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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1919-01-10, Page 6W 13y Ploy TolbCt'i; CHAPTER IL "No, Is she home'!" "Larne day before yeetl .lay. happened to be at the ettatiou ='%' • Pearson, looking for -erre alurin that I was expecting, whe;h she gc off the train. I forgot all about nh express I was looking for alien saw her. Was dressed in that plai way of hers. She asked flw beta everybody. was. I told her he wa well! She laughed and made a fan at me, You'd -better go see her Ward. it wouldn't hurt you any." Tuwn send made no reply- and U'ncl Aaron :sighed patiently to h =.* self he gathered up the reins. "Must he two o'clock. Mother ail be up on one elbow, asking for an ac count of the. I telephoned to he just before I started hock from Dew son. She's always been jealous of the. Desert Queen and she will accuse me of driving; a mile out of my way - just for my own enjoyment. Bette turn in, Ward, and sleep over the idea of letting the land lie I wouldn't be hasty." Townsend took the 'blanket off the little mare and put the robe under the seat. The older man watched him with keen eyes, in which lurked a wistful t.endernese and perhaps too a hint of laughter, bubbling up from the rich comprehension of hie. long, full life. Townsend stood motionless long ,after the rhythm of the Arabian's hoofs had died away. He was no longer thinking of the land:' The Dunkard preacher's monologue as he drove through the dreaming night., was unlike his reverie and yet it in- cluded much that was in it. For Uncle Aaron was talking: aloud to the Queen, who was used to her mas- ter's soliloquies! "I've always wanted to see that idea tried out --'In the seventh year shall Ile a Sabbth of rest until the land.' I just wonder! Maybe the land did remind Ward of the Sabbath law. Maybe it did and he had sense en- ough to hear. There is something to that boy besides being a farmer, and that is not saying that success- ful' farming isn't a man-size job either. He is a boy, spite of diose grim lines about Ms mouth. If he , were poor, maybe I wouldn't have the courage to let him try what 1 nevert had the spunk to try out myself but, he can afford it, I see a light. Mother likely has some hot milk for i me. I'll try to find a bite of some -1 thing for you—it was six of one and! half a dozen of the other but if he! isn't toe stubborn and she isn't too mad, they may .get to keeping Sab- bath with the land. Between you and me, Queen, I believe keepira-the ..s�.i�:.1sse sea,s4yAses. • `:k.'.ti i g u �...,,. '';.iljjt being happy with nothing on your mind that you think it is your duty to Ire doing." • He did not say whom he menet but Ward Townsend would have known. The "talk" grew and grew, in Aaron Dudley's neighborhood, over' Townsend's neglect of his fall plow- ing for he had not changed his mind —come morning! One day about a month after his decision, John Tracey overtook Aaron Dudley at the corner of Townsend's "east seventy-five," and stopped his car. Neither man re- ferred to the unplowed ground to the r.ght but Mrs. Tracey, becoming bored with their discussion of politics, interrupted them to say: "Ward Townsend seems to have lost interest in his agricultural -school farming, Uncle Aaron." "I wouldn't go so far as to say that, Mandy. It may be he is starting in to be about the most interesting farmer any of us. ever saw." "What is he planning to do?" she asked promptly. "I couldn't rightly say. I haven't talked with Ward for a month." Mrs. Tracey proceeded to enlighten him, ignoring the lazy smile on John e Tracey's lips. "Ward's hired man came down on an errand the other day and he told me that one morning about a month Y ago Ward told him he didn't want t any fall plowing done, that he was going to let the land lie a year. Davis '• v said he thought he must have heard 9 wrong and asked him what he said..1 Ward repeated it. So Davis said, p 'Then you won't need me any longer?' 1 l He said Ward laughed and told him, 'Sure I do! Your wife is the best 1 cook I over had. I'm not going to t quit eating! Besides, I want you to S look after the stock. But mind k you! I don't want a field or a tree I or a bush or a blade of grass touch- a edl' Davis said he was dumbfound'- h ed: 'How about a garden he says he 0 asked. 