The Seaforth News, 1925-11-12, Page 6LIFE ON THE ALPS
BY BERTHA A WINKLER.
"MutterliI Madeli! no more worry. A double "Hurrah for Ul iei," from
ing now. I've got a place; I am hie old comrades, and the train winds
senner-boy toYolass herd, and
to-. sl
owly
up
the mo
untain
-pass,
a
cco
m-
i i
we'll start for
the Alps. . st'edwiththe prayers and
This exclamation, uttered in the wishes of the ofd folks, the fluttering
quaint dialect peculiar to the Swiss handkerchiefs of sisters and sweet
people, was from a bright youth of hearts, and the ringing cheers of old
fifteen to his mother and- sister, who comrades, until the last echo is lost
did not receive his glad tidings quite ] in ecthe chasms and fissures of the
as joyfully as he expected:
The mysterious fate of the wild, Ulrici, alone with the herd and the
es. son of the wealthy cattle- herdsmen, climbs 'laboriously up the
owns s The Alp -horns and
heights. A P
• t steep owner, Bruno, and the large reward P g
which was offered by the stricken 1 cow -bells keep up a merry chorus,,and
parents for his body, was still the I Ulrlci's heart would have gept time
toP is of village talk, and contributed, with the music, if billy his gentle
not a little to the fears of Mlle: 's1mother had bid him good-bye with
mother lest he, too, should never re- ` smiles instead of
•ears a bright
Presently,
turn.
Her endeavors to dissuade him from! thought lit up his face.
his intentions by portraying the den- "Yea," he murmured to himself, "he
which he would � would write a letter. Mothers always
be exposed
andhardships to oosed among the glaciers and like to get such little tokens of
chasms of the snow-capped mountains, thoughtfulness from their thought:ass
with nothing but cheese and milk for boys."
his food,and only a straw thatched A week later, Michel, the messehger
roof over his head, only aroused hie from the Alps, surprised the inmates
fiery, adventurous spirit still more. of Ulrioi's house -with a letter.
His ardent imagination had long, There was a great commotion in
been fed with the eight of those eter-
nal snow -tops, and the tales of won- footed pets, judging from theiratti-
which the senners tulles and pricked ears, when Madeli
detfu1 adventures opened the missive and read aloud:
long winter
v in relate upon the P"Dear Mother and all the Home
winter evenings.
When, therefore, Ulrioi's promises folks: For I know pussy will: be aur-
of caution were backed in the even- ring on Madeli's shoulder, Carlo will
ing by Senner Yokli's word that he wag his tail for greeting from me,
would bring him back safe, it was and I am sure my little robin will
settled that he should go; for, after peep through his cage sideways for a
all, Ulrici's wages were the only glimpse of my letter. So I won't
means for keeping extreme want from slight any one,
the door. I am writing this on the green
Early the following morning, the sward, sprinkled with Alpine flowers
village was astir in eager expectation and herbs, surrounded here and there
of the senner-zug (herdsman's par with pyramids of ice and snow, which
ode), which was always a regular dazzle my eyes with their brilliant
gala -day to th-- villagers I shades of colors from the reflection of
Children tumbled is wild delight on
l..
Cul. W. A. Bishop, crack Canadian ace, looking: over the international
aft•. races at. Mitchell Field.
night, for here we have no such thing which yet held out the means
luxuries as candles. And bread 1 of rescue, his Alp -horn, lay' °lose be-
have not seen since I ate the last seed- side a human body with its face turn -
cake you gave me for my journey, ed' down.
