HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1919-08-29, Page 6A
E
BY PL -11% OF ii'.1KCLA.4.,)
...II
By ERNEST ELWOOD STANFO4De
II.
On Durex .'s return an enormous
bulldog trotted behind her. With an
involuntary start Marcellus calculated
-the distance to the nearest tree. Dogs
were one of the two things he feared
more than women,
"Don't mind Babe," said Dorena re-
assuringly, "He won't bite 'less I
tell him to. Now about these Wealthy
apples--"
The consultation vats soon finished,
and Dorena and her adviser turned
homeward.
'4
.Tae
r ullu n
Marcellus peering ri
ng back-
ward anon or oftener at the harmless
Babe, who trotted, tongue out and
teeth bared, uncomfortably close to
the Bradley heels.
Presently a vista between the
orchard rows discloses: the farm-
house.
"Where's my team?" ejaculated
Marcellus. "1 told •Sam—"
"I told him, too," interrupted Dor-
ena placidly. "Sent him hone with
it."
Mareellus' mouth popped wide, but
no sound issued. Somewhere in his
cranial interior the ideas had suddenly
jammed.
"Sam was getting through to-
night," continued Dorena, "so I
thought you might's well begin right
now."
"B -begin?" The idea rebounded
feebly.
"Of course. After_ supper you can
milk the cows—"
"B -b -but—"
"Well&" Dorena's voice took on a
tinge of sharpness. "When you sold
out to me you didn't expect all play
and no work, did you?"
"S -sold out?"
"Of course." Dorena waxed down-
right impatient. "When you loaded
yourself onto that load of trashy hay
and weighed yourself in it and signed
the receipt you sold yourself for
twelve dollars a ton, didn't you? I
cal'Iate you cost me 'bout eighty-eight
cents—mebee ninety. That's pretty
muchf'r a man; but I guess mebbe
I'll get my money's worth. I gen'ly
lay* out to."
• "Doreny!" Marcellus' voice came
back with a wheezy whistle. "Ugh -ah -1
oh—"
• "Don't look ace like.a .horn idjitl"
admonished Dorena sharply. "Reach
up and pat your hair down! I won't
hurt'you if you're reasonable."
"B -but—" Marcellus' ashy face and'
shaky knees betokened his dread of ,
the worst—"I won't marry—"
"Marry!" The sounding aisles of
the dim orchard rang to Dorena's
scorn. "Marry! I should say not!
No, Babe, you needn't bite him—yet.;
But if you say `marry' just once more, 1
'Cellus Bradley, I dunno what will
happen to you. Marry! You!"
Marcellus bent beneath the storm,
but in his humility a certain relief was
mingled.
"Quit foolin', Doreny," he begged.
Dorena stamped her foot,
"Of all the aggravatin', thick-head-
ed critters, give me a human male f'r
the aggravatin'est and thick -headed -
est. You sold yourself• to me, Mar-
cellus Bradley, same's if you were a
cow or horse. You done it of your
own free will, too; I didn't ask you.
You can't say I didn't warn you you'd
put trash in the hay. I've got witness-
es; You'll stay, and you'll work, jest
like any other bought livestock."
"But—but I—"
"Oh, you needn't say I ain't got a
clear title. I make no doubt you've
sold yourself often enough before, but
nobody's claimed you. The only party
't ever will '11 wait till I'm through
with you, I guess. 1 ain't worried
about your soul. I reckon it don't
weigh nothin'."
"But 'tain't legal!" With a mighty
effort Mareeilas exploded a whole sen-
tence.
Dorena shrugged carelessly.
"I should worry—me an' Babe."
"But--" Marcellus quailed before a
new terror overmastering that of wo-
inen and dogs----".folks'll talk."
"Let 'em. Twon't be me they'll
laugh at. Come and eat,- You've
talked niorG i enough."
!Marcellus obeyed. IIe was no man
to gainsay an insane female with a
ferocious bulldog. Woman, a dog, and
ridicule!
His trinity of terrors loosed
on him at once. If ever this got
out --
'l Lien his avowed owner's back was
turned ho took a desperate chance. He
slipped through the door, whisked out
the key, and locked it on the outside.
Then he fled on terror -winged feet.
