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The Brussels Post, 1912-5-9, Page 2ON V" A BVI I NTH OR, A CURIOUS MYSTERY EXPLAINED. CHAPTER II.—(Continue(1). "1 would run over fur the Sun- day, perhaps, that wonld be as motif as 1 could manage, but F rithi. -off will be there to take care of you, What should you want with a care- worn old roan like me, now that he is at home again'?" "You fish fur compliments, lit- tle father," said Sigrid,. slipping her arm within his and giving him one of those mute caresses which are so much more eloquent than words. "But, quite between our- selves, though Frithjof is all very well, 1 sha'n't enjoy it a bit without you," "Yes, yes. father, dear," said Swanhild, "indeed you must come, for Frithjof he will be just no .good at all, he will be sure to dance al- ways with the pretty Miss Morgan, and to row her about on the fjord -all day,. just as be did those pretty girls at Norheinisluld and Faleide." The innocent earnestness of the child's tone made them all laugh, and Frithiof vowing vengeance on her fur her speech, chased her round and round the garden, their laughter floating back to Herr Feick and Sigrid as they entered the house, "The little minx!" said Herr Falck, "how innocently she said it too. I don't think our buy is such a desperate flirt, though. And as far as I remember there was noth- ing more than a sort of boy and girl friendship at either place,." "Oh, - no," said Sigrid, smiling. "Frithjof was too much of a. school- boy, every one liked him and he liked every one. I don't think he is the sort of man to fall in love easily." "No; but when it does come it will be a serious affair. I very much wish to see hien happily mar- ried," - "Oh, father! surely not yet. He is so young. we can't spare him yet." Herr Falek threw himself back in his arm -chair, and mused for a few minutes, "One need not necessarily lose' hien," he replied, "and you know, Sigrid. I am a believer in early-, cloud -land for Frithjof would pre- I would like to see over the house, marriage.—at, least fur my son; I ; vent. Mr. Morgan from breaking, she said, by way of making a di- wil.l not eay too much about ;sou, ithe connection 1" version. "Though I must tell you little woman, for, as a matter of "Les; a marriage between the c that we are considered here. in Ber- fact, I don't know how I should i two houses would he a great thing;! gen to be rather English in some ever spare you." it would make this new idea unlike. , points. That is because of my fath- "Don't be afraid, little father: ly if not altogether impossible. I er's business connection with Eng - you may be vert sure I sha'n'v ani thankfi=l that there seams nowland. I suppese. Here you see, is marry till I see a reasonable chance some c h tnec• of it. Let the two meet' his study, he has a real English fires of being happier than I am at. Iv,me you. 1• with t 1. And when will . that be, do you think 1" He stroked her gulden hair ten- derly, "Not just yet, Sigrid, let itis hope. Not just yet. As to our Frithjof, shall I tell you of the palace iu cloud -land I am bniltling fur him 1" "Not that he should marry the pretty Miss Morgan, as Swanhild calls her'" said Sigrid. with a strange sinking at the: heart. "Why not? I hear that she is a charming girl, both clever and beautiful, and indeed it seems to me that he is quite disposed t•3 talc about that. Oh, 1 know what its hold newspapers. in love with her at first sight. Of was. then, Sigrid was deep in the 1 She was toe polite of course to 1 same of red top and six quarts of course, Were he not properly in discussion of to -morrow's dinner, say what really struck her ; that the' clover. leve I should never wish him to I will tell you what to du, abolish , whole house seemed curiously sig' - I'].he reason for so doing is- that marry, but I own that a union be- i the rontekolle, end let us he Eng- • plc and bare, and that she had ima- often this intensive soil culture is twcen the two houses would be a' lish to the backbone, New I think . gine, that one of the leading mer- so fine in result that everywhere s ,f Bergen would live in 1'• ofMorgantchant. r res 1• it.is n unlike t pleasure to t�—.Mr. �t a n c i neat r: b c p b hof." walking sirloin with a plum -pod I greater style As a matter of fact, Ile sighed. and for the first time ding ]lead, There is your bill of you Might, as Cyril expressed it, the anxious look in his oyes attract .fare, so waste no more lire," I have bought the whole place for an ed Signets. notice. "Father, dear," she exclaimed, "won't you tell Hie what is trouts- - ling yon d There is something, I think. Tell inc. little father." - He looked startled and a slight the room; it seemed to Sigrid that a nameless shadow had fallen on their sunny home. She was for the first time in her life afraid, though the fear was vague and undefined, "But there, little one," said her father, turning toward her again. "You must not he worried. 