HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1932-03-03, Page 2ggize, so your Uncle Bill accepted the'
neology and sent back one of his own..
when I was a very small boy, your
IM THE CONQUERORuncle sold Out 'his rnh tQ old hien
Hobart, whose son, Kenneth, : is sow
13y PETER 13, KYNE niy general manager."
Illustrated by Alien. Dean (To be continued,)
SYNOPSIS Miguel Higuenes I would have had' Exciting Tales
Don Jaime Miguel Higuenes. 'Texas Dingle take me over to my late uncles
'/ /'r •
Of Merman Airmen
Bart, former Teras Ranger. now non "I fe:.red he was planning to take:
rancher, and Tom Antrim,
owner,
sheep , ,:
have been bitter enemies. Capt. Ken 110" ranch.
i outyou there. You and your maid are Imagine the state of mind of .a pilot
Roberta Antrim is advised. of her tion in a year, and when T observed with a bomb after fighting he fuse,
Jaime.',& manager,. finds him wounded
after shooting t u with
Antrim who
in killed. ,Don Jaime Eales possession of the first women to get off at that sta.Antriwho on a bombing expedition,fumbles
unci issdeath aoui he and' oL one
J man •you, 1 suspected your identity, sus -i and, instead of flinging it over the
other- uncle, wants her to marry hie pected that for some reason you sada side, lets it roll under his seat! This
friend,
C1e Hackett.
Roberta leas the train arrived a day earlier than that named aetually happened to a certain Cal,-
Sig from
Shea leaves understands
orC1 non dTa mbe s interview you—and 'rhea. I saw llinglc whose story forms an incident in "Ger-
ranch.
sees Cap-
Texas,
Dingle alighting
uncle's foreman, in your letter. So I started across to taro Hegrossby, an Austrian airnwn,
CHAPTER XVII%—(Cont'd.)
"My maid, Mignon, Mrs. Ganby."
"You are fortunate to have brought
her with you. Don Jaime has Mexi-
can or. Indian maids—I don't know
which—to care for the house, but
inti! I came he had nobody to train
them and everything has been at sixes
and sevens. I've been here about six
weeks and am gradually getting order
out of chaos. The guests at Valle
Verde Rancho never exceed the guest
rooms, so your maid may have a room
next yours. Do you speak Spanish,
Miss Antrim?"
"Unfortunately, no."
"The servants understand nothing
else. I am studying the language and
Bell, as I call him, and instantly 1 was man War Birds," by "Vigilant" ' 'Rhe
jealous. We Latins are a very jealous captain had to keep one hand on lepeople. So I tried to kill Dingle Belt I stick—with the .other he could grope
—according to you—although what II blindly for the bomb, knowing ghat if
really tried to do was to puncture res he failed to find it and throw it cut
tire. 1 owe that man a poke and I before the quiek-match burnt down, he
a anted to annoy him. I thought if I
could succeed in frightening him away
before he had an oppo: tunity to tell
you too much—the things ;I wanted to
tell you mystelf—I would be proving
myself a very smart young man. Well,
I succeeded, didn't I?"
"My Uncle Bill will think it very,
very strange of me to accept the .hos-
pitality of my Uncle Tom's—ah—re-
mover. How shall I explain it to him?"
"Don't," Don Jaime suggested
meekly. "I'll do it. Give me Uncle
Bill's address and I'll send him a
wire tonight, That will give him an
am beginning to make myself under- opportunity to register his kick to -
stood. You have a modern bath with morrow. If it seems to you then that
hot and cold water. Dinner at six." you ought to leave Valle Verde, my
"Does Don Jaime dress for dinner?" car will be at your disposal."
