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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1912-10-17, Page 7r N Iit9 2, A CURIOUS MYS'T'ERY EXPLAINED. AIRSHIP IN BRITISH ARMY MANOttIV.R ABOUT TOALIC2-IT AZKNEZ5WORIV CHAPTER, XX.—(Cont'd) would be about :2150, Frithiof's work for Herr Siverstee, and what ever they might earn by evening engagements could be laid aside to- ward the fund for paying off the debts, anti she thought that they might perhaps manage to live on the rest. Mrs. I3oniface seemed ra- ther aghast at the notion, and said the thought it impossible., "I don't suppose that we shall spend as little on food as Frithiof slid when he was alone," said Sig- rid, "for he nearly starved himself ; and I don't mean to allow him to try that again. I see that the great difficulty will be rent, for that seems so high in London. We were talking about it this morning, and Frithiof had a bright idea. He says there are some very cheap flats—workmen's model lodgings— that might perhaps do for us ; only of course we must make sure that they are quite healthy before we take Swanhild there." "Clean and healthy they are pret- ty sure to be," said Mr's. Boniface, "but I fancy they have strict rules which might be rather irksome to you. Still, we can go and make in- quiries. After all, you would in some ways be better off than in or- dinary lodgings, where you aro at the mercy of the landlady." So that afternoon they went to an office where they could get in- formation as to model dwellings, and found that four rooms could be obtained in some of them at the rate of seven and sixpence a week. To outward view the model dwel- lings were certainly not attractive. The great high houses with their uniform ugly color, the endless rows of windows, all precisely alike, the asphalt court -yard in the cen- ter, though tidy and clean, had a desolate look. "At present we have no rooms to let, sir," was the answer of the superintendent to Frithiof'e in- quiry. "I think, though, we are almost certain to have a set vacant before long." "Could we see over them?" they asked. "Well, the set that will most likely be vacant belongs to a north - country family, and I dare say they would let you look in. There is one of the children. Here, Jessie, ask your mother if the would mind just showing her rooms, will you 1" The ohild, glancing curiously at the visitors, led the way up flight after flight of clean stone stairs. A pleasant -looking woman came for- ward and asked them to step in. "You'll excuse the place being a bit untidy," she said. "My man has ,just got fresh work, and he has but new told me we shall have to be flitting in a week's time. We are going to Compton Buildings in the Goswell Road." "I wonder," said Sigrid, "if we took them, Isbother I could pay one of the neighbors to do my share of. sweeping and scrubbing the stairs, and whether I could get them to scrub out these rooms once a week. Youiee, I don't think I could man- age the scrubbing very well." "Oh, miss, there would be no dif- ficulty in that," said the woman. "There's many that would be thankful to earn a little that way, and the sante with laundry work," "Do you know, I begin to like this great court -yard," she said to Ce- cil. "At first it looked to me dreary, but now it looks to me like a great, orderly human hive; there is something . about it that makes one feel industrious," • "We will eettle down here, then," said Frithiof, smiling; "anti you shall be queen bee." "You think it would nob hurt Swanhild 1" .asked Sigrid, turning to Mrs. Boniface. "The place stems to me beautifully airy." "Indeed," said Mrs. Boniface, ,"I think in many ways the place is most comfortable, and certainly you could net do better, unless you gave a very much higher rent." As for Sigrid, she was now inrher element. A true woman, she do - lighted in the thought of -having rooms of her own to furnish and She glanced at Frithjof and saw quite plainly that he shrunk from the idea, and that it would go hard with his proud nature to accept such an offer, She glanced at Sig- rid, and saw that the sister was ready to sacrifice anything for the sake of getting the little girl to England. Then, having as much tact as kindness, she rose to go. "You will talk it over between you and let me know your de- cision," she said, pleasantly. "Con- sult Mr. and Mrs. Boniface, and let me know in a day or two. Why should you not come in to after- ' noon tea with me to -morrow, for I shall be at home for once, and can show you my canaries? Cecil will bring you. Site and I are old friends." When she was gone Sigrid return- ed to the room with dancing eyes. "Is she not delightful," she cried. "For myself, Frithiof, I can't hesitate for a moment. The work will be easy, and she will be thoroughly kind." "She has a bad temper," said Frithiof. "Hew do you know?" e "Because no 'sweet -tempered wo- man ever had 3d such a , strai ht thin- lipped mouth." 