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Zurich Herald, 1921-02-03, Page 2It i „11, packed toplease and serves its myon is used in m. libels of teapots daily. Send us a postal for .. free salnipte. Please ,state the price you now pay and whether mmack4, Green. or Mitred Address Salads., Toronto. 6722 PaxviIIc ParaIlcl By DAVID H. TALMADGE. Nothing occurs in the great centres, of the World that has not a parallel in Pax file. Pose• :y sou would not suspect it to look at Paxville, which is a small railway station surrounded at varying distances by one -storey business buildings and unpretentious dwellings, but you can substan`iate the assertion readily enough if you will take the treubie to mention some incident of importance at the Paxville }Solei or at the post office while the morning snail is -being distributed: For example, Rawley Briggs, a • traveler who sells tractors and auto— mobile supplies for a Michigan firm, happened not long ago to relate a. thrilling story of his brother's heroism. at the Battle of the Marne. It was really a good story and Rawley told' it well, but he had barely finished when. old Lafayette Higgins, who had been: twitching nervously at his beard dur- ing the narration, told how Bud Elliott; chased a "hobo feller" clean off the'. ranch last summer. Lafe's last word was still warm from his whiskers when Putney Reed told how he had recently charged successfully upon a party of melon thieves. Other remin iscences quickly followed; and when• Rawley Briggs had finally received his; mail and had gone to the hotel dis- gusted, recollections ,inspired by the mighty charge at the Marne were still flowing freely. ' Anything touched them off the same! way; from heroism to holocaust there, was always a case in point in Pax-' ville. It was a little different from other towns, at that. Man survives or perishes by a process of comparison; his interest in world affairs is aroused only when they are similar to his own private affairs. The application of that principle, it 'may be said, has made one or two country newspaper editors tremendously success • if l's^I success goes in the rural journalistic field. Failure to apply it has ruined one or two others. Barker of the Paxville Gazette ap- plied it. He was present with other box peepers in the post office lobby when Rawley Briggs told the Marne story, and presently he followed R•aw-- ley to the hotel. He found the -sales- man alone in the hotel office. "You see, Rawley," he said ,"how mind to let out a story in this town. Our folks enjoy a story in some slight degree for the story itself, but most- ly they enjoy it for the opening ,it gives then to tell their own stories." "Their own stories—bah!" sno_'ted Rawley. "They told no stories; what they told were absolutely inconsequen- tial, perfectly uninteresting anecdotes. They have no genuine stories to tell, of course, and I suppose they must let loose what they have in the way of substitutes; but it's annoying, Barker, when a fellow tells about courage in the face of great danger, accomplish- ment in spite of great odds, and at the cost of much sacrifice, to have it lightly brushed aside by a bunch of garrulous hicks. Why, man, my bro- ther threw his very life into the thing! It makes a chap sore." "See here, Rawley." Barker put Iris hand on the other's knee. "Had you listened patiently to their stories and pretended to like them, the tale of your brother's heroism would have been told at a dozen supper tables in this town to -night. Pm sorry, but you killed it because you were not willing to pay the price. No one will hear it to -night. The bunch over there are already picking it to pieces. They have agreed that it's too strong to be true. No story can stand up against a preconcieved determination to see no merit in it." ''But my story, Brrker, was—" "You_ story was all right enough. It inspired a number of imitations, which you should have accepted as/ flattering. You did rot choose to ac- cept them in that spirit, however, and the story failed to score. Furthermore, Rawley, you are mistaken in your be- lief that these people have no genuine stories to tell. It is pretty much the same_ bene nee e where, ,Ti. i zuluii— ssue g,'bod ones are few; that is one rea- son why they are good perhaps. But things happen here just as they hap- pen in other places. "You remember when the President/ was taken home from his Western t trip and put to bed. There was a big fuss made. That was because he was= President. But at about the sante time Bill Simmons, who lives near the river west of town. broke down in Ilowe's store—flattened plumb out physically a truck, Doe Taylor on the side of hint I on the. other, When wee got him horn and put to bed, and Doc wail fusain over hien professionally, Mrs, Simplon and 1 visited in Lire parlor, "Mrs. Simmons had be a semi invalid for yyers, and the two daugh ters are also semi -invalids; but, Wil