The Brussels Post, 1919-10-23, Page 6Hcr Housebreaker
Be Florenca Morse Kingsley.
CHA l:1 rr.(Cent'd,
"Det you nu ot home %newel" she
maled. "1 slipped an addeessed en-
veiope in the suit -rase; at the last
moment, I theughi: that yell might
net I Me,"
re husked startled, the reeolleotion
ef Mrs, Van AukonlorMe firgere
1-0,1,111,27 ba.?.11 to him. u 1 there -Nes no
time for further talk between them
es easterners had eome in.
She
at quietly in the clesir where
he had left hem setap e of unintelli-
giele conversation comities to her ears
and all the while she watched him at
his work, a warm glow uf happiaess'
etcaVag Itack info her sore Meet.
Aft' all, he had not deceived bee.
slatternly womanhi black, eerry- •
a heeket en her arra, entered. Mre.
Brett watched her curiously as she
etcpeed behind the counter and pro-
ceeded to help herself liberally to
various groceries. The woman's sharp:
ves presently focussed themselves
upon the. stranger,
"Who are you?" she demanded,
pmesing before Mrs. Brett's chair. "I
don't remember seeing you in the
stele' before now,"
"I've never been here before," said
Mrs. Brett. "I am Mrs. Brett, from
East Caswell."
the land's sake!" exclaimed
the woman, after a prolonged stare.
Then she jerked her thumb over her
shoulder. "1 s'pose likely you come
to look him up. He told me a lot o'
n'elielous stuff about you but I didn't
believe a word 'of it -except that he
broke into your house,"
"I should like," said Mrs. Britt,1
with dignity, "to speak with Mr. Von •
Auken-the proprietor of this place.
I have business with him."
"I'm Mrs. Van Aitken," she aid.
"My husband's deed. Didn't Dan tell
you? Died the same night he run
Mrs. Brett's fare had become singe.;
lwrly
"Of course you wanted him to re-
main with you -for a few days at,
lea•st," she said. "I understand every-,
thing now."
"I've sold the business -jest this
morniti'-kied of unexpected," re-
marked Mrs. Van Auken, after a de-
tailed scrutiny of the strange ladee
dress. "I did think some of have)'
Dan run •the store, but alter what he
done-makin' off with the money an'.
den't feel like trestle' him.:
He's eothin' hut a poorhouse brat,
anyhom, so what- ran a body expest? -
But lieely he didn't tell you that:"
Mns. Bitatt's eyes l;ngered noon the
ibtt,',44 -fast,. 16 was a fao,, ;spoil to
look upon, she, 'MRS thhiltinnz, with its
freak hit- -•tant.
E111,1 tint. square chin.
Yes: be told me tr.-orything.." Li:he
said quistle. "D'1 :totel want-
ed itir:t..otn4-4 atol lino with nie?
My 1'. a1ir1 gratniy. "ha,.
gons to war a1,1 I ant finite ahate."
'Fr.;44.• gar ',alto!'511141kI Mrs.
''an Alam. "do yt:u mean to tell rite
yen want 1 he
chnc?---IrcalHo into yoer heese an'
ee;•10' your victeale on' all? 1 sh'1
think foal rnots Hint han.-r11 Lila •
tr the 4. LL. i i r4141.
I rid 4.1•ti it. tto, on h:s own srty-..,o
paned up he teolt ten dollars out the
thl bei ore l'Ic; RA: tan. 1 know what •
Van Aukon would hate done, if he
bade% been took zieety sudden to a
better land. But I'm easy. 1 toll
him I'd let him if he'd stay an'
It oer. Put 31A" I &Al' knows"
unless 1 eh hire him out somewheres
).r -a, Brett toek ,en dollars from
the roll Dan hal her.
"Here le the 111,.,/..2, • Flit! Sg.'i "Anil
I tun very much cldiged to you foo.
being kin.: to him,"
ne woman fingered the bill, with a
cot-et.ms gianee at Mrs. Brett's purse.
