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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1921-01-06, Page 8By EUGENE JONES, CHAPTER IL Shirley Winston was the daught of "Po" Winston, chief dispatcher the Mountain Division."' Back in h school days the used to bring h lunch to the yeyrds and ea:; it with in my cab; and many tunes I've se her off to her class with a ruin dress, Oh, I did niy best, but s knew what she waisted. Yes, she wa ed to learn railroading! That w tale surprise of it—a girl hankerin after a steam throttle and thrilling the tune of a gong whistle. }ler father shook his head over h more than once, saying she shou have been a, men, and prophesying a kinds of disaster. Nevertheless let her come. He did more; he too her with him, taught he:: about tea sheets and automatic blocks and th handling of freight. Later, when s finished school, she got a job in th station master's office—not becaus she had to, mind you, but because sh wanted it. Then once in a while sh would ride with me or some othe engineernan, and when my old blas horse wasn't dragging anything bu the tender I'd break regulations an turn the throttle over to her. Abou the time Shirley became of age sh could artualiy handle a train. Now you might figure a girl lilt that would be of the sort that want to vote and wear pants and make pol- itical speeches, yet I have never laid eyes upon 'a more delightfully fem- inine woman than Shirley Winston Pretty? Why, everybody from the track walkers to Old Bowlson himself worshipped her. She'd drop into th smutty, blackened' depot, or the Pull- man office, dr the dispatcher's office, and it was always the same: "Howdy, Miss Shirley. Have a chair. What's the good word with you? Hear about—" etc., etc., until you'd suspect her of owning the road. No matter how busy anyone was, she found a welcome. The car clerk had asked her to marry hint; so had a half-dozen others. But she turned them down in such a way each felt he was particu- larly blessed by her undivided prefer- _ ence. I can only think of one word to de- scribe her—sunshine! Her hair, her smile, her eyes, her voice, her manner, even the clothes she wore, remanded you of a pleasant day and the breeze in the trees and—and—well, just sun- shine I ThatI was why the whole 'division watched young Duval jealously when his father, the president of the road, sent hint to us and told us to teach him the game. And Shirley took to him mighty near as quick as he took to Shirley. As for Jinn Duval himself, I didn't know him. as intimately as the dis- patcher's daughter, but he looked well put up, every inch a pian --tall, slim, pug-nosed, and freckled, yet.not home -1 !y by a darn sight, One thing I can! say for him: he wore his overalls as if they'd been a king's robes. And; he didn't mind work. i • When Pritchard lost his job, Duvall was running a passenger locomotive extra to help haul tonnage on the big grade. His duty was to follow the Limited down every evening and hook up to number seventeen, which waited at Saluda for the Limited to pass. When seventeen had been yanked up the mountain she would come in double -headed to Hastings, wh:re Du- val would cut out and wait for orders on freight running extra. The job needed a good engineerman, and, so far as I could learn, Duval already dis- played sufficient skill to warrant a run of his own. The morning after the little affair in the reeperintendent's office I was climbing down from my cab prepara- tory to a cup of coffee in the lunch room, when one of the clerks brought me word Bowlson -wanted me. I found him as usual in his swivel chair, chew- er ing the stub of his cigar. of "Well, O'Kelley," he began, "what er'do you think about ]est night?" er i "You :Heal. firing Pritchard?" me' "Sere." en I "It's not my business to think any - ed; thing aLout it!" snapped, mindful of he' every chance to score a dig.. wan "You'll think about any blamed as, thing I tell you °to!" Bowlson roared. g i "Sit down over there. You're the old - to' est man we've got. You know men— s or pretend to. I'm worried. Pritchard hasn't this ern morning. He waned s fightinfor g drunk last 11 i night, ad he was mad. • fighting be mad- hlder now—and more sober, He's going }L Ito come back at us probably through in v ',king in the station e? The rl's safe master'senough office. }1e , But—Jim ?" e. "Well?" el He made a gesture.. e! . "Jim runs right behind the Limited." e ! "Do you want rite to take his run rIto-night ?" k J1J "N -o; that night look as if we didn't ti trust him. Try and get track of Prit- d chard, if you can. Let's see, you'll be t back here at five -fifteen. Give the o saloons the once over—the ones near !the depot—and drop in and see me. Understand, those aren't official ord- e ; ers• I'm just worried Funny isn't -Pe .r An unknown • British soltdier was buried in Westminster Abbey on the second anniversary of Armistice Day. The King was the sole mourner. In old, old