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"Say rental bo down ina moment"
Poo ono instant ao she heard the de•
soeudtng steps of the groom of the obam•
here, who although he rarely condescend•
ed to 011mh to the second floor, ltad done
so thio afternoon and refrained from
salting Mademoiselle Louise, the maid,
because he felt that something of import
woo in the airin keeping with the hour
and the drawn blinds, with the eileneo of
the big boots, site felt as 11 her heart had
otopped beating, as if her head were end -
dents wheeling round and wound. Then
she opened the door end went down the
big staireaoe, whieb invited, nay 010150'
ed, on dignity in the using of it.
he was stowing in the doorway of the
drawing -room with his arms' behind him,
looking for bee coming.
How would it be half an hour hence?
/to took liar two hands in his as she
revolted the landing and drew her Into
the room and kissed her.
I may, mayn't I?" he said. and there
was the joeousneos of a certainty in hie
voice, tho certainty of being loved, ae he
loved,which bridges over every conven.
tionaity, even in Picoad1111', and Itis
words, his voloo, his having kissed her,
filled her with pain, and a horrible feel-
ing of impotence to carry out her reek'.
After all, why should I?" she said to
herself. "If you don't, if you don't," said
another voice, which had no time to tell
overythiag that would happen, because i
joy and pain, remorse and terror, hope
and diffidence were so mingled that she
could not hoar what it said, But oho i
know it was threatening, and that some-
thing within insisted ou her telling, be.
cause of the man who stood there. Any
other man it would not have mattered so
musts but her good angel was close to.
day, ber good angel and love were friends
and in the face of haplptnees, she grew
strong.
"You knew, don't you, that I love you,
that I want you to marry me? Oh, Ju-
dith . . lie clasped ler hands in his
till be almost hurt her, and his strong,
true, honest young love was shining in
his eyes so that it dazzled here,
Yet the sheer force of love seemed for
the moment to dissipate every emotion in
both of them that was not noble; he
would not let passion have anything to
do with his love for Judith, and she, it
seemed to her that sacrifice of self at this
moment was the only thing that could
raise tier to his level.
She looked into his eyes and tried to
rend there what he would say a few mo.
vents hence.
You do not lave me. Hubert?"
Her horde were tie god ae a consent,
and he took the intensity of her search-
ing look to be the result of her emotion,
although he had pictured a different
scene, in which she laid her bend on hie
breast, and nestling up to him, whisper-
ed, with girlleh timidity the words he
wanted to hear.
We all, In our imagination, take our
sue from things we have read, and be
had read somewhere about a girl who had
hid her head in a mane waietcoat, and
whispered, "I Iove you," co that he had
to stoop to catch the wards.
Instead her eyes seemed drawn to hie
as if by magnetism.
"Do I? What do you think?"
"Would you still care even if—even if
someone told you something about me "
Ile did not tell her that eeveral people
had told him things of her, advised him
to be careful, binted at her being fast.
But he had not cared. He had always
been recklees and daring, but it had
been confidence In himself, not reckless•
nese, which had matte him spurn all
these suggestions, confidence in hie own
Judgment of a woman's character. Ire
didn't believe that Judith was fast, not
more than do the way that all her set,
and his for the matter of that, went the
Dace, Be wouldn't have cared to marry
m woman vele wa60't quite up to date,
but he didn't believe that elle teas fast.
not in the sense of immoral, and he had
put down all that had been said to jeal-
ousy, jealousy of the men who didn't want
him to marry the prettiest woman in
London, jealousy of the women because
of her beauty. He remembered that al-
ways he had been friends with a girl
someone had said something.
"I ehonld like to know who could say
anything at you to me."
She gave an odd smile.
No one could tell you anything worse
than I am going to tell you mysel,f."
She sat down on cite side of the table,
and he knelt, with one knee on a chair,
on the other. Between them rose a huge
ctpergne, ltldeoue of design, but very '011.
oebie, being fashioned by Boviero, full of
r09ee,
'1
won't hear it. I haven't told you
yet, 0 want you to marry mo, Judith;
and you haven't actually said 'yes; not
5'It the words I mean.
"I can't. Hubert„ unless yen hear me."
New suddenly else rushed into it a11,
• hardly knowingthat ehe was telling him,
what sbe was saying, tearing her bawl -
nem into shreds, as one rips e. piece of
stns in two, only the tear made no noise,
on the contrary the silence held in it
something awful. Was it only the asp-
halt that deadened the sound of the traf-
fic outside, or had all traffic stopped?
The servants --were they all dead, that
none came or went? And Lady Glaucourt,
was she still asleep? No bell downstairs,
no telegraph boy, no shop wagon leaving
a purchase at the door, no cry of news-
paper boys, only at the back the chirp of
sparrows. The room given over to shad-
ow by thedrawn blinds, by the awnings
outside, Riven over to a golden, hazy
shadow, like the russet rich backgrounds
of antique pictures, and the Ries on the almost phyefcal agony Judith had spent
ceiling seemed stationary as if they lis- in the drawing -room, and ehe woe locking
toned, her own heart beating seemed to away into tho street with an almost in -
beat in her ears, and the man breathing Solent look, as if she questioned the right
of great wagons to stop them at every
turn, and criticized tho policemen, and
the Board at Agriculture, or whatever
government department looks after the
traffic. For England la peculiar in that
the name of its department has rarely
anything to do with .its occupation. Ono
would never be surprised to hear that it
was the business of the home Seor'etory
to attend to Foreign missions, and the ex.
patrtation of emigrants', or of the War
,Minister to impost school books and
almshouses. And Lady Glaucourt., as oho
asked the question looped a little dell •
densly at her profile. The lovelinrss of -it
bad lately ceased to have as much effect
0n her mother, as its expression of feel.
mg.
