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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1919-03-14, Page 6You eannot begin to measure its goodnessalongside of others, t ,e quality being INCOMPARABLE. - Black, Green' or Mixed `i29 Sealed Pets Only. Ey Christine Whiting. • ..• • PART III. I white-haired old figure• standing by Two hours later the_ auction was at , the cash box. its height, and the Pullman 1'111ntag-1 Ina moment all eyes were turned net crowded to the doors, The Ilaver-, upon hint; but it vas apparent that gal girls, assisted by the boy in khaki," he did not see them. Ile seemed to b gazing at something far away. had put a number on every article, "Three hundred," said the Montreal while the woman doctor and the Vag-, millionaire, who was enjoying every sity freshman had written sketchy; moment. descriptions, on which the clergy- "Four hundred," said the old man pian elaborated in a manner worthy quietly, of the most voluble of auctioneers. i Save for the voices of the two Hien, The Toronto banker, having begged' there was no sound. Even the aur- as cash receiver the tin cracker box tioneer was silent. in which the porter customarily kept; "Five hundred," said the Montreal his hair brush, sat before an rn.pro-, millionaire. vis -ed table and did his part in a busi- The old man paused: He seemed ort. -This-is •but• one• -Dasa among Hess and efficient tvay, assisted by to tremble a little, and turned aside P the Montreal millionaire, who, being' as if his work was over; and then a a jolly good fellow in more ways than new voice broke the silence. It was one, had appeared promptly on time, the voice of the- fat man from the leading the two little boys, for 'whom -Pullman Geraldine, the man whom •he procured standing room on a suit-' the doctor suspected. .of being a Ger- ease. man spy, triose 's ori..mg •from Gravesend, have The 'Montreal millionaire was buy- � "Keep it up, old man!" he shouted, decided to submit no name except. ing lightly. His eyee were fastened. "Keep it up! • It's for the boys tin the that of their ruler, Captain H. Davis. on article 23—for the Montreal mil-; trenches: your boys—and mine. Por the rest, the Gravesend men have lionaire knew good diamonds when he' And at his words a quiver went analyzed file record of theenc mcoens and saw them. On article 23 he meant to through his shrunken frame, and the plunge. !old man raised his head. He drew in presented a -report on the work ac - There were other oyes that looked his breath and squared his shoulders; c'oinplished during the war. lora i+1alv at article 23, A boy in and as he faced them his indomitable Took Extra Licenses. BRIT Sid PILOTS' DARING IN AR 2,000,000 MILES COVERED IN THlr' SUBMARINE ZONE. Wcrk in English Channel Called for Great Resourcefulness and Scorn of Danger. The German. SUblini ine$, which, .in' the dark days of the war, lirey ed •on; shipping in the Dbwne and the Eng• lis h Channel, have been brought, score by score, to Harwich for surrender. Cts his vessel in, or one who has,cl(in Their ndc�nace has" bee}. removed, bat g' the moo' or the' iuercantle"•,marine big distances end never been touched, "alta, on' voyage after . voyage, l cheer- le -most to lie congratulated. Our work fully faced the oorii of death at sea, has been very varied i7cyond general will never forget the anxious watches Pilotage, amanys comprise(] all .sorts passed in the danger zone when "rah- of duties, many • of thein of a. rare t- lessness" was in full activity. And if Lary nature. It has been the rarest the sailors, who, after all, enjoyed im- event for any ship to be detained.d at niunity from attack when their ships Gravesend for lack of a pilot, and in reached the further gees, have much tete times of pressure men havo gone to remember, what must be the from ship to ship till nearly colhaps- memories of the Trinity House pilots, fag from exhaustion. They kept going whose duties kept then continually in purely from a strict sense of duty, infested waters? knowing the importance to the nation There is the case of the Ruler of of quick dispatch of shipping, when they would sorely have lilted to rest. Pilots at Gravesend, who was torpe Work With Transports. deed on three consecutive journeys , down Channel with valuable boats, "Some, in the earlier days, were and on each occasion by sheer deter- largely engaged with the hospital mination and pluck, and