HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1912-10-3, Page 2ONLY A MONTH;
OR,:.A CURIOUS MYSTERY EXPLAINED.
CHAPTER XVIIL—(Cont'd.)
A hospital nurse, whose sweet,
strong face contrasted curiously
with her funereal garments, was
•sitting beside the mattresses, which
for greater convenience had been
placed on the floor. Frithiof lay in
the absolute stillness of exhaustion,
and Sigrid, who had never seen him
i11, was for a. moment almost over -
corse, It .seemed hardly possible
that the thin, worn, haggard face
on the pillow could be the same `ince
which had smiled on her last from
the deck of the steamer when he
had started .on that fatal visit to
the Morgans. He was talking in-
coherently, and twice she caught
the name of Blanche. •
"Try iii you can get him to take
this," said the nurse, :handing her a
cup ef beef -tea.
He took it passively, but evident-
ly did not in, the least recognize her.
His eyes, which for so many days
had seen only the phantoms of his
imagination, fixed themselves on
her face, and by degrees a light of
recognition dawned in them.
"Sigrid!" he exclaimed, in a
tone of such relief that tears started
to her eyes,,
.She bent down and kissed him.
"I have came to take care of you,
And after you have been to sleep
we will have a long talk," she said,
gently. "There, lot me make your
pillows comfortable."
"Talk," he said. "It is so good
to hear Norse once more."
"I willtalk if you will try to
sleep. I will sit here and say you
some of Bjornsen's songs." And,
with his hand still in hers, she said,
in her quieting voice, "Jog her
soght," and 'Olaf Trygvasan,"
and „"Prinsessen."
This last seemed specially to
please him, and while, for the sixth
time, she was repeating it, Roy,
who had been watching them in-
tently, made her a little sign, and,
glancing down, •she. saw that Frith-
iof had fallen asleep. No one
stirred, for they all knew only too
well how much depended on that
sleep.
For the next day or two Frithiof
realized little. To the surprise and
delight of all, he slept almost in-
cessantly, waking only to take food,
to make sure that Sigrid was with CHAPTER XIX.
him, and to enjoy a delicious sense
of ease and relief. "See what I have brought you,"
"Re is out of the, wood now," said Sigrid. re-entering the sick -
said Dr. Morris, cheerfully. "You room a little later on.
tame just in time, Miss Feick. But Frithiof took the basket and
I will give you one piece of advice: looked, with a pleasure which a
if possible stay in England and few weeks ago would have been im-
possible to him, at the lovely fruit
and flowers.
"You have come just at the right
time, for he, will insist on talking
of all the deepest things in heaven
and earth," said Ray, "and this
makes a good diversion,"
"They are from Mrs. Boniface.
Is it not kind of her? And do you
know, Frithiof, she and Doctor
Morris have been making quite a
deep plot; they want to transplant
us bodily to Rowan Tree House, and
Doctor Morris thinks the move
could do you no harm. now that you
are getting better."
His face lighted up with some-
thing, of its former expression.
"How I should like never to see
this hateful room again 1" he ex-
claimed, "You don't know how I
detest it. The old ghosts seem to
haunt it still. There is nothing that
I eon bear to look at except your
picture of Bergen, which has done
ree mere than one good turn."
The change to Rowan Tree House
seemed to work wonders in him.
The house had always charmed
him, and the recollection of thefirst
time he had entered it, using it as a
shelter from the storm of life, much
as Roy and Cecil had used his fa-
ther's house as a shelter from the
drenching rain of Bergen, returned
to him again and'again through the
quiet weeks that followed.
Sigrid told him all the details of
her life in Norway since they had
last seen each other, of her refusal
of Torvald Lundgren, of her rela-
tions with her aunt, of the early
morning on Hjerkinshc. And herstory toouehod him.
"It was just as if I had worn • a
crane veil all my life," she said,
looking up from her work for a
moment with those clear, blue,
practical eyes of hers. "And up
there on the mountain it seemed as,
if some one had lifted it quite'
away."
Her words stirred within him an
mneasy sense of less, a vague de-
sire which he had once or twiee
felt before.
"Sigrid !" he said et last, with a
ettepreeeed eagerness in his voice,
"Sigrid, you won't ga back again
to Norway and leave mei"
"No, dear, I will never leave
you," she said, warmly, "I will
try to find creme sort of work. To-
night 'r mean to talk to Mr. Beni.
fano about it, Surely in this huge
piaci teem must be something I j
tan clo."
