning for the last ten day's," PROF,. ADAK StIORIT, Siwe Youth littre Beat Interest' Ras Been Econonly Study, Prof.. Adam Shoat, • ,uf the Civil Service Commiasion at Ottawa, is generally deeeribed as "Canaeta'e leading political teonoeniet.'' Prof. Shortt was born in an old Ontario mill village alled Kil- • worth, on the banke•of the Tharnee, near London., Hie father was a, mil- ler, Later the Village (Reappeared altogether, although another ham- let which sprang up some miles dis- tant beetle the memo Rilwerth Bridge. As it buy the coming economist was hard worker. He was a good student at the High School nt Walkerten, and he "put himeelf through" Queen'e, as most • aniversity etudents did' in bhofie days„ by teaching echool. After graduation at Queen's he went, in 1884, to Scotland and took post- graduate work at Glasgew and 'Edinburgh Universities, repeating his reeord .at Queen's by becoming in each institutien a medalist in philosophy. His lung yaeatiuns he .spent tramping through Great ;Bri- tain and eontinental Europe pick- ing up first-hand knowledge of Old World social and industrial condi- tions. His interest steadily con- centrated , on political economy, and, returning to Canada, he wa,s, in 1889, appointed lecturer in poli- tical science at Queen's, and three Years later he became professor, in .......•••••••••••••••..mo ROW PARIS WAS SAVED BY TRE EN ti LI SO, . By Chas. M. . The inside .facte about the famous retreat from Mons in Belgium, are the same subject,' the ehair even- meeely earning out as the war pro - Wally being endowed hy the date gresees. "Retreat" is a word Senator Gowan and other admirers which no Englishman likes to pro- of Sir John A. 'Macdonald, whose name it bears. Meantime, in 1880, Prof. Shortt married Elizabeth Smith, M.D., who has herself become well known Lor her services in directing the in- terests of Canadian wemen into helpful channels. Hie Books. Prof. Shortt is a well-known writer on economic and historical subjects. Some years ego he con- tributed to the Journal of the Can- adian Bankers' Association a series of articles' on the development of the Canadian banking and currency systems which. represented an nra nals of .war have ever known. The raense amount ,f research and Allies and Germans had just touch- ' e,d "mits," in the parlance of pug- ilistic nomenclature, before the On- slaught began, and then the enemy with overwhelmine numbere and equipment,- rushed in with a torn- ado of blows they had been saving up for over forty years. nounce, but it has gained an hon- ,orable meaning by recent exploits. The retreat of General French and his ,army .from Mona, is, one of the grandest and most brilliant mili- tary achievements in the world's history. It adds it brand new page to British gallantry, and puts the name of Sir John French on the highest pinnacle for military ac- eomplishmenta. The charge of the Germans against his little .a.r.my was the mightiest and fastest cyclone of the great struggle — that sweep to- wards Paris beats anything the an - Prof. Adam Shoat. which were math discussed, Per- haps. his best-known contribution to current problems is his "Imper- ial Preferential Trade from a Can- adian Point of View," a study of the British. fiscal situation. It re- vealed his belief in freedom of trade, .eimpled with recognition of the fact that wide variations of in- dustrial and social conditions make it impossible to maintain that any one fiscal system is expedient for all times and places., and also his faith the efficiency of autonomy ae the only enduring basis of Im- perial ,co-operation and unity...- - In. his Life of Lord Sydenham "Th.e Makers of Canada" series, Prof. Shortt deseribes the oourse of events in the momentous days of the est eh Hahne t r e sp onsible government in 'Canada. In eolla- boration with Dr. Doughty, the Dominion Archivist, he edited a cellection constitutional docu- Germany had calculated that this , and probably 'no army in all history around G'eneral French ae around .cenvenient for raising,. chmb out of first reined wcadd be a len.nek-out, almost wiped out. Bullets flew For the silo, and be- means of a hatele, has ever taken the beating and lived the meet erdinarv soldier. through the milling, keeping its thirteen days in this en a rape, h?ok a basket of silage army through the thirteen awful headed &neat u. ihimg.e.7f.t 11::t7liainielgt7 legs and head, as did the English-qattle, he kept his men ae I.to it and hoist it out. After the basket is emptied, drop it back into 'days in which the Germans put in the English reached th-eMarne. -- ithe elle, release the hook and hoek . the - 1 eel -et This gave theme, chance for reach: needed rest, but the, Germans were l ' , a e \ homP-made hoisting device for seimpu. sous and. which ean . be tired out, to. The eoul foot -work adapted to pit st.!os as well,. een- of the English. had .exhausted them, the, tiny foe which always eluded 1 a w''-'''''d'll bit ; sists of a three -Inch pipe carrying wheel and two theme. ..