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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1919-01-31, Page 64chnessin t_l G ,1 Ives Tea,.Pot results �.r.r�w,ww • -..w.rwy,w,^M•.!w.�•.n+r•wir+.Y equalled by no other Teas cm sale ally where Black o» .een or Mixed eA 1 neves. got used to, "I beg your pax- dors, 'Mole Aaror ?" :ii.hteand ,of "\'►''laya, clid you say?" Aaron DtiJlley ktid;. "I saki 1 Ayala hungry c>nounh`to eat a bite!" and 'him n preacher! Siio; was en mad 4:3 jtt,t .hole]Weed there was pletly •in the cup'bo'ard and let biz get it himself. lime Mee.. Davie delivered •.hen wolf': (To be •cca:;tinued ) Haig Holds the bine. "Betide!" the .iewsies gall.--ir, ttrie! Big (german Drive in France! Extriei Ten Thousand Prisoner! Extrie! All About the Big Ilun Smasli! Ex- trie! E35h7 Is that yea smallest•, Boss? Extrie! Chimmie! Change a buck! Extrie! Down every street with shrill-pitchod key And flying feet—we hear—Extrie! All about—.Extrie! • tte From Harlem to the Battery. From London to the Zuyder Zee, From Tolzio to fair Dundee-- In divers tongues they cry "Extrie!" Seale. Packets Only. M 1 Ladd Acstc By Eloy Tolbert Barnard The ''Blood Bath"—such the namert They clubbed it—well, at last it came i h ckcd cut this tinge for me to sur- With gas and flame. Then fell Bau :; :w_e Mother and the outrageous paurno, e price it was and just let her know all shout Hester. I'll bring in about They took Combles and crossed the Ct1APTa,R V. Are you there, Rhoda ?" "Yes." "Is there ser,•>th'ng vise you wish. your trip to Toronto veal her and Somme. to say?" ! Richard Knight. It won't do her To Montdidier theydrove their wedge "N—no." any hart to have to fret till Christ- With Noyon on the southern edge. 'Oa ! ?u1 Rh it , you knew that ma-. What you got there o Some For seven days the long front bent I knot, you are running away, You cameras ? Goin into amat ur plc- Until it seemed their force was spent,. ere a+eda you will marry me if you tore -taking? 'i't'ch, good-bye, Don't fay. Y e you would, You know; forget to came over to supper with And on they surged across their dead, that a + :da.y you were afraid of the am Mother and me some tinges. She Yet ever in the news we read— nnn.i , i l' I had !,hi' ( likes to have you. "Haig Holds the Line." gL'�t'.r,, you new) ;,fall yr 9111+1 have'.. ,printer "set in," waxed and evanecd• • /yeah? g bee tine for nr at the end of spring came early; the willow row A million men and more they flung !hat is= I'd time done it, too, budded and put forth wee leaves be, Against a wall that swayed and ig;, u Ireeed so little and so Ovist- fore the elms would trust the:r :buds fug that 1 hated to swoop you up to the =ewe in the air; the apple without g. ving you a Mile more t.me.' orchard blossomed into fragrant love- --I didn't knew that a girl eould be • linens on the gentle slope prairie - bravo enol eh to invite herself to visit dwellers ca.] a hill, its gray branches me at hey 1.. •' and then be too big a' coy.',nrd to let, roe came to sec her at'and pink -and -white blossoms etched her awn home! With her mother; m exqu.-•ite relief whether against heeling blue skies or lowering gun - there etoo! Well, everimind! silon' metal' clouds; and weeds held high Irunning carnival unchecked, ria, over :yl•_eten same new Beethoven Rom- Townsend's 300 -acre farm. The d :s covered a new kind of ice "neighborhood" wondered and talked eeeam sundae ar cliur,ln some other; and riticized but with a certain symptom of that streak of genius you kindliness under even the sharpest divine in me, I'll not be proud.:comments. let you come back, any time you like Townsend loitered .in the orchard, because—listen closely to this—you' went fishing down on the "crick," have to Leek up your resolution not took rates on hie horse, Tommy At - to marry me, by a thousand or so , gins. miles of space notwithstanding the All. winter and through the spring fact that I am apparently a hopeless month; he had seemed wholly content, ly insulatedwaen't that your word? hs .py with the happiness that is —fernier. Sch' you see you really do wont to vanieh with the first teens. like me for myse'-•f. —I am not laugh- ing at you! —Very well, then. I am! —But surely you will admit that the where situation is ridiculous? What is that ?