t Infantry
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I Life We
A Wall Inventor Tasted I
^Height of Success and
I Depth of Failure.
an obscure back^^B
t. bore there died
d::> a win), within the
^^B months, traveled
the height of succondemnation?
^^Bh;:'J.v went wrong.
He ?a* Murray Compton,
^^B- ar.i - who had his one
^^B.'.au-r captain of lnfunthe
i'a:.:o!:a:i expedition force.
Bite::: to a premature grave with
Hrsrses of. hundreds of dying CanuH
soldiers ringing in his ears.
Murray (Vnipton was the origl.-f
"t't.:r:a Wall." that stupenf
ur !er which was designed to
' soldiers but which
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lire a trnp in which many bunks
nvr? killed.
fcr;.-, n's battalion was doing duty
fc.e V; res seetor in the spring of
I Front t!:e ramparts. In Ypres
| to the fr< ::t line the soldiers
l exposed :? a withering shell and
Ihiregur. hre while going to and
ii :i.e lire. The distance was
lew '.a: trace than a ntile, but raI
ht ! working (eirties, as well as
la'.lt.s going into or coming out
[the line, suffered terribly. The
nps hi.! tie choice of two routes;
or.e up Mer.iti road, which was a
liable deathtrap, and the other
Dugh Ziilei.ek village. Most of
in close the hitter route, for It acted
slight iC"teetlon.
Chinese Wall Recalled.
Thile '.ea ling his company in and
of the line i 'on.; ten became horKi
at the number of casualties and
inventive hra.'.n sought some methpf
reducing the loss of life. Sud
Iljr he was ( ;: fronted with a m?ijictnre
of the grent wall of China,
pf>r centuries had kept out en
of the yellow men.
kpton was practical enough to
eh trait time prevented the ereek
of a wall which would corre- .
k with the original.
It submitted his rough Idea to his
??!. who a[ proved It and sent It to
[tie fcead'juurters. From there It
For Men of Fligh
I ""
Thp : the gold medal wl
!.'. 1 t* initiative of the Corrl<
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: > ?-; n.i.de u successful fligh
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11ND KOOTENAY '
NOW HUI
J Game New in Great Abundance as
Resu't of Protective Laws of
otitish Columbia.
>ar. r it. c. ;\s a result of a
?. |-t by same wardens
9r y, nr.,, of the richest
on the continent Is
* r, in lu own. This Is the
r;'i "f valley foothills and
; ,tu. headwaters of the
r.ver, a half-day's journey
'? l:> : ' :. line of the railway.
hj:i ' /',r ,,l! !l,e river not far
W's "'t ' l!,n-WiinU-riiiere highway
tor,iii"niNii'. deer, caribou,
llvfe' j 11 K"!,!s and numbers of
Wir K!'i/./.ly and cinnamon
ol.l' ?.
*|o- "Ham Hons can be seen
^ ,,2r ' ? "f S'T "r ''lglit miles.
^ batill:'-vs' ''lis territory was
t.k 7 ''' ',f "u* I"tl'an tribes,
ftttt'. , Vi,st l"*rds of wild anl'
e there. When hunt
Being Reviewed bj
ie shah ol Persia there were great fet?
generations. This photograph shows t
nation.
ig Idea;
is Ruined
went to division njnd then corps headquarters.
Here Itj was turned over to
the commanding iofllcer of the engineers,
whose approval hastened construction.
Night after night, for many weeks,
weary working parties filled sandbugs
which were pounded Into the form of
huge bricks and laid end to end to
form a great will Weeks of ceaseless
activity saw! the task completed
without interruption from the enemy.
Casualties Much Reduced.
The wall stood| for weeks, the admiration
of every soldier who found
protection behind: its friendly shadow.
Casualties were reduced to a minimum
and Cotupto(i was showered with
honors. He was mentioned In dispatches
and decorated with the military
cross.
Come the 2nd of June, that fateful
day when the German high command
concentrated everything on a terrific
drive, which was calculated to drive
a wedge In the British lines and open
up a route to thei channel ports.
