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"Old House" Or, Dulcie's Confession CIIM'TKK VII. (Continued). and before mrv duyti were over nhe> had acquired an exitr-ove ami elii'horiito wardrobe. Hho rcvi-llod in tlip thought that there wa no one to eay her nay. for although Primrose chidod her Bently for being er- travagant, yet he agreed that, after all. there wa* no reason why they should not tor Tiiut" >Y"m The lop right" hand~drawer ; <> pinvihimt the thing* that had been of Ins diwk. l.K-ked it, took the key back denied them for BO many years. to Carwardinu. and he flaw me replace the key on the buiu-h to which It bnlonged. " Doctor Oewe wan a hatchet-fa^ed littlo man. Hi- grcct<-d the la-wyvr curtly. "What the meaning of this tale Mar- tha Craddock hu been pouring into my ear?" he demanded. 'She t-ay the Will I drew up for poor Carwardine can't be found! I told her you muni all be blind. _ on the bunch to which It "There in no Will in any of the drawers of Iho desk," replied Mr. Norton. "C'omo and see for yourself Hut llrst tell uic who benefited by thte Will?" "A lot of charitie* I forget their named." woe the reply. "Martha Crad- d"<k w;ii- left a few thousand pound*, live I think, and the two rn'U, fifty pound* a year each. I may tell you, Mr. Norton, that I did my best to pen-nade Mr. Car- wardiiie to leave his money to his daujfht-cr*. but he M-eined to have taken a violent ditslike to them, and threatened that it 1 would not write what he a iked, he would leave them completely penui' lee* 1 thought they wouldn* thank m if I r. fii.cil. and I did what lie asked. ' "Who were Uiu wltMMMP" inquired Norton. "Myself and .Tain eg the gardener," wad the reply. The lawyer wan silent for a few min- ute-. "I Hiiii pone ( arnardim- W.IH xiund in mind when h-- -ixm-d the Will."" h arked. "Perfectly." wan the reply. Mr. .Norton le<l the way in i-ilen.c to ihe; tudy, bin Doctor I'ICVM ua* no luck. IT in hit- n-ir. !i than the others had been. "With my own handr I placed it in i he drawur in a long wivi-lopr. he paid, ' rlarnif angrily around him. "Some one lias taken it!" cried Martha.! ^'Itjook- uncommonly like it," said the. "But who could huve taken it?" anked Uulcie. Only Din-tor Crcwc and Marth.i knew when- it wa* placed, and it cecnip earcely poM-il.lc |,,r any one to tak- the key of ihe drawer from my lather* bed- room without hi- knonlixlge." Dul< ie'i |.|-muik *ii-med very much in the point. . u ,(j Marth.i regarded her \icioualy. "When it ,.- found, von *ill no; IK- -u boily-to.M. MIV !.id>. -be -narled Tou fi.riret youivilf, Marth.i. i l>ulc:e nnh diirn.ty 'Vou are an old! MTTant and privileged, but you are get-' ting too pr.iiniptiioi> Y,,,. b.id better go out of the room. I -hall do noiliing ol iii nort! re - ! Mined :hc wo'iian ruddy. Unlc , ! in IK-, I 1,1 Mr. Norton. ' ! ci-t rid of thin woman for in-. | he ga.d. 1' u 1,,-r uhat 11- irwinir. a:>d , : month, wage,, in advance. My .mi,. r and' I have endured IHT uii-ilince for many v ' '" u '" . In- wa* an old ,-cnant bill we will n., t do M any longer Our iuin.lt. are in.:. made up ., t |,i. point and be bM .mi left the houw by twelve t<J. . k ,, MIL i r, i* 1 i-hall a-k you to bend tca<l f.,r a policeman ;o remove DuVie .,,. perfect ]y ciiol. Jh ,| ) u . r voire W II- (J.--.-> HI ].|IM|. Mr. N..I i. .u ., K. | I'rimro.e. ' Vl ' J . Pl ' " the linn reply. "She en no lri.-iid to my itoter or my I xhall be very much obliged if you ill arranire lor her to leave ilii- In, .- at ii, e eaflia.il iM-ihli. Diomcii:.' 1 i will be *.,rry for Itnr before .1 ..r. UK OTI . , -aid Martha. nii|,!,., Mi.tiv. I i!i have the \i on ' von lor doing away with that Will I your k-,.ing* on for the |a: three u < ni: men on the lr and i klailnc them In ihe wood", and M>- d.d nol linwh her i-eiitcn.