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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1921-09-08, Page 7TOOTING .YOUR HORN'. Horns are 'on automobiles finite purpose, If Any one thinks they are a luxury or a plaything let hien ascertain, by taking .a trip . with- out this particular acees'sory, how complicated driving is without'a-`horn, Automobile drivers have the desire to save the l=ife +and limb .of those on the road by blowing their horns. In the early days electric ear drivers used bells for this purpose, as did the bi- cyclists, Now most cars are equipped with horns of various kinds and sounds and drivers see to it, as far as is humanly possible, that men, wo- men and children in the way go safely about their -b; uiness or pleasure, a� the case may be. broken up, anal I have tried to sleep • in a house en a, highway where the; eXcoee ave blasts from the horns of i thoughtless drave'r+s made sleep almost impossible. A driver can watch other -drivers! and pedestrians, If they see the driver and if their direction and speed of • • travel is sue'h that they will be cut of the way before the driver arrives at, the spot, there is no need of ,blowing, the horn. Ice not seen, of course the horn should be sounded, and the dri-� ver's foot should instinctively go to, the 'brake pedal: every time his hand' goes to his horn. As to Passing Others. If on is driving in the country and desires to pass another 'car going in A few drivers eti1l persist Ir. being the same direction, it is customary to. careless and talk about the rights i•f sound the horn once, that the driver the autoist. Theytake it that a blast ahead may not turn his car in front of their horn ,;Mould immediately clear: of you and so.that if needed, be may the way ahead of them for all i r a els. I turn to the right to let the passerby This attitude 18 usually due to a;: mi=- turn to the left. Thedriver of the taken notion that they have ceclusive - car ahead ;is judge as to when and rights in the roadway part of the' where he will turn ' because he can -see street, whereas they think the pedes- l ahead better and knowa whet 'o+bstrue- tri+an's rights are limited to the side-! tions are to be aeoide•d. With few ex- wa•Iks and crossing walks. This notion I. ceptions he will; when signalled, gni is 'augthented .by the presence of traf- , mediately give way. If he does not, fic regulations in •cities and' police to and it is fair to presume he heard the enforce them, whereby those on foot' signal, it is polite to wait a. memeat are herded off the road to the side- before again signalling the desire to walks and are permitted only at cer- pas tain intervals to cross the road ,or One also should signal just before, str t ee. Courtesy on Both Sides. 21he pedestrian does have a right to warned and be oiled accordingly, be on the road. I have never heard g g e of :a man being arrested•foe refusing Likewise, the horn should be blown be - to keep off the readwaay, wheal arrest fore coming to a -cross roads' unless there is a ;plain view •of both roads be taken for granted, however, that was sustained by any•court, It should, for a 'sufficient distance to make sure that +a collision. is notlilsely. And it the man on foot ought to exercise should be sounded -before taking dan- judgnaert in use of the .road as ! gerous •curves in the road. well as the driver of the car. If each As .a rule, it is easier en one's tern - courtesy, there is apt to be little, will reniemher the common rules of peraanent and safer in the long ram to if 1 lett the fellow who wants most of theany, complaint from either party, road have it. It costs little time or Some drivers persist in making such effort, to draw to one .side'" and, -slow • a constant use cf their. horns -Haat.up to let the load, tooting speed: fiends they +become -a nuisance. They not' pass by. And it is much safer. They only signal on all nseessary occasions, will come to grief and hang them- but do a lot cf unnecessaryt v otin g> selves is give') enough rope, or they evidently because they want every one will Iand in the clutches of the traffic to +know that they are coming and to l cop. reaching the top of a hill, particularly if the road be narrow, that any 'one coming up en - the .other side may 'be. understand those ahead must get out, of the way. I have sontetirnes at: tended church when there was go trueh