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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1918-01-04, Page 2Preparedness " By Itettor Haynie' Copyright, by W, G. ehapmau,) A STRUG:GLE FOR L1F.E Zoologien' Park Keepers sattacic ?d� ids. Three Pythons, For some day the three big ; pya thons in the New 'York Zooloiieal ; far is had een ailing, Accorcii •,iv'. 'Preparedness is the keynote of the, trembling fingers, she perused it with ;the management decided to give :Orin hour," react Miss Letitia Parker in the ' longing, eyes. �a close Y of medicine, Three keepers; weel.ly n: wspaper of the little village "Oh, he is coining!" she br aathetl. Cook, Carinon and ~Snyder, entered the in which 'sire lives!. "Will he remember the, old days?" cage, locked the door behind them to She scarcely Linderstoocthe full;Abel had written a brief respectful ! ;~vent the iython s from . escaping meaning and specific application of; note. He was coming to Wayne on and found the snakes atiparerxtly a . placid life l,usines s, he said, . and Would be glad, • ,,— the avoiding far hers was a ; s}eeprng ane 1nY curled on the floor, war's alarms, She never! to meet her again, Iter reply was and the other''trva were Oiled round forgot that word thereafter, however,':, formal, but it put her in a flutter all' for directly below it was a tour-lineday long. Then her day of days! She; they brae hes of an artificial tree, local item that mads the color vise! had chmnod her new gown with all ; (.,oak advanced toward the python to her cheek and her breath come! the pretty ornaments she possessed. on the floor, intending toa grasp hint. quick It ran: ! She might well feel a thrill of pride tightly round the neck, neer the head. "Oise former townsman, Abel Drake, as she glanced at the rnfrrai. Aregal- ;The two other inen stood near; gen is sw'o•arning with some relatives; ly beautiful woman showed, Letitia held the syringe charged with tile Joie down Gosport way., Five years is a; was not vain, but she could not but,and the other was ready to give' nny handshake. good fr]endl,r a g r. e realise_ the tact.assistance that -might be needed, Winn, n• r t . Neig hbor ` She feigned to be trimmingtrimming., the. long time Drop availedanti get a• rose Bushes lining the fence when,' she the speed of lightning; the snake's ,,, saw her expected visitur earning down , head shot out and Cook's clutch fell a "Hee-hes_-.dome-••••batt,., bieatned. 1 t. H breath came 'nick foot , than , had intended: Drake!" SO ERSAULTS IN TH WWE SENSATION O.I+ LOOPING " LOOP 5,000 1� IET •UP. DS THE ', Ilerbert Sykes, the Well -Known Brit- ish Air Pilot; Recounts Some Experiences. Why do I like looping the loop'? SI �. t •�1 1 seetu s Famous Hotel reason, andT bt,ca;use a fcilaw inns ,:%;arto 4;�7;� c�i,nvir,v^�"0uti• ntiecarvl mo `� Many People l ake a Tavntu's. Fan na fiotr6 B,-T.ttfC ,ox the 1'V`alli:er klousq (The 7elotisq of Plenty) as soon as they arrive in Toronto. The meals, the service and the home -like appointments constitute the magnet t'.hat draws I thein there. Noon Dinner 60C. Evening Dinner 5c g 75 . , r THE '4� LK E r�• g� , '1Vell, because I !rice rt, that s -the � JI,,A��J>��i have something to amnuse himself with r'; TORONTO, CANADA up in the clouds, where it's pretty A Rates Reasonable lonely if you are content to set on an ,C� Geo. Wright ar Co., Props. 1 S, - t even. keel, with nothing but the no.s- .,..,�, , ,,, n: of the engine to keep you company; '" ve'd :'1 ''` :•l`';• 'I'l :;,'' I, ,�; says Herbert Sykes, whoee duty it is to test aeroplanes before they are de- . I know it i:•s difficult to convince lands- �i aoae. I'a a.,. tumultuously, ,. Keri Aht he had stopped to gleet an old. ewe iol '1 ni ac inc livered to the fighting forces. Imen that this is so, But, come up handl grasped lire paper v;ith a nems , p r jaws with their rows `•aft , g i?c I'' p ~;lend, Then a neighcxor, a woman sharp, curved teeth elo eel on is Looping: is .the joy of my existence, . with me, and I assure you that you our t.witchnu� of the tinkers. and her stamihrg at hcr };•etc, detained hint so p' s hr and it is my intention to keen on do- won't want to go horn without doing eyes took to ihoir depths a yearnirl t', ion that Letitia •'Fairly stamped