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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1920-4-29, Page 2Pure Clean I Preserved 82 sord only In ... ,.�..� . , . . Sealed air -tight packet. EC01�.0111iC�.� to preserve its native goodness.'' Used in Millions of Tea -Pots Daily ,.r..»,...0113=1.1.1.0311..=:.,.,.i>o....e...o THE SEAL OF SECRECY By EDWIN BAIRIt. ¢a 003:amw:,nra.,swn...,.. ,... CHAPTER L The Face at the Window. Judge Rufus Blacl,buen's libiary tepid ecarcciy he termed a roe -wink spot, even by a prodigious stretch of she imef inrtion. "]tit to 1.3onelas Quinn the heart of tt.man,e throbbed here, for it was in this solemn place. tined with grave. volt r e, air 5hc pEldn and adcr od veith k u e end prct.ites of a bygone age, thet he propose,! carriage to ztte judge's bcaceieul nice= tlarjei!e Ula..:., .:rn. anal wfM accepted by he.. Site sad never=eeme.i more leeel ; to him then of that wintry afterroen. The westering sun slanted its rat" thre rg.i the -windows and shed a golden tip en li: open the anfiquee and slrelvre ea locks; but the radiant girl in yentue Quinn's arras glorified the drab old seen in a f: r mere potent way. d tu'I; aiweys love' :he ecf ne e i her fa:e upliete 1 puri her a azar, into his. Itis an ser, though ,cute was. elo- quent. He drew her aloscr acid kissed her upturned laps, "No wetter what happens?" she went en, a new note of ear:restneae in her v.dce. "Of roc:rse I will, sweetheart—al- ways and forever and ever! What .rouid happen," he said, smiling fondly aper hr:r. "that would even make you think 1 might not always love you?" Sbe lowered her eyes and stared absently at the old-fashioned rug. "I wet thinking," sae began. very slowly, not meeting his eyes, "of— Um•le Ruing" young Quinn's expression clanged. His anent emotion suffered a chill. He knew, too well. that Judge Black- burn disapproved of him as a pros- poet:ye irephew-in-law. He knee-, also .--anti Pah was the more creel thoeght of the two—that the judge did ap- peeve, of henry elcKiniock, a promis- ing eyeing attorney. However, Qni:in shoved no tare of an unpleasant thenieee whet! lie said, with a +-eassur- ing ate fie: 'But: why let that iro.tbie you?? I, Imre, of coulee, that your uncle' doesn't trot; bet you're of legal age; you can I:r:-r:'.; ...hem you cheese, and ' "And I choose to marry; you," she murmured. uatttihig closet chi::.. rt, 1 more important claimed their thought. For upward of an hour they sat in the grim old library, discussing their future.; and so happily engroseed were they that they also forgot the fly in (their eintreent—.Judge Blackburn. But when young Quinn took his de- parture he was reminded of the judge, and not very pleasantly. Deseenelleg !the front, steps, he passed Henry Mc- Kinle:le. ascending. 'Pm two men. meted. tetchy. CHAPTER 11. The Violet-S,ented Note. On the following recanting a senre.nt from Judge Blacker. n's home appear- ed at the boarding-house where Quinn dwelt. with a note from Marjorie. It was writiett on heavy, pale blue note- paper, and read as follows: Dearest, --Since yeti were here yes- tehlay I've been thinking over all that we said to each other, end Pm just a little afraid that what I said, or im- plied. about Uncle Rufus may have troubled you somewhat. At least, 1 am sure you were puzzled by the things I seed. I suppose I was overwrought at the thee, else I wouldn't have talked that way. In any event, there is nothing whatever to worry about. It's just as you said—Uncle Rufus can never do anything that will harm our love Thr each other. "Please come over to -night ai,out eight and talk everything over with him. 1 am going to do my beet to have him in good humor." Standing in the hall of his board- ing-house, Quinn read the note through twice, then lifted the thick blue paper to his nostrils. It eras dclieately scented with violets. Putting the note in an inner pocket, Quinn buttoned his overcoat and blithely proceeded to the local room of The Morning Star, where he was employed as e reporter at $45 a week. His heart was gay. singing with the ;est and joy of life. His delight increased when the city editor obligingly consented to release him from duty at seven edelock that e er ng• and it fairly overflowed ad he walked to Judge Blackburn's: home.i When he face.] Marjorie; however,! ,tis happiness eofecre•l a etreek. It e cleat that something was wrong. .ire afraid," S1 a said. nor •mg a ni is to her lips. that I chose an un - t e t ab e how.. when I said eight a i c' . ire so t ; r --i tried to g•et' t u on the plane, len you'd Teat -1 lrtecl to teal you—" "What 'le it, Marjorie? What's hap- pcnedd?