unnecessary tooting of +Borns, by mo- torises that the' service was almost Blow your own horn, but blow it withdiscretion. Let others 'blow, too, and heed their warning. Let this be the horn -blowing rhij'i+osophy of the motor car driver. THE LOAN fly Fredeilck Boutet Translated- by' William' L. McPherson The train had been under, way since early morning. At 5 in the afternoon Guerin, who waslooking out of the car window, began to recognize the face of the country. He gave a sigh of satisfaction. A smile came over his tanned face. He was nearing home. The train would soon stop at his own village. ' His parents were dead. Nobody would be expecting him. But he was happy to come Back for a few days. He was going to occupy his house, which because he had no family, he loved almost like a living being. And he said to himself that, since his wounds no longer bothered him, he would be able to give some attention'to his land which Must be badly in need of it. One thing only _weighed on his mind —the idea of seeing the father and mother of 13a11u, a boyhood comrade, who had served in the same regiment 'with .him and had died early in the war. The train stopped. Guerin -got off. The sight of the village station under the tall trees thrilled him. He walked slowly toward the village, breathing in with delight the familiar oder of the country as evening draws on. In the village street he met M. Faugue, the schoolmaster, who had taught him to read and write some twenty years before. Then he met M. Morin, the Mayor. Both stopped to talk with hint and M. Morin invited him to dinner. The women carie out of the houses and greeted him.. Ile wa's very happy. But -it was only when he was again in his own house that' he felt perfectly content. Presentely he went to dine with M. Morin. After dinner the villagers carte. in tie take coffee. All had put on their Sunday clothes to do bine honor. They surrounded him and questioned him. Very simply, with-, cut speaking of himself, he told thein about the war as he had seen it. ,In, the intervals of silence -one could hear the,night sounds of the country; mots five in through the open win- dow and hovered about the lamp. ' There was a knock on the door. "It's. the Delius," veld 111. Morin. They.entered, Guerin scarcely 're- cognized the two old people, so great- ly.had they changed, Pero Bailie' bent and whitened, wall,ed...with difficulty, Mme. Ballo sobbed and the old roan continued: "Now, Guerin, we want you to tel us yes, about our son—about An tolne Hoe-waselle- how was Ire kin ed? What ,,did he do? We can sped about it, now. His mother and I, we are -1 can't say that we are 'getting accustomed to our loss: (that would be to lie), but for the last year—well, we can talk about it, anyway. They have never told us anything. We know that be is dead. That's all. Since you were with him you can tell us—" The old man stopped, choked with emotion. After a painful silence he began again: 1 I li "We are brave; tell us. For that matter it will console us. Antoine— there weren't many like' him—strong, courageous, adventurous, and every- ' thing else. You others, you knew him, It is the truth I am telling you. Then, surely, he must have done some extraordinary things. Tell us. It will do us= good. We shall be prouder than ever of him when we know the facts. So tell us. We want to hear you—" The two old people sat down. They fixed their eyes on Guerin. Perhaps they asked themselves why their own son wasn't there, .in place of this young man, who had no parents. Guerin seemed embarrassed. "We want to hear you," the old man repeated. "Well, it was this way," Guerin be- gan, with a great effort. "It was about the end afaSeptember, on a beautiful day. We were near a river—in the north--" .. He stopped, "Andthen what? What did Antoine do? Don't be afraid to tell us. It will do us good to know." Guerin still hesitated. But with the old man's eyes fastened on hint he came to a decision. "It was this way. He was in the freest line with the others of his ^sec- tion—and a machine gun. They were in a village. It was necessary to hold it. The Boclres attacked. There was a mass of them .and our men fell, one after another, "He was left alone. He knew how to serve the machine gun -and he held the village • for a quarter of an hoar. We #fired oyer him, naturally, but he• held it with hie gun. He couldn't leave• because he had his .lieutenant and some comrades+ with hini, lying on the ground, wounded. Besides, it was necessary to hold on. Then • our troops advanced and fauud hini all alone with his mitrailieuse. That is what your soft did, Pere Bailie" Guerin had spoken rapidly, without supporting himself on a cane and oven stopping to take breath. The hitching his head forward, Mme, Dana two old people, bending fortisard en their chairs, listened to hien rapturous - ly. When the story was finished there was silence. , "The man who did this is a! hero," said the old schoolmaster, gravely, "I•lon Biot!, Pore Dalin, you must be proud!" cried M, Morin, seemed much shorter .and thinner. Hee wrinkled hands trembled and in her dim eyes there was an uncertain, frightened oxpressioa. "We icaaow that you wore her," Pero 13a11•u said to Guerin, "and so we came. We .are glad to see yeti, my boy—" • erasie , r l� d ` "a Vet' to c n e --1-----:'--_______,__----. ^ter �`4.-- -- �, ,,,........._7! , _ Ori o " u !i nes Travels u l vet s I ravels is One of th most widely read books in the len'gli,i language, and for close to 2Q0 yaw has charmed both old and youn When Jonathan (Dent) Swift arrive in Degland atm Ireland • in Marc e cal satire to the readers in high life, la 7 low'aiid coarse lecidents to the vulgar, ' • marvels to the romantic, wit to the g, you» and lively, lessons of morality a!, Slid polec:y to the grave and maxiits of iz l;de'ep and bitter misanthropy to ne 1726 be bruit ht with hint the inane 1• Y��� F� �-� - • — Serllet of "GU11iY9r'S 'i'raY21s'a aIl(J 1 ore on, It appeared in Tlovembe. 1726, and Swift was paid $500 for it, That famous book had rte origin 1n the alms of a great general satire,0 trusted 1ta �uWlc ,, 1, cation ta• I .,pe s dl tI glecte'd age and disappointed arable ar• clan; �^ s� lho vaycago to Liliiput refers chiefly November to the court and politics of England, and .Sir Robert Walpole is plainly timated under the character of 1 re- n , naier Flimnap. The factions of high - hurnan foibles, and was projected'a early as 1714 by the Scribierus Club J But the extraordinary care spent a the woric by Swift, the breadth of it application and the completeness witsl which it expresses his peculiar sent' idents during the twelve years that followed his settlement at the deanery of St. Patrick's make it in every way his own. • Critics have painted cut the sources front which Swift derived the ground- work of his plans. They :have • ex pained the ,special allusions to con- temporary history, which abound throughout; and they have expatiated on the extraordinary skill with which the stcry is told, the exactness of its proportions, the accuracy of its logic and the verisimilitude of its facts. 1 Perhaps oto other work ever exhibit- ed such general attractiveness to all 1 classes. It offered personal and politi- ca" Cea •Clot t'1� "Anel- how was he 'Jailed?" asked Per Ballu, in a husky voice. "He had many bullet wounds." an- swered Guerin. "The Bathes fired as many bullets as they 'could." "You are a good fellowto have told us this," said Pere Ballu, getting up: "It consoles us, We didn't doubt that our Antoine hacl done something ex-- traordinary. But now that we, know the truth we are, still prouder; aren't we, mother?" The old : woman made no reply. Shewas weeping. They went away; and, as it was striking 11, all the ethers got up to go. Guerin's house was next door to Pere Faugue's school, on the edge of the village. They walked home to- ,gether. When they were alone the old schoolmaster stopped elidh looked Guerin square in the eyes., "It's curious, all . theme" ; he' re- marked tranuilly. "One could ardly believe such celncidencesposs+ible." "What are you'stalking' ,about?" asked -Guerin, much astonished - "That story you told -the Ea1Ius about their son. It is very relnark- able that he did exactly the" 5-azn thing as you did.' _' Geer' �., 3.t.. zn _av g e a: ;� rt "HOW so? • he •stammered. .r • - ".The village defended' by easing' A Black Irishman. Nothing astonishes visitors to the West Indies, more than the speech of the Degrees, Naturally' it takes its tone from the language of the people wh.o used to be their, masters. In Cuba - end in Porto Rice they speak Spanish, and on the islands of Haiti and Mar- tinique, French; in Jamaica and in other British islands the negro speaks with -a cockney accent. In Montser- rat, which Trish planters peopled in the seventeenth century, all of the des- cendants of the former slaves have a strong brogue. Not very long ago, says Sir Fred- erick Treves in the Cradle of the Deep, a British ship dropped anchor in the main harbor of the island, and an Irishman among the passengers, lean- ing over the rail, accosted a sooty negrowhd had- 'come alongside with fruit to ,yell. 