bar hand. At first the frantic,eftorts 'of one Lao stunts to mini h a the trin. ging it until 1 have created a record p 1 £lune, ing faraway expression. srn,a. - ' ir,vt, in ;•eaalon. And then ---he seine, all three ilei to release the imp ison- which will take a lot of beating. What f 1 have taken three girls up who had ..e For it, wee indee i flea years eine' end his bronzes!, handsome face' 'filled ed - hand were :useless`; the teetTla-.only clever seen an aeroplane in their lives Abel Drake had gone away, acid ell . hie,. :iagg, and :she was happy, sank deeper, Just in time they pr•em I wail~ to do is to climb upstairs to p ...that time he had been club,;neo in. F r•ont the that she detected a ser- vented the snake £rorty coli about five thousand feet and do some;- before, and each one of them finished lief heart of hearse s the model, the ~air, eonatraint in - his manner and inn„ his. saults all the Way home. slay record up with my machine tying a lever's idea5l I:oat-what r t it. He was distinctly tail eucce.. , . • ) ymg , and finally they. stands at thirty in one circle; and be- knot in the air. ' Fact, I assure you! at her e rtriri� Itstx tics t int fl'* ! " He was tw.enty..t o th,,,u, she two. formai ant? insisted that he could stat; with the in prying •the jaws ap it fare I a4hievecl it I did about twenty- The first girl 1 took upstairs was en - i. ,younger. Nov she was twenty-; for eel: a nice/101A. !ler heart sank rr'ith the syringe. L �. l al 1 g . Cook then seised the Ave, and finished up the everting by joyfng herself imnnensely till I gave five, but time had not hee of n o the . o ee teal t ter West. he was icing 4b n a` *ping in the loo en quite a different my machine aR dip and looked round, velvet softness ut, her ~heel; nor the to return in the SI7e t. Then—s-idly, neck, and .Shannon teas: lout to c e p q �, quite ., Made her a { `; *chine to any 1 have ever seen in the , with a glance which could easily bein- gelrtle luster of her; eyes. +h_� had .1:e. fans:it�c., luri, sadly-- ire minister' the lnethcnne�'���vhan •:,�2it* , �, « „ C dawning ` r_ ale. Like to hear the story? It is terpreted to mean Shall we reverse? �,rorvxi a trifle •>iih the cl:ttriirr2�, w,� by :rine was ;,One. m >"lanring• round, Satin the- dtlrer�',t of womanhood, but her heart was still: .'•t was ail -0 nasty, so different to ,lather amusing. Her face went very pale, she looked snakes rrth distended jaws acid 12 youn •. what she lied anticipated, rhe sat { larorried, and shook her head frantic - g ing eye • ready to dart at the lee A Fly! -Eye. 4 tern ' loch on the rustic bench --alas! so ' She had always liked Abel,despite! i ; etc ^=,time.-Ic,trl;in now. The teampicked p t; i One . ally, his quiet rete m ' aiay. • hA. al, e y ex-, , g Quickly alc�d 1x his c , •night, • when I was on my way i Away we flew, dins! when I thought pression of e friend of Abel, sliming crime.. Her proud woman's heart thefloorand dangled. it es; tt n to- her ears second -hard, had cat the, sought to sten the overpowering tor- the first python, and, as he h' die that fixed liar life's lame - i:i d: crit Of despair vainly.„ angry snake darted at it an aspiration. `'1'm going away to, "J loved him so oh, 1 loved hien :3o, ded his teeth in the cloth,' Ati wrestle with fcsrtune, Abel ryas r e Y ie sr bbed !Orth, "and he is gone for-• teeth bend inward, so `that 4"led ported to •have said. l t •1 make. a go: c - they close upon' cannot.eae of it 1 am going to ask the woman 1, " Ol . Miss Parker, please n'ianlina most admire and respect. to be ni ' wea.2_t� to borrow three eggs, if you've leered. So the snake wee*t wife and that is Letitia Parker” Y! got them. We're going to have cons- himself about on the Holiinp;! And upon this frail snn1<fn, d Letitia. 