-*. for the lawyer Mopped her. He i>pike a few word* .if w.irmni- l be .inirrv woman, who flung oil! of room .> -1. Lbll pining rhoi w , I hi- Will !urn up!" But the Will did not 'turn up." ai taoiiKh .1 ,-y-icmatic -earcb :I B mad- thrOOfhoul the boi|*e. boll, by Mr Nor- ion and |,i< clerk". . im LhorotllM; c-i- loved Uie i.i^k an it brought tliein into in.n.v lo I In- Ill' rcoacm eonract with DuVie. who looked preiner ii,.. i. ever in her elc/an: mourn- ing \ ; ''' ' M| ,,f .1 lortniglil ihcM-arch war Hhuiidoiifd at, bopeloM, for it war" evuli-n; that the document Doctor Crewe bad 'li. inn ni. .'.i- u. .t wilhin tbo wall- of Hln. Poitl Mariba Cr.idilo.-k remained 111 I he village whllo [lie -car, b . out Hilled. lllld Ibcll lo'ik ... Tl ice with H.R-tor tre.\e. win. bappMMd io IH> 111 ncfd of a < k To llllll i-he a.. died her linn belief that itlnr PrtmrOM or lliil.ic ( arwardine b.id learned oT ihe Will and iiii.li oyed it. I am tun i- I <|i, nm know what nan lie- -.me of i." paid Uie doctor "Vou Klmuld have MkcTi lii'iter care of :t you had plenty of upport iiu.tii* for removing it to a pilfer piacc- than be -iiidy." How win I to know it tvniild be lolcn!' arked Marlha ungrily "If you bid g.ven me a hint I A ould have kept the Will in my own potoe-xfon. and we *!iould both have been richer by -o..!., 1 t|, illr.tjl.l polllldt.. I do not know what you mean," wa the dn-lor'*, ri-ply. If you Invc forgotten what your ,-harc at< in be tor doing what old ('arwardine wanted and keep.-ng ,: ijuntt. I have not. inuiier.d Manila ' Your memory i- playing you a Ir.ck. p.1,.1 the doctor. It mav -ml vou ;,, pay -o now. te toited M m .1.1. "but 1 fancy you would have beri. -ing.ng ar.uthcr tiinr if the Will b ,.l not disappeared." "I do not want lo hear anvlhinit more about the W:ll. 1 am weary ,,f the whole afla r. and if you cannot hold your tongue ahout it you won't ,tay in my M. ,11)11 ir.idd.l>. -u.!. n anil .lic-.ip- lioin'ed. . nlcrcd relu.-laii'ly ,, herdutii*. I'be lionet i-he h.id ' lieriKhed nere Hllal- teied nitb he;- .iinn.iig plan,-, but one crumb nt .oin tori remained to her when he heard Ib it I lie Mlmnw Carward'iie ere liav in I :c I'l-io and going to live in London. "Thank g ...Inc., I .';.all never ,-c. their f.i acain! r-he H.nd Idle, good fir- nothing creatnnw! No good will come to cither of tin-ill !" She r. on ted her pan* viriolMly, winlnng (be could i ve Dulcie and I'nunn.c :IP 0|.< treiitid the kitchen u . u- < H.U'TKli Vlll Wben n '8K evident that no Wi" c cep* Die -.11- Mr .Norton po-M<vr.ed w.n- forthvinilnir. *tepp were tuken to put ,t lulu effwt. The *u,tern found they bad mon, y in plenty -e\eral tholMand poundx t year Primr.,-,. aked Mr. Norton lit lake cbai-go ol their affair.-, and when Dulcie paid i-l i d"l MH .int to remain at Blue l'o-'i-. :iie.v decided to nell the furniture und take a ftirnuhed Hat in London for tin- winter. 'I be furnished Hal wap l)ii!.-je'- piig^ti, lion. She wrote to Philippa Heriott, tell ing he- of tbo change in their forlune- and anking for aailatAlMM in the .-election of a lint. Philiuua told the newt, to her brother at breuktai-t "What on earth do they want to come tU L '.'!''!':! for 1 In- axkeii. wiib an indif- f*?rei,L air. Dulc'c Unlike in. it Blue I'-.