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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1929-08-15, Page 2erlY, so I just lands him a beauty in Ono much I the eye. r "But he didn't improve, sir," colla of Kindness tinned Mr. Shoebuckle, "for the very next rooming, jest because I said I'd TheIhsual serenity and Peace of lila to borrow his' face to poison a few rata with, he again tllreatenea to.. Sweet Rel)cae Avenue, UpPer Bal.. summons me, R'eal1y, you knew, hani, had been disturbed by a snake you can't call your lie your own,, sir, in th.e grass, and Mr Alfred Shoe - buckle, retired boxer, was out for re- venge. He was going to show Mr. Henry Tickle a few things, but be- fore declaring the proceedings open he was going to pop into the Bald - Faced, Got for a quick one. So it was some time later before Mr. Shoebuckle was seated in the office of Messrs. Toutle, Tootle & so I sloshes him again; and when he came back from the doctor's he didn't half rap on, "'Excuse me,' the said, `;tut do you know that the doctor hadto put in three stitelies,' "'Well,' 1 says, 'what about it? Let that be a lesson to you, for the next time : I lands you ,one the doctor won't stitch you up by hand. He'll Tootle, solicitors and commissioners use a sewing machine. .And then, for oaths, of Peckham Rye. sir, believe me or believeme not, "Good -morning;" said Mr. Tootle, blessed if he didn't call me a bully. jun. "And what can I do tor you?" "It's about my next-door neighbor," replied Alfred Shoebuckle. "Tale's thinking of taking proceedings against me. Me, mind you, what has a Iamb - like disposition and wouldn't knowing- ly hurt a oheese." Mr. Tootle looked at the . unshaven face of his client, and felt that he could not agree. • "Tell me all about it," interpolated the solicitor. "Not 'arf I won't," said Mr. Shoe- buckle. "That's what I came along here for. Well, I live in Sweet Re- pose Avenue, and I've lived there in peace and quiet with my neighbors for four years. Of course, one or two Of us might have a scrap now and then, and I might give one or Yakima, Wash.—To give that, cool two of them a good hiding, but that shade and delightful fragrance so sort of thing only adds to the har- desirable in summer about home, the mony of our neighbrly 'lives. Why, climbing honeysuckle with its gen- we've been like a lot cif turtle doves eral adaptability and hardiness may for years." be strongly recommended. Coming "Quite," remarked Mr. Tootle. into bloom in late spring, it will con- "Well," went on Alfred Shoebuckle, time through the summer mouths, "three weeks ago a pie -faced kyhoot giving, a wealth of bloom and foliage named Henry Tickle, .a traveller in en the trellises which must be pro - the glue trade, came to live next vided as it possesses no other means door to me in a house called the of grasping ,a support than twining. • Sanctuary, and as soon as I saw his Several species are in cultivation and `''face I laugbed. I• never saw such a they differ somewhat. clock in my life. He reminded vie Halls' honeysuckle, Lonicera Ja- of an old cottage -door -knocker. panica Halleana, is the one most fre- "Well, I says to myself, me being quently planted and perhaps the most all fca• peace and we cannot -always desirable. This climber remains help our faces, we've got to be nice , green far into the winter and in mild and neighborly, but when I saw his climates niay be in fair shape in wife I hail. another shock. She's spring. Its general foliage effect is one of those women who look as if light green. they had been poured into her dress Like other climbing honeysucicles, and forgot to say `When.' ''Ere; I it confines itself to the trellis pro - says to Mr. Tickle, pcdnting to his 'vided, except perhaps at the base. wife in the garden, `did you find it, There vines are inclined to run alrng 'Erbert, or. did you win it in a raffle?'" the ground and take root, hence such "And what did lie say?" asked Mr. shoots must be pruned away oc- Tootle. • casionally. If a shrub is close by, "Say," sniffed .Mr. Shoebuckle, "lie shoots will reach out and clamber didn't half go in off the deep end. over it. This climber is charming I suppose he was annoyed about some- ly placed at corners of squatty thing, because he says to, me.' 