"It is ifs veru hugeness that
makes one despair," said Frithiof,
"Good God ! whet I went through
ls;et amens ! And there ere thou-
sandsa
s in the me plight, thousands
1
At the first moment Sigrid had
fallen in love with the sweet -na-
tured, motherly old lady, and now
relic opened her heart to her, and
they discussed the sad cause of
Frithiof'•s breakdown, and talked
of past days inNorway, and of the
future that lay before him,
"What makes me so miserable,"
said Sigrid, "is to feel that his ,life
is, as it were, over, though he is
so young; it has been spoiled and
ruined for him when he is but one -
and -twenty."
"But the very fact of his being so
young seems to me to give hope that
brighter 'things are in store for
him," said Mrs. Boniface,
"I do net think so," said Sigrid.
"That girl has taken something
from him which can never come
again ; it does not seem to me, pos-
sible that. a man can love like that
twice in a life -time."
"Perhaps not just in that way,"
said Mrs. Boniface,
"And, besides," said Sigrid,
"what girl would care to take such
love as he might now be able to
give.? I can euro nothing would in-
duce me to accept any secondary
love -of that kind."
Now Cecil wan of a wholly differ-
ent type. Already love had taken
possession of her, it had stolen into
her heart almost unconsciously
and had brought grave shadows in-
to her quiet life, shadows east by
the sorrow of another. Sigrid's
speech troubled her for a minute or
two; if one girl could speak so, why
not all girls?
"It may be so," she admitted,
yet with a latent consciousness that
so infinite a thing as love could not
be bound by any hard and fast
rules. "But I can not help it.
Whether it is womanly or not I
would die to give him the least real
oamfort.' '
"Tell Harris to stop, Cecil," said
Mrs. Boniface. "We will get some
grapes for Mr. Falck."
And glad to escape from the car-
riage for a minute, and glad, too,
to be of use even in such a far-off
way, Cecil went into the fruiterer's,
r" -ruing before long with a. beauti-
ful basket of grapes and flowers.
make your home with him, he
ought not to be no much alone."
'You think that he may have
such such an attack again?" asked
Sigrid, wistfully.
"No, I don't say that at ail. He
has a wonderful constitution. and
there is no reason why be should
ever break down again. But he is
more likely to get depressed if he
is alone, and you will be able to
prevent his life from growing too
monotonous,"
So she lived through those quiet
days in the sick -room. One day
' Roy, coming in at his usual hour in
the morning to relieve guard,
brought her a fat envelope which
he had found waiting for her in the
hall. She opened it eagerly, and
made a little exclamation of disap-
pointment and vexation.
`'Anything wrong?" he asked.
"Oh," she said, "it seems so ri-
diculous when I had been expecting
such great things from it."
"Have you made any other at-
tesnpts?" lie asked.
"Oh, yes," said Sigrid, "I began
to. try in Norway and even attempt-
ed a, story and sent it to one of our
best novelists to ask his opinion."
"And what did he say?"
"Well," she said, smiling, 'the
wrote back very kindly, but said
that he could not conscientiously
recommend any one to write stories
whose sole idea in taking up the
profession was the making of mo-
, ley."
' _ •Roy sat Tensing over the perplexi-
ties of ordinary life. Here was be
with more money than he knew
what to do with, and here was the
woman he loved struggling in vain
to earn a few shillings.
"My father and mother come
hometo-night," he said, at length,
"and if you will allow me I will esk
them if they know of anything like-
ly to suit you. Cecil will he very
anxious to meet you again, 'Don't
yen think you might go for a drive
with her to-mer'rfiw afternoon 1 I
would he herr with your brother."
Sigrid gladly assented, and the
next day broth Mrs. Iloniface, and
Ceeil drove to .the little home at
Vauxhall. Rey brought Sigrid
down to the carriage, and with a
very happy satisfied feeling. intro-
duced Tier to his mother. and watch-
ed the warm meeting with Cecil,
"1 can't .thinkwhat would he-
«,nie of l+rithinf if it had not been
for all year kindness," eaid Sigrid,
"Irene' son has practically saved his
life, I am ;sure bv.taking Darr of
him, through this illness."
"And the worst is ever new, t
hope." said Mrs. lloniface, "That
is swell a comfort,"
who would work if only they could
meet with employment."
Sigrid watched his returning
strength with delight; indeed, per-
haps she never realized what' he h..d
been during his lonely menthe of
London life.