The bombardment was the worst
experienced by any troops up to that
period. Trenehep were obliterated,
men killed by hundreds, while wave
after wave of dermnn infantry was
thrown into the qttack In an endeavor
to break the Cslnhdian line. Telepraph
communication wjith the rear was Impossible
and sejveral runners were
killed before word could be relayed
back to Ypres to "send re-enforcements."
Germans Bombard Wall.
Battalion aftej battalion was hurried
up from res( camps in motor lor
rles, dumped oflj In Ypres and then
started up the lihe. As soon as German
observation! balloons and planes
observed troops, (being concentrated
In the rear, they; signaled the German
artillery and tbej barrage was turned
on the China wafl.
Thousands of taen had congregated
behind this waif, awaiting darkness
before being thrown Into the/breach. I
In five minutes the bombardment reduced
the wall to a mass of twisted
and torn sandfings and practically
every man behind it had been killed
or wounded.
In spite of this great disaster the
front-line troops! held on grimly. For I
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lich the Italian Americana of North
ere d' America, will present to Roald
aworth, and th? crew of the Norge,
t to the North pole. The medal was
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LUUINIKI
MTERS' PARADISE
:
Ing was poor the prairie side of
the mountains, j or in the valleys farther
west, the tribes in the districts
affected headed for the headwaters of
the Kootenay, jwhere game was sure
to be found. Naturally, the Indians
of the upper Ijiootenay objected and
famous skirmishes often ensued.
Blackfeet, Blojods, Spokanes, Flatheads,
Siwashep, Creeks and Stoneys
all raided into ^he country at times.
When the Inldians left off the wild
life the raldp tjeased, but the Indians
of the district slaughtered freely and
greatly reduce^ the game until the
Call It "Bifteck"
Paris.?Do yiu know what "bifteck"
Is? It appears on the hill of fare of
all restaurants |ln France, morning and
evening. The French imagine it to be
the English fof beefsteak, but it covers
all shades of steak.
.
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j the New Shah
I
:s and scenes of oriental splendor inch
be Persian infantry passing in review
|
GIRL BANDIT
Genevieve Holnier, twenty years
old, of Utlca, N. Y.t the girl bandit
dressed in male attire who was caught
in Syracuse after a thrilling chase In
which she and her two male companions
exchanged pistol shots with
the police. All of the trio were "armed
to the teeth."
two days and nights they withstood
the Incomparable inferno before fresh
troops relieved them. Rut the way to
I the sea had been blocked.
Ironically, Compton was commanding
a company of reserves which had
taken refuge behind his creation when
the German bombardment began. By
another strange twist of fate he was
one of the few men who were permitted
to escape being killed or wounded.
Escapes Without Wounds.
A merciful command relieved Compton
of his duties nnd his name was
posted on the casualty list as
"wounded." Some of his own men
who saw him going out of the line
for the last time said he did not show
a scratch. Rut his nerve was broken
and his great plan had crashed.
He was mustered out of the nrmy
and sent hack to Canada. He went
back to his farm, but his neighbors
saw a mighty change. His eyes were
wild and vacant and he kept mum
bling to himself.
They didn't know the reason till he
died.
U. S. Auto's Superiority
Admitted by French
Paris. ? Gabriel Voisln, one of
France's leading automotive and aeronautic
engineers, stirred up trouble
for himself in the French industrial
world by declaring that the American
automobile would "sweep away in a
few days like a tidal wave the entire
French automotive industry if the customs
barrier suddenly disappeared,
and If American construction could
resist French roads and French rivers."
An automobile ought to be comfortable,
silent and easy to drive, requirements
which jjre filled hy the American
machines with their roomy, light
and well-planned bodies. French auto
mobiles nre sacrificed to the esthetic
Ideals of the custom coach builders,
says M. Volsln. They mny be nice to
look at, but are unpleasant to ride In.
To prove his point he has produced
an automobile with n fabric-covered
body shaped something like the cabin
of a Venetian gondola, which Is the
perfection of comfort to ride In, but
never fails to get a laugh when It appears
on the streets.
provincial game wardens went In and
taught them fear of the law. Now the
gume is multiplying to an extent that
" ? * - ~1 A 1
Is astonisning even iu uie uiu nriucm.