—Whoa -gat?= --Hester Knight? It is not exactly probable but it is •most vohible over . his ways. Her • not impossible You'll white,- thisi complaint was that Townsend had tine• its , As you please. Good "rigged up" a place in the attain where bye!"he finished his own pictures and that As Townsend brought his car to a-whenhe was not running wild like a skidding stop, a few days later, tell-year-old—and him thirty-six the Aaron Dudley looked up from some' machinery he was mending• other day, if you please—he worked machinery"`hire you roaring around with the up there whole days and seine flans cut-out wide open for, Ward? Toe almost whole nights, getting brown all over 'drown your n thoughts?' I judge iamins to himself, everything and tivhistI- .ownyou're successful'. I thought a boil-, ge was guilty of confiscating a er factory was coming down the road. What's the matter?" I sheet to make a screen for projections whatever they were! Of- course it "Rhoda is gone.„ i — Aaron Dudley pursed up his lips was avisnls had the ownheeyof thinbut gs and he "What What you going to diad hate to see tacks drove through do about it?'” 'good elmeets. One daywhen he had "Nothing.aIdo not want to farm missed two meals rue ng and she next year and I'm not going to." "Sure you haven't any part:•culer' had took him up a trays of food and c sson for letting file land lie a year, coffee—though it aid look Iake a man Ward?" grown ought to come to his meads when lie was called—•she had found "No. The land has given age a him all excited with his hair on end, friendly tip and by thunder I'm go- and a tallcin out loud and him ing to act on it! It's a pity a man g by hi can not do as he likes on his own himself. When he saw the tray, he land without an uprising of the whole laughed and grabbed for it. "By province!" l heck, I amhungry, Mrs. Davis," she "i4'•efl, don't bite my head off! said she said' and then } he yelled at Rhoda going to write now and then?" :her, Dont touch that! When she Townsend smiled, recallirgg her asked what it was—it hadn't looked fierce refusal to write or even to like anything --he looked at her kind read any letter he might write. i of funny and told her solemnly that "No. That is why I came whine-' it was a medley, made up of a bushel pering to you." The eyes of the two er two •of kodaks. She up and men met in understanding. Aaron mid,Have you gone crazy?' and Dudley knew that Townsend never he set his cup of, coffee down and put talked much" to anyone. It was ' IND a finger real impressive and saki, the greatest fault the neighborhood I m not sure. It mightn't be a bid found waif him until they discovered idea to keep an eye en ale. I think that he was not having any fall game: I am about to make a revolutionary in done. i contributam to the most whoop -la ihz I wondered if perhaps you dirt not; dust*.in the world but it bray kuru write to her sometimes?" -wardout to be u delusion of mind. Things questioned. ! went on like that for weeks and then Uncle Aaron found his red silk; the ether morning Ward Toeniscnd handkerchief and polished his spec- came tearing down from the attic and taeles before admitting cautiously: j putd .keel on ah talkinr gdmachinedanced I might. Tf I could ee. by?" with 't. When he see her a -watching reasonable excuse tod Mother. Why . f him, he put the chair down and saki Townsend let gr a rek ow uliy. 4%4_to her, just as solemn "Mrs. Davis ease you. her know who Ehodajyou will have to learn to fax trot! Knight whenyt you write. Rhoda There are times when it is next best • Inked the way the house is' furnished ' and asked me how I managed by my- i expression,to cart ard' you lane uas sually mode etoff self. I told her Hester managed it; for me or rather with me and before; only available partner."If he had I could finish Rhoda acted so snippy beenmlhtmiiing, so she f ;it. but ln'twa have that T did not explain. I thought I d a 't. be seeing Rhoda often for a while, at He was just as serious! So she said, least and would tell her about Mrs,l You fox trot right out of my. Kn ght some ether day. Her lase : k'itchen! And if he didn't step to word was a suggestion that I marry !argue that it was his kitchen. Then Hester