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gem The e Sydney, and to start with the fing 3 po] h sides was very accurate, © The ustralian ship, 'however, being the faster vassd, 'armed with the heivier co Md chose her own range for steaming 'to 'and fro "the bows of her opponent, ina heavy five with out receiv: much punishment in return, . The ffect of her 6-inch lyddite shells must ive been appalling, for the raider's fire slackened very rapidly, and before ong her foremost funnel and fore- mast were shot away. = Then abad broke out in the stern, and the nd and third funnels fell. But 'even then Von Muller did not intend to surrender hig ship, though, over- matched as he was, he certainly had a justifiable excuse for doing so; and at leven o'clock, with his decks covered with dead and. wounded, and his ves< gel little more than a floating wreck; he turned for the beach at North Keel- ing Tsland. At about 11.20 she struck the coral-reef with a crash, blazing furiously, but with her colors still flying. ' The Sydney approached, gave her a couple more broadsides to finish her off, and then steamed away in pur- suit of a merchant-ship 'which had hove in sight during the action. This vessel was the collier Buresk, which had been captured by the Em- den at: the end of September, and |2 from which she had doubtless intended to replenish her coal during her stay at Keeling Cocos. But when the Sydney came up with her it was found that she had been badly damaged by her prize crew and was in a sinking condition; so Captain 'Glossop remov- ed the men, fired a few shells into her to expedite the foundering, and then turned -to the Emden and asked by signal if she surrendered... No reply . was instantly forthcoming; but after another brief bombardment the Ger- man hauled down her colors and "showed the white flag. She could do little else; her career was 24 an end. 'Meanwhile the three German offic- ers and forty men who had landed on the other island had seen their ship steam away to engage the Sydney, and, after watching the preliminary, stages of the action and guessing what the result would be had seized and privisioned the 70-ton schooner Ayesha, belonging to Mr. Ross, the owner of the islands. They had with them four Maxim guns and ammuni- tion, and sailed at 6 p.m., while the Sydney was still absent at North . Keeling. The subsepuent adventures of this party must have provided ex- cellent material for a most interesting book, for, after crossing the Indian Ocean under sail, the schooner even- tually arrived at the Tugkish port of Jeddah, in the Red Sea. Here her crew left her and went ashore, and after an overland journey through Asia Minor, with many adventures, including several attacks by bands of wandering Arabs,' eventually arrived "in Constantinople. Early 'on 10th, November, the day following the engegement, the Sydney set about succouring the Emden's wounded. © self was unhurt, and after receiving sere Indigestion Biliousness Indigestion, biliousness, head: _ aches, flatulesice, pains after eating, constipation, are all com- mon symptoms of stomach and liver tioubles. And the more Youn Deglest them the more you Take Mother Seigel's if your stomach, liver, or i are Fe slightly deranged or Captain Von Muller him- {of dealing with hostile 'commerce de- the Germans wi a D, barked all the survivors. story has often been put di 'trae; but from personal éxi Resling ¢ Cocos, the writer ire large claws ough to. break a shell ¢ 0 ripe coco-nut, are quite capable. of at tacking a. wounded man who is un- able to drive them off. wounded was deplorable. Already many of their hurts were gangrenous; but with infinite care and no Tittle' risk they were all taken on board the Sydney, where the doctor, assisted by the surgeon and some assistants from the cable station, did all he could to allevidte their sufferings. Over one hundred 'officers and men of the Emden had been killed. during the action, while fully fifty more had been 'wounded, and of these several died subsequently. The ship herself was in .a terrible state. ~ All three funnels and the foremast had fallen, while superstru- cture, boats, deck fittings, and hull were riddled through 'and through with high-explosive shell splinters. The Sydney's casualties, were com- aratively light, only three men be- ing killed and fifteen wounded, and they all occurred at the start of the engagement. The ship was. only hit ten times, and was barely damaged. The details of the two vessels were as follows: Sydney--5440 tons, 25.6 knots, nine 6-inch guns, four 3-pound- ers; Emden--38544 tons, 24.5 knots, twelve 4.1-inch guns. From that it will be seen that the Sydney had a great advantage, particularly as her superior speed and heavier guns en- abled her to keep off to arange at which the German's weapons could in- flict little damage. But Von Muller, overmatched as hel was, fought his ship very gallantly, and throughout the whole of his career he had behaved in what, for want of a better word, we may call a thoroughly gentlemanly manner. He never took life unnecessarily, and was always courteous and considerate to- ward his victims; 'and when the Ad- miralty gave ordérs that he and his officers were to be accorded all the honors of war, and were to be allow- ed to retain their swords, their lord- ships only voiced the sentiments of the British public, in whom a love of of fairplay is innate. Captain Von Muller was a 'sportsman.' His ex- ploits -were rather akin to those of the celebrated Lord Cochrane; and in carrying on his war against British commerce