HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1922-06-08, Page 3Getting Even. "Exactly. Now tell me, wasn't that
1"I'll get 'even` with him: You Gee ;,fust what You intended to do -to do
if I don't. I something just as mean to him as he
Untie John .looked up from the had done to, you; in other words, to
article he was writing. "Who is itj lower yourself to his level'?"
are r » "Yea, ,„ea
yougoing to get even with?" He 5 , it Was,"
smiled into Fred's frowning face::
"It's Frank Lane. He's always.
playing some iovr-down trick on us
because we won't let hint play in our
nine. We were playing with my ball
to -day, --it was a dollar ball,. too—
and Harry batted it clear over the
fence. Frank' got it and threw it as
Fred admitted.
Uncle John said ono mgre,:He had a
way of' leaving a fellow to think
things out for himself.
Two days later Fred came in, his
eyes dancing. "Well, Uncle John, I
got even with Frank," he announced.
Uncle John looked surprised, He
turned shark eyes on the laughing
far as he could out 'mto the lake" face, •
Pred's eyes were flashing. "It was just this way, you se's: I
"And you want to get even with
such a low-down trick, as you rightly
call it," Uncle John said slowly,
"I will :too. I know what I can do." . as Frank did. And, likely as not, I'd
Uncle John's pencil had ,been lnov- throw their old ball away, too. So
Ing swiftly over the paper as they day before yesterday I told Frank he
talked. Now he motioned Fred to could play in my place. He wasn't
step nearer. A few lines had marked going to do it at first; he seemed to
out a high read and near it a low, think it wassome kind of a trick. Then
Marshy ground, "If a fellow does a hewent into it, and, say, but he can
low-down trick, he lowers himeelf: He ,play ball? He made more home runs
must be down here," Uncle John ex- than anybody else. Frank came and
brought me a new ball to -night. He
went out into Mr. Nelson's field and
pulled mustard in the hot sun to get
the money to pay for it with. So, it
seems to me, he is up on the level
again and we're even up there. And
I tell you, it feels better than getting
even .the other way."
got to thinking how I'd feel .if the
boys wouldn't let me play on the nine,
and I made up my blind I'd feel just
planted, making a mark for a figure
down on the marshy ground. "Now,
if you are up here, what will you have
to do to get even with him ?"
Fred's face grew thoughtful as he
studied the sketch. "I suppose I'd
have to get down as low as lie is,"
`he said slowly.
THE REIGN OF
THE SPIRIT
By Jean Bertheroy
Translated by
W. L. McPherson
Since it was the day of Pentecos ,
the old Flamand Joachim had gathered
about him all his ichi•Idreii—all those
who 'remained, at least, for the war
had taken the oldest of his grandsons
and the youngest of his sons. In ac-
cordance with a touching custom, the
plates of these two were set on the
table at the places which they had
formerly occupied. On the faience;
brightened with naively painted flow-
ers other flowers, freshly plucked,
were laid in pious commemoration.
Joachim, the Flamand, seldom
spoke, He was a prudent and taciturn
old man, who, while pursung his' trade
as a weaver, had lived in intimacy
with the philosophers. He was of
those who, prefer the conversation of
books to the conversation of passers-
by and who live within themselves, in
those spacious and magnificent man-
sions into which nothing conies to dis-
turb their dreams.
The guests. about the table were
joyous, in spite of the vacant seats
which broke the family circle. The
two absentees would have wished it
so. One must be gay, live his life,
laugh, believe, hope anti defy the
scythe -bearer who shows his death's
fac.e to mortals in order to halt the
patient and obstinate labors of lire.
The smallest of the children—he
was named Samuel and was scarcely
ten years old ---was encouraged to talk,
and everybody listened to him. This
boy, with eyes as bine as a pastel and
features as delicate as a girl's was
absolutely free from timidity. He
spoke better than most grownups. The
gift of elocution, which the most in-
structed often lack, had come to him
in his cradle, beetowed by some un-
named
nnamed fairy. Even before he went to
school he astonished people by the un-
expectedness and variety oC his re-
marks. - The top and most of the wheel will be my mother, often stayed at the farm,
"Where can get all the things he
Encouraged by this went approbation, the biuried, but flee bottom will be clear
She knew the lamb well, and when
says?" exclaimed his hatter^ed mother,
young man, while he went on eating, she heard. of its frolic she said at once
And she added, gla.uetug'at the aged developed the theories which were `sure proof that it was not moving.,
Joachim: uppermost in his mind. If the burn is a serious one, a dos-
` Ho islet like his grandfather, who "You must be strong. In the irises
rie.rel. says a word unless he's forced struggle the world will belong to the tor should be summoned. In most
He didn't answer at once, and lifted
Ms eyes to his sister. Judith, who sat
opposite him.
