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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1919-05-02, Page 3Pf, STAROUST— ee Wele,'NCE AND WHY? If the lend of Omnipotenee were to roach out and remove the sun from the sky, what would happen to the earth? It le a question easily answered. The earth would promptly succumb to the powerful attraction of ;Jupiter, and would become a moon of that huge planet, revolving about it. Jupiter is 310 times as big as the earth, and one of its four principal moons is actually larger than Mereury. .A. theory now prettti, well accepted by astronomers is that the toy worlds, called "asteroids"—of which more than SOO have been discoverea„ same of them not mare than twenty miles in diametee—have beeu picked up by Jupiter out of the void of space and thus dragged into the solar system. • Jupiter in the same way catches a good many comets. The latter, once captured, swing around the sun for a while in elliptical orbits, but sooner or later break up or take flight to other heavenly regions. . Nobody knows whence they come or whither they go; they do not seem to be governed by ordinary laws. Hence, and owing to the mystery of their make-up, a weird sort of interest attaches to them. In November of each year the earth passes through a swarm of meteors, and in August it encounters another 20 cents. swarm --the happening in both cases being made maniifest to the every- day observer by • many "shooting stars." it is thought likely that these meteoric swarms are the debris of smashed -up comets. In 1872 we had a very spectacular "star shower," due apparently to the passage of the earth through the remains of Biela's comet, which had "busted." Fragments sup- posed tb be derived from that comet were picked up in Mexico. Seemingly a comet is composed of meteoric particles. Its brightness is a mere reflection from the sun. No- body can guess how or why such ag- gregations of particles sapuld gather themselves together and 'wander aim- lessly through space. But one should realize that the cosmic void is full of this sort of star dust, which (as we know from' pieces of it that fall upon oar planet) are commonly of iron, of- ten of stony stuff, and ln many in- stances containing nickel. The "void" of space is. not ,after all . @erocses, so empty. It would seem to be fairly filled with flying.particles of matter— a veritable seal' lust, the origin of which no astronomer has ever at- tempted to explain.. The Coming ot May. Thro' the dark night of dismal doubts and fears, The wearied sufferer watches for the light, Till grows the casement luminous to his sight, And all his dire foreboding disappears, Charmed by the sunshine; till he hears The lark's clear call, the robin's twit- ter bright, And sees the daisies lift their petals white— God's harbingers of joy through all the years. 'The Latest Designs BRINGING DOWN:: • _ .111E ZEPPELINS ROYAL NAVY AIR SERVICE. IN NORTH t?. -IA FOGS, IA box -pleated skirt is always smart and neat -looking fax the growing girl. This one is developed in ging- ham and trimmed with plain linen. McCall Pattern No. 8834, Girl's Dress. In 5 sizes, 6 to 14 yeare, Price, In darkened hours of winter, thus we yearn To greet the ancient glories of the spring, Tile fragrant breath; the genial warmth of May To see the glow of Nature's life re- turn And Deneen's great orb with splendors of a king Ride on and on to SU11111101"5 perfect clay, —nano— Friends, hive so many friends! Spring is my friend, and every tree Joins with the wind to chat with me. Each tender, slender new grass stalk That grows along the garden walk Nods gayly, tempting me to talk; The 1111.zzing humming -bird, the bee, All timidly make frieeds with me; The little ships upon the bay Wave to me as they alit) away. How can I ever quite forget The sweet of life? Despair, regret .And weariness are all shut out, 1 am so guarded, ringed about By all these sturdy friends of mine from hummiug-bird to lazy pine. They like me, and I like them so! )tach tiptoe flower, each branch that bends .And touches me, new gladness lends. Firni comrades, dowii the road eve go. 'The earth's a happy place, for oh, I have so many friends! A Fifty -Fifty -Irishman. In his book, "Prom Gallipoli to Bag- dad," "Padre" William Jawing tells the etory of a buy Irishman brought in- to the fieldhospital suffering from Many WOUndS. "What aro you?" asked the doctor. "Sure, rin half an Iriehman." "And Pwliat'a the other half?" "Holes and bandages." 111••••••/.0 had been out •on a similar errand, but As '77 passed out and over the, well - $0 far 110 had been unsuccessful. BR' Out at Dawn In Seaplane, -Wrecked the Enemy Airship and Back For Dinner. Regular patrols, both day and night, along the outer fringes, of our mine- fields in the Bight of Heligoland, were carried oat throughout the war, des- pite Zeppelins from the sheds on the German coast. These Zeppelins au- nowed the navy people by spying on the movements of our ships, while themselves remaining out of gun rauge, occasionally unloaded a cargo of bombs, fortunately with little effect, on our submarines doing point duty along the line of buoys 141 north from Texel by the Dutch to mark the edge of the mined area. Many of these Zep- pelins were chased and two were des- troyed during 1917 by flying boats, one of them being brought down in flames by a flying boat from Felix- stowe. In the days of the Royal Navy Aix Service, when seaplane pilots wore blue and gold, and naval routine was followed at Felixstowe, the first lieut- enant, one June .morning in 1917, was awakened before daybreak by a tele- phone call from the