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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1912-6-27, Page 2Take A Scoopful Of Each— Side By Side Take "St, Lawrence" Granulated in one scoop—and any other sugar in the other. Look at "St. Law- rance" Sugar — its perfect crystals — its pure, white sparkle— its even grain. Test ft point by point, and yon will see that Absolutely Absolutely Best - Su aL 1P"e is one of the choicest sugars ever refined—with a standard of purity that few sugars can boast. Try it in your home. Analysis shows, "St, Lawrence Granulated" to be "e9 raelloo to rooyi Putt cane Sugar with no impurities whatev'e'r" "Most every dealer sells St. Lawrence Sugar." THE ST- LAWRENCE SUGAR REFINING CO. LIMITED, MONTREAL. Why doesn't she take NA -DRU -CO Headache Wafters They stop a headache promptly, yet do not contain any of the dangerous drugs common In headache tablets. Ask your Druggist about them, 25o, a box. NATIONAL DECO AND CHEMICAL CO. OF CANADA, LIMITED. 122 65 ONLY A MN'C'H OR, A CURIOUS MYSTERY EXPLAINED. CHAPTER VII.—(Cont'd) "And I'm sure I don't know what I should do without you if you did get married" said Mrs. Boniface, driving back the tears which bad started to her eyes, "so I don't know why I am so anxious that it should come about, except that I should so like to see you happy." "And so I am happy, perfectly happy," said Cecil, and as she spoke she suddenly bent forward and kissed her mother. "A girl would have to be very wicked not to be happy with you and father and Roy to live with." Mrs. Boniface o taco was a Devonshire 0 e woman, om and notwithstanding her five -and -twenty years of London life, she still preserved something of her western accent and intona- tion ; she had also the gentle man- ner and the quiet consideration and courtesy which seem innate in most west -country people. As to educa- tion, she had received the hest that was to be had for tradesmen's daughters in the days of her youth, but she was well aware that it did not come up to modern require- ments, and had taken gond care that Cecil should be brought up very differently. The opportunity for suggesting Cecil's plan to Mr. Boniface came soon after they reached home. Cecil was in the drawing -room, playing one of Chopin's Ballnde;, when her father came into the rvi"m. He stood by the fire till she had finished, watching her thoughtful- ly. He was an elderly inan, tall and spare, with a small, shapely J head, white hair and trim; white beard. His gray eyes were honest and kindly, like his son's, and the face was a1 and as well as refined g face, "It is not to be supposed that every one should see from one point of view," he said to his wifo. "We are all of us looking to the same sun, and that is the great thing." Such divisions must always be a little sad, but mutual love and mu- tual respect made them in this case a positive gain. There were no ar- guments, but each learned to see and admire what was good in the other's view, to hold stanchly to what was deemed right, and to live in that love which practically nul- lifies all petty divisions and differ- ences. "Arid so I hear that you want to be mothering those little children over the way," said Mr. Bonita -ea when the piece was ended. . Cecil crossed the room and stood beside him. "What do you think about it, fa- ther?" she asked. "I think that before you decide you must realize that it will be a great responsibility." "I have thought of that," she said. "And of course there is the expense to be thought of," "Never mind about the expense; I will undertake that part of the matter if you will undertake the re- sponsibility. Do you quite realize that even pretty little children are sometimes cross and naughty and ill?" She laughed. "Yes, yes; I have seen those chil- dren in ell aspects, and they are ra- ther spoiled. But I can't bear to think that they will be sent to some great institution, with no one to care for them properly." "Then you ars willing to under- take your share of the bargain?" "Quite." "Very well, then that is settled. Let us eoine across and see if any one has stepped in before us." Cecil, in great excitement, flow upstairs to tell her mother, and re- appeared in a minute or two in her hat and jacket. Then the father and daughter crossed the quiet su- burban road to the apposite house, where such a different life -story had been lived. The door was opened to them by the nurse; she had evi- dently been crying, and even as they entered the passage they seem- ed conscious of the desolation of the whole atmosphere. "Oh, miss, have you hoard the verdict?" said the servant, who knew Cecil slightly, and was eager for sympathy. "And what's to be- come of my little ones no one seems to know." "That is just what we came to In- quire about," said Mr. Boniface. "We heard there were no relations to take charge of them. Is that true?' "There's not a creature in the world to care for them, sir," 'said the nurse. "There's the lawyer looking through master's papers now, sir, and he says we must be out of this by next week; and that he must look up some sort of school where they'll take them cheap. A school for them little bits of things, sir, isn't it enough to break one's heart? And little Miss Gwen so delicate, and only a lawyer to choose it, as knows nothing but about parchments and red tape, sir, and hasn't so