HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1912-5-9, Page 2ONLY' A MOUTH:
OR, A CUR OUS IVIVSMRY EXPLAINED,
CHAPTER ILT--(Oontinued),.
"1. would real over for the Stair-
day, perhaps, that would be as
It as I could manatee, but Frithi-'.
of s: ill be there to take eare of you.
ll''zat should you want with a flare-
worn old man like me, now that
lie is at home again!"
"You fish ler compliments, lit
• tie father," said Sigrid, slipping Ji
her arm within his and giving m
one of those mute caresses which
are so much more eloquent than
words. `But, quite 'between o•:tr
selves, though Itirithiof is all very
well, I sha.'n't enmjes it a bit: without
t
you.,,
"'Yes, ye$: fathex, dea'wt:Tt nerd.
Swazihxl€1,, "indeed yo4x
I'or Frithief he will be just'no
at all, he will be sur to dance ara.
ways with the .pretty Miss Morgan,
and to row herr about on the fjord
all day, juet as he dial those wetter'
girls a tNorheiinsuud and Faalcide."
The innocent earnestness of the
ehild'e tons' masa 'thea all laugh,
and Frithief vowing v engeaece On
her for her speech;- chased het
round and mind the •S narcle, then
laughter fleeting back to Herr
Feick and Sigrid as they enter
tha House.
"The little minx" said Her
Balch, "bow i)unocesitly she said ii
ton. I don't think onar hey i$ snucl.
es desperate flirt, tdzonr,glt. ,And a3.s
far as I remember there was north
iug more than 4 fort of boy toad g*:
ft"zendship at either plane;"
"Oh,no," said Sigrid, snrii
"Frithief WAS too much Or a sclrr .n
boy, every one liked him and
liked every one.: I don't think
is the sort of man tea fall. in ]eye
easily."
"No; but
will he 4r se,
much wish to
riecl,"
"Oh,: fatizer s
s so young,
Herr Falek threw himsel
his arm -chair, and roused 'f
minutes.
"One nee<I not necessaril
him," he replied, "and you
Sigrid, I am as believer, in
loges --at ]east for my sow
xiot say too much abonat You,
woman; for, as a *natter of
#act, I don't know how I should
ever sI )are vanes'
'`Don't be afraid, little 'father;'
you may be very sure. I sha'n"t
marry till I see a reasonable chance
of being happier than I am at home
with you. u And
when will lir" •
•it be
do you think 3"
He stroked. her golden hair ten-
derly,
Not just yet, Sigrid, let us hoe,
Not just yet. As to our Frithiof,
shall S tell you of the palace in
cloud -land I an building for him ?"
"Nit that he should ;Harry the
pretty Miss Morgan, as Swanhild
calls her ," said Sigrid, with a
strange sinking at the heart.
'•1Vlev not? I hear that she is a
*;harming ,girl, both clever and
beautiful. and indeed it seems to
me that he is quits disposed to fall.
in love with her at first sight. Of
course, were he not properly in.
love I should never wish him to
marry, but I own that a union be-
tween the two houses would be a
great, pleasure to me�-
a great re-
lief!'
f
and sighed, for' the first time
the anxious look in his eyes attract
ed Sigrid's notice.
*'Father, dear," she exclaimed,
"won't youtell me what is troub-
ling you.? There is something, I
think. Tell me, little father."
He looked startled and a slight
fiush spread over his face, but when
he
spoke his voice was reassuring.
business man often has anx-
ieties which can not be spoken. of,
dear child. God knows they weigh
lightly enough on some men; I
think I am growing old, Sigrid, and
perhaps I :have never learned to
take things so easily as most mer-
chants do."
"Why, father, you were only fif-
ty last birthday, you, must not talk
yet of growing old. How do other
men learn, do you think, to take
things' "lightly: '
"By i•efi)'sinb to listen to their
own conscience"'. said H ;
, .. Herr Falek;
illL'li;.:
with sudden veheme l'ee. "By al
longing themselves to Bold one stasi–
s.
lord of -honor in private life' and i
very different` 'standard in business
transactions. Oh; Sigrid 1 1:' would
give agreat deal to find some other'
opening for Frithiof. I dread the
life for him."
"Do you think it is really so hard
to be strictly honorable in, business
life? And yet. itisalife that must
`
be Iii=ed and is it not 1)ettei" that
knell :t map -- lr',itIiiof. slloulcl takr
if ap --a pian weal sudb a high sense,.
of honor roe
"You don't 'snow :what business
iz;rn h�sse .to sial 1 against.' :aitl'
1:1c , Palek. ``It' ill . is a good,
hones, fellow, but 11 sset he ?las
seen %thing of. life , Ar;tl I tell
urstill,'sve often fail in out-
er:
point."
