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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1911-6-22, Page 2++-t +444 +4-4- h+++++t'++i-k.i+++-4-4-+++++:4+4++" FORTUKE ENIS INF BRAE ; OR, A LOOK INTO THE PAST r• -+..••y+ • +44044 i4.. 7 +W +*•+.+..++I.-T...-T`W4.e .4.44-04-••••'•• OHAPTER XVIII, on and on, until he reached the end The rain clouds had vanished the of the lawn, then returned and noxi morning, ash. looked at the Hall, standing aur the iunshine, though it was but a faint likeness rounded with its dismantled trees to the golden light that used to waving their empty branches to and dwell in the bygone summer time, fro in the soft, mild air. still shone bright > and, pleasantly Dop sblind is dawn; Good: A l over the grounds and lawn. long shieed ie the beat thingfor herr, poor Child! I can't bear to see her Darnley was up early; he had face as it was last night. I feel paid his visit to the sick -room, and restless. A few miles more will do had been rewarded for his pains by me good. the evident delight and comfort his He whistled to the dogs, who uncle experienced in bis presence. pricked up their ears gladly and The young man was inexpressibly raced round him, delighted at the chocked at the change wrought in prospect of a walk, and seeing in the vigorous, florid, happy -looking this—poor animals l—a sign that Sir Humphrey; and despite his better times were coming. Derrick manhood, a mist of unshed tears walked on rapidly. He gave no rushed to his eyes as he gazed at special heed to the path he chose, the white, drawn face, with the but let his feet lead him involun- shadow of retreating death linger- tarily whither they would. He ing, as it were, reluctantly on it; was soon out of the grounds into he could nob speak at first, but the muddy country lanes, but once Stood. grasping the thin, trembling there he awoke from his musings, hand his uncle extended to him. and•, with a quick movement, turned "This—this is a bad lookout, away from the village. Solitude was Derry, my lad," Sir Humphrey bad, but gossip was worse, and he whispered, in his faint, weak vodce. could not by any chance go through "I've had a narrow squeak, ay, a Ripstone village without stopping to verynarrow one. I thank Heaven greet first one person and then an - you are here. My—my darling other. wants some one to look after her, He strode along heedless of the and mud. Although he had been at the His strength would go no far- Hall a great deal the earlier part ther. of the year, he was not very con - The young man began to talk versant with the neighborhood, es eheerily, in the nearest approach to his walks had been 'confined princi- his old frank manner he could mus- pally to the Hall grounds, and Sir ter up; it was a hard struggle, for Humphrey had been abroad so it hit him very deep to see the ac- much that he had no chance of ex- Live, healthy, gentle -natured man, ploring the country during the who had seemed the very quint- hunting seasons, therefore, it was essence of vitality, lying there a not at all surprising that, when Mr. cripple for life, a rerrible wreck. Darnley found himself at a corner He said everything he could to where two lanes ran diverse ways, cheer Sir Humphrey—sacrifii:ing he came to a sudden standstill and his own inclination, which was bat- hesitated. tling to be out in the open air, try- He stood and reconnoitred, hav- ing to solve the problem which ing first ascertained that it was Dorothy's words of last night had still early by a glance at his watch, conjured up. and then determined to take the The sick man lay back contented, right-hand lane. a more peaceful look on his wan "I must have made a regular de - countenance than had come during tour," he said to himself. "That his short respite from pain. mass of trees evidently belongs to "I am glad," he murmured, over the east part of Ripstone. I can and over again; and once, when get back that way." Darnley bent over him, he caught So, suiting the action to the word, the •whisper; "Dolly has fretted he made for the spot mentioned. about Nancy you must cheer—" When he reached the trees, how When he had left the sick -room, ever, he came to a stop. A gate having first inquired for Dorothy, was before him, but it was chained' and learned that she was sleeping and padlocked, with ominous iron soundly—a condition of things spikes ornamenting the top rail. which pleased him beyond all de- The young man gave a short whis scription—the young man put on tle of surprise, which deepened es his hat, and, whistling for the his eyes rested on a board with a r'ogs, who were mournful and de- warning to trespassers printed on pressed at their beloved master's it in gigantic letters. illness, he sallied out into the open "This is very odd! Uncle Hum - air. It was a wonderfully balmy phrey can know nothing of it, 1 am day—one of the few summer days sure. One of the keepers has taken that are sprinkled here and there upon himself to be very cautious all. in an English winter. The very