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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1910-12-8, Page 6tHE sEc Et of EE POWER: Or, A TRUTH nCvea OLD. + r' *#*#44-}4^F4- .6• -4.4.1.+4-i• •41.4-44 +i++++44-4444f44+f-i± carAPTER XII.—(Cont'd) with the end of her long walking- "My dear Babe, hew exactly you aro like the head ora department l„ says Blanford, who has followed them out of the house and comes up behind them. "According to :the head of a departi,tent, it is never. the head that is fault, always the at t, lwa y understrappers. May I inquire einem when it has become the fash- ion to set sunflowers with their heads downward V' "I wanted to see if the roots would turn, after the sun," says the Babe, and regards his explanation as triumphant. "And they only die,! How per- verse of them! ! You would become a second Newton, if your destiny were not already cast, to dazzle the world by a blending of Beau Brum- mel and Sir Joseph Paxton." The Babe looks a little cross; he does not like to be laughed at be- fore hie princess. Ho has got his opportunity, but it vexes him; he has an impression that his compan- ions will soon drift into forgetting both him and his garden. Since the approach of Blanford, the latter has 'mad nothing. The children's gardens are in a rather wild and distant part of the grounds of Surrenden. It is noon; most people staying in the house are still in their own rooms; it is solitary, sunny, still ; a thrush is singing in ajessamine thicket, there is no Other sound except that of a gardener's broom sweeping on the other side of the laurel hedge. The Babe feels that it is now or never for his coup de maitre. He plucks a rose, the best one he has, and offers it to Madame Sa- baroff, who accepts it gratefully, though it is considerably earwig - eaten, and puts it in her corsage. The eyes of Blanford follow it wistfully, The Babe glances at them alter- nately from under his hair, then his "small features assume an ex- pression of cherubic innocence and unconsciousness.' The most ruse little rogue in the whole kingdom, he knows how to make himself look like a perfect reproduction of Sir Joshua Reynolds' Artlessness ar In- fancy. Be gazes up in Xenia Sa- baroff's face with angelic simplicity admirably assumed. "When you marry him," says the Babe, pointing to Blanford, with admirably affected naivete, "Yon will let me hold your train, won't you'I I always hold up my friends' trains when they marry. I have a page's dress, Louis something or awe from him and walks slowly to- ward the house. other, and a sword, and a velvet `` The child walks silently and shyly cap with- a badge and feather ; I I basila her, his happy vanity tree - "Oh, -what very wolf. i' I bled for once bythe sense that he "Olt, what an odious petit -maitre you will be when you are a man, my has made some mistake, and that Babe!" Xenia Sabaroff, there are some few things still in words,but a flush of quit. entirely understand his opening c"fou are not angry?" he asks e ober comes over her face and passes her, at last, with a vague terror in s} quickly at it came. his gayimpudent little soul. Petit-maitre,—what is that?" "Angry with you?" says Xenia ya the Babe. "But you will let roe,' won't you? And don't marry. Sabaroff. "My dear child, no. I Una till the autumn, or even the am perhaps angry with myself,— winter, because the velvet makes myself of many years ago." me so hot when the day is hot, and The Babe is silent; he does not "tile. dress wouldn't look nice made in thin things." "`Could I: only add my prayer to his," murmurs Blanford, "and hope that in the'autu}nn--" Xenia Sabaroff looks at him with a strange gaze; it is penetrating, dreamy, wistful, inquiring. she "We jest as the child jests," says; abruptly, and walks onward: de not jest," says Blanford. The Babo glances M them under. his thick -eyelashes, and,' being a fine mouche, only innocent in appear- ance, he runs off after a butterfly. He has not been brought up in a feminine atmosphere of poudre de riz and laic d'iris without learning discretion, stick. "Do you know," she says, at last, after a silence which seemed to him' endless, "do you know that there are people who believe that I have been the delaisse of Lord Gervase? They do riot phrase it'so roughly, but that is what they say. Blanford's very lips are white, but his voice does not falter for one moment as he answers, "They will not say it in my hearing." "And, knowing that they say it, you would still .offer me - your name?" "1 