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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1919-01-24, Page 6In iniusie;<s is worth every cent of its cost, the favor is Delicious and the strength Abundant. a eel Bey nd All �1 �d+^yy, t a oyC+•iSes �i.i,r...5&P... . t The Mostconcamicai Tea Obtannab e Anywhere. By Floy Tolbert Barnard cstc CHAPTER PTER IV ! He cane to stand in front of her, eth rite pie, however,brougght in; i,learnig against the mantel. lY . ss by Mrs. Davis with a triumphant eat-! ti "What fa thisrm 1 h ardoabout o lot- isfe •t:0n not at all coneea.ed 1,y he.. g de - depreciatory volubility, Rhoda revert- mended. ed to the purely personal. I don not know what it i; you hear "I ;cannot eat it," she wailed trap -but I am not going to do any firming sally "`and never in my i+fe have I next year." so desired to eat a piece of pie." ! "Why?" W initipeg—or was it Toa on to ? to spend a day with yOu i" When Townsend recovered flown his astonishment Rhoda was yards away but she was unable to realetee glance baek at him,' • It was di+siao'„ eer•tring to find hien laughing, But Town,setbd did not go to cal Rhoda lin tar o*u home the folios evening, At ten o'clock the i morning, she telephoned to limn t, she was leaving for the studio'e, e desired to say good -)ye. "Did you know yeisterday that y'i were goang back so soon?" • Tow. ,end's voce was a quiet as usual' bI his fingers closed with sudden teasel dyer the receiver. She explained that,she had, Ire% home a whole month and was eag to go to work, "I have always understood that your kinsl of work is very fascinating, Rhoda. You haste my best wishes •c.s yon know," he replied with quint evenness. s. •S•ileitce . (To be continued.) Britannia Victrix. Careless west thou in thy pride, Queen of seas and countries wide, elloryin on thy peaceful throne— C • thy love thy sins atone? What shall dreams of glory serve, If thy sloth thy doom deserve, When the strong, relentless foe Storm thy gates to lay thee low? - Careless, ah, lie saw the leap - Sure you can!" grinned Town:•:,end. , "I really do not know exactly. Call Mighty from thy st;ictie i sleep, • Ali you have to do is to taste ite it inner urge if y��u like." The The pie will do the rest. Iva have l "Ward. are you gongi to -ts: ea =ether cup of coffee, Mrs. Davis, out—as---a—farmer-- ,!too?" When she had gone to get it, for no ! "I do not think so, Rhoda," he re - power on earth could ever persuade;lined very gently for her eyes were her to use Townaend's English great- i fining with tear: and her voce was• grandmother's coffee vendee because; full of distress. "I have been as it was part of her religion to keep ; successful as Uncle Aaron and John coffee hot on the back of the range, i Tracey. That is going some!" Towneend added swiftly, "Eat a bite 1 "Yes• 'Have been,'" :he said bit - Beard eefrr thy challenge ring: 'Twas the world's awakening. Welcome to thy children all Rallying to thee witho•at call Oversea; the sportive son From thy vast doniiuieee! Stern in onset or defence, Terrible in their confidence. or two and then tI'llhen smuggle goes the back rest t,o lnyow?:But what are you going to Dauntless was thou, fair godless, of it into the fireplace and bury tt "What difference, really, can it Neailt the cloud of lay distress; under some fresh wood! I do not rtalce to you t14 it 9 �'ou washed f fierce and mirthful wast thou seen want you to die of overeating. 'Phan c you, Mrs. Davis. This pie is de- liceous!" Rhoda. rejected his scheme, sub- stituting whiles of her own and there- after no one in the whole neighbor ous tears and carefully steadying Dark with horror-stricken duty,. dared question the propriety o£ voice, "I thought and I still think N:,ture on thy heart would steal Rho•da's riding garb in Mrs. Davis that you could do somethingbigifg theewheavenly hearing. Lift}ng guilela:ss eyes to you wuld. •Every one istalla:ng + cigliteningeveriontlt nLle beauty, the Housekeeper, she said b except M Tracey and "Won't pie f afternoon? • and I you right wouldn't star's ti escaped to dee chairs before ' en in -all on of bigbusiness and big industrial de - the o her h boot, hast ha also beon ed' to the ' . v' ift I had no more idea of be -1- d, Belong toBritain. your hands of me six years ago." I. thy toil and in thy teen; "That needn't hinder me from talo.