These was not much love lost between
mother and daughter, On ono side there
was Ile sense of having failed, for Lady
Glaucourt wee much more worldly than
she intended to be; and on the other, tt
sense of want of ap, reeiatiou of the midi -
nese with which she had responded, to
nvas the 010110t, which pierced 'wit had.
elle not meterd him, and spared l e'sel0:
by recoil, rather than by oonfeesion
Dian, perhaps because Petrov th rage
Mush them, Or because thele 1o9bripging
31lacee them in closer eontnot evith reality
(while women often concoct emotiat in
order to cull oxpeeiohce), Reel more (Menug-
ly, settee they do feel, than •omen do, and
to Ste Hubert .Gresham this seemed 1110
moot awful thing be had ever 1lesrd,
while, without being aware of It, he war
telling himself that when this sort of
thing happened the women should go
away e0mewb,re, not be seen again, fir
labelled. What ho wag oleo telling him-
self, unconsciously, were that the horror
had for the moment swamped the grief
et his earn loss. It no longer seemed a
loss, since 1t was no longer a dash:able
possession,
Never once did the thought of Marrying
her ledespite of it come to hitu—not once,
And as oho told lam, the horror of it
seemed to strike her for the first time,
the nauseating character of it.
M she told him, she seemed to see it alt
again, the big country house, the moon
gleaming through the window curtains,
to hear the creak of the ancient boards
in the corridor, the footfall nearing the
door, to Leel again the beating of her
heart, the strange numbing of her body,
while emotions and desires e.woke which
seemed like rho comylletion of some novel
oho ]rod road, with an awful, yet irr0}oe.
able climax, and then . , , the months in
Paris, where she had grate to study art,
they said, and then ..i the return, am•
.i
parent ly a
girl, yet w h the •yearning
Pain of Useless, vain motherhood in her
heart, and the empty urine which dared
not clasp the repudiated guerdon of he
(pain.
How ghastly it all seemed to -day. Then
the event had seemed to preclude some of
the senetbillty. Now to -day, nothing re•
pained but its eiekcning echo, which
seemed to call anoekingly from jun7lee
thick with poisoned weed, where the sun
never penetrated.
Once he uttered almost unconsciously:
"But it was not sour fault, you couldn't
help it .. '
And hope returned again, fleeting, evan-
escent, like the set in March, leaving a
dead cold shadow behind. Onee he ground
bin teeth, and muttered: "The brute the
low cur , ,
Then, at the end of her recital he stood
up and came to .her, and laid his hand
on her shoulder.
Tou don't know how sorry I am for
you.
And by his very voice, she knew that all
wee over, and ale sat there with her face
in her two hands and mooned. In the
face of his unready speech, his want of
itnp1IIse, it seemed futile to plead, to ex-
plain. even, any further.
"And you know that no ate --no one
will ever hear it from me—never. It was
good of you to tell ane -•I know what it
must have coot you, but . , but , , .
some day things will look brighter." How
woefully lame everything he bald eound-
ed, attd he wanted to say eo touch; that
he didn't really blame her, that it was
not her fault and that she must try and
forget. Yet because the words .would not
come because the large beautiful room
which made the right setting to the wo-
man, seemed to eulfocate him, he said
only:
I am sure that you want to be quiet
now, to lie down and rest, and try and
forget all about ft. 111 go now, and then.
—if you want me at any time, vend for
me; you know I will always be your
friend, don't. you?"
And Lady Judith rose, The new expres-
sion on her face lie could not read, the
despair imprinted there by the sudden
realization that this was the beginning
of retribution. All that he could not read,
because for weeks poet he had been read-
ing something else, and be could not un-
derstand tho new hieroglyphics.
"Yes, perhaps I bad better lie down now
n little." She smiled, almost laughed,
and he wondered bow she could! She held
out her hand. He held it for one mo.
anent, then he dropped it,
In another moment he bad gone. She
heard his step across the teeselated hall,
she heard the footman, who always sat
there, open the door, and she heard it
slam again, She had one impulse to rush
to the window to ems the lost of trim, as
he walked past In that breezy way of hie,
with his coat-tails flying like wings, bear-
ing him onward to triumphs untold. But
she couldn't. She had turned to stone in,
warily outwardly. The terrible drama
was over, and it seemed a tame ending
that ehe should walk acmes the room and
mount the stairs again, as if she had only
been entertaining a caller. But there was
a less tame ending than even she pue-
necied.
When the door slammed alt Sir Hubert
Gresham, it closed on another, a now and
more awful Lady Judith, a Lady Judith
with a dead soul within her.
