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The Brussels Post, 1913-1-9, Page 2ONLY A MONTH; OR, A CURIOUS MYSTERY EXPLAINED.. -11 CHAPTER XXXI.—(Cont'd) By and by, when he had done all that he could to help, he went back to his own room, leaving Sigrid still with the poor widow. The scene had made a deep im- pression on him he. had never be- ey from the business, but that s your affair, `As you have brewed, so you must drink,' " "It may Put me to some slight in- oonvenience," said Mr. Boniface. "But, as far as I am concerned, 1 shall gladly submit to that rather fore seen any one die, and the than go against my conscience with thought of poor Hallifield's pathetic regard to Feick. What do you say, confession that he had had no time Roy? for anything but the toil of living "I am quite at one with you, fa - came to hum again and again, then," replied Roy, with a keen Three days later; poor Halli- sense of enjoyment in the thought field's "handsome funeral" set out of so quietly baffling James Ber- bera the door of the model long- ner's malicious schemes. Inge, :and Frithiof, who had given "This designing fellow has made up his half holiday to go down to you both his dupes," said Mr. Hor- the cemetery, listened to the words nor, furiously. " Eome day you'll of the beautiful service, thinking repent of this and see that 1 was to himself how improbable it was right." that the tram -conductor had ever No one replied, and with an ex - had the chance of hearing St. Paul's clamation of impatient disgust, teaching on the resurrection. CHAPTER XXXII. One December day another con- clave was held in Mr. Boniface's strode through the shop, received private room. Mr. Boniface him- so furious a glance that he at once self eat with his arm -chair turned realized what must have passed in toward the fire, and on his pleas- the private room. It was not, how - ant, genial face there was a slight ever, until closing time that he cloud, for he much disliked the pros -could speak alone with Roy, but the pect of the discussion before him. !moment they were out on the street Mr. Horner stood with his back to ' he turned to him with an eager the mantel -piece, Iooking even more question. pompous and conceited than usual, "What happened to Mr. Horner and Roy sat at the writing -table, to -day ?" listening attentively to what "He heard a discourse on the passed, and relieving his feelings Norwegian character which hap - by savagely digging his pen into pened to be in the 'Daily News' by the blotting -pad to the great detri- . good luck," said Roy, smiling. •'By ment of its point. ( the bye, it will amuse you; take it "It is high time we came to an , home." understanding on this matter," Mr. 1 And drawing the folded paper Horner was saying. "Do you fully from his coat -pocket, he handed it understand that when I have once !to Frithiof. said a thing I keep to it? Either I "He gave me such a furious that Norwegian must go, or when glance as he passed by, that I was the day comes for renewing our sure something had annoyed him," James Horner took up his has and left the room effectually checkmat- ed. Frithiof, happening to glance up from his desk as the angry man partnership I leave this place neverIsaid Frithjof. to re-enter it." "Never mind, it is the last you "I do not wish to have any quer- I will have from him," said Roy, rub - rel with you about the matter," bing his hands with satisfaction.I said Mr. Boniface, "But I shall I "He has vowed that he will never 'certainly not part with Feick. To • darken our doors again. Think send him away now would be moat what a reign of peace will set in." cruel and unjustifiable." "He has really retired then ?" she too had her full sharp of the national pride. When Sigrid returned in a few minutes, she found him pacing the room as restlessly as any wild, beast at the Zoo, "Frithiof," she said, "what is the matter with youl Have you and Herr Sivertsen had a quarrel?" "The matter is this," he said, hoarsely, checking his restlessness with an effort and leaning against the mantel -piece as he talked to her. "1 carne back just now a:.d found Swenhild reading the nees- paper—reading the Romiaux Di- vorce Case—thoroughly fascinated by it too." "I had no idea it had begun," said' Sigrid. "We so seldom see an English paper. How did this one happen to be lying about?" "Roy gave it to mo to look at an account of Norway; I didn't know this was in it too. However, I gave Swanhild a scolding that she'll not soon forget." .Sigrid looked up anxiously, ask- ing what he had said, and listening with great dissatisfaction to his reply. "You did very wrong indeed," she said, warmly. "You forget that Swanhild is perfectly innocent and ignorant; you have wrong -d her very cruelly, and she will feel that, though she won't understand it." Now Frithiof,' although he was proud and hasty, was neither un- generous nor cenceited ; as soon as. he had cooled down and looked at the question from this point of view, he saw at once that he had been wrong. "I will go to her and beg her pardon," he said at length. "No, no, net just yet," said Sig- rid. "Leave her to me." She rapped softly at the bedroom door, and after a minute's pause of the nation knew no bounds. The heard the key turned in the lock. "Swanhild," she said, "you are Tsarevitch is guarded with the crying?" greatest care, and the future of this "No," said the child, driving handsome, merry little boy is far back the tears that started ag,in from being an enviable one. to her eyes at this direct assertion. I But Sigrid put her arm round her a�ve:ft. sro®4 y`.,770 waist and drew her close. THE HOPE OF It1TRSTA.. The distressing illness of the little Tsareviteh gave rise to the greatest anxiety in Russia. This charming boy is the hope of his country, and were he to die grave complications would undoubtedly arise in Russia. 