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Zurich Herald, 1919-08-08, Page 6THE R.O L THE:EG 1/4 E IN UND - The Captain's Other Self Is Invisible to All But One Man. To the Corporal It Brings a Crisis When Courage Demands Mutiny. 13y DOUGLAS DOLI'. 1 II. I afterward he was present at the. brief Events moved with all the swift, trial, as one of the court. military precision of war -law, haying' When the prisoner was brought into none of the halting mildness of ordi-'the dingy, shell -scarred hut, and had nary courts. 1 doggedly asserted, under questioning, An hour before the mutineer would; the same story he had previously told, be called for court-martial, Lieutenant:, the verdict was already readable in Henley came into the tent sphere the set jaws of the court; in their Madison was waiting. ! unsuccessful effort to mask their stern Henley was a grave, kindly man who. contempt for this corporal who, in was given to looking under the sur -i the very heart of a fearful battle, face of things. could stop to settle a private spite by He had a queer feeling of disturbed' half murdering his captain, interest in the mutineer. j Not far away, Chesney sat, very As the corporal rase respectfully: pale but gracefully composed. His from the camp -cot on whose edge he head was neatly bandaged, for in held been sitting, Henley made him sit; falling it had struck on the edge of a clown again and, in his quiet manner, sharp stone. He made a superior, took a seat beside him. handsome figure. Sanity spoke in It was morning. In the thin light, every line of his cool, suave counten- Corporal Madison sat hunched on the ance; in the cold, impartial look he cot. From his usually military figure now and then swept over the gather - all effectiveness of poise was gone. ing. His haggard, unshaved face was gray Henley's last touch of faith in with sapping despair. Madison vanished; the man carried "Look here, Madison," the lieuten- guilt in his slouch, in his. down - ant said gently. "You saved my skull dropped, shamed eyes, his furtive yesterday from that bochets lifted glances. gun -butt. Maybe you saved my life. When it came Ghesney's turn to Anyway, I'm here as your friend. But testify against the mutinec., he rose this attack of yours on your captain and calmly reasserted his own clear looks mighty rotten. You've declared story of Corporal Madison's private to all who would listen that Captain grudge, of Chesney's own sanity, of Chesney had gone temporarily mad; the non-existence of the hypotheical you reiterated that he boasted he was, sanatorium, going to give an order which, as you quote it, of course no sane man would give; you assert you saved the com- pany from an insane officer. You vow you saw those three privates coming. "But what are the opposing state- ments? "Captain Chesney recovers con- sciousness and proves perfectly sane. He declares, on his honor as a gentle- man, he never even heard of the sana- torium you say he was placed in. The three privates ;wear that the way you Mutineer Madison listened dully, in were standing you could not have seen no surprise. He seemed to himself to them before you struck down the cap- tain. "Furthermore, it develops, from the story of one of them, Private Grey, a man from your home town, that on your home road, Captain Chesney once gave you a severe thrashing. Madison started fiercely up. His dull eyes cleared with fire; his strong fingers clenched. "Grey said that, sir? The damned hand. liar! He knows I thrashed Chesney! Because the matter in hand was I done it thoroughly, too! Blast ham!" Henley looked at him sorrowfully. "Then there was ill blood between von! Even way back in your early twenties." Madison dropped down the cot. He ashamed, terribly ashamed. He ab - groaned. sorbed a horror of himself from the "Grey! They'll believe him, of general abhorrence felt for him. His course. The favor -currying dog! He innocence was a weal:, silly, 'Wobbly ]tater me, too. I laid him out once." fact that was no good—to be consider - "God knows everything is against ed a hound really was being one—of course—after a while—a party of men Thereafter came Private Grey, who testified to the former thrashing Madison had had from Chesney— "and he powerful well deserved what he got" --Grey viciously added, shoot- ing a side glance at Madison, for which he was rebuked. The three privates unitedly gave their damnatory tale. And when they were dismissed, a physician in the service testified that Chesney was perfectly sane, and must always have been. be quite alone on a very, very little and muddy island, around which ran dreadful floods of hate and acid scorn. Grey and. Henley, and Chesney—they were all alive because he himself had willed they should be. The dray had been saved because he had willed that, too. But these now seemed queer, muffled, unrelated facts, far, very, very far away from the platter in merely a matter of loneliness, of standing all by oneself and hearing the acid floods hiss closer every min- ute. To be all by oneself—it had such a dulling, funny feeling. And he was you, Madison! Why, even your car- riage isn't that of a fearless, inno- cent man. Look now you slouch!" "Because, sir, I ain't fearless any —somewhere—near a hole—there more," the prisoner said wretchedly. would be a quick crack of rifles and "I don't see any use in lying to you, the island would not be there any lieutenant—the one friend I got. I'm longer. He began to perceive he was afraid. I'm damned afraid." getting more and more afraid—some- "You were brave in the fight yester- thing in him seemed to say he had day," Henley said uneasily. once been known as a daredevil—yes