- \ bile the nations looked to thee, ing some pr.:de in you, need it?" As Spout in world-wide agony.. he said nothing for a .second, she continued, blinking back the traitor- Oft, throughout that lone netted PROSPECT BRIGHT IN Fill ISLANDS TINY COLONY HAS A HOPEFUL OUTLOOK FOR PEACE DAYS Days of Romance Have (hanged to Those of Business and Big In- dustrial Development. Probably none of the smaller pos- sessions of Great Britain has a more hopeful and progressive post-war out- look than the Fiji Islands, that tiny colony in the middle of the Southern Pacific Ocean which. -has never been hardly ' i an,. l v in the public eye, which ever reads about and of which the average American knows but little. loft to itself, little Fiji bids fair But, to forge ahead with surprising rapid- ins, building ua its valuable indus- tries, broadening and extending its educational system, opening up new avenues of trade, and coming to have more and more in connmon with the outside world, until it becomes an asset of nhicli the Mother Country may well be proud. This, briefly, is the impression gained by a newspaper correspondent from an interview with the Hon. J. M. Hedstrom, M.L.C., M.L.C!,, presi- dent of one of the large:;t business concerns in the islands. Mr. Ifed- strom, who is a member of the Legis- lative Council, has been a resident of Fiji for many years and is unusually well acquainted with conditions there, and well qualified to forecast what the iutre has in store for the colony. Time was when the Fiji Islands ex- isted—as far as the great majority of the people of Canada were con- cerned --only in story books. The tiny colony, with its sandy beaches and palm -!ringed lagoons, were associated closely with pirates, pearls and pieces -of-eight, buried treasure and Bally Hayes. But the yearn have changed all Clic, and to -day great mills grind out their wealth of sugar, cocoanut trees help •u ply the world with copra, hundreds of thousands of bunches of bananas are gathered an exported yearly and, when evening come:; a daily newspaper furnishes the people. of Suva with lip -to -the - minute cabled news of world happen - Mrs.f Mr Th a STOCKS IL . Connolly Co. Members Montreal Stock Exchange. 1 0 5'• 1 0 6 TRANSPORTATION TAT!ON BUILDING. BONDS then, the next year, take a piece • of land probably three miles from his home. In many instances, he says, a native will till a series of plots in rotation, probably not visiting the first for three or four yenrs after a crop has been taken from it. Fiji's cducationnl system has yet to be improved in many ways if it is to be brought up to the high stan- dard maintained in most countries, Children of Europeans are given a rather thorough primary and second- ary education which tends to fit them for entra1ce into universities. The education of other children has been conducted largely by the missions, and arratngemonts have ?row been made whereby these mispi'on schools will re- ceive Government aid when they are brought up to a certain standard. The Fiji last Governor of 1♦ in was an advocate of education., and it wan throgh him that a number of important advances were made which, in the future, should prove of particular benefit to the children of the islands. A new high school was recently opened at Suva. HOW WILHELM HELD OUT Several Hundred Thousand Dollars Worth of Food Stored in Castle. The paternal solicitude which the ex -Kaiser always showed for his starving people has often almost touched our hearts, but now we find that the Kaiser's sympathetic tears were crocodilean in character. The Berliner Tageblatt quotes from the Frankfurter Volkstimme an account f what 'Wilhelm Carle, a member of he Berlin Workers' and Soldiers' Council, foundstored away in Kaiser's castle. Carle writes: "I requested those on duty to show me his Majesty's provisions—those, be it observed, of the Imperial private household not of the court, which is regarded as a state institution. I was readily shown into e large storerooms. I expected to find a store but what I saw there surpassed all my expectations. Here in large, ANINVESTITURE 4011 BUCKINGHAM HARDEST EXPERIENCE OF THE WAIL, SAYS CANADIAN V.C. Describes His Sensations During the Ordeal of Receiving Decoratioa— His Majesty's. Gracious Interest. I was once .asked to describe my most nerve-racking experience during the war, says a Canadian V.C. With- out any hesitation I replied: "Attend- ing the investiture at Buckingham. Palace." 