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Zurich Herald, 1923-05-24, Page 6For the Boysend �'ii�rl PLEASURES OF .SPRING. The Meadows are thrilled With the robins so gay. 'he orchards are filled With the blossoms of May. The little boy's laughter 13y the brook on the hill, Makes mother call in rapture, But no answer from Bill, 'Pun at last little footsteps are heard, Trudging along on the creaking old bridge, Nearing' the house with a voice like a bird, Plucking the flowers that grow on the ridge. When bedtime has come And his prayers are said, Spring is his hum As he tumbles in bed, —Francis L. Lee. A DOG'S LIFE. My neighbor's dog is dead. Seo ends a tragedy of captivity that afflicted the kindly animal all the days of its joyless life. A prisoner it was born, and a prisoner it died, with none, I think, but I to see that it was suffering. I remember, ten years ago, when Parkinson spoke to me over the gar- den. fence, telling nie he had seen a litter of pups in a friend's house. "I want a big dog," he said, "and ' I've asked for one of those pups." He got it He was delighted, and so was his wife. They kept it closely guarded in the house, for fear, they said, that anybody should run off with it while it was young. They trained it to take its food obediently out of a tin, and to be "clean," and as it got older they beat it because it became a nuisance when its bark grew loud. Then it tried to run about the house and it knocked things over and fright- ened the children. So it was called a nuisance again, and `then Parkinson began to think of the time when it. would be put outside in a kennel to guard the house by day and by night, That time soon carte, Meanwhile Parkinson never took his growing captive for a walk. He said it was too strong for him, and he dared not release it on its own for fear it might not come back. One clay when I was leaving for work I saw the bright new dog -house. A new chain and a protruding bit of fur told me that the animal was in- side it. Well, there was the housedog on a chain. Parkinson was' a bit afraid of it, but he thought it all the better that it should be ferocious in the job he was putting it to. When it howled, like a hungry wolf, Parkinson would remind us, clearly, about its wolverine ancestry. But I have been out to it at such times and seen agony in its eyes. I have fed it and it has licked my hand in grati- tude. But I never. told Parkinson. He would have thought I was softening the animal. It got older and its walk went more slowly, its howl more mournfully. Parkinson talked of having it de- stroyed. But he was saved that effort. Ile had destroyed it by his thoughtless- ness, and one morning his wife found it dead, lying half in and half out of the dog -house. That was the day before yesterday. Parkinson buried the dog in the gar- den, "A fine dog? ah! such an intel- ligent beast!" he said. I withheld comment. And to -day a new dog has the ken- nel. Already I see he treads the shiny path his unhappy brother dog made. He is also on the chain.—W. L. D. eet . HIS MASTER'S DOG By Alice M. Sanderson He had no name so far as any one knew; Omsby always called him "Old Chap," and the rest of us just referred to him as "Omsby's dog." When the 'scar broke out and Captain Omsby went to France, he took the dog with 'bin as far as Paris, and the dog took himself to _ camp, for he would. not be pert' betdnd. ,His only severe punish - tient was necessary to teach him that he must not follow his master into action,, and no one doubted that his 'ryas the hardest task when he stood at "Attention!" and watched his master •lead the men forward where he could not go. - Neither Omsby nor the dog were de- ;oo.onstrative, and the return was taken quietly on the part of both, but on- lookers always felt that there was a curious bond between the two which made expression unnecessary. Oms- by's men regarded Old Chap as a mas- Cot,: but no one ever became very fa- miliar with him. He met all advances in a friendly spirit, but stopped short at actual friendship, and the boys Snatched his dignity with respect. Apparently Omsby cared little for outside support, but more than once during a seemingly hopeless attack "Metallic" Siding Galvanized, or painted. Stone, Briek, or Clapboard patterns. inexpensive and Quickly Laid. Send for Circular "S" The Metallic Roofing Co. • d 1194 king St. W , 'Toronto 402 English. Fox Netting Specially made,to-order, heavily tai. waltzed, put up 1n 1150 -toot roes of the different meshes suitable for fox 'What order1ag, epeolfy "Brayco Brand." Write now for our Mice