do so." "And you would: ask me nothing save what I choose to tell you?" The sunny air seems to turn round with him fox an Latent his brain grows dizzy; his heart contracts with a sickening pain ;' but in the next moment a great wave of strong and perfect faith in the woman he cares for lifts his soul up on it, as a sea -wave lifts a drowning man to land. "You shall tell me nothing save what you choose," he says, clearly and very tenderly. "I have perfect faith in you. :Had I less than that, I would not ask you to be my wife." She looks at him with'astonish- ment and with wondering admira- tion. "Yet you know so little of me 1" she murmurs, in amaze. "I love you," says Blanford; then he kisses her hand with great rev- erence. The tears which she had thought driven from her eyes forever, rise in them now. "You are very noble," she re- plies, and leaves her hand for an instant within his. The Labe, who has been watching from behind a tuft of laurel, can control 1. s impatience no longer, but comes out of the ambush and. runs towards them, regardless of how undesired he may be. "Dodo says that women never marry anybody they love," he says, breathlessly ; "but that is not true, is it and you will let me carry your train?" "Hush, my dear," says Xenia Sa- baroff, laying her hand on the child's shoulder, while there is a sound in her voice which subdues to silence even the audacious spirit of the Babe. "Give me time to think," she says, in a low tone to Blanford; and then, with her hand still on the little boy's shoulder, she turns dear says n the universe which he does not She does not take any notice of CHAPTLR XIII. "The 'Rabe is a better courtier than gardener," says Xenia Saber off, as she shakes a green aphis out of her rose her tone is careless, but her voice is not quits under her command, and has a little tremor in it. Blanford looks at her with im- passioned eyes: he has grown very pale. "It is no jest with me," he says under his breath. "I would give you my life if you would take it?" The last words have the accent of an interrogation, of an appeal. "That is to say a great deal," re- plies Xenia Sabaroff : she is startled, astoriished, troubled; sho was not expecting any such entire avowal. "hla ly met must have said as. much to yott who hays more to re- ooinmend than than I. Say soine- h t will yoke say?„ 1 e, .11%.100:NEYS. KIILi�G HER "FflUIT•A•TIYkS"SAVES NEA Clanbrassle, Ont, Two years. ago, the doctor made forty, four Dells en me. and then saki he had One all fie could for me, I was suffering with Intense Kidney Trouble and severe inaam- mation had set in, Two other doctors were consulted end agreed that nothing could. be done to help me. On the recommendation of a neighbor, took "Fruit -a -dyes' and they cured me. To -day, 1 take "Pruit-a-fives" as my only medicine. I ane in excellent • health and "Fruit.a-tives, is the medicine that cured me after 1 had been at death's door for mouths, 1 am glad to be able to give you this testimonial. It may benefit some other woman sutering as 1 suffered, as 1 believe that I would not be alive to -day had I not used ''Fruit-a-tiyes." Alas. P, E. WEBBER "Fruit-a-tives"—the famous fruit wadi, cine—is acknowledged the greshi. t.kidpeyy cure to the world. 50c a box, 0 for $2.$9 trial size 25c. At dealers, or from Fruit -a- tives Limited. Ottawa, St. Hubert's Lea is entirely true. After dinner .he is free to ap- proach the lady of his thoughts, but he endeavors in vain to tell from her face what answer he will re- ceive, what time, and meditation may have done or undone far him. She -avoids the interrogation of his eyes, and is surrounded by other MOD as usual The evening seems to him intoler- s.bly long and intolerably tedious. It is, however, for others very gay. There is an improvised dance, end- ing in an impromptu cotillion, and fallowing on an out of condo opera given with admirable spirit by Lady Dawlish, Mrs. Curzon, and some of the younger men. Every one is amused, but the hours seem very slow to him Gervase scarcely leaves her side at all, and Blanford with all his chivalrous refusal and unchanging resolution to allow no shadow of doubt to steal over him, feels the odious whispers he has BELIEVING AND BELCNI ING. The risen Saviour calls' Os And we Bis word obey;. Our all dpoa Ria altar . With willing hearts we lay. We, would be ever serving With heart or brain"or limb; Icor we believe in Jesus And we belong to Bila, To liurehage our redemption His prsoious blood was sited To matchless heights of glory 