'You houses, and,' if trained to a pillar mind your own business.' Now, that s form, selves .the useful purpose of a aice, kind, neighborly way to talk making the house appear higher. .Its to a chap like me. trait of clothing itself with foliage "'Ere,' I says to him, `if I comes all the way to the ground commends over into that ashtip you call a gar- it for such use. Also, planted two den, you're going to wake up in some feet apart, "it makes acceptable place where everything is nice and screens for • porches where shade or quiet and white and .clean.' Well, privacy is wanted. then he made a' face at me and went The flowers have the peculiar habit in. And, bless me, 11 next day he of coming out white and soon turn didn't half give me a black look, just ing yellow. They are in pairs in the because a kettle I threw into his gar- axils of the leaves, and as the :leaves den caught himinthe face. are opposite this brings four flowers "Then he said something about me . not knowing my manners, so with that I just'hops over the wall and sloshes him one." "You mean you strucks him?" ex- claimed the lawyer, led tones. „ lied air. Shoebuckle. What won d y Not Now, I ask you, 'sir, is that a neigh- borly way to go cu? "Then my wife says I ought to humor hint. Now, I asks you, I had given him two black eyes and landed him a few extras. What more could I do?" "And what do you want me to do?" asked the solicitor. "Well," replied Mr. Alfred Shoe - buckle, "what about me Having a sum- mons against old rabbit -face for dis- turbing the peace?" A Flowering Climber : . ,.,.,,,..r _______—______:........---_-1*--...___________- ._... - And bore the voyaging farmer found Geologists a "'• a fine market awaiting hire. It seems incredible, belt it is evidently a fact, that a city like Saigon should be de- pendent upon shipments £orm France of fresh vegetables, A few inferior vegetables drift down from the W. tenor but the well-to-do natives and Moscow Sends 639 fairies tot Explore, Domain in `Their Survey of Resources Hidden Wealth For Soviet State the lri'eneh colonials will not eat them,. Almost the first thing Elliott was asked was: "Can you send us some artichokes frons California?" Also, they' wanted lettuce, celery, anything good, green, and free from germs. For here, as in China, Euro- peans will not eat green -leaf vege- tabies raised locally since the Chinese gardener has ideas about fertilization which are both' repulsive and un- sanitary. Therefore tine sea -going farmer from the States was welcom- ed. • From Saigon to Hongkong, and then hohue. That is the log of the Cali- fornia farmer' who put to sea in a ship' with the truck of his own farm. It would be a shame to blunt the point of Frank Elliott's achievement by overstatement: but what he has done is to show that there is a qual- ity market in the Orient for the choicest American fruits far exceed- ing anybody's dreams. He has open- ed an export trade that will bring mil- lions of dollars to tthe West Coast of America. And that is doing a good deal, for one young man and for one four months' trip.—The worlds work. Arab Story .Tellers ACCORDING TO THIS IT'S SIMPLICITY ITSELF Two Australian students create a mild sensation in London by using water-skis to navigate the Thames. , A Farmer Goes Sea Moscow. Thousands of scientists and their helpers are this' summer ex- ploring all sections of the Soviet Un- ion looking for eyidences of hidden sources of naional wealth below ground. Six hundred and hiry-nine geological expeditions have been sent out. Oil and coal are the chief magnets for this activity. Sixty parties are lookin gfor oil in the Urals, the Cau- casus, the I£azakstan district and on the Island of Sakhalin, off the coast of Siberia, and forty-seven parties are seeking new coal beds. Preliminary surveys in many instances have shown that coal and oil exist iv some of these places, the question of the survey be- ingonly as to whether its production is commercially feasible. ISLAND DISPUTED TERRITORY. '"" the Pacific by Elliott was the last Outside the Marrakesh Gate, in the word in quality and packed with the open square, there Is always the true idea of getting it to the Asiatic con- East to be seen. A caravan, coming sumer in as good condition though it in'f am the desert in long and sway - had just come from the orchard. The ing lines, camels stretohdng their Freeman Filden bulging boxes, which do very well for necks from side to side, their drivers When the