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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1919-10-24, Page 2Kitch ,. norn If you colneider its body -building power:; ala nil is probably the most ere neen'eal fro,' you can buy. No other food, no natter how high its: price, has been proved to possess Bovril's wonderful body-building powers. Bovril saves butchers' bills and is a great economiser in the kitchen. x.••-sa.a.mi-r.•.❖srrzm ^:s, r..er.•r:•:-..z u+a a�•.r.:vaMMIGIGzcc?vi,. THE E WALL By MARY RAYMOND SHIPMAN ANDREWS. %r;'�.�..l as+an r• .. .:.,.•es•.._ ,.,.µ.ms •*t •mc r"�aiaax'a-`=:.1=2.r,==.^a1c sTet•s=„csm. 1,5.P, �rrsaLa cram.- .�. .z..-., -o,. �r o- :.ns�.:r..,.-,. -.,.wy.�..-x.,rc:+cc��.�t,:.�:.,rs•.r<v-�,c...:.v�.:x:..r_-Y•^.�.•cw V. ! for which he had a panehant, one That night after dinner—but it was knows. After that he crawls over that . eanee suint e_ --the colonel and I went accursed country, in and out of shell - into the big, airy log kitchen with', holes, n'fle in his teeth likely ---the the lake looking in at three windows good God knows where else, for one and the sorest at two doors. We gun-. need be all hands and feet for such •ned over with the men pians for the crawling. He crawled in that fasbiine nest clay, for the most must be• made till at last he lost Himself. And then of every minute of this precious mill-., he was concerned to find out where tory holiday. I explained how pre-, might be our trenches, till in time he dans it was, and then I spare a few heard a .sound of snoring and was well The colonel la,u;ghed. "One ,would knew it, The clumsy Iloeh:es could not hold the ,Swa lone," "But no, ray e exiel. " "Go on." "One went to w rk before Iigbt, laiy colonel, in that scant~sed, prison -caw -a One was out of sight from the guard for 'a moment, turning ki corner, co that on a mornihng. L slipped into some buchus and hid in a dugout ---for it was an old eamp—ai+k:ay. That night I walked. I walked for seven nights and lay bid for seven days, eating, my colonel, very little: Then, v'In, I was in front of the French lines. "You ran across to our lines?" "But not exactly: One. see that I was yet in dirty German prison clothe., and looked •like - an infantry- man of the Boches, so that a poilu rushed at me with abayonet. I be- lieved then that I had come upon a German patrol. E,aeh' thought the other a IIun. I managed to wrest from the polio his riflei iththe'b.ay- onet, but as we fought another shot me—in the side." "You were wounded?" "Yes, my colonel." "In hospital?" "Yes, my colonel." "How long?" "Three months, niy colonel. "Why are you not agjee, in the army?" The face of the erect soldier, Hiron- words about the lienar of having as content. Horne at last. IIe tumbled castle, the dere-devil, was suddenly the Pur eare t a :=oldier who had come into a dark trench, remarking only face of a man grown old, 411, and fremthe front, and who was going that it was filled with men since he tract: to the front. For the life cf me left, and so tired he was with his I could not resist a sentence more adventure that he pushed away the about the two crosses they had seen man next, wino was at the end, to gain ed, my colonel, as unfit." His head on h,ie uniform that day. The Cross spa=e, and he rolled over to sleep. But in its old felt -hat dropped into his of War, the Legion of Honor! I could that troublesome tenant nest still took hands suddenly, and he broke beyond not let Why mon miss that! Rafael had too much room. Our Hirondelle plant- control into sobs that shook not only been quiet and colorless, and I was cd him a kick in the middle of the him but every man there. disenrointed in the show cualitiee of back. At which the the man half The colonel stepped forward apci put my show gable. But the colonel beam- waked and swore at him—in German. ed with stl;iefa.:tior. in everything and And dropped off to sleep again with everyhollee and received my small ins leg of a pig slung across Hiron- inth odue on v iti- a how end a flourish uule's chest. At that second a star - we, -thy of Carnegie Ilall. shell lighted up the affair, and Iliron- "I atm ea beepv to be in this so de:le, staring with much interest, be- brcken-hearted. IIe stared.�the stal- wart French soldier, gatis it , him- self with an effort. "I—was dischare- an arm around the bent shoulders. "Mon Heros!" said the colonel. With that Rafael found words, never a hard task for him. Yetathey . came with gasps between. "To be cast out as an old horse --- a va WS i v rM by rt eharir.inf. ca::pin this; forest ria - lieveme, saw a trench filled with at the nhoanent of glory! I had dream - n i. crit, on thee" :.cis :t. mountains," sleepir ; loehes. To get out of that eel all my rife of fight -Ong. And I had crated the eo:enei floridly. "I am most as quietly as might he possible 'vas it --soh, my colonel—I hacl It! The 1•lef:end of all to have Huron Ind,i .ns the game—n'est-ee-pas, Ines anis? glory came when I was old and knew as my guides. because between Barons, Iiut not for Hn•ondelle. and me there are memories." The " 'My colonel has a liking for pris- inon were listening seellhound. "But orers,' he reported