'Tell your wife to buy what we need when the fruit and vege- tables aro gone,' was what Ward said to that." "My lands! Did he?" Aaron Dud- ley's eyes crinkled with amusement, e Mrs, Tracey had another question. "Do you think that fall Ward got p last winter when his car skidded on s the ice, could have been mare serious than any of us thought?" Her voice b was full of kindly anxiety. Uncle Aaron laughed richly, "Now, Mandy! Don't you go to thinking Ward has lost his mind! He c may be doing a foolish -looking thing, le ;,--,+ tijc'•:'^cl' by nlain common sense but there are other ways—is that Rhoda Brooks, coming on horse- "Hal; yin; wino t slily, llr,,os..'?" inquired Mr,i. Trace ,, 1 looking net clii.o�,ethe4 with ta,•or it Rhode ,iding coat and breeehey> he nm riots her soft welt mannish hat an t severe tie. II "Oh, no! But I may stay unt Christmas. 1 have been wurkin n hard the hist five or six -, esar�n. ' thought it might be good for mkt t s get away for a while, So I eats 8 home to play with Father and Moth ere" Her smile was '�harnning be cause she possessed both mirth an e sincerity, s "I didn't suppose' there was .so ver much work to being a moving pictur 1 actress. It seems like—well, lik s playing house with all the things yo z• want to dress up in," laughed Mrs Tracey. "I never thought of it a work, playing I was some one els I'd like to be!" 'Uncle Aaron caught Rhoda's glance • "Going to see Mother or are you jus riding?" The hint of a dare was i the preacher's eyes. She quickly responded to the dare '"I ain en my way to have lunched at Ward Townsend's. I invited my self. I thought our auguat years— I am twenty-eight and he is thirty - f ve---augumented by his housekeep aside the conventions. I have been here a month, during which Ward hasn't come to see me so this morn ing I called him up and asked him if he would like a guest for luncheon He did not seem overjoyed but he was punctiliously polite about it. He said, 'Of course, Rhoda, come if you want to. I'll tell Mrs, Davis to kill the fatted chicken and get out her citron preserves. Pll try to get home for it, myself, but if I should not, make yourself comfortable. I'll lock my desk but you can have the run of the rest of the house."'You will not need to lock your desk,' I said loftily. 'I have had bringing up!' To which he replied. cheerfui- ly that he knew it but thought it best not to tempt me., 1 Rhoda laughed coolly. "I went through his desk, once years ago, looking for a letter I had written to him! I did not find it! So I am on my way to have luncheon at his house but it remains to be seen whether I shall eat it alone or whether my host decided to join me!" She peered beneath her cuff at her wrist watch and was about to ride on when a mellow whistle sounded across the east eighty. It as a signal for which Rhoda had once listened often and eagerly. Hera eyes darkened and the soft color in her cheeks deep- ened a little. She stood up in the stirrups, scanning the field with faint- ly «sardonic eyes. aerfe is by that- elfin. Seel Waving has hat!" pointed out John Tracey. Rhoda threw up her arm, yodelling shrilly, and took leave of the three with a brief "Good-bye, folks!" as she swung the horse about for a start and took the woven wire fence in a way that would have delighted her director and her camera man but which left Mrs. Tracey limp with fright, drew from John Tracey a low whistle of admiration and curved the Dunkard preacher's austerely shaven lips in a smile of content. Rhoda took a second fence and a gate, landing triumphantly within four feet of the man under the elm tree, and held out her hand. Townsend came forward and took it in both his own, asking quietly though his face was white beneath the tan: "And how is Rhoda?" She did not reply immediately. Perhaps just for the moment her voice was not trustworthy; perhaps Townsend did not especially need a reply. At any rate lie continued with- out waiting: "When I recognized you --at first I was not sure—and whistled, I did•not expect you to make a bee line for me, ver fences, ditches, gates—and all!" "You knew perfectly well that I would make a bee line for you—if ou whistled to me!" she dared, a lit - le tremulously. "Past whistling of mine scarcely ernes that statement," he smiled, uietly releasing her hand and turn - ng to pick- up his hat adding as he ut it on, "We had etter go to the house so that Mrs. Davis can see your iding outfit and get over the shock n tone to get our dinner. She at- aeked me violently about luncheon. aid she never had gat one and din't now how so she is getting dinner. n fact she began her preparations bout four this morning. I only ops she does not flatly refuse to go n when she sees you!" (To be continued.) Beets for Influenza. An Austrian doctor, having discov- red that beets were a