1 suppose it is purely a matter of v temperament, though I think my own emotions experienced at that time are rather• common ones. I fervently hope that it is possible for a person not to look quite as ridiculous and as fear -stricken as he may actually feeli. otherwise I am sure that I for one must have presented a sorry spectacle. It was a most delightful sunny summer morning when I reported at Buckingham Palace promptly at >10 o'clock. After reporting I was shown into a corner of a large room and waited there, feeling quite comfort- able and unafraid, and constantly as- suring myself, in the popular Cana- dian phrase, that there was "nothing to it." ..Alas for my premature confi- dence! We were all "lined up" and moved in single file out in to the quadrangle. I thought it all most interesting and rather enjoyed watching those of the senior service who were ahead of me. I was feeling most comfortably out side of it all, when the fact of my own immediate participation in these cere- monies rushed upon my mind like an avalanche. I felt a rebellion in all the members of my body; they flatly refused to answer the frantic "S.O.S: r that my brain was seething to them. I became absorbed in this struggle to, the exclusion of everything else, and. then--I`heard my name called. on't you lease let me have ms about you i'. a- y ;i1i her seasons' tranquil smile; p Put Him at His Ease. please Ung?e Aaron. Everybody else thinks o or a piece m the middle of the it is awful," "rill thy soul anew :onverted, i t o I disentangled my legs from some The dinner was so goccl "I do not doubt ,}t Rhoda" Framing o'er the fields deserted h d d t d the ; ate so greedily! But unless ,=But witty do you' do it' You By the sorrow sanctaSecl invisible entanglements, la ntts, and when my will save it for me, I shall sit might— con ides me! You needn't ; Found. a place wherein to hide. y f h brain teemed at last to triumph my here until 1 can eat it for I try to hide that smile. I saw it. I q eyes began to play tricks with me! 1 sides that pie, rot for the mean it. Didn't I go into the pie- ,Soon fresh beauty lit Illy face, p h h had heard in the general instructions part to next year's biggest f tures just because you asked me, ! Then thou stood'st in Heaven's .high The some mention of a chalk nnark, but. film! No, not for frame. inns. the halcyon days of romance h h had n • *P dreamed that I shouldtr s. Davis would. when the had that row s�.. years ago, grace:— ' why I ltd' not practice the indivndwal �'=1 adventure have changed to ClaysT p S dd land and sea ! it succi an e`stias thing. They p achievement I preached?" pen fir• e. Laughing across at ,, , ?„ Swell'tl the voice of victory. I th There it was --a huge streak of I don t knonv. Did you velopmellt. The I� iji of the story est, R:h'oda stretched her claim + "Yea c„ white across the platform which then Ye,, I did Aer cheeks flushed � Now when jubilant bells resound .book is no more.. ternatively rushed at me and then out to the fender, an old brass , „ al- ing au acitc a then, than I had of And thy sons come laure eiowvne a ong one t•d g , s � `y ,,� awae* from me. Despairingly— con - send great-grandmother. mother Tos�m- After ail thy years of woe The Fiji Islands are a colonial pos- white -tiled rooms was everything, fi lei' tli' else culsively—I pounced upon it and held wend+ lighted a pipe and they fell into erne' to i ars or o any. aft than m—making a home for ` you. Thou no longer canst forego, a deep silence, from which Rhado' What are you wing to do while the Now thy tears are laas'd to flow. roused herself At hist to speak of the farm goes to rain? • You could leave room, a delight to all men and a lot your man run it while you wvere Land, dear