Westminster's see red pile there lies, In calm repose, with peasant prince, and peer, A man unknown to fame, ye elaid to rest, a. With all the prayers of a broad Em- pire blest, And on whose grave a king. has .drop- ped a tear. Iris claim to lie within that holy fame Is just, and none will him deny a place 'Midst all the noblest of old England's dead, Who gave her laws, who noble armies led, Who sang sweet songs for all the Bri- tish race. Not his the glory of the soulful bard;. Not his the glory of an honored grave; He was a warrior true, yet did not lead A gallant army at his. country's need; He was but one- of the unnumbered brave, No single land can claim" him for its own, No land can say that he is truly theft's, IIe was an Empire son, loyal and true, He came at Empire's call her, will to do, And Britain ne'er forgets the son she bears. s-1—me being warried l" + "Unt.." I grunted; "I'll wager young j Duval is capable of taking care of f himself and his job. But 4naybe—" We looked at each, other, leaving the thing we both feared unsaid. Then we shook hands, a most unusual pro- ,ceed•ing. Afterward, at th, door, I hesitated, caught his eye and dropped mine. "What the hell are you waiting for?" he yelled. I went out thoughtfully. All that day the matter troubled me. Where was Pritchard? What did he 'intend doing? I wished young Duval had been running freight; I wished his home wasn't so blamed far from the yards and through such a dark sec- • tion of the city. Vividly retnember- i ng the way Shirley had looked at him in the superintendent's office, and, in- cidentally, the way. he had looked at ! Shirley, I wished a great many things 'right then. Five -fifteen that evening found me threading my way across the network of trackshi bre nd the .dep ot. Once in the, .street, ,I last no time hi following Bowlson's instructions, but every- ; where bartender and cigarette loung- er answered me likewise: 1 "Pritchard? Sura, saw him last i night. • Was stewed for fair... . t Nope, not since the .." More uneasy than ever, I went back to the station, only to find the st.p- erintenclent out. Havir,•g sec.ared a !bite to eat at the lunch counter, it ! seenid advisable to drop in and pass !a few words with young Duval before he took his engine down the mountain. He would probably be in the dispatch- er's office getting orders, so thither I went. We met at the door. "Hello," he grinned. "You're a lucky devil ---no night work for yours., Now leek at me hauling seventeen up `the mountain with a rainstorm in the air!" "The rainstorm isn't -what you've got to worry about." "What 'd'o you mean?" he asked, los ing his grin. "1 mean—Pritchard! He hasn't turned up for his pay. More 'an like- ly he's on the warpath. Watch your- self to -might." It seemed as if the muscles under Jim Duval's .smutty janmper swelled a little. His voice was very low, re- minding me somehow of Bowlson in a crisis. "Thanks, O'Kelley. If Pritchard tries anything dirty— But there, he won't. He's probably drunker than ever right now. So long." (Continued in next issue.) A Newspaper Dog. One of the latest additipns to the composing room force of • a Connecti- cut newspaper is Teddy, a Boston bull terrier that is owned by one of the linotype operators. When machine copy ran out one morning not long ago, the operator turned away from his keyboard and snake to the dog that had insisted on accompanying him to work. "Teddy, go downstairs and briatg up I some copy." a 0 To the surprise of everyone the dog tl I got to itis feet and trotted downstairs. b He. entered the' editorial room and gave a loud bark. One of the staff re- cognized the dog and instantly guess- ed what he wanted. Some copy was placed in Teddy's mouth, and he trot• ted upstairs again. -Several times that day the faithful animal made the copy -carrying trip, from the editorial room to the com- posing room of the paper, and per- formed his task with skill and are ac .y. So attaohed have many of the work -1 rs of the paper become to the dog tat the made t' cionsu. Y honorary ntent- er of the staff at the rompensatiou 1 ee of two bones a week, A wise Frenchman has said that! the worst of luck is to have tco little ! The day returns and brings us the petty round of irritating concerns and duties. Help us to play the mall. Help us to perform them with laughter and kind faces. Let cheerful- ness abound with industry. Cine us to go blithely o11 our business all this day; bring' ins to our resting beds, weary and content a n d undishonored and grant us in the end the gift of sleep. wit to talk well and ton little judg- reent to keels still. Builder and electrical experts have designed a house in which• all ichor 1 efficiently clone by aneelmlical means. The aim is to provide o ser- vantle;?�. house that any woman van manage without drudgery. The c•om- pleto electrical fixtures and wiring cost from y$1,900 to $1,500 and include an amazing list of mechanisms, rang- ing from a cake mixer to a machine 1 Unit does the family washing. _ o • 2C! '� U.P 6�"--..