'e Pruni 1I`s chair and paced:
the glom; it -seemed to Sigrid. that
a nameless shadow had fallen on
their sunny hone. She was for the
first titue in her life afraid, though
the fear was vague ,ind it defined,
"But there;, little on said her
father, turning toward her again,
You must not be worried. 1 get
nervous and depressed, that is all,
'.s I told you, I am growing old,"
Frithiof would 'take to help you
lnose if you would let hina,'z said
Sigrid, rather wistfully, {`He was
piny so least new,"
Annul so he shall in the. autumn,
Ile is a geed lad, and if all goes
veil, I hope he will some day be. ;rny
iglht hand in the business, but I
rimh hit. to have a few mouths'
holiday first And there is this gine
bing, Sif rid, which I can tell you,
yon really want to lotew abort
tmy aulaxteties.
"Irmdeed I do, little rather" ]
id, eagerly,,
,.There aura u
nm
would not. nae
d I speak of
ren
know, of coarse, that I am agent
in Noriwav for the firm of Morgan
rothers. 1�ell, reeler has
ratend tt<
d. to send
branch
M . taava'iger. It is a xaaera rumor
anx4] n•ee l;ecl late quite aecidentelly.
I very uueb hope it may. not be
but there is uo denyazng haat
vangev would be in most ways
ter suited for their purpose; iv
the friend who told me of the
r said that they felt now that
ad Leen e. mistake,all along to
have the agency, here, nand they had
le. done it because they knew Bete
and knew i e,"
"Why is Stavanger ra b la1 c+e
t xs better because nmost of the
mon and lobsters are caught in
neighborhood *f Stavanger, and
the mackerel, too, to the south
' trgen. I very much hope. the
r is not true, for it would be
at blow to me to lose the Eng -
tion. ,Still, it net an-
nke1y, and the times are hard now
very bard."
"And you think your paelaee in
cloud -land for Frithief would pre-
vent Mr, Morgan :from breaking
then connection`?"
"Yes; a marriage between the
two houses would be a `gent thing;
it would make this tncw idea, unlike-
- of not altogether impossible. 1
azn thankful that there weans now
asome chance of it. Let the two meet
naturally and leave to know each
other.r.
� will not say
a word to
Frithiof, it would only do harm;
but you, u � i 'i I
y � (1 n
Sigrid, confessthat
,
m
g' ,
my heart is set en this plan. If I
coup.] for one moment make you see
the future as I see it, you would
feel with ane how important the
matter is."
At this moment Frithiof himself
entered, and the conversation was
abruptly ended.
"Well, have you decided?" he
asked, in his eager, boyish way.
BOV
renews the blood,
creates nervous
energy, bunds up
healthy muscle.
earesuliy devised a thoroughly Nor-
wegian repast.
"For I thought," she explained;
afterwards to Blanche,. when the
two girls had made friends, "that if
I went to England I should wish to
se,„ your home -life iust. exactly,' as it.
really is, and so I have ordered the
Fort, of diener we should naturally
have, and did not, ns Frithiof ad-
vised! lease out the rorekolle,T'
11 as that the sniff like curds
she e'C" ;..skekl Blanche, who
flf eager• interest ini every:-
atttex :i.vhlie;
*,steals "Yes; it is ,SOUr cream with bread -
crumbs grated over it, We always
have a plateful eaeh at dinner, it
is quite one of : our customs.:.. Put
everything here is very simple, of
course, not grand as with you we
do not keep a great number of ser-
vants, or dine late, or dress for the
evening; here there is nothing"• -,-
she ,Hesitated for a, swords then in.
her pretty foreign English, added,
"nothing ceremonious."
"That 'is,just the eharra of it all,":
said Blanche, in herr sweet, ,gracious
way'. "It is all so veal and einnplo
and fresh, and I think it Vas dew
lightful of you to know how much
best we should like to have a
glimpse of your „real home -Life in
stead of astupid party. Now naam-
riasr cares for nothing but just to
axiake a great show, it doesn't mat-
ter "`whether the visitors really like
it ex• not."
Sigrid felt a momentary pang of
doubt; she had fallen in love with
Blanche Morgan the tnonrent she
saw ger, but it Fownehow hurt her to
hear the English girl: criticize her.
own mother. To :Sigrid's loyal na-
ture there was something out of
tune in that last :remark..
"Perhaps you and your cousin
would likes to sea over the house,"
* ho said, by way of making a di-
version. `".*hough I must tell you,
that we are eonsidered :here in Ber-
gen to be rather English in some
points. That is because of my -
gFath
'. Eng-
land.s business connection with �n);,
land. I suppose. Ilere you wee, is
his study. he has areal English fire-
place; we all like it much, better
m day I
than c res and some
tax) ]t to
t s ,
should like to have them in the
other rooms as well."