•, ' I: s thele Rufes. lie 'brought' Henry Mcli nlook home for dinner. They're upstairs now, in uncle's study. Unele Rufus is in a terrible rage about sauteeing or other—I'm not eure what," "Weill. that certainly spells our pia m! But," amid Quinn, "let's not fret about that. I believe I can have en enjoyable visit here—even if I don't sec Uncle Rufus:' Marjorie failed to share his merri- ment. There was a note of anxiety in her voice when she asked, hesitating- ly: "Do you really think you Dight to stay. Douglas?" "Sure! Why not? I can't afford to waste a perfectly good evening. Be- sides I'd a million times rather talk with you than with Uncle Rufus." "Yes, I know; but—" She left the sentence unfinished and glanced to- ward the upper Boor. She seemed to be listenin', with dread, for sounds from the s udy. "1 saw McIfinlock yesterday," Quinn said, trying to speak in a care -free manner. "Met him outside, as I was leaving. Ile wasn't, by any chance, calling on you?" That Mr. MMKiniock also occupied a prominentplace in her thoughts be - carne 'clear when alae said: "Yes; he was. You hadn't been gone a minute before he ante in. He —T'nc not sure that I ought to tell you, Douglas-----" "Please go on!" "Well, che-he asked mte marry him]" "Oh!"S„ said Do? fns uinn. "What else?” "Nothing else, except -4 can't Bear the sight of him. I loathe him. I al - *aye have. I don't know why. I can't understand why Uncle Rufas has a1 ways been so fond of hien; and now, stranger still—" She broke off suddenly and seized his arm with an excited whisper: "Sh-hl arm, be comes now!" quinn, listening, heard voices up.• etarrs—Mel lnloelc's and her uncle's•— raised in anger, Both,apparently, were talking at once, anQuinnuCoo d make nothing of what they said ex- sept that each spoke anggrxily. 'hen he hoard footfalls, descending: rapidly: In another moment Maitinlock flashed into view an the :staircase and rushed out into the night without epealt:ing. As the heavy front door closed be- hind him,Quinn stood op, and smiled down at Marjorie, almost submerged etiolate'lie only ---I was thinking—:f' Uri. le should do oir chi s err it ii; tr ce1a,1 lira• rr•e .t •e- - pr raves'> Ne...: 113 stoutly de.lered, ail she pau i. ? uthing that he or i.nati body else night do would le=sen my 1 love sat ,.on in elle slightest." "Pea afraid," she said, as if th'ek-1 aload, "ilncle Rufus will be so ferines when he herrs of our engage.. 1 -t51 t•U,,,,P he 1.1;1!" Guilin raaelily1 a„ real. ' 1 expect that, and tri pre-! lasted no this fury. But, just why deet he di -like ir:e, anyway, I: wee ler?" "I think it's bee:v se you chess a! n: sepaper carcee.:natead of entering, the legal profession. Ire doesn't like. noa-spaper mer_." "And he does like lawyers, appar- ently, McKinlock's a lawyer." "My uncle," muted Marjorie, "is a hard man." Young Quinn required no reminder! of this. The room ie which they eat reflected the personality of the man —stern, austere, relentless to those who incurred his dispieasore. And Quinn surmised that Marjorie's life beneath this roof had not always been agreeable. Orphaned at a tender age loft penniless in the world, she has found refuge in the home of her fa- ther's brother, a widower; and since that time she had been wholly de- pendent on him. Thinking of this, young Quinn was swept by a longing to protect her, to work for her, to devote his life to her happiness. He lifted her face, but she suddenly withdrew from his em- brace, with a warning glance at the windows behind hhn. Quinn looked toward the window, and beheld a trampish man, atop a steIladdor outside a drippingsponge e In is hand, peering at them through the glass. Seeing that he was inn- rsovered, the man promptly resumed his work of washng the windows. Undersized and shrivelled, he was ex- ceedingly disreputable -looking. Ise was olad in rage, possessed a facethat was grimy and wore a ragged beard. As he slid