list, also our tree fox booklet, "rrotoat Your Foxes, 11," i5rnciose 10r, for 'mailing.) "Tho Largest Fox ifettlnu Roalet'9 in Amorloa," Brace, McKay Company LIMITED, tummerrido, P. 5, Island. gook to Work IC.'endell's spavin 'Fre tt»ent *rill get tlat lame horse. Back en heob again. For Store titan forty years ere Kendalls Spavin • nuts it has been removing span!»s splint lr Vane, tbarouglapin and ' all kinds oI Deer grotvih,. Cat it t ourdrunisl'Afoeta `alsoilie feed o .. g, �ttlst the ',Horse and h1s tilttaMa�' rite 'iiirec b1k. 8. J. kk'N 3Al.4 COMPANY tioosblero oitat, y , p r ��l Irl � tw*nevi 'with RP .epv'ken Ceinentent, though, they s'oy, one pear weuraa d 3ellow whin waif b144u,0t In dytug, ilaint , ,1010?.,44 the dog. After !the war wee, over, ilemeone took the drag bac'!r to EngIae, 0 e set hill to 011144y's ell berme x /POW the refit of hie story' Only throl)gil p4s'xick, *tom I happened to meet in...lsondon two years later, "By the way,: what became df that` strange dogs of ,Ome. by's?" I4nquired: "Who ,owli�s him now?" .^.k Derr looked at me with the glance of one who had expecte i, better comprehension as he replied ;'briefly: "No one 'owns' him. He is O seby'$ dog, as, he always Was." Then, as though thinking be r of his brusqueness, he added: "OI hap never stayed with Omsby'a pe af- ter he was taken to them, tho he visits Crosby's' mother nearly every day. Curiously' enough he has ':liken up his permanent residence with a girl who lives in a cottage not far from the Omsby estate. She is a 'quaint, rather childlike person, with 'ani odd kind of beauty, and the dog seems to have adopted her without any !persua- sion." "No," said Derrick, answering an in- quiring glance of mine, "Ozns'by,never sees no alteration 1n his average sta- had anything to do -with her so far as tura. During the war it was learned anybody knows,. though she :used to that this was' five feet -six inches--t'he come in to help his mother serve tea samehdas et was, in the neolithic age. sometimes. However, she doesn't Professional men average . 'five feet. 'own' Old Chap as you" tivoul•d .say, for eight. he goes his way independently, -of her. m Soetimes he hunts tihroughou. the A King's Bron Crown. morning, and often he goes raping a.' long the treasures of the Ring of across the hills over the course his Italy figures an historic relic of almost unparalleled i*-`erest. This is the fam- our Iron Crown of Lombardy, one • of the most precious heirlooms of the Italian Royal House. The crown is nuicle partially of iron. Tradition declares that it was, made from ane of the nails used at the Crucifixion. This was beaten out in. someone heard him mutter, "Wen, we must finish this and get back to the Chap." Finish it they usually did, and an almost uncanny chance nearly al- ways' brought the leader out unscath- ed. Once he was wounded, and with no, permission nor invitation, his dog found him before the ambulance driver could locate him. Doubtless the en- suing days in the hospital were the brightest of Old Chap's war experi- ences. Finally, tho inevitable happened, arid Omsby was killed. A shell exploded and his share of the war was all over except icor the •soldier's burial of a form, few, save his dog, could'recog- nize: • Old Chap's heart was broken, though he stayed with the company and watched silently out toward the battle front. Omsby's friend, Derrick, was'the only one who could persuade him to eat, but that was so sparingly that he was little more than the shell of a dog. Then, three weeks after Omsby's passing, when the mon came back af- ter a skirmish, Old Chap rose to "At- tention " as he had so often done on his master's return. With a far -away look in his eyes, he resumed his life as he had lived it before his tragedy. The men accepted the strange change Sees Race Develop Hatchet Face lVian. According to Sir Arthur Keith, 'a prominent temthaopolegiet, .phuagete are taking place :in the human Brame more rapidly than ,at any other period, but there are no signs of a coming race of supermen, 00,7s a London deelpatoh, He says one of the most notable changes le facial, He aseerts a long narrow type of fiae•e•18 being evolved, which he deseribes as thle "adenoid" type, un- known in prehistoric times. Sir Arthur elude, : however, that. brains are not increasing hut this is nothing calamitous because, he says: "I should say most of us have more brains than we know .what to do with, I don't think one person in fifty cif the present population uses his brains to half their capacity," But, while man ie not working his brains overtime, Sir