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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1928-4-25, Page 74141011/1151M.SIMM14.0110.111101. 861.11.101.4.16.1.1(M/S.401.0.0.101411,11461.10.1=.50.131 Cream Yradin Means I 'I Ti RR CREAM EITER BUTTER ETTER PRICES WO are now prepared to Grade your Creain honestly, gather it twice a week and deliver at our Creamery each uay we lift it We gather with covered truck to keep sun off it. We pay a premium of 1 cent per Ib. butter fat for Specials over that of No. 1 grade, and el cents per lb. but- ter -fa' for No 1 grade over that of No. 2 grade. The baste principle of the improveanent in the quality of Ontario butter is the elimination of second and off grade cream. This may be accomplished by paying the producer of good creast a better price per pound of butter -fat t.ran is paid to the producers of poor cream. We solicit your patronage and co-operation for better market. egome-We will loan you a can. See our Agent, T. C. McCALL, or Phone 2310, Brussels, The Seaforth Creamery -etef1:9¢,,a•Y4 e;elfe; eifo!ldimetlts l•� .,G RO ��f J'' '. s��"Y`, Y1 { kJtJp�nyla'� " -P: NEW SEILIAL STORY. An American But his father, unheeding the in- terruption, went on— ' • "If Cecily is going to be trouble- some about this young man, it might be no bad thing to take her away al- together for a bit. They have got this shooting on a seven years' lease, and I can't insist on the fellow's not coming up every year to his own shooting." "Well, don't do anything in a hurry," said his son. "An now I must go and give orders about Dobb's old boneshaker being sent back to him." `That reminds me," said his fath- er. "I have promised Cecily that she shall 'have a bicycle. I thought that you might get her one. You would know how to choose a good machine." "Pll see about it when I get back," said Haddis. "There were two lad- ies riding bicycles just in front of me as I came from the station for a- bout a mile. I kept behind for the pleasure of looking at them." "Some of those dreadful tourists, I suppose." said Lord Lochfinnan. "The whole place is swarming with them." "Yes, I suppose they were touri'te. But they were very smart -looking ones. Ono was quite a young girl, very pretty; the other—" "You seem to 'have taken good stock of •them," observed his father, with a smile. But Haddis, quite unabashed, re- plied— "I did. I let them ride in front of me for some tine and then passed thein. But then my ramshackle old thing went to pieces, and so they passed me again. This happened ' three times, so I hacl plenty of op- portunities of looking at them, They finally stopped at Miss Martin's 'Cyclists'.1i:st'—for tea, I suppose --and I saw 110 more of them." I "I wonder you dithrt stop et the 1 `Cycli.tr," Rest' for tea too!" said his father sarca..tically. "I diel think of doing so," L"e.ddS admitted, with a rather shamefaced smile, "but, after all, I didn't," ' "It is a, well you didn't," said Iced Lockftnetan. "If you go want- ing to marry a strange woman you have picked up in the road, as Cosily wants to marry a strange man she - has, picked up from no one knows whore, it will be the last straw! I , shall tern you both out of doors — and marry the cook myself!" Haddis laughed. "You needn't be afraid, dad. I - sha'n't want to marry anybody for Letterheads Envelopes Billheads And all kinds of Business Stationery printed at The Post Publishing House. Wo will do a job that will do credit to your business. Look over your stock of Office Stationery and if it requires replenishing call us by telephone 81. The post publishing House (All rights Reserved) iLI a long time.. When I do I promise you she shall be of irreproachabl manners." "Oh, manners!" exclaimed Lor Lochfinnan. "There is no fault t be found with Grandison's manners I wish there were." "I shall go out and inspect him when I have given orders about the bicycle," said Haddis. "And, as I didn't have tea at the `Cyclists' Rest' I may as well have some now." He left the room whistling and Lord Lochfinnan sat down for the third time to his papers. The private sitting -room of the master of Haddis Castle was, for some inscrutable reason, one of the smallest rooms -in the house. When Haddis emerged from it he was fn a narrow passage whie'h led to a fine old hall of noble proportions, with