OB:AT1aUH F.
r
"He did come, didn't her'
It was not till they were seated to their
victoria, one of those high backed ones
which were, by the nye, invented and
made the fashion (like so many other
things which respectable and even very
religious women imitate), by a "cocotte"
in Paris, that Lady Glaucourt put the
question which her lips were burning •o
ask Lady Judith, Except for a slight pal•
lor, that could have 'been attributed to
the heat of the day, which, notwithstand-
ing the hour, seemed to have concentrated
in dusty bate of glare on the constantly
Impeded traffic of Pitradilly, there were
no traces of the half hour of mental and
heavily, leaning forward now, his two
Shands olittohing the table, while he still
knelt in the arm -chair, his eyes looking
away from her to one of the yelled win-
dows, because he could not bear to meet
her eyes, because of the shame he would
meet in hers, because of the horror ehe
would read in hie,
Ana between theca, murmured like an
evil incantation, conjuring 519 wicked
visions, the story, tate foul story of a
braised lily, a sullied soul, a virgin soiled.
Never had anything into this ,been told
him, not by a, woman of herself, never in
;mob sttrroundingi, beneath the gaze of
mon and women and children depicted by
Buntline painters, with rho perfume of
flowers wafting gorses a room hung with
pltken panels over carpets 0oft 00 wood.
land moss and Buhl and Sheraton and
jewelledtable%, on whish r'epe8ed kniclt
packs• each one of which represented a
• 0111111 foresee. Not from the lips of a
• woman as flair at this woman.
Why had oho allowed it to come to this,
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her mother's neglect. And between them
the impenetrable veil of the terrible se•
cret which could only have been pierced
by one of those complete surrenders of
emotion on both eider, which both were
far too 'well-bred to give way to. On the
otic side there ehonld have been anguish.
ed remorse, and on the other despairing
shame, but there was neither.
Lady Glaucourt hail suspected, but she
had never known for certain. Only etre
had agreed to allow her daughter to go
and study alt in Palle, much to every-
one's curtlr.ef.
But since she allowed her to go, It was
characteristic of Lady Glaucourt that oho
saw to 12 that the episode pieced 01r with
a certain decorum. Judith hadbeen as':
companled by exactly the right sort of
Person, and .the story had never trait
*Tired.
When the girl returned, her mother re•
(erred to the episode once and for all.
It is all very disgraceful," she had said,
"and 1 trust it may never occur again.
Plepse remember that I know nothing
about it, that .I do not wish to know, so
that if anyone ever asks me I eon speak
the troth when I say that I know no•
thing,"
There had bee: no tears, and the men-
tal tend physical anguish the girl had
parsed through .seemed presently to be.
long exclusively to Paris, to Goma
strange metaporpho0is of herself reoemb-
ling a tranafiguratiot and which had no-
thing whatever to do with London or
Piccadilly, or even her life. Her father
lived and died without knowing. He was
the hind of man a family keeps every-
thing disgracefulfrom, and it was won•
derful, considering what n very fine char
aster ho had, that so many disgraceful
things did happen in his family without
his knowing • it. If he had known he
would never have held up his head again.
And to her mother's question, which ir.
ritatod her, because she knew it was cons
Mg. ehe answered:
If you mean Sir Hubert Gresham, yes,
he came."
"0f course I mean Sir Hubert. Well—"
A bltck, wlticlt this time Judith thought
a merciful iuterpositiot, brought them
alongside of a oarsiege mdthanother mo-
ther and daughter whom they knew. The
atomentoue question gave way to the us-
ual remarks.
• Did you ever see much a thing?"
"No, we ore not going."
"Gone off dreadfully, don't you think?"
"She/ Oh. dreadful. They say he is in
deepAa.ir."
Another?"
"Appendicitis."
"All married women."
"Chamberlain fttrioue, they say"
"'twenty thousand pounds,'
"Constance Morland?''
"Marlborough house."
"Paquin,"
It was not till they got far away be
gond the parka on the way, to the garden
party at Roehampton to which they were
driving. that her mother asked the goes.
tion again, this time more pointedly,
Da you mean to say that he said no-
th'inHe g?"s'
aid a 7x•00.0 deal."
"You are always so provoking, Judith.
Of course, since you wont the dote on the
1'e, I mean did he premien? Certainly af-
ter the 'gay yon both tatketl on the ter-
race at the ,-^',+a iluere's, one •reit that there
could he nothing left for you pre talk
about unless he proposed."
Judith gave a little bitter laugh.
"It seems that there was something left
to talk about, for we talked for quite an
hour, and then he event"
"Went, and didn't propose."
Lady Glaucourt'e face expressed all her
disappointment, and with the feeling that
after all her mother had a right to know,
and that whatever anguish it was to her
to talk about 1t, it would have to be got
over, and that this time was no good as
any other, Lady Judithwent on:
"Yee, he proposed,"
Inwardly Lady Glaucourt- ejaculated:
"Thank goodneoe."
"So you are engager; deer; I am very
glad." She laid ler hand on Judith's
without affection, but with appreciation.
,To, I am rot engaged, 11 I had been I
would have told you."
A moment of terrible silence, while Lady
Glaucourt tried to fired adequate words In
whish to express her ddeap olnement,
while Judith felt that her mother guess-
ed. Then in Inver tones, insiotent, almost
whispered, uttered with dry lips:
"Was it—was it about that?"