preventive of and remedy for influents, gave his atients a plateful of beet salad as eon as the fever set in, and within ight hours after they had eaten the eets the fever would leave them— so he asserted. According to a re- port from the Il:ague, this alleged ure on becoming known in Holland d to such a demand for beets that the price advanced to 40 cents each, whereas before the •war they had cost about two cents. at • d d y e e nl s e t n n hese; I; tea,t lthola. She eoaxesl her. captious herse ul.l near enough to shah hands with the Traceys. Miele A.1,. ::bo saluted With her riding 1! !w iiilie Ci Water tanks that workee efully are being made in Australia -from na- ve clays, one o: 10,000 ga:ione eapa- ty having been canetrocted, THE ARMY FOOD oRwE FOOD WASTAGE- WAS A SCANDAL OF EARLY VWAte. DAYS. To -Day There is Hardly an Item "Left Over" That Is Not Put to Some Use. In the summer of 1516 a defirtit movement was inaugurated to con serve and control Argy food.consuinp- tion, but most of all to put a check on' the hideous waste that was sacrificing untold tons of supplies every year, says a war correspondent. The only way to get efficient Cooks was to train them, so schools of cook- ery were started. The course of in- struction lasts four weeks. at the end of which he is required to pass an ex- amination. If he meets all require- ments he is given a small card, which certifies that he has completed the course in the School of Cookery, and it becomes his passport into the zone, of full-fledged Army cooks. Since the establishment of these schools 42,001� graduate cooks have been turned ou ing--invented an apparatus known the Ellie Field Pat -Extracting Plan In this process the rough fiat and bon eollected frons the vamps ero treat in belling tanks, through sahib. supe heated steam is passed. The fat ran out. put into barrels or kegs, an despatched to .England to the Co znittee for the Purchase of ,.1t'zny Cram Refuse. The conversion of sietual meat z fuse into fat for soap -making 1s on one phase of the utilization of was Products. Bones compete with dri ping In salvage importance, After a he fat is boiled out of the hones• me hundred pounds of bones produc en pounds of fat --the h'Omains a used for the manufacture of tooth an nail brushes, while the 'small piece are crushed and sold tor fertilizer. Even the scraps from the soldier plates are utilized. 'When ;mu go 1 an Army mess -hell you will obsery that every soldier files out plate i 1Itiand. Outside the door the stops at iii4tub, and scrapes all the leaviugs o ;the dish into it. These leavings ar dried and chopped up for chicken food Breadcrumbs are treated in the sam gay. Facts and Figures: ad It. 08 ed is d nig p ly to p- 11 0 re d s 8 0 e n a n e e I can give you no better idea of t11 results of these salvage operation than to say that last year euougli gly ,cerine was obtained from Army fat t erovide the propellent for 18,000,000 eighteen -pound shells. This means that approximately 1,800 tons of gly- ''eerine were obtained front the refuse Of the camp -kitchens. The gross income from the sale of by-products alone last year was $3,- 850,000. Add to this the saving in the cost of glycerine, and the value of the reduction in rations brought about by the supervision of cooking and other economies, and you get a total saving estimated to be not less than $30,000,- 000. A larger phase of this conserva- tion lies in the fact that it enabled a considerable amount of food to be re- leased to the general public. At the same time, the Army and Navy got all Its soap free of charge. 'War is not all waste! Cod In Arms. The Purchase of Stocks and Bongs is iriade oonuortably easy when our PARTIAL PAYMENT PLAN is used, This really helps you to save money as you put by lust what you can spare from your regular earning:, making your monthly payments to us, the in- stalments going towards the pur- cahase of any selected dividend. paying stook. We invite you to write flow for a free copy of our booklet entitled "Saving by the Partial Payment Plan," which fully explains our system. �o Cully�& Co. N mbera Montreal Stork Fsch enge 105.106 Transportation Building MONTREAL P.Q. THE WHITE METAL IN WAR. Aluminum WIII Take Place of Wood in the Days to Come. Aluminum has found an immense number of uses 1n the great war. For 8 the sake of lightness, it is largely em - S played in fiyiug machines, to re -en- force the framework of the wings as 0 The stock -pot is a very importaiz' first aid to Army food saving. It is", usually a huge kettle, in which all sur plus