Because I still had the men's _re- —that was it—"Daredevil Madison!" spect; except those three, which I'd no But if a man got to be so alone— would come on his muddy little island of isolation—they would stand him up time to think of. I see now what courage I had was built on people thinking me the right sort. I was the right sort. And I done what I tarter done. But if I could have known, full an' clear, what it would he like to sit huddled up here an' wait for the of- ficers to decide, as of course they will, belle France; that I'm a sneaking, mutineerin' Ze 'Un 'e finish now—no more a goose - hound who tried to kill my captain to settle an old grude, if I had realized completely hcw I'd feel waitir.' to be set up for even the sutlers to spit at, an' then to be shot an' tumbled into a hole with 'Damn you!' for a salute over me—I'd have let the company go to hell, an' have carried the message he told me to carry back where I'd been safe an' respected now." "Are—are you glad you didn't real- ize it?" Henley asked doubtlfully. He felt his faith in Madison hail been steadily diminishing. "Oh, yes, I'm, glad," tho prisoner said wearily. "Only I wish to God they'd settle me now, I don't want to be court-martialed. I know just how it'll be so what's the use?" And Henley secretly assented, as he went pityingly away. Very shortly (To be continued.) "Au Revoir, Tommee!" Good -by Tommee Atkins, au mon cher ami, Peut-etre you comme revoir encore a la or. L, Moltinnon Deas O. Votes Victory Bon re,lore of Victory zones tvili find definite prises quoted. on the financial page of the Ec roato morning papers. W. L. McKINNTON & CO. 1 a.lcxa in Government anal Municipal Zeneo 7 b .Mi nc•u pat .. 10 Melinda st., 'Tomato step a Paris, No more ze kaiser mak' ze grande advance. Wen France spik, "Angleterre, be queeck, le jour est arrives," Tommee, le beau soldat, come wiz 'is smile. II dit, "Elio, Froggy, wot's up?" mon Dieu 'e was si gal, Il cit toujours, mais vaincus all ze w'ile. Ze boche say 'e was meprisable—Tom- mee laugh an' say, It ees a long, long way to Tipperary; An wen 'e was so'urted"what ze Fran- eaissay bless° 'E ask us for a "fag"—le cher!.: An now 'e go to Blighty an "Good -by, Francais, It's been a lovely war," 'e mean la guerre II souffrit beaucoup—stiIl 'e smile et tous leg Froggies say, "Remerciez-Vous, Tommie! Vive l' Angleterre!" pauvre 'e say. Save by the W.S.S. method, 25 cents buys a Thrift Stamp. 25 cents buys a Thrift Stamp. Join a W.S. Society, EXPANDING DING CANADIAN TRADE Canadian Voyageur. under Direction of Canadian National Railways, clearing for the West Indies from Montreal, July 10th, with a cargo of general merchandise. She is scheduled to return With sugar. OXFORD AND CAM . BRIDGE G AFTER WAR STUDENT WARRIORS RESUMING THEIR STUDIES. Master of Balliol College, Oxford, Gives Interesting Facts Regarding War and Higher Education. ' The great universities of England, whose student bodies and teaching staffs were greatly depleted by ser- vice in the army or in Government of- fices during the war, are again filling with students and resuming normal life. According to an estimate made by the Master of Balliol College, Oxford sent approximately 12,000 of its men to the war or into the Government ser- vice. Of these 2,394 were killed and 100 are missing. More than 400 won honors in the war, including sixteen Victoria Crosses. The figures of Cam- bridge University would be about the same, the writer estimates. Effect of War on Attendance. Outlining the services rendered by men of the forty colleges of Oxford and Cambridge, the piaster writes that owing to the response for war service the student life "dwindled to.a thread." He adds that "the importance NitllP?> response of these two older universi- ties was that it filled up the gap be- tween the destruction of the old Re- gular Army in the fighting of August and September of 1914 and the coni ing forward of the newly trained Terri- torials erritorials in the spring of 1915. This im- mediate response to the call of the country and the present courage and devotion of these young men were a complete and decisive answer to any `class' jealousy or feeling that the workers were being made to bear the brunt. "We doubted how many of the men would want to conte back," continues the master. "We are finding that prac- tically every man who possibly can -is applying to be taken back, at any rate for shortened courses (lasting on an average of one and two-thirds years), and already the colleges are overfull." The general tone and character of these men is described by Dollop's master as remarkably high. There is quite as much life and cheerful activi- ty as before the war, and a great deal more seriousness of purpose. The master notes not only a marked im provement in the strength of character shown by the returning students, but that they even gained intellectually what they had lost in book knowledge, and have more than made up for this loss by the power of coming to the point and by a sense of reality about their work. This he concludes, shows that their previous university education was far too boyish and abstract in type and "neglected too much the intellectual effect of beginning things at the prac- tical and concrete end. These return- ed men are not only keener to work but they work with more ,swiftness and directness than before they went out; for, as one of them said, 'You had to do a lot of thinking in the trenches or else your number was soon up.' " Important Modifications. Oxford has made many concessions to these men which the master re- gards as justified by the showing they now are making in theirstudies. Formerly