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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." 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