HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1912-6-20, Page 2ONLY A MONTH;
OR, A CURIOUS MYSTERY EXPLAINED.
CHAPTER VL
On the stairs Frithiof was waylaid
by Mr. Morgan ; it was with a sort
of surprise that he heard his own
calm replies to. the Englishman's
polite speeches, and regrets, and
inquiries as to when he returned to
Norway, for all the time his head
was swimming, and it was astonish.
ing that he could frame a correct
English phrase.
His heart was so utterly dead that
he weld not even think of his home;
neither his father nor Sigrid rose
before him as he looked down that
long, dreary vista of life that lay
beyond. He could see only that
Blanche was no longer his; that the
Blanche he had loved and believed
in had never really existed; that he
had been utterly deceived, defraud-
ed; and that something had been
taken from him which could never
return.
"I will not live a day longer," he
said to himself ; "not an hour long-
er." And in the relief of hawing
some attainable thing to desire ar-
dently, were it only death and anni-
hilation, he quickened his pace and
felt a sort off renewal of energy and
life within him, urging him on,
holding before him the one aim
which he thought was worth pur-
suing.
He was alone again, and the twi-
light for which he had longed was
fast closing in upon hire; a sort of
blue haze seemed gathering over the
mark; night was coming on. What
was this horrible new struggle which
was beginning within him? "Evil,"
"sin," could he not at least do what
he would with his own life? Where
was the harm in ending that which
was hopelessly spoiled and ruined?
Was not suicide a perfect legitimate
ending to a life?
A voice within him answered his
question plainly:
"To the roan with a diseased
brain—the man who doesn't know
what he is about—it is no worse an
end than to die in bed of a fever.
But to you—you who are afraid of
the suffering of life, you who know
quite well what you are doing—to
you it is sin."
Fight against it as he would, he
could not stifle this new conscious-
ness which had arisen within him.
Only women or children could hold
such a creed; only those who led
sheltered innocent, ignorant lives.
Looking back afterward on the
frightful struggle, it seemed to him
that for ages he had tossed to and
fro in that horrible hesitation. In
reality all must have been over
within a quarter of an hoUr. There
rose before him the recollection of
his father as he had last seen him
standing on the deck of the steamer,
and ho remembered the tone of his
voice as he had said:
"I look to you, Frithjof, to carry
out the aims in which I myself have
failed, to live the life that I could
wish to have lived."
He saw once again the wistful
look ie his father's eyes, the ming-
led love, pride, and anxiety with
which he had turned to him, loath
to let him go, and yet eager to speed
him on his way. Should he now
disappoint all bis hopes? Should
he, deliberately and in the full pos-
session of all his faculties, take a
etep which must bring terrible suf-
fering to his home people? Ancl
then he remembered for the first
time that already trouble and vexa-
tion and less had overtaken his fa-
ther; he knew well how greatly he
would regret the -connection with
the English firm, and he pictured to
himself the familiar hose: in Kalve-
• dalen with a new and unfamiliar
timid upon it, till instead of the
longing fur death there came to him
•a nobler longing—a longing to go
back and help, a longing to make
up te his father for the loss and
vexation and the slight•whise had
been put upon him. He began to
feel ashamed of the other wish, he
began to realize that there was still
eomething to be lived for, though
indeed life looked to him as dim
and uninviting as the twilight park
• With its wreaths of gray mist, and
its unpeopled solitude.
Emerging °nee more into the busy
world of traffic at Hyde Park Cor-
ner, the perception of his forlorn
desolateness came tit him with far fi
more force than in the quiet path
by the Serpentine. Fur the first
• time he felt keenly that he was in
tan unknown city, and there came
over him a eick longing for Norway,
for dear old Bergen, for the famil-
iam mountains, the familiar faces,
the friendly greetings <of passers-by.
;For a few minutes he stood still, un-
certain which road to take, woe-
dering how in the world he should
get through the weary hours of his
i solitary evening. Close by hire a
young man stood talking to the oc-
cupants of a brougham which had
drawn up by the pavement; • h
heard a word or two of their talk,
clink, almost unconsciously.
