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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1910-9-1, Page 7i9 ff•++++++++++++++++++++++++++-4+++++++++++++:*, TUE , PWER: Or, A TRUTH NEVER OLD.. ++++++++++++++++++4-f++:4+++ -+'++++` +++++++++++++++++++++4-f++:4Tf-f4, CHAPTER IV.-(Cont'el) we don't touch, and than the way Dorothy Ualc dogs not favor also 'butter go in for caviare bread and modern mode of esning relays, of butter and endless sandwiches an•d guests for two da s or three days . i ail kindsde of rich rgla s; and deux kum- • she thinks it makes a country reel at Madero or glasses of tful, house too like a hotel. Size wishes mw n the heya hour riv cfioigmfnl- her people to be' perfectly well as- I wonder they have any cohe as - P Y ion.- at all ]eft, event with the as- sorted and h n ten staywith , a 1. to t „ hos t szstaneo of all the 'secrets ole Ve- least a week, even two weeks or I ns,, three weeks. People do not often „ , object; Orme, Denton, and Surren You wozit altos em; my dear den are all popular places, and fellow," replies Usk, 'if you put Surrenden is perhaps most popular yourself elf oct about it ever so much. of all, r • you were to marry a savage out "An ideal house," says ' Blanford, of Formosa, or au Esquimau, she'd Who would not stay a day where he take kindly to the caviare and the was not as free as air, knmmel before a week was tint if "It's too ' much like a hotel," yeti brought her to Europe. Why -grumbles the master of, it, `'anti a tools ab dogs -you may keep 'ens on hotel where the table d' hate bellbiscuit if they live in the kennels, rings to deaf ears. Lord! I remem- but if they once come to the -dining - be in my poor mother's days every. room they'll turn their noses up at body' had to be down to breakfast a beefsteak if it isn't'truffled," at 9 o'clock every morning as re- "Dogs, at least, stop short of the gularly as if they were charity kuznniol," says Blanford;, "but if. -children, and the whole lot of 'tin you were to put together the slier- -were marched off to church on Sun- re, the dry champagne, the liquors -clay'whether they liked it or not. at tea, the brandy in the cheese at The villagers used to line the path dinner which a fashionable woman .across the fields to see the great takes in the course of the day (not folk pass. Now it's as much as ever counting any pick-me-up that she Dolly can do to get it woman or two may require in her room), the un in time to go with her. How amount would be something enorm- things are changed, by Jove ! And oris -incredible ! You would not be - it isn't so very long ago, either." lieve the number of women who "The !march of intellect, my dear have eurecl me of an unhappy pas - George, says Blanford, neither cion for them by letting use see le bon dieu nor we are great folk what a lot they could drink," any longer." 'You will adore the Sabaroff, "Well, I think it's a pity," sighs then, She never touches anything Usk. "Everybody was happier that I see, except tea," then a d . jollier, too, though we "Admirable person? I ani ready •do tear about so to try and get to adore hoz'. Tell me more about amused." her. By the way, who is she 1" There is still nothing to prevent "Oh, you must go to Polly for you going to sleep in the big pew if biographies of her foreigners. I it pleases' you," replies Blanford; can't keep even their names in my "ancl, Lawrence Hamilton always head." ,goes that he may look, at Mrs. Cur- "Foreigners! What an expres- zon's profile as she sings; she is slot!" cries Dorothy Usk, in dis- mally saintly then. I think Sun- gam. "Since steam effaced fron- clay service is to English women tiers, nobody but insular people what confession is to catholic like ourselves ever use such a term. ladies; it sweeps all the blots off the Nationalities are obliterated." week's tablets. It is convenient if She is very fond of Xenia Sab- illogical." aroff she has a great many warm "You are very irreligious," says attachments to women who helpto • his host who is snvariably ortho- ,make her House attractive. .dox when orthodoxy doesn't inter "Nationalities are stili diseern- ferc with anything.