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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1912-8-29, Page 2ONLY A MONTH; O, A CURIOUS MYSTERY EXPLAINED. CHAPTER SIV. .4, And then she began to thnit of her aunt's, words, and to wonder whether there might not be some truth in them, SQ that by the time the next day bad dawned she. had worried lierSelf, into a state of con- fueion, and bad 'Tervald Lundgren approached her again might really ave accepted him, from 40Ppuz- ale-headed motion, of the dutar of be- ing practical and always consider- ing others before yourself. 1~;iartu- nately Terraria did not appe'ar, and later in, the morning she teak her after all it is that which is rare that makes a deep impression on us. The word of praise spoken at the begin - smug of our e:areer lingers forever to our hearts with something of the glow of encouragement and hopeful, - nese which it first kindled; there;; while the applause of later years glides of ora like water o ffa'duck's, hack. The little bit of kindness shown in darn :of trouble is .remem- bered when greater kindness dur- ing days Of' prosperity has been for- gotten. It was Qh,istanas-eve. Sig- rid sat In her Bold bedroom, wrap- ped round in :an eider -clown quilt. perplexities to dear Bald Fru Aske -1 z Slhe eras reading over again the late veld, the;tZastox'a 1'61'44 'who lra><ingter she had fast received from I`rr Irked ealdx Arad lata for herr ten, thiejust +ane of those short tau.- 4 eh even, /243W tQkle d kor lrs 'maul, :isatisfylrn,g tetters which of late he g,r,, ze� .dclhaldr*rnr and auto the bar- gain was ready t'4 be the friend of any girl who chose to seek her. out,. In spit of her sixty years be had a Bright, f e.slr ede>ied fay, with a looks of youth about it whicheon- treated curiously with her snowy hair, be was Tattle uud plump alyd had it l riek, cheerful way of tae hag abipzrt, "N'e+w that a ehannaing of rill ; me and see hue ht minute, Sigrzd," mid. Id; kissing the girl, ivl • w .ng to trouble and 'a le «s looked more venin than "I've just been cutting re's nolo frock, aoel inn war. slit down and nest a litle do ,you thunk of the eo or isn't it i"' g,said Sagrci, .ing for yuu, ° you 10011 eA there by the syo it together os Quakes those. ci your eyes1°' hili$. I v u d all,"' erryia had sent her, Frew: Germany he had written amusingly enough, but these Leiden letters often left her. mere unhappy than they found her, .; riot so much from anything they said as from what they left unsaid,; since last Christmas all had been; taken away from her, and 'now it seemed a• her that even Frithigf's love was rowing gold, end ter tears fell at the thin little sheet of pap ire alis had tried 30 hard tea read and lie,.pa between the lines,' ad trial in vain,. 0e14 at the dear raaclel her dray hastily, andsbe was re- find that it was not Itor nn who ,entered, bz it sunny face and with excitement, size cried, "here eoks exactly like ate and open zrud fol back tine pipe tI e ere of era fere her the l re az, wbieh your br; it 7e, ''Partly," staid dig nln aud speaking noir vas rn this ti Qa bee ' on Finable roprietor elf tin ick again, a:l b«a red by his ready cense quickly at the accompany - She saw l'hat it bora Ids It ran a¢ follows; lame, --Rill you do me the of acceptinthe water -color of ' Bergen chosen by the late Falek in October. M your v'icili I took back the picture then noeeet: and regarded the purchase as "'I'tu though it had never been made. I ad u nowask you to receive it as a Christmas -gift .and a slight token of nay respect forthew memory* of your father," etc., etc. "Oh E"'' erred. , Sigrid, "isn't that ood of him i And. hownice of him wait for Christmas instead of sending it straight back. Now I shall have something to send to Frithiof. It will get to him_ in time for the new year," Swanhild clapped her hands. "What a. splendid ideal I had not thought of that. And we shall have it up here just for Christmas - day. How pretty it is 1 People are very kind, I think 1" And Sigrid felt the Title clinging'. arm round her waist, and as they looked at the picture together she smoothed back the child's golden hair tenderly. "Yes,," she said, smiling, "after a11, people are very kind." f becoming rich and well stepping ins;,, a pos Lien would have made ' roc anaIe tt, help the ethers, and beeause a' not wine up to nay own notic happiness I threw away than," And so little by little .end inen tioning no name, she put oofiere the motherly old lady all the facts of the ,ease, *'Child," said Fru Aelevold, 'tI have only one piece of advice to give you --be true to your own ideal.' "But then one's own ideal may be unattainable in this world." "Perhaps, and if so it can't be helped. But if you mean your mar- riage to be a happy one, then be true, Half the unhappy marriages come from people stooping to take just what they can get. If you ac- cepted this ,man's offer you might be wronging some girl who is really 1 capable of loving him properly," "Then you mean that some of us have higher ideals than others '" "Why, yes, to be sure; it is the same in this as in everything else, and what you have to do is just to' shut your ears to all the well-mean- ing but false maldms of the world, and listen to the voice in your own heart. Depend upon it you will be able to do far more for Frithjof and. Swanhild if you are true to your- self than you would be able to do as a rich woman and an unhappy wife:" • Sigrid was silent for some min- utes. "Thank .you," she said at length. "I see things much more clearly now; last night I could only see things through Aunt Gronvold's spectacles, and I think they must be very short-sighted ones." Fru Askevold laughed merrily. "That is ` quite true," she said. "The marriages brought about by scheming relatives may look prom- ising.enough at first, but in the long run they always bring trouble and misery. The true marriages are made in heaven, Sigrid, though folks are slow to believe that." Sigrid went away comforted, yet nevertheless life was not very plea- sant to her just then, for although she had the satisfaction : of seeing Torvald walking the streets of Ber- gen without any signs of great de- jection in his face, she had all day CHAPTER XV. As Preston Askevold had feared, Frithiof bore the troubles much less easily. He was without Sigrid's sweetness of nature, without her patience, and the little touch " of philosophic matter-of-factness which helped her to endure. He was far more sensitive too, and was terribly handicapped by the „ bitterness which was the almost inevitable re- sult of his treatment by Blanche Morgan, a bitterness which stirred him up into a sort of cozftemptuous hatred of both God and man. 'Sig- rid, with her quiet common sense, her rarely expressed tut • very real faith, struggled on through the win- ter and the spring, and in the pro- cess managed to grow and develop, but Frithiof, in his desolate Lon- don lodgings, with his sore heart and rebellious intellect, grew daily more hard and morose. Had it not been for the Bonifaces he must have gone altogether to the bad, but the days which he spent every now and then in that quiet, simple house- hold, where kindness reigned'. su- preme, saved him from utter ruin. For always through .the darkest part of every life there runs,. though we' may sometimes fail to see it, this "golden, thread of love," so that even the worst man on earth is not wholly cut off from God, since He will, by some means or other, eternally try to draw him out of death into life, We are astaunded long to endure the consciousness of how and tlxen to read that some her aunt's vexation, and to feel in cold-blooded murderer, some man every little economy that this need' guiltyof a hideous crime, will ask not have been practiced had she de-' in hislast moments to see a child tided as Fru Gronvo1d wished. It who loved hind devotedly, and whom was on the whole a very dreary he also loved. We are astonished Christmas, yet the sadness was just because we do not understand bri hiened by one little set of kind- the untiring heart of the -.All-Fa- nec " c:ourtesy which to the end then who in His goodneesoften given r,,.;., Life she never forot. For to the ' g vilest sinner the'r. love of C001.9 ILL BE SPARED The word Bovril has become • a house- hold word throughout the world. Bovril itself has become an established part of the food supply of all oivilized people. If thero wero no Bovril every hospital would be that nz.uoh poorer, every doctor would be at a loss to find a true w�x substitute, every nurse would be thro on her own resourees to provide nourishing invalid food. If there were no Bovril, athletes in training would be less fit, and competitors in games would lose a great support, If there were no Bovril, children would miss the quickly =wade hunger• satisfying sandwich, H'ousekeegers would be less ready to meet an emePrgeucy demand for food,: If there were no Bovril the camping party and tike I+ionio party would be mare difficult to feed, If there were uo Bovril, life in 'the cottage would entail a far greater amount t of cooking, and fewer tasty ds`ahes than at present. But there is Bovril and its uses are