�_...-...... Healthful Heat for Homes. Air needs moisture to transfer the heat along from one particle to an- other, and for the air to be an effi- cient distributor of heat it must have a sufficient amount of humidity. A room properly humidified requires much less fuel to maintain its temper- ature than a dry room, A room heated to 65 degrees F. wi moist air'is more comfortable than room heated. with dry air to a tem. erature of 70 degrees F. The reas is that air which is too dmy interfer with the normal radiation of the bod Many people fled it necessary to he their rooms to 7a' degrees or 80 d grees P. simply because the humidi of the air is considerably below wh it should be. When the air in a room is so dry that it warps books and the furniture begins to dry out, it is entirely too dry for the health of the occupants. . If your heating system does not provide means, for maintaining pro- per humidity of the air in the room, it is necessary to use pans of water in order to evaporate sufficient mois- ture. Wicks or cloths dropped into +he pans, and extending over the edge rover a crosspiece on the pan accel 'r"ate the evaporation. It takes a little me and trouble to keep the pans lled, but freedom f`ronm colds and enerally better health more than re - y the effert. The discomfort caused excessively dry air lowers both the ental and physical efficiency of a a' son. For the safe of comfort, n ,s than economy of fuel, the air i room must 'contain a sufficien Mount of moisture. In most warm -air furnaces there i means for hut!nidifying the air, an ie water -pan must be kept filled, s iat at no time it will become dry. With winter here it is well to keep nese things in mind and live scrupu usly up to them, not only for the saving of fuel, which is necessary in view of the serious fuel r ituation, but as a protection against colds, influ- enza and other illnesses which are likely to follow if the air is not pro- perly Pe and humidified. Y t ' ns easier to pay attention to these de- tails than to pay doctors' bills. Mother and Son. Through years of his life from the time of a child, She had moulded his mind by her th a p—'like this on some stormy day during on the winter. es The top of the old ironing -board will do, baht it is better to make a new at e- ty at ficulty'so they do not have to say this. All they have to do is to open a little door in the wall, unhpek the ironing- bo•ard and it is in place. Any farmer's wife can do this too. It takes only a little time to install the ironing -board, and the busy house- wife's work would be lightened a great deal. It is very simple and saves so much time and worry. Ifave one of the boys fix up your ironing -board which the seed is forced by air pres- sure created by the,fiight of the plane. This kind of flying machine, as de- scribed by Popular Mechanics, is built for slow speed, with a roomy fuselage thatprovides ovides a �,• capacity fo a large P t a e P Y g quantity of grain. Ort eaoh trip it plants a•row thirty-six feet wide. Fly- ing only a few feet above the ground, it ejects the seed with sufficient velocity to bury it to the requisite depth in loose, prepared soil. At the end of each wing -tip there is a tube to throw down a thin stream of white lime, marking the line of the planted belt• In practice only one tube would be used at a time, the other being shut off. By this- means it should be practicable to plant one square mile, or 640 acres, in six hours, Hying forty miles an hear and allow- ing one minute at each t id of the field ,p turn and get lined up -with the white marker. With a sowing capacity of 1,000 acres a• day, one machine could ade- quately serve a large grain -growing district, working either on the co- operative basis or by contract. Six of the nine Canadian Provinces reach salt' water and can therefore have ocean ports, viz., Nora Scotia, Prince Edward Island and New Bruns- wick, forming the Maritime Provinces. Quebec,, Ontario and Manitoba now reach the shores of Hudson's Bay, and British Columbia. e Minard's Liniment for Burns, etc. one. Make it four feet long, eighte inches wide at one end and nine ineh at the other. A foot and one -ha from•the narrower end, drop a support to hold the board up. This should be three feet long, four inches wide and an inch thick. This must be fastened on the board with a hinge. The iron- ing -card fastens to the wall b means of two hinges. A hook.is placed in the narrow en of the board, which fastens near th top of the closet. If your house i one in which you do not think it ad visable to build the ironing -board int the wall, it may be put on the outsid of the wall. A curtain may be hun• over it and it will not be noticeable but will do exactly the same servic for the housewife. WA "L; R POWERS OF MANITOBA ITOBA. FUEL - POWER PRO • LiEM. SOLUTION. Greater Part of the•Provi .ce is Laurentian