"Isn't it true?" lie repeated, gazing
at her.
Judith grew red. The secret which
she believed buried in her heart had
been discovered, and it was the young-
est of the family, the most self -oc-
cupied and, to all appearances, the
most heedless, who had discovered it.
It was true. She suffered from love
and through love. She had entered a
blind alley , at the end of which what-
ever she might do, she couldn't es-
cape suffering. She had neither en-
cugh courage to renounce her love nor
enough strength to accept its consequ-
ences submissively. She knew that
her cousin Peter, to whom she was
engaged, was overbearing and violent,
and would surely outrage all her finer
sensibilities If she married him.
At that minute Peter entered, as if
announced by fate. He had'' a red
face and thick lips, with powerful
teeth showing under them. He wore
his blond hair like a mane. But in
place of softening his features it em-
phasized their aggressiveness and
harshness. He was a picture of viril-
ity, ruddy with health and rich in ani-
mal spirits,. He greeted the company
and came to take a seat beside Judith,
in one of the places left vacant.
"You are taking our dead brother's
seat," cried Samuel.
"What doss that matter?" answered
gave them all the same fugitive
caresses,
Suddenly the old Joachim put his'
pipe on the table, stretched out hie::
hand and spoke:
"To -day ISthe feast of the Spirit.
It is the fete of pure intelligence, Bat
who thinks of glorifying the 'Spirit?
Who is busy announcing its reign?
You just heard Peter say that brute
force, alone, would be established in
the world, and you alI believed him,,,
because matter, which is .obtuse, pre-
vents you from seeing the truth. But
what would matter be; without spirit?
An inert force, a dead, blind mass."
He half closed , his eyelids and con-
tinued, with • still more positiveness;
"Hear, then, what was said long
ago by a man wiser than I -am, who
was also named Joachim. This is
what he wrote in his book:
"'In the beginning ivas the •reign
of the Father, and that was the first
age of the world. Then there was the
reign of the Son, and that was a
time of trial. The time of trial and
of the crucifixionof the peoples still
lasts. Finally, will come the reign
of the Spirit. Humanity will know
the true light and the beauty ineffable.
All men will- beeome temples of • the
Spirit, and peace will flourish in this
vale of tears.'"
The little Samuel, standing erect
beside his grandfather, trembled with
excitement.
"When will this. be? Will it be
soon? •Must we wait long for it?"
His delicate head, with its feminine
features, rested on the old man's
shoulder, and the two looked into
the depths of each other's souls. They.
two, they alone, understood the pro
mise of the happiness which was to
vivify the earth.
"Child," said the old man, caressing
that charming head, "we shall not see
these things."
The Turning Point.
To say,that the top of a wheel is
travelling faster than the bottom. is
a splendid way to start a fierce argu-
ment, nevertheless, it is perfectly true.
Not only does it travel faster, but
millions of times faster; in fact, no
number that can be imagined is great
enough to represent the difference in
speed. It is infinite.
The only condition is that the wheel
must be rolling along the ground—
just as it would be in the case of a
cart or motor -car.
A good way ,of proving the argu-
ment is to consider a square wheel—
a book can be used for the experiment.
Now roll 'the book on its edge along Nursery Heroine in Real Life.
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in a week. It is possible that at least a
P one would stop to consider
what the face would look
like if it was minus the
eyebrows one would sud-
denly realize that these are
very important parts of
the facial rake -up.
A tiny brush and a little red vaseline
applied every night wilt work wonders.
'after a while. All cannot be accomplished
the table. It will be found that each
corner in turn remains stationary as
the book moves along; that is the top
edge of the book is travelling faster
than -Hee corner on which it is turning.
If the corners are scut off the square,
so that it has- eight sides, exactly the
same thing will occur, each .corner
in turn beeominq stationary as the out of :the pages of the nursery rhyme.
wheel moves along. But if the corners books to become a real live person.
are ,continually being cut off, a round She is a charming old lady, who
wheel will be made, and the part spends most of her time in an invalid
touching the table will always be sta- chair at a well-known watering -place
tionary, and the part just above it in England.
will be moving, Her ame is Mrs. Mary Hughes, and
Again, imagine a wheel with the rim she maintains that she is the Mary of
removed, rolling along an the spokes the nursery rhyme, and that the verse
alone. As the end of each spoke was written by Miss Burls, a London
touches the ground it stops•, and the writer of chiiclren's stories.
wheel swings forward on it. If .so Mra...Hughes tells the story of how
many spokes are put in that they all the lamb actually went to school with
Mary had a little lamb,
Its fleece was white as snow,
And everywhere that Mary went
The lamb was sure to go.
