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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1919-03-21, Page 6t< nmistakable ^�, �a: ��t Use =� onty i.w, Uses" ecdliyproven in a. Teawpot Scalect Packets Only, B sir rARAm :6Wa.t6 FrY HUM By FRANK HA MPTON FOX. The etcera sho the lonely little is, Gus, so I may know how long w scht a'hoese on the prairie and would can keen up the fife." have swept it irem the foundation! Clement wa1ked back encs forth i if it hail not Leen finely anchored by ; the middle aisle of the little school long iron rocas. The loose windows house thinking and thinking, whil rattled as the driving snow piled, the storm raged without. By fou high outside and sifted through the o'clock the Iast scuttle of coal wa cracks, forming i.iiniature mountain consumed and the room was beeom ranges on the floor. ing unbearably cold. The temper As the teacher turned away from ature had fallen 100 degrees sine the window for the tenth time, the morning. It was evident that the pupils ^ aw a troubled look in his blue. n faze Otschoolhouse.m very much longer eyes, and noted that his reassuring smile was gone. "You may close your books, put on Clement Hampton, the teacher, Your wraps, and gather around the graduated from an Ontario waver - and said Clement in a calm voice, s,ity the summer before and went and the pupils caught a glimpse of West to work in the- harves . fields a smile. ., ar_al to sae the country. In the falls "Teacher, can't we go home?" sev- he was engaged to teach the No. 7, ez al asked. School. He -woe determined to gain"No one must go out in the storm a practical I nowlecll;e of western alone. I have been hoping that your life, for it was his ambition to own fathers would come after you, but I and operate a ranch. That winter he dare not let any of you start out suffered many humiliating exper- alone." iences in his efforts to learn the ways!I dont see why Pete doesn't come of the West. More than once he with the big wagon," said Jiznmy heard, or rather overheard, the coy - three "He's always here before ert remark, "Oh, he's just an educat-! thiee o'cIock on stormy days." ed fool!" i "Something has delayed him, an - That was their estimate of the swered his oldest sister Blanche, ex - young Las their graduate who pressing a confidence which she did you' not "r' -pe a cow, ride a buck- not feel. She remembered clearly ing broncho, of shoat a running jack, what cher father had told her about rai!,=�it „the storm. in which her brother and Friday, Jo }•' •iry 13, 1ta88, the day:si iter perished fifteens years be€ore. IIe's sure to come, said ,Timmy, of the st:orrn, dawned warm and "and we must wait for hails because springlike. Cement staeteci to school --because—" Jiinin 's lips him, without his overcoat but Mrs. VC •el,' and lie could not complete the sen` .the f= rm.:' ' s wife with whom he teree. boarded, celled him back- and insisted Those wore anxious moments for !list+ he fuer • it. ! Clement. H ' lin d' hoard from lira "You'd better take it ohne;'," she Vogels oetf 11)s the tragic story of sad in her motherly s' V. "It; may that blizzard in which his two chip he freezing by the time school is dren perished on their way Moine out." ; from school. Ono thing' was certain Abort ten C Crit it ht?' n to. sneer. --thea^ Innat all be saved or perish By :men a Needier heee had , ettkd together. ther. a Stitic'Thi;i;,�,' meet 1x3 (lone quickies dav: it aver the Srlarns and the tr.•rrn ,. 1 THE TRIUMINT OF GENERAL WHEN 59 BRITISH D1ViSIWSS BEAT 99 GERMAN. Record Furnishes Proof of the Over- whelmingly Decisive Part Played „by British in Hun Defeat. • Th. story of the splashing blows which led to the final collapse of the German armies is graphically told in the latest despatch from Sir Douglas Haig. In the course of that epic bat- tle the Commander in Chief •poiuts out 50 fighting British divisions en- gaged and defeated 99 separate (xer- man divisions—a record Valois; says Sir *_)aaglas Haig, furnishes proof of the over..., .celrningly decisive • part Pathe .d by the British armies on the • Western front in bringing the enemy to his final defeat. The fruits of that n great victory are set forth in a 'Strik- e Ing manner in the following table:— e Prisoners captured in 1918201,000 r Machine guns taken 29000 s Trench mortars taken ..,• ..3,000 " Tons bombs dropped between • e January and November 5,500 Y Foe aeroplanes destroyed . 