the confi- ships when first commissioned, some dence he was able to inspire m others, at -"cable laying, others 'trooping.' succeeded in' bringing the ships to Twelve went to Dover and were en- gaged with transports under the King's harbor master int taking leen to Ostend, Zeebrugge and Dunkirk with a view to strengthening the Ant- werp garrison, and prevented the fall of that city. Many have crossed again and again to Rotterdam and back at together, probably largely through This system of • restocking our luck, though, on the other hand, the forests, if properly carried through, .escape may be sometimes due to ef- wire resemble to some extent the re- fllcient lookout, zigzagging and a gift building of a new city on an old site of doing the unexpected instead of the —Louden itself, 'for jhstenee. The obvious thing at danger points. It be- fire 0f London Marked an epoch hi the" comes a pretty problem as to whether city's. career, whereby, owing to bet- a lean who has been torpedoed and ter houses, wider streets, better sant- © tary conditions, and a more healthy atmosphere generally, people flourish- ed, and trade with diem. Juste this is .anticiiiatod in the case of tli(i•'r,estoeking'of' duo" national tint-. brr-fiches.' Not one-third of this natur- al so,yrce of income is derived at pre- sent from 'British •forests; .for• the simple reason that the ancient art of forestry hlis fallen into decay of Tate years, and Wo have, reliod too .much; 'On imported tinther; -which is . neither .as- cheap nor as good as our own. Now we are about to turn over `a' new leaf, and care for the forests much in the same way that' we care for our houses. One of the first trades of man is coming into its own again, and our future generations will thus be able to derive •beiief.t from the valuable wooded areas of our isles. many, and there is little cause for sur- prise that the Admiralty has asked for the names of plea to whom honors might bo given for their services. The Pilots; we understand, or, at any rate, ki ai co this florid description, the dollars—for your boys and mine. 'A n< that a wild cheer • was making mental calculation, spirit shone from his sad old eyes. king of the girl he'd left be- "Five thousand dollars!" he said As the coveted object was distinctly, looking straight at the ed the auctioneer pro tem. astonished auctioneer. "Five thousand b forward and began the i And it was thenL bid 1.'i e ten dollars. arose in the Pullman Plantagenet. Tw e," said the Montreal nail- The noon train •from Montreal, to lionaire I Toronto saw more than one, strange "Tweety-five," said the boy in' sight that evening. .In the last day khaki. "Thirty,," said the millionaire. ""Forty," said the boy boldly, though his voice was tense. "Fifty," said the millionaire. There was a pause. "Is this beautiful and costly dia- mond ring going for only fifty dol- lars?" pleaded the auctioneer in a voice that would have scandalized his wealthy parishioners "It tears my coach a silken -clad woman 'sat close' to e little gray-haired lady, her jew- eled fingers clumsily struggling with the art of knitting. Two seats away a salesman of fine underwear tied up a package containing .a gaudy,hand- pin and an embroidered handkerchief, which he- sent with a long -neglected letter to his wife; while farther down the aisle a boy in khaki feasted his eyes on somehing in his hand that heart, ladies and gentlemen, to see glistened, and dreamed dreams of this gem sacrificed at such a price. that time when there shall be no war. Hasn't anyone a wife, a mother, or change the oB Britannia there eThe womanlsoa a sweetheart—" g 'Sixty " said the boy in khaki. doctor and a stout gentleman—who The 'moment had arrived for which only that morning she had thought the millionaire was waiting. He en- to .be a spy—were holding an inti- joyed dramatic moments, and had plate and 'friendly discussion on ap- meant, at just the time when all eyes were fastened on him, to electrify them. In fact, the words "Three hun- dred" were on his lips. He hesitated a minute to make his effect more startling; but in that minute he felt a pressure against his knee. It came from the Toronto banker, and said as plainly as- words, "Look up." And the millionaire looked for the first time into the face of the boy in khaki!. It. took but a glance from those keen; world-weary eyes to see the thing' that the banker had seen all