liam, soAirs. Simmons informed inc had always been perfectly Well, • Sh burst into' tears when she told: the this She cid not know what she and th girls would .ever do now ' that , papa was sick. Well, 1 could 'notsay much I simply 'sat there and thought o those three plump, pamperedwoinei and poor old BM Simmons, with his bent hack rand his thin face and hi big, kind blue eyes, who had been giv ingleirnself patiently, cheerfully, Nov ingl ' uri'til 111 e. was "tailing more to hive. When the filial review comes Rawley, there will be some interest- ing revelations. Big heroism; is not always of the big places." "You mean to infer, I suppose, that—" "Now, this Mrs. Bill Simmons had a sister, another plump semi -invalid. I never quite understood why she was not added to Bill's hone burdens, but he was spared that. She went away to the city after Bill was married. That was, after the old folks had car- ried their groans and griefs into the next world. A sister-in-law would !have meant little more on less in the life of Bill Simmons. He was that sort t of chap. His wife was not backward in letting it be known that she thought she had married beneath her station, and she brought up her daughters to look upon Bill as a beast of burden who had been unduly Honored by an alliance with her family. Fine hone atmosphere for a man, was..it not? I figure that their state of mind doubled the pan's difficulties. Her people vir- tually cast her off when she married Bill, and the sister-in-Iaw was tmnk- ly disrespectful to him. She !snaky ceased to speak to hint, and when he bade her good-bye at the depot she slid not answer. She thought she was humiliating ham, I suppose. ti "Then, perhaps silt: months later, she telegraphed to her sister that she was sick in a hospital and that an opera- tion was imperative. She positively had to have five hundred dollars. When this telegram was referred to Bill, the worm almost turned -almost but not quite. He was not one to inflict his troubles upon others. But he was in a bad way financially himself, and he had barely five hundred dollars. `Shall I let Emma have it?' he asked me. I said no, which is why, perhaps, he sent it to her and got a job working nights at the tile factory, in addition to the work on his farm, -to make it up. `'Now, Rawley, old Bill needs help.. The doctor says he may get well if he has a long rest and good care and freedom from worry; but there is a bit of interest overdue on his mort- gage, and the bank folks are beginning to feel ugly about it. Entma, your wife, never paid back that five hun- dred dollars or any part of it. I won- der, Rawley—" "Yeo wonder—what ?" aG' "Hew i�iuch.of a hero yon are your- self. Old Bill saved your wife's life and almost lost his own in doing it. Are you as Much of a hero as he? I just want to know. It seeps to pie that it is up to you. If Bill Simmons had even the slightest inkling of what I ani telling you he would grieve him- self to death, I reckon. He feels that he is sufficiently rewarded by his awn conscience. Bill is a species of fool, or would be rated as sutlh by most so- called practical business men. Never- theless, heroism is self-sacrifice.. whether it be on the field of battle or elsewhere. How about it, .Dawley?" The traveling salesman rose, went to the window and stood for a trine, then returned to his chair, The edi- tor picked up a newspaper from the table and appeared greatly interested in its contents. Two men passed from. the hotel dining room to the street, Ten minutes went by. Then, sud- denly the traveling salesman squared. his shoulders and drew a long breath. He took a cheque thook from his pocket and a fountain pen. "I'll put off buying the ear for an- other year," he said as he filled out the check. He passed the slip of paper over to the editor and wiped his eyes with his handkerchief, "I never knew much about niy wifes relatives, Barker. I am glad you have taken the matter up with Are.' For an instant his teeth set together firmly. Then he laughed and grasped Barker's hand. (The End,) Thaw Pipes by Electricity. For the use of progressive plumb- ers. an electrical machine for thawing. out frozen pipes has been developed. ,It ie n compact portable outfit and when wanted for use has only to be connected with the household lighting circuit. One advantage of this contrivance is that it does away with danger of fire. It consumes only about as much energy as an electric flatiron. The whole affair weighs only thirty-five pounds. The process of thawing the pipe be- glns with turning on the faucet. Then the workman selects the point nearest the street and begins heating the pipe in section, continuing anti] the water at the faucet begins to run. dangerous. it is to a man's peace of and otherwise. We took him. home on Romantic istor y of Hudson Bay In coming to earth near Moose Fac- tory, at the soutbernmost point of Hudson Bay, pilots