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The Brussels Post, 1912-6-6, Page 2ONLY A MONTH ; OR, A CURIOUS MYSTERY EXPLAINED. CHAPTER IV.—(Cont'd) Then presently, as they walked down to the little pier, she talked fast and gayly of all they Would do when he came to England; she talked because, for once, he was ab- solutely silent, and because she was afraid that her uncle would guess their secret; perhaps it was a relief to her that Frithiof volunteered to run back to the hotel for Mr. Mor- gan's opera -glass which had been left by mistake in the salon, so that, literally, there was only time for the briefest of farewells on the steamer. He went through it all in a business like fashion, smiling mechanically in response to the good wishes, then, with a heavy heart, stepping on shore. Herr Feick, who was returning to Bergen by the same boat which took the other travelers only as far as Vad- helm, was not ill -pleased to see his son's evident dejection; he stood by the bulwarks watching him, and saying a word or two and then to Blanche who was close by him. "Why, see!" he exclaimed, "the fellow is actually coming on board again. We shall be carrying him away with us if he doesn't take care," "A thousand pardons!" Frithiof had exclaimed, shaking hands with Cecil and Roy Boniface. "I did not , see you before. A pleasant journey to you. You must come again to Norway some day, and let us all meet once more." "Vaer saa god!" exclaimed one of the sailers; and Frithiof had to spring down the gangway, "To our next merry meeting!" said Roy, lifting his hat; and then there was a general waving of handkerchiefs from the kindly little crowd on the pier and from the parting guests, and, in all the ba- bel and eonfusion, Frithiof was con- scious only of Blanche's clear "Auf wiedersehn!" and saw nothing but the sweet, dark eyes, which to the very last dwelt on him, "Well, that is ever:" he said to Sigrid, pulling himself together, and stifling a sigh. "Perhaps they will come here next year," suggested Sigrid, con- solingly. "Perhaps I shall go to England next autumn," said Frithiof, with a smile. "So soon!" she exclaimed invol- untarily. He laughed, for the words were such a curious contradiction to the ones which lurked in his own mind. "Oh! you call two months a short time'?" he exclaimed; "and to me it seems an eternity. You will have to be very forbearing, for I warn you sueh a waiting time is very lit- tle be my taste." "Then why cal you not speak now, before she went away?" "You wisest of advisers!" he said, with a smile, "I did speak yesterday." • "Yesterday ;" she cried, eager- ly. "Yesterday, on Munkeggen 3" "Yes; and all that now remains is to get Mr. Morgan's consent to our betrothal." "Oh, Frithiof ! I am so glad! so very glad! How pleased father will be! I think you must write and let him know." "If he will keep it quite secret," said Frithiof; "but of course not a word must be breathed until her fa- ther has consented. There is no en- gagement as yet, only we know that we love each. other." "That ought to be enough to sat- isfy you till the autumn. And it was so nice of you to tell me, Fri- thiof. Oh, I don't think I could have borne it if you had chosen to marry some girl I didn't like. As for BIanche, there never was any more sweet and lovely." It seemed that Frithiof's happi- ness was to bring happiness to the whole family. Even little Swanhild guessed the true state of things, g, and began to frame visions of the happy future when the beautiful English girl should become her own sister; while as to Herr Feick, the news seemed to banish entirely the heavy 'depression which for some time had preyed upon him. And so, in spite of the waiting, the time slipped by quickly to Frithiof, the mere thought of Blanche's love kept him rapturously happy, and at the pretty villa in Ilalvedalen there was much laughter and mirth, and music and singing; much eager expectation and hope, and much panning of a future life which' Olould be even more hill and happy. `At length, when tile, ;afternoons closed {ti early, and the long winter was beginning to give silos of its hpraack,, rriti}aof junk leave of bla ome, and, on ogre Oeteber Satur4 day, started on his vevago to Eng- land, It was, in a tense, the greet event of his life, and they all in- ttinotively knew that it was a tris is, so that Sigrid drew aside little ,S'wenhild at the last, mitt left the father and son to have their part- ing words alone, "I look to you, Frithiof," the fa- ther said eagerly, "I look to you to carry out the aims in which I myself hare failed—to live the life I could wish to have lived. May God grant you the wife who will best help you in the struggle! I sometimes think, Frithiof, that things might have gone very differ- ently with me had your mother been spared." "Do you not let this depression influence you too much, father ?" said Frithiof. "Why take such a dark view of your own life? I shall only be toohappy if I make as much of the world as you have