2;953 • Driven down out of control1,178 Observation balloons shot down in f aures 241 Area of square miles photo- graphed 4,000 Mileage of roads repaired by Engineers• Road bridges, exclusive of pontoons, made during ad- vance German urines and traps, dis- covered Total of these explosives (tors) Tons of gas discharged during March -November Separate gas "operations" be- tween Aitch. 11 and Oct. 7 l;r' 1 peal r; G ,,.y.• aIle w ,1 , negbt--a ,hoist ever' to t`.,;. an melees fetor. ll ly ties t n. thet aftern:'<'n (.'lenient looked a- rtrieml.ered in the history of the sign; ,r Iv out or the window,hoping" Leet as that of the Great B.li axd— a t i t ?, ,,a that he might fee some was settling down rapidly over the of t1I' i .rin'o'5 come floundering plains. The are and burned out, the thr .r; h the siiaw with their hie, wag- room was very cold, the children ons. When be !glassed from the twin shivered 1n their wraps—and Pete d se- that last time he was convinced ,did not Come. that no help could conte. Instead of Teacher," said Gus, "I'll go for his aecuetomed smile there were the help if you say the word." close -set lips. which indicated a No, Gus; I appreciate your offer, mighty determination to master the, but I need you here, and I'm afraid c'a'=l'erate situation in which his : You would not be able to get help to sehoot was placed. His closely knit.: us in time." ted brews plainly disclosed hip per "I have my own doubts, sir, but plexity as to how their clef verance' I'm willing to try." was to he :.c;,.mplished. ( "Thank you, Gus. Climb up into the tower and cut that bell rope and For a few minutes he stood with! bring it to me. And, girls, give me folded arms taking an inventory of your jumping ropes; I want every the strength and endurance of the one of them, pupils in the room. He estimated While they hastened to obey his ihcir ability and compared it with'request, wondering what the teacher the diethnce each VMS from home, as! could possibly do with so many ropes, a general might weigh the str'eng'th' he called Blanche Vogel to his desk. of the different diw'islans of his ill : His blue eyes looked into her dark with the possibility of taking the. one,; for an instant soul spoke to energy positions.soul, and these two understood each "No, they never can do it." he said other. Ewell saw in the depths of the half aloud. "They must not attempt other's soul a determination that it." would not falter. She was seven - A chill in the mem told him that: teen, and could ride and shoot and there had been a sudden fall in the, throw a lasso with precision and temperature. 3.i1]. She had laughed at Clement "Gus," he said, "I wish you'd take because of his failure in these typical the scuttle to the shed anis bring in western sports. He knew how she some more coal and boom the fire.", discounted higher education because Gus Anderson was a big ronh he failed in these, "practical and plaincnian of twenty-fr,ur. the one-! necessary things." Perhaps this was time bulli of the district, who had; the time when he could impress on openly declared that he would teach r her the practical value of science. the "little upstart teacher from the! (To be continued.) East some needed lessons before the s='hop, chased. " As he arose quieklyl to obey the request, Clement secretly; thanked G,td for his presence, In a flash he r c a11ed the afternoon that Gus tt:•,'po' ly' rat': over sic"r:aIA Frees, trey little erippled laci ;hurting him belay-, in order, as he afterward nen eselt,lgi t to fire 1 a :•Ita1' d w n with I•; the teacher. He reealled vividly tl;, sail!:!* drama !whic• h ,•M;: 11Ialet! 1)e. li!t)(I a flailed and iocl;c'd door that evening after sicircoi. Ile e ;;lerieneed a thrill as he recalled how he had therill, :l a':1 the belly out of the big rc ,Iawv, 3naking him his devoted freed end ilr reaeon of the weak.] t' ler diet Goe 31VVIC: reafl progress in hie ,Mignon:., and the two were 41e - feel Heinle cle, ae 4 i, 1:.e Gee came back Ce`.