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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1910-9-15, Page 2f+++++++++++++:4 r44 -f+4++ +.++ F+++++4++44+++++. '+, a nnigr n NVJ� Or, A TRUTH NEVER QLD. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++++ CHAPTER V.—(Cont'd), to, be very ill and suffering agony,' but everyone laughs, flirts; plays, sits under the little tents under the trees, dances at :the Casino, and elle goes on, "What a life_ that eats.,a fair dinner as usual, eo that brute Mersey leads her about if Pallidi Mors be indeed among money. ,All those dreadfully plain its, she looks just in every one, else, I came to Aix from my own place on the White sea, and the gay groups, the bright alleys, the green -embowered chalets, and the goat-herds with their flocks, which come 'tinkling their bells down the hillsides in all directions, all seem- ed to me like an operetta of Offen- bach's, spiritualized and washed with the pure daylight and the mountain air, but still Offenbach. How are your children? Do they Lady Usk was angry and roused, "Look at my poor little sister,' girls to dress and nothing to do it on, and yet if they are not all well got up wherever ethey go to he swears he is ashamed to be seen with them. You can't dress well, you can't do anything well, without spending money, and if you haven't money you must get into debt. That is as clear as that two and two are four, Whenever do mon remem- ber their own extravagances? You =eke ten cigars a day ; your cigars - cost a igars.costa shilling or 18 pence each — still call for me? That is very that is 10 or 15 shillings a day.; Lo sweet of them. A clay at their years a week, not counting your cigar is as long as a season at mine. As- ettes I Good heavens! £5 a week sure them of my unforgetting gra- for sheer, silly, personal indulg- ence that your doctors -tell you will canker your tongue and dry up your gastric juice! At all events our toilets don't hurt our digestion, and what would the world look like if women weren't well dressed in it? Your cigars benefit nobody, and only make your teeth yellow," "Well, in a year they cost about 'what one ball gown does that's worn twice." "I always wear mine three times, even in London," says Dorothy Usk with conscious virtue. "But I don't see any .sin in spending money. I think it ought to be consideration and believe in my spent. But you are always dragging sincere regard. Bien a vous. money questions into everything, XENIA PA SABAROFF." .and Boom says that the Latin per- "A pretty letter," says Blan- ton whom you and Lord Blanfordford. "Many thanks," and he re- stores it to its owner. "Buncombe I" says Usk. "Not a bit in the world," says his wife, with contempt and indig- nation. "She does' not 'pose,' if you do!" "My clear George," says Blan- ford, "you are one of those thor- oughgoing Britons who always think that everybody who doesn't deal in disagreeable remarks must be lying. Believe me, there are people who really see 'the side that's next the sun'—even in a crab apple." "And deuced irritating, too, they are." says Usk, with emphasis. "'What e beastly bad day,' one says to 'em when it's pouring cats and dogs, and they answer :.`01r, yes; but rain was eo wanted we must be thankful,' That's the kind of answer that would make a saint swear." "You are net asaint, and yon swear on small provocation," re- plies Blanford. "To look at rain in that light argues true philoso- phy. Unfortunately, philosophy is too often strained to bursting in our climate by having to contem- plate rain destroying the crops. If we only had rain when we wanted it, I think the most unreasonable among us would view it with equa- nimity." Rain is at that moment running down the painted panes of the Sur- renden casements, and driving across the lawns and terraces of the Snrrenden gardens. It makes Usk very cress; all the ensilage in the world will not console him for rip- ening corn beaten down in all di- rections, and young families of pheasants dying of cramp and pip in their ferny homes. "Dig a big pit and cram your soaked grass into it; very well, I don't say no," he growls. "But what about your mildewed wheat? And where should we be if we had to undergo a blockade? I'm net against making more pasture, graz- ing's all very well; but if there's a war big enough to sweep the seas of, the grain ships that come to us from the colonies and the United States, where shall we be if we've nothing to eat but our own beef and mutton? Beef and mutton are solid food, but I believe we should all go` mad on them if we had no