Dore:sa threw up a window. Babe
went through the screen like a circus
hoop. Marcellus gained a timely but
dubious sanctuary in a limber sapling.
"Look here, 'Cellus," said Dorena
in a voice of iron, "1 air -'t a patient
woman, and I'm plumb worn out with
you. Next time you try that you pick
out a perch for the night. Come,
Babe!"
Shamefacedly Marcellus followed
his raptor into the house.
"I ain't ever let any o' my stock
critters to the table before," remarked
Dorena, "but it's too much work t' set
ye one by yourself. Fall to!"
Mareellus fell to, slowly at first,
but, like all falling bodies, with rap-
idly increasing velocity. 'Some twenty
years of strictly masculine cooking,
broken only by an occasional "church
supper," looked out of the past in
amaze. Fluffy biscuit—happy pre-
war day—crowned with golden butter
such as the "creamery" may but
dream of; deivately browned chicken
with dressing pungent with Araby's
best, flanked by onions steaming in
savory "cream"; coffee odorous of the
blessed isles; pie—mince pie, nonpar-
eil short of Paradise itself! For the
moment the shadow lifted from the
face of Marcellus, leaving its reflec-
tion by the way on that of Dorena.
"You be a master cook, Doreny,"
sighed Marcellus, pushing back his
chair when man could do no more.
"I do well by all my critters,"
vouchsafed Dorena. "Specially the
pigs. You c'n go milk now. I can't
bother to foliar you up, but Babe'lI
do. If I was you I wouldn't try any
funny business. That dog's the know-
in'e.st male utter I ever did see. And
he's some like me, too. It's dreadful
hard to pry him loose f'm anythin'
he once gets a holt on."
She watched her property, down-
cast again, plod away down the path,
Babe trotting close behind. Then she
turned back to the devastated table,
with a certain softening in her eye,
"The pore starved critter!" mur-
mured Dorena.
(To be continued.)
Thrust and Parry.
Pangs of jealousy were in Miss
Coldfoot's heart when she heard that
her late admirer had been accepted
by Miss Lovebird, and when she hap-
pened to run across her in the bar-
gain rush could not resist giving her
a thrust.
"I hear you've accepted Tack," she
gushed. "I suppose he never told you
he once proposed to me."
"No," answered Tack's fiancee. "He
once told me that there were a lot of
things in his life he was ashamed of,
but T didn't oailt hint what they were."
The world's skating record is 10
miles in 81 minutes 71t seconds, made
by a Swedish skater.
The Ex Kaiser's Peculiarities ro.
The ex -Kaiser will be brought to
trial by the Allies for his public ac-
tions during the war, but Mr. Poultney
Bigelow, the well-known American
author, brings against him accusations
of petty meanness almost incredible
in a rionaroh of his pretensions. They
were personal friends and. companions
In their younger days, but Air. Bige-
low, in his recent book, "Prussianism
Paid Pacifism," makes the German
Bmperer practically a kleptomaniac.
He was the owner of a valuable minim.
bre of the Famous Queen Louie.e,
which was a gift to him from the
aged Queen of Hanover, whose hus-
band was detheonecl by William 1. in
1366. "Willie ru it manifested such an
intense interest in this .miniature that
Mr. Bigelow let him have it to look at,
mentioning bow much he valued it on
aro-eget of the cirenmstanees under
which he Required it. "Never was
Ceti. r'1iieei ere t.,inded back to mcg,"
W
c L I ,el xw, "although I spoke
r , ^-+ a , tin Emperor's prince-
!' :•een); the late Gen. von
Zitzewitz. Not only did 'William rob
me of that precious portrait, but his
courtiers looked at one another 'with
stupefaction when I made so strange
a claim upon one who was evidently
not accustoixhed to restoring what had
once cone under his all -coveting
hand."
Mr. Bigelow achieved sone fame as
a canoeist and made a 1,500 -mile
voyage down the Danube, being the
first to pass through the Iron Gates
in a canoe. The Emperor borrowed
this canoe, the "Caribee," on the ex-
cuse that he wanted his sons to learn
to be expert canoeists. "While I have
lost my matchless "Caribee," says 'lir,
Bigelow, "the Kaiser has broken his
word, for when I visited her in 191e
she was hidden away amid other dust -
covered nautical curios in an obscure
corner of his boathouse at Potsdam.