"Tho young heifer you decorated The boys had always called him
with ribbons is very familiar, rubbing "brave Uli," abut rin has paralyzedone odhghastly
her nose on my shoulder, Perhaps with fee , g g p
she would like to send her greetings scene It lifew hours he must share the
along with the love of your devoted
dangerous leap for. his home, and, par -
The same day on which this letter haps, land in a crushed heap upon the
cheered the hearts of his mother and dead body? - It would only decide the
sister, one might have thought he was fate which now prolonged his agony
lord of the mountains, so confidently of suspense, and then there was a
did he stride bet-wee:phis cattle, care- possibility of rescue within reach of
lessly leaping a narrow chasm, or his horn.
peering down into the fathomless But he recoiled from the attempt.
depth. His courage forsook him, as he meas -
Presently, however, he tired of his ured the width of the chasm and saw
survey and sat down to play a fa- that he could not avoid landing upon.
niftier air. The cattle were quietly the corpse. ,
grazing, and as quietly scattering, un- In an agony of irresolution, he kept
noticed by Ulrici, whose head had his eyes rivetedupon the narrow aper -
drooped upon his breast in slumber. ature above, where the creeping sha-
A loud blast from Yokli's horn, ask- dows reminded him of approaching
ing the usual question, "Is all well?>, night.
aroused him with a start. Without Still the name of "Uiil" came boat•
-
Ulrici." dead man's fate. Should he make the
" the sun. Away down lies the va et', taking time to see, he replies, "All's ing across the chasm from Yo re s
the green sward; goats were butting 'wi'th its villages and orchards, looking t;, horn, and stillhthe icy current cons
like groups of toy -houses and nlinia- well.
each other for pastime; ducks and g' P Then he begins to count the member tinned its deafening roar.
geese and chickens were cackling and ture forests. And the stream I used of his cattle, and discovers that a1 Ulrici was motionless—his white
fluttering around the thresholds of ' to fish in seems only a slender white valuable cow and his favorite heifer face growing ghastlier every moment.
the little cottages, noisily demanding thread running throughanexpanse are missing. Be starts up in wild) Every faculty and muscle seemed
their breakfast, which the young, rosy -1 of green. Early in the morning, alarm, for his whale season's wages, Paralyzed with dumb des �,j�r�. The
girls, standing in groups, 1 clouds, which are so thick that I some -
besides the money which his mother echo of Praise God the Lord'T rover -
with flowers
g s, g times feel tempted to try and sit down
with Sowers and ribbons for the sen- p had paid as security, would be far-' berating through the narrow chasm,
hers, had forgotten In their excite -Ion them and be carried to the valley,
are beneath rte, and I often imagine
mut. i a few steps sufficient to touch the
Madeli and her mother, too, were i blue sky with my hands.
peerstanding It the e threshold. But tjoy{{ "All around nie are the snow-cap-
lnto t -with more anxiety than joy I les staringlike
snow -cap -
into the distance, as the first sound 1 ped mountain pea
of an Alpine -horn announced their giant monsters over the neighboring
earning.
I Alps. From deep fissures of the rocks
Everybody's head is turned to catch i and glaciers, drops of water, clear as
the first glimpse of the train, headed crystal, drip incessantly, farming lit -
by Senner Hansil, a large Alp -horn, i the rills, then rivulets, then cascades
decorated with ribbons, suspended • faifng from one declivity to another
from his shoulders. I down into deep chasms, where they
After him, stately and wonderfullylrush along under the snow-covered
dignified for an animal, trots the lead -1 ground.
er of the caravan—the largest, oldest I "In the midst of this solemn gran -
and best looking cow, with an im-' deur, I am alone with a herd of
mense bell suspended from her neck, !twenty rows, But I don't mind it, for
and a wreath of flowers plaited around Yokii and I keep up a constant com-
ber silver -tipped horns. 1 munication by means of our shalmers
Following her, comes the remainder' (Ald-horns), and pass a great part
of his cattle, the senner-boy and the of my time in practicing the tunes
youngest heifer closing up the rear which I hear him play. Madeli would
of each herd. 1 b surprised to hear me pray her fav -
Shouts, Huzzas, and general accla-i orite, 'The Gay Mountaineer.' Yokli
motion from the admiring spectators,; says I dd it first-rate.