*But there is one thing vei'y iin-
English," said Blanche, "There
are no passages; instead, I see, all
your rooms open out of each other.
Such numbers of lovely plants,
too, in every direction; we are not
so .artistic, we stand diem all in
prim rows in a conservatory. This,
too, is quite new to me. What a
good idea!" And she vent no to
"Is it to be Tllvik or Belholml examine a prettily worked sling
What: You were not even talking fastened to the wall, and made to'.
hold newspapers.
She was too polite of course to
ray what really struck her ; that the
whole house seemed ciuriously ;sim-
ple and bare, and that she had ima-
gined that one of the leadingmer-
chants of Bergen would live in
t
greaoer style. As a matter of fact,
you miht, as Cyril ez ressed it,
have bought the whole place for an
old song, and though there was an
air of comfort and good taste about
the looms and a certain incliscriba-
ble, charm, they were evidently des-
tined for use and not for show, and
with the exception of some fine old
Norwegian silver, and a few good
pictures Herr a
alek did not pos-
sesssess
a single thing of value.
Contrasted with the huge and ela-
borately ' furnished house in Lan-
caster Gate -with its lavishly strewn
knickknacks, its profusion of all
the' beautiful things that money
could buy, the : Norwegian villa
seemed poor indeed, yet` there was
something about it which took
Blanche's fancy,.
(To be, oontinlxed).
s which
even)
you
reached nue that t;
eak off the eouneel
t:heeldesttson to se
etttr
s
arl
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On the Farm
THE GRASS YIELD..
Farmers who content themselves
with two tons or less cannot under-
stand how yields of three or four
tons, or even more, are obtained.
There are, however, four chief es-
sentials, a smooth surface, with
even, steady grade, thorough pl•e-
taaration of the soil, an. abundance
of good, healthy seed and plenty of
fertility and to which might be a;l
deal the proper amount of moisture,
writes Mr. R. B. Rushing. '
Where land is stumpy or rocky,
at may be considerable expense to
remove hem, but to obtain the
greatest amount of grass it must
be done. The roeko, must either be
sank or hauled, alrzty and the sur,
faee smoothed so as to gine a gentle
grade, A little depression where
the water can stand may case ai
patch a grzss to die out and i few
aatebes iFill Lill a hundred pon'u s
of hay.
The sante with stumps or bush
h:iekets hex and theme and they
On etre down the yield.
"Suter this thorough grading the
laud is thoroughly fitted. This
does not mean just plowed and bar-
- wed
ar-rowed in the ordinary way. I lrre-
fcr the use of a cut -away disc,
which does the work "srst the: op-
posite
-
posite to the turning plow, l
The turning plow turns the fur -
Toss' slice over, leaving the hard up-
per soil at the bottom. The har-
rowing 'which follows simply works
he soil which has been turned
top, while the e urface sail
n :
untouched.
The eut-away, can the other hand,
tosses or throws the soil up instead
of turning it over. At the first
sight, it means to leave the ground
rough and in poor condition, bet a
littlethougbt will show then object.
orf it,
e do not want to turn the fur
red over, for this leaves praaeti
taally half the,soil undisturbed by
the harrow and most of the }weed
seeds and grass roots are : at the
bottom,where they will not be de-
stroyed by ordinary tillage.
They ate, of course, hidden from
tyiew, but later will be sure to grow
and injure the new seeding of grass..
WW "nth the curt. -away, the soil is tossed
up again anel again, thus letting
the air and the sun into it while
tunny grass and weed roots will be
thrown up where the sunwill de-
stroy thein.
This continued ~working of the'.
soil With the tut -away clears the
soil f foulw
Ca o stuff and gives the nes
seeding a ehanee. The soil should
be worked over with the cut -away
and the smoothing harrow many'
it not l at
times, al on e butcontinued
s,c,
through July and August. In this
way,whenready
to seed the soil
is certainly as tine as an ash heap.
The seed then should be put on
carefully and accurately, so as to
have every square inch of surface
covered, thus having two blades of
grass where one formerly was.
I seemany farmers seem to be
content with six quarts of timothy
and four quarts of red clover to the
acre, but I have found it most pro-
fitable to use from ten to twelve
quarts of timothy and about the
same of red top and six quarts of
clover.
The reason for so doing is that
often this intensive sail culture is
so fine in result that everywhere
thataseedcanfallshouldbecov-
n
ered, thus securing brass on ;every_
particle of the soil
The red top is added because it
is a tall, slender grass which grows
well between the salks of timothy
and will add from one-half to a ton
of hay to the yield.
It would not pay, to use this
heavy seeding -where the land was
left lumpy or stony. for unless every
inch of the soil is well prepared a
good share of the seed will be wast-
ed. .