1 get nervous and depressed, that is all. As I told you, I am growing old." "Frithjof 'would like to help you more if you would let bine," said Sigrid. rather wistfully. "Ile was saying 3C just 110W." "And so he shall in the: autumn. He is a geed lad, and if all goes well, I elope. he will some day be my right hand in the business, but I wish him to have a few months' holiday firstr And there is this one thing, Sigrid, which I tan tell you, if you really- want to know about my anxieties." - "Indeed I do, little father," she said. eagerly. "There arc many matters which you would not understand even eoukl I speak of thein ; but you know, of course, that I am agent in Norway for the firm of Morgan Brothers. Well, a rumor has reached me that they intend to break off the connection and to send out the eldest sun to set up a. branch at Stavanger. It is a mere rumor and reached me quite accidentally. I very mucic hope it may nut be true, but there is no denying that Stavanger woelcl be in most ways better suited for their purpose; in feet, the friend who told me of the rumor said that they felt now that it had been a mistake, all along to renews the blood, creates nervous energy, builds up healthy muscle. carerully-devised a thoroughly Nor- wegian repast. "Fur I thought," she explained afterwards to Blanche, when the two girls had ]rade friends, "that if I went to England I should wish to see your honor -life just c,xactly as it really is, and so I have ordered the sort of dinner we should naturally have, and did not, as Frithjof ad- vised, leave out the ronickolle." "Was that the stuff like curds and whey 1" asked Blanche, who was full of cages' interest in every- thing. "Yes; it is sour cream with bread - crumbs grated over it. We. always have a plateful each at dinner; it is quite one of our customs. But everything here is very simple, of course, not grand as with you; we do not keep a great number of ser- vants, or cline late, ur dress for the evening; here there is nothing"— she hesitated fur a word, then in her pretty foreign English, added, "nothing ceremonious." • "That is just the ,charm of it all," said Blanche, in her sweet, gracious way. "It is' all so real and simple and fresh, and I think it was de- lightful of you to know how much have the agency here. and they had best we should like to have a only done it because they knew Ber- glimpse of your real home -life in - gen and knew me." stead of a stupid party. Now nram- " Whv is Stavanger a better place for it ;" "It is better because most of the salmon and lubsters are caught in the neighborhood of Stavanger, and all the mackerel, too, to the south ma cares fur nothing but just to make a great show, it doesn't mat- ter whether the visitors really like it or nut." Sigrid felt a momentary pang of doubt ; she had fallen in love with of Bergen. I very Hutch hope the Blanche Morgan the moment she rumor is not true. for it would besaw her, but it somehow hart her to a great ]Slow to me to lose the Eng- I hear the English girl criticize her lish connection. Still, it is not un- own mother, To Sigrid's loyal na- likely, and the times are hard now ture there was something out of --very hard." tune in that last remark. "Anel you think your palace in "Perhaps you and your cousin 51 Yb'®'b� d93•®v'S. Ile,Ci'01A414.11eb'1? ttl On the Farm tD b'O.6^�.'D�ib•'t9 @�'Us'O11 d'0R914i1 THE GRASS YIELD, Farmer's who content themselves with two tons or less cannot under- stand how yields of three ur four tons, or oven more, are obtained, There are, however, four chief es- sentials, a smooth surface, with even,• steady grade, thorough pre- paration of the soil, an abundance of good, healthy seed and plenty of fertility and to which might be ad- ded the proper amount of moisture, writes Mr. R. B. Rushing. Where land is stumpy or rocky, it may be considerable expense to remove them, but to obtain the greatest amount of grass it must be clone. The rocks must either be sunk or hauled away and the sur- face smoothed so as to give a gentle grade. A little depression where the water can stand may cause a patch of grass to die out and a few patches will kill a hundred pounds of hay. The sante with stumps or bush thickets her and there and they soon cut down the yield. After this thorough