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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1919-11-21, Page 6co • A.130 Rd � 1 AnA A do Bottle nbut ha:r's�1bills. d in tlrIkitchen - t enormously in d: crF•aees the nourishing value.. of food --in fact, its body- building powers have been proved ten to twenty times the anlc:uUt taken. it must be Bovril. winked his right eye once mor -tide time at me. (The End,) Digging Gold in Earth's, Depths. . At a depth of three-quarters of tl mile below the surface of the earth men work in the wonderful gold mines of the Band, in South Africa. They attack the gold ore by rack drill With --, hydraulic attachment. Having reached a depth of. 4,000 Trade 'With Germany. German seed catalogues are being iliailed to American gardeners and the trade of American seedsmoii is also solicited, Below is to Copy of a form letter sent by an Iile;lish seed houee in reply to , all ,solicitation from Germany: "To Germans ---We thank you for offering us seeds as former trade friends, but at present we aro not pre- pared to renew business relations with Germans. This, we believe, is the feeling of most people in thio coun- try, but w, . expect in the near future this matter will be considered collec- tively by the seed and other trades. "Although we hope soon to be in a position to trade again with your country and forgtvo our enemies, we cannot forget. the grievous wrongs and enormous injuries done 11s. "We naturally hesitate to enter into business relations with a people who so far excel in ICulture, crime and cruelty." 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'Yet they feet remained perfectly„,, able fixture in the household, when o plain to tele. and also to Angelina, my day I was surprise l by a call from t wife, that the dear old lady always latryer who had handled the most regarded -me as an interloper in the aunt Sophronias legal business durin Trotter fancily (my wife's mother was her lifetime, and who had drawn u a Trotter) and only eondescended to her last will and testament. put up with pia for Angelina's salve. i "Your deceased aunt, Sophroni She simply tolerated me, as ,the hus- 7'.atter, bequeathed you ill her will band of her grandniece—thawas all.' certain black eat.lcncvvn as 13ee slebu Now, I won't go 'so far as to say yeti remember?" he led off as soon a that I reciprocated the antagonistic he was seated. feelings onia r I iehed d didn'tor positively aunt dislike! dislike' " Quite corre,•t," said I. '`I have no her, but I cant say the same for her; i1 ,' - en the circumstances, Far fro cat. Beezlebub was his name. I don't' "Is the cat alive?" he domande pretend to know why a respectable, t next: church -going woman of sixty-nine " . 4 cry much so,"I assured hie summers and Puritan ancestry- should You would think serif. you could se pick out such. a cognomen for a cat, slip chase the stray dogs off the plac but it certainly fitted him all right. fasthesitates toth teo kle comea anything efdromn' He was a brig, black, yellow -eyed men- Spitz to a Russian wolfhound. ster with a slow and stately tread, and ,; r when he wasn't curled up in my Mor-' Dave you ever thought of scion ris chair asleep, with claws in readi-, or getting rid of the animal ?" ness to protest against being sat upon,i queried, after a brief pause. he was stealthily prowling about look -t "Never even dreamed of it,"1 re ing for an opportunity to make aruffs-' plied. "Why, I refused $50 for the ante of himself—and he generally su:-' cat right after he captured the blu ceeded in finding it. ribbon at the Suburban Dog and Ca Exposition." Aunt Sophronia was perfectly; "I am aware of that fact," he said aware of my antipathy to cats, yet she calmly. "In fact, it was an emissary insisted on bringing Beezlebub with of aline that offered- you the money. her every time she dropped in on us I rather expected that you would be for a six -weeks visit, which she did willing to dispose of the animal at about four times a year. This footed that price, but as you declined I am up twenty-four weeks annually that going to snake you another offer. we had aunt Sophronia and Beezlebub Would $100 be a temptation to sell in our midst. him?" When aunt Sophronia finally died—i `"Not the slightest." at her own home and in her own bed,f "Suppose I were to double the as it happened—she willed me her cat.;j offer ?" Just Beezlebub—that's all. True,! "My answer would he the same: De - Angelina got some .antique furniture' dined with thanks!" and a few keepsakes, and several thou -I "Then the antagonism that you sand dollars in cash; but all I got was • formerly cherished toward the cat has sympathy from my friends and Beezle-' been replaced, I take it, by a feeling bub from aunt Sophronia.. of sympathy and admiration?" The cat clause (pardon the pun) int "Call it what you like, I certainly the will was as follows; d have become greatly attached to that "I give and bequeath to Stanley! cat. In fact, Beezlebub and I are the Gray, husband of my grandniece. best of chums. If Sophronia Trotter Angelina Gray, nee Trotter, my black „lad an ,idea that she was going to har- cat Beezlebub, to cherish and care for: row up my feelings for the balance of during the natural lifetime of said cot i my life by willing me that cat—well, and it is my wish that he accept this} she has another guess coming!" legacy with the full knowledge that'll .1 At strolling this ljuncture into zleb b came does so subject to my displeasure if; y , he neglect or abuse s. 