\ it they were tired out trying to their blows. * I old milk can filled a ith Veal) iroa made his mistake, he turned his 1 1 is used as a counterweight. ' It 'The German general, Von Kluek, flank to the English, intending to weight of the tart and the silage. should he :.,ligittly lighter than .the pass before them, and move user i A horsepower heisting device ie to join the army Of the - German i easily used for eiloe entirely below ground. These siles have ae open- . ing in the reef through which silage is hoisted. The carrier is a box aboutfour feet long by two feet wide. haying a hinged beitom. The against the oncoming tide of Ger- mans. Ten thousand Custer Massacres all rolled into one were. at hand, or a rout each as history has never be- fore known. Some must stay and fight, while the others fall back and prepare the trenches, The hercu- lean task may be realized when we c.onsider that there was artillery to move and thousands •of tons of sup- plies and ammunition to be trans- ported in autos. There were horses to ,save, and the roads would held only so much treffic, and there must be no jams, cool heads must plan it all. Some Must fall far behind and dig trench- es, so that the retreating army could hide and put up their daily and nightie- fight with the Germans. Others must have time to eat and sleep, and the wounded must be taken care of. All these things were done perfectly and no general in history ever had sueh a perilous retreat to direct. General French was dashing about everywhere in his auto, and measuring the peftH hyeic- On the Farm Agoavatowsiolow4a4A, RemoNing Silage ".14.011:1 Silos. li:rom. two to three inches of site age 'should be removed from, the en- tire surface of the silo daily during the summer months and at least half of thie amount in the winter. In the above ground silus the ,silage nea,y be dug loose with a silage fork and allowed to fall down. thruugh the chute to the ground, where it may be loaded into the cart or car- riers and feel where desired; or it may be dropped directly into it cart, carrier, or wagon, and taken to the etude. If the silo ie adjacent to the barn and there is a smooth way from silo to feed manger, a simple silage eagt is the most convenient device fee taking the silage to the stock. The cart ean be left beneath the silo chute and filled frum above without reshoveling the silage. Loose. silage weighs about 18.5 pounds per eubio foot, and this should be given eon - sideration when building a out for a definite capacity. More often than otherwise in Ne- braska the silo stands either in or adjacent to the feed yard, in which case there is very seldom it smooth way from silo -to bunks. An over" heacl earrier is then generally ad- visable. This depends upon the number of stock to be fed. Such a carrier may easily be arranged. If the yards are small a swing track may be attached to 'the silo and the silage distributed to several bunks. When several carloads of stock are being fed silage the mose Con- venient scheme is to throw the feed into a wagon and distribute it to the feed bunks with a team. Seme sort of hoisting device should be used in pit and semipit silos. Where the pit, is more than ten feet deep hand hoists and pow. er hoiets are being used, for this purpuse. The simplest hoist is that of the bucket raised band over hand, but this requires one person al foree his little army had l knew not only the exact ,strength grdund• ek • . 'better seheme and one . e in the pit and another above of his own .army but the etrength which is practical where the silo of his a.pponent as well. is located in the barn between the The Jightning b low A sent in by mangers, is ti obtain several. bas - the Germans were terrific, the kets and equip them with stiff bails Ninth Lancers were mowed down- then uee them as follows: Fill the . like grase, the sth Hussars were baskets and place them in the silo their lightning strokes. It was an all but irresistable, on- slaught. If General French had , stead his ground and fought. in all probability it would have been a clean knockeput, for he had greatly inferior numbers, if he ran it woidil.be eomplete rout and prob- ably annihilation'. Foot -work and a cool head, .siele- stepping and 'protecting his body Would haye been the tactics of a great ring fighter. French followed these tactics exactly. But the thing that makes Britain -ereasp, and will make, the world wonder when ap- prised of the details of that great retreat from Mons, was not a. prize fight, but the most frantic and te•r- rible rush of the greatest and best disciplined army the world has .ever known. For a man to have kept his head in all that, as if the event were