at once. It's the first time I ever first person he saw was the old remember a board like that, or head gardenerMr. Murdock, from spikes like those ugly ones, to have whom he received a warm greeting a place in Ripstone property." —in fact, everybody was pleased to He rattled the gate as he mutter - see him again. "ed this; but though the chain was "Eh, but it's Miss Dorothy will loose, there was no movement ei- be right glad, sir," he said. "We ther backward or forward. were just at our wits' end two days "This is, to say the least' of it, sen that puir bairn's white face annoying—deuced annoying!" mus - made our hearts bleed. And sen ed Darnley, his wrath rising visibly, his lordship went she's wanted some against the imaginary keeper, who one varry badly." had arranged all this apparently to "Well, I,e,m here now, and here thwart him. shall remain," said Derrick Darn- "I don't feel like retracing my ley, quickly. He shrank from hear- steps at all. I am sure this is a ins some unkind remark on Nancy's near way to the Hall." conduct. With this new and per- He stepped back and reviewed the piercing condition of his mind, he gate, the dogs watching him witb determined he would judge her no eager eyes and hanging tongues, more till he had fathomed some- marvelling as to what he was going thing of the truth. to do. As he moved away, followed by "Hum!" mused the,young man, the dogs, his thought went to Mere- with much deep thought; "it's bad, field; and be wondered what could certainly; but it might be worse. have taken the other man away I think I'll have a shot! At the from his cousin at such a crisis. It worst I shall only tear my clothes. was very odd; and then his mind and I hate to be beaten. Now to went back to the one all -potent sub- see if want of practice has destroy- ject—Nancy. He was too truly a ed my former agility!" man of honor and of delicacy to He retraced a few paces farther, have pressed Dorothy further last fixed his hat on firmly, then start - night, although in the girl's shat- ing at a quick, even pace, he leaped tared state a less generous -minded the formidable barrier as lightly as person might have learned all he though it had been a few inches, ,wanted to know. In fact, he had not a five -barred gate, changed the subject immediately, There was a flush of pleasure on and Nancy's name had not been his face and a thrill of satisfaction mentioned again. But Dorothy's in his breast, staunch love and loyalty had await- "I said I would not be beaten, cned fresh impulses in the man's he mentally declared, as he coaxed heart. It sent a pang of self -re -the dogs to squeeze through the proach through him --reproach that bars and join him. "Itwould have she should be faithful to Nancy, been awfully hardlines to have had while he had already judged and to tramp all down that lane again; condemnedhor, and it also brought and I must get on now. Poor Dolly pain—deep, lasting pain; and the will wonder what has become of agonizing reflection came, that were me." he to discover now that his love had He picked up his bat, which had zlever changed --that she was still fallen off in his jump, and replaced his fair, pure ideal—was there notib on his dark, wavy locks. the torture of knowing she was lost? "I'll have to go at Murdock:theist He was so completely in the dark, that gate and board, by Jove,„I he did not even know where Nancy will!” he declared, as he turned to was, what she was doing, how it go through the long grass and wild, fared with her. Dorothy had vouch- wooded inolosure. "Sir Humphrey t ',fed no information, if even shewon't stand it for an instant, I am had any to give, and he had been , sera" too agitated to quostisn her. !Chen he whistled to the dogs and Deep in his thoughts, he ttrolled pushed on. Ib was strange, but he BOVRIL GIVES Health and Beauty It is a valuable tonic. It reuews the blood, tongs up the nerves and produces ' high vitality and buoyant health. BOVRIL is the eon. centrated goodness of beef. did not 'quite recognize his sur- roundings. True, there were doubtless many portions of the Hall grounds and lands which he had not yet seen; but there was an indefinable feel- ing in his mind that this was not like the rest of the 'property, For one thing, it was unkempt and neglected. Evidently the board to trespassers was not needed, for this spot was not inviting, even to tramps. "If I go this way I hall reach the lake," Darnley communed witb himself, as hecame to one point. The sunshine had suddenly gone, and the air felt like rain at any moment. A shiver, born of what sensation he did not know, passed' through him. He stood still, and looked round, and at that moment one of the dogs gave a sharp cry and a moan of pain; and in one glance the young man saw that the poor animal.' had its forepaw locked in a trap which had been hidden in the long grass. "This is shameful!" he said, flushed with anger, as he knelt down and unfastened the cruel ma- chine. "I shall certainly give Mur- dock a piece of my mind. Poor