meat and bones are dumped, and which becomes the Sanctuary of the justly famous Army stew, This constant supervision of cook- ing not only reduced waste, but enab- led the British Army to curtail its rations considerably during 1917. Two ounces a day were pinched off the al- lowance of breadstuffs, except in the cases of soldiers under nineteen, who have the prize appetites of the Ser. Vice. The salt ration was cut down by one-fourth of an ounce per man a day, and a considerable saving was offeet ed in the consumption of tea. Kitchen Refuse. Although this whip -hand over waste reduced the ration, and eliminated ex- travagance in the preparation of food there was still an enormous sacrifice in the kitchen. Every day in the hun- dreds of Arniy cook -houses the leave ings were dumped indiscriminately in- to the garbage heap. These represent- ed, in the course of a 3 -ear, thousands. of tons of hone and fat which -had com- mercial value: As long ago as 1915 England realized' that she was paying an excessive prices for glycerine, which is • one of the e.ee' sentials in the making of high exp],• sines. The soapmakers- inthe, Taper ICingdom notified tb6 Government the , owing to the abnormal price for gly- cerine—it was $1,250 a ton, against the ere -war price of $250 a ton—the Ameri- can soapmakers were in a position to sell their product abroad at a price with which the British. manufacturers could not compete. Glycerine From Fat. in order to understand the connec- tion between soap -making and glycer- ine (from which nitro-glycerine is made) you must first know that ani- mal fat produces soap. One of the by-products of soap -making, in turn, is the much needed and now highly - prized glycerine. One hundred pounds of fat produces ten pounds 0f glycer. ine. Before the war, and when there was only a normal demand for high explosives, glycerine had to be con- tent to occupy a place in the indus- trial catalogue as a mere by-product. Since the war the tail wags the dog, and glycerine is as rare and almost as precious as gold. Now you can see why the American soapmaker could afford to sell his product for a song in the United Kingdom. No wonder the British soapmakers were up in arms. The government at once got busy. It prohibited the im- portation of soap from the United States, and decided to collect all the fat from the Army camps, and use it for the double purpose of producing British -made soap and British glycer- ine for British shells. Here you have one of the many side -lights on that growing self-sufficiency of the Empire, which will be a tremendourt weapon now that the war is over. An agreement was entered into be- tween the Army, the Government, and the soapmakers, The Army agreed to turn over all the by-products of camp and kitchen to the soapmakers, and the soapmakers, on their part, under- took to supply the Ministry of Muni- tions with all the glycerine extracted. from the fat at the pre-war price of $250 a ton, The scale of .prices for alI refuse would depend upon the market variations, and would be fixed each month by a group of ,manufacturers known as the Committee for the Pur• chase of Army Camp Refuse. Now began the great mobilization ot waste products, It was easier said than done. Here was the problem, In thouands of camps the grease and bones were dumped out every day. Obviously, all this litter could not be conveyed to England. Waste Products Utilized, A chemist in the Royal Army Medi. cal Corset—Captain Ellis by name. who was en Aesistan1 lnspectoe of eater - a (The following lines were written by a Chicagoan last Spring for private circulation among acquaintances. As the sentiment shown is interesting even yet In victory, perhaps it may not be amiss to publish them as show- ing how Americans felt during the great German endeavor to crush the Canadians, English, French and their allies before American aid in strength .ou1d reach them.) r 7reemen, sound the last advance, per!