The old guardian did not know who
I was, and I stayed but long enough
to learn that my canoe had never been
used and that I had been the victim
of a Prussian promise."
"ADVANCE seas with their genius for meeting
enxtugencies.
To the Egyptian the very name �.F L Aus-
A1' I A tialian is a terror. More friendly to
o the natives throughout their sojourn
here than other soldiers, the Austral
bur is swift and severe when action is
needed,
Australia's War Records.
All sorts of surprises await one wh
is observing the Australians. From
new couuitry, with a total population
of but five millions, one might reason
ably expect only the pioneer qualities
with edges a bit ragged ---"diamond in
the rough," you know.
Instead it is found that Australia
has developed scientific efficiency to
a degree that suggests a business
centre rather than the wide spaces of
this virgin land. 1Vxrr records of all
sorts are kept by a card index system
a
a completeness ss that delights a
with e iT
1 a
business man. One may learn the es-
sential facts about any one of Aus-
tralia's 800,000 soldiers within a few
minutes. How completely equipped
the Australians have been, in essen-
tials as well as in such aur :Bary nat-
ters as the Y.111.C,A., nursing sisters,
etc. is known to all who have come
fete touch with the Anzacs. They are
also • the highest paid soldiers in the
war, a fact which has- subjected the
men to cruel exploitation by the
harpies of the great cities.
The Australian staff has completed
while awaiting demobilization an ex-
traordinary set of maps and charts
covering the position of every Aus-
tralian unit in every section and at
every stage of the fighting, Histor-
ians will not have to rely upon the
time dimmed recollection of survivors
for the record of Australian troops in
the campaigns in France, Gallipoli and
Palestine. It is all down in print, on
map and chart and strategical dia-
gram. War colleges of the world will
have a rare set of Australian docu-
ments to study.
That is a Matter of technical inter-
est.• For the average person there are
photographs and paintings, the work
of experts, covering every phase of
Australia's activities in the wag. Some
of the most interesting pictures of the
Hely Land ever taken aro those made
by the official Australian photograph-
ers. These are supplemented, in the
case of Gallipoli and Egypt as well
as Palestine, by paintings made of
the spot by officially appointed artists
who are creating a great Australian
war gallery—which, it is to be hoped,
will be sent on tour through Great
Britain, Canada and the United States
ere it settles down to its permanent
home in Australia.
What seemed humanly impossible
was gloriously done by the Anzacs at
Gallipoli and in Palestine; their
achievement has discovered Australia
and New Zealand to themselves and
to the world. Now we may expect
from these returned soldiers, daunt-
less argonauts as great in spirit as in
physical frame, a new world message
n literature, art, prophecy and state-
craft. Australia will be heard from in
he to -Morrow of peace as she has
xeen heard from in the to -day of war.;
SOLDIERS OF ISLAND CONTINENT
WON WORLD FAME.
Wonderful Story of Valor Written on
the Battlefields of France, Palestine
and Egypt by the Anzacs.
The most important of all the dis-
coveries of the last five years, in
Egypt and the entire Near East has
been --Australia! Out here in the old-
est part of the world, amidst the ruins
of successions of ancient civilization,
this Iris new
nation ion l
t xis fixe a
d its place in
P
modern history, and established for
all mankind's admiration, the charac-
ter of its people, writes W. T. Ellis
from Egypt. Where Hoaxer sang and
Cleopatra loved; where the Pharaohs
built and where the Israelites wan-
dered, there Australian and New Zea-
land soldiers have been, to erect for
themselves a reputation that lifts their
land above its old designation as a
place of kangaroos and emus and
goldfields and sheep ranches.
Australia lost cruelly of the flower
of her youth at Gallipoli; but she
found her soul. National conscious-
ness and solidarity, and a sense of
the nation's mission among inen, have
been horn over here in the realms of
the golden age. Troy, Sparta, Greece,
Rome, Judea, Egypt, have no nobler
stories of valor and sublime heroism
to their credit than may be written
of these young giants from the un-
known land beneath the Southern
Cross. Vaguely, the world has heard
that the Anzacs—for when I write of
Australians, I would include always
their kindred New Zealand comrades
—fought nobly at Gallipoli and in
Palestine and in Egypt; when the full
story appears it will be a thrilling re-
velation. I do not know who will
write the book, unless it be Captain
Bean, the official correspondent, but
every intelligent Canadian will .want
a copy.