a mere prize fight, wit only it knock -out at stake, instead of the .annihilation of 80,000 men, is the thing that the world will wond- er at. It was on August 22, 1014 that the English and Germans first met in battle ,at Mons, the English having only arrived on the Scene the day before, and were informed by the French that "There are not more than two German 'corps in front of you." General French and his men had just come to the scene and he had taken the Frenchmen's word for it. Sunday afternoon came the surprise. A ,coueier brought a me,seage to General French from Joffre, the •French -ments on the period from 1763 to General. It said in effect; "tour 1791, many of whieh ewe made ac- German army corps are coming tip cessible for the first 'time._ A seee against you. We have fallen hack.'' ond volume deals with the period The- strong French line had gone These works led and was from 1791 to 1841. 30 miles in the rear. - to the selection of Prof. Shortt and French's army of 80,000 held out Dr. Doughty ae joint editors of it new ben-Yolume history of Canada. When the first Labor Commis-, sion was formed under the Lemieux! Act, Prof. Shortt was appointed! chairman, his colleagues being Wallace Nesbitt ,and O'Don- oghue, to apply the let in the dis- pute in April, 1907, between the Grand Trunk Railway and its ma- chinists. In 1908 Prof, Sheet was appoint- ed one of the Civil Service Commis- eioners under the new Act, the idea, being to take a seep forward in the direction Of the abolition of the pa,tronage system, to c'take the civil servite out of polities." , Of late years Prof. Shortt .bas done a good deal cif epealeing itt Canadian clubs and other gather- ings. They say he never reads a novel: His chief hobbies are gar- dening and 'wood carving. In 1911 he was created coin - planked of St. Michael and St, George fir the Coronation favors. • You Can reach a man's heart through his stomach, but seldom u throgh his pocket. Crewn Prince .and advance on :Pa- ris. French was watching, and saw that .Von Muck had dropped his •guard and had exposed his jaw, and the lightning English sneerer, the. man whose fists Were aemies,lbux is hoisted and pulled over the struck like it flash. The Germans„: dump ehute be- meane 4i2 one horse. they could'' not parry. They lost I dump the silage 'through the chute reeee allowe the operaear to off their guard, received a blow I X trip hundreds of big guns and thousandsand return the carrier. An erdin- of men. The Freneh were doing cabs -,and autos, came to back up; be used for feeding- into seiwal ary haylw'k ,cable and . camel. are their part, 60,000 :soldiers in taxi - the English. but General Freneh'ejl bunks.This sam s. e arrangennnmay t blow had taken the ,nen'e all out 021 came. an ignoble rout. Thus was 1 years A hoist. whieli has been euccees- operated for a number of the Germans, and their. retreat be - Paris saved and the GermanplansI. fulir on twe pit elles built cloee handful of England's first expedi- f . 1 41, 010regeherma% he easily co,istluet- completely frustrated by tionary force. a It eonsists of a frame work eet 1 g . .. a e ' le - f the silo er il -ready ClII A S. M. BICE • upen • e it ee o ,, e „ I 1 . , Denver, March 30, 1915. uyed in pusition. A length of hay ..r. • carricr track !eliding to each silo. Good Habits. A good habit is harder to form and easier to give up than a bad habit, an,c1, this is evidence to rne of the. depravity of the human heart. ,, moral -courage and manliness to ac- the drum. •,,ne earner may lie A 'good habit requires self-denial 'drum cost.—John 13. Gough. ' formed Iry ! run tn4t tripped, and -the box. is just yielding to the feeling of plea- up I drawn out. Pulleys keep the 74)05 out of the wind and guide them quire ; an evil habit is sure, 'without principle. without 0.11 the (1111111. I is supparted by a piece oL four by six inch timber. These timbers are laid upon the two two .by eight ineh cross pie -yes which are supported be two eighteen -foot lengths .of tela. phene 11 114, As the rope unwinds Make your home more attractive, and protect it from fire with these beau- tiful, sanitary They will out -last the building and are very inexpensive. They can be brightened from year to year with a little paint at a trilling cost. Miele in innumerable beautiful destine suitable to all styles of 1)10505. Can be erected over old plaster as well as in new buildings. Write for catalogue. Wm manufacture a complete lino of Shoot Metal Building Illeterials, THE METALLIC ROOFING CO., LIMITED Manufacturers ' King ea Deffedie ,3to., TORONTO 797 Notre Demo Ave., WINNIPRO 'elieetekeepealesealleee, ,t,4,,,,,Avro01,q144•00•4•441411W4atikik)/aSN4.41.:•, • .•• •••• • 'ut qi,101r k • Why Boards Thave 'Knots, S4)me boards have knots beeatiScw they are made from trees, baying 1111141S branches. 