oak -wainscoted walls and a carved chimney -piece. A gallery ran along one side of this hall; on the other an archway led to a wing of the Castle which contained the chief rooms, But Haddis did not pass through this archway. He rang the bell beside the wide, fireplace, on the hearth of i which Iay huge logs ready for kind- ' ling should the evening prove chilly It waft answered by Quiller, the old butler, who had been in the family service before Haddis was born. The old man gave an exclamation of joy when he saw 'hie young mas- ter. „WhY, my lord!" he exclaimed. "When did you come, and how did you slip in so quitely that no one knows you are here?" "I came up from the station on a bicycle borrowed from the etation- nmasten," replied Haddis. "You look as fit as a fiddle, 'Quiller. And, see 1'er, I want to have it sent back to tho station at once 1 The old fallow may watt it, I suppose my man and luggage have not come yet?" "No, my lord." "All right. The thing that takes the bicycle back can bring them it conveyance has not been found se ,re now." The butler retired, and Haddis, 1,.., !ng through the archway, wont nt out tlu'ough a glass door which op- ened of to the garden. But when he turned the corner of the horse and cline within sight of the cedar Celily and Grandison were not to be seen. With a little exclamation of an- noyance, Haddis crossed the lawn and sat down in one of the wicker chairs. Ile supposed they would cone back, so he poured himself out a cup of tea and waited. The tea was overdrawn an'd cold, a fact which tended to increase his irritation, Hewas unreasonably inclined to think that it was Cecily's being in love with the wrong man that caused the tea to be bad. However, it was not worth . while to send for more; he would have to go back to the house to ring for it, So ho drank a cup al' mills instead and finished the bread-and-butter. Then he began to wonder if Grandison and Cecily were coining back, and where they could have gone, The footman came out to take away the tea -things. Haddis lay back in his chair and watched him and when ho was gone it occurred to him that he would go and look for the truants. Fie went first into the garden. It w was a beautiful old place with a ro of Irish yews along one side, against e d 0 THE BRUSSELS POST "" which a long mixed border of Howe Phnwed up brillinatly. But the t he was seeking were not in the ga den. Ho paused for a moment admire his surroundings; he. 1! Cr oily, loved his home, Then he w delayed by the necessity of greeti the gardener, who happened to ere hie path. Haddis was adored by the servants; he was always so cheo and courteous. When he left the garden he we retold to the other side of the haus where there: was a croquet law Cechy was an adept at croquet; pos ibly she and Grandison were p(ayin But no sound of the click of bal (tame to hien, and the lawn was u tenanted, There were not even an halls and mallets about to testify to recent play. "S'he must have gone down to the river with him," he said to himself. "Now, in the circumstances,, she really ought not to have done that." It was clear to Haddis that it was ills duty to go after his 'sister. Ile would also show thi fellow, Grandi- son, by his manner what he thought of his pretensions. Accordingly he once more crossed the lawn where stood the cedar -tree, and entered a shrubbery walk on the ;tar side of it, which led by devious turns to the river. Haddis distrusted Itis father's ,powers of long denying anything to 'Cecily if she once really set her 'heart on it. Ile therefore determined to exercise his own in- fluence as her elder brother, and to use a little more than influence in hie dealings with the young man should he not prove amenable to reason. But a good many things occurred to delay Haddis on his way to the river. First, he remembered that he had not let out his favourite dog, a big mastiff. which was so fierce when he was away that no one dared be responsible for leaving him at lib- erty, but which was gentle as a lamb in th epresence of his master. So he wont back to the stables to fetch him. And of course once in the stables he found a number of things to do and see. He had to examine the new cob bis father had bought, to give his opinion on a swelling on the frock of Cecily's pony, and finally to have a romp with the