"Is the result of the trial known
yet?"
"Yes, five years' penal servitude
and no more than he deserves."
"The poor childrenwhat wi
become of them?"
"Shall you be home by ten ? w
won't hinder you, then."
"Quito by ten. Tell father tha
Seldom. is free for the night he
wanted him; I mot him just now.
i Good-bye." Then to the coachman,
"Home!"
The word startled Frithiof back
to the recollection of his own al -
fairs; he had utterly lost his
bear-
ingsland must ask for direction. He
would accost this man who seemed
a little lees in a hurry than the rest
. of the world,
"Will you kindly tell me the way
to the Arundel Hotel?" he asked.
The young man turned at the
Mina of his voice, looked keenly
at him for an instant, then held out
his hand in cordial welcome.
"How are you?" he exclaimed.
I "What a lucky chance that we
should have run across each other
lin the dark like this! Have you
!been long in England 9"
Frithiof, at the first word of hear-
ty greeting, looked up with start-
led eyes, and in the dim gas -light
he saw the honest English face and
kindly eyes of Roy Boniface,
CHAPTER VII.
Meantime the brougham had
bowled swiftly away and its two oc-
cupants had settled themselves
down comfortably as though they
were preparing for a long drive.
"Are you warm enough, my
child? 'letter let inc have this win-
dow down, and you put yours up,"
said Mrs. Bon/face, glancing with
motherly anxiety at the fair face
beside her.
"You spoil me, mother, dear,"
said Cecil. "And indeed I do .want
you not to worry about me. I am
quite strong, if you would only be-
lieve it."
"Well, well, I hope you are,"
said Mrs. Boniface, with a sigh.
"But any way it's more than you
look, child."
.And the mother thought wistful-
ly of two graves in a distant ceme-
tery where Cecil's sisters lay; and
she remembered with a cruel pang
that only a few days ago some friend
had remarked to her, with the
thoughtless frankness of a rapid
talker, about Cecil's dfolicate ap-
pearance.
"I am glad we have seen Doctor
Royson," said Cecil, "because now
we shall feel quite eomfortable, and
you won't be anxious any mare, mo-
ther. It would be dreadful, I think,
to have to be a sorb of semi -invalid
all one's life, though I suppose some
people must enioy it, since Doctor
Royston said that half the girls in
London were invalided just for want
of sensible work. I rather believe,
mother, that is what has been the
matter with me," and she laughed.
"You, rny dear)" said Mrs. Boni-
face; "1 am sure you are not at all
idle at home. No one could say
such a thing of you,"
"But I am always having to in-
vent things to do to keep myself
busy," said Cecil, "Mother, I have
got a plan in my heed now that
would settle rey work for five whole
years, and I do so want you to say
'yes' to it."
"It isn't that yeu want to go into
some sisterhood?" asked Mrs, Boni-
face, her gentle gray eyes filling
with tears,
"Oh, no, no," said Cecil, empha-
tically. "Why, how could I ever
o away from home and lesiva you,
arling, jest as 1 am getting old
nough to be of use to you? It's
*thing of that kind, and the worst
1 it is that it would mean e good
dual of expense to father, which
emits hardly fair,"
"Ho won't grudge that," said
Mrs. Boniface. "Your father would
do anything to please you, clear.
What is this plan'Let me hear
about it."
"Well, the other night when I was
hearing all about those poor Grant-
loys opposite to es—how the neither
had left her husband and children
and gone off no one knows where,
and then how the father had forged
that check and would certainly be
promotes appetite,
assistS digestion
and builds up sound
health.
For 26 years wo have
recommended Bovril
for these reasons and
they havo now been
established by strict
physiological tests
made by W. H. Thomp-
son, P11. D., D. So., of
Trinity College, Dublin.
imprisoned, I began to wonder what
sort of a chance the children had
in the world. „And no one seemed to
know or to care what would become
of them, except father, and he said
we must try to got them into some
asylum or school."
