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The Brussels Post, 1909-12-16, Page 7.< ack to Lne ui4 iove: OR, WAITING TIhROUCil-I WEARY YEARS. CHAPTER L,T(Cont'd) After dinner, the mon want ace their week again, and Mrs. ger prepared to go into her sitt room and sew, to complete a dress for herself, to be worn Christmas. "Marie," she said, "as soon you have washed up the din dishes, 1 want you to make 9 doughnuts and jumbles for s per; and you must have some biscuits and rice •waffles, and some of that cold beef and ham gether 'for a relish. And mind as smart as you were this mo fug. Do you hear?" ',Tett, ma'am," answered seee8or woman, And as soon as her mistress b left the kitchen, Marie Serafin recommenced her endless task. She had felt stronger this d than any day for the last twel months; but as it drew near nig heriztrength began to fail, and the time she planed the well -co ticsupper on the table, she felt most ready to faint. Mrs. Berger praised the cookin but did not notice the pallor a weakneas of the cook. As she arose from the supp table, she said: "I am ;going to finish my alpa dress, Marie, so you must get al,tn the best way you can without r 'this evening. After you hs, washed up the dishes, and enure the kitchen floor and the demise I want you to iron those thin you sprinkled down. It will to ,you till late,' but you know the wo must be done; and if you want t stay here, you must do it." "Yes, ma'am," meekly replie the poor woman. And as her mistress.lefb the roon Marie attempted to rise and g about her work. But she was m',z prostrated than she knew, As sh tried once more to stand up, a overpowering faintness and drew -siness came upon her, and relaxed d her limbs and weighed down he eyelids, so that she sank back ii her chair, and fell into a deep anc sleep of some hours' due ation. She was awakened at length by the loud voice of her mistress, call- ing from the next room— "Mario 1 Marie! haven't you got through there yet? It's after twelve o'clock, and I have just fin- ished my dress, and I'm going to bed! and you ought- to be through with your work, too, by this time. Now hurry 1 because you know you hare got to be up very early in the morning." "Yes, ma'am," mechanically an- 'swered the poor woman, slowly -- waking up from her profound sleep to the alarming consciousness that she had slept ever since supper time and had, done none, of the work that 'had been given her to do I Twelve, midnight, and she' had not washed: the dishes, nor scored the kitchen, nor ironed the clothes that had been sprinkled down. She had not even lighted the kitchen lamp 1 It was sunset when' she had been overtaken by sleep, and now, it was midnight, and the kitchen was as Ave* as pitch; but for the glowing of the fire through the crevices of the stove. "Marie, are you through??" called her mistress again, "No, .ma'am; but I Will get through as quiek as ever ;I can," answered the girl, groping about in the dark for the bot of matches to light the- lamp, and trembling lest her mistrees should come in and find the evening work not even begun. "Well, then, hurry. I'm going ur now I So you must mind and put out all the Iights, and cover up the fire, and Easton up the kitchen, be- fore you come 'up to bed. Do you hear?" "Yes, ma'am," answered Marie, as at length site succeeded in find- ing the box of matches, She listened for a minute, until she heard Mrs. Berger going up- stairs, and then she struck the match and lighted the lamp, and looked about•. Heaven and 'earth! ' What was this? The supper -table, as if by magic,. was cleared off and set aside. The dishes were washed and put away In the glass earner cupboIrd. The kitchen floor and dresser were scoured white. And every copper and tin on the decent. shone bright- ly as golil'nnd silver; and every thirthief;was heeled and hung upon the clothes -horse to air, Marie Serafinne pressed' her S,ands before her oyes, and then rc- noved them and looked again. The works was done, and done well! This 8818 no dream or vis- ion. It, was a etul•.born feet. Mario. out 13ov- ing- new as ner one ]tg hot had to be - Tit• the ad 03 ay ht ly ed a1- a er ea 4 ,e t<e ire rl: o' d should think of such a thing 1 The entrance of the fancily recall - o ed her to practical duties. She e put the breakfast on the table, and e prepared to wait on those who sat u down. But again she was invited - .u'fth unusual kindness to sit down Serafino, had nothing to do but to put out. the lamp and go to, bed 1 "What does it all mean ?"