"Yeo, it was about that." Lady Judith
spoke too, with dry lips, her voice was
hard, and elm emphasised the word "that"
bitterly. It would always be "that" now
in her mind. Surely her mother had • no
aced to ask But ehe had long ago real -
Med that their relations to each other
were different to that between herself and
other women, only from the fact, that her
mother demi ask her more cruel qu0s-
i anyone eiee, At that, tan
whenthan an y n t, ins t
when her mother Failed to oleate ler, she
hated her.
Yet, the fart that she bad told her, that
there was nothing mars to come, calmed
her a. little.
But how on earth did be know?" Lady
Glaucourt naked presently.
"I told him.
Lady Glaueaurt eat up in the carriage
for a moment and stared at her dangle.
tor's race.
"'You?"
"Yes, I told himm; 1' had my aea0040,"
"Good heavens I"
Two carriages parsed them with friends
in both, and, 00 they passed, Lady Glen -
Penal, poked the groom with her parasol,
' Aren't ,we going very slowly, George?"
The coauhman whipppned up tho horses,
and soon they Vero 41011011th the duet of
the carriages Ds front of them.
:Stop, stopl" Lady Gta.ncourt poked
Oearge again In the sibs, "We can't
stands that duoti"
George wan accuetomed to pekoe rend
hada folded pieta of onrdlbesrd under his
waistcoat In the place Indy 4lencour0, al•
ways 01106e. once more tho ooachmnn
reined in hie horses, Ile, too, had grown
patient with the whims of women.
Ron will have to marry If ugh Glover,"
"That S will never de," 311fid Lady Jr'.
dit11, as they pulled up do the queue of
aarrlegeo within the gates of the yeanti
fol house, whish, dor all its magnifibenoe,
wee sot omburbau, and while nwburham,
wao beautiful a0 a castle In opsin,
'"Well, I llon't see what oleo soil are go,
Ing to "do ' seta her leathery taking a
tuatulfal wrap or black lase doom the,
4room's halides Lady Judith Rollowocl;hor
mother into the gaedet with the sweetest
smile ort her nee. This, elm told 11070010
grimly, woo 1 e. ;Dot appearance in .pub.
ilo 1,11 her new ro1e,
as) he continuos,)
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Since 3'outh Iris One Ileal Interest
Has Been Economy Study.
Prof, Adam Shortt, of the Civil
Service Commission at Ottawa, is
0
generally described as "Canada's
leading political economist,"
Prof. Shortt was born in an old.
Ontario mill village 040110d Kit-
worth, on the banks of theThamess,
near Loudon. His father was a mil-
ler. Later the village disappeared
altogether, although another ham-
let which sprang up some miles dis-
tant bears the name Kilworth
Bridge. As a boy the coming poli-
tical economist was a hard worker.
He was a good student at the High
School at Walkerton, and he "put
himself through" Queen's;, as most
university students did in those
days,- by teaching school. After
graduation at Queen's he went, fn
1884, to Scotland and took post-
graduate work at Glasgow and
Edinburgh Universities, repeating
his record at Queep's by becoming
in each institution a medalist fn
philosophy. His long vacations he
spent tramping through Great Bri-
tain and continental Europe pick-
ing up first-hand knowledge of 01d
World social and industrial condi-
tions. His interest steadily con-
centrated on political economy,
and, returning to Canada, he'was,
in 1889, appointed lecturer in poli-
tical science at Queen's, and three
years Iathr he beeamo professor in
the same' subject, the than. even-
tually being endowed by the late
Senator Gowan and other admirers
of Sir John A. Macdonald, whose
name it bears.
Meantime, in 1888, Prof. Shortt
married Elizabeth Smith, M.D.,
who has herself become well known
for her services in directing the in-
terests of Canadian women into
helpful channels.
His Books.
Prof. Shortt is a well-known
writer on economic and historical
subjects. Some years ago he con•
tributed to the Journal of the Can -
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action Bankers' Association a series
of articles on the development of
the Canadian banking and currency
systems which represented an im-
mense amount of research and
which 'wore much discussed. Per-
haps his best-known contribution
to current problems is his "Imper-
ial Preferential Meade frosty e, Can-
adian Point of View," a study of
the British fiscal situation. It re-
vealed his belief in freedom of
trade, coupled 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 in the efficiency of autonomy
as the only enduring basis of Im-
perial co-operation and unity.
In his Life of Lord Sydenham in
"The Makers of Canada" series,
Prof. Shortt describes the course
of events in the momentous days of
the establishment of reeponsible
government in Canada. In colla-
boration with Dr. Doughty, the
Dominion Archivist, he edited a
collection of constitutional docu-
ments on the period from 1788 to
1791, many of which are made ac-
cessible for the first time. A sec-
ond volume deals with the period
from 1791 to 1841. These works led
to the selection of Pouf, Shortt and
Dr. Doughty as joint editors of a
new ten -volume history of Canada.
When the first Labor Commis-
sion was formed under the Lemieux
Act, Prof, north was appointed
chairman, his colleagues being
Wallace Nesbitt and J. G. O'Don-
oghue, to apply the Act in the dis-
pute in April, 1907, between the
Grand Trunk' Railway and its sna-
ehinists.