coachman's childrens, who always appeared on the scene when he came within a guile o £their cottage. Half an hour hacl therefore gone by when he once more started on his way to the river. When he reached the little stone bridge that spanned the river and also formed the boundary of Lord Loc'hfinnan's private grounds on that side of the house, the pair, if they had been there, were gone. Haddis looked across the field to the right of the bridge, through which a footpath led to the village, and saw a matt walking leisurely along it. The man was not a labourer or a gamekeeper. Haddis decided that it was the objectionable Grandison, but he was too far off to lac overtaken. Ifo thought he had better turn his at- tention to finding his sister. • There was another footpath through the field to the left, which presently entered a small wood of firs and larches and wound round to the pleasure -ground. Suro enough there was Cecily taking this path. Haddis lightly leaped the stile and reit niter his sister, re la wo ervouls and Miserable r - to ke as ng es all ry nt 0, n. s - g is n - y CHAPTER III .. ... . When Cecily and Jack Grandison had seated themselves under the cedar after leaving Lord Lochfinnan the young ratan lot .he calmness he h:icl assumed, He jumped up from the chair to which Cecily had mot- ioned hint, end began to walk up and dmvn excitedly declaring flint in spite of everything and everybody be would be Cccily's husband. "£iii there was anything against me!" he exclaimed. "But there is nothing, I have never been given to drinking or gambling, or doing any- thing which unfits me to be your husband. I am certainly poor, but 1 will work. I will become rich for your sake, my darling!" . "Sit down and don't be a goose!" • responded Cecily, "Now," she went on, as he once more threw himself into a chair by her side., "tell me how is it that you have never worked be- fore, that you have no profession?" "I never wanted to' make money before," he answered candidly. "I have five hundred a year of my awn, and I never wanted more. I lame tried various things---gold-prospect- leg in South Africa, sheep -farming; in Australia, (settle. -ranching in Am- erica; so you see I can work." Cecily amilecl. "It might be as well, -I think, not to toll father of a111 these things you ' Mee tried —•- stud apparently failed int' He jumped up and began his rest- less walk once more. "I didn't fail in them, but alone of '}rough Constipation "Fruit-a-tives " Restores Vigorous Health 1t3R. D. DUPBRRON. The drowsy, fatigued condition that usually goes with constipation is a serious handicap. Overcome it. Be healthy by taking "Fruit-a-tives". Read this letter: Maxvllle, Ont,—"Tho results are mar- vellous. That nervous, tired feeling has completely gone. 'Fruit-a-tives' has made a new man of me." —Mr. Donald Duperron. "Fruit -a -ti, es" is the intensified juices of ripe, fres fruit, blended with stimu- lating tonics. It is the stoutest natural foe of constipation. Gentle, natural and positive in its action, it builds the sys- tem to function properly without the constant use of laxatives, 25c and 50c at all druggists. Try it—to-day. ty them suited me, and I didn't care to go on with them. If I had had you waiting for me Eben I should have stuck to them fast enough. I assure you." "1 believe you would," she an- Swered soothingly. "But I am not sure that father would believe it. So you had better merely say when you talk to him that, as you never wanted more money for yourself than you had, you did not cure to go in for making it." "But I believe it is not only, the money. He doesn't think I am good enough for you," said Jack. ' "Oh, well, of course he would like to know who your relatives, are! You can tell him that, I suppose?" "My father was a general in the Indian Army. My mother was a ' clergyman's daughter. Do you think ho will consider that good enough?" "I think it quite good enough," replied Cosily; "and if you can only get an income sufficient to keep me I will take care that he thinks so too." "And what do you suppose 'ho will consider a sufficient income?" asked Jack gloomily. "I don't know, but I won't allow him to be too exacting," said Cecily. "Now do sit down like a dear boy!" IIe sat down once more and stretched out his hand to take hers. "If you assure me that you love