"He puts on his coat, even when we He called Mrs. Ganby, who entered
haven't got company," Mrs. Ganby with Bobbie holding to her hand. The
laughed. "In this part of Texas men boy wore a hat of the most approved
readily acquire the comfortable shirt- cowboy pattern, with a rattlesnake
sleeve habit." band around it. His thin legs were
"Wh .t a lovely room!" Roberta ex- encased in tiny chaps.
claimed, as she entered. It was a "I rode all the way home with Ken,
large room—twice as large as an Jimmy," he shouted, "and I'm not
ordinarily large New York chamber tired." Then he saw Roberta and re-
-and furnished in an old-world ele- moved his hat. Don Jaime formally
gance. In fact, Roberta, who knew presented the boy, then snapped his
something about such things, was sat- fingers at Robbie and the little chap
isfied that every- article of furniture limped over to hint.
in the roe:a had come from Spain and "Well," Doi' Jaime greeted him,
was at least three hundred years old. and scooped the boy up in his great
The huge, high four-poster bed, with left arm. "We had a fine ride today,
its black and scarlet Velure canopy, didn't we? But you disobeyed orders,
might have been the bed of some for- Robbie. I told you to ride home with
gotten Castilian princess; there was the cook in the chuck wagon and lead
a chest of drawers that made her your pony behind. You've overdone
heart ache with the desire for pos- it, son., What are we going to do
session. The windows opened onto the about that, eh?"
patio, and the scent of flowers filled Robbie looked distressed. "But I
theroom. A cluster of roses occu- felt so good, Jimmy—" he began.
pied a vase on the dressing table.
Don. Jaime shook him and set him
"Don Jaime plucked these and down. "I put you on the payroll at
placed them here himself," Mrs. Gan ten dollars a month. At the end of
by informed. her. "He was in great the month you'Il collect nine. You are
distress at having you arrive a day fined a dollar for disobedience of
earlier than we expected you. I fear orders."
you didn't figure your time -table coreThe boy threw his arms around Don
rectly, Miss Antrim. Yes, this is the Jaime's waist. "Areyou
nicest room in the house. It wasangry with
formerly Don. Jaime's mother's room." me, Jimmy?"
"Of course not. But an order's an
There were a number of family por-
traits hung along the walls, old- order and given to be obeyed. Run
fashioned mementoes of a forgotten along now and wash your face and
line of Higuenes rancheros and war- hands and get ready for dinner."
tiers, n.afds and dowagers. "Is there Roberta caught the boy's mother's
aportrait of Don Jaime here?" Rob- glance fixed on Don Jaime with a sort
oris inquired. "I have never met of maternal adoration. "That boy
Lim, you know." requires manhandling," Don Jaime as
"There was one here today—why, used her. "That atrophied leg must
it's gone! Don Jaime must have re- be built up with exercise, but we must
moved it himself, Miss Antrim. Well, proceed slowly. Good little lad, Rob -
you'll meet him at dinner, and dinner bee, but his doting ma has given him
will be served shortly after you have an imperfect notion of the sacredness
tidied yourself up a bit. Don't hurry." of a contractual relation. I fined him
She departed and Roberta settled a dollar, and that'is mighty hard on
clown in a rocking chair while Mignon Robbie, but"—he looked down at Mrs.
removed her shoes, undressed her and Ganby with his kindly grin—"I have
a wire-haired fox terrier pup coming
prepared her bath. She chose her
gown very carefully. She wanted to for him tomorrow, If Robbie should
look her best when she should meet ever lose confidence in me Id be out
Don Jaime Miguel Higuenes.
of luck."
At last she was ready and made After a moment he asked:
her way down the corridor to the "What sort of fellow is your Uncle
entrance hall. Mrs. Ganby was on Bill?"
the lookout for her, since in that vast "Oh, Uncle Bill's human—very. He
labyrinth of a house strangers had was born and raised in Texas. Spent
been known to be lost, and led her Into most of his early Iife hi this state, in
Don Jaime's spacious living room. fact."
At a small sideboard, his back to- "In what line of endeavor?"
ward her, stood her host. -He was ar- "Cows."
rayed in flannel `trousers and white "On a large scale?"
buckskin shoes, a soft white silk shirt, "Ch, yes!"
a black silk bow tie, and a blue serge "I should know him or of hila then.
coat. Roberta was impressed by the What's his last name?"
extreme youthfulness of his figure, "Latham. William B. Latham."
for she had anticipated a very much Don..Jaime Miguel Higuenes stared
older man and,' for a reason she had at her. "Is Uncle Bill slightly lame
no ground for entertaining, she had in hie off hind leg—just a suspicion
expected him to be short and portly. of a limp?"