the sponge over the glass, Quinn noticed that the first two fing- ere of the man's right hand were mesa- "A tough-looking hum," he com- mented to Marjorie. "slow long do you suppose he's been watehing us?" "Beaver knows!" she laughed. "I never suspeeted be was there until T saw him glaring at us through the window. lie's probably an odd -jobs man hired by the housekeeper;" 'The topic being of interest to neither, the unoouth little pian Wes forgotten by both. Matters infinitely. • ;3w at the Fly! Certain facts connected with flies are either misunderstood or over- looked. The following hints are sent out by a farm bureau and eisould be widely eirculated. Read and remember these: One house -fie with its filthy feet can kill tits enure family. Tho fly is more disgraceful and dangerous than a bedbug. The house -fly is the filthiest crea- ture in existence, yet man's constant companion. The house -fly breeds in almost any hind of decaying vegetable matter, 'but prefers horse manure. The House -fly is dangerous, not be- cause of its breeding place, but be- cause of its habits of feeding, The house -fly is rightly called the typhoid fly, because it is one of the Chief carriers of this disease. Open, outdoor closets should not be tolerated. Screen them as you would your kitchen The one is as important as the other. The fly is the connecting link be- tween filth and food. FIies breed in filth, feed on filth, and distribute filth —the filthiest kindoffilth. Yoe should protect your health and that of others by securing food from your farm by doing everything pos- sible to exterminate the fly. The only good fly is a dead fly. From a privy vault, a •garbage can, a decaying anima], a consumptive's spittoon, or any other filthy thing, flies go directly to your dining table and wipe their filthy feet on your food. The House -fly feeds on human excre- ment, sputum, and other possible sources of germ infection, as well as milk, vegetables, cake and other foods in the kitchen and dining -room. No dirt, no {lies. Tuberculosis grows in dirt and filth. Tuberculosis kills more persons every year than are killed by any other preventable dis- ease. If you give a preventable dis- ease to some one and that someone dies, you are responsible. Disease pre- vention is more important than fire prevention. You take precautions against fires. Are you careful for your health? Germs are dangerous. Be on the lookout for there. Swat the fly! To Get Rid of Flies:—To catch flies and prevent their laying eggs, provide large traps near breeding places and at kitchen doors; use small traps, sticky fly paper or' poison in the house. Twenty drops of earbolie acid on a hot shovel will destroy the flies in an ordinary froom. Burning pyrethrum powder in a roam will stupefy the flies so that they may be swept up and burned. A good fly poison is made as fol- lows: Formaldehyde, four table- spoonfuls; milk, one cupful; water, one cupful; sugar, two tablespoonfuls. Pour the liquid into saucers, but keep the saucers out of reach of children end domestic animals. The number of bacteria capable of being carried by one house fly varies front 550 to 6,1300,000. Hence a cru- sade against this pest which is most numerous during the season of the year when epidemics are -likely to oc- vur will play a great part in the pre- vention and spread of any malady, either slight or serious. How To Do Things. Rhubarb forms an excellent basis for jams, as it combines well with the fruits that are so expensive. House- wives will find it profitable to use so plentiful a product, varying the com- binations so that the family will not become surfeited with the rhubarb flavor. If sugar is scarce, use half andif corn sugar ha n syrup. Rhubarb and almond marmalade is a little out of the ordinary. Peel and cut up the rhubarb, and boil with a very little water until soft. Allow one pound of sugar, one ounce of sweet almond's (blanched and chopped) and half a lemon, thinly sliced, to every pint of pulp. Boil slowly for an hour, then put in glasses, Baked rhubarb: Wash and wipe dry one and one-half pounds of rhubarb, cut it in one-balf inch lengths and place in a glass baking dish. Sprinkle each layer with sugar mixed with chopped candied orange peel, using about two cupfuls of sugar. Pour in four tablespoonfuls of hot water, add two &eves, cover with a plata and bake slowly until tender. Serve hot or cold. For rhubarb and orange marmalade, allowix a oranges and one and one- half pounds of sugar to each quart of cut Rer. rhubarb. v a poet white he vh,te rind end pips from the oranges, slice the yellow peel and pulp into the preserv- ing kettle with the rhubarb and sugar, and boil slowly until done, Pineapple, in a deep armehair before a log fire in the grate. "Now for the judge!" he said. she gisusietl up, a little startled, it seemed by the sound of his voice. "1--iitougias, I almost hate to have you see him to -might. 