bread to eat toe." "I'm all for pasture," replies Blanford, "and as the British isles can never, under any cultivation whatever, feed all their population, we may as well dedicate ourselves to what is picturesque. I am fasci- nated by Lavcleye's portrait of England when she shall have turn- ed grazier exclusively; it is love- ly „ "I don't think Laveleye believes in peasant proprietors, though be is a professor of social economy " "Social economy!" says Usk, with a groan."Oh. I know that feel of a word! In plain English it means ruin all round •and fortune for a few manufacturers." "The manufacturer is the princi- pal outcome of 2,000 centuries of Christianity, ofvilization acid cul- ture, The result is not perfectly satisfactory or encouraging; one mast admit," says Blanford, as he titude. I shall be pleased to be in England again, and though I do not know Surrenden, my recollec- tions of Orme tell n e d'avance that I shall in any house of yours find the kindest of friends, tire most sympathetic of companions. Say many things to your lord for me. I think he is only so discon- tented because the gods hav• been too good to him, and given him too completely everything he can de- sire." ("That's all she knows about it!" says Usk, sotto voice.) "Au revoir, dear Lady Usk. Re- ceive -the assurance of my highest are always quoting declares most sensibly that money should always be regarded as a means, never an end, and if it is to be a means to anything, must it not be spent be- fore it can become so?" "That's neither here nor there," replies her lord; "and if Boom only reads his classics upside down like that heal better leave 'em alone." "You are never content. Most men would be delighted if a boy read at all." "I don't know why, I'm sure." replies Usk, drearily. "Reading's going out, you know; nobody'll read at all fifty years hence; pok- ing about in guinea -pigs' stomachs and giving long names to insects out of the coal -hole is what they call education now -a -days." "Frederic Harrison has said very aptly," remarks Blanford, who is present at this conjugal colloquy, and seeks to make a diversion on it, "that the boast of science is to send the Indian mails across seas and deserts in nine days, but that tscience cannot put in those mail- bags a single letter to Voltaire's or the Sevigne's, and he doubts very much that there is one." "It's an ill bird that fouls its own nest," says. Usk, grimly; "still I'm very glad if those scientific prigs fall out among themselves." "I think some people write charming letters still," says Dor- othy Usk, "Of course, when one is in a hurry—ancl one is almost al- ways in a hurry—" "Hurry is fatal, Lady Usk," say Blanford. "It destroys style, grace and harmony. It is the curse of our times. The most lovely thing in life is leisure. and we call it progress to have killed it," "Read this letter," says his hos- tess, giving him one which she hr,lds in her hand. "There is no- thing private in it, and nothing wonderful, but there is a grace in the expressions, while the English for a foreigner, is absolutely marvellous." "I thought there were nn foreign - era," says Usk. "I theueht steam had effaced nationalitieel" His wife does not deign to re- ply. Blanford has taken the letter with hesitation. "Do you really think I may read it?" "When I tell you to do so," says Dolly Usk, impatiently. "Besides, there is nothing in it, only it is pretty." Blanford reads; it is on very thick paper, almost imperceptibly scented, with a princess' crown embossed on it and a gold X. "It is very kind of you, dear Lady Usk, to have remembered a soli- taire liico, myself in the midst of your charming children and your many joys." ("My many annoy- ances, she means," interpolates Lady Usk.) "l will be with you, as you so amiably" wish, next Tuesday or Wednesday. I am for the moment in Paris, having been this month at Aix, not that I have ,any aches or pains myself, but a friend of mine, Marie Worm:eoff, has many, and tries to cure them by warm sunshine and the cold douches which her physicians pre- eerfbe. Thete are many pleasant people beret every one is supposed reaches down a volume of eigh- PGLMOST DR/E PIM WILD AASEASN DIPY' 1TID IV1U!1AT1t1 P1' WAS cVrn11) ;A'1' ON01I 13X Mr, 11, 111arehessault, IIigh Con- stable of the Prevince of Quebec, who lives at St, Ilyaclnthe, thought he was going to be disabled for life. A terrible pain in the bac% Rept frim.. in tho house and under the doctor's earn for months. Nothing seemed to give relief, Then he tried "Fruit -a -twos," the famous fruit medicine. Note the re - mite "Fruit -a -does" cured me of chronic Vain In the back that was so severe that I could not drive my horse," writes awe. Marchessault. If you have Weak Kidneye and that Biting Pain in the Back, by all means try "Fruit -a -lives," Which is made of fruit juices. EOc a box, 0 for $2,50, or trial box, 28c. At all dealers, or from Fruit-a- tives, Limited, Ottawa. teenth century memoirs, and adds, with entire irrevelenee to manufac- turers or memoirs; "Is she really as handsome as your children tell meg" "1Vho V" asks • Usk. "Oh, the Russian woman; yes, very good looking. Yes, she was here at Eas- ter, and she turned their beads." "Hae she any lovers elder than Babe?" "She has left 'em in Russia if she has." "A convenient distance to leave anything at; Italy and Russia are the only countrierremaining to us in which Messalina can still do her little murders comfortably without any fuss being made." "She isn't Messalina, at least, I think not. But one never knows." "No, one never knows till ono tries," said Blanford. And he wishes vaguely that the Russian woman were already there. He is fond of Surrender, and fond of all its people, but he is a little, a very little, bored. He sees that all Lacly Usk's doves are paired, and he does not wish to disturb their har- mony, possibly because none of the feminine doves attract him. But he cannot flirt forever with the chil- dren, because the children are not very often visible, and without flirting civilized life is dull, even for a man who is more easily con- soled by ancient authors off the lib- rary ebelves than most people can be. This conversation occurs in the forenoon in Lady Usk's boudoir. In the late afternoon in the library over their teacups the ladies talk of Xenia Sabaroff. It is perceptible to Blanford that they would prefer that she should not arrive. "Is she really so very good-look- ing?" he asked of Mrs. Wentworth Curzon. "Oh, yes," replice that lady, with an accent of depreciation in her tones. "Yes, she is very hand- some, but too pale and her eyes too large. You know those Russian women are mere paquets de nerfs, shut up in their rooms all day and smoking so incessantly—they have all that is worst in the oriental and Parisienne mixed together." "How very sad!" says Blanford, "I don't think I have known one except Princess Kraskawa; she went sleighing in all weathers, wore the frankest of gingerbread wigs, and was always surrounded by about fifty grandohildren." Princess Iiraskawa had been for many years ambassadress in Lon- don. "Of coarse, there• are excep- tions," says Nina Curzon, "but generally yon know they are very depraved, such inordinate gamblers and so fond of morphine, and al- ways maladives." "Ah," says Blanford, pensively, "but the physical and moral per- fection of English women always make them take too high a stand- ard; poor humanity toile hopeless- ly and utterly exhausted, many miles behind them." "Don't balk nonsense," says Mrs. Curzon; "we arc no better than our neighbors, perhaps, but we are not afraid of the air; we don't heat our houses to a thousand de- grees above boiling point; we don't gamble—at least net much—and we don't talk every language under the sun except cur own, and yet not one of them grammatically." (To be continued.) SPOILED THE EVENING. "I suppose you had a perfectly lovely time at the dinner party last night?" ''No. Through same mistake they sestet] me next to my hus- band." The Edinburgh Deaf and Dumb Institution, which has just celebrat- ed its centenary, was the first in- stitution of its kind in Scotland and the second itt Britain. A fancy dress parade and page- ant had been held at Galashiels to raise funds fora memorial to Rob- ert Burns in appreciation of his song, "Brew, 33raw Lade o' Gala Waters." 0n the Farm DISADVANTAGES OF WEEDS. 1. They rob cultivatedplants of nutriment. - 2 They injure drops by crowding and shading, 3. They retard the work of bar vesting grain by increasing the draft and by extra wear of machin - airy, (Bindweed, thistles, red root,) 4. Tlroy retard the drying of grain and hay, " 8. They increase the labor of threshing, and make cleaning of seed difficult. 8. They damage the .'quality of flour, sometimes making it nearly worthless, (Allium vineale L.) 7. Most of them are of little value as food for demotic animals. 8. Some weeds injure stock by means of barbed awns. (Squirrel grastail s,)grass, wild oats, porcupine 0. Some of them Were wool and disfigure the tails of cattle, .the manes and tails of horses. (Bur- dock, cocklebur, houndetongue.) 