done. I wish you could have come to Eng- land too, I think you want change and rest." "Ah!" said Herr Fakk, laugh- ing, "once over there you will not echo that wish. No, no, you are best by yourself when you go a -woo- ing, my son. Besides, I could not possibly leave home just now ; we shall have the herring -fleet back from Iceland before many days." Then, as the signal was given that all friends of the passengers must leave the steamer, he took Frithiof's hand and held it fast in his. "Gad bless you, my boy; I think you will bring honor to our name, sooner or later. Now, Sigrid, wish him well, and let us be off " He called little Swanhild to him, and walked briskly down the gang- way, then stood an the quay talk- ing very cheerfully, his momentary depression quite past. Before long the steamer began to glide off, and Frithiof, even in the midst of his bright expectations, felt a pang as he waved a farewell to those he left behind him. "A happy return to Gammle Norge!" shouted Herr Feick. And Sigrid and Swanhild stood waving their handkerchiefs till the steam- er could no longer be seen. "I am a fool to mind going away !" reflected Frithiof. "In three weeks' time I shall be at home again. And the next time I leave Bergen, why, who knows, perhaps it will be to attend my own wecl- cling !" And with that he began to pace the deck, whistling, as he walked, "The Bridal Song of the Hardan- ger." CHAPTER V. The event to which we have long eagerly looked forward is seldom all that we have expected, and Fri- thiof, who for the last two months had been almost hourly rehearsing his arrival in England, felt some- what depressed and disillusioned when, one chilly Monday morning, he first set foot on English soil. The southerner, arriving at Folkstone or Dover, with their white cliffs and sunny aspect, gains a cheerful im- pression as he steps ashore.; bet the Norwegian, leaving behind hint his mountains and fjords, and coning straight to that most dingy and un- attractive town, Hull, is at a great disadvantage. A fine drizzling rain was falling; in the early morning the shabby, dirty houses looked their very eeirst. Swarms of grimy little chil- i dren had been turned out of their homes, and were making their way f to morning school, and hundreds of t busy men and women were hurrying t through the streets, all with worn, t anxious -looking faces. As he walk- a ed to the railway station Frithiof o felt almost overpowered by the de- ' solateness of the place. To be a t mere unit in this unthinking, un- heeding crowd, to be pushed and jostled by the hurrying passengers, u who all walked as if their very lives depended on their speed, to hear m around him the rapidly spoken for- eign or- d n language, with it 9 strange g north -country accent, all 1 made him Ye feel very keenlythat he was indeed H Ytl a foreigner in a strange land, Ho was glad to be once more in a fa- s miliar-looking train, and actually b on his way to London; and soon all m these outer impressions faded away t• in the absorbing consciousness that in he was actually on his way to b 131anahe—that an the very next day q he might hope to see her again, go Fortunately the Tuesday proved to be a lovely, still autumn day. lie yo dill not like to call upon Mr. Mor- gan till the afternoon, and, indeed, r thought that he should scarcely find ei him at home earlier, so he roamed yo about London, and looked at his de watch about four times an hour, till no at 1<�ngth• th, time cath; when b, 1e Gould call a hansom and drive to tw I,a»easter Gate, sin There aro soma houses which the fr moment you enter them suggest to we you the idea of money. Tho Mor- di gaps' house was one of these; ov- ye erything was faultlessly arranged, cu year feet sink into the softest of yo carpets, you were served by the tr most obsequious of servants, all ov 1120 StCives ar wins. It will benefit your �:l�Ildrea>1 or your invalid. E-242 that was cheap or common or ordin- ary was banished from view, and you felt that the chair you sat on was a very superior chair, that all the pictures and ornaments were the very best that could be bought, and that ordinary people who could not boast of a very large income were only admitted into this ag- gressively superior dwelling on suf- ferance. As to Frithiof, when he was shown into the great empty draw- ing -room with its luxurious couch- es and divans and its wonderful col- lection of the very best upholstery and the most telling works of art, he felt, as strongly as he heel felt in the dirty streets of Hull, that he was a stranger and a foreigner. In the whole room there was no- thing which suggested to him the presence of Blanche; on the con- trary, there was everything which combated the vision of those days at Balholm and of their sweet free- dom. 6 Before many minutes had passed, however, his host came into the room, greting him politely but somewhat stiffly. "Glad to make your acquaint- ance," he said, scanning him a little curiously as ho spoke. "I heard of you, of