'd eat during its. sprang upon my lap and from my lap lifetime, or be the cause of its untime-' to the top of my desk, stretched him- ly taking off, by poison, drowning.l self out comfortably on a pile of shooting or other form of violence." •1 magazines and newspapers, and gazed "Of course you will accept fors down on aunt Sophronia's lawyer and aunty's sake, won't you, dear?" plead- myself with the wise and gravely im- ed Angelina, "and we'Il take care of partial air of an owl or a sphinx. "1 Beezlebub and coddle him as if he were' declare, that cat winked at me just our very own pet pussy, won't we'?" now. chuckled the lawyer. "Yes,sir, "Oil, yes, we'll coddle Beezlebub all winked his right eye at me just s if right," I said sarcastically. he were human. I actually believe that "But you will accept the legacy,' cat knows all about the business that won't you, Stanley, for my sake, if not , brings me here." for aunt :Sophronia's?,, I never could' `Well, if he does," said I; "he cer- hear to see Beezlebub compelled to live tainly has the advantage of me." among strangers. He would be dis-1 "And I am very happy to enlighten contented any -where but here, now that you, responded the little lawyer his mistress is gone." I briskly. "In the first place as you Well, what was I to do? I saw that perhaps already know, Sophronia Angelina's worldly happiness (not , o' Trotter was a peculiar woman and had mention Beezlebub's) depended on t her own way of doing things—even a having the cat around the premises--- favor or a kindness. If she caught a sort of an extra'member of the family, email boy in her jam closet she would as it were so I gave in, probably give hila a sound spanking And right here, let me confess that; the first thing she did, and then fill I• have never regretted doing so him up with lam and send him away feet. the Rand diggers cannot go;tench further down on 'account of the heat. As one descends into the bowels of the planet the temperature steadily rises, and a mile bolow the surfaee it is usually so high that workmen Can- not endure it, even with ventilation; Gold -bearing quartz reefs ordinarily represent cracks in the earth's crust that have been filled in with .aurifer- ous material brougk up from the i depths by volcanic action. With the Rand it is different. No gold has ever been found elsewhere under such con - as ditions, the deposit being sediibentary, s- The edge of the reef (part of wvitic!l ne is straddled by the city of Johannes- he burg) runs in almost a straight line of for a distance of/thirty miles, cropping g out at intervals. It is only a few feet 1' wide, but slants down into the bowels of the earth for miles. The ore boclicis a are of nearly uniform richness throughout, though "low grade," yield - b, ing only about $14 worth of gold to the ton. Perhaps 80,000,000 years have pass- ed since the great reef was the beach of an ancient sea, its sands contain - d ing gold brought down by rivers. by geologic causes it has been tilted syr; 17, and the sands have become quartzite e rock, which looks like dark gray mit- e cake, with whitish pebbles thickly t scattered through it. a It is the 'Past quantities of this fire available that have made the mines of h the Rand the greatest gold Producers the world has ever known, modern scientific methods rendering practic- t able the extraction of the precious e metal at a cost of only $6 per ton of t the raw material Minard's Liniment Cures Colds, &o. General and the Jug. General Bailloud, who commanded part of the French expeditionary force in the Balkans, was so well liked by his men that nearly every good story that originated in his corps was either about him or attributed to him. Among the most amusing of these is one that has to do with the general and a soldier who was returning aid,* to quarters near Monastir with a water jug in each hand. Coining across another mud -stained poilu sitting beside the road, the sol- dier hailed him: "How goes it, old roan?" • "Very well," said the other, "Can't you carry one of these jugs for me?" "Certainly," came the answer, and the two men went on together, "Would you believe it," said the first soldier, "they have chucked me into the grade of corporal?" "What of that?" replied the other. "Didn't they chuck me into the grade of general?" The soldier nearly dropped his