land, whose sea -built shorn' few women though it tears the despair a:=•ay if y �u are p.annin; 1,o take�j Nurseth w::n ole evermore, of Mrs. Dav 5, ' o inure was it of all . or1e r,o�'t-graduate work i1. ' " Land, whence Freedom far and lone " � � ,,. w.th the Round the earth her speech has thrown th"This room is at she called ornament. I .heli go to ..e ccs farm, did you manage e it,ifect,all by youWarrself?" • ,.hcda. It is .only for a year. you Like a planet's luminous 7011e— "I didn't, all by myself, My hit°iv I intend to •see how it fees - In the strength and calm defiance architect friend from New York enetat to juetllthinl afterive I shall ilei chit made Hold mankind in love's alliance! aYmonhh rusticating ho1eand hie 'a.nae i r'iain'—and no �rithmc�tic! It w^aud Beauteous art thou, but the foes Chi, house to suit the s:i}lowv 1 ow and . be lvonderful ii you wonid try it out Of thy beauty are not those witht he e old house i me, dear. Will you?" and ema e 1110 0 presentlms. He loathed tlof the plans + • "No, I will 111a flmarry you!" Her Who one, tangled be yet afraidyre} ; for this and then gave me no peace 1 retort came i n I used them. I've been £'He'than yourour s ave f r me, t hen,ition for me sRhoda?" In tie wrong that ru ed th reater Lest thyself thyself m. ever e.nce that he zeas iiiaistent. nv. ;:Yes, if you insist upon putting it Comes for a month every spring, none! going God, who chose thee and upraised that way. I am home. It is Says he is bearding out the price of the plan.. Hester Knight planned tour o'clocstn k ytvay. Will you tele- 'Mong the folk (His name be praised.) the fine, kings." I intone to the barn for my horse, Proved thee then by chastisement, Silence fell again, brakes only by pl �s she putt on her fiat and gloves, rho }becausels thou could sth yendure, the drowy whispering of the lien! , Tawnsen.l stale n. look at Rhoda She little later, Wand picked up her• seemed absorbed in an inspection of whD.p and stood turning it over to hi the andirons. Watching her, he }tan.Is, a curious half -smile edging drifted into a reverie so profound 11:". flue lips,.• Were you thinking of beating that he was startled when a small the?" inqu;ired Rhoda, holding out voice asked a hesitating questions: her hand for it: " Who is she ?" "Cho i w'ho 7 Rester Ifni ht•?' "No, Nu, I wee thinking of sotnething W11y Saved thee free and purged thee pure; Won thee thus His grace to win, For thy love forgave thy sin, For thy truth forgave thy pride, Queen of seas and countries wide— He who led thee still will guide. Hester is a friend of mine..She quite different. But •,t mightn't be Hark! thy sons, those spirits fresh lives .:'n Winnipeg, I em glad you saeh a� bad idea., he responded:, with Dearly housed m dazzling flesh, Eke her selections of furniture and a chal..erh ng smile, "I was think- Thy full brightening buds. of strength, rugs and things. We had a bully ing that I shall drive in to see yrya-- ere their day had any length g b-, shall we say to -morrow night? In Crush'tl, and :fallen in torment sorest. time in Toronto, hunting for t4izrn.' , Bark! the sons whom thou deplorest Call—I hear one call; he said: "Mother, weep not for my death; 'Twas to guard our home from hell, 'Twos to make thy 'joy I fell Praising God, and all is well. What if now thy heart should gntdl And in peace our victory fail! If low greed in guise of light Rout and rive they gather'd might, And thy power mankind save Fall and perish on our grave! On my grave, whose legend be 'Drought with the brave and joyfully Died in fuith of victory' Follow on the way we won! Thou has found not lost thy wee) , •--Robert Bridges. If you sere a stone, be a niagn4; t' you are a plant be the sensitive plan r if you titre a iman, be love.—Vnetea.' Hugo. "What is it puts the lines on the faces?" Annbereon asked. "I'll tell you what pints the bines there," Engone. said, "Age puts some and trouble puts some, end„ work puts some, but the skep.eet aro •carved by lack of faith. The serenest brow le the one that believes the ln:ost',-- Booth Tark,inngtoit. "I thought you sae! Winnipeg?' "Dear girl! There are trains in t' e:c•e pip ng times." "Did she visit you a month—for your }Douse instead of nine, I shall not feel go ---handicapped." "You --••you--•?" "1 give you :C.ar fah. warning! You her times, too?"started inns, remember! I intend to Townsend laughed. "No. But she E snake 'love to you and penhnps I have has often spent a day with me here. taken a few pointers from watching At my invitation, too," he added pans :your leading men!" vokingay. 