Arthur says he is not giving his "innards" a Square deal. "We give our digestive tracts no rest," he complains:. "When we are not whip- ping them up with patent sauces, we are seeking to Booth their rebellions by treating them with patent pills." Although( Sir Arthur predicts the evolution of the hatchet faced man, he master had ridden so often. ' Once he cane in to London, and went to Oms- by's favorite club, where he slept out- side the room his master had always used, and claimed al' his old privileges, untiLsonie of the servants threatened to leave because he made them. ner- nous. But they didn't have to turn him out, for he left of his own accord ;the next morning, and has never been. back to a thin rim el iron, which ws set in since" gold and adorned with jewels. Derrick stopped as abruptly as he Pope Gregory the Great bestowed it bad begun. "You hanku?" I hest- upon Queen Thieodolinda, under whom tated, after the silence would bear- an the Lombards first changed their Arian interruption. faith for the Catholic. Charlemagne "No," Derrick replied, "I never was crowned with it, and so were 'think.' As soon as a man 'thinks,' Henry of Luxemburg and succeeding some blooming scientist comes along Emperors. 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In the winter all may be fitted with glass, insuring an absolute- ly weather -tight window far keeping the cold out. Horizontally grooved frames, invisible in the window wall, receive, the flanged rollers with which' each' sash it provided; 'and the wall is recessed, of course, to receive those sashes which are not In use. The sides. of the frame proper are also provided with a stop catch to limit the move- ment at ,eaoh sash Grumbling at your lot merely naked you a lot worse. Believe it or not, the leastfatigu,. ing thing in life is work. Fall into the habit of •being lat4 and you'll soon become the "late" final of ,your present job.—Forbes. Will They Find Ark of Coven nt Under City f avid ? Archeologists Plan to Drive a Tunnel Into the Very Heart of Jerusalem and Hope to Find Even Greater Historical Treasures:' Than Those Which Greeted the Eyes in the Tomb of King Tutenkhax nen. }Dal sunshine of the Bible land beats hot. On the banks of a clay trench groups' of Bedouins from. the desert sprawl them- selves and watch. Brown -skinned hien in bright -colored turbans dig stolidly in the light gray soil. Slender girls dressed in short -skirted garments walk with grace and carry filled baskets on their dark, picturesque heads. This is the work of archeology., The busy fellahin in the trenches are dig- ging up material evidence of the hie- torloal•truth of the Scriptures. Science, which led men away from Clad by ma- terial findings, oddly enough now leads men back by the same findings. • Spring this year finds learned men all over the Bible lands in the act of combing ruins of ancient cities—a I truly amazing program of archeology when you put all the pieces of It to-{ gether and stop to think about It. In Mesopotamia experts of the Bri- tish Museum and the Ilnlvereity of Pennsylvania Museum are digging at Cr of the, Chaldees, famous as the an- ceStraI home of Abraham. Only the other day men in all parts of the world: were stirred at news of the discovery there of the oldest temple in the world t -the temple of the god of the moon, mentioned many times in Biblical writ- imps ritins. Close on the heels of this work in Egypt and Southef•n rdestopotamid,' comes the invitation from the ?ales- tine Administration to the nations of• the earth to Conte to excavate the City of David that bas slept for its thous- ands of years "month the yellow clay' of oant i 0 )ilei.j est s.outlt of the existing I wall of Serusalem.Ihe palace of David rests s•citiewhere in these Mine. ph•r, tainbs of theg t Kings Of Juda1' lie there irntoucltetl,• too. It has been coulee. aired that perhaps In this heroic • search to be made by all countries there may be unearthed the Ark of the, Covenant, lost to men forever except through tradition and said to be buried somewhere in ruins outside the walls of Jerusalem. In the ark hidden some where it is possible that the tablets on whicibi the Ten Commandments were. written will be found. Excavating Near Gethsemane. Near the Garden of Gethsemane and. the Mount of Olives, to closely as: sedated with the life of Christ, the new exoavations in Jerusalem will take place. There is a little garden; watched over by Fra Julio, a Francis-. can monk, birds, sing and the flowers;, of a .million bright colors bloom iitiry memory of Him who spent His hours of agony