1 The Tsareviteh is a great -grand. son of Queen Victoria. The great- est rejoicing prevailed in Russia at his birth, for the Royal couple were beginning to despair of a son. It is related that when the firat baby proved to be a girl the Tsarina n,- calimed ; "Oh, I am glad it is a girl.- Now it belongs to us. Had it been a boy it would have belonged to Russia," But the next three chil- dren proved to be girls, also, so that when a boy was born the joy The Tsareviteh. I P "Frithiof told me all about it ; and I think he made a great mistake in Farm scolding you. Dont think any �Jl e 61 more about it." But she clung to Sigrid, sobbing �e earl ,e, ®�,®Qe•® ;®i piteously. Feet o DraftHorses. p Y. I t f "BeHe said I ought to be ashamed of myself, but I didn't know — I A draft horse does most of his really didn't know." hard work at the walking gait. It "That was his great mistake," iv, therefore, important that he said Sigrid, quietly. "Now, if he should be able to walk four miles an " said Frithiof. I was afraid it must had found me reading that report hour with a load. If his feet are! It would be nothing of the sort," retorted Mr. Horner, hotly, be so. I can't stand it, Roy ; I he might justly have reproached me, deformed in any way, whether it I "It would be 1 the can't let you make such a sacrifice for I am old enough to know bet- be by disease 'or hereditary, he' e mer e y following o mg ter. You see _dictates of common sense and fair- for me." : poor Blanche has cannot do his best work. nese." "Sacrifice? stuff and nonsense!" done what is very wrong; she has The soles of the feet should turn "This is precisely the point en said Roy, cheerfully. "I have not broken her promise to her husband ftp and show. the shoes plainly as) which you and I do not agree," felt so free and comfortable for an and brought misery and disgrace the horse moves away from the ob-1 said Mr. Boniface, with dignity. age. We shall be well rid of the en all who belong to her. But to squicklyerver. and evenlfeet y, be lifted "It is not olily his dishonesty that old bore." pry into all the details of such e d own squarely and firml , bo set has set me against him," continued "But his capital?" stories does outsiders a great deal q Y Y• Mr. Horner. "It is his impertin- 'Goes away with him," said Roy; told that Iharm • namd as troyyou h will never The Hoof should be ample in elzo, eat indifference,his insufferable "it will onlybo a slight inconveni_ sound, smooth and symmetrical in g„ shape. The hoof is a continuat'on manner when I order him to do encs ha will hurt himself want to read them again. anyttning „ (To be continued.) "I have never myself found him anything but a perfect gentleman,” Taking Eskimo Census said Mr. Boniface. "Gentleman ! Oh 1 I've no pati- ence with all that tom-foolery1 L want none of your gentlemen; I want a ahopman who knows his place and can answer with proper the model lodgings one Swanhl deference." alone. "You do not understand the Norse nature," said Roy. "Now hare in the newspaper this very clay is a good sample of it." He unfolded the morning paper eagerly and read them the follow- ing lines, taking a wicked delight in the thought of how it would strike home : ` `Their noble simplicity and free- s they have never submitted to the of the Norse characters?" p yoke of a conqueror, or to the rod As he spoke he leaned over her of a petty feudal lord; a peasantry shoulder to look at the letter which For the Sheep -raiser. at once so kind-hearted, so truly Roy had mentioned ; but Swanhild humble and religions, and yet so had turned to the inner sheet and Feed some dry roughage during nobly proud, where pride is a vii- was deep in what seemed to her the fall and get the ewes gradual- tue, who resent any wanton affront strangely interesting questions and ly accustomed to the change be- te their honor or dignity. As an answers continued down three col- fare they are put on their winter instance of this, it may be men- ( umns. A hurried glance at the be- diet. tioned that a naturalist, on finding ginning showed Frithiof in large Take every precaution to gain that his hired peasant companions type the words: the confidence of the ewes after they are put in the barn for the winter. He tore the paper away .from her, A change of blood is all right age. The men did not seem to take crushed it in his hands, and threw sometimes, but too frequent ehang- the slightest notice of his scolding, it straight into the fire. Swanhi'cl es will ruin the best flock of sheep "How can you stand there so stu- looked up in sudden panic, terrified out in the country in a few years. pidly anti apathetically, as though beyond measure by his white face tpgL� .the matter did not concern you 7" and flashing eyes, terrified still C9 