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Zurich Herald, 1922-04-13, Page 7•THE FUGITIVE By Bfwiir Pugh " "Many escapese" said the old ex warder. "No, not a many,—in me t me, But I r ernembes' one, And he gazed with musing eyes into the fire, * 4 * * • * Ugly sort of country, I call them moors: The -crocl furze and the broken bare rocks like snuggled teeth. And yet people—people of high 'class —teem Luneon and I know not where, want to ' come and stay there hi the summer -tune. Right in the shadow of the prison walls of the Castle. they want to come. And build little bunga- lows and such -like. Aud live in gypsy caravans and tents. And loll about and paint pictures and the reit of, it: Course, I am speaking of•a good few 'years ago, afore motors was• thought of and afore the little inns es used to call theirselves "hotels" really got to . ' be hotels. ' There were one woman, Nobody noticed her much apt. first. She were Fust one of a crowd; and. they all seem- ed very drab alike. . But presently she got to be know'd, 'cos. 'on a cut -us habit of horn. " She kept oma of them bungalows, and after a bit she built a stable along- side of it, And presently there was a horse in the' stable, and it were a pro- per •horse- too, a ' girt leggy stallion, black as your hat, with a long tail and inane as flowed in the wind like girt fans. And she used to ride the big ugly thing. It was• riding' No finick- ing .along the open ways, picking out • the clean bits, but a., mad gallop any- wheres.up and down the sidesof the tom and over the dips• and hollows; the goes and the bramble, as if she and the horse were one and both on em crazy. Not often did she slacken down till she were nearing home, but some- times she did pall up that big. brute to a standstill, and always on a little steep hill . as overlooked the 'pirson- ,,>yarcl. I marked that after a time. We. all marked that. There she would sit agen the skyline like a black marble figure on a black marble animile, still as if they was a graven image—till they turned,and then she would wave her hand. We couldn't make out for the life of us who it were she waved to, And we never did find out before 'twere too late. But naturally we got to sus- picion her, and we watched her, her comings and goings, her little doings and what -not. Only she get no reg'lar 'habits.- Morn, noon, and eve, it were all the same to she. Sometimes we'd see her at sunrise, sometimes in the noontide glare, sometimes in the mists 'of twilight, And some said, and I were one of 'em, that at night she used to come • and sit there in the -moon- shine, so :still she ••migtltt he' been wrought of the 'rocks theirselves. And 'some said, and I were one on 'em, that they. heard the thrash, of the horse's' hoofs on the hard stones, and believed as she passed close by ha the bitter darkness of the fore -dawn.. Well, so it went on for maybe three • or four months. And then the sum- •mertime come to an end, and all them. other gadabouts were packing up for Lannon. We watched to see if she likewise were packing up. And• she were, The best of her belongings went back to town in trunk -loads, in wagonloads, Then the horse he went, And then she went. And everybody said that everybody else were a fool, and that she were up to no more mischief than the 'rest of they. • And after that we sort of half for- got about elle. Then,, one night it were in October, I remind me, thele coins down one of them there white fogs as be like to the darkness • of Egypt --a darkness that could be felt—such is common in them parts. And it come down so sudden •as.if the heavens had frowned. -Time men were all in the quarries, but afore we could round 'em up and put 'em under guard two or. three op 'em clipped''away into the fog., , We I were took so by surprise, d'ye see.5,.-Iowv- somever, we got 'em afore they stray- ed far,, and marched 'em back, And 'then I suddenly found out ae one on 'em were still missing. Hard 'twere at first to make out which 'twere. But We had the bells a-riugiug and the guns a•boonting to a fine Loon, I do tell ye, - And at last we found out that it must be Yannson as shad done us. Now Y,ancson were a chap as we all liked annd pitied, He were in for manslaugh- tea; ten,year, and our view on the' mat tar were as it served the seoondeel Tright as he had killed, And again he *ere so quiet aiud kindly and give no trouble at all. You couldn't a -help be- ing sorry for Yemen. Duty, howsomever, be dutty, And it were our duty to cotche him. Else wend know•the reason why. So, we