course, from my brother. I am sure they are all very much in- debted to you for planning their Norwegian tour for them so we11," Had he also heard of him from Blanche? Had she indeed prepar- ed the way for him? Or would his request come as a surprise? These were the thoughts which rushed through Frithiof's mind as he sat opposite the Englishmen and noted his regular' features, short, neat - looking, gray beard, closely cropped hair, and rather cold eyes. "It is curious that you should have come to -day," he remarked, after they hacl exchanged the usual platitudes about the weather and the voyage, and the first 'copies - slots of England. "Only to -day the final decision was arrived at about this long -mooted idea of the new branch of our arm at Stavanger, Perhaps you have heard rumors cl it?" "I have heard nothing et all." said Frithiof, "My father diel not even mention it," "It is scarcely possible that he has heard nothing of the idea,'' said Mr. Morgan, "When I saw you I half thought he had sent you ever on that very account. How- ever, you have not as yet gine 'ot) the business, I understand?" "I am to be into partner- ship this autumn," said Frttiaio:�f. "I was of age the other day, nod have only waited for that." "Strange," said Mr. Morgan, "that only this very morning the telegram should have been sent to your father. Had I known you were n England, I would have waited. One can say things better face to ace. And yet I don't know hew hat could have been either, for here was a sudden chance of get- ing good premises at Stavanger, n.cl delay was impossible.' I shall, f course, write fully to your fa- ther by the next mail, and you will ell him that it is with. great regret we sever our connection with him." Frithiof was so staggered by this nexpeetecl piece of news that for a minute all else was driven from his incl. "He will be very, sorry to be no ion eryour agent,' lie said. g g , "And I shall be sorryto losehi m. err 1 e Feick has] always been most honorable, I have the greatest re - poet for him. Still, business is usiness; one can't afford to ,senti- entalize in life over old count runs. It is certainly best in the tereste of our firm to set up a ranch of our own with its head - tasters at Stavanger. My son will out there very shortly." "The telegram is only just sent, u say ?" asked Frithiof, "The first thing this morning," eplied Mr. Morgan. "It was de - clod on last night. By this time car father knows all about it; fe- ed, I almost wonder we have had reply from him. You must not t the affair make any breach be- een us; it is, after all, a mere bu- ess necessity, I must find out om Mrs. Morgan what free nights have, and you must come incl ne with us. I will write and let u know. Have you any para. lar business in London$ or have n only come for the sake of avel'•ing l" (To be continued.) J .IC, BOOTII'S WOIUL, John 11. Booth, the lumber and paper king of Canada, recently celebrated his eighty: sixth birthday in Ottawa, All his life he has been a hard worker and was never much given to dress, style or titles. When the editors of "Who's Who in Canada" asked him to state what his favorite recreation was, Mr. Booth replied, "work," and so it appears in that publication. Not- withstanding that lie is a million- aire many times over, Mr, Booth never stood on dignity or eere- many, In this respect he differs from a certain glib ex -alderman of the Capital City who once managed to squeeze into the Council, and although he was never successful in being re-eletced, he was particular- ly fond of referring to himself as Ex -Alderman D—. Now "Ex -Alderman" is a pecu- Iiar designation in that you can hang on to it until the day you die if you feel disposed to make use of the prefix. The proud retainer of the title, going to the telephone one day, rang up Mr. Booth, who had Mr. J. R. Booth. some cattle to sell, for the former civic functionary was a drover by trade. In answer to the ring of the instrument, he inquired, "Is that you, Booth?" Receiving an answer in the affirmative, he proclaimed. "This is Ex -Alderman D— speaking. I understand, Booth, you have seine fat cattle to sell. What is your price for them?" Mr. Booth told the inquirer, but evidently the figure did not meet his fancy. "Too dear, Booth, we cannot deal at the quotation you name," and the speaker rang off. A bystander remarked, e"Don't you think that Ottawa's leading captain of industry might have been styled Mr. Booth ?" "Oh,' I don't know about that," observed the ex -alderman, "He is entitled to. no special clistinotion, You see, he never occupied a seat in the Council." SPAIN'S PREMIER TOREAD OR. How Madrid Welcomed Return of Bombita to the Ring. Bombita, the darling of Spain, has recovered from the dangerous wound he had received in a bull fight, and last Sunday all Madrid went to the Plaza de Toros to wel- come the greatest of all toreadors to the scene of former triumphs, writes a correspondent of the Lon- don Standard. The sun was beating down on the