Knight!" i dome a thing she couldn't understand. Aaron Dudley put his speetacha That same night he telephoned to carefully on, restored the old silk; Uncle Aaron to come over and right handkerchief to a hip pocket and; alter dinner them two went up to tale shook his head. i attic. It was the firet trine he had "Aren't they funny? Women? � token any on:aup and she d+'dn't blame Quick to see the truth when it is so him, the way the !elate rooked ---dike a obscure we men are just timed) before! junk shop. She could hear thein it, and dratted dumb when a thing is Iaughing and talking as excited and !,lain es day!" He threaded his when they coin.° down—well, she lingere through his 'th:vk gray hair, didn't 1� now what to make of Aarontenni r •ith+_i;hlg'ently over that dratted ; Dudley! His epees was up over one dpl ue rcee cif women. Poor�Rhoda! ! ear and he was waving that old red Why yea, vane, Christmas, IlI have handkerchief of ide .around and slie Mother heed Riede a look of jams and' heard him di tinct say, "Wieer than t i`n^•, red I'll write a newsy letter to the children of light," and then when r;n ' 4:dene tell -her wllsst Rester , Ward ;says n that way of hie ehe Fax from being disturbed or apologe- tic over the state of his land, he seem- ed to revel in :it. • Townsend's housekeeper, however, was the most non-pltussed and • the swung— Out-numbered—yes! But unafraid! The earth rocked with their cannon- ade, But oh the Mannish blood that drained With every shell -swept yard they gained. In Berlin, banners waved that day And bells rang out—but who can say What depth of woe they knew who read Those columns of the endless dead- Who saw their wounded—mile on mile Return—train after train—the while Haig holds the line! They strove for Paris and Calais, They thought to scatter and dismay Our hosts—to split the allied -mass= The answer came—"You shall not pass!" From guns left by the Bolshevik, From Austria's guns they had their pick. Gods what a duel! A stadium Where all the eager world had come To see the beast recoiling thee4 In red defeat—while ev'rywhere Haig holds the line! ORIGIN OF ARMY CUSTOMS Some of Them Date Back to Ancient Roman Days. Petulantly detaching from his hat brim an imaginary bug, the soldier stood at attention. It is the salute—the "snappy" sal- ute now deemed most correct and ex- ressive of soldierly alertness. This paticular kind of salute is rather new. Formerly the. proper, method in all armies was to raise the flattened hand to the hat or cap with palm to the front. Sharp and quick, of course, but a different kind of motion. It had a meaning. 'By origin this salute dated back to very early times, when assassinations were frequent. it signified that the hand, with pahn outward, concealed no dagger or other weapon. The salute with the sword dates back to the Crusades, when, as a sign of obedient acceptance of orders, that weapon was lifted so that the hilt (forming with the blade a cross might be kissed. Thus the good knight pledged himself to duty, with God as This witness. Military customs are perpetuated through habit of discipline, and so have a tendency to survive long after their origin has been forgotten, At the funeral of an officer (if in a mounted branch of the service) his horse, saddled and fully equipped, is led •behind the vehicle (usually an ar- tillery caisson) that bears the coffin. His army boots are in the stirrups, but placed heels to the front to show that his long march is ended. Three volleys are fired over his grave. Why? Because the ancient Romans threw earth three times upon the coffin of a fighting man at the burial service, calling him three tunes by name as they did so. The sounding 'of "taps"—ordinarily. meaning "Lights out!"—is, on the other hand, relatively modern. As marking the end of the funeral sere atony, it has a •striking and beautiful symbolic sig -•nifieanee.. -- , ,.._ - r After Four Years. "What did you do before the war, 13111?" "Well, I used to be able to recall it a year ago; but I'm blowed if I can remember now." ._..