t Infantry "Ifpi vned himself t) If'r -hah, at l'ie actum euro |u! Wroi 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 IV ... f i . ? v i* - 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< . -f; t ......., N,,t)iio, Lincoln Ell : > ?-; n.i.de u successful fligh !.. i; nr Kuotolo. 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 it Over the Pole 'yiMmi) <S V '-' " 'E I iSi lUif I ggPiMMl - ill j 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 T r ^ * Tm TIKI v T I 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. . r , ... . 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. ... ... foj frill fliiiMMBi i.* - 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 '"*** x--' j' f irfc |r "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. ? '. ' - ? ' * -v Children C i q nrA. |V*WWI ?? 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