'The knot in the board is part i)f the root of the branch in the trunk of the tree. 1,Vhen you Fee a knot it .means that before the tree VMS rut down and the log ,sawed up into hoards, the limb was growing out from the in - bid,' of the tree at, the epot where the knot oecurs. 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ASK YOUR SROCER -IN 2,5,10 AND 20 Le. ems The Canada Search Co. Limited, Montreal Manufacturers of the fermate Eclwardsburg Brands 29 1711 . tiwARDsol14,1, ' Rzde rtetcro 6 ae•-'‘;'" e LOhey en el ve I N zi 0 vs, emeriew, .,,,,m, .e. ti,- Aye," ..iff, ,,m E2 .......•••••••••••••••..mo ROW PARIS WAS SAVED BY TRE EN ti LI SO, . By Chas. M. . The inside .facte about the famous retreat from Mons in Belgium, are the same subject,' the ehair even- meeely earning out as the war pro - Wally being endowed hy the date gresees. "Retreat" is a word Senator Gowan and other admirers which no Englishman likes to pro- of Sir John A. 'Macdonald, whose name it bears. Meantime, in 1880, Prof. Shortt married Elizabeth Smith, M.D., who has herself become well known Lor her services in directing the in- terests of Canadian wemen into helpful channels. Hie Books. Prof. Shortt is a well-known writer on economic and historical subjects. Some years ego he con- tributed to the Journal of the Can- adian Bankers' Association a series of articles' on the development of the Canadian banking and currency systems which. represented an nra nals of .war have ever known. The raense amount ,f research and Allies and Germans had just touch- ' e,d "mits," in the parlance of pug- ilistic nomenclature, before the On- slaught began, and then the enemy with overwhelmine numbere and equipment,- rushed in with a torn- ado of blows they had been saving up for over forty years. nounce, but it has gained an hon- ,orable meaning by recent exploits. The retreat of General French and his ,army .from Mona, is, one of the grandest and most brilliant mili- tary achievements in the world's history. It adds it brand new page to British gallantry, and puts the name of Sir John French on the highest pinnacle for military ac- eomplishmenta. The charge of the Germans against his little .a.r.my was the mightiest and fastest cyclone of the great struggle — that sweep to- wards Paris beats anything the an - Prof. Adam Shoat. which were math discussed, Per- haps. his best-known contribution to current problems is his "Imper- ial Preferential Trade from a Can- adian Point of View," a study of the British. fiscal situation. It re- vealed his belief in freedom of trade, .eimpled with recognition of the fact that wide variations of in- dustrial and social conditions make it impossible to maintain that any one fiscal system is expedient for all times and places., and also his faith the efficiency of autonomy ae the only enduring basis of Im- perial ,co-operation and unity...- - In. his Life of Lord Sydenham "Th.e Makers of Canada" series, Prof. Shortt deseribes the oourse of events in the momentous days of the est eh Hahne t r e sp onsible government in 'Canada. In eolla- boration with Dr. Doughty, the Dominion Archivist, he edited a cellection constitutional docu- Germany had calculated that this , and probably 'no army in all history around G'eneral French ae around .cenvenient for raising,. chmb out of first reined wcadd be a len.nek-out, almost wiped out. Bullets flew For the silo, and be- means of a hatele, has ever taken the beating and lived the meet erdinarv soldier. through the milling, keeping its thirteen days in this en a rape, h?ok a basket of silage army through the thirteen awful headed &neat u. ihimg.e.7f.t 11::t7liainielgt7 legs and head, as did the English-qattle, he kept his men ae I.to it and hoist it out. After the basket is emptied, drop it back into 'days in which the Germans put in the English reached th-eMarne. -- ithe elle, release the hook and hoek . the - 1 eel -et This gave theme, chance for reach: needed rest, but the, Germans were l ' , a e \ homP-made hoisting device for seimpu. sous and. which ean . be tired out, to. The eoul foot -work adapted to pit st.!os as well,. een- of the English. had .exhausted them, the, tiny foe which always eluded 1 a w''-'''''d'll bit ; sists of a three -Inch pipe carrying wheel and two theme. ..