Frithiof hardly knew which part
of the day was most pleasant to
him, the quiet morning after Mr.
Boniface end Roy had gone to town,
when he and Sigrid were loft to
their own devices; the pleasant lit-
tle break at eleven, when Mrs,
Boniface looked in to remind them
that fruit was good in the morning,
and to tempt him with pears and
grapes, while Cecil and the two
children Dame in from the garden,
bringing with them a sense of fresh-
ness and life.
Quiet the life was, it is true, but
dull never. Every one Traci plenty
to do, yet not too much.
Into the midst of this home there
had come now same ,strangely fresh
elements. Three distinct romances
were being worked out beneath
that quiet roof. There was poor
Frithiof with his shattered life, his
past an agony which would scarcely
bear thinking of, his future a des-
perate struggle with circumstances.
There was Cecil, whose life was so
far bound up with his that when he
suffered she suffered too, yet had to
live on with a serene face and make
no sign. There was Roy already
madly in love with th eblue-eyed.
fair-haired Sigrid, who seemed in
the glad reaction after all her trou-
bles to have developed into a total-
ly different being, and was the life
of the party. And yet in spite of
the inevitable. pain of love, these
were happy days for all of these.
Happy to Frithiof because his
strength was returning to hien; be-
cause, with an iron resolution, he
as far as possible shut out the re-
membrance of Blanche; because the
spirit life within him was slowly
developing, and for the first time
he had become conscious that it was
a reality,
Happy for Cecil because her love
was no foolish sentimentality, no
sefish day -dream, but a noble love
which taught her more than any-
thing else could possibly have done.
Happiest of all perhaps for Roy,
because his love story was full of
bright hope—a hope that each day
grew fuller and clearer.
"Robin," said Mrs. Boniface one
evening to her husband. "I think
Sigrid Falok is one of the sweetest
girls I ever saw."
,"So 'thinks same ono etre if I am
not much mistaken," he replied.
"Then, you, too. have noticed it.
I am ea glad. I hoped it was so,
but could not feel sure. Oh, Ro-
bin, I wonder if he has any chance?
She would make him suoh a sweet
little wife."
"How can we tell that she has
not left her heart in Norway?"
"I do not think so," said Mrs.
Boniface. "No, I feel sure that
can't be, from .the way in which she
speaks of her life there. If there
is any rival th be feared it is Frith-
ief. They seem to be wrapped up
in each other, and it is only natural,
too, after all their trouble and sep-
aration and this illness of his. How
strong he is getting again, and how.
naturally he takes to the game?
He is suoh a fine-looking fellow,
somehow he dwarfs every oneelse."
(To be continued.)
5.
OLD, BUT GAINS RICHES.
'Wealthy Japanese Could Not Read
Until He was Sixty.
Too old at forty does not apply
in Japan. Wakao Ippel, the rich-
est man in the province of Yaman-
ashi, who has just celebrated his
ninety-third birthday, did not learn
to read until he was sixty, nor had
be begun to. amass his great for-
tune.
He was a rag -picker, and his first
money -making venture was the pur-
chase of a number of crystal balls,
which he sold at an enormous pro-
fit, After reaching the, age of sixty
he engaged a tutor, and as soon as
he had learned to read began Chi-
nese classics, a study which he pur-
sued until his ninetieth year.
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A SPLENDID SUMMER.
"What sort of a summer have you
had here?"
"Great ! Once we went two whole
clays without rain."
PAW KNOWS EVERYTHING.
Willie—"'Paw, what is a bragain
counter 1"
Paw—"Any woman who is out
shopping, my son."
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EUROPE'S POPULAR BANKS
NOW 18,000 IN GERMANY AND
45,500 IN PRANCE.
Founded by German Financier with
a View to Assisting
Farmers.
The popular banks of Europe
were first instituted about seventy
years ago in Germany. From their
beginning they have been founded
and conducted upon the basis of the
unlimited liability of the aharohold-
ers. These banks are now found
practically in all the countries of
Europe, serving especially two
classes of the people, the farmer's
and the wage earners,
The inception of the popular
banks may be found in the brain of
the well-known Gorman financier
and philanthropist Raiffeisen, Ac-
cording to Moody's Magazine he
first conceived this beneficent plan
for the amelioration of the condi-
tions surrounding agricultural peo-
ple. In 1847 he established the first
oaisse rurale, ar agricultural bank.