"It isn't many asylums that
' would care to take them, I expeet,"
said Mrs. Boniface. "Poor little
11 things, there's a hard fight before
them! But what was your plan ?"
"Why, mother, it was just to per-
suade father to let them male to
t us for the five years. Of course it
would be an expense to him, but I
would teach them, and help to take
care of them; and oh, it would be
so nice to have children about the
house! Ono can never he dull where
there are children,"
"I knew she was dull at home,"
thought the mother to herself. "It
was too much of a change for her
to come back from school, from so
many educated people and young
friends, to an ignorant old woman
like me and a silent house. Not
that the child would ever allow it."
"But of course, darling," said
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MORE AND BETTER POTATOES.
It is common belief that if we
purehase a variety of potatoes from
o seedsman that we have secured
just one variety. This is true in a
measure. If the seedsratte is reli-
able, he will send potatoes time are
uniform in color, depth of eyes,
earliness of maturing, and other
qualities. But unless these parti-
cular potatoes have been pedigreed,
then we have not received ono
thing, but mosey, writes Professor
L 11. Waldron.
The farmer can demonstrate this
fact to his own satisfaction. At dig-
ging time let him lay off a portion
of a row containing 100 hills. In
order to show this each hill must
have come from only one piece of
seed.
The 100 hills are dug and the
tubers of each hill are kept by
themselves on top of the hill. The
products of the 100 hills are now
ready to be studied.
At first, glance the hills may ap-
pear to run very uniformly. A lit-
tle closer view will reveal the fact
that about the only thing that is
uniform is that they aro all pota-
toes. The first hill has one large
one, two medium-sized ones and
half-aelozen small ones. The next
hill has one medium-sized one and
several small ones. Perhaps the
next hill has three or four good-
sized ones. Another hill has a soli-
tary tuber, but of good size. Per-
haps another hill has nothing but
little runts. Thus it goes through
the 100 hills. The ordinary farmer
will pick up the tubers from all of
the hills and put them all together.
He dues this complacently and with
satisfaction. His fathers did it be-
fore him and all of his neighbors
do it. Why should not he?
Late in winter, when he begins
to read the seed catalogues, he
ONTARIO'S PRIZE FAT BABY.
This youngster is only two months past two years old. He weighs 127
pounds. His name Is John Bras, and he lives 18 mites from Ottawa.
Cecil, "I won't, say a word more
about it if you think it would trou-
ble you or make the house too
noisy."
"There is plenty of room for
them, poor little mites," said Mrs.
Boniface. "And the plan is just
like you, dear. There's only one
objection I have to it. I don't like
your binding yenrself to 'work fur
so many years—not just now while
you are so young. I should have
liked you to marry, deer."
"But I don't think that is likely,"
said Cecil. "And it does seem so
stupid to let the time pass on and
do nothing for years and years just
because there is a chance that some
man whome you could accept may
propose to you. The chances are
quite equal that it may not be so,
and then you have wasted a great
part of yeur life."
"I wish you could have fancied
Herbert White," said Mrs. Beni -
face, wistfully, "Ile would have
made sueh a good husband."
"I hope he will to some one else.
But that would have been impos-
sible, mother, quite, quite impos-
sible."
"Cecil, &alio, is there—is there
any one else?"
"No one, mother," said Cecil,
quietly, and the celor in her cheeks
did not deepen, and Mrs. Boniface
felt satisfied, Yet, nevertheless, at
that very moment there flashed frith
CeciPe mind the perception of the
real reason which had made it im-
possible for her to accept the offer
of marriage that a week or two ago
she had refused. She saw that Fri-
thjof Falek would always he to her
a sort of standard by which to
measure the rest of mankind, and
she faced the thought quietly, for
there had never been any question
of love between them ; he would pro-
bably merry the pretty Miss Mor-
gan, and it was very unlikelythat
the should over meet him again.