• she said to herself. • "Who does my week for me?" ` In great bewilderment she ex- tinguished the light ancl, went up to her attic to pray and go to rest. She felt so greatly refreshed by her long, deep sleep in the kitchen, that she scarcely felt the need of any more sleep that night. Yet, as soon as she touched her pillow, she slept again,- and slept well. • As on the previous morning,she was waked up by the first beams of the rising sun . shining on her face. As beforesho started up in a panic on finding that she had overslept • herself. She hurried down stairs, and into the kitchen. Wonder upon wonders! As on the morning previous, all the work was done. The kitchen ,was clean, the table was set, the breakfast was cooked and snicking cm the stove, ready to be 'dished. Marie Seradiene sank down in her chair, so overwhelmed with per- plexity, that she felt as if sho would lose her reason. Who had done her work? The unanswerable question. al- most crazed her brain. •She- had heard of household spirits, called "Brownies," who were said to make themselves very useful in domestic labor; but these she had consider- el as the creations of imagination only. Now she caught herself in- quiring : "Oan it be a.`Brownie' that helps moo" • And immediately, in sham, she exclaimed : "I am going crazy, ar I never and partake of the meal with them. And with silent gratitude she availed herself -of the privilege. This was Christmas eve. And upon this day all the married daughters, with their husbands and children, were exopeted to arrive: And in the course of the day they came, one party after another. And the work for that day was quadrupled.', But Marie Serafinne found strength to do all that was requir- ed of her; or if her strength flag- ged when she happened to be work in a room by herself, she would be overpowered by drowsi- ness; and after a restful sleep . rf several . hours, she would ,wake to find her work all done By degrees she reconciled herself to this most mysterious help; one her health and strength visibly im- proved, and consequently, to her mistress's great approbation, ler usefulness increased. "She only wanted rousing! .T1 I had indulged that girl's laziness, she would have moped herself into a consumption, sure enough. Now see how well she is!" said Mrs. Berger to her oldest merriest daugh- ter, as they sat at their sewing one afterno.on early in January. But little did either- mother or daughter suspect but that Marie Serafinne did all that vast 'amount of labor with her own hands! • Marie Serafinne, since the days of her darkest misfortune, had al- ways been a very silent woman. Now, she was oven more silent than ever before: She brooded over the inexplicable mystery of her life, "Who ho did her wailer" When her unfinished task dropped from her fainting hands, who took b up and completed it for her? She could not even surmise. She had ascertained, beyond all gins - ion, that no member of the family did. She had tasted the matter by catching the room and then look ng herself in it alone, •on more han ono occasion, when site had alien asleep, slept an hour or more nd waked up to find her work all ono, No, it was no member of the fam- e'. Who was it then 1• She would have given her life to now. The Christmas holidays passed, ie married daughters, with their veniles, left their father's Iroise r their own. And "Witch Elms" eturned to its former compare, ve quiet. And still, though now there was boll so meth, t erasion for help, Ma- o Serafinne" £nitnd 'M. And she. Few better attd younger and hen- ce every day, lent one thing oubled her --anxiety to solve the pernabural mystery of her life. The winter passed away, And the spring camo, bringing a strange sones of renovated .life to the poor servant at' W.itelz Elms, Every one noticed now, how very pretty she was growing, Will Borger, the youngest of the. boys, just growing up into man- hood, and ten years younger than Marie Serafinne, tools the fazzcy to fall in love with her, and he did it. But instead of asking Marie for herself, he asked his mother for her, This proposal did not str'ilce the German woman as it does us, True, Marie Serafinne was only a ser- vant, and ten years older than her suitor, and without' a dollar in the world. But then she was very pretty ' and lady -like, and had tt, power of works in her that would. be money in the pocket of a Tabor- ing farmer. And, besides;, if Ma- rie was ever to be married, as such a fair woman wile apt to be, it would be better for them that she should marry one of their own lads, and retrain at home to work for them, than that she should marry a stranger and go away, taking all her 'usefulness with her. So the Gertnee mother told her son that he was welcome :to marry Marie Serafinne, on condition that they should both remain on the farm and work for the • fancily as before. The boy consented