1 "Don't be an idiot, Ward!" she "Have you any decent ret:0rd,s?"laughed slipping }ler hand through demanded Rhoda abruptly. { his arm as he walked beside her down "I have nothing but decent ones,," : the steps. "Besides, Mother will be grinned Townsend, gettnng out of his :heir. there!" Townsend ut her on the horse Deliberating over a choice of ro- Davis was hol.c1 ng. Then, when cords, he glanced a time or two at Davis had left thein and Rhoda had the smooth dark hair just visible ovor turned her horse sedately toward the the back of Rhoda's chair by reason gate. Townsend held out his hand, of his height and consequent angle holding the one she gave him as he of vision; et the strong little white walked down the driveway beside hand resting on the broad chair arm; her. at the shapely* boots, with the absurd "I iia17 not mind your mother," he little spurs, cro-sed on the fender; told her coolly, "She likes me, an I his eyes, belied his coal eel.f-pos- Hasn't she told you that I go often se .cion, Fe put McOormaek's re- to see her? She reads most of your cord of. I Hear You Calling Me on the machine and adjusted the needle. No comment broke the vibrant still- ness that followed the song. He Jotters to mo." The girl's eyes questioned hien eilently. "And fora girl who Bates -farm- sele,tecl a p:'ignant Hawaiian melody er•s, I must say you require a bort of and ores nnore set the needle. When information concerning one of the it herd flung itself wordlessly, Rhode. creatures! Rhoda, I haven't minded peg. arauna the edge of her chair. having you here nearly so much as 1 rant. (ere for any more music," I thought I should." .1 h Alertly. "Coins over "Still—Heater what -ever -her -nine len, adage, I sen look at you. I want is seems mare favored thein I. She to Y sh tau ::3raething." conies by invitation, all the way from session of Great Britain, Suva, a fair- sized city, modern in nearly every respect, is the capital and principal port of call. Fiji is not self. -govern- ing. Heading the administration is the Governor, appointed from London. The administration consists of a Legislative Council, composed of 20 persons. Ten of the members are colonial officers and vote with the Governor. Seven members are rep- resentatives of the European popula- tion, two represent the native Fijians and one represents the Indians who are natives of India. The native Fi- jians do not have the right to vote. As a rule they are not greatly ad- vanced as regarding education, though they are stalwart and hard and in- dustrious workers. Although the area of the Fiji Is- lands is greater than that of the Hawaiian Islands, the former have a population of only about 150,000. Of. this number about 500 are Euro- peans, the rest being composed nnainly of natives and Indians, with a scattering of Chinese. Suva is a beautiful tropical city, with every modern convenience, with the excep- tion of street cars, and with large stores, banks, hotels, theatres and business houses. Freight and pas. senger steamers call regularly at Suva on their way from Canada ar the United States to Australia or vice versa. During the war the call of steamers was not as frequent •as in the past, but traffic is expected to be resumed in the very near future. Good Quality Soil. One of the interesting things about Fiji is the Government land situation. In the first place, says Mr. Iledstroni, the soil of the islands is of the high- est quality and capable of growing al- most ,tuniything that can be cultivated with suecess in the tropics. There are thousands of acres awaiting cultiva- 'tion, he says, and fine arable land can be leased from the Government -ata rental as low as a penny an acre for 10 years or so, The better lands, of couose, bring a higher rental, and a. fairly good