10. A few make "Hair balls" in the stomachs of horses. (Rabbit, foot clover, crimson clover.) 11. Some injure the quality of diary products. (Leeks, wild en ions,) 12. Penny cress, and probably others, when eaten by animals; in- jure the taste of meat. 13. Poison hemlock, spotted cow - bane and Jamestown weed are very poisonous. 14. Many weeds interfere with a rotation of crops. le. All weeds damage the appear- ance of a farm and render it less valuable. (Quack -grass, Canada thistle, plantains.) SOME SMALL BENEFITS. 1. They are of some use in the world to induce more frequent and more thorough cultivation, which benefit crops. 2. The new arrival of a weed of first rank stimulates watchfulness. (Russian thistle.) 3. In occupying the soil after a crop has been removed they pre- vent the loss of fertility by shading the ground. 4. Weeds plowed under add some humus and fertility tb the soil,. though in a very much less degree than clover or cow peas. 5. Some of them furnish food for birds in winter.—W. J. Bea], Lan- sing, Mich. PLANTING THE ORCHARD. In preparing to set out an orch- ard we would select a field afford- ing natural drainage and, if pos- sible, natural shelter ; that is, if one has a grove or hedge on the farm to take advantage of, as a shelter for the orchard, for there is not much use growing fruit and having it blown off by the heavy autumn winds. A row of cherry trees planted thickly around the outside of the orchard would make quite a good windbreak and prove a source of profit as well. We would also plant an evergreen hedge out- side of all, and if fruit trees and evergreens were set out at the same time, the shelter would be sujici- Ont by the time the trees had fruit- ed. A good preparation of the ground would be to plow and harrow, then sow with peas or buckwheat, and when it had grown up sufficiently, to plow it down. This would make the ground mellow and provide an abundant supply of the best kind of food for the roots. After pulverizing the soil and smoothing it, lay off the orchard in rows each way, at whatever dis- tance the trees are to be planted. Set up stakes in line and plant where the lines intersect. This will leave the trees in' line every way and will facilitate working among them. When planting the trees dip the roots in a pail of water, as the clay will adhere quicldy to the wet rootlets and fa- cilitate speedy growth. For years heed crops may be grown between the rows of trees, if plenty of ma- nure is used; the tree can thus be cultivated with profit. Late in the fall the young trees should be wrapped about the trunk with building paper to the height of about eighteen inches to protect them from being girdled by mice. Thin is about the way we set out our trees and wo have never yet had an apple tree fail to grow. If every farmer in Prince Edward Is- land could be induced to plant five acres of orchard the exodus would step and we would double our po- pulation in fifteen years. --A. B. E. Islander in Canadian Horticultur- tat. '1 "Mamma, the angels hove to work awfully hard, don'tthey?" queried little Viola. "I don't know dear," replied her mother, "Why do you think they do?" "Well," answered Viola, if they have to lightup the stars every night and blase them ant every morning, I. guess it mast keep 'em pretty busy." is tbo turning.pe!nt to economy in wear and tear of wagons. Try a box, Every dealer everywhere, The Imperial 00 Ce.,Ltd. Ontario Agents; lee Queen C1I' ole Co.,' Ltd. ADVICE TOYOUNG PEOPLE AltDI;EW CARNEGIE'S RULES FOR SUCCESS. Says They Should Letirn to Concen- trate 'Their Mind on One Pursuit, Every lad standing upon the threshold of manhood is possessed by an ambition, That is to say, this should be the fact with every nigh- minded lad. His ambition is to achieve success. 'The paths are open to him. Not always paths of roses, but that mat- tern nothing. The harder the way, the steeper the hill, the better it may be. That which ^ is achieved without effort may not be worth achieving. That which is won by struggles with difficulties and hard- ships must bo worthy of ambition, and when. it is won will be worth the cost. There are several rules I would lay down as necessary to success. They 'are based upon personal ex- perience. Determination to suc- ceed might, perhaps, be set down as the first rule but it must be pre- sumed that it is the gateway through which a young man enters upon the pathway of his active life. CONCENTRATION. So the first rule to be stated is this. Concentrate yourmind and efforts upon one pursuit. Never mind what that pursuit may be, so that it is useful and honorable, make it the eentre of your thought. 