13y Hine we than be led. We shall be with the angels And shining seraphim; For we believe in Jesus And we belong to Finn! We rest in Bis salvation, His teachings we embrace t We by His strength ate girded To rim the Christian race. We fear no foes that threaten Though fierce rco theJbe .and grim; ; For wbelieve inesuss And we belong to Him. We would be ever striving His message to proclaim, Until the whole oreatioii &t length shall. know His name. We wait the welcome summons To rise• our lamps to trim; For we believe in ,Jesus: .. And we belong to Him. By words and acts of kindness May we His truth declare, Until aur Lord shall call us To meet Him in the air. - His- matchless glory .shineth Where once the light was dim; For we believe in Jesus And we belong to Him. T. WATSON.' Uniondale Ont., 1910. On the Farm Tc.s®etseee se s s•aeas THE FARM HEN. - The• easiest money picked up on the farm is eggs, and of :all farm products they are the quickest turned into money, On most farms heard and the outspoken words of they are ' very carelessly handled, Litroff recur to his memory and but to get the most money out of weigh on him like the incubus of a them they' must be handled with nightmare. With a sensation of care. Note the rangeinprice on dread, he realizes that it is possible, the city markets and the difference do what he may, that they may in handling. To command the haunt him so all his life. Aman highest price the eggs must• be may be always master of his acts, spotlessly clean and newly, laid. To but scarcely always of hit get a uniformed grade -of eggs you thoughts, should weed ,out of your flock of "But I will never ask her one sal- hens all old and sickly undersized labia," he thinks, "and I will mar and scrubby stock and harden the ry her to -morrow, if she ohooaea.1, roosters eacheggs year. To harden tide But will she choose? shell of the eggs will ship well, the Ho is far from sure. He pleases fowls should be fled oyster shells her intelligence; he possessor her two efonally, or fed a bran mash friendship; but whether he has the two or three times each week; It slightest power to touch her heart matters not how good a range your he does not know. If he loved her flock has they should be fed grain less than he does, he would be more at least once each day. Do not: nfident. keep them in damp spring houses co As the interminable hours wear or musty cellars or hot kitchens. away, and the noise and absurdi- Keep them in a cool room and cover ties of the cotillion are at their them so that they' on will not get fly height, she, who never dances any- speckles or duet on them, The where, drops her fan, and he is bo- soiled eggs should be cleaned with a dry cloth. Do not wash them.A fore the others in restoring it towash' her. As she takes it, she saysin brealcd egg quickly spoils and a low voice: "Be in the small 'lib- breaks in shippiem Do not put rary at eleven to -morrow." keep them from n holes into hhatching greaseDno Soon after she leaves the ball- carry your eggs to market in bran, room altogether, and goes to her oats,. saw dust or fine hay or they bed -chamber. will look old. At the prevailing Blandford goes to his before the prices for fresh eggs it is not cotillion is over, but he sleeps very profitable to fool with holding them little. He longs for the morrow, in pickle, sold or insinglass or the and yet ha dreads it. Quand like fakes. If the egg buyer in meme," he murmurs, as from his your section is slow and .out of bed hb sees the white, dawn over the date, do not sacrifice your eggs by dark masses of the Surrenden venture to ask any more, and he woods. Tell him what she may, he has a humiliating feeling that lie is thinks, he will gi`e her his life, if not first in the thoughts of Madame she will take it. He is madly in Sabaroff,—nay, that, though his rose is in her gown and her hand upon his shoulder. she has almost, very nearly almost, forgotten hien. Blanford does nut attempt to fol- low her. Her great charm for him consists in the power she possess- es of compelling him to control his impulses. Be walks away by him- Jove, no doubt; but there is some- thing nobler and purer than the madness of love, than the mere vio- lent instincts of passion, in his loy- alty to her. Before anything he cherishes the Honor of his name and race, and he is willing, blindfold, to trust her with it. That morning it seems to him as if self through the green shadows of the hours would never pass, though the boughs, wishing for no compan- they aro few