of the United States naval balloon which recently was blown from New York city to the frozen north in relatively a few hours, stumbled on a country rich in the his- tory and traditions of the picturesque aid Hudson Bay Company. Henry Hudson ---"Hendrik" Hudson to his Dutch employers—was respons- ible. strangely enough, for patting on the map both the starting and ending point of this recent chance balloon trip. In 1609 he anchored his famous Half A.Ioon close to the present loca- tion of New York's Goddess of Liber- ty, and the following year, stili search- ing for the elusive Northsest Pass- age, he sailed into Hudson Bay and followed' its eastern shore south 10 near the present Moose Factory. It was there in Janes Bay, the shal- low southern arm of Hudson Bay, that Henry Hudson suffered the keenness of 'disappointment that can come only to the world's great dreaamers. His dream was to find a passage to the "South Sea," and therefore a short cut to India, 11.11au he sailed into. 7•iu.san Bay and found that it was a great body of water he was sure his dream was about to be realized, But when he reached the shallow James 33ay, and nosing across, found that there was a west coast to the great ex- l:•anse of water. hie dream cause to an end. • It wigs on the shares of James Bay tiret Hudson and his surly crew 'win- tered following his discovery, and only hurt distance to the north that the ,!at 7xplorer-nii't hie Ingle end the .'gni ,ng, when bondd by mutineers la, wee .at sdrifi in a small boar with ieti of eien Siren, to perish, • , 1'ieiulinriy of Gentlemen 1.d - e f.: e:i„ 'fretting to Iludson's Bay," ' which carved dominion for Great Bri- tain across North America, establish- ed its first post near Moose Factory soon after Xing Charles II. signed its charter in 1670 and blithely made its members "true and absolute lords" of three-quarters of a continent, vested then with trading monopolies, right to pass laws and impose punishments, and even gave them power to make war on non-Christian peoples. During the three and a half centuries since that time Moose Factory has remained one of the important posts of the Hud- son Bay Company, gathering a rich harvest of furs. It was the scene of many raids and counter -raids in the early days between the French and the company's enplayees, Hudson Bay is one of the most characteristic features on the map of North America, standing out as strik- ingly as the Gulf of Mexico and cover- ing almost as great an area. Though it falls far short of furnishing a pass- age to tie South Sea, as the early ex- plorers hoped, its westerinost coast is on tho very centre -line of the contin- ent. Much of the surrounding terri- tory of the bay is unexplored wilder- ness. On the west coast are Port Church- ill, the bay's best port, anti about a hundred miles to the south, Port Nel- son. Both these ports aro to be con- nected by railroads with Winnipeg and the wheat and .cattle country to the west. Sailing vessels ply Hudson Ba.y between July 15 and October 1, and steamers for a slightly longer Period. When the railroads increase the im- portance of the Hudson Bay ports it is believed that ice -crushing ships will make possible the shipping of cargoes between June 166 and November 1, ]y the Hudson Bay route Edmonton, Al- berta. Is 1,000 miles nearer Liverpool than by the Montreal 'route. r,. Annual Meeting of the Royal Bank Reports Show Bank in Strong Position * Total Assets $594,670,013 --- Profits for Twelve Months $4,253,649.24. The statement presented to the shareholders of the Royal I3itnic of Canada, .at the Annual Meetng, held at the Head Office of the Bank of Montreal, on Thursday, January lath, was a most satisfactory one, as the "year brought to a close on November 30th last was one of substantial growth and the most su•ecessful in the history of this institution, The Directors' Report was read by the General :i?aziager, Mr. C. Si. Neill, as follows: F, roflt: 'and. Zoos Account. 3alance, November 29, 1919 . , , - . , , - ' , $1,098,418,74 Profits for the year, after deducting Charges of Management and all other Expenses, Aeerued Interest on Deposits, full Provision for i:ll 13ad and Doubtful uuiil Debts and Rebate of Interest on 94,253,649.24 Appropriated ,as ,follows: Dividends "Nos. 130, 131, 132 and 133 at 12 per cent, per annum ,. 