Hero Tales From Historic Soja
Point for point, it will outmatch' the
classic tales. What was Marathon
compared with the ride of a wounded
Australian, with one leg and one aria
off, on horseback, across forty miles
of terrible desert? All the wounded
in one Palestine battle got to medical
aid only after this incredible expo ;:
ence,
The public has heard whispers of
how the Arabs of the Shereeflan or
iiejaz forces captured Damascus; but
it does not know that the Australian 1
light horse troopers had the city sur-
rounded, waiting for the Arabs to
cone up, because ordered to do so.
In the first battle of Gaza—one of !
the mysterious disasters of the war i
about which still further explaining '
will have to be done—the British t
troops were ordered to retire, after 1
the city had been surrounded and the
victory had been practically won, A
considerable force of the Australians
retired right straight through the city,
stopping within the walls for a time.
a
a
n
That is typical of these "wild Aus-
tralians." They prefer the audacious
deed. Nobody has to urge them into
acton; but they are the very demons
to hold back.
Six troopships of Anzacs were at
Port Said when the Egyptian insur-
rection broke out. Their equipment,
including horses and arms, had been
turned in. They were homeward
bound for demobilization. Within
two days that force was up and down
the railway lines, at remote power
houses and scattering over the land
to put the fear of law and order into
the turbulent mobs. It would have
fared 111 with the British in Egypt had
it not been for the presence of these
fearless and efficient men from over -
If bureau drawers stick, rub with
common yellow soap.
Pepper cost $175 an ounce in Eng-
land in Henry VII,'s reign.
r inard's Liniment Cures Diphtheria.
.e
AND
At -least twice i, week
,economical and wise
housekeepers serve
6 s Vallti's " fork and
• Beams either with To -
oto, tidal or Plain
Sancea
W. CLARK, LIMITED
• MONTREAL
Manufacturers, of Clark's Pork and
Beans and ether good things.
C.289
Trouble on the C's.
"I'm tired of these encyclopaedias
--sick and tired of them!" said the
self-made Englishman. "I paid nearly
twenty pounds for them, and I'd be
glad to sell the lot for ten bob."
"Why, what's the matter with
them?" asked his friend.
"What's the matter with them? I
wanted to know something about the
Caesars, and I can't find a word about
them anywhere. They are absolutely
ignored."
"Have you looked properly?"
"Looked! Of course I've looked!
Let me tell you I've been through
every page of the S's."
litinard's Liniment Cares c+nirret in Cows
Do not allow cucumbers to ripen on
the vine, as this shortens the bearing
season of the plants.
AU grades. Write for prices.
TORONTO SALT WORKS
G. J. CLIFF - - TORONTO
A
Keeps Hardw+ nod Floors beautf,fA
For Sale by ,All eaters
v(: T e11801 & Ca
cazaareie
PR PMME CO P
1:0& CULINARY NUAPOSSS,
rah meCLANCIlk
R
,Y,A.YT$ fa" k, "
A+ 'Mg aNmd4 ,th UMIZI;,,
C Cs, Bdriwr�. tw Wt UW�Syk, p,
"eua;teeeev.
tAp,trvto maVAM i+Ti.I0FLA tan+c r its
A
,Cf& ,Cc.i asra
M nA MAMI. ALtY AN5 pcRYKB BY''
14 CANADA ADDZU MI . tl'+4-4f
V.
ANADAd 1;;UJ,,G$"�
If 9'�TC'.i M6NiPCR
x_....,�,.�: aeaq
.. w„r•�-.un
ils
F ! ace^i
EN SON'S is pure,prepared corn starch
delicate and nourishing, ing, unexcelled for all
cooking purposes.
h improves the texture of bread, biscuits and rolls if
one-third of the ;lout' is substituted with Benson's Corn
Starch., It makes pie crusts light and f1akey,
There is a recite for the most delicious Blanc Mange
on the package, together with a dozen other uses.
Benson's is the best corn starch for making sauces and
gravies smooth and creamy.
Wri•e for bookies of recipes
225
THE GRANDEUR
OF GJ A', A .
