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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1913-4-17, Page 2ssoblx0 'til o9►^ evwtt., 8Y4L Ouc of thc Ga.rriso Or, A ilysterious Affair. CHAPTER. III,—•(Cont'd) As I passed up the High street Mr. McNeil rain out from his office and beckoned to me to stop. "Our new tenants havo gone out," he said. „They strove over :this morn- ing," I met thein on the wen)'," I an- swered. As I looked clown at the little factor I could see that his face was flushed and that he bore every appearance of having had an extra glass., "Give me -a real gentleman to do business with," he said, with a ' burst- of laughter. "They under- stands me end 1 understands them. 'What shall I fill it up for i' says the general, taking a blank check out o' his pouch and laying it on the table. Two hundred,' says I, leaving ,a bit o' a margin for my own time and trouble." "I thought that the landlord paid you for that," I remarked. "Aye, aye, but it's well to have a bit margin, He filled it up and threw it over to me as if it had been an auld postage stamp. That's the way business should be done between honest men -though it wouldna' do if one was inclined to take an advantage. Will ye not come in, Mr. West, and have a taste o' my whiskey?' "No thank you," said I, "I have business to do." "Well, well, business is the chief thing. It's well not to drink in the morning, too. For my own part, except a drop before breakfast to give me an appetite, and maybe a glass, or even two, afterwards to promote digestion, I never touch spirits before noon. It may be that I'm over particular, but it's as well to be on the safe side. What d'ye think o' the general, Mr, West?" "Why I have hardly had an op- portunity of judging," I answered. Mr. McNeil tapped his forehead with his forefinger. "That's what I think o' him," he said, in a confi- dential whisper. "He's gone, sir, in my estimation. Now what would you consider to be a proof o' mad- ness, Mr. West?" "Why, offering a blank check to a "Wigtown house -agent," said I. "Ah, you're aye at your jokes, But between oorsels now, if a man asked ye how many miles it was free' a seaport, and whether ships come there from the East, and whe- ther there were tramps on the road, and whether it was against to Mrs. Heatherstone and the gen- the lease for him to build a high er'al, - wall round the grounds, what would A visit to Cloomber i cried Es - ye make of it, eh?" "I should certainly think him ec- centric," said I. "If every man had his due, he would find himsel' in a house with a high wall round the grounds, and that and offer sham an o - that without costing him a' faith- y P ing ' said the agent. • liteness which is in our power. At Where then t" I asked. present they must feel' lonely and "Why, in the Wigtown County t friendless, What says the great Lunatic Asylum," cried the little Firdousi4 The choicest ornaments man, with a bubble of laughter, in t'r a man' a house are his friends.' " imaginable potted meat and vege- table. It may be imagined that all these incidents were not allowed to pass without cornment. Over the whole country-sido there was nothing but gossip about the new tenants of Cloomber Hall and the reasons which had led them to come among us. The only hypothesis, however, which the bucolic mind could evolve was that which had already occur• reel. to Mr. McNeil the factor — namely, that the old general and his family were one and all afflict- ed with madness, or, as an alterna- tive conclusion, that he had com- mitted some heinous offense and was endeavoring to escape the con- sequences of his misdeeds, These were both natural suppositions un- der the circumstances; but neither of them appeared to commend itself as a true explanation of the facts. It is true that General Heather - stone's behavior on the occasion of our first interview was such as to suggest some suspicion of mental disease; but no man could have been more reasonable or more courteous than he had afterward shown himself to be. Then; again, his wife and children led the same secluded life that he did himself; so that the reason could not be one peculiar to his own health. As to the possibility of his -being a fugi- tive from justice, that