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Zurich Herald, 1917-05-25, Page 2ew r t* e's 1 0r, The Adventures of Captain Fraser CHAPTER XXIII. I "You've got a 'ead on you, Will - Time as it rolled on set at rest any! Yuen, I know," he said, in a fierce doubts Miss Tyrell might have had whisper. concerning the fate of Captain Flower,' "People have said so," remarked the and under considerable pressure from other modestly, "What's the row?" Fraser, she had consented to marry] For answer, Joe pointed to the him in June. The only real reason. for( cabin, and that with so much expres- •,- Lvaci slop on his features that Mr. Green, following his gaze,, half expected to see something horrible emerge from the companion. "It's all up," said the tall seaman, 1TALES OF BRITISH i PLUCK AND VALOR THRILLING ACCOUNTS FROM BATTLEFIELDS. choosing that month was that close at hand, though Fraser supplied her with several others to,choose from. Their engagemet.t could hardly have been said to have been announced, fax 1 poetically."You can pat the wed - with the exception of old Mr. Fraser! away in hand and the crew of the Swallow, who had' nhr chaea bells brownr rpaper,is no and gleaned the fact for themselves with -iter 'eme to ring;he Cap'n Flower has ll out any undue strain on their in- turned up ag'in." tellects, there was nobody to tell. The boy was the first t ' discover it. "WHAT?" cried the astonished Mr.Green. According to his own indignant ac- "I see 'im," replied Joe. "I was count, he went down to the cabin to just goin' on the wharf as I passed to see whether there was anything he, elk to oldn George, as Ise, 'ito could do, and was promptly provided! talking to 'm didn't see see, an' with three weeks' hard labor by his' I come off 'ere He fastdidn as my legs tionin whiichphe indulgeder. A inhes fore -I could carry me. Now, wot's toy be castle on division of labor met with' done? You've got the 'ead-piece." seazxt response; Joe said that work Mr. Green scratched the article in was good for boys, and Mr. Green said' question and smiled feebly. that he knew a boy who worked eigh "On'y two days, and they would teen hours a day, and then used to do: ha' been married," said Joe; "bit 'ard, st.ms in his sleep to improve his eat -wee; ain't it? ld Paz can a t d a day be as he's tion. The other men set their wits to; safe, hemight work then, and proved to have so large or two longer."�„ an acquaintance with a type of boy; "Did George seem scared?" inquir- that Tommy loathed, that he received; edhis friend. , ot's that got to do with it?" Be- a mildhis elders and mb ttesrr impertinence; mended Joe, violently. "Are you goin' to It wa ted but tvodas to the wed-� to set that 'ead-piece to work or are ding. The Swallow was lying in he you not?" river, her deck unoccupied except for Mr. Green coughed confusedly, and Mr. Green and the boy, who were; attempted to think with a brain which smoking in the bows, and the ship's] wasalreadyt giddy id witht to do responsibility. . cat; which, with one eye on Mr. Green,; isn't strnight and gentlemanly," he rat was stalking the frying -pan. Fraser marked. had gone ashore gogn busines . connected; "Straight!" repeated Joe. "Look Twith his yrell, with all her earthly belongand ings l 'ere • Cap'n Fraser's ours ourolBooty in a couple of boxes, sat in the cabin ain't he? Very good,' to stand by 'im. But, besides that, drA boa bumped against the side off it's for young lady's sake; it's easy to the steamer, and Mr. Green, looking' see that she's as found of hrntas she can round, observed the long form of Joel be, and she's that sort o' young lady scrambling over the side. His ape that if she come up now and told me 1 to jump overboard, I'd do it." andr a pre Mr. Green, alarm and hastk • "You could swim ashore easy," as - and after a brief remark) tented Mr. Green. lordli- They was to be married Theirson- hail s, ofxa extravagance, not skiff say a,� hats, a wvetak n's when t day morning," continued Joe, "and hail would havend toon the ship's boas! now here's Cap'n Flower and no I call eiad- to him, demanded know what was piece on the ship. Crool, a very nice young, i d " the matter. "Send that boy below," said Joe, hastily. "What for?" inquired The Story of the Great Advance Lens and Lille is Full'of Deeds of Bravery. "Every day one is filled with ad- miration for the performances of our airmen, and yesterday I watched thein sailing unperturbed over the whole of the Lens area," says the London Times correspondent. "From another direction, however, I hear of one of the most gallant deeds of this war, "A solitary airman was returning from a distant trip when he was at- tacked by a large party of enemy machines. He fought till his ammuni- tion was all exhausted, while making for home, himself and his. machine being almost shot to bits. He had one eye literally shot out, a bulletin his. body and his foot .smashed. His machine