later. `My captain 11, , -1 Herer ea'rlie`r• serving eat orders were to conduct oneself tres :n regiment, just now at the western. memo 11 feat. It is always comma 11 front, of whom 1 thoiieht highly. Thee, faut to Please the colonel. Therefore— My m ogle, the savages of the were ail that there ie. those Huron seemed en regle to take a prisoner. wood, knew no better, yet they have c,f Whine, of meet fearless. most Skil 1 tools him. Le Ina.'I not done thin,i s as bad as these vile ful. One amon • them was pre -emir, „"What the fellow did was to wait ones who were educated, who knew. ent. Some of you may have known ; till the Locihe next door was well! Therefore I killed then. I was old, him. I regret to say that I never ; asleep, then slowly remove his rifle, but I was strop;;, my colonel knows. knew his real. *tame, but among his; then fasten on h'.s throat with a grip: Not for nothing have I lived a hard comrades he wet,t be- the name of ; which Hirondelle understood, and fin- life. On a vu de la misere, I have I'Hirendelle. Froin that name one a:Iy to overpower the Noche till he was hunted moose and bear and kept Hey guesses his qualities—swift as a swat- ready enough to crawl out at the muz- muscles of steel and my eyes of a how to be happy in it. Not as a boy who laughs and takes all as his right. r was old, yes, but I was good to kill the vermin. renin. I avenged the children and the women whom those savages low, untamable. g.r brace to a fool zle of Hnondelle's rifle." ishness, moving in dashes not to be There was a stir in the little group followed—such was my Hirondelle. of guides, and from the shadows Ra - And yet this, swift bird was in the end fael's voice spoke. shot down.' 1 "Mon colonel—pardon!" At this point in the colonel's speech'The colonel turned sharply. "Who i I happened to look at Rafael, back in s the •hadows of the half -lighted big"There were two Germans," spoke room His eves glittered out o: the' the voice out of the shadows. hawk. It is in my blood to be a fighting man. I fought with pleasure? and I was troubled with no lea. was old, but -I could have killed many devils more. And so I was shot down by my own friend after seven days of hard life. And the young soldier - doctor discharged me as unfit to fight. And so I came home very fast to hide dimness bike disks of fire, his face was The colonel, too astonished to sets -.myself, for I am ashamed. I am finish - strained, and his figure bent forward.' wen, stared. The voice, trembling, ed. The fighting and the glory. are "Ife must have known this chap, the: old, went on. 'The second man waked Swallow," I thought to myself. "Just and one was obliged to strangle him possibly, a son or brother or nephew; also. One brought the brace to the of his." The colonel was going an l captain at the end of the carabine— teliing in fluent, beautiful French the; rifle." story of how Hirondelle, wrapped na i"In heaven's name, who are you?" a sheet, had rescued him. The men, demanded the colonel. drank it in. "When those guides are 1 From where old Rafael had' been, old, old fellows, they'll talk about this bowed and li..np in his humble, worn night and the colonel's speech to their clothes, sterued at a stride a soldier, great-grandchildren," I considered, j head up, shoulders squared, glittering and again the colonel went on.eyes forward, and stood at attention. "Have I m'sieur's permission to ea_lit It was like magic. One hand snapped canter a short story of the most amus- up in a smart salute. ing which was the last escapade of j "'Who are you?" whispered the col - my Hirondelle before he was killed?" onel. M'sieur gave his permission eager- � "If the colonel pleases--l'Hiron- ly, and the low murmur of the voices delIe." of the hypnotized guides, standing in I heard the colonel's breath come a group before the colonel, added its force and set him smiling. "It was like this," he stated. "My Hirondelle was out in No Man's Land of a night, strictly charged to behave ed killed. Are you a deserter?" in a manner comme it taut, for he The steady in age of a soldier drop - was of a rashness, and we did not wish to lose him. He was valuable to us, and beyond that the regiment had an affection for him. For such reasons his captain tried but, yes to keep him within bounds. As I say, on this night he had received particular orders to- be sage. So that the first thing the fellow does is to lose his comrades, and go as•he peered, leaning forward to the soldierly figure. "Nom de Ciel," he murmured, "I believe it is." Then in sharp sentences: "You were report - ped back a step. "My colonel—r o." "Explain this" Rafael-1'Hirondelle—explained. He had not been killed, but captured and sent to a German prison -camp. "You escaped?" the colonel threw • "But yes, my colonel," Oyster Most Popular of Shellfish Oysters are the most popular and extensively eaten of all shellfish. 