"The man whom I could accept
mast he that sort of man," she
thought to herself, "And there is
something degrading in the idea of
standing and waiting for the doubt-
ful chance that such a one may some
day appear. Surely wo girls were
not horn into the world just to stand
in rows waiting to got married?"
(To he continual)
wonders why on earth, or under it,
he cannot raise such splendid crops
of potatoes as he sees pictured.
Now, that is the point I am getting
at; our variety is not a unit.
In our 100 hills that we have dug,
close study might reveal the pres-
ence of at least ten strains or varie-
ties, instead of the one that we
thought we had.
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has the runt character as a. habit. It
is going to persist for years and
every tiine we plant seed of that
strain we will know to a certainty
that we will harvest little potatees.
The hill that produced one or two
large and several small ones, is a
common feature of potato fields.
The hill that bore three or four
good-sized tubers is the one to fast-
en our eyes on. That is the hill that
has a:dlity and the one that we
should get next to.
We will assume that we have
three tubers to every hill and that
the total weight of the three tubers
is i4 pounds. There is nothing
absurd in this, for often an indi-
vidual tuber will weigh more.
We will further assume that our
rows are 3X feet apart and that our
hills are two feet apart in the row.
This is open planting, probably
more open than is commonly prac-
tised.
At this rale of planting there will
be 6,200 hills per acre, assuming
nearly a perfect stand. With 1%
pounds per hill, we would have a
yield of 155 bushels per acre, a
yield worth striving for by the ma-
jority of farmers.
Now it may be that the bill with
the three or four good tubers will
not breed tree, but the chances are
that it will. The offspring of tho
hill is almost certain to produce a
certain percentage of small tubers,
but we may count upon it that it
will produce a lesser percentage of
small tubers than the average hill.
What a farmer should do at po-
tato -diming time is to dig a fair-
sized pe7l'ah, leaving each hill by it-
self. After the patch is dug he
should carefully go over the patch
and ef elect out those hills that have
fewitubers of good size.
The tubers from those hills
should be sacked by themselves and
laid away for seed for the year fel-
:• wing. If ho is particular he may
not be able 10 find more than ten
hills to his liking.
In the springtime these should be
treated by themselves and planted
in a separate patch. The second
year's product from the ton hills
will be sufficient to plant quite a
piece of ground, perhaps as much
aa the farmer desires,
If the farmer wants to follow a
method even better and mere ac-
curate than this, he should plant
each of the ten hills in a little plot
by itself.
This requires that each hill will
be sacked separately at planting
time. If the ten plats show up
of about equal value and all good,
it is not necessary to keep them
longer separate, but the product of
the ten plats may be sacked to-
gether and saved to plant the main
patch the year fallowing.
It two or three of the ten plats
are off, these should be discarded
and the good plats saved.
If an occasional farmer follows
the method here laid out, he will
soon find that his neighbors will
be after him for seed and they will
he willing to pay him a bonus for
them.
OFF THE SAME PIa.
A young wife recently went into
a provision shop and addressed the
shopman thus:
"I bought three or four hams
here a•month or so ago, and they
were fine. Have you any more of
them ?"
"Yes, ma'am," replied the man.
"There are ten of those hams hang-
ing up there now."
"Well, if you're sure they're off
the same pig, I'll take three of
them," replied the young wife,
meekly.
SHE ADORED THE RING.
Maud—When you Broke the en-
gagement, of course you returned
the diamond ring he gave you.
Ethel—Certainly not! I don't
care for Tack any more, but my
feelings have not changed towards
the ring.
Weary William—"You condemn
no tramps, but there's one thing
we must get credit for." Mrs.
Stingey—"What's that? Weary
William—"You don't hear as ''*es
dulgin' in labor disputes,"
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BLUEJACKETS' GRIEVANCES
DISCONTENT WIWI'S IN BRIs
TISlif NAVY.
Needs of the 'Sailors Overlooked
jit the Craze for Big
Warships, •
The spirit of unrest and diesatia-
faction with the things that are has
now sprctul to the army and navy,
writes 0 London correspondent.