•esec1 with eeenee Clement anent: saw en hie fare ai Ionic of term. "1' (, st " the troahle?r, he; ,;alki't over to (illi arid; cialair' a lux' tem, co„ net to 'll<,ir? the r"` ! '.;,'�, the n('ho "Tbie to a mighty had)l '.zarcl,i ten, i,r• T i'an r t niemlier the one 111; lir • .1'r •".t5 that." i "Thew, ;h ..onl is in the stied?" ; 'nt T,r•,,.y than , rlother scuttle or two," "I wish you'd bring in what thele„ BULLDOG BEATTY 700 14,000 640 2,250 301 • Story -of the Victory. The despatch is in' two parts, the first dealing with the critical days in April, following the enemy's March offensive, when eight British divisions were so far reduced that they were temporarily written off as' fighting units, and fl'1-e divisions were sent to what was expected to be a quiet sec- tor of the French front; and-. the second part from the British offensive in July until the -day,, of ther ; .is- tice. The second period arrived when the swelling list of German casualties and t ,u ;,ready influx of American and Al- lica reinforcenlh its had pracluced a.n equilibrium of ;treugth between the opposing threes. The complete sucesss of rite r. fed counter-attack on the ISth July near Soissons marked the turning point in the year's campaign, and commenced the second phase of the Allied opera- tions. Thereafter the initiative Iay with the Allies, and the growing su- periority of their forces enabled them to roll back the tide of invasion with ever-increasing swiftness. At this point and in this connection I should like to pay my personal tribute to the foresight and determination of the French Marshal, in whose hands the co-ordination of the action of the AI - lied Armies was placed. The following are the great series of British victories described in the despatch:— Amiens (August 8-12). The Scarpe (Aug. 26 Sept. 8). Cantbrai and the Hindenburg Line (Sept, 27 Oct. 5), Le Cateau (Oct, 6-12). • Bapaurne (Aug, 21•Sept. 1). TTavrincourt and Epeily (Sept. 12.18) Flanders (Sept. 28). SeIle River (Oct. 17-25), Sambre (Nov. 141). The return to Mons (Nov. 11), Three months of Epic fii(dhting.' In three months of epic flghtipg the -British Armies in France have brought to a sudden and dramatic anti the great wearing out battle of the past four years. In our admiration for this outstand- ing achievement the long years of patient and heroic stz'ugg1 b y which - Tenacity of Purpose is Characteristic the iitrengtli and spirit of the enemy of Famous British Admiral. were gradually broken down cannot he rgotten Thfoe strain of those years was never= ceasing: the dema'irds they made up- aii the best of the Empire's manhood are now known. Yet throughout all those 'years, and amid the hopes and diseppoint111eiits they brought with thein. the eollfi- dence of our troops in final victory uev 'r wavered. The work begun and persevered in so steadfastly by th(, o brave 311en rias been conlpletecl cluz•ing..the present yeur with a thoroughness to. which the event bears witness, and With a gal- lantry which will live for all time in the history of our country. The annals of war Hold record of no more wonderful recovery than that which, three moirles after the tre- mendorrs blow:4 showered upon them - on the Somme and on the Lys, saw the un(lefeated 13rItish Armies •ad - "Early in everything." That is j the motto of Admiral Beatty, Tari- ; !loin's naval hero. In the service he • le known as "Bulldog Beatty," by reason a son of the tenacity with which he 1a.•te:i...en to any job he is called , upon to tackle. The navy swears by him, and he le, proud of his men, After Jutland the Hans boasted of the destruction of his shills Beatty simply replied: • "The battle -cruiser fleet is alive encs has a very big kick in her," Fortunately for thein, the flims did rot wait for the kick. Beattg's naval record is amazing, Ile was a commander at twenty- seven, a captain at twenty-nine, and rear -admiral at thirty-eight—the youngest on record. Ne1:;on was ax year older when he was prorated rear -admiral. • vancing from victory to victory, driv ing • their erstwhile triumphant (Mem back to and far beyond the line frog which ho started, and finally forcill hint to acknowledge unconditional (le feat. Sir Douglas