'I think you are very horrid to pick holes in her when she has been so kind to us. For myself I must accept. But how about Swan- hild 1" "I hate the thought for either of you," said Frithjof, moodily. "Now, Frithiof, don't go and be a goose about it," said Sigrid, car- essingly. "If we are ever to have a nice cozy little home together we must certainly work at something, y7 and we are not likely to get lighter, i nr� • or more e con eni al, or better paid work than this. Come, dear, you have got, as Lance would say, to 'grin and bear ib.' ". "In any case, we must give Swan- hild herself a voice in the ,matter," he said at length. "Accept the of- fer' if you like,. provisionally, and let us write to her and tell her about it." "Very well, we will write a joint letter and give her all sorts of guardianly advice. But, all the same, you knew as well as I do that Swanhild will net hesitate for a mo- ment. She is dying to come to Eng- land, and she is never so happy as eaten she is dancing. When Roy same home that even nig the emitter was practically de- cided. Frithiof and Sigrid had had a long talk in the library with Mr. and Mrs. Boniface, and by and by in the garden, Sigrid told him glee- fully what she called the "good news." "I can afford to laugh now at my aluminum peneils and the embroi- dery patterns, and the poodle- shavin " she saidgayly. "Was g, > it not lucky that we happened to go to Mrs. Horner's party. and that everything happened just as it did?" "Do you .really like the pros- pect?" asked Roy. "Indeed I do. I haven't felt so happy for months. For now we need never again be parted from Frithiof. It will be the best thing in the world for him to have a con- fortable little home; and I shall take good care that he doesn't work too hard. Mr. Boniface has been so good. He says that Frithiof can have some extra work to do if he likes; he can attend some of your concerts, and arrange the platform between the pieces; and . this will add Mealy to his salary. And then, too, when he' heard that 1 had quite decided on accepting Madame Lre- obertier's offer, he proposed some- thing else for us too." "What was that?" said poor Roy. "Why, he thinks that he might get us engagements to play at .dhil- dren's parties or small dances. Fri- thiof's violin -playing is quite good enough, he says. And don't you ever think it would be much bet - tea' for him than poring so, long over that heteful work of Herr Sivertson's 2" Rey, was irbliged to assent. "Frithjof ' Is rather down in the depths about it," said iSigi' d, "And I do hope you wily cheer him ' up, If you had known what it wee o live in dependence on relations. so long, you would understand w happy I ant to -night. I, too,. 11 be able to help in paying off ,. ebtsl' her life also to be given up hat desperate attempt 1" it Roy, despondently. CHAPTER XXr, the next ,few days Sigrid cd in deep calculations. hat, exclusive of Swan - earnings, which would by her edneatiou and that might be need - teal yearly income arrange. "Beds are ruinously dear," alio said, after making elaborate cal- culations, "We must have three really comfortable 0008 since we mean to work hard all day, and they must certainly be now; the three of -them with al] their belong- ings will not leave very meth cut et twelve pounds, I fear,' But then as to chairs and tables they might well be -second-hand, and we won't. go in for a single luxury it will loop rather bare, but then there will be less trouble' about cleaning and dusting," • "Yon will become arta a domes- tic character that we shan't know you," said Frithiof, laughing. "What do ,yon think we can nos-, sibly furnish the rooms on 1" • "Wait a moment, and 1''11 add up with more fire engines and ladders my list," she said, cheerfully, "I is being instituted ander Austrian never knew before hew many things nuunagonlsnt. r there were in a house that one can't do well without. Now that must surely be all. No, I have forgotten brushes and brooms and such things. Now, then, for the adding up, You check me, Cecil, for fear I make it to o little—this is a ter- rible o r •- rible moment." "Twenty-eight pounds I" ex- claimed both girls in a breath. "You can surely never do it on that 4" said Cecil. "It seems a great deal to me• ," said Sigrid; "still I have more than that over from uncle's f%fty- pound check, even after Doctor Morris is paid. No, on the whole, I think we need not worry, but may spend as much as that with a clear conscience. The thing I am anxi- ous about is my weekly bill. Look here, we must; somehow manage to live on 0145 it year, that will leave Bye pounds in ease of illness or any great need. For charity it leaves nothing, but we can't give while we are in debt, Two pounds, fifteen shillings a week for three of us! Why, poor people live on far less." "With a clever manager it will be possible," Frithiof said, "and you are no novice, Sigrid, but have been keeping house for the last eleven years." "After a fashion," she replied, "but old Gro really managed things. However, T know that I shall really enjoy trying my hand at anything so novel, and you will have to come and see me very of- ten, Cecil, to prevent my turning into a regular housekeeping drudge." At length the clay came when they were to leave Rowan. Tree House. They each tried to say something suitable to Mr. and Mrs. Boniface, but not very suc- cessfully, for Sigrid broke,, down and cried, .and Frithjoffeltt that to put very deep gratitude into words is a task which .might well baffle the readiest speaker. "And when you want change or rest," said Mrs. Boniface, shaking his hand warmly, "you have only got to lock up your rooms and come down hors to us. There will always be a welcome reacly for the three of you. Don't forget that." "Let it be your second home," said Mr. 