until the clocks strike ipnship some hers. He is fully e, i are that he has done a rash, perhaps as utterly unwise, thing in putting his future into the hands of a woman of whom he knows no little, and has, poralips, the sight to suspect so mneh. Yet he does not repent. He does not see her again before dinner. She does not come into the library at the tea -hour; there is a large dinner that night; county people are there, ae well as the house -party. He has to take in a stupid woman, wife of the Lord - Lieutenant, who thinks him the most absent-minded and unpleasant person she has ever known, and wonders how he has gni bis reputa- tion as a wit. He is e, seated that he cannot even ser.. Xenia Sabaroff; and be chafes and frets throughout the dinner, from the bisque soup to the caviare biscuit, and thinks what ao idiotic thing the habits of soci- ety have made of human life,: When he is fairly at rare inter- vals goaded into speeds. be utiats paradoxes, and auggeets .:`lows so startling that the wife of: the Lord - Lieutenant is scandalized, and thinks the tunny laws are defective if th'er cabinet inetede and lural eleven. The house is still, almost every one is asleep, for the cotil- lion, successful as only unpremedi- tated things ever are, had lasted till the sun was high and the dew on the grass of the garden was dry. With a thickly -beating heart, nervous and eager as though ho were a boy of sixteen seeking. his first love -tryst, ho enters the small library far before the hour, and waits for her. there, pacing to and fro the finer. The room is full of memories of her; hart they have talked en rainy days, and have strolled out on to the lawns on' fine ones; there is the chair which she likes best, and there the volume side had taken down yesterday; could it bo only ten days Sinn ,.standing hare, he had seen her first in the, distance with the children? Only ten days' It nems to him ten years, ten centuries, (To be continued.) 'Truth crushed t, earth . will rite again, and it is kept husy getting up, tiling to tree; w r tvt y q t tl re.ivi e� iti.J c She dues not lnlmed a e y reply „ �j,��,gl� silo looks on ilio ground, anti rb. :cerate .nem. She fuels sure that l:b° ,,,,lord* e,lopd ,:ovAha, corse -colts �,eot.. ently trantxf paVkltns 00 the path runlet, about the Hinders women at Lha throat and tunas 0 selling to him; but combine with your neighbors and ship to dealers familiar with the modern methods' .used in handling eggs and will pay for your eggs according to their quality. COWS AND ROUGHAGE. The farm can best produce roughage, and the dairy cow can best use it says Dr, J, B. Lindsay, of Massachusetts . Experimental Station. . There are four principal roughage crops—hay, corn, clover and alfalfa. I sometimes -think that we pamper our animals' too much by feeding them grain rarer than roughage. We should educate our COWS to consume -large amounts of He believed t roughage, But for all that we must thrushes thoroughly ed toll feed a certain .amount of grain. I' f fruit tl they ? 7 +��y Laxati've -the beet {inown to modarti'dtetllg(tto A :, 9f i/ W G ^Is the s ttya prireeple wiii4tt fnaftas ee mueh'better then orlti ary phystes. White thoroughlypffeotive, :t cy never gripe, weer cause nausea, and never lose their effectiveness, One of to best of dile MA-I?Ru-CO hoe. 2$e. a, bo:. If yetis druggist has not yet stopked them, send 25c, and we matt mels them. 23 Nadew%) P us.ru! Cb zzlicGammea ze Cua}adu..'twava - il?ootrsal. INFLUENZA c4T,ARROAI. i'EVER PINK ETE EPIZOOTIC DISTEMPER CHRONIC COUGHS nooitlet ''Pleteutper• °yuae5, Care and Prevention,” rabble, self drug -- ,Flats, harness eeelere, Eland Ileo a bottle. 511 and 08 a donee. Dtatrtu• utors-ALL wnoLEBAL14 ORSJOOXSr8. ePOHN MEDICAL. CO, Gophen, Indiana* U. S. A. Many of our proprietary mixed feeds are composed of low grade by-products and are being sold to, farmers at high prices. Stick to the high grade eoncentrates, suchas cotton -sped meal, linseed meal, gluten and distillers' grains. As a rule, onecannot afford to feed more than five pounds of grain per ~day. A good combination would be a pound and a half of cottonseed • meal, a. pound and a half of wheat middlings, together with a bushel and a halt of silage and all the hay that would be eaten clean. GRAIN FOR COWS. There is plenty' of people who would feed grain to their dairy cows if they had it. They will not think of working the horse with- out grain, but they think it does not matter so much with the cow. Wheel.: the pasture starts