jug, then drew closer and made out three faint stars on a mud -stained sleeve. He drew himself up at attention and saluted. "Walk on, corporal," said General Bailloud, and together they trudged into amp, each bearing a water jug. eezlebub bas been with us now two .years and he has made a place for himself in the household of the Stan- ley Grays, as the society editor would put it, that no other animal, nor even human being, I might say, could fill. On the start, it ,is true, we had our little spats and differences of opinion, Beezlebub and I, I objected in particu- lar to his habit of jumping up on niy writing table and clawing my manu- scripts off into the waste basket, But after a while 1 found that that was ' ''where most of them belonged, and Beezlebub was right. He was only anticipating the judgment of some dis- criminating editor and saving me from a useless expenditure of postage m stamps. During the first eighteen months after Beezlebub was left to us by my wife's aunt Sophronia the fol- lowing events nearing on this veraci- ous history took place: 1. Eeez lebub himself c prove] ismpelf the champion mouser and ratter of the neighborhood keeping the premises vi here he held forth entirely free :from these rodents. 2. Won the first prize ,at a free-for- all cat show, and did it easily in spite of a hundred yowling competitors, ;l. Was abducted, soon afterward bee ;tome eonsrieneelc='s cat -fancier and swiftly, borne away in an automobile, bee e:cl.ir t Fred c ale hack, somewhat r ii,•,1 'let t,', i ,?i the ring, oa few h • hater. /.,-ra NI two canine intruders at , ., 1..:;a.cornered cat -and -dog happy afterward. "I've been her legal adviser for the past twenty years, during which per- iod it was generally she that did the advising and all that was left for me to do was to carry out her wishes, Now, when she made her will dispos- ing of her property she held out a little nest -egg of $20,000 in govern- ment bonds which, the instant you re- fused to harbor her pet or misused or neglected it in any way, or voluntarily parted with said animal, for a mone- tary consideration or otherwise, was to be invested in a home for friendless cats with Beezlebub as the chief bene- ficiary. "Such were her written instructions to me when the trust fund was placed in my hands; but it was further pro- vided that if at the expiration of eighteen months from the date of her death I was satisfied that Beezlebub had found a welcome home with you and was being well cared for and ap- farently happy and contented, the cat l und was to g's) to you and your wife, share and share alike, to enjoy and do with absolutely as you see fit. I have the bonds here in my bag, and if you and Mrs. Gray will favor ice with your autographs on this receipt I have filled out, I will wind up my bueiness by . turning Ile securities over to you, with my congratulations on yoir goal for. tune," And Beezlebub, calrn, unmoved,, majestic, blandly looked down upon us from his exalted position and solemnly' e,•,e =nerd's Liniment Cures Diphtheria. The Last Worcs on. the Subject. A. lawyer, examining a witness, asked him about the character of a dead pian who figured in the case. "Ile was a pian without blame. be- loved and respected by all, pure in all his thoughts, and—" "How did you learn that?" demand- ed the judge. "I read it on his tombstone," was the reply. Buy Thrift Stamps. All grades. Write for prices. TORONTO SALT WORKS G. J. CLiFF - - TORONTO a r r Assessment i1ystenl Whole Family Insurance, The Order furnio-lies insurance to its tnemtleekt at Ontario cloierzz,nent Stan:l- a,rct rateft. Bids and Funeral I3cncilts are aim) t,11• ell if dest vett The Juvenile 'tlepnrtnient furnishes the best possible 111H11111.11b0 benetlts to the cliildien or our acl;it members, Tho Order ilEtH ,l1•P dlpaidc ,„ 000,00 in Sick and 1' t lerni 1. nmtlts, and nearly ite',en .11tllions of Dollars iu in- surenc;e, tie0 Councils in C'anida. If there is not enc,, in your locality there should be, b'or .full information write to any of the iollouina• Offices ,i, L. Davidson, W. Ie. Montague,(;rand Councillor.Grand Recorder 11'. Y. C'auliMell, J. F. 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We pay postage or express charges one way. le When you think of ih a.r Think of Parker's. yei Parcels' may be sent Post or Express. We pay Carriage one way on ali orders. Advice upon Cleaning or Dyeing any ar- ticle will be promptly given upon request. Parker's Dye ':,:;larks Cleaners and Dyers, 791 Yonge St. Limited Toronto g ne•G,r,4a"le. •-^.«Fyiit.eek:. L'^:;r'Pa.'