1afy for supper, iird she didn't ex- effort to,ri'd himself of him had existed during the long patient pact it, and she'll seed to a: back to- Holding in front of tit+, years. At the first she had honed M2 nidi. ort•, and please don't cry. Are remaining coats; the the Drake. would write her from his new; you sick, Miss Parker'?" ,,_ , led the attacks ef th ,' it place of sojourn in the West, but he It was quite natural that the little i,,Tith half their lengtheioii had not done so. Then she had folded • prattler, when she returned home, trunk of the tree the her hands and sighed, telling herself' should tell of the kind lady she had, p3' that it was "better to have loved -and .reeled in tears. Her neighbor, 14Trs• eel their heads ovoi and lost than never to have loved at alt"i Earle, at, once divined the reason. outstretched coats.., With a Just now all the old romance was i Abel rake got a new viewpoint of , and widespread jaws they. revived. The newspaper. announce-! things in general. His hostess tor- `fix their needli»tike teeth in ment stirred her magically, nightly.1 rested some false iznpressions he had throats of the !reaper , • Of course,. sooner or latex he veouldlreceived. . +lxome with ray embus I thought I would she had settled down a bit I jammed 1?''.turn over, just by way of relieving the ; the nose Clown again and shot round •emb a', : inotonony, and so I jammed her nose my head. Her reply was even more python s , down and got her over comfortably on emphatic, so on we flew until I thought rnythint;';Iter back. I would snake a third attempt to win ! 1"' ; Almost simultaneously I heard a her consent. ''t,4 fling .euack behind, and,'juni'ping to the con- This time there was a rl'arkle.of an- fl„Lirt O ;a: ttsion that there had been an accident ticipation in her eyes, and though her to 'the rudder, I turned. my head round face was still pale, it looked deter-tlle twar!to. look. °" mined. At a nod of approval from': It was a till" I had never done be- her I began to loop,and before we „ 1? COMBAT CHILD MURDERLIIIS,. �altfeguarding School Children a1' 'Fangs land During Air itaidai. A. bell rings sharply in the; echool room. Fifty oh bby, childish faces are turned toward their. teacher. Some- where overhead drone the motors of • airplanes, British and German. The children at a signal slide from their desks and lie prone in the aisles'. Their :little faces are preternaturally solemn, save where hero and there an irrepressible youngster. persists in giggling, For the half a hundred chil- dren are lying face downward to save' themselves from the splinters that will. ensue upon a 'German airman'u bomb alighting upon the school, When the Huns are abroad in Eng- land—and air raids are a froctueet oc- currence—every precaution is takep to safeguard the school children, says Popular Science. The, whole nation shrinks from the consequence' of a bomb alighting in any of the :'oast town grammar schools. Vet every step that British ingenuity sang. ;rrg- gest has been taken to saf epaai'ij: the tiny youngsters from the slants, bombs and shrapnel of the Il:r;itrih airmen. The desks theiinselves afford t�'n-, siderabie protection fror,i flying sprin- ters or falling beams. Edch child is coached, accordingly, to lie prone upon• the floor in the shelter of h'^ or her desk as soon as the police aiginal flashed to the 'schoolroom. In the back yards—whrsre they run if the danger is not too imminent—ares hug concrete dugouts, well sheltered wi sand bags. "I know of no other spectacle, says a British army officer, "that bet ter epitomitres the brutality of these slaughterers of children than a roly- poly British youngster in an unforti- fied town, lying prone upon the floor to protect its body from Hun bombs, and a little child in Belgium trying with terrified and inexperienced fin- gers to adjust its own gas mask as the hell -spumes! green gas rolls nearer." sz.a ,1 foie, and what I saw was one of the reached the aerodrome that little lady d about else ii greatest revelations of my life. My had made three somersaults, She told tans': tl ;range of vision was amazing, and me she liked the sensation immensely, round .dh' ! e-zerything I saw h4 d such a weird ef- and would not have missed it for ryring t Ce !fief that I realized'I had made won- worlds. eight: ' • A 141ild Flirtation. "That. is What they all say," said I. I suppose I must have the knack of come to Wayne to see.his old friends. t rIf d • wheel heard ' ti Suddenly the fir at python, hfmse .a}io < ' entre from 1 I� u2 1e a.hn lie might not have succeeded in . his; t,,,vn and the general air' of prosper -if ut< orr tyre plans for ,getting on in the world. He ity about the '!place; that ISIiss Parker Snyder s leg a`j,a.. might