"I'm a poor, lone widow," she
ivhined, "lett' I've got live ehildren to
do for. Dee's 'MOS RR handy 05 a hired
girl, 'mend the house, along of me
teachin' him all these years. Besides,
in esit good money for Ns services.
till his times up, After that, I don't
care a copper what bee:vines of him."
"Wouldn't you like the money'
now. asked Mrs. Brett, a girlish
pink staining her pale eheeks. "I -I
have quite set my heart on having;
hint with me this winter. Of course,'
he will work and pay me hack some
time," she added, mindful of his pride.;
The woman burst into a coarse
laugh.
"I don't believe you're all there on
top," she said. "But I'm agreeable
sellin' out my interest in Dan, if
you want him so had. There's 'tenni'.
like hard cash for a poor lone woman
like me."
Here then was Mre. Brett's oppor-
tunity to purchase the splendid and,
unusual gift her son had wished fort
her.
In the waning light of sunset, that
same evening, Dan walked by her side.
on the road he had first traversed in
loneliness and despair. Deep thank.'
fulness, passing worth?, was in ,his
heart, quiet happiness in hers. And
now the house, cosily withdrawn bea
hind its trees and shrubbery, was in
sight. They could see the purple and
crimson splendor of the asters around
its door.
"It's home, Dan:" she said, softly.
Then she sighed, thinking of her boy
far away on the perilous seas.
He leaked down at her with quick
understamling. "You are thinking. of
him." he said gravely, "But as far,
ae 1 can -I couldn't, of course- you
couldn't—"
She interrupted his halting speech,
with her loveliest smile.
"You are gong to try to take his
empty place." the said. "And Dan, I.
know you will help me bear it all as
ros one else could. In return, I'm go-'
ing to give you something you've
had -a home."
"I -f I only dared—" he breathed..
"What. dear bey?"
"Could you let me -would it hurt
to meth if I ehould ell you-.
Methsr ?"
Tele eyes -the love -famished eyes
e: a boy who had never known a
mothee or a hotne-cntreated her.
"Why net?" she mused, "Yes, you
moo call me Mother. I shall like it.
And some time, perhaps, you will
know my other son. I shall have two
'hove to love."
In his heart he vowed that never
had mother been loved and cherished
fis he would love and cherish het'.
The peopleof Caswell stillage ac-
cepted Dan Maitland with reserve -
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Comfort Lye is fine for making sinks,
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• 000-ornt.Low nAt.cokir.
16 Heintzman St • Toronto
dons, after the maneor of their kind
The roopr.etor et' the 1'as-..c1 I 'louse
who It ,-1 Ulm he never foreot a
eaee, pueeleet for 0 as to the
ideethy ef the straitger. It was the
1. rret.fasod lock s•ilto aesisted his
haltine memory.
"Why, don't y.a; re mEe.'t that chap
who 011110 in all 'wet env eight; sail
he'd lost his name:: and wantsd to
work tel sapper tvel a bed?"
"Thats it --that', where 1 sow him!
Tell you, Charley, 1 never forget a
fare: I remember 1 told hint to lear
out. An' he made treks It
he'd 'a' 40:1 me who he was, 01' source
I'd been glad to keep him. Relative
01 Mrs. Brett'e, they say.'
"Cousin ef Geolge's, I guess. Lucky
for her, h "s too young to be con-
scripted."
The intelligent sumnises of the
hotel -clerk, puesing into current gos-
sip, were soon accepted as fart. Dan-
iel Maitland found employment with-
out difficulty and was regular and
steady at his work.
On Sunday he went, to church with
Mrs. Brett. He was soon a favorite
with the young people, who had known
and liked George Brett. But it was
well nigh impossible, they found, to
tempt him away front home of an
evening, where he spent the happiest
hours of his life reading aloud to her,
while the knit the millets helmets,
sweaters, wristlets and mufflers she
had planned .111 the beginning for the
boys across the sea.
Mary Brett found .herself soberly
happy in the love and tender care of
her heaven-sent soa-yet always with
a hidden ache at heart. Always she
wa-s watching for news front George" -
Letters came at intervals, full of ex-
citing adventure, rare flashes of fun
and accounts of deity bravely done.