Silverbel.le slid out of domestic shipments, bet offer as fine running up beside them and guiding Francisco harbor last November, opportunity for the fingers of the them to the special place where they San collie handlers, had not been used. are unloaded... . The little donkeys bound for the Orient, she carried a In Shanghai: there are:said to. be I loved, and there was alwa9s a num- ber of these coming in and going out at the Marrakesh Gate. Most of all, however, `I was - interested in .the story -tellers, those old men who told their ancient tales to the still older men as well as to lads and children. Every evening about five o'clock we used to go to the Gate and see ttiem sitting in circles with the story-tel- be- so. lers standing in the -centre, every - ports, where Bitch things had never „I am convinced," says Elliott, .one—old and young—listening with been sold before. Most of the people „that personal contract is absolutely rapt attention, oblivious of all else. who knew of his venture merely re -It is astonishing how still Arabs sit; marked, "It's a shame' he should go necessary to begin trade with the even children will sit for hours quite broke this way." Orient. The Oriental merchant is still, almost without moving their flooded, just as . the American besin- hands: • Perhaps Elliott thought he might as well go broke in the Far East as on ess man is, with advertising letters The story teller has an ideal au - his own farm. Back of his trip was which sintly go into the waste- die. Nc thing distracts their atteu- th problemfacing American agricul- basket. tion, not even strangers behind them. Their eyes are fixed on his face, none Of his gestress escape them, their ears ar strained to hear his lowest words. He is telling —them some farmer named Frank ' T. Elliott. The Silverbelle, a new ship of the type that is revolutionizing traffic in per- ishable commodities, has 1320 tons' measurement of refrigerator space. In that space Elliott had 2000 packages. of grapes, apples, lettuce and celery, most of it raisers on his own California farm. His intention was to sell those fruits and vegetables in Oriental 70,000 Chinese in the quality -buying class. A San Franciscan, just home after a long stay in China, is authority for the statement that there are more millionaires in China than in the Un- ited States. This seems hard to credit at first glance, but on a relative basis, comparing the buying power of the dollar, country for country, it may The Island of Sakhalin • is believed to be one of those. Several years ago of agents of Harry Sinclair, American oil man, ,obtained an exploratory con- cession from Russia to look for petro- leum there. But the island's possession was in dispute between Japan and the Soviet Union, and when the Americana geologists arrived there they were royally entertained by the Japanese military, but somehow could not get started into the interior. Finally they went back to the United States and representations were made at Wash- ington. The American government, however, was powerless, since the concession had been granted by Russia, with which it had no diplomatic relations and was not recognized by Japan, with which the United States was on the friendliest terms. So that concession lapsed. ow the northern, half of the island is definitely Russi's. PRECIOUS METALS SOUGHT. Asbestos, mica, emeralds, graphite, sulphur and' porcelain clays are the obects of twenty-nine expeditions. These parties will prospect in Karel- ina, in central Russia; the Caucasus, the Urals, the Ferghana mountains, near 'the Afghan border; Russian Turkestan, and the Trans -Balkan re- gion. Ten other parties have gone to the Irtysh River and Akmolinsk dis- tricts of Siberia and to the Azov Sea littoral in .search of salt and phosphor. Precious metals also will be the ob- ects of numerous parties. Thirty groups are to look for gold and three for platinum in the Urals, Siberia and the Far East. together. The flowers are two-lipped,Orient. He made Japan his first ob- alum into 1 the lower lip tieing narrow, SvhileI jective, It turned out that'1 t U all tiny crowds in Arabs from distant camps, scarcely be too much of what is the upper 1s four -toothed The ber t t 1 around high- coon of summer e b "When 1 went there in person I ture: the farms, with improved mach• inert', produce more and more; and lwas received