greet the smiling, nodding senners ass "My thoughts are often down in the
they pass, dofflng.their round Tyrol-; valley with you and Madeli; but I fee
ese hats to some familiar face in the myself nearer to you during that im-
crowd, while the girls rush forward pressive ceremony, 'The Senners'
and surprise the blushing young sen-` Good -night.' When darkness has al-
ters with their gifts of flowers and ready settled in the valley, and the
ribbons. ( light of the sun shines only on they The dead body, was recognized at
•
Next in line conies Senner Yokii, highest mountain peaks, the chief sen tered on the rocks below. : current. With mingled horror. an
<: nem who occupies the highest seep, Again and again he heard Yokii. joy, his trembling bands reached down once as the body
son of rich Senner
His goo -natured arm a wreathedsconfiding-1
int blows caning his name, but he could not the side of the lifeless body to grasp
ilea and his fat arm a leading
es i nfl cowe
through from his hut and o heard above the tush the precious horn. Blast upon blast Bruno. And when, in September, the
smiles ,, senners came back to the village,
Ever on the neck of los 'ng backaover through his sh Immediately
`PratGod the; maks himself ' of alarm nc•tes now ascend through young Ucame to the finder e,
and anon he is looking over' within
hearing
istan ever senner' ing"Must he die there all alone?" aters. ; the narrow aperture, and immediate- Uftici s famedy him,
the herd, where hie new rear witho l te shodistance appears upon 1youngg widow's cottagedpreceded was full of vil-
a
of
with a' the threshold of his hut and repeats 1 He could not always sit there. Ere : ly half a dozen horns sounded in reply.
Ulrici, brings up the ; z of fifteen long ho must give way his hold upon, Familiar voices reach his ear, and'
atately, heifer.conscious gait, by the side of 1 the words. t. During the God rek shelf,and then he would be , ere long a rope descends, and the wel- lagers who cams to eongratu ate Ul-
youngnefrommes the name God rend ravine!s.
mea y
r vine t shattered to pieces, within hearing of come voice of Yok1'i inquires if he can rtci and
His glance sweeps searchingly over revery od.Thmountain-top and a l Yokli's incessant call. Oh, if he only', secure himself to the' rope without the bystandern and, with a graceful', for miles around. Then there is a. replies
e hat he salutes his gegen stillness; every senner, fnclud-j had his horn to make himself heard] a dead body here.tttWhat shall•re is
I do
swing of his new
mother and st nt he. and
hush eare1 ing your p aei, cued head, nowt ab"Perhaps it had fallen into the cur -e the deafening roar below! ; with it?"
In an instant he and the heifer are kneels in prayer until the last rays of, rent!" 1 A long consultation eves held. Then
Hepeered down. A cry of horror he heard Yoke again: to
tremblinglips. "12 you are brave enough, do it
escaped his fifteen
f o 1 -.the ripe;
There, fifteen feet below him, shit other}visa we will let it re-
ing brightly in the water, the only 1main there until morning."
a
felted if they were lost. ;brings a flash of consciousness over his
With throbbing 'heart he starts in • face,
search of them. Again he heard Yok-I "The senners are praying now," he
li's horn, inquiring if all was well, murmured, as he, too, knelt upon the
and Ulrici, fearing a severe repri- dripping rock. "Was Yokii praying,
nand, and still hoping to recovers for him, too?"
them, each time replies with an assur- I Then he suddenly remembered how
ing "Yes 1" though he felt his face i he had repeatedly deceived him, to
burn with shame at the conscious del hido his neglectfulness.kt lest after Ulrici had learned to have courage
caption. 1 Ile thought of his mottle:, stow"h� in these few hours of dreadful exper-�
ascending _._ ,. disregarded her otle.:warnin
fence. and without hesita`ien, though
his hand trembled, , he fastened the!
rope around the corpse and, with his
bank turned .and his eyes r,.osed so
teat he could not see the face —which
no i:t:ew trust be disfigure•] --he gives
the signal for drawing it up.
He hears an exclamation of surprise
as the body reaches the surface. Tran
the rope again descends and bravo
l `rici, with a mental thanksgiving,
feels himself drawn up by the sturdy
senners.
asyLe sons in
AUCT
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New Series NNE `ERGUS0N
Crfutitor of ' er'guson ora cr4uction Brae"'
Copyright less by Boyle, Jr.