be only making a flying visit-! had, got far out of niy sphere of rim_ ° ground:. lie might have forgotten all about heal itcd means." and then frond• what sh pert -matt a\ qt:' -es V;, m d gy. told him 'ie le ,,ted the 'truth i�ietr41,, c' ea 1 ,q;�.,,i�.xr ri tt,, r9 a ' d`erful-discovery. What I had eard "was merely a bit of mud, which had dropped down and struck the tail, and -as the latter- seemed to be coming up'inspiring~ confidenee,' for people who !towards me, and everything below talc- have vowed that nothing will ever ing on: a new Zook, th' excitement of persuade them to fly express the de - the ne'xv exp 'itcnce gots su :v1'ho1 r0 ` 's're for me to take them upstairs e that 'T •' r T have talked to them for a min - o - of,the two is much the •same"=one sons~ octal.: s rnea'?N ei,se`tai,, Jr4,aeat,`!.;eamans, the .,,,_x e-neAtC-. same time,. and the trip was one of the' animals. What the Red does for the soldier, the.Red Star does for the war'horse. There are 4,500,000 horses engaged in this war. On the western front the losses have averaged 47,000 a month. In eight hours fighting along a three. mile front at Verdun the French lost 5,011 horses. Every `eight miles behind the lines is an animal hospital with veterinary what there is of me into small bulk, I quarters, convalescent wards, operat- am forced to use cushions to enable ing rooms, medical supplies and other me to see over the front. So I sun- equipment. The Red Star must have ply removed the three of them, put similar equipment and an adequate one lady in the pilot seat and sat on her lap. Her friend sat behind us. 't , i e` *r titan has o i a �' rrii eam of tobacco juice. ccincched on th�„rave€path. 1 ,., 1 d "I could not gas a way without see- 11 eesnakeeretlimlie5 of dthetlx eel "tin ing yolr once more, spike Abel, seas -I. Isms] steadily, "after coming so fax came quiet. Snyder then sue,,edeci' only to say to you what has been in freeing himself _from the coil; of- + my heart ever since ;1 left here five first python, and went back tto fig iyears ago. the third. And Hien he told 'of of his hard work In one of his bashes about t re" 'which and. I, to acquire i1 few thousand dollars— the first snake hit his head . ;t teat In the meantime there was the Seeming to hire pitifully small when realest consternation at the aero- ! " the trunk, of the tree, lay stunted ; a g l the w compared with the apparent wealth O£' moment sand then slowlyclimbed u 1 dr orae. All my friends, who had been the woman he loved. lx, . And then the truth cane out—she cnveloping,,;the third fighter so ekisel ; watching Inc coming down in somer- "ss" 1 was poor, and glad of it, for he was in his' folds tha't•she could' strike from `,saults, were hurriedly throwing I .' t t xch- -oh infinitelyn•i •1•t in love! � •'trete er into motor -cars t a e and '•s s a s and a Mance of:.onlyh l four t feet. '�s�nitdashing Abel Drake did not leave forthe Nest. •ryas the .1 eepers' opportunity i, ',est Neff to find anything that might be left 1' 'seized the her poor Sykes. ! SHIP SCUTTLERS ne third snake unwound . THE RED STAR. A Society Which Does Efficient Ser- vice for the War Horse. In the war the soldiers' wants are cared far by a number of agencies — chiefly the Red Cross; the animals, too, have a li'elping organization working along Red Cross lines, but , known as the Red Star. The 'mission most enjoyable I have made, although mg dark, Iwas tickled to death most of the yhangar, I time. The girls weighed about ten on for ,miles stone each, and as one would not go up ,.e out a safe plate in without the other, 1 was at a loss what to do at first. There was no room in the machine for them to sit side by side, but, as usual, I found a way out of the difficulty! Nature having compressed what Uiid , y ' of from the tree and flung• her into 4,' e 1 • Hither and thither they went scour - `'s water tank where she Tay finite •,* • ing,,,the country, and., to make natters staff. In the first seven months of 1917 and then proceeded to adlnf5risteJ the 1"'the worse, it •took me about an hour Everything went well when we were the value of horses shipped to Europe .