along, and that a woman with tightly clasped, jeweled hands, was seeing, too. For it was more than a diamond man were mingling in a game of that the boy was bidding for: it was bridge that they realized that the something beautiful and symbolic-- train was bearing them slowly but something that a girl would love and; steadily toward Toronto; but their dream over; something that would shouts of glee were silenced by the vaguely comfort a woman in those ; warning hand of the darkshaired girl days when the boy in khaki was far from Havergal. away. And the Montreal millionaire! For at that moment she saw that made a little gesture of finality and'. the old man by the window was fast shook his head as the , eyes of the,' asleep. His head rested against the auctioneer ;ought his. !chair like a tired child's, his lips "Going," wailed the auctioneer pa-, smiled, and front the relaxing fingers theically--"this beautiful ring, the 1 resting upon his knee an envelope nt gem of our whole collection, going -1 which he had been staring for long going—gone, for sixty dollars—to the hours dropped to the floor. b-•i'I ilda"•ti " The girl rose quickly to replace it. pendicitis, while the colored porter consulted the Toronto banker about investments, and a Montreal million- aire salt with two tired little boys against his shoulders, trying pain- fully to cull from his varied and dis- sipated past stories fit for the ears of little boys. In the Plantagenet, the clergyman, having dropped—not without reluc- tance—the role of auctioneer, was in- dulging in a discussion, on vers libre with the sour -looking author of "Good Cheer for Every Day." It was not until the Havergal girls, the Var- sity boy, and the commercial gentle - It was then that the. Montreal mil-' It lay face up—an unopened letter, rushed on deck imagining their own lie.?tire plunged, He paid feet;r (lot-! addressed in the shaky handwritini; lar^ for <t11e old lady's sweater, and of an old man, to his dearly beloved vessel had boen struck. Twa particu- ten fora tooth b"nteh He bid five for ! and only son "Somewhere in France." lar cases w:11 live in our memory: One The Gravesend • pilots are proud of their record, and niay fairly claim that it will- sank among the foremost of 'Britain's seafaring achievements. Ow- nig• to -the. dangers, both of ordinary navigation and those created by war conditions, they were required to take up a new' Admiralty license, as far west as Plymouth, and encouraged in addition to go as far as Barry Roads and the Bristol Channel. They were also asked to undergo, voluntarily, an examination for the whole of the east coast, and a large number responded and were duly licensed to conduct ves- sels as far as Berwick. As a matter of fact, it is noted in the report, Gravesend men have conducted ships as far north as Scapa Flow to French, Dutch and Irish ports, and to Liver- pool and the Bristol Channel contin- ually, Measuring outwards from sea- wards of the Edinburgh lightship, and taking no account of the waters of the Thames between Gravesend and that point, the men covered from August 4, 1914, to November 11, 1913, a total distance of 1,841,320 miles. Several individual pilots have alone covered more than 30,000 miles of unprotect- ed waters. One of their body was captured by a German destroyer and has been a prisoner for two years; one lost his life by enemy action, and one died from sickness contracted ou foreign service. Thirty-two have been mined or torpedoed; four of them on two oc- casions and two on three occasions. Few have not had many close con- tacts with the German. One pilot, to his own knowledge, has seven times had the enemy close alongside. Once he passed over a submarine off New- haven. Every pilot, too, has seen many sad and impressive sights, when ships, large and small, had received their death -blow from mine or tor- pedo. It is useful here to quote from the report: Saved Many.Vesbels. "Often the shock transmitted through the water was so strongly felt on board other ships that people the conductor's garters, and fifty for; Across the corner, stamped with a the Havel gel • girl's crepe shirtwaist. ; rubber stamp, were three words: It %vas at the very last that an old "Killed in action." man rose from a corner, where he! (The End.) had sat forgotten. He came forward sle 1w-, 1:i hand resting on the chair' NoiseleSU Traffic. in which seven vessels in twenty- eight