much as handled a child in his life, I'll be bound." "If Mr. Grautley's solicitor is here I should like to speak to him for a minute," said Mr. Boniface. "I'11 be with you again before long, Cecil; perhaps you could see the children." He was shown to the study which had belonged to the master of the house, and unfolded Cecil's sugges- tion to the lawyer, which proved to be a much more fatherly' sort of man than the nurse had represent- ed. "Things have gone hardly with poor Grantley," he remarked. "And such an offer will be the greatest possible surprise to him, I shall UC bei seeing himtr e more to- g morrow, and will jet you know what he says. But of course there can be but one answer ; he will thank- fully accept your help." Meanwhile Cecil had been taken upstairs to the nursery. The nurse had gone into the adjoining room, but she quickly returned. "There are asleep, miss, but you'll come in and see them, won't you?" Cecil had wished for this, and followed her guide into the dimly lighted night -nursery, where in two little cribs jay her future charges. Lancelot, the ekler of the two, was just four years old; he had a sweet, rosy, determined little face with a slightly Jewish look about it, his curly brown hair was long enough to fall back over the pillow, and in his fat little (rand he grasp- ed a toy horse, which was his in- seperable companion aright and day. The little girl was much smaller and much more fragile -looking, though eltee 11. 108 Cheques Will be Distributed Among Canadian Farmers. Will You Get One of Them? In addition to the twenty-seven first prizes of $50 each, there will be eighty-one other cash prizes, ranging from $10 to $25 in our 1912 PRIZE CONTEST FOR FARMERS T 5294.e „ t.‘". ks efee 7 This contest is along the same lines as the one which was so successful last year, except that there are three times as many prizes, and, therefore three times as many chances for each contestant to win. 'Every farmer in Can- ada who uses "Canada" Cement is eligible to compete. 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They were atill talking about the matter when Mr. Boniface rejoined them, the lawyer also came in, and, to the nurse's surprise, even looked at the sleeping children, "Quito hu- manlike," as she remarked after- ward to the cook. "Don't yen distress yourself about the children," lie said, kind- ly. "It will be all right for them, We shall know definitely about it to -morrow; but this gentleman has very generously offered to take care of them." The nurse's tearful gratitude was interrupted by a sound from one of the erfbs. Lance, disturbed per- haps by the voices, was talking in his sleep. "Gee -up l" he shouted' in exact imitation of a carter, as he waved the toy horse in the air, Mr, Boniface and Cecil, after a few parting words with the happy servant, rdhrossecl the road to Ro- wan Tree House. "Ob, father, it is so very good of you," .said Cecil, slipping her arra into his ; "I Haven's been so happy for an age!" "And rt,o, happy," he replied, "that it is stucha thing as this which pleases my daughter," After that there followed e de- lightful evening of anticipation, and, Mrs. Boniface entered into this plan with her whole heart aiicl talk- ed of nursery furniture put away 110 the loft, and arranged the nc.w nur- sery in imagination fifty times over --always with improvements, "I believe," said the gentle nItl' lady, laughing, "that it was duo to that old nurse of mine that 1 Mew could bear theological arguinentsrl, She began them when we were so young that we took a fatal dislike to them. I can woll remember, as a little thing of four years old, sit- ting on the punishment chair in the nursery when all the others were out ab play, and wishing that Adam and Eve hadn't sinned." "You all sound very merry," said Roy, opening the door before the laugh which greeted -this story had died away. ' "Why, how nice and early yon are, Roy ! ' exclaimed Cecil. "Oh 1 mother has been telling us no end of stories, you ought to have been here to listen to them. And, Roy, we are most .likely going to have those little children over the way to Live with us till their father is out of prison again." Roy seemed grave and peocou- pied, but Cecil was too happy to notice that, and chattered un con- tentedly. "Yost are tired Cecil's Roy," she said, when Cecil s story had come to an end. "Just a little," he owned. "Stich a curious thing happened to me. It was a good thing yeti caught sight of me at. Hyde Park Corner and stopped to axle Mends the trial, Ce- cil, for otherwise it Wouldnever have came about. Who do you think I met just; as you drove on?