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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1924-12-31, Page 6CHAPTER VI.--,•(Cont'd.) ;half-crowns and same coppers in han The tramp Bodo still ills his wool()- cThee?" tramp stood up hi his Corner, ha entertainer was within a and of thrusting back 00,33 lie did so the small him. Iris head was more deeply sunk round table on which' he had bean than over on his breast, and his oyes leaning. further retired under the abode of "The riots in question was mine," ha'brown hand. the said quietly Walter Mac Walter sat his palm "It is stolen --seize him instantly," with rough freedom upon the man 's,eomnrand'ed Mies Barbara, while bee sboltlders, the whsle company looping sister caught her arm and besought on silently to see what would happen. her to come in and shut the door, lest Suddenly the tramp lifted itis head the thief should murder them a 1. And a hi ea al and lacked straight into Mac Walter's indeed fora moment or two it looked eyes, For a•moment the two men kept likoit. For the tramp swept the high - their d taking backed wooden bench on which he had FROM THE DESERT TO THE MILL Great Eng neerixig Feats to Help Trade; In matt;'' parte of Lhe world there 10 miles of smaller waterways, all et a boom in eueineoring, pertteulerly in wliieh. will comehte to distribute water the eonetruotion of great dams,' One . and tender fertile h vast tract of conn, 10 beteg greeted on the Nile, whlelz try, will' be the !argot in the eerie when At the present thne there is n small eomplotedee-larger even thao the fa• army of British werkPQQPle—ittoehare mows 'Assuan Dam in Egypt --others Ica wed eo en—in tate Soudan .cutting are being conatructed In India, while up the desert to rnalte :it blossn, And acether wonderful Memel' engineering even: after the work 1a eempleted i3r1- will be the mighty works 1n course ok twin will continue to benefit, for A is erection en the Colorado River, the estimated that 100,000 acres. Of' the object of which is to baraeea that desert will, as a result of tbe work, be mighty Perm hearing a wonderful crop of Cotton, much of which will, it is . hoped, lied Its way to the mills of Lancashire. Even more costly will be the irriga- tion project watch has been begun la India, also by Britieh engineers. Thee which is being erected on the Blue 'le the construotlon of a dam ma the Nile, was commenced some years ago, Indus River, the cost of which will be but thek d d, Th ten million pounds. There will be r Pear - eon and Company, were awarded • the er a "tar es' contract, the sum involved being four The dam across the Colorado River million pounds, The dant is being COO' will be twice the height of St. Paul's etructed for b'rigation purposes, and u Cathedral, and.will entail the expendi• the company's engineers fall to have ture of nearly fifty-five million dollars. water upon the land by July, 1926, they will have to pay a penalty of $600,000. rnere era already, on the Nilo, nun °roue lasting monnmsnts .to the gala and enterprise of British engineers, but this latest undertaking easily eelipsds all previous works. The dam, A• WI 73 Id662 is most appreciated in the ri:ch, deli io s flavor. Try it today.? , - The Lord of the Little People C l><4 Wistfully soca His Way, Peeking in vain His children; Fow and afraid are they Of the ntiglity boaet who has ravished 'the world With hie hunger to slay, slay, slay. DPie.. 'file Iced of Uie je'll's l?eoplQ,. Gentle and very wise, Ql'alking Ills woods In the t�villgilt,• Burks to His chilli en's Cries; Anil.Ille tender mouth 10 wry witj0 Pain, • And terrible ere Iiia ogee: The snare that himtltrottled the rabbit Jerks to ale dyleg strain; Trapped by his ruck hatebea dwellings. The niuearat-whimpers hie pale; And here the bird with the shot•emesh- ed wing Iiiddeu three (lays has lain. the 'fields at twilight; Empty the darkling wood. ere, in the woodchuck's burrow; Dead Iles an orphaned brood. Here, where the bobwhites cowered, And feathers and gouts of blood. The Lord of the Little Pointe, Who may divine what stirs Ills heart, as He seeks In the twilight The songs of Flia worshippers, And hears but whimpers and squeals of pain From creatures in plumes and furs? The partridge rots' in the woodland; The wild duck drowns In the sea; Beate on the wide,flung trap linea Perish In agony, • That the monkey -thing with the wea- sel's lust May wallow in mastery. The Lord of the Little