-i . , r a de |,n--ing old lioiwe. and certainly I do not pee .vhy they ihoutd bnrv tliimielTei tin re now especially an they appear lo extremely well off I nhall otler "1 am going to mako up for In-t time," announced Dulcie. "Come ulong. Prim, let us go p-hopping. We will take a taxi, and call for Philippa. She haw been aw- fully deovnt to IIH. and I am going to atik her to acc<pt t he fur coat title ad- mired so much tho last time we were at Kay's." Dulvio van certainly not nelflih with her newly-acquired wealth, and the novelty of having money to npend contented her for a while, occupying the whole of her time; but at length it began to pall, and .In- longed for gome other form of ex- citement. She cultivated Philippa's acquaintance, but in ppite of her eftortu saw very lit- tle of Jim. If mhp and Primrose went to tea with Philippa. Heriott did not appear: he was either out or in hip- workshop. If . they axki-d Philippa and hi-r brother to , dinner the latter ulwuyts had a bu-imiw engagement. Dulcie did not appear to no- tice it. but Jim's defection wounded her in a very vulnerable part her vanity. When she had bought more- clothee than -In- could M'.-r- bl> wear during the next ! few yea iv. -he began once more to experi- ence tho penpal ioriis r-he had puffcred when I Jim told her that he would have nothing more lo do with her. Three time* a week Belturbet wrole her dutiful letters, to which -he replied in the t-ame strain. At the end of that period, however, imitead of Bending the uxual politely affectionato ret.lv. -he wrote that he feared she did not care nuftlciently for him to marry him, that pJic had been mi*taken in her feelitigf. and bopeil he would forgive her. rir.l -e\ei.il pag*t4 in a Minilai plrani. She would have felt anything but flat- tered had -he realized the immenxity of Arthur Bclturbct . relief on reading her letter. At flint be feared he might have mlcunderttood it. hut when he tounil be w ,s a. lually freo .nice more, he got up from the breakfa.-t-tablc and paced quick- ly about the room, hi- h.'art f!1 of joy and Uiatikfulin pr-. It ,-ci tned in. n^lible that after making pilch a fool of li.ni.-ell be W.IP going to In- let oft i-o lightly. H.s tiri-t ini]iul-e wa- to fly to boadon. *4>ek Primro-c. and a*k her to be IIIK wife; hut on reflect ton he saw that to do this immediately on being reje. ted by her piptcr would not place him in a very favorable light. Hi-r--.li.-. .vhat i.- -,- . i had be for imag- ining that I'l.ii,'--- would !:-;en to him;' How could ho cxpi-ct her to believe that tie waft honcHlly in love with her when a few montlip air-i be b ,d ,.ropo-e,l ;,, marry [| her i-i.-ter- Me houghl it over lor a long time, and the joy he had felt on receiv- ing hi- di-iri-..il from Dill. : into doubt ' What a dolt I wan from Ihe very first!" b- toid himpcir. "If I had not overheard her pay that day in the wood* Ibat he intended to marry me I hou!d have lov- ed her from the ln-ginninv. in.-tead of ' i pretending to m.v.-elt that I did not Bui ' I wonder what made her ray it when -Ir- did not mean - I know now that i-be IP . > v I i;-' girl in the world to run alter -i niai. yet -hi- did -ay u. tor I beard hi r. Anyhow. I do not care what aid. OIIP d:iy. pcrliap* when we are inairie'l, I will a*k her the reapon. and 1 c\ite--t e -hall both laiijrh it the very pimple explanation -be will irue: I He wrote a nice letter to Dill ae- iitnivcinir in tt:e w .loin of her dii-i-.on. j adding that he hail feared they were nol | in pyinpathy with each oilier, and that be hoped, although pin- bad decided ibat ! they were only lo be friend* in the future. that they would IK- warm friendr. lie mentioned that lie wa* tronig anroad for I the winter but would be rcliirnint; lo j England in the spring. Kulcie received the letter at breakfast nine, and yn-v.-iied .it- -he read it. "Thank foodnen, ibat c all over r a .ll. What i- all over'-' akei who bad riv isirzed the writ envelope. My enu'-'ii.'