—elle:.. ,elle__-__-• Two out of every three fires occur in residences, says the Ontario Fire Marshal. MAKES PO T. AFTER 30 OAYS AT SEA 13111ARINE CHASER USES SAILS Olt BED cLOTICII:S Engines Break Down, Despite Apple. catialn of '. Salad Oil and Butter When Oil Gives Out. • How the crew of a submarine chaser rigged up bed clothes as sails, their signals of distress failing to bring help after the ves'sel's 'engines were disabled and her navigating in- struments walled overboard in mid - ocean, and how they piloted the craft through the open sea for a month until they reached the Azores, is graphically described in the report of Alexis Puluhen, the ,sailing master in A u;and, which has just been ina;ie ayt!'tilic by the U. S. Navy Department. The submarine chaser, which was called No. 28, was American built and one of a group turned over to the French government. Manned by French crews the vessels left the Ber- mudas on January 7, 1918, and soon struck heavy weather. The tugs and chasers found it hard to 1?eep to- gether. In a terrific storm on Jan. 12 the tug convoy 'was scattered and. No. 28 lost sight of her companions. Heavy seas carried away her life- boats, davits, hoaxes of coal and gas- oline and ventilators. The engine rooii was flooded, but the crew man- aged to start one engine and keep the vessel going. When the weather moderated somewhat No. 28 started out in search of her convoy. She then developed engine trouble, and the shortage of lubricating oil be- came alarming. Although the crew worked frantic- ally they could not locate the trouble and the engines finally went "dead." Submarine chaser No. 28 was there- fore helpless, and although many sig- nals of distress were sent up nobody seemed to see them. Reported at the Azores. When the group of chasers reached the French port, No. 28 was reported missing, and it was generally believed she had been lost. Then on Feb. 18, much to the surprise of both the French and American navy depart- ments, she was reported at the Azores. The expedients to which the crew of the vessel resorted to in their t that sea are best related in the sailing master's own report: , "The machinists set to work to fix 'the engines, and on Wednesday, Jan. 16, at: midnight, the central engine startedup. I set course east. There' was nothing in sight. At 3 a.m. we again broke down. At 3.30 a.m. I saw the lights of two steamers to port on the horizon, headed east. I showed to red lights at the masthead and signalled to them with the blink- er. They did not answer me and continued on their course to the east. "The boat continued stopped and the machinists kept at the repair of ,the engines. I kept pumping the bilges, where the water reached a height of twenty inches. The boat made :a lot of water •from the spring- ing of her seams. "At ten minutes to twelve a,in. I saw the mast of a scout boat on the hori- zon to the northwest. Considering eay boat to be in a critical condition by reason of the length of time it had been disabled and the near exhaustion of my lubricating oil, I fired a salvo of six shots and hoisted the signal of distress- I obtained no answer and could see nothing more of then a few minutes later. At noon the centre engine started up; course east. No- thing in sight. At one p.m. a new breakdown of the engine. The chief machinist, Faignou, reported to me that the lubricating oil was all gone. Thereupon I used soap suds and sev- eral greasy substances to replace the oil, but these gave bad results, Buttered the Engines. "I then gave all the salad oil and butter for the lubrication of the en- gines. These latter gave very good results, but were not sufficient. There was about five gallons, At twenty minutes to six p.m. the engine started • up; course east, nothing in sight. "At half -past eleven p.m. another and last breakdown of the engine and burning out of the dynamo. The chief machinist reported to me that he would not be able to make the engines run any more. The radio would not work. It was impossible for pie to call for help. There was nothing left pie aboard but a few pints of salad oil, which I used only for the lubri- cation of the auxiliary engine with which I pumped bilges when the state of the sea was sea that 1 could, not use the handy -billy (hand pump). "I found myeelf, therefore, in coin - plate distress, drifting toward the southeast, at "the mercy of the winds and. ,.sea, with no exact position. I estimated any position at this time to thirty-six degree,, thirty ' g einutee north latitude, and ' thie y-nirie de- • STOCKS L Mas ConnollyCo. Member's Mentreza! .Stock 1 0 5. 