This la especially true In regard to elk
and caribou.
It was In this country that the famous
"blue" moose, purchased before
the war by Emperor William of Germany,
and now In a museum In Germany,
was killed.
Money Under Foot
New York. ? Scores of persons
walked over $2,600 In bank notes In
the lobby of a prominent New York
hotel, but no one stooped to pick up
the baby fortune. F. H. Magulre,
racing man, who lost the money, notified
detectives. They found the roll
untouched.
Talk Not Cheap
Del Monte, Calif.?William B. Leeds,
millionaire, fias just Deen nauuea a
$199 telephone bill. He talked 29
minutes to his wife, Princess Xenla of
Greece, who Is Ln New York.
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NEWS, TRYON, N. C. .
ADJUSTMENT fl
OF HIS OLD
DEBTS
By WARREN B. PARKS
<?. 1926, WeaUrn^tNewspaper Union.)
SIGHT of the little gray-fnced,
areh-backed man named Bernstein,
recognized spokesman of
the assembled creditors, curiously
disconcerted John Brinton.
Bernstein's presence naggingly stirred,
but could not awake, a sleeping consciousness
of unpleasant events that
had happened In a distant yesterday.
The fact that Brinton had as yet
apparently not recognized him suited
? ,1 ? iK1 THo nnovnnoL
A-'GX uoicui uunuinuij.
edness of the blow he meant to deal
would only serve to make It the more
keenly felt. So Bernstein, Impassive
without, continued to sit almost silent
at the head of the book-strewn
counter?and to wait.
For many years BrlDton had been
the leading merchant qf Bllssvllle,
And now, after hp had bomplacently
seen the toppling of lesser figures,
with a scornful disdain for what he
was In the habit of terming Incompetence
and soft business methods, he
himself seemed to be tottering from
what he had regarded as a solid pedestal
of success toward black failure.
To be sure, he told himself, it was
not through fault of his own that ruin
threatened, for one could huve foreseen
that this disastrous shrinkage of
values, striking with the suddenness
or a highwayman in me nigni, wouia
have laid hold of business just at a
time when calamitous crop-failure had
rendered the victim of attack almost
defenseless. For a time he managed
to maintain his poise of superiority,
but at length the pressure became too
strong, and Brlnton, in this final extremity,
had called upon those who
demnnded their pay to determine
whether he should stand or fall.
9!o his creditors had come. Holding
on to his confidence up to the very
time of their coming, Brlnton, strangely
enough, seemed to find that their
presence shook his resolution and confused
his rehearsed plans of appeal.
And nqw, pausing a moment in his labored
explanations, with an abstraction
into which the growing futility of
the whole thing had plunged him, he
became suddenly aware that Bernstein
was speaking his name.
"Mr. Brlnton," Bernstein said, "what
part of your accounts (lo you minK
you can collect?"
Brinton didn't answer at once. Instead,
as he looked at the speaker, he
found himself once more stupidly
wondering what the elusive memory
could be which refused to be dragged
from its subconscious hiding-place.
With an effort he brought his thoughts
back to the mntter In hand, as he
finally answered:
"I'm hopeful thnt the majority of
them will be paid up. If the holl weevil
will ever let us make another crop.
It's Just a question of waiting."
"So," said Bernstein, and sat for a
moment without further utterance, his
face seemingly as expressionless as
the low, monosyllabic word of response
thus far offered. Then suddenly
there came Into his eyes a look
which was wholly at variance with his
uplifted tone.
"A question of waiting," he said.
It was then that Brinton found h'mself
no longer groping after a fugitive
memory. The thing stbod out In his
mind In a sudden flash of awakened
recollection, clear and vivid. The
space of twenty years hind not dimmed
one detail of the Incident he visualized.