! uient :o Arthur The Undaunted Spirit of the Belgians WOUNDED Belgian artilleryman after having; his wounds ready for another battle. it h- will aek u down to Old House next summer?" Jim made no reply. "If lie doe*. I shall not go," he thought. Because he loved Dulcie. and file wai now a wealthy young woman. Heriott was nearly IIH rude to her as a gentleman could permit himself to be on tho few oce:t*ion* when they met. "Slie wantH txi flirt with me again till somebody else, comei. along." he reflected grimly, "and then treat me aa she haw treated llcl- turbet. No, I am not to be fooled again!" He net himself impofsible taskw to achieve in hi workuhop, und grew irritable and quick-tempered. Hi* feeliiigx were patent to Philippa. who regarded Dulcie far more favorably now that young lady did not wih to an- nex HeUurbet. and he thought it a pity that her brother was growing boun-li. Dnlcic'* money would be extremely ne- lu! lo 1 ,111 ,, , ,i,. it :;.(,. her beli<f that he would never make a penny out of his inventions. Heriott was not only growing boorish, but the few woidn he threw to Oulcie often annoyed her exceedingly. One af- ternoon, when tho *iMcn< were having tea wuh Philippa. Jiui c:une> in. Hi brown eyit. looked tired, and hit. former heerful expression wa* replaced with one that .-iio-.-...| be wa* weary of the work on which he had been engaged for many i-n-eif ll "" rw liis glance WIIB critical a a it ..bcrcil ie-tiy| on Dulcie p highly bocoininit hat and drip.-. She looked like a dainty piece of porcelain I'.nd altogether adorable, but 1 i.-.-i .- remark that he thought nhe and I her pi^ter were too young to live alone. and ibat they ought to get 11 chaperonu i or duenna, . n, . .i a decidedly .l.itip-mu- light to ,ippe..r in her eyiv Prim and I don't intend In have a i baj,. ,-,i . pbe .-,.,! "We mean lo do cxacllv what we like, go where we plea e and utay there as long a it units uc." A very nice progr imnie." hi 1 replied. But I do not ile.-i'- 1 ir of making Miuu Prinirope listen to reimon." lie turned to Pr.mroxe. while Dulcie .batted to Philippa and laughed to hide her vexation. She wap liiroiii.lv angry ft find that .linir- word- bore fruit in .ii:-- -i*ahon, for Pr.mrope. m -pile of all H could do to the contrary, engaged ; .i.ddb'-aged lady to l,v<- with them, for Ih.- elder 'girl realized 'hat she and Dulc e were plac- ing l hi ni-elv.-, in a podition which Mm. llrundy might '-en: wan nol xuiti'd to their age. and phe wan determined to do nothing they might alterward regret. So Mm. Templemore. a gcMMl-t^'uiprreil, ple.i-anl-fai-ed widow of ahout fifty, en- tered their houpchold. and an mho wan w ,-e and knew on wlin-h pnlc her bread W:IP buttered realizing that the pout of chaperon* lo two young and wealthy girle W.IP not to he found every day phe made her-elf po amiable to her chargix. that 1Y ARE FI6HTING -'IKASOXS VVIIV U All. WUH TIIKY ARK (;KKMANV. Have Been I'oiupcting Seriously \\ilh Jupnnem' Maniiftu-tiirerH. The Japanese ultimatum to Ger- many was sprung rather suddenly. Like bo many sudden, comet-like things, it has a, long, historic tail. None might put his finger upon the birtli date of German ambition in the Extreme East. As early as 1870, however, the Chamber of Corn- been, at least for some years past, afraid either of the bird-of-pa.radi.se adjectives in the Kaiser's rh-etoricaJ exercises or of the Krupp guns. Fear Commercial Supremacy. What we are< afraid of let us make this point clear and emphatic is this: The German commercial supremacy in the Far East. We have seen and we see to-day as do the Britisih, the French, the Russian, and the Chinese the army of young (Germans land at the treaty port* of the East ; we ee them with wide and evtr-widening eyes and with our wits half-cocked with dismay how they solve exis- tence