Then came the letter telling her that
he was slightly wounded, "a mere
seratch," he said, although they had
given him the Military Medal for
bravery under fire.
Daniel helped to pack the Christmas
box and slipped in a modest gift of
his own. They hoped it might escape
the submarines. Then came silence,
for what seemed interminable weeks.
Mrs. Brett did not always hear what
Daniel read in the evening but her
needles never ceased their monotonous
clicking. There were so many, many
boys who needed the warm things!
She seemed to remember them all,
while she thought only of George,
Daniel found her one night, when
he came home from work. sitting
white and still, a letter in her hand.
It was cruelly short: George Brett had
been severely wounded, addle driving
his ambulance near the battle front.
He was lying in a hospital at the rear.
He wanted his mother to know "10 she
would not worry." Hopes were enter-
tained of his rethsvery. In which event,
if unfit for semice, he would be hon-
orably discharged.
It was well on towards spring when
George th'ttt came home, wearing an
empty sleeve. The whole village of
Caswell turned out to meet the WORM -
td hero; there wt r4 a hrass leuel and
specehes. and an atit:omobile trimmed
with flags waiting at the platform,
Mrs. Brett accompanied by Daniel
Ir•titlenri had gone to St TAW, to
llleet the hospital , the date f
which arrival could only be guessed at.
But she rode at anchor at last with
her grim convoy, where the big gray
battleships and transports come creep-
ing in from the sea and are safe,
.Amid the tumult of rejoicing; and
congratulations, half drowned in the
splendid strains of 0 Canada, mother
and -son stepped down from the train
and were escorted to the waiting car.
It was the station master, very much
in evidence as the quasi -host of the
occasion, who, looking around and
missing someone, bethought himself ,
to ask:
"Where's your other boy, Mrs.1
Brett? Ain't he coming horde, too?"
it was George Brett who answered
for his mother, with military brevity.
"Brother Dan," he said, "has gone
to take my place and make good at
the front."
(The End,)
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thof the $t'11.1015 (If thio Dominion
e:lisenshine that they sqvip the;
cluld to da the full Sots' of a good
et,"). It :3 not forgotten that the:
have for eenerm me, deify ex -1
'lint wore; bet he experienoe of
the last tem eters 11115 hVoniXiit the
realization that a dist,.e in method
and in subject -rumor -a shifting of
empliesia-eis urgently required. A.
Young muti may Im en expert 111 erith-
mete', in snelling, in von:fiefs, gram
-
nem, geography, mid every ethee sot,-
ject on the eurriculum and may. none
the less, display qualities of brutality,
injustice, waetefitleess, and tr,:q140/1-
may, indeed, be a Imishevik. An alter.
el type of training, a new v,iew of
relative values, inust come. A knowl-
edge of the fund•amentale 00 whist
rests the structure of democracy must
be a part of all instruction worthy of
the name.- Education may make or
mar a nation -It has done so 111 Eur-
ope and elsewhere.
What are the fondatnentrale? Hon-
esty is one. Industry is another, and
there are many more. Frugality is
an important one, and one that is be-
ing overlooked in this new country.
Canada was bulit on thrift, among
other things --tie pioneers were
specialists in thrift.
Thrift is not hoarding; it is not
miserlinesa; it consorts not with the
pessimist, Thrift is intelligent care
of money and resources, conservation
for the future, .wise and thoughtful
spending. The thrifty man is an
optimist, for he has stored up power.
And thrift must he taught in the
schools. This wil'atiot add to the
teachers' burdens, for every subject
of study ern be so taught that It helps
to inculcate the practice Of thrift. A
Thrift Club in the classroom -works
wonders in the discipline of the ;school;
it gives the pupils something worth
while to, talk about and something
worth while to think about. United
for a common aim, they learn esprit
de corps. They come to know the
value of money and the principles of
business; they are imbibing the nec-
essary preparation foe citizenship. For
the attractive investment of small
savings, War Savings Stamps afford
an excellent medium. Th:is plan has
ben highly successful in the schools
of Great Britain, of the "United States,
and of Canada.