Haig concludes his dos retch, which is dated December 21st with the following tribute to the ae cord of the Allies:— At the mrment when the' fine triumph of the Allied cause is assured we and all others of the Allied and Associated Armies. can look back on the years that have gone with a setts - faction undimmed by any hint of dis- cord or eanflict of interests and ideals. Few alliances of the past Call boast such a record. Few can show a purpose more ten. aciously and faithfully pursued, or so fully and gloriously realized. If the complete unity and harmony of our action is to be ascribed in part to the justice of our cause. it is due also to tl'c absolute loyalty with which that cause has been pursued by all those entrusted with the .control of the dif- ferent Allied armies that have fought side by side with ours. TRIBUTE TO WAR WOMEN. - `strewn all about the hospital, and y there were few nurses to attend to 11 ' them, these g' rls worked sometimes g i three and four days with hardly any - sleep or with no sleep at all. Solna of thong dropped in -a dead swoon from - sheer exhaustion, , "There was another kind of woman- in 1� reres°, 100,000 et them. They went over as clerks. They were nine - 1 teen and twenty years old. We .111 ,. England call them 'flappers.' They wore smart little uniforms anal were prepared for anY kind of work, • "One night, in the town of Abbe- ville, there were 12,000 of these girls. Trenches had been arranges outside the town as places of refuge if the German 'planes came over. One night a squadron did conte, and I saw the girls march out with perfect discip- line and remain there until the town was entirely wrecked. The next morning I heard that six of them had been killed. They were offered the opportunity of leaving the town, but they refused it. They preferred to stay, and that was a great comfort to the men. One officer remarked: 'Thank God tixe women of :England are standing shoulder to shoulder with us: "A.1I the men who had been through the war have Come• back with a new idea of the courage and faith of wo- men. We have no more condescen- sion for them. They are not only our equals, but are our betters." A plan's value in the world is esti- mated and paid for according to the ability he urea, not what he possesses. In China the old women, and not the young, are the ones to receive homage and. adulation. Miss Frances Anderson travels thirty-five miles daily in the per- formances • of her duties as a rural mail carrier out of Duluth. Heroism and Fortitude Praised by Famous War Correspondent. Philip Gibbs, the noted English war correspondent, at a recent address at New York, paid high tribute to the work of women in both war and peace. After telling how he had at times been in more clanger in the militant suffragette raids ineEngland than he had been during the four years of war on the continent, and all because he -was just a man, Mr. Gibbs laid: "In France the women were the great spiritual force behind the army. In the early days of the war they sltowed their superb courage as many thousands of them advanced before the oncoming hordes of Germans. Through burning villages they passed along the road, with their carts and furniture and babies. They did not falter or flinch• 'It is nothing,' they would say. 'Our leen are suffering ten thousand times mare.' "Their industry enabled the hien to fight. They went into fields that were absolutely deserted by men. "Then calm other woman, English and American. With a valor equal to that of the lighting 1110B, aur nurses and yours were right behind the line of battle. When the British had their backs to the wall in Flanders, and three or four thousand wounded would come in during a day, and were', EAGLE----,� Ali, arm? •rs2 ���i •sem•»•--�; gl'hs �zilep�gLa C3 nG�<1 pw :•' ®qyt n bad Fat 'S'a C d'�.: �aa�G.' Ii.o `'e.:r `y-2 a:..+� E; showing our fi-11 1, ,Fs 'of Li.;; cics for sol Women, toys ..-$$ deer. CVOLi• S /1117t`.S.f"rHIIIENTS Tires, Coaster Brakes, wheels, Xuner Tubea, X,amps, Bells, Cycleineters, Saddles, Equip.. =cut and Parts of Bicycles. You can buy your supplies front 115 at wholesale prices. T. W.BOYDeaSON, 27 Notre Dame Street West, Montreal, htd:+i Comfort Lye is a very powerful cleanser. 