on ten, twenty dollars, Mexi- can ; see them conquer the crooks and kinks in the dialects counties* a-jid vernaculars innumerable of the East as though they had done noth- ing in all their born days but catch eels with their naked bands ; watch thorn master the business methods of the heathen natives, and their tastes and their needs. Now this is a vastly different pic- ture from the one we had been ac- customed to. We used to see the British, the American, the French, and the Russian Traders at their country clubs in foreign concessions 1 and at teas and tiffins, cultivating <lre*a*4, tho airs of merchant princes in their j white ducks and flannels and trying - j to revise a certain passage in the I first Book of Genesis so that it I might read : "And God said, Let us 'make white man in our image after j our likeness and let them have do- minion over the fish of the sea . . . and over the cattle and the heathen dogs and over all the other creep- ing things that creepeth upon the j earth." (ioruian*8 Commercial ('(inquest. Of course, one could find a few Germans in this fool's-paradise at- mosphere now and then, but a very few. The picture of the German merchants at their studious toil al- most day and night in the examina- tion of local conditions and trade methods of the East, in that pa- tient and everlasting analytical way of theirs quite different from the bomb-burst, not i-> say bombastic, AT French, the field as well Russians cover this the Americans; they are backed with adequate capital. V.'e haven't the money. Let u pause here to emphasize this point : This is the reason why the British and the French are much more dan- gerous competitors of the American enterprise* in China than the Ja- panese. This is the reason why the pet tinhorn tune of the Ca-liforni'a politicians over the Japanese com- petition in the Asian market has more fuss than fact back of it. All is different with the German activity. The Germans go into small manufactures and things; they fight us right where we make our bread and right where we hope to make a little butter. Mr. Miyao, Chief of the First De- partment of the Japanese Coloniza- tion Bureau, madiC his trip of in- vestigation through the tradal cen- tres of China in the days following the birth of the New China. "The revolution in China," said he on his return, "having been brought to a termination, Japanese merchants may be thinking that our trade with China will gradually increase in ita volume. But when conditions in China are personally inspected and the activity of the German merchants is observed one cannot help but think that they will take away trad* from the hands of our up -In- Primrnc. iiig on the Iteltiirbei. broken it i the cool reply. ! havi .,.,- 11 , . off. I n-ally did not care a^-rup for , l '" t " n ' 1 "" K ""l- him. -o -.vlia: el-e could I do 1 " ' ' ;l lllld '" Priinnw n-gardeil her >t,-r with I ~>"t6r pa -s-ed away, .iiii!iir.eineat -he b ul noi had the luint- 'P"*t en- onee more cs| inkhiiK ... Dulcirn de-ii'.- ;o end her allowed "that >he -h.'.ll read ,t lo you. retorted But but -l;c paid. In^itiiting "1 Miougbt yon wanted ..bove everything MM in marry hiniV" "When I hadn I a penny But ihmg am different now bc-,de.