He saw n little peddler, stooping under
the load of a heavy pack. He saw
the peddler shrink and falter as he,
ltrlnton, coming Into the yard, hurled
a curse at him for peddling his worthless
wares in a town where honest
merchants were trying to make a fnir
living; then the settings on of the dog.
and the ridiculously futile efforts of
the little man to cling to his pack even
as he tried to evade the attacks of the
brute, made vicious by his master's I
urging. He saw the flying figure of |
his little girl, hare feet furiously pattering
down the walk, as she cried
out her braTe command, "You stop,
Wover, you atop!" And he saw the
big hotind, srrungely obedient to the
little girl's will, turning away from
the peddler, tad the child patting the
man's head, as she sobblngly repeated
: "He's a good man, daddy; he
give me a doll." He snw himself lifting
her up rnther roughly, and, hlB
anger uncooled, ordering the terrified
little' peddler with his torn clothes
and bleeding hands to gather up his
dirty pack and get out.
Slowly, as if against his will, Ilrlnton
brought his eyes back to those of
Bernstein. lie felt In the gaze burning
it.? way through and through him
only toe bright blaze of malevolent
triumph. He tried to go on with his
speech but ended with a futile stam
merlng. At last, in a voice ngntpitched
and halting, he said:
"So?you, you?are the?"
Fountains Gush Win
At Marino, Italy, each year. Is held
the Great Feast of the Wine, at which
from two fountains Jin the public
square, before the cathedral, gushes
golden wine. It is a festival which
attracts visitors from all parts of
Italy, writes Edwin Hobert Petre, In
the London Morning Post In the
morning a service is held in the cathedral,
at which a huge basket of
grapes is blessed at the threshold of
the church by the priest. Following
this a procession marches through the
town admiring the festoons of vine
branches, clusters of grapes and Inscriptions
in praise of Bacchus.
Original Lifeboat
The Hf.*oat was Invented In 1784
by Lionel Lukln of Dunmow, England,
a landlubber who had always lived
away from the sea. These boats are
now made of corrugated Iron. The
first one contained side air chambers,
then cork was substituted, and the
keel was curved J
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"There are Borne things about waiting,
Mr. Brlnton, which are good,"
Bernstein broke In upon him, as If
heedless of the half-framed query,
"and there are some things which are
bad."
So Bernstein, still outwardly passive
and with a twisted smile on his
lips, came at length to the evening up
of his score.
Ah, but he would make the other
squirm. He would make him feel the
fangs of defeat and despair even as he
had felt those of the big dog. When
he got through there would not even
be a scattered pack for Brlnton to
gather up. But for a time, he gloatingly
considered, he would Inflict upon
Brlnton something of the torture of
suspense.
And now qtgte calmly he said:
"Mr. Brlnton, how long would you
ask us to wait?"
With the burning gaze of the other
still upon Jiim Brlnton felt that the
question was but a mockery and a
taunt Plainly, no mercy could be
expected of Bernstein; no quarter.
Then an Idea came to Brlnton. He
would try to touch the sympathy of
these other men. He wouldn't beg
or plead. Such childishness would be
ruinous. But he would try for their
pity by the bare recital of what he
had to tell them. It was a remote
hope, but It was worth trying.
''Gentlemen," Brlnton a little unsteadily
said, "I know what I'm going
to tell you now Is not business,
and I ask your Indulgence for saying
It. I can't help It. I have a daughter
who has been an invalid for a long
time. She Is the only child I have
ever had. A few weeks ago I sent her
to the biggest hospital In the country.
They say there they may cure her In
tirnfi T hnvon't n />ont PTPPnt tchnf Ifl
in this business. The banks have
taken the rest of what I had. If this
business goes down, my daughter
comes home?without hope. If I can
fight It out I'll keep her there and
pay you, too."
He stopped there and stood waiting,
looking from face to face with an
expression of half-fear and half-expectancy,
soon forced by the unbroken
silence into the shadow of hopelessness.
He ought to have known, he
told himself, that such an appeal
would not work with hard-headed
business men.
Not quite ready to surrender, he
went back, with a sort of desperation
to the books. He sought to analyze
the various batches of figures. With
feverish energy he went into the details
of every phase of the situation.