theory was even more untenable. Wigtown - shire was bleak and lonely, but it was not such an obscure corner of the world that a well-known soldier could hope to conceal himself there ; nor would a man who feared publicity' set every one's tongue wagging as the general had done, On the whole, I was inclined to be- lieve that the true solution of the enigma lay in his own allusion to the love of quiet, and that they had taken shelter here with an almost morbid craving for solitude and re- pose. We very soon had an instance of the great lengths to which this desire for isolation would carry thein, My father had come down ane morning with the weight of a great determination upon his brow. You must .put on your pink frock to- day Esther," said he ; "and you, John, you must make yourself smart, for I have determined that the three of us shall drive round• this afternoon and pay our respects, ther, clapping her hands, . "I am here," said niy father, with dignity, "not only as the lairds agent, but also as his kinsman. In that capacity I am convinced that he would wish me to call upon these the midst of which I rode on my My seater and I knew by experi- way, leaving him still chuckling over - .his own facetiousness. The arrival of the new family at tions from the Persian poets there Cllaunrber Hall had nu perceptible was no chance of shaking it. Sure 1 effect in relieving the munotu:,ry of •enough that afternoon saw the phae- our secluded district, for instead of ton -at the door, with my father entering into such simple pleasures perched upon the seat, with his sea! uncd•best coat on and a pair of new driving -gloves. "Jump in, my dears," he Cried, cracking his -whip briskly, "we shall show the general that he has no cause to be ashamed of his neigh- ence that when the old man began to justify his resolution by quota - as the country had to offer. or re teresting themselves, as we had hoped, in our attempts to improve the lot of our poor crofters and fisher -folk, they seemed to shun all observation, and hardly ever to venture beyond the avenue gates, burs.' We soon found, tuo, that the fan- Alas, pride always goes before a tor's words as to the inclosing of all ! Our well-fed ponies and shin- ing harness were not destined that day to impress the tenants of Clown - bet with a sense of our importance. We had reached the avenue gate, and I was about to get out and the grounds were founded upon fact, fur gangs of workmen were kept hard at work from early in the morning until late at night in erecting a high wooden fence round the whale estate. When this was open it, when our attention was ar- '' finished and topped with spikes, nested by a very large wooden pia- Cloomber Park became impregnable card, which was attached to one of the trees in such a manner that no one could possibly pass without see- ing it. On the white surface of this beard was printed in big black let- ters the following hospitable in- to any one but an exceptionally daring rlimber. It was as if the old] soldier had been so imbued with military ideas that, like my Uncle Toby, he could not refrain even in times of peace from standing upon ; ..erfpton the defensive. Stranger still, het General and Mrs, Heatherstone had victualed the house as if for a siege, for Begbie, the chief grocer of Wigtown, told nee himself that the general had sent him an order• for hundreds of dozens of every Wm CohCLEANEST, SIMPLEST, end nESTHOME bYC, one enn bey -why you don't oven lava to know arhet'.!ONn of Cloth rola Gonda aro mese L. -0n Mletel:en are rmponalkto. Send ter larva Oniot Card, Story Booklet, and Soerd/t c0'h ,,, It, at »10105 0640 other ceIorn. The 3OtINSON•1trCPOAhb50N CO., Limited, Mand tat, Y,ennda, have no wish to increase The Circle of Their Acquaintance. We all sat gazing at this an- nouncement for some moments in silent astonishment, Thep Esther and I, tickled by the absurdity of the thing, burst out laughing, but my father pulled the ponies' heads round, and drove home with com- pressed lips and the cloud of much wrath upon his brew. I have never seen the good man so thoroughly inoyecl, and I am convinced that his anger did not arise from any petty feeling of .injured vanity upon his part, but from the thought that a