-. a woman can aiv ,vp change her mind if phe like- You an re.,,1 what tbe immaculale Arihnr P:I>'H. Von will see then thai 1 have not broken bi heart. ' "I do not want to read the letter ... ,| Prim roe*. "Then I Illli. -,- She did po. reading Arthur Belt urhel'p- liirefully -elected pbrapi-p- with apparent eiiiovmcnt of t.heir correct IIDH. you can plainly -i-e. my 'dear |i nm that no tender pent uncntp are broken," -In laid when pbe bad llnihed. "In fact I M*l we have both come out of the aflair sound :n mind and heart !" Primriwe nodded All the -ame, Dul.,e. p|,e paid i,uiet. .y. he in u,. i Jiave loved you when he auk- ed vou to marry him. and his-auic be accept your dinnippal philo- in- not follow Ibat lie d.H'n and when the 01 more on the ireex, ,\r- thur Ileltnrbet returned lo Old Ho UPC, and a i dayp lairr called at. Phitippa'ti flat. Philippa wai looking ext.Yemely hand- pome in a velvet gown which showed the ciirvep of her beautiful ftgure to the bent . n l\. ullage, and her cheptnut hair wan ur- tiitically arranged, vrl -In- mivht as well ii.iv been attired in packclotli for all I lie mini -,. n. her a|t|>ea ranee made on Ilel tiirbet. They talked of h. travel* nhrond. und Belliirbei iiuiuired after Heriott, who. Philippa explained, had gone into the city to nee about one of bin invention*. "I want lo give a little party to cele- brate my return,' paid Belturbet after a pauxe. Ax nobody will celebrate it for me. I m nut do it mynelf. Will you und Jim dine with me in tho Wext-Kiid In-day w.'ck. and then go to a theatre? I am a few other people, including the HI-MI.- Cawa'dine." "We shall be delighted." replixl Phil- ippa. "Have you inked Priinrode and Dulcie yet?" "Not yet, but 1 In-niorrow." "They are having a very good time. Their chat -"one. Mm. Templemore. known Borne ve-v nice people to whom nlic him IBtrodtloed tbcin. and they go about a good deal. Indeed!" murmured Helturliot, wmhing he had nol . . ive.l away HO long. "Wi<ll. you and Jim won't fail me next WediiKD- day. will you?" After a little mori> formal convcrwutimi be took bis leuvo. (To he continued.) inked Priuirooe hope to do xo in perwin Mem pophically. it not |c.>| it." Dulcie looked -l.vlv at her -ipter ' If Primrope knew ap much as' I did about what l.appenod when he anked un- to marry him. phe thought, 'she would not lie r o pure about it. Anyhow, I gol what I wanted at the time, and no one In a penny the w.ir-e now a.- lar a I can l-l-C. "If be i iiiwet he will KOOII ge.t over It. she. -aid aloud, and n will do him BOM lo find out he can t many the lire! girl be ,p engaged to. Primrope saw that whatever Heliurbut'p woiindn might be. Dulcie hud come ()u t ,>f Iho engagement IIIIP, -allied. She did not allow hci-pcll to dwell on whal might have, happened if it had not occurred to Dulciu thai the ma.-tcr of old HOIIPC would be a good matc-h for her. lie bad fallen u I M.lim to Dub ie. and Primrouc bad there, fore endeavored to baniwh all thought of bun, except an Dulcie V lover she had Mrotea all In-r i-ncri-ies 10 ber lather ' liflos the men engaged during hip illmvp, and during those u-r rible dM <if watching and waiting had tlinwit all thought of pelf away f-om her The qnwUon of the mlfilng Will bad for a lime forced everything e!pe into ilie background, iu:d PrimroM- had Mule b-isinv for intr.ippeciion. Dulcie | la ,| not been in the least worried, dwlai ing ihal it W:IP foriiinate lor them the Will hid disappeared. Prlmroil felt nure that there wao a invfitery. but no one i le d able to polvc it. po Iliu matter dropped. A Uje inter pa -ned away, the nmi's in Primrose * pale cheek u began once j more lo bloom, the DMOIM faded from bpiieath her gray eyeH, and -be pcemed I svery day lo grow more like Iho gay , light hearted Pi-imroxc of Dulcie. on the other hand, a year became lete 'Ui< uiiyertiiin In her uiooils, , Ilioiign Heriott knew thai (be wa tree, be maintained iiu- attitude i,, taki'ii n,i when Ihe -istfrs in.: l.nndnit Hi- did not uteQt ago 'a eamu more to find ,'. !*! for them. ( ,,/teil tTinil polilcnixfl compelled, and win',,, ! lleri.