ROCK HAS APPEARANCE OF IN-
DESCRIBABLE MiGHT AND
POWER
From Height of the Fort a Wonderful'
Vista Stretches 1,000 Feet Below, a
Panorama of Incomparable Beauty.
Viewed from the deck of an ocean
liner surging through the waves of
the Mediterranean one cau never for,
get the thrill he experiences at first
sight of Gibraltar. Spanish girls of
i beautysmall boat
ra a wino out in sixxa s
to greet you. and when by the aid of
a rope they hoist grapes up along the
side of the ship it Is seldom their bas-
kets are lowered without a goodly
amount of money in exchange for tl
fruit. Sounds of drums and bugles
acid to the exciting din, and amidst
screeching whistles you descend to
one of the tenders which wait below
to take you ashore.
The little Spanish stuccoed houses
are to be seeu everywhere, and the
women and girls witleg shawls of brilb
liant bues and mantillas upon their
heads laugh and dance to the twang
of a guitar.
Driving through the narrow cobbled
streets, visitors are constantly stopped
by the natives, who attempt to sell
them all sorts of trinkets, for jewelry
shops appear at almost every corner,
Bating places of every variety, with
food at reaching distance from the
curb, occupy the tiny sidewalks, and
little children crawl in front of the
phaeton -like cabs with the hope of
collecting a few pennies.
The Pride of Gibraltar
Finally the Alameda is reached, and
this park, with its palm and cactue
plants, is the pride of Gibraltar. Gey_
raniums in abundance crown the en'
trance and tropical trees and bowers:
help to create a scene well to be ret
membered. Fountains play about ori
the east :and west sides, while several
small boulevards twine in and oul
through the park. Attractive pony
carts carrying little may faced Eng
lash children accompanied by tied
Spanish servants, occupy the roseate
driveways in ;the Alameda, and the
liquid songs of the birds give a touch
of softness and pathos to the spot.
And now we come to the scorpion
rock of Gibraltar which cannot be app
predated from the water front, for
the town stretches along the wosterri
side for over a mile, and only when
directly in the interior of the colony
cau the gigantic size of the rock right
fully be estimated. It stands as
against the sky with a prepossessing
dignity of indescribable mightiness
and power. Tarik, the one -eyed. Moor,
landed at the foot of the rock of Calpa
(now known as Gibraltar) in the yeat
711 to reconnoitre Gothic Spain, ane
therefore from Gibel Tarik (which
means the hill of Tarik) the name of
Gibraltar originated.
Low wheeled, two seated, so-called
vans accompanied and drawn by
ponies take, the visitor to the base of
the fortress, and a steep climb must •
then be made on foot. It is an ex,
tremely tedious trip, for the ascent ie
rocky and uneven.
Vista of Snow -Capped Mountains.
Perhaps the most striking view,
from a small opening in one of the
caves built in the fortress, is the white
wall of Algeciras and San Roque, both
parallel with the snow-capped moon.
tains of Andalusia. -
El Hacho, the signal tower, is not
always open to visitors and many of
the heavy guns are also kept under
secrecy. In the tunnelled portions of
the fort old batteries and cannon are
pointed out by sentries, and secluded
shots had been set aside for punishing
purposes in bygone years. In one of
the dark passageways the stone is
cut in peculiar points which stand.
straight upward, representing icicles
because of the shiny, silvery gloss on
the ends of the highest needles of the
rock, and one can readily imagine
flreplaces to have been inserted in the
walls.
Having attained the height of the
fort and emerging suddenly into open
sky, a wonderful vista stretches out
1„000 feet below. Ships anchored at
bay seen but dwarfs, and the ' polo
grounds, once famous for bull fighting,
can also be observed, Far below the
barrack yards look up at you and the
smoky houses with their sloping roofs
keep cover over the lounging sol -
deers.
As the sun takes refuge behind the
fleecy lining of clouds, the mountains,
hills and ocean form a paruorama of
wide scope and incomparable beauty.
General E. IST IL Allenby, formerly.
Commander of the British 'Purees i
Palestine, and at present Special Hig
Goinmiss:ioner for Egypt and Soudani
and Llaut.-General .Sir Herbert Plant;(
er, Commander of the Second Britii
Army, have been raised to the rant
of Meld-MarshaL