In 1908 Prof. Shortt was appoint-
ed one of the Civil Service Cofnmis-
sioners under the new Act, the idea
being to take a step forward an the
direction of the abolition of th,e
patronatge system, to `take the
styli service out of politics,"
0f ].ate yciurs Prof, Shortt has
dome a good deal of speaking at
Canadian clubs and other gather-
ings, They soy he never reads a
novel. His chief lobbies are gar-
dening and wood carving.
In 1911 be was created a cow.
patnion of St. Miohael and St
George in the Coronation favors.
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111OW PARIS WAS SAVED BY
7'K.E Pit GUSH.
By Chas. M. Bice.
The inside facts about the famou
retreat from Mono in Belgium, ar
slowly coming out as the war pro
greases. "Retreat" is a word
which no Englislunan likes to pro
pounce, but it has gained an hon
orable meaning by recent exploits
The retreat of General French and
his army from Mons, is, one of the
grandest and most brilliant mai-
tory achievements in the world's
history. It adds a brand new page
to Britisih gallantry, and puts the
name of Sir John French on the
highest pinnacle for military ac-
complishments.
The charge of rite Geranans
against his little army was the
mightiest and fastest cyclone of the
great struggle that sweep to-
wards Paris beats anything the an-
nals of war have ever known, The
Allies and Germans had just touch-
ed "mita," in the parlance of pug-
ilistic nomenclature, before the on-
slaught began, and then the enemy
with overwhelming numbers and
equipment, rushed in with a torn-
ado of -blows they had been ,saving
up for over forty ye,turs.
Germany had calculated that this
first round would be a knock -out,
and probably no army in all history
has ever taken the beating and lived
through the • nulling, keeping its
legs and head, as did the English
army through the thirteen awful
days in which the Germans put in
their lightning strokes.
It was an all but irresistable on-
slaught. If General French had
stood his ground and fought, in all
probability it would have been a
dean knock -out, for he had greatly
inferior numbers, if he ran it
would be a complete rout and prob-
ably annihilation.
Foot -work and a cool head, side-
stepping and protecting his body
would have been the tactics of a
great ring fighter. French followed
these tactics exactly. But the thing
that makes Britain gasp, and will
make the world wonder when .ap-
prised of the details. of that great
retreat from Moats, was not a prize
fight, but the most frantic and ter-
rible rush of the greatest and' best
disciplined • army the world has
ever known. For a matin to have
kept his head in all that, as if the
event were a mere prize fight, with
only a. knock -out at stake, instead
of theannihalatiom of 80,000 men, is
he thing that the world will wond-
e
r at. It was on August 29, 1914
at the English,.and Germans first
m
et in battle at Mons, the English
aving only arrived on the scene
t1
ie day before, and were informed
y the French that "There are not
ore than two German corps in
rant of you." .General French and
is men had just come to the some
and he had taken the Frenchmen's
word for it. Sunday afternoon
awe the surprise. A courier
relight a message ' to General
French from Joffre, the French
General. It said in effect; "Four
Gorman army corps are coming up
against you. We have fallen hack,"
, The strong French line had gone
and was 30 miles in the rear,
French's army of 80,000 held out
against the .oncoming tide of Ger-
Inans,
Ten thousand Custer Massacre -s
all rolled into one were at hand or
a rout such as history has never be-
fore known. Some must stay and
s fight, while the others fall back aid
may
prepare the trenches-. The hercu-
- lean task ay be realized when we
consider that there was artillery to
n'io've and thousands of tons of sup-
` plies and ammunition to be trans-
. ported in autos-.
There were horses to save,.. and
the roads would hold only so ninth
traffic, and there must be no jams,
cool heads must plain it all. Some
must fall far behind and dig trench-
es, 'so that the retreating ar-itiy
could hide and put up their daily
and nightly 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 snob a perilous
retreat to direct, General French
'was dashing about everywhere in
his auto, and measuring the physic-
al force his little army had left. He
knew not only the exact strength
of his own arany but the strength
of his opponent as well.
The lightning blows sent in by
the Germans were terrific, the
Ninth Lancers were mowed down
like grass,- the 8th, Hussars were
almost wiped out. Bullets clew
around General French as around
the most ordinary soldier. ' For
thirteen days in this great running
battle, ho kept his men As cool-
headed almost ars himself. At last
the English reached the Marne., •
This gave them ad -Jaime chance for much
needed rest, but the Germans were
tired out, to. _The cool foot -work
of the English. had exhausted them,
they were tired out trying to But
the tiny foe which always eluded
their blows.
The German general, Von Kluck,
made his mistake, he turned his
flank to the English, intending to
pass before them, and move over
to join the army of the German
Crown Prince and advance an Pe-
rls. French was watohimg, and
saw that ,Vern Kluck had dropped
his guard and had exposed his jaw,
and the lightning English aparrer,
the man whose fiats were armies,
struck like a flash. The Germans,
off their guard, received a blow -
they could not parry. "'They lost
hundreds of big guns and thousands
of men. The French were doing
their part, 60,000 :soldiers in taxi-
cabs and autos came to back up
the English, but General French's
blow had taken the nerve all out of
the Germans, and their retreat be-
came an ignoble rout. Thus was
Paris saved and the Germain plains
completely frustrated by a 'there.
handful of England's first expedi-
tionary force.