People, Who can his thseughts surmise? Cattle and small, gray monkeys Beard His first baby cries. He knows, He knows when a sparrow falls And terrible are His eyes. r —F. Van de Water. Lonely u weak wee qOn emn0 a i✓i+„� t heir posaitiaris, giving an a ng sixty-six sluice galea i3.,0 tulles of ' once for glance, Then Walter Mac been sitting round in front of him, Soudan Government then invited tend• ma, canals, nd 12 miles q Th � a er lifted his palm from ,: the and drawing a long sheath knife out and a l3rltlah firm Messrs S Pear n a 00 f smatt- ers tramp's shoulder and stood Tight, of his pocket, lie opened it with a with his hand still u x pl'fted in the air. vicious click, i The tramp sat motionless, but did not : "The note was mine,” he said, "hon - remove the fixed intensity of his gaze estly obtained from a friend. I ani from the other's face, innocent, and will not be taken, Let "Do you still wieh me to drink with the first man approach at his peril," you?" he said, in a low, restrained Walter Mae Walter stepped in front of -Miss Barbara Heartshhrn. t voice, "Gentlemen," he said, "the pound Astonished and unsettled, Mae Wal note which I see in Miss Barbara's ter stammered d some inarticulate ex- hand is mine. I had it in my pocket planationion to theco :then it from me as s o apes ng mpany, and then when I came in. The man must have turning again to Chrietophex Kennedys I to d kl he hissed out, "What >n the fiend's to him asking him to drink the toast name are you doing here?" which 'I had the honor to propose to "I am drinking what I am able to you. I remember now that I felt a pay for!" returned the tramp, without twitch at my pocket, and looked down, moving from his seat. but could see nothing. If, as he says, "Drunken dog!" cried Mae Walter, the not came honestly into his posses - "for a quart of ale I would strike you sion, let him give us the name of the as dead as—" kind friend who supplied a ragged "As Mary Bisset!" put in the sit- tramp with so much money." ting man, very clearly and distinctly. "Aye, let him tell us," cried many There ensued a stir among the com- hangers-on about the room. pany. "That I can easily do,if you de - What did he say? What name did sue it," said the tramp, standing up e d h with a. certain dig ity behind his de - Walter Mac Walter turned white fences. "It was given me by—" ! The River That Brings Ruin. If the Colorado is not tamed there Cutting Up a Country. is no hope of marine from inundation the prosperous Imperial Valley with Twenty thousand men are being em- its 100.000 settlers and yearly Drops ployed In the construction of this, the representing a value of $100,000,000, Makwar Dam, but they can work re- The river flows at the phenomenal gularly for only eight Menthe in the speed of thirty miles an hour, aa fast year, the Nile being in flood during as many trains! In 1908 it overflowed the other four month's. Work during its banks, cut a deep channel thirty - summer is else difficult owing to the aye miles long through the desert, and extreme heat. formed what' Is hnown as the Salton The top of the dam will act as a Sea, a huge lake 50,000 acres in area. , bridge for the Soudan Railway. The Early in June, 1922, it wiped out al - dam itself will be two miles long and most half the Palo Verde Valley, hope. will creat a lake fifty miles long and lessly submerging two towns, ruining two miles wide. From this lake will thousands of dollars worth of standing run a canal seventy miles longi from crops and rendering thousands of pee which; in turn, there will be 10,000 pie homeless. The match-makingmother is one of; those people whom we often meet in novels and at the cinema. We seldom see her in real life, because such OAlnm r0, attacnetl. t0 the maten- making mother that most women steer clear of the role, They wash their hands of all 'respensibility and leave; their daughters to shift for them- selves about getting htisbands. This is wrong, Between the aehem ing mother who disposes of herJ daughter in marriage as if she were a slave on the auction block, and the. mother who leaves her daughter's ma- trimonial fate entirely to chance, there is a wide field in which it is not only the province but the duty of a good mother to forward her child's happiness and well-being. It is strange that so many mothers do not realize this, for nearly all `wo- men, even when they have not been happily married themselves, believe in marriage. They