tiers of seats opposite me, where a thousand fluttering fans looked like brilliant butterflies. King Al- fonso and the Queen were in the royal box surrounded by the flower of the Spanish aristocracy, All the women wore the graceful mantilla and the Queen had red roses in her hair. Charmed as the people were to see the youthful King and Queen, their chief thoughts were for Beim - bits, the dashing Bombita, whose photograph appears in dozens of newspapers every week. Ho is as daring • and asexpert atereader as the menf 1 a the h ec old school, I o, but he is not in ordinary life the toreador with a little pigtail, happier in the cafe than in the drawing -room. The fabulous fees he receives for his dangerous work permit of his keeping a, motor car and enables him to cine in the most fashionable restaurants. He is faultlessly dressed by a London tailor, and when I met him the ether night at an evening party I took him to be a diplomatist or a Spanish grandee. In the arena Bombita was radiant in rase color silk and gold lace, and ho wore white silk stockings and dainty shoes—a charming costume for a masquerade, but inappropri- ate for the work of slaying ferocious bulls. tut Bombita was superb. Ile played with death like a child with a toy. He knelt fox a moment in the sand as his second bull, snorting with fury, rushed upon him. The ercature's horns seemed within an inoh of his body when ho rose, stop- ped aside with the grace et Nijns- sky, and plunged his short sword into the animal's noels. The dexterity, the amazing dar- 1.1141111.1143.1 7CI'3i`' DOMINION IO SMCILTRITIES CQ1PORATION Linn' , QU'" ""S'� ';RI`s BGS fi�1f, LIST A booklet giving complete particulars of our current off erings: GOVERNMENT BONDS To yield 3,90% II UNICIPA L DEBENTURES To yield 4% to d3% RAILROAD BONDS To yield J�%% to 6% PUBLIC UTILITY BONDS To yield 4%% to 5%% PROVEN INDUSTRIAL BONDS To yield 6%% to 6% A copy sent on request. ("MINION aS emarrzEs COOPORATIoN LIMITED ESTAOLISHE0 1901 HEAD OFFICE 26 KING 5T EAST TORONTO, MONTREAL.` . LONDON. E C. ENG) ing of the man, filled the critical audience with new wonder at the prowess of their.favorite. A great shout went up. "The ear 1 The earl" The toreador who has pleased the public by his skill is ac- corded the right to keep the ear of the bull he has killed as a trophy. It is for the spectators to judge whether he deserves the supreme reward, On Sunday some were opposed to the award and for at least two min- utes it hung in the balance whether Bombita would take home the trophy and, as I suppose he does, nail it to the mall of his dining - room. King Alfonso decided the matter by joining in the popular cry, and Bombita received his re- ward. . NEW FRENCH BATTLESHIPS. British Models Followed — England to Store Oil Fuel. French battleship designers ap- pear to be following the general lines. of British constructors in their 1912 building programme for capital ships of the first class, ex- cept that the tonnage of the French ships will considerably exceed that of the British ships of the Orion class, the displacement of which is 22,880 tons. The French are placing ten• 13.4 inch guns on the new ships as a pri- mary armament, mounted on five twin gun turrets, all planed on the centre line after the Orion model. These guns are of slightly less calf. bre than the British 18.5 inchers, though the French ships will be larger by over 1,000 tons. The new French ships will he 541 feet long and 88 feet 6 inches broad. Their speed will be 20 knots. The time for building and completing is to be three years, compared with the two years of the British build- ers. The secondary armament will re- main of the same calibre as in pre- vious ships, that is, 5.5 inches, while in future ships the British will carry six inch guns. The armor will not be quite so extensive in area, but will be thicker in parts than in previous types. Turbine engines will be used. The British Admiralty is making a considerable increase in oil fuel storage: This was determined upon when the coal strike was by no means regarded as a certainty. Still further extension has since been decided upon. A.t Portsmouth the amount of ex- penditure in providing storage has been raised from $65,000 to $250,- 000; on the Humber from $910,000 to $600,000; at the Inver•gorclon from $40,000 to $220,000; on the Medway from $210,000 to $650,000. A sum of $35,500 is to be spent to provide new accommodation for oil fuel at Hambowline Dockyard; $125,000 for new works at Hong- kong and $66,800 at Pembroke, iF The commencement of work on the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway hotel assures the fact that Edmon- ton will have a hostelry as large as the railway hotel in Winnipeg. "ye U(5 Loaf¢" Of M Of load TWA CANADA SUGAR IZEFU 1NGCO, \ e �h. ti °'rHE newest thing in sugar a —and the best—is. this 5 -Pound Sealed Package ofer0 Extra Granulated. In this carton 5 pounds full weight of Canada's finest sugar comes to you fresh from the Refinery, and absolutely