„fble in different tobaccos ” mur- "Not more so than most people, muss Blanford. ''The Havana says Blanford. "I have even felt won't acknowledge an equal in the religious when I have been alone in the savannahs or in the jungle. 1 don't feel so in a wooden box cov- ered with red velvet, with a curate bawling in my ears about the hew- ing in pieces of Agag." "Dolly don't know anything about her," continues Usk, cling- ing to the subject. "Oh, we; dear;" cried his wife, "That's nothing to do with it," shocked, "when she is the niece of "Ths says at'"win bound to t set athe great chancellor and her mother was a Princess Deurtza." example." "You don't know anythingabout "That's why you Bozo in public her," repeats Usk, with tht un- and Mrs. Curzon wears her big pleasant obstinacy characteristic of pearls, to lead the school children men when they talk to their wives. "You suet her in Vienna, and took ono of your crazes for her, and she may have sent a score of lovers to Siberia, or deserve to go there her- selt for anything you can tell. One can never be sure of anything abort. foreigners. "Hew absurd you are, and how insular," cries Dorothy Usk again. Foreigners! As if there were any foreigners in these days, when Europe is like (me family!" "A family which like most fam- ilies squabbles and scratches pretty often, then," says Usk, which seems to les wife a reply too vulgar to be worthy of contradiction. He is oonscions that Xenia Sabaroff is a viny great lady, and that her quar- teriegs, backed by descent and al- liance, are wholly iereproachable- indocd, written in that libro (Form the Almanac de Gotha, for all who choseto read. • Her descent and are alike immaculate, char- acter? -he is Loo c Briton eat to think r lc that these'is son there. Usk is a 1tussophnbi a trite tory. Isle has pression that all spies, when they are much as in the early century his grandst positive that all Fr assassins when they y ing-pasters. The w replaced the petit cal fur cap the cocked It of Englishmen of Usk 'a of dread rind detestation. wvould never be in the tri if it turned out object af: Mine. Saba Seri -en -den were to opportunities to examine ti' t of eemouth its it for Cossacks'. out of corvettes. in. the way they should go."• "That's nothing to do with it," repeats Lord Usk, somewhat cross- ly He has a comfortable, if indis- tinct; idea that he dues something ,patriotic, patriarchal, and highly peaisewo:rt'hy in getting up an ]sour earlier than usual one Sunday out of three, and putting on a tall hat, .a frock ,coat, a pair of new gloves, •to attend the village church Inc morning service when he is at _,,, Orme, Denton, or Surrender' in fine weather. CHAPTER V. A: few new people have come by the brake, and make their 'appear- More come b ' huichean. 14I e ante at Y the 5 o'clock train, and are visible at 6 o'clock tea, which is always to be had in the library any .time be-. foes 7;`dinnor at all the Usk houses: is always at 9. 131anford''s doctrines •clo not prevail with any of his ac- quaintances, although he, unlike most professors; emphasizes them by example. Among the people who conte by i:he latter train are the famous Mr.. 'Wootton, a man very famous at c. London 'dinner pasties, and Lady ' Gundrecle ',.Vansittart, whose din- g,.alers are the best hi London. ., "Where would those two.people be if you brought the pulse and tlte. P rice you recommend into fesh- Ion?" says their host to Blanford, t"fake 'em away from the table they'd be gond' Inc nothing. He wouldn't say' 'Bo' to a goose, rind Who wouldn't bo worth leaving a 4e t4 ward upon. Believe me, .nay dear 'tiny, such esprit as there is deft in . its is only brought out by eating." "I think you 'invest all your rca- 1 ottings,'' says ]3laufotdl. "Say, re- ther, that too much toting has de- ers -eyed all,esprit. Don't we est all day long everywhere, .or at heist airy: expected to do so?. You lament your, ruined digestion. It is ilnpits- slide to digest when time is; only cotln:cc1 by what our beloved Yee- 'kctes call sqt ;r" meals (why stetatce r 1. frlil to lathum); and for women 1t is 11nose''ilan Inc nilbecallcc they oat salts. 