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Ordinary oysters of choice varieties, transplanted from the Atlantic coast to the Pacific, have been found to de- velop into great size, but to lose their flavor to such an extent that they be- come scarcely eatable. for me no more. The colonel stepped back a bit and his face flamed. "Glory!" he whis- pered. "Glory no more for the Hir- ondelle? What of the Croix de Guerre?" Rafael shook his head. "I hof heard my colonel who said they would have given me—me, the Hirondelle—the war -cross. That now is lost, too." "Lost!" The colonel's deep tone was full of the vibration which only a French voice carries. With a quick movement he unfastened the catch that held the green ribbon, red -striped, of his own cross of war. He turned and pinned the thing which men die for on the sfhabby coat of the guide. Then he kissed him on either cheek. "My comrade,' he -said, "your glory will never be old." There was deep silence in the camp kitchen. The crackling of wood that fell apart, the splashing of the waves of the lake on the pebbles by the shore were the only sounds on earth. For a long minute the men stood as if rooted; the colonel, poised and dram- atic, and I, stirred to the depths of my soul by this great ceremony which had come out of the skies to its humble setting in the forest—the men and the colonel and I, we all watched Rafael. And Rafael slowly, yet with the iron tenacity of his race, got back his con- trol. `My colonel," he began, and then failed, The Swallow slid not dare trust his broken wings. It could not be done—to speak hes thanks. He looked up with black eyes shining through tears which spoke everything. "To -morrow," he stated brokenly, "if we hof a luck, my colonel and I go kill a moose." They had a luck. (The End.) The Wrong Reaction. 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In the time of David the King of Damascus sent his troops to assist the Kirak of 7obalh in restat- ing the encroachment of the Israel- ites, but David defeated the allied armies and slaughtered 2,000 "Syri- ans of Dahilas ells." It was near Da- mascus •that Paul of Tereus was struck blind and converted while on his way from Jerusalem to persecute the Christians, and it was from the walls of Dnmaecus that the same apostle was let down in a basket to escape the wrath 01 the nitwit ted Jews. And, outside the city walls, lies the body of Buckle, the famous English Historian. Hoary With Age. Damascus is located in one of the most beautiful eputs on the earth. In the bosons at a luxuriant bed of ver. dure, thirty ni!lei; in circumference, lies this most apc'ient city of the earth. \Vide spreading orcleirtis surround the city in all directions. An endless variety of fruits and crops sprint; out of tate soil- -oran mss, applea, Bears, lemons, c!trons, plume, prunes. grapes, figs and mulberries. The innumer- able productive gardeus, the shade of exuberant trees, the ores • of gorgeous birds, the fields of waving gra!u, the sparkle of limpid waters, the scent of voluptuous flowers and the music of babbling brooks, constitute a veritable paradise to the cry cs of the roving Be- douins of the desert. And thus, in the midst of this sump- tuous loveliness, steeds Damascus, es it has stood for fifty centuries— proud, hoary, venerable, immutable, defiant of time! But General Allenby slid not dally in the charms of this paradise. North- ward he marched, relentlessly pur- suing the Tusks. He followed sub- stantially the same. route, only in an opposite direction, that Abraham pur- sued on his journey southward into Canaan. On October 6, the British commander captui'edZahleli and Rayake On the 13th he entered Tri- poli, on the lith he occupied Hems. With tireless energy the pushed• on over the route of Abraham and on October 26 the victorious captain en- tered the city of Aleppo. Road of the Patriarchs. Four days later, October 30, 1913, the Turkish Empire collapsed and the War in the Holy Laud came to an end. General Allenby, with his troops, re- mained quartered at Aleppo. This important city, lying sixty miles east- ward of Antioch, is, likewise, a habi- tation of great antiquity. Abraham also stopped there on his journey' southward, 'Then it was known as Helbon. Centuries afterward Ezekiel spoke of the "wine of Helbon." General Allenby was on the direct road to Harran, the city from which Abraham started on his celebrated journey into Canaan. Hall the Turks not capitulated it is possible that the British commander w would have cross- ed the Euphrates and marched to the birthplace of Rachel, the mother of Joseph. Thirty-seven centnuries before Gen- eral Allenby's campaign, Jacob tra- velled northward over practically the same route that the British general took—not to conquer cities, but to capture a bride. Facts. Two rats will increase irn twelve months to 4,000. Queen Maud of Norway can claixt to be the first woman pilot of a fly- ing boat. Britain's gift to Belgium of part of "German" last Africa includes 3,000,- 000 natives. The cost of living has risen in France, awarding to district, to from 100 tier cent. to 250 per cent.. on pre- war prices. The train used by the Prince of Wales for his Canadian tour cote- prised seven saloon -cars, dining -car, and two luggage -vans. The model of the first tank was made in August, 19151 the first real tank, nicknamed "Mother," was finished in January, 1916. 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