Admiralty. Con- sider the ringing of the bell the peb- ble dropped in the sleeping pool, and observe how the ripples widened, and ever eviclened, until they broke on the coast of Germany. . Getting Into Action. A pleasing and youthful design is this black satin creation combined with Georgette crepe. McC.all Pat- tern No. 8856, Misses' Dress. In 3 sizes, 16 to 20 years. Price, 25 cents. These patterns may be obtained from your local McCall dealer, or from the McCall Co., '70 Bond st., Toronto, Dept. W. BOTTLING UP NAVY VESSELS. Failure of German Plot at Firth, Scotland. Gnome rty , 4 5 ' A lenowli buoys at the mouth 'of tbe bar- bor the rata shut in, so the first pilot brought the boat down to 500 feet, throttling back his engines until she was doing a steady sixty knots. Fif- teen Minutes later the sbipwash. light Vessel was passed, the last tiling to be seen ' until the Dutch islands were sighted, and from that time on the navigation was done by compass, dead reckoning and inspiration. Seventy-seven now passed out over a big mine field into the No Man's Land of the North Seas the mist thickened, and, just to make it more difficult, thesun, large and red, as if witb. the exertion of climbing above the horizon, was on a level with the eyes of the first pilot, and made it dila- cult fax him to see his instruments. The Chase and the Quarry. After '77 had plugged along for two hours and fifteen minutes, or a run of 115 miles, the second pilot, through the mist, saw the flat shores of the island of allieland. Here course was altered, and at 7.30 the flying boat was off the Wand of Amieland. Now sweeping in a twenty -mile circle, she headed back down the coast. The mist was lifting in patches. When off Vlieland again at 3.30 o'clock the second pilot, sud- denly, through a rift in the mist, saw a Zeppelin five miles on the starboard beam, and at a height of only 1,500 feet. Her propellers were merely ticking over, and she was evidently looking fax mines. The first pilot swung the bow of '77 toward the airship, opened out the engines, and climbed to 2000 feet. The second pilot was at the bow gun, the wireless operator wound in his aerial and manned the midship gun, and the engineer took the stern guns. Seventy- seven was now 1000 yards away from the Zeppelin and slightly above her. The lookout on the gas -bag evident- ly sighted the flying boat, for the en- gines were speed up, her coarse was changed, and two men were observed hurriedly scrambling to the gun in the tail on the gun amidships on top. The flying boat dived on the Zep- pelin's tail at a screaming .110 knots and: passed diagonally across from starboard to port. When about 100 feet above and 200 feet away, the second pilot got in two bursts from his machine gun. He used only fifteen cartridges. As '77 cleared the Zeppelin, the first pilot made a sharp righthand turn and found himsellf slightly below and. heading straight fax the enemy. He read her number, L-43. Her immense eigeasstaggered him. Then he saw that matter drop. Magas* On 'fire, Pulling back the con- trols, he lifted the flying boat over the Learn to listen- to music. Every The first lieutenant • rang up the duty officer, who, wretched youth, slept, or rather did not sleep, with a telephone for bedfellow, for No. 1, who suffered from insomnia, always developed a thirst for information be- tween 11 o'clock at night and 3 o'clock in the morning. The duty officer turn- ed out the duty flight commander, who, after pulling on an overcoat, crossed the quarterdeck. As he did so he cast an eye aloft, sniffed the air, promised himself that it would be a good flying day, and. entered the ship's office. Here he found the quartermas- ter rolled up in a blanket, sleeping in a perilous position ou the edges of three chairs, and turned him out. The quartermaster hurried across the of- ficers' quarters and put a match to the galley Are, turned out the duty lateev- ard. to fry eggs and bacon, ' called twenty hands of the working party to get out the flying boat, and an engin- eer party to start the engines, and warned the wireless operator, the fly- ing engineer and the two pilots. Fifteen minutes later the flight com- mander was stumbling about in one of the dimly lit seaplaue sheds among the monstrous shapes of the flying boats, when a marine sentry, recogniz- ing him by his language, turned on tho roof electrics and flooded the shed with light. Flying boat No. 8677, fit- ted with specially large petrol tanks fax the job in hand, stood on its wheel- ed trolley just inside the doors. The working party pushed it outside on the concrete area in front of the shed, turned its nose toward the water, and handed it over to the engineers, who started and tested the engines. The man told off for the purpose put ou board a package of sandwiches, the five-day emergency ration in case the boat came down at sate the Red Cross box and the pigeons. The working Party made fast a stout line to the rear -of the trolley. It was now just beginning to get light. a mist -lay on the water and an eight -knot easterly wind was blowing. The wireless operator and the flying engineer arrived and climbed into their places, the pilots appeared in flying kit and got on toard, and the waders, in their weigbted boots and waterproofed up to their armpits, came out of their hut. The flight com- mander gave the signal and the work- ing party ran the flying boat down the slipway. As the flying boat entered the water she floated from the trolley, taxied clear, and then, the first pilot opening 1118' eugines full out, the frail structure, driven along the water by 600 roaring horsepower, leaped