to this pro- posal, and went off in a strikingly forward, practical way in search of Marie. He found bar "in the soap- suds," busy with the family Wash- ing, and he asked her plainly to marry him. She stared in mute astonishment a full minute, and then flatly re- fused. He went off with his. ,story of dis- appcintment to his mother. And she told him not to despair, but to have patience, and he might win his s•roetheer8 after all. Meantime summer waned into au- tumns ' and autumn faded' into win- ter. Christmas holidays were again approaching, and all the married daughters, with their 'families, were coming to pay their annual visit to their parents at '''Witch I11ine." Again the work at the farm -house was doubled,and quadrupled as Christmas day drew near. But this additional` labor made nc difference- to Marie Serafinne; who received mysterious help ac- cording to her need, She had no trouble but the constant longing desire to know who her secret help er could be. -. There was ..rte night, in every year, that was very terrible to the. pont' woman TI tiswas the ni ht , of Christmas Eve, the anniversary •1of the birth and dee-dad her child. I/ was on the eleventh anniversary of this tragedy that her' mysteri- ous 1telpet had first cone. A year had. relied .welled since Bien, and her helper had never ,failed her. She had grown accus- tomed to the secret supernatural aid, but had not become reconcil- ed to her .gneranee of the identity of the agent - "Who does my work,. when my own atm fails?" she asked herself many times, and asked in vain. "If I could only see. hear, fee of even dimly perceive, my help e I she would sigh, and sigh t 40 puree Se, , The year had rolled around again. The twelfth annircrsary of the birth and death of her child, and the second anniversary of the coming of her supernatural helper was at hand. _ Mario Serafinne,. the last one about the house to retire, crept up to her attic and went to bed. But on this night she could not sleep. On this anniversary she never could. She lay thinking o the piteous fate of her little' babe, born and dead in one night, twelve years before 1 Whether it waa that her nerves were unusually weak, or her mind unusually morbid, I do nob know; but she lay and wept for pity. Then a strange thing happened to her --a soft, light hand, soft and light as a roso-leaf touched her fore- head and passed down over her face. The touch stilled and awed, but did not frighten her. "Who is. it 1" she whispered -faint- ly, There was no answer, bub the o light hand passed softly to and fro over her face. "Whet is it?" she asks dear ' again in a voice faint with fear. A ,soft face bent down to her`ancl :touched' her. "Who is it?" she gasped in al- most dying tones: Then answered a low, tondos, al- most inaudible voice: "Wake up. Wako up," ,rp. I am awake, Whois it? le it you, my Helper?" she breathed as if sho were breathing her last. Then came the mysterious voice again, low, tender, 'infinitely com- passionate. ompassionate. "What 15 the matter? Wake She tried to slseek !again ; bet her breath was almest gone; her heart had almost ceased to beat. With a supernatural effort she wife - pored hor last question; Who are you? Who are you?" Then came the final answer', low, The Str ry ©f to Dollars The Fd®ait-wa y of ea.rnan$g money to make your dollar's work for you. y Make your dollar work where it will. earn the moat, by seeking for the investment that will pay the best. The dollars that eaves but o 2 �. idle dollar which earns r per e°' nt. is almostas bad as the S➢�tl3gn'3g. We advise 'Il'a.at;nca,b Stock at $(.00 per share, par value, 5.00 for beginning January, 1910, it can pay a dividendof 10 a rcelnt. per annum or 2 1-2 per cent. quarterly. p The Idle Dollar The dollar that is tied up in bad 1 - ve3trn en'te- -•the dollar that is inyeutei in (conser- vative) now Interest bearing' securities, usually sold at a high premium-- -the remium--the dollar that is riot. invested any- where, reposing in the old stocking under the mattress, or in the tin teapot on the pantry shelf- - the dollar that buys the things that you would be better without— this is the idle dollar, The idle dollar gives no man comfort in holding, keeping, owning or wasting. The i3usy Dollar The dollar that is working for you all the tissue -- -the dollar that brings you a big per- centage of returns- --the dollar that is invested in good com- mercial stocks or industrial enterprises and earns away above the ordinary bank interest —the dollar that by quick turns and clear foresight doublers, trebles and gasadrt;ples itself- - i:h.s is the busy dollar. To keep your dollar busy make it work for you and earn big returns. An