in Character With Typical 'Watercourses. The province of Manitoba, formerly famed chiefly for its rich agricultural. lands, has within recent years begun to realize and appreciate its bounti- ful inheritance of varied natural re- sources among which water powers are of -paramount importance, says,C. II. Atwood, District Chief Engineer. Several of these -water powers have been developed, notably two on the en Winnipeg river, which have proved df es vital importance in the ,industrial ex - pension of the city of Winnipeg and its environs. Many of the water pow- ers are at present remote fronn the more thickly settled parts of the pro- vince and are, for that reason, more particularly important fox the exploi- Y Cation of the natural resources of the hinterland. It is inevitable, however, that with e the increased cost of coal production, s transportation, and labor difficulties, etc., and with advances in the art. of edevelopment, transmission and use of hydro -electric energy, most of the g water powers will, in time, prove to ' be important factors in the solution e of the fuel -power problems of the province. The Dominion Water Power Branch of the Department of the Interior, by many' years of hydro -metric survey and reconnaissance, have largely de- - termined the power possibilities of the province. Their report on the power reaches of the Winnipeg river within e the province shows that by storage and regulation, some 550,000 h.p. are available within transmission distance of Winnipeg. Their investigations have also covered the Saskatchewan river at Grand Rapids, the Nelson river, the Manigotagan, Wanipigow, Pigeon, Berens, Bloodvein, Dauphin, Fairford, Waterhen, Mossy, Minne- dose, Grass, Burntwood and Church - i11 rivers, as well as smaller streams. Ad.z:inistration Regulations. The water powers of the province of Manitoba are administered 'uiider regulations pursuant to the Dominion Water Power Act, 1919. These regu- lations provide for the exploitation of the water power resources under full Govern.nient control of rates, rentals; etc. • These regulations absolutely pre- vent unwise and premature develop- ment of water power and provide for the permanent retention in the Crown of the ownership and control of the power project. Concessions are only made for limited periods to bona fide applicants capable of prosecuting the development to a successful issue. Application for water power privi- leges in Manitoba should be address- ed to the director of Water Power, Department of the Interior, Ottawa. General Characteristics of the Pro- vince. The extreme southern and south- western portions of the province be- long geographically to the Plain re- gion d f th Sweets for the Party. Old -Fashioned Nut Candy -2 cup light brown sugar, y cup water, o tablespoon vinegar, 2 tablespoons but n ter, ,e cup chopped nuts. Place th t sugar and water on the stove. When the mixture begins to boil, add, th. s vinegar. Cook a few minutes, and d then add the butter. When the syrup o spins a thread, pour it over the nuts which have been spread on a buttered platter. Mark in squares when cool. - When cold, break apart, and wrap each square in waxed' paper. Maple Cream Fudge -1 lb. maple sugar, 1 cup cream, % teaspoon salt, 1 cup chapped pecans. Boil the sugar, cream and salt together until soft balls are formed when ..it is dropped in cold 'water. Then addh the nuts, and pour on a buttered plate. Fruit Rolls -1 cup prunes, 34i cup figs, 34 cup walnut meats, % cup shredded cocoanut, 1 cup dates, 2 tablespoons orange juice, 1 teaspoon grated orange peel. Run the cooked prunes, dates, figs, nuts, and cocoanut th 0 lo on re SC sti bt Pr co ties ca the Th discipline mild; And the training which far in the past she benan, Her guidance to manhood, has made him a }Han, She has taught him in natters of honor his part, Her influence gentle is deep in his heart; He holds to a code of nobility high, And justice to others he will not deny. 'Tis a trait of his nature he r trust to requite; . He is firm .in his faith, and he stands for the right- Though proofs of her worth there be many a one, The surest of these is her chivalrous! son. A Disappearing Ironing Board. "Please step aside. Can't you see I'm carrying this heavy, cuntbersoine old ironing -board?" City people have overcome this dif- Successful Authors at Play Sir A Conan Uoy]e, although ap- parently believes in the astral body, has a pair of fists which are by no means spiritual. In fact, the creator of Rodney Stone, that best of all box- ing and prize lighting yarns, is him- self no mean exponent of the '``noble art of self-defence." But the originator of Sherlock I3ohnes is the Admirable Crichton of literary sportsmen for he has* t'av 1 led the world over, is a daring 11101111 - thin climber, can make as pretty a cet through the slips at horde as many a, professional Oricketer, and has scored a good many centuries 11t •his time, can make even