Dick l—poor Dick! It isn't so bad. old fellow! You were more fright- ened than hurt, thank goodness 1 But if this infernal thing had closed as it should have done, you would have had a broken leg, old chapl" With infinite tenderness Darnley patted and soothed the frightened animal. It was as he said. The dog was not really much hurt, for the trap had fortunately failed to act pro- perly; but his brow darkened as he rose from his knees. "Sir Humphrey would be simply beside himself if he knew these horrible things were scattered about. I wonder who has done it? It's not like Murdock, for with all his grumpiness, the old fellow has as soft a heart as any one I know. Perhaps Lady Merefield has been exercising her authority. This is just the sort of thing I could im- agine her doing. Wel?, at any late, when Dolly knows, everything v ill be altered in the twinkling of an eye. Now I must get on. Surely the lake must be over there." With another tender caress for the dog, who was going very lame, the young man strode over the rank weeds and grass, keeping a sharp lookout for more traps, and making the dogs follow sharp at heel, a proceeding to which the sagacious beasts were nothing loath, since their companion had experienced such difficulty and pain. Darnley walked on for about fifty yards, and yet the lake did Lot come in sight. "It is very odd," he muttered, "I seem to be all wrong. Hallo! what's thou—looks 1' a woman's dress; it must be o f the maids—so much the better, she will put me on the right track. Come on, dogs!' His steps were necessarily soften- ed with the thickness of the herb- age upon which he walked, and as he pushed through a short clump of low -growing shrubs, Mo.'barnley saw immediately that the servant maid not only was unaware of his presence, or, indeed, the presence of any one near her, but that she was evidently overcome with fa- tigue or grief, for she sat crouched on an old gnarled tree root, her el- bows planted on her knees and her face hidden in her hands. With the instinctive delicacy that was so pre-eminently one of his chief characteristics, deepened by the rush of sympathy that came up- on him as he beheld this figure, so expressive of utter despair and de- solation, Derrick Darnley turned to withdraw silently without in- truding on the girl's sorrow, for he saw the figure was both young and slight; but before his thoughtful in- tention could be carried out, an in- cident occurred to prevent' it alto- gether, The dogs, who were iso,: actuated by so nice a sense of del+- cagy, went up to the silent form, and first giving a sniff of wariness, next began Lo jump up and Bele the small hands with short barks and cries of canine welcome and de- light. The man's heart stood still, a mist rose before his eyes, then bis pulses, began to throb at a rate they had never travelled before. "Dick—Porgio—Dick, come here. Do you hear reel" he called, in .c• strange, husky voice. The .dogs fell back, suddenly checked in their exuberant plea - Sere ; leasure; not so much by his command as by the involuntary +duvet" that ran through the girl's frame, mak- ing her start to her feet and turn her white, tear"sbained,face to their master, A silence that was as deep as death lived then, What words could come et enoh 4 element be- tween those two? It was not weak - nese alone that tied Derrick Darn- ley's tongue, as his darlc eyes gazed into Nancy's great, sad blueones; it was a sense of fear, of honor that compelled his silence, for in that one glance he read how much he had wronged her; and that, no matter what motive had paused her to separate herself from him, she loved him with even more intensity than in their brief summer happi- (To be continued.) "TIONETS—PLEASE 1" Row the Operation is Done on a Japanese Railway Train. To see Japan thoroughly, to mas- ter its problems, td' probe its soul, to pluck the whole heart of its mys- tery, would probably ' need—so a fellow "globe-trotter" assured Mr. A. M. 'Thompson—"all of a fort- night." So entire thoroughness is not claimed by the author of "Jap- an for a Week." Still, Mr, Thomp- son was there long enough to get a vivid impression of Japanese courtesy—how ,the "please," so frequently entirely omitted from stern demand in the Occident, is emphasized into an art. The guard, in the train to ; Tok- yo, who affords us much informa- tion by the way is exceedingly in- terested in us. He stands by my side on the platform, and laughing- ly points out that the top of Isis head—he is of more than average size for a Jap—barely reaches my shoulders, "Me big," he says'. in his quaint big." "but you much more g" He is, like all the Japanese we met amazingly polite. When he comes round to exam- ine tickets, he begins by standing at the end of the car, takes off his cap to the honorable assembly, bows to the ground, rubs his knees with his hands, draws in his breath audibly, and delivers himself of an announcement in Japanese which I imaginatively translate: as follows : "Your most honorable excellen- cies