saddled horse, end away, soouriug till the coun- tryside. But though them tIttnt' creaturesl:uow'd the 4paathe about them encore saline as if they had been eats +aa' see in the dark, we had to go stow, Each on us on- his own lonesome, all going their several ways, I made my way towards that there $ruitgalow where the woman and the { o`Sre nw'ecl to bid in the summertime. If you ask nue wily I went that way I eonldir't hover tell ye. It were in -- attach like, I reckon, Anyhow, after a Weary while, I seed a patch of bright- nese• in the inirk, as if, there be a fire' 'burning. It wvere not just a single light, if you uncle rtancl rhe,:'- but a glare, my I sal; rtty rcrw�teis to mare and we Went for that • :'tea of brightness., • And then something whopped- un agen us—fair bored intous-ortt of the •darkness, and sent my mare a str••ia- dling into a bog•1•bole where she come down with an almighty mauve and me on lop of she. But 'I ween who 'twos, It were that woman on that big ugly stallion o!. her'n, A flash and they'd gone. My mare She were aplunging and a kicking a good 'un. S'he'd snapped a strap some •way, and likewise slipped her bit and bridle. Took me years --seemed year's; but likely 'twere only a'minute or 'DO --to {et her right and up agent, I'd hardly got aor&ss her, as you may say, when one o' the there usual merricies happened as be always hap peeing on them moors. A stiff breeze sprung up, and quick as yon` could wink the fog were gone. A sneer ng, flaunting moon -as looked as if she'd done It all were"gaily racing across the' fair blue sky and turning the moor to. a chequer -board of white gleams and hlaok shadows, And there, right ahead of me, were the little bungalow and the stable bard by, plain ea a pike -staff. And there were what I thought to be a blaze of fire, but which was no more than a :row of candiesin the winder. Reggae beacon it were, for to guide him, 'Yan- son. I urged my mare on, but the :tall had bust her bellers for a bit, and devil a canter could I' get out on her, let 'alone a gallop. Still, I know'cl as Yanson couldn't get very far in his convict -kit, and I guessed, and I guess- ed right,. ss he was a changing of his clothes, getting rid of his irons, in that there buugalow. And she a -helping of him, no doubt. . Now the ground were so snappy thereabout that you couldn't hear notiten but the ringing o' the bells and the booming o' the guns. - So as it were not until he be got near fift away I Y yards s d w 3 as heard him. Then I seed 'un. I had long ago jaloused as the big black stallion were not for Ilea; and now—there he was F,l, astride of it, streaking across the open i moor like the shadow of a big bird tiPROVINCE flying low. Y•oioks, but I were after him! He'd got on a big black eh -k and a big black hat, but I know'd him by the clean -shaved back of his head and neck neck showing a pale line 'twixt the hat -brim and the collar o' the cloak. • 4 the r > wor t . Js yet to come And I ought to ha' had the law on her, specially as Yanson, as were hei' sweetheart, got clean away. But I hadn't—no, I hadn't the heart for to do it. She be sech a bonny wench. "And it all got tided over, ' some - ways, And then there were talk of King's Clemcy, and 1°clnnno what -al "But this I do know," said the old Iex-warder, " 'tie the only time as I never cared as I were praperly putin,'' upon," a OF CANADA WITH NATURAL "O;oom Opp, then, „Cherry," I says in .� ��rj �. the mare's eat. "You hasn't got the • pace on him, but you've got the hang - by." r tarith Ex ects to Attain By which. I mean to say, gentlemen �% all, that she was neeso fast as the Even Higher Level of De - stallion, -stallion, butt was more like to last . longer. velopnent in the Corning Ay, 'twere a stare chase, as the Decade. salilormen say. At filet my mare lost so much ground I thought as we'd Ontario is one of the oldest estab- lose sight ` o' the stallion ,altogether, provinces of Canada, and as afore very long. But sure and sure i such lies long settled in her ways',{ ,ed my Cherry she got her wind back, andi is largely free from the senslationa then she began to gather her four legs 1 booms or meteoric spurts of develop- under her and jest by like the wind, 1 nteint which sa often beset newer In a sudden burst o' speed she gained areas. In many respects the. most on 'un. And then sine fell away again. prosperous pro7ince of the Dominion, "Steady, lass, steady!" I says to she., its progress ie of the most substantial " 'Tie e long row and a 'hard row. as nature as being along the