hours' were sunk, beached, or towed disabled away from one point and another when six were destroyed or seriously damaged at one spot inutes. • oee wh eat tee 'Pimento 1an''er vdth' +.l railces," said the IittIe girl', within 11l lfeecdo, ditlio different<(,n, pos i1e t :sh ox. The auctioneer was h 1, i ,M a;7 the 1<. t arti.l• to 13e sold.; m,imnla, .rho was entertaining in the wo have ale idly •all had, generally li the l',1 1''1 t'411L1I '.3 eoltar, '(:1'lon "1011 [:,'io downstairs so 1101? tler+il'i f 1 fres 1'' cl",,•.t: alt)i1 ;+.lit; the "What hat em I bite for this a:efu1 ley that you could be heard all over subn1: 11= -1, :11:1 that 'tie 1iiii had s0 telae tra,cle;r's joy?" 1', nrled the helve. New go back and come very few accidents wire. ne il.' 2,000 with f,"":r'icA. "N0 entlemaii':+, outfit' downstairs ? ,- g like a dicey" 000 mile; covered in tete hottest of is complete \ lthent it. 2,n'1 1,3p, °a-ix''t0-'Fla 11t :.edged and after a few the de ge "0110, s11rel,' i#. 111ay 170 to -111 Bid up kid'oili A gift that any!mvmcnts entered the parlor. taken 1s proven that our being there ilrtiut:iled stilled.:heli.h, What am I "Did 1 e <r•me come downstairs i i7it13„has m ferule. 1 silt ed to keep down I:; ii :.1's.. to $F':;7 t�i^t i1.:C ('1erirv'iian '11.!-1.tiT t+ arx'•n.?Jjix;.'l' „• the! l "No, les ,f L�.n1, r -1 i yen. tJt F Ylri-:t (.11,ct!y ',S,)�, h„...tb 1;:? .,li. - �`(� (l0':+) (,n 1y, Nom don't ever let i1. ` t 1 i tars,,” se'el .'ee M e'ses. l 1. -:Ci t•) ,N11 you 1 ., "ii.1 hot to C0PI 41.';',11 1 Y + �Ir -r i 1 than 1 (11'••+ , rl , ;keel 1,1 i. d #.:) E �.'. (i(31*'t' li',: 1 , ... 1 1''. a r 1 t 1" 1 r 9+'ct0 +. se ..t1.:i �) P ii,i• , .�f�r. ht�:ly the n.:Ci)rEl tinct nen the :'�s� It,. •iiai::l ti 1?:1n t�U�t:, "."a s 1 role Y:'. s: 1, ,. CNCi'•1 r, r1 01'11. ental t,( i. - ,. •', I v l: i :'i{:f.'L. r l .l•, „ 7 1a1n ( vat_ age getting #, ,(:. 1 :m s ..i t', , .. e ill, the; nw iii r of 'l ualti s to vessels. - `It r (illit, it lu e ,ides' the report t+7a1117w:, 11 +111,;ir.• on, any 11!011 01' t i 11 }n? I:1i, 1! for It 1-; ern m1 4ible to .tr i- f� n., ,i P,, 1'! difti'cnt At the recent convention ,of*- the 'United Farmers of Alberta, Hon. George P. Smith, Minister of Educa- She was•the sole. one evheee rrinistrae- ed the ' ' consolidatetl j tion, declai t .I tions theyr, ou,d accept, and the last schools were the only medium to ex- ( one to shirk her duty, and she felt is tend secondary advantages to rural that she could not then accede to districts. the soldier's offers. hundreds of letters passed be- ,, „_ •�, � , tween Kitchener and Mics Iiutchi- • son during their lifetimes,. but. At; the request of Kitchener most of them were. destroyed. A passage from one of the few that • were saved ;reveals the reason that this Scottish • lady refused ,to become the • bride ' of, ;her ` soldier lover. It reads: "I rhust de vote myself to the duty that leas been laid upon, ,rte," wrote `Miss •Hutehi- son, referring •to her invalid. aunts, "but there is another reason why it cannot be. I have become accus- torned. to a • small life. For you there is a great future, and you'must have as your wife a woman accustonmed to' . a 1'ofty station and .to presiding over . 'great establish)xronts... But, always fa remain, ane ' ' best' Emends is the d'eare'st iny' heart "• % Fatal Rueisian' Voyage. During the rest of his :life'.;I;itclt-. ener, called' by • the •Germans• • the, Silent Earl,, tele Lan' whom the world, regarded as relying upon rlo human being; went. to 1211Tss Hutchison' with his triumphs and alho,. v bei., he need- ed counsel, consola;tion_aii'd sympathy. Wherever tie' was '11e wmte"her''eon- stantly telling tier . all that was in his • heart acid,, mind. She ; had attempted to dissuade , Kitchener -from • going on the fatal/ voyage -to Rtissia in -May, 1916. But Kitchener was. inflexible against' her pleadings. "You have always been 'one," he said, " to be most _loyal in putting duty first. You must try not to dissuade me now. The Czar him- self ••has asked me to go to Russia, and go I must." LORD LOVE 'STORY-. LADY PUT tfER DUTY, TO HER OLD AUNTS FIRST Great Soldier's Rofearitic - ;tta'ainnend to Scottish Lady Who Warned Him Agaittst Fatal Voyage. 