1 don't believe in a too broad application of that old saw, "Don't put all your eggs into one basket." There is a time when it is unwise advice. Such a time is when you are pre- paring to enter upon some pursuit, a trade, a business, or a profession. Then put all your eggs into one basket; and watch the basket. Put all your thought and your energies into that one thing. More men fail to win competence and wealth from disregard of this rule than from any other cause. Master your vocation, when you have chosen it. Don't try to be a Jack-of-all-trades. The result may. be that you will be master of none. For a second rule. be advised not to be content with simply perform- ing the part assigned .you. Do nob measure your day's work by the hands of the clock, nor grade its quality by the amount of compensa- tion you may have been promised. The successful worker is the one who takes pride, in doing his work well and who regards the few extra minutes devoted` to it as well spent. If you succeed in doing more and better work than your employer ex- pected of you, it will be as much to your own interest as to his, for 31 hedoes not perceive that you are more valuable to him than he ants- eipated, he will lose you eventual- ly to some other employer who will see what there is in you. VALUE OF WORK. Then, for a third rule, do not be eager to make too good a bargain fur yourself. A' good market may be lost through over -estimating the value of goods "offered, This is true of labor, mental or physical, as it is of merchandise. Be fair in your business. Modify your estimate of your value by the DESIGNERS AND BUILDERS OF TrtT.,.. ALL SIZES KNOCK DOWN FRAMES HULLS furnished complete or in any stage of completion. LAUNCHES, with Engines in. stalled, ready to run, in stock. Setid stamps for catalogue. Foot of Bay Street HAMILTON. CANADA estimate of those for whom you seek 13 work, and then let the problem work itself aut. This will follow. Men- who be- come great millionaires, co-operat- ing as they must with others, must secure and hold the implicit confi- dence of all people with whom their business brings them into relations. They' must be reputed to be fair, liberal and considerate in all things. Their word must be bet- ter than their bond, sad ibeir de- sire to do the fair and liberal thing better than either word or bond. My next rule is, never speculate. To gamble in stocks is not more culpable than to gamble at Monte Carlo, but it is less sensible. The chances between winning and los- ing are not so evenly divided. None of the rules for success is more important than the fifth. Be- gin early the habit of saving a portion of your earnings, no mat- ter how small year earnings may be, If you aim to be a millionaire, or even to have a .competence upon which to retire from routine activi- ties, the habit of saving is indispen- sable. But you cannot save unless you observe the sixth and final rule of this series. It is, you must live a sober and discreet life. That does not mean that you must live a du]1 life by any means. Life is full of possibilities for enjoyment, and there are few of them that you need to ignore. NO INTEMPERANCE. .Avoid intemperance, however. That is the stumbling block that has thrown many a young man fromthe path of success. I do net like to Preach to young men, but because I have practised'from my youth what I now recommend to you upon the liquor question, it is not out of place to say let liquor alone. A young man may perhaps wisely take a glass of wine at dinner, but it is not wise to go beyond that. As to drinking between meals, it may mean the opening of the sluice that will carry you into the slough of. despond. There is a quite general impres- sion among the medical profession, I believe that after a man is forty the occasional glass is not harmful, but beneficial. Just postpone test- ing the benefits of intoxicants until then. Or, it might be a good rule for young men to resolve tbet they will not make 'Mae test until they become millionaires. This would probably give a majority of them, to say the least, time to think the matter over and render a final decision, shaped by not only deliberate but by quite natural judgment. llavortng need th6,oma no lemon or vannl Byy diR Ivtng grengle5ed sugar Ia watww enq,7 nddinaapb rdt6,'.,a passe oploin aclened a erns oe 'i than melte. r 2 ex bottle and bl. rr,etpebook. Crones�n_ d 60c for Co. B httIft W asiuP-. �. MOTOR CARRIAGES AWARDED' DEWAR TROPHY. The Dewar Challenge Trophy is awarded yearly by the ROYAL AUTOMOBILE CLUB for the most meritorious