fi said he, still more irritated. "It 'more by the unnatural tone in his is because we think, sir, that such voice when he spoke. language is only a sign of bad breed -1 "You are never to read such ing," replied an unawcd son of the things," he said. vehemently. "Do mountains, whom even poverty you understand? I am your guard- oould not strip of the consciousness /an, and 1 forbid you." of hiss dignity.' " ( "It was only that I wanted to "You insult ire by reading such know about Blanche," said Swan- trash,,' said Mr, Horner. "lgut if bild. you Iike to keep this thief in your But unluckily the mention of employ-•" ! T3lanche's name was just the one "Excuse me, but I can not let thing that Frithiof could not b••ar; that expression pass," said Mr, he lost his self-control, "Don't be Boniface. "No one having the gin to argue, he said, fiercely. Slightest knowledge of Frithiof "'Yon ought to have known better Feick could believe him guilty of than to read that Poisonous stuff 1 dishonesty. ii f• You ought to be ashamed of yours r`iVell, then, this lunatic with a; self !" mania for taking money that _ be -1 . This was more than Swanhj'd ,Safely to children, as well es culotte longs to other people•• -this son of a could endure; with a sense of Intel- Yotfr physician or druggist can ronerrn . flus stntetticnl for we are read to send ; probably far more than he hurts us, and serve him right too. If there's a man on earth 1 detest it is my worthy cousin James Horner," poor shape and texture. The horn Later in the evening, when sup- The "work" ahead was to find should be smooth, waxy looking per was over, Frithiof went round out how many Eskimos and other and free from cracks or ridges, and to sea Herr Sivertsen about some human beings lived along the bar -'the coronets should be open, prom - fresh work, and on returning to ren coast of Hudson Bay, between inent and wide at the heels. The • Fort Churchill and Chesterfield In- sole should be slightly cupped, not of the skin of the parts above. The color of the skin decides the color of the hoof. Color counts for lit- tle, however, if the hoofs are of • "Where is Sigrid?" he asked. "She has gone in to see the Halli- fields," replied the little girl, glanc- ing up from the newspaper which she was reading. "You look like the picture of Mother Hubbard's dog that Lance is so fond of." he said, smiling. "Your English must be getting on or you wouldn't care for the `Daily dem of manners bear witness that News.' Are you re dm the raise let. It was only one small end of flat or bulging; the frog large, elan- the gigantic task of making an oifi- ,tic, healthy and without a deep cleft; cial Government census of ,all hu-Ithe bars prominent. Poor forefeet man life in the 800.000 square • are one of the commonest and most serious faults in draft horses. miles of wilderness and Polar bar- ren between Hudson Bay and the Great Bear, on the east and west, and the fifty-eighth degree and the Arctic Ocean on the north and south. The work was herein more than two years ago, but it isn't com- pleted yet, except in the 100.000 square miles along the west shore of the great bay. • had not done their work of dredg- ing to his satisfaction, scolded them in violent and abusive Jangle "THE ROMIAITX DIVORCE CASE." Y KEEN Oii COUGHING Nate Is A Remedy That Will Cop It Do you realise the danger in reelected cough ? 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That is getting it down pretty fine; and there may be some imagination about it; and yet, there can be no doubt that good feed makes far better eggs than that which is half rotten and stale. The hardest part of the hen busi- ness is marketing the eggs. A good place to build for success is at the market -place. Lay in a good stock of dust while you can get it. The hens have got to have a good place to &piddle or the live critters will eat them up. ne louse on a man's head will turn him into a raving manias.I What must it be to have seven mil - ion of the pests round on one's body ! Rid the chickens of these insects, Notes of the Ponite Yard. Green bone is very rich, BO is phosphate of lime. Rub the window pates with old newspapers—it will let in the sun- shine. Overgrown fowls are no better in any particular than those of normal size. 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Mr. Warde's fat boy, who may paradoxically be said to enliven several pages of "Pickwick Pa- pers," has a modern counterpart, says the London Daily News, This boy was charged with vagrancy in the Willesden police court, and was said by the officers to be in the hab- it of sleeping night and day about the streets and vacant lots of the neighborhood. Before the magistrate, he ap- peared to be dozing, and only re- plied to the questions put to him by a nod. He was remanded in order than a place on board ship. might be found for him, presumably in the hope that a life on the ocean wave might succeed in waking him up. It may he that the boy will develop into one of the remarkable sleepers of whom many records re- main, Margaret, Lyall of Denniland, in the parish of Maryton, three miles from Montrose., went to sleep on Wednesday, June 10, 1819, and did not wake up for two days. She went to sleep again an July 1st, and slept until August 8th. When frilly awake she complained of