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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1909-5-20, Page 2y+r;+p+fA TllE 1VIYSTEBIOIIS ICEY 011, PLANNING FOB TIIE' FUTURE, CHAPTER IL failing, and again I urged her. to break up housekeeping and come to With. a sharply 'indrawn breath, "me She still refused and seemed Gerald t nod ur to the table, took up Mies Winchester's letter, and began to unfold it. "I had altsrosb forgotten it, he said wearily; "but I will read it aloud, for you will be interested In its contents. "Perhaps there may be some I had =bonded. I neither heard things in it which I should not from nor saw her again until early and so he oouaeirtcd to the tour T,o-ce+9.4-Q+ o-4.94<tor*g}ty *bread, { Io deft a hndsoana tern with d • 'Hina diato Hoo s i r for her a c , 14F i edea t h AS • more, a s end list a o �om in to s , L rt, p g and to o a . •., h`• •emit no s revered c,c 5 own z , sa l a e � to Q� #l.- foewetel his eelciress as soon as he rm ' / knew just when his movements were, to be. Ile said it would be best to still preserve the secret of their re- dations to each other; `hut ere the snows of winter fell she would be openly acknowledged before the world,' • Miriam trusted hire impli- citly. She promised to do exactly as he wished, and that promise proved feted to her. It signed her Own death -warrant and robbed you of , your birthright.; fer, . from the hour of their parttug until her dy- strangely nervous and troubled ing day, she never heard ono word when I pressed the matter ; she Prem the man who had pledged him - 'even appeared to bo restless and self before God and man to love uncomfortable during the little via- and cherish her so long as they both it I was =king .her, and Iword- 'shoed live." . ingly :shortened ; it, returning"Ohl Ohl how cruel! . heir cruel l my own lonely home earlier than murmured Lady Bromley sorrow fully, while Gerald gritted, his teeth savagely, his face like a mask of chalk, ag lurid light in his eyes. "The poor girl hoped and waited. until longer waiting would have compelled her either to betray her seoa-et and produce the. proofs of it, or become the target for a scan- dal -loving public," the young man read on "She had not confrdeu to her husband the fact that be- fore the anniversary of their mar- riage arriage should come rolled she hoped to become a mother. She feared. that the knowledge might trouble him during his absence—three months would soon pass away, and her news wogld safely keep until then. told "This was the, sad story she me when sbe camp to me, that dreary winter day, and asked me to give her food and shelter until she could die and hide in the grave what eke had begun to believe was her shame. She would not hoar one word against the author of her mis- ery -she still loved .him with izlola- trous affection, and even though she could not fail to believe herself a deserted wife, yet a lawful wife she was,.and she insisted that some undue influence—some treachery on the part of others, was what had caused his unfaithfulness. She commissioned mo to have her house sold, and as 1 was fortunate enough to find a ready purohaser, her dis- appearance from the place where she had always lived was thus ac- counted for, and aroused no ad- verse cerement. "Her baby was born a month or to ex lain while she six weeks later, and then I begged hastened p , Miriam to let me seek her husband, struggled to regain her self-control.jor, in case anything had happened resodcannot they have eilliroient to him, seek his father, produce the resolution and moral courage to proofs of her marriage, and de- cay `no'to befirm m to resist temp - raised nd that justice and proper ro- tation' and tell their lovers that cognition be accorded her and her. when they aro ready to give them child. But no; she was as firm as their rightful place in the world as v ,.00k—she had promised Adam honored wives, then they will give' that their union should remain a. as have been bred for several gen- their hand in marriage? Oh! a secret until he camp to claim her erations from the best butter cows secret marriage is a selfish and cow- and give her Iter proper place in and bulls selected from such cows ardly thing for any man to urge up-� the world, and she would never will be likely to meet the wants of on an innocent maiden, and many l break her word. A week later, the breeder. So also if beef or a one has had her happiness ruined1 during one of her violent outbursts milk for the market is the special for life by weakly yielding to her object sought. Why not work the bulls? It is no wonder that bulls so often be• come vicious. They have nothing to do but to