ARTICLE No. 5
There are still a number of auction
la ers who as dealer do not under-
stand players
what to do with certain types of
hands. Most players know when to bid
no-trump or one of a -slut but every now
and then they hold hands that puzzle
them. For example, suppose you dealt.
and held the followinghand:
Hearts—A K, J
Clubs-9, 7, 4, 3
Diamonds — A, K, Q
Spades 8, 5, 4
What would you`6id?'I'he only proper
bid with this hand is one no-trump and
yet the holder of this hand passed, It is
too strong' to justify a ass for if you
do, there is a 'very good chance of the
hand being p axed out. It will also mis-
lead partner .os to strength held. Here's
another hand:
Hearts—A, K, 4
Clubs— A, 9
Hearts— K, J
Clubs— J, 6, 3, 2.
Diamonds -9, 3, 2
Spades— A, B , 10, 4
Diamonds • K, 3, 3
Spades — Q 3, 10, 9, 8
r one
no-trump one l0 0
Should
you bid a P
spade? his is a very close hand. Per-
sonally the writer prefers a spade bid
but would not criticize a no-trump.
These. two hands are indicative of the
difficulty that still confronts auction.
players who have not yet mastered the
proper bids of the dealer. The dealer. is
in a peculiar,p�osition for he can always
give exact information. For that reason
he should' strive to' bid correctly: To
pass under certain circumstances is
lust as bad as to bid incorrectly. Don't
pass sound bids for to do so is lust as
misleading as an unsound bid. Your
partner depends on you as dealer to
give exact information both by your
bids and your passes, so strive to do so
at all times.
Hearts ---10, 8, 2
: Clubs none g� 7, 5
$ : Spadesn-s9, 7,'3, 2J'
No score, rubber game. Z dealt and
passed, A bid' one spade, Y one no-
trump, 13 passed and Z bid two hearts,
A and Z bid three passed
cl bs, A B dbid two Y passed and
B bid three spades. Z bid four clubs, A
doubled Y redoubled and B bid four
epades. Z and A passed, Y doubled 13
redoubled and all passed. Y opened the
ace of hearts and then led the trey.
How should A play the combined hands?
After winning the second trick with the
king of hearts, A should lead the king
of spades, Ile should then lead a low
diamond and win the trick in B's hand
with the king. He should then lead a
low spade and winthetrickwith the ace
in his own stand. In tine particular hand,
Hearts — Q, 7
Clubs — none
Diamonds— none
Spades— A, Q, 8
Z failed to, follow suit on the second
round of spades. A was how_in a pori-
tion, where' he could count Z's hand
very accurately. Y's lead of the ace and
trey of hearts and the fact that B held
the deuce indicated that Y originally
held only two hearts. Therefore Z must
have held six hearts. Z's bid and rebid
of clubs indicated that he must have
held at least five clubs so that hisorig-
inal holding must have been six hearts,
five clubs, one spade and one diamond.
Therefore, A at the sixth trick should
lead. a diamond and finesse, the jack.
Played in this way, AB shod make
their contract for YZ can,only make
the ace of hearts and two Play out the hand for practice.
tricks
Problem No. 3
Hearts—8
Clubs—none
Diamonds — none
Spades —IC, 9,5,3
B
Hearts- K, 9
Clubs—none
Diamonds— none
Spades —J, 6, 2
and lead the eight of hearts. If 13 plays
the ten, Z should play the king and
then lead' the nine. If B plays low, Z
should play the nine, forcing A in the
lead. A can now lead a heart or a spade.
If the former, Z wins the trick and
Leads a spade. If A leads the ace and
small spade, Y will win the remaining
tricks. In either case therefore, AB can
only win one spade and one heart trick
so that YZ win -three of the five tricks
against any defense.
rs
There are no trumps and Z is in the
lead. I-Iow can YZ wan three of the five
tricks against any' defense?