me and will wait for me," he said, "I can pat up with anything," She drew her hand away with a smile. "Remember," she told hint, "there • p ering.,, "What on earth does your father mean by philandering?" he cried ir- ritably. "Does he suppose I ant such a cad as to kiss you before all the windows?" (Smiler laughed. "He means at any rate that we are not to sit hand in hand either in sight of the windows or out of sight of them. Do you know, Jack, that I think you ought to go now? You have finished your tea, and father will not like it if you stay too long." "Why, I haven't been here tell minutes!" he cried in aggrieved ac- cents. e "it is ,lust half. an 'hour," she re- plied. "Come, dearest, there is no use snaking hint angry to begin with! Be reasonable." "Well, walk down to the bridge with Inc l" She hesitated; but, as, seeing hue hesitation, he declared he would not go away at all if she would not grant him at least this small favour, she finally consented, and they entered the shrubbery walk which led to ;the river, whence he could reach the village, where he had arranged to moot one of his friends who was fishing, so that they might drive home together. "I want you to be very quiet and reasonable, darling," Cosily saki, as they walked, "when yon do have J• yy r ddi . , r ~j4 1 , sl` 4.d• s 1�'e` 1'T 4 q. e 4. 4 Highest market price • paid for your .,lens • /.4444.44 a Yollick i,4444.144.4444444+e-r your Interview with my father." "Good heavens! Wasi't I quiet end reasonable, toclay?" he demand- ed. "Yes, indeed you wore. But you were not given 1110011 time to lase your temper! And when father be- gins to subject you to a erose-exam- Ma,t!ar and perhaps flnriily tells you that 110 will never consent why—" "You seem to have so poor an opinion of me," Jack cried petulant- ly, "that I think perhaps I had bet- ter not demand an interview at all, but go straight away and never come back!" "Don't be foolish, dear Jack!" she said soothingly. She slipped her hand within his arm, and did not re- bt'ke him when he stooped and kiss- ed it. "But of course I am very anx- ious that you should make as good an impression as possible. And, you know, when you let yourself get ex- isted you might not always make quite as good an impression on those who do not know you as well as I do." Lord Lochfinnan would have won- dered how his daughter came to know this young man's character so well. He might also have reflected that it was an augury for the strength and endurance of her love fur him that she was so little blind to hie failings. "'You are an angel!" cried the young man, and kissed her eyes this time, "Conte now, dearest, no more of that!" she said, and withdrew her hand from his arm; whereupon he sulked a little and declined to speak except in monosyllables until they came within sight of the river. Then he recovered and apologised for his childish humour with such childlike sweetness :the Cecily said to herself that no one who knew him as well as she did could help loving him. Then she bade him say "Good - ' bye" and go. But, though he said "Good-bye," he did not go, and nearly half an hour elapsed before !she finally braced herself to leaving him, since he would not leave her. She blew him a kiss from the tips of her fingers, climbed over the stile, and walked away without looking back. Left alone, Jack grumbled a little, a rid then with a sigh went his way to the village. Cecily walked briskly until she thought her lover would have start- ed; glancing back and seeing that he had done so, she slackened her pace. Though only nineteen years old, she was endowed with considerable com- mon sense and self-reliance. She knew very well that her father would WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25ti1, 1027. (would contrive somehow or another to auguntent his income, but she un- derstood him well enough to le,alieo that it was extremely improbable. She saw a long perioa or waituee be- fore her, but wait she was reeeneel to do, ehould It be till h,ri' .,0'1 had grown gray. And her family and the world, if it interested the world, should ka"w she wa-( waging. ,c'hc would not marry Jaek without her father's (torment, but she would hold herself engaged to him, no (natter what anybody might say. As she came to this resolution the tears be- gan to steal down her