giddiness, but hid no recollection of having been blistered, bled, and immersed in cold water. She merely thought she had had a long night. There is also the case of Elizabeth Arten, of St. Guillain, near Mons, in France, who in 1738, when thirty-six years of age, fell asleep for four days, and shortly after waking went off 'et' sleep again for eighteen days. For the succeeding five years she slept regularly every day from five o'clock, in the morning until nine dclock at night. In 1748 she was prevented by the ague from sleeping for three weeks, In one of her periodical fits of sleep- ing, needles were thrust into her flesh, pieces of burning rag applied to her nose, and pins places ,under her finger -nails; she was oven whipped, but nothing could waken her, Samuel Chilton of Tinsbury, near Bath, a robust, stout laboring man, twenty-five years of age, on May 13, 1604, fell into a profound sleep from which he could not be awakened for a month, when he suddenly rose and went on with his work. He did not, however, regain the power of speech until another month had passed. On April 19, 1696, he had another sleeping fit. An apothe- cary bled, blistered, and applied a number of external irritants, but to no purpose. He was artificially fed for ten weeks, when his jaws became set, and could not bo opened even with instruments. 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Having found such a one, the customer who wishes to save time and money will continue to buy of him. The very large amount of neat which some housekeepers pro- vide is not necessary. In general, it is better to use a reasonable amount of that which is in prime condition rather than to economize on the quality. The meat is easily supplemented by other dishes, and the meals will thus he better bal- anced than would be the case if a larger amount of inferior meat were provided. Although not generally understood. it is just as important that the cheaper cuts of meat, as well as the dearer ones, should come from A. Well -Fattened -Animal. There is an apparent rind a trut price of meats, a fact that is not always considered. It may be more economical to pay 15 cents for a cut that contains nearly half its weight in bone, sinew and fat. The appar- ent price of chicken may be 20 cents a pound, but its real price will of- ten be 50 cents, when the weight of head. legs, entrails, crop find bones is taken into account. There is much di souse ion regard- ing e ing the merits of drawn and un= drawn poultry. Most dealers .con- tend that in warm weather a fowl which hat had entrails and crop re- moved spoils much more quickly be- cause of the extent of cut surface exposed, than does undrawn poul- try. I.n a large city market one dealer kept drawn poultry, and he said that he could not do so except for the fact that steady customers took all of his stock, so that nothing was left on his hands. It is greatly to the housekeeper's advantage to buy fresh, well -drawn poultry, for not only is the flavor iejurecl by the unclean practice of &lowing the entrails to remain in the bedv, but it is thought to favor the development of. ptomaines. It has been shown that after death the intestinal juices, with their con- tained bacteria, are able to pass through the walls of the intestines into the muscle fibre, and this pro- cess goes on even though the fowl is kept At a Very Low Temperature. In some planes cold -storage fowls are required by law to be sold as such. Cold -storage as applied to whole carcasses of beef and mutton, has been of great service to the buyer. By its aid prices are equalized and we aro furnished even in summer with meat that has been made ten- der keep. The serviceingrendered by cold - storage of fish and poultry is not so thoroughly well established. The subject is being carefully investigat- ed by experts, Apparently, if the process is carried out in the 'best manner and the goods not kept too. long in storage the cold -storage fish and poultry are wholesome. With all cold -storage foods it is impossible that there shall not be a long interval between removal from storage and cooking, and this is particularly the case with poultry and fish. Foods that have been frozen and then thawed seem to fur- nish particularly. good ground for bacteria growth, or what we call "spoiling." Storage of fruits end vegetables gives no many out -of -season arti- cles, The same is true to a great extent of turkeys and other domes-. tic poultry, for food of this kind is largely of seasonal production, and cold -storage seems to be the only method by which the fresh material can be kept for a long 'period for market purposes, Decrease in London Crime. In liis charge to the Grand Jury et the London Sessions, Mr. Robert Wallace, I.C., said that last session the wander was the lightest that had ever been known in the history. of the session, and he was happy to say that the list of charges at that session was very much of the same nature. There had been steady diminution in the list of charges, particularly during the ,year 1012.. As compared with some iiv+3 years ago, there was practically, a diminution of some 25 per eta. in the number of offences indictable. and tried at the sessions: . Years have really very. -little to do with ago, Some people are old at 211, and others rather childish al 65.