92,153,159.11. Bonus of 2 per cent. to Shareholders 402,680.20 Transferred to Officers' Pension Fund 100,000.00 'Written off Bank Premises Account 400 000.00 War Tax on Bank Note Circulation 180,206.47 Transferred to Reserve Fund .... .1,507 005.00 Balance • of Profit and Loss carried forward 95,350,067.98 The assets of the bank have been, as usual, carefully revalued, in order to make ample provision for all had or doubtful debts. The total Assets of the Royal Bank are now $594,670,013.43, an increase over last year of $61,022,928.58. The total deposits are $456,017,387.02, the growth being $61,463,229.74, While a shrinkage is shown in free de- posits, accounted for by the fact that on November 30th, 1919, there were on hand large special deposits in connection withsubscriptions to the Victory Loan, there is shown a substantial increase in interest-bearing deposits, which is a particularly satisfactory feature. An increase of not less than $52,951,830.00 in current loans is the result of the policy of affording legitimate Assets to clients of the Bank during a period of great trade expansion. The percentage of_ current loans, and total assets, now stands at 48.16. The liquid position of the Bank is well maintained, the liquid assets being 50.50% of Liabilities, and the actual cash and deposits in banks being over 30% of the total Liabilities. The Capital of the Bank has been increased during the year by the issue of thirty-four thousand shares to shareholders. The reserve fund now equals the capital and a very satisfactory increase in earnings has been made, the net profits being $4,253,649.24, equal to 23.70% upon capital or 12.1% of combined capital and reserve. The usual dividend end an additional bonus of 2% has been paid to shareholders and a balance of $5.46,928,20 carried forward in profit and loss account. - During the year seven new branches were opened in Alberta, seven in British Columbia, five in Manitoba, two in New Brunswick, nine in Nova Scotia, twenty-seven in Ontario, three in Prince Edward Island, 'nine in Quebec, one in Saskatchewan, two in Newfoundland, twenty-two in the West Indies, two in South America. $5,350,067.98 Victory Crowns Persist Effort A man must choose, again and a lesson from an examination of their again, when disaster meets him and has a bout with hint and spills' him, whether he will stop right there or whether he will get up and go on. How can he quit and keep his self- respect? How can he give up and keep faith with his fellows? If he does not carry on and do his part, he only shifts to the shoulders of some one else his bit of the general burden. Anybody can keep a boat going with the current; what tests the strength and stamina is to row upstream. Ad=` '.versitr brings out the essential,>char- acter. In fair weather a weakling' wears a shining face,,for his visage re- flects the sun; but the strong man keeps on smiling when the day is foul, for the optimism is of his own making and does not come and go according to the weather. Some men :ire smitten by a pang of jealousy to hear of another's success in a place where they fell down and failed: It would be more to the point if the} :.studied the reasons for the other's victory and read to themselves own defeat. . But no postmortem is profitable un- less it leads straight to a decision to try once more. It will do no good whatever to sit grieving. The busy world rushes on; it has no time to give ear to a hard - luck story—though in cases of acute distress its heart is far from hard and its sympathy is touching and magnifi- cent. . But it expects a strong man to clam- ber out of: tltte slump and show the stuff that is. ill bin by refusing to he downed. - The rewards go to those who keep at It, All history is hestudded with the instances of those who were val- orous and persistent, for whom the tide turned at last. You could not keep then broken and dispirited; you could not hold them down. They were like that giant of the old fable, Antaeus, who came into contact with earth only to rise stronger and still more gigantic. Give Us Men. Give us men! Fresh and free and frank; Men of thought and reading, Men of light and leading, Men of royal breeding. The nations' welfare speeding; Men .of faith and not of fiction; Men of lofty aim and action; Give us nieu-1 say again— Give us men! • Give us nen! Strong and stalwart ones; Men whom highest hope inspires, Men whom purest honor fires, Men who trample self beneath them, Men who make their country wreath them, As her noble sons, Worthy of their sires!! Men who never shame their mothers, Men who never fail their brothers, True, however false are other's! Give us men! I say again --again Give us men! Give us men! Men who, when the tempest gathers, Grasp the standard of their fathers In the thickest fight; Men who strike for home and altar (Let the c.rowd cringe and falter) God defend the right! True as truth, though lora and lonely Tender, as the brave are only; Men who tread where saints have trod. Men for country—hone—and God! Give us men! I say again—again Give ns such men. —Tlae Bisbop of Exeter. Teacher: Grace, give an illustration Brow old along with me. the nest is of a miracle." 'Grace: `tIf 1 should sal' yet tohe.