recognize it as we - under his tar., and the purple bloom He hesitated before giving the A SIMPLE APRON STYLE, produced by good marketing cheer name. .A vision of the piteous face of died out of his cheek Re 'did not ens- Lilian Armour when she had spoken wer, but went back to the bar and of her husband came upon him. faced the company. "I will not tell the name of the "Gentlemen," he said, as if desirous friend from whom I got the money, of ignoring what had gone before, "1 he said; "that concerns no one here give you my toast again, and every except myself alone!" - well-wisher of the house will drink A great shout of ridicule swept up it—'the health and prosperity of the from the inner to the outer parlor of Misses'Heartshorn!"' the Red Lion as the men heard his The company stood up with an ir- answer. regular cheer, to which followed con- "A likely story, friend," sneered tending shouts of "Miss Barbara" and Walter Mac Walter, he will not tell. "Miss Keturah," according to whether He stands upon his honest character. love of beauty or self-interest ruled Well, listen, I can prove this note to their hearts. be mane. Miss Barbara, will you tell Then everyone sat down amid the the company what is marked with a awkward pause which always comes printed date -stamp in the left-hand after social ebullition. corner of the back?" Then Mr. Mac Walter of Kirkos- Miss Barbara deliberately took her wald rapped on the door which led spectacles out of their worn shagreen - from the outer to the inner parlor case, and mounted them with circum - through the bar which separated tbe spection upon her nose. two. Miss Barbara opened it for him "There is printed upon the note the He passed within and the company letters W. Mac W. 1 VII. 18—," she were left to themselves. They whis- said. pered low one to the other, and many; Walter Mac Walter nod'ded with a were the glances directed to the cor- satisfied expression. ner where the tramp at. Presently 1 can prove that that is my ordi- be went to refill his glass, and being nary way of marking with my initials asked to settle his score he tendered and a date every note that comes into one of the pound notes in payment. tiny possession. I have a sheaf of notes Through the little wicket every eyesimilarly stamped in my pocket. I followed the crackling paper to its cannot have stamped them since I destination in the till, and took in the came herr. for my die is on my study jingle of the change as It dropped non -,table at Kirkoswald. Amain I demand ehalantly into the tramp's pocket. this thief shall tell us from whom he Suspicion sat lowering on every brow,obtained this note marked with my and a cabal was instantly formed at name and style—that is, if he can the centre table to find out where clear himself of this charge." this very doubtful character camel (To be continued.) from, and how he happened to be in, possession of so much money as a i A Poem You Ought to Know. whale undivided pound note. "Mair than a well-to-do man can In a Drear-Nighted December, make in a week about fairtime," said The following lyric is by John Keats, Geordie Breerie; "it's clean impossible he can hae come by it honestly!' We'll hae news 0' this yet!" said Rab Irvine, nodding his head sagely, "I wadna wonder gin he will hae and the concluding lines are among the most poignant 1n our literature.; In a drearni kited December , murdered somebody and sunk their Too happy, happy tree, body in a moss hole. He's a' ower Thy branches ne'er remember Their green felicity; The north cannot undo them, With a sleety whistle through them; Nor frozen thawings glue them From budding at the prime. glaar!" whispered the road -man, by name "Gleyed" Charlie, who bad im- agination. "Steeled it oat o' some decent man's pooch, mair like. A craitur like yon wadna Lae the pluck to murder ony- bodyl" retorted Geordie Breerie, who liked to have the monopoly of wisdom in any company. But they were soon to hear nems of the pound note as Rab Irvine had predicted. Even as they were speaking the in- ner door opened, and Miss Barbara stood. in it, tall and imposing. She held a pound note in her hand. Be- hind her could be seen the sturdy, prosperous figure of Mac Walter, with several other statutory occupants of the bar -parlor. Every eye except those of the tramp was fixed upon her. Not a jaw but dropped in expectation, nor a rustic mouth which was not opened in a universal gape. But the tramp alone sat