investment in Taxicab Stook will Drove the best known medium. Th !dee'Jiwe tment An indueiry that Sells a long felt want, which suoppIies an insistent and growing demand, which has possibilities ef great ftr'tnre expansion, is the ideal investor gf. Such a one is Ter'ssnte's System of Taxicabs for in barely y six months it has proved ifs big -earning capacity, What 6t may do in the fn1l re, with an o;;?ni increased many times, you can only sits'gtise. Taxicab Stock has a great future, an1 the tilt! to b'Jy Taxicab Stock is now. Snbseriptisetswill be accepted up to ltIO shams in the order received at this office, s?a 11e nair Cbefs a at once if yua wish to parlicipaie before the i seas is •exhausted. Englicji Adelaide gild Victoria Sts. Toronto SEND FOR OUR ILLUSTRATED BOOKLET.. A2. sweet, sad, as the softest not of o 1 the Aelian harp The child you bore. in Pine Cliffs, a dozen years ago." OF is _ , *• *, (To be continued.) 'HEIGHT DAYS FOR WORKERS. locomotion with the work of the few score Labor Exchanges already in existence in London and else- where. The exact details of .the scheme are not yet settled, but when they are made known to the British worker he will open his eyes with wonder. How the State is, Going to Deal Afforestation, reclamation of {l'itit 1lnemployutant. waste lands, and other similar pro- duative works are to be nadertak- In a room in Whitehall some for- en by the State in order to pro - by clerks are at bhis present mo- b •mpent engaged in working out the !details of a scheme' which will, when completed, bring about the biggest has aver known, says Pear-1iggest industrial revolution that son's Weekly. Every oneofthe fifteen millions of wage earners in the country will • be ,affected by it. For it aims at nothing less than roping them all into 0, sort of" giganticantic Benefit fi t Club , t established by the State and sub- sidized by the. State, which will in- sure them against unemployment primarily, and secondarily, it is hoped, against sickness also. 'ale f co t m m i The task o ac o t I l s}uug this is a colossal one, but it is being testa holy grappled with. The first: step to establishment be tl establis hat t aver the whole of England of Labor Ex- changes. These will enable the Govern- ment to find out the amount of avoidable unemploymentexisting in the country, and to take steps aocordinely. One of the principal of these steps will be the clecasuali- sation of labor, Instead of working a month here, a fortnight there, and then perhaps a week in yet a third place, with intervals of enforced idleness in between, the willing and competent worker will find. that he is able to command, through the medium of the exchanges, regular Employment throughout the greater part el the year. This is no fairy, tale no dream impossible of aecomplish81 enb, On the contrary, the thing is now be- ing done to a modified extent in vide work for the workless, The expense will be heavy at first, but it will be more than mot in the long run by. the abolition of t1e workhouses and all the costly sys- tem of poor law administration as at present established. The net result will bo to render England, in the near future, a bettor, brigh- ter, and moreprosperous country to live and: work in, No longer will the black spectre of unemployment hover over the humble home of the artisan. Nor will a bout of illness mean the nat- tering of the household goods and chattels of the unskilled and casette laborer, for special provision is to be, made against this as xagerds hie i partLeuu1ar case, , at all ;secure, It may be possible that Y even 1 a ab it's shall. see premiums placed upon youth- ful thrift, and State bonuses paid tr working-class mothers and to Territorials. ',But,,' it may lee •asked, "what or the \vastvels? Everybody knows that there are sten so incorrigibly lazy that no induceltlent that ,you can offer them will tempt theta to work. Haw aro pat going to deal with thein?" The answeris that they are to be treated as they deserve to bo treat. those whinlm were not given any. by being forced to do under compulsion that which they decline to do of their own free will, Labor penal colonies are to be es- tablished, and to these will be draft- ed the "Weary Willies" of all kinds and degrees. One result of this will bet the elimination of that pest of the roads, the professional tramp. The able-bodied professional pau- per. too, will find his "occupation" gone. But to guard against any possible. abuse of the liberty of the subject, consignment to a colony will only be allowed to be carried out on a magistrate's order, while the period of detention is to be limited to three years at any one time. FARM NOTES. There are many old meadows which h \Poll C id b0'much improved by leaving a good scratching in the spring when the grass begins to btart, with. a light sharp harrow, and thew the application of from 200 to 400 pounds of commercial fer- tilizer pox acre. • While most farmers salt nice stock with some regular- ity, degree of g egular- ity, there are too many who defer c this till they � c nothing ng else to do. Very many do not rosilize thet great importance of a constant sup- ply of salt for lire stock. 