and most augustly -deigning - to -be -pleased ones, I hope you will pardon this creature of mud . for having been born into this world to ask you, most gracious and sup- erior ones, to show your augustly blessed tickets; after which I beg you will honorably deign to grind and crush me, who am but as a snail of the soil, beneath your kind- ly sandals." The passengers, ceasing for a moment from their rice and chop- sticks, bow profoundly in return, rub their knees with their hands, suck in their breaths with the peculiar whistling sound which as the special expression of a Japanese greeting, fumble among their loose layers of clothes, and ultimately produce their honorable tickets. After this there is more bowing on both sides, and the guard, still bowing, vanishes. NOT LOST. The Marketer—"Aren't you wast- ing a good deal of that steak in trimming it?" The Butcher—"No, ma'am; I weighed it first." A brass -headed tack driven into each of the lower corners of picture frames prevent pictures from leav- ing marks on the wall. When sweeping Turkish, Axmin- ster or any thick piled carpet, al- ways brush the way of the pile, and it will look fresh and bright for years. A solution of one teaspoonful of peroxide into a teacup of water makes a sanitary wash to use in the mouth every morning and evening. 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While giving that valuable crop of hay it will at the same time leave the soil richer in nitrogen and hu- mus every year that it occupies the land, and supplies the very things that the grain crops take out the fastest and leave the soil in the greatest need of. Still the whole story is not told, as weeds cannot. grow readily' after the alfalfa gets a good stand and if they should grow a little the alfalfa is out be- fore the weeds are ripe so they can- not go to seed. The roots go deep and so open up the soil better than the subsoiler. The one disadvant- age in growing alfalfa is that if is a little difficult to start; so when a good stand is secured it ought to be left for several years. It is not a good rotation crop like clover, This is really no great drawback though, as it will produce a -crop that is worth more than any other crop that can be grown. Alfalfa will grow on any good soil that is well drained; in sand it will not do so well, and hard pan interferes with its root growth. Standing water is death to it. When starting alfalfa it must be kept in mind that alfalfa has bacteria liv- ing in nodules on its roots, These germs furnish the plant with nitro- gen which they take from the soil air. They put it into a form that the plant can use and so supply the alfalfa with the nitrogen that it needs and more too, The alfalfa plant has in a measure lost the pow- er of taking nitrogen from the soil as the other crops do, so it can not make much growth alone. It in turn furnishes' the germs with food of a different kind so it is a co-op- erative affair, each furnishing, that which it can secure the . easiest. When the alfalfa is starting it does not have the germs on its roots and so is very delicate and inert bo given good care,. The best way to do that is to got some soil holm a field that has been growing alfal- fa successfully for a few years and sow it oe the new field at the rate of 200 pounds per acre. Tho best way to prepare the soil is to manure for a crop of Dorn eloan cultivate the cern-•-than sow the alfalfa on the dined corn stub. ble, putting in eight to"ten pounds per acre—and with the drill so as to get the seed buried, one to two inches -do not sow any nurse crop with it. A bare fallow' that has been kept free from weeds will also be a good preparation, as will also potato ground. But in any case it should be mattered. When the al- falfa is. up eight to ten inches it should be cutback. This will not hurt the alfalfa;. in fact will do it.. good—but will be hard on the weeds. The amount of seed sown should vary with the rainfall; un- der irrigation, or where the rain- fall ainfall isabundant, more seed than specified above should be sown. It has been found byexperiments that where the plants were nine inches apart three cuttings weresecured. in 1910 and the yield was nearly 2% tons, while where the plants were only two inches apart only onecutting of about half a ton was secured. In, digging out the roots it was found that where the plants were far apart the roots went clown seven to eight :feet while in thecase of the plants that were close to- gether the roots did not go down more than three` feet. NOTES OF ,THE POULTRY YARD Do nob try to ,force Nature. In fitting young fries' for the market give the chicks proper food, plenty of room, clean quartersl freedom from lice and Nature' will do the rest.. A correspondent who raised 300 chickens last year says they,are the best potato bug traps he ever used except duckb', which cannot bo beaten for this purpose. Sow a patch of cow peas near the poultry yard. Do not harvest the peas when ripe, but turn the hens into them when the