'Boniface. Cecil, who was the one to feel most, said least. She merely shook hands with him, made some trifling remark about the time of Swan- hild's train, and wished hum good- bye; then, with a sore heart, watche ed the brother and sister as they stepped into the carriage and drove away. (Tb be continued.) 'l 5' • JERUSALEM WILL BE MODERN Electricity, Tramways, and Water Works Soon Coutpiete. A Syrian journal gives some in- teresting details of the industrial clevelopment of Jerusalem, which, according to the paper, will before 'long be ono of the most up -to -slats and comfortable towns in the near cast, A large number of companies, financed by European capital, have, it is stated.,.recently' beer) applying for concessions with a view to or- ganizing the public services on a modern biosis. An English company which is erecting a largo power station will soon supply eloctric,ourrent all over the city, Even the sacred hill will beforety, long be lighted with eleotri- ei A complete new system of tram- ways is under tonatruetion by, a French eon -teeny, while a German concern is laying maims for a house -to hoose, water supply. To complete the international character of the modernization of Jerusalem, a series of fire stations On the Farm Dycom HAY RACK. A practical and cheap hay rack may be made very simply. The bed frame is fifteen feet long, the rear end is three feet six inches wide, and the front one foot eight inches wide. Being narrow in front permits of the wagon being turned in a smaller place. There is a bolster made on the frame. When the rack is to be used on the wagon, remove the bolster from the wagon and let the one made on the frame take its place. The side rails are made of 234 by six-inch stuff The cross -pieces are two by six inches and six feet sin - inches long. The two boards that form the bows that protect the wheels are made of one by eight- inch elm, or some wood that is tough and will not break in bend- ing, The frame is put together with three eight -inch bolts, assorted lengths to suit the different thick- nesses of material The knees that support the front cross -piece are one foot tall, with- out thetenons; these are six inches on the lower end and three on the upper. If well put together out of good materials, and painted, and well taken care of, this frame will last for 30 years WATCH THE HORSE'S TEETH. If your horse shows difeeulty in eating or loses flesh without appar- ent cause, it is time to examine the teeth.V r e ' t often elo ngated teeth prevent a 1: •ere from properly mas- ticating its food, thereby rendering it impossible to obtain much bene- fit from' it. UIcerated teeth also are a source of great trouble and prevent a horse from eating well. Sometimes broken teeth cat the sides of the horse's mouth and form painful sores which, of course, interfere with mastication. It is a good plan to examine the teeth of all horses two or three times a year, and in case of broken or elongated teeth, treat them with a file. If the teeth of a valuable animal are badly affected it should be treated by a veterinary surgeon. ORCHARD SUGGESTIONS. Midsummer pruning heals quickly and is being practised extensively by good orchardists, Better ship fruit a little green than overripe because it deterior- ates quickly after being packed and placed in hot ears and warehouses. If you have a poor seedling pear or apple tree it may be entirely made over by top grafting. ' Peach trees make koocl stock for plum grafting, as they usually have large vigorous roots. It costs but a trifle for stook for marketing fruit packages and if they are stenciled with your iliums, or the name of your farm, they will prove of a great benefit, provided the fruit is of the best' quality. THE DAIRY, The separator should never be., allowed in the 'barn or near it. A half dozen window sash glazed will make a rust -proof box in whish the dairy vessels can be sunned and kept absolutely clean. An enterprising farmer living neer a town of 6,000 or more can sell every potted of his butter at full retail prices, or little above, the year rotted. For severalears we have Y v bought~ farm butter from the sane farmer at two cents above retail market price every month in the year and glad to get it, Never attempt to keep summct butter for early fall prices, bee it' will not keep.