to get short and cows need grain the most is just the time they are without it. Good cows under these condi- tions will milk all the surplus flesh from their bodies. When they get better fed they are not in shape to respond to it. Then people say it does not pay to grain the cow because she does not -respond at once. See is then in no shape, to respond to grain. The man who feeds --his cows a heavy grain ration -six months of the year and lots them shift for themselves the other six months, is the man who is feeding his cows at a loss. On the other hand, the man who feeds his cows a good liberal ration 12 months of the year and keeps his cows in good shape all the time is the man who is investing his money where it will bring him liberal returns. The key of the year to successful dairy- ing is to breed better,' to feed better and to butcher the boarders. VALUE 00 BIRDS. Earn Toll They Take of Fruit by Work Rest of Year. J. Simpson of St. John's Nurser- ies, Chelmsford, England, in a lec- ture to the Ipswich Gardeners As- sociation cited some remarkable facts relating to birds and their ef- fect on farms and gardens, says the London. Standard. Jackdaws, he said, were of special utility,. one that was shot this yenr having been found to have no fewer than thirteen wire -worms and four chafer "grubs in its mouth. A barn owl he pronounced to be worth its weight in gold. Examination in relation to a pair. of owls resulted in the discovery of the remains of 997 field voles, 726 mice, 409' cockchafers, 205 rats and 97 sparrows, beside a number of frogs, etc. F. Woolnough, curator at Ipswich Museum, replying to one member who said he had a row of plum trees that was absolutely ruined each year by bullfinches un- til he had to cut down the trees, stated that in Mazola he examined the crops of thirteen bullfinches and in twelve cases the contents eon - slated entirely of insects and only, one had' traces of buds. blackbirds and earn the o they took o rui by the way ley A it*��4atgi pouch Bta qu �0drd1riibo liEb er%'�i{sagt,tui{qt�ne444611 v1y, iinclrye book, G•aumfitiLKi4 9at?N ,Lv Home 41 DYEING ¢n the way t0 Soave reloney ynd Prole; Wean Try. 1t 1 Simple as Washln0with Y JUS Tt4ItittOr 1Y4 40' Dg0a{yoot. n, iat 541005 tig d ito lE 0vleh6 5(* .-Noesl,ap0e of: gPpt�'raa'pelt agnd no fi ICol a i0 �w0�n,te{fpppp,,aa�yrgr rP of eY' D I. 8 dr6d�dtorCnrdapdBrOaY et.r Tiro JRh!kon-ru.k,,dsan Ce...21¢nR4+n, ,STOVE POLISH is the best polish in the biggest box. It is a paste, and far less trouble than any other prepar- ation. A' gentle rub brings out a brilliant, lasting shine. Is with- out a rival for polishing. stoves, pipes, grates and ironwork. If your dealer does not carry "Black Rniglst" Stove Polish in stock, send as bis name and roc, and we will send a full size' tin by return mail. Tag F. F. DAU 6 ( CO., LIMITED HAMILTON.05!. 32 Makerrofthefan,oru "r in i" Shoe Poli,h. had found one of the most valuable birds in England, as it was especi- ally fond of "leather jackets;" a most injurious insect with a life of four years as a root eating larva before it became metamorphosed into a cockchafer. GOOD TEAM WORK. THIS. The preacher's evening discourse was dry and long, and. the congre- gation gradually melted essay. The sexton tiptoed to the pulpit and slipped a note under one corner of the Bible. It read: will "When you are through, w l you pleat* turn off the lights, intik the door, and f lit tide key nods r the mat." r-. i fAF''; 'tiG A 002I Licht* akable. itperatt9p Porfos'sa 4 in a tendon DEospitaI. `,bi1e final stage le, the operation 01 making a now cheek for a Pati- ent at Gny's Hospital fsoivethe skis} of his arm has been completed. The patient had a large part of his right cheek and upper jaw cut away in the removal of a growth six years ago. A flap of skin was part- ly .detached from the right arm and made to cover the sunken part of the cheek by stitching it to the side of the nose and mouth. To keep the skin flap, which drew its blood sup- ply front its remaining attachment to the arm, in place, the arm had to be bent over the head and Axed in''a plaster oast in that position, In the eighteen days since the skin flap was sewn to the side of the face enough new blood' vessels have sprung up between it and the under- lying tissues to render the blood is no ease supply from the arm v longer necessary. The last opera, ' tion, therefore, oonsisted of remov- ing the plaster oast, nutting the flap away from ass remaining at- tachment to the arm, and fitting'' it