� BABY'S OWN SOAP The flower fragrant lather of Baby's Own Soap, is so skin -healing and so pleasant that five generations of Cana- dians have adopted it as their Standard toilet and nursery soap. Experience has justified this confidence, and because it is "Best'f,`orBaby"-'Baby's Own Soap is "Best FOR YOU"' In the interest (sit your shin, insist ore Baby's Own Soap. ALBERT SOAPS LIMITED, Mire., MONTEEAL. g•b rt Quality Counts in Coal Oil No coal oil but the best is good enough. Every occasion calls for quality. A clean, refined oil that burns without soot or smoke, that goes into useful energy to the last drop—that's the oil to choose for your cook -stove, heater, larap, tractor or stationary engine. You can't buy better coal oil than Imperial Ro alxte, a aptriat product, refined to meet every known 'est to which all can be sub- jected. It is the sane uniform quality anywhere you buy it. Gives the same full satisfaction for all power, heat or lighting purposes, /Vs for sale by dealers everywhere in Canada. Coats no more than ordinary coal oil. M STRES OF "ME i i AMAZING CASES OF MEN. WHO CAME BACK. Even Yet "Lost" SokdberS Are. Taking Their Friends by Joyous Surprise. A1ii•a or dead? The over-anxious question is again raised by the• dis- covery in England the other day of a soldier who, two years ago, was re- ported "missing," and subsequently presumed dead. Here is a real, and not imaginary, incident. A letter for a soldier who has been missing for many long, weary months is, delivered at his home. It is from a chum—a patient in a mili- tary hospital in London -who writes on the assumption that he has been discharged. Pale and trembling, the parents hurry to the invalid's bedside. Can he tell them anything about their lost boy? No, nothing, except that they both left a German hospital together to return to England. Silence -- unbroken silence — for seventeen months, and then a woman in South London receives a letter from her Husband to say that he is a prison- er in Germany, Other letters quickly follow, till at last there comes th.e joy- ful news that he is to be exchanged. But the silence lengthens again. What has happened? Nobody knows. Finally, the wife receives an official communication. The soldier reached Switzerland, and there all trace of hila is lost. Huns' Lack of System. Beyond question,- numbers of poor fellows for whose return relatives are still faintly hoping passed to their rest in such plague spots as Wittenberg, where the Germans; when typhoid broke out among the prisoners, fled, Vying then to their fate. Here—and similar horrors occurred elsewhere—our men died like flies in autumn, and were buried without any record being -,kept, System of registration there was none. A man might have gone to a camp like Wittenberg, died there, and descended to a nameless grave. Any Chance is Seized. On the other hand, nothing is more certain than that some of the missing are alive and well. In saying this, Y do not wish to raise false hopes. At certain stages of the war, par titularly during the retreat in 1914, and again last year, numbers of sol. diers lost touch with their regiment, some retuning to our lines after a longer or shorter interval, and others going to swell the total number of the Lost Legion. After i'Iajuba, a number of the "pre. sullied dead" cut a dash in various parts of South Africa. - One man, hav- ing conceived a bitter hatred of his company officer, slipped away during the confusion, and long afterwards was met in Johannesburg by some of his old comrades. In the Foreign Legion. Events in South Africa, indeed, led to many double lives. Perhaps the most astonishing instance was that of a man who was Missing after Peelle. burg, and for whom inquiries wore made for years by newspaper adver- tisements, notices in messes, ete. An Englishman—himself a , very; "hard case" --who was serving in the French Foreign Legion in Algeria, one day recognized in a comrade who had come over in a new draft the long - sought mystery roan of Paardeburg. Both fell on the Western Front in the early part of 1916, the "missing" soldier carrying his secret with Bins to the grave, for no questions are asked in the famous Legion. Back on the Line. In one instance a than was conceal. ed for a time by French peasants, and subsequently made his' way to a per- tain port, whence he was smuggled back into England. The day after he , landed he re-enlisted, and in less than six months from the date of his deser- tion he was In the lighting -line again. Yet he has long since been presumed dead, and to this day his relatives do not know that he is alive. How many are the cases in which glen have been seen ---often in our own lines --by their comrades, long after they were reported missing? They number hundreds, if not thousands. And,natural as a u al i•esnit the a bel' f. le Is entertained in homes all over the Em- pire that hien officially dead will sure- ly reappear sooner or later, and not as men who have disgraced them- selves and their relatives, but as vie, time of some combination of circum- stances such as no sensational novel ist ever imagined. An ironshould never be directly ap- plied to black stockings, or it• may discolor them. Instead, place a pieee of 'Shin material aver the stocking be- fore pressing.