study deviltry. For some inexplicable reason, they aro considered too good for any sort of labor. In this age of rapidly doing things, we do not expect to see an increase of the use of oxen on the farm. But we have the bulls, and if working them will make themmore harmless, why not put them under the yokel The quantity of food required to keep an animal in a healthy state of progression bears a oertain ratio to the live weight of the animal; two pounds to two and a half -pounds of dry foodfor each 100 pounds of live weight. Exposure, irritation, and the introduction of large quan- tities of cold water into the system entail a waste of food. Care should. be exercised in the selection of foods, which should contain, as near as possible, the proper quantities of flesh -formers and lieat-producers; a large excess of either entails a cor- responding loss. It is not sound. practice to pass a large quantity of expensive foods through an animal for the purpose of enriching the soil. head•,". Lady Bromley gently ob- jected, "If there was any vital secret in connection with your mo- ther's marriage to Mr. Brewster, may be es well for it to .remain such to every one but yourself." "How thoughtful you always are!" Gerald replied, and bonding I learned the reason of her strange an appreciative look upon her.; behaviour, and her persistence in "You have always been so good.to I living alone in the home that had always been hers, She heel been a wife since the month of April previous! A young man -Adam Brewster, by name, and a student at Yale -bad been attentive to her some time previous to the death of her father. He had taken lessons on the violin from Professor Harris, as a blind, and for the solo pur- pose of enabling him to woo and win the heart of his lovely daugh- ter. Mr. Harris did not approve of his attentions, and had openly discouraged them; but, immedi- ately following his death, young Brewster persuaded her to marry him secretly—at least, their rela- tions were to remain a secret only until his college course was end- ed, which would be the following "Put your feet upon this sacred summer, when he would immediate- repository—for as such I shall ly establish himself in business, and henceforth regard it—and take your then take her to a home such as ease. How this poor relic has fret- he wished her to eecupy— ted me every time I have packed "Oh! how strange!" suddenly my trunk! But now it could not broke forth Lady Bromley, in a be purchased from me for its voice of such intense pain that Ger- weight in gold, and very soon we ald turned to her in astonishment. will have it made over into a fit- "I—I mean how strange it is that ting ornament for your room.' girla will allow themselves to be Then, drawing another chair op- drawn into such snares, she posits her, he began to read from Miss Winchester's letter, ie winter, when, one cold, stormy day, the child suddenly appeared before me, looking very ill and wretched. I realized at Duce that she was in no ordinary trouble ; but I took her to my heart and bade her confide everything to me. Then me I find myself turning to you in every emergency, almost as natur- ally as I would if you were my mo- ther." "Thank. you, Gerald, for that as- surance, and I trust that you will always allow me to act as such in so far as I may. I am sure that our fondness for each other is mu- tual," responded his companion, with evident emotion. "Then 1 shall have no secrets from you," he smilingly returned; "so 1 will follow my first impulse and read Aunt Honor's letter to you. Sit here," he added, placing a comfortable rocker for her, and then, when she was seated, he brought the dismantled Winchester heirloom and placed it before her. "My dear boy," was the tender form of address, "I do not know when, if ever, this will meet your eyes, for I am greatly exercised in my mind as to the wisdom of un- raveling for you the mystery which from your birth has enshrouded your life. You are far too young to bo told anything abeat it at pre- sent, and yet I am impelled to write out the history of your mother and your origin, together with cer- tain data and events, which may possibly become very valuable to you some time in the future, and would otherwise be utterly lest— swallorved in oblivion by some un- foreseen happening to myself. If we should both live until you at- tain your majority, I should then feel it my duty to tell you every- thing, and allow you to make such use of your knowledge as you might deem best. If, on the other hand, Iscones be taken from S m o u before should would bo read that time, the story y for you, and I should doubtless have warning sufficient to tell you where