soundest we ha' gotten afore us•. Ay, 'but we'll I lines with the firmest •of bases against win out at the finish, sure-ly," I economic slumps, There is 'nothing Arid so it Went an. •A hard, rough !problematical about Ontario's future; ride on a' hard, rough course. And the province lies in every sense ar- what with the black shadows as look- t rived, and whilst in many lines of ne- ed deep as the pit avid as hard as the ; tural resource, development cannot be walls of the prison itself, and what ' said to be far advanced when one with. them white patches as looked; takes. cognisance of the tremendous like glazed granite and were jest peat- V possibilities, ft possesses tine possibili- muck that you wallowed in up to your ties at the present Mime of expanding haunches—alt! it were creel hard rj•dl and extending largely from within st- ing, and dangerous too. Once down,. self. and she'd ha' broke her back and me Canada was the early name of the neck, for sure. It were go hard, hold provinces of Quebec and Ontario. In bard, -every inch. And then, jest in 1 1791ttlie territory comprised under the eight alwvays�, though times I could ; name was. divided into Upper and hardly make 'un out, were the stallion i Lower Canada, In 1867 Upper Canada and pock Yanson, with terror behind ' became a province of the newly 'un, death all round 'un, and the' jail ! created Dominion under the name of afore 'nn all the way. I Ontario. The first settlers of the pro - Mile 'on mile we rode that gait, and i vine were largely refugees from the now it were jest steady kding, 'cos- ' United States who, In 1874, came we know'd, as, the horse as lasted tire' north to the unbroken forests rather longest,:�and not the horse as went the ' than forego their allegiance to the fastest, would win that 'there race. i Metherlantl: The province Of Ontario, Hours we went on. It were soon no { as it exists at the present time, com- move than jogging, And the moon I Prises a total area of 407,262 square went down and it 'grew dark agen, miles, It is divided into two great sec - jest as I'd feared, and I lost sight of , toms, Southern Ontario, tire cider and the stallion, • But the mare had got more settled portion, with au area of the wind of him, and I jest tether go i roughly 77,000 square miles, and blind. And presently it wallet se ` Northern Ontario, where development dark, Lireesutly there be a long, leer is in more prinnary stages and pioneer shit of white light hi the 'sky, and • I' conditions to an 'extent prevail, ac- seed that big black brute again, 'and'• counting for the much, larger total of 'Venison a -waving in his saddle for all 330,000 squaio miles, as if he were nigh dead beat. I Canada's Industrial Centre, Q`l'lrey beam more than fifty lengths i Whirs+t the origin of .Ontario's ahead by then, and both on us crawl- ing along at a"slithering walk as if;growt'h and prosperity was in agrtcul- our two horses had gotten chilblains, J tura erect this industry is still of prune 1 int ortance the -province has forged And l,onts with my pistol and shoots, • p ' 1 � husky -like:.- -• particularly •ahead in other phases of "Stop, there, or I fire!,, activity end achieved for itself first Arid at that he swung rained on pais place amongst tine industrial sections saddle and fires• point-blank at me ; of the Dominion, Agrieulture. though with. Iris own weapon. I heard tire hill• ; largely stabilized still makes very let sing horst city ear, i satisfactory progress- Whilst In 1911 i But that was his last tilug, pee as the agricultural pnod'ttction of the pro- he -tried to ride on agen the stallion l vunne was valued at about $305,000,- weut down'and he fell on hie knees, 1000, in 1920 it, was worth nearly $376, - got l 000;000, There it,re :about 175,000 farms ga off my mare anti run ,towards �. 'un. He had gotten up, was a -stand-' inr tine province, ing there, straight and stilt Ontario has also become the first Then, f , , l he o, a sudden, he wfltips off Iris; rnlir'r�erai. province of C!ana.da„leadirtg hat I see;ci a, sort of powder -hag fail ! ail other orcins in annual lxroduction• alt, his •lrea,cl; ' you know the sort o'' As yet her wide variety of mineral:s thing' them there—what le it—Pier- are only pat'tia.Tly. developed and cap- •rots• wear; •And lie bows wis; he elides able of t`ouyidtwrttbl�e cxpslitsiort, .altti. hie heels • together, et':her and "Good g , mora- Wats; ..being accomplished tantb�stantial- the" save 115. Iy each year. In the year 1.900 the And it basalt iu a man's• voice ho province's. mineral lrroduaire) was speaks. And' no More were ire a unanr, worth $10,'.117,576, ttttehritirr,g for 2178 nestber', but Sine—the wztttrxtrr e' that of thee' entnc Dominion eettretron. In • there bungalow. HOT hair fell iii for the following 'atloo rdo thfs increased to �' h black•.curls about her shoulder's as she $49,727,400 and the proportion of the stood and smiled at nine, dominion total increa'tici to 40,76 per.1 e • *, cent, By 1920 the annual production . „i, , Well said the Curl trx.wardt,i, it had. iatetcas•ed to 7�7tr,7:i9,1°18, but :ore•: 0W - was siding and abetting, o', c c the eI merit of w g !f, o use. 