for- ward and took the ahs It was a (mar - ter after 5 o'clock. Perbaps one of the most romantic, and at the same time, intensely dra- matic stories of the furtive naval war- faxe carried on by Germany around the Scottish shores, was recorded at the northern naval base of Cromarty in the autumn of 1915. About the time stated the Iron Duke, then JellIcoe's flagship, the Second Battle Cruiser Squadron consisting of King George V., Conqueror, Erin, Orion, and other fine ships of the same class, together with attending flotillas of destroyers and leaders, were enjoying a period of rest and 'shore' privileges at Cromarty and Invergordon. Following upoon a night of inipene- treble fog (says rt naval correspond- ent), which smothered the whole Mo- ray Firth in an imprisoning blanket, couple of mine sweepers picked up a moored mine, and then picked up an- other, and still anothen till it was obvious that an extensive field had been sown. So the first report was flashed that a trawler had picked up a moored mine, longitude --, latitude This was the beginning of a hustling time fax the shore staff officers and ratings, The signal was quickly trans- lated, and the romantic point abont e incident is that the Admiralty In- telligence Department are stated to have had knowledge of,a coup which corres)?onded with the' Moray Firth enterprise.. Mine -sweeping crews worked inces- santly, only coming into harbor fax coal and. provisions, and hurrying away out again. Every available meta at the base was eequisitioned to sweep for or spot the mines, and soon a nar- row channel was reputed cleared. Throtigh this the Iron Duke quietly slipped away, and st.N.ap to the Hafer harborage of Scapa Flow, where the fleets can literally play hide and seek With tantalized minelayers or sub - Marines, The remainder of the ships in.Croinarty followed soon afterwards, =unease Islainseet need by Pbysiciane. FROM HERE frTHERE Wanted An Excuse. Blliy and Bobby were cousins, and although very fond of each other, did not always agree. One day Bobby's mother entered the room where the, little ones were playing, and was im- mediately appealed to by her kill. "Mamma, utyn't Billie tell me snY faults ?" "What do you want Billie to tell your faults for?" asked Bobby's mo- ther in astonishment, "So that I can tell Billie his," was the unexpected reply. Across the North Sea. When "77" turned unt to sea and steadied on her course, the first pilot saw below him through the mist, with- in the encircling arm of the harbor, the tall sheds of the stetion, the light cruisers and destreyers at anchor, the stibmarines nestling aces° to their mother ships and the minesweepers disentangling themselves from their own particularly crowded dock pre- paratory to beginning tae day's work. He then glanced back down the hall of the boat and saw the second pilot busy with notebook and wind tables working out the ccsuree, the wireless operator fingering his gadgets as he tuned in with the station, and the en- gineer going over the petrol pumps. Thieswas the eighth thee tb e first pilot •••••••...• Xatleagame AvE BIG MONEY ON letialBEIS- Sea Write to -day for our "Mill.Direct-to- User" prices before ordering elsewhere. Satisfaction guaranteed or awns:, baele Shipped anywhere. Davies Coastruetioa Con/Puny, Vancouver, B.C, rairar. loOTTZMOV '974.2)3/2. SO,- PArls, OF PIGEONS AND UP. Any fancy poultry to sell?, Write for Prices I. Weinrauch & Son - 1 -18 St. Jean Baptiste Market, Mont- real, ()lie, How She Put It. The young man. came to his old friend for comfort and consolation, "So she has turned you down?" his friend asked. "Yes, but she was very gracious about it." "What did she say?" 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"Sir," said the corporal, "I always return anything to which I am not en- titled." General Goueaucl was so pleased with the witty reply that he let the ZePpelin and just In time, for, with a family.should form themselves into treinendOus burst of flame, she broke a class to study musical app:eciation. inhada and, each part burning furious- ly, fell backwards in the water. The top gunner rolled into the flames and. vanished, three men fell out of the gondolas, and, turning over and over, struck the water in advance of the wreckage. Then the Zepplin Pillaged into the sea and a heavy pil- lar of black smoke arose. At 15 minutes after 11, just in nice lime fax luncheon, and having com- pleted a flight of 377 miles, '77 en- tered the home harbor, her second. pe loteflring Very lights, and the hand- kerchiefs of the crew fluttering from the barrells of the machine guns. Minaret's Liniment Ca., Limited. I was very sick with Quinsy and thought I would strangle. 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He says freezone is an ether com- pound which dries immediately and never inflames or even irritates the surrounding tissue or skin. A quarter of an ounce of freezone will cost very--- - little at any drug store, but is sufA; _ea. dant to remove every hard or soft corn or callus from one's feet. Millions of American women w11l welcome this announcement since the inauguration of the high heels. DON'T NEGLECT A HEUNIATIC PAIN Go after it with Sionn'a Liniment before it gets dangerous Apply a /atie, don't rub., let it ptn:- trato, and—good-by twinge! Same for external aches, pains, strains, stiffness of joints or muscles, lameness, bruins.' lnEtant reliefwithout mussiness or soiled clothing. Reliable—the biggest selling liniment year alter year. Eco-- nomical by reason of enormous selea, Keep a big bottle ready at all times. Made in Canada. 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