most courteously every- American consumer eats less and i where; I usually cabled ahead to my thenext stop the fact that I was arriv- le i less. Gone, fox instance, istl. b g ug on a certain day with my wares. story as ancient as the Bible, and breakfastofwheat cakes, cere' ee. and the merchants who were inter many t,p these stories are ; handed and bacon, doughnut; pie, and coffee. would be waiting for me." almost unchanged from ,one America has food to export, And yet ested down there are millions of people in theI The' voyaging farmer next went `to story -teller to another. There are outlands of the world who have act -§Manila and then to Cebu, in the special favorites among the stories, o (Philippines. From there to Surabaya, and sometimes a very fine talker wally never known what it was to I makes one his own—that is, he tells have all they wanted to eat. . Could in Java• In this port :Elliot found an they buy American food? Arabian Jewish merchant who was it better than anyone'else. Be travesl It has been the conclusion for many just opening a fruit market with 16 round from town to town, from vi1- I view might seem unreasonable unless, years that foreign markets were al- ('Iblanches. To his surprise, the Cali- lage, to village, and his fame precedes perhaps, expressed by an overzealous • point. Elliottforniafound that some of the grapes him, "Achmed Ali, the story -teller nature lover who undertakes to cata. ways tate saturationthe had d Shanghai had beat coming,' is the news that runs Logue all the wonders to be observed found that this was not true In the ,, Opulent. Summer Someone has complained that .the trouble with summer is that there is too much of it while it lasts. This rapped in Shang a is coma g, Java and were on display in through the place, and everyone' on a single summer day. There can he had the Java markets. s. su Y I cr w k first samples were laic; upon a leaf and tribesmen from the near hills, natives beautiful, although, to be sure, in the • the beauty of the land is spread out under a some- times too ardent sun. No longer is there any need to search out a few shyly blooming flow- ers, such as gave delight in the earlier months, for now the true aim of spring's experiments in. bloom is opu- lently apparent; and there is instead an embarrassmen of choice when plucking the manifold biosoms. The hint. of green that ran' softly across the fields in May has become a pro• fusion of color in bloom -filled mea•. struck his Poorer mare ' Thought by the natives as a rare treat: I working on the land fon mi es ries are black. though the situation here was inter - H 11' 1 neY erring. He found that the Japanese (` In Batavia and Singapore Elliott' hear the news in that mysterious fas- suekle is Lonicera Pe he ennm' ve heard of these things called vita- Sound the demands for his fruits so l bion in which gossip spreads in the known as woodbine- The general mins, and actually propose ' to use � lively' that he could have `sold out I East By early evening the village foliage effect of this is darker green. on'aise the stature of the Jap entirely, but proferred to keep hes is packed, and Achmed Ali tells his ,"Yes, sir replied l them t „ 1 c�i have done? o The flowers are i the sameeshape, anese people. Hence they are doing samples and take orders for the fut- Itaif I didn't slosh him. I landed but instead of being in 'the axils of ere• env one and clos a great deal of talking about getting Then he went to Bangkok,. in Siam. him a proper fousp y I the leaves are in terminal clusters They more food with vitamins In it. Butasked, rather upone of his eyes with a click, at the ends of the blanc the tariff laws of the country keep As he boarded a little steamer, and cured the next day atifivle�o'to be As edwatched the last-minute loading Opel Talk about Aladdin and'his wonder- are white inside and carmine or per •such products out. On fruits and veg-, 1 lamp. Then I'm blessed if he plash outside and soon turn yellow• etables the duty is 100 percent , ad ations, he was surprised to see lugs of we had fixed a very special excur- fu P didn't become rude and said I wasn't This climber drops its leaves without gra es 'with his own label lugs,'thof Bion for that afternoon it was rather didbringingI valorem. Though many California b Pinconvenient and we asked him if rather nice to know, and that he didn't