he ran daily risks of being brought to action and destroyed bya superior force, while all along ne must have realised that his eventual cap- ture was only a' matter of time. He did his work well, too well from our point of view; but, enemy though he was, his sporting behaviour rather appealed to the hearts of British peo- ple. The Sydney rendered a great ser- vice in ridding the sea of the notorious raidtr, and the congratulatory mes- sage from the First Lord of the Ad- miralty-- Warmest congratulations on the brilliant entry of the Australian navy into the war, and the signal ser- viee rendered to the Allied cause and to peaceful commerce by the destruc- tion of the Emden'--was thoroughly well deserved, more so than ever be- cause many of the Sydney's men were Australian seamen, who behaved mag- nifiicently under fire. The news of the Emden's destruc- tion was received with great acclama- tion at Lloyd's and by shipowners gen- erally, for her successful forays had put the premiums up and had occa- sioned no little concern on the insur- ance markets. Duding . her com- paratively brief career she sank ves- sels worth about six hundred and fifty thousand pounds, carrying cargoes to the approximate value of three mil- lions stérling; and this result only | shows what an enormous, amount of |of damage could have been done on our le routes if the: Admiralty 'methods stroyers had not been so effective and efficient, cepted a tender for the salvage = of tralia. 5 I the venture is a success, : ent of It is believed that the - Common 2 | wealth 'Government has recently ac- |and the Emden and her remoyal to Aus. |its ter. Wealth i alwaze 'has come' seamingly without his 'bidding The state of some of the nT" Hartley catiived Mrs. Dodds ter her death e took a great interest in her son. 'He had the boy withy. him as muchas possible. He trained him carefully in 'business methods, sent him through High school, and then to Columbia University. Inherited $20,000,000. Just before "he had finished his studies at Columbia his grandfather died, When the will was read ' he fourd himself worth $20,000,000. Hat ley had left $40,000,000, and 'the other half of it went to Mrs. Jenkins. Dhe of the first honors bestowed on him--before he had reached his ma- jority--was his_election as a director of the Equitable, Life Assurance So- ciety. That was before he left the university, When he was graduated one of his friends said to him; "See here, Marcellus, you've worked pretty hard, Why don't you take a rest? A nice trip to Europe would help a lot." "Not for me," he replied. "I'm go- ing to work, and I'm going to-day. Good-bye, boys." And then he jump- ed on a car and rode down to the sporting goods store where his grand: | father bad his office, That was the beginning of 'his career. For three years Marcellus Hartley Dodge "kept his nose to the grind- stone." Then, in his sbeam-yacht Wakiva he went on an extensive cruise in South American waters, including a.voyage of exploration up the Ama- zon. That -was his first vacation. And yet it wasn't a real "young man's |S! outing," for he took with him 4 party | 0 of scientists who studied the ' flora and fauna of the Amazon regions. ' Married Miss Rockefeller, * In 1907--the year following the Am- azon cruise--young Dodge married Ethel Geraldine Rockefeller, daughter of William Rockefeller and niece of John D. The match was a romance pure and simple, and strangely enough the grim god Mammon didn't figure in it, although each -of the young people was worth millions. Miss Rockefeller brought to her husband fully $75,000,000, Yet he would not take one penny of it. The young man's duties whén as a benedict he settled down to the rou: tine of business life consisted in look- ing after the Remington Arms & Ammunition Company and the Union Metallic Cartridge Company, tHose |® plants having been left to the family by his grandfather. It was a steady "grind" for him until August, 1914, when his 'great opportunity camg The war in Europe brought it. He secured a contract from the British Government for $3, 200,000 worth of ammunition. Early in 1915, soon after the execu- tion of this contract the alert Mr. Dodge organized the Remington Arms Company of Delaware for the pur. pose of manufacturing military rifles, as distinguished from the sports- man's rifle turned out in the Bridge- port (Copnecticut). factory of the Remington Arms and Animunition Company. Big Order--No Plant. That was a master stroke in busi- ness. The first thing the new com- pany did Tm btain the production' o crop. would recommend 'for this purpose is one bushel of spring wheat, one "bushel of oats, one bushel of - i otred dover, ig will | and five to seven pou One acre of this annus produce more feed thas i natural grass pasture ment conducted at Guelph last 'mer illustrates this full In one field We had 28 acres of ar- | er 1 able land, four acres in natural grass pasture, and four acres in rough land and woods. dition of two and one-half pounds ; Canadian blue grass; two and one- half pounds meadow fescue, these th grasses being added to provide pas- ture for the next year. On June 8 'we turned into this field 14 mature beef cows, gix beef heifers one to two tyears old, 17 dairy heifers one to two and one-half years old; four dry dairy cows and 82 milking dairy cows. 