--Browning. my brother George if be would have _____ .. another piece of mince pie incl he It's better to be a "has- e lic`:,n„ than should rely 'No, thank ;you, I've hal a "never wasr' enough,' that would be si n17i'acle. Minard's Liniment for Burns, etc. t;7nard's Liniment Relieves Colds, etc. 41.0.104.a.Mao,tamnm.nwit pm". af Wm. Talking Clock. A clock with neither dial nor hands but which tells the time satisfactorily, has been. constructed by H. Ilart- niann, of New York city: It tells the time with a voice, speak - ring every fifteen minutes. There is, of course, a phonograph inside, the voice record being carried on a band of film, If desired, pressure on a but- ton will cause it to repeat the time, A gale becomes a hurricane when its velocity exceeds seventy-four miles per hour. You will immensely improve the tastiness of dishes and add tremendously to their nourishing value If you use plenty of COARSE SALT LAND SALT }3tilk Cai-Ms TORONTO dALT WORKS- C. J. CLU TORONTO CHINESE WEDDING A GEORGEOUS AFFAIR DESCRIBED BY ONE 'OF THE GUESTS. Merchant Outshines the Splen. dors of the Old Empire in Magnificent Settings. An unusuiil and :mast elaborate Chinese wedding ceremony which took place in Rangoon recently wai3 that of the daughter of Lin Chiu Tseng, Chin- ese merchant and ship owner, which le described in the London Daily Mail by one of the wedding guests. The palace of the Chinese Merchant is known as "Dreamland." here, ac- cording to the article, he lives with all his sons and daughters and brothers and sisters and cousins and`aunts and all other relatives who can show right, ful claim to relationship. There are so many of them, in fact, tbat lie mato tains twelve motor cars for their use. • - When the guests arrived in "Dream- land" they found the bride alone at an altar engaged in a religious ceremony. She was dressed in magnificent robes and on her head wore a gold crown eight inches high, which even in the palmiest king and queen -days was con- sidered to be some height for a crown. But this particular crown extended in both directions, as it were, for all around it hung long ornaments, which; hid the face of the little bride, blush. ing under her careful makeup, to a point just a bit below the mouth. She wore enough diamonds to outshine are opera singer, and not one. of her fins gens lacked the adornment of a ring, Bridegroom's Robe of Blue and Gold. When the happy and doubtless also fortunate bridegroom arrived six Chi- nese hinese musicians began working over weird looking instruments and pro- duced what they called a sang of wel- come to the bridegroom, who was at- tired in a robe of blue and gold. AY - ter the two principals had advanced to greet each other, the bride retired to an ante -chamber, where all the guests filed by to congratulate her. After this was over everybody went into the bridal chamber, which contained a bed enveloped in pale pink sine and lace, looped back on each. side with. silver embroidered curtain loops. A. bolster of the same material divided the bed. On the bridegroom's side was a silver salver filled with tobacco. To look at him nobody would have thought that he was such a heavy smoker as that. After the guests haat examined the bridal chamber a num- ber of Chinese girls skipped in andens tertained the guests with dancing, Famous Last Words. "I wonder if it's loaded. I'll look down the barrel and see." "`Oh, listen! That's the train whistle,Step on the accelerator, and we'll try to get across before it comes," "They say these things can't posat- bly explode, no matter how much you throw them around" "I wonder whether this rope will hold my weight." "`It's no fun swimming around in here. I'm going out beyond the life lines." "Which one of these is the third rail, anyway?" "There's only one way to manage a mule. Walk right up in back of hint and surprise him." "That firecracker Hurst have gone out. I'll light it again." • "Watch me skate out past the '"Dau - ger' sign. I bet I can touch It:" "These traffic policemen think they, own the city. They can't stop me. I'm going to cross the street now. Let the chauffeurs look out for me." "What a funny noise that. snake makes. I think I'll step on him.'-" "I've never driven a car in traffic be' tole. But they say it's perfectly 'ltn- ple," "I think I'll mix a Tittle nitric acid' with this chloride of potassium and see what happens." She Knew Her Man. Bullet Whey was late, very late, one morning, and the teacher asked him' how eoule. And Bullet explained: "Maw heard thet the sheriff arrest- ed a man at the creamery this morn- ing for cruelty to animals, fer keep - in' a dirty stable, for waterin his milk, and fer benne' his barn to git the In- surnnce, and maw sent me to the jail to see if it was paw." . Mosquitoes Guard Gold, Neither reptiles nor wild beasts are half ns terrible to mankind as ineecte. Mous never kept explorers,out of any t'.puutr�,v, but there is in Colombia a river rich in gold which 'nuliet be ex- ploited beams° of the mosquitoes, Persons who go there are blinded, poisoned, tend presently tie. The laws of nature are net enforced by dilatory courts: your punishment Begins the moment you break theist,.