'Or sayf Cuffey,' he cried, "phwat's the chance for a live lad to get a job ashore?" "Faith, Yer Honor," answered the negro if it's wurrukyer afther, yez can foam it in gobs for the lookin'. An ea 11 be-thenlcin ye not to- be callin' e . have been pronounced by•George 11111,. me Cucey.•' a-ah:3a-ahy's me mine, Dominion G Yerament: spec ` Patlirick ;liulca ahy , ..: _ ... c et p t pr= r lie ! of excellent quality and quite up�to the I ,."14lulca-thy Saints iu hivven. Dye e mane to tell me e'er an Oiiisbman?" heels and low -heels of the story no doubt express the factions' of the-. n, Toleee and Whigs: the small Indians s , and the big Indians, the religious a', versions of Papist and Protestant; and I when the heir apparent was described las wearing one high heel and one low, the Prince of Wales, who at that time. I divided leis favors between the two lending political parties in England, I laughed very heartily at the compari• son. While many • other authors , have -? given the world imaginary voyages o a supposed traveller to ideal realms it wee reserved for Swift to enliven the morality of his work with humorr to relieve its absurdity with satire and to give the most improbable events an appearance of reality, derived from the character and style of the narra- ' tor. Even Robinson Crusoe hardly ex- cels xcels "Gulliver's Travels" in gravity and virisimilitude of narrative. Bits Canadian News. Canaria is one of the most fortunate ccuntriea in the world, so the repre- sentative Of a Netherlands company that has several millions invested in Alberta. Saskatchewan and Manitoba reports after a comprehensive' tour of investigation. He is 3, D. P. Ten Boesch, of Holland, one of the princi- pals of the Holland -Canada Mortgage Company. He expressed himself in Calgary as being well pleased with conditions anti'prospects in Western. Canada' and is satisfied that this year's crop would be marketed very profit- ably. The value of the sea fish catch in Canada during the three months peri- od, April to June 1921, amounted to $7,624,810, of which Nova Scotia ac- counted fcr $3,436,527, British Colum- bia $2,462,233, New Brunswick $1,086,- 731, Quebec $359,150, and Prince Ed- ward Island $230,164. More than 2,400 soldiers have been placed en Alberta land by the Soldiers' Settlement Board since its organiza- tion was completed, and of this num- ber, not more than five per cent, have proven failures, is the report issued by Edmonton authorities. The first samples of this season's threshed wheat arrived in Calgary and ; man, the machine .gun; the wounded comrades.pratected, etc. -you did.'tha too, Guerin, ,,I remember it very• wet It was in the newspapers at the tinie That's What 'you were cited fot ,I, As good a wan as yersilf." Wurra, wurra! Alf how long've ye been wurrukin' here?" 1, Da"Fofve years, come St. Pathrick's "Did they put rue in the new,spzt ers? asked Guerin. "Yes; your • name and the whole story. Here nobody noticed it. But I was just going to tell it this evening when the Ballus arrived, Come, tel me the truth, . now. Howdid 'theat son die? Guerin shrugged his shoulders "I'll tell • ,you, M. Faugue. Young 'Balla had bad luck. • In the first place, to die; In the second place, to die=as he did. He was drowned. Yea; at:the very beginning of the war. He went into the water after eating. I told him that was bad, but you know how stubborn he was. It was warm and we were resting that day. There ,was no stopping him. He went into. the water, was taken with a cramp and sank. We pulled hint out, but he was - finished. Now, to be frank, Iµ couldn't tell those people that. It is 'too stupid. It would have given them• -un- necessary pain. So I told them mey own story—a thing that happened to me much later. It was 'a lie. S don't, deny that. But, since, it happened to me, I have taken no credit away from anybody.' He paused. Pere Faugue coughed.