in his corner with his hand again above his brow. He fingered his glass with the air of a man who has been accustomed to wear dress clothes and toy with a glass of port after dinner. "Let the doors be closed," cried the hostess. "Davit Dick, are ye there?'; "Aye, Miss Barbara," carne from the other side of the entrance which communicated with the stable yard, and the shoulder of the ostler was heard rubbing against the panels without. "Are ye armed, Davit?" "I Lae the hay fork!" came the ans- wer. "1'11 110 let a Morin' cowl gang by' It is weal," said Miss Barbara, solemnly, with the air of a judge pro- nouncing sentence. "I have here a pound note which has been handed over the bar by:some one of this no ny. Bell Kirkpatrick, my servant, it, and I changed. it. But the careless limner says that she cannot identify the man that gave it. into her hand at the bar. No one has left the room since this took place. I demand to know whe tendered this pound note, and who received seven ISSUE No, 50••-'24 In a drear-nighted December, Too happy, happy brook, Thy hubblings ne'er remember Apollo's• summer look; But with a sweet forgetting, They stay their crystal fretting, ' Never, never petting About the frozen time. Ah! would 'twere so with many A. gentle girl and boy! But were there ever any Writhed not at passed toy? To know tbe change and feel It, When there Is none to heal it, Nor numbed Sense to steal it, Was never said in rhyme. What One Remembers. • She (under the spell of nature)— "Sad and sweet November! Makes one remember—" He (rather more practical) -"That tett /teethe December—and bank ac- counts vaeisli with the old year." i' Mlnard's Liniment' Haan, Cuts. The dictionary, in defining a hypo- crite, doesn't say he must belong to some church. 4960. Figured percale with binding of bias tape was used for this design. One could have unbleached muslin, gingham or sateen. The Pattern is cut in 4 Sizes: S 1, Medium, Large and Extra Large. A Medium size requires 2% yards of 27 -inch material. Pattern mailed to any address on receipt of 15c in silver, by the Wilson Publishing Co., '73 West Adelaide St., Toronto. Send 15e in silver for our up-to- date� Fall :and Winter 1924-1925 Book of Fashions. TOABABY, Little rosy babykin with little rosy hands Petal -Like — yet metal-like with strength of iron oandsl Holding me and folding me in love's ecstatic mesh— Love'e ethereal spirit has been al- chemized to flesh! Dimpled little baby with a smile like honey -dew, What has any human done to earn such wage as you? Search my life of sin and strife how- ever much I may, Nothing half deserving you is found along the way. Still we hold each other with a glad- ness all complete Gladness that is heavenly and wonder- fully sweet. 1 can only thank my stars for such a lovely 0ate— Gosh! This makes a dozen lines; the editor told me eight! —Strickland Gilligan. Power of the Will. "'Tis in ourselves we are thus or thus, Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners; so that if we will plant nettles or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up thyme, supply it, with one gender of herbs or distract it with many, either to bave.it sterile with idleness or man- ured with industry, why, the power and corrigible authority of this ties in. our wills.—Shakespeare's "Othello." daughter announces her .intention of marrying bion desp to all the warn- ings that are held up before her as to bow such a Marriage is sure to turn out b The mane ing mother prevents these catastro hes, Not believing in marriage o cousins,h of the artshe does n em. g invite good-looking young kinsmen to make tbeir hose with ,her. She freezes put the undesirables. The wise mother teaches her daughter that while love is the great thing in matrimony, it is not every- thing, and that a woman does not long love a husband who has not the. solid qualities that command her re- spect. She teaches her that a man who can make his wife a comfortable living will hold her affectionslonger than one who starves her and repeats poetry to her. So, when the girl se- lects her life partner she does It in- telligently, instead of marrying the fist attractive man who strikes her man's predestined place in Life, the fancy• career in which she is most likely to Men help their sons to start in find peace and contentment. Every business. Why should not mothers woman wants her daughters to marry. help their daughters to marry? That's She never feels