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Net until the next war will the dis- covery that helium gas is as service- able as hydrogen for the filling of bal- loons render itself manifest as epoch- making for military purposes. Being noninflammable, tt will r. f e to the dirigible and the observation balloon (hitherto so vulnerable to incendiary bullets) a near ilulnunity to attack. What is helium? It was discovered as far back as 1868, M the atmosphere of the sun. It is now known to be one of the minor gases -that help to make up the at- mosphere of the earth. We are accustomed to think of the air we breathe as composed of four- fifths nitrogen and one-fifth oxygen. But it is not quite so simple a mix- ture as that. Nearly 1 per cent of it is made up of five other and little- known gases—helium, argon, neon, krypton and xenon, How Helium is Attained. Chemists, a few years ago, discover- ed that they could get helium in a pure state by heating monazite—the stuff that yields thorium, out of which incandescent gas mantels are macre. But the war has driven invention on at a great pace; and often accident helps invention—as, for instance, when some folks in Texas complained that their natural gas, though ade- quate in supply, did not burn well. Government experts, asked for ad- vice, found that the reason it did not burn well was (as analysis disclosed) that it contained 2 per cent. or more of helium. Helium won't burn, IVixy, then, not use it for balloons? Eureka. In a moment the long -puz- zling problem—that of finding a non- inflammable gas for filling baIloons— was solved. Practical experiments proved the solution satisfactory and complete, - To .'e at ,+e the lir hunt front natural gas was not very difficult, All that was needed was to chill the gas to a temperature where all the rest of tite stuff was frozen. The helium, being the last to freeze, was thereby sep- arated out. Atnlaspherit', air is a gas (or a mix- ture of gas, ) (::114 11111;) of tem - matinee iia1 e it colts enough, and it ilecnines a solus. reee 1bliug clear glee*. Any gets will bc'coine a liquid and then a 80110 if the thermometer descends sufficiently far. Half the Cost of Electric Light. Helium becomes a liquid at 518 de- grees below the zero of Fahrenheit— that jos to soy, less than six degrees above the "absolute zero" that is no temperature at all, olid at which everything in nataro becomes solid. At the temperature of helium's liquefaction everything else its crea- tion is frozen solid, oven including hy- drogen. It is interesting in this connection to consider that helium has before it a much more important prospect than that of filling balloons, It may fur- nish the light of the future—a more brilliant, more beautiful and much cheaper light than any now in use. If a glass tube be filled with helium gas, and a current of electricity be passed through, the tube becomes brilliantly luminous with a light of yellowish color, soothing and agree- able to the eye. It costs about half as much, for a given candlepower, as the ordinary incandescent electric light. Suggestion is made that it might be effectively employed by running a continuous tube of it all around the ceiling of a room, thus diffusing the 11- lunzination as much as passible. GERMANY'S DICTATOR, Herr Ebert is Welt Known as a Socialist Newspaper Writer, Although often referred to as a sad- dler and tanner, Herr Ebert, Ger. molly's dictator, is really a journalist. In his early days he was appreu.ticed to a harness -maker, but at the, age of twenty-one he became the editor of a Socialist now ,papor his articles in which attracted invade -attention. A keen debater end clever polio- dais, he has great lalinerese among the organized wort- 1 s c. f the Fathers ]ard, He now e It8 that P') thio OM= would have trecltd the unferttnlate Belgians LIB they have done. But it won't be forgotten. 'ilea when l eth- mane.-lultweg proeL,lnted that "Ire. t;.:sei's Leows no 1'.w," aii,d. that Getn many was "hacking her way through Belgium," he was ono of the Socialist majority w111011 cheered itself hoarse. A friend is the first person who comes in when the p ho o world has gone out.