CHAS. M, BICE.
Denver, March 30, 1915.
•h
"It's so long since you called that
I was beginning to think you were
forgetting me," said Miss Peehis,
as she entered the parlor. "I am
for getting you," said the youth ;
'that's why I came to -night. May
I have you I"
t
th
h
b
m
h
e
b
Make your home more
attractive, and protect it
from fire with these beau-
tiful, sanitary
They will oli 4 ho tirlding tin Sq pr very Inexpenive, 'They can be brightened
from seems; 00 JI(030J' ink tith0rifilns cost, Made i hinumdrddble beautiful
Scalene aultab o to i efy a4 e�t roomk, Batt be erected over old plaster as' well es In
UAW build nig, Wr t9 r sa a orae,
We tpeaaffettele a cerophte lies of Man M,1.1 Bondfas Materials, 9
TH1E TAXaT.IC� RI�OFING CO., Li1VYI1ETl
Kind ,..ba t uff4rfd ibte,, TOROt TTO do 97 Notre Dame Ave., WINNIPEG
P.1 'ft,ld k'•0101.f1,sl 44;0. Astir t`` k:. tr„a,g,
ila4am d agisiDrM''i'itritr staisAAr►
On the Farm
Removing Silage From 511os..
From two to three inches of silk
age ehonld be removed from the ens
tire surface of 011e silo daily Burin$
the summer .monthsab
r and Intel
s e
half of this amount in the 'winter,
In the above ground Enloe thesilage
may be dug loose with a silage, fork •
and all0lu04 to fall down through
the chute to the ground, where it
may be loaded into the cart or car-
riers and fed. where desired; or it
;nay be dropped directly into a
cart, carrier, or wagon, and takes
to the stock.
If the silo is adjacent to the barn
and there is a smooth way from oils
to feed manger, a simple silage earl
is the most convenient device for
taking the silage to the stock, The
cart can be left beneath the . silo
chute and filled from above without
reshoveling the silage. Loose silage
weighs about 18.5 pounds per cubic
foot, and this should be given con-
sideration when building a cart- for
a definite capacity.
More often than otherwise in Ne-
braska the silo stands either in of
adjacent to the feed yard, in which
case there is very seldom a smooth
way from silo to bunks. An over-
head carrier 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 gttiall a swing track
may be attached to the silo and the
silage distributed to several bunks.
tillhert several carloads of stock
are -being fed silage the most con-
venient scheme is to throw the feed
into a wagon and distribute it to
the feed bunks with a team.
Sone sort of hoisting device
should be used in pit and semipit
silos. Where the pit is wore than
ten feet deep hand hoists and pow-
er hoists are being used for this
purpose. The simplest .hoist is that
of the bucket, raised hand over
hand, but this requires one person
in the pit and another shove
ground. A better 'scheme and one
which is practical where the silo
is located in the barn between the
mangers, is to obtain several bas-
kets and equip them with stiff hails
then use them as follows: Fill the
baskets and place them in the silo
convenient for raising, climb out of
the silo, and by means of a hook
on a rope, hook a; basket of silage
to it and hoist it out. Alfter the
basket is emptied, drop it back into
'the silo, release the honk and hook
another basket.
A hone -made hoisting device for
semipit silos and which can be
adapted to pit silos as well, con-
sists of a three-inch pipe carrying
a wooden wheel and two drums. An
old milk can filled with scrap iron
is used as a counterweight. It
should be slightly lighter than the
weight of the cart and the silage.
A horse -power hoisting device is
easily used for silos entirely below
ground. These silos have an open-
ing in the roof through which silage
is hoisted. The carrier iii a box
about four feet long by two feet
wide, having a hinged bottom. The
box is hoisted and pulled over the
dump chute by means of one horse.
A trip rope allows the operator to
dump the silage through the chute
and return the carrier. An ordin-
ary hayfork cable and carrier are
used. 'This same arrangement may
be used for feeding into eeveral
bunks.
A hoist which has been success-
fully operated for a number of
years on two pit silos built close
together, may .be easily construct-
ed. It consists of a frame work set
upon the edge of the silo and firmly
guyed in position. A length of hay
carrier track leading to each silo
is supported by a piece of /our by
six inch timber, These timibers are
laid upon the two two by eight Melt
cress pieces which are supported by,
two eighteen -foot lengths of tele-
phone •poles. As the rope unwinds
from tho drum, one carrier may be
run out, tripped, and the box is
drawn out: Pulleya keep the ropes
up out of the wind and guide them
on the drum.
Why Boards have Knots.
Same boards Have knots because
they are made from trees lurviug
many branddies. The knot in the
board is part of the root of the
branch in the trunk of the tree.
When yen We a knot it means that
iefore the tree was cut clown and
the log sawed up into boards, the
inib 'was growing out from than in-
ide of the tree at the spot inhere
be knot occurs. Ile wooed in the
isnot is Harder than the rest of the
oard because more strength is
needed at the base of abranch and
m that part of it growing in the
see than in other parts. This is
ecessatry to make the branch
prong enough to support not only
tself, but also the. smaller limbs
rowing out from it.