Thrift taught in the shoals amour -
ages industry because thildren wish
DI earn so that they may save. And,
more than ever in its history. thit .dd
world needs to go to work, Productien,
must be ineressed. Produce, sove,
vest, must become the universal
slogan..
Why Apples?
Healthful neids, needed minerals
(ineltuit L.• eml lime and sulphur),
one hundred calories of e.neetsy and a
little real nett-elem.-all this is in an
apple.
Do not soorn the apple as food be-
cause it is SP per cent, water. The
same is true of milk, Thesapple's 1:3
per cent. of sug'ar and starches is not
to be despised as food.
A taste for apples, "skins and all,"
is to he cultivated. When Johnny OT
Jane want candy or "something to
do," let him or her eat an apple. And
More About Garden Clocks,
The interesting paragraph In a re-
cent issue concerning "cloclegardens"
serves to recall the fact that at least
three su eh floral timepieces have been
grown quite successfully, -though 801110
sears ago.
The great difficulty, 110WON'01, IS that
although the various flowlirs are
plunted, it is only under mmeptional
conditions of eon, light, and heat that
the graceful fancy can be realized.
The great Swedish botanist, Lin-
naens, once designed one of these
"cloth -gardens" in Sweden, another
was laid out in Paris about twenty.
five years ago. In 1807 a third, wee
being "timepiece:4" together by a "Air.
Oulsterhout. of the (101ifoln ittn [1111'
versity, in Millennia. Beyond 01580
three instances It is doubtful whether
there have been any further successes.
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came in,
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Bovril is one of the most preciohs food
_substances in the world. Its beneficent
effects are immediate ; it acts like a glass of
champagne, but without the reaction which
wine sometimes brings. Bovril does permanent
good by building up the very fabric of the body.
To get the full benefit of Bovril, take it regu-
larly day after day. The value of "a course of
Bovril" has been scientifically demonstrated by the
independent investigations ofProfessorThornpson.
Bovril
token,
After bringing human subjects to a
constant weight on a standard diet,
he added Bovril to the other food,
and found the body-
building powers of
Bovril to be 50 to
20 times tlic amount
taken.
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building
Power of
Bovril taken.
Bovril
titands
alone.
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don't forget to eat one yourself; they
are fine for the disposition as well as
for the internal workings of the hotly.
2,000,000 Bricks in chimney.
Standing 260 feet high, a chimney
stack at Northampton, which can.
tained 2,000,000 bricks, and twilt two
years to build, was lolled recently, IL
was the third highest in Lite kingdom.
250 Mlles of War Ribbon.
'Two hundred and fifty miles of 13r1.
tish war medal ribbon are to be issued
to the men and women entitled to
these decorations through recent
edicts of the King.
111.104351,0 Liniment Cures Xuathmit,
The first large steel cargo vessel
ever built in Australia was launched
recently.
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Sad the day when you are
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Could that day ever come?
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Thhi 1, Poliei 5o,, or oii -v'nleg
in a suburb:a, home ko lanu, 014.11 the
.4,4.41,155, 1145 ,,, , ul tiatultior its
t,VAA sal onioldie,
"Voter° la.e, John," said 'Millie.
'rep, deer; 1 wisps 1 the lire ferty
1/.11, treat the P.Itit. 11110-.
1(111.'3 ilV111011. 1114` boino 011 Mat
er1,105. yoli sur'
bought. 1,1011 two-seater. you Itnow.
Thu 11114 '111)201 J)It.3t12stv,11,4sti
,tllinedyl.tra
hoe iilincLaio,n1 tip:L(1 he's
"01) I'd just love te Imre all 21010.,
planette 11110 that!" exclaimed 51111in,
"Alrs. Smith says she simply couldn't
do without hors now. Ilile 21111 3)03)
up to town, do her rhopping and get
back 1n an afternoon."
"Um- that pilot of theirs," 5dd.11, on
Millie, "seems Just as safe with the
'Pup' as he is with their great twin,
ongtood 'has."