to find it, together with the record of your -birth. I am not your own aunt, Gerald—you are not my brother William's child, as I have allowed you to believe. That was only a barmless fiction, to silence curious questions and' gossiping DIDN'T WANT EDUCATION. In the groat effort that the forces of agricultural education are put- ting forth in many ways to got farmers to see how and why they should become better farmers the principal reason advanced for the change is larger' revenue. But the Man who resists this teaching or will have none of it so blind that he cannot oven see the increased profit. One of the mon who, took a cow census gave the following in- cident which illustrates how stupid- ly blind some men are:— He found a farmer with a herd of sixteen sows, the milk of which he was taking to a creamery. Actually Ire did notget money enough from his cows to pay for their keeping, and he lost shout $8 a head. With- in a quarter of a mile of this man was another farmer, a patron of the same creamery, whose herd of nine- teen -cows paid'a profit above the cost of keeping of $17 each The difference: between those two men was one man's loss added to. the other's profit, or a difference of 05 a cow for the poor herd. 1 did all I could to arouse the dull manto a sense of the situation he was in and showed hire the figures relating to tho more succesful farmer. This seemed to anger him and he said it was "all false," and he knew it. So slow and sunken was this man's mind that he had never had a dairy or agricultural paper in his house. That showed clearly the amount of brains he was bringing to bear on his work. He boasted to the census- taker that he bad got all he had without any of this "bloomed fool education," _ There are plenty of just such men today keeping cows and wondering why they cannot get along better than they do.—Hoard's Dairyman. LIVE STOCK NOTES. Sheep dread hard, cold rains. Not half the farmersof this country give them any shelter from such storms. If a poultryman has a good strain of a good breed, has a comfortable. house for them, and give the proper care, success will surely result, Failures are duo to the lack of some or all of the above. If ono seeks a bull for top -special purpose of butter making from the heifers raised from him, only such lover's peranasione." "Yes, I believe that is true," said Gerald thoughtfully. He understood now that her lady- ship must have been startled bee appeared to realise this, for as so •'1 learning circumstances that the circustances•as the bleeding wt«s stopped she in - attending the union of his father 1 sister that I should pledge myself of grief, she ruptured a blood -vee sed, and I knew that from that hour her doom was sealed that she would go the same way her mother. had gone before her. She, also, were so like the experience of her cwn marriage to Sir Charles Brom- ley; but he could not quite compre- hend, in view of its happy outcome, d be so exceedingly howl why she.sg Y bitter against the manner of it. to bring up her boy in utter ign^r- anee of his parentage, at least up- on his father's skte. I was to do the best I could for him, and trust the rest• to God—if, she added wear- ily, there is any God I have of'•en "Excuse me for interrupting wondered why she did not dest',y you," she continued, smiling, litho proofs of her marriage, and spoke almost before I realized what thus preclude the possibility of any 1 was saying.." future knowledge of it. • 1 have Gerald turned to his letter and sometimes thought she meant to resumed: do so, for she kept them constaatly "" o Miriam da ted him fully ; but by her, but clung to them as long upon the very day of her husband's as poseihle, vainly hoping the; her graduation, he received a letter husband might come before she tongues, He was the captain of a from his father, who was a weal- died. She passed away suddenly sailing -vessel, and died of fever on thy banker of New York, summon- while I was absent from her room a homeward passage from South fog him immediately home—telling only a few minutes, and I found America': Your father also went him that his mother, who at that her marriage -certificate and her across the sea, but no ono has over time was in Paris—was on the point wedding -ring clasped tightly in leer known why he never came back of joining a party to Norway, Swe- left hand, which was concealed be - again to his wife. Your mother was don, and the North Cape, provided neath.hor pillow. I put them both Miriam Harris, the only child of she could have a proper escort, The into the envelope containing your my sister, who, against the swishes elder Brewster was unable to go baptismal -certificate, Gerald—I had of her family, married Arthur Har- himself, but insisted that Adam was had that rite performed for you ris, a poor but talented musician. to start at once in his place. The unknown to her, and took the re - Their home was in New Haven, and trip, he stated, would occupy about sponsibilty of adding your father's when Miriam was seventeen yens three months, and would be. a plea- name to the one she had chosen old her mother died very suddenly, sant change for the young man, for you --and put them carefully of hemorrhage of the lungs. Her who for so long had been closely away, feeling that, since she had death broke her husband's heart, confined to his studios. He also not destroyed your birthright, a and he never seemed to have any eaid that he had already cabled nigher Power had wisely ordered courage to battle with the world his mother that he would sail on their preservation." afterward, and late tho following the next steamer, so there was no (Te be continued.) winter be also gassed away, after time to lose. The young husband a brief struggle with that terrible rebelled outright against this arbi- enea,y, pneumonia. This left Mini- teary command, but more against am entirely alone, and I offered the prospective separation from his her a home with me—I was at that wife ; but she, over generous a.rd time living in a neighboring town considerate of others, advised him —but for some 100804, unknown to me then, she preferred to remain it the city, s uel continue her music teaching, which, however, barely gave her a living. She was ono of the 'loveliest girls 1 ever saw, pe- culiarly refined in person and man- ner, and possessing a sweetness of temper that 'nude het irresistible be a very inopportune moment to to almost every one. She told me confess his marriage and plead that tbat sho should still keep the old he did not want to leave his wife; home, whieh greatly aetonashed and be was entirely dependent upon his displeased; me, for I felt that the father, and be felt that if he should rental of it would materially add to he thrown upon ins own resources, her income; while also felt that it he: would have a tough struggle for was no right far it girl of hot years existence. His plan, so he said, t, live alone. Later, I understood had been to get him to establish the strange freak and her Chitin - icy, es I then regarded bee decis- inn. The summer following the death ea her father, which had no - carred early. in December, I realiz- ed titin the girl's own lrol.3th wen he knew he must obey Ins Mien, DRINKING VESSELS OF ICE. A factory has been established in Holland for the manufacture of to do as hie father wished, say'n" drinking vessels made of ice. They that she would do well enough F:, 1 are covered with an envelope of the little while that he would bo ab- waxed paper, which prevents the sent—three months would soon slip unpleasant sensation of handling away, and she would be there in melting ice. The method of mane_ the old home, to welcome him back .facture is extremely bimple; the upon his return. Adam Braweter water is put between an outer and realized but too well that it would inner mould and placed in a refrig- crater apparatus, whence it emerg- es as a delicate crystal goblet fit to receive the choicest vintage. It will be neoessaryto keep the vessel ie a refrigerator until it is wanted. The longer you lot an aecount run the longer it will be before you eaten up with it. hire in same paying enterprise, when, onlre settled upon a firth foundation, he would tell the truth, and introduce Isis bride. If he hoped to yet carry out this project, Courage five )'oars ago, eu the dead► Qf hie .eoiebr•atod pa•edeoessor Jack He had hardly beau it week in the Royal Household hon he receis d ni drubbirritable 0 ld A gis from a lady in Paris, wbei.•e the Xing was visiting, Caesar, while roaming the Tuileries Gardens, "Went for" the old lady's Drench poodle, whose owner sharply retaliated with her umbrella, "It is the King's dog 1" exclaime;i a horrified pfiioial. "The King's dog, is it?" retorted the peppery old lady, flourishing her weapon more ferociously than ever. . ellen so with the worse for the Iting1" The famous Eusnian Dr. Zakarin, who has died in Moscow and left over $1,000,000, was netted for his eccentric methods. When summon- ed to attend Czar Alexander III, in his latest illness, Dr, Zeharin re- quired the same preparations for his visit to the Palace as to any of his patients' homes, That is .to say, all dogs had to be kept out of his. way, all clocks stopped, and every door thrown wide open. He left hie furs in the ball, his overcoat in the next room, his goloshes in the