'ing 'to development other areas this accounted for a little less in Cana- dian production or 36.16 par cent. A phenomenal feature of the Province's mineral development of recent years has been the growth of the Northern Ontario gold fields. In 1921 these wanes producing at the rate of $19,008,- 000 per annum whereas in 1920 the entire Canadian production of gold. -was only $15,853,478. Extensive Inland Fisheries. In Its. inland waters,•particolarly its share of the Great Lakes, Ontario, pos- sesses an extensive fishing field which gives it fourth place among the pro' vinces of the Dominion in the fishing industry. Its production of whitefish', herring, trout, pickerel, perch and pike is' increasing consistently every year in. value as illustrated in a comparison of the figures of the past two' decades. In 1901 the value of. Ontatlo's annual t "'eat wasp $1,424,078; 'by 1910 this had risen to $2,348,270, whilst in 1920 the freshwater fish of the province ac- counted ccounted for a revenue of $3,336,412. Ontario's forests constitute one of its moat valuable resources which at an early period in its history induced the introduction of capital and ,ex- planation. The total area of forest land is estimated at 260,000 equate, miles . and that covered by timber licedses and other rights, 40,000 square miles, Northern Ontario con- tains vast supplies of timber upon which commercial cutting has hardly !coiurnenoed, whilst this region is also estimated to have 200,000,000 cords of I pulpwood. The manner in which the . timber industry of the province has ' expanded in the past decade, due to a great extent to the development of the pulp and paper industry„ can be seen in a comparison of the 1910 figures ;with, those of 1920. W,ieereas in the former yetnr tine value of forest pro- ducts from the province was about eleven millicit dollars, it had risen in the latter to nearly forty-eight million dollars. In the pulp and paper Indus- try, in which this province takes second place only to Quebec, the same !surprising development is found. Pulp- ' wcod used in the industry in 1910 was ! 210,552 cords, in 1919 it was 840,856; in the sam.e,period the value bad in- . creased from $1,479,538 to $13,113,794. The amount of pulp produced in the province increased in less than a de- carie from 156,076 tons to 597,291 tons, the number of plants manufacturing 'jumping troan fifteen to twenty-two. r u wreac Ventral marrtet, industrieliy Ontario has made titan- ic strides, and with the rise of the newer Western Provinces to agricrr!- tunal renownhes taken full a,dvantrage of its unique situatlenu and extensive assets tomato a hid for fame as the nnariufgcturing hub of the Dominion, and to supply not only its own needs but thras'e of the enormous, agricultural : territory west of tine Great Lakes. Such as "the diversity of provincial activity and: the ,overshadowing effect of the industrial phases that tine fin,' trade le often lost sight bf ae an On- tario.. asset,: Attention is directed so genertrlly to he Noarhwest Tct itnl'ies I At 'Ale prolific producer of Pelts, that it conies •sonrrwhat ho a surprise that Ontario, leads amongst the provinrcee 1 of the Donu.ittioa, in fur produetiou. r The ` great :vasty stretching un from ; Northern O>itat'i•o to Hudson Bay die- gorge it lreltry which is prune in both' quality and alrianntity. How revenue t r the pravince trans this source has increased of late yettn'c is illustrated le the added vnthtc of the catch from rt.; nen o $291,101 in 1010 to $3,414,017 in I 1020. i Population of Three Millions. 