'Altogether we pastured on the field 76 head of cattle from June 8 to August 21." Then the 32 coWs were taken off to second growth clover; and on Sept-' ember Sth the 14 beef cows were re- moved. There was not time during the sea- son when that pasture could not have carried "more cattle. I will admit that last season, with its extreme humidity, was unusually favorable to sah an' experiment as this. The supplementary feeding was to tome cows running in Record of Per- formance. In an ordinary season the _| results might not be so good, but in any season' they would more than justify this method of feeding. Na- tural grass pasture requires two acres to an animal, or $6 a cow, rent or interest on moderately priced land. Then there would be another $6 for the supplementary feeding necessary, or $10 a cow. ' Our pasture carried 75 head at a total cost of $548, or '| $7.60 a cow.--E, 8. Leithch, in Farm and Dairy, 0. A. C. ¢ Business Methods in Farming. The present is an opportune time for putting the live stock industry on a more business-like basis, says E. 8. Archibald, B.A, BSA. Ottawa, § in an address. Ido "ot think that any one would deny that there is room for great improvement along 'this line. Even on the best of our farms there is a constant waste. Our endeavor should be to plug the leaks. ~The only secret of improvement 'in this regard is the application of more bus- iness-like methods. The present time, when the demands upon our farmers are so: great, seems to me to be a very opportine one for im- provement in farm management and for "introducing more efficient methods into 'our farm practice. The fixed charges on a farm are the. Same whether it is run at a profit or 'a loss. ment is a constant charge against the business. "These overhead fixed charges cannot be cut down, { their relative amount can be 'The seeding ad that I "The mixture mentions ed was sown on April 80, with an-ad- | In ene ollege a go, we remarked that never mn, at that I , a bet- calves, all in'excellent- con d apparently good doers. We as to what they were course, they were , but calves four, five and six months old were" Jgesung 8 3 a the good hay they would eat, abo ree s per day of a mixture pound composed ef half rolled oats and half" bran, It looks as if this was a good mixture of grain for the calf being raited as' these calves are, in fact it is not a very bad. grain mixture for |. any calf --Farmer's Farmer's ddvifote, - CAN GET VERDUN FOR 300,000 MEN THE "PRICE GERMANY 'WiLL HAVE TO PAY. When They Got the Town They Would Find It An Empty Victory. If the Germans want the overrated fortress of Verdun badly enough they can take it-by the middle of July at a total cost of 800,000 men, says Amo Dosch-Flemst, writing in the . New York World. Then when they get it | they will find they have a hollow vic- tory. The French will simply withdraw | ready have fortified on the west bank of the Meuse, Verdun has been in- a precarious | I position ever since the beginning - of the war, when the Germans in their original rush against a half-ready French | army seized among other places the strategical position 'on' the heights of the Meuse at St. Mihiel. 'They swept around three sides of Ver- dun and could nob be dislodged with- out paying a priee in lives which the French General Staff has never con- | sidered worth while. .~ Forts of Little Value. : Since that time the value of forts as forts has greatly diminished. Ver: dun by itself could have been blown to pieces, but the new trench cations: in front of it hav it from assault. The brome] cations have ghons fthe, ral Verdun, as - ortze has not. been worth Sghving or. The interest on the capital | invested i Jin farm, buildings and equip- | 8 bork i oat mks the cow from | to a much stronger position they al-| Juorh ale for the French to stay. losses were Shs : owt ot 8 e battle. were so great E acing the ret ws that 'Gen. Joffre: wanted to. wp, ut | but Gen. de Castelnau, Commander Chief of the 'armies-in- the: field, beg~ ~~. ged permission to send up Gen. Petaln with his crack troops, the mobile army . of France. . A Million Shells-a Day. The 'Germans 'opened their offensive st Verdun in February by Aone a million shells a.day hid the + French trenches. It seemed like mad- ness to try to hold ut on a Jsadvant: | ageous position aga them, Joffre, looking to the military advant- age. alone, wanted to abandon the fort, and withdraw to the shorter, stronger lines west of the Meuse. . But Castelnau, having 'his ear to the = 0 ground, and realizing the bad moral = effect, argued him out of it. . When the two Generals fought out' in 'council at the very height of the first attack, de Castelnau talked for two hours straight before he won his point, and raced to Verdun late ad night to take. command, The Ger- mans at that time were coming stead- ily on, the French falling back, .on orders, before them. So de Castel- nau raced in a closed motor car, with war maps on his knees; and the trench commanders heard nothing more in- spiriting over the telephone than a curt command to hold. Before de Castelnau was able to organize his "defence, the Germans, marching under the protection of a deluge of shells, had already reached Douamont. They had the town and it seemed so certain they would have the fort too that they announced the fall of the fort a little too soon: For it did not fall. Just at that time the counter-offensive hit the. German ad- . vance. Gen. Petain arrived with his picked army of 450,000 men, the mo=' | bile army, the best body of BE Kept Out of Verdun. First the' Moroccan Frenchmen who. ad been serving in Africa, were thrown against. the : the most ad- Douaumont, and their acts of heroism .| under the annihilating shells - "would have to be counted by the th: | Th paid for Douaum| it volunteers, >