Mrs. Ganby spoke: "Don Jaime!" "Yes. Do you really know my
He turned. "This young lady is Uncle Bill?"
Miss Antrim, Don Jaime." "No, I do not. But my late father
Don Jaime bowed. "You are wel- knew him very well: They got into
come to my poor house, Mees Antrim," an argument once as to which was the
lie said evenly, and advanced to take best for the country --the gold stand -
hem hand. and or Bryan's sixtes i -to -one. Your
Uncle Bill was an outcast in. Texas,
CHAPTER XVIII. at the time being a xtepublican. My
father, of course, was a Democrat. In
"Jim Higgins 1" she cried furiously, their argument they waxed personal,1
as Don Jaime approached. and finally your Uncle Bill called my!
"If you insist upon applying the father an anarchistic greaser. So my'
literal translation of my monicker, father yelled:'Hurrool Faugh-a- bat-'
James Michael Higgins is as ,correct lagh,l' and hit your Uncle Bill on the,'
as Jaime Miguel Higuenes. Dear me, nose and canted it five degrees to the;
can't you see the map of Erin on my southeast. My parent then ran to his''
face, Miss Antrim?",horse to get his gun, which he wore
Her eyes blazed at him. "You're �in a pommel holster , and on his way,
positive devil," elle whispered' as ethere your Uncle Bill shot his hat off.
iteluctantly surrendered her hand to This was getting personal, so my fa -
him. "Why did you deceive ine at the ther retaliated by shooting your Uncle
enation today?" Bill in the heel."
"Dear Mees Antrim, I did not de "Why, Uncle Bill never told me
ceive you, You asked Inc if, I were about that, Don Jaime!"
Jim Higgins and I admitted it. Then "Why should he? He came eff sec
you started to work on me and I had and best, didn't he? He was drunk at
a great curiosity to' see how ''far you
would go."
"If I had known you were Jaime
and his passenger would be blown into
fragments :
Under those conditions many a pian
would have failed to find that bomb
through sheer nerves. But Hegrossky
did not know what nerves were. With
his sightless hand he tapped the floor-
space under his seat methodically,
inch by inch, intil he located the
bomb. His fingers crept over its sur-
face until they touched the quick -
match; then he pulled :t up and jerked
it over the side. A hundred feet be-
low him it burst in mid-air; if he had
found it only three or at most four
second& later, it would have burst in
his machine.
ON THE WING.
Another amazing escape from death
was experienced by a pilot named
Kornder and his observer Corporal
Gieler. They were shooting up a
trench in the Ypres sector when they
were attacked by three English single-
seaters. A well -aimed burst of ma-
chine-gun fire gave Kornder two flesh.
wounds and Gieler a bullet through his
shin:
Worst of all, the elevator and the
left lateral control were shot away.
As steering was impossible, the D.F.
W. began to go round in circles, and
the English pilots waited for a favor-
able opportunity to finish it off. But
Gieler's presence of mind saved the
situation. He could hardly use his
wounded leg, but with a desperate ef-
fort he hoisted himself out of his seat
and crawled on to the left lower wing,
where he contrived to hold on to an
interplane strut.
The resistance that his observer's
body offered to the wind enabled Korn -
der to steer a straight course, and he
managed to land safely behind his own
lines.
THE PILOTLESS AEROPLANE
Captain Oswald Boelcke, one ofGer-
many's most famous "aces," had_ Ntat
must have been a unique,_experienee
for any pilot. In one of his many air
duels he and an English airman were
circling round and round, each trying
to get his gun trained on a vital spot
in his enemy's tail. Boelcke managed
to use his weapon first, and as he came
out of the circle, he saw to his sur-
prise, that the Martinsyde was still
flying, although he felt certain that
his bullets could not h ve failed to take
effect. But his amazement was even
greater when he say the enemy make
no attempt to flee or renew the en-
counter. Without any motive the Mar-
tinsyde continued to fly in circles, as if,
chasing the tail of an invisible oppon-
ent.
Boelcke guessed the only possible
solution of the mystery; his burst, put
in at a range where it was impossible
to miss, must have killed the pilot,
who then fell in such a way as to hold
the controls in the position in which
he had set them the moment before his -
death.