the best of lawn tennis players sit up toil t.aket�notice,. is an indefatigable motorist, is a cilli'= cult man 'to follow actress country with the hounds, and ea find his way both into and ant of a bunker as well as 1n0sl, MR tour gofers. Tee groatest traveller anio.igst modern novelists was poor ,lack. Lon- don; now that he is gone, the man who g=eve t]aptain Kettle• --c', J. Cut- cliffe Ilyne -to the world, probably Colds premier place. If there is any orner of this old earth he has not been into, any desert, or mountain range, or ,great river he has not soon, any wild beast he has not shot, then someone should call upon him and tell him of his omission, arid he will sure- ly include,_ it, in his next trip, seeing that he yea fens to do a pretty regular ten thousand miles a year—except when there's a world -war on. He believes that a novelist who "live" ant towritet wants l ve stuff, needs to see "live" places. He•possesses a fine collection of hunting trophies. Two of Britain's best-known writers are at their best in a yacht—Sir Arthur Quiller -Couch, the famous "Q„ of "Dead Man's Rock," amu John Oxen - ]tam. Both these men are very much at home on salt water or fresh, for they are as handy with an oar as with a sail: ! Probably the least spbrty of literary mein are Rudyarcl Kipling, Sir James Barrie, and George Bernard Shaw, The author of "Mary ltcsp" is, how. ever,•fairiy useful with a bot, and has often taken part in matches as a re. presentative of ,Tie Press, whilst few Hien have "mouchetl"' about aouintry Ian 08 on a.,,,biko more than the other two distinguished men. rough the food grinder. Add the range juice and peel. "'Roll into a ng roll, cut in slices, and wrap each e in waxed paper. Stylish Economy. For the brilliant color note, and for al warmth, try one of the latest wool arfs. They make a fascinating sub- tute for furs that not all of us can ny this year, because of their high ice. The scarfs are wide and soft, and me in the loveliest of color combina- ns. They are made of angora, ' eel's hair, and brushed wooly, and new idea is to have a hat to match. e searf with matching tam-o'- shanter is no novelty, but the scarf with a real hat, in a becoming shape, is counted among the new things of the winter season. Some of the hats have straight brims, others are in rolling brim shape. Frequently the brim will be one color and the crown another. Bril- liant purple and squirrel -gray are used together as well as royal blue and tan and black and white -checked angora combined with green, orange, or bright red. The hats are not hard to make if you have a knack that way. The best looking are made over a small buck- ram frame, that has a soft net top to the crown. For trimming, wool cords and tassels are used, also fluffy pompons and gay wool flowers. Minerd's Liniment •�Relieves Golds, etc. Sometimes More. Speculating sounds more refined than, gambling, but a fellow loses just as much. "Children between five and seven years of age should go to bed at seven o'clock and sleep thirteen hours; be- tween seven and ten, twelve hours' sleep, .with eight o'clock bedtime; and between ten and • fifteen, ten hours' steep, with nine o'clock bedtime," "bays an expert. ' ri.er•r xw+c iamerweawe,muuerrer. om 00A SE SALT LAND SALT Bulk Carlota TORONTO SALT WORKS Lair TORONTO compose or a most art of treeless prairie, traversed with rivers of tortuous courses and flat gradients. The greater part of the province, how- ever, is Laurentian in character, with the rivers typical of that formation; lake -like expanses followed by eon- gested channels with falls and rapids of more or less turbulence. Lake Winnipeg forms the collecting basin for the southern rivers, the more im- portant of which are the Winnipeg, rim the east; the Red and Assini- oine, from the south; and the Sas- atchewan, from the west, The Lake n turn discharges north-easterly• by way of the Nelson river to Hudson ay. In addition to the Nelson, the wafers f the northern part of the province re collected by the Hayes and Church - 1 rivers, both of which discharge into IJudson Bay, the former to the south f the Nelson and the latter to the orth. The period of 1 ve flew occurs uring the winter months on all the ivers of Manitoba, due to the fact hat precipitation during that period conserved in the forth of ice and low; flood flow occurs in the spring nd early summer mons. The rivers which traverse the prairie territory ave a wide variation between low id high flow, whereas most of• those the Laurentian country are re-. arkably regular, due to the stabil- ing effect of the many lakes, swamps an muskegs in their various drainage sins. b k B 0 a it 0 n d 11 t i.s S2 a it a in m 15 a ba Among the larger power sites, those of the Winnipeg are the most advan,• tagoously situated with regard to the present centres of population and rail- way facilities. Most of the others are somewhat remote froin thickly popu- lated districts.