per- formance of the year under the general regulations for certi- fied trials. The Now Daimler engine has now been in thehands of the public for nearly 18 months, quite long enough to prove its merit; owners are sending in testimonials by every post and we should like to forward to anyperson or persons interest- ed a complete set of literature fully explaining this marvel- lous new motor. Send also for our new illestrated' booklet, "The Dewar Trophy and how it was won," a history of the Greatest Engine 'Test on Record. The Dai log Motor O /1904 �,�,; id COVENTRY, ENGLAND. CURIOUS ENGLISH NAMES I,TII'rpll OF LONDON f'APl1lt IIAD ITABI) USE, Offered to Supply Podigeees fcr the headers of his Popov. When, some few weeks back, the editor of a London daily offered to enlighten readers as to the origin of their surnames, ho imagined that possibly a few score 'of people, or at' the outside, a few hundreds, might possibly send in letters of inquiry, Instead, thorn were marry thousands, and very strange read - leg some of the epistles made, r'Onir young lady, who signed her- self Edith Ivory Mallet,' wanted to know if her curious patronymic "had anything to do with cro- quet." As surnames were invented cen- turies before that game was even thought of, this suggestion was of course quite untenable. He found out, however, that in the very vil- lage where she is now living, there dwelt, some five hundred years ago, a certain Ivry Malet, and the gene- sis of the name became at once ap- paient. SOUNDED JEWISH.' Another fair i-quirer was much: troubled because people called her "It miserable Jew" on account of her surname, which was Isaac. She wrote from a street in South Lon- don, but informed ere that she came originally from South Devon, where her family had lived for at least two hundred years. Of course! She need not have told me that, for Devonshire is the home of the Isaacs. There is no- thing of the Jewish strain about them, the Hebraic looking surname being derived from the personal name Isaac, at a time when it was popular as such, and when there were no Jews in Devon, nor, for the matter of that, anywhere else hi England. "MY NAME IS HEAVENS." Yet a third fair correspondent wrote, "My unfortunate name ie Heavens:" ` He answered explain- ing to her that this was merely what genealogists term an "initiative corruption," and that it meant no- thing more than "son of Evan." But he was able to give but scant oomfort to a man, and a fishmon- ger at that, who rejoiced (or other- wise) in the name of Rotenberin. However, he was able to point out: to him that the original bearer of the suggestive patronymic was worse off even than he was, for it was once spelt in full. Rottenher- ring, being so found in the,archives of Hull in the fourteenth century.. STARTLING PEDIGREE. A gentleman who claimed descent: from the Piantagencts begged of me to look up his pedigree. I did so, with the result that I discovered he was the great grandson of a travelling tinker, who, in 1 i.Sd, was hanged for sheep -stealing. We did not pursue that pedigree any further. Another curious ease in point was that of a lady named Heber- den, who, in writing, mentioned in- cidentally that she had heard her great grandfather was an exceed- ingly famous London physician. Following up this clue, he came. across the following sextain in an eighteenth century leafllet:- "You should send, if aught should ail ye, For Willis, Heberden, or Baillie; M1 exceedingly shilf r tl race, Baillie, Willis, Heberden; Uncertain which most sure to kill is Baillie, Heberden, or Willis." He has yet to learn whether the lady was pleased or not at this evi- dence of the "fame achieved by her ancestor. —a -- LORD BYRON'S DIET. Lord Byron had decided views on diet.. His fear of fatness rather than its suitability to his work dic- tated the starvation to which he subjected himself. In 1813 he lived upon tea and six biscuits a day, and in 1816 his dint consisted of a thin slice of bread for breakfast and a r vegetable dinner, He chewed mas- tic and tobacco to keep down his hunger in between. While at Athens he drank vinegar and water and seldom ate more than a little rice, and "Den Juan," it is said, was written mainly on gin and water. A"d yet Trclawny has re-, corded that no man had brighter slat or a clearer voice. PA'S OBSERVATION. Little Willie—"Say, pa, what is an ideal wife and an ideal hus- band?" us-band't" Pa --"An ideal wife and an ideal husband, my son, are two of a kind that seldcsn mate a pair." Women ere much, braver. than men,Ne man wounl fasten his suepanders wit,`,r, a pin-,