—W, D, s FARM NOTES,, Turn the scrub bull into bologna and fill his place with a sire that will add dollars to the value of the herd through his progeny. Eggs that cost 25 cents per dozen will : brink 87 oi' 88 when hatched and sold as broilers, Cattle en farms do not need horns.. Dehorn your young cak=es Can you tell just how much i costs to feed a cow a year l ,. Ever seethe man who works like a bee every place but at home? A storage place for eggs should be free from any bad odors. Sour slops have: -no place on the well regulated farm. Dipping hogs is cheaper than feeding lice. Cheap meat can be made only from young pigs. 5 MONEY IN BRITISH BANNS. Unclaimed Deposits Aro Used for Various Purposes. Two hundred millions of dollars of unclaimed money in the coffer-. of British banks—derelict gold which nobody owns, and whichthe banks are naturally pleased to take care of! Golcl more than sufficient to pave every square foot of Cheapside with sovereigns, says London Tit -Bits. The sum total may be e;aggerat- ed. Rut make a liberal deduction and you still have many millions to. which no rig+ htfr owners make E rl of ne s ma a claim. There is no bank in the whole length of Great Britain (or elsewhere) which has not its lists of these bank balances that may be said to go a -begging. Some are for trivial sums, scarcely worth the trouble of pocketing; some are for amounts running into thousands. Some years ago it was found that the Bank of England alone had nearly 11,000 of these dormant ec-. counts. Forty of them had more than 850,000 apiece to their credit; one balance was written in six fig- ures, 8907,980. The total at the bottom of the long list was $39,284,- 875. This amount was very largely made up of unclaimed dividends on government stock. Scottish banks have, it is said, 845,000,00 of this overlooked gold, English banks at least double this sum. It seems inconceivable that so much money, for all of which there must have been owners at some time or other, should be thus lost to sight. A score or more of simple cancel account for the seeming im- possibility. A man may, foe pri- vate or business reasons, have ac- counts with more banks than one. He dies, his executors know noth- ing of any but his usual banks; the balances at the others remain un- claimed. He may die abreact or disappear, leaving no clew to his banking af- fairs; he may even forget that such and such an account is net closed. In these and many similar ways mostly the result of carelessness— money is left in the hands of bank- ers to swell the dormant funds, For seven years the bankers keep the accounts open, prepared to pay over the balance to any one, who can prove a title to it. This term expired, they regard the €orgetten gold as their own. Five million dollars of such ownerless money went to build London's splendid law courts. The city, it is said, has more than one magnificent bank building reared -from the same handy material. The Bank of Eng- land, one learns, provides pensions for clerks' widows out of such a fund. No matter hew much other peo- ple may run down the theatre the billposter• always sticks up for it. It rho ALi;ANt5T, SIMPLEST, sod BEST NOME °Ye, ono can buy.. -Why you don't 0VOn Novo to know what. KM of Cloth. your Gonda aro mato of,..90 Mionilroo aro lmpomalo,. send i,r raw Color Card, Story Booklet, and Booltlot Orin rceoln of Prolog over other colon. 'rhoJOiINSON•fICNAKOSON CO., Limited, Montr,al, Gamin. EATING POOlt MAN'S »INNER. English Newspaper Men Try It and Find It Very Good. A party of London (England) newspaper men recently met at the rooms of the Society of Medical Offi• cors of Health to east a poor man's dinner. It was, of course, such a dinner as no poor man ever eats, bwt that is because he does not know how to lay his money out so as to got the best and most feeding stuffs, neither does his wife know how to cook them properly when bought, These things they could learn from the secretary of the so- ciety, a barrister and en enthusiast on dietetics. It was interesting to learn what can be done by judicioirs buying at the open air markets of London, where rhe food is probably cheaper and of better quality than in any other capital. They started with some tasty soup made from parts of fish usually thrown away as useless by thriftless cooks, each helping costing about a fourth of a cent to make. The foreigners in Soho are well aware of these eeonomies. Then there were admirable cent apiece ;herrings, haddock and three meat courses, any one of which would have made a good meal: There was roast mutton from Aus- tralia -9 cents a pound in the open air market; flank of Australian beef—a part`oommon.ly ignored by English housewives, but good to eat all the •same ; steak and kidney pie, costing about 6 cents a portion; and jugged hare made from colonial hare, bought at 50 cents for nine pounds :and tasting as good as the Norfolk variety. The lemon pucrding was so allur- ing that most of the newspaper men. came again for more. The dessert was. West Indian limes (five for a cent), pears (4 cents a pound), and so- on, The meal cost much less then the tinned meat and fruit so much pat ronized% by the poor, and was far more nourishing. •F ARMY SERVICE FOR GIRLS. Prof. Witzel of Dusseldorf advo- cates compulsory military service for German girls. An army of nurses should, in his opinion, follow. each army of male combatants not only to care for the wounded, but to attend to everything connected. with food anti clothing. Every healthy German 'girl, says the pro- fessor'., should look on training for this object as a patriotic duty, and the knowledge acquired will be use- ful in the -'home if it is not utilized on the battlefield._ Chimneys were first erected in Britain in 1300. On Pat's arrival in New York his Yankee friend began to boast of the heat and said it was so hot that itburnt the wings off the flies. Pat replied; "Oh, that's nothing to the heat in Ireland. 