His purpose was actuated solely
by is desire to help the farmer by
placing within his grasp the facili-
ties with which to help himself, t•0
improve his equipment and to in
crease his acreage and the produc-
tivity of his land and stock.
PLAN QUICKLY GAINS FAVOR.
He neither sought nor obtained
assistance from the government,
but from the first relied upon the
perfect mutuality of all the ele-
ments of the plane The wisdom
and practicability of ltaiffeisen's
system can have no better proofs
than the tlioueand,s of societies
which have been founded during
Ibsen intervening years upon the
identical plans which lee conceived
and successfully established in the
beginning.
Contemporaneous with Raiffeisen
another German, Schultze-De-
litzsch, establisliecl the first popu-
lar bank or co-operative credit so-
ciety for the benefit of the people
of the towns, tradesmen and insti-
tutions.
He is undo-ubtedly entitled to
quite as much credit as we accord
to Raiffeisen, as he extended the
work of the ]atter by assisting a
different class of the people who
were quite as mush in need of bank-
ing facilitis as were those in the
farming districts.
ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION.
The following are some of the
articles of association upon which
the success of these banks has been
established :
The capital of the society is not
fixed, but varies aocording to the
number of stockholders.
The capital is divided into shares
of $1 to $5 par value each (i. e.,
francs, lira, marks, eta, as the
case may be.)
The foundational object of the
society is to procure to its stock-
hol7flers the credit necessary for
their business to stimulate the ha-
bit of saving surplus and to provide
a safe and remunerative invest-
ment for such savings.
The shareholders shall be mutual-
ly responsible to the extent of their
respective private fortunes for the
liabilities of the society, which lia-
bilities are divided among the
shareholders pro rata.
No person is accepted as ashare-
holder unless he is well known to
the directors, a citizen ef the same
locality, and known to be honest,
sober and economical. -
PRINCIPLES OF LOANING.
The shareholders alone are eligi-
ble to borrow money from the bank.
The specific purpose for which the
loan is asked must be explained,
and only the necessary amount ac-
tually required is loarn.ed. (This
principle of loaning only to share-
holders insures to a great degree
the security of the loan in that the
borrower will naturally protect his
own investment as a shareholder).
The management of the society
rests with the governor, board of
directors, auditors and the general
meetings of the shareholders. These
will all vary in number aocording
to the volume cf business transact-
ed,
In Germany there are ae present
18,000 institutions of this charac-
ter, of which over 10,000 are country
popular banks. There are some dif-
ferences in the details of the oonsti-
tueion and management of these
Thames, depending upon local condi-
tions
About five hundred of the number
are based upon the limited liability
of the ahareho]ders, and the re-
dnaining 9,500 follow the plan of
unlimited liability and moral mu-
tuality among the members . Dur-
ing the last year of 1.910 the gross
business of the German societies
amounted to over 6,000,000,000
marks, equal to $1,600,000,000..
NEW IN ENGLAND
In England the organization of
popular banks has only recently
been undertaken and their success
I is still a matter kr future develop-
! mend;, though it may be safely pre-
dieted, as there is ample opportun-
, its, and a recognized neecssity for
' these banking facilities in rural' die -
.'tries, There they are known as
village ereelit societies, agriculterel
credit secir..ti- s or agrietilteral
banks,
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us
4,000 popular banks and agricel-
tnral credit societies and in Hun-
gary about seven hundred. In Bel-
gium there are over 300 agricultural
or co-operative societies, of which
290 are ba -sed upon the Raiffeisen
system.
In Italy there are over 7,000
popular banks and credit societies
under the same system, established
under the personal guidance of Me.
Wollemborg; of this number 736 are
purely popular banks. The Italian
popular IYanks represent a capital
of 95,000,000 francs, surplus 67,000,-
000 firanos, total 152,000,000 francs.
The rate of interest on loans aver-
ages 4 to 0 per cent., and the rate
paid on deposits is 3 to 4 per cent.
In France the popular banks aro
variously known by the names of
Credit Agricole Mutucl: . Caisse
Rurale and Regionals, Caisse Ouv-
riere, etc. They number in the dif-
ferent classes over 5,500 banks and
societies with over 1,800,000 share-
holders. All these societies enjoy
the control of the French Govern-
ment, as also its financial help.
A HINT.
He—I don't approve of tips.
She—It has been noticed that you
do not even tip your hat.
InAus iris there are more than l
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8111: KNEW.