so many and so well known that life is made pleasanter and its burdens made fewer, Keep Bovril on band, Aare -hearted woman or child. So rue is the beautiful old Latin say" rug, long in the world but little believed,'°' Mergere nos patitur, sed non submergere Obristus" (Christ lets us sink may be, but not drown), 3ust at thie time there teas 4111y one thing in which .Frithiof found any satisfaction, and that was £i the little store of nnoney which by slow degrees he was able to plaee in the savings bank, In what way it could ever grow into a sum large enough to pay his father's eredi- ton be did not trouble himself to hank, but week by week it did in crease,and with this One Aim in life he etrug ,led. en, working early and ate, and living on an amount of raid which would have horrified an Englishman, Luckily he had dis- covered a place in Oxford Street where he could get.a good: dinner every day for sixpence, but this WAS practically his only meal, and after some months the scanty fare began to tell upon him, street even the hiss Tumours noticed that somethingwas wrong. "That young roan looks tome un_ erfeed," said Miss Caroline one day. "I met him on the stairs just now, and he seemsto me to have grow paler and thinner, What does be have for breakfast, Char. Iotte Does he eat as well as the other lodger 4" "Dear me, no," said Miss Char- lotte, "It's zny belief that he eats nothing at all but ship's biscuits, There's a tin of them up in his room arnd a tin of cocoa, which he makes for himself, All I ever take hint is ra jug of boiling water night• and morning?' "Poor fellow l" said Miss Char-. lotte, sighing a little as she plaited some lace which must have been washed a hundred tunes into her ress. (To be continued.) BEFORE OR AFTER: "I thought that th the fifteen years of ray practice of medicine," said a physician, "1 had answered almost every possible foolish ques- tion, but a new one was sprung on me recently. A young man came in with art inflamed eye. for which I prescribed :liniment --,to be drop- ped into the eye three times a day. He left the surgery. but returned in a few minutes, poked his head in the doorway and asked : "Shall 1 drop this in the eye be- fore meals or after f" Prosperity is a great teacher; ad- versity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it. "In financial trouble? What is it i" "Oh, I promised. to pay Brown ten dollars to -day, and I've got it, and he knows I've got it, and he knows I know he knows I've got it l„ easaatiinveataeauassetittetaet On the Farm resaataeasaesaaataaaaaaasaaventaseneasaa SOUND, COMMON SENSE. Have the cows come fresh in the fall. If thispractice were follow- ed generally, there is little question but that at least 50 pounds of but- ter -fat per year would be added to the average product per cow in the state. Having cows freshen at this time brings the heaviest milking during the winter, when one has. the most time. It brings the care of the calves in the winter; it allows the feeding of the skim -milk to the calves in the winter, while they need it; and to the young pigs dur- ing the early summer, when means so much to them. Calves dropped in the fall are ready for grass as soon as it comes in the spring. Cows freshening in the fall will, if well cared for, give a good flow of milk in the winte r ; and when the grass comes a good flow during the early sumuher ; and most of them will be -dry during .harvest and fallwork, when there is plenty to do without a lot of ranking, The average price of but- ter will also be higher, beeauee of a larger portion of it being pre- duced during the winter, when prie e..s are invariably higher than in summer, TEA CH OBEDIENCE, A good trainer and a good driver seldom fusee the word "whoa," but when he does u5e it he means for the horses to name absolutely to a standstill. A horse can understand that, and will obey that, if he is taught it, ' Beginat the beginning to teach him if he does not stop when he hears to command some - ting painful and sudden will hap" pen. Do it instantly and with firm Hess, not with unnecessary sever ity, but with sufficient force to cause immediate effect, That horse will never forget the lesson. Never suffer him to lapse into disobedi- ence. It is a comforf; to drive a horse that knows enough to stop when commanded, and lives are saved by this obedience, too. Once rightly trained and afterward influenced to remain obedient, the horse obeys automatically, stopping at the com- mand "whoa" even when badly frightened by ears or automobiles, er any other "scarey" objects.. Each and E e'er age of ExtraGranulate Sugar contains pounds u weight orf Canada's finest sugar, at itsbest. Ask your grocer for the 5—Pound Package. 