cheeks. She knew it was very difficult and Jack would suffer so. Her tears were for Jack rather than for herself. She stopped to wipe her tears a- way, and as she did so Boris, Haddis's big mastiff, bounded up and put his paws on her shoulder from behind. A more timid woman would pro- bably have screamed, but Cecily was not given to nerves, and she instant- 'ly knew what it was. She was not afraid of Boris. "Oh, Boris! Who let you out?" she said as she fearlessly caressed him. The dog. as if he understood the question, bounded back towards his master, and Cecily recognized her brother. A gleam of pleasure came into her face. She ran back to meet him and exclaimed, as every one else at home had done, at his unex- pected appearance, He explained as he kissed her, and they walked on together. But, glancing at her face, he saw the signs of recent tears. They gave him the opening he desir- ed, while at the same time they made him 'very angry. He was very fond of hes sister, and felt furious with the man who had come to disturb her peace. "Why, Cecily," Ire said gently, "you have been crying?" ;Cecily blushed hotly. "Oh, it's nothing!" she answered quickly. "It must be something that makes you cry!" he insisted. "You are not given to idle tears." "Well, never mind what it 1s1" said Cecily. Then a thought struck hes. "You have seen father?" she asked. (Continued Next Week) W. D. S. JAMIESON, MD; CM; LM -CC; Physician and Surgeon Office McKelvey Block, Brussels Successor to Dr. White Phone 45. T T. M' RAE M. B., M. C. P., rat S: 0. 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RAMAGE, D.D.S., L.D.S, BRUSSELS, ONT. Graduate Royal College of Dental Surgeons and Honor Graduate Uni- versity of Toronto. Dentistry in all its branches. Office Over Standard Bank, Phones—Office 200. Residence 65-14 WM. SPENCE Ethel, Ont. Conveyance, Commissioner and C. i, Agent for The Imperial Life Assurance Co. of Canada and Ocean Accident Guarantee Corpora. tion, Limited Accident Insurance, Automobile In- surance, Plate Glass Insurance, etc, Phone 2225 Ethel, Out; JAM'S M'FADZEAN Agent Howick Mutual Fire Insurance Company Also Hartford Windstorm and Tornado Insurance Phone 42 Box 1 Turnberry Streak, Brussel MO. SUTHERLAND & SON la, O- Fr., Village of Brusaela. EW/4PS91C an4rWVVe Are never hear of her marrying a man with five hundred a year, and, Office at resideneo, opposite Melville Cho,•oh, COMPIV altStereliilel • though she would certainly have vele Win street. LIMITED Yhystoinn. Surgeon, Aeconobaur tared on the experiment herself, site an. WAIODL..eW BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, did not blame Lord Lochfinnan for Honor Iv:mootP et the Ontario V'eterinnr) CONVEYANCER, NOTARY PUBLIC refusal. She hoped that Jacx velour Mn1 atla ld night calls. Oalce opncslta LECKIE BLOCK - =BRUSSELS f ala c z','4'o, aaugr i rl What i? t, s , kes a Town ? A prosperous rueal population which demands a couuatueity centre whore may b,: (tabli:lt<d bu lungs, educational, relig- ious <Uid cutertailiment lacilfties. Where these flourish .ltd ;ire lurtiv" tt ie eefe to surini.se that the people of that ecctim realise and appreciate the value to then of such a centre. What Main tans TIll towns are largely maintained by the surrounding distr,ets. But the orgcuu. attiun, the direction, and to a great measure ure ttte ep-keep. of the in ti1ntien, in such towns are iu the mends of the. businves interests together with those directly and in- directly connected ther,with. Without the aetive business and professional men to supervise and govern these public institu- tion., and undertakings no town could thrive. ho is day Affected'? Every citizen either is of about a town should be concerned in sorting to it that they do thein part in carrying on any good cause which may be promoted, tither by financial or active eup;.lort. Only in this way will any town prosper and develop as it shu•ald. Publicity is Required le promotion work your local paper takes tete leading part. It is ever ;the champion of worthy causes and p'iilalttlu'aric and patriotic n'ndertakirgs. Ilut to function properly, and fully carry out its oaten al prerogatives, it nmst in turn have the financial support of the community it serves, When needing advelti"10g or printed matter always first think of The Post Publishing . House