'Warned.
Miss 'Young ---"I warn you against
marrying that man dear, I'm 'mire
nc will lead a dou'hle life," Miss
tlldel'--"Wail, if I don't marry hint
I'll have to lead a single one anti
that's worse,"
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111OW PARIS WAS SAVED BY
7'K.E Pit GUSH.
By Chas. M. Bice.
The inside facts about the famou
retreat from Mono in Belgium, ar
slowly coming out as the war pro
greases. "Retreat" is a word
which no Englislunan likes to pro
pounce, but it has gained an hon
orable meaning by recent exploits
The retreat of General French and
his army from Mons, is, one of the
grandest and most brilliant mai-
tory achievements in the world's
history. It adds a brand new page
to Britisih gallantry, and puts the
name of Sir John French on the
highest pinnacle for military ac-
complishments.
The charge of rite Geranans
against his little army was the
mightiest and fastest cyclone of the
great struggle that sweep to-
wards Paris beats anything the an-
nals of war have ever known, The
Allies and Germans had just touch-
ed "mita," in the parlance of pug-
ilistic nomenclature, before the on-
slaught began, and then the enemy
with overwhelming numbers and
equipment, rushed in with a torn-
ado of -blows they had been ,saving
up for over forty ye,turs.
Germany had calculated that this
first round would be a knock -out,
and probably no army in all history
has ever taken the beating and lived
through the • nulling, keeping its
legs and head, as did the English
army through the thirteen awful
days in which the Germans put in
their lightning strokes.
It was an all but irresistable on-
slaught. If General French had
stood his ground and fought, in all
probability it would have been a
dean knock -out, for he had greatly
inferior numbers, if he ran it
would be a complete rout and prob-
ably annihilation.
Foot -work and a cool head, side-
stepping and protecting his body
would have been the tactics of a
great ring fighter. French followed
these tactics exactly. But the thing
that makes Britain gasp, and will
make the world wonder when .ap-
prised of the details. of that great
retreat from Moats, was not a prize
fight, but the most frantic and ter-
rible rush of the greatest and' best
disciplined • army the world has
ever known. For a matin to have
kept his head in all that, as if the
event were a mere prize fight, with
only a. knock -out at stake, instead
of theannihalatiom of 80,000 men, is
he thing that the world will wond-
e
r at. It was on August 29, 1914
at the English,.and Germans first
m
et in battle at Mons, the English
aving only arrived on the scene
t1
ie day before, and were informed
y the French that "There are not
ore than two German corps in
rant of you." .General French and
is men had just come to the some
and he had taken the Frenchmen's
word for it. Sunday afternoon
awe the surprise. A courier
relight a message ' to General
French from Joffre, the French
General. It said in effect; "Four
Gorman army corps are coming up
against you. We have fallen hack,"
, The strong French line had gone
and was 30 miles in the rear,
French's army of 80,000 held out
against the .oncoming tide of Ger-
Inans,
Ten thousand Custer Massacre -s
all rolled into one were at hand or
a rout such as history has never be-
fore known. Some must stay and
s fight, while the others fall back aid
may
prepare the trenches-. The hercu-
- lean task ay be realized when we
consider that there was artillery to
n'io've and thousands of tons of sup-
` plies and ammunition to be trans-
. ported in autos-.
There were horses to save,.. and
the roads would hold only so ninth
traffic, and there must be no jams,
cool heads must plain it all. Some
must fall far behind and dig trench-
es, 'so that the retreating ar-itiy
could hide and put up their daily
and nightly 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 snob a perilous
retreat to direct, General French
'was dashing about everywhere in
his auto, and measuring the physic-
al force his little army had left. He
knew not only the exact strength
of his own arany but the strength
of his opponent as well.
The lightning blows sent in by
the Germans were terrific, the
Ninth Lancers were mowed down
like grass,- the 8th, Hussars were
almost wiped out. Bullets clew
around General French as around
the most ordinary soldier. ' For
thirteen days in this great running
battle, ho kept his men As cool-
headed almost ars himself. At last
the English reached the Marne., •
This gave them ad -Jaime chance for much
needed rest, but the Germans were
tired out, to. _The cool foot -work
of the English. had exhausted them,
they were tired out trying to But
the tiny foe which always eluded
their blows.
The German general, Von Kluck,
made his mistake, he turned his
flank to the English, intending to
pass before them, and move over
to join the army of the German
Crown Prince and advance an Pe-
rls. French was watohimg, and
saw that ,Vern Kluck had dropped
his guard and had exposed his jaw,
and the lightning English aparrer,
the man whose fiats were armies,
struck like a flash. The Germans,
off their guard, received a blow -
they could not parry. "'They lost
hundreds of big guns and thousands
of men. The French were doing
their part, 60,000 :soldiers in taxi-
cabs and autos came to back up
the English, but General French's
blow had taken the nerve all out of
the Germans, and their retreat be-
came an ignoble rout. Thus was
Paris saved and the Germain plains
completely frustrated by a 'there.
handful of England's first expedi-
tionary force.
CHAS. M, BICE.
Denver, March 30, 1915.