third, and, continuing, arrived at the bed- side in ordiary indoor costume. He. sat down after walking every few yards, and every eight steps in go- ing upstairs. From the patient's relatives,_ and everyone else in the. house, he required absolute silence until he spoke to them, when his questions had to be answered by "Yes' or "No," and nothing more, The following story connected with this nickname, which was bestowed upon the Kaiser, is told. Some years ago the German Emperor was in the habit of steaming up and down the River Spree on board a torpedo-boat. About this period His Majesty dined with the Life Guards at Berlin, and after dinner the offioers began to call each other by their nicknames. The Emperor, who was sitting among the older officers, suddenly asked, -"And pray whatis my nickname among rho" corps?" There wad a moment's con- sternation; then a colonel got up and, with a polite bow, replied, "I can answer for the fact that among the older officers your Majesty has no nickname." . This diplomatic reply did not satisfy the Emperor, who forthwith sent for a sprightly young lieutenant, and said, "I com- mand you to tell me what nickname has been given to mo by you and your bi•other officers." "Is it a command, your Majesty? asked the 'officer, with twinkling eye. "Very well, thou; your nickname is 'Gondola Willie.' Here is a remarkable - story con - fit. Petersburg poasesoos the be- vel bronze 'statue in existence -- tis at of Peter the. Great, alt weighs 1.1'1J :me. • eerraing, Sir Goergo Ohristopber Birdlimed, imed, enc of the most eredito men an tho Indian {ery�Cea who re- cently eelebrated Ids seventy-sixth birthday. Amongst other things Bir George possesses a remarkable bee beeline knowledge, and this enabled hie;; to perform, almost unconsci- ously, a neat bit of detective work. Be was an 'Bombay wizen he was asked to investigate the case of a young nobleman who, in applying to the (lovornor for an appointment, represented that he was just out from England, and his letters of in- troduction had bees lost on the voy- age. A. few days after Idirdwoocl had undertaken the 'investigation he aneb the young nobleman at din- ner at the Govoriror's house. The table decorations of orohids wagged,' el a Conversational opening, and Birdwood'a praise drew from the young nobleman sitting opposite "You should BOB tiro s;nihersbia nobilis in its native woods, sir," It was it fatal remark. "You come from Rangoon, then!" instantly ex- elaimed Birdwood. The pale face, the silence that followed the re- mark, the request of the yourig man that be might leave the table, all prepared the Governor and the eom- pany for the subsequent discovery that the young man lead absconded from Rangoon with public funds. t HIGH SIiAS TRAGEDY, Sailors Fight With Knives on ii'recked Vessel. The history of the voyage of the barque • Eaton Hall, from New- castle, England, to Valparaiso, reads like a chapter in a sensation - el boolc of adventure. The vesset experienced a suoees- Sion of violent storms, which en- tirely disabled her, and then, to add- to the troubles of the captain and the officers, a serious disturb- ance took place among the sailors. At the time the slap had been drifting for seven weeks a helpless wreck on the ocean, and while pre- parations were being made to abandon her, some of the crew stole liquor from the cabin and quarreled. It was not long before a fight was in progress. Knives were freely used, with the result that one man 'was killed and two others wounded. A small steamer came to the vee - se's aid eighty-two miles from Ta- hiti, and agreed to tow her to Ta- hiti for £000. These services wore accepted, and the Eaton Hall was towed to' Tahiti, where the seaman, who is alleged -to have killed his mate,was handed over to the au- thorities. PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. Interesting Gossip About Some Prominent People. Considered either from the stand- point of age or duration of reign, the Emperor Francis Joseph holds the record among the rulers of civi- lized countries. Born in 1830, he succeeded his uncle on the latter's abdication in 1848, and became King of Hungary nineteen years later. The King of the Belgians comes next in point of age, being seventy- three years old, but his forty-three years' reign is beaten by both Prince Nicholas of Montenegro (born in 1841), who has ruled his principality forty-eight years, and by King George of Greece, whose reign, begun at the age of eighteen, has. now lasted forty-five years. The youngest of the European monarchs, the twenty -two-year-old Xing of Spain, has been King since the day he was born. The wire-haired fox -terrier Caesar, which