Answer to Problem No. 3 -
Zshould lead the jack of spades and A's
best play is the queen. If A should pplays,
the ace YZ will win the balance of the
tricks. If A allows the jack to.hold the
trick, AB can only win one trick. When
Y should winthetrick with thof e kling
dreds of feet higher, he cliecovers the would now bring• double poverty upon
print of hoofs on the thin crust of her by his carelessness.
snoW. Ho covered his bruised, bleeding
An exclamation of relief, a hound , face with his hands; heavy sobs shook
forward, and Ulrici, with' a smothered! his frame.
cry, sinks down, down through the' -When the "good -night" of the sen -
treacherous snow—he knows net; ners reached his ear, he knew that
where. I they were going to rest, and, in a few
A cry of horror escapes his bleeding minutes, all hope would be gone. He
lips as he recovers his senses, only to; remained upon Itis knees until the
find himself on a narrow, craggy rock,; well-known call of Yok:i reached hint
with the wild icy mountain -stream once more.
roaring fifteen ', h fixed look f deter.
h
feet beneath him, Then, with
a xc co - o Uiricl's first question is after the
He was already twenty feet below,ination and. daring on his face, a strayed caths and he els at thank -
fling
ground, and a single misstep would, raised himself to his fel height, peer- ftly listens o the gruff rebuke him down into the rushing curs: ed down into the charm, and exclaim-, Senner Yokes he short,tagr, amid a
rent below. i ed fervently, Life or death, I'll dare! careful and almost tender application
In vain his weak voice called for; itl" he made the fearful leap.
help; the roaring current drowned it1 His heels slightly struck the limbs of bandages to his bruised head, after
p,' beinginformed that tile- cattle came
all. In vain he felt his side for his of the corpse iasn he landed, stunned. home all right with the rest of the
y
10shalmer"; it was lost—perhaps shat-; and Uleedfne in the middle of the
s, d hard
f
,Hearts --10, 7, 4, 2
Clubs-- none
Diamonds -11000
Spades-- 10
have a look at -life sturdy
heifer which Senner Yokii gave him
in payment ,for his wages, and the
fifty silver gulden reward which he
received frons the grateful parents of
young Bruno,
But Ulrici, never told his mother
how dearly those silver pieces had
been obtained. He only took' Madeli
and Carlo into the secret,
covered with fluttering ribbons. A! the sun have vanished. Then g�
few suppressed fears, an earnest! night' sounds from the trumpet of the
warning, and a fervent "B'huttel first senner, and `good -night' is re-
rott," and they separate for one longechoed from the Alp -horns of all the
season of anxiety. (rest. Everybody now retires for the
REG'LAR FELLERS—By Gene Byrnes.
- i HATE TO
WRITE DEFINITIONS
WORSEAtrillAiNC7
PWHAS DOSS
MEAN pop3
THEY'RE THE
FELLERS "MKT
WERECDRTURED
A
SACK: ME
—
PAPER' FROM
WASTED STRAW
EVEN
BEFORE
`MP!
•vtAY BEFORE
TFCAT
CANADA'S FOREST.RE-
S e URCES RAPIDLY
DEPLETED.
Gigantic Industry Will be
Built Up by the Use of
Fel-11'i By-product.
The future of the paper industry,
elle
' the
whole
o at
and indeed, the f'utut
'Made of printing, causes periodical
anxiety to those closely associated
with ekther owing to the. diminishing
supply of paper mnterinl from wood.
The United States' has •become the
greatest coneunier of paper in the
world, and ea its own soft wood sup-
plies have neared exhaustion it' hes
acme` to depend largely upon Canada
and to draw more and more upon .
Canadian foresee. In addition to the
large eappliea' of pulpwood exported
,ire a raw state, fully eighty per cent.
of Canada's newsprint nvanufacture
finds its way across the international
border. In addition to this, other
countries are"Oalling 'aeon Canada for
newsprint supplies in an. increasingly
insistent manner, lvhich is resulting
n
a situation where Canada's raw forest
resources, immense though they be,
are being exploited at a rate which toe-.
colons apprehension, alone, ihexe-
Canada, from this pointe on
fore, Ilea prime li e:met In what is be-
ing aceomplisl1eh in the manufacture
of paper from straw, which is accenr
tuatad by the fact that the Dominion's
of the raw material for the
supplies w
flew manufacture is likewise immense
and increasing every year with agri-
cultural settlement. Not long ago the
London Morning Post publtehed an 1e -
sue on paper ,made from etre*, nun
the unqualified success ee.ems to have
definitel9 " lifted the question from
theory to .practtoe. The trouble ex-
perienced in, the past, as stated, has
been with the brittleness of the paper,
but ten years' experiments have over-
oore this dafculty, This De Value
process, as ilia known, tee been per-
fected in French fwctorese, and, ac-
cording to the same paper, the work ie
to be continued tom a large scale fn
Canada,
Big Possibilities for Cnnada.