green grass disappears and they will thrive up- on them. Summer selection • shouldbe kept p. up until the fowls are fully grown. Dispose of every little runt that shows up, because they, are not worth keeping. Do not wait until the broodyfe- ver hen becomes chronic, but dis- courage her as she shows signs of It isn't seeessary to Use an axe or club or gold 'water or any such. things to break. her up. Sheds only obeying the call of Nature. Put her in a small yard with plenty of grass in it, Provide good shade and keep her in the open-air all day. Feed' no corn, brit spar- ingly of some other cooking food and keep plenty of oriel water lie - fore her all the time. .. GLACIERS IR A NUTSHII ICE 40 FRET HIGH AND TWELVE ltIlLI;S "iflDPI; All About the Marvellous Rivers of Too That Go On the lllareli, Ice seems hard and brittle as solid rook. Yet glaciers are true rivers, carrying away the snow that fella on the top of high .moon- •.. tains, The average snowfall on Mont Blanc is only two inches short of five feet a year, Suppose it all stayed there, In a single century Mont Blanc would grow about 480 feet, In a thousand years its peak would rise 4,800 feet. But the glaciers or ice .rivers carry this snow off and bear it down to the valleys, where it melts and makes water rivers. There are 1,555 glaciers in the Alps which, between them, cover an area six times as great as that of the Isle of Man. But they are all toys compared with the Muir glacier, on the Alaskan coast which presents to the ocean a wall of blue ice 150 feet high and twelve miles wide. GUIDES AND MEN LOST. Icebergs, great and small, are constantly breaking away from its monstrous front. It discharges 77 billion cubic feet of ice yearly. Forty-two years ago tile crooked spire of the Matterhorn was climb- ed for the first time.: In the des. cent'a rope broke, and a terrible accident occurred, Lord Francis Douglas, Messrs. Hudson and Had- dow, together with one of the guides, ;fell an enormous distance to the glaciers below. The body of Lord Francis was never recovered, but it is believed to be hidden deep in the heart of the Zmutt glacier, and since 1907 watch has been kept constantly at the lower end of this glacier in the hopes that the great ice river may yield up its prey. Such cases have happened over and over again. In the year 1900 a guide named Goldi, returning alone from Garda to the Silvretta hut, fell into a crevasse, whioh was hidden by a covering of snow, and was killed. This crevasse was only a few hun- dred yards from the lower end of the Gerstenklabern glacier. Five years later the body was delivered at the bottom of the glacier. It was in a perfect state of preserve- , tion. Tho features were recogniz- able, and except for some buttons being missing from the clothing, torn off probably in the fall, po' r -- Goldi might have met his end only an hour before instead of having been buried in an icy tomb for six- ty-two months. SHEEP WALLED UP. Strange finds are made in glace iers. In a glacier which lies in the mountains on the Pacific side of Dawson City, at a height of 8,000 feet, a miner recently discovered a flock of fourteen mountain sheep preserved under a sheet of trans- parent ice as though stuffed and set 1n a glass case. No doubt they had been caught in a violent snow or sleet storm, and, huddling together, had been buried. Then the temperature must have dropped so suddenly as to freeze them in. There they re- mained frozen, and no doubt if un- disturbed will remain there for many years to come, There are some fine glaciers in, the Rocky Mountains in Montana. On the flanks of Granite Mountain, which is nearly 13,000 feet high, is a glacier to which Professor Kim- ball has given the name of Grass- hopper Glacier. It is so full of grasshoppers and their remains that the ice is of a peculiarly dark color. Periodically the grasshoppers that thrive in the prairies to the north wing their flight southward, and must needs cross the mountain. In'th© passage across the mountain • cold air, rising from the great ice river, numbs them, and they drop by hundreds of thousands. They are gradually carried down, and the moraine at the end of the glac- ier consists principally .of insect remains instead of rocks or sand. —Pearson's Weelrly. UNKIND IuNDNESS. The servants were abed, and the doctor answered the bell himself.. A colored man stood on the steps holding a large package. "Ia Mise Matildah, the cook, at home, salt?" asked the man. "Yes, .but she has retired," re- turned the doctor. "Cani ' I li.ab die fo her, sail?" "Certainly," said the doctor, He took the bundle, from which flowers and buds were protuding, and, after bidding the man good night, carefully carried it to the kitchen, where he deposited it, paper and all, in a pan of water, The doctor thought nothing more of the affair until he hoard Matil- da's angry voice raised in conversa- tion with the male', " Ef I had de aeration heal," cried the cook, "dot put eaat new spring hat in dis sr diahpeaq ,1 d 'rerun im for