aecampanies King Edward on nearly all hie travels, and whose collar in graven weeds proclaims: "I am Caesar. I' belong to the Xing," joiaed his Majesty's etz- The New THE PRINCIPAL CLAIMS - -3 For this Marvellous New Motor are ; Silence in Operation Flexibility Economy In Construction and Operation Absence of Small Parts Write for full particulars and illustrated lists from C, H. STAINTON, 73 West Adelaide Street, Toronto, Canada. dor Co cl9o4) Ltd. The Daimler Mo COVENTRY, L'NQLANDi -590 ashh km E int . ' M FANCII2S AND FANCIES, IIocla are higher au the street shoes. Buttons grow larger and dressics day by day Long lace veils will be used to ' drape the bats. Among the new lingerie are the princes ohemises. For trimming the lingerie frocks Irish crochet takes the lead. Many of the atbraetive trimmings show a touch of gold or silver, Some of the ,new lingerie lave slight touches of colored emhroid- cry. No matter where the frock fastens the skirt and bodice aro together. Fringe of every 'description is. to bo wore a great deal upon the new bats, Lace is muoh used. In many eases almost half the gown will be of lace. Sboolcings should oorresnond with the belt; parasol, or other 'aeoes 5011$5. So far as lines of coats or dresses aro concerned, there is little change. In the most stylish of the spring shoos the wide ribbon will be ueed ns lacing. The separate coat .will. have a ter vogue gree this s summer than it has for years. ' Stockings match every variety of shoe and all the more fashionable of the dress shades' Fruits are becoming as popular as flowers, and the vogue of the grape is noticeable also, The cotton materials have been pushed somewhat into the back- ground for the present by the nee silks and serges. Black has :held it conspicuous place in the wordrobe of Mine.. Modo. As summer advances, gray or mauve takes its place. Foremost among the bags is the bronze bag, which comes in logi- cally enough with the craze for bronze shoes and bronze belts. ()ropy weaves : are growing in favor. They have appeared not on- 13- in cotton and lisle threads but have extended to wools ad silks. Two of the prettiest shades of millinery are argent, it demurely soft silver, and alezaai, a chestnut brown with a suspicion of pink in it. ' Colored sash ribbons and gauze Hard tinsel ribbons are to be reck- oned with as ae important and not inexpensive item of the summer wardrobe. Many of the shirtwaists this sum- mer will be made without even so much as a collar band so the soft puritan collar .of lingerie; can be put around. In the dainty _tints there coulee flannel weave of silk and'wool blond that makes up the loveliest Waists and negligees for early summer use. The high turndown linen or lace collar is still worn, but it is not the .latest. The popular collar now is the low Dutch collar? no charm- ingly girlish, but so trying to older woolen. The revival of ribbon trmming has breught many new and attrac- tive ways of using .the garnitures, 1w but none more popular than,the sashes and girdles. One can scarcely call the new spring colors gaudy; soft calors all of them, but not the fragile pastel shades we used to turn to invari- able when springtime came. Butterfly jewelry has come into fashion lately. The most brilliant specimens of tiny foreign butter- flies aro pressed under glass and used for pendants or hatpins. Dangles, tassels, fringes, all are in order, and passemeterio drop trimmings may bo "found in all thew • modish colors and in the metallic, pearl, jet and crystal effects. LOSS IN GE11.LiiN Sfl11'P NG. North German Lloyd's Shrinkage Unparalleled in its History. German business men are stag- gered by the annual report of the North German Lloyd, which shows that 'the great steamship tine's business in 1908 was conducted with the enormous loss of £892,600, neces- sitating the wiping out of the entire reserve and "renewal" funis. • Of the total undivided profits of £1,689,907 with'tvhich the Lloyd be- gan the year 1908, it is left with only £807,307 in the shape of its "insurance fund." The company's earnings in 1908 wore only £460,900 as against £1,634,800 in 1907, and £1,985,900 in 1906. The shrinkage is. without parallel in the history of Gorman shipping. Notwithstanding the nature of Lloyd's, report, its shares closed a few points higher than a week pre- viously. The Lloyd was the most active of the German lines to take up the fight with the Cunard for the "blue ribbon" of the Atlantic, and built four ships of .the Kaiser lm Ii, classg` for Haat purpose. Wilho • Ri After a'es Gsg onions a girl should immediately sit down and peruse some work of dotter that is caleu- lated to take her ires{th awvy. 1