\ it they were tired out trying to their blows. * I old milk can filled a ith Veal) iroa made his mistake, he turned his 1 1 is used as a counterweight. ' It 'The German general, Von Kluek, flank to the English, intending to weight of the tart and the silage. should he :.,ligittly lighter than .the pass before them, and move user i A horsepower heisting device ie to join the army Of the - German i easily used for eiloe entirely below ground. These siles have ae open- . ing in the reef through which silage is hoisted. The carrier is a box aboutfour feet long by two feet wide. haying a hinged beitom. The against the oncoming tide of Ger- mans. Ten thousand Custer Massacres all rolled into one were. at hand, or a rout each as history has never be- fore known. Some must stay and fight, while the others fall back and prepare the trenches, The hercu- lean task may be realized when we c.onsider that there was artillery to move and thousands •of tons of sup- plies and ammunition to be trans- ported in autos. There were horses to ,save, and the roads would held only so much treffic, and there must be no jams, cool heads must plan it all. Some Must fall far behind and dig trench- es, so that the retreating army could hide and put up their daily and nightie- fight with the Germans. Others must have time to eat and sleep, and the wounded must be taken care of. All these things were done perfectly and no general in history ever had sueh a perilous retreat to direct. General French was dashing about everywhere in his auto, and measuring the peftH hyeic- On the Farm Agoavatowsiolow4a4A, RemoNing Silage ".14.011:1 Silos. li:rom. two to three inches of site age 'should be removed from, the en- tire surface of the silo daily during the summer months and at least half of thie amount in the winter. In the above ground silus the ,silage nea,y be dug loose with a silage fork and allowed to fall down. thruugh the chute to the ground, where it may be loaded into the cart or car- riers and feel where desired; or it may be dropped directly into it cart, carrier, or wagon, and taken to the etude. If the silo ie adjacent to the barn and there is a smooth way from silo to feed manger, a simple silage eagt is the most convenient device fee taking the silage to the stock. The cart ean be left beneath the silo chute and filled frum above without reshoveling the silage. Loose. silage weighs about 18.5 pounds per eubio foot, and this should be given eon - sideration when building a out for a definite capacity. More often than otherwise in Ne- braska the silo stands either in or adjacent to the feed yard, in which case there is very seldom it smooth way from silo -to bunks. An over" heacl earrier is then generally ad- visable. This depends upon the number of stock to be fed. Such a carrier may easily be arranged. If the yards are small a swing track may be attached to 'the silo and the silage distributed to several bunks. When several carloads of stock are being fed silage the mose Con- venient scheme is to throw the feed into a wagon and distribute it to the feed bunks with a team. Seme sort of hoisting device should be used in pit and semipit silos. Where the pit, is more than ten feet deep hand hoists and pow. er hoiets are being used, for this purpuse. The simplest hoist is that of the bucket raised band over hand, but this requires one person al foree his little army had l knew not only the exact ,strength grdund• ek • . 'better seheme and one . e in the pit and another above of his own .army but the etrength which is practical where the silo of his a.pponent as well. is located in the barn between the The Jightning b low A sent in by mangers, is ti obtain several. bas - the Germans were terrific, the kets and equip them with stiff bails Ninth Lancers were mowed down- then uee them as follows: Fill the . like grase, the sth Hussars were baskets and place them in the silo their lightning strokes. It was an all but irresistable, on- slaught. If General French had , stead his ground and fought. in all probability it would have been a clean knockeput, for he had greatly inferior numbers, if he ran it woidil.be eomplete rout and prob- ably annihilation'. Foot -work and a cool head, .siele- stepping and 'protecting his body Would haye been the tactics of a great ring fighter. French followed these tactics exactly. But the thing that makes Britain -ereasp, and will make, the world wonder when ap- prised of the details of that great retreat from Mons, was not a. prize fight, but the most frantic and te•r- rible rush of the greatest and best disciplined army the world has .ever known. For a man to have kept his head in all that, as if the event were a mere prize fight, wit only it knock -out at stake, instead of the .annihilation of 80,000 men, is the thing that the world will wond- er at. It was on August 22, 1014 that the English and Germans first met in battle ,at Mons, the English having only arrived on the Scene the day before, and were informed by the French that "There are not more than two German 'corps in front of you." General French and his men had just come to the scene and he had taken the Frenchmen's word for it. Sunday afternoon came the surprise. A ,coueier brought a me,seage to General French from Joffre, the •French -ments on the period from 1763 to General. It said in effect; "tour 1791, many of whieh ewe made ac- German army corps are coming tip cessible for the first 'time._ A seee against you. We have fallen hack.'' ond volume deals with the period The- strong French line had gone These works led and was from 1791 to 1841. 