1Je'e in such en ugly termite', and I'm afraid--" "I'm not, thangh. And I'll heard him in his den and emerge vietorioue.e Leaning over the leather ha,:k of her cushioned chair, he kissed her re - aefuringlyr, then torned and hastened upstairs, Bulk Carlots (To be roiitinued•) TORONTO SALT V4'Ot4N•,$ C. J. CLIFF' TOt40NTO either fresh or canned, can be used instead of the or.m me with equally good results. Rhubarb and fig marmalade is much liked; to every six pounds of rhubarb, cut up without peeling, allow one pound of figs and a quarter of a pound of candied lemon peel. Cook the rhu- barb until the pieces are soft, but un- broken. Drain off the juice to be used for jelly; add the chopped Piga, lemon peel and five pounds of sugar, and let cook slowly together for one hour, Pour into jelly glasses and seal. Raisons can be used instead of figs, if preferred, Baked ham makes a good dinner. For a small fancily cook the ham thus: cut a slice, one inch in thickness, from the middle of the ham, place in an earthenware baking dish and cover with sweet milk. Deice until tender—about one Hour. Remove the hain, thicken the liquid left in the dish, with flour thickened liquid put cold boiled po- t tatoes which have been cut into cubes. Allow the potatoes to heat through. then serve with the ham. DYES HER GARMENTS BUT NONE CAN TELL "Diamond Dyes" Turn Faded, Shabby Apparel into New. Don't worry about perfect results. Use "Diamond Dyes," guaranteed to give a naw, rieb, fadeless color to any tabrie, whether it be wool, silk, linen, cotton or mixed goods, — dresses, blouses, stockings, skirts, children's coats, feathers, draperies, coverings— everything! The Direction Book witia each pack- age tells how to diamond dye cver any color. To match any material, have dealer show you "Diamond Dye" Color Card. Measuring Cord -Wood. Firewood, small pulp -wood and material cut into short sticks for ex- celsior, etc., is usually measured by the cord. A cord is 128 cubic feet of stacked wood. The wood is usually cut into four - foot lengths, in which case a cord is a stack four feet high, four feet wide and eight feet long. Sometimes, how- ever, pulp -wood is cut five feet long, and a stack four feet high, five feet wide and eight feet Iong is considered one cord. In this case the cord con- tains 160 cubic feet of stacked wood. Where firewood is cut into five-foot Lengths, a cord is a stack four feet high and six and one-half feet long; it contains 130 cubic feet of stacked wood. Where it is desirable to use shorter lengths for special purposes, the sticks are often cut one and one- half, two, or three feet long. A stack of such wood four feet high and eight feet long is considered este cord, but e GIRLS T Experienced and Learners For underwear and Hosiery Depts. Guaranteed Wage to Learners. 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Look for the S.H deader in -your territory --the t?.'•1 5100 hssspo oittalde iris store. 1*"* 46"1. m 1 �,+ 1 i r� 4660 �iY' N.OY. rNRAI. 1.1,447OAt?i. ar..ioNN 'reMONS'o WINI"ieec HCG,CINt iso, CALGARY ag,ACNioN 'VANaeUVse Unconscious Humor of Bri- tish Schoolboys. no seuso of ]armor is not, as is rule, uoaortled to the Hnglleh as tr people, but it must be allowed that Clic Dietieh schooimtteter who delioer" alely set himself to work to gather tho eiroleeet specimens from among the errors made by itis pnpl1e, possess.