�i ; Mechanism of Interned German Liners P , climbing,but when we were in the air from American ports was $26327,833: •1 f ! medicine to all three subniesive pea find a phone, and another to get a ` >l 1 Wrecked by Orders From Berlin. ~lents, connection when I found it. I met. I found my cushion a bit nervy. She For the month of July alone the value 'part of the lamenting crowd on my was t;.'embling in every limb, and was $1,377,202. Wastage of horses Ivey home, convinced them that all every time the machine rocked she means an enormous loss, which mere !was well, and 'after supper I decided put her arms round my ,waist and money cannot now replace. Thirty - 'to go back to Shepperton, where I had hugged me tight. i lin orders came commanding the des- , of the doom of the old sailing ships, left my aeroplane, and put a cover The Tale That Failed. •= ! truction of the internal mechanism.' The arrogant steam competitors hare' over it for the night, as it had coin- , Oh, yes, it was nice andall that, and ' �•°d „.1 , The engineer loves his engine. To f been swept from the sea by the thou.r rnenced to rain. as I had never been hugged in the air 4; 1 many a bluff sailor the order to wreck ! sands since`lthe war began, Th,-, gold An Unexpected Loop, by a girl before I took my hand off ;the engines was as a command to stab f square riggers and multiple -masted We set out on a light tai, and as the control, and, slipping it into the his sweetheart. Each engineer had 1 schooners are again coming into their the roads were muddy and full of hand of the lady, I squeezed it in the ant•; been instructed in advance what to do own. Formerly they were too sIory h les I made the journey on the a rad' fashion most approved by readers of There were scenes of mingled sad- ; nese and exultation in the engine-; rooms of the German liners interned in United States ports, when the Ber- Clipper Ships. War has not touched a finer pinrxnele of romantic thought than the staying Below It Was a Four -Line Local I to put his engines out of commission, for most trans-Atlantic freight traf- ator. Everything went all serene <un- Aunt Ermyntrude's penny novels, and til the journey back, when; with your thus assured the maiden that she was humble servant still sitting on the safe in the air 'with Sykes. radiator, the car dived into •a particu- It's a pity there isn't a sequel to tional administration and the ainer•- larly deep pocket. in the road, and be- this story, but although I'm a daring Stt fore it stopped dead turned' over three enough chap in the clouds with a lady, encies which crop up every hour. ipl times. I was still sitting an it whenI'm not a bit of .good at love -making is the volunteer adjunct to a conscript $ force. Wherevere- there is fighting, wherever there is a wounded 'aniniitl, there must the sign of the lied-•. .pr be seen. -- I and as he put the tackle in place for I fist T'1any of them were gathering Still, hope burned brightly in her `longing heart, "Anyway," whispered Letitia to her - ' self, "1 shall—'prepare..'' " She flushed a trifle as she said it, her self-con- •sciousness causing a sensitiveness ;that made her shrink from anybody guessing the motives that lay under her secret plans. s Then the neighbors began to talk. - They all knew that Mies Parker had a comparatcvely small income and that e surplussparse her s, 5 was s ars, and•i pP ret+. dental The .old house was given a new coat of paint, the interior was neatly but cheaply redecorated. Sonic chairs and a hammock adorned the porch. A cozy lover -suggesting rustic seat was set under a shady tree in the garden. "She must have more coming in than we thought;" gossiped a neigh- bor; "to go to all that expense.,, They little knew the hard paring and scraping the frugal Letitia exer- cised to ear'.ry nut her project of "pre- paredness." Mies' Porker blushed again when she -finished saint soft downy pillows for the hammock. She Was not planning fon' her own corer- ort, • She was "preparing". for "vis - tors,"• and. if through her mentality here ran a vision of a s'talwar't, mans • young,.fellow lolling' in the ham- rcle, her good,, kind soul titres at fault, of vanity nor the baso manoeuvring f a really designing • woman. Now her inocent, tender heart fiat- i cel as the postman handed her a tit r i, i.rnarked "Gosport" That. a :tkrc towra where Abel Drake weal ;this folk. i:lho opened it with; !the cruel job he felt like an unwilling i barnaelee at the empty wharves of de jhangman preparing the gallows. En- cadent shipping centres when the gineers and firemen wept as the cyl-1 submarine warfare began. NSw they inders crashed,oand many a senti- !are scraped and painted and fitted with mental fellow was prompted to record :white canvas and sent out to foil the his love for his mistress of power. ' U-boats of the Hun. 