was riddled. "In spite of all, he made his report, in which he apologized for making a rather rough landing because his smashed foot impaired control. Thea, duty done, he died. No honor, whe- ther the Victoria Cross or anything else, while it may recognize such a deed as this, can adequately measure it." "He was badly hit in the leg, and' one of his eyes hung only by a thread. But, with a supreme act of courage, he kept control of his machine and landed safely," says Mr. Gibbs, telling the same incident. "He was dying whi3h he was helped on to a stretcher and brought home to camp, but he made his report very clearly and calmly un- til he was overcome by the last faint- ness of death." The Left Breakfast. "Down in the Bois-en-Hache one of our English soldiers on the Canadians' left had a grim adventure, which he describes as 'a bit of orl rite,' " says Mr. Gibbs. "His way was barred by a burly German, but not for long. After a tussle our lad took him inside and there found the dead body of a German officer lying by the side of the table, which was all spread for break- fast. It was our English lad whb ate the breakfast, keeping one eye vigilant his living prisoner and nit w ong ing about the dead .one." Judge Advocate -Gunner. "Yesterday I spent half an hour with one of our own batteries of sixty - pounders, those long -nosed ' beasts which have a range of five miles and have helped in this great slaughter of ..' the enemy," says Mr. Gibbs, in the London Chronicle. "The commanding officer, once a Judge Advocate of Johannesburg, was a man whose joviality covered a grim and resolute spirit. 'My beauties,' he said, `fired 1,000 high -velocity shells at old Fritz before breakfast on Monday morning. We did some very pretty work on the German lines.' I saw his great store of shells, monstrous brutes, in spite of all this expendi- ture, and listened to the details of de- struction in a wooden hut provided with a piano—made by Baron, of Paris, captured recently in a German dug -out. "Don't your gunners get worn out?" I asked. He laughed, and said, 'They stick it till all's blue, night and day. What they hate are fatigues and carrying up shells for other batteries. They'll work till they drop serving. their own guns.' "He looked over to Lens and said, 'We'll soon have old Fritz out of that.' I think they were some of my friend's shells that I saw bursting behind the Bois de Riaumont." Air Fighting Extraordinary. High praise is given to our British airmen by the Paris Matin. "The pilot and the observer of a 0 squad}•on, a captain and- a lieutenant respectively, pursued and tw,ce dis- persed two companies of Bavarian in- fantry, each 200 men strong. "An air patrol fought twelve suc- cessive engagements near Douai, On its return two aeroplanes missed their way and found themselves in the thick of it above the enemy lines. "One of them engaged from a height of 200 feet a squadron of Pome- ranian Hussars, killed about twenty of them, and dispersed the remainder. The • other aeroplane, from the same altitude, used its machine gun upon a. squad of 100 Germans who were un- loading trucks in a railway station, and exterminated the lot. "Finally—a deed of unheard-of prowess—three aeroplanes flew along the main street of Lens on a level with the roofs, and liberally bombed "She'sis out a y, said the mortified Mr. Green; "always 'r" red the gentle a leasant smile for everybody." f "He'll come aboard 'ere as safe as. man interested rebelliously. heggs is heggs," said Joe, despond- " an go below," repeated Joe " t' t le done .,,, RK'.1.. e pec a drop food ruefully watching I Jak'ee „ ie. the her Y , yh;+ t • s', Ii.rms on':the side end - lc ndyou s the stairs. He own.'' was quite confident that -there were The boy, wth a few remarks about head -pieces walking the earth, to the rights of man in general and ships' which a satisfactory solution of this and Joe, taking the startled Mr., boys in particular, took his departureproblem would have afforded no diffi- cult whatever, and he shook his own Green by the arm, led him farther aft. , sadly, as he thought of his limitations. 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The two men then turned away until, at sight of Captain Flower's head ap- pearing above the side, they went off into such silent manifestations of horror and astonishment that he fear- ed for their reason. "It's 'is voice," said .Joe, hastily, as Flower bawled them incon- siderate loudness. to" I everth thought to see you ag'in, sir; I 'eard you was drowned months and months ago.". He took the cantain's proffered hand somewhat awkwardly, and stood closely scanning him. The visitor "was bronzed with southern suns, and look- ed strong and well. His eye was bright, and his manner retained all its old easy confidence. "Ah, I've been through something since I saw you last, my lad," he said, shaking his head. "The great thing is, Joe, to always