1 0 6 TRAM PORTATION MYSTERY SHIP. 'GOT.' 2 U AT i N AY : BRITISH -SAILING Y'1r`32050i. 1VIADI NOTABLE Pf1a t;OI�3) `i%lary B. Mitchell," riti the Decoy Service Since Early he. 1946, Sank Many Hun Subineeiics. grecs,. west longitude (about 'Seven; .. Two Gerfrian submaririos were suck m one day. by the Mary B. Mitchell, a BONDS hundred miles from the Azores). • • "•1 remained in this condition .until the eighteenth of Feb. without getting help of any kind. I ordered a jury lug rig to be got thp, 'pumping the 1 thetime ut ill u bilge al , p t g out and taking in a sea anchor when I thought it well to use it, sparing the drinking water as much as possible, rationing the crew to the lowest possible amount, in view of the probability of a long voyage; putting out and tak- ing in the sails according to the con- dition of the weather and the direc- tion of the wind, and endeavoring to make headway east by compass in an effort to reach the Azores. .-The winds were favorable, blowing generally from the westerly quadrants and changing at intervals from north- west to southwest. "On the 8th Feb. at half -past nine in the morning, I saw a steamer about four points to port and crossing our course not far away. The weather was fine, the sea very beautiful. I at once hoisted signals of distress and sailing vessel, one of the "mystery ships" of the war. This craft was one of the fleet, if not the far'st, of the decoy ships which played havoc with the U-boats. This vessel went into the decoy service early 111 1916, under command of Lieutenant John Lowrie. All her officers and crew volunteered for the hazardous work. She was ' provided with a twelve -pounder and two well -concealed Six-poernfders. She sighted the first submarine three miles away and loafed along ,awaiting• a chance to bag it. The German craft followed at a safe dis- tance for a time, but finally crawled closer and after satisfying. itself that it had superior speed and grin power opened fire. Failure of the my i cry iihip to re- turn fire at once baffled the German officers. They were quiet for fifteen minutes and then repunaed fire. When the submarine came sufflciently close I and was in good position abeam, the I concealed guns of the sailing ship got out the lifeboat' manned by two`were brog'ht into play and landed six volunteers and ordered it to get in 1 mortal hits on the submarine, which the path of the steamer and speak to was unable to fire anadditional shell. him, but when he •arrived at a dis- Just three minutes after the first hit, tante of about five miles and was the submarine was blown up by a bearing about two points forward of shot which holed it just below the the port beans, the steamer changed foredeck and caused an explosion course suddenly and but on all steam. which threw a vast column of water I immediately fired a salvo of seven high into the air. guns at intervals of one minute, in accordance with the rules of distress A Successful Ru3c, signals, but he did not answer me and Later the sane day another Ger- continued to run away. At fifteen man submarine approached the Mary minutes past eleven he disappeared 13. Mitchell and opened fire at a dis- over the horizon, heading about south- -lance of about two' miles. After the west. sixth round the mystery ship was "The conduct of the crew was mar- stopped and a boat put off. To all vellous throughout the voyage. They appearances the craft was abandoned. retained at all times their habitual The submarine approached the sup - calm. They never complained of the posed wreck at full surface speed. smallness of the ration which it was Then it submerged for a time and necessary for hue to restrict them to, suddenly rose to the surface again. and thereby'shovred a grand spirit of The gunners of the Mary B. Mit- sacrifice and self-denial. chell landed a shell just below the Steered by Sails. conning tower' and pierced the side "On Feb. 18,'at half -past six a.m.; one foot above. the water. 