"Yes," said John; "nowt be quite
an undertaking getting it les tri•
plane on the sky way. Wm uaeful for
a family party. I hear lie pricked
twenty or thirty Into it lor tia, picnic
itt dolma,' Groat's lest week. 13y the
Way, aren't. the Robineons comlug to
yon'd better harry up and
change," said Millie.
The Itabinsons were very up -toe -late
people, John decided, as they sat
down to the Laval, Ile had not met
them before,
"very glad to know each near neigh-
bors," he seta cordially. "Why, it
can't be more than forty miles to your
Pince, I should think."
it is just forty.seven kilometers, to
be exact," Robinson volunteered. "We
did it without any trouble at all in
something under twenty minutes."
"Quite good flying I call that," said
John,
'.Wo came by the valley auto, ton,"
1101 111 Mrs. Robintion. "John was good
enough to consider my wretched air -
pocket nerves rather than his petrol."
"It's a couple of miles farther," ex-
plained Robinson, "but my wife isn't
such a stout flyer as her mother,
though the old lady is over seventy,
My pilot was bringing her from town
last week -took the Dorking-Lefili 11111
airway, you know, always bumpy over
therc-and 1 suppoee from all cie.
counts he 011155 11(20 eropped her n hun-
dred feet plumb, side-al:piled and got
Into a spinning dive and only palled
the old bus out agaln when thPy could
him for stunting without orders."
her seat and, when James had adjust.
tettitrtitold l
iotill.ttollalelpettf,Isustot.Tows in a Ploughed 0.1(1.
Thelaxly just loaned forward in
ed his headpleee, she tapped him en
the thoulder and coolly reprimanded
With the dessert came letters liy
eecuse me," said mime,
0110 tool: them .Irom the maid. "1
see theth's a reply from muffle -the
Edinburgh aunt. you 1:.111”.5'," she ee-
l:eel:fuel. '1 wrote her this 1(101111 )g,
imploring her to 'mum 01'01' to -morrow
fm'.\\I'1ttt
'7bnn't13,i
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''fo's mint doesn't linow
about hying isn't worth lerowine," re.
netrked John, "and 0110'!! never goo
rorty 2,220411. Ilow's that ter an undo:
flajt4013atlitunt
that mornoht a peculiar
noise, evidently vory near the house.,
arrested the attentiou of the party.
"Sonneed like somethhig breaking,"
said Millie. John Intel already gone
out to investigate.
In a infinite or two ho reappeared,
ushering In a jolly old geutleman In a
lb -lug suit,
"A thousand pardons, Mrs, Green,"
said the new arrival, "John collected
me hi the paddock. Ha! ha! You
know my theory about the padlexilt."
"Well, the theory's suutshed, any.
how," said John decisively, "and so's
zny fence "
"No! No! 1 won't hear its" laughed
Brown; "1 admit the tenee, but not
the theory. You see," he went on,
turning to Meg. Robinson, "I've always
insisted, as Green knows, that there's
plenty of landing space in hts paddoelt,
provided you do It up wind, The feet
1s I was 12 couple Of points out in My
reckoning an(1 so fulled to stop the
old bus short of the fence. You know,
Green," lie added, with au injured air,
'you ought to have 22 whiel-pointer so
there'd be no doubt about it.''
"Just to encourage reckless old
gentlemen to smash my premises,
1 imppoise," retorted John. "But 1 ad.
mit I found some consolation for my
some:lied fence when 1 observed the
pathetic appearance of your under
carriage after your famous landing,
A Prayer For a Little Home,
God fame! us a little home,
To come hack to, when we roam.
Low walls, and fluted tiles,
Wede windows, a flow for miles.
Red firelight end deep chairs,
Small white beds
(21)31.0135'-
01221 talk fu little nooks,
Dim colors, rows of books,
Oen picture on each walk
Not lhally things at PM,
God send 21$1,22 little ground,
Tall trees elanding round.
Ilstnely flowers In brown sod,
(Meringue thy stars, 0 Clod,
God 131•104, whou winds blow,
Our home, 101(1 all We IttltriV,
When riming:lig pillows for an hi-
va:id try putting tem letigthvelse witib
ono 1'O .0,180 at top for the hear
give o good
.Licwort.