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LAvWIOSNCE st1GAn tenroc otts runtitttd. r ltdoNakEAtr 6yA FRANCE'S FORST REVENUE TuE GOVERNMENT GETS AN* NUALLF ,y120,000,000 Sportsman and Woofleuttei' Aro' Eager to .Lease the Rights. The forest of .Compiegne, though a realm of beauty and onefiant, menti to its lovers, is yet made by the state to yield an annual income of 100,000,000 francs ($20,000,000), writes Lillie Hamilton French in the Century. For this purpose it appoints seven brigadiers alae 27 gardes-forestiers besides several gardes-oantonnieres. The eaeton- nieres look after the roads, the guards protect the rights rented to the sportsman and wood cutter— the two great 'clients from whom these revenues are derived -200,000 £rands a year being paid by the sportsman and 800,000 franca by the wood mei•chenii. The guards .must also see that these two groups of clients never encroach on each other's rights, for thougb the sportsman may hunt en the wood merchant's land, he cannot carry from it a .splinter of green ' wood • while the wood merchant would Have a suit brought against him if he were to pocket so much as it rab- bit found burrowing under one of his dearly purchased trees. And some of these trunks' are dear, one of oak frequently costing him 1,000 francs.' SPORTSMAN'S RIGHTS. So far as the question of revenue is concerned, la chase is made to designate every right, whether of fishing or hunting, which is rented to the sportsman. As a diversion, however, it means to its votaries two distinct kinds of hunting, the most important and picturesque be- ing the chess° a courre, or hunt by pursuit, and in whattever djreotion the stag may lead. This takes place twice a week after the cold has set in, and always on borseback, with a following of hounds, This Chasse a eourre is never rented except to a single person and usually for six years, at an annual rate of 17,300 francs ($3,460). When the lessee is frugal, as he occasionally is, he sublets it. On the other hand, the ehasse a tic, or hunt with fowling pieces, is divided into 25 lots and rented for various prices from twenty francs or more, and includes the right to shoot, within certain limits, bare, rabbits, doe, pheasants and wild birds. The opening and closing of the ehasse are decided every year by the prefect, as our Thanksgiving Day is by Government, though it is -- generally on the last Sunday of Au- gust that one hears the report of the first authorized gun. The event is one of almost nabional impor- tance, chronicled by every atewapa- per in the land and discussed by every Frenchman, high or low, rich or poor. THE GUARDS IN THE FOREST aro ever on the watch for both wood stealers and poachers. Indeed, a series of minor engagements is al- ways -tarring place between pea- sants and .guards, and these,depre- dations which the officials_ are pow- erless to prevent they are forced to tolerate. Sometimes, however, a guard is boastful. I heard one say: "The rice ' hunt the deer and the pheasants and pay the government for the right; but I hunt the wo- men, and the government pays me. For it is twice ashard to catch a woman as it is to catch a deer," I' have wondered' since if he were not rather stupid, .for I am always catching women chopping down' small trees. their fazes hidden ill their mufflers and their outposts of ohildren ranged at intervals near by. Staten one of them adobes sight of me, a, signal is given the woman stops chopping: and holds, on to her head as though she were suf- fering, while the children squat silently; like a group of rabbits, their eyes on my figure till I pass. I have never easiest poenhe•rs at work, though I have seen them walking between gendarmes on their way to prison. Some of them are as famous as great.bunters, and there was one, not long clead, whose chronicles have appeared in French journals. For bis constant poaohmgs he had 140 snits brought against him and spout hill 30 of Itis 85 years in ar cel:l. Both his widow and his. son live to. Carry on his were-, hat the glory of the house is clonal -tett. Only brie other day I sate his wife, poor thing, trying to earn en honest son by helping to ilnloacilil a wagon of wood and store it A NEIGHBOR'S CELLAR, e d 1. Of the three ways cf poaching, with the gun, the feere.t and the n.arc rite with t w t the snare is simple nough for a child. MI one has to o is to eerier to a given place a ieec of wire readily concealed' in a eg of ono's trousers or in a petti- '1l wild animals. follow seat coat. J....r, 1 ad• 79 lie - paths in the woods, min russai'yt is to make e, slip knot in the wiry„ plaee the loop an one of those paths, cover it with /eaves, fastening the Free end of the wire securely to the ground, When gismo of any kind once sets foot in this' loop, every cliorI, to fro itself only 4inars the tvlii'a tiglitoe...