slight had been offered eu the Laird of franksome, whose' dignity he represented. CHAPTER, IV. If I had any personal soreness account of this family snub, it w e a very passing emotion, and one which was soon ,effaced from my mind, It chanced that on the very nest day .after the episode I had ATr P m TEA phi alliity Pure, Wholesome and Delicious, with a full- ness Of flavour not found in ordinary TEAS. IPd LEAD PACKETS O1t1L 061 Black, IViflbed and Greene occasion to pass that way and stop- ped to have another look at the ob- noxious placard. I was standing staring up at it and wondering what eould have induced our neighbor to take such an outrageous step, when I became suddenly aware of a sweet girlish face which peeped out at me from between the bars of the gate, and of a white hand which eagerly beckoned me to approach, As I ad- vanced to her I saw that it was the same young lady whom I had seen in the carriage. "Mr. \Vest," she said, in a quick whisper, glancing from side to side, as she spoke in a nervous, hasty manner, "I wish to apologize to you for the indignity to which yon and your family were subjocted yester- day. My brother was in the avenue and saw it all, but he is powerless to interfere. I assure you, Mr. West, that if that hateful thing," pointing up at the placard, "has given you any annoyance, it has given my brother and myself far more." "Why, Miss Heatherstone 1" said I, putting the matter off with a laugh. 'Britain is a free country, and if a man chooses to warn off visitors from his premises there is no reason why he should not." "It is nothing less than brutal," she broke out, with a petulant stamp of her foot. "To think that your sister, too, should have such an unprovoked insult offered to her ! I am ready to sink with shame at the very thought!' "Pray do not give yourself one moment's uneasiness upon the sub- ject," said I, earnestly, for I was grieved at her evident distress. "I am sure that your father has some reason unknown to us for taking this dep." "God knows -he has !" she an- swered, with ineffable sadness in her voice, "and yet I think it would be more manly to face a clanger than to fly from it. However, he knows best, and it is impossible for us to judge. But who is this 1" she exclaimed, anxiously peering up the dark avenue. "Oh, it is my bro- ther, Mordaunt. Meudaunt," she said, as the young man approached us, "I have been apologizing to Mr. West for what happened yesterday in your name as well as my own." "I am very glad to have the op- portunity of doing it in person," said he courteously. "I only wish I eould see your sister•and yeur fa- ther as well as yourself, to tell them how sorry I ani. 1 think you had better run up to the house, little one, for it's getting near of e time. No—don't you go, Mr. West. I want to have a word with you." (To be continued.) Lucky. Hobo—`:I've eaten nothing but snow balls for three days." • Lady—"You poor man ! What would you have done had it been summer time 7" It makes a man feel good when he is pretty certain -he is going to miss a trails and doesn't, Caller—If`your mistress in 1 Par- lormaid (whose mistress is a well- known suffragette)—Yes, she's iu for two months again, Mr, Baggy—If a culled man was to tall yc' a liah, salt, what would vo' do 2 Mr, Sleek —What size cul• led man, sahl A bite of this and a taste of that, all day long, dulls the appetite and weakens the digestion. • Rostore your stomach to healthy vigor by taking a Nu-Dru-Co Dyspepsia Tablet after each meal—and cutout the ^pleoieg^. Na-Dru=Co, Dyspepsia Tablets are the hest friends fof' sufferers franc indigestion and .dyspepsia, 50o, a 1#ox at your Druggist's. Made by the National Drug and Chemical Co. el Canada, Limited. 