30 miles in the rear. - to the selection of Prof. Shortt and French's army of 80,000 held out Dr. Doughty ae joint editors of it new ben-Yolume history of Canada. When the first Labor Commis-, sion was formed under the Lemieux! Act, Prof. Shortt was appointed! chairman, his colleagues being Wallace Nesbitt ,and O'Don- oghue, to apply the let in the dis- pute in April, 1907, between the Grand Trunk Railway and its ma- chinists. In 1908 Prof, Sheet was appoint- ed one of the Civil Service Commis- eioners under the new Act, the idea, being to take a seep forward in the direction Of the abolition of the pa,tronage system, to c'take the civil servite out of polities." , Of late years Prof. Shortt .bas done a good deal cif epealeing itt Canadian clubs and other gather- ings. They say he never reads a novel: His chief hobbies are gar- dening and 'wood carving. In 1911 he was created coin - planked of St. Michael and St, George fir the Coronation favors. • You Can reach a man's heart through his stomach, but seldom u throgh his pocket. Crewn Prince .and advance on :Pa- ris. French was watching, and saw that .Von Muck had dropped his •guard and had exposed his jaw, and the lightning English sneerer, the. man whose fists Were aemies,lbux is hoisted and pulled over the struck like it flash. The Germans„: dump ehute be- meane 4i2 one horse. they could'' not parry. They lost I dump the silage 'through the chute reeee allowe the operaear to off their guard, received a blow I X trip hundreds of big guns and thousandsand return the carrier. An erdin- of men. The Freneh were doing cabs -,and autos, came to back up; be used for feeding- into seiwal ary haylw'k ,cable and . camel. are their part, 60,000 :soldiers in taxi - the English. but General Freneh'ejl bunks.This sam s. e arrangennnmay t blow had taken the ,nen'e all out 021 came. an ignoble rout. Thus was 1 years A hoist. whieli has been euccees- operated for a number of the Germans, and their. retreat be - Paris saved and the GermanplansI. fulir on twe pit elles built cloee handful of England's first expedi- f . 1 41, 010regeherma% he easily co,istluet- completely frustrated by tionary force. a It eonsists of a frame work eet 1 g . .. a e ' le - f the silo er il -ready ClII A S. M. BICE • upen • e it ee o ,, e „ I 1 . , Denver, March 30, 1915. uyed in pusition. A length of hay ..r. • carricr track !eliding to each silo. Good Habits. A good habit is harder to form and easier to give up than a bad habit, an,c1, this is evidence to rne of the. depravity of the human heart. ,, moral -courage and manliness to ac- the drum. •,,ne earner may lie A 'good habit requires self-denial 'drum cost.—John 13. Gough. ' formed Iry ! run tn4t tripped, and -the box. is just yielding to the feeling of plea- up I drawn out. Pulleys keep the 74)05 out of the wind and guide them quire ; an evil habit is sure, 'without principle. without 0.11 the (1111111. I is supparted by a piece oL four by six inch timber. These timbers are laid upon the two two .by eight ineh cross pie -yes which are supported be two eighteen -foot lengths .of tela. phene 11 114, As the rope unwinds Make your home more attractive, and protect it from fire with these beau- tiful, sanitary They will out -last the building and are very inexpensive. They can be brightened from year to year with a little paint at a trilling cost. Miele in innumerable beautiful destine suitable to all styles of 1)10505. Can be erected over old plaster as well as in new buildings. Write for catalogue. Wm manufacture a complete lino of Shoot Metal Building Illeterials, THE METALLIC ROOFING CO., LIMITED Manufacturers ' King ea Deffedie ,3to., TORONTO 797 Notre Demo Ave., WINNIPRO 'elieetekeepealesealleee, ,t,4,,,,,Avro01,q144•00•4•441411W4atikik)/aSN4.41.:•, • .•• •••• • 'ut qi,101r k • Why Boards Thave 'Knots, S4)me boards have knots beeatiScw they are made from trees, baying 1111141S branches. 'The knot in the board is part i)f the root of the branch in the trunk of the tree. 1,Vhen you Fee a knot it .means that before the tree VMS rut down and the log ,sawed up into hoards, the limb was growing out from the in - bid,' of the tree at, the epot where the knot oecurs. The -wood in tile knot is harder than the rest of the board because more streagth is needed at, the base of it branch and in that part, of it growing in the tree than in other parts. This is necessary to make the brancli etrong ,enough to support not only itself, but also the' mailer, lindis growing otit, from it. Warned. Miss Young—"I warn you egainst marrying that man, dear. I'm sure he will lead a double life.- Miss Older—"Well, if I don't mar." him I'll have to lead it single 1.)no and that's worse"