`;s,rg?es,J today, Lu Ore Allied front in France The Hun Is giving way; ow glory to the Lord of Hosts Unto God glory be— Who gives us victory in the fight For human liberty. Now many a anile of khaki -line Beneath "Old Glory" cheers, Ho, maidens, lift your hearts to -day - And, mothers, steel your fears; Our Brothers of the North went first, We follow where they led, To fill the thinning ranks of war Above their hero dead. Flo, men of Canada, we come As brothers at your need, For common speech and common home And common life and creed; The Union Jack and Stars and Stripes Have joined to win the war— Now glory to Almighty God From Whom all glories are. Ho, Freemen, sound the last advance, Ho, bugles, blow to -day, Before the Allied front in France The Hun is giving way; Now glory to the Lord of Hosts Unto God glory be— Who gives us victory in the sight For human. liberty. —Hugh Malcolm McCormick, CHEAPER BINDING TWINES Hawaiian Discovery That is a Boon to Farmers. As the sisal fibre industry of Yucatan has passed into the ]hands of a powerful monopoly which has greatly inbreased the cost to the Am- erican wheat grower of binding twine, and the cost of Manila fibre has greatly advanced, the news that fibre of greater strength can be rais- ed cheaply in Hawaii will cause gen,. era! satisfaction. To people unfamiliar with the de- tails of the wheat -growing and gar -- vesting industry in the great West and Northwest, the bit of string with which sheaves are tied seems insignificant. Yet this seeming trifle looms so Large in the aggregate that it has led to the invention of costly and elaborate machines for heading the wheat as it stands in the fields,. ..is said that tests have shown that the Hawaiian fibre is eight times as i trong as the ordinary hemp and three times as strong as the famous lifanila fibre. The properties of the Hawaiian product have long been known as nets made from it have served at least two generations 01 Sanwich Islanders, well as for the bodies, and most pa ticularly in the countruction of the e gives, All sorts of 'camp equipments are made of this metal, from soup kettles to tent pins. The list is too long to recite. Each fighting man's mess kit is of alumiuuni---his neat can, his spoon, etc. His canteen is of the sante material. When he goes into the fight, his most important and effective weapon 11 cnnnnonly his hand grenade. It is loaded, very likely, with a powdered mixture of aluminum and potassium nitrate. Nothing could be more harm- less than eithel separately, but when a detonator causes them to enter into sudden chemical combination, they furnish a frightful explosive. Aluminum is in a way the most pic- turesque of all metals. Less than .fifty years ago it was a curiosity of the laboratory. In 1886 it had a market value of $10 a pound. To -day diet price is about 13 cents in Europe; in this country it is somewhat higher. It is by far the most plentiful of all metals. Every clay bank is a mine of it. One cubic yard of ordinary clay contains about 800 pounds of alumi- num. Such being the case, one might be puzzled to know why aluminum at a few cents a pound is so dear. The reason is simply that chemical science up to date has been unable'' to dis- cover a means whereby the metal can be cheaply separated from clay. At present the principal source is a min- eral called "bauxite," found in scat- tered and limited deposits, which is a pure oxide of aluminum. Some day the problem of separat- ing aluminum from clay will be solved, and thereupon will be ushered in the aluminum age with a veritable revo- lution in the world's industrial af- fairs. The metal will to a great ex- tent take the place of wood. There will be aluminum ships, aluminum bridges and aluminum furniture. Cit- ies will be built of aluminufn. REED PRISONERS BRING MN .LEER, �.w HOW ENEMY WORKS TO GAIN HIS OBJECT Manifesto to Liberated British Cape• tines is Another Sample of Ger- . span Propaganda. The Danish steamer, Frederick the Eighth, landed at Hull 1,500 civilian prisoners of guar, who had been in- terned at Ruhlebcn, says a recent- Lor.don despatch. A considerable number of the returning men were merchant seamen, business men, and holiday makers, captured in Germany over four years ago, Before they' left Ruhleben the men were supplied with copies of a manifesto issued by' th3vine ich Soldiers'stated: and itiorkraen's Council,.. "In this historical moment, when you are regaining your freedom by the opening"'of the gates at Ruhleben,. we are asking you to take these lines, with you to England, and let them t._ be known to your countrymen. You zz_ are witnesses of the revolution, and you are the first ones to. leave our country after it. Examine what you have seen in camp as well as in Ber- lin lately. Judge impartially. It took four long years for the German peo- ple, the people themselves, who nevzgr have hated you, to come into their own. It took four years of endless privation and suffering to make our• people realize the greatness of dis- affection among the people. By the! quickness and thoroughness of their' action, that party which is out of power now has itself furnished the weapon which the people