'T'he population of the pt'ovirncae of Ontaelo fru 1001 was 2,1.82,94.7; in 1911 it was 2,521,208; whilst the real n:s of. imp cetrstts Just completed tire expect - A Help To Autolets, White riding one day with a neigh- bor in his car we were unfortunate enough to run into a mud bole. The rear wheels, even with the chains on, absolutely refused to take hold, either going 'ahead or back. It seemed to me at first that we were in to stay; but I found that my friend was pre- pared for just such emergency. He produced from the tool box two pieces of trunk rope about tern; feet long, two wooden stakes about eighteen inches long and 'a threepound sledge. I wondered just what was "coming off',", but I soon learned, He drove a stake behind each rear wheel where the ground was solid, A rope was then tied to each stake, . Blase to the ground, run under the hub and tied to a spoke. My friend started his engine, threw it into reverse and the oar easily backed itself out of the mud hole. It is worth any autoist's while, espe- cially when travellings on country roads, to add these inexpensive articles to his equipment. Make Sure Spring- Clips Are Drawn • Up Tight • If any proof be required of the ne- cessity of keeping spring clips tight it may be found in the fact that 'neither dealers nor manufacturers will replace a spring that is broken through the centre bolt hole—the ,place where most springs give way, observes a contributor to "The Am- erican Motorist,'who goes onto say: "Breakage of this nature is taken as evidence 'that the springs clips were not kept tight. The spring clips are subject to bending in two directions, with the result that excessive strains are imposed at the weakest point, which in this case is at the bolt hole. "The spring clips should be seated perfectly tight by drawing the nuts up as close as possible with a wrench of such size that there is no question of their being tight. It is well also to bear in mind that even a nut se- cured by a lock washer will ultimately work loose; hence the necessity for looking over your spring clips now and then." Practical Paragraphs. In sedan bodies it will sometimes be found that as the windows are lowered they are broken by hard objects car- ried in the door pockets. If the hard .object is of some size it will strike the edge of the seat when the door is being Closed and hear against the door glans hard enough to break it. Getting out of a rut—When one of the rear wheels has got in a mud hole or deep rut so that it springs; apply the . emergency brake with a gentle pressure, This will give enough resistance to the spinning, wheel so that the other wheel can pull the car I cut of trouble. The decrease in engine speed because of the pressure of the ? brake can he compensated for by 'opening the throttle a little. Upholstery cleaning—Many sedans have broadcloth upholstery, and owners experience difficulty in keep j ing this in good condition, In rennov ing spote from broodeloth the material should be ribbed in the direction ofl the nap, This means brushing- Veif:hc a downward motion on the trirannmg• our the 'sides of,'the body and a for- ward motion on cushions and head, lining. When the nap of bmoadclotN is standing up it is unsightly in car -I tam lights, It can he made to her flat by the handling' described above using a nail or a hand brush. Holding. emery cloth --In polishing; some flat surface with emery cloth in- stead of the file it will be found con ' venient to wrap the eloth around the file and bend a bit of wire into a clip form to hold the material at the'lawenti end. The cloth at the opter end of the' file is held by the fingers anyway, so that this' does not need a clip. Rim cut repair—Rim cuts are often .given up as hopeless by the ear owner, 'but they can be repaired in the follow- ing manner; Drill a series of holes on each side of the break at intervals of % of an inch and far enough from the edge so that they will not pull out. Lace the holes with a cord made of six strands of braided fish line or any braided cord about 3-82 of an inch in diameter. Soak this lacing in paraffin or wax to make it waterproof and then thread it through the first hole, wind it around the bead, through the second hole and so on. Let six inches of the cord hang over on each end for tuck- ing away. Fnally place a blowout patch over the lacing inside the sl ca to protect the tube against injury. Jack support—In an emergency when the car has to be tacked up on soft ground and no support for; the tool is handy take out the floor board or toe board and use this. It will he found to serve the purpose admirably. Radiator repair—To make a good emergency repair of a honeycomb radiator, use a small bolt, longer than the depth of the radiator and fine enough to go through the hole in the honeycomb. On each end of this bolt a steel washer is placed, with a rubber washer inside. Tighten