_lerary, the friend of young lambs
and leroiaa in the immortal drama of
the village schoolroom, has stepped
month will go by before there is any
noticeable change.
The red vaseline will promote the growth
and darken the hair. This is invariably
desirable, whether milady be a blond or
a brunette.
Brows that are scant are more readily
improved than brows that are too heavy.
The matter of trimming the brows is an
important and delicate one.
It can be done at home, though it is un-
doubtediy most advisable to consult a spe-
cialist.
If done at home the tweezer or electric
needle should be carefully sterilized :tadthe skin carefully treated with w:tch hazel
or listerine in order that the pores be con-
tracted after the hair root has been taken
out. It is highly important that one be
sure that she knows how to treat the
brows before attempting it without pro.
sessional aid.
Improve your looks with a little care.
Bits of Canadian News
Immigration for the month of
March to Canada totalled 5,548, 1,504
being from the British Isles, 2,670
from the United States and 1,374 from
other countries. Total immigration
to the Dominion for the fiscal year
ending March 31st, was 89,009, 39,058
being British, 29,345 from the United
States and 21,596 from the other coun-
tries.
The total catch of fish on the Atlan-
tic and Pacific coasts of Canada for
the month of March was 116,866 cwts.,
valued at $515,869, 'according to a
statement issued by the Bureau of
Statistics. The catch of cod, haddock,
Peter indifferently. "The dead are hake and pollocic was 37,667 cwts., as
touch each other,the wheel will silt- her. compared with 27,830 cwts., in March,
gone and it is for us to replace theme- l mately, become asolid disc, but its ac -"I was Mary Thomas -before my 1921. In addition therewere46,898
lyNevertheless Ju he smiledsaand •furtive- r tion..relnains the same,even if we marriage, and my father was a farm- cwts. of herring and 10,208 ewts., of
table, squeezed Judith's hand under the' place a band, or rim, round the .outer er who lived a few miles from Llan- halibut caught.
edge. Bollen, in Wales. Changes in the regulations govern -
It is, then quite clear that the part "The lamb that fcallrowed mo to ing the issue of oil and gas permits
of the wheel touching the ground is school was called Nell. I had reared it and leases in the Northwest Territor-
saatienary for an instant. It is also on milk from a teapot, and it used ies provide that the rental must ac -
clear that at the same moment the top tO frisk around me all day. It would company the application for a per -
is moving, and any speed is enormous- accompany me anywhere, and one day mit at the rate of 50 cents an acre,.
ly greater than no speed; for, however, it followed lite to the little village the rental to be comparted on one-half
slowly a thing moved, it would go a school about two miles away. the area of the location. Another
long way in, say, a thousand years; "I tried to send it home, but it change grants an'increase in the time
but a thing with no speed evouid not would not leave me, Inside the school Unlit in which it is necessary :for the.
if one has e' thereat the ends of one's i it lanced around jumping over the Permittee to have a drilling outfit on
move in ten thousand years. P' , p g
arms they're' to enforce respect Finally, the camera ,cannot Ile. Take forms sled causing groat excitement his location.
for the s right," "snap" During the past year Canada ex -
„a moderately slowof the wheel amonot the girls and boys.
Ile is said one of the wo- of a carriage travelling at a fair speed. "Miss Burls, who was a friend of ported to Belgium commodities to the
men. value of $40,000,000. Of this sum
about seven -eighths represents the
value of wheat exported; $2,000,000
"Why are you so late?" she asked
him. "I thought you had gone to din-
ner-so•inewhere else."
He shrugged his shoulders and then
raised his voice, so that every one
could hear hint..
"I had a fight before I came here,
and once more I walloped my man.
We had some trifling argument, But
strongest, Muscle is going to triumph, -cases it is wise to have a doctor's
Woe t the k the infirm, theadvice, as a nervous collapse 'often
quered and the powerless. follows a serious berm '
to"'
'That would: make a good story for a
children's book.' After she returned to
London she sent my mother a copy
in her own handwriting of what she
called 'The verses I have written about
So the. little Samuel discoursed and o le wen , to sit PTrt, con
Mary and her little iamb."'
everybody else kept, silent and heart- bt r
cried to him. Prom the earliest time, His pride gave hint an. air of haugl t-
it has been a .common belief that a lit- mess and emphasized his physical Afire -alarm bell is set ring- To shirk responsibility in youth is
tie of the primordial truth has been seductiveness. A yellow light flashed Mg by smoke is the latest tire -fighting to create difficulties for age, It is
Left on file lips of the.innocent, and teem hie twini:linE eyes, Judith yield- appliance. a form of cowardice.