safe about them until they are married, and the first breath of relief that a mother draws from the time her baby girl is born is when she sees her walking out of the church.A. few well -grown plants aro more door on the arm of her husband. eautiful in the window garden than This being the case, why is getting a compact mass can possibly be. I her daughter married not a legitimate like to have every plant I'grow show occupation for the mother? Why its individual beauty, which it cannot should not a mother use her wisdomdo when crowded by others: Then, if we have to divide our attention too much no plant will get the personal care that is so necessary to success. If. you want to feel the greatest is a "good catch." But she should use pride in your flowers aim to grow her own matrimonial experience and splendid. specimens ratherwould ratherthhe a row her own knowledge of men to guide ableefine T ut 1 o begonia grow her girl in makingthe right choice of one ect that woulda and have g it so perfect that it compel Lid- a husband. miration than grow a couple of dozen Every woman knows that in affairs begonias, all commonplace except the of the heart an ounce of prevention is variety. worth a pound of cure. There is no I would rather grow one fern that use in arguing with a girlein love.would' fill ra window with its filmy She is temporarily incapable of seeing fronds than a half dozen smaller ferns i anything in its true light. She s of different kinds. My friends would deaf to all reason. Girls marry the thrill with me over the one while they` men with whom they are thrown in would give the collection but a pass contact. . Hence it is the mothersiing glance.—A. H. duty to see that the men with whom 1 her daughters associate are the kind AFTER THE LAST BLOW-OUT,, she would welcome ae her sons-in-law. OLD INNER TUBES HAVE i The sensible mother does not take a MANY USES. into her family a handsome young ' relative and throw bine into daily as- An old inner tube has many uses sociation with het daughter, and then in the household after it has seen its howl with Horror when she finds that last days on the automobile. If ' rub - they have fallen in love with each bei bands of various widths are cut other and want to get married. Nor from it, they will find ninny uses does she give the run of her house to around the .household. A paper - ,fastened some fascinating neer-do-well and w i speed package is quickly fast. then weep with despair when . her with one or two of them, The parcel -1 post package secured by these rubber bands arrive in good condition. Par- affined 'jelly glasses, if they have no tin Covers, can be covered with circles of paper held in Riede by these rubber, bands. Little daughter pray use thein as garters to hold bands in her bloom - the average girl's business in life. AVOID CROWDING THE WIN- DOWS.. and experience in trying to'secure a good husband for her child? No mother as a• right to use her influence to make her daughter marry any particular man just because he Birds in Winter. It is hard for,people to realize that birds bate dlmculty in finding fotd during the winter months wjten the snow is heavy. It Weald thele many. perished In the late heavy storm of last year. A bird table or tree is us- ually well patronized, and should be maintained whenever possible. They never forget the people who feed them and their cheerful chatter in the. midst of snow and ice -is one of the most optimistic things in the world. Birds are badly needed, and there le much to be gained by encouraging them, either in summer or winter, but the winter -feeding is needed most, To awake -in the morning and find your breakfast, also your luncheon and din- ner. covered by a blanket of snow, is a discouraging prospect. No wonder they are so overjoyed when they find a table set for them somewhere. A good idea Is an upright post with a flat platform on top of it. This should be kept clear of snow, and crumbs and table scraps of all sorts placed on it. It should be high enough to prevent cats from leaping upon It; they cannot climb over the edge, and the birds are safe at their meals. There are many cold and hungry lit- tle ittle things in winter, and when we feed and care for them we are simply exe- cuting the will and expressing the love of the Power thatsupplies all good. Moreover, it is not all pure generosity. A bird table near a window 1s a real soufce of amusement and enjoyment. There is a story