• Then Guerin continued calmly: "Only, I wasn't killed, I' was. hit by. bullets, but merely wounded. So :I changed the ending of the story that's all. What would you have me do? . I didn't know what to say to! thoseold people. My mind isn't quick. Don't you remember, M. Faugue? At school I was never good at writing narratives,. I couldn't invent any- thing." e He; began to laugh. Pere Faugue" laid a hand en his, shoulder. • "But what will you have to tell on your own account, afterward?" "Ahl That's true," said Guerin. "I hadn't t e:eight' of that. It is awk- ward," He refleatoct a .moment and added "Babe Something of the santes ort is likely to hdppen to me between now and the end or the war." - Tho` M. terlalist. "What would you suggest for our iterary club.. to read?" asked Mrs, Flubdwb, , "AA, gored- cook -book," responded her ,. rntal husband. "Ye. don't tell me! An' in that toime ye've turned 'as black as me hat! Oh me sowl, if Oi stay long enough to make me fortune and ga on back to Clonee with it, 'twill take some mighty 1 soft pershuadin' to get. Maggie Murphy to marry me, an' she not bean' able to tell me from any nayger!" The Summer Path to Church. It leaves the doorstep worn and gray, Slips underneath the maple trees• And slowly climbs a grassy slope To meet stray butterflies and bees. Then through a little sagging gate It 'goes into anorchard old That • holds within its gracious space • More treasures than our arms can hold. Down aisles of sunshine flecked with shade, While overhead the swallows call, The narrow path leads willing feet When summer's peace broods over all. It zigzags like a wandering child Through waving grasses tall and green, But seems to loiter with a laugh Where woods and mountains• can be seen. b Want Cash; No Apologies. Gerin uiy' has paid Argentine, for the ships she sunk and will also apolog=ize: Prance :and Britain do leat care ,'for apologies, but they do propos; to have the nieney, f• Then on again beyond the fence Where elan trees fringe a meadow wide, And bubbling songs of bobolinks Fall from the -air on every side. Across the road; up to the church, Tt ends at last its winding way Where ,words' of prayer and hymns of praise Rest like' a blessing on the day, Adella Washer, The Teacher's Task. Hundreds of otherwise well-inform- ed people have the idea that a te'ach- er's work consists merely in meeting classes,aslking questions, and, assign- lug tlie'' ;next day's less=ons, Pew real - Ise that to be 8uocessful a teacher Meet spend •hours. of study. in prepa- ngth8 day's work and that 1eroust ottem,. work until midnight cerreoting xamination papers and doing other trait-o"teehool duties, It 18 just as, rea- sQita ie to stggest that a minister be pad -„ y the hour tor his, Sunday anorn- ing lietAiop. as to argue that a 'teacher sh+ou1d, ibp paid only 'for the time he la the elaesroom • samples received last year. The samples were from the Taber district and graded number 1 northern. The wheat is of excellent color and shows but little, if any, trace of the dry weather experienced this year. Staked for tweuty=five miles of its length with recently located placer claims, the Lardeau River, in British Columbia, promises to he the scene of activa,,placer mining as soon as the wet season begins. There is great in- terest in the experiment of washing gold an this river, but just at present owing to the dry weather, the water is not available for placer operations. Winnipeg's official population is within 507 of the 200,000 mark, fallow- 1 ing a net increase of 2,546 since Janu- ary, according to the city hall re- lieved a large export trade will be de- veloped. Soldier settlers in the northern parts of the three prairie provinces will har- vest from twenty to thirty-five bushels of wheat to the acre this season, ac- cording to Captain Boyd, federal in- spector of the Soldiers' Settlement Board. Communities have been es- tablished at Riding -Mountain, Piapot, Porcupine and Pouce Coupe. Each settler in these reserves has' an aver- age of eighty acres under cultivation; and, according to Captain Boyd, have done remarkably well. The L.C. Department of Naval At fairs has in view the installation of a very powerful continuous wave sys- tem wireless station near Vancouver to undertake land work and communi- cate ommunicate with distant points up coast, time leaving the present station at Point Grey to handle shipping business ..only, stated G. J. Desbarats; deputy minis-. ter. At Anyox, B,C., total production of copper at the smelter amounted to 25,- 821,680 pounds during the past year, mostly from ores mined at Hidden Creek mine, close in. The total ship: ments cf copper ore from the mine during the year amounted to 807,86,e tons and the foreign ores used "amount• ed to 47,070 tons, a good deal of this ooming.from the Doily Varden,piine..a1 Alice-i?tTm"" ...