149 f13a 4 ISUItPUISE]) LADY ABERDEEN. A millionaire whose "mind-read- ing" once astonished Inds Aber- deen is Warren Y. Soper, vice— Pre-sident of the Ottawa Electric Com- pany and director of almost a score of others, i In his earlier days Mr, Soper was a telegraph operator, and a good one, so good, in fact, that hie expert feats with the Morse code once led him to give an exhibition. Their Excellencies Lord and Lady Aber- deen--fcr it was during their stay in Canada—were present. On the stage, blictd-folded, sat a gentleman, while Me. Soper, pass- ing through the audience,was hand- ed .a number of articles. Each he scrutinized, but he neither spoke nor made any sign. In every case the "subject" on the stage called out an accurate description of the article. Then Lady Aberdeen supplied the supreme test. Writing upon her Warren Y. Soper.. programme a sentence, she handed it to Mr. Soper, requesting that he transmit it mentally to the man on the stage. "I see a sentence of five words" called out the "subject" a few seconds later, and lie repeated the exact words. The astonishment was profound. But when the excitement had died down Mr. Soper simply said: "Not telepathy, but telegraphy; " And from his pockethe took a small -coil of wire, the other end of which, en- closed under a carpet, was in the pocket of the "subject." The mes- sages had simply been transmitted by his expert touch system. The family remedy for Coughs end Colds. Shiloh costs so little and does so D:uchl" 0 ���1s.'sar�n9 �a.o-vtiw a,.raa.� O On the Farm The Value of the Mille Shed. Every farmer should build a small shed or compartment of some kind in which to stand the cows at milk- ing time. The nearer the barn the better, It should he well ventilated in the summer and made warm during the winter months by setting up fodder - around it or lining it with building paper or roofing nvaterial. The shed may be of any size de- sired,,. but ample room for one cow is all that is necessary. Have nails arranged on the wall for hanging milk pails in places af. safety while the cows aro being led to and from the shed, If there are any sore teats, caked udders or other ailments to' be treated, the milk shed offers a safe place in which to do it quick and anv trouble with the animals in eland will cause no' disturbance among the other members of the herd. Spraying solution is also easier applied in the shed than any- where else. • Where one feeds the cows at milk- ing time the milk shed removes the difficulty of feeding the cow that is b eing milked in sight of the other animals. Some cows will fret and worry away a large portion of their milk if another cow is being fed in sight or hearing of them, Then, feeding the cow in the milk shed makes it unnecessary to use so many feed troughs, 13y keeping it well cleaned out .and properly drained the Milk shed is always ready to lead the cow into' and milk under agreeable and sani- tary conditions- If it be in thesum- mei. time the shed may be, darkened and the pesky flies thus got t'iel of, which means a lot of solid comfort tc both the cow and the milker; as well as a greater amount of milk, Will proper ventilation ouch a shed is also much cooler than the swel- tering dairy barn where the ani= mals' breath combined with the heat of their bodies contribute lib- erally toward the maintenance of a high tempei'atttre. Danger from Rotten Apples, One of the first things to be clone is bo pick up and burn or bury all refuse fruit in the orchard which is decaying' or entirelyrotten, These Corm's veritable hotbed for the nein- Whenever you (eel a headaohe coining on take NA -DRU -CO Headache Wafers They stop headaches promptly and surely,- Do not contain opium, morphine, phenaoetin, aoetaniltd or other dangerous drugs. 25c, a box at your Druggist's. 120 NATIONAL OilUG AND CHEMICAL CO, OF CANADA, LIMITED, erous orchard pests to hibernate in during the winter months, being al- so ideal places in which the same pests deposit their eggs for season's hatching, and by shaking off all the apples that are still clinging to the branches of the trees and picking up all that are under them, next year's crop of orchard pests will be considerably cnt•down, • Do Not Feed Molly Corn. Moldy corn will produce blind stagger's in horses, and it should never be fed to them. Every year there is considerable trouble with this disease in the lest, and in al - moat every case the cause is moldy corn. If this corn does not produce blind staggers, it will tend to in- jure the physical condition of the animal. So don't feed it, and be careful about pasturing the horses in stalk fields where there is moldy corn. Good Poultry Rifles. It is urged that all farmers and poultrymen adhere strictly to the following -rules in