told of a woman who had a t 'lon tedious illness. Active g usually, in mind and body, she became almost maddened bythe inaction and imprisonment. One day she watched two birds scrapping in the snow over a crust, with such an air of enjoyment that her brother next day built a plat- form outside her window' and scatter- ed some food on it. From that on .. ers. watched the table in the wildfernoss If whole sections are cut, fringed each day, and extracted the greatest and laced together, they make 'windy, amusement from the featherd diners. begs. The large size can bs stretched "They are almost human," she an - down over the broom and saves much nounced one day after a meal, "Their' wear on the edges. Baby will have no table manners vary so. Sonne behave grid of fun rolling a ball through a piece of inner tube a foot long. BAKED RICE -MEXICAN STYLE FAMOUS U.S. BASEBALL MEN HUNT IN CANAtil, Star players from Yankee baseball team join captain of Chicago White Sox In hunting trip to NOW ir•r.i.. t. c.. weeds, Top left—Eddie Collins, Fred Hoffman, Bath Shawkey, Joe Bush. Right—Bob Shdwkey With one of his troph;es. Be- low—Eddie Collins prepares a steak, Eddie Collins, captain of the Chicago White Sax, with Bob Shawkey, Fired Hoffman and Joe Bush, leading right hand pitchers of the 'Yankees, and Dr. Watford, of Pliitadelphia, have just reeirned to civilization utter i,. success- ful sojourn in the Tebfque game district of New Brunewiclt, about which they are mast enthusiastic, Charlie Cretin, the noted guide of the Tobique, had them in tow. C'harlle flet the reel. of the party at Plaster Reek, the ae Jumping off place on the Caeadlan tamale Railway,, Joe Bush landed first blood, killing a Inoue with a lifty•inelt spread r.f mitten. Shawkey killed one later with a spread of flftytlxree' inches, Immediately following up by tolling a buck with antlers carrying twentytliree points, whiio Dr. Watford arra Fred Hemet' were killing n mooed and a deer. each. An Albino fell to See liueh en , the last day, B • which rad In utas and peed at any time thereafter Prize of $20,000 for the discovery of for several days. The following recipe the antidlplttherla serum, gave back for Meetean baked rice makes a very the entire amount to the inatitute, al. substantial. "one -dish dinner" which is though he is relatively a poor man. suitable for busy days, The founder of the prize, M. Osiris, • Gook one end one•(ivarter cupfuls et asked Dr. Roux why he had given the rice In boiling salted water for thirty money to the institute. Dr. Roux re - minutes.' Add one and one-half cup- plied that ail he is he awes to the Pes- tles tomato juice, one large green pep- tette Institute, for all his experiments tier cut up find, one -halt cupful chopped and discoveries have been made there. lrinsento and a dash 01 pepper. Mix And besides, the Institute was very toget er thoroughly and pour into a. poor, he said, and he feared that In the well•buttered enameled ware baking Case of some new and notable remedy dish,, the porcelain -like surface of being discovered, it would have to which will not affect or be affected by close its doors tor want of finds. the acid in the tomatoes. On top 1,1. Osiris said nothing, but at hie Besides being easily prepared, rice dishes are especially nourishfng and a good substitute for'potatoes , unless baked, cannot be preps a short time. Ries can be cooked In twenty ruin so nicely, evidently well -brought up, and others act like street gamins. But • they are darlings. Hove them Pasteur Director Gave Back Prize Money. There is a story that Dr. Roux, director of the Pasteur Institute in Paris, when he was awarded the Osiris Plate thee tomato pulp, left atter death he left the bulk of hie wealth, straining the juice. Bake thirty min- amounting to nearly $7,260,000, to the Pasteur Institute 0,S a token of ad- miration for the scientific attainments and self-abnegation of its director. A real man said recently that he WAS going rabbit hunting with hie boy and they were going to talk over a lot Of things about trees 'and birds and wild things of the country. That is the hind of father that every boy should have, Utes in a hot oven. Serve while hot, If you have baking or cooking to do after you are dressed up for the afteiaioon,` protect the sleeves of your gown with the tops of a pair of:dis- carded white stockings. A rubber band et the top will keep there in pines. For Sere Feet—Mute's Liniment.