'st,,ntftias of s,eat things iN PMN FOR YEARS, P FRUIT•A-TiVES'„ KINGS RELIEF MRS. FRANK EATON Frankville, Ont., Sept. 27, 1909. "i suffered for years from headaches andain in the back, and I consulted doctors and took every remedy obtain- able without any relief. Then I began taking' Fruit-a-tives", the famous fruit. juice tablets, and this was the only medicine that ever did me any real good. I took several boxes altogether, and now I ant entirely well of all any dread- ful headaches and backaches"' (Signed) MRS. b•RANIK EATON. Soca box, 6 for$2,so or trial box, 250. At dealers or from Irruit-a-tives Limited, Ottawa. His admiration of Mme. Sabaroff is much mitigated by Ms sense that she has a rather derisive opinion of himself. "I don't -say she isn't an agreeable woman, but she gives me tee idea of artificiality insincerity -mystery,„ "Just because she's a Russian I" cries his wife, with disdain. "My clear George," observes Blanford, "there are preconceived ideas about all nationalities. As a rule, they are completely false. The received continental idea is that an Englishman is a bluff, blunt, un- pleasant, o_7ionionated person; very cross, very clean, too, it is true, but on the strength of his tub and Isis constitution, despising all the rest of mankind. Now, how completely absurd such an opinion is; You, yourself, are an example of the suaviter in modo, fortiter in re, of which the true-blue Briton alcays g'ves so. admirable an ex- ample." Usk laughs, but sulkily; he has the impression that his beloved friend is making fun of him but he is not quite .sure.. He himself be- lieves that he is an ideal English- man. Blanford is only half or e, quarter of one; he aloes not shoot, wears furs in winter, only drinks eery light Rhenish wine, never goes to any church, and never cuts his hair very short. Added to this, ho has no fixed political opinion, except a general impression that England and the world in general are going down -hill as fast as they can, "tobogganing," as they say in Canada, at the rate of fifty miles a minute, to land in the slough of socialism and be picked out of it by some military despot; democracy invariably ending in absolutism. "What ridiculous rubish !" says his wife. "You might as well say that the demoiselles-monnequins at Worth's or Rodrigue's are conspir- ing for the Orleanists when they try on my clothes!" 1 "They are conspiring for the ruin of your family," says Usk, with a groan. " Whose purse can stand those Paris prices?" "What an irrelevant remark!" I cries Lady Usk. "You are, always dragging money questions into ev- erything." Those faiseurs as you call 'em," continues Usk, unueeding, "are at the root of half the misery of soci- ety. Women get into debt up to their eyes for toilets, and they don't rare what abomination they do if thea get enough out of it to go on plunging. Hundred -guinea gowns soon make up a pretty total when you change 'em three times a day." "And if women are guys aren'b the teen furious?" asked his wife. "Even if they try to economize, aren't they always s tatante 1 t with being dowdies? You none of you know anything about the cost of things, and you expect everybody to be hien mise on a half-pcimy .a day. When Boom saw erre at As- ad this year he stared, at me and Whispered to nye ; 'Oh,"I say, mo- ther! you've 'got the sane bonnet on you had itt the Oaks. I do hope the other fellows won't notice it.' That is how lie will speak to his wife some day, and' yet I dare say, like you, he wilt expect her to get het bonnets from Vilest at 10 francs apiece!„ (To be continued.) her diamonds but her kl-fashioned a t very probab- le Touche Rt,. ns becomes is rooted irn- Ilazssiane are not swindler's; years of the to had been cnchmeit were 'ere atot dang- 1d10 czar has rural, and the at, itt the eyes t'a type, as an He. leizst hu1pris- that the. real rail's vies to have possible ilia the facili- ties place the Mtiicoviio Ratssians are tremendous swells, at palaver," lie drys, with itiueki contempt;"gammon yeti 110 e sesSir yen like 1:o believe 'ern t they; al - 11,1'0 knee no'!tieal dodge tib' ether behind it ell. `:t (1111'1 ev the isn't g11 agree. Able wumt:n, ' tic con''mles now, No man ig'as important as h;s Wife