handling their poultry and eggs: First—Keep the nests clean ; pro- vide one nest for every four hens, Second—Gather , the eggs twice daily. Third—Keep the eggs in a cool, dry room or cellar. Fourth—Market the eggs at least twice a week. Fifth -Sell, kill or confine all male birds as soon as the hatching season is over. "OBEY" LEFT OUT OF SERVICE M.1'.'s Dtinghter "Who Married Ath- lete Is a Suffragette.. The recent wedding of Miss Cicely Corbett; the daughter .of C. J. Cor- bett, the late English Member of Parliamentfor one of the Sussex divisions, had a special interest, as the ceremony wee arranged so as to avoid those parts of the Church service which include the wife's promise to "obey!' ,The bridegroom was C. A. Fish- er, who was a three-quarter back in the Oxford Rugby team of )900, Miss Corbett is a keen auffrag'st and a number of people interested in the movement were present at the wedding. it was held at Hor- sted Keynes, where hdi' father lives, and the place was the Congrega- tional Hall of the village, At one end of the hall was a plat- form with foci' chairs upon it, and to this platform advanced the bride, her father, the bridegroom and the best man, while a march was played upon the organ. Then entered the registrar, and the bride and bride- groom made the legal declarations, which wore supplemented by the exchange of wedding rings. The registrar then retired, and after a solo had been sung Hugh Chapman of the Savoy, whole sym- pathies with the suggestion for the omission of the "obey" sentence from the service are already well known, gave a abort and eloquent address. It should be said that by this time the bridegroom had ex- changed places with the bride's father, so that the bride and the bridegroom sat together on one side of the platform and tete' best man and the bride's father on the other. R• It takes a girl with a vivid imag- ination to see the beauty of love in a cottage. Time isn't money to a man who wastes a dollar's worth of time in trying to save a penny. You can't always tell what your neighbors think of you by what they say. Old folks who need something of the kind, find LAX" f' Ti most effective without any discomfort. Increased doses not needed. 25o, a box at your druggist's, . National Drug and Chemical Cs, of Canada, Umfted. 164 In foal or foal at foot, having Distemper or Influenza, or any ot,hu' form of Oontagimts Dldense, may with absolute Dainty to Mare and Foal be glveu SPONiVS LIQUID DISTEMPER CURE It also is the very best Remedy to prevent mares slipping foals, and should be given to all Mares, Dolts, tatallfonn and all others, in bran or cute, er on the tongue. Then YOU will have very little trouble with ataltness of -any kind among your hordes. SPOHN MEDICAL. 00., Chemists and Eacto tologists, Ooshen, Ind., '0. S. A. USED EY SUCCESSFUL PLANTERS FOR 60 YE211I.'' : WRITE P00 J. A. Si TORONTO CATALOGUE ERS, L➢MITED ONT. Bruce's Big Four Field Root Specialties )sseuCE'S GIANT FEEDING RENT—The nerd valuable aloal hoot on the market ; *maniacs the rieii annllttos of the Sugar Moet with the long• iaecping, large alio and ileavylcrOnoing qualities of the Mo;,ngol. We offer two color,. ITIIIITSI and 1106E. 1106E. ib. 18c, glib. MM. 1 lb. EOM. Pefdlu td, 5581010E% IRAh1Rf0'1er xstre11t,a1EIa:IATE tsIOOTIt Ws(55'E CAILIMPP—Tho Gast of all add Carrots, (11,. 0Uc, 331b. 54c, 11b. 51.80. 1,ostlaaI,L. IIItr)CE's GIANT YELIL0{V 1VDl'aseM ,11IATE IIANAILL—A very close second to our Giant Peed. Ing Meet, rind cgaany vier to harvest. alb. 18c, • _ 3418. 20c, 1 18. E'de. postpaid.. Il1tUaE'9 NEW. CENTUILY SWVEDE 1811112811.— The beat shipping variety, no avert as the bast rot Coohingt handsome shape, uniform gretvtl,, lour, plc tom gib. 18e, Nib. 04e, 1 lb. 400, p.istbnld. teriE.E-Dur, handsomely lltuttrated 112•pnge Cat,- 'IT"'"* to[Iue of Vectablu. Cnr,h and Flotvar Sucd9, Plants, Hellcat poultry Supplies, Oar en Implmnenla, for 1815: Send for it, r.64 JOHN A. BRUCE. 