keep your head above water." "Yessir," said the seaman, slowly; "but I 'eard as 'ow you went down with the Golden Cloud, sir." "So I did," said Flower, somewhat boastfully, "and came up again with the nearest land a mile or two under my feet. It was dark, but the sea was calm, and I could see the brute that sunk us keeping on her way. Then I saw a hencoop bobbing up and down close by, and I got to it just in time, az d hung on to it until I could get my breath again and shout. I heard a hail a little way off, and by and bye I got alongside two of our chaps making themselves comfortable on two or three spars. There were three drowned fowls in my coop, and we finished them on the fourth day just as a whaler hove in sight and took us off. We were on her over four bar- quemonths, and Calesightedt we California, homeward bound, and Albert Docksught 4this morme. ning, and here I am, hard as nail." (To be continued.) Sulphur is one of the oldest known elements; the ancient Assyrian al- chemists regarded it as the principle of combustion and termed it "brim- stone," meaning literally burning stone. rllu 11,0YAL SANK fl t . 'roaowro 'MILITARY W _ S AND WEAPONS a regiment of Bavarian infantry which was marching with swinging stride' on the road of retreat," Papa's Haircut. A woman said to a little boy with his hair bobbed in his neck, "Franklyn, when are you going to have your hair cut like papa's ?" "I don't want my hair cut like papa's" he replied, "with a hole in the top." q� ..� play— theFor middle of the day—and when on pleasure bent. For field, farm and wagon, wear Fleet Foot Shoes. They are far cheaper than leather— light, easy, comfortable—long wearing. For every -day wear, you will find them immeasurably better than hot, heavy, expensive leather When you're out for good time, wear WHITE "Fleet Foot" Shoes. In fact, you mugt wear White Shoes this summer, to be well dressed. Dealers everywhere have "Fleet Foot" Shoes, in all styles for men, women and children. 201 boots. MODERN ARMIES USE DEADLY KNIFE -BAYONETS, French Language Supplies Nearly All Our Nantes For Things Military. Did it ever occur to you to, think that nearly every word in our lan- guage relating to war and military af- fairs is a French word? Think it over; it is rather curiously interesting. When we speak of a "fort," or a "siege," or an "army," we are talking French. If we describe military "maneeuvers" we use French terms. Our ranks, from general to corporal, hear French. designations. And $o it goes. Now, the "why" of all this lies in the fact that the French in earlier days were the drill mantas of Eu- rope. France for centuries was the great military power of Europe. No wonder that she gave enduring names to military things. The bayonet (the word is French) is cutting an important figure in the present war. Who invented it? The French did. The invention came about in a rather curious way. The Modern Bayonet. When it had been proved that cav- alry charges could be withstood by in- fantry in close order, if armed with pikes, tacticians accepted the idea that an ideal arrangement of troops in bat- tle was one wherein blocks of pike- men alternated with blocks of mus- keteers—the latter to attack and the former to repel the enemy. It was a French officer who suggest- ed that the strength of a force might be doubled by providing each man with an adjustable pike, to fit ' into the muzzle of his gun. Thus each soldier would be both musketeer and pike - man. eman. Afterward somebody hit upon the notion of clasping the pike around the end of the gun barrel, so that it would not interfere with the firing of the gun; and thus, it may be said, the bayonet had its origin. The up-to-date bayonet to -day, however, is very different from the old style weapon so called. It is, in effect, a knife—a keen -edged butcher knife, attachable . to the ,gun UMW sheath. -' sheath. Intrench fighting it is most commonly employed as a knife, pure and simple, being exceed- ingly effective at close quarters. Recently in our army the old-fash- ioned cavalry sabre has been replaced by a straight sword, for thrusting, which is much more effective in a me- lee—another French word, by the way—than a hacking weapon. The Turkish Scimitar. For hacking and chopping in com- bat there has never been a pattern sword so effective as the scimitar of the Turk, which became familiar to Europeans through its use by the Sar- acens in fighting the Crusaders of the Middle Ages. To slice with a straight sword, one must saw with it—a per- formance scarce practicable in battle —but the scimitar, curved in shape and wide and heavy forward toward the end, slices by mere striking. One remembers how Saladin, in Sir Walter Scott's novel, "The Talisman," astonishes Richard Coeur de Lion by cutting a stuffed sofa cushion clean in two with -a single slicing blow of his scimitar. 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