wuuld.11ke to think ho is. • Mary a Man who pretends to be- lieve things winds up by believing then. Sllee—Ao, Reggie, my . mind is madcflp. He -What] Not even tlrast, much of you real? f /We. never know the meaning of Vie till we read it in the eyes of those we love. Judging from' the talk of acme rn- tliusies'ts nue would imagine that the modern airship. could cl.O rvery- thiug that the Ertl does except lay eggs, On the Farm ADVICE TO YOUNG Dt1Il1YMEN If the individual dairyman wish- es to improve the dairy qualities in h'., herd or provide for a herd which will give him a better in- come year after year he can go about it in two ways, He ean, by tae aicl of his records from the cow testing association, select his best cows to head the herd, and by breeding them to good sires with dairy qualities, be reasonably cer- tain to obtain your animals with dairy qualities. The heifers of such breeding are used to replace the poorer cows in his herd and in a' few years he will have a herd which will produce •much Snore net profit for the same labor and feed. The second way is to buy from reputable breeders dairy cows of known qualities or young heifers of good breeding. But the price asked for such anitnals, while it may not be exorbitant is usually more than the average farmer is willing to pay and lin will find that if he wants good dairy cows he must raise them himself. And his success will depend on his re- alization of the great law in breed- ing that "like begets like or the likeness of any ancestor." Just as surely as the good dairy cow, as a rule, produces offspring as good or bettor than herself, so surely must he expect offspring without dairy qualities from the poor dairy cow. Poe this reason he must choose only his best dairy aninials for mothers of his future herd. The systematic dairyman fixes minimum production as a, -standard of excellence in a mature cow, and while one is. content if a, cow pro- duces 250 pounds of butter -fat in a year, another wants 300 pounds and selects only eows capable of such production for his mother cows. In every case the cow must be bodily sound. ' But the certainty of inherited dairy qualities in, the offspring does nut depend upon the good qualities of the mother alone. We can only be reasonably certain when she has. been bred to a sire whose ancestry shows the same good qualities which we wish to produce. When the dairyman buys the bull he has at the same time chosen the breed he wishes to work with as well as the type he wants to reproduce in his herd, and for this reason he should R®Gine® t5on ro5a DESIGNERS AND BUILDERS OP �_ yT INTI o- ALL SIZES KNOCK DOWN FRAMES I-IULLS furnished complete or in any stage of completion. LAUNCHES, with Engines in- stalled, ready to. run, in stock. Send stamps for catalogue. 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It contains much useful information that will put you in the way of saving money. - Among the subjects treated are; Barns, Dairies, Fence Pests, Feeding Ftuors, Hitching Poets, Root Cellars, Silos, Stables, S:alre, Stalls, Troughs, Walks, Well 'Curbs, and so forth. REMEMBER.-Thls hook is yours -•a ;betel wilt bring It promptly, Write now. You m ay send 1110 a copy of " 1f71n1 the Farmer Can Ao it`ith CaeereI,' ' . 117a tar, ......................... Address AUCTION STORIES Unexpected Prates That Have, Been Won by Uidders, A GREAT BARGAIN iN EGGSII How Two Specimen,' of the great Auk' Species Were Sought For $P and, Sold For $2,O00 -An Old Picture Than Had a Valuable Lining. _"Of course I have met with a goad many interesting experiences during Las' .career as an auctioneer," relates Henry Stevens in a j.,ondou magazine, "but the most striking of them all oc- curred, I think, in connection with a great auk's egg. "Some years ago a young fellow rode over to an obscure furniture sale at', the country village In the hope of se- curing a bargain to help in furnlshingi a home in view of his intended mar- riage. arriage. And a bargain • bo did get.: though not Of the kind he originally,j thought of. "One of the lots put up lor sale was a basketful of shells, eggs and other ornaments' which, bad attracted the at- tention of