After the soil is perfectly fitted
and the seed is thoroughly sown,
about that. Oh, T know what it
was, then. Sigrid was deep in the
discussion of to-morrow`s- dinner.
I will tell you what to do. abolish
the romekolle, and let us be Eng-
lish to the backbone. Now I think
of it; Mr. Morgan is not unlike a
walking sirloin with a plum -pud-
ding hea.cl. " There is your bill -of -
fare, so waste no more time."
The brother and sister went off
together, laughing and talking; but
when the door closed behind them
the master of the, house buried his
face in his hands, and for many
minutes sat motionless. What trou-
bled thoughts, what wearing anxie-
ties filled his mind, Sigrid little
guessed. It was after all a mere
surface difficulty of which he had
spoken of the real strain which
was killing hila by inches, he could
not say a word to any mortal being,
though now in his great misery lie
instinctively prayed.
"My poor children 1" he groaned.
'"Oh, God, spare them from this
shame and ruin which haunts me
I have tried to be upright and p'ru-
dent;,it was only, this once that I
was rade. Give me success for their
sakes, oh, God 1 Tlieseifish and un-
sciiipulous flourish on all sides.
Give me this one success.:. Let ine
not blight their whole lives."
But the next day; when he went
forward to greet his English guests,
it would have been" difficult to re-
cognize himas the burdened, care-
worn man from whose 1ips, had been Fond Mother, (to teacher)—
wrung ` that` confession rind that ""Don't you think my boy is bound
prayer.Ail his natural courtesy to "make his mark?" Teacher (de-
and brigntne.=s had returned 'to spairingly)-"`Pm afraid so. It
n if he thought of his business seems impossible for him to learn
at all he thought of it in the most to wished;
Perpetual motion is easy enough
with a scandal that once starts.
A woman doesn't consider the
wearing of diamonds vulgar --unless
she hasn't an .
y
salsa -lime tray possible and the
(organ _ saw in him. only an. older 1 little lie who had just rece'nt
edition of Frithjof,. and wondered yr
how he hart .m.tnagcci to preserve ly mastQ.red his: .cateehism7 n-
�+I1L 1 laso5"anb apiriis in the cares fessed his dlsappointinent in ,the
alai uncertainties of rnercanti'le following terms :— dray, aiad I
!i£e. Inc rrt'o o10:1OSl- gamier` passed I obey they,.",c1fth: C immandmnt,and
off Swed ; Sigrid, whim was' a clover i'','Tulp- niy _ father, . and. tnother, ' yet
laths housekeeper. had acoi'ite.d. my dans are 11 1 a bit longer in the
Prithiof`s segge'stiein as to',the ,coast laitcl, for I'm put t'o�,,�bed evory night
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1; LAGR, GREEN osr MIXED 055
the question of plant food must be
settled if it has not been previous-
ly seen to, as it should have been.
before seeding. The thicker the
seed the more plant food is re-
quired to make a full crop.
First, we must remember that
five toes of liay will remove from
the soilnearly lee pounds el nitro-
aen, 9.5 of phosphoric acid and about
lQ of potash.
A sear good mixture of the com-
mercial fertilizer into use one third
of each, nitrate of soda, fine ground
bene and muriate of potash. This,
however, should be regulated ac—
cording to the needs of the pert!,
cular soil. Some will need more
of ane and. some More of ,another.
The questioon frequently* asked
is; Why is the large amount of pot-
ash necessary* °? No ane who has
ever used fertilizers en grass need
be tend that nitrogen gives the
grass a rich, green color and makes
it grow very rapidly, -
I, for one, have never been able
to grow merchantable hay without
plenty of potash The grass would
grow,, but it would not stand nil so
acs t eut with the mower.
1"lle potash gives the -strength to
tlte+ sterns so that the timothy and
ted top do not lodge or fall down
before'eutfing. Witha thin crop of
grass this would not make so much
difference, but when ,one starts out
to raise four tons or more of bay
on an RCM of land at one cutting
every ° stalk of grass must stand up
straight.
Let it once go down and nothing
ca)l save it, for its very thickness
will make a heavy mat which will
ruin the hay.
Farmers who expect to grow
heavy crops of grass should remem-
ber this and always use potash
freely, especially when nitrogen is
used.
" •lt r.
Avarice is the only kind of lee
that will not melt.
HANDS IIP
"You say you were held up this
morning by a footpad with a revol.
ver. At what timer
"Five minutes to one,"
"How can you fix the time so
Precisely?"
"Because I could see the church
Clock, and I noticed that its hands
were exactly in the same position
as my own.,,:
"1 understand that he was tris
tieally ill." "He was as soon as he
became convalescent," "As soon
as he became eonvaaleseent?" "Yes.
He was -Angcrouslyr ill, and then.
as soot* as he became convalescent
he became so critical there was no
pleasing him,"
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