4;.A flash. of I saw land one point on the port bow, brilliant blue 'flame 'and a dense yellow. bearing north 55 degrees east by compass, I headed over and took a, sounding from time to time. At eleven a.ni., as the ship was going very slowly because of the light breeze from the west that prevailed and the sea was very calm, I had the lifeboat hoisted out and manned by three volunteers for the purpose, first, of reconnoitering the exact na- ture of the land, and secondly to have a tug sent out. I hoisted at the same time the signal `YP'—`I require a tug.' At one p.m. I recognized Fayal to port and Pcio to starboard. ' At half -past two p.hn. T saw a tug coming from port and heading for rue. At three p.m. I doused the sails, made of tablecloths, sheets, bedspreads and blankets. "At twenty-five minutes past three the Sin -Mac took me in tow and brought me into the port of Herta." Well Trained. Hawaiian servants are among the most faithful in the world, says a woman of experience whose story ap- pears in Harper's Magazine;'but they are strangely unsophisticated. They have an overwhelming desire to call you by your first name.' One man servant 'teas always saying to my husband, "Yes, Frank," or "All right, Frank"; and to me, "To be sure, Mabel," and "I'm going out, Mabel." Filially it got on my nerves to such an extent that I discharged him, and when the new cook appeared I told my husband not to mention my first name in his presence; then perhaps he would call me Mrs. So Frank was always very careful and always ad- dressed me as "deary" or "sweet- heart"; but the new cook, a prudent fellow, gave -me no title at all. One night we gave a dinner to a large party of friends. I was telling them how I had successfully overcome in my new,pook's case the native serv- ants' abuse oftheir employers' Chris- tian names. I could depend, at least, on this "servant's not addressing me as "Mabel." At that moment the new cook entered the room, bowed to me respectfully and said: "Sweetheart, dinner is served." "What!" I stammered. "Dinner is served, deary," he answered, with another bow. To clean zinc •eui; a thick slice of lemon end rub the etain'cd 'vote on the zinc with dt. Lot it remain: hour' and thewipe ai'• in: :de the acrd. The zinc will Ise bright and •s'hining. • . • smoke came Irani the hole. Almost instantaneously another shell struck"' forward and the submarine was en- veloped in black smoke and sank into the water bow foremost, with a loud gurgling and hissing. The official report does not say that the Mary B. Mitchell was filled with wood to keep her from sinking, but this was doubtless the case, as other mystery ships were so equipped and were able to float in spite of any damage inflicted on them by torpedoes and shells. • Their guns were frequent- ly hidden behind doors in the sides. of -the ship which could be swung open. BLACK FOX INDUSTRY Carried on Extensively in All Parts of Canada and Northern States. The number of foxes in the ranches of Prince Edward Island at the be- ginning of the pelting season in 1917 was approximately ten thousand. From December 1, 1917, to January 31, 1918, 2,500 foxes were killed and their skins marketed. The pup pro- duction for 1918 is 3,500, therefore making the number of foies at the opening of the present pelting season 11,000. If estimates of 3,500 for this season's kill and shipments abroad are correct the season of 1919 will open for ranch breeding with 7,000 selected foxes as a breeding stock. Japanese and Norwegian operators are entering the fax breeding indus- try on a shall scale, Japan having 'taken 34 island foxes this year and. Norway 24. Good prices have been realized, probably averaging $750 each. American ranchers took 253 island foxes in 1918. Raising ran ih bred foxes is an in- dustry that is toeing carried on ex- tensively in all the Canadiaii prods inces, in at least a dozen of the north- ormost of the United States, and be- ginning in Japan and Norway, all ly- ing in much the same climatic belt, adapted to domesticating the black fax under the most favorable condi- tions. Two Aspects. Two soldiers were conversing. One asked the other what made him en- list. "Why, I had no wife and chil- dren—no one but myself to think of; and, besides, 'l; like war. But how came you to loin the army? Well, 1,*,au see, I had a wife, andl jailed't he army because 1 likes peac'.e."