Tammy Atkins for the moment
holds his peace, but his brother in
ammo, the jack tart is fully alive to
the fact that now is the time to air
his grievances and to press for their
removal. Such a thing as a blue-
jackets' trade union of course does
not exist. The regulations express-
ly forbid any such combination.
But things have come to such a
pass that the 100,000 sailors of the
Royal navy contemplate setting the
King's regulation, and Admiralty
instructions at defiance by forming
themselves into a trade union.
To those who have studied the
question closely this determination
will not come an a surprise, It has
long been mi. matter of common
knowledge that in the navy discon-
tent amounting almost to a muti-
nous spirit has been growing. 11
is no exaggeration to say that a
continuance of the present state of
affairs constitutes a grave national
scandal.
In the first place the regulations
have compelled the men to suffer
their injustices in eilence. They
are not allowed even to petition the
Admiralty through their command-
ing officers,. Secondly, people have
been taught to regard the seaman,
and particularly the British ma,n-o'-
warsma,n, as a born gambler, as a,
man who would cavil at Paradise
and whose complaints therefore are
not to be taken seriously. Thirdly,
the Dreadnought cra,zo has taken
fast hold of the nation and little at-
tention is given to the needs of the
men.
TIME TO WAIUT UP.
It is high time that these ideas.
should go by the board. It is time
for the nation and the naval author-
ities to realize that petty officers
and men with a full sense of their
risk and responsibility are advocat-
ing publicly the amalgamation of all
the lower deck societies into one
formidable association that will be.
strong enough to demand the re-
dress of their grievances bymeth-
ods with which the industrial his-
tory of the last year or two has
made us painfully familiar.
The sailor has been patted on
the back long enough. The pro-
cess is not unplcasing, but at best
it means nothing, it leads to no
substantial recognition of the blue-
jackets' admitted grievances. What
Tack wants now is to be treated
fairly as a citizen, and if he must
be patted that the other hand shell
not be employed in the extraction
of cents from his pocket.
The fact is the men of the navy
are now being paid less than they
were. A comparison between the
estimates of 1909-10 and those for
the current year shows that in four
years the pay of natty officees and
men of the seaman branch has drop-
ped on the average $5.80 a year.
Tho average weekly wage, inclusive
of these allowances for various
qualifications of which so much is
made, is slightly under $3.50.
Some years ago tho .Admiralty in.
creased the period required to serve
for pensions from 20 to 22 years;
but although until then the basis
of the pension had been a cent a
day for each year's service, no ad-
dition to the basis was made for the
extra. permed re,quieed. A man gets
no more for serving 22 yeaes than
he did for serving 20; and while
the whole pension scheme is based
en the deferred pay system the de-
pendents of e man who dies in the
elst year of his service get nothing
at all.
GRATUITY REDUCED.
Another instance of this sort of
thing is the gratuity to chief petty
officers on retirement, which, once
fixed at $96, .has been reduced by
the Admiralty to $12.
Much is being made of the com-
mittee under Rom -Admiral Brock,
now enquiring into the system of
summary punishments in the fleet,
The haphazard manner•'in which
these punishments have been In-
tl/seed has for yeses been a crying
scandal,
A petty officer who is disrated and
reduced to A.B. has absolutely no
ppeal—hlsccami5settled
nl1
the ship's13
who, an:
it frequently happens, is at the
same time prosecutor and judge.
Mr. Yoxley points out in the cur-
rent issue of the. Fleet that it is a
fairly easy matter for a man to
suffer a, financial loss of nearly
81,4413 in pay :mid pension "as
resultof a summarypun ith meat in -
flitted by ono captain for a 'crime'
that another woulel not deign to 'no-
tice." In seek circumstances a
man is surely entitled to the jus-
tice of a court-martial.
A Scottish student,
inn -mood to
be deficient in judgment, was asked
by
a „professor in the course of his
exeminatien how he would dissever
a fool. "By the questions he would
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