free from any taint 'or impurity. Ask .your 'Grocer for the ado 5• -Pound Package. CANADA SUGAR REPINING COMPANY, LIMITED, MONTREAL. On the Farm 11110,16.4111,..47$49,0,46,0./.01648 VALUE YALIJE OF RED CLOVER. For centuries red clover has con- stituted one of the important fas- ters in maintaining a permanent system of agriculture in the Old World. In this country it has as- sumed a more and more important role in conserving the natural' re- sources of the soil, thereby tending to maintain the profitable yields of the staple agricultural products, writes Mr. J. M. Westgate. Red clover is utilized both as a hay and as a pasture crop and often as a soiling crop. It is sometimes used as a green -manure crop to be plowed under if the ground is poor in humus. Even where it is cut for hay and only the root and stubble burned under, it has a marked in- fluence in increasing the yields of succeeding crops. It makes an ideal hay for cattle and in the clover sec- tions should constitute from one- half to two-thirds of the roughage ration of milk cows, Sheep and young stock of all kinds make ex- cellent gains on either the pasture or the hay. In addition to its use. fulness as a food for animals it has a most important effect upon the. land in maintaining tire- supply of nitrogen in the soil, By means of the nitrogen -fixing organism on its roots the red clover plant is able to gather large quantities of nitrogen from the air and leave it in the soil in a form which can readily be util- ized by growing crops. It not in- frequently happens that the yield of a grain crop can be doubled by the growing and plowing under of a crop of clover. The most serious problem at pre- sent confronting the farmer in many ing difficulty of successfully main- offarm. tilt clover sections is the increas- taining stands of clover upon the With continuous cropping and the consequent depletion of the soil of humus and plant food the difficul- ty of growing red clover is greatly increased. This condition must be met and solved, since the loss of clover or its equivalent from the ro- tation' leads rapidly to a run-down farm and unprofitable crop yields. It should be emphasized, howev- • es, that the mere introduction of red clover into the farm rotation is not in itself a sufficient procedure to maintain indefinitely the pro- ductivity of the farm. The clover plant adds only the nitrates to the soil and removes large quantities of potash, phosphorus and lime from the soil, especially when cut for hay and the manure resulting therefrom is not returned to the land. The increased supply of nit- rogen may in fact stimulate the soil to increased yields temporarily, only to leave it, after a low years, in a condition worse than if no clo- ver had been grown. It is important that considerable care be taken in choosing the seed to be sown. If poor seed is used the expected crop may be a partial or total failure. Red clover seed may be poor and undesirable from several points of view. Such seed is constantly being sold to farmers and should be re- cognized and rejected. It may bo poorly developed, many seeds being shriveled and dull brown in color, Such seeds will not produce plants. Often reel clover is adulterated by the use of yellow trefoil, dead clo- ver seed, cheap imported.seedor weedy screenings. Each of these constituents reduces the stand of healthy plants and makes the pur- chaser pay for what he does not get, transportation included. He is likely to get an undesired crop of weeds, some of which may become a deckled menace to his locality. Some of the weed seeds appearing in red clover seed can be removed by the farmer by the use of a wire - cloth sieve containing twenty mesh- es to the linear inch. Most of the clover seeds of medium size are held back by such a sieve and practi- cally all the smaller weed seeds pass through, The true clover dod- der, which is a very noxious pest in clover fields, is quite effectively removed in thisw a . Most t of the o seeds of e field dodder are1 also removed. cl. Seed t of b t ckhorn, wild = carrot, wild chicory, thistles and others of similar size, are mostly held back by the sieve, The small grained clover seed imported from Europe largely passes through such a sieve. An easy method of separ- ating buckhorn seed from clover Iters been devised. ?'his method consists of mixing with the seed containing thio buckhorn thorough- ly wetted sawdust. The buckhorn seed becomes sticky on being wet and readily attaches itself to the sawdust. The entire mass is then immediately ' screened, when tiro larger particles of sawdust, with the huekhorn attached, aro readily separated from the clever seed, This work should he done imtned]- ately before sowing the clover seed, which, with the small particles of e,wclust that pass the screen, need to be dried only snlfeientiy to en able tile seeding to taker place read- ily. Tay the rules of the air, two air- craft meed -g each other must steer to theright, arid pass et least 110 yards apart„