1n some p experiments that were trade in France it was found that a lot of Ames which were given free access to salt at all tinias made a much larger gain on the sante amount of food than slid a similar lot' Swhich jo were not given salt at all, and an- oth :r lot which evas salted once a t. week •dlittle e id but l' _ tt n better than _,t }4 fienetteseedeseee 0+0 On the•Farm 13REEDING THE DAIRY COW, It has been a matter of question, as a writer says, whether the pro, duce of developed or undeveloped. animals were more likely to repro- duce the qualities for which they were bred. It is however; now conceded by all intelligent breed= ere that the only correct and safe course ho pursue is to breed only from developed animals, In fact-.• the more highly developed the anis mals are . the better and the more generation of developed ancestors, the greater assurance of 88100685, for inberitenee is stronger when the possession of great capacity is found in several members of a fam- ily than when ib appears only ab rare intervals. The bull is not developed. like the other animals mentioned, but lie inherits his development, he ism.quires it through his dam, and his sire's dans and his female ancestors. Although the good milking quality of a eow is not transmitted to her son so that he gives milk, it . is transmitted through the son to the son's daughters, influenced in qua- lity by the fact that the son did not exercise it. The sirens' ,dans is, therefore, as close to the sire's daughter as is the daughter's own dam. Reference is made to this opin- ion of an experienced breeder and widely -known writer who says My experience of over forty years, as a breeder clearly demon- strates to rue that the get of any sire, whether equine or bovine, has a tendency to generally resemble the characteristics of the dam of that sire more than that of any other ancestor back of its own pa.rents; consequently in breeding dairy cows of different classes 1 have always endeavored to obtain a bull to head my herd from the best milking or butter cows to be obtained and generally with the best results. ARTIFICIAL MANURES. The appearance, smell .and color of artificial manures are.no guide as to their value; the only true test in buying is chemical analysis al- though the best test is made by the crop itself. Sulphate of ammonia is a sub- stance which is very variable in ap- pearance; it maybe red or white or yellow or blue, without any real difference to the quality. Similarly, potash, salts and espe- cially kainit, is subject to consider- able variation in color. It may be light grey or yellow or light ted, but the tint of odor has absolutely nothing to do with its fertilizing value. Superphosphate may be a light grey or a brown; its tint simply depends on ,the color of .the raw material from which it is manufac- tured. .The farmer need not trou- ble about the tint so long as the percentage of phosphate of lime is up to the guaranteed standard. In bone manures, some farmers like to .see pieces of bone, looking lu like plums in a phum pudding and regard their appearance as evidence of the good' character of the manure. 'They are nothing of the sort, and very likely have been purposely put in to catch the farm or's eye. Ina properly made bone manure the bone material is ground. fine, and so changed in appearance by the action of the acid that the bones cannot be seen. AWKWARD. A young recruit was set on sen- try -go, and was, of course, new to his duty. A good-natured com- rade brought him a sandwich front the canteen, and the recruit was about to eat it wh,en the major ap- peered. As the officer was in mufti the sentry did not recognize . him and did not salute. The majo1'.toolr in the situation and asked: `'What's that 1" "A sandwich," replied the re Frit; "hawe,a bit?" "Do you know who I sat?" asked he major. • "Don't know you from a crow; erhaps ,you're the major's coache." "No, I'm not," "His groom, perhaps?" `We; try' again." "Perhaps the 'old thee. hituself 1" "Right this titer," said the tea- r. • 'Oh r s , good g acrott ,'' exclaimed he frightened sentry, "hold the ndvic•h while T present arms !" .. - S. - Pink gyp. 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