'Far ' from being the wodnan-hater • which people eupposed him, was Lord i..itchener. . A romantic' love story was woven about the life of the great soldier, who lard and stern as he appeared to the world, cherished add ardent, and lasting affection for a Scottish lady who died less than a year, Lifter he was lost on the Hamp- shire.' The lady was a Miss Hutch- ;isan, daughter of a gentleman el independent means who lived near Peterhead, Scotland, an owner of 'sit- al -ries, pillars • of whose polished 'red' granite adorn. the entrance of St. 'Andrew's Church and other buildings in Toronto. - Kitchener and his lady love met in ' early youth, when she was a bewitch- ing Scots girl with brown eyes and hair and an out-of-doors complexion, and the future field marshal a stripl- ing of seventeen, .net yet entered the army as an ensign.. Why She Refused Him. Kitchener later sought the 1ady.'s' hand in marriage;' but meantime two' of her aunts had become ',invalids:.' the request'of'the Admiralty—in fact, most of this work has been done by melt of this body. Soule, to perfect themselves, sought instruction about submarines at Chatham, before the Admiralty woke to the fact of its im- portance to us. Others have drawn attention or tlto authorities to various means of saving ships. Wo have also been able to report unauthorized sig- naling from the shore, being acquaint- ed with the places where authorized signaling was to be expected. Ono of our body detected two escaped Ger- man officers on board a Dutch vessel, and turned back and handed them over. to . the naval authorities. In fact, as each has been able, every man has put hid 'heart into his work and done his viery best in most difficult and trying circumstances, and with very little sympathy or understanding." NEW FORESTS FOR OLD. How the Deplenished Woodlands of Britain Are Being Renewed. The woodcutter has gone hone. His axe no longer sounds in the forest clearing. The spruce, larch fir, pine and elm that helped us carry on. in the aeroplane factory, the trench, and on board ship, have served their purpose, and their place in the forest glade is' being taken by thousands upon thou- sands of young plants, says a London magazine. These young trees are in many cases coming from Government nur- series, where they are subject to a special form of cultivation before leav- ing for the countryside. The work of afforestation is being handled by the Board of Agriculture, who hope in time entirely to restock the areas in British which have been robbed of their woodlands. The Treasury have granted , $500,- 000 'for this purpose, and 16,000 dis- charged meta will soon be busy on the arduous job of planting 3,000,000 acres of forest, which represents the total area from which 'wood has been taken for war purposes. 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Write for it. - Cil•' 1. ,S YE i.3' Lin -died C1ca:r. r si `oztd Dyers �E 1 Y oke c mit. - Toronto SOMETHING LIKE A MEMORIAL • The "House of Pity” Now Being Planed by the French People. When they make a Victory Arch it is the•finest in the world; when they tad a tomb, like that of Napoleon the Great, it is one of the sights of the city. Now they are planning a House of Pity, as a memorial of the men, women and children who have fallen 10 the war, a constant,reminder to the nation of the heroes and heroines who have saved the country. This palace ice to contain 1,040,000 portraits 61 men; women and children who have lost their lives by enemy action. It is characteristic of the French nation that they do not• con- fine their thanks and gratitude to the soldiers in the field. They • confess their indebtedness to every citizen who has given. life for the great cause. In the great central hall, with its memorial windows finely emblaeoned• alicl its pictured walls showing the famous combats of tido war, will be assomblad ,busts - of fa.moite generals, and there will also bo ail muzetun of war relies and a fine library Of war literature to perpetuate the memory and the Watery of the pat 9l11yed by High and low in the sttaggle for national life and liberty: 'It is proposed that on the groat an- niversaries, such as .that o1' the Battle of the I1aieus, the victory -of Verdun, Foch's great move which brought eventual success all. along the line, and the like, children- :;boll coino .to Ole Palace of Vic tory, this Hou e', of 1'ity' a.nd Remembrance, til sing times to litunortal F1'ttnee. + Ilene, then, is illiz'r in iti0}1, I}+Ste :lo- tion, commiseration, which Gvill ca,.i .e commiseration, Beene all to remember the great tlasvti,