4 .'Act � 111totat enterics. . ,« .... _. -.... .,..... CO,2.. ldst:dlilabed .yhxtY-dre4eyenra ;121ICES FOOD TO PREVENT FLAT FOOT T1111 BODY Mt7S'I' IIAVE MIN. INIAL SALTS AND MM3.. is Body Grows Older pones of Foot. Must Be Stronger to Git'o Support, Waiters, store clerks, bookkeep- ers, who strand at their desks, bar- bers and the hundreds of others who are on their feet a great deal suffer terribly from flat feet. In- deed, it is doubtful if thele are many people who are compelled to be en their feet a great part of the clay who do not suffer in this way, although many times they them- selves will speak of it as tiredness or being "foot -weary," But Care- ful study is beginning to show that the principal faults is not duo to the hardness of pavements, to ill - shaped shoes or faulty position of the feet in walking, but rather that it is due to conditions in the bones. themselves, As the body grows older it be- comes heavier, giving the ekreh of the foot a greater amount of weight to support, and thus placing it un- der a constant strain. In order to he able to support this strain the bones of the arch of the foot not only need to become heavies', but also lx' knit together more closely. This enables it strong weight -carry- ing capacity, although it is at the loss of the springiness of the step which is characteristic of youth. Lime Material. The bone material of the body is largely lime, though other mineral salts .are necessary. It follows, therefore, that if the bones of the arch of the foot are to be built up, there must be consumed in the'fooct a large amount of lune and mineral salts. But, instead of this, our modern food is largely denuded of these mineral salts; bread is made from .bran -less flour, cereals are prepared in such a way that much of their nuts'itive value is lost. The children often are fed condensed milk, which -contains less of the bone -forming properties, The vege- tables eaten in the large cities are usually raised on alluvial soil which is largely :exhausted of mineral salts and instead of being eaten raw they are cooked-generally— over000kecl—in water which takes up what little mineral matter they may contain. Rice Witter Nutritious. When the native Indian troops on a hard campaign said they could march better on the water in which the rice had been boiled than the English soldiers could on the rice itself, they pointed to the impor- tant truth of the value of the min- erals in the water as well tis to other nutritive qualities. Under these conditions it is easy to see that those who are on their feet a great deal and desire to es- cape flat foot should be careful of three things—eating slowly, that the dige.stioci may have a chance to absorb the minerals in the food eaten; drinking a glass of lime wa- ter once or twice a week; and wear- ing strong -soled shoes from a last that fits the arch of the foot. GRUESOME RELICS FOlI SALE. Trinkels Froin Fire L1 Whieh 600 . • Poisons Died. At an auction sale to be held shortly at Vienna, Austria, eoilee- tors of gruesomerelies will hada an unusually good opportunity of add- ing,to their treasures. The articles to be sold consist of the jewellery, trinkets and money found among the Charred and unre-c5ognieable hu- man remains of• 294. persons who perished in the terrible Ring thea- tre "fire of December 8, 1881, when 600 lives wer'o•lost. The valuables rescued from this mass of charred humanity were carefully deposited in court . until the term of thirty, years, which the Austrian law prescribes before death can be presumed, had elaps0d, And now, after all those years, . these pathetic mementoes will come entice the auctioneer's hammer in the "Dorotheum," the IState pawnshop and auotion some. Their intrinsic value is but small; iudeed several of the eixty-seven lots aro entered at, starting prices for the bidders atone, two or three crowns. Battered watches, broken rings and ear -rings, half melted- bracelets, pendants, and ,lockets containing unrecognizable por- traits, togethee with half a dozen purses and some loose coins, make up the catalogue. Some of the watches are entirely molted on ono side, while on the other the dials ar quite legible, It would be difficult to find tiny- where a, collection of relics awaken- ing more sad memories, and one wonders, indeed,;' if it were really necessary to recall sueh a shocking catastrophe by. this auction at the: Dor'othontn. Opportunities always shriek'with '3.14113: ld age. 13eatutj is'otily rile deep, espe6iy ally if a girl hear'', any money,