into position over the rest of the denuded area on the face. ' No stitches were needed, the att- tiseptic dressings applied and the now firm attachments to. the nose holding the flap in: position. The arm wound was also treated anti- septicaly, the arm, somewhat stiff, but apparently none the worse for being fixed so long in su'oh tt cramp- ed positieg, being laid comfortably at the patient's aide. In another eight days it is expect- ed that the flap will have taken firm root, now cella springing up from the two opposed raw surfaces and knitting them into one. Little scar will be left to show that prac- tically the whole of: the right cheek is composed of skin tissues removed bodily from the right arm. ENGLISH WOMEN IN SPORTS. DIFPICULT. It must be awfully hard for a candidate to feel surprised . when he is nominated. StellaWhy did you elope in an airship.? Bella—Because father is too fat to fly. "Your father ain't a real doctor,. yet." "Yea ho is.'' ''Nope. He's just practising medicine." Trials weaken. only those who flee from them. 11 lile'ro Than Ever Interceteti in- Out- door Pastimes, of All Rinds. The English women is becoming more of a sportswoman than ever. This season. she' is playbug moro golf, she is going in more ex- tensively for aatomebiling and aviation, and she has taken up shooting with increased enthus- iasm. The sale of automobile outfits for women has been larger than ever before, and it is noticeable that most of the buyers drive their own oars and do not need the as sistance of merl in making.their' purchases. They know exactly what is required and demand it for themselves. Golf is far more of a craze than in previous seasons, and it is play- ed with a businesslike attention to the game that necessitates the least fashionable and most service- able outfit. Women play at men's • clubs whenever they aro allowed and when at a popular resort they are barred from. the links they speedily form clubs of,theie own. Five years ago there was practi- oally no: demand for guns for wo- men. Now the manufacture of a lighter gun for women marksmen is an industry in itself, while even girls of 13 and 14 are learning to shoot straight with guns specially made for them. Cycling is about the only sport which is less popular, and tnat is• largely due to the fact that the automobile has made the roads dans gerous and unpleasant; to the cy- clist on aeoount of the clouds of dust in the wake of the automobile. It has taken a very long time to interest English women in swim- ming. Many: members of the Loa - don Bath Ohib are adepts at this exercise, but it has been exception- al to';find a woman swimmer at sea- side resorts. This year, however, teachers aro busy everywhere and their pupils range fro mvesy young girls to elderly women all anxious to master the arts of swimming and diving, PLANTS HAVE FEVER,. Like Hunan Beings, Consume Ite serve of Organic Matter. Not only animals but plants may suffer and die of fevers, says Mon- 'sieur Leclerc du Sablon. When a la human being hoe fever he loses at nosh on atoount of the increased believe in buying high-grade 'by= helped the gas -donor all the rest of nista, stood soufEhs.- cures. colee. ben lho tiuoal tlnd dun a- 2U cent products and mixing feed at home. the year. The blaekheaded gull he , __.._ Dominion Steel Cor toration FIVE-YEAR 5 PER CENT. DEBENTURES Duo 1st Nove:nber,.1915 Interest payable let May and November Limited recommend these securities and e'er et a price to tilt the purchaser 6% interest. Cf .you are considering an investment, write ut for circular fully descriptive df this issue: OO KAYO $Ta.AST 170 014 TO. SacuR ^•_� 'f i` i� ARP LlIIiYrlt'tR:l)re ,LOrtDON ;-C NC 011 C.,4 ADA LIP'S', 6i,,tS0.. 11,4ONT'F2 AL:t combustion, the quantity of car - bents acid respired from the lungs being augmented from 70 to 100 per cent. A plant atomised by fever, which may be caused by a wound, rapidly consumes its re- serves of organici' matter and be- come e condos ouieablcdl ' sometimes euffi- ciently to comae its death, : MO/t3. Loclere du; Sablon ,has experiment- ed with potatoes rendered feverish by cutting them, The temperatur soon rises' about one degree, and the quantity of carbonic acid given off increases several Hundred per cent, If the potaio survives, its "respiration" after et few days he - comes normal, but It Jails bite son enfeebled state, resembling that of. a person convalescent from a long fever. There aro lots e,3 people wile 1 would dither butt int them get Shore a4Y udder way.