want delay in the fall, thus small fruits can be delivered as cheaply in being hoisted aboard. They, too, were would not take anther day. Then he to know me A nice, gentlemanly red berries clearly Into view. on their way to Bangkok, having been he or I call it. The' trumpet honeysuckle, Lonicera Japan as in New York, California resold i ne of the Singapore deal- explained to us that he could not as dews; and the low fringe of flags that way to treat a eighbthe most famous story -teller in the then if be didn't get cross the sempervirens, is a neat climber with oranges are selling in Japan for 35 o ers. This shipment was beteg'carried early edged the brook now stands a And Atlas would pass through for one day r next day because I went into glaucous foliage and orange -resile, 40Ice Shalaighi Elliott ran up against and would tell stories thio at five h l id if one would veryhis lawn -1 r which are borne 1 i his garden and half -inched' flowers s I 11lidsummer is a time of affluence in nature's wonders, but there is not too Somewhat similar to Hall's honey- struck o centuries-old story to an audience of hundreds. Once..{{( the far south our guide a terminal n along by one of the boys of the crew o'clock, i flowered •the age-old Chinese guile; idea. He according to the •peones th arrange - shoulder -high forest of • blades that must be pushed ec as e reach the stream. mower. Borrowed it without his per- mission lie said. ar He had never ;Lexie this man as he spikes made of several s s • merit existing in that part of e whorls. The upper leaves show the l found that all the principal dealers in seldom 'travelled now, he told trait of uniting about the fruits and imported vegetables were world. These sailor instead f peculiar t t d into a nice solid guild b t of sl)ac lir guide wished o h t hear stem. "'Look here, Mr. Tickle,' .1 said, quite neighborly -like, 'you run, away and bowl your hoop while I use this lawnmower' ' Then he called me a thief. That 'was a nice thing to ,say, 'wasn't it? 'Look here,' I said to him, 'ycei ain't no gentleman. I've se en better things than you on lettuce,' i to hop back I'll tell you what it The 'Preference Saint John Telegraph -Journal (Ind.) Premier Bruce of Australia has cabled the British Prime Minister. a protest against abolition cf the Ini- reference. Iron, J. A, Robb, Finance Minister of Canada, in a re s get, ins ea o sane of the best known stories, and e in the hold. of incoi poi a e wages, a t s muc o much of it. Were there any coma with central headquarters, Member the steamship, and from the sale of ltim. He might never have a chance Plaint, it might be "Summer's of this guild have to report to head - relatives freighh space to their merchant1111111- 1 hin theybuy and'the rolatives they get their stipend. In again. lease hath all too thatshort a date." quarters everything yOE course we let liim go, and the itTheyhave the Bangkok also Elliott found business 1 neof day questioned him. "Was it he Meauia bile, the shadows of the leaves, price paid for good, unci had the experience of pay- » , • clapping the grass, give delight to one American commission merchants loot[neYt interesting as lie ed hi xpe Was who has the leisure to observe'their ing like solitaire players when it cone, ing. $1,50 for. a bunch of his own I was always • .sorry I could neves tremulous motion, The flash oP a es to tednwork. Yet the guild was grapes at one of the markets. De- understand a word of all the stone golden butterfly against the k of a and with that I told him Aerial p ted in what the Ameri- spite their long trip' out of 'efrigera 1 sat so often and listened to, but to ' a greatly sneerer _ tion,they were pretty good. • chestnut tree, yr bronze f a milk. into the cheese, 't deservetch the faces of the audience was vie people don cent interview' pointed out that Im- can farinei' had brought in the t e I I` 11 Elliott1711it arrived in Saigon an y tell One could weed butterfly, suddenly merged in sir, so p They ain't fit 1 preferences are favored ed on 60ator. They made pr an .' 'F h I tl Chi•na the "Paris of the; the brown of a woodland path, e gc ueighborl't like1 t follow the outline of the tale Canada. South Africa is disturbed, 600 lugsgrapes O • crit'" Great is this mocletn world by the looks on their faces Eleanca ria Y + experience n itself. . the ocl neighbors, peria Curbed. of ra es at a price slight- 'relic n o; times o ow , in a good -class � •: Orient" t — smaller one polka-dot live ly lower' than he was prepared to take,• tions 1- In the 1 ours, over the utterance of the British Cltari- of conimunzeamarkets by the, or "The Magic c s.