3 v • CANADA SUGAR REFINING co., Limited, Montreal. 11 peeted to work ten hours on tn,,*re in the harvest held and then while hot and dirty tackle the nm'tf!:ing job, In some states the law is that all milk after July 1st must be pasteur- ized before leaving the creamery, In Denmark milk is•pasteurized at all times. Need not expect to keep up the milk flow during the tailend of sum- mer unless you have plenty of soil- ing crops to feed, Dead grass does not produce milk. CANARY A 1I€lSl'YTi1I, PET, Bird That Brightens the Lives of. English Incurables. "Bow is Dinky this mornning i'ra "Did she come in last night?" These are the first inquiries which patients at the Royal Hospital for Incurables at Putney Heath, Lon- don, Et:gland, make every morning,. t on rising, Dinky is a bird that, brightens their d y s t e ay , There is probably two tamer, .no A $5 bill will buya detective in more intelligent bird in London than Dinky. She le u 'canary, - the form of a Babcock tester which 1 Every morning she leaves her eage l and flies to a horse trough about two hundred yards away, where she takes her daily dip. In the wards shesaunters from patient to patient, and her'chirrup seems to bid them "good :morn: ing," When she has made sure that every one has seen Dinky she leaves the patients to spend the day with the sparrows. Punetually.ntt 5 Dinky returns to the wards, where speculation is generally rife among patients as to wham she is going to have tea with, Dinky likes to please everybody, and she 'chooses her hostess and turn, After tea she takes leave and makes again for the open, A POSER. FEEDING VALUES. Ba,aed on the average farm price of feeds for the last ten years, oats are worth on the farm $19.37 per ton, and feeding of the skim -milk to the calves is worth $17,50 per tan, and has a feeding value of $21.- 98; corn is worth $13.63 per ton, and has a feeding value of $22.66, In other words, at the average farm priee, a dollar's worth of feed in. oats costs n2 cents; in barley, 80 cents; and in corn, 65 cents.. The feeding value is figured on the basis of bran at $20 per ton, On this same basis, a dollar's worth of food nutriments could be supplied in clover hay for 40 cents ; in fodder corn 57 cents; and in timothy hay for 60 cents; in ensilage for 78 cents. In view of the above facts, it is plain that a-ppmbination of 'corn and clover will make a most eco- nomical feed. DAIRY HELPS. Never cover milk while warm in the cans as it will produce a musty odor. The milker who will Thump a cow for squirming under the attack of flies ought to be hoisted out of the barn on the foe of the dairyman's boot. Why should the hired man be ex - •O• ry will show up every cow in the herd that does not earn her keep. ORCHARD NOTES. Marty farmers who have been growing fruit for years do not know that the apple and most other fruit trees form fruit buds : in the late summer months.'' In very dry, weather fruit buds aro formed 'quite early and in case of "a wet fall immature fruit buds sometimes change into leaf buds. Most small fruits form their fruit buds in the spring. A Missouri correspondent writes: t'I have been told to apply strong kerosene emulsion to my apple trees for 'scab. Isgthis better than Bordeaux mixture l" No. Bordeaux mixture is effective, but kerosene is not. The only way to apply Bor- deaux mixture is by spraying so that every part of the tree is cov- ered. This cannot be done with a swab. AREATED MILK. All milk should be areated s;s soon as taken from the cow. This can be done by passing it through the sepaartor, but it is not as good as a device which divides the milk' into many fine streams and then allows it to flow over a wide sur- face in thin sheets with plenty of ice to keep the surface cool. If nothing better can be had, milk may be areated by placing the cans in a trough of cold water and diping the .milk with a long -handled dipper and pouring it back into the can until it is thoroughly cool. Butter may be kept cool in hot weather by filling a. basin with cold water, and putting the buter on a plate on the top of the basin. "Yes, sir; when we were am- bushed, we got out without losing a man or a horse or a gun or—" "A, minute," chimed in a small, still, voice. Little Tommy -Mother, were men awful scarce when you married papa, or did you feel sorry for. him y Two-thirds of the inhabitants of' New South Wales belong to the Church of England. 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