price, although unusual- ly nominal, is secured from the high- er grade lands especially adapted to the .cultivation of sugar cane. In explaining the land, situation, IVIr. Hedstrom, points out, as an ex- ample, that a native, after one year's residence, may obtain a small piece of planting ground near his j1Qn% ruin and halm* nig crop, and really everything one can possibly it fora moment. I wrenched my feet. around and then suddenly felt as if a huge weight had been attacked to my right hand, With a Herculean effort I brought it up to my cap— then braced my legs and prepared to stand stiffly at attention. But no! My legs entered into a vile conspir- acy, my knees became suddenly and violently affectionate, a horrible sick- ening feeling came over me. It was the most humiliating, nauseating fear! Someone was reading out something which I realized, in a vague sort of way, was concerned with me. I be- came crafty, cunning; by easing the weight front the right heel and left toe I felt myself steadying up. But I fevently repeated to myself (maybe it was aloud, I wouldn't swear that it wasn't), "Never again—not for a trayful of decorations!" At last the reading stoppeal°rand illy sufferings came to an abrupt end. The kind words, the genuine interest, the kingly charm of King George quite put me at my ease. It was gratitude more than pride, and lay- alty more than all. My hand was promptly and willingly obedient this time and my feet moved with perfect ease and freedom. But what a nightmare I had passed through! conceive in the way of food. No, I must correct myself. One can not conceive that after four years of war such enormous quantities of food could be stored. Preserved meats in great cans, white flour in sacks piled up to the high ceilings, thousands of eggs, gigantic basins of lard, coffee, tea, chocolate, jellies, and preserves of every kind, arranged in apparently endless rows. Hundreds of blue sugar loaves, bags, of peas and beans, dried fruits, biscuits, etc. One is speech- less and involuntarily thinks of the old jest that the quantities are so great that one man alone can not form any idea of them. The value of the stock amounts to several hundred thousand dollars. "Were it not that these food sup- plies are needed and can be better employed at the moment, I should like to suggest that they should re- main undisturbed in. a national mu- seum as an everlasting token to the German people in order that their children aril their children's children !night still see how in Germany— while millions starved --`diose by the grace of God' held out." And Like a Bell. Were half the power - that fills the world with terror, -Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human ntincl :from error, There were no need for arsenals or forts; The warrior's name would be a name abhorred! And every nation that should lift again Its hand against a. forehead Would wear for evei:morc the curse of Cain! Down the dark future, through long generations, • The e:being sounds grow fainter sand then cease; And like a bell, with solemn, sweet vil•rati'ons, I hear oncemorethe voice of Christ say, "ream!" Chinese history records a wonnon general, Chinn Mull Lau, more than 1;000 years ago. The girls father, being too old to fight she Ted his MAW fro vlletoiy, dressed in mens Sn'ba brother, on its LEISURELY r FLYING Tea and Sandwiches 6,000 Feet in the Air. A British airman :n East Africa was forced by his daily routine to fly over nearly sixty miles of dense unpopulated bush—a , highly uninter- esting landscape—and back again, ma+shine would jog along ins, definitely 'without attention from the pilot, "and life became distinctly bor- ing. "We hit on the happy idea of taking up with us selections from our limit- ed library. One book read in the air was Rider Ilaggard's `Ayeslta,' and really it was most fascinating to glance over the side •af the fuselage and see the very country around which this thrilling'romance is woven. "Letters were read and written in transit, and on several occasions we took along with us a flask of tea and had quite a delightful little meal of lettuce and cucumber sandwiehns six thousand feet or so from the iraund.