Boelcke found that he had guessed
rightly, for he got a glimpse of the
dead pilot's body leaning against the
controls. When his "Staffel" turned
homewards he could see the English
ISSUE No. 9—'32
the ;ane and my father was intoxicat-
ed, otherwise there would have been
two .funerals. Father was Iieart-
broken wheel he sobered up, and sent
his lawyer' to your Uncle Bill to apolo-
102, Still Drives Car
Quality has
no substitute
4
Tea`arses from t�ie9a► ns"
machine still
course.
BALLOON BURSTING.
After surviving dozens of fights
with English and French airmen
Boelcke met his death in a collision
with one of his own men, Equally
unfortunate was Lieutenant Eschwege
who was known as "the Eagle of the
agean Sea." No observation balloon
on the Balkan front was safe when's
he was about; they were his weakness
1—and his undoing. Having bagged a
number of victims he was congratulat-
ing himself on having been allowed to
approach his latest almost unchal-
lenged. From a few yards' distance
he sent forth his stream of incendiary
bullets. He saw a flame shoot out of
the envelope, and as he curved away
he looked back to feast his eyes on
the scene of destruction. $ut at that
moment a terrific din smote his ears,
while his Halberstadt, enveloped in
smoke, began to toss hither and
thither.... .A. pillar of flame broke
out from the balloon, and the members
of the Bulgarian observation post who
witnessed its end cheered wildly.
They naturally did not see the
flames lick up the dummy observer, the
man of straw in the cast-off cap and
coat, who had been placed there to lure
Eschwege to his doom. They only saw
the Halberstadt emerge from the
smoke -cloud in a right-hand turn.
But they did not see Echwege's ma-
chine crash out of control. The bal-
loon had been filled with explosives
sufficient to wreck any _ attacking
aeroplane within a radius of a hun-
dred yards. The charge was fired
from below by electricity.
"VIVE 1'ANGLETERRE."
In the early days of the war, when
aeroplanes of any sort were uncom-
mon, a German machine was forced
down on the outskirts of a small
French town. .A. crowd of inquisitive
spectators soon surrounded it, but
luckily for the airmen their flying
coats and helmets covered their ani-,
forms.
"Vive l'Angleterre!" piped a voice
from the crowd. "Vive L'Angleterre" '
refrained the chorus. A happy grin
spread over the faces of the pilot and
his passenger as they grasped the
situation. "Does any person here
speak English?" inquired the passen-
ger in a thick German accent, but—
luckily for him, perhaps—no one did.
So with a few words of broken French
and many expressive gestures he ex-
plained that after a fierce encounter
with three Boche aeroplanes "les avi-
ateurs anglaises" had been forced to
land on account of a bullet in the ben-
zine tank. A more intelligent mem-
ber of the crowd went off to the near-
est garage to find help for the strand-
ed allies... .
Soon, "Vigilant" tells us, a couple
of mechanics arrived, and with them a
gendarme, who prove'. most useful in
keeping the crowd back while the hole
in the tank was soldered. Petrol was
poured in, and off went the airmen
overwhelmed with good wishes!
Almost all the German flying men,
we are told, had their pet superstitions.
"Hall and Beinbrueh!" (May you
break your neck and your legs) they
wished each other before taking off.
German pilots never wish one an-
other anything good. If anyone un-
acquainted with their superstitions had
said "Gluk aufl" (Good luck!) to one
of there as he was being helped into
his cockpit, the pilot would probably
have jumped out again. He might
even have risked a, court-martial ra-
ther than go up that lr►y, for he would
have been certain that he was going
to his death. But if you expressed
! the wish that he night break his neck
1 and his legs, he could feel confident of
coming safely home, with perhaps a
.1braceof victories to report.
• They never went up, too, without
wearing their special mascots. "Many
of them, like their opposite numbers
in the Entente squadrons, wore the top
of a siik stocking under their flying
helmets --a fitting lady's favor for a
knight of the air."