'Tonnage has be -- 1 With chalk they scrawled their :Colne so important that ships . that sentiments on the great machines they' were virtually in the "boneyard," es a were first to maim and then to leave. sailor would say, have been refitted. "Farewell, sweetheart, till wemeet The sailing shipn9 cheaper to operate again," wrote one engineer. than a steamer and has hung an dog - "Forgive r I'Ui ive n1e n 'despite tl n1 ne r ' edrapid bonnie,d g , ;� for the in- gedly,1? increase in jury I do you," wrote another, steam -propelled bottoms. The war "To break you is to break my has accentuated the importance of heart," scribbled another sailing ships. The veterans of the ores are fifties f'a < n e <tgalln coining into their, own. "May the parting be brief, dear one," said a fourth. There is no doubt that ninny en- gines would have been. wrecked far worse than they were but for this love of the engineers and mechanics for, their line mechanism. However, no such sentiment affected the masters of 'the policy of ruthlessness; with th-ni it was a question of pure logic and cold calculation, Steps have been taken by the Food Controller to conserve breeding stock, as part of the campaign for increased. production of food animals. Tri pruning cut limbs close, so as to leave no stub or knot. A protruding knot will not; heal. .A wound cut close will allow the growing layers to close over the wound. The King of Space An .albatross in a ,store is a won- derful . sight. No matter how furious the gale, no matter how fierce the.i.lur- rieane squalls of Cape Horn, -the great bird soars up against the blast grim and serene. Then.wheeling, he comes sweeping down on the wings of the gale at a speed so tremendous that it 'cannot be less than 80 or 90 miles an hour, when, 'describing a low but immense circle, with the tip of his lee -wing just brushing .the top of the giant waves, he again takes his flight upward against ;the storm. No livi g erestturo convoys the idea of bound] freedom so perfeetiy as the Ring Space, the Wandering Albatross, three thousand horses have died in,' America while awaiting shipment and 6,000 have died at sea in course • bft transit. To replace an average month's losses of horses on the western front would require fifty large ships for a full month carrying nothing but . horses, horse supplies and horse at- tendants. The Red Star work is a national ne- cessity, It is the bridge between ` na- it settled down •peacefully, so I think on dry land. I can lay claire to being the only avia- preserve Chinese poultrymen. ire for who liar looped the loop on a mop 'y 1 .,ere e darck tor car. eggs fresh for many months by coat,. There is really nothing- except ex- ing them with a mixture of ashes, hilaration and excitement in looping, tea dust, clay, salt and line. C,S,in 1..•,.n, ,3.•�::�.w'4:%* ..1 7..Y251 ! tli E . , .Sa.r.: .a. .r'".,.«s-ua,.v:.n•,'.- Hc Ci Coronaiio Coronado Beach, CaMornia Near San Diego MOTO IIS• a, TENNIS, BAY AND SURF f3ATHING, FISHING AND BOATING. 18 -Rolle Go1ii 0Losse Hotel is equipped throughout with Au Sprinkler System: AMERICAN PLAN JOHN 3 HERNAN, manager w,.,.•::r.iaLarzitan."w7t'I2•;f.G 's".' a .' '" v<ui"..,;. Ica nati;, I BRITONS AT 'TIE mom A Table of Percentages Showing Fighting Representation. It is officially stated that the portions of troops holding the -3 front in France are as follows: Great Britain . , • .. , 82 per; c Australian , ........ 9 per Canadian . 7 per c Now Zealand 2 per e The respective nationalities o fighting Men of the British Isar a more difficult ,subject. The tion presented below i i careful official. It is for all fronts: English . , .. 59 per: Scotch ... . 10 poi Australian . .. 5.5 pe Canadian : —5.5 pe Irish .. ...... 5 pe Indian .... 5" ss South African ...... 2{ li New Zealand