„ erg Gln t .;liens," said Cecil, ris- ing from leis place, en the health - rug as the ge,tg suulicicd for sup- per. "One ••C '. n! N,Irwostinn fr'ci:icla," said lin}'. ` 1 r tit rP "What" i hf 'ztually iu Reg - laird atmi esei "Yes, poor fellow , said Jbas', f T h i tf Something in his tem) marls Ce- cil's heart beat quickly. "Why do you say poor' fellow ?" she asked. ''Oh, Roy ! what is the luatter 2 what ---what has, happen- ed to him?" CHAPTER VIII. "The house seems quiet without Frithjof," remarked Herr Feick on the Monday after his son's doper, ture. Frithiof at that very moment was walking through the streets of Hull, fueling lonely and desolate enough. Tho diking -room looked very pleasant on that October morning. Sigrid was looking forward eager- ly to his return„ and was so much cheered by the improvement in her father's health and spirits that she felt more at rest than she had done for some time. Little Swanhild knew quite well that the general expectation was that Frithiof would he jictrother,1 to her ideal, As foe. Herr li'laolz he lo+ol:ed, eager and_ hopeful, and it seemed es it some clout f d o care leadn boon lifted off him, He talked more than he had done of late, teased Swauhild mer- rily about her lessons, and kept both girls {; laughing and chattering at the table till iiwanhilcl had to run off in a hurry, declaring that she shotllcl be late for school, "You should not tell such funny stories in the morning, little fa- ther !" she said laughingly, `Ah, but to laugh is so good for the digestion," 6aid Herr Iralok, "You -will read hnglish all the 'hot- ly,' in consequence, See if you tl 'l re sou busy to -clay, fa their?'f • ••te,iareiil 0 oeseww ri a wWlink '°rte+ e On tic Fars TIME TO WATER HORSES. A horse should bo watered before feeding, and never given a large quantity of water after a meal, for the simple reason that the water will wash the food out of the sto- mach before stomach digestion has taken place, and the food will not bo well prepared for absorption; and besides ib is sometimes the cause of colic. There is a popular idea that a,, warm horse should not be allowed to drink, and, unlike a great many other popular ideas, there is a little truth in it. If you water a warm horse in the ordinary way, lotting him drink all that he will, you are likely to have a foundered horse on your hands, This is especially so if, at the time, the horse is fatigued. Nevertheless, it is always safe to allow hini from six to ten swallows, no matter bow warm he is. If this bee given on going into the stable and he -is allowed to stand and eat hay for an hour and is then offered water, he will not drink nearly so much as he would have had none been given before. The danger is not in the first swallow, as we often hear it assert- ed, but in the excessive quantities he will clrinlc if not restrained. John Splan, the great trainer, writes: "As to water, I thine that a horse should have all that he wants at all times, A man says: 'Why; will you giye your horse water before a race?' Yes, before the race, in the race, and after the race and any other time that he wants to drink. When I say give your horse all the water he wants before the race, I do not mean that you shall tie him in a warm stall where he cannot get a drink for five or six hours on a hot day, and then take k ruin to thepump pu p and give him all that he wants. What I mean is to give him water often, and, in that way, he will take only a small quantity at a time." After long, continuous exertion the system is greatly depleted of fluid. Nature calls for its replace- ment, and• this is the cause of a thirst which is so intense that, 1f the animal is not restrained at this time, he may drink much more than Ise need's, The custom, almost universally followed, of giving ehe morning meal before water, is not very oh- jectionable, "either theoretically or practically. At this time there is no depletion of fluid, consequently the horse is nob very thirsty and does not drink rapidly ors xceusive- ly, and apparently very little evil results from this method. How- ever, the writer much prefers that the horse should have an opportu- nity to drink before the morning meal. Personally, I much prefer keeping horses, both snmmcr Lind winter, in an open shed, with a large water tank in the yard, to tying them by the head in a barn. Not only in. giving water to hors- es must care he exercised, but in every other way. Many- a good driving horse has its years of usefulness cut short by being left in the hands of some per- son who does not know how to take ears of a horse or does not care what happens to the horse that happens to come into his hands. Ono of the most common ways of injuring a driving horse is by driv- ing him hard in cool weather, and when the horse has been brought in- to a sweat, leaving him uncovered and exposed to cold winds or to drafts in a stable, It is seldom necessary to drive a horse so hard on a toot day that he will be in A sweat, In warm wea- ther it is different, as the horse then sweats with little exertion. When the horse has been driven until he is revered with foam and sweat, he. should be taken into a stable, rubbed dawn with whisps of hay or piece of rough cloth, and then blanketed. The neglect of such precautions has resulted in many a horse catching cold that his proved serious. Driving is a science itself, and there are many mature people who have not learned how to drive a horse, - They have no idea es to the amount of work he hi able to per- form without lessening his vitality. It must be rerncnibcred that a horse, as well as a luau, is limited AO to what he can do. , British Dominions in South ;\in- eriea consist of British G.niana and British Hondurat, and comprise •nearly_, 100,000 square miles of terri- tory. Fashions in women's clothes change at loiist twice a year in this country, yet in Japlhn the fashions have remained practically unchang- ed for 2,500 years, Professional story -tellers, it -ho wander' from house to house and ply their trade for five emits, per hour, exist in large etiitlbors 10 A'mkio, J'bpari.