�,.,�..�.-,�•�,. He Knew, Mr. acid Mrs. Janes had been iii' vited to a friend's for tea, and the time had arrived for preparing for the visit. "Come along, dearie," said M:•st Jones to her three-year-old son, "and have your face washed" - "Don't want to be washed," came the reply. - "But, said mother, "you don't want to be a dirty little boy, do you? 1 want my little boy to have a nice clean face for the ladies to kiss" Upon this persuasion he gave way and was washed. A few minutes later he stood watch - ng his father washing. "Ha, ha, daddy!" he cried. "I know why you're washing!" cords. The last assessment figures showed a population of 196,947, but 3,722 births and 1,176 deaths occurred this year, leaving the net increase of 2,5.4„0. Last Mountain Lake, and the islands therein, in the Province of Saskatche- wan, has been created into a bird sanctuary under the Migratory Birds Act. Shooting of game birds he the open season will be allowed on all portions of Last Mountain Lake sail -te- ary, except the islands north of and in- cluding Pelican Island. Five thousand c'r'ates, or fifteen car- load of British Columbia potatoes com- prise the first of this season's export of this commodity to•Maniia, The first inovenient' of potatoes from British Columbia was in 1920, and the tubers were ea well received that it is be - Baseball in Japan. Christians 2, Buddhists 1, was the final score of a baseball game played.' in the grounds of the great Budd'his't temple at Kyoto, Japan. Chrsitian missionaries aroused the interest of the Buddhists in modern sports until a match game was arranged between the Buddhist priests and the Christian Bible class. Neither side scored un- til the eighth inning, when the priests, put a run across. Then, in the last of the ninth inning, the Christians got two hits. The Buddhist high priest, in spite of his royal connections, let a fast grounder go between his legs, and both runners scored. For a de-; - .;;y there is no resurrection. Length of Days on Other 'duets How long is a day en the sun? I than ours. That of Jupiter is .lightly It seems an odd question, consider- ; less than ten hours long, and the lug that what we call the day is made' length of Saturn's day is ten and by the sun. How can it be otherwise three -tenths hours. thla,n day all the time on the solar,But when it comes to Uranus and luminary? Neptune, the two outermost and most That, however, is merely our plane- distant of the sun's eight planets, the tary viewpoint of the !natter. In a astronomers are again puzzled. They broader sense ..5....93,E1 term, a day do not know the rate at which either means one complete revolution of a . of them revolves. celestial body. Tho sun revolves on It takes the earth 365 days to mal its axis, just as the earth does, turn- a complete journey around the seta, ing around once in 600 of our hours.: which we call a year, Mercury's year Its. day, In other words, is+ 600 hours is only eighty-eight trays long. That f long. ,.: ...w. _ ens fs "?i clays, The Martianyer _ • a W. amu.. Tone. Thal .,,.:,. �: �. y , Astronomers would like to know , Is 687 days ione. Thai of Ju" it" p er 1J- how long the planet Mercury's day is, ` twelve times as long as our year; tie) but they haven't been able to find out. of Saturn over twenty-nine i y tames et They are eget yeee •loss to know the leg; that f Uranu eighty-four tlna s clay/0lento osr Venus. The latteia--- <rts ong, and' 1Taat of Neptuile 165 times twin oC the earth In else, and the only t as long, or 60,181 days. , planet beakies our own that Is believed If (as seems alto ,thez ' li ge .zktfl"y;) gee to 11e inhabited ---is so covered with a ;.sun is l'evolving about some • et`irpea'i', veil of clouds that the telescope can dous star In space, it uta ,g'' i ger to fie ed qai d n e f e d ora s ton �' its surface r face b can.' goodttcss knows how many millions tS$ Wheel). to determine the rate of its re, +years to make the r iretii y° alu o v eta , I ka other words; to 1111 out -sc'sih:le'�.al The Martian day is• a.ii infers, len or I ear