-Illean' poised on a pini: withlover bloom; a wings,gs, ,,, very next day after that,; cellor of the Exchequer, in opeositionIaria lie decluteci. An hundredsli• firm, icon Elliott sties Florida grape of buds, swinging Chen the of Sa b because 1 threw a sack of old' to the preference. The stage is be, ltorvever, bought a : lugs of just the ardent lie says I was g seta or •a lively 'session of many oP tat into his g it wife, kind "And I tape it you are?" s penal Conference cis e Ina tins o Dore r• er- Economic C om to con became ] L b per- tame, Imperial 1 o m t z en cscd then o p and r 'i a I rude again, sonar and said 1 wasn't good to.my u ce, This tl"st conference of this was held in 1c923, At the the f • nc of 1926 economic Solicitor. problemq were also discussed and "Certainly, sir," replied Mr. Shoe -i committees appointed to gather i buckle, "I treat her more like al formation, ' It is hardly likely that friend than a wife. 01 course, the British Government in the face have the usual tiffs, and now and then of overseas opinion as now freely ex - las might throw a bit of erc,cl[ery at pressed will ,stand out for complete her, but I don't mean any harm It's , abolition of the preference This is Just tnY way, Well, when he said, nt a time for disputes over trade mat- that I just poor o' er the garden wall, ters between the Mother Country and I again and 1.lilt him for six. 'When the Domini; ns, lie cattle round I warned him. that thee veldt time s os ec fruit which had been shipped out of A q . wing ing and visiting on a rick -tempered mother should olw branch of a willow beside the grapes and were greatly satisfied with 4ancouver to Hongkong, and thence self-control—in the mother:— Lincoln brook—there are nottoo rta their qualityarand condition. en, The had been purveyed into Indo-China. Steffens. - these lovely trifles that help to make whole cargo that was taken across., . - ttp the pe 1 1 h 1 him one z when t laving Beautifully hit him so. far it would take p 'That man began to live beautifully carol a week to reach. lir?" Mr, mind, 1 who said to liiliiself, "Every -time an "And what did he say?" asked1 ugly thought comes into my m n , Tootle wearily, shall put a beautiful thought la its "Well,'," ,.,. replied Mr, Shoebuckle, hace," "he told me he was going to the police P about me, , tet: thanks and aecusedalme of being Beautiful Girl: "NO, Sam, l •cannot gotg for a°lr That's s 1 got for trying to be ince to him be your wife. Please go way and for - and nialding."hitn feel at holing, A nice get me, thing to say about a man litre me. DeicciMemo Y Pexpert." LLover: v er: "No use; I'm a Well, that get my 'dander up prop rfection,of sunnier time. There is an almost universal Ith �,{ l' h sire to be out of doors tluoughtout the a nw rejoice in, t o glad f , .,,:..,.,,.�r. a gayety i Dire is Popular whole length k.,x,.... "w .#w,Sdt sts ::'s:£ "+s. �Z.••>.: `.. ` , ..o.. ,..3 >...`'ti...hF<,., fi��'Y..n :•.. _ dens',. with thein` hoteysuckle trellises and variegated' blossoms, calling the bees through the scented air; to breathe the' sweet perfume of upland ;tills and high plains; or to count the rounded fragrant stacks in the fields . where haying is in progress toward orderly provision :Sot later needs. c;Qj?'i`l The grasshoppers and cicadas ex. a < t press their pleasure, shrilling their 6 .> ., g ,� SY f , thin tunes; the, dapper dragon fly fCS•,;•k4 :'�+av', A •Y �: k•R Z�A.\vy .;,.�{{:5'.''�'�^,:`<s•k"�r."�'>�i`�;.,.o-��,'•,x,\`.�resile through the sunshine, pivots' c<��ks:�<i'� .�,s.''V•s?��a��t^>�.a;�� � i mo.tioulass tot a momenton a blade 01 grass, as if the better to display its v 'c r 4 3 ' a. wings of 'sapphivd gauze; and in the rich fullness of a single summer aft- ernoon, elle may de - The P lar Among theV�lea Y Illg 1S l -f the season; to i th Y ty of cottage gar JUDGING THE IVIOUNTS AT THE RANELAGH HbRSe, AND POLO PONY SHOW It�nela li Home touch a lir,irtlred flowers nice string of horseflesh lined up 1)y the mounted pollee Tor. the benefit of the tudges at theg tine htfldred flow a>fd Polo Pony 'Show recentl.yheltt in England.