-ti it iiu led. be di I m>. lie talked far more to l'i , in i ,.,. I I i-nni' ,'e 'le'rtirbel will be coining !o , than Dulcie. in -pile of tho laltor'M it- l..vn. roof' he paid. j lemptH In enii.ige him in argument Dili. ,,- doew nol uieniion bun. n,- the dipciut-ion. ,,,,'v Philippa,- reception of ihe new th.it -hi'igged hip Phoiilderp. A I'KKITV (JK I1ASV MUM 1 . Men of SliucklHon I \|n iiu i,m \\ill Siih-'isl Very I .n -rl\ on Lanl. While mart'liing across the ioe in tlu> ShuckU't<m fxprxlition to the SonMi F'oh', will have three nieala a day brrakl'nst, luncheon and dinner ut niglit. The menu for brcakfu-st and dinner will be the same, each man being given three ounces <if lard, two ounces of ang-ar, one of dried milk, wheat, protein and oats. The luncheon will consist of nut food mixed with oil and dried milk and oats. "You ma.v feel rather sick when you hear of it," Sir Krnest said during i recent interview, "it's ra- ther u gi'tasy oMiipound. Indeed, when ,. , and He: mi rliai!fid A few vveekx lalT Dulcie and 1'nm'o e wc.c irt illl in .1 tin not vary far fnnu the f'erotl*. nil for the Itixi time in her lifl Dn!. -ii' eiperieneed ihe bllxH of itpelld- i.i.' muni*? fru-lv. Hhe wenl from nhop free agent ha Hell in bi-i .van once more been elm racier. mic. "I neTi-r o.nld mule! -; ,i',l what n bull plop, .31- In Dulcie I in >v.irdine. remai ni-tl to hci bi'iilher. Of conrr<e, iciiHon H)H- .1- ,-i-ni ,-.l him wap obvious, her jilting him now prove- ihal the mid bop. buying whatever took her Lino . nevii cared u p, i .14, aboin him. i iroudc we tried it in Norway we it a very unpleasant sort of ration, but 1 can assure you that, si-ifiitifically Co n tide red; it is the finest lliat has iMt-r lieen devised. 1 hope that this lime hunger will play a very s-mall part in our trou- bles." All the provisions have In? on pack- -skins. nierce at Hamburg made a pointed j hustle of the American, is extreme- remark to the KaJser upon the oon-|ly impressive, especially so in con- 1 trast to the other foreign traders. We knew how to answer a power who came ransacking us ; we were much embarrassed what to do with the army which came sacking us commercially. And there was nothing modest about the commercial conquest of Germany in the Far East since the early seventies. For the three years following 1373 the annual average of the number and tonnage of Gerniu: -hips which entered into and cloaretl from the Oriental ports bejvnd India were only 48 and 25,- 000 tons. The total of the German shipping in all Asian ports for the year 1901 was 160 snips of 581,000 tons aggre- gate. In thirty years Germany increas- ed her Far Kasiern trade from prac- tically nothing to one billion marks in value. Take the case of Kiao- rluiu alone. Up to 1897 there was no such thing as German trade there. In 1903, the year when Ger- many completed her railway to the distance of 300 kilometers there, she enjoyed the trade of seven million dollars, silver. And it did not stop. Even in the lean year of 1910, with all its financial and business disturbances over rubber specula- tions in Shanghai and Hongkong, Kiaochau enjoyed the trade of near- ly sixty-five million dollars, gold, the importation of the non-Chinese i wares alone amounting to $25,800,- 000. Japan's l.und of Promise. And the following fact did not improve the irua.tter at all especial- ly for the Japanese : To Japan the continental Chinese markets have been and are the one land of promise, commercially speaking. And of tho needs of China, Japan is not in a position as yet to supply to any great extent the things which call for a heavy capital investment, such as railway venicneo of having on the China coast a base, a port. It said that the establishment of a line of Ger- man ships might make a trail on the Oriental seas like a prophecy. But