Obedience
pursuing its aimless
Vesuvius, Chimney of Naples
Of course, Naples is what one would
call very impressive—it is so like the
Italian models who haunt London art
studios. It has a tanned. face, long
hair, wrinkles; it by no means lacks in
picturesque dirt, and its costume is
weather stained; altogether it might
be a king fallen on evil days, or a beg-
gar gifted with good looks. And it has
other attractions. Te bunches of
green trailing plants, Banging like fes-
tive decorations from the balconies of
the narrowest and dirtiest of streets.
refresh the eye, the little hives of hand
Iindustry — carpenters, blacksmiths,
tailors and such like crafts innumer-
t able—crushed into dark filthy little
dens in the streets, and the vegetable
gardens which the wanderer strolls
into in his attempts'to find his way up
to the top of the steep slope on which
the town is built, are at any rate iu-
teresting to see.
Then, there is the whole scene ,of
close encompassing hills clasping a
bay in their arms, with the ridge of
the crater of Vesuvius in the middle
and its ever streaming and ' never
vanishing cloud banner low above it;
the long sweep of yellowish -white
houses up the hills and round the bay;
the darker commanding masses of
castle and wall by the sea; the jaunty
rakish sails of the boats—truly one of
the finest scenes of the kind in the
whole world.
Behind the forbidding walls, the
dusty streets, the hives swarming with
human beings, are the villas, glimpses
of which you get as you whizz past
their gateways, and behind them is Ve-
suvius—smoking, puffing, smouldering,
is top purple because of the hidden
fires, its lower parts tender green be-
cause of the courage and love of na-
ture. Where at last the weary rows of
houses, walls and streets end, we come
to the mounds of Pompeii. It seems
far from the burning mountain, but
there it is under the vast heaps of
black ash and small white stones
which.. crept up over 'it and preserves
to us the evidences of its prosperity
and commerce.
It is the simple things that touch
one most intimately. The footprints
of a mother and child preserved in
clay now in the Reading Museum, for
instance, make the whole collection 'of
Roman antiquities there live, by giv- I
ing them a human touch. So in Pom- .
peel., ' Streams ran down the narrow ;
channel -like streets, and at the cross-
ings great stepping- stones were
placed. They are hollowed and '
smoothed by the feet of the passers- ,
by. Slaves were the beasts of burden,
and, where they dragged their carts
past these stones, the pavement is cut
"Keep your oyes on the other
•:nys " and avoid accidents, is ad-
vier' of Thomas Gordon 102, world's
oldest driver, who passed his test
with a perfect score in Michigan,
Virtue is easy when in the line oil
our inclinations. When Eliot began to
teach the Indians to observe the
Fourth 'Commandment, they naively
said there would be no trouble about
resting on the Sabbath, for they did
not have much to do on any day.
Therefore, the preacher emphasized
the command, "Six days shalt thou
labor." What is our- especial weak-
ness? Let us find the Bible truth for
that, and . apply it, and pass by more
:lightlythat other truth which we niay
so interpret that It seems to bolsic•-'
up a defect in our character, Obedicnr:
'.n hard things is the best obotiirn;'r.
Your old ellen shall droll nr rirot, ni::,
your young men shall say,
Joel
into ruts; between the ruts the feet at -
the slaves have rubber down and
Polished the pavement. At frequent
street corners are large square marble
troughs which received water spout-
ing from the months of carved heads.
On both .sides of the marble slabs by
the spout there are smooth grooves
worn by the hands of those who sup-
ported themselves whilst they bent to
drink, or held up jars to catch the
water. — T. Ramsay MacDonald, in
'Wanderings and Excursions."
EDUCATION
I have no sympathy whatever with
those who would grudge our workmen
and our common people the very high-
est acquisitions which their taste, or
their time, or their inclinations would
lead them to realize; for, next to the
salvation• of their souls, I certainly
say that the object of my fondest
aspirations is the moral and intellect-
ual, and, as a sure consequence of this,
the economical advancement of the
working classes—the one object which,
of all others in the wide range of pole
itical speculation, is the one which
should be the• dearest to the heart of
every philanthropist and every pa-
triot.—Dr. Chalmers.
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-
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Why, things look better than new
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They never spat, streak, or run.
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of cloth or serve it limp as some
dyes do. They deserve to be called
'the world's finest dyes'!"
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