there. Inside the city, where carts clatter and people bump into each other, laugh and quarrel;or make; bargains—in the midst of all this rises the Church of the Holy Sepulchl'e, held, by Roinan 'Catholic and ''Oriental. churches to be over the exact spot, where' Christ was oruelfed and 'where. Hewas laid In the tomb. Since the., year 326 AD., ' wheh St. Helena, the mother of Constantine. discovered the: three crosees, there has been a con- stant favoring of this site on .which; the March of the IJoly Sepulchre. stands. But of late years another tra- dition hast contended that the hill north of the ,modern Damascus gate above; Jeremiah's grotto was the real Gol; gotha, Near it is .a rock with a Facie hewn tomb, , "'uuihere Protestants hovel given the same sort of devotion tender- ed o ..hutches to the: ehrl ed by othernca within the 'olty church itself. To thi south ofeall this, lies the other r':t y • that ancient Cit David City of prookie sty' hidden with its wealth of OD'd 'res.ta�, meat history, burled in •dust'tsnd elaj>, The City of David is about thirteen acres in area. Its location has been disputed, but, according to the work of Dr. George A. Barton, of the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania, on Archeol- ogy and the Bible, Scripture confirms the inference that a primitive people would have chosen tiro site nearest the spring below the eastern hill. Buried Through the Centuries. The' rewards are rich and worth the striving. The Ark of the Covenant? What would it mean to the world to have this raised from Its place of an- cient burial? About the size of an or- dinary cedar chest but richt with its gold rings and sacred memories, some- where this has slept through the cen- turies. The Israelites carried the ark in their journeys, but what finally be- came of it is unknown. Perhaps, some contend, it was captured in Nebuchad- nezzar's siege of Jerusalem. Three precious articles this ark contained— the pot of manna; Aaron's rod that budded and the tablets of the Ten Commandments. Back in those ancient Bible •days only appointed hands .with proscribed reverence were permitted to :touch this sacred carrier,. Death came smiting from the heavens ; to • A UNIQUE MEMORIAL ` 0 PIONEERS i io esses.. one of the most unl ue memorials in Canada in Galt, Ontario, es o, i � .. ire. toits' pioneer ted bythe kcal Daughters. of the �Einplt 1 • o its •pergola eyes g i e -Hi dead::' �'he, old church, I�.mltmtcllael, meaning 7,;li:erChuxch-onathel3tll, Vesta f ouuded in 1$32 butwith -its surrounding graveyard has gone into oblivion, ,, the cemetery being converted Into a parks;, Its old tombstone's were diaap-„ peering when the' Ostepped by careful search recovered them `afd incorporated theminto the flue pergola seen in 'tile ,llittttiree ,It. is tfoW the pride of Galt- those who violated this law of the Ark of God, when the British entered Jerusalem in 1918 and flung from its walls the banner of a Christian nation which had not waved there 'since 1244, Charles R. eAshbee, noted English architeot, was put iii charge of Jerusa- let. Since' that time the walls have been beautified with gardens and lmarble benches, . Ancient spots, of filth have been cleared out, and dowers made to grow where all was:ranknees before. Tile Making and other Indus tries have been introduced among the women; Bit, by bit housaes, backing: against the walla of the city are being removed and .in. the 'place of all this conies ' Mr. Ashbee's .premise of the most beautiful park ih all the world to' surround Jerusalenn. • Restoring Sacred, Places, The Dome of the Rock with its exp luisite blue and green the work hes been repaired. Teis;is the -:church which ,contains tits ,sacrificial- altar where once Abraham sac,rifieed Isaac.. Other reet6rations have been made. British :engineers breve -reopened the conduit originally' built by Herod. And to. a Britist engineering aontpany has ._ just been granted a concession to cont. vert the ' wators of the sacred' Riverl.. ordan, . 'famous in I3ib11.ca1 history from the time of Joshed, to the time. oft 2, Christ, ,Within live years, the eoklpanyl expects to throw a, dant across the d'iir . clan at its outlet from the Sea .o f Tee a l ra,llol lite river •with >caiials nO 1?ti i a` f aiid tatortls to: water' the plain.,, o i Sharon and Miler land faptf 1 ity for e er Bible reader, And this` enera=.: v y g tion •xn0 ' yet see :this anoient city with Street cars, great ricItt trial Plante, o r. 9 fig,. . 1 tole rh�ones an tllYl otho, t)darn •. 1 � to inventions which floats : tsa it dranll engineering brlti .