all ancient peoples considered children
.ed anew to the mastery of a donlinat
the surest of oracles: The priest of ing wl•1. She offered herself as a id•
Isis consulted them bfore opening the
victim to this hero; to this conqueror,
tormidalale mouths of Use statues rang-
ed
ihoug�ii she might have to suffer even
ed in the temples of the Pharaohs,
than 1 had d ]
ege lesused h .nelent air ors
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cheese; $2,000,000 asbestos; $270,000
flax; $200,000 canned fish; and the bale
ante barley, concentrated milk, rye,
etc. According to the Canadian Trade
Commissioner in Belgium there is •a
good market in that country for Can-
adian cattle on the hoof, flour, pulp,
and furs.
The number of pensions now paid
monthly by the Canadian Government
is 66,817, of which 47,827 were for Ins -
ability and 19,940 for death, according
to Hon. H. 5. Beland, Minister of
Civil Re -Establishment. Pensions
have been commuted to the number of
22,351, the total amount involved be-
ing $9,210,312; while 17,000 men, hav-
ing a •disa'bility below 50 per cent. were
paid $821,000 in all. The total' pay-
ments of pensions to date are $113,-
580,414.
A loan of $5,000,000 is to be made
by the Canadian Government to the
Harbor Commissioners of Montreal for
the construction of new terminal faci-
lities in connection with that port. A
loan of $1,500;000 will also be made
to the Quebec City Harbor Commis-
sioners for a similar purpose.
United States exports to Canada
fell off approximately $4,000,000 dur- .
ing March, as compared with the same
month a year ago, while imports from
Canada. decreased $5,000,000, accord-
ing to foreign trade reports issued by
the Unitech States Department of Com-
merce. Exports. from Canada daring
March were vslued at ,$49,000,000 and,.
imports $26,000,000.
Increasing Yield of Canada's
Forests.
Field work on the -forest experi-
ment stations carried on by the
Forestry Branch of the Department
of the Interior has just been com-
menced for the season. The main
experiment stations are situated on
the military iesenation at Petee'eawa,
Ontario, and at Lake Edward, Quebec. the instrument °ailed the "aeroscope."
The former is in the heart of the cut- It consists of a. wooden paddle about
six and a half feet long and three
inches wide, whitened with chalk, and
turning about its middle at the rate
of 1,500 turns a minute. 'When its
motion the paddle' resembles a thin'
circular screen through which objeeis
cats be seen,
Ata distance of nearly' four feet he -
hind the whirling paddle and parallel
to its plane of rotation is fixed a black
screen: The apparatus being placed
in a dark chamber, a brilliant photo
graphic. image is projected upon the
moving paddle, and the'image seems
to stand fortis with all the solidity at
lief that it excited martial anima give a rexil ribjoct.
1 stone forinulatecl o f,ne sTr,. desired
Whosoever `h •_ , °1 i,'The pers;ectiee is. su 'liod by the
W evz:.he, to ptts..i. t c hs new growth, If plan_lii„ l.'. to he � p p pp
health: ' e s reflection of the insa: e.frons the Meek
1 aye ars ancient sem, >rieotnlci dorso, file rate of growth assts the final g
being carried on, with the co-opera-
tion of leading lumbermen and pulp
manufacturers, and, while the work is
yet in the opening stages, the results
obtained are already of great im-
portance.
• The Aeroscope.
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Among the curious scientific toy's is
over pine region of the Ottaves valley,
more bars s re a, guessed, she eves and the conditions are typical of a
large part of both 'Ontario and Que-
M d .lit even the declining era of mod wng to snake the sacrifice. Resarches mace by various scl o.lars The cabbage was adored by the bet; the latter is in the midst of the
crit religions; respect is still aid to When the dinner was over the old' s f II mer Egyptians, who raised altars to it pulpwood country. In addition,each
?8 p pindicate that the heroe o.. o1 p y
thele -.a last: form oC ancient faith: Joachim lighted his pipe and smoked their d with their awls Afterward they;, made this str<'enge of. the Dominion forest reserves in
In the clear] • lighted Fleenish house, for e time m silence. No one spoke, lirepased he foo t god the first dish in their repasts. The the West is a sub -station, and there
$ for they all felt that theyought to hands. In the happy simplicity ,of i,he Greeks and Romans ascribed to it the ,
where everything was burnished, well 8are other substations its the Mari-
dlined and rigorous in torte Rennie], leave hmi undisturbed m hismedita-
e 1,
to -day assumed the figure of a prophet •tions;
The •, , i
They listened to hint' because more T re littlr:. Sault/el glided •over to
tlla.ti ever doubt l'unl rarest bad crept, his gi:andfatllor's'aide', He *as trou-
1ilse cold reptiles, into their hearts, bled; The meaning of life escaped
In spite of the surface joy and gayety him, and the flashes which intermit-
they suffers 1 from, t.Iu eternal. unser- tdntl,y' illuminated lits ,Sonl seemmed.