the . n this bolt and the rubber washers are drawn tight -enough to stop the leak. This repair cannot be made on a tr_bular radiator. From a Watery "Graveyard?' Said a fiivver in the rives "Mud and water make me shiver; 0, that fate should so havemocked mei Here I lie just like a rock. Had my owner, when he parked me, Locked me, thieves would not have marked nae, Just imagine how it shocked me When they pushed pie off the dock! "I was young, I had endurance, Furthermore there. was insurance; My equipment was selected— Extra tires, robes and tools. So they took me and they stripped xne, Everything—and then they tripped me, Just because my boss neglected Very ordinary rules." ed to give It a population near" the three million mark. The province has three chi -mover the hundred thousand mark in point of population, Toronto, Hamilton, and Ottawa; cue between, fifty and a• hundred thousand, Loudon; two between twenty-five and fifty thousand, Brantdord and Windsor; and sixteen between ten and twenty-five thousand. Urban growth is typified in that of the capital city of 'Donato, the second, city of the Dominion, With a population of 267,730 in 1901, it. had added more their two hundred thous- ; and to its inhabitants by 1911, when a population of 470,480 wits retuned, Its Ilatest eetimate of population gives it • 535.000. When completed, Toronto will have the finest harbor on the Great Lakes, tun asset of incalculable value. The Cost of the development I scheme, including work donated by the Dominion government, is $37,000,- 1 000. This brief survey indicates the ver- satility of oommerctal activity in the province of Ontario and the consistent progress achieved in every phase of endeavor in the im.'ut decade, °Arnlo t has been generously treated' in the matter of natural gifts, being richly endowed in agricultural land, minerals, forests, fnrs, fisheries. and la the water powers and other advantages which make for industrial expansion, Though her progress has been gratifying in the past and imparts a sense of sails- taction in what has been accomplish- -ed. her natural possessions are yet capable of much greaten' development, and thia there is every expectation of meriting to pass in the decade before it;. Women's Varied Vocations, There are to -day 'two women archi- tects, in Paris, Both passed their ex- amination with each yliettetrtiorr that this fact found special mention in the presence of forty-seven male exam - Mem Tn Unbind there are, according to the latest ctatietics, among others, 312 women physictanne, 280 women journal - lets, 219 women pallbearer's, 612 fe- male cab drivers, 14 women chinnney swcepenm;, 439 fenmIaa snrtitlts. 4113 fe" *ate <iruurincru and trc,t less than 3,669 professional painter's. • Good Luck Follows-- ThrIft. Dead -in -earnestness. Downright hard work. The cheerful mind, the pleas•iwg per- sonality, the accommodating, genial nature, The fellow who is willing to pay the price for the realization of his themes. who isn't looking for success bargain% short cuts to hie goal. The man of grit and stabiliity wvho sticks to one unwavering aim, whose motto is, "This one thing I do." The man who is all there, all on his job, who regards his work as his best friend. and flings his life Into it. The one who looks after the man at the other end of the bargain, who demonstrates that honesty is the best policy. The yuan. who dares to undertake the thing he longs todo, who believes In himself end in tine message he has been sent here to deliver, Thos who take no stock in "luck" as a. factor in their success, but push ahead and do tine bee'; they can under all circumstances, The man who cultivates tact, court esy, courage, self-co,ufidence, will power, *elegem, health and good will to all' men. ..g Trees About Prairie Schools. A short. time ago very few school districts in the trach e el'r ryinurpa planted trees about the school -house, but lin the last three year's tine num- ber has been steadily increasing, This year in Saskatchewan ethane 150 school districts will plant trees. The seed- ling treee are obtained from the Do - Million. Forest. Nursery Station at Ins Man Head. Sack. We were made to r:,atihuu, the w- hine of good cheer and Imppint ss es much as a rree was made to radiate its sweetnese tar every passer by. Women in China never C l.i+3, and when a C".hinfte woman wishes to ;rintrwv Isar affection ;,,he gently touches t'he bud of liar beloved, If straightened olid:, an otince of spider's web m"ciiid extend tlri • .w 1 tic. hun- dred and fifty miles,