nine terms residence was re- quired to obtain an Oxford degree; now the men who served in the army are excused from half this require- ment. These concessions will enable the majority of them to take their degree and go into the profession only a year or two later than would have been the case but for the war. ".In character and in genera intel- lectual development they will be bet- ter men than they would have been under normal conditions, and in intel- lectual equipment of knowledge hardly if at all inferior," writes the Balliol master. ideal Marriage Age. Interesting points regarding matri- mony are raised by a clause in the will of a London magnate. Much of his property is left in trust for his child- ren,'the'income from their shares to be paid to their mother until each child attains the age of twenty-seven. The maker of the will expressed an "earnest wish and desire" that no child should' marry until that age was reached. Minard's Liniment Cures Diphtheria. A Forgetful Urchin. "What is it, sonny?" "I'm tryin' to 'member what ma wanted me to git in this jug." "What jug?" "Gee! I forgot the jug." To render garments non -inflam- mable rinse them in alum -water. It is a good plan to do this with all children's clothes. AGENTS WANTED TO SELL Foster 011 Burners We want a live man in every district to demonstrate and sell a proved coal - oil burner. Fits any coal -burning range. Cheaper than gas or coal, and has no pressure tanks or holes to block up. No dirt, no smoke, no odor. A real money- making* proposition for a hustler. 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In the very heart of the city of Lon - there is a "climber of 'horrors" • which none but the privileged may en- ter, and of which the world at largo knows nothing, says a London maga- aine. There is nothing at all gruesente the aspect of this chamber, which is, in fact, a small, cheerful room leading out of the great hall of Lloyd's, and on the walls of which is an array of flimsies, yelidw and brown. It is in these innpcent-looking pieces of paper that the latent tragedy lies, for they tell of ships missing and lost, and each telegram has quite a tragic importance to some of the 150 underwriters who haunt the room. Whenever a ship leaves port she is Insured by her owners at Lloyd's against loss or damage to herself or her cargo; and this risk is divided among a number of underwriters, who insure her for certain suns ranging from £100 to thousands of pounds, in. return for a premium. Huge Gambles. A slip is passed round from one un- derwriter to another, and on the in- formation supplie4cl as to the destina- tion, cargo, and class of the ship, the names of her owners and captain, the insurance required and its rate, each underwriter puts clown on the slip the sum for which he is prepared to make himself responsible in case of 'loss or damage. The limit is entirely at the discre- tion of the underwriter, and there have been cases in which a man has ven. tured £50,000, and even £100,000 on the safe voyage of a vessel. When a man thus risks hundreds or thousands on a stake so full of uncer- tainty as the safety of a ship, which naturally encounters so many dangers, her voyage is a matter of daily aoxie- ty to him until she reaches her des' tination. When she is overdue the anxiety of the underwriter increases, and each day that passes without the ship's ar rival at her destination being reported( adds to it. He begins to see the wis' dom of reducing his rise: by "hedging," and at this stage the "doctor," as he is called at Lloyd's, comes on the scene. "Doctor" Deals in Risks. The "Doctor" is a man who deals in overdue risks, and for an increased premium is willing to take the original underwriter's responsibility on his own shoulders. Where the original premium was, say, 25s. per cent., the "doctor" demands five guineas ---or, as the risk increases through the continued non -arrival .o1 the overdue ship, ten, twenty, fifty, or more guineas for eaen £100 insured. In some cases an underwriter has paid as much as seventy and ninety guineas per cent. to reinsure an over- due vessel, which has turned up safe- ly after all, to his chargin and the "doctor's" great jubilation. It is thus easy to see with what tre- pidation a man who has staked a large sum on an overdue vessel must enter the "chamber of horrors," dread- ing day by day to see the fatal an- nouncement that must mean a heavy loss, and may mean absolute ruin to him. Oldest Countries Least Advanced. The history of China dates back to thousands of years before human foot marks began to appear in Britain, From Asia civilization spread west. wards, travelling right across lOurope, and thence to America. To -day Japan, instea,cl of absorbing the apathy of her nearest neighbor, is touched by the westward flow, and is raising her head. The majority of domesticated ani- mals are Asiatic in origin, such as horses, dogs, mules, donkeys, sheep, goats, honey bees, chickens, ducks, etc., and this alone shows that domes- tic man had his first kingdom in Asia. Yet it is strange that the countries with the longest human histories are to -day the least advanced. A Unique Duel. An East African paper describes :a duel between a motor and a lioness. The affair, it says, happened at night near Uair'robi. Tho chauffeur noted a commotion in the bush neat' the road, then the gleaming eyes of an enraged wild animal, Ile accelerated his speed at the instant the lioness leaped. Slit struck the !rood and was thrown fax in advance of the car, callose wheels then passed aver her. Tho, dead lioness was finally ioacle:l into the ear and taken back to the town in triumph,