the time when Japan earned an intimate introduction to Germany came a little later, writes Adachi Kinnosuke in the New York World. On April 17, 1S95, Li Hung Chang signed the Shimonoseki Treaty. China ceded to Japan among other Chinese territory a strip of land on the continent South Manchuria. When Mr. Ito ilikiji (not the late Prince Ito) went to C'hefoo to have the treaty ratified he found his Chinese friends ready, willing, and waiting for him on the picture-like water of the Chefoo Bay, the German, the Htissian, and the French ships all cleared for action. The three great Christian powers did not wish to do very much to Japan's plenipotentiary. All that they wished to do was to offer Ja- pan, with all Christian grace and considernteness, a bit of advice. It will not be good for the peace of the Far East, they say, for her to take South Manchuria. .lap in gave up South Manchuria; she had to. A little later Germany took Kiaoohow, on the Chinese mainland, in the Province of Shan- tungevidently for the good of the peaco of the Far East ; and evident- ly for the name reason Russia also took South Manchuria, and France tiers in the south of China. China was very unhappy to show her ap- preciation of the Christian services rendered by the three powers just in that particular manner, but then she. had to do it. An KiilightciK'd I \.mi|ili-. And now Japan finds Germany on the plains of Belgium, not quite as friendly with her former allies as on that historic day at Chefoo. And Japan in remindix! all of a sudden ol the Germans in Kiaochow, of the peaoe of the Far East, the dearest of all the old tunes in the diploma- tic repertoire, of the dictum that a good turn merits a good turn and of the virtuous arid compelling yearning of of giving an advice. Which she has done. She has given an advice in the name of the peace of the Far East. In this she is following, like any other well-be- haved kindergarten pupil, the en- lightened example of Germany her- self. What ! some may say Japan frightened out of her wits by Ger- many when the Fatherland is liter- ally facing national death with practically all the rest of Europe at her throat? Does Japan think it a heroic war to hurl her "17 battle- ships, 13 armored cruisers, 15 pro- tected cruisers, and 70 torpedo boats and destroyers" against the three old maidish German cruisers now in the waters of the East '( Not at all. The German ghost that turns Ja- pan into a little boy seeing things in the dark is not the German sword. We were afraid, once upon a time, of the militant Russia based in Siberia ; never of German war- Jiipn, whether three or ten times three. We are not and iiever have business men unless we make our mind to better ourselves.' . But it may not be unwis f<i Ja- pan to recall at this hour an ancient law the law which has never been amended since the days of Cain that he who killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword, and that even as Germany, who killed the Japanese ambition in Southern Manchuria in 1895 with an advice, is about to be killed at Kiaochau with an advice, evervso Japan, who is about to triumph over the Ger- man supremacy in tradal East in this year of strife 1914, must of ne- cessity be prepared to reap the whirlwind right where to-day she is sowing the seed in the pregnaju German memory. DEFENCE OF TIIE HK.VI.M ACT. construction, mining operations, The Britisih, the Belgians, the etc. The cost of entirely upon sell it for. experience how much depend* you cau Which Way do You BuySugar? Are Ues(rictc| what During War Time. The proud boast "an English- man's home is his castle" does uot operate daring the present war. 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