grading the land- is thoroughly fitted. .This does not mean just plowed and ,llar- rowed in the ordinary way. I pre- fer the use of a, cut -away disc, which does the work just the op- posite to the turning plow. The turning plow turns the fur- row slice over, leaving the hard up- per soil at the bottom, The har- rowing which follows simply works over the soil which has been turned to the top, while the surface soil remains untouched. The cut -away, on the other hand, tosses or throws the soil up instead of turning it over. At the first sight it means to. leave the ground rough and in poor condition, but a of littlit,e thought will show the object We do not want to turn the fur- row aver, for this leaves practi- cally half the soil undisturbed by the harrow and most of the weed seeds and grass roots are at the bottom, where they will not bo de- stroyed by ordinary tillage, They are, of course, hidden from view, but later will be sure to grow and injure the new seeding of grass. With the cut -away, the soil is tossed up again and again, thus letting the air and the sun into ib while 1 many grass and weed roots will bo thrown up where the sun will de- stroy them. ' This continued working of the soil with the cut -away clears the soil of foul stuff and gives the new seeding a chance. The soil should be worked over with 'the cut -away naturally and learn to know each place; we all like it much better and the smoothing harrow many fit. some. dayI he .ores and n e other. T will not sa •word than t stoves, tithes, . not all atonce but y a o f to t i es continued I , •' ,'• ,- i +ethem in the Fittl put, it would only do halm sl ,nicl like to have through July and August. In this way, when ready to seed the soil is certainly as fine as an ash heap. lint to you, Sigrid, I confess that other rooms as well." my heart is set on this plan. If II "But there is one thing very un - et -mid for one moment make. ye.n see, English," said Blanche. "There The seed then should be put on the future as I see it. you would; are no passages; instead, I see, all'carefully and accurately, so as to foci with me how important the your ]'Dams open out of each other, have every square inch of surface matter is," - f Such numbers of lovely plants, covered, thus having two blades of At this moment rrithiuf himself too, in every direction; we are nin 1 grass where Dna formerly was, entered, and the conversation was; so artistic, we stand them all in I see many farmers seem to be abruptly- ended. j prim rows in a eenservatery, This, content with six quarts of timothy "Well, have you decided 1" he ; too. is ,quite new to rue, What a and four quarts of red clover to the acre, but 1 havo found it most pro- fitable to use from ten to twelve quarts of timothy and about the asked. in his eager, boyish way., good idea. And she went up to "Is it to be 17lvik or Balholm'l, examine a prettily worked sling What! You were not even talking' fastened to the wall, and made to 'The brother and sister went eff.old song. and though there, was 1111 together, laughing and talking; but i ail' of eel dust and good taste nbont when the door closed behind them the rooms and a certain indiseriba- the coaster of the, house buried his bre. charm, they were evidently des - fare in his heeds, and for nappy , tined for use told net fur show, and minutes sat motionless. What trio-. with the l'xceptiocl of some fine old flush spread over hie ftacc, hast when bled thoughts, what wearing anxie. Norwegian silver, and a few good he spoke his voice ryas reassuring, tics filled iris mind, Sigrid little pielures herr Feick did not.pes- i,uieness inan often has anx- guessed, It was• after all a flute sess a single thing of value. *ties which can not be spoken of, surface difficulty of. which he lord ('c,ntrasted with the huge and cla- dear child. God knows they weigh spoken ; of the real strain which hrn•ate'y furnished house i'i Lair lightly enough on some nten; I was killing flint by inches, he could ' caster Crate with its lavishly strewn think I am growing old, Sigrid, and nut say a word k; any mortal being, knickknacks, itf+ pr ,fusion of all perhaps I hats never learned to though now in his great misery he the beautiful things that stoney take things so easily as most mer- chants do." Why, father, you were only fif- ty last birthday, you most net talk shame and rain Which haunts me ; Iilsnche's fancy. yet of growing old. Hoot du (Al—nisi 1 have tried to be upright and tire- (To br, teenintic ]l, dent; it was only this once that I • —. instinctively prayed. could tiny, the Norwegian villa "M poor children!" lie