taints. They longed to lifd': the veil giten�ched. A precocious and sonsi-
which hides the unknown future, tive child, irritated by the apparent
"Where I gt e rill," 1;,faunal prarlaiits- contradictions which: payed on the
ed, "livery things will he :cbaugcsi in, surface of things, he became non -
the. world. 'Iii the first place, people plussed and discouraged. The feast
will no longer have dislntte;,. No one `day, so long awaited witis`'jo,. was.
will seek a civarrel with Ili:•, neighbor, turned to lugubriousness, •
Those who don't love each other will` In the angle, of the wiildo e, Peter
and Judith, their arms amorously in-
t;ortwined, watched -the bustle outside:.
'Noises lose from the street•--•iridis-
tinat rumors, the �brcni•hing of a.pec-
pie freed' :from their daily` tasks. The
delved about the painted
sunlightpa ntoa
have stopped: hating each ot1ter, and.
those who love eneli other will cease
to snake emelt other stiffer, 1?'or often
(isn't 11 true?) when people love each
other MksI they make uncle ether seta
ter nrre::t'"
Homeric ages the .great harems wise happy quality of preserving irons Unto Provinces,
dealt such terrible blows, leaving drunkenness and looked upon it as a' The ultimate problem of forest re -
death and desolation behind theta when sovereign remedy against paralysis. ? search in Canada is how to secure a
they reosed after their exploits, pars r i
Y p p , p Alexander found the onion in Lgypt, continuous crop . of desirable. s acres
took of a blameless' disk of beans or where the Hebrew; had learned to like' ;f trees If r attere is to be relied.
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a plate of homely lentils, it, Ile 11ac1 it cultivated in Gi.•ee:'.o and upon, method, of assisting 'nature
It 'nlay be difficult to imagine gave it :m. food to his troops, 1n the be-' nuiet be fotti:�-1, and cutting 1'egula
Diomedes its the act of peeling onions '
or Achilles' washing cabbages. But
although the wise Ulysses roasted,
with his own hands, a sirloin of beef,
vegetables ooetnpiod elle most eon-
spicuolrs places at all the great ban••
quets of ancient 'Greece,
Parsley formed the' crown with
which' Ilereules, as'conqueror of the
q.
Ne:nlean lion Ciow11etl isilsls�elf. Anne«
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mon celebratestho Marl
em-
blem
plant as the e,rsl
{r:
blares of 'ti afestivity. 1
,) y ntl I all e makes
parsley the food of,courses; r the p y C ou SCS y e war-
riors of Isomer fed their chargers
"Ilow du ;,'oLL iri`011 that, r abasias?" ftoi'Vers and .the living flowers and with it for battle.
eat every'morning, before bitmi1.fast,t yield must be studied, so that a close
young onions and honey! But this! esmay be made of the return
does not sound like a very tempting! obtainable from the planting 0111llty.
preservative.
Asia is said to be the native Moine n1' e' tenaive st udios ere being made el
the naps agtts, 'Y'et the Roman culti- methods of estimating timber for
voted it with such marvelous suecOss, eommervial purposes, A method of
t �' ., . 'Y. , ♦ that that til(. stalks t`iLlSt(1 at'II.Le cliff^a are � 111t`a,UrellrC'iit'of itarrdir'i ' t'•iinlit.t ttl.rt
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saki t0 have \veiebed three pounds; is at once simple and emirate, will 1e
il 1 t 1 T.
asked belie, e
each, end we aroarol,c.t to brlre.,-thatt great its asr�c�rtainirr�• t ie
n� 1
the African variety, grown in Libya, st''ted of timber in any locality, These
molted a height; of twelve foot, ,and other important lines of work are
Ito addition to these ylines of work,
screen behind as well as from the
ser a4ratlsparent ,screen .formed by,..
the rotating paddle.
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The place wheec the minority reler
is the house that has the baby.
Two -thousand years ago, the great
apostle wrote "Behold 'what a gl'eret.
:Molter :i little fire idndlefh" To -clay,
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it gets.the ARM.ittic' start and work;:
the. same big: havoc. Have you any
little fires on .your eonsolenctikt