Once more he searched the faces
before him for some sign of favorable
judgment. Somehow he felt he could
see none there. Bernstein still sat
there, silent and emotionless. Brlnton
fulled to notice that the little,
twisted smile was no longer on his
lips.
At length, In the absence of comment
or suggestion, Brlnton, sinking
down Into his seat. In the reaction of
recognized defeat, declared:
"AH right then, gentlemen, let It be
bankruptcy."
"You are too fast, Mr. Brlnton, too
fast," Bernstein said then. "We have
said nothing about bankruptcy. It
takes a little whllg for ?ep tp thlak
what is right to do. Whal /on Sfiy,
Mr. Brlnton, about the little girl?
that Is, about your daughter?that Is
not business. We are sorry, yes. It
Is bad, very bad, but that Is. not business
as you yourself say. All we can
do Is to look at the figures. As for
myself, I don't think It would be a
good Idea to close you up. I anj In
favor of granting an extension. What
do you think, gentlemen?"
There was little need for the question,
in view of Bernstein's Interest as
the largest creditor. One by one the
.others agreed with thls.vlew.
Bernstein pulled out his watch.
"It is now late," he said. "Tomorrow
we can arrange the details."
The wave of surprise and relief
which had swept over Brinton left
him speechless for a time. Finally,
he managed to say:
"I thank you, men. I believe you
will get every cent I owe you."
After a little while the company
began to move toward the door. Bernstein,
in the rear, came to where Brinton
stood.
"Vou?you- -remembered?" Brinton
began.
"ies, said Bernstein, "I remembered."
And, without more, except a deprecatory
up-strstchlng of palms, he
passed on out #fter the others.
"There'4 Many a Slip"
Mrs. Mitchell had discovered a new
maid who promised to be a genuine
treasure, and one afternoon she was
extolling the maid's virtues to a party
of envious friends, who were taking
ten, when the girl herself entered the
room.
"Oh, Mary," sgld Mrs. Mitchell,
breaking off the conversation, "Just
run upstairs and fetch that letter I
left on the dressing table, will you?"
"Certainly," answered the paragon
of virtue. "Which do you mean?the
one with the dentist's bill or the
vicar's letter about the summer fete?"
T nr. ,l,,n A nCTT'ni>0
?l^uuuuii Auancio.
e at Italian Festival
At 3 p. m. the people again gather
on the terrace In front of the cathedral.
At a signal of three gun shots
the fountains are turned on. Where
water gushed before, wine Jets forth,
a little cloudy at first, but soon clear
and sparkling. The guests of the city
and officials drink first, then begins an
endless file to taste the flowing white
and red Marino, 7,264 quarts flowing
in the two hours of the celebration.
Revolutionized Liehtina
The revolutionizing factor in, illumination
Is said to have been the solution
of the problem of draft for lamps
by a Swiss engineer named Argand
In the year 1782. George Washington
had some of the Argand lamps at
Mount Vernon. These are now In the
National museum historical collections.
] Patrick Henry't Home
Red Hill was the name of the estate
where Patrick Henry lived and died.
It Is located in Charlotte county, Va.
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When to Strike
Judge Elbert H. Gary whose retirement
is rumored, suid at a dinner
party: .
"I have been In many a conflict, and
I find that the man who keeps cool
comes out on top.'
"An old Wheaton minister used to
say to us:
" 'Strike when the iron is hot?but
don't strike when the temper is hot'"
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"Now, Jennie, that's my best Holstein
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THE AGE OP B>
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111., a practicing physician for
47 years, It seemed crnel that so many
constipated Infants and children had
to be kept "stirred up" and half sick
by taking cathartic pills, tablets, salts,
calomel and nasty oils.
While he knew that constipation
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little Ills, he constantly aavisea i
mothers to give only a harmless laxative
which would help to establish
natural bowel "regularity."
In Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin
m6thers have a regulating laxative
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"Do you understand music?"
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"Then what Is that lady playing
now?" ,
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People of Dgypt bought nearly
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within the last year as In the same
period of time before.
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The moment the skill of the artist
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