turned against it, for the deliveranee of the nation, for the end of bloodshed and for the great German republic. People Not Responsible, They Say. "The four years spent in this camp have left their marks on some of you. Do not hold the German peo- ple responsible for it. They have suffered more than you. For you the English Government provides amply, and you are able to realize the misery and sufferings of the population Germany. You are leaving the camp with your heads high, bound for free- dom and home. History will record the years you have spent in the camp and how you have bravely borne your captivity. We congratulate you .on your bearing, that hiothing ever'broke your spirit or shade you lose your faith. The German people are now, on the path to freedom. "After four years of war, into which it was dragged against its wish, years associated with misery and privations, the German people has liberated itself from internment. The people were the slaves of a barbaric system without parallel in history. Like you, the Ger- man people now stand at the open door of liberty, almost blinded by the brightness of the light emanating from the sun of freedom. Therefore leave without any ill -feeling or hat- red, and do not hold the German peo- ple responsible for the deeds com- mitted by its former autocratic lead- ers, Tell your countrymen that the former ruling classes are utterly powerless and the German people has taken firmly the reins of government in its hands. Tell them it would be a, grievous mistake to prevent the sup- ply of foodstuffs to Germany because some excitement still prevails. "And now, gentleman. good -by. Tell our country men in England that, now that Germany has cast off its chains, on their return they will find a free, united Germany. Long live our newly acquired freedom! Long live the re- public, and long live the society of nations! Long live peace!" TO PLEAD HER CAUSE. Germany Systematically Canvassed French Prisoners. When It was evident that the end of the war was near, Germany made a systematic canvass of French prison- ers of war in an effort to find men who would plead the case of "New Ger- many" in France, according to state- ments made by soldiers who have re- turned from enemy prison camps. This work began late in October, but the efforts of the Germans were • redoubled early in November, it Is said, The French prisoners were told that the German Socialists wished nothing snore than to live on friendly terms with their French comrades. German agents said they wanted to get in touch with French deputies to announce the complete triumph of Socialistic ideas In Germany, and to convince them of tho necossity of clearing up difficulties between the two Countries, the prisoners say. George Ledebour, the German Social Democratic leader, asked a subordin- ate French officer to impress upon his comrades the importance of uniting the proletariat of Germany and France and innpressfng the French. Govern- ment with the plea that the armistice terns be made less onerous, it is said, Later, another French officer is re- ported to have been brought before Dr. Edouard David, 'ono of the German Secretaries of State, who received him 'cordially and urged that Germany must be fed, and said there was a necessity of mitigating the terms ot the armistice, especially as to the clause calling for the delivery if rail- way material. Save the bacon rinds and cook them with lentils or dried peas for soup, or broil them with beans or cab- bage to give these vegetables a good flavor. BABY'S FOOTPRINTS A Record of Identity That Will Carry Weight in Any Court. As a means ofestablishing identity in future years, it is now the custom in ninny countries to take a baby's foot -prints soon after it is born, For, as with finger -prints, the impression affords a life record. That is to say from birth right through till death there will never be any change in the formation of the lines. The only dif- ference will be in the size and, of course, the foot -prints of no two ba- bies are .exactly alike. The impression can be easily taken by any mother in her own hone a few weeks' after birth. Al! that is necessary is to cover the sole of the child's foot with printer's ink by means of 1.t roller, and then transfer the impression on to a sheet of paper. Afterwards the ink eau be cleaned off the foot with alcohol. Provided that care be taken not to disturb the ini- pression before it is ciry, there will then 170 1n existence a zeroed of baby's is entity which will carry w^iR'llt in any court of law in after years.