groaned, seemed poor indeed, yet there was „Olt, God, spare them frurn this smoothing about it which took men learn, clo you think, to take things lightly?' "By refusing to listen to tl'eir own conscience.," said Herr Falelc, with sodden vehemence. "By al- lowing themselves to hold one stan- dard of honor in private life and a very different standard in business transactions. Oh, Sigrid! I would deal find 1 was rash.. Give me success for their sakes, oh, God! Tice selfish and un' Perp,'Lual motion is easy enough scrupulous flourish un all hides. with a scandal that once stertl+. Give me this one success, ilei roe, not blight their whole irvrs," Bu • :Ire 1 e, c whet 1 '- w e' ., A won11ln doesn't consider the But t ] Xt day, 1 1t. .If forward to greet his Elittlisb he, wearing of dirnwnds vulgar -sonless it would have bevel difficult to re- site hasn't any. cognize him as the burdened, e rto, give a great t ca to enc same, other '-• ,....- opeuing for Frithjof, I dread the worn man from whose lips had been ho v1 Mother ;to tcnchcr)--•. life for him," wrung that rr nfessiuu and that "Don't you think my 1, is l,ntlntl "Do youthink it is really so hard . prayer. All his natural a curtc y Ln nt ibc his mucic 1" Peneher (de - to be strictly honorable in bnsine..ss End brightness had returned 1.1 st;,rir.li;lyl-. unii ari:lied so, It life? And yet it is a life that mast him; if he thought of his tipsiness 111111x. ulmosw.ihle fur h'nr t<:c lever» be lived, and is ib not better that at all he thought. of it in the to rte.,,,• such as man as Frithjof should take sanguine way pcissihle, and the it np--a man with such a high sense Morgans stn' 111 }rim only an olslor l 1 tt]<, ll, v vhu had just recont.- of honor?" I edition of rl tli crf, and no11tiered "You don't know what business how plc hod managed to preserve ly mattered his cateeliism, con • men have to stand against," said; such buoyant s riril s n7 the caves fr'+sr {1 leis tlis.11111 nntmeut in tree. Herr Falok.` "Frithjof is a good "and eneel'tainties of nueresntile following,, terms: -"Sae, 'lad, I obey the Fin 11 1'onlmandmeet, nntl honor niy father and mother, yet my clays a1" nue. a t....1 1(11ger in she land, fur :I'm put to bed 1 5."1'y night He roue from his choir and- paced ' beef And plilria-pudding, and lad at seven o'clock just the sante. 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But Sir William, having eonsidered the amounts that are likely to be 'available and its cost, rules it out, His final word on radium is : "No source of energy, 'capable of being converted into work en a large scale, can be lipped for, so far as the transmutation of matter is concerned, The question is not, Can it be nolle? but, Will it pay to du it? And to the last question the answer is emphati- cally no." - NO INTERNAL HEAT. Prof, the Hon. R. J. Strutt, writes on the question of the inter- nal )seat of the earth as a positive souroe of energy. He recalls that we are familiar with hot springs and streams of molten lava from the, interior of the earth, and then asks whether hater could he pump- ed to the heated interior and re- turned at a high temperature. 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Years ago the James brothers, who sacked the express ear and "went through" the passengers on the Chicago, Reek Islami -Pacific at Gail's Hill, stole the money box at the State fair, They-roci.e into Kan- sas City un horseback, and when the cashier was walking to the. bank with the receipts of the day, about $2,000, they pointed their pistols. at his head, seized the box and gal- loped off, This was clone in broad daylight, in the midst of a great crowd, According to Eli Perkins, some time afterwards one of the Kansas City reporters- wrote •an article about those highwaymen, calling thein and s brave, anaid they hard done the most Glaring deed in the high- wayman's record, A few nights af- •terwa,rd Both the brothers . rode into Kansas City, went to the news- paper,otfice and calling the reporter out gave him a ilnndsome watch end chain. They ;;Hid the article in qucstinn touched them in a tender sprit and they desired to show their gratitude„ "But I don't feel at liberty to take this watch," stud the reporter•, nec'ccrtting to Life. "But do it to gratify us. We did- n't sinal this watch ; we bought it and paid for it with pts own mon- ey." contirltied the deme redoes. "Ne, yen- .intuit memos me," con. tinned the reporter, "Well, then, if yon can't tato this watch," replier} the James bro- thers. regretfully, "what -can f(5 yool. Perhaps -you car nes venin elan around. ji• e3 y nt killed !"