an old lady who happened to be present. Just as they were en the point of being knocked down to her the young mart was struck by the ap- pearance of two large eggs in the bas- ket, and, thinking be might as well have them as curiosities, be started to bid, with the result that the lot was knocked down to him for $9. "Upon examining the eggs It oc- curred to him that he might be able to make a profit -on their sale. He mc- cordingly wrapped them up In a hand- kerchief andkerchief and brought them to me. "As soon as they had washed off th*. grime which covered them I discovered that they were eggs of no less a but than the great auk, and as a result o' their sale a few weeks later I hand ,a the astute young bargain hunter s, cheek for $2,000. "At another sale which I conducted. there was an old picture so covered with dirt and grime that it was almost impossible to see what it was like. This was bung upon the wall in a prominent position, but did not appar- ently find favor in the eyes of any of the dealers who were present. No re- serve price was placed upon this pie• ture, which had been put into the said by a local pawnbroker to whom It had been pledged and not redeemed. "In spite of every effort on the part of the aaictioneer, it was eventually knocked down to a young man . who had looked into the sale quf a casually in order to waste half au, hour during which he had to wait for a train. Tak- ing a great fancy to the frame, which was of oak, blackened with age, he hazarded a bid of $5, at which price It was knocked down to him without any competition. "As he did not want the picture; be asked the suetiooeer whether he would mind trying to get a bid for it if he cut it out of the frame, and, being an- swered in the affirmative, he took out ,his knife and neatly cut through the canvas all round the edge. - "Imagine the astonisllMent of him - sell and all present when, hidden be- hind the canvas, he discovered five bills for $100 each. Evidently the pic- ture had been used to conceal the say-- ings of some previous owner, who had died without disclosing the secret and whose hard won fortune thus came ,Into the bands of a total stranger. "I should quote as very interesting a sale at Rutland Gate, where there were only the remains of the furni- ture, a firm having been allowed to take what they chose to their rooms. It was accordingly after the nature oil a rummage, sale, but to one cupboard which had been overlooked were what the junior clerk described as three silver cups. The auctioneer was sit- ting in his office when a gentleman drove up in a hansom cab, anxious to speak about these cups, for whichhe offered no less than $1,500. "The auctioneer was so much sur- prised that he thought his visitor musts have some reason for this high bid. and be wisely determined not to take the first offer be received. 'Oh I don't think they willtake bo said anis with this answer the gentleman had to bo content. An expert was called on to enrolee the so called cups, and he discovered them to be in reality six- teeoth century chalices, for which he himself made an offer of $2,100. The. three cups were subsequently sold for, $5,75d but it was only by the slightest' chance that they bad not gone for a mere song. "I shall never forget an incident which occurred in connection with the sale of some valuable shells. The bid- ding for one lerge shell in particular• was much more brisk than I had an- ticipated, but the reason for this be- came apparent when at last it was, knocked down to a gentleman In a, very excited condition, who directly; it was handed to him Dung it upon the. ground and trampled it to fleeing, at, the sante time shouting out in a loud' voice that now that ono was destroyed he possessed the only specimen. in the, world." - They're All a Bluff. Srane-Railroad car on the New York Central going up the l3udson . river, passing Yonkers, First Traveler -Say, have you heatdi about the Palisades? Second Traveler -NO. What about them? First Traveler -- why, they say they'r(' all a bluff, -New TNtk Herald, :the Man who Isle net...attained to, self Umbel stent oattttot safely live 1,1a - dee the law tat illrat•te-Wnsiultt4,„