For name considerable time experi-
ments have been in progress in Can-
ada looking to the utilization of West-
ern straw piles in the nsanufactus'o of
paper, A method for the utilizatio'i "
of flax straw in the manufacture c,t
pule, for conversion into high grads
papers has been perfecter. More re.
cently tests, have been made with
wheat, oat and other straws under the
Bache•W1ig process at Edmonton, Al-
berta, under government auspices,
with such success that efforts are be-
ing made by the provincial authorities
to interest capitalists in the commer-
cial manufacture of tide product in
Alberta.
It "would seem inevitable that soon
er or later straw will become a raw
material in the manufacture of paper.
This will moan a gigantic industry for
Canada and the definite removal of
any clanger of a less of supremacy in
the newsprint industry through dwind=
ling forest supplies. Such au industry
will, in addition, mean the utilization
of an enormous. by-product of farming
which is now wasted, for it is esti-
mated teat 7,000,000 tons of straw are
burned annually in the Dominion, and
this is incrc'asise yearly. In Eettdrn
Canada there is a use. for -straw in
connection with the livestock indus-
try, but in the West the burning at
straw piles after threshing is a situ
feature of an imbalance:I i,ndus•try.
The advent of ctraw paper making will
bring additional revenue, more em-
ployment, preserve a great industry
for the world, and retain an export
-trade for Canada ofprime importance.
How Bach Got a Breakfast.
Savo the String.
She• -"Give me a piece of string to
tie up this music."
He --"Use its own chords."
A Child's Faith.
A party of friende were out in an
autpmobile fcr a drive and had not
noticed the approacjting storm.
With great peals of thunder and
flashes of lightning and wind the
storm broke, and because of its
severity there was some alarm felt
among the party as to the most desir-
able course to pursue. Amid the con-
sternation of the adults a little child
with the party had had been watching,
very calmly saki: "Why, God is just
j weteriing 1118 flowers, isn't Ho?"
The company you keep away from
reveals what you are.
An anecdote of Bach, hitherto un-
known, recently appeared in a Vienna
paper. The period to which the inci-
dent belongs is that of young man-
hood, between 1700-1703, when he was
at Lunenburg, and made journeys to
various places to hear celebrated or-
gauists. It was on one of his home-
ward trips from llainbt rg teat the foe.
Health is so necessary to a:1. the ; lowing is said to have occurred:
1 duties as we:l as pleasures of life, that 1 He had stayed so much longer in
.the crime of squandering it is equal Hamburg than he had expected that
to the folly.—Dr. Johnson. his funds ran vary low, rind he found
himself, before ire was halfway back
to Lunenhurg, with his pockets empty,
As he tramped along the highway -ice
found his hunger growing apace, and
hi; discomfort was by no means lee•
eened when he neared an inn, from
the kitchen of which most appetizing
odors were wafted forth.
While he stood still for `a, moment
contemplating the rich store of viands
fit vedoffs stages of preparation, he
heard a window open and two herrings
were tbrnwu out. Like a true thrifty
Thuringian, he could not stand such ,
wastes and picked up the herrings and
began to tear them apart. What was-
his surprise to find in each of. them a
ducats With tilts new Quid 'he was.
able to finielf in comfort his trip home
and also save something for a later
trlp to Hamburg. The charitable tra-
veler ammo put the ,money In Bacl's
way would have been delighted could
he have lcndwn,: in later -year's, -who •
was the' objaat of his kindness or
heart.
".As the purse is emptied the heart
is filed."—llugo.
Jimmy Knows What Real Martyrdom is.
WELL,
-mg Coo
LnVER oa. BOTTLE
SAID IT V.IAS MADE IN
"IGG4•• so MARTYR&:
Dime' HAFTA 1:161,14E
Aare of IV,
THEY musTAIBB•1Ao
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