"What is conscience?" asked the
Sunday school teacher. This was
followed by dead silence.
"What do we call the thing that
►ihecks us when we do wrong?"
asked the teacher,
" C3randma," promptly replied
the little girl in the class.
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NOT TO DE BEATEN.
"Do you think you could eat an-
other piece of cake, Tommy?"
"I think I could, auntie, if 1 stood
en my head."
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MAKII BETTER VEAL.
The high price of mutton during
the last few years has encouraged,
particularly dairymen, to pay more
attention to making good veal, but
there is a woeful lack of this kind
ef meat now on the market.
Most dairyman will not take the
trouble to fatten calves, but send
them to market juet as soon as
they are past the age limit, and
the result is entirely unsatisfactory,
both to the seller and the custo-
mer.
Well fatted calves, weighing from
120 to 150 pounds, always brings
high prices, no matter what the
condition of the cattle market may
be. City people eat a great deal
of veal and would consume much
more if they could get what they
want, blit the stuff seen on the
market is for the most part stringy,
unfinished and not all satisfactory.
Many calves are sold when a
week old et three to four cents per
pound, when if fed until they
weighed 25 pounds, would bring
double the money, 'but dairymen
have not yet learned how to feed
calves in order to make gond veal.
The European farmers make good
money out of the right calves. The
youngster is carefully fed from the
day he is born, being confined in
dark stalls. He is fed liberally on
oatmeal, whole milk at the atarb
and skim milk later, with some
roots; and when he goes to market
he is about as toothsome a morsel
as can be found anywhere. Eng-
lishmen are very fond of this kind
of meat, and price cuts no figure
with them.
There is no reason why our dairy-
men should not increase their pro-
fits materially by feeding calves;
and it has always been a source of
wonder to us why they so neglect
this part of their business.
The fact is, the public, to a large
extent, is so prejudiced against
veal, having read gruesome tales
about bob veal being too often mar-
keted, that thousands are afraid
to buy veal of any kind. If a bet-
ter system of feeding calves were
adopted, and the business systoma-
tizecl, we would have in a few years
a line of ohoice meat that' would
sell readily at very high prices.
The first thing that is to be done
would be to amend the laws to pre-
vent the railroads and express com-
panies shipping veal under four
weeks of age. The amount of im-
mature stuff that goes to market
every day is appalling, and we be-
lieve that 75 per cent. of it is un-
fit for food. How it gets past the
inspectors is something no man can
find out.
LAMB RAISING.
The farmer who will pay close
attention to his breeding stock and
raise native lambs of uniform size
and breed, feed them intelligently
and market them at the right time
can make more profit from his flock
than from -any other farm invest-
ment. As a rule the native lambs
sent to the markets are so badly
mixed, bath as to breed and feed-
ing that they are a torment to the
buyer and of little profit to the own
er.
This is one of the reasons why
the western •range lambs find great
favor in the big markgts. They are
more uniform in size as they are
fed in large flocks and go to market
practically in the same condition.
Only -a small portion of the native
lambs that are sold on the eastern
markets can be called prime, and
this fact is entirely the fault of the
farmer.
As a rule, sheep -raising on the
average farm is merely a side issue
and little attention is given to it. .
The remedy of the .present condi-
tion of the native lamb market lies
entirely with the men who produce
the lambs, Whenever the farmers
are engaged in the producing of
prime lambs for market at any sea-
son of the year, the business has
proven highly profitable.
Of . course the best markets are
just before Christmas and in the
early spring ; at this period the
prices are always high,
America is becoming a great mut-
ton -eating nation, and if the farm-
ers will improve their hooks and
their methods of feeding there is.
no reason why the native lamb mar-
ket should not prove more profit-
able then that controlled by the
tangs district.
MOST FAMOUS CLAN,
Tile Clan MeeDosi 1d is probably
the oldest and most famous of the
Scottish clans, .claiming descent
from Donald, grandson of Somor-
lad of. the Isles, in the 12th 0505017.
Somerled's name is Norse, ''Siemer.
lidhi," summernslider, that is'mari-
ner, He was son of "Gillie-
brighde," son of "Gills -aid -am-
non." These two mimes aro thor-
oughly Gaelic, so that on the 'whole
Somerdeel may be regarded as
Gael ruling independently over the
.mixed Norse and Gael of. A.rgyll••
shied; Soynerkd died in 1164.
Yew people have . will power
enough to stop talking when they
have said enough,