•h
"It's so long since you called that
I was beginning to think you were
forgetting me," said Miss Peehis,
as she entered the parlor. "I am
for getting you," said the youth ;
'that's why I came to -night. May
I have you I"
t
th
h
b
m
h
e
b
Make your home more
attractive, and protect it
from fire with these beau-
tiful, sanitary
They will oli 4 ho tirlding tin Sq pr very Inexpenive, 'They can be brightened
from seems; 00 JI(030J' ink tith0rifilns cost, Made i hinumdrddble beautiful
Scalene aultab o to i efy a4 e�t roomk, Batt be erected over old plaster as' well es In
UAW build nig, Wr t9 r sa a orae,
We tpeaaffettele a cerophte lies of Man M,1.1 Bondfas Materials, 9
TH1E TAXaT.IC� RI�OFING CO., Li1VYI1ETl
Kind ,..ba t uff4rfd ibte,, TOROt TTO do 97 Notre Dame Ave., WINNIPEG
P.1 'ft,ld k'•0101.f1,sl 44;0. Astir t`` k:. tr„a,g,
ila4am d agisiDrM''i'itritr staisAAr►
On the Farm
Removing Silage From 511os..
From two to three inches of silk
age ehonld be removed from the ens
tire surface of 011e silo daily Burin$
the summer .monthsab
r and Intel
s e
half of this amount in the 'winter,
In the above ground Enloe thesilage
may be dug loose with a silage, fork •
and all0lu04 to fall down through
the chute to the ground, where it
may be loaded into the cart or car-
riers and fed. where desired; or it
;nay be dropped directly into a
cart, carrier, or wagon, and takes
to the stock.
If the silo is adjacent to the barn
and there is a smooth way from oils
to feed manger, a simple silage earl
is the most convenient device for
taking the silage to the stock, The
cart can be left beneath the . silo
chute and filled from above without
reshoveling the silage. Loose silage
weighs about 18.5 pounds per cubic
foot, and this should be given con-
sideration when building a cart- for
a definite capacity.
More often than otherwise in Ne-
braska the silo stands either in of
adjacent to the feed yard, in which
case there is very seldom a smooth
way from silo to bunks. An over-
head carrier 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 gttiall a swing track
may be attached to the silo and the
silage distributed to several bunks.
tillhert several carloads of stock
are -being fed silage the most con-
venient scheme is to throw the feed
into a wagon and distribute it to
the feed bunks with a team.
Sone sort of hoisting device
should be used in pit and semipit
silos. Where the pit is wore than
ten feet deep hand hoists and pow-
er hoists are being used for this
purpose. The simplest .hoist is that
of the bucket, raised hand over
hand, but this requires one person
in the pit and another shove
ground. A better 'scheme and one
which is practical where the silo
is located in the barn between the
mangers, is to obtain several bas-
kets and equip them with stiff hails
then use them as follows: Fill the
baskets and place them in the silo
convenient for raising, climb out of
the silo, and by means of a hook
on a rope, hook a; basket of silage
to it and hoist it out. Alfter the
basket is emptied, drop it back into
'the silo, release the honk and hook
another basket.
A hone -made hoisting device for
semipit silos and which can be
adapted to pit silos as well, con-
sists of a three-inch pipe carrying
a wooden wheel and two drums. An
old milk can filled with scrap iron
is used as a counterweight. It
should be slightly lighter than the
weight of the cart and the silage.
A horse -power hoisting device is
easily used for silos entirely below
ground. These silos have an open-
ing in the roof through which silage
is hoisted. The carrier iii a box
about four feet long by two feet
wide, having a hinged bottom. The
box is hoisted and pulled over the
dump chute by means of one horse.
A trip rope allows the operator to
dump the silage through the chute
and return the carrier. An ordin-
ary hayfork cable and carrier are
used. 'This same arrangement may
be used for feeding into eeveral
bunks.
A hoist which has been success-
fully operated for a number of
years on two pit silos built close
together, may .be easily construct-
ed. It consists of a frame work set
upon the edge of the silo and firmly
guyed in position. A length of hay
carrier track leading to each silo
is supported by a piece of /our by
six inch timber, These timibers are
laid upon the two two by eight Melt
cress pieces which are supported by,
two eighteen -foot lengths of tele-
phone •poles. As the rope unwinds
from tho drum, one carrier may be
run out, tripped, and the box is
drawn out: Pulleya keep the ropes
up out of the wind and guide them
on the drum.
Why Boards have Knots.
Same boards Have knots because
they are made from trees lurviug
many branddies. The knot in the
board is part of the root of the
branch in the trunk of the tree.
When yen We a knot it means that
iefore the tree was cut clown and
the log sawed up into boards, the
inib 'was growing out from than in-
ide of the tree at the spot inhere
be knot occurs. Ile wooed in the
isnot is Harder than the rest of the
oard because more strength is
needed at the base of abranch and
m that part of it growing in the
see than in other parts. This is
ecessatry to make the branch
prong enough to support not only
tself, but also the. smaller limbs
rowing out from it.
'Warned.
Miss 'Young ---"I warn you against
marrying that man dear, I'm 'mire
nc will lead a dou'hle life," Miss
tlldel'--"Wail, if I don't marry hint
I'll have to lead a single one anti
that's worse,"