• ed just a trifle. Tho breaks were meetly inade at. an ca,usslnation and, of course, by different boys. Some of them follow: Finally Janes II. gave birth to a son, and so the people turned him off the throne. After twice committing suicide, Cowper lived till 1800, when lie died a. natural death. The Tropic of Cancer Is 0 painful and incurable disease. When the last French attack at Waterloo proved a failure Napoleon, turned very pale, and rode at full gal- lop , aua.. l4Tuctob;rtbuileltter I6 imported from DC.i• mark because Danish cows have groat: er entarprlse and superior teehrleai ellucatlo11 ie bttr5. 'JIre courage of the Turks is ex- plained by the fact that a roan with more cabin one wife is more willing to face death than If he had only one. The Modrtetr amen and the Reds Sea aro joined by the Sewage Canal. Cataract is the name of the Innen- to.hi ou which the Ark rested. In elepIs ut le, o eaitiin..l with a te.il in fren7 and bquateehind. The elleietrr of neir it the teems - man who preaches to fltddliNtl In the barge. k:+. The flannelette pc-il nu-tu,• I:oYI• coat government. The las host:al Wilburn is a t cruse applied in the Qtrnen Empercr. Rinere tyro the drseredana:i of abci An' -lent Britons to be found 104.1uy? In the Brinell Mumma. If It1'int' ek had it'.r�;l till naw 5.5 would ht.vc been dead more than ti n years. Tho Black Prin..e died ,:cm fes received by Iris horse. - During the Refornta';on 11ery clergyman was campe.l'led 1e reen've thirty-nine a•rtieles. Heratia's father threatened her that if she refused to marry the man he wanted her te; ho wnulil pnt its • iii a monastery. Henry VV. should not have been King because his great-grandfather wasn't really a son of ,To:.n u'Groa.is. The Gauls couldn't tape the cata- pult because Manlius was awtlkn by tho quacking of the hely duck:. The Australian natives set,': the dew into sponges to drink when the water is dry. Tire Rcfurm hill was presented to Parliament. It managed to pass tbree Houses, hat was then thrown out of the window. How would you make soft water hard? Freeze it, Isinglass is a glass need by doctore to look into their patients' eyes w'tb. The midnight sun is nausaIly called the moon, In the United States of America people are put to death by elocution. Probably the time is fast approach- ing when all gold will take the farm of 21 notes, as In Scotland, The expression "chance my grin" means "will you marry Ino?" Income is a yearly tax. The dodo is it bird that 1.1 nearly des cont now, Lord Fisher, the head bran of eau• cation, to going to make all people eighteen years old go to school. To Preserve Eggs. Select fresh eggs that are clean, but not washed. Use infertile eggs if possible. Take nine quarts of water that has bean boiled and• cooled, and add ono quart of water -glass (sol' um silicate). Place the mixture in a fr:e- gallon crock or jar. This amount of liquid will preserve fifteen dozen mime. Leos' larger amounts, mix the stolotion in the same proportion. -Clears the crock thoroughly before using. Place the eggs in the solution. If the poultry yard has not supplied an adequate quantity of eggs for imme- diate use, tmay ay be added from time to time. See that at least three inches of the soiution covers the egge at all tunes. Place the creek or jar in a cool, dry place, well covered to Prevent evaporation. Wax -paper placed on and tied around the top of the jar will serve the desired end. As a substitute for water -glass, this method has proved good: Dissolve two or throe pounds of unelaked lime in five gallons of water that has previa euslp been boiled and allowed to cool. Let the mixture stand until the lime 1 settles and the liquid is clear. Placts clean, fresh eggs in an earthenware crock or jar and pour the clear lime - water into the vessel until rho eggs are covered. ed. Earthenware erode are good ton - Miners. 'Trey' must be clean and 4them sound, Scald , ia let rid there cool 'completely before use. A crock hold- ing e x gallons - will accommodate eighteen dome of eggs and about twonty-two pints of solution, Crocks that are too large are not desirable, Eggs put in the crock limb should be used first. Iteplace with enol balled